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PABLO, MONTANA 59855 VOLUME 9 NUMBER 7 FULL MOON OF THE HUCKLEBERRY AUGUST 1, 1979 NOTICE The next two Council meetings are scheduled for August 3rd, and August 17th. They will be held at the Tribal Council Chambers at the Pablo Complex, starting at 9:00 a.m. Any changes will be announced on Radio Kerr. SALISH KOOTENAI COMMUNITY COLLEGE HAS MOVED! Our offices are now located in the Ronan Old Elementary School on Round Butte Road, two blocks off Hie. way 93. Our new telephone number is 676-4650. Our new address is: Box 1020 Ronan, MT 59864 STOP IN AND SEE US!! TRIBE HAS A NEW FLAG Eighteen months ago, the idea of a modern tribal flag was just a gleam in the Tribal Council's eye. As of last month, though, it became reality when 12 custom-made banners were delivered to the Pablo Complex from Kansas. The story starts back in the last days of 1977 when the Council voted to sponsor a contest for the designing of a tribal flag - an "anglo" version, different from the age-old feathers-on-a-stick "flag" seen in Pow-Wow grand entries. Announcement of the contest (and its $50.00 prize) was made in the tribal newspaper in May of 1978 and one month later, twelve entries had been submitted by members from Montana, Washington, Michigan and California. A seven-member selection committee (Agnes Ken-mille, Clarice Sanchez, Letti Neuman, Eileen Morigeau} Francis Vanderburg, Nedra Reagan and AI Sloan) reviewed the dozen designs and narrowed the field to four finalists. (The artists' names had been sealed over, by the way, so personalities wouldn't enter into the judging.) After further deliberation, they voted the design created by Karen Hale of Dixon as "best representing the Indian view". A replica of felt was crafted by Nedra Reagan (Kicking Horse Job Corps art teacher) and finally mailed off to School Speciality Supply, Inc., in Kansas (whose bid for the job was the lowest of three bids) in April of 1979, and some two months (and $3,000.00) later, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes had an even dozen red, blue, yellow and white flags for proud display. (Continued on page 2)
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Title | 1979-08-01 Char-Koosta News |
Creator | Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation. |
Subject | Salish Indians --Newspapers.; Kutenai Indians --Newspapers.; Pablo (Montana) --Newspapers.; Kootenai Indians |
Description | Salish Kootenai Community College has moved!; Tribe has a new flag; John Neuman is now with BIA; C.S.K.T. Hosts 1979 I.T.Y.P; Meeting with Baucus staff member; Tribal Government and members recognized by U.S. government agency; John Stevens, obituary; Tribes declare hunting moratorium; 1979 Pow-wow winners (photographs); Second sheep transplant completed; Indian Rights Making Progress. |
Publisher | Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Nation |
Date Original | 1979-08-01 |
Date Digital | 2007-04-24 |
Type | text |
Format | image/tiff |
Resource Identifier | Y54000228 |
Rights Management | Copyright (c) Salish and Kootenai Federated Tribes, all rights reserved. |
Contributing Institution | Salish Kootenai College |
Contributor | D'Arcy McNickle Library |
Source | CSKT PN 4883.J6 C4 |
Language | en |
Relation | Vol. 9; No. 7 |
Digitization Specifications | Digitized at the University of Montana Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library; Scanned as master TIFF using Bookeye 3 scanner at 400 ppi, 8 bit grayscale; Optical Character Recognition with Abbyy FineReader Corporate Edition; Derivatives created using Photoshop CS |
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The renunciation of everything that distracts from the driving experience: The KTM X-BOW fulfilled this requirement superbly – and the "GT" does so, too. Nevertheless, thanks to the "coming home device", the fabric soft-top that can be carried along in the vehicle, everything remains absolutely dry in the interior of the KTM X-BOW GT.
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The new KTM X-BOW GT makes a convincing impression in its aspirations to be a true Gran Tourismo. The screen and doors that together create the "helmet visor effect" are an effective evolution of the radical design. However, the "GT" also provides an incredible level of driving comfort, without forgetting its racing genes. A real super sports car in which you can also proceed very comfortably, if so desired.
A new snorkel sucks in fresh air at the front of the KTM X-BOW GT. As and when required, this air passes through a more powerful fan that provides pleasant ventilation in summer and heats the interior in winter, thanks to the improved, more effective heater.
There may very well be super sports cars that live up to this description. Whether it be due to their spectacular appearance. Whether it be due to their outstanding technology. Whether it be due to their breathtaking performance. Or whether it be due to their history steeped in tradition. However, no other car epitomises the term "super sports car" as thoroughly and uncompromisingly as the KTM X-BOW GT. Based on the X-BOW R - itself unique in the matter of high-tech, safety, drive dynamics and appearance - Austrian manufacturer KTM has created a vehicle whose exceptional characteristics can now also be experienced without a helmet. The elegant, frameless windscreen construction, which wraps protectively around the driver and passenger in the same way as a helmet visor, allows the occupants to forego their own headgear. At the same time, however, it does nothing to impair the puristic driving experience or the radical design of the revolutionary KTM X-BOW. Quite the contrary.
The evolution of the KTM design language makes bodywork elements appear more graphic, while just a few sharply drawn lines help to structure the surfaces very clearly. The engine cover, which now has gill-like ventilation slits, connects extensively with the rear bodywork elements that make the rear end - with its new shape - appear much more muscular and powerful. The view from the front also surprises with a new look: The headlamp surrounds have become narrower, the bonnets are attached over the front splitter at a striking angle - making the whole front end of the KTM X-BOW GT appear even brawnier. The new elements – windscreen and side windows – blend seamlessly into each other, thereby creating the "helmet visor effect". The frameless upper edge ensures a flowing transition between "outside" and "inside": It extends an imaginary line up to the rear bonnets, thereby bestowing the whole vehicle with greater dynamics. The new GT makes an even wider, lower, more compact and more powerful appearance. The fact that the aerodynamics have been improved in order to generate less drag and even more downforce goes without saying, due, if nothing else, to the racing genes that are also inherent to this KTM X-BOW.
The technical basis for the KTM X-BOW GT was provided by the "R", with its 2.0 litre TFSI power unit from engine partner Audi and a carbon monocoque found nowhere else in street-legal production vehicles. So it's hardly surprising that numerous reminiscences of racing are also to be encountered in the interior: The fixed Recaro seat shells, which are integrated directly in the carbon monocoque and ensure excellent safety whenever its needed, in conjunction with the four-point safety belts from Schroth, are just as much part of the standard equipment on the KTM X-BOW GT as the sliding pedal box and the multi-function steering wheel with adjustable height and depth. Experience ergonomics previously unheard of in a super sports car, as the unrivalled field of view has barely changed in spite of the windscreen: The short, slender A-pillars hardly affect visibility at all; the overview is perfect, even when cornering.
The KTM X-BOW GT benefits from the racing genes of the tried-and-tested model, combining them with new qualities to meet the requirements resulting from installation of a windscreen. There are many new details to discover in the interior; the centre console in particular has been completely revamped. Behind the shift lever, it's not the ON/OFF button for starting and stopping the Audi engine that sets the tone any more, but the clearly arranged switches for windscreen wiper, screen wash/wipe system, interior ventilation/heating and the windscreen heater. A technologically sophisticated solution allows integration of particularly thin heating wires in the windscreen, which, in contrast to customary standard solutions, are barely visible even in poor light conditions.
Design | Inline 4-cylinder gas engine with direct injection, exhaust turbocharging with intercooling |
Displacement | 1,984 cm³ |
Performance | 210 kW (285 PS) @ 6,400 1/min |
Maximum torque | 420 Nm @ 3,200 1/min |
Valves | 4/cylinder, DOHC |
Fuel consumption | 8.3 l/100 km |
CO₂-emission | 189 g/km |
Length x Width x Height | 3,738 x 1,915 x 1,202 mm |
Wheelbase | 2,430 mm |
Turning radius | 10.8 m |
Wheeltrack front / rear | 1,672 / 1,626 mm |
Power train | Rear wheel drive with mechanical limited-slip differential |
Transmission | 6-speed gearbox, manual |
Tyres front / rear | 205/40 R 17 / 255/35 R18 |
Height of center of gravity | 390 mm |
Fuel tank capacity | 40 l |
Weight excl. fuel | 847 kg |
Top speed | 231 km/h |
Acceleration 0-100 km/h | 4.1 s |
Deceleration 100-0 km/h | 32.9 m |
Aerodynamic downforce 100 km/h | 25 kg |
Aerodynamic downforce 200 km/h | 100 kg |
Lateral acceleration | > 1.5 g (road tires) |
Static weight distribution (front / rear) | 38:62 |

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Keuchel faces off vs. Santiago; Chicago has lost 11 of 12 road games
Another day, another left-hander.
That's the situation facing the Astros on Sunday, when they host the White Sox for the third of a four-game series at Minute Maid Park. For the first time since 1989, Houston finds itself squaring off against a southpaw in every game of a four-game set.
On Sunday, the White Sox will put Hector Santiago on the mound against the Astros and fellow lefty Dallas Keuchel. While Chicago has dropped three straight, 13 of 17 and 11 of their last 12 road games, Houston has won three straight and 10 of 17.
The unusual situation is forcing Astros manager Bo Porter into some difficult lineup decisions. Although the Astros have hit better against lefties as a team, regulars Carlos Pena and Jason Castro have struggled in those matchups over the course of their careers.
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"Knowing that we got four lefties and we have Carlos and Jason who are everyday guys, I had to pick a spot to give one of the lefties off, for sure," Porter said. [Friday starter Chris] Sale made the most sense. Both of those guys are back. We'll stick with the guys we have.
The flip side of the situation is that the Astros' right-handed batters also get plenty of chances against White Sox lefties. They entered Saturday hitting .288 with a .781 OPS in those matchups.
"It should help you stay on the ball more as a righty," Porter said. "It's rare to have a four-game series where you get all lefties. It's actually the first time I've ever seen it as a player or coach. I've seen four righties before. This is definitely something that can help our right-handed hitters."
Santiago (2-4, 3.12 ERA) has a strange set of splits this season. Left-handers are hitting .302 against him, compared with .195 for right-handers, but the righties account for all six home runs Santiago has surrendered.
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"From the way it looks, I guess it's not that hard, but I've adapted to it," Santiago said of moving back and forth. "I've been doing it my whole life, from high school to college, and I've kind of gotten used to the role."
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The White Sox offense thrived on the long ball last season, finishing third in the Majors with 211, while placing seventh in runs scored. But this season, Chicago has scored the fewest runs in the American League and smacked the third-fewest home runs.
Adam Dunn blasted his 18th on Saturday, and Alex Rios has 11, but nobody else on the team has more than seven. Paul Konerko and Dayan Viciedo, who combined for 51 roundtrippers a year ago, have 10 so far.
"Last year, when we hit homers, we scored a lot of runs," manager Robin Ventura said. "Toward the end of last year, when we weren't hitting them as much, we weren't getting that big two-out hit with guys on second base. That can pile up, it wears on your nerves. You try and hit another homer, you try and do things, but it's all about the process and being able to have a tough at-bat and hit something hard. It's frustrating, but you have to fight through it and continue to have the process of your at-bat than results-based always."
Astros: Keuchel riding hot streak
• Keuchel is 3-3 with a 4.37 ERA this season, but he has been stellar in his past three starts. He has posted a 1.89 ERA over 19 innings, striking out 13 and walking two.
On Monday, Keuchel held the Mariners to two runs on seven hits in six innings. He walked one and notched a career-high six strikeouts.
• Closer Jose Veras went through a rough patch in late May, giving up a run in three of four appearances, suffering a blown save and two losses. Since then, the right-hander has logged seven consecutive scoreless outings, with four hits allowed and 12 strikeouts.
On Saturday, he notched his 13th save in 16 chances. In 30 innings, he has a 3.60 ERA and 36 strikeouts.
Worth noting
• From May 15 on, the Astros are 15-14, a better record than teams such as the Rangers, Yankees, Nationals and Giants.
• The Astros entered Saturday ranked seventh in the Majors in batting average against lefties and 11th in OPS.
Andrew Simon is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @HitTheCutoff. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Re: Reid bicyclesI found this thread because I has seen some Reid bikes advertised on the web, and I remain gobstopped at the price of some road bikes out there. I am even more gobstopped at some of the comments on this thread. Geez, some of the people here take themselves far too seriously...get over yourselves, guys (and girls).
Will I buy a Reid? Dunno, I might to try to get a good priced something else at my local bike store, who look after my other bikes pretty well. But I understand other people who do buy a Reid. Yes, bikes, we are up to 6 at the moment. Three in the family bike racing. And I still think some people take themselves far too seriously when it comes to cycling. Now, I am going to drop out , and no doubt get accused of being some type of spammer for Reid. By people who think that if you don't spend 4k on a bike you are not a real cyclist, and have no right to comment on these forums.
Re: Reid bicyclesThe List of posters in this thread who have disappeared - never to return
vforward markngan ashley82 jack94 MrXcmaniac adamgreene newrider94 AvniTumay darryla timmophil sv650_fan --Ken
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Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance required STAT!!!!!
Re: Reid bicyclesThis thread still indeed does ROCK!!!!
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+1 And the List ala keny-G rocks
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its more like the price and brand of "Reid" arouse suspicious and they probably went to google and hit some key which brings them here... that was how i found my way... 2014 Lynskey Peloton
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Re: Reid bicyclestimmophil never even left the building...the two bike my wife and daughter bought have completed the down under ride twice without a hitch..In fact I am going to get the osprey for my son..who is also doing the down under thingy..so I ve manned up where is the fat controller whop removed my last thread..please fess up and tell everyone what you've bought and you experience..no ramblings thanks!!
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Look below... you said another couple of years before you'd come back! Bit early isn't it. Last time you said the stuff below.
Mike bikes faster than your cause its got better carbon.
Re: Reid bicyclesThought I'd ad my tuppence worth - agree with earlier comments, some people on this forum seem to get a bit too excited about spamming, though maybe with good reason - who knows! Anyway, I am a new member so feel free to have a go at me too for spamming if you like, though I'm not. Email me with questions if you want (presumably you can private message people here?) Regardless, I bought a Condor from Reid in Newtown in Sydney about two weeks ago. The guys in the shop were reasonably helpful with my questions. I bought this to do the Sydney Gong ride. I have used it so far to cruise around Bondi and also I rode from Brighton-le-Sands to Cronulla and back this weekend (about 30km round trip). I'm perfectly happy with the bike so far. The front brakes are slightly close to the wheels (they rub slightly), and some of the gear configurations seem to make a slight noise (i.e. chain rubbing somewhere). I reckon a bit of tinkering with the gears should probably sort out and the brakes likewise, we shall see. Point is I suppose it's possible it could have been set up a bit better - though perhaps this happens with all new bikes?
I used to ride a Marin Mill Valley 18km a day in London for a couple of years and loved it. I am enjoying the Condor almost as much. I know they are obviously different bikes/prices/quality but for me who just wants a bike that works and moves nice and fast, it's perfect and SO cheap. I paid $220. Would I recommend to friends - I would indeed. I can't comment on the longevity of the bike yet obviously..... Let the outrage begin
Re: Reid bicyclesHey I plan on buying one of the Reids ladies bikes to get to and from work over the summer, its a 5km commute each way from Brunswick, I wouldn't use it for the commute from the boyfriends house cause its 20km but it will suit me in the city.
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we dont really care if youre one of his spokesman or what but as long youre happy with it that is all matter. and as for your brakes, try loosening the nuts should work. 2014 Lynskey Peloton
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AND because it is a Reid no one is likely to steal it on you...........sounds like a win/win to me.
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Thats the idea
Re: Reid bicyclesI found this topic as i stumbled across the REID bike shop today in Enmore rd. I'm in the market for a new lightweight bike as i'm currently on a downhill race bike worth 3k and heavy.
I have entered many bike shops in the area and always seem the get some one that has got out of bed on the wrong side and don't even acknowledge you, especially NEWTOWN cycles are very consistent. I walked into REID and was amazed that i was attended to, answered my questions and also gave me advise on their bikes. I will be buying the $199 entry level get around bike as it has a nice clean slick look and very light. I can leave this bike outside Correllis while i have a coffee and not worry about it getting 5 fingered. I know the price reflects the quality and made in china as is any other big dollar bike Giant etc so at this price you could chuck it out in the back lane and go again every 6 months. I have no connection with this bike shop or the owner but on monday i will when i purchase my bike with 5 years warranty. PS. I'm not a spammer and don't get upset.
Re: Reid bicyclesGood on you I hope you have a lot of fun with this bike as the price is certainly excellent.
Don't take some of the posts on this string too seriously as we tend to kid about a bit about this topic mainly because it appeared to be a spammer thread in the first place. At the same time I have had a look at some of the Reid bikes and do think they are great value compared to the boat anchors that are sold in Kmart and Big W as bicycles. Cheers, Tom
Re: Reid bicyclesI've been spotting these around Uni. Frequently over the last few weeks I've seen a bike I like the look of and when I investigate further I see the Reid Cycles web address on it. This has happened with several "pretty bikes" I've seen over the past few weeks.
So I like the aesthetics; the look catches my eye! Haven't ridden one, though.
Re: Reid bicyclesI am almost a little worried to bump this thread as this is all of post 2 for me What is contained below is completely unsolicited. Shame the way this thread has gone. I found it because I was googling Reid Cycles to see if they had started doing cheap Track bikes and what was on offer. Nothing though it seems.
I have one of these, the Falco. I bought it in August as I live in the middle east (hence user the name) and was visiting my family in OZ and the lovely people at Air France broke my flash road bike earlier returning from a cycling trip so wanted a cheapie to tide me over. I read about these on another forum. What interested me was that the Falco was coming with the new 'flash' 105 group set with 'internal' cabling from the STIs. I have SRAM on my bike and the feel of Shimano shifters has never been my thing but apparently (and actually) the new ones are very similar to SRAM in the hand. Anyway, for 800 bucks, I got an alloy frame, carbon fork new 105 equipped bike over night shipped to Brisbane with some lights, biddon, cage and a pump tossed in the box. Only initial failing was that the front wheel was missing the skewer. No biggie as I had access to another so never chased it up. Only breakage issue was a spoke on the rear wheel let go when I went from a track stand in the big ring and gave it a pretty solid shove. I am the wrong side of 90 kilos so spoke breakages are a pretty regular thing for me anyway. Still not ideal as I had under 1000 kays on the thing but !! BAN ME NOW FOR SWEARING !! happens. Cost me $4 to fix. Apart from that, I can't fault the thing. Great value. Only point of note is that they come with a 52 tooth big ring and 172.5mm crank plus like many bulk build bikes, the bars were obviously bought to fit them all and would be a 40cm (I usually use 44 and 177.5 crank) Head tubes are fairly short as well. I got the 60 cm and would expect something the other side of 200mm but it is probably a fair bit less than that. Again, not a great problem for me as I ride a fair drop normally but could be a problem for someone starting out or with back issues. Rode it just this morning and will be doing so again tomorrow. For all the schenanigans in this thread, I will state that the Falco specifically is a very good buy and there is no reason why I would advise anyone considering it not to do so. Have at it
Re: Reid bicyclesLike they say: Don't go into a cave unless it's empty
Another post purchase review highlighted a broken spoke problem viewtopic.php?f=9&t=45663&p=694542&hilit=reid#p694227 and poor after sales service Now there's missing skewers so overall there's a history of poor quality build. Not biggies for someone with spares lying around and can do their own repairs but for a noob could be a bit of a downer and isn't that their market? --Ken
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Re: Reid bicyclesI love it.
Hi everyone, this is my 1st post. I also found this thread when I was searching for a review of Reid cycles. I had started seeing them locked to lamp posts in the Melbourne and Sydney CBD's. Strange way to advertise a bike company. I have read this tread in it's entirety and I have to say it is some of the funniest stuff I have read. Geez, don't some people take themselves seriously. I don't care whether reid cycles are any good or not - BUT you get what you pay for. Kudos to the company in trying to get the word out anyway they can. It amazes me that some people care some much about what other people think about bikes. I reckon that if you are trying to convince someone else that the bike you bought is great and are defending the purchase to the hilt then you probably regret it yourself. But hey, don't stop on my part - makes for hilarious reading and helps me get through slow days at work. And for that I say thank you to all.
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Ned, we don't know who you are. Are you saying that for your first post in these forums, out of the many hundreds of interesting, funny, informative or controversial topics, you chose this - to mount a defence of a bike brand you apparently don't even own? Just curious.
Re: Reid bicyclesJust to prove I actually do exist, I came back for a follow up read...
That's probably a little over the top. A couple of examples of broken spokes does not legitimately point to poor build quality for the entire bike. Incidentally, like the guy in the other thread I put a pair of Fulcrum 7s on as a replacement. Alex wheels are junk, there is no question of that but theyt still put them on all kinds of branded machines.. When I ordered mine, there was an option to have Aksiums instead for some extra price. Assuming the dude who runs the place checks back from time to time, I suggest that they just make Aksiums the standard wheel and adjust the price accordingly. The tyres that came standard I took straight off and put on a pair of GP4000s so can't comment on the quality of them but at a glance they weren't going to float my boat, of that I am sure. Still, the 800 bucks I paid I could not even buy the 5700 group set from Wiggle for. Hey, Mr Reid, if you are still reading, you have got to put a Track bike together. Price it under $500 and you will sell hundreds. Stacks of people want to give Track a go but don't want to drop the 900-1000 for an entry level bike. Let me know and I will gladly buy one.
Re: Reid bicyclesLook, I just want to say that... I did a triathlon on the weekend and I passed a lot of Reids...
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I just had to give some input on this great undersea vessel.
First I ordered it about a week ago from the main distributor here in the US in Aliso Vallejo ,CA.
http://www.thundertiger4u.com/thunder-t ... 48c1151a5d
Cost a very resonable $449.00 including shipping,and this sub is no light pool toy ,its weighs in at 29.3 lbs package and all and very well packed by the way in solid foam Ill be keeping that.
At a formidable size of 2.5 ft X 11.5 beam and over a ft. high, she is large.
Well after I opened and removed the sub and checked out the quick refrence guid it was ready for a maiden voyage shakedown cruise,HA HA ! Man I tell you this sub must have ben tested to the max at the factory,just like driving that bran new Volvo off the showroom floor she took to the water like a fish ,smoth power not even a sound of a huming motor at full.
I then moved the left stick left and the sub started to slowly dive as if on rails level and steady ,perfectly predictable and scale like.
The pool I ran in is only 20 X 12 oval and 5ft deep but that was no problem ,this sub turns an incredible 2ft radius or under and fast responsive results make it a even beter for those tight canyons at the Den.
The dive was controlable almost to the inch depending on dive plane input and water pumped in,it uses a blader and roller pump along with over pressure sensor so that the bag wont be overfilled.
The forward dive planes are in my opinion a bit small and dont respond to inputs as well as the rudder since the rudder is behind the kort knozzle.
For the size of this sub it could use larger dive planes in the rear and especialy up front since it is not intended to go very fast but to manuever well is its fortay.
the brass prop could also be larger with a kurt knozzle and the bomb like aft fins must be reduced a bit and that would help in the diving as well.
This sub is a real pleasure to run though right out of the box!
As you can see the desighne is uncomnly robust and engineered very well even the shaft servo passthrughs are as good as what is seen on the most expensive diving gear for camaras and ROVs ,stainless 100% hardwear and O ring sealed every where, no sparing or omitions here she is ratted to go deep 10 meters!!,I wonder what the crush depth is !! Well I dont realy want to know.
The electronicks are impressive ,there is a triple failsafe interlocking system on board that is par none.
If to deep and signal lost she will serface.
If power is too low the same result.
If water is detected inside also,the pump is comanded to reverse flow and up she comes.
Also 3 LEDs indicate the variose states she is in including normal.
The motors for both the main drive and pump are unusualy large can motors and are powerfull units,Ill compare them with my high speed ones that are also can motors.
The finish and fit of all the components on this sub and believe me there are alot are first rate ,stainless steel and high impact plastic,alen screws and philister head as well,machined stainless cross members for the planes and stainless motor mount flange with O ring seals including the main 4 mm prop shaft that has a special lip seal and greas along with a dog bone U jouint that is smooth as glass.
Another neat item is the robust rubber feet on the keel stainless plate,a good idea for a sub of this size ,no scratches on the wifes kitchen table,totaly funiture safe,just be sure she is dry!
The main switch and vedeo on switch is located underneath the bow by 2 stainless and O ring packs threaded and caped in an inginuese setup and is adjustable.
I plan on moving the aft control rods to be in the tailcone with bellow seals,I just dont like the exposed shafts.
The inner casing is large and has plenty of space for more goodies and thick cristal clear not even a distortion view of the inner workings is great.
Body parts are easy to disasemble especialy the nose it comes off with just some pressure ,clips hold in place over the main view plate that is a thick 5mm Lexan I believe.
This plate must be removed with the tool provided and by the way the kit has some nice tools also,but any metric socket will work to get to the fuse or to charge the sub which also has its charger as well including the 6 ch serface comander radio.
Nice radio to it looks like a Futaba and full size servos 2 each and 6 ch mini reciever ,the ESC is very slow start in both directions and gives full power in both directions.
For 160 something bucks more an onboard color camara that has a funy name is available also.
,tethered of course.
I plan on changing the color to silver and red,increasing the prop size and pitch and of course installing my favorite ,the Aquadrive 2.0 for longer run time.
Triming down the bomb tail fins ,adding led lights to the front and belly and installing a color tethered camara on the outside of the front plate inside of the dome and painting the dome so that only the camara has a view and the top dome painted to look like a viewing bridge.Also a quick release opening port for chargeing and to gain rapid acsess to the fuse.
And a digital volt meter.
I dont think it needs a leveler she is sOO stable and a ADC wount hurt iether.
A filter will also be used on the pump.
For a biginers introduction to the RC Subs world of fun and to see the beuty under the waves this sub by far and I mean by far takes the cake and I take my hat off with praise to the Thunder Tiger Corporation to have developed this wonderfull fun extreamly well made and pree built kit that for 449.00$ (or less,I have some info on even a better price ) you could not find anything even that comes close to it!
Only a well funded Corperation could develop a product like this at a level of engeneering and finished product.
I highly recomend The Neptune SB-1
Well enjoy the pics and if there are any questions just let me know.
Dave Amur Ship Yard
In this picture you can see the rear stabalizer is trimed in comparison with the other pic,this is the mod I plan on doing,it looks better and should help in diving response.


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Actually, I think it is "malfunction."
Actually, I think it is "malfunction."
Men - This is a great field. I'm still not convinced that Plushy will show up and since he's been away for so long, I think Chan will win. But he can make mistakes and he was beaten by Kozuka & Johnny at the GPF so it's not a foregone conclusion. I'm not sure Mroz will make much of an impression here; he's not terribly consistent, he's slow and the international judges don't seem terribly impressed by him. Of the lower ranked skaters, I'll be looking forward to seeing Amodio.
Ladies - The battle of Miki & Mao Leonova and any of the American ladies could win bronze. Given the inconsistency and downgrade potential of the three Americans, Leonova's consistency and homecourt advantage, Alena's my pick for bronze. But (IMO) Alissa, Kimmie and Ashley's best is better than Alena's best, but Alena is most likely to skate her best or close to it than any of the Americans. (did that make sense?)
Pairs - Pang & Tong vs Kawaguchi & Smirnov for gold. The field really drops off after that. McBrus are my pick for bronze, but if they skate like Skate Canada or Worlds, then Martyusheva & Rogonov could possibly upset them. Who's the Russian TBA? Iliushechkina & Maisuradze is my guess and they could be contenders.
Dance - DomShabs have the world title and the home advantage, but D&W could win here too. Shab's knees are a big factor. I'd love to see C&L get the bronze over Crone & Poirier. I'm excited to see what Zazoui can do for C&L!!
We are planning to attend the Cup of Russia (Rostelecom Cup now) in October.
Does anyone know in which rink it will take place and which the official hotel(s) will be ? Just for us to know in which part of Moscow to search for accomodation
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa please take me with you!!!
i have some friends that plan the same trip, one is journalist, i will ask her if she knows details you ask...
this is the official page of Russian Federation (i think) http://www.goldskate.ru/news/
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The competitions will be held, I think, in the same place they were held last two or tree years, namely in the Megasport Palace, also known as Khodynka. Here's its site: http://www.hockey-palace.ru/ and here's the map: http://www.hockey-palace.ru/about/mesto/sxema/
It's rather far from the center of Moscow, but I wouldn't call this place a suburb, too. The nearest underground (metro) station is called Dinamo.
It's going to be tough between Miki and Mao!
My prediction (and what I really want ):
1. Miki Ando
2. Mao Asada
3. Alissa Czisny
There are 3 major players here for the Ladies: Miki, Mao, and Alena all of whom should medal. The 3 Americans need a determined clean skate to upset that trio.
Has anyone seen Alena skating/training since WTT? What do we know about her developments? She has high goals for this season:
"At the Russian Nationals my goal will be the first place, at the Europeans 2nd or 3rd, at the Olympics 5th or 6th" (from her site)
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Alissa and Ashley could very well beat her, but that would require Alissa to skate 2 clean programs, which given her international record is unlikely. Alena already beat Alissa at Worlds adn Ashley at Junior Worlds. Ashley and Alissa are better when they skate cleanly, but IMO, it's far more likely that Alena will skate 2 clean programs.
Alena landed at least 5 triples in all her free skates last season (Worlds, JW,
Cup of Russia, Europeans, Cup of China and 2008 JW for that matter), except Russian nationals. I think it's anyone's game, based on what we saw last season.
Official website is up here !
Well, as I know Alena is landing 3-3 and going to put it in both programs (3T-3T, but she is also working on 3F-3T), Tarasova helped her a lot with SP, so I think it will be possible for her. I think she can even be the next European champion, she beated all of the europeans at Worlds except Lepisto, but I think she can beat her too


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OpenMW 0.21.0 has been released that provides a number of fixes for this open-source game engine that seeks to re-implement support for Elderscrolls III: Morrowind...
That's damn fine work, doing Bethesda's work for us! I wonder if any of this work can be re-used for Oblivion, Fallouts and maybe even Skyrim? All in good time maybe =D Either way, I miss how the Dark Elves had gravelly voices. Sad how they sound like humans now.
If I buy Morrowind, will I be able to complete it by using OpenMW?
From what I can tell, not as of yet, I've not seen a way out of the sandboxed environment used to test it.
However Morrowind+ expansions play quite well in wine even with my crappy old gear of an Athlon46 3500+ 8800GTS (G80 core) 320Mb and a measly 2Gb of ram.
So do as I did, and grab a torrent, there are plenty of them out there with 100+ peers.
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I just came to read this blog but I want you to give some more lights on the life and photography of Edward Curtis.
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I just came to read this blog but I want you to give some more lights on the life and photography of Edward Curtis.
I recently read Wikipedia's article on JP Morgan. It implied that Morgan commissioned and paid for Curtis's photographic work. Perhaps Prospero could look into correcting Wiki's article as it diminishes Curtis's vision.
Surprising that the article didn't realize they refer to themselves as natives
Magnificent collage. Profound & deeply troubling. Captures the essence of the heart-wrenchingly poignant & tragic history of the Native American Indians. Hits one where it hurts most.
How diabolical & heinous was the tragic fate meted out to the vanquished Native American Indians, by the invading white hordes. Americans should be thoroughly ashamed, disgusted & outraged by their blood-thirsty, cruel & barbaric past.
Unfortunately, history is, as always, the brazenly white-washed, incredibly skewed & unashamedly fabricated tale told by the 'victor' - not the truth or the historical facts as they really occured. Moreover, living in abject denial is so much easier on any remanents of conscience that may still exist within us.
And yet we like to consider ourselves as the pinnacle of creation! How sub-humanly delusional & egotistical..
Are you planning to emigrate back to whatever country your ancestors came from? If what was done to the original inhabitants of the country had not been done, you wouldn't be here (and probably would not even have been born).
I appreciate the efforts of The Economist in improving the world, and enlightening people. But why do you continue to refer to Native Americans as "Indians"? Perpetuating historical mistakes?
S. Misra
Not only do I sense in the responses below, ambivalence for the indigenous races of the Americas, I detect a preponderance of hate.
This was apparent to me in Boston - the heart of Independent 'America'. The museum of Fine Art there, whilst it has a bronze of a mounted Plains indian outside the door, had no indigenous art within ... though undoubtedly, much of it was very fine indeed. The expression, by its absence, of shame.
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FOREWORD In Mr. Curtis we have both an artist and a trained observer, whose pictures are pictures, not merely photographs; whose work has far more than mere accuracy, because it is truthful. All serious students are to be congratulated because he is putting his work in permanent form; for our generation offers the last chance for doing what Mr. Curtis has done. The Indian as he has hitherto been is on the point of passing away. His life has been lived under conditions thru which our own race past so many ages ago that not a vestige of their memory remains. It would be a veritable calamity if a vivid and truthful record of these conditions were not kept. No one man alone could preserve such a record in complete form. Others have worked in the past, and are working in the present, to preserve parts of the record; but Mr. Curtis, because of the singular combination of qualities with which he has been blest, and because of his extraordinary success in making and using his opportunities, has been able to do what no other man ever has done; what, as far as we can see, no other man could do. He is an artist who works out of doors and not in the closet. He is a close observer, whose qualities of mind and body fit him to make his observations out in the field, surrounded by the wild life he commemorates. He has lived on intimate terms with many different tribes of the mountains and the plains. He knows them as they hunt, as they travel, as they go about their various avocations on the march and in the camp. He knows their medicine men and sorcerers, their chiefs and warriors, their young men and maidens. He has not only seen their vigorous outward existence, but has caught glimpses, such as few white men ever catch, into that strange spiritual and mental life of theirs; from whose innermost recesses all white men are forever barred. Mr. Curtis in publishing this book is rendering a real and great service; a service not only to our own people, but to the world of scholarship everywhere.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT October 1st, 1906.
Economics 101: property should be given to individuals who can make the most use of it.
It would have been utter insanity to allow the vast riches of North and South America to remain in the hands of a people who had no conception of property ownership and who were centuries behind the West in every way.
Europe was (and is) the most densely populated continent on Earth. At the same time North and South America were sparsely populated by a people not using the land to its fullest extent. It would have been economically inefficient to allow them to keep it.
This is one of the most inane comments I have ever had the pleasure of reading, as it gave me a good laugh. Your argument rests on the assumption that you know what it means to "use land to its fullest extent", and therefore rests on nothing at all.
It is true that economics is concerned with the study of how to efficiently allocate scarce resources, but to study this and to make value judgments are two separate things. As a person of European descent living in America, your ideas offend me not on racial grounds, but due to their intellectual weakness
"property should be given to individuals who can make the most use of it."
What's your address? I'm coming over.
Economics is an utterly failed intellectual discipline that never became a science. The foundations of modern economics, even well into the 21st century, are based upon 19th century assumptions of endless growth through population increase and an infinite resource base and capacity of the earth to absorb pollution.
All modern economic assumptions are dead wrong and are leading civilization down an unsustainable path to disaster. The future of the descendents of the survivors of the coming debacle will probably not be unlike that of the Indians of the remote past.
Now that was funny, and I agree. We should all go over to this persons home and take over, as certainly we can make better use of it! LOL
This IS one of the ridiculous comments I have read. If you want to speak economics, first let me remind you that rational market consist of a willing seller and a willing buyer, and inefficiency has a way of getting rid of themselves without the aid of bullets. When the market is dictated by the strength of arms alone, then it is no longer efficient, and we would never know if the ones who took over the property is the one who can "make the most of it".
Economics aside, civilization marches on, learning from mistakes, building a more humane society on the foundations of conflicts of the past. Every country has its "original sins", but what differentiate them today is the willingness to recognize past atrocities and the solemn promise to carry on differently in the future. Your views might have been consistent with views in the 1800s, but to hear them today is like listening to someone who is reminiscent of the inquisitions during the Reformation.
They did have a concept of property ownership. It was different from the European concept of property ownership and based on different rules stemming from the labor scarce/lower population densities, land plentiful model which formed the basis of Native society in North America as opposed to the reverse in Europe. To discard an entire cultural/legal system in a different society stemming from divergent histories as "no conception" is as inane as Fox's Bill O'Reilly stating that that one popular Korean song is sung in 'gibberish' simply because it's not the American English he recognizes.
And I second guest-iaawein on your...views on 'Economics 101', seems like someone needs to take another class or 10.
This 'man' masquerades as a human being.
He understands little of the passage of cultures through time, and the need to recognise their passing.
He is a signed up member of the 'Fun with a Gun' group of immigrants that wiped out the buffalo from the continent and the indigenous peoples with them.
He disgusts me.
My classmate, a former US military, gave me a volume of Curtis' pictures as a gift. That was during my studies in the US.
The pictures were absolutely stunning. There was something inexplicably grand, mysterious in those faces and I fell in love with them right away. Whenever I was stressed out or having a rough time, as doctoral students typically would, I would pull this book and watch those faces from the bygone world, and they had the ability to sooth my nerves as if through some kind of magic; throwing some perspective to things in life that made them appear more lucid and agreeable. For that I would be forever grateful to the man who made them.
I later acquainted myself with his biography, which only served to strengthen my belief that you cannot make a work so powerful without putting your life's blood into it. Talk about your "rational choice"!
Too bad I left the book with a friend before heading home to my country. Should've thrown some economists full of themselves out and keep this one.
These people migrated from the Northern parts of India/Tibet to Americas via land route when continents were connected. Thanks to the formation of the new world...entire society was ruined by the settlers.
Apparently, it is politically correct to romanticize these savage cultures. I'm not buying it. While the West was in the middle of the Renaissance, these benighted people were living in huts worshiping trees. And yes, they warred with each other just as fiercely as the Europeans. While I don't agree with the way they were treated (e.g., the "Trail of Tears"), I don't pretend to think that these people were in any way superior to the West.
The question isn't whether they were superior to the West, but were the Westerners superior to them?
And, even if you conclude that Westerners were superior, did that give Westerners the right to mistreat the native populations?
In any event, at least they worshipped real, living objects (trees), versus figments of the imaginations of ancient peoples (the Gods most Americans worship).
So what if the Native Americans were people living in huts "worshipping trees"? Europeans were worshipping an omnipotent being in the sky, without any legitimate proof to its existence.
Any you label the Natives as savages. Who's the savage one when the Natives, whose culture and beliefs were crushed, whose land were unrightfully stolen?
Thankfully the US has not practiced colonialism...
Yes; as if they'd be any worse than the Spanish or Portuguese. Give me a break . . .
I believe Leonikkos was exercising sarcasm...
Indian tribes fought against the American tribe, and lost. The American tribe since then has broadly assimilated them. To know what Americans thought about the Indians decades ago you just have to travel to the Amazon. Yanomani tribes, after they are assimilated, will be called "Native Brazilians".
The discovery of the new world by Europeans resulted in the genocide of 99% of the natives and the theft of two continents.
In Mexico, Peru, Guatemala or Bolivia 90% of the population is Native or mestizo (half Native)....So what you say is not true.
I am from Spain and from my point of view Hernan Cortés liberated the natives from the tyranny of Moctezuma. There were many tribes, the same way as in Europe.
Also in Europe the worst enemy of the French tribe was the Spanish or English tribe, and the worst enemy of the German tribe was the French or Russian tribes...So, French, English and Russians called Americans to fight against Germans and Italians in WWII. Meanwhile the Japanese tribe supported Germans...
Thinking that all native tribes were living in harmony and love with each other is naive and false. The truth is that Hernán Cortés, which arrived with just a handful of men, received the support of most native tribes against the tyranny of Moctezuma whose political system used to sacrify thousands of prisioners of war. In fact, thousands of humans were fed like pigs so when they were sacrified would taste better in an act of canibalism. Hernán Cortés was supported by most native tribes because he liberated the People from tyranny.
Read Locke. These people had no concept of property ownership, and they didn't mix their labor with the land. Therefore, the land could not have been stolen.
They did have a concept of property ownership. It was different from the European concept of property ownership and based on different rules stemming from the labor scarce/lower population densities, land plentiful model which formed the basis of Native society in North America as opposed to the reverse in Europe. To discard an entire cultural/legal system in a different society stemming from divergent histories as "no concept" is as inane as Fox's Bill O'Reilly stating that that one popular Korean song is sung in 'gibberish' simply because it's not the American English he recognizes.
This is fascinating. There is a real character, a real personality, that comes through Curtis's photos. Thank you for featuring this.
On another note, the last sentence of the description is a little awkward. I think it'd be more effective to have written it as follows: "Though he died in obscurity, today his work fetches record prices."
Thank you TE. Those American Indians were really beautiful, especially those at the beginning.
Look at this postage stamp (scroll).
Yes, CooperI3930, what a sad loss...
absolutely amazing. what a loss we have suffered. too bad we have not learned from these lessons.
absolutely amazing. what a loss we have suffered. too bad we have not learned from these lessons.
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His photography is amazing, and it is so very sad that there could not have been a fair compromise been worked out between the Native American nations and the White intruders, instead of cramming them into a few reservations. The greed of people is despicable. The things white people could have learned from their Indian brothers have all been lost, and what do we have instead, look at the slums of our big cities, it is incomprehensible how we could have built such nightmarish concrete jungles in less than 200 years.
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Yes, the steam client uses mostly the direct X libraries. But once SDL2 is finalized and released they should be rewriting the client for SDL2 (especially given the fact they hired and are paying the SDL2 writer to continue to write SDL2 instead of giving him something else)
Scott Moreau already ported SDL1 to Wayland: https://github.com/soreau/SDL/tree/wayland
Presumably SDL2 will also work on Wayland (and Valve will probably also demand a Mir backend as well)
As someone who has used Ubuntu for the past 5 years and Unity for most of that time I must say that after finally switching to Fedora a month ago (sick of Ubuntus focus on Mobile over the Desktop) I have found Gnome 3 a much better design and much more polished DE than Unity. Once you get used to using the super key in Gnome 3 you will wonder how you ever lived without it.
Changing between applications is a breeze especially multiple instances of the same application e.g. multiple firefox windows, is very very fast unlike in Unity where it is a royal PITA.
Also with Gnome everything works together much more seamlessly which is to be expected as Unity is really just a hack ontop of the Gnome stack.
I have considered Windows 7 to have the best workflow of any desktop environment for many years but after using Gnome 3 in Fedora 19 I'm starting to think the Gnome developers are really onto a winner.
I would have said the same thing, but Gnome Shell did not work the way it was supposed to.
The global search would lock as soon as you typed a letter for about five seconds, after which it ran normally. Not so bad, except it happened every time you used global search and it would lock up the whole UI for that time. It got to the point where I had to install KDE and after figuring out how to use KRunner, I haven't looked back.
We are 3 decades past the 80s. GUIs designed in this day that require the use of keyboard to be functional are a failure.
That is interesting to say, as is the primary reason I can't stand Gnome Shell. I find window switching atrocious, counterproductive at least. Having to first switch to activities mode to actually switch windows is equivalent to switching mode in VI in order to edit text. I haven't met a single person that finds the VI switch mode workflow intuitive.
Unity productivity is a lot better. The always visible task bar on the left makes window switching easy and fast. The dash is used to extract information from the system. The global menu makes best use of the limited vertical space. Now that is an intuitive and productive interface.
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Well then luckly neither Gnome3 or Unity REQUIRE a keyboard but the are both much faster to use if you do. If you haven't realised the whole idea behind most modern DE's is that its faster to type the name of an app rather than search for it visually then select it with the mouse. Let me guess you copy and paste text using only the mouse too.
Like I said once you get used to using the super key Gnome 3 beats the rest. If you are using the mouse to select Activities I can see why you would hate it. But thats not how its designed as above keyboard is faster and thats the way modern DE's are headed. Once you hit the super key your mouse is usually already in or near the center of the screen so its really easy to switch apps.
In Unity you can loose your app in the task bar very easily if you have a few pinned apps and a few open so you need to scroll etc. And if you have more than one window open of the same app you need to right click then selec and click the window you want or left click and you are presented with a selection screen my like the gnome activities screen only worse.
And you can't prove that I don't have an invisible pink unicorn living in my basement. Hey, will you look at that! It's impossible to prove a negative! The burden of proof is on whoever makes a positive claim! Who'd have known? Live and learn!
This means that since you are making the positive claim that Mir has somehow increased the speed of Wayland development, the burden of proof is on you to prove that this is so.
No, I'm not saying that. Stop lying about what I'm saying, you dirty liar.Second so you are saying that it would be better if we had one opensource media player, browser, office suite, distribution, de,
I'm not saying that, either. I'm saying that everyone should use the same protocol, to ensure interoperability and compatibility accross ALL Linux distributions, both desktop and mobile. Wayland is that protocol, everyone is free to implement their own Wayland compositor and do what they want with that codebase, make it GPL2, GPL3, BSD, MIT, whatever license they want.display server
No, open source means collaboration and sharing of resources. Not forking everything you can and taking advantage of other people's work. Yes forks are allowed, but the purpose is not that everyone makes their own forks of every software. That would defeat the entire point of open source.except you approve otherwise in each case. I am sorry that's not open-source. Open source means forking. And of course NO ONE can stop you from creating or forking under gplv3. Don't like it. Don't use it. Don't port your app there. or port it and charge it. I can't see any problem there. Mir's problem.
What problem? Canonical hasn't even tried to co-operate with Wayland. They have not even tried to collaborate, they have contributed a very few small patches (which were approved IIRC) but apart from that, they haven't even TRIED to work together with the Wayland devs. No, what they did was publicly endorse Wayland, while at the same time, having their spy among the Wayland devs, so they could figure out how to replicate their work, and secretly worked on their own solution that's basically just replicating other people's work but making it in such a way that only Canonical can use it.Third in every project someone must take decisions. Why should Canonical and Wayland cooperate when there is clearly a direction problem between them.
There is no technical reason for Mir. It's all politics and making Ubuntu separate from other Linux systems.
You say all that, yet you have absolutely no evidence for any of it. You're just saying it because you WANT to believe it. Classic behaviour of a religious fanboy. And you tell others to "think more"? Doctor, cure yourself first...Mir is costing Canonical reputiation and money. Shuttleworth is not insane. Stop being haters and think more before judge anything. The easy solution was supporting Wayland. But was the best? I think Canonical is affraid to say public that Wayland is not viable for them. probably for technical reasons. I strongly believe that Ubuntu Touch wouldn't be in that state today with Wayland. Thats of course mine affair.
The fact of the matter is, there is no technical reason why Wayland couldn't be used. Wayland is not a display server, it's a protocol. Canonical could still have written their own implementation, they could have used server-side buffer allocations (Wayland allows that), they could have full control of the codebase. They could license it however they wanted. But, see, all the technical reasons Canonical has given have been shown to be lies. The truth is, there is no technical reason. It's all politics.
For that matter, it's a dumb move that will surely blow up on Canonical's face. When your business depends 99% on code written by the community, it's not a good idea to piss off the community...
That doesn't even make any sense.And last but not least to prove that forking is good i will let you compare today Gnome and Unity. Objectively Unity is more polished, modern, productive, feature rich and as Phoronix proved faster DE. Could Canonical do the same feature changes under Gnome? Of course not! You have an answer why Mir exist now.
this mir vs wayland stuff is getting on my nerves. is there no productive thing to say?
first of all "thank you" to Sam Spilsbury.
I'd recommend to post your distrubution you use in your signature and tell again that different aproaches are wasted resources. I am pretty sure that there is more but ONE distribution. So it would seem those haters are not more than people agreeing there has to be one god but in the end forking for behavioural stuff. (Like one Display Server but still several DEs)
by the way Martin Luther didnt want to fork the church. And as far as i know he didnt.
Besides. Just think what the Linux Ecosystem would be like if Microsoft developers would all start joining linux-distributions. Do you write them hatemails too? ... for not supporting the right OS? F***ing overconfidence, eh?
And as said we will see if its that bad. Like unity wasnt loved at the beginning.
And as a company you need to tell investors that you have some kind of thing of your own that no one can change without your permission. they HAVE to do it. And stop being pissed off because others dont work the way you want. thats just so illeducated, self-righteous and intolerant! Pay them and then you'll get to judge their work and decisions.
and when someone writes it "SEEMS" then because the thing he is gonna say may not be 100% correct and WILL BARE some subjective portion. there really is no need to put him down because he doesnt have the time and maybe technical understanding to read the mailing lists himself. You ready newspapers dont you? But you probably dont read them all, compare and ask victims and witnesses for first hand information (though asking people is hardly the most objective thing in the world...)
And it is true, that there hasnt been much traffic on Phoronix over wayland just before Mir emerged.


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Twins strike for five-run frame in knocking off KC
Colabello's three RBIs pace offense as Gibson picks up second win
MINNEAPOLIS -- Starting pitching and hitting, two aspects of a Twins team that had been M.I.A. during the three losses in this season-opening homestand, surfaced with a vengeance on Friday in a 10-1 shellacking of the Royals at Target Field.
On the mound, Kyle Gibson was brilliant, allowing only a first-inning run over 6 1/3 innings for his second victory. After escaping a 28-pitch opening frame with the one blemish, he settled down to stifle Royals hitters the rest of the way.
"I don't know that I really changed my approach," Gibson said. "I think last year, I definitely would've changed things and would've let that throw me off my game. I think I was executing pitches."
After permitting a leadoff double to Mike Moustakas in the second, Gibson didn't allow a Kansas City runner to reach second until the seventh.
"He throws that power sinker," said Twins interim manager Terry Steinbach. "[He] changes speeds and moves the ball around a little bit. He's something that we've read about for a couple years in Minnesota.
"It's no secret that we know our starting pitching is going to get better. Hopefully, this is a step in the right direction. So for Gibby to go out there today and, one, eat up some innings and, two, put us in a really good chance to win a game, was something that we really needed."
Gibson went into Spring Training battling for a spot in the rotation. Now two weeks into the regular season, he's pitching like the staff ace.
"My changeup has been a big pitch for me this year," Gibson said. "It's really helped me keep hitters off of my fastball."
"Five hits was all we could muster all night long and one run," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "It started out good for us; we got a run in the first inning. You're thinking, 'OK, we can add on to that,' but we never quite could."
Offensively, right fielder Chris Colabello led the attack with a two-hit, three-RBI night. He broke the game open with a two-run double in Minnesota's five-run fourth inning. He now leads the squad with 14 RBIs.
"I've come to terms with the fact that as a hitter our job is to hit the baseball hard," Colabello said. "When you do that, it alleviates a lot of the stress of thinking about getting hits and forcing your results. It's about making good contact and putting in a good AB every time up there."
Several Twins hitters contributed to the 11-hit attack, including multi-hit efforts from Trevor Plouffe and Kurt Suzuki. Josmil Pinto slugged a deep homer to left in the fourth, and Joe Mauer picked up his first RBI of the season in that same inning.
"The offense came through," Steinbach said. "The thing that sticks out in my mind was the two-out hits we got. We capitalized on hitting with guys in scoring position, and it kind of broke the game open for us."
Steinbach, who was filling in for skipper Ron Gardenhire while he attends a funeral, gets a "W" in his first crack at managing at any level.
"The players took care of me, let's put it that way," Steinbach said.
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A joke on pop vocalist Christina Aguilera's weight gain. The process on which she has forgotten or given up on her journey of getting back in tip-top shape that she once was before.
She needs to lose a few pounds before she looks like XLtina! Oh I mean Xtina! Umm, nope; I mean XL
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I never said that he wouldnt be able to, but some people said that PS would be able to own Naruto with little problem. Its not the case, Madara himself said that power of that technique is comparable to power of Bijuu, where Naruto has power of the most powerful one to his disposition. The clash like that would be real mayhem, for both of them.
IMO, if Madara was that powerful he wouldnt even bother by enslaving Kurama. Moreover, Minato, during his fight with Tobi suggested that Madara was able to control the Kyuubi only for short spans of time. Even with that, its power was worth enough for Madara to summon and use it againt Hashirama, even though he most probably knew beforehand that Hashirama is able to supress Kyuubis powers.


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To be fair, it is a browser game developed for a British owned travel agency that takes tourists to North Korea. The game was developed in North Korea by a developer named Nosotek. I've never heard of Nosotek. You probably haven't, either. It's the first Western IT venture company in North Korea, so there you go.
Pyongyang Racer looks like a Sega Saturn game, if that Sega Saturn game was set in an idealized North Korea, devoid of people and filled with cars that are in the street, but do not move.
It took me about 12 minutes to finish my race. Try your hand at beating that, comrade.
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But don't bring the mind and knowledge. Remain with death; then death will reveal itself to you, then you will know what death is. You will move into the inner mansions of it. Then death will take you to the very center of life - because death is the very center of life. It is not against life; it is the very process of life. But mind brings the contradiction that life and death are opposites. Then you go on thinking, and because the root is false, the opposition is false, you can never come to any conclusion which can be true and real.
Whenever there is a lived problem, be with the problem without your mind - that's what I mean by meditation - and just being there with the problem will solve it. And if you have really been there, death will not occur to you again, because then you know what death is.
We never do this - never with love, never with death, never with anything that is authentically real. We always move in thoughts, and thoughts are the falsifiers. They are borrowed, not your own. They cannot liberate you. Only the truth which is your own can become your liberation. And you can only come to your own truth through a very silent presence. With any problem, that fails. Thinking will not solve the real problems, but thinking can solve unreal problems created by thinking itself - because those problems follow the rules of logic. Life doesn't follow the rules of logic. Life has its own hidden laws, and you cannot force logic on them.
One point more about this: wherever you bring the mind, the mind dissects, analyzes. Reality is one, and mind always divides. And when you have divided a reality, you have falsified it. Now you can struggle for your whole life - nothing will be achieved, because basically the reality was one and the mind divided into two, and now you are working with the division.
For example, as I was saying, life and death are one, but for the mind they are two and death is the enemy of life. It is not, because life cannot exist without death. If life cannot exist without death, how can death be the enemy? It is the basic situation. It makes life possible. Life grows in it; it is the soul. Without it life is impossible. But mind, thinking, divides it and puts it as a polar opposite. Then you can go on thinking about. Whatsoever you think will be false, because in the beginning you have committed a sin - the sin of division.
When you meditate, divisions disappear. When you meditate, there cannot be divisions, because how can you divide in silence?
We are here. Everyone is thinking in his own mind something or other; then we are different, everyone is different, because your thought is yours, and my thought is mine. In my mind I have my own dreams and you have your own. There are many individuals here, but if we all are meditating - neither you are thinking nor I am thinking, the thinking has ceased - then there will not be so many individuals. Really, there will not be individuals at all. If we are all meditating then limitations have disappeared.