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disusedgenius wrote:Most of the songs were actually made by an in-house Sega studio, so there's really no problem. At worst, there's a couple of licensed songs that we may lose, which would still be a shame, but the majority of them are fine.
SolidSCB wrote:That was because of licensing though, wasn't it? JSR was a commissioned soundtrack iirc.
My only fear is they'll repeat the Crazy Taxi debacle and not have the original soundtrack, which will be an absolute crime.
No idea about HD as of yet.
Also: \0/
I really hope this shows Sega that there's still a market for games like this, even though they may not work as big budget console releases. We need Shenmue and Skies of Arcadia next.
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Heh, I don't think that Shenmue can be anything other than a big budget title unfortunately. I'd love them to get back into this arcadey-type stuff like this.
More details: Widescreen, updated camera and presently 50% original soundtrack licensed with the remainder being worked on but there are issues with artists or studios including some no longer existing.
9/10 on the front page.
I have 800 points (well, 890, to be precise) ready to go.
Ohhh nice review. Cannot wait for this one
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When's it out. Never played it before
caligari wrote:Good review. Looking at the other reviews that are presently up that are negative I have no idea what they're on but they need to stop.
9/10 on the front page.
I have 800 points (well, 890, to be precise) ready to go.
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With some hope, if this one sells well enough, Sega will maybe try to bring us Jet Set Radio Future!
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Hmmmmm XBLA or PSN... I'm tempted by PSN due to the cross over with the Vita version.
What cross-over?
I tried the tutorial at lunch. It toldme to freeskate without crashing but nothing happened after that. I only played for 10 mins mind. (controls are great now though)
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Anyone else getting frequent audio freezes, that also cause brief framerate pauses at the same time?
Makes some of the precise jumping very difficult!
So far from what I've read online, the Giant Bomb Quick Look was the only one to mention it.
Was EG's copy (Xbox 360, that's the version that was reviewed and that I'm playing), free of these glitches, or are we looking at an Oblivion/Fallout/Skyrim situation, where they're glossed over for some reason?
Also, no where seems to mention that the font when you pick up a Graffiti Soul is all squashed, as if it hasn't been stretched out for widescreen displays, rather compressed up for no reason.
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Change the thread title, it's on steam now.
I just saw the trailer for this on Steam, and I happened to see the WTF is THPS HD ("WTF have they done", as much! ) and...Get this. The trailer makes the game look great, and I can't wait to play. It looks so right!
�6 is the asking price.
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Quick Look for Jet Set Radio HD! Stick around till the end for the game's attract sequence (now, that's some playing! )
I thought the commentary on this was very good and their getting an ex-GS person on the mic, who is familiar with the subject, and the presenters doing a little research added to it.
Is anyone else playing this on PS3 experiencing weird audio problems?
Basically, the audio (not all, but most) seems to be delayed. For example, when I jump on a rail and grind, the sound for grinding only comes after half a second, and then when I jump off the rail, the grinding audio stays for half a second. There are other things as well, such as the music for the 'You did it!' screen coming in a bit late.
It's nothing game-breaking, but really annoying, and I hope somebody at Sega knows about it so it gets fixed!
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Just got this on Steam and its great. I was worried that my rose-tinted glasses would be in full effect, but it's still brilliant fun and still looks utterly charming to boot!
Online Highscore table too! Way to make an already addictive game even more so!
JoeGBallad wrote:Yep, I'm playing it on the 360 and I was already getting audio glitches in the intro.
Is anyone else playing this on PS3 experiencing weird audio problems?
Basically, the audio (not all, but most) seems to be delayed. For example, when I jump on a rail and grind, the sound for grinding only comes after half a second, and then when I jump off the rail, the grinding audio stays for half a second. There are other things as well, such as the music for the 'You did it!' screen coming in a bit late.
It's nothing game-breaking, but really annoying, and I hope somebody at Sega knows about it so it gets fixed!
I was getting audio and game glitches (very brief pauses every few seconds) after about half an hour of play.
Hopefully it'll be fixed before the weekend.
I don't think Sega have ever patched an 'arcade' game have they? I certainly can't remember it.
I've not experienced the glitches you have mentioned though and have put a couple of hours in to it. Hmm.
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Well they patched Virtua Fighter Final Showdown which is on Arcade so they might.
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Did the Bis track make the game, as I cannot see it in the music player, or am i thinking of JSRF ?
The reason I love these HD remakes is, they look like how you thought they would look through rose tinted glasses.
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Yep, it's like the Black Mesa mod for HL2 , it just looks how I remember HL looking at this stage.
@alasdairm The Bis song was in JSRF It's a proper classic though!
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It looks the business, but what happened to Professor K's voice? was it always that blown out, it hurts my speakers
everything else sounds fine
The parts with Professor K do sound distorted. I think that was mentioned in the review. Sounds like the half life ps2 conversion
Oh. Ohhhh.
I'm just not feeling this.
I remember having JSRF and thinking it was ok, but I tried the demo of this and found it left me cold.
Next gen version is looking great.
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Despite the fact that NBA Commissioner Adam "Big Daddy" Silver has banned Donald Sterling for life and claims that he has more than enough support from the league's other owners to force a sale, the Los Angeles Clippers owner has said that he is not selling his team. But being booted by the league that he has been a (controversial) part of since 1981 was apparently just the first offense in a much wider attack on Sterling for his racist comments to his mistress, V. Stiviano. As it turns out, Sterling has also received a lifetime ban from the Bunny Ranch brothel in Nevada, "out of respect to" the NBA players that go there to party.
Bunny Ranch owner Dennis Hof told the Huffington Post that there's simply no place at his establishment for a guy like Sterling, as he has also previously banned the stars of Duck Dynasty for being "the biggest homophobic assholes" and making a living off of killing animals. Whether or not these people actually visit the Bunny Ranch is another story, but this is all about the overall meaning of the gesture.
"I can tell you this: Johnny Buss, one of the owners of the Los Angeles Lakers, and I have had a dual birthday party at the Bunny Ranch for the last 18 years, so a lot of NBA people have been here," he said.
Hof's stand against Sterling isn't only in support of the basketball players who've had to deal with the billionaire's alleged racism over the years.
"At any given time, 20 to 23 percent of the prostitutes here are African-American," Hof said. "And they're smoking hot. Some of them were crying this morning so we're doing this for them as well. We don't need racists or bigots at the Bunny Ranch." (Via the Huffington Post)
On the other hand, Hof says that Stiviano is welcome at the Bunny Ranch any time, because, in his words, "She needs to meet some women who can satisfy her more than any man could." You know, there are some people that claim marketing is a lost art, but those people have clearly never met Dennis Hof.


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Wang, X.Q. and Clark, S.J. and Abram, R.A. (2004) 'Ab initio calculations of the structural and electronic properties of HgmTen clusters.', Physical review B., 70 (23). p. 235328.
The structural and electronic properties of HgmTen (mnot equaln=13, 16, 19, and 28) clusters are calculated using density functional formalism and the pseudopotential method within the generalized gradient approximation. The initial structures of all the clusters are chosen to be fragments of bulk phase HgTe with T-d symmetry. It is found that the relaxed structures of Hg13Te16 and Hg16Te19 retain their initial symmetry, whereas those of Hg16Te13, Hg19Te16, Hg19Te28(=Hg16Te19+12Te), and Hg28Te19(=Hg16Te19+12Hg), due to the Jahn-Teller distortions except for the last one, change to lower symmetries. However, it is apparent that the 12 additional Te atoms in the Hg19Te28 cluster act to stabilize the Hg19Te16 core, while the 12 additional Hg atoms in the Hg28Te19 cluster do not do so. It is also found that all the clusters studied here are initially semimetals with zero or very small highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) - lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) gaps. However, after structural relaxation, Hg16Te13, Hg19Te16, Hg19Te28, and Hg28Te19 are semiconductors, while the other two clusters with unchanged symmetry are still semimetallic in nature. Therefore, as well as the size quantization, the symmetry of a cluster would seem to be another significant factor to determine its HOMO-LUMO gaps.
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The skate park is located in Discovery Park at 3701 Johnson St. (W. 38th and Kipling) in Wheat Ridge. Hours are 8 a.m. to sundown. The new state-of-the-art skate park is built on a hill and includes a street course and concrete bowl area with steel and pool coping. The 14,000 square foot skate park was designed and built by Team Pain.
The skate park rules and regulations are as follows:
The skate park rules and regulations are as follows:
- USE OF THIS FACILITY IS AT YOUR OWN RISK - know your abilities! Be under control at all times. Share the park with others and avoid conflict.
- Use of safety equipment such as helmets, gloves, knee and elbow pads, wrist supports and proper shoes is recommended.
- All users are responsible for providing their own skateboard, skates and equipment and for ensuring that they are maintained in good working order.
- Use caution. Do not use the park in adverse weather conditions. Snow and ice will not be removed by the City.
- Hours of permitted use are from 8 a.m. to sundown. It shall be unlawful for any person to enter or remain on the premises outside the hours posted.
- The City of Wheat Ridge Parks and Recreation Department reserves the right to revoke use of the facility privileges for individuals who are rowdy or do not obey the rules.
- Do not proceed down a ramp until clear of other skaters.
- Skating is allowed only in authorized areas.
- Spectators should watch from outside the skating area.
- Pets must be kept outside the skate park, on a leash and attended.
Wheat Ridge Parks and Recreation offers skate camps by SkateStartTM. Registration information can be found in the current Activity Guide at Recreation Activities Guides.
Skate Park at Discovery Park
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Release Notes: This release added W400 GSM support for Asterisk/Dahdi and FreeSWITCH/FreeTDM. Support was provided for the B610 FXS, B610 Single FXS board, B500 4 port BRI board, Dahdi 2.6, and Linux 3.2.6. Numerous bugs were fixed.
Release Notes: This release adds an MTP1 msu/lssu filter option, LINEAR mapping of A108 ports for use with T3Mux, HW Echo Cancellation Clock failover, and Global Poll IRQ mode for efficient high density HDLC TX/RX. It has been updated to Linux 2.6.39 and 3.0.1. There are numerous bugfixes.
Release Notes: Tone Event API to include tone types DTMF, FAX_1100, FAX_2100, and FAX_2100_WSPR. Updated to Linux 2.6.36. A serial clock recovery feature, a new echo canceler image, and SW HDLC. Support to run on Xen virtual machines. New firmware for A108&A104 V43. Support for B800, B700, B601, B600, USB-FXO cards, TDM API Analog rx gain feature, front end Reset Detection, and Free Run Timer interrupt. Autodetection of USB support so that the driver will compile correctly on a kernel without USB support. The wait object has been redesigned for Linux/Windows integration. Hardware support has been added. Bugfixes.
Release Notes: This release adds support for B600 Analog Card, task stop function on shutdown, X21 support, an option to run Zaptel & TDM API on the same span, and the XMTP2 API for old PMC T1/E1 cards. It fixes the TTY driver for Linux kernel 2.6.26 and greater, tristate mode using wanpipemon, yellow alarm handler on T1/E1, E3 support for A301 cards, Serial AFT card events, and the Channel Bank ring problem on AFT T1/E1 cards. It updates AFT Core to fix XMTP2 startup with 16E1 links.
Release Notes: The TDM API has been updated to fix FreeSwitch analog support. Support has been added for analog TDM API TAPPING mode and Zaptel/DAHDI operation mode. An MTP2 option has been added to LibSS7. The TDM API has been updated for A200 to fix issues with FreeSwitch OpenZAP with TDM API for Analog. There is a minor bugfix in the XMTP2 API. The T1/E1 Loopback commands have been updated for the wanpipemon utility. Linux 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 support is fixed. The AFT driver has been updated to implement a new loopback command. Asterisk DAHDI support has been added. A possible race condition has been fixed in the A200/A400 Analog driver.
Release Notes: This release adds bri and zaptel installation modes. It streamlines the Setup installation script. It has improved faxing over SMG Gateway and Zaptel Analog. It adds overlap dialing support. It adds support for BRI with 16-channel Echo Canceler. It fixes the BRI chip security handler. It is updated for new PLX and Tundra PCIe Bridges chips. It updates hwprobe verbose for PMC Shark, and is updated for the 2.6.25 kernel. 64-bit compilation for Octasic EC Image has been fixed. wancfg_smg has been updated to configure the XMTP2 API. MTP2 API support has been added.
Release Notes: The Excessive Error check that disabled the port has been removed. Support for new PLX2 and TUNDRA PCIe chips has been added.
Release Notes: hwprobe was updated to add the A056 card. wireshark tracing was added for wanpipemon PRI/BRI. Packet handling in bh was optimized for the LIP Layer. The code was updated for 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 kernels. Maxim T1 and E1 Rx Level now default to 36DB and 42DB respectively. Optional PCI parity check was added to wanrouter.
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With the Indian Women's Football Team rising up the ranks and achieving a rank of 50 among the 175 nations enlisted by FIFA ,in its latest rankings, Thehardtackle takes a look on the careers of two of the most gifted players of the Women's Team Oinam Bembem Devi and Lako Phuti Bhutia. The duo played for Maldives Club New Radiant SC helping them win the tournament.
Performance With New Radiant SC
On 9th June 2014 Maldivian Football club New Radiant SC , announced the signing of Oinam Bembem Devi and another Indian youngster Lako Phuti .Bembem Devi made her debut as a late 1st half substitute , in their match against Maldives police service on 11th June and her speed and skill were a constant threat to the opposition as Bembem provided two assists in her teams 4-0 win. In the match against defending champions Sun hotels and resorts, Bembem scored in both halves to help New Radiant SC to a comfortable 4-0 win securing them a spot in the semi finals against Sun Hotels and Resorts.In the Semi Finals they defeated Sun hotels and resorts 5-1 and entered the final. The Final match was held on 21st June 2014 between New Radiant SC and Maldives National Defence Force . Bembem Devi scored in 9th and 26th minute of the match, to help New Radiant SC achieve a historic 5-1 win over MNDF to win the league.
Bembem Devi ended up as the top scorer of the tournament with 6 goals in just 3 matches. She also provided 4 assists and she was awarded the Player of The Tournament for her excellent performances. In her short stint with the club Bembem Devi emerged as one of the key players while for the 18 year old Lako Phuti it was a learning experience which will help in times to come.
Bembem Devi
A name synonymous to the Indian's women' s football team is Oinam Bembem Devi. Known for her excellent ball control, footwork and dribbling , the midfielder was born in Imphal in Manipur on 1st March 1980. Oinam Bembem Devi started her journey as a footballer back in 1991 when she was selected to represent the Manipur u-13 team in the sub-junior football tournament. Her performances in the tournament did not go unnoticed , as she joined Yawa Singjamei Leishangthem Lekai club and 2 years later she moved on to join Sun club mongshangei in 1993 . The youngsters' performance prompted the 15 year old's selection in the national team squad,for the AFC cup.
The turning point in her career came at the 1996 Asian Games , where the Indian national team were drawn in a group alongside Japan and neighbors Nepal . They lost to Japan1-0 and won against Nepal 1-0 to progress from the group with Japan.In round 2 they would be drawn in a tough group alongside the national teams of Uzbekistan , Turkmenistan and North Korea. They lost all their matches but by then Oinam Bemben Devi had announced her arrival at the national stage . Before the 1997 AFC Cup in China , the Indian eve's team were sent to Germany for a month long camp , where the national team players were trained by German coaches and played against German oppositions .The camp proved vital as the Indian team won 3-0 against Hong-Kong , Japan the top ranked team in women' s football, defeated India 1-0 and in their final group game encounter India thrashed guam 10-0.
She was given the armband of the Indian contingent in the AFC qualifying competition , held in Thailand in 2003. She was the captain of the Indian team that emerged winners at the 11th South Asian Games held in Bangladesh, in 2010 and the 2nd SAFF Women's Football Championship held in Sri-Lanka in the year 2012.
At the national level , Bembem Devi is a regular member of the Manipur state football team for woman since the year 1993. She has been appointed the captain of her state team since the 32nd National Games held in Hyderabad , where she led her state to victory . She was the first ever recipient of the Women's Footballer of the Year in 2001,which was awarded by the All India Football Federation(AIFF) , the All Manipur Football Association awarded her the Best Women Footballer Of The Year Of Manipur in the same year. In 2013 , after a gap of 12 years the 2nd Women's footballer of the year of India was awarded , which was again awarded to
Lako Phuti Bhutia
Born in Sikkim On 20th October 1994 , to Mikchen Bhutia and late Pem Lhamu bhutia while Bemben Devi was just starting to make her name in the Women's Football Team , which astrologer could have predicted they would be sharing the dressing room for not only the national team, but also their club 20 years down the line. Lako Phuti Bhutia who hails from Sribadam , a remote place in West Sikkim is a product of the Mangalbari Women's Football Academy. The defender horned her skills under coach Palden Bhutia.
In the year 2012 she was called up to the Under-19 National Team for the Under-19 AFC Qualifiers in Malayasia. She became the 4th Girl from the state to represent the National Team after Pushpa Chetri,Anuradha Chetri and Nima Lhamu Bhutia . She attended a one-month coaching camp at Gandhinagar , Gujarat with the u-19 squad before leaving for Malaysia.
She alongwith her sister Nima Lhamu Bhutia was selected for the Senior Women's National Football Coaching Camp , which was held from 1st April 2013.This Camp was held for the selection of the Senior National Team for the Asian Cup Qualifying Round . Her sister could not attend the camp due to personal reasons. Lako has represented the National Team 8 times and has 1 goal to her credit.
State of Women Football In India
The only competition in Women's Football in India is India Women's Football Championship's, which is contested by 20 teams across the country. It is a league cum knock-out tournament.
Players from several states have dominated the national women team. For example the 80's and 90's were dominated by Bengal , where the National team was filled with players from Bengal . Then came the dominance of Manipur , with a proper structure of u-13 and u-14 teams and a proper league , with 4 teams participating in the senior division ,the Manipuri players were properly trained and formed the core of the national team. Recently there has been an emergence of players from Orissa. Women's football in Orissa has improved a lot, nowadays players are staying in hostels and playing all year round which helps in their development and to make them a better player. This has been evident by the recent success they have enjoyed in the women's football championships .
Even without a proper Nationalised League, like the I-league for their male counterparts and with problems like players not being employed in their own state and having to migrate to other states for their employment (which maximum families are against ), the Indian women team has done a commendable job. The Indian National Women's Team had its ultimate low in June 2009 ,when FIFA delisted the Women's Team from its rankings for failing to play a friendly in 18 months . The AIFF has put in considerable amount of hard-work and effort to put the women's team back on track achieving an rank of 50 among 175 nations in the latest FIFA rankings released on 21st of June 2014.
One can only dream of what this team is capable of ,if they are provided proper facilities and a proper platform like a Structured league system is introduced ,which will benefit the team as not only high profile coaches will be training them ,but they will be able to play regularly which has been a major issue in Indian Women's Football. Hopefully that day is not far away when these problems are dealt with.
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Induce Osteoblast lineage from C2C12 myoblast cells - (Jun/10/2010 )
Dear all
I am starting a new project with osteoblast cells. Would anyone give me a protocol to induce osteoblast from C2C12 myoblast cells. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Best regards
Tam Phuong
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The ATCC gives this paper as a reference to induce osteogenesis: Bone morphogenetic protein-2 converts the differentiation pathway of C2C12 myoblasts into the osteoblast lineage.
Have you read this paper?
I'm sure there are lots of publications out there where people do exactly that. So pull up those and have a look at the methods section.


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Alvis Curridge is an ex-employee of the Fort Worth Sheriff's Department. When he isn't found at Peechie Keen's Bar & Kanteen, drinking and swapping stories with buddies, he is busy trying to keep things in line around Cowtown - even if that means occasionally tangling with his former boss.
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Forth Worth, TX detective Alvis "Dutch" Curridge is back, and he's brought Slant Face Sanders and the gang along for the ride of their lives. When the bartender at Dutch's favorite hangout is murdered, it's up to Dutch to make things right. And this time, he'll have to do it without Ruthie Nell Parker.
Spirit Trap not only reunites the Fort Worth detective with his friends, Slant Face and James Alto; it also brings back favorites like Ruthie Nell Parker and Verbal and Noble Whitaker. There's a dead family in a small country house, a blind man working in a gun store, a vindictive dancehall owner, and a wild animal waiting at the edge of the woods. All have one thing in common, and it isn't their love for the Texas two-step.
Dutch Curridge leaves his beloved Fort Worth to find some answers in Old Mother Curridge, the greatest Dutch Curridge tale of them all. And yes, he gets naked in both a physical and metaphorical sense. It's a story about questions that lead to more questions. A story about stories, and each one comes with a price.


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The Columbus Dispatch: "Obama has failed. That is why Romney is the preferred choice for president. Romney's adult life has been spent turning around troubled private and public institutions. These turnarounds include scores of companies acquired and restructured by Bain Capital. ... Not all were successes, but that is because to a significant degree, many of the companies Bain took on were high-risk."
Orlando Sentinel: "(The) economy is still sputtering nearly four years after Obama took office, the federal government is more than $5 trillion deeper in debt. ... We have little confidence that Obama would be more successful managing the economy and the budget in the next four years. For that reason, though we endorsed him in 2008, we are recommending Romney. … Romney is not our ideal candidate for president. We've been turned off by his appeals to social conservatives and immigration extremists. ... But the core of Romney's campaign platform, his five-point plan, at least shows he understands that reviving the economy and repairing the government's balance sheet are imperative."
Tampa Bay Times: "Four years ago, Obama offered an inspiring message of hope and change to an uneasy nation bogged down in two wars and facing economic collapse. The rosy idealism quickly gave way to the harsh realities of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The recovery has proved more difficult than anyone imagined. But conditions would be far worse without the president's steady leadership. This is not the time to reverse course and return to the failed policies of the past. Without hesitation, the Tampa Bay Times recommends Obama for re-election."


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Field Hockey Drops Heartbreaker to #13 Gettysburg
WASHINGTON- The Catholic University of America field hockey team suffered a 2-1 setback to #13 ranked Gettysburg College Tuesday evening in overtime. With the loss, CUA drops to 3-1 on the year.
The Cardinals came out of the gates bursting with offensive fire, out-shooting their opponent 6-3 in the first twenty minutes of play. CUA scored their first and only goal of the match off a feed from Tracey Scanlon (North Wales, Pa./Gwynedd Mercy) to Meredith Chandler (Tiburon, Calif./St. Ignatius) midway through the half.
CUA then turned up their defensive pressure, holding the nationally-ranked Bullets scoreless until the 54th minute. Gettysburg then converted off a pass from Sarah Cole to Lexie Hearne, sending the teams into the overtime period locked at 1-1.
Catholic University's Scanlon fired a shot off in the first 15 seconds of the overtime stanza, but her shot was deflected by goalie Christina Anderson. It took GC just four and a half minutes to break the tie, as the Bullets ran away with the 2-1 victory.
Marian Cassilly (Gambrills, Md./Archbishop Spalding) finished the night with five saves in goal. Fellow defender Brynn Becker (Havertown, Pa./Haverford) also added a defensive save for the Cardinals.
The squad will return to Cardinal Stadium on Saturday, September 19th to host non-conference foe Washington & Lee. Game time is set for 2 p.m.


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Kayak and Sidestep merge, plan for IPO
Travel search engines Kayak and Sidestep will merge to form a new company, according to reports. As part of the deal, Kayak raised another $196 million from current investors Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Accel Partners as well as from Sidestep investors Norwest Venture Partners and Trident Capital and new investors Oak Investment Partners and Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. The merger will create the fifth largest online travel destination. That sad boast might make you wonder, how'd they get so many VCs on board?
The same way flatlining startups always do: the promise of an imminent IPO. Or at least that's what Trident Capital's Woody Marshall told VentureBeat.


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Photos, Articles, & Research on the European Theater in World War II
This is one of a series of G.I. Stories of the Ground, Air and Service Forces in the European Theater of Operations, issued by the Stars and Stripes, a publication of the Information and Education Division, ETOUSA... Major General Hugh J. Gaffey, commanding the 4th Armored Division, lent his cooperation to the preparation of the pamphlet, and basic material was supplied to the editors by his staff.
THE STORY OF THE 4th Armored DIVISION
A concrete blockhouse ringed by pines loomed ahead of the onrushing tanks. First Lt. Charles Boggess, Jr., Greenville, Ill., commander of the lead tank, spotted the emplacement from the open hatch of his Sherman. Down in the turret, Cpl. Milton Dickerman, Newark, N.J., traversed the sights of his 75 on the blockhouse, kicked the trigger. The tank bounced from the recoil as the shell crashed into the concrete.
The breech of the 75 slammed shut as Pvt. James G. Murphy, Bryan, Tex., the loader, slapped in another round. Pvt. Hubert Smith, Cartersville, Ga., driver of the tank Cobra King, tromped on the throttle, squinted through his dirt-splattered periscope as the medium rolled up to the smoking blockhouse. Bow Gunner Pvt. Harold Hafner, Arlington, Wash., kept the hot barrel of his machine gun trained on the woods.
In the open fields beyond the pines, Lt. Boggess saw red, yellow and blue supply parachutes sprinkle the snow like confetti. He halted his clattering mediums.
"Come here, come on out!" he shouted to khaki-clad figures in foxholes. "This is the 4th Armored!"
No answer. Helmeted heads peered suspiciously over carbine sights. The tanker bellowed again. A lone figure emerged.
"I'm Lt. Webster of the 326th Engineers, 101st Airborne," the paratrooper said. "Glad to see you."
At 1645, Dec. 26, 1944, the 4th Armd. Div. had reached another objective—Bastogne.
Twenty-five minutes later, Maj. Gen. Anthony G. McAuliffe (then Brig. Gen.), commanding the 101st Airborne Div., shook hands with Lt. Col. Creighton W. Abrams, Agawam, Mass., and Capt. William A. Dwight, Grand Rapids, Mich., to celebrate the relief of Bastogne.
Col. Abrams, 37th Tank Bn. commander, and Capt. Dwight of his staff were close behind
Tanks of the 37th, along with the 53rd Armd. Inf. Bn., were the point of the 4th's spearhead into Bastogne. Behind them rolled ambulances and supply trucks for 101st paratroopers and tankers of the 9th and 10th Armd. Divs. holding the town.
Fourth Armd. swept south in the Normandy breakthrough, cut off the Brittany peninsula, wheeled east across the heart of France over the Moselle into Lorraine, fought across the Sarre and struggled north in mud through the Maginot line to the German border.
It then made a 120-mile "fire call" run to smash back von Rundstedt's divisions in the Ardennes.
The last stretch to Bastogne was tough, covering the hardest
Four days after the division started for Bastogne, its tanks were in the city. Behind hard-fighting tankers lay the wreckage of the 5th German Para Div. Determined Nazi paratroopers who rode the breakthrough panzers into Luxembourg and Belgium were to hold the south flank of the German wedge below Bastogne.
They were in the path of the 4th Armd. Most of the Para division was demolished. More than 2000 were killed or wounded, another 2000 captured.
The Path to Bloody Bastogne
With the 4th rode the attack of Third Army. III Corps was the first Third Army Corps to tear into the German flank from the south. In the van of the Corps was the 4th, on its right the 26th and 80th Inf. Divs.
The clatter of their tracks muffled in the deepening snow, Combat Commands A and B drove north astride the road from Arlon to Bastogne. Brig. Gen. Holmes E. Dager's
CC A jumped off from Heinstert, CC B from Habay-la-Vieille. These little villages are difficult to find on a map, but the 4th will remember them and others—all the towns, hills and woods on the road to Bastogne.
Somewhere ahead on that road the enemy waited in snow and fog that cloaked his onrushing panzers. Next day he was found. Skies cleared, frost hardened the ground. Conditions were tailor-made for tanks and planes. Seven fighter-bomber groups, 11 medium-bomber groups and one division of 8th Air Force and elements of the Royal Air Force took to the air in support of Third Army.
Thunderbolts hurled bombs scant yards ahead of Shermans, then returned at antenna level with machine guns crackling. Enemy resistance was thickening. Road blocks, craters, blown bridges barred the way.
In an all-out effort, the 4th's Reserve Command under Col. Wendell Blanchard, Lowell, Mass., entered the fight on the east flank of
Paratroopers of one German division held the village and surrounding woods. Armored infantrymen dug them out with bayonets as tankers wrecked and burned buildings. Three hundred and fifty 'chutists were killed, 300 taken prisoner. A Sherman tank, two 40mm anti-aircraft guns, four 81mm mortars, small arms and ammunition, all U.S. equipment used by Nazis, were destroyed.
The 8th Tank Bn., commanded by Lt. Col. Albin F. Irzyk, Salem, Mass., and the 10th Armd. Inf. Bn., under Maj. Harold Cohen, Spartanburg, S.C., smashed into Chaumont Dec. 23. The 35th Tank and 51st Armd. Inf. Bns. fought along the Martelange highway toward Bastogne. The 35th, commanded by Lt. Col. Delk Oden, Hugo, Okla., and the 51st, led by Lt. Col. Dan C. Alanis, Ennis, Tex., took Warnach.
Fourth Armd. slugged toe-to-toe against tank-supported troops next day. Despite heavy casualties, the enemy clung tenaciously. The hillside village of Chaumont, which was to change hands three times before the rubble heaps were taken, was counter-attacked by strong German tank and infantry forces.
More infantry was needed to pry Nazi machine gunners and bazooka teams from the timbered hills and thick-walled villages, so the 1st and 2nd Bns., 318th Regt., 80th Inf. Div., were brought from Luxembourg Dec. 24 to support CC A and CC B. The 9th Armd. Div.'s CC A was attached to the 4th and moved up on the west.
At 0200 Christmas Day, Reserve Command pulled a quick shift. It marched 30 miles from Bigonville to the division's west flank. By 0700, Reserve Command was at Bercheaux, ready to launch a surprise attack.
P-47s filled the Christmas sky with bombs and bullets. Reserve Command took Vaux-les-Rosieres, Petite Rosieres, Nives and Remoiville. CC B retook Chaumont and drove north of Grandrue. Hallange fell to CC A. The 53rd crowded artillery barrages into Remoiville, flushed out houses with flame-throwers. Fifty Germans were killed, 42 wounded, 427 taken prisoner.
Christmas afternoon, light and medium tanks of the 35th outflanked the Melch woods on the Arlon-Bastogne road and wiped out a company of paratroopers. Hit by tank machine gun bursts, scores of enemy casualties crumpled in the snow.
Fourth Armd. MPs have maintained a perfect record in handling prisoners. None has ever escaped. The record almost was marred that night when a German plane swooped down over housetops as MPs were searching 220 prisoners. During the commotion, prisoners fled into barns and houses.
One German officer and several men charged Pfc Paul J. Carrafiello, Tuckahoe, N.Y. The MP blazed away with a machine gun, dropping the officer just short of the gun and spraying the others. All prisoners were flushed from their hiding places.
The drive gathered speed next day. Reserve Command struck again. Infantry and tanks punched Remichampagne while supporting artillery plastered the village and nearby Bois de Cohet.
As armor rolled forward, Thunderbolts swooped into the scrap. P-47s blasted, raked the woods and town 200 yards in front of advancing half-tracks. German guns and crews were blasted before they could fire a shot. By noon, Remichampagne was cleared, and tankers surged northeast to seize high ground near Clochimont. Bastogne was three miles beyond.
As vehicles assembled on the slope south of Clochimont, hundreds of C-47 transports thundered low over tanks. Crammed with cargo they flew slowly, like flocks of fat geese, toward Bastogne. The sky erupted with flak. Anti-aircraft crackled, and white puffs burst overhead.
Tankers watched as transports dropped multi-colored supply 'chutes over the town. Col. Abrams and Lt. Col. George L. Jaques, Worcester, Mass., of the 53rd, conferred with their officers. Tanks had expended their high explosive 75mm shells, machine gun ammunition was low. But the men, who had seen how badly Bastogne needed supplies, were ready to push on.
"This is it," Col. Abrams said, a cold cigar clenched in the corner of his mouth, "We're going into Bastogne!"
Four American artillery battalions slammed barrages into Assenois and the edge of the woods beyond. The division's 94th, 22nd and 66th Armd. Arty. Bns. dropped in 105mm shells, and a supporting battalion lobbed 155 mm howitzers.
Fourth Armd. men know the cheapest way to attack with artillery is to lean into barrages while the enemy keeps his head down. They drove into shell bursts as the ground pitched and houses spilled into the street. They took their casualties—a burned half-track, two killed, four wounded—and charged toward Bastogne.
The first four tanks drew ahead of the column as half-tracks slowed to pick their way through smoke and debris. Co. C's four mediums rolled along with their machine guns sweeping the wooded ridge. They burst through to the 101st's outer defenses before Germans in the forest could act.
But the gap in the column gave Nazis their chance. Teller mines were hurled onto the road while German bazooka teams closed in. In the dusk, a half-track hit a mine. Capt. Dwight jumped from his turret to help doughs remove the mines. The column darted forward against bazookas, machine pistols, more mines. Four half-tracks exploded and burned. Crews fought on foot. With tank support, they battled all the way to the 101st.
Meanwhile, Co. B, 53rd Armd. Inf., mopped up flaming Assenois with the aid of light tanks from the 37th. Three hundred and eighty prisoners were taken, including battalion and regimental staff officers. More than 100 others were killed. Four 88mm A/T guns and crews were captured before they could fire a shot.
A battery of 105mm howitzers, one 40mm and two 37mm anti-tank guns, five half-tracks and two armored cars were captured or destroyed. This was the payoff of the swift attack through the artillery fire.
But the fight was not over. Trucks and ambulances for the 101st could not move through the heavy enemy fire from woods lining the road.
First Lt. Frank Kutak, Astoria, N.Y., hobbling on a leg stiffened by a bullet graze, led Co. A, 53rd, into the woods at midnight. Patches of moonlight and bursts from machine pistols lighted the area where armored doughs fought for three hours. They attacked without artillery support because Germans were too close to the 101st. Heavy machine guns and 60mm mortars firing in battery provided the only cover.
Next morning, 30 German dead were found in their foxholes. Twelve of the troublesome heavy bazookas and two 75mm guns were captured.
New to War, But Battle-Wise Veterans
CC B, battling to the east of the roadway, cleared a swath to the north. The 10th Armd. Inf. also reached Bastogne's perimeter defenses. CC A, with the 35th Inf. Div. on its east flank, hammered against the heavy resistance that blocked the Arlon-Bastogne highway until Dec. 29. Although Bastogne no longer was besieged, the battle had not ended.
German reaction was swift, furious. Fourth Armd. had made the Bastogne road hub an offensive center. Nazi divisions swarmed to the corridor like wasps to a broken hive.
Dec. 30, the east flank of the corridor rocked from the crushing attack of a panzer division supported by elements of two Volksgrenadier divisions and remnants of the Para division. The enemy drove to Lutrebois, 1200 yards from the main highway.
The weather was murky, but 1st Lt. Robert E. Pearson, Highland Park, Mich., was flying observation in his Cub for the 22nd Armd. FA. Below, tanks were skirting the edge of the woods at Lutrebois. Lt. Pearson swooped down to 75 feet. The tanks looked German. Machine gun and rifle fire flashing past his cockpit confirmed it.
The lieutenant hustled off to warn the 35th. He marked the panzer's position on a map, dropped it to tankers. First Lt. John Kingsley, Dunkirk, N.Y., placed his six mediums in ambush. As the Mark Vs poked into the open with their flanks toward the Shermans, gunners let them have it.
Panthers surged forward in twos and threes past their own burning tanks while Shermans socked them from turret defilade. Eleven German tanks strayed out. All were destroyed without a scratch to Co. B's six mediums.
"If that German tank company commander isn't dead I wish they would make him a battalion commander," the lieutenant said. "I wish they were all that dumb."
Artillery, directed by Lt. Pearson, also worked over the panzers, set two more vehicles aflame. Fourth Armd., 35th Inf. Div., and Thunderbolts braving the low ceiling, knocked out 55 tanks that day.
Stopped cold, the Germans clung to the Lutrebois pocket. They kept it for more than a week at terrific cost. The 4th's three artillery battalions poured the heaviest barrage they had ever fired into the small area.
From Dec. 30 to Jan. 6, a total of 24,483 rounds of 105mm howitzers cascaded into Lutrebois and the woods north and east. The New Year came in with a bang as armored artillerymen greeted it with 7000 shells on Dec. 31. The 66th FA alone fired 3046 rounds.
The corridor held. Impaled on Bastogne, the German offensive sputtered, then died. Von Rundstedt pulled back his 5th and 6th Panzer Armies and his infantry.
At the end of the battle, the 4th Armd. Div. could figure up what it had done to the Wehrmacht in six months of combat. It had taken 19,221 prisoners up to Jan. 7, 1945, killed and wounded as many, destroyed 414 tanks, 1618 vehicles and 225 artillery pieces. Twenty-six German planes had fallen to division's anti-aircraft guns.
Knocking out a Panther, killing or capturing a platoon or battalion had become routine. No one, for example took particular notice of prisoner No. 19,000. No one could say who he was or who captured him.
It was different with prisoner No. 1. Everybody knew about him. He was a tall, bedraggled SS conscript, who slogged through a Normandy marsh July 26, 1944, to surrender to Co. C, 24th Armd. Engr. Bn. He was received with curiosity by the men, with enthusiasm by intelligence officers.
War still was new to the division. The 4th had been in combat nine days and in France less than three weeks. Tough and confident after three and a half years training, it hit Utah Beach, July 11, 1944. LSTs and LCTs disgorged tanks, half-tracks and peeps off Varreville, near Ste. Mere Eglise.
By July 16, the outfit had assembled in the calvados and apple orchard country near Barneville-sur-Mer on the west side of the Cherbourg peninsula. Tankers, trained as a part of Gen. Patton's Third Army, learned with surprise they had been transferred to First Army.
Third Army was inoperative as well as top secret, so the division went to VIII Corps, First Army. From Corps, division received its first combat orders. By midnight July 17, the 4th was poised to take over the front held by the 4th Inf. Div. north of Raids, south of Carentan.
The 53rd Bn. was first into the line that warm summer night. In the first 30 hours, the battalion and division suffered its first casualties. An estimated 100 Nazi paratroopers and SS troops infiltrated the battalion's left flank. Six armored infantrymen and officers were killed, 25 wounded.
The 10th took over July 19 and pushed forward 100 yards in advance of the line held by the 4th Inf. Div. In battered Meautis, division headquarters got acquainted with 88s during a
The narrow defensive front settled down to a mortar, machine gun and artillery exchange over swamps, hedgerows and dead cows. Tank and TDs sat back as artillery. The 25th Cav. Recon. Sqdn., Mech., commanded by Lt. Col. Leslie Goodall, Holyoke, Mass., dismounted to fight with armored infantry.
Allied forces crammed in the Normandy beachhead area got ready to hit the line July 26. The Air Corps struck first. Men of the 4th Armd. climbed from foxholes and tank turrets to watch the greatest display of air power ever witnessed up to that time. Bombs from 3000 planes rained down incessantly.
Fourth Armd. held the small sector between the 83rd Inf. Div. on the east and the 90th Inf. Div. to the west. The plan called for the doughs to pinch off the 4th's zone. Then, armor was to spring through.
Eager to hit the road in the offensive, tankers clambered from foxholes into vehicles. Led by Maj. Gen. John S. Wood, the division moved out at 0500, July 28. CC B was the point for the combat command columns. Despite mines and road blocks, tanks lurched through the rubble of Periers and swarmed into Coutances, first city to fall to CC B and the division.
American armor was rolling everywhere. The 2nd and 3rd Armd. Divs. jabbed along on the left while 6th Armd. punched to the right. It was like old home week at Fort Knox.
"WHO ARE YOU?" "Georgie's Boys!"
As the enemy attempted to pull out, men like Pvt. William "Red" Whitson, Indianapolis, were waiting for them. A Co. B, 53rd, machine gunner, Whitson had his gun set up at a bend in the road.
A column pulled up to him before he fired. He knocked out 25 vehicles, left 50 Germans sprawling on the road in a tangle of plunging horses. Confused by the deadly fire, more than 500 Germans eventually surrendered to Co. B. The Distinguished Service Cross awarded to Whitson was the first to an enlisted man in the division.
Disorganized and terrified by the 4th's slashing advances, Nazis began wholesale flight. The "rat race" was on.
Racing armored columns littered roads with burning vehicles and German casualties. More than 2000 prisoners were taken at Avranches. Co. A, 46th Med. Bn. alone treated 123 German wounded there.
Parts of the Wehrmacht escaped the tankers, cavalry and armored infantry, headed south to surrender to following artillery battalions, or to medics—or anyone—just to get safely out of the way. Column after column of disarmed prisoners, led by their own non-coms, marched back without guards to PW enclosures.
By July 31, all dams and bridges across the Selune River to the southeast as far as Ducey were secured. The division's PW bag numbered more than 3000.
In five days, the 4th had smashed the German 77th, 91st and 243rd Inf. Divs., wiped out the 6th Para Regt. and dealt severe losses to the 5th Para Div. The last-named, rebuilt from scratch, was to confront the 4th again at Bastogne. Elements of the 2nd SS Panzer Div. also took a drubbing.
"Georgie's boys!" the tank commanders yelled back.
And they were. On Aug. 1, Gen. Patton's Third Army became operational. VIII Corps and 4th Armd. became part of Third Army as the division roared into Brittany.
With CC A leading, the division plunged 54 miles to Rennes, ancient Breton capitol. Smacking nests of emplaced anti-tank and aircraft guns north of the city, tanks wheeled wide to the west and south. CC A raced through Bain de Bretagne while CC B struck Redon. Roads and communications from the Rennes nerve center were cut, the enemy thrown into panic. The field-grey hordes withdrew. A combat team including 8th Inf. Div. doughs occupied the city, Aug 3.
The next slash severed the Brittany peninsula. At 1400, Aug. 5, CC A moved from Bain de Bretagne. Seven hours and 70 miles later, the 4th had routed the enemy's 56th Security Regt. guarding Vannes and had taken the city and the airfield to the northeast.
From this port, tankers glimpsed the ocean. Brest peninsula was cut through. Brittany seethed with thousands of armor-stunned enemy. The division which had outraced infantry support was an armored island in a sea of enemies. Tanks and armored cars shepherded supply columns over long, empty stretches of road.
Remnants of a French paratrooper battalion, which had dropped in Brittany with peeps on
Then, both combat commands moved on the
German army and navy forces in the heavily fortified city outnumbered tankers four to one; the 4th tried to bluff them into surrender. Although unsuccessful in this, the 4th did take 4653 prisoners in 12 days and nailed down the escape door. In March, 1945, nine months later, dwindling German troops still held on, hopelessly surrounded
A Marathon at Sprint Speed
Next morning CC A cracked into Orleans, then turned it over to the 35th Inf. Div.
When 4th Armd. came under XII Corps Aug. 15, Lorient was left to the 6th Armd. Div. CC B began its longest continuous march. The columns drove east 264 miles in 34 hours before halting at Prunay, south of Vendome.
A small task force, with the mission of destroying bridges, engaged in something like a naval battle along the gentle valley of the Loire River. The column, commanded by Maj. Edward Bautz, Dumont, N.J., was moving on the north bank near Amboise when it spied a German column on the opposite bank. The 4th opened fire with everything from tommyguns to 75s. Germans, trapped between high ground and the river, suffered heavy losses.
Assembled near Orleans, the division resumed its drive east Aug. 21. The same afternoon, CC A sped into the heart of Sens to secure a crossing of the Yonne River. Five railroad trains, 30 carloads of diesel oil and 300 tons of food were seized.
Fourth Armd., as south flank and spearhead of Third Army, now was far east and south of Paris. Tankers had outflanked the French capital and sealed off German forces south of the Loire.
Historic river barriers, moats of France, were falling quickly to armor. CC B captured Courtenay, then moved on Montargis from the east. Evacuation of the city was forced Aug. 23. Without pausing, the division secured a bridgehead across the Seine at Troves three days later after a savage fight.
Armored vehicles, commanded by Lt. Col. Arthur L. West, Stillwater, Okla., spread in open desert formation and charged down a three and a half mile slope under heavy fire. An SS brigade and supporting troops totaling 3000 Germans were routed and a Nazi general captured.
Three days later, CC A stormed across the Marne River to capture Vitry le Francois. Chalons-sur-Marne, St. Dizier and Ligny fell. Light tanks racing through torrential rain led an attack into Commercy, captured the bridge across the Meuse and the high ground opposite the river. This country meant more trouble for engineers. The 24th Armd. Engr. Bn. fought, sweated to keep columns rolling.
Fourth Armd. finally stopped—not for blown bridges or 88s—but for gasoline. The division had been burning captured fuel and gasoline delivered by transport planes. Maps and shells also had been flown to the outfit. When the overall gasoline supply problem became critical, higher headquarters halted the drive. The division had run a marathon at sprint speed. In the seven weeks since Normandy, the 4th had thrown a 700-mile right hook across the heart of France.
...Germans are frightened by your superior equipment, frightened by your more skillful tactics, and above all frightened by your magnificent courage and will to win. Since the beginning of your historic drive through Orleans to the east, the Fourth Armored Division has met its assigned tasks with the greatest distinction. The manner in which it seized successfully the towns of Sens, Troyes, Vitry le Francois and Commercy and assisted in the capture of Montargis and Chalons-sur-Marne, was conspicuous evidence of its courage, its high state of combat efficiency, and the aggressive spirit of its leaders. In the establishing, defending and enlarging of our bridgehead across the Moselle, all members of the division have conducted themselves in a manner of which they may well be proud...
Mediums of the 8th Tank Bn. rumbled into the Moselle Valley at Bayon, south of Nancy on Sept. 11. CC B was to make a crossing with the 35th Inf. Div.
The bridges were gone as well as the canal paralleling it on the west. First Lt. William C. Marshall, Newark, N.J., didn't wait for treadway spans. He wheeled his medium tank platoon to the canal's edge, fired 75s into the opposite bank to break it down, then threw logs into the mud and trickle. Gunning his tank, Lt. Marshall roared down the 20-foot canal and labored triumphantly through to the other bank. He towed others of his platoon when they bogged down.
Five tanks raced downstream until the river split into three fordable channels. Water surged to the turrets as tanks plunged across the river. Climbing the bank, tankers roared ahead to smash German infantry and guns pressing back the thin bridgehead.
Two days later, CC A passed through the 80th Inf. Div. and crossed the Moselle north of Nancy at Dieulouard. Troop D, 25th Cav, fought a bloody duel with anti-tank guns and infantry to lead the way.
Fourth Armd. was loose again. Two steel columns tore into Lorraine to form a pincers about Nancy. The city fell as Germans fled east.
CC A, then commanded by Col. Clarke, punched through and rampaged behind enemy lines to Aulnois, Lemoncourt, Fresnes, Arracourt and Einville. More than 100 German tanks were destroyed, 1903 prisoners taken, as many killed. Rear echelon of a Panzer Grenadier division was caught at Arracourt and wiped out.
CC B, south jaw of the pincers, gouged northeast to Chateau Salins over streams and canals. The 24th Engrs., supported by the 995th Engr. Treadway Bridge Co., floated a 168-foot bridge over the Moselle at Bayon and a 180-foot bridge over the Meurthe at Mont.
Halted by command once more to permit infantry to catch up, the 4th stopped in the Arracourt area to protect the Nancy bridgehead.
Germans attacked in fog and rain Sept. 19, and extremely bitter fighting occurred the next four days. The first morning, more than 40 German tanks attacked from the southeast toward Moyenvic. Stopped by the 37th, the panzers swung south in groups. They drove into the right flank of CC A. Co. C's 1st and 2nd platoons of the 704th TD Bn. charged out to meet them.
A crew commanded by Sgt. Henry R. Hartman, Wallingford, Conn., knocked out six tanks with its 76mm gun. The two TD platoons destroyed 15 tanks while losing three TDs. Battered panzers withdrew, only to attack the next day from the south. A task force from the 37th and the 10th blasted them back. In four days, the 37th destroyed 55 Panthers, lost 14 tanks. Meanwhile, Reserve Command beat off an armored attack on Luneville.
More Panthers crept under cover of fog to the 25th's bivouac near Juvelize Sept. 22. Although hopelessly outgunned, the squadron's light tank company fought the massive Mark Vs. Seven light tanks were hit, but TDs and Shermans smashed the enemy.
On the Xanrey-Moncel line, CC B threw back infantry and tank assaults supported by a heavy artillery preparation. Twenty-one German tanks were destroyed and 300 infantrymen killed as planes, tanks, artillery and armored infantry plastered the Germans.
Tank attacks dwindled, but the 4th continued bagging several Panthers daily. Fighting flared a week later at Hill 318. Tenth Inf. took the hill with air and artillery support, destroying 23 more tanks. The Moselle bridgehead was secure.
After 87 days of combat, the division was relieved by the 26th Inf. Div. Oct. 12. Four months before, the 4th had gone into battle confident but untried. It emerged a proud veteran with a distinguished record.
4th Armored Has A Record
Armored warfare was on a "one-tank" front—on the road—as tanks strained and stuck. Columns ground northeast toward Morhange through the sodden wreckage of German villages. The fight now was in Nazi-annexed French Lorraine.
Massed artillery hammered at armor probing German defenses. At Destry, the 8th Tank outflanked and wiped out a nest of 21 anti-tank guns without losing a single tank. Morhange was overrun. Fighting was bitter at Guebling.
A sudden shift to the south and CC B pushed to the Sarre River where the 8th Tank seized Fenetrange Thanksgiving Day. The first crossing of the Sarre was made by Troop C, 25th. Cavalrymen commanded by 1st Lt. John Keenan, Mars Hill, Me., rushed Gosselming with all guns blazing, took the bridge. Although intact, the span was mined and wired for demolition.
Pushing across the Sarre into ever deepening mud, the 4th contacted Seventh Army troops which had driven to Strasbourg. Germans hastily threw the 130th Panzer Lehr Div. against the 4th, but tankers hurled it back, then lumbered north.
Supported in a narrow zone by as many as 14 battalions of town-flattening artillery, the 4th slogged past Sarre Union to Domfessel and Vollerdingen. In savage tank fighting, the 37th plowed through the Maginot Line to Singling Dec. 8.
Although the division was relieved two days later by 12th Armd. Div., two 4th Armd. units remained in combat to roll over the German border.
S/Sgt. George Poulus, Gary, Ind., platoon sergeant, Troop D, 25th Cav., took a 15-man patrol up Hill 382 south of Utweiler, Germany, Dec. 16. The same afternoon, Shermans of Co. A, 37th, chased Nazi tanks back in the woods above Rimling.
Maj. Gen. Hugh J. Gaffey, Third Army Chief of Staff, succeeded Gen. Wood as commander of 4th Armd. Dec. 3. Gen. Wood, in command of the division since June 18, 1942, had brought it from Pine Camp, N.Y., to the Sarre Valley.
Gen. Gaffey had commanded 2nd Armd. Div. in Africa and Sicily before becoming Gen. Patton's Chief of Staff. It was under him that the 4th answered what tankers always will remember as "the fire call."
The division was in Corps reserve Dec. 18. Tankers heard vague reports of a two-day old German offensive up in Belgium and Luxembourg, gave it little thought. But at 2030, orders were received to march north against the breakthrough. The combat command jumped off shortly before midnight.
CC B raced northwest through Morhange, crossed the Moselle at Pont-a-Mousson, turned north to Briey and Longwy then into Belgium to Arlon before arriving at an assembly area at Vaux-les-Rosieres. The 151-mile march had been made in 19 hours. CC B came under control of the hard-pressed VIII Corps, First Army. Next day, the 4th assembled near Arlon under III Corps. CC B returned to division without being committed.
The 126th Armd. Ord. Bn., 144th Armd. Sig. Co., 46th Med. Bn.—all were trained to help tanks, infantry, cavalry and artillery at their job. The 704th TD Bn. virtually is a part of the division. The 489th AA Bn., in addition to its bag of 26 German planes, has killed 246 ground troops, destroyed four armored cars, 24 wagons, 15 trucks, two machine gun nests and captured 500 enemy. The 995th Treadway Bridge Co, 1st platoon of the 16th Field Hospital, 3804 QM Trk. Co., and the 444th QM Troop Transport Co., also were integral parts of the team.
Activated April 15, 1941, at Pine Camp, the 4th trained 16 months before reaching the Tennessee maneuvers in the Cumberland Mountains. Mid-November, 1942, the division moved to the vast California Desert Training Center where base camps were established near Freida and Needles.
After six months of rugged desert training, the 4th arrived at Camp Bowie, Tex., June 3, 1943, and maneuvered during a broiling summer until alerted Nov. 11 for overseas duty. Train after train left the Lone Star State from Dec. 11 to 18 to take armored troops into a frigid Massachusetts winter at Camp Myles Standish. The main body of troops sailed from Boston Dec. 29, 1943.
Eleven days later, the division disembarked in Wales and entrained for camps in Wiltshire, England. Soon the staid names of Chippenham, Trowbridge, Devizes and Bath were as familiar as Watertown, Palm Springs, Brownwood or Ft. Worth. In a final polishing, the 4th trained six months on the English downs and in the bitter winter frosts of the Salisbury and Avebury plains.
Officers and men have won one Congressional Medal of Honor, 13 Distinguished Service Crosses, 534 Silver Stars, 1955 Bronze Star Medals, 56 Air Medals and one Legion of Merit.
How well they fought is shown by the names given the 4th: "The Rolling 4th," "Flying 4th," "Phantom 4th," "Ghost Division," "Fire Alarm Division." In cool military appraisal, the Germans first called them the "American Elite Fourth Armored Division." Later, Nazi propagandists dubbed them "Roosevelt's Highest Paid Butchers."
The division, however, has never adopted a nickname. The men of the armor feel that "The Fourth Armored" is name enough—praise enough.
Some men of the 4th whose courage made the division great no longer fight beside their comrades.
It is for these dead as well as for Victory and Peace that the 4th Armd. Div. will fight until the last page of its combat story is written.
Photos: U.S. Signal Corps, Keystone
Printed by Desfosses-Neogravure, Paris.
March 28, 1945: For "extraordinary tactical accomplishment from Dec. 22 through March 27," the Fourth Armored Division was awarded the Presidential Citation; second time in U.S. Army history a complete division has been so recognized.
The citation was received as the 4th's armor, now commanded by Brig. Gen. William M. Hoge, spearheaded Third Army's lightning advance deep into Germany.
Just before the turn of the year, the 4th relieved beleaguered Bastogne. Later, it set up the pins for the current strike into Germany by its history making 60 mile dash to the Rhine.


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Hoyte Breaks The Loan Player Curse
Why is it that every player who Arsene Wenger loans out either disappeared into obscurity or just disappears?
Well not anymore.
Justin Hoyte always seemed to be just on the fringes of the Arsenal squad, highly rated but he just fell that little bit short of breaking into the first team.
His mediocre performances interspersed with half decent efforts meant he frustratingly never really got a consistent run of games, indeed he never really deserved one.
The ominous feeling that I felt upon hearing Hoyte was to move to Sunderland on loan was similar to the air of inevitability that came across me when players such as Jermaine Pennant & David Bentley were loaned out, never to play for Arsenal again.
The Arsenal loan players seemed cursed. Sent out to learn their trade and make their mistakes for another club, it never seemed to do them any great favours, and subsequently, they were sold.
Justin Hoyte now seems to have broken that mould.
The time he spent defending for his life with relegation fodder would surely see him doomed to the nether regions of the Championship, or at best a move to some Premiership dog fighters.
However, the versatile defender seems to have undergone a miraculous transformation, despite his early season form suggesting otherwise.
I myself struggled to believe he could become anything more than a Carling cup player, but to my surprise, and should I say delight, the under 21's international seems to have come of age.
As Arsenal pass the halfway mark of another injury ridden season Hoyte has already featured in 22 first team matches, and while I'm not overly sure of the statistics, that figure probably surpasses the combined total of all his previous seasons.
Arsene Wenger made sure Hoyte knew he had a future at the club with the sale of fans favorite, Lauren, to Portsmouth, leaving only Manu Eboue above him in the pecking order.
I felt Justin's performance against T*ttenham at the Grove on Wednesday was testament to all the hard work, dedication, commitment, perseverance and patience he has shown.
I sincerely hope that Hoyte continues with his football education and development and becomes the player he now looks capable of becoming.
Nice one Justin!


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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger admitted relief after their 1-0 win over Stoke City.
After securing just five points in 2013, the Gunners were set for a second successive home draw until 12 minutes from time.
Substitute Lukas Podolski got the goal, although it was Geoff Cameron who did the damage by deflecting the German's free-kick past his own goalkeeper.
Arsenal remain sixth in the standings after the 1-0 win, but closed the gap on fourth-place Tottenham to a single point - much to Wenger's relief.
"I said already before the West Ham and Liverpool games, that we are in a position where we cannot drop points," the Gunners boss said.
"We dropped two points against Liverpool but we couldn't do it again today.
"What is more important is the quality of performances is there. The spirit is there.
"The target to be in the top four and to focus on the two cups we are still in is very important now as we have strengthened our belief and our confidence."


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Mount St. Mary's faculty demands president's removal; trustees and students indicate support
February 15, 2016
In an 87-3 vote, faculty at Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland called upon the college's president, Simon Newman, to resign, the Washington Post reported.
In a separate public statement, the American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA) expressed "grave concern" over the firing of faculty members, and called upon President Newman and the school's trustees to "act forcefully and publicly to end this travesty and to heal the wounds" at Mount St. Mary's.
A survey conducted by the Student Government Association, however, found that students support Newman by a 3-to-1 margin. And the school's board of trustees issued a statement of support for the embattled president.
Simon Newman, who has come under fire for dismissing tenured faculty members and for comparing struggling students to bunnies who should be drowned, also reportedly made disparaging remarks about the role of the Catholic faith in campus life.
The ACPA statement regarding the controversy at the Maryland school said:
Firing faculty who challenge the potential abuse of students by the administration is a clear violation of those rights of conscience that the Church upholds as necessary to a Catholic institution, a clear act of injustice. Each member of the Board of Trustees should be prepared to explain how either the treatment of the students or the firings of faculty are "in accord with [the school's] Catholic identity."
The ACPA said that a claim attributed to Newman, that it was an act of "mercy" to reinstate faculty members who had been dismissed, was "particularly outrageous" because the reinstatement was merely a matter of "ceasing to act unjustly."
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Did MLB Get It Right with Expanded Instant Replay?November 15, 2013
Major League Baseball has moved one step closer to having instant replay become a fixture in the game after the owners voted Thursday to expand the current model.
Having been tested in the Arizona Fall League with much success, the owners voted to approve funding for its implementation, according to MLB.com's Paul Hagen. The deal must still pass a final vote by the owners at their January meeting and meet the approval of the Major League Baseball Player's Association and World Umpire's Association. But all indications are that it will be up and running at the start of the 2014 season:
"I think we're quite far along," (MLB commissioner Bud) Selig said. "The bottom line is, we're moving forward on replay. People spoke very emotionally about it. Clubs are very excited about it. Unless there's something I'm missing right now, we're going to have replay in 2014."
In August, the owners were presented with a plan that would give managers one challenge in the first six innings and two challenges from the seventh inning until the end of the game. However, there were some minor changes:
Instead, there will be one set of challenges for the entire game, although it's still to be determined whether each manager will get one or two challenges.
In either case, the manager would retain his challenge if he's right and forfeit it if he's wrong. There are ongoing discussions about the circumstances under which the umpires could decide to review a close call if one or both managers has run out of challenges.
While the full system isn't in place yet, the parameters are there, and baseball will do a few tweaks here and there prior to the start of the season.
With that said, did MLB get it right with expanded replay?
Changes Had to Be Made
The last couple of years have shown us many incorrect calls that a simple replay would have overturned.
The most notable was the safe call at first base by umpire Jim Joyce during Armando Galarraga's perfect-game bid in 2010. Although Joyce admitted he was wrong after seeing the replay, it didn't take away the fact that it cost Galarraga a perfect game.
Another good example was in a game between the Atlanta Braves and Pittsburgh Pirates in 2011 in which Julio Lugo was called safe at the plate in the 19th inning when he was clearly out. Replay would have clearly shown Lugo was out, and the game should have continued.
Here's a look at some other notable plays throughout history that could have been overturned by replay:
|Oct. 26, 1985
|Royals, Cardinals
|World Series, Game 6
|Oct. 20, 1991
|Braves, Twins
|World Series, Game 2
|Oct. 9, 1996
|Orioles, Yankees
|ALCS, Game 1
|Oct. 1, 2007
|Padres, Rockies
|Wild-Card Tiebreaker
|May 2, 2012
|Dodgers, Rockies
|Regular Season
Games have been changed, and so has history, by simple mistakes by umpires. It's not a knock on them because most of them do take their jobs seriously. But they do miss calls every now and then.
Format Is Good
Whether the format is one challenge or two, the fact that managers will keep the challenge if the call is overturned makes it a good format.
The worst thing that can happen is that a manager challenges a call they know to be wrong and it gets overturned. Then, they lose that challenge for later in the game when there might be another call that goes against them.
With a limited number of challenges, it also forces managers to strategize on when they'll use their challenge. While they may believe an out call at first base is wrong, the fact that it was a bang-bang play could make them hold on to their challenge—especially if it's early in the game.
After all, would a manager challenge a close play at first in the first inning when there are already two outs and nobody else on? If they did, it would be at the risk of losing a challenge that could be needed in a bigger situation later in the game.
The NFL already has a similar system in place, and it's worked with a lot of success. There's no reason to believe the same can't be said about MLB.
Did MLB Get It Right?
MLB absolutely got this right. Fans have been calling for it for a long time, and MLB is finally joining the 21st century.
Managers will still come out to argue calls, especially if they've used up their challenges. But if they haven't, managers can just challenge the play, and it will save on time from the ensuing argument.
Fans won't think their team is getting jipped by the umpires, and the right call will be made. What is more important than that?


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The kid has been particularly fearful of tigers since we saw "Life of Pi." Which isn't necessarily a bad thing: Tigers aren't to be trifled with, as the following zoo sign suggests.
Which makes me glad I didn't purchase the following shirt when we were at the Hope, Arkansas, Wal-Mart recently.
It was made from that stretchy fabric that often boasts "wicking technology." Obviously my daughter is not the target market for this shirt. But who is? I'm at a loss. Tiger enthusiasts? Hipsters? Hunters who wish to blend in should they find themselves standing directly in front of a tiger? Fans of both exercise AND tigers? Actual tigers? Elvis?
For better or worse, I did not purchase the tiger shirt.


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How do you say goodbye?
On Friday, my son Johnny and I drove out to Batavia to see my parents. My father is now bedridden and often gets confused. A hospital bed is being bought to the house on Monday. We don't think there is much time left.
I went in to my parents' bedroom in my brother's house. My Dad was in bed, wrapped up in the covers. I gave him a hug and a kiss and stood there looking at him. He looked up at me and said "Stop looking so worried honey. I'm not gone yet." We both smiled at that. And then he said "well, if there's anything you need to say, do it now, any complaints, whatever."
"There is one thing I want to say… you are the best Dad ever. And you have six kids who all think the same thing." And then I cried.
It was almost unbearable watching my Mom look at him. You could tell that every time he got confused or sleepy, she was worried that he was going to die.
My brother and sister-in-law sleep with a monitor in their room so that they can hear our parents if they need anything during the night. I begged them to let me take the monitor for the night to give them a little break. And then I worried that if I fell asleep I wouldn't hear them, so I had it on the highest volume. At one point I could hear my Dad and he sounded so restless. He and my Mom were talking, but he couldn't settle down. So I went upstairs to check on them. Once my Mom reached over to hold his hand, he settled down immediately.
One of the aide's took my Mom to get her nails done on Saturday. It took two of us to get her into the car and then several "helpers" at the salon meet her at the car and bring her in. When she got back home and walked into the bedroom, my father's face lit up. "Isn't she beautiful?" he asked. Well, you would only get agreement from all of us on that statement.
When we left on Saturday, I said "Dad, I love you so much." He responded "I love you more." And I said "I don't think so." And he laughed and said "why don't we just stop it there."
And so I said good-bye to my Dad. A force of nature, the head of our family, the man we all knew we could count on at all times. I know what a gift it has been – to grow up with unconditional love. To see my five brothers and sisters rally around and do what's right. We've had our fights, our disagreements, our little snits, but the bottom line is that we are there for each other.
I have been so lucky to have him all these years. He is 88. And now I pray that a little angel named Catie is waiting to show him the ropes in heaven.


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Haiti Poster Project: Call for Entries
Goal is $1 million; deadline is March 15.
The Haiti Poster Project is seeking limited-edition sets of posters from artists, designers, design firms, and print providers from around the world. The donated posters will be sold online to raise money for Doctors Without Borders; the goal is $1 million.
The specifics:
• Posters should be specific to the earthquake in Haiti or The Haiti Poster Project;
• The posters may be graphic or typographic;
• The posters should be signed and numbered editions in quantities of 25 to 100; the posters should not be one-offs.
• Minimum size is 11 x 17 inches; ideal size: 18 x 24 inches; posters can be produced by litho, digital, or silkscreen print.
• Posters may include credits for vendors who have donated supplies or services, but please keep them small and unobtrusive.
• Artists are responsible for designing, printing, and delivering the posters to Haiti Poster Project.
All submissions will become property of The Haiti Poster Project, and will be sold to raise funds for the Doctors Without Borders earthquake disaster relief effort. Several posters from each donated set will be retained for possible future exhibition or publication.
Deadline is March 15. Submissions after March 15 will also be accepted, "but given the timeliness of the situation, we strongly encourage designers to meet this deadline," the group's organziers report.


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Mr Osborne said the Conservatives are the party of "low taxes for the many" not "no taxes for the few" as he vowed to continue the crackdown on tax avoiders.
The Chancellor insisted the problem is not how much is collected but how much the Government is spending as he confirmed that an extra £10 billion of welfare savings will be made by the first full year of the next Parliament.
Mr Osborne said the Government will not shirk tackling welfare at a time when other budgets are being squeezed just because it is politically difficult.
That includes reforming a system which allows young people who have never had a job to be given homes while their working counterparts are forced to live with their parents, he said.


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https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=17515 --- Comment #3 from Dimitri Glazkov <email@example.com> 2012-08-03 17:37:44 UTC --- When shadow DOM is used to create controls/widget, the @host rules could be seen as a way to provide default styling for the box, surrounding the said widget. For example, imagine that <input type="text">'s typical outline is actually styled using @host rules. Now, I want to add small icon inside of the input field to indicate something about the text content (calendar icon, for instance, to click and bring up a date picker). Always applying @host to the shadow host is the desired behavior here, since when I include the older shadow in my calendar icon shadow DOM subtree, I still want the text field's outline to be on the host, not at inclusion point. However, if instead I want to add, say a password-strength indicator to the right of the field, I do want to put the outline styles somewhere on the <shadow> (but where?) -- Configure bugmail: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug.Received on Friday, 3 August 2012 17:37:45 UTC
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