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this is a discussion within the NOLA Community Forum; Posted by kmarszal October 17, 2007 By Jeff Duncan and Ed Anderson Staff writers When the next governor takes office in January, Saints owner Tom Benson will be waiting at the negotiating table. The football team's lease agreement with the ...
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Next governor will have to deal with Saints
Posted by kmarszal October 17, 2007
By Jeff Duncan and Ed Anderson
Staff writers
When the next governor takes office in January, Saints owner Tom Benson will be waiting at the negotiating table.
The football team's lease agreement with the state will expire after the 2010 season, and the new governor will have to extend the contract or the Saints will become a free agent franchise, capable of relocating to another city without penalty.
The four leading gubernatorial candidates said that won't happen on their watch, although they are vague on what incentives they would offer the team to stay in New Orleans.
All agreed, however, that the Superdome, now undergoing a $211 million post-Katrina facelift, is still a functional venue for football and they do not see the need for a new stadium anytime soon.
The candidates also said they would make a similar commitment to the Hornets, including a pledge to fulfill the state's contractual obligation to build a training facility for the National Basketball Association team.
Candidates weigh in
State Sen. Walter Boasso, D-Arabi, said he would make negotiations a priority "to ensure the Saints stay in Louisiana, because of the sales tax revenue and tourism dollars" generated for the city and state.
He said he would consider granting the National Football League franchise an annual subsidy but would also look at other options "as long (as) it is fiscally responsible."
Democrat Foster Campbell, a member of the Public Service Commission, said that although he has always supported the team, he voted against the present $186.5 million deal to help keep it in New Orleans when he was in the state Senate. He called the agreement "too generous and too dependent on state funds."
Campbell said a new deal with the Saints would be a priority for his administration but added that he is opposed to direct subsidies to the team. He said his plan to remove individual and corporate income taxes -- if lawmakers impose an oil processing tax -- would help the team's bottom line.
"The state also needs to make selling the naming rights to the Louisiana Superdome and the New Orleans Arena a priority," he said.
New Orleans-area businessman John Georges, running without a party affiliation, said it will be "a priority to negotiate a long-term lease with the New Orleans Saints, keeping the organization in place to grow our economy, rebuild our tourism industry and support our statewide fan base."
Georges, however, would not commit to a specific state subsidy for the team. Instead, he said he would form a committee of business experts and government officials "to develop fair, cost-effective proposals that make economic sense and are financially beneficial to the Saints, the state budget and Louisiana's taxpayers."
Calling the Saints a key element of the New Orleans economy and the linchpin for the city to land Super Bowls with an estimated economic impact of about $300 million, U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal, R-Kenner, said he would make a long-term deal with the club a priority.
However, he said, "any financial incentives by the state (to the franchise) should come from money the Saints generate for the state, rather than taking any money away from health care, education or other critical needs."
Jindal did not make an outright commitment to a state subsidy in a new agreement.
"It is important for Louisiana to keep the Saints in New Orleans," he said. "As governor, I would consider this investment in the same manner as any other economic development investment, carefully gauging the economic return on the investment made to ensure it made sense for taxpayers."
Finding the money
State officials expect the annual subsidies to be a major point of contention in negotiations for a lease extension with the Saints.
Under their current contract with the state, the Saints receive 100 percent of game-day revenue generated at the Superdome as well as annual subsidies that escalate to as much as $23.5 million in the final three years of the deal.
"Everybody agrees that the Saints should stay," said Doug Thornton, the regional vice president of SMG, the company that manages the Superdome. "The question is: Under what conditions?"
The current contract relies on revenue from the Orleans-Jefferson parish hotel-motel tax to finance most of the inducements to the team. However, droughts in tourism after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 and Katrina in 2005 created multimillion-dollar shortfalls in the Superdome budget, forcing state officials to dip into alternative accounts to pay the team. Similar shortfalls are expected in future years.
"It's no secret that there's a need for a new source of revenue," said Tim Coulon, chairman of the Superdome Commission of the Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District. "The next governor needs to be fully prepared and briefed on the issues and be prepared to deal with it."
Quiet on new stadium
Thornton and Coulon both said any long-term deal with the Saints should include a plan for a new stadium. While noting that the renovated Superdome should remain viable for 10 to 15 more years, they said the state must be proactive and immediately launch a plan to finance a new stadium.
Boasso, Georges and Jindal said they would consider a new stadium proposal but generally agreed that the Superdome remains serviceable for now.
Campbell said the only way he would support a new Saints stadium is if it "no longer makes sense from an architectural and financial standpoint" to continue to fix the Superdome.
Boasso said a new stadium should be put to a referendum.
Georges, a former part-owner of the New Orleans Brass hockey team, said the Dome is still good as a "comprehensive venue for professional football and other forms of entertainment" but promised to impanel a group of structural engineers, stadium architects and NFL executives to determine the stadium's life span.
Jindal said the renovations to the Superdome in the past two years "have improved the facility to make it more competitive from a football business perspective." He said the stadium "appears to be serviceable as a football venue" for now.
Jindal said before a new stadium is built, it is "crucial" to expand the economy to attract new businesses to the state to help buy tickets, rent suites and "generate the revenues needed to make such a (new) facility viable."
Jindal said any state tax money used to build a new stadium "would need to be done in a way that would guarantee a productive return to the economy of the city and the state," and he also would require that a share of the costs be borne by the NFL and "other resources."
Few specifics on Hornets
The candidates were largely supportive of the Hornets. But like their discussion of the Saints, they offered few details about how much financial backing they would be willing to offer.
"My administration will lobby local leadership and state lawmakers for adequate funds to keep the New Orleans Hornets competitive in the market and in the NBA," Georges said.
Jindal said he would "consider subsidies for the Hornets in the same fashion as subsidies or incentives for any other employer or industry in the state by determining if the investment is the best use of the taxpayer dollars and will provide a positive return on our investment without taking away from other critical needs in our state," he said.
Boasso also said he would need to research the basketball team before committing to annual subsidies.
"I believe we need to look at an independent study that shows whether or not the sales taxes the Hornets bring into Louisiana are worth subsidizing," he said.
All the candidates said the state needs to fulfill its contractual obligation to the Hornets by building a state-of-the-art training facility for the team.
Coulon said the next governor will face more pressing concerns, such as health care, education and economic development, before considering professional-sports issues. But, he added: "I think the Saints and the media and the fans are going to make it a priority, with respect to the potential for a Super Bowl, with respect toward providing some stability and security of a long-term deal. How (the pro sports) relates to the other priorities of the state, I'm not quite sure. But it certainly is going to come up."
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This alleged crime in Madison, Wis., is odd enough — or funny enough, depending on your point of view — to begin with.
It seems that 52-year-old James B. Summers went into a local Denny's restaurant Tuesday afternoon and said he was the new general manager. This was a surprise to the folks working there.
Summers, though, insisted that he was indeed the new boss. And he seemed to be familiar with the kitchen — he grabbed a soft drink and cooked up a cheeseburger and fries.
You've probably figured out where this story's going. It's got shades of Seinfeld's George Costanza. Summers is under arrest. He's been charged with fraud, disorderly conduct, possession of an electronic weapon and possession of drug paraphernalia.
But what has really caught this blogger's eye is the police report, posted online Wednesday by Madison Police public information officer Joel DeSpain. Having done some time on the "cop beat" at various newspapers, I've read my share of incident reports. But never one done quite this amount of wit. We're passing it along "as written." Enjoy:
"He never announced he was one of the pros from Dover, but the briefcase toting gentleman wearing a maroon tie and long black trench coat was quite clear: he had been sent by corporate. He claimed he was the new general manager, that he had worked for the restaurant chain for 30-years and was starting his new job - right now.
"The gray haired stranger with the goatee had just arrived yesterday afternoon, unannounced, at the private office door of the restaurant manager. She was in the process of counting the day's receipts at the Denny's on Thierer Rd.
"Surprised, and a bit shocked, the 38-year old thought, surely, this must be a mistake. She had heard nothing from corporate about a new general manager, and politely told the man so. Perhaps, she indicated to him, you have arrived at the wrong restaurant. This conversation developed into a tête-à-tête or a 'nose to nose,' to quote the manager, as the man asserted his new role as she told him she thought not.
"This went on until he said it was final, he was going to commence his duties. It was at this point, the manager began making calls up-the-chain. She was able to reach the man in charge of all hiring at her location. By this time the new 'GM' had left the office, but not the restaurant, and she had shut the office door in order to carry out this important, private conversation.
"While on the phone, she waved off kitchen staff as they rapped on her door, trying to get her attention. She was not to be interrupted while talking with corporate. What cook staff wanted her to know was that the new 'GM' was in the process of cooking himself up a cheeseburger and fries, and that he had gotten himself a soda.
"He was in the midst of dining when she let him know the gig was up, that she had talked with corporate, and he was no new hire. Unfazed, he continued to brush off her remarks, saying she just had not yet gotten the memo.
"It was about this time the manager called 911. When the responding officer arrived, he saw the suspect walking away from the restaurant. Upon contact, he told the officer there had been a great misunderstanding, that he was the new GM, but there must have been a paperwork goof-up. He agreed to respond back to the restaurant so both sides could present their case.
"The manager prevailed and the man was arrested. The officer found, beneath the trench coat, and a suit jacket, that he was packing a stun gun on his belt. The officer asked the suspect if he had a concealed carry permit. The man replied, 'It's in the pipeline.' He was cooperative with the officer, but as he was about to be led from the restaurant, he yelled out to those eating: 'This is why you don't dine and dash kiddies.' "
DeSpain, by the way, tells that this tale just seemed to deserve a lighter telling. "Once in a while, people need to enjoy a laugh," he said this afternoon after we reached him by phone.
(H/T to NPR.org's Tanya Ballard Brown.)

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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Treasure Chest Thursday -- New Beginnings
8 comments:
- Heather Rojo said...
I love how our posts often run side by side on the Geneabloggers feed for days with memes! These are priceless photos. I wonder how many college freshmen are showing up in ties this year?
- August 26, 2010 at 12:23 PM
- Barbara said...
Tie, hum, haven't seen one in a long time. These are both original photos, with my grandmother writing on the back of the first one, and my mother on the second.
- August 26, 2010 at 1:54 PM
- Becky said...
Barbara, the insignia is for a Third Class Petty Officer (pay grade E-4). An enlisted person going through boot camp would be at pay grade E-1 then when they graduate would be at pay grade E-2 and usually within 6 months or a year would be promoted to pay grade E-3. By the time you get to 3rd Class Petty Officer you would have had some advanced training.
At least that is how it worked when I joined the Navy in 1969. During WWII I would imagine that promotions came quicker...
- August 26, 2010 at 5:40 PM
- Barbara said...
Thank you Becky, from somewhere in Alaska. I had a feeling you might respond. So again, thank you, and safe travels.
- August 26, 2010 at 7:34 PM
- Liz said...
Barbara, do you have his OMPF (official military personnel file--free!)? I've found some great tidbits in my dad's, including photo & HS transcript & recommendation letters from his application to the Naval aviation training program.
- August 27, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- Barbara said...
Liz, I just ordered it this past Tuesday! Can't believe I never did it before. Many thanks for the suggestion though.
- August 27, 2010 at 7:09 PM
- Kathy said...
Nice pictures of your Dad. He was a handsome young man!
- August 30, 2010 at 1:35 PM
- Barbara said...
Kathy, Thank you very much.
- August 30, 2010 at 3:10 PM


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*** Obama's Step Forward? Taking the week cumulatively, is there any other way to look at it other than a big step forward for Obama? Every piece of initial evidence from last week showing potential trouble for Obama faded, particularly on the polling front, whether nationally or in key states. Toss in the frustration the Clinton campaign is showing (why are they letting us see them sweat so much, particularly over Pelosi and Florida/Michigan?). And end it with serious flirtation with a potential running mate that could solve many of Obama's problems in fell swoop when it comes to Jewish voters and voters worried about his lack of executive experience (Michael Bloomberg), and it's been a very good week for Obama. That said, did Obama miss an opportunity this week? The media, once again, seems ready to write Clinton's campaign obit and had Obama unveiled, say, 20 to 25 superdelegate endorsements in a 24-to-48-hour period, that would have fed a Clinton obit wildfire. The fact that the Obama campaign hasn't done this means they either are being overly cautious or they just don't have as many superdelegate endorsements in their back pocket.
VIDEO: NBC Political Director Chuck Todd discusses Obama's endorsement by Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey.
*** Being John McCain: One of the toughest things for a presidential candidate that is supposedly so well-known is having the discipline to re-introduce yourself to voters. McCain is doing that next week and begins, in fact, today with the unveiling of a new TV ad which emphasizes what folks probably know a little bit about, his heroism in Vietnam. The tag line in the ad -- "John McCain The American president Americans have been waiting for" -- makes it clear that the campaign plans to use the hero card a lot. And it's also a subtle reminder that if McCain is elected, he too could be a historic figure, which is something the campaign might be worried is getting lost in the Obama-Clinton euphoria in the media and the electorate. Elevating McCain on a pedestal and creating this sense of destiny appears to be part of what the campaign is hoping to create next week. More importantly, what the campaign needs to have happen following next week is a mini-surge in the polls. There's something about his small lead nationally that doesn't seem to be big enough right now. Once Democrats settle on a nominee, that candidate will see a poll surge of sorts, and McCain isn't going to want that surge to move his numbers from dead heat to 10 points down. Better that the surge goes from 10 points up to dead heat. So measure the success of next week by what kind of lead McCain starts building (if any) in the national polls.
*** Veepstakes: Who knew Mitt Romney was going to work so hard to get on the ticket. It's one thing to endorse McCain, he HAD to do that. But helping him raise money in multiple states and doing a mini-fly around is clearly above and beyond. While on paper it seems unlikely that McCain-Romney is a winning ticket, think about where the battleground will be in a match up with Obama: it'll be in the Midwest and West, two places where Romney could help. Obama's electoral map is much more heavy on western states and will be much more precarious in the rust belt, particularly Michigan (a Romney home state). In addition, a surge in Mormon support in places like Colorado and Nevada could help a McCain-Romney ticket hold off a surprisingly popular Obama in those states. Many a state poll has shown that Obama, more so than Clinton, has a better shot at putting three of the four corner states in play (Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico). Toss in Montana, and it's clear that McCain may indeed need to find someone who can help him in his home region.
*** Back to MI/FL: Need more evidence this Democratic fight could be headed to Denver? Clinton yesterday was asked on FOX how she could get the Michigan/Florida delegates seated. "We can always go to the convention -- that's what credentials fights are for," she said, assertively. And check this, a new online petition urging Howard Dean to count the votes from Florida and Michigan, which was, per Hotline, "launched by HRC bundlers." Once again, this could be Clinton supporters who think they are helping but in fact are hurting. But because there is such a level of strategic distrust between the Clinton money folks and the team running the campaign, there's a lot of freelancing going on and as much as we may know it's not something the actual Clinton campaign is pushing, that isn't the perception being left to those undecided superdelegates.
*** The delegate count: With Sen. Bob Casey's (D-PA) endorsement of Obama (and joining of his bus tour), Obama has now picked up three superdelegates since Wednesday (Don Williams of CT and Dan Lipinski of IL are the other two). By the way, Rahm "I'm staying neutral" Emanuel is now the ONLY remaining elected superdelegate from Illinois NOT to endorse. Here's the count: Obama leads among pledged delegates 1408-1251; Clinton leads now among superdelegates, 255-221. Added together, Obama's overall delegate lead is 123: 1629-1506. BTW, on the Casey front, it actually shouldn't be that surprising. Casey and Rendell are usually on opposite sides. What's ironic about the endorsement is that Casey actually needs to emulate the electoral victory of Rendell in that contentious Rendell-Casey '02 Dem GOV race more so than Casey, whose voters are probably leaning more Clinton.
*** On the trail: Clinton makes four stops in Indiana with three town halls and one roundtable, all focused on the economy; McCain raises money in Las Vegas, then spends the weekend down in Phoenix; Obama appears on The View and campaigns in Pittsburgh and holds a town hall in Greensburg; and Bill Clinton is in North Carolina.
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Lien filed against Georgetown Cupcake over $189K in unpaid sales taxes
The District's finance office filed a lien Thursday against Georgetown Cupcake over nearly $200,000 in unpaid sales taxes.
The Office of Tax and Revenue lien, filed with the Recorder of Deeds, states that the bakery — featured on TLC's "DC Cupcakes" reality show — owes $189,282.71 for three months of unpaid collections, including penalties and interest. The store owes $69,571.78 from August, $66,363.74 from September and $53,357.19 from October, according to the lien.
An attorney representing Georgetown Cupcake acknowledged that a series of sales tax returns were filed last fall without checks. Negotiations were ongoing between the cupcakery and the tax office regarding a settlement offer, but those talks apparently hit a snag, the attorney said.
He said the store's bill will be paid as soon as Thursday night.
"We pay our D.C. sales tax each month like all other District businesses," said Georgetown Cupcake Chief Executive Stephen LaMontagne. "We're committed to paying our tax liabilities."
D.C. tax officials said Georgetown Cupcake is aware of the debt and was told this week a lien against its assets might be filed. If the bill isn't paid, they said, the next step could include seizure or the removal of the store's sales tax certificate, which would shut the operation down.
"A lien is really a last resort because we work with the taxpayer to bring them into compliance," said Natalie Wilson, tax office spokeswoman.
"This is money collected on behalf of the District, from people who patronize their establishment, and it has to be turned over to the District, and we are taking aggressive action," she continued.
Georgetown Cupcake, founded in early 2008 by sisters Katherine Kallinis Berman and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne, may not have started the cupcake craze, but it certainly helped D.C.'s cupcake industry explode. From their store at 3301 M St. NW, the sisters crank out thousands of cupcakes every day to feed legions of fans.
The sisters landed their own reality show on TLC, appeared as guests on numerous daytime talk shows and opened outposts in Bethesda, New York's SoHo and Times Square areas, Los Angeles and Boston, with a seventh location in Atlanta coming soon.
We'll follow up with the tax office Friday to see whether the bill was paid and the lien released.


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Locomotive engineers could walk off the job, or be locked out by SEPTA, at 12:01 a.m. EST on June 14, 2014, unless President Obama intervenes and appoints a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB). A PEB would delay a strike or lockout by the parties and would investigate and issue a report and recommendations concerning the dispute.
The National Mediation Board released the BLET and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) from mediation with SEPTA on May 14, creating a 30-day cooling off period, which expires June 14. At that point, self-help is available to the parties, which means BLET and/or IBEW could go on strike.
BLET Vice President Steve Bruno noted that the union's goal remains to bring the dispute to resolution in the most expeditious manner possible.
"It is unfortunate that SEPTA's refusal to bargain in good faith makes the June 14 self-help deadline the best option for our members. In any event, the citizens of Philadelphia should be prepared for the shutdown of SEPTA's rail service in the Philadelphia metropolitan area if a strike or lockout should occur," Bruno said. "While we recognize there is never a good time for a strike we have been very patient and continued to provide service without a contract for four years and our members deserve a conclusion to their contract negotiations. The date presents the best potential commuting weather conditions and avoids the impact a strike will have on the counties' school children."


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Chants and cheers of patriotism rang out from the crowd on the set of Family Feud as members of the Navy and Air Force faced off on the popular game show.
Here in Tallahassee, a group of fans also rooted for one of their own.
"All I know is I got phone call saying mama I'm going to be on TV. He said I'm going to be on Family Feud," shares Ezell Deshazier, the mother of a contestant. "I can't even say how I feel at this moment because my heart is bursting, I don't know whether to cry or laugh," she adds.
Theodore Deshazier, a Staff Sergeant in the Air Force stationed in Germany, served as Captain of the Family Feud Air Force team.
"Just to see the excitement of her and the success of her son. It's just awesome and to be in the Air Force at this time just to see something happy happen is good," comments family friend Renae Rollins.
Theodore helped his teammates win the first round of the game show and $20,000 in winnings, but the Air Force is not the only ones who gained bragging rights.
"They said you're son is not going to be on TV, and I said well you just watch it. I said you'll see him on TV and he's going to win," Ezell says.
Theodore is a graduate of Godby High School, and round two of the game show featuring SGT Deshazier airs Friday at 10 a.m. right here on WCTV.


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Bumgarner dominates as Giants roll past Braves
Blanco comes off bench to rack up four RBIs, including three-run double
By Chris Haft / 5/11/2013 9:30 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO -- Watching Madison Bumgarner toy with the Atlanta Braves, Gregor Blanco made a safe assumption.
"I said there's no way I'm going to play today, the way he was pitching," said Blanco. The Giants led and Bumgarner was cruising, so Blanco figured he'd remain on the bench.
Blanco was correct about Bumgarner maintaining his dominance. He was wrong about himself.
Providing ample support for Bumgarner, Blanco drove in a career-high four runs to help the Giants pull away to a 10-1 victory.
Contributing a bases-loaded double in the fifth inning and a run-scoring triple in the eighth, Blanco helped the Giants score four runs in each frame and record their second straight lopsided victory over the National League East leaders.
"They have as good a shot as anybody of playing October baseball," Bumgarner said of the Braves. "When you play a team like that, you want to play your best baseball, too."
Bumgarner did more than his share to meet that standard. He pitched seven innings and struck out a season-high 11. The 23-year-old left-hander struck out at least one batter in each inning he worked en route to achieving his 10th career double-digit strikeout performance.
"He's nasty. To me, he's one of the best lefties in the game," said Braves third baseman Chris Johnson, who struck out three times against Bumgarner. "He throws his cutter into righties and makes righties feel uneasy. Then he throws his two-seamer away and his slider. His changeup was good. With a guy like that, you can't really do too much."
Bumgarner capitalized on the Braves' free-swinging tendencies.
"They swing a lot and swing hard, so you have to keep mixing it up," Bumgarner said, crediting backup catcher Guillermo Quiroz for steering him through Atlanta's gauntlet. "I felt like I tried to mix it up the whole game, not get stuck on one or two pitches. I wasn't planning on doing it this way, but it worked out to where I was able to break out the curveball in the third or fourth inning -- I kind of saved it -- and then the changeup after that."
Until Blanco emerged, the Giants' most impressive hitting was executed by Pablo Sandoval, who homered in the first inning, and Brandon Crawford, who lined a fourth-inning RBI double. Crawford knew that left-handed batters such as himself were hitting an NL-low .082 against Braves starter Paul Maholm. But the Giants shortstop refused to dwell on that fact.
"I can't go into it thinking, 'This guy has really good numbers,'" Crawford said. "You take yourself out of it mentally."
The Giants clung to a 2-1 lead when Marco Scutaro, who lengthened his hitting streak to 11 games with a third-inning single, began their fifth-inning outburst with a one-out triple. It was a sinking liner that eluded right fielder Justin Upton, who was charging toward the ball. Maholm hit Sandoval with a pitch before Buster Posey hit an opposite-field double over the glove of a leaping Upton, scoring Scutaro.
Moments earlier, Braves right-hander Cory Gearrin began warming up, prompting Giants manager Bruce Bochy to inform Blanco that he would bat for right-handed-swinging Francisco Peguero if Atlanta changed pitchers. After Maholm intentionally walked Hunter Pence to load the bases and set up a potential double play, Gearrin indeed entered the game. Blanco lined Gearrin's second pitch into the right-center-field gap to clear the bases.
Often, pinch-hitters prepare for an at-bat with the intensity of a surgeon, limbering up with calisthenics and practice swings. But Blanco impetuously opted for the jump-in-the-pool approach.
"No swing, no stretch, nothing," said Blanco, who stayed in the game to play left. "It was pretty much from the bench to that swing."
The Giants piled on four more runs in the eighth, courtesy of Blanco's RBI triple, Quiroz's run-scoring double and Brandon Belt's two-run single.
Thus, in a four-inning stretch, Blanco amassed seven total bases and accounted for five runs. Talk about instant offense.
"It wasn't in the plans," Blanco said. "But that's baseball, and it's fun."
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I just replaced the head gaskets. Now the motor is back in and it will not run. It will start and idel for a few seconds but then die. I can keep it running for about 5 seconds if I keep on the gas, but it ultimately dies. Any ideas? I reset the security system so I dont think that is the problem. What Am I missing?
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Posted 11 July 2009 - 10:52 PM
Idle air control valve hose not hooked completely to the intake tube? That hose is about 1" in diameter and goes from a thing near the throttle body and toward the passenger side of the car. It tucks down under the intake tube and can look hooked up when it isn't.
Posted 11 July 2009 - 11:16 PM
That as Shawn said or check and make sure your O2 sensor is plugged in.
Posted 12 July 2009 - 01:00 PM
You were right , it was that vacumm hose that goes from the air box to the Idle control valve. I should not have missed it. I guess I drank to much beer whill putting the motor back in?
I apprciate the help
I apprciate the help
Posted 12 July 2009 - 03:50 PM
Now I am having another problem. It is idleing poorly, but runs good at high RPM's. The check engion light is also on. Do I need to reset theECU or something? Should I take it to a shop to have it scanned?
Posted 13 July 2009 - 11:28 AM
Hi Brent--welcome aboard. You'll get more response to your questions if you post them in the "New Generation" forum rather than here in "Shop Talk."
Posted 13 July 2009 - 11:33 AM
hi Brent.
Posted 16 July 2009 - 11:05 AM
Moving to new gen forum.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012 9:28 pm
Diggins leads No. 5 Irish women past Central Mich.
The Associated Press
Ariel Braker added 10 points and eight rebounds to help the Fighting Irish (5-0) close November undefeated for the first time since the 2009-10 season.
Jessica Green scored 19 points for Central Michigan (2-3).
In the program's first home game against a top-5 team, the Chippewas played like they belonged. The teams exchanged leads nine times in the first half before Notre Dame took a 40-39 lead at the break.
The Chippewas led by as many as four in the first half.
Green scored 12 points in the first 20 minutes, and sophomore star Crystal Bradford grabbed seven of the team's 21 first-half rebounds to help keep the Chippewas within reach of the Fighting Irish.
Central Michigan's gritty effort didn't go unnoticed, either. The nearly sold-out crowd at McGuirk Arena gave the players a standing ovation as they headed into the locker room at the end of the first half, and the stands remained full until the closing seconds of the game.
Notre Dame opened the second half on a 7-0 run but Central Michigan pulled within one with under 12 minutes to play. The Fighting Irish didn't truly pull away until Diggins hit a free throw for a 70-60 lead with 45 seconds to play.
The matchup marked the first time in the last four seasons that the Fighting Irish went on the road to play a Mid-American Conference opponent.
Coming into Thursday's matchup, the Chippewas had won two of their last four contests against ranked opponents, dating back to an 84-75 win over then-No. 23 Louisville in December 2009.


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The second annual Xavier Launch-a-Business Competition is accepting applications through May 16
Winning proposals receive professional guidance and networking from the Williams College of Business | April 14, 2011
The Williams College of Business is accepting applications for the second year of the Xavier Launch-a-Business Competition from prospective business entrepreneurs who seek professional guidance and networking from the College. Applications are being accepted from April 4 to May 16, 2011. Application forms and more information are available at www.xavier.edu/xlab. There is no entry fee.
X-LAB 2011 will select the most creative, determined entrepreneurs with the most promising ideas. In 2010, X-LAB picked eight winners from 166 applicants. The College is providing services not only to the winners but also to about 17 finalists because of the quality of the applicants and their proposals.
As the economic development program continues into its second year, X-LAB is:
• Providing free business advice and other support to two dozen entrepreneurs, more than initially announced.
• Hiring full-time staff to run the program, including an executive director.
• Working with a Xavier University graduate who is recruiting "angel investors" to fund X-LAB businesses.
"The success of X-LAB shows entrepreneurship is strong in Greater Cincinnati," said Dean Ali Malekzadeh of the Williams College of Business, which runs X-LAB.
X-LAB is unique because its primary benefit is sharing the business expertise of its faculty, MBA students and executives affiliated with the College. Many entrepreneur competitions offer cash prizes but little ongoing business expertise. Since last fall, the 2010 X-LAB winners and finalists have been creating their business plans and have attended 45 hours of workshops taught by business faculty to learn how to develop those plans.
"The X-LAB Competition encouraged me to distill my vague and sprawling notions into a clear business concept," said X-LAB finalist Janet Michaelis of Dayton, whose business involves emergency room management. "What once seemed like an unachievable dream is now well on its way to becoming a new company."
More recently, the winners and finalists have been learning how to make presentations to potential investors. They've practiced their presentations in front of local business executives, including ones who are studying for their Executive MBA degrees.
"Our winners and finalists are working with people who are just as passionate about their businesses as they are," said Joseph Carter, a professor of management and entrepreneurship who is running X-LAB.
In addition to benefitting entrepreneurs, X-LAB has benefited students. The Williams College of Business created an MBA course in which students act as consultants to the X-LAB businesses. MBA student consultant Karim Noujaim, 25, of Cincinnati, called his involvement in X-LAB the highlight of his college career.
"Ever since I started the MBA, I've been enjoying every minute of it, and I didn't think it could get any better," he said. "Sometimes, it's nice to do things that are outside the classroom, and this is exactly the kind of course that does that."
X-LAB 2011 is looking for businesses, nonprofits and social enterprises that can grow or make a significant impact regionally or nationally. The applications will be judged on three overall factors: the viability of the ideas, the potential of the entrepreneurs, and whether the capabilities of X-LAB are a good match for the ideas and entrepreneurs.
Applicants will be screened by faculty and members of the business community. Winners will be announced by September 2011. Winners get a faculty member or executive who will serve as a business adviser, consulting services to help launch a business, access to College workshops and networking events, feedback from business professionals on developing a business plan and a meeting with potential investors.


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Sent off at odds of 8-1 after futilely chasing Teddy's Promise in the Grade I La Brea Stakes at seven furlongs on Dec. 31, Jay Em Ess Stable's Include Me Out willingly responded to her first assignment around two turns following six sprint races.
She crossed the finish line in 1:41.89. Great Hot, the 5-2 second-choice ridden by Chantal Sutherland, checked in a distant second, three-quarters-of-a-length ahead of 17-10 favorite Tiz Flirtatious and jockey Joel Rosario.
Talamo said that after the riders of Tiz Flirtatious and third-choice Capital Plan, Rafael Bejarano, made early moves, "I just had to ease back." The turn of events was opportune. "After that, she just ran great," Talamo continued. He singled out trainer Ron Ellis. "Ron has done a great job with her coming back after the La Brea," he said. "She was so fresh and ready today, and full of run."
"She got in behind horses," Ellis said in recalling his filly's fifth-place finish in the La Brea. "But I think being by Include, she was dying to go two turns, and it's been kind of a process getting her up to it. She fired today, that's for sure.
"I thought she looked great the whole race. She was very relaxed, and with the pace scenario, I thought Joe had her in a perfect spot. She just looked comfortable all the way. She's just been learning coming up to this, but pedigree-wise she wanted to go two turns. I felt good about it."
Purchased for $150,000 at sale in July of 2009, Include Me Out earned $90,000 while rewarding her backers at $19, $6.40 and $3.40. Great Hot paid $3.60 and $2.40. Tiz Flirtatious returned $2.60. Include Me Out's total earnings became $183,600 from a 3-2-0 record in seven starts.
Ellis and Samantha Siegel, who runs Jay Em Ess Stable, will endeavor to keep their pair of standout 4-year-old fillies apart, at least, for a while. Teddy's Promise is ticketed to come back in next Saturday's Grade I, $300,000 Santa Monica Stakes at seven furlongs.
Marty Jones, who trains Tiz Flirtatious, said his filly encountered a few problems, but it probably was not of great consequence. "Joel (Rosario) had to get her running a little bit to try and get position," he said, "but she got a little rank. That might have affected her chance to win, but the way the winner ran, I don't know if anybody was going to beat her today. That filly ran a really good race."
Midnight Transfer made the successful leap from maiden breaker to stakes winner in the earlier $82,500 San Pedro Stakes for 3-year-olds with a strong finish to edge Got Even by a head at the wire in 1:14.25 for 6 ½ furlongs.
A late-developing son of Hard Spun, Midnight Transfer had taken four races to break his maiden, but when doing so on Santa Anita's opening day, Dec. 26, he did so stunningly by 4 ¾ lengths while covering six furlongs in 1:08.
Rosario, back aboard in the 20th running of the San Pedro, timed his chestnut colt's rally just right while bringing Midnight Transfer from next to last as the field of six turned for home. Rosario kept his mount on the rail, found an opening at the top of the stretch, and swung outside to complete the late charge.
"Sometimes you have to get lucky when you have the inside post position and we did," said Rosario. "He finished up really strong, and I think he can run long. I think he can do anything."
"We're hoping to stretch him out," said Carla Gaines, who trains Midnight Transfer for Warren Williamson. "We'll look at the San Felipe Stakes (Grade II, $300,000 at 1 1/16 miles on March 10). We'll see how he comes out of this. But we're very excited about how he closed."
Got Even, who set all the pace under Corey Nakatani, held the place by 2 ½ lengths over Let's Get Crackin with Victor Espinoza in the saddle. Drill, the 8-5 favorite who had won last September's Grade I Del Mar Futurity, tried to rally, but flattened out to finish fifth while ridden by Martin Garcia.
"He was too far back," opined Bob Baffert, who trains Drill. "Then he made that big wide move. You just can't do that. I thought he'd be up closer, but I've got to talk to Martin."
The second choice at 2-1, Midnight Transfer paid $6.40, $3.80 and $3. Got Even returned $4.40 and $3.60. The show price on 30-1 shot Let's Get Crackin was $5.80. The winning purse of $46,800 boosted the career earnings of Midnight Transfer to $96,050. He was purchased last April at auction for $80,000.
After three dark days, racing will resume on Thursday at Santa Anita with an eight-race program that gets underway at 1 p.m.


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|2011-04-27, 12:13
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Another aspect of management this anime is showing us is "leading from below." The student manager has no authority. That belongs to the coach. Minami has to figure out not only what should be done, but how to get people to do it when she has no real way of forcing them to.
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|2011-04-27, 16:17
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Location: Neo-Venezia...I wish!
More about management rather than baseball, just what I expected. A bit slow and bland but interesting for those looking for a documentary!
Reading the death flag posts on this forum actually made me do some hard googling, thanks!
|2011-04-27, 18:31
|Link #68
Seishu's Ace
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
This is interesting as an academic exercise, still a work in progress as a dramatic one. Other than Asano the players are pretty much all ciphers and it wasn't until the second part of the second episode that things got somewhat interesting in terms of plot. Minami did make the correct call when she figured out that the boys are actually the customers. Now she's realizing that the coach is an expert, but he's not a leader - so she has to step up and take on that role.
|2011-04-27, 19:16
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Where you live... the question is, do you see me?
Age: 24
I usually steer away from obscure anime, but sometimes I get curious about premises that seem doomed to fail. So when I read the premise of Moshidora - a baseball girl learning business management from a book - I couldn't help but stare at my screen for a bit. This looks like what the intellectual fanbase of C wanted to see, only with less fantasy and more implausibility. I'm wondering if Japan has finally run out of good ideas and just decided to go with whatever just hasn't been done yet. Yeah, this certainly hasn't been done yet. Then I looked down at how many copies of the original novel were sold in Japan... 1.8 million. Eh?! Another part of the Wikipedia article catches my interest: it's a daily anime. Okay, maybe I'll give it a watch.
|2011-04-27, 21:21
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Join Date: Apr 2011
As I mentioned in my earlier post, management theories are applicable to everyday life (e.g., setting objectives; integrity; not selling what you want to sale but knowing what people need). The book and this anime series captured this point extremely well.
|2011-04-27, 22:54
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Crossdressing Menmatic
Join Date: Feb 2011
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My implausibility stems in the level of success of such management. I have the feeling our main character will be quite successful in her ventures, but realistically speaking, a baseball player turned baseball manager usually doesn't find success by reading business management books. Managers are more concerned with sports strategy and tactics - which I admit business management may address. I can easily see business management helping the team, but I don't see it being a deciding factor which leads an already unsuccessful team into the next champions.
Seriously, how many high school girls have business management books in their library? Beyond the success aspect, there's the disbelief of a schoolgirl actually wanting to apply management theory. Attaining the book is not my problem here. It's the main character actually having an interest in management theory. I admit my own bias: If the premise seems so unlikely, then I want the entire world to be set in fantasy. Yet Moshidora has a very unlikely premise, but it's completely possible.
In spite of my last paragraph, I am willing to accept a high school girl following business practices only actual businesses would be concerned with. Every anime needs something special to be special. Ultimately, I hope this anime doesn't go the route of "management theory solves every problem, even failing baseball teams can win." I'm pretty ruthless with educational anime, so bear with me.
I see the novel was published after Drucker's death; I wonder if the novelist got the okay from whoever is in charge of Drucker's books.
|2011-04-28, 00:47
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 43
Ep3 was quite a gem, I feel. The show's starting to turn a corner at last.
It's clear by now that the team, as Anh_Minh observed, indeed suffer from a wide range of management issues, so first principles do apply here. You can't begin to discuss more advanced matters like specialised baseball tactics when you can't even get the basics right.
What's more, a great deal of the processes initiated by Minami and Ayano in this episode do in fact have real-world applications that are not limited to business management. There's the need, for example, for objective and transparent tracking of performance. By so doing, work becomes quantifiable and goal-setting becomes a lot easier. This tends also to encourage stronger buy-in, as individuals take ownership of setting and meeting their own targets. And, yes, this does work in real life — I've had the great privilege of working under the best supervisor in my entire career for the past three years, and I've seen how his methodical approach to management makes a great difference in spurring personal motivation.
And there was one point that Minami stumbled upon that I wished the show/novel explored further, and that's the one about playing to each individual's strengths. That may sound like common sense, but you'd be surprised how very hard it is to actually practise this principle. You don't make people improve by harping on their weaknesses, but rather by spotting and building on their strengths. I suppose that was what Drucker meant when he argued for the specialisation of labour.
The "educational" aspects aside, the characters are finally turning out to be more than just "props" in a documentary. It has become easier to identify with their personal and relationship issues and that's a critical success factor for any drama.
And, oh, I chuckled at Minami's fate a the end of the episode. She's unwittingly become a management consultant.
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|2011-04-28, 02:06
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I was a bit disappointed in ep3, but not because it didn't do what it set out to do, which was to illustrate how management ideas can be effective even in an area distant from a real company. I thought it did that brilliantly, and I thought the characters were beginning to be fleshed out and to grow.
What I was disappointed in was the anime as anime. Perhaps specifically the storyboarding and direction of this episode. Things just seemed clunky to me. The standard shot in the standard place, held for just a little too long. And the animation -- the way the characters move, especially the ballplayers -- has always seemed too stiff to me.
As for Deconstructor's feeling that this is all unrealistic, the unusual situation is part of why this book sold, but I don't think it is really all that far-fetched. Management techniques may seem abstruse and even ridiculous -- I thought so when I was first being introduced to them -- but they do work and they are fascinating when you start to work with them. I've often wished I was more willing to apply them in my own life, not just at work.
Of course very few high school girls read Drucker, but I'm sure a few do. And in baseball, if more ex-players studied management when they started to manage ball teams, they would definitely have more success. Maybe not as miraculous as the success in this anime will be, but it is often a small distance from the bottom to the top, if you can mobilize the talents people have but do not use well.
|2011-04-28, 03:38
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That's what managers are taught these days, no wonder they'll be applicable only to kids and sports
Anyway, has the redeeming quality that they use their technical jargon a lot in the anime... so cool new vocabulary, well that and soft-yuri XD
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|2011-04-28, 05:39
|Link #77
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Then again, how much specialized can you get in baseball? Everyone's got to field, and everyone's got to bat and run bases.
|2011-04-28, 07:00
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 31
The system they put in place is smart. Giving the players a sense of responsibility and adding a competitive aspect to the training sessions help increase their motivation. Without responsibility or objectives, people tend to slack off and do the minimum.
Character interactions are still good as well. I enjoyed the pseudo-yuri scene~
As for this series being implausible, only the basic premise is. The author is fully aware of that, after all the title is "What if a female manager of a high school baseball team read Drucker's Management?". It's not something that would usually happen, and that's what makes it so interesting. And you know, it's not impossible that some girls decided to try using management methods after reading Moshidora (it was a very popular novel featuring a highschool girl as the heroine, so I assume some did read it).
"What if a female manager of a high school baseball team read what if a female manager of a high school baseball team read Drucker's Management?"
|2011-04-28, 07:49
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I disagree with you all.
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|2011-04-28, 08:38
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Feeling comfy
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 43
Nah, the joke got lame even as I thought of it.
To be sure, I felt the episode was a better example of scientific management than general management per se. It's surprising to find the team sitting on Ayano's data for so long without putting it to better use but, then, I can think of any number of real-life cases where bean counters dutifully collect data without thinking further about turning all the numbers into useful information.
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Diner says she used the Melt Method to help heal an injury in her foot. In fact, she says, that's why the Melt creator, Sue Hitzmann, designed the program — to heal her own foot pain.
What is the workout? Melt Method is a technique that uses rollers and balls to help your body get out of and prevent chronic pain, by bringing the body back into a natural state of stability and balance. You decrease stuck stress, rebalance your autonomic nervous system, rehydrate your connective tissue and decompress the joints to restore space and movement.
The goal of Melt is to teach participants to know how to do it themselves at home for 10 minutes every day.
Connective tissue runs throughout your entire body, around muscles, joints and organs, Diner says. This fluid system can get stuck, which can affect your balance, joints, sleeping and digestion. Melt Method uses balls to rehydrate the connective tissue, by gently compressing, shearing and rinsing it, so it can begin to absorb water again.
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Cost: A one-time drop-in is $13. Various punch cards available. Workshops cost $30, or $105 for a series.
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When: 11:15 a.m.-noon Thursday (hand and foot); noon-12:45 p.m. (roller); and 10:30-11:15 Mondays (roller). Diner also runs a four-week series 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesdays and 90-minute intro workshops on Saturdays.
What to prepare: Wear comfortable exercise clothes — preferably nothing too baggy, because it could get caught under the roller. I recommend going barefoot for the foot exercises. Mats, balls and rollers provided.
Muscles worked: The entire body. The class is designed to give ease to support the muscles and joints.
What I loved: It was fascinating how releasing my body released so much of my mental stress, too. This was an unexpected side effect of the class — and the best part, I think.
I was also impressed by how quickly effective these techniques were. I have had a cramp in my left foot since wearing these (amazing!) (too tall!) H&M booties on New Year's Eve, and just a few minutes on the Melt balls melted the cramp away.
What I didn't like: Most of the techniques in this class feel amazing — but a few were uncomfortable. Probably the things that I need to work on. When I rolled a harder, small ball under my heels, there was so much crunching and tightness that I wanted to barf. It was intense.
Of course, my feet felt renewed afterward — and I recognize that avoiding weakness and tightness is not a solution for long-term health.
But eww, the crunchies in my heels made me shiver.
How I felt after the class: Like I'd just had a full-body, internal power wash. My body felt like I'd just received a great massage, and my brain was so relaxed that it felt like a goosedown pillow. I wouldn't do this class before heading to work.
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"Pearson, the world's leading learning company, is announcing a partnership with Makerversity, a making and learning start-up in London, to introduce "The Pearson Lab" – a classroom of the future. To kick off the partnership, this week, Makerversity and Pearson have begun development of the lab which will be a place to test and develop what a classroom of the future might be. The aim of the partnership is to work with young people, as well as education innovators and enthusiasts to experiment with ideas around future learning spaces – iterating and developing the space based on feedback. Through events, workshops and drop-in sessions, visitors will be able to explore emerging technologies, such as 3D printers and a range of other digital manufacturing hardware – as well as new web, tablet and smartphone applications for education." (via Pearson)


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Last year, the park had its third best ever number of visitors when 3,345,614 were counted. With three months to accumulate data, this number could be surpassed.
According to figures released Wednesday by the park, 2,8497,212 visitors had been counted through the end of September. In September, park recreation visits hit 527,172, an increase of nine percent from last year when 483,780 people entered the park.
"We're near the three million visitors mark just through September," noted park public information officer Kyle Patterson.
For the year, park visits were running 2.47 percent ahead of last year through the first nine months. September 2012 recreations visits were up nine percent from 2011; 18.9 percent from 2010; 24.15 percent from 2009; 19.18 percent from 2008 and 27.73 percent from 2007.


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You're not supposed to, unless you're on the Kill the Monkey route. Most of the story routes will have some events that you have to deal with to win, and you don't need to conquer all of JAPAN. But if for some reason you want to, and you're missing the top right corner, there's an exploration event somewhere you need to do before you can go there.
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Now if you complete your first playthrough and have the version 1.03 patch installed you will have the option to unlock the other modes/routes such as the aforementioned Kill The Monkey route or the free play All Nation Mode where you can choose to start as any one of the houses and have free reign for the most part over the flow of the game.
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: On my chair
Age: 34
Most important thing to keep track of in game is the number of bottle gourds that are broken. You can check the number on the top-right system info button. One of those breaks every time you defeat a country that has one. When the 5th bottle gourd breaks, demon comes out and the route selection is set. If you want to go a specific route, make sure you time it before the 5th breaks.
Also, if you drag too long without advancing the story, those things break by themselves on the 15th, 30th, 50th, 70th and 90th turn. The longest you can drag on without entering a specific route is 90 turns. After you enter a specific path, you will spend more turns on each specific story, and some paths can let you play on indefinitely until you decide to end them.
And I want that stepmania file too!
|2008-01-07, 11:40
|Link #28
Devil Of The Nite
Haha looks like we r all craving 4 tt simfile...any links ppl? Well i c cuz on my 1st play(and only play) JAPAN was going to b sink at around turn 74+ so i rushed to final battle. Through my 1st paly i conquer: Hara,Ashikaga,Iga,Tenshiism,Asai Asakura,Miko,Uesugi,Akashi.
Takeda+Tokugawa n Mori looks too strong 4 me due to Takeda's animal troops killing all my bak row XD.Mori's general looks too strong to fight with. One eye's 1st piece of land looks crazy already... Takuga looks crazy too.Shimazu got taken over... I cant reach these places - Imagawa(due to Tokugawa blocking),Hojo(Takeda killed them!), Tanagashima(i attacked Akashi,Hojo killed them).
I feel like a loser...XD in this game i mean.
|2008-01-07, 13:30
|Link #29
Sorry, I don't have the sim file, but I do have the song itself along with the rest of the OST.
The strongest houses in the game appear to be Hojo, Mori, Tokugawa, Takeda and One Eye in that order from what I've heard. Yes apparently Mori's maid trio is difficult to take down.
By the way, Eternalnite, I may be wrong, but I think the game allows you to toggle the difficulty. If not then I'm thinking of Meishoku No Reiki again. I have to be honest, I don't have Sengoku Rance installed right now and am going by vague memories of what I recall when I gave it a trial run. Most of my experience lies in it's predecessor Kichiku-Oh Rance which I just beat this past week. My only advice is to try and use strong characters to get the job done in conquering. Rance is good, and you can always trigger the event that calls in reinforcements from the Mainland. That will net you some solid captains.
I also know that in your second playthrough you can unlock Kenshin from the get go, which should help a lot. Other good units I know of include Suzume, One Eyed Masamune (second playthrough), Mori Motonari, Yuzuhara Yuzumi (for her sniping ability), Nanjo Ran, Inukai, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Hojo Syoun. A team composed of these guys is really hard to beat. The catch is that many of these characters are only available in your second playthrough, and the events needed to get them can have tricky timing or requirements.
|2008-01-07, 14:03
|Link #30
Not Enough Sleep
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: R'lyeh
Age: 42
i heard of this game and before and would love to play it. But alas i don't know any japanese and i am not aware of any group attempting to translated it.
Now if someone knows there is Chinese ver some where i would appreciate it if they point it out.
|2008-01-08, 00:11
|Link #31
***y translator
Join Date: Jan 2006
You can get Kenshin at the beginning if you finish her If route; same thing for the other characters. There's a full list of unlockables on the Alicesoft wiki, but you probably won't have enough points to buy anything after your first game. You get 5 points for each route you finish, and extra points for each turn you finish before the limit. You shouldn't worry about the turn counter on the first couple of tries though, since it's near impossible to finish in time the first time through.
|2008-01-08, 07:29
|Link #32
Devil Of The Nite
O alrite...Alicesoft website says so too tt 1st run is 4 unlocking the 2nd game n not points.Well i think i will try harder on this game as its really challenging and makes me use my brains more than i study.
Btw,y don ppl put up torrents of chinese translated H-game on the web from Taiwan or HK.Due to their low popularity??
|2008-01-12, 21:36
|Link #33
Join Date: Nov 2003
the Rance RPGs aren't that interesting IMO. They're not very playable as games.
I really like the strategy ones, though.
But I'm even more interested to see what happens next in the story. Isn't the demon unification arc coming next?
It's been a while since I played kichiku-ou
|2008-01-26, 16:35
|Link #34
Incidentally I was playing Rance 5D the other day, and while Alicesoft is noted for it's unorthodox music in games that no other eroge company would ever think of, I did not expect a rap song with explicit lyrics to start playing when I entered an old Japanese Castle dungeon.
If you ever have the chance to listen to an Alicesoft Sound Volume CD I strongly recommend it, if not because you like the music, but for the sheer unique experience of it.
|2008-02-03, 00:18
|Link #36
Guess what I managed to find.
Yeah it's the opening to the Rance OVA that I found on NicoNico and put on Youtube. Slightly NSFW, but nothing more than a little ecchi.
|2008-02-06, 23:00
|Link #39
Spoiler for Kunagi Picture for fun:
People who like Sengoku Rance should try this game. It's essentially set up in a manner that gives you progressively larger venues to take over. You start by taking the local school back from the corrupt disciplinary leader, then you take over the city from the local gangs and eventually move on to the world. It's quite complicated though. There are a lot of events to manage, people to capture, loyalties to maintain and buildings to build. Once you hit the national stage the game becomes quite difficult.
|2008-02-08, 09:11
|Link #40
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 大陸の片隅
Character wise, I really love Kunagi's character. She's not as annoying as other heroines, and connects with Rouga on a much different level than with the other heroines. Gameplay wise, yeah, she's broken - but you don't hear me complaining about it! Narukana-sama of Seinarukana is much more broken than Kunagi, after all.
Also, I love the ero scenes in this game. Not because of the ero, but because of the hilarity that they've managed to infuse such scenes with.
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Better In Round 2?
Microsoft is facing jeers -- and some cheers -- from tablet experts for its Surface do-over. On Monday, Microsoft introduced the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 tablets with better battery life, beefed-up processors and a bevy of business-friendly accessories.
However, that may not be enough to quash critics from griping Microsoft is doubling down on the same failed Surface strategy that led to a nearly $900 million writedown on unsold tablets. They say despite tweaks, the Surface 2 is still saddled with the same weak value proposition and hum-drum Windows RT operating system as the original Surface RT.
What was announced Monday was no "holy cow" upgrade to the Surface. It wasn't supposed to be. Surface Product Manager Panos Panay said it himself Monday at the launch event in New York. "Reinventing the wheel is not the goal. Making it better is."
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/25/cassini_enceladus_salt_detected/
Salty Saturn moon plumes suggest stuff of life
Giant geysers project forth
Posted in Science, 25th June 2009 19:45 GMT
Massive geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus may be fed by a salty ocean beneath the surface, adding weight to speculation it harbors the essential building blocks needed for life.
Enceladian plumes, courtesy of NASA
Scientists working on NASA's Cassini mission have detected sodium salts in ice grains of Saturn's outermost ring. The planet's outer ring, or "E-ring," is believed to be primarily supplied by giant geysers on Enceladus's south polar region tossing out materials to a distance of three times the moon's radius. Cassini's cosmic dust analyzer has examined the composition of the material and found salt within it.
Since the discovery of Enceladus' eruptions in 2005, the tiny moon has become a top candidate for where extraterrestrial organic life could exist within our own solar system. Enceladus has at least two of the three requirements scientists are looking for: it's the proper warmth and has the necessary organic compounds. The final ingredient is liquid water, and continued analysis of the moon's geysers indicate the source is a sub-surface ocean of water.
"We believe that the salty minerals deep inside Enceladus washed out from rock at the bottom of a liquid layer," said Frank Postberg, Cassini scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany. Postberg is the lead author of a study that appears in the June 25 issue of Nature.
The scientists on Cassini's cosmic dust-watching team have concluded it must be liquid water lurking under the surface because it's the only way to dissolve the amount salt detected. They say the process of sublimation - where a compound transistions from solid to gas with no intermediate liquid stage - cannot account for the presence of salt.
"Potential plume sources on Enceladus are an active area of research with evidence continuing to converge on a possible salt water ocean," said Linda Spilker, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Our next opportunity to gather data on Enceladus will come during two flybys in November."
When Saturn's outermost ring grains were checked by the Cassini dust analyzer, nearly every time it found at least some sodium within the particles, the scientists said. The measurements also contained carbonates like soda, and both materials in concentrations that match the predicted composition of a underground Enceladus ocean.
However, a another study on ground-based observations did not detect traces of sodium on the geyser plumes of Enceladus themselves. Sodium combined with chloride are the two major components of salt.
The scientists believe the results mean if the plume vapor comes from an subterranean ocean, the evaporation must take place deep underground rather than a violent eruption near the surface similar to geysers found at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming as previously thought.
How Enceladus' plumes may be formed - NASA/JPL/SWRI/University of Colorado
"Finding salt in the plume gives evidence for liquid water below the surface," said Sascha Kempf, a Cassini scientist on the dust analyzer team. "The lack of detection of sodium vapor in the plume gives hints about what the water reservoir might look like."
Further analysis of Enceladus eruptions will be a top priority for Cassini during the orbiter's extended tour of the neighborhood. ®


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Submission + - Researchers create database-Hadoop hybrid (computerworld.com)
ericatcw writes: "'NoSQL' alternatives such as Hadoop and MapReduce may be uber-cheap and scalable, but they remain slower and clumsier to use than relational databases, say some. Now, researchers at Yale University have created a database-Hadoop hybrid that they say offers the best of both worlds: fast performance and the ability to scale out near-infinitely. HadoopDB was built using PostGreSQL (though MySQL has also successfully been swapped in), Hadoop and Facebook's Hive implementation, according to Daniel Abadi, Yale computer science professor, whose students built this prototype."