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Have a few 5 IV Modest HA Squirtles with Dragon Pulse/Aura Sphere/Water Spout in stock
I'm looking for the following:
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5 IV Pokemon
0 Speed Female Aron
PM me with offers!
Have a few 5 IV Modest HA Squirtles with Dragon Pulse/Aura Sphere/Water Spout in stock
I'm looking for the following:
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Life Orb
5 IV Pokemon
0 Speed Female Aron
PM me with offers!
I have all the starters from all gens message me if you want one bred for you
I can breed a Squirtle for anyone who's keen. I'm looking for other starters or Pokemon not native to x and y.
My DS FC is 5215-0464-9046.
Ferroseed Forretress Klefki.
Manaphy for dex entry
5IV timid Eevee with HA
Vivillon patterns
Unown letters
Legendary Pokes
PM me if you're able to help out a fellow collector
I'm looking for a Squirtle with at least 5 Perfect IVs, excluding attack, for breeding purposes. Nature doesn't matter so much, but Modest would be nice.
I would very much like a Foreign one, such as Japanese, German, French, so I can use it to MM.
I have lots of 5IV Pokemon, so we can negotiate if need be.
Please PM with if an offer if you can.
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Credit goes to Transfuse for creating this wonderful image.
Friend Code: 1006-0289-8125
Type: Steel - Skarmory, Ferroseed, and Klefki
Current Shinies (Y only):
Fishing Chain:
x 2
Friend Safari
x 7
Frogadier x 5
x 4
Random Encounters
Eggs (No MM)
Eggs (MM)
Froakie - 98 Eggs
Trading all starters from all regions.
Looking for mega stones, and willing to trade up to 6 pokemon per stone!!
P,M me.
I have a whole bunch of squirtle as a result of MM'ing, variety of natures, can give them pokerus on request, not looking for anything special for them but I do need to fill my pokedex, currently need krabby, voltorb, pinsir, for kanto pokedex. Any non kanto pokemon welcome.
I have all starters except B&W ones which I can breed on request.
would greatly appriciate any legenendaries just for data entry. Pm me.
LF: Legendary 4 DE. Shinies
Spoiler:- For Trade:
Articuno Lv50
Zapdos Lv100
Moltres Lv70
Mewtwo Lv100 MsY
Mew Lv30
Raikou Lv40
Entei Lv41
Suicune Lv50
Lugia Lv86
Ho-oh Lv10
x3Celebi Lv10
Latias Lv100
Latios Lv40
Kyogre Lv50
Groudon Lv71
Uxie Lv65
Azelf Lv50
Mesprit Lv56
Regirock Lv42
Regice Lv65
Registeel Lv40
Cresselia Lv68
Kyurem Lv70
Terrakion Lv45
Zygarde Lv70
Xerneas Lv73
Heatran- Lv68
Spoiler:- For Trade:
Ditto Lv48SeriousJPN
Magmar Lv30CalmUK(FS)
Alomomola Lv35GentleSPA
Umbreon Lv83ImpishUK
*Im against hacked pokemon but not cloned.
Looking for a Squirtle, nature/evs/gender/level doesnt really matter
Friend Code : 0748-3208-3426 - Add me for Friend Safari! - XY[/B]
I'm looking for a Squirtle. I'm not bothered about it's nature, IV's, ability etc.
I can offer a level 1 Charmander.
If anyone is able to trade, please PM me.
Many thanks.
Good Day,
Maybe someone can help me with this. I'm trying to get a female Dreamworld/Hidden-Ability Squirtle, Wartortle or Blastoise. I need this for my breeding process. I am already trying to breed me a female one with the male Dreamworld Wartortle I got.
But If you read this, and you happen to have a female one lying around, Please let me know it would be a big help :-)
I've finally hatched a female Squirtle with the Hidden Ability, Rain Dish. So feel free to consider this case closed.
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...Bore me with you're legendary team; compliment me with your disconnect...
Hey guys I need a male squirtle w/ aura sphere and dragon pulse. Good IVs would be nice but it's not necessary. PM me and I'll tell you what I can offer.
3DS Friendcode: 5198-2496-8383
Have Squirtles available for trade with Dragon Pulse and Aura Sphere. Looking for a Choice Specs or any Power Item. Willing to include more pokémon with egg-moves or even a Mewtwo if you can trade me more than one Power Item.
Feel free to send me a PM if interested.
3DS 4382-2401-9157 | Miiverse, X-Box Live, Steam, Apple Game Center: Realinho
PGL profile: http://3ds.pokemon-gl.com/user/Q-403-9897-B/profile/Twitter: @RealinhoGaming
I need a timid squirtle with maxed out ivs and has the egg moves water spout and aura sphere
Looking for leftovers offering starter Pokemon.
Pokemon Y - 2766-9387-7732
Electric Safari - Emolga,Stunfisk,Manectric.
I have a 6 IV Shiny Modest Squirtle with egg moves Flail, Aqua Jet, Aqua Ring and Yawn for trade.
Name: Xeno
LF: Legit uncloned Shiny Squirtle (Pref lvl 1).
FT: Event Victini (liberty or V-Create) or Meloetta.
Looking for: Mew (Any), Shaymin (Any), Cresselia (Any), Zekrom (Any), Keldeo (Any), Genesect (Any).
Offering: Coballion, Heatran, Regigigas, Giratina, Azelf, Raikou, Mesprit, Moltres, Articuno, Zapdos, Entei, Lugia, Suicine, Deoxys, Rayquaza
Suicine, Raikou, Entei, Rayquaza all available in shiny form (Rayquaza shiny has been trained).
Most aren't event pokemon (except Deoxys/Shinies). If you offer me shiny pokemon you can take multiple of those offered.
I have Rain Dish Squirtle, if anyone's interested. Looking for Shinies and other Hidden Ability Starters (except for the Kalos Starters and Kanto Starters - I have all of those - and Speed Boost Torchic, Iron Fist Chimchar, and Defiant Piplup.). In essence, I'm still missing HA Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile, Treecko, Mudkip, Turtwig, Snivy, Tepig, and Oshawott. Those are the ones I'm missing in terms of Hidden Abilities; but if you have Shinies, I'll be willing to consider those, too. Just pm me if interested; my FC is in my sig.
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- Credit goes to Astral Shadow for this banner.
Looking for a rain dish squirrel with egg moves, dragon pulse and aura sphere. Nature or IVs aren't important. Have some pretty good pokemon to trade in return for it like flawlesses, shiny flawlesses and some events, pm me if interested, I really need this squirtle
Black- 1550 5635 4578. White 2- 0992 2115 3932
I have 3-5 31 max iv squirtles, with varying natures, some egg moves, and the torrent ability. I am looking for female starters (turtwig, chimchar, chikorita, treeko, totodile, torchic, oshowatt, tepig, ans snivy), dittos iv trained or not, orange flabebes, ocean/monsoon vivillon patterns, shinys, and a bunch of other easier stuff. PM me for offers and details!
My friend safari: Muk, Serviper, and Venomoth
PM me anytime for anything
ive got hidden ability squirtles for trade
my friend code is 5386-9635-6919
IGN Coty
Modern pattern Vivillion
I just got my game and started it a little while ago. looking for a squirtle with egg move aura sphere. I don't have much to trade just pm me.
Friend Safari: Aipom, Kecleon, Chansey
Shiny lvl 100 Adamant Blastoise with Torrent ability.
Skull Bash, Iron Defense, Rain Dance and Hydro Pump
It is from Unova.
Offers please ^^
No longer looking thank you
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Hi. Can anyone hook me up with a squirtle? I just want one low level so I can play the game wih my two favorite pokes. (Squirtle and charmander)


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Karma That Years Later Is Biting My ExI fell madly in love in 1997. We got married and was living apart while he completed his naval school. I had moved to,Tx with his family. Things were very stressful and I miscarried a baby I didn't know at the time I was pregnant with. I told my husband and he didn't seem to care at all. I ended up in the hospital down there and the navy had to fly him to the hospital. The hospital told my husband I have been under too much stress and am depressed. My husband asked the nurse if she could guarantee him that my depression would never come back. She said no that she couldn't.He said he couldn't jeopardize his military career. At that point, he took his wedding ring off, told me wanted a divorce and I never saw him again. I was literally abandoned and the pain of losing him I never felt such pain in my life. I cried almost non-stop for several weeks and then after a couple of months, about once a week for a good year. I couldn't believe he abandoned me, his family had and I literally had noway home. Except a patient t hat was getting released the same day as me, offered to take me with her.
My husband wouldn't even get me a bus ticket home and my father ended up getting me one. I tried to get him to work it out,due to loving him and he refused. After 6 months, I filed for divorce. I told him I'd always love him and we were divorced a year later. Over the duration of 10 years when I'd think about it and not knowing how he could treat the one that loved him the most how he did, I'd cry. I met my current husband 3 years ago and when I told him the story,I broke down crying and told him it was the worse pain I had to go through. The very next day, I get an email. His wife wanted to chat with me. Her words to me were, he has been going through a lot of karma. She said, he married after me and his wife took everything of theirs, ran up credit on him,etc. So his 3rd wife being the current, told me that he got into trouble with the military due to her drugs,going to prison for 2 years and he had gotten busted back a rank. He contacted me a few days later to say he was sorry for how he treated me and that he and his wife split up. I told him he hurt me bad and he had been the love of my life.
Well he said he and his wife weren't getting along and she left him and told me to come down there. I said, sure.lol. Two days later, they both respond to say it was a joke to see if I'd do it. I guess he thought he could hurt me badly. However, after talking to his wife online for a few days and her telling me what a bad husband and father he is, I knew I didn't miss out on anything. For me it was good karma to get closure by realizing he would've never been the husband I thought he'd be had he stayed with me. A year has since passed since they contacted me and I read on his face book that he is getting kicked out of the military on October 3rd, my birthday of all times. He ended up losing his career of 13 years, but am glad he can't say it was because of me. Perhaps him putting his career before me, judging me and never giving us a chance as a married couple, have been his karma. It took 10 years to see him get it, but it does definitely come around.
My ex treated my badly too. I let him back in my life because I'm a nice person, but he's hurting me again, mentally. I've been so patient with him and gave him a chance. What should I do?
Ever since 2009 when my son's father cheated on me, put me in jail for catching him then why I was in jail he changed the locks on the doors to our house, so I couldn't retrieve any of my belongings. About six months later He took me yo court for full custody of our son, not once but twice. This wen't on for over two years! It was complete hell for me. Since then he has gotten married and lives in a 300.000 plus thousand dollar house, and has had several new vehicles. When will CARMA bite this ******* in the ***? I'm sick of watching him flourish!!
To: the1codex

You know, most men will put on the high and proud mentality, they do not realize that it comes with a cost. It costs more they are willing to pay. Your post clearly are similar of the words I have wanted to speak. Believe me, you will one day find a husband worthy of keeping you. You keep your chin up, may Jesus bless you always.

This is to: Coolchic101

I wanted to tell you that you have done a great service to one person. That person is you. You also helped a wounded human, that human is your neighbor, they can be yourself, or the person next to you, and vice versa. You will always get something good coming back 10 fold. Believe me, one day a good man will sweep you off your feet. You will be so open to him. Soon you will be married one day. having a happy family with dreams that are endless.

I hope and pray you take care and most importantly of all. Keep the good fruits shining.

My ex-boyfriend, the first love of my life. It took me a long time to get over him. I thought we had a future together but he was so unstable, it wasn't meant to be. He broke up with me and regretted it. We had reconnected through facebook after 13 years. He told me he had many failed & unhealthy relationships (he tried to compare his ex-girlfriends with me), has anger issues, his roommate stole from him, got injured in the military, gained weight, moved back home with his parents. He told me he regret breaking up with me that I was the one for him. He told me I was a good & beautiful person with a good heart. The karma was that he went through hell. I still love him but I can't be with him because he's mentally and financially unstable so there is no future between us.

He has tried many times to pursue me and contact me after my divorce from my ex-husband but I just end up ignoring his emails. He needs to find his own life.

My ex-husband is a cheater and an abusive man. More mentally and verbally abusive. I can't say he was physically abusive because he has only layed his hand on me a couple times out of anger. I was his only girlfriend so he didn't know how to have a relationship with me because he was inexperienced but that doesn't mean he could still go out cheating on me.

He felt justified for his infidelity and he shows no remorse for what he did. He is selfish. I had a child with him. Our child is torn between us. My ex had to move back home to Europe because he wasn't legal in the US. When he lost his job and his visa, that was when we got married. We kept postponing his green card. Something was always preventing me to postpone working on his green card and now I know my answer. Despite all this, I was the one who often strived to salvage our marriage but he sat there and did nothing. I learned that we can not make someone do something against their will. I am still in pain and depressed over this man. You think that after a divorce it's all over. Well it's never "over" when there is children involved.

My ex is trying to make me feel like a bad parent and he will try to fight for custody for our son. Our son lives with me in the US. He sends me negative vibes (which are draining) and he is negative and uncooperative in his emails, if I do not say what he wants to hear. I talked about karma to him in the past and what he said was scary like he says he is invincible to it. People eventually reap what they sow.

I have gotten good karma. I experienced it and it is great feeling. Maybe because I try to do good and fair things. I went out of my way to help strangers and to do random acts of kindness. I also try to go above and beyond from what is expected from me. It's the little things we do to help others and brighten up their days, helps bring a little peace into the world.
If you loved him you'd wish him well.
That is the biggest misinformation ever to be given....BS... she did love him...and he abandoned her...she does not have to wish him well to prove her love...by the way karma is not about wishing people ill...it is about people getting what they dished out just because the universe decided it was time...oh and thier own stupid behavior!
Wow! What a story!

I hope you are very happy with your husband now .


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…underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Here's the strategy:
(1) Presidents Truman and Clinton won re-election by complaining about their Republican-controlled Congresses.
(2) Obama wants to win re-election.
(3) Therefore he and the Democrats are complaining about their Republican-controlled Congress.
Only thing is—Democrats are in the majority in one house of the legislature, the one known as the Senate. The Democrats' argument is that Republicans "control" that house by the use of the filibuster. They don't, any more than any minority party with 40 or over seats in the Senate "controls" it; their power is limited to blocking legislation. If "control" is now defined as "having over 60 Senate votes in order to invoke cloture," then surely the Democrats are closer to "control" of this Senate than the Republicans are, and to say otherwise is sophistry.
But apparently Democrats are counting on the fact that "polls taken over the last several years show that many voters are unclear which party runs the House and/or Senate." In other words, the people may be getting the government they deserve.


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Paul Morrison is a 52-year-old radio personality who was just enjoying a normal life when one day he found a lump in his throat. That's a terrifying moment for anyone, but it's especially terrifying for someone who uses his voice for his livelihood. Paul shares how rebuilding his life since cancer has helped him take everything, big and small, less seriously.
Two years ago, I was just living my life like everyone else: going to work every day, raising the family, enjoying life. Then one day, I felt a lump in my neck. I knew what that could mean, but I didn't want to jump to conclusions, and I certainly didn't want to scare my wife and kids. So, I went through the process of seeing some doctors on my own without talking to anyone first. Unfortunately, it wasn't a little thing; it was stage four throat cancer. At that point, I had no choice but to talk to my kids and my wife and tell them what was happening.
At first, the doctors didn't know whether they wanted to do surgery or chemo. The cancer was pretty deep in my left tonsil. When they did the PET scan of my whole body, they found that it had already metastasized to my lymph nodes, but it had not traveled below the collarbone. The docs said if it had gone below my collarbone, there wouldn't have been much they could do for me. Fortunately, it stayed above my shoulders, so we went after it with 35 radiation treatments and seven weeks of chemo. And I lost 85 pounds in 100 days. It was a crazy time, but I had my family, my friends and my community to support me. I'm not a religious person, myself, but I also had spiritual support from people in the community, which I appreciated.
One person I made friends with in this process is the senior pastor of the local First Christian Church. Brad and I have since become very good friends, and we have deep philosophical and theological discussions often. It's interesting because we come from very different perspectives, but we actually see things similarly.
In your life, you have moments that shake you—say somebody in your life passes away or a traumatic event happens, even on a national level such as 9/11. And in those moments, you have clarity of thought. Everything is clearer. Your perspective is changed—it's all in line. But, the farther you get away from that event in time, the more that clarity kind of fades away and you once again get caught up in life and the web of just doing your day-to-day stuff. But the thing about cancer—cancer is that same moment of clarity every day for a year. When faced with that reality, it's a profound experience.
I wasn't really scared for myself; I was just terrified about how this was going to impact to my family, my kids, my wife. What would it do to them? That's when you realize the important things in life and the things that aren't important. Those unimportant things just go away. They aren't even on the back burner anymore. They're gone. Now, I fill my life with the things that matter and the people I care about and the people who care about me and who bring me great, positive energy. As it turns out, I am surrounded by great people with positive energy who have helped me through this. And the doctors did a miraculous thing and saved my life.
We had some friends who came to me feeling helpless. They wanted to help, but in this situation, their hands were tied as to how to help. They decided the best way to show their support was to pay for things, so they put together a fabulous benefit at a great local venue in town and pitched in their time and money for the evening. It was a terrific event, but the money they raised was secondary compared to the love from all of the people there. I also got to see firsthand the people's lives I have touched, and that's more important than the money.
The nature of the radio business is moving around and bouncing from station to station, but my wife and I really wanted to have a stable environment for our kids, so we wanted just one place to call home. We set up house here in this community and have stayed here for years. There's no substitute for heritage and the time you spend with people and the events you share with them. Those are the things that you can't replace. You can't buy that experience.
It was not lost on me the similarity with the movie "It's a Wonderful Life." It's that same kind of moment I was talking about earlier—it's the clarity. In that movie, George doesn't know what to do, but then, he gets that moment of clarity and he has that perspective to see what matters—and that's what life's all about.
Since the cancer, I smile and laugh a lot more than I used to. I smile and laugh at things that I used to frown and scowl at. It's a different perspective. It's not that those things aren't important to me, but I just don't take them as seriously anymore. The things that bring me down in life—I have to categorize those things. The little irritants no longer matter. The woman in line at the grocery store with 17 items in the 15-item line—that just doesn't matter anymore. It's okay. I'm going to live if she has two more items.
I'm still a radio announcer. That was one of the most miraculous things. When they first told me it was throat cancer, I thought, "I'm going to lose my voice, and that's my money." The doctors said I could have a feeding tube or I could keep trying to eat through my mouth, which would continue exercising my throat. So I didn't get a feeding tube. I just forced myself to swallow and use my throat. The benefit of using my voice for 30 years I think helped my throat recover. I was out of work for three months, and I really couldn't talk, but then, it slowly came back a little at a time. It's not all the way back, and probably never will be 100%, but it's pretty close.
It's a job that I love to do, so it's really easy for me to get up and go to work in the morning. I like talking to the people on the radio, I like the people I work with, and I actually start work even before I leave the house. I get online and look at some work sites while I'm drinking my coffee. I take it pretty easy, and I don't go to work until 10, so that gives me time to spend with my daughter as she's getting ready for school and with my wife as she's getting ready for work. I have some coffee, oatmeal or scrambled eggs and then head into the station.
I'm a big believer in results-based work: do what you're supposed to do and the rest of your time is not all for work. It's about balance. I work to live; I don't live to work. I work so I can spend quality time with my kids and my wife and my friends and doing the things that I enjoy.
At first, the cancer knocked me down, and I couldn't exercise. I did a lot of lying around, recovering. Now, I'm more active. I spend a lot of time in the outdoors. Less of it is for the sake of exercise and more of it is to just be outside in nature. I like to walk in the park, play disc golf with my son, walk my dogs in the woods behind our house, go mushroom hunting—things like that.
I've made a conscious decision to not do things that I don't want to do. I'm more concerned with how I spend my time than how I spend my money. I live a peaceful and happy life now.


text: Dear Morris and others, to make things maybe less clear but for sure easier to live with: methods like yeast transformation (at least the spheroplast one) are quite often rather insensitive to O.D.. I suspect that the main reason why people bother to measure O.D. is that, in a written text, a number looks much better than "I could not see the windows of the nearby building when looking through the culture flask". With a bit of training, the latter technique works at least as well as real O.D. measurement. :-) Fatima


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I guess my daughter's Fine Arts skills are rubbing on to me! Every day she has something new to show. Looking at her enthusiasm, after ages I dug into my art stash and did something worthwhile…its not complete yet but I am getting there.
It all started with helping out my daughter and a chance workshop with Smt. Shanti Devi a while ago. Let me introduce Smt. Shanti Devi – a renowned 'madhubani' artist, painter, crafter who specializes in Mithila painting (also known as Madhubani paintings). Learning the art form under her tutelage was a great experience… the techniques, the details, the nuances and the PATIENCE … just the push I needed to set the ball rolling and to kick alive the dormant creative cravings!
The vibrancy of colours in her paintings is indescribable. And her tenacity towards her work is so infectious that anyone can learn under her guidance. I feel so lucky and privileged to have her as my 'guru' while I attempt my first Mithila painting.
The base drawing is a simple line drawing but it is intricate and tedious. After three days of dedicated work…this is where I am at the moment… a little different (from the original) but not bad for a first timer.
It seems simple in terms of drawing but most first timers in this art form, may lose perspective…I did it while trying to adjust the four 'cows' (check out the bottom right corner of the original)! I ended up with space just enough for one!
I shall post the picture when it's done…until then enjoy the original by Smt. Shanti Devi.


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No stars. We used to go here all the time but since they "renovated" and all the waitresses were stuffed into mini skirts so short you can see their underwear sticking out from the bottom of their skirts- we haven't been back. I've even called the manger to complain. He said he hadn't received any complaints. Well this is my complaint. Are we the only ones who feel this way?
Went to dinner there with my girlfriend tonight. The service was great and the food was great! We had the med bread appetizer which was fantastic. We had a variety of the cocktails available and they were perfect. Our entrees were promptly served and better even than they were described in the menu. We would definitely go back the next time we are in Thunder Bay.
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Girls Rock! DC is excited to offer all volunteers payment in the form of a stipend for their time and labor during this summer's programming, including We Rock! Camp and our youth summer camp! By offering stipends for the first time, we hope to make volunteering at GR!DC's programs more accessible to adults who otherwise would be financially barred from the experience, especially people of color and of other historically marginalized identities.
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Douglas County commissioners are ready to pump public money into installation of a new water pipe designed to enable construction and operation of a new warehouse for Berry Plastics northwest of Lawrence.
Commissioners approved an agreement Wednesday to finance the installation of waterline along the Farmer's Turnpike, between East 700 and East 800 roads. The pipe, to be 6 inches in diameter, will replace one 4 inches in diameter and be about 5,000 feet long.
The line will supply a warehouse now under construction for Berry Plastics, which has a manufacturing complex at the northern edge of Lawrence for making cups and other plastic products. The warehouse will be at 670 N. 1800 Road.
Commissioners already had agreed in February to provide $431,000 in incentives to the warehouse project, expected to result in an additional dozen jobs at Berry Plastics but also open up room for more employees within the main plant.
That internal space, in turn, could provide enough room for another production line or other upgrades to keep the complex a major player in Lawrence-area employment for years to come, said Nancy Thellman, county commissioner.
"It'll keep them a viable manufacturer in the community, rather than becoming obsolete," Thellman said.
The county's investment in the line will come out of the $431,000, a fund also expected to finance road improvements associated with the project. A grant from the state also will help pay for the waterline, Thellman said.
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Douglas County commissioners agreed Wednesday to give owners of the former Masonic Temple in downtown Lawrence a rebate on their additional property taxes during the next decade, freeing up money to help make the building's renovation a reality.
The county still will receive its full share of the current property taxes paid on the building at 1001 Mass., payments that will not change for the next 10 years.
But the property taxes produced by an estimated $800,000 in upgrades to the building will be rebated following a scheduled already endorsed by Lawrence city commissioners: Consolidated Properties would retain 95 percent of those taxes in the first year, then 90 percent in the second year and on down each year until the rebate was 50 percent in the 10th year.
After that, payments on the entire property tax bill would go to local governments in full.
The building is to be renovated for use by Maceli's as a catering and events venue.
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Another Explanation for the Hachette Delays
Has anyone paused to consider how difficult and expensive it would be for Amazon to delay the shipment of certain books by certain publishers? It would be a massive pain in the ass!
What is almost certainly happening with the delivery time of Hachette's books is that Amazon isn't keeping its predicted sales quantity in stock. One of the major advancements in retail over the past several decades has been the move to on-time delivery. It means an order for new product is made before it's needed, so the product spends as little time warehoused as possible. This ability is worth billions; it is expensive to develop and hone; and it's a service that Amazon provides to all of its retail partners. Hachette and the rest of the Big 5 can't possibly appreciate what this skill entails nor how much they benefit from Amazon's expertise in this area.
When Amazon stopped stocking predicted sales quantities, that put the shipping burden on Hachette, a company that's dreadful at delivering at high speeds. They haven't had to master this skill. Amazon has done it for them. Hachette author Michael Sullivan suspected the shipment delays were from Hachette's end and not Amazon's. He asked his publisher for shipping invoices. Hachette refused to provide this information to its author. The delays are far more likely to be Hachette's fault, not Amazon's.
A bit of an aside here to tell you what ordering books was like at the last bookstore I worked for. We had several sources for books. We could order from one of the major distributors like Ingram or Baker & Taylor and get the books within three days. The discount was generally around 40%. We could also use NACS (the National Association of College Stores). This was like shopping on Amazon, with a great website (but horrible search ability). These books might come in two days. The discount was also around 40%. Most of our orders went directly to publishers.* This got us the best discount by far — from 45% to 50%, depending on the publisher, title, and quantity. These books took at least a week to arrive, usually longer. Often, it was two weeks. By the time these books arrived, I barely remembered having ordered them.
The ordering process was also bizarre. To order books, you called an actual person and read off the ISBN and quantity for each book you wanted. Seriously. It was my least favorite task at the bookstore. It could take half an hour to place a large order. Half an hour of saying numbers to a stranger. And every tenth book, they'd say that the book was no longer available. You didn't know until you ordered. Two or three years ago, publishers started moving toward an online ordering system, which I worked to get us on, but this wasn't much easier. It meant typing out all the numbers and delimiting them with commas. You'd have to see this process to believe it. I certainly didn't. I assumed we were the only bookstore in the world that still did this. I couldn't believe there were full-time jobs for people to sit there and take phone orders for books.
Back to Hachette and Amazon: Imagine what it would mean for Amazon to purposefully delay orders. You have an entire network of distribution centers, warehouse pickers, packing/shipping/trucking processes, and in order to spite a company you're in negotiations with, you begin artificially delaying shipment of only certain copies. So into this complex machinery of sending out products all over the world, you toss this wrench: "Yo, keep moving products as quickly as humanly possible. Unless it's a book by Hachette, in which case slow the process down."
Someone pointed out that this could be done digitally, but why go through the trouble? Why not show the publisher what the customer experience would be if Amazon wasn't there to predict the orders and handle the shipping? That's what my boss and I did at our bookstore. We watched inventory levels and made our publisher orders a week in advance to minimize our out-of-stock time. Rather than an artificial delay, it's far more likely that Amazon adjusted the predicted demand for Hachette titles, maybe even to zero. So here's a hypothesis that explains both the delayed shipping and the removal of pre-order buttons: Amazon isn't certain it will be selling Hachette books in the near future.
Think about it. A pre-order is a guarantee of a future transaction. It would be remiss for Amazon to offer pre-orders for items it won't legally be able to sell when they eventually become available. It would also be remiss for Amazon to stock millions of dollars worth of inventory it won't legally be able to sell in the near future and would have to return at great expense. The moment Amazon realized negotiations were breaking down (as their press release recently intimated), they had to reduce their exposure to Hachette inventory. That means reducing future sales, which is what pre-orders and predicted warehouse quantities represent.
These moves by Amazon might be less about spite and more about pragmatism. Even legality. That book you pre-ordered from us two months ago? We no longer have a sales relationship with that manufacturer. Here's your refund.
Both major moves explained by a probable and unbelievable reality: Soon, there may not be any Hachette books on Amazon at all.
*Two reasons for placing most of our orders directly with publishers: The first is that bookstores make most of their margin in that 3-5% they save. The second is that returns to publishers for unsold frontlist titles can be as high as 50%, but you can only return a percentage of what you order. Placing all backlist and re-stock orders through the publisher padded this number to make sure we never fell outside of our returns margin.
There will be plenty of Hachette books, Hugh. Of course, they'll be from used book sellers and authors won't see a penny…
Other retailers need to step up and start promoting all their Hachette titles so authors and readers don't suffer. Walmart is doing this and has seen a 70% increase in profits.
Not exactly accurate, not profits:
"Walmart sales of print books (not including e-books), were up 70 percent since Tuesday, according to the company." This doesn't really mean much, 70% from what?
Fingers crossed that comes true! It would probably be a dip in sales for authors to start with, but should be great for independent book stores and would help wake customers up to the fact that Amazon isn't "The Everything Store" it claims to be.
Are you serious? This is a parody/troll comment right? I thought so!
Indie bookstores are thriving, their numbers have been steadily increasing. Anyone in the industry (except for those who cannot untangle themselves from the traditional publishers, including agents), knows this issue is because Hachette want to bring back agency pricing to protect their print book sales. Agents and authors can't come out publicly against Hachette but plenty are in private.
Amazon offered to fund 50% on an author compensation pool and Hachette pissed on it. They couldn't give a shit about their authors and a lot of them are very, very upset with Hachette.
All I can end with is – keep blaming Amazon when it's the future that's happening here. Companies that exploited authors for decades are in denial and still think they are relevant. The truth is they need to massively change/adapt to the future or they'll just die off.
Actually, Amazon offered 70% and asked Hatchette to chip in with the other 30%. Otherwise, you are correct.
I do wonder what the actual current shipping times for Hachette books are. Often Amazon shows shipping delays for an item and it arrives much faster than they predicted. But I only buy ebooks so I can't test this one. :)
I agree with most of what you've been posting on the hatchett/amazon thing. But I think you're wrong about the difficulty of delayed shipping. They already delay orders by a day or two for non-prime customers who choose free shipping. It's not much of a stretch to think they could do this by title.
Fedex does the same thing. I see it in tracking all the time. Pay for 3 day letter? It almost always arrives at the destination next day and they let it sit in the warehouse marked "not due for delivery" for 2 more days before putting it on the truck.
That is understandable for FedEx, since you often have to sign for a package. If I pay for something and it says it is coming on a Tuesday, I don't want it showing up early, I want it on Tuesday.
Why don't you want your packages showing up early? I can understand for a TV or a refrigerator but why for a book?
Yes! Amazon is a distributor. If there is no contract between amazon and hatchette then they are NOT Hatchettes distributor. I have been saying all weekend at Concarolinas
Now that's a chilling thought. There are a ton of Hachette authors (from various houses, but most notably Orbit) my life feels richer with.
I admire Hachette for playing hardball with Amazon on this, but I fear for how well it will ultimately serve their authors and business. I'm hoping Amazon blinks first.
One thing Hachette could do to undercut Amazon immediately – offer e-books on its website and reduce prices to more realistic levels. Problem solved!
So… I ordered an e-book directly last week, from the Hachette website. They merrily took my money and gave me a download link. Clicking the link tells me that the ebook has yet to be published. The problem I have is that the download link is valid for 14 days, but the ebook is published in 16 days. And there was no mention that the ebook was yet to be published when I placed the order. I still don't know if I'll be able to download it when it does get published. And if I do manage to download it? I have to strip out the DRM so I can read it on my Kindle. I totally regret buying directly from this publisher and will be purchasing all future books from Amazon again.
Annnnnnd that's what you have to look forward to when you deal with publishers directly, which is why they will never beat Amazon. They're simply incompetent. If they could do better, they would have already. The people hoping for a rally from trad pub are really deluding themselves (and they're mostly trad pub authors who will be out of jobs if they keep betting on the wrong horse.)
You're operating under the assumption that Hachette would be happy to sell books at those "reduced", "realistic levels". History shows this to be untrue.
-In September of 2012, Hachette raised ebook prices for libraries 220% on most titles, more on other titles. There are some titles that libraries must pay $100 each for – and they're EBOOKS.
-Just this past Wednesday, Hachette raised ebook prices for libraries in France 300%, and removed the ability for the library to lend the book to three people at a time.
-Don't forget that Hachette was part of the DoJ collusion suit, in which Hachette and others were illegally attempting to price-fix ebooks at a much higher price. Hachette settled.
Hachette isn't interested in reduced prices. It wants higher prices – MUCH higher, if their library antics are any indication. How would you like to pay $35+ for a digital ebook?
Except that the whole reason for the dispute between Hatchette and Amazon is that the publisher will never do that. They want the highest prices they can charge for their books, no matter the cost to authors and readers.
Wait, I'm confused…people thought anything different at any point in time since this whole issue started?
I thought the original kerfluffle was because Hachette was already delaying the shipment of books to Amazon which is why they pulled the pre-orders and started delaying current books in the first place?
It reminds me of the saying: never attribute to malice what can be explained as ignorance (incompetence, etc). So many people are ready and willing to make Amazon the bully, or make Hachette the bully – when there are issues on both sides of the line, and at the end of the day it does come down to a purely business decision. Hugh is right when he says that Amazon won't want to take orders for items that they may not be able to sell in the future. It's just more hassle for Amazon to take those orders, then potentially have to refund them all (and deal with customers who are grumpy because "I paid for this book, so I demand that you send it to me!").
Saw you speak at the BEA self-publishing expo this weekend–really enjoyed your panel, so thank you!
As someone who has worked in tech and e-commerce for many years, my jaw dropped when I read how you had to place orders at a bookstore. So inefficient!
I'm not saying Amazon is doing this, but it would be quite trivial for them to delay fulfilling Hachette orders. Their fulfillment systems are sufficiently advanced that they can delay the "pick" for any item or order they choose for as long as they like. They already do this by prioritizing Prime and Paid shipping over free shipping orders.
It's no surprise that Hachette flexes its massive media muscle to roll out a news campaign slanted against Amazon during negotiations (even NPR's generally neutral coverage was surprisingly anti-Amazon). Most disturbing to me is that writers and authors allow themselves to be the ones to deliver that slanted message in personal, emotional appeals. Amazon and Hachette are both huge corporations, and business is business. They have no emotions.
Hugh, you are making entirely too much sense. Here, have a nice cold glass of Kool-Aid and when you're done drinking it, maybe you'll be as confused as some of the other media reporting this problem. ;)
I'd want to see substantiation of the delay for free non-prime that you that you mention. My own guess would be that free non-prime orders tend to go via slower cheaper shipping. And I can imagine that prime might get priority in picking.
As far as FedEx and other shippers, as johnmonk indicates, delivery ahead of specified date/timeframe is not always desirable. Imagine trying to arrange shipment/delivery of some hot in-demand item, say a new J K Rowling Harry Potter book, which is quarantined/embargoed for availability on a given date. Clog/overload the system (and pay dearly for the privilege) and ship all copies simultaneously, if even physically possible… or spread them out over a more reasonable/affordable span of time, have them accumulate at the shipper's destination warehouses, then get delivered on the release date? It makes sense that sellers want and shippers offer a variety of timeframes, costs and degree/specificity of control.
That was in reply to joshua. Sorry, lag between entering and hitting submit.
Favorite authors should not have to fall into the position of public relations/defense for Amazon. It is a two headed coin. Amazon is doing what they are doing for business reasons, but Hatchette is experiencing it as financial pressure. The crux of the problem is Amazon's PR on this particular matter- failure to explain what is going on.
I am a Macmillan author who still remembers when Amazon pulled all the buy buttons off Macmillan books a few years ago. It hurt authors and it felt like Amazon threw us under the bus.
If, as you say in other posts, Amazon is so good at what they do managing physical book distribution, I don't believe that they are incapable of delaying just Hachette books.
I wouldn't read anything into the publisher's refusal to give Michael Sullivan the shipping slip. You try to use it as proof that they are doing something wrong, but my guess is that it's simpler than that: publishers hate (hatey hate hate hate!) giving authors information, especially information they don't usually get.
I have no love for the big publishers. Over the years, my royalty statements have gotten less and less specific. Oh, that error I found last year–the report now shows the data in a way that it would never be apparent. How convenient for them. That has happened over and over again.
In general, they treat most of their authors horribly–like a nuisance–and deserve all the pain they're suffering. They don't understand the digital world, and will continue to be thrashed by companies that do. But Amazon is no angel. They're a predatory monopoly that has no qualms about mistreating authors the instant it serves their purposes. Case in point: the recent huge royalty cut on audiobooks.
A year or two ago, Amazon also cut off affiliates without warning in states that wanted Amazon to pay sales tax, truly harming people who had built a business on Amazon affiliate programs.
Amazon loves to throw its weight around and doesn't think twice about hurting individuals who get caught in the crossfire.
I only wish the big publishers were getting thrashed by a company that wasn't so evil.
I was reading that when that happened with Macmillan, Amazon offered the same fund to help authors affected, to fund it with 50%, and the publisher was supposed to pay the other 50%. Did you get any compensation?
@ Larry: You are absolutely correct. Amazon has a complete monopoly and in no way competes with the likes of Waterstones, WH Smith, Barnes & Noble and its subsidiaries, and Books-A-Million and its subsidiaries. And that's just in the book retail market. /s
I do t think the exact mechanism matters, whether Amazon is delaying shipments from its warehouse or reducing orders to Hachette. Either way, Amazon knew what the effect would be and intended it to happen.
I also don't think it's a coincidence that the preorder buttons were removed a day or two after the story broke in the news. Having the dispute out in the open probably made Amazon feel freer to take more obvious steps like refusing preorders.
Amazon is to some extent being vilified for its own competence. Immediate delivery and preorders were UNKNOWN in publishing before Amazon. Hachette certainly can't manage that on their own, not because of Amazon, because publishers are generally pretty bad at their own business.
Amazon pioneered all these things which publishers and authors have come to rely on. But these have been provided for free to publishers. Maybe Amazon is playing hardball– but everyone should remember that Amazon invented these, and provides them to the benefit of publishers. They do have every right to use this as a bargaining chip, because it wouldn't exist if not for Amazon.
Hardball. Publishers are used to being the biggest frog in the pond– squatting on authors, booksellers, readers. Now there are bigger players, Apple and Amazon to start with. And of course the publishers react cravenly. They haven't actually ever had to compete on a level playing field.
I think its hilarious and ridiculous how many people are calling Hachette or Amazon "evil" or thinking they are withholding copies just for spite. I worked in auto insurance for many years and for all those people that think insurance companies do whatever they can to not pay you, that's a load of crap. It's a hell of a lot easier to just pay it and move forward with it then to try and hold it back and prolong the process. Makes zero business sense and as we can all see, Amazon is no amateur when it comes to doing business. We have no idea what their contracts and agreements entail and I agree with Hugh, it's most likely a legal thing they are trying to circumvent.
You know, I see a lot of people talking about how this makes readers "suffer". But lets be honest about this. Shipping delays? Not being able to pre-order? Books not in stock? Readers are used to all of that. It's business as usual for a brick and mortar store. Readers aren't "suffering" just because they can't get a particular Hachette book RIGHT NOW.
If anything, if they even know and care about the situation (and they probably don't) this is likely to remind them of how awful shopping for books used to be when you had to go to an actual store to do it and the book probably wasn't there unless it was a new book from a bestseller and if it wasn't there you might be able to order it but it would take weeks to come and then you would likely still have to go back to the store to get it.
And preorders? My local Barnes and Noble only did those for the really BIG books and there really wasn't any point. I remember preordering Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. You had to go to the service desk to pick it up, where there was a ridiculous line, but there was a table of copies right in front of the store. So I skipped the service desk and just grabbed a copy from the table.
If anything, all of this is reminding people how GREAT shopping at Amazon is. And for those who don't know and don't care about these negotiations (most people) they probably just shrug their shoulders and assume that the shipping delays are coming from the producer of the goods, not Amazon. At least, that's what I always think whenever I see an item that is "temporarily out of stock" or "ships in 2-4 weeks" or something like that. Amazon has never failed to get me anything I ordered fast and free. So why would I assume they are delaying things? A reasonable person would assume there's a delay between the producer of the product and Amazon. And even then, I just shrug and look for something else.
Barry Eisier's wrote an article in The Guardian about this. If there ever was a sentence that hit home with me, it's his sentence here:
"Because indie authors are the mom-and-pop shops of publishing."
That is a gorgeous, gorgeous, beautiful sentiment, that I am going to take away with me, through all of this debacle/articles on the matter. That is a sentence to keep above the writing table.
Really, Hugh, you do not know what you're talking about. Hachette shipping delays? All of these books are at Ingram and B&T. Amazon could get them there if they wanted too, just like they get thousands of other books.
Interesting, Dean. But Ingram and B&T are not benevolent entities. Even I, as a self-published author, has to pay a yearly fee if I want my Lightning Source books to be distributed by Ingram. For millions of books distributed, we can guess this fee would grow.
So, perhaps Hachette, which works closely with Ingram for other retailers, does not want Ingram to distribute its books on Amazon? Because it would be costlier? Or less efficient? Or less transparent for them? It's difficult to know if you are not really an insider of Amazon, Hachette or Ingram.
Also worth mentioning: readers have plenty of choices to buy a new Hachette book. Look at this "new" tab, for instance: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0316219266/ref=tmm_hrd_new_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=new
So, if Hachette was complaining, it was complaining directly against Amazon as a seller, not against third-party sellers on its site. By the way, I have demonstrated on my blog that some of these third-party seller of new books are in fact partners of Ingram (to test my point, just suppress extended distribution for your books on Createspace, and you'll see these third-party seller disappear). Creastespace has a deal with Ingram for extended distribution, so I think that validates my point.
So, sorry Dean, I think your point does not stand.
I enjoyed reading this today. Good analysis and I wouldn't be surprised that this is what's going on.
From one Floridian to another, Hugh, I applaud Amazon! The book giant is just looking after the interest of the buying public. The United States Justice Department fined the big publishers already a few years ago when they were fixing prices and trying to cheat the readers by overcharging for ebooks, which cost almost nothing to publish. The big publishers were supposed to pay back tens of millions of dollars to their readers for cheating them.
The Consumer Federation of America at the time of the Justice Department investigation estimated that the big book publishers and Apple overcharged readers around 200 million dollars for books. Part of that anti-trust investigation by the Justice Department caused 16 states, led by Connecticut and Texas, to file their own suits against Apple, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster. The states later reported they reached tentative settlement agreements with HarperCollins and HACHETTE. Those two publishers agreed to provide more than $51 million in restitution to e-book buyers.
Now Hachette has gotten greedy again and wants to overcharge their readers. Maybe if they paid a bigger percentage to their authors, as Amazon does to the indies, then Stephen Colbert would not have to throw dirty fingers and cry that he is loosing some of the millions he expects to make from Amazon sales.
The Hatchett Group is claiming they are only trying to cover their upfront costs. I am an indie author and once I have a paperback, to publish the ebook, which I do myself, takes about 1 day to convert it to digital and proof it. So much for upfront costs.
A minor point re pre-orders – they wouldn't have to refund anyone if they lost their relationship with the publisher/manufacturer, because Amazon don't bill their customers for pre-orders until just before the item ships.
Amazon would still have to disappoint readers by saying, "The book you pre-ordered is no longer available from this site." They don't want to have to do that, hence their redirecting readers to other sites for orders they can't fulfil.
Mr. Howey,
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I'm recently new to your work, but am enjoying it very much. I hope you don't mind me asking a few questions?
Aside from the obvious lack of a physical printed book, is there much else different in publishing an ebook? Do the publishers format it or the writer? Does the book go through the same review process? Is there a breakdown of the costs involved that shows the difference in traditional publishing and ebooks?
How did Amazon arrive at it's $9.99 price? Did they consult with authors? Publishers? Was this a random choice? Is what they did any kind of price fixing?
I'm currently in college and one of my current classes is on publishing. This subject with Amazon and publishers just came up, so this is very relevant to what we're being taught.
In closing, I'd like to leave you with a link to an article on Amazon. It seems to indicate that doing things that don't make a lot of sense seems to be how they do business. Which is what prompted some of my questions.
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Run, DMC and Jam Master Jay dominated 1986 to the point where you heard this constantly, no matter where you hung out. MTV got behind the Aerosmith goof "Walk This Way," but that was just the sixth-or-seventh best song on Raising Hell. Everybody else was flipping out over the street beats of "My Adidas" and the rock-the-bells turntable wobble of "Peter Piper." So hard, so funny, so inventive – plus the cheaper-than-cheap jokes of "It's Tricky" and "You Be Illin'." "You proceeded/To eat it/'Cause you was in the mood/But homes, you did not read – it was a can of dog food!"
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Don't know if anyone else has noticed it, but I really love the music that plays in the Super Training minigames. Has a really good feel to it.
Don't know if anyone else has noticed it, but I really love the music that plays in the Super Training minigames. Has a really good feel to it.
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Snowbelle City, Laverre City, Shalour City and Sycamore's Theme; for me, these are the outstanding music of X&Y.
Successor Korrina and Gym Leader battle themes are sweet!
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I really love Sycamore's theme music, it's just so french.
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The champion,gym leader,and prof. sycamores theme is probably the best music in the game. I am really disappointed that route one had some good music and only lasted for like 5 seconds before BANG new town.
Prof. Sycamore is my pokecrush.
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The bass involved in these themes is impressive... Hoenn land of trumpets, Kalos land of bass. Wild/Trainer/Gym Leader battles are all awesome
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Favorite battles themes are Team Flare (and Boss), Elite Four, and Champion. Oh, and vs Xerneas/Yvetal. I've been listening to the Elite Four extended on YouTube all weekend. lol
Also, the music that plays on Route 18. That one is amazing!
The music on route 19 (I thinks its on some other routes aswell) sound really heroic and kinda sums up the Game lol, The rivial Battle music has quite an amusing comic feel to it.
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Honestly, I'm a big fan of my of the route music when you get closer to Victory Road/end game. lol The rival battle theme mostly reminded me of the one vs Bianca/Cheren in Gen V. I was actually hoping for something closer to Hugh's battle theme, but the one for Gen VI was fitting.
I quite like the music that plays when you're riding the Skiddo on Route 12. I also like the gym leader battle theme and the music for the later Super Training levels.
This game had some truly amazing music this time around, for the most part. I love so many of the themes, like the Champion battle, the E4, Gym Leaders, Legendary encounters, Professor Sycamore, Team Flare, and th Kalos Power Plant. The one thing I really hated In the music was the bike theme. I dunno why, but it just.... Annoys me. So much that I turn my game's volume off when I'm hatching eggs.
Also, am I the only one who noticed how alot of the tracks have prominent guitar/bass?
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I really like the Gym Leader theme, it's so energizing - something I find to be somewhat lacking in the Gym Leader themes since Gen IV. I'm also in love with the Lumiose City theme, it's so beautiful, I hope someday I can go to Paris, Game Freak truly captured the concept of beauty with this piece of music. And, I don't mean to sound like a troll, but the Team Flare theme reminds me of the background music/sound effects in the TV show Lazytown, which I guess is a good thing, haha.
I really hope they finally release the Super Complete soundtrack worldwide for X and Y, especially since it's one of its most hype Pokémon games ever made.
I'm still trying to get used to the Gym Leader theme, but so far, it isn't my favorite. It actually faded into the background when I was battling against the Gym Leaders unfortunately. It just wasn't there for me. But hey, everyone has different tastes.
Nope, you're not. I quite like tapping my foot like a crazy person when I listen to the guitar/bass. xDAlso, am I the only one who noticed how alot of the tracks have prominent guitar/bass?
Haha, I know what you mean, though for me, it's the guitar riff in the Elite Four theme.
What gets to me is the fact that each game/generation has their own 'motif' instrument that sets each generation apart. The music is evolving!
Agreed. I guess it also goes hand in hand with the 3DS's capabilities, but it's nice to hear the actual instruments instead of a synth (though honestly, that pretty much adds a nostalgic touch).
That also reminds me, there was another song in XY that I really liked that had the piano playing (I think). I can't really remember where it was played, but I'm thinking it was when you had those solemn moments with your rivals. To me, it was on par with that sad piano music from BW (the one that played with Bianca I think? I haven't played the first BW, but I did hear of it). So glad it made a cameo in XY!
I FINALLY caught up to Moltres, and... wow. Is that a... almost techno remix of the Gen 1 wild battle theme?? WIN!!
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Bike song is best song
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Man, the E4 battle theme is incredible this time around. Great bass, and feels really tense. Makes me glad, since Gen V had an honestly underwhelming E4 theme.
Another track of note is the Power Plant track. Was pretty impressed by that composition.
A lot of the music in this actually reminds me of Tawada's Genius Sonority work, on Colosseum and such. Geosenge stands out as one example.


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After all the crap the nasty old KCC commentariat flung at sweet and innocent Katie the last time she tried to piece together a sentence or two, I'm surprised she even agreed to keep going with this gig. She was inconsolable.
Hey, obviously she's a great photographer but words aren't her strong suit, you know? So for now she's going to stick to pointing at things and pressing the button, and I'll try to fill in the letters and stuff.
Last weekend she made her way out to LIVESTRONG for the Buzz Beach Ball featuring Sublime with Rome, Foster the People, the Shins, Flogging Molly, Metric, and a couple others. I didn't attend as my Waka duties pulled me out of state. Katie did, however, relate some info to me about the whole deal.
Like the fact that the sound was somewhat improved when compared to last year, but still not great. Which is a little perplexing at this point. I mean, when the stadium was being built the owners emphasized the multi-use capabilities, specifically emphasizing concerts.
So what gives? Will the sound ever be great there?
Maybe not. Remember, the overhang that covers all the seating was built specifically to make the place loud for soccer games and projecting the singing and chanting of the Cauldron to the farthest corners. But with all their attention to detail, how could they have overlooked live concert sound?
But perhaps it's not the physical setup at all. Perhaps it's something else, something can can eventually be corrected. Hopefully.


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What an Orwellian euphemism, "affirmative action".
1997 SAT Data
In 1997, Stephen Epinshade found that being black is worth 230 points on the SAT, being hispanic is worth 185 points, being asian costs you 50 points, and being a legacy is worth 160 points when applying to a university.
SAT Scores at the Top 20 Universities
I don't know of any similar recent analysis of this that has been done. So to estimate how much affirmative action is being done, we have to infer from more aggregate data. And this is done looking at SAT score distributions by race, and the racial composition of student bodies at universities. I limited by analysis to the top 20 universities by average SAT. All SAT data is math+verbal only.
So here are the top 20 universities by SAT selectivity and their racial composition:
Racial Composition of top 20 US Universities by Average SAT
We can compare the proportions each racial group made of the 1478+ SAT scorers, and what percentage of admissions they were compared to their percentage of the 1478+ SAT scores:
Representation of Racial Groups in top 20 Universities Relative to their Number Scoring at or Above the Average SAT for said Universities
And so whites "should" be 72.46% of all admitted students at the top 20 Universities, presuming that on aggregate whites and blacks with the same SAT are, on average, equivalent on everything else overall. This is not an outlandish assumption, as the races, when SAT scores are controlled for, do roughly the same in college, with whites actually doing slightly better for any given SAT score.
In addition, Epinshade in 1997 (linked above) controlled for a whole host of factors and found that members of reach racial group, for a given SAT score, were virtually equivalent on average. If you think that's not the case today, that despite whites and asians actually doing better in University for any given SAT score than blacks and hispanics with the same scores, that blacks and hispanics have some other things about them that make them better candidates for any given SAT score, well, feel free to show all of that and I'll modify this article accordingly.
Whites should be 72.46%, blacks should be 0.67%, hispanics should be 2.81%, and asians should be 24.06%. The deviations from these result in whites only having 61.21% as many students in the top 20 universities as they should, and asians only getting 78.55% of their students in. Hispanics get 370.11% as many students as they should get, and blacks get a whopping 873.13%, almost nine times the representation that their SAT scores warrant.
But with these numbers, we can figure out what the average SAT will be for the top 20 University attendees by race:
Average SAT by Race for Student Body of the top 20 Universities
This may come as a surprise, but whites actually get punished more than asians both in terms of their representation as a percentage of qualified applicants, and in terms of the point value of the discrimination against them. Now I am simply looking at the top 20 Universities, not the top 100, or all, and so these results aren't necessarily applicable to all Universities.
"Holistic" Admissions
Following the passage of Proposition 209 in California, which forbade the usage of racial quotas in school admissions, the University of California and the California State systems adopted a "holistic review" process.
Factors taken into consideration, in addition to SAT, GPA, Honors and extracirriculars, were the "life challenge index" and "eligibility in the local context" – or class rank.
Now using class rank is a particularly devious tactic, as it allows elite universities to reach into overwhelmingly black schools. The problem is that the school you go to doesn't really matter at all.
Going to a "good school" is not going to raise your SAT or GPA, and it's not going to result in you learning anything more. Voucher studies strongly evidenced this.
It's simply going to stack you up against smarter kids and lower your class rank.
Moreover, "life difficulty", to the extent it is treated as synonymous with "money", is not a relevant causal variable for IQ. Sure, within the US, people with lower IQs have less money, and tend to have lower IQ parents, who also have less money.
But even taking into considerations these questionable "controls", cherry-picked to maximize the yield of black and hispanic students at the UC system, it STILL wasn't working. Richard Sander got a hold of the actual "holistic score" data through a Freedom of Information Act request and found that (since the UC system refused to publish the data), even with all of these things taken into account (which I think are spurious controls anyway), the UC system STILL gives pure racial preferences:
And so even when whites have, according to the UC holistic admissions score, the same supposed disadvantages as blacks (low income, parents didn't go to college, "bad school", etc.) they are still giving blacks preference.
But of course they have to, because if they just went by various "life challenge" indicators, they'd be taking in mostly disadvantaged whites:
Because whites at the bottom 10% do about as well as blacks at the top 10%, Universities must explicitly discriminate on purely racial lines if they want hardly any blacks in at all. And they must, to a lesser extent, do this for hispanics as well.
But in addition to all of this circumstantial evidence, 42% of admissions officers themselves say that "membership in an under-represented group" is the most important variable for them, saying this is more important than them having exceptional talent:
Coincidental with, or perhaps a response to, the fact that poor whites outperform upper income blacks, is the pushing of "white privilege" on whites in the poorest parts of the country. Since it can't be genetics, as race differences in cognitive abilities tied to genetics is not allowed, these poor whites must be outperfoming rich blacks for environmental reasons, and so the "white privilege" must be so ubiquitous, so powerful, that even these people have terrific institutional privileges.
Racial Extremism at the Universities
But it gets more extreme than that. An article from The American Conservative included Jews as a category for the population of elite universities.
This is important, because Jews are lumped in with whites. But since very few white people are Jews, it's important to distinguish, whenever possible the Jewish and non-Jewish representation.
While whites were only 43.1% of the average population of the top 20 universities by SAT requirement in 2014, non-Jewish whites were a mere 23% of the Ivy League schools, with Jews at 23%:
The American Conservative also looked at other metrics with which to infer merit, looking at the US Math Olympiad Teams, College Putnam Math Winners, US Physics Olympiad winners, Science Olympiad Winners, Siemens Science AP Winners, Science Talent Search Finalists, NMS Semifinialists for whatever states they could find.
It is worth noting that each of these tables add up to 100% despite not having a black or hispanic category.
Based on this data the author concluded that Jews are probably overrepresented at elite universities by a factor of about 3:
What this means though, is that whites, except Jews, are heavily discriminated against through the use of "holistic review" in favor of Jews, who are overrepresented relative to their ability. They are a high-performing group which also gets preferences and appear to be over-represented for their ability level, while non-jewish whites get the shaft.
And so when jews are disambiguated from non-jews, the already savage discrimination against whites at the elite universities becomes very, very extreme.
I did not expect the Universities to be this extreme when I started writing this article.
Post-Graduation Privilege
The racial privilege of blacks and hispanics is not limited to admissions to the undergraduate programs.
In applications to medical schools, blacks and hispanics get major bonuses on their MCAT and GPA:
So one should try to stay away from black doctors, and prefer asian doctors.
For law schools, the Occidental Observer looked at the LSAT scores and found that being black was worth about 6 points for the top 14 law schools, or 7 points for the top 6 law schools.
Because of how closely clustered LSAT scores are, a more meaningful way to think of this in percentiles:
Thus, being black is worth leapfrogging 16 percent of whites at the top 6 law schools, and is worth 11 leapfrogging 11 percent of whites at the top 14 schools.
These Graduates
As illustrated more thoroughly in another article on this site, blacks with the same college credential are, on average, significantly less intelligent than whites at the same credential level.
This is found using wordsum scores from the General Social Survey by race and education level:
So a black person with a graduate degree (masters, PhD) will have only a sligthly higher verbal IQ than a white person with a high school diploma.
Keep in mind that blacks actually do better on verbal tests than they do on non-verbal tests, and so the full-scale IQ of blacks at each education level is almost certainly going to be lower than this.
This black underperformance by education level is also found on adult literacy surveys. These involve prose (writing), document reading, and quantitative reasoning:
What this means is that a black person with a college degree is only going to be slightly more competent than a white high school graduate. And the highest credentialed blacks will, on average, be slightly less competent than whites with basic 4-year degrees.
Steve Farron, in a speech he gave on his book "The Affirmative Action Hoax", only 18% of black college graduates could summarize a newspaper article, and only 11% could read a bus schedule. Of course this probably means that most whites can't do these things either.
Affirmative Action
It is clear that the elite universities in the United States are discriminating against whites in an extreme manner, to the point where whites, particularly non-jewish whites, are strictly underrepresented relative to their percentage of the population. By their population, they should be 55% of the people at these Universities, and by their merit should be around 72%. But admissions officers have made sure that their average student body is only 44.35% white.
Other races do not perform better than their SATs would predict, in fact they perform slightly worse compared to whites with the same scores. The anti-white discrimination is not merely the disparate impact of controlling for "social" and economic factors; it is, and based on low-class whites outperforming high-class blacks, has to be, a function of race itself.
And it doesn't get better. When applying to law and medical school, the blacks and hispanics still perform worse, and still get preferential treatment. And finally, once they have those degrees, the blacks are far less intelligent and competent than whites with the same credentials, causing employers to devalue black and hispanic degrees.
But this shouldn't be too surprising. This is the result of an impossible situation that the admissions officers are in; holding an environmental determinist view on race that was established in the civil rights era, disallowing racial genetic differences to even enter the discussion. And then, 50 years later, having made precisely zero progress beyond the direct results of affirmative action quotas, that would be lost the moment those quotas were removed, they must find new explanations, and they must justify de facto racial quotes longer, and more, and against poor whites as well.
It's not traditional environmental disadvantages, no, the environmental effects must be more extreme, more exotic, more hidden. Genes explain it easily, but genes cannot enter into it because only racists think that way, and since it is racist it must be wrong. Besides, we here at the elite universities, who established back in 1965 that all was environmentally determined, know that "race realism" is just suit-and-tie racism, therefore it is incorrect. Racist, therefore incorrect.
And so like a schizophrenic with mad delusions, these people keep trying to find the connections, keep imagining "white privilege" everywhere to explain why the poorest people in the country, whites from appalachia, keep outperfoming their precious, coddled and pumped up rich blacks from the prep schools and tutors.
These people are sick.


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