Quote from ACCAkut :

231kph through pitbox? Respect

lol. that's the point. I think he is supposed to be on the dyno or something. But it's not obvious enough right now. Maybe that's why it's not final.

Quote from Dygear :

Looks like I've been had!



First let me state that I'm not an EMT-Paramedic, but an EMT-Critical Care. In NY they are pretty much the same thing but with some protocol differences depending on where you are. I live in a place called Nassau County, in here the running joke is that there is no difference between a CC and a Medic as long as the CC has a cellphone (or mobile phone for your brits). They say that because I can do almost everything a Paramedic can do in the field (that is minus providing a needle cricothyrotomy.). There are some things I must ask permission to do where an Paramedic can just do.

With that said, I've never had a call, or run where I felt anything, it's my job I just do it without thinking to much about the person, it allows you to do the best thing for the patient and the best for your crew, and the best for the student that might be with you. I had not a week ago a 70 Year old Male who shot himself in the head because he was in so much pain from the cancer that had just spread to his spine, you get on scene and this you do your job, you have to disconnect yourself from the world slightly to do this. Being an EMT (Just a EMT-Basic) can pronounce someone dead as I did that day. You will get domestic assaults where the wife beats the husband and vise versa. You will get calls for the town drunk, that you start to know by name and know his medical history better then he does! You will get the stabbings, and the narcotic overdoses, and the codes (a code is a cardiac arrest, or respiratory arrest, there heart stops / they stop breathing, or both!).

A word on codes, aka Cardiac and or Respiratory arrests. A cardiac arrest in the presence of respiratory arrest is one of the strangest calls you can get as an BLS (Basic Life Support) or ALS (Advanced Life Support) provider. You are doing CPR on a dead body in the hopes that you can bring them back to life. Now I've saved 4 lives, but I've had 18 codes, so the chances of getting someone back is pretty slim at the best of times. We are pretty lucky to have some very good protocols here, I can give a heart beat to a rock with some of the drugs that I have at my disposal, but at the same time what am I saving? By the time some one notices that there loved one is not breathing, and no longer has a pulse it might have been 10 minutes, at that point they still have to call 911 and get an ambulance dispatched to their location. By the time they call 911 brain damage has already started, so what am I saving? Well it depends, of the 4 people I've saved, only one of them can hold a conversation with me today.

In Emergency Care there is the four chains of life that must work together in order to save someone. Early Notification (Calling for Help), Early Defibulation (Shocking the patent with an AED when they first go into a lethal rhythm (V-Tach, V-Fib)). Early ALS ([I'm an ALS provider] so that I can start ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support) procedures.), Early Transport (To a hospital.). Any failing and the patient might not survive, or might end up in a worse state then they started.

It is true that I've providing a very pessimistic view, but you need to know what your getting into, and there is always an great upside to everything that has a great downside.

Saving some ones life, knowing that some one is walking and talking because of something you did is the best feeling in the world, I don't care what drugs you take, this one is better. Getting your first call, and the rush you get when you get dispatched is pretty intense in it's own right, and everyone I known's first call is always a doozie (it might just be the area that I am in). Your first call as a certified Emergency Medical Technician where you are the 'Tech in Charge' and you provide all of the patient care, scary and fun kinda like riding a roller coaster. Your first call as an ALS provider, where there is no one to save your ass, (as an EMT-CC out ranks that of an EMT-B or just plain EMT) as you are the ALS provider, I can't call for ALS backup, because that's you! Pushing your first medication via IV, like for example Narcan (That blocks the effects of opioid based drugs such as heroin) and watching the patient who is in respiratory arrest start breathing again. Or pushing Adenosine on your first patient with SVT and watching there heart stop you holding your breath hoping it comes back and then their heart starts again. Shocking your first patient is also pretty insane (yes, they really do jump!). Getting your first tube (EndoTracheal Tube is a tube that goes into the mouth and into the trachea it's an advanced airway skill that EMT-CC's and EMT-Paramedics can provide) on a real patient. These are all insanely cool things, and I can't wait for you to experience them as well.

Welcome to the wacky world of Emergency Medicine. I'm a Lieutenant @ the ambulance corps, I've been doing this for 3 years, I've been an EMT-Basic for 2, and an EMT-Critical Care for 1 year. My best advise, book smarts are great, but if you want to saves lives, you need to get into the street. You need to get street smart, and you need to get that patient contact. You might know the signs and symptoms of APE (Acute Pulmonary Edema) but without having seen it first hand with an experienced technician that can point it out to you, you can miss something that huge. So ride with people who know what they are doing, immerse yourself in this field and you will do fine, but if you want to be good, expect to spend the next years of your life living, sleeping, breathing and eating EMS.

Good luck, and if you want any help: http://www.wlvacc.org/ That's my ambulance corps cadet website, I go there everyday and it's very much orientated to new providers.

How often do get codes and such? So far I have been volunteering at my rescue squad for exactly six months, one day and have gotten three codes. We saved two of them because we're awesome (but mostly because both started coding as we got on scene). Are you a volunteer or paid staff for it?

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Shashdev

No problem!

Btw, if you are planning to become a paramedic, I would definitely recommend the 3 year program. It is one more year, but it will be more useful and have you a lot more prepared. Learning the course material without any real world experience is useless in this field.

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Shashdev

Hey,

It's great to know that you are aiming to do somthing like this! I am 16 right now and have been volunteering at a local Rescue Squad (it has a payed day shift and night time volunteering shift) and go there once every six days. Right now, because it's the school year, I can only stay from 6-11 pm (5 hours) but normally there are 12, 18, 24 hour shifts.

Right now, over the summer, I got certified as an EMT (sure you know what that is). You might be an EMT or something equivalent right now as well. From my experiences, I can tell you that if you really enjoy something like this, you will enjoy working hard at it. I will tell you that it takes time to get used to it. It's so much different than what you learn in the classroom.

If you are aiming to do something in the medical field, I would suggest volunteering at some other medical places like a Red Cross, hospital, and definitely a rescue squad (don't know if UK has them.)

If you have any questions to ask about volunteering at a rescue squad, feel free to ask me.

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Shashdev

Quote from logitekg25 :

what about other fun games like hard-truck 2, or nascar racing 2003 season, that arent quite the same as any of those games

Eh, never heard of hard-truck 2 (btw, if it is one of those off-roaders, never interested me). And I would love to try nascar racing 2003 (nascar fan myself, go j. gordon!), but I don't have any means of getting it. If you have a way to get it (hopefully without torrents), I would love to know. I can't order online though because my parents are online.

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Shashdev

http://www.nfsunlimited.net/article/shift_at_gamescom

Certainly is an interesting article. To tell you guys the truth, I have been looking between GT5 and Shift for some time trying to think which one I want for Christmas. I have decided on Shift for a few reasons:

1. The part with damage not being on all cars really killed GT5 for me. That was going to be a deal breaker for me.

2. But more importantly is the next part. I have a game for every 'kind' of racing.
A. Complete Sim: Live for Speed
B. Partly Sim: Shift (when it comes out)
C. Arcade: Midnight Club:LA
D. Extreme Arcade: Burnout Paradise

See, with these four games, my racing needs are set! I have any type of racer that I need and want to play at some point.

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Shashdev

Yeah, hoping to get the Grid 2 demo later. How long did it take you guys to download?

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Shashdev

Quote from obsolum :

*sigh* Alright, I'll jump on the bandwagon because you ****ers got me curious to see what all the fuss is about

obsolum(at)gmail(dot)com

Enjoy your invite!

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Shashdev

[email protected]

Thanks

Destruction To The Beloved

WQIT

Quote from Xaid0n :

B A M F

Bad Ass Mother F***er

Hmmm, sxephil?

Quote from Furiously-Fast :

Next combo: Z X Q E

Zucchini Xcites Quality Eaters?

Make sure to make the youtube movie in HD! I would hate too see all of this hard work in anything less.

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Shashdev

Nah, that's my brother. He normally just uses my account to play online, but he seems to be interested in the photocompetition now that I entered.

And I am sorry. You cannot stop what is destined to happen. I will eventually take over the world.

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Shashdev

My vote goes straight to JO53PHS. After trying to get smoke to work for so long, I have an appreciation for pics that have that great smoke.

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Shashdev

WOWOWOWOWOWOW! I just changed the password once more, to my previous password, and then it worked. So, I went back through the user cp on lfsforum and asked to change the password. It directed me to the lfs.net account details page. I change it again. Came back to the forum and logged out and then when I entered the details it worked!

Yay!!!!!



MODS: PLEASE CLOSE THIS THREAD.

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Shashdev

Quote from XCNuse :

you learn how to black and white out the background, and then on another layer figure out how to replace the original color reflection on the window, that's how! lol

You know that tutorial I sent you through the PM? When it gets to the part with making the image black and white with the brush, just zoom into the section with the window. Then, use a smaller brush and go over that part. Since the windows is basically white, it won't make a difference. Just to make it look a bit more realistic, I also add a layer of burn to the windshield to make it look a bit more realistic.

Just a bit extra, that burn tool is really good for tinting windows. If you look at the edit which I did for the photocompetition, I tinted the front windshield. I quite liked the effect.

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Shashdev

Quote from logitekg25 :

here you go

Btw, watch out for your next edit when you do that B&W effect. Look through the windows of the main xrt. The red xrt is still colored. You need to make that black as well.

Just some helpful advice!

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Shashdev

Quote from logitekg25 :

too hard for me to edit sorry

EDIT: tried my horrible luck at it...can we get some more screenshots to edit please.

annnndddddd...


i know this is a SERIOUS bump...if that is the right term...but can you explain this a little better, i suck at editing real bad...

I can't really comment on the motion blur because I have no idea how to do that well. But it looks like you blurred the entire image. I would suggest only blurring the areas surrounding the car, not the car itself. Also, since the car is the main part of the image, try using the dodge/burn tool and burn the car a little bit. I normally put it at 100% and give the car one layer. Really, makes the car stand out, imo.

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Shashdev

Quote from logitekg25 :

when you are doing a edit like that, with the background in black and white, and car in color, you want a brighter more colorful skin.

I will keep that in mind! I actually started off not wanting to do that, but after I got the idea for that 'slogan', it just seemed like the obvious thing to do!

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Shashdev

Well, I am just starting out with photo editing. Basically, I wanted to see how I could develop my skills with this edit (and I learned a lot of new things!). So, here's my edit!

This is my FINAL VERSION.

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Shashdev

Hey guys,

I was just watching the trailer again and paused at 1:21. Just look at the nascar shot from 1:19 to 1:22. If you pause every second, you see that there are about three 24's on the part and three 88's. They are the exact same number (with same paint scheme) just with different colors. And two of the 24's are the exact same color scheme as well! The one that is at the front of the pack and the one that is toward's the rear. So, I have a feeling that gt5 only has a few of the liscenses for the car.

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Shashdev

Oh, yeah, that picture was never meant to be a drifting picture. I was going more for a burnout type of thing. But, in the end, I realized that a person wouldn't be doing a burnout in the middle of an autocross track.

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Shashdev

Does the LX6 count as a road car? I just realized after making most of my edit that it might not.

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Shashdev

A question to those who know how to make smoke (preferrably in gimp). How do you make it? I know that is a very big question, but maybe some basics?

I have been working on this pic (for the autocross photomode competition) and tried a little bit of smoke. So far, it looks alright, but I can't get it to look like it is drifting. What is did was put a little bit of airpaint (I think that is what it's called) and then used the smudge feature to spread it. Any suggestions on how to make it better?

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Shashdev