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OneHandWeen killed it.
In all seriousness, I had a busy week, so I'm taking this Top Three Thursday off.
Désolé! Regular progress will resume on Poké Monday!
OneHandWeen killed it.
In all seriousness, I had a busy week, so I'm taking this Top Three Thursday off.
Désolé! Regular progress will resume on Poké Monday!
As you may or may not be aware, two very similar anime are airing this season: Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry and Gakusen Toshi Asterisk (henceforth referred to as Cavalry and Asterisk, respectively). They both involve schools with weapons and magic and romance and ecchi and stuff, but just how similar are they really? That is what this review series aims to analyze. I will post one part per four episodes aired of each anime, and this is the first. Keep in mind that these will be released late on the Saturday they're due because I have to spend a whole day thinking and writing about the last of the series of four episodes.
As a final note, this review may contain spoilers. Please proceed with caution.
11/21 EDIT: Part 2, where I talk about how episodes 5-8 have impacted my thoughts, is released. Click here to view it.
12/19 EDIT: Part 3, where I sum everything up from start to finish, is released. Click here to view it.
The duo of a dark-haired boy for a protagonist and a reddish-haired tsundere girl for a deuteragonist is an obvious common theme between these two anime. In fact, it's not even a new concept (see also: Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance, Trinity Seven, maybe even more that I haven't watched). Still, the main two characters are different…in a way.
Any characters not mentioned in this section are not introduced yet, don't need a description because they're so minor, or cannot be described without spoiling anything.
I decided (as of November 26) to relocate these summaries to Google Docs for two reasons: (1) to minimize spoilers, and (2) while I enjoy writing them, I realize that they seem out of place in a review like this, and I wouldn't blame anyone if they lost interest because of them.
These anime series have plenty of similarities: reddish-haired tsundere deuteragonist, protagonist stumbles upon her changing, protagonist and deuteragonist want to get stronger together, magic weapons, and competition. However, Cavalry seems to have a lesser male-to-female ratio than Asterisk, the use of weapons outside of school is more strictly enforced in Cavalry than in Asterisk, and the protagonists have different motives: while Ikki's motive is to rise to the top, Ayato merely wishes to discover the truth about his older sister. Also, Ikki starts off with a weapon and the title "Worst One," whereas Ayato is more of a blank slate, having just transferred into the school without a title and having to be lent a temporary blade after that unfortunate encounter with Julis. Finally, Ikki is closer to Stella than Ayato is to Julis because the former two are fortunate enough to be roommates while the latter two are not.
It's too soon to say which I like better, but I am leaning towards Asterisk because of its more interesting story and more bearable deuteragonist. Claudia is still a bother, but I say the other characters of the anime are plenty enough to balance her out. It's a tentative decision, though, because some characters have not yet been introduced (e.g., the dark-haired girl on the cover of Cavalry), some characters have not had enough time in the spotlight (e.g., Saya in Asterisk), and there is still more plot yet to be revealed.
À la prochaine! (Until next time!)
Tier: NU
Type: Electric
Base Stats: 70 HP, 55 Atk, 55 Def, 80 Sp.Atk, 60 Sp.Def, 45 Speed
Ability: Static, Plus (hidden)
Usable moves: Agility, Body Slam, Brick Break, Cotton Guard, Discharge, Double-Edge, Façade, Fire Punch, Frustration, Heal Bell, Hidden Power (Fire, Ice), Light Screen, Power Gem, Power-Up Punch, Protect, Reflect, Rest, Return, Seismic Toss, Signal Beam, Substitute, Thunder, Thunder Punch, Thunder Wave, Thunderbolt, Toxic, Volt Switch, Wild Charge
Silver lining, silver lining, silver lining…
Flaaffy hardly stands out as an Electric-type, but it has an interesting combination of moves in Volt Switch and Seismic Toss. The former allows it to keep up momentum, while the latter lets it deal consistent damage in spite of its nearly nonexistent offensive presence. Flaaffy also has a neat ability in Static, which may paralyze an opposing Pokémon on contact, so think twice before trying to Knock Off its Eviolite or using some other common contact move like U-turn or Rapid Spin.
Sadly, Flaaffy has poor stats in general, is weak to Earthquake (which is not a contact move), and is subjectively outclassed by Electabuzz, which has much better stats (although with slightly worse physical bulk) and a much greater movepool. I guess Flaaffy is better in Trick Room? That's pretty much all I can think of to justify its use (never mind playing the "for fun" card).
Flaaffy @ Eviolite
Ability: Static
EVs: 252 HP / 252 Def / 4 SpD
Bold Nature
IVs: 0 Atk
– Volt Switch
– Seismic Toss
– Rest
– Toxic
This is the best set Flaaffy can run, utilizing its 70/55/60 bulk with Eviolite (which is effectively 70/105/99 with this build) to pivot with Volt Switch, deal consistent damage with Seismic Toss, and spread status with Toxic (and maybe Static). Its only form of recovery is Rest, so it is highly, highly advised to carry Heal Bell support with this set. EVs are fully physically defensive to take full advantage of Static, and its Attack IV is 0 to reduce damage from confusion and Foul Play.
Flaaffy has access to the legendary Cotton Guard, through which it can go fully specially defensive and be able to take on physical attackers if it sets up. However, that is a big "if," considering Flaaffy's poor stats, and critical hits are always possible. (On the bright side, nothing commonly runs Storm Throw in NU.) Also, no matter how specially defensive it is, it has a problem dealing with offensive Claydol.
252+ SpA Soft Sand Claydol Earth Power vs. 252 HP / 252+ SpD Eviolite Flaaffy: 170-204 (49.4 – 59.3%) — 99.6% chance to 2HKO
Furthermore, if it ran Cotton Guard, it would have to lose out on Volt Switch, giving up its ability to keep up momentum and ease prediction. Keep in mind, however, that even the strongest Ground-type attacker has a hard time breaking through a +6 Defense Flaaffy.
252+ Atk Thick Club Marowak Bonemerang (2 hits) vs. +6 252 HP / 4 Def Eviolite Flaaffy: 144-172 (41.8 – 50%) — approx. 0.4% chance to 2HKO
In terms of other utility options, it has Heal Bell and dual screens, but four moveslot syndrome makes Heal Bell difficult to slap on a set, and it can't simply give up its Eviolite in favor of Light Clay, meaning if it ran dual screens, they would have to last 5 turns, or Flaaffy would lose some important bulk.
It can also run Sleep Talk to not require Heal Bell support and to serve as a sleep absorber, but this option is an inconvenience with Toxic, its only method of touching Golurk and Shedinja. Plus, each of its other moves (Volt Switch and Seismic Toss) has an immunity, and moves with immunities are risky with Sleep Talk.
At any rate, the most damage you're going to be doing with this half-naked sheep is through Seismic Toss and Toxic.
http://pastebin.com/xS3ib57p – It's an odd team, but it works.
This team contains:
This is a recent happening. I had a project due at noon today, but I put it off too long and couldn't get any more than half of it finished, even after I tried to stay up all night working on it, so I figured, "Hmm… For programming assignments, the professor takes 20 points off for each week it's late. Well, why turn in a half-baked submission for such a low score if I could instead give myself a week to ameliorate it and potentially get an 80? (not likely)" To be honest, though, it doesn't really help that I'm putting a handicap on myself by refusing to use the Windows software required for the course and instead stubbornly using alternatives that work on my Mac. (I refuse to run Windows on my Mac; it's not that I'm strictly anti-Windows, it's just that I don't want to use it if I don't have to.)
This really only applies to my blog posts here, though. As I try to keep up with this once-per-two-weeks routine, sometimes I may happen upon circumstances through which I just can't think of a topic (writer's block) or was constrained by the due date of one or several assignments. A recent example is my MonMusu character evaluation, of which I posted a rough draft at 11:50 pm featuring only the bit about Meroune, and I stayed up between 5 and 6 am finishing the darn thing. Thought Dump 4 I actually ended up posting at exactly 12:00 am on Sunday, May 10, where the scheduled deadline was the day before, which was (and still is) the first post where I failed to post the original on time.
It's basically what I'm doing right now. I have done it for many assignments, including one I submitted not too long ago (and actually got a 95, which is surprising, considering I had no idea what I was doing). I have also done it on many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, so many of my posts up to now. Again, I don't know what I should be doing about my poor time management. I can dismiss it, saying "It's just me," but at the same time, time management is very important in the workforce, of which I will soon inevitably be a part. My mind is just so fickle, though, that it's difficult to focus on any one thing. That's the main thing I blame.
Short version: I find it hard to keep up with this routine and real life, but I try my darnedest to make something work whenever I'm in a pinch.
À la prochaine! (Until next time!)
…and I can't retain it all.
Ugh, senior year. In high school, it wasn't so bad, but in college…
I start to take it easy at first. What could possibly go wrong, right? I encounter a few bumps here and there, still taking it slow. Then, before I know it, I'm buried up to my neck in assignments and responsibilities that I just feel like I can't handle all at once. Heck, even when I start to think I can't handle it, that's when it gets tougher. I mean, it's as if I'm expected to be a superhuman or something. I have an internship application to take care of. I have to be up by 8:00 am tomorrow. I have an online test to finish by the end of the day. I have some project work to do. I have a bunch of things to do on the same day, including an assignment that I apparently should have started on a week ago. Man, how am I supposed to enjoy Fall Break with all this crud piled on my shoulders? On top of that, my computer's had some connectivity issues as of late (thankfully not since Wednesday)!
But hey, it's just life, I guess. Every time I'm stuck thinking about one thing and putting aside a bunch of others, suddenly a new obstacle comes my way. For example, just recently, I looked back through one of my previous drafts (Spontaneous Saturday 6/6/15) and saw this:
Uh…what? Under construction? I thought I'd finished this darn thing long ago! Ah, well, I'll get to it as soon as I can. (Key word: CAN.)
The thing is, obstacles in life are not all the same. You gotta have some sort of priority order. Some things you can (or have to) get taken care of immediately, but others you'll have to set aside for a later time (like the one I mentioned above). In the latter case, however difficult it is to bear, you just gotta set the issue aside and move on to bigger and better things.
Therein lies a problem from my perspective, though: I'm not one to just let things slip by. As someone who likes seeing things built properly and without gaping holes, it's embarrassing to know that a publication of mine from 4 months prior hasn't even been finished. Still, I have to set it aside because I still have more pressing issues to take care of.
This sort of thing also accounts for my sleep deprivation. If something comes to my mind while I'm trying to sleep, chances are, at least 90% of the time, I will settle that thought lingering in my mind before I fall asleep.
Then there are those in-your-face opportunities that you end up missing because you're completely focused on something else. I was supposed to ask my mother about formal attire for an important meeting tomorrow, but it completely slipped my mind because I was too focused on figuring out a way to arrange getting there in the first place, as well as completing the internship application.
I don't want to say Vouiv-review is hindering it because, truth be told, I brought it upon myself, not to mention it helps me to reflect upon notable mental developments like this. Poké Monday is purely for my amusement, but Spontaneous Saturday and Top Three Thursday definitely give me ample freedom to express my thoughts in the form of a typed document. Speaking of which, if there are times when I miss the deadline, these issues are most likely why.
I don't know about my tendency to slack off. It is always nice to take a breather every now and then, but sometimes I feel like I'm taking my breaks too frequently or spending too long per break. I could try to cut down on the amount of anime I watch (limiting myself to Heavy Object and One Punch Man) or sometimes suppressing the urge to prevent overhauling hearts in Pokémon Shuffle so that I can get some extra work done and/or stay subtle in the classroom, but…well, I don't know. I couldn't say whether this is really a problem or not, honestly.
Man, my brain was overflowing overnight yesterday, but now it's slowed down to a near halt. That's another tendency I have: to get a bunch of work done, set it aside for a while, and come back to it not knowing what the heck I just did. This is, in fact, one of those cases. Still, there are some times when I can jump-start my brain (so to speak) and transition on to another thought
, like how I have a secret hobby of making mock Guitar Hero drum charts for songs with particularly enjoyable percussion.
Even though I just finished the test I mentioned earlier (and got a 96), I still feel burdened because of (1) work I have to do for a team project, (2) an assignment due on Wednesday, (3) an assignment due on Thursday, (4) the supposedly "extra difficult" assignment due on Thursday, (5) a test on Thursday, and (6) a quiz to be done by next Sunday (which honestly isn't a problem, but man, so many responsibilities to take care of in not much more than one week, let alone with a laptop with sporadic connectivity problems…). But, well, I suppose I'll turn to this song for encouragement:
When in difficult times, leave it to God to make them seem less difficult than originally perceived. This has held true many times in my life, and I pray that it will continue to do so.
Man, what am I doing, suddenly bringing up God in an otherwise secular writing? Whatever. It's not like I haven't disclosed my faith before, and I couldn't care less what people think of me because of it. If anything, I'd say I'm not vocal enough about my faith, although there's not much I can do about that because I have high-functioning autism.
This is the conundrum of my life. My train of thought is a convoluted one, which takes relatively long to reach its stops, given its frequent tendency to go nowhere fast. No accidents happen on the train, though.
I don't know what I was thinking with this metaphor.
À la prochaine! (Until next time!)
Tier: Uber
Type: Ground
Base Stats: 100 HP, 150 Atk, 140 Def, 100 Sp.Atk, 90 Sp.Def, 90 Speed
Ability: Drought
Primal Groudon
Tier: Uber
Type: Ground/Fire
Base Stats: 100 HP, 180 Atk, 160 Def, 150 Sp.Atk, 90 Sp.Def, 90 Speed
Ability: Desolate Land
Usable moves: Aerial Ace, Ancient Power, Body Slam, Brick Break, Bulk Up, Double-Edge, Dragon Claw, Dragon Pulse, Dragon Tail, Earth Power, Earthquake, Eruption, Façade, Fire Blast, Fire Punch, Flamethrower, Focus Blast, Frustration, Hammer Arm, Hidden Power (Fire, Ice), Hone Claws, Iron Head, Lava Plume, Overheat, Power-Up Punch, Precipice Blades, Protect, Rest, Return, Roar, Rock Polish, Rock Slide, Seismic Toss, Shadow Claw, Stealth Rock, Stone Edge, Substitute, Swords Dance, Thunder, Thunder Punch, Thunder Wave, Thunderbolt, Toxic
On Poké Monday 2/23/15, I talked about Kyogre and the ins and outs of primal and non-primal weather. As a reminder, primal weather is different from regular weather in the following ways:
To elaborate, Desolate Land and Primordial Sea work more independently than Drought and Drizzle, weather teams are much more difficult to use in Ubers, and Primal Groudon is only weak to Ground while Desolate Land is up (barring Cloud Nine or Air Lock).
With the benefits of its new primal weather and its boost in Defense and offensive power, there is no doubt that Primal Groudon is one of the dominating forces in the tier. Its typing makes it immune to Will-O-Wisp and Thunder Wave, making it a top-notch physical attacker. To further aid its offensive prowess, it gets a new signature move in Precipice Blades, which is a 20 BP improvement over Earthquake at the expense of 15% accuracy. (Using Precipice Blades over Earthquake not only increases the expected damage output (102 over 100), but it also guarantees a 2HKO on 248/252 Bold Primal Kyogre (given 252 EVs, Adamant or Jolly).) Also, there is no reason not to use Primal Groudon because it doesn't need Choice Scarf (due to Rock Polish) unlike Kyogre, and if you really want to use sun support, might as well go with Ninetales in OU.
So, Primal Groudon may have all these advantages, but what does it suffer against? Well, that all depends on the set. If it's defensive (which is pretty much guaranteed if it sets up Stealth Rock), Rash Life Orb Landorus-I has at least a 75% chance to OHKO with Earth Power, regardless of Primal Groudon's spread. (Keep in mind that Primal Reversion happens instantly, meaning Groudon can't just stay in its base forme to take the hit.) Cloud Nine Golduck can guarantee an OHKO with Hydro Pump on any variant (on extra specially defensive variants, Surf is not enough for the guarantee), and it can switch into an uninvested Earthquake, even with Stealth Rock on the field, but it must be wary of Precipice Blades (which is a guaranteed OHKO with Stealth Rock and a 25% chance without), and…well, it's Golduck. Choice Band Rayquaza can switch into anything but Stone Edge and, in return, guarantee a 2HKO (unless it gets burned by Fire STAB) with Earthquake on any variant. Even if burned, it has a good chance to 3HKO specially defensive variants. Ground Arceus can OHKO most variants with +2 Earthquake (and has a 68.8% chance of doing so against 248/252+), but it would be a shame if it got burned, and it doesn't take Primal Groudon's Fire STAB very well.
0 Atk Groudon-Primal Fire Punch vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Arceus-Ground in Harsh Sun: 172-204 (45.1 – 53.5%) — 35.2% chance to 2HKO
0 SpA Groudon-Primal Lava Plume vs. 0 HP / 4 SpD Arceus-Ground in Harsh Sun: 157-186 (41.2 – 48.8%) — guaranteed 3HKO
Also, defensive Primal Groudon hates Primal Kyogre switch-ins.
If it's offensive and it has Rock Polish and/or Swords Dance, however, that's kind of a problem. If it's Adamant and already has a Rock Polish under its belt, it speed ties with max speed base 120 Choice Scarf users, meaning…maybe Scarf Darkrai can shut it down with Dark Void? Maybe Scarf Shaymin-Sky can flinch it to death? The conundrum, though, would be figuring out whether it's Adamant or Jolly. If it's Jolly, you would need base 140 Speed to cut past it with a Choice Scarf, which sucks because no intelligent Deoxys-A would run Choice Scarf (and, if it goes this unwise route, it has a 62.5% chance to OHKO with Psycho Boost).
If it has Swords Dance, first off, keep in mind that Unaware users are not checks.
252+ Atk Groudon-Primal Precipice Blades vs. 252 HP / 252+ Def Quagsire: 220-261 (55.8 – 66.2%) — guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
252+ Atk Groudon-Primal Precipice Blades vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Clefable: 241-285 (61.3 – 72.5%) — guaranteed 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
That aside, physically defensive Giratina can take Primal Groudon's hits pretty well, as long as the latter is not at +4, and use Dragon Tail or Roar to phaze it out. Lugia can take a Stone Edge with Multiscale intact (at all stages except +6, in which case it has a 25% chance to OHKO) and can force Primal Groudon out with Whirlwind, but without Multiscale, it does not appreciate a +2 Stone Edge. (Fire Punch is not so much a problem, so Lugia is a much better stop to Primal Groudon that lack Stone Edge.) Speaking of which, Ho-Oh resists Primal Groudon's dual STABs, but it obviously gets wrecked by Stone Edge. Skarmory can take a hit with Sturdy and force Primal Groudon out with Whirlwind, and it can wall variants that lack Fire Punch (unless they set up to +6). Better yet, Air Balloon Heatran can completely halt variants that lack Stone Edge.
Simply put, Primal Groudon is a threat for which every Ubers team should be prepared.
One thing I failed to mention in my Kyogre post is that Primals, unlike Mega Pokémon, are not restricted to one per team. This means you can use Primal Groudon, Primal Kyogre, and…say…Mega Gengar on one Ubers team.
All right, that's enough ranting. On with the sets.
Groudon @ Red Orb
Ability: Drought
EVs: 248 HP / 8 Def / 252 SpD
Sassy Nature
IVs: 0 Spe
– Earthquake
– Lava Plume
– Stealth Rock
– Roar
Once again, with its wonderful typing and Ability combination, Primal Groudon is effectively only weak to Ground, and it offers some useful resistances in Fairy, Fire, Steel, and Bug, not to mention its immunity to Electric and Will-O-Wisp, as well as a situational immunity to Water. That, along with its sheer bulk, gives Primal Groudon a relatively easy time setting up Stealth Rock to benefit the team. Earthquake is reliable STAB with decent offensive coverage, and Lava Plume is alternative STAB that has a good chance of causing burn and actually does slightly more damage than Earthquake under harsh sunlight (fun fact). This also makes it easier to deal with physically defensive Steel-types like Forretress and Skarmory. Roar is used in the last slot to prevent it from becoming fodder to setup sweepers. EVs are allocated to patch up its weaker defense and so that it takes slightly less residual damage from Toxic and hazards.
Groudon @ Red Orb
Ability: Drought
EVs: 4 HP / 252 Atk / 252 Spe
Jolly Nature
– Precipice Blades
– Fire Punch
– Rock Polish
– Swords Dance
Again, Primal Groudon's typing grants it immunity to Thunder Wave and all forms of burn, making it a fearsome physical sweeper with its sky-high base 180 Attack. Precipice Blades is its strongest STAB move, slightly outdamaging Fire Punch in the sun. Its dual STABs have few resistances, all of which are Flying-type, and those can be broken through with the help of Swords Dance. It can also use Rock Polish to patch up its middling base Speed. Jolly nature is mainly to cut past Choice Scarf Darkrai and Shaymin-S after a Rock Polish. Max Attack and Speed are required for maximum offensive prowess.
As mentioned, Stone Edge can be used to take care of Flying-types and prevent it from being stopped by Air Balloon Heatran. Dragon Tail can be used over Roar on the defensive set so that it can phaze out Taunt users (and Soundproof users, but they do not thrive in Ubers) and deal extra damage; however, Fairy-types like Xerneas cannot be forced out in this manner. Thunder Wave is an option in case Speed control is necessary, and then there's Toxic for wearing down things that cannot be burned by Lava Plume. Substitute can be used on an offensive set as a one-time stop to priority users like Extreme Killer Arceus and Mega Kangaskhan, although that's really the extent of it.
http://pastebin.com/8rM67Nqg – team 1; contains defensive Primal Groudon
http://pastebin.com/LjUdcXwJ – team 2; contains offensive Primal Groudon
Both teams have been tested only once, and I can only conclude that the Uber tier is littered with players who have less of an idea what they're doing than me, and that's saying something.
Team 1 contains:
Team 2 contains:
Twitch.tv is a top streaming website where people stream media (mostly video games) live and receive input from a chat full of users talking amongst themselves or to the streamer. However, for those who are new to Twitch and have never used chat before, I have some advice. (Keep in mind that this may apply to not-so-new Twitch users as well.)
If you don't know your basic emotes, like Kappa , FrankerZ , and BibleThump , educate yourself at twitchemotes.com. It may save questions about "emoji", and most of the global emotes have descriptions when you click on them, so that you won't have to ask about the origin of emotes either. For instance, when you click on Kappa, it shows this:
Also, if an emote code appears as text, it means one of three things:
On that note, it's important to know your extensions, and I mean study the settings thoroughly. In FrankerFaceZ, click the gray icon in the chat box, which will pull up a menu not only showing the channel's custom emotes but three other menus as well. The gear is where the settings are found. A feature of which I would especially like to raise awareness is the "Enter Emoji By Name" feature.
FrankerFaceZ emote tooltips are capable of showing emoji codes, but typing the codes won't result in emoji unless this setting is turned on. Hopefully now I'll see less ":+1:" (for instance) as plain text.
BTTV settings can be found by expanding the left pane and clicking on the upside down red Twitch icon beside your username.
For users of BTTV, remember to turn on "BetterTTV GIF Emotes" before asking what happened to "SourPls" or "(ditto)" or whatever.
I guess the main point is: look before you leap.
They're humans, and you are too (most likely). Don't just belt out an insult and expect to get away with it without a fair warning. Don't post random/obscure links without permission, and use emotes carefully. Remember: adding to the end of a hateful comment doesn't always (if ever) justify it. If you get purged or timed out for doing something wrong in chat, don't do it again. Above all, don't complain about how the chat is moderated; it only makes things worse. What can I say? Use common sense. It's not that hard. Some streamers handle misconduct better than others, but it's safest just to be as careful as possible, which brings me to my next point…
Even if you're on mobile…at least try. Or, just use mobile exclusively for the streams you're familiar with. I'm tired of seeing, "Oh, I'm on mobile so I can't read the title" as an excuse for a question that can be answered by reading the title. Look before you leap. (Also, I wouldn't recommend Twitch mobile unless it's your only resort. Then again, I've never used it.)
If you enter a stream for the first time, the first place you want to check is the info, which can be found by scrolling down on a normal web browser. The info should tell you everything you need to know about the streamer. Some combination of FAQ, rules, social media, etc. can be found down there. Don't ask questions before reading the info, or else your question may be one that can easily be answered by the info.
Man, all I've said in this entire post is along the lines of "use common sense" and "look before you leap." Well, sometimes obvious advice is the best advice. Still, though, I'm not trying to be forceful; I'm just giving advice. I will admit that I've had my share of dumb mistakes, and I'm not even going to pretend that I'm perfect. It's…again, just advice. (Also, I could have posted this earlier (and maybe better), but my laptop lost its ability to connect to WiFi during classes. Thankfully, it's all fixed now.)
À la prochaine! (Until next time!)


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Lesmahagow Juniors continued their impressive start to the season with a 9-0 Craighead Park destruction of Newmains United on Saturday, writes Craig Goldthorp.
'Gow – who this week found out that the Sectional League Cup final against Auchinleck Talbot will be played at Pollok's Newlandsfield Park on October 14 – romped home with goals by Jonny McStay (4), Paul Woodlock (2), Gary Nicholson, Matty Clarke and Jordan Lithgow.
Delighted Lesmahagow manager Robert Irving told the Carluke and Lanark Gazette: "A comfortable win like that has been coming.
"We have been creating chance after chance in recent weeks without taking them.
"It was 6-0 before Newmains had two men sent off, but to score nine goals against anybody shows we are doing something right.
"It will not happen every week."
Robert said that Newmains had "lost the plot" after going six down, with Paul Donachy and player/manager Craig Gupwell being sent off for second bookings after poor challenges on Neil Schoneville and Paul Woodlock respectively.
The latest win moves Lesmahagow up to fourth place in the table, just a point off the promotion places ahead of this Saturday's trip to third placed Vale of Leven, kick-off 2pm.
Despite the Sectional League Cup final being just over a month away, Robert insisted that the big game won't distract his troops from the job in hand over the coming weeks.
"There is no chance of them taking their eyes off the ball," Robert said.
"They have been warned. We have big league games and a Scottish Junior Cup tie coming up.
"The cup final is the furthest thing from our minds just now."
When next month's final against Auchinleck comes around, Lesmahagow will be going for their first major cup win since beating Petershill in the 1994 League Cup final at Kilbowie Park, a match Robert played in.
Goals by Colin Crichton and Willie Gillogley sealed 'Gow's success 24 years ago and Irving insists that it would mean every bit as much for the club to win again on this occasion.
"It is still a big thing to win a cup in junior football," he added.
"To win you probably have to beat teams that are better than you.
"And Auchinleck is the team you would pick to face in a cup final.
"You can't do more than play the best junior team in Scotland."

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I always think January is the gloomiest time of year and if you are finding that you need something to brighten up the winter months then I have just the thing – the chance to win a Family Tech Pack from VARTA worth around £70.
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This is what you can win:-
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Millwall captain on message after Cup win
MILLWALL captain Tony Craig reiterated after Sunday's FA Cup win over Watford that the league is the priority for the club this season.
Steve Morison's 85th-minute winner against the Premier League side set up a last-16 meeting with Leicester City or Derby County at The Den next month.
Lions boss Neil Harris said Craig and Morison reminded the squad after their fourth win in the competition this season to look ahead to beating Walsall in League One tomorrow night to enhance their promotion chances.
"It's a good scalp, Craig said. "It was a very god team performance from start to finish. We looked very well organised but we've got to take that into Wednesday, that's the most important thing.
"We'll enjoy it but move on to Walsall.
"That's our aim this season, the league. This is a good bonus, it's a great result against a Premier League side but we're going to come in and work hard for Wednesday."
Morison's goal against the Hornets was his 14th of the season, and Craig was full of praise for the Lions vice-captain.
He said: "That's Steve all over, another great finish. He's got a lot of experience under his belt and we had words after the game, we both spoke and he speaks a lot of sense. We know what's at stake."
Watford are the second Premier League side Millwall have knocked out of this season's FA Cup, and under-pressure Mazzarri was critical of their opponent's approach to the contest.
But Craig preferred to focus on the positives for Millwall after they extended their unbeaten run to eight games in all competitions.
"We had a game plan and we certainly stuck to it and it worked," Craig said. "We put them under the cosh from the first 20 seconds, we had a chance there.
"We set our game plan last week and we executed it very well.
"Things are looking very bright for the club at the moment. There have been some tricky times with the CPO. I'm glad we got the result with that but we can only concentrate on the pitch and the results are going not too bad for us at the moment.
"There was a fantastic atmosphere, they were with us from start to finish. They're very important until the end of the season.
"We've kept our unbeaten run, and it's good for the finances of the club. It was a good day all round."
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Sometimes I wonder if the world is an asylum for broken souls. This kind of thinking has led me to see craziness all around. Thinking of it as a place where the soul comes to heal itself creates yet another reality while thinking of it as a place where the soul comes to play creates yet another. Each schema can explain what it is we are seeing. While one perceives crazy the next accepts everything as healing process while the third assumes that it's all a playground, a digital game so to speak where the soul gets to express itself in all its aspects both creative and destructive.
Through the positions we take with our mind you and I literally determine the form and meaning that the energy that we and everything else is made of. What we actually see with our eyes, or hear, or feel, taste, or smell is subject to a whole host of mental interpretations most of which are out of our control for it is our unseen unconscious mind that's running the show for the most part.
We create our world through the process of intentionality what the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy defines as, "the power of minds to be about, to represent, or to stand for, things, properties and states of affairs".
Fundamentally cause and effect are related because in order for one to exist so must the other i.e. they are inextricably linked. For example, there is the object called a chair and there is my experience of chair and each intends the other i.e. the experience in the mind of a chair creates the reality of chair as the objective reality creates the subjective. We are continuously creating what we experience while in turn the object creates our experience.
In short, if you see it, you've intended it– shift what you see and the object shifts with it. Magic!
Try it, shift your perspective of an object i.e. what you imagine it to be, what you 'think' it is and see what happens to your experience of it. Then look closely at what happens to the object with the new experience.
We live in a Euclidean world where there are straight lines that sometimes meet and parallel lines that never meet and where up is contrasted by down, but what if you were to change that perspective to a hyperbolic vision where straight is not necessarily straight, and parallel lines sometimes meet, and up doesn't always contrast with down?
As I stare at the doorknob to this room (see above) I notice that it has a polished surface and in the scene reflected by that surface I notice an image that alters the perceived reality of the room. Immediately the knob portrays an example of M.C. Escher's reality perspective shifting from ordinary geometry to hyperbolic geometry. My relationship to the world shifts making all its angles different to what was their norm up to now. Has the room changed or only my perception of it and what difference would it make anyway? The object has altered the experience and the object is altered by the experience.
Now I know that it's just the door knob that's changing the experience so I can easily keep my experience separated from the object but what if I didn't know?
We do the same thing with dreams in that we "think" that we see only a dream when we are asleep but what if that weren't true? What if we are always dreaming, what does an "always dreaming" perspective say about what we're experiencing now? The mind changes the experience while the experience shifts the mind.
Our reality has been conditioned since birth through our experience, our parents and siblings, and society. We see what we are conditioned to see.
Simply we are seeing what we want to see or are conditioned to see. This is mind stuff and the object stuff will then reinforce the mind stuff. Cause creates effect that in turn creates cause. See? Or maybe not. My head is hurting again.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Getting ready for the sibling get together
One of the first things I did today to get ready for our Christmas get together was to set the table.
I made sure I staked my claim on the chair I wanted to sit in.
When we were growing up there were a limited number of seating options in our living room. If we got up and wanted to sit there when we came back we had to say "I get to sit there when I come back." If you forgot to say it someone else was in your spot in less than a minute.
I put the finishing touches on the Christmas tree in the parlour.
I wrapped the gifts and put them under the tree.
I spiffed up the house and started cooking dinner.
Continued tomorrow!
I have a puzzle for your tonight with the tree and the chairs that would be occupied in a few hours.
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What a great idea to have the party with no children....the table looks wonderful along with the trees....I think small is the way to go.
PS....if you ever want to get rid of that marble topped table....I know where it will fit in good....right next to my marble topped coffee table!!
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Would you want to walk into
a tender moment
when the earliest hours
of a promising dawn
peep through the dark curtains
of night and show the delicate
skin of her eyelids
lined with shy sleep?
Would you want to wake up
on a regular morning
full of drab jobs ahead,
to the sunrays playing on her face?
You shade her skin with a hand
that protects and caresses,
as she snuggles up a bit more,
all untidy, messy yet innocent.
Would you want to live through a dusty
day full of travel and tiresome troubles
and crisscross work tables conjoined
at the hips -- pending and reserved?
Yet interwoven with shades of a
laughter and surprised, enveloped messages
across a cup of coffee or sunday cooking together.
Would you hope to share her thrills at
a consumerist evening, window-shopping?
Or would you want to put a rose
in her hand on her stressed days
and surrender in her silly comforts
when you have had a stupid problem?
Would you love to lick an icecream
and walk with her through roads
choked with traffic jam, giving a damn
to the spaceless inferno around,
when you have her and your own feet
to walk on, and this heavily junk city.
Would you close your eyes and drench
yourself in the first monsoon rain
or a sudden shower that would tell
stories of a childhood, or a college memory
or some distant forgotten melodies?
Would you close your eyes and remember
the first love of your life or an old poem?
Interlocked fingers, old stories, drops of rain on faces
Would you desire to light a candle
and float it in a glass bowl,
water decked with rose petals?
A soft music plays in your heart
as you hold her close, too close
and a slow dance
shadows shivering on the walls...
Would you want a walk
under the silver moonlight,
hand in hand and a content whispering
of wet grass under your feet, about
a completeness found under the sylvan skies?
Its all here
in this beautiful life.
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Dee Perez-Scott blows another gasket
A recent cartoon or caricature depicted Obama with chimpanzee parents in an apparent attempt to explain why he has refused to make his long form birth certificate available for extensive public and professional review, i.e. he doesn't have one. Dee Perez-Scott, the savior of all non-Republican beleaguered politicians, launched another tirade against this evidence of "racism." She apparently has forgotten about the above caricature which depicted our beloved Lincoln as a monkey holding the Emancipation Proclamation. So much for balance and fairness.
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Not only that Ultima but what about all those caricatures and cartoon drawings that she has posted in her blog depicting conservatives and other public figues in a hateful and unflattering manner? What about her calling the govenor of Arizona, "La bruha"? Dee is such a hypocrite!
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A Baltimore mother has been charged and sentenced to 75 years in prison after she was found guilty of manslaughter and child abuse. The woman had given birth to her baby in the repair bay of an auto repair shop while still addicted to heroin herself. Nine days later and paramedics were called to her house where they found the child dead. The baby showed signs of malnourishment and had blunt force trauma to their head.
Doctors found nothing in the child's stomach but gastric juices and the injuries sustained were consistent with repeated strikes against a flat surface. Prosecutors say this is consistent with a child that is repeatedly beaten and fed only infrequently throughout their life.
Baltimore mom sentenced 30 years after heroin 'addicted' new born baby dies nine days later https://t.co/0rCiZ8kXLh #Anne Kirsch #Matthew Kirsch. Jr #Matthew Kirsch. Sr #Baltimore heroin mother— Scallywagandvagabond (@ScallywagNYC) 6 March 2018
Doctors believe the cause of death was heroin withdrawal, brought on by the drug being in the mother's system during the pregnancy. Anne Kirsch later admitted to using heroin during her pregnancy and even the night before she went into labour.
By the time paramedics arrived at Sinai hospital Matthew Kirsch Jr had died. Doctors told reporters that the child had likely suffered "severe withdrawal symptoms and physical pain."
Both the mother and father were tried and found guilty with Matthew Kirsch, the child's father, pleading guilty to child abuse and neglect. He has been suspended to 25 years in prison with ten years suspended. Meanwhile Anne Kirsch has been sentenced to 75 years with 45 years suspended.
"My heart breaks that this child suffered through nine days of heroin withdrawals, blunt force trauma, and starvation," said State Attorney Marilyn Mosby. "Both parents had an obligation to ensure the safety and well-being of the life they chose to bring into this world."
Despicable and cruel response to tragedy, Baltimore DA edition.— David Menschel (@davidminpdx) 5 March 2018
Woman is addicted to heroin, fails to properly care for her newborn. Newborn tragically dies. DA gives woman a *75 year sentence with *30 to serve (45 suspended).https://t.co/7O9lrPYtcW
Meanwhile health professionals and legislators have raised concern and expressed alarm over the growing rate of children being born addicted to opiates. They say that as the opiate epidemic soars and more people become addicted to prescription drugs, an increasing number of pregnant women are giving birth to children born with addictions. Some states are reporting rates eight times the national average and it has become such a severe problem that some local governments are suing opiate manufacturers.


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A lot has happened since we last spoke. The big news is that both Sue Ten and your second-cousin Darnell tell me that they have seen The Morning Guy out on what appears to be a date. I find this news to be both appalling and beguiling at the same time.
As you may recall, one of the guests at our Hollywood Halloween party was dressed as a Stepford Wife, and she caught our hero's eye when none of the rest of us even knew he was there. Surprisingly, we now learn, her costume and demeanor were no ruse at all since she is a throw-back to the Mirabel Morgan Total Woman days, and she has had years (some might say decades) in which to practice her craft. Her real costume was the addition of a Stepford Husband, whom we now know was actually her cousin Henry from Ann Arbor.
I still don't have all the details of this new development, but apparently The Morning Guy was so smitten that he actually spoke to her, obtained her name and phone number, and within days had called her for a date. This information, too, may explain why he was so upset the night he lost his cell phone since he had trusted that wily technology to keep the two of them in touch while he was out of town on his vacation.
According to Sue Ten, the happy couple has now had several meals together at The Swing Barn, and Sue observes that Steppie always orders her pastrami sandwich and fries with extra coleslaw. Then she eats half the sandwich and the coleslaw, leaving the rest of the sandwich and the fries for The Morning Guy. He smiles. She smiles. He talks. She listens. We are all quite anxious to see how this romance will progress.
Last seen, Steppie was dressed as a cheerleader for The Morning Guy's favorite college football team, and they were tossing back Yinglings and pickled eggs with no concern about gastric after affects, but she never lost track of the score, and she apparently has an encyclopedic knowledge of the game.
Meanwhile, I have been thinking a lot lately about the whole concept of matchmaking and matches in general. I do love my life here at the Slice of Heaven 24-Hour Pie Shop and Driving Range, especially my freedom to be as frivolous or as serious as I want to be, but from time to time, I do think it might be nice to go dancing with a willing partner on a Friday night.
When Nurse Crotchett was on site for our Flu Shot Clinic, she encouraged me to try out an Internet dating service, eHarmony. "It's free this weekend," she said.
"Oh, yes," she said, so I gave it a try, passing a few hours of insomnia answering pages and pages about myself, my attitudes, my preferences, and so on. On each page, I read the disclaimer that there were no wrong answers.
"Of course not," I thought. "Besides, I certainly feel that I am giving out the right answers."
Finally, I got to the end, and told the machine to begin searching for my match.
"Geographical area?" it asked.
"Why limit it," I thought, and went for this option: "Anywhere in the World!"
An additional question asked me "How important is this geographical area," and I said, "Very." I may be open minded but I'm not sure I'm ready to date extra-terrestrials, at least not just yet.
The screen assured me that the eHarmony system was searching, searching, searching its 85,000-member database. Finally I received my results: "Our matching system was not able to find any matches for you."
Hello? No matches anywhere in the world?
Sue Ten, on hearing this news, just shook her head. "I can only imagine what foolishness you put down on that form. Next time, you should let me fill it out for you."
Both my kids assured me that eHarmoney was funded by the religious right and was no place for a good Unitarian-Univesalist Taoist Pagan such as myself to be looking for a date for the New Years Eve festivities at The Swing Barn.
Perhaps I am just matchless. Or maybe it takes someone very special, like you, to appreciate me and my little quirks. Perhaps Sue Ten is right, and I should not list Fight Club as my favorite movie, or Hedwig and the Angry Inch as my favorite musical.
But that would not be authentic.
I do love Hedwig. My life is so easy compared to hers, and The Origin of Love moves me, so would I really want to spend New Years Eve with someone who cared not for her, or for Tyler Durden, for that matter? Get real.
Or watch it yourself, here, and tell me what you think.
Perhaps also I should not mention insomnia, pie, or how many golf balls I hit in the course of any single week or single night. And perhaps I should have mentioned that I do love to wear high heels and lingerie, but I didn't really see any place where I would include that detail. Ah, well.
The language of love is never easy to learn. Take, for example, this note that I found in a copy of "Leslie Nielsen's Stupid Little Golf Book," which I bought at Goodwill for 99 cents the other day:
I wonder what became of Buddy and Lillian, especially considering that the book — and the note — ended up in the local Goodwill. I have the impression that he is faking his interest in golf. He did show his interest in her, but that's often not enough or else it leads to something akin to stalking, and that's no good either.
As for the book, I'll add it to the Pie Shop bookshelves, and maybe I'll leave the note tucked in as a bookmark, too. I hate to break up a set.


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- pumpkins - the smell, the taste of pumpkin pie, the cuteness of piling & placing them around as decor
- leaves - watching the hills come alive with color, hearing them crunching underneath my feet, playing in the piles
- weather - the chill in the air, cozy sweater weather, boots & scarves released from storage
- holidays - the special days {including my birthday}
Autumn Love,
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Prince Harry Comforts Six-Year-Old Boy in New Zealand Who Lost His Mother
Over the course of their 16-day tour of the Oceania region, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have met thousands of fans, all eager to give their well-wishes to the royal couple and to congratulate them on their baby news.
Normally, interactions with the royals during walkabouts don't go much beyond pleasantries, but today, while greeting the crowds at Auckland's Viaduct Harbour, Harry had a meaningful conversation with six-year-old Otia Nante.
When Harry approached the boy,
"He really looks up to you because he actually lost his mummy too," she said while passing him a letter, reports the Daily Mail. Harry was quick to comfort the child.
"Don't you worry about having just one parent, where's your dad?" Harry reportedly
"Life will always be alright. You know that? I've made it to 34 years old, and life is great," Harry then told Otia, according to news.com.au. "I have a beautiful wife and a baby on the way. Your life is going to be sorted. Don't you worry about that."
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Harry also complimented Otia's grandmother, Te Nante, subtly nodding to his own granny, the Queen. "You're doing a great job, Nan," he said. "Nans are so important in our lives."
Harry was only 12 years old when his mother Princess Diana died tragically, and he's only recently opened up about his grief and how her death has impacted his mental health.
"I can safely say that losing my mum at the age of 12, and therefore shutting down all of my emotions for the last 20 years, has had a quite serious effect on not only my personal life but my work as well," Harry said in 2017. But now, Harry says he's in a "good place," and has become an advocate for those seeking help for mental health issues.
"I know there is huge merit in talking about your issues and the only thing about keeping it quiet is that it's only ever going to make it worse," he said.
*This story originally appeared on Townandcountrymag.com
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This might be my favorite one so far, because, like someone else said, he is genuinely angry with the game. I'd heard bad things about it, but I had no idea!
This might be my favorite one so far, because, like someone else said, he is genuinely angry with the game. I'd heard bad things about it, but I had no idea!
God I hate gametrailers. I find this type of crap happens all the time. That's why you do maintenance at 4 AM, not during the day.Originally Posted by gametrailers.com
edit: oh, I managed to watch it. Wow, painful painful stuff. I've never actually attempted to play this game and I'm glad I didn't!
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I love the opening, it is one of those things I hoped he did the entire episode on, however I enjoyed it none the less.
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Now that was pretty damn funny.
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Superman must be jerkin'his super dick right now.
And don't bring up that stupid girlie Aladdin rip off! Shantea?
The more pissed off he got, the harder I laughed. Just awesome.
I played Superman 64 back when I worked in a rental store. I was just as perplexed as AVGN was, and popped Mario 64 back in soon after.
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It would've been funny if the Sun spit the cartridge back at the AVGN.
I was surprised at how much fun the C64 version looked. And as far as load times go, under 5 minutes from putting the disk in to playing is nothing compared to some games
Ha ha, first time in a long time the Nerd was swearing so much. He should have done the Phone booth deal, and at least taken off his glasses!
it sorta seemwed as if he was playing into what he thought the fans wanted,, insted of just doing what he does best.. coming up with interesting ways to show off old games..
I didnt mind the superman outro where he flew to the sun to throw the game at it..
is it just me or are people getting a little more complacent about avgn?..
i mean even as rectently as the atari porn ep epople wouldnt dare speck a bad word about his shows in fear of being slammed to smitherines by the avgn fans..
now ive noticed lately its really taking a beating..
in my opinion the newer eps arnt as good as the ones around the time he did the 32x and ninja turtles etc but i still enjoy the show... just its let it be open for groups like loadingreadyrun or purepwnage to reclaim some of the attentiopn..
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From said review, I didn't think Superman 64 actually looked that bad. I've spent some time fiddling about with some pretty bad tech demos before, and it seems to be about on par with one of those. (Of course, I'd be pretty bitter if I spent $60 on a tech demo.)
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You thought Superman 64 was bad? Try playing Blues Brothers 2000. Bleah. It's even made by the same company that made Superman 64, Titus.
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I gotta say that while I love the reviews, I'm tired of the little skits he does themed after the games. But I have a feeling he's doing this more to showcase his filmmaking talents more than just showing himself in his game room. And hey, it's worked. Looks like he's getting some work outside of AVGN...


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GeoSt.John's 2019 Paper Template/Guideline
GeoSt.John's 2019 Abstract Template
The GeoSt.John's 2019 abstract submission phase is now complete and corresponding authors have been advised of their submission's acceptance. Over 435 abstracts were received and almost all were selected to move on to the technical paper submission phase. The titles and corresponding authors of accepted abstracts are posted at http://www.geostjohns2019.ca/abstracts-accepted.php?lang=en.
Complete technical papers must be submitted by May 15, 2019 using the online submission feature available at http://www.geostjohns2019.ca/abstract-submission.php?lang=en. Corresponding authors (or presenting authors when not the corresponding author) must register as conference delegates to launch the paper submission link in a corresponding author's account – the online delegate registration and payment system will be functional by the end of February 2019.
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The excitement of May long weekend turns deadly for some each year.
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"You have to be cognizant of the fact that your decisions that you make this weekend, can change your life forever," said Sgt. Darrin Turnbull. "From an officer who's worked May long weekend several times over the past 20 years, I can tell you May long weekend is tragically one of the most dangerous long weekends to be out on the highways."
In 2016, there were five fatal collisions, three of which took place at intersections, and 42 injury accidents. More than 3,000 speeding tickets were issued, 73 tickets for seatbelt violations and 22 for distracted driving.
Turnbull said traffic is always heavy on the holiday weekend, but this year will be busier in Banff, Jasper and Waterton Lakes national parks because of Canada 150 celebrations.
In Alberta, the four main causes of serious or fatal accidents are alcohol, lack of seatbelts, speed and distracted driving. All of which are preventable, said Sgt. Jason Graw.
"We're not saying don't have fun, we want you to have fun," said Graw. "We just want (people) to keep the distractions and the alcohol put away and make sure they get to their destination safely. The fun can start once they get there."
The police will have an increased presence this weekend both in marked and unmarked vehicles.