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July 2013 Book Club Nominations
MobileRead Book Club
July 2013 Nominations
Help us select the book that the
MobileRead Book Club
will read for July, 2013.
The nominations will run through midnight EST
June 30 or until 10 books have made the list. The poll will then be posted and will remain open for five days.
Book selection category for July is:
In order for a book to be included in the poll it needs THREE NOMINATIONS (original nomination, a second and a third).
How Does This Work?
The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you. Each month a book is selected by polling. On the last week of that month a discussion thread is started for the book. If you want to participate feel free. There is no need to "join" or sign up. All are welcome.
How Does a Book Get Selected?
Each book that is nominated will be listed in a poll at the end of the nomination period. The book that polls the most votes will be the official selection.
How Many Nominations Can I Make?
Each participant has 3 nominations. You can nominate a new book for consideration or nominate (second, third) one that has already been nominated by another person.
How Do I Nominate a Book?
Please just post a message with your nomination. If you are the FIRST to nominate a book, please try to provide an abstract to the book so others may consider their level of interest.
How Do I Know What Has Been Nominated?
Just follow the thread. This message will be updated with the status of the nominations as often as I can. If one is missed, please just post a message with a multi-quote of the 3 nominations and it will be added to the list ASAP.
When is the Poll?
The poll thread will open at the end of the nomination period, or once there have been 10 books with 3 nominations each. At that time a link to the initial poll thread will be posted here and this thread will be closed.
The floor is open to nominations.
Please comment if you discover a nomination is not available as an ebook in your area
Official choices with three nominations each:
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
by Blaine Harden
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Originally Posted by Amazon.com
The heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped
North Korea's political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin's Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. No one, that is, except Shin Dong-hyuk.
In Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden unlocks the secrets of the world's most repressive totalitarian state through the story of Shin's shocking imprisonment and his astounding getaway. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence—he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his mother and brother.
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
by Eric Hoffer
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Barnes & Noble
Sony Reader Store
From Amazon:
"[Eric Hoffer] is a student of extraordinary perception and insight. The range of his reading and research is vast, amazing. [The True Believer is] one of the most provocative books of our immediate day."—Christian Science Monitor
The famous bestseller with "concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement" (Wall St. Journal) by Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Eric Hoffer, The True Believer is a landmark in the field of social psychology, and even more relevant today than ever before in history. Called a "brilliant and original inquiry" and "a genuine contribution to our social thought" by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., The True Believer is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the machinations by which an individual becomes a fanatic.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
by Rebecca Skloot
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Starred Review. Science journalist Skloot makes a remarkable debut with this multilayered story about faith, science, journalism, and grace. It is also a tale of medical wonders and medical arrogance, racism, poverty and the bond that grows, sometimes painfully, between two very different women—Skloot and Deborah Lacks—sharing an obsession to learn about Deborah's mother, Henrietta, and her magical, immortal cells. Henrietta Lacks was a 31-year-old black mother of five in Baltimore when she died of cervical cancer in 1951. Without her knowledge, doctors treating her at Johns Hopkins took tissue samples from her cervix for research. They spawned the first viable, indeed miraculously productive, cell line—known as HeLa. These cells have aided in medical discoveries from the polio vaccine to AIDS treatments. What Skloot so poignantly portrays is the devastating impact Henrietta's death and the eventual importance of her cells had on her husband and children. Skloot's portraits of Deborah, her father and brothers are so vibrant and immediate they recall Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family. Writing in plain, clear prose, Skloot avoids melodrama and makes no judgments. Letting people and events speak for themselves, Skloot tells a rich, resonant tale of modern science, the wonders it can perform and how easily it can exploit society's most vulnerable people.
A Night to Remember
by Walter Lord
Amazon UK
From HarryT:
This is the classic account of the sinking of the Titanic from the eye-witness accounts of the survivors. A simply amazing book which everyone should read.
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist—the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
by Daniel Pool
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Barnes & Noble
Sony Reader Store
Amazon Book Description:
Publication Date: October 2, 2012
For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century English novels of Austen, Trollope, Dickens, or the Brontës who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell "Tally Ho!" at a fox hunt, or how one landed in "debtor's prison," here is a "delightful reader's companion that lights up the literary dark" (The New York Times).
This fascinating, lively guide clarifies the sometimes bizarre maze of rules, regulations, and customs that governed everyday life in Victorian England. Author Daniel Pool provides countless intriguing details (did you know that the "plums" in Christmas plum pudding were actually raisins?) on the Church of England, sex, Parliament, dinner parties, country house visiting, and a host of other aspects of nineteenth-century English life -- both "upstairs" and "downstairs."
An illuminating glossary gives at a glance the meaning and significance of terms ranging from "ague" to "wainscoting," the specifics of the currency system, and a lively host of other details and curiosities of the day.
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
by Christopher Clark
Amazon US
Barnes & Noble
From the Boston Globe:
For a century the question of the origins of World War I has bedeviled historians, who have struggled to determine whether a conflict that claimed 20 million lives and prompted the death of three empires could have been avoided and, if not, who was to blame.
That question won't be settled by the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand a year from this summer. There are too many factors, too many moving parts and, alas, too many (contradictory) documents to produce an ironclad answer. But no one who examines the question will be able to ignore "The Sleepwalkers,'' the monumental new volume by Cambridge University historian Christopher Clark that addresses this issue.
Though he does not provide a verdict, Clark's view nonetheless is revelatory, even revolutionary. His thesis is that World War I is not a hoary event shrouded in the mists and mysteries of another age, but a thoroughly modern affair, begun in a way familiar to us today: by a terrorist group that worshipped sacrifice and death, had no clear geographic moorings, and was scattered across a vast area of festering grievances and unrequited dreams.
To all that irrationality was added the most dangerous element of all in international relations — cool reason fed by national interest.
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
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Originally Posted by amazon.com
"Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute.
The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it?
by Mary Roach
Amazon US
Google Play (ePub)
The alimentary canal—the much-maligned tube from mouth to rear—is as taboo, in its way, as the cadavers in
, and as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in
Packing for Mars
. In
we meet the scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks—or has the courage—to ask. How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Why doesn't the stomach digest itself? Can wine tasters really tell a $10 bottle from a $100 bottle? Why is crunchy food so appealing? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? We go on location to a pet food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal.
Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn't the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of—or has the courage to ask. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal. With Roach at our side, we travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists—who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts.
Like all of Roach's books,
is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies.
Faust in Copenhagen
by Gino Segrè
Amazon US
Barnes & Noble
A physicist himself, Gino Segrè writes about what scientists do?and why they do it?with intimacy, clarity, and passion. In Faust in Copenhagen, he evokes the fleeting, magical moment when physics?and the world?was about to lose its innocence forever. Known by physicists as the miracle year, 1932 saw the discovery of the neutron and antimatter, as well as the first artificially induced nuclear transmutations. However, while scientists celebrated these momentous discoveries?which presaged the nuclear era and the emergence of big science?during a meeting at Niels Bohr?s Copenhagen Institute, Europe was moving inexorably toward totalitarianism and war. (from Amazon)
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
by Neil McKenna
Amazon US
Barnes & Noble
28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All eyes are riveted upon their lascivious oglings of the gentlemen in the stalls. Moments later they are led away by the police. What followed was a scandal that shocked and titillated Victorian England in equal measure. It turned out that the alluring Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton were no ordinary young women. Far from it. In fact, they were young men who liked to dress as women. When the Metropolitan Police launched a secret campaign to bring about their downfall, they were arrested and subjected to a sensational show trial in Westminster Hall. As the trial of 'the Young Men in Women's Clothes' unfolded, Fanny and Stella's extraordinary lives as wives and daughters, actresses and whores were revealed to an incredulous public. With a cast of peers, politicians and prostitutes, drag queens, doctors and detectives, "Fanny and Stella" is a Victorian peepshow, exposing the startling underbelly of nineteenth-century London. By turns tragic and comic, meticulously researched and dazzlingly written, "Fanny and Stella" is an enthralling tour-de-force.
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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 passes the FCC wearing AT&T colors
reported that the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 had visited the FCC. The joint venture's first Android device had visited the rubber stamping pencil pushers with T-Mobile's 3G frequencies under the hood. We weren't too surprised because in an earlier story, we told you that it appeared as though Sony Ericsson had produced two models of the device, one with T-Mobile spectrum and a variant that covered some of AT&T's 3G bands. This looks to be the case as the handset made another visit to the FCC, this time wearing a radio that uses some of AT&T's 3G spectrum. This could be very good news for those waiting for a subsidized price to go along with 3G capabilities in the U.S. After all, failure to hook-up up with a U.S. based carrier was one of the reasons why the Xperia X1 did miserably in the U.S. where it was sold as an unlocked Windows Mobile device. Powered by Android, the Xperia X10 is supposed to be the joint venture's new Flagship phone and it would be nice if the handset that Sony Ericsson is counting on so much could be competitive in the American market by way of a subsidized offering. Thinking seriously about purchasing the Xperia X10? Check out our Preview.The other day we
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Specifications | Preview
source: FCC via Engadget
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Specifications | Preview
source: FCC via Engadget
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posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:44 0
1. saneok (Posts: 78; Member since: 01 Oct 2009)
thats a great phone! lucky u AT&T and T-Mobile people... this phone makes the droid look so weak... only thing it's missing is Android 2.1
posted on 22 Dec 2009, 04:06 0
3. SamTime (Posts: 253; Member since: 07 Nov 2009)
Honestly, I'm jealous of verizon guys (Droid) and tmobile guys (Nexus One). The Xperia X10 isn't much consulation. Last I've seen, the software needed lots of tweaking to get it to run smoothly.
posted on 22 Dec 2009, 02:54 0
2. PDXMatt (Posts: 45; Member since: 26 Feb 2007)
I wonder what it will cost. Being SE I bet it will expensive!
posted on 22 Dec 2009, 09:56 0
4. vzw fanman (Posts: 1976; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)
looks like a great phone, but i need a keyboard.
posted on 26 Dec 2009, 03:23 0
5. Sony Ericsson (Posts: 1; Member since: 26 Dec 2009)
Only thing missing in this is Android 2.1.I think i needs lot of software to run easily. I had some of latest Sony Ericsson modelshttp://www.vegastronics.com/ca
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You know what to do, post work in progress pics of stuff you're working on. Maybe you'll eventually release it in 10 years.
AngryMan suggested I make Tom Sizemore from Black Hawk Down to replace Father Gregori's facemap so I did.
Post your WiP related to ports, hacks, rips, etc. here.
To start this off:
It's the seventh thread focused on scratch made models and textures mostly generally specifically designed for game use! Previous thread hit the limit.
We pride ourselves on C&C, so post what you have, be it incomplete or complete. You're among...
Ports from the previous thread
I've decided to go ahead and do this. Since it seems some people really wanted to see Plasmid's Star Wars model releases be uploaded and since I have them all I decided why not. So here is what I have, and what some of my fellow Star Wars modellers here...
You know the drill. Post WIP shots of ports and hacks you probably will never finish.
Content that really WILL never be finished by me most probably: K&L Militia (outdated as fuck)
I don't know about you I'd love to get some of the models out of this game.
How you can install Overwatch.
battle.net.exe --game=prometheus --install
Post what you have and what you're searching for concerning 3D Models and/or textures from Star Wars themed games.
Links from previous thread :
Force Unleashed 1&2 :...
After clogging up the thread in the requests forum, I decided we kinda need a WIP thread to post our progress in.
In this thread we are dedicated to bringing Mass Effect models into Source.
Spacemarine ports
you know what to do.
Last thread
Reposts from the last thread
TrackMania cars
It's the sixth thread focused on scratch made models and textures mostly generally specifically designed for game use! Previous thread hit the limit.
We pride ourselves on C&C, so post what you have, be it incomplete or complete. You're among friends....
Yes, I know madmodder123 has a thread about the same subject.
The only problem is that he hasn't updated his thread in ages so I'm guessing it's dead.
Meet the Team:
ModDB Page
The Dodge Charger is available for download in my vehicle pack, go here for more info: http://www.facepunch.com/threads/918163-Master-Chris-s-Vehicle-Pack
Latest Images:
Since files are decrypted, and the xentax thread is getting good progress might as well make a thread for this.
The Xentax thread.
Post your MGSV Rips!
Post your MGSV Wips!
Post your MGSV Mods!
Content should be in this thread soon enough.
(EDIT: Things were updated! Starters from 1st, 2nd and 4th generations... except for the chimps. I'll get those soon-ish.)
Two generations have passed and gotten auto-locked... but we've got the fifth generation now? As far as I'm concerned, this is...
TitanFall Ports and Hacks Thread
VPKTool Release
I'll be posting models that nayr7259 and I have ported from Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Academy, and their community mods, Battlefront 1, Battlefront 2, and Republic Commando in this thread.
Each section is labeled by...
someone had to make the thread
Post your BF4 Rips!
Post your BF4 Wips!
Seems the old one got to large and was closed so here is the new thread for my Doctor Who Packs.
SVN address can be found here:
I will still put out Packs on Garrysmod.org when there is enough new content.
H5 material by blueflytrap
Previous Thread
Decided to make one huge thread for my hexes. Will be updated with anything new
High res L4D survivors *HEXED*
Francis Heavy *Hex*
contains most of the essential tanks, Marines, specialists, aircraft and dreadnoughts
works both in GMod and SFM - IK script included for Marines
In case you don't have this already:
Format: MAX, 3DS, FBX (Most guns come as .SMD aswell)
Bones: No
More models will be added to OP as i continue to rip
If you want a specific model, or you cant find the one you'r searching for, PM me or post in the Thread and I'll see what I can do...
Time once again to renew the sonic thread.
When the last thread closed, the Generations Classic pack was just released, but didn't get added to the first page.
Anyway, lets continue on with more sonic models.
So yes it has been over a month since the Wii U version of Super Smash bRos has been released. And I suppose thats about the right time to request for models from the game.
If so I'd like to see Link
Zero Suit Samus:
and Samus:
Hey guys welcome back to thread after our tragic closing after our 90 page milestone.
(second thread archive)
P.S. Even know the thread says "Model...
So it's been along time coming for halo reach models and it's been almost a year since i released the Reach spartans and korro put them in gmod,
So lets get started,i'm gonna start off showing 3ds max renders and thin some ingame gmod stuff
:siren: POSSIBLE SPOILERS FOLLOW! :siren:
So yeah, I realize this has been suggested twice (by the same guy, who also put it in the wrong forum) but rather than bump his rather useless thread, I decided to start my own.
Isaac Clarke comes with 5...
Here you post your wip ports and hacks that you're never gonna release
22nd September 2016
and heres some shit by me thats never gonna be finished more than likely:
22nd September 2016
So thanks to NCDyson who modified the Dark Souls Noesis script I was able to finally get the models of weapons, monsters, bosses and so on with correct UV's.
Ricks Gibbed tools: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wkyl8yrsm7522uw/Dark%20Souls%20Ricks%20Tools.rar...
Welcome to the Facepunch Camoflauge Resource Thread v2
As you can expect, this is a thread for camoflauge swatches and the like. Ask for some, or post your own! Please don't ask for too much though.
I'll try and update the op as much as necessary...
Portal 2 was *just* released, and I'm already poking at it, pretty much like my attempt at porting at ASW models to the Source2007/9 engine, Except this is even more screwed up and I'm failing at this one.
To my first test I've tried to import chell,...
all links removed
could some one please port some agdolls from the game Crash twinsanity thankyou.
and Dingodile
Because as we all know, Sonic models will continue to be made and ported.
Last time on Sonic thread 4:
Face poseable Shadow was released for gmod via the Work shop.
And now, on with thread 5
Direct Downloads
here is the new one since the old one is unavailable due to the update:
to get caught up on the old stuff here is a link to the old thread:
the second thread:...
Been doing some animating for Xystus' snpc pack, and suddenly I got the idea of doing snpc's from the "Tremors" movies! No models exist for them, but I've been practicing game modeling lately, and figured this would be a good project for me.
So today I looked into how to get models from the new Doom game. I wasn't completely successful, but I have information for more skilled porters to start with.
1.) Grab DoomResEx and open base/gameresources.resources with it.
2.) Navigate to the...
I'm making a SourceMod with a buncha friends, and we needed a couple models. Now I don't know about you, but I don't have $3,000 lying around for 3DS Max and I don't intend on pirating it--so naturally, Blender is the best choice here. Free and relatively...
WEAPONRY: GCombat '08.
LIFE SUPPORT CACHES/HUBS: LS3 (LS2 compatible).
SOME ENTITIES: Wiremod
SVN Repository
Pics of the moment (from SevenBillion / Yunpol):
The first thread went a little out of control, so I have started v2 of the Transformers thread. I will update this with new info and bring back some of the useful old info form the last one so that I won't refer to it back and forth and keep it all here....
previous: http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1250308
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Description:So here are some of the Modern Warfare 3 Models i have gotten from the game i plain to get all the weapons, V_Models and W_Models and some vehicles and props but for now i have a couple that i finished up and got all the textures together that...
carry on the shit
Link to the mediafire with all the shit in it, cant be arsed to recreate that entire old OP.
I know how much we all want aliens, and because I'm to lazy to make one I converted it from AVP2.
Someone should port models from this game
Another thread like this has already been made, yes- But thanks to the thread owner, it's been derailed completely.
So here's a new thread to get us back on topic, and hopefully with no (or at least, LESS) bickering.
As stated in the title, I (along...
Hello and welcome, i have decided to recreate the old thread due to the op not being updated in so long making it hard for some to flip through the pages and find what they are looking for. I know the old thread isnt quite ready to be closed with only 750...
Well i saw disctrict 9 tonight and was blown away, best movie I have seen in a long time.
Anyway i started on this pretty much as soon as i got home.
I have only just started to learn 3d modelling and this is my first real attempt at something...
I decided to start working on World of Tanks stuff, I'm going to port ALL tanks from that game! I just need some times to get to it.
All tanks will have bodygroup for variant/destroyed stuff
All credits goes to World of Tanks Developper:...
I found a model on the internet that I want rigged for Garry's Mod. Can you do that? http://www.mediafire.com/?tbi1ec7m3dftqq2
Game's been out a couple months. Would love to see some ports!
I decided to make this thread for anyone that is interested in porting or making models for other people.
How does this work?
All you need to do is either leave a request for a model you want or post models you are making/porting for others to use....
ok, i have been doing some halo stuff in my kingdom hearts thread. since im stuck on odsts, my halo stuff is going to have more progress, i decided to put all my halo related progress here
here is my progress from the beginning of the odst wip
not taking requests anymore, I'm done porting things for now enjoy the stuff I have provided thus far
Star Wars Force Unleashed
Star Wars Force Unleashed 2...
Im shocked no one asked for this yet , so I guess I'll do it.
Commander Shepard (N7 , No Helmet and Informal)
Miranda Lawson
I was finally able to get models out of Dawn of War 2. I'm working with fury_161 to get all the ragdolls working properly here's an early screenshot of a wraithlord in HLMV.
Current conversion plans are the Wraithlord, some Imperial guardsmen,...
Hi there.
I thought it is a good idea to post my WIPs here.
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Hammer Mario (Custom Model)
Donkey Kong Test Pack (Diddy, Tiny, K.Rool, Rambi, Enguarde)
Welcome ladies and gent's to the BATMAN Release Thread for all models and maps and props and packs related to the caped crusader-who-is-totally-not-a-
raging-pedophilic-man or anything
I was wondering if anybody had ripped or would be willing to rip the models of the soldiers from Metal Gear Solid 3? They're also in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops + on the PSP and the 3DS remake if that makes anything easier.
Pics of what I'm talking...
Hello guys!
So the new Call of Duty has just come around, and as usual, while the gameplay has been pretty standard here and there, they've still succeeded in making, what I think, are some great looking models, ripe to be ported and used for SFM and...
After a fruitless search around the net I've finally decided to try my hand at bringing models for mobile suit gundam to the public, models are AS IS its either port work/rips/or if I ever get better custom models, only one so far but better than nothing...
Been playing the HECK out of the new beta and I played the older one too. Has anyone taken a stab at porting these cool dudes from either of the betas?
The Project
The District 9 Project is a project comprised of several different models, SWEPs, SFXes, skins, to recreate the film, District 9's look and feel.
:siren:Please post links to download packs that Facepunch threads have expired or have been lost here!:siren:
basically, This thread is to make a list of Downloadable Prop, Ragdoll or Model packs for GMod that have been lost or forgotten. By this I...
This is the same as the "Mario re textures" thread which has been cut off from the public, so here is a new version, most of it is the same stuff from the old thread.
I just...
Welcome to the Mortal Kombat Release Thread!
This thread will be for all downloads of Mortal Kombat shit,...
I'm converting some models from W40 Dawn Of War with the Rdn mods Tools
There are some bug for the physics and Some weapon are in same place.
Some screens
As much as i know that not everyone likes the thought of anime models or anything of the sort being worked on or moved, but along the way here I just had an idea of porting the MMD Models (Miku Miku Dance) into Garry's mod for use.
Now these have...
I kinda suck at writing tutorials, so hopefully this isn't too bad and useful to at least someone. I'll try to keep this up to date as people ask questions and encounter problems using it.
Stuff that's required:
• Vindictus:...
My first models from new Bioshock. Atleast I know that it's possible to rip them. More comming later.
Thread update
Work still remains. So hold your horses and don't go apeshit if you disagree with something.:cop:
Rochelle haters and trolls can go and complain to the nearest wall.
Hey guys i'm new to these forums somewhat i'm here to being you my exports/rips and some of my own models ( which are way to wip to even show right this minute) but i've been rigging alot of halo 3 odst models for gmod and here is what i got
first off...
Version: V9.5
Description: Fallout 3 Model Pack V9.5
Requirements: Garry's Mod, Fallout 3 (For Legal Reason and if you want to be an asshole and illegally download this then I hope you explode. EXPLODE OK?)
Team Fortress 2 is awesome, and we should be able to have them as player models. Is anyone willing to make them? The gmod community would greatly appreciate it.


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After just two professional fights Bushey teenager Romeo Romeao is already one of the most talked-about talents in British boxing.
He has won Welsh and British junior honours in his 76-bout amateur career and is back in the ring at Harrow Leisure Centre on Saturday, March 1, to face Chuck Jones.
Romeao feels his eccentric manner wasn't appreciated by amateur boxing bosses but his record speaks for itself .
And when he steps into the ring next month he promises to excite the crowd.
"I like to be an entertainer, not just a fighter," said the 18 year-old super-featherweight. "I like to get the crowd cheering.
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Romeao was born in Bristol, grew up in Cardiff and currently lives in a four-bedroom house in Bushey with promoter Mo Prior.
The young fighter is based a short walk away from Southern Area super-featherweight champion Mitchell Smith and Prior predicts a big fight between them in the coming years.
But Romeao's priorities are focused on Jones and then achieving a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
He will attempt to break the record for non-stop skipping in July and will raise funds for the Great Ormond Street Hospital.
The current record stands at an astonishing 32 hours but Romeao reckons he is fit enough.
"I'm up at four o'clock every morning to go for a run and I train three or four times every day," he said.
"I probably train for eight hours most days.
"I've been training since I was four years old. Training is my life and I love it. There's nothing I enjoy more.
"I train hard because I'm determined to be a world champion."
As his promoter, Prior is plotting Romeao's path to the top.
He rates Romeao as "a special, special talent" and has seen him launch his professional career with back-to-back wins.
He followed a knock-out victory over Andrejs Podusovs three weeks after his 18th birthday - which shown on Sky Sports - with a points win over Krzysztof Rogowski.
However, Jones promises to give him a tougher night's work.
The southpaw is on a losing run but has challenged for Welsh honours and came in at short notice to extend Olympic gold medallist Luke Campbell the full distance.
"I've seen Chuck box but I'm confident I will beat him," said Romeao.
In the top-of-the-bill fight at Harrow, Danny Murphy challenges unbeaten Ahmet Patterson for the International Masters welterweight title and tickets are available from 07500-869640.
Romeao also takes part in a sponsored skip at Harlequins Shopping Centre on Sunday, February 23 to help prepare for his attempt at the Guinness Book of Records


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Social Democrat MP for Halle says he will not allow racists to intimidate him on social media.Read More
Saturday, 19 May 2012 11:07
G8 leaders has said it is "their imperative" to promote growth and jobs to reinvigorate the global economy, and gave their backing to Greece remaining in the eurozone.
"We agree on the importance of a strong and cohesive Eurozone for global stability and recovery, and we affirm our interest in Greece remaining in the eurozone while respecting its commitments," the leaders said in a communique after meeting at Camp David on Saturday.
"Against this backdrop, we commit to take all necessary steps to strengthen and reinvigorate our economies and combat financial stresses, recognising that the right measures are not the same for each of us," said the communique.
It was unusual for the often-bland G8 communique to single out a small nation. But fears that a political stalemate in Greece would lead to the Mediterranean country leaving Europe's monetary union at unknown costs to the financial system have spooked global markets.
Overall package
Earlier, a shirt-sleeved Obama opened the morning session, promising to seek ways to restore healthy growth and jobs and address concerns in Europe.
Obama has said the G8 was committed to growth, stability and fiscal consolidation, as leaders tried to bridge divisions on how to deal with the deepening eurozone crisis.
Flanked by leaders of the G8 industrialized nations on Saturday, Obama indicated a balanced approach was needed as "part of an overall package that all of us have to pursue in order to achieve the kind of prosperity for our citizens that we're looking for".
With the future of Europe's currency union in serious doubt, leaders gathered at Obama's Camp David lodge to weigh competing demands for growth-friendly spending with Germany's long-standing focus on sharp spending cuts.
The drive could upend two years of Berlin-led austerity-first policies, which critics say have fuelled rampant unemployment, brought Greece to the verge of bankruptcy and deepened crises in Italy and Spain.
After an early morning bilateral meeting with Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron said he detected a "growing sense of urgency that action needs to be taken" on the eurozone crisis.
"Contingency plans need to be put in place and the strengthening of banks, governance, firewalls - all of those things need to take place very fast," he told reporters.
He said Merkel was "absolutely right" that every country needs to have in place strong plans for dealing with their deficits.
'Fully' supplied
Hours before welcoming the participants, Obama had met his French counterpart, Francoise Hollande, and threw his weight behind France's demand for pro-growth policies in Europe.
Obama said the two agreed that tackling the eurozone crisis was "an issue of extraordinary importance, not only to the people of Europe, but also to the world economy".
Also on the summit agenda were concerns about oil and food prices as well as Afghanistan, Iran, Syria and North Korea.
G8 leaders vowed on Saturday to ensure oil markets are "fully and timely supplied" to ensure that tough new sanctions coming into force against Iran do not send energy prices soaring.
In what one official called an "unusual" statement, the G8 said they would keep a close watch on supplies and would ask the International Energy Agency to take action if the situation demanded.
The Camp David summit kicked off four days of intensive diplomacy that will test leaders' ability to quell unease over the threat of another financial meltdown as well as plans to wind down the unpopular war in Afghanistan.
After the Camp David talks, Obama will fly to his home town of Chicago where he will host a two-day NATO meeting at which the war in Afghanistan will be the central topic.
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text: ESB Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: ESBF), the parent company of ESB Bank, today announced earnings of $0.28 per diluted share on net income of $3.4 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, which represents a 12.0% increase in net income per diluted share as compared to earnings of $0.25 per diluted share on net income of $3.0 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. The Company's annualized return on average assets and average equity were 0.69% and 7.99%, respectively, for the quarter ended March 31, 2010. Charlotte A. Zuschlag, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, stated, "The Board of Directors, senior management and I are pleased with the improvement in earnings for the quarter ended March 31, 2010. The last several years have presented a challenging time for the banking industry. Our philosophy has been, and continues to be, to manage the net interest margin without compromising asset quality or future earnings potential while continuing to offer quality products to our customers. We were pleased to see the results of these efforts reflected in 2009 and now excited to have this trend continue into 2010. Our net interest margin improved approximately 29 basis points since December 31, 2009, earnings improved 11.5% over the quarter ended March 31, 2009 and our deposits grew $34.7 million since December 2009, primarily in core deposits. This growth in lower rate core deposits continues to assist in the enhancement of the net interest margin." Ms. Zuschlag concluded by stating, "Management will continue to strive to pursue growth opportunities that will provide a sound investment return to our shareholders." Net income for the first quarter of 2010, as compared to the first quarter of 2009, increased by $348,000, or 11.5%, due to an increase in net interest income after provision for loan losses of $1.9 million and a decrease to the net income attributable to noncontrolling interest of $264,000, partially offset by a decrease in non-interest income of $1.2 million, as well as increases in non-interest expense and provision for income taxes of $426,000 and $223,000, respectively.


text: Newcastle Investment Corp. (NYSE: NCT) (the "Company") announced today that it priced its public offering of 20,000,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $6.71 per share for gross proceeds of approximately $134.2 million. In connection with the offering, the Company has granted the underwriters an option for 30 days to purchase up to an additional 3,000,000 shares of common stock. The offering is expected to close on May 21, 2012. The Company intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, which may include, but not be limited to, investments in excess mortgage servicing rights, the repurchase of indebtedness issued by its collateralized debt obligations, as well as investments in real estate securities and/or other real estate related assets, including senior living facilities. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Citigroup, and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. are the joint book-running managers for the offering. Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. is serving as co-manager for the offering. The offering will be made pursuant to the Company's existing effective shelf registration statement, previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The offering will be made only by means of a prospectus and a related prospectus supplement. Copies of the prospectus and prospectus supplement may be obtained from: Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, One Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10010, Telephone: (800) 221-1037, Email: email@example.com; Citigroup, Brooklyn Army Terminal, 140 58th Street, 8th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11220, Telephone: (800) 831-9146, Email: email@example.com; or Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., Attention: Prospectus Group, 60 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005-2836, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com, Telephone: (800) 503-4611. This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy shares of common stock, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.


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Dog owners are being invited to a guided walk around a park to find out how they can protect an endangered species of bird.
The Wren Wildlife and Conservation Group is worried the breeding season of Skylarks and Meadow Pipits will be disturbed this month, as they lay their eggs in the long grass of Wanstead Flats.
Walks will be held on March 15 and 29, leaving from the Centre Road car park at 10am, where members of the Wren Wildlife Group will point out their breeding grounds.
Tim Harris, chairman of the Wren Group, said: "The big problem both species face is disturbance during the breeding season.
"It's not a problem if people walk, jog, ride their bikes or walk their dogs on the areas of shorter grass or along the main tracks through the long grass. Problems arise, however, when they do these things in the long grass. That can cause the larks to abandon their attempts to breed."
The flats have the largest number of Skylarks in London but their population has fallen by two-thirds since the 1970s.
With a life expectancy of just two years on average, breeding is of paramount importance to the survival of the species.


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This article was published 22/2/2013 (1643 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Righty Justin Garcia, acquired from the Amarillo Sox last month, has been signed by the Winnipeg Goldeyes to a contract for the 2013 American Association season.
Garcia, 26, is expected to fill a position in the Goldeyes' starting pitching rotation.
"In my opinion, he's one of the top of starters in this league," Goldeyes manager Rick Forney said in a statement. "Other than Ace Walker, few guys over the last couple of years have thrown as many innings as Justin Garcia. He had two really successful seasons down in Amarillo. He has quality pitches and is going to give you a chance to win every fifth day."
Garcia was acquired from Amarillo in exchange for a player to be named later and cash considerations. In 22 games last season with Amarillo, including 21 starts, Garcia went 9-3 and 3.99 ERA during 135.1 innings of work.
The Goldeyes' release stated that Garcia posted a complete-game 5-0 shutout on July 26 on the road against the Wichita Wingnuts "which is something a Goldeyes pitcher hasn't done since Ace Walker pitched a one-hit shutout against the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks in 2010."
Garcia is a native of Las Vegas who was drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 25th round of the 2007 MLB amateur draft. Garcia played four seasons in Tampa Bay's system. He had surgery in 2010 to remove bone chips in his right arm which caused him to miss the majority of the season.


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Paranoia is a mental disorder that can make people falsely believe
that others are lying, cheating, using them, or trying to harm them. Or it can
give them an overly large sense of self-importance. People with paranoia can
have either or both of these traits.
Paranoia may occur with several other mental disorders (as in
paranoid schizophrenia) or Alzheimer's disease. It rarely occurs as a mental
illness on its own. It is sometimes caused by using illegal drugs such as
Treatment usually includes professional counseling and may include
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Since we got our dehydrator, I've been trying to figure out a way to make dehydrated potato chips so we don't need to fry them. Let's face it, the baked ones just aren't as crispy or delicious. You can't just dehydrate raw potatoes because they won't taste like potato chips and raw potatoes can cause your stomach to get upset. Definitely don't risk it with green potatoes since they contain toxic solanine.
But, when I came across this delicious-sounding Salt and Vinegar Broiled Fingerling Potatoes on Pinterest, I decided I could alter the recipe a bit to make crispy, dehydrated chips. If you don't have a dehydrator, follow the original recipe and I'm sure that makes delicious broiled potatoes.
But, if you have one, here's what I did. Slice the fingerling potatoes as thin as possible, lengthwise. Place the potatoes in 6 cups of liquid (I used 2 cups of vinegar and 4 cups of water so the kids could still eat the chips…they're not big on tangy). Bring to a boil and let boil for 10-15 minutes, until the potatoes are softened but still hold their shape. Then line all the chips in the dehydrator.
Get tiny hands to help you with lining up the potatoes. They think it's great fun. Dehydrate at 135F for 20-24 hours, depending on potato thickness.
They come out so incredibly crispy and delicious. They remind me a bit of kettle-cooked chips.
Vinegar Potato Chips
2 pounds fingerling potatoes, thinly sliced
2 cups vinegar
4 cups water
kosher salt, to taste
Place potatoes and liquids in a pot and boil for about 12 minutes.
Toss in a bit of kosher salt.
Run in dehydrator for about 12 hours at 125F.
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Take the NorthEast Buttress Approach. The route is inbetween Calculus Affair and Marriage Was My Worst Mistake. It is easily identified by the bolts on the column face......which lead to a stunning right facing dihedral above.
Route Description
This route was first done by Dennis Horning and Hollis Marriott (that is Dingus McGee and the Last Pioneer Woman), in 1991. It is one of the few pure face climbs on the Tower. Once you clip the first bolt, no harm will come to you. The bolts are big and all are in the right places. A 3-Star Route.
Pitch 1. (170 ft., 5.10c) Follow the dozen and a half or so Bolts to a Big Bolt Belay on the column's sloping top. The best line between bolts is not always a straight one !!
Finish. Either rap out or continue up on Steppen' Out Of Flatland (5.11b) or straight up that lovely corner above, Team Ropin' (5.12a) with 13 Bolts for protection. Both are Very Good climbs.
For other face climbs see bigwally's face climb guide on the Devils Tower Main Page under the MISC. Section.
Essential Gear
Quickdraws !! Take about 18 of various lengths.
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text: Hulton Archive/Getty Images [ Man Calls 911 Looking For Nookie By Jeremy Taylor August 29, 2012 | GuySpeed.com While it may feel like it is, the lack of a sexual partner is not technically an "emergency." Read More Category: Weird News Tags: 911 call, Nookie Send to a friend! Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Pin it! Reddit This! Share on Tumblr!


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The airlines that own Arinc are said to be interested in selling the 77-year-old aviation communications company, and the reasons are purely economic. Arinc posted impressive revenues of $890 million last year, but its owners, including financially troubled Delta and American, are reluctant to make necessary investments in the company. No potential buyers have come forward yet, according to people with knowledge of the divestiture plans, but Arinc is thought to be worth as much as $1 billion.
Subsidiary Arinc Direct provides maintenance and flight-planning services to business jet operators, as well as the SkyLink high-speed-data communications system flying on Gulfstreams. Arinc is also involved in a project with Norway's Telenor to bring cellphone calling to airplanes. Called AeroMobile, the service will soon be offered as a factory option on Boeing widebodies and could find a ready market among business aircraft buyers. Analysts predict Arinc will be sold off in pieces.


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One can easily imagine what a 10" tablet might look like, especially all the offerings we've seen so far look exactly the same, but rather than supersizing the appearance of their previous tablet offering, HTC decides to implement one that's entirely different for the HTC Puccini. Fortunately, we're presented with what are believed to be the first press shots of the upcoming HTC Puccini tablet.
Based on the images, we find that the 10-inch slate sporting a different look in the rear with its uniform colored design – though, the S shaped pattern does add a subtle refined mark to it. However, we find the tablet sporting not two, but three speakers that would more than likely offer stereo support any way you hold it. Moreover, it seems to be carrying along an 8-meagpixel camera with dual-LED flash.
With the frontal image, we find the tablet tucked inside a portfolio case of some sort where we also find a spot reserved for the HTC Scribe Pen, which is of course going to be one of its defining characteristics over other comparable tablets. Also, we see a front-facing camera of some sort with the AT&T branding close-by as well.
Even though we're able to gather some new information from the two leaked images, the rest of the hardware is relatively unknown still – albeit, earlier reports mention it packing a 1.5GHz CPU, Honeycomb, and an LTE radio. Likewise, the same thing can be said about its official release date, but we're hoping to see this one landing in the near future.
source: BGR
First press images believed to be the HTC Puccini are leaked
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1. christianqwerty (Posts: 467; Member since: 05 May 2011)
I wish HTC would change up the color scheme a little, black is boring, and on almost every product!
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HTC, PLEASE have a WiFi version and I will be buying TWO of these! Awesome!
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Man Trying To Break Up Fight Injured During Shootout In DallasHe was trying to break up a fight, and now that man is recovering from a gunshot wound to the groin. Police need the public's help in finding the people responsible.
Original Dodie's On Dallas' Greenville Avenue Forced To Change NameThe original location, which opened 27 years ago, is now re-branding itself as "Charlie's Creole Kitchen".
Hundreds Of Officers Ready For St. Patrick's Parade In DallasSecurity measures are already in place ahead of one of the biggest St. Patrick's Day events nationwide.
Dallas Police Investigating Unexplained DeathHomicide detectives are seeking information from the public to find out if anyone saw Pappas between 3:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m., in the area of Greenville and Mockingbird, on October 18, 2016.
DPD Officers Refused Service At Greenville Ave. RestaurantAn employee at Genghis Grill reportedly told the officers that other customers might not feel comfortable with them inside the restaurant.
Construction Delay On Greenville Avenue Hurting BusinessesA road project along Greenville Avenue will continue through the summer as crews work to finish a project intended to improve pedestrian and business accessibility.
Dallas Tries New "Valet Parking Zones" SystemThe city is trying out a new system of "valet parking zones." The first area to experience the change is Lowest Greenville along Greenville Avenue.
St. Paddy's Celebrations Get Going In Dallas After St. Patrick's DayWhether folks attend the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade and Block Party, they might run into an unrelated traffic problem.
UPDATE: Barricaded Suspect Found Dead In DallasLaw enforcement officials responded to an apartment complex in Dallas on Thursday morning after reports of shots being fired. Officers were then involved in a standoff with the barricaded suspect.
Women Robbed At Gunpoint Frustrated With Police ResponseIn less than two weeks, three armed robberies have been reported in the Lower/Lowest Greenville shopping entertainment of Dallas.
3 Suspects In Custody After Dallas RaceTrac RobberyAccording to authorities in Dallas, the suspects stole cigarettes and cash after storming into a RaceTrac convenience store wearing masks and holding up two customers at gunpoint.
Dallas Bar Owner Helps Nab Burglary SuspectPolice arrested a burglary suspect at a bar, and the bar's owner helped them take the man into custody.


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Trans States Holdings president and COO Rick Leach has seen his company through rough patches in the past, and he has helped the RAA tackle "challenges" of many sorts from his position as an association board member. But as this year's RAA chairman, Leach finds himself presented with a rare opportunity–a chance make a tangible difference during a time of genuine economic upheaval.
"I think in this environment, really the role of the RAA is just focusing on issues of survival," he said. "And that's what we're all doing–maintaining sound safety, operational and financial performance, and making good, sound decisions that affect safety and service…I think a lot of what RAA is trying to do is manage the chaos."
Unfortunately, the evolving nature of the relationship between regional airlines and their mainline partners hasn't made things any less chaotic. Increasingly, as the economy has deteriorated and passenger counts dwindled, some major airlines have tended to view their regional affiliates more like vendors than full partners in the business. For the regionals, that means less say in strategy, and therefore less control over their own fates.
Some might argue that the regional airlines sold their souls, in a sense, to serve their major partners long ago. It didn't take long after the first Bombardier CRJs began populating network fleets for most regional airlines to trade autonomy for a steady revenue stream and guaranteed margins with so-called cost-plus, fee-per-departure contracts. But when economic times were good and opportunities abounded for new code-share business, regional airlines–and particularly those with ready access to regional jets–held significant negotiating leverage. That no longer holds true today; regional airlines fight for every last scrap of a largely consumed network pie.
"There are definitely fewer opportunities," said Leach. "That's why you have to work so hard to maintain what you have– focus on high quality, strong financial performance and be as efficient as you can. You want to bring value to your partner in any way you can these days, beyond even the feed you bring them."
For Trans States subsidiary GoJet, that value-oriented approach has translated into a 67-percent increase in Bombardier CRJ700 flying for United Airlines over the past year, said Leach. In mid-March GoJet took delivery of the fourth of an order for 10 new CRJ700s, the last six of which will arrive by the end of this year. Flying 19 sixty-six-seat CRJ700s in United's 66-seat explus configuration at the time of Leach's interview with AIN in late March, St. Louis-based GoJet served 25 cities from three hubs–Washington Dulles, Denver and Chicago O'Hare. According to vice president of marketing Bill Mishk, GoJet will spread the remaining six airplanes across all those hubs.
Unfortunately, the experience of sister company Trans States Airlines–the operator of the company's 50-seat Embraer ERJ 145s–has more accurately reflected the prevailing market conditions. By the time Leach spoke with AIN, Trans States' fleet had shrunk from 52 to 33 over the course of about a year, forcing the company to lay off more than 100 pilots last summer and about 40 more as the RAA Convention approached.
This month also happens to mark the end of Trans States' flying relationship with American Airlines, as it returns to the Dallas-based carrier the last of 10 Embraer ERJ 145s it flew as American Connection. Leased by Trans States from American, the airplanes became the subject of an outsourcing controversy when the pilots of American Eagle claimed contractual rights to fly them. Eventually American acquiesced and agreed to pull the airplanes from Trans States and place them with Eagle, leaving Leach's company primarily with ground-handling responsibilities.
Although Leach didn't go into detail about the lease rates and cost guarantees associated with the American contract, 50-seat jets in general don't carry the profit potential they once did. In fact, operators still paying up to $130,000 per month under the terms of contracts signed before the market for 50-seaters crashed would likely welcome a chance to return the airplanes early. Trans States, for one, turned mandates for capacity cuts into opportunities to return its highest-cost 50-seaters to their lessors, and hold onto the equipment it leases on shorter, less expensive terms.
Of course, the cost of ownership of ERJ 145s and CRJ200s has plummeted in the secondary market, and Trans States keeps active moving airplanes in and out of its fleet when cost conditions warrant it.
"I think flexibility is as important as cost in this environment," said Leach. "We were able to move pretty quickly on [ERJ 145 disposals], and that has been a painful process–don't get me wrong…It's a lot more fun [expanding] an airline than shrinking one."
Leach also said the airline remains committed to flying 50-seat jets for its United and US Airways partners, despite their fuel burn drawbacks compared with turboprops, for example. "When you can get ownership levels that are significantly different in price–it could be as much as 50 percent less in some cases–and on top of it have lease terms that are much shorter and more flexible…that's also an opportunity," he said. "We're always looking at what's available in the market; we're always trying to stay in tune with what's happening in the marketplace; we'll be the first ones to step up and take advantage of that opportunity, and go after that more efficiently priced ownership and more flexibly termed leased aircraft."
Whether such an opportunity will soon extend to turboprops looks less likely, given today's prices for Bombardier Q400s and ATR 72-500s, said Leach. Out of the turboprop business since it retired the last of its Jetstream 41s in 2006, Trans States "talks with [its] partners about whatever they're interested in," but, to Leach, the price tags for new-generation turboprops don't warrant the level of commitment major airlines typically want from a turboprop operation.
The turboprop of today is not the turboprop of a few years back," said Leach. "They're as [expensive] in some cases as a 70-seat jet." Leach explained that because majors generally don't want to enter contracts that extend beyond 10 years, he would hesitate to take the chance on a 15-year lease that might, for example, come attached to a Q400 or ATR 72-500.
"Because of the financial terms of these aircraft, it's hard to get a monthly economic ownership nut, if you will, that's reasonable enough for the major to accept on a 10-year lease these days," he said. "So you're looking at thirteen-, fifteen-, sixteen-, sometimes seventeen-year leases and financing structures, which means that if you have only a ten-year agreement, what are you going to do with that airplane for the next five or six or seven years beyond that?"
Not one to jump on any bandwagon, Leach never allowed the temptation to chase trends to override the pragmatism with which he has helped build Trans States and GoJet into two of the industry's most respected names over the years. Now, during perhaps the most tumultuous period in its 35-year history, the RAA can count itself fortunate to benefit from the same kind of common sense Leach brings to his duties as chairman.
"Right now, less is more, to use an old cliché," said Leach, referring to his preference for short-term leases. Hopefully for the RAA, less hyperbole from steady influences such as Leach will translate into a more fruitful partnership with Washington lawmakers and regulators–and set the conditions for a recovery from one of
the most trying times in the history of the airline business.


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WASHINGTON (Mar. 4)
Jewish college youth and representatives of the organized American Jewish "Establishment" will attempt to bridge the generation gap at a three-day National Conference on Jewish College Youth, sponsored by the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation, which opens here March 8. The meeting will bring together about 65 student leaders representing small colleges and major universities and representatives of more than 20 Jewish organizations for what the sponsors said would be a "free-wheeling exchange of opinions."
According to Rabbi Benjamin M. Kahn, national director of the Hillel Foundation, the conference stems from widespread student dissatisfaction with the adult power structure and a concomitant concern among adults that Jewish students are rejecting Judaism. Rabbi Kahn said that the students attending the conference will represent not only supporters of the New Left but members of traditional and religion-centered college youth movements who are nevertheless often critical of the established community. Rabbi Kahn said that more than 350,000 Jewish youth–over 80 percent of the college-age Jewish population–are enrolled in institutions of higher learning. He said that Jewish students, many of them in leadership positions, comprise about one-third of the campus activist groups. However, less than five percent of a school's enrollment is directly involved in campus uprisings, though generally a third of the student body sympathizes with their aims.
Rabbi Kahn noted that many Jewish religious and secular leaders regard the campus as a "disaster area" as far as Jewish consciousness is concerned and are calling for emergency measures. He warned, however, that critics "excessively pre-occupied" with Jewish participation in the New Left have failed to recognize that "for every Jewish student identified with the New Left, there are dozens of others, equally committed to social concerns and change, who have a positive attitude toward Judaism."
According to Rabbi Kahn, the real problem "is not rejection of but an indifference toward Judaism." He said this was borne out by the way in which Jewish students "matter-of-factly" identify themselves as Jews but reject participation in the synagogue, secular organizations, community center or other institutions of Jewish life as being irrelevant to the social problems of contemporary society. Some of the organizations apart from B'nai B'rith participating in the conference will be the American Jewish Congress, American Jewish Committee, National Jewish Welfare Board, United Jewish Appeal, Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, Farband, the American Association for Jewish Education and national lay and rabbinical organizations.


text: Latin AmericaMexicans turn to four-legged politicians Voters unhappy with choice of candidates in local elections are supporting more unusual alternatives. 07 Jul 2013 03:02 GMT | Latin America, Mexico Voters in dozens of Mexican states are going to the polls in local elections. Many are unhappy with the choice of candidates that will be available to them in the vote on Sunday, to the extent that some people are even supporting alternative four-legged options. Al Jazeera's Rachel Levin reports from Mexico CitySource: Al Jazeera