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In my opinion, this by far the BEST seafood place in the area, if not the country. (I do not work there or know anyone there)
I am originally from new england, and since coming to florida, its been difficult to find really good seafood.
i've tried just about every seafood place, and have always come up dis-appointed.
Then we came to shrimpers on our boat (another big plus) and i was absolutely floored by the food there.
Many of their dishes have things like cracker stuffings (which is a common new england stuffing), and the presentation and quantity of food was excellent.
Price is very reasonable, considering its on the water and accessible by boat. Expect to spend no more than like an outback steakhouse.
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"He was a trusted friend," said Maryland Republican Chairman Jim Pelura, in an e-mail statement. "Doug was a great husband, father and dedicated friend to the Republican Community serving in several positions throughout the state as counsel and policy director for the Scott Rolle for Attorney General campaign, legal counsel for the Anne Arundel County Republican Central Committee and currently as General Counsel for the Maryland Republican Party."
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topic has anyone but me used it or do u guys even know yet
topic has anyone but me used it or do u guys even know yet
Err... I'm going to have to doubt your credibility untill I know a little bit more. Could you tell me where you found it?
There is no shotgun
Unless by some freak accident you are the only person to ever get it some how.
Judging by his low post count and the fact that he didn't mention where. Not to mention there is no shotgun in the demo. I am going to have to call him a liar.
I doubt there is one, most people when they have found something in the demo they have shared it..
I don't have the demo, so I can't get the shotgun.
There is no shotgun in the demo, unless you can prove otherwise.
I've tried this and know it's a lie. in the beggining, when you are in the water, you must push the suitcases into the lighthouse and into the bathysphere{which I tried to no avail}Then when you get into Rapture, you look in the suitcase and there's suppsedly a shotgun.
Ah right, i havnt managed to find anything in the water besides burning plane :/ - Clearly going blind hehehe
i keep saying what ur saying this whole lie was started on a gamespot board by part11 and its bogus also i forgot to put the " " in the topic title sorry it supposed to "Anyone but me use the shotgun in the demo yet ? "
well I found the suitcase but ended up pushing it into the fire. boy do I feel smart.
Its like that rumor that started about finding Mew in the original Pokemon Red and Blue near that one island...
I really doubt it'd exist. Even if it did, its just another gun to shoot.
Oh well i got nothing better to try ... pushes suitcase
Im sitting at home with the 360 on and the demo on the Hard drive ill give it a crack right now
Ok there is no chance you can get that suitcase up those stairs guys :/
yeah i got the suitcase inside the building but lost it in the dark spot
Woah how the hell did you get it up the stairs, i couldnt get it past them
I lost mine just near the stairs
Its kind of funny dragging your suitcase with you, makes sense
How cool would it be if there was a shotgun in your case
If there was a shotgun, there would be a video on youtube
I too found a lone Shotgun shell once nearing the end of the demo, can't recall where exactly but I THINK it was from one of the last "wave" of Splicers. Nothing to do with it though
what are you talking about?
Just so you know, this isn't Bungie.net where you can spam and no one will care. Don't make up crap like this. I hear it all the time, and trust me, no one finds it funny.
You may find shotgun shells in the demo but there isn't a shotgun. Don't spread misinformation about this in this forum.


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NEW YORK (AP) — There's a small, grotesque thing sitting on Douglas Hodge's makeup table at the American Airlines Theatre.
It's fleshy, lopsided and rather obscene, like a candle left in a hot oven. And yet, eight times a week, Hodge sticks it on the edge of his nose.
Such is the burden of playing Cyrano de Bergerac.
"It's pretty gross," he admits. "But it has to be horrific."
The English actor has a box of noses in his dressing room — each performance requires a fresh foam sniffer once all the sweat and makeup has made the already unappealing item even more so.
Unlike other actors whose vanity has affected the size of the prosthetic schnoz, Hodge insisted his be big and nasty as he prepares his Cyrano for its 14th Broadway revival.
"I've got to go down to Times Square in one at some point," he says, but then thinks better of the idea. "Although it's probably the only place in the world where no one would bat an eye."
The play, which Hodge calls a "roller-coasting, swashbuckling love story," centers on the long-nosed Cyrano, who is in love with the beautiful Roxane. But she only has eyes for the handsome, if dunderheaded, Christian, so Cyrano decides to instruct his rival on how to woo the fair maiden.
Hodge, who won a Tony Award as a drag queen in the 2010 revival of "La Cage aux Folles," says Edmond Rostand's florid tale seems to strike a chord in America, the land of fad diets and glossy magazines.
"I think there is a huge interest in looks in this country and what they mean. I mean, Cyrano now would have rhinoplasty," says the actor, laughing. "How you look and how you come over is a huge thing in this play."
The current translation of the play by Ranjit Bolt is intriguing in that it's been done completely in rhyming couplets, which Hodge says is "like doing something in hip-hop."
He then proves it by a quoting a line: "Thanks to this nose, which, everywhere I go/Precedes me, kindly letting people know/Cyrano's on his way and will be here/In 15 minutes."
Hodge is enjoying a new chapter in his career since he played Nathan Detroit in "Guys and Dolls" in London in 2005. For about a decade before, he'd been more or less exclusively working with the great playwright Harold Pinter.
So at a time when fellow Brits like Colin Firth and Clive Owen were making it in Hollywood, Hodge was wrestling with moments of quiet terror onstage. The change to big plays and musicals was surreal.
"I had spent 10 years in a sort of dark black box, swearing under my breath and being generally psychotic," he says. "And there I was, with all these dancing girls, having the time of my life."
His next step may be just as bold, although Hodge politely refuses to discuss rumors that he will play Willy Wonka in a musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" in London. It would be another memorable turn in a broad career.
Jamie Lloyd, who directed Hodge in "Inadmissible Evidence" at the Donmar Warehouse in London and is directing him in "Cyrano," says Hodge's versatility is no accident. "Whatever the role is, he just means what he says. He finds some kind of psychological truth, some kind of instinct from within that makes it true for him."
Hodge, who lives outside Oxford in England, was playing ex-royal butler Paul Burrell in the film "Diana" opposite Naomi Watts when he got the call that "Cyrano" was waiting, courtesy of the Roundabout Theatre Company.
Hodge, ever the researcher, quickly began looking at noses online and also real deformities, both accidents of birth and actual accidents. He read a forum for the disfigured and learned that strangers often unconsciously touch their faces when meeting scarred people, all fodder for his art.
"I suspect that everyone has a part of themselves that they hide, whether it's that they sit with their arms folded because of their belly or they're bald or a woman with her bum," he says. "We might say to them, 'It's fine. You look great,' but for them it isn't."
Hodge had his first prosthetic noses made in Britain and brought five over to America, becoming petrified when he walked by customs officials with what are "essentially obscene objects."


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Pat, Chris, and Wacek, (01) I had overlooked that axiom because in CGs, there is no explicit operator for 'and'. A CGIF statement is just a set of concept and relation nodes with no markers between nodes (even blanks are optional). The conjunction of two statements is just a bigger set of nodes. (02) PH> McCarthy claims that and-distribution applies to both: > > (ist c (p & q)) iff ( (ist c p) & (ist c q) ) (03) I would accept it also, and I agree with Chris and Wacek that the suggested counterexample that involves time and a collection of events is unconvincing. (04) It is similar to the following example that has been cited since antiquity: (05) A true sentence when stated in the past tense: (06) "Liz Taylor had seven husbands." (07) A sentence that was never true in the present tense: (08) "Liz Taylor has seven husbands." (09) Re use of the word 'context' in knowledge representation: (010) If you want to go back to the Ur-etymology, the word refers to something that is woven together (as in textiles). But even in classical Latin, it had a metaphorical extension to a weaving of words. The two basic meanings from a typical dictionary (Merriam-Webster) are (011) 1. The parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning. (012) 2. Milieu or environment. (013) The first sense is the more basic, and I interpret the second as a derivative sense that takes in more of the surroundings than just the words. (014) My recommendation is the following: (015) 1. If you don't like the word 'context', then don't use it. (016) 2. But if you do think the word is sufficiently useful to be applied to formal knowledge representations, then state a clear, precise definition that is within the range of meaning in a conventional dictionary (such as M-W or any other well-edited dictionary you prefer). (017) 3. My own preference is to focus on the phrase "parts of the discourse" and to state a formal definition in terms of some mechanism for selecting a chunk of text. (018) 4. That is what I did for conceptual graphs. I defined a context delimiter (represented by a box) as a container for some text (a set of graphs) that states whatever is is true in a context (as in McCarthy's ist predicate). (019) 5. In a mapping to and from IKL, I would map the contents of the CG context box to an IKL sentence s in "(that s)". (020) I don't really care whether IKL uses the word 'context', since I am using it only for a syntactic mechanism in CGs. But as I said, the semantics of the contents of the CG box can be defined by axioms stated outside the box (or outside the IKL that-expression in a translation of the CG contents). (021) John (022) _________________________________________________________________ Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/ Subscribe/Config: http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/ontolog-forum/ Unsubscribe: mailto:ontolog-forum-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/ Community Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/ To Post: mailto:ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (023) |


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By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD
In a groundbreaking finding, a new medicine Galvus (vildagliptin) has been created for people with type 2 diabetes that would lower blood glucose levels without the side effects of other medications.
1.5 million Australians are affected by type 2 diabetes and of these about 750,000 have been diagnosed. Type 2 diabetes involves complex pathologies. In type 1 diabetes no insulin is produced. In type 2 diabetes some insulin is produced but it is insufficient to enable glucose to move from the blood stream into the body cells and liver. As a result the blood sugar remains high.
Dr Gary Deed, Director of Diabetes Australia, Queensland explained, "The condition is commonly monitored with a glucose-lowering tablet, diet, exercise, and sometimes insulin." He warned that inadequate sugar control over long term may lead to a host of complications including heart attack, stroke, nerve damage, kidney disease and blindness. He said weight gain is another link in these diabetics. "Research shows a lot of people (with type 2 diabetes) find weight control is an issue, and that certain medications contributed to weight gain," he said.
The new medicine, Glavus, will lower blood sugar effectively without increasing body weight. Prof Greg Fulcher, director of diabetes services at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital explained that this medicine will "significantly increase" the likelihood of diabetes 2 patients reaching blood glucose targets of less than seven per cent. "Together, the clinical effectiveness and good tolerability of Galvus reinforce its potential for helping patients with type 2 diabetes and their doctors to better manage this chronic disease," he said. These tablets would be taken once or twice in a day. The details of the treatment are to appear on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme from August 1.
While the drug is still not approved for use in the US, it was approved in Feb 2008 by European Medicines Agency for use within the EU.
Effect of insulin on Bones
In two recent studies the role of the hormone insulin on bones has been explored. Insulin is a blood sugar regulating hormone that is deficient or absent in diabetics.
The studies published online July 22 in Cell, researchers have shown that insulin stimulates both bone building and breakdown in mice through the hormone's effects on two types of bone cells: bone-building osteoblasts and bone-resorbing osteoclasts. These cells are a part of continuous breakdown and rebuilding of our bones – a process called bone remodelling. The mechanism is thus a complex one. These bone cells in turn affect not only insulin production, but also blood sugar levels and energy metabolism. The bone cells have distinct insulin receptors that make the hormone function say researchers. To put it simply, the bony skeleton plays a role as regulator of whole-body energy metabolism like other metabolic regulators such as muscle and fat. This has important implications in treatment and research in type 2 diabetes and osteoporosis.
Is this drug glavus available in South Africa?
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Comment Number: | 522418-03025 |
Received: | 6/16/2006 10:02:53 PM |
Organization: | Xango LLC |
Commenter: | William Rodgers |
State: | CO |
Subject: | Business Opportunity Rule |
Title: | Notice of Proposed Rulemaking |
CFR Citation: | 16 CFR Part 437 |
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I would like to comment on your Business Opportunity Rule #R511993 that is currently under condersideration. Althought I support your effort to address fraudulent activities in the direct sales industries, This perticular proposed rule change would have some serious negative effects on legitimate direct sales distributors such as myself. For example the requirement to list slaes nearest the location to the prospective new distributor would not only be very difficult, but very time consumming and would jepordize the recruitment of new distributors to my net work. This is also true of the 10 day wait period. In the case of Xango, they have been very honest and straight forward in representing their product and business opportunity with procedures in place to identify and weed out anyone who makes false claims about their product or compensation plan. Since much of our industry relies on enthusasium generated from product results any delay in getting people started would greatly affect the success of growing my distributor business. I wish to urge you to be very careful in your pursuit of eliminating fraud and misrepresentation and not penalize the ligimate companies that bring a great service to their customers and their independent distributors. When managed properly the MLM method of marketing provides an excellent business opportunity for the independent distributor and eliminates the problems associated with big Corporate sales business. In the case of Xango, they have done an outstanding job in bring their product to the market and making it avaliable to the public. Please make sure your new business rule does not distroy a company like Xango and other like companies by inacting rules that will delay and have a negative inpact on recuriting their independent sales distributor base. Since they depend on independent distributors like me to build this base, your rules will greatly affect me and others like me. So please do not pentalize me for the fraudulant business practices of others.


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caramelised cauliflower
serves 2 as a main
Inspired by the lovely Molly Wizenberg from Orangette. This is my new favourite way to cook cauliflower. It may not seem like a big deal, but slicing the cauli into thin sheets makes all the difference. We're talking lovely caramelised flavours. So good with pinenuts and hummus.
1 head cauliflower
1 tablespoon cumin seeds
handful pine nuts
hummus, to serve
1. Preheat oven to 200C (400F).
2. Slice cauliflower into 1cm (1/2in) slices. Place on a baking tray and drizzle generously with olive oil and sprinkle with cumin seeds. Season.
3. Roast for 20-30 minutes or until cauli is tender and deeply golden brown around the edges.
4. Add pine nuts and pop back in the oven for another minute or so.
5. Serve with hummus.
prepare ahead?
Absolutely. roast the cauli ahead of time and keep in the fridge. Best if reheated before serving, although it may be lovely cold on a hot Summer's day.
leftover potential
Will keep for a week or so in the fridge.
variations for fun
carnivore – serve with ground beef that has been cooked in a little olive oil with a little all spice until well browned. OR serve as a side vegtable to spicy sausages.
nut-free – replace the pine nuts with 1/4 red onion finely chopped and serve with a sesame-free hummus made by whizzing a can of chickpeas with 3 tablespoons each olive oil, lemon juice and canning liquid + a clove of garlic.
more substantial – toss in a drained can of lentils to heat up with the pine nuts.
home made hummus – whizz a can of chickpeas with 3 tablespoons each tahini, lemon juice and canning liquid + a clove of garlic.
greener – serve with flat leaf parsley or mint leaves scattered over OR try it with a side of tabouleh.
different spices – replace the cumin seeds wtih coriander seeds or sumac.
problem solving guide
cauliflower burning – We want the cauli well browned but not burnt to a cinder. Keep an eye on it and cover with foil if you think it's burning prematurely.
cauli crunchy – the secret to this dish is getting the cauliflower really well cooked and caramelised to concentrate the flavours. Make sure it's super tender before getting it out of the oven.
short on time? – you could pan fry the cauli in oil over a high heat with the lid on. Add in a splash of water if it starts to burn. The finer you chop the cauli, the quicker it will cook.
bland – cauli needs a generous hand with the seasoning. A splash of lemon juice can also help to brighten the flavours.
serving suggestions
Great as a veggie main course served with tabouleh or other greens on the side.
Or serve as part of a mezze spread with things like babaganoush, roast eggplant & tabbouleh.
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I asked Joe Scott what message he would offer to new Air Force coach Dave Pilipovich. Scott was hesitant at first, but finally relented.
Scott is perfect person to offer advice. When he arrived at Air Force in 2000, the Falcons were one of the worst D-1 basketball programs in the nation, if not the world. As the Falcons headed into the 2003-2004 season, the team had lost 296 of 364 conference games.
Scott and the Falcons buried the past in 2003-2004, winning the Mountain West regular-season title, earning a berth in the NCAA Tournament and starting a four-season era in which Air Force ranked as a regional power.
Now, the Falcons are back near the bottom after losing 52 of 62 conference games.
Here's what Scott offered as words of encouragement to Pilipovich:
" The only advice I would ever say is, you've got to be yourself. What is your plan? You got to have great belief in your plan and execute it every day. It's about your plan and your vision. It's about the guys who go and execute it with you every day. That's what we did when we were down there. That's the way I played. That's the way I did it at Air Force.
You've got to know who you are. You've got to have that vision. You can't make excuses. You can't say, 'Oh, that's OK' or 'That's not important.' It's got to be take no quarter. It's got to be no excuses. You don't do that because you're concentrating on the end result.
I think no matter where you are, you should always be optimistic. I think that what I just said about a plan equals optimism. We have a way. That equals optimism. In a positive mater, you're always saying, 'We're going to do it. We know we're going to do it.' I don't optimism comes from concentrating on the end result. That's where pessimism occurs, when you're concentrating on the end result. That's the way we tried to do it. It takes time, you've got to do it your way. That's tough to do in this day and age, but no matter what it's still what it's all about."
Next: Scott wonders if anybody remembers him in Colorado Springs
We all remember Coach Scott and the rise of AF ball….I am currently reliving that 'Run to the NCAAs game by game with postgame summaries and news stories….what better way to return to the glory days than to start at the beginning by revisiting our heritage….read and enjoy. http://forums.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=238&f=1550&t=9043764
Just wondering. Did Joe S do it with his recruits or someone elses?
That message is literally the total opposite of Reynolds. I hope Philipovich has a lot more of this mentality than his previous boss did.
Falcon5…good question? 2000-2001 was Coach Scott's first year. Seniors for the year of the NCAAs were AJKuhle, Joel Gerlach and Marcus Jenkins. I am pretty sure all three were coach's recruits as well as all other players on the team. In his four years he got better with (beginning in 2000-2001) 8-20, 8-18, 12-16 and 22-7 playing North Carolina in Denver in the NCAA
Joe Scott built a winner in his image with his players, NOT Reggie's if that's what is implied above. I love the line "It's got to be no excuses".
Unfortunately, Air Force's athletic department's senior leadership lives, eats, and breathes on endless excuses. A maverick and visionary like Joe Scott never would have lasted very long in that kind of toxic environment. He's much better off at DU where his is both supported and valued by the AD's staff of professionals instead of a bunch of hacks.
They hit the lottery with Scott. They're quite content with "average Joes" like Reynolds and Pilipovich. For proof look no further than the exhaustive coaching search conducted by Mueh after the Reynolds defection.
Scott is a good one – but having the right players who can be molded and play with the Scott philosophy plays a large part too.


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Breed: | Shih Tzu/Lhasa Apso Mix | Color: | Gray/Blue/Silver/Salt & Pepper | Age: | Adult |
Size: | Small 25 lbs (11 kg) or less | Sex: | Male |
Meet Butch, the senior Shih tzu. Butch is estimated to be about 8 y/o and in HORRIBLE condition when first brought into the pound. The day after intake he just laid in his kennel and didn't move. His head barely lifted off the cage bottom. After some canned food and puppy food Butch was up moving around and was smothering anyone who had a spare minute to visit him, with love. The day before his stray hold was up, a lady came in and identified him as her dog who had been missing for over a year. She soon left and never returned. So, again, Butch just sat there waiting on her to come back. Butch deserves to live out his days. He deserves a second chance! Please help Butch find his furever home. We rescued him from the shelter and he is now safe.
Butch's eyes don't create tears so he needs drops in his eyes in the morning & evening. The drops are not very expensive but he will need them for the rest of his life. Please don't let this small issue keep you from adopting sweet Butch.
Interested in adopting? Please fill out our adoption application at www.OscarAnimalRescue.org
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Butch's adoption fee is $100. This covers all age-appropriate shots and vetting.
Next Pet Adoption Events:
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April 21-Petco, 275 State Route 10 East, Succasunna, NJ 07876 (11-2pm)
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A Strong Response - DAR
(This post was last modified: 10-08-2010 02:33 AM by Ratzki.)
Post: #1
A Strong Response - DAR
I have not done a DAR in quite a while, so with permission from the enemy, here we go.
A warning that this DAR will include spoilers, so if you have any intentions of playing this scenario blind, you might want to stop reading now. Don't say that I did not warn you. First off this as a change for me, I get to play with som Fin units. My oponenet and I have been playing each other over a few scenarios, for a little while now, and I know that he is quite able to ruin my enjoyment of this scenario by kicking my a$$,;). The briefing leads me to believe that I will be seeing overwhelming Russian infantry and some light Russian tanks of some sort. I do not have very much at the start, but should be getting more troops as the game goes on. Right off, this is a neat map, just the location that would have been chosen by Finnish commanders. A good choke point and plenty of cover. I look over my men and equipment and come to the conclusion that I cannot hold ground for any length of time vs numerous Russians. I make my mind up that I am gonna try a fluid defence and will try to inflict as many losses on the enemy as I can all while limiting my own losses and making somewhat of an organized retreat to the large flag. I am prepared to lose both small flags at the moment, so will not put up much of a fight there. The small flag on my left will be easier to defend, so I might hang out here a little longer. I position my AT Rifles in the woods with good LOS and I have my infantry and MG's with short covered arcs waiting to try to catch the lead Russian infantry in the open. The plan is to hide, ambush, move, hide, ambush, and repeat all the way to the large flag, then hold fast on the left side of the road. The worst that can happen is for the Russians to come at me in a giant wave a overwhelm my guys before they can retreat to their next positions. I do have one platoon of infantry in an isolated position. This is to again shoot the crap outa the enemy and try to cross the open ground behind them as they retreat to the flag. I just need to delay as well as cause casualties, I have to give him something to ponder. Let's see how this willl work... Below is the map and my starting positions. Any comments will be welcome and I will try to answer them as best I can. |
(This post was last modified: 10-08-2010 02:37 AM by Ratzki.)
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RE: A Strong Response - DAR
Just a remender that you can pan the screenshots left and right with the bar at the bottom of the page.
It took a couple turns, but we have contact. A Russian Squad comes out of the trees, sees my Tank Hunter Team hidden in the field and quickly wipes them out. My guys do not fire a shot, they are on very short covered arcs. I want to lure as many Russian squads into the open as possible before I start shooting. I was hoping that my machine gun would start to fire at the visible enemy squad, to give him something to look at and maybe make the enemy make a bad decision that I canpounce on. I may have to play with his covered arc somewhat. The machine gun is out of command so I placed him out of range of most infantry weapons. The Russians get a little taste of what I have in store for them as I manage to turn back the lead squad with some close range fire from my lead squad. More Russian squads show up and they quickly return fire. I was hoping that he might come at me ine a line abreast, but this was asking too much. He is using a singgle squad or half-squad to scout with the remainder on what looks to be Move to Contact. I will get chewed up rather quickly at this rate, I will have to start to think about pulling back already. I have to get my guys into a position where I can bring multiple squads fire onto single Russian units. Right now it is the other way round. I kinda expexted the enemy not to come straight at me, but suprise-suprise, here he is. I wonder how many platoons he has comming this way? If he blasts through me at any point, there is nothing standing between him and the large flag. On top of that worry, I already see one light tank come out of the trees for an instant, then just a contact marker. I thought I might get a couple turns without seeing any enemy tanks. I expect him to now come through the trees with his infantry and sqeeze me from the other side with his tanks. And it would seem that I have setup my men to allow this plan to go off without a hitch. Worst is that I cannot repositio without giving away the locations of my troops. This is not even on the chalkboard as suprise is the most powerful weapon that I have right now. |
Post: #3
RE: A Strong Response - DAR
It is turn 6, and it would seem that the Russians are comming straight at my men. I thought this to be too obvious, but it would seem this is his plan. If Russian squads keep appearing at this rate I will be overrun. There is a very large gap in my line between this platoon at the right flag and my main body of men just to the left of this screenshot. It most probably is wide enough to sqeeze enemy troops through without too much of a problem and without my detection. I decide to start to pull my guys here back and into this gap before I get caught with my pants down. I do manage to ambush a squad here and there one at a time but he has enough squads to have some hang back and single my men out one by one. A good move on his part.
I am not in trouble here by no means but I have to get out now, or all that will happen is the Russians will hang back move up more men, outnumber me, and eliminate me one at a time. This seems to be the plan of the enemy at the moment. Maybe though I have started him to thinking that he should be carefull and this will start the time ticking away. All I can do is hope at the moment. In the centre of the map is the same story. A general advance on a wide front with other Russian squads firing at any of my men that are located. Again, I manage to ambush some Russian squads, but here I could be even more trouble as his light tanks seem to be moving this side of the map. I have no way to really counter this threat other then my AT Rifles. I have checked them out, I do stand a chance at taking out some different Russian tanks, I wonder what he has. If he gets into a good position he will be able to fire away with his tanks and squads at my men. Poor setup by me. I like to be a little deeper into the trees, but I really thought that the Russians would come fromway over near my single platoon. I do see one squad over there now, but that is it. My plan was to shoot at range across the fields at targets as they tried to cross the open ground. This way I would have flank shots with my squads and head on shots with my machine guns. |
Post: #4
RE: A Strong Response - DAR
My men are giving out some hurt to the Russian hordes, but there are more then they can take care of. First, one of my squads panic then another breaks. It is the combination of infantry fire and the fact that the Russian tanks are able to join in. On top of this, some enemy squads look like they are heading for the hole in my lines (marked with the !! on the picture). I now find myself trying to pivot my whole front lines about 90 degrees and at the same time slide out of the LOS of the Russian tanks. I am bringing up the Company HQ in order to allow me to move the squads that are not broke into better positions and still have an HQ that can rally the squads that I might otherwise lose. At the same time I am pulling my platoon on my right back so that they can plug the hole in my defensive lines as well as stay in contact with my main force. If they get isolated, they will be much more vulnerable to being eliminated by superior Russian numbers. If these Russians are SMG squads, I might be in deeper trouble then I am prepared for. My ATR's are plinking away at the enemy tanks. Range seems good, I will need a little luck to get a kill. I think that next orders turn I will take the arcs off them and target the tanks that I can see. If these are Conscript or Green tanks, maybe hitting them more often might influence them to bail out sooner rather then later. |
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RE: A Strong Response - DAR
I am hanging on by a thread where he is pushing with most of his forces. I manage to rally squads, but as quick as I am able, more panic. One platoon is pinned and not moving, being shot at by Russian tanks and infantry. If they do not get moving soon I will lose the whole platoon. I can't afford to do that. My men do manage to stop the Russians from cutting off my platooon on the far right. Again, just barely. If the enemy had another one or two squads ther, I would not have been successful. The shooting is very heavy now across my front lines. So far I seem to be holding, but there is no way that I can take too much more pressure, without taking some sreious losses. On my left, I pull off a good ambush. His men were caught in the open, and my guys with short arcs were able to stop the enemy advance in it's tracks. The problem here is that if he comes at me throew the trees with a large force, I have a whole lotta open ground to cover in order to get out of the way. Plus it will be just a turn or two before the Russian tanks move into position here and start hammering away with HE. I know that I will not be able to stand that for long. I will keep this platoon here for now, but for how long,.... I don't know. |
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RE: A Strong Response - DAR
At the right small flag the Russians are advancing with what looks to be a couple of platoons of infantry. He has one tank that has been area firing into the building at the flag, but as I have no men there, no harm done. It is a good thing that I decided to let this flag go, I do not think that with this kind of enemy firepower, that I would have survived. The platoon that was here is now needed more then ever in my centre. I have managed to hold off the Russian hordes by the skinof my teeth. I dropped some 81mm HE on my own and enemy positions. Actually, it is just barely getting my men every now and then, but after almost a full turn, it has done no damage to my men. At the moment I have three broken squads and a couple panic'd squads. Mostly due to the Russian tanks and infantry being able to tag team some of my units. I think that I have moved out of LOS for the time being, but now I may lose a whole platoon if I can not get these guys to rally. I am going to pull back to better positions with the units that are ok and let the better Co.HQ take care of trying to rally the men. The goal here is to make some form of fighting withdrawl to the large flag that is just out of sight at the bottom of this screenshot on the road. My platoon at the top left manages to ambush two enemy platoons, one in the open fields and the other as it moves through the trees. The bad news here is that I do not have a very good exit path to safety with this platoon. I will stick around here for a little while but I have every intention of getting outa here before a large number of enemy troops show up. There is a slight elevation rise between this platoon and the Russian tanks, so they are unable to shoot at me for the time being. My ATR's are firing away like mad, but it does not appear as I have done anything yet. I should be able to score a kill if I get a good flank shot in on his light armour, willl have to wait and see. I have enough 81mm HE for another half turn or so, I have repositioned my FO's target so I should be able to spread out the fire over the end of next turn and maybe the one after. |
Post: #7
RE: A Strong Response - DAR
I finally get my front line straightened out somewhat. Now the Russians only have two options, go around my guys to my right but this will take up some valuable time. The other option is to plow straight into me head on. He has enough troops to do it, but it will be costly. I do have one platoon that has been worked over pretty good. 3 Broke squads, but I am now out of enemy LOS for the most part. His tanks are just area firing now, so I am assuming that he has lost contact and My men are contact markers now. The enemy can come in from that one side and work over my Broke men some more if he wanted to, I have little to stop him as when I pulled back out of LOS, I lost the ability to fire outside the trees myself. I am going to keep holding on here and hope that my guys rally real soon. Here, the enemy caught me off guard somewhat, he has made a small end run, now I will have to get out of here real soon or be over run. I have to do as much damage to his squads as possible before I move out or he will wipe me out as I try to cross the open ground between my men and safety. |
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RE: A Strong Response - DAR
Great DAR Ratzki, really enjoying it. It's nice to be reminded of the importance of HQs in rallying squads, and to not be afraid to withdraw under fire if necessary.
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RE: A Strong Response - DAR
I am still somewhat on edge as to what the Russian total force consists of. I have gotten another sound contact for an enemy tank comming through the woods. I have to assume there will be more infantry as well.
The only real action taking place is with my isolated platoon. The Russians are moving more and more men into the area. Thus far I have been able to deal with them effectively, first they have to run through some of my machinegun fire, then once in the woods, my men have been putting them to flight one squad at a time. Mostly I have been moving my lone platoon around what limited ground that there is here trying to stay out of enemy LOS while still being able to fire at the Russian squads as the present themselves. So far so good. When I do decide to bug outa here, I will have about 110m of open ground to cover before I reach the safety of more woods. The Russians seem confused and have stalled elsewhere on the map. I am stilll shooting with all my ATR's as they get targets, as well, my artillery is firing away at his exposed infantry. I have been repositioning my FO's target to buy time and slow down the ratte of fire. So instaed of firing the whole turn, they only fire for around 25 seconds as my repositioning the target causes a delay. All I am really trying to do is waste time as I am out of effective rifle range and have little in the way of machine guns. At some point I notice the enemy tank has the drooping gun look. This means one down, more to go. I do not know if this is just luck and the crew has abandoned the tank or I scored a good KO hit. I am still shuffling my men around this small clump of woods. When I locate a Russian squad, I am able to get most of the platoon in on the fight quickly and route the Russian squads. I do not know how long I can keep this up though. I am sure that my enemy is figuring out what I am doing and comming up with a plan. I do have a hidden Tank Hunter Team out of they way in case a Russian tank or two decides to come this way. These units are tough to spot, so unless the Russians step on some of my guys fingers, they should be able to remain hidden. You can see the couple more armour contacts emerging from the woods, I have to think that there are more infantry as well. The great news this turn is that I have received a 25mm AT gun and some more infantry, one platoon. I will be moving the infantry into position around the large flag just out of the screenshot. The AT Gun is going to be towed here and pushed into these woods so that I might be able to get off some killing shots on some of that Russian armour. You can see the machine gun team that is working over the enemy as he moves towards my single platoon in the woods. I think that he is doing a fine job of softening up the bad guys. More importantly, more time is slipping away from the turn count. This is a good thing. The last of my HE falls on the Russians, now he will be able to come at me with the troops that I had pinned. Again, this was more to waste time off the count, I am so out classed here and outnumbered, really this is all that I can do. I hope the the Russians are at a loss as to where I am and what my defences look like. I am trying to look stronger then I am, will have to see how it works. |
Post: #10
RE: A Strong Response - DAR
Thanks Willow, trying to keep it interesting. My opposition is making this one tough, I figure that he knows his tanks will be key but I am guessing by his hesitation that he has not a clue where I am shooting from and with his infantry in a little tough right now, he does not want to expose the tin cans to any more then he has to. Things will start to look up for him now that I have run out of HE and he has a good idea what I am up to. I now have only one more unknown in that 25mm AT Gun, If I can get it into position I might be able to hold him off for a couple more turns.
Funny how you don't get to play nations like the Finns for a long time, then all of a sudden, I have two battles using the Finns going on. The other one from our H2H section where I am attacking. It's a good change of pace. |
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WATERLOO, Ill. — It sure wasn't the hole-in-one Mark Mihal had in mind.
While golfing with friends at the Annbriar Golf Course near here Friday, Mihal, 43, a mortgage broker from Creve Coeur, Mo., abruptly dropped into the ground on the fairway of the 14th hole. It was the first time a person — and not a ball — has disappeared beneath the turf in the course's 20-year history.
It also was the first time in the memory of folks who study sinkholes in Illinois that a person has fallen into one.
"I was standing in the middle of the fairway," Mihal said Monday. "Then, all of a sudden, before I knew it, I was underground."
Mihal said he fell into the mud floor of an enclosure shaped like a bell, up to 18 feet deep and 10 feet wide. The rescue was precarious, he said, because no one knew whether the surface hole would grow or the enclosure would collapse.
A companion called the course's pro shop, where general manager Russ Nobbe gathered some rope and a ladder and rushed to the rescue. Mihal had dislocated his shoulder, so Ed Magaletta, a friend and a real estate agent, climbed down and put a rope around Mihal's waist so he could be hoisted to safety.
Philip Moss, a geologist who examined the void, said sinkholes are usually visible. But Mihal said he was standing still as the ground gave way beneath him.
"This guy just really was in the wrong place at the wrong time," Moss said.
Sinkholes are common in the St. Louis region, he said, because the bedrock here is limestone. It can dissolve in rainwater, which makes an opening he calls a "conduit." Those large enough to accommodate people are called caves. New openings usually reveal themselves during or right after heavy rain.
"It's a gradual process that creates a void in the soil," Moss explained. "Over time, (the void) migrates upward through the soil to where the soil arch gets too thin to support the weight of what's over it, and it collapses."
Mihal, an avid golfer who owns a website called golfmanna.com, said he can laugh now, even though the bruises remain. He said he is getting more medical tests to make sure the dislocated shoulder is the worst of his injuries.
When friends ask if he plans to golf again, he says, "Sure."
But he's not so sure about Annbriar, explaining, "It'd be kind of strange playing that hole again, for sure."
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