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"Pushing for passage of bipartisan legislation that would increase New York small businesses' access to credit union loans, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand yesterday underscored the important role access to credit plays in sustaining small business vitality in our state. Small business owners create the majority of new jobs, but are still struggling to grow and hire due to a lack of access to credit. The legislation Sen. Gillibrand highlighted yesterday could help.
"The proposal, known as the Small Business Lending Enhancement Act, would allow New York's 422 credit unions to lend as much as 27.5 percent of their assets, up from 12.25 percent. According to a report released by Small Business Majority and R Street Institute, it would free up $13 billion in capital and create 140,000 jobs nationally - with the potential for more than $1 billion of that capital and 11,000 new jobs being generated in New York, according to the Credit Union National Association.
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Tank Universal is an TRON-themed tank game. In tank universal, you assume the role of a tank commander in a virtual computer world. Essentially, it's the blue guys versus the red guys in a battle for all out supremacy.
This game is available for purchase on Steam. A demo of the game is also available for free.[1]
The general gameplay in Tank Universal is very simple. You must capture the enemy's key from the center of their base, and take it back to the center of your base. The center of both teams' bases are guarded by deadly turrets. Upon taking the key back to your base, you eliminate the enemy from the area, and win the level. If your tank is destroyed in mid-mission, you are respawned in your home base. Here, you must call in a transport ship to carry you back onto the field of battle.
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WALTHAM, Mass. – MIT won a pair of doubles matches and four of the six singles matches as the No. 23 ranked Engineers scored a 6-3 win over No. 24 Brandeis University in women's tennis play this afternoon. Junior Lauren Quisenberry (Corpus Christi, Texas) and sophomore Michelle Dutt (Gurnee, Ill.) each scored a pair of wins to lead MIT.
Quisenberry teamed with junior Julia Hsu (Knoxville, Tenn.) in the No. 1 doubles match to put up the first point of the day for the Engineers, as the pair edged Faith Broderick and Carley Cooke by an 8-6 score. Brandeis evened things up with an 8-3 win at No. 3, but MIT (15-4) came back in the No. 2 match with Dutt and freshman Sunnie Lampl (Bluemont, Va.) taking an 8-4 decision in their match to give the Engineers a 2-1 lead in the match.
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I've gone around the cycle a few more times, but have decided to stay because I think I would have those problems with anybody I was with. The good still by far outweighs the bad, and I couldn't ask for a more supportive, caring, patient partner who genuinely wants me to be happy.
I've done a lot of reading and things lately, and come to realise that I have a difficulty with regulating my moods, when it comes to my partner. I relate to the symptoms list/typical causes for BPD (mood swings, fear of abandonment, dissociation, history of sexual abuse in childhood), which I've decided to do something about. So I'm starting therapy soon, and am meditating daily. Doing all the things that are good for my mind.
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Ok, ok, it's true, I really do think this would be interesting, like a Confederations Cup of sorts. Thanks, Luis, and everyone else, for the suggestions. You bring up some good points.
I think rather than team versus team, head to head, a division game should be played by aggregating the scores two teams, but I could see going with three. I like having two (or three) teams 'carry the flag' for the division that week. But I agree with above in that submitting picks that week isn't the best way.
We could start with a divisional schedule, which divisions play each other in each week. Then, borrowing on the thread above, randomly generate sets of two or three numbers that represent the teams for that week by ordinal in that division's standings. We can require that a division has at least ten teams (of which there are fifteen) to be eligible. Each week, each division would put up their teams in those rankings, one through ten.
For example, week one may look like:
DoGS vs. AAPL, teams 2-5-10
BCFA vs. UvW 3-7-9
La Armada vs. Bobo Liga 2-5-7
and so on.
The next thing would be time. I can do two tournaments at a time, which means the BCFA League Cup plus the Mug, and later plus the Masters. (Our League Cup pretty much runs all year.) Adding a third may be a stretch. If I could automate it like I do the others it may work. I'd like to see it happen.
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I like this idea more, 3 teams total scores v. 3 teams total scores. Makes it closer to division v. division as opposed to one team v. one team (which we have more than enough cups for that) ...
The rest of the details can be left up to others (especially division managers), as long as the structure is more division v. division then it makes sense, to me.
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If any division managers are interested in a trial run of a few weeks as we near the end of the 2015 season, please send me a note or post here and I'll try to put something together. We can work out the kinks. Think of it like the 1991 Women's World Cup.
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The huge 2005, 3.74-million-ton wine grape crush created a 15-month California wine inventory. However, there is no California wine grape glut — yet, according to John Ciatti of Joseph W. Ciatti Company.
"As long as 2006 doesn't give us more than an additional 12 to 13 months worth of inventory — and assuming wine sales trends continue — we'll be able to work through our inventories in a relatively short period of time," said Ciatti.
Ciatti, like most everyone else, is not counting on back-to-back huge crops, but no one thought '05 would be as huge as it became.
He predicts in the wake of the '05 surprise, "everyone will pay much more information from a variety of information sources" this season.
"Last spring was not optimal and this could have effects on fruit bud differentiation that may impact the upcoming crop, but it's still too early to tell," Ciatti added.
The flip side is that heavy winter and spring rains have filled the soil water profile and "vines will probably take advantage of its availability." This could produce a large crop. It will certainly create canopy management challenges.
Bulk wine inventory from the 2005 crop is already hitting the market and some of it is coming from what Ciatti calls "non-traditional sellers, as large wine companies re-evaluate their supply picture." Bulk wine is being sources from throughout California, not just the Central Valley, he noted.
Bulk sales have been primarily from last year's crush. However, Ciatti said there have also been additional '04 tonnage released.
Inventories "are still the heaviest on the Big Three: Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
Ciatti said there is "some interest" in floral varietals like Gewurztraminer, White Riesling, Muscat, and "decent movement" on Red and White Zinfandel.
"Pinot Grigio remains strong with inventory being depleted. As it has been, the market for Pinot Noir continues to be absolutely ridiculous… insane, really. It would be nice to see increased activity on other mixed reds."
Ciatti said much of the bulk volume activity moves from January to July and so far, there has been solid, general activity, "but large volume transactions are lacking. We need volume to pick-up soon so that we can avert upcoming pre-crush storage issues.
Ciatti offered these final "Points to Ponder:"
- Were growers encouraged to hang more fruit in order to compensate for the light crops in 2003 and 2004?
- Was the huge 2005 crop a result of extensive vineyard modifications, proper rootstock and vine density, or just plain Mother Nature lining all the factors together for the "perfect storm?"
- Will 2006 & 2007 provide abundant enough tonnages to sustain the projected future growth of California programs?
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"Weird Al" Yankovic is more than a half-century old, and out of those five decades his career has spanned three. Unsurprisingly, he's accumulated more than enough content to stuff a nearly two-and-a-half hour-long show, as he did Saturday night at Pacific Amphitheatre, launching the venue's annual summer concert series.
Yet the show was far from a mere greatest-hits revue. Sure, "Weird Al" has been around awhile, but the reason he's been able to have such a long, successful career is his innate ability to tap into and poke fun at the cultural zeitgeist. Wherever or whenever there's been a pop hit, like Batman responding to the bat signal, "Weird Al" has released a clever parody.
His appeal has managed to endure across those 30 years, buoyed by a combination of nostalgia and timeliness. Longtime fans who grew up singing along to "Eat It" are just as enthusiastic as more recent converts who know him simply as the dude who made "White & Nerdy." That zeal was more than evident in the large crowd that turned out for his pre-OC Fair performance. I don't know if I've seen an audience more excited.
The show also attracted a good number of families and small children; apparently Al's a family-friendly kind of guy. Early in the night, I spotted a couple youngsters with makeshift mustaches taped to their faces, evoking Al's pre-1998 bespectacled incarnation.
Ever the polka enthusiast, Al got the night underway with "Polka Face," a hectic medley of 14 reasonably current hits that included Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now," "Baby" by the Biebster and (naturally) Lady Gaga's "Poker Face." His devilish eyes and demonic grin only heightened the ludicrousness of the lyrics juxtaposed with the polka beat.
Al's a lively entertainer, zipping through his performance with gusto. He may be 51 now but his rubbery face is just as ageless as ever (maybe it's the hair).
Yankovic announced that Saturday night was the first stop on his Alpocalypse Tour, promoting his 13th album. The new record may be one of his most well-publicized efforts, thanks to a recent kerfluffle over his Gaga parody "Perform This Way." After jumping through hoops to seek her approval, Al was shut down — a decision quickly reversed when it was revealed that her manager had made the call, not Mama Monster herself.
Al performed the tune in the last quarter of the show, parading around in a wacky, fuzzy blue peacock suit. While the parody takes some obvious digs at Gaga's over-the-top performances, the funniest jab is a sneaked-in line of Madonna's "Express Yourself," fitting seamlessly into the "Born This Way" melody.
Al wouldn't last two minutes in an American Idol belt-off, but his nasal delivery is perfectly functional and remarkably malleable, able to be stretched across different genres with aplomb. His talented backing band should be given similar props for playing through various styles with effortless ease.
The one drawback was the slight overuse of video interludes, which ranged from carefully edited celebrity interviews (from his AL-TV stints) to a hilarious fake trailer for Weird, the inevitable Al Yankovic biopic starring real celebs such as Olivia Wilde, Gary Cole and Mary Steenburgen.
Yeah, those interludes were necessary to allow Yankovic time enough for elaborate costume changes (it must have taken him a while to stuff all that Kenny G hair under a Kurt Cobain wig at one point), and they were often quite entertaining. Yet they also made the show feel disjointed. For a while, it was too broken up — Al would play one song, disappear for a couple minutes, sing another, disappear again, etc.
But it's hard to complain too much since the videos were so darn funny. Al also included snippets from other shows and movies that have referenced him, like 30 Rock, Friends and How I Met Your Mother. It's interesting to see how much "Weird Al" has been ingrained into the very fabric of the pop culture he ridicules.
Most notably, one clip from The Simpsons featured a burned-out Homer, amid a rock-star fantasy, complaining: "He who is tired of 'Weird Al' is tired of life." Based on the general adoration of this Costa Mesa crowd, it seemed they've taken that mantra to heart, ensuring the bushy-haired jester another 30 years to ridicule the famous — and maintain the mainstream appeal of the polka.
Next at Pacific: Bob Dylan, July 15, $29.50-$89.75 … Neon Trees, July 16, $12.50-$32.50 … the Pink Floyd Experience performing Animals and more, July 17, $12.50-$22.50 … Chris Isaak, July 20, $19.50-$49.50 … Steve Miller Band, July 21, $38.50-$76.
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Dame Anne Salmond has a plan for the greening of New Zealand - one river bank at a time.
The Auckland University historian and anthropologist wants to enlist an army of volunteers to plant "bush buffers" around the country's polluted streams and rivers, which will stop river banks collapsing and bring back vanishing plant and animal species.
The project is due to start next year and Salmond already has her sights on a group like the student army that pitched in to repair the damage caused by the Christchurch earthquakes.
"We know that we've got a lot of young people who care about what's happening to the environment in New Zealand and would love to do something practical, literally put on their gumboots and do a mucking-in type thing."
The do-gooder impulse and sense of fun will be backed up by solid engineering and science, she promises, so everyone plants the right species in the right place. University graduates will monitor the results with school students and the whole project will be viewable on an online aerial map nicknamed Green Google.
Salmond is slightly reluctant to publicise the plan because she normally likes to keep her big ideas under the radar until she's sure they're working. But she offers this as a practical example to show the intellectual challenge she is making to New Zealanders this week is based on action.
Salmond is about to deliver the first annual Reeves Memorial Lecture, named after former Governor-General and Anglican archbishop Sir Paul Reeves and intended to stimulate public debate as the BBC's Reith lectures have done in Britain.
She pays tribute to Reeves' ability to move freely between Maori and Pakeha worlds and see the best in both, a trait many have seen in her.
The internationally acclaimed academic is best known for her books on early European-Polynesian encounters in the Pacific, including such famous figures as Captain James Cook and William Bligh. But for many years she has also played a leading role inside and outside the university, arguing for new ways of thinking on a range of subjects including science, history, business and education.
She plans to pick up this theme on Friday night, arguing that we need to stop viewing the world as a battle between polar opposites - such as male versus female, Maori versus Pakeha and business versus the environment - and search for common ground instead. Or as she puts it in her less academic mode, "we have to stop throwing rocks at each other".
As an example, she cites the river clean-up project, which came out of a two-day forum held on the East Cape in June to mark the Transit of Venus.
Inspired by the work of the late physicist and scientific all-rounder Professor Sir Paul Callaghan, who died three months earlier, it's an attempt to tackle river pollution with a practical, scientifically grounded solution which moves the debate past the name-calling between greenies and farmers.
Salmond acknowledges the Green argument that New Zealand's waterways are still badly polluted by nitrogen-based fertiliser from intensive farming practices that are not sustainable. But those farmers remain the backbone of our export-based economy and, she argues, the average farmer is unlikely to change his methods if you "throw a rock" by accusing him of environmental vandalism. "He's likely to pick up the rock and throw it back at you - and say 'bloody townie'. And in the meantime, the stream is still dirty."
She thinks most politicians have failed to grasp the need to move away from this finger-pointing style since the change to MMP, which she regards as a clear public demand for an end to the traditional, adversarial two-party system.
Salmond contrasts the headline-grabbing spat between Prime Minister John Key and the Maori Council over water rights and power company privatisation with the quiet consensus she says is emerging at the land and water forum, a body which combines environmental groups, iwi and the electricity industry.
It looks possible, she says, for these diverse groups to find agreement in the complicated debate over water use. The bigger question seems to be whether the Government is willing to accept that kind of bottom-up decision making.
Science, she says, is already changing to reflect this need to think outside boxes. Traditional disciplines like geology, hydrology and botany cannot individually supply the answers to problems like saving a river bed from pollution. The top-down thinking which saw human beings in command of the earth - or at best, benevolently caring for its lesser species - has given way to the science of self-organising systems, which sees humans as part of an eco-system, like everything else on the planet. Taking this approach seriously forces us to change the way we think about many environmental issues, especially climate change.
She says that contrary to popular belief, many business people in New Zealand already understand this. She credits Kiwibank chairman Rob Morrison, who also chairs the Pure Advantage lobby group for green growth, with presenting an "almost unanswerable case" that businesses had to act sustainably to survive.
"He's thinking about our adaptation and survival essentially, as a country and as humanity. The arguments were very compelling.
"So I would say the conversation is much more advanced than we think... because a lot of people have been participating."
A sceptic might say say ideas like this sound good but seldom lead to real change. Whatever happened, for instance, to the much-hyped Knowledge Wave conference in 2001?
Actually, Salmond replies after a slight pause, she was heavily involved in that and despite the lack of fanfare, the results are still being felt today. It led to business-based initiatives such as Pure Advantage and Auckland University's increasingly successful Starpath project, which helps put students from low-decile schools on the road to higher education.
Starpath researchers found schools were producing so-called snapshot data, required by the Ministry of Education for funding purposes, but most were not tracking students' performance over time. Once they had this information, teachers could immediately see the warning signs in their 13 and 14-year-old students and react.
The project also discovered that 80 per cent of students at poorer schools wanted to go to university and many were capable of doing so but were taking the wrong subjects. So schools changed their traditional parent-teacher interviews to an academic mentoring system in which teachers, students and parents discussed each child's future in detail. Parent attendance shot up from 17 to 80 per cent and NCEA and University Entrance results are showing signs of improvement.
Salmond, who sponsors the project, is convinced this kind of collaborative, evidence-based change is the only way to achieve lasting success. She's not a big fan of charter schools, the Government's latest response to under-achievement in poor areas. Though she doesn't rule out some of them doing a good job, she says solutions imposed from above are unlikely to resonate with teachers or the students, who matter most.
"The only thing that ought to matter in all of this, and sometimes it feels like it's the last thing, is whether it works for those young people.
"You see is a lot of big bang, short-term experiments in education. There's a lot of money and effort gets put into them and what's going on for the broad mass of students in the public school system doesn't change. And you can't do that."
Despite this criticism, it's noticeable that both her examples of making a difference in conservation and education are apolitical. Neither could be described as left or right wing and, unusually for public debate in New Zealand, neither involves asking the Government for money.
Salmond is keen to get started next year on the river clean-up plan, which she believes will be good for fishing, kayaking and tourism, as well the environmental goals of water quality, biodiversity and soil conservation. "The idea is to do something genuinely world-leading, to make the "New Zealand - 100 per cent Pure" brand real. Not to sit around bemoaning what's going on but to get in there and do something that has a lot of good, practical consequences."
She suggests it's like a slow-burning version of the "stadium of four million", which caught the public imagination for a few months at last year's Rugby World Cup. "We'd like to do something that felt like that, only it lasts."
When & where
* Reeves Memorial Lecture by Dame Anne Salmond
* Holy Trinity Cathedral, Parnell
* Friday August 17, 7.30pm
* Tickets $30 at ticketmaster.co.nz
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|2004-08-21, 06:13
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Tsukuyomi ~ Moon Phase ~
Website at: http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/m-serve/tsukuyomi/index.html
Original Work: Arima Keitarou 有馬啓太郎 (Manga serialized in Comic Gum)
Director: Shinbou Akiyuki 新房昭之
Screenplay: Sekijima Mayori 関島眞頼
Script: Sekijima Mayori 関島眞頼, Kanemaki Ken'ichi 金巻兼一, Uetake Sumio 植竹須美男, Kitajima Hiroaki 北嶋博明, Okubo Tomoyasu 大久保智康
Character Design: Aizawa Masahiro 相澤昌弘
Visual Director: <??> 武内宣之 (no idea who this is... if anyone can help it would be appreciated)
Art Director: Kuwahara Satoru 桑原悟
Editing: Seki Kazuhiko 関一彦
Audio Director: Kameyama Toshiki 亀山俊樹
Music: Kume Daisaku 久米大作 ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0474959/ )
Studio: SHAFT
Production: Victor Entertainment
Hazuki 葉月: Saitou Chiwa 斎藤千和
Morioka Kouhei 森丘耕平: Kamiya Hiroshi 神谷浩史
Midou Seiji 御堂成児: Sakurai Takahiro 櫻井孝宏
Elfriede エルフリーデ: Kakazu Yumi かかずゆみ
Anzai Hiromi 安西裕美: Neya Michiko 根谷美智子
Midou Ryuuhei 御堂竜平: Mugihito 麦人 (Captain Picard in japanese ST: TNG dub)
Kinkel キンケル: Matsuyama Takashi 松山鷹志
Heidi ハイジ: Yamazaki <Vanilla> 山崎バニラ
Midou Hikaru 御堂光: Kadowaki Mai 門脇舞
Midou Kaoru 御堂薫: Matsuki Miyu 松来未祐
Some more cast that show up in Ep 03:
Romanization of characters with japanese names have been confirmed with the manga. For the other names I have consulted various sources to make sure they are proper.
All cast except for Heidi have been confirmed by looking at previous work for each seiyuu listed at http://www.comicgum.com/topics/moontv/moon_anime.html and compared to other reliable databases.
All staff names except for four of the script writers are confirmed. Those not confirmed are best guesses so far.
Opening Theme:
Neko Mimi Mode performed by Dimitri From Paris
Ending Theme:
悲しい予感 performed by marianne Amplifier feat. yuka
Last edited by nekodar; 2004-10-22 at 18:36. Reason: some updates to cast/staff
|2004-08-21, 12:24
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Location: The Fields of High Attus
Age: 29
Neeuuuu, the picture looks like it's a loligoth anime or something to that extent, I hope it isn't! Oh well. I could do with less anime to watch, of course.... and that was a stereotype earlier...
INteresting how it does, indeed, have the same name as Moon Phase, a well known Japanese anime info site...
Seems to be something about a small vampire coming to Japan to look for her mother?
To start stealing from ANN, here's some extra info on the people behind it...
Director: Shinbou Akiyuki 新房昭之: Le Portrait de Petite Cossette (Director), Soul Taker (Director)
Screenplay + Script: Sekishima Mayori (Sekishima is the name on ANN, I dunno) 関島眞頼: Gad Guard (Scenario), Saber Marionette J to X (Series supervisor), Star Ocean EX (Series Composition)
Script: Kanemaki Ken'ichi 金巻兼一: Ai Yori Aoshi (Screenplay for both, Series Story Editer for ~Enishi~), Detective Loki (script), Galaxy Angel (script), Kimi ga Nozomu Eien (Scenario, Script), Star Ocean EX (Series Composition), Yugo (Series Organization - Russia Chapter)
Script: Uetake Sumio 植竹須美男: Burn up W (Screenplay), Burn Up Scramble (Series Story Editor), Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai (Scenario), Mahoromatic: Something more Beautiful (Scenario), Saber Marionette R (script)
Script: Kitajima Hiroaki 北嶋博明: Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team [movie included] (Screenplay), Vision of Escaflowne (script for ep 5, 8, 11, 14, 21, 24, and Cultural Setting, whatever that is...)
Script: Okubo Tomoyasu 大久保智康: A Little Snow Fairy Sugar (Script), Chobits (Script), Eiken (Script), Kono Minikuku mo Utsukushii Sekai (Scenario), Mahoromatic: Something more Beautiful (Scenario)
Character Design: Aizawa Masahiro 相澤昌弘: Digimon: The Movie (Character Design, Animation Director, Key Animator), Gad Guard (Character Design, Chief animation director), Orphen (Character Design), Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie (Chief Animator), Slayers Gorgeous (Character Design, Animation director), Yukikaze (Character Design)
Hazuki 葉月: Saitou Chiwa 斎藤千和
(Neneko Izumi in DearS, Kirie Hojima in Girls Bravo, Natsumi Hinata in Keroro Gunsou, Kokoro in Kokoro Library, Lavie Head in Last Exile, Anita King in R.O.D. -The TV-, Komachi Mikumari in Samurai 7)
Morioka Kouhei 森丘耕平: Kamiya Hiroshi 神谷浩史
(Kouji Minamoto in Digimon Frontier, Hiiragi Hitonari in I'll/CKBC, Rei Otohata in Super GALS, Tetsuji Kaji in Ultra Maniac)
Midou Seiji 御堂成児: Sakurai Takahiro 櫻井孝宏 (!)
(Tentomon in Digimon Adventure, Shun Ukiya in Gatekeepers, Leon Oswald in Kaleidostar, Takamine Kiyomaro in Konjiki no Gash Bell!!, Yuuri Shibuya in Kyou Kara Maou!, Arihiko Inui in Tsukihime, Sasame in Pretear, Fakia (who > you) in Princess Tutu, Takashi Koyama in Sakigake!! Cromartie High)
Elfriede エルフリーデ: Kakazu Yumi かかずゆみ
(Aya Mikage in Ayashi no Ceres, Lyra in FMA, Sayuki in Initial D, Yoshiko Shibuya in Kyou Kara Maou, Hisui in Tsukihime, Kureha Misaki in Divergence Eve, Sayaka Takai in the Pia Carrot movie, Hiroko Asahina in RahXephon, Shizuru Fujimura in Shinkon Gattai Godannar!, Dakki in Soul Hunter, Mikaze Honjo in Stratos 4, Mint Aizawa in Tokyo Mew Mew, Dita Liebely in Vandread)
Anzai Hiromi 安西裕美: Neya Michiko 根谷美智子
(Ayaka Shigure in Chojuushin Gravion Zwei, Satella in Chrno Crusade, Noriko Oyama in Dai-Guard, Mogu in Fancy Lala, Melissa Mao in FMP, Riza Hawkeye in FMA, Mako Sato in Initial D, Natsumi Hayama in Kodocha, Delphine Eracles in Last Exile, Honey Kisaragi in New Cutey Honey OAV, Runa Tokisaka in Komugi-chan OAV, Natsuki Iwakura in Pia Carrot movie, Akiko Nomura in Piano, Tsubaki Oribe in Please Twins, Nancy Makuhari in R.O.D., Barnette in Vandread)
Midou Ryuuhei 御堂竜平: Mugihito 麦人
(Konoe in Yami no Matsuei, Mifune in Irresponsible Captain Taylor, Carwess in Rune Soldier)
Kinkel キンケル: Matsuyama Takashi 松山鷹志
(Taizou Kirisato in Nanaka 6/17, Saizou Kiragakure in Samurai Deeper Kyo, Miyamoto Musashi in Shura no Toki)
Heidi ハイジ: <Yamazaki Vanilla> 山崎バニラ (not confirmed)
Seems like I'll give this one a miss though Fakir's seiyuu is in it... (he was in KKM as a main character and I missed that too.)
|2004-08-21, 12:45
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I don't know if there really are two persons with that similar names (note that the kanji can be romanized both ways), but the person for Moon Phase is the same as for Petit Cossette, and for that I have already verified Sekijima.
|2004-08-21, 12:49
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Time Warp/Future
this is definitely one anime that I'm going to watch, since I love Shinbou Akiyuki's style (although I heard others disliking the "obscurity and randomness" in his animes), and the art style shown in the website looks very neat
|2004-09-06, 14:13
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With the additional staff that I just added, a trend becomes increasingly apparent...
A lot of them have worked on either Soul Taker or Petit Cossette or both...
Now this is just pure speculation on my part, but it feels like Geneon will snatch this title...
|2004-09-07, 13:38
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If they don't stray too far from the manga, with the addition of Midou Hikaru and Kaoru it means they will cover at least 9 vols and probably more (8 vols out, but Hikaru appeared in what will be vol 9 and I can't remember seeing her before that).
With 57 chapters out so far, I'm guessing it will certainly be 26 or more eps.
|2004-10-04, 17:53
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Age: 39
I have some mixed feelings about this show. The backgrounds are VERY nice and the music did really fit in well. But I have some isssues with it.
1. The first ep starts very nice with some really gothic feeling to it. Then I watch one of the worst OP I have ever seen in an anime. Maybe the Love Love? OP is worse, I'm not sure yet. It totally ruins the atmosphere it just built up. Aaargh, 'Neko Mimi Mode', It will give me nightmares. And this happens (IMO) too often in the show. It goes from serious to comedy and back. Within an instant.
2. The character designs. First, those cat ears are terrible, but I think I can get used to them. But I thought the character designs were kind of dull, and I think for some reason that they didn't fit in with the gorgous backgrounds. Also character animation was uneven. For the most parts it was average, but occasionally when they used different shadowing, different lighteffects and odd angles it was way better.
Apart from that I think it has a good potential and I'll definately keep watching it for now.
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|2004-10-04, 19:57
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Otherwise, a fair series, but it was hard to get back to the gothic mood after that OP.
|2004-10-04, 22:18
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Watched the first episode and I liked the OP actually. It actually fits the playful nature of Hatsuki as you will see in this episode. I haven't read the manga so I don't know exactly what her character is like but that's what I felt after the first episode.
There are 2 or 3 scenes that can be less flashy but overall I think it's excellent. Very beautifully done and with a touch of erotic without being ecchi. This is definitely on my list of new anime to watch this season.
|2004-10-05, 12:35
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I found a clip and some pics someone posted somewhere.
I've read the manga, but I highly reccomend the anime more than the manga.
|2004-10-05, 13:07
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Location: Sweden
Tsukuyomi -Moon Phase-
Watched the raw of this spectacular show. It's completely gorgeous, in my silly opinion, with the cutest opening ever made. Even the credits have cat ears!
The show is about a little girl with cat ears who happens to be a vampire. A dorky photographer manages to get into her heavily guarded castle and eventually gets, er, a present from her.
See this, if only to enjoy the opening sequence.
|2004-10-05, 15:32
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Join Date: Jan 2004
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|2004-10-05, 19:38
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I checked all jpegs and the zip file (by using the latest Norton AntiVirus), but none of them contains any "threat".
|2004-10-05, 21:40
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Norton is erroring on the safe side to prevent the jpeg exploit trojan.
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Proposals submitted under the Innovative Housing Ordinance will be reviewed by City staff, the neighborhood, and a six-member staff-community Review Panel, which includes a youth advocate in an advisory role. It is the Review Panel that authorizes projects to proceed to apply for land-use permits.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to meet with staff early in the project development phase to ensure that the proposal is consistent with the goals of the ordinance and that it does not exhibit any "fatal flaws" that would prohibit its further consideration. For example, all residential development in Redmond must conform to certain public safety standards, and conformance from those standards early in the life of the project will make further review more straightforward.
Neighborhood meeting. After a complete proposal is submitted to the City, the applicant is required to present the proposal to the neighborhood through a neighborhood meeting. The applicant should take the input from the neighborhood into consideration in revising its materials for the Review Panel.
After the applicant has had time to revise the proposal in light of staff and neighborhood feedback, a Review Panel evaluates the proposal according to the criteria and parameters identified in the ordinance. The Panel may decide to authorize the proposal to proceed for land-use permit applications, deny such proceeding, or request additional information or modifications. The Review Panel consists of: two members of the Design Review Board, one member of the Technical Committee (City staff), one member of the Planning Commission, and one member of the applicable neighborhood association of Citizen Advisory Committee. Where no such active association or Committee exists, the Panel will include an additional member of the Planning Commission.
Parties may appeal Review Panel decisions to the City Council. In addition, the City Council may authorize consideration of more than the standard five projects per year.
Linked here is a printable document containing proposal submittal requirements and a review process flow chart that shows graphically the process that is described above.


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If drag bars, inner-city Detroit and rundown mining towns can be called ordinary, that might explain how Karen E. Haas selected eight photographers – out of 207 – for the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University's engaging juried exhibit, "Exposure 2013."
Elliott Erwitt once described photography as an act of observation "about finding something interesting in an ordinary place.''
If drag bars, inner-city Detroit and rundown mining towns can be called ordinary, that might explain how Karen E. Haas selected eight photographers – out of 207 – for the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University's engaging juried exhibit, "Exposure 2013."
The Lane Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, she aimed "to select those artists whose photographs I found myself replaying over and over in my mind but also to choose pieces that best represented the range of work submitted and made for an interesting exhibition.''
She has succeeded in gathering together an exciting mix of strong photographers who sought interesting subjects amid unlikely settings.
Frank Ward traveled to Kyrgyzstan, Siberia and Turkmenistan to discover a harsh beauty amid the barren vastness. Thomas Ladd spent several seasons observing gardens in a sheep pasture in North Easton and found decay and growth. Oceanographer-turned photographer William Rugen shot stunning close-ups of plants that reveal the equal beauty in their delicate blossoms and ugly, if functional roots.
While unaware of her choices' identities, Haas selected a balanced mix that includes several locals, recent students and teachers and a few far flung choices that complement the exhibit's variety.
Each finalist is represented by three to six images displayed in cohesive groupings that give viewers a larger sense of their work.
Rather than embody a single theme, the eight finalists display distinctive visions that make for a uniformly strong show.
However, photos by Bryan Schutmatt, Tara Sellios and Keiko Hiromi fairly leap off the wall.
Schutmatt is showing five striking landscapes, portraits and still-lifes from his series "Grays the Mountain Sends'' that examine the lives of working people in small mountain and mining communities in the American West.
Chosen by Haas as winner of the Best in Show Award, he captures revealing details that convey a hardscrabble side of Western life far removed from scenic postcards.
His portrait of "Ralph'' shows the stricken face and weary eyes of a man who's seen all his hopes fade away but must push on. His landscape of "Tonopah, Nevada'' captures the shabby poverty of a small mining town long after the gold and silver have been dug out and replaced by slot machines. In "Gunsmoke, Gold,'' Schutmatt fashions a grim still life from a black-and-white television show, a jar of peanut butter and a stuffed animal that create a sort of negative of the unseen person who lives there.
Sellios' imposing triptych of an octopus carcass, artfully arranged like a Dutch still life, is quite likely the most memorable, weirdly beautiful and disturbing image of the show.
A 2010 graduate of the Art Institute of Boston, the Somerville resident has fashioned a signature style that uses organic matter and animal remains to explore "themes of life and death (and) fragility, impermanence and carnality'' through distinctive images that make her definitely someone to watch.
Based in Boston and Tokyo, Hiromi is showing six portraits of drag queens backstage at Jacques Cabaret, a local institution, that were shot up close and in harsh light. Hiromi's portraits exude the poignancy of performers whose public stage accentuates the artifice underlying their role playing.
PRC Exhibition Manager Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis organized the exhibit in three alcoves by grouping together photographers with certain thematic or stylistic similarities.
While the professed emphasis is on "emerging and under-recognized'' artists, everyone in the exhibit displays a recognizable style and most deserve shows of their own.
It does seem curious a show this comprehensive doesn't feature any black-and-white photos. And, considering the exhibit's breath and participants with international connections, no photos reference the U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan that touch on so many aspects of contemporary life.
Yet, the refreshing and singular strength of "Exposure'' is that virtually all eight finalists revel in the actual world of people and things, however messy and unlovely, without retreating to artsy abstraction or self-referential navel gazing.
Christine Collins, who teaches at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley College, photographs beekeepers as 21st century pioneers who nurture personal connections to nature in suburbia.
Looking in empty lots, factory interiors and abandoned houses in his Detroit hometown, Dave Jordano photographed real people souping up their cars, making music and raising kids in honest, straightforward images that fused documentation and art.
There's a funny sign in the PRC restroom that tells of an artist's studio that catches fire and someone asks "What are you taking away?''
"The fire! answered the poet.''
View "Exposure" and stop by the bathroom if you need to know what you just saw.
"Exposure 2013: The 18th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition''
WHERE: Boston University Photographic Resource Center, 832 Commonwealth Ave., Boston
HOURS: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; noon to 4 p.m. Saturday during exhibits
ADMISSION: $3 suggested donation; free for members and students of member schools
INFO: 617-975-0600; www.bu.edu/prc


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MADISON, Wis.—Allowing government entities to charge for the time spent deleting confidential information would limit the public's access and make it easier for bureaucrats to hide information, opponents of a proposed change in the law told legislators Wednesday.
The Republican-backed bill stems from a Wisconsin Supreme Court case last year that said charging for the time spent on deleting confidential information was illegal. The proposal, introduced by Rep. Garey Bies, R-Sister Bay, would effectively negate that ruling.
The committee took no immediate action on the bill, which would have to be passed by both the Assembly and Senate and be signed by Gov. Scott Walker before becoming law.
Supporters of the measure—including groups representing Wisconsin counties, towns, the University of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Police Department—argued that it made sense to allow for the charges because of the time and expense involved with processing the volume and breadth of open records requests being filed.
"There has to be a balance, there has to be a sharing of cost in responding to some of these requests," said bill supporter Melanie Rutledge, assistant city attorney for Milwaukee. Members of the city's police force who process open records requests joined Rutledge in supporting the measure.
Last year's Supreme Court ruling came out of a dispute between the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Milwaukee Police Department.
The newspaper sued after the department demanded $4,000 to cover time spent redacting hundreds of incident reports reporters asked for as part of an investigation into how the agency classifies crime data.
A Milwaukee County judge sided with the city, authorizing it to charge the newspaper for all costs related to complying with the requests, including redactions. The state Supreme Court last June reversed that ruling, concluding that Wisconsin's open records law allows custodians to charge only for reproducing, photographing, locating and mailing records.
The court's four-justice conservative majority, however, implored lawmakers to address the issue, saying they should decide whether taxpayers should bear the full brunt of redaction expenses.
That led to Bies introducing the bill, which he said in a statement was designed to address concerns brought to him by local government officials across the state about costs they have to incur fulfilling records requests.
"The goal of this bill isn't to limit access to public records, but rather to protect the integrity of the law," Bies said in his statement.
Wisconsin Newspapers Association attorney Bob Dreps testified that allowing charges for deleting information would make it easier for holders of public information to discourage requests by charging thousands of dollars for redactions. Governments holding the records are more likely to do that if the information requested is particularly sensitive or damaging, he said.
That won't happen, said Curt Witynski, assistant director of the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, which represents 600 communities in the state.
"It cannot be ignored that complying with the public records law, making records accessible, costs money," Witynski said. "We think it makes sense that the requester of a record share in some of the costs of making that record available."
But Dreps said with so many records maintained electronically, it should be easier for governments to separate elements that are confidential and not incur a lot of costs singling those pieces out.
Michael Juley, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel assistant editor, told the committee that the newspaper always works with those it is asking information from to keep costs down and speed fulfillment of the request.
Juley called the bill a "serious threat to the state's open records law" that contradicts the intentions of those who passed it in 1981.
"There is no problem with the current law and we're not sure what wrong this bill is attempting to right," he said. "We need openness and transparency."


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Native Instruments have never been known to shy away from a challenge but improving on their innovative Maschine software seemed to be a tall order. Fear not though, the tech boffins at Native instruments have crammed even more amazing features into the 1.6 incarnation, available now as a free update for all new and existing users.
It's a sampler, a sequencer, a versatile groove production studio ideal for DJs, producers and creative artists from all musical backgrounds. Maschine allows inspired composition on the fly as well as in depth manipulation when used in conjunction with your favourite DAW. Maschine can be used to write and perform rhythms, melodies and and harmonies and can even be used to add an extra dimension to DJ performance when used alongside Native Instruments Traktor. Amongst the numerous new features available, 1.6 now delivers full VST® and Audio Units™ plug-in support for using instruments and effects inside Maschine. To help get you on your way Native Instruments have bundled in Komplete Elements an exciting and varied library of sounds taken from the hugely popular Komplete 7.
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This beautiful horse broke out (jumped the panel after capture at the trap) and stood by the jute… moving forward and back… forward and back… as his family loaded.
After the trailer (with his mares) went past him he shot up the hill behind us… then eyed the trap from the other side of the hill calling to the babies… he moved off as vehicles came in but stopped as a trailer came back up the road… and called to see if his family had come back.
Off in the distance you could see a chopper… he briefly headed toward the band being chased and then so very slowly… with head down… went down the road… and over the horizon.
I have seen thousands and thousand of horses loose everything they have. I don't normally name them.
But this horse is "Allegiance."
It is what he demonstrated and what we owe him.
I will edit video and get images together as soon as I can… but I am exhausted… have hours of tape and pics to log of over-driving, atrocious flying, BLM admits hotshot use and more.
As well as a few tears to shed tonight.
A local auto shop fixed my truck today even though I couldn't pay… he said to bring the money when I get it… but to get out to the range and keep an eye on "our" horses….
Tears for many reasons tonight… these people that live here love these horses… but they are not a mine or ranching interest… they are just people that read the local paper and live their lives in this hard, but beautiful place… and cherish the ideals of Freedom and survival that "our" horses represent.


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Tim10005 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 203 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP.org)
Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (http://www.cotap.org) is an early-stage nonprofit whose mission is to enable individuals in developed countries to simultaneously tackle two of the world's biggest challenges: climate change and global poverty. Cotap will transparently match individuals' carbon offset purchases to forestry projects in least developed countries. Cotap's goal is nothing less than ruthlessly cornering the forestry carbon market for the purpose of transferring unprecedented wealth to the most economically disadvantaged people on earth. Along the way, Cotap will restore landscapes and resolve the forestry carbon finance gap. On an annual basis, Cotap aims to eventually catalyze millions of tons of validated carbon sequestration, hundreds of thousands of planted trees, and millions of dollars in wages to hundreds of thousands of villagers who live on $1 per day. Unlike models which involve loans, grants, matched savings, or guarantees, Cotap involves wages.
Individuals in developed countries who are concerned about both global poverty and climate change. They are familiar with other global poverty alleviation entities with which COTAP.org seeks to be associated, such as:
Further, we seek a logo which is aligned with these respected entities whose disarming nonprofit status is coupled with uncommon commercial sophistication:
We seek to differentiate against the many for-profit and climate-only offset brands which have come before us. A good list can be seen at: http://www.co2offsetresearch.org/co…iders.html . Specifically, we want a brand look/feel which is light years away from that of http://www.TerraPass.com and http://www.Carbonfund.org .
The logo will be a consumer-facing lifestyle brand that is consistent with these attributes:
* Leads with the poverty theme, *not* the climate change theme. OK to incorporate both, but understand COTAP seeks to stand out with its brand, and hence logo, because of its equal focus on poverty alleviation.
* Global, conveying our dual social and environmental mission to a wide range of cultures
* Serious and professional yet an approachable, warm/fun personality
* Confidence-inspiring, yet not stuffy and aloof like a bank or foundation
* Non-religious & apolitical
* Emotional aspirations for empowerment, connectedness, and hope. No guilt or doom and gloom.
Two known concerns with existing design we'd like you to resolve:
* plus/cross not recognized as a T when used as such, people read CO+AP and say "....COAP." So try to pull the plus/cross out of the acronym or make a symbol/logo that better integrates within the name.
* plus/cross perceived as Christian, we're not religious. How can this be avoided while maintaining association w/Red Cross and/or aid in general (a strong preference)?
* Focus energy first on a powerful core logo, then on its incorporation with the brand name.
* No loud greens, blues, or combinations thereof. Too played out in this space.
* Prefer earthtones, greens/tans/browns not unlike those currently used.
* Either start with what we got and refine it, or start from scratch. Up to you.
* No hackneyed depictions of trees, leaves, planet Earth, stick people, the African continent, or polar bears. Maybe for roots, hands, and wildlife.
* Won't rule these out, but if you try it's got to be so stunning it overcomes any clichés.
* We obviously like the plus sign (a la Red Cross) as a symbol of int'l aid.
* We also like WWF.org's use of the panda, bonus consideration given if you can pull it off with a unique, misunderstood, and under-appreciated animal like the hyena, wildebeest, etc.
* Not too many colors, should lend itself well to having a monochrome version.
Logo must lend itself well to:
* Being a favicon
* Being a standalone square bumper sticker (like http://www.hrc.org ) and to being put on schwag such as coffee travel mugs and credit card beer bottle openers.
* Being distinctly recognizable from a distance
* Preference, but not a requirement: logo can serve as one of the letters of the brand (i.e. the 'C' or 'O' or 'T') as is currently done with the plus/cross sign as the T.
* Variations with logo both incorporated into and left outside the acronym/brand name, with and w/o full name, and with/without '.org' part.
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Dupa was a Belgian comic book artist, known as the creator of 'Cubitus'. Born Luc Dupanloup in Montignies-sur-Sambre Luc as the son of painter André Dupanloup, he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels in the 1960s. He studied there for three years before being hired by Studio Greg as a background artist on series like 'Zig et Puce' and 'Achille Talon'. He has also cooperated on 'Fifi', 'Fleurette', 'Luc Junior' and Tootsy'.
He was offered a spot in Tintin magazine in 1968, and this resulted in the creation of Dupa's famous dog 'Cubitus'. The adventures of the sympathetic, fluffy white dog gained immediate popularity, and the cast was soon enhanced by Cubitus' master, the retired sea dog Sémaphore, and the evil cat next door Sénéchal. The series remained a regular feature in Tintin throughout the 1980s, and even got its own, although short-lived, magazine in 1989. More than 100 animated shows starring 'Cubitus' ('Dommel' in Dutch, 'Wowser' in English) have been made in the mid 1990s, and have been broadcasted in Belgium and abroad. 'Cubitus' is also one of the most-featured Belgian comic characters in advertisements.
In addition, Dupa created other series, including 'Petit Biniou' from 1968 to 1970. Between 1972 and the early 1980s, he succeeded Macherot on the funny animal series 'Chlorophylle' with textwriters Greg and Bob de Groot. He has also written comic scripts for Éric ('Coup d'Oeil' and 'Le Verrou', for Dargaud in 1984), and he was co-author of 'Alice au Pays des Merveilles' together with Greg, Dany, Turk and De Groot. From 1980, he occasionally drew stories starring 'Niky', a female truck driver. Dupa passed away in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve in November 2000.


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I wouldn't be quoting creationists to validate my belief, though.
Ice ages have happened in the past, due to continental drift. As continents move around, and mountains get uplifted, snow can get deposited on them, which changes the over-all albedo of the planet. Also, the Milankovitch cycle has been well and truly understood.
Did you come to your opinion by being a climate scientist, or is it some random well-considered opinion, based on what you want to be true, after reading some creationist blogs?


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Summit League Women's Preview: Fort Wayne at South Dakota
Last season, South Dakota rode a strong second half of the Summit League season all the way to a date in the conference tournament championship game. This season, after winning just twice in the Summit's first seven games, the Coyotes again are trying to capture some second half magic heading into week six action.
USD got off to a strong start to the second half last Friday, with a 22-point win at home over Denver, limiting a Pioneer team that had scored 91 on them in the first meeting, to just 67 points.
The Coyotes got great balance offensively against the Pioneers, and held Denver to just 31 percent shooting in the second half, while hitting 53 percent of their shots in the second 20 minutes.
Head coach Amy Williams told me that early offensive balance and much improved defense paid big dividends against Denver:
USD did get a boost from Nicole Seekamp's return to the starting lineup against Denver after battling an ankle injury most of the last month. But Coach Williams says her status for this week's game is questionable after getting hurt in the second half in last Friday's win:
Thursday night, the Coyotes host a Fort Wayne team that blitzed them for 96 points the first time around. A lot of that damage last month came from behind the 3-point line, as the top long range shooting team in the Summit League buried 13 3's and shot 53 percent from the floor.
The key weapon for IPFW that night was Haley Seibert, who hit seven of those 13 3's. She finished the night with 30 points, 15 above her average at that point. But Coach Williams says that performance was no fluke:
Tipoff is 7:00pm Thursday in Vermillion.


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zabbix_agentd is the Linux agent daemon used to monitor Linux boxes
and send the data to the zabbix server.
Zabbix offers advanced monitoring, alerting and visualization features,
including distributed monitoring, auto-discovery, notifications, etcetera.
zabbix_agentd needs to run under its own user/group. This has been assigned
to the following by SlackBuilds.org, but feel free to change it on your
system for consistency with local assignments.
User: zabbixagent UID: 266 GID: 266
group: zabbixagent GID: 266
You can pass alternate values for the user and group using
ZABBIXUSER and ZABBIXGROUP variables when running the build script.
For some important post-build and basic configuration instructions,
see the included README.SLACKWARE file.
Maintained by: Michal Bialozor
Keywords: monitoring,agent
ChangeLog: zabbix_agentd
Download SlackBuild:
zabbix_agentd.tar.gz.asc (FAQ)
(the SlackBuild does not include the source)
|Individual Files:
| doinst.sh
| rc.zabbix_agentd
| slack-desc
| zabbix_agentd.SlackBuild
| zabbix_agentd.info
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Dear Socially Liberal Fiscal Conservative Friend,
That's pretty toothy, so I'm going to call you Bob.
But whatever specific name you go by, Bob, you know who you are. You're the sort of person who says to his conservative friends or co-workers something like, "I would totally vote for Republicans if they could just give up on these crazy social issues."
When you explain your votes for Barack Obama, you talk about how Republicans used to be much more moderate and focused on important things such as low taxes, fiscal discipline and balanced budgets.


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The incidence of hot spots, also known as acute moist dermatitis, increases during the warm summer months.
These circular lesions generally occur on the head, over the hip, and along the ribcage. They begin at the site of a minor skin irritation, such as a flea bite. Bacteria multiply in the warm, moist environment, causing a sudden inflammatory response of oozing, redness, and itching. The itching can be severe, and the dog scratches himself incessantly, sometimes to the point of self-mutilation.
Prompt intervention is necessary because hot spots grow in size quickly. The veterinarian's first task is to diagnose and treat the underlying cause, which can be food allergy, fleas, ear infections, and poor grooming, just to name a few. Measures are then used to bring the skin infection under control. These include clipping the hair on and around the lesion so that air can get to the inflamed area, cleaning the skin with a non-irritating solution, and applying a drying agent. In severe cases, oral antibiotics and antiinflammatory medications may be prescribed. Clipping the nails and placing socks on the hind feet can protect the dog from injury from scratching. Elizabethan collars can prevent the dog from gnawing at the spot.
Many cases of hot spots can be avoided. Longhaired dogs and those with heavy undercoats can benefit from having their coats clipped in summer. Regular medicated baths and a good flea preventive program are also effective safeguards against this irritating and painful skin disease.
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Itch Stop Shampoo and Creme Rinse
Recova-Clear Collars
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As Greece and the European Union struggle to find regional economic stability, three Economists from Purdue offer insight and perspective. They provide analysis of the root cause, contributing factors, likely outcomes, global market reactions, and also comparisons to other markets - including the US.
Prof. Jerry Lynch on the Elections in France
Prof. David Hummels on Greece & the Euro
Prof. Charlene Sullivan on the Personal Impact of the Crisis
Prof. Jerry Lynch on Greece's Debt & Politics
Prof. Charlene Sullivan on Market Volatility
Prof. Jerry Lynch on the US & World Economic Factors
Prof. Charlene Sullivan on World Labor Markets


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Oct 2011 18:28 UTC
It's a busy day for Apple today. Not only has the company launched its iCloud service for everyone, they also released Mac OS X 10.7.2. To top it all off, as expected, the company launched iOS 5.0 today, bringing a host of much-needed and long-awaited new features to iOS.
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"The notifications are the most welcome change but a very significant one is iMessage. Yes Skype et al do the same thing but they're not as integrated. Nice jab at the carriers.
In France, unlimited data plans always come with unlimited texts, and it is cheaper to get unlimited texts alone. It seems to me that this severely reduces the usefulness of the iMessage feature, as texts work with phones from all manufacturers, work in areas where data doesn't, and are more power-efficient because your phone has to keep a GSM/CDMA connection alive anyway so they come for "free". Is the situation different where you live ? "
Oh man, just had to quote this... too funny :-)
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A trip across the country to California completed the 2012-13 season for the MIT women's lightweight crew team, where the Engineers competed in the 111th Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship. MIT took both Varsity 8 and Varsity 4 crews to Sacramento for the competition, which was held on Lake Natoma.
Starting things off on Saturday was the No. 7 ranked Varsity 8 crew in an elimination heat against No. 6 Bucknell, No. 2 Stanford and No. 3 Princeton. The Engineers got off to a good start, but still found themselves fourth after 500 meters, trailing the Tigers by a little more than four seconds. MIT could not make up any ground and the gap between the Engineers and the rest of the field grew over the final 1,500 meters of the race. MIT clocked a 6:58.84, but was 12 seconds behind Princeton at the end in fourth.
For the Varsity 4 team its first race was a preliminary heat for lanes on Saturday morning. In a six-boat field, MIT started well and was neck-and-neck with Princeton after 500 meters, with those two crews just behind Fordham and Stanford. The second 500 meters did in the Engineers, however, as they fell off the pace and could not recover, finishing sixth in 8:07.62.
Moving on to the Repechage heat with No. 4 Georgetown and Princeton on Saturday, the Varsity 8 crew had to finish first or second to advance to the Grand Final. The three crews were tightly bunched after 500 meters, with MIT in third, but trailing Georgetown for first by just a bit over two seconds. MIT's gap increased a bit to five seconds behind second-place at the half way mark, with the Engineers holding their ground over the next 500 meters. In the final 500 meters MIT could not make up any time, finishing third to the Tigers by a five-second margin at the end.
On Sunday morning the Varsity 4 team raced in the Grand Final with five other crews. The Engineers started in sixth and trailed fifth-place Stanford by seven and a half seconds after 500 meters. Over the rest of the 2,000-meter course MIT could not find the speed to close on the rest of the field and crossed the line in sixth-place.
IRA Championships
Varsity 8 (Elimination Heat 2)
1. Stanford 6:38.387
2. Bucknell 6:43.696
3. Princeton 6:46.783
Varsity 4 (Preliminary)
1. Wisconsin 7:26.998
2. Radcliffe 7:31.938
3. Fordham 7:35.711
4. Stanford 7:42.763
5. Princeton 7:45.439
Varsity 8 (Repechage)
1. Georgetown 7:11.873
2. Princeton 7:13.024
Varsity 4 (Grand Final)
1. Wisconsin 7:35.087
2. Radcliffe 7:42.753
3. Fordham 7:46.515
4. Princeton 7:50.801
5. Stanford 7:52.551


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Working the land. Protecting a planet.
John Deere products are designed for efficiency and productivity. And, by truly understanding your needs and by incorporating innovative technology, we're able to offer machines that are not only more productive and more efficient, they also demonstrate a deep respect for the environment. 'Product Sustainability,' as it's known, is one of the best ways to offer lasting value to you, our employees, our business, and our world.
Since 2011, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has required engines in new off-highway equipment to meet stringent Interim Tier 4 (IT4) emissions regulations. These regulations known in Europe as IIIB affect diesel engines with 174 to 750 hp, and require a 90% reduction in particulate matter and a 50% reduction in oxides of nitrogen emissions from Tier 3 levels.
John Deere is up to the challenge. We've new technology that considers cost, efficiency, and ease of use, as well as reducing emissions; take our proven Tier 3 PowerTech™ Plus engine that includes cooled exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) for reducing oxides of nitrogen emissions and add an exhaust filter that reduces particulate matter. This approach offers up a fuel-efficient engine platform while providing a proven IT4/ Euro IIIB solution with the least amount of inconvenience. That's John Deere ingenuity.
One thing golf course superintendents have to worry about is having their finely manicured turf damaged by hot hydraulic oil before an important tournament. Most hydraulic leaks in the reel mowers used on golf courses come from the flexible hoses that feed hydraulic oil to the reel drive. Those hoses get a lot of flexing as cutting units are raised and lowered throughout the day, and as they move to follow ground contours.
John Deere has an answer. The 8000 E-Cut™ Hybrid Fairway Mower. By removing hydraulics from the cutting unit drive, this machine eliminated leak points. The cutting units are powered, instead, by a 48-volt, 180-amp alternator. And no additional batteries are required. The design also reduces the engine speed needed for mowing, which saves significantly on fuel and reduces noise for both the operator and all those around.
John Deere has a long history of providing fuel-efficient equipment. Current examples:
John Deere 8320R Tractor Sets Fuel Efficiency Records at Nebraska Test. Nebraska Tractor Test results prove that the 8320R Tractor provides up to 26% greater fuel efficiency over other competitive tractors of similar size in the 75% of pull at maximum power category.
D-Series Knuckleboom Loaders Deliver Higher Productivity and Fuel Efficiency. Productivity-increasing features include the fuel-efficient John Deere 6068 Tier 2 PowerTech™ engine with a high-pressure common rail electronic fuel injection system.
We use recycled or renewable materials in some products, such as corn- and soy-based plastics for components on combines and some tractors. We also provide remanufactured products to customers around the world. Remanufacturing has been a part of our business for over a decade.
Find out more about John Deere Reman Parts.
The development and growth of renewable energy sources is vital to the health of our world. John Deere is at the forefront with products that serve the sugarcane and corn ethanol industry. Our hay and forage and forestry equipment are at the center of the biomass movement. And, we are pursuing solutions to serve customers in rapeseed, other oil seed crops, crop and forest residues, dedicated energy crops, planted forests, and other potential bio-energy feed stocks.
Just recently, we introduced a website designed to educate and inform visitors about the importance of harvesting woody biomass. The user-friendly website explains what woody biomass is, why harvesting it is important, how it works as a fuel and what types of innovative public policies are needed to encourage responsible harvesting and the use of woody biomass. "Woody biomass harvesting can provide a significant source of renewable energy, promote forest stewardship and generate economic recovery for the country' forestry communities," said John Deere Marketing Manager Andrew Bonde. "We launched this website to explain just how it works."
In three short, informative videos available on the website, experts-from scientists to state senators-provide insight to help educate the interested public, loggers and other industry members, policymakers and the press. The videos include:
The website's "Making It Reality" section gives visitors the opportunity to fill out a simple form that sends an automated letter, which encourages inclusion of woody biomass in the new renewable energy standards, to their legislators in Washington, DC.
Learn more about woody biomass.
It's amazing what new technology can do for you. Make your life easier. Simpler. More productive. And save you time and money. At John Deere, we know that the best technology also helps the environment.
For example, by using GPS (global positioning systems), we can increase machine efficiency and productivity in many operations. Besides helping to steer equipment, our precision GPS technology helps control equipment functions from field preparation through harvest. Seeding equipment can use GPS to control where to seed, helping prevent wasteful overlap or planting through waterways. Machines that apply crop protection products and fertilizers use GPS with other machine intelligence technology, as well. That leads to more precise application of crop care products. Less waste, less environmental impact.
Combines use machine intelligence features that deliver automatic feed rate control, assisted steering for higher efficiency and less fuel consumption.
Of course, saving time in the field also dramatically reduces fuel use. In 2009, the company introduced its new Load Command system that can reduce the time needed to load a self-propelled sprayer from as much as 15 minutes to as little as 3 minutes. Over a growing season, that's hours of field time saved. Gallons of fuel saved.
With our forestry equipment, machines are designed for maximum productivity and minimal environmental disturbance. Forestry skidders with lockup torque converters make better use of available horsepower. And while John Deere machines use fuel more efficiently, less fuel is needed overall for the operation. For instance, booms on some of our forestry machines can extend beyond 30 feet in many cases, reducing machine movement, requiring less fuel.
The 844K Loader features ride control to navigate jobsites more quickly. And intelligent shifting technology matches clutch engagement to the load. Many machines have Total Machine Control, an electro-hydraulic system that automates many functions.
Greater productivity. Less time at the task. More fuel efficiency. All born of John Deere technology and a commitment to enhance, improve, and protect your life and your environment.
Why would John Deere – the company founded on the invention of a plow – pioneer no-till farming practices? Because, for many farmers, it makes sense. No-till leaves crop residue on the soil surface, improving soil structure, conserving moisture and reducing soil erosion. Yet, it does require sensible management and machinery solutions. John Deere continues to provide the support and products no-till farmers need to make their chosen production method successful and sustainable.
John Deere also provides solutions for forest management. Biomass harvesting, for example, is an eco-friendly system of removing residual waste and overstocked, diseased or dying stands of trees. Previously just a fuel for fire and of little use commercially, this forest residue now offers a biomass alternative. And it provides a business solution to the logging industry: how to make new money out of an old problem. John Deere has the right tools at the right time to take advantage of this great opportunity.


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The Lighting Designs of Serge Mouille
The sculptural, modern lighting fixtures of Serge Mouille keep appearing in stylish interiors, and with good reason. Versatile and elegant, fresh and expressive, Mouille's designs have not aged a day since they were first introduced in 1953. Let's take a look at this iconic designer and his most famous designs.
Serge Mouille (pronounced Moo-EEy) was born in Paris in 1922. When he was 13 he enrolled in the École des Arts Appliqués (School of Applied Arts) where he trained to be a silver- and goldsmith. After apprenticing for many years alongside Gabriel Lacroix, a famous Parisian silversmith, Mouille opened his own practice, where he handmade silver flatware and other metalware.
By the early 1950s, Mouille had become the head of the silversmithing department at the School of Applied Arts, and was working in different metals and idioms as well. In 1952 or '53, the famous designer Jacques Adnet approached Mouille and asked him to design a modern floor lamp that would look good in the large open spaces of the homes of Adnet's South American clients. Adnet and Mouille were both evidently disdainful of what they called the "too complicated" lighting designs coming out of Italy in the early '50s. In reaction, Mouille created his three-arm floor lamp (images 3 & 4).
With this lamp, Mouille established design precedents that remained consistent through the remainder of his career. Most prominent, of course, is the unique shape of the metal lamphead of most of Mouille's lamps, which is oblong and organic-looking, and topped by what can only be described as (ahem) a nipple. What this nipple allowed was for the wiring and hardware of the light bulb to be recessed inside, maximizing the reflective surface of the inside of the lamp head (images 1-5). Other Mouille lampheads took different forms, including snails (image 6) or ovoid shapes (image 7).
Mouille's most famous lighting fixtures were handmade in black-lacquered aluminum lampheads on tubular steel supports, and were assembled with distinctive 6-sided screws and brass ball-and-socket joints. Mouille's intent was that the brass would oxidize to a brown-bronze patina. The arms of Mouille's lamps join elegantly to the main 'trunk' support, so the profile of even the largest lamps can be minimized. The legs of his floor and table lamps branch out, clawlike, into a three-legged support that gives the pieces a sense of personality and whimsy. These lamps have been described as "insect-like."
In the early 1960s, Mouille produced a new series of lamps. These "Colonnes," lights were, as their name suggests, columns of anodized aluminum (image 8). Resembling skyscrapers lit from within, the Colonnes made use of new developments in tubular lighting. It was Mouille's last public designs.
A longtime sufferer of tuberculosis, Mouille stopped producing his lighting and got intensive treatment. He devoted the rest of his life to teaching at the École des Arts Appliqués, and producing one-of-a-kind work like jewelry and decorative arts. He died in 1988.
Mouille's work is very popular and there isn't very much of it, so originals are very expensive. Lately, his family has begun making new editions of Mouille's most famous designs, using the same materials, molds and tools as the originals. These are available through Guéridon in the United States.
The Brooklyn-based designer David Weeks makes a line of lighting fixtures (among many other gorgeous products) that clearly pay homage to Mouille (image 9). I could never tell the difference, but now that I take the time, I realize how distinct Weeks' designs are from the Mouille classics. Instead of Mouille's "nipple" shape, Weeks' lampheads either have an almost avian feel, with a pointed end, or they have more regular geometric forms. Weeks' standing lamps are also very different, with separate arms that are joined using hardware, instead of soldered together like Mouille's. See the difference?
Images: 1 Simon Upton for Elle Decor; 2 Design Within Reach; 3 Solid Frog via From the Right Bank; 4 Melanie Acevedo for Domino, via Bride's; 5 Metropolitan Home via Dwell Studio's Blog; 6 & 7 sergemouilleusa.com; 8 Guéridon on 1st Dibs; 9 David Weeks Studio; 10 via Dwell Studio's Blog.
Sources: You can buy original Serge Mouille lighting — if you can find it, and if you can afford it (recent auction prices at Sotheby's were around $50,000 for lighting, $150,000 for Mouille's rare furniture). Or you can buy authorized editions of his original designs, made using the same materials, tools and molds. These are available through Guéridon. The most famous models are available at Design Within Reach, where there is a 15%-off lighting sale through November 9th.