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OEM Parking Brake Lever Study
I have been wondering how the parking brake lever works.
People have had it fail, and it was not clear to me what failed.
This is how it works:
1. Here is an overview of the passenger side of the parking brake lever assembly.
The pin which loops over the black lever is installed to keep the tension spring from unwinding. It is removed after the cables are connected.
2. Here is an overview of the driver's side of the parking brake lever assembly.
3. A more detailed view of the various parts.
The tension spring is attached to the cable drum.
It keeps about 20 pounds pull on the cable when the parking brake is released. This removes the slack from the system.
The cable drum is made from two pieces, with one piece extending under the clutch spring.
The clutch spring is wound around the drum tightly enough to be a friction fit on the drum.
One end of the clutch spring extends from the bottom of the spring, and is anchored to the parking brake lever.
Lifting the lever causes the clutch spring to wind even more tightly around the drum, so the drum rotates with the lever, which pulls on the brake cable.
4. As the lever is pulled up, the clutch spring, being anchored to the lever, rotates, tightening itself on the drum.
This drags the drum around with it, pulling the cable.
The clutch spring tail moves away from the stop, which is actually the thing that allows the clutch spring to wind itself tighter on the drum.
5. Here the lever has been raised as if to apply the parking brake.
The spring clutch tail has also rotated away from the stop.
If you were to pull on the tail, toward the camera, it would unwind the clutch spring, making its diameter bigger, thereby releasing the cable drum. The lever position would not change, though. It would move freely as long as you followed the rotation with the spring tail.
When the lever is returned to the down position, the clutch spring tail also rotates toward the stop. It hits the stop just before the lever bottoms out. This releases the clutch spring, and the tension spring is free to rotate the cable drum, maintaining 20 pounds tension on the cable.
6. Here you see what breaks when you go to apply the parking brake, and hear a loud SNAP!
The lever will then be free to move, and no torque will be applied to the cable drum.
An ineffective parking brake could be caused by any one of several things:
Worn shoes
Shoes out of adjustment
Broken cable(s)
Broken clutch spring arm
Slipping clutch spring
Broken tension spring
Whatever happened to just a lever with a cable attached?:dunno:
Thanks for the insight :thumbsup:
This will more than likely be helpful in the future :tea:
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Very informative. Not sure if I will need to know this, but having this knowledge, like anything else, could come in handy one day. Thanks for a solid overview.
Good info for others!!!
e-brake assembly
thanks great photos BIG help jim
Great write-up and pics, Ronjenx. This Rube Goldbergian contraption, was no doubt a by-product, of the short-term marriage between Daimler & Chrysler. As with most Mercedes products, over-engineered in my opinion. I'm sure next time I'm on the Autobahn, the tow-truck driver, will have the spare part on top of his dash and it will be a snap for him to r/r. Probably does not lend itself well to trail fixes, glad I just bought a set of folding wheel-chocks. I will pull more gingerly from now on.
I believe the design is an attempt at making the lever self-adjusting.
The lever gets a fresh grab on the drum each time it is released.
It's unfortunate the clutch spring arm, where it is anchored to the lever, is a weak point.
I believe I was reading in the manual of my 2009 Rubicon that the E-brake is NOT self adjusting.
I need to tighten the cable because it has stretched and I'm looking for info on how to do the work myself.
Anyone else had this issue?
Applying the parking brake in reverse, and forward, a few time can equalize the left and right sides, making the brake more effective.
Using this procedure, mine went from 5 clicks to hold the Jeep, to 3 clicks to hold the Jeep. That saved me from adjusting the shoes, this time.
This will not work if the lever goes much past 5 or 6 clicks to hold the Jeep.
The shoes can be adjusted without removing the wheel/tire/drum. but it's much easier if you do.
Another great post. You are the king when it comes to taking things apart.
The wife just snapped her brake last Friday. Thanks for this excellent post. I was about to climb under the Jeep and start there inspecting cables, but now you've saved me from getting 40 lbs of slush, sand, and salt all over myself.
I've just finished the parking brake replacement and adjustment. My brake needed to be pulled up all the way and then the ferule on the cable that connects around the pulley on the brake lever snapped. I ordered a new parking brake model 52059887AB. I was able to install it without removing the entire center console. I removed just the storage compartment and was able to use a couple different length ratchets and extensions to remove the old and install the new one without too much trouble. Adjusting the brakes was worse than I'd hoped but still wasn't that bad. I do not believe there is anyway to adjust the star without pulling off the wheel and brake. My brake spoon just couldn't make contact and still have room to rotate the star. I pulled off the rotors so I could see how much (and whether) I was moving the star. The wheel don't spin very easily before adjusting the brake but I turned the star until the wheel noticeably dragged and then backed it off. (This meant I had to put the rotor back on to test.) When I pull the handle I get about 6 clicks until it is good and tight. Could it be tighter? Probably, but it's been so bad for so long I'll take what I can get. Thank you to all the people who've posted information on this topic. You saved me a couple hundred bucks.
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For Israeli leaders, the results of the U.S. election are just a precursor to the vote set to happen here in January.
1. Benjamin Netanyahu's morning: The prime minister and his advisers followed Tuesday night's developments on a split screen: on the left side, the U.S. election; on the right side, the primaries in Habayit Hayehudi. The prime minister is fighting against both Obama and Naftali Bennett, and openly helped both of their opponents. In both cases, his gamble turned out to be wrong. Netanyahu woke up to a morning in which Obama is celebrating in Chicago and new Habayit Hayehudi leader Bennett is celebrating in Tel Aviv. For his miscalculations, Netanyahu will pay twice over in terms of the Knesset seats Likud will lose.
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2. Ehud Olmert's morning: The former prime minister, who is currently in the United States, followed the results of the election from New York. He is still on the fence about whether or not to return to politics and run in the upcoming elections, and has been consulting with Tzipi Livni, with Shaul Mofaz, with Gabi Ashkenazi and many others. Obama's victory could be the opening shot in Olmert's election campaign. On the other hand, the state prosecution's decision to appeal the court decisions in the Talansky and Rishon Tours affairs is a reminder of the heavy legal yolk he is under, and is making him think again. The political clock is ticking. He must decide by the end of the week.
3. Ehud Barak's morning: While in the Prime Minister's Office they put the champagne back in the cabinet, in the defense minister's office they popped it open. While Netanyahu and his aides try to figure out how to deal with the enemy's news, Barak was the first to publish a message of congratulations and to invite news teams in to tape a recorded message. In recent years, Barak has served as Netanyahu's liaison officer to the American government. Most of the time he has relayed Netanyahu's messages, but sometimes he's also passed along his own. In recent weeks, in the context of the tension with the U.S. government over Iran, Barak has distanced himself from Netanyahu, portraying himself in Washington as the responsible adult, the gatekeeper of Israel-U.S. relations. For him, this is a political asset that fits in well with the election campaign. If his Atzmaut party passes the electoral threshold, Barak will be a clear candidate to serve again as the next defense minister.
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5. Israel-U.S. relations this morning: Beyond the politics, Netanyahu's government and the Obama administration have two weighty issues that require decisions before the Israeli election on January 22. The first is the Palestinians' move to seek statehood recognition in the United Nations at the end of this month, and the other is the talks between Iran and the six world powers, which will reconvene within a few weeks. Obama will not forget and will not forgive Netanyahu for his support of Mitt Romney. However, one hopes that Netanyahu and Obama manage to put aside the bad blood between them and work together to address these two challenges. Netanyahu must do everything in his power to help Obama help him.
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Worst gym experience I have ever had. I've been a member here for almost a year and I will not be renewing my contract. I don't know where to start. The staff are incredibly incompetent and rude. Customer service is a joke. They basically sell you a very expensive membership and once they have you under contract do absolutely nothing to help or make sure you're happy. I have complained numerous times, calmly, diplomatically but they never get back to you. I spent a half hour in the office speaking to the floor manager nicely and calmly regarding some of the issues I had experienced in the club she seemed quite understand and told me that I was totally right and somebody would call me or email me soon. It never happened.
I recently booked a few personal training sessions at 60.00 pounds an hour thinking I would train with someone a few times a week for a few months I was ready to buy 20 sessions - THANK GOD I DIDN'T. On Both occasions the trainer showed up 15 mins late and left after 45 minutes - charging me for the full hour. He talked to other people through out our whole workout and left me basically to do the weights on my own. At one point I asked him how many reps I had done and he said " Oh sorry where are we at, again? " WHAT A JOKE!
The staff have no sense of humility or concern for your comfort or satisfaction. The receptionists are snappy and cold.
The change rooms are over crowded and not up to par for being the most expensive health club in London.
The gym has often been closed or shut randomly and suddenly for water problems or electric problems. And no talk of reimbursement of days fees. They just send out a text the morning of.
The owner of the gym is a complete moron also. And rude at that.
After many a happy experience at other health clubs before coming to London from the states, I have to say this is handsdown not only the worst, most upsetting experience with a gym but also ironically, the most expensive. I don't mind paying for something that's worth it but this gym just infuriates me.


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"When you pitch a one hitter and the one hit you give up is to anybody, that's one hell of a performance." – The Strategy Expert
Detroit Tigers: 27-19, 1st Place (.5 ahead of Cleveland). Win streak: 4
"When you pitch a one hitter and the one hit you give up is to a guy with three batting titles, that's one hell of a performance." -Jim Leyland
The Tigers re-took first place in style last night. Just 4 weeks after he set a Tiger record with 17 strikeouts against Atlanta, Anibal Sanchez flirted with his 2nd-career no-hitter with a masterful 1-hit, 130-pitch complete game shutout of the Twins.
Well "flirting" may be too mild–it was an all out seduction, and he almost had the thing, until the one guy in the Minnesota lineup most likely to break up a no-hitter came up, and Mauer ended the drama with a solid single up the middle. With his pitch count over 120 and the no-hitter gone, Sanchez smacked his glove at what might have been, stepped back on the mound, and struck out the rest of the side.
Sanchez, Leyland, and some of the Tigers give their reactions to Sanchez' performance.
After last night's game, and with Anibal's 17-K performance still in memory, I began hearing a little chatter about how Sanchez is the real "Ace" of the staff. Wasn't it just a few days ago that Scherzer was the one that was maybe the real Ace now? (And at times in the past one could even hear that said about Doug Fister). I'm not sure how useful the concept of a staff Ace is; I suppose it does matter when it comes to naming the Opening Day starting pitcher, and when setting up a playoff rotation, otherwise I am not sure. At any rate, I am sure of this: when you have a starting rotation such that you have guys who can compete with Justin Verlander for the title of Staff Ace, your pitching is going to take you a long way
Last night was a special performance. Today the Tigers celebrate a special team, the 1968 Tigers. on the 45th Anniversary of their World Series Championship team.
Today's Player of the Pre-game: Andy Dirks. Dirks continues leadoff duties. Andy is on a 7-for-17 streak, and is 3-for-7 with a HR off of The Pajama Man
Today's Lineup:
"When you pitch a one hitter and the one hit you give up is to anybody, that's one hell of a performance." – The Strategy Expert
Good observation.
It could have been shorter, but I was feeling poetic and inspired by Leylandism.
Well, the form was perfect. When you can alter one word from a quote and turn it on its head, that is brilliant. This time *I* am congratulating you.
Sweet I knew I had at least one post worth something on this page. It's just a numbers game!
Pena is going to hit himself into a regular job!
Pena should ask why every week Alex gets almost triple the money. That's fine if you want to overpay him, but I should get at least what he's getting!
Pena is 13/29 from the left-side. Sounds like they need to keep him in the order with right-hand pitchers. How about $5K bonus for every hit?
Well are you asking TSE the agent, or TSE the GM? TSE the agent says yeah that's reasonable and thank you for being fair, but TSE the GM says sorry your great play only means that now I'm trading you today, thank you so much and bless your heart!
Walters is throwing very few strikes..that always puts the Tigers at such a big disadvantage…
Pena plays the gane right also..gets a little dirty, hussles, plays hard..does it right!
Yeah I'm fairly impressed with him on MOST of the little things and intangibles, but he can still improve a few areas. He just doesn't offer much upside with the bat so we should relish every hit he gets. Personally i disagreed with the signing at the time because I saw Avila as the starter and I wanted to push for more value at that spot and try and find a better #1 so Avila could be the #2. I don't dislike Pena for any reason other than he's an opportunity blocker to find the next great Catcher if Avila is not going to be that guy which we can't obviously bank on.
That was a nasty shot to Wilkin. The freeze frame shows how the ball had just landed into the other guy's glove and right at that moment Wilkin's jaw comes smashing hard right into the mitt/ball part and at such a speed it was probably like getting a knockout punch in the face. I'm wondering if he just lost some teeth.
Looks like his head hit the ground hard. That was the LF ball all the way.
Yeah and he didn't even make the play even though his glove was in front! Weird, but I guess maybe at the last instant he could have restrained from stretching his glove out more. Or perhaps if the LF wasn't there maybe he just totally whiffs on the ball. Indeed very clearly the LF's ball so you can bet his Manager will be asking him "what were you thinking dude?"
Pena probably is not the long term answer, but he sure is the right guy at the right time considering the circumstances
Well yeah I agree he's a nice fit for the shape of this team with his best attribute being he's not one of the many players we have that are making countless millions of dollars undeservingly.
It has happened without announcement and fanfare, but Avila and Pena are now splitting time at C. I don't think we can call Pena the backup catcher any longer.
wasn't Fielder hitting .300 just a little while ago???
He only hit .301 for April, and it was .247 for May entering this game.
Prince has had some kind of problem going on. He's not turning on the inside pitch like he did at the start of the season. He's taking a lot of pitches that he used to hit. Just lately, he's getting under stuff that he would normally drive.
this was one of those game where the Tigers put in as little effort as possible, waiting for Miggy to win it somehow….they play many games like this! oh well!
Well we have a lot of rich elitist veteran players, and they don't necessarily all congregate together and play like a Little League team. When I played baseball you would get screamed at for not hustling, effort and fundamentals were taken seriously or you would get coached and trained to improve until you get it right and do it right consistently. We don't run that kind of program, it's more like a ball club than a complete team.
And our batting lineup is weak in overall continuity, we have too many diminishing small returns when you interject the inefficient producers throughout that 9 set. Miggy can't win every game by himself.
You do realize that the Tigers are first in the majors in R, BA, and OPS, and 5th in Slg. right?
You sound really ridiculous when you call the best lineup in the majors (thus far in 2013) "weak in overall continuity." In fact, ridiculous may not be the right word. Idiotic is more worthy (based on your conjecture, I don't know you personally).
Yes I realize that and I completely disagree with the concept that the lineup is good because you can make that statement.
To me the lineup is garbage and it's a losing combination, and I think the key element we are missing in the recipe is the continuity and greater efficiency. I think my analysis is brilliant and for you to suggest the opposite is extremely ridiculous considering I think I know what I'm talking about and that you do not.
I bet that book you made a post about probably talks about concepts like this too, so you might feel differently once you finish it. Having one superstar Cabrera is nice to get some overall output, but for the dollars we spend on this team and how we manage our assets and balance them, we have terrible leverage in the complete 1-9 grouping. We could have the same offense output numbers with $100MM as an example. But for $150MM, if you balance it properly and manage all the parts, you can create a ton of extra efficiency. We don't have to spend more to get a lot greater results, we just need to spend the money more wisely and employ a better system of learning how the individual 1-9 hitters combine for a total team result and overall efficiency and continuity.
I also have made tons of posts on this site revolving around these concepts and I think after that book you might form different conclusions about how good this lineup is. And what if every other team employed only 9 year old girls? Well we would look even better comparatively, but comparatively is irrelevant to us getting our money's worth for our particular dollars. Other teams doing worse to make our results seem slightly more palatable might qualify as enough for you, but I see our offensive unit and mngmt of our roster design to be total chaos and disarray. We have Cabrera and Fielder as our top 2 guys, and virtually everybody else is a question mark in some way.
We have a horrible setup, ESPECIALLY for the long-term. Sure we can survive and get by for now, but there's more to the game than just this one season, a season of which we still have major lineup problems!! It would be one thing if we had a superstar juiced lineup this year and then took another big hit next year but could justify it by having a special season this year, but for $150MM and the massive number of missing pieces on offense for both the short-term and the long-term is absolutely atrocious. It's insane and totally irresponsible, but we are plagued by strategy ignorance since our GM doesn't understand these high level concepts.
Here's a numerical concept to think about, and maybe something like this appears in that book too. To get a run on a combo of hits, you have to combine a pair of other hits if it's not a homer as a typical way to do that. Now let's just play a number game, you have let's say 50 points to distribute from 1-9 and we'll say the computation of all 9 numbers to get the highest number is what you want. Well how could you distribute those numbers, in terms of what types of different ways?
Well you could do 50/9 and that would come out to 5 for each with 5 6's, or you could do eight 1's and one 42, or many other combinations. Let's say each of the 50 points costs a million dollars so it doesn't matter how you distribute as the cost is the same in this simple game.
So what do you get if you multiply 1 by itself 8x and then by 42? You get a tiny 42. Let's double those 1's and see what happens, so what about eight 2's and then a 34? Well that's much better than the last one. You can quickly see that the best computational power when dealing with a finite amount of math resources is to make it more evenly distributed as you get closer to where we are using only 5's and 6's. Now this isn't a perfect analogy since naturally the top order in a baseball group of 9 gets more PAs, this simple little illustration is for no reason other than to spark a thought about how numbers work when you can combine them. So you over-complicate the math logic as you think about a baseball team and what our lineup looks like is one super top heavy number surrounded by a bunch of tiny numbers. But we didn't have to do it that way. And we don't need to find more Cabrera's to get a better yield. We can easily find 2s to replace 1s or 3s to replace 2s, it's harder as you go up in number, but if you can find guys that are 6s that other teams think are 4s, then you can not only find upgrades but nice ones. And sometimes you can find that you have 4s that another team sees as a 6 because they might have a far less precise system of evaluating players.
Our team has tremendous opportunity to look at the 1-9 recipe and find ways to reconfigure for extremely cheap improvements. In fact, you could even in many cases shed salary while getting more overall points to distribute across your 9 spots if you can further use other concepts to identify where those steals are available when negotiating with other teams that throw away good leverage for free. All of the other teams often take on trash and throw away treasure, they all do it in some way and way too often, and the art is to find a way to identify that and then create efficiency harmony within your lineup for the best price, and the better the value, the more potential you have to spend even more in the future to keep pushing the limit and piling on more if you are so inclined. Let us know after you read that book and give us your book review thoughts and mention any highlights you think are interesting as takeaways from it.
Now baseball batters don't multiply in a perfectly congruent way to the way the basic math operations work. You have to work through the logic to get more specific pictures in mind of how these concepts interlink within a baseball lineup. Connected hits add for bases, but you need 4 bases for a run, but sometimes you have a double and a single for only 3 bases yet you scored a run for a discount. And sometimes you have 2 guys in scoring position and you can get 2 runs for one single. So as you link this baseball lineup concept to that simple math game from the above post, then there becomes a slightly more complex abstract math game to keep track of all the moving parts, but as you do you find these mini math games and principles that favor good efficiency when you can get a good flow from the 1-9 system.
So if you have that maximum perfect flow rate figured out, and then I could say well we could dismantle this pipeline and turn it into the bottleneck system we had before, then your natural response would be well why would you do that, you would screw up the whole flow!! Well but wouldn't the sum of our parts still be the same so what's the difference, shouldn't they be equal quantities of total value in either scenario?
The answer is NO, that's now how math logic works. I sure hope you aren't a GM if you can't figure this out.
And I don't know how many GMs in MLB understand this concept, it's possible it could be any number from 0-32. But I'm 100% positive that exactly 0 GMs in MLB understand how to implement this type of concept at all, let alone with minimal mistakes. That's like asking for them to buy 2 winning lottery tickets in a row after I first explained to them what the lottery even is which this post string could represent.
Those elements are the even harder part to figure out, and none of them would be able to figure that stuff out if they each had another 20 years to ponder the question absent any new clues.
Ridiculous, TSE. All of that. You should really have your own blog, where you can hold forth on your theories and congratulate yourself on your brilliance. It's not going over very well here.
I don't understand why you would say that. I have no interest in congratulating myself about anything, but I was called out rudely and I defended myself and my baseball position the best I could to rebut the strong comment of dissent.
"I think my analysis is brilliant and for you to suggest the opposite is extremely ridiculous considering I think I know what I'm talking about and that you do not."
This quote from you is why I would say that. No interest in congratulating yourself? Come again?
He outlandishly attacked my intelligence and in not even remotely a subtle way so I backed up a rebuttal point speaking to my vast level of baseball intelligence and I thought I did a fantastic solid job in making that case while also elaborating on the subject matter and concept point that he called into question.
I've seen so many times that people here have asked me to elaborate much further and not be so vague, and I went for some thorough ideas to share and took a strong position that was appropriate considering the circumstances of Kevin's hostile interrogative.
You do a remarkably good impersonation of The Onion's Autistic Reporter.
He opened up hard so I closed harder. I aim to win and destroy my opponents to the best of my ability whatever it takes.
Well, then I suppose you "destroyed" Kevin by discouraging any further discussion. You could have just reasonably qualified your "weak continuity" statement, instead of going over the top by calling the Tigers lineup garbage. Kevin was reasonable in pointing out that calling a lineup (yes, a lineup – Miggy hasn't done it all by himself) weak, a lineup that that leads MLB in runs, is, on the face of it, ridiculous. He didn't call YOU an idiot. He attacked your statement, and it deserved attack. You didn't so much defend it as restate it even more obscurely.
People, it's gotten a little ridiculous when the lengthiest exchanges here are TSE vs. Challenger on the subject of, essentially… TSE. I hear that the 2013 season is underway and that the Detroit Tigers are playing baseball games. I'm watching them. Are you?
Yeah sorry I just respectfully disagree with your opinion on this one. For one my original comment was pretty solid. I was very specific about the sentiments that I wanted to convey, there was nothing that should have spurned the kind of reaction he had. There was nothing I had to defend because all I did was post a few fleeting thoughts and nobody had asked any questions or furthered any discussion that warranted an expansion or defense of what were some very simple and straightforward observations and opinions. But nevertheless the tone and taste with how he chose to engage me I thought was very inappropriate, so I don't see why any person would be discouraged to talk with me just because Kevin has an issue with being polite and professional in communicating. This isn't the first time Kevin has made a very rude comment towards me, he has done it many times in the past and I just think that his attitude towards me has been unfair and unfortunate.
Despite that I didn't launch back with name calling, but I delved in and provided a lot of effort to try and give very good detailed information about very unique concepts to add further to my original comment which I felt stood just fine on it's own. Other people had asked me to expand on some of these concepts in that past and this seemed like a good time to do so and I thought I did a good job with presenting a couple of ideas.
And as always, if somebody doesn't think there is value in discussing baseball with me, then they are free to ignore me, and anybody that sees any point in discussing anything with me is equally free to do the same.
Or more possible to be 0-30 since there's only 30 teams, sorry it's getting late!
Kevin in Dallas: Did you poke the TSE?
I felt a little stir. It's like he was trying to drop a bunt on me or something and I had to react!


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Oops: Janice Hahn gets double slammed on her 'gang intervention' debacle
So the story goes like this: There's a special House election next Tuesday in CA-36. Janice Hahn, the Democrat, tried to kill a negative story about herself on the local Fox affiliate, concerning her ridiculous and wasteful "gang intervention program," which more or less put gang members on the city payroll when she was a Los Angeles city council member. Fox 11 investigated the program and found that it was one massive debacle. Hahn fired off a cease and desist to get Fox's story killed. That backfired as you'll see in the video below, in which Fox 11 spends 8 full minutes of its newscast going over all the story's details. Do yourself a favor and watch the story to get a very detailed look at just how wonderful Hahn's gang program really was. The comparison between Hahn and Pittsburgh Steeler Troy Polamalu is particularly entertaining. But the bottom line is that Hahn wasted public money on a project centered on unrepentant gangbangers. One of the gangsters sucked up over $1 million being an "intervention" type, but is in jail now for selling illegal machine guns. Nice work, Janice! Way to turn 'em around!
Republican Craig Huey is her opponent. This Fox story probably is a game changer -- it puts Janice Hahn's biggest collection of liabilities front and center just days before the special election. If the Republican wins, that's a GOP pick-up, since this is the seat that Democrat Jane Harman abandoned in favor of a think tank paycheck just a few weeks after getting re-elected to the seat back in November.
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"The email that started us on this journey arrived in my in-box on December 23, with the subject line: Black Wednesday of Death in Harrodsburg, KY—Please, Help! … How could I ignore that plea?" writes Bark editor Claudia Kawczynska in her story about Kit and Holly [3]—puppies she adopted from a Kentucky rescue last December.
For those of us who volunteer or work for or support shelters and rescues, this sort of e-missive is familiar. When we receive these dog-needs-home notices we become possible links in a chain that may connect a stray in Georgia with a loving home in Maine, or a puppy mill refugee in Kansas with a family in California. The email from "James Painter" that caught Claudia's eye, actually came from his daughter, Dawn, who uses her parents' email as part of her effort to help southern shelters and rescues find homes for homeless dogs often in far away locations.
We catch up with the Dawn Painter in the second part of our online series on the people behind animal transport—the grassroots network that moves dogs from shelters in the South or the Midwest to communities where they have a better chance of finding a good adoptive home. (In the first part, we talked to the founders of C.A.R.E. [4], who transport homeless dogs and cats via van convoy from shelters in the Midwest to rescues in Colorado.)
Painter, 38, is a classic animal welfare advocate, making time to help in addition to a full-time job—in her case, in the planning department at UPS. She lives with four rescue cats in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. She has not website, and relies exclusively on email. As you might expect, we communicated with Painter via email and she responded in that efficient, spare text language that allows her to get more from each keystroke. (We have "translated" her answers into pre-texting English.)
TheBark.com: How did you get involved in this work?
Bark: Are you connected to any organization or are you simply a one-woman advocate?
Bark: As we understand it, you pull together and send out urgent calls for adoption or shelter help from around the country. Can you explain your role: How do you learn about dogs in need, and how you try to connect dogs in need with people who can help?
Any type of abuse cases, I have a contact who is a prosecutor. Of course, I have a cat group so a lot of my emails go to those no-kill sanctuaries. Shelters that are in dire need get forwarded to my animal welfare organizations (Best Friends [9], IDA [10], ASPCA [11], etc.). I also have a rehab and rescue group, and all the dogs that are good therapy dogs I send their information to them.
I love to get news clippings about how dog/cats help inmates or residents at nursing homes. I forward these to shelters in the hopes that they will contact their local facilities. I also have media-type contacts where I forward any emails regarding abuse, special events by animal organizations, puppy mills, etc.
Bark: Do you know what happens after you send out emails?
Bark: Do you worry that there will be too many email alerts going out and that people will start to tune you out?
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Two Catholic parishes in Mount Washington may merge
From: Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Oct 1, 2012
By Janice Crompton / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A committee that has been studying the possible merging of two Catholic churches in Mount Washington during the past two years announced Sunday that it will recommend closing St. Justin Catholic Church and consolidating the parish into St. Mary of the Mount Church on Grandview Avenue. Services for the hearing impaired at St. Justin, including a sign-language Mass each Sunday, are expected to continue.
The recommendation will come from the Envisioning Ministry Planning Team, comprised of seven members from both churches, and will be forwarded to the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh and Bishop David A. Zubik for a final decision.
The process began in a perhaps-unexpected way, especially after so many other local Catholic parishes found themselves unpleasantly surprised by recent announcements from the diocese of closures and forced mergers.
"Father [Walter Rydzon] and I initiated the process," said the Rev. Michael Stumpf, pastor of St. Mary, about himself and the priest at St. Justin. "We've been trying to be aware of the signs of the times in our communities and respond to them."
The reality for the Mount Washington churches -- and thousands more across the nation -- has been dwindling resources and an overall decline in participation in church activities in recent years.
Efforts to attract younger parishioners and priests, such as 39-year-old Father Stumpf, also have been a challenge for the church.
According to financial and other data released by the planning team, which held a town hall meeting attended by about 100 people at St. Justin on Sunday, the two churches, combined, will finish 2012 with expenditures that exceed income by more than $40,000.
St. Justin has about 1,970 parishioners, with 288 active members, while St. Mary has a total of 2,612 members, 600 of which attend church regularly.
In both cases, flagging attendance and declining revenues will likely keep the parishes in the red for the next several years if no action is taken, according to the data, resulting in combined deficits of as much as $211,000 by 2018.
To address the changing demographics and financial realities, fathers Rydzon and Stumpf, along with planning team members, gathered feedback and data and will propose seven recommendations to the bishop, including the shuttering of St. Justin by early next year.
Other recommendations include the formation of joint committees to ease the transition, hiring an architect to assess whether the 115-year-old St. Mary structure would need any improvements in order to expand, and consolidation of staff members. Parishioners also felt strongly that nonreligious ministries sponsored by the churches, such as a food pantry and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, should be maintained.
If their recommendations are followed, the group feels the consolidated churches would come close to breaking even and perhaps might even make a modest profit if unused church properties, such as the 55-year-old St. Justin, are sold.
"Change is never easy, especially when you're losing something that's so much a part of your history," Rev. Stumpf said. "At the same time, people are understanding that because we've been as open as we can in sharing data it expresses the reality and I think people see that."
One of those people is Mike Bobanic of Aliquippa, who served on the planning team as a voice for the local deaf community. For the past 18 years, St. Justin has served as the only church in the diocese with sign-language services. It serves 150 deaf parishioners, including 60 who are active each week. They come from as far away as Glassport, Greensburg and Youngstown, Ohio.
Mr. Bobanic, who is deaf, said through an interpreter that while a move to St. Mary isn't ideal, the deaf community realizes it's necessary.
"We're used to being here; we built a church and a community here," he said of St. Justin, where deaf parishioners usually stay after church services to socialize. "We've adopted this as our home, but if St. Mary's is comfortable welcoming us, we'll go through that process."
Father Rydzon spent two years learning sign language to communicate with his parishioners, and Mr. Bobanic said having a pastor who signs is the top priority of members of the deaf community.
Parishioners from St. Mary who attended the meeting said they realize how important it will be to welcome the deaf community and hope to begin doing so during an ethnic festival at St. Mary on Oct. 12-14.
In the meantime, Father Stumpf said he is learning sign language and expects the sign-language masses from St. Justin to continue at St. Mary.
"I'm trying to learn," Father Stumpf said. "[Father Rydzon] is teaching me."
Also important to the deaf community are ironing out some logistical issues, such as how a deaf choir would be incorporated into a traditional Mass and having sign-language interpreters highly visible during scripture readings.
Though the pastor of the consolidated parish will be determined by Bishop Zubik, Father Rydzon gave a hearty recommendation to his younger colleague, calling him "the perfect candidate," to lead the expanded group.
Father Rydzon, 65, plans to retire in the next several years and hopes to be transferred to St. Mary for at least a year, to help with the transition and to continue teaching Father Stumpf to sign.
The next step in the process will be for the planning team to present its findings and recommendations to the diocese and hope that they are accepted. The group also hopes the diocese will agree that a consolidation, rather than a merger, would be a more feasible idea so that St. Mary doesn't need to change its name or incur any additional expense.
Father Stumpf said it thought it was highly likely that the bishop would look upon the arrangement with a friendly eye, especially due to the positive way it has been handled by both churches.
"From the very onset, we've not looked at this as a death but as a resurrection, that's our Christian ministry," Father Stumpf said. "How do we re-envision? How do we become more alive and not dead? We need to minister differently."
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Vitters learning on the job at big league level
Vitters, the club's first-round Draft pick (No. 3 overall) in 2007, has appeared in six games, with three starts. He has two hits in 16 at-bats (.125), one of which was a pinch-hit, two-run double on Aug. 7 against San Diego.
Although the 22-year-old hasn't taken to the Majors quickly, offense is the one thing that has rarely been a question with Vitters. He was a .283 hitter in the Minor Leagues, and he was hitting .304 with 17 home runs an 68 RBIs at Triple-A Iowa before being promoted.
Sveum said he eventually sees Vitters maturing into a player "capable of hitting 20 home runs if he plays every day -- easily 20 home runs.
"His swing should definitely play in the big leagues," Sveum said. "His hands are very live. He's a great fastball hitter, and great fastball hitters usually survive and do well at this level."
Defensively, Vitters is still a work in progress. He's committed one error -- which came Friday on a hard one-hopper that would be a tough play for many players -- but he has also made a couple of impressive stops. Sveum said he already sees improvement when watching Vitters take ground balls, but he's interested to see how that growth translates to game situations.
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Stan Bertheaud attended the USC School of Film and Television for three years earning graduate credit in film production and screenwriting. He is credited with two theatrically released screenplays. The first, TILT-A-WORLD starred Dwight Yoakam in his first leading role that went on to receive the Gold Award at the Houston International Film Festival. The second, the surrealistic western, SOUTH OF HEAVEN, West of Hell, which premiered at the 2000 Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
Bertheaud earned his Master of Architecture degree at North Carolina State University. He's taught at Mississippi State University, Tulane University, Auburn University and the University of New Mexico. Professor Bertheaud has amassed numerous awards and honors throughout his career as an architect, educator and screenwriter. Currently, Bertheaud is a Professor of Architecture at Woodbury University in Southern California where he teaches architecture and a basic filmmaking course. He is also working on a series of children's books and a short introductory film for liaMolly.
1. What's your favorite political movie?
DR. STRANGLELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB my hands down favorite, then…
WAG THE DOG, BULWORTH, ELECTION and PRIMARY COLORS round out the honorable mentions (in no particular order). I guess I like my political movies laughable.
2. What role do you feel art plays in politics?
My first reaction is not enough, but when I think about it maybe that's good. Art should make statements (political and otherwise) but only as an interested, uncensored observer. Art should remain fiercely independent.
3. What do you think is the biggest issue for the next generation of Americans?
It's the environment…
4. Who was the first political candidate you were excited to vote for and why?
Bill Clinton. I was in my 30′s and I was finally beginning to look at things more holistically. His speeches resonated with me… of course, it might have had something to do with his sweet southern cadence and down home expressions, being an expatriated southerner myself.
5. What factors are important to you in choosing a president?
Intelligence tempered with a seriously healthy dose of common sense and humility… and a sense of humor sure can't hurt.
6. What issues would you like to see politicians focus more on?
To begin with, having a realistic grasp of the issues would be nice. More specifically, having a sense of the big picture, the long term health (literally and figuratively) of our country would be a great place to start.
7. Which issues would you like to see politicians focus less on?
I'm not sure it's an issue, but I could do without the partisanship and constant bickering.
8. Which candidate's initiatives do you feel better address environmental concerns?
Obama's platform on "being green" and its potential benefit to the economy appeals to me. Can he pull it off?… I think so.
9. This is your soapbox – shout it out! What do you need to get off your chest?
I'm not really a soapbox kind of guy… except I will say that people in general need to be more inclusive and open to new ideas. We're becoming (have become?) way too adversarial and judgmental.
10. Do you have any recommended links, books & or movies so people can learn more about the issues you care about?
For philosophy I suggest Calvin and Hobbes the comic strip; about the creative process, try On Writing by Stephen King; for all things "green", the Sundance Channel; about architecture, I read Dwell magazine. Finally, try talking to some kids about what's going on… your kids, your sister's/brother's kids, any kids. It'll change (at least tweak) the way you think.
Extra Credit: Fill in the blank. _________ for change.
LIGHTEN UP for a change.


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Set in a time before the original game, players take the role of a new young Overlord. As he revels in command of the Minions, our trainee tyrant will be able to take his growing pains out on the local fairy tale inhabitants as he protects his castle and lands. Connecting players to the game world in three dimensions, the use of the Wii Remote gives unprecedented control over the minions. For example, individual Minions can be plucked from the horde, held by the neck and then, by vigorously shaking the Wii Remote, throttled to imbue him with some Overlordly power and turn him into a manic minion missile. With a now-explosive body, the insane little critter can be guided into enemies with hilarious, if rather fatal, consequences.
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- A twisted fairy tale: With a rich, tongue-in-cheek story written by award-winning games author Rhianna Pratchett, this exclusive Overlord adventure for Wii tells a new and twisted fairy tale. The lead character is in a Cinderella scenario with his elder and rather unpleasant brother and sister. He is the forgotten child while his father is away, and his wicked twin siblings are plotting to take over the kingdom with their own perverse alliances with elves and dwarves. The story game also introduces wicked witches, gingerbread men and Lil' Red Riding Hood, the seeming sweet girl with a lupine side to her personality.
- Meet the Minions: The Brown Minions are the fighters and the strongest minions in general combat. Red Minions are fire throwers and act like archers by hurling blazing fireballs as a long range attack. Green Minions are the Assassins and love to use stealth attacks. Blue Minions are the smartest of the minions and have healing powers and can resurrect their fallen minion comrades and bring them back into the fight
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The effects of higher education programme characteristics on the allocation and performance of the graduates
Using a unique European data-set, we investigated the significance of five higher education programme characteristics for the labour market position of the graduates: the academic versus discipline-specific character of the competencies generated; the standardization of these competencies; the combination of working and learning; the internationalization; and the exclusive entrance to particular occupations. Our results reveal the importance of the competence orientation. Graduates are allocated in such a manner that the competence orientation of the programme is in congruence with the competence orientation of the occupation. We will also show that the standardization of the programme allows for higher earnings.
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FireScope Delivers Manageable Compliance in a Complete and Single Package
FireScope Compliance releases best-in-class integrated compliance feature.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, California, Sept. 29, 2009 — FireScope, a leading developer of IT Service Management solutions today announced the release of FireScope Compliance, an innovative offering designed to slash the cost and labor spent on compliance and audit preparation.
The traditional approach to IT compliance forces users down a narrow path of what the vendors have identified as candidates for administrative or automated controls. This leaves major gaps in coverage, particularly in areas that can't be automatically evaluated, such as business processes, policies and more.
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North Dakota governor's travel costs spike
FARGO -- North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven's travel expenses during the first 10 months of this year were almost three times the amount for the same period last year, increasing from $2,705 to $7,845 during the comparison periods.
A breakdown of the governor's travel expenses sought by The Forum shows the governor made five out-of-state official trips, all to Washington, D.C., during the first 10 months of this year.
On the other hand, Hoeven's use of a state airplane declined during the period this year compared to last year - Jan. 1 through Oct. 31 - and his miles driven were essentially the same.
Hoeven's travels to Washington included a trip in May for a flood recovery meeting, a trip in July to testify before a congressional committee on energy, another trip in July to meet with energy and defense officials, and a trek in September for meetings with defense, environmental protection and disaster response officials.
"It's a function of what we're working on," Hoeven said of the variations in his in-state and out-of-state travels. "In '09, of course, we had the flooding. So I was out there (in Washington) working on flood recovery."
The May flood recovery meeting, for instance, involved congressional representatives and governors of both states as well as federal administration officials.
The apparent spike in travel to Washington occurred during a time of active public speculation that Hoeven could challenge Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., during next year's election.
"What's coming up?" said Meredith Pickett, director of communications for the North Dakota Democratic-NPL Party. "The 2010 election. That's the difference that I see."
Hoeven, who has sidestepped questions about his future political intentions, could end the speculation, Pickett said.
Echoing earlier comments, the governor again was vague last week.
"I think these campaigns go on too long," Hoeven said. "We're still almost a year away. We haven't set a timeline."
Adam Jones, political director for the North Dakota Republican Party, said Hoeven doesn't have to decide about a senate bid until the party's state convention, March 19-21, in Grand Forks.
"I think that's the only timeline he's on," Jones said. "He'd have to announce by March 19."
The Forum asked for Hoeven's year-to-date travel expenses on Nov. 24, and received the figures last week. Because the November totals were not in yet, the tally was provided for January through October.
Although the governor's out-of-state travel, using commercial air, increased markedly, his use of the state airplane was down by 22 percent, from 182 hours to 149 hours, during the comparison periods.
The state air fleet is operated by the North Dakota Department of Transportation, which does not bill the governor's office for the use of the plane, a practice that dates back more than 30 years, said Tim Horner, a deputy director of transportation.
Transportation officials estimate it costs $1,065 an hour to fly the Beechcraft King Air twin turboprop plane the governor uses.
It would not be fair to assess the entire cost to the governor's office, Horner said, because the governor is often accompanied by state officials from various agencies and other guests, sometimes including members of the state's congressional delegation.
Besides members of the governor's staff, Hoeven "more often than not" has state officials from other agencies accompany him on his travels. Those officials are listed on the governor's official calendar, a copy of which was made available to The Forum for August through November.
His numerous travel meetings during that period included appearances with peace officers, economic development officials, the Fargo Air Sho and Big Iron, the Jamestown Rotary Club, a school rededication in Minot, an Industrial Commission meeting at the State Mill and Elevator in Grand Forks, and send-off ceremonies for National Guard troops, to list just a few examples.
"Obviously, we work hard with people around the state," Hoeven said.


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Killer Mike & El-P Riverdance cleats on the Mohawk tonight
By Chase Hoffberger,
2:00PM, Mon. Aug. 5, 2013
Collaborations can come correct, or half-baked. On Run the Jewels, Killer Mike and El-P occupy the former with a contender for rap album of the year, the genre veterans spitting hard bars over guttural beats in a compact package you could spin every day like the Earth on its axis.
The two prolific artists convened over the winter to follow up Mike's Top 10 disc from last year, R.A.P. Music, and birthed Run the Jewels in a series of whirlwind recording sessions. Hot on the heels of the new album's online release in June, the duo hits Austin tonight. We caught up with them in advance of their showdown outside at the Mohawk.
Austin Chronicle: Which do you prefer, recording alone or alongside a partner in the booth?
Killer Mike: It's always more fun with a partner or group, because then you have somebody to laugh at immediately in the studio. A lot of the shit that me and El said, the other would just step off the microphone and look at the person, like – when he talks about Riverdance cleats on your face for the finisher.' That was fucking hysterical.
El-P: It's mad fun, and it's dark humor. We're just having a blast trying to rap our asses off, and play with technique and styles and patterns, see who can say the most fucked-up shit. That's just some laugh shit. If you're a rapper, that's where you start. No rapper starts out any other way than coming up with fun ways to say that everybody else is trash and you're the shit.
Mike would say shit, and I would literally need to walk away because I'm spitting water out of my nose. It was basically just a really fun rapper record. That's the cooperation. It ain't competition. There's no competition. It's just me and Mike. That's how we made this; we literally wrote the record together, which is funny because it's baffling to people. They don't know how we got into the same room.
KM: You fall into a vibe or a zone and get up to the point where we shit-talk and, like, one will stop and chuckle and the other will say, 'You were about to say this!' I think you just fall into a good vibe or zone with someone. We talk shit. We talk shit to each other. We talk shit behind each other's backs. It's not easy to get there. It's not easy to achieve that trust with somebody. When I write with El, I literally just stay empty. Because whatever I say is going to come off his last page. I'm depending on him to inspire me with his last two bars. 99.99 percent of the time, that's what happens. That's what it's about. I enjoy rapping with my friend.
AC: Run the Jewels was born out of last year's R.A.P. Music sessions. Was it obvious while you were making that album that you had another batch of material to get out?
EP: We knew we were going to do more records together way before we released R.A.P. Music. We went on tour and did a lot of touring together, basically a year of it. I forget when it was exactly that we started talking about it, but it wasn't long. We started talking about doing another record on tour. It didn't come together until after the tour, and then in the winter of last year, I started handling pre-production on the record. I didn't 100 percent know what it was going to be, but Mike came in and we spent week-long stints in the woods in upstate New York working our asses off.
KM: We were on that Coachella Cruise, and we had those three goddam piña coladas in that bungalow where they had grass. [El] was like, 'Fuck, let's do it together.' We were going to do an EP together. We got back, and I had a week in January before I had to do Europe. I went up to the cabin and we did that. Then, after 30 days in Europe, I went back down to New York in April.
AC: El-P, you said earlier that you two tried to not take things too seriously on this album.
EP: We hold ourselves in high regard. We take our music seriously. We take expressing what we want to express seriously, and we take ourselves as men seriously in the sense that we're not the type of dudes who think there's any reason why anybody else in the world should not be respectful of us. But we also have a sense of humor.
When I'm saying 'Riverdance cleats on your face,' of course I'm not going to do that. I'd never even pretend that I'm going to do that. I'm not the tough guy that I am on the record. What we're doing is a totally different thing. We're just creating a reality and having a helluva lot of fun with it. I'm not going to ask that anybody take my stance on dolphin rape seriously. We're not clowns. We're not asking anything from anyone other than to just listen to our shit.
There are songs on the record that are very serious and fall in line with us intellectually and how we think about the world. I don't have to crack a newspaper to write a song that should be taken seriously. I'm an attentive human who's aware of the world around him, and that seeps into my music all the time. It's all in the context of my personality, which is that I have a humor to me that I always maintain. There's comedy in tragedy. Sometimes stress is so over the top – tragedy and pain and concern – that it gets sucked out the other end and becomes the funniest thing in the world.
AC: Mike, in the past you've expressed a disdain for tribute records. We just saw a jury acquit George Zimmerman of murder charges in the death of Trayvon Martin. How should artists looking to memorialize the fallen move forward?
KM: Tribute records should come from a very real place. Self-destruction came from a groupthink of rappers that we're either about it or stepped off whatever they were on to say, 'I, too, am about it.' That's different than making a Trayvon Martin record just to have one. It's disrespectful to bring those things up. El and I lead lives that explain what we rap about. We've made sacrifices to be who we are. There are some things we've given up, and for that sacrifice, I hold that pretty seriously. I'm not saying I'm right and you're wrong. I'm just saying I don't appreciate it. Unless that's something you live for and speak of in some consistent basis, then I don't have the capacity to believe.
EP: Nobody has to be right all the time. You don't have to be right. Being wrong is totally acceptable for an artist. But I do think that it's important for people to constantly keep in touch with multiple sides of who they are and what they're about in their music. That's why people like me and Mike have dodged the conscious rapper label. We don't present ourselves as people who are better than anyone, or who really know. We just engage with ideas and do it in a context of real people who are just as weird and fucked up as anybody else. If Mike were to make a song that directly addressed something like Trayvon Martin as it's interacted with him, there's a real context.
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Revisiting Twilight Princess Post Skyward Sword
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is a great game. We can all accept that, right? Sure, it was originally meant to be a GameCube exclusive, and sure, it was ported to the Wii with tacked-on motion controls. But when you look past that, we really got a wonderful Zelda game with beautiful environments, impressive dungeons, a good story, and yet another excellent soundtrack. Twilight Princess was a new chapter in the Zelda series in 2006, and it was both lovely and brilliant.
Of course, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has launched, and many gamers argue that it is the true Zelda experience for the Wii. While that may be so, we're not here to address that. Instead, let's just see how much of the magic in Twilight Princess remains intact now that we've played Skyward Sword. Boasting fantastically colorful graphics, an orchestrated soundtrack, and one-to-one motion controls, Skyward Sword definitely gives Twilight Princess a run for its money.
When I first played Twilight Princess back in 2006, I fell in love with it immediately. The game just evoked some wonderful emotions in me, it challenged me, and it really gripped me to the point where I couldn't stop playing. Twilight Princess had some great side-quests, colorful characters, interesting towns, and some of the biggest and best dungeons in the entire series. And at the time, even though they were technically tacked-on, I still thought the controls were pretty good.
Then I played Skyward Sword, and you know what? Only a few things have changed as far as my opinion goes. For starters, Twilight Princess certainly feels fairly older than its successor. The animations and physics definitely show their age, making it apparent that this is indeed an early generation Wii game, or rather a GameCube game ported to the Wii. Link's movement is more stiff than in Skyward Sword, and even though it's most certainly functional, it's tough to ignore just how much smoother everything in Skyward Sword feels.
Then there are the game's controls. Twilight Princess traded button taps for flicks of the Wii Remote. It was simple and intuitive, and it pretty much replaced a push of the A button for sword swings with a very simplistic hand motion. But hey, it worked, didn't it? It may not have been the most outstanding change for the series, but it was fun and it was novel. Skyward Sword really manages to outdo Twilight Princess as far as controls are concerned because everything is more immersive. You really need to swing that Wii Remote properly if you want to defeat foes; puzzles rely on twists of the wrist; and a lot of Link's weapons require a steady hand. Unfortunately, not every action is carried out successfully in Skyward Sword, and at times, the motion controls can be slightly problematic.
The dungeon design of both games is also exponentially different. Twilight Princess is a lot like older Zelda games in that its dungeons are bigger with more rooms and more floors. Skyward Sword moves away from this dungeon design and instead goes for smaller dungeons that are more focused on motion-heavy puzzles and combat. Because of this, Twilight Princess has an older Zelda feel, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. And given just how impressive the dungeons are and how daunting some of those puzzles can be, there's no denying that Twilight Princess has some clever elements that really challenge you throughout the game's entirety.
As far as the visual presentation goes, Twilight Princess is really showing its age these days. When the game launched, it looked pretty impressive. There were a few blurry textures and low-res spots, but the lighting effects and art design were absolutely superb most of the time. After playing Skyward Sword, though, it's hard to return to the world of Twilight Princess without noticing how much more amazing Link's latest adventure looks.
Thankfully, the sound in Twilight Princess doesn't suffer from these same issues. Yes, the game's soundtrack is completely MIDI-based, but who cares? The music in Twilight Princess is excellent. With beautiful new versions of favorites such as the Zora's Domain and Lost Woods themes, there's no denying the amount of brilliance and nostalgia that shines through. No, Twilight Princess doesn't have a snazzy orchestrated soundtrack like Skyward Sword, but the music is as lovely as ever.
For the most part, Twilight Princess manages to retain a lot of the magic that it first exuded back in 2006. Yes, the game feels significantly older than Skyward Sword, and if you were to argue that Link's more recent adventure on the Wii was the better game, you'd get no disagreement from me. In almost every way, Skyward Sword is better than Twilight Princess. That said, Twilight Princess is still a remarkably amazing experience with a wonderful cast of characters, an emotional story, practically flawless dungeon design, and yet another great soundtrack.


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Dennis G. Dumke, age 56, of Owen, died as the result of an automobile accident on Friday, February 21, 2014. A Memorial Service will be held at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at Maurina-Schilling Funeral Home in Owen. Pastor Bruce Jahnke will officiate. Family and friends are welcome from 3:00 PM until time of service Wednesday at the funeral home.
Dennis was born on April 23, 1957 in Stanley, the son of Clarence and Delores (Dulek) Dumke, Sr. He graduated from Owen-Withee High School in 1975. Dennis worked in Menomonie as foreman for Master Industries/Packaging for 35 years.
He liked to shoot pool, throw darts, and take power naps. Dennis also liked to have fun and make people happy. His pride and joy were his family; he loved to spend time with his grandchildren and will dearly by missed by all who knew him.
Dennis is survived by his children: Jeremiah "Jay" Dumke of Bellevue, NE and Joan (Gary) Mann of Abbotsford; three grandchildren: Harlee, Scott and Kaiden; his mother, Delores Dumke of Owen; two brothers: Clarence (Janice) Dumke Jr. of Oshkosh and Larry Dumke of Owen and a niece, Pamela Dumke of Oshkosh.
He was preceded in death by his father, Clarence Sr. and his sister, Darlene Schreiner.
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Cash rent has been the arrangement of choice for leasing cropland throughout much of the country for several years. That's especially true in the Corn Belt, where 80% of the rented land in the Seventh Federal Reserve District (Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and most of Illinois) is rented for cash. Only 17% is rented on a crop share basis.
Both tenants and landowners have willingly turned from crop share arrangements to cash leasing. Bruce Johnson, a University of Nebraska ag economist, says tenants like the greater management flexibility, while landowners like the fixed cash payment and relief from management responsibility.
But in tumultuous times like these, it's difficult to know how much the cash rent should be. That has created more interest in flexible cash rents among growers and landowners alike.
"When yields and prices are relatively stable, setting the cash rent may be fairly easy," says Iowa State University ag economist William Edwards. "However, when conditions are volatile, it becomes more difficult."
Most years, the volatility relates to yields and/or prices. But now there is also a lot of volatility in input costs, particularly fertilizer and fuel. Risk has also become a bigger factor.
University of Illinois ag economist Gary Schnitkey says farmers now face more risk than they did just a few years ago for three reasons:
- "First, price variability likely will be higher over the next several years.
- "Second, federal commodity programs will not provide as much downside price protection.
- "Third, revenue for crop insurance must fall more in periods of high prices before insurance payments are received.
"The risk, as well as the substantial upside potential, argues for flexibility in leasing arrangements offered by variable cash or share rent arrangements," says Schnitkey.
Howard Doster, a retired Purdue University ag economist and long-time proponent and developer of flexible cash rents, says the problem with most rental agreements is "they start going out of date the minute they are signed."
Kansas State University ag economist Kevin Dhuyvetter has been wrestling with cash rent issues this winter, even though roughly two thirds of the leases in Kansas are crop share arrangements.
"Cash rental terms quickly become inequitable as prices change. Establishing a fair cash rental rate under current economic conditions is very difficult because of the volatile markets," he told a group of farmers at a December meeting.
Dhuyvetter illustrates his point by using KSU-Lease, a what-if spreadsheet that analyzes the terms of virtually any type of lease.
"We used expected prices for 2009 last August to determine the cash rent equivalent of a 1/3-2/3 crop share lease in south-central Kansas, and it came out to over $90 per acre," he says. "When we updated these prices in October, the equivalent cash rent was about $51 per acre. And when we did it again in early December, the value was $31 per acre. While these examples held input costs constant, which is not quite right given recent declines in fuel and fertilizer prices, they do show the tremendous variability that exists and the importance of using a lease with flexibility."
Cash rent has been the arrangement of choice for leasing cropland throughout much of the country for several years. That's especially true in the Corn Belt, where 80% of the rented land in the Seventh Federal Reserve District (Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and most of Illinois) is rented for cash. Only 17% is rented on a crop share basis.
Johnson says, "During volatile times, the crop share lease tends to be the most fair and equitable of the cropland leasing arrangements. Landowners who don't want the management and marketing responsibilities of crop share leasing but are looking for higher cash rent returns, could consider a flexible cash lease. There would be a base payment and also a portion triggered on harvesttime crop price levels or total seasonal crop revenues.
A major drawback for several years was that some flexible leases unintentionally created a share lease in the eyes of the Farm Service Administration, which then required that some farm program payments be shared. That problem is being eliminated under the 2008 farm bill.
Edwards has reservations about rents that flex only on price or yield.