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A History of Fire Emblem Spritez
Posted: Nov 22 2006, 03:30 PM
What, I exist?
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Joined: 14-February 06
A History of Fire Emblem Spritez
This is a chronicle of the major events of Fire Emblem Spritez from those who were there when they happened. There are three major sections of this article: moderator histories, attacks on the forum, and miscellaneous major events and fads.
A History of FES Moderators
Nintend-Fan is the creator and the former head of the forum.
The forum started as an idea at the dying NSider "Fire Emblem Sprite Gallery", in late January. FE Planet had been down since early December, and the local spriters needed a place for FE sprites. It was Nintend-Fan's idea to try to create a new sprite database for spriters to use.
The idea came up of using an Invisionfree forum to post the sprites in, and thus, FES was born on February 14th, 2006. The initial intent of the forum was the Sprite Database that still gets updated occasionally, but a Fire Emblem/Spriting community was added shortly afterward.
Nintend-Fan administrates all that happens on the forum, and has dealt with multiple attacks against it, and has even made a few himself, inadvertently. He still administrates, and plans to continue.
After an extended period of low activity, Nintend-Fan unfortunately relinquished his Administrator Status on April 6th 2008. His memory shall live on.
Swords is a former administrator of FES.
Swords was a local NSider spriter when FES was created, and he was the first member to join. A moderator position was offered to him, since there were no moderators at the time.
Swords has done a lot for the forum, including some coding here and there, and setting up a live chatroom.
Swords went through a period of inactivity, and was demoted as a result. Nintend-Fan promised that if he ever returned, he would be restored to his former position.
When Swords finally returned to FES, he was immediately "readmined". However, he eventually lost interest again, and decided to leave. We all hope that he will return someday.
Darkvalamor is the FES root administrator.
DV also came here from NSider. He began as an active member, posting and chatting a lot. He was given a moderator position because staff was needed, and he could be counted on for activity.
In the aftermath of the Nin/DH fiasco, the staff found themselves a few members short. In short, we had lost 2 administrators; one gone, the other self-demoted. Denning was unwilling to reclaim his post as administrator, so sometime later, a new admin was appointed: Darkvalamor.
Darkvalamor resigned from his post and deleted his account. However, he later decided to return, and after the resignation of Dragon Hellfire, he was reappointed to his post as administrator.
Upon Nintend-Fan's leave, he was appointed root administrator.
Deathfire is a former moderator.
Another NSider spriter. DF started out as the Sprite Community Moderator, a position that was offered as a reward for winning the first ever Sprite Contest. After awhile, he was promoted to Global Moderator status. He continued to to be fairly active and moderated efficiently.
Deathfire decided to step down from his post as a Global Mod, but agreed to retain some power and moderate the Official Sprite Contests forum. Although after a 3 month period of doing absolutely nothing, DF was demoted to Veteran status.
The Merc
The Merc is a local moderator.
The Merc is Kosa-Dachi from NSider. He was given the position of Sprite Community Moderator when DF was promoted since he was enthusiastic about spriting and was a good choice for moderator. He was eventually promoted to Global Moderator.
The Merc decided to resign from his post, because he wanted to just be an active member without responsibility.
Upon request to set up an official Spriting Tournament, The Merc received local Mod Powers for the Spriting Contest Board.
Denning is a former administrator.
When FES began to quickly grow, it was decided that a new moderator was needed. A poll was taken, and Denning was chosen as the new moderator.
When Swords became less active, Nintend-Fan decided that another Administrator was needed, and promoted Denning.
During the aftermath of the conflict between Nintend-Fan and Dragon Hellfire, Denning reflected on his actions as of late, and insisted that he wasn't the right person to help administrate the forum. He demoted himself.
Denning went through a massive period of inactivity due to issues in his real life, and because of this, was demoted, since he was incapable of fulfilling his duties.
Cepheus was given moderator powers during and attack on the forum, and simply kept them afterwards.
When his activity began to decline, he was demoted. When contacted, he agreed, and left the forum altogether, thankful to be relieved of his duty.
Cepheus returned later as one of the first two RP Heads, along with DOZ, who introduced the RP to FES. He later relinquished his duties.
SI was another NSider spriter when FES was created.
SI was promoted to Sprite Community Moderator when The Merc received global moderator status. He was also later promoted to global mod.
SI was demoted, as even he readily admitted that he didn't really do any moderating.
Fox was an earlier FES member. When the non-spriting community portion of the forum became more popular, the decision was made to have a moderator there, and Fox was chosen.
Fox was demoted since his activity faded to the point where he wasn't even here, but we will probably see him again, and most likely his moderator status will be returned to him.
Dragon Hellfire
Dragon Hellfire was FES's co-administrator.
Dragon Hellfire started as a local mod for the DYC tournament boards. He used the moderation powers to function as Debate Head for the tournaments.
When the FE boards were expanded, DH was appointed as a local mod for that section. However, after the departure of Darkvalamor, DH was promoted to global status to help will the gap left by DV's absence.
Later on, DH was promoted to Administrator to help Nintend-Fan keep FES running. However, as predicted, the two clashed in their ideals numerous times, and finally getting fed up, Dragon Hellfire resigned and left the forum altogether.
YokaiKnight was a global moderator.
The mods had agreed that with the recent shortage of staff members, another moderator was needed. The decision they arrived at was that Yokaiknight should be given the old post of Community Moderator, the one previously held by Fox520. He went on to prove that he was right for the job.
When gamefreak was appointed as a new Community Moderator, YokaiKnight received a promotion to global status. However, he was demoted after awhile due to extreme inactivity.
gamefreak is a local moderator.
After the departure of Darkvalamor, FES was left with a shortage of staff; we had an admin, a global mod, and two local mods. It simply wasn't enough. So once again, they began the search for a new staff member to join their ranks.
The team identified gamefreak as a member having the essential skills that they needed: loyalty, a willingness to work, and a level head. So gamefreak was promoted to Community Moderator status in light of Yokaiknight's promotion.
Inui is a Global Moderator.
Inui was appointed as a local mod to help Dragon Hellfire run the FE Debates. After the resignation of Dragon Hellfire, he was promoted to a global mod to help keep the forum running smoothly.
Dez is an FES Administrator.
Dez began as a local mod in the Intelligent Discussion forum, however, when the community needed a larger staff, Dez was promoted and became local mod of the entire community section.
After the introduction of the RP, Dez was willing to help. Instead of extending his local mod powers to cover the RP, he was given Global Moderator Status. After the unfortunate resignation of Nintend-Fan, Dez was seen as a suitable choice for the position of secondary Administrator.
Dark Overlord Zack
Dark Overlord Zack is an RP Head.
Dark Overlord Zack was vital in the merging of EA and FES, adding the RP to FES. He is also a Country Lord.
Yoshi71089 is an RP Head.
After Cepheus relinquished his duties as an RP Head, Yoshi was found suitable to be his replacement, since Yoshi had originally spawned the RP on EA. He is also the Country Lord of �ridor.
Sety is an RP Mod.
Sety became an RP Mod to help with the merging and running of the RP.
AngelofDeath is an RP Mod.
In the Beginning of the RP, more help was needed to calculate. AoD was originally appointed as a Battle Calc, but was later promoted due to his hard work and diligence.
Country Lords:
The Country Lords are Local Mods that "rule" countries in the RP. They are as follows:
Yoshi71089, Lord of �ridor
Bizox, Lord of Vardas
JGatsby, Lord of Saradas
Dark Overlord Zack, Lord of Nerane
Zephiel, Lord of Malven
Katana of Ildram, Lord of Rowan
List of SPAM Lords
1. Linkssword (15 Votes at 62.50%)
2. JGatsby (10 Votes at 66.67%)
3. Linkssword (12 Votes at 41.38%)
Attacks on the Forum
This section describes some of the "villains" listed in the Wall of Shame, but not in the same degrading and humiliating manner.
Jeff was a sprite thief who didn't want to follow the rules. It didn't help that he couldn't spell.
When Jeff's original account (Jeff) was banned for sprite theft, he registered again, as Gofry. Gofry was one of the NSider spriters, so the impostor wasn't revealed until the real Gofry registered here and proved that the other Gofry was really Jeff.
Jeff returned a third time as a member named GuessWho. After this little attack, his IP address was banned. Jeff is gone, probably forever.
Thundering Dynamo
One of the minor offenders, TD was namely a troll and flamer. He argued a lot, mainly with Denning, and this ultimately resulted in a ban.
After a few months, TD registered a new account (whose name I will not name) who followed the rules, and didn't flame. This member is still active here.
DarkHector started as a sprite thief registered as DarkHector567. After multiple thefts, and a few attacks on Darkvalamor (reasons unknown), he was banned. We thought we had seen the last of him. We were wrong.
About a week later, an account named DarkHector5678 spammed up all the boards. When an IP ban failed, he somehow returned under different accounts to continue spamming. We could do nothing but wait for him to grow bored and stop, and clean up afterwards, and that is exactly what happened.
Darkhector threatened that when he returned, he would bring hell with him...
Mac was not a forum predator. Mac was a chat "villain".
Mac's story begins in the chatroom, which includes a pissed off Nintend-Fan and some other various users. One person was posing as Jeff. (above)
A user named Mac enters the room. We talk with him, and ask him to check out the site. He says "your site sucks" and leaves. Nothing fancy.
Well, Nintend-Fan is still pissed off. Roughly 10 minutes later, he is inspired.
Mac enters the chat room, as a user controlled by Nintend-Fan. He proceeds to spam up the room until his IP is banned, which results in Nin not being able to access chat for about a week after that. However, Mac's identity is never discovered.
The "Mac Attack" turns into a fad that spirals out of Nintend-Fan's control. Other users pose as Mac, and the chatroom is spammier than ever until the fad dies down.
This is Mac's untold story. The real Mac was just a guy who didn't really like FES. That is all.
DarkHector Returns
A few months after DarkHector was thought to be gone, members start receiving link to the "exclusive mod boards" via PM. These boards were a mockup site (Fire Emblem Spirtez) with information stolen from the REAL mod boards by DarkHector, and put up to make it look like the real site. This was accompanied by a discussion board, where members could chat with Darkhector.
Darkhector had hacked into Nintend-Fan's account. We still don't know how.
After another spam attack, DH began hinting at being a different FES member. A conspiracy began. When rumors began to circulate, a member named Pathofpie was suspected by many a forum member. Fed up with the conspiracy, Pathofpie left the forum. But DarkHector remained.
Darkhector began to reveal some things on the mock board. A user named Haruko was actually DarkHector's IRL girlfriend. After Haruko sent a view suspicious PMs to some moderators, she was banned. She had let DarkHector into her account.
Darkhector left FES in the middle of the summer with a message: "I am Darkhector, you idiot." But the mock board was still there, now featuring a chat forum with Haruko as well.
Some time later, a user named Baron of Love registered. He posed as a frenchman, and his posts were difficult to understand. However, it was all a sham. When BoL revealed his true identity (DarkHector) he left the site. Notably, he hadn't caused any mischief.
A discussion occured between Darkhector and the moderators. Darkhector apologized, and pleaded that Haruko could be unbanned. The next day, administration discovered that her account had been deleted. Shortly afterward, the mock board died. However, we were left with one final message: 8-19-06.
We waited for August 19th, but nothing happened. DarkHector will forever remain a mystery.
Nintend-Fan and Dragon Hellfire
Perhaps the worst attack in the forum's history was made by two of the forum's veterans: Nintend-Fan and Dragon Hellfire; indirectly of course.
The drama started via PM when Nintend-Fan jokingly declined DH's offer with a smart remark to join his new forum, which DH took the wrong way; saying that things like this usually ground to a halt halfway through production, and he'd rather not waste his time contributing.
Misunderstanding what Nin meant, DH took offense to this. Others who knew what happened started using DH's forum to talk behind Nin's back.
When Nin finally realized what was happening, the conflict heated up. Nin put into effect a ban on discussion of DH's forum here on FES. When DH joked abot it, he was warned and stripped of his Veteran status; a conflict that enraged the entire forum.
People began taking sides. "Nin is overreacting", some would say, maybe one would say, "DH had it coming to him." The conflict grew larger and larger until it became too much.
In an effort to quell the argument, Nintend-Fan made a new thread stating that the fighting had to stop. He wanted to be respected instead of teased. After some discussion, Nin agreed to give DH his status back; and it seemed like the fighting was done.
But over the next week, the conflict reemerged. People began saying that Nin was a bad leader, and should just take the constant insults being flung at him like a man; others advocated that he was only human, and needed a break from all the arguing and teasing.
As more and more people jumped onto DH's bandwagon, Nintend-Fan reached the point where he couldn't take it anymore; he shut down the forum, leaving the whole of FES with nothing to see but one final message:
"You know what? That's it, I'm done. I'm tired of taking all this abuse. I'm sick of it. I'm leaving, and taking the forum with me.
Let's see how you like it without me for a little while. Maybe when I come back, you can all get off my back and try to help me out instead of attacking me."
It had been a rash decision; one that would probably scar his reputation forever. But after a mere 15 minutes, he reopened the board. "I'm done," he said, "I can't take it anymore. I'm backing down."
We all realized something that day; we realized that it wasn't the big attacks or the spammers and flamers that had the potential to rip apart FES; it was the petty issues, and the closest of friends that ultimately resulted in a sort of FES civil war. And hopefully, it won't happen again.
When a new member named Dark_Dorcas_29 appeared on the forums with a post entitled "The King has Arrived", a few members had their suspicions. Was it DarkHector, returned from the grave? Was it somebody to watch out for?
After a week or so on the forum, however, those members started to agree that maybe he was just another new member. However, those who visited his sprite gallery agreed that his style mimicked that of Dez384; a member currently away at school.
Once Dark_Dorcas_29 achieved the 50 posts necessary for attaining entrance to the Spam board, he pronounced himself King of Spam. He also made a big deal about how lame Dez394 was, apparently because he was fed up with the people who told him that their spriting styles were similar. A public outcry ensued. After all, who was this new forumgoer to defy Linkssword, the Lord of the Spam Board?
Fed up with Dark_Dorcas flooding Spam and annoying the people who posted in it, Nintend-Fan created Spam�, (name suggested by Uther33) a silly subforum identical to Spam. The main difference: Access was denied to Dark_Dorcas_29.
Due to unfortunate circumstances, however, what had started as a silly subforum in Spam with restricted access evolved into headquarters for a conspiracy where Linkssword staged an attack to cement his title of Lord of the Spam Board against Dark Dorcas. A huge flood of spam ensued, and after the dust settled, Spam� was deleted. It wouldn't have been right to keep it, really.
However, it wasn't over yet. After the deletion of Spam�, the participants of the flooding of Spam were all warned for flaming Dark_Dorcas_29. After all, he hadn't really done anything wrong. Yet another public outcry ensued. For the next few hours, Off Topic, Spam, and FES Discussion/Support were engulfed in flames.
Around this time, Dez384 posted, saying that he was home from school for a little while. Also, apparently fed up with all the flaming, Dark Dorcas decided to leave. However, upon further investigation, moderation discovered something.
Dez394's IP address was the same as Dark_Dorcas_29's. Dez had made a fatal error.
2 and 2 came together. Dez had been editing his old sprites to create a new gallery with them. He had been insulting himself to disguise his identity.
After the match was established, Dez confessed. He had been using Dark Dorcas as an alternate account while he was at school, which is why the IPs hadn't matched until
he had come back home.
Dark_Dorcas_29 had expressed his interest in making it onto the Wall of Shame, so I guess he got his wish. However, Dez384 is still around... he just got warned. From what we understood, the attack wasn't intentional, however something had to be done due to the amount of drama it caused.
Major Events and Fads
The Agents
The first real forum fad, it started when DV requested his mug to be made into a member of the secret service. The agent mug fad just grew and grew after that, but died down later, and was replaced by...
Ninjas vs. Pirates
Started as a race between Nintend-Fan (ninjas) and The Merc (pirates), a new fad was born. Each clan leader recruited as many members as possible and issued mugs of ninjas and pirates for clan members. This fad eventually grew stale and got old.
April Fools!
On April 1st, 2006, Nintend-Fan put up a board titled "April Fools!" with the intent of having members play pranks. Every post was fair game for mods to edit, and the result was mass chaos, namely due to the random spam threads by Ewan_The_Druid.
The mods also hosted the first annual "Post tagging contest". Mods were allowed to "tag" posts in the pranks board, by editing the bottom to say "Tagged!" in their assigned color.
A few notable pranks were played. Nintend-Fan screwed around with the censors so that "a" and "e" were changed to "z", among other ridiculous censors. Yoshi71089 created a mock site where Jeff was root admin and all the mods were powerless. Swords implemented a code that made all of the links disappear when you clicked them. All in all, it was a great time, and the forum's best holiday celebration to date.
Live Chat and the Den Signal
FESchat was a live chatroom created by Swords for use of the community. It is still used today.
Along with chat came a large number of fads, etc, including the infamous "nppb", the emoticon, and most importantly, the Den Signal.
The new Den signal, restored to it's former glory. The original was, sadly, lost.
The Den Signal would go up... whenever an Admin felt like it. It was an efficient way to get the message across that people were in chat, and you should join in.
FES meets FEBW
This fad was kicked off by The Merc, who made an official thread about FEBW that was floated and was a big hit among the community. In the thread we all made speculations about our battles and discussed them in dramatic ways to add to the fun. Eventually, it died out, but we wouldn't be surprised if the FEBW craze repeated itself again.
When October 2006 rolled around, The Merc started a contest for halloween-costume mugs. There were four divisions (Well Made, Scary Outfit, Sexy Outfit, and most likely seen in real life) and awards were given to the top 3 in each poll.
Structured War
Apparently inspired by DarkLink51, Jaffar255 started this off with a thread titled "It's War!" People signed up, created their armies (the 3 main forces were Ragnafar, Mercountry, and Nin's Axis of Ownage) and... nothing really happened.
When Legault-the-Ninja, preparing to actually go off to war, saw the thread, he took matters into his own hands. He created a new thread titled "Structured War" that actually showed how things would be run in this virtual war. And things picked up from there.
Eventually, LTN departed (but has since returned) and people grew bored of the war. RIP, another brief fad.
User emotes
The user emoticon fad started way back when Merc was absent for a long period of time. This resulted in a day being dedicated to Merc, and out of that day came lots of great things: Mercitized mugs, a Merc'd banner, and most of all, a Merc smiley. To be fair, later on, the staff collaborated and decided that user emoticons could be made and added. This fad is still in circulation, and it may last for quite some time. Here are some smilies:
:merc: :swords:
FES Yu-Gi-Oh
Started by Zephiel, this fad consisted of members using a generator to make themselves into [insanely funny] Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
Roughly a year later, a revival of FES Yu-Gi-Oh was attempted, but it never really caught on.
The "hi-jacking" of Nin's sig
This was never really meant to be a fad. The inspiration came, however, when Denning saw that Dragon Hellfire had the "Nintend-Failure" custom title (formerly held by DL51). Then, Denning later made his own custom title, which was, "Nintend-Success" in order to mock the Failure variation. Soon after, Denning asked permission to use a sig that he altered out of (the original) Nin's. Soon after it was added, several people began picking up on it at once, and it became somewhat of a slip of paper that various members of FES signed by crossing out various preexisting words with new ones, and, of course, replacing each other's personal mugs. Some users who didn't want to have a hijacked sig made a special one of their own (Katrina, Commander, and lumoroske made their own...), but, some of those sigs were hijacked, as well.
(Fun Fact: In order to fan the flames of the fad, Denning changed his name to Nintend-Success in order to have the name and sig match. Although, most of the sigs were already made by then, anyway...)
April Fools, Again!
To celebrate FES's first annual tradition, Nintend-Fan made sure that there would be an AFD celebration yet again. The annual post tagging contest was revived, and this time it was revamped, and better than ever!
This year's notorious pranks were:
Yoshi setting up a redirect from EA to "The Spritez Alliance", a supposed merge between FES and EA. Nintend-Fan set up the redirect on FES for a short while. In The Spritez Alliance, Deathfire had taken over as root admin, while Bosox posed as Jeff, Swords as Darkhector567, and Nintend-Fan as Thundering Dynamo.
Nintend-Fan pretending to be Ewan_The_Druid (last year's notorious April Fools spammer) for about 5 minutes. Just for fun.
Nintend-Fan making everything backwards, by reversing posts on the forum. Backwards filters added to the chaos, as well as some random censors that Nintend-Fan randomly threw in. The next four and a half hours were chaos.
This particular fad was kicked off by DarkLink51, who created an 8-bit form of his mug and wore it as his avatar. Many other users followed his lead, and thus, a new fad had formed.
My goal is for this to be a working compilation of major happenings here at FES. If you have anything to contribute, or suggested revisions to an existing entry, please post it.
10 years of FES. Cheers, gents.
|kirra teberan
Posted: Nov 30 2006, 11:42 AM
All your Pretzel are belong to me
Group: Member
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That would be horrible if Darkhector returns again.
Posted: Nov 30 2006, 12:07 PM
Stuck in the past...
Group: Member
Posts: 466
Member No.: 330
Joined: 3-November 06
maybe he loosley coded it and meant
I seriously think he coded it in some way.I dont think he would forget to do it. Maybe he has a big plan up his sleeve.Like hacking someones account but playin as them(possibly he is already doing it)
This post has been edited by Rantick on Nov 30 2006, 01:21 PM
|kirra teberan
Posted: Nov 30 2006, 12:14 PM
All your Pretzel are belong to me
Group: Member
Posts: 556
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Joined: 3-September 06
We'll be ready if he comes back though
Posted: Nov 30 2006, 12:18 PM
Stuck in the past...
Group: Member
Posts: 466
Member No.: 330
Joined: 3-November 06
or it could be reverse.He might be waiting till Nin and Swords and Den and all that leave and wait untill he is forgotten.Then he attacks
EDIT:Jeff = Zelda boi/DJ wierzie.I used to know a guy who had bad grammar.He also used to like me calling him Jeff or DJ.He said he used to go to a fire something spriting forum.He was known throughout my clan by fear/fury(on battleon).He was always swearing breaking rules and he had up to 32 accounts on a forum that he liked. I dunno what you guys think but meh
This post has been edited by Rantick on Nov 30 2006, 02:09 PM
Posted: Nov 30 2006, 01:48 PM
"All we have to do is knock out the system!"
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Posts: 5,396
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Joined: 19-February 06
You guys are so ill-educated. For one thing, it doesn't matter if Swords leaves; he's no longer a staff member.
And for another, that stuff has already happened. The Denning knows alt and all that, used to PM the link to FESpirtez was made when I (at least me) wasn't online.
I frequent the mod boards often just in case, yet I think nothing is going down; he apologized. I'd share some of the PMs we discussed from him on the moderator's boards, but it's not in my best interest to post them. Besides, this isn't a DrH discussion thread. Discuss our history and what is yet to come, because we've all moved on about the Darkhector thing.
Regardless, he MIGHT come back later, but the mod boards say he was last on on July 26th. Judging from that, we could only assume that he just left and never came back.
If he DOES come back, though, don't start any crap with him. Or else, he might actually do something to mess up this forum for real. All you guys can do is either respect him or ignore him.
Posted: Nov 30 2006, 04:19 PM
Official weapons master and blacksmith of FES
Group: FES Veteran
Posts: 2,836
Member No.: 6
Joined: 18-February 06
Denning was a starting spriter on Nsider..... He didn't do much, but he did do something......
Sig forced upon DF by Genn.
Posted: Nov 30 2006, 04:26 PM
This is turning out to be a very sexy cereal.
Group: FES Veteran
Posts: 1,991
Member No.: 341
Joined: 14-November 06
Good stuff, nice history. Maybe next you could write about your favorite members
|The Merc
Posted: Nov 30 2006, 04:26 PM
Group: Moderator
Posts: 6,562
Member No.: 4
Joined: 15-February 06
Ah, we forgot to add the April Fools day.
Posted: Nov 30 2006, 04:33 PM
What, I exist?
Group: FES Veteran
Posts: 6,863
Member No.: 1
Joined: 14-February 06
BTW, who won the post tagging contest?
10 years of FES. Cheers, gents.
|White Knight
Posted: Nov 30 2006, 04:41 PM
Local Freak of FES
Group: Tactician
Posts: 807
Member No.: 273
Joined: 8-August 06
I'm happy I wasn't around in DarkHector times, and I too think that he scrambled that code.
Posted: Nov 30 2006, 04:42 PM
"All we have to do is knock out the system!"
Group: Admin
Posts: 5,396
Member No.: 8
Joined: 19-February 06
IIRC, you or DF.
Posted: Nov 30 2006, 04:44 PM
BOOM! goes the blind man!
Group: FES Veteran
Posts: 1,685
Member No.: 126
Joined: 26-April 06
yea id like to here/read about what happened on april fools(ive heard little)
IIRC it was DF.
Posted: Nov 30 2006, 04:53 PM
What, I exist?
Group: FES Veteran
Posts: 6,863
Member No.: 1
Joined: 14-February 06
You joined on the 26th of April, how could you possibly know?
10 years of FES. Cheers, gents.
Posted: Nov 30 2006, 05:08 PM
Over Nine Thousanf
Group: Tactician
Posts: 1,197
Member No.: 287
Joined: 6-September 06
Heh, Hoe did that, they changed all the i's on the site to y's. Except they kept it on for a while.
Anyway, maybe you should do a history of the more popular members, like AK, or BK?
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Barney Francis will stride through the Austin paddock for the new United States Grand Prix this weekend, taking in all of the colour and frenzy of Formula One.
If he had his way, Francis, the managing director of Sky Sports, would give viewers an extra dimension on that sensory blitz when they sit down to watch a sport that seems to have been tailor-made for television. He wants to introduce 3-D to F1 and will have talks with Bernie Eccclestone, the sport's chief executive, at the end of the season.
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text: Juliettes Bridal believe in the bride and groom and that their wedding day should be everything that they ever dreamt. With a level of service which is truly unique, you will be invited to explore the many delights of our wonderfully hand crafted kilts and full highland dress to the most beautiful selection of gowns, from contemorary chic to the fairytale gown of your dreams. With personal assistance you will be guaranteed to look and feel fantastic, with the emphasis being all about you. The relaxed and welcoming atmosphere will allow for you to take your time and enjoy your experience of selecting both gown and kilt and ensuring that on your big day you would not have had it any other way.


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itek Energy in Bellingham, WA. is a 18,600 square foot, 30 megawatt solar panel manufacturing facility. In an industry dominated by large, capital intensive factories, itek's nimble foot print allows for changes in production to meet local market needs.
In 2012, itek invested in new production line equipment and two cutting-edge laminating machines, quadrupling hourly production capacity. In 2013, both an additional tab stringing machine and an automated solar cell layup machine were brought on line. Most recently, expansions to an in-house chemistry laboratory have allowed for increased research and development, and quality control procedures.
We are very proud to show off videos of our manufacturing equipment. Our Tab and Stringing and Layup machines are helping us improve our production efficiency so that we can make even more of our high quality modules. itek Energy also plans to undertake efforts to automate the framing and testing procedures to ensure the highest degree of quality and consistency. Enjoy the show!
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Solar production requires skilled and technical staff. To support the growing need for skilled employees, itek has partnered with Western Washington University's Chemistry Department's AMES program to provide training for students in the renewable energy field. Through the utilization of such local community partnerships, itek plans to accommodate the types of hands-on experiences which are vital to the continued development of the renewable energy field.
itek's solar panels are designed and built around tested methods.
- The individual 200 micron thick, silicon solar cells are separated from their stack and connected together in strings of 10 cells using our automated tab and stringing machines.
- Each string of 10 cells is inspected for quality and functionality.
- The ultra-clear, prismatic solar glass is prepared with the first layer of EVA encapsulant.
- 6 strings of 10 cells are laid-up on top of the glass and EVA.
- All the strings are soldered together using custom buss bars.
- A second layer of EVA is applied, followed by the back sheet.
- The entire layup, from bottom to top (glass, EVA, solar cells, EVA, and back sheet) are loaded into our laminator.
- Under specific time and pressure the EVA encapsulates all the cells, bonding the entire module together.
- Laminates are then encased with aluminum frames.
- Modules undergo final quality control tests and power output data is collected for each panel.


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Definition of junta in English:
1A military or political group that rules a country after taking power by force: the country's ruling military junta
More example sentences
- In the 1960s the Ecuadorian Communist Party hailed the military junta that came to power with the backing of the CIA.
- As prime minister he handed over power to a military junta in 1971.
- Over 30,000 people were killed as a military junta which seized power in 1976 unleashed terror against all opposition.
2 historical A deliberative or administrative council in Spain or Portugal.
Example sentences
- A Supreme Central Junta met in Aranjuez on 25 September 1808.
- It is said that the Central Junta of the Carlist organization is to meet today to discuss means to procure funds to support an insurrection in Catalonia.
Early 17th century (in sense 2): from Spanish and Portuguese, from Latin juncta, feminine past participle of jungere 'to join'.
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Devaansh's portfolio was heavily biased towards select companies painstakingly picked from the FMCG sector. The companies that doubled his investment value were the ones that had low earnings volatility and good pricing power for its products.
Devaansh didn't hesitate to invest in seemingly expensive stocks with high priceto-earnings (PE) ratios. While other investors were trying to fish for value stocks trading at lows, Devaansh rode the high tide with high PE stocks.


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Latin America and the Caribbean have one of the greatest endowments of natural capital in the world, with an extraordinary array of goods and services provided by the region's rich plant and wildlife. UNDP works mainly with governments, but also with civil society and private sector partners to maintain and restore countries' natural capital and unlock its full potential to support human development. Our programmes in coordination with sister UN agencies and governmental counterparts combine the work on biodiversity and ecosystems with issues of poverty, governance and crisis prevention.
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The singer earned his ranking by raking in $48 million through a combination of his music and songwriting with his restaurant ownership. Rascal Flatts took the second spot, followed by Tim McGraw. Kenny Chesneyand Brooks & Dunn complete the top five. Rounding out the top ten are Brad Paisley, Faith Hill, Keith Urban, George Strait and Alan Jackson. Concert grosses, merchandise revenue, album sales, and income from endorsement and licensing deals went into the Forbes totals.
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Anglers looking to brush up on their fly-tying can attend a free workshop this month at the Ak-Sar-Ben Aquarium Outdoor Education Center near Gretna in eastern Nebraska.
The Cornhusker Fly Fishers club will conduct the Aug. 25 workshop, and all materials and tools will be provided.
The workshop is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m., and an afternoon session may be included.
Reservations are required and may be made by calling the aquarium at 402-332-3901.
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On Apr 21, 6:15*pm, "John J. Barton"
> yoffe.a...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm developing an extension that interacts with an external
> > application (Windows platform).
> > I need the external application to be able to notify the Firefox
> > extension when an event occurs, i.e. to send it some sort of message
> > and have the extension be able to receive this message.
> > I prefer not to have my extension poll a file or a registry key for
> > changes (written by the external app) as this is a bit wasteful in
> > resources, rather having the message "pushed" to the extension.
> > Any ideas if this is possible?
> > Thanks!
> > Amos
> The web browser is optimized for pull. From the performance, security,
> and programmability points of view, you will be better off with
> leveraging the client-oriented features of the client rather than try to
> twist it into something it is not.
> One pattern that has been used effectively is to open an AJAX channel
> from the browser to an outside service. The outside service accepts the
> connection but does not close it, creating a stream from the service to
> the browser (usually called the "Comet" pattern). This works well for
> most cases, less so for lots of small packets where TCP is not so effective.
> jjb
Thanks for the insightful reply, John.
I'm interested in the above behavior strictly for communication
between a client-app I'm developing and a small ff extension which
integrates it with the browser. In this context ff is just a container
application for my extension, it being a browser is irrelevant.
If I were not working within ff I would probably send a windows
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Cosmetic Tattooing
Also known as Micro-Pigmentation or Permanent Makeup, Cosmetic Tattooing is a procedure of implanting semi-permanent coloured pigment into the dermal layer of the skin to create lasting cosmetic effects. It can be used for camouflaging imperfections such as discoloration or scarring, or simply to escape the daily application required with traditional makeup routines by creating the appearance of natural looking makeup. The treatment will fade over time as new skin grows, and varies with age, skin type and lifestyle. It takes 2-5 years to completely disappear depending on the location of the treatment, however most patients prefer to come for an Annual Top Up/ Touchup at a lower cost.
At The Face Studio, you have the option to softly enhance your features or you can create a more dramatic effect.
Eyebrow (high or low density strokes)
Also known as the 'hair-stroke technique', '3-D eyebrows' or 'eyebrow embroidery', feathering is a method of simulating individual hairlines when tattooing the brows. Eyebrows that lack symmetry / definition, are too light / too thin, sparse, or non-existent, can be beautifully enhanced and improved with Semi-Permanent Cosmetics. Enhancement of eyebrows and restoring the appearance of hairs lost from over-plucking or illness is important because they frame your eyes and enhance the expression on your face (leaving you with an instant face lift and giving you a more youthful look).
Eyeliner (soft or dramatic)
Eyeliner enhances and defines the shape of the eyes. It makes lashes appear thicker when not wearing mascara or eyeliner. It is ideal for balancing and correcting wide or close set, deep or bulgy, small or large, as well as droopy eyes.
Lips (liner & or full lips)
Lip color is perfect for asymmetrical shaped lips, thick lips, thin lips, or lips with uneven vermillion borders. Enhancing the lips creates visual fullness and definition, and will also eliminate the problem of lipstick "bleeding" into the fine lines around the mouth.
Beauty Mark (create or enhance)
Creating a beauty mark whether from scratch or enhancing an existing freckle or mole is great for a subtle change.
Corrections (colour and/ or shape)
For existing unwanted cosmetic tattoos that have changed in colour and shape, these can be corrected to the desired colour and renewed shape with the combination and selection of specific pigment mixtures.
Camouflage (add and / or blend)
Pigment is added to the skin to blend and soften the color of a scar to match the surrounding tissue. This technique is also useful to correct loss of skin pigmentation, to minimize surgical scars (facelift, hair transplant, etc), and to recreate nipple and areola areas after breast reconstruction surgery. In these instances, the pigments are custom blended to camouflage with the surrounding skin.
Removal (existing cosmetic tattoos)
This treatment is a non-surgical and non-laser form of cosmetic tattoo removal. It is done via the Vasculyse treatment. Proven miraculous results for the removal of existing cosmetic tattoos received elsewhere in an average of 1-2 treatments (perfect for droopy / saggy eyeliner, as well as for changing the shape of incorrectly tattooed eyebrows).


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My daughter was born with a hole in her ear people ask me all the time did I get her ear pierced and she was also born with a strawberry over her entire arm.Ā My daughter picks at her ear all the time until it bleeds.Ā I took her to the doctor today and she said that she does not have an ear infection and I ask does the hole in her ear have anything to do with her picking at her ear and the doctor said the hole is nothing and she is fine.Ā I pulled up hole in baby ear on goolge and it said that it was called a preauriclar pit and could lead to a thousand problems.Ā I don't know if I should just let it go because the doctor ssaid shes fine just has a bad habbit of picking at her ear or seek another docotr's opinion any suggestions or does anyone have a child with this problem?
My daughter was born with a small hole in her ear looks like her ear is pierced
megan71610 please take yourself and your child to have it looked at. If it it what I am speaking of it is a minor operation to have it corrected however if it becomes inflammed it is a life threatening condition both in regards to the condition and the surgery.
My daughter has a hemangioma and I got 3 opinions on what to do about it (all saying to just use the wait and see method) but the internet scared me half to death. Especially deep Hs like hers.
I'd get another opinion, but... your doctor is *probably* right.
DD (July '10)
Try keeping LO's nails cut short.....
I have one......and it gets itchy every other day or so....and I gently rub the tip of my finger by it....and a little white gunk comes out...then it isn't itchy anymore..
When I was little my mom would squeeze it........
I'm 34 and never had any issues....with it at all........
absolutely get another opinion.....it never hurts.........it can only ease your mind.....or help you begin a path to fix the situation.
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Capstone Project B (AMME5021)
The capstone project aims to provide students with the opportunity to carry out a defined piece of independent research in a setting and in a manner that fosters the development of engineering research skills. These skills include the capacity to define a research question, showing how it relates to existing knowledge, identifying the tools needed to investigate the question, carrying out the research in a systematic way, analysing the results obtained and presenting the outcomes in a report that is clear, coherent and logically structured. Capstone project is undertaken across two semesters of enrolment, in two successive Units of Study of 6 credits points each. Capstone Project A covers first steps of thesis research starting with development of research proposal. Project B covers the second of stage writing up and presenting the research results.
Students are asked to write a thesis based on a research project, which is very often related to some aspect of a staff member's research interests. Some projects will be experimental in nature, others may involve computer-based simulation, feasibility studies or the design, construction and testing of equipment. Direction of thesis work may be determined by the supervisor or be of an original nature, but in either case the student is responsible for the execution of the practical work and the general layout and content of the project itself. The final capstone report must be the student's individual work, although research is sometimes conducted in the framework of a group project shared with others. Students undertaking research on this basis will need to take care in ensuring the individual quality of their own research work and the final submission. The report will be judged on the extent and quality of the student's original work and particularly how critical, perceptive and constructive he or she has been in assessing his/her work and that of others. Students will also be required to present the results of their findings to their peers and supervisors as part of a seminar program.
It is not expected that a project at this level will represent a significant contribution to new knowledge; nor is it expected that projects will resolve great intellectual problems. The timeframe available for the project is simply too short to permit students to tackle complex or difficult problems. Indeed, a key aim of the thesis is to specify a research topic that arouses sufficient intellectual curiosity, and presents an appropriate range and diversity of technical and conceptual challenges, while remaining manageable and allowing achievable outcomes within the time and resources available. It is important that the topic be of sufficient scope and complexity to allow a student to learn their craft and demonstrate their research skills. Equally imperative is that the task not be so demanding as to elude completion.
Our courses that offer this unit of study
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Aeronautical)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Biomedical)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Chemical and Biomolecular)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Civil)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Electrical)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Mechanical)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Mechatronic)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours (Software)
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours and Bachelor of Project Management
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours with Advanced Engineering
- Bachelor of Engineering Honours with Space Engineering Major
- Bachelor of Project Management and Bachelor of Arts
- Graduate Certificate in Engineering
- Graduate Diploma in Engineering
- Master of Engineering (Automation and Manufacturing Systems)
- Master of Engineering (Biomedical Engineering)
- Master of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering)
- Master of Professional Engineering (Aerospace)
- Master of Professional Engineering (Biomedical)
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Research 10 hrs/week.
Through semester assessment (100%)
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If you wish to undertake one or more units of study (subjects) for your own interest but not towards a degree, you may enrol in single units as a non-award student.
Cross-institutional study
If you are from another Australian tertiary institution you may be permitted to underake cross-institutional study in one or more units of study at the University of Sydney.


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GUWAHATI: Bamboo farmers across the Northeast turned jittery since local production of this product will take a beating with the FM's budget proposal to slash custom duty on bamboo (for agarbatti) from 30 per cent to 10 per cent.
Says Kamesh Salam, director of Cane & Bamboo Technology Centre (CBTC) and member of apex committee of National Bamboo Mission said: "Who will buy from us now. Manufactures will now procure from China and Vietnam. We have requested the government to further increase the custom duty."


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Recently promoted from limited to ongoing series, Image Comics' Five Ghosts returned recently with a clever done-in-one illustrated by guest artist Garry Brown. Longtime readers will find that neither story nor art are diminished in its return (although you can say goodbye forever to the convenient five ghosts/five issues symmetry).
Five Ghosts tells the story of Fabian Gray, a treasure hunter – or perhaps he's just a petty thief; accounts vary – who, thanks to exposure to a mystical substance called the Dreamstone, finds himself possessed by the spirits of five "literary ghosts," never properly named but ostensibly Robin Hood, Merlin, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and Miyamoto Musashi. Fabian can call on the attributes of each spirit at will. The original five issues from writer Frank Barbiere and series illustrator Chris Mooneyham follow Fabian as he comes to terms with the consequences of his first encounter to the Dreamstone, which left his sister in a kind of supernatural coma.
With Fabian's crisis of conscience behind them, the creators are free to explore this world in greater detail, and to follow up on the tantalizing cliffhanger that ended the series' first arc. The big bad revealed at the close of issue five does not make an appearance in issue six, but this new chapter is so full of dueling samurai, possessed swords, double crosses, demons, and damsels in distress, that readers will scarcely notice.
The aesthetic of Five Ghosts will call to mind a far more modern "literary ghost," a gentleman archaeologist of the fedora-and-bullwhip variety. However, that influence diminishes neither Five Ghosts' creative high concept nor the originality of the title's nuanced characters, which balance its high adventure and action set pieces. Garry Brown and Chris Mooneyham are incredible talents in their own right, but the transition from one style to the other is seamless, largely thanks to Lauren Affe, who colors both artists.
If there's one complaint about Five Ghosts #6, it's that the creative team didn't take the opportunity to make the issue especially friendly to new readers. Fabian's possession and his quest to reawaken his sister are glossed over, and the artistic technique used to show Fabian's use of the ghosts' attributes might seem muddled to the uninitiated.
New readers would do well to pick up issue #6 along the first trade paperback collection, which is affordably priced at less than ten bucks. Five Ghosts deserves the highest possible recommendation and is poised to maintain that level of quality for many issues, and ghosts, to come.
Eric Palicki is possessed by the literary ghosts of five different versions of Hunter S. Thompson. The first three issues of his own graphic novel, ORPHANS, are available exclusively on comiXology. Read his work for and about comics on his website. Follow him on Twitter.
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Park Tool TW-1 Torque Wrench
Because torque specifications are now given for most parts and accessories, Park Tool offers durable and accurate torque wrenches.
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Listed are the primary-level ANES Guide tables. Most have links to
secondary tables as described in: How to Use the ANES Guide.
1. Social and Religious Characteristics of the Electorate
1.A. Social Characteristics
- Table 1A.1. Age Cohort
- Table 1A.2. Gender
- Table 1A.3. Race
- Table 1A.4. Education
- Table 1A.5. Occupation
- Table 1A.6. Household Union Membership
- Table 1A.7. Region
- Table 1A.8. Social Class (Self-Identification)
- Table 1A.9. Income
1.B. Religion and Religious Practices
- Table 1B.1a. Religion (1), 4 categories
- Table 1B.1b. Religion (2), 7 categories
- Table 1B.1c. Religion (3), 8 categories
- Table 1B.2a. Attitudes about the Origin of the Bible (1), 4 categories
- Table 1B.2b. Attitudes about the Origin of the Bible (2), 3 categories
- Table 1B.3. Religion an Important Part of Life
- Table 1B.4. Religious Guidance in Day-to-Day Living
- Table 1B.5a. Church Attendance (1), 4 categories
- Table 1B.5b. Church Attendance (2), 5 categories
1.C. Political Knowledge
2. Partisanship and Evaluation of the Political Parties
Party Identification 7-Point Scale
2.A. Partisanship
- Table 2A.1.
2.B. Evaluation of the Parties
- Table 2B.1. Average Feelings Toward Parties
- Table 2B.2. Average Feeling Thermometer Rating Toward Parties
- Table 2B.3. Which Party Best Able to Handle Most Important Problem
- Table 2B.4. Important Differences Between 2 Parties
- Table 2B.5. Is One Party More Conservative
- Table 2B.6. Which Party Better Able to Keep U.S. Out of War
- Table 2B.7. Which Party More Likely to Favor a Strong Government
3. Ideological Self-Identification
Liberal-Conservative Self-Identification
- Table 3.1.
4. Public Opinion on Public Policy Issues
Power of the Federal Government
4.A. Social Welfare and the Role of Government
- Table 4A.1.
4.B. Race
- Table 4B.1. Change in Situation of Blacks
- Table 4B.2. Pace of Civil Rights Leaders' Actions
- Table 4B.3. Favor Desegregation or Segregation
- Table 4B.4. Aid to Blacks/Minorities
- Table 4B.5. Federal Government Ensure School Integration
- Table 4B.6. Busing to Achieve School Integration
- Table 4B.7. Open Housing
- Table 4B.8. Government See to Fair Treatment in Jobs
4.C. Social Issues
- Table 4C.1. Equal Role for Women
- Table 4C.2a. Abortion (1)
- Table 4C.2b. Abortion by Law (2)
- Table 4C.3a. School Prayer (1), yes/no
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4.D. Military and Foreign Policy
- Table 4D.1. U.S. Should Not Concern Itself with World Problems
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- Table 6B.2. Attended Political Meeting
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- Table 6C.1b. Contacted by Democratic Party
- Table 6C.1c. Contacted by Republican Party
- Table 6C.2. Contacted to Register or Vote
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Average Feelings Toward Presidential Candidates
7.A. Summary Evaluations
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- Table 7B.3. Has Democratic Presidential Candidate Made Respondent Feel Hopeful
- Table 7B.4. Has Democratic Presidential Candidate Made Respondent Feel Proud
- Table 7B.5. Has Republican Presidential Candidate Made Respondent Feel Angry
- Table 7B.6. Has Republican Presidential Candidate Made Respondent Feel Afraid
- Table 7B.7. Has Republican Presidential Candidate Made Respondent Feel Hopeful
- Table 7B.8. Has Republican Presidential Candidate Made Respondent Feel Proud
7.C. Candidate Traits
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- Table 7C.2. Democratic Presidential Candidate Knowledgeable
- Table 7C.3. Democratic Presidential Candidate Moral
- Table 7C.4. Democratic Presidential Candidate Strong Leader
- Table 7C.5. Republican Presidential Candidate Inspiring
- Table 7C.6. Republican Presidential Candidate Knowledgeable
- Table 7C.7. Republican Presidential Candidate Moral
- Table 7C.8. Republican Presidential Candidate Strong Leader
8. Evaluation of Congressional Candidates
Average Feeling Thermometer Rating Toward Congressional Candidates
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Presidential Vote 2 Major Parties
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"While we are disappointed in the outcome of the vote, we believe that timing of events related to our refinancing did not work in our favor. Many employees had already returned their ballots prior to Dec. 23, the date the company announced it had a refinancing agreement in place. We believe that was information employees needed to make a fully informed decision," YRC Worldwide CEO James Welch said.
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It deoends on how you cast on.
(Well, really, the order of the stitches on the needle.)
To a large extent it doesn't matter. I was slightly neurotic, when I did mine, about making sure that the cast-on stitches alternated R W R W, since I wasn't happy with random ordering -- in that case, I had a white first stitch, so that the RS stitches were red (contrasting with the white of the first row) and the ...other-RS stitches were white (again contrasting). You could also do it the other way around for an elongated color area on the first row, or have it random if that's easier. It has a minor visual effect on the end product, but doesn't change how you knit, since after you complete the first row you'll have the colors in the correct places.
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If you watched "Project Runway" at all this season, you know that the writers are feeling frisky. Typically, the second to last episode of the season takes viewers into the home lives of the three remaining contestants as they develop their collections for New York Fashion Week. But this season, two contestants are guaranteed spots at fashion week, Bradon and Dom, while Justin, Helen and Alexandria compete for the precious third.
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Next, it's onto Bradon's house in Los Angeles. His inspiration comes from growing up in northern New York state where, after a long, grueling winter, spring was the most beautiful time of year. "I'd always get so excited when the crocuses would push up through the snow, I mean literally a flower in the middle of a field of snow," he tells Tim, who is already sold and basically weeping over Bradon's gorgeous designs. The only thing Tim doesn't like, it seems, is Bradon's unconventional look which clearly took him a huge amount of time. But Tim cautions him that it doesn't fit in with the rest of his collection and Bradon is smart enough to take his advice seriously.
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Next up is Helen who lives in Union City, New Jersey. The inspiration behind her collection is clairvoyance, or "knowing the unknown," she says. Taking a literal approach, she had a photograph of an eye manufactured into a textile and developed a line of watery white and blue pieces, with a few bold pops of red. Tim is impressed, if a little bored. "You need to do something that speaks to some innovation," he warns her, gesturing to a plain red dress. "I don't think that dress walking down the runway is going to be acceptable." They decide, mutually, that capes could be the key to her collection. Yes, capes. No pressure or anything.
Finally, it's onto Raleigh, North Carolina to visit Justin. We find out from Justin's parents that he has an architecture degree and used to work at firm before privoting into fashion design. Color us impressed! His collection is inspired by soundwaves, because he wants to tell the audience more about his experiences as a deaf person. To pull this off, he's dived into 3-D printing, a concept that has existed for a long time, but only recently become accessible and relatively affordable. For his unconventional garment, Justin is playing with the idea of doing an entire garment out of tiny clear test-tubes. "This is a wow," Tim exclaims, shaking the sample fabric piece in his hands. "The potential is here to knock everybody's socks off."
The designers head back to New York and quickly show each other their collections and immediately freak out about how impressive they all are. Bradon begins to feel nervous that his collection isn't innovative enough compared to the modern, fresh looks everyone else came with. And Alexandria showed up with way too many looks. Shocker. That's going to be chaos.
This second half of this episode is based around the Tide challenge, in which the designers must create one additional piece to their collections that can be tossed into the washer. But only the designers who are ultimately headed to fashion week will complete this challenge. First, Justin, Helen and Alexandria must show the judges three pieces from their collection to determine who gets that coveted third spot.
Tim does a quick critique with the three competing contestants and things aren't exactly pretty: Justin needs to work on construction, Alexandria needs to work on innovation, and Helen needs to work on craft and cohesion. Tim seems more than a little concerned about the state of these three competing collections and has a moment where he breaks into tears before leaving them to keep sewing. "Just make it work," he encourages them.
There are no guest judges this week, so it's just Zac Posen, Nina Garcia and Heidi evaluating the looks. Justin's sample collection is innovative and by far the most creative — and the judges are blown away by his test tube dress. Heidi's only advice is to adjust the model's hair so it doesn't look like such a "mop on top." When it comes to Alexandria's sample collection, Heidi and Zac seem smitten. "The detailing looks very professional," Zac tells her. But Nina is not sold. "I fear that this is going to look very boring," she says. "I don't know if she clothes are show-worthy clothes."
Finally, Helen's critique is a full-on roast. The judges think the looks aren't cohesive, they're a little contrived, the hair looks spooky and the construction isn't meticulous. Heidi even goes so far as to tell Helen that she's "so not happy" with what she produced today. At some point, they ask Helen to try to explain the vision behind her looks and she is understandably lost for words.
When the judges bring the designers back out to deliver the results, the tension is thick. Helen is visibly upset because at this point she probably knows she isn't going to be invited to fashion week. And sure enough, Justin is the winner. "We're very excited for you," Heidi tells him. "You're in."
And just when you think the show is back to its normal structure, the producers change things up again. Alexandria is also in. She will also show at fashion week. We could go on for hours about how irate this makes us, because we haven't been a fan for the last six episodes, but let's save that drama for the comments section.
Helen is ultimately dismissed because the judges ultimately think she needs more time to develop as a designer. And even though she was a front runner all season, we admit they have a point. Her final collection wasn't nearly as breathtaking as we expected! Frankly, we have faith in Helen as a designer and we know she can do better. Maybe next season they'll invite a former designer back, much like they did this season with Kate. Fingers crossed!
Next week is the final episode, and there are four fabulous designers that will show. Write your finale predictions in the comments section and let's get this debate going! Did you think Helen deserved to go home instead of Alexandria? Do you think Alexandria deserves that fourth spot at all? And who do you think will take home the top prize? Is it really between Bradon and Dom, or could Justin sneak in and dominate? Sound off!


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