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|View Poll Results: Toradora! - Episode 19 Rating
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|9 out of 10 : Excellent
|8 out of 10 : Very Good
|7 out of 10 : Good
|6 out of 10 : Average
|5 out of 10 : Below Average
|4 out of 10 : Poor
|3 out of 10 : Bad
|2 out of 10 : Very Bad
|1 out of 10 : Painful
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|2009-02-15, 03:17
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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yeah, I'd have to label that *extra* harsh. o.O Everyone in this mess has made mistakes or acted on errant information ... not seeing how anyone in this mess deserves what is happening to them. Taiga is trying to help Minorin but is conflicted and Minorin is trying to help Taiga but is conflicted. Ami wishes she hadn't shown up to the parade so late, wants to help, wants Ryuuji... more conflictedness.
|2009-02-15, 03:17
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As for TaigaxRyuuji, I think they will eventually stay friends, can't say anything about Minori yet.
|2009-02-15, 03:36
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Minori became emotional when she realized Ryuuji liked her and conflicted because she believed that Taiga also liked Ryuuji. Throughout the series she has been the genki character, except during the latter part where the situation she was in called for gravity. I can't find anything to blame in her other than her (facade of) retardation at times to cope with reality.
Ami was a spoiled princess at the start. Ever since Ryuuji helped her simply be herself, however, she has continually changed for the better. What are her faults, then? She toys with Ryuuji at times yet no one gets harmed. Liking Ryuuji isn't a fault of hers, because liking an exemplary guy isn't a fault of any girl. Trying to be subtle about her feelings isn't a fault of hers: her only fault was that she was late to their friendship and so was relegated to something that couldn't go beyond a status of friendship.
Taiga, however, did a lot of bad, insulting things to Ryuuji and spoke a lot of insulting words towards him. Despite this, he cared for her deeply and tried his best to pair her up with Kitamura. What was her gratitude? It was to continue to abuse Ryuuji and disrespect even his humanity. Lesser men would have fallen, but luckily Ryuuji is a very kind guy. Sure, she did some kind things for him, but a few disparate and isolated incidents cannot merely efface the consistent abuse that he received from her. If he chooses Minori, and if he ends up with her, she can blame no one but herself. Ryuuji did everything he could to help her. Ryuuji was her pillar and he supported her in her bid for Kitamura. How does she repay what he did?
I ask you that. I blame the coincidence of Minori seeing her bawling in the road (I don't blame Taiga), but because of that outburst she practically destroyed a blooming relationship, despite being unintended. (Again, I don't blame her.)
Even if she was going to be alone, she fully deserved her solitude with her utter disrespect towards Ryuuji. Again, a few isolated situations of kindness CANNOT EFFACE the consistent abuse she imposed on Ryuuji. (Besides, if Minori and him went out, he wouldn't ignore her, but merely treat her as a friend and help her. She still wouldn't be alone, destroying that fallacy of hers.)
That was why I was arguing that Taiga pass through the eye of needle that she must find in a burning haystack, because otherwise I won't be convinced. Ami and Minori are clearly better 'people' than Taiga, and she must transcend her own selfishness and face an intense amount of sacrifice and suffering before I will approve. This is not fairy-tale anime; this is anime based on reality. She must redeem her bitchiness by becoming a transcendent friend, and it will be only then when I will approve.
She must first feel the suffering she imposed on Ryuuji and realize the hurt she spread. It will only be then when the relationship will not be one of dependence, but of Taiga truly exhibiting love.
I hope you get my point.
|2009-02-15, 03:45
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@ physics - what blooming relationship? It is more then just hooking up to have a relationship. Lets see how Minori dealt with Taiga and Ryuji being so close, she cut herself off from them, but at leasy she had ber baseball to hide away in. Now who put the boot in? Taiga? Ryuji? No it was Ami.
Both Taiga and Minori chose each other over themselves, now just as we can't tell how Minori acts she goes off screen, we can't tell how Taiga acted. She just suffered from a huge revelation of what she really wanted which is why is lost it and ran after Ryuji. Now who she chooses we have to wait and see next episode.
But my conclusion to my question is, imho for Taiga and Minori there can be no real relationship until they can find a way to keep their friendship after hooking up with Ryuji, or if Ryuji becomes the person most important to them and damn the rest of the world.
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|2009-02-15, 03:50
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 60
@physics223: Well... I think you're seriously overstating the persistence of Taiga's abuse of Ryuuji... it was fading to a mere ritual comedy bit between the two by episode 5 and basically vanishes after that. But that may be part of why we're seeing things a bit differently.
And to use your own words, this anime is more realistic.... such 'tit for tat' transcendence may never completely balance out just like in real life.
You seem to be going out of your way to assign "blame" even as you say you don't blame. "blame" has implications that "the cause of" doesn't. Word loading...
Minorin *chose* her path with the information she had. How she got that information appears to be pure chance. (actually the novel twists it a bit differently so it is less of a 'deux ex machina' but we'll stick to the anime). Why not blame Minorin for being unable to rough it on towards Ryuuji? Why are Taiga's feelings more important to Minorin than her own?
I'm going to assume your view and eventual grade of the series is what you mean by "I approve" because that phrase isn't really coming across the way you might think it is.
|2009-02-15, 03:53
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Without imagination reading books is nearly impossible. Maybe watching anime you need bit less of it but it still is there, and it is taking part in his Toradora, so how can you say if he is wrong or right?..
|2009-02-15, 03:56
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|2009-02-15, 04:10
|Link #309
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Being called dog hasn't really 'vanished.' While I'm sure you take that merely jokingly, I also don't think it 'basically vanished.'
I blame the circumstance, and I blame the author if she couldn't show me Taiga deserves being there. But I don't blame the accidents that led to this current situation.
Why are Taiga's feelings more important to Minorin than her own?
Because she's Taiga's friend. It's been hinted at since the Christmas festival but she always tried putting Taiga first before herself. Friendships can be like that at times.
Don't mistake me, this is currently my no. 2 anime of all time. At the worst it will be number 3. But I hope that Taiga earns my fondness as a viewer, because at this point she's not even my second choice for a happy ending.
|2009-02-15, 04:20
|Link #310
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
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Heh, I'm not attempting to change your view, just want to make sure I understand it. For some, couples that have noisy relationships are annoying or one thinks 'why the hell are they together'. Others find a sense of, hell, not sure how to say it.... it just seems to work for them. I personally have a bit of self-identification with couples like Hazuki+Kouhei or Taiga+Ryuuji(later stage) ... my wife and I can get a bit noisy, rag on each other, and she's oft-heard to call me "buddha-head" (empty headed) but we certainly stand by each other.
And yes, if the author (or the anime writers) fail to demonstrate for you why the plot and the ending should be as it is - then for you they've failed. I know I've certainly raked a few series across the coals for insufficiently connecting the dots to my liking.
I actually understand Minorin least of all the characters.... and its not that I don't follow her motivations, they just don't ring as true to me as, say, Ami or Taiga.
|2009-02-15, 04:22
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I didn't think that! I respect you, Vexx. My point was that the author has a lot to do to at least convince me that Taiga should be with Ryuuji, because there are two better choices around, at least, from what I see.
|2009-02-15, 04:41
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I understand your reasoning, and taking their actions at face value, it is hard to see the good Taiga was (or was trying) to do in a lot of her actions. Yes, when they first met she was fairly abusive to Ryuuji - in general not treating him very nicely or fairly. However, as early as the end of episode 2 she started doing things (even if not very frequently) that placed his feelings on a matter that was important to both of them above her own.
In my opinion, she has not done anything that I would consider treating Ryuuji badly since before the summer at Ami's villa arc, yet she has shown on more than a few occasions (again, even if it's not a constant showing) that she's willing to put his feelings above her own.
I don't feel that Ami's originally two faced "princess" personality is as justifiable as a lot of people that watch the show seem to feel. She was completely self centered and didn't even bother giving anybody a chance to get to know her, it had to be forced upon her. Yes, she has changed for the better in a lot of ways, but even for a while after the arc introducing her (I'd say up until school festival arc) she maintained a bad attitude in a lot of situations. I'd also like to point out that at the end of episode 8, Taiga was the one that went back to help Ryuuji who could have drowned after getting hit despite not even really knowing how to swim herself, whilst Ami just finished the race.
All that said, I want to say again that I think Ami has changed for the better, and the advice she's been giving Ryuuji shows her concern for the well being of her group of friends, even if he (unfortunately) doesn't always understand it right away...or at all.
As far as Minori goes, I don't think we've really seen enough development of her to determine what her true feelings are. However, from the start she seemed to accept Taiga and Ryuuji as a couple (even though they weren't one) without any hesitation. It is obvious that she likes Ryuuji as well now to come extent, but she also isn't nearly as attached to him as Taiga is. All the moments and time Ryuuji and Minori have shared can't be enough even now to call what they feel for each other more than a crush, whereas Taiga's feelings for Ryuuji are clearly beyond that.
I'm not saying I think it wasn't hard for Minori to do what she did, but I think she would feel even worse if she took Ryuuji away from Taiga. Why is this, then, if she knows that Ryuuji likes her as well? The only logical explanation I can come up with is that she cares about Taiga and her friendship that much more. By prioritizing Taiga like that, it shows that while her other actions in the recent episodes have indicated that she likes Ryuuji too, it's not to the point where it will upset her for a long term (keywords: long term). At the very least, it wouldn't upset her more than her alternatives would anyway, which all points to her feelings for Ryuuji not being as strong. Again, this makes sense to me because they (Ryuuji and Minori) haven't shared nearly as much to have such real feelings for each other at this point. The fact that Minori also answered Ryuuji the way she during the first "UFO" scene makes makes it seem that her feelings for him aren't very strong at all, at least not at that point. I do realize that it could also be argued that she already thought Taiga liked Ryuuji at that point, so she was hiding her feelings, I just have the opinion that this was not the case.
Lastly, I'd just like to say that I think out of the three of them, Taiga has done a lot more for Ryuuji than the others. In the beginning, she took the fall for both of them when they were stereotyped as "delinquents" at the same time as informing everybody that her and Ryuuji were not a couple. She also took the time especially to make sure that Minori understood it for his sake (even though she apparently didn't believe it). She's helped Ryuuji attempt to get closer to Minori in more instances than he has helped her with Kitamura. She gave up winning the race against Ami to help Ryuuji who had been knocked unconcious when she really wanted to win (for numerous reasons, but it was implied her largest motivation for winning at that point was to stay with Ryuuji rather than him going with Ami). She gave her father another chance even though she didn't want to because Ryuuji wanted her to, knowing that it would likely end in herself getting hurt again, and the list goes on.
Because of all this, I feel like Taiga has more than made up for how badly she treated Ryuuji when they first met. I don't think the amount of abuse she gave him is nearly as much as you make it out to be, and I also think you aren't giving her enough credit for the incredible selflessness she has shown. Even though it wasn't a consistant selflessness, it showed on more than a few occasions, and most of them were involving things that mattered deeply to her. One phrase that I think about a lot when watching Taiga is "Your actions speak louder than your words." When you think about what Taiga says to Ryuuji (things that could be considered abusive), and the way she actually acts towards him, you see two VERY different things, especially earlier on in the show.
So to conclude, I understand your points, and I know I probably won't be able to change your opinion (or the opinions of anybody that happen to share yours or have similar opinions of their own), but this is how I view the feelings and actions of the three main females of the show up to this point. I really like all the characters, but I think that Taiga and Ryuuji have a connection that the others just don't have. One could be formed, sure, but as of now this is not the case. Both Ryuuji and Taiga have shown more self-sacrificial moments for the other throughout the entire course of the show than any of the other characters have shown for each other (or Ryuuji and Taiga). Granted they've all done it on more than one occasion (except maybe Kitamura, I'd have to think harder about that), it's just that Taiga and Ryuuji have shown it in the greatest amounts, and also when it comes to things that are on a higher level of importance to them.
Sorry for the rather large amount of text, but I didn't feel like my opinions on this were something I could convey in just a few paragraphs. I enjoy reading the insight everybody else has on this series so far, even those who have opinions that differ largely from mine.
|2009-02-15, 06:34
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I rewrote and attempted to improve my argument in my blog here. Please feel free to write long statements there, as I also enjoy entertaining opinions different from mine. I thought that was pertinent so as to prevent clutter; besides, it's only going to be ourselves who'll read each other's posts.
By the way, I read your reply: point taken. But I expanded my argument and I hope you add to yours. Let's converse in my blog: there's even lesser limitations for words in there. Thank you.
|2009-02-15, 08:34
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Komrades of Kitamura Kou
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So I watched this episode after Clannad AS episode 18, as I usually pair up both shows since I follow both like a religious zealot. However, rather than perk me up, it just pushed me further down the road of personal introspection.
Anyway, my take on this discussion.
What makes Taiga for me for me stand at amongst a whole slew of characters of a similar character build (Tsundere, but not really so much of that) is that unlike the others, we are given some insight and backstory that givs some weight as to why her personality is as such and why she acts that way to Yuuji to some degree. Now I personally don't think she's Tsundere as most people seem to say she is, but she does share some similar traits, but as a whole she's more different than that.
Taiga is a very, very, very, really really flawed character. Even if her traits are similar to many other characters of the same archetype, she isn't like that for some default reason of by some completely sadistic personality disorder. She has a bit more backstory from what I've seen in the series (and purely the series, never read the original material), and backs it up with consistent action and language. Granted the past 2 episodes are a bit of a deviation, but she does state some plausible reasons for suddenly being nice which is a polar opposite expectation to how she would be acting even though it's Xmas, again pointing out her own inner conflicts in terms of how she "genuinely" treats other people. She's already selective enough as it is.
Her violent and anti-social attitude is perhaps deeply rooted in her anger towards her father and towards a feeling of betrayel she gets from people she'd have thought really cared about her. Even if people truly cared, with the exception on Minorin, she still acts the way she is.
From a Psychiatric POV this is a typical defensive technique to shield oneself from hurt and harm by being unapproachable and eccentric. At the same time these people are also the ones crying out loud for someone to love them, but their defensive stanced prevent them from reaching this.
Taiga is almost a classic example of this. I would know, I used to be like her.
I think one of the reasons why she acts like a bitch towards Yuuji is that Yuuji, to some extent, acts like sort of a "father figure" type to Taiga. Yuuji is genuinely a caring and loving person, one of the very few genuinely real anime characters of that type I've seen in recent years. That said, we all know of Taiga's history with her father. She hates the bastard for understandable reasons. I doubt she truly understands to have a caring male figure, most likely having had an absent or irresponsible father most of her life. She treats him like crap, rightfully so, and doesn't perhaps truly understand what it means to have someone "caring" over her.
I'd think she had spent most of her life looking out for herself. Besides Minorin anyway, she's never had a an adult figure and someone to truly rely on. Remember how she laments that she fears she'll never have someone care over her, thinking that the men in her life never gave a damn about her. She has some probably dislike for men, or at least some fear, which extends towards her crushes. Towards that she is suddenly all hesitant, shy and reserved, a far cry from her violent and aggressive self. The only man to have really cared for her was Ryuuji.
Which is why about at around the end of the father arc I think I finally understood why she treats Yuuji as she does:
She sees Yuuji as an extension of her father, thus a father figure, and as such treats him like crap. And yet, as the conflict in herself manifests to us, she is unable to respond and integrate well to the fact that Yuuji is indeed, very much different than her father is. That Yuuji is unlike any caring man that she seen before, she simply does not know how to act. She would simply treat him as she treats her father, but he is obviously a person far from him.
I see her conflict enough as it is. Many scenes were shown of her being dumbfounded enough as it is that Yuuji is nice to her despite her abuse. She clearly isn't well adjusted to this, and like a maladjusted person reponds typically with disdain. But as the series progresses, despite her usual violence, I can see some appreciation in her eyes.
She's slowly warming up to him. She is, in short, slowly learning.
The years of neglect and potential man/father hate is slowly disappearing. She has never appreciated what it meant to have someone care for her, despite her longing for one, because she never grew up with it. She never truly understood, because she was not given the chance. The first time she felt what it was like to have someone care for her almost without recompense was Yuuji. She didn't understand, she didn't know, she could not notice, and thus couldn't appreciate. But she found herself on that street, crying out his name, because she finally realized what it was to truly have someone watch over her.
This, I think, is what makes her the penultimate example of her character type.
And with that, with her heartfelt realization, tells me no other person deserved Yuuji more than her.
|2009-02-15, 08:44
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Komrades of Kitamura Kou
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Edit - At marami akong kilalang Michael.
|2009-02-15, 08:49
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Of all places I didn't expect you to pop up here. I never expected you to watch anime.
Anyway, let's play DotA someday, when you're free once again.
That was a good reply by the way. I never expected you to be fluent in English!
Bano ka pa rin mag-DotA ano. hahahahaha
|2009-02-15, 08:53
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I'm going to refrain from posting on your blog as I never really intended to debate the moralities, feelings, and actions of the characters, rather just state my opinions once. I know doing that in the first place in this forum opens up discussion on whatever opinions I stated, but as far as my input goes, I wanted to just leave it at that. So really my goal isn't to get anybody to see the story from my viewpoint, just to express it since I'm really enjoying this series, and this episode in particular.
The only way anybody could have a "wrong" viewpoint is if they thought something that contradicts a fact, like saying Ryuuji is bipolar crack addict and everything in the show is just his delusions...something that clearly isn't true. You have reasons to feel like Taiga's undeserving compared to Minori and Ami, and I have reasons to believe that she is moreso, among other differences in our opinions. Hopefully we'll get an ending that satisfies both of us, which could easily happen.
I'm hoping that the next few episodes gives us a little more insight into Ryuuji's thoughts as well, since the only deep actual interesting insight we've gotten from him recently (in my opinion) is his thoughts when the others were trying to pair up Taiga and Kitamura. Everything else he has thought recently were already established parts of his character.
Anyway, that's about all I have to say. I'm looking forward to reading what everybody else thinks of the last few arcs on these forums, even if I don't feel inclined to post myself.
Edit to respond to MeoTwister5: That is some interesting insight into Taiga's character that I never really thought about myself. I'm not sure I necessarily believe that's exactly what is going on with her character, but it is impossible to deny that what you describe fits her without any glaring faults. Either way, it is definitely an interesting way to view her character, and one I hadn't considered until viewing your post.
Last edited by Mangz; 2009-02-15 at 09:01. Reason: Responding to another poster
|2009-02-15, 08:55
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Wait... teka... ok nawawala ako ulit. But you're only one of 2 Mike's I know who play there haha.
Edit - Pweh. You can't be an Atenista and not at least type good English.
Oo bano pa rin ako magDota haha. Left4Dead for a while.
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THEY were the best of friends.
But now mining magnate Nathan Tinkler and his former business partner Matthew Higgins are facing off in a legal battle over royalty payments from the coalmine deal that propelled them from Hunter Valley pit electricians to millionaires.
Mr Higgins, who used to run Mr Tinkler's maintenance business in Muswellbrook, is taking civil action in the Brisbane Supreme Court to gain access to the financial records of Oceltip, of which both are directors.
Court documents include allegations that Mr Tinkler has diverted funds from Oceltip's bank account without Mr Higgins's knowledge or approval.
Oceltip was set up in 2007 after the then friends famously sold or invested everything they had to scrape together a $1 million deposit to buy a neglected coal tenement at Middlemount, in central Queensland, for $30 million, through Mr Tinkler's company Custom Mining.
Mr Higgins, who ran the drilling team at Middlemount and spent his evenings with Mr Tinkler at the local pub, had a 20 per cent share in the company that was sold in just over 12 months to Macarthur Coal for $65 million in cash and shares worth up to $210 million.
After the deal Mr Higgins walked away, from the business and the friendship, with a reported $53 million in cash from an initial investment of about $200,000. Mr Tinkler went on to sell his Macarthur shares months later for $442million.
But before selling Custom Mining the pair, who no longer speak, struck a coal royalty agreement that would bind them for the life of the Middlemount mine.
Their Newcastle-based company Oceltip, 75 per cent owned by Mr Tinkler's wife Rebecca and 25 per cent by Mr Higgins's wife Ruth, receives $1 for every tonne of coal mined from Middlemount, with payments due every quarter.
And it is understood Mr Tinkler – who is the subject of speculation about his financial situation – has been trying to sell the royalty payment for a one-off sum that could be worth as much as $20 million.
Oceltip's quarterly royalty payments started in September 2009 at $3685 and grew to $484,519 in March and $519,355 in June this year.
Neither man has spoken publicly about what severed their solid friendship, with this legal battle the first insight into the relationship.
In correspondence submitted as part of the proceedings, Mr Tinkler's right-hand man Troy Palmer described the pair as having no respect for each other.
''It is no secret that Nathan and Matthew Higgins do not respect each other and have no desire to continue to deal with each other regarding the affairs of the company,'' Mr Palmer wrote to Mr Higgins's lawyer on November 14.
Mr Tinkler's latest legal battle was sparked when Mr Higgins, who is extremely private and once told a journalist – ''I'm confidential mate, I like to stay under the radar so I'm not interested in talking at all'' – requested access to Oceltip's financial statements and bank records.
An affidavit submitted to the court on November 29 by Mr Higgins's lawyer, David Schwarz, details months of correspondence between the former friends' legal teams and frustration by Mr Higgins over missing bank statements, no company ledger and allegations some royalty payments were diverted to one of Mr Tinkler's private companies.
Mr Higgins, who is a part-owner in Newcastle restaurant Bacchus and paid a record-breaking $7 million in 2008 for Jesmond House, at Barker Street, The Hill, even offered several times to go to Oceltip's office in Honeysuckle and photocopy the financial statements himself.
The affidavits include correspondence that shows he was turned away empty handed from the office in October and wrote personally to Mr Tinkler signalling his intention to hold a directors' meeting on November 15 to discuss the financial state and future of the company.
About 15 minutes before the planned meeting, Mr Higgins' lawyer received advice that Mr Tinkler, the only other director, was travelling and was unavailable.
When questioned by Mr Schwarz about Oceltip's financial state, Mr Palmer replied on September 10: ''It has since been discovered that under the previous management, there was some confusion internally as to who was entitled to the proceeds of the account.''
On November 7, Mr Schwarz wrote directly to Mr Tinkler requesting Oceltip's general ledger, several months' bank statements and signatories for the company's bank account.
''It is evident from a review of the documents, so far produced by you, that a substantial portion of the royalty payments made to date by Middlemount Coal and Ribfield have been diverted from Oceltip, at your instigation or at the instigation of persons on your behalf ...,'' Mr Schwarz wrote.
''We are instructed that our client requires that the amount diverted from Oceltip be repaid to it immediately ... There are, it appears, significant tax liabilities that have not been satisfied.''
The Tinkler Group has signalled its intention to sell the royalty deed to Noble Resources for an undisclosed sum or split the arrangement so Mr Higgins and Mr Tinkler no longer have to do business together.
Mr Higgins has refused any changes to the arrangement, until the company's financials are made clear.
He is seeking access to Oceltip's complete financial records and wants to appoint a third director, company secretary and company accountant.
Middlemount Coal is holding any future royalty payments in its trust account until it receives a signed statement from both directors nominating an agreed Oceltip bank account.
Mr Tinkler's Sydney-based public relations spokesman declined to comment yesterday and Mr Higgins did not respond.
The matter is listed to be heard in the Brisbane Supreme Court tomorrow.

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JOHNSBURG – Developers are proposing something unusual for the village of Johnsburg: an apartment complex.
The village of about 6,300 people has one apartment complex. Banner Apartments is proposing a second, with some of the units for low-income residents.
There is a need for affordable housing in Johnsburg, Chris Hooker, a senior development associate with Banner, told the village's Development and Government Affairs Committee.
"I see opportunity here," he said. "I see that there's potential growth here, and I like the area. I want to build things and stay here. I look at this as a potential partnership."
The proposed complex would contain 72 units in three buildings on 21.2 acres just west of the Walmart on Route 31, according to Banner's application.
Banner is applying for the low-income housing tax credit program, which means that in exchange for a financial incentive, it must reserve a certain percentage of units for residents who meet a low-income requirement.
In this case, at least 40 percent of units would need to be occupied by residents whose combined income is at or below 60 percent of the average median income, which in Johnsburg is about $40,000 a year.
"It's not going to be a 100 percent Section 8 property as the concern typically goes," Hooker said. "Are we going to be importing people from downtown Chicago to live in your community? No, that's not the intent. There's already a need here."
The development committee will make a recommendation to the Village Board on whether to approve the developer's proposal, but first it's doing its homework, said Village Trustee Rich Janusz, who is also the committee's chairman.
Janusz is planning trips to view similar complexes and talk to their local governments. He also wants to talk with the Johnsburg school district administration to see what effect the proposal could have on enrollment.
Its members will likely report some of their findings at the committee's next meeting, which is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Jan. 23 at Johnsburg Village Hall, 1515 Channel Beach Ave.
Janusz's top concern at this point is the density of the proposed complex.
"That's an awful lot of building, an awful lot of units on a small piece of property. That's a lot of people in a small space. I don't care if it's Section 8 or Hollywood," he said.
Much of the 21.1 acres cannot be developed because Dutch Creek runs through the property, Hooker said. Running Brook Farm Boulevard would be continued past Walmart, and the three buildings would be located south of it.
Johnsburg's only other apartment complex also is near Walmart, just off Route 31.
But proposed complex's location is at the heart of Janusz's second question: Is that the best and highest possible use for that land?
The site is in what is shaping up to be Johnsburg's retail corridor and is close to a proposed Metra station.
While that's what appealed to the developers, it also has board members asking whether they could get more in terms of potential revenue from a more commercial use.
It's a prime development location, committee member Greg Klemstein said.
Janusz said would like to see some of the tax burden taken off residents, which is why he's an advocate for more commercial development in the village.
He said he's also not convinced that there's a problem with affordable housing in the area, adding that while there aren't a lot of rentals in Johnsburg, there are some just on the other side of the village limits in northern McHenry.


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- Cartoon Characters: Sasuke, Daisuke Oozaru, Onihime, Warriors.
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One of Japan's most acclaimed contemporary photography artists, Rinko Kawauchi, presents a selection of over 40 photographs and one video from the last fifteen years. Reminiscent of Japanese photography of the 1960s Kawauchi's work is the search for the sublime amid the banal; poetically her sense of wonder transforms the quotidian into something extraordinary. With the same vigour and depth she applies to the making of her books, the artist has gone about to create an exhibition that allows the viewer to visually drift like riding on the current of a well-orchestrated piece of music. With numerous solo exhibitions to date, Kawauchi's talent has previously been on view in important international institutions, such as in the Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain in Paris, the California Museum of Photography in Riverside, Hasselblad Centre in Gothenburg, or the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo. Furthermore, she was rewarded with a nomination for the 2012 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for her book Illuminance. This exhibition-accompanying publication, as well as her latest book Ametsuchi, will be available at the gallery.
As the title of the exhibition suggests, the 44 photographs and the one video installation presented with Illuminance correlate through their presence of light, whether in its magnificently glittering or delicately sublime cast. At once conceptual and ambiguous Kawauchi's approach is personal while at the same time striking a universal cord.


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Every year, summer monsoon rains fill the Mekong River until the lower reach bursts its banks and spills across the flood plain. Local communities rely on the seasonal flood to bring water to rice paddies and spread fertile sediment across the land. In 2013, however, the floods were more extensive than usual. Heavy rains in September and October brought damaging floods to central and southern Cambodia. The floods destroyed crops, roads, and buildings and claimed at least 152 lives.
These images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite contrast seasonal floods on the Mekong in 2012 to exceptional floods in 2013. MODIS acquired the top image on October 21, 2013, and the lower image on October 25, 2012.
The images are false-color, made with infrared and visible light. Water is black and blue, clouds are light blue and white, and plant-covered land is green. Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh, is tan. The images show extensive flooding along the Mekong and the Tonle Sap. The large, downloadable image provides a wider view and shows additional flooding around the Tonle Sap.
- The Hindu (2013, October 20) Death toll rises to 152 in Cambodia floods. Accessed October 21, 2013.
- ReliefWeb (2013, October 15) Cambodia: Floods – Sep 2013. Accessed October 21, 2013.
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NEW ORLEANS - Columbia's men's and women's cross country and track and field teams each were recognized by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association as All-Academic teams.
A total of 171 institutions earned the distinction as a result of a cumulative team grade point average of 3.00 or better.
The Columbia women's team grade point average was 3.19. The men's team finished with a cumulative grade point average of 3.23.
Columbia will begin its cross country schedule on Sunday, September 9 at the Vermont Invitational.
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Physics is a fascinating science with unlimited opportunities for discovery. In this program, you will delve deep into your exploration of the laws of the universe and gain valuable research experiences that will prepare you to make your own groundbreaking contributions to the field.
As a graduate student, you will have opportunities to work alongside faculty on leading research programs that center on condensed matter physics, theoretical nuclear physics, astronomy and planetary science and biological physics. You will spend significant time in the lab, where you will use sophisticated instrumentation to study mechanics, electronics, atomic and nuclear physics, quantum mechanics or other physics sub-area that interests you.


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He was a Red Lake Falls native.
David John Thode, 56, of Moorhead, MN and formerly of Red Lake Falls, MN, died on Wednesday, February 20 at his home in Moorhead, MN. Graveside services will be held at a later date.
David John Thode was born November 16, 1956 son of the late Henry Jr. and Clarice (LaCoursiere) Thode at Red Lake Falls, MN. He was baptized and confirmed at Bethany Lutheran Church in Red Lake Falls, MN. He attended Lafayette High School in Red Lake Falls and also attended Northwest Technical College in Thief River Falls studying electronics.
David loved to gopher trap with his dad and spending summers fishing the Clearwater River. He enjoyed camping in the Black Hills. His dad would take him for ride along in the patrol car, getting to know the streets of Red Lake Falls and stopping for ice cream. He worked at Detroiter Manufacturing in Red Lake Falls and as a carpenter's assistant for several years.
David lived the past 23 years in Moorhead, MN.
He was an avid reader. Barnes and Noble was his favorite book store. He enjoyed nature books, hunting, fishing and outdoor activities. His favorite time was spent on his weekly get together with friends over coffee and he perfected riding the city bus around Fargo. He was a member of the 4H and the Boy Scouts.
David is survived by his siblings, Arlene (Wayne) Marcotte of Little Rock, AR, Joyce Matheny of Red Lake Falls, MN, and twin sister, Carol (Duane) Boucher of Brooks, MN; sister-in-law, Cyndi (Thode) Handyside of Crookston, MN; 6 nephews, 4 nieces and several great-nephews and nieces.
He is preceded in death by his parents; brother, Roger; brother-in-law, Marlin Matheny; grandparents, Henry Sr. and Etta (Holtz) Thode, Emil and Eleanor (Payment) LaCoursiere; nephew, Ronald Wayne Marcotte; as well as several uncles, aunts and cousins.
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As the second overall pick of the 2012 draft and expected savior of the Washington Redskins franchise, Robert Griffin III is going to be put through a number of comparisons over his career.
Head coach Mike Shanahan made perhaps the oddest one so far following a 38-31 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving.
"He's kind of like 'Cool Hand Luke,'" Shanahan said of his young quarterback, who was born more than 44 years after Paul Newman starred in the film.
Did Griffin even get the reference?
"He must be pretty cool," the former Heisman Trophy winner said with a giant laugh before admitting he didn't know who he is.
There isn't a more chilled person in Landover, Maryland right now that Griffin after the show he put on Thursday.
Four days after leading Washington to a 31-6 win over the Philadelphia Eagles, Griffin became the first quarterback in Redskins history to throw four touchdown passes in consecutive games after reaching the mark versus Dallas.
That's pretty amazing in itself given that the Redskins have been a franchise since 1932, but the fact that Griffin, in only his 11th NFL game, turned the trick in a nationally televised game.
On Thanksgiving.
In his return to Texas, where he shined both as a high school player and at Baylor University.
Any worries about Griffin being overwhelmed were quickly put to ease with a side of turkey, stuffing and cranberry sauce.
"I had that feeling like I was back home where I spent so many years, but it didn't drive me through the roof emotionally as far as getting charged for the game," stated Griffin. "It was a normal game even though it was Thanksgiving. Every game is big for us at this point and that's how we approached it."
So in the span of five days, the Redskins (5-6) have gone from being three games under .500 to right on the heels of the first-place New York Giants, who host the Green Bay Packers this Sunday before taking on the hosting Redskins next Monday night.
A Monday night game against the defending Super Bowl champions? Sounds like a game tailor-made for Griffin.
"He doesn't get too upset about anything," Shanahan stated. "He just handles himself and goes about his business, works extremely hard to prepare for a game and he knows how to avoid distractions because he focuses on his job. He doesn't seem to let anything bother him. That's why he has the success that he has because he is very disciplined and determined and he works at it."
Of course, Griffin isn't doing it alone. Running back Alfred Morris ran for over 100 yards versus the Cowboys and his performance helped to set up the play action, which Griffin used on his first touchdown pass of the game, a 68- yard catch-and-run bomb to Aldrick Robinson in stride.
It was the first of four touchdowns for Washington the second quarter alone. Following a one-yard scoring run by Morris, Griffin hooked up with Pierre Garcon for a 59-yard touchdown, with the wide receiver deserving just as much credit as Griffin.
Coming across the middle, Griffin actually threw behind Garcon, who reached back to make what he called a "lucky" grab before darting through the defense. Had Garcon not gotten his hand on the ball, it likely would have been picked off.
But taking chances has defined Washington's offense as Griffin has six touchdown passes of 40 yards or longer this season in addition to a 76-yard scoring run of his own. Four of his TD throws have gone for longer than 60 yards.
"Every game in the NFL is a big game. He shows up in big games every time. That's what makes great players in this league, showing up on a big stage and he's on his way to doing that," said Garcon.
While Garcon may have bailed out his quarterback, RG3 was pinpoint accurate on his last TD throw of the quarter. With under 10 seconds until the half, Griffin rolled to his right out of the shotgun and found Santana Moss on the edge of the end zone, putting the ball only where his receiver had a chance for it. Moss did his part by getting his feet down.
"He's just going to get better and better," said Shanahan, also highlighting Griffin's ability to learn from mistakes and avoid repeating them.
That was evident after Washington's opening drive of the game, when Griffin took an intentional grounding penalty on a 3rd-and-10 that helped set Dallas up with solid field position and led to a field goal for the hosts.
Griffin made sure not to duplicate the blunder, hitting on 12 straight passes at one point while completing 20-of-28 passes overall.
"The first third down we had, I made the mistake of not getting to my check down and I made sure I didn't make those mistakes the rest of the game," said Griffin. "Just get it to the guys who are open and trust they'll make the play instead of trying to make the play on your own."
It is tough to say what was more impressive on Thursday, Griffin's four touchdown passes, including a 29-yarder to tight end Niles Paul in the fourth stanza, or the fact that he kept his composure and his offense on the field after the Cowboys charged back to make it a one-score game with 8:24 left in the final quarter.
No big deal for Griffin, who led his offense on an 11-play drive that ate up 5:20 of clock and ended with a field goal that restored a 10-point edge.
Griffin twice saved the drive early on, converting a 2nd-and-11 with a 23-yard pass to Moss before moving the chains on 3rd-and-1 with a four-yard pass to the wideout.
"That was huge. I told the guys that's probably the drive that saved our season," said Griffin.
There have been a number of quality quarterbacks to come through the NFC East: the recent careers of Troy Aikman, Phil Simms and Randall Cunningham come to mind first. It will be a long while before Griffin begins to infringe upon that sort of class, but his early resume has been impressive.
Don't forget to check out his next big performance on Monday night. It won't earn him an Oscar like Newman, but it could be the next step towards an eventual Vince Lombardi Trophy.


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The state's hotly contested race for the US Senate came to East Boston on Sunday afternoon, as Republican incumbent Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, both marched in the city's annual Columbus Day parade.
Separated only by the UMass Lowell marching band, the rivals greeted supporters along the route as their aides and volunteers tried to pump up the crowd by chanting slogans and passing out campaign paraphernalia.
Campaign signs for both candidates dotted the route, and Brown and Warren appeared to be greeted with comparable levels of enthusiastic cheers, polite applause, and quiet stares as the parade progressed.
"We appreciate your independence, Scott," said Fred Sullivan, 53, of West Roxbury. "I'm trying," replied Brown, who marched with his wife, Gail Huff. "I'm battling every day out there."
Sullivan, a registered Democrat who plans to vote for Brown, echoed the comments of other Brown supporters who credited him with a willingness to work on both sides of the aisle in Washington.
"I know he's trying hard," Sullivan said.
Warren, for her part, marched with a group of mostly young supporters, as well as Boston city councilors Salvatore LaMattina, Ayanna Pressley, and Felix Arroyo. At one point Warren thanked Colleen Daniel, 31, of East Boston, who shouted, "You've got our vote!"
Daniel later cited Warren's work as a consumer advocate when asked why she plans to vote for the Harvard law professor.
"I think we've all been [hurt] to the point where we need someone who's on our side," Daniel said. "Plus, I'm a woman."
But Brown had support from women in the crowd as well, including Cassandra Furer, 43, of Boston. "He's bipartisan, so he gets results," she said.
Susan Locigno, 57, of East Boston, posed for a photo with Brown and said "his looks" when asked why she supports him.
"He's an honest guy, sincere," Locigno said, adding that she also finds Warren's personality to be abrasive. "I always vote for the [candidate] who doesn't badger. She badgers."
Marie Phillips, 61, of Lynn, had a different take. She shook Warren's hand and later explained why she is backing the Harvard law professor.
"She's for the middle class," Phillips said. "I believe in what she's saying. I believe it's time for a change."
The parade followed a Brown rally in Hyannis on Saturday in which police escorted Warren supporters away from the crowds after, according to police, they were being disruptive, the Cape Cod Times reported.
On Sunday, a Barnstable Democratic official sent the Globe a link to photographs on her Facebook page that appeared to show a man at the rally placing a Brown campaign sign on a Native American statue. Warren's claims to Native American heritage have been a contentious issue in the campaign.
Brown said during a brief interview as the parade was ending that he was not aware of the incident. "If I had seen it, I would have told him to take it down," he said.
Warren also said she was unaware of the events at the Hyannis rally and was focused on her own bid for the seat.
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text: Betty Duchesne Thompson passed away Friday, Feb. 8, 2013. She was born Nov. 30, 1932 to Charles Chesnier and Carrie Cowan Duchesne in Richland Parish, La. She graduated from Ouachita Parish High School, Monroe, La.Betty and her husband, Charles, moved to Tennessee in 1954 and continued to make Chattanooga their home. She worked in the banking industry and easily made friends with everyone she met. She was a member of Christ United Methodist Church.Betty was a loving and devoted wife, mother and grandmother and was happiest in doing things for her family. She was preceded in death by her parents and ten brothers and sisters.She is survived by her husband of 60 years, Charles Clinton Thompson, Jr. ; daughters Jan Thompson and Lisa (Jim) Stanley; son Clint Thompson; grandson Bill Weske; granddaughter Morgan Weske both of Chattanooga; sister Mackie Fitch, Monroe, Louisiana; sister-in-law Hazel Duchesne, West Monroe, La.; brother-in-law George Evanoff, Shreveport, Louisiana, brother-in-law and sister-in-law Dr. James and Mary Thompson, Milton, Fla., and many nieces and nephews.Funeral services will be held 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16, in the East Brainerd Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home.The family will receive friends at the funeral home from Noon-3 p.m. Saturday.Memorial donations may be made to the Ronald McDonald House, 200 Central Ave, Chattanooga, TN 37403, or the Humane Society of Chattanooga 212 N. Highland Park Ave., Chattanooga, TN 37404.Please share your thoughts and memories at www.chattanoogaeastbrainerd.com.Arrangements are by East Brainerd Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home, 8214 East Brainerd Rd, Chattanooga, TN.


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Politics, Sex, and Revolution: An Interview with Mariela Castro
Recognized internationally for her work in human rights, Mariela Castro promotes a different brand of socialism than that of her parents, who were key leaders during the Cuban Revolution. To Castro, all forms of discrimination—whether based on race, class, sexual orientation, or gender identity—must be tackled together in an inclusive and participatory movement for social change.
Today, thanks to Mariela's vision and leadership, Cuba has one of the most progressive comprehensive sexuality education programs in the world, transgender individuals receive sex reassignment surgery free-of-charge, and each May, the streets of Havana are packed with gay pride celebrations and marches for equality. At the global level, Castro fights for the sexual and reproductive rights of women and girls as a member of the High Level Task Force for ICPD.
Our staff recently had the opportunity to sit down with Castro to talk politics, sex, and revolution.
How did you become passionate about social justice?
The Cuban Revolution demonstrated that we are able to emancipate ourselves from the unbalanced power relationships that have existed throughout history. All the leaders of Cuba's fight for independence delivered this message. I saw the spirit of the revolution in school and on television as a child. Now, I cannot abide injustice.
There are many Cubans like me who feel that any type of injustice provokes us to look for ways to confront it. This is what we have learned from life and history. This is what motivates us. The challenge is immediacy. We do not want 20 more years until justice becomes a reality. We do not want to leave an unjust inheritance to our children and grandchildren.
When did you get involved in Cuba's LGBT rights movement?
We started celebrating the International Day Against Homophobia in Cuba back in 2007. I took the idea from a French activist of Caribbean origin, Louis-Georges Tin, who marked May 17th as the International Day Against Homophobia in 2005 because that was the date the World Health Organization declassified homosexuality as a mental illness in 1990. The declassification was an historic act of justice by the medical science community.
Now, the entire month of May is dedicated to ending homophobia. We've established spaces for dialogue at universities, parks, schools, and other public institutions. We use films and media campaigns. Cuban society is very open to dialogue, especially about justice and rights. When you take the discourse of social justice to the people, they listen and participate in the debate. That is very valuable to us.
Many countries are still fighting to provide comprehensive sexuality education for adolescents in schools, but sex education exists in Cuban schools. How did this come to be?
In the 1970s, the Federation of Cuban Women, which has worked with IPPF, created an interdisciplinary group to produce a National Program on Sexual Education. This program became State policy in Cuba in 1975 during the first Communist Party Congress. At first, the Ministry of Education put up a lot of resistance. It accepted talking about some reproductive health issues, like teen pregnancy prevention, but not others. This changed a bit in the 1980s when university research underscored students' sexual and reproductive health needs, and in the 1990s, a gender-based approach was introduced.
We finally got the Ministry of Education to accept the comprehensive sexuality education project we created for schools, and now there is an alliance formed between the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Culture, with the Federation of Cuban Women as the civil society leader of this initiative.
We are currently working with more clarity and transparency. We recognize there are many things that still need to change in the school program, like addressing issues of homophobia, violence, and abuse. A stronger emphasis is also needed on training teachers. Otherwise, teachers reproduce their own prejudices on the issues, and society does not advance.
Do you think it's possible to replicate Cuba's success on a global scale or even in the region?
Each country chooses its own path to social transformation. An important thing we can do is to establish regional alliances among institutions and organizations in order to push decision makers in every one of our countries. If there is not political will for the Cairo Programme of Action, nothing will get done.
The fight for social transformation against injustices and discrimination cannot be done partially or superficially. We must join the different elements that need to be changed. We cannot act in isolation.
As the daughter of Vilma and Raúl Castro, and Fidel's niece, how has your family influenced your desire to advance a progressive agenda?
I learned everything I know directly from my family. The biggest credit should go to my mother. In the 1960s, she was able to discuss these matters with Fidel, my father, and other colleagues, and convinced a lot of people about women's rights and other issues. She worked hard and carefully.
I used to be able to talk about things with my father without having to go through bureaucracy, but now that he is President, he doesn't give me that chance. We're negotiating at least one day a month for me to go to his office, but he hasn't given me a date yet. So, I take advantage whenever he starts in on something and throw my two cents in. (Laughs.)
Sometimes my father tells me, "You don't need to convince me any further. You need to convince the others. I support you and give you my opinion because I am convinced, not because I am your father." That is the kind of relationship we have, and it has been useful for my education and values.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 4th Feb 2013 18:41 UTC
"At the GNOME Developer Experience Hackfest in Brussels, the GNOME developer community has tackled the problem of specifying a canonical development language for writing applications for the GNOME desktop. According to a blog post by Collabora engineer and GNOME developer Travis Reitter, members of the GNOME team are often asked what tools should be used when writing an application for the desktop environment and, up until now, there has been no definitive answer. The team has now apparently decided to standardise on JavaScript for user-facing applications while still recommending C as the language to write system libraries in." Discuss.
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You are misinformed, GNOME started using javascript binding even before QML, the news is that it is now the official language, nothing else.
Back in the day, Gnome started using Clutter bindings to implement Gnome 3. I'm not aware of them switching from Gtk to Clutter for app development, that would be even bigger news.


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Is it possible to engineer an absolutely safe world for ourselves? Host David Pogue explores the extent to which science and technology can protect us from monumental forces of nature such as earthquakes and epidemics. He challenges researchers to save us from dangers of our own making, such as traffic accidents and contact sports. Our increasing reliance on the internet makes us vulnerable to new risks: Pogue delves into cyber security, where computer experts work to shield us from attacks from hackers and terrorists. Risk is all around us — but we can be smart about it.
"Making Stuff Safer" on Nova airs on Wednesday, November 6th at 8:00 p.m. on channels 3 and 3-1.


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Within the last year, bottles of both these wines were over the hill--faded color, tired flavors. But each of these were surprisingly neither.
2000 Limerick Lane Zinfandel "Collins VY"
Medium red color with a bit of rust on the edges. Flavors of raspberry liqueur, orange juice, clove and hazelnut. Good length on the palate. A good example of the unique character of Amador zinfandel at mid-life.
1998 Karl Lawrence Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley, California
A huge wine. Dense, purple-black. Thick blackberry and black plum fruit with firm tannins that did lessen in the glass (didn't decant since, based on the prior bottle, I pretty much expected to dump this one on the azaleas). Dark chocolate and a jammy note appeared in the finish but thankfully stopped short of turning cloying. A bit ripe for my tastes but nonetheless an impressive wine for the vintage.


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Why is your audience so much dumber than Brian's? My three year old son has most of this terminology down.
Michigan Musenesday is an End in Motion
Little boxes on the grid-iron, little boxes made of football players, little boxes for positions, little boxes some the same. There's a tall one and a short one and strong one and speedy one and they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all seem much the same.
Football positions are things that fans learn very young. Everyone knows who the quarterback and running back and linebackers etc. are. But then coaches start talking, and like any expert they designedly do so with such abstruse and recondite specificity as to elicit from the lay audience a greater appreciation for the mysteries of the speaker's craft and complexities of the imbroglio of disagreements wherein than said audience might have been provisioned in elucidation—much like a writer who uses lots of SAT words to say "they're being pretentious." Not that our coaches do this; Hoke's staff is remarkably candid as coaches go.
Anyhoo, as with the penultimate sentence of the previous paragraph, more obscure lexemes, when understood, can communicate greater subtleties as well as pedantry. So that you too can cognize the nuances, or just sound like an insufferable know-it-all during the Spring Game (that's what you're here for anyway right?), hither a glossary of Michigan's various names, past and present, for eligible receivers; would that the Oxford was so concise.
Football allows four players of any type in the backfield ("backs") plus the two guys lined up on the extreme edges of the line ("ends") to be eligible receivers. A QB, RB, TB, HB, TB, WB, SB, FB, UB, YB, FL, Z, SR, or R is technically a back, while a TE, SE, X and Y are ends.
Quarterback (QB): Is an effin quarterback. Mr. Lewan would you kindly show the audience what this look li…
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Ah. The first quarterback at Michigan was on Team 2 (1880): Edmund Barmore, though Elnathan Hathaway played some QB as well. Why "quarter?" When the game was young they played a lot like rugby, with rushers and a goalkeeper and innings and such. The recognizable part of this was that the rushers (blockers) were meant to plow the way forward, and a couple of ballcarriers stood half-way back from that. When the line of scrimmage and downs were established teams lined up in a diamond behind the line with a quarterback, two half-backs, and a full-back. Here's Stanford doing something like that under Harbaugh if you can imagine Luck is lining up in front of the 40 yard line:
The story is more complicated and took half a century but if you look at this you can see why the quarterback got the ball first. Now imagine the two halfbacks are receiving a lot of lateral handoffs and speeding for the edges more often, while the guy all the way back is set to plow straight forward.
Running Back (RB) is Michigan's current preferred term for the traditional (first appeared in 1880) Halfback (HB), though RBs can often include fullbacks, e.g. Running Backs Coach Fred Jackson. Scatback or Powerback are unofficial labels that refer to skillsets, i.e. backs who, respectively, might run around or through attempted tackles. Tailback (TB) is slowly becoming an anachronism which seems to have made it into Michigan's lexicon with Bo's arrival and left shortly after the 1997 season; Manus Edwards in 1998 is the last player to be listed as "TB" in the Bentley database. That database phased out Halfback in the '60s.
Superback (SB) generally means an RB/WR hybrid. Rodriguez threw it around in 2009 to essentially mean Carlos Brown when Brandon Minor was in there too. It makes more sense the way Pat Fitzgerald at Northwestern uses it to mean an RB who can split out to be a receiver, thus creating matchup problems for defensive coaches who prefer to match personnel (one LB per backfield member, one DB per receiver). All-Purpose Back is something I think Rivals.com made up.
Fullback (FB) is now the misnomered blocking back.
An H-Back is a fullback/tight end hybrid. An H-Back will line up behind or outside a tackle and usually goes in motion before the snap. A Wingback (WB)—on the far right of the pic at right—is another anachronism from when Single-Wing and Wing-T formations ruled the game and passing was for communists and differs from the H- in that he's lining up outside the ends. Michigan has WBs listed from '69 through '79. This differs from an H-Back in that he lines up outside the tight end—this is Pop Warner-style with no receivers remember. An A-Back is another term for this.
Hoke's staff has been recruiting a position they call the U Tight End or more often just "U" which is almost indistinguishable from H- or A-Backs except that it's much closer to a tight end in the hybridization scale. Calling him an "end" is a misnomer because he's not on the line, therefore he's not any kind of end.
Smart Football, also linked on 11W's recent "Let's Bubble" article. I'm using it here to show how XYZ aren't always XYZ and what a 'U' is. Irony not lost.
You may remember the U from such Minnesota tight ends as those other Minnesota tight ends who were not Ben Utrecht or Matt Spaeth. Michigan did it too with Massaquoi and Ecker (right: from MGoBlue.com file, 2004). Nebraska has a U under Bo Pelini (Ben Cotton last year, Mike McNeill before) which he calls "The Adjuster" because he can be a FB, TE, or WR of the converted quarterback variety. Gruden calls this the "joker." In the play that had Greg Mattison cackling maniacally during the latest Spring Scrimmage overreaction you can see Ricardo Miller lined up as a U, which may be a nod toward more WR alleles this year, but Khalid Hill, a fullback-ian recruit, was offered at the 'U' and A.J. Williams came in as one too so Miller is not the coaches' ideal there.
Also Syracuse used this position under Doug Marrone, which I only know this from scouring 'Cuse articles during various GERG-related panics. The thing about the U is you don't know where he'll line up (backfield or as a true TE) until after he breaks from the huddle, so it's kind of a personnel gimmick.
Tight End (TE) is normally an end who lines up flush with the tackles. They used to be just called "ends" before a distinction needed to be made between them and wide receivers; the last ends on Michigan's rosters—OEs to the Bump Elliott era—were phased out in the middle of the 1960s. To Hoke the typical tight end spot is the Y. This is where I would expect Ricardo Miller to line up, and where The Funchess and other more receiverish TEs will end up, since he has a clearer release to receive, and because he can line up flush or as a receiver (ends can't move before the snap).
That label comes from receiver nomenclature: X, Y, and Z. The letters come from reading across the formation most typical when receivers began needing special designations:
Wide Receivers (WRs) are backs and ends lined up outside the box. Having the Y move to the right turns him into the slot receiver. Having him split all the way out makes him a wide receiver. He also would then be outside the Z and screw this up, but NFL players seem to be able to keep straight who's who:
"Some teams, mostly in collegiate and high school football, use route trees and route numbers for play calls. So you might hear a play such as "Spread right, Z zoom, 821 H-swing on two." Knowing what you know now, the play call should make a lot more sense. Spread right is the alignment, Z zoom is the motion, 821 are the pass routes in the order of "XYZ." So X runs an 8, Y runs a 2, and Z runs a 1. H-swing tells you what the H man runs (the running back or often the "H" back in two tight end sets) out of the backfield."
It seems Y and Z don't care who lines up outside; Z is the one that has to line up at least a yard off the line of scrimmage and who's counted as a back. If you turn the fullback into a slot receiver on the other side or bunch him up or whatever, that receiver is the R.
Split End (SE) is the X and was where you'd normally put the 'No. 1' receiver. The nomenclature appeared on Michigan rosters with Bo and lasted a year longer than his career; Greg McMurtry was one of the last listed starters at "SE" in Bentley, although my 2003 program has Braylon as it. Michigan didn't really have a Braylon or McMurtry last year so this fell to Roundtree. As an end the X needs to get out of bump coverage but doesn't go in motion. The Z last year was mostly Junior Hemingway. This is the Flanker (FL) position, and is typically the Jason Avant to the SE's Braylon. That's what Roundtree means by doing more movement before the play; he's kind of the possession guy now; he has moved from an end position to technically a back.
This is where it gets confusing, because the Flanker or the Y or the R can both be the Slot Receiver (SR) or Slot Back. This is because the slot comes from spread formations which differentiate from slot and wide. The slot refers to the area on either side of the line about mid-way between the wide receiver and the tackles. If the FL is inside the Y, he's the slot. If the Z is inside, he's the slot. SR as an official roster position came and went exactly as quickly as Rich Rod did; the leftover guys like Gallon and Dileo are now, with the rest of the receivers, listed as WR.
As Borges, a West Coast guy, well knows, where the slot lines up matters much to the receiver in his area, since they will run routes off of each other to flood a zone or clog the lane for man defenders.
Not everyone has XYZ, SE, etc down. Consider this an opportunity to catch up those who didn't know this stuff -- I wish someone had provided 2006 me with a comprehensive list of all these terms and since I never found one I thought why not build it.
My son knew the XYZ positions before he knew the alphabet but that may be my fault for making him watch two hours of film after 12 hours of pre-school.
Ha! Would that all parents took such an active role in their children's education!
So when can we expect a Hello: post from Dáin II Ironfoot, son or Thorin, son of Thrain?
I'm trying to figure out if you're trying to be funny, or are just an ass. Right now my Bayesian estimate is leaning towards "you're an ass"
Anywho, Seth, thanks for keeping MGoBlog and football analysis accessible to the uninitiated
I voted funny.
Just as Hoke teaches the fundamentals every year and doesn't assume that everyone remembers everything, Seth is doing the same. I say thanks, even as someone who has watched football for almost 30 years now I appreciated the refresher.
After my British bro-in-law asked me to explain the terminology of quarterback vs. halfback (he trying to relate it to rubgy terminology, of which I know nothing), I made something up, but it suddenly occurred to me I hadn't heard the term halfback in some time. (From Seth's timeline, I'd like to think I only remembered the term from old football movies.) Now I can forward this to Brit Bro-in-Law with the explanation of the additional letters that confuse at least part of the blogosphere, and their relatives and friends.
As for dictionaries, of which I know a bit more, according to my paperback Office Edition Webster's II New Riverside Dictionary Revised Edition, its definitions (which are terser than its title) for:
Abstruse: "Not easily understood : recondite."
Recondite: "Not easily understood : abstruse."
I'll have to go to the Brit's house to check the Longer Oxford for more details.
I always thought of abstruse as invoking an air of mystery but with a negative connotation for not paying any mind to pragmatism, like the airy discussions of esoterics debating how string theory relates to Sartre.
Recondite then (just how I've used the word) is more deliberately bewildering as opposed to abstruse being more the result of a certain non-grounded personality. I'm not quite sure this is correct.
certainly much more elucidating than the little Webster's. And much more fun.
I was under the impression that the U was a more receivery tight end whereas the Y was more blocky. Therefore, Funchess and Hill would be U's and Williams a Y. I also remember Butt saying the coaches told him that he had a unique niche as being able to play both positions.
I would think the Williams is a more prototypical Y and Hill a U. Funchess, to me, would be a U so you could move him out to a slot. Not saying you couldn't lineup the Y a bit wider, but as you mention, the lack of motion means he is where he is without shifting him off the line for motion. In the "Diagram 3" where you have a U and a Y on the field, the U almost certainly has an easier release because he's not covered by a DE. The Y can almost be a second tackle on running plays, whereas the U has to make blocks in space more like a FB.
...and until my teens only the most casual of football fans, I want to say that this was exceedingly useful to at least one person (me) on this board. I'd picked up most of it over the years, but having it all neatly laid out it great. Thanks!
I'm also a casual fan who didn't follow football until my freshman year. This is a helpful summary, esp. since I only have time in my day for one blog.
Like most fans, I'm most curious who comes in at the SE, like Amara Darboh.
Amara Darboh was almost exclusively an SE in high school, but I'm not sure yet if this is where he'll stay. He's fast against high schoolers but they all (meaning all 4- or 5-star WRs) look like that against high schoolers. You really want your SE to demand double-teams and create some of his own openness as opposed to having the play design do it for him.
Jehu Chesson lined up mostly as a flanker in high school and since he's also a track jumping champion if his ability to high-point the ball is as good as his physical leaping ability he could end up being very Marquise Walker.
I don't believe the receivers are differentiated as much. An Air Raid offense will have very specific roles for X, Y, Z, and R, and even try to recruit some of those. Borges seems to prefer having these be step-up roles, with the Z being the top one. In the below example he put Denard as the slot (R), Hemingway is the flanker (Z), Gallon is the split end (SE ) and the Y is Koger:
This play certainly had some personnel misdirection to it with Michigan lined up in a Denard Jet 3-wide, Gardner taking the snap and Denard in there as the R or Superback used to fake the end-around (which worked well). But it's still a pretty basic Superback spread play; you could imagine this in its vanilla format with the Quarterback in a shotgun, the RBs lined up as splitbacks to either side of him, and then those two both run fake handoffs to either side, with the superback becoming an outlet pass on the outside edge if the linebackers bail into coverage zones instead of going with the fake. The X is your deep receiveiver, and true to form Gallon goes deep. The Z is the flanker and as you see Hemingway goes in motion and ends up coming across the defense to either drag the coverage with him if they're freaking out about him, or get him crossing many zones so he can be found in their soft spots. The Y stayed in to block the DE, who ends up double-teamed and thus gives the routes all kinds of time to develop.
If Michigan can have a Braylon or Anthony Carter who can do all of these things you can put him anywhere and have success, and the flanker is a good spot for someone with equal parts speed and possession. If you have a guy with just great speed who can catch over his shoulder better than he can grab something and hang on in traffic he's porbably more of a split end (think Manningham). If you don't have a #1 wearing guy out there the Z can be a possession dude (Avant) because he's going to be going over the middle more often than going deep. If you're lining up a Y receiver in the slot often that's to get your best receiver away from a defense who's keying on him, because now his routes will interact more with the Z (think Calvin Johnson). An R might be more what you think of as a slot dude: a guy with more shake who is going to be an end-around threat or a screen target or a short curl-and-go dude (think Steve Breaston).
Rodriguez's offense was basically "receivers" and "slots," where the former were bigger and very good at blocking, and the latter were the jet-smurfs who could make the bubble screen more dangerous.
Also: speaking to the earlier question of "my" audience as opposed to Brian's, I'd like to point out that "my" commenters seem to be far more likely to have LotR references in their names. Of this I am proud.
As for Brian, I think his "commenters" are more Douglas Adams readers (or Vonnegut).
Would that the Oxford WERE so concise! Sorry, but you can't make a such a pointed show of lexical skill only to flub on the subjunctive mood of your ultimate verb.
Otherwise, great work as always, Miso.
I think I've got you on rare use. The would suggests a subjunctive mood, but the action is indicative, e.g. "If only he were a better receiver" may be technically correct but sounds dumb. Setting a mood of whistfulness in sportswriting is not as desireable as suggesting concise action, and I think indicative tensing does a better job of communicating the desired structure of the sentence: Part 1: [I wish this thing:], Part 2: [The thing I wish].
Other stylistic adaptations we've made for the benefit of clearer internet-to-internet communication:
-We use who instead of whom even when whom is appropriate.
--Put punctuation outside of quotes, although I've been trained so hard on this point I forget to do that all the damn time. I do think this should change, since the "inside the quotes" convention was created for a time when quotes mainly referred to something transcribed from a speaker's mouth, whereas today most quotes are never physically uttered but copied and pasted from something the speaker typed. We type so much now that all sorts of things like capitalization, fonts, modifying formats, become part of the communication.
--Related: I like apostrophes around a single word that needs to be emphasized as being introduced, italicized if it's emphasized, and bolded if the reader might be searching the text for that word (examples being glossary terms or the names of diarists in the DD columns because I know people scan that column to see if they got mentioned). I prefer to save quotes for formal quotes, and for everything inside the holy quote marks to be the quoted material, and everything outside to be the author's.
I think I lean more prescriptivist, and am thus bothered by using 'who' instead of 'whom' even when 'whom' is appropriate, etc. I tend to see the battle for correct English usage (where such a thing is defined) on the internet as a losing, but noble battle, and one worth fighting. So particularly on a blog where we proudly invoke #TheMichiganDifference, I feel justified in calling out what at first strike me as commonplace examples of misuse (who/whom, their/there/they're, etc.) The was/were example, for whatever reason, particularly grates on my SNOOT-iness, hence my initial reaction and post. But if your choice of diction is driven by a thoughtfully considered philosophy (as you've just described) rather than the consequence of either over-hasty proofreading or simple lack of care, then I'll be happy to swallow my prescriptivism and accede to your stylistic preferences.
Translation: since you obviously know what you're doing, and made a concious choice to write as you did, I'll sit down, shut up, and stop trying to correct my betters.
Also, I too would prefer to have used italics rather than CAPS in emphasizing 'were' in my original post. Alas, I was posting from droid. #FirstWorldProblems
No need to apologize -- I like the opportunity to justify, and the subtle but persistent David Foster Wallace-ing of written communication is somewhat of a cottage industry around here.
Plus now I can try to convert you.
My great fear about #TheMichiganDifference is that it will become what Michigan State people generally think it is: snootiness based on technically correct but pragmatically useless knowledge. If a Michigan education does stand out for non-quantifiable attributes, it should be that Wolverines will put in the extra time for objective assessment of everything we do. This is the difference, by the way, between our medical school and hospital system, who are the pioneers of the team-based treatment that recently saved my father's life, and prescriptivist Beaumont experts who were each individually better qualified than the U-M doctors but whose compartmentalization made them ill-equipped to judge risk of actions that affected other parts. It's the difference between our B-School which forces students to prove their worthiness and doesn't give them a clue how to do that just to get in, and continually forces them to figure out IF they're having a problem rather than be told WHEN they are having a problem. It's the difference between these two programs and our architecture program (from what I was told) circa 2003.
Prescriptivism is too focused on whether you're doing A or B correctly that it can easily forget the purpose all that knowledge was intended for. The goal is better communication. Things like using "they're" when you mean "their" are barriers to communicating ideas because they're jaunting to the brain, but many of the additions to written communication since the beginning of the internet (e.g. "/s" to indicate sarcasm) were organic responses to a real need for adapting the richness of the spoken language of Shakespeare to keyboard-based communication.
If a Michigan education does stand out for non-quantifiable attributes, it should be that Wolverines will put in the extra time for objective assessment of everything we do.
I think that's a pretty good mission statement for MGoBlog itself as well. And thanks again for your thoughtful response. Your description of #TheMichiganDifference might indeed have planted the seeds of my conversion.
especially the nomenclature with regard to receiver positions. Thanks Seth!
Was really hung over after getting three hours of sleep and my buddies and I lit out for the territories on spring break. My friend and I were in the back of our friends mom's minivan (not as awkward as one would think and very efficient for road trips) and his mom left the stereo faded out almost 100% to the back. My friend put that song on and since they could barely here it in the front, they turned it up. In the back, it came at us like a screaming high-pitched banshee. We kept trying to explain to them how terrible it was and to turn it down (did not realize that the fade was so contrasted) since it was killing our hangovers. They did not believe us and kept blasting it over and over. Finally, an hour later, we switched spots and they finally understood. Damn boxes.
Wife's watching Weeds on Netflix this week. Apologies; tell your friend thanks for reminding me about that stereo problem in his mom's minivan (boom mom'ed)
Would that Oxford "were" so concise.


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Seth Walder @SethWalderNYDN
Westhoff said he doesn't think Mark Sanchez has regressed. #nyj
Manish Mehta @MMehtaNYDN
Source confirms that Jets have expressed interest in Hue Jackson for their vacant offensive coordinator position, as @AlbertBreer noted #nyj
@AdamSchefter: Atlanta promotes Lionel Vital to Director of Player Personnel. Takes over for Dave Caldwell, who took over for Les Snead, who became Rams GM
Conor Orr @ConorTOrr
Westhoff said his special teams unit was an "incredible series of ups and downs" this year #nyj
@MMehtaNYDN: Source confirms that Jets have expressed interest in Hue Jackson for their vacant offensive coordinator position, as @AlbertBreer noted #nyj
Conor Orr @ConorTOrr
Then Westhoff said his special teams unit was like the "Titanic hitting the iceberg" #nyj
Sean Jensen @seankjensen
#Bears coaching search could move to next phase after Bruce Arians interview Sunday. My latest update. http://bit.ly/XWNTVU
Conor Orr @ConorTOrr
Westhoff says Thurman is the DC. #nyj #jets
Westhoff on TattooGate: "Get a life guys!" Added: Rex has "an enviable relationship w/ his wife. & what happens between 2 ppl is their biz"
Jake Steinberg @Steiny31
"I would like the challenge of turning the #Jets around and bring them to the playoffs. It's New York." - Jim Popp
Has it not worked elsewhere? I'm sure, but it HAS worked in SEA.
If in 3 yrs we could get to Seattle's level right now we'd all be happy, right?
Well I guess Woody should hire Rex as Vice -Pres also Im sure that will improve chances of success. Keep cheerleading for Rex let me know how you feel about Rex being Coach at the end of next season...
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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/07/dsi_region_lock/
Nintendo to limit DSi games with DVD-style region locks
Bid to stop halt 'underage gamers', apparently
Posted in Personal Tech, 7th October 2008 10:25 GMT
The upcoming DSi handheld games console will be region locked, Nintendo has confirmed.
Despite software on the previous DS console being region-free, Nintendo told website Eurogamer that it decided to tie the DSi's software to specific geographical regions because the console "embeds net communication functionality within itself" and Nintendo intends to "provide net services specifically tailored for each region".
Nintendo's DSi: games will be region-coded
As a result, if a European gamer buys a DSi in the UK, they'll only be able to play software bought within Europe. The same will be true for North America and Japan.
The Japanese videogames giant also said that it intends to build parental controls into the DSi. Because each region has its own age limits set by different, independent bodies, Nintendo said it believes a console region lockdown is necessary.
The DSi is backwardly compatible with software designed for the DS, but it's worth noting that the DSi region-lock won't apply to DS titles.
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Kangaroos axe Tomahawks from World Cup
The Australian Kangaroos have axed the USA Tomahawks from the 2013 Rugby League World Cup after a massive 62-0 flogging in Wrexham at Glyndwr University Racecourse Stadium in front of 5,762 fans.
Jarryd Hayne and Brett Morris joined an elite list as both players posted four tries for the Australian Kangaroos. Wendell Sailor and Mat Rogers were the last Australians to score four tries in a World Cup match.
Brett Morris' four tries were claimed in the first half which saw Australia jump to a 38-0 lead after 40 minutes. Johnathan Thurston could have blown out the score line, however his conversion attempts failed to spilt the uprights.
The USA Tomahawks showed patches of courage as they held out the Australians, but the class of the Kangaroos overpowered them.
There is concern for Melbourne Storm fullback, Billy Slater who left the field four minutes into the second half with a reoccurring knee injury. Greg Inglis shifted to fullback as a result and Daly Cherry-Evans given an opportunity out of left centre.
The Tomahawks unable to contain the rampaging South Sydney centre, Greg Inglis as he tortured the USA defence. He crafted plays to cross the white-line twice for the Kangaroos.
The USA shocked the world as they advanced through to the quarter finals. The class of the Australians won out as the USA inexperience saw them bow out after a solid World Cup campaign.
Australia ended the contest with 12 tries on the board, concluding the match downing the Tomahawks 62-0. Australia now advance through to the semi-finals at Wembley Stadium next weekend.
Match Details
Australia 62 United States 0
Venue: Glyndwr University Racecourse Stadium
Crowd: 5762
Halftime Score: Australia 38-0
LeagueUnlimited.com Players of the Match:
3 points - Greg Inglis
2 points - Jarryd Hayne
1 point - Brett Morris
Tries: Jarryd Hayne (4), Greg Inglis (2), Brett Morris (4), Cameron Smith, Cooper Cronk
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Maine Design Show to Become Destination Home Show in New England
Portland, Maine - Kevin Thomas, Publisher of Maine Home+Design announced today that the Maine Home+Design Midcoast Show name has been retired and that in early summer the 2012 event will re-emerge as the Maine Home+Design Show. The Show, which is slated for Saturday June 30 and Sunday July 1, 2012, will be held in a specially constructed tent at the Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport.
"Moving the show to its new location is a symbolic gesture that represents the vitality of a revisioned experience," said Thomas. "Our home shows have always been great successes for exhibitors and attendees but as we looked at the model we challenged ourselves to do better, to take it up a notch. So we renamed it and developed a special exhibit space that will give us the opportunity to bring the pages of our magazine to life," he added.
The Show, which will coincide with Cellardoor Winery's Pop The Cork celebration scheduled for June 28, is a solid reason for people to make plans for a long weekend in the midcoast of Maine. The weekend will begin with an incredible wine and food experience and culminate with incredible exhibits at the home show set up by over one hundred businesses who help people make their houses homes through redesign and craftsmanship.
The Maine Home+Design Show:
• Will be held in a specially constructed 30,000 square foot Clear Span semi-permanent structure on the grounds of Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport - a more cohesive exhibition experience.
• Will feature The AIA Pavilion where 20 visionary architects showcase their designs and meet attendees to answer their design and home-building questions - the only event of its kind in Maine.
For more information on about the Show contact Leanne Ouimet email@example.com. To learn more about Maine Home+Design visit www.mainehomedesign.com.
Published ten times a year by The Maine Media Collective, Maine Home + Design is the state's definitive design publication that gives readers a fresh look at the incredible craftsmanship in Maine. In addition, The Maine Media Collective is home to Maine Magazine, Eat Maine, Art Maine, and The Brand Company - a marketing firm.
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Natural gas rose in New York, extending its first weekly gain in almost a month.
Prices climbed as much as 4.9 percent. Gas advanced 9.2 percent last week, the first such increase since the 20 percent jump for the period ended Jan. 24, as a winter storm in the U.S. South moved to the Northeast. Stockpiles of the heating fuel declined for a 13th week to 1.686 trillion cubic feet in the seven days ended Feb. 7, according to the Energy Information Administration. That's the lowest level since April last year.
Futures for March delivery rose 19.2 cents, or 3.7 percent, to $5.406 per million British thermal units in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange at 10:30 a.m. Volume of all futures traded was 65 percent below the 100-day average. Prices are up 28 percent this year.
Supplies will drop to 1.33 trillion cubic feet by the end of March, when the heating season draws to a close, the EIA said in a monthly report. About 49 percent of U.S. households use gas for heating, according to the Energy Department's statistical arm.
MDA Weather Services in Gaithersburg, Maryland, said temperatures may be higher than average in the eastern U.S. from Feb. 19 through Feb. 23. The low in New York on Feb. 20 may be 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4 Celsius), 10 more than usual, according to AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania.
Floor trading in New York is closed today for the U.S. Presidents Day holiday. Electronic transactions will be booked tomorrow.
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Artist: Katherine McCauley
Title: Gentle Descent
Medium: Mixed-Medium - Paper Construction
Size: 32" x 22"
Year Installed: 1988
Location: Government Center West
Kathering McCauley used burnt marks as part of her visual vocabulary. Her abstraction made frequent reference to archaic form. In this watercolor on hand made paper construction with burnt areas, she infused a descending motion of forms with ease and elegance. Together with "Offering", the artworks are installed in the atrium of the Governmental Center West.
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