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Just thinking about why people don't like trophies and I thought this might be a good way to make trophies mean something. Trophies could increase the percentage of loot you get after a raid like a bonus. Could be something small like 5% per 500 cups but just something to give reason to increase your trophies other then vanity.
an example would be you raid someone at 1000 trophies for 100k elixir and gold and 1k dark elixir. On the victory screen after it tallys your score you would get a bonus of 10% for your trophy count so you'd end up with 110k each gold and elixir, and 1.1k dark elixir. This would not be extra stolen from your opponent just a bonus on top after the raid is over.
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National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC)
NASA History Astronautics and Aeronautics Chronology Series
Solar System Exploration Mission Profiles
JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library
GSFC Mission Set Database
Encyclopedia Astronautica, Mark Wade
Jonathan's Space Report, Johnathan McDowell
Spaceflight Realtime Simulations and Information, Daniel Muller
Earth Observation Portal, ESA
Gunter's Space Page, Gunter Krebs
Johnston's Archive, Robert Johnston
The Planetary Society, Emily Lakdawalla et.al.
Venera: The Soviet Exploration of Venus, Don P. Mitchell
Russian Space Web, Anatoly Zak
Spaceflight 101, Patrick Blau
Zarya Soviet, Russian and International Space Flight, Robert Christy
Visual Satellite Observing FAQ
Weebau Space Encyclopedia, Pierre Bauduin
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The Planetary Society, planet images
Planetary Maps, Steve Albers
NASA Visible Earth
Moon shaded relief
Mars MOLA map
Dr. Paul Schenk (Neptune Rings)
Historic Spacecraft, Richard Kruse (Rocket images)
Solar System Data
Planetary Fact Sheets (NSSDC)
Solar System Dynamics (JPL)
The Astronomical Almanac Online (USN)
Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature (USGS)
Minor Planet Center (IAU)
Planetary Data System (PDS) - Rings node - Atmospheres node
Deep Space Chronicle, Asif Siddiqi, NASA History Monograph SP 2002-4524
Soviet Robots in the Solar System Wesley T. Huntress, Jr. & Mikhail Ya. Marov, Springer 2011
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Is too... Is not... Is too... Is not... Shut up, my dad can beat up your dad... Nuh uh... Yes huh... Nuh uh... Yes huh...
Is too... Is not... Is too... Is not... Shut up, my dad can beat up your dad... Nuh uh... Yes huh... Nuh uh... Yes huh...
If it were up to me EP I - III wouldn't be considered canon. They really don't fit all that well with IV-VI in the first place.
Well thats not right....Because Jodo Kast isn't dead!!!Btw, Boba killed Jodo Kast after the incident with the Sarlaac.
I think it all comes down to GL not caring, and you guys making a big deal about it.
But it IS true... not everything in Star Wars looks the same from movie to movie... but is intended to be the same items. The lightsaber example is just the most immediate thing I could think of.
I just think everybody is trying to make it more difficult that really is... trying to "nerd" explain every little difference. We all sound like the Comic Book guy from the Simpsons right about now.
(P.S. for the record, they used that Maul lightsaber design for LOTS of lightsabers... it was probably just easy to recycle)
as far as where the armor came from... we'll probably find out soon enough.
the databank says:
"During the time of the Empire, Boba Fett emerged as the preeminent bounty hunter of the galaxy. Boba Fett's armor, like his father's, is a battered weapon-covered spacesuit equipped with a jet pack. His gauntlets contain a flamethrower, and a whipcord lanyard launcher. His kneepads conceal rocket dart launchers. Several ominous braids hang from his shoulder -- trophies from fallen prey -- that underscore this hunter's lethality. "
Like his fathers, ... which at the moment is what the databank says lol, kinda seems to say it isnt his dads.
wow...read everything here and still I have a question.
In your opinion if Boba Fett is wearing his "own" armor/helmet do you think he would have kept jango fetts armor as a keep sake?
IMO I think he would have. I also think he would have a collection of other armor and weapons and yes even a spare helmet or two..i.e ESB compared to ROTJ
your comments would be appreciated.
Makes you think though!
(But I still hold by my theory that it's the same helmet with the same dent... just not exact continuity between movies.... even between ESB and ROTJ... the details are almost exactly the same, for the purpose of the movies... maybe not for anal retentive fans like us, lol)
we'll know more than likely , when the show comes out. it be kinda cool if it was his dads helmet , maybe he tried to hammer out the dent and thats why it got edges lol. maybe he did hammer the dent out... and vader gave him a new one and told him to keep it as a reminder lol if he hammered it out he'd get the blade end next time.
There is little or no continuity between any of the Star Wars movies... the lightsabers look different... the costumes are different.... heck even Mark Hamill's FACE is different (lol).
I still think it's the same helmet from movie to movie.... I might be wrong, but we each have our reason for believing.... mine seems to be the "movie making" opinion... and everyone else's (or so I've been TOLD) is that, because it doesn't look EXACTLY the same from Jango to Boba, from ESB to ROTJ... it MUST be a different helmet.
The only reason I ask about "extra armor" is the fact that I am in the middle of a major film project including everyones favorite bounty hunter.
I have scheduled a scene were Boba opens up an equipment box/locker and in it is Jango's helmet and assorted gauntlets, guns, and jet packs.
Figured I'd ask here on this forum seeing as everyone is Fett Nutty here
One other point that would back up my idea is look at the jet pack Jango had blow up on him in ATOC....it was the same coloring scheme as the one Boba uses in ROTJ
Sure I am positive that a lot as mentioned has something to do with continuty...I mean hell look at Bobas pack when he is talking to Rystall...it has the vibro axe damage.
its not the same armor or helmet
"Early Imperial era (190 BBY)
"Everyone dies. It is the final and only ever lasting justice."
Boba Fett[src]
For years to come, Fett's reputation grew among bounty hunters and assassins. Boba continued to acquire and upgrade pieces of Mandalorian armor. It is said he had at least three complete sets of armor from which to use, one of which was mostly left in the Sarlacc pit. Eventually he found the Mandalorian armor of Jango's old mentor and leader, Jaster Mereel. Along with his new green and red armor, he had honed his skills as an assassin and mercenary, which would one day make him the most feared and sinister bounty hunter in the Galaxy. "
it is hard to say it any of his armor belonged to Jango.....i dout it because jango's armor was cut down to fit B. Fett at a much younger age..........[/B]
"In gratitude, the two had Jango Fett's body armor re-sized to fit the young Boba's frame. This couldn't have come at a better time, since Jabba was about to give him his first off-world assignment."
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So we have a stalemate... right?
If we follow the movie intentions, it could very well be Jango's helmet.
If we follow the EU stuff, it definately is NOT Jango's (although the helmet could still be... you can't cut a helmet down to be smaller)
It's all opinion I suppose.
I feel very strongly about the movie intentions trumping the EU stuff, but I have a feeling it's something that's going to be left completely ambiguous, officially. (i.e. if we has GL himself, he'd probably grin that sly grin and say "what do you think?")
its in the books and it makes sence..... boba would have altered his own gear to fit him the way he needed and as you see in ESB and ROTJ helmets dont match nor do his gauntlets nor dose the colors
3 diffrent helmets also in the books it is said how he earned his armor from the mandalors
But for the sake of argument, everything from ESB to ROTJ matches ALMOST perfectly... with the exeption of the colours (guess ol' Boba can paint). The only real difference is the Gauntlets and they are pretty much the same exept for the flame thrower... (which probably broke off the the original prop so the prop shop had to make a new one for ROTJ)
Fett has several sets of armor.
Fett had saved his dad's (key word saved as a memorial) think about it folks..you just watched your Dad have his head cut off...you gonna scoop the bits out and start wearing that bucket?? I don't think so..I know I wouldn't.
Fett has one ship..."THE" Slave 1. We saw it in ATOC right up to ESB..different markings yes, modifications sure...but same ship.
That these were movies FIRST... and it's proven that George Lucas' movie stuff trumps anything else out there.
Would you not agree that a lot of things in the prequels are done as nods to the original trilogy? Why is it so hard to accept that it SEEMS to be intended that Jango's helmet is the one being used by Boba, and that's why they made it look (almost) exactly the same... and then put a dent in it, in almost the same spot?
Who knows... if I'm going to get all EU on you guys here... maybe the helmet is like a soda can! You know... the kind that you fiddle with and accidently dent... then you try to get the dent out and it just keeps moving around to make new dents... and you move it around and try to get the dent out so much, that you settle on the tiny dent that seems to be the smallest?
Maybe that's what happened with Boba... he tried to get that bigger dent (that's a bit further back on the helmet) out, and it kept making more dents... and by the time he finished trying to get it out, it was a smaller, rounder, dent... closer to the front of the helmet?
How's THAT for my own imagination?!
Ok your other ideas were a lot more plausible than that... I'll at least give that much.
As DMZ stated - we do know he used Slave 1. Also we assume Jango's Kamino pack was the same one that Boba used in ROTJ (color scheme was the same, except Boba's had lots more weathering). So it would be plausible that Boba did take ONE OF Jango's helmets - but I just cannot accept the one with the dent ended up being Boba's.
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Good stuff, man.... if we can't laugh about it, it's not entertainment, right?
But I'm pretty sure I know what George Lucas intended... because I AM GEORGE LUCAS! (didn't see that coming, eh?.... kidding of course... I have plaid wearing security guards at my door as we speak... ready to lash me with bamboo, for such blasphemy)
I just can't ignore what seems so intentional in the movies... I might be wrong... we might ALL be wrong! We'll either never now because it will remain shrouded in mystery... or, one day, we will get some sort of concrete explanation! (a la SW TV series)
so wait the books cant be true ("EU" or what ever you call it) but some TV shows will be better.....do you not know what copyright laws are the books could not have ANY from of star wars stuff in it unless the maker reads and approves of the story line...so weather G. Lucas wrote the books or not...him and his people agreed to let that be the story line....lets say i was to write a book talking about what Han Solo did in the time period in Between ANH and ESB i would have to make it fit around things mentioned in the movies (EX:Han and the bounty hunter on Ormandel) or G Lucas would not give me rights to publish the books because come time for new movies (if there ever will be) there can be law suit issues.


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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Defensive coordinator Sal Sunseri isn't the only member of the Tennessee coaching staff that is going up against a team he has spent a lot of time with. UT cornerbacks coach Derrick Ansley also spent two seasons with Alabama as a defensive assistant from 2010-11, winning the national championship in his final year in Tuscaloosa working alongside Sunseri.
Despite their close connections with Alabama, Ansley knows his impact on the game will be limited to his work on the sidelines.
"Me and Coach Sal aren't going to go out there and make any plays," Ansley said. "These kids have to believe in their abilities and believe they can beat this team. I think they do. We have to go to there and play good football. This is a good football team coming in here this weekend."
Ansley will have a chance to catch up with many of his former counterparts, but once the game kicks off it will be business as usual.
"I am going to talk to them during pregame but that is about it," Ansley said. "I am not going to be able to talk to Coach Saban but I will talk to most of the assistants. It is going to be like any game when you have friends that coach in the SEC. You go up there and see how they are doing, how their families are doing, and get ready for the game."
Along with Ansley and Sunseri, another member of the Vol staff will be facing his former school -- one who wore the crimson and white. Nick Gentry, who serves as the Vols administrative intern on defense, graduated from Alabama a few months ago and played 37 games in four seasons with the Tide, recording 45 tackles, 5.5 sacks and eight quarterback hurries.
On Saturday, the Tennessee trio will have only one objective: helping the Vols find a way to claim a win over the No. 1 team in the land.
BEEN THERE, DONE THATTennessee running backs coach Jay Graham is no stranger to the UT-Alabama rivalry.
A four-year letter winner for the Vols from 1993-96, Graham played on the Third Saturday in October four times, helping lead the Big Orange to wins in his junior and senior seasons.
Although Tennessee enters Saturday's game without a win in the rivalry since 2006, Graham knows streaks like that are meant to be broken. In fact, his first win over the Tide - a 41-14 victory in Birmingham - broke a streak of nine consecutive UT losses and provided him with memories that will last a lifetime.
"It was weight lifted off of our shoulders," Graham said. "It had been [nine] years since we won. It was a great experience. Just to see our fans in the corner of the end zone after that game was a special thing. I will remember it for the rest of my life."
Before that win, and a 20-13 victory the following year in Knoxville, Graham had to endure defeat first as the Vols dropped a 17-13 decision in 1994. The feeling after that game is something else he will never forget.
"I was hurt," Graham said. "I went home and didn't go to sleep. It hurt. That is the thing about the rivalry, you play so hard, you hit hard and play so fast. You want to win that game and it just hurts that much more."
Graham has made sure to communicate the importance of the rivalry game to this year's Tennessee squad.
"We have talked about it and they understand," Graham said. "The energy in practice and everything, they are excited about this opportunity. We get to play against our rival and they are also number one in the country, so those are two things you should get excited about going into the game."
THE TOUGHEST TESTThis year's version of the "Third Saturday in October" will pit the number one defense in America against one of the top offensive lines in the country.
According to offensive line coach Sam Pittman, the starting five of Antonio Richardson, Dallas Thomas, James Stone, Zach Fulton and Ja'Wuan James will get the majority of the snaps against Alabama this week. And for good reason.
The Tennessee offensive line, which has allowed just three sacks this season, has set the tone up front this season, helping the Vols average 482.3 yards of total offense, 183.3 yards of which have come from the ground game.
"We don't want a lot of rotation on our guys because we want to feel what they are doing on defense and make sure we can relate to the calls and get everything going on what we are supposed to get going," Pittman said. "We like guys who have seen something happen already before. I feel like they have to exchange defensive lineman more than they exchange offensive lineman because they have to go further than we do."
The line will face its toughest opponent to date in Alabama, which enters the game allowing just 181.2 yards per game. The Crimson Tide has held its opponents to just eight red zone trips this year and a mere six touchdowns through six games.
"They are not only the number one team, they are the number one defense," Pittman said. "They have a lot of talent and a lot of people. They play a lot of different guys and they are big, all of them are pretty good size guys. They are well coached and they play well with their hands.
"They play relentlessly and they can because they can substitute and get fresh people out there all the time, so we certainly are excited about the challenge. I am glad we are not playing them week one, I am glad we are playing them week seven as we have progressed a little bit. We know we have our work cut out for us but we are really excited about going and playing Alabama."
Tennessee's biggest challenge will come on the ground. The Vols rushed for 214 yards last week against Mississippi State, but the line will face a defense that allowed just three total rushing yards against Missouri in its last contest.
"Jay Graham has done such a nice job with the running backs," Pittman said. "They run hard. I didn't even know that we had a back or two hurt, I just thought Jay was rotating backs and all that. Of course, Devrin Young came in and ran really hard."
The Vols will have to play hard for four complete quarters this week against their toughest competition in 2012.
"We are just getting better every week that is the whole thing," Pittman said. "Regardless of the competition we just get better every week. Maybe here at the end of the fourth quarter we will start winning these games."


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Worse Than Hockey, Better Than Poker: How The Lockout Saved My Sex Life
How one man, deprived of the sport, discovered that his sex life is intrinsically tied to hockey.
I had sex with my wife today. Yesterday, too. We seem to be having a lot more sex these days, which is fine; I like sex. But I think I like hockey more.
Let me preface this by saying that I love my wife. We've been married for eight years and I've known her for 12, but I've been a hockey fan for 34 and can tell you the goals scored, minutes played, pucks passed and shutouts recorded by every player on the '93 Toronto Maple Leafs team that was unceremoniously robbed of a Stanley Cup. But I usually forget our anniversary.
We have two kids, Doug and Clark, and a dog named Felix, all three named after Maple Leaf greats and under protest from my wife (who doesn't so much dislike the names as she does the methodology used to designate them). Doug and Clark were born about a year apart in June 2005 and May 2006, dates that didn't seem significant until I started having a lot more sex with my wife and the natural possibility of a third child came about.
You see, their birth dates place their conception around a time when I was also having a lot more sex because I was watching a lot less hockey. I was watching a lot less hockey because there was no hockey to be watched. It was lockout 2004-05, and I guess I was bored and horny.
The hockey schedule doesn't really allow for a whole lot of free time to actually have sex. Quickies, sure, between periods or whatever, but then the challenge becomes convincing your significant other that sex in a 20-minute window is a turn-on.
It's not (or so says she).
By the time the early game ends on a Saturday night, it's 9:30, 10 o'clock. The late game is another three hours; then it's one A.M. and the combination of Budweiser, hot wings and the past six hours spent yelling at the little people in an inanimate object has somehow left something to be desired sexually. She's asleep or at least pretending to be, and I'm either angry, kinda drunk or dealing with severe intestinal turmoil; more probably, some combination of the three.
So sex, needless to say, is out of the question.
But in '04-'05, we fucked like rabbits. While the rest of the hockey world got wrapped up in the poker craze (indeed, leading up to the lockout, ESPN started airing poker at all hours of the day, from seven hours a week to 24 to fill the void), my wife and I resorted to all kinds of things two consenting adults can get into. The Acrobat, the Amazon; the Pivot, the Plumber. The reverse-cowgirl rodeo, the sexual seesaw and my personal favorite: Sitting Bull. Our kids were conceived with all the sexual dexterity and vigor one might find in a downtrodden hockey fan, deprived and frustrated, without his fix. Without hockey to pry my attention away and release all the tension, we pretty much saw fit to do whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted (including some crazy number called the Pretzel that I doubt I could emulate today.
It turns out a lot of other people did, too.
After the revelation that my children were almost definitely the by-product of the '04-'05 lockout (someday they'll read this and the result will be at least a few expensive years of psychotherapy), I did some digging to see if my wife and I were the only ones resorting to sex to get through those long hockeyless nights.
American hockey markets revealed little on this front; with their attentions pulled in a plethora of other directions it was difficult to establish a correlation between a lack of hockey and an increase of intercourse. I had to narrow my search to a more hockey-centric market.
Enter Canada, an all-consumed nation of hockey fans. Surely if there was a connection to be made I would find it here, the birthplace of the sport. What else would they be doing? My hypothesis, backed by the very existence of my own children, was simple: without any puck, Canadians would fuck.
Sure enough, I found a report that confirmed my belief: in 2005-2006, births increased in every Canadian province save two (two that, conveniently enough, don't have a professional hockey team). In fact, the fertility rate in Canada hit a 10-year high in 2006, with 12,000 more hockey fans born unto hockey fans in '06 than '05 when the NHL was in session.
The study concluded that the "recent increase in births could be explained partly by the fact that many women from the echo generation had entered their childbearing years," but obviously I had a different, perhaps more simplistic theory to explain the aberration: thousands of bored Canadians were branching out sexually, having more sex, and in turn, more children because they didn't have hockey to distract them.
Further research only confirmed my suspicion: in the years just after hockey franchises left the great Canadian cities of Quebec and Winnipeg (in '95 and '96 respectively), fertility rates spiked before dropping back to the mean (probably as a result of the deep-seated depression that hockey was in fact never returning to the town). The top 10 Canadian cities where birth rates are the highest? All major city centers within a stone's throw of a professional hockey team but without one of their own. They're hockey starved, so close to the game they can taste it but just far enough away that they have to settle for sex.
If you still aren't sold, if you think maybe this is all a happy coincidence, consider this: in the 2010 draft, seven of the top 10 prospects were Canadian. Of those seven, five were born within a month of each other, between December 1992 and January 1993. If we include the whole first round we can add two more names to that list. That puts their conception on or around the first of April, 1992, which marks the very first cancellation of NHL games over labor strife with the players' strike. What are the odds that five of the best young players in a single class were conceived completely independent of each other, with not one hockey-related factor coming into play?
Low, I'd say. In fact, the only other explanation I could offer would be that Canadians routinely partake in star-studded, talent-driven orgies to produce phenomenal hockey players (an argument I wouldn't completely rule out considering how seriously they take the sport), but otherwise I would put forth that the calendar dates certainly align well and support the argument that without puck, good Canucks will fuck.
Which is good news, I guess, for me and my family; I no longer have to worry about my wife's waning libido in light of another hockey season, and knowing that children born out of (wed)lockout are seemingly more likely to play professionally, the overwhelming pressure I will inevitably inflict upon my kids in order to fulfill my wildest vicarious dreams will pretty much be justifiable.
Basically, the lockout isn't all that bad; it saved my sex life, and if I have another kid, he'll probably be an NHL All-Star.
I had sex with my wife today, and so long as the lockout is still on, I'll probably have sex with her tomorrow too.


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They came, they complained, they made light of a trying situation - they definitely made an impression. And in the end, Rockaway's highest-ranking elected official on hand said they sent a "strong message" to City Hall but only took "a possible baby step forward."
Those are some of the words City Councilman Joseph Addabbo Jr., who requested Tuesday night's City Council Transportation Committee hearing in Broad Channel, used to describe the event to The Wave afterwards.
More than 200 people packed the hearing, which was held at American Legion Post 1404. About 70 people signed up for two minutes of public speaking, although only about half stayed late enough to be called. The hall was standing room only by the time things got underway, but there were plenty of empty seats when the meeting wrapped up about three hours later.
Quinn began by saying the hearing was organized at Addabbo's insistence, so that the Transportation Committee could "have a direct conversation with residents, and to have the agencies also hear directly from residents." And she was impressed by the turnout.
"That there are so many people here tonight really sends a message about how strongly everyone feels about the transportation problems in this part of Queens," Quinn said.
First to testify were Maura McCarthy, Department of Transportation Queens Commissioner, and David Woloch, the agency's Deputy Commissioner of External Affairs, who made a tantalizing comment regarding ferry service.
"We want to get it done. We want to pilot a Rockaway ferry service," Woloch said.
"I'm so happy to hear that," responded Transportation Committee Chairperson John Liu. But when Quinn asked DOT if they could come up with funding estimates by the July 1 deadline for fiscal year 2008 to make ferry service "real" and to avoid allocating funds that would not be spent, Woloch said he couldn't commit. Quinn would later tell The Wave that she was prepared to do battle to make it happen.
"I can promise that we're going to go back to City Hall and fight as hard as we can to get that ferry promise to turn into a budget allocation by July 1."
Next up, Catherine Sweeney, Vice President of Staff Services for the MTA, all but dismissed Addabbo's proposal to eliminate tolls on the Cross Bay Bridge, said A Train ridership in Rockaway doesn't warrant additional service and that reactivating the old Rockaway Beach line of the Long Island Rail Road isn't feasible. That cause was heavily promoted by Democratic District Leader Lew M. Simon, who brought a busload of supporters and was Rockaway's only other elected representative at the hearing.
When Liu took the MTA to task on the subject of buses, Norman Silverman, Senior Director of Planning and Development, countered by saying the agency was making fast progress since taking over the private bus lines.
Then, after the DOT and MTA officials testified and left, it was the people's turn.
Dolores Orr, Chairperson of Community Board 14 and president of the Rockaway Beach Civic Association, shocked Speaker Quinn when she said 5,000 additional housing units would be built in Rockaway and Broad Channel over the next five years.
"There is not a bus, subway or road in Broad Channel or Rockaway that can handle that additional usage," she said drawing support from the audience.
Belle Harbor resident Vivian Carter made Quinn wince with her account of a 2-hour odyssey to Manhattan on various subway trains, which she contrasted with a 30-minute train ride from Manhattan to Newark, New Jersey.
Vincent Castellano, a member of CB14, said succinctly, "Transportation is the biggest thing in Rockaway."
After the meeting, Quinn reiterated that the turnout "speaks volumes about the severity of this problem.
"It was clear, person after person, that transportation in this part of the borough is severely, severely lacking," Quinn said.
Addabbo would also say after the meeting that the size and diversity of the crowd "sends a very strong message to both sides of City Hall" but he lamented that "there's so much more work to do."


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A certain amount of charitable time is kept back for emergency situations, both small and large. It is parachuted in in times of desperation, and has facilitated peace deals, changed battles, and allowed numerous fathers to make it to the delivery room in time.
The time-sweepers are, by their very nature, a tidy and orderly sort of people. They wish that humans would think more about throwing away this valuable commodity, but don't expect it'll happen any time soon.
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Saturday I got an M10 bolt that's long enough for the crank to hit when turned and a flat bar that will slide in the cam groves. I loosened off the cam gears and put on the timing belt. Slid the timing bar into position on the cams put the cams in the position for perfect timing, having previously put the crank into position against my timing bolt. I torqued the cam bolts to 50 ft-lbs using a wrench on the cam to loosen and tighten the bolts.
I put it all back together and spent a frigging hour in the dark putting the stupid drive belt on the wrong way, three times.
I finally get the car ready to start and "v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v-v" Sounds like a drill again. I swear, if the new timing belt teeth are gone again I'm blowing up the damn thing!
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However, I think there is a reason. The popularity of the NFL draft as a spectator event has skyrocketed in recent years, same with the combine. With popularity, comes people trying to make money off it. There are so many more opinions out there now. The term "scout" used to mean a guy who worked for an NFL team. Now it is a guy with an opinion about some prospect and happens to put it on the internet, or on TV, or wherever..
Then you have social media on top of everything and you have people(some important most not) tweeting smoke screens, rumors, lies, truths, opinions, facts and all sorts of nonsense that is completely undistinguishable from each other. Fans eat that nonsense(mostly) up and change their opinions of players based on it.
10 years ago I could name a prospect and most would only know him if they saw him in a bowl game or the national champ game. Now people can acquiant themselves with players more easily via the internet. That means more opinions which means more critics. I think that is all it is really.
I also think there is a bit of this every year. People on these boards and everywhere fall in love with prospects. Then, when that guy isn't available or isn't picked, they just wont be happy and will complain. They will poo on any other prospect because he isn't the guy they loved.
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This yr has easily been the most turmoil and unceartinty that we've ever seen in the draft.. never have guys been top 5picks for months and then inexplicably there outta the top 2rounds by some and dropping to pick 26 by some(moore and werner, i saw werner going to ATL by some), and Shariff Floyd a month or 2 ago was going as late as the 3rd rd, and now is a sure fire top 5-10pick, and were seeing Te'os stock go up and down and up and down, and look at Lane Johnson, who had been a 2nd rd prospect and now is a top 10pick, and i just seen Adam Shefter reported that the supposedly best player in this draft chance warmack could be dropping to pick 18 or further, and we still have no clue about the QB's and where there gonna go, as the reports change daily almost, and we seen Keenan Allen as mostly a sure fire top 20pick for sometime, and now hes dropped by some to the top of rd 2 or very back end of rd2.. I remember Vaccaro was going in the mid 2nd a couple months ago, now all of a sudden hes the best safety and is soooo good and is a top 20pick, and Jamar Taylor was a sleeper of mine a couple months ago along with Darius Slay and now Taylor is perdicted by some to go in the mid 1st to late 1st by most, and Slay has moved up to mid 2ndish
How about Dion Jordan? Another guy perdicted to go to us in alot of mock and even further in others and is now possibly the 2nd overall pick..
Never in any draft i've watched(1993 was my first), have i seen such change and uncertainty right up to the day...
Walterfootball's latest mock:
1st- Chance Warmack, G Alabama
2nd- DJ Hayden, CB Houston
3rd- Khaseem Greene, LB Rutgers
4th- Luke Marquardt, OT Asuza Pacific (never heard of him)
5th- Mike Catapano, DE Princeton
6th- Jawan Jamison, RB Rutgers
Ziggy is officially 23 years old and will be 24 next month. Wonder if this hurts his stock at all.
"You killed my family, and I don't like that kind of thing."
Source: NFL.com Apr 17 - 7:15 PMNFL Network's Mike Mayock says NC State S Earl Wolff is a draft riser.Mayock said Wolff went from "late draftable" to "probably a third-rounder". He added that there's no way he gets through the fourth-round, and he likes his tackling and awareness. Wolff is one of our own Josh Norris' favorite prospects.
I said it months ago when NYC brought him as a 6thish round sleeper and I scoffed at him(incorrectly) at that notion because I found it hard to fathom him as a 6th rounder. But, after looking, that's where many "analysts" were projecting him to go. I have no idea how he was ever that low on people's boards. Even prior to his excellent combine which made people look 2x at him.
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"$450 invested, asking $3250"
Nice ROI!!
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I am interested in the pyranet if you decide to split up. need contact info
Doh! Meant $325 of course. I'd rather sell as a set.
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we can't send you PM.Look your forum profil for upgrade to PM posibility.
the sl-3 is green or yellow?i'm interresed in just the SL-3 or better just the flysheet.
I should be able to receive PM's now.
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I always get fascinated by Blue Hours photos. but did not realize the magic until I came to Singapore. In one of my previous blogs, I mentioned that Singapore looks fab in Blue hours! Oh, then I was new to the city. As the days passed, I found each different parts of the city creates different magic in Blue hours.
Unlike the early morning photos no need to wake-up early. Just an evening walk is enough buddy! :) Here are few points from my personal experience.
For blue hours you need to wait till the sun sets and the red hues are gone from the sky. Cloudy days help a lot. Look at this. My 1st blue hours shot at Singapore. Aren't the clouds adding an extra zing to the scene?
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If you were creative before, I can hardly imagine just what wonderful things you will now create in that light, airy, wonderful space. Thanks for sharing.
Wow oh WOW on your sewing room and quilts and stash. You must have won the lottery to have all this in less than a year. Love it 0;-)
Sweet Dreams come from under Cozy Quilts made with love.
Life is short, take time to enjoy it. Play with your kids and g-kids,
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man oh man I wanna come play at your house. I do a lot of bright color quilts myself and just love yours. We also have a few men in my quilt guild and bee that sew. nice job and congrats on your quilts and quilt room.
SMILE- it will make everyone wonder what you are up to.
Stay strong and keep looking up.
What an awesome room and look at all those supplies! Very impressive indeed. Happy quilting...looking forward to seeing your work.
Your space is lovely and well organized. However, I would suggest that you either put a strong UV protection on the window, or cover your fabrics as they will easily fade in the light. Even room lights can fade fabric.
Love this!! I would ove to work here all day ,,
Wow, Guy Quilter, I am in awe - of both the room and your lovely work.
WOW - everything looks great. Do you have a vertical design wall or do you use your cutting table?
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I'm not sure what the most interesting thing I've bought is because half my house is from OLA!! But the most "intriguing" thing I've sold was and old brass incense burner, I think. I go to estate sales, yard sales, charity sales, etc. and had picked it up for $1.00 and it went a little crazy here on OLA and sold for something like $35.00. Who knew? The most fun I've had was doing the Rummage Sale in 2008. I wouldn't mind doing one of those again. That was fun!!
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- 1 pound small red potatoes, cut into 1-inch chunks
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- 1 small turnip, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch chunks
- 2 small carrots, cut into 1/4- to 1/2-inch slices
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- Place the vegetables in a steamer basket. Place in a large saucepan over 1 in. of water; bring to a boil. Cover and steam for 10-12 minutes or until crisp-tender.
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... of it. It took a while for us both to calm down / cheer up / get on with it but of course we did. After set up, we wandered into town to get something to eat as it was now 4ish and we hadn't been shopping. We stumbled across a little cafe / restaurant with outside seating and settled for a croque monsieur and a couple of Jupilers (hereafter known as Jupiter!) we were served by a Stacey Solomon lookalike who was really very lovely. The wind got up quite a bit so we headed back to ...
Brugge- Venice of the north
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Lest we Forget
... into only a couple in the area, we also noticed that within the one grave, they could have even died a couple years apart. This stop also held a memorial (a room full of names on the walls) of the 3000 odd students who were sent to the front as support, without the right equipment and only a couple weeks training. It is absolutely mad to think that boys, not men, as young as 14 were faking their age and identity - and being believed! - to ...
In Bruges
... and copperware make up the central 'feature' and its impossible not to throw your mind back in time.
By this point, the 8% lager was starting to take its toll and my quest for local delicacies began.
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I have a 2004 Gallardo with E-gear. I'm planning to buy a R8. I wanted to take a poll and see how many people have had clutch issues. Are there clutch issues similar to Gallardo?
What year R8?
V8 or V10?
Manual or R Tronic?
How many miles on the clutch?
% City driving versus % freeway driving?


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One Very Moist Banana Cake…
Let me start by saying I hate the word moist…always have, always will. It's one of those words that makes my nose wrinkle. However, I must use the word moist throughout this post because, well, there is really no other way for me to describe this banana cake. I have mentioned in other blog entries that I have a problem with buying bananas and never eating them in their yellow state. Instead, I wait until they are a nice shade of rotten before contemplating their fate. Once they hit the "nasty" stage I start searching…this week I went for a recipe that I have seen several times on various food boards.
It is from Recipe Zaar and has an interesting preparation method. After you bake the cake at a low 275 degrees, you immediately chuck the cake into the freezer for 45 minutes. Apparently this is what makes this cake so….well, moist! I cooked this in a bundt pan because I am on a bundt pan kick right now, don't worry, it will pass. The cake took a lot longer to bake, so I had to keep checking it, which was really infringing on my Sunday night TV time, but it turned out to be amazing. The icing is to die for and adds the perfect amount of sweetness to the cake. If you have some rotten bananas and are looking to make a moist, delicious treat, look no further, this is a winner!
The Best Ever Banana Cake
Yield: 12 servings
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 60 minutes
For the Cake
- 1 1/2 cups rip bananas, mashed
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 2 1/8 cups sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
For the Frosting
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 3 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
- Preheat oven to 275°. Grease and flour a 9 x 13 pan.
- In a small bowl, mix mashed banana with the lemon juice; set aside.
- In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream 3/4 cup butter and 2 1/8 cups sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, then stir in 2 tsp vanilla.
- Beat in the flour mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Stir in banana mixture.
- Pour batter into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for one hour or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and place directly into the freezer for 45 minutes. This will make the cake very moist.
- For the frosting, cream the butter and cream cheese until smooth. Beat in 1 teaspoon vanilla.
- Add icing sugar and beat on low speed until combined, then on high speed until frosting is smooth.
- Spread on cooled cake.
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Refresh your palate with the classic Greek flavor of yogurt and cucumbers.
Peel and grate cucumbers;
With your hands squeeze as much water out of the grated pulp.
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U.S. Supreme Court strikes down as unconstitutional Vermont's ban on access to and commercial use of nonpublic drug prescriber information
Whether a law that restricts access to information in nonpublic prescription drug records and affords prescribers the right to consent before their identifying information in prescription drug records is sold or used in marketing runs afoul of the First Amendment.
The U.S. Chamber urged the Supreme Court to hold that a Vermont law targeting pharmaceutical companies violates the First Amendment. The law in question restricts access to information in nonpublic prescription drug records and affords prescribers the right to consent before their identifying information is sold or used in marketing. In its brief, the Chamber argued that the information allows pharmaceutical companies to target individuals who could benefit from certain drugs, and that the law improperly prohibits comparisons between drugs, discussions of medical research, and some analyses of side effects. The free flow of commercial information between pharmaceutical companies and customers is necessary for individuals to make informed decisions about their health care.
The Court held that the law violated the First Amendment. The Court agreed with the U.S. Chamber that a law of the type Vermont passed is subject to strict scrutiny due to the restrictions placed on both the content of the speech and the identity of the speaker.
Under the heightened scrutiny standard, the law is invalid. The Court reasoned that given the widespread availability of the information and its many permissible uses, the interest in physician confidentiality could not justify the burdens that the law imposes. While Vermont burdened a form of protected expression that it found too persuasive, it also left unburdened those speakers whose messages are in accord with its own views. Agreeing with NCLC, the Court held that Vermont cannot pick and choose which message it favors that will be free from First Amendment scrutiny.
Cert. granted 1/7/11. Amicus brief on the merits filed 3/31/11. Decided 6/23/2011.


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Amaya joins Betis
Defender Antonio Amaya has left Wigan after signing a three-year contract with Spanish side Real Betis.
The 28-year-old centre-back arrived at the DW Stadium in the summer of 2009 but failed to make a Barclays Premier League appearance, playing just three cup matches.
Amaya was loaned back to Rayo Vallecano, from where he was signed, last season and has now made a permanent switch to La Liga with Betis.
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Josh McDaniels talks about 'limited opportunities' for Rob Gronkowski against Ravens
|09.25.12 at 4:34 pm ET
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski had just two catches on three targets for 21 yards on Sunday night against the Ravens — from a production standpoint, it was one of the worst days of his career. Last year against the Raiders, he had one catch for 15 yards, and also had two catches for 26 yards in the Super Bowl loss to the Giants.
One of the reasons Gronkowski might have been limited in the passing game is because he was utilized more in pass protection that usual. Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels talked about Gronkowski's perormance on Sunday night, as well as his work as a pass blocker.
'Certainly Rob can do a lot of good things for our team, so anytime that he gets involved in the passing game, I think it's a positive thing for us,' McDaniels said on a conference call with reporters on Tuesday afternoon. 'At the same time, with the position that he plays there are definitely occasions when we ask him to protect and do things in the pass protection game that give some of our other players an opportunity to get open on other schemes too.
'Rob's always worn multiple hats in that regard and I do think it just came out in the game the other night that it ended up that there were limited opportunities. It wasn't that he wasn't out in the pattern and it wasn't that Tom did a poor job of reading the defense and what have you; I think it's just a factor of the ball came out quick sometimes and we had some other people that were in situations to make plays based on what Baltimore did defensively to us.'
Here are a few more highlights of McDaniels' Q&A with the media:
What do you see from the Bills defensively that challenges you?
'First of all, it's a pretty sound group. Coach [Dave] Wannstedt, we've played against him in the past and it's always a group that he's got all 11 guys playing on the same page on every play. They do a good job of getting their calls communicated and played the way they want them to play. They're an aggressive team up front. They don't have to blitz you to create pressure, which I think is always something that defensively that's a big plus and something we have to do a good job of taking care of. They've got a really good front four and they rotate some guys in there that play behind the starting group so that they keep them fresh. They get a lot of pressure on the quarterback. They play a lot of tight coverage in the secondary and that going hand-in-hand with the pressure they create on the quarterback presents problems. They make you block them on every snap, they make you get a hat on them in the front seven on every play in the running game, they've got active linebackers and they make you get open against tight coverage. It will be a big challenge for us in all phases of the game on Sunday.'
Looking back on the fourth quarter and the final two drives on Sunday night, did you feel that it was too conservative in terms of the calls or do you feel like the calls were good and it was more of an execution thing?
'We always try to go out there and do the right thing on every series, whether it be the end of the game or the beginning of the game. I think our group on offense, there were some things that we did better against Baltimore and then there are definitely some things that certainly at this point in the season we still need to improve on. I always come out of the game and say, 'Maybe if I didn't make that call or maybe if I made another call it could've helped the situation.' I'm sure that there are always things we can do better on the field once the call has been made too. I think it's a collective effort. You're always trying to run what gives your team the best chance to be successful and the players are obviously trying to execute it to make it go. We just didn't do enough offensively to finish the game and we didn't do enough offensively to end the game with the ball there at the end and we need to improve in that situation.'
What specifically did you like and think improved on Sunday night?
'There are a lot of little things. We played a game without turning the ball over which we hadn't done against Baltimore in awhile. I thought that was an important factor in making sure that the game stayed the way we wanted it to in terms of being in the game, being close, having the lead and protecting the lead. We really made an emphasis of that because historically they've always done a good job of taking the ball away, so I thought that it was important that we came out of there with no turnovers and we did a good job there. I thought the guys executed our no-huddle fairly well in an atmosphere that I would say was difficult in terms of communication. I thought we did a decent job of getting our calls in and then they communicated the formation, the plays, the adjustments and all those things that they needed to do after the snap together. Then they worked well once the ball was snapped to try to make those things successful. The two-minute drive at the end of the second quarter I thought was a positive for our team. We battled and I thought the guys played hard. Certainly not perfect and we all can do better ' coaches and players ' and I think that's going to be our focus going forward. But hopefully there were some things that we can build on in that game.'
When you look at the Julian Edelman 13-yard loss on the direct snap to Danny Woodhead, is it the type of thing where the other guys just made a good play and the play could have sprung big if one thing fell right or was it more of a regret?
'No, you can't regret calling those plays. When we practice things during the course of the year and the week, we practice them with all the right intentions and that we feel like they have a chance to be successful. Hopefully we would never put a play in which we felt going into the game had a very slim chance of helping our team win. I think you practice those types of plays plenty before you actually go into a game and call one of them. It's a play that I know we've run multiple times around here before and it has had some good success. There are times whenever you call something like that that a defensive player makes a good play on that particular play. You take the risk that that could happen whenever you make one of those calls. Earlier in the game, we ran a different style of a reverse and it worked just fine. There's a risk and a reward factor that go into schemes like that and if you're going to be willing to call them, I think at times you've got to be willing to live with the result when a defensive player makes a good play on them.'
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By Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON — Assistant State Attorney JoAnne Kloppenburg will not appeal a recount of her Supreme Court race against incumbent Justice David Prosser.
Kloppenburg conceded the race Tuesday morning.
"David Prosser has won the election, and I have congratulated him," the Associated Press quoted Kloppenburg as saying during a news conference in Madison. "I will not be requesting judicial review of the results of the recount."
In the initial election results, Kloppenburg claimed a narrow, 200-vote victory in the April general election, but that was wiped out when Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus said she failed to report 14,000 votes from the city of Brookfield. That gave Prosser a 7,316-vote victory, but Kloppenburg filed for a statewide recount.
The official results of the recount this past week gave Prosser a 7,316-vote victory.
Prosser on Tuesday said Kloppenburg's concession was "very gracious." He will begin his next 10-year term in August.
The Wisconsin Reporter will update this story throughout the day.
Click here for previous coverage of the state Supreme Court race.


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USC Women Get 6-1 Win Over Pepperdine
Jan. 28, 2007
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - Despite a rain delay that postponed USC's match with Pepperdine for a day, the Women of Troy emerged victorious on the second day of action with a 6-1 win over the Waves on Sunday at Marks Stadium. USC led three tight doubles matches on Saturday until rain interrupted play and pushed the remainder of the action to Sunday. Once resumed, USC grabbed the doubles point and proceeded to reel off five straight singles wins to ensure victory for the No. 3-ranked Trojans. USC improves to 2-0 with the win, while No. 14 Pepperdine moves to 2-1.
After Sarah Fansler / Dianne Matias earned an 8-4 win at No. 3 doubles, Judy DeVera / Amanda Fink secured the doubles point for the Women of Troy with a tightly won 9-8 (4) victory at the No. 2 position. Pepperdine's Kosakowski/Dickes edged out USC's Lindsey Nelson / Julie Smekodub in a similarly close match, winning 9-7 at No. 1.
In singles play, Dianne Matias set the Trojans off on a winning note with a smooth 6-1, 6-1 victory over Caroline Raba at the No. 4 position. #9 Sarah Fansler was next to secure a win for USC with a 6-3, 6-1 decision over Sylvia Kosakowski, and then Amanda Fink locked down the win with a 6-3, 6-3 victory at No. 3 over Pepperdine's Anna Sabate. With the match in hand 4-0, USC didn't back down, getting three-set wins out of Julie Smekodub and Anca Anastasiu. Both Women of Troy dropped their second set, but came back strong in the third to post their respective victories. Smekodub won out first, beating Jillian Braverman 6-0, 3-6, 6-2 at No. 6, and then Anastasiu tacked up a 6-1, 4-6, 6-2 victory over Eva Dickes at No. 5. The No. 1 singles match still raged on, however, as Lindsey Nelson faced Pepperdine's #22 Bianca Dulgheru. Dulgheru got the win for the Waves' lone point of the match, topping Nelson 6-4, 6-2 to end the action at Marks Stadium.
USC returns to action with a trip to San Diego for a 1:30 p.m. match against the Toreros on Thurday (Feb. 1).
#3 USC 6, #14 Pepperdine 1


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Adam Lambert Album Available Nov. 24
American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert has revealed that his first post-Idol album is due for release this fall.
On Wednesday, Adam — who came in second to reigning American Idol Kris Allen in the FOX reality competition back in May — confirmed that his album will be out in November in a message on his Twitter page.
"fyi my album drops Nov 24th," he Tweeted.


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Great location in Twin Creeks area of Elkhorn. This 4BD/3BA has a detached garage with apartment above! Great for an office or guest area. (main house is 3BD/2BA) The deck is perfect for entertaining and main house has single level convenience. All new windows and exterior paint. Offered at $674,000
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