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There's nothing wrong with looking at things critically; having fun and using your brain aren't mutually exclusive. I mean, I tend to be very critical and break everything down in my reviews, but that doesn't mean I don't do of the silly "omg she's so cute/cool" stuff that people do too.
I am also a very casual fan; I haven't even watched that many anime and don't really care either.
The only problem is when something insults your intelligence and it stops you from enjoying it on either level. That's when it's bad.
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However, i do think that SnI would be WAY awesome if done by JC STaff.
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That being said, there are things that can be done right and leave an entertaining result, without being overly sophisticated.
In deen case, we have Fruits Basket for instance, quite lighthearted at the first glance, but combine pretty well comedy and philosophical stuff, albeit the last portion of the adaptation took a lof of liberties.
And this is exactly what I'm criticizing Deen for, considering that they are just not trying at times, to outrageous level way too often.
Take Seto no Hanayome for instance: it doesn't have a stellar budget either, but Gonzo at least -tried- to put a coherent execution, and used the tricks appropriately (mainly: slapstick comedy having a largely lower FPS, but not noticeable at the first glance due to the motion impression and "fast and furious" context).
In comparison, we have SnI with a average design consistency but an abnormally cheap environnment setting. If we assume that the characters weren't that colorful and amusing, there would be just... nothing to relish on, and that content was thanks to the original material.
You might say that the context isn't the same, but we have something similar to this: Seitokai no Yakuindomo, very similar to SnI, aside for an obvious drastic different humor. And we manage to have a lot more transitions, scenes and environnement despite we are also dealing with yet another student council body.
That would have been fine in the 90's, but I'm afraid it just doesn't cut it, even for a comedy show.
And if I were to poke at Higurashi season 1 budget, well... (and it isn't fault to the period... we had better consistency than that from much older series, like X1999, Cowboy Bebop etc)
It is just like that: that studio, regardless of their director, has a very obnoxious tendency at cutting corners with the budget and composition, even when the project itself is ambitious and very likely to sell (only few exceptions such like Kenshin OVA).
This comparison might look unfair but... I don't understand why they just can't dish out the budget for a movie like UBW, while ufotable could do that for Kara no Kyoukai. To begin with F/SN is arguably much more popular than KnK due to the original material vintage, and yet not only Deen doesn't try, but falls flat, whereas ufotable manages to make an impressive performance SEVEN times with SEVEN directors.
Deen knew they could sell with that movie considering the fanbase of F/Sn (and they surely did quite a bit considering the blu ray sales), but they really didn't try and simply expected the fans to take the bait.
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Would it be better to make 1 liners with a mere "derp, Deen just sucks, /thread" then? I could very well just type "they are not doing it with creativity" leaving you to wonder why I think so. Does it make it better? *shrugs*
Exposing points is part of a discussion I believe, and suffice to say, I don't think it is "so much" compared to what you can have with other people for a subject similar to this one.
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If i say "i think this pizza is kinda nice", would you respond to me with unnecessary facts about the ingredients of a pizza, because you don't like it? of course not.
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So you are calling an opinion "fuckloads of unecessary information"? I exposed only points to illustrate my opinion. Should I consider your opinion as unecessary information then? I don't think so, and size/content doesn't really affect that.
It seems you are mistaking my answer: I didn't try to "force" you to agree with me nor changing your opinion. I raised mine against yours... isn't what a discussion supposed to be? Not based on facts alone, you can have similar and different opinions confronting each other.
You think it is creative, I think it isn't and explained why, that's all. It is up to you to agree/disagree or heck, even read it, but that doesn't make it suddenly "unecessary" or whatnot. (especially it is ontopic regarding the subject at hand, studio deen. That said, the current issue at hand is going offtopic).
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Yeah, Seitokai Yakuindomo might have more fluid animation compared to SnI, but so what? i don't care! I love Seitokai yakuindomo, but i never wanted to compare it to SnI in the first place!
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but if think them as stand alone studio. without bothering about where the adaptation come form. they pretty much average at best studio
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Have some salt
Now, I mean certainly there are not the worst around and not everything they make is crap, but it does seem like they do get ahold of some pretty big projects.
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It's funny how Deen gets so much flake for making bad adaptations or has production value issues in general when Maria Watches Over Us is one of the more well-received anime in recent years. Then again, the light novels for it are probably under the radar a lot for an already niche part of animedom as a whole. It's more interesting that the few times I've encountered individuals who have read the light novels don't have any problems with the anime, as a stand-alone or otherwise.
The moral of the story is: Deen cares more about dat yuri.
The only other shows (that I recall) I've seen from them are Umineko and Hell Girl. Someone did mention the beauty of the latter, but Aniplex also had a part in its production. And considering some of their other works, it comes as no surprise.
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The movie failed to put a coherent script together, and failed to deliver the essence of the VN for the fans. It failed on every corner possible.
It wasn't even good eye candy as far as movies go IMO.
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If a studio doesn't invest in a project's production, the result is like this:
Anime is a massive flop = $0 profit, no loss if production is on budget, net less if there are budget overruns
Anime is a massive hit = $0 profit, no loss if production is on budget (rare since it takes extra money to make something nice), net loss if there are budget overruns
They animate Fate/Stay Night as a work for hire contractor with no share of the pie (that was the deal they made for the TV series, and it carried over to the movie). If they were to go overbudget to make something extra impressive, they'd take a net loss even if a million DVDs were sold. In fact, it'd be even better if they produced something under the allotted budget since they'd pocket the remainder, so long as they produce enough hits to lock down future contracts.
The studios that would allow overruns are those who're afraid that lacklustre quality might affect future business (that would probably be most companies) or are betting that improved production values might open up more opportunities. However, Deen has no shortage of work, so......
Naturally, it's a different matter if a studio invests in the production, just as ufotable did (Madhouse and Gonzo did this a lot, and they got into big trouble because of it). The result would be like this:
Anime is a massive flop = significant net loss, especially if they pay a lot out of their own pockets to make the anime really good
Anime is a massive hit = significant net profit, even if they risk a lot of money in the short term
In short, Deen is sticking with a bad business model. However, they're evidently able to cut corners to reduce/prevent overruns and still secure a lot of work.
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As for why Deen makes anime with no royalties, that's the traditional financing model. Most studios have little money on hand (banks don't lend), so they've usually relied on fixed production fees. The financiers (often a broadcaster before) provide a fixed sum, and they deliver the product on the agreed schedule.
However, with TV anime on the decline, the money provided by broadcasters/sponsors has drastically decreased, so studios are forced to make up the difference out of their pockets if they want to stay in business. Productions houses with extra money (and who are willing to risk it) have started investing in the shows themselves, so they take a significant loss on production on the chance that the anime might succeed and earn them a cut.
Deen is simply maintaining the traditional model (lower risk, low rewards), which also forces them into a quantity over quality strategy. They have a large staff, and to keep the cash flowing, they depend on a large number of contracts for those minuscule production fees.
Nevertheless, they do invest in the odd project they actually care about, such as Simoun. I think the president is also creating an anime in his late wife's memory. The rest is just contract work so everyone can pay the bills.
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Interesting there is a thread for bashing studio
They focus on fan-service (harem and/or bishounen)
Well, as adaptions go this studio has committed several atrocities...
Or let's put it this way, series composition is an unkown term to their stuff. Animation is so and so for TV, better in OVA (ROD, for example) and movies (UBW), when they actually animate anything, since the shows the pick usually need very few keys and even these are just talking heads. Still for me the writters they employ should be publicly executed as a service to mankind
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Top three topics for discussion in last post: 1. Doing the wave during offense; 2. No-name Jaguars players complaining about dirty play of players they cowardly refused to identify; 3. The same old Gary Kubiak challenge issues. If those are your major concerns, you are doing pretty well
When a team is winning, and there's few things to truly complain about–"gee, they need to improve on third and short"–what do sports fans talk about? Time for one of my strange random posts that make some sort of tangential point at the end. Please indulge me on this journey.
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Apparently, in 1972 when Conway Twitty sang "You've Never Been This Far Before," it created a bit of a controversy at the time. Some DJs wouldn't play the song due to its suggestive (I'd add creepy) lyrics. Bum bum bum indeed.
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* What happens when you have "Never Been This Far Before?" According to Twitty, it:
Makes your heart "beat bum bum bum."
It can make your "body tremble," and cause "tension in your mind."
It can cause concern if the love that is being felt will remain in the future. Lyrics in full:
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Or not.
* Attire. These days, there's a lot of people who choose to dress like smelly unshaven people, with trucker hats, greasy-looking hair and saggy pants. And then there's all the variations on hipster doofus attire which might land you on the website, "Hipster or Homeless?" The lesson of Conway Twitty is if you are going to wear unconventional, trendy, or otherwise bizarre clothing, avoid having pictures of you or have it on video. Someday you are going to look back and go GAHHHHH.
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So the Texans need to take care of business and continue to learn how to play with leads if they have them. Fairly unusual phenomenon for them this season, having an actual defense to help create a lead. And hope nobody else gets injured, and that Andre Johnson comes back as Andre Johnson at the best time for him to do so.
Texans fans need to get accustomed to having a team that is playing well, even without their best offensive player. It's sort of weird rooting for a team that is realistically expected to win their games. I'm not used to blogging for it.
Colts fans have the reverse situation. They have been so good in staying quiet on offense and being loud on defense because Peyton Manning expected it. Or perhaps he put a spell on them. They've been trained through success over the years of winning and playoff football to do that. Now their young fans are learning what futility tastes like–the pre-Peyton fans knew what misery was.
I am hoping we see no more Texans fans doing the wave during offensive series. Even though we haven't been this far before. Otherwise, we might be subjected to something like this:
I think doing the dress up thing as a fan is awesome. Each NFL game is an event. You put on some sort of fan gear that is appropriate to your vibe, and I guarantee a home tailgate and game will be more fun. I do it myself every game, though I pass on the face painting bit because I don't think it works well on females and is messy. But I will also warn you don't want to be in your full get up on video talking. Because there is no way you can do that and not be totally ridiculous. It's impossible. What is often fabulous in person doesn't translate very well in instructional videos.
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By Stephens Rogers
I just finished reading the article in this months edition of The Stockman Grass Farmer regarding the work Dr Provenza has done on livestock diet, acclimation, familiarization etc. This is interesting to me, as I recently brought a few head of Red Angus heifers in from Central Oklahoma to my leased property, about 65 miles North X Northwest of Houston, TX. This is approximately 500 miles due South of their birthplace.
In fact I just picked up 3 more head yesterday from Northern Oklahoma. I had reasoned that weanlings would be easier to adapt to my area, as opposed to more mature heifers or young cows. Glad to see my thinking was correct in that regard.
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had been grazing Midland Bermuda and mixed Bermuda / native grass pastures in Oklahoma.
Within a week of their being placed on the property the older cattle began to graze
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Detroit hot rodders may never forget the white headers gleaming through the wheel openings,the blazing blue paint, the skyscraping stance, and the about-to-devour every thingin-my-way attitude of the '57 Chevy street gasser that growled its way up Woodward Avenue last summer. When Todd Haas and Jimmy Shine team up on a project, the results have a way of making an impression.
A few years ago, Jimmy, one of SO-CAL Speed Shop's best builders, had both hands in the buildup of the '34 Ford Ecotec roadster owned by Todd and his uncle, David Haas. The Haas Racing team drove that streetlegal roadster to the Bonneville Salt Flats, ran 210 mph, and drove it back to Pomona. Jimmy was their crew chief during that now-famous road trip. Todd's '57 Chevy 150 was the push car. In 2007, Todd and Jimmy got together again to turn the '57 into a modern-day version of a 1960s gasser. The Chevy had belonged to Todd's father, Bob, who passed away in 2001.
Todd said they had always talked about how the no-frills '57 would make a great gasser. When it was time to turn the concept into something real, Todd knew he wanted Jimmy to be involved-so he went back to SO-CAL Speed Shop where the conversation he'd originally had with his father continued with Jimmy and Pete Chapouris. As with the roadster, the goal with the Chevy was to build a car that was completely street-legal, and could hold its own-even dominate-in competition.
We couldn't wait until the car was finished before showing you some photos. Our write-up on the rolling chassis appeared in the April 2007 issue. Jimmy built the chassis around the stock frame, but replaced the frontend with fresh 2×4 tubular 'rails (which extend the wheelbase by about 5/8-inch) and fabricated an amazing front and rear suspension. He attached the bars of the five-point chrome 'cage with slip joints, so they can be disassembled in a matter of minutes. Three moon tanks were installed to carry fuel: two larger tanks in the trunk for pump gas and a 3 1/2-gallon tank mounted on the spreader bar for race gas.
John Beck at Pro machine gave the full hot rod treatment to the 27 small-block, fed by six Holley two-barrel carburetors with handmade stacks sticking through the hood.
The sheetmetal was in good shape at the beginning of the build, and was cut and channeled over the frame. The body was already painted at the time of our previous story and has since been lettered. "Bob Haas Chevrolet" on the rear panels is an homage to Todd's dad. "Callahan & mackenzie," painted on the doors, are the names of Todd's toddler son and infant daughter. A rear seat was created and custom brackets for kid seats were installed, so the whole team can ride in the car.
They'll have plenty of chances to do that, since Todd seems determined to keep the gasser on the street. One street he's already been to is Woodward Avenue, during the Woodward Dream Cruise in August, where the Detroit crowd was quick with the compliments. The comments that meant the most came from a bunch of Bob Haas' old buddies, who loved the '57 and were sure Bob would've loved it too.
What street-or strip-will Todd's dual-purpose gasser show up on next? Ours, we hope.
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Osprey , Florida
'57 Chevy 150 Gasser
The balanced and blueprinted '64 327 was bored and stroked to 336 ci at Pro machine in Chico, California, where engine builder John Beck rebuilt the mouse motor with 10.5:1 KB pistons, high-performance camel-hump heads, and a COmP Cams camshaft. The combination makes 406 hp. Jimmy Shine built the stacks and progressive linkage for the six Holley 2110 carbs, mounted on an Edelbrock X-1 cross-ram manifold. Jimmy built the headers, which direct gases to Hushpower Flowmaster mufflers. The small-block is linked to a Hurst-shifted Muncie m21 transmission, using a Centerforce clutch.
Jimmy customized the stock frame, and he also added a 2×4 tubular frontend plus a custom transmission crossmember. An original '32 non-dropped axle was drilled. Original '40 Ford spindles were used along with transverse leaves, Pete & Jake's front shocks, SO-CAL hairpins on custom mounts, and a custom-built Panhard bar for improving handling. The Ford 9-inch houses 4.88:1 gears with limited slip. Rear suspension includes traction bars, and factory coilovers attached at a set of custom bungs welded to the back of the axle. The rear leaves were swapped left to right and hung inside the frame.
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Mickey Thompson 8.20-15 cheater slicks are mounted on American Racing Standards, which were produced in the '60s. These polished aluminum fourspokes were produced in a limited number and are rare rims. Jimmy Shine modified the wheels, and custom spring mounts in order to center the slicks in the wheelwells. The front 10-spokes are aluminum E-T gassers with a five-lug bolt pattern, rolling on 5.60-15 Pro-Trac tires.
Body & Paint
The '57 had been built and maintained by Todd's father, Bob, and the photos we've seen show a laser-straight body in good condition. The body was channeled over the 'rails. The grille and front bumper are gone, but the rear bumper, distinctive 150 side trim, and most of the rest of the chrome trim are intact. Abe Rodriguez at Abe's Custom Paint in Riverside, California, handled the lead work to prep the body for paint, and sprayed the cobalt blue paint (reminiscent of the mooneyham & Sharp '34 coupe). 'Striper extraordinaire Dennis Ricklefs applied the lettering, as well as the pinstriping on the decklid.
Gasser cockpits were originally built for function over form, but today are copied for their coolness. Ron mangus in Rialto, California, finished the inside of Todd's Chevy, adding Dodge van seats covered with white tuck 'n' roll. It's a little more comfortable than a typical '60s gasser, but those old drag cars weren't intended for trips longer than a few seconds; Todd has some more extensive traveling in mind. The stock 150 didn't come with a rear seat either, but Todd's has a full bench. Jimmy fabricated brackets so child seats can be installed when Callahan and mackenzie want to ride. Stewart Warner gauges were installed in the stock dash, with a Sun "football" tach mounted on top. The racing steering wheel and gas pedal are from moon and the belts are from Simpson. Jimmy built the five-point cage.


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Stephen and Vanessa Taylor are passionate about educating.
Stephen and Vanessa Taylor are passionate about educating.
Not only educating the children who walk through the halls at the schools where they teach, but also educating themselves. Stephen Taylor, an instructional technology facilitator at Dixon High School, finished his master�s degree in instructional technology in 2010 and receives a supplement to his salary for having the advanced degree.
Vanessa Taylor is currently in the middle of earning her master�s degree in instructional technology but may not be eligible for the program that rewards public teachers who have master�s degrees thanks to cuts to the state budget.
The state budget passed the Senate on May 23 and is currently being worked on in conference committees.
Sara Clark, a spokeswoman for the N.C. Department of Public Instruction, said the Senate Appropriations Committee passed a continuing resolution at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to keep the government running through the end of July. This, Clark said, was �a signal that the budget is not going to be passed by the beginning of the new fiscal year,� on July 1.
On the last version of the budget, educators getting paid on the master�s scale by the end of the 2013-14 school year would be grandfathered in, according to Clark.
For teachers like Megan Pinkerton, the instructional technology facilitator for Morehead City Middle School, who already has her master�s in education in Instructional Technology and Design, the cut is still upsetting.
Pinkerton, along with the Taylors, said she is afraid the cut will discourage other educators from trying to go for an advanced degree.
For her, earning a master�s degree meant the opportunity for more leadership roles in the future and a 10-percent raise at a time when teacher�s steps were frozen, Pinkerton said.
Teachers in the state are paid depending on their years of experience; however, these steps have been frozen for the past several years.
�Most teachers working on their master�s are encouraged and often required to provide free professional development to their staff,� she said. �When most schools have not been provided funding for professional development for the last several years, graduate students have filled the gaps for professional development by providing training on research based educational practices.�
Similarly, Stephen Taylor said his wife is a technology leader at Dixon Elementary because of her advanced education and the ways she has applied it to her classroom.
Vanessa Taylor�s classroom is outfitted with netbooks funded by a Wells Fargo grant she wrote. Her children go through every lesson with their laptops, revolutionizing their learning.
�When you educate me, you not only educate me, you educate my peers, you educate my students,� Vanessa Taylor said.
Still, one disadvantage to earning an advanced degree is the initial cost, and unless the supplemental pay can offset those costs, Pinkerton and the Taylors agreed: If the General Assembly takes away the pay bump, the incentive to earn a master�s might be lost.
�At the moment, I�ll have to reevaluate,� Vanessa Taylor said.
She has been working on her degree since the fall of 2012, and her projected graduation date is Dec. 2014, which means she won�t make the cutoff date for the grandfathering.
Vanessa Taylor said several factors went into her decision to getting her master�s degree.
�I believe if I�m going to teach children to be 21st century thinkers, then I need to be a 21st century teacher,� she said.
Taylor won teacher of the year on her campus for 2012-2013. She attributes a lot of her newly acquired education to that.
�But, I also needed the money,� she said.
The Taylors have a daughter who is getting ready to go to college and a son three years away from graduating high school.
�The other thing to consider is we have not had a pay raise except for 1 percent in six years,� Stephen said.
While the Taylors said they can make ends meet, they worry for new teachers.
They said most of the young teachers they know work summer jobs or even weekend jobs during the year.
�What would be better for me to do?� Stephen Taylor asked. �Go take a second job that doesn�t have anything to do with what I�m doing in school or work to improve myself through a master�s degree that I know will have some financial reward and offset the money I paid to get it done and provide the same opportunities to my children?�
Vanessa Taylor said she teaches her students about geography, and the children often ask why kids in other countries don�t have the same education as Americans. She tells them that Americans value education.
�And I tell them, it�s supposed to be the more educated you are typically the more money you make,� she said. �But then they�re going to eventually see us working in, you know, McDonald�s on the side with our master�s degree because we need the extra money. It�s not a very good example.�
North Carolina is ranked No. 46 in the nation for teacher pay, said Dixon High School Principal Vikki Childress. With those numbers and now the threat of losing supplemental pay for advanced degrees, Childress said she is concerned about retention and recruitment of teachers.
This year at a job fair, she said she saw a noticeably smaller pool of applicants for her campus.
�We�re not mad at the state,� she said. �We�re just worried about the unintended consequences.�
Childress said if fewer teachers apply to the school district because of lower pay or no supplements for advanced degrees, they will be forced to stick more children in each classroom, which could reduce the quality of learning.
�Businesses come to areas where schools are good, and if the state continues in the direction where they are going, businesses are not going to want to locate in North Carolina,� Childress said.
In addition to phasing out the supplement for educators with master�s degrees, the state government plans to install a merit-pay system where teacher salaries are tied directly to students� test scores.
However, how the students will be tested and how their growth will be measured has yet to be determined.
Childress said educators are concerned about how accurate the system to measure growth will be, especially considering factors beyond their control.
Stephen Taylor agreed, saying the state would need to measure every factor to accurately portray a teacher�s merit, including students� attendance, home life, socio-economic status and more.
He said his wife keeps food in her room for children who come to school hungry.
�No formula takes that into account,� he said.
Childress said the state would also need to come up with a viable way to test each student�s personal standards at the beginning of the year and then compare it to the progress made at the end, in order to accurately portray the effectiveness of a teacher.
�We should be held accountable, just make it fair,� she said.
As for Pinkerton, while she said she agrees that accountability is important, she doubts if the merit system will act as an incentive to help educators reach students better.
�If the state thinks of a teacher�s ability to inspire, guide and facilitate children as something that can be enhanced due to some money then they just don�t understand the motives of a person who teaches,� she said.
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Rising electricity demand created by development and economic growth is coupled with a massive existing deficit - 40% of the population has no access to electricity, and power cuts occur daily. Demand is expected to more than triple by 2030 from 2005 levels.
India also does not suffer from problems that besiege the wind industries in many other countries. There are no political parties opposed to renewables or with a particular anti-wind feeling. Similarly, business and the public are supportive of renewable energy. Not-in-my-backyard attitudes are unheard of. The majority of the Indian wind industry is privately funded and, although finance is tight, investors believe that the industry there has matured and projects are well planned and use quality technology.
With all these points in its favour, the wind industry just needs the right incentives. Reinstatement of the GBI is crucial. The industry at large is confident that this will happen; it is just a question of when, and on what terms.
The government should be strongly motivated to resolve this issue. Offering incentives for renewables will bring energy security and save billions of dollars. Oil imports currently cost India $130-160 billion a year, while $60 billion is spent on coal. Reliance on fossil fuels is unsustainable - economically as well as environmentally - as the cost of importing them is rising by 18% a year. Investment in wind in India is surely a no-brainer as it is already cheaper than coal in three states. Yet the government is subsidising coal by billions of dollars.
Climate change targets also exist: India wants to achieve 15% of renewable-energy penetration in electricity generation by 2020. Renewable energy minister Farooq Abdullah said in his conference speech that these targets cannot be met without a substantial contribution from wind. Indeed, to meet the target, around 8GW of wind will need to be installed each year.
However, it remains to be seen if the government can overcome bureaucratic delay and political apathy and give the industry the boost it - and the country - so badly needs.
Catherine Early is associate editor of Windpower Monthly


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Baby steps for a bull rider
Less than two months after 25-year-old Nome native and rodeo star Beau Schroeder felt the wrath of an animal named 800 Night Moves, Beau sat on a bull again — the first time he had done so since an accident left him with a torn trachea and two collapsed lungs.
Friday, May 3, Beau and his grandfather Ickey Schroeder, made a trip out to Ickey's ranch, formally known as Triple S Rodeo, where Beau's family held local rodeo competitions and where he first learned to ride at the age of five.
"It was tip top," Beau said. "This place was up and rolling. It'd run until 12 or 1 o'clock in the morning. It was an all-day affair, starting at 10 in the morning. It was a big deal back then. Some of the older guys that are known around here like Howdy Cloud and Robey Condra — that's where they all learned to ride bulls."
At the old Triple S Rodeo, the young rodeo star took a giant baby step toward riding again. While his grandfather attempted to load a stubborn but friendly Brahma bull named Buddy into the chute, Beau recounted what he said was one of the worst days of his young life.
Beau sustained a life-threatening injury while competing in an Xtreme Bulls event Sunday, March 24. He said his memory was a bit foggy about what happened that afternoon in Fort Mojave, Ariz.
"I don't actually remember getting on him," he said. "I remember standing there waiting for him to come in. Once he come in, I went to crawl over to get on him and I woke up hurt."
Beau would only find out what happened after it was all over from friends, family, other cowboys and from a tape of the accident he watched over and over again — enough to describe the grisly details.
To see the wreck, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PeUdeNIrSA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
"I knew he was bad," Beau said. "There wasn't nothing anybody could do. I wear a helmet and vest and chaps and everything. He had 4 to 6 inches where he could hurt me, and that's exactly what happened. He got my chin up and got me exposed, jerked me down and messed me up. He hit me with his horn. It didn't do nothing to the outside of my neck, but it cut my throat on the inside 180 degrees and collapsed both lungs."
Justin Sportsmedicine team members tried to help Beau, but didn't know at the time that he had a torn trachea because the injury was not visible.
Debbie Schroeder, Beau's mother, received a call from Rusty Dillard, a friend of the family and fellow bull rider from Sour Lake who was in Las Vegas with Beau. Dillard, Justin Sportsmedicine team members and PRCA officials initially believed that Beau had a broken jaw because his neck was so swollen.
"A lot of (bull riders) break their jaws," Debbie said.
Unfortunately, Beau's injuries were much more serious.
Beau said that after lying face down in the red dirt of the Mojave Crossing Event Center for several minutes, he regained consciousness but couldn't breathe unless his body was in an upright position. It was the only thing keeping him alive, according to the 2012 NFR Average Champion.
"If they would have strapped me to the (gurney) board, I would have died," he said.
Beau was transported by ambulance to the hospital in Fort Mojave, where he received a life-saving procedure.
"They inserted a (tracheal) tube in him at Fort Mojave, and they said that was the only thing that saved his life," said Punkee Schroeder, Beau's father.
Beau was then airlifted to University Medical Center (UMC) in Las Vegas where he spent eight hours in a coma.
"They had me in a coma from about 4 o'clock until about midnight," Beau said.
Debbie said that she and her husband, Punkee, didn't know the extent of Beau's injuries and waited an hour after the accident before they started making arrangements to fly to Las Vegas.
"I talked to the doctor on the way to the airport, and he said that they just had gotten him out of the CAT scan and they couldn't see anything," Debbie said.
However, when Beau's parents and sister, Nikki Duke, 33, arrived at the airport in Houston, Debbie called the doctor again before she boarded the plane for Vegas, and this time she received some troubling news.
"He told me that (Beau's) trachea was torn and they were going to have to do surgery," she said. "He said, 'This is a very risky surgery. If we lose his airway, we're going to lose him.' and I said, 'You do whatever you've got to do. We're coming as fast as we can.'"
Debbie and Punkee boarded a plane to Vegas around 9:15 that night, with their son's future remaining uncertain.
"We got on the airplane not knowing for three hours whether he was going to be alive or dead when we got there," Debbie said. "It was a long flight."
Debbie said she called everyone she knew and asked them to pray for Beau. Perhaps prayers were answered.
Beau's emergency surgery went well, and his parents arrived at UMC just in time to find him regaining consciousness from his coma.
Beau wasn't able to talk, however, and was asking questions with a pen and paper.
"He kept asking me where he was and what happened," she said. "They had him strapped down because they had that trach in him, and they didn't want him to pull it out because it would have killed him."
Following his initial surgery, doctors told Debbie that Beau wouldn't be able to talk for two weeks and that he would have to wear the tracheal tube for six. However, after a second surgery on Easter morning, Beau recovered much quicker than expected.
"He was talking within three days and the trach was out in a week," she said. "It was a miracle."
Every doctor that Debbie spoke to at the hospital echoed the same word — "miracle."
"They couldn't believe how well he did," she said.
Beau said he received plenty of support from fans, too, especially on Facebook.
"I put a post on Facebook a week after it happened saying what happened and 'thank you for all your prayers and support,'" he said. "It was crazy. I had over 175 comments and 50 e-mails. I tried to read every one of them and keep everyone updated."
Doctors later told Beau that the injury should have left him dead, and they couldn't believe that he was able to get up and walk away from it.
"They told me I should have been pronounced dead right where I hit," Beau said. "They told me there was no way I was supposed to be alive. It's an uncommon thing, especially to get up and walk away from it. They said I was a medical miracle."
At first, Beau said he questioned whether he ever would ride again.
"There was no way I was getting on another one," he said. "I talked to Rusty and told him I was probably going to quit."
Dillard, who Beau described as 'like a brother' to him, offered Beau some encouraging words, and Beau said he changed his mind completely.
"I went from not wanting to get on again to (thinking) this was a freak accident," Beau said.
Despite overwhelming odds and a close brush with death via 1,800 pounds of blood, bones, hide and fury, Beau said he immediately began to think about when he would get a chance to ride again.
"I thought about it every single day," Beau said. "That was the first thing I thought about when they were wheeling me out of surgery Easter Sunday morning. I've done it for 20 years; that's all I think about."
After spending only a week in the hospital, Punkee, Debbie and Beau set out on what would prove to be a long and grueling road trip back home to Nome.
"The first day we only made it from Las Vegas to Flagstaff, Ariz." Punkee said. "We couldn't drive but about four hours that day because his lungs were hurting him. We got up the next morning and we didn't make it from Flagstaff to Santa Rosa, N.M., and he was done. So we stopped again. We pulled out the next morning and drove 14 hours from Santa Rosa to Nome."
When he finally made it to Nome, Beau said he was glad to be home. The rodeo star wouldn't want to stay put for long, however.
"It feels good to be home, but I'm ready to get back on the road," he said.
Beau said that he has started working out, and depending on his recovery, he plans to ride again July 9 through 12 in Canada.
"We'll see where it goes," he said. "I got two months left. I'm trying to work out in between going to a chiropractor and getting my body back right. I'm still very, very sore from neck to hips. I'm shooting for the end of June, but there are gonna have to be a lot of changes if I'm gonna make that. If I'm not ready, I'll just keep pushing it back until I'm ready. If I'm not ready until next year — then it's just next year."
Beau said he is working out with an exercise ball and performing light exercise to get his body back in shape, but it hasn't been an easy recovery.
"My lungs is what the main problem is," he said. "My chest and my ribs hurt so bad that I can't even function. I just don't feel good. I'll get on a horse once I feel up to it. I'm just not strong right now. I feel weak."
Ickey, who owns bulls that Beau trains with, finally got Buddy, a docile bull that is known more as a family pet than a menace, into the chute. Although it did take some coaxing to get him to cooperate, Beau and Ickey finally convinced Buddy, with the help of a little feed, to take his spot in the chute. Beau climbed aboard Buddy, the first bull he had mounted since the accident in Fort Mojave left him for dead.
"It's all normal," Beau said. "It feels good to wrap my legs around one for sure. I didn't know it would feel this good."
The feel of Buddy seemed to only drive Beau's desire to ride again.
"A lot of people say I'm nuts for wanting to do it again, but they don't understand," Beau said. "When that's all you know, that's all you know."
When asked if given the opportunity, if he would ride 800 Night Moves again, Beau replied, "No. Never."
According to Beau, the owner of the bull had his son call to check on Beau while he was in the hospital, and the owner was so shook up by the accident that he sold 800 Night Moves the day following the accident.
"They didn't want him any more," he said.
Although Beau might not have to ride the bull that almost killed him again, he said he knew that the next bull he would face would not be a docile family pet like Buddy.
Despite the uncertainty of Beau's recovery, he said that his future is bull riding no matter what and his parents said they would support him no matter what decision he makes.
"He's a cowboy; that's what they do," Punkee said.
Beau described the first time he set foot in the Thomas & Mack Center, the UNLV campus rodeo arena, where PRCA's National Rodeo Finals (NFR) are held.
"That's what you work and dream for," he said. "You can imagine what it's going to be like and all that, but when you add in to that grand entry … the first time I did it, I had chills — the biggest chills I've had in my whole life. It is the coolest thing in the world."
And perhaps those chills are what keep bringing Beau back, even after the most devastating injury of his life.
"It's something you dream about. It's just something that gets in your blood," said Beau, whose father, Punkee, was also a bull rider. "I don't think I have anything to prove; it's just all I know and all I want to know."
Kevin King can be reached at (409) 832-1400, ext. 225, or by e-mail at kevin [at] theexaminer [dot] com.


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Ifat Levy, PhD
Associate Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Neuroscience
Departments & Organizations
Comparative Medicine: Decision Neuroscience Lab | Integrative Cell Signaling & Neurobiology of Metabolism (ICSNM)
Discovery to Cure Internship
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience
Office of Cooperative Research
I am interested in the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making in humans, in individual differences in these mechanisms, and in the possible contribution of decision traits to pathological behavior. Our research focuses on decision-making under uncertainty, and on value learning and encoding. To study these topics we combine behavioral economics methods with functional MRI, as well as eye tracking and physiological measurements.
Education & Training
|Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2004)
|Tel Aviv University (1997)
|Tel Aviv University, Physics (1994)


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Another good Prey novel, chase scene at the end maybe a little too drawn out . . . I'm still a fan.
This was quite readable, if not thoroughly satisfying. I find Sandford a step up from, say, Margolin.
This was a good read. It wasn't spellbinding but it did keep your interest.
Sandford may be getting out of his comfort zone with our hero wandering around the whole country as a Marshal. Sandford really knows Muskie Land, I am not to sure he has a handle on the Big Bend country and Marfa. He best tread very carefully in Texas Ranger country.
Another very good read from John Sandford. It lacked a lot of the witty repartee and politically incorrectness of previous novels. Time to bring back another book about that f........ Virgil Flowers!
Another great read by one of my favorite novelists. I look forward to his next one. He is a
talented story teller.
Sanford's novels have been hit and miss of late. Loved his early books as "Invisible Prey 2007" and really loved "Saturn Run 2015." But not "Shock Wave 2011" or "Bad Blood 2010" primarily because of readers were force fed "new clues" that kept on coming; must be franchise fatigue. Another avid reader told me about this latest that Lucas has a new job as a US Marshall and I should read it. Well, agree with him that it is a very good read, that there were more colorful characters and Lucas detected instead of having clues hitting him between the eyes. Last, liked who got to live or die at the end. Best quote, off the wall but so true: Who in God's name was the first guy to stick an okra in his mouth? Must have been a brave man, or starving to death . . . (More in "Quotes")
This is the 27th title in the Prey series with Lucas Davenport as a US Marshall. A great thriller with rich characters, twisting plot and even sprinkles of humor. Very well written which is why John Sandford is such a well respected author.
After a couple of "Prey" books that felt like the author was treading water, this is back to a better-plotted, fast-moving Davenport with a new cast of characters now that he has moved to the marshal's office. Fast, exciting, entertaining.
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"I been up for three hours, nervouser than a nun at a penguin shoot," she said.
He'd laid off for a while, but killing is like riding a bicycle: once you got it, you got it.
"I got a place so far out in the woods that the fxckin' owls get lost."
" ... Gar. Where'd we go that we'd like?"
He shook his head. "I don't know. Someplace crookeder than here."
"You know a place crookeder than Dallas?"
Women liked him: he couldn't go to Whole Foods without picking up a conversation.
LUIS SOTO was a bad man and liked being a bad man. The badness rolled off him like a malaria sweat, a mean little rat-bastard who could walk into a bar and order a shot of Reposado Gold and everybody in the bar would figure him for a gun and a razor and an eagerness to use them.
If someone told him that an unknown X had murdered a known Y, he'd usually know a Z that he could talk to, to begin figuring out what had happened.
When Soto got back to Miami from Jepsen County he couldn't run or lift anything too heavy, and had finally taken up killing people for a living.
Jimmy here spent more time in the county jail than most of the jailers."
Kort moved on from hammers and drywall—though the extra-large side-cutters still had a place in her tool bag—when she discovered the wonderful world of electricity, and all those battery-powered Japanese saws and drills and nail-drivers. Her redneck employers called her "the queen of home-improvement tools."
With twenty-eight years of unrelieved poverty and bitterness following her like an incurable disease, she'd found her calling when she murdered an assistant manager at the Dollar Store where she was working the overnight shift as a stock girl.
She'd once gotten dressed up to apply for a job, and asked her tweaker father how she looked. He'd said, "Like you caught on fire and somebody stomped you out with golf shoes."
Who in God's name was the first guy to stick an okra in his mouth? Must have been a brave man, or starving to death . . .
Another thing is, he's got a girlfriend named Pandora Box . . .
He was sent to the Mountain View Youth Development Center, where he spent nine months working the woodshop and talking to other teenage felons about the best way to proceed with a life of crime.
The last time he'd looked, less than four percent of the Minnesota population was licensed for concealed carry. In Alabama, twelve percent of the population was licensed for concealed carry, a half-million permits, more than twice as many as in Minnesota, with a smaller population.
He didn't know Tennessee or any of the territory worked by the Dixie Hicks. The culture was different, attitudes toward cops were different, and even the food was strange. He'd already crossed grits, collard greens, okra, and black-eyed peas off his menu possibilities, and suspected he'd find others.
"I got nothing to do with any of this, but I don't want them coming for me. I'm crawling in a hole and pulling the dirt over my head."
"You know why they call them cell phones? 'Cause people who use them wind up in cells."
The Jeep would eventually drive him crazy, he thought, as he headed north. The thing was rattling like a Brazilian maraca, tracking like an aluminum fishing boat. The steering wheel wasn't adjustable and threatened to crush Lucas's chest even without an accident.
"So you got two sets of maniacs chasing each other around the countryside."
"That's about it," Lucas said. "In a nutshell, so to speak."
"We got more guns and armor in our truck than a Humvee in Iraq."
"That sounds kinda far-fetched," Hart said.
"Doesn't to me," Rae said. "Think about all the files that have been hacked during the presidential campaign and how high up the hackers got. Seems like everybody can hack everybody . . . "
"Listen, guys, when you did what I did, you were expected to carry a shotgun. It was like a lawyer with a briefcase . . . or a cop with a pistol. ..."
She was pissed, but didn't exactly say, "I told you so." She said, "Be more careful. I keep telling you . . ."
They're sending down a couple heavies from the Special Operations Group. Sounds like the federal government's equivalent of Jenkins and Shrake.
Dean said, "That's not something you see on a routine basis."
Lucas glanced at him: "If you're gonna barf, do it outside."
"Okay. Not Vegas. How about California?"
"About a billion cops," Darling said. "You move there, you'll have fifty government workers looking at you, checking your tax records, asking where you moved there from, where you work now, how long you've been there. California is like a Nazi state with palm trees—'Papers, please.'..."
He'd been in the bathroom taking a leak, came out and said, "That took some pressure off my brain. Look—we're thinking too much about right now. ..."
... wonder how many houses sold in this area five years ago?"
"Thousands," Bob said. "People were pouring in here like rats around a Pizza Hut dumpster.
"Get an old car from some crappy rental place, colored girl with a do-rag, he'd see me as a maid."
... got behind a car with a bumper sticker that said "OLD AND RETIRED" and in smaller letters "Go Around Me."
The big cop, Davenport, ran across the lot and disappeared into the town house like an actor in a silent movie, ...
Off in the distance, a couple of farms away, a train was rolling by, like a bunch of golden caterpillars racing to lunch.
Kort, on the other hand, looked like she'd just been wheeled out of a Salvation Army store, after cutting her own hair with a jackknife. She could have spent three days in a beauty salon and it wouldn't have changed her face, her body, or the scowl she'd worn since birth—part of the burden she'd carried with her.
She didn't see the highway patrolman until she was right on top of him. She'd crossed a bridge, where low trees crowded right up to the highway, and there he stood, a radar gun in his hand.
Mafia and cartel movies, and accepted the movie premise that organized crime was like a huge FBI or CIA, that they would find you everywhere, that they had eyes on every street corner and every bar.
"I was afraid chunks of lead would be coming back at me."
She shook her head: "Low penetration rounds. They hit that brick wall and turn into dust.
Lucas had been in any number of flat towns on the northern plains, and Marfa would fit right in there: more pickups than sedans; a venerable county courthouse with a diminutive dome; a brick, concrete, and pole-building main street, no buildings higher than three or four stories; white houses made of concrete block with stucco, and wood-and-plaster; and vacant lots overgrown with weeds.
"I got shot in the hip one time. Six inches over, would have hit me in the balls. Sort of clarified my thinking about shoot-outs."
"Although nobody's calling it the highway patrol, they call it the DPS."
"That's short for Dipshits?"
"Could be, but it's actually the Department of Public Safety," the College-Sounding Guy said.
"I'm not a problem. I'm a solution."
"Gotta go right now, sweetheart. Take care, forever."
He lay on his back, loosened his belt, and used the leather to protect his fingers as he plucked two dozen sandburs from his hands and fingers. Hurt worse than when that dealer in Biloxi shot him. He had dozens more scratching at his legs, right through the denim.
"You're gonna be all right, pal. We've seen worse than this at a Saturday night cockfight."
"I got shot in the hip one time. Six inches over, would have hit me in the balls. Sort of clarified my thinking about shoot-outs."
I'm standing in the desert in a pair of Cleverley calfskin loafers that are slowly melting into the sand, so you know . . . cherish the air-conditioning.
Cancún is to Mexico like Miami is to America. Hard to figure out.
Lucas took a phone from his pocket and held it up, then looked at it, at the shiny black glass. "They're so great, these little machines are, that we all agree to be spied on for the privilege of carrying them. The phones know where we've been, when we were there, and lots of time, what we were doing there—what we were buying, who we were talking to, and where those people were. They can even tell how fast you were moving, in case somebody wants to prove you were speeding. They know who you talk to, who your contacts are, what credit cards you have, where you bank. We all know that, but we can't get away from them. Even crooks know it, and even they can't get away from them."
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Marc Caputo: Scott campaign flunks crime-watch test
Gov. Rick Scott's campaign last week provided a political corollary to Honoré de Balzac's saying that "behind every great fortune there is a crime."
Behind every great donor there is a potential crime.
It's especially true in scammer-rich Florida.
Had Scott's campaign-finance team realized this, someone might have vetted (or Googled) James Batmasian. He pleaded guilty in 2008 to failing to collect and pay $253,000 in federal withholding taxes regarding his Boca Raton investment company's employees. Batmasian spent eight months in prison, paid a $30,000 fine and had his law license suspended in Florida.
Perfect guy to headline a $10,000-per-donor fundraiser, right?
The Florida Democratic Party thought so.
"Birds of a feather . . . Rick Scott to fundraise with ex-felon tax cheat," Joshua Karp, the Democrats' spokesman wrote in a Thursday morning email blast that conflated Batmasian's past — as first reported by Mother Jones online — and the 1997 record $1.7 billion Medicare-fraud fine paid by Scott's former hospital company.
Behind each opponent's misstep is an opportunity.
Scott quickly pulled the plug on the fundraiser and sought to focus attention on Democratic opponent Charlie Crist's record as governor, when unemployment and budget shortfalls reached record highs.
"This event has been canceled," Scott's campaign spokesman, Greg Blair, said in an email. "All the name calling and mudslinging in the world can't hide Charlie Crist's record of failure or the fact that he is too scared to debate his primary opponent."
Karp got in a final email dig regarding Scott's cancellation: "If you ask him why, he'll probably just plead the Fifth."
Indeed, this is Scott's fourth fundraising woe, and the governor won't directly answer questions about any of them:
• The Gator Hunt Gaffe: In September, Scott canceled a $25,000-per-donor "private gator hunt" fundraiser after questions arose about the classiness of the event (alligators are a de facto Florida symbol) and the legality of it (gators are a protected species, and hunting permits are limited and supposed to be awarded by lottery).
• The Execution Delay Debacle: Days later, word got out that Scott delayed the execution of convicted Miami murderer Marshall Lee Gore so that Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi could raise funds for her reelection. Scott, who then scheduled a Broward fundraiser for himself on that day, said he didn't know the reason Bondi's office requested the delay.
• The Mike Fernandez Fiasco: The Coral Gables billionaire and million-dollar donor to Scott was the campaign's top finance chairman, but he quit amid a personality dispute in March. Along the way, some of his emails to the campaign leaked out in which he expressed displeasure with the reelection effort's direction and with the staffers, who were allegedly overheard by a Fernandez business partner joking around in mock Mexican accents on the way to a Chipotle in Miami. The campaign denied the claims.
Fundraising snags are inevitable. Campaigns in Florida need to raise mega-millions in great part to fund 30-second TV ads. More money, more problems.
Cash was key to the improbable 2010 win of Scott, then an unknown multimillionaire who dropped about $75.1 million of his own money in the primary and general elections.
This time, Scott is so far relying on private donors, placing $12 million in ads since mid-March at a pace of $1 million a week.
Scott wants to spend $100 million. Democrat Charlie Crist, who wants at least $50 million, can't afford to answer Scott's ad barrage, yet. He will soon. He has to. One poll indicates Crist lost six percentage points in a month and Scott gained one.
Now they might be tied.
In May, Crist's political committee raised $1.6 million to Scott's $36,000. But Scott is raising more money through the state GOP and his official campaign account. It's therefore likely Scott is still raising much more than Crist.
Crist, a former governor, knows how the game is played.
In 2010, when he ran for U.S. Senate, the special interests of Tallahassee funded the then-governor's campaign. But, after he left the GOP and was a lame duck following the spring lawmaking session, the money dried up and he went on to lose.
Crist had his share of uncomfortable questions and donors. Three prior contributors and his handpicked Republican Party of Florida chairman were convicted in separate schemes.
The cases still nag at Crist today, especially that of Fort Lauderdale's convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, who claimed recently in open court that the former governor essentially sold judgeships — which Crist denies.
Behind every great donor there is a potential crime.
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I had light acne as a kid and then grew out of it, now in my thirties…yes, it is back to haunt me a little. I was on the hunt for something to knock it out and in the process tried quite a few lotions and potions as usual. Recently a pregnant friend told me that the Belli's skincare line was formulated for pregnant women and she raved about their Acne Clearing Facial Wash….well I'm not pregnant but I am always looking for a good product so I stayed open minded and made the purchase.
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