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The 3 directions pulling on us
There are always three forces pulling on us which have a significant impact on our future.
Backwards – the pull of the past, the regrets, the waste, the mistakes and our history. The negative thoughts that tell us we're not smart enough, not tall enough, not pretty enough, not rich enough, not connected enough, not disciplined enough. These are thoughts which steal our dreams by convincing us that it isn't going to happen for us because of pattern of events which have already happened. They pull us backwards.
Sideways – these are the distractions which steal our short term focus and attention from what we should be doing. Our digital lives are full of these and can force us into a pattern of collecting dots instead of joining them.
Forwards – this is the pull that matters – the direction we want to take, and must take if we want to our hopes to come true. Maintaining a forward trajectory is best aided by having a deep purpose. Purposes gives us the tenacity to find the discipline needed. We must have and remind ourselves of our purpose frequently to ensure 'forwards' wins the battle of the 3 directions.
The future, which is forward, is going arrive anyway – it's best we get there by facing in the right direction while the time elapses.
Inspiration or Knowledge?
I was talking today with a colleague who is involved in a consulting business. We discussed that people like us, are often providing is pure inspiration and motivation to our clients. Sometimes more often than we are providing actual knowledge. The all singing, all dancing outsourced inspiration division.
He was somewhat concerned that, the client might not be getting what they actually signed up for – specific domain information transfer.
After some discussion we agreed that it doesn't really matter. We also agreed that inspiration has more value than knowledge in any case – even if our job is to provide the latter. The reason is simple. There are plenty of examples of people with great knowledge who never succeed, where as a person or organisation who is inspired will some how acquire the knowledge required.
The final allegory for people who help others as a business is this: Unless we have the knowledge in the first instance, we'll never get hired or given the opportunity to provide the inspiration that is needed.
Don't miss this one
Anyone involved in an entrepreneurial sphere, has at some point lamented the fact that they missed a previous revolution. A time when the momentum of change swept everyone forward. Those times when change was inevitable, or only a few people knew about the big change that was underway. Those times when being there, or just turning up was enough for success to be inevitable. The home brew computer club, the early days of the web. It was so much easier for those guys to launch something new and innovative, and make a bundle in the process. The world was so open and less competitive. Right?
Yes – it was less competitive, but we must remember that access to resources was a big issue. To finance projects, and get around the barriers to entry was incredibly difficult. Ceteris paribus – I'd say the probability of success is unchanged. Some parts are easier, some are more difficult.
The other thing which is interesting, is that those previous revolutions we wished we participated in: The personal computer in the 1970's, the dot com boom of the mid 1990's or the web 2.0 renaissance are all still here. The names have changed, and the widgets are new, but the opportunity is just as large. And 5, 10 or 20 years from now you'll be reading about entrepreneurs who changed the world forever in these in 2 important areas – The web of things, and 3D printing. Both of these areas are as big as any piece of the digital revolution we've already lived through…. the ones you missed. And right now they are both in their early 1970's era equivalent in terms of development and opportunity. So the only question remaining is this. Why are you doing about it?
My father told me this which I never forget. The opportunity of a lifetime comes up about once a week. But only when we're looking for it.
Negotiation and motivation
I recently had to negotiate a resolution with my next door neighbour. We had a problem where their hot water service was broken and heavily leaking. While this wouldn't usually be a neighbours problem, all of the excess water was leaking under my house and flooding the sub floor of my home as the street is on a slight angle. I was very motivated to get it fixed (his leaking hot water service) as it was potentially going to ruin my house. The difficult situation was that my neighbor for some strange reason was not so motivated. After pointing out the problem numerous times he failed to attend to it for many weeks. He even made a failed effort to create a channel to direct the water down a storm water drain, which is curious given the fact it would have been easier to fix the problem itself.
After many failed attempts to motivate my neighbour to 'do the right thing' and fix it, I went to the authorities. First I called the water authority who informed me that his water bill was in the thousands of dollars this quarter (much more than a new water service would cost) due to the amount he was using and wasting. They also said that this level of water usage had been going on for months. But they also said they could do nothing, unless it was their pipes that had failed. It was then that I found there was little I could do without legal action. So I started by informing him that I would start legal proceedings if he failed to taken action. Again, no action was taken. It was not until our plumber told us the stability of our house would be at risk unless it was fixed quickly. So I then took the altruistic route. I offered to fix it for him and pay for it myself, no strings attached. I just wanted it resolved. Miraculously, he fixed it the very next day without my help.
While I was happy the issues was resolved, I was curious about his seemingly inside out motivations. Yesterday I had a discussion with my neighbour on the opposite side, at which time we discussed the now famous water issue. I told her what had transpired. Her response taught me a little bit about understanding the true motivation of people. Here's what she said:
"I'm not surprised, he's not a very helping person. And he doesn't like being told what to do and prefers to take the high status position in everything he does. See his giant lemon tree, he wont even let us take a single lemon or share them with anyone who lives in our street. In fact, he never picks the lemons himself, he just lets them fall to the ground. Apparently it is a sign of prosperity. He must want people to think he has lots of money or something."
As soon as I mentioned paying for him, he fixed it. He was more motivated by our perception of his financial position than he was by helping others, doing the right thing, wasting water, having a decent relationship with his neighbours or saving money with excessive water bills.
It's another great reminder that what motivates us, is rarely what motivates others, especially during a negotiation.
The electrician
I know a person who runs a very large electrical contracting business. He has a staff of around 50 people and has been running the business for more than 30 years. He once told me of the story of what got him started. This story is not verbatim, but it is worth sharing here.
'I remember when I was an apprentice electrician. Everyday in the lunch room the fully qualified sparkys would whinge about how well the boss was doing. That the boss made money off their labour, and that they should go out on their own, take a risk and start their own electrical contracting businesses. But other than the whinging, most of them would never do anything about it. They'd just come back to work everyday and tell the same story of how they should quit their job and startup their own firm. None of them ever did. I wasn't even finished my 4 year apprenticeship and I was sick to death of hearing the same old story. So I promised myself that I would go and start my own business, fail, go broke and get it out of my system while I was still young. I didn't really care about running my own business, I just didn't want to end up becoming a whinger like those other blokes.
So I did. I went out on my own and started. It turns out I became the opposite of those guys in every way. I didn't whinge, I went out to fail, and failed at failing. Thirty years later I am running a multi-million dollar business. It's amazing what you can become if you are sure of who you don't want to become.'
Experience vs Youth
I was recently reading an article which asked advertising people if they had to choose youth or experience what would they choose.
Ogilvy executive chairman Tom Moult sited the exemplar below.
There's an old David Ogilvy story. He was looking at some creative work from a junior. He asked how the guy how he knew the ads would work, the junior explained that he was sure they would as his intuition told him so.
Ogilvy said, "Imagine your appendix ruptures right now, and I rush you to hospital. There are two surgeons available, one is an experienced surgeon, and the other one is new to the game but is offering to operate on you using his intuition. Which one would you choose?"
While David Ogilvy was a genius, and this is a compelling allegory he forgot one important thing. Advertising is not surgery. It's not even a science for that matter, so we should never judge it as such.
What would I choose?
A youthful attitude.
Youth is a state of mind and our mind is as nimble or as old as we let it be.
10 ways to significantly increase your income
There are a bunch of ways to increase our incomes. Whether we are business owners, startups or employees the principals are the same. So here's a list of 10 things we can do (starting tomorrow) to boost the income we receive from whatever we do.
- Learn or improve our public speaking skills - Our ability to sell ourselves and anything verbally is still the number skill in business. Anyone who can speak in private, can speak in public – it just takes practice. There are tricks we can learn and if we learn them what we earn will increase dramatically.
- Write a blog – If we write a blog on what you do it has a wondrous way of increasing our knowledge bank, our reputation and builds a verifiable asset we can use to sell our credentials. All I can say is that of all the things I've done in my life, blogging has created more economic benefit for me than anything else. You'll only know how this happens if you have faith and do it.
- Keep your body in good shape - I believe it has two important ways it impacts our earning potential. Firstly a fit body has a brain that works better. This is a medical fact. Secondly, people subconsciously judge us on what we look like. If we are in good shape people increase their trust levels of us. Because we look after ourselves, they believe we can look after them and their business. I know this is almost cultural heresy, but I do think it is true.
- Groom & dress well – As per the second point above. How we look is an asset. It doesn't mean we need to wear expensive clothes or look like a movie star, but have pride in our own human existence. Never be afraid to invest money in nice clothing.
- Work harder on yourself than you do on your job – People buy us as they asset, both in startup land and employment land. So we must invest in self development more than developing the business. If we do the former, that latter happens automatically.
- Leverage the wood chips – Every job has some kind of 'off cut' or left over which is part of the process of being productive. This is often a great asset which can be leveraged. Know what your wood chips are, and take them to market. This not only invents revenue, but displays vision. People will notice.
- Help others grow – Help friends and colleagues achieve their goals. Help them with what you know and inspire them to be all they can. Do it without desire for any repayment. It will inspire you and karma will return the benefits.
- Save 30 percent – Keep 30 percent of your income to be invested. Do this before any expenditure occurs at all. Put 10% into active capital (your own entrepreneurial ideas). Put 10% into passive capital (shares, interest bearing deposits, other peoples business ventures) and put 10% back into society – this should be defined by yourself. It takes far less than people think for the compound benefits of such a simple financial strategy to accrue.
- Spend 10% on your income on self education – No matter what we earn we must ensure we allocate 10% of this to re-educating ourselves. In a world of rapid change this is not a choice but a must. This is the ingredient to continued self worth and value. It pays for itself many times over. Just ask any millionaire.
By the way this list is 'non-exhaustive' – but a set of activities I have learned and used. Maybe you've got some additional tactics you can share in the comments.
What is possible?
Every now and again we are forced to re-consider what is possible. Maybe it is due to some form of technology advancement. Maybe it is due to a new scientific discovery. And sometimes it is due to a single person pushing themselves to the limit, and in doing so pushing human possibilities to levels that had previously been considered impossible.
Kelly Slater is a person who has consistently been doing this for 20 years. In fact, I regard him as the greatest sports person of all sports of all time. Anyone who disagrees with this has simply failed to consider what he has done over this period. He has dominated, and reinvented the sport again and again. To the point where we has been world champion 11 times over 20 years and is still competing against and beating surfers who were not even born when he won his first world title. At the age of 40 he is still setting the bench mark. His dominance of the sport is almost embarrassing for other competitors.
He did something amazing this week in the Bells Beach Ripcurl Pro. In fact it is the best manouvre ever seen in competitive surfing. A full 360 aerial rotation – no hands. You can see it below. Just 30 years ago surfing magazines were full of discussions as to whether a simple 360 turn on the wave face was physically possible. And while every year, we think our sport has reached its limit it manages to forge into uncharted territory.
We should use this as motivation and a reminder of what we ourselves can do. That we are never too old and that the only limits that matter are the ones that we set for ourselves.
Enjoy this visual orgy of surfing goodness.
2 boys & their dad
Two young boys had the unfortunate up bringing by a father who was a thief a scoundrel and a drunk. He gave them little support and set the worst possible example for how to lead life as an adult.
One of the boys grew up to be just like his father. A thief and scoundrel and a drunk.
One of the boys grew up to be a successful businessman and a stand up member of his community.
When they were asked why they turned out the way they did as adults they both gave the same answer:
"What did you expect, my dad was a thief, a scoundrel and a drunk"
The Profit Motive
Has been a guiding business maxim certainly since the industrial revolution. But I've now found a replacement terminology I can really feel.
Then: Profit Maximisation
Now: Purpose Maximisation
This comes from a book worth reading called Drive by Dan Pink.
Sure, startups need cash to stay alive, but our purpose is what people really care about.


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Rotobotmouse: One Unusual Mouse
February 17th, 2010
I think that's actually an understatement. The Rotobotmouse is one of the stranger computer mice that I've seen in my travels – and I've seen lots of mouses.
Created by artist Aaron Ristau, the Rotobotmouse definitely has some steampunk underpinnings, but it's really got a look that's all its own. The handmade mouse features a round body design and moves across the desktop with a "go-cart like handling". The Robotomouse is a fully-functional optical mouse, complete with retro typewriter "L" and "R" buttons, an archaic scroll wheel, and a glowing red light that illuminates the palm of the user's hand. Did I mention that you stick your pinky finger through that copper loop when you use this mouse?
This unique mousing creation is selling for $300 (USD) is available over on Aaron's storefront in the new Makers Market. Be sure to check out Aaron's other wondrous creations while you're there. I'm especially enthralled with his Subatomic Disintegrator. I could really use one of those.
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Atlanta sludge-metal outfit Mastodon have some new merch for sale, including a Thanksgiving t-shirt that some are claiming is racist.
The tee highlights the atrocities of American colonialism by depicting a pilgrim holding a musket to the head of a scantily clad Native American woman. As Pitchfork points out, Mastodon have responded to criticism with this Facebook post:
Regarding our thanks giving shirt, whether you choose to believe or not, the American Indians were massacred by the white settlers who became the Americans we are today. this shirt represents this atrocity and celebrating in the face of this atrocity is chilling. we may have a sick sense of humor, but we are far from being "Racist" as some of you who might not get it are calling us.
The t-shirt is available at mastodonrocks.com in a limited edition.
If you're looking for more seasonally appropriate merch that is just ugly, not racist, check out these.
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I don't think they're racist. Misogynistic on the other hand…
Bringing up arguably the worst chapter in American history is racist? Um, OK.
this is one of the coolest t-shirts i've ever seen.
I get that they're trying to do satire with the shirt, but I think they miss the mark by a lot. This looks more like a "hilarious" shirt that some frat boy would wear to be "edgy". When an ignorant person looks at this shirt, they're not going to think "hey, that looks awful", they're going to think "oh, that's a funny picture!" Doesn't help that the Native woman is highly sexualized as well.
I think they were trying to do a Raymond Pettibone type thing with this, but it lacks any nuance. Now, take for example, this 7 inch cover by Agnostic Front: http://imgur.com/4XG4CPQ. You don't look at that and say "Ha, that's funny". They fucked up, and should just admit it.
So let me get this straight…they are not racist because the Black Ranger controls the Mastodon Dinozord?
It's racist, but it's not *racist* racist.
I think the shirt is racist. I think the shirt is satire.
and I think that Dan Snyder isn't racist.. and Todd Akin and Steve King aren't sexist and Phil Robertson isn't a sexual pervert, racist and homophobe.. ooops.. just satire
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Were you extremely happy after your chin implant?
I was considering getting a chin implant and was wondering about those who have already gotten one. How do you feel with the result? Does it make your face look longer? Did you request something really small and it looks really good? does it look pointy or jut out too much on your face? does it make your face look better, more harmonious or is there really not much differenc to your face but your'e satisfied, maybe you hate it. Please let me know your personal experience i am seriuosly considering getting one.
Hi CB!
I had a nose job and a chin implant 10 days ago. My surgeon (who is an ENT and one of the best in the city and a very talented painter/artist) chose my chin implant on the small side to keep everything looking feminine. Yes my chin could line up a bit more but my face would look longer. Now I think I'll have and "oval" face. Its still swollen but I think I'm going to like it and everything already seems more proportioned. I think the swelling will reveal a nice delicate looking chin.
My chin wasn't terrible but it'll enhance my nose :)
Btw, my incision is under my chin and he did in a way that it won't scar. He sews the tissue under the epidermis and lets the cut heal over it like a superficial one since it has no real depth. He just pulled the stitches out from one end.
And its still sore and stiff so I'm talking a little funny. The pain wasnt too bad though. Just a bit of aching that comes and goes. The first few days its a little hard to open your mouth fully and everything needs to be cut up in small pieces. Brushing your teeth isn't easy so an electric tooth brush is actually helpful. And I couldn't gargle because it hurt to put my head back and use those facial muscles. But if you need some lipo as well for more definition I'd imagine that recovery would be a bit more difficult.
the result of the surgery largely depend on how you define it to your surgeon. A good surgeon however, can most likely than not deliver good result if and only if you were so clear of the result you would like to achieve.
They are not too big. They are intended to help perfect your profile. I am totally happy with mine and have seen positive change in the overall look of the face.
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By MARK JEWELL
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BOSTON (AP) - Optimism has returned to the market. And the clearest evidence is the rebound of small company stocks.
After being beaten by large-caps last year, more nimble small-caps are back in the lead. They rewarded investors with their best January since 2006. It's one sign that investors are getting more comfortable and not rigidly avoiding risk by sticking with the market's biggest and most stable companies.
How long the comeback can last is a pressing concern, because small-caps are the market's proverbial canaries in the coal mine. When trouble hits, these frequently volatile stocks typically feel it first and suffer deeper losses than bigger stocks. On the flip side, small-caps are usually early leaders in a sustained market rally.
Ask small-cap investing specialists whether this turnaround has run its course and you may get very different answers. One crucial factor: whether the Federal Reserve is gearing up for a third round of quantitative easing. Fed officials recently discussed launching another bond-buying program. The aim would be to boost the economic recovery by making borrowing cheaper and encouraging risk-taking through investments in stocks. Small-caps are among the highest-risk stocks and would benefit from another round.
The need for market stimulus hasn't been great lately. Just a couple months into the year, a small-cap index, the Russell 2000, has posted a return of 10 percent. The Dow Jones industrial average is up half that much, while the Standard & Poor's 500 has gained 7.1 percent.
Below are two contrasting views on the small-cap rebound. They're from managers of mutual funds specializing in small-caps, generally defined as stocks with market values of $300 million to $2 billion. Both funds are top performers. Their average annualized returns over the last five years place them within the top 2 percent of their small-cap value peers.
The more cautious outlook is from Jayme Wiggins, lead manager of Intrepid Small Cap (ICMAX). More than a third of the fund is held in cash, a defensive position in line with Wiggins' dim outlook.
Taking a more optimistic view is Adam Peck, co-manager of Heartland Value Plus (HRVIX). He believes small-caps will outperform large-caps. That's because profit margins at larger companies have nearly returned to pre-recession levels, while smaller firms still have a ways to go.
Here are excerpts from recent interviews:
Q: How do you explain this year's small-cap comeback?
Wiggins: The economic and company-specific news hasn't been great. We suspect many professional investors have been buying in anticipation of another quantitative easing announcement. We don't play that game. Eventually, we think others will regret participating in yet another Bernanke risk trade.
Peck: Investors have been warming up to risk and to small-caps. Over the last three years, we've had phases of risk-on, risk-off. It was risk-on through last July, and then the European debt crisis came to head and it was risk-off. Then Europe seemed to get its act together temporarily and it was risk-on again toward the end of the year. That risk-on trade has continued this year and I think it will continue to help small-caps.
Q: Are small-caps good investments now, compared with other segments of the stock market?
Wiggins: We don't make short-term market predictions. Small-caps continue to be priced at a premium to larger companies. Ultimately we expect that premium to diminish. We're having difficulty finding cheap small caps and we've tried to position our portfolio defensively with companies that are less sensitive to changes in economic growth.
There will always be opportunities to take advantage of market volatility to purchase misunderstood smaller-cap names. The businesses we own are undervalued, but in my opinion, they are the exception in the small-cap universe. If you asked me whether I would rather own the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 index for the next five years, I would choose the S&P 500.
Peck: Small-caps are a good place to be because they've got more room for profit growth than large-caps. The ratio of net profits to revenues at large companies averaged 10.8 percent at the end of last year. That's nearly back to where the average was in 2007, when large-cap profit margins were at their historic peak of 11 percent. Smaller companies averaged 5.4 percent at the end of December. There's still quite a ways to go before they return to their peak of 6.8 percent, reached in 2006.
Profit margins at larger companies are approaching pre-recession levels because they were able to cut costs faster than small companies.


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At the right price, anything can become a sold-out product. It would appear the tiny $35 Raspberry Pi computer is a huge success. It's reported that thousands of units were sold with demand far outstripping supply.
The Raspberry Pi was created by game designer David Braben and introduced to the world last May. The goal of the Raspberry Pi computer was to create a tiny computer that would encourage more school kids to learn programming. Since its introduction, the Raspberry Pi's caught the attention of many hobbyists and tinkerers who have no doubt added to the successful sell out.
The beauty of the Raspberry Pi is in its simplicity. Two models of the Raspberry Pi are available for purchase with both PCs run Fedora Linux stored on an SD card and sport 700MHz Broadcom ARM processors.
The $25 Model A originally had only 128MB of RAM, but has since been upgraded to 256MB of RAM to match its bigger brother. Should you choose the $35 Model B option, you still get all the components in the Model A, with the added bonus of two USB ports and an Ethernet port. Both PCs run Fedora Linux stored on an SD card.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation state on its website that this first launch to "software and hardware enthusiasts, makers, teachers and others" is to create a community that'll act as a structural backbone of knowledge before the PC is released to educational market.
If you're thinking of picking one of these guys up, you still can, but the Raspberry Pi Foundation just isn't going to be sure when you'll get it due to the demand. We thought we'd never see these things sell for such a low price, but somehow the Raspberry Pi Foundation's done it!
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November 4th might turn out to be a very long day. That's when polls open across the U.S., but the early voting has already begun. First we heard about electronic voting machines switching votes in West Virginia, now there's a report from a local Jacksonville, Florida TV station of problems with optical scanners in that state.
Jacksonville area voters waited in long lines as precinct officials struggled to fix the balky optical scanners, which indicated that the ballots used were too long to be scanned. There were seven malfunctioning scanners replaced, with an additional ten ordered as backups. Meanwhile, voters were allowed to cast their ballots and place them in an "emergency bin" for later counting or scanning.
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- Baby Bear is constantly falling asleep while playing with Elmo, because it's hibernation time. Eventually, Alan convinces him that sleep is important, singing "Everybody Sleeps."
- Monsterpiece Theater: "Guys and Dolls" (EKA: Episode 2636)
- Count von Count sings "Lambaba" as he counts sheep and other animals that pop into the room. (EKA: Episode 2789)
- The Two-Headed Monster shares a pillow. (EKA: Episode 1706)
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|I have several clumps of alphonse karr clumping bamboo, and i want to divide it. Is there an easy way, like using my tractor and a chain to pull out little 1 or 2 foot chunks of it so i can transplant them? any tricks or tips appreciated.
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|my thinking is to wrap a good chain or rope around several culms and tie off to the tractor and yank....
|The easiest way is to sawzall it into clumps 1st and then get your shovel under it and pop it out it will sound like youre unzipping it.I think if you pull it out with a chain it would hurt it pretty bad. Its best to dig out. If your going to use the chain or rope method dig aroound it 1st and then it will come out alot easier.
|yes, i have successfully sawsalled clumps of it out and used the shovel method, but it is so labor intensive. It is difficult to get the sawsall in amidst the culms to effectively cut at any great depth. i don't really care too much if it gets damaged, but lives...
- Posted by kentuck_8b __ (My Page) on Tue, Oct 30, 12 at 21:32
|I use an Ames 4" Chopping Scraper. I've used an ax and a sawzall before but my knees and back aren't what they used to be and I can use the Scraper while standing upright. The hardest part is picking up the rootball. The sawzall can be messy and the ax can take good aim and a lot of work but since the ax is thick, it gets caught a lot in the rhizomes.
I dig or cut a circle around the selected culms that I want in the division using a shovel and when I hit a thick rhizome, I use the Chopping scraper. Even thicker rhizomes that are over 2 inches thick can be cut with as few as three good chops.
You can buy one at Home Depot for about $16 if I remember correctly.
|perhaps i will give that a try. pulling out a clump after its cut should be easy with my tractor...
I'll be interested in what you have to report after you try this. In my experience with taking dozens of divisions, unless you have a discrete clump where the inground rhizomes have been severed, just trying to yank it out of the ground will be a disaster, at least in terms of having anything you want to save afterwards. Wrapping a chain around the culms and pulling will destroy the culms, and I question that you will even be able to get a decent root ball out of the ground. When I take divisions, I use a bamboo spade, which is a steel shovel that weighs about 20 pounds with a slide hammer weight mounted on the handle. You chop down about 10"-12" deep all around the root ball and then pop it out. Only takes a couple of minutes, but the shovel costs about $175. However, since I want to get out divisions that aren't damaged and can be sold or traded, it's paid for itself many times over.
Here is a link that might be useful: Bamboo spade
- Posted by sandy0225 z5 Indiana (firstname.lastname@example.com) on Thu, Nov 1, 12 at 7:34
|Dad has a "stump bucket" for his skid loader and we use that to dig it. we dig down at the corner of the clump to make a hole, then get the bucket under the roots and push up and pull up a corner of the plant, and then when we get it out of the ground a little bit, take some big lopper type pruners to cut it free. Once you get a big chunk cut free,you can use the bucket to drag it out of the hole and backfill the hole with soil. then you can put up the skid loader and then use the pruners to cut the root ball into chunks and pot them up or replant.
That sounds like a better better bamboo removal approach than using chains to yank on it. However, the OP has clumping bamboo and it sounds like what you have taken out is running bamboo. The roots of a clumper are dense and typically form a compact, circular, solid mass, whereas runners have numerous roots that fan out in all directions making it easier to cut through individual ones. Your approach may still work, but the severing will pose more of a challenge. I'll be interested to hear how this all turns out.
|Kudzu9 So the Bamboo Spade is really worth the money? Considering I have at least 50 broken shovels I could have bought 2. Guess what I'm asking for for Christmas!
I've had mine for 5 years and it's still going strong. If you would have told me years ago that I'd spend that amount on a shovel, I would have thought you were crazy. I'm notoriously cheap, but, after using one that a friend had, I was sold in 2 minutes. It's not only perfect for bamboo, but I've used it to take out and/or divide other plants with large rootballs like mature clumps of daylilies and grasses. I loaned it to a neighbor who had struggled for a couple of hours to get out an overgrown pampas grass, and we was able to get it out in about 5 minutes with the bamboo spade.
One tip: even though it's built like a tank, I still take care to make sure everything is pretty much severed so that the prying part is not a strain on me and the shovel. I'm not sure that you would be able to bend or even break the shovel by prying, but I don't abuse it either. Usually I bring a demolition bar along to help with prying if I am taking out a particularly large division.
So, yes, I'm sold on it. It's saved me countless hours, as well as turning some nasty, difficult digging jobs into something that's not a big deal. It's actually fun to use, and I've had friends who bought one tell me it's the best garden tool they ever bought.
If you get one, let me know what you think.
|Kudzu9 Oh Yeah I'll be getting one. I've been wanting one just couldnt see spending that much for a shovel. Is the shovel all one solid piece of steel? that sounds too sweet my back will love it.Hopefully it'll be the last shovel I'll ever need.
- Posted by miketropic none (My Page) on Sat, Nov 3, 12 at 2:07
|just curious why no one uses a sawz all..thats what I use with a nice steel shovel fiberglass handle and never have any problems. I don't grow enough bamboo to spend that much on a shovel
|The shovel blade is 10 gauge steel (more than 1/8" thick) that is welded to a tubular steel handle that is also at least 10 gauge. Then there is a second piece: a solid steel cylindrical weight that slides inside the center of the shovel handle. Each of the two pieces weighs 8-9 lbs.
You don't actually "dig" with this shovel. You rest the business end on the ground where you want to chop down, and then you lift the weight and keep slamming it down like a slide hammer. Depending on how hard the soil is, it might take anywhere from 3-10 blows to sink the blade of the shovel all the way down into the ground. Then you pull it out, move it to the next location, and repeat. It usually takes me no more than 5 minutes to chop around a bamboo and remove the division. Here is what the two pieces of the shovel look like, and what it looks like assembled.
A Sawzall paired with a shovel and demo bar is the way I used to do it. However, I was chewing through a lot of expensive blades, sometimes breaking or bending a shovel, and it was taking too long. I also occasionally wanted to dig bamboo where there was no nearby power source. Because of the amount of use I get out of the shovel and the time it saves, it's economical for me. However, your approach is a good one if you aren't digging often. Just don't use one of these shovels or you might end up being tempted to buy one!
- Posted by kentuck_8b __ (My Page) on Sat, Nov 3, 12 at 14:17
|If you can weld you could make one. I have the material and a welder but never got around to making one and since I bought the Chopping Scraper, it is all I need for what I do. It is very sharp and I doubt if the handle can be broke.
I have to agree though with Kudzu, the bamboo spade is probably the best tool for ease of use out there. The only difference between it and the chopping scraper that I have, is that I have to chomp down with the whole tool rather than the sliding bar as on the bamboo spade.
I've used the type of chopper you describe and they work pretty well. However, you have to be able to land repetitive blows in the same spot...and I'm marginal in that ability! The advantage of the bamboo spade with the sliding handle is that you don't have to be accurate since the blade sits in one place and just keeps getting driven in.
- Posted by kentuck_8b __ (My Page) on Sat, Nov 3, 12 at 15:11
|Yes, I agree.
My 'aim' is still pretty good though, and I usually am dividing bamboo in 'soft' soil so I don't have to chop from a long distance, but the bamboo spade defintely will give a cleaner cut rhizome which is always desireable. I would surely have one if I did more dividing and in tougher soil.
- Posted by miketropic none (My Page) on Sat, Nov 3, 12 at 23:47
|well I work in a steel mill and one of our sister plants stamps out shovel heads :-) I'm thinking about trying my hand at making one of these with some "fringe benfits" from work.might plant a culm or 2 in the front of the place to give a little back lol
|I have decided to get one of these Bamboo Slammers. In their description it says it is best for dense masses of roots and rhizomes, which is what i have to work with.
Here is a link that might be useful: bamboo garden
- Posted by botanicalbill 9b SWFlorida (My Page) on Mon, Nov 12, 12 at 14:58
|Just to throw my 2c at you. I have tried the shovel and ax method, if you want a good workout, go for it. I live in Florida and unless I do this at the crack of dawn, its too hot for me.
This past year I picked up a sawzall at harbor freight for $19 bucks with a coupon. I bought a one foot blade for the saw. I sawed into the ground around the clump that I wanted to divide (Asian lemon). After that I stuck a shovel in my saw lines and the division poped right out of the ground, well a little force was needed. I wouldn't divide any other way.
Glad that works for you...wish it did for me. I suspect we have much different soils. Mine is glacial till with hard clay and lots of rocks. I just was chewing up too many blades every time I started doing more than one division.
|i have done the sawsall and shovel years ago, but it is very difficult. i am going to give the device pictured above a try, or the one like it at http://www.theslammer.co.nz/
which is $285 shipped to me.
Here is a link that might be useful: bamboo slammer
Thanks for the link...great video on that web site. It's an interesting design variation on the slammer I have that I got in the U.S. from MidAtlantic Bamboo in the U.S. I'm looking forward to a user review once you've given it a workout.
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The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society presents its all new silent film of The Call of Cthulhu. The famed story is brought richly to life in the style of a classic 1920s silent movie, with a haunting original symphonic score. Using the "Mythoscope" process — a mix of modern and vintage techniques, the HPLHS has worked to create the most authentic and faithful screen adaptation of a Lovecraft story yet attempted.
This extraordinary motion picture is now available on DVD. The DVD also features a making-of documentary, high-fidelity and Mythophonic audio, special features, and intertitles in twenty-four languages.
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The Call of Cthulhu is HP Lovecraft's most famous story. It is the only story to feature the celebrated monster Cthulhu and in many ways it encapsulates the ideas that went on to permeated Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The film follows the story's three-part narrative construction, and it moves from the 1920s to 1908 to the1870s and back, as the story does. The story embodies HPL's nihilistic world view, his cosmic perspective, and his sense that mankind is doomed by its own insignificance. And it's a pretty good globe-trotting adventure story.
(Spoiler Warning) In the story, a dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own. As he pieces together the dreadful and disturbing reality of the situation, his own sanity begins to crumble. In the end, he passes the torch to his psychiatrist, who in turn hears Cthulhu's call.
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We are a couple of guys with backgrounds in theatre and film. We've run the HPLHS for 20 years now and have created several Lovecraftian CDs and films. We decided we wanted to take one of Lovecraft's stories and make it into a movie that was as effective as the story was. The Call of Cthulhu seemed like a great choice: it's a famous story, never before adapted to film. It also presents some daunting challenges to independent filmmakers (ships at sea, giant monsters, islands rising from the ocean, huge cast, etc...). We started filming the project in the summer of 2004 and completed the movie in the fall of 2005.
Written in 1926, just before the advent of "talking" pictures, The Call of Cthulhu is one of the most famous and influential tales of H.P. Lovecraft, the father of gothic horror. Now the story is brought richly to life in the style of a classic 1920s silent movie, with a haunting original symphonic score. Using the "Mythoscope" process — a mix of modern and vintage techniques, the HPLHS has worked to create the most authentic and faithful screen adaptation of a Lovecraft story yet attempted.
From the cultists of the Louisana bayous to the man-eating non-euclidean geometry of R'lyeh, the HPLHS brings Cthulhu to the screen as it was meant to be seen. Eighteen months of production and a cast of more than 50 actors went into making this film a period spectacle that must seen to be believed.
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|One of the local stores is running a sale on Beef Cubed Steak...a family pak. What can I make with them? I know they can be used for Chicken Fried Steak, but what else? Thanks for any and all ideas!!
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- Posted by ginger_st_thomas (My Page) on Wed, Mar 7, 07 at 15:56
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With a fork, blend the buter & parsley thoroughly. Heat a heavy skillet & spinkle w/salt. Brown the steaks on 1 side about 2 minutes over high heat, turn & brown on the other side about 1 minute. Top immediately with small balls of the butter-parsley mixture.~~Craig Claiborne
- Posted by ginger_st_thomas (My Page) on Wed, Mar 7, 07 at 16:07
|My cousin used to make Rouladen using cubed steaks. The way she did it was similar to the recipe below.
Here is a link that might be useful: Rouladen
|I've never heard of Rouladen, actually. But it sounds good. Both recipes do so I'm saving them!! I plan on buying a package of the steaks this weekend to have on hand.
Thanks Ginger!
- Posted by ginger_st_thomas (My Page) on Wed, Mar 7, 07 at 17:32
|You're most welcome. I hope you like them.
|I use cube steaks to make chicken fried steak. I serve it with mashed potatoes and gravy. My family loves it.
- Posted by girlsingardens (My Page) on Thu, Mar 8, 07 at 8:16
|We just love cube steak and eat them several ways. We use them for swiss steak. One way is to dredge the steak in flour, salt and pepper, brown in a hot skillet. Put the steak in a small roaster, and add a jar of canned tomatoes ( I use my own). You can add peppers, sliced carrots and sliced onions.
I also brown them and then add a package of onion soup mix and water, then add cornstarch and water mix when the steak is done. This makes a nice steak with onion gravy.
An easy way is just to fry them up in a skillet after dredging and have a minute steak. We had them this weekend, I added a can of Cream of chicken soup, onion soup mix and also 2 soup cans of milk, and 1 cup of minute rice. This cooked up really good in the oven and made a nice dinner.
Hope these ideas help you out some. My folks have cattle and there are always lots of packages of cube steak in the half of beef that we get.
|mst...chicken fried steak is one of my very favorite meals. To me it's comfort food. Because gravy is like a beverage in my house (must be related to Erma! LOL!), I try to avoid making CFS and save them for special occasions.
Stacie...thanks for these ideas. How could I forget Swiss steak??? LOL!!! I'm saving these suggestions too!!
| My favorite way to use the cubed steak is to sprinkle 1 Tbs of seasoned flour onto each side of the steaks and using the edge of a saucer-lightly pound the flour into the meat. Put oil in a frying pan over high heat-sear the meat quickly on both sides (about 1 min each side).
Lay the seared pieces of meat in a 13x9 baking pan. Pour 1-2 cans of Campbells onion soup over the meat, cover w/foil & bake at 350 for 1 hour. It will be fork-tender! Bake potatoes in the oven at the same time as the juice is delish on the potatoes.
|oh, sharon fl....that sounds good too! I was going to try one of these recipes over the weekend, but other things came up and my plans fell by the wayside. Sigh.... I will be better prepared next weekend! LOL!
|My mom would dip them in buttermilk, then in seasoned breadcrumbs, then fry them in a little oil in a med-hot pan. Yummy, the buttermilk makes these so tender.
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Finally! Congress has passed an extension to a highway funding bill that will vastly improve the abilities of state transportation agencies to get their job done. In Oklahoma's case, the approval will mean millions more each month for road-building projects.
The Senate approved the measure Wednesday by a large margin and now, since it already has been approved by the House, it heads to the president for his signature.
In addition to extending highway funding, the bill also includes payroll tax breaks and other assistance for businesses.
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., has been a staunch supporter of enacting a longer extension of highway funding and has been a key and influential player in his role as the top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. His junior colleague and fellow Republican, Sen. Tom Coburn, has played the opposite role, continuing his obstinate opposition to funding for such projects despite how important they are to his home state and his constituents.
Inhofe noted that the four short-term extensions that transportation agencies have been subjected to have cost the Oklahoma Department of Transportation in the neighborhood of $15 million a month and have hampered the agency's ability to carry out long-term plans.
"After months of delay, due to politics as usual in Washington, Congress finally passed an extension that will ensure states receive the money they are owed and provide the long-term certainty that is the lifeblood of state and local highway and bridge programs,'' he said.
"Oklahoma, like all states, has been on life support relying on federal funding measured in days rather than years, essentially killing their ability to let contracts as the country approaches the peak of the 2010 construction season,'' he added.
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More Arabs face death for selling to Jews: Palestinian Authority legal system considers such sales capital offense.
Posted on June 14, 2012 at 12:55 AM EST
By Aaron Klein
JERUSALEM — At least 16 Palestinians are currently in Palestinian Authority prisons for selling property to Jews, KleinOnline has learned.
Nine of the 16 face possible capital punishment for their direct involvement in the land sales, according to PA sources.
The sources said that of the 16 Palestinians incarcerated, seven are employees of the PA, including its security forces.
Most of those in prison are housed in PA jails in Hebron, Jericho and Ramallah. The land sales to Jews include four deals in the region of Hebron, 3 in Jerusalem and one more deal in the West Bank city of Beit El.
The PA sources told KleinOnline that the Palestinian government recently formed a unit with a $2.7 million yearly budget to investigate property sales to Jews as well as any Jewish communities, outposts or military bases that may be sitting on Arab-owned land. The unit works with nongovernmental organizations, including European-funded NGOs.
The number of Palestinians imprisoned for land sales to Jews is much larger than previous reported.
In April, the news media reported the PA sentenced to death former PA intelligence officer Muhammad Abu Shahala for the real estate transaction in the ancient Jewish community of Hebron.
Under the framework of the PAs legal system, selling land to Jews is considered a capital offense.
Officially, the PA denies the reports that it sentenced Shahala to death and has been less than forthcoming about exactly where the former intelligence official is being held.
Dmitry Diliani, a spokesperson for the PA, referred KleinOnline to the Palestinian prison in Hebron, which in turn directed a request to the PAŌĆÖs Ministry of Justice.
The Justice Ministry did not reply to a request for comment before publication.
According to multiple reports, Shahala was tortured prior to a hasty trial in which he was found guilty of selling his Hebron property to Jews.
Over the years, scores of Palestinians have been put to death in judicial and extrajudicial killings after being accused of land sales to Jews.
HebronŌĆÖs Jewish community has been at the forefront of the fight for ShahalaŌĆÖs freedom.
Hebron spokesmen David Wilder and Noam Arnon wrote an appeal addressed to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President of the European Council of the EU Herman Van Rompuy and other international officials.
Wrote Wilder and Arnon: ŌĆ£It is incumbent upon the entire international community, which views Abu Mazen and the Palestinian Authority as a viable Middle East peace partner, to publicly reject such acts of legal murder, when the ŌĆścrimeŌĆÖ is nothing more than property sales. What would be the reaction to a law in the United States, England, France, or Switzerland, forbidding property sales to Jews?ŌĆØŌĆØ
Wilder told KleinOnline he didnŌĆÖt hear back from Clinton, Ban or other international human rights officials contacted about the case.
Wilder said he held a lengthy meeting with the International Red Cross in April at which he presented ShahalaŌĆÖs case and requested assistance. Wilder said the so-called humanitarian group did not act.
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January 30, 2013
After years of campaigns from both the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and corners of the food industry, it has become conventional wisdom that consuming more whole grains is a good thing. There are good reasons for this assertion; whole grains tend to contain more fiber and nutrients — such as manganese, selenium, and thiamin — than their refined counterparts. But as a recent study shows, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of products that tout their whole-grain content.
The study, conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health and published in the journal Public Health Nutrition earlier this month, examined five different criteria for choosing products that contain whole grains: the industry-sponsored Whole Grain Stamp, a whole grain as the first ingredient, a whole grain as the first ingredient with no added sugars, the word "whole" before any grain in the ingredients list, and a ratio of 10:1 or lower of total carbohydrate to fiber. The USDA often recommends looking for a whole grain as the first ingredient in a food, while the American Heart Association recommends using the 10:1 ratio as a guide. The researchers studied numerous packaged food items and found that those containing the Whole Grain Stamp, as well as those listing a whole grain first or anywhere on the ingredients list, contained more fiber and were less likely to contain trans fat than foods that fulfilled none of the whole-grain requirements. However, these whole-grain-touting foods tended to contain greater amounts of sugar and calories than non-whole-grain foods.
The 10:1 carbohydrate-to-fiber ratio turned out to be the best indicator of nutrition, leading to foods with higher levels of fiber and lower levels of sugar and calories than any of the other whole-grain criteria. This standard, however, may not be as easy to follow as the others, since it requires reading a product's nutrition label and performing arithmetic. As noted in an article on the study at MinnPost, even this standard may not offer the best possible way to evaluate a food's nutritional value, since certain types of fiber that add few nutritional benefits may be added to a food and count toward the 10:1 ratio. The article also explains why the Whole Grain Stamp may be such a poor predictor of nutritional value: It signifies only that a food contains at least 51% whole grain by dry weight. This means that up to 49% of the food may consist of added fats, sugars, and other ingredients that are best avoided.
Do you make an effort to include whole grains in your diet? If so, do you use the Whole Grain Stamp as a guide? Do you find that the whole-grain content of foods has any impact, positive or negative, on your blood glucose level? Are certain whole grains, or means of preparing them, better than others? Are there other fiber-filled foods that you believe are better or more important than whole grains when it comes to blood glucose control? Leave a comment below!
I've worked hard to eliminate wheat and corn from bread ingredients. The battle begins with a bread machine at home, as so far as I know no commercial "bread" fits a diabetic-diet paradigm. It is down to flours of rye, brown rice, sorghum, arrowroot, buckwheat, tapioca, and a few other types. My current choice avoiding gluten, which really does make grains into soft bread, is xanthan gum powder. So far none of the recipes have yielded anything like what most Americans would call "bread", but result in a loaf of some variety of "cracker" in texture. None of the above seems to raise our blood sugar, but I miss the soft texture of modern breads that are easy to chew. Our "bread" can be eaten with dentures in, while most if not all "store-bought" breads require a soon removal and cleaning of gummy residues before engaging in social conversations. I gave up on texture, now experimenting with flavors, including yeast, saffron, and spicy southwestern spices & herbs. None of the above is suitable as left-overs, supporting the biblical concept of being thankful for our DAILY bread. Keep the oven extra hot, as apparently there are no remarkable "rising" chemical reactions equal to recipes involving wheat or corn. If anyone has some secret to "rising" without wheat or corn, please say on.
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Jim Campbell, Google "minute muffins" for an odd little bread substitute that is gluten free and very low carb. I make it without sweeteners or sweet spices, sometimes add savory flavors like chives or dill, and sometimes make it plain. The basic ingredients are egg, flaxseed meal, baking powder, and a bit of butter. Easy peasy.
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Within days of each other, two announcements concerning the future of the US currency appeared in the popular press, and each avoided any mention whatsoever of the primary driver of the changes.
First was the announcement on November 26 from Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner that the U.S. Mint will begin removing pennies and nickels from circulation starting the first of the year, supposedly because they're too expensive to make. It costs the mint nearly 5 cents to make each penny while it costs more than 16 cents to make a nickel. This is costing the mint a lot of money, an estimated $187 million last year alone.
Two days later CNN reported that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) called for the United States to stop printing one-dollar bills and switch instead to one-dollar coins. The GAO claimed that such a move could actually make the government some money:
A $1 coin typically costs about 30 cents for the U.S. Mint to produce, but then the government can sell them to Americans for a dollar each. That financial gain is called seigniorage, and over a period of 30 years, it could [make] the U.S. government about $4.4 billion, the GAO said.
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or u got some heavy duty aspergers syndrome like i do?!?
(ps. sorry for quoting the guys entire... "reply" but gee someone has to give him the kudos!)
Loved tactical soldier, but after playing this for a few hours the only thing I felt they have improved are the graphics. The gameplay is very shallow for me.
Hello PureRumble!
No, I am not a shill poster or whatever you call them. You can see I have posted many times in the past, not just one or two. Hey, I'm a senior member now! Cool!
No I don't know the developer. My favourite games are turn based games,
followed by RPGs. I consider myself a hardcore gamer. Give me Hunters 2
over Angry Birds any day.
I just posted my thoughts so that people can see that there is indeed a fair bit of strategy to this game. Plus ,I have fallen in love with this game, in the last while ,and just felt compelled to comment. note : I have not played the developers' Zombie turn based game, so I can't compare this game to it.
I also found out more by playing in the last few days. Some of this is documented in the games help file which I failed to read early on.
Soldiers using machine guns and sub machine guns are great as the enemy
cannot return fire on them. If a hand guns max fire power is say 42 at close range, it will do even more damage ( gets a damage bonus) when your character
is against a wall firing through a window. When you get the perk that allows
your soldier to fire at an enemy running through their field of view, you need to
touch the viewing arrows that appear and set the soldier's view cone direction.
Otherwise, the perk will not kick in.
When the eye symbol appears over your man ,it means he has been spotted. For a while there, I thought it meant you spotted the enemy. No eye ,means you are currently undetected.
And when you have the small arms specialist, don't forget (while in the Barracks screen) to select the grenade box
to arm him with Frag Grenades. I don't know how many missions I played before I stumbled across this. The Frag is an instant kill on the square it targets and does good splash damaged to the surrounding enemy units.
Also, if you play a mission where your guys get ambushed right off the start, check the whole map before deploying
your squad. Sometimes , there are two or three mission starting points on the map. My men died half a dozen times on one map before I noticed two other safer deploy zones.
There is more I could say to help those interested in playing this game but, it's time to hit the sack.
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gonna hit bed too... but gemineye dont forget to 5 star the game here on TA forum if u love it so much
Was interested prerelease, but not if it's freemium.
I have lots of problems with this one. I was really looking forward to it, but dozens of missions and hours into it everything seemed...pointless.
The enemy is essentially the same as you. Same abilities, same weapons, same equipment. They're reskinned and renamed, but that's it. You're fighting a mirror image all the time. When you level up, they level up. When you unlock a new weapon or skill, they get that weapon or skill. There are always more of them, but they have fewer hit points and deal less damage, which seems odd given the "realistic" nature of combat they're attempting to portray. And they don't use grenades (thankfully, or else even more of the early missions would be impossible), and your grenades don't harm your own troops (friendly rifle fire will though).
Some maps are impossible. Period. Your men will be gunned down on their start points before getting a turn. Occasionally they'll get a turn or two, and then be completely overwhelmed. Eventually you'll find a map you can win on, and then you'll farm that map forever in order to get new weapons, soldiers, skills and equipment. You might go try other maps occasionally, but if you want to progress it's either grind a single map or spend (big) dollars. And it really is a grind...five wins to upgrade or unlock anything, figure 5-10 minutes to play the mission, and you're going to invest a LOT of time (or $$$) to make any headway (and I use that term loosely, as I dunno if you really ever gain anything when the opposition instantly has what you have).
Keyword: Boring.
And for the curious, a meaningful amount of credits (960,000), enough to buy 5-8 upgrades, will cost you $20 in real money.
Secondary keyword: Expensive
Now, pretending we're in an alternate universe where there was no IAP or endless grinding, I'm still not sure about the base gameplay/combat system. Shots always hit, never miss. There is no ammo tracking. The cover system seems "off". LOS is iffy at times (or simply broken). The maps are too small (or movement allowance is too large). Giving a soldier an additional skill is actually a detriment (he loses lots of initiative), and once you learn this it's an expensive (time or $$$) fix as you only get half his value back if you want to retire him and try again.
I'm really looking for the upside, as I really Want to like it, but the more I play the worse it gets. Here's hoping they build on this and come out with a non-freemium fleshed out product, as this seems almost like an alpha/demo/sales pitch version they decided to monetize .
Ok, seems to be another freemium POS....
No iPad1 Support...
So again some lazy Devs which do not try to optimise memory management, game engine etc.... Maybe they should buy a C64 and learn how to handle limited resources in an enviroment which offers you just this one and only device...
@Devs I am getting really angry... Do you freemium happy Devs think that we all are stupid cash cows who cannot calculate? There are a lot of good games out there, which do not follow the way of this freemium pest
Just "learn" to make games the "good old way" again and sell them for a price which is adequate. I will gladly pay a full price for a game, which is worth it.
I am out of this crap...
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The new update totally screwed the game. I lost all my guys I've built up and all my credits. Thank god i wasn't stupid enough to spend real money on them but if I did they would be gone for good. Do not update is my recommendation.
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