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Sheepinator 4 years ago#11
EA is bad for milking us on BF3 to be honest. They released the base game for 60, if you were lucky you got B2K with it for free, otherwise that was 15, THEN they went so far as to release the Premium crap which INCLUDED B2K so if you bought their "only" DLC before that you really only saved 10$ for buying the Premium thing. So you pay 60 for a game, then 50 more for 75$ worth of content (you have 15 of which already, likely enough whether you paid for it or not) for a grand total of 110 or 125. THEN they release Premium Edition for 60. The base game never even dropped to the comparable price of 10$ or anything close (Premium is 50 so 50+10). They just screw over people who got the game prior to this whole deal so hard offering no benefits to them whatsoever.
There is so much wrong in that post. If you bought BF3 at launch you got a bonus of B2K for free. If you didn't, you didn't get the free bonus. That's your fault. And the Season Pass is a discount, nothing wrong there, most or all the other publishers do exactly the same thing yet strangely they are exempt from hate. Oh and then you're complaining because the game dropped in price... like every other game does...
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The Devourer 4 years ago#12
Every game drops in price to include content that's not even out, right? BF3PE was available well before all the DLC was out.
They touted about how it was such a savings with 75$ of content. Plenty of people likely had 15 of it so you're only saving 10 on it which is nothing. They should have handled it better. It's just milking for money. It's the only game I even know of that they would have charged you over double the price of the base game alone along with including content with something that you've already owned prior to them ever announcing the Premium stuff. It's not "just another" season pass with the BF3 stuff. The entire circumstances surrounding it are scummy.
Every season pass? I'm pretty sure they tell you straight up there's one available when a game launches. They don't put you in a position to buy certain content prior to telling you about a season pass that includes that content already while touting about the savings of it. That would be like if Halo 4 had the map pass, but they neglected to even announce it until months after the first map pack was available for purchase and download (which you know about since launch). THEN they turn around and tell you about this fancy season pass that includes the content you already purchased then tell you it's being discounted when you're saving almost nothing if you already purchased it or had it for any other reason. I don't know of a single other instance where they've done something like this.
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Sheepinator 4 years ago#13
tldr you're complaining about a discount for a season pass for everyone, and you're complaining about a bonus for buying at launch. You don't see how that sounds a bit ridiculous?
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The Devourer 4 years ago#14
Being intentionally obtuse? It wasn't just a bonus for free with the game. They also charged you for it if you didn't get it already. It was also included in the whole package deal. That still has yet to touch on the shady business of that well ahead of the announcement of any sort of season pass which included content that was already released and charged you for if you didn't get it free.
It's hardly an issue like you're trying to say.
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sktgamer_13dude 4 years ago#15
Tied between Activision, Capcom, and EA for me.
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Sheepinator 4 years ago#16
Let me get this straight. If you bought the game at launch then bought the season pass, you saved money. If you bought the game after launch, then bought B2K, then bought the season pass, you saved money. Finally if you bought the game after launch, didn't buy B2K, then you bought the season pass, you also saved money. That sum it up? Saving money = evil now, apparently.
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The Devourer 4 years ago#17
I'm glad to see you go with the train of thought they want you to go with on that. You save money so there's absolutely nothing possibly shady or otherwise unbecoming about the handling of it at all.
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was there any doubt that it would be EA? What a terrible company. They ruin everything they touch.
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zyxomma100 4 years ago#19
EA. They are by far the most consumer unfriendly company, and they are the only game maker to staunchly come out and say that they want to take away the rights of consumers. They want to control what I can do with the disc I buy from them. Their ideal business model is one where the customer doesn't own anything or have any rights, and simply has to rebuy a newer version (or a license for the same game) every 1-2 years.
They actively pursued several illegal/borderline illegal monopolies on sports games. (Yes, illegal, as determined by courts, as least in the case of NCAA football.) They've used these monopolies to stifle progress in the genre, and I've watched as a franchise I once respected (Madden) turn into a game I wouldn't pay $20 for new.
They have terrible support for online servers. Yes, I know that servers cost money, but EA still has the worst overall service record for keeping servers up, even for games that have Online Passes, which were supposed to ensure that EA collected their money from everyone using the server.
And there are other things I don't like about them, but apparently I can't talk about them.
Seeing as everything that other companies do that is consider crappy was first introduced by EA, I'm going to have to go with those guys.
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SAN JOSE — Christmas Eve on a tranquil street in North San Jose got a rude interruption Tuesday morning when a purported street race literally went sideways and sent one of the cars crashing into a living room, with the residents miraculously avoiding injury, authorities said.
Witnesses said a red Pontiac GTO and a white car were racing along Cropley Avenue west of Piedmont Road around 10:45 a.m. when the GTO clipped a vehicle and lost control. The car careened off the roadway, where it crashed into a truck and then went rear-end first into a home at the southwest corner of Cropley and Grosvenor Drive.
San Jose police Sgt. Heather Randol said no one inside the home was injured. One of the occupants of the GTO was taken to the hospital with what Randol described as "minor to moderate" injuries.
Randol said both drivers are expected to be charged with vehicle code violations related to street racing. Penalties carry as much as six months in jail, community service, a monetary fine and loss of driving privileges.
The house was heavily damaged by the crash, and the San Jose Fire Department kept watch over the structure as a work crew was summoned to board up the damaged portions.
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Theron's character Mavis Gary, a narcissistic writer of a popular series of young adult books, is one of the most intentionally dislikeable main characters in film in recent years.
Going into the press screening for the new Jason Reitman film Young Adult, I was thinking that Reitman is one of a small number of young American filmmakers with a perfect track record. He's among an elite group of people like Paul Thomas Anderson and Alexander Payne of directors who have never made a bad movie. And beyond how reliable he has been, Young Adult has a lot of other talent behind it of whom I'm particularly fond: standup comedian Patton Oswalt has been experiencing Oscar rumblings for his supporting turn for weeks now, and the film re-teams Reitman with his Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody for the first time since that film (which I still think is a fantastic piece of work, despite eventually getting really tired of hearing about it).
Coming out of the press screening of Young Adult, I was deeply disappointed. It isn't a bad film so there's no immediate need to revoke Reitman's Exciting Young Director credentials yet, but it isn't nearly as good as it seems like it should be. Aforementioned talent aside, it stars Charlize Theron, of whom I'm also a fan, and is a dark comedy, which is a genre I tend to go for. But the reality of the movie didn't work for me: too many unlikely circumstances, too many jokes that didn't go much of anywhere, too many instances where the ball is dropped.
That said, I bet a lot of people who see Young Adult aren't going to like it, but for reasons not similar to my own. The reason why is that the film wants you to not like it to a certain degree. Theron's character Mavis Gary, a narcissistic writer of a popular series of young adult books (along the lines of the Gossip Girl or Pretty Little Liars series), is one of the most intentionally dislikeable main characters to pop up in a film in recent years, and the fact that she's played by an actress as talented as Theron makes the trick work.
The deal here is that Mavis lives in Minneapolis and finds out at the beginning of the film that her high school boyfriend, Buddy Slade (Patrick Wilson, playing blandly attractive for the umpteenth time), just had his first kid with his wife back in their hometown of Mercury, Minnesota. Mavis still holds a candle for Buddy and decides to take a road trip to Mercury to win him back, despite the fact that he's married and has a newborn. One of the tricks of the movie is that Mavis isn't exactly washed up, and not trying to relive her glory days—she's at least moderately successful, crazily pretty with a little work (she looks like Aileen Wuornos in the morning and Britt Ekland in the evening), and has gotten out of her shit-splat hometown (to use a phrase Patton Oswalt coined), which is more than practically anyone else she graduated with can claim.
Not that she hasn't accumulated problems, too. Among other things, Mavis is now an alcoholic, and the first thing she does upon her return to Mercury is to go to a bar that was popular when she still lived in town. There she runs into Matt Freehauf (Oswalt), who she initially doesn't recognize, until she's reminded by his poor physical condition that he was the "Hate Crime Guy" in high school—he was the victim of a brutal beating for being gay, except that the people who beat him were wrong about him being gay. Matt and Mavis form a shaky sort-of friendship (that mostly involves Matt trying to not let Mavis ruin Buddy's marriage and Mavis drinking all of Matt's liquor), and the movie moves back and forth between Mavis shamelessly flirting with Buddy under any circumstances and Matt amusingly chastising her for her sociopathic behavior.
Sometimes Young Adult is funny or insightful enough, but its biggest problem is that it never quite lets you suspend your disbelief, which is crucial for a movie like this. Hell, it shouldn't even be that hard to achieve, as all of the characters in it are very believable, as are the actors. To give an example of the problem: when Mavis is reintroduced to Matt she's convinced she doesn't know him. Soon after we find out the thing about him being the Hate Crime Guy, but also that his locker was one down from Mavis' for years. Cody and Reitman are trying to make a point here—that Mavis is so self-obsessed she didn't notice the guy next to her—but it just seems hard to believe under the circumstances: Would she really not recognize a guy who was both all over the news and about a foot away from her for years on end? There are a lot of little details like this that are hard to swallow, and it keeps you from ever getting into the movie as much as would serve it.
And sure, Patton's funny and likeable here, as he always is. Even so, he's pretty much just playing himself—I'd've preferred the Oscar buzz to have come for his leading-man turn in 2009's Big Fan, which also was maybe not the biggest dramatic stretch, but still a much meatier and more even role than what he gets here. All the same, I'm glad to see him getting more attention for something-or-other. With a book and an excellent comedy album behind him in 2011 alone, he's blowing up fast, and we'd all benefit from more exposure to his talent. | Pete Timmermann


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Flashback Beadhead Pheasant Tail Nymph
This is another killer pattern that I have had great luck with. I use it when fish are eating darker mayfly nymphs in rivers, or during a callibaetis hatch. I have also read about fish taking this pattern as a midge. This is a go to pattern for me, and there is no better combination to search for fish than a Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear, and some variation of a Pheasant Tail Nymph dead drifted through a deep bend.
Hook: Standard nymph hook #12-22.
Thread: Dark brown UTC 8/0.
Bead: Tungsten, or brass, copper color, one size smaller than you would normally use.
Weight: Several wraps of lead wire behind the bead.
Tail: Pheasant tail fibers.
Rib: Small copper wire (wrapped counter-clockwise).
Body: Several pheasant tail fibers wrapped (wrapped clockwise).
Flashback: Large pearl tinsel.
Thorax: Peacock herl.
Legs: Pheasant tail fibers.
I use a smaller bead to leave enough room for a thorax behind the bead. I think it looks better to have the bead match up perfectly to the thorax as well.
If you wrap your thread normally over the lead wire, it will separate the wraps, and leave you with a mess. To remedy this, I always wrap my thread across the lead wraps a few times to keep them together, then you will be able to tightly wrap your thread normally to cover all the lead.
Make sure your lead wraps are tightly secured to your hook shank.
Wrap the tail fibers forward clockwise around the hook shank.
For the body, I use a technique called counter wrapping. Counter wrapping is wrapping one body material one way, and the rib material the other way. It is used to strengthen fragile body materials, like quill bodies, and fiber bodies. Wrap your pheasant tail fibers either clockwise, or counter-clockwise, just make sure you wrap your rib the opposite way.
Wrap your rib counter-clockwise around the hook shank. Tightly tie in your rib wire, and break the wire by bending it back and forth near the tie in point.
Again, you cut the tips of the peacock herl off because it's weak, and it will probably break when you're wrapping your thorax.
Tie off your peacock herl, and cut off the tag end.
Tie in six or so pheasant tail fibers on one side of the thorax with two soft wraps.
You can tie the tail fibers in long, with 2 soft wraps.
Pull the pheasant tail fibers to length, about the length of the hook shank.
Keep the fibers on the side of the thorax. Use your other hand to keep the fibers from shifting. You may have to re-tighten your thread wraps.
Once the fibers are pulled to length, cut the tag ends, and tie them off with a few tight wraps.
Tie in 6 legs on the other side of the thorax using the same technique.
Whip finish, and apply head cement.
I ended up plucking out some of those fibers making up the tail of the nymph. It looked a little thick to me.


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Awesome Cupcake Facts You Probably Didn't Know!
Most people think the term "cupcake" comes from idea that a cupcake looks like a cake cooked in a cup. However, the truth is that cupcakes are so named because this was a snack that could be stored inside a protective athletic cup during baseball games. Abner Doubleday himself may have been the first to tuck a cake there, and he was known to reach down for a nibble of his "cup cake" even while running the bases.
The first cupcakes did not have frosting as we know it, but instead were gilded with lard as a kind of cake-moistening gravy. Winston Churchill was the first person to suggest a kind of sweet frosting on the top of the cakes. He later blamed the frosting for his behemoth jowls.
While generally assumed to be about psychedelic drugs, John Lennon's song Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds is actually about cupcakes. This came as a surprise to all Beatles scholars because it contains no mention of cupcakes or hidden references to them. John Lennon was later quoted in an interview, "You never know what you're writing when you write a song, it's only years later you realize the truth. You think you're writing about other people, but you're really writing about cupcakes. Goo goo ga joob. Imagine. Yoko Ono."
Although in the past an effeminate male was referred to in a disparaging way as a "cupcake," more recently an effeminate male is referred to as a "cupcake" in a complimentary way!
H.P. Lovecraft blamed the creation of his most famous mythical monster, Cthulhu, on an overdose of cupcakes. He had locked himself in his basement with a dozen of them and eaten until the rush of sugar caused him to hallucinate about ultimate evil. He later wrote to Robert E Howard, "As the 12th cake of cup sat on the downward stairwell that is my tongue a vision appeared before me as plain as I see the paper in front of myself now. A many-tentacled beast, the personification of chaos and destruction, peeking through from another universe. Arkham Asylum. Miskatonic University. Thinly-masked anti-semitism."
One cupcake is consumed for every adult in the US every day. If you haven't had yours, you better wrestle one away from that chubby dude standing in front of the bakery.
The number of cupcakes eaten last year have more mass than the entire Earth!
There are more than five different kinds of cupcakes!
I can eat three cupcakes in one sitting!
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dyslexia - severe in 6.5 yo
Does anyone know of anywhere I can get information on the types of dyslexia out there? Sorry if I am on the wrong board, just a grieving aunt looking for some answers.
Re: dyslexia - severe in 6.5 yo
I can TOTALLY understand your concerns. My son, 12 years old is dyslexic. It's not at a debillitating level, but it does cause problems and we have to work really hard to keep things going smoothly in school. I know the sadness this causes for all concerned. I know people call it a learning disability, but really, if you look at it, it's truly a learning difference. I say this because children with dyslexia learn differently. They ARE able to learn and they ARE able to thrive and make good grades. The key thing is learning that you can't work against it. You must learn to work with it because usually, children with dyslexia are very bright and intelligent, but because of the dyslexia, their grades do not reflect their true intelligence.
I don't know where you live, but I found the most help in understanding my son's dyslexia through Dr. Mel Levine and the All Kinds of Minds Student Success Center in Chapel Hill, NC. I actually had my son screened there after having him screened by one of our local psychologists in the town we live in.
The main thing is making sure that modifications are in place at school. You will have to really stay on top of the schools to have them prepare and FOLLOW an IEP, Form 504, or whatever kind of alternative educational plan your state school system has. You nephew is entitled.
Be strong, be patient, and the very best of luck in helping your nephew. There is hope, and he can thrive, and he can accel. Don't give up! :) You might want to take a stroll over to the Learning Disabilities board to find some more information...
Re: dyslexia - severe in 6.5 yo
thanks for your quick reply - I have a feeling from what my mother tells me it is quite severe - cannot read or write anything except jibberish. I will take a look at the learning disabilities board. Thanks for all the good info.
Good luck to you and your son.
Re: dyslexia - severe in 6.5 yo
My son has severe dyslexia. Let me say that dyslexia has a broad spectrum. It can be mild and hardly have any symptoms or severe and have multiple problems. I found a place at my states university hospital, they specialized in testing for learning disabilities. You can also use psychologist, Scottish Rite, and Sylvan Learning Centers. I would suggest that someone think seriously about homeschooling the child. I have been homeschooling 6 yrs. My mother has often helped me. The night mares that the child and parents will go thru with the school system are only beginning.
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Anyone know how are they with bookings? If you book for a certain time, can you actually sit down and order then, or do you have to wait a while?ImaniOU wrote:Be forewarned that to help alleviate the crowding thing and the complaint of empty tables that Mother Theresa mentioned, they are seating reservations only from 6:30 to 8:30. If you don't have a reservation, don't bother going between these hours. Sucks, but it keeps them from getting overloaded.
Any recent improvements with this?ImaniOU wrote:It seems that Forker's is going through some growing pains as they are getting more popular than their facilities and staff can handle. Service is rather frustrating. I've had dishes not come or come only after flagging someone down to remind them that I hadn't received it yet...
Forking guy wrote:When they left, their cake was still on the ground outside. I cleaned the table and threw away the leftover cake (1/2). about an hour later i got a call saying she wanted the cake. i apologized and said that we threw it away, and i offered her a free dessert next time she came in. but she wants me to pay 500Nt for a new cake.....any ideas on this?
Rascal wrote:Agree with DB, don't pay for a new cake. They ate 1/2 of it, so it's not that they "forgot" they had a cake, instead they consumed some of it and the rest is considered left-overs to be thrown away. Their fault, not yours.
...a large 40+ group ...
...next time, keep anything that looks like someone might have forgotten it, as they may come back for it later. You could keep it until closing time, *then* toss it.
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LOS ANGELES — Whatever confidence the Sharks gained with their four-game sweep of the Vancouver Canucks collided with the reality of Jonathan Quick on Tuesday night.
The Los Angeles netminder stopped 35 shots in blanking San Jose 2-0 at Staples Center to give the defending Stanley Cup champions the first game in their Western Conference semifinal series.
But don't try and tell coach Todd McLellan that his team played well, but just ran into a hot goalie. Not after he spent a week reviewing the Kings' first-round win over the St. Louis Blues.
"I heard a lot of the same stuff coming out of their mouths," McLellan said. "We can't be that team again. We've got to make it a lot harder on him."
Goals by Kings defenseman Slava Voynov and forward Mike Richards provided the difference offensively as San Jose couldn't find a way to get the puck past Quick at even strength or on three power-play opportunities.
Still, the Sharks were stressing afterward that it was only one game in a best-of-seven series.
"We just came off a sweep, but you've got to be realistic and know this team (Los Angeles) is going to win some games," defenseman Dan Boyle said. "Neither team is going to run away with it by any means."
The Sharks had a full week off after eliminating the Canucks, but San Jose didn't show any signs of rust in the first period, jumping out to a 7-3 lead in shots in the opening 10 minutes.
Los Angeles did take control as the period went on, however, with the game's turning point coming with just 12.9 seconds left.
The Sharks lost a faceoff in their offensive zone with Richards moving the puck to the neutral zone. He and defenseman Matt Irwin became entangled in the San Jose zone, and the loose puck was corralled by Voynov, whose shot through traffic beat Niemi.
"He pulled up, and it's my job to close on him," Irwin said. "I had my stick right on the puck there, and it slid through both our legs. I feel like maybe I was holding him, he was holding me. It was just one of those things."
Raffi Torres also took responsibility for not doing a better job pursuing Richards as he moved up the ice.
"I've got to make better reads off the faceoff," he said. "When I'm coming back in my zone, I can't be looping."
The Los Angeles lead grew to 2-0 at 12:30 of the second period, and again Voynov was in the middle of things when his shot from the blue line was deflected by Richards, leaving goalie Antti Niemi helpless.
The game's most controversial hit came in the final minute of the second period when Torres ran into Kings center Jarret Stoll, who did not return to the game. The Sharks left wing was sent to the penalty box for charging but said he did not expect to face any discipline from the league.
"To be honest with you, I didn't even think there was going to be a penalty," said Torres, who has tried to overcome his reputation as a dirty player. "Obviously he was leaning over. I got shoulder to his shoulder, and then it kind of looked, because he was leaning over, that it came up a little high. … I hope he's all right."
The Sharks did outshoot Los Angeles 16-4 in the final period and pulled Niemi from the net with exactly two minutes left in favor of an extra attacker.
But nobody could get the puck past Quick.
And coming close wasn't good enough for McLellan.
"When the night ends, you have to have the job done," he said. "You have to find ways to finish, and we have players that are very capable of doing that. We have players that are capable of scoring greasy, dirty, playoff-style goals. But it's going to have to come out in this series."
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I can't identify with plastic-boobs and nocelulite-butt female protagonists in fantasy genre so I can perfectly understand someone not capable of identifying with sexy ugliness in dirty clothes.
Sex objects or sex toys, who cares? You have an option to do it or not to do it in the game. I enjoyed collecting cards, if you believe that's scandalous, just don't do it.


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Spin The Bottle
The movie Spin The Bottle is focused around five childhood friends who ultimately grew apart as the grew older. However, these five former friends are reunited and brought together for one entire weekend out in the middle of the country. As these former childhood pals spend time together, it quickly becomes clear that their past issues that drove them all apart have not fully healed after all this time apart. They begin to face their former jealous tendencies, sexual problems begin to arise, and the arguments begin to take off.
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The first hour is a recap of this week's dances, with a little added backstage footage; the second hour is the actual Results show.
Len dances tonight! :D
Please keep all discussion in here until 10PM PT / 1AM ET.
Enjoy the show!
The first hour is a recap of this week's dances, with a little added backstage footage; the second hour is the actual Results show.
Len dances tonight! :D
Please keep all discussion in here until 10PM PT / 1AM ET.
Enjoy the show!
If it's not Chaz going home tonight, I'm really up in the air who it could be.
At least I think I can tolerate watching Len dance. Maybe.
And we know we can look forward to the repetitive questions from Brooke during the results show: how did it feel to get those comments from the judges, what did you think of your score, what do you hope to prove next week...speaking of repetitive, I hate them doing dances that were already done week 1. Wonder what we'll have next week.
Hi, kara! :hiya
Yeah. Much as I'm bummed at the thought, unless it's Chaz, I think we might be in for one hell of a shock.
Len? Dance? Believe it or not, I think he just might manage to have my jaw on the floor.
Brooke? Oh, well, it is what it is. I try to remember to factor in that WHOEVER'S interviewing the dancers (Lisa, Samantha, OR Brooke), there's Tom, casting a giant, unmoveable shadow over everything. NOBODY can outdo him, and whoever's got the dancer interview job is screwed by default, anyway, because of that.
Said it before, will say it again . . .
I don't think this show would work without Tom on it.
Lacey's costume kind of reminds me of a wedding dress gone WRONG.
REAL wrong!
At least they didn't dance to 'I Got You Babe'. You can always tell when the judges have to deliver the bad news and they don't want to. CA was right with her comments.
Tom better never leave us. He's the best, live or taped TV. They've had times when they had technical difficulties and Tom handled it like a pro. This show will be missing something if he ever leaves. Whoever replaces him would have big shoes to fill, and they'd probably do a horrible and obvious job at it. I hate that Rob is improving. I really don't want to see him or Cheryl stick around. But he is improving. As much as I hate to admit it. I think the next obvious to go is Nancy, because I think Carson will have the fan support for a few weeks. In a complete shock, I think it could be Hope or Kristin.
I actually paid attention to Kristin's samba, and I didn't really think it was that special. A lot of hair swinging, posing, and standing, with a little hip action. I loved Tom asking Mark how he keeps his head on :lol
Tom . . . Tom . . .
What can any of us possibly say?
We LOVE him!
I'd rather see Chaz go than to see him stick around and injure himself even worse.
I just love Carson :yay
Carson's great!
I adored him on Queer Eye, and I love him even more on this!
He works hard, wants to be there, and it shows . . .
He improved SO much, and I hope he's around for a helluva long time.
I remember Chaz saying he didn't want to dance to his parents songs, but saying the producers would probably get their way. He looked content with the criticism. Maybe he figures he's proved his point.
ETA: Neither would I jucamer. I'd miss Tristan, but not as much as Maks. By the end of the season, I'd probably forget Kristin was even there. She's a good dancer, but Mark just concentrates too much on himself and the showy stuff.


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Hi, The 30X-UAV had it's last crash yesterday. It is time to build another.
The plane flys pretty good and everyone who sees it fly is impressed with the acceleration. The reason for the crash is still a question. I wish I had videoed it and then maybe I could have figured it out. It had two serious crashes both looking very much like the other. I have a questionable servo on the plane that would go to 90 degrees from time to time and the spin could easily have been caused by that but when I checked the wreckage the servos were where they were supposed to be. I have one short flight video I'll edit and put that up. It shows the speed that she flys and how smooth a landing can be. I'm looking forward to building another. I'm also anxious to get the pusher done. It's flight characteristics should be different due to the lower wing loading and the lower power to weight ratio.
The 30X pusher is ready for test flight. taxi tested her in the dark and it seems like it has plenty power. I've included a couple pictures showing a size comparison. Hopefully in a few hours I'll get a chance to see if she flies. The 30X weighs 64.4 gm with the 240 mah pack which is just under twice the weight of the Park Zone Sukhoi but it has about 4 times the power as the Sukhoi so I don't think she'll have problems getting off the ground. Comparing it to the 30X-UAV EDF, she is 16 gm lighter but less than a third of the power. The pusher should be more maneuverable. Can't wait.
rhuber40, It is to bad that GWS doesn't make a 30 mm fan housing with a 12 mm bore but they don't. A guy from California suggested that you cut the housing out and glue the motor onto the fins. That is what I did on the 30X. I believe I made a plug to hold the motor when I glued it in place although it probably wasn't necessary. You do want to mount the impeller before gluing it in the housing to make sure you have it centered and there isn't any interference. Another way to do it is to take the motor housing out of a 40 mm fan and glue that into the 30 mm fan after you have removed the 10 mm motor mount. This lets you pull the motor easier but in all likelihood you would have to destroy the impeller to get it out. The last way to do it is to make the housing. I did that about 10 years ago and I think I still have the unit laying around someplace. That was a kit from EDF Jets. I'm glad you reminded me of that because there are definite advantages to making the housing including making the exhaust an integral part or to change the shape of the inlet and to make it part of the airframe to reduce weight.
I've enclosed two pictures of the fan assembly and you can see where I glued them together with epoxy.
30MM fan
Thank you for that explanation, Did you need any special tools to reconfigure the 30mm fan housing. How thick is the 10mm housing, could it be honed out to 12mm . Finally, is the epoxy applied directly to the 12x20 mm motor?
I am going to purchase from Epyala.com both 30 and 40mm housings and impellers. I would rather run the 30mm, but if I run into too much trouble I will run the 40mm.
Again, thank you.
Hi Bob, The OD of the motor housing of the 30 mm fan is approximately 12 mm so there isn't sufficient material to bore out. I believe the first time I made one this way I used a #11 Exacto blade and slowly cut thru it. I can't remember, but I need to make another so I'll tell you how I make the next one probably by tomorrow. I'm going to use a hot knife to cut the housing out and then remove excess material with a Dremmel type hand tool.
The most important part of doing this is getting the motor secure and centered. I think after I press the 30 mm impeller onto the motor I'll make a foam stand and tack glue the impeller spinner to the stand so that the motor stands vertically. I then can drop the housing down over it and get it aligned and glue the vanes directly to the motor.
Hi Bob, I have some more info. The hot knife method works but it is messy and hard to clean up. I managed to break a vane off and had to repair that and I still have a lot of grinding to do before I can mount a motor.
Since that didn't work out as well as I hoped I cut the motor mount out of another 30mm fan housing but this time I did it with a fine tooth Zona saw shown in the picture. This method probably took out to much plastic but it was fast. I should be able to build a dam using clay as I did when I repaired the broken vane. If you use a saw, one word of caution, support both the motor mount and the housing with one hand and cut with the other. If you don't support both parts you will probably break the vane.
So its back to the EDF fan factory.
PS The use of a mechanical inker to administer CA was not my idea but I have been using it for years. You can set the width of the quill opening so you can use different thicknesses of CA and you deliver a precise amount.
When the CA hardens in the quill I just take a knife and cut it out.
Hi Bob, Hold the fort. I went to my drill bit tool box and saw that I had a whole bunch of drill bits between 25/64 and 15/32 (31/64). These drill bits could be used to take out the mount by step drilling until the mount was gone.(just a little plastic to file away) It was at that moment that I remembered that is how I did it in the first place. Someone else, I'm sorry I can't remember had suggested it and I bought the two extra drills I needed to go up in 64 th's. I just did another housing and the nice part is there is very little to clean up and there is a bore in the fins that hugs the motor. I wish my memory was a bit better. I could have saved myself a lot of work.
I'm pretty sure the impeller will require reaming to accommodate the shaft. When I press the impeller onto the shaft I use my drill press as the press and I'll make something to support the opposite end of the motor shaft so no forces are applied to either bearing housing.
PS Since it is getting late I think I'll wait till tomorrow morning to buy some connectors to go between the motor and the ESC. I want to standardize my small brushless motor connectors and I want to put the connector on before I press the impeller on which I want to do before I glue the motor in the housing. By lunch tomorrow I should have a few more 30 mm EDF's.
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minirips2, Thanks and I've used the motor in a pusher configuration on a small F-18 and it worked really good. These in runners are a lot less money and they produce a bunch of power. The effort to bore them out isn't much and now that I remembered to use the step drill method the whole thing is a pretty clean operation.
Hobby City offers a 30 mm fan with an out runner for about $25. They don't get the impeller centered and as a result you wind up with a lot of vibration and not much thrust. I replaced the impeller with one I reamed out and it ran much smoother. I should get that out and do some testing with it.
what motor and prop are you using in the pusher? another losi motor?
I have a losi 10250 sitting around just waiting to be used, i would love to run it in a pusher with a 2s400, can anyone reccomend a prop? to hand I have a 3x2 and a 2.5x0.8
I am worried about unloading on the smaller prop and burning out on the larger one
would be great if i could make one of the pusher style jets with it, i prefer pusher to edf even if it is less scale
This is the thread for the pusher. You got me thinking, I know the rpm of the pusher but I don't remember if I ever found out the rpm of the 30EDF so Later today I'll do some bench testing and compare the two. As you can see from the other thread the pusher was tached at over 44,000 rpm.
I'll pass on what I learn.
Hal, I finally got some numbers. Haven't been feeling to good.
I first ran the 30mm EDF on a 3s pack and got 6.2A and 74W.
I then by accident ran the Losi (like) 12x20 on 3S. Holy smoke but really there wasn't any smoke as soon as I saw the numbers I shut it down - about 10A and 104W. It was getting hot quick. I let it cool down and ran it on two cells with the 2.5x1.0 prop and got 4.7 amps and 30W @ 45472 rpm.
I tried to tach the EDF but the tape flew off and hit me in the finger.
Hope this helps.
This is two of 4 drawings of the EDF which can be built as a pusher..
Sheet 1 can be mirrored to get the other side. That is why it is #8.
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Boys cross country: Irish run to third at State
A mile into the Class 2A state boys cross country meet last week, Rosemount's runners were stuck behind the pack.
For a team in its first state meet appearance since 2007, a challenging start could be expected. The Irish sat in 12th place out of 16 teams at the mile mark.
Maybe Rosemount was just sticking to its strategy. Maybe the Irish were waiting to show their talent.
Only a mile later, Rosemount had moved up to third and then settled in and finished in third place overall as a team at last week's state cross country meet at St. Olaf College in Northfield. Top-ranked Wayzata won the team title with 61 points. Moorhead was second with 130, just ahead of the Irish's 134 total points.
Rosemount finished on the podium as a top three team for the third time in five years. The Irish were second in 2006 and 2007.
"We had a good day," Rosemount coach Chris Harder said. "Anytime you can qualify for state and then get on the podium is a good day. Looking at the final results, we were close to Moorhead for second, but overall we are happy with our finish. Wayzata was the class of the meet, but the field was fairly deep this year.
"We were fortunate to rally and beat Edina. The Hornets have been ranked in the top 30 nationally most of the season. We also narrowly beat Burnsville for the third time this season. They have a good program and we've enjoyed the friendly rivalry the last few seasons."
Edina, No. 2 in the final rankings at the start of November, scored 148 points to finish fifth. Burnsville, ranked No. 4, scored 141 points to finish fourth. Rosemount was the third-ranked team in the final rankings.
The big push in the second mile started with the Irish's top two runners.
Senior Shane McCallum was in 56th place in team scoring at the mile mark, but he made up ground and was in sixth at the two-mile mark. McCallum crossed the finish line in 15 minutes, 59.2 seconds to place fourth in team scoring and eighth individually, earning a medal.
"He was probably a little slow by the mile, but he is very confident and stayed relaxed to move up through the field," Harder said. "He sat nicely behind a pack into the strong westerly wind, then moved well the final half mile. Shane was in 19th place overall with just 800 meters to go and kicked well for a top-10 finish. More importantly, he gave us a low card in the team competition."
Junior Nathan Rock made a similar charge. Running in 41st in team scoring at the mile mark, he was in ninth at the two-mile point and ended in the same position in team scoring. Rock was 21st overall in 16:16.7.
"Nathan moved up through the field gradually," Harder said. "As always, he finished with a lot of heart."
McCallum and Rock each finished as all-state runners, giving Rosemount two all-state performers for the third time in team history and the first time in 20 years. Mark McMonigal and Marc Ryan achieved the feat in 1980. Chad Duffy and Aaron Quarstad equaled the mark in 1990.
Rosemount has had an all-state runner in seven of the last eight years.
Junior Chandler Dye was the third Rosemount runner across the line, finishing in 16:41.2, good for 25th in team scoring and 49th overall.
"There were 11 guys in the team race that were together with a quarter mile to go and Chandler outkicked every last one of them," Harder said. "He charged up the short hill before the final straight and caught the last two guys just before the finish. Dye is primarily an 800 runner in track, but he has shown more toughness this season in the 5,000-meter cross country."
Sophomore Trevor Capra finished with a time of 16:51.1, placing 41st in team scoring and 72nd overall.
Junior Calvin Lehn rounded out the team scoring by placing 55th in the team scoring and 92nd overall in 17:04.6.
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Counting shot shells, rim fire and centerfire I probably shoot 2,000 rounds a month from April to the end of October then it drops down to maybe 600 rounds.
It's not that I want to stop shooting but after 50+ years of steady shooting since my teens my old bones can't take the cold like it used to. I still shoot just not as much. Based on family history unless I become to ill to shoot I figure 20 more years so at my current rate I would need around 74,000 rounds till I hang up my guns for good.
Back when I was actively competing I would average 5600 rounds a month not counting matches for just 22 and 45. I didn't do shotguns then but I shot a lot of rifle both center and rim fire and that isn't in the practice totals so I have cut down a lot. Just can't afford to do it like I used to and I am not capable of that kind of sustained effort anymore. I miss the days when I was a gorilla.
Checked my inventory just now, I'm going to run out way before I retire the guns so its time to get serious about filling all the empty brass I have. If I don't I'm going to be dry firing in about 2 years.
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Testimony: Soldiers Beat Palestinian at Nablus Checkpoint
Troops left civilian alone only after liaison officer intervened, says Machsom Watch observer.
Four Israel Defense Forces soldiers severely beat a Palestinian man at the Hawara checkpoint south of Nablus on Tuesday while their female colleagues egged them on, according to a Machsom Watch activist who witnessed the incident.
Median Amran, 28, from the village of Burin, south of Nablus, was seriously injured and had to be hospitalized after four soldiers beat him up for no apparent reason. Only the intervention of an officer stopped the beating, said Dafna Banai, a member of the group of Israeli women who conduct daily observations at military checkpoints.
The IDF spokesman, however, said Amran tried to snatch the gun of one of the soldiers at the checkpoint after refusing to go through the metal detector.
Banai, who was at the checkpoint on Tuesday afternoon, told Haaretz that at about 4:30 P.M., she noticed a young man passing through a turnstile and heading toward a second turnstile. One of the soldiers shouted at him to turn back, but the first iron gate locked and he could not return to the line of people waiting to get out of Nablus.
"The soldiers pounced on him, beat him in the face with a rifle, kicked him. He was not violent, he only tried to escape the beating and ran like a trapped animal in the closed compound between the two turnstiles, with the soldiers kicking and beating him," she said.
Amran yelled that he had undergone surgery and had a metal plate in his shoulder, and that every pull on his shoulder hurt him, so that he should not be handcuffed.
Banai said she saw the soldiers bang his head on the concrete and choke him, all the while trying to handcuff him from behind, heedless of what he was telling them.
An IDF Coordination and Liaison Administration officer present at the checkpoint, Yazid Yosef of Beit Jan, intervened and separated Amran and the soldiers, shielded him with his body and shouted to the checkpoint commander, Amir, to restrain his men.
Yosef, who said he was a relative of Border Policeman Madhat Yosef, who was killed at the beginning of the intifada at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus, shouted to the soldiers not to handcuff Amran, and said he would make sure he didn't escape.
Banai said that during all this the women soldiers were yelling words of encouragement to the soldiers such as, "Don't let him go, cuff him, show him."
Banai saw blood spilling from a cut near Amram's eye. She said that the beating lasted about five minutes.
The checkpoint commander's main efforts were directed at keeping Banai and another volunteer away from the site, she said. In addition to his first name, Amir, Banai obtained the surname of one of the soldiers who participated in the beating: Gurevitz.
On Wednesday afternoon, Amran was released from a Nablus hospital suffering from a concussion and blows all over his body. He also required stitches for the cut in his face. The soldiers at the checkpoint recognized him and detained him for an hour on his way home, Machsom Watch members said.
Banai said that she told a senior Coordination and Liaison officer who telephoned her Thursday that she feared the soldiers would abuse Amran even more if the story was reported. The officer promised her this would not happen.
Amran told Haaretz on Thursday that the beating incident was triggered when he heard a soldier near the first turnstile speaking in an abusive manner to a women waiting in line. He told the soldier to speak politely, and the soldier yelled "Turn back," to him, pushed him with his rifle and was joined by other soldiers who then beat him up.
The IDF spokesman linked the incident to an attack that took place earlier Tuesday, when a Palestinian woman from Nablus stabbed a female soldier. Troops at the scene shot and killed the stabber.
"A few hours after the incident in which the soldier was stabbed at Hawara, a Palestinian man arrived there," the spokesman said. "The soldiers asked him to go in an orderly way through the metal detector. After he didn't respond to the soldiers' requests, the forces at the scene were compelled to send him to the back. In reaction, he began to go wild and grabbed hold of one of the soldiers' weapons. A clash began in which the soldiers used force in an effort to overpower the Palestinian and handcuff him."
Banai said the soldiers were particularly abusive toward the Palestinians passing through the barrier throughout the day Tuesday, culminating with the beating of Amran.
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Physical activity has long been recognized as an important component of cancer prevention. Given the precipitous drop in activity during childhood, preventing this reduction in activity is a key point of emphasis. To this end, children's non-discretionary time at school provides an ideal target of intervention, with physically active lessons identified as a useful strategy. Because teachers are asked to implement these interventions, we must know more about outcomes that are in-line with teacher motivation. As such, this proposal is designed to determine the impact of physically active lessons on in-school physical activity that occurs outside of recess and PE, along with both proximal (1 week) and distal (6 month) academic outcomes. To achieve these aims, 30 schools will be recruited in two waves and assigned to one of three groups: (1) experimental, (2) sedentary control, or (3) active, unrelated content control. If successful, these data will do much to advance teacher motivation to implement this and similar physical activity interventions, which, in turn, will help children to amass the recommended 60 min of daily physical activity that has been tied to greater lifelong activity and cancer prevention.
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The Seattle Times reported that the online retailer would offer a free, 90-day trial to AmazonPrime members in several parts of Los Angeles of same-day and early-morning delivery, allowing them to receive items like fresh foods, in addition to toys, electronics and half a million other items. The grocery delivery service has been in testing in Seattle for almost six years.
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