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Anime like Cross Game?
I finally finished Cross Game after pacing myself for a little over a month. I finished and am a bit depressed that I never found this type of theme in an anime before. The theme I'm talking about isn't the baseball, it's the type of romance.
Even though the romance is little, the theme makes it VERY interesting. The girl he liked dies and he is close to her sister, that type of theme. The sister hates him, but isn't the -dere (Like fullblown, I know Aoba is a tsundere, but she never admits the feelings honestly and straight forward) type of character.
So any anime with romance in the following characteristics:
-Something instead of the romance, such as sports to fighting to something that also serves as a main theme of the anime.
-Romance where it is hinted but it is never admitted and most likely is at the end.
-Girl says she hates the guy (like Aoba) and guy is pretty much emotionless to serious.
The following would be appreciated if found:
-A childhood past between the characters, it can either be that they are childhood friends (even if they hate each other) or if something in the past happened (such as a death of a close one).
-Something to do with a school.
Please, I don't want anime with a type A tsundere, aka tsunderes like Shana and the others. I already watched Suzuka and Love Hina, so don't recommend them please.
I'm going to try out Touch, hoping that it is worth it and similar to Cross Game. If you guys watched it, give me a quick comparison of the main male protagonist and the female character to the protagonists of Cross Game. By the looks of the manga cover, it looks like the female in Touch doesn't seem like a cold type (such as Aoba).
I'll suggest Chihayafuru, though I think there will be more romance in the second season starting early next year. Regardless, it's definitely worth watching.
Sakamichi no Apollon might also have some appeal.
I would suggest Touch of course, by the same author (it's a common theme for Adachi). Truthfully you might want to look at a bunch of his works. Although in my opinion Touch and Cross Game are the best.
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is another that has the type of romance you are identifying, but is mainly focused on other plot elements. Childhood friends, childhood trauma, serious guy, a "light" tsundere, etc.
I would also suggest Crest of the Stars and the sequels Banner of the Stars.
Maison Ikkoku is an older work that is actually more focused on the romance, but I think would be something you would enjoy if you enjoyed Cross Game.
You might even like Space Battleship Yamato with the understated romance.
Maybe Last Exile would be good to check out.
Ano Hana might also be to your liking. (The original one)
I didn't finish, but I heard that Hanasaku Iroha developed in that direction.
I've heard Steins Gate is a good romance, might be worth looking into (it's on my watch list)
I'll start off by saying that while I'll give you suggestions based on what you asked I figure your best bet is still with Touch,you're right in that the female lead is different from Aoba (same goes for the male lead who's not really like Kou) but what makes Adachi so good isn't so much the ingredient he uses but how he uses them,he's just a great storyteller so I'd say your safest bet is Touch,nevertheless here's some other recomendations based on what you asked though couldn't find something that had everything you wanted
Otome yukai Zakuro:
On the upside:I think you'll like the female lead,like Aoba she's on the tsundere side but not an over the top one,romance is an aspect of the show but not the only one (there's a whole plot that involves action)
On the downside: the male lead is more emotional than Kou so might not be what you're looking for,no school setting or any past connection with the characters.
On the upside:Again it has a female lead I think fits what you're looking for and while there's a romance aspect it's mainly a sci fi time travel story.
On the downside: Again not sure the male lead is what you're looking for,he has a quite over the top personality though when it comes to love he's more reserved, also has no school setting or past connection.
Kaicho was maid sama:I think you'll like both the female and male lead and it has a school setting but it's mainly a romance title with no major other aspect
FMA is more toward the other aspects, like the romance is so so.
A lot of people told me to watch the Crest of Stars, and that is on my Anime waiting list right now.
Maison Ikkoku will have to wait because I really can't handle more than 1-2 old anime due to the change in "old style drawings" and quality. It takes me time to get used to it.
I checked some sites and they said Space Battleship Yamato is not an active romance, well no where close to Cross Game, but I do understand when you say "understand romance".
The Last Exile I'm unsure about since none of the anime sites state it's a romance.
Ano Hana I heard of and might/might not watch. Is it going to have a new season? Is everything resolved in that one season if it isn't going to have another one>
Hanasaku Iroha is on my waiting list, but I might not watch it since I have a feeling it doesn't have the drama. Please tell me if it does, and how much drama if it does.
Steins Gate I heard has romance, but barely. Romance isn't even near the focus of the show (according to people). They said that it is just a Scientist/Patient close relationship which sparks at one point, otherwise it's not a romance. I'm not sure since I have never seen it, but I might try it later on.
Some reason, I would have felt more satisfied if Kazuya somehow dies or something happens (I know it's messed up). I'm get the feeling this is going to be the jealous type of romance. But, like someone on another forum said, "Adachi always has different ingredients, but makes up something wonderful with what he has."
As for the other anime, Otome yukai Zakuro, I will give it a try later on when I have an anime slot to use up, even though I dislike anime that less than 24 episodes. Stein;Gate, as I said in the text above (when I quoted the other person), everyone said it was a scientist/patient relationship and that he is close to all his patients except one of them which ends up with a spark moment (romantic). Everyone said if I'm looking for romance, that it wouldn't fit my requirements.
Kaicho wa Maid-sama is definitely on my list, many people told me to watch it since I am a fan of tsundere ever since I watched my 3rd anime which was Shakugan no Shana. I just like other types of tsundere other than Type A. My preferences for tsundere changes from time to time. I heard in this anime, she shows her emotions like in the beginning (embarrassment, not love) and after that, she becomes less emotional. Any comparison and differences between her and Aoba. Also, I never knew the guy was like Kou, I thought he was more open. Having no other major aspect is a down for me, but I can handle it.
The first half indeed is on the comic side of things and there's no romance.So yes overall the romance side isn't present throughout the show.
But the second half of the show is a whole lot more dramatic and the guy and girl get closer,by episode 19 his feelings for her are what motivates his actions throughout the rest of the show.The relationship between the two is central to the plot at the end.
I feel it's closer to what you're looking for than HSI or Ano Hana are.
The romance in HSI didn't really go anywhere,it also doesn't really have the type of characters you're looking for.There's some drama but it's mainly lighthearted.
Ano hana is similar to cross game in that you've got a a character setting out to accomplish the wish of his dead childhood love.
However this show is all about one way love relationships,everyone's in love with someone they can't have so it doesn't have the sort of relationship you said you were looking for.
About Touch
I can 100% guarantee you that it does.
But she's more similar to Zakuro I'd say,if you're afraid that otome youkai zakuro being short means it's rushed and/or doesn't have a satisfactory ending don't be,in fact the last 5 minutes of the show are my favorite part of it.
Ano Hana is wrapped up in a single season, without feeling rushed. Check out an episode or two and see waht you think.
Starblazers/Space Battleship Yamato is like Fulllmetal Alchemist, the romance is there, but it's secondary to the main plot.
Last Exile does have some romance (again understated similar to FMA), but the main reason I suggested it is because it has two childhood friends bound together by the death of their parents.
Like I said, I haven't gotten to watching Steins Gate yet, but it did almost win "Best Romance" in the AnimeSuki choice awards last year.
And when I say short, I mean short as in length. For some reason, when I watch an anime, I tend to have a feeling of rushing through it. I pace myself to 2 episodes a day (some days I miss out on). So if it's 12 episodes, that would be finished in a week. Every time I finish an anime, I feel that lasting appeal which usually puts me in a sad state. I feel like I finished it and that's that. It happened with almost all the anime I watched and which I got attached to (except Romeo X Juliet for some reason). So a 12 episode anime (which I tried before) which had a complete story put me into the worst state after finishing it in 2 weeks (I tried my hardest to pace myself at the time). So I basically stay away from those types of anime since I hate the feeling which lasts a couple of days to a week.
Cross game is my all-time favorit anime. Havent been able to find anything quite like it, or as good. Other animes that i think give a somewhat similar feel for different reasons are:
I'm going to recommend Chihayafuru again which seems to have gotten lost in the walls of text above. It's mostly about the game, karuta, and the relationships between Chihaya and her fellow devotees, but there are hints of romance. As I said, it's likely that part of the story will be more developed in the next installment in January.
Chihayafuru indeed mixes sports and romance very well,it has a school setting and the characters do have a childhood past together and I think you'd like both male characters.
The only thing real difference from what you're asking is that the girl doesn't start out hating anyone,that's why I didn't recommend it at at first but thinking about it more it has many of the other things you were looking for.
Planetes, like Nodame Cantabile and Toshokan Sensou, fall into the category I call "senpai romances." They all feature couples with a young woman who is being mentored by a slightly older man, during which time their relationship develops into a romance. While I think all three are definitely worth watching, I'm not sure any of the relationships in those shows are particularly similar to that between Kou and Aoba. If anything it's Aoba who plays the mentoring role in some parts of Cross Game. Nodame resembles Aoba in the talent department, but she declares her love for Chiaki-senpai at the end of the very first episode. In the other two shows the women show promise, but they require training and direction, and the romances take longer to build.
Well if you liked Cross Game then I would definitely check out Touch and H2. They are both my Mitsuru Adachi and follow similar threads about baseball with a romance subplot. Or is it a romance with a baseball subplot? You get my drift. They've got aging animation art, but the story is solid and still there. Touch was a personal favorite, as it also has several movies. One live-action and four animated, I believe. I didn't watch the live-action, but I did watch 3 of the animated movies. I really enjoyed them.
If you're looking for more sports-oriented shows, then also check out Eyeshield 21 (amer. football), Giant Killing (soccer), Knight in the Area (soccer) or Kuroko no Basuke ("Kuroko's Basketball"). My personal favorite of these is Knight in the Area, but YMMV.
If you're looking for a romance with some competitive flavor thrown in, definitely check out Chihayafuru. It's Josei, but I have to say its romantic subplot is better than most romantic anime's actual romantic MAIN plot. Chihayafuru is one of those rare anime that pulls off touching, exciting, cute, and funny all at the same time. If Deadman Wonderland, Bakuman 2nd, and Mirai Nikki hadn't been airing in the same season, it would have probably made my #1 favorite slot for Fall 2011. That being said, it's my favorite josei/shoujo of all time, so there's that.
Some shoujo romance shows that are airing this season are Sukitte Ii Na Yo and Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun. Both very different in premise and execution, but both are instantly recognizable as fitting somewhere into that shoujo romance niche. Sukitte is much more serious and even a little bit on the morose side (leaning towards josei), Kaibutsu is much more on the gags/humor side (leaning towards shounen). Just depends on what you like.
And while I got talking about it, I suppose Mirai Nikki *might* fit your requirements in the loosest of terms. It does, in fact have a romance that takes place in a school, but it's got Yuno the Yandere in it. (Welcome to Mirai Nikki, where every path is a Yuno Path) I loved it, but it's borderline horror which you might not like. (Or you might love it like I did, I have no idea)
Another (yes, that's its actual name) is also a horror anime with a tragic end, but also a decent romantic subplot. The main plot was the main focus, however, and if you don't know what happens it'll keep you guessing. (It did me, I kept thinking it was going to be a Sixth Sense ending, then it wasn't. I felt dumb.)
Also Bakuman. But while the romance is the driving force of the main character's motivation, one would argue that the focus of the show flips back and forth between the main character's work as a mangaka and his love interest. I personally love it, though it's only in the school setting for the first season or so.
For an ongoing anime this year I'm really enjoying Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo. I'm actually not sure if this is going to be a harem or not, but the focus does seem to be on one girl more than the others (Mashiro), so we'll see. Immensely enjoyable show that's got a light scattering of ecchi with funny dialogue and very cute voice acting. Oh, and the OP and ED are sung by the voice actresses, too. I freaking love that.
Those ones were more recent, but how about an old one? A personal childhood favorite of mine was Dual! Parallel Trouble Adventure. The romantic subplot was really sweet and endearing, and while the show is more-or-less a parody of Evangelion, I always considered it superior to Eva because it was essentially Eva with good character development, a convincing love story, and main characters that didn't make you want to gouge your eyes out with a rusty spoon. That, and Mitsuki Rara is probably still on my top-5 list of anime girl crushes, lol.
Another (kinda) old one for ya. Ah! My Goddess. Probably one of my favorite anime ever (top 10 AT LEAST), and it's got a great romance between a goddess and a motor geek. It's a school setting, but keep in mind it's also a college school setting, so it's not as rigid in structure as a typical school anime is, and it doesn't revolve around their school activities aside from K1's club.
I think that's enough for now. I honestly don't think I can put any more down with decent descriptions (more like my personal opinions) without going into everything I ever watched that was 1) Romance 2) School-Life and/or 3) Osananajimi ("Childhood Friends"). That would freaking take an entire thread unto itself. >_>
Let's just say Mirai Nikka was a bit too much, and I only read the manga. It doesn't have the characteristics I need in my current need, but still, I bit too much...blood...
Bakuman is a good manga I am currently reading, and Another is a horror which I dislike. Otherwise I am already watching or watched the rest of the anime you suggested, and ah my goddess was weird for the first season. It became serious during the second season in my opinion.
Chihayahuro is probably the closest in similarity to Cross Game because of the female protagonist has a similar feeling to Aoba, I just can't put my finger in it.
You might like Spice and Wolf (both seasons), though it stretches your requirements a little. It is driven equally by romance and by business and economics (you'll learn about exchange rates and margin buying, among other things...), and the romance between the two leads is really only hinted at until the very end. Also (in relation to your other thread), there is not a lot of comedy. The main characters don't quite match what you requested (the female lead doesn't hate the male like Aoba does, and the male lead isn't quite as reticent as Kou is), and there are no childhood past or school elements, but if you can overlook those things, it is a great anime and one of my favorites.
I'm going to second Spice and Wolf and also Crest of the Stars+sequels. Both amazing shows and somewhat similar in feel to Cross Game, though obviously not anywhere near the same subject material.
Sorry for replying late to my own thread, my internet wasn't functioning properly.
Spice and Wolf is something I will begin to watch since it is actually dramatic/serious. I may buy the Blu-ray version since out of the 40 romance anime I watched, I only disliked two (just because I didn't look into the overview of the anime).
The Crest of Stars has a female that dislikes the male, or doesn't have any particular feeling, correct?
Crest of the Stars is a very subtle romance. It's not that the girl is hostile or indifferent. It's just that both Lafiel and Jinto are very restrained personalities. Very passionate actually, but very restrained because of it. So their romance develops slowly, as it naturally would for people of with that personality.
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We made it to Clinton, Illinois, home for many generations of my family! What a thrill and I am so thankful we were able to spend some time there.
As suggested, I did my homework and contacted the DeWitt County Genealogical Society prior to our visit so I could feel fairly prepared for what was ahead of me. The primary suggestion they had for me was, if possible, to visit on a Thursday as that was the only day volunteers were present and able to help. As luck would have it, our road trip had us in Clinton on Thursday.
We arrived at the Vespasian Waner Library, home of the DeWitty County Genealogical Society at about noon on Thursday. Imagine my surprise when we walked in and there were three people in the library. Clinton is a fairly small town and I was surprised that three people were already there researching. But I was even more surprised when I realized these people were volunteers and were all just waiting to help me research. And boy did they help!
Charlotte was the first to ask "how can we help?" and I stammered something silly like "I'm looking for my family". I mentioned the surname of Waller and she quickly jumped up and took me to a file cabinet while explaining "we have a file on them". So it was a small file and half of it was copies of e-mails I had written to them but I sure was impressed with her memory.
Within minutes there were books and binders everywhere and all three of them were throwing questions at me. When was he born? Is this your relative? What year did she die? Were they married here? More and more books arrived and then I stopped dead in my tracks - there in the probate book was Salmon Waller. Deep breath. Salmon (or Solomon) was the father of my elusive Emery Waller and my 4th great grandfather. He is also the next punch I need on my DAR application ticket. In fact, my primary goal while visiting DeWitt County was finding Salmon's burial site. But I knew that there were several Salmon Wallers in my line as several of Salmon's ancestors named their children Salmon (who has the name Salmon, anyway?).
I asked about the probate record - was it here, how difficult would it be to see, and some other ridiculous questions, I'm sure. Charlotte explained that when the County digitized their records recently, they were going to throw out all of the corresponding material so the Genealogicial Society took everything, organized it, and put it in boxes downstairs. Downstairs! All I had to do was tell them which records I wanted to see and John would go downstairs and get them for me! After another deep breath I said "this one, I want to see this one!" and off he went. And about 5 minutes later he came back into the room, huffing and puffing just a bit, and presented me with Salmon Waller's probate record. Another deep breath while I opened the file to see the specifics and IT WAS MY SALMON WALLER!!!!! I had seen the digitized copy of his will online but there was more in this file. Before I could even speak, Charlotte was off to the copy machine to make copies of everything in the file for me. And the questions kept coming! John grabbed microfilm and started scanning, Charlotte was copying, and Jan was looking in more books to find something - anything - that would be important to me. It really was amazing (and almost overwhelming) to see these people scurrying around looking for treasures for me.
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Oh, in pouring through the probate record when I got to the hotel the main piece of information I learned was that Salmon's wife was still living when he died and lived for some years afterwards. And since Emery was the executor, I was able to see his signature on a few things! But still no record of Salmon's burial site.
Next stop was the County Clerk's office to see if I could find the marriage record for my 2nd great grandparents, Rebecca Moriah Waller and William Warren McAboy, who were married January 10, 1864. We walked into the office and a nice woman asked if she could help. I explained what I was looking for, she took a few notes, and then said she'd be right back. A few minutes later she returned with a piece of paper in her hand and asked if it was what I was looking for. And there it was - the ORIGINAL marriage license from 1864. Oh my! I was tempted to throw a 10 dollar bill on the counter, stash the certificate in my bag, and run from the building but instead I acted all grown up and said "could I get a copy of this?" which sent her scurrying to get me the copy before I made a mad dash for the door. When she returned I stared at the original again and remembered my handy dandy mobile flip-pal scanner in my bag and asked if I could scan it. I should have practiced more with the scanner but I did what I could and will spend some time stitching it together when I have more time. And then I remembered the camera in my bag and asked if I could take a photo. I'm sure this lady thought I was nuts but she humored me and even helped me find a good spot to place the document to get a photo. I know it's not perfect and I know I need to practice more with the scanner but here it is.
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I've been awarded the Inner Peace Award by Samina and I'm finally getting around to posting it!
Samina and I have had some interesting conversations about law enforcement. I know, not what you'd expect from me, is it. I had an incident to tell her about a few months ago when I accidentally locked myself out of my car with the keys on the front seat! I was helping a Lowes employee put my brand new lawnmower in my car which is how the keys ended up on the seat.
I went back into Lowes and told the customer service people what happened. They gave me their phone and dialed the Avon, Indiana police department. I really wasn't exactly sure what was happening here because I was in a tizzy and stressing out about my car keys! I told the woman at the police station what had happened and she dispatched a police car to the store. I waited in the parking lot and within 10 minutes, the car arrived with a nice young police officer who had several gadgets to "break into my car!"
The first didn't work. My heart sank. The second gadget elicited a "click" from my car door and voila! the door opened. I thanked him so profusely until he practically started laughing. I couldn't help myself, what can I say. I left him there with all his gadgets, my car keys in my pocket, and ran back into the store because I had more shopping to do! LOL!
Needless to say, I didn't have any inner peace that day so it's ironic that I received this Inner Peace Award following my initial conversation with Samina! Once I got home, I had a heck of a time getting the gigantic box with my new lawnmower inside it, out of the back seat of my car! Then I dragged it through my garage and into my house to figure out how to put the thing together. I bet I burned more than a few calories that day!
Fortunately, most of my days aren't as exciting as that day. Most days I do have inner peace. I get inner peace from exercising, writing, gardening, cooking, baking, working on my house, and helping others.
Thank you Samina for this award. My favorite thing about this award is that it has no rules. That's my kind of award! And again, I find it ironic that this award has no rules – in effect we are breaking the rules (similar to breaking the law!) Maybe it's just me and the way I look at things!
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2. Why will we not have a single calf when it is 65° and sunny, but dozens come when the temperature goes negative and the snow starts blowing?
3. How come every time I get out of my truck with my good boots on, I will step in a big ol' pile of ……….?
4. Why does that horse spook at a tire feeder it's walked by for three weeks without ever giving it a second look?
5. Why is it so hard to treat those you love with the courtesy you would show any stranger?
6. Why does a hard estimate mean it will take four times longer and cost at least twice as much?
7. Why do I always end up trying to fix a flat, thaw out a water line, or change a hydraulic hose when I have my church clothes on?
8. Why is it that the "good" ones are the ones that turn out to be wild, die or fail their bull soundness exam?
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A report, called "Counterterrorism Intelligence: Law Enforcement Perspectives" was released earlier this month through the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute which lends heavy support for increasing local law enforcement efforts to thwart the threat of terrorism.
The report, authored by Frank J. Cilluffo, Joseph R. Clark, and Michael P. Downing, also advocates increased synergy between local, state and federal law enforcement authorities, which is completely reasonable and justified.
Where it gets problematic is the heavy support the report lends to increasing police state measures in the United States and the highly questionable methodology employed in the report.
The report is essentially the findings of a survey conducted with less than 50 participants. You did not read that wrong. They are making attempts at generalizing statements made by a sample of less than 50 so-called experts, all of essentially homogenous opinion.
Even the authors of the report must point out this massive methodological flaw, although they employ classic Orwellian doublethink by claiming just moments later that it isn't a flaw at all.
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Would you consider a two-question study legitimate if they asked one person? Probably not, but the Homeland Security Policy Institute, or HSPI, thinks it is a reasonable way to go about compiling research.
For this 44-question study, the sample size was a measly 42 individuals. On page five of the report, they aptly point out that, "From a purely statistical standpoint, such a sample raises questions about the generalizability of HSPI's findings."
That is a massive understatement. These findings are not even remotely generalizable. If someone attempted to get research published with such a meaningless sample size, they would get laughed out of the room. This is like polling a single class in a single high school then generalizing it to every high school student in the nation.
To justify their incredibly small sample, HSPI uses what is known as argumentum ad verecundiam, or more commonly, argument from authority or appeal to authority. This type of argument is not always fallacious, and so there are some rough guidelines for determining if an appeal to authority is warranted.
One question is if the authority in question is significantly biased. In this case, it is hard to argue that law enforcement professionals with an emphasis on counterterrorism would not be biased. If terrorism were to cease being a real issue and a threat, all of their positions would become obsolete, along with a lot of their alleged expertise.
Another question is if the alleged expert or authority in question is representative of the majority of the rest of the experts' opinions. This is highly arguable in this case since the sample size is ludicrously small but one might argue that all law enforcement professionals with a focus on counterterrorism will make every effort to highlight the alleged threat terrorism poses because their job security relies on said threat.
Let's put these massive methodological flaws and the questionable logical basis of their generalizations aside. They claim that these individuals "represent expert opinions about the relative threat posed by terrorism and the importance of counterterrorism activities." For the sake of analysis let us just accept this claim, regardless of the fact that all of the individuals surveyed were completely biased and an infinitesimal fraction of the actual law enforcement community.
On the same page, the authors make sure to warp the mind of the reader to accept any claim made by the authors by saying, "the data cannot be taken 'as is' – it must be placed into context and interpreted with care."
Obviously, the authors are those who can interpret "with care" to draw the conclusions they want, while the layperson is likely to be characterized as unable to place it into context or interpret the findings with care.
Making this somewhat laughable assertion is prudent as there are many findings which significantly detract from the authors' and the Department of Homeland Security's stance.
In the next sentence they give us an example of why we shouldn't actually pay attention to the findings and instead to what the authors tell us to think, "many respondents reported that the information they received form their local fusion center often lacks value." One reading this would rightly take away that the fusion centers issue lots of useless intelligence, opposed to actionable intelligence which would be used to actually thwart terrorism.
Yet, we are not supposed to read this as it is written as we are unable to place it into context and interpret it with care, since only the self-proclaimed experts can do such a thing. Laypeople apparently can't muster the cognitive fortitude required to read simple English, no, you must be a counterterrorism expert to do such mental heavy-lifting!
They tell us why we can't take away a simple conclusion directly from the word of "many respondents" by saying, "It would be a mistake to draw from this a direct conclusion about the utility of fusion centers."
Apparently the fact that information being issued by local fusion centers is useless is no indication of the utility of fusion centers. The rational line of thinking required to come to this conclusion is beyond me, but maybe it is just because I am not a counterterrorism expert.
The authors say that instead of reading the statement and coming to the obvious conclusion, "the data must be taken as a perception of the fusion centers or of the relationships the respondents have with those centers. Such raw information cannot be taken as an out of context objective measure of fusion center performance."
This sets the stage for the cherry-picking of data and fallacious logic employed by the authors to give the impression they desire. Instead of presenting objective evidence and allowing it to speak for itself, they instead tell us what to take into account and what not to. The authors, as the self-proclaimed arbiters of truth, tell us when a piece of data is out of context and what the context should be.
We can immediately see the impression that the authors are seeking to leave on the reader: terrorism is a huge threat, the majority of which "is motivated by Islamic radicalism" and that "the threat now manifests itself via homegrown individuals or organizations."
Right off the bat, on page 6, the authors write, "When asked to rate the risk terrorism poses to their jurisdiction on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 equals no threat and 10 equals high threat – twenty-seven out of forty-two respondents rated the threat as either 6, 7, or 8."
These so-called professionals must be some of the most egregiously uninformed individuals on the job. If they had any remote grasp of the statistics, they would realize that terrorism in America is far the problem they are making it out to be.
In fact, the National Counterterrorism Center's 2009 Report on Terrorism has a graph on page 18 which displays the top 15 countries in terms of fatalities as a result of terror attacks. Where is the United States on this graph? Nowhere. Why? Because we do not have the problem with terrorism that countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, the DRC, India, Thailand, Russia, Colombia, Sudan, the Philippines, Algeria, Sri Lanka, Iran or Yemen have.
Yet, if you read this most recent report and were completely ignorant of the statistical realities of terrorism in America (like so many law enforcement professionals apparently are) you would walk away frightened and thinking a homegrown terrorist is under your car, around the corner or even under your bed.
Another statistic that significantly hinders the conclusion the authors are attempting to draw in this report is found in the FBI report covering terrorism from 2002-2005.
This report includes a list of terrorist incidents in the United States from 1980-2005 which reveals that in 1980-1984 there were more than twice the amount of terrorist incidents in the United States, at 167, than 1994-2005, during which there were 71.
In fact, the amount of terrorist incidents in the U.S. in years of 1980 and 1981 alone match the number of incidents for the 11 years between 1994 and 2005. Why isn't this statistic cited more often? Because it would suggest that we have actually been winning the so-called "War on Terror" long before such a war was even declared. That statistic would not help the defense contractors and "experts" who make a healthy living off of the non-existent threat of terrorism in the United States.
I would have hoped that anyone calling themselves an expert on terrorism and counterterrorism would be at least remotely familiar with the hard facts, but unfortunately I was completely wrong. These experts are either so biased that they have no interest in telling the truth or they are wholly misinformed.
Even though the statistics completely debunk the entire narrative peddled by this report, the "experts" now believe that the biggest threat is coming from within. On page 6 of the report they reveal, "When asked to compare the relative threat of homegrown terrorism to that posed by other terrorists or traditional criminal activity, a majority of respondents indicated that homegrown extremists posed the most significant danger."
Again, a statement which is in complete opposition to the facts coming from these alleged law enforcement experts. Apparently homegrown terrorists are a bigger threat than "traditional criminal activity" which results in far more injuries and fatalities yearly in the United States.
In the aforementioned 2009 NCTC report, it is stated that 25 US citizens died throughout the world as a result of terror attacks, according to the Department of State – Bureau of Consular Affairs along with numbers provided by the FBI.
How many of these US citizens were killed in America? 16. Yet, these 16 people represent victims of a threat larger than the threat represented by the 15,241 people murdered along with the 89,000 people who were victims of rape in 2009 alone?
That means that for every 100,000 people, 5 were murdered and 28.7 were raped in 2009. Is this really a smaller problem than domestic terrorism? How are over 15,000 American lives worth less than 25?
Besides the disturbing lack of knowledge possessed by these so-called experts, the report reveals wide-spread support of even more police state measures being implemented here in the United States.
Because homegrown extremists apparently pose more of a danger than all of the murderers and rapists who do far more damage, there is a need for an increased counterterrorism effort here at home.
Part of these domestic efforts highlighted in the report is combating the "spread of the [terrorist] entity's narrative" but never addressed is why exactly extremist groups have the ability to spread their narrative.
A frightening conclusion that can be drawn from the focus on the "spread of the entity's narrative" is that such claims could be used to justify limiting the American right to free speech.
It would be very easy to justify eliminating free speech if much of the United States was convinced of the danger of spreading terrorist narrative.
The report doesn't specifically explain what the narrative is or why it is so dangerous, but one could assume that any anti-government, anti-war, anti-corporatist and pro-human rights speech could be squeezed under this umbrella. Essentially, anything that criticizes or questions the United States could easily be demonized because it is allegedly spreading "the entity's narrative".
The report also lends support for a crackdown on the Second Amendment to the Constitution by saying that, "a few respondents expressed concern for the potential of small arms attacks against targets within the United States potentially including 'large venues/schools/transportation critical choke points.'"
This is the same type of rhetoric used earlier this year after the alleged death of Osama bin Laden to strike fear into the hearts of Americans and justify TSA being rolled out to "soft targets" like malls and schools.
In short, despite the fact that all the statistics and data in the world directly contradict the report's findings and the claims made by clearly biased "experts" on the threat of terrorism, especially of the homegrown variety, the HSPI and other bodies continue to fearmonger and lie to the American people to keep us scared while they empty our pockets and continue their imperialistic adventures in the Middle East and now North Africa.
The only way to fight this disinformation is to stay informed. Instead of taking the self-proclaimed expert or the talking head on CNN's word for it, how about you do the research for yourself?
Like me, you just might find that the picture being presented that justifies the grope downs of six-year-olds and the senseless slaughter of innocent civilians abroad is wholly manufactured and completely false.
What do you think? Is there a real threat of domestic terrorism that should be taken care of before the enormous murder rate, staggering number of rapes and other violent crimes in America? Should we start worrying about the millions of homeless and jobless Americans before tackling domestic terror? Let me know at email@example.com


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History of Nigeria. This is a short essay on the history of the African nation of Nigeria. Yes, there is more to this nation than e-mail scams!
The Encyclopædia Britannica notes, "Country located on the coast of western Africa. It has an area of 356,669 square miles (923,768 square km). It is bordered to the north by Niger, the east by Chad and Cameroon, the south by the Gulf of Guinea, and to the west by Benin. Nigeria is not only large in size—it is larger than the U.S. state of Texas—it is also Africa's most populous country. Nigeria has a diverse geography, with climates ranging from arid to humid equatorial. However, Nigeria's most diverse feature is its people."
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Before the colonial period, the area which comprises modern Nigeria had an eventful history. More than 2,000 years ago, the Nok culture in the present Plateau state worked iron and produced sophisticated terra cotta sculpture. In the northern cities of Kano and Katsina, recorded history dates back to about 1000 AD. In the centuries that followed, these Hausa kingdoms and the Bornu empire near Lake Chad prospered as important terminals of north-south trade between North African Berbers and forest people who exchanged slaves, ivory, and kola nuts for salt, glass beads, coral, cloth, weapons, brass rods, and cowrie shells used as currency.
In the southwest, the Yoruba kingdom of Oyo was founded about 1400, and at its height from the 17th to 19th centuries attained a high level of political organization and extended as far as modern Togo. In the south central part of present-day Nigeria, as early as the 15th and 16th centuries, the kingdom of Benin had developed an efficient army; an elaborate ceremonial court; and artisans whose works in ivory, wood, bronze, and brass are prized throughout the world today. In the 17th through 19th centuries, European traders established coastal ports for the increasing traffic in slaves destined for the Americas. Commodity trade, especially in palm oil and timber, replaced slave trade in the 19th century, particularly under anti-slavery actions by the British Navy. In the early 19th century the Fulani leader, Usman dan Fodio, promulgated Islam and that brought most areas in the north under the loose control of an empire centered in Sokoto.
Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
2 comments:
- suziq_najera said...
I need help on the history of Nigeria during the 1890's by monday otc. 16th 2006!!!! Please help.
- Miland said...
I strongly suggest you visit your local librarian and he/she can show you sources that will help you do your reserch. I am sure with a little guidance you are quite capable of doing this on your own.
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Thank you everyone for sharing. I can't tell you how much it means to me to be reminded of these things...
From Brian Brummund, Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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From Louise Norton
Your messages are great ..they bring back all the old memories. Did your Mother make shmeer case(sp)? as well as the dreaded head cheeze.
At Christmas one year, we all got oranges under our pillow, like you, they were there when we got home from midnight mass..ready and waiting for the morning...we (there were only 5 of us) had a candy bar and a orange under our pillow...In the morning when we got up and reached for our goodies..all that remained were a wrapper and peels, one sister could not wait until morning and decided that 1 was not enough......now some 60 years later she still hears about it on Christmas Morning...HAaaa HAaaaaa. Now it is funny.. She was and is, still our "challenged"child.
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Olympic Lessons for an Imperial America
The Olympics loom. American eyes will turn to London, hoping for Olympic gold. As they do so, it will be worth remembering that this will be London's second post-World War II Olympic Games, not the first, and that there are also medals to be won by comparing the condition of the U.K. on the last time the Games were held in London with its condition now.
In 1948, when London hosted the first post-war games, the U.K. was still one of the global Big Three. For all the immediate rationing with which Londoners then struggled, the government there still presided over an enormous empire, still oversaw its own sterling area in which the U.K. currency remained as acceptable as gold, and still managed what in 1948 remained the free world's second strongest major economy. In the more than six decades since, absolute living standards in London have been transformed, as they have everywhere in the advanced industrial world; but in relative terms the U.K. has definitely slipped. Per capita living standards in London are lower now than in at least 9 other EU countries.[1] U.K. productivity per hour is currently 18 percent lower than in Germany and 16 percent lower than in France.[2] An empire that at its peak covered 12 million square miles and took in a quarter of the world's population is now entirely gone.
The United Kingdom lost that empire, and slipped into the second league of global economic powers, within the lifetime of a single generation – mine. There are lessons in that loss and slippage for America if we chose to take them; for if we do not, we too might slip that quickly. Which is why it is worth exploring – this Olympic season – how the imperial dominance and economic leadership exercised by the U.K. as recently as the 1940s could have evaporated so completely in so short a space of time.
That evaporation occurred for at least the following reasons.
- The growing burden of its financial system. Empires like the British build their dominance on the global strength of their manufacturing sectors and on the quality of their armaments, and initially the parallel growth of financial institutions at the heart of the empire only reinforces that global strength. In the late nineteenth century, UK-based manufacturers needed overseas buyers, and those overseas buyers needed London-provided credit. In the south of the island, the City built its reputation as a global financial center while away in the north manufacturing firms produced and increasingly exported world-class products (and used their own profits – and not City-provided funds – to sustain their internal investment programs). In the late-Victorian heyday of the British Empire, sterling acted as the world's global currency and the U.K. traded manufactured goods for food and raw materials in the manner of modern America. But over time (and indeed quite quickly – certainly well before 1914), all that foreign lending helped key overseas economies catch up and surpass the British in manufacturing capability. It gave London-based financial institutions a set of interests in the success of those economies, rather than in the success of their own; and it established a gap between industry and finance that undermined the ability of British manufacturing firms to raise the long-term capital they eventually needed to meet the challenge of all this fierce international competition. The long term consequence of that gap was what London's leading financial journalist, Martin Wolf, recently described as the U.K.'s current strategic nightmare: "a strong comparative advantage in the world's most irresponsible industry"[3] – namely finance.
- The loss of manufacturing leadership. Equipped with such a financial system, and though briefly (in the 1860s and 1870s) the manufacturing "workshop of the world," UK-based manufacturing firms quickly lost their global dominance to more modernized producers in Germany and the United States. Economies catching up invariably follow the best of the practices of the economy they are pursuing, not its average ones: and after 1870 Germany and the United States certainly copied best U.K. practice, the better to then surpass it. Instead of responding to this rise of high-quality global competition by fundamentally altering their production processes and marketing methods, late nineteenth-century UK-based firms then chose instead to cling ever more tightly to processes and methods they already knew, the ones that had worked in the past; and they retreated into the more protected markets of their own Empire. Over time, the largest of these U.K. firms eventually broke from this imperial dependency and, with City help, moved more and more of their production overseas. Indeed, the post-1948 U.K. economy came to be second only to the United States in the number of multinational companies it headquartered.[4] It was the smaller-scale UK-based firms left behind which then lost market share (even in their own domestic markets) to powerful foreign competition. "Made in the UK" came increasingly to be replaced by "made in Germany" and "made in Japan:" now, of course, also "made in China." After 1948, U.K. capital went off-shore, and prospered. U.K. industry and labor stayed home, and slipped into decline.
- The imperial concerns of a preoccupied state. When the Empire was up and flourishing, its defense was the predominant concern of successive London governments of all political persuasions. Looking back now over the wreckage of empire, it is possible to see the adverse legacy of this prolonged imperial preoccupation. It was not that U.K. governments kept their distance from all sections of UK-based industry. They did not: on the contrary, funding the best kind of defense industries was a constant U.K. state practice. Ship-building industries in the nineteenth century, aircraft industries in the twentieth, the bulk of UK-based science and R&D throughout – all received generous public funding and state direction. But industries geared to civilian markets gained no such political priority. Instead, post-war U.K. governments struggled mightily to protect the global role of the City of London – willingly boosting interest rates and the exchange rate of sterling, the better to bring capital to London. But the cost of that boosting was the steady erosion of the competitiveness of UK-based manufacturing industry in general, and the slippage of U.K. living standards downwards relative to the best of the rest. While the Empire was there to be extended or defended, a political culture was consolidated in London in which it was always acceptable for governments to maintain a military-industrial complex but rarely acceptable for them to develop a sustained industrial policy aimed at any general strengthening of the entire U.K. manufacturing base.
- With the Empire came the hubris. Pride in empire came before the fall of empire, and left a huge mark on the British political mind long after the empire had gone. Generations of British school children were explicitly taught to see the nineteenth century Empire as a civilizing and stabilizing force, and were implicitly taught to think of national pride as something to be measured by the scale of U.K. overseas possessions and military victories. Rearranging other people's political furniture was seen to be an entirely legitimate practice by the very generation which also prided itself on the British ability to stop the Germans under Hitler from rearranging theirs. Over time, enthusiasm for empire waned away, but pride in the U.K.'s global weight and role did not. British prime ministers in particular continue to give themselves a global self-importance that the current economic standing of the U.K. cannot justify: and U.K. arms remain more globally active than those of any other European power. Empires leave huge shadows, and the shadow of the British Empire is not yet entirely gone. What else explains U.K. reluctance to immerse itself fully in the European Union, or the speed with which Tony Blair joined George W. Bush in the invasion of Iraq?
U.K. governments were forced in the end to exercise some degree of sense. The very scale of the empire they governed made its post-World War II defense too costly to bear, especially once the fight to defeat Nazism had left the U.K. treasury entirely depleted. India – the jewel in the crown – was immediately abandoned when the European fighting was over; and after several unsuccessfully attempts in the 1950s to maintain the last vestiges of direct colonial rule in the face of internal resistance (in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus), successive U.K. governments quickly learned their lesson. They reset the empire as a commonwealth of free nations, and entirely gave up the formal imperial game. That was wise, for empires always do more than rise. They also fall; so that ultimately the only issue – for imperialists and anti-imperialists alike – is whether, regardless of its apparent power and permanence, the empire will fall involuntarily and with bloodshed or be quietly dismantled in some managed incremental fashion. At the peak of any empire, there are invariably voices insisting that its global dominance can be maintained if only enough resources and will-power are directed to the imperial project: but those voices mislead. For that is the thing about peaks. After them, it is always downhill all the way. The only real choice is between 'the avalanche' and 'steady as you go;' and the bigger the empire, the steeper the incline you need to manage.
A financial system out of control, a manufacturing base weakened by outsourcing, an over-extended and militarily-preoccupied state, a political class full of hubris – what other country seems currently afflicted by these costs of empire? There are parallels here, surely, for contemporary America – and lessons for its political class. Will we as electors, and those we elect, learn those lessons and so avoid the full damage of the parallels? Perhaps not, but now is still the right time to point those parallels out.
The U.S. parallels are discussed more fully in chapter 5 of David Coates, Making the Progressive Case: Towards a Stronger U.S. Economy. New York: Continuum Books, 2012.
[1] Eurostat news release 186/2011, December 2011: available at https://www.google.com/search?q=Eurostat+news+release+186%2F2011&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
[2] Philip Inman, "UK productivity lagging behind main competitors," The Guardian, September 20, 2011: available at http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/sep/20/uk-productivity-falls-behind-competitors
[3] Martin Wolf, "Why Britain has to curb finance," The Financial Times May 22, 2009: available at http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/24bfcb30-4636-11de-803f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1wH9AGNrk
[4] Ben Fine and Laurence Harris, The Peculiarities of the British Economy, London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1985, p. 27
Tags: America, empire, financial sector, hubris, imperial decline, London, military spending, olympics, outsourcing, United Kingdom
David Coates holds the Worrell Chair in Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University. He is the author of Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments, New York: Continuum Books, 2010.
He writes here in a personal capacity.


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Hello, I am brand new to both unix and solaris and I thought I would give them a whirl. I bought a Game Theatre XP sound card when I saw that the OSS supported it on Solaris. I am still new to solaris so this problem might be user error...
I have 2 sound cards on my SunBlade 2500. One is PCI the other is AGP(?) the AGP is the sound card which came with the machine. I tried to remove it but it caused many errors so I decided to leave it in figuring I could just specify which card to use.
After booting up the first time, all of my sound was defaulting to the internal speaker. Learning that I needed to use /usr/dt/bin/sdtaudiocontrol I was able to switch it to use a sound card... problem being it only uses the sound card which came with the machine.
Figuring that it Solaris 10 did not come with OSS support out of the box I came to this site to grab it. It installed just fine, however when I ran osstest it crapped out and said that it could not find a card it recognized. I checked and the Hercules card is supported. I am thinking that perhaps it is also only looking at the other card for some reason? Is there any way to fix this? Bare with me please, as I am very new to all this.
Solaris 10 (SPARC) with Game Theatre XP problems...
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Does "osstest" make sound via the Game Theatre XP? If so, see http://www.opensound.com/wiki/index.php ... und_output on how to make it the default output.
seawright wrote:Rather than remove the unwanted sound card can you not just disable it in the BIOS?
There is no BIOS on sparc
Only Openboot (Sun's Open Firmware implementation).
(And its maintained more and more badly after Sun got rid of the developers who understood it properly a few years ago - zfs boot being a binary in the boot block not an open firmware driver for example)
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Sooo... Chaosmark... Your university computer science teacher is no good, much poorer than you, and Steve Vogt, a distinguished scientist from UCSC, is "optimistic" when he utters statements about his chosen field of study, a field you have no competence nor education in?I suspect it might be the Dunning-Kruger effect after all! :p
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are there different degrees of sin? if so, which is worse?
Yes there are degrees of sin. If I lie to you, that's not as bad as killing you.Child rape is worse than concentual homosexual acts.
is the belief really that even impure thoughts can be controlled? (i.e. you said earlier that "being" gay might not be a sin but acting on it is, as it's within your control to abstain)
I'm not saying I agree with or even understand everything the Church says. I'm just trying to explain what I was taught
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