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After viewing the vid on how atheists are the most knowledgeable group when it comes to religiou..., it occured to me for some reason to have a bit of fun with a Mormon missionary :)
Mormons are very proactive on youtube (although they censure anyone that expresses dissent on their vids because they've never really exhibited transparency or respect for anyone's intelligence), but I noticed that their tactics are facing smart resistance from people. For instance, their '... and I am a Mormon' campaign to normalize themselves and make themselves seem more mainstream has absolutely backfired and that now there are probably more testimonies on '... an I am an EX-Mormon' than of '... and I am a Mormon'.
HORDES of people are leaving the Mormon church faced with the facts that are being presented on youtube vids. So ... I went on mormon.org and discovered that they have virtual missionaries that we can email, and sent an email inquiring what their church teaches them about the 30-odd wives of their prophet :)
I got a reply from this mormon missionary lady saying that 'not much is known about the prophet's wives' and that in ancient times prophets also took plural wives.
So I replied saying that actually there is A LOT of information online about his wives, incl. their names, the fact that some were 14 year olds when married off to him and some were married to other men and Joseph took them as wives, sometimes while their husbands were on mission. I sent her about four youtube vids with discussions on these things and the sources they cite.
... am looking forward to her response.
I figured every single ex-Mormon has needed to have some sense talked to them by someone who questioned and is not under Mormon hypnosis. Reverse missioning has a lot of potential - plus considering how important being missionaries is for Mormons they deserve a taste of atheist missionaries!
I invite others to visit mormon.org and other missionary sites, but the only thing that I'd request is no vicious attacks or insults, let's use a respectful tone please if you do wanna join this experiment and maybe we can help some of them see the error of their ways!
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I believe this could be an interesting experiment. Darrel Ray's point about the defensive posturing of those infected with a god virus is, I think, pretty important here.
I was accosted by a couple of young ignorant missionaries one day when I was about to go run. Having taught a religious studies course at the university and having becoming an atheist by exploring consistently and logically the religion given to me by my clergyman father , I figured this might be fun. Indeed I did slice and dice his crap. Interestingly enough though they had no ability to hear.
So, I think we need to carefully consider just how to approach this. I did have a more successful encounter with a baptist friend who wanted to "save" me. I simply replied with the contradiction of the omnipotent being loving. ie it created something inherently flawed and evil that could be saved because his rules were that all would be punished unless he had his "only son" tortured to death to redeem the imperfection of his own creation. And he put the innocent, through no fault of their own, into a world stacked against them. "If god is good then he can't be great. If god is great he can't be good".
I also added what I thought of the idea that physicals expressions of love outside the "sanctity" of the god notion was evil while rape inside that "sanctified union" could not exist.
"I don't ever want to talk about this again" was her response.
I would like suggestions, and I'll think about it a lot, about what I did right in one case and wrong in the other.
Frankly I really like the problem you pose.
I think missionary tactics for atheists can only be developed by trying it, this is a new paradigm: we're usually the ones being harassed into belief, and fear tactics and other means that work with religious people who prey on vulnerabilities of others don't apply when you're a counter-missionary: reason does.
But I do think we have 'good news' and a type of testimony of salvation to offer. I do think we can offer a better society, and healthier, more intelligent ways of doing things.
Appeals to ideals of freedom, liberation, clarity, peace and simplicity are part of the 'good news' of atheism. It ends so many futile arguments for people who are immersed in theological laberynths that no one can get out of.
The main hurdle, I think, will be with groups of people who have a deep fear of death and other irrational fears, and with paranoid bigoted types. AND with people who have a history of addiction or infidelity because many of them really feel that they can't be sane, healthy and loyal without God. As pathetic as it sounds, it really is true for many people: they may be good-will people otherwise who try to use religion in a healthy way. So that it may even be a disservice to deconvert them, and each person would have to make up their mind as to whether it's a good idea.
But if we have a religious person engaged in a bigoted, crazy cult whose values are vulgarly distorted by their beliefs, then I do think they're worth 'saving'! OR if we have a person who has a gay family member who's suffering because of their faith, or if they're raising kids in the hands of predator priests, etc. then this is definitely a red flag. IF these people see happy, free atheists living a wholesome life and treating others humanely, something may click for them, even if they don't immediately acknowledge it.
Oh yes, I am not an ex mormon. I know something of the doctrine but actually very little. I am good at confronting god theses on most levels but it generally helps to know their doctrines better than they do.
So,, have you any reading suggestions?
the book of mormon?
OR, depending on what you stand for in terms of polygamy, you may wanna google or youtube vids and articles on mormon polygamy, or on Joseph Smith's wives and how he acquired them.
you can google or youtube specific references to race in the book of mormon to read the verses where they say blackness is a curse, you will very easily find them online. you can also google 'lamanites black skin curse', or 'mark of cain' within a mormon context. you'll find tons of stuff on their officially racist theology.
another approach is to question their not-very-plausible idea that Jesus Christ came to America and preached and established a church, and that there were Christians in Central America in the first centuries of Common Era, for which there is absolutely no factual or archeological base. Nowhere in the Popol Vuh (Mayan scripture) or anywhere else is there mention of Yeshua, Jesus, or any variation of his name, much less of Christos or any other variation of the name he was given after his followers deified him.
mormons are pretty good about dodging reality and science and accomodating reality and archeology, etc. to their beliefs. this is why i'm quite uncomfortable with a person like mitt romney running for president: facts to someone like him are trivial, facts are about convenience (he's known as the flip flopper). this is one of those religions where lying even to oneself is elevated to an art.
so good luck and let's exchange impressions if you decide to take them on ...
religions are.. just old world obsolete ways gone corporate and failed again
Greydon Square for Department of Sense Executive President etc..
ok maybe after this election cycle LOL
sughp w/all the muslims/xtians killin each other nowdays? and blaming secular ha! bs
The following is her final email after being questioned on the wives of Smith ... I think I'll leave her alone for now:
We don't really discuss it because it's not something that is extremely important for us. Yes we know that he had many wives, but as for how many I have seen many things documenting different numbers, ages, and other details about his wives. Personally I don't care because I choose instead of focus more the teachings of Jesus Christ and what i personally need to do in my life.
Sincerely, Bridgettel
This site has a good overview of Mormon beliefs.
A lot of good information here (and a lot of bitching).
you can chat with a missionary in real time.
Look folks. I am an ex-Mormon. Never became a jack-Mormon, just straight stopped when I was old enough to realize it wasn't right. About 19. If you are going to talk to Mormons, or anyone for that matter, please remember to be respectful. Most Mormons are leery, because their religion has been, and still is, vilified. They cling together very, very, closely. Do not rely on the Book of Mormon, Bible, Doctrine and covenants, or Pearl of Great Price. The mindset is "We have a living prophet that communes with God. When the prophet speaks, the thinking is done." They can delude themselves because of a "burning in the chest", a feeling one gets when one sincerely prays to God. This lets you know that God has answered your prayer, particularily about Mormonism. " If any man lacks knowledge, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraidith not" is one of the verses one is taught from a very early age. Studying their religion is a must, for fundamentally, they do not believe the things most Christians think. Example, when a christian says trinity, they mean 3 aspects in one God. Mormons think three seperate people forming one Godhood, 2 of which have flesh and bone bodies, God and Jesus, and one a spiritual body, the Holy Ghost. However, please remember these are people, as varied as all others. Gives us something in common. Humanity. Good luck.
Thanks Steph. Always great to hear from you.
'burning in the chest'
wat an euphemism!!!
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Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer on Wednesday nominated 2014 as the year of \"the tipping point\" in technology, as apps, the so-called Internet of Things — when everyday items from refrigerators to car components are connected to the Internet — and increased bandwidth will \"change everyone\'s daily lives fundamentally.\"
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Apps in particular will make a difference, she noted, as she highlighted some success stories in connecting through technology. On a recent Friday night, for example, 150,000 people let strangers stay in their homes through Airbnb. More than 1.5 million people have hired strangers to do daily errands for them on TaskRabbit, and 56% of people surveyed have said they would consider renting their car to a stranger.
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As for Yahoo, 2014 also is poised to be a year of change. According to the company\'s \"very sophisticated models\" on traffic predictions, this year will be the year of crossover, Mayer said:
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April 9, 2012
Backyard Ball Run.
Red's grandpa made him this awesome ball run for the backyard. He got the inspiration from the Lowe's Creative Ideas Spring 2012 magazine.
He spray painted various pieces of plastic guttering and mounting brackets with plastic spray paint, and then mounted them all to the fence like a marble run.
Here are the different items he got to drop in. There are steel fishing sinkers, fishing bobbers that make a rattle sound, gemstones (like in floral vases), and Squinkies. Red will probably make use of the landscaping rocks too. :)
He also got some different scoops, a funnel, squirt bottle, and bucket to dump water down the gutters as well.
And he used a big storage tub to keep it all handy for when Red visits. I see many hours spent here this summer. Thanks Pop Pop and Nana!
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What a great idea my son would go nuts over this idea I do not have a fence like this, but sure I could do something similar somehow. Thanks, Amee Inspired-HousewifeReplyDelete
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Government, Industry Join in Paying Lip Service to Piracy Fight
Jul 16, 2013 1:56 PM PT
The White House and eight companies including Google and Microsoft announced a joint effort to mobilize against online piracy and counterfeiting Monday with the help of a set of best practices developed in conjunction with the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
The effort is designed to limit the revenue gained from displaying ads on sites that offer pirated materials or counterfeit goods. The coalition -- 24/7 Media, Adtegrity, AOL, Conde Nast, Google, Microsoft, SpotXchange and Yahoo -- has pledged to adopt and publicize policies opposing counterfeiting or copyright infringement activities.
Upon receiving proof that a participating ad network is sponsoring ads on a website conducting illegal activity, the consortium will notify the site implicated in the infringement.
Some of the companies involved, including Google, pointed to their past efforts to help crack down on illegal online activity, but acknowledged that piracy is still a challenge and that more can be done through best practices to attack it.
Right now, the voluntary system applies only to companies and ad networks in the U.S. The best practices will be implemented over the coming months.
Working Together
Government and corporate officials often work together on initiatives that will cut down on crime, said Scott Seder, attorney at the Law Office of Scott P. Seder.
"Protecting American IP is and should be a priority for the Obama administration," he told the E-Commerce Times. "Working with innovators and industries is a must in those efforts."
It's especially important now, as cybercriminals are getting better at evading authorities, he added.
Also, a lot of people still consider Internet piracy a victimless crime or contrary to their beliefs about Internet freedom, Seder pointed out. "Here, you are seeing the government and industry work together to try to better educate the masses about the detrimental economic and consumer safety consequences of supporting pirated IP."
Can It Work?
The outcome of these efforts is likely going to be another story, said Chun Wright, IP enforcement and Internet attorney at the Law Office of Chun T. Wright.
"Whether this code will be workable and have any lasting impact remains to be seen," she told the E-Commerce Times. "It is important to note that the code states that it does not impose a duty on any ad network to proactively monitor its network to identify infringing websites."
Instead, the rights holder of the site must identify the infringing site and then provide proof to the ad network that it's the one providing the advertising -- plus give specific examples of the counterfeit goods or pirated material being offered, Wright explained.
That places an unequal burden on the rights holders, she maintained.
"Rights holders already bear an enormous burden to issue DMCA and other cease-and-desist notices to infringing websites. The code's notice-and-takedown system will only add to that burden," Wright said.
"A rights holder cannot take advantage of the complaint process until they have issued a DMCA notice or a cease-and-desist letter to the website. This will prevent rights holders from being able to attack counterfeit and pirate websites on all fronts simultaneously," she noted.
In addition, cybercriminals have been targeted by regulators before, said Wright, and it's likely they can figure out a way to get around another set of rules.
"The infringing sites undoubtedly will migrate to ad networks based in other countries, as they are not part of this voluntary initiative," she suggested.
The code doesn't make it clear what role the administration would have in pursuing these evasive criminals, said cybercrime attorney Michael Cernyar.
Instead of backing a voluntary initiative with some bureaucratic hurdles, the administration might more effectively take a bite out of illegal online activity if it were to invest in efforts that could beat cybercriminals at their own game, he suggested.
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When Sun City, the first 55-plus retirement community, opened 52 years ago, average life expectancy for Americans was 69.7. It seemed like the perfect spot to live out the last 10 or 15 years of your life. They'd be golden years indeed, colored by sunny days and the carefree lifestyle of age-segregated developments: no traffic, no kids, no nonsense. Just heated pools and exercise classes and nights full of Mah Jong and bridge. Amid cookie cutter homes, retirement communities promised companionship.
But what happens now that the average life expectancy is 78.7, and those original residents are still there, 20 or even 30 years later, having outlived their spouses and many of their friends? That's the subject of a new documentary by filmmaker Sari Gilman called Kings Point, the name of the Floridian retirement community in which her own grandmother lived for 30 years.
The physical structure of the retirement community model as pictured in Kings Point, which tends to include age-segregated housing facilities, is at best unsustainable (two-story condos were built without elevators, a design flaw that had to be fixed at great expense as the residents aged). At worst, it's an architecture of endemic loneliness. We watch as the four women and one man who are the subjects of Gilman's film experience the kind of isolation that these developments promised to eradicate.
"You can't really make friends at this age," says the white-haired Molley (who wouldn't give her age) in the film. She, like most Kings Point residents, moved there from New York with her husband, whom she outlived. "Acquaintances, yes, and good acquaintances. But friends? No. They're just not here anymore."
The problem as Gilman sees it lies in both the concept—the separating of senior citizens from the larger world—and the culture of retirement communities. There is back-stabbing competitiveness when hundreds of widows vie for the few single men. Social lives depend on good health, as if heart disease or osteoporosis were contagious.
Gilman finds fault in the way these communities are marketed, with emphasis on the sporting, silver-haired set, seemingly unhampered by the reality of aging. They reflect our national obsession with self-reliance, pitting our need for independence against our need for community.
"The more emphasis that people place on being active and independent—which are universal values, we all want that—the harder it is for people to come to terms with the inevitability of not being able to be active and independent," Gilman says.
Of course, there are alternatives to active adult retirement communities. Assisted living; continuing care retirement communities, which have built-in medical facilities; and the most abhorred and feared of housing situations, nursing homes, are all options, if you have the money or the patience for the Medicaid paperwork. More recently, a handful of inter-generational retirement communities, such at Hillcrest Village in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, which integrate young families and even include elementary schools, have opened in the U.S.
But even those models, with the exception of inter-generational housing, don't address the national crisis in senior living, the tainted legacy of age-segregated housing that is a $51 billion industry. We suffer from a severe lack of foresight, a shortage of personal and community planning when it comes to where and how to age. We've separated our elders from their extended families without replacing what their relatives might once have provided: a decent quality of life, until the very end.
All photos courtesy of Kings Point.
In Generation Priced Out, Randy Shaw examines how Boomers have blocked affordable housing in urban neighborhoods, leaving Millennial homebuyers in the lurch.
Community First! Village's model for ending homelessness emphasizes the stabilizing power of social connections.
Each year, local governments spend nearly $100 billion to move headquarters and factories between states. It's a wasteful exercise that requires a national solution.
"The United States of Apathy" showcases the dramatic effect of low voter turnout in U.S. elections.
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Beware! Beware! Be very, very ware!* (Of a crappy PR company among other things)
As writers, we are a passionate bunch. After all, we just sit down at a keyboard and open a vein, for hours a day for days on end. There's a lot of emotional, time, and financial commitment involved. People who have those characteristics are the same people who will do almost anything to succeed.
In other words, we're prime targets for the wretched scum of the business world. In simple words that don't sound like I pulled them from a Star Wars crawl, we can get scammed.
If you're not familiar with Writer Beware, you need to be, especially before you spend money on agents, editors, contests, or just about anything else in the book world. A recent post not only calls out an outfit called the Albee Agency (Book Publicity Delivered, doncha know?), it's a primer on what to look for when you engage a business provider online.
You should go read the post. Study it. Commit its concepts to memory. They will serve you well.
Here are some tips, based on Albee's website and Writer Beware's critique:
- If it feels hinky, it probably is. If you go to the Albee Agency's home page, it includes a wonderful testimonial by Suzie P. Who the hell is Suzie P.? What has she written? And who's Chris Allen? I Googled Chris Allen Interview and didn't see anything that led me to want to spend money to get a similar interview. Why no reference to where Chris Allen works? NPR? GalleyCat? On BlogTalkRadio, doing a show from his parents' basement?
- Trust, but verify. Victoria Strauss, who wrote the blog post, followed up with one of the authors identified on the website, and asked if he'd worked with them. When their response starts with WTF, that's usually not a positive sign.
- Look beyond the website's appearance. Albee's website doesn't look like something developed in Notepad using hand-written HTML. It's easy to create a decent-looking website these days. So ignore the appearance and focus on content. Ms. Strauss points out a number of red flags — no one seems to work for this outfit except one guy, and he's not exactly long on credentials. There's an impressive list of venues on their Media Reach page, but no specific examples of which authors they've placed there.
- Check them out on other venues. There are 262 likes for their Facebook page, but they've only been there since September and no one else has posted except them. (Cough, cough, sock puppet?) Most references are to "one of our authors." Who is that? And why aren't you using your Facebook page to specifically plug their event?
* — Reference to the Heffalump and Woozle song from Winnie the Pooh.
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Shaun Buffington, driver of the 23 legend car has won his 5th straight race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS). Sunday morning prior to the NASCAR Sprint Cup race the NELCAR Legends took to the track to race on the 1/4 Mini Magic Mile.
The racing line up was set by qualifying practice time, Shaun's teammate Tom Gray took the pole for the feature event. After qualifying the 23 team just made one adjustment to the car, Shaun said, "the carburetors were a little flat I think we had to much jet in it, so we changed carburetors for the feature. The track was greasy probably because of the heat, but it was loose for everybody so it was even."
With Gray leading and, Buffington racing in second place, with Evan Beaulieu, and Alessandro Vitelli, right behind him, Shaun made the pass to take the lead once again at NHMS. Though these 3 drivers battling for 2nd were not letting the 23 car get away, Shaun recalls "My car was loose, if I went in to far, or if I didn't slow down enough they would have definitely got under me. I just had to keep from looking in the mirror, slower is faster and keep hitting my marks, I was able to pull a little gap when I did that, and who better to have behind you then your teammate, because you know he's not going to drive through you."
Over the last 2 season the NELCAR Legends have raced 7 times at NHMS, Shaun has won 6 of the races, 3 on the oval and 3 on the road course. When I asked him about being the Legends King here at NHMS he replied with a humble smile, "Not me, I wouldn't call myself the king."
Shaun and the rest of the drivers in the NELCAR Legends Series, are always there to lend a helping hand. "These young kids are just starting out, so I help them out whenever I can, with the setups, or lines on the track. We all started somewhere and, I always help out If I can."
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What really amazes me about all of this is that ACTA was going on for nearly four years before pretty much anyone in the public started paying serious attention to it. And what caused it? The entertainment industry's massive overreach on SOPA. The response to that woke people up to other efforts by the industry to pass dangerous rules, laws and trade agreements in their favor -- and now the backlash seems to be in full swing.


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Bruno De Roover was born in Brugge, Belgium in 1972. He studied communication at the Ghent Institute for Corporate Training as well as Graphic Design at the Sint-Lucas School of Arts in Ghent. Since 2000 he has worked as an artist for Studio 100, where he has drawn comics based on popular children's TV characters such as Kabouter Plop, Samson & Gert and Wizzy & Woppy. De Roover has also made advertising comics, designed websites and made a comic for the Belgian parliament, 'Flosj in het Vlaams Parlement'.
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In early 2003, he became freelance collaborator with Studio Vandersteen, where he has cooperated on 'Suske en Wiske' short stories with Marc Verhaegen and later Luc Morjaeu. Since 2006 he is mainly involved in cooperating on the scripts with Peter van Gucht. He began his animal comic 'Café Cowala' in P-magazine in that same year. The first book was published in 2012, the same year that De Roover announced to put his strip on-hold for a while.
Since 2016, he is part of "The Wolfpack", a creative team of Standaard Uitgeverij assigned to come up with new ideas for spin-offs with Willy Vandersteen's classic creations, following the success of 'Amoras' and 'J.Rom Force of Gold'. The other members are storyrunner Johan De Smedt, film director Vincent Bal, comics colorist and animator Tom Metdepenningen and the Dutch/Flemish comic authors Lectrr, Stedho, Romano Molenaar, Gerben Valkema and Aimée de Jongh.


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ANCHORAGE—On the edge of this northern outpost an unfamiliar sight is emerging: twin minarets. Alaska's small but growing Muslim community is building the state's first newly constructed mosque.
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We're excited and relieved to let you know that the limited edition of Weekend's "Red" EP is now in stock. It's a gorgeous ultra clear vinyl 12" with gold splatter, wrapped in a heavy stock art paper insert and then packaged in a custom-made and custom-printed red vinyl pouch. It looks really good.
After spending the bulk of the past year on the road in support of last November's excellent Sports LP on Slumberland Records, Weekend have also been hard at work on their followup record. Prior to their European tour in July, the band spent three weeks in the studio with producer Monte Vallier crafting their new EP, simply titled Red. Prepare yourself for yet another gorgeous, violent sonic assault, because this EP packs a serious punch.
Opener "Sweet Sixteen" is mesmerizing grind, stately bass and drums underpinned by soaring vocals and echoed shards of guitar feedback and plucked notes. This leads directly into the noise-pop gem that is "Hazel" -- 3:50 of cascading bass chords, guitar clangor and a melody and chorus most pop bands would kill for. Amazing. "Your Own Nothing" is clattering piece of post-punk, spiked with layers of guitar noise and a dubbed-out atmosphere.
"The One You Want" is a rather more straight-forward tune in the manner of "Hazel" and further proof that Weekend can craft melodies just as well as they can innovate with guitar textures and dazzle with sonic overload. The EP concludes with "Golfers," a song that downshifts into an extended minimal intro before building to a gorgeous crescendo of rumbling drums, chiming/fizzing guitars and as always that unerring sense of melody that Weekend always have in even the most noise-laden tunes.
Red is an excellent EP that packs more ideas into 5 songs than a lot of bands do into a whole record, and points the way forward towards Weekend's next long-player, due in 2012. Be sure to catch them on tour throughout September with Talk Normal.
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20 episodes Festival "Xianglin Love"
Once a year, decided to play the lead in Toru Xianglin festival is held in 乃鷺 water. 乃鷺 Soup
參加 the festival as a representative to be male.
On the other hand, the role of the heroine and the other had been chosen name is Tetsu results. In preparation for the festival clothing
When combined with a 裝, as was the place name in the results I have anything to chill the 民子 ....
Story ■ 21 "Reviving, die"
Once a year, the festival is held in 乃鷺 Xianglin water. Name of the heroine's sudden rush to the mound results
The issue of, a plan emerged to be chosen to lead the heroine suddenly ... T..
Story ■ 22 "crush determination"
Kurama's whereabouts since the festival was 民子 Xianglin. Happiness is to embark on 翆荘 search and temporary closing
The Tau was a 一向Ni 摑 clues.
I felt that the flowers together in their responsibility to resolve the 翆荘 Heat Hei Mel.
|2011-08-01, 16:40
|Link #82
Pretentious moe scholar
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Age: 31
Out of curiousity, where are you finding those? All the sites I've seen don't list past 19 yet.
I've tended to find that I have more luck looking up individual words and then trying to piece them together that just letting Google Translate try and do everything., so it would be nice to have access to the original Japanese.
|2011-08-08, 00:25
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At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if their won't be much romantic closure, and Ohana x Inn, becomes more likely.
Maybe they were going for that, and if you think about it, romance in these kinds of shows tends to be very dominant, so perhaps someone wants to write about Ohana not needing romance and just going off on her own.
Ohana might just be like Nanoha and put her work ahead of all else at this point. She's still young, after all.
If they did that, that would set Hana Saku Iroha apart from others of its genre. My prediction is this will end up with Ohana inheriting the inn once Sui dies; maybe even skip a few years and have that as the final arc.
The show's gone out of the way to tell me all romantic options blow, so... it has successfully discouraged me from any form of shipping.
Or they just make chicken out with some ambiguous romantic ending. Just no...
|2011-08-08, 00:31
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Pretentious moe scholar
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Age: 31
I still think the resolution of the romantic threads may be Kou and Ohana learning to just be friends again, with the possibility of future romance. As I mentioned elsewhere, I think Ohana would have preferred they just stayed friends and I think Kou would have preferred to wait a little longer (or at least been more subtle) and just got desperate to make his feelings known.
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|2011-08-08, 02:05
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The only way I'd be interested in a Season 2 is if Okada personally writes every episode herself.
The quality difference between (most) Okada-wrote episodes and (most) non-Okada wrote episodes is rather large.
It seems like only Okada can effective write the episodes for her own "Series Composition".
|2011-08-27, 00:54
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Me at work
The more I watch that 2nd OP the more I buy into the theory that it's Ohana reminiscing her time at Kissuiso as she's going back to Tokyo,it opens up with her alone in regular clothes with her eyes closed,the next scene the resumes where the previous OP left off with the girls getting off the train.At the end we're back to Ohana alone on the train,she opens her eyes,we then see the bodies of 3 highschool girls running but Ohana herself isn't in school uniform,that seems odd,and I can't get over the fact that it seems those 3 girls kind of fade away as if they were ghosts before leaving the screen.
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well, okay
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Two other dogs had been found alive when firefighters first responded and were rescued, officials say.
Orlando Howard said he lives in the home and was inside when he saw flames shooting through the roof of the garage. He said the owner of the dogs, a friend who lives with him in the house, ran from the basement into the garage to try to save the dogs.
"I actually didn't even know he had so many, he's so private and personal," said Howard. "The dogs were kept in the garage."
It's not clear if Howard and the dogs' owner were living there legally. Newsday reports that public records list Fernando Cruz as a co-owner of the home and when reached by telephone, Cruz said he now lives in Texas and that the house is supposed to be unoccupied.
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Please don't miss Noemie Emery's column in the Weekly Standard called "Election Shock Treatment." Noemie airs this question: can the Democrats find a way to talk about the Iraqi elections that isn't madness personified? So far, the answer is no. Instead, the Democrats are serving up "nuance" as embodied in this distillation of the utterances of Harry Reid, Tina Brown, Hendrik Hertzberg, et al:
The elections succeeded in spite of the one man who caused them, and BECAUSE of the people whose publications and candidates had fought Bush every step of the way. Or, put another way, the elections were a success and a great moral victory; but the ideas that led up to them were the purest examples of bone-headed bungling; and the man who thought them all up was a dunce.


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Como Zoo Orangutan Picks Broncos to Win Super Bowl
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - A prognosticating orangutan at a Minnesota zoo has picked the Denver Broncos to win Sunday's Super Bowl.
Amanda the Orangutan ran into her exhibit at St. Paul's Como Park Zoo on Saturday and went straight for a pair of boxes, each containing a shirt of the two teams battling for NFL supremacy, the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks.
After some last-minute contemplating, zoo officials say, she chose the Broncos box, tore out the blue shirt and put it on her hairy red body.
A zoo statement says Como's three other orangutans - Jambu, Markisa and Jaya - joined her to admire her new apparel and to play with other football-themed toys in their exhibit.


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Hello Admin, members.
I couldn't find a section on the forum for new members to introduce themselves, so I thought I would do that here.
My name is David, I have been working in the automotive trade since I left school some thirty odd years ago, and although I have worked my way round air conditioning systems while working on vehicles, I have never actually got involved in the systems at all until last year.
I started by contacting our local Motor Trade Association the IMI, they provided training providers that carryout the training. I spent a month reading an in-depth book on automotive air conditioning systems called "Automotive Air-Conditioning and Climate Control Systems" by Steven Daly, and I was provided with training information from IVECO who train their own staff. By the time I had digested all this information and the book by Steven Daly I felt reasonably confident that I had sufficient knowledge to attend a training course.
I contacted a local training provider who spent about 20 minutes talking and listening to me about air con systems, then he decided that I had sufficient knowledge to do the online assessment. I completed the assessment successfully and the trainer took me into the training school to be trained, or at least I thought, this is the point I became confused because he already had a refrigerant station setup and all he asked me to do was carry out some leak checks. He asked me a few questions about cylinder filling etc and then passed me on the course. I left feeling confused because I thought the training would have been hands on, which it wasn't, so now I am left researching and learning the systems on my own.
I have searched for air con forums previously with very little success, so I am glad I have found this forum and hope I can learn a lot from you guys, this subject is very new to me.
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As computers chip continue to decrease in fabrication size, manufacturers such as AMD and Intel are researching new ways to overcome physical barriers. Die size, performance, operating frequency and heat are all major obstacles in the semiconductor industry. Sun Microsystems announced that in partnership with Luxtera, Kotura and Stanford University, it is working on an ambitions project to move data transmissions from electrical signals over copper wires to pulses of light using lasers.


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How to Get Movies, Music, and More From Your Mobile Device to Your TV
There's not much your phone or tablet can't do these days, beyond maybe displaying their troves of mobile content on a screen larger than 10 inches. But that's what televisions are for. And, with one of these five methods, you'll be able to seamlessly throw music and movies from your little screen to your big screen.


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Martin J. Walsh went from underdog in a large field of candidates to mayor of Boston in a victory he credited in large part to the efforts of election staff and volunteers, many of whom hail from the Suffolk University community.
Students such as Rose Garcia and Jonathan Huang worked at all levels of the campaign alongside Suffolk alumni, including Walsh Campaign Manager Megan Costello.
Capitalizing on opportunity
Garcia, a junior Government major, snagged a campaign internship after posing a question to the candidates during the Boston Mayoral Forum held at Suffolk University's Modern Theatre. Government Professor Rachel Cobb had arranged for students to be part of the program.
Garcia's question about creating jobs for young people landed her multiple internship offers on the spot. Michael Goldman, a lecturer in the Government Department, introduced Garcia to the future mayor as the forum ended, and Walsh proposed that she intern for his campaign.
Goldman, lead political consultant for the Walsh campaign, pushed her to take the internship.
Says Goldman: "Rose embodies all of the best qualities of Government students at Suffolk." "Smart," "focused" and "talented" are just a few words Goldman uses to describe her.
Rallying support
Huang was brought into the campaign by a friend who needed help canvassing neighborhoods.
"I love canvassing; I used to be a door-to-door salesman," says Huang, a senior majoring in Entrepreneurship and Information Systems and minoring in American Government. For him canvassing would be a "great refresher in taking rejection," a valuable skill for any businessman.
Huang, whose primary task was collecting voter information and convincing residents to vote for Walsh, found that most people just wanted to feel they were being heard.
"The people wanted to talk to someone. In the eyes of the voter, he or she feels acknowledged by Marty's rep coming all the way to get his or her vote."
Garcia, as a liaison between headquarters and volunteers and as a canvasser, also had a great deal of voter contact.
"It's about direct voter contact, having conversations with people, taking what you want and having someone who agrees with you in a place of power," she says. "Your mayor can change things in your city."
Educational experience goes to work
Huang found that the networking skills he gained at Suffolk were readily transferable to dealing with the public.
"Networking is very much needed to find pockets of community. And to network is to put yourself out there. … By networking you open doors for yourself because people know people," he says.
Focused on the future
For Garcia, seeing firsthand the workings of a campaign gave her an idea of what it would be like to go into politics. The campaign introduced her to political figures such as John Barros, Felix Arroyo and Charlotte Golar Richie, all of whom endorsed Walsh after the primaries and any of whom Garcia would be happy to work for in the future.
She's already met Walsh and other key members of his staff, such as Campaign Manager Megan Costello, a Suffolk alumna whom she's grown to look up to.
"Megan Costello is such an inspiration to me," says Garcia. "Walsh has so many smart people working for him."
Alumna's political chops
Costello is no stranger to politics or campaigns. Since graduating in 2009, she's worked as executive assistant to the mayor of Newton, as statewide volunteer coordinator for Edward Markey's U.S. Senate campaign and more.
She described her responsibilities in the Walsh campaign as "holistic," taking on a variety of day-to-day operations, from dealing with press to field work to fundraising. Months of dedication to the campaign did not go unnoticed. Goldman and other colleagues refer to Costello as "the perfect worker."
"We really see ourselves, staff and volunteers, as extensions of Marty Walsh's values," says Costello. "They are representative of everything Marty stands for."
Her time on the campaign has taught Costello a great deal about Boston and its residents.
"People of Boston are very passionate about their city," she says, "That was really special to me."


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Members of the nonprofit group New Mexico Youth Organized woke up on Thursday, Sept. 4, to a startling headline.
The Albuquerque Journal ran an article reporting NMYO missed a Sept. 2 deadline set by Secretary of State Mary Herrera to register as a Political Action Committee (PAC).
Keegan King, executive director of the organization, says the article got the facts wrong. "Our understanding was there wasn't going to be any deadline set," King says. Still, there's some confusion over what the Attorney General's Office and NMYO agreed to and when.
In a letter sent to NMYO last month, Herrera said the group would have to register as a PAC because it was sending out campaign materials intended to influence elections [" Not-So-Free Speech," Aug. 28-Sept. 3]. King's organization maintains that the flyers it distributed were part of NMYO's "issue advocacy," designed to educate voters on elected officials' voting records. They were not intended, King says, to change the outcome of any political race.
Some of the mailers were critical of officeholders, who later lost primary elections to incumbents in June.
A news release from the Center for Civic Policy, the parent group of NMYO, says the Sept. 2 deadline set in the secretary of state's letter is inconsequential. The Attorney General's Office agreed not to set a deadline for NMYO to register as a PAC, according to the release. The release says NMYO and the AG's Office reached this understanding during discussions held over the last two weeks.
We believe this determination contradicts well-established First Amendment law. We have not spent any money on any effort to influence elections.
SWOP Executive Director Robby Rodriguez
Phil Sisneros, spokesperson for the attorney general, says his office agreed to postpone the deadline on Thursday afternoon after the Journal article came out while both sides try to negotiate an agreement.
Last week, Herrera sent a letter to the SouthWest Organizing Project telling the nonprofit it has until Sept. 15 to register as a Political Action Committee. SWOP sent out mailers similar to those distributed by NMYO.
In an e-mail sent to the Alibi, SWOP Executive Director Robby Rodriguez writes that he adamantly disagrees with Herrera's decision. "We believe this determination contradicts well-established First Amendment law," Rodriguez says. "We have not spent any money on any effort to influence elections."
Rodriguez says his organization is in negotiations with the secretary of state and the AG's Office to reach an agreement about the deadline. "If this is not possible," Rodriguez says. "We will file for a temporary restraining order to prevent enforcement of the ruling that we believe is unconstitutional."
James Flores, spokesperson for the secretary of state, says Herrera reached her decision based on the advice of the Attorney General's Office. AG spokesperson Sisneros says his office's advice does not contradict the constitution.
The Center for Civic Policy is hoping to see a lawsuit thrown out.
The suit, filed by Sen. Shannon Robinson, Rep. Daniel Silva and Sen. James Taylor, alleges the center—along with NMYO, SWOP and others—conspired with political candidates to unseat the three incumbents. Robinson, Silva and Taylor all lost primary elections this summer.
Matt Brix, policy director for the center, says no conspiring took place. "We've maintained all along that the claims made by Sens. Robinson and Taylor and Rep. Silva are patently false," he says. "Their lawsuit is an attempt to muzzle nonprofits from publicizing the voting records of elected officials."


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Low Back Pain: Is It Your Feet?
The foot and ankle are unique in that their range of motion includes not only the front-to-back, hinge-like motion we associate with walking but also the lateral or side-to-side movement needed to change directions quickly. A problem in the foot can have a "domino effect' that alters the biomechanics or the ankles, knees, hips, pelvis, [..]


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Nativity of the Theotokos
The Nativity of the Theotokos is one of the Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church, celebrated on September 8.
The Holy Virgin and Theotokos Mary was born to elderly and previously barren parents by the names of Joachim and Anna, in answer to their prayers. Orthodox Christians do not hold to the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, in which it is supposed that Mary was preserved from the ancestral sin that befalls us all as descendents of Adam and Eve, in anticipation of her giving birth to the sinless Christ. The Orthodox believe that Mary indeed received the ancestral sin, having been conceived in the normal way of humanity, and thus needed salvation like all mankind. Orthodox thought does vary on whether Mary actually ever sinned, though there is general agreement that she was cleansed from sin at the Annunciation.
Calibration of the feast
On the eve of the feast, Vespers is served and contains three Old Testament readings that have New Testament meaning. In Genesis 28:10-17, Jacob's Ladder which unites heaven and earth, point to the union of God with men which is realized most fully and perfectly in Mary the bearer of God. How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven! In Ezekiel 43:27-44:4, the vision of the temple with the door to the East perpetually closed and filled with the glory of the Lord, symbolizes Mary. And in Proverbs 9:1-11, Mary is also identified with the "house" which the Divine Wisdom has built for herself.
Sometimes Matins is served on the morning of the fest. The Gospel reading is from Luke 1:39-49, 56. It is read on all feasts of the Theotokos and includes the Theotokos saying: My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour, for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden, for behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed.
Divine Liturgy is served on the day on the feast. The epistle reading is from Philippians 2:5-11, and speaks of Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. The gospel reading is made from Luke 10:38-42; and 11:27-28 together, this reading is also always read on all feasts of the Theotokos. In it, the Lord says, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!
- Your Nativity, O Virgin,
- Has proclaimed joy to the whole universe!
- The Sun of Righteousness, Christ our God,
- Has shone from You, O Theotokos!
- By annulling the curse,
- He bestowed a blessing.
- By destroying death, He has granted us eternal Life.
Kontakion (Tone 4)
- By Your Nativity, O Most Pure Virgin,
- Joachim and Anna are freed from barrenness;
- Adam and Eve, from the corruption of death.
- And we, your people, freed from the guilt of sin, celebrate and sing to you:
- The barren woman gives birth to the Theotokos, the nourisher of our life!
External links
- Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary - GOARCH web site
- Nativity of our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God and Ever-Virgin Mary - OCA web site
- Nativity of the Theotokos - The Orthodox Faith, by the V. Rev. Thomas Hopko
- Icons of the Nativity of the Theotokos