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My daughter recently received this Tickle Me Elmo as a present. Elmo is a character from the popular kids TV show Sesame Street and although it's a show that we've never watched together, she was immediately interested him due to the noises he makes and his bright red fur and funny, happy face. Today, he's currently available in Argos for £19.99 reduced from his usual price of £29.99.
He is quite a simple toy, being a red cuddly toy measuring around 35cm tall and 12cm wide when his arms are down. He has a very cute face with two plastic ping pong style balls at the top of his face to represent his eyes, a squashy orange nose and a large wide mouth so he looks just like the character. He has an operating pack inside him that makes various giggle and laughter noises when either his foot or his belly is pressed. He also shakes a little as though his body is moving because of being tickled and his arms also move slightly - they are not operated by the pack inside but move because of the laughter shakes from the main part of his body.
He is very adorable and makes the whole family laugh, the giggles he makes are almost infectious. He also comes out with small phrases as he's laughing - only little ones like 'that tickles' but they add to his appeal. Our daughter finds him very amusing when he makes his giggle noises and especially when he moves! Although for some reason, he's not really a toy she spends too long with - she'll walk around with him for a few minutes and bring him to us sometimes but that's about it - opting instead for her other cuddly toys. I think it might be because it's a little difficult for her to operate - she has attempted a few times to press his belly, but it does need a strong press and she's not quite strong enough to do it herself so we have to operate him for her.
He makes noises for a few seconds per press and obviously if you keep pressing either his belly or foot he will continue - we're not talking noise for minutes though unless he is actively pressed which is good. There is the added bonus of an on/off switch hidden under his fluffy body (accessed via a velcro opening) where the batteries are placed. Handy if his giggles are repeated too often to give our ears a rest!
He's small enough to be picked up by my 18 month old and carried around but the pack inside that makes the sounds and noises is very hard and so it's not the best toy for her to cuddle - for example, it is not one I would let her take to bed because the pack is hard but has quite a bit of weight to it too. I'm not sure whether this is the reason that she doesn't carry it around for too long as the toy does weigh far more than her other cuddly toys, even those that are much larger in size. The pack inside isn't small either - it consumes his whole entire tummy section. It also might be why she chooses other soft toys above this one as they are far more cuddly.
His fur is quite fluffy which I like, although I have found a couple of fluffy bits from him on the rug which isn't good really considering he is a toy recommended for children aged 18 months and upwards.
Elmo comes with batteries included, as he needs those to operate all those giggles and wriggles. He is the only toy we have that eats them - taking 2 AA batteries which don't seem to last very long at all. Although we've only owned him for around six weeks, I have had to replace them already so it's not the best toy in terms of costs to run!
Elmo is a good toy - he gets good marks for being entertaining but I have knocked a couple off for him not being very cuddly, losing some fur and being quite expensive for what he is. He's certainly not worth the full price of £29.99 and even at £19.99 he still seems quite dear. He is a fun toy and a nice addition to our toy box but comes with a few faults.
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I brought tickle me elmo for my daughters first birthday as she was an avid elmo fan. We had an elmo toy from a previous daughter which she played with all the time so expected she would get the same enjoyment out of tickle me elmo.
In myy opinion Tickle me Elmo is more of a novelty item than a toy that can entertain young children for any length of time.
My daughter did enjoy elmo for the first 20 minutes but I think that he then became a bit too repetitive and her interest in the toy faded quite rapidly. She still has Elmo on her shelves in her bedroom and now at the age of two I thought she may become more interested in him ad want to play with him but I am wrong. I think the reason Elmo is still in her room is purely because I can't bear to see him thrown out after I spent £20 on him!!!
All a bit expensive for 20 minutes of fun.
I bought this for my 11 month old and he loves it, it basicaly does what it says on the tin. You can tickle its tummy and under the chin and Elmo will then start laughing and rolling around slapping the floor, he will then stand back up and asks to be tickled again by saying "Again, Again".
It takes 6 AA Batteries and these have lasted quite a long time and we do play with it alot.
Its a very good toy but for the price im not sure that it is worth £50 or over i got mine from ebay so i grabbed a bargain and i am pleased i only spent under £20. its a very good interactive toy and its holds my boys attention for alittle while but as with all toys boredom sets in very quickly. i think i was more impressed with it than him.
Overall i think its a nice toy but not worth the expensive price tag.
I invested in tickle me elmo last year for my daughters first birthday. I must admit the only reason that I bought it was because I loved elmo so much when I was younger and I saw it advertised laughing. My partner knew the only reason that I wanted to buy it her was for my own benifit too.
I bought this from my local wearhouse and it only cost me £20 and it was a limited edition model. Inside the box was a code for the internet to be able to win prizes. At the time I did not have the internet so I put the code in a draw and have lost it since which is typical of me.
The Elmo stands approximatly 11 inches tall and is a perfect replica of the elmo from sesamee street. It has hard bottomd feet so that it can stand and this is where the batteries go too, the on and off switch can also be found here.
Just below the medal on his chest there is a button that cant be seen under the fur on his body that you press. When you press the button he starts to laugh and talk to you. He falls over and rolls around on the floor and even stands back up.
It is a simple toy that doesn't do anything but laugh say a few phrases and rolls around but it still never fails to amuse me or my children. You still expect it to do something new everytime you press it.
At first my child was scared of Elmo because it was so loud but as she has got older she loves it and when it laughs she also laughs uncontrolably with it (and so do I).
I have never had to change the batteries yet which I think is great and it is played with at least 3 times a week. I am hoping my new baby will get as much enjoyment out of this toy as the rest of us.
It has also been dropped on numerous occasions but still it hasn't broken so I have found this a very practical hardwearing and enjoyable toy for all of us.
i bought the TMX extra special edition of elmo last year for my little girl for xmas after i was pestered and pestered by granddad to buy it because it would be sooo much fun and jessica would love it :o)
And how true was that.
i bought rechargeable batteries for hiim cos he eats battries like i dont know what :o(
But elmo is so cool! once you learn how to move him about to get him to dance and sing he is excellent and defiantly the best xmas present ive bought as the whole family just love it. even the dog sits and watchers with her head on one side in amazement at how a toy can make the whole room laugh so much.
Im defiantly going to buy tmx cookie monster this year so i can line them both up and get them to dance together
go elmo go!
Tickle Me Elmo is designed to react to being tickled and when his tickle buttons are pressed he will laugh, double over, smack his arm and even roll on the floor. He is able to detect when he is lying down and will stand himself back up. The tickle buttons are on his chin, tummy or foot and you have to press them 3 times in a row to get a bigger reaction each time. He is red and very fluffy, sturdy and long lasting if treated well. On the bottom of his foot there is an on/off switch.
It can take some time for your child to get used to him as he does throw himself about when laughing and it is quite loud. He is a nice colour and a cute looking toy, the material is soft and doesn't fall apart easily. Entertaining for the first week maybe but eventually he will ended up stuffed at the bottom of our childs toy box then moved on up to the loft.
Rather disappointing reaction to him from the children, especially considering the price paid.
Elmo is soooo cute but im glad i only payed £11.99 for it!! This retails at £39.99...way too overpriced unless ur a crazy mad Elmo fan.
This is the limited edition Tickle me Elmo, which differs as it has tickle me spots on his feet, belly and under his chin. The box also contains clues on how to position Elmo to get him to do different actions, although we could only figure out one! Most actions are rolling around on his belly or slapping his hands on the floor with laughter.
Elmo is quite heavy and not very cuddly, he is loud and doesnt always get back onto his feet like he is supposed to. He is very funny the first few times but after pressing it 10 times or more its not that amusing.
I am very dissapointed with this product as me and my boys are big fans of Elmo and couldnt wait for him to arrive but for the retail price of £39.99 we dont think its anything special. If your wanting a good Elmo wait a bit , put another tenner to it and buy the new Elmo live who will sit and tell you a story, blow you a kiss and move with a lot more ease and thats just a little bit of what he does!!.
I wanted to buy this last Christmas when it was rated one of the top ten toys to buy for Christmas 2007, but there was so much demand for it I couldnt get my hands on it in any of the high street stores, or online. So when I found it at an NCT sale for £4 (The r.r.p for this is £39.99!) I actually bartered and got it for £3!!.
Im glad I didnt spend £40 for it as its not interactive enough for my child, I would say its a toy that you watch perform rather then engage and play with.
Its quite a heavy toy and it works my tickling Elmos tummy and he lstarts by laughing, he then says "again, again" and when you tickle him again he roles onto the floor and starts slapping it and slapping his legs with uncontrolable laughter.
As an adult, its funny to watch but some of my daughters friends have been a bit scared of it, and its not a toy that gets played with very often, as my daughter dosnt like picking i up when its moving as it frightens her.
The toy is aimed for children aged 3 years and up and you can buy it from Argos and Woolworths.
Elmo is a red lovable Muppet from the educational show Sesame Street, which is aimed towards toddlers and preschoolers. He is a bright red puppet who always refers to himself in third person. Elmo has always been a favourite in our house. My daughter had a small red plush Elmo that she used to sleep with in her cot when she was a baby.
Tickle me Elmo was bought as a Christmas gift, he was a huge hit with all the family. He is just as you imagine. He is approximately 15 inches tall so just a nice size for a toddler to cuddle, he has thick soft red fur which is lovely to rub your hand over, he has a bright orange nose and his distinct and funny large white eyes.
He has a lovely soft squeezable body, making him huggable when you squeeze his tummy his giggles and talks, he says "Ha ha ha, that tickles" and when you press him again he giggles again for longer, and on the third press he giggles so much that his body shakes. He is sure to make any child happy and laugh with him, and he is great fun and adored by both adults and children.
Elmo has a contagious laugh that is guaranteed to have you laughing with him!
This toy is recommended for a child of 3+.
The first I knew of Tickle Me Elmo EX was when my husband forwarded me a video clip he'd come across on YouTube. It was nothing clever just a clip of Elmo laughing and falling over but we were both in hysterics. My husband declared that he was going to have to get one for our daughter for Christmas. She was only 4 months old at the time! Unfortunately the world and his wife were also trying to get hold of Elmo but I finally found him in Woolworths. When we showed him to our daughter, who was 6 months old by then, she really wasn't very impressed but we were!
This is a really entertaining toy that has a number of different tickle spots on his body. Each one will make him do soemthing slightly different. Amazingly he can stand back up again after falling over. I'm not sure that he is worth the £35 I paid for him though. I think he's a bit cheaper to buy now.
I fell in love with Elmo when I went to America in 2003, when I heard about Tickle Me Elmo TMX coming out I just had to have it, I persuaded my partner to buy our 18 month old son it for Christmas, who unlike me hated it and screamed whenever it went near him, I however found it hilarious and still do.
So Elmo begun his career on Sesame Street many many years ago, in 1970 to be precise and over time the character hasn't changed, although I didn't know Elmo was a female until last year, noone told me that!!
Tickle Me Elmo first came out in the height of a new reign for Sesame Street back in 1996, it was one of the biggest selling toys of its year, simply pushing buttons to hear Elmo giggle, couldn't get much better until.....
10 years later in 2006 Fisher Price decided to bring out a new edition Elmo and decided to call it Tickle Me Elmo TMX. It became one of the hardest toys to get for Christmas, companies had orders gallore for the £35 (approx) toy. What's so special about it you may ask, well Elmo now says more, she does more, the giggles that come from this little toy are infectous and could cheer the most horrible of people up.
Tickle Me Elmo comes in a suitcase, made of cardboard with a pop up flap that you lift to hear Elmo giggling inside, the box is lovely and a treasure to keep. Elmo stands at around 14 inches high and isn't cuddly, she's solid, you press her belly or her foot to 'tickle' her and then she prescides to bend over laughing, roll on the floor giggling away.
Even though this toy had now been out 2 years, it is still one of my favourite childrens toys, even my son has grown to love her and copies her moves now.
It comes complete with batteries which to be honest I was expecting to have to replace pretty much as soon as we bought it but they are still going strong.
Elmo is the perfect companion for old and new people.
I got Elmo for Valentines Day last year. A bit of a change to chocolates and flowers, but it was a sweet present! I opened up the box, and luckily there was 6 batteries included, he is a real battery guzzler! Elmo takes all 6 AA batteries. 4 in his left foot and 2 in his right foot.
As I opened the box and gave him a hug, Elmo is not quite as cuddly as I would like him to be! I understand that this is because he has all of his mechanical things inside him, but he looks so cute you do kind of want to pick him up and give him a cuddle! Elmo is about 40cm tall and is covered in red fur. He has a big smiley mouth and two large plastic eyes on top of his head.
There are three different places where you can 'tickle' Elmo; his chin, his tummy or his foot. 'Tickling' basically means pushing a button. For Elmo to work properly, you have to place him standing on the floor. When you tickle him for the first time, he starts vibrating and laughing and saying 'You've tickled Elmo!", he slaps his arms against his side and falls of his back and stands up again. He will then shout "Again, again" at you. Once you tickle him for a second time, his routine changes slightly. He still vibrates and laughs but this time he rolls onto his back and then his side and says "Give Elmo a break please!" The third time he goes all out rolling around the floor and kicking his legs and laughing uncontrollably. He also says some other things but I can't quite make them out since he is laughing so much. These are the three 'routines' that he can do. Once he has done all three and you tickle him again, he will start with the first one again.
If you don't tickle him again right after, he will stand there shouting 'Again, again' for a while until you tickle him.. or turn him off. His voice gets very annoying. Elmo has a little 'on/off' switch on his right foot so that you can turn him off to save batteries and to stop him talking.
If you are planning to use Elmo a lot I would recommend getting rechargeable batteries since I think it could get quite expensive. I don't remember how long the batteries we had in Elmo lasted, but I don't think it was very long. My advice would be remembering to turn him off in between plays!
I do think it is a really clever toy. I find it amazing that they have made this toy which can fall over, roll around and stand up again all by itself.. it is just a very clever toy that has limited amounts of fun attached to it.
When Elmo falls over laughing on to the floor, he does tend to pick up quite a lot of dust! The unfortunate thing about that is that you can't actual remove his outer layer of fluff to wash, so you simply have to brush it down, which doesn't always do the job.
Elmo seems quite fun.. but it wears off pretty quickly. There's only so many times you can watch him fall over laughing, and his voice gets really irritating really quickly. He mostly just sits in the corner of the room now, til a new guest notices him, plays with him for a little bit and the novelty wears off again. Oh well!
Elmo is suitable for ages 18 months and up. He is made by Fisher Price and is surface washable only.
I'm not entirely sure how much my boyfriend paid for Elmo, but I took a sneaky peak on Amazon and he's on there for £38.49, which seems a lot for what it is!
I bought one of these recently for my son's first birthday. I have to be honest and say it's not everything I thought it would be, but it's a very fun toy, and has got lots of laughs, from all generations of the family!
From what I understand, Tickle Me Elmo has been around for about ten years, and the TMX toy is the new version of it. After much pondering, my husband concluded it must stand for tickle me ten, and that sounds about right!
We bought our one from Toys R Us, where it cost £34.99, quite expensive for a character toy, but we wanted to treat our little boy. If I had not seen an advert for it earlier that day, I'm not entirely sure we would have bought it, as the packaging is quite unhelpful. It came in a square box with no window or opening to see what's inside, and no picture of the toy on the outside! All there is is the name of the toy and no description of what it does. The only real clue as to what is inside is a lift up flap which activates a sound of elmo giggling and saying how ticklish he is in here! Quite amusing, but still not helpful.
When we opened the toy on his birthday, it was really simple to start up (all 6 batteries included), just an 'on' switch on his foot, and let the tickling begin! Having expected (maybe naively) this toy to actually be 'ticklish', I was quite disappointed to find out that there are only three large buttons under his fur that are tickly spots. There is one under his chin, one on his tummy and one on the top of his left foot. This limits the places you can tickle, understandable for an adult, but a little complicated for an infant, even for our 24 month old (there is an 18 month age rating). That said though, the laughing noises Elmo makes are very funny, and the more tickling you do at once, the funnier the laughing gets! He also moves about as you tickle him; to start off with he throws himself on the floor and waves his arm about, then he curls his legs to his tummy and wiggles his feet, then he straightens out and bangs his heel on the floor! When this all happens with the giggling mixed in, you can't help but laugh, and the kids really love it! He also has a few phrases like 'Give Elmo a break!', and 'Again, again!' After about a week of having the toy, both boys have got the hang of tickling his tummy. Sometimes, and I can't work out exactly why, the laughing just stops, it seems when you tickle it too much, and I'm sure this is a glitch. Also, the toy stands itself up, which is really amusing to the kids, but sometimes, and again, not consistently, he doesn't fully straighten up.
As for kid friendliness it is perfectly suited to my boys at 12 months and 24 months and I'm sure it would suit children a lot older, even grown up kids as me and my husband have found out!
I'd be interested to know the differences between this version and the older one, as from a friends description of their old one, it doesn't sound that different.
I would recommend buying this, but I would recommend considering others as there are many better quality toys of the same type about (Winnie the Pooh, for example). Also, I'm not sure if I would pay the price of £34.99 knowing what I know, but I am glad that we have this toy.
Well I haveto agree with comments already raised about this toy, it`s definetly more for the adults, I actually bought this as a present for my girlfriend the first time we met real-time (We first met and fell in love, that`s another story that I`ll probably write one day) But anyways, on showing her the joy`s of birkenhead, I took her into the Woolworths where she spots this Elmo Toy and instantly falls in love with it`s cute sounding giggle and jiggling body... So she wasn`t going to leave the store without one.. Anyways (We`ve since got married and I`ve now bought her the Elmo Let's Pretend Toy too, Anyone who has this Elmo too, will know the following..) Elmo is a big red hairy monster.. He`s part of the sesame street gang, and is a very well made toy indeed.. Infact he`s been in a few wrestling matches with my 9month old daughter and has come out fur intact, which is a task few other toys have managed. For those needing to know some more about elmo, here`s a quick factfile. Name: Elmo Monster Age: 2 and a 1/2 Colour: Red Birthday: Feb 3rd Catchphrase: "Elmo Loves You" Hobbies: Playing the Violin, Tap Dancing Favourite Song: Elmo Song Best Friend: Zoe Pet: Giggles the Goldfish Favourite Food: Pizza.. So, the fact I know all that, does that make me a loving partner or a new elmo addict? Well I think the verdict is out on that one, but I do enjoy watching the odd episode of Sesame Street (although I must say I`m not a fan of Elmo`s Friend Zoe..) So Anyways back to the toy in question as after-all that`s what this opinion is all about.. It`s a great toy, fun for all the family.. but.. (and sadly there is a but,) It`s a battery guzzler.. if it was a car it`d be american and about 10 miles long.. So I advise picking up a charger and rechargable batteries as once that Elmo starts giggling it`s hard to want him to stop, also a point to note is the jiggle seems to be a little
irratic, now I`m not sure if that`s just the model we have, maybe it`s a little faulty? But sometimes it jiggles harder than others, just something I think you should be aware of if leaving it with kids, but apart from those minor niggles it`s a wonderful toy, and the giggle is such a cute heartwarming sound, so full of fun. and sadly ending on a bad note, I haven`t seen them in the shops in a while, I don`t know if they`ve been pulled from the shelves to be replaced by the Tickle Me ELmo "Suprise" Toy.. I haven`t actually bought a suprise, but I`m told there isn`t much difference between it and the original tickle me.. (major one being that elmo seem`s to be touch sensitive (only ticklish in one spot, which changes each time you tickle him) Whereas "Original Tickle Me" Was ticklish all over, all the time) I`d say on the sound of thing I prefer the sound of the original... but I guess that`s a personal preference thing, and having a random tickle feature could give the Toy a longer "Playability" level for some children..
OK so I broke down and bought this new Elmo doll for my uh hmmmm "kids" anywho the thing is red with big white plastic eyes and very wide mouth with this silly grin on its face. I thought I was buying just a doll, you know to be carried around by the arm, lose one of it's eyes and get very dirty as it becomes a super hero's sidekick or co-pilot in space exploration or whatever it is that is being imagined at the time. Well there I was with all my goodies from the store loaded in the back seat of car and driving home at 4 in the morning. Yeh, I like to shop at the local 24 hour wal-mart between 3-4 in the morning, it is so entertaining watching stock boys deal with all of the drunks and prostitutes coming in for just one condom or the family of migrant workers shopping for groceries with no idea how much anything costs. So like I said I was driving home and I hit a pot hole in the road. No big deal right? Wrong, I damn near ran off of the road when I heard this crying and kicking going on in the back seat. I could hear something flailing about in one of the plastic sacks from Wal-Mart and there was this wah wah wah wah sound. Oh my God!, I thought, one of those migrant workers slipped a baby into my bag when I wasnt looking. Knowing that there was no ID on this kid or even the parents, they would never figure out who this damn thing belonged to. I promptly turned my car around and drove back to Wal-Mart in a rage hitting more pot holes on the way still hearing this kid cry out every now and again. I guessed that Wa;-Mart would have some kind of security cameras and maybe we could at least get a visual ID on the bastard that dumped this kid on me. On the way I phoned the police with my cell phone. I wanted to get this baby out of my custody as soon as possible. Back at Wal-Mart I didnt bother getting the kid out of the car. I just marched inside and began raising hell. I didnt want my finger prints anywhere on this kid an
d have some broken english mexican try to claim that I was stealing the baby. No sir, this was all coming down on Wal-Mart. I figured if I played my cards right I might even get a $25 gift certificate from them. An Hour later the police showed up. I wasnt letting anyone near my car until the police got there. This was going to be done right. We all went to my vehicle, the two cops, the manager from Wal-Mart, a few clerks and various other drunks and off work strippers who by now had heard the story as I was being very loud about it at the front of the store. Hey I really wanted that gift certificate. I unlocked the car for the police and one of the officers began pulling out my bags and setting it on the hood of my car. As he grabbed one bag the crying started again and the bag started moving. He quickly placed it on the hood of my car and pulled out that damn Elmo doll crying it's little red head off. "Is this the crying noise you heard" the officer said with a smirk on his face. I was very embarrassed to say the least. My face was redder than Elmo's. I even had drunks laughing at me. I think some of the strippers were still trying to figure out how the baby got away as they were staring with that "oh, how cute" face. So I quickly loaded my stuff back into the car as the officer called dispatch to tell the whole force what had happened. I left as soon as as I could fearing that I was going to be followed by every on duty officer who wanted to see this idiot for themselves. Now I cant shop at that Wal-Mart anymore. I will have to drive clear across town to the other 24 hour Wal-Mart. Lets just Elmo never made it into my kids hands that day. So what is with these new toys anyway. Are our kids imaginations so lazy that they the toys have to play with themselves now? When I was a kid you know what I got for christmas? I really wanted a G.I. Joe doll. This is a milatary doll with machine gun and boots, etc. But my
parents were too poor to justify spending the $7 on a doll when we were eating Mac & cheese with tuna from a can every night. So for christmas I got something even better...I got stick joe! My Dad took some sticks from the fire wood and carved out stick joe for me. With a little string and some good magic marker work on it you could at least tell what it was supposed to be. I loved that doll. Me and stick joe would battle the evil soviet empire one day and destroy the nazis the next. We even made time to visit my sister's stick barbie behind the tree that soubled as the tallest barbie dream house ever when it wasnt Dr. Evil's dark tower of death. With todays toys they could just all play with each other and the kids could sleep. Besides video games is the only thing that keeps kid's attention anyway. Elmo is cute in a toy being possesed by Satan kind of way, but I dont really think it will keep a child's attention for very long. Get them some good sticks and card board boxes that always works better anyway. And as for Elmo he is still out in the yard tied to my archery target. It seems I still never get tired of firing off arrows at this thing.
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Trimble GCS900 on a Motor Grader with Dual GPS
The Trimble® GCS900 Grade Control System with dual GPS can be installed on motor graders for a wide range of earthmoving applications. The Trimble GCS900 on a motor graders with dual GPS is a full 3D control system that puts the site plan - design surfaces, grades and alignments - inside the cab.
The dual antenna configuration is unique to Trimble GPS-based Grade Control Systems. Using GPS, the exact position, very accurate cross slope, and heading of the blade is measured. This is especially advantageous for complex design surfaces such as super-elevation grading tasks. GPS-based Grade Control Systems are ideal for larger site projects and long-term, multi-phase projects.
The on-board computer uses this position information, and compares it to the design elevation to compute cut or fill to grade. This information displays on the Control Box screen in plan, profile, cross-section view, or text. The cut/fill data is also used to drive the valves for automatic blade control.Additionally, the cut/fill data is passed to the GCS900 lightbars, providing additional visual guidance to the operator for up/down to grade and right/left to a defined alignment. The GCS900 on a grader can be operated in either indicate or automatic mode.
GPS-based Grade Control Systems are ideal for larger site projects and long-term, multi-phase projects. Using the Trimble GCS900 with dual GPS on a motor grader allows contractors to significantly improve their productivity and profitability.
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Folder that fits INTO a chrome metropolis bag?
Greetings! I normally surf the SS/FG and road forums...been on and off this site for a few years........
Anyway, I'm just curious if any of you have found a folding bike that fits into a chrome messenger bag, more specifically the metropolis... I'm thinking it's easier than using the tow bar to "drag" my daughter's bike when i pick her up from school...
Currently I use a MTB fitted w/ street tires and the Trail Gator towing system.... to pull her 20" bike
Can you please provide a link to information on this bag?
Here's the dimensions of said bag and link.
[h=4]Dimensions:[/h]26" wide, 15" high, 7" deep[h=4]Volume:[/h] 40 L
Chrome Metropolis.
Sorry, forgot to include dimensions. My apologies and thank you 87gerG
No problem. Nice bag. I hope there is something that will fit for you.
those little circus stunt bikes come to mind, ..
Buy a BakFiets and put a decent seat in there . Harry vs Larry's Cargo Bikes are pretty Hip.
Other than the micro-wheeled bikes like the Carry Me, I can't think of anything that would work for this use case. Even the Carry Me would stick out of one side of the bag.
Normally when people are looking for ultra compact I point to the Brompton, but that's definitely too big for this bag.
Just leave for the school a little bit earlier mestizoracer310 so that you can have it put back together when your daughter walks out of the classroom.
How about one of these, if it wont fit in your bag then strap it to a pannier rack on your bike.
Just for S&G's,I was able to just fit my Brompton in my old Chrome Kremlin. They don't make them any more,but they pop up on eBay from time to time. Pretty sure there are other bags and packs that would carry one. For the Metro,you'd either need something with really small wheels,or something that had to be taken apart.
first of all, i'd like to THANK you all for your input. unfortunately, those micro wheel bikes would probably tire her out fast...most of them had one gear, tiny wheel. not a good combo for a 10 year old. plus it looked like most of them were for people taller than she is. she just barely moved to a 20" wheel bike. one of you mentioned a lengthened utility bike, that's a little much and i was trying to "make do" with what i have. guess i'll just continue using the trail-gator with my mtb until she has more stamina.
Just to add some detail to the thread.
I have tried a carry mein the bag rack on my mezzo and it worked fine with a bungee around the seatpost. The other way that worked was to wear the handled bag like a rucksack. Abit unconfortable however.
Many posters here will speak of how quick and surprising good the carryme is to ride.
Just need to pump up tyres every week.
I used to use speedskate rollerblades a lot for commuting. I am an expert, it would not be quick afe for everyone!!
Its still surprising how much space even these take up in bags.
How about a Bickerton strapped to a pannier rack? Cheap, fairly light and compact.
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Russell Brand just can't keep his trap shut about ex-wife Katy Perry
"I loved her so much, it just seemed like the sensible thing to do [when we got married] ... I just loved her so much," said the cockney speaking comic. But after 14 months of marriage Russell admitted his changed feelings towards the 'California Gurl' songstress. "I was really, really in love with her, but it was difficult to see each other ... We were together when it was right to be together, and when it wasn't we worked it out ... It was a lovely relationship ... it mostly didn't work for practical reasons ... We did work it out, she's happy, I'm happy."
So where has all this sweetness come from? Well, we think Rusty may be harboring a little bit of guilt after publicly taking a dig at Katy during a recent stand up show where he called her a 'pain'- so what better what to write his wrongs than publicly praising her.
"I don't want anything to hurt her. She's younger than me, she's a young woman and she's beautiful and she's sensitive and I care about her deeply ... I don't want to be too glib," he explained. "She'll read it and she'll be sad and I don't want that."
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The human body is an amazing thing. It can push itself to limits that some of us don't even want to contemplate. If you have ever worked out then you've done an exercise that's challenged you.
Maybe you felt your muscles burn a little—or a lot. Maybe you know that heart pumping, gut clenching feeling you get when one more rep might make you vomit.
Our list is composed of exercises that people do that tend to induce the feelings described above—if you can even do them.
Yes, we know, dangling off a tree by your fingertips is most likely a harder exercise than a jazz kick, as is throwing yourself down a class five rapid. This is not that kind of list.
These exercises, most of which you could do at home, are real exercises. We've seen all of them done by people who aren't fitness models or trainers. These are exercises a strong, fit, flexible normal person could do if they wanted a challenge. No exotic location or insurance waiver required.
L Hold on Dip BarsSuch an innocuous name for such a challenging exercise. It's easy, just lift yourself up onto your wrists while suspending yourself in the air and then bring your legs up and hold it—then repeat.
One Armed BurpeeIf you ever done a normal burpee you know it is one of the more challenging series of movements you can do. Now imagine doing this series of movement while supporting your entire body weight - on one arm.
Squat Straddle Handstand
Look at the effortless way she seems to glide between being planted on the ground in a squat and then doing a split in the air. In a perfect handstand. Then watch her do it again.
Jazz KicksSometimes an exercise is hard not because it requires super strength but because it requires a combination of strength and flexibility. Go ahead, kick your foot up in the air and touch your nose while keeping your back straight and see how easy it is.
Triple Clap Pushup
Some people clap once when the do a pushup. Some people clap twice. The real challenge is clapping three times, all while propelling yourself from a plank to almost a full upright position. This move requires strength and super speed, the third clap is so fast you can barely see it.
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EUR/USD (a 4-hour chart)
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In the absence of important macroeconomic statistics traders shall focus their attention on the commodity market dynamics. Namely the bearish oil trend strengthening pushed the eurozone into a deflation and now all traders are closely monitoring the "black gold" quotes. The nearest Brent strong support level is at the mark of 47.46. We believe bears will continue to build up short positions on the short-term euro quotations growth.
The corrective euro growth against the US dollar stopped near the downtrend channel upper bound of 1.1850. The trade towards the channel has been lasting the fifth week in a row.
The trade volumes are in the reduced zone.
The price is finding the first support at 1.1770, the next one is at 1.1690. The price is finding the first resistance at 1.1850, the next one is at 1.1950.
There is a confirmed and a strong sell signal. The price is under the Cloud and it is under the Chinkou Span. The Tenkan-sen and the Kijun-sen show a downward movement. The downward movement will be until the price is under the Cloud.
The MACD indicator is in a negative territory. The price is decreasing.
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We believe the falling will be continued now. The first target is the level 1.1690.


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Weekend link-o-ramaMarch 16th, 2013 | By RJ Rushmore | 2 Comments »
Bit of a shorter link-o-rama this week. I've been with my parents in Colorado, trying to get some work done on my upcoming book. The hope is that Viral Art will be released for free online in mid-June. There's still a fair bit of work left to do though. Anyway, the links…
- Don't Fret had a show in Chicago earlier this year around the theme of internet dating. Great stuff.
- Liqen's latest piece is a call to preserve a wildlife sanctuary in Ecuador.
- A.CE has a new print out at Station16.
- Sweet piece by 45RPM on a huge airplane. Anyone know the story here?
- Sowat painted in the historic Paris nightclub Les Bains next to a Futura piece from the mid-80's.
- Paul Insect and Sweet Toof have been getting up around London. It looks like his time spent with Bast while in NYC recently may have influenced him a bit, as some of Paul Insect's work is in a more naive style reminiscent of Bast or Haring that I don't think I've seen from him before. Looks good.
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Friday, October 15, 1999 Published at 04:35 GMT 05:35 UK
Social upheaval risk for suicide
Reducing suicide is a key government health target
Areas with high levels of social upheaval and people living alone have more suicides than deprived regions, according to research.
And London is the worst affected, having nine out of 10 of the most socially unstable areas in the UK.
Previous research has suggested that poverty - defined by unemployment, poor housing and car ownership - was a big risk factor for suicide.
The government has made reducing suicide by 20% in the next 10 years a key part of its public health strategy, and it has made tackling social exclusion the major plank of this programme.
Researchers say efforts to meet this target should focus more on socially fragmented areas than deprived ones.
They studied death rates from suicide between 1981 and 1991 in 633 parliamentary constituencies and measured them against information gleaned from censuses.
They found deprived areas like Glasgow had lower rates of suicide than London with its high level of social mobility and people living alone.
They also found that areas where social fragmentation increased over the 10-year period also saw a rise in suicide rates.
However, for all other causes of death, deprivation was more important.
The researchers call for more research into why some areas have a higher turnover of population than others.
They say it may be that people who have mental illness or are at risk of suicide are more likely to gravitate to areas with high levels of turnover and low social support.
"We cannot say that social fragmentation causes people to commit suicide. There may be a number of factors operating," said Dr David Gunnell, who led the research.
"Suicide is very complex, unlike an illness like lung cancer where smoking is clearly a high risk factor.
"It can be linked to loss of a job, physical or mental illness or lack of social support, for example. It is not straightforward," he stated.
The study, which is published in the British Medical Journal, also measured whether areas with large numbers of adults who did not vote had high levels of suicide.
They found that this was this was as important a risk factor as deprivation, but not as significant as social fragmentation.
"Failure to vote in the place you live may indicate that you feel more alienated from it," said Dr Gunnell.
Suicide rates have been falling in the UK in recent years, but for young men the figure is rising.
A recent psychological study of suicides in people aged under 35 found that suicide victims were three times more likely to be unemployed, five times as likely to have a history of alcohol or drug misuse and far more likely to have relationship problems, either with a partner, parent or peer.
Other key factors included a tendency to have no friends, to live in rented accommodation and to move house frequently.
The Samaritans says the reasons which drive a person to suicide are often complex, but lack of a support network can push people over the edge.
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BRENTWOOD — A motorist attempting to make a U-turn across a double-yellow line appears to be the reason behind a wreck that killed a 30-year-old San Jose woman Friday night, the California Highway Patrol said.
The crash occurred at the intersection of Vasco Road and Camino Diablo around 9:20 p.m., CHP Sgt. Diana McDermott said, when a red Toyota Camry slammed into a Geo Tracker, McDermott said.
A preliminary investigation indicated that the Geo was northbound on Vasco Road when its driver tried to make a U-turn to go south, McDermott said. The Toyota, which appeared to be doing the speed limit, McDermott said, was going south on Vasco and broadsided the Geo Tracker.
It was not immediately clear whether the woman was driving the Toyota or a passenger in it, McDermott said. Her name was not released pending notification of family. Nobody else appeared to be seriously injured, McDermott said.
Vasco Road was shut down in both directions at 9:54 p.m. and the CHP monitored traffic until opening the roadway again at 10:40 p.m.
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People always talk about how Internet-only shows might someday make their way to TV, but in a case of reverse engineering, TV shows are being taken off the air and moved online. ABC has licensed the recently-cancelled and long running soaps "All My Children" and "One Live to Live" to a production company that will keep the shows up and running with new episodes. It's not yet clear what kind of production will be involved here, if the entire cast and crew will be retained for each program (or if it will all be performed by finger puppets) (which would all kinds of awesome and I would totes watch that you guys). But for the moment: crisis averted, mother can still watch her stories. Although now she's going to be calling you up and asking how to change the channel on her internet.
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The Moderate party, on the other hand, reached 35.1 percent, while the Christian Democrats stayed just below the limit for the Riksdag with 3.9 percent, reported Sveriges Radio.
Altogether, the centre-right government parties reached 50.5 percent of voters in the survey, while the red and green opposition had 43.2 percent.
"Of course we want better figures than that, but I also know that the internal work that goes on during autumn keep the voters a bit passive," Acko Ankarberg of the Christian Democrats told Sveriges Radio (SR).
"It has all been about internal work and to develop our policies, but also there has been a discussion regarding the governing of the party."
The Greens instead continued to climb and reached a record level of 11.9 percent, with many of the voters having jumped over the fence from the Social Democrats following the recent scandals surrounding leader Håkan Juholt, the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper reported.
"The Greens have become a stronger and clearer alternative in the big cities and there is an active flow [of voters] from the Social Democrats," Toivo Sjörén, head of the Sifo polls in Sweden told the newspaper in the autumn.


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Danny Brown reveals the producers and features on his sophomore album "OLD".
Danny Brown has already teased us with at least one confirmed track from his upcoming album OLD, and last night he took to twitter to reveal the full list of producers, as well as features on the project.
The production list features UK electronic producers like Rustie and Darq E Freaker, along with in-house beatmaker Skywlkr and Dilla-esque loopmaster/brother to Madlib, Oh No. The guest appearances includes Black Hippy members Ab-Soul and Schoolboy Q, as well as Brooklyn rapper Mr. MFN Exquire, current bruh bruh A$AP Rocky, and Canadian dream pop duo Purity Ring.
Have look at the full list in the tweets, as well as a collabo from Danny and Exquire below.
Production by Paul White, OhNo, Rustie, Skywlkr, Atrak, Darq E Freaker and Frank Dukes— Danny Brown (@XDannyXBrownX) May 4, 2013
#Old coming soon ... Featuring Freddie Gibbs, ScHoolboy Q, Mr MFN Exquire, Scrufizzer, A$AP Rocky, Ab-Soul, Charli XCX and Purity Ring— Danny Brown (@XDannyXBrownX) May 4, 2013


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Hey O. UGA had a tough loss to LSU. But no need to panic. We will survive. I'd like it if you checked out my take and please feel free to comment. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/266267-georgia-bulldogs-loss-to-lsu-uga-still-standing
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In an institution that favors, paradoxically, both continuity and change Toni Atkins may be the perfect choice for the times to lead the California Assembly.
Atkins, 51, was officially selected by the Assembly on Monday to be the body's 69th speaker. She will succeed Assembly Speaker John Pérez, D-Los Angeles, who will leave office this fall due to term limits. No precise date for the changing of the guard has been announced, except to say it will come in the late spring.
Atkins, D-San Diego, will be the third woman to ever serve as speaker and the first open lesbian in the job. Unlike the rancor of speakership votes in years past, she was chosen by what sounded like a unanimous voice vote. Republicans, either in the spirit of cooperation or just an acceptance of the legislative math, did not formally oppose her selection.
Atkins came to Sacramento in 2011, after serving on San Diego's city council during one of the city's most tumultuous periods. The daughter of an Appalachian mining family, Atkins has been a loyal lieutenant to Pérez and had to fight off the buzz that the Assembly needed a northern Californian to balance out the already selected new Senate leader, Sen. Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles.
"I represent all Californians," she told reporters after Monday's vote. "It's really going to be a partnership with my colleagues, from north to south, urban/rural, east/west. I mean, there's a lot of different demographics to our state. It isn't just north/south."
Atkins says she'll focus on the most pressing of state issues -- a water bond for the November ballot, the state's recovering finances and budget needs -- while also adding in two of her own personal pet projects: finding more affordable housing for the homeless and providing resources for the growing number of California military veterans.
But her tenure will be limited. Atkins was elected under the old term limits system, which means she has only two more years left that she can serve in the Assembly. Many see her as the final leader under the 1990 terms limits system, given the large freshman class elected in 2012 that -- under that year's Proposition 28 -- could serve as many as 12 years in the lower house.
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Surely most of these are Trolls
I can't see why 200000 people would seriously apply, cutting yourself off from everything you know is a serious decision.
The Mars One project has whittled its 200,000 video applicants down to just 1,058, who will compete for a place on the entirely hypothetical one-way trip to the Red Planet to establish a human colony. The chosen few will be taking part in a reality-TV style competition to cut them down to the final 40 candidates hoping to be …
I can't see why 200000 people would seriously apply, cutting yourself off from everything you know is a serious decision.
200k people is about one person in a thousand if you assume about 1/3 of the world's population have internet connection and are in a sensible age bracket.
The spirit of adventure is not dead.
I tend to agree, these people are volunteering to go into space with others who value the people around them so little that they are prepared to just leave, they are also people who are prepared to forfeit their own lives for "an adventure". Would you trust your survival on someone who thinks like that? Because you will have to rely upon those people for survival.
IIRC it cost money to apply, you'd have to be a rather dedicated troll to pony up real money...
> Because you will have to rely upon those people for survival.
How is the view from olduvai gorge, george?
> I can't see why 200000 people would seriously apply, cutting yourself off from everything you know is a serious decision.
Yes, it is -- but I'd go. Not only might I be part of the making of history, real historybook stuff, but since average life expectancy is probably 20 years lower on Mars I might even cheat my genes out of the agonizing death by Alzheimer's they've got planned for me.
If the applicants are all politicians, estate agents and traffic wardens, I'd give a donation to get them to Mars.
In fact why not just send them anyway.
@LarsG: How about advertising executives? Oh, wait, thy are needed to run the show here on Earth...
" I might even cheat my genes out of the agonizing death by Alzheimer's they've got planned for me."
I've read your posts. It's too late for that.
Why not? People have done so for centuries - set out on near suicidal missions to see places they couldn't even know existed - we would not be where we are now, we would not know what's across the big body of water if all humans had no sense of curiosity, some intense desire to search for something more, something that's not evident - and I imagine you'd want to team up with like minded souls - the motives are secondary.
Truth is, life nowadays can be dull - full of boring routines, often with very little meaning - what is wrong with wanting more then your average office hamster wheel?
As for death, we will all die, some sooner the others - you don't know what's in store for you, and when. Human life is fragile, every day you wake up and risk loosing it.
The whole project may be nothing more but a huge farce, but can you be 100% certain? Some say, it's not the destination, rather the journey that counts. Let people dream. Those dreams of the impossible are the biggest driving force in the world.
We're already living the future, future we thought was rather distant when we were kids - touch screens, holograms, PC's, robots, clones. When you think of the progress we've made in the last half a century, a trip to Mars that some of us may still be able to witness, suddenly doesn't appear to be so utopian.
cutting yourself off from everything you know is a serious decision.
A huge part of the world's population lives in communities not much larger than 40 people, and manages tolerably well "cut off" like that. Our budding martians would be less isolated in many ways, since they could receive digital communications (email, films) from Earth. Granted, aiming for 300-500 people would be a better longterm goal.
> I've read your posts. It's too late for that.
Too late for what? And what do you mean "put your pants on, grandpa?"
"A huge part of the world's population lives in communities not much larger than 40 people, and manages tolerably well "cut off" like that."
Fortunately, they all have free access to breathable air without the use of expensive, breakable technology. Most have access to water too.
Setting off across the briny deep in the hope there might be landfall somewhere is a little less daunting a prospect than setting off across the airless vacuum for somewhere where you already know you will die if one of many tech items fail. You won't be able to build an escape raft from a local trees while living off fish and coconuts.
If I thought for a second I had a chance of making myself fit enough to be useful to the mission I'd have applied in a heartbeat. The urge to explore is quite powerful in some of us...and somethings are entirely worth dying for. My wife feels the same way; we'd have both been quite happy to make the trip, regardless of the risks.
Dear LarsG
As one of the applicants, I'm neither a lawyer, politician, estate agent or traffic warden. Just a scientist with an awareness of the fragility of life on Earth. But if you want to be rid of the crazy visionaries, you can make a useful contribution at http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mars-one-first-private-mars-mission-in-2018 and help keep this show on the road.
The vast majority of explorers did their exploration for a easily understood reason - MONEY and/or POWER. They had an idea that there are riches to be found by blazing a way to India or to that valley where the natives where hunting those beautiful beaver pelts or...
Exploration "just because" is a very recent thing. And even today many still look out for good press coverage, sponsors and a well paid tour of the talk shows.
"If the applicants are all politicians, estate agents and traffic wardens, I'd give a donation to get them to Mars."
The complement actually consists of hairdressers, TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, management consultants and telephone sanitisers.
They have 11 years to sort things out with their nearest and dearest.
It's a bit like when people left for the New World from Europe, you didn't expect to see those people again. With modern communications Martian settlers won't be nearly isolated the mail might take 40 minutes, but compared to sail ships that's fast.
I guess you file for divorce before the launch, and hope your crewmates are friendly.
In the best possible case, these idiots will be "the first humans on Mars", until eventually someone notices that the film crew has been there, setting up, for two weeks already. History will record that a certain Pat Smith from the portable loo company was actually the first human on Mars, visiting about 12 hours before the film crew landed. Pointless.
Just like Columbus, Livingstone, Fiennes, Aldrin or for that matter any early astronaut or air force test pilot.
Everyone has to forfeit their life in return for getting to live one.
All those people came back, they didn't eke out their days living off algae on a rock, billions of miles from their loved ones.
I agree with your second assertion, but that's my point - don't just chuck away your life for romanticised idea of "space adventure". I would do practically anything to go into space, but only if I knew there was a realistic chance of coming back.
"billions of miles from their loved ones"
on average 140 million miles.
Telephone sanitisers?
your math is off, it is 1/10,000 with 2 billion people connected to the internet
I'd love to go - if I thought they'd take me. Captain Scarlet - are you serious or totally devoid of imagination?
Mad bastards maybe but trolls never. Some of us have dreamt of this since Gagarin shat his suit.
Wanting to live on Mars is not a good reason for applying. If you want to do humiliating 'psychological' tests live on television then go for it. Lucky winners can watch the trip delayed until it is cancelled with the rest of us. Unlucky winners can be one of the first corpses to crash into Mars live on TV. I think many of those 200,000 understand the difference between what is advertised and what is available.
Well, remember that Captain Scarlet has had some unpleasant experiences with Mars, so his antipathy to the idea is certainly understandable.
Gagarin got to come back though.
Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success. - Ernest Shackleton.
He got 5k applications. (He also supposedly filed them in 3 cabinets, "Mad", "Hopeless" and "Possible")
Same advert for a one way trip to Mars? Everybody dies some day, and there are plenty of people who'd give it a go just for the adventure, let along the honour recognition and eternal place in history as being the first expedition to Mars. Some people do get really fed up just working 9-5 Monday to Friday you know!
Safe return doubtful, vs any return - even of your remains - absolutely assured to be impossible. I think this is the crux of the matter. You may also - probably, assuming the launch/landing goes ok - not die on the same day as everyone else. What if the first dead person is the doctor? The head engineer or some other mission specialist? It's utterly irresponsible.
> utterly irresponsible
Not to fear, Obama will ban it.
If the doctor died I don't think anybody would be too badly concerned. As a First Aider i'm fairly convinced that a doctor couldn't do much about anything enroute that anybody else couldn't do under direction via radio link apart from keeping meticulous notes about how other people die that might advance human knowledge. I mean, your hardly going to have a doctor doing surgery...
Chief engineer might be moderately more serious, but at the end of the day your hardly reliant on Scotty saving the day when the captain demands more power from the warp drives.
Why bother returning your remains? What are people going to do with them if they did have them back, burn them and then spread the ash somewhere? Might as well just leave them on Mar, they might make a museum exhibit one day.
And if somebody who wanted to make a one way trip to Mars is irresponsible, why? What are they neglecting their responsibilities to?
> under direction via radio link
Umm, you might not want to rely on that too much. Depending on their relative positions as they orbit, the Earth and Mars are between four and twenty-four light-minutes apart. In the time it would take to get a piece of urgent medical advice, the patient could have popped his clogs, been dehydrated for his water content a la Fremen, and consigned to the airlock.
I'd strongly recommend not bothering to argue any points here. It's rather obvious people have their beliefs and wish to stick to them. You know it's a real problem when someone insists it's their right to do it even though it results in harm.
How much more so when it results in certain death? "I'm the first to drink arsenic, think of the experience and fame and honor", or "I'm the first to skydive into concert wearing only socks" would get the same result.
Mars is amazing. It's a great rock. But putting 2 feet on it accomplishes nothing if those 2 feet are certain to die in the process. All such arguments against it vanish if there is some attempt at making a return craft (AKA the moon landings, ISS and others).
"Unlucky winners can be one of the first corpses to crash into Mars live on TV..."
Is it still live TV if everyone on the show is dead?
If I were to go to Mars and arrive dead, than my remains will be a good beginning to establishing a microbial colony on Mars.
Please note: I don't think I've read anywhere that Mars One is about establishing a human colony on Mars, just a colony. All those millions of bacteria in each of us, with all that lovely food & water that we contain...
At least the weekly evictions should be interesting...
"The next stages in the selection process will include rigorous simulations and physical and emotional testing of the candidates, according to Norbert Kraft, the foundation's chief medical officer and homeopath, who requested that we address him as 'Bones'."
Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor not an astronaut!
"Norbert Kraft, the foundation's chief medical officer and homeopath"
Homeopath!?! Mysteriously, I've suddenly lost all interest in the mission.
You'd think that my dilution of enthusiasm would make me keener, but nope, I no longer give a damn.
Not a homeopath! He has worked for the Russian Space Agency, the Japanese Space Agency and NASA. New age types these people are not.
I think you may have him confused with someone else.
I would go but not with three wannabe spacehyped BigBrother celebs.
The size of the projected craft at 5 metres diameter is laughable given the problems with radiation shielding and the total volume will in no way provide for enough tools and materiel to enable them to survive for any appreciable length of time There are also the problems of prolonged weightlesness not only on the muscles but on the bones. There are exercises designed to help mitigate those problems but ultimately the crew are going to be permanently on a planet with only 38% of Earth's gravity there must be means to simulate 1G in order to maintain normal body function. Admittedly the gravitational strain in general will be less but there is still the question of moving mass when constructing or working which will still have the same inertia.
I probably won't live to see most of the problems addressed but if they were I would without a doubt be up for it.
Still for the Mars 1 crew at least they will go down in history just not too sure what as.
I guess being famous, even if it is for being a twat is too difficult to pass over for some people.
Why do they need to retain 1G capability ???
It's a ONE WAY JOURNEY
they won't be coming back down the gravity well .....
they just need to adapt (sucesfully) to their new home's version of 1G - the results of that particular experiment are probably enough on it's own to justify the entire cost
> but ultimately the crew are going to be permanently on a planet with only 38% of Earth's gravity there must be means to simulate 1G in order to maintain normal body function
There apparently hasn't been any research on the effect of low (such as Mars') gravity on the human body, so we have no idea how it affects the body vs microgravity (weightlessness). For all we know the human body may be able to sustain itself indefinitely at 0.4g with little or no ill effect.
> There apparently hasn't been any research on the effect of low (such as Mars') gravity on the human body
Yes, because there's no way to do such research. Earth has 1G, space has zero G, to get anything else for long periods of time you need to go to another planet. That is one of the big questions wrt colonizing Mars: is 0.4G strong enough for permanent human residence? We wont know until someone's tried.
Incidentally, Luna's gravity is 0.4x that of Mars (1/17th of Earth's). In case anyone was thinking of settling there.
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard
1058 selected applicants, rigorious ment/phys/emot testing (..for broadcast also?) to trim the numbers some more.... however....
No plans or construction schedule for a spacecraft that will take years to even build once begun (probably in orbit, yeh?), and only a robotic probe being sent out first in.... 4 years from now.
How old will these fools actually be when "their" spacecraft (specially built with loads of cameras and digital storage) is finally finished? (Assuming that even magnetic-field radiation shielding is perfected by then..).
Clearly, they are idiots if they are going to sign up for this without any ship even close to *begun*.
We'll probably get a season of "Mars One Simulator" on the telly where Bas & Co. pack two dozen rubes into a newly renovated "BioSphere 3"/Mars Spacecraft Mock-up out in the Arizona desert and force them to live inside it for half a year -on camera, natch- before a few of them crack and either kill someone or escape the confines, only with lifelong psychological trauma.
Colosseum Televiso Psychologica ?
"We'll probably get a season of "Mars One Simulator"
But would the participants know that it was only a simulator*? And even if they did know would we be told that they didn't**?
*Assuming they select for gullibility things that might be obvious to us may not occur to the so-called cosmonauts.
** TV audiences self-select for gullibility.
1058 selected applicants, rigorious ment/phys/emot testing (..for broadcast also?) to trim the numbers some more
We'll probably get a season of "Mars One Simulator" on the telly
More like Takeshi's Castle in Space


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WRIGLEYVILLE — Owners of rooftop seating near Wrigley Field are nearing an agreement with the Chicago Cubs that would settle a federal lawsuit accusing them of stealing the team's product and unjustly enriching themselves, representatives said.
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Gause CIP, 4-H groups to meet
Soccer got off to a great start this past Saturday on the fields here in Gause. There is a great turnout of players this year. Saturday, Oct. 2 the games will be played in Cameron. Then on Oct. 8 they will be back in Gause, Oct. 15 in Cameron and the final game here in Gause on Oct. 22. The youngest player teams begin at 8:30 am., older teams at 9.
The Gause Junior High Lady Bears volleyball team played in a tournament in Westphalia on Saturday. On Oct. 8 they will be in Bryan in the Brazos Christian tournament.
On Thursday, the Gause Bears football team will be playing Texas Christian Academy in Waco. On Oct. 6 the team will be playing football in Holland beginning at 5:30 p.m. The team played a great game this past Thursday against Brazos Christian. If you get the chance, go see our Gause teams play their games.
There is also a group of Gause younger girls playing on volleyball teams in Robertson County.
Gause Community Improvement Program (CIP) will meet at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3 in the Gause Community Center. Join us.
Milam County 4-H clubs will have their annual 4-H Celebration on Sunday, Oct. 2 at the Firemen's Hall in Thorndale The program begins at 3 p.m.
Gause 4-H Club will be having their monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4 in the Gause ISD cafeteria. All interested youth and parents are encouraged to attend. Colin Kostroun of the Cameron 4-H Club will have a presentation on Bass Brigade, a camp he attend this summer. Gause 4-H adult leaders, Kelly Lee-Cooper and Elizabeth Miller will be presenting a Foods and Nutrition Workshop.If you are interested in either of these projects this is a great opportunity to find out more about them.
It also time for the Milam County Consumer Decision Making project meetings to begin and information on that will also be available.
Also plans will be made for the annual fall carnival and Auction to be held Saturday, Oct. 29 at the Gause School.
The youth group of the Gause Baptist Church are having Bible Studies in the homes of church members each Monday evening. This includes junior high through high school youth. For more info you may call Matt Sanders at 979- 218-6827 for more information.
Thanks to all who came and supported the " breakfast for lunch" fund-raiser held Sunday for the Gause Baptist Church Youth.
Kelly Cooper and Cameron, Leah Lee, Wayne Lee and Jaxon Hayles went to Shiner Saturday to watch St. Joseph Catholic School of Bryan play football. Connelly Cooper plays for the St. Joseph team.


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Former England striker Gary Lineker says he will no longer be writing a column for The Mail on Sunday in protest over the newspaper publishing the secretly recorded allegations
from FA chief David Triesman about England's rival World Cup bidders. Triesman quit as FA chairman and head of the England bid team following the newspaper's claims he had told a
former aide that Spain could drop its attempt to host the 2018 event if rival bidder Russia helped bribe referees at this year's World Cup.
Lineker, also a BBC sports presenter, is an official ambassador for England's bid to host the World Cup. He said, "The story itself, the circumstances surrounding it and the actions of The Mail on Sunday in publishing it have undermined the bid to bring the World Cup to England in 2018.
"I wholeheartedly support the bid, because I believe that hosting the tournament would be brilliant for the country, and I am an official ambassador for it. I have therefore taken the view that I cannot continue as a columnist for The Mail on Sunday."
Triesman protested that he believed the conversation was private and he was only commenting "on speculation circulating about conspiracies around the world" and his comments "were never intended to be taken seriously."


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I've been intrigued by a couple of recent newspaper articles that, in effect, challenge some of the existing dogma about both child pornography and Megan's Law community notification. Last week, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a piece about the German teen mag, Bravo. Bravo features frank articles about sexuality that include nude (or are they just "naked"?) photographs of teenagers. A person selling one of these popular magazines here in the U.S. might well be subject to prosecution under both state and federal child pornography laws. The article includes quotes from the publishers who make the case that this material is important and useful to teens. The Inquirer's mere act of running such a piece – an article about something that has been happening for a while, and is therefore hardly "newsworthy" – seems designed to cause some readers to question their underlying assumption that nude photos of kids (even in a sexualized context) is per se immoral. The article tells us that, In one western democracy, at least, such photos can be acceptable and appropriate.
The second article was a piece in yesterday's Washington Post. This one was a story about a man who plead guilty, 13 years ago, to misdemeanor incest with his sister. He has apparently moved on with his life, and his sister does not see him as a threat. The notification law in Virginia, however, requires that his face now be plastered on the internet as a sex criminal. He sued to avoid that fate. This story is perhaps a bit more newsworthy than the Inky piece, but not that much more so. I suspect that there have been many individuals who have challenged their inclusion in Megan's Law rolls, probably using the same legal bases. Indeed, as I read the story, I wondered: why did this make the paper? (And indeed we learned, today, that he lost.)
The answer, I think, is that – at last – some responsible citizens are beginning to press the question of how our country deals with child sexuality. A society is certainly entitled to set parameters for who is able to consent to sex or sexual displays. But we have taken such dramatic steps to attack child sexuality that we both over-prosecute relatively harmless conduct (like the photos in Bravo) and over-punish serious, but not necessarily recurring misconduct ("consensual" incest between siblings). Unfortunately, criticizing these sorts of laws is as taboo as the underlying conduct. It is virtually unacceptable for a person to argue that laws in these areas are too strong – or, God forbid, utterly unjustified.
In the academy, Amy Adler is one of the few people who has seriously critiqued child pornography law. (Her article is available in full text for JSTOR subscribers here.) Now, it appears, some of these provisions are being challenged in the popular press. Not on the op-ed page, of course. That would doom editors to deadly attacks from the panic mongers. Rather, the critiques are indirect and quiet, embedded in the editorial decisions of the news section. Whatever the venue, I applaud any effort to make rational policy decisions in this radioactive area of law.


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During the Easter season, we experience a dramatic shift in focus as we journey from the penitential season of Lent to the joy of Easter resurrection. During Lent, we focused our hearts and minds to embrace a new creation, a new reality. Through the mystery of the resurrection, we now focus on new beginnings and change. Resurrection is not just a historical event, it is a paradigm in the Christian narrative. Jesus suffered, died, and was resurrected from the dead to free us from sin and to change our lives . . . and he lives not in some faraway place, but in our midst! The risen Lord encounters us is our daily lives challenging us into a renewed and re-created view of ourselves and the world around us. Yet, many times we miss these encounters because we fail to recognize Him in our midst. We end up focusing on other forms of power and success . . . the reality of Easter fades into the background . . . it comes and goes, nothing much changes, and we walk away.
But we are not unique; some of the disciples who journeyed with Jesus during his life on earth walked away as well. Others failed to recognize him after his resurrection � it was only after an intimate connection, or a �heart connection� with him, that they realized it was the risen Lord. This past Sunday, we heard a very familiar post-resurrection gospel story that tells of two disciples making a journey away from Jerusalem to the city of Emmaus just days after the crucifixion. Emmaus is believed to have been a city with a garrison housing the Roman army; leaving Jerusalem, a symbol of faith, and heading towards Emmaus, a symbol of secular power, could have been a manifestation of lost faith in the promise of the resurrection. As they walked, they recounted how Jesus died; without knowledge of the resurrection, it seemed to them Jesus was not the longed for messiah. But they met a �stranger� along the way and everything changed. Luke�s gospel states, �And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, �Were not our hearts burning (within us) while he spoke to us on the way and opened the scriptures to us?�� Jesus disappeared, but now they were faith-filled and radical. They returned to Jerusalem to be with the other disciples, and their lives were never the same.
The resurrected Lord has never ceased appearing to us throughout history, often times when we are traveling in the wrong direction. Like the disciples on the road to Emmaus, we may fail to recognize him as well. We may even doubt if the Lord is present and at work in our lives. But if we are open to the Spirit, the Lord will reveal himself and our hearts will burn within us. When we feed at the Eucharistic banquet, our eyes will be opened, we will see a new reality, and we will not walk away. Like the early disciples, our lives will change in challenging and dramatic ways and things will never be the same. The journey is not an easy one, but there is no other journey more exciting, nor more in the right direction!
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A provincial court in Havana, Cuba has sentenced four dissidents to three to five years in prison for distributing pamphlets containing anti-government information.
Family members and supporters gathered outside the courthouse where the trial took place, including Vidiet Martinez, whose brother was among the four dissidents. "They didn't consider anything (in the trial). (The dissidents) didn't commit any crime, they didn't set off any bombs, they didn't attack anyone. They simply protested because of their ideals," Martinez told Reuters.
Relatives of the four men said Luis Enrique Labrador, 33, David Piloto, 40, and Walfrido Rodriguez, 42, were sentenced to five years in prison, while Yordani Martinez, 23, was sentenced to three. The men were declared guilty of "disrespect" and "public disorder."
Government sympathizers stood nearby, shouting that the four men were "counter-revolutionaries" who "attacked a policeman."
The Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, an organization that is tolerated by the government, reported that the four dissidents were detained in January for distributing pamphlets containing slogans against the Castro regime. The government dubbed them "mercenaries" of the United States.
Human rights groups on the island have warned that in recent years the Cuban government has opted to substitute long prison sentences for dissidents with brief detentions.
"Frankly five years in prison is way too much for something that in any other country is part of daily life," the spokesman for the commission, Elizardo Sanchez said.
In mid-2010 the Cuban government released over 100 political prisoners, including 52 dissidents rounded up in the Black Spring of 2003 who were given sentences from six to 28 years. The decision to release them came after an historic agreement between the Catholic Church and the Cuban government, in which Spain participated as a mediator.