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To deter illegal entry between the nation's ports of entry, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) developed its Southwest Border Strategy. INS has spent seven years implementing the border strategy, but it may take INS up to a decade longer to fully implement the strategy. This assumes that INS obtains the level of staff, technology, equipment, and fencing it believes it needs to control the Southwest border. Although illegal alien apprehensions have shifted, there is no clear indication that overall illegal entry into the United States along the Southwestern border has declined. INS' current efforts to measure the effectiveness of its border control efforts could be enhanced by analyzing the data in its automated biometric identification system (IDENT). These data offer INS an opportunity to develop additional performance indicators that could be incorporated into its Annual Performance Plan review process and could help INS assess whether its border control efforts are associated with an overall reduction in the flow of illegal aliens across the border. Borderwide analysis of the IDENT data could be used to address several important questions related to illegal entry. The strategy's impact on local communities has been affected by the timing of INS, infusion of agent and other resources intended to protect the local community from a surge in illegal alien traffic; what routes the illegal aliens have used in crossing the border; and INS' involvement with the community. INS has learned the importance of outreach efforts in attempting to mitigate the potential negative effects the strategy can cause a community and the harm that can befall illegal aliens who risk injury and death to cross the border.
Recommendation for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: Prior to the creation of DHS in March 2003, INS established an IDENT Data Analysis Working Group to discuss and evaluate IDENT data and its usefulness as a performance indicator. However, as of January 2010 DHS had not established specific performance indicators using the IDENT data.
Recommendation: To better gauge the effects of its border control efforts, the INS Commissioner should develop specific performance indicators using the IDENT data and incorporate these indicators into INS' Annual Performance Plan.
Agency Affected: Department of Homeland Security: Directorate of Border and Transportation Security
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Easter Activities: Spring events in North County
Start the Springtime Celebration Egg Hunt with a pancake breakfast at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Cost: $4. Four age-appropriate egg hunts for children ages 3 to 8 begin at 9:30 a.m. Crafts, fun jumps and games will be offered at Poway Community Park, 13094 Civic Center Drive, Poway. Children should bring their own baskets. Free. (858) 668-4570.
A Spring Carnival and Egg Hunt for children 13 and younger will be from noon to 2 p.m. Friday, followed by an egg hunt divided by age group. An appearance by the Easter Bunny is featured at Collier Park, 622 E St., Ramona. Free. (760) 788-7564.
Meet the Easter Bunny at the Dos Picos Park Egg Hunt. The hunt for treat-filled eggs will be divided by age groups beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday. Dos Picos Regional Park, 17953 Dos Picos Park Road, Ramona. $1 donation requested. Parking: $3. (760) 789-2220.
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Four Rancho Peñasquitos parks will offer a Spring Egg Hunt for youngsters ages 11 and younger beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday. Find candy or toy-filled eggs at Peñasquitos Creek Park, 8021 Park Village Road; Rolling Hills Park, 11082 Carlota Drive; South Village Park, 14756 Via Azul; Ridgewood Park, 12604 La Tortola. (858) 538-8131 or (858) 538-8198. San Marcos
Have breakfast with Peter Cottontail from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday at The Barn in Walnut Grove Park, Olive Street and Sycamore Drive, San Marcos. Bunny helpers will prepare pancakes with sausage. Cost: $4 to $5. At 10:15 a.m., youngsters through fifth grade may participate in a carnival and egg hunt. Cost: $2 donation per family. (760) 744-9000.
The city of Vista will host a bonnet contest at 10 a.m. and an egg hunt at 11 a.m. Saturday for ages 9 and younger. The free event will be at the softball field at Brengle Terrace Park, 1200 Vale Terrace Drive, Vista. Easter Bunny photos: $5. (760) 726-1340, ext. 1571.

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Vietnam veterans with PTSD carry nearly twice the risk of early death compared to troops from that era who don't have combat-related anxiety, new research shows. The findings — a follow-up to landmark, 1980s analysis of more than 2,300 Vietnam vets — "paint a disturbing portrait of the course of PTSD and its long-term medical consequences," said Dr. William Schlenger, a scientist with the research firm, Abt Associates. He offered preliminary findings to the American Psychological Association Convention in Washington, D.C. on Friday.
Among the studied Vietnam vets, post-traumatic stress disorder was associated with a higher rate of mortality due to both cancer and "external causes," such as suicide and accidents, experts reported. The follow-up was conducted for Congress and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, updating research on the 2,300 Vietnam veterans originally done 25 years ago. "The study's key takeaway," Schlenger said, "is that for some, PTSD is not going away. It is chronic and prolonged, and for veterans with PTSD, the war is not over."


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The aviation sector is currently flying through a lot of turbulence. Not only does its contribution to greenhouse gas emissions - currently 3% - look set to rise with the constant growth in air traffic worldwide, but air transport is also one of the main sources of noise pollution. To cap it all, the European aeronautics industry is facing ever‑fiercer competition from across the globe.
To meet these daunting challenges, the EU has decided to launch a public‑private partnership of unprecedented scope, harnessing know‑how from key players in the aeronautics industry and research across Europe.
The Clean Sky project, launched today, involves 86 organisations from 16 countries: 54 private companies, 15 research centres and 17 universities.
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Amendment 2: Defining marriage
What this would do: Define in the state constitution that marriage is the legal union of a man and a woman, a husband and wife.
Put on ballot by: Citizen petition, led by Orlando attorney John Stemberger and Yes2Marriage.org
The lowdown: Florida already has a state law that defines marriage as a male-female union and bans recognition of any other forms of "marriage" that might be otherwise defined and sanctioned elsewhere.
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Unfortunately, this has become a wedge issue, pitting, in many cases, the right against the left, with each side exaggerating potential effects of passage or failure.
Regardless, a constitution, generally designed to grant rights to people, should not be tinkered with based on potential threats, real or perceived. Florida statutes, unlikely to be changed anytime soon, should provide adequate protection for people who oppose gay marriage.
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(Music playing) Deke's Photoshop? Deke's Photoshop? Top 40! Feature #18 is Smart Objects and Smart Objects is a huge topic. And I'm going to be hammering more information than you can reasonably take in inside of this video. I'm just warning you of that up front, because I have an entire series about Smart Objects at lynda.com that you can check out if you have a mind to. But the whole notion behind Smart Objects is that they act as protective containers for your images, so that you can apply things like nondestructive transformations, and nondestructive Smart Filters and all kinds of nondestructive stuff.
The pixels are always protected inside of the Smart Object. So I'm working on this ad composition let's say and I've got a couple of copies. They're actually the exact same graphic repeated a couple of times here, and they hail from Illustrator. So Massive logo and Product logo, we'll come back to them. They are placed Illustrator graphics. In the Background, we've got this clouds image that comes to us from a photographer who goes by the name Luis. Let's say I want to go ahead and import an image into this composition. I'll go up to the File menu, and I'll choose the Place command.
Any time you choose Place inside a Photoshop, you're going to generate a Smart Object. So I will go ahead and choose Place, and then I'm going to locate this file, happens to be called Camera raw coif.dng. It's a Digital Negative file that will open inside of Camera Raw, comes to us from Valua Vitaly, once again of Fotolia. I'll click the Place button and I get the big Camera Raw dialog box. Here, I don't want to make any changes, not now. I'll come back to it in a moment, because one of the great things about Smart Objects is that you can revisit your Camera Raw settings anytime you like.
So I'll click OK in order to accept that graphic and it lands here inside of my composition. Now, I'm going to make my graphic much smaller. I haven't officially placed it yet. So I have this bounding box around it. And I'm going to go ahead and Shift+Drag one of the corner handles to make it really super-ridiculously dinky, let's say. This just tiny little itty-bitty graphic right there. And then I'll press the Enter key in order to accept that placed image, and you can see that it's very tiny. I'll go ahead and zoom in the graphic to the 100% view size.
This is as big as it is now. And you can see that Photoshop has also gone ahead and automatically named my layer Camera raw coif, and it's a Smart Object as indicated by this tiny page icon in the lower right corner of the thumbnail. All right, so obviously that's the wrong size for this graphic. But the beauty of working with the Smart Object is that you've actually embedded the image into your larger composition, so the original image remains intact. You can always re-reference that image. So if I want to enlarge the graphic at this point I can, not from the pixels we see right here but from the original pixels.
And let me show you what I mean by that. I'll go ahead and zoom out to the 50% zoom ratio once again. I'll go up to the Edit menu and I will choose feature #40 Free Transform in order to enter the Free Transform mode right there, and I'm going to shift drag a corner handle in order to make the graphic bigger, and you can see that I'm enlarging the image but I'm not stretching the pixels, I'm referencing the original placed image inside of this graphic. Now it also appears in the Options bar that I am seeing that the graphic is 31%, so it's still reduced vis -?-vis its original size.
It's only 31% of the original size of that graphic. I'm going to turn on the Link Icon here so that the Width and Height values are linked together, and I'm going to change that Height value to 57%. That'll automatically change the Width value as well. Press the Enter key a couple of times here on a PC, the Return key a couple of times on the Mac, and then I'm going to go ahead and move this image into place using the Move tool like so, so that it snaps right there. Now then, I want her to look at home against her new background. And the whole idea here is that even though we're working with a protected graphic, so that I can't actually access the original pixels.
If I go over here to something like the Brush tool and move over the graphic, you can see then I get this Ghostbusters Icon that's telling me nope you cannot paint inside of this image because the pixels are protected by the Smart Object. All right, though I can apply many of Photoshop's other nondestructive modifications. For example, I could go ahead and apply a blend mode to this image. I'll go up to the Blend Mode pop up menu here in the Layers palette, and I'll change the blend mode from Normal to Multiply in order to burn her into the background. Great! Now, I'm going to make a copy of this image in order to restore the highlights.
I will press Ctrl+Alt+J or Command+Option+J on the Mac in order to bring up the New Layer dialog box and jump this image, J for jump. And I'll go ahead and call this Normal or something along those lines. Click OK. And then I'm going to change the blend mode back to Normal, which may seem like so far we haven't got anything done. But now I'm going to turn around and mask this image. I've created a mask in advance. So I'll go to the Channels palette and I'll drop down here to this Mask alpha Channel, and I'll press the Ctrl key or the Command key on the Mac, and click on that thumbnail in order to convert that channel to a selection outline.
And I'm going to go back to the Layers palette. As I was saying, if you don't know that much about Photoshop, I'm going to be throwing too much information at you. I'm well aware of that. I just want you to get a sense of the myriad benefits of Smart Objects inside a Photoshop. So now I have the Normal layer active with my selection outline intact here. I'm going to drop down to this little Add Layer Mask icon and I'm going to click on it and she's now masked into place. So you can see both of these layers are now making a contribution. If I dint have the Normal layer, I would just see the multiplied version of the image burnt into the background.
And if I just had the Normal version of the image masked as it is, and I dint have the multiplied version you can see that I lose all kinds of hair and edge details. So both versions of this image are making a difference. Now, let's say I want to go ahead and warm her up. So I want to bring out some of the warm skin tones in other words. Some of the oranges and the yellows inside of her skin. I'll go ahead and double-click on either one of these Smart Objects. They're both referencing the exact same Camera Raw image embedded inside of the composition. I'll go ahead and double-click on the bottom one right here, in order to revisit the Camera Raw dialog box something you can't do unless you have imported this Camera Raw image as a Smart Object into Photoshop.
And now I'm going to warm up that Temperature value, I'll raise it to 20. I'll tap down to the Brightness value, and I'm going to take it down to -20 and then I'll tap my way over to the Vibrance value and take it up to 30. And you can see that she's now looking quite a bit more orange, she's also looking more saturated. Thanks to this Vibrance value right there. I'll click OK, and in a moment you'll see the change happen. And notice that it happened to both the selected multiplied version of the image, which we can't see right now, it's just around the edges, and to the top Normal version of the image as well, which is the one that we can see here inside the composition.
So both of these layers reference the exact same Smart Object. It's something that I call true clones, because they're really true clones of a single original. All right. The next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to modify these imported Illustrator logos right here, I've got this one layer here called Product logo, and notice that it has a couple of layer effects that are turned off currently. One is the Color Overlay, which goes ahead and re-colors this logo in Gold instead of that Pink color that we saw before. And then I also have this Drop Shadow. As soon as I turn on the Drop Shadow effect, the logo looks pretty rotten.
Now, the Drop Shadow helps to set the logo off from the rest of the composition, but it also ends up making a big mess of things. Well I happened to have another stroke that I could call forth inside of the original Illustrator graphic if I wanted to, and I'm going to do that right now, and I'll show you how that works. So this is a graphic that comes from Adobe Illustrator. I placed it into this composition using that exact same Place command here under the File menu. I'll now return to this Product logo layer and I'll double-click on its thumbnail. I'll get this warning that's telling me I'm about to edit a Smart Object and I need to choose File > Save in order to update the larger composition fine.
I will click OK and then Photoshop will automatically launch Adobe Illustrator for me. So suddenly Adobe Illustrator, if you have the full Creative Suite, you have Illustrator as well as Photoshop, and now Illustrator becomes a plug-in for Photoshop. It's an embedded working environment inside of your larger composition. I'm now going to select these two items here, the word Product as well as this filigree ornament. And notice here inside the Appearance palette that I have this item called Stroke that's currently turned off. So if I turn on its eyeball, then I can see that white Stroke.
That's absolutely perfect. Exactly what I want. I'll go up to the File menu and I'll choose Save. Now, I'm not saving this Illustration in disk. I'm saving it into Photoshop because again Illustrator is working as a plug-in for Photoshop. So I'll choose Save and it looks like nothing has happened. But let's go ahead and return to Photoshop. I'm pressing Alt+Tab here on the PC. That would be a Command+Tab on the Mac, and you can see, look at that. Both the Product logo down here and the larger logo in the background, they're both updated according to the modifications we just made, and that is the power of Smart Objects.
And I'm here to tell you that is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. If you want to learn more about this including Smart Filters, which we did not see here, then you want to check out my Photoshop CS4 Smart Object Series with lynda.com and you can learn more about lynda.com at lynda.com/deke. And that my friends is feature #18 Smart Objects here inside Photoshop.
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FlyeBaby Airplane Travel Seat
FlyeBaby Air Tavel Hammock: Kid-Friendly or Are You Kidding?
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For one mama, the solution was obvious — a hammock seat that attaches to the seatback in front of her so baby has a comfortable place to rest and play. With that in mind, FlyeBaby ($45) was born. A sling-like design that includes a five-point harness, FlyeBaby turns almost any airline seat (except an exit row and bulkhead seats) into baby-friendly space. According to the company, the seat can also be used on some dining room chairs to create an instant high chair when traveling. With flight costs steadily increasing and space at a premium, what do you think?
SherriChampagne 1 year
For those saying you shouldn't fly with infants or young children. I have family that lives 2,000 miles away plus huge age differences between my kids 15yrs apart from oldest to youngest. So I am not, not going to see my family and punish the older ones simply because I have an infant. I would much rather travel with an infant than a 2yr old.
SherriChampagne 1 year
This looks like it would be amazing for little ones. Wish they had this when my kids were smaller.
Tanya14868563 1 year
I bought it and brought my 2 month old on the 3 hour flight from Texas to Wisconsin. She was comfortable, and I didn't have a back ache! Plus paying for another ticket at $400 is rediculous for a tiny child. I had my car seat checked and we were set. I don't think she'll be small enough to use it again- but I plan on using it for the next baby or craigslisting it for a handful of money back =) Very pleased. Just be sure to tighten as much as possible for maximum room. The flight attendants had no issue with it and I flew American.
MeganOliver1369935188 1 year
I wish "not flying with your baby" and waiting until they are older were an option. There is nothing more stressful than flying with a baby, (or a toddler). Unfortunately if you have a loved one that is ill, or some kind of family emergency, that isn't always an option.
ChetMC 1 year
If you want a place to put your baby on an aeroplane you should buy them a seat and bring an approved carseat. We have flown a lot with young children, and I believe very strongly in the benefits of bringing carseats on planes. Safety debate aside, babies and toddlers don't expect to get out of their carseat while in transit so they're often more willing to stay put and hopefully fall asleep. More often than not, you need a carseat when you arrive at your destination anyway. I also agree with LauraFarrell488 as well that it looks like this should only be allowed in a window seat - and I'd like to add that if the airline isn't familiar with it and it's not covered with the appropriate stickers and labels you're very likely to get stopped from using it. We've been hassled on international flights when flight attendants simply weren't familiar with our carseats, fortunately, my husband is a hobby pilot and actually had documentation of regulations with him that proved we could use the seats.
ChrisShepperd 1 year
The easy answer is not to fly with a baby, wait until they are older.
LauraFarrell488 1 year
This seems like a great idea for small infants BUT is it actually allowed by the airline? I have traveled MANY times with my kids, and nothing is allowed in the middle or isle seats that would interfere with other passengers getting out in case of emergency. For example, car seats are only allowed in the window seats. This seems like it would be something that the airlines would not actually approve of. For me, the real solution is a good wrap (carrier)
CoMMember13627405542584 1 year
...I also like that it has a full harness system to help keep the baby from falling out.
CoMMember13627405542584 1 year
If it helps keep the baby happy then I'm all for it! Flying with a baby is stressful, you never know if it's going to be smooth sailing or a complete and total nightmare.
AnitaBarry 1 year
I love this idea... for little babies. It would be all well and good until the person in front of you decided to lay their seat back!
JenniferCarlson70367 1 year
It looks like it would be great for tiny infants...but wouldn't work so well with infants 4 months and up.


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LAKE ELSINORE: Loss of redevelopment a blow to city
Drought, floods, depressions and recessions during Lake Elsinore's 124-year history have thwarted the upscale development and widespread economic prosperity that neighbors such as Murrieta and Temecula have experienced.
Now, the city is coping with yet another blow ---- the elimination of redevelopment .
Gov. Jerry Brown ended the six-decade-old statewide program with the support of the state Legislature.
After legal challenges failed to bear fruit, redevelopment terminated on Feb. 1 and all redevelopment agencies were dissolved. Now local governments statewide are following the somewhat convoluted, state-prescribed procedures for unwinding redevelopment while meeting long-term debt obligations.
"We are in the process of understanding it as it is unfolding," said City Manager Bob Brady , who is overseeing the task in conjunction with Administrative Services Director James Riley.
Although misuse of redevelopment funding led in part to the program's undoing, the state's action is frustrating to city officials who have seen the program's usefulness.
"We didn't abuse it," said Councilman Peter Weber , a former elected city treasurer.
Some of Lake Elsinore's most positive attributes have been or are in the process of being achieved through its participation in redevelopment.
The program enabled cities and counties to claim a share of the annual increase in property tax revenue to pay for projects aimed at rejuvenating economically depressed sections.
In recent years, the city's redevelopment agency received about $20 million per year, much of which was committed to paying off past project debts.
An example of a redevelopment success in Lake Elsinore is The Diamond baseball stadium. It has evolved into a major regional attraction, though not without some growing pains.
In addition to the debt being paid off through redevelopment funds, the stadium cost the city about $800,000 a year to maintain and operate. As treasurer, Weber pushed hard to get the City Council to do something about reducing the debt.
That happened in 2007, when the city entered into an agreement to have the facility's primary user, the Lake Elsinore Storm minor league baseball team, take over as manager.
Under the Storm's supervision, The Diamond regularly hosts concerts and other events that bring revenue into the city, such as a Halloween festival and the annual Grand Prix motocross race.
Built in the economically stagnant southern part of Lake Elsinore, the stadium is expected to be the vortex of a thriving entertainment, commercial and residential district planned around it.
"It is an asset to the community," Brady said. "It's recognized in the community as an extremely nice facility. ... It fits into our 'Dream Extreme' concept."
City leaders came up with the slogan to tout Lake Elsinore's reputation for daring outdoor recreational activity, including motocross, sky-diving, high-speed boating, hang-gliding and even bow fishing.
Those activities attract visitors, as well as people looking to relocate and who want to be near those opportunities. Yet the city lagged in providing supportive retail businesses as well as housing.
Redevelopment over the past couple of decades played a big role in pulling in retail and residential developers. Several subdivisions emerged through developer agreements, as did commercial venues such as the Lake Elsinore Outlets mall and Walmart.


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Tim Smit, Creator of the Eden Project - After scoring top 10 hits as a producer for Barry Manilow and the Nolan Sisters, he says his next best contribution to music was to pack it in. He turned his attention to an old china clay pit near his Cornwall home. His vision was for a "living theatre" of plants, in a series of geodesic domes; one of the best things to happen in Britain for decades
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A study finding that logging on private timberlands is making streams warmer, potentially harming salmon, has prompted the Oregon Board of Forestry to consider tightening state logging standards.
Board of Forestry chairman John Blackwell said Monday that he expects the changes would amount to a "tweaking" of the Oregon Forest Practices Act, which sets standards for timber harvest on state and private lands.
The study by the Oregon Department of Forestry and Oregon State University found small to medium streams on private timberlands in the Coast Range saw an average increase of more than 1 degree Fahrenheit.
There was no increase on state timberlands, where more trees are left standing along streams.
Mill owner and board member Jennifer Phillippi says she expects only a small reduction in timber harvest.
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom is a video game based on the television show SpongeBob SquarePants. The game has been released for the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube, PC, PlayStation 2, and Xbox consoles (the Xbox version is backwards compatible for the Xbox 360 console). The player attempts to defend Bikini Bottom from an invasion of robots created by Plankton with a machine called the Duplicatotron 3000. The playable characters are SpongeBob, Patrick, and Sandy. The Windows version features a series of mini-games and differs from the console versions.
Three types of items can be collected. Shiny objects are the game's currency, and can be used to pay tolls within game areas or to buy golden spatulas from Mr. Krabs. Golden spatulas are used to grant access to new areas, they are hidden throughout the game and can also be earned by completing tasks set by Squidward and several other characters from the cartoon. These tasks can involve defeating particular robots or searching for items. The other collectible item type, Patrick's socks, can be traded for golden spatulas.
Though some areas can be navigated by any character, several sections can only be completed with a specific character, due to each one having unique abilities. SpongeBob can create a bubble helmet for head-butting enemies, launch a bubble-blowing spin attack and double jump to reach higher platforms. Patrick can throw objects at switches, freeze goo rivers and attack enemies with a belly flop. Sandy can glide over large gaps and wields a lasso, with which she can tie up enemies or swing on hooks to reach distant areas.
Meanwhile, Spongebob is playing with his best friend, Patrick Star in his house. Patrick says that he has a shell that can recreate an item into many items. They were playing with toy robots at the time, and Patrick puts one toy robot in the shell and says the magic words he believes will make the robot duplicate itself. He says a long line of confusing and long, unknown words and shakes the shell. Then, they go to their respective houses and fall asleep.
The next day, Spongebob finds that robots have ransacked his house and invaded Bikini Bottom, his hometown. He believes it was Patrick's magic shell that made the robots real. Plankton is outside his house, and Spongebob questions why he's not at his house (also the Chum Bucket). Plankton says that robots invaded his house, forced him out, and started bending back his spoons. He tells Spongebob to force them out of the area before the robots bend back all his forks too. Spongebob accepts and the game begins.
Patrick states that the robots have stolen his socks, and if Spongebob finds ten of them, he'd give him a Golden Spatula. Mr. Krabs states in a telegram that if Spongebob were to find enough Shiny Objects (currency in the game), he'd also give Spongebob a Golden Spatula. The number of Shiny Objects increases each time he sells them to Mr. Krabs, the first Golden Spatula for 3,000 Shiny Objects, and increasing by 500 each Spatula.
Spongebob must find Golden Spatulas to enter different areas. The first available being Spongebob's House, then Bikini Bottom, Jellyfish Fields, Downtown Bikini Bottom, Goo Lagoon, central Bikini Bottom (still in the level screen called Bikini Bottom but 15 golden spatulas are needed to enter), Rock Bottom, Sand Mountain, the Mermalair, south Bikini Bottom (also in Bikini Bottom but 40 golden spatulas are needed to enter), the Kelp Forest, the Flying Dutchman's Graveyard, Spongebob's Dream, and finally the Chum Bucket. A new boss is faced every time entering a brand-new part of Bikini Bottom.
After beating Robo-Sandy (In Posiedome, before entering central Bikini Bottom) and Robo-Patrick (In the Industrial Park, before entering south Bikini Bottom), SpongeBob discovers that Plankton was responsible for the robots (the proofs are that The Chum Bucket has a neon sign that says Robot Headquarters, a recipt for robot parts signed by Plankton, and a sign on a butt of a robot said Propety Of Plankton). You clear the Krusty Krab, solve all the problems in each dream bubble in SpongeBob's dream, save campers/students in the Kelp Forest, and convince the Flying Dutchman to give up his Golden Spatula. Gaining 75 spatulas, you enter Plankton's lab and discover a Robo-Plankton and Robo-SpongeBob (the player fights Robo-Spongebob and fights Robo-Plankton when you knock Robo-SpongeBob unconscious), who you defeat. After defeating him, SpongeBob follows Robo-Plankton into Robo-SpongeBob's head, where you reach the brain to bubble missile the main brain power generator. You then play as SpongeBall for the entire credit in a stadium for ball tricks
There is also a movie theater that can be accessed by paying a fee of 40,000 shiny objects. Once inside, the player is able to view some of the game's concept art.


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If they screw up, the screw ups are rather permanent. Do you have basements in Kansas? Or wherever you want to build? I don't. It is slab on grade. I have an above ground in-house storm room built to FEMA specs. Utilities are low relative to the size of the house. There is a lot to consider and you need to design for it from the start. It also require and architect that understands it, unless you build a very simple plan. Some things do not work well in ICF. I would be happy to answer the questions I can. My house is Polysteel and was completed in 2007. farmer-dave02-07-2012, 20:53We do have basements in Kansas. I've visited with a distant neighbor who built his own house using icf. He didn't appear to be a novice, I think this was the 2nd or third home he built. He seemed pretty sold on the construction method. Said he has no problems with humidity due to their being isulation on both sides of the concrete, also said his utilities ran around 60 bucks, he was also using a geothermal heat pump system. I think he had a conventional style roof and he used brick veneer to give the appearance of a brick house. How are your utilities, any issues of humidity, what type of roof do you have. How thick is your concrete in your walls? Give me more time and I'll probably think of more questions. racerford02-07-2012, 23:32We do have basements in Kansas. I've visited with a distant neighbor who built his own house using icf. He didn't appear to be a novice, I think this was the 2nd or third home he built. He seemed pretty sold on the construction method. Said he has no problems with humidity due to their being isulation on both sides of the concrete, also said his utilities ran around 60 bucks, he was also using a geothermal heat pump system. I think he had a conventional style roof and he used brick veneer to give the appearance of a brick house. How are your utilities, any issues of humidity, what type of roof do you have. How thick is your concrete in your walls? Give me more time and I'll probably think of more questions. Utilites are low. I move to 50% larger house from an energy star rated home. My bills are less even with 1000ft well that draws about 800kwh a month. We do not scrimp on heat or cooling. No problems with humidity, but that is mostly due to proper ventilation. I assume you mean basement walls sweating. I wouldn't know about that but I doubt it is a problem. Conventional roof with blown in cellulose in the attic. If I could have afforded it at the time I would have gone with high density polyurethane foam insulation on the underside of the roof. Or maybe a SIP roof. I have 6" flat panel walls. You could drive a passenger car into it a 60mph and it would not penetrate. The external walls are a monolithic pour attached to the slab via rebar poured in the slab sticking up 2 feet. My slab and walls took over 33 10 yard loads of concrete. The house weighs a lot! I have a standard brick facade just like any stick built home in the area. Doing it over, and if I could have afforded it. I would have gone with lightweight steel framing for the interior walls, and red iron for the roof structure, in other words as little wood as possible. I would have made a couple of interior walls of the 4" ICF for sound control and "cover" in the house. I would have made the storm room bigger. It is my 8x10 closet. If I was a little more paranoid, I would have gone to 8' concrete or 4000PSI concrete with additives. You never know when someone might come with something with more clout than .50BMG :whistling: It does require a lot of planning of electical and plumbing, as adding things to or through the exterior walls is hard. If you can talk you wife into it, if you have to cut costs, do it on finishes in the house that can be changed almost as cheaply as to have the done when the house is built, like foregoing crown molding or fancy paint. Make sure the money gets spent on the best structure and the best layout for your lifestyle. I would also consider building to ADA standards, in case you grow old or become disabled, or have family that does. I spent money on a fire sprinkler system. It protects your family, saves on insurance and gives piece of mind. I think it cost me $1.69 per square foot of living sprinkled space. You can never have too much storage space. Carefully design you r storage neds. Try to design it so you can expand later. We have a large attic space I think we could build into bonus rooms. If we had the inclination and money, without having to adjust the structure or tear off the roof. farmer-dave02-08-2012, 16:45Thanks for the information, I think the hardest part about doing this type of house will be in finding a good builder who does ICF in our area. G19freak02-08-2012, 19:15Ifc??? Free Radical02-08-2012, 19:21Ifc??? ICF. Insulated concrete Forms. Basically concrete walls poured in polystyrene foam, permanent forms that provide the insulation. Insulation is a barrier. Mass is a battery. It's a wining combination, but don't hire a novice to do it. Check resumes. Get references. Creek Rat02-08-2012, 20:15You might want to wait another year or so and I think you'll find more builders familiar with ICF construction. There weren't any builders in Southeast Kansas doing ICF but since the Joplin tornado they are going up all over town as people rebuild. This mini-building boom is producing a lot of builders cutting their chops on ICF so they'll be in good practice this time next year. VerticalICF06-17-2012, 12:00As a distributor for ICF building materials I have several contractors in Kansas and Oklahoma that are experienced in using the product. Some of these contractors will travel some (100-200 miles) to build new homes or businesses. As previous post mentioned the number of ICF homes being built each year increases, before the slow down it was about 5% a year but I have not seen any new numbers for the last couple years. The best technology on the market to build a strong safe structure on the market. recycooler06-17-2012, 14:39I used ICF construction in 2002 to add a 24x24 full basement garage on to my house.I have span-crete concrete planking on top of the ICF full basement foundation.My kids 2 bedrooms are under the span crete ,so they have full windows .Basically a daylight foundation around the back. . 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The foam insulation was a lot "less expensive" than full ICF but we still got the energy efficiency (or at least close to it) that we'd of gotten from ICF. IF I'd had the extra money, would of still gone with ICF due to the reasons racerford has already covered, but we had to draw the line somewhere. :-) vBulletin® v3.8.7, Copyright ©2000-2015, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.


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A Lot of people here and other places who bought Flow masters exhaust are very unhappy with the flow master exhaust, American racing exhaust also. I went with magnaflow dual exhaust alot people seemed to like them. Also the borla is up there too. I saw the top picks on this site maby not is Magnaflow borla cora cherry bomb and blow master. Everyone has there own input in this but I don't really see anyone on this site that likes there flow master exhaust
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I've seen some members on here that like their Flowmaster. It's all personal preference, if people like the sound of Flowmaster, it's their truck to do whatever they want.
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putting mine on tomorrow i'm pretty excited going with the big deep sound and ya flow master
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to tell ya the truth i dont even know if iv herd a flowmaster on our trucks but i have herd magnaflow and i think thats whats gonna go on my truck but im gonna agree with everyone else its all in personal preference
i had a flowmaster on my two other vehicles and while i did like them, i also noticed they were raspy, more of a high pitch tone. Where as i find magnaflow to be a more deep and rich sound.
As someone else said, personal preference
I'm actually looking at Hooker's MaxFlow for mine.
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