 methods used by the base to control them and drive them away. Then mentioned using raptors as a safe, harmless, and ecologically friendly method. (There are a lot of large airports that do this.)
So two or three times later in the day, I saw this guy flying around and was wondering if he might be “on duty,” so to speak.
Click on one of these pictures, particularly the first one, to see it full sized. See just behind the left wing, those two strings? I’m no expert on falconry, but aren’t those called “jesses” and they’re part of how falcons are trained?
Also a most gorgeous creature (I’m a sucker for raptors) but I’m glad to see that a few laps around the airport kept his large cousins out of the way of my friends and our large, fast, metal birds!It’s getting missed by a lot of people because the grades are already being measured in percentage - which means people aren’t looking for the percentage changes of the percentages to see the relative affect.

Imagine Runner A and Runner B do 100m in 9 and 10 seconds respectively. Now they get told to run 200m - and do 18 and 20 seconds respectively. The difference in seconds increased from 1 to 2, so it looks like the system change to 200m is giving a bigger advantage to Runner A.

But when you look at it closely, Runner A is 10% faster in 100m and still 10% faster in the 200m. In the grade scenario it’s using % rather than seconds, so people aren’t looking for the % change relative to the original itselfMoney MoneyScienceBrazil Erik German on Oct 30, 2010 @ 9:51 AMOct 30, 2010 @ 9:51 AM Last Updated Oct 27, 2010 @ 6:38 AM PublishedDrill, Brazil, drillEditor's note: GlobalPost featured this article in "Great Weekend Reads," a free compilation of the week's most colorful stories. To receive Great Weekend Reads by e-mail, let us know at editors@globalpost.com.RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — This week Brazil is poised to start selling off its “gift from God.”After billions of barrels of undersea oil were discovered off Brazil’s coast in 2007, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva credited divine providence. “God is Brazilan,” he said in a speech following the discovery, later calling the oil not only a divine gift, but his country’s “passport to the future.”That future arrives in part on Thursday. That’s when Brazil’s state-run oil company, Petrobras, is set to announce the start of its commercial production of a small section of the Tupi field, one of several billion-barrel oil fields the company says are located offshore.More than 200 miles out to sea and several miles below the surface, the pools of oil are thought to be among the biggest discovered on earth in recent decades. Properly tapped, they’ll make fortunes and catapult Brazil into the ranks of the world’s top oil-producing countries.But as the crude begins to flow, some industry experts say Brazil has understated the risks involved — made apparent by the deep-sea drilling that caused this year’s disastrous spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The fields are known as the "pre-salt" region, due to the fact that the bulk of the oil is locked beneath a formation of hardened salt as much as 6,500 feet thick. The closest of the new fields are about 200 miles southeast from the beaches of Rio de Janeiro on a patch of sea floor where the water is more than a mile deep.No one knows for sure how many barrels of oil are down there but — based on the test wells drilled so far — the Brazilian government is betting tens of billions.“If this plays out they’ll be more than doubling their production before 2035,” said Jonathan Cogan, a specialist with the United States Energy Information Administration, a government agency that monitors oil production worldwide.Before the discovery in 2006, Brazil didn’t even rank among the world’s top 10 oil producers — pumping out about 1.9 million barrels of oil per day, by the agency’s own estimate. In 25 years, it predicts Brazil will produce 5.5 million barrels per day — just ahead of Kuwait and behind Iraq in the world’s top five.The oil being tapped now is in shallower reservoirs, but the bulk of the discovery lies as much as 22,000 feet below the ocean’s surface.Extracting it will require multiple feats of engineering. Shifting ocean currents, near-freezing temperatures and crushing pressure on the sea floor — not to mention miles of mud, sand, stone and salt — all stand between drillers and the oil.Smashed beneath nearly 9,800 feet of rock and other sediment, the mile-thick salt layer poses a special challenge for drill bits, said Carlos Torres-Verdin, a petroleum engineering professor at the University of Texas, Austin, who has advised Petrobras.“The hardness of salt at these conditions could be comparable to the hardness of granite,” he said. Nevertheless, Torres-Verdin said he believes the obstacles can be safely surmounted and are “comparable in difficulty” to those regularly overcome by deepwater drillers in the Gulf of Mexico.That’s what worries his colleague, Tad Patzek, a professor of petroleum and geosystems engineering who testified before U.S. Congress on the causes of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year.Patek said ultra-deep water oil rigs have become more complex and harder to control than some oil companies would prefer to admit.Drilling remotely at depths that would crush a submarine requires technological systems so complex they’ve left behind their roots in mining and become something akin to space exploration.“We’re really pushing the limits of human technology and human reach here into an environment that’s far less friendly than outer space,” he said. “When you think of the world down there in the ocean, this is sort of like going — not even to the moon — but to Mars.similar.”A Finnish partner can be a great support in learning Finnish and more generally speaking in dealing with Finnish language. Many Finnish partners translate paperwork, help with writing a resume or a cover letter, help to read job offers. Even though your partner is offering this help, remember that he or she is not responsible for your learning. Practicing Finnish with your partner can be very tricky, especially if you have a common language.
Started a thread for specific discussion of the space change.
Warp ships are able to summon from Ark (not moon) if docked in safe space at the Arkadia Spacestation. They are unable to summon from moon as there is no docking.
Monria has docking... I believe... maybe Mindark will put it in to Ark's moon too? Makes no sense to not have it.
I was expecting it to be like monria, I'm not sure why or if I read that.
This is like, the opposite of monria. You enter and exit like a planet with thruster and entry fees. But there's no SS or safe zone.
I'm not clear on their intentions for travel around the Arkadian Planetary System but right now it's a giant gift to space camping pirates. I haven't visited the actual planet today but apparently that's spawning people into the same pirate trap at the moon.
If you would at least spawn somewhere random there would be something you could consider a challenge but, not right now.
Apparently MindArk says it's on purpose / requested and Arkadia hasn't commented so who knows how long this will last.
The moon is very colorful and very rocky, I've been using low graphics I'm not sure how I feel about the landscape yet. But you come to planet in the middle of nowhere and all the terminals are distant from the TPs, the only crafting terminals I could find are placed well away from any other terminals.
The look is cool. I'm not sure if I'm missing something with the intent or design theory but frankly, it feels like it's all set up to be just a little inconvenient and awkward.
Hunting loot was fine for me during the time I was able to hunt, a few random probes was a straight waste of PED. I did get one hit in about 10 or 12 triple drops in the rookie finder, and nothing in 5 or 6 triple drops of f-105. It looks like indoor mining though, finder range said 22m so a few drops like that doesn't say anything.
All in all, nice to see the servers up well within the target timeline and hope the tuning and introducing the new content goes well.
Please, PLEASE do something about funneling everyone right into a pirate camp. Literally not a single other issue matters if there is zero safe option to travel in or out.
y'know screw it. I don't need to finish that sentence. I had some warning, I didn't lose anything today but really the more I type on the topic, the more I'm tempted to just abandon arkadia, frankly. In most games griefers like this would have just been banned years ago. Instead I have the same fucker taxing my SI For years.
\With the MA support quote floating around right now, it's basically true that while Mindark makes the platform decisions, Arkadia has literally invited these vermin to come make this their new home.
This is really going to sour things for a long time.
I really like the look & feel of it. Things like the insect temple at the dam hopefully aren't just there for meaningless decoration and speculation,