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It's something we will likely incorporate a new design template, which is long overdue.

I love cricket. It's the only reason I got satellite TV, to watch away games which aren't broadcast on public television. Having been brought up playing it and exposed to it, I always struggle to understand how people can't see how easy it is - been trying to explain to my girlfriend for months. But she's slowly picking up things. I like explaining so let me give this a try... It will be in depth but should be easy to understand. First, one needs to understand the way games are played. Game Formats, Teams and Conditions A team either plays at home or away and depending where in the world they are playing and matches take place in what are called 'Tours'. Basically a tour is a series of games against a single other opponent. There are 3 different general formats of the game T20 which is the shortest, ODI (one day international) which last about 8 hours and then Test Matches which last 5 days. Now a tour will be made up of for example: 2 T20 Games, 3 ODI Games and 3 Test Matches, which would likely span over a month or so. There are usually breaks around 3 days or so between matches. Second you select your team, there are 11 people on a team that play in any particular game. But the squad itself consists of 13 if I'm not mistaken, this is so that if there are different options of players depending on the conditions. Now you are probably wondering why conditions play such a huge part. Cricket is all about the pitch, the pitch being the area where they bowl the ball on and each batsman stands at either end. Now the pitch controls how the ball behaves, and the pitch is influenced by the climate and weather as well as how it's prepared. The pitch with a lot of grass on provides a lot of bounce, which is turn makes it easier to get batsmen out, a pitch that is harder and more like a desert strip means the ball bounces more predictably and makes it easier to score runs. But it is important to note that drier pitches tend to break up after day 4 or so during a test match, meaning the ball is able to grip more on the surface (And now we get into why changes in the team are important depending on conditions) If you are playing in South Africa for example, we get some good rains and there is some moisture in the air often. So these are conditions our locals have grown up on, so the person who prepares the pitch, will usually have it slightly grassy to assist our style of bowling - that is, faster bowlers who require that bounce to get the batsmen out. So when a team tours here, they know to prepare a squad with some good fast bowlers in. The same thing goes for when South Africa tour India, India is extremely dry and so are their pitches. These baron pitches mean that we can't use the same bowlers we'd use in South Africa, sure we can use some - but we should also take some spin bowlers with in the squad. Spin bowlers are more likely to make the ball turn on a dry pitch instead of a grassy one. Now the management will build the best 11-man team for those particular conditions from the 13 man squad they have. The ratio of batsmen to bowlers in a team is up to the team management as well, most tend to go for something like (4 batsmen, 3 all-rounds[bat and bowl], 4 bowlers) though this can change depending on what they want to try, do they want to score more runs, or get the other team out quicker. Basic Rules and Gameplay Let's use the example of an ODI game, this is the one that lasts about 8 hours. An ODI game consists of each team playing 50 overs and seeing who can score the most in that time. Now you're probably wondering what the hell an 'over' is. An over is a set of 6 balls that a bowler bowls. Once he bowls an over, he hands the ball to another bowler. You will usually have about 5 or 6 bowlers sharing overs. Each bowler may only bowl 10 overs in an ODI, so you need at least 5 bowlers. The rest of the bowling side will be fielding, trying to catch the balls and stop them from getting runs. When a bowler isn't bowling his over, he is in the field like the rest of the team. With batting, you have 2 batsmen in at any single time. One that is facing the balls being bowled and the other one waiting until he is 'on strike' (facing the bowler) and still running between the wickets. In a 50 over game, the batting team will be able to try hit 300 balls (50 overs x 6 balls in an over). As a batting team you want to try get through as many overs as you can so you can score more runs, but at the same time - you only have 10 batsmen that can get out (once the 10th is out, there is no more to join the 11th on the pitch and thus there are 10 'wickets' that can fall in an innings) *An innings is the 50 over period for batters. Scoring Scoring runs is easy to understand. So now team A is at the pitch batting and they can face 300 balls to try score (assuming their 10 guys don't go out). A run is scored by hitting the ball and both batsmen crossing across the pitch. This naturally means that every time a single run is taken, the other batsmen who wasn't playing the shot, will be playing the next one. You can run as many times as you can before the fielder throws the ball at your stumps. You may ask what stumps are, your stumps are your wickets and if you are in the middle of running and a fielder hits your wickets with the ball - you're out. Other ways of scoring which are preferred and real crowd pleasers are 4s and 6s. The 6 is almost like a baseball home run, for a 6 to be scored the ball must pass over the boundary rope (a rope that runs along the field just infront of the advertising boards). This means the batsmen don't have to run and score 6 runs automatically. Similar with 4s, except instead of going directly over the boundary, it may bounce or roll over it (it can hit the ground prior to going over). Everyone on a team has to bat if the person who batted above them is out, even the bowlers. It's not an option. Getting Wickets Naturally, as the fielding/bowling team- it is your job to get all 10 batsmen out as quickly as possible, ensuring they score as little runs as possible, making it easier for your team to score those runs. The ways in which you can get a batsmen out is as follows: * Bowl the ball so that he misses it and it hits his wickets behind him. * Bowl a ball that hits him in line with the wickets on his leg. This is called LBW (leg before wicket) and is only out if it's inline and if it didn't hit the bat first. * Catch the ball that a batsman has hit. * Throw and hit the wickets with the ball while the batsmen were busy running and hadn't passed their crease (line that determines where they stand when they bat) * Stump the batsman. Similar to above, except it happens when the batsmen looks to walk down the pitch to hit a ball and misses and doesn't attempt to run, but is still outside of his 'safe' crease. In an example, let's say Team A bats first, they get 260 runs before they are all bowled out after 42 overs. Now Team B will come and bat, but they will still have the 50 overs each team gets to achieve the total. As such they can realize that they have some more balls to face than the other team and can play accordingly. Batsmen generally go out when they try to score runs too quickly. It's about perfectly pacing your scoring with the amount of overs/balls remaining. And while that's a pretty basic shortened version... Here is the shortest...For an ODI game. * Each team can bowl 300 balls. Each team must try to score the most runs from their 300 balls they face without having 10 batsmen go out. Team with the highest amount of runs wins. 300 balls are bowled in 50x 6 ball limits known as overs. At the end of each over a different bowler than the one that was currently bowling will bowl. Batsman must try hit the ball as much and as far as possible. Bowlers must try get the batsman out. I used to play baseball and I find cricket easier to understand and after watch a full game or two one can easily pick up what goes on and soon become pretty enthralled ;p

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Yeah, my knowledge on local injuries is not too vast and made sure to use wording that may indicate that. But regardless, overall it doesn't change the sentiments. Definitely burned.

It would have been better than this, but it wouldn't have been great. Remember, the story here is that he applied for a permit - was denied, and then kept on jumping. The Government wouldn't have liked that regardless, the fact that he got injured was just something that gave them more reason to speak out against it. Don't get me wrong, I think he has mad skills and his intentions were obviously not this. But my main problem is that he was apparently requested by locals to be careful and not to day blaze with cameras rolling, and he chose to ignore that friendly advice. And granted, he was jumping TM before most the locals, but that doesn't change that the actions are going to affect the others when it's all over and done. Though this is a controversial topic among locals even, some think Jeb earned the right to jump it without local advise due to jumping there first, while some feel he just uses the object and doesn't respect the local community by not taking their advice. As mentioned though, there was no permit and I just fail to see how good of a light could have come from illegal dayblazing on the countries largest tourist attraction. If it had become mainstream media news like this, it would have likely still caused the Government to talk about fines and pressing charges. If you're going to dayblaze a huge mainstream object that caters for hundreds of tourists a day and are looking to get media attention. Make sure you have a permit.

What? Then you think very wrong. Before you come to assumptions on what the conditions are here, you should speak to some of the locals. To my knowledge there's been no other BASE injuries on TM. His jump (against locals advice) burned TM like nothing has been burned in S.A before. Geo passed year before last doing a wingsuit jump 40km from TM and it didn't cause anything near to the negative attention this jump of Jeb's did. I don't care how much you like the guy or how skilful he is. He went about this all the wrong way and it's not just him that's suffering the consequences, it's the local jumpers who basically can't even look at any earth jumps at the moment, because that's how hot it is now. And as I mentioned, locals had been working on building relationships with the SANP for the past few years and this jump ended up dissolving all that progress. BASE ethics is not that difficult to understand and respect.

70% of mine were actually A's :o One of which was actually an Andrea.

Let's go with that.... ;) Our server host actually had an explosion occur a few blocks from their headquarters which ended up destroying the fibre cable and there were problems with the opposite outbound cable.

From someone who spoke to Jeb in hospital yesterday:

Was speaking to a jumper friend of mine this morning and apparently the effects of this incident are being felt all the way up country. Relations have apparently been damaged with the SANP all over the country from this, something that has been slowly developing nicely for years. It's currently almost a 'no jump' situation right now it seems. Lots of subsequent burning happening. I was impressed with Jeb's statements from the hospital bed that he loves Cape Town and the jumpers and wants to do all he can to ensure that the SANP don't end up punishing the locals for what happened, but frankly, from this point I think there is little he can do.

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+1. I thought it could only be trolling. But it appears that it may actually be legitimate beliefs. But I'm sure if you were asked to take a bullet in the face today because it would help objectives, you'd be quite opposed to the idea.

It definitely isn't a good thing for BASE in South Africa. A few of the locals I know are a bit pissed off about it. Apparently they requested that he don't dayblaze it with cameras rolling and he did anyway, and to make it worse after the incident it's all over every news station and Government members have been interviewed about it and stated they will be pressing charges. The local guys have been working hard with the SANP to try and work at getting jumping legal in some of the parks over the past couple of years. This will no doubt not help the cause at all.

These two statements are no different than what could be used to validate the legitimacy of any other religion. It doesn't help in any way to establish the Christian God as the right God. Which is my point, if the Christian God existed, why would he be content with the belief of him having equal evidence as the evidence for any other religion. Surely if saving souls was important to him he would see that Christianity looks just like every other religion and believers of other faiths have the same 'recorded miracles' as Christianity has, and think "Hey, let me show them who the real God is." If that is your reason for being religious, then I hope you're extremely open minded to others religions. As they have all seen the changed lived caused by their beliefs and see the world as a result of the things they believe in. It doesn't take the belief in a God to see the beauty in the world, some just don't need to believe something bigger and more powerful created it. Yes, plenty of people see the need to tie beauty to creationalism. That doesn't make it any more likely that it's true. People have been trying to explain things for the beginning of time, and tying it to some mystical entity was a primal way of doing it. Why? Because that's all they could imagine. That's not evidence for the existence of God, that's just people trying to explain something they didn't know how to. Fire at one stage was also a miracle performed by Gods, and lightning too - things that can now be tied to physics (and don't try say that they're still creations of God, because then you're missing the point. These things were tied to Gods because they didn't know how it was formed and therefore was a direct and physical action of God)

If God is truly as understanding and forgiving as many that believe in him like to portray, if he does exist, he would be able to understand and forgive those who don't believe for wanting to follow religion with logic, a measure in which one tends to gauge all other aspects of life. This whole absence of evidence thing evidence of absence thing shouldn't matter. If he existed and wanted to prove it, why not perform some of the miracles he performed in the bible, you know - ones that everyone can see and record on video. Things like talking spontaniously combusting bushes etc. Why perform blatant miracles for a short period, then once the bible is written and published just stop with the blatant miracles and rely on people to believe a 'broken telephone' and outdated form of facts. I think it's time to have a new child and to give us an updated bible, one where people can't say "Well the bible doesn't mean it that way now, that's because of how things were back then".

I've gone ahead and added Chile to the profile and classifieds options.

I'll look into the options and see what we can do.

We're still looking at options, but tapatalk isn't one of them due to the fact that they do not offer support for the forum software we use. It's difficult to find a basic mobile forum software application since we don't run a phpbb forum or any of the more popular ones.

Thanks for the suggestion, will take a look at the classifieds and see the potential for such an addition and how it could be applied.

I've edited the dropzone and changed the address and GPS co-ordinates to the new ones.

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Just become more and more distant, and say you're going through a rough time as an excuse, ignore some texts and don't make an effort. They usually end it after that, and then you're not so much the asshole that broke up with them, but rather 'that guy who was having to deal with personal issues at the time', potentially leaves the door open for future too.

Oh snaaaap. Real tree is the only way to go, been doing plastic for 4 or 5 years - miss the good old pine scent... Smells like Christmas.