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I personally don't agree with the ban. It's our right to bear arms.
OT- Do you think we should ban ARs?
I hope pillow/nightstand mommy plans to change her ways before she has a toddler poking around...
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By the way I if it wasn't clear I am pro-2nd ammendement. I live 30 minutes away from in sort of law enforcement. I live deep in the woods at a dead end. We have had tressepassers none that actually attempted to get in to our home, yet anyways. Our sheds have been broke into on more than one occasion, we caught someone standing outside our bedroom window (get this they did not turn off their cell phone ringer). I just don't understand how I am to protect my family if an intruder even comes in on my family with any sort of weapon and expect cops to get here before my family is harmed. We have guns in my house, they use to be easily available to but put up high, my son who was 2 at the time so how managed to get a hold of it, thank god it was really unloaded. Since then they are locked and hid away well, with easy access to those who know how to use them. To all mommies I do recommend to make sure that their is no way possible for you kids to reach them, we thought having them high out of my son's reach would be enough but since obviously some how he managed to stack things up until he reached it, we were obviously wrong. God knows what could have happened if the gun was actually loaded.
Having a gun, if you pass the requirements, is fine. Having an assault rifle is NOT fine and was not what the US Constitution anticipated. Americans are nutzoid for their guns, and yes, I'm an American, and a gun owner. Assault rifles are military and police equipment, and NOBODY ELSE NEEDS THEM.
ABSOLUTELY!! If the regular citizen can't buy one...manufacturers will make fewer and then they can't be stolen from homes where they weren't properly locked up and handled by criminals!! Domino effect...fewer=less dead kids!
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And for those who think that's what the army is for and they will protect you, all you have to do is look through a history book to see that not all armies have been successful in protecting the citizens. Which is precisely why our founding fathers, being extremely intelligent, wrote the right to bear arms into the constitution. They wanted Americans to Be able to defend ourselves from the threats of other nations if it came down to a war in our front yard. Look at Africa, look at Iran, Iraq or another nation that is currently under distress. It's the bad guys who own the bigger guns and the civilians who die. And yes all of those nations have military and police to "control" the situation.
Also, I truly believe one of the reasons other countries have not tried to invade us, is strictly they are afraid of us. Not just our military, but the people themselves. Kind of hard to send a army to country where all it's citizens are legally allowed to carry heavy artillery. Armies would be out numbered by bat shit crazy Americans who are not afraid to fight or defend there family or property. I am happy the rest of the world views us as crazy gun fanatics, it's like we are the crazy neighbor next door that no one wants to screw with because they are fearful what the neighbor will do. I'm okay with that If it means I'm safer.
Lastly, all it takes is a trip to Walmart and a google search to find a way to make a bomb or a shank or god knows what else to build a weapon. Banning weapons won't prevent death. Some people just want to kill and taking away guns won't stop them. The government needs to be more intuitive and learn how to put procedures in place that will still allow citizens to act freely in accordance with the law but restrict those who want to break it.
Just my opinion! Sorry for any errors, I have fat fingers.
No one will take my Glock.. lol
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder has secured a third term, becoming the second Missourian to win three elections for the office.
Election results Tuesday show Kinder defeated Democratic former state Auditor Susan Montee.
Kinder had been expected to run for governor this year but instead decided to run for re-election as lieutenant governor. The other Missourian to win three lieutenant governor elections is Democrat Frank Harris, who first took office started in 1933.
Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster won a second term Tuesday, while several other candidates for statewide offices were in close races hours after the polls closed.
Koster held off a challenge from Republican Ed Martin, who was chief of staff to former Gov. Matt Blunt.
Republican Shane Schoeller was leading Democrat Jason Kander in the race for secretary of state. The two state House colleagues were competing to succeed incumbent Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, who decided against seeking a third term.
The secretary of state is Missouri's chief elections officer, and elections issues played a prominent role in the campaign.
Schoeller, of Willard, has backed a requirement that voters show a photo ID at the polls and has proposed a new state commission to consider complaints about the fairness and accuracy of ballot summaries for initiatives.
Kander, who is from Kansas City, argues recent photo ID proposals have been extreme and unfair and the ballot summary panel would inject more politics. He supports an early voting period.
The treasurer's campaign between Zweifel and McNary received the least attention heading into Election Day.
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To err, they say, is human. This truism is comforting when vases are smashed or foul shots come bounding off the backboard. But it isn't so comforting when a surgeon leans over a body in the operating room or a patient is rushed into the emergency room. To err, in these cases, can be deadly.
In 1999 the Institute of Medicine reported that medical error was responsible for up to 98,000 hospital deaths each year in the United States. The medical industry took note, and improving patient safety became a fast priority. Many in the industry looked to Dr. Robert Helmreich and the researchers in his Human Factors Research Project at The University of Texas at Austin for help.
Helmreich is one of the leading experts in aviation safety in the country, and his team has been studying human error and teamwork in high-risk environments for more than 20 years. They've conducted research on everyone from Antarctic expeditioners to airline pilots, astronauts to heart surgeons. And not one of the group would say that the ultimate goal of their work is to prevent people from ever making mistakes.
"Error is part of the human condition," says Helmreich. "We've got limited capacity, we don't function super well under stress, and we get into situations where we make mistakes."
Learning to contain the consequences of those mistakes and training teams to work more effectively to detect and recover from their errors is key to Helmreich and his group's work. They have a proven record in aviation and have expanded their work to include medicine as well.
"The medical world has sort of awakened in the past three or four years to the whole idea of system level error and human error in general," says Dr. Dave Musson, a researcher at the lab whose background includes a decade practicing medicine in Canada.
"It's a field that for years was driven by two things: high individual standards of perfection and tremendous fear of litigation. Both of these things have led to an intolerance toward error and suppression or denial of it when it happens."
Many considered the aviation industry a close parallel to medicine in thinking about safety issues. Both industries involve high-risk environments, highly trained individuals working in teams, high regulation and a hierarchical structure. Thus, looking at how aviation has made strides in safety over the past two decades may offer clues for improving the medical industry.
Aviation has shifted from a reactive to a proactive approach. Instead of waiting for an accident to occur, the industry tries to identify vulnerabilities within operations and address them before an accident can happen.
The Line of Operations Safety Audit (LOSA) has helped airlines understand those vulnerabilities. With LOSA, trained observers actually sit in the cockpit with pilots and crew and observe them in normal operations during regularly scheduled flights. Early on, the goal was to examine team performance issues: How did the crew communicate with each other? How did information flow between the captain and first officer?
Since 1996 LOSA has shifted to look closely at the threat and error side of crew performance, including how things such as bad weather and equipment malfunctions are handled and how mistakes are managed. Thousands of observations have been conducted, and recently the International Civil Aviation Organization named LOSA a recommended practice for airlines around the world.
Bruce Tesmer, a captain at Continental Airlines and manager of two of their safety programs, says that the practice has enabled the industry to improve by identifying precursors to accidents.
"What they've done is offer practical research that has an answer at the end of it," Tesmer says. "The whole industry is a winner in this endeavor."
LOSA findings have helped aviation understand its own culture and how it contributes to or hinders safety. For example, where once a clearly defined hierarchy often prevented a first officer from even pointing out an error to the captain, now teamwork is much more the norm. And training for teamwork and communication is not just common; it is mandatory.
Helmreich and his team helped develop Crew Resource Management (CRM) training to teach pilots, crews and other airline personnel to work as a team to reduce errors. Simulations became focused on teamwork as well as motor skills. The dangers inherent in hierarchy were fleshed out. CRM training is now required of airlines across the world.
The industry has really caught on, and the hope is that the medical industry will follow.
"In the early days, CRM programs had the reputation of being like charm school," says Bill Taggart, who has been developing programs and training aviation personnel for 20 years. "Today in commercial aviation it is totally accepted. Delta is one of the strongest proponents of it. We've been working with Southwest for over 15 years."
Through LOSA, CRM and other approaches, including confidential error reporting for pilots and research into the differences in aviation protocol across cultures, the aviation industry has created a culture of safety that other industries hope to emulate.
In 1994, physicians at the University of Basel in Switzerland invited Helmreich to adapt his approaches in the cockpit to the operating room, and the Human Factors Research Project began its work in the medical field. Helmreich spent a year in Basel as a visiting professor where he began the task of determining the perceptions of medical personnel about issues surrounding safety. He quickly discovered that the medical industry is even more complex than aviation, though the stakes are every bit as high, if not higher.
"In the U.S. a lot more people die as a result of medical error than die in aviation accidents," he says, "but medical death is much less visible than a hole in the ground with smoking wreckage."
The high incidence of medical death is what galvanized the industry—including patient safety groups and insurance companies—behind making changes. Ultimately, this may mean overhauling the system.
"Problems in the medical industry span the spectrum from how you name drugs—a lot of drugs have similar names that are easily confused—to how you train physicians in medical school and acculturate them into the profession," explains Musson. "Fixing problems requires changing the way the medical system works, which has always been beyond the ability of one individual."
Take, for example, the situation at the average hospital. A quality assurance or safety department may exist, but such areas tend to deal with low-level personnel. Physicians rarely receive any training in their hospitals, in part because they don't work for the hospital itself but rather act as independent contractors. The culture of medical school has guided the physician to believe that patient safety ultimately lies entirely on his or her shoulders, encouraging a strict hierarchy in patient care. Meanwhile, different teams may form for each patient.
Or consider the not atypical story of an anesthesiologist who went to work on a patient and confused the drugs he was using. Because the pharmacy had purchased drugs from a different vendor than the doctor was familiar with, the medicine to wake up the patient was packaged almost identical to the paralytic, so the anesthesiologist reparalyzed the patient. Fortunately, he caused no long-term harm.
"There's no consistency in the system," says Musson. "It's like every town invents its own stop signs, its own color lights. When you're passing through Waco the red light means go, and in the next town the yield sign means stop. Nothing is the same anywhere."
Yet improving patient care is critical. One means of doing this is helping the industry change from one of individuality to one of communication and teamwork. The Human Factors Research Project is trying to adapt the CRM training developed for the aviation industry to medicine.
Taggart has trained medical personnel on communication, safety and teamwork at several academic medical centers—including Johns Hopkins—and integrated care programs. At Johns Hopkins, a four-hour training program has become the backbone of Hopkins Hospital's safety training. At Kaiser Permanente, clinical teams at Kaiser facilities across the country have received human factors training. One key has been determining how to approach the training with tools appropriate to the industry.
"One valuable piece of this work is that it has taught me how to engage professional culture in a way that is productive," says Dr. Michael Leonard, an anesthesiologist who is one of the patient safety leaders at Kaiser.
Leonard says that the process is still in its early stages, but his hope would be to see the medical industry at a place where teamwork is the focus and effective communication is in place.
"Medicine needs to move from a culture of individuals to one of collaborative, team-based care," he says.
Creating measures for assessing the effectiveness of such training will be a crucial next step, says Taggart.
"Our aviation expertise lets us measure whether or not a particular training intervention brings about change in terms of attitudes toward safety and teamwork," he says.
At the same time, studies are underway to try to untangle the medical industry at a more systemic level. Musson is undertaking a project that will look at emergency room operations in a number of hospitals across the country to determine where mistakes are typically made and what types of interventions might help minimize those mistakes.
Human error research in the medical industry is admittedly in its early stages. And it faces tremendous challenges.
"Medicine as an industry is difficult to study because people are busy, our kind of research can be intrusive, and it's a world that has tremendous fears of litigation and bad press," says Musson.
However, the motivation is there. Just as every pilot wants to deliver passengers safely to their destination, every doctor wants to be part of healing—not harming—a patient. Taking a hard look at the industry and ways to improve it becomes the necessary corollary to that desire.
"People in medicine in general are pretty altruistically motivated," says Musson. "They go into it because they want to make things better. People actually want to deliver good health care. We're one of the few places that has a formal history and research agenda in managing human error. This is why people want to work with our lab."
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My dad worked all the time when I was a kid. But early on
Saturday mornings, he'd wake me while it was still dark and take me
to the office with him.
And about once a month, we'd slip away to the farm where he grew up
and there he worked just as hard, doing farm chores in blue jeans
instead of business deals in a suit and tie. Other times we'd visit
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talk, and sort things out.
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On one of these trips, Dad was talking about some rental property
he and a partner were going to buy together. He explained the
nuances of deal's financing and then he looked up at me.
"You know the best way to build equity, don't you, son?"
Bear in mind that I was maybe 7 years old, but I knew the
difference between debt and equity. But as I pondered Dad's
question, I came up short.
I shook my head. "I don't know, Dad," I said.
He smiled my favorite smile, a sort of sideways, in-the-know,
"gotcha" diabolical smile. "The best way to build equity, my boy,"
Dad held forth, "is with someone else's money."
His point was that, over time, the tenants would do the heavy
lifting -- paying themortgage and expenses while he and his partner
got some income, increased their equity and, potentially, also saw
the value of their property rise.
A couple of years later, Dad took me on a trip to Nebraska. We went
to a big conference hall where two old men sat at a table. They
looked like every small-town banker I had ever met and, once they
started, they talked non-stop for almost the whole day. Dad sat
there and took notes. I was bored.
Finally, I heard the man talk about the investment portfolio. He
kept using a word that would haunt me for days. Then I made my
"You know what he's doing, don't you?" I asked, waving a copy of
theannual report .
"What who's doing," my mother asked.
"That guy in Omaha. That Mr. Buffett!" I said. "He's building
equity with other people's money!"
My old man smiled and nodded. He looked like he was about to burst
with pride.
Other people's money
The word that haunted me was "
." But it didn't describe the verb I found listed in the dictionary
on my bookshelf. This float was a noun, a type of money. In an
insurance context, "float" refers to money held for policyholders
to cover their claims.
The purpose of an insurance company, from a customer's perspective,
is to offer protection from financial loss. For this coverage,
drivers pay premiums. But if it ended there, most insurance
companies wouldn't make aprofit -- policyholder claims generally
exceed premiums paid.
So to really understand insurance companies, you have to look at
them from the board of directors' perspective. It's then that you
see the purpose of an insurance company isn't to provide coverage,
it's to borrow money and invest it -- a lot of money.
After all, if you have 10 million policy holders paying $100 a
month for car insurance, then that's $1 billion piling up every 30
days. That money is the "float." Most, if not all, will eventually
be paid out. The key word there is "eventually." In the meantime,
the insurance company is free to continue to collect premiums and
invest the float for its own benefit.
The question, of course, is precisely where is all that money
invested? When investing such a large sum, professionals spread it
around and seek to
from all sorts of investments.
As many of you know, I'm the editor of
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triple, or quadruple-digit gains.
So knowing what stocks the big insurance houses are buying doesn't
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rate of return.
What I'm looking for is the portion of each stock portfolio
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State Farm
State Farm has a roughly $40 billion stock portfolio that covers
only 95 securities. This is a relatively narrow universe of picks
for such a sum, so I'd say State Farm is willing to make some
pretty bold picks. While its largest holdings are no surprise --
Johnson & Johnson, ExxonMobil, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Archer
Daniels Midland -- there was one company that looked promising:
Medidata Systems (Nasdaq: MDSO)
Factory Mutual Insurance Co.
Factory Mutual is more commonly known as FM Global, and it's a
go-to insurance provider for companies that need to cover major
pieces of property. Its stock portfolio is worth $4 billion and
covers about 160 securities. While nearly every one of these stocks
is a mega-cap company, one small company has made the cut,
Cadence Design Systems (Nasdaq: CDNS)
Allstate's $1.6 billion portfolio is spread across more than 1,000
stocks. One gem that stuck out in this sea of small positions was
Spansion (
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34.8%. My target is $50 a share.
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Cam's fault...Cam's fault...
man how may times do we run that damn play on 3 and short and give it to the upback?....ugh
OMG is this happening? The refs just cheated outright!
It's impossible for this team to pull away. This is why we lose close games
Wow. Nortman fuging sucks.
This is how they implode. They move the ball and want to play field position, then the punter erases it.
How can you make that call? I don't understand.
Nortman #1.
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Norman sucks
Ugh...that play had 0 chance of success.
WTF CMON AND SEAL THE DEAL ON THESE fuging GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Chia (pronounced chee'ah) is the richest and only unprocessed, whole food source of pure Omega3. A member of the mint family, Chia is native to Central America and has been used traditionally for over 3000 years. Ancient Aztec warriors prized Chia as an endurance promoting superfood, eating it in bread just before battle, and drinking it in water before running long distances.
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Organic Chia Seed (Salvia hispanica L.)
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|Serving Size: 1 Scoop (15 g)
|Servings Per Container: 30
|Amount Per Serving
|Calories from Fat
|Total Fat
|4.9 g
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|Trans Fat
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|Omega 3 (Alpha-linolenic acid)
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|Calcium 123 mg (13%) • Magnesium 59 mg (17%) • Iron 2.5 mg (14%) • Potassium 105 mg (3%) • Phosphorus 160 mg (20%) • Zinc 1.1 mg (9%)
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i add chia to my salad dressings, my smoothies, and my juices - helps me stay hydrated and balances my blood sugar level and i am sure that there are numerous other benefits
Very good for the bowels, indigestion, and just energy. I mix up a scoop in some fresh coconut milk, let it get suspended, and then drink. Absolutely so easy to take! Don't think I want to be without it. Everything is running smoothly again. Thanks, iherb, for the great prices and all you offer, not to mention the service. Ten stars always!
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i add chia to my salad dressings, my smoothies, and my juices - helps me stay hydrated and balances my blood sugar level and i am sure that there are numerous other benefits
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I can understand why the Aztecs used this now!!!
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Very good for the bowels, indigestion, and just energy. I mix up a scoop in some fresh coconut milk, let it get suspended, and then drink. Absolutely so easy to take! Don't think I want to be without it. Everything is running smoothly again. Thanks, iherb, for the great prices and all you offer, not to mention the service. Ten stars always!
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I've been taking these for over a week now and i've really noticed the difference in my training. My fitness is up and i'm lasting longer during workouts.
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Ok I was a bit skeptical when I bought this product but I can tell you it is great... I drink it everymorning (1 scoop with water and then I add a super green drink). I have never felt better. I also mix it with peanut butter/raisens and eat on rice crackers for lunch or a snack. This stuff is great.
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Greens Plus Chia Seeds comes in a sturdy container and includes a scoop for measuring out servings. The Chia Seeds are very small and smooth in texture which makes them very easy to swallow when mixed in water or whatever beverage you prefer. They also go well on cereals and could probably easily be baked into breads. They do help to maintain your hydration level when you drink them with water, so they are good to drink on hot days if you're going to be outside for extended periods. You can mix it with Nature's Way Alive! (and some Stevia to sweeten) for a natural energy drink.
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Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being
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Classical Individualism: The Supreme Importance of Each Human Being
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In Classical Individualism, Tibor Machan argues that individualism is far from being dead. Machan identities, develops and defends what he calls classical individualism: the sort with roots in Aristotle rather than Hobbes. This type of individualism does not reject the social nature of the human being, but finds that every human being is also a self-directed agent who is responsible for what he or she does. Machan rejects all types of collectivism, including communitarianism, ethnic solidarity, racial unity, and gender identity.
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They are seriously not interested in serving... Talking to each other and on the phone is more important...
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A lot of you are looking at this from your point of view as a more "hardcore" Nintendo gamer. For kids (and parents of those kids), this thing is perfect. Affordable and you avoid the risk of them accidentally activating the 3D (I know you can disable it by default on a normal 3DS, but a lot of parents don't. Not to mention the thing is basically a brick so it's most likely pretty durable, and can handle the abuse a child will throw at it.
My brother (9 years old) never keeps his 3DS XL in his pockets, and never kept his DSi in his pockets either. He always had a travel case, so I'm only assuming most kids do that as well. Carrying anything in pockets is a bad idea for a child, because they tend to be forgetful, and take things out without remembering to put them back in. I see this selling well only because of the fact that it appeals to parents of young children. I'm sure a lot of older people will pick it up too, either because it's cheaper and they don't use the 3D or they just want a backup, but I would personally go to GameStop and get a used 3DS for like $20 more instead of buying this.
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So I am building a table dynamically, roughtly like this

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"data" is an array, $scope.data in the Controller. Basic Angular, works very well.
Now, I also have to add a svg element (D3.js) into one of those dynamically generated 	s
These have to correspond to the visualization that is also based on $scope.data, so that the red circle in the graph corresponds to the red circle in the table, and the user knows where to look for the information.
My biggest hope is a directive
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return function ($scope, elm, attrs) {
var vis = d3.select(elm[0]).append("svg").attr("width", w).
attr("height", h).attr("class", "circlesClass");
node.append("svg:text") [... more styling...]
This works, but at the moment I don't know how to tell the directive, which color my little svg-circle element should have. This information is in the $scope.data - array. But just accessing the $scope would not be enough. I need the information of the "current" element as it is drawn. Is that possible?
If this is not possible, here are some possible workarounds:
1) If the directive could become "self-aware" and look around the DOM in which it was put, that could help. Notice in my above code I have
...
The "a" is just there because ids start with a letter. d.index identifies the relevant data in my array, so if I can access $scope.data from my directive...?
2) generating D3 like you would normally, but putting it into the dynamically generated table cells like so:
for (var i = 0; i < _data.length; i++) {
var svgContainer = d3.select("#a" + _data[i].index).append("svg") //circleData[0].ci
.attr("width", 20)
.attr("height", 20)
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works, however, the "compilation" from the "html-template" (the ng-repeat/{{...}} - stuff) always comes at the end. If new elements are added to the array, my function would always fire before angular creates the new table cells. When I tried it, even $scope.$on('includeContentLoaded', alert("...")); fires before angular is done.


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The First Interstellar War...or as the Cap Troopers called it, simply, The Bug War....
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Although the Terrans refer to the "Bugs" as Arachnids, they are not related to any Earth arachnid species and are more insectoid than arachnid in general form. However, first impressions are hard to overcome. After the nightmare attack on a defenseless Terran colony, the only survivors were convinced they were attacked by "a madman's conception of a giant, intelligent spider."
The history of the Arachnids is cloudy, but we believe it went something like this...
As the Arachnids evolved, the brain caste realized the world they had always known was no longer big enough for them. To this end they started ejecting queen eggs into space to seek out and colonize worlds by riding the cosmic currents. For 1000s of years they spread through their arm of the galaxy with no opposition. Infesting suitable planets and eradicating the former owners.
Eventually they ran into a race that had developed to the point of colonizing their own planets. This race was humanoid and had established colonies on 2 planets in their home system. After taking over one of their planets, the Arachnids came under attack from space by the former owners. This concept was foreign to them as it had never happened before in their races memory. Their brain caste engineered a queen egg that could live in space, and was released to seek out a airless asteroid or planetoid that they could colonize. This queen was able to breed a new class of space born warrior bugs. At 1st the new ship bugs were a basic fighting ship. More than capable of dealing with these new threats.
They spread further. Then they met the Tophets. The Tophets are a very advanced race, very close to the Terran Federation in technology, if not in civilization size. The Arachnids were driven back at 1st, but quickly bred newer ships that stood mandible to nose with the Tophets. Advanced as they were, the Skinnies, as the Terrans later came to call them, weren't a large enough race to defeat the bugs outright. Ultimately they entered a "alliance" with them. The bugs would not destroy them as long as they did what they were told. This concept was foreign to the bugs as well, but they realized they might eventually run into a greater threat than even they could deal with. Better to have the Skinnies as allies/slaves to help them than risk being caught in a war they couldn't win.
Enter the Terrans. The Federation is as big as the Arachnid empire and have an instinctive fear of bugs. Couple that with an advanced space military and technology and you have a big problem for the Arachnids. This new threat was so great that even forcing the skinnies to fight wouldn't be enough. New and bigger, more powerful warship were bred to combat this new threat to their total dominance of the galaxy.
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Currently being developed by Starside R&D, this is a Total Conversion mod for the game Star Wars: EaW Forces of Corruption from Petroglyph Studios.
You decide who has the right to survive, the Terran Federation or the Arachnids and their allies, the Skinnies. It will include space & land skirmish and Galactic Conquest and is based on various aspects taken from the movie, animated TV series, and the original book.
Command your Forces in the silence of space or the roar of the battlefield, be it the Terran Federation or the Arachnid/Skinny Alliance. Use old favorites as well as brand new units developed for this conflict.
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Quick Update. I haven't worked on this for probably at least a year but I have started a little bit of work recently.
First, as I'm sure this will disappoint a whole lot of people, the ground side is dead. I can't get the kind of help I need in that area. This includes modeling and animating ground units such as infantry and bugs. I can model of course, but it's just a hobby and I have no experience in that area. I'm really not willing to spend the time needed to learn by trial and error.
Second, I'm working on some of the new ships as seen in the up-coming Japanese CGI Starship Trooper show. I haven't decided whether to retire some of the current ships or just add to the current selection. I'm also going to be re-modeling some aspects of the current ships. Nothing drastic though.
Third, as with the Federal ships, the Arachnid ships will be re-visited. Mainly texture wise but I will also be adding units to the current Arachnid fleet for a more 1:1 balance against the Federals.
Forth, the Tophit/Skinnies will get a few ships added to the Arachnid fleet.
Fifth, the next release will include all of the above as well as Galactic Conquest but only if I can get the GC to work as space only.
Now, I'd like to thank all of my mod's trackers. I really appreciate that. It helps to know that while the SST universe doesn't get the same attention from the masses as some other genres, it does have it's devoted fans. I know a good proportion of you are wanting a ground side, and it's loss might be the final straw but I can't keep saying it's being worked on when it's not. It's not fair to you.
Finally, I need some input on a few things.
1: On the Federal ships I used a mesh to simulate an exhaust plume. Someone posted I was lazy for doing that but it actually was more work than just using the normal effect. I did this because of issues with how the round effects looked on the predominately square engines. I'm willing to re-visit it to see if I can use the round effects if this is the preferred look.
2: There's still a weird bug where when a Hero ship arrives, an explosion will occur on another ship. It only seems to happen with the arrival of Heroes. Anyone have any ideas? Does it happen on all maps?
3: I've seen posts of people having issues with launching the mod. The mod works. It works on 64bit Win 7 and 32bit Win XP systems. However, it was created using a store bought retail version of FoC. I'd like to hear if any people have been able to play this mod or any other FoC mod with the Steam or any other downloadable version. I'd like to figure out what the fix is for it. I know Steam uses a different download directory, which might be an issue.
That's it for now.
An update, such that it is. I have done nothing. I've dabbled, but nothing of substance. I've thought about things I should do, could do, but always there...
The mod is at a standstill until further notice. I haven't worked on it at all for the past 2 months and really don't see anything happening any time...
Just letting all interested that I'm still here and that the mod is still alive. ;)
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Hello? "echoes respond back." Tries again, anybody there? "echoes." Its been a while since I've seen any kind of update. Is the a SoaSE version of this?
good thing is it isnt ded..yet....
Please help! I have installed the mod properly, the Menu-Music is there, thats okay. But when i start a Skirmish Battle, it is normal FOC! There are Stormtroopers, Alliance-Troopers, but no Bugs and no Terran Federation!
its only space combat they never got to ground
Woot, so happy work on this has continued :D
O wow so glad to see work on this mod being done again :) EAW is a perfect platform for Starship troopers. Best of luck to u rebel moon i will definatly be following this one.
Everything was great until I see the skins of the Arachnid ships. You used a bubble pattern for the engine exhausts for crying out loud. That's just laziness. Particle effects are good, but when I'm given a lot of diversity in ships, I don't want to have mass drivers and turbos on every single ship. Also, Arachnid shields count for didely squat, since all the TF ships have missile launchers and mass drivers. Plus, ALL the special abilities of the Arachnid ships are cluster bombs.
This could be a fantastic mod, but everything is just too.. The same. There's a good serving of ships, and a ration pack of particle effect and weapon type diversity. I mean really, three types of weapons for every single Arachnid ship. All of them.
Plus, just a little thing, you might want to write up descriptions of the ships. First time I played, I had no idea what any of them did until I used them. And oddly enough, the smaller ships did more damage than the larger and more expensive ones.
Aside from that, it was good. Nice models, and you took the time to make your own space stations too. That's a nice touch. Plus, it's great to see a mod that doesn't use a single vanilla unit.
In my opinion, I wouldn't say this was at V.1 yet. Maybe V.0.7. Only because there's a lot of work still needing to be done. In the end, I'm gonna still play it, because it's fun. But it could be more fun yet! =P
Thanks for the critique. I'll check your mods out to see how it should be done. Oh, right....


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Pattern file updated a while ago. I made some pretty major changes on the skirt pattern. New file uploaded on 7/21/13.I have admired the lovely crocheted crowns on babies and I wanted to be able to make them as well. So I sat and after much trial and error I finally came up with this design.Changes made to pattern on 2/5/2013 for a more frilly ruffle (the way the photo depicts the ruffle, I finally found my chicken scratch notes from the original pattern as I made it).
5 sts and 7 rows = 1 inch in stockinette stitch
170 yards of Worsted weight
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