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1970 Dodge Super Bee Restoration Part 4 - Twist And Shake No MoreWritten by on January 27, 2012 Contributors: Daren Irons Our Project 'Bee Gets Some Support From a Rollbar, Chassis Stiffening Bars, and a New Rear Suspension
When Mopar first debuted the unibody style of automotive building for their full line of cars, this new style of car building was touted as making the car stronger and safer. When a car is new, this might be the case. But add thirty of more years of driving across bumpy roads and/or the occasional crash, and things tend to "loosen" up a bit. When I say loosen up, I mean that welds can break, metal can fatigue, and the body tends to flex a little more than it did when it was new. Not only can normal driving loosen up a unibody's construction, but since most of us are playing with our cars, it's safe to say that there have been more than just a few engine swaps done over the years to increase horsepower.
Since our project 'Bee was built in 1970, and we didn't buy it new, it's really hard to say what kind of life it had. The only thing we were told by the previous owner was that the original engine was blown up a long time ago. Now, the plan is for us to install a stroked out 440 with slightly more horsepower than the factory delivered in any '70 Superbee. So, while the car is at Unlawful Racing, we decided that a simple rollbar (read: not necessarily NHRA approved), and their Chassis Stiffening Bars were going to be an added necessity to this car. While climbing over a rollbar can be tricky for some, and use of the rear seat is usually not an option anymore, our theory is that we can deal with tricky, and we don't foresee any of us needing to get into the back seat anyway.
The Chassis Stiffening Bars from Unlawful are a direct bolt-in unit that ties the rear framerails with the front framerails, and also ties the left side of the car with the right side. It even incorporates a bolt-in driveshaft safety loop, which is a nice, added benefit. The rollbar is a custom-bent piece made of 15⁄8-inch .120-inch thick wall tubing that fits the car nicely, and still adds a ton of support to the body. We didn't want the roll bar to be a complete hindrance when getting in and out of the car, but give the body some added stiffness.
Finally, we wanted to upgrade and improve our rear suspension. When new, our 'Bee, like any Mopar muscle car, came from the factory with a leaf spring rear suspension. Leaf spring design has come a long way since the tried and true Super Stock spring upgrade of the '70s, but we decided to take advantage of a new mousetrap (so to speak). Unlawful Racing manufactures a triangulated four-link suspension that eliminates the leaf springs. In a leaf spring suspension, the springs perform two distinct functions. First, they hold the rear axle of the car in place, and secondly, they prevent both forward and rearward movement of the rear end. Under normal circumstances, they also minimize pinion angle change during suspension travel. Try to launch the car from a stop light, and the springs try to "wrap up," changing the pinion angle. This causes wheel hop and loss of traction. Secondly, they also support the vehicle's weight. For a stock vehicle that will operate within a predictable range of suspension travel, leaf springs do an adequate job. The problem occurs when the intended usage is changed (i.e. lower ride height, more horsepower, and/or different weight distribution characteristics). The leaf springs can't perform as intended if the intended usage deviates far from the original usage. With a four link suspension, the function of locating the rear axle and supporting the vehicle are now done by two different pieces; the four link and the coil-over shock absorbers. With a four-link suspension you have the ability to properly locate the rear axle no matter how soft you want to make the spring on the coil over for ride comfort. With a leaf spring rear suspension, softening the spring rate can cause other problems such as a sagging rear end of your car, or an ill-handling car.
Installing the rear suspension and the roll bar do require a welder, and are a little more than a novice might want to try and tackle. The Chassis Stiffening Bars are a simple bolt-in design that can be welded in place, and will give the average Mopar a great improvement in its handling characteristics by itself.
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1. Like we said earlier, the rollbar is a custom-bent piece. Jack Jr. has already mocked up and mounted the main hoop, and if you're wondering why it looks like it's at an angle, that's because it is. We angled the main hoop back, so it matches the angle of the side window glass-divider.2. With the main hoop and the back bars installed, the main hoop cross bar is installed. Usually, installing a rollbar means no use of the rear seat.2a As you can see, in this application, the rear seat is installed and somewhat useable.3. If a custom rollbar is not something you feel you need, than there are plenty of bars available from aftermarket companies. With a one-size-fits-all bar, compromises need to be made by the end user, because the bar is designed to fit a certain car a certain way. By doing a custom rollbar or cage, the entire system is able to be built to fit the end user's needs. In our case, the bar will not be NHRA approved (note the easy access door bars), but will give the car a tremendous amount of support and stiffening, and will still be a nice safety addition to the car.4. Adding a rollcage can definitely be beneficial to the car, but to really stiffen the unibody of a Mopar, some sort of frame connecting device is the way to go. The Unlawful Racing Chassis Stiffening Bars are a 100-percent bolt-in device that can be welded if you want the ultimate in chassis support. Unlawful's bars are not simply frame connectors; while they do tie the rear frame to the front rails like traditional frame ties, they also incorporate a crossbar that ties the left and right side of the car together for added rigidity. A driveshaft safety loop is also part of the Unlawful bars.5. For our application, we chose to weld the bars in place, as opposed to bolting them in. Not only did we weld the bars in place, but you can see the gussets and floor plates that we used to give the roll bar much more support than just the sheet metal floor.7. The heart of the Unlawful Racing suspension is this support brace that welds into your car. Bolting a piece like this with the intended usage of supporting the car is not something we would recommend.7a. By welding, the mount becomes part of the car. If you simply bolt it in place, it can move around—even if just a small amount, and if it does, very bad things can happen.8. This shot from directly underneath the 'Bee let's you see how the kit works. The lower bars locate the rear by attaching to the rear housing, and to the original front leaf spring location. These are the bars that actually "locate" the rear end in the car. The upper bars (above the rear end), actually control the pinion angle of the differential, and keep the rear from moving side to side. With standard parallel four-link suspensions, a Panhard bar or Watts link would be needed to keep the rear from travelling side to side. Our Unlawful kit also uses a sway bar and Afco adjustable coil over shocks.
9. Back in our July '07 issue, we showed you how the Reilly Motorsports Alter-k-tion front suspension went in our 'Bee. Now we need to remove it for paint and body.10. The Alter-k-tion front end features an entirely self-supporting K-frame and suspension. There are no torsion bars, and the coil over shocks handle what the road throws at it. According to the guys at Reilly Motorsports, their suspension systems do more than save weight and add clearance. They're designed with precise geometry for optimum control.


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St. Louis (KSDK) -- The average ticket price for the NLCS Game 4 with the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants is cheaper than it was for Wednesday night's game.
Tickets are averaging $205.77, down from $219.54 the previous morning, according to TiqIQ.
A standing room only ticket at Busch Stadium will cost you $71, while seated areas are $89.
TiqIQ said the average ticket price for Game 5 at Bush Stadium is higher at $271.36 because it could be a possible clincher for the Cardinals.
Postseason tickets for the rest of the NLCS home games and World Series are available on the St. Louis Cardinals website. Fans can also check resale websites like StubHub and other ticket brokers for availability and prices.

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It typically takes fire departments 9-12 minutes after a fire has started to arrive. By then firefighters will have to use high pressure hoses, applying water at 125 gallons per minute. The home may be lost and the family displaced.
Fire sprinklers work so fast that they often put out a fire before the fire department arrives.
In Scottsdale, AZ, a 15-year study of home fire sprinklers showed that the average loss per sprinklered fire incident was $2,166 compared to more than $45,000 for unsprinklered homes.
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Promote the benefits of living in a home protected by fire sprinklers, just as you would a security system, central air, custom kitchen or master suite.
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AURORA, Colo. (AP) - Emergency room doctors at the University of Colorado Hospital have treated at least 20 patients in the past two weeks for severe symptoms linked to patients using synthetic marijuana, including high heart rates, confusion and slurred speech.
Hospital spokesman Dan Weaver said Friday the hospital usually sees one or two cases a week. He said the numbers spiked over the past week, creating the concern.
Authorities said the synthetic drugs are often favored because they don't show up in urine tests.
Doctors said two forms of lab-produced drugs have chemical makeups and effects similar to marijuana.
"People come in with high heart rates, and agitation, not following commands, confused, slurring their words. Those are probably the most common types of symptoms," said Christopher Hoyte, Medical Director of Toxicology Clinic at the hospital. He said some people have to be put on ventilators to keep them breathing.
Synthetic THC products are available online, but hospital officials said the recent high influx of patients suggests that a bad batch is circulating in the area, or that chemists have started producing a new, more dangerous strain, the Aurora Sentinel reported Friday (http://tinyurl.com/onqux6r).
Hoyte said emergency rooms across the metro area and the country have seen a similar influx of symptoms in the past month.
"The problem is, you don't know what you're getting. You're really taking a risk by smoking these and being exposed to drugs you don't think you're being exposed to," Hoyte said.
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Steve Spielberg has put his Malibu, California beach pad up for lease for a whopping $150,000-per-month.
The seven-bedroom, ocean-front compound on Broad Beach comes with a two-bedroom guest house, swimming pool, spa, library and state-of-the-art movie theatre.
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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Nashville Predators were unable to take advantage of
Eric Nystrom's incredible individual effort in their most recent trip to the
The Preds hope for better luck on Sunday against Edmonton as they try to deal
the Oilers a season-worst seventh straight defeat.
Winners in four of their previous five games, the Predators got a career-high
four goals from Eric Nystrom on Friday versus Calgary, but also saw the Flames
score twice in the third period to tie the game before Nashville ultimately
dropping a 5-4 decision in a shootout.
Defenseman Roman Josi scored as the second shooter in the third round to
extend the tiebreaker, but Calgary's Sean Monahan beat Devan Dubnyk between
the legs as the next skater and Ryan Ellis had his attempt stopped.
Nashville has now split the first two of a four-game road trip despite Nystrom
notching the first four-goal game in franchise history. He upped his season
goal total to 11 and had never before scored more than two goals in a game.
"It was just one of those nights. It's just frustrating that it was on the
short end of the stick. It's a game we wish we could have back," said Nystrom,
who was selected 10th overall by Calgary in the 2002 draft. "It's nice scoring
goals, but not when it's on the losing side."
Dubnyk stopped 27 shots for the Predators and has allowed nine goals on 60
shots in two starts since being acquired from the Edmonton Oilers on Jan. 15
in exchange for forward Matt Hendricks.
Selected 14th overall by the Oilers in the 2004 draft, Dubnyk was 11-17-2 with
a 3.36 goals against average in 32 games (29 starts) with Edmonton this season
before the trade. It is unknown if he will face his former club tonight or if
rookie backup Carter Hutton will get the call instead.
Hutton, who has never faced the Oilers, has won four straight starts,
including all three since Dubnyk was acquired.
Edmonton is on its second six-game losing streak of the season and is hoping
to avoid posting its longest skid since dropping 11 in a row from March 8-31,
2011. The club will try to build off its late effort in Friday's 4-3 loss to
the Phoenix Coyotes.
The Oilers allowed the Coyotes to score three times in a 4:02 span of the
first period and trailed 4-0 at the three-minute mark of the second frame.
Hendricks, though, found the back of the net in the middle period for his
first goal with the Oilers, then David Perron and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored
six minutes apart in the third period in a spirited comeback attempt.
"We found a way to bring some energy and bring some life back to our game, but
we got to try to do that for 60 minutes," said Nugent-Hopkins.
Ilya Bryzgalov stopped 25 shots in defeat. He is 10-6-3 with a 2.41 GAA in 20
career games versus the Predators. His first start with the Oilers came
against the Preds on Nov. 28 and he recorded a 33-save shutout.
Ben Scrivens, acquired from Los Angeles the same day Dubnyk was traded to the
Predators, has lost both of his previous games against Nashville.
Edmonton, which has won three of four and nine of its last 13 at home versus
Nashville, is expected to be without defenseman Andrew Ference tonight after
he left Friday's loss with a head injury.
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Fine art print on bright white, fine poly-cotton blend, matte canvas using latest generation Epson archival inks. Individually trimmed and hand stretched museum wrap over 1-1/2" deep wood stretcher bars. Includes wall hanging hardware.
...on the dock, there, we said hello's to the lake :)
dock, lake, leaves, fall, water
great shot.
Many thanks! I appreciate your kind comments and support :))
Lovely contrast and the colors are gorgeous!
Thank you kindly Paper Tigress!
Gorgeous composition!
Thanks so much Mark! I appreciate your compliments :))
Great shot! the colours are mad!
hehehe I love it Nicholas! mad mad mad colors! Thank you xo
I love this!! The colors are awesome!
Thank you Carolyn! I'm in love with the colors the fall leaves bring! Glad you like! xo
Golly, that's gorgeous!
♥♥thankyou♥♥ Purdypowny! xo
great color!
Thankya thankya EddieK3!! :))
So good. Love the rusting screws in the dock that echo the autumnal leaves.
Well Geoffrey, now I'm totally flattered that you're donning my photographs with your compliments. Thank you kindly! Yeah....I find my paradisaical-views on the dock, at the lake ;) Glad you liked this. :))
wonderful. This was a beautiful moment, that you captured.
Thank you so much, hannes! So happy you like this...it was a great moment on a gorgeous fall day at the lake ♥
superb galestorm!
You're so kind, 'NBC'! So glad you like it! xo
Perfect shot!
Thank you Marko! I appreciate it! :))
delicious colors, and the composition is very striking. Nice!
Thank you Kristin! I so appreciate your input! Glad you like it! xo
Great capture, great eye to see the potential in this shot ☺
I love that you see the beauty too, Christopher! Thank you. You inspire me with your kind words!
Great composition and colors. Love it!
So happy you like this one, theartistmakena!! Thank you! :))
spring, summer, autum, time goes by! wonderful!
Thank you 'findsFUNDSTUECKE' -- :))
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆! ;-)
Oh yeah...thank you Wayne!! You're so cool.
Thanks so much, Rafa! :))
I love the composition. Beautiful! :D
Thank you Michael! Your comments are so appreciated!! :)
Lovely - love the way the boardwalk cuts across and the beautiful color variations in the leaves.
Thank you Patricia! The leaves were outstanding in color that fall day! So happy you appreciate what I saw! xo
great perspective!
Thank you kindly, Patty! :))
lovely well done
Nice of you, Diego! Thanks!
This is a great piece!
Thanks Roger! I love it when my photos are appreciated!! Mostly, I dedicate myself to my paintings, here....and occasionally have fun posting some of my photography. I'm glad you like this one! :))
Yeah this beautiful! Nice Gale!
I'm happy that you like this Joseph! Thank you! :))
Thank you kindly, Cozmic!!! :))
Beautiful : )
You're sweet, Orlando. Big THANK YOU! :))
Very nicely done, Gale!
Thanks so much Karol! I'm crazy about the water and the beauty it collects. Happy you like it! xo
I have missed this beautiful one!
Gwenola! You are too tootsweet!! I love when you visit me! Thank you kindly!! xo
LOVE this - beautiful capture Gale!
Thanks so much, John! I appreciate that! xo
Very nice Gale!
Thank you Zachary! I appreciate your lovely compliment! xo
love it, colors comp - just great!
Thanks a million, Bruce!! I adore your comments and support! xo
what a wonderful composition
Thanks, Angela! I appreciate that! Xo
Good one.
thank you kindly, castpaws and adida!! I appreciate your feedbacks!!
Beautiful capture!
beautiful image Gale
Great color and composition, Gale!
The perspective makes this one my favorite
Thank you everyone! You're so kind! Glad you love my little 'day at the lake' here! xo
Beautiful ❤
you're so kind, Maria...thank you! xo
Completely awesome!
Thank you kindly, RightAsRain! I'm loving your title, too xo
Nice composition and well framed, Gale.
Thanks kindly RCLINE!! Loving your kind observations! xo
thanks so much for promoting & following. It's me Steffi from findsFUNDSTÜCKE with a new account. Trying to seperate photography from other stuff. This is my fav of your pics. Wonderful!!!
Oh Hi, Steffi! THANK YOU. I dabble with photography as a hobby....so glad you like this one, I still get sales on it!! More, I paint abstracts and also make abstracts from either --- my photo's or my art. It is hard to organize here on S6. It would be nice to have albums we could move our artwork to. The presentation would be better.
Thank you for your lovely compliment :))
Thank you for your lovely compliment :))
This is really lovely.
Thanks kindly, Robert! xo
Lovely colours and composition.
Thank you J.Fells! So happy you like this one.
Nice capture!
morgaen -- thank you very much ;)
such a gorgeous image!!
Annie...you're so kind! THANK YOU! xo
Fabulous! Nice composition and details :)
Thanks kindly, Joao! ;)
Terrific image!
Great piece! Love the colors
Thanks so much, Peter and Gypsy! :))
Lovely capture, Gale!~
Thanks so much, TFC!! I do love to play with my camera...although I guess most of my artwork is canvas and paint.
wonderful work
Sandra....thank you! xo
Gale Storm.... I am dying to buy 2 of your Old Italy Pillows. Do you still have any?
Hi JJCoats ;) I'm so sorry that Old Italy has been discontinued :(
I hope you might find something else in my art collection that you would enjoy in pillow form :)
I hope you might find something else in my art collection that you would enjoy in pillow form :)
so glad you like this one Originalaufnahme!! Thank you!
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VIDEO: Guntram Jörg Sends V14 in the Canary Islands
Austrian climber Guntram Jörg has been establishing new boulder problems on the island of Tenerife, which is the largest of the seven Canary Islands. Among a slew of hard problems, Jörg managed to send what is being touted as the island's king line—Ninja. The problem had been a 10-year project for the local climbers, but Jorg managed to send the line in four days. Jörg has suggested that the problem is V14 and told Planet Mountain that this was his "hardest first ascent to date."
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This morning I attempted to migrate my 32-bit installation (FOSS 6.0.6 on CentOS 4) to a 64-bit VM running CentOS 5). As a basis for my migration I used this wiki page. I know it says it is for the Network Edition, but my understanding from reading the document and info I found here in the forums leads me to believe it should work for the OS edition as well. Unfortunately it did not work for me.
Everything seemed to go OK, but the Zimbra "mailbox" process would not stay up and running. I believe the problem stemmed either from me incorrectly copying configuration info from the old server to the new and/or something to do with self-signed certificates.
The configuration info in the localconfig.xml that I'm not sure of is the "mailboxd_keystore_base_password". According to the documentation I should copy the value for this "key" over from the old to the new. However, this key did not exist at all on the new server. All the other values that I copied over existed, and I overwrote them with the data from the old server, but for this key I actually created the entire XML "stanza". Should I not have done that?
Beyond, or in addition to that, I guess I needed to do something with the self-signed certificates that we use. The wiki talks about commercial certificates, but does not mention self-signed certificates. Did I need to move those over from the old server or just re-create new ones?
I did try to re-create the self-signed certificates using info from this wiki page. However, when I tried to deploy the certificate I got the following:
So, obviously it is not liking something with a password from somewhere. Could this be because of the extra value I added in localconfig.xml file?Code:** Saving server config key zimbraSSLCertificate...failed. ** Saving server config key zimbraSSLPrivateKey...failed. ** Installing mta certificate and key...done. ** Installing slapd certificate and key...done. ** Installing proxy certificate and key...done. ** Creating pkcs12 file /opt/zimbra/ssl/zimbra/jetty.pkcs12...done. ** Creating keystore file /opt/zimbra/mailboxd/etc/keystore...failed. Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Keystore was tampered with, or p assword was incorrect at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore.engineLoad(JavaKeyStore.java:771) at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore$JKS.engineLoad(JavaKeyStore.java:3 8) at java.security.KeyStore.load(KeyStore.java:1185) at com.zimbra.cert.MyPKCS12Import.main(MyPKCS12Import.java:98) Caused by: java.security.UnrecoverableKeyException: Password verification failed at sun.security.provider.JavaKeyStore.engineLoad(JavaKeyStore.java:769) ... 3 more ** Installing CA to /opt/zimbra/conf/ca...done.
I did try a few other things to fix this, but I fear at this point I am just making things worse. I have rolled back to my old server and everything is up and running, but would like to solve this issue in the very near future.
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So long ago I drew this map for a rpg campaign I was GM'ing and I have made changes to it over the years.
This is the scanned version with some editing in paint
This is the continent of Vehramia where all of my campaigns have taken place with some more editing to fit the new campaign and what had happened historically
This is the island of Karramesh(southwestern Vehramia) where my newest campaign will take place
On this last map of Karramesh I made it in GIMP and I tried using some tuts but I had to give up because I am a noob at it and I needed the map done cause I am starting as GM soon. I intend to make a sweeter looking map using the tuts when I get the time but I still wanted to share my work


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text: I just have a quick question for everyone. Are ethics only supposed to be present only in the field or should they be present at the range and in tournaments. I know how I feel on the subject but wanted to see if anyone had a different opinion. The reason I ask is we just had a 3D archery shoot and had a group of out of town people blatantly cheat to win a little $3 medal. They took the top 3 places that we award medals for and left. These were all sponsored shooters, and if this is what a manufacturer has representing them I will never purchase any of their products. Thanks for you input.


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In pictures: Kiribati
Portrait of a family in front of their home next to a volleyball court in Tebikenikoora (Golden Beach) village. Volleyball is one of the most popular sports in Kiribati. High tide floods the court and most of the surrounding area. The government has pledged to provide funds for additional sea walls.
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Well, I'm new here but I see an awful lot of very talented people here. There's no reason why some of you shouldn't get your work out into the world and have it seen. This is sort of an open call for anyone who has dreamed of seeing their work on people's bookshelves. If you've ever wanted to be published, check this out. (And no I'm not affiliated with the company, I've just worked with them and I know the owner. )
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Ashen Light - Redux
Posted 18 March 2013 - 05:18 PM
I was sort of hoping we could take it up again here. Both participants are articulate, and hopefully things would remain civil and productive. Pete does not feel the Ashen Light is a real Venusian phenomenon; Mardi raised many questions about that stance, and suggests that the issue is far from resolved; and one poster noted seeing the Light personally.
Can we continue from there without anyone getting irate? We all just want to learn from each other, after all. Many's the time I've had a long-held belief changed by learning a serendipitous new fact.
Posted 18 March 2013 - 06:08 PM
Posted 18 March 2013 - 06:25 PM
I think we can all agree that the phenomenon exists. It is the location of the phenomenon that is disputed(on Venus or in our brains.) I wish I had a scope with less CA so that I would have a chance at seeing it well.
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Posted 18 March 2013 - 07:16 PM
Lol, you're a sadist astronomer!!!
Maybe. But the subject interests me, and it deserves objective discussion. This is the best place I know of to get intelligent opinions. (As well as goofy ones.)
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Posted 19 March 2013 - 01:25 AM
Im going to sit this one out Rick. I have my own views, beyond that it just gets to negative to assert a negative opinion even when im positive in my negativity. It is a beautiful planet and one Sheehan mentions with heartfelt fondness { yesim still glowing from that book while waiting on my delayed shipment of his mars book}.
Well, looks like Mardi is, too. Too bad. I would have liked to know what evidence you've seen to make you so positive it's an illusion.
Healthy debate and comparison of information can benefit everyone, if they'll listen to each other.
Posted 19 March 2013 - 04:27 AM
Hope it is functionning.
All the references collected in the table sheet are drawings issued on the alpo japanese site
it can be discussed the visibility of the this strange light eg the fact this was not collected by ccd but in fact what can be argued is the fact that the light levels (crescent and ashen light) are quite different sothat light glare becomes a main topic on the ccd chipset even with the use of an occulting bar.
At final this remains controversial and very strange.
Contracditory also as between observers quite different observations are collected but what it must be highlighted is the fact that episodic observation are unfruitful and a daily basis survey has to be performed for sure.
Good read, I donot pretend this a true overall status but it was tried lot of kind of observations in order to understand what is happening.
Light levels needs to be quantified by parallel investigations.
Posted 19 March 2013 - 06:34 AM
If such a thing existed you'd have these beautifully detailed, albeit, unbelievably so , images coming from guys like Damian and such. Instead - what we've got is modern amateur planetary imagers making beautiful and detail nighttime hemisphere images of glows in the infrared - an impossible feat for any human to make visually. The trouble with the artificial ashen light model is that its subtle enough that if someone wants to ignore it to support a belief its possible.
I'm not saying anyone's nuts for seeing it, Im saying its an artifact of the eye brain interpretation.
Posted 19 March 2013 - 07:13 AM
What is the Terby white spot on saturn? If you have some data about.
However regarding the report on reference you see many tests were performed also.
The use of an occulting bar (that occults all the cresent) set on the planet by a second observer and then observed whitout a reset on the whole image. Believe me the dark side appeared with a low light often with a coppered color appearance sometimes, reported by past observers also.
There is also the dark markings reported that suit also with some few ccd images.
IR images: frankly under 1µm wavelength this cannot be a thermal effect and a little also above this wavelength.
It is impossible to get light from the ground with the ground temperature given in the literature about (450°C).
This could be explanained if some chemical reaction is occuring under specific conditions (pressure, some gaz presence) that locally involve an higher physical temperature for being thermal. But which one?
Now the fact that ccd for the moment doesnot capture this dark side light amount is disagread by the light glare of the light crescent. What is obvious can be that the ccd chipset after an exposure time would reach a certain threeshold and therefore if the AL is existing its light level would be under the level of this threeshold reached. Nothing else. This threeshold is not noted.
Anyway, this should be developped and the observations needs to be more frequent.
The 50mm refractor observations are interresting on the fact that the light levels has moved sothat on a dawn light (the sky becoming dark) it was noted like a darker hole for the dark side on a date and for an other observation the dark side was seen lighted faintly. Observing with higher apertures the dark hole effect was never seen but a lighted dark side, almost at the similar moments.
That make me thinking this is a problem of light level accessibility only not depending on a specific colour channel vision.
But again, no enough data for a straight conclusion here.
Posted 19 March 2013 - 08:42 AM
Posted 19 March 2013 - 08:59 AM
Personally I noted some fluctuation of the AL level on a period. This is strange.
But even the AL was reported by observers even well known, I guess you see the below sketch for being sure of the AL occurence.
This is a processus a little hard for ourselves but this helps for being more confortable with the situation.
Attached Files
Posted 19 March 2013 - 09:07 AM
The second sketch approaches the question of the light levels and is a support for the processus of light difference levels to capture. This is a trial because frankly I donot know if the light ratio of 1000 between the crescent and the dark side is adequate.
This is may a way to the solution.
Attached Files
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Posted 19 March 2013 - 12:39 PM
Here is
the drawings are on the same topics.
Hope this is an help and easier.
Posted 19 March 2013 - 02:02 PM
BUT we will never know if does exist or what causes .
Good news. We know its imaginary because it isn't recordable with the detectors of current day which wod have no trouble imaging such a contrast intensity. It'd be pedestrian. There's no overreaching mystifying deceptor - it doesn't exist.
There. Now you are truly Free.
Posted 19 March 2013 - 04:45 PM
"The Keck 1 telescope on Hawaii reported seeing a subtle green glow and suggested it could be produced as ultraviolet light from the Sun splits molecules of carbon dioxide, known to be common in Venus' atmosphere, into carbon monoxide and oxygen, but the green light emitted as oxygen recombines to form O2 is thought too faint to explain the effect. Another more likely theory is that multiple lightning strikes are illuminating Venus' skies. Though the Cassini spacecraft flew by Venus twice on it's voyage to Saturn and failed to detect the high frequency radio noise we associate with thunderstorms on Earth, in 2007 Venus Express did detect low frequency 'whistler waves' that can also result from lightning. It could also be the Venusian equivalent of aurorae."
Read more: http://www.universet...ht-2/#ixzz2O...
my money is the keck telescope had a camera on it and not an eyepiece. My money is on it not occuring on Venus, but monitoring should be done any way. what is the harm in amateurs looking? I think it is also common for people to view the polar cusps and think it is ashen light.
Posted 20 March 2013 - 03:41 AM
Is there something was performed on Mercury from your informations with the Keck or some other big guns?
It is strange that on Mercury, from my observations, nothing such was reported. It is harder to observe Mercury but the reports are the reports.
I agree with you, more observationnal data are needed for making a straight conclusion.
Pete, the fact that with ccd chipset, if with 1s, 10s, 30s etc exposure time nothing is collected, this doesnot mean that AL is not existing but again that a certain amount of light cannot be captured with such exposure. Beyond 30s, light glare is very present and disturbing so that the capture method has to be very expected acurate.
Also the duality eye-ccd properties cannot be straightforward so easily.
Is there somebody who knows where to find ephemeris of the solar wind reaching planets (here for Venus)? or this is confidential.
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Posted 21 March 2013 - 02:03 AM
there is no hiding place with a DMK DBK Flea3 Toucam or the like.
What on Earth makes you think that, Pete?
Posted 21 March 2013 - 03:54 AM
However considering the document brought by Buddy, I noted a ratio cresecent dark side of 10 000 (means 10 magnitude difference probably on the O3 colour channel).
This ratio would involve some exposure times for collecting something of 10 minuts.
Having done some trials with a sony 098BL chipset, beyond 30sec this becomes hard to not be annoyed by the light glare even with the occulting bar use of D3 density.
So from my opinion this should not be the subject on this forum to say
this is an illusion
this is lightning
this thermal
this is water vapor dissociation
but if each is existing which light level could be expected and therefore to discuss which capture method can be undertaken.
Frankly imaging is not only a fact to set a chipset and to practice exposures (this is the prior first step of a method in order to start an apraisal only).
The links brought by Buddy are interresting because some light levels are expected and this goes on this approach at final.
If somebody wants to pursiue on that approach, please goahead, I will follow with open mind in order to built some assessment methods that can be undertaken for the next Venus conjunctions.
Matter of a forum!


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Now all we have to do is start moving Gary Johnson toward the center...
Friday, December 11, 2009
2012 GOP Candidates
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I will take two out of those three. Jim Demint could be the spoiler, bucking his party right now in favor of fiscal conservatives, but supports foreign wars. I would take him over a Palin, but Johnson and Paul over anyone else.
- December 12, 2009 at 1:23 PM
If Obama and his cohorts have their way, we probably won't have a free electioni in 2012, anyway
- December 12, 2009 at 9:40 PM
- Rational Nation USA said...
Palin has not the timber to be President. Sorta like Obama, just with a lesser honed intellect and elitism.
Ron Paul has indicated he is dine with Presidential politics and further candidacy. Age is the factor here. I wish he were 12 year younger.
I guess that leaves Johnson. A long shot.
- December 13, 2009 at 8:07 PM
- W. E. Messamore said...
Not such a long shot. Governors traditionally end up winning presidential elections, not Senators. In fact, this last election in 2008 was quite an anomaly in US history.
- December 21, 2009 at 3:31 PM
Mitt Romney.. he can help us regain the US economy than any of the Republican and Democrats - far more qualified than them all.
- February 15, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- W. E. Messamore said...
Um... Mitt Romney passed a devastating universal health care bill as Governor of Massachusetts. That's all the litmus test I need to say "hell no" to a Romney presidency.
- February 18, 2010 at 2:48 PM
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Some critics of Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said video footage of a speech at a campaign event shows him starting to utter a racial slur while referring to President Obama, then cutting himself off mid-word.
While speaking to a group of supporters in Wisconsin on Tuesday, Santorum said, "We know what the candidate, Barack Obama, was like. The anti-war, government nig--, uh…" before stopping abruptly, then adding, "America was, uh, a source for division around the world. And that what we were doing was wrong. We needed to pull out and we needed to pull back."
Although the uncompleted word sure sounds like it began with "nig" and what Santorum said next in the sentence didn't flow naturally with the other words, a campaign spokesman today denied that the uncompleted word was "nigger."
In January Santorum told a crowd of supporters in Iowa that he didn't "want to make black people's lives better by giving them other people's money."
Here is the clip of Tuesday's speech. The remark causing controversy is spoken around the 34:30 mark. You can decide for yourself.
A Cincinnati outdoor advertising company announced Tuesday that it will take down controversial billboards that opponents claim are aimed at intimidating voters.
Norton Outdoor Advertising had been contracted to put up about 30 billboards that read "Voter Fraud is a Felony!" The billboards also listed the maximum penalty for voter fraud — up to 3 and a half years and a $10,000 fine.
Opponents of the billboards claim they were strategically placed in predominantly low-income and black neighborhoods in Cincinnati as a means to discourage those largely Democratic voters from going to the polls.
The billboards were funded by an anonymous "private family foundation."
In a statement posted online, Norton Executive Vice President Mike Norton said the displays would be taken down as soon as possible. He wrote that the foundation and Norton agreed after hearing criticism that the sentiment surrounding the displays was contrary to their intended purpose.
The family foundation didn't intend to make a political statement, but rather make the public aware of voting regulations, he wrote.
"We look forward to helping to heal the divisiveness that has been an unfortunate result of this election year," Norton wrote.
Norton had previously told CityBeat that the billboards were not targeted but distributed randomly throughout the city.
Several Cincinnati officials wrote to the company requesting the billboards be taken down.
ClearChannel Outdoor Advertising announced on Monday that it was removing similar billboards in Cleveland and Columbus.
The billboards throughout Ohio had garnered national criticism and media attention.
A rival outdoor advertising company is putting up 10 new billboards to rebut the voter fraud ones.
The new red, white and blue billboards will read "Hey Cincinnati, voting is a right not a crime!"
Cincinnati City Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld said in an emailed news release that he reached out to Lamar Advertising Company to ask if they would donate the billboards throughout Cincinnati.
"We should be encouraging folks to participate in our democratic process, not trying to scare them," Sittenfeld wrote. "I salute Lamar's generosity and their support in encouraging citizens to raise their voice and not be scared away."
A well-known Cincinnati philanthropist is among four people selected to receive the first-ever Women of Distinction Award by the national YWCA.
Francie Pepper is being recognized for her years of work in support of issues involving women, girls and racial justice.
Pepper has served on the board of the Cincinnati YWCA since 1996, and also served as chair of its board from 2000-04. She has played a critical role for women who have experienced domestic violence, co-chairing a YWCA capital campaign that raised $7.5 million for a larger shelter that tripled the agency's capacity to serve battered women and their children so they wouldn't have to be put on a waiting list.
Also, some campaign funds were used to restore the YWCA's historic headquarters, located on Walnut Street downtown, add a childcare center to the facility.
Further, Pepper has volunteered for numerous organizations and causes in Greater Cincinnati, and her work in support of domestic violence awareness programs has gotten national recognition. She is a major supporter of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, archives, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history, including all of the YWCA's historical files.
Francie Pepper is the wife of John Pepper, who previously served as the chairman of the board at both Procter & Gamble and The Walt Disney Co.; she is the mother of David Pepper, a former Cincinnati city councilman and Hamilton County commissioner.
The Women of Distinction Award, bestowed by the YWCA USA, honors professional women from the private and public sectors across the United States who have demonstrated excellence, leadership and integrity in their fields and in the community, serving as role models for other successful women.
Nominations from YWCAs across the United States were solicited to find leaders whose work has made an impact on women's economic empowerment and racial justice.
Other award recipients this year are:
• Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), who survived an assassination attempt in January 2011, and is recovering from her injuries;
• Lt. Col. Tammy Duckworth, an Iraq War veteran and ex-Army helicopter pilot who combat wounds led to the amputation of her legs and cost her the use of her right arm; and
• Elouise Cobell, a Native
American leader who challenged the United States' mismanagement of trust funds
belonging to more than 500,000 individual Native Americans, leading to a $3.4
billion settlement.
This week's ruling by the Ohio Civil Rights Commission that a Greater Cincinnati landlady violated a girl's civil rights by posting a "whites only" sign at an apartment complex's swimming pool is a decision that most rational people would say is just.
The Jan. 12 ruling means the commission, if it cannot reach a settlement with landlady Jamie Hein, could issue a complaint against her with the Ohio Attorney General's Office. The AG's Office would then represent the complainant, Michael Gunn, before an administrative law judge, who could impose penalties and punitive damages.
Panelists including the parents of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin talked about reconciliation and turning personal suffering into power at the National and Racial Healing Town Hall at the Duke Energy Convention Center on Wednesday during the Children's Defense Fund National Conference.
Tracy Martin, Trayvon's father, broke down in tears as he told the story of how his son saved his life by dragging him out of their condo and calling 911 after Tracy had been badly burned in a grease fire.
"My child is my hero," Tracy Martin said. "He saved my life. Not to be there to save his is troublesome to me."
Trayvon Martin was shot and killed on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla. by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
Trayvon, who was black, was unarmed and shot by the white and Hispanic Zimmerman after Zimmerman pursued him in defiance of a request by a police dispatcher. Zimmerman claims the shooting was in self-defense.
Zimmerman is out on $1 million bail while awaiting trial on a charge of second degree murder.
"Nothing anyone can do will bring Trayvon back," Tracy Martin said. "You have to take that negative and turn it into a positive. We chose to keep our son's name alive and not let his death be in vain."
The town hall-style meeting was kicked off by poet and author Maya Angelou. She urged the hundreds of people in attendance, mostly young and black, to demand justice for Trayvon — referring to Zimmerman as "the brute" — but "that means we don't become poisoned by hate."
Angelou wasn't the only one who urged against hate.
Black historian and civil rights activist Vincent Harding, who celebrated his 81st birthday on Wednesday, issued a challenge to the youth in attendance:
"Are you ready to fight for the healing of George Zimmerman and all the George Zimmermans of America? Are you up to that?" he asked.
"This country has no chance unless they are healed."
The panel was made up of social activists, many of whom had lost friends and family to violence or bigotry, but whose pain prompted activism instead of retaliation — panelists such as The Rev. Ronald and Kim Odom, who lost a son to gun violence but volunteer in intervention and outreach programs; Clemmie Greenlee, a former prostitute and gang member who formed a peacemaking organization to work with gang members after her son was killed; and Ndume Olatushani, a former prisoner who was released in June after 19 years on death row after being falsely convicted of murdering a Tennessee shopkeeper.
The younger members of the audience were encouraged to ask questions after the panel presentation. Teenagers and young adults from as far as Tennessee, North Carolina and Minnesota asked questions about dismantling the system of racial oppression, overcoming odds stacked against young minorities and having society see past an old felony conviction.
The panelists all tried to offer encouragement, while urging the younger generation to continue to try to fight to make things better.
"When you look at the odds, it's so horrific for a young minority American, you say 'why even try, why even bother?' " said Benjamin Crump, a civil rights attorney who is representing Trayvon's mother Sabryna Fulton. "But the reason you try and you bother, there is so many examples where we beat the odds every day and nobody even know about it or talked about it."
"It goes back to you and saying, 'I am going to make something of myself. I don't care about the statistics, I don't care about the odds.' … You say, 'well, if it's one out of a million, I'm going to be that one.'"
"Dealing in this state, for example, you think so much about
the painful days in the deep South — the overt schemes to deny the right to
vote," Jackson said on Tuesday, the last day to register to vote in Ohio.
"We saw Ohio as a kind of beacon of light, the beacon of hope once we ran across the river coming north. This year we've seen Ohio and Pennsylvania take the lead in trying to purge voters and suppress the vote to determine the outcome."
Jackson's comments came on the same day Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court the Six Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to allow early in-person voting on the three days before Election Day.
The three days had previously only applied to military personnel and their families.
Republicans like Husted have cited cost as the reason to not allow in-person voting on the three days before the election. But in an Aug. 19 email to The Columbus Dispatch, Franklin County Republican Party chairman Doug Preisse said "I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine."
Pennsylvania, meanwhile, tried to require voters take a photo ID with them into the polls. A state judge blocked the law from going into effect for the 2012 election.
Jackson said restrictions as to who can vote when and where undermine the purpose of democracy.
"Open access, free, transparent voting makes democracy real," he said.
Flanked by a tapestry portraying President Barack Obama, Jackson touted the president's accomplishments in his first term and urged those assembled to give him a second.
Jackson was in Toledo Oct. 5 pushing early voting. He said he was in Cincinnati because "Ohio matters" and he saw it as a way to penetrate Appalachia because "poverty is not just a black problem."
Cincinnati council members and community leaders today explained and defended plans to use the parking lease to fund a disparity study that would gauge whether the city should change its contracting policies to favorably target minority- and women-owned businesses.
But before City Council unanimously passed the motion at today's meeting, it was amended to allow the city administration to find alternate sources of funding.
Since the city dismantled its last minority- and women-owned business program in 1999, contract participation rates for minority-owned businesses have plummeted, while rates for women-owned businesses have remained relatively flat.
But because of a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, governments must conduct a study to prove there's a race- or gender-based disparity before policies can be adjusted to favor such groups.
Cincinnati has not taken up a disparity study since 2002. That study found evidence of disparities but ultimately recommended race- and gender-neutral policies to avoid legal uncertainty that surrounded the issue at the time.
"This is an opportunity to respond to a complaint and concern that has been around for as long as I can remember," Councilman Wendell Young said.
City officials claim they couldn't conduct another study until the administration finished implementing recommendations from OPEN Cincinnati, a task force established in 2009 after Mayor Mark Mallory and his administration were criticized for neglecting the city's small business program.
But the holdup has also been brought on by the study's cost, which city officials currently estimate between $500,000 and $1.5 million. Some critics argue the money would be better spent elsewhere.
Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls, who's running for mayor this year, defended the cost by explaining a disparity study can potentially lead to economic development by lifting minority groups, who currently face unemployment rates higher than white Cincinnati residents. She said it's on the city to ensure everyone, including women and minorities, benefit from Cincinnati's economic growth.
Other critics, particularly mayoral candidate John Cranley, have criticized the motion's suggestion for funding. The motion asks the city administration to fund the study with part of the upfront money that will come from leasing the city's parking meters, lots and garages to the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority, but it does allow the city administration to find other funding options if possible.
Cranley, who supports conducting a disparity study but opposes the parking lease, says the money should come from other, unnamed sources because parking funds are currently being held up while the city hashes out legal uncertainty surrounding the lease and the Port Authority works out contracts with private operators that will manage Cincinnati's parking assets.
In response to those concerns, Qualls said that "money doesn't grow on trees" and Council has to make do with what it has.
Councilman Chris Seelbach voted against the parking lease, but he supports using parking funds for the disparity study. He says that, while he may have voted against the lease, the vote is done and the money is there.
The amended motion was unanimously passed by City Council today. It asks the city administration to present a budget and timetable for the study at the Budget and Finance Committee's first October meeting.
Updated at 3:18 p.m. with results of City Council meeting.
If his speeches and other comments are any indication, Martin Luther King Jr. would likely stand in sharp opposition to modern Ohio Republicans and many of their proposed policies.
In reviewing King's work, speeches and quotes, it's clear he was a progressive on a wide range of issues — from voting rights to collective bargaining rights to reproductive rights. In contrast, modern Republicans are doing their best to dilute such rights and scale back progressive causes on a host of other issues.
Given that it's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, what better time to look back at some of King's positions and analyze what they could mean in terms of today's politics? Warning: The results might upset some Republicans.
On voting rights:
"So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote, I do not possess myself," King said, according to PBS. "I cannot make up my mind — it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact — I can only submit to the edict of others."
King and other civil rights activists saw the right
to vote as the most crucial stepping stone to equality. In fact, one of the defining accomplishments of the Civil Rights
Movement was the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which attempted to ban discrimination
in the voting booth.
"Give us the ballot and we will transform the salient misdeeds of blood-thirsty mobs into calculated good deeds of orderly citizens," King said.
More specifically, the Voting Rights Act helped undo several voting restrictions taken up against minority voters in the South. The restrictions rarely outright banned black voters; instead, Southerners took up backhanded standards, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, that many black voters couldn't meet.
If that sounds familiar, it's because, by at least one top Ohio Republican's admission, growing restrictions on early voting also help curtail black voters — who, by the way, happen to vote for Democrats in droves.
"I guess I really actually feel we shouldn't contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine," said Doug Preisse, chairman of the Franklin County Republican Party and close adviser to Gov. John Kasich, in an email to The Columbus Dispatch.
In other states, Republicans are taking similarly restrictive approaches and passing stringent voter ID laws, even though one study found it discriminates against young, minority voters.
Especially given Preisse's comments, it's clear King would not approve of Republican actions. King saw enough oppression in Southern voting booths to know better.
On labor unions and "right to work":
"In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right to work.' It is a law to rob us of our civil rights and job rights. Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining by which unions have improved wages and working conditions of everyone," King said, according to the Economic Policy Institute. "Wherever these laws have been passed, wages are lower, job opportunities are fewer and there are no civil rights. We do not intend to let them do this to us. We demand this fraud be stopped. Our weapon is our vote."
In this statement, King unequivocally disavows restrictions on unions and collective bargaining rights.
Meanwhile, Gov. Kasich and top Ohio Republicans remain mum on whether they support anti-union laws like "right to work," much to the chagrin of tea party groups that strongly support such efforts.
But it's clear Kasich and Ohio Republicans support some restrictions on unions and collective bargaining. In 2011, the Republican-controlled legislature and governor approved Senate Bill 5, a bill that significantly curtailed public unions and their collective bargaining rights.Almost immediately, labor unions rallied in opposition to the effort and took the issue to referendum. Voters overwhelmingly rejected S.B. 5 the following November, dealing a major blow to Republicans and a huge political boost to unions and Democrats.
Despite the rejection, some conservatives continue pushing anti-union causes. The tea party-backed group Ohioans for Workplace Freedom aims to get an anti-union "right to work" initiative on the ballot in 2014.
Considering King's strong pro-union statements, it's clear he would stand against Ohio Republicans' and the tea party's anti-union efforts if he lived today.
On the death penalty:
"I do not think God approves the death penalty for any crime — rape and murder included," King said, according to Stanford University. "Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God."
King's comment clearly disavows the death penalty, even
for the gravest crimes, based on his religious perspective and
study of criminology.
Perhaps more than any other issue on this list, King's stance on the death penalty could upset some Democrats as much as some Republicans. But even though support for the death penalty crosses partisan lines, it's much more pronounced on the Republican side of the spectrum.
In recent days, the debate over the death penalty reignited in Ohio after Gov. Kasich's administration took 26 minutes to execute a gasping, grunting convicted killer with a new cocktail of drugs that was never tried before in the United States.
The prolonged execution, the longest since Ohio resumed use of the death penalty in 1999, led some legislative Democrats to push new limits or even an outright ban on capital punishment. It's expected the Republican majority will ignore the bills.
Based on his claims, King would oppose the state-sanctioned killing of a convicted killer, and he certainly would reject any defense that touts vengeance as a justification for killing another human being.
On health care:
"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhuman," King said, according to Dr. Quentin Young, who attended King's speech at the 1966 convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights.
Whether King's quote indicates support for Democrat-backed legislation like Obamacare or other measures, such as a single-payer system, is completely unclear. But King's rhetoric certainly comes closer to Democrats' support for universal access to health care than Republicans' opposition to governmental incursions into the U.S. health care system.
To Gov. Kasich's credit, he helped alleviate the "inequality" and "injustice in health care" King referred to by aggressively pursuing the federally funded Medicaid expansion.
But Kasich was in the minority of the Ohio Republican Party in his pursuit. The state legislature's Republican majority refused to approve the Medicaid expansion in the two-year state budget and later bills. When Kasich finally got the Medicaid expansion done through the seven-member Controlling Board, several legislative Republicans joined an unsuccessful lawsuit to reverse the decision.
Accordingly, King would probably praise Kasich for opening up access to health care, and it's doubtful he would support Republicans in their attempts to block health care for the poor.
On reproductive rights:
"For the Negro, therefore, intelligent guides of family planning are a profoundly important ingredient in his quest for security and a decent life," King said, according to Planned Parenthood. "There are mountainous obstacles still separating Negroes from a normal existence. Yet one element in stabilizing his life would be an understanding of and easy access to the means to develop a family related in size to his community environment and to the income potential he can command."King's comments on reproductive rights came as he accepted the first round of the Margaret Sanger Awards from Planned Parenthood, an organization now demonized by Republicans for its support for abortion and reproductive rights.
Now, nothing in King's comments implies he supported abortion rights, even though some historians believe King, a strong Christian, accepted a more liberal interpretation of the Bible.But King's comments — and even his mere acceptance of the Planned Parenthood award — show strong support for reproductive rights for low-income men and women. In that respect, King is clearly going against Ohio Republicans' pursuits.
In the 2014-2015 state budget, a Republican majority passed new funding restrictions on Planned Parenthood and other comprehensive family planning centers. Some of the restrictions hit family planning clinics that don't offer abortions.Even though King's stance on abortion is unclear, his comments clearly contradict efforts to restrict access to family planning clinics and reproductive rights. Once again, he would not approve of the Republican agenda.
A rally will be held at Fountain Square today to commemorate the shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin and to demand a thorough investigation of the incident.
The event begins at 5 p.m. and attendees are asked to bring signs that aren't posted on sticks, to comply with a local law, and also to wear hooded jackets. Martin, 17, was wearing a "hoodie" when George Zimmerman allegedly killed him Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla.
Rallies have been held across the nation during the past week to protest the handling of Martin's case. Many of the participants have worn hoodies in a show of solidarity with the slain teenager, often carrying signs that state, "I am Trayvon Martin."
Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory posted a similar photograph on his Facebook page over the weekend. It's unclear if Mallory plans to attend today's rally.
Among the groups organizing the rally are Occupy The Hood and the Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center.
Zimmerman, 28, who says he belongs to a neighborhood watch program in his gated community, began following Martin at about 7 p.m. for what he described in a 911 call as "suspicious behavior." Martin was walking back to his father's condominium after buying iced tea for himself and Skittles for his soon-to-be stepbrother.
"This guy looks like he's up to no good, on drugs or something," Zimmerman told a 911 dispatcher.
Some sort of encounter occurred that resulted in Martin's death. Sanford Police didn't arrest Zimmerman, saying that it appeared he acted in self-defense.
Sanford Police accepted Zimmerman's version of events at face value. "Until we can establish probable cause to dispute that, we don't have the grounds to arrest him," Sanford Police Chief Billy Lee told ABC News earlier this month.
After the incident became publicized through Facebook, Twitter and other social media, public outcry grew. More than 2 million people have signed an online petition demanding justice, and the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department have launched investigations.
A Cincinnati-area state representative is decrying billboards throughout Ohio whose aim, she says, is voter intimidation.
Democratic Rep. Alicia Reece held a news conference Monday morning in front of a billboard that read, "Voter Fraud is a Felony!"
The billboards were paid for "by a private family foundation," but Reece claims in a news release that the sponsors are essentially anonymous and the billboards are being strategically placed in low-income and black neighborhoods.
"We are asking the Outdoor Advertising Association of Ohio to work with the anonymous sponsors of the billboards to have them removed immediately," Reece wrote in a statement.
"It's obvious that the billboards are designed to intimidate voters and leave some wondering if merely voting is now a crime."
Mike Norton with Norton Outdoor Advertising — the company on whose billboards the ads appear — said there are 30 such signs in the Greater Cincinnati area.
He said the sponsor didn't ask for any demographic targeting and the ads are appearing in all neighborhoods wherever there was open space.
Norton said the sponsor wished to remain anonymous and he isn't at liberty to give out its name.
As for the anonymity of the ads sponsor, "Our company's stand on political advertising is we do our very best to make sure it's accurate and it's not an attack ad," Norton said. "This seemed to fall well within the bounds of reason on both of those benchmarks."
The billboards are not illegal, and they are considered Constitutionally protected speech.
The Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University Law School issued a policy paper finding that cases of fraud by individual voters are extremely rare.
The center found that in the 2004 presidential election saw a voter fraud rate of 0.00004 percent.
Cincinnati isn't the only city to see such billboards. They have also made appearances in Cleveland and Columbus, as well as southeast Wisconsin.
According to the Plain Dealer newspaper in Cleveland, the billboards there are owned by Clear Channel Outdoor. A company spokesman told the newspaper that Clear Channel's policy is usually to identify who sponsors a political ad, but in this case a salesperson made a mistake.


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The issue of what is and isn't acceptable dress in shopping malls has once more been raised in the UAE as two Emirati ladies, offended by a woman's scanty dress in a mall, started a Twitter campaign called #UAEDressCode.
With reports of "shorts that could pass as hot pants" and skirts that "don't fully conceal undergarments" trending on Twitter, supporters of the cause have been saying that, if social media can bring down governments, why shouldn't it also be used to protect the UAE's values?
At surface value, it seems a simple thing: Respect the local culture and cover yourself when in public. But expats stopped in the malls by reporters from Emirates 24/7 admitted they might occasionally show too much flesh, saying that it was too hot to cover up and that they didn't think the "Modest Dress" signs in the malls were… Read more


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Hello to everyone here! Been coming here for a while now looking for tips and inspiration and scouring various places for advice also.
I decided to sign up because i'm very tempted to submit a map for critique and the like that I have been working on for a while!
I'm not really a mapmaker but I am a slave to stories and worlds that do not exist!
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hi, i am using the turnkey linux's ZCS 6.0, it has a already built in admin account which i used to login and add my custom domain but it seems that by default mail.example.com has been set in the server list. i tried to add another server relative to my custom domain but i cannot use the web admin gui to add the server,
after a very very very long search about adding server to the ZCS, i came accross somthing called zmprov to add server, i am noob in linux so have no idea how to add it using command line.
can someone please give me a hint as to how to add my custom named server "mail.yyling.com" to the server list so i can start sending and receiving emails.
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This version of the Rollins College Web site launched on March 8, 2009. The new site design is part of the overall strategic marketing initiative designed to strengthen and make consistent the brand image of Rollins College.
In 2005, President Lewis Duncan charged Greg Marshall and Jule Gassenheimer, both professors in the Crummer Graduate School of Business, with conducting a Pre-Marketing Image Study to provide insight on the internal and external perceptions of Rollins College.
An internal marketing audit was performed to analyze the College's current marketing strategies, tactics, and processes, as well as the resources consumed by these efforts.
These studies revealed that Rollins was not effectively communicating a clear and consistent message to its constituents. A marketing & communications team was developed and an agency helped develop a clearer and more consistent identity or brand for the College.
Also launched on March 8 is the new Rollins intranet, R-Net. R-Net will serve as the internal hub providing news and information of interest to students, faculty and staff. It will also be the gateway to all campus login sites such as FoxLink, Blackboard and GroupWise. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to bookmark R-Net as their homepage so they can more easily find items that they use frequently.
Please fill out the site feedback form to help us to continue to improve this site!


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Tumblr about Small Rooms. Talk about a less than 5 minute project! I just picked up a package of shower curtain rings at Target for a little over $1. Then I snapped them onto a hanger, and hung my scarves from the rings. Now it's so much easier to see all my scarves! I may or may not have to do 4 more hangers to get all my scarves like this. I'm a bit of a scarf hoarder.
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Last Thursday Lauren and I met up after work at Cafe Oranjerie on the Binnen Oranjestraat ('B' on the map) on the edge of the Haarlemmerbuurt. It's narrow, one-way (like many streets in the center of Amsterdam) and quaint. Residential, shops, galleries, cafes, etc. This street connects the Jordaan neighborhood (via de Oranjebrug [Orange Bridge], 'A' on the map) with the popular, aka busy shopping street Haarlemmerdijk ('C' on the map), which also functions as an important arterial cycle road towards Central Station (one-way for cars, bi-directional for bikes). Not surprisingly, Haarlemmerdijk is one of the busiest cycle streets in Amsterdam.
View Larger Map Below: the streetview of Binnen Oranjestraat, in the direction of Oranjebrug, Jordaan. One view step ahead you'll see the cafe by panning left.
View Larger Map So that's the backdrop. Lauren and I got our tasty beers, sat down in front of the cafe and talked about our day while rush hour picked up a little steam: Mum & daughter... He was helping his mum taking a box of wine home, saying hi to the neighbors. Gender equality when it comes to picking up the kids... Dad with front load...picking up a second load. A smile & some laundry to do... Suddenly, a traffic cone appeared. It turned out to belong to a group of kids. They probably found it somewhere and decided to have a little fun with it. More than that, it was their actual intent to stop car traffic. "Car traffic?", you say? Yes, as quaint as the street is, the few cars that drive by have about the same impact on this urban environment as a whole lot more cars would have on a bigger road. Noise on this narrow street gets amplified in a way that you can quickly speak of pollution. The acoustics will drown out many conversations (like ours) and generally annoy. No matter how slow they drive. However, far worse are the scooters, which pass by at high speeds (think souped up, 2-stroke engines), higher than cars ever will and add real danger to people walking and cycling. All combined, rush hour isn't that nice in a bicycle city when a few ruin it for the rest of us, including kids who just want to play in the streets. Victory! The driver accepted her (temporary) defeat gracefully by smiling with the kids. Knowing very well this blockage could not be sustained... The answer? Simple. This street doesn't actually need to serve as a connection with/through way for Haarlemmerdijk. It only has car traffic because it's allowed and still convenient. Just like in many other areas of the city (and proven traffic grids elsewhere in the Netherlands) you can make it bicycle/walking only (no scooters either), forcing cars to make a...wait for it...250 meter detour along Brouwersgracht. So direct routes for bikes/peds, longer routes for cars. Neighbors with cars (and parking) on streets in between could get access by automated systems, as used for commercial traffic at certain hours of the day. Amsterdam is very much a livable city for all. Let's keep working at it. If not for us, do it for the children. At least they spot the bull. And do it quickly, before they grow up and forget.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA9) -- The U.S. Department of State is offering rewards of up to $5 million each for information on two members of the Somalia-based terrorist organization, al-Shabaab, they said in a press release today.
The two U.S. citizens, Omar Shafik Hammami and Jehad Serwan Mostafa moved to Somalia and became members of al-Shabaab, an al-Qaida affiliate responsible for killing more than 70 people including one American.
They have assassinated Somali peace activists, government officials, international aid works and journalists, said the Department in a press release, according to the Department of State.
Both men are on the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list.
According to the press release, "In September 2009, Hammami was indicted in the Southern District of Alabama on charges of providing support to terrorists, conspiring to provide material support to a State Department-designated foreign terrorist organization (al-Shabaab), and providing material support to al-Shabaab."
Mostafa is a former resident of San Diego, California who left for Somalia in 2005 and has been working as a media expert and a leader for foreign fighters for the terrorist organization. Both men are currently believed to be in Somalia.
For further information on the two men, you can visit the Rewards for Justice website at www.rewardsforjustice.net. Anyone with information on these individuals may contact the Rewards for Justice office via the website, e-mail (email@example.com), phone (1-800-877-3927), or mail (Rewards for Justice, Washington, D.C., 20520-0303, USA).


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MORGANTOWN - Champions will be crowned in Morgantown today as the finals of the W.Va. State Swimming Tournament concludes.
Those hoping to get that elusive gold medal include the Wheeling Park 200 Medley Relay of Emilee Heilman, Katlyn Curnes, Cece Jebbia and Maddie Friday.
The group finished the preliminaries as the second-best team in the event and will also have a chance to take the podium in the 400 Freestyle Relay as the team enters the event ranked fourth overall.
Jebbia and Curnes will also look to collect individual golds.
Jebbia will compete as the second seed in the 200 Free as well as the fourth seed in the 100 Free.
Curnes, on the other hand, is the third seed in the 200 IM and the second seed in the 100 Breaststroke.
John Marshall's Jade Worrels will also try to bring home the hardware as she is the fifth seed in the 50 Free.
Swimming in the consolation rounds will be Park's Noah Salvatore (200 Free, 500 Free), Heilman (100 Free), and the 200 Free Relay team of Jeri Carenbauer, Hannah Butts, Cristin Dolan and Friday.
Brooke's 200 Freestyle Relay of Jordan Harlan (50 Free, 100 Free), Jessie Wayne (500 Free, 400 Free Relay), Hannah Cebula (200 Free, 400 Free Relay), Sarah Riggs (100 Fly, 400 Free Relay) and Morgan Zopp (400 Free Relay).
The Monarch's 200 Medley and 400 Free Relays of Rosemary Targosky, Jenna Ingram, Nicole Nuce and Worrels.
Weir's Alyson Martin (200 IM) will also compete in the consolation round.
In order to qualify for the finals, swimmers had to finish in the top six in their respective event. The seventh through 12 best qualifying times will also compete for the remai


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|NRD: shut down fewest acres in water-short year but with compensation
By Russ Pankonin
The Imperial Republican
If a water-short year occurs without any remedy other than regulation, shutting down the least number of farmers seems to be the intent of the Upper Republican Natural Resources District (URNRD) board members.
However, they made it very clear at their regular meeting Tuesday, Dec. 1 in Imperial they want those farmers affected to be compensated for the hardship.
In late September, the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced proposed regulatory measures to keep Nebraska in compliance with Kansas on Republican River flows in the event of a water-short year.
They presented a three-option scenario which included a permanent reduction in groundwater allocations, or the shutdown of wells in two distinct rapid response areas in the basin.
DNR wanted a direction this month from each of the three basin NRDs on what option they preferred. Choosing none was not an option.
The board directed Manager Jasper Fanning to send a letter to DNR indicating they will consider the option that shuts down the least amount of irrigators, known as Option 3.
The board also directed Fanning to tell DNR that other options, especially funding options, still need to be addressed versus just implementing regulatory options.
Option 3 would shut down all wells in an area defined by DNR as the 10%–2-Year (10-2) Rapid Response Area (RRA).
This would include all wells in a defined area where water pumped over a 2-year period would cause a 10 percent reduction to stream flow.
This would shut down 22,700 acres in the URNRD. In the entire basin, it would shut down 110,000 acres.
Fanning said adoption of a new integrated management plan (IMP) which includes Option 3 is still three to four months away.
Some Other Type of Funding
Chair Greg Pelster said the board proposed another option that would lower allocation but implement some type of voluntary plan to secure funds to compensate irrigators in the 10-2 area.
Pelster said DNR has indicated a willingness to work with NRDs so that it's not just one option and that's it.
Board member Tom Terryberry said the board has been looking at ways to compensate irrigators who could be shut down in a 10-2 water-short year option.
To ignore DNR's time lines and say the NRD isn't looking at least one of the options would be a mistake, he said.
The URNRD was the first of the three boards to meet in December and Fanning said Option 3 appeared to be the way the other boards were leaning, too.
"We all prefer none of the above," Fanning said, referring to DNR's three options.
However, he said to take no action would only delay the process further. The URNRD could help the process by setting some direction for the other boards to see.
Funding Paramount
Terryberry said it will be difficult to adopt Option 3 if there isn't some type of funding mechanism to compensate farmers and aid compliance efforts.
Board members all appeared in agreement that finding some type of funding mechanism for compliance efforts, such as augmentation, and possible compensation is "paramount."
Without some type of funding, DNR's options are not really options at all, Fanning noted.
He said some of the leaders in the Legislature are beginning to realize the need for fixing the occupation tax as a funding source for the Republican Basin.
But senators also made it clear that there are no state funds available for water, or anything else.
Still, he said it's encouraging to see they acknowledge there's a problem and putting it off is not in anyone's best interests.
The constitutionality of the occupation tax approved in LB 701 in 2007 is being challenged in Lancaster County District Court. Arguments on the case are set for Dec. 14-15.
The additional property tax levy in LB 701 has already been ruled unconstitutional, leaving NRDs with no real funding mechanisms.
Jeff Wallin, board member at-large, said he would like to see the funding issue resolved before adopting an IMP with the regulations included.
Doing so, he said, compromises any leverage the board has, if it has any now. At least holding off on the IMP could assist in getting the Legislature to take action on fixing the occupation tax.
One of the legislative remedies could be opening the occupation tax up to other NRDs in the state, or at least opening the class so it just didn't apply to the Republican Basin.
That was one of the elements that made the property tax unconstitutional. Another ruling said the tax was a local tax for a state purpose, making it unconstitutional.
The occupation tax is being challenged on this basis as well.
Legal Firm Hired on
Funding Issue
Board members voted to hire the law firm of Rembolt Ludkte, LLP of Lincoln to assist the NRD with the funding issues.
Fanning said the purpose of hiring counsel was to become proactive in finding solutions to the funding issues that face the basin.
The goal is to develop some type of funding mechanism under the present statutes that doesn't require a tax on everyone to implement.
By using legal authorities in the field, Fanning said they hope to minimize the litigation threat to any new mechanism developed.
Fanning added state senators have recently told him that hiring attorneys for anything but finding a positive solution would not be looked upon kindly.
The NRD will pay the firm $175 per hour for their services. Fanning said they interviewed three different firms with water exper-ience, noting the board couldn't miss with any of the three.


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August 22–29, 2012 | St. Petersburg, Russia
|View of the Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood in downtown St. Petersburg
The 2012 Microsoft Research Russian Summer School on Concurrency and Parallelism in Software was held August 22 to 29, 2012, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, organized in cooperation with ITMO National Research University. An annual Microsoft Research event, the Russian Summer School is intended for PhD and master's students as well as young scientists. This year, we invited eight of the world's top experts in concurrency and parallelism to lecture at the school. In addition to lectures, the program included practical sessions and homework.
Important Dates
Invited Speakers and Talk Titles
The following experts in concurrency and parallelism lectured during the school.
- Dr. Judith Bishop—Concurrency in C# and Java: Understanding Why Languages Matter
- Dr. Sebastian Burckhardt—Concurrent Revisions: Beyond a Linear History of State
- Prof. Victor Gergel—Complexity Analysis and New Programming Languages for Parallel Computations
- Prof. Dan Grossman—Data-Race Exceptions via Low-Level Detection of High-Level Data Races and Deterministic Execution of Concurrent Programs
- Prof. Maurice Herlihy—Design Patterns for Highly Concurrent Data Structures
- Prof. Jeff Kramer—Model-Based Design and Analysis of Concurrent and Adaptive Software
- Prof. Bertrand Meyer—Concurrent Programming is Easy
- Prof. Davide Sangiorgi—An Introduction to Bisimulation and Coinduction
Event Chairs
The 2012 school was co-chaired by Dr. Judith Bishop (Microsoft Research) and Dr. Bertrand Meyer (ETHZ and ITMO). The organizing committee chair was Dr. Fabrizio Gagliardi (Microsoft Research).
Peter and Paul Fortress, St. PetersburgAlthough the school ran from Wednesday August, 22 to Wednesday, August 29, students had Sunday free to explore the beautiful city of Saint Petersburg. Just a few of the local attractions include the State Hermitage Museum and Winter Palace and the Peterhof Palace and Garden (Petrodvorets).
Bronze Horseman, St. PetersburgApplication
Application is now closed. The application deadline was March, 30, 2012
This Russian Summer School is intended primarily for Russian-speaking students residing in Russia. As an exception, Russian-speaking students who reside outside of the Russian Federation may be considered, provided that they do not require a Russian visa.
A maximum of 60 students were selected on the basis of their curriculum, references from their professors/supervisors, and individual letters of motivation. Microsoft Research provided teaching and full accommodation for free; students only needed to pay for their own travel to Saint Petersburg and return. We encouraged all qualified individuals to apply to the school. Last year, 70 students were selected from more than 500 applicants.
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If you have questions about this event, please send us email.


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Cyclones Fall to No. 58 Kansas State, 5-2
AMES, Iowa- The Iowa State tennis team (8-6, 0-2 Big 12) lost 5-2 to No. 58 Kansas State (8-5, 2-0 Big 12) on Sunday at Ames Racquet and Fitness Center.
"Definitely a good bounce-back from Friday," head coach Armando Espinosa said about the Cyclones' 6-1 loss to Kansas.
The teams switched up the match by playing singles first, leading off with a win at No. 2 for junior Meghan Cassens. Cassens defeated Maria Panaite, 6-3, 5-0(ret.), after Panaite retired in the second set due to injury.
"We played really well in singles," Espinosa said. "I was pretty happy with how our effort level was. Disappointed with the loss, but I think if we can continue to play with the energy and effort level we had in singles throughout the Big 12 [season], we're going to surprise some people."
Freshman Talisa Merchiers came back at No. 6 after a first-set loss, taking down Iva Bago in the third-set tiebreaker, 1-6, 7-5, 1-0(6). Sophomore Ana Gasparovic also fought for the third set at the No. 3 slot, but was bested by Palma Juhasz, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
After winning No. 3 doubles by default, Pronina and freshman Samantha Budai dropped No. 1 doubles, 6-1. Cassens and Gasparovic lost, 6-4, at No. 2 doubles, clinching the doubles point for Kansas State.
The Cyclones will be back at it in Big 12 action March 21 at Texas. Play is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m.
Kansas State-5, Iowa State-2.
Singles Results
Order of Finish: 2, 4, 1, 5, 3, 6.
No. 1: Petra Niedermayerova (KSU) def. Ksenia Pronina (ISU), 6-1, 7-5
No. 2: Meghan Cassens (ISU) def. Maria Panaite (KSU), 6-3, 5-0(ret.)
No. 3: Palma Juhasz (KSU) def. Ana Gasparovic (ISU), 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
No. 4: Livia Cirnu (KSU) def. Lydia Green (ISU), 6-1, 6-4
No. 5: Amina St. Hill (KSU) def. Emma Waites (ISU), 6-1, 6-4
No. 6: Talisa Merchiers (ISU) def. Iva Bago (KSU), 1-6, 7-5, 1-0(6)
Doubles Results
Order of Finish: 1, 2, 3-DNP.
No. 1: Niedermayerova/St. Hill (KSU) def. Pronina/Budai (ISU), 6-1
No. 2: Juhasz/Bago (KSU) def. Cassens/Gasparovic (ISU), 6-4
No. 3: Green/Andersen (ISU) by default.