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We were not made for suffering. We were not made for "conventional" happiness either.
David Brooks, an op-ed columnist for The New York Times, wrote on the redeeming nature of suffering. It went online more than a week ago, but reading it in the midst of Holy Week was intriguing. His points are insightful, but they make even more sense in light of Christ's suffering.
The main goal of many people's lives is to "maximize happiness," said Brooks. However, when reflecting on life, people tend to focus on the significant points, whether pleasurable or painful. Difficulty has a definite impact.
"People shoot for happiness, but feel formed through suffering," said Brooks.
Happiness is about "maximizing your benefits," while suffering affects people in more significant, and often constructive ways, said Brooks.
That raised this question for Holy Week: How are we formed through Christ's suffering?
It is easy at this point to fast-forward to Easter. We have been sacrificing and praying hard for 40 days now. We have had a singular focus on the Cross, and we may feel like just focusing on that empty tomb and the glory now. We can't.
What can we learn from the Cross? Jesus demonstrated unconditional love, complete self-gift, unfailing obedience, humility, sacrifice and courage. What are we learning about ourselves? Are we applying those lessons to our lives?
How many times have we failed this Lent? It is often quite painfully obvious how human we are. We cannot do anything — not even give up chocolate — without the grace of God. So we look to the Cross, as an example of perfect love and perfect sacrifice and unite ourselves with Christ.
Christ embraced suffering. As Brooks notes, "there is nothing intrinsically ennobling about suffering," but Christ made it beautiful. Through it, we are redeemed. In it, we find a deep intimacy with Christ.
When presented with the choice between, as Brooks calls it, "happiness, conventionally defined," and suffering, I think the choice becomes clear.
"The right response to this sort of pain is not pleasure. It's holiness," said Brooks. "I don't even mean that in a purely religious sense. It means seeing life as a moral drama, placing the hard experiences in a moral context and trying to redeem something bad by turning it into something sacred."
Jennifer Rey is the web editor of Our Sunday Visitor Publishing. Follow her on Twitter @JenReyOSV.
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We'd really like a logo which depicts a flying swift - see the photo at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift. We'd like to see some designs which show fairly realistic birds as well as some which are more abstract.
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The Black Widow
I decided to play a little live poker at Foxwoods last night. I blame MiamiDon entirely for corrupting me and making me like live play. In addition Dr. Pauly gets a shout out for getting me to Foxwoods the first time. It was now time for me to grow up and go to a casino all by my lonesome. It would be my third session playing live poker if you include Vegas as one long session.
So when do I choose to do this? I wait until the day that massive severe thunderstorms are scheduled and I head off right into the heart of them. Why? Because that is how Waffles roles. I am driving down the highway into this massive storm thinking maybe I have made a mistake but being too stubborn to turn around and all of the sudden the wind gusts push the edge of my windshield wiper blade over the side of the car. So do I stop? No way! I roll down my widow and stick my arm out to hold the wiper blade on the car. I mean picture this for a second I am flying down the highway at 60 miles per hour with lightning flashing all around me and my hand out the widow holding the car together. Rain was dripping down my arm and I had the other widow open because the AC is having some issues and it was damn hot. A whirlwind of McDonalds bags finally caused me to have to roll up the passenger side widow.
Finally I made it to Foxwoods. It is truly a beautiful casino. Where Vegas is all lights and glitter the Indian reservation is just a huge hotel surrounded by nature. I found my way to the new WPT poker room and signed up on the waiting list. I was not entirely happy with the way it worked. You put your name on and there was no board or
any way to tell where you were in the list. They had a thousand plasma TV sets laying all sorts of sports but not a single way for me to tell how long I had to wait. The speaker system was pretty good though and it only took about fifteen minutes to get seated on a Friday night with twenty people before me. The room itself is huge and
has widows to the outside so you can see time passing. Of course the 5$ toke they take every hour helps you tell that time is passing also.
I sat down at my first table and could not believe my good fortune. The things that people were willing to get stacked with were incredible. I bought $200 in chips but was informed it was maximum $100 buyin. So I stuck the other hundred in my pocket.
A few of the players on the table were pops and his son Fast Eddie. Pops was a decent player even though he over valued some of his hands. I think in this game that was not such a bad thing. He stacked his son consistently with some of the worse suckouts of the night. Every time Fast Eddie was all in he would call. My first hand of the night was with Eddie and basically his main problem was he did not know how to bet. I had KQc and the flop came Jxx one club. He checked TPTK on the flop and then only bet ten bucks on the turn. However when I completed my flush on the river he was more than willing to call my all in. Fast Eddie just needs to learn how to protect his hands.
Revlon was in the four seat for a while. He was a pretty boy who would give Ick a run for his money. He had his t-shirt showing just enough of his hairless chest and I swear he was wearing nail polish. He would be my bitch at the table as I repeatedly stacked his ass. I flopped trip tens against his AK and finally put him out of his misery. Every hand we were in he would stare me down and I would put a huge shit eating grin on my face. I love stacking pretty boys.
In the last seat was a decent player and I tried to stay away from him for the most part. He was a little too confident about his play and I used this to my advantage. He raised $15 before me and I decide to disguise my kings a little by raising it $25 more. I was hoping he had a pocket pair under aces and I was right. He immediately went all in with his queens and I stacked him.
It was going better than I could imagine. On my first $100 buyin I was up to a little over $300. It was going so well until SHE sat down. The Black Widow. I would learn her name after a big hand we were involved in. She was there to have fun. A Veneno type player in the true meaning of the word. She was attractive to look at and I figured it would
be fun to have a lady at the table. Immediately after sitting down she stacks someone when she calls off most of her chips on a flush draw. She then proceeds to flop a set of nines and just tear up the table. In about a half an hour she had me outchipped. I remember thinking to myself "She is on a run stay away". Did I listen to myself? If I did I would not be Waffles.
I look down and see a nice starting hand. Big Slick! A freaking K of hearts. I do not want to screw around with this hand so I immediately raise twenty and hope to get people to fold. I get called by the Widow. The flop comes Axx with two spades. I bet you can see where this is going? I bet out another forty and she looks at me and innocently puts her chips in the pot. The turn completes the flush but I refuse to be scared and I bet out again. She raises me another $50 into a pot that is over $200 already. I have to call. We both check the river and this is where I think she was bluffing me. Nope. She turns over T8s for the ten high flush. I asked why she did not bet the river and she replied in her sweet voice "You scared me".
Do not believe for a second she was innocent my readers. She was there to have fun. Her definition of fun was to suckout on people and make them cry. A true evil if ever there was one. Even her friends that she plays poker with realized this as she told me the name they called her "The Black Widow". So now my hard earned winnings of the night had been cut in half and I was fuming. I admit I muttered a few things under my breath as she continued to get incredibly lucky. I was on full blown Waffles tilt! My face was flush with anger and I started playing poorly. I finally got stacked with 44 on a Txx flop because I was mad and also there was enough money in the pot to try and suckout.
I pulled my other hundred in chips out of my pocket and placed them on the table. I took a deep breath and told myself to calm down and win my money back. I was more than a little upset at the huge swing I had taken. I would soon realize that this table was a HUGE variance type of table where anything could and often did happen.
One of he funniest hands of the night was when the Widow had raised fifteen before me. I declare to the table that I DO NOT want to play ANY hands with the widow and I slide sixty eight dollars into the middle of the table. Sixty eight dollars. Do I get one caller? Oh no. I get called by both the Black Widow AND a dope that does not even get a name. On the flop I push the rest of my stack in on a low board. The Widow finally decides to fold and it is HU between me and dummy. I river a boat and he turns over T8 s00ted. She had ATo. Unfuckingbeleivable. I think if an Ace had hit the flop I would have gone ballistic. She would have loved that. I then threatened her by saying I was going to write all about this and over two hundred people would learn of the Black widow.
After winning that hand I was in a slightly better mood. She yells over that we are even now and I laugh and say she owes me another fifty. It was true you know! Every time we would get into a hand together after that I would take my two fingers point to my eyes and then point to her eyes. I have no idea why. It was fun though. I would like to say I played perfect poker for the rest of the night but I was up and down. Some due to my play and other hands due to suckouts or bad laydowns. Pops got me good once when he had JJ and I flopped my queen. He lead out on the flop and I cold called. An ace showed on the turn and I chickened out. Nicely played old man.
A guy who thought he was a great player lost a hand to the Widow and called her a bitch. I called him Mr. Hat for the rest of the night because he wore a hat down over his eyes so you could not read his soul. I do not think this worked because every time he raised a hand someone re-raised him and he had to fold his bluff. It was comical.
I will say that the Black widow was a hell of a lot of fun. We both had the whole table in stitches at the end of the night. Her friend Dye Job (that was not her natural hair color was it?) came by later and played a few hands. I could feel a sucking out motion pulling at me from their end of the table. All in all it was a really fun time.
I think by the end of the night the Widow and I had come to a peaceful acceptance of each other. I accepted that she was there to have fun and you can not change omeone's nature and should not even try. I fell victim to not her suckout powers but her ability to have a good time and we left it at that. I finally decided I was tired and
racked up my chips. I was up a buyin and a half after a night of really wild poker. I wrote down my blog address for the widow and hopefully she will come by and possibly leave a comment or two. I never asked if she lived around there or was just visiting from out of town but I would love to play with her again sometime.


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Game #1: Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 New York Rangers
- After finding my seat easily despite apocalyptic warnings about the layout of the partially-renovated Madison Square Garden, I find myself sat right behind somebody with the unfortunate appearance of a homeless Barry Melrose.
- I then witness the impressive feat of a man managing to dump a beer over his own head after stumbling on the stairs.
- The Rangers controversially opt to introduce the players individually at the home opener - not something that has occurred every year, mostly for boo-related reasons. Accordingly, nobody gets booed (yet).
- Apparently, a huge pro-Avery, anti-Tortorella banner is unveiled somewhere in the crowd. Either I completely miss it, or it was behind me. (Apparently, the banner was subsequently banned by the tolerant MSG staff.)
- Against type so far this season, the Rangers actually put together a decent first period to lead 1-0, also having two other efforts chalked off for reasonably marginal contact with a very shaky looking Jonas Gustavsson in the Leafs' net.
- While I did not feel the need to test any of the new facilities, I can only assume the bathrooms and concessions are of the highest standard since I was seemingly the only person in my section to leave their seat fewer than 18 times a period to visit the concourse while play was in progress.
- Entirely not against type so far this season, the Rangers decide to exploit a very shaky looking Jonas Gustavsson in the Leafs' net by giving him practically no work at all the rest of the way, while Henrik Lundqvist allows a few weak goals for the first time in a while, despite also stopping two Phil Kessel breakaways.
- Patient and moderate as they are, a sizeable chunk of the home fans use the late third period to start a "We want Avery" chant, seizing the opportunity to remind everyone that a lack of defensive depth and completely dysfunctional start from most of the point producing forwards can only be corrected by the return of a 3rd/4th line forward who scored three goals last year and the coach doesn't trust.
- The Leafs' fourth goal from noted sniper Mike Brown with six minutes to go sees the New Transformed Exits brought to you by Chase at Madison Square Garden adequately tested for the first time.
Game #2: Ottawa Senators 5-4 (SO) New York Rangers
- An unseasonal October snowstorm means dangerous conditions have to be navigated on my journey to the game - dopey 5th Avenue tourists wielding umbrellas in the manner of a blindfolded Dan Carcillo.
- I'm seated directly in front of one of the press boxes, tonight featuring legendary former Leafs GM, John Ferguson Jr, now scouting for the Sharks. I successfully sell my hot dog to him for $300. Not sure why I need a no-trade clause though.
- Line-up news: MSG fan favourites, Erik Christensen and Wojtek Wolski are rewarded for their consistent work ethic and gritty play with the assignment next to Marián Gáborik for at least one shift (and probably one shift).
- A predictably terrible first period from the Rangers sees them heavily outshot and 1-0. One relatively quiet and quickly aborted "We want Avery" chant results.
- Not for the first time (nor the last), the between periods puck shooting contest sees the participant mercilessly booed for his repeated failures. He still has a better than 50% chance of playing on the Rangers top line for the rest of the game though.
- Momentum shifts after Zenon Konopka pleases his many fantasy owners by getting five plus a game for performing his own renovation of the MSG glass using Artem Anisimov's face as raw materials (though the hit was actually not that bad, if at all). The Rangers shock the world by putting away two (two) PPGs on the major penalty.
- Despite another patchy performance at best, the Rangers work themselves into a 4-1 lead with eight minutes left in the game, the third goal by Gáborik from a great pass by Derek Stepan being the pick of the bunch.
- Despite...something, the Rangers then work themselves into a 4-4 tie with three minutes left as, shockingly, the strategy of panicking and spending the rest of the game chasing the puck in their own end fails to pay dividends.
- Milan Michálek scores the only goal in the shootout, the building erupts with joyous emotion.
Game #3: San Jose Sharks 2-5 New York Rangers
- Right off the opening faceoff, Brandon Prust and Ryane Clowe
"tangle". Approximately 10 minutes of pirouetting and helmet punching
ends with the pair almost landing on top of Pierre McGuire in his usual
licking Mike Richards' shoesbetween the benches.
- News of Sean Avery's impending recall and the Rangers not actually losing at the time make the (mostly failed) attempts to start the "We want Avery" chant more confusing than ever.
- Ryan McDonagh: 1-0. Scott Gomezhahahahahahahahahahahaha.
- Brandon Dubinsky and Derek Stepan somehow exploit Colin White's legendary footspeed to make it 2-0 in the first; the Rangers looking strangely competent.
- However, it's tied midway through the second period, the tying goal by Logan Couture coming at the end of a shift of six or seven minutes of the crack Jeff Woywitka-Steve Eminger pairing being trapped in their own end by the Sharks' top line.
- Not tied for long as, befitting of a player who looks like Joe Sakic for one game every two months (Joe Sakic's wife for the rest), Erik Christensen makes two great passes on goals by Ryan Callahan and Artem Anisimov.
- In the final minute of the second period, Callahan makes a spectacular stretch/dive from behind the net to poke home a rebound and give the Rangers the unassailable three-goal lead that has not been assailed by a Rangers opponent in, oh...two days.
- The third period is largely a non-event. Shame.
- In front of me tonight:
- Firstly, your typical MSG BlackBerry Man. Not even a glance towards the ice during the entire first period. Doesn't return to his seat for the third.
- Replaced in the third by a fan in a Patrick Marleau jersey wearing an "Occupy Madison Square Garden" sign around his neck. Loses marks for not sitting with a friend in a Jeremy Roenick costume holding a bag of guts.
- After the game, Joe Thornton bizarrely (given he was fairly anonymous in defeat) decides to call the Rangers the softest team the Sharks played on their road trip. With the two teams not meeting again this season (neither team has a chance of winning the Western Conference Final series), this appears to be Jumbo Joe's Halloween equivalent of knocking on the Rangers' dressing room door and running away.
A travel snafu prevented my planned attendance at the Devils-Leafs game in the evening. I hope Marty Brodeur's return performance was as amusing for those in person as it appeared to be on TV.
Game #4: Connecticut Whale 3-4 (OT) Bridgeport Sound Tigers
- A 90-minute train journey from Manhattan for an 11am faceoff. Not my usual kind of trip.
- The reason for the early start: Some sort of schoolkids promotion. So, a few thousand kids in the stands make the atmosphere one part hockey game, nine parts Justin Bieber concert.
- A completely indecipherable P.A. system and unfamiliarity with many of the players will make it tougher than normal to keep up. And to know when the building is being evacuated.
- Line-up news:
- The Whale are now Avery-less (must've been publicised somewhere), but still feature recent Ranger demotions Tim Erixon, Kris Newbury and Mats Zuccarello-Aasen. The mini-Fishsticks include Nino Niederreiter and the overwhelmingly talented Trevor Gillies.
- Kevin Poulin versus Cam Talbot in net - no start for Chad "Dos Nueve" Johnson (apparently "Tres Cero" in the minors)
- Why does the typeface on Calvin de Haan's nameplate say: dE HAAN?
- The Whale's first goal (Jonathan Audy-Marchessault from Mats Zuccarello-Aasen and Tim Erixon) smashes the record for most letters combining on a goal I've seen.
- Gillies (who doesn't appear to even get a regular shift at this level) takes an appropriately dumb penalty, leading to the stuff of nightmares: Wade Redden as the PP quarterback.
- The between period T-shirt toss produces a painfully shrill noise.
- A fight between Micheal (sic) Haley and Stu Bickel is broken up almost as soon as it starts, while doing so, the linesman presumably screaming "Won't somebody please think of the children?!"
- The Whale take a 3-1 lead early in the third, the goal (Jonathan Audy-Marchessault from Mats Zuccarello-Aasen and John Mitchell) smashing the record for most letters combining on a goal I've seen, if falling just short on the syllables equivalent.
- Showing impressive dedication to becoming Rangers, the Whale then blow their lead over the last 11 minutes and lose in OT, the Tigers' Tim Wallace completing his hat-trick on the winner.
Game #5: Anaheim Ducks 1-2(SO) New York Rangers
- Back in the
cheapmoderately less obscenely expensive seats for this one. Hence, not surrounded by corporate no-shows / BlackBerry idiots.
- Instead, I'm sat next to somebody who talks loudly non-stop for the entire game, none of which is about the game or hockey generally, except for: "I ****ing hate the ****ing Montréal Canadiens. Not only are they from Montréal, but they are ****ing Canadians."
- After a pretty poor game between the two teams in Stockholm four weeks ago, much of this one is similarly uneventful, the Ducks mustering only two shots in the first period.
- The Rangers open the scoring through the increasingly Paul Coffey-like Jeff Woywitka, before the moustache-free George Parros is again engaged in a not-at-all-staged fight on the restart, the Bahama Bomber, Andre Deveaux taking the place that Mike Rupp filled in Stockholm and proving less like a Parros punchbag.
- It's tied after 40 minutes thanks to Bobby Ryan wiring a screened wrister high past Henrik Lundqvist.
- A more eventful third period sees the Ducks carry most of the play, Ryan Callahan missing a shorthanded breakaway with no Duck skater within 60 feet of him (his only breakaway/shootout move failing him), and both goalies playing well.
- A fairly crazy OT session somehow ends without a winner, before the completely unexpected sight of Marián Gáborik (2-for-19 career record coming in) scoring in the shootout and Bobby Ryan this time not fanning the final attempt past Lundqvist.
Game #6: Montréal Canadiens 3-5 New York Rangers
- Beaucoup trop de partisans des Habitants ici.
- I'm surprised to see that somebody actually purchased one of these monstrosities:
- Bad news for the
CanadiensRangers is that Gomez is still injured and will not play. The Rangers do ice the best two players involved in the Gomez trade: Ryan McDonagh and No Gomez.
- An interesting start, as Mike Blunden flattens a speeding Brandon Dubinsky by the Habs' bench, sparking a huge get-together. "Clean" hit from Blunden, had it not been for the fact that he jumped off the bench early to make the hit.
- After Ryan Callahan and Blunden fight and a separate one between Mike Sauer and Petteri Nokelainen (the latter two receiving game misconducts), we emerge with a 5-on-3 PP for two minutes to the Rangers, on which Erik Christensen capitalises.
- Well into the game, we finally see a shift for returning hero, Sean Avery. First time I've heard grown men squeal with excitement at MSG.
- The first period ends 3-0 Rangers, the third goal a particularly good one, a shot block by Dan Girardi leading to a rush the other way, capped by a great pass from Derek Stepan to a streaking Michael Del Zotto to beat Carey Price.
- As expected, the Habs score early in the second period and pull to within a goal midway through the period on a 5-on-3 PP of their own, courtesy of Brian Gionta's wonky sense of balance as much as anything worth penalising.
- After surviving more than one shot off the post and some dangerous rushes from the apparently not-dead-yet Erik Cole, things become more comfortable for the Rangers as Brad Richards wires one past Price late in the second.
- The game tightens up considerably in the final frame, but a frantic finish is ensured once Gionta get his customary goal against the Rangers with two minutes to go.
- Captain Callahan eases nerves with the empty-netter, the puck amusingly being followed into the goal by Garden crowd favourite, P.K. Subban, spinning on his derrière.
Game #7: Winnipeg Jets 0-3 New York Rangers
- Predictably, far fewer Jets jerseys in the crowd than there were Canadiens jerseys last night. The fans must have opted to spend all their ticket money to sit under a leaking ceiling on Long Island. Understandable choice.
- During the anthems, somebody unfurls a banner reading: "2012 END FED RON PAUL". I'm not heavily into U.S. politics, but it seems odd that Ruslan Fedotenko's contract status would be such a prominent issue for Republicans.
- After the excitement of last night's game, it seems back-to-back games for both teams is showing. The first period is unremarkable, notable only for one crazy sequence in Marty Biron's goalmouth in which the puck is stopped on the goal-line two or three times and ends up with every player on the ice bar Jets goalie Ondřej Pavelec either in or right around the crease. Dustin Byfuglien does a passable impression of an NFL fullback leaping over the pile at the goal-line, but cannot force the football to break the plane.
- The second period is almost equally unremarkable, notable only for Derek Stepan's PP goal to open the scoring.
- A bit more interesting in the third. Three quick Jets penalties, give the Rangers the opportunity to get booed for failing to score on an extended 5-on-3 PP. (Actually not that bad a PP - Pavelec mostly responsible for the lack of scoring.) Then Marián Gáborik converts on a 2-on-1 rush led by the recently excellent Derek Stepan.
- Late Jets pressure is pretty sporadic and Gáborik seals the game in the last seconds with a lob wedge backhand empty netter. Biron earns his first shutout as a Ranger and continues his strong start to the season.
- Signs of the tenuous strength of the financial support provided by Winnipeg fans are revealed when two of them duck the fare barriers at the crowded subway station rather than face the outrageous $2.50 cost.
Still a few questions to be answered too, such as:
- When will Marc Staal recover and return to the line-up?
- Will Dan Girardi die of exhaustion if that doesn't happen soon?
- When will "Sausage Boss by Andrew Carmellini" finally open at MSG?


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|2012-06-05, 12:07
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Like say Silvia's descendants showed hope to the world by not caring for reincarnation etc
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Or that's how I'd like to see it, at least.
This is why the more I think about it the more I like it: you can't really escape from *considering* the role of fate in all this, but at least EVOL now seems deliberately constructed to make it impossible to pick out a clear statement of how fate does (and doesn't) relate to the situation at hand. (Edit: as opposed to before, when it just seemed vague and incoherent due to bad writing and bad ideas, now it seems well-designed specifically to avoid a coherent take on the whole thing, which I at least can get behind.)
Perhaps: in the end you can't escape fate, but you'd be foolish to think fate is something definite and knowable, and so what else can you do but be afraid, but not give up, and just keep on living your life?
It's especially the case when splitting Amata into Amata and Kagura opens the way to having the cake and eating the cake.
|2012-06-05, 15:44
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Zessica's the peculiar wrinkle in all of this, particularly in this episode and, also, what was shown of the past by the EVOL back in Ep. 16. It showed us an Apollo and Sylvia promising to reunite 12,000 years later (now) which seems to have dealt a nigh-killing blow to Zessica's hopes because, as far as that pairing is concerned in-universe, they are destined to reunite and Zessica is an outsider. (Its like a very strange change on the Pollon -> Apollonius/Celianne where we had Zessica trying to do as Pollon did for the next life but getting Mykage-ed.)
In fact, there's an ironic twist in all of this aside from the above said in (). Zessica's initial hope for winning Amata by having fate "take" Mikono away has now come back and punched her in the gut by "giving" Mikono to Amata. And, of course, none of this would complete without further noting that she herself didn't want her hope to come from something like fate and told Amata to fight. The sequence: "You'll get crushed by fate!" to "I was wrong and even it screws me over, fight fate!" to "I've been crushed by fate... and Mykage stole my body to play out his reenactment of 12,000 years ago (moar fate)."
It's all some cluster**** of dramatic and/or tragic irony that you'd expect from a Shakespearean play.
If not for Zessica, you could easily resolve this one way or the other on fate (though probably leaning more towards satisfying the past promise), but with Zessica, stuff just gets confusing.
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Vena: that scene in 16 really does come to mind, actually. If it wasn't, in fact, wrong for Silvia to fall for Pollon -- and I think being shown it in that context implies it's not wrong, unless the Aquarion really is a lot angrier about a few things than we've been lead to believe thus far -- then it wouldn't be wrong for Amata to fall for Zessica this time around, either, I don't think.
Not saying it's going to happen, or that if it did happen that it wouldn't be an asspull, but there's a definitely a bit of a different way Zessica could think about what the Aquarion chose to show her. I'm unsure if she's meant to eventually figure it out, if we the audience are, or it's just an oversight, but with recent revelations what she's shown isn't exactly the story she's reacting as if she thinks it is (now there's a mouthful, ).
Edit: to sum it up: what's good for Pollon is good for Zessica, and vice versa, especially since their positions are at least somewhat similar.
Edit 2: I wonder if we can make a case that every time someone's brought up fate it's only worked against them?
From memory: Amata's pickup line about meeting Mikono being fate in episode 5 is almost* immediately* followed by Kagura showing up to interact with Mikono. Come to think of it, Mikono *wanting* to believe what he said about their meeting being fate actually takes on an ominous double meaning in hindsight...ouch, that's actually quite clever.
Zessica obviously wanted it to be Mikono's fate to wind up with Kagura to free up Amata for herself, and look where it got her.
Are there any others? If it's just these two it is a pattern but not a particularly strong one.
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FWIW Celiane didn't reincarnate as Mikono because she wanted to apologize (I almost wrote "apollogize"...), she just reincarnated because apparently there's this 12000 year reincarnation circle going on. Also, while we're on the topic of apologizing, note that Mikono wanted to apologize to Kagura, not Amata. I think this further points toward Kagura being in fact the "A/Pollo" part that is not present in Amata anymore (except for the wings). The "essence" of the reincarnation, in a way. What I mean is, Silvia was Celiane but she was also Silvia. I think this is what might have happened here: Amata was Apollo but also Amata, but then Mykage removed Apollo from him so now he's just Amata.
I don't hold out hope for the return of the Detachment Wings, though if it does return it would be very interesting to see what they do with it, after all the point of that exercise was Amata breaking free from the past that bound him. Maybe that's why Kagura's power didn't work on him while Amata did that, because Amata unknowingly "rejected" him. (Btw I just noticed that the kanji for Wings of Glory is a variation on Deatchment Wing: former is 金剛不惑翼 and the latter is 無執不惑翼. They both have the "not led astray" part, except one emphasizes the detachment and the other... well, I suppose we should go for the most mystical meaning here. ^^;; )
Re: fate, I won't even start seriuosly speculating about this, but I do think that fate with respect to Amata & Kagura & Mikono lies with Apollo and Silvia and not Pollon and Celiane. Dog loved girl, girl loved someone else. 12000 years passed, dog finally got the girl and they pretty much wrote their own love story. 12000 years pass again and now dog wants girl based on said love story, girl now realizes that it was the dog back then (...or something?? please don't say that Mikono was begging forgiveness for not noticing that a dog was in love with her 24000 years ago, I mean, really), but also recognizes him as the guy she loved back then. Add the Amagura twist and Zessica, and here we are.
(Meanwhile, girl's original lover is a mecha so that route is pretty much a dead end.)
I always interpreted Amata's "it's destiny" line in ep 5 as something he just said without knowing what he was talking about (in the light of recent revelations it might have come from his subconscious, or maybe he's just a tennentarashi ^^;; which might be the case, despite his usual awkwardness he does have his moments), and its purpose was to have an ironic echo when the actual destined partner (=Kagura) arrives.
Btw, while Amata's attempts to further his relationship with Mikono were regularly thwarted by various things, Kagura is the most consistent offender: first in the tower, then while Amata was trying to ask Mikono out, and then during the movie night (btw that episode also had a destiny theme going on). Also, one of the previews had Kagura telling Mikono she shouldn't struggle against fate - whatever this means in the light of the new information.
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Not exactly considering things are happening differently here. Pollon's situation is far different than Zessica's(And not just the gay angel taking over her body) and fate wasn't in the way when Pollon first fell in love with Celiane. Than there's the part that Apollonius never even tried to get in the way of his Dog wanting to make his girlfriend a dog lover in "that" way in the following reincarnation cycles. So Pollon never had to deal with anything that Zessica is dealing with because the one that was "destined" for Celiane never got in the way of the current reincarnations love attempts. While the reincarnated lovers, still say Silvia was tricked, are back together and actively trying to get together which is getting in the way of the outsider, Zessica, from getting with the one she loves.
There are similiarities but no. What's good for Pollon isn't good for Zessica which we have been shown very clearly how bad this reincarnation business has been to poor Zessica. Than there's the whole fighting fate theme which makes things even gloomier for Zessica even if she got to make her wish.
That would be stupid if they use the split as the excuse saying "Hey, the part that was destined for Mikono was actually ripped out into that thing that shouldn't exist! Which suddenly makes Amata totally legit in his fight against fate because that fate was taken from him and given to his fake. Totally".
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Apollo never cared about fate or destiny or things of that sort. The reason why making Apollo being Pollon's reincarnation sucks is because they make it out like Apollo was some sort of sad sap who soooooo wanted Celiane's love etc when he really wasn't. The only time Apollo and Silvia really clicked as a couple was at the end when Sirius went away. Aside from that Apollo and Silvia were comrades but he was never trying to woo Silvia or any such thing.
Because of the promise of never forgetting silvia's scent and messing with Touma's dark half we got Mykage splitting Amata into Kagura and Amata. Then Mykage forcefully drilled shit like fate and destiny and how he is fated to be with Silvia into him. If Kagura was not split from Amata, would there be a chance that Complete Amata would be not so obsessed like Apollo was.
He would still court Mikono as Complete Amata but I don't believe for once genesis Apollo would say things like "we are fated" or "you are my destiny". That is just not Apollo.
I am sad that because Kagura exists that people will think Apollo was some sort of sad sap, sooooo in love with Celiane's light half of soul. Apollo loved Silvia not Celiane. He was not obssessed with fate or any such nonsense. He cared about people around him like his friends with Baron and he requested Silvia take care of them. His friends at Deva etc.
This whole fate setup with Amata and Kagura is pretty much fabricated by Mykage and Zen. Genesis Apollo would say screw them.
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^Which is one of the reasons why I'm in the "Evol is actually an AU, the only backstory is what Fudou and Crea told in this episode, and it has zero canonical effect on the Sousei no Aquarion TV series" camp. (I don't care for the OVAs.)
I wasn't invested in the Apollo x Silvia/Apollonius x Celiane romance whatsoever, but one of the high points of the plot (that I wasn't too fond of either) was Apollo basically going "I don't give a damn about my previous life." He just wanted to save Baron and the kids, and help the Deava gang once they've become friends.
Actually, they could've tackled this with Amata and Kagura, with Kagura going on about "reincarnation!!1!! destiny!!1!" and Amata going "who the hell cares," except of course they handled Amata badly. :/ And the only time he got to say something along those lines it was not directly about himself. (Then again, back then he didn't know all the details.)
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|2012-06-05, 17:29
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Oh man I wish I'd looked up 金剛 sooner, I guess that's I get for being lazy again and assuming the supplied English caption was reasonable. Thanks for bringing it up and motivating me to actually go look that one up, kuromitsu.
Also: kuromitsu, how can you even consider Amata not being some sort of tennentarashi? Just look at what going on with Zessica, . Can it possibly get more tennen than that?
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Kagura and Mikono don't have this same pattern, they've been largely one tracked on the whole fate thing (this may or may not be due to Mikono's inability to open her mouth to talk about Kagura with anyone).
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Aside from those two, the only other explicit tempting-fate thing I can think of was in episode 16 when Cayenne said it'd be Amata's destiny to lose that battle, actually made me laugh pretty good ("where will you come from? above? from the left? from the right")...then after much shenanigans -- inspired by Zessica's confession, actually?!?! -- the mugen comes up from below (the one option he hadn't named, ) and triggers that big explosion.
But definitely, when you set it up that way they have parallel arcs on that topic. Not identical, but parallel, and certainly similar.
I thought more characters had mentioned fate in some sort of "tempting fate" setting but I'm not thinking of any. In any case, I still think it's pushing them to the fate-indifference route more than anything, or at least I hope it is. There's something on the tip of my tongue that I'll come back and post if I can remember what it was.
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Los Angeles Auto Show: What We Spotted on the Second Day
Top 10 Surprises, Hidden Gems, and Cool Trucks and SUVs
There aren't as many people on the show floor on the second media day of the auto show, so we took the opportunity to take a look around to see what we may have missed on the first day. Here are some of the gems:
Chevrolet unveiled its 2015 Colorado midsize pickup truck yesterday, and showed an extended cab and a crew cab during the press conference. Today, there was a third truck on display: an extended-cab outfitted for lifeguard duty.
Also in the General Motors portion of the auto show is an area where people can have their own photo flip books make. The backdrop was this cool Greenbrier van.
Toyota had a SpongeBob Squarepants edition of the Highlander. The entire back of the Highlander was an actual fish tank.
Galpin Auto Sports had a big display in Kentia Hall, where it showed several really cool trucks and SUVs. Here is the Back-Up Pickup, which was a drag-racing truck that looked like it was going backwards.
Also in that booth was this sweet 1966-1977 Bronco. We couldn't get a shot of it without a big post in the way, but you get the idea.
Who doesn't like the Mystery Machine? We certainly weren't expecting to see it at the auto show, but there it was. This van would make anyone smile.
Another one that was blocked by a post was G.A.S.'s cool Tonka Truck concept. It's based on a 2012 F-250 with a Power Stroke under the hood.
There's something about the Land Rover LR4 that makes people want to explore the back country. We spotted this one, complete with rooftop-mounted tent, grille guard, and camo graphics.
We are always happy when we see an International truck on display at a show. This one is part of Harley-Davidson's Motorcycle Boot Camp, a program that teaches people to ride motorcycles.
This Ford truck at AAA's booth is a cool vintage Ford tow truck. It is in excellent condition and has a beautiful paint job. It also happens to be a dualie.


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DistroWatch Weekly: Tips and Tricks with Konqueror and Kate
The current DistroWatch Weekly is guest-edited by Adam Doxtater, of Mad Penguin. His Tips and tricks section takes a look at Konqueror and Kate and lets us know that "Konqueror and Kate make an excellent remote admin team... and a killer casserole". He covers Konqueror's split view and the power of kioslaves to edit directly from a remote server.
TIP: Hide Konqueror sidebar (buttons)
Could you please tell me how to hide the sidebar buttons, they really look "awful," I prefer Metabar alone and no other sidebar button. I remember something has to be added in konquerorsidebartngrc or something like that. TIA.
Re: TIP: Hide Konqueror sidebar (buttons)
You can just rightclick on each undesired sidebar button and choose "Remove". If that is what you meant.
By Bram Schoenmakers at Tue, 2005/08/09 - 5:00am
Re: TIP: Hide Konqueror sidebar (buttons)
By yes at Fri, 2005/08/12 - 5:00am
Re: TIP: Hide Konqueror sidebar (buttons)
By asharrot at Thu, 2005/08/11 - 5:00am
Konqueror as Universal Viewer
I love konqueror for it's universal document view/preview capability. May it be music, video, text, pictures, or documents (pdf, ps, rtf, odt, etc).
If we improve konqueror's Music and Video preview support with a *sidebar playlist* then who'd need a dedicated music player like xmms, juk.
Konqueror really rocks!!! thanks konqi and kdelibs developers for wonderful kparts!
Re: Konqueror as Universal Viewer
amarok provides a sidebar playlist for konqi
By Thorsten Schnebeck at Tue, 2005/08/09 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror as Universal Viewer
It sounds as though you just use konq, not kde itself?
By Rev at Mon, 2005/08/15 - 5:00am
Being a "die-hard" KDE user (since pre-1.0),and in particular
The ultimate tool for me is still Midnight Commander + Konsole.
All in one, with memory-footprint of some 500kB...
Plus my favourite konsole features: add new session,
And no, customizing Krusader key-bindings is far from approaching it...
I would really appreciate deeper integration of konq/kioslaves with command-line. There's a lot of commandline behind system administration anyway... Simple embedding of konsole and browsers in the same window
By piters at Tue, 2005/08/09 - 5:00am
Re: mc
You can do a lot of KIO slave work from commandline using kioexec and kfmclient
By Kevin Kramme at Tue, 2005/08/09 - 5:00am
KIO slaves on the cmdline
I could probably google, but this is easier :).
How do you use KIO slaves on the cmd line? For example, I love smb:// because I can't scp to my linux box from windows. How can I do a cmdline cp smb://server/path/file /path?
I looked at kioexec --help and got nothin'.
By TomM at Tue, 2005/08/09 - 5:00am
Re: KIO slaves on the cmdline
kfmclient copy URL destination
By Kevin Krammer at Tue, 2005/08/09 - 5:00am
Re: KIO slaves on the cmdline
FWIW, the name kfmclient is depreciated... kioexec is the exact same app, and is preferred.
By Evan "JabberWok... at Wed, 2005/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: KIO slaves on the cmdline
By Kevin Krammer at Wed, 2005/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: KIO slaves on the cmdline
Heh. I popped back to post a correction and you had already checked.
Yup, they are different. For some reason (maybe somebody had suggested it at one point), I thought they were identical and merely linked. I do note that kfmclient is awfully small.
Great... now I have a couple hours of poking around ahead of me to play with them and read through the source code. :)
By Evan "JabberWok... at Wed, 2005/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: KIO slaves on the cmdline
A quick way to figure out the cmd line version of a konq copy operation is to drag a remote file from konq to konsole, which pops up a dialog asking among other things if you want to copy the file to the working directory. If you choose copy, then the appropriate command is executed in that terminal session. Of course, at this point the file is already there ;-) but it's still helpful for the 'reverse' case, i.e. copying the file back.
By ChrisK at Wed, 2005/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: KIO slaves on the cmdline
Somehow I never thought about dragging to Konsole, I even had problems figuring out how to create script commands from kdcop (again DnD to Konsole)
Drag&Drop functionality is something really hidden. If you don't try it you never find out :(
P.S.: kfmclient copy is one of the examples in my KDE scripting presentation:
By Kevin Krammer at Wed, 2005/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: KIO slaves on the cmdline
Of course you can scp into linux from windows!
By Roberto Alsina at Wed, 2005/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: KIO slaves on the cmdline
Oh, I know its possible, but with the way my network is set up, my windows box can't get to my linux box. Something wierd about the vpn router the linux box is on.
By TomM at Thu, 2005/08/11 - 5:00am
Re: mc
Other than deleted file recovery (as opposed to trash, which is the way Konqueror handles it), I see nothing in your bulleted list that Konqueror plus Kate can't do.
Perhaps you're just used to mc, and are trying to make Konqueror to work like it - a recipe for frustration. Try to approach a new app with an open mind and figure out how to use it in the manner it was designed.
As for your last point, there are a slew of commandline tools like kfile and kioexec, plus commandline apps like konsolekalendar as well as the dcop app and DCOP key bindings that allow integration in any manner you wish. I have...
grep dcop ~/usr/bin/* |wc -l
Over 300 calls to dcop in my personal tools, almost all of which are bash scripts. Some are bound to keys, but most are commandline tools. There are a handful of bash functions like klip ( http://www.linuxgazette.com/node/9047 ) in my .bashrc as well.
By Evan "JabberWok... at Tue, 2005/08/09 - 5:00am
Konqueror is so slow
I use mandrake/mandriva. No different what version and computer I use, konqueror is so slow, when webpage uses flash animation. FF and flash is ok. I hope, this is mandriva problem.. but how can i fix this system ?
By Kris at Tue, 2005/08/09 - 5:00am
try another distro
Re: try another distro
I dont want install new distro. I want only know why mandriva and konqueror work slowly (pages where is flash) and konqueror take all power from cpu !?!If from other distros KDE & konqueror works fine webpages where is flash, then I think that mandriva team need fix something.
By Kris at Tue, 2005/08/09 - 5:00am
Re: try another distro
the problem is with flash, the linux plugins for it just suck, afaik. i don't even have them installed, they make it all too slow. hope gplflash, which seems to be alive again, fixes this.
By superstoned at Tue, 2005/08/09 - 5:00am
Re: try another distro
No. It is a Mandrake problem. I hope when they release Mandriva, a cooperative work of Mandrake and Conectiva and Xandros they can learn how to deliver a proper konqueror. I will say some of the problems with Mandriva, spread the news please:
- The use of cache is disabled (!!!!). I cant figure out why they did this. In my conectiva, it was never like this. Enable it.
- it happened in my Mandriva, cant say if it was only my problem, but the cursor changes when i pass a link, and it doesnt appear a hand, it appears that bar that should appear in line edits. I really believe this is some strange error in my instalation only, but please, verify.
- the use of plugins were disabled (!)
- and at last, who is the artist that works there? it is all terribly ugly. i like carnival in brasil, but not in my computer.
I hope they produce a better product in the future first Mandriva release. this one thats out there is a monster, made in a hurry. it is not representative of Mandrake.
By Henrique Marks at Tue, 2005/08/09 - 5:00am
Re: try another distro
Am I also the only one who notices that KControl uses a *way old* outdated layout and is *never* updated to get the new KDE improvements? I still see ugly entries like "LookNFeel" in Mandriva.
By Anonymous at Wed, 2005/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: try another distro
But whay FireFox and flash works oko, but konqueror and flash don't ?
By Kris at Wed, 2005/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: try another distro
it might be the combination, i dunno... as i said, i don't use it anymore, it was just problems problems problems. with firefox, too, here.
By superstoned at Wed, 2005/08/10 - 5:00am
Re: Konqueror is so slow
Hi all,
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DIY Wedding Challenge: DIY Hair Flower
A simple and beautiful hair flower, for under $20! (community article)
I've seen hair flowers sell on etsy for over $80.00, and although they're gorgeous, that's just not in my budget.
This pretty creation will set you back $62.00 plus shipping. So here's my version of a hair flower, designed to match my earrings. And the total cost...$16.00.
- silk flower (mine is a peony-type)
- feathers (optional)
- fabric glue
- small styrofoam ball, about 2" (I recommend using 'smoothfoam', which is more solid and is stronger than regular styrofoam)
- Swarovski crystal beads or glass beads
- faux pearl beads
- flat-head straight pins (look in the jewelry aisle, they look just like sewing straight pins, but have a flat head on the top)
- alligator hair clip
Remove the flower from the stem. If your flower is almost the size of your head like mine was, remove a few of the outer petals to make it smaller. Also remove any plastic pieces from the center of the flower. Glue the petals back together on top of each other, layering them by size.
If you're using feathers, trim them down to your desired size (longer for more feather goodness, shorter if you want them to be subtle) and glue them to the backside of the flower.
Then you can add the alligator clip on top of the feathers. I made sure the clip I bought had a large, flat surface so I could glue it to the flower.
While the feathers and clip dry, start working on the inside. Take one of the small styrofoam balls and cut in in half. Take a bead and thread it onto a flat-head pin. Cut the pin to a shorter length so it will stick into the half-sphere, but not out of the other side. Dip the pin in the fabric glue to ensure it stays put once you've stuck it into the ball.
Start arranging the beads in random order (or you can make a pattern if you like) by sticking them into the styrofoam. This will give you a 3-dimensional look once you add it to the center of the flower, which really shows off the sparkle.
Once you've covered the styrofoam, add a generous amount of glue to the bottom of the beaded ball, and stick it in the center of your flower.
And there you have it! A custom-made, one of a kind hair flower for under $20.00. Have fun with it...change the bead or feather colors to match your wedding colors, or even do a colored flower.


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The kind heads at Arthur Magazine have featured the track "Harmonic Convergence" by Enumclaw on their new mixtape, Blackout! So says Arthur…
Arthur's new 49-minute mixtape, specially designed to accompany (or simulate) a human-plant interaction, is now available as a digital download, featuring a high resolution JPG of the Arik Roper artwork (above), some additional art and text, and the following sequence of songs, as selected by Arthur editor Jay Babcock and sewn together by engineer/mixer Bobby Tamkin:
1. MOON DUO "Into the Trees" (from the Escape LP on Woodsist)
2. WHITE HILLS "Three Quarters" (from the White Hills LP on Thrill Jockey)
3. WHITE NOISE SOUND "Sunset" (from the White Noise Sound LP on Alive Naturalsound)
4. LORDS OF FALCONRY "Osiron" (from Lords of Falconry on Holy Mountain)
5. ENDLESS BOOGIE "Pack Your Bags" (from the Full House Head LP on No Quarter)
6. MASTERS OF REALITY "Johnny's Dream" (from the Pine/Cross'd Over LP)
7. MESSAGES "Tambura" (from the After Before LP on De Stijl)
8. ENUMCLAW "Harmonic Convergence" (from the Opening of the Dawn LP)
Pay what thou wilt, starting at $4.20. All proceeds go towards keeping the Arthur community garden alive through the fall season. Details here, travelers: BLACKOUT—Arthur's new 49-minute mixtape digital download


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Dirt Pot Flexible Portable Planter 399.73 Gallon with Handles
Dirt Pots are lightweight and strong portable planters made from a non-woven material that provides excellent drainage and root aeration. Reusable and strength-tested fabric.
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- Lightweight and strong
- Reusable
- Handles sewn around the entire bottom of the pot for easy transportation of heavy growing media and plants
- Made from breathable fabric for superior drainage and aeration
- Helps to manage plant temperatures
- Reinforced seams and strength-tested fabric
- Ideal for any growing area as the pot conforms to terrain
- Pot Dimensions: 70" diameter, 24" high
- Exact pot volume: 399.73 gallon
This lightweight and reusable growing pot is made with strength-tested, non-woven fabric. This material is extremely tear resistant while providing superior drainange and aeration for roots. The soft design eliminates root circling and conforms to uneven terrain. These pots feature durable handles for two-handed transportation of the plants and growing media.
Dirt Pots also help to manage plant temperatures, keeping plants cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. They are ideal for growing plants in remote areas or for moving sensitive plants inside or outside depending on the weather.
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The structure is up!
I had a chance to visit today and the foundation is complete, the log walls are all in place, the roof is done and the shakes are complete. This was our goal for what was to be completed by this time, with the understanding that there would still be a need for work on the chimneys, flashing, (both of which needed to be done before the gables could be completed,) chinking, interior and steps.
We also hoped we would be able to install a concrete walkway for accessibility, but that was expected to take more time.
David and his team did as they usually do, they took advantage of opportunities and re-prioritized. The main goals accomplished, they worked in a bit more. The grading is done already, with some drainage to keep water seepage away from the house (part of what caused the decay of the lower logs on the original construction.) Stones steps are on one side of the house while a cement walkway goes up to the other. One chimney is in place already, which I guess will speed up the completion of the gables, though I didn't remember to ask David. The roof looks great as well.
There will be grass planted soon, we hope. I understand that the church behind which the home is located is supposed to decide on the type soon. It is hard to be certain how much work can be done during the winter. I did not have time to confer with David about all of that. I do know that chinking cannot be done in cold weather, so I suppose that will need to wait until next spring.
I apologize for the lack of a film link at this time. I thought I was filming a complete walk around explaining what I saw, but must have done something to the camera as it came out as a 2 second film. I will try to get up there soon for some video, but except for the drainage explanation and such, most of what I explained is what is written here and you can get the same views from these pics.
Thanks again to the team that is doing this. Also to all those community volunteers (and those who traveled pretty far to help) that we have yet to officially thank. I have met some of you and know where your heart is on this.


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The following commentary does not necessarily reflect the views of AgWeb or Farm Journal Media. The opinions expressed below are the author's own.
As a farm machinery mechanic and writer, Dan brings a hands-on approach that only a pro can muster. Along with his In the Shop blog, Dan writes a column by the same name as well as the Shop Series for Farm Journal magazine. Always providing practical information, he is a master at tackling technical topics and making them easy for all of our readers to understand. He and his wife, Becky, live near Bouton, Iowa.
Some of you are way ahead of me on this, but this spring it finally dawned on me that in many cases, planter performance is limited by the quality of seedbed preparation.
For example: a customer and I wrestled with a planter that refused to plant at a consistent depth. Some seeds were 1 1/2-inches deep. Others were 2 or more inches deep. This occurred in the same row, often only a few feet from each other. He was no-tilling into last year's soybean stubble. He had fall-applied anhydrous, and the anhydrous knife marks were significantly more mellow than the untilled bean stubble. He had applied anhydrous at a slight angle to the rows, and whenever a planter unit crossed the mellow soil of a knife mark, it planted seeds an inch deeper than in the untilled soil between knife marks.
Another customer had a similar situation in fall-chiseled corn ground, after it had been field cultivated one time. We noticed variations in seed depth, and also differences in the density of the seed furrow sidewalls. We traced those variations to the speed and setting of his field cultivator---his sweeps, and tines on the leveler, were worn. The sweeps were leaving ridges, and the leveler teeth were leaving an uneven seedbed. In some places the planter's disk openers were carving a slot in hard soil that the worn sweeps had "missed." In others, the seeds were being planted only a 1/2-inch deep because that row was running in a groove that the tined leveler couldn't fill.
The best "looking" seedbed I've seen this spring came from a vertical tillage tool operated at 7 to 8 mph. It was beautiful--level, with crop residue nicely blended into the soil. The top inch or so had excellent tilth, and I was really impressed--till I started digging for seeds. There was a hard-pan about 2 inches down, and many of the seeds were sitting in crisp furrows carved into that hardpan. They were nicely covered and firmed into place, but I'll be curious how their roots deal with the hard walls of those seed furrows.
Those three situations impressed on me that even though we're getting pretty darned good at metering seed with fabled "picket fence" perfection, we've still got a lot to learn about getting those perfectly spaced seeds to sprout and emerge into a picket fence stand. Just because we put every seed 2 inches deep, spaced exactly 6 1/2 inches apart with the planter doesn't mean we'll have a picket fence stand when the corn is knee high. I think we're going to have to pay more attention to seedbed preparation if we want to take full advantage of the planting potential offered by modern planters.
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A phrase often used (overused, really) to describe well-made gnocchi is "light as a cloud." It's not an especially instructive description for a piece of real food, and for cooks hoping to try their hands at gnocchi for the first time, it can be downright daunting.
It's true that gnocchi requires a bit of technique, but achieving that cloudlike texture — "light" is perhaps a simpler, less intimidating word — isn't actually that difficult.
Read the rest of this article, get the recipes, and watch the video with Mario Batali here.


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The Mindfulness Practice of "STOPPING & DROPPING" The 3 Goals of Stress Reduction Meditation are to:
- Release daily stress.
- Restore the emotions.
- Reduce future stress.
PRACTICE: We practice the development of intention and attention. The 3 practices are:
- "Stopping & Dropping" (to release daily stress)
- "Opening & Smiling" (to restore the emotions)
- "Inquiring to Understand" (to reduce future stress)


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American Heart Assoc necesitaba un nuevo diseño de camiseta y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 468 diseños de 73 diseñadores freelance.
American Heart Association
The American Heart Association is the largest voluntary heart health organization in the U.S. and funds more research in the area of cardiovascular disease than anyone outside the government.
In 2004, the AHA launched Go Red For Women, a movement surrounding the issue of heart disease – the No. 1 killer of women each year. The campaign has grown momentum each year drawing survivors, and those who have been affected by the heart disease of their loved ones. The goal of Go Red For women is to mobilize women to take action for this women's issue in many ways from changing their own lifestyle, to sharing their stories, to donating to the cause.
The symbol of the movement of women and heart disease is the Red Dress.
Visit http://www.GoRedForWomen.org or http://www.facebook.com/GoRed to see more about the movement and watch our video at http://www.goredforwomen.org/video/…-final.wmv
Additionally, we'll be narrowing down the top three favorite designs and asking our Go Red For Women Facebook Fan base to "vote" for their favorite.
Our audience is women 25-55 with our sweet spot in the 35-45 range. These are women who have all been personally touched by heart disease –either themselves or someone they care about (family, friends, men or women).
*85% are touched by heart disease
*68% have two or more risk factors
*11% are heart disease survivors
Because of their personal connection to heart disease, they truly understand the URGENCY associated with heart disease diagnosis/treatment and the IMPORTANCE of prevention. Donate time or money, are involved in heart health causes, are passionate about helping others reach their same level of knowledge and commitment. They're not shy about sharing their experiences – both good and bad – with everyone… and they have countless platforms (online and off) to do so.
We'd like to see a design created that would be perfect for a women's t-shirt, but that could also be flexible enough so that with a little manipulation would fit on a coffee mug or a baseball cap.
Design size: 12" by 15"
*It's unacceptable to print the Red Dress reversed completely out to white. When using the Red Dress, either within the logo brand or alone, the Red Dress must be printed in red or in a white outline format.
*The Red Dress icon may only be printed in PANTONE® 485 (PMS 485), or the CMYK (four-color process) equivalent of 100% Magenta and 100% Yellow, if used without the Go Red For Women® logo.The Go Red For Women Logo is not mandatory, but if not used, it is preferred to find a way to incorporate the URL, or the Red Dress.
*Use the "Make It Your Mission" copy
*Incorporate the color red and avoid the color pink
*If using drawings or graphics of women, avoid skinny/stick figures
*No stock photography
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Personality and Tone:
Go Red For Women is a cause for women who are passionate for the movement and the color red is a symbol of the fire in these women who are strong and vocal. At the core of this movement is sisterhood of women who support each other and stand up for each other. Though this movement has a serious side, the products we sell can provide the fun and flirty side of the movement.


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Filled with navy blue enamel, these gold jewelry connectors are a fashionable addition to handmade jewelry. Each of these blue enamel jewelry links measures 15 x 18mm (.59 x .71 inches) and has two loops for easy linking.
Check out the video below to learn how you can use links and connectors to make pretty fashion jewelry for any occasion.