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Neon stamping on black - quick pic-tutorial
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The white base, how clever!!ReplyDelete
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great tutorial! I hope you'll feel better soon!ReplyDelete
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I shall try this! I'm excited about stamping.
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Great tutorial Anna. Hope you don't get poorly so close to the weekend xxReplyDelete
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25 June 2012
European Data Relay System (EDRS)
The animation shows the principle of the new European data relay system EDRS.
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An important milestone for the commissioning of a European 'information superhighway' in space has been reached; on 25 June 2012, Johann-Dietrich Wörner, the Chairman of the DLR Executive Board, Evert Dudok, CEO of Astrium Satellites, and Gerhard Bethscheider, CEO of SES ASTRA TechCom S.A. (Luxemburg) signed contracts for large parts of the ground segment of the new European Data Relay System (EDRS) in the German Space Operations Center (GSOC) at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt; DLR) site in Oberpfaffenhofen. As a result, Europe is becoming increasingly independent in satellite telecommunications. The contract runs until 2030.
More data sent to Earth faster and for longer time intervals
The planned EDRS is based on two geostationary 'distributor' satellites that, because of their fixed position in space, will be able to receive high-speed communications from low-flying Earth observation satellites and relay them to Earth without any delay. As a result, these satellites will no longer be restricted to brief contact windows when they pass over their ground stations, which is currently the case. "This will mean that significantly greater data volumes can be transmitted faster and for longer time intervals from space to Earth. Above all, this is of huge importance for environmental monitoring, for the emergency relief services, for example during natural disasters, and even for weather forecasting," explained Johann-Dietrich Wörner. The ESA EDRS programme is therefore also a central component of the ESA and EU Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme. GMES is a European initiative for worldwide satellite-based environmental and security monitoring.
Public-private partnership
Like the German radar satellite mission TanDEM-X, EDRS is also a Public-Private Partnership (PPP), but in this case, ESA is the client and Astrium GmbH the prime contractor. DLR has been appointed as a subcontractor by Astrium and is responsible for constructing large parts of the ground segment and for controlling the payloads on the first satellites, referred to as EDRS-A. DLR will also manage and control the EDRS-C relay satellites during routine flight operations that will last for at least 15 years. For this purpose, a dedicated EDRS control centre will be developed within DLR's GSOC. The two geostationary relay satellites will transmit the data collected by the lower-orbiting Earth observation satellites to a total of four receiver antennas, which will be located on the sites of the existing ground stations at Weilheim (DLR) and Redu (Belgium), and at Harwell (United Kingdom). SES ASTRA TechCom S.A. will supply the four antennas and will operate the antenna at Redu on behalf of DLR. The data links will operate Ka band and be able to relay very large volumes of data – in the gigabit range – to Earth.
First operational deployment of optical laser communications
As part of EDRS, optical laser communications technology, also developed in Germany, will be used to transmit data operationally for the first time. "The European telecommunications infrastructure will be improved significantly," said Johann-Dietrich Wörner. "With EDRS, geostationary data relay services will be available to our partners and clients worldwide operationally for the first time. The project includes developing the necessary technologies to build the infrastructure on the ground and in space and the reliable operation of the completed system."
After its development phase – from the end of 2014 – EDRS will be used by the first two 'Sentinel' GMES Earth observation satellites to connect to the invisible 'data highway' in space. The Sentinel satellites will be equipped with small laser communications terminals, capable of transmitting data at speeds of up to 1.8 gigabits per second over a distance of 45,000 kilometres.
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I answered a few questions about my freelancing career for an appendix at the end of the book, and allowed myself to get a bit crabby when asked how lucrative it is to write book reviews. Here's part of the relevant answer.
Making book reviews pay: that's a laugh! One of my biggest peeves is that one usually gets paid a pittance for something that requires so much time and energy and discipline (if you do it honestly). To me, reviewing a book properly means reading it from cover to cover, and reading it well (these are things that some "reviewers" I know don't bother to do, by the way; and little wonder, given the ridiculously short deadlines they get). It means making lots of notes along the way, working out what you want to say, trying to bring in personal insights, and expressing them as well as possible. All this takes time and effort, and yet one rarely gets paid more than Rs 5 a word for a book review.**** On reflection, that "Rs 5 a word" was optimistic - a miscalculation on my part.
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"Yoichi 1987/2005 (49%, OB, Peated, cask #254816, Warehouse #3) [Nonjatta: Not to be confused with the 1987 single cask bottled in 2004]
Colour: Pale gold.
Nose: Starts very meaty, on lovage and ham with notes of veal cooked in butter, even a tad acetic (wine vinegar). A lot of bacon too (the ferry to Islay at 8 in the morning – hard for continental stomachs!) The good news is that all this gets cleaner and purer after a few minutes, much more on crystal-clean peat, lemon juice and white pepper with faint whiffs of incense and sandalwood. Very, very discreet notes of horse manure. Very nice nose but nothing too wild here, even if it gets both fruitier and cheesier after a good twenty minutes.
Mouth: A very compact attack, all focused on Seville oranges and peat. More citrus fruits after that (slight fizziness) and more herbs, with hints of coriander and parsley. Good development on crystallised ginger and Szechuan pepper, with a return on crystallised oranges. Very balanced peat.
Finish: Long, half-round, half-wild, with added notes of chewed cigar.
Comments: Maybe not total magic but very, very good. Perfect balance peat/wood that create a most pleasant spiciness. SGP:455 - 87 points." (Serge`s scoring system is explained on this page.)
3 comments:
- will said...
your description of the Yoichi was laughable to say the least. the nose, lovage and ham with notes of veal cooked in butter. Was the veal breaded and rolled in egg first? and the mouth, crystallized ginger and szechuan pepper, and back to crystallized orange. What planet are you from pal. where the hell do you find those crystallized products.
and the finish being half round and half wild notes of chewed cigar, hell you've been living in cuba to long buddy. but you sure do talk a load of bullshit, if i do say so myself.
you sound like you'd be a better food critic than someone who (i feel) can describe what their tasting in the malts. Kind of puts me off trying another jap malt. wm
- June 10, 2009 at 1:09 AM
I would advise you not to open the third gallon bottle of White Lightning cider before commenting. It makes you appear ignorant and uncivil.
On Nonjatta, we try not to attack other people's experiences. Tasting any drink is necessarily a subjective experience and communicating that experience requires some trust that the audience are actually going to be listening and not sneering. Personally, I find it hard to put the complex tastes of whiskies into readable prose but I don't resort to abuse just because my palate-brain connection is a bit Neanderthal. When I have tasted the same whiskies Serge has reviewed I have usually found some of the tastes perfectly expressed somewhere in his review and have been uncomfortably aware that I would have been reduced to something like "its quite sweet", "a bit salty", like the hundreds of other notes I have written.
Will (or should I say Troll?), before you trouble us again, sober up and know that Serge has written more whisky notes than you have had Thunderbird puke smelling mornings.
- June 10, 2009 at 9:07 AM
Hi Will,
LOL! Good comments! Seriously, I know that it's tough to come up with descriptors that everybody understands/approves because we all have different backgrounds, especially regarding analogies with food, and I won't use industry standards because that would be too boring to me and most probably to the readers. I'm only doing this for fun.
The veal thing is rather significant to me because there are various kinds of meatiness that one can find in whisky. I won't list them all but I feel veal cooked in butter is very different from, say beef stock or bacon or cured ham and so on… Same with lovage, that can be close to soy sauce or even oyster sauce 'though it's a plant.
As for pepper, well, I used to just write 'pepper' before my good friend Martine made me nose a good dozen different kinds of pepper. Wildly different. Now, agreed, Szechuan pepper isn't exactly pepper anyway...
Don't you get crystallised fruits where you live? You may google that and you'll find many and not only on Mars or Jupiter ;-)
And did you try this particular Yoichi yourself? I'd love to read your own notes.
Me, a food critic? Now, that's an idea ;-)!
Take care and have fun,
- June 10, 2009 at 4:16 PM


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I don't normally do Halloween fanart, but I did a big project this year.
Haven't celebrated by dressing up in at least a decade (getting old, you see ), but I hope everyone is having (or has had) a good holiday!
Specimen wrote:Pshh, you americans and your silly holidays.
But really though, that series of yours is nice. +1
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Yesterday night The Cleaner surprised us with a sudden action room clearout.
He found a lot of stuff that looks like personal belongings/unclassified clutter (e.g. clothing, pillows, etc).
If you fear some of that may be yours, please look through the pile on the table next to the door asap and save it from the next Free Shop day (Sun 25th July)!
Action room clearout - 18th July
Action room, screen printing, darkroom, Bristo Hall, Cave, AV equipment
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the tortilla chips box contains stock from the [old] shop. i believe the situations was that the sellers were out of the country or someonehow unavailable when biz'art morphed into sip/snip & massage corner so hannah couldn't return them then. no idea what the situation is now i'm afraid though.
some awesome clearning work though!
some awesome clearning work though!
hey, if you don't like it, post on the BB (so you can ask about participating for better) | MilkMiruku
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Sweet. Seriously nice job!
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If you happen to find a beige Pixies 2004 tour t-shirt then please let me know. I lost one a few weeks ago, I think at the forest while I was stripping outside. can't find any pics of it, but if you find something that looks like it please let me know is I was very fond of it.
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Sorry Stuart, we didn't find any Pixies t-shirts (or I would have nicked it, ha!).
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Oh well, thanks for looking anyway.
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Facing civil litigation with a winning mind
Officers face the fight with a mindset to win every confrontation — it's refreshing when the City attorney "follows suit"
In a recent article, Charles Remsberg told of a city attorney who could have made a made a million dollar lawsuit "go away," by paying the person who had been arrested a $35,000 settlement.
The city attorney made a courageous decision, after deciding that the force was justifiable, to let "the matter be decided on its merits." The word courageous fits, because all too often jurisdictions choose to "pay to make it go away."
Any officer involved in one of these matters can tell you that after the suspect is paid off, the matter does not simply go away. Officers involved in a physical altercation that they could not avoid look at these frivolous lawsuits as an extension of the fight. They look to their administrations to back them up when the fight is carried from the street to the court room. The case in Modesto was newsworthy because too often convenience wins out over conscience.
Cowardice in the Face of Civil Litigation
Can you imagine calling for backup, and then being told by the arriving officer that he or she might be injured by engaging in the struggle to assist his fellow officer? Picture the back-up officer negotiating with the suspect and arranging to let the suspect go without charges, while giving the suspect authorization to kick the arresting officer one more time. After that one last kick is accomplished, the back-up officer then pays the suspect $35,000 of the tax payer's money to walk away.
All would agree that this would be an example of an outrageous act of cowardice. This is however, exactly what happens, when municipalities and counties "pay to make it go away."
Continuation of the Struggle
Attorneys representing cities and counties that settle lawsuits where officers have been in struggles, literally for their life, need those attorneys to realize that the lawsuits are a continuation of their desperate struggle. Paying a settlement to a suspect in a justifiable use of force case is just as wrong as it would be for the officer to use excessive force. The officers will view the actions of those attorneys and administrators as an example of outrageous cowardice and they will be right.
A street confrontation must be won. The court litigation, when the force is justified, needs to be viewed as an extension of the struggle.
If the force used is defensible then it is incumbent upon the community, police administrators and the attorneys representing them to support the officers, who engaged in that righteous struggle, because it was their struggle also.
Who says?
Sir Robert Peel (the father of modern policing) says, "The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."
Cities and counties in these defensible lawsuits must stop the unwritten policy that says let's just "pay to make them go away." A large sum payment in a defensible case to attorneys is very much like blood in the water is to sharks. It will not make them go away.
The approach of the attorney and the administrators in the City of Modesto California was laudable, courageous and the right thing to do. "The Modesto Model," needs to become standard operating procedure across the country in cases of justifiable use of force by police officers.
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Regulatory Revamp Targets Securities at Heart of Crisis
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The Obama administration said yesterday that it will seek to overhaul the business of selling investments made from mortgage loans, a marketplace that provided the funding for the housing boom and the tinder for a financial crisis by tying American subdivisions to global markets.
The proposal, part of a regulatory blueprint scheduled to be unveiled tomorrow, would give buyers more information while requiring sellers to share in losses. Officials said the combination will encourage responsible lending, create safer investments and renew the flow of funding for mortgages and other loans.
Lenders would be required to retain at least 5 percent of the risk of losses on each package of loan pieces, known as an asset-backed security.
The employees and contractors who originate loans would be paid gradually, and they could get less if borrowers started to default.
The proposal also takes aim at ratings agencies such as Moody's and Standard and Poor's, which investors rely upon to evaluate the quality of asset-backed securities. Those agencies would be required to make clear to investors that the securities are riskier than traditional investments such as corporate bonds.
These changes address the market at the heart of the financial crisis, but they make up only a small piece of the administration's blueprint. The plan would give the Federal Reserve new powers to restrict the risks taken by large financial firms. It would create a new authority to dismantle firms that fall into trouble and a separate agency to protect consumers of financial products such as mortgages and credit cards.
Many pieces of the proposal would require legislation.
Sales of asset-backed securities provided the bulk of funding for mortgages and other consumer lending during the economic boom, as investors spent trillions of dollars buying what was often advertised as a safe, more lucrative alternative to ordinary bonds. The process was lucrative for banks, which could quickly sell loans and use the money for new lending. It was lucrative for Wall Street, which collected fees on each transaction. And it was lucrative for investors, who made outsized profits.
But as borrowers began to default on the underlying loans, the value of the securities collapsed, and everything came tumbling down.
The administration concluded that securitization encouraged looser lending standards, because companies that sold loans to investors had little reason to care whether borrowers could repay those loans. Furthermore, employees were paid to make loans, but they were not penalized for defaults. And investors could not easily check the excesses because they lacked basic information about the contents of each security.
The result? "A serious market failure that fed the housing boom and deepened the housing bust," according to Treasury Department spokesman Andrew Williams.
The administration's proposal is not just an attempt to clean up the securitization market. The goal is also to help revive that market, which has seen almost no activity in the last year.
That goal was welcomed by industry groups, even as they cautioned that some details needed further examination.
"There may be parts of this proposal where the industry disagrees, but we pledge to work closely with the administration and global policymakers on this vital topic," said George Miller, executive director of the American Securitization Forum.
The proposal assigns a key role to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which regulates the sale of securities. In addition to requiring increased disclosures about the contents of each security, the agency also would expand its database of corporate bond issues to include asset-backed securities. And the SEC would encourage the adoption of standardized contract language to reduce confusion and allow investors to compare securities more easily.
A second component focuses on the credit rating agencies, which have faced criticism for assigning their safest grades to hundreds of securities that ended up losing large portions of their value because they contained mortgage loans that borrowers could not afford. The proposal would require a clear distinction between the ratings assigned to asset-backed securities and other forms of debt such as corporate bonds. The agencies also would be required to disclose more information about their methodology, and about conflicts of interest. Generally, the agencies are paid by the company that issues the security.
The final component addresses financial incentives, for instance requiring firms to retain a stake in each security. The plan also would prohibit firms from hedging that risk, meaning that they could not make an offsetting investment. The European Union plans to adopt a similar requirement, an important consideration because firms could easily shift the sale of asset-backed securities to a less restrictive marketplace.
But some officials and financial experts still are skeptical about the requirement. They note that lenders often kept a piece of their securitizations during the housing boom, either as a desirable investment or because it could not be sold. This retained risk was a key source of the losses that crippled Citigroup and other banks.


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|2006-03-22, 00:18
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京都 ikitai~
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: massugu
Kyoto Animation's involved, so I'll definitely watch it. Hopefully the animation quality is up there with the work they did on Air. Anyone have a summary of what the series is about? It sounds like Thelastguardian did have a summary posted in this thread at one point, but the forum crash wiped it out.
Edit: After I posted this, I did find a couple sentences on Google that describe the plot...based on this I'm looking forward to seeing it even more, it's an interesting premise:
|2006-03-22, 02:07
|Link #22
Join Date: Nov 2003
/fanboy mode on
from my favourite author...
to locate a tiny flame of hope in the rubble and fan it madly with a big hat.
Therefore I am praising it as much as possible.
The novels are fun to read because they are written in an unique first person point of view.
Then again, they have no literature value whasoever. Light novels, indeed.
|2006-03-22, 05:36
|Link #23
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canada
Age: 33
It's another story with the English community though, of course.
Suzumiya Haruhi's unique point is that while it doesn't seem very deep on the surface (comedies abound with all the characters getting themselves into all sorts of situations. Haruhi seems to be nuts all the time, Mikuru-chan always getting abused, Nagato always... reading (and the guys doing whatever they do) and things seems to be revolved around a ridiculous school club created for a nonsense reason), it's actually dotted with memorable, dramatic moments (especially when they come in heavily contrasted against the usual comedy) that makes you snap to attention. And for me, that makes this novel more interesting to read than a novel that's always focused on drama.
I'm listening through the backlog of SOS-dan Radio Branch right now. Surprisingly interesting. ^^
|2006-04-01, 06:29
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Canada
Age: 33
It's coming tomorrow, it's coming tomorrow~ *waku waku*
Then again, this sakuga level... Kyoani doesn't disappoint here either.
I've listened to all the radio meetings (up to no.8 now), and I'm looking forward to the airing ^^
...M, Mikuru-chan's "teheri~"... That might be a little... dangerous...
|2006-04-02, 03:43
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Age: 38
Thanks Sushi-Y for the images
I just want to corect something I said >.<
The 8th volume of the seinen novel will not be released this april but on May 1st (1/5/2006).
The first volume of the new manga will be released on 26/4/2006.
This info should be correct since its according to the publisher :P
Anyway these images from this site:
The girls are so cute
Illustration from the novel maybe? Anyway I hope the anime's artwork is as good as these (I'm dreaming LOL).
|2006-04-02, 05:25
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Age: 33
As for the anime art quality, those screenshots in the picture I posted above are from the anime (hence my comment about the sakuga level).
Anyway, it's almost time for the airing. Too bad I probably won't see it until tomorrow.
|2006-04-02, 13:07
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Ahh I already mentioned the illustrator in the first post of this thread:
Yay Yay this is going to be great
|2006-04-02, 15:22
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Join Date: Jul 2004
episode 01 raw
And we have a winner!
One of the funniest single anime episodes I've seen. Your mileage may vary, since this kind of smart (?) Pythonesque absurdity is the humor I love best. The cat clinging to the witch's shoulder and continually almost falling off just about killed me.
humor: A
animation: A (Kyoto Animation!)
backgrounds: A
Chihara Minori as Yuki: A (She does a nice job with the ED, too.)
Gotou Yuuko as Mikuru: A++ (A match made in heaven.)
I've blogged the first episode, with some screencaps.
Please note the change of avatar/sig from Tamura Yukari (Kashimashi) to Gotou Yuuko.
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|2006-04-02, 19:38
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Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
Kyo-Ani does it again!
Bringing "Asahina Mikuru no Bouken Episode 00" as the first episode introduction is the best way to the craziness of Suzumiya Haruhi to people who haven't read the novel, yet a great way to bring out laughter to those who did. BRILLIANCE!!!
Other genga studios should definitely learn a lesson/tip or two on bringing and maintaining god-level sakuga qualities.
I just hope Asahina Mikuru's off-key OP (In my opinion, this was genius at work!! It totally brings in the "shitty amateur video" jive!!) doesn't put people off of a terrific show wwww.
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|2006-04-02, 19:54
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Anyway, the comedy level is quite high, though it's more to the fact that the movie and its making were portrayed as a quite ambiguous project. And due to its theme it manages to become a great mahou shoujo parody.
The character designs are pretty nice and animation is really good. What I liked the most were all the pans and the amateurish effects which exactly captured the essence of such a "fan/student"-made production. :)
Overall a highly unexpected but moreso an enjoyable watch. Definitely recommended, if only for the nice designs and animation and the characters. :P
|2006-04-02, 20:35
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Location: Canada
Age: 33
Omg that was amazing, I can't believe they actually went with volume 2's movie as the opener. Oh, and I laughed so hard at everything. Kyon's constant tsukko... I mean narration, Koizumi's bouyomi, the teachers busting onto the roof... everthing.
And excellent job with the "home video" look, they got the wobbly camera, awkward zooms, bad picture quality (and I thought it was the anime itself at first), bad cuts, outside interruptions... they even got the overexposure/underexposure effect (like the cherry blossom scene in the end).
It's scary, I'm already 100% certain I'll be buying the DVD for this when it comes out, if only for this episode.
The next episode seems like it's finally going to backtrack to be beginning, can't wait. ^^ (By the way, are we going to count it as episode 1 like Haruhi says, or 2 like Kyon says?)
|2006-04-02, 22:07
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|2006-04-02, 22:29
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I just had a brief look at 2channel, and there is certainly a lot of interest: over 1000 posts in the 12 hours since the show aired. But there are definitely two camps:
1. "This is stupid. What's going on, why is she in a bunny costume, is she a mahou shoujo? You must have had to read the novel to enjoy this."
2. "This is great. Hilarious. The surface may seem stupid, but there's really a lot there. I'm so excited."
Clearly not all Japanese understand the better class of Japanese humor, lol. This episode reminds me of the smart self-mocking absurdity of British shows like Monty Python and Absolutely Fabulous.
The decision to start with the movie was really genius, like kj1980 said. I've only read a bit of the manga, and found the way it started a little slow-moving. This way, you are drawn into the Haruhi universe right away.
If this keeps up, Ichigo Mashimaro will have a competitor as the funniest anime I've ever seen.
I vote for this being episode 1, and next week episode 2. It's not as if this is a prologue. In any case, it's easier to keep track of the number of episodes if we don't go all coder and number the first item number zero. The file I saw was called "The Unhappiness of Suzumiya Haruhi, episode 1: Asahina Mikuru's Adventure, episode 0."
Oh, and I have a question for kj or someone else: how to translate the title. Is it Haruhi who is melancholy/depressed/unhappy, or is it that she makes the people around her that way?
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|2006-04-02, 23:04
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Age: 33
2 = People who know something about the novel? Or maybe first-timers who just liked the episode?
For anyone who have read the novel, (at least, those who have read up to or beyond Suzumiya Haruhi no Tameiki (the second volume)) this first episode was pretty much pure brilliance. (To put it another way, those of us who are "interested" enough to follow the novels can all appreciate these kind of situational humors found throughout the series)
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|2006-04-02, 23:13
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I am mowing clowns
Join Date: Dec 2005
I'm quite new to the story, but I love the animation. The hand-held camera work was hilarious even from a visual stand point alone. The choppy cuts, people in the background holding up light cards, blurry camera shots, over-exposure/under-exposure, reaching for scripts (reminds me of my college days)….daring stuff for an anime. Just loved it. The preview animation looks awesome. From the brief snips of the preview (the stairwell scene), there seems to be nice depth & shadowing. Great character designs.
Does the cat really talk? Hope so. That would be a total bonus (for me).
|2006-04-03, 01:19
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京都 ikitai~
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: massugu
Wow...that has to be one of the most unique first episodes I've ever seen. Kyoto Animation has outdone themselves--can't wait to see this subbed, it was funny even watching it raw and I couldn't understand 95% of the dialogue. The reactions from the club members were priceless ^_^
|2006-04-03, 04:32
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|2006-04-03, 06:54
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Location: The Fields of High Attus
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Wow, I can't believe I ended up watching this, but I saw BluWacky's blogging on it and he said it was hilarious and unexpected (or something to that effect) - so I thought, why not just get the damn thing.
Gosh, did this air on April Fool's? IT would have fit the theme perfectly!
I am so surprised by the way they REALLY got the shitty-amateur-video thing across, it had me laughing throughout! A loooong time since a moe show has made me laugh... The lousy acting, the forgetting of lines, the teachers (that was hilarious!), the cat that almost fell off (I LOVE that cat, I can't wait to see more of it ), and... the reeeeheeaallly bad special effects
One of my favourite bits was the whole segment when Yuki was going to do something to Itsuki and then Mikuru appears and bumps into the pillar.... and then Yuki goes off, and while she's going off someone's closing a car door - that was brilliant! It really felt quite funny.
It's really great how they actually showed this in the anime, I haven't read the book but I actually want to watch at least one more episode to see wth this is about (and the general outline seems not bad, at least it's not harem... I hope)
Which is a great achievement, when's the last time I've enjoyed this type of show?!
And kj1980's right about how other sakuga studios should learn a bit from Kyoto - especially J.C. Staff! Look how much better the same illustrator's designs look here compared to Shana (well, I think they look much better-drawn here)
It may not be innovative animation ala Studio 4C and Satelight, but the key is that the animators seem to care about what they're doing and really put in effort to make it look like it should... GJ staff.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I liked the narration - halfway through: "Th-wait, you mean there's still another half to this?!" and earlier "Normally he'd call an ambulance or ask a bystander for help, but this young man is instead carrying this unconscious girl away like a princess in his arms, where does he think he's taking her, the bastard."
I also really liked the bit where Mikuru's classmates acted as zombies... "Sorry, Mikuru, but we've been, uh, kind of zombified, so..."
I don't know how much longer I'll watch it as I think at some point I'll start demanding more reality (I wonder if real high school students in Japan would do this... well, I wouldn't know), but hey, I stuck through all of Air, I'm sure I can stick through this... if its done well.
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The Damned Chapter 2 "The Soviet connection and The City of Saints" A humble start in a run-down former apartment block in Broker to the hanging steel and glass canyons of Algonquin, what started out as a vigilante group sworn to protect became the scourge of an entire city and her people. Breaking away from the dated and predictable biker traditions, The Damned acquired various business properties that functioned as "fronts" for illegal activity such as drug trafficking and street races. With this method of laundering cash and a crew of highly skilled mercenaries to protect the businesses, The Damned continue to penetrate the economy and infrastructure of America's greatest cities. This success came a very hefty price. How much is peace and prosperity really worth? Is it worth your family? Your friends? Your life? Spring 2010 Senior members of The Damned MC head out west to the state of San Andreas. Their intention was to secure a deal to patch over a Los Santos MC. This deal would allow the Liberty City based biker gang a foothold in the rising criminal paradise that "The City of Saints" had become. What happened that fateful night has never been revealed. The Damned MC`s representatives and the members of the Los Santos based MC were never seen again. No bodies recovered, no bikes, no cash, no weapons... nothing. For obvious reasons the location of the deal was not revealed before The Damned had left Liberty City, therefore no investigation legal or otherwise was initiated. Not that a legal enquiry ever would commence for the hardened biker types anyway. With their leaders gone, The Damned MC constructed a new hierarchy to rebuild the MC. The winter of 2011 had been kind to Liberty City, but you would be forgiven for not noticing that on the faces of the men caged inside the FIB compound. The Damned MC, the infamous biker gang out of Broker, had been set up. They had to be. Every angle was covered. Every dirty cop paid off. Every snitch and two-bit hooker in Liberty would not dare utter a word in condemnation of this group of cold blooded killers. Yet here they find themselves falling foul of the largest sting operation in decades. Kenny Petrovic ("The Russian"), the head of the crime syndicate that members of the gang had been involved with, had set them up. Forced to do a deal in order to secure extradition back to Russia, Petrovic gave the FIB the location of his next shipment of illegal arms coming in from the east. So it came to pass that foggy morning at a sleepy dock area in Bohan, The Damned MC were apprehended. Why the FIB were willing to let go a potential war criminal in favour of a biker gang was even more mysterious than the dimly lit building that the bikers found themselves entrapped in. A senior FIB agent soon revealed the true nature of why the bikers had been brought in. To fully understand what was going on, one must go back to the summer of 2010. You see, this was no longer an unorganized rabble of former war veterans that decided to say "f*ck you" to the system. After the disappearance of the original Damned MC members the remaining members, hammered and exploited by the other gangs of Liberty City, fell desperate. In their desperation they recruited a number of British, European, South American and African career criminals that had come to Liberty City to make a quick buck, like so many others had before them. Bank robbers, ex-military mercenaries, assassins and street racers. It would have been very difficult to imagine so many dangerous types of criminals all in the one place. The MC acted as a safe haven and a spring board into the Liberty City underworld for this new group. Alone on the street they could not have built up the resources and connections in such a timely manner as they did. This action would forever change the destiny of the outlaw biker gang. The Damned MC started to work with "The Russian," taking "scores" and carrying out assassinations. The purpose of these jobs did not matter to the new members of The Damned MC as they were only interested in making money, by any means necessary. This caused a divide amongst the old and the new members that had been brought in. Not happy with the methods and type of jobs the MC were now taking, many of the old guard of The Damned MC turned their back on the gang. With nobody to question their motives and actions, the new look Damned MC set about becoming the most feared and profitable criminal group in Liberty City. What The Damned MC did not know was that many of the jobs organized by Petrovic were actually funded by Russian terrorists. It was this activity that led the FIB to the capture of Kenny Petrovic and his subsequent surrender of his allies. With this information the FIB decision was not difficult. In The Damned MC the FIB had found themselves a group of highly skilled, expendable soldiers that had a control over parts of the criminal element in Liberty City that the FIB could only dream of. In effect they had taken down the shepherds. The rest were just mere sheep. As it turned out, the worst criminals in the city were the best guys for the job. The Damned MC was forced into co-operating with the FIB. Carrying out "black operations" and providing information on rival gangs in Liberty City. The MC were afforded an untouchable status. In order for the operation to work the FIB knew that they had to keep the illusion that the Damned were still a key entity on the streets. This brought some perks to being federal slaves. The Damned MC acquired various businesses without fear of FIB intervention. The ownership of these companies is disputed but no formal connection has ever been made. The reality is that these "fronts" launder money generated from The Damned MC`s activities but, along with ownership, no federal inquiry has ever been made into the legality of these businesses. On the surface a sweet deal, you might think. The reality however is far from sweet. As reluctant FIB agents, The Damned MC faced new dangers on both sides of the law. If the other gangs of Liberty City found out about The Damned MC status as FIB informants, any and all business relationships would be called off. The Damned MC would be outcast. If this happens then the FIB would have lost their link to the underworld and would have to pull the plug on "Operation Peace and Prosperity." In the FIB`s terms, pulling the plug means a bullet in the head of all involved. Who`s to say that the FIB did not have this in mind all along? If this ever became public knowledge there would be chaos on the streets of Liberty City. The members of the Damned MC found their life was not their own any more. Unable to trust the FIB, unable to call for help, unable to trust each other and living on borrowed time they had become truly damned. Fate it seems had another twist in store for the condemned members of the biker gang. The early months of 2013 brought around a so-called "unexpected" chain of events. The balance of secrecy and effectiveness of "Operation Peace and Prosperity" had become compromised. The other gangs of Liberty City had become suspicious. They were losing numbers and product at an alarming rate. The Damned MC, however, seemed to continue to profit without harassment from the police. If the FIB had foreseen this then they had made no effort to cover the situation. Mistakes were made. There`s an old saying, "loose lips sink ships" and in Liberty City there was plenty of loose lips. Rumours started to spread that the authorities were watching The Damned MC. Not knowing the full details of what was actually going on the mercenaries, the Mafia families, the casino runners, other MC`s and the Jamaicans took an air of caution and started to distance themselves from The Damned MC. Rendering the FIB`s secret weapon useless. This was a bad situation for the former Kings of Liberty. If the FIB had no further use for The Damned then it was thought that they would sever all connections. This would mean the assassination of all members of "Operation Peace and Prosperity" The FIB had other ideas. Sent to the west coast of America far away from Liberty City, the members of "OP&P" had been put on the witness protection program. It was as though the saints themselves had smiled upon these unworthy bringers of death. Given new identities and scattered across the sprawling desert metropolis that is Los Santos they await in a state of exile. Some do menial jobs such as mechanics and bouncers at strip joints. The ones lucky enough to have enough cash have retired. Some skilled members use their experience to work for the legitimate companies owned by The Damned. These include crop dusting, air and sea freight and the participation in legal races for the Damned race team. Times are hard in this world and already some of the members have dabbled in petty crime to make ends meet. Some just bored of retirement and the lack of action, wishing things to go wrong again. There`s another old saying. "You can take the lion out of the jungle but you cant take the jungle out of the lion". In a remote area of Blaine County, resting peacefully on his makeshift porch, the former chaplain of the Damned MC enjoys a gentle breeze on his face. He looks out over the desert at the pastel orange and pink sunset. A beautiful setting, much more than this enemy of humanity deserved. Lost in thought and with only a fine cigar and a bottle of Bourbon as company, the atrocities of Liberty City seem a lifetime away. A copy of today`s newspaper lies on the bench the top page flapping in the breeze. The date reads October 1st 2013. The call of an eagle so clear and recognizable is suddenly drowned out by the unsettling hum of an engine in the distance. A black Buffalo speeds towards the former preacher's trailer, two clouds of dirt rise in its wake. The preacher swigs at his bottle in preparation of what is to come and with an icy stare and a determined heart he mutters two words under his whisky tainted breath. Two words he thought would never be heard again. The Damned Chapter 1 "The worst place in America" The Damned Motorcycle club was established in the summer of 1973 by ex-war veteran Sergeant Jason Clarence Smith. The Damned MC, however, was not the original name of the club. The original name was The Guardians Motorcycle club. In 1972, dispatched from service, Smith returned to a very different Liberty City than the one he left eight years before. On his return to his native borough of Broker, still deeply scarred by his eight year stint which was full of heartbreak and shattered mayhem, Smith found the city he once loved had become ruled by dirty cops and mafia families. Feeling that he needed to fill the void in his life and do something about it, Smith gathered fellow war veterans and together they formed a vigilante group called the Guardians MC. By 1976 The Guardians MC were a fast and furious crew of bounty hunters sworn to protect the people. Riding their custom white choppers and living by a code of peace and prosperity which became the groups motto, they took back large parts of the city from the corrupt. Many of the dirty cops that plagued Liberty City began to hate the Guardians. The hate was derived from the fact that The Guardians had muscled in on the cop's protection rackets. Smith in return also hated the cops, he saw them as disgrace to the uniform. An honour that Smith held dear from his war days and the very drive behind the Guardians MC. Though every member seemed content with the success of The Guardians MC, the clubs vice president David Fitzko realized that he could take advantage of the gang and use its power and influence to control the people rather than protect them. Little did Smith know, Fitzko had ordered a hit on him. Setting up an ambush with the corrupt members of the LCPD, Fitzko and the cops took down Smith as he rode on his white Hexer in Cerveza Heights. With Smith out of the picture Fitzko gained automatic control of the Guardians MC. He took the club in new direction, going from the city`s white knights to the city`s worst nightmare. On the eve of Smiths death the Guardians held a meeting. At that meeting the members were given a choice. Join Fitzko`s new vision or be found at the bottom of the Humboldt river. When the patch over took place Fitzko made a mockery of the former biker gangs motto. "Peace and Prosperity! You want Peace and Prosperity….Well I say peace and prosperity be damned" Henceforth The Guardians Motorcycle Club became The Damned Motorcycle Club - The Damned MC Fitzko convinced gang members into believing that if they took down opposing motorcycle gangs The Filthy Fifty MC and The Yardbirds MC, they would be able to rule all of Liberty City. Hungry for power and money, The Damned MC declared war upon these gangs. Fitzko's plans were successful as The Damned MC were able to haul in a great margin of profits by killing key members and taking over their drug import business. In1986 these shipments brought about ties with Vercetti crime family in Vice City. War between the three Liberty city gangs raged until the spring of 1987 when the Filthy Fifty and the Yardbirds surrendered after the Damned had killed both clubs presidents. The Damned gained all turfs and profits of both clubs, reinforced by Fitzko`s idea that ruling with an Iron hand was the keys to Liberty City. The club invested in an automobile company that is still part of the gang's empire today and acts as a legitimate front. "The Damned Motor company" By the new millennium Fitzko and all the original members were dead. Whether it be from natural causes or a bullet to the head will never be known. The Damned MC faded into just a bad memory for Liberty City. Just when the city thought they would never be afraid again one man known on the streets as Strength, revitalized the gang and restored its previous infamy in 2010 The Damned Racing Team is one of the legitimate business ventures that The Damned MC invested in during their time in Liberty City. Run out of the Damned Motors company showroom the team compete in legal races and illegal street races. The showroom launders money and provides The Damned with modifications and customization of cars,trucks and bikes. Stolen vehicles and "loaded" vehicles are also dropped off and turned around for export by members of the race team. As of today no federal enquiry has been made into the activities of the The Damned Racing Team or The Damned Motor company. Avatars and Signatures worn by the Damned CODE http://i.imgur.com/nocWk.gif CODE http://i.imgur.com/wkrbE.gif CODE http://i.imgur.com/wkrbE.gif CODE http://i.imgur.com/4zxZb.gif CODE http://i.imgur.com/76emO.png Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Mayor Mike Duggan, police Chief James Craig and City Council members Brenda Jones and Andre Spivey announced the program Tuesday, saying that starting this week, police will notify the Detroit Land Bank when they conduct drug raids.
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Weekend Post #1: One Possible Measure of Success
It OKURed to me the other day how few lottery picks the Jazz have had. We might be a whole lot more successful than the Clippers, but between 1984 (the greatest draft of all time) and 2009, the Clippers had 18 Top 10 draft picks, to our one. Yes, one. It's not just about superstars or longevity: Chicago, despite having had Michael Jordan, had 17 Top 10 draft picks in that span.*
There are many ways to measure the success of an NBA team: attendance, revenues, Playoff appearances, championships, wins, dumbest bandwagon fans, jerseys sold, longest rap sheets, hottest wives, most All-Stars, etc. Today (not that I will be looking at the other measures on another day), I will look at which franchises have done the most with the least, i.e. which teams have done the best job of capitalizing on opportunity given via the draft, and which have squandered their opportunities. The flipside, of course, is which franchises have been able to (incredibly) find success without the draft.
First (1), I took a look at how many Top 10 draft picks* franchises had between 1984 and 2009. Second (2), for equalization purposes for expansion teams, I took into account how many years each team has been in the league. Third (3), the average win percentage of teams between 1984 and 2009 was introduced into the equation.
The results (click all images to enlarge):
In short, the house that Larry built–it's a real good one. Meanwhile, the Clippers are a miserable excuse for an NBA team. (This conclusion has nothing to do with Kaman getting picked for All-Star over Boozer, in case that's what you're thinking–I'm not a Boozer fan, and I could care less about the All-Star Game. While we're on this subject, however: for days, the Locked on Sports crew has been going on about how ridiculous [they think] it is that Kaman got the nod over Boozer. Now that Kidd got the call, I can't wait to hear them talk about how Boozer humiliated Kidd the last time the Jazz played the Mavs, and how Boozer is a thousand times better rebounder than Kidd.)
Thanks to C for the help with Excel.
*including Draft Day trades.
The same calculation run with the Top 15 (instead of Top 10) draft picks between 1984-2009:
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