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I've had a fair number of conversations on Twitter with people who think the 2013 Mets have a reasonable prospect of contending. It essentially goes like this:
The pitching depth next year will make the starters a strength. The bullpen was worse than their peripherals, and are bound to bounce back. The offense was good, and the defense has to get better.
Now, I disagree with various points about this case. I've pointed out that both Dillon Gee and Johan Santana are coming back from season-ending injuries, and in both cases, those injuries stand a good chance of impacting their abilities to pitch full seasons in 2013. Santana is more an increasing collection of physical problems, while Gee's blood clot likely came from repetitive motion, which is, after all, what pitching is.
If we take R.A. Dickey/Jon Niese/Matt Harvey as givens, which is not the case since pitchers are inherently susceptible to injuries, Dickey will be 38, and Harvey has eight career starts, the Mets still need either Gee/Santana to stay healthy, or need to find quality starts from a group of Collin McHugh/Jenrry Mejia/Jeurys Familia/Zack Wheeler. Asking any of the four to immediately step in and consistently deliver is asking a lot, for various reasons (limited upside of McHugh, innings issues and poor K-rate at Triple-A for Mejia, command problems for Familia, Wheeler yet to even master Triple-A). Asking two of the four to do so is the height of optimism.
But let's leave that aside for a moment, and even accept the idea that the bullpen will automatically bounce back, and this seems to be the sum total of the argument, because. The difference between the bullpen's ERA (4.75) and xFIP (4.33) is 18 runs, so let's not get carried away by the effect a simple regression to the norm would provide.
Also? The offense is not a given. Period.
The Mets, following Sunday's game, are 10th in the National League in runs scored. And they are 10th in the N.L. in OPS. In other words, that ability to outpace their relatively pedestrian OPS in the first half, thanks to clutch two-out hits, has disappeared, which makes sense. That's not really a repeatable skill, while OPS is.
That ranking puts them slightly below league average in runs scored, and just ahead of the contending Pirates and Dodgers. Both teams, of course, have significantly better ERAs than the Mets do.
So if we understand that 10th in the NL is not an impossible place to be for offense to also contend, but a difficult one requiring significant improvement from the Mets on the pitching side, their task becomes far more apparent. Take away the 18 runs that separate the bullpen's actual ERA from its expected ERA, and the pitching goes from slightly below league average to just above league average, but well shy of the pitching required to make up for a below-average offense. (Also, the Mets would give a couple of those runs back due to their starters slightly outpitching their xFIP, 3.81 real ERA to 3.87 xFIP.)
Let's not forget that some of this gap isn't luck; it is a poor defensive team. To really improve in 2013, the bullpen will also need to improve its core performance.
Where else do they make up ground? Is it realistic to expect Santana and Gee to pitch more than their combined 226 2/3 innings in 2012, or at a better ERA than 4.49? If they don't, is it reasonable to expect McHugh/Mejia/Familia/Wheeler to come in and pitch at that level or better? The starts of Chris Young/Miguel Batista/Mike Pelfrey/McHugh/Chris Schwinden amount to 39 starts at an ERA of 4.77. It is probably a reasonable expectation for those four pitchers, in their first extended time as major league starters, to check in around that level of performance in 2013, and they could easily fall below that.
But please, remember this: the 2012 Mets got about a quarter of their starts from pitchers who didn't make up the starting five for most of the year.
So really, the 2013 case revolves around the offense not merely being at the same level as 2012, but better. Or, alternatively, the defense improving, which would probably have to happen at the expense of the offense, given the low-cost players the Mets can bring in, and would have to happen via trade. The only place of depth for the Mets to trade from? The starting pitching they'll need.
And who among the returning everyday players is likely to be much better than they were in 2012? Is David Wright a great bet to even match his 2012, given that he's outperformed his career OPS+?
So the optimist's case revolves around green pitchers making a large leap forward or a starting staff's injured pitchers staying healthy all season, a bullpen not only regressing to the norm but also seeing an improved defense behind it or getting significantly better, and a below-average offense and terrible defense improving with a strong likelihood of returning the same players.
So if you're keeping score at home, other than starting pitching, relief pitching, offense and defense, the 2013 Mets are ready to contend.


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CUPE strike closes North Island College campus
CUPE picket lines disrupted classes for more than 870 North Island College (NIC) students and their 50 instructors Tuesday.
The job action by CUPE Local 3479 support staff began at 6 a.m. and was expected to continue Wednesday. The union said it was the result of "failed last minute efforts by CUPE to get the provincial government to sign off on collective agreements with B.C.'s 3,000 CUPE college support workers."
The strike action includes all NIC campuses affecting 3,600 students, as well as Vancouver Island University, Camosun College, College of the Rockies and the College of New Caledonia.
At issue is a blockage in negotiations at the province's Public Sector Employers' Council and the Ministry of Advanced Education, says CUPE's B.C. Colleges Coordinator Ian McLean. "If it wasn't for government interference in collective bargaining, we would be heading to work this morning with a reasonable contract in our pocket. Instead, we are heading for the picket line."
CUPE community college support worker have been without a contract since 2010. The unionized workers are looking for a no-concessions, four-year deal with two per cent wage increases in the last two years. This would be in line with other recent public sector settlements in B.C.
"We have been working closely with our employers to do everything in our power to settle this round of bargaining," McLean says. "We have met and worked with those employers over the past two years and proposed settlements in line with all the other recent public sector contracts. We have worked with the assistance of a mediator to try to streamline the process. To date all of these efforts have failed because we are told by our employers that they don't have a mandate to bargain from the government."
"The only reason we don't have a deal is because the BC Liberals have dropped the ball. We remain committed to negotiating a fair and reasonable contract, and our door is always open, but this government's interference in collective bargaining has pushed us to the point where our only alternative is job action," says McLean.
Other recent public sector wage settlements have been four-year, no-concessions deals with "0, 0, 2 and 2 per cent" wage increases. McLean told The Mirrior CUPE "is open to the exact same settlement."
NIC Director of Community Relations Susan Auchterlonie says in support of CUPE's job action, the NIC's Island College Faculty Association has advised its members to respect any picket lines that are established.
"As a result, all on-campus instruction scheduled at NIC's campuses in Campbell River, Comox Valley, Mount Waddington, Port Alberni, Ucluelet and the Tebo and Vigar vocational centres will be cancelled on those two days. Off-campus instruction, including clinical and practicum placements, and instruction taking place in-community will continue as scheduled."
All college campuses will remain open from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for students to access study space and limited student services, Auchterlonie says.

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I couldn't read the microscopic instructions on the side of the anti-wrinkle cream, even with my glasses. I finally went and got the bigger-ma-jigger and VOILA!!!!, like magic, I could see that I wasn't winning the fight against old age.
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Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Interview at HarunYahya.TV Samsun Aks TV on July 2nd, 2010
When the hypocrites come to you they say, 'We bear witness that you are indeed the Messenger of Allah.' Allah knows that you are indeed His Messenger and Allah bears witness that the hypocrites are certainly liars.
They have made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah. What they have done is truly evil.
That is because they believed and then returned to disbelief. So their hearts have been sealed up and they cannot understand.
When you see them, their outward form appeals to you, and if they speak you listen to what they say. But they are like propped-up planks of wood. They imagine every cry to be against them. They are the enemy, so beware of them. Allah fight them! How they are perverted!
When they are told, 'Come, and the Messenger of Allah will ask forgiveness for you,' they turn their heads and you see them turn away in haughty arrogance.
In their case it makes no difference whether you ask forgiveness for them or do not ask forgiveness for them. Allah will never forgive them. Allah does not guide deviant people. (Surat al-Munafiqun, 1-6)
ADNAN OKTAR: In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful. "When the hypocrites come to you they say, 'We bear witness that you are indeed the Messenger of Allah.' Allah knows that you are indeed His Messenger and Allah bears witness that the hypocrites are certainly liars." (Surat Al-Munafiqun, 1) Hypocrites always show themselves as if they have taqwa [fear of and obedience to Allah]; this is very important. The main feature of hypocrite is his claim of living the religion better. He comes with the claim that he lives the religion in a more perfect way. I mean, he says "You wouldn't know. I know better." For instance, hypocrites of the time of our Prophet (saas) demonstrated this in the clearest, severest and ugliest way. They have built a more decorated, more comfortable masjid called the Masjid Adh-Dhirar. And they told our Prophet (saas), "We live the religion; live Islam better here. You can come if you want but mostly Muslims there should come." They said "They can come and perform their prayers here." They don't approve of the Prophet (saas), may Allah forbid, they don't approve of Muslims there and they say "We are doing better here." All hypocrites are perfidious, treacherous, undignified and inglorious. And they try to present and indoctrinate their own interests to Muslims under the name of fear of Allah. This is a game.
They go with the claim that they are performing religious exercises in a more perfect way and by accusing Muslims with deviance. But their hearts are completely empty and they dont have any love for Allah and the Qur'an. As a matter of fact when they leave, hypocrites serve either the unbelievers or their lower selves. They don't show effort to spread Islam or the Qur'an. Just like the hypocrites did in the time of Our Prophet (saas), they perform their prayers, preach the religion in appearance, just to avoid any conscientious pressure. I mean they show themselves partially like Muslims, just to make people in the outside to say so. I mean as long as it would't disturb their comfort. For instance, they may go and give a book to someone or explain a verse from the Qur'an but his true desire is to live this world. Because if he had any real intention he would have given himself to Islam completely. But he doesn't. Only partially. A feature of the hypocrite is that he shows himself as if he is serving to religion to the extent that people can see and that he can deceive himself conscientiously. We have seen this in the Masjid Adh-Dhirar very clearly. "They have made their oaths into a cloak and barred the Way of Allah. What they have done is truly evil." And these are.. see that he is making an oath, talking in the name of Allah, as if he is on the Side of Allah. "And barred the Way of Allah. What they have done is truly evil." I mean, the real intention of the hypocrites is to ensure that Islam is not lived but they don't directly say that they are against Islam. He continues to perform his prayers reluctantly, to fast reluctantly and talk about the religion reluctantly, but his conclusive intention is for Muslims to break up and for Islam to lose its strength.
Because then the hypocrite will find comfort. Because look Allah says in the verse, "they want you to be like them."
Look Almighty Allah explains and says, I seek refuge with Allah from the satan, "That is because they have had faith.." First he believes, "and then returned to unbelief" look he first has faith then he denies. "So their hearts have been sealed up and they cannot understand." So he then becomes a simpleton, a classical fool, he wouldn't understand even if you tell him. The hypocrite has a crazy soul; no matter what you tell, the hypocrite thinks it over in his own opinion; there is part called the section of the hypocrite. What you tell goes through this section of the hypocrite and then reaches his brain only after going through the hypocrite's logic.
Therefore, he considers what is being told with the eyes of the hypocrite and he never accepts it as true. Look it is said, "So their hearts have been sealed up and they cannot understand." Even if you explain, he wouldn't comprehend. Therefore, you can't understand the hypocrite's logic even if you want to; that is he is very strange. "When you see them, their outward form appeals to you." In terms of physical appearance; for instance, they live well, eat well, dress well and they are comfortable. "And if they speak you listen to what they say."
They actually talk about the Qur'an and the Sunnah, Allah and the Book and you really believe that they are Muslims. "But they are like propped-up planks of wood." Allah says that they are people like wood and they are empty. "They imagine every cry to be against them." For instance, a news item takes place in the paper, they panic. Someone says something and they panic like everything is against them. For instance, someone looks at him and he panics. Because he loves life, he doesn't want any harm to come to him. I mean, the things that he idolizes are his body and life. Allah is the last in priority for them. [Allah is beyond this.] His real concern is his body and to live comfortable like a dog, I mean to live the life of a riley. If necessary, they grovel, act like a dog, court favor, blow the whistle, play a game, just to ensure that he maintains his dirty body insha'Allah. Allah says, "They imagine every cry to be against them, they are the enemy." He can't help it; he has hatred for Muslims inside. He also has a dog's loyalty for the unbelievers and hypocrites as he shelters with them like a dog. For instance, think about a wild dog, he courts favor of its owner who feeds it. Right? For instance, an aggressive dog tries to get people to pet him but if he rages he attacks people and doesn't listen to anyone if he got that poison. Allah says, "They are the enemy, so beware of them."
Don't go near them, keep away. "They are the enemy, so beware of them." Allah says that he can do any vileness so be on alert. He says, "May Allah destroy them! How they are perverted!" We also say may Allah destroy all the hypocrites. See that in the verse Allah says; "May Allah destroy them!" and we say that may Allah destroy them all, all the hypocrites, through illnesses, disasters, scourges, through grief.
OKTAR BABUNA: Insha'Allah Master
ADNAN OKTAR: "How they are perverted!" says Allah. He says "how they turn". May Allah instill restlessness, grief and the fear of death in them. That is because they think every moment that they can die of cancer or something else and thinks about the shortness of life. Since they love life very much their whole lives pass in misery.
And the hypocrite hates the hypocrite very much. Allah makes dirt live in dirt and gives them such a torment. The hypocrite hates the hypocrite the most but Allah makes them live in dirt like a dung beetle and he can't get rid of that dirt. Allah makes them object of those whom they are most revolted by. Since he is a hypocrite himself, he is obliged to live with hypocrites. "When they are told, 'Come, and the Messenger of Allah will ask forgiveness for you,' they turn their heads.."
They don't accept the Prophet (saas) anyway and they won't accept Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) nor the Prophet Jesus (pbuh). They have idolized themselves. Allah says that they turn their heads to the side and they stay away. They are inconsiderate and insolent. "you see them turn away in haughty arrogance." Look, "haughty arrogance"; a weird great egocentrism and a claim that he lives the religion better, they "turn away"; that means they wouldn't want to be with the Muslims. They turn their heads away from them and stay away as much as possible. Look this is the law of Allah. Allah says that He created this like that. But they do these because Allah created them like that, but they think that they do it independently. They think that they do so freely but actually it is their destiny. "In their case it makes no difference whether you ask forgiveness for them or do not ask forgiveness for them." Allah says that even if you asked for them to be forgiven it doesn't matter. Allah says, "Allah will never forgive them. Allah does not guide deviant people" insha'Allah..


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Thanks for the answers guys.
I'll have CC set up at the next session for sure.
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I and Slerbal (I think it was Slerbal) had CC set up but he'd got assigned command by the game earlier. Then he went down and got revived again so I assumed he was still command.
Also, STHud is invaluable for keeping a fireteam together and maintaining formations, if anybody doesn't already have it I highly recommend downloading and installing it.
Would it be too much lag to have a non-adversarial tank battle? In my head I'm imagining a coop with all sorts of armoured vehicles, including AA vehicles and helicopters.
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I spent the whole of Greenola as Deputy Commander for OPFOR hiding at the top of some stairs. I heard the chinooks, heard the fighting, got the comms chatter and never saw a single enemy. And yet... it was awesome! :)
Thanks for a great evening lads!
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It was a rather great evening. I missed the first two missions, but still had a lot of fun.
River assault - managed to stay alive during the whole mission, but was mostly useless. Shot some RPGs on buildings because I had a lot of ammo. Also saw a rabbit.
Viva Pinata - I wasn't sure that it really happened, but apparently it did, and, as the videos show, it was magical.
Smile for the camera - I shot a lot of things from a helicopter and felt manly.
07-06-2012, 03:50 PM #286Clips are fully loaded, and then blood floods the lawn
[AAR] Folk [Sun] 10 June 2012 (New ORBAT)
Cross-posting from the official AAR thread in the Folk forum (please please cross-post):
Originally Posted by fer
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Will crosspost when I figure out my password.
AAR - the bad ver.
Alpha lead: Nullkigan
Alpha 1: Tigershark
AR: IceRaiser
AAR?: Doge
AT?: Chief
We moved up on a ridge, saw nothing, moved up one the next ridge, saw a squad moving behind the next ridge.
Got OK to pursue them, caught up and stood about 10m from them >.<
Engaged them and got flanked from the left(south?).
Comrades Cheif and Doge bit the bullet(s).
Me and Tiger moved up to an overwatch position of the village, supported Bodge's squad that was moving up by the old art of magically giving the enemies leadpoisoning.
Village was clear so we started moving down the slope when I heard the unforgiving sound of an RPG.
It hit my knee, I died.
Tiger spent the next few minutes running around like Bambi screaming "Ice?! IIIIICE!?!? ICE YOU THERE?!?!" :,(
UNessessary voilence
Bravo Lead: Bodge
Bravo 2: Harakka
AR: IceRaiser
AAR: Kataras
RPG: Flyer
Drive to Firuz Berhav(?) Harakkas order: "stand here out in the open and wait to be shot at".
He changed his mind after a minute and we ran to a mountain.
Then we ran to the "greenzone".
Then we ran a bit further.
Then the M113 got a SPG to the kn-..side and blew up. The BMP2(Gong2?) followed his comrade into a firey death shortly after.
We spent a few minutes waiting for orders (I almost fell asleep spooning with kataras...)
Then we got the order to run up to the villa and all hell broke loose;
Harakka got shot in the knee(fo' realz!), Flyer died like 2secs after. Bodge got wounded, an engineer died.
Then The Btr-youcan'tkillme-60 killed me and kataras :,(
CO: Bodge
FTL: Pummage
Black mamba
Alone+easy target
My game crashed, stuck on waiting for host...
got in, everyone stuck, Fer announced a restart.
Internecine 2
CO: Bodge
FTL: Pummage
Black mamba
Alone+easy target
Went south to cover that aproach, then up to town to help Bravo(?), into town and Alone killed some dudes,
Pummage and Mamba got killed, me and Alone grabbed a building each and hid.
I peeked out and saw Fer trying to look like a bush.
He did a bad job. ^.^
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My laptop ruined my and my teammates game experience, as it kept shutting down during the missions.
I would like to give some feedback on the communication, however:
1) From my point of view as an FTL, it didn't drastically change anything. Bare with me before you crucify me: I was in a teamspeak channel with at least one other fireteam, only FTLs used Teamspeak, while commands were distributed through CC. I guess if I turned CC off as an FTL I would only need to listen to my SQL and activate CC if I need to take over the squad.
2) I think the new system is better, because command probably needs to deal with with less FTLs, since the SQLs are taking care of it. So instead of shouting orders to 6-7 FTLs like last time, tonight saw CO giving orders to 2-3 SQLs. Makes CC cleaner
3) I don't want to complain, I will just leave this as a comment: Until I learn whose voice is who, understanding if people are talking on CC or TS is a nightmare. The worst part is, if someone talks on TS and then I reply on CC, and they didn't hear me (because e.g. that FTL doesn't have CC up or active), I have to repeat the command on TS while CC is confused at what I just said. It's not a mess, but it's a bit clogged in the beginning. After a while, I learn the voices of the relevant FTLs, SQLs and CO and it becomes smooth again.
I think this new system is clean and practical to deal with the numbers that the sessions begin to attract. I know it may not seem like it, but this post is actually positive feedback, in favour of the system.
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Missed the first mission. No report.
UNnecessary Violence
MAT minion for Nim. Attachment for Bravo Squad. Hopped in the ural with Bravo Squad and Bravo M113 behind us... or was. The driver of Bravo M113 disconnected causing slight confusion. JimTheDog took over the m113 and followed the ural later on.
Got to the location, nothing much happened. Moved ahead, big giant explosions near Alpha, Bravo FTL order everyone to get out the ural, we all hit the deck and... nothing much. We walked just incase of more explosions. Lots of walking. Spotted a BRDM 600 metres away, it drove off, no clear sight for my MAT leader.
We moved along. Another explosion, hit the deck, again no enemies nearby. Carried on... Wolf's M113 was awfully close to Bravo and BOOM! Bigger explosion connected with Wolf's M113.
Hit the deck, heard over the comms Wolf's M113 was down and hit needing medical assistance. Decided to help, dragged the corpses, used global instead of direct by accident, provided some help... it was clear. For a moment.
INCOMING ROCKETS towards my location, decided to run to the hill to see if I can spot them. Turns out I couldn't but did spot a group of enemies heading towards Alpha's position. Gave Alpha a heads up via side channel while marking position. We proceeded towards the villa via the dried river banks.
Bravo was pretty far ahead, had to catch up. Suddenly, spotted a crawl enemy aiming towards Bravo. Popped the fucker with 3 rounds of FN FAL before he could attack. Lucky for Bravo. Moved ahead, waited for Alpha to get into position, took out 2 more enemies and then Bravo ordered us to take out the BRDM inside the villa. I got Nim's back, we fired 2 rockets. They did connect but the BRDM was still alive. I got shot providing cover for Nim.
Turns out that the BRDM can take more than 4 rockets to die. Bugger me. Gong managed to take it down though. Everyone charged and Black Mamba scored a kill on Aziz. This was only Objective 1. Very long mission...
Internecine II
OpFor Charlie Leader. Adversarial. In charge of charlie, we had to flank the independent on the right side via a "pincer" movement with Echo while Alpha and Bravo were on the left side. It was all going good until the enemy AT decided to say "Hello" with rockets. 3 of them infact. Told everyone to leg it, one of the members got hit, we were down to 3 behind a building with gunfire towards our direction.
My comrade Capers informed me there was an enemy on the roof. I told the squad the plan: We crawl on the stomachs and shoot at the enemies. So we did... I took a bullet in the legs and was dying. Told Capers and Spec to carry on without me. I started singing and died. The medic was rubbish.
Bodge, you are one sneaky ninja. (insert icon of a masked smiley with a rifle)
Overall: Very long session.
The Communications: I approve. Did made things more simple and less complex.
[AAR] Folk [Sun] 17 June 2012 (Zeus comes to tea)
Cross-posting from the official AAR thread in the Folk forum (please please cross-post):
Originally Posted by fer
Into the Sea ~ Missed it.
Shilkas of Nur ~ Missed it by 5 minutes.
Crateresistance ~ Fox 1 FTL. We advanced cache A, ran into some resistance, 1 (Me) and 3 (Calculon) went down. 2 (Tigershark) and 4 (Alone) got us back up, but we stalled a bit there while I waited for word from our CO on what to do next. Echo and Delta were both wiped out ahead of us, but we advanced none the less. We ran right into the guy(s) who had killed Echo and Delta. I took another hit, but my guys managed to murder the enemy and get me back up again-again. Alpha was getting hit pretty hard, Bravo and Charlie moved in to support them, and Fox (We) continued to advance on the right. Someone blew the Cache, much merriment was had. We reformed on our CO, and started to move toward cache B. We hit the edge of the wooded area we had just cleared, and started to move along a hedgerow to the north. Then we all got shot in the face. To be continued.
Into the Sea
-Alpha Squad Medic
Started out a little slow as we waited for the convoy to unfudge itself (always seems to happen with vehicular missions). After a brief "good old fashioned Warrior IFV singsong"™ we moved out.
Pushing forward we made contact with the enemy and flanked into the the woods above Berizino to support the IFV's. After a sporadic firefight we pushed on to the outskirts of town where, after a brief stop to pick up stragglers we engaged enemy patrols around the strong hold.
It was all going so well until <CENSORED> the Russian nuked us.
Shilkas of Nur
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Drakkon and I rode with Command up to our planned RV with Alpha and Bravo. Somehow Bravo overshot the marker and was heavily engaged by OPFOR.
From that point on we did a lot of running, a little fixing, some more running and just a tiny bit of blue-on-blue trying to grab some trucks so that we could avoid running some more…
Best moment for me was watching Drakkon chasing a BRDM up a hill trying to knock it out with a GL whilst laughing manically.
Apparently we won (thanks Delta!).
-Commander Blufor
After being, very politely, volunteered into command (Thanks Fer!) I figured that, as we always split forces to take on caches, we would advance as a platoon on a single cache and overwhelm them.
The concept was sound (Indy had no idea what hit them and resistance at the first cache was minimal) but my execution was pants (I failed to keep the outlying Delta, Echo and Fox in line).
The first cache fell quickly and I sent Alpha up to scout the Indy positions on route to B cache. When they were compromised I attempted to push the remaining forces forward to try and relieve them, giving us a chance to fall back to the treeline, but was hit.
This gave me a grandstand seat for the ensuing cat and mouse game where Calculon became my new hero by blowing the final cache.
Most certainly a win despite, rather than due to, my leadership.
Into the Sea
-Bravo Squad Medic
Followed Gustav around for a while until the first IFV managed to get blown up and i heroically rescued the crew. Later the third IFV got blown up too and I rescued them as well. Even later i heroically patched ConcreteOtter up while under fire when suddenly a burst of lightning blinded me. That was the last thing I saw.
Shilkas of Nur
Bravo took the ridge shortly after the Alpha and Charlie in their vehicles to watch them get blown to smithereens. We secured the area to the West and Northwest, got rid of the Shilka and moved on to the next staging position. While pressuring on, I lost half of my squad to the Shilka (later I found out that we were sacrificed so whoever took the shot wouldn't be engaged by the Shilka!). We pressured on but were cut down one by one in the trees by an unknown assailant. I was lying wounded on the floor when my team left me. As I inquired them to return and fix me ("Oh? We thought you were dead!") I bled out.
Poor Nullkigan:
- Alpha Squad Lead - Independent
As Bravo got engaged we moved into a flanking position where we effectively cut down at least four of the enemy. I got shot promptly afterwards but we managed to stall BLUFOR's assault rather effectively. Here's how it looked from spectator mode:
Comments on Vehicles:
Overall it was a very enjoyable session but the delays we experienced because of transports/vehicles were (and always are) a bit annoying. Imho we should focus more on doing what we've done best so far, and that's Infantry-focused engagements with IFVs (and the occasional heavier vehicle/helicopter) used (if at all) as attached weapon-platforms, not transports. Maybe a few ground-rules like "AT drives, AAR guns" on armed light vehicles might help as well but generally I prefer if the majority of the players start in walking distance of angry bullets.Play ArmA with us. (Competence not required.)
It's okay to not like things.
[AAR] Tactical Tuesday 2012-06-19 - Old and rusty, but surely trusty
Glorious session tonight! We did the following all-opfor/ind missions:
- With a chance of Hail (v2) Early morning assault on fortified positions in forested areas on Chernarus
- Convoi Polloi (v4) Sexy assault on convoy near Sakhe, Takistan.
- Zargabaddies (SE v2) Non-standard two pronged "pinch of death" across fields and towns in Zargabad.
Thank you one and all for good times.
Streamed the first two missions, might stream all i play from now on since it's more convenient
than recording and then uploading.
With chance of Hail
Convoy Polloi
the random freezes are me alt+tabbing btw :/
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With a chance of Hail (First of, that mortar intro? Bang on tidy that.)
MAT 1 Leader. Joined forces with the other attachment squads (with no medic). We all flanked the right side, hiding among the forests and tree lines. My comrade Capers managed to spot the Dskhm near the house with his binoculars after I friendly fired Joesph in the back (SORRY!). Enemies taken out, we proceeded to the house.
Enemies nearby, fired the rocket at them more than once then aimed at the techie. With the enemy dead, we proceeded to the first camp. Lots of enemies died, me and my comrade crawled towards the campsite. Managed to score a good shot.
Got hit by a stray enemy, medic nearby patched me, didn't work, capers patched me, sort of worked. Moved to the second camp, too heavy, proceeded to third camp. My task? Take out the ZU (big fuck off anti air gun). I waited for command... and waited. Fired and OH DEAR I SEEM TO MISS AND DIED.
It was recorded as well with at least 30 people dead watching my movement. Oh bugger nuts.Convoi Polloi
SABOTEUR of the explosive kind. Thanks to the teleport mechanic, me and null managed to plant 1 mine each and 2 satchels on the main road. We hid in the houses nearby and waited for roughly 15 minutes.
Suddenly, explosions. One of the mines managed to get a tank.
However, the enemy convoy had a different idea: Splitting up. Drove away to the mountainside causing trouble to all the comrades. Also, there was one BTR which was blown up but still had an active driver inside it. Walked upto it and said "Hello". I was met with bullet from a BMP2 miles away up the mountain. I died.
And then everyone had a merry ol' jig and breakdancing while waiting for the mission to finish.
Bravo Bravo 2 Assistant Machinegunner aka Meatbag Scouter. Everyone in Bravo piled up in MTVR except for Bravo's Alpha squad who took command of APC. We were driven into a nearby town, departed, we were preparing. And then Iceraiser died?
I was the meatbag scouter meaning I was the first to scout and die if shit hits the fan. Surprisingly, I didn't get killed... yet. We were dodging towards the walls, spotting the enemy near the petrol pump, forming up with main Alpha squad by accident, forming back up with main Bravo commander, crossing the dried river, shooting up enemies. Managed to find a SVD. Then something bad happened: T34 tank shows up.
Lucky enough, everyone fired AT upon the Tank and blew up. Managed to take down 2 of the crewmen. "Take that you bas-" Got hit by a hidden third. I was butterfly.
EVEN IN DEATH I STILL SERVE. After making a pact with a chaos god, I joined the JIP slot and formed up with my leader Harlander. This time, I was full of anger and rage. I had to fill oath by spilling blood. Managed to find a PKM and everything turned into a red bloody haze. I think I might have spent a bloody minute killing a corpse and then proceeded to rant and rave.
I went berserk. Killing more and more enemies and then suddenly, everyone was firing the guns into the air. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD.
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This is the first TT where I played exclusively one class, FTL. Next time I promise I'll let someone else in on it!
With a chance of Hail
I was A1 FTL with Tigershark (Codename Swaussie), Aquarius (Codename Rocketman) and BlackMamba (Codename Sugadaddy). We followed our orders from Borklund to the letter in establishing the Alpha assault through fast-moving firebases emplaced in enemy territory, quickly eliminating major armoured threats in and around the enemy settlement... By which I mean, we came up with little resistance in the town, but I lost my head to a DSHKM, and Tiger took up the reigns of FTL.
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I was FTL of Alpha 2, this time round. Unfortunately, almost as soon as the convoy arrived, my AR and AAR decided to surrender their lives to allah (they got shot) leaving me and the reclusive Dr Alexander Tobacco (codename Waffle-Iron) to take up the slack and assist the other elements of our squad in eliminating the convoy. We did well at first, taking out some armour, and hitting MMG assets who were firing upon A-SQL and A3, but after a short jog down a near verticle slope into town, the bigger, angrier enemies started showing up. Cowardly Borklund decided to conform to HQ's capitalist ideals and ordered a general retreat. Alex decided to 'cover our retreat' (disobey direct orders) and blew up a BMP2 in the process, but he died shortly afterwards. The lull in proceedings allowed the remaining members of Alpha (Me, Washington and Capernatious) to form Takistan's first synchronised ARMA team. We hope to contend in the olympics this year, representing Takistan in the Woman's triples (Wash has a great girly-voice)
Finally, I took Platoon 1 Charlie FTL, to be referred to as A3 from now on. My teammates were Specs, as AR, and (name too long to remember) Ghillie. Being, as I am, an impatient fellow, I decided to push Borklund (Alpha platoon command, also known as the capitalist coward) by repeatedly requesting spearhead positions for my fireteam, and we were often paired with Washington's 'Special Squad' (Alpha 4) in compound clearance, as well as fire and manouver operations (Running at the enemy position whilst A4 ran alongside)
Eventually, my Greyhound-like determination and drive led to my downfall. Expecting little resistance in a compound 50m to our south, I requested permission from Bork to clear them. Sounding pained and tired (Sitting on the wealth of the proletariat can get tiring, comrade!), he accepted my request, and I quickly set about moving my chaps across the road to take the compound. Unfortunately, as I peered into the corpse-mounds created by efficient fire on the part of MMG team, I saw something wriggle. It was an enemy! Fast as lightning, he became a 4 headed dragon, and devoured me whole! (I got shot by someone who I thought was a corpse)
Luckily, JIP slots were still open for latecomers and early deaths. I decided, for the last 5 minutes of the mission, to hop into one of these, and bring up some medical supplies in the form of an M113 (medivac). Arriving in time for the assault on the insurgent strong-point, I decided to use the onboard smoke launchers to lay down some cover for our guys, before being told off by wolf for not using my feet. I promptly dismounted and charged into the town, but a severe lack of resistance just displayed the thoroughness of the comrades in teams A and B in eliminating this homeland threat from the suburbs of Zargabad.
All in all, a great session.[I]I'm Respecting your culture![/I]
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On a more serious note, tonight was an incredible amount of fun, especially that last mission.


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David G. Myers is a Professor of Psychology at Hope College in Michigan, United States, and the author of several books, including a popular textbook entitled Psychology.
A member of the Reformed Church in America, several of Myers' general-audience books deal with issues related to Christian faith as well as scientific psychology. He lives in Holland, Michigan. He enjoys playing basketball and rides his bike to work year-round. He and his wife Carol Myers have three children.
Myers is a Seattle native, but resides in Holland, Michigan. He was born on September 20, 1942, in Seattle, Washington. He married his wife, Carol Peterkin Myers, while they were both still undergraduates attending Whitworth College. They have three grown children, sons Peter and Andrew and a daughter, Laura.
David G. Myers graduated from Seattle's Queen Anne High School in 1960, and soon after attended Whitworth College. Myers graduated with a B.A. in Chemistry in 1964, having been a pre-med student.[1] Myers graduate work went in a different direction, social psychology. He received his M.A. in Social Psychology in 1966 and his Ph.D. in Social Psychology the following year at the University of Iowa.[2]
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David G. Myers spent much of his career teaching at Hope College. He worked as an assistant professor (1967), an associate professor (1970), and since 1975, full professor. He served as a visiting scholar at the Universität Mannheim (Germany), in the summer of 1974, and at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland), in 1985.
Fellowships: 1964–1965: U.S. Public Health Service Traineeship in Social Psychology 1965–1967: National Science Foundation Cooperative Graduate Fellowship 1967–1968: National Science Foundation Teaching Intern, Hope College
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Sauk Rapids Ambassador Organization will crown three new equal ambassadors to represent Sauk Rapids for 2013.
Friday, June 21, 6 p.m.
Rapids River Days Parade is one of the areas grandest parades showcasing marching bands from across the state! Starting at 6:00 pm, the evening is filled with music, colorful floats, royalty, community representatives, entertainers, candy treats, friendly smiles and fun for all ages. The parade route runs along Sixth Avenue from Pleasantview Elementary to the SR-R Middle School. The DEADLINE for parade applications has been extended to June 7, 2013.
Saturday, June 22, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
Rapids River Food Fest participants come from miles around to get a taste of the festivals fabulous foods, sweet treats, beverages and beer garden. Live music is on-stage throughout the day. The MN State Strong Man Championships, and Fire Dept. Waterball Fights are main events to see!
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The Rapids River Ducky Race will take place on the Mississippi River along Municipal Park. This event is a major fundraiser for Rapids River Days. Raffle Tickets may be purchased prior to the race for $5 each to adopt a Ducky. Up to 5,000 yellow rubber duckies will be released on the river marked with matching numbers that correspond.
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People often tend to fall into two categories: Those who rescue, and those who need rescuing.
Then, there are pets, who fall into a third category. As I learned last weekend.
Mind you, it took a pair of chance meetings with rescue dogs -- one in the morning, the other at night -- to remind me of that.
The first encounter was over breakfast on the deck in front of the French Way, where my wife and I met Dexter, a gentle golden retriever-cross, and his owner, a genial man of about 60.
The man found his pal the pooch in a shelter some years ago after Dexter had been rescued from a place of abuse.
Dexter's owner showed us the deep, thin, cut in his dog's right ear that looked as if someone had taken a pair of scissors to him as a pup.
Yet Dexter was calm and open to affection from people he was meeting for the first time.
Our second encounter with a rescue dog was more, shall we say, frantic and dramatic.
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It was 9:15 p.m. and we were driving north on Waverley Street to take our own dog Tate for a gelato on Corydon Avenue, when we saw a dog running like a coyote from an A&W parking lot straight across the road toward a corner Tim Hortons.
Mercifully, traffic was light and when we looked again it was obvious the pooch was being pursued by a young woman. The dog had no collar and she had no leash.
I turned right on Hurst Way, the road that leads directly to the Winnipeg Humane Society.
"Is that your dog?" I yelled from our SUV.
The young woman, still in full flight, smiled and shook her head no.
I pulled into the entrance that leads to Tim Hortons, parked, leashed up Tate, and pulled him out of the back seat.
Maybe another pooch could lure the Gingerbread Dog close enough to capture.
And that's exactly how it turned out.
But it wasn't until two people on bikes arrived moments later with his collar and leash that we managed to get him under control.
At which point the young woman ran off without identifying herself.
Turns out the man, Benoit Gauthier and his 16-year-old daughter, Anne-Marie, had been fostering the dog for the Winnipeg Humane Society for the last couple of weeks and on Saturday, while Benoit was walking him in their Linden Woods neighbourhood, the long-legged pooch wriggled out of his collar.
And the chase was on.
Turns out the dog's name is Pauly, he's three years old and, according to Anne-Marie, has spent nearly half his life in shelters.
Pauly has been at the humane society for almost a year now. Which, oddly enough, might explain where Pauly seemed to be headed when Tate intercepted him.
Straight back to the humane society.
Pauly was on the sidewalk that leads to the humane society, sniffing away at Tate, when Anne-Marie finally slipped the collar and leash on him as her friend, Sabrina Rossi, watched.
As Anne-Marie said: "It seems that Pauly was going back to the only real home he'd ever had."
Anne-Marie wrote that in a follow-up email of gratitude that included a description of how the favourite of the three foster dogs her family has fostered since she was 14 ended his night.
"Pauly is lounging comfortably and sleeping off his adventure on the living room couch."
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As I was saying at the outset, there tends to be two kinds of people: Those who rescue and those who need rescuing.
But, as I suggested, our pets represent a third category.
I was reminded of that because of something Dexter's owner said earlier in the day about how much the companionship of the abused dog has meant to him.
"I thought I was rescuing him," the man said. "But he rescued me."
Unfortunately, on Monday, Anne-Marie had to return Pauly to the humane society he was so bent on running back to on Saturday.
Pauly, the favourite of all Anne-Marie's foster dogs, is back "home" where he doesn't belong.
Waiting for someone to rescue him.
So that he might happily return the favour.


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TRAINS are not running between Blackburn and Clitheroe after a man was hit by a train near Ramsgreave and Wilpshire station.
He was taken to hospital after the incident on the Manchester Victoria to Clitheroe line at about 7.20pm.
The Lancashire Telegraph understands the man had ended up on the tracks and the train had come to rest over him.


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March 28, 1934 — Budapest, Hungary
Gyorgy was the only child of middle class Jewish parents living in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. His father, Istvan, was an engineer responsible for producing hydraulic grape presses for wineries. His mother, Margit, worked as a legal secretary. The Picks lived in a new district on the Pest side of the Danube River, and they had many close relatives in the city.
1933–39: In the 1930s, as Hungary drew closer to Nazi Germany, the situation for Jews there worsened. Gyorgy listened to the radio and was disturbed by the sound of Hitler's voice. In 1938 and 1939, the first major anti-Jewish laws were introduced. The legislation severely restricted the participation of Jews in the economy and defined them in racial terms, much like the Nuremberg Laws in Nazi Germany. As a result, Gyorgy's parents lost their jobs. His father soon set up a tool and machine parts business, which was registered in the name of a non-Jew.
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1940–44: In 1940 Gyorgy's father was conscripted into the Hungarian labor battalions and sent to the newly annexed territory of Ruthenia, where he worked on building roads for the military. He was released after three months, but then conscripted again in 1943 and 1944. Gyorgy attended school until March 1944, when German troops occupied Hungary. In June, the Picks along with other Jews in the capital [Budapest] had to move into special buildings marked with a yellow star. As the Allied bombing raids increased, destroying some of the neighboring buildings, Gyorgy hoped the war would be over soon. In November 1944, just weeks after the Hungarian Nazis (the Arrow Cross Party) took power, Gyorgy and his family went into hiding. A month later, they were discovered. Gyorgy was placed in a home with 500 other children, but he soon escaped. Those who remained were killed.
In January 1945, the Picks were liberated from the city's ghetto by Soviet troops. After the war, Gyorgy learned that 130 of his relatives had been deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center, where they perished. In 1956 he came to the United States.
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OTTAWA -- Making cents made no sense, but getting rid of the penny is only the beginning, says NDP MP Pat Martin.
As the Royal Canadian Mint stops distributing pennies today, Martin's eye is turning to the nickel and, eventually, the quarter.
The MP for Winnipeg Centre plans to launch a private member's motion by the end of the week to eliminate the five-cent coin and rejig the rest of Canada's currency. His "master plan" is to have a coin currency in multiples of 10s -- 10, 20 and 50-cent coins, and $1, $2 and $5 coins.
"One down, one to go," Martin told Postmedia News on Sunday.
"You keep it all at multiples of 10 and Bob's your uncle -- you've got a functioning currency system. There's just no good argument for keeping the nickel except for as a place to put the beaver."
Starting today, businesses are encouraged to begin rounding cash transactions to the nearest five-cent increment.
The rounding system after eliminating the nickel would be similar, Martin said. Total figures ending in one, two, three, four or five cents would round down, and those ending in six, seven, eight or nine cents would round up.
And, just as it applies to the penny's elimination, only cash transactions would be affected, Martin said.
While the business case for killing the nickel isn't quite as strong as it is for eliminating the penny, the nickel still costs more to produce than it's worth, Martin said.
And it would mean savings for the economy in terms of lost time and productivity -- people would go through checkout lines faster, clerks would spend less time making change, and businesses wouldn't have to deal with as much coinage, Martin said.
"If you're a reasonable-sized business, you're moving wheelbarrows full of nickels and pennies back and forth to the bank every month," Martin said.
"It's just a drain on the economy as well as an unnecessary cost to the mint."
Rejigging Canada's currency to keep it current, relevant and economic is an argument Martin's been making since 2008, when he first introduced a private member's bill to get rid of the penny.
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School of Medicine > Faculty Affairs and Development > Faculty Mentoring Program > Matrices for Promotion
The School of Medicine created a series of matrices which provide examples of accomplishments of where an assistant professor should be at the end of each year leading up to promotion from any track. These are examples and are not limited to what is listed, nor are all items outlined required.
Matrices with recommendations for accomplishments by the end of Year 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Tenure Tracks
Non-Tenure Tracks
It is imperative that faculty members review the official KU School of Medicine Guidelines for Promotion and Tenure, as well as the Promotion and Tenure website which are the definitive resources for promotion and tenure. Questions and suggestions regarding this site should be directed to Dianne Durham, PhD, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.


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Apple Shipping MacBook Pro With Faster Processors, Up To 2.16 GHz
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If you pre-ordered a MacBook Pro, you will be happy to know that Apple is in a position to start shipping the latest iteration of their notebook, and the processors have been upgraded from what was announced at MacWorld. The $2,000 MacBook Pro now has a 1.83GHz Core Duo chip, up from 1.67 GHz. The 1.83 GHz $2,499 model now sports a 2 GHz processor, and Apple has even thrown in a $2,799 model that has a 2.16 GHz processor in it. Very nice to see the upgrades across the MacBook Pro line.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Even if the U.S. House agrees to the "fiscal cliff" rescue bill the Senate passed in the wee hours of New Year's Day, most American's paychecks will get smaller.
One thing the Senate did not include in its last-minute bill avoiding automatic tax hikes and spending cuts is an extension of the "payroll tax holiday" implemented in 2010 to help stimulate the economy. The provision reduced the Social Security withholding for everybody earning under $110,000 a year from 6.2 to 4.2 percent.
For someone earning $35,000 per year, that 2 percent break saved about $700 per year in taxes.
"That's a difference in like a tank of gas a week, every week, coming out of my paycheck," taxpayer Lorilee Lomoguze said.
Nobody knows what the long-term effects of the fiscal cliff-debate will be, but extending the Social Security break doesn't appear to be up for discussion since it diverted money that kept the nation's retirement trust fund solvent.
Financial adviser Joe Krier says if the "Bush-era" tax breaks prevail for most Americans in the fiscal-cliff rescue package that ultimately passes Congress, this would be the only increase most taxpayers would experience and it shouldn't damage the economy.
"The economy can absorb this, and maybe a little bit more," said Kreir, of Krier Wealth Management. "Things are picking up. We're seeing the housing market pick up and different parts of the economy pick up, so there is room to absorb some stuff, and they just can't let this go because this is the tax that funds Social Security and Medicare."
Other economic analysts believe this 2 percent withholding increase could hurt the economy by shaving almost a percentage point off of total economic output in 2013 and cost the economy as many as one million jobs.
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Candy stores are always special places, and ones that fill a specific niche are endlessly interesting and fun to explore. For many of us, that beloved niche is Asian candy, and if you need to get your Eastern sugar fix on, look no further than Aji Ichiban.
Despite the Japanese name, Aji Ichiban was founded in Hong Kong in 1993. It's the Special Administrative Region's leading confectioner, with over 100 shops in the city. According to their website, there are also 150 other franchised locations throughout Asia (my first visit was in Shanghai at age 15), in addition to shops in the United States.
Expansion into the US began in 2000 and, for a while, many of the shops were popular stops for visiting Chinese officials. Most of them have now closed, but a handful remain in New York, Chicago, and suburban Los Angeles.
Aji Ichiban sells a healthy mix of Western and East Asian confections and salty snacks, but their biggest strength might be their dried goods: fruits, nuts, ginger, jerky, seafood, and so much more, much of it tied to traditional Eastern remedies. Items are sold by weight, and sampling is strongly encouraged, with small bowls of dried snacks dotting nearly every surface of the store.
We recently visited the New York location in Chinatown—which is welcomingly billed as the "Munchies Paradise"—armed with a camera and a sweet tooth. We emerged with candy and photos, all of which can be found, for your viewing pleasure, in the slideshow above.
About the author: Ben Jay is a Serious Eats contributor, photographer, carnivore, beer and whisky drinker, and music nerd. 巧克力是老外的糖果. You can follow him on Twitter and Instagram.


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Heartseeker Dragons are very social creatures that emanate a sweet chocolatey scent. Their captivating perfume easily attracts adult dragons that don't yet have a mate. Heartseekers use their keen sense of smell to detect solitary dragons and potential mates in the area. By rubbing their fins against objects such as trees and rocks, they leave a scent trail for the other dragons to follow to meet each other. Although these dragons are seen year-round, the scent of a Heartseeker becomes particularly potent during the middle of winter. During this time, a single Heartseeker may play matchmaker to dozens of dragons, but he will also choose a special mate of his own.
Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. Once they hit adolescence, hatchlings change quickly, maturing to their full forms in only 2 years.
Dragons don't communicate with each other verbally, but they will growl to scare off predators and frighten prey. Young dragons will emit an extremely high-pitched squeal when they are frightened. To communicate, they use telepathy with each other and to speak to other creatures.


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The engineering company was formed in 2003 after a management buy-out. This brought together Rotary Engineering UK and Burnand Magnets.
Rotary Engineering manufactures and designs coil manufacturing equipment and motor repair equipment for a wide range of customers each with individual needs. Each machine is made in our workshop in Sheffield by our engineering experts. This is backed up by a product development and engineering team to ensure that each machine preforms in its environment perfectly.
The magnet business dates back to 1896 when Burnand Magnets was established. As a UK engineering company, we still design and manufacture electromagnets at our workshop in Halfway, Sheffield, U.K.
We export our UK engineering and manufactured equipment on a global scale, providing excellent quality machinery which continues to perform consistently over decades with very little need for further expenditure.
In addition to our valued UK sales, we have recently exported to Madagascar, Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, China, Russia and the Czech Republic. We are experienced exporters and understand the many ways in which our customers carry out their business, such as, being part of large tenders, working through agents with after sales support functions, direct sales through email and Skype, and those requiring Rotary UK to provide 'turnkey' solutions via our strategic partners. We're one of the leading engineering companies in Sheffield and the UK!
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>Gears and Wears>4 year old forerunner 405 on Craigslist.......good deal?
I just came across a 4 year old Forerunner 405 for $80 on Craigslideal just wandering if it is a good deal?
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Keep an eye on woot.com and groupon. Their offers last a short time, but refurbished 405 and 410 can be had for a decent price. Last price I remember was around $99. But read the reviews on the 405 first. The bezel doesn't work well when wet.
I'm sure the battery will not last long unless it doesn't have many miles. Mine last about 3 years. I now have the 410 and bought it for $200 at heartratemonitor.com via Amazon.com. I think 405s go for $120 new
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My 405 pooped out after 3ish years as well. Lots of people (myself included) have had major issues with the 405. Battery life being one of them. In its last days, it wouldn't even last through a 4 hour marathon.
I would be wary of one that is 4 years old, just because the problems with it seem to worsen over time.
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No. You can get a 60 or a 110 for just about $20-$40 more, new battery, warranty, and no miles!
And no "the bezel freaks out when it gets wet" issues.
Skip this craigslist entry.
Thanks gang. I appreciate the input!
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Just in case you didn't catch the thread started today and are subscribed to this one, the 405 is on sport.woot.com today for $129 (refurbished).
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IMHO, no amount of money spent on a 405 is worth it. I had one for about a week and brought it back. The bezel went crazy and so did I.
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Funny, I just sold my 3 year old 405 on local Craigslist for $45 (upgraded to a 610 recently). I explained the issues with the bezel to the buyer, who was already familiar with them. He already owned a 910 but wanted the watch for his kids cross country team to use. If you lock the bezel during runs it wors okay, but it is very frustrating at times when you need to use it wet. I definitely would not have bought it new if I'd known about the issue, but I thought $45 was a fair price used, given it's age and heavy usage.
I've had a 405cx for two years now - it's better then my old Suunto T3.
The bezel is indeed unusable when wet - but it only gets wet when I wear long sleeves. If that is the case I just lock it up to one of the screens before I start my run.
I bought a 405 back when they first came out. Hated the bezel, hated the complexity of getting to what you want. I got SO mad at the stinkin' thing, it ruined my runs, and I quit using it after no more than 4 or 5 attempts. Last spring, my husband started using it, and he likes it well enough, but he doesn't use even a fraction of its features. He set it once for what he wanted, and doesn't mess with it at all.


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If you are using the AdminUI for LiveCycle ES to search for stalled branches, you may notice that some of the items are missing from the returned list. For example in the returned list you may notice the totals report 7 items but only 5 are shown.
The stalled branches list is compiled from the TB_BRANCH_INSTANCE table in the database. Any branch that has a sub_status of "-99" should appear in the list in the AdminUI. If however some of these branch entries refer to processes or actions which do not exist (or have been deleted) from the database, then this list may display the reported behaviour.
To verify this, you should run the SQL statements below on the database. We would expect that the results returned match the missing entries from the stalled branches list in the adminui.
select * from TB_BRANCH_INSTANCE B where ( select count(*) from TB_PROCESS_INSTANCE where TB_PROCESS_INSTANCE.id=B.PROCESS_INSTANCE_ID)=0 and not B.PROCESS_INSTANCE_ID is null and B.PROCESS_INSTANCE_ID !=0 and B.SUB_STATUS=-99 order by CREATE_TIME
select * from TB_BRANCH_INSTANCE B where ( select count(*) from TB_ACTION_INSTANCE where TB_ACTION_INSTANCE.id=B.CURRENT_ACTION_INSTANCE_ID)=0 and not B.CURRENT_ACTION_INSTANCE_ID is null and B.CURRENT_ACTION_INSTANCE_ID !=0 and B.SUB_STATUS=-99 order by CREATE_TIME
If either of these statements return some results, then you can fix the entries in the database to prevent the items from being included in the stalled branches totals. The entires are referring to process/action ids that do not exist in the process/action tables in the database, and so they will never be completed or continued. This situation can occur if you have been modifying the database using external (not from Adobe LiveCycle) code, or if you are running a 3rd party process purge tool.
If you want to prevent these entries from being reported in the list of stalled branches, then you can change the sub_status value to -1. If the status value is already 2 (completed) or 4 (terminated) you should change the sub_status to 4.
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Memorial services were held Saturday for 72-year-old Fred Richardson, a victim of last week's bus crash on Highway 38 north of Yucaipa that killed eight people, at Loma Linda Filipino Seventh-day Adventist Church in Redlands.
Richardson, a longtime resident of Mountain Home Village east of the crash site, was driving home on the highway when he was struck by the tour bus carrying tourists from San Diego and Tijuana.
The bus, owned by Scapadas Magicas Tours in National City, was returning from Big Bear Lake when its driver, Norberto Perez, lost control of the vehicle above the Mill Creek Ranger Station, authorities said.
Seven others also died and more than two dozen were injured.
In addition to Richardson, the other fatal victims of the crash were Guadalupe Olivas, 61, Elvira Garcia Jimenez, 40 and Victor Cabrera Garcia, 13, all of San Diego, and Aleida Adriana Arce Hernandez, 38, Rubicelia Escobedo Flores, 34, Mario Garcia Santoyo, 32, and Liliana Camerina Sanchez Sauceda, 24, all of Tijuana.
Richardson leaves behind his wife of 48 years, Anita, two adult children and six grandchildren.


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Topic: Tumor Marker Down!!!
So my mother who has stage IV,non operable CC just finished her first "round" of Gemzar and her tumor marker went down!!! Before treatment her CA-19-9 was at 91 and after her first round it went down to 26!! Her oncologist said that this was great news that hers has is responded so greatly. She said in about 70% of cases most people do not respond and in the 30% that do repond, it is usually not that big of a drop. She was due to start 5FU along with the Gemzar, but since she has responded so well to them Gemzar, they are just going to keep her on the Gemzar. With that being said her oncologist also told her that her prognosis is better now. Such Awesome news, we just pray that she continues to respond well to Gemzar!!


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NEARLY £500,000 is set to be spent improving the main bus corridor between Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale.
Responsive traffic lights are set to be installed or considered for a number of junctions along the A682 between the three boroughs, as used by the X43 service, this coming year.
And a major new controlled crossing has been pencilled in to provide better pedestrian links across Bacup Road and St Mary's Way, in Rawtenstall.
An investment of £220,000 has been outlined to county councillors, including the replacement of the subway under St Mary's Way with a toucan crossing.
County engineers will be promoting the use of 'MOVA' (microprocessor optimised vehicle actuation) lights, which are said to be more adaptable for congested routes.
Proposals have been drawn up to install MOVA lights, alongside a right-hand turn lane, at the Tup Bridge junction, of St Mary's Way and Newchurch Road, for £100,000 The same system will also be employed around the Rawtenstall gyratory, with a £110,000 price tag, and a review will be undertaken of traffic light timings for the junction outside the town's Asda store.
If the first four schemes come in under budget then consideration will also be given to creating a pedestrian crossing at Tup Bridge.
Edward Downer, transport planner for county council consultants Jacobs UK, said: "One of the key objectives of Lancashire County Council's local transport plan is to improve economic performance and regeneration through the introduction of initiatives focused on reducing congestion, improving journey time reliability and increasing sustainable travel patterns."
Checks will be carried out at key crossroads to ensure traffic lights are working effectively, costing around £50,000, according to engineers. This will include where the A682 meets Glen View Road, Casterton Avenue, Ringwood Avenue and Halifax Road, and the co-ordination of signals on Nelson's Broadway.


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Laurie Berkner Plays the Boulder Theater, 2/2
Z2 Entertainment will present Laurie Berkner to the Boulder Theater on Saturday, February 2 , 2013. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, November 16th, 2012 at 10:00 am for $25 general admission seated, $30 reserved & $50 VIP.
Laurie Berkner has been a professional musician since 1992, but her success as a children's recording artist was a surprise to her. "It was so unexpected," says Laurie. "I'd been performing in rock bands (including Lois Lane, an all-female cover band, as well as her own original rock band, Red Onion) and struggling to write original music. Writing music for kids has not been a struggle at all. The more I started working on material for children, the more I realized that it opened up creativity in me that I never knew I had."
These days critics widely acknowledge Laurie's major contribution toward launching what is now dubbed the progressive "kindie rock" movement - that is, less saccharine, more rocking music that is not dumbed down for children. But it wasn't simply an enormous amount of talent that helped create an entire genre and skyrocketed Laurie to her current position as "the queen of children's music" (People Magazine). It was an ability to gain parents' enthusiasm for the songs too. According to Laurie, "When I'm writing a song, I'm thinking about whether the kids will like it and whether I'm going to connect to them through it. I'm also thinking about whether I want to sing it over and over again, so I guess that's the part that connects with adults. 'Old MacDonald Had A Farm' is a great song for kids, but I couldn't sing it 100 times!"
Laurie's first release in 1997, Whaddaya Think Of That? (only available on cassette at the time) was inspired by the parents of her young students. "The children were really responding to the music we created together," explains Laurie. Many of the songs involve movement, and all of them invite children's participation.
By the time she released her second CD Buzz Buzz in 1998, Laurie had formed her own record company, Two Tomatoes Records, LLC.
Laurie's third release, Victor Vito (1999) drew her first stellar reviews in the national media. Laurie began performing live with Susie Lampert on keyboards, later adding Laurie's husband Brian Mueller on bass, and thus the first incarnation of The Laurie Berkner Band was born. The trio began performing high-energy live shows that inspired tots to form kiddie mosh pits and throw stuffed animals on the stage. After their national TV debut on the "Today Show" in 2001, the band's fan base grew so much that Laurie was able to move Two Tomatoes Records out of her one-bedroom apartment into a real office.
Laurie's fourth studio CD, Under A Shady Tree (2002), garnered multiple awards, and critics singled out the recording as one of the best of the year. 2004 marked a major turning point for the band. Laurie, Brian and Susie made their debut on the Nick Jr. TV channel (then called NOGGIN) with a series of six music videos. Laurie admits, "I didn't really anticipate the impact being on TV would have." Indeed, the exposure on national television made her a household hit to millions.
The network then asked Laurie to guest star in its' new original half-hour series "Jack's Big Music Show." Laurie is featured in nearly every episode. "The accessibility and the combination of the visual with the music is a positive way to connect with kids and their parents," says Laurie. "The kids really love it, and the parents go from thinking 'Please be something I can tolerate' to being moved by it themselves."
In June 2010, Laurie released her first-ever compilation of songs, The Best Of The Laurie Berkner Band. July 2011 marked the release of the band's first new DVD of original videos since 2006, Party Day! (Two Tomatoes Records/Razor & Tie). The DVD is packaged with a bonus CD that includes a new, acoustic version of the band's hit song "My Family."
2011 ended with the December release of Barnes & Noble's first-ever original NOOK Kids™ Read and Play™ NOOK Kids™ Book, based on the title track from Party Day!. The Party Day e-book is a musical adventure featuring animation and interactive games.
Laurie continues to be inspired by her audience. "I want to create songs that matter for children," she says. "I was singing once and saw a four-year-old girl shut her eyes and start swaying to the music. I thought, 'That's the reason I got into music.' It keeps me wanting to do more."
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POLICE are appealing for information after a man was assaulted outside a pub in Colne.
The assault happened at about 4am on the morning of Sunday, April 27th in the car park at the side of the Union Exchange pub, Market Street.
The victim broke his hand and received bruising to his face and body.
The victim is a 22-year-old local man.
Detectives would like to speak to the two men captured on CCTV in connection with the assault.
Det Con Ifte Ali, of East CID, said: "This was a nasty and unprovoked assaulted which left the victim with some significant injuries.
"I would appeal to anyone who recognises the men in these images, or who has any information about this assault, to get in touch with the police."
Anyone with information should call police on 101 quoting log number 0418 of April 29th or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.


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