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"We're in love and we're ready to get married," they said. "Terrific," I responded. "Are your children ready for you to get married?" It was the first session of pre-remarital counseling and already Angie and Mike were caught off guard. "What do you mean?" Angie asked. "I'm sure our kids will have some adjustments to make, but that shouldn't take long. Besides, my kids are really enjoying Mike at this point-what's to be concerned about?" I could tell already that this couple was like most, they grossly underestimated the transition that remarriage has on the single-parent home. We had a lot of work to do.
Shelly's opening question was much different from Angie and Mike's. It had been five years since her divorce and she had made a concerted effort to work toward healing and create a stable home for her kids. As a result her home and children were functioning pretty well, despite some financial pressures. She met John about six months prior to our meeting and according to her it started out well. "I finally met a friend I could trust and confide in, not to mention someone who made me feel cared for. I had been craving that for some time. But now things are starting to progress and I'm afraid to remarry-not because I'm afraid to commit again-but because I know stepfamily life is very difficult and I don't want my children to suffer any more. What should I do?" Shelly was keenly aware that most stepfamilies end in divorce and she didn't want to become another statistic or put her children through more heartache. She needed some answers.
As I conduct stepfamily seminars around the country, the two most consistent questions I hear from single-parents are: 1) "Should I remarry?" and 2) "When we get married, how do we help our kids and family to succeed?" I never tell couples whether they should remarry, but I do admonish them to step away from their remarriage fantasies and consider the realities of stepfamily life. In order to make a step in the right direction for you and your children, you first must understand the challenges of stepfamily living and then make an informed choice about remarriage.
Stepfamily Challenges
Stepfamilies, sometimes called blended families, are unique in many ways. Unfortunately, the "Brady Bunch" disguised most of those differences and gave America an artificial security about stepfamily life. If you watched that show you probably assume stepfamilies are just like biological families. Nothing could be further from the truth. Here are just a few factors for single-parents to consider before stepping into a stepfamily.
1. Don't begin the journey unless you've done your homework, counted the cost, and are willing to persevere until you reach the 'Promised Land'. When the Israelites realized they were trapped between Pharaoh's army and the Red Sea, they cried out in fear and anger to Moses wishing they had stayed in Egypt. Nearly every stepfamily, shortly after remarriage, experiences a painful pinch between the losses and hurts of their past and the sea of opposition that stands in their future. Children are often heard crying, "Mom, why did you marry this guy? We were so much better off when it was just us." Truly, the journey to the Promised Land for most is not an easy one. But if you trust God and persevere, He will lead you through to better days.<
2. Make sure you're not still haunted by the ghost of marriage past. Emotional and spiritual healing from divorce or the death of a spouse takes time; in fact, the average person requires three to five years before they can be discerning about a new relationship. Don't let the rebound-bug bite you where it hurts. After his wife died of cancer Gary found himself lonely and feeling inadequate to care for his daughter. "I guess I needed a partner and I wanted a mother for my child," he said. This emptiness led him to rush into a new marriage that ended after just one year. Remember, time is your best friend so slow down the dating process.
3. Realize that a parent's relationship with their children will be an intimacy barrier to the new marriage. As I'm writing this article a stepmother came to see me hoping I could help diminish the jealousy she feels toward her stepson. Five years into the marriage and she still plays second fiddle. Yet the solution is not as simple as telling the biological parent "just put your spouse first." Biological parents can't just switch their loyalties; it feels like they're betraying their children. "After all," said one mother, "my kids have suffered enough and I don't want them to lose me, too." Despite this struggle, the couple must learn to nurture their relationship and not get lost in the stepfamily shuffle.
4. Understand that cooking a stepfamily takes time. Every stepfamily has an assumed blending style (whether they know it or not) that drives how they treat one another. For example, a food processor mentality results in parents demanding that stepchildren call their stepparent "dad" or "mom" right away. In effect, the noncustodial biological parent gets chopped up in the process. A pressure cooker mentality is used when new family members are forced into spending time together. Usually the lid blows off the pot. And finally, the blender mentality assumes that everyone will love everyone else to the same degree. Not only does this set people up for conflict it usually results in someone being creamed.
Instead, develop a crock-pot mentality that allows for time (the average stepfamily requires seven years to combine) and low heat to bring the various members of the family into relationship. For example, instead of forcing the family together, Brad and Julie spent Saturday afternoons each with their own children. Only after nearly two years did they begin to combine leisure activities. This low heat approach didn't threaten the children's relationship with their parents and made space for new relationships to develop.
5. Accept the fact that remarriage is a gain for the adults and a loss for the kids. What they really want is for mom and dad to reunite, so for them the remarriage is a loss. When you add that to the list of hundreds of other losses they've already experienced you can see why children have mixed feelings about the new family. Furthermore, loss always brings the fear of more loss. When persons start protecting themselves from more loss, walls are built. "I'm afraid my kids and new husband will turn against each other. It would be just another failure," said one mom. Her teenage son echoed her fear, "I'm afraid of getting close to anyone. With all I've had to live through I keep waiting for it to happen all over again."
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Rendering in After Effects
Posted 29 August 2012 - 07:58 PM
So I recently started doing some video editing and was wondering how to speed up rendering in After Effects. I was thinking to get more ram, I have 4gb, but After Effects says i'm only using 70% so would I notice a difference. I have a fairly nice computer, i5 2500k, Z77 Biostar mobo, Gigabyte 7770. Would overclocking make a difference.
Posted 29 August 2012 - 08:32 PM
Overclocking your CPU would help a bit, and 8gb of ram would be nice to have (also depending on the speed and timings)
but if your getting by with 4gb, and not maxing it out, thats good..

yea you have a k series chip, why you no overclock? or you on stock intel heatsink now?

Posted 29 August 2012 - 08:33 PM
Yea I went to Microcenter and was like $4 short for getting the Hyper 212
Posted 29 August 2012 - 09:58 PM
polishboy1098, on 29 August 2012 - 08:33 PM, said:
Yea I went to Microcenter and was like $4 short for getting the Hyper 212
Buy a better cooler no doubt.
Also, what type of HDDs/SSDs are you using? Maybe try getting one for reading (where you will load from the camera), then one for write (the finished video). You could also get two more HDDs/SSDs one for video RAW, one for video finished, then one for OS. This would be ideal, but not everyone thinks its worth it if (I don't) but if your rich and do tons of video, then it's worth it for the speed difference.
Finally, make sure lucid logics is enablebed (so you can use the CPU for video rendering and not the GPU).
Plus upgrading to an i7 wouldn't hurt
Posted 30 August 2012 - 03:43 PM
For my OS I have a 128gb Agility 4, and a 500gb Seagate for storage. I have After Effects on the hard drive and thats where im rendering to. Would rendering to the SSD help or should I put After Effects on the SSD and render to the hard drive.
Posted 30 August 2012 - 04:27 PM
Yep, because the whole problem is that it's reading the RAW video off the HDD then re-writing it on the same, so the spindle keeps flying back and forth and back and forth, which takes more time.
So yes, that should speed it up a bit.
So yes, that should speed it up a bit.
Posted 30 August 2012 - 05:54 PM
I rendered to my SSD and it made it slower any thoughts?
Posted 30 August 2012 - 08:39 PM
Render from the ssd to the HDD, try that, I think it may be faster.
But if it's not.... I don't know what to tell you.
But if it's not.... I don't know what to tell you.
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The original paper pages for these sketches are available online as a PDF file.
The following is background information from Geoff Gaherty about the Montreal Centre's Mars observations, in response to a question about the significance of the numbers in the top left and right corners of each page in the PDF file.
I've downloaded the PDF file, and gone through it. I was actually the person who put that file together back in 1961, and added the numbers in the corners! I honestly can't remember what the left-hand numbers signify, but it will probably come back to me. The right hand numbers are a sequential numbering of all the drawings of Mars submitted by everyone in the centre for that apparition. The drawings in the PDF are drawings which I selected as being of the highest quality by experienced observers, to form the basis of my map.
You have to remember that this was in pre-computer days, so I had to organize things manually. My primary objective was to prepare a map based on our observations. This was partly for purposes of my report (which may have appeared in the Journal), and partly as a term project for a course in cartography which I was taking at McGill that spring. I originally had grand plans to project the drawings onto a sphere to obtain longitudes and latitudes, but gave up on that. What I did was to use an ALPO map from the previous apparition as a base, and draw my map using positions on that map, but detail from our drawings. To do that, I needed to sort the drawings by central meridian, which is how they are arranged in the PDF. However, I thought I might need to put them back in chronological order at some point, so, before sorting them by CM, I numbered them in chronological order in the upper right corners. So your surmise about this being an index is correct. However, for purposes of study, the present arrangement by CM is the best.
These are the drawings selected as the best; the rest are primarily by beginners made at an observing night at the observatory where everyone lined up and took their turn at the eyepiece of the 6-inch refractor. Most of these are pretty awful, and probably not worth preserving! [Any such sketches are included in the PDF file, but not in the online sketch gallery.]
Further Reading:
RASC Planetary Section Bulletins from the 1960s.
Sketcher Spotlight: Ted Morris
Ted was a mathematical physicist at McGill whose lasting claim to astronomical fame was identifying several of the "missing Messiers." He was also the second graduate of the Messier Club, making him one of the very first people in the whole world in the 20th century to observe all the Messiers.—GG [Sketches by Ted]
A note from Klaus Brasch (May 2013):
I think it fair to say that we were all still influenced somewhat by the "Lowellian paradigm" in those days and maps like those of Slipher and indeed many others at the time all showed diffuse streaks like those in my drawing. We referred to them as "canals" because they were labeled as such on those pre-Mariner charts. We had long ago given up the idea that they were actual Lowellian irrigation canals, and considered them more like borders between area[s] of different color, brightness or contrast.
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WEDNESDAY, February 11, 1863.Mr. WILSON, from the Banking Committee, reported upon the memorial of D. A. Martin, that E. G. Burkham is not legally entitled to hold a Directorship in the Branch of the State Bank at Lawrenceburg, and that said Bank had been grossly mismanaged, and the assets of the Bank diverted to the injury of the people of that Bank District, and recommended the adoption of a joint resolution (11) appointing Edmund Clark agent to examine into the condition of the said Branch.
page: 136[View Page 136]The joint resolution was read the first time.
Recommending that Senate bills 41 (see page 80;) and 75 (limiting the number of Justices in townships of 200 voters and under to one Justice, be laid on the table, were concurred in.
The Senate joint resolution [10] protesting against the enlisting and arming of negroes, coming up in order--
Mr. BROWN, of Wells. The proposition was advanced yesterday by those opposing the resolution, that those who differed with the Administration in power were disloyal men. This cry had become stale, and passed now as the idle wind.-- Gentlemen must remember that the October elections, by the construction of loyalty put by them upon the term, proclaimed the great mass of the people of the North traitors' Secretary Seward, seeing the effect upon foreign nations of this cry, notified them that by our theory of government, men might differ with the Administration, and even oppose it and yet be loyal to the Government. Gentlemen acting all their lives with the opposition, opposing always the policy of the Democratic party, rise here, and while sticking close to the views of their old party friends, cry "no party." The proclamation struck at non-combatants. It struck down the rights of loyal men. It was said that it was harmless, If it was so, why, in the alarming state of the country, waste time on such child's play? But it is termed a military necessity--that tyrant's plea, that covers up a multitude of sins. It was contended that the bill would have no bad effect on the soldier. He read a letter received this morning from a soldier at Nashville Tennessee, begging him to use what influence he had to direct the war within a constitutional channel, and stating that wide disaffection existed in the army. He also read an article from the Independent, in which Beecher called upon "God and the negro" to save the Republic. What blasphemy! When it came to that, when this Republic could only be saved by the arm of the negro, he would leave his citizenship as soon as he could. He made a forcible and able argument against the employment of the negro as a soldier, as tending to weaken instead of strengthen, the North.
Mr. MANSFIELD. On one and the same subject there was a great diversity of opinion. If it was true that the proclamation set free three or four millions of negroes, and they were to come amongst us, he would oppose it with all his zeal and energies. He had long been a slaveholder, and knew the race. Their immediate liberation would result in the destruction of the white race and of the black race. He then presented his view of the proclamation, that it did not effect the system of slavery, and was merely a military measure, operative only where our armies went. The operation was good and bad. The bad effect was already felt--it united the people of the seceded States. The good effect was to come. He had opposed it at first; but we had experienced the bad effect and it would be unwise to recall it now before the good effect has been experienced. He contended that the proclamation would liberate but few slaves. He would not approve of the arming of slaves, unless as a measure of necessity. He would make it a last resort. The example had been set by the South in their arming of the savages. We should calculate the effect on our own army, and be careful not to trample upon the feelings of our soldiers. If men were in earnest they would not hesitate about the company they would have in subduing the enemy. He instanced the Sepoys of India, who had been used to subjugate that country, although the English prejudice against them wan quite as strong as that of our people against the negro. Men who dream of nothing but compromises could readily pick flaws. While he preferred that white men should do our fighting, he was opposed to giving an expression here that no other class should be used to fight rebels.
Mr. WOLFE. The question under consideration was the proclamation of the President, issued on the first of January. It called upon the President to withdraw it, and, when so withdrawn, instructed our Senators in Congress to vote men and money to subdue the rebellion. All the measures of the war were fairly before the Senate for discussion Whatever he might say, he did not expect to convince the minority here. His words would fall on the dull ear of party. Nothing short of the thunder bolts from heaven would move these gentlemen. The warning voice of conservatism had been sounded in the ears of these gentlemen before the war commenced and since. He was in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the war for the purposes announced at the commencement of it, or he was for a speedy peace. While the authorities at Washington conducted the war for its legitimate object it was the duty of all citizens to yield it support.-- He contended, however, that the Union could not be restored by the policy the powers at Washington were now pursuing. Believing so, he must oppose it. He opposed it because he loved the Union. Let any gentleman show how the Union could be restored, and he would give his undivided and hearty support to all measures to that end, and not be very particular whether they were strictly legal or not.-- He was satisfied in his own mind that the Administration policy was a disunion pol- page: 137[View Page 137] icy. and he believed he could show it.-- When this war broke out there was a strong union sentiment at the South. He recited facts and incidents. The Crittenden compromise would have strengthened and increased this sentiment. If this war had been prose sated in a proper manner and in a proper spirit it could have been brought to a successful issue in nine months. But from the time this Congress commenced the agitation of the negro question, disunion grew apace in the South, and it grew until they were able to meet and often overwhelm our forces.-- He believed firmly that a united people could never be conquered. History gave no example. History does give examples of an invading army being the nucleus around which the people could rally, but never that a united people were brought under the yoke of an invaded.-- He knew that Poland was held by a foreign power. But is it conquered? It has cost Russia more than all the lands and chattles are worth, and yet the people were not subdued and never would be. He then reviewed the progress of the war and the immense resources used. We were in a worse condition to-day than we were a year ago. If the Union could be restored by any means he would support those means. If knocking the totters from every slave would restore the Government, he would liberate every negro. He had no sympathy with the Rebels. He saw the first inception of this rebellion at Charleston and at Baltimore, and he denounced the base treachery of those men to the true and loyal men of the North. He had no sympathy with them. He was not their guardian or their advocate. They inaugurated this civil war. They were doubtless goaded to it by the intermeddling of the abolitionists of the North, but they deserted their friends in the North--basely deserted them, and he had no sympathy with them. But because these traitors were base, because they betrayed their friends and their country, he did not think he was called upon to aid in the ruin by advocating measures that he was satisfied would only hasten the ruin. He would not cut off his nose to hurt another man. He believed the policy of Mr. Lincoln was doing more to strengthen the rebellion and ruin the country than all the acts of Jeff. Davis and his traitor crew. The traitors would have been powerless had they not been aided by the mad and unwise conduct of the radicals at the North, and their policy was that of the Administration. There was another question, a financial question, that must be touched. It must be met.-- Fine spun theories could not evade them. There was a question of greenbacks.--Gentlemen might talk of the last drop of Wood and the last Collar, but talk would not do. We were heaping up a debt without limit.
Mr. CLAYPOOL asked if the American people could not bear as large a debt as France, and it the debt would be any larger than that of France if the war continued until July 1864?
Mr. WOLFE did not know bow much a people could endure if their hearts were in a cause. This, he feared, was the condition of the southern people, and they would endure all and bear all. They had demonstrated, also, that they were as brave in the battlefield as their kindred blood of the North. The people of the North might endure as much as the surfs of Russia, but with equal endurance and equal valor in the South, a great united people could not be conquered. He did not, he could not, believe that the dominant, policy could ever preserve the country, and believing so, he would vote for the resolution, and be accountable to his constituents and to posterity. The Senator from Henry (Mr. Mellett) said if he-gave that vote he would be aiding the Southern Confederacy. He believed before God, that if the Senator from Henry gave the vote he threatened to give, that he would be giving aid to Jeff. Davis. Let the gentleman account for his vote to his constituents, and let him answer to posterity. He saw hope if the people in both sections could be heard. The like causes were working like effects in both sections. Jeff. Davis and the dominant men South would oppose an armistice, and the speculators and all who were making money out of the war here would oppose it, The war must be closed sometime by a cessation of hostilities. He never would consent to any peace but one on the basis of the restoration of the Union, He would accept that and nothing less. Try this plan of compromise, and if it fails you will have no occasion to seek to raise black soldiers, for a power will spring up in the North that is little dreamed of. He read from the New York Tribune to show the radical programme to be disunion--no union with slaveholders. He would be found fighting disunion under this guise, "The best available peace" in the extract meant let the South go. He alluded to the charge against the Democratic party of a desire to take Indiana out of the Union, and the formation of a Northwestern Confederacy, and denounced it as a base slander, and he believed the cry was raised by the opposition to cover up schemes of oppression meditated by them.
Mr. MURRAY. In the form in which these resolutions are drawn he could not vote for them. If they were in another form he might vote for them. As they stand, they are a demand upon the President to withdraw his proclamation. He did not think it the duty of the Senate to criticise the acts of the Commander-in- page: 138[View Page 138] Chief of the army at this critical time: He admitted, however, the right of the people to differ with the Administration on matters of policy. He would ask what good can grow out of the demand for the repeal of the law for the employment of negroes as soldiers? He believed the measure was a pure and patriotic one--not to elevate the negro but to put down the rebellion. The negroes were to be organized to garrison Southern forts where white men would die from the effects of the climate. This was all the advocates of the bill intended by it. They did not intend to mix white regiments and black regiments. Could any one object to that? He opposed the joint resolution also because it was calculated to add to the excitement already existing in the State. There was a wide spread feeling that a majority in this Legislature intended to take the State out of the Union, and there was an organization or organizations forming all over the State to resist the scheme.
Mr. RAY. Who is responsible for these reports?
Mr. MURRAY. I don't know. I only know that the belief exists, and the loyal people are forming associations to avert it.
Mr. COBB Does the gentleman know of the existence of these associations?
Mr. MURRAY. I do. One exists in my own township.
Mr. COBB Is not that association for freeing the slaves?
Mr. MURRAY. I do not belong to it, and cannot say, but I am told it is to resist all attempts to take the State out of the Union.
Mr. CORBIN. Is that association arming? and if so, who furnishes the arms?
Mr. MURRAY. The farmers are all armed. The excitement is growing, and it has already reached the army.
Mr. COBB. Do not these stories reach the army through lying journals circulated there?
Mr. MURRAY. I suppose so.
Mr. COBB. Then why dont you denounce such journals.
Mr. MURRAY. I do. I never believed, and do not now believe, that any such scheme exists, it is for this reason I deprecate all agitation. It was also believed that a secret organization existed in the Democratic party to resist the draft, and to resist the arrest of deserters, and for other purposes of resistance to the legal authority of the Government. In regard to the proclamation, he was not one of these who denounced all men as traitors him who differed with him. He did not believe they were, and these denunciations mortified him. Men could belong to their own political organizations and be true to the country. He was in favor of the proposition before Congress, because he never wanted to see another draft made in Indiana. He did not want to see citizens of Indiana forced into the army at the point of the bayonet. Elkhart county had only one hundred men drafted, and he never witnessed such a scene of distress as when these men were marched to the county seat. He did not believe another draft could be made here without civil war. Indiana had poured out her blood like water already. He was then in favor of raising negro regiments to garrison the forts, and thus save our own people.
Mr. BROWN, of Wells. Does not the gentleman think then that the salvation of the republic depends upon the rigger?
Mr. MURRAY. No sir. Gov. Andrew has been persistent in his scheme. The negro should fight as well as the white min. But as to the proclamation he did not believe it would free a single slave. He believed it was unfortunate, and it was his opinion that it never should have been made. Yet he believed if it had any effect at all it would be to weaken the rebels. He believed the proclamation was made not to effect the slaves but to operate on foreign nations, to secure their sympathy in our behalf. And now we are about to ask the President to take it back.
Mr. DOUGLASS. Suppose he takes it back, won't he stand just where he did before he issued it?
Mr. MURRAY. He would not. He followed out the border State or rose water policy for a long time until a change was demanded by tue country. The change was made, and the proclamation was the blow direct at the vitals of the rebellion. He was not answerable for the individual opinions of members of the Republican party. He differed with the Abolition fanatics. Indeed he was sorely grieved at many of the acts of the Administration, and if he could recall the vote he gave to Abraham Lincoln, he would give it with all his heart to Stephen A. Douglas.
Mr. COBB read a portion of Mr. Douglas' last speech at Chicago, in which he deprecated any war but a war carried on as civilized and Christian nation conduct a war, and asked if the gentleman endorsed that speech?
Mr. MURRAY did endorse it heartily. If the Senator from Harrison will offer a proposition here devising some means to propose terms of peace to the rebels without withdrawing our armies, without inferring with impeding battles, and without weakening our army or resources, he would vote for it. He asked Messrs. Wolfe and Dunning if they would accept an armistice on the terms proposed by Jeff. Da vis, "that the Southern Confederacy must first be recognised before even an armistice should be granted."
Mr. WOLFE. I would not.
Mr. DUNNING. No good Democrat could accept any such proposition, nor page: 139[View Page 139] consent to anything less than "the Union--now and forever--one and inseparable."
Mr. MURRAY believed that any proposition for peace that would look to nothing but a restoration of the Union would be rejected by the rebel government, and he sometimes wished that propositions could be submitted to that government, for their rejection would unite the North for the Union and increase the Union sentiment at the South. In conclusion he read a pledge that was being publicly circulated in Elkhart county, pledging the signers to an unconditional support of the war and to sustain Governor Morton and prevent at all hazards, any attempt to take from him the executive and military powers conferred upon him by the Constitution. He read this to show that secret societies had produced counter organizations of a public character, and that the people were agitated upon the subject.
Mr. WOLFE. Does not the gentleman believe that there is a little foundation for the formation of these societies as there was for the formation of Know Nothing societies to oppose an invasion by the Pope of Rome?
Mr. MURRAY. I have already said I did not believe there was any foundation for their fears but those fears exist, and he was opposed to all treasures that would have a tendency to increase them. He opposed the resolution as amended.
Mr. DUNNING heartily concurred in what was said by the Senator from Henry yesterday as to laying aside party spurt until the rebellion was subdued. He denounced the rebellion at its commencement as causeless and wicked as he did now. He made speeches and aided in raising troops, but while he in good faith was acting thus he feared the President was departing from the landmarks he had laid down for the prosecution of the war. Even up to the 18th of June Convention he was still in hope that the President would adhere to his original plan of conducting the war for the restoration of ten Government and for that object solely. He opposed the 8th of January Convention, thinking it ill timed, and was not bound by it, He was not for party. He was for his country first, last and all the time. He had not made a speech for the war which he would take back. But a programme had been inaugurated by the present Congress the most infamous that ever disgraced any body of men. He longed for the 4th of March when that set of men would be sent to their homes, there, he trusted, to remain. He detested their infamous programme and acted thenceforward with the Democratic party. He wished to reply to the arguments of the gentleman from Henry and the gentleman from Randolph in regard to the emancipation proclamation, it was to break the back bone of the rebellion, according to the Senator from Randolph, by taking away their labor, while the President advises the slave to remain with his master and work for wages, to be peaceable and gentle. This was beautiful logic to present to an intelligent Senate. The Senator from Delaware objected to criticisms upon military orders even of the President. In reference to that matter he would read from a letter written by Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams after the elections in October and November.-- (It was in reference to the habit of the American people to canvass the acts of the Administration.)
Mr. MARCH, All right, I see nothing in that.
Mr. DUNNING. If the gentleman sees nothing in it is well. Since the elections since the conservative citizens bad spoken, a little more latitude was given to the expression of opinion. Whenever it came to that pass that the people could not canvass any act of the Administration, our liberties as a people were gone forever. He said there was force in the remarks of the Senator from Lawrence (Mr. Cobb) that the President intended to have his proclamation enforced by the bayonet. He did not, however, think it could be made to do much harm. The President had made the strongest argument against it that ever had been made. He read the President's reply to the Chicago delegation, he wished the opposition to hear it. He read, it paragraph by paragraph, and commented on each with great eloquence, he denounced the last paragraph as the foulest sentiment ever uttered--a sentiment that would disgrace a barbarian. He contended if this proclamation could do no good, why do they adhere to it with a death grasp? Why not gratify the Democratic party in the loyal States of the Union and withdraw it? Why would they not give this little indulgence to the sentiment of a loyal people and a loyal party? He believed that the issue of this proclamation turned the elections in favor of the Democratic party. It stirred up the mighty heat of the people, and their sentiment, was poured out at the ballot box. Let me tell you that the people are opposed to it. He knew they were opposed to it.
Mr. REED. Docs the gentleman think the proclamation constitutional?
Mr. DUNNING did not. He found no warrant for taking private property without compensation in the Constitution.
Mr. REED. Does the gentleman endorse the President's letter to Horace Greeley, that he would sacrifice slavery to restore the Union?
Mr. DUNNING. If the rebels would place their slaves between the Constitution and the restoration of the Union, he would let them go to the warmest place he could name. He advocated an armis- page: 140[View Page 140] tice for the purpose of trying whether, with all their rights under the Constitution restored to them, the rebel States would not return to the family and live again in peace. He believed, with Senator Douglas, that war was disunion. One of his plans of settlement shadowed forth in his last speech in the Senate, was nothing but an armistice. The people demanded this. They did not want a dishonorable peace, but they felt convinced that if reason and not passion was suffered to rule, that peace could be had. But gentlemen are denounced as disloyal who make such propositions. Put up two candidates in each county, one for a war of subjugation, and one for an honorable peace, and ninety out of ninety-nine counties would return the peace candidates by overwhelming majorities. He denied flat these who favored an armistice were disloyal men. The Democratic party was composed of as good Union men as could be found anywhere. For himself he had no feelings for his Southern brethren. He had declared at Charleston that he would never, consent that slavery should be extended over a country without the consent of the free white voters thereof, and had been insulted there for declaring such sentiments. The leaders of the rebellion in the Democratic party had led the rebellion against the government, and if they could be tried and hung they should receive no sympathy from him. But there was a large class at the South who had, from various causes, been driven into opposition to the national government, and these should not be punished if peace should be declared. In conclusion he appealed to the minority to yield their prejudices in favor of the proclamation, but whether they did so or not, he hoped and believed the Democratic party would not be driven from supporting the country in every effort to restore the government to its happy condition before the rebellion threw its shadow over this once prosperous land. He was for conservative measures that would increase the Union sentiment in the Southern States.
[Mr. WILLIAMS. (unanimous consent being given) reported from a select committee a bill [111] to apportion the State for Senators and Representatives for the next six years, which was read twice under a suspension of the rules, and ordered to be printed.]
Mr. SHIELDS had been as highly gratified as any person could be as the speeches made on the subject under discussion, but yet the Senate had other duties to perform. He did not think the amendments were strictly germain to the Joint Resolution. They would perhaps be better in a separate Joint Resolution. He moved to lay all the amendments on the table.
Mr. Douglass withdrew his amendment.
The amendment (Mr. Claypool's) as amended (by Mr. Wolfe) was agreed to--yeas 31, nays 11, 2 not voting.
During the call of the roll--
Mr. BEESON said he voted for that part which favored a vigorous prosecution of the war, and against that part which demanded the withdrawal of the proclamation, and asked that his vote be so recorded.
The PRESIDENT said this could not be done.
Messrs. BROWNE of Randolph, and Mr. WHITE said they were for one part of the amendment and against another, but would vote aye.
Mr. MARCH offered an amendment to strike out all after the enacting clause, and to insert the following:
- That notwithstanding there may be differences of opinion in regard to the policy of some of the war measures of the National Administration, yet the State of Indiana, without distinction of party, still unwavering in her devotion and attachment to the National Government, again reiterates her pledges of fidelity to the common cause, and will with all her energies, with all her power, and all her means, press steadily forward in the war to pat down the rebellion, restore the Union and the Constitution, with the distinct understanding that the same is not prosecuted for any sectional, political or anti-slavery purpose.
- That our Senators be instructed and our Representatives be requested to vote for all laws having the effect to lighten the labor, protect the health, and save the lives of white soldiers by employing acclimated persons of African descent, wherever their services can be made useful and safe, having proper regard to their capacity, previous relation to the whites, the antipathies of race, condition and color in framing such laws.
Mr. COBB moved to lay the amendment on the table.
An ineffectual motion was made to adjourn--yeas 20, nays 24.
The motion to lay on the table was agreed to--yeas 24, nays 20--as follows:
YEAS--Messrs. Bradley, Brown, of Wells; Cobb, Corbin, Davis, of Cass, Douglass, Dunning, Ferguson, Finch, Fuller, Gifford, Hartley, Hoagland, Hord, Jenkins, Johnston, Landers, McClurg, Moore, Ray, Shields, William, Wilson and Wolfe--24.
NAYS--Messrs. Bearss, Beeson, Berry, Blair, Browne, of Randolph, Claypool, Dickinson, Downey, Graves, Grubb, Mansfield, March, Mellett, Murray, Mew, Pleak, Heed, Teegarden, White and Wright--20.


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MPI (Master Player Index) Guide
To understand the MPI you have to first understand the MBI (Master Ban Index) and what can be seen on a ban link.
Take this one for example:
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You can see the IP, location, alias and time of the ban which is very relevant when trying to determine if someone has hacked on another account. The reason I am using banned GUIDs is so innocent players are protected throughout this post.
You can see his full IP (note this for later use).
Click the MPI link next to the GUID.
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Although the IP on the MPI is only partial view you know the IP which was used at time of the ban from the MBI information. The MPI data however shows you his first and last seen IP's on that particular GUID so we know he was using the same IP from the 28th-30th June.
You will immediately notice a highlighted BFP4F GUID, which has the same IP next to it as the initial ban. Which would raise suspicion. Click on the Ban information and you see this:
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The same IP triggered the ban but back in march before the IP was used on the BF3 GUID.
you could then run the ban IP on the MPI and you would get this result:
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This shows you on the left hand side when that IP was last used on that particular GUID.
You should by now have seen that there no overlap between the two banned GUIDs apart from the same IP having been used 3 months apart from each other (with russian IP's you can suspect a new IP has been assigned in that time). You can also see that the same IP has been used on BF3 and a BF2 GUID on the next day, very likely that the BF2 GUID is therefore the player banned for BF3.
Leaked keys will appear looking something like this:
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The ban link shows the perpertrator of the ban is based in the UK, however you can also see some canadian IP's on the GUID. If you click the MPI link on this GUID you can also see this GUID which is banned:
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However the ban was triggered in Canada, meaning the two are not the same player.
If you wanted to see more information about the Canadian banned GUID you click on the MPI link which would return this result.
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Two linked GUIDs and we've established the other banned one is only linked due to a leaked key, however http://www.pbbans.com/mpi/mpi-guid-search-7b514361-33.html&showLG=yes&showAT=yes&safeview=yes
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is clearly his, which then reveals two more GUIDs (clean). One of them however being again a leaked GUID and so on...
Dynamic IP's
Some countries will assign a new IP almost every time a PC/Router is switched on. This makes MPI interpretation difficult and the emphasis here then is on times and dates. Just because someone has been assigned the same IP at one stage as a hacker, doesn't mean he/she is indeed the same person. Example: Person X receives IP in June 2009, cheats on it and gets caught and their GUID banned, person Z then gets assigned the same IP in April 2011. They will then be forever linked by the MPI which is when you run the IP MPI check to ascertain when the IP was last used on said GUIDs.
For those of you who wish to use IP tracing to further investigate location of users, you may wish to use a locater such as this:
Please be aware that these do not necessarily resolve to the right location.
I would not recommend searching MPI based on alias, BF2 was full of name hacks and several other games (COD series) are not name unique, therefore links to someone based purely on alias are tenuous to say the least.
PBGUID vs EAGUID;
In EA games ensure that you do not use the EA GUID to search our MPI with. This is not the correct one and will not return any results. It is the PB GUID which you will need to copy from Procon (BF3/BC2etc) in order to run a check on a player active in your server.
Alternatively, do not forget the PBBans HUBLIVE feature which with the click of a few links can lead you to current information of players on your servers and take you to MPI links from there. To find it, go to http://account.pbbans.com/server.php and select the HL button next to the IP of the server you wish to view. (right hand side).
In the main though the most important things to remember are, search by GUID wherever possible in the first instance, then once you establish trigger IP's you can also use those. You may have to go several different routes to get to your destination but if you are stuck feel free to ask one of us for directions
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There's all this noise about Lincoln renaming itself as The Lincoln Motor Company. There's noise about Lincoln not having the innate connection to luxury that Cadillac has always enjoyed. Or that Lincolns have always been an old conservative man's car. Well, they already had it and lost it in one of my favorite cars when I see them on the road, the Lincoln LS. I have a 2001 BMW 530i and the Lincoln LS reminds me of a true European sedan. I don't know about performance or build-quality (and that's the rub) but based on the look it had on the road, it was a very handsome car — the kind of sedan I might have considered instead of my prized e39 body-type 5-series.
I haven't really looked at the 2013 LINCOLN MKZ yet — as in noticed them at all on the road, which is important to me (do I love to look at it? I still love looking at my decade-old Bimmer). So, Lincoln, you had it right. Hey Ford (hey Scott Monty), you had it right.
What you need to do with the new Lincolns is make a car that appeals to the gang at Top Gear UK. And please don't even try to ape the Cadillac CTS-V. Yes, it's an impressive beast and worthy of admiration as it is arguably a worthy competitor to the M3, the RS4, and the CLK 63 AMG Black Series (but not really at all).
If you guys at Ford Motor Company and your subsidiary, The Lincoln Motor Company, can create another LS — in other words, something that competes well with the BMW 5-Series, the Audi A6, the E-Class Mercedes, and the (I was going to add Volvo and Lexus and Infinity here but I really don't know these cars at all — they just don't register to me and I am sorry for that).
And don't waste your resources trying to match the Mercedes-Benz S-Class or the BMW 7-Series to say nothing of wasting your time matching the Audi A8 or its gorgeous and lust-worthy doppelgänger, the VW Phaeton. So, anyway, good luck, to you guys.
If you can create something at attractive and well-designed as the Lincoln LS with good handling and a well-appointed cabin, you might very well woo me back to Made in America (or Canada, or whatever — I guess Made in North America).
Good luck and Godspeed, Detroit.


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I think an icy-cold "you are upsetting my child. Leave us alone" might do the trick...really it's the icy-cold tone you need in your arsenal.
Where do you live? I can't even begin to imagine adults tormenting a child like that. What's wrong with those people?
I'm astounded by how cruel people can be.


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By Ron VandenBoom
Theres more to being a father than just receiving a fishing pole on Fathers Day.
Fatherhood is a 24-hour-a-day occupation that for one local father has meant years of sacrifice, hard work, and an unbridled desire to make a difference.
Anthony English, Detachment Readiness NCO with the Chinook National Guard, is the father of four natural children, one permanent foster child, and over a period of 13 years, more than 90 temporary foster children.
If you can help one, youve made a difference, English said. You help somebody out because they need it.
Being a father was not a priority for English when he was stomping through the rice paddy of Vietnam during the late 1960s, but life was to change when in 1971 he and his wife Dixie had their first child a daughter they named Angie.
After three years in Vietnam and after being in war and seeing so much destruction, he said, it was kind of a healing process being a father.
The positive affirmation of life that came with being a father led to what English called the beginning of my real adult life.
Now youve got something of your own youre a root, he said. Thats what parenthood is for me I used to be a branch off of my fathers tree, but now Im a root and my children are branches of me.
English continued to add branches to his tree with the birth of his son Frank in 1975, Joseph in 1979, and Emilia in 1982. A fifth child, Brian, would also join the family permanently when in 1982 he came to Englishs by way of the Foster Parent Program and later changed his name legally to English. While never legally adopted, he lived with the family throughout his childhood.
Many families would perhaps think four children are branches enough, but for English it proved to be just the beginning.
It was in the early 1980s when he was struck by the condition of a child living in a home nearby.
She was neglected, English said. Her parents were always drinking, smoking pot or whatever.
The situation was enough to tug at the collective heartstrings of the English family and would radically change their lives.
It was after that we decided to give it (foster care) a try, English said. I guess our attitude was, if we could help just one, we could make a difference.
After going through the necessary training, they accepted their first foster child into the family. Over the next 13 years, more than 90 children, mostly girls, would be cared for in the English home.
A lot of people dont want to take in girls they think theyre more trouble than the boys, English said.
But to English and his family, it really didnt matter. They were licensed for children 0-18 years of age and boy or girl, it really didnt matter. Any kid who came through his door was welcome and very much like his own. All they needed to do was obey the rules and never run away.
They may not be there for very long, depending on the circumstances, but while theyre here, theyre mine, English said.
For English it was rules that made the difference between just providing a house and being a home.
The first thing you need is to give those kids rules, he said. Its something many of them have never had and they need to know there are rules.
With Englishs military background, and the military bearing that comes with it, there was little doubt about his attitude toward rules.
The number one rule was you never run away and if you do, you cant come back.
It was a hard and fast rule that, according to English, was never broken or even tried.
I was the disciplinarian, he explained, My wife used to have to tell the kids two or three times to get out of bed in the morning they just wont get up for me, shed say. I never had that problem. Id yell get up and theyd get up.
It was not so much that English had rules, all families have rules, but it was the fact that he enforced the rules that made the difference.
Another, and one of the harshest rules he enforced, concerned being late for curfew.
For every minute youre late, its one hour you have to be home early next weekend, he said.
English also required that every child eat supper at the family dinner table.
Even if you didnt want to eat, you had to be there, he said, and if you had a friend over at the time, they had to sit there with you.
He describes this time as the one part of the day when the family could come together to discuss the days events or problems the children might be having. It was a time and a means whereby the children had input.
They also needed to be excused before they could leave the table, he said.
Sometimes English said the children accused him of being grumpy.
I wouldnt be grumpy if I didnt care, he said would be his response.
Thats the way my dad was with me, he said. When I did something wrong and my dad corrected me, he would tell me how I ought to be thanking him for caring enough to teach me something important, something I would need to be a stand-up, decent, responsible adult.
The evening meal was just a prelude to the weekly Thursday night family meeting.
This was again a special time when everyone gathered to discuss their gripes or perhaps extend compliments to someone who had done something nice during the week.
We had a fish bowl with compliments and complaints in it, English said.
The children would place notes in the fish bowl thanking someone for a good deed or perhaps complaining about some rule. The bowl would then be emptied during the Thursday night meeting and the notes read.
It was not all discipline in the English household; reward, too, played a part.
I used to give $50 to students who got all Bs on their report card and I gave $100 to the students who got all As, English said.
For many of the children, their time in the English home was the closest they would ever get to a normal childhood. Over time, they would even come to call English dad.
Some of them still do, he said.
But not all of the children who stayed in the English home were success stories and all too many of them were only there for a short time as they were constantly being returned to their biological parents.
Many would come and go several times, English said.
Theres good and theres bad because you always know the whole idea behind Foster Care is to get the child back to their family, he said. But that doesnt stop you from getting attached. Thats the part that hurts the letting go thats the tough part.
English has been forced to say goodbye permanently to a few of the children that shared his love and his concern for their welfare.
One of his children was recently lost in a drive-by shooting and another was burned to death in a fire several years back. Another was murdered south of Chinook about 15 years ago.
English gave up being a foster parent about five years ago, he said. For those children who have grown up and are still around, there are still some who call English dad. Several of the girls, English said, have asked him to give them away when they got married and others have dropped by the house just to bake cookies or say hi.
The toughest thing we had to hear during those years was you must be angels, English said. We werent angels. We just helped somebody out because they need it.
Today, as English looks back at the time, the kids, the hurt, the failures and the successes, he is in some ways typical of all fathers everywhere who want the best for their children. He just had a bigger family.
In his current capacity with the Montana National Guard in Chinook, he is still a father figure with many would-be sons or daughters in his outfit. They still come seeking his advice or looking to him for help.
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