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Marriage, Bus Conversion and Ponderings!
June 25, 2006, 07:38:31 PM »
Today, the first of my five children left home with her brand new husband. I sit here now a few hours later and ponder their 24 hour old marriage, my family entire family unit and the bus conversion.
Several things cross my mind. First, I can say that the limited number of experiences we have had with the partial conversion will last a life time. Second, I have only one regret and that was the first bus project took too much time to get "ready" and I missed important times to build memories with the oldest kid.
Third, I am realizing that it is far more important for those of us with kids at home to get the bus road ready and not wait for the fancy paint job or custom interior. Too soon those you want most to enjoy the bus and the places visited, grow up too fast and leave without sufficient warning (like there is such a thing!)
Finally, tommorrow I will significantly change mindsets and begin to work fast and furious to get the MCI9 ready at a very basic level. I need to take the remaining children on as many trips as I can afford. I will not let my desires to have a really beautiful bus stand in the way of positive memories for my kids.
Lessons learned are as hard as watching her drive away.
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June 25, 2006, 08:05:25 PM »
Good insights Grant.
Thanks for posting - Kind Regards, Phil
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June 25, 2006, 08:24:30 PM »
I am printing your post and sticking it to my mirror. Lost opportunities are hard to live with.
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June 25, 2006, 08:35:35 PM »
Great thinking!!! Our MCI 9 is not painted, no cabnets yet and a few others things not done but, my wife and our 9 children have been all over the USA the last 5 years on about 12 singing tours and many shorter ones. We get one chance to be with our children and to train them and if we miss it we will never get it back!!! Jim
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June 25, 2006, 11:44:04 PM »
Your making my eyes swell up and my little angel is only 9
We went through a transition year of a perfectly good RV(sold when we bought the Bus), to a shell, to a very usable shell.
In house terms, "the drywalls up"
All the kids care is were on an adventure, remember these are the kids who can turn four chairs, a blanket and some clothes
pins into a fort. A few basics and its road trip time.
Hey and don't forget, someone else probably watched you take there little angel away, and from what I'm reading he turned
out to be a pretty good Guy!
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June 26, 2006, 04:09:19 AM »
Thanks Grant!
I needed the reinforcement too. We have 4 from age 10 to age 19 ( the 19 year old has allready flown the coop) and our conversion is not yet road ready. I've been working too long and hard to get it that way before August vacation and missed too many of those times already so we are renting a stick-n-staples to take the pressure off. It's helped me to realize that converting this coach is about the journey not the destination.
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June 26, 2006, 04:18:02 AM »
I under stand how you feel. My 26 year old son past away last year away from home and I sit back and wish I had spent more time with him talking and doing things together especially now that I have a bus. I still have a 32 year old son and a 3 year old grandson to share some fun with in the bus. Life is short and we are only given one chance her on earth to make the best of it. Grab those kids love them and hug them and give them good memories so that when we adults are gone they can sit back and say remember when we.
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June 26, 2006, 04:46:27 AM »
Life is as I end my post. YESTERDAY IS HISTORY, TOMORROW IS A MYSTERY, TODAY IS A GIFT, THAT IS WHY IT IS CALLED THE PRESENT. When we converted our 4106, our boys were still at home. We statred taking them camping one week after buying the seated coach. Air mattresses, sleeping bags, a cooler, and a Coleman stove. The luggage racks were our closet. Our boys, now married with children of their own, still talk about those trips. We will always have those memories. Jack
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June 26, 2006, 05:42:34 AM »
Of course, I just sold my bus, but I have over three albums of pictures of my little boy "helping" me work on the bus. I remember taking him out there and sitting him down in the drivers seat (he couldn't walk) and working away the hours. I would often take breaks from my work to change a diaper, or wipe a nose, but even though I don't have the bus anymore, I have pictures and a ton of memories. Apparently he does too. Because everytime he sees a bus (don't matter what kind), he says, "That's Daddy's bus!" He'll be five in August.
Even my wife was sad to see the bus go because she knew how much he loves it. But, I will ride again!!! Just waiting for the right time.
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June 26, 2006, 06:37:30 AM »
The average man spends less than 20 min a day of quality time with his children. In 18 years that add up to 3 months of quality time. Just a thought. Jim
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June 26, 2006, 08:42:49 AM »
grantgoold, point well taken, Thank You
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June 26, 2006, 11:06:59 AM »
This is an excellent thread. When I read it this morning, it brought tears to my eyes. I can so relate.
My relationship with my own father was strained at best while growing up. I was stubborn, and just like him. We built a family business, and as such, vacations were nearly unheard of. I recall 2 or 3. After college, I left the state and saw him only about
once a year. We were patching things up in our relationship (amazing how smart he was getting after I got out on my own),
but before we got back on track, he was gone.
In the few short years I've owned a bus, we've put around 35K miles on it as a family. We've camped at 10000 ft when it had no facilities except a foam pad on the floor, and we loved it (the trees enjoyed the fertilizer, too, IYKWIM
). We've been to FL and back, to KY, to WY, CO, UT, MT, etc, several times, and we spent 6 weeks in it on our AK trip last summer. It's not pretty, and it's not luxurious, but right now, it's functional, and mechanically, it's in pretty good shape. Yeah, we've had some trials that we've had to overcome. I've been fortunate to find good people to help me through the difficult parts.
My son has 2 more years of highschool. My daughter has 4. Then college. The way I see it, I have at least 6 more years with both of them, and 8 with one. This spring, we were planning on building a new home which would include a large bus garage. After doing some initial calculations, we decided to wait on that, and instead, make sure we would have the time and money to travel with the kids over the next 6-8 years. We still may do the new home, but only if I'm sure I'll have the time and money for traveling, too.
I can't predict how long I'll be around to spend with my kids, but I'm determined to make the best of it. I don't want them to ever think back and wish I'd spent more time with them. If that means I never get a nice paint job, or finished interior, well, so be it. We're having a ball as it is.
And one thing I'll guarantee you. Every time they see a bus, whether it's on the road or an obscure fleeting glance on TV, they'll think of me. And with a smile, they'll think to themselves, or maybe, to noone in particular, say, "See that bus?"
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June 26, 2006, 01:32:46 PM »
Growing up, my Dad passed away when I was 9. I was on my own, and away from home when I was 15, and had a pretty rough time, but I learned a lot of things growing up. Was married at the age of 18, and still have the same beautiful Bride for 40 years. I wouldn't trade her off now, as she has me house broke. Have 3 lovely Children, The Greatest Son-in-law, Fantastic Daughter-in-law, and 4 of the best Grandkids in the world. (If you don't believe me, ask my Wife).
Over the years, my Son, and I have seen some struggles. He just couldn't see things my way, and I was hardheaded enough, NEVER to change. Now I know what I have missed out on. He grew up, and realized Dad is not as Stupid, as he used to be, and I realized he was not a bad kid.
2 years ago, my youngest Daughter's Family, and My Son, and Wife moved to Missouri, from Florida. My Wife and I were going to leave 4 weeks later, but I was thrown from a farm tractor. And than ran over. I did live.!! My Son, and his wife, just dropped everything, and drove directly to the Hospital; I was in, the next day. --------
I said all this to say, over the last 5 to 7 years, we have grown soooo close. We try to do everything together. Even work on the ole bus. Go to Drag race meets, and fish. He is my best Friend. No he is closer than my Best Friend.------ He is my Son.
Don't wait to have a great relationship with your Kids. Life is to short.
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June 27, 2006, 06:11:20 AM »
Thank You for sharing that with us.Yes our time is limited and i wish my own father had spent the time i spend with our 3 girls with me.But he was always to busy trying to provide for us.If i may share this psalm with you all. Psalms 138:8 The LORD will work out his plans for my life--for your faithfull love,O LORD ,endures forever.Don't abondon me,for you made me....Just as our LORD has promised not to abandon us we must never abandon our children trying ti impress others.Remember tomorrow is not guaranteed.Although i do not have my bus yet but i pray that some day i will i thank you for the meaningful advise you have given me.
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Is it me or is the entire design of the Exia rather stupid, given the functions of the GG particles? If those things jam communications and wipe out radar signals, then why the hell would you want to charge into visual range like a complete moron? If you have full stealth capabilities, why the hell do you have a bright red white and blue gundam charging into visual range rather than abusing the living crap out of its stealth capabilities and obliterating enemies ala Dynames or Virtue? The other MSes don't have GG particles, so they're easily detectable on radar, so why the hell would you need to melee enemy MSes rather than blast them BVR style as Dynames or Kyrios do or wipe everything out before people know what hit them Virtue style?
Is it me, or is the design of the Exia just a blatant attempt at preserving the "original" gundam design, when there is absolutely no reason to keep that design around, since the enemies' MSes DON'T have the radar-jamming capabilities that minovsky particles granted, or even the high-performance to really be able to force a melee showdown, as Virtue and Dynames demonstrate time after time?
|2007-11-11, 02:10
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Because Exia looks silly standing there firing its pee-shooter all the time.
And seeing how all of Setsuna's 3-faction nemesis (Graham, Sergei, Ali) all try to melee seems like to me their best way to take down a Gundam.
We haven't seen what the other Gundams are capable in melee combat, but I see the reason Exia held those guys off were because of its immense arsenal of melee weaponry.
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My theory is that that's exactly what the Exia is made for; charge into full visual range and distract all enemies on the field with the high visibility of its colour scheme, and keeping them preoccupied with its high-showmanship-value melee capability so that they'll be too busy to scope out Dyname's position from the trajectory of its sniper shots. If you've noticed, Exia and Dynames always take on complex missions as a pair; to a lesser extent, it's the same pairwork with Kyrios and Virtue.
Meh. *shrug*
When it comes to Gundam, one typically switches off the logic circuits in the brain while viewing.
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It's funny that Dynames has more armor than Exia. There's a lot of weird stuff going on in this show. Any reason you find for something is probably just coincidence. I really doubt there's any rationale behind Exia's melee pwnage other than "lol melee".
On another note, why is CB the only side that arms their MS with missiles? D:
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Why must people care so much about trivial thing like that? =/
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There is no real reason why anyone would want to get in to melee range if you can snipe your opponents from afar and have a much better technology than them to do so. The show has not established any in-universe reason for it to change (aside from the fact that, apparently, bullets, lasers and what not seem to move slower than an arm of a 50 feet metallic monster, making them easy to dodge ... yea ...).
Though this is a flaw of most Mecha shows (aside from presenting mecha as actually workable war machines)- for some reason melee always is superior for taking down enemies (Minus grunts - those die to ranged fire just fine), for the sole reason of it looking more cool than firing from afar.
Alternatively we can conclude that Setsuna is too emo to be capable of standing still sniping at enemies anyway, so they didn't bother to outfit Exia with decent ranged capabilities. Why bother if you know the pilot will rush in like a headless chicken anyway
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Because this is a mecha/super robot show where the suit is just the extension of its wearer and thus it is appropriate and heroic to see Gundam charge in melee trying to cut each others (whereas in more SF show they'll just shoot each others to death) ?
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On another note I think Setsuna just prefers to go upfront with his enemies instead of just attacking them from behind. x.x;;
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When I was in elementary school, a neighbor kid used to come by all the time. I never understood that dark expression on my mother's face when she'd see him skipping toward the house, or the look of relief that washed over her later when little Richie would finally depart.
"What do you mean, overstay his welcome?" we kids would ask. "He was only here for eleven hours."
I understand now. Oh yes, I understand.
To the long list of Things That Nobody Told Us Before We Had Kids, we can now add the problem of what happens when your children have friends who -- let's be honest -- suck.
Janice French, who's raising two kids in Phoenix, says, "I feel really sad when I don't like a child. And a little disgusted. I try to figure out why. Usually it's their treatment of other children that gets me because I was picked on as a child and it creates raw emotions when I see kids being mean and hateful to other kids."
No one likes to dislike kids, but we usually have reasons for our feelings: Some kids say mean things. Some can and will break anything smaller than a couch. Some kids' vocabularies start and end in the toilet. Others get into power plays, excluding your child just for kicks. And some, without doing anything especially horrific, manage to... make... your... life... miserable. They're soul vampires, and the only thing keeping you from driving a stake into their undead hearts is what people would say afterward at PTA meetings.
It gets trickier as our children get older. Their relationships expand from the playground to the hazy world of text messages and e-mail -- technology that's no longer just for teens. It's hard to know what we're in for, and just how to handle the potholes.
This is why, as unpleasant as it can feel, it's actually good to encounter kids who aren't your cup of tea when your children are in elementary school. You get practice in dealing with it -- deciding when to ignore it, when to intervene, and when to end the relationship entirely.
True Troublemakers
Judy Hsiao* is a mom of two in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her older son is 8, and over the years she's seen things that could curl spaghetti. "Victor has had friends who were rude, dirty, mean, disrespectful, gluttonous, and gross," she says.
But one boy constantly provoked her husband with his bad behavior, once going so far as to chuck a bottle at a car as Hsiao's husband and son were walking home from school with him. Her son copied the move, and her husband scolded both boys. While Hsiao's son was ashamed, the other boy apparently decided he'd act out even more.
This revealed some differences of opinion between Hsiao and her husband, who handles most of the playdates. She'd rather not discipline other people's children. He's more of the "it takes a village" school. While she admires her husband's way with kids, she ultimately decided her son couldn't play with such a bad-news buddy, no matter how much the other parents begged for get-togethers.
Rather than confront the other parents directly, Hsiao and her husband "practiced avoidance," simply saying their son wasn't available. And they set up other playdates for Victor, who was young enough that he didn't really notice.
Hsiao's priorities were her son and his needs. She says her son is the kind of kid who wants to please the people around him, and he'd wind up in trouble if he tried to please someone slouching toward delinquency.
"It was a disaster waiting to happen," she says.
Jenna Robinson* knows all about brewing disasters. The Grand Junction, CO, mother thought she'd found a dream playmate in the neighborhood. She was the same age as Robinson's 9-year-old daughter. Then they took the girl along to a baseball game, where they learned during the musical interludes that the child was a budding dancer -- only more Dirty Dancing than Dancing With the Stars.
"She was like someone in an R-rated music video," Robinson says. Others agreed. One of Robinson's friends was at the game -- a parole officer, she took one look at the child and said, "That girl is trouble."
Robinson didn't sever ties -- in part because she thought her own family might be a good influence. But she had to ask the girl to tone it down at least once per playdate (she'd describe scenes from age-inappropriate movies in great detail, for one) and was, frankly, relieved when the family moved away. "My daughter doesn't seem to miss her at all," she says.
Sometimes, a little pre-playdate intervention can make you feel calmer about the bad influence on her way over to your house. Martha Green's* 8-year-old daughter, Rachel, has a very active, loud friend with a potty mouth. She's a nice girl, but she drives Green nuts, especially when Rachel starts copying her friend. Green has learned to remind her daughter to stay calm before the kids get together and to enlist her help in reining in her wild and crazy friend. When the girls are at the friend's house, though, she lets it go: She can't control every situation, after all.
"I have one child for a reason," she says. "I simply don't have the patience for more than one child in my house at a time. I can probably tolerate way less kid mayhem than most parents, which makes me weird, but it is what it is."
Can't Put Your Finger On It?
In addition to the neighborhood pole-dancer, Robinson has also endured visits from a soul vampire. "She was polite, not overly loud or obnoxious or anything. But somehow she wore us down, and at the end of the playdate, we were always mentally exhausted," she says.
It was little manipulative things that did it, like wanting the lights on at a sleepover when other kids wanted them off, making herself just a little too much at home, and inviting herself over a lot. Those tough-to-pin-down annoyances can be the hardest to take because they seem petty. They're not.
Eventually, the family shortened playdates with this girl, banned sleepovers, and focused instead on cultivating friendships with more promising pals. They were often "booked" when she asked to play.
Heather Whitfield, a San Francisco mom of two, recalls one infamous road trip to a lighthouse with her kids, Sam, 8, and Olivia, 11. They'd taken one of Sam's friends along, and he yammered on senselessly like a robot whose batteries were on the fritz.
"We hadn't gotten two miles before I could see that Olivia was about to explode," Whitfield says. "Sam hit his limit shortly after that. Mine came about six miles into the twenty-mile trip."
The "let's see who can be quiet longest" game didn't work. The kid talked all the way to the lighthouse -- and back. Relief came only when they dropped him off. He invited Sam in, and got a big fat "NO!" for an answer.
Eventually, the boys stopped spending time together after a couple of playdates at which they just didn't click. Whitfield, who likes the kid's parents, was disappointed. It would have been nice to have a friend for her son nearby. But proximity couldn't overcome the personality mismatch. Fortunately, these problem friendships sometimes fade away without any need for parental intervention.
Just Plain Mean
Belinda Carter*, a mother of two in Santa Cruz, CA, still hasn't forgotten the kindergarten classmate who was visibly amused by her daughter's mild speech impediment.
"The girl would mimic Clare and laugh," Carter says. "I spoke to the friend several times, really kindly. First, I tried the 'la-la-la, everyone is different' approach. The next time, I trotted out the old 'lots of people say things in their own way.' Finally, I resorted to snapping, 'Teasing doesn't make friends feel good!'?"
Ultimately, the snapping worked, even though it horrified Carter to hear her voice soaring into a register best heard by dogs. The girl never teased Clare again, at least not in Carter's earshot.
It's not always this easy, though. Andrea Thomas*, a Seattle mom, is watching the collapse of a bond between her 8-year-old daughter, Molly, and a neighborhood kid, who have been friends since they both were 3.
Molly's playmate, Sabrina, can make life hard: She wants to call all the shots when the girls are together. Sometimes, seeming to know it'll upset Molly -- who's an only child -- Sabrina will say she just wants to be alone with her sisters. Other times, she'll flat-out refuse to play. And once while Thomas was walking Molly, Sabrina, and another child home from school, Sabrina whispered into the other friend's ear the entire time without saying a word to Molly. All this added up to make Molly feel like dirt.
"It's really hard when you see your kid go out of the house skipping down the street, only to be rejected for the 400th time," she says. "Her face is like a thundercloud. Sometimes, she'll be almost quivering, and tears will be leaking out."
To make matters more complicated, the girl's parents are good friends with Thomas and her husband -- good friends with wildly different parenting philosophies. "They're Darwinian," Thomas says. "They just want the kids to work it out themselves."
Thomas has little hope of that happening, and she's had a series of tough talks with Molly. She's asked her to think about other kids who might be more fun to play with, and she's had to tell Molly that Sabrina just isn't someone who can be counted on as a friend. The death of a friendship is a tough lesson for anyone, let alone an 8-year-old, but parents sometimes have to help their kids come to terms with this sort of loss.
When we have to witness hard times like these, it's no wonder some of us want to intervene a little more directly. If your child's been repeatedly hurt by a "friend," you may decide to call the other parents. You have to be prepared for them to have the attitude Thomas's friends do, but your best hope for getting them on board is to ask for help, not accuse them of raising a monster. You could say that since the last couple of playdates were so rough (this might be news to them), you were thinking of talking to your child about what it means to be a good friend. Would they do the same?
Because that may or may not get you anywhere, the most important thing to focus on is maintaining control in your own home. Heather Whitfield, the San Francisco mom of the everlasting road trip, had a birthday party for 11-year-old Olivia. One of the kids arrived late with a problem to discuss, so she dragged all the girls into Olivia's bedroom. Whitfield enticed them back out after a while with a snack, but only half the kids emerged. This is when she learned that the girls in the bedroom were gossiping in such a way that some other kids felt uncomfortable.
So she had to put her hands on her hips and assert mom authority to end the toxic rap session. The gossip girl decided she wanted to go home early. "After she left, all the girls had fun," Whitfield says.
The hardest part of not liking your kids' friends, though, may be when it really is just your problem. If your child's happy, and you're the only one negatively affected, you might just need to back off and let the children be friends.
As moms, it's our job to keep perspective on the situation and accept these tricky friendships (and annoying kids!) as part of parenting. As Judy Hsiao says, "I don't like all adults -- so why would I like all children?"
Martha Brockenbrough wrote "Mad at Dad" for Parenting's February issue.


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|2012-12-03, 19:29
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I'm wondering, why Captain Okita decide to not use Wave Motion Shield when they were near star and also when under attack after exiting from dimensional rift?
Is there is drawback when using Wave Motion Shield, something like the ship is more slower.
|2012-12-04, 01:57
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I have a question for everybody here.
Has there been a legit US release of Yamato 2199, or is this 2-disc DVD set a bootleg/illegal copy?
I ask, because I'd buy it at that price for episodes 1-6 without the special BD features.
If it is legit, I'd like to know.
If not, I will avoid like the plague.
Thanks in advance.
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|2012-12-04, 03:43
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There is no legit US release. It has been suggested that it is a Malaysian bootleg.
As far as I can tell Yamato 2199 has not been licensed in the United States, or anywhere outside Japan. Probably because of the way it is currently distributed and the slow pacing of the series release. At the current expected rate, the series won't end until Fall of 2013 after 26 episodes (7 theatrical releases followed by BD releases). Either around that time, the summer before, or afterwards, the series is expected to be shown on TV (which is when the majority ofthe English language anime bloggers might pick it up, if they don't think it is old news or something).
The Episode 10 Goer's Gamilas Fleet was interesting in their camouflage paint jobs. I counted several cruisers (mostly high speed cruisers, but some heavy cruiser) a trailing number of destroyers, one battleship, and a carrier. Plus the battlecruiser they were looking for, though it was probably from a different command group.
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|2012-12-04, 06:11
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I wonder where the "Earth attacked first" angle will lead? There's something i hadn't thought of before. I feel a scent of Babylon 5's Minbari War here.
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I checked on Amazon but the first press slipcovers for the first two volumes are already gone, meaning I will probably have to find the volumes 2nd hand, again creators not getting much money from me that way... or I will have to decide that the slipcovers just aren't worth, unless someone has other suggestions?
Mind you I don't live in the States so there's the whole, ship direct or have it reshipped to dodge tax dilemma etc.
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|2012-12-04, 11:41
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I've removed 17 posts that were off topic. While we do allow some discussion of subs in limited instances, this thread ended up getting derailed with full blown "is piracy legal/ethical" talk. That's a topic that really goes nowhere, with many people having different views.
However, this is not the forum to discuss that kind of stuff in. Keep to the discussion of the show itself, and not the meta of piracy. Thanks.
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|2012-12-04, 15:40
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I am curious as to how Gamilas intelligence managed a "They started it" for the war with Earth...since until Yamato, Earth had no FTL ships that we are aware of. (I still like the potental of having a few early Alcubierre drive ships being used prior to Yamato). The Gamilas would have to have had the first Earth ship they encountered fire on them (perhaps Shima's father's ship).
Also the warp Yamato attempt in Episode 10 was 63.7 parsecs, or over 207 and a half light years in one jump. (by the book, the best any Star Trek ship with a Warp Drive can do is about 22 light years a day, and they can't maintain those speeds for 24 hours. That would be Warp Factor 20 on the old scale and Warp 9.99 on the new scale.)
(Secondary Note: The fastest Warp Factor recorded was in an Animated Star Trek Episode called the "Counter-Clock Incident" (aired October 12, 1974 and was the last episode of the series. The only episode to be newly aired when Yamato was also new on TV)). An alien vessel was said to have a maximum speed of Warp 36 and it managed to tow Enterprise at Warp 22. Warp Factor 36 would allow a ship to travel over 127 light years a day. Yamato can still clearly out run most warp driven vessels with its Wave Motion Engine. But not in normal space.)
However, to make it to Iscandar and back in one Earth year, they need to make better than 920 light years a day. Or 283 parsecs a Day. And that will cut it close to 12 months. Maybe too close.
"Hurry Star Force" comes to mind.
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|2012-12-04, 22:28
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I appreciate the clarification.
If this show turns out to be as good as the original, I will certainly purchase the DVD set (not fond of blue ray myself).
Let's hope the show lives up to its reputation, so far it has IMHO, but I'm still going to wait and see.
|2012-12-08, 01:48
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zenseava brings up some interesting points today about the engine room of the Yamato in 2199.
His observations about the size of the engineering section are given here.
Here is his diagram:
His point does have merit. The size of the engine room is pretty darn cramped in the new show, which makes sense to a point.
I'm curious as to what the actual dimensions of the engine room are?
|2012-12-08, 02:00
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We see somewhat a cross-section of the ship in the engine room in Episode 7.
I like where the Recon craft dock. I wasn't expecting that location because I didn't think the sides of the blister would slide out (which is why I couldn't place the exact loction from the trailer).
|2012-12-08, 10:00
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Lets be honest. Space on a space ship is always going to be a preiumim. so things ARE gonna be rather tight in places.
Also, that's ALLOT of Jarheads and leathernecks in a can!
I'm not sure exactly HOW big this thing is, but it wouldn't surprise me if you could cram a tank battalion into it.
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|2012-12-08, 13:29
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Dessler gave a fairly good speach (in Gamilas language). He's fairly good in this role, though I think I like him better when he's in charge of the fleet on the front lines.
He wasn't quite the old fashion stereotype villian that he came off as in the original this early on in the series. Though it was probably mostly from the speech and his awarding Schultz, his crew, and their familes for their heroic actions against Yamato.
Dessler seemed put out at first when his gas weapon failed, but seemed more at ease after the Wave Motion Gun fired and his soldiers died fighting. It might have been the wave motion gun that did it, since that would have been impressive even to Gamilas (since Talan mentioned that it looked like something they were working on still...meaning Yamato is more advanced than Gamilas ships...at least in some places).
One wonders if the Empire had once been a combined effort between Gamilas and Iscandar, judging by the wall relief of what looks like a Gamilas warrior god and a Iscandaian goddess, each holding their own planet in their outstreatched hand.
Things are different. Not only are we getting more from the Gamilas side of things, Yamato's crew dynamics are also different than before. It is the same, but different from the original. And that is a good thing.
|2012-12-08, 17:08
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One thing that is very different here is Kodai. He's really more mature here. Even if he is clueless with the ladies, his demeanour on duty is quite different from the original. Case in point: the meating with the Gamilon pilot. In the original he tried to stab the guy to avenge his family. Here, he puts his sidearm (or his brother's) on the tabble as a show of good will, after Melda calls him on bringing a gun to a negociation. I liked Melda, she seems to be an proud and honorable soldier (as was captain Lang), loved the line (to Yamamoto) "You're a pilot, right? (hands her Kodai's gun) We don't need this thing between us." This kind of forshadows they'll be facing each other in the skies (well, the preview of episode 11 also gives that away). I hope Melda survives, like the original pilot did.
|2012-12-09, 01:07
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I played the episodes at a friend's house. The one that was the Yamato fan liked most of it, but had trouble staying awake during Episode 9. It was a little too dull for him. The Robotech fan liked it as he enjoyed the new character dynamics and new touches in the show. Plus the tells for later in the series, as well as some other things.
|2012-12-12, 07:27
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who knows what happens to the fat brown jacket person who gets drunk and makes the mistake of laughing during Desler toast ?
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I find your battle reports on other forums really interesting
I am a big fan of sbfbs
I think now with these new ships the game manual could change a little ...
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watching the mechanical files at the yamato 2199 official page I could not notice some strange similarities with german WW 2 airplanes
and I guess we will find more in the future
the first plane with a similar shape and name is the dwg 229 (the old devastator)
it reminds a lot the horten (gotha) 229
the ddg 110 interceptor has similarities with the messerchmit bf 110 a not so successful interceptor of ww2
the last one for the moment is the dwg 262 similar to the original messerchmit 262 initially fighter bomber later converted in fighter
and we still haven't seen the dive bombers on the carriers (one was exactly like the stuka)
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Bird is the word for Louisiana basketball fans.
Bird is the word for Louisiana basketball fans.
It was announced on Thursday afternoon that starting next season, and going forward, the NBA basketball team will be known as the New Orleans Pelicans.
I have heard that a lot of fans have not responded well to the change from Hornets to Pelicans, but I am not totally against the new nickname. In fact, I kind of like it.
The Hornets nickname was a perfect fit for Charlotte, N.C., but really didn't work well in New Orleans when the team made the move here in 2002, though you have to credit the organization for making the Hornets name, colors and logos work pretty well.
But making the name change was the right thing to do.
While I think Pelicans is sufficient, I also think the Krewe, the Swampdogs, the Mudbugs and the Rhythm were better choices, but after listening to the explanation of the Pelicans name, it makes even more sense and has a deeper meaning than the above-mentioned candidates.
Now we all know the perfect nickname for an NBA team in New Orleans was and still is the Jazz, but that name is long gone to Utah where the Utah Jazz officially have the dumbest nickname in the history of sport.
But here is the spill on the Pelicans. The Pelicans name has a deep tradition in New Orleans with the old minor league baseball team that played there from 1887 to 1959 and for a one-year stint in 1977.
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It is also prominent on the state flag and state seal.
The pelican is also very resilient after it came back from being on the endangered species list recently, and the pelican is a symbol of our vanishing wetlands and how the area bounced back after the 2010 BP oil spill and after recent hurricanes.
Team owner Tom Benson stressed the point that the Pelicans will not only be the name of the team next season, but will also be a symbol of and for helping save the Gulf Coast wetlands, which we know are disappearing day by day.
While other mascots may have been more fun and even maybe a little more appropriate for a basketball team, it may be hard to find one more meaningful than the Pelicans.
Still, some area basketball fans may not be too happy with the new Pelicans nickname. But if the team has a successful season next year and makes the playoffs, they will flock to the roost in droves wearing their red, gold and blue.
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Pool Pumps: Rebuild or Replace?
Most pumps, with the exception of the Jacuzzi Magnum pump shown at left, have a ready supply of replacement parts available. You should have no problem rebuilding your own pool pump, if it needs a new impeller or diffuser or other internal parts. All gaskets and o-rings and seals - are available individually or in blister paks called Go-Kits .
Pump Parts don't usually come with instructions, but you can find on our website a lot of information on the Pumps & Motors Info page about how to troubleshoot a pool pump. If your pump has low flow, low filter pressure or air problems, you may not need any parts at all, but look to remove air leaks or obstructions before the pump impeller. Obstructions after the impeller, like a dirty filter or partially closed valve would cause high pressure and cavitation.
You'll find just about every pump out there on schematic diagram in our pool pump parts section of the website. More pump parts are scheduled to be added soon, including Astral, Speck and Waterway pool pump parts. If you've never seen our exploded schematic pool pump diagrams, you are missing out on one of the best parts of poolcenter.com. Most items install fairly simply, and it's rare that the cost of the parts would be more than replacing the pump.
Or maybe you just need a new pool motor, and not the entire pump? Pool pump motors are built with bearings, front and rear. Spinning at 3450rpm, they eventually wear out. Fortunately, they make you very aware of their demise by a screeching noise that gets louder as the bearings fail. Sometimes it takes a neighbor to point this out, but fear not, there is an easy remedy to a noisy pool pump motor.
1. You can replace the motor yourself for about $20 in bearings/seal (you'll also need a bearing puller).
2. A local electric motor shop would replace bearings and shaft seal for around $100.
3. You could replace the motor with new.
The last option has the benefit of everything being new, not just the bearings and shaft seal typically replaced during a rebuild. New windings, switches, capacitor, terminals, etc. Most pool pump motors last around 8 years, so a 2-3 year old motor may be a good candidate for rebuild, whereas a 6 year old motor may not be. Always replace the shaft seal when removing a motor (+/- $10).
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1. When you are required to by new laws mandating a Energy Efficient pool pump.
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4. When parts for repair of your pool pump are more than the cost of a new pump.
How Do I Select a new Pool Pump?
The best match would be to replace with the same make and model pump you have now, unless you found it's flowrate to be severely lacking. When your pool was originally designed, we can assume that the designer did the math, adding up all of the flow resistance, measured in feet of head, and selected a pump and filter based on these computations. The plumbing portion of pump installation will usually be easier if you replace like with like, as the height and setback of the in and out ports of the pump will line up with your existing plumbing configuration.
If however, your old pump is no longer made, or not made in an energy efficient model, or the entire pump and filter system is being renovated, you can switch pump models or manufacturers without a problem. Most important in changing pump models is to use the charts to get as close as possible to the flow rate and pipe height and setback measurements of your existing pump.
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There was a week's break for the westerners following the disappointing Heineken Cup game against Saracens which allowed the squad some much-needed rest and recuperation.
However, there are still a number of injury concerns ahead of this week's league match.
It was announced to the media yesterday that Craig Clarke will be unavailable to play for an unspecified number of weeks.
The 31-year-old New Zealander, who has been the province's regular captain this season, sustained a concussion against Saracens at Allianz Park and will be taking some time out due to the recurring nature of his injury.
Front rowers Brett Wilkinson and Sean Henry have both been ruled out for at least four weeks due to neck injuries aggravated in the last game.
Flanker Aaron Conneely, who last played for the Eagles in their victory over Llanelli in the British & Irish Cup, suffered an ankle injury in training last week and is unavailable to play for up to six weeks.
In better news, Pat Lam's backs division has been boosted by the return to training of Miah Nikora, David McSharry and Danie Poolman.
Both Poolman and McSharry have played in seven games each this season, while Nikora has been recovering from a shoulder injury sustained in pre-season. It is hoped that the trio will be available to play in either the PRO12 or 'A' interprovincial fixture this week.
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St. Anne's Episcopal Church will be running their free "tipsy taxi" service for their fifth year this New Years Eve. The taxi provides transport to drivers too intoxicated to safely drive themselves.
Two-by-two, volunteers with a "tipsy taxi" sign plastered to the sides of the vehicle will be available beginning at 10 p.m. New Years Eve.
Laird MacGregor, Reverend for St. Anne, said the service usually has three or four vehicles available. A volunteer will be at the church to take calls. The taxi service has taken between 15 and 30 calls each year.
MacGregor said the inspiration for the "tipsy taxi" comes from seeing similar services provided by bars and other local services. With the church providing the service, MacGregor said the tipsy taxi provides a wonderful ministry opportunity.
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Djokovic sets up Nadal final
The world's top two players will meet in the final of the Barclays ATP World Finals after Novak Djokovic beat Stanislas Wawrinka to set up a showdown with Rafael Nadal.
It was a bad day for Switzerland, with Nadal a convincing 7-5 6-3 winner over six-time champion Roger Federer at London's O2 Arena.
Djokovic and Wawrinka had played two of the best matches of the year at the Australian and US Opens - the Serbian winning in five sets both times.
But Djokovic also won easily in Paris last week and, unfortunately for the packed crowd, this match was much more in that mould as the second seed ran out a 6-3 6-3 winner.
It was a 21st-straight win for Djokovic, and the defending champion said: "It was a very enjoyable match. The performance was definitely the best I had so far this tournament. It came in the right moment.
"It's going to be a great final. I hope all the crowd will enjoy it because we definitely do on the court. It's always a thrilling competition between me and Rafa."
The signs for a close match were initially good as Wawrinka, who made it through to the semi-finals on his debut, produced some fine attacking tennis to break his opponent to lead 2-1.
But Djokovic hit straight back and the Wawrinka errors soon began to far exceed his winners.
It took Djokovic 50 points to hit his first winner but by then he was in control of the match having shown his legendary powers of defence to break for 5-3.
Djokovic spent more than two hours on court on Saturday night winning a dead rubber against Richard Gasquet but his appetite for another title was clear to see.
He saved a Wawrinka break point before clinching the opening set with his first ace and then broke again at the start of the second.
Wawrinka was under pressure in every service game but he withstood it until he served to stay in the match at 3-5, Djokovic clinching victory after an hour and 24 minutes.
Djokovic and Nadal have met 38 times before, more than any other two men in the Open era, with the Spaniard leading 22-16.
Nadal also leads 3-2 in their five matches this season, including both grand slam contests, but this tournament is the one major title he has yet to win.
The 27-year-old said: "The most important thing is on the toughest surface for me to play I was able to win four matches against top-eight players. That's great news for me. It's a very good way to finish the year.
"Now remains the last match. I hope to be ready for that. I know it's going to be a difficult one. But I will try my best. I need to play my best match to have a chance tomorrow."
Nadal has beaten Federer 22 times in 32 meetings and, with his first win over the Swiss indoors, his domination of the once great rivalry is now complete.
Federer still had his moments, especially a forehand winner at the end of an epic rally that enabled him to break back for 5-5 in the opening set.
But the poor service game he played straight afterwards was more indicative of a season that has brought him just one title and seen him slip to seventh in the rankings.
There must be a question mark about whether the O2 Arena has seen the last of the player it reveres more than any other.
Hearing Federer talk about the doubts that have crept in has been a fascinating insight into the mind of a great sportsman at the moment when certainty disappears.
But a final appearance in his home town of Basle and semi-finals at the Paris Masters and here over the past three weeks have allowed the 32-year-old to look to 2014 with optimism.
Asked about his targets for next season, he said: "Winning five titles or something. Leaving the tournaments as a winner, that's what keeps things exciting. Rankings; if it's not world number one, then I'm not that interested.
"I think something's possible for next year. I'm more positive now looking ahead than I would have been a few months ago where I wasn't quite sure what to expect after the US Open.
"I'm back confident and excited going into the off season and starting again next year.
"I need to make sure I stay competitive, that I can hang with the best, and particularly beat the best."


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Big Brothers Big Sisters is an organization dedicated to using mentors to empower children. So a partnership between the BBBS of Central Wisconsin and the Plover Kiwanis Club makes sense, thinks club Membership Chairman Timothy Roman. That's why he brought the idea—already tried and tested by his former Kiwanis club—to Plover when he moved to the area in the mid-1990s.
For more than a decade, the Kiwanis club and its sponsored CKI club at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point have annually treated 15 to 20 "Littles" to dinner at Pizza Hut before making a chilly trek to the university's Quant Fieldhouse to watch a basketball game. By matching up one chaperone per child, they make their group outing about the one-on-one adult-child relationships the BBBS organization thrives on. All of the children are new Big Brothers Big Sisters enrollees—called "Littles"—who are still waiting to be matched with older mentors—called "Bigs"—whose interests and personalities will yield a mutually beneficial friendship.
The organization is one that has been part of Roman's life since before he became a Kiwanian.
"Both my older brother and sister were mentors," he says. "I got to know a couple of their matches along the way and saw the benefits that come from the relationship."
The impact BBBS made on Roman and his family stuck. He's now a board member for the Central Wisconsin chapter, and as a school-based mentor, he visited his "Little" monthly to have lunch and play games. His wife became a community-based mentor to a young man before they met, and together, the two of them continue to sustain a connection with him.
His passion about the organization has rubbed off on his fellow Kiwanians.
"This is probably my favorite club project," says Eric Molien, club secretary. "It has been really cool to get to know my Littles and has gotten me to starting to think about becoming a Big (for more than just one day)."
The Kiwanis club also participates annually in Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Central Wisconsin's annual Bowl for Kids' Sake fundraiser. This past year, the team composed of Plover Kiwanians was the largest donor.
"It's another entity that's very close to what the mission of Kiwanis is in terms of helping children so we're always willing to be a part of that," says Molien. –Courtney Meyer
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Cataleya is named for a delicate orchid, but she's in fighting shape. This sleekly beautiful killing machine mows down numerous macho opponents in the primal revenge drama "Colombiana." Just as Cataleya gets the job done, the movie accomplishes its basic genre agenda.
What's disappointing is that "Colombiana" initially seems like it may develop into something more than a violent exercise. The opening scenes grab your attention as 9-year-old Cataleya sees her drug-dealing parents slaughtered in their home in Colombia. Narrowly escaping the same fate, she already displays the survival skills that will come in so handy.
The actress playing young Cataleya, Amandla Stenberg, has such quietly intense features that she makes it seem like the movie will be an interesting character study. Cataleya reveals that she once wanted to be like the warrior princess Xena, but the killing of her parents has made her want to become a killer in order to avenge their deaths.
The enterprising girl manages to evade government authorities and travel alone to the United States, where she goes to live with a drug-dealing uncle in Chicago. Some viewers may begin to peel away from the movie at this point, because this family's involvement in gun-enforced illegal drug dealing is matter-of-factly presented as simply a lifestyle choice. You can cut the young girl some slack for going along with the family norm, but the filmmakers similarly don't seem to know better.
In any event, the movie cuts ahead 15 years to show Cataleya as a fully grown woman whose form-fitting outfits make the most of her adult status. Just in case you hadn't noticed her beauty, there are several scenes whose sole point is to show Cataleya changing clothes.
The adult Cataleya is played by Zoe Saldana, whom you may recall when her skin was blue in "Avatar." She does not have much depth or range as an actress, but she sure looks swell as Cataleya. If this character type seems overly familiar, that's because the filmmakers have no greater ambitions than to emphasize that very familiarity.
Luc Besson, whose earlier credits include "The Fifth Element," "La Femme Nikita" and "The Professional," certainly knows how to showcase female action heroes. Besson co-produced and co-wrote "Colombiana," so it's basically his movie. The director of "Colombiana," the aptly namd Olivier Megaton, is explosively faithful to that formula.
Although the movie is not particularly graphic by genre standards, it's relentlessly formulaic as Cataleya tracks down and eliminates the bad guys who slaughtered her parents years earlier. Whether hunting these bad guys or playing cat-and-mouse games with the FBI agent investigating her activities, Cataleya is one busy gal.
Some of the individual sequences are well-staged, as when Cataleya plans a clever ruse to get herself inside a prison and then proceeds to slink through its air ducts in order to reach one of the bad guys. Stringing together so many such sequences gets to be rather tedious, though, because the whole movie becomes little more than Cataleya checking names off a list.
Also, she is such a skilled hunter that some of her hits verge on being implausible. This may be why the audience is likely to laugh at such scenes. In fact, the movie's initially serious tone eventually gives way to the lighter tone one expects from a live-action cartoon in which the violence is choreographed to provoke laughter.
If you still find yourself rooting for Cataleya, there's no denying that she has dedicated her life to bumping off the bad guys who killed her parents. It doesn't hurt that she looks pretty as she bumps them off. And at least the, er, target audience for this movie will have a few laughs along the way. Grade: C
"Colombiana" (PG-13) is now playing at area theaters.


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Five Members of the MS-13 Street Gang Indicted for Murder, Conspiracy, Assault, and Armed Robbery in Brentwood Long Island NY. Charges Include the November 2009 Murder of 15-Year-Old Christopher Hamilton and the August 2010 Obstruction of Justice Murder of Rigoberto Gomez.
MS-13 Gang "Fast Life" Bradenton Fl...The MS13 gang, aka Mara Salvatrucha 13, is one of the most violently dangerous gangs in the United States – and one of the most organized. The MS13 gang has cliques, or factions, located throughout the United States and is unique in that it retains is ties to its El Salvador counterparts. With cliques in Washington DC, Oregon, Alaska, Arkansas, Texas, Nevada, Utah, Oklahoma, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, Bradenton Florida, Canada, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and several other South American countries, the MS13 gang is truly "international" and on the verge of becoming the first gang to be categorized as an "organized crime" entity, see story below on recent MS-13 take down that included the FBI's Long Island Gang Task Force and agents from the United States Department of Homeland Security.
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January 23, 2012 Eastern District of New York
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Major Thefts/Violent Crime, New York Top Stories, Organized Crime/Drugs, Press Release
Major Thefts/Violent Crime, New York Top Stories, Organized Crime/Drugs, Press Release
EARLIER TODAY, A —count indictment was unsealed at the U.S. Courthouse in Central Islip, New York, charging five members of La Mara Salvatrucha street gang (the MS-13) with murder in aid of racketeering, assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering, armed robberies, firearms offenses, and related conspiracy charges.1 Two of the defendants, Jose Alvarenga, also known as "Fosforo," and Hector Torres, also known as "Smiley," are charged with the murder of 15-year-old Christopher Hamilton in 2009, and the murder of Rigoberto Gomez in 2010, both in Brentwood, New York.
All five defendants are in custody. Alvarenga and Torres will be arraigned later today before United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco, and the other three defendants will be arraigned later this week. When Torres was arrested, law enforcement authorities recovered a defaced 9mm semi-automatic handgun, 9mm ammunition, .22 caliber ammunition and 12 gauge shotgun shells.
As detailed in the indictment and the government's detention letter filed earlier today, on November 20, 2009, Alvarenga, the leader of the Brentwood Locos Salvatruchas (BLS) clique of MS-13, ordered several MS-13 gang members to attack suspected rival gang members at a house party on American Boulevard in Brentwood. After arming the MS-13 members with a .22 caliber rifle and a semi-automatic handgun from the BLS clique's arsenal, Alvarenga led them the American Boulevard house.
Minutes after arriving, at least three rifle shots were fired by gang members into a crowd of people outside the house—one of them striking Christopher Hamilton in the temple, killing him. Alvarenga is the fifth MS-13 member involved in the Hamilton murder to be charged federally, including the shooter who was a juvenile at the time of the murder and whose case remains under seal.
The indictment and etention letter also allege that in August 2010, members of the Sailors clique of the MS-13 suspected that MS-13 member Rigoberto Gomez was cooperating with local law enforcement. As a result, the Sailors put a "green light" on Gomez, authorizing other MS-13 members to kill Gomez on sight. In the early morning hours of August 31, 2010, defendant Hector Torres, then second in command of the BLS clique, together with a Sailors clique member, who has also been charged federally, spotted Gomez as they drove through Brentwood.
They (MS-13) lured Gomez into the car, inviting him to smoke marijuana with them at the nearby Freeman Avenue Park. After exiting the car, Torres stepped behind Gomez and fired a bullet from a .357 caliber revolver into the back of Gomez's head, and fired a second shot into Gomez's head after the victim fell to the ground. Torres then handed the gun to the other MS-13 member, who fired a third shot into Gomez's head.
The indictment also charges Alvarenga and Francisco Ponce, also known as "Spoiler," with a non-fatal shooting that took place on July 24, 2008, in Timberline Park in Brentwood; Ponce, Freddy Fuentes-Gonzalez, also known as "Pitufo," and Joyser Velasquez, also known as "Baby Boy," with the February 15, 2009, conspiracy and armed robbery of the Pollo Campero restaurant in Lindenhurst, New York; Ponce and Velasquez with the December 19, 2009, conspiracy and armed robbery of the Wilson Express Corp., a check-cashing and money transfer business in Patchogue, New York; and Velasquez with a January 20, 2010, conspiracy to rob a McDonald's restaurant in Smithtown, New York. If convicted, each defendant faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. In addition, Alvarenga and Torres, who are charged with the Hamilton and Gomez murders, respectively, each face mandatory life in prison, or the death penalty.
"The MS-13 thrives on violence—violence directed at suspected rivals, as in the Hamilton murder and Timberline Park shooting, violence against its own members, as demonstrated in the Gomez murder, and violence directed at innocent, hard-working Long Islanders, as demonstrated in the armed robberies charged in this indictment," stated United States Attorney Lynch. "Today we mark the latest product of the tenacious investigations conducted by the FBI's Long Island Gang Task Force." Ms. Lynch extended her grateful appreciation to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office for its assistance in this case.
"The MS-13 thrives on violence—violence directed at suspected rivals, as in the Hamilton murder and Timberline Park shooting, violence against its own members, as demonstrated in the Gomez murder, and violence directed at innocent, hard-working Long Islanders, as demonstrated in the armed robberies charged in this indictment," stated United States Attorney Lynch. "Today we mark the latest product of the tenacious investigations conducted by the FBI's Long Island Gang Task Force." Ms. Lynch extended her grateful appreciation to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office for its assistance in this case.
FBI Assistant Director in Charge Fedarcyk stated, "The indictment illustrates two ongoing themes. MS-13 continues to use violence, including cold-blooded murder, to intimidate rivals and enforce discipline within its own ranks. Charges include the point-blank execution of an MS-13 member suspected of cooperating. And, the FBI and the Long Island Gang Task Force will continue to make cases and arrest MS-13 leaders and members."
"Gangs are like a cancer on our communities, and unless we deal with them directly, effectively and immediately they will continue to grow," said Suffolk County Police Department Acting Commissioner Webber. "We will steadfastly work with our local and federal law enforcement partners to put an end to their violent criminal acts."
The government's case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys John J. Durham and Raymond A. Tierney. The charges announced today are the latest in a series of indictments by the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York against members of the MS-13, a violent international street gang. Over the past decade, more than 150 MS-13 members, including the leaders of a number of the MS-13 cliques on Long Island, have been arrested and convicted on federal felony charges in this district, including federal racketeering and murder charges.
These prosecutions are the result of investigations led by the FBI's Long Island Gang Task Force, comprising agents and officers of the FBI, Suffolk County Police Department, Nassau County Police Department, Nassau County Sheriff's Department, the United States Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department and the Suffolk County Probation Department.
The Defendants:
JOSE ALVARENGA (a/k/a "Fosforo") Age: 22
FREDDY FUENTES-GONZALEZ (a/k/a "Pitufo") Age: 28
FRANCISCO PONCE (a/k/a "Spoiler") Age: 29
HECTOR TORRES (a/k/a "Smiley") Age: 20
JOYSER VELASQUEZ (a/k/a "Baby Boy") Age: 27
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text: The Associated Press is reporting that several airports have asked a federal court to stop the FAA's plan to close 149 contract air traffic control towers, accusing the agency of violating federal law meant to ensure major changes at airports do not erode safety. Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington, Ill., has joined other airports, including those in Spokane Airports in Washington state, and the operators of Florida airports in Naples, Ormond Beach and Punta Gorda. The court combined the suits into a single case Thursday.


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Bill O'Reilly and Karl Rove went at it on the "O'Reilly Factor" the other night on immigration.
The heated exchange typified the thunder on the right on the issue of immigration reform, but the lack of any real policy to deal with the issue.
O'Reilly was caught out by Rove on this one with Rove essentially saying it was very easy for the right to slam Bush and now Obama on immigration, but yet they offered very little in return.
Here is some of the testy exchange;
O'Reilly: Look, look. Under President Bush, you put in the virtual fence. 50-million-dollar virtual fence.
Rove: We started the virtual fence.
O'Reilly: Erected, Mr. Rove. $50 million wasted. Wasted.
Rove: No, no. No not at all. We had — hey, look, bill, you have got to try everything. We put up the fence.
We put up sensors that did work. Watch tours that did work. We tried everything. You can't start something as important as this and throw as much money as we did and expect to have everything work perfectly.
O'Reilly: That's a good point I cede that point.
Rove: We doubled the size of the border patrol and tripled the budget. Bush ended 30 years of the practice of catch and release where we took "OTM's" (other than Mexicans) and released them on their own recognizance and we ended that practice by spending a lot of money.
O'Reilly: Mr. Rove, you guys did some good things.
Rove: And so did president Clinton.
O'Reilly: You were slow. It took me five years to pound you guys into sending to the border. After five years of pounding me did you it that was far too slow.
Rove: I hate to tell you but governors had something.
O'Reilly: I let you had yours. Let me have mine. You were slow to get the guard to the border. That's a fact. The second thing is, this is the most powerful country on earth. We can control the South Korean border but we can't control the southern border. You are right. Some sectors, San Diego, some parts of Texas, are virtually impenetrable, they can't get through, Arizona, New Mexico, other parts of Texas you can imperial county, California. And that is a disgrace for the most powerful country in the world. The federal government can do this. Go.
Rove: Bill, you know, your analogy that we are like north and South Korea, armed states, we aren't. We aren't north and South Korea. We have millions of people south of the border who are trying to come a cross a very long and very porous border. It's gotten a lot tougher. Give the border patrol and the government some confidence that they're doing a better job.


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Menchov leads Katusha at Tour
Katusha have finalised their roster for the Tour de France, naming Denis Menchov as team leader.
The Russian outfit, headed by sporting directors Valerio Piva, Dmitry Konyshev and Torsten Schmidt, named a nine-man team of Giampaolo Caruso, Oscar Freire, Vladimir Gusev, Joan Horrach, Aliaksandr Kuchynski, Denis Menchov, Luca Paolini, Yuriy Trofimov and Eduard Vorganov.
In a statement, Katusha specified that Freire would be the lead sprinter with Menchov the man for the general classification.
"It's a huge responsibility that gives me high motivation," Menchov said. "It will be my first big stage race with the team of my country, so I'll give my best in order to win.
"Moreover, this is the only Grand Tour I am yet to win - it's not a secret that this year it was my main goal, and it would be the crowning achievement of my career."
This season's Tour de France starts on June 30 in the Belgian city of Liege.


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SHS students receive national certification
Several Sweetwater High School students received National Professional Certification in Customer Service by passing an industry-driven assessment. This new professional certification is based on national skill standards recognized by high performance employers from the retail, wholesale, personal services and real estate industries as critical to customer service success. The computer-based assessment required these certified individuals to respond to real-world job-related situations, using knowledge and skills widely recognized as important in high-performance workplaces.Certification recognizes demonstrated customer service knowledge and skills-which translates into competitiveness for the employer. Thousands of employees, from frontline workers to managers and trainers, representing hundreds of companies, identified the performance levels for these customer services skills. NRF Foundation managed this process for the Sales & Service Voluntary Partnership, a collaborative organization comprising several hundred large and small companies and other workforce partners. Other industries, including hotels, restaurants, banks, insurance and public service companies, have recognized the value of these customer service skill standards and this certification. Shown above (in no particular order) are Amber J. Archuleta, Joselyn E. Gonzalez, Shelby L. Gotcher, Rebekah E. Lopez, Sarah L. Ramirez, Christopher T. Rodgers, Sarah J. Ruiz, Olga A. Torrez, Hailey M. Wilkinson, Joshua M. Blizzard, Brittney N. Clark, Joshua S. Gomez, Bentley H. Guthrie, Ann M. Lansford, Nicholas Q. Limones, Jason K. Turner and Kelli M. Wofford. They are under the direction of Nina Wilson.


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text: Feast of Corpus Christi The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, more commonly known by its Latin name the Feast of Corpus Christi, is celebrated in honor of Christ's institution of the Holy Eucharist on Good Thursday. The introduction of the feast is traced to a vision received by St. Juliana of Mont-Cornillon, early in the 13th century. Juliana, born in 1193 in the Diocese of Liègem, in Belgium was especially known for her love of the Blessed Virgin, the sacred Passion, and especially the Blessed Sacrament. Orphaned at an early age, Juliana was educated by the Augustinian nuns of Mont Cornillon, where she would eventually make her religious profession. From her youth, Juliana always had a great veneration for the Blessed Sacrament. She began to experience visions when she was about 16, and one such experience pertained to the establishment of Feast of Corpus Christi. She saw an image of the full moon, its brightness blemished by one dark spot. After several days of prayer, a voice rendered the meaning: "That which disturbs thee is that a feast is wanting to My Church Militant, which I desire to establish. It is the feast of the Most High and Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. At present the celebration of this mystery is only observed on Maundy Thursday, but on that day My sufferings and death are the principal objects of consideration; therefore I desire another day to be set apart in which it shall be celebrated by the whole of Christendom…" As noted in Eucharistic Miracles, three reasons were then given for the request: "First, that faith in this sacrament would be confirmed by this feast when future attacks against its validity would be introduced; second, that the faithful would be strengthened on their way to virtue by a sincere and profound adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; third, that because of this feast, and the loving attention given to it, reparation would be made for the irreverence and impiety shown to the Blessed Sacrament." In 1264, Pope Urban IV ordered the feast of Corpus Christi to be celebrated annually on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. In the present day, the feast is observed in the United States on the Sunday following Holy Trinity Sunday. - Adapted from the Catholic Encyclopedia and Eucharistic Miracles by Joan Carroll Cruz.


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Big, boring and slow. That's the car for teen drivers, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit that analyzes auto safety and driving issues.
"The vehicle choice for teens is especially crucial because of their higher risk of getting into a crash," said Russ Rader, the institute's spokesman.
The institute agreed with many of the findings of Consumer Reports, which has issued its list of the best cars for teen drivers and emphasized the importance of electronic stability control.
Such systems sense when a vehicle begins to slide in a turn and applies the brakes to one or more of the auto's wheels to keep the car on course, said Jim Travers, the magazine's associate autos editor. It will be required on 2012 models, Travers said.
According to the highway safety institute, electronic stability control reduces the risk of fatal single-vehicle crashes by 50 percent and fatal multiple vehicle crashes by 19 percent. Moreover, it slashes the potential for fatal vehicle rollovers by at least 72 percent.
Consumer Reports and the institute said teens need vehicles with as many safety features as possible, including anti-lock brakes and curtain air bags. Teens' cars also should have good crash-test results. See the institute's safety ratings at iihs.org/ratings.
The crash risk is four times as high for 16- to 19-year-olds as for older drivers, per mile driven, according to the institute. At age 16, the crash rate is double what it is for 18- to 19-year-olds, it said.
So a small, lightweight car is not a good vehicle for a teen, Rader said, though Consumer Reports does recommend some.
— Jerry Hirsch, Tribune Newspapers


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rcMart will be closed on 1st May for Labour Day
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Lots of problems with plot and such but overall I liked it. If you are a Star Wars fan like me, go and see it. It's got lots of Star Wars fun. Luke and Leia show up and a load of bad guys attack the Rebel Alliance. Turn off your negativity and just enjoy it for a fun romp in a Galaxy... far far away. Far from perfect, but still worth seeing. 3/5
I am not a DIE-HARD Star Wars fan but I have seen all the movies, played both KOTORs, read some literature etc. You can say I'm just an average fan. And maybe it was because of high expectations, fueled by rave reviews, but after the
Awful. Save your money. No surprise it's still rated 3 stars. Got to hurt the 5 star troll. Probably the worst ever Star Wars.
Fantastic adventure.
Luke is portrayed as a coward through the whole movie and is reluctant and never actually showed up to fight Kylo and this is weak writing. How can that become a cause by fighting via virtual reality..lol? It's better if Luke actually showed up, kicked some First Order butt and then became a sacrifice, ergo uniting everyone and doing the right thing. Man, that would have been such a powerful scene and all could be forgiven (maybe).
Comedy scenes included are absurd (comedy is good to have but not this way) and take away the sense of urgency and importance of the fight too much, characters are shallow and cliche, enough plot holes to fill every hole on a golf course, and severe deus ex machina (the Force mostly) used for convenience and lazy/bad writing.
Men in this movie are portrayed as idiots or macho. Women are not well represented or respected either and does them a disservice. The people who funded (Disney), wrote and directed this movie must have no morality or clue, therefore the movie had none.
Where to start? Firsly I loved Rogue One last year it felt like a story worth telling and introduced some new interesting characters. I hated the Force awakens and would rate it as my least favourite star wars movie! So i was really hoping The Last Jedi would take the Rogue One approach........It didn't!! So much potential with Luke and they just made him a grumpy old man who feels sorry for himself because his nephew turned to the dark side! Out of all people Luke should of been prepared for this potential eventuality......his dad is Darth Vader for heavens sake! So to turn him into a coward like this was unforgivable for me.
Lazy writing throughout, no coherent exciting story-line, too much feminism and poor character development but ultimately it just wasn't a fun film to watch. So disappointed!
This is easily the worst Star Wars film ever. Even though JJ Abrams was Executive Producer on The Last Jedi. His vison was easily lost from TFA (which I wasn't a huge fan of but he left a lot of interesting plot points, literally gave the next person (Hack Rian Jonshon) a lay up to make a really awesome film). So many plot holes to count. They ruined lukes character and didn't develop any of the new ones as well. Kylo basically gives a big F U to the crowd with his dialogue in Snokes throne room (Speaking through the hack Rian Johnson). Honestly I get moving on from the past Saga, sure, but we all know Disney will make a million movies. So just make these last 3 good (well 2 now, well 1 now that this one is horrible) and then they can do what the want with the franchise. They could have made their money and made a good film, but they didn't. Too much humor in serious scenes. I came in wondering a few questions. Who are Ray's parent? Who is Snoke? Who are the Knights of Ren? How did Maz get Luke's Lightsaber? Just to name a few. Zero answered. I went in with 0 answers or expectations. Got zero answers and lost all expectations. Also, to those that say we are all complaining that TFA was too close to a new hope and this one was too far from the OT. Well they stole most of everything from ESB and RTOJ in this movie. Oh, except the slow speed spaceship chase. No matter what I say you'll see it cause it Star Wars but I hope once you do you'll join the rebellion and try and get a film we deserve. As the wise Lando once said "This deal is getting worse all the time".
A movie that only has Merit based on nostalgia it tries to kill. If it wants us to kill our pasts and review this without respect to what made the prginals great I will. This movie has giant plot holes and kills any intrest I have in seeing the others. It feels like the director was setting up JJ Abrams to fail in the next one leaving him a giant mess after destroying all the plot hooks he was left.
This is the first time I give a ZERO to a movie. I left the theater feeling angry, disappointed and ultimately, sad.
A friend told me I have to go and see the film a second time to fully understand it. I think I'm not that stupid yet (though that's what people imply when they say "you did not understand it") and after he said that I thought "wait a minute, this is not how a Star Wars movie should leave its audience feeling". Then I realized how bad the plot and supposed "brilliant ideas" this so-called genius "Rian Johnson" had, were. It may be a great movie. A great independent film. A great show for the new generation but it is a bad Star Wars movie. Period.
And I won't even get to the part that upset me most (my childhood hero) because I'd be spoiling it for you and I don't mean to do that. Though, if you're a fan. Stick to the 6-chapter saga and forget about Disney. If you're not, why would you even want to spend your money in Disney?
I did not think Rian Johnson could screw up this badly. It is a mystery to me how he can consider himself a Star Wars fan. Perhaps what he really means is that he was a fan of Star Wars action figures, because that's what this movie feels like--a child playing with the figures, smashing them together, throwing them across the room. Having a ball of a time with them and yet, not understanding any of the characters they represent. I absolutely hated this movie, and consider it the end of Star Wars, especially for all the old fans.
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