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The Polar Ship Gjøa
The Gjøa's construction and early history
The Gjøa was built to order by Asbjørn Sexe (1) in 1872. It was the fifth in a line of sloops from Knut Johannesson Skaala's (2) shipyard in Rosendal, Hardanger. Timber for the ship was felled in the forests by Bjørgane in Ølve, while the mast and spars came from Varaldsøy. The ship was named after Gjøa Sexe, the skipper's wife.
Hans Nerhus writes of the Gjøa that Sexe naturally was present when the sloop was launched (Nerhus 1981). When he stood under the bow to strike the wedge from under a skid, the wedge rebounded and hit him on the mouth so blood flowed. While wiping the blood away the comment came that "I have had many good kisses from Gjøa, but never as powerful as today."
While skippering the Gjøa Sexe mainly sailed to the northern Norwegian provinces of Nordland and Finnmark. One winter he sailed the Gjøa from Bergen to Stamsund in 67 hours, which apparently was the Norwegian record for a sloop.
In 1882 the Gjøa was wrecked by Kabelvåg. Sexe sold his farm in Hardanger and moved to Haugesund. Asbjørn Sexe kept a close eye on the Gjøa's fate and was extremely proud of his old sloop when she navigated the Northwest Passage in 1906. He sent a telegram to Roald Amundsen containing a poem of homage to Amundsen and the Gjøa. In translation it goes something like this:
Welcome greetings to you and your men
Fine and strong man
Because in old Norway there are few others like you.
Your ship is called Gjøa, as was my wife.
The vessel Gjøa was christened for love and life.
The namesake is gone, but you have, proud in victory,
Shown that old Gjøa anyway has survived the struggle.
Harald Finehair's wife had the same name.
We take off our hat for his and her deeds.
So will your name live because of your fine, tough deed.
Mother Norway will bless you in the sagas' wise account.
When Amundsen later held a lecture on the Gjøa expedition in Haugesund 8 April 1907, Sexe was apparently in the audience and the two Gjøa skippers met.
The wreck of the Gjøa was sold to O.J. Kaarbøe in Svolvær in 1882 and was brought to Gravdal, Vestvågøy, Nordland for reconstruction. While there she was sold to Tromsø skipper Hans Christian Johannesen (3) for 700 kroner. The Toftekalven brothers in Høylandsbygd bought the original rigging.
In 1884 Johannesen sailed the Gjøa to the Kara Sea and thereafter he made annual voyages in arctic waters. In 1897 the Gjøa was off the east coast of Greenland, before she sailed east to Virgohamna bay in Svalbard where Swedish S.A. Andrée was preparing to set off for the North Pole with his hydrogen balloon "The Eagle" (Örnen). The following year Johannesen sailed the Gjøa past Novaya Zemlya and returned to Tromsø via Franz Josef Land and Kvitøya in northeast Svalbard.
Amundsen buys the Gjøa
On 28 March 1901 Roald Amundsen signed the contract to buy the Gjøa. The sloop had been thoroughly examined and assessed beforehand and for 10 000 kroner Amundsen got the Gjøa with hunting equipment, boats and fixtures. That same summer the Gjøa was equipped for a test voyage in the Arctic Sea. Amundsen was well satisfied with the sloop, but several improvements were necessary before the Gjøa could sail towards the Northwest Passage.
The shipyard Tromsø Skipsverft put in extra strengthening of the hull, lengthened the ice sheathing down to the keel and improved the interior fittings. In May 1902 the Gjøa was strengthened with iron in Trondheim and a 13 HP Dan hot-bulb motor was put in. This was one of the first petrol engines to be installed in a Norwegian vessel.
The history of the first navigation of the Northwest Passage is well known (See the Fram Museum webpage). The Gjøa left Kristiania on 16 June 1903, and became the first ship to sail through the entire Passage. The crew in addition to Roald Amundsen were Godfred Hansen, Helmer Hansen, Anton Lund, Peder Ristvedt, Gustav Juel Wiik and Adolf H. Lindstrøm. The expedition arrived in Nome, Alaska on 30 August 1906 after two winterings in Gjøa Haven on King William Island and one at King Point by the Mackenzie Delta. The Gjøa anchored in San Francisco on 10 September 1906 and was met with enormous enthusiasm from the inhabitants there.
The Gjøa after the Northwest Passage
Amundsen wanted to sail the Gjøa round America and home, but was advised by Fridtjof Nansen not to do this because of the risk of sailing round Cape Horn. The Gjøa was left at the naval station in San Francisco under the watchful eye of the commanding officer. The Norwegian-Americans in San Francisco wanted to preserve the famous little ship and a committee was established which bought the sloop and gave her to the city of San Francisco.
On 5 July 1909 the Gjøa was pulled ashore and placed on a prominent site in the Golden Gate Park.
The Gjøa was a big attraction in San Francisco, but standing under an open sky, at the mercy of wind, sun and rain, she quickly deteriorated. In addition she was exposed to vandalism, fire and souvenir hunters. Plans existed to put the Gjøa into a protective building, but this was never realised. Finally the Gjøa was in such a bad state that there was talk of burning the wreck. Several private collections were needed to finance the most important maintenance, but this was not enough. In connection with the visit of the Norwegian Crown Prince and Princess to San Francisco in 1939, newspapers could announce that the restoration of the Gjøa had at last started. However, the work was stopped in 1941 owing to the war. It was renewed in 1947, when the ship was languishing in a dilapidated shack. The Norwegian parliament now granted money and the restoration could begin.
The Gjøa in transit
The restoration was finally completed in 1949, and on this special occasion the mayor of San Francisco promised that it was now the city's responsibility to keep the ship in good order. This did not happen, and deterioration began again. Inferior materials, vandalism and lack of maintenance led to the efforts to bring the Gjøa back to Norway. People in San Francisco were positive to the plans and a Norwegian Gjøa committee was established in 1971. The only question was: Was the Gjøa in good enough condition to be moved?
The ship looked very good at this point in time. She had been painted in connection with the Norwegian royal visit in 1968, and she was given a new coat during the preparations for moving. Even the inside condition looked good. However, it became apparent that almost all the woodwork was infested with dry rot. The best-preserved parts were the original wood of the keel, the keelson, the bottom planks and some of the lower outer planking.
A hundred years after Roald Amundsen's birth, in 1972, when the Gjøa herself was 100 years old, she was lifted up in the Golden Gate Park, placed on a trailer and driven to the harbour. There she was lifted again by a floating crane and placed on the deck of the M/S Star Billabong. The Gjøa arrived in Oslo on 2 June. The Oslo Harbour Office's floating crane placed her on a concrete foundation by the shore outside the Fram Museum and the Gjøa was formally handed over to the Norwegian Maritime Museum.
Djupevåg Boatyard in Tørvikbygd carried out maintenance work during the summers 1972 and 1973. Almost all the deck and hull planks needed to be replaced. In spring 1974 the Gjøa was rigged and later the same year a cabin fore and aft were fitted out.
In connection with new and more comprehensive information about the Gjøa's history in her new home, the Fram Museum is interested in coming into contact with readers who have photographs, documents, objects and other effects relating to the Gjøa and her voyages. Please contact us.
(1) Asbjørn Sexe was born in 1839 and married Gjøa Frøynes in 1869. She died in 1900, while Asbjørn lived until 1915.
(2) Knut was born in 1843. He was the son of boat builder Johannes Jørgensson, who also participated as one of the ordinary workers during the building of the Gjøa. Knut was married to Anna, who it is said helped to plane the keel together with her husband. Knut died in 1900, and Anna in 1931.
(3) Hans Christian Johannesen was born in 1846. From 16 years of age he spent all his time in the arctic seas as crew, and later skipper, on his father's sloop the Lydianna. In 1878 he skippered the D/S Lena, which sailed together with Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's ship the Vega for depth sounding during the first part of Nordenskiöld's historical first navigation of the Northeast Passage. He was ice pilot on the Correct which took Jonas Lie and Fridtjof Nansen "Through Siberia". Nansen originally wanted to have Johannesen as skipper on the Fram, and Amundsen wanted him on the Maud. However, he suffered a stroke in 1917 and died in 1920.

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After exhausting several other sources, the Museum requested the assistance of Kansas City Southern Lines for the donation of an additional boxcar. KCS graciously agreed to provide an additional car and it arrived at the Museum a few weeks ago.
The car will be used to load and transport additional large items as part of the Museum's move to its new home in Frisco. Upon arrival, the car will provide for storage of these items until they are used during future phases of construction. The car will become a permanent addition to the Museum's rolling stock collection. Beyond its utility value, it serves as an important reminder of Kansas City Southern's ongoing contribution to the development of commerce in North Texas and its service area.
The Museum's relationship with KCS extends back to the late 1960s when the railroad donated an outside braced wood boxcar constructed in the early 1920s. The car is a rare and unique piece in the collection and is the only example of its kind from the early days of the KCS. The railroad has been a long-time supporter of the Museum with the assistance of its Garland, Texas-based operations.


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Canada's Davis Cup team is deep in talent. That depth will be needed to beat world No. 1 Novak Djokovic and Serbia on their home court in Belgrade.
Milos Raonic leads Canada into the World Group semifinal tie Sept. 13-15 on clay at the Belgrade Arena. The winning country moves onto the final in November against the winner of the other semifinal between Argentina and Czech Republic.
Canada has never made it this far in the international men's team tennis event that begins each year with 130 countries. Only 16 qualify for the World Group each year. Each tie consists of four singles matches and a doubles match.
"As a group we've gone through events and moments that are pretty uplifting and it's been a year where we've done a lot of things we've never done before and we want to continue to do that," Canada's captain Martin Larendeau said Tuesday during a conference call.
"We're really looking forward to the challenge and the chance to keep alive this great story we're going through."
Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., is the highest-ranked male singles player in Canadian history at No. 11 in the world. He reached his first Masters final at last month's Rogers Cup in Montreal where he lost in straight sets to current world No. 2 Rafael Nadal of Spain.
Raonic, 22, advanced to the fourth round of the U.S. Open before falling in five sets to Richard Gasquet of France on Monday.
Djokovic is 3-0 in Davis Cup singles in 2013. He and Raonic have never met on the professional tour.
Frank Dancevic of Niagara Falls, Ont., doubles specialist Daniel Nestor of Toronto and Vancouver's Vasek Pospisil round out the Canadian squad.
Ottawa's Jesse Levine, Filip Peliwo of Vancouver and Toronto's Adil Shamasdin will also travel to Belgrade as part of an extended squad of players.
Serbia's Janko Tipsarevic is ranked No. 21 in men's singles and reached the third round of the U.S. Open.
Nenad Zimonjic, the No. 1 doubles player in the world in 2008, and Dusan Lajovic will also represent Serbia with Bogdan Obradovic as the team's captain.
The Canadians will fly to Belgrade later this week. They'll practise on clay courts in the city and start training on the competition surface Monday, Laurendeau said.
"It'll be a challenging surface to adapt to for both teams," he said. "The Serbs have also been playing on hard courts ever since Wimbledon and there's not much time to turn it around.
"We also know that we're playing indoors. Indoor tennis is always something we enjoy and we like. Even though it's clay, we still play in conditions where the ball will travel pretty well."
"At least that's something we look forward to and we'll see how the court is laid down when we go for practice on Monday morning."
Dancevic, 28, has been a Davis Cup regular for Canada since 2002. His three-set victory over Marcel Granollers gave Canada a 2-0 lead after the first day of February's tie against Spain.
A back injury sidelined him for April's quarter-final against Italy, but Dancevic qualified for the U.S. Open main draw and reached the second round for the first time in his career last week.
Pospisil, 23, is blazing a trail in singles this summer. He lost to Raonic in an all-Canadian semifinal at the Rogers Cup, which launched him into the top 40 in the world rankings. He has already begun hitting on clay in Florida in preparation for the Davis Cup, Laurendeau said.
Nestor and Pospisil reached the third round of the U.S. Open in their first Grand Slam together as a doubles team. Nestor, 40, is Canada's most decorated tennis player having won doubles titles in all four Grand Slams during his career, as well as an Olympic gold medal in 2000.
Laurendeau wasn't showing his hand on whether Pospisil or Dancevic will be his No. 2 singles player.
"The first thing is to go over there and see how everybody feels," he said. "They've got nine months of tennis in their bodies and we have to evaluate and make sure everyone is fit to go through this long weekend and be fit the play to four- or five-hour match.
"We can't jump the gun too quick. We'll have to assess when we get there."
Canada and Serbia will meet for the first time in Davis Cup competition. Serbia won their first World Group tie in 2010 en route to becoming the Davis Cup champion that year.
Serbia is currently ranked third in the International Tennis Federation rankings of Davis Cup countries, while Canada is No. 7.
"We had better ranked teams ahead of us when we took on Spain and Italy and we did well," Larendeau pointed out. "We're going in with the same perspective.
"Regardless on the rankings, Davis Cup is always tough conditions especially abroad. Whether we play the world No. 1 or the world number whatever, it's always a match that we try to prepare the best for and we give it all we have."


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WASHINGTON – Members of the tea party in Congress are blasting "out of control" government spending that has included such significant expenditures as $5,000 stipends for people to think about what food would be good to eat on Mars while sunbathing on a Hawaiian beach.
"Everything is out of control," Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said today at the Capitol Hill Club, where he was joined by several others, including Reps. John Fleming, R-La.; Louis Gohmert, R-Texas; Tim Huelskamp, R-Kan.; and Paul Broun, R-Ga.
The lawmakers stood in front of more than 160,000 petitions from across the United States pledging their resistance to any plans for tax hikes.
Paul said not only is the amount of spending a problem, the frivolity of the Obama checkbook items are stunning.
He cited the study that granted a week vacation in Hawaii for people who were told to think about Mars and food.
Broun greatly cautioned that if the economic issues are not resolved soon, "we're headed to a total economic collapse."
That's the real "fiscal cliff," he said.
"I believe we're heading towards a depression worse than the 30s."
While deficit spending surged dramatically under President George W. Bush and his medical benefits for seniors and two overseas wars, when Barack Obama moved into the White House in 2009, he made Bush seem like a miser.
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Under Obama, the deficit has ballooned from $10 trillion to $16 trillion-plus in just one term, with annual deficits of $1 trillion-plus for every year he's been in office.
Broun stood firmly on tea party principles when he declared: "I believe that we should not raise taxes on anybody for any reason. Government has too much money. … I believe in constitutionally limited government as our Founding Fathers meant it."
Broun also echoed the tea party emphasis on state sovereignty when he said, "We need to send powers back to the states and to the people as the Tenth Amendment says it should be."
Many in the current White House administration claim the tea party and the Republican Party simply want to benefit their friends.
Gohmert said: "That is not what we're about. We're about trying to protect the principles on which this country was founded. We're not trying to protect the rich, we're trying to get back to a system where anybody in American can get rich by hard work, saving money and entrepreneurism."
Gohmert also took a swing at the Democrats, saying, "The majority right now want to punish people who are working harder. … This is a time not to punish, but to get America back."
He said that despite all of the leftist rhetoric about having a fair system, Obama has not proposed legislation that "would equalize the tax rate."
Paul said: "The Republican Party is the party of limited government and low taxation. I don't think it is time to change who we are or what we stand for."
Fleming said if Republicans vote to raise tax rates, it would be the first time since 1913 that it's been done by a Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
Rep. Huelskamp, R-Kan., blasted his own party's establishment, which punished him by removing him from the House Agriculture Committee in a recent series of strategy moves apparently intended to quiet dissident voices.
"I did something that we do normally in Kansas and that is keep our word," he said.
Huelskamp went on to pledge again that he would not raise taxes on anybody, noting that when he signed a pledge not to raise taxes, "I meant it."
He said that he "made a pledge to 700,000 Kansans that I believe the government is taking too much of your money."
"So let's keep our pledge," he said.
Huelskamp said Obama "wants Republicans to violate their principles and to admit that the failed economic policies are the result of bad tax policies."
"We can't go down that road, we can't go down the road of violating our principles," he said.
To abandon Republican ideas, he said, would turn Washington over to Democrats.
The members of Congress were asked about Rep. John Boehner's House leadership and his future.
Gohmert said, "We'll see where we are in January."
Broun said simply cutting back a few dollars here and there isn't enough.
"I want to get rid of whole sale parts of the federal government. … I want to get rid of the Department of Education, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Labor, and let's get rid of the EPA while we're doing it. … Let's go back to constitutionally limited government as our Founding Fathers meant it."
Fleming has introduced H.R. 826 to not raise the debt ceiling, which would put the brakes on future spending.
Just days ago, more than 100 conservative leaders from across the nation sent a letter to GOP members in Congress encouraging them to "negotiate from a position of strength" with Democrats regarding the trillions of dollars in tax increases Obama is demanding.
"It's in the interest of the country and in your personal interest for you to use the power you unquestionably have now to stand firm and not surrender your conservative principles, no matter how loud the clamor of people whose central interests is to advance the left's agenda," says the letter.
The letter was signed by Morton Blackwell, chairman of the Weyrich Lunch, Colin Hann of Let Freedom Ring, Ed Meese of the Conservative Action Project, Jim Martin of the 60 Plus Association and Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum, among others.
A separate "No More Red Ink" campaign explains what authority the GOP currently holds as the majority party of the U.S. House, where all national spending bills must originate.
The GOP can decline to authorize an increase in the national debt limit and force billions of dollars in spending cuts, because programs would not legally have money available to run.
Joseph Farah, CEO of WND and originator of the campaign, noted that House Republicans can take such action unilaterally. They wouldn't need a single Democrat vote, he said.
"It will take only 218 House Republican votes to stop the borrowing next year. And I'm pretty certain Republicans will maintain control of the House and possibly gain control of the Senate next year. That's why I'm optimistic about the success of this powerful, nation-changing plan," he wrote.
"Just think what it will mean if, following this campaign of relentless, grass-roots lobbying, Republicans actually live up to their rhetoric about the Constitution and limited government and balanced budgets next year. We can have a balanced budget overnight!"
He also said "unconstitutional and destructive bureaucracies" could be eliminated, such as the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency, Planned Parenthood funding and obscene artwork sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.
The letter from conservative leaders isn't as specific but addresses GOP members of both the House and Senate, warning that they will be tested.
"In the House, the nation elected in 2012 one of the largest Republican majorities in the past 100 years. You have a mandate to fight for conservative principles that is arguably much broader than the one that narrowly reelected President Barack Obama claims to have for his leftist agenda," the letter continues.
"Of course, House Republicans alone cannot pass a law, but united you can stop any bill which violates the principles you publicly committed to support. In the Senate you have more than enough Republicans to prevent the passage of anything truly harmful to our country."


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DALLAS (AP) - Stay calm, get healthy, hope the league has mercy. Forget the last few minutes of the previous game, ignore the talk about how tough it is to close out a series and look forward to the loud love of the home crowd.
Do all that and the Golden State Warriors will be just fine in Game 6 against the Dallas Mavericks on Thursday night.
Fail in any area and the previously happy-go-lucky Warriors might have trouble finishing the massive upset they very nearly pulled off Tuesday night.
"We'll see," Golden State coach Don Nelson said. "We're going to play Game 6. We're going to show up."
Nelson opted to keep his Warriors overnight in Dallas instead of flying home following a tough 118-112 loss in Game 5. They returned to the Mavericks' arena Wednesday morning for a light workout about 10 hours after they'd left the building.
Nelson led a slow-moving parade to the court clutching a cup of coffee and a bag from a local tobacco store. His voice was hoarse and his spirits weren't much better. After all, had things gone a little differently Tuesday night he already would've fired up some of the new victory cigars likely in his plastic sack.
Golden State turned an early 21-point deficit into a nine-point lead with 3:20 to go. The Warriors were that close to getting into the second round and into the history books with one of the most stunning upsets in NBA history, one that would've been even sweeter for Nelson because of his running feud with Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
Instead, Dallas star Dirk Nowitzki brought his team back, in the game and possibly the series.
He scored 12 points in a 15-0, game-ending run. Golden State make things worse on itself by missing eight straight shots and seeing players lose their composure.
First, Jason Richardson got tangled with a fan after missing a shot and falling out of bounds in the final minute. Then, with 8.9 seconds left, Stephen Jackson was ejected for the second time this series, albeit for the mere offense of clapping.
"We had our opportunities to close out the series and we didn't," Warriors star Baron Davis said.
"Some unfortunate circumstances took away from the game itself, but overall we feel good going home. � It was difficult last night and it's going to be difficult Thursday, but we feel like we can do it."
NBA spokesman Tim Frank said Wednesday that Jackson would not be punished by the league beyond the "substantial" fine already levied by Nelson. Frank also said an investigation into Richardson's incident was ongoing.
The Warriors can't afford to lose any player - Richardson or do-it-all reserve Matt Barnes, who hurt a hamstring in the first quarter of the last game.
Nelson uses only eight players and said he'd ask others to play more rather than relying on someone at the end of the bench, which would make fatigue an issue, especially if there's a Game 7 in Dallas on Saturday night.
"It's just real, real tight," Barnes said Wednesday, watching from the sideline while teammates were shooting.
"I'm going to be in the treatment room once we get back to Oakland all day and all night. I'll be ready to go."
The Mavs also spent the night in Dallas, but decided to work out at the Warriors' arena, where they are 0-4 this season and sure to be greeted Thursday night by 20,000 fans wearing yellow "We Believe" T-shirts.
"We just wanted to get here and shoot a little bit," Johnson said following practice.
"This is the place tomorrow we're having our biggest game of the season."
Johnson praised his team for showing their mental toughness in Game 5. Now he wants to see them play a dominant game from start to finish.
"We're a hungry team," All-Star forward Josh Howard said. "We know what we want to do, where we want to get to."
The next game or two will show whether Golden State simply picked a bad time to go cold in Game 5 or whether the pressure became too much for the Warriors - as the Mavs tried telling them the day before, when they talked up the difficulty of closing out a series.
Devin Harris kept up the mind games Thursday.
"We still have a big job to do," Harris said. "All the pressure is on them. They've got us against the wall 3-2."
Said Barnes: "We're not even supposed to be here, so we don't have no pressure."


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i was watching Ace 2 on Cartoon Network yesterday and spotted an extended scene of Jim coming out of the machinal rhino.....what happens is after he comes out and the people freak he stands up and says "MAN AM I LOST!!!!!" and then walks away and then the people leave in horror. Lol. It was pretty funny.
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Hi, I'm DTD. If I remember it correctly, I first knew what Pokemon rom hacks is at the beginning of last year, and I have always wanted to "twitch" the rom to my very own flavor =)). So I started to do "rom hackings" ( at a very noob level which I believe should just be called editing..). And from my experiences of hacking come questions. These questions stuck in my head and I always feel itching to get answers.. And in the end, I gathered courage and came to the decision of posting my questions here on PHO! So here they are:
1. HP BARS(aka EXP box).. first of all, thereliterally are no tutorial whatsoever how to change ..uh this. I saw them in some hacks and ended up falling in love with those beautiful hgss and/or custom hp bars..playing a hack without those glorious exp boxes make me fill a little missing . SO can anyone show me how to changes those hp bars ?
2. INI. So what are these exactly? As far as I am concerned, then INI are profile for (pokemon?) roms. And they are needed if one wants to open certain rom with certain hacking tools (if not all). SO the QUESTIONS is, how do I create(or make) one ? ... Sorry for saying this, but sometimes I feel tools are quite useless without certain INI to open roms ..
3. I do know that there are tileset in... pokemon roms.So as far as I know there are around 68 tileset in a fire red roms, which includes the 0 tileset. SO the QUESTIONS, is there anyway to increase the amount of tileset?..
That's all I wanted to ask today.Sorry for the wall of texts.
To be honest, I just want to edit the rom hack by making it looks bit better. Don't get me wrong, all the rom hacks are the best gifts from talented hackers. i just want to change miscellaneous stuffs like hp bars and tileset and overworlds..etc. And I'm sorry if I have said anything sensitive
P/s: English is not mother language, so please forgive me I have made any mistake
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1) The HP Bars... I don't know how to completely overhaul them, but for my hack I did change the colors of them along with many other elements of the battle screen, status menus, Pokedex, etc. This seems to be a somewhat complicated process and it's been quite a long time since I've done this, however. Also bear in mind that all of this is really geared towards Emerald since I hack that one exclusively, but would probably apply to FireRed too. CAUTION: Back up your ROM just in case anything goes wrong!
To accomplish what I did (at least in the way I did it), you will need to hex-edit the color palette data which you can find in VisualBoyAdvance's "Palette Viewer". To do this, open the ROM in VBA, load up the game and go to a screen (i.e. the Battle Screen) and then open up the Palette Viewer to get a look at all the colors on the current game screen.
Now, you need to open Advance Map 1.92 or 1.95, load up any map of the game (Littleroot, ect) and click into the Block Editor (purple puzzle piece). In the editor window that comes up, click on the "Palettes" tab/button and click "Show palette editor". In this, click "Select color". You now have a tool you can use to find out the GBA RBG color values on any area of your computer screen. Also look at the small text box under the big colored block in this window (might say something like "28A3") This will come in handy in a bit, and it is basically the code number for specific colors in the game.
Now use A-Map's tool to find the color in the actual game screen you want to change, by looking at what values the three sliding bars in the program stop at when you hover your pointer over the object in-game, like the HP Bar. Remember these three values, and then click "Select color" again to manually set a color. Change the sliders to match the three values you remembered, and look at the little text box from earlier to get the 4-character code for that specific color.
Now back in VBA's palette viewer, you must find the color you want to change. If you want to find the color blocks representing the HP Box and Bar, you should find it in the "Sprite" box in the viewer. [If you are looking for the background of the screen (like the grass and sky) look in "Background"]. These groups of blocks currently contain all colors used in the battle sequence, some that change dynamically (if you check the "Automatic update" box you can watch it happen as you do things like send out Pokemon), but what you are looking for are ones that always use set colors (like the whole HP module). Look for a color box that has the same color as the one you are trying to change, and look down in the Palette Viewer where it says "Value" and 0x[4-chars]. IF that value matches the one you ended up with in A-Map, then you may have found it (some might be copy-cats and aren't the one you want).
Look at how the color is probably part of a horizontal row of other colors, and write/type down at 4 or more of their "Value" codes somewhere (maybe Notepad) in a row; something like this example:
then change them up by reversing them like this:
Test out changing the colors by opening up your ROM in a hex editor (like HxD) and search for the group of reversed values in your hex as "Hex-values" while your ROM is loaded in it, and you should get a result. Here, replace the color value of the color you are trying to change (18C6 would appear as 18 C6) with the reversed value of whatever color you want, using A-Map's Palette Editor to generate the non-reversed value by choosing your desired color with the sliders. Once you've replaced the old value in the hex editor, save your ROM in the hex editor and close it.
Then open up VBA and check to see if this color is changed in-game. If it is, then you are done! If not, then that means that the string of values you found in the hex editor was probably a duplicate/seperate one for something else, and you may need to do the search part again with either another backup ROM or after you have put the changed values back as they originally were.
Since this is such a lengthy process to explain (plus it may not even be entirely without problems), I may just make a YouTube video on it sometime but I don't know when I can get it ready and posted. Heck, I might as well post this as a guide here at some point as well.
Here's a picture of what I did to mine, you can use the same colors and stuff for yours if you want to:
The steps I outlined can get you the new colors you can see for the HP module and the text boxes (like the gray/black one). The rest of the battle background such as the cave colors, floor, etc. is a separate process though but it's not too hard depending on how detailed you want it to look.
2) I may not be very knowledgeable on programming yet, but from my understanding .INI files are basically like .TXT files but they are read by a program that is associated in some way with them. They are usually structured in certain way so that they can be interpreted properly by the program. Now to make one, it seems all that needs to be done is to write up the codes/commands in a .TXT file, then save it as .INI. Unfortunately, for it to be used the way you seem to want, an actual program must apparently have the use of the .INI embedded in its code already.
3) I haven't done this one either in a long time, but apparently Advance Map 1.95 has the ability to add entirely new tilesets into the ROM. As you do this however, just be careful to make backups of your ROM beforehand of course. LU-HO (creator of A-Map) posted a thread on another forum here about how he did this, but doing it manually looks like it would be a bit of a pain.
Here's a picture of where to find it in Advance Map 1.95:
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No problem, and good luck with your ROM hack. If you have any more questions feel free to ask around.
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My Tutorials:
Stabilizing Pokemon Emerald (Preventing Corruption)
[Emerald] Controlling Trainer Battle Music... Without ASM
How to Fix the 64K Save 'White-Screen' in VBA Without Save-States
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So everyone has heard about the whole Kevin Smith vs Southwest Airlines thing by now, yes? (Just in case you haven't, you can find out all about it here, here, here, or, well, a whole bunch of other places.) Basically, Kevin Smith got kicked off his flight for being too fat, and there's been a whole of a tweet/blog/cast explosion about it.
It's been really interesting to see some of the things that Smith has said, especially given that he's not by any means a fat-positive guy.
I've been listening to his SModcast about the incident, and along side his anger and indignation at being publicly humiliated and treated with something less than dignity, there's some really interesting discussion of thin normativity and fat self-policing, like in this exchange:
K: I live my life fat, and I have to navigate through a thin person's world all the time. And as such, you would never put yourself into harm's way, so to speak, um, in regards to your girth or size.
J: You wouldn't set yourself up.
K: Never.
I can sort of sense an almost apologist streak to some of what Smith says, but what's interesting to me is that he's talking very clearly about self-policing, about being acutely aware all the time that the fat body doesn't fit, and avoiding situations where that's going to be a 'problem', where fatness is punished with pain or shame or public humiliation.
He also talks about being at a 'bear convention' and being able to relax and not 'suck his gut in' all the time:
K: I was in a room full of people who looked like me.
J: How was that?
K: Muscle-y and gay. No, they're fat, they're dudes who look like very large dudes who look like me. It's awesome!
Yep, I think that's some fat solidarity right there!
Coincidentally, all this has happened just as I've been reading Joyce Huff's fantastic 'Access to the Sky: Airplane Seats and Fat Bodies as Contested Spaces' in The Fat Studies Reader. Huff interrogates Southwest's policy of forcing fat passengers to buy two seats and the arguments which are used to justify it. As Huff points out, 'the "average" customer, for whom Southwest presumably designs its seats, represents and ideological construct rather than a statistical average'. She goes on to argue that:
The underlying ideology that determines the size of the so-called average customer to whom Southwest supposedly caters is a capitalist one. Although airlines and their supporters may invoke average customers who represent cultural ideals, in fact seat sizing has a lot more to do with profit margins and maximizing the number of paying customers.
This arbitrary allocation of space is normalised and the 'corporately constructed environment' is rendered invisible by invoking as 'average' the ideal passenger for whom the seats are a comfortable size, and stigmatizing (and penalising!) those bodies which fail to conform to this arbitrary ideal. Blame for everything from lack of space to increased fares is shifted onto the offending bodies, and individuals – rather than corporations or cultures – are stigmatised and held responsible not only for these problems, but also for their solution (ie, in this case, weight loss).
As Huff argues:
Southwest's policy assumes an audience accustomed to capitalist modes of thought, one that will endorse the premise that businesses need to continually increase profit margins, one that will believe that this need is sacrosanct to the degree that they will subordinate their own needs and desires to it.
I for one am glad that Kevin Smith is a loquacious dude with a platform, and that he's not willing to subordinate his needs to the rhetoric of corporate profit.


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IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Mount Zirkel Wilderness (map) in 1964 and it now has a total of 160,309 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Colorado and is managed by the Forest Service.
DescriptionThe Mount Zirkel Wilderness lies within the Routt National Forest in northwestern Colorado. It was one of the original areas protected under the 1964 Wilderness Act and has since been expanded twice to its present size of 160,648 acres. The wilderness straddles the Continental Divide in the Park Range and the Sierra Madre and offers a diversity of ecosystems from sagebrush meadows in the lower areas, through pine and spruce/fir forests and on up to alpine tundra. It contains the rugged peaks of the Sawtooth Range and the headwaters of the Elk, Encampment and North Platte rivers. There are over 70 lakes within the wilderness as well as 15 peaks over 12,000 feet, the highest being 12,180 foot Mount Zirkel, named in 1874 to honor Ferdinand Zirkel's contributions to the science of geology. Glaciation has left its distinctive mark of high valleys ending in precipitous cirques. Over 150 miles of trails provide access and the wilderness offers a variety of recreational opportunities. Some areas, notably several of the lakes and areas along the Continental Divide, are very popular and receive a high level of use but visitors looking for solitude can find it if they come during the week and/or visit less-popular areas. Ample opportunity exists to view nature's dynamic cycle of disturbance and rebirth. The Routt Divide Blowdown in 1997 toppled millions of trees over a 150 square mile area, most of it within the wilderness, with beetle epidemics and wildfires following in its wake. These natural forces have temporarily altered the landscape without permanently eroding its wilderness character.
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Originally Posted by HammersSpreads: Lots of games today, I like them all.BOL AMD. Good to have you back posting
Thanks buddy...nice to have you posting as well. Makes me nervous to have so many games on the card especially when theyre all chalk but I really like this card today so fukk it...trying to make a little today so I can throw my money away on Columbus tomorrow as a +170 dog
Originally Posted by potvin: do I hear parlay? Columbus and edmonton
I dont think Edmonton has a chance but St Louis, Buffalo or the Isles might be worth a shot
Originally Posted by amd: San Jose is a bunch of soft motherfukkers. Taking on the personality of their coach...fukking pussiess.
Couldn't have said it any better.. Disgrace
It looks like Kansas belongs in the N.I.T.
your probably write but the oilers have been a winning play in chitown for years.ill be rooting isles, but they won the first game in pitt and I cant remember the last time they took two in pitt, their also 0and3 or 0and4 b2b.
Im not going to play the Isles simply because of their goalkeeping but I'll definitely be looking at the total


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