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DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES We caught all our fish on soft plastics. Colors included electric chicken, bronze/glitter, spicy Cajun chicken and this plum/chartreuse Bass Assassin Bradley Boegner used on this redfish.$RETURN$$RETURN$
Most of the fish we caught were keepers. This one caught by Bradley Boegner measured about 24 inches.$RETURN$$RETURN$
On Chip Harmon's Boga Grip, this one weighed about 5½ pounds. Chip took this one home for dinner and we released the others.$RETURN$$RETURN$
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES We ended the day with a nice double. Fish were concentrated in the sand pockets rather than over seagrass.$RETURN$$RETURN$
DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES Nearly every redfish we caught had more than one spot on the tail. A couple of them had up to five spots on one side.
photos by DAVID SIKES/CALLER-TIMES This chiseled bank was our first stop. It's on the mainland side of the La Quinta Channel not far from the public boat ramp near Ingleside on the Bay.
If there was any doubt where we were fishing, this should give you a clue.

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Oh, and I'm not calling for anyone's blood either. I'm saying that he shouldn't be able to evade trial.
if it talks like one, and looks like one.......It is rather despicable to see you label my position (which is mainstream in Germany and most of the United States) as "fanatical" or something.
Still are. =(Your grandma lived under Pinochet? You're Chilean? There were a lot of bloody dictators in SA.
I'm venezuelan, but my grandma was from Chile, and lived under the regime of that madman and the zealots that supported him (yes, shockingly, dictators can rally frenzied crows of fanatics, who knew?)
Today we live under a different madman surrounded by equally overzealous fanatics (Chavez) but that's something for another topic, and doesn't have anything to do with this, so I'll drop it.
I'll just stop trying to argue with you, as I see I'm not about to make you change your stance, I said my piece, that what is being done to that man isn't right, nor fair, and with that, I take my leave.
Before I do so, I'll remind you of one thing: You can take monkeys out of the jungle, but you can never take the jungle out of the monkey. Someone who is a killer, and enjoys killing will continue to be a killer. That man was a guard at a concentration camp against his will, and, had he been a killer, chances are he would had continue to do so after moving to a new place, but he chose to live an honest life, as a productive citizen, which speaks far more about him than about other former soldiers who go on to become mercenaries/terrorists/criminals.
Let that sink in.
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EDIT: Also, I never claimed to be qualified to judge the man, nor have I made judgements for or against him. I relayed facts about the time period, as most other posters have done, but you refuse to even acknowledge the credibility of their statements because they don't mesh with your distorted personal views on the subject. You, on the other hand, have both judged him, and claimed that you are qualified to do so. I merely want you to explain to us why. You can't. Because you aren't.
Tell me more about how I'm incapable of debate.
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He should be held responsible for what he did. I don't think age should matter in a case like this.
He did what he did, You always have a choice i guess he chose the wrong one.
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If the guy was in Wehrmacht sure let him go, but SS? Daymn, makes for a whole bigger argument for deportation.
I'm having mixed feelings about this, and definitely wouldn't want to be making the judgement on this one.
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But fear makes you do a lot of things you normally wouldn't do. But i guess i cannot help feeling that in the end it will always be up to you.
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My point was that people get suspended all the time, until their case is resolved...you'd just get a huge # of hits with teachers, because they make news.
I've worked at universities where janitors were suspended for DUI's. Are they role models?
If he is convicted, the potential blowback for FOX--who have a pretty conservative board in terms of politics--to host a fighter who is then not ony illustrated to be a vicious thug, but to have them aware of it before hand is a lot of negative publicity that they may not want to risk. That would be a pretty cut and dried risk/reward business decision for them, in my opinion, and certainly no different from dana counterprogramming, or the CU applying pressure wherever they can.I think participation should be dependant on the severity of the conviction, in this case, he is innocent until proven guilty and that is how the country is run. Stephens should be allowed to participate and have gainful employment while his trial is ongoing.
I don't think FOX taking him off the card is infringing on his rights. He'd have the right to seek gainful employment elsewhere, or dana would have the option of continuing to pay him till the case is resolved.
It's a privilege to be in the UFC, not a right. It's a privilege to be on a televised card.
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When the CU throws its dick around in NY to try and keep the UFC out of it; thats a business move, thats putting pressure on Zuffa. Writing FOX about 2 fighters that they have on an upcoming card and bitching about their legal problems seems real petty. (its not even like the general public knows who either of these fighters are anyways) Taking either or both of these fighters off of the card wouldnt stop one person from watching this event so I really dont see how its a business move to put pressure on Zuffa.
everyone in this fucking world should just learn to mind their own fucking business.
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so, would it be fair play then for the ufc and zuffa to bring to light everything a member of the culinary union has said on social media, or had legal issues to the casinos and establishments who deal with the union, and ask them to stop?
I would think most nice innocent guys dont just wake up one day and decide they wanna fight...Fighting is kind of in you and im sure 50 % or so of fighters had troubled pasts and were criminals and they found a legal way to do what they enjoy and make money.
The other 50 % would likely be collage wrestlers.
If they were to hold all fighters accountable for their past's...You know how many great fight's we would have never seen? how many champions would have never been?
MMA is a sport filled with douchebags and always will be. Just like it's fans us are the same way.. Most strait laced blue collar goody goods don't care to watch MMA it's those who have that chip on their shoulders or a bit of anger in us or do a bit of drugs that enjoy watching people get banged out.
I really believe that people like Bill Murray or John Belushi are just as great and just as valid as Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. And I don't think you can say One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) is a better movie than Animal House (1978); they're different genres. I think they're both examples of great craftsmanship.
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I'm curious as well how exactly did Dana fuck Fedor's career ? I could see the Strikeforce buy out maybe as being an arguement here but I'm pretty sure that would have happened with or without Fedor there.
Agreed the smart thing to do would be to have Stephens clear this up first.If Stephens is found to be guilty, it wouldn't be the best for him to have fought on this card. If he's found to be innocent, he can fight on future cards without any concern. If Stephens needs money now for legal defense, and dana is 100% supportive, zuffa can financially assist him until the critical parts of his case are resolved.
If they are not being underhanded an actually showing true concern here why are we not hearing this more from them? How many countless entertainers have been through just Las Vegas alone that have had criminal issues that they've probably never given a thought about if they played in a union establishment.With Trujillo, his case happened years ago, and it's public record; but there doesn't seem to be anything about resolution and/or anger management classes or other educational outreach. Minimally, if he's done things to turn himself around, that should be public knowledge as well. I'm all in favor of giving people second chances, but none of what the CU has done here is in any way corrupt in my eyes.
While it may not be corrupt it's still nothing but blatant PR hypocrisy.
I agree with everything you said here except the constructive criticism part there is no need for the culinary union to be sticking their nose in here.Fundamentally, I want the MMA to get better. I look at things like this as constructive criticism. I want zuffa to address the concerns constructively--I do not feel Stephens should be fighting until his case is resolved, nor any other fighter who is under investigation for violent crimes--and grow as a result.
If I thought there was an actual true concern behind what they CU said I'd give them more credence. Realistically though we can all form our own opinions without them coming off like a bunch of tattle tales and trying to make problems.I think the kneejerk reaction is to simply hate on the CU because they have an agenda. But their agenda doesn't mean that anything they've stated here is anything less than accurate.
In fact, that makes it much more like what I was saying, innocent until proven guilty, though with a special precaution to protect children from heinous crimes.
They are actually right.
However I really wonder if the CU has nothing better to do than to spend time writing letters to the UFC.
Not only brazilians can do this stuff
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Because of a plan put in place more than a decade ago, several Berlin customers on the Montpelier system, including the Berlin Volunteer Fire Department, still receive untreated water. And that, says the state, is a no-no and could be costly.
The brief history in a nutshell is that the citys water comes from Berlin Pond and the transmission goes down the hill into Montpelier. We have a couple of users in Berlin who, through a longstanding arrangement, have been receiving raw water all along, but its a situation that needs to be addressed, said Tim Raymond, operations section manager for the state drinking water and groundwater protection division.
Weve kind of gone back and forth with the state around this, said Todd Law, chief of the citys Public Works Department, who said the initial recipients of the untreated water were using it for agricultural purposes. But were hoping that were going to have a solution soon.
Law said those users dont have any complaints for the time being.
The best solution, according to Law, and the one most easily accomplished, is to move the three remaining raw water users to the Berlin water supply when it comes into being.
According to Law, the city has worked with the residents receiving the untreated water and has gone so far as to start drawing up plans to create an expensive mini treatment plant that would serve the remaining customers. Law said the fire department uses the water only to fill its tankers and another customer has already dug a well.
Right now, the users have their own filters and ultraviolet lights to treat the water, and everything has been satisfactory, he added. That said, Law was dismayed when it looked as though it might cost up to $100,000 to create a system that would serve less than a handful of customers.
The state has given the city until August 2014 to set things right with its remaining raw water customers.
According to the compliance schedule, Montpelier must either provide for filtration and disinfection to those service connections currently being served untreated water ... or physically disconnect those service connections from the raw water transmission lines.
Montpelier has very high-quality water, Raymond said. So its just a little bit of a black eye.
In the meantime, Law said hell move forward to have a plan in place to address the problem.
Weve been in the process of getting something ready, he said. Wed be happy to turn these customers over to Berlin.
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Jakub Steiner Designer. Camera Pilot. http://jimmac.musichall.cz/blog 2015-04-14T13:47:00+02:00 Jakub Steiner The chore of tuning PIDs http://jimmac.musichall.cz/blog/2015-04-14-the-chore-of-tuning-pids/ 2015-04-14T13:47:00+02:00 2015-04-18T02:52:57+02:00 Article Author
Tuning PIDs is one of those things you really don't want to do, but can't avoid it in the acrobatic quad space. Flying camera operators don't usually have to deal with this, but the power/weight ratio is so varied in the world of acro flying you'll have hard time avoiding it there. Having a multirotor "locked in" for doing fast spins is a must. Milliseconds count.

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So what is PID tuning? The flight controller's job is to maintain a certain position of the craft. It has sensors to tell it how the craft is angled and how it's accellerating, and there's external forces acting on the quad. Gravity, wind. Then there's a human giving it RC orders to change its state. All this happens in a PID loop. The FC either wants to maintain its position or is given an updated position. That's the target. All the sensors give it the actual current state. Magic happens here, as the controller gives orders to individual ESCs to spin the motors so we get to there. Then we look at what the sensors say again. Rinse and repeat.

PID loop is actually a common process you can find in all sorts of computer controllers. Even something as simple as a thermostat does this. You have a temperature sensor and you drive a heater or an air conditioner to reach and maintain a target state.

The trick to a solid control is to apply just the right amount of action to get to our target state. If there is difference between where we are and where we want to be, we need to apply some force. If this difference is smaller, only a small force is required. If it's big, a powerful force is needed. This is essentially what the P means, proprotional. In most cases, as a controller, you are truly unhappy if you are elsewhere to where you were told to be. You want to correct this difference fast, so you provide a high proportional value/force. However, in the case of a miniquad, the momentum will continue pulling you when you reached your target point and don't apply any force anymore. At this point the difference occurs again and the controller will start correcting the craft pulling it back in the opposite direction. This results in an unstable state as the controller will be bouncing the quad back and forth, never reaching the target state of "not having to do anything". The P is too big. So what you need is a value that's high enough to correct the difference fast, but not as much so the momentum gets you oscillating around the target.

So if we found our P value, why do we need to bother with anything else? Well sadly pushing air around with props is a complicated way to remain stationary. The difference between where you are and where you want to be isn't just determined by the aircraft itself. There are external forces that are in play and those change. We can get a gust of wind. So what we do is we correct that P value based on the changed conditions. Suddenly we don't have a fixed P contoller, we have one that has variable P. Let's move on how P is dynamically corrected.

The integral part of the controller corrects the difference that suddenly appears due to the new external forces coming into play. I would probably do a better job explaining this if I enjoyed maths, but don't hate me, I'm a graphics designer. Magic maths corrects this offset. Having just the proprotional and integral part of the corrective measure is enough to form a capable controller perfectly able to provide a stable system.

However for something as dynamic as an acrobatic flight controller, you want to improve on the final stage of the correction where you are close to reaching your target after a fast dramatic correction. Typically what a PI controller would get you is a bit of a wobble at the end. To correct it, we have the derivative part of the correction. It's a sort of a predictive measure to lower the P as you're getting close to the target state. D gives you the nice smooth "locked in" feeling, despite having high P and I values, giving you really fast corrective ability.

There are three major control motions of a quad that the FC needs to worry about. Pitch for forward motion is controlled by spinning the back motors faster than the front two motors thus angling the quad forward. Roll motion is achieved exactly the same way, but with the two motors on one side spinning faster than the other two. The last motion is spinning in the Z axis, the yaw. That is achieved by torgue and the fact than the propellers and motors spin in different directions. Typically the front left and back right motor are clockwise spinning and the front right and back left motor are spinning counter clockwise. Thus spinning up/accellerating the front left and back right motors will turn the whole craft counter clockwise (counter motion).

I prepared a little cheat sheet on how to go about tuning PIDs on the NAZE32 board. Before you start though, make sure you set the PID looptime as low as your ESC allow. Usually ESC send the pulses 400 times a second which is equivalent to a looptime of 2500. The more expensive ESC can do 600Hz and some, such as the miniscule KISS ESCs, can go as low as 1200.

 ESC refresh rate	 NAZE32 Looptime

 286Hz	 3500

 333Hz	 3000

 400Hz	 2500

 500Hz	 2000

 600Hz	 1600

You do this in the CLI tab of baseflight:

set looptime=2500 save

Hope this has been helpful for some as it was for me :).

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I've got some time into the hobby to actually share some experiences that could perhaps help someone who is just starting.

Cheap parts

I like cheap parts just like the next guy, but in the case of electronics, avoid it. Frame is one thing. Get the ZMR250. Yes it won't be near as tough as the original Blackout, but it will do the job just fine for a few crashes. Rebuilding aside, you can get about 4 for the price of the original. Then the plates give. But electronics is a whole new category. If you buy cheap ESCs they will work fine. Until they smoke mid flight. They will claim to deal with 4S voltage fine. Until you actually attach a 4S and blue smoke makes its appearance. Or you get a random motor/ESC sync issue. And for FPV, when a component dies mid flight, it's the end of the story if it's the drive (motor/esc) or the VTX or a board cam.

No need to go straight to T-motor, which usually means paying twice as much of a comparable competitor. But avoid the really cheap sub $10 motors like RCX, RCTimer (although they make some decent bigger motors), generic chinese ebay stuff. In case of motors, paying $20 for a motor means it's going to be balanced and the pain of vibration aleviated. Vibrations for minis don't just ruin the footage due to rolling shutter. They actually mess up the IMU in the FC considerably. I like Sunnysky x2204s 2300kv for a 3S setup and the Cobra 2204 1960kv for a 4S. Also rather cheap DYS 1806 seem really well balanced.

Embrace the rate

Rate mode is giving up the auto-leveling of the flight controller and doing it yourself. I can't imagine flying line of sight (LOS) on rate, but for first person view (FPV) there is no other way. NAZE32 has a cool mode called HORI that allows you to do flips and rolls really easily as it will rebalance it for you, but flying HORI will never get you the floaty smoothness that makes you feel like a bird. The footage will always have this jerky quality to it. On rate a tiny little 220 quad will feel like a 2 meter glider, but will fit inbetween those trees. I was flying hori when doing park proximity, but it was a time wasted. Go rate straight from the ground, you will have way more fun.

Receiver woes

For the flying camera kites, it's usually fine to keep stuff dangling. Not for minis. Anything that could, will get chopped off by the mighty blades. These things are spinning so fast than antennas have no chance and if your VTX gets loose, it will get seriously messed up as well. You would not believe what a piece of plastic can do when it's spinning 26 thousand times a minute. On the other hand you can't bury your receiver antenna on the frame. Carbon fibre is super strong, but also super RF insulating. So you have to bring it outside as much as possible. Those two don't quite go together, but the best practice I found was taping one of the antennas to the bottom of the craft and have the other stick out sideways on top. The cheapest and best way I found was using a zip tie to hold the angle and heatshrink the antenna onto it. Looks decent and holds way better than a straw os somesuch.

Next time we'll dive into PID tuning, the most annoying part of the hobby (apart from looking for a crashed bird ;).

Flite test episode with Charpu giving some useful tips.

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One of the major visual updates of the 3.16 release is the high contrast accessible theme. Both the shell and the toolkit have received attention in the HC department. One noteworthy aspect of the theme is the icons. To guarantee some decent amount of contrast of an icon against any background, back in GNOME 2 days, we solved it by "double stroking" every shape. The term double stroke comes from a special case, when a shape that was open, having only an outline, would get an additional inverted color outline. Most of the time it was a white outline of a black silhouette though.

  Fuzzy doublestroke PNGs of the old HC theme

In the new world, we actually treat icons the same way we treat text. We can adjust the best contrast by controlling the color at runtime. We do this the same way we've done it for symbolic icons, using and embedded CSS stylesheet inside SVG icons. And in fact we are using the very same symbolic icons for the HC variant. You would be right arguing that there are specific needs for high contrast, but in reality majority of the double stroked icons in HC have already been direct conversions of their symbolic counterparts.

  Crisp recolorable SVGs of the post 3.16 world

While centralized theme that overrides all application never seemed like a good idea, as the application icon is part of its identity and should be distributed and maintained alongside the actual app, the process to create a high contrast variant of an icon was extremely cumbersome and required quite a bit of effort. With the changes in place for both the toolkit and the shell, it's far more reasonable to mandate applications to include a symbolic/high contrast variant of its app icon now. I'll be spending my time transforming the existing double stroke assets into symbolic, but if you are an application author, please look into providing a scalable stencil variant of your app icon as well. Thank you!

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Winter is definitelly losing its battle and last weekend we had some fun filming with my new folding Xu Gong v2 quad.
  Audi Quattro from jimmac on Vimeo.  Making of GNOME 3.14 http://jimmac.musichall.cz/blog/2014-09-17-making-of-gnome-3-14/ 2014-09-17T15:37:00+02:00 2015-04-02T18:04:29+02:00 Article Author
The release of GNOME 3.14 is slowly approaching, so I stole some time from actual design work and created this little promo to show what goes into a release that probably isn't immediately obvious (and a large portion of it doesn't even make it in).

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I'd like to thank all the usual suspects that make the wheels spinning, Matthias, Benjamin and Allan in particular. The crown goes to Lapo Calamandrei though, because the amount of work he's done on Adwaita this cycle will really benefit us in the next couple of releases. Thanks everyone, 3.14 will be a great release*!

<footnote>* I keep saying that every release, but you simply feel it when you're forced to log in to your "old" GNOME session rather than jhbuild.</footnote>
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In my last multirotor themed entry I gave an insight into the magical world of flying cameras. I also gave a bit of a promise to write about the open source flight controllers that are out there. Here's a few that I had the luck laying my hands on. We'll start with some acro FCs, with a very differt purpose to the proprietary NAZA I started on. These are meant for fast and acrobatic flying, not for flying your expensive cameras on a stabilized gimbal. Keep in mind, I'm still fairly inexperienced so I don't want to go into specifics and provide my settings just yet.

  Blackout: Potsdam from jimmac on Vimeo.

CC3D

The best thing to be said about CC3D is that while being aimed at acro pilots, it's relatively newbie friendly. The software is fairly straight forward. Getting the QT app built, set up the radio, tune motors and tweak gains is not going to make your eyes roll in the same way APM's ground station would (more on that in a future post, maybe). The defaults are reasonable and help you achieve a maiden flight rather than a maiden crash. Updating to the latest firmware over the air is seamless.

Large number of receivers and connection methods is supported. Not only the classic PWM, or the more reasonable "one cable" CPPM method, but even Futaba proprietary SBUS can be used with CC3D. I've flown it with Futaba 8J, 14SG and even the Phantom radio (I actually quite like the compact receiver and the sticks on the TX feel good. Maybe it's just that it's something I've started on). As you're gonna be flying proximity mostly, the range is not an issue, unless you're dealing with external interference where a more robust frequency hopping radio would be safer. Without a GPS "break" or even a barometer, losing signal for even a second is fatal. It's extremely nasty to get a perfect 5.8 video of your unresponsive quad plumetting to the ground :)

Overall a great board and software, and with so much competition, the board price has come down considerably recently. You can get non-genuine boards for around EUR20-25 on ebay. You can learn more about CC3D on openpilot website

Naze32

Sounding very similar to the popular DJI flight controller, this open board is built around the 32-bit STM32 processor. Theoretically it could be used to fly a bit larger kites with features like GPS hold. You're not limited to the popular quad or hexa setups with it either, you can go really custom with defining your own motor mix. But you'd be stepping in the realm of only a few and I don't think I'd trust my camera equipment to a platform that hasn't been so extensively tested.

Initially I didn't manage to get the cheap acro variant ideal for the minis, so I got the 'bells & whistles' edition, only missing the GPS module. The mag compass and air pressure barometer is already on the board, even though I found no use for altitude hold (BARO). You'll still going to worry about momentum and wind so reaching for those goggles mid flight is still not going to be any less difficult than just having it stabilized.

If you don't count some youtube videos, there's not a lot of handholding for the naze32. People assume you have prior experience with similar FCs. There are multiple choices of configuration tools, but I went for the most straight forward one — a Google Chrome/Chromium Baseflight app. No compiling necessary. It's quite bare bones, which I liked a lot. Reasonably styled few aligned boxes and CLI is way easier to navigate than the non-searchable table with bubblegum styling than what APM provides for example.

One advanced technique that caught my eye, as the typical process is super flimsy and tedious, is ESC calibration. To set the full range of speeds based on your radio, you usually need to make sure to provide power to the RX, and setting the top and bottom throttle leves to each esc. With this FC, you can actually set the throttle levels from the CLI, calibrating all ESCs at the same time. Very clever and super useful.

Another great feature is that you can have up to three setting profiles, depending on the load, wind conditions and the style you're going for. Typically when flying proximity, between trees and under park benches, you want very responsive controls at the expense of fluid movement. On the other hand if you plan on going up and fast and pretend to be a plane (or a bird), you really need to have that fluid non-jittery movement. It's not a setting you change mid-flight, using up a channel, but rather something you choose before arming.

To do it, you hold throttle down and yaw to the left and with the elevator/aileron stick you choose the mode. Left is for preset1, up is for preset 2 and right is for preset 3. Going down with the pitch will recalibrate the IMU. It's good to solder on a buzzer that will help you find a lost craft when you trigger it with a spare channel (it can beep on low voltage too). The same buzzer will beep for selecting profiles as well.

As for actual flying characteristics, the raw rate mode, which is a little tricky to master (and I still have trouble flying 3rd person with it), is very solid. It feels like a lot larger craft, very stable. There's also quite a feat in the form of HORI mode, where you get a stabilized flight (kite levels itself when you don't provide controls), but no limit on the angle, so you're still free to do flips. I can't say I've masted PID tuning to really get the kind of control over the aircraft I would want. Regardless of tweaking the control characteristics, you won't get a nice fluid video flying HORI or ANGLE mode, as the self leveling will always do a little jitter to compensate for wind or inaccurate gyro readings which seems to not be there when flying rate. Stabilizing the footage in post gets rid of it mostly, but not perfectly:

  Minihquad in Deutschland

You can get the plain acro version for about EUR30 which is an incredible value for a solid FC like this. I have a lot of practice ahead to truly get to that fluid fast plane-like flight that drew me into these miniquads. Check some of these masters below:

blackout the drunk

boris b

juz70

rianrex

APM and Sparky next time. Or perhaps you'd be more interested in the video link instead first? Let me know in the comments.

Update: Turns out NAZE32 supports many serial protocols apart form CPPM, such as Futaba SBUS and Graupner SUMD.


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Georgianna Scott McDavid Garby, 85, passed away peacefully in her Fayston home on Thursday, December 7, 2006. She is survived by her husband of 66 years, Charles. She is also survived by her daughter, Sandra Davis and her husband, Bruce, who now reside in Pawleys Island, S.C.; her son, Chuck Garby, and his wife, Dorothy, from Medford, Long Island, NY. In addition to her daughter and son, she is survived by four grandchildren, Scott Kilmer, and his wife Donna, Wayne Kilmer and his wife Angela, Caleb and Kathryn Garby; great-granddaughters Jamie Lynn Kilmer, Karissa and Heather Kilmer; and a great-great-granddaughter, Tyra Lynn Kilmer. She is also survived by two nephews, Charles Smith from Babylon, Long Island, NY, and George Preston of Mission Viejo, CA; and niece, Kathleen Gonzalez of Cathedral City, CA.
Georgianna Scott McDavid was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on April 5, 1921, the daughter of James Young McDavid and Agnes McGlinchey. "Georgie," as she was affectionately known, was predeceased by her sisters, Catherine, Mary and Agnes, and also by her brother, James. Georgie and her husband, Charlie, retired to Vermont from Boston in 1978. Prior to that time, they were longtime residents of College Point, New York. They first fell in love with the Vermont countryside when a good friend invited them to ski. They became a fixture at the guest house of Otto and Elsie Becker starting in 1964 to begin their love affair with skiing. They then had their own home built in 1969 within walking distance of "Glen Ellen." Georgie and Charlie continued to ski till the winter of 2004 at the tender ages of 83 and 87, respectively! Georgie was also a devotee of yoga and daily hiking.
Not only was Georgie a skiing enthusiast, but she and Charlie were avid motorcyclists. Georgie and Charlie, while living in College Point, were members of the Queensboro Motorcycle Club from 1938 to l978. From 1950 to 1951, she won a number of trophies and accumulated enough points to put her within the top 10 riders of the year in District 4 AMA. She drove her own Triumph 3T and she was a member of the Motor Maids of America. Upon moving to Vermont, they became members of the BMWROV (BMW Riders of Vermont) approximately 10 years ago. They began hosting a yearly road rally throughout the hillsides of Vermont seven years ago.
Georgie was an executive assistant at Pepsi Cola and, more recently, Eastern Airlines. Due to her association with Eastern Airlines, this enabled Georgie and her husband to travel the world over. Not only did she and her husband travel by plane but many times traveled cross country via motorhome or motorcycle. Georgie also volunteered her time at the Joslin Library.
Georgie was extremely excited the day she won the Mad River Canoe from the Howard Bank raffle. She loved to tell the story about the day she and Charlie went for a paddle with local friends, Frank and Barbara Covino. Georgie's canoe tipped over and due to the quick thinking of Frank, they were rescued. Her description of the incident was that we "popped up just like a cork." This was at the ripe young age of 82!
Georgie had a great love of animals. She was a great advocate for the care and feeding of all God's creatures, be it hummingbirds, raccoons, deer, stray cats and dogs, chipmunks and foxes to name a few. The greatest love was for her own two exquisite Ragdoll cats, Puss and Boots.
A special "thank you" to the Central Vermont Hospice for their loving care and kindness this past year. In lieu of flowers, a donation to this wonderful group of people in Georgie's name would be gratefully appreciated.
There was a brief memorial service held at the home of Georgie and Charlie on Saturday, December 9, 2006, at 2 p.m. attended by her entire family, her many beloved motorcycle and skiing friends, as well as those who knew her from the community. The service was officiated by her son, Chuck, who is an ordained minister. For those who would like to convey online condolences to the family, please visit barber-lanier.com.


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Patsy Matthews was born February 7, 1937 in Pine Springs to Clarence and Opal (Satterfield) Dillingham. She passed from this life March 18, 2013, in Antlers at the age of 76. Patsy married Baxter Dean Matthews on August 8, 1954, in Darwin. Together, they raised two children and remained married for 57 years until Dean's passing. Patsy worked at Pushmataha Hospital, 1st National Bank, Burrage Law Firm, and Antlers Public School. She enjoyed cooking, family gatherings, and attending Garden Club meetings. Most of all, Patsy loved spending time with her family and friends. Patsy was preceded in death by her husband: Baxter Dean Matthews; parents: Clarence & Opal Dillingham; brother-in-law: Jack Matthews; and sister-in-law: Dora Jane Coggins. She is survived by her children: Jack Matthews & wife Pam of Antlers and Kay Williams & husband Jerry of Howe; grandchildren: Mellissa Sherrer & husband Aaron of Durant, Michael Matthews of Antlers, Danielle Stone & husband Matt of Dallas, Texas, and Justin Williams of Caulksville, Arkansas; great-granddaughter: Emma Sherrer of Durant; God-grandchildren: McKinley & Hayes Payne; and a sister: Jerry & husband Buddy Taylor of Moyers; brothers & sisters-in-law: Jimmie Taylor of Paris, Texas, Ann & Billy Perrin of Hugo,, Steve & JoAnn Matthews of Miller, Tommy & Jackie Jones of Antlers; as well as many other relatives and friends. Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 PM, Thursday, March 21, 2013 at Antlers First Baptist Church with Jerry Williams & Reverend Aaron Reed officiating. Pallbearers include Dwight Satterfield, Mike Nabors, George Norman, Mark Virden, Bobby Burgess, & Eric Peters with Honorary Pallbearers as Garden Club Ladies, Sam Smith, Ed Harper, & Boyce Couch. Interment will follow at Darwin Cemetery.
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Kent State's Campaign for Change, the university's student philanthropy initiative, kicked off its fall campaign on Aug. 27 with a Pre-Show Party on the Plaza. Over 100 student donors participated in the event, raising several hundred dollars for the Campaign's spring 2012 scholarship.
Over the course of the fall semester, the campaign enlists student volunteers to educate their peers about the impact of private support on their education and to encourage students to "pay it forward" supporting an endowed scholarship fund. Undergraduate student donors are then eligible for one of eight $500 book awards and are encouraged to apply for the $1,250 Campaign for Change scholarship.
Since its launch in 2007, the Campaign for Change has raised more than $48,000 from students, parents, faculty and staff. Student gifts range from as little as $1 to as large as $200, raising a total of $2,000 from 365 students last fall. That marks a 124 percent increase in gifts and 57 percent increase in student participation since 2007.
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West Ham had launched a bid for the 22-year-old last month, and had started the work permit application before opting to pull out of a deal earlier this week.
However, now QPR have stepped in and are ready to try and land the Estudiantes striker.
"Yeah I've seen him only on clips and everything. We've watched bits and pieces of him. We watched him play last week on TV against Atletico Madrid. Big lad, goalscorer, powerful," he said.
When asked about the prospect of a move, he added: "Possibly, am not sure what the situation will be there.
"It's something we have been talking about. He's one of several options that we've got at the moment."
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MARANA, Ariz. — The majestic wedge out of the trees and onto the 10th green at Augusta National. The tearful celebration. Slipping into that beautiful green jacket for the first time in Butler Cabin. The trophy presentation.
Bubba Watson finally had a chance to catch his breath when he sat down for dinner to honor the latest Masters champion.
And that's when it hit him.
"We're all upstairs at the dinner and he said, 'Dude, do you realize what this means?' " caddie Ted Scott recalled. "And we're thinking, 'Yeah, Bubba. You're the Masters champion. This is a pretty big deal.' He stops dead in his tracks and he says, 'I've got to buy Paul that ring.' "
Paul Tesori, the caddie for Webb Simpson, was listening to the playoff on the radio while driving home to Florida when Watson made his incredible escape and beat Louis Oosthuizen. Tesori smiled and wondered if Watson even remembered his promise.
Leave it to Watson to have instant recall of such an insignificant moment compared with the magnitude of winning the Masters.
There are 350 varieties of more than 80,000 plants at Augusta National, but only one palm tree on the golf course. It takes on new meaning for Watson, a reminder of how he ruined a caddie's bet with his wife over a wedding ring and made up for it by winning a green jacket.
It all started when Simpson had an extra ticket for the practice round that he gave to Tesori's wife, Michelle. Tesori was so excited about her first trip to the Masters that, as they drove to Augusta and he raved about the beauty of the golf course, he served up a challenge.
"I said, 'Honey, one of the cool things is that there's one palm tree on the property and half the players don't even know where it is. If you can find the palm tree, anything you want is yours,"' Tesori said.
She had been asking about a diamond ring that cost $10,000 and would complete her wedding band. Tesori figured he would buy it whenever Simpson won his next golf tournament, but he got caught up in the moment and offered that as the reward.
They played nine holes that Wednesday with the regular group – Watson, Simpson and Rickie Fowler. Jason Day joined them on the first tree, but his wrist was a little sore and so the Australian left them after three holes.
The lone palm at Augusta is tucked away to the right of the green on the par-3 fourth hole. This was the big moment.
And that's when Tesori made his first big mistake.
"Paul was talking to Bubba about it and I'm thinking to myself, 'This is not a good idea,' " Simpson said.
Sure enough, Watson had no clue about the only palm at Augusta National. And when he heard the deal Tesori had with his wife, Watson couldn't help himself.
"My best recollection is Bubba being his normal self and throwing Paul under the bus," Fowler said. "There are certain secrets Bubba can keep if they need to be kept secret. But if it's something along the lines of a bet, and nothing that can hurt you too bad – like a $10,000 ring – that's out the door."
Watson found the palm and began making a scene, his voice getting louder as he pointed to the tree.
Tesori urged him to keep it down, which only egged on Watson, who continued to raise his voice and point to the palm. Tesori's only hope was that his wife was far enough back in the crowd and couldn't see – or hear – what Watson was doing. But when the caddie reached the green and looked to the left, he was doomed.
"I found my wife in the crowd," he said. "She's got her arms up in the air in a V formation, jumping up and down. And Bubba thinks it's the greatest thing in the world."
Tesori felt otherwise.
"His face ... he looked like he was in shock," Scott, the caddie, said.
In some respects, it was like the Old Testament story of Samson offering to buy linen garments and a set of clothes for his 30 wedding guests if they could solve his riddle. The guests pressured his wife to get the answer, and they solved it on the last night of the wedding feast. Samson was so angry he killed 30 men and took their garments to pay off the bet.
This was just a ring.
And the man who ruined it all was the first to come to the rescue.
"I said, 'Hey, you lost. You better go down there and hug it,' " Watson said he told Tesori, meaning the tree. "He was mad. He said, `Why would you do that?' So I told him, `Hey, if I win this week, I'll buy it.' Webb said he'd do it and Rickie said he'd do it, too. And then we totally forgot about it."
Tesori was thrilled for Watson when the Masters ended that night – and so was his wife.
"She said I should send him a text," Tesori said. "I said, no, I don't want to do that. He's not going to remember, and I would never even bring it up. I'm rooting for Bubba because he's a friend of mine."
The next morning, he received a direct message on Twitter from Scott, who was with Watson during the hours after his Masters win. He told him about Watson's reaction that Sunday night when he remembered the ring.
"The look on Bubba's face was about the same look as Paul's face when she saw the tree," Scott said.
Watson never thought twice about his end of the bargain.
"If someone said you had to pay $10,000 to win the Masters? Shoot, everybody would do that," he said.
Even better, when Michelle Tesori went to the jewelry store and told the story, the owner knocked 25 percent off the price.
It's just a coincidence, but in the months after that practice round, Watson had a green jacket, Fowler won his first PGA Tour event at Quail Hollow, and Simpson followed with his first major championship at the U.S. Open. Too bad Day, the other player in their group, left early.
"It was a cool experience," Fowler said. "For the three of us, we have that memory to look back on with that ring, because all three of us ended up having a pretty good year. That ring symbolizes something."
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GANSEVOORT, NY – For the third time this season, junior Sean Purtill has been named as the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) Student-Athlete of the Week in men's lacrosse. He became the first Hilbert student-athlete to receive such an honor.
Purtill led the Hawks to a 2-0 week after recording 14 points on nine goals and five assists. The Orchard Park native was also credited with six ground balls and just one turnover. He opened the week with a game-best six goals in a 16-11 NEAC win over Cazenovia College April 17. He closed the week with a team-best three goals and a game-high four assists in the thrilling 13-12 non-conference victory over La Roche College April 20. Purtill also was tracked with hitting the goal post four times during the windy and cold Saturday contest.
Purtill is now in third place in the NEAC in goals (31) and points (52) while holding onto the fifth slot in assists (21).
Hilbert (7-3) is off to its best start in the program's three year history. The Hawks currently sit in 2nd place in NEAC standings with 3-1 league record.
With only three games remaining, Hilbert hosts Medaille College (4-2) on April 23 and Wells College (0-4) April 25th before they travel to SUNYIT (4-2) this weekend for their final game. The top four teams in the nine-team league qualify for NEAC play-offs with the league's champion extending their season in the NCAA tourney.
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PIKEVILLE — Pike county officials gathered Monday afternoon to review their current level of preparedness as Hurricane Sandy threatened to spill into the mountains.
Judge-Executive Wayne T. Rutherford called the meeting with community leaders and emergency officials to gauge their preparedness as inclement weather moved into the region. Officials with the Jackson Weather Service were reporting that low lying areas could receive one to three inches of snow while higher elevations, above 2,000 feet, could get as much as 10 inches of snow from blizzard-like conditions.
"We hope and pray that what we talk about, we wont have to put into action," Rutherford said to begin the meeting.
Rutherford said the storm was moving beyond a coastal threat, and now moving into the west.
"We are taking this event very seriously."
Officials with the Jackson Weather Service were brought in through a conference call, and told those in attendance that the outskirts of Hurricane Sandy moving into the mountains could produce sustained winds up to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Elevations above 2,000 feet could experience wind gusts up to 50 mph.
Sara George, with the Highway Department, said that all of her crews had been through their paces, and that the district's equipment had all recently been inspected. George said the salt domes are full but added that road crews would not be pre-treating the roads due to the rain.
Representatives with both Pikeville Medical Center and ARH Hospital in South Williamson said their facilities were prepared in the event of a disaster.
Charlie O'Neal, with Kentucky Emergency Management, said via a conference call that a warning order had been issued raising the Emergency Operations Center to level 2 at 10 p.m. Monday night.


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2012-13 (RS Freshman, Seton Hall): Played in 21 games, three as a starter … Played double-digit minutes in seven games including a season-high 24 minutes against Longwood (12/19/12) … Scored season-high in points (11) and rebounds (8) against Longwood (12/19/12) … Hit 50 percent (19-for-38) from the floor.
2011-12 Season: Redshirted.
High School: Graduated from Taft High School in Woodland Hills, Ca. … Led the team to a 29-3 record during his senior campaign along with a 10-0 mark in conference play … Averaged 11.9 points, 9.9 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game … Scored a season-high 20 points vs Corona Del Mar … Scored in double figures in 16 games … Had 14 games in which he grabbed ten or more rebounds … That included 17 boards against El Camino Real, Newark Memorial, and Stockdale High Schools … Named the Most Valuable Player of the Balls is Life Regional All-American game … Tabbed as the MVP of the 2011 Hall of Fame Classic game vs. Mt. Vernon (N.Y.) where he poured in 26 points and grabbed 13 rebounds … Ranked among the ten best players in California by Cal High Sports in 2010 ... Rated the 26th best center in the Class of 2011 by ESPN.
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"I don't like living under this cloud. But I'm not angry about it. I even pray for the prosecution and my enemies," the former Houston-area congressman told The Associated Press in an interview. "No, they have not destroyed Tom DeLay as a person. And I'm ready to go to prison if that's where I'm supposed to end up." [Read More]


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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
A Study in Contrasts - Wordless Wednesday
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That really is a contrast. With the difference in dress and facial expressions it's almost like the daughter was photoshopped into the picture.ReplyDelete
Perfect example of a picture saying a thousand words. This is one amazing photo!ReplyDelete
So this is the Iva who was making the long train ride recently. It almost looks like Iva is floating there behind her parents. Maybe she was in love ;) wonder if she had met Bob yet.ReplyDelete
I love it! She looks like the heroine in the old silent movies like "Perils of Pauline"! Perhaps she was kidnapped by those sullen villains (cue the spooky piano music)?ReplyDelete
Great photo! You can see who gains her allegiance (perhaps, at the moment) by the way daughter's head is tilted. Dad's in her favor, mom is not! I think mom looks 10 years older than her husband, don't you? I wonder what their reactions to this photo were when they saw it. And don't you wonder what the occasion was?! Love it!ReplyDelete
My gut reaction was that Iva was more than ready for the roaring 20s to start, and Flora and Reese...were not.ReplyDelete
Oh Iva sure is pretty. Love the photo, and the fact that she was mentioned in your previous post. Agree with the others also.ReplyDelete
Iva is a beautiful young lady and lost in her own thoughts :-) JoReplyDelete
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- Are Mongolian and Tungus genetically related? (2006)
- It is no secret that Gerhard Doerfer has argued strongly against a genetic relationship between the Mongolic and Tungusic languages. Ten years ago he presented a detailed analysis of the Mongolo-Tungusic vocabulary (1985). In the following I intend to show that his material allows of a quite different conclusion.
- Early dialectal diversity in South Slavic I (2003)
- The large majority of the isoglosses which can be established in the South Slavic dialectal area date from the time of the disintegration of Common Slavic and from more recent periods (e.g., Ivi´c 1958: 25ff). The isoglosses have often shifted in the course of the centuries, so that their original position cannot always be determined. In this study I shall concentrate upon the dialectal differences which originated before the 10th century. At that time, Slavic was still a largely uniform language, though it was certainly not completely homogeneous.
- Early dialectal diversity in South Slavic II (2003)
- Twenty years ago I discussed the oldest isoglosses in the South Slavic linguistic area (1982). Subscribing to Van Wijk's view that the bundle of isoglosses which separates Bulgarian from Serbo-Croatian was the result of an early split in South Slavic and that the transitional dialects originated from a later mixture of Serbian and Bulgarian dialects when the contact between the two languages had been restored (1927), I argued that the shared innovations of Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian must be dated to a period when the dialects were still spoken in the original Trans-Carpathian homeland of the Slavs. I concluded that there is no evidence for common innovations of South Slavic which were posterior to the end of what I have called the Late Middle Slavic period, which I dated to the 4th through 6th centuries AD. At that time, the major dialect divisions of Slavic were already established.


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Preliminary Beginnings
In 1853, conference was held in New York City with the intent of forming a permanent organization. The conference was attended by 80 men. Charles Jewett (Smithsonian Institution) was elected president. Seth Hastings Grant (New York Mercentile Library) was elected secretary. A committee was appointed to organize a second meeting in 1854. That meeting was not held.
Founding of the American Library Association
Melvil Dewey, Justin Winsor, C. A. Cutter, Samuel S. Green, James L. Whitney, Fred B. Perkins, and Thomas W. Bicknell issued a call to librarians to form a professional organization.
During the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, 103 librarians, 90 men and 13 women, responded to a call for a "Convention of Librarians" to be held October 4-6 at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. At the end of the meeting, according to Ed Holley in his essay "ALA at 100," "the register was passed around for all to sign who wished to become charter members," making October 6, 1876 to be ALA's birthday.
In attendance were 90 men and 13 women, among them Justin Winsor (Boston Public, Harvard), William Frederick Poole (Chicago Public, Newberry), Charles Ammi Cutter (Boston Athenaeum), Melvil Dewey, and Richard Rogers Bowker. Attendees came from as far west as Chicago and from England.
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Atrial fibrillation surgery—Maze procedure. Society of Thoracic Surgeons website. Available at:
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Maze procedure for treatment of atrial fibrillation. University of Southern California Cardiothoracic Surgery website. Available at:
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Maze surgery. Texas Heart institute website. Available at:
http://www.texasheartinstitute.org/HIC/Topics/Proced/mazes.cfm. Updated August 2014. Accessed December 29, 2014.
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The three-day tournament, to be played at Jones County High School's gym, this year features the girls' and boys' teams from Salem, Georgia Military College, Dublin, Washington County, Central-Macon, First Presbyterian Day School, Elbert County and Jones County.
Both Jones County teams open against Elbert County Thursday, with the girls playing at 7 p.m. and the boys at 8:30 p.m. Entering the tournament, the Jones County girls were 2-5, and Elbert County was 4-2, pending the outcome of Tuesday's games. The Jones County boys were 3-4 and Elbert County 5-1.
In other opening round games on Thursday, the Salem girls (3-4) face GMC (1-7) at 10 a.m., the Salem boys (5-3) play GMC (3-4) at 11:30 a.m., the Dublin girls (5-1) meet Washington County (5-1) at 1 p.m., the Dublin boys (4-1) face Washington County (5-1) at 2:30 p.m., the Central-Macon girls (0-4) play FPD (0-4) at 4 p.m., and the Central-Macon boys (1-4) meet the FPD boys (6-2) at 5:30 p.m.
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So, I want to make a red beer, what is the best malt to get this color?
I've done two red ales so far.
In the first I used a combination of Weyermann Carared (http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/brewing-ingredients/grain-malts/caramel-malts/weyermann-carared.html) and Simpsons Dark Crystal (http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/brewing-ingredients/grain-malts/caramel-malts/simpsons-dark-crystal.html) about half a pound of each.
For the second I used a pound of crystal 20L and a pound of crystal 60L with pale malt extract. It turned out a very nice red.
Dark malts will give you that color. The problem is that you have to be very careful or you'll add too much roast/chocolate/bitter grain flavor. 1.5 - 3% of the grainbill to start out with; two or three ounces in a 5 gallon batch. Try pale chocolate or dehusked/debittered roast barley .
There's always food coloring too.
Trivia: All beer is red.
More information than you ever may want to know about beer color is in the 2009-11-16 episode of BrewStrong.
One or two ounces of roasted barley is what I use to get that red color. My basic red ale has a crystal 60 and 120 in it as well. But its really the roasted barley in combo with those that gets you there.
7lb Maris Otter Pale malt
If all-grain isn't your thing; I suppose you could substitute ~5lb English LME for the Maris Otter and ~2lb of Munich LME for the munich.
I've used C90 for an ESB and the colour was a beautiful ruby. Also small amounts of Special B or C120.


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Anyone have a current 20% off coupon for Harbor Freight. I havent been able to locate one. Are these a thing of the past?
Anyone have a current 20% off coupon for Harbor Freight. I havent been able to locate one. Are these a thing of the past?
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IIRC, they now only give out the general discount coupons as a printout on the address label of their flyers. Has to have your name on it and an expiration date. The only ones they have on their website anymore are the ones for indivdual items.
They just had a 20% off coupon running 26,27,& 28th of last month.
It was non-transferable so I couldn't post it.
If you create an account with them, they will send you an e-mail about twice a week telling you about the sales.
Here's the link.
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I just checked my Dec E-mail from them.No transfer.
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Step 1: Materials
The first step is to gather materials:
wood glue, or gorilla glue wood work great!
jig saw
wheels and trucks (can be bought on ebay for around $20)
drill and bits
chalk line (optional)
stain, or paint
grip tape
Step 2: Cut Wood
in this step, cut the wood into 1"x4" rectangles, you will need three of these to make your longboard, be sure to cut along and across the grain. you will see why later on.
Step 3: Glue it all Together
in this step, you will glue it all together. Use wood glue or gorilla glue to do this, first lay one piece of plywood down, making sure it is the piece is the one with the grain going along the long part of the wood, lay glue down and spread evenly. Do this to the second sheet(the one with the grain going parallel to the short side of the piece) and lay them on top of each other so glue on both sides are touching. Do this to the third piece and then clamp and add weights. You want to compress it enough so that glue will squeeze out the sides use weights or whatever you have on hand. Let dry overnight. notice how i bent my long board. you have to do this while the glue is wet, and this is why this is the best way to make long boards, because you can adjust the curve and shape it the way you want, which you cant do with a normal piece of wood alone.
how long did it take you to make the board
This video is what got me into longboard. If your kids are into learning. Have them youtube videos. Anything by "loaded" is legit. Also search adam colton. He is one of the best in the world, and has all kinds of instructional videos...
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i am trying to make this but here i am little confused about wheels .i have no wheels . and i don't want to purchase it through Ebay .. i will purchase it from local market of my town . so i want to know specific name of this wheels . and specific size .
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1. Narrow tread with rounded edges:
2. Wide tread with a 'squared' edge:
Look for option 2 wheels, that are 60mm or higher and that the hub fits your trucks. They'll be fairly similar to rollerskate wheels but different to rollerblade wheels.
Not sure if it's the same, but I remember Rollerblade wheels coming in different densities, the softer wheels give a more comfortable ride, more grip but wear down faster than the harder wheels.
As you said, softer wheels give you a more comfortable ride, and wear down faster. They also allow you to roll over rocks easier and grip your rolling surface better. They also increase friction, so you won't go quite as fast.
The harder wheels, have less friction so they give you less grip and make it more likely that when you hit a pebble you'll keep going but your board wont. They also take longer to wear down.
It's all trade-offs, and it's fairly hard to know what you really want until you actually ride. Just play around, have fun, and be safe!
I wonder what that kid thinks now (assuming (s)he is still alive)...
to be honest I don't know anything about skateboarding (I wanna make these for my kids) but I've read that when you do all the fancy tricks that you go thru decks pretty fast but I think you can keep reusing the wheel sets.
my kids are daredevils and seem to lack a lot of the common sense that comes with age (I miss those days) so i expect to be making a few of these.
I like the idea of making the decks because i think that they'll trash em but maybe a long baord will last longer. still think i'de like to make it but now maybe i'll use nicer quality wood like maple.
Of course you may have 3 or 4 boards that are able to encompass most of these disciplines. Don't limit yourself when it comes to having fun on a board. :-D
Home Depot plywood is usually just crappy plywood with a thin layer of birch to make it look nice (for cabinets, mostly). If you get marine-grade plywood (you can tell because every layer, including both surfaces, is the same thickness, like bent plywood ikea furniture), your boards will be super flexy and last wayyyy longer. I routinely made boards that would touch the ground, and never break. it's harder to find (gotta go to a special wood place like macbeath hardwoods in the east bay, CA) but it's REALLY worth it.
hope that helps someone!
ps if you want to get really fancy, you can put a layer of fiberglass or carbon fiber on the bottom of your board, to make it a little stiffer.
Great job on the instructable. I had a couple of questions.
1) Have you played around with thickness of the board and flexibility?
2) Have you found a way to add camber to the boards?
3) Have you found a way to curl up the tail and nose for manuals, shovits, etc.?
Again, great job,