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A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below". At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C. S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging and humorous account of temptation - and triumph over it - ever written.
©1942 C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
"This is the Best Audio Screwtape, a Masterpiece"
I've got the wonderful (no longer available) John Cleese recording of The Screwtape Letters, as well as the Ralph Cosham version, also very good. But this performance is the best; it's beyond expectation and it might now be my favorite audio book. Ackland's voice is calmer and less cheeky than Cleese, but with much more gravitas.

Now, the case could be made that Cleese's less dignifiied Screwtape gives us a better laugh at the devil and thereby gives us a truer picture of the Underworld's ultimate loss of dignity. But for listening pleasure, which is an aid to absorption, this heavier reading is perfect. Very highly recommended.
"Deep! Very intriuguing!!! Wonderful Listen!"
It really made me think about my life and reflect... I love the dark perspective that it has because it makes you think of things in a completely different way...
Well, Screwtape...
It changed my whole way of thinking about sin...
"Memoirs of a Devil"
Real - As a Christian, my beliefs incorporate the subjects of CS Lewis's masterpiece and while I honestly haven't given "that side" much thought, I couldn't help but be impressed by the feeling of realness it gave me. When I first began reading I felt it a bit silly, but as I continued some of the letters really resonated with my life and the gravity of its implications grew very heavy.

Frightening - This was my first word as I was indeed frightened by the whole thought of it.

Surprising - I came into this book almost completely ignorant to the subject matter. My only clue was that it was CS Lewis and that it likely had some religious undertones.....and that turned out to be an underestimation.
At first I wanted to say no book is comparable but then I thought of Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan. Both books describe the journey in life when walking in the faith of Christ.
He played one actor, Screwtape, and he was masterful.
Again, there was only Screwtape, a bureaucrat in Hell's Collection Department, and I simply would rather not think too long at his character. Evil has a new name, and its name is Screwtape.
This is a must read for any Christian. An open mind is necessary but that is also essential to be Christian.
"A Classic Improved With Great Narration"
This has always been one of my favorite books, and possibly, my favorite C.S. Lewis book. It is both amusing and deep.
This is a fictional collection of letters from a senior demon to a junior demon about how to tempt humans. It is a study in human psychology and sin the likes of which I don't believe I have ever encountered.
Somehow, C.S. Lewis created a book about sin and temptation without ever being judgmental or condescending about the topic. It is actually one of the funniest books I have ever heard on any topic. It could easily be converted into a stand-up comedy routine.
The narration was perfect. Joss Ackland has become one of my new, favorite narrators.
I would recommend this for anyone who wants a good laugh or a good understanding of how the spiritual realm interacts with the human psyche.
Nerd. Kindle author. Nerd!!
"I was not prepared for the awesomeness"
The best book I've read... ever. I've listened to it twice in the last four days.
Clever, insightful, funny... relevant today to an extent I wouldn't have thought possible for a book of this age.
His reading is flawless... he was screwtape. Again... never heard a better match of narration talent to a perfect role.

He breathes the appropriate loathsome humor into the performance. There were a few times where he laughed or chortled at exactly the right time in exactly the right way and I laughed out loud.

Perfect!
Half a century ago, through some unspecified espionage, C.S. Lewis discovered and published the playbook of the Devil. You will be amazed how much of this playbook is still in effect, and how successful it has been.

You are warned... you are doomed.
"Wonderfully imagined and well read"
The subtle amusement of Lewis's exposition
The very beginning of the last letter.
I have seen him perform, but never heard him read before. He has a wonderful voice to express the chief character. He plays villains extremely well.
How to Tempt Into Evil.
This is an old book from the 1940's and some of it is clearly dated, but both enjoyable and instructive nonetheless.
Insightful, Interesting, thought provoking
When Screwtapes plans were thwarted
When scewtape was chastising Wormwood for letting his subject fall into the hands of a Godly woman whose house so wreaked of Gods presence that even the cat and dog were perfumed.
Screwtape, his persistence in acheiving his goal
"Masterful! A Classic done right!"
This is a brilliant work written by a brilliant, perceptive author, C.S.Lewis. The work itself is a stand-alone masterpiece. However, the added bonus of Joss Ackland's flawless performance, as "Your Affectionate Uncle Screwtape" -- allows the words to leap from the page and pierce the soul. Rarely does the tambour, tone and texture of a voice fit so perfectly with the words on the page.
The story is a first person reading of 31 letters from a senior demon named Screwtape to his nephew, Wormwood, also a demon, but inexperienced in the finer points of guiding a human toward hell.
It is a Christian apologetic brimming with all the attributes of the brilliance of C.S. Lewis, a master storyteller/writer whose gifts border on the realm of the mystic.
"Amazingly insightful and practically helpful.,"
This was a quick and worthwhile listen. I would definitely consider it a top 5 in my audible library and would highly recommend it to any inquisitive individual:).
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Positions for giving birth with an epidural
I am 7 months pregnant and am researching options for giving birth. At this point I plan to have a vaginal birth with an epidural but I am concerned about how the epidural will affect my ability to move during labour and birth. Will I have the option to give birth in a position other than lying on my back?
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Hello Jessie,
There's an excellent article on this site that talks about the advantages and disadvantages of epidurals. You may want to read that article so you have a good overall understanding of what it is, the medications that will be put in your body and the way it is administered.
One of the things that article mentions is that women who have epidurals are confined to bed which increases the likelihood of needing a C-Section.
I just found a video (which I'll post below) that shows two positions you may be able to use in bed. An epidural can block feeling from your belly down, which means that many women lose control of their legs or have very weak legs. If that happens for you then you won't have any option but to lay in bed during labour and delivery.
I attended my sister's birth in the hospital, and she had an epidural that pretty much blocked all pain. She had not feeling in her legs and we had to hold her legs back while she pushed, laying on her back (the bed was slightly inclined).
I have a friend who gave birth to twins in the hospital and had a really bad headached for 3 days after giving birth. When she went to find out what was causing the headache, she was told that she had an epidural headache, which happens to about one out of every 100 women. Personally, I can't imagine caring for a newborn and having a severe headache.
If you're set on having an epidural, I would encourage you to wait as long as you possibly can before getting it, and while you're waiting, try a variety of positions. If you have a trained doula or a midwife with you in the hospital, they will be able to offer suggestions on various positions to labour in which can help baby move into the best position possible so that labour can progress quickly and naturally.
The longer you can labour naturally, the less chance you will have of C-Section or interventions being needed.
With my first baby, I gave birth naturally at home with a very skilled midwife. I laboured in the water and sat on the lu during contractions and then when I was pushing, I was in a squatting position, with my arms supported on both sides by my husband and a friend.
My baby's heart tones dropped and the midwife did some "creative work" to help bring baby down and out quickly. She was perfect and had no problems at all. However, I later learned that had I been in the hospital, I most likely would have ended up having a C-Section.
Midwives are very skilled with their hands and can often times offer suggestions to help avoid interventions.
I also wanted to mention that labouring in the water can be very soothing and can help labour progress if already well underway. My midwife told me that water acts as a natural epidural. I don't think I'd go that far, but I will say that having 2 waterbirths and labouring in the water with 4 of my babies definitely helped the pain to be much more bearable.
Another problem that epidurals can create is the need for medications to strengthen contractions. When you have medication like this, contractions are managed by the hospital staff (not your body) and often times you'll end up having a very unnatural rhythm (contraction on top of contraction) rather than some resting time between contractions.
One of our forum members just had a successful Hypnobirth. Her baby is only 10 days old so she hasn't been active on the forums other than to announce the birth, but I'm looking forward to learning more about how the Hypnobirth worked for her.
Have you considered a birth center with a midwife, or a homebirth with a midwife, or even having a midwife or a doula with you in the hospital?
Here's the video I promised.
Warm Regards,
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This is great, thank you!

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Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9 TV dated July 24th, 2012
ADNAN OKTAR: To sum up, Joel must stop thinking of the Islamic world as the antichrist. Of course there are antichrists in the Islamic world; there are antichrists among Christians, of course. But these are allied with one another. Compassionate and loving Muslims will ally themselves with Christians who believe in Allah and with affectionate, compassionate Jews who believe in Allah. And they will make the people of the world brothers and will live in peace. In other words, they will all believe in the same thing. For example, if one day the Mahdi says, may Allah forbid, and he never would say it, but let us imagine he did, "We must kill everyone," nobody would listen to him. They will listen to what is compatible with the Qur'an and the hadiths. If a Christian says let us kill everyone as they forge an alliance with the Mahdi, no Christian will listen to him. And if a Jew says let us kill all Christians and Muslims as he works together with the Mahdi, everyone will think he has gone crazy and nobody will have anything to do with him. So it is terribly wicked to declare that people who want peace are actually the antichrist. It is wrong to portray people who advocate brotherhood as the antichrist.
"If Erdogan wants war, you can be sure he is not the antichrist," he says. My brother, stop this, you are calling everyone you think of the antichrist. The Turkish nation is a very warm, reasonable and affectionate one made up of democratic and rational people. During the War of Independence, the Italians and the British and the French came and occupied us all. What was the Turkish nation meant to do? They fought a defensive war to save their lives. Who were the aggressors? Christians. And the defenders? Muslims. What were they doing? They defended the nation and themselves. What were they expected to do? Say come and crush us? They engaged in self-defense.
But of course I approach matters with affection. I have no anger or hatred. We will talk and discuss. He was rather irritable when he arrived, very tense, but I talked and calmed him down a bit. He was very, very angry toward Muslims and Islam. He was amazed when I treated him with affection, when I behaved warmly toward him. He even apologized for his clothing, and a bit for his behavior. He was very tense and irritable. (He later talked a lot about that.) Yes, he talked about it later. I appreciate that, but these theories of the antichrist and that kind of thing are very dangerous. That kind of language will endanger world peace and cause people to hate the Turkish world. You can call wicked people the antichrist, you can accuse Darwinists and materialists, communists, those among them who act wickedly and ruthlessly, terrorists who blow people up and kill, you can accuse them of being the antichrist, but it is terribly wrong to accuse a whole nation, a whole people, a whole religion. That is a great error. May Allah give him guidance.
But I will talk and explain matters. But if he is not given a reply… His books also sell in large numbers. There are Christian fanatics and neo-Nazis and the rest, and they go crazy when they read them. They go and set fire to Turkish people's homes and try and murder their children. The result is an extraordinary evil. What need is there for that? It is so wrong. Criticize bad people, draw people's attention to them. But good and sincere people regard it as a good thing to be brothers and espouse peace people to be brothers. And skepticism is very wrong; what if one day they try to kill all Christians… What kind of logic is that? It is like saying, what if the Sun splits in two one day and a rocket comes out of it, bringing spacemen with it. If the whole world has been called to peace, if Christians and Jews believe and you act together with them, then nobody will go along with the Mahdi if he appears and says, right, I am going to kill you all. What logic is that? It is of course impossible, but I am just saying so people will understand.


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Start your search for Union or Confederate Civil War ancestors in this database of 6.3 million soldier names from 44 states and territories. Soldiers' names link to histories of their regiments and the battles they fought.
Zoom in on an interactive map linked to primers on 341 battles, study timelines and 5,470 photos, and even sing along with Civil War ditties. This is also one of few sites—another being eHistory, below—where you can search the full text of the Official Record ("OR"), which has detailed reports by those who led the charge.
Though not limited to military history, the 130,000 pages here are especially rich in records of conflicts—including the OR, 800 battle overviews, Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War, maps and timelines.
Library of Virginia
Besides being a must for researchers with Virginia kin, this site's digitized resources include an index to soldiers mentioned in nearly 30 years of Confederate Veteran magazine. Military buffs also can tap the Virginia Military Dead Database of 34,402 names, the fully searchable Index to War of 1812 Pay Rolls and Muster Rolls, a database of the commonwealth's Mexican War Soldiers, Index to Virginia Confederate Rosters, an index to Virginians in the Confederate Navy, and 250,000 Virginia WWII Separation Notices.
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Get a jump on your Civil War research with this new site. The war's sesquicentennial commemoration (2011 to 2015) has already begun, and here you can learn about the war's beginnings in "Bloody Kansas."
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Sofia Vergara & Nick Loeb: Miami Beach Babes
After their allegedly wild NYE night, Sofia Vergara and Nick Loeb spent Wednesday afternoon (January 2) lounging on the beaches of Miami, FL.
The 40-year-old actress showed off her enviable assets in a black one-piece with a bright teal sarong as she read a mag with her hubby-to-be.
In recent news, the couple reportedly faced a confrontation at a night club in South Beach during a New Year's Eve celebration.
Nick got into an alleged argument with the party's host Chris Paciello, whom also happens to be Sofia's ex.
An insider stated, "Sofia stepped in to try to calm the situation, but somehow she ended up getting pushed and shoved also. Her strapless dress was torn or pulled down in front of other people and her son Manolo who was so offended he left the club. It was crazy."


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Umberto Eco on 'The Prague Cemetery'By Andrew Martin
Umberto Eco's novels have been widely admired for their blend of erudite scholarship and satisfying, page-turning plots. His latest book, The Prague Cemetery, continues this tradition by placing a fictional character by the name of Simonini in the midst of a real, historical milieu and giving him a significant, sinister place in nineteenth-century history and beyond. Simonini, an equal-opportunity hater of ethnicities, races, and religions, is a master forger and plays an important role in crafting the "conspiracies" of his time, most importantly the document that becomes The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. I spoke to Eco about the novel, just now being published in the US, on the phone from Italy.
The Prague Cemetery is your sixth novel. Do you find it becomes easier to write a new book at this point in your career? Does it become harder to find new subjects to interest you?
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking. In two months I will be eighty years old. Probably I will not write another novel, and so mankind will be safe.
Did you enjoy writing this particular book?
Less than the others. For me, the process of writing usually takes six years. In those years I collect material, I write, I rewrite. I am in a sort of a private world of myself with my characters. I don't know what will happen. I discover it step by step. And I become very sad when the novel is finished because there is no more pleasure, no more surprise. Read More


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FORT DRUM, N.Y. (AP) _ Fort Drum and the Army's 10th Mountain Division are marking the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks with a ceremony.
Soldiers, civilians and community members will gather Wednesday to honor those who lost their lives that day and acknowledge those who continue to support the global war on terrorism.
Bells will ring marking each impact time, for the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon, and the crash site in rural Pennsylvania.
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Trace Adkins enters rehab following brawl with impersonator
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No one is saying what sparked the fight, but it coincided with the end of Adkins' 12 years of sobriety. Adkins left the cruise Wednesday when the ship docked in Jamaica. The country star's rep confirms to "Country Weekly" that Trace is now in rehab "after a setback in his battle with alcoholism." The spokesperson also asks the public to respect Adkins' privacy as he "faces these issues head-on."
The impersonter and Trace have met before. Check out this video from when they first met back in 2007!
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Topic: Has anybody had experience with T-GX?
Hi. This is my first post.
My dad, 48, was diagonisd with cholangiocarcinoma in Jan 2007. He quickly started on a regime of Taxotere with Avastin, and Gemzar and Xeloda on alternating weeks. So far, he has had 7 treatments with harsh side effects. The ultimate goal is a liver resection. At his 7 week CT Scan, his tumor showed evidence of dying, but not enough measurable shrinkage for a liver resection. I'm just wondering if anybody has had any experience with this combination of chemo drugs (T-GX) and perhaps how they managed their side effects. We are seeking a second opinion with the Standford Comprehensive Cancer Center as it seems they have experience with cholangiocarcinoma. Does anybody know about the center? This has been a very difficult time and I appreciate reading all the posts as they are both encouraging and informative. Thanks for any info!


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Student Life designs, implements and evaluates programs and services in the following areas: student success, wellness, recreational sports, career development, counseling, athletics, residence life, student activities, campus safety and security, health services, service learning, alcohol and drug education, and conduct. Members of the Office of Student Life work closely with student organizations and Student Government.
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Opening Chapel: Love One Another - Lana Miller & Brian Martin Burkholder, campus pastors
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What does "love one another" look like? Campus Pastors Lana Miller and Brian Martin Burkholder introduce the chapel and campus ministries theme "Love One Another as I have Loved You.†(John 15:1-17) Alyssa Cable is leading a worship music team.
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As you are on a Mac maybeyoucan try my latest release of NastyFFT?
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pike Wrote:Hi Rovastar -you rockstar in the Vis scene- (I'm gonna try flattery)
guess i am one of these guys too
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spiff Wrote:So start coding.
What a completely useless post. If he could start coding, do you not think he might have done so?
FWIW op, I think the lack of visualisation/support is a big let down too. Lets hope something can happen.
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kitsunegari Wrote:What a completely useless post. If he could start coding, do you not think he might have done so?
Agreed, and it misses the point of the OP. I think the OP did a great job of articulating:
A. An area of XBMC that has a lot of room for improvement
B. Specific examples of how it could be done
It is possible that a non-coder can have a good idea without the means to implement it, and this seams to be one of those cases.
Rovastar Wrote:I think the fashion of visualizations has past its peak. People just aren't as interested as your used to be....
If you search around on here I believe you will find that there are many people who want more options for visualizations on XBMC. It is my opinion that visualizations have not reached a peak, it's that the landscape has changed. People no longer want a bunch of random colors and shapes morphing around the screen; they want clean visuals that melt into the background and accompany, not upstage the music. Fan art is a perfect example of this. There could be several visualizations based off of fan art, lyrics, album art, etc.
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2012-04-21 11:31 Post: #21
(2011-09-21 22:41)zag2me Wrote: God I remember rabidhamster!! I used to stare at the screen for hours watching that
I still use R4 the most amazing music visualizations ever....
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2012-04-24 19:24 Post: #22
Hi folks,
New here, but I've been poking on the ProjectM source code for awhile now, so I thought I'd share my work here as there does indeed seem to be interest.
I've mainly been working on the "beat detection", but also have some MilkDrop compat improvements.
The existing projectM sound analysis is based on some statistical energy methods, I've replaced this with an FFT based approach. The results are IMO a dramatic improvement in the standalone version of projectM. I've ported the patch to the XBMC version of ProjectM, however the results are very disappointing..
It seems XBMC does not provide frequent updates of the audio stream to visualizations, so while the viz is running @ 60fps, the audio data is only being refreshed in the area of 10fps. At least thats what I observe.. I've seen one or two mentions of this elsewhere, so I assume its not just on my system.
I'll be looking into fixing this audio refresh issue in XBMC if I can locate its cause and then I'll look at submitting a patch to XBMC. Does anyone have any insight on this?
Anyway, if there's interest I'll definitely arrange to share my code, as I am also interested in having a good viz solution for XBMC.
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2012-04-24 19:35 Post: #23
@kid_meier, also there's a newer ProjectM which supports more and newer presets, have you looked at this ?
Furthermore there's many Milkdrop presets which simply doesn't work correctly
And last, AE (our new audio system) will bring changes to the viz-api I believe so changes are coming
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2012-04-24 19:40 Post: #24
Welcome to the forums. I'm glad to hear you're working on improving this area of xbmc. Xbmc only supports MilkDrop 1.04 presets, does these MilkDrop compatability improvements you briefly mentioned mean we will finally see 2.0.1 support?
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2012-04-24 19:47 Post: #25
(2012-04-24 19:35)pike Wrote: @kid_meier, also there's a newer ProjectM which supports more and newer presets, have you looked at this ?
Are you referring to projectM 2.0 with shader support? I am aware of it, and I've actually also shoe-horned this version into XBMC. My reference to my work MilkDrop compat is most in reference to the shader support.
I have no silver bullets, but I think my changes are a definite improvement. I'll take a peek at the new AE and see if that helps. I also saw a reference in the Fische thread that disabling pulseaudio may help...
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2012-04-27 21:51 Post: #26
@kid_meier Good luck!
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2012-07-20 19:28 Post: #27
I'm curious. What is the best looking waveform/spectrogram type option available? There's a waveform viz, but it's just an unattractive single line.
Is there no way to have a waveform like this overlayed on the album arm?
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2012-09-30 11:50 Post: #28
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(2011-07-09 16:49)spiff Wrote: So start coding.
Maybe he is busy working on something really important, like karaoke..
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Anyone knows if exists Andoid visualizator for android ? Also in dev , thank you.
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Hi everyone. I need advice. I am looking to purchase a new bodyboard for the upcoming season. I hope to ride this board in hollow, thick, dangerous shorebreak. What materials and tail shape, etc. should I be looking for. Thanks!
coulda just said shore break we know what it means =] i still ride a 20 year old mach 7 so iim not one to know
go with a crescent tail single stringer and depending on the water temp DOW or PP
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Why do people start so much ****
Since its shorebreak the boards probably going to get the **** beat out of it. I would go for a double stringer to make it hold up better. Keep it from bending. Don't really think that there are boards made specifically for shorebreak. I would just say go double stringer and have maybe a 10" or 11" nose so you can maneuver better. Honestly, the boards probably going to snap if your not experienced enough to ride shorbreak. I know I would have broken my board by now if I went to IRS.
my 41.5 HUBB holds up like none other..and it has been beat to hell on some of the heaviest shorebreak around here and still has no creases or anything...or No. 6 makes some nasty boards i had a 41.5 stong thatt held for about 3 yrs...
BZ, #6, TOOBS in that order
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BZ - I think there boards have the best shape, there light, very maneuverable and can take a beating.
#6 - Razor sharp rails, there shapes are all right, and they have that anti-sun bubble stuff on the deck and the boards are quite tough but they can be heavy.
TOOBS - Hand shaped, but I'm not a big fan of the shapes besides the Herlihy, bullet proof.
So you really can't go wrong with any of them, tail wise if you do a lot of spins go with bat tail if you just carve/dk get a crescent.
Custom PMA is the best made boards i have ever ridden
That was very helpful. I plan on riding mainly at Indian River Southside this summer, so it is good to get advice from someone with first hand experience.


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While I do agree up to a point, I believe there are those among us, myself included, who find it a bit too much at times. Not sure how to solve that.
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While I do agree up to a point, I believe there are those among us, myself included, who find it a bit too much at times. Not sure how to solve that.
24 man channel does not work. The purpose is promoting squad play. Squad play does not happen unless you are in the same channel and it's only one squad.
I guess we could just have stratsquad or whatever. People should know that the amount of silliness is multiplied by 100 in organized comms since there's not about 400 people talking over eachother just relaying intel, so there's room to talk about other shit as well, make friends and generally have much more fun.
When you're playing 12 people tight together everything works better and you learn to know your squadmates. With 48 it's mainly just random jokes and no room for 1on1 talk.
which does remind me: how much fun did the SLs have last night? whenever I talked to Ride, he seemed very grumpy, but I couldnt tell if it was because of me, or because of his growing hatred for enemy AA :D
However: I understand there's 30 poeple in a channel is too much for some; whether it's too noisy or just not coordinated enough. Not Wednesdays though; sorry to whoever I gave a straight "no" to the other night on that, but I like Wednesdays to be big & loud. I'd consider splitting into 24 person channels if there was a general agreement on that though.
But, yeah, I can see the appeal of something a bit more like the strategic nights as an ad hoc possibility.
Channel suggestion:
Then the those in commanders would only have to add the "Casual Giraffes" command channel to their whisper list and we'd have a setup where the serious folk could go do their serious stuff and the rest of us can go on taking the piss out of Grible, but still have command coordination with the serious lot?Code:
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Think the other SLs did fine, but it was very frustrating getting orders to go somewhere where we could not do anything as air because the ground forces couldn't take out the turrets or other stuff. I know you set WP for their bursters, but the ground never took them out, nor did they saron the turrets. We did fine and had a lot of fun when we for example bombed the sattelites outside the tech plant since that was safe from AA at the time (you had cleared it out). Since AA is so goddamn powerful now, it's extremely easy to create a no fly zone.
When you have an air squad you can't just put them over a tech plant if the ground forces don't snipe the aa turrets. They'll get wiped out. Hence, my frustration. Also, we stayed at a tech plant for like 30-45 minutes and it seemed like you guys didn't advance at all. We were kinda just getting shot down and not really doing much. Yes, I know you asked me if I wanted to switch from air, but we wanted to stay air, just have a viable target. Like Torremar for example, which worked fine. Or the tech plant, if the ground would have taken out the AA.
But I guess none of us really know how to utilize an air squad yet, but I can say that it's probably best the air folks just ask where the ground is heading and they help out if they can. Also, at facilities, to let the ground take out the AA turrets and totally focus on that the first thing you do. That way you can gain air dominance and bomb the hell out of everything and the air squad is super useful again.
And honestly I don't see why we shouldn't run organized comms on standard nights. Is there really so many people that are against it? Last night we were a bit more organized, if drunk, and it was about 500 000 times better then usual. When we just zerg we get jack shit done, when we organize we succeed, help out and are a force to be reckoned with. A reactive zerg is nothing of the sort. We still did not organize the comms, which made squads split up somewhat and people to react slowly, but seeing as we were only about 20 in the channel, we could still get orders out that people listened to. We capped different bases with different squads and in general we were super smooth and swift. We successfully drove TR off Indar.
With 40+ in a chat we will never accomplish anything more then zergin' around. Is that really what people in general want for standard nights? Can't 12 people be enough for idiocy and arseing about? There is certainly a LOT more room for it.
Also it was me you said no to, and wednesday was a clusterfuck commswise, so I quit. But yes, I agree, there must be a night for such things as well.
Also, thanks for taking over so soon after joining, I had to run. I did get the feeling like we managed to keep the TR at bay on Indar, though. Great work everyone!
The air war regularly has a different frontline than the ground war. More often than not, you can't just fly to a platoon waypoint and go to work.
For me, it doesn't make sense for a ground-based PL to set specific targets for an air squad. People in the air probably have a better understanding of what is happening, what is possible and should make their own decisions. Especially with the current AA game - pilots have to be ultra cautious.
If the platoon waypoint is swarming with AA, pull away and work in a different hex.
I'd like to apologise to Quanta for last nights shameless begging to take over as PL. I don't mind leading for a little bit in a small platoon, but I'm not confident enough as a leader to do it with a larger group for a prolonged amount of time, but still, sorry.
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Basically, air frontline is different to ground frontline, the air squad should make its own decisions and treat the platoon waypoint as an ideal rather than an order.
We really did keep the TR at bay, it's just that they came back in full force and pushed us back again.. But, we got Indar at last actually, so I think we did a great job!
And izal has a good point as well - the air squad should probably just roll kind of ad hoc where they want to go and swoop in when the ground tells them they're needed.
Regarding organized comms then.. Should I just have my organized spec-ops-y squad be Delta? Then we'll be Delta Force and all cool and stuff, and focusing on ninjacapping, being behind enemy lines and fighting as a force. Mainly infantry ops. Then we can communicate with quanta, coop or whoever is leading the PL proper.
I really like Coopers idea. At least that way it gives people the option to choose, rather than just having a blanket rule. Which as JesusPhish pointed out might alienate one or two who just play casual wednesdays. Why not give everyone the best of both worlds. I agree with Esoteric, playing in a serious style all the time can get to much. Sometimes i want to just sit there in silence, listen to the rabble and shoot a laser gun.
In terms of Thursday night: Charlie was a pleasure to lead. I had a pretty full squad for basically the entire night which was great. Everyone had a good attitude, suggested things and listened to me when needed. I hope that they enjoyed themselves. As usual an outing full of indelible and memerable moments.
I thought you did a good job Quanta, though at certain points in the night i noticed myself and Orius felt our squads had grinded to a halt, so to speak. That wa sbecause we were either waiting for orders, or the fighting had reached a bit of a stalemate. On the whole there were moments where it felt like we worked really we as a platoon and there were moments where i felt we were quite lonely as a squad. Not to knock your efforts at all, sometimes things just play out like that on outings, so dont take that the wrong way.
I tried out that whole MAX tactic out by the way. At the BioLab when Cooper took over, though it was very spurr of the moment and lacked enough support to last long enough to see results. Though i could certainly see it has great potential.
On most nights we get somewhere between 15-30 people in Mumble. If 20 is a decent number in a single channel, is there any need to change what we currently do?
If so, to what? Would the old Stratgir system fo two 24 people channels work?
I'd rather a system that was ad hoc. Each night can be dfferent. I've been on and there's been 30 of us and it's been pretty tight, other nights 30 people is just, like you say, a messy zerg. Because each night is different, I don't think some kind of system of "if there's more than 20, split" or something like that would work.
The Stratgir set of channels is not going away. All a PL - or anyone else for that matter - needs to do is ask in comms if people would prefer to use that system. If they would, move.
What I want to know is: Do we need a "middle ground". Somewhere between the 12 person channels we have for stratgir and the 30+ channel we have on other nights. If so; what does that middle ground look like, and what does it need on Mumble?
As for an air brigade, you want to really specialise and work out ratios. I think having 2 ESFs to 1 Lib is a good set-up. We also need to make sure with our air escorts that they're set-up for A2A. I don't know how many people in the outfit are though, but even the basic gun is good enough. It does put more pressure on specific units though; Scythes will be very hard to do much against ground with just their main gun. Infantry is fine, but anything heavier than a Lightning and it's a lesson in frustration.
As to what went on thursday, I think I'd like to see some more focus on communication between the leaders and reaching an overarching strategy before going at it and reacting to what we find, instead of getting bogged down in an administrative mire where people don't really see the big picture. That goes for getting the SLs more involved in the thought process behind the larger movements instead of being given an objective one after another and having to figure out what the overall process is supposed to be and working together as a whole platoon. I feel this worked a lot smoother the time before this.
I'm not putting the blame square on Quanta, though, at least as far as Bravo was concerned. I'm not entirely sure why it happened this time around, if it was me not being clear enough or something else, but trying to keep the squad together was much harder this time around than it was with Charlie last week. Maybe it was demotivational that we were up against such insane odds at times and made people distrust leadership in general? If there's anything I could do differently at least, I'd love to hear comments on it. But I also feel we were being jerked around a little bit and I understand why that happens, it was just a little disheartening to redirect the guys in my charge up to three or four times and be unable to give them as much a sense of accomplishment as I'd like to.
In conclusion I think communication is still key and is something we should continue to work on. One thing I'd like to see is a little bit more use of the broadcast function so everyone properly understands the PL's general intent and limit confusion.
What I'm saying is if that hex is swamped with AA I don't think it makes sense to keep flying into it. You will regularly be on cooldown and run out of resources (especially on Esamir).
A group of pilots looking out for each other is great, but it's not always possible to attack specified targets for reasons people on the ground cannot see.
BTW, how did the air squad handle cooldown/resources on Thursday?
We tried to survive and cycled libs. Worked well enough, but after the tech plant we were all grounded.
If we're rolling with a dedicated air squad again, maybe one of the ground squads should specifically be given SEAD duties for the night.
It would be less relevant at small bases / quiet caps, but if it's a standing order then at a big fight this squad would know that hunting AA units and destroying turrets is their priority objective.
well like I said, Ill prioritise that more next time.
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|A Hail of a Time
Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2007
|Started from the Black Cloud TH. I wouldn't climb Elbert any other way. For solitude, this route can't be beat as I didn't see anyone else until I reached the summit. I took Variation 1 down (which descends the bowl between Bull Hill and South Elbert. No trail to be found and it was talus and scree until treeline. A storm blew in and I got hailed on for about an hour.
|Posted Jan 27, 2008 10:49 am
Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2002
|Another Sawatch hike
|Posted Jan 14, 2008 5:51 pm
|# 7
Date Climbed: Nov 17, 2007
|This was my 7th climb of Elbert. Standard route. Although we had snow, there was little coverage for this late in the year.
|Posted Jan 9, 2008 12:14 am
|First Time
Date Climbed: Aug 16, 1987
|This was my first time climbing Mount Elbert. It was from the old trailhead that shared parking with Mount Massive. Most of my climbs of Elbert have been on this standard route. Although on one climb we approached from the Independence Pass road and went over South Elbert and on the return Bull Hill.
|Posted Jan 9, 2008 12:12 am
|standard route
|Did this the first weekend I moved to Colorado. Lots of snow and had the summit to myself.
|Posted Jan 6, 2008 4:02 pm
|Alone in the snow
Date Climbed: Mar 4, 2004
|I had great time up there by myself. Wicked bad snow storm on the way down! Awesome mountains of ours!
|Posted Jan 3, 2008 10:10 pm
|Elbert summit party
Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2004
|Summited via standard East Ridge route. Wife and I were the #2 and #3 people on the summit. Within 45 minutes, there were no fewer than 30 people and 6-8 dogs on top. Glad we started early!
|Posted Dec 26, 2007 10:20 am
|Beautiful place
Date Climbed: Apr 10, 2004
|I climbed it the snow, not another person on the peak. good times.
|Posted Dec 16, 2007 5:51 pm
|South Mt. Elbert Trailhead
Date Climbed: Sep 15, 1994
|2nd 14er. Again climbed with my neighbor, friend and guide Scott Arnett. My memories of this climb are having Scott yell up to me saying " Slow down you goat" as I left the trail at about 12,500 feet and went straight up to the summit through boulders and snow fields. I felt very strong. After an enjoyable hour and a half on the summit mother nature let us know it was time to retreat by dumping a large amount of snow on us turning it into a white out within about 20 minutes.
|Posted Nov 26, 2007 11:18 pm
Date Climbed: Oct 26, 2004
|1 day summit
|Posted Nov 6, 2007 6:08 pm
Date Climbed: Oct 24, 2003
|1 day summit
|Posted Nov 6, 2007 6:08 pm
|NE Ridge
Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2003
|Great Climb. Deep snow last 500ft.
|Posted Oct 29, 2007 11:50 pm
|Great weather, great hike.
Date Climbed: Oct 8, 2007
|First time back in the 14er groove since July. Great friends and great times in the mountains though. The weather was beautiful. Blue bird skies and nice and warm. Fall is definately the best time of year to get up Elbert!
|Posted Oct 10, 2007 3:49 pm
|Mixed feelings
Date Climbed: Aug 24, 2005
|Elbert was the first 14er I did solo or without my faithful companion, Odin, my Golden Retriever who joined me for 17 14er summits. It felt strange hiking without him.
|Posted Oct 5, 2007 7:06 pm
|early snowstorm
Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2007
|Stopped short at 13650 ft. 1/2 mile below summit due to hiking solo and snow on trail at 11:30 AM. Felt fine, but better safe than sorry. Will have to come back and do it again next year.
|Posted Sep 26, 2007 6:29 pm
|First 14er
Date Climbed: Aug 15, 1991
|This was my first time to any kind of elevation. Went from RI to Leadville the day before.
|Posted Sep 25, 2007 9:19 am
|Boriss Andean
|Mount Elbert. Colorado's highest point!
Date Climbed: Sep 24, 2004
|Started at 5:00 am from the TH. Easy hike all the way up to the snow covered summit. Got to the top just on time. It started thundering 15 minutes after I reached back timberline.
Mount Elbert (4,399 m/14,433 ft).
My 1st HP.!
|Posted Sep 24, 2007 9:18 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 14, 1999
|I climbed this with my Boy Scout Troop from Lakewood. Didn't feel good all day and ended up throwing up on the way down. It was like a highway all day going up and down, but a very nice route. Extremely easy.
|Posted Sep 16, 2007 1:25 am
|First 14er
Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2006
|This was my first 14er. Hiked it with my brother using the South Mt Elbert trail. It was a fun hike, but had a lot of vertical.
|Posted Sep 15, 2007 11:19 pm
|Great Summit Climb!!!
Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2007
|I highly recommend this hike. The weather, as I anticipated, was unpredictable. I wanted to start pre-dawn, to possibly see the sunrise from the summit, but lightning storms lit up the night sky like a laser show (so I waited until dawn to begin). In between periods of beautiful blue sky & sun, I encountered several rain drizzles & three hailstorms before reaching the summit... which then had a new weather system to greet me with approximate 20-30 MPH winds. Great scenery all along the North Elbert Trail, especially along the Northeast Ridge.
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HOW many programs last almost three decades with barely a tweaking of the format? At the Movies with Margaret and David - they long ago evolved to the level of needing only one name each - returns for 2013, having moved to a new night and a new timeslot. But little else has changed, and why would it? The simple set-up - recorded live and reported to have just one rehearsal an hour or so before going to air - works superbly; the spontaneity of the pair's reactions to each other's opinions and the ad-libbed discussions and tangents are the show's real joy. And, like a good drama, At the Movies is often most entertaining when there's real conflict between our beloved urbane critics. Although David might disagree with me on that one.
MasterChef: The Professionals, Channel Ten, 7.30pm
HAS MasterChef run its course (no culinary pun intended)? This season, despite featuring celebrity British chef Marco Pierre White as co-host, the franchise has had trouble pulling in the viewers, hitting a new low when it was out-rated by the nightly news. The professional-level spinoff held promise, particularly with the notoriously grumpy White running proceedings, but it's just not as much fun watching food-industry professionals (accustomed to being shouted at by a gruff head chef) scramble to complete service challenges and compete against other chefs - their peers, in essence. And White is yet to demonstrate his legendary volcanic temper. Perhaps it's time to provoke him into some ratings-motivated controversy.
Packed to the Rafters, Channel Seven, 8.45pm
THE Rafters are limping along in this series; perhaps the prospect of producing series six, yet to be filmed, is a daunting one. It's feeling daunting as a viewer, to be honest. There's another departure from the Rafter household tonight, with Matt (Jacob Allan) moving out, which leaves just a few Rafters left in the house. At first, it looks as though there might be another empty room when Ted (Michael Caton) ends up in hospital. No spoilers here: the old fella is OK, at least physically, but not so the Rafters' garage after a mysterious fire. Outside the Rafter household, Jake (James Stewart) and Alex (anyone else still feel uneasy about able-bodied actor Kristian Schmid playing a character with cerebral palsy?) are at odds regarding the return of their father, Jim (Andy Anderson), and the former husband of Donna (Merridy Eastman), who has come to stay is, predictably, acting suspiciously.
NCIS, Channel Ten, 9.30pm
PERHAPS the wackiest episode of NCIS ever includes the return of Diane Sterling (Melinda McGraw) and Tobias Fornell (Joe Spano) in a storyline involving fraud, fish and an hour of ex-wife gags. Fornell is the target of what appears to be a random shooting by a discharged navy officer. Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and the NCIS team are brought in to investigate, and Gibbs and Fornell team up, tracking down the former seaman's employer in a bar. There, they run into their mutual ex-wife - don't you hate it when that happens? - who tells them it's a coincidence. Naturally, it's nothing of the sort. Diane, formerly an auditor at the IRS, has been promoted to investigator in its enforcement division - she's got a badge now and all. She's also investigating the shooter for his involvement in a fraud ring involving filing tax returns under fake identities, so Vance forces the three of them to work together on the case. Cue ex-wife gags. And ex-husband gags - Daine refers to Gibbs and Fornell as ''Frick and Frack''. When Sterling reveals she's having marital problems with her third husband, she ends up seeking comfort from Agent McGee (Sean Murray), the pair innocently falling asleep together on McGee's couch, only to be discovered that way by Fornell. Cue even more japery. In between the gags, there's an engaging-enough story around the fraud case, but the focus of tonight's episode is really the show's characters.


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Israel, EU sign ´open skies´ agreement (JERUSALEM POST) By BEN HARTMAN 03/23/12)
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Cheaper flights and better service should be on the way for Israeli travelers, following an agreement reached between the European Union and Israel in Tel Aviv on Thursday that will see the development of a common aviation area between the Israel and the EU.
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The agreement means that all airlines in the EU will be able to operate direct flights to Israel from any location in the EU, and Israeli airlines will be able to fly to all airports in the EU. The EU said Thursday that due to the agreement, by 2017 the market will be completely open with no limits whatsoever on the number of flights between Israel and the EU.
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According to EU figures, the EU-Israel air transport market accounted for 6.75 million passengers in 2010. The EU accounts for some 57% of international air travel from Israel., and there are direct flight connections between Israel and 16 EU member states (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain and the United Kingdom).
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A San Diego Superior Court judge on Wednesday tentatively dismissed a nine-year-old lawsuit by San Bernardino County against three public agencies in which the county sought to recoup a portion of a $102 million legal settlement the defendants say was corrupt.
At the crux of Judge Ronald Prager's 4-page decision was former Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Postmus' March 2011 guilty plea to a felony conflict-of-interest charge.
Postmus admitted he accepted a bribe from Rancho Cucamonga developer Jeff Burum in exchange for his vote approving the landmark settlement with Burum's investor group, Colonies Partners LP, in November 2006.
The settlement ended nearly five years of legal battle between the county and Burum over a flood-control project on a 434-acre Upland parcel that Colonies Partners bankrolled.
In motions filed with the court and heard Wednesday by Prager, the county argued that its lawsuit, filed in November 2004, was to show that the defendants - San Bernardino Associated Governments, Upland and Caltrans - should be held liable for a portion of the settlement payments, regardless of whether or not the settlement was corrupt.
The defendants argued in their motions that Postmus' guilty plea was an admission he violated state conflict-of-interest laws and therefore voided the settlement.
Prager sided with the defendants in his tentative ruling. He is expected to issue his final ruling within a week.
The judge cited a 2005 case in which the court found that evidence of a public official's guilty plea to a conflict-of-interest violation was a sufficient basis for dismissal of an indemnity claim. He also cited a 2008 San Bernardino County case that held that contracts in violation of Section 1090 of the state Government Code are against fundamental public policy.
"Here, SanBAG presented evidence indicating that Postmus had a financial interest in the $102 million settlement," Prager wrote in his decision. "More specifically, Postmus' guilty plea, grand jury testimony and plaintiffs' admissions establish said financial interest."
California Government Code Section 1090 says that "members of the Legislature, state, county, district, judicial district, and city officers or employees shall not be financially interested in any contract made by them in their official capacity, or by any body or board of which they are members."
Postmus told a criminal grand jury in April 2011 that Burum stated numerous times he would support Postmus financially in future offices and business ventures if Postmus secured the settlement in Colonies' favor. That also constituted proof of a conflict-of-interest violation, Prager said in his written decision.
Prager said the county even admitted in an April 2011 news release that a conflict of interest occurred when Postmus approved the settlement, and then failed to rebut Postmus' statements in his guilty plea and grand jury testimony.
Attorneys for both sides declined to comment Wednesday, opting to wait until Prager's final ruling.
Also charged in the criminal case are former Supervisor Paul Biane, former Assistant Assessor Jim Erwin and Mark Kirk, former chief of staff for Supervisor Gary Ovitt. They stand accused of accepting a total of $400,000 in bribes from Burum for their roles in the alleged conspiracy.
All four defendants deny any wrongdoing.
The county opted not to seek a suspension of its lawsuit after Postmus' guilty plea and the subsequent indictment against the four defendants. Postmus has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and testify against the four defendants in exchange for leniency.
The county has spent roughly $25 million over the last nine years on the case, county spokesman David Wert said.
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Did you know that John H. Hammergren is the highest paid CEO, making $131,190,000 per year for McKesson? In fact, the top 15 CEOs all make more than $40M annually. While this fuels the continuing debate over income inequality in America, there is also a growing shift towards tying CEO pay to company performance.
Here are a few examples from the graphic:
- After peaking in 2007, CEO compensation has fallen, though still double then what it was in the 1980s
- 6 in 10: Companies in Standard and Poors 1500-stock index tie performance to equity awards – up from just 2 in 10 in 2002
Infographic Credits, courtesy of Bolt Insurance:
Source: BoltInsurance.com