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Andrea Lee andrea lee joins boardWe are pleased to announce that Andrea Lee has joined the City's Citizens Telecommunications and Technology Advisory Board (CTTAB) as their young person "Get Engaged" representative. She has already agreed to become chair of the Community Technology Committee of CTTAB. Andrea brings experience working with Plymouth Housing Group the past few years on a range of tenant support services and prior to that, as a women's advocate at Noel House Programs. She has also been a volunteer photographer for Real Change and tutor for Seattle Central Community College. Andrea is a graduate the George Washington University. Getting Engaged is a program run by the YMCA that works with the city of Seattle to place young adults, ages 18 to 29, on City of Seattle boards and commissions as full members for a one year. spl offers multi-langage coursesThe Seattle Public Library's computer curriculum, Wired for Learning, is now available in other languages. The courses are designed for English as a Second Language (ESL) adults and basic skills adults who want to improve their computer skills. One module teaches using the most basic tools of a computer, such as using the keyboard and mouse. Other classes focus on word processing, Internet and email skills. To find a class in English, Russian, Spanish or Chinese at one of the libraries, view the schedule. The curriculum is also available for download via the Puget Sound Alliance for Community Technology's website. voters' guideOn November 8, Seattle voters will have an opportunity to vote in the 2005 Election. Information on candidates and referendums are available on the Seattle Channel web site. A Video Voter's Guide can help you learn more about the candidates in their own words. Watch the program in its entirety or select individual candidates' two-minute statements. You will need a copy of Real Player installed on your computer to watch this video. A free download of the current player is available on the website. world info society convenesAcross the world, governments at all levels, schools, businesses and the civic sector of non-governmental organizations are working to define and manage their use of information and communications technologies (ICT). In the United States, we often use the term "IT" or information technology, though much of the world has settled on ICT as a more encompassing term that includes the communications purpose of technology. This November 16-18, the United Nations will host its second World Summit on Information Society (WSIS). These UN sponsored international information society summits help call attention to the issues discussed. According to the United Nations, "By involving Heads of state and government and other high-profile world leaders from intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations as well as from civil society and the private sector, Summit events have put long-term, difficult problems like poverty and environmental degradation at the top of the global agenda." The first WSIS in 2003 produced a Declaration of Principles recognizing the importance of ICT to the global society and "embraces the idea of universal, accessible, equitable and affordable ICT infrastructure and services." It discusses the need for multilingual, diverse and culturally appropriate content as well as consumer protection, technology for good governance, universal and affordable access, and the necessity to work to close the digital divide. The Plan of Action, to be achieved by 2015, includes development of community access points. For more information on the World Summit on Information Society, go here. Read the Key Principles here.
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We are now offering Michigan's largest hunting trade shows on back to back weekends in 2014!! The Huntin'Time Expo continues to GROW and has remained one of the most popular shows in the Midwest for the past 22 years. Now, due to popular demand, you can efficiently cover Michigan's two largest hunting markets on back to back weekends in Grand Rapids and Birch Run, MI.
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HUNTIN' TIME EXPO (East) Birch RunExpoCenter / Birch Run, MI
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The Birch Run Expo Center is located right off Hwy. 75 which quickly and conveniently delivers hunters from metro Detroit, Flint, Saginaw, Midland, Bay City and other area's without experiencing the traffic, costs and other big city problems. An incredible five-million people within 70 miles make this Eastern Michigan's premier hunting show venue! The Birch Run exit is the 2nd busiest exit off of Hwy. 75 (2nd only to the Orlando, Florida exit.)
HUNTIN' TIME EXPO (West) Delta Plex Arena / Grand Rapids,MI
Friday, Jan 24th 1-9 Saturday, Jan 25th 9-7 Sunday, Jan 26th 9-4
The Grand Rapids Huntin'Time Expo has developed an industry wide reputation as one of the finest all hunting shows in the country. Grand Rapids was recently named as one of the ten fastest growing cities in the U.S. and is located in the middle of KentCounty, which leads the state in hunting licenses sold. Famous for attracting very serious, hard core hunter's year in year out, this show has become a destination for vendors from around the world!
Our 22nd year of celebrating the 2nd Amendment and hunting, in the United States!
"Here is what our exhibitor's are saying!"
As an exhibitor you must have faith in your promoter of the show you are attending. Tom and Beth are at the top of that list. I always compliment the staff and tell them this is the best of all my shows! Great area, great people and attendance is amazing with the target audience under our roof!
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Watson's Pine Portage Lodge has attended the Huntin' Time Expo for many years. It has slways been a well-organized event and if there has been any problems that we encounter, it is taken care of immediately by Tom or Beth. We have also attended other shows which they have put on and again very organized and always a good attendance. We will definitely be back!
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I enjoyed the access to the Delta Plex. Your staff was exceptional and I enjoy doing business with you. Great Show!
Ron McGhan, Hang It High Crossbow Hanger
Tom and Beth Antor have been great people to work with! Fun, hard working and down to earth. The shows have always been a success for us.
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I heard you are adding a show in Birch Run. The show in Grand Rapids is so good that I'll be leasing space and making the trip!
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Over the past several years the Huntin' Time Expo has been a great asset to our retail business. The show has allowed us to reach out to new and current customers, liquidate product and increase our cash flow. It is always well attended and a permanent part of what we do!!
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Super Quick Clean Guns has been attending the Huntin' Time Expo and this is one show we will not miss. Tom and Beth are top drawer and very attentive to our needs. We plan to exhibit at every show they do.
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As owner of Northern Pines Taxidermy, we look forward to the Huntin' Time Expo each year. The Expo gives us a way to reach a large group of customers at a local show. Each year we attend we are able to showcase some of our exciting mounts to the public and show what our company has to offer them.
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We attend many shows all over the country and still think the Huntin' Time shows are the best we exhibit in! Twenty years later we still attend the shows put on by Tom & Beth Antor because of the great quality, customer service and huge crowds.
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Why travel all over the country if you don't have too?? Target your efforts in the largest HUNTING market in the world and experience the difference HARD CORE Michigan hunters can have on your business!
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Found a signal integrity problem in the lab? How do you go about fixing it? Well, if it's a SERDES bus, you can't do any kind of re-work because it will most likely kill the signal even more. Maybe you can play with some driver strength or pre-emphasis settings. Or is it a slower, parallel bus? Maybe you can re-work in some necessary termination. This is where post-layout SI simulation is useful. In simulation, you can mimic the problematic situation, and try to figure out a solution, without even touching a soldering iron. And what's more, you can simulate all the nets on the board to make sure they don't have similar problems.
In fact, you wouldn't be in such a situation if you did a full-board SI verification before sending it to the fab house. Better yet, if you did some pre-layout simulation to identify the necessary constraints on the critical busses, there may not have even been a problem to find in post-layout simulation. In every step of the design phase, changes become orders of magntiude more costly and time-consuming. That's where doing the bulk of your signal integrity (and power integrity) work towards the beginning of the design cycle really pays off.
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A lightning delay and and an early deficit didn't stop St. Marys from staying perfect in the WBL.
The Roughriders overcame stiff resistence from the Elida Bulldogs to score three second half goals — two of them via penalty kicks — to pull away for a 4-2 win on Tuesday in a game that was delayed about a half hour with 5:05 left in the first half.
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Ten years ago this week in 2003, the St. Marys volleyball team moved to 4-5 on the season with a three-game victory over the 8-1 Ottawa Glandorf Titans.
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ST. MARYS — Carter Bowman had another putt to tie the St. Marys golf program's nine-hole record and the Roughrider boys golf team had little trouble disposing of the Defiance Bulldogs 163-178 in Western Buckeye League golf action at Northmoor on Monday evening.
Bowman fired a medalist three-under par on the par 36 course. Twice this season the Roughrider junior has shot 33s with a putt on his ninth hole to tie the school record 32 shared by Mark Bergman and Drew Paulus on the par 35 front nine at Northmoor.
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Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add 1 tablespoon of the salt and the macaroni and cook until tender but still firm to the bite. Drain well.
Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the beef and onion and cook, stirring, until the beef is well browned. Carefully drain the fat from the skillet, then stir in the tomato sauce, the remaining 1 teaspoon of salt, and the black pepper. Bring to a simmer over low heat while preparing the remaining ingredients.
In a medium bowl, combine the ricotta, sour cream, bell pepper and green onions. Spread half of the pasta in the bottom of a 9-by-13-inch baking dish. Top with the ricotta mixture, then the remaining pasta. Pour the meat mixture over the top. Sprinkle with the cheddar and mozzarella.
Bake the casserole until the cheese is melted and lightly browned, about 20 minutes. Sprinkle with the parsley before serving.
PER SERVING: 700 calories; 51 g protein; 67 g carbohydrates; 4 g fiber; 25 g fat
(12 g saturated); 130 mg cholesterol; 1,280 mg sodium


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Following the roll out of his vice presidential pick, Mitt Romney's fundraising numbers got a Republican enthusiasm-fueled boost.
On Sunday, Andrea Saul, Romney's campaign press secretary, wrote on Twitter that fund-raising had spiked for the candidate after revealing Paul Ryan as his running mate.
"$3.5 million raised online in 24 hrs of @MittRomney's pick of @PaulRyanVP #RomneyRyan2012"
That was a jump from midday Saturday, when Saul wrote that Romney had brought in just over $1 million since Ryan's name went public.
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Later Saturday afternoon, Saul tweeted again updating the Romney campaign fundraising numbers to just over $2 million.
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In July, Romney's campaign and the Republican National Committee raised $101.3 million - an average of $3.4 million per day, raised mostly through high-dollar fund-raisers.
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Compare the Romney fundraising numbers to those of Obama and the Democratic National Committee's July haul of $75 million and $71 million in June. Last month marked the third consecutive month the president was outraised by Romney.
Romney's campaign weren't the only ones fund-raising off the Ryan announcement, however. Following Romney's vice presidential announcement, senior adviser David Axelrod emailed supporters touting a new web video attacking the newly formed pair and asking folks to 'chip in.'


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Juan Videa was supposed to be in class Monday at Booker T. Washington Senior High, but he never made it to school.
Juan, 17, was walking to his bus stop in Bay Vista Park when someone fired more than 20 bullets, police said. Wounded, Juan was rushed to Ryder Trauma Center.
His shooting — following a weekend in which two other teens were shot and killed — feeds a growing movement to curb youth violence and gunplay that started nationally in December after the Newtown, Conn., massacre and locally after the apparently random shooting of Booker T. freshman Aaron Willis.
"How do we get away from this culture of violence?" asked Booker T. Principal William Aristide, who says he learns "once or twice" a year that one of his students has been shot.
In Miami-Dade County, the threat of being gunned down is very real to those 18 and younger. Between the beginning of 2009 and the end of 2012, 99 kids were homicide victims in Miami-Dade, according to records compiled by the county's Medical Examiner. That's exactly triple the number reported by the Broward Medical Examiner.
Of the 99 Miami-Dade cases, 81 were the result of shootings. And close to half were students of Miami-Dade County public schools, according to Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, who began campaigning against youth violence after Aaron was shot Dec. 19 while riding his bike from a friend's house in Wynwood at 9 p.m.
"I made a promise when I became superintendent that I would attend the funeral, a viewing, a burial for every single child who would die a violent death in Miami. I am tired," Carvalho, superintendent since late 2008, said during a news conference on the first day back from winter break. "We've covered this one time too many. I've attended over 40 such events, and it's time to stop."
Carvalho, who days earlier had canvassed Allapattah with the family of Bryan Herrera, a Miami Jackson sophomore shot dead on his bicycle Dec. 22, worried that the issue would "die out as a result of time simply passing."
That hasn't happened, in part because kids keep getting shot.
Ten days later, Landon Kinsey, a sophomore at Miami Carol City, was shot dead in Miami Gardens. Then on Feb. 13, Orlando Gonzalez, 13, was shot in his home in Kendall and transported to Miami Children's Hospital in critical condition.
Last weekend, Marquise Brunson, identified by WFOR-CBS4 as an Ace Academy student, and Dante Vilet, both 16, were shot and killed just days after Carlos Zuniga shot his son and daughter, ages 11 and 14.
And then Juan was shot at his bus stop, bringing attention back to Booker T High, one of several schools to mourn the murder of multiple students in the past few years. In that time, Booker T has lost at least two students: senior Alex Tillman, whose charred body was found near the FEC railroad tracks, and Anthony Smith, a Tornadoes linebacker fatally wounded during a 2009 mass shooting at an Overtown birthday bash.
As shootings have continued — more than 500 last year in Miami-Dade, according to WFOR — media attention has increased, as has uproar from communities damaged by gun violence. Pastors around Miami-Dade held news conferences, offered rewards for information and met with Miami Police, who announced in what they said was an unrelated move that they would enforce a rarely heeded county curfew for kids under 17.


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Thread: Cracked 4L60E housing tail shaft
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Cracked 4L60E housing tail shaft
Has anyone had problem with the tailpiece on the 4L60E transmission cracking? Had tx replaced @ 143K mis & within 10k miles started leaking tx fluid (1 qt every 150 miles on highway). Took back to shop, they contacted remanufacturer (Certified Transmissions of Oklahoma) & claimed problem was from vibration & that GM had a TechBulletin out on problem. Of course, claimed not under 3 year, 100k warranty.... another $950 later, had another tranny put in, along with new tranny mount (Sub'n already had a new Goodwrench 5.7 engine, new mounts, complete front end rebuild) & new driveshaft u-joints. Less than 1500 miles, rear tailpiece has cracked in same spot (on top) again. WTF? The original tranny lasted 140k without cracking the housing & here within a few thousand miles have gone through 2. Have not been running off road, towing or even exceeding 70mph on interstate (and have NOT let the wife drive the vehicle- her photo is in Wikipedia under road rage (hope she doesn't hack this site!). Don't see how this could be an alignment problem, all joints are tight & when up on rack, the driveshaft looks well balanced @ 50+ mph. Could it be Certified Transmissions supplied the wrong 4L60E transmission (twice?). Transmission shop is awaiting the distributor in Maryland to come to shop to see what is going on since this appears to be a problem with the remanufacture. Noted somewhere that there needs to be care on installing the rear seal as it can not be hammered into the housing. Anyone have any ideas? It's a 97 GMC K1500 w/5.7 engine
03-07-2013, 12:37 AM #2is it 4x4? You might want to find a drive shaft builder in your area and ask them how mush they want to check the balance on your drive shaft.
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It is 4x4- although that went out due to the amount of trans fluid that was thrown around underneath (after a good brake cleaner washdown, the 4x4 started working again- the tx fluid also ruined one of the brand new ox sensors too) Rebuild driveshaft is my next option- waiting to see what happens with the rebuilder first. When it was up on the lift, I checked for wobble in driveshafts & rear end- it doesn't have any vibration when on road either. After the amount of money I've dropped into this truck in past year (well over 15K), I'm starting to think I should have looked for a newer model instead. Bright side is my Subn has a full custom interior with seats that are as comfortable as a living room & full entertainment package for the 6 yr old twins. Have had the truck for 12 years now & if I won lotto I'd have it completely ground up restored instead of getting a new burban.
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Update= truck has been sent to the area distributor for Certified Transmissions on a flatbed. Rented a Chrysler Town & Country van for 10 days- worked okay going up to West Virginia in the snow, but was definitely NOT my Suburban. Chose to revert to the farm truck (86 F150 p/u) for running around even though each trip on road is an adventure with this vehicle!
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Paul Newhouse is the coordinator with four staff members involved as ICT Pedagogy Officers: Alistair Campbell, Martin Cooper, Will Turner, and Linda Marshall. The project is for 2011 with the final report due in June 2012. The aim of the project at ECU is to improve the use of ICT by teaching staff in the School of Education. As part of the project Jenny Lane has led the development of a Blackboard site for IT Support and professional learning for our School. Among other things this site includes help documents and materials from the Pinch-o-SaLT sessions. It is the one place to go for helpful information for using ICT in our school.
This substantial and innovative national project specifically targets systematic change in the ICTE proficiency of graduate teachers across Australia. The project team is led by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), and includes the Australian Council of Deans of Education, the Australian Institute for Teachers and School Leaders, Education Services Australia and the Australian Council for Computers in Education and Australian universities/institutions with pre-service teacher education programs. The project focuses on enabling pre-service teachers to achieve and demonstrate (upon graduation) competence in the effective and innovative use of ICT in education to improve student learning.


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yeah, I had a last minute guest appear. I was online by the time you two changed your minds
yeah, I had a last minute guest appear. I was online by the time you two changed your minds
there are no more games waiting on this one to finish. i suggest you wait until all players can go. it took alot of effort for the entrants to get this far.
I would've been kinda bummed if we played without all four. To be honest, I was going to play Spanish in that semi-final match, but I switched to Aztecs because there were just three of us playing and there'd be more AI to abuse. I don't want the final to be about AI abuse. I want it to be a hard-fought 4-way all the way up through modern (after which I win).
I can't connect to the network for some reason so I'm debugging now. Give me the standard wait time of 30 minutes although I hope to be on much sooner than that.
thanks & best regards,
Wow.. that last game was a marathon, and at some points, anyone's game.
too bad I forgot to choke off the area and P2M2 got 4 of my cities, and then my capital a few times.
Since I think we've conclusively proven the Spanish are the 4th civ, that's what I chose to play in the final game. I knew I could get them because I would pick second and MD (picking first) had played the Spanish two games ago. He picked the Greeks, Pedal picked the Aztecs and Headless picked the English.
I settled in my starting spot, even though it wasn't great. I just don't feel confident with moving, although I could've had a whale and two forests if I'd moved the right way. No problem. I had a city there soon enough.
Turned out I was on an island, which was great. There was room for about five cities (although I only ended up putting four on it). I also got a barb for, I think, 40 gold and a friendly that gave me a caravan, which I sold, but no exploration tiles. I had to sell my warriors and work gold for a few dull turns to get to 100 gold, but then I had a galleon and was off and running dropping cities as quickly as I could. I got an early tech lead and picked up some important techs. I think I only missed Literacy and Construction, which MD probably got.
There was a lot of combat on the mainland. Pedal pressed headless early (he'd moved his cap closer to headless) and also took out the Japanese AI. This pretty well let me go ahead and expand all over the place without really being contested. MD was briefly ahead of me in tech until I went to Democracy. From there on out I was at least a couple ahead of the pack. Meanwhile cities were changing hands at an alarming rate (I even took one fom Pedal, just to not feel left out). I eventually got 16 cities, all on islands, the only mainland one being the one I took from Pedal. MD flipped one of mine, but no biggie. I GS'd Corporation and teched Industrialization and was in good shape. Pedal came at me with catapults, but I had a cruiser fleet by then and was able to defend without any trouble.
I didn't go for the econ victory quite as fast as I might've because I wanted to make sure my defenses were solid. I spent a ton of cash rushing Oxford to make sure nobody could get bombers (I got Networking, which really secured my place as the tech leader). Pedal eventually took all the other caps, but didn't have the juice to come after me. I had battleships and modern infantry. Poor headless was eventually eliminated by Pedal's tanks just before I got my econ victory somewhere around 1700 AD. The game took two and a half hours.
yeah.. that map was painfull.. moved my first warrior one space to see an aztec warrior.. moved onto a hill to watch him take the barb near my cap, and attackd next turn 1.5 to 1 only to lose.. had a glimmer of hope when mad reminded us that if we were only 6 tiles apart we could restart (there were 5 spaces between our caps) but it was crushed when pedal told us that he moved his settler (his settler started with only 4 spaces between his and my starting spot, in a perfect diagonal).. any settler movement (even away from caps) negates the rule ..
my 2nd warrior was finishd the same turn i lost my first, and pedal already had hbr and knew exactly where my cap was (5 spaces from his cap).. heh.. risked moving my warrior out of my cap searching for anything, but then had to waste 3 turns building another warrior to stop an aztec walk in.. switchd to 4 science a turn to get bronze eventually, so i could hold off pedals horse army.. my risked warrior found a friendly which gave me a caravan, and i was forced to send it into mads (empty) cap not too far to the right of london, as i was desperate for gold to survive the first 10 turns.. but as i had a 2 pop city between pedal, mad, and thrasher (spanish to the north with a galleon settling cities on the island above me) and they all had multiple cities/techs, the game was over for me within the first 10 turns..
pedals horse army didnt attack my cap as i was english, but it sat on the hill overlooking my cap and eliminated any chance i had at expansion.. i double moved/galley droppd one of pedals cities, but it was quickly taken back.. watched the red sox also lose and every now and then sent knights towards pedal (losing a quick move situation, then a few 4v4s, then a few 6/7.5 v 4s to pedals single archer defended cities) while pedals armies continued to harrass me..
heh, after i was locked in at 4th place i was able to win a few battles that favored me (even one that was tied 6v6 ) taking a couple of pedals cities (which he took back with knights/riflemem/tanks the turn after) but by then my game consisted of searching out empty cities and walking in on them..
good game to all.. i will happily rematch any of you (tourny-wide) given the opportunity..
I started out on a peninsula that, had I choked it off, I would've been able to keep until the tanks were rolling out. There was a nice forest/river spot on one side and a hill on the other side with moutains in between.
Unfortunately I didn't and p2m2's horse army got in later in the game and took out my poorly defended cities on the mainland (5 of them).
I got a few warriors out initially and was told that the SoC ws right above me. I waited to see if I could find another hut to get me above 100g, but headless and p2m2 had cleared pretty much everything on the other side of the mountains before I got there. so I rushed a galley from Athens and grabbed the SoC. I got two GA's. yay... not so useful. I did flip a Spanish 1 tile island which was nice, but the other GA flipped a poorly defended english city which p2m2 promptly took out with his horse army.
I teched a bit, but without the library or a 100g settler, I wasn't getting very far, so I spent a few turns on gold after finding a goodie hut and rushed the library. I went straight to tech (4 op Athens) and got writing/COL/Literacy/Construction/Math first. Athens got the trading post (4 deserts) and the free workshop (3 hills). At this point I hit Industrial era and switched to COL. (I got my 100g settler from overflow gold).
I put down 3 cities behind the mountains and 3 cities on islands south of my position. I had another settler that I moved inland near p2m2/headless, hoping to drop it and get defenses in so that I could make a courthouse and make use of the 5-6 mountains/etc between us later. unfortunately I hit the Y button instead of the A button to move them to the right spot and they ended up in an ok spot, just not great. it also had 0 prod and p2m2 grabbed it with his horse army shortly after I planted it. (it was closer to him than I planned). I should have grabbed a few more settlers and dropped them on the north islands, but El Thrasher went into Democracy so I knew that if I didn't he'd get too far ahead in tech if I didn't. I started getting a few libraries into my islands, but this is when p2m2 came and took out the mainland cities. I wasn't able to keep up to El Thrasher from that point forward since I had to keep switching back to gold/prod to retake my cities. (I galleon dropped a hoplite back into Athens and kept it. I finally killed p2m2's horsearmy, though he still had 3 of the cities close to Athens).
I started teching again, and decided to go for some big backup to take back cities. p2m2 had GB'd the EiTC really early (somewhere near 0 AD) but no one had bothered teching flight (I think it was tech'd ~1650 AD). I hit metallurgy/Steel first, and of course the cannon and battleship show up in Barcelona. the nice 1 tile island I stole. (eventually I got Automobile first and the free artillery showed up there as well. siege weapons on 1 tile islands are useless! not to mention it was far from my other cities).
so I brough the cannon down to one of my mainland cities and took it back. I was still in Dem. so p2m2 made peace. I brought the cannon to Athens and made another one there (I had a barracks there now) and went after my old double dye/fish city. p2m2 rushed a tank there and killed the fortified militia. so it was down to a button press war to see if the tank or the 1/2 wounded cannon attacked first. I knew I was going to lose that fight, so I moved another cannon and my vet hoplite army onto the hill next to it and waited for him to attack. he did and lost! a 1/2 health cannon beat his single non-vet tank. so I took the city back.
(somewhere around here I galleon dropped one of p2m2's cities elsewhere, but headless got there the turn after I decided not to rush a rifleman.)
I got another cannon out and brought the cannon army + the hoplites on the battleship over to one of El Thrashers 1 tile islands and attacked. I won and my cannons not had blitz. unfortunately I didn't move the battleship fast enough and el thrasher sank it with his cruiser fleet. It would have taken too long to get 2 more battleships out (80 hammers each at 13 hammers/turn). though, it would have likely been a better plan in the long run. p2m2 promptly ran a few tanks into my now open mainland cities and cleared me out, leaving only my 4 island cities.
roughly around here we started telling El Thrasher to hurry up an win.
I almost had combustion first, but p2m2 had GS'd it 2 turns before I finished it. I did get printing press first (and traded it to El Thrasher for Mass Prod) but that was about it. I hit automobile a few turns before El Thrasher won the econ victory, and was 1-2 turns away from Athens with a cruiser + the artillery army.
moral of the story is to remember to choke the area off and I could have kept up with El Thrasher and maybe stole one of Industrialization or The Corporation from him. If I had more patience when I had the battleship, I could've have gotten the fleet together and brought all my usually useless left over units and picked up a bunch of cities.
gg though to all. it was definitely an awesome final to a great tournament, thanks to all the participants.
for the techs:
I got writing, COL, Literacy, Construction, Math, University, Printing Press, Steel, Metallurgy, and The Automobile firsts. I almost had Engineering first, which would have made the island cities get their libraries faster.
Last edited by MadDjinn; 09-03-2009 at 07:00 AM.
I got Combustion two turns before that the ol' fashioned way. I even made a tank army, but of course I couldn't use it because you all liked me so well by that point they all wanted to be at peace with me all the time.
I got Masonry, Irrigation, Currency (huge!), Engineering, Banking (free from having gold), Steam Power, Gunpowder, Industrialization, Corporation, Railroad, Combustion, Communism, Flight, Mass Production and Networking first. I was a couple turns off Advanced Flight when I finished the World Bank (with 250 extra hammers - I had prod set to the Internet and it would've finished that turn if I hadn't changed production).
Yeah, it got pretty easy to keep the lead when Pedal took out a bunch of your cities, but had to constantly switch out of Democracy due to headless' attacks. Judging by the way you all kept trading cities, mine were the best-defended and least-attacked in the game. Kinda funny. Except for right after settling, I almost always had at least two defensive units per city and eventually (after Leo's) had modern infantry everywhere.
I thought about getting currency right after COL, but I needed the free workshop in Athens.
After you beat me to Literacy, I realized we had a tech race (I went up to Irrigation basically uncontested), so I went on full science to get to Currency first. Maybe you could've beaten me, but maybe not. Maybe it would've depended on which of us joined the game first. *sigh*
Next time you get a workshop in Athens, use it to build a couple hoplites. Sheesh.
I almost never go to Democracy as early as I did in this game, but my expansion stalled a little because I was having some trouble finding new islands (until I returned to the north to settle the not-so-good ones), so I think I got it as my 12th tech, hit Industrial a little after you, but then started really gaining momentum.
Just wanted to say congrats to Elthrasher. It was cool the way you finished off the tourney, rattling off wins in your last several games, after such a noobish start. Things really took off for you after you won that elimination game when you played against me for the only time in the tourney, and for that, I'll take partial credit for your win
I'm glad Spain took the top spot, and it wasn't even close. I am surprised at how well they did, but they are one of the more popular non-power civs, so I guess it's not surprising that people knew how to play them better than the other civs.
I got to use Spain in my first game, crushed the others, and then didn't get to use them again
Anyway, thanks again to MadDjinn for running the tourney, and keeping it going despite some bumps in the road. I thought there'd never be a tourney for XBOX, we had tried many times before and it never got off the ground. Looking forward to H2H now!
Thanks. You actually deserve some credit for schooling me on how to win with the Spanish. But actually, everybody I played in my first three matches (especially pythagorean cat) deserve credit for showing how lazy my play was. I'd developed horrible habits playing against the common gamer out there and obviously with my record of three dismal failures followed by four wins, I learned from my mistakes.
I think you would've won easily had you been playing in my place. I'm still not quite as speedy with the econ victory. I know the plays, but don't always have the confidence to zoom right in and make it happen, so I probably work a little more tech than I need to. I don't think this makes victory any less certain (perhaps it makes it more certain), but definitely slows the win.
While this will come off as trying to take away something (I'm not, both yourself & the Spanish did well & reliably so), I was a little disappointed the Spanish started on an island in the finals from a "fair fight" point of view. At this calibre of play, an island start w/Spanish is a virtual lock for a win. I absolutely love island starts w/Spanish. Those usually translate into bombers earlier than any other start which virtually guarantees victory. If you'd been on the mainland, I don't think it would have been so easy w/Aztecs running around.
People love to talk about pressing a civ that starts on an island (remember the American island start thread?) & make it sound like it's easy & even simpler than pressing a civ on the mainland but it's all bolagna & exaggeration. It's quite difficult to press any civ on an island until you know where they are located which takes time (lots of time usually). It's especially difficult to press the Spanish when they are on an island. They have a huge advantage on the oceans over anyone else. Given galleys move slowly & most likely you'll have to go to top/bottom edge of the map to find the island in question, it's going to be a long time before you find that civ. In most cases, you won't find them until late BCs or early ADs at best & sometimes not until 1500 AD or later! By then, they've expanded a lot & have much more power than when you found those other civs on the mainland. The finals match was proof positive of this fact. By the time anyone found you it was over & way too late to do anything other than a last ditch effort (my son used cats, I would have gone for Oxford earlier myself) which I knew was going to end in failure. Yet another reason why Oxford bombers work so well for the Spanish. They have their power offshore & early enough which allows them to focus on tech + wealth which is what you need to get bombers quickly & use them effectively once you have them.
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well, I did find an empty Madrid very early (before 0 AD). unfortunately I didn't bring a warrior on the galley.
it was luck that I found him, since I was looking for artifacts, and saw the island he was on.
A spanish on the mainland for the final would have had much harder times surviving, but El Thrasher was able to settle plenty of island cities where you needed to get to the bottom of the map in specific locations to get to them. There was little chance of someone else getting there.
by the way, I need some players to do the Spanish vs. american/zulu/chinese.
obviously El Thrasher/p2m2 will be using the Spanish (and can help with the other ones. I think headless wanted to also play.
I'll do this. I don't mind using any of these civs for the game. I'd be able to do it tommorow night (saturday) if others are able to. I'd be nice to know before I schedule any games for the H2H tourney.
Will there be duplicates of the power civs? Or will it strictly be Spain vs. americans, china, and zulu?
I think I'd prefer no duplicates, it seems more scientific. It'd be a lofty goal for either of the guys to win a game like this, and if it were 3 Americans vs. Spain, it'd be tough. But if someone could win this game, these 2 guys would be on a short list to do so (given that all players are good).
So, sign me up and we'll see if we can work this out.
definitely no dups. it's an FFA, not a 3v1 game, so everyone has to be on their toes.
it's also be 3-5 games, to mitigate 'luck' for any of the civs. (though if the american gets 7 cities every time, well.. )
I always try to bring a warrior or archer on a galley or galleon. The only time I don't do this is if I have to choose between a known reward & putting it on the galley. I've won so many games in H2H before 2000 BC w/drop-offs, it's not even funny. Just make it a rule of them (always try to put at least 1 unit on a boat) & you'll be glad you did.
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There's no question I got very lucky in this game by starting on an island. As for a "fair fight"...well I've argued and supported arguments that skill is much more important than luck in this game. But there just isn't much of a delta in skill between those of us who got to the semi-finals and beyond. That makes luck hugely important. My point being if I hadn't been lucky, someone else probably would've.
As for pressing an island nation. I think first that yes, it is hard. But moreover, it was even harder because this was a FFA game with each player trying to get as much as he could out of it.
MadDjinn couldn't press me very well because he didn't have much gold and was desperately trying to stay even with me in tech. I had an income. He didn't really. Then he finally started getting things moving and what happens? Oh, he has all his mainland cities taken from him. Yeah, that kinda sets you back in how much pressing you can get done.
Pedal2Metal2 wanted like heck to press me, but every time he cast his greedy gaze my way, headless attacked another of his cities. Cities were changing hands almost every turn, sometimes multiple times. And Pedal was in Democracy, so headless would take a city and then force peace. Pedal would have to go to anarchy to get his city back. Ouch. He finally came at me with three catapult armies, but it was too late. I had a cruiser fleet and stopped them without much trouble.
the headless 10 never seemed too interested in pressing me. He just couldn't. He was pressed hard by Pedal from the start and couldn't really stay competitive in tech or expansion. I'm sure he would've loved to ram some knights down my throat, but he never came close to having the opportunity.
Oh, and the Japanese AI really wanted to press me, but Pedal took it out in like 2500 BC. A real pity.
If this hadn't been a FFA with four strong players, my being on the island still would've been okay, but it wouldn't have been quite as great for me. One strong player vs. two weak players on the mainland would've been a real advantage for the strong player.
if im really hard pressed for time, ill usually put my militia in my cap and put my warrior/archer in my boat.. i agree with pedal, it is a must having an offensive unit in a ship..
i would love to play in the games with the top 4 civs.. maybe thrasher/pedal would even give me a shot using the spanish.....
it's true that the tourney, like the game itself, serves no use. but it was fun and funny.
This is absolutely an imperfect test. I don't think anyone would deny that. But it's the best test so far. The Spanish consistently outperformed the other 12 civs against solid comptition.
I think that's something. What I really think it is is that they are powerful and fairly easy to play. I think the Arabs and Romans can possibly be more powerful, but their strategies are tougher to pull off. With Spain if you get 100 gold, rush a galleon, defend your capital and settle 2-4 whale spots in the next 15 turns, you will at least do okay. That's not really too difficult.
The problem is probably one of defining terms. What does top4 mean to you? What does it mean to me?
It could mean how consistently can MorteEterna win with the civ.
It could mean how consistently can some random player with with the civ.
It could have something to do with how quickly you can win with the civ.
Those are all pretty different things.
In this context the answer to "what does top4 mean?" is "the civ the most players in this tournament consistently do well with." The answer here is the Spanish.


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Drum roll, please. Yesterday evening — the 5th of June 2012 — the State of New Mexico delivered the Republican presidential primary to former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.
Shocker! Yes, I am fully aware that many of you who are reading this blog are rolling your eyes and thinking "shocker" — precisely because of the fact that Governor Romney is indeed (already) the nominee.
Indulge me please, but I loved walking out of dinner this evening and checking my iPhone only to read on Real Clear Politics that,
"With about 10 percent of the expected vote counted, Romney had 79 percent of the Republican vote to 9 percent for Ron Paul, 8 percent for Rick Santorum and 4 percent for Newt Gingrich."
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For the sake of disclosure, I am absolutely biased. It is very true that I am a fiscal conservative and believe that less-is-more when it comes to Government with a capital G. And, it is also true that I had the pleasure of working on Governor Romney's book, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness. Feel free to grab a copy.
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Here's why
Here are a few reasons for my prediction that Mitt will stick in New Mexico:
1. The economy. This election is all about the economy. Period, end of story. I don't really think I need to remind you all in New Mexico about where the unemployment rate stands. Governor Romney has a real record as a real governor in a state that has/had real economic problems. Allow me to bore you with a few facts (and, don't worry, I promise to load you with more in future blogs). As governor of Massachussetts, Romney:
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- Left a $2 billion rainy day fund.
- Cut taxes 19 times.
- Balanced the budget every year.
- Brought down unemployment from roughly 6 percent to 4.7 percent.
That's action.
2. Favorability matters. News flash for those of you who are not aware, but Governor Susana Martinez enjoys one of the highest approval ratings of any current governor in the United States. This matters at a time when President Obama's approval rating only hovers around 47 percent. Let's look at a recent Gallup Poll and note the historical significance of this:
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3. New Mexico. By the way, if you haven't read this Daily Beast/Newsweek piece on Governor Martinez, you really should. It portrays an outstanding woman, sister, district attorney, and governor who will ultimately help carry another successful governor. (Note: I am not suggesting that Governor Martinez will carry Governor Romney as his VP… but as a strong female, Latina governor in a battleground state.) And, this really will be something.
4. Finally, it's hard to relate to President Obama, who has Sarah Jessica Parker and Anna Wintour telling me that the president can relate to my situation — or any average Sarah's situation out there in New Mexico. Perhaps I am wrong, but doubtful that they have ever trucked around the likes of Truth or Consequences, Elephant Butte, Hobbs, Socorro, Alamogordo, or even Los Alamos…
Mitt will stick.
That's the sticker.
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