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PADEN CITY - Struggling out of the gate with a 1-6 record, Cameron needed to get something going Monday afternoon when Coach Eric James and his Dragons traveled south into Wetzel County to battle Paden City.
Initially, it looked like a five-hit, six-run outburst in the opening frame might be just the ticket. However, while Cameron managed to record a victory, it needed a big effort from its big man on the mound to get it done.
The Dragons finished with just three runs and three hits over the final six innings, but senior Mark Walker took the hill in the third inning and slammed the door as the Dragons escaped with a 9-7 victory against the Wildcats at City Park.
Cameron wasted little time getting things going, getting leadoff singles from Cole Clutter and Levi Knight before a two-run double to deep left from starting pitcher Austin Pegg. After Devin Starcher was hit by a pitch, David Klug and Ryan Clutter both stroked run-scoring singles for a 4-0 score. Cameron added two more runs on an error and wild pitch.
But Paden City was not going away that easily. The Wildcats (5-4), who scored six two-out runs, got three back in the bottom of the first. Losing pitcher Craig Allen reached on a two-out error and scored on sophomore Zach Heasley's towering two-run homer to right field. Luke Cooper followed with a base hit and scored on Isaac Hall's bloop, hit-and-run, single to right-center to cut the deficit in half.
Run-scoring singles from Levi Meadows and Heasley in the second brought Paden City all the way back to within 6-5.
After the Dragons added a run on Jordan Hart's RBI single in the top of the third, Walker was called on to slow down Paden City and that is exactly what he did. The senior allowed three hits and two runs the rest of the way, fanning seven and walking one to pick up a victory.
Cameron added single runs in the fifth and seventh, both coming on sacrifice flies off the bat of Klug while the Wildcats did score in the fourth and seventh but were never able to catch up.
"I don't care who you are playing, when you get a six-run lead early you have to continue to battle and pound away to stay on top, and we didn't do that after the first inning," James said. "But credit Paden City, they have a very young team, but they are solid and they played hard and with a lot of heart the whole way.
"They gave us all we could handle and it took bringing our ace out of our back pocket to get it done. We don't have the record we want right now, but the kids have been putting the ball in play. I am more concerned with defense.
"There are probably 3 or 4 spots right now that I could lean one way or the other, but by week's end I hope to have the nine kids I want to go with, and I feel like when they come together as a team we will be all right. The schedule doesn't get any easier for us, but I think we will be fine when we get going."
Klug finished with a single and three RBI for the winners while Knights collected three base hits on the day. Heasley was a one-man wrecking crew with a single, home run and four runs knocked in for the Wildcats. Meadows added a single, two doubles and RBI in a losing effort.
"We are real young and played with six freshmen on the field (Monday)," Brent Croasmun said. "The maturity factor for us is a big deal. Sometimes the game starts and we are still trying to figure things out and not really fired up to play, and that is what happened in this one.
"But these kids kept battling, we just need to be more aggressive at the start of the game. It is the little things that can win or lose games, like stolen bases, sacrifice flies, walks, and we didn't do them (Monday) and Cameron did."


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Caroline Trentini by Miles Aldridge for Vogue Italia.
Upton in V.
Might we add that V refers to their model as the "ample Upton."
Caroline Trentini by Miles Aldridge for Vogue Italia.
The windows represent confinement!
Gemma Ward by Norma Jean Roy for US Vogue.
Natalia Vodianova by Peter Lindbergh for Vogue US.
Lindsey Wixson in Harper's Bazaar.
Heather Marks in German Vogue.
Chantal le Fevre by Wee Khim for Style Singapore.
Guinevere van Seenus by Tierney Gearon for Ten Magazine.
Lara Stone by Mert & Marcus for Vogue US.
Eniko Mihalik by Sebastian Faena for Vogue Nippon.
Anja Rubik by Alex Prager for Vogue US.
Raquel Zimmermann by Mario Sorrenti for V Magazine.
From British Vogue.
Gemma by Norma Jean Roy again, though the whole editorial is general housekeeping.
A deeply unrealistic Dolce & Gabbana campaign.
Eva Herzigova by Glen Luchford for Vogue Italia.
Eva Herzigova by Glen Luchford again.
Lily Donaldson by Steven Meisel for Vogue US.
It's the only way to feel something in this empty, solitary mansion!
Steven Klein for US Vogue May 2011
Ginta actually finds great joy in vacuuming.
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Hot Parts - July 2014Written on May 7, 2014
Billet (& Stainless) For Your B/RB
It may not be the latest high-zoot power adder, or something else that'll increase the output of your B or RB engine, but Lokar's new flexible engine dipstick is something that your big block needs. (Unless you don't mind replacing it often because you never check the oil level in the crankcase.) Features include stainless steel/billet aluminum construction, a slim design that allows for mounting inside headers, and an E-Z Read flexible measuring cable. It's made in the USA, its billet aluminum handle coordinates with Lokar's Flexible Transmission Dipstick, and comes with a lifetime warranty.
Get it: Lokar • 877/469-7440 • www.lokar.com
Light Up The Night
Name one safety-related system on your classic Mopar that could use some serious upgrading. If you said "lights," you've noticed that your ride's old round sealed beams can be easily overdriven, even at city-driving speeds. Upgrade with a set of Ground-Up!'s halogen headlights. They use modern H4 bulbs, are twice as bright as the OEM sealed beam units, and the bulbs also last much longer than those old sealed-beam bulbs did. Plug-and-play installation makes installing these a breeze, and your high beams will work as original. (They'll be brighter, too!) They're available in both 53⁄4-inch and 7-inch sizes (for four-headlight and two-headlight Mopars), and they'll fit most Plymouths, Dodges, Chryslers, and Dodge Trucks from the Exner Era through the '80s. You can get them with a variety of center dot colors—or clear.
Get it: Ground-Up! • 866/358-2277 • www.ss396.com
Gotta Keep It Separated
What's one way to keep oil vapors from collecting on your '05-'10 supercharged SRT8's blower rotors or intercooler fins—or diluting the $4/gallon premium gas you just filled up with? Install an oil separator, like this billet aluminum one from JLT Performance. During the process of venting crankcase pressure through your intake track, oil vapor can coat your blower rotors, intercooler fins and even dilute your gas, lowering its octane level—and it's even worse when your engine is supercharged, as crankcase pressures are increased. JLT Performance mills it from solid billet aluminum with a knurled tank base, for easy removal to drain the spent oil, and an O-ring seal to prevent any leaks. It also has a metal mesh PCV pre-filter element, which collects the last bit of oil droplets and drains them back into the oil system when your engine's shut down. It's available in your choice of anodized black (seen here), or clear—silver finish—anodizing, and it comes will all the needed fittings, brackets, PCV lines and detailed instructions for an easy DIY installation.
Get it: JLT Performance • 757/335-1940 • www.jltTrueColdAir.com
Juice Up!
Got a '63-'85 Mopar whose electrical system doesn't crank out the juice? Check out Flaming River's new billet high-output alternator. It replaces your old/worn out OEM "square back" or "round back" style Chrysler alternators, and is a "one size fits all" solution for single-field and dual-field external voltage regulators. It has excellent output at low speeds, with 100-120 amps at idle with a stock Mopar crankshaft pulley. It use a single rectifier plate with eight diodes—which results in three times the output at idle of the stock Mopar alternators, and it keeps internal components cooler so they last longer than other alternators on the market. Features also include your choice of v-belt pulleys (150-amp or 240-amp, single groove or double groove), your choice of finishes (machined, polished or black anodized), and a 3-year/36,000-mile warranty. Flaming River's made-in-the-USA alternator is the perfect solution if you and your vintage Mopar struggle with premature alternator failure, intermittent electrical accessory problems, or low voltage at any engine RPM.
Get It: Flaming River • 800/648-8022 • www.flamingriver.com
Street & Strip Sticky
Whether you've got a modern Mopar with the latest in Hemi power, or a classic '60s muscle Mopar with a 426 Hemi under the hood, M&H Racemaster has the tires your ride needs for top on-track performance and on-street handling and looks. That includes their new Drag Radial (275/60R15 size seen here)—the perfect tire if you want slick-like traction, and the ride of a radial tire on your classic Mopar. It's also available in sizes up to 18 inches, so you modern Mopar folks can benefit too. With nearly 60 years of experience, M&H Racemaster lives on as the world's first purpose-built drag racing tire, producing track-proven products at a price you can afford!
Get It: M&H Racemaster Tires • 866/513-2743 • www.mandhdragtires.com • www.cokertire.com
Get Strong
Building your Mopar project for combined street/track action? You'll need strength all along your ride's driveline, like what Strange Engineering's chrome-moly steel transmission and pinion yokes—and U-joints—deliver. Their line of chrome-moly transmission and pinion yokes are manufactured from high quality steel alloy forgings, fully heat-treated to achieve maximum tensile strength, then CNC-machined to assure concentricity and balance for ideal driveshaft operation. Strange has them for your Torqueflite, 833 or other transmission, and for your 83⁄4, Dana 60, or other rear end. To go with them, they've got U-joints like their 1350 series, whose strength can handle the most demanding of applications, and their 1480 series U-joints—the ultimate in driveline strength and dependability.
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Intricate tessellations are beautiful, but they can be intimidating to make. This class introduces students to M.C. Escher, the artist that made tessellations popular. activities help students understand the geometry behind these patterns. Students will be fascinated with the creative project through which they learn how to make their own unique tessellations. This class supports Mathematical Practices.
Grade Level: 38
LINK: Art Class: Radial Symmetry
LINK: Planetarium Program: Chaos and Order: A Mathematical Symphony
State Standards, Benchmarks, and GLEs
Grade 3
Louisiana State Standards Visual Art
VA- CE-E6 Identify relationships among visual arts, other arts, and disciplines outside the arts
VA-CA-E1 View works of art and express observations about how the elements and principles of design are used in the works
VA-HP-E6 Recognize great artists and works of art that have shaped the history of art
VA- AP-E4 Recognize that there are many possibilities and choices in the processes for designing and producing visual arts
CCSS, Mathematics
Measurement and data
Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.
3.MD.7. Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.
a. Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling it, and show that the area is the same as would be found by multiplying the side lengths.
b. Multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles with whole number side lengths in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems, and represent whole-number products as rectangular areas in mathematical reasoning.
c. Use tiling to show in a concrete case that the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths a and b + c is the sum of a × b and a × c. Use area models to represent the distributive property in mathematical reasoning.
d. Recognize area as additive. Find areas of rectilinear figures by decomposing them into non-overlapping rectangles and adding the areas of the non-overlapping parts, applying this technique to solve real world problems.
Geometric measurement: recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish between linear and area measures.
3.MD.8. Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.
Reason with shapes and their attributes.
3.G.1. Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories.
3.G.2. Partition shapes into parts with equal areas. Express the area of each part as a unit fraction of the whole. For example, partition a shape into 4 parts with equal area, and describe the area of each part as 1/4 of the area of the shape.
CCSS, ELA/Literacy: Speaking and Listening
Comprehension and collaboration
3.SL.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
b. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).
c. Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.
d. Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.
3.SL.3. Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
Presentation of knowledge and ideas
3.SL.4. Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
3.SL.6. Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (See grade 3 Language standards 1 and 3 on page 28 for specific expectations.)
CCSS, ELA/Literacy: Language
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
3.L.6 Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
Grades 4–8
Louisiana State Standards Visual Art
VA-CE-M6 Students will understand and visually express relationships among visual arts, other arts, and disciplines outside the arts
VA-CA-M1 Students will view works of art and analyze how artists use design elements and principles to achieve an aesthetic effect
CCSS, Mathematics
Measurement and data
Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit.
4.MD.3. Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in real world and mathematical problems. For example, find the width of a rectangular room given the area of the flooring and the length, by viewing the area formula as a multiplication equation with an unknown factor.
Geometric measurement: understand concepts of angle and measure angles.
4.MD.5. Recognize angles as geometric shapes that are formed wherever two rays share a common endpoint, and understand concepts of angle measurement:
a. An angle is measured with reference to a circle with its center at the common endpoint of the rays, by considering the fraction of the circular arc between the points where the two rays intersect the circle. An angle that turns through 1/360 of a circle is called a "one-degree angle," and can be used to measure angles.
b. An angle that turns through n one-degree angles is said to have an angle measure of n degrees.
4.MD.7. Recognize angle measure as additive. When an angle is decomposed into non-overlapping parts, the angle measure of the whole is the sum of the angle measures of the parts. Solve addition and subtraction problems to find unknown angles on a diagram in real world and mathematical problems, e.g., by using an equation with a symbol for the unknown angle measure.
Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.
4.G.1. Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines. Identify these in two-dimensional figures.
4.G.2. Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines, or the presence or absence of angles of a specified size. Recognize right triangles as a category, and identify right triangles.
4.G.3. Recognize a line of symmetry for a two-dimensional figure as a line across the figure such that the figure can be folded along the line into matching parts. Identify line-symmetric figures and draw lines of symmetry.
CCSS, ELA/Literacy: Speaking and Listening
Comprehension and collaboration
4.SL.1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
b. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and carry out assigned roles.
c. Pose and respond to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information, and make comments that contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks of others.
d. Review the key ideas expressed and explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.
4.SL.3. Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.
Presentation of knowledge and ideas
4.SL.4. Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
4.SL.6. Differentiate between contexts that call for formal English (e.g., presenting ideas) and situations where informal discourse is appropriate (e.g., small-group discussion); use formal English when appropriate to task and situation. (See grade 4 Language standards 1 on page 28 for specific expectations.)
CCSS, ELA/Literacy: Language
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
4.L.6. Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being (e.g., quizzed, whined, stammered) and that are basic to a particular topic (e.g., wildlife, conservation, and endangered when discussing animal preservation).
LASM is fully accredited in accordance with the standards of excellence prescribed by the American Alliance of Museums.
|These programs have been made possible in part through the generous support of the East Baton Rouge City-Parish Government; the members of LASM; the Community Fund for the Arts of Greater Baton Rouge; the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Louisiana State Arts Council; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.
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Our residents' safety and security in University housing and around the Twin Cities Campus is important to us. Housing & Residential Life, in coordination with the University Police, works to provide a safe and healthy living environment.
Building Security Measures
- All doors leading to residence hall rooms and apartments are locked 24 hours a day.
- Access to these areas requires a key or activated U Card that is issued to residents when they check in at the beginning of the year.
- All hall and apartment front doors are locked 24 hours a day/7 days a week except for Centennial, Comstock, Pioneer, and Sanford which are locked at 7PM to allow residents access to the Residential Restaurants in those buildings.
- A courtesy phone is located outside every residence hall/apartment entrance to allow guests to call residents from outside the hall to announce their arrival. This phone can also be used to call 9-1-1 if necessary.
Security with Housing & Residential Life Staff
- Each University housing building has a Security Monitor on duty from 11 p.m. to 8 a.m. every day of the week. The primary function of these individuals is to keep a watchful eye on the building and residents by making interior and exterior rounds of the building and responding to hall emergencies. Security Monitors are in direct radio contact with the University Police Department and can be contacted by residents by telephone or pager.
- Video security cameras are operating in public spaces in all facilities.
- Community Advisors (CA) are on-call weekdays from 4:30 p.m. to 8 a.m. and 24 hours a day on weekends. Residents can contact the CA on duty via cell phone. These highly trained upper-division students are available to assist residents with all questions and concerns and have extensive training to handle emergency situations. If the CA needs assistance, a Residence Director (RD) is available 24 hours a day. The RD's, who are full-time, live-in, Master's Degree professionals, with a background in Higher Education, are always available by phone to assist in crisis situations.
Walking somewhere alone? Call 612-624-WALK
The Security Monitor Program, a branch of the UMPD, offers free walking and biking security escorts to and from campus locations and nearby adjacent neighborhoods for all students, staff, faculty and visitors. All Security Monitors are given training in First Aid, CPR, and Body Substance Isolation. All Security Monitors are equipped with a First Aid Kit and a portable police radio in the event of an emergency. To request an escort from a trained student security monitor, please call 612-624-WALK, or 4-WALK from any campus phone, shortly before your desired departure time. Your safety is our first priority!


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Big Data Technology Enhances Ultra-High-Speed Data Transfer: White Paper
The white paper describes the results of a joint effort between Aspera and Intel to research ultra-high-speed (10 Gb per second and faster) data transfer solutions built on Aspera fasp* transport technology and an Intel® hardware platform.
While the Aspera transfers can achieve 10 Gb per second with a single stream using jumbo frames, the emphasis of the investigation is to demonstrate maximum possible speed using regular packet sizes (1492B) to show what is possible on commodity Internet connections.
The test system has built-in support for single-root I/O virtualization, a technology that allows virtual machine platforms to bypass the hypervisor to directly access resources on the physical network interface for superior I/O performance.
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You're ready to make your next move. You've done your research into potential employers. And you've identified Adobe as the perfect company to launch or further your career. Great decision. Finding the right position might take some work, but the journey to your dream job starts with a single step.
Even in this digital age, a thoughtfully prepared resume is a valuable investment of your time. We encourage you to clearly summarize your education, employment history, and experience in one to two pages. Describe your key strengths and expertise. Highlight your accomplishments and the unique approaches you took that made you succeed. Show us your career progression, and don't forget your qualifications. Be sure to mention extracurricular or volunteer work. (If you've done your research, you know Adobe cares about community involvement.) Where possible, include links to projects that can substantiate your experience.
From a technical perspective, we naturally prefer to receive resumes as PDF documents. Once you've created your perfect resume, quickly convert it to a PDF file from anywhere. If that's not possible, no worries. Just be sure to format your printed resume in easily scannable text (no underlining, italics, fancy typefaces, lines, or borders), and then mail it to: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Talent Selection, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704.
Once you create an Adobe Career Opportunities account, you can upload your resume, build your profile, and set your preferences. Then you'll be notified as career openings come available that match your skills and experience. You can also search for positions based on job type, office location, and other variables.
If you are a university student who will graduate soon, we encourage you to attend a hiring event in your area. The Adobe University Talent team visits a number of universities throughout the United States and the world. Check the calendar to see when we'll be in your area. Even if we don't visit your school, we still want to hear from you, so please submit your resume online.
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Badger Pro has been completely redrawn and remastered by Steve Jackaman and Ashley Muir. The new Badger Pro family has been fleshed out with a glyph set that is over 40% larger than the original Badger release, and contains all the high-end features expected in a quality OpenType Pro font.
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Bulbrite Commercial Grade Decorative String Light. Ideal for patio lighting, gazebos, porches, decks, outdoor events, parties and to enhance the decor of restaurants and bars.
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We are a professional entertainment and lighting company and use these cafe string lights for weddings and events. We purchased 25 watt shatterproof bulbs to install in these strands. The strands are durable, but at least 2 or 3 of the sockets on each strand are extremely difficult (some almost impossible) to screw in the light bulb.
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Hi to all, i'm going to migrate a medium-large company (about 3000 users) from an Exchange 2000 (windows 2000 server) to a Zimbra 7.1 open source edition.
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2) Zimbra migration tool import Exchange aliases and contacts?
3) I must use the Zimbra migration tool from the exchange server or i can use a client with sufficient privileges?
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ACW is a more enjoyable game as far as I'm concerned, but both games have their fans.
Public Beta Patch thread link: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2283793
Pretty much all mods for all Close Combat games are located at the one site, here:
I think by vetmod you probably mean VetBOB, which is a very popular mod. However, it is for Close Combat IV and V and not for Close Combat Cross of Iron.
Hope you like it!! The campaign's aren't random, but they aren't scripted either.
Silent Storm got a bit silly and there certainly wasn't a sense you could "play through" the death of a character and keep going. Nobody died. They just showed up ready to go. The closest to an "X-Com" WWII game was probably that terrible, terrible, Hasbro "Squad Leader" abomination. Not even worth it. Don't bother looking.
Even that didn't have what I really want. Good psychological modeling and detailed real time information about each individual's status with long term tracking of those individuals (ala Close Combat) and random campaigns with randomly generated battle maps and opposing forces (ala Steel Panthers).
Or you could try the old 101st Airborne: Invasion of Normandy game. That was actually pretty intense if, at times, plodding. There was quite a bit of randomization as I recall. You equipped a stick with men and gear, from a larger potential selection, then they got dropped all over a map. The grouping and placement was different every game as were the condition of the men on landing. The biggest concentration on one of the tactical tiles is where you'd start out and you'd be sneaking around trying to regroup with separated individuals. A big factor was weighing how much time you had to complete your mission, and the possibility of casualties and attrition, against finding more guys and improving your odds. Each paratrooper had a unique biography, portrait, skill set and (as I recall) pretty high quality voice acting.
I don't recall whether the placement of Germans and victory locations was random or not (aside from wandering patrols) but the tiles may have been random but within them you'd have the same encounters.
As with Close Combat psychological modeling seemed pretty accurate. Suppressing fire was effective to enable flanking, soldiers on both sides could break with unpredictable reactions, and after breaking a soldier was never quite the same again. Fog of war created a huge amount of tension as could the sheer lethality of the game system. Not only were conventional weapons realistically lethal but there could be traps like minefields or concealed MG nests scattered about.
This brings about the downside of the game. Because of the incredibly lethal nature of combat, not unfairly so but certainly realistic, and your need to scout out much of every map looking for lost men/supplies, victory locations: things could move really, really slowly. You could opt to speed through RT between turn-based combat encounters but odds are fairly good you'd end up swiss cheese sooner or later if you didn't take a more deliberate approach.
There's a fine line between tension and monotony, I suspect, in real combat. I'm not sure how well this translates into a videogame where it can easily be mistaken for leaden pacing.
Not sure if this runs on modern Windows systems but the sequel, if it ever arrives (which I'm beginning to think is the biggest, longest, April Fool's day joke ever), All American 82nd, should. Maybe. Who knows?
Edit: It runs fine on Vista if you load it into its own folder, other than Programs, and I've just been messing around with it. I'll change "good voice acting" to "distinctive voice acting". You can tell the guys apart but some of the voice work is, well, not so hot. Some is very good though. There's no real time movement between engagements but you can do something called a group move that just picks everyone up and plops them down together in the same place, standing up, and ready to be shot. That's why I never used it...
As for plodding, alot of that's in the animation as I'm now remembering. I think there's a patch that speeds up animation but the tradeoff is alot of hyperactive scuttling as your guys zip around. It probably fixes other things as well.
There are difficulty settings but any way you play there's no way to save. It's all Iron Man mode. And even on Easy I lost three guys in my first encounter on a map. I was just messing around and group moved my guys ahead. They walked into a lone patrolling German armed with an assault rifle. He spotted me first. I was two guys down. Another got shot after we went prone and tried to scatter. One's incapacitated but stable. Still out of action. Two are dead. My captain got lost as did another three guys in my stick and one bag of gear on the drop. A quarter of stick are "scattered" which means they could show up as we keep going. A couple guys are injured including one who got hung up on a tree during landing.
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Brian, you yourself touch on the problems a game of this kind would have.
In real life the bonding between squad members happens primarily during the months-long training period and secondarily during downtime in combat areas (which is most of the time). Modeling this would be tedious. Thus, it is hard to get to know the squaddies in a game.
Real firefights are rapidly lethal and unit attrition in a realistic, combat-oriented game is horrible. Combined, these factors lead to only a short time to get to know new guys before they inevitably die. This leads to not caring about the new guys to protect your psyche, just like it was in real life within troops in heavy combat.
To get more time to care about individuals you need to make continuous enemy contact unrealistically survivable. Either the guns have no bite or range or the guys are supermen. It's hard to design a game overcoming these constraints. I am aware of no successful implementations. Maybe it's doable, maybe not.
Or you make the pace of the game very slow which is not so nice, either. The guys die a lot but at least it takes a long time.
Both games have realistic combat and both manage a level of unscripted, emergent, narrative that bring out soldiers as individuals.
Ok, that makes sense. I was thinking about the problems inherent in trying to get to spend a longer modelled time period with the same guys. It's true that it's still possible to tell affecting human stories with people you haven't known a very long time. More the short story approach than the novel one.
Well, you can fake the novel approach as Airborne does. Before you even start a mission you're on the ground in the barracks clicking on the guys to see their abilities and skills. But you also see their biographies and each one offers a quickie audio soundbite as if you're a reporter or writer interviewing them.
From there you can manually or automatically pick your stick from the available guys (they're not all available every time) and then manually or automatically assign them gear, weapons and a spot inside the plane that's dropping them. The first and the last folks seated are more likely to drift off and become either separated or lost.
But over time, even with the super high attrition rate (starting the very moment folks begin jumping out of the transport), and several missions you really get to recognize voices and mannerisms. Sure, by the end of a mission only a handful of guys are left but over several missions (each a new replay not a continuing series of adventures) you get a good feel for these guys.
The thing is that we're really not soldiers. We're players. The difficulty isn't protecting our emotions from getting overwhelmed by what happens to our friends but getting an all too jaded gamer to actually pay attention to his soldiers as individuals with at least basic personalities or proclivities.
Seems to me many wargamers, and flight simmers, are to some extent roleplayers. They enjoy the narrative drama as much as the tactics. Why else bother to write AARs as narratives as so many do? Some of us just like that aspect the most and appreciate the granularity of tactical wargames that show off soldiers as individuals and surprise us with the unanticipated while creating opaque anxieties of anticipation and uncertainty.
Why does someone turn a page in a book? To see what will happen next. That's what one-more-turn is all about for me.
That's what I meant, too. Not that the player would be emotionally scarred (not going to happen) but that why bother to learn their virtual names when they'll be gone within a battle or two.The thing is that we're really not soldiers. We're players. The difficulty isn't protecting our emotions from getting overwhelmed by what happens to our friends but getting an all too jaded gamer to actually pay attention to his soldiers as individuals with at least basic personalities or proclivities.
Absolutely. I still remember fondly my (short-lived) diary of the new IL-2 combat pilot Piotr Ilyanovich.Seems to me many wargamers, and flight simmers, are to some extent roleplayers.
Not that I have any time for either, but of the "new" / re-released Close Combats, which is the best?
I have only played Cross of Iron and Wacht am Rhein, but I prefer Cross of Iron. Recently started the Grand Campaign and was playing the second operation today, stormed to the Kremlin, was repulsed in quick order, then held the previous map in a brutal stalemate for several days before making one final surge back to the Kremlin on the final day, only to be smashed to pieces again. I love how the maps stay persistent between days, with shell craters and burned out tanks sticking around. Not looking forward to the Soviet counter attack, I have few requisition points left and my units are a pale shadow of what they once were.
The Longest Day is my favorite, followed by Cross of Iron.
Otherwise, it just as slow and punishing as I remember from my previous plays many years ago. Hell, my first attempt was aborted before it began after the C47 went down mid-drop taking just under half of my men with it. I'm going to need a lot more practice before I attempt a proper playthrough.
And the talk of Close Combat has me itching to give it another try but I'm curious how the Modern Tactics game holds up against the WW2 versions? Seems to be the 'forgotten' CC game though I think I do have a copy somewhere. Not sure if it's worth digging it out, and if so any must have mods etc?
Gives you a single battle group which you take from the beginning of a campaign to the end
# Allows you to purchase new units for your group, and sometimes commandeer captured enemy units
# Awards scores for achieving battlefield objectives, which affect what units you can buy
# Presents you with a linear campaign of battles, wherein you have no tactical movement or choices
The other two:
# Present you with with multiple battle groups with pre-defined units, some with reserves,
# Involve movement of battle groups on a tactical map
# Give you overall victory conditions and freedom regarding how you reach them
So CoI is much more personal. If you get a Tiger in CoI, it'll be your only Tiger. It is your prize possession. You have to love it, take care of it, hope it does not get stuck in mud. An IS II appears? Worry, fret, be anxious and nervous. By contrast, in WAR and TLR, if one of your tanks is knocked out, shoot, its regrettable, but you've got a much bigger picture to look at. When playing CoI, I miss somewhat the tactical aspect of WAR and TLR and when playing WAR and TLR, I miss the more intimate nature of CoI
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For those who may be interested, the second version of Across the Dnepr, an expansion for SSG's Kharkov, is now out, along with the new patch for the basic Kharkov game. Interestingly, the free patch gets you the new updated Husky (Sicily) scenario from Battles in Italy, all gussied up for the new game engine, as well as two user-created (and pretty sophisticated) battles, Kirovograd and Budapest. The former has been around for a bit but the latter is new, and actually has several variants.
The main AotD II battle is huge, and seems really well done. The Husky scenario was always a favorite from BII, and the translation to the Kharkov engine is much appreciated. I haven't done much with the Budapest battle, but despite a rather, um, interesting looking map, it seems very well done.
The only sticking point for some is the price--this is not a stand alone package and it sells for full-game price. Admittedly, the AotD scenario itself is bigger and more complex than the Kharkov battle, which was all you got with the original game, but the three other battles are freebies you can get with the free patch. So some folks are miffed. But really, just think of it as buying another game from SSG, and it works out. It's not like there are a lot of choices in professionally-done wargames these days, and all of them cost a lot too. Battles from the Bulge from Panther will probably be $60 or so and I'm sure War in the East from Grigsby will be at least that.
I own a couple of SSG games, but I've never been able to get into them. I think the problem is that the scale is similar to the Operational Art of War game, which I love, so when I encounter the learning curve of a similar game it's very easy to walk away and find a OAW scenario that covers the same battle.
That said, all their games have been well received. But I did read the comments about this release over on Matrix and it does look like they created a bit of a controversy based on past promises apparently forgotten about in regards to owners of the previous version of AtD.
I think I would love the SSG games if they just had some more accessible entry level scenarios. Your only choice to play is the full on monster scenario and that's just too big for me to get my arms around, so I just sort of give up.
The uproar at Matrix about this release stems from two things, the fact that it's a full-priced product that requires ownership of the original Kharkov game, and to a lesser extent the fact that Gregor of SSG mentioned, more than a year ago, that there would be some sort of discount for owners of Kharkov. Turns out he spoke out of turn, which he has copped to and apologized for, but at the time, he figured a small discount was going to be offered.
It IS a hard sell to people who don't have the original game, because they have to pay about $90 smackers to get AotD II (though of course they also get the very good original too, which is still a great wargame), rather than simply, say, $60 for the original and an expansion. For people who own the original, it's like buying another SSG game, and given that AotD is freakin' huge, it's not that big a deal, but yeah, it hurts to be sold an "expansion" priced the same as a new game. Better they had simply made it a stand-alone maybe, but I guess then sales of the original Kharkov might have tanked. Dunno.
As for getting into SSG games, it's an acquired taste I think. I loved the original stuff they did on the C64, but had a harder time getting into their newer stuff (from The Ardennes Offensive onward). Mostly it was the look, which isn't as austere, sterile, and clean as I like my wargames, daggumit! And the fact that the games are fixed resolution rather than scaling with my desktop as God intended. Once I got over that, the combat system and mechanics were appealing and the AI challenging, but I still feel that often the AI is challenging more because it plays a great "game" rather than fights a great "battle." In that, I mean it's good at playing the victory points, etc. but sometimes in ways that aren't terribly historical, IMO. But I've come to really enjoy the games, because the pace is so much more fluid than the HPS operational games, which I love for their detail and old-school feel, but which take forever to play. Also, I have to play the HPS games both sides old-school solitaire style, because the AIs usually aren't up to the challenge; with SSG's games, I can get whipped by the AI and usually lose.
I have my TAOW III serial number from Matrix but can't find the actual game install anywhere, damn it.
I bought Battles in Normandy a few years ago, and after about an hour of trying to learn it set it aside and played an enjoyable TOAW 3 scenario that covered the same campaign. I've no doubt that SSGs game is probably better and more challenging, but a lot of times I just want to play a campaign and its hard to ignore the ability to play it with a system I know and am familiar with in favor of learning a new approach to modeling the conflict. But then I come into wargaming from a WW2 history buff point of view, so I'm more interested in what the game shows me about the campaign them I am in finding enjoyment in the mechanics of how its presented, even if I can appreciate a good design.


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Zeta Cancri in 6"
Posted 29 March 2013 - 09:49 PM
It was interesting to note the seeing tonight. It was what I call "slow seeing". There was a clear diffraction pattern with one ring and occasionally two. The rings would slowly, over several second timespans, morph from one to two, appear mostly on one side of all three stars and then on the other (all three doing the same thing at the same time....) and then disappear slowly for a few seconds. There were moments when the pattern froze for a few seconds in the classic concentric display. 10/10!!!
Posted 30 March 2013 - 09:09 AM
Here is a drawing I made of an observation some time back,with my 6 inch f/8 Achromat. I was using 320 and 480x
for the split of the closer pair.
My notes recorded the closer pair has having a slight yellow tint (maybe due to using an achromat at higher power?),
while the wider star had a slight bluish tint.
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Posted 30 March 2013 - 09:41 AM
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Posted 30 March 2013 - 12:42 PM
It's an easy job with my 8 inch Mak.
Posted 30 March 2013 - 10:36 PM
Posted 30 March 2013 - 11:13 PM
It is a pretty multiple.
Posted 30 March 2013 - 11:51 PM
I spent much of the same night observing several doubles and two carbon stars in Cancer with my SV80ed. Zeta was one of the doubles but of course no hope of the B component in that scope. I'll have to try it with my 8" SCT soon. I would have to have a near perfect night to get it with a 5", and I don't get those very often.
Question: In your Triple Star file you shared a while back, what were the criteria for the last two columns, Sep. Rank and Rank Points? I notice Zeta Cnc is the second star on the list.
Posted 31 March 2013 - 02:44 AM
Posted 31 March 2013 - 10:01 AM
"Notes on the spreadsheet. Name -- I used the Bayer Greek letter as first choice, Flamsteed Number second and
the Washington Double Star Catalog (WDS) designation third.
RA and DEC -- checked and corrected for every entry so as to coincide with the WDS to enable anyone to look up the data for themselves especially in the future as some of the tight pairs will move significantly in just a few years.
Magnitudes, Mag Sum and Mag Sum Rank - checked, corrected and updated from the WDS. The ranking is simply sequential. In a few cases the WDS shows either the B component or the C component to be brighter than the A component. For these I took the liberty of altering the data so that M1 < M2 < M3 for all systems. The calculation of Mag. Range required this.
Mag. Range and Mag Range Rank -- In all cases this parameter was M3 - M1 so as to have a positive result. The ranking is, again, sequential.
Sep. AB, Sep AC and Sep. Rank -- The WDS gives clear AB and AC separations most of the time. In a few cases, when AB is a very tight pair the AB-C separation is given. I assigned these values to the Sep. AC column since it is the wider of AB and AC which is used to rank the systems. For example, if AB = 1.0" and AB- C is 52.0" then AC must be between 51.0" and 53.0" depending on the Position Angle of AB. This difference is too small to matter in my quite unscientific ranking. The AC value is used for ranking because it is always the larger of the two values and thus indicates the degree of ʻcloseness' of the system as a whole.
Total Rank -- This is the sum of the Mag. Sum Rank, the Mag. Range Rank and the Sep. Rank. A lower ʻtotal' indicates a ʻbetter' triple star system. There is a vast range of total Ranks which is indicative of the great variety of triple star systems on the list.!"
Posted 31 March 2013 - 10:29 AM
Posted 31 March 2013 - 11:50 AM
It is a nice resource for multiple star observers and I for one appreciate both the effort and your making it available.
Thanks again!
Posted 31 March 2013 - 12:10 PM
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Posted 01 April 2013 - 01:54 AM
I looked it up in WDS - 2012 measure gives 1.1" for the AB close pair, which ties in well with the ephemeris (grade 1 orbit, so you'd hope so!). Should make it a Rayleigh "just splittable" pair for about a 5-inch scope.
The WDS listing includes mention of component 'C' being double as well - magnitudes 6.2 and 7.1 at 0.4" in 2009 (PA 261). Anyone want to try for it?
I last looked at Zeta Cancri (no way will I call it Tegmine - yet another of the hundreds of names that need an encyclopedia list to decipher) - in 2009, it was a neat double ABxC at 100x, and I skipped intermediate eyepieces and got a very close but clear split at 230x - this with 140mm refractor. 320x gave better separation, very clean discs. Seeing that night I recorded as very steady. Separation in 2009 was a tiny bit less than now in the 60 year orbit.
Posted 01 April 2013 - 09:05 AM
The WDS listing includes mention of component 'C' being double as well - magnitudes 6.2 and 7.1 at 0.4" in 2009 (PA 261). Anyone want to try for it?
Thanks for pointing this out. When I get to the Texas Star Party I will throw my 16" Zambuto at it just for fun.
For my 16" Rayleigh is 0.34" and Dawes is 0.29". I'll need some fantastic seeing, though.....
Posted 01 April 2013 - 02:13 PM
Posted 02 April 2013 - 11:58 PM
It's a fine triple with this size scope. Not much colour effect, but I guess you can't have it all every time.
Posted 04 April 2013 - 09:45 AM
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Posted 11 April 2013 - 03:02 PM
In my 125mm F/7 Dobsonian at 135x/Simetric Solid 12.8mm +2X Barlow the tight pair was visible in an eight shape,the distant companion was visible with no efort.Two nights ago the last one was seen in my 3 inch F/9.2 Newwtonian.
At 236x/Celestron ''orange'' Plossl 7.5mm+2x Barlow ,the tight pair of the triple star was also splitted,the companion being at about PA=70 degree.
Posted 11 April 2013 - 09:58 PM
Posted 11 April 2013 - 10:37 PM
Good job. I love the figure eight doubles when the seeing allows for it to happen. Unforgettable on the best nights with the right pairs. Glad you found success here.
Posted 12 April 2013 - 03:44 PM
Last night instead,the seeing was so bad,Zeta Cnc hardly seen as double star.
I still prefer this to the endless clouds...


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88 Minutes (2008)
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In 88 MINUTES, Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Gramm, a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. When Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, who include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover, and a serial killer who is already on death row, before his time runs out.
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Politics | With GOP influence dwindling, moderate Democrats may be the only senators who can slow President Obama's ambitious agenda
Sweat-streaked hair falling over his eyes, Sen. Jefferson Smith croaked to skeptical Senate colleagues that he would not stand for "graft" in the pending legislation: "I can hold this floor a little short of doomsday. I've got a piece to speak-and blow hot or cold, I'm going to speak it," he said hoarsely in the middle of a 24-hour filibuster speech.
Of course this winded oratory was not over the Obama stimulus package. In fact, Smith isn't even a senator, but actor Jimmy Stewart in the Frank Capra classic Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
Modern-day Republican senators wish they had Smith's filibustering power to stop Democratic legislation. Thanks to a measure included in the 2010 budget agreement already approved by Congress (without a single Republican vote), senators can pass health-care reform with a simple majority of 51 votes-and not the usual "super majority" of 60 needed to break a Senate filibuster.
With the roster of Senate Democrats now standing at 59 after the recent defection of Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, this dynamic change in Senate procedure puts massive health-care reform on a fast track to passage.
It also sends a message, conservatives say, that Republicans will not be needed as the White House and Congress seek an overhaul of the medical insurance industry that could lead to government-managed health care. This mammoth reform could now come without a single Republican vote despite past verbal overtures for bipartisanship from Obama and other Democratic leaders. Lawmakers also included the bold "reconciliation" maneuver to allow education reform to circumvent the traditional Senate rules.
No less a Democratic stalwart than Sen. Robert Byrd, the Democrat from West Virginia now in his 50th year in the Senate, broke party ranks to vote against the budget, warning that reconciliation would lead to a "rigged pseudo-debate on health care."
"Using reconciliation to ram through complicated, far-reaching legislation is an abuse of the budget process. This is a very messy way to achieve a goal like health-care reform."
So with the health-care debate set for a summer showdown of federal bureaucracy versus free market, the question arises: Will Republicans walk into the congressional chambers with not only zero bullets but no guns in their holsters? With House Democrats enjoying a fat 78-seat majority and Senate Democrats possessing at least eight more votes then needed, is Democratic-stamped health-care reform (and education overhaul) a fait accompli?
One answer to who can slow the Obama train, according to Dennis Whitfield with the American Conservative Union, is moderate Democrats. Coming largely from Southern and Midwestern red states that vote Republican for president and boast a lot of independent voters, these moderate Democrats are self-described fiscal conservatives. Their states continue to be hit hard by the economy and residents there get a little worried about government spending and higher taxes.
Now the current congressional calculus is putting this centrist voting bloc in prime position to put their own stamp on Obama's legislative agenda. Concerned about their own reelections, these Democrats have soul-searching decisions to make regarding how deep they are willing to wade into the liberal end of their party.
"They should be very cautious about how far they go along with Obama and [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid," said Whitfield. "These are the people on the Democratic side who may say wait a minute."
A few have already said wait a minute. Sens. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and Ben Nelson, D-Neb., both voted against Obama's budget. "I've been a fiscal conservative throughout my career," Bayh, up for reelection in 2010, recently said on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace. "It's nothing personal to the president."
Bayh, whose state approval rating shot to 74 percent in a poll released after he voted against Obama's budget, added: "We don't want the government intruding any more than it has to in the private sector. When it comes to health care, we don't want socialized medicine." For his part, Nelson has opposed Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan.
Sensing their rising star status, Bayh, Nelson, and 13 other Senate Democrats, three of whom are up for reelection, formed a moderate working group in March to ensure the more liberal wing of the party does not ignore their voices. Using adjectives like "pragmatic," "practical," and "fiscally responsible," the new group pledged not to be automatic Democratic votes.
The group, which contains numerous freshman senators from traditionally Republican-leaning states looking to shore up their moderate mantle, joins the long-established House "Blue Dog" faction of about 50 conservative Democrats.
But Mike Franc with the Heritage Foundation says moderate Democrats deserve bad marks so far. Their bite has not been as strong as their bark. In some of Congress' biggest votes this year-on the stimulus, the budget, TARP financial bailout funds, a measure that rolled back welfare reform, the expansions of both government-funded health care for children and the government-run AmeriCorps volunteer program-moderate Democrats have voted with the most liberal wing of their party nearly two-thirds of the time, according to Franc.
"When they have had a chance to say 'No, we didn't sign up for this agenda,' they haven't done it," said Franc. "With their track record thus far a lot of people would like to play poker with them because they are going to fold a lot.
" If this voting pattern holds, moderate Democrats may have some explaining to do to their constituents, since many ran on platforms that did not venture as far to the left as the current Democratic agenda. Sensing this, Democratic House leaders, comfortable with their sizable voting margin, have been allowing House moderates to vote against them on certain bills in hopes of shoring up their reelection bids. But the Senate does not have similar cover.
"We no longer have the votes to hold anything, so I don't think anybody's going to properly call us the 'party of no,'" Republican Minority Whip Sen. Jon Kyl told Roll Call last week. "If something gets defeated, it will have to be because some Democrats joined in."
That statement has become even more true with the adoption of the reconciliation rule allowing a simple majority to pass health-care and education reform.
The Senate as a body exists to protect the rights of the minority, to make sure minority voices are heard, says Betty Koed, a historian with the Senate Historical Office. The ability of even one senator to block legislation he or she deems bad for the country through a filibuster has been a key weapon for the minority. Until now. "Majorities hate filibusters and minorities love filibusters," said Koed.
Koed said the Senate doesn't keep records on how many bills or nominations have been derailed by a filibuster. She said quantifying its effectiveness is hard because the threat of a filibuster is often as powerful as an actual filibuster. On May 13, Republicans successfully used their first filibuster of an Obama administration nominee to block the confirmation of David J. Hayes as deputy secretary of the interior. (Three Democrats missed the vote, and Senate leaders said they would bring the nomination back to the floor when those Democrats are present. That would likely give Hayes 61 votes.)
But even when a filibuster fails, it still allows the minority party a chance to publicize their viewpoint.
With large voting deficits to overcome in Congress for the next two years, Republicans have latched onto the strategy of taking their message to another set of voters: their constituents. To do that, they plan on letting constituents know that the Democrats are casting aside bipartisanship. In interviews on Capitol Hill, Republican strategists repeatedly invoke the phrase that Democrats will "own 100 percent" any major health-care or education overhauls they pass without bipartisan support. The thinking among Republicans is that most Americans will flinch at the cost and bureaucracy of the Democrats' plans.
"There may be a tolerance for government to get bigger and do more things in a crisis," said Franc. "But if it looks like these are not temporary Band-Aids but permanent government programs, then expect a voter backlash."
Conservatives see hope in the fact that polls show disparities between public support of Obama, whose celebrity status was cemented during the campaign, and support for Democratic policies.
A recent Cook Political Report/RT Strategies poll gave Obama a 60 percent approval rating. But 62 percent of those same respondents opposed further government intervention in banks or insurance companies. Furthermore, the poll showed that Americans still sense the need for the government's system of checks and balances: 48 percent saw more merit in electing a Republican Congress to keep Obama accountable, while 41 percent preferred a Democratic Congress to work with Obama. "The public doesn't like that image of a legislative steamroller," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. "They believe it is dangerous and sends a wrong message.
"There is historical precedent that large majorities are short-lived. President Jimmy Carter enjoyed Democratic majorities in Congress, including a filibuster-proof 61 seats in the Senate. But in the 1978 mid-term elections, with the country going though an economic crisis, Republicans gained 15 seats in the House while defeating five Democratic incumbents in the Senate. Two years later Carter lost the presidency as Republicans gained 35 seats in the House and became the majority party in the Senate. In the 1994 mid-term elections, Republicans, in the aftermath of President Bill Clinton's failed health-care proposal, picked up eight Senate seats and 54 in the House-taking control of the House for the first time in 40 years.
This is the danger for Democrats if they overreach with too ambitious an agenda. And with the economy, health care, education, and energy all on the table for this year, few would argue that the current agenda is anything but ambitious.
"It is just the nature of power," said Marjorie Hershey, professor of political science at Indiana University. "When people have a lot of it they try to push through more than the American public can swallow in one bite. They start envisioning a mandate, and in American politics we simply don't have a mandate."
Back in Congress, Senate Republicans recently reveled in the defeat of a mortgage plan that would have spurred homeowners to declare bankruptcy while raising interest rates on other borrowers. Twelve Democrats joined Republicans in killing the measure, including five from the moderate Democrats' working group.
But bigger battles remain in health care and education, and the GOP will be handcuffed in those fights. Without the filibuster, they will not be able to say as the fictional Sen. Smith did that "wild horses aren't going to drag me off this floor till those people've heard everything I've got to say."
But this aggressive bypassing of Senate rules has not escaped one Democrat. Byrd, the longest-serving member in Senate history, sees a future where Democrats again will be in the minority, begging to be protected from "the bear trap" of reconciliation: "The worm will turn."


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Mopar Stroker Small Block - The 2007 AMSOIL/Mopar Muscle Engine ChallengeWritten by on May 1, 2008 Contributors: Randy Bolig A Look Inside Two Of The Most Powerful Challenge Engines
It takes horsepower to be competitive in our Engine Challenge, and the two small-blocks we're featuring this month made plenty of it. In fact, the R.M. Competition entry was just shy of winning, placing a very close Third in our tightest competition to date. The Mid America Racing Engines entry also impressed us by making the most combined power of any engine in this year's Engine Challenge, screaming to more than 560 pump-gas-friendly horsepower and nearly 500 lb-ft of torque. Equally as important as the power these engines produced was the budget the builders adhered to. Since the cost of each engine is factored into the combined power, engine builders had to carefully spend money where it benefited their combination the most.
This month, we'll go inside the Third Place entry of R.M. Competition and the Fourth Place entry of Mid America Racing Engines, detailing the parts and techniques that made each engine competitive.
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Engine builder Randy Malik came very close to winning this year's Engine Challenge. Placing a close Third, this engine was mere decimals away from the Second and First Place entries in ouandy placed so well was his careful selection of budget parts, and making more than 500 hp on the dyno certainly didn't hurt. This engine was a well thought-out combination of powerful parts and was built on a tight budget since cost matters as much as power in our contest.
Starting with a production Chrysler 360 core motor, Randy performed the necessary machine work in-house. The factory block was bored to accommodate Keith Black hypereutectic cast pistons and Perfect Circle piston rings. A Scat stroker crank was matched with factory connecting rods to net a displacement of 406 ci. A production 360 oil pan was also utilized to keep costs down, and a custom windage tray was fabricated in-house. Melling was the manufacturer of choice for the oil pump, timing set, and lifters, and Federal Mogul and Durabond bearings were used in this engine. Knowing the importance of camshaft selection, Randy chose a large Lunati flat-tappet unit to work with the Weiand tunnel-ram intake.
To top his stout bottom-end, Randy chose Mopar Magnum cylinder heads from Engine Quest. Magnum heads adorned the top three finishers in this year's contest and make great power for the money. REV engine valves were utilized along with valvesprings matched to the Lunati bump stick. Harland Sharp roller rocker arms with a 1.7 ratio were used on the intake side, while Crane 1.6 ratio rockers were chosen for the exhaust side. A composition head gasket was used to seal the combustion chambers, and Randy claims compression ended up right at 12.2:1, pushing the limit for pump gas. While the Weiand tunnel-ram intake isn't really what Randy would recommend for a street car, it worked great on the dyno where peak horsepower and torque were used to help determine the winner. While no special coatings per se were used on this engine, he did paint the bottom of the intake with epoxy paint to help insulate the intake from the hot oil. A matching pair of Edelbrock carburetors topped the engine, and an air cleaner was fabricated from wood, again to keep cost down.
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Washington, Iowa
Engine builder David Bruns of Mid America Racing Engines has brought competitive engines to all our competitions to date. The Hemi he brought to the first Challenge was a solid street engine with very broad torque and power curves, and last year's big-block impressed us with awesome power and torque, winning the '06 Engine Challenge. This year David brought yet another good engine to the contest, impressing everyone in attendance by making nearly 570 hp and 490 lb-ft of torque for a contest-leading combined score. While the expense of aluminum cylinder heads and a roller cam kept him from another win, we were still impressed with the power and reliability of this engine, earning Mid America Racing Engines a Fourth Place finish.
Like most competitors this year, David used a stock 360 core block as the foundation for his build. The block was machined in-house for Probe forged pistons with PBM piston rings and an Eagle 4-inch stroke crankshaft. Scat connecting rods were utilized for their durability; the compression ratio of this 410ci small-block was 11.7:1. To handle oiling, David chose a Moroso oil pan, which he modified by adding oil control baffles, combined with a Milodon windage tray and Clevite oil pump. Oil from the top end was routed to the pan via the back of the block and away from the rotating assembly by metal plates under the camshaft tunnel. King rod and main bearings kept everything spinning freely, and Clevite cam bearings held the Cam Motion solid roller camshaft in place. A PBM timing set was used to spin the cam and enclosed by a stock timing cover.
Going for big power numbers meant utilizing aftermarket cylinder heads, and engine builder David Bruns chose Indy 360 H1-1 units to top his engine. These heads were machined in-house for stainless steel 2.125-inch intake and 1.65-inch exhaust valves and PBM roller valvesprings. David also ported the cylinder heads himself, reshaping the exhaust ports to mimic the proven profile and volume of Mopar W-2 cylinder heads. To actuate the valves, 1.6-ratio Indy roller rocker arms were used along with 3/8 -inch-diameter hardened pushrods. Knowing this combination would like an intake with big runners and a high plenum volume, David chose the Indy 360-14-3R aluminum single plane intake for induction duties. Double carb spacers beneath the Holley 1,000-cfm 4150 series carb provided additional intake volume, and additional power for this combination. Ignition was handled by an MSD distributor.
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Placing Third and Fourth, respectively, in the '07 Engine Challenge, R.M. Competition and Mid America Racing Engines brought powerful small-blocks to our contest.Randy Malik of R.M. Competition tuned his Magnum-headed stroker small-block to more than 500 hp on pump gas, clinching Third Place.As the only engine to utilize dual four-barrel induction, the R.M. Competition entry was budget built and made impressive horsepower with cast-iron Magnum cylinder heads.Tunnel-ram induction combined with a pair of Edelbrock four-barrels may not be the most streetable combination, but this engine made great power on the dyno.Dual-quad induction kept Randy from making any jet changes on the dyno, but he still tuned his engine to impressive power with timing and spark plug changes.Our rules stated the engines would be filled with Amsoil to the pan's capacity, but didn't say anything about the oil filter. Randy picked this 11/2 quart unit to keep more oil out of the crankcase, reducing windage and, thereby, improving power.Inside his 360 block, Randy used a Scat crank with stock rods and Keith Black cast pistons. Note the fabricated windage tray necessary for the additional stroke.
Magnum cylinder heads offer a great combustion chamber design, large valves, and good port volume and configuration. They're reasonably priced as well, so it's no wonder the top three engines all used Magnum heads.Stock rods and cast pistons might not work in a serious race application, but for this dyno challenge, they survived multiple pulls and kept costs down.A combination of Harland Sharp and Crane rocker arms kept the valvetrain in check, allowing Randy to tune his small-block to more than 500 hp and a Third Place showing in this year's Engine Challenge.Cylinder heads were ported in-house to optimize flow, and these Magnum heads have the LA-style intake bolt pattern, allowing less expensive and more readily available intake manifolds to be used.While no exotic coatings were used, the bottom of the intake was painted with epoxy paint to keep heat away from the intake charge.David Bruns of Mid America Racing Engines won last year's contest and though placing Fourth overall this year, earned the honor of making the most horsepower in this year's Challenge.In 2006, engine builder David Bruns won our competition. This year his small-block made more power than any of the competitors.Indy aluminum cylinder heads, a high-volume single-plane intake, and a stack of carb spacers helped engine builder David Bruns attain contest-leading power in this year's Engine Challenge.
A Milodon windage tray along with a Moroso pan with added baffles helped keep power-robbing crankcase windage to a minimum.Looking closely, you can see one of the metal plates epoxied in place under the camshaft tunnel in the block. These plates direct returning oil to the back of the block and into the pan without soaking the rotating assembly, also helping reduce crankcase windage.Scat I-beam connecting rods are hard to beat for the price, and Probe flat-top pistons helped this engine achieve contest-leading power.Using Indy heads with modified ports necessitated the use of header adapters on the Mid America entry. Schoenfeld headers expelled the spent gasses.The Indy heads used on this engine were ported in-house, and the exhaust ports were modified to the tried and true W-2 port dimensions.Since Indy heads require a different rocker arm offset, David utilized Indy's 1.6-ratio aluminum roller rocker arms.Though placing Fourth overall, making the most power in the contest is certainly a win of sorts for Mid America Racing Engines. We congratulate David Bruns on his strong performance in this year's Engine Challenge.


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Located at the junction of Bloomfield, Westville, and Roseland Avenues, the First Presbyterian Church stands like a monument to times past. As one drives westward along Bloomfield Ave. from Verona into Caldwell, one's attention is drawn immediately to the church's steeple. Partially hidden from view is the burial ground which contains the remains of several Revolutionary War veterans. A plaque on the fence, pictured above, states that the burial grounds were in use from approximately 1788 to approximately 1881.
The grounds are well maintained but the monuments show the affects of time and weather. Many of the inscriptions have been lost to the gradual melting away that must inevitably take place. We photographed most stones but were unable to ascertain exactly whose life many of them memorialized. We offer here a list of the stones we were able to decipher followed by many we were not.
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Earleen Medina visits the Tallahassee Senior Center pretty regularly.
"I come Monday's and Thursday's and play canasta," says Medina.
She is part of Florida's 50+ population, the same population AARP represented in a recent survey on Florida legislation.
"People want to see texting while driving legislation, people want to see adequate home and community-based services for long-term care," said the AARP's Florida state director Jeff Johnson.
The survey also showed a strong opposition for Florida's nuclear cost recovery law which allows utility companies to charge for nuclear power plants regardless of whether or not they are built.
Medina says all of the issues surveyed are important to her, especially the law impacting her utilities.
"The utilities need to be looked over, they need to be looked at maybe from a senior's point of view. What can they do to help?" said Medina.
Voters age 50 and over made up 40 percent of Florida's electorate in 2012.
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MASON, Ohio (AP) — She raises her hands to her snow-white hair in a gesture of frustrated bewilderment, then slowly lowers them to cover eyes filling with tears....
That explains why our Choomer in Chief President has stolen a RECORD $6 TRILLION from our children to cover his spending habit. Suddenly it all makes sense...
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druggies[which i am going out on a limb here]should never be in charge of anything or anybody.they'll rob you blind.this is one of the reasons drug testing for jobs goes on.
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After reading this article, my opinion is, this is not the time to cut Social services...
If we don't pay for prevention of abuse, we will pay the extra cost down line...
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