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Hey cupcakes! Today I will be doing something completely random... But super fun of course! Earlier in April I did a Random Disney Questionnaire I found on Pinterest, and since everyone seemed to like it, I wanted to do another random questions post :) I went on Conversationstarters.com and answered the first 20 questions it gave me! I hope you enjoy <3
1. What is your favorite day of the year? Hmmm this is already tricky! I would have to say my favorite day is Thanksgiving because my family always gathers to eat, watch the parade, and spend time together. It is truly amazing!
2. What was the last picture you took on your phone? A selfie of course! ;) I send wayyyy too many silly selfies to my boyfriend....
3. Would you rather have to sit all day or stand all day? I would have to say sit all day because my feet would get tired of standing in one spot all day!!
4. Is it better to work at a job that you love or a job that pays well? Oh my, I would defintly say a job that you love! You can't be miserable all of your life just because of money. :) Money isn't everything!
5. Do you like to cook? YES!
6. Would you rather have a grapefruit sized head or a head the size of a watermelon? Lol - probably a grapefruit sized head because they can be pretty normal head sized :P
7. What are some things you shouldn't say at work? Umm idk... Here are some:
"Oh my god, he's dead!"
"I threw away all of the money. Oops!"
"What am I supposed to do with this again?"
8. What do you usually eat in the morning? Either cereal or Eggo waffles! YUM
9. What accomplishment are you most proud of? Getting a 32 on my ACT :)
10. How would your friends describe you? An outgoing, kind, funny, smart, and creative girl <3
BONUS QUESTION: What was your favorite subject in school? Math haha for real! :P
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10 Random Questions and Answers!
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Shipping industry cracks down on plastic waste
Of all the places to take action on marine litter, this one makes the most sense.
Progress might be mixed on curbing air pollution from ocean-going ships, but it's not all bad news. Business Green reports that the International Maritime Organization has adopted a new plan to crack down on plastic pollution and other litter escaping from ships into the oceans.
This is great news. Just like Jamaica banning single-use plastics, or ferry companies ditching the straw, action on plastic waste is most urgent in places where that waste is most likely to escape into the marine environment.And it doesn't take a genius to realize that ships would be ground zero on this front.
Among the measures being proposed are efforts to beef up waste processing capacity at ports, initiatives to mark and track fishing gear to prevent dumping and "ghost nets," efforts to report shipping container losses, as well as a study to understand the sources of marine litter from boats and develop ways to prevent it.
Every single one of these efforts should be welcomed. But it doesn't let shipping off the hook for its gigantic carbon footprint. It might be time to get serious about bringing back sail power too...

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Lenin's Last Words to Stalin
An educational take on one historic photo, as featured on this thread.
A NOTE TO PROGRESSIVE COMRADES WHO MAY INQUIRE ABOUT THE MEANING OF THIS SEQUENCE: It reflects the popular progressive belief that communism was a good idea in general, but it didn't work out because Stalin distorted Lenin's brilliant plan - solely as a result of his own stupidity, viciousness, and megalomania. Observe a cigarette in Stalin's hand. He was a dedicated smoker, while Lenin only tried smoking once as a little boy, but then quit and never tried again. But that's not what killed him.
So... boring....
Aeroflot used to offer complementary Sputnik cigarettes to its customers. The tobacco was rolled in transparent cigarette papers and afixed to a hollow thick-ply paper tube. All that came after you went. I don't know how you feel about Chairman Mao, but were I to smoke a few Sputniks you, would the smoke, a la Chinese custom, reach you in the Great Proletarian Beyond?
You'd have to inhale hard, however, because that tobacco is might dry after, oh, 30 years or so.
Premier BettyI wonder what Stalin is looking at the entire time? It may explain why he keeps repeating the same lines. He's distracted by something!
I think he's half-asleep, Lenin is, somehow, boring him.


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CitizenShipper is looking for drivers able to donate their services to reunite Tyler Keller, who was paralyzed in a vehicle accident in March, and his dog, Addie.
Keller was driving on wet roads in Douglas Pass, CO, when his car plummeted down a cliff, ejecting he and Addie. A motorist found Addie huddled against a guard rail after the accident and the two were able to see each other while Tyler was in the hospital. Tyler and Addie were separated again when he was transported to his home state of Michigan.
Tyler's family is struggling to deal with mounting medical bills and cannot afford to bring Addie home, so CitizenShipper is looking to its family of drivers to help this young man. The family is also trying to prepare their home for wheelchair accessibility. The 19-year-old was studying welding in college and attending courtesy of a rodeoing scholarship. He followed his three older sisters' footsteps in the rodeo circuit.
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So earlier in the week I shared some grunge paste projects… Cards to which I added some texture paste to either the background or foreground of my artwork and then turned them into cards. This was all inspired by the fab challenge over at Paperartsy. Leandra showed such fab projects in her video which have really inspired me! This time I am doing some a Christmas cards as part of my UIUS challenge.
I grabbed four of the pre-prepared cards which had green as their base to the designer paper, and then set about making some embellishments as the toppers using Grungepaste (or in my case modeling paste as that's what I have in my stash).
I punched out a tree from some sturdy cardstock to make the stencil, spread the paste through the stencil, then after removing the stencil stamped into the tree to create a texture. In one set I used a background stamp and in the others I used a snowflake from the Festive Flurries set. Then I left them to dry overnight.
The next day I added some green paint that matched the papers, left them to dry, then added a small amount of gilding wax/treasure gold to accent the texture. Then I punched them out to use as little topper embellishments,
Mounted them all up, using dimensionals in places, and added sentiments to them all and little dots of glossy accents. Jobs a good 'un!
Quite a simple way of making unique little embellishments for cards, and a great idea for mass production crafting as works well to do each bit in stages! Perfect for Christmas cards! And four more done for my Christmas card stash!
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Record That Turned You On To The Dark Side
'The Voice' – Ultravox
"It was one of the first records I listened to and it was relatively spooky. I thought it was anyway. I must have been about ten and before that my dad collected reggae so I was listening to a lot of that – not by choice obviously. I wasn't really into the 'dark side' then but I suppose I related to it in some way."
Record That Reminds You Of The Thing You Most Hate
'Music Sounds Better With You' – Stardust
"It nauseates me to the point of being sick. I hate it. It just reminds me of total crap normality, gathering around in a really crap nightclub trying to bed some horrible tart in white stilletoes. It really is the worst record on the planet. I heard it on a local radio station in Ipswich and I just thought it was done by some local twat. I just remember thinking 'this is fucking horrible'. I tell you, they say we make noise but that is just fucking poo!"
Record That Evokes The Best Halloween Of Your Life
Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula Soundtrack/Anything by The Misfits
"I stick them on every Halloween. I try to make a big thing of it and listen to one of those two records. Obviously, we go out and party because you've got make it a bit of event. Noone really gets into it round here like when we were kids but we used to always get drunk and do ouija boards or go to the local cemetry and mess around. You've got to make it Halloweeny. The last couple of years, I've been going to The Fetish Ball but this time I want to go to a proper fancy dress party – nothing kinky but as a mummy or something. In America, they really do it properly. It should be an event. Here, we stick our noses in the air and refuse to do anything and it's crap."
Record You'd Like To Die To
'You Suffer' – Napalm Death
"It'd have to be really tragic and take ages. Something with loads of pomp with a long ending like in dinasour films where little models writhe around on the floor for ages before they actually die! If it was a short, painful death, though, it'd have to be 'You Suffer' by Napalm Death. Definitely."
Record For A Night Of Debauchery
'S Club' – S Club 7
"It's an awesome song. I think we're going to do a cover of that 'cause I can't get the bloody song out of my head. You'd have to do something along the lines of their video to that song – something Marquis de Sade, something horribly sexual. As long as it didn't involve children. Huge orgiastic things in the vein of Caligula with every member of S Club 7."
If You Were Making A Horror Film, What Would Be On The Soundtrack
Cradle Of Filth
"I'd put a random selection of our own songs on it. It'd suit it quite nicely. We were actually planning to make a video for every track of the next album and then linking them with a bit of narration or dance mes and choreography and that. It'd be an hour-long story with some kind of psychological story to it. It wouldn't just be a blood bath, although that'd be a bonus, and I think a lot of people would like it."
Record Guaranteed To Clear A Church
'Sacrificial Suicide' – Deicide
"There's eight voices all just shouting 'SATAN' at the top of their voices. I think that would do the trick."
Soundtrack To Armageddon
'Lustmord Wargasm' – Cradle of Filth
"It just sounds like Armageddon. It was gonna be called 'Theme To Armageddon' ages ago but then that Bruce Willis film came out. I imagine Armageddon as a huge wall of flames leaping across the earth and that's what the song sounds like when it kicks in."
The Most Evil Record In Your Collection
'Pentogram' – Gorgorth/Anything by Abruptum
"It's fucking horrible. It's good horrible but you put it on and just think 'what the hell is that? Is that a guitar? And what the hell is that over the top of it?' It's like listening to someone having their lung removed through their nose. Either that or anything by Abruptum who come from Sweden. Their was two people in the band and one of them was a real-life dwarf. The album title was too long because it was just a paragraph of Latin and was full of all these weird, disturbing noises. Apparently, the whole record was recorded with them burning and cutting each other. 45 minutes of that.
Record You'd Like Played At Your Funeral
'Moonlight Sonata' & 'Buried Alive' – Venom
"It's two sides of a coin. 'Moonlight Sonata' would make them weep themselves to abject misery and then 'Buried Alive' would make them all laugh. Then they could all go off and get pissed at the record company's expense."


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The Southwest High School Performing Arts Council was formed in 2015 as an organization of parents, teachers, and community members to unify the great booster groups that have fostered Southwest High School's rich tradition of excellence in music, theatre, and dance since 1951. This unified support ensures resources are used most efficiently, maintaining a spirit of enthusiastic celebration of the performing arts and the kids who use them.
The Performing Arts Council preserves this tradition through our mission to:
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Welcome to Carroll Elementary PTA
Hello Carroll Families!
On behalf of the Carroll PTA Board, I would like to welcome all of you to the 2019-2020 school year at Carroll Elementary.
I am so excited and honored to be your PTA President. I am very lucky because we have such a great group of men and women on our PTA Board. With their love and support of our school, I know we are going to have a fantastic year!
Carroll PTA advocates for ALL children in our community. We also provide programs on campus to enhance education, provide educational resources, and host on-campus events to promote family engagement. We can't do it, though, without your support 🙂
We are striving for our 6th year of 100% membership. This is so important, not only for our school, but also at the State level when it comes to fighting for better school funding and our "safer school" initiative. With your contribution, your child's voice is heard. Texas PTA's motto "Back the Future" is spot on with what we are trying to accomplish here at Carroll.
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"Sentinel" is made from two pieces of fabric, one I purchased years ago from Sunny Bunny Designs and the other, a piece of black Kona cotton, I recently discharged. It is hand (the shibori) and machine (the dark) stitched. I cut a stencil and painted the moon/sun.
Saturday was the monthly meeting of CT Fiber Arts Collective. Because the power is still not available to many parts of CT, including the library where we ususally meet, Barbara Khachane graciously offered her home to the group.
Carine Greene, using Gwen Headley's book Drawn to Stitch, led the group in a quick line study. It was fun for us all and a really good exercise in flavoring those creative juices. We were all charged up and ready to get back to our studios.


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Morning Catholic must-reads: 07/05/18
A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church
A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church
A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church
Today is the feast day of the actual Blessed Lucy of Narnia. It really, really is
In my journey to the Catholic Church, I realised that liberal Christianity and religious cultural conservatism have a common flaw
I touched down from America hoping only for a few good dinners. But I found hints everywhere of British Catholicism's surprising vitality
Take a look inside this week's Catholic Herald
Chesterton 'addresses the narrowness and slipperiness of modern thinking', says the author of a new guide to his work
A Hobbit, a Wardrobe and a Great War by Joseph Loconte, Nelson Books, £16.99 It cannot have been easy to
It is a shame that England does not celebrate its historical Catholic treasures more
Disappointments can actually help us to grow in trust and humility
An interview in which Stephen Fry denounced God as 'evil' has proved a viral hit
Gerard Russell's new book poses the question, what can we learn from the variety of religious beliefs found in the Middle East?


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Human Rights and Health: We Can Close the Gap
Free Public Lecture
Elisabeth Murdoch
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Former president of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Vice Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Melbourne and President of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal, Gillian Triggs will be discussing the legal right of all Australians to access adequate health services, viewed through the prism of international human rights law and the failure of Australian law to ensure these rights are directly enforceable.
Gillian has combined an academic career with international commercial legal practice and has advised the Australian and other governments and international organisations on international legal and trade disputes. After her tenure with the Human Rights Commission ended, Gillian joined Justice Connect as Chair to pursue her commitment to ensuring that all people have fair access to the justice system, including people experiencing homelessness, elder abuse, family violence and financial exploitation. She is focused on the implementation in Australian law of the human rights treaties to which Australia is a party, and on working with nations in the Asia Pacific region on practical approaches to human rights.
This free public lecture is delivered as part of Global Health and Human Rights, a postgraduate elective coordinated by the Nossal Institute for Global Health.


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Black or white hat SEO, which one of the two is going to drive you results? The answer is both; however, there are repercussions involved in black hat SEO. In the case of white hat SEO, the results will not become visible overnight but the process will generate results for as long as you wish to remain in business.
Black hat SEO and how it works:
In short, black hat SEO is about cheating the system for driving fast results in as short as 72 hours.
Keep in mind that even if you succeed breaking the system, sooner or later the search engine will find you and make your website obsolete.
This is the very reason why Google releases newer updates every year.
You can read more about Google Panda by clicking the highlighted portion of the text.
This technique is intended solely to ensure lightning fast results, during cases when you haven't really attached a long term vision to a business.
Techniques implemented for black hat SEO:
- Using spin or duplicate articles, often scraped from year old/expired domains.
- Content automation process that has no value for visitors, which builds up links that are low quality.
- With "gateway pages" targeting a wrong keyword, however, users get redirected to an entirely different website.
- Carrying out negative campaigning for toppling a competitor.
- Buying out a lot of backlinks, although it falls on the grey hat hacking criteria.
White hat SEO and its functions:
Unlike its counterpart, the white hat SEO is meant for human audiences only, just like you and I. Moreover, the processes involve strategies that are approved by Google, based on which the search engine will be ranking your website.
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Voodoo or demons?
I just remembered this, had completely forgotten about this experience.
Rewind the clock 4 years, it is approximately 1 AM, don't know exact time just know it was late into the night, the whole night I was feeling uncomfortable constantly getting up because I felt an evil presence, death like. After a couple hours of tossing and turning I finally am able to get some shut eye when out of nowhere I see a black spiral the sensation followed can be best described as voodoo. At this point my body feels extremely heavy, i feel like crying for help but i can't, i look over my bed to the right of me and see a static like figure looking at me. I close my eyes and jolt upwards. I woke my mother up and told her everything, she gave me her bible and i stayed up all night holding it in my hands. I remember that the following months everything felt off, gloomy, gray. Everything looked like how TV shorts portray depression.
Writing this I now realize that this moment completely pivoted my life.


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Immunization Requirements
UPDATE!We welcome Med+Proctor to the University of Evansville for our immunization compliance and verification process. The Med+Proctor platform focuses on automating the immunization compliance process for new students. All new, incoming students are required to have their information uploaded through Med+Proctor before the start of classes. PLEASE DO NOT MAIL YOUR IMMUNIZATION RECORD TO THE UNIVERSITY. Visit www.medproctor.com to register for your new account, using your University of Evansville email address. Follow their instructions for completing this process.
- Step One: Register
- Visit Med+Proctor and select register to start a new account. Type in your University of Evansville email address to get started and follow the directions to register and confirm a new account. Please be sure to click "Confirm email address" once registered and you will receive a link via email to confirm your account. Confirm the account as directed.
- Step Two: Download
- Fill out any required personal, or medical information. Download the required forms and follow the directions provided. If you are uploading a certified copy of immunization records (and not using the form provided by Med+Proctor) please be sure that the record has your provider's office stamp on it, as well as provider's signature.
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- Log back in to your Med+Proctor account and upload a copy of your forms. Make sure your forms are complete and legible. You will receive an email confirmation once the forms have been reviewed.
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- If you have difficulty using Med+Proctor, you may contact Med+Proctor between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. (CST) Monday through Friday. During these hours you can live chat with their support agents directly from their support site or while you are completing your student workflow. This feature is located at the bottom right of the screen on Med+Proctor site. You may also email email@example.com with your issue and this will create a ticket for their support agents to take care of you.
Requirement Details
All new full-time incoming students (undergraduate, graduate, re-entry, transfer, international, and exchange) are required to submit an updated, physician certified immunization certificate and physical to Med+Proctor and have a verified status in order to enroll at the University of Evansville and participate in intercollegiate sports by the following deadlines:
- Students entering in Fall semester: July 1
- Students entering in Spring semester: December 1
- Students entering in Summer semester: April 1
Physical Examination
Visit Med+Proctor to obtain the required Physical Examination form. The physical must be performed and signed by a provider (MD, DO, PA, or NP) within a year of the start of the semester. Acute/Sick provider visits will not be accepted.
Immunizations and TB Guidelines
Visit Med+Proctor to obtain the required Immunization Certificate form. A licensed healthcare professional must complete and sign these forms. Alternatively, students may upload a copy of their complete immunization record, so long as it is signed by their medical provider.
Required Immunizations
MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) – Two doses are required. The first MMR must be given on or after 12 months of age. The second MMR must be given at least 28 days after the first dose. A positive MMR titer will be accepted in lieu of this vaccination series if no records are available.
Tdap/Td (tetanus, diphtheria) – The Tdap or Td must be given within the last 10 years. The Tdap (tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis) vaccination is preferred.
Meningococcal Quad (MenACWY/Menactra) – Students 21 years of age or younger are required proof of one dose on or after the 16th birthday.
Meningitis B (Bexsero, Trumenba) – Students 23 years of age or younger require two doses. The same vaccine must be used for both doses. Bexsero: 2 doses at least one month apart. Trumenba: 2 doses at least 6 months apart.
TB skin test/ QuantiFERON or TSpot - Must be performed and read in the United States within 6 months from the start of the semester. If a student has a positive TB skin test, further actions will be required.
Information regarding religious or medical exemptions to immunizations can be found on the Immunization Exemption web page.
**Some programs of study have additional immunizations requirements. Please contact the program director for more specific guidelines for the program of study.
**Students NOT in compliance with these requirements before the start of classes, risk their eligibility to attend class, live in residential campus housing, and a hold will be placed on the student's account until all requirements are met.
Please Contact the Health Center with any questions regarding these required records.
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Emeril , Schwartz gone, but UC survives
NBC officially canceled new comedies Emeril and Inside Schwartz
Friday. Both series were widely expected to be pulled from the schedule for some
Inside Schwartz will continue to air in originals Thursday nights through
at least Jan. 3.
Through its first six episodes, it was averaging 17.4 million viewers and an
8.5 rating in adults 18 through 49.
Inside Schwartz is currently the highest-rated new comedy on the air, but
it has been losing nearly one-half of its Friends lead-in audience
Thursday nights.
As for Emeril, the comedy with chef Emeril Lagasse, it averaged a 2.7
rating in adults 18 through 49 and 6.8 million viewers through its seven
episodes, according to Nielsen Media Research.
And just when new drama UC: Undercover appeared ready to be canceled,
too, insiders now say the show is going to be on the air at least through
NBC executives would not comment on UC's future.


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No. 4 USC Plays First Pac-10 Road Matches At Oregon State, No. 11 Oregon
Sept. 30, 2008
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Friday, October 3Corvallis, OregonNo. 4 USC (8-2, 1-0) vs. Oregon State (11-4, 0-2) - 7 p.m.USC leads all-time series, 37-7
Friday, Sept. 26Eugene, OregonNo. 4 USC (8-2, 1-0) vs. No. 11 Oregon (11-3, 0-2) - 7 p.m.USC leads all-time series, 40-7
All times local to game site
USC Probable Starters
No. Name Yr. Pos. Ht. kps pct. dps bps pps9 Taylor Carico Jr. S 5-11 0.79 .397 2.12 10.53 aps5 Jessica Gysin RJr. OH 6-1 3.25 .226 2.19 0.50 3.8132 Zoe Garrett So. MB 6-3 1.53 .344 0.56 0.91 2.343 Alli Hillgren Jr. L 5-8 --- --- 4.32 --- ---7 Alex Jupiter Fr. OH 6-3 3.91 .289 1.53 0.62 4.6321 Kimmee Roleder So. OPP 6-2 2.68 .230 1.62 0.59 3.328 Lauren Williams RFr. MB 6-4 1.24 .179 0.18 1.09 1.94
LOS ANGELES -- The No. 4 USC women's volleyball team (8-2, 1-0) continues its Pac-10 schedule with road matches at Oregon State (11-4, 0-2) on Friday (Oct. 3) at 7 p.m. and at No. 11 Oregon (11-3, 0-2) on Saturday (Oct. 4) at 7 p.m.
Oregon State Notes
Oregon State is 11-4 on the season, 0-2 in Pac-10 play after dropping 3-0 matches last weekend at Stanford and Cal. Head coach Taras Liskevych is 35-61 in his fourth season at Oregon State. The Beavers are hitting .253 as a team with a 2.39 blocks per set average. Junior outside hitter Rachel Rourke leads the Beavers with 197 kills (3.65 kps) and 25 blocks (0.46 bps). USC leads the all-time series with Oregon State by a 37-7 margin.
No. 11 Oregon Notes
Oregon is 11-3 on the season, 0-2 in Pac-10 play after dropping 3-0 matches last week at Cal and Stanford. Head coach Jim Moore is 62-44 in his fourth season at Oregon. The Ducks are hitting .287 as a team and outblocking opponents by a 2.82 to 1.93 bps margin. Senior outside hitter Gorana Maricic leads the Ducks with 145 kills (3.72 kps), 54 digs (1.38 dps) and 36 blocks (0.92 bps). USC leads the all-time series with Oregon by a 40-7 margin.
On The Net
All USC home matches this season will be broadcast on usctrojans.com, courtesy of TrojanTV All-Access. There is a monthly subscription fee in order to watch the webcast.
Stop Playing Games
The NCAA adopted new rule changes for the 2008 women's volleyball season. All games will now be referred to as sets to reflect the terminology used in international volleyball along with sets 1-4 changed from 30 points to 25 points.
The Power of the Pac-10
Six Pac-10 teams are ranked among the top 11 in the latest CSTV/AVCA preseason poll (the most among any other conference), including No. 4 USC, No. 5 UCLA, No. 6 Stanford, No. 8 California, No. 9 Washington and No. 11 Oregon.
Arizona was ranked No. 25 in this week's poll, giving the Pac-10 a total of seven ranked teams for the first time ever.
Don't Jinx It! (Update: Now You Can Talk About It)
With the 3-2 win against No. 4 UCLA on Sept. 26, USC set a school record with its 31st straight home win. The previous mark was set between Sept. 6, 2000 and Dec. 6, 2001. USC posted a perfect 19-0 record last season at the Galen Center. It was the fifth time in school history that USC went undefeated at home.
Since USC's loss to Stanford in 2006 to open the Galen Center, the Women of Troy have recorded a 31-1 record at home.
Fill 'Er Up
With back-to-back home matches that saw crowds of over 4,000 fans, USC is now 12th in the nation for attendance with a 2,043 average.
On Sept. 26, USC and UCLA drew the second-largest crowd in the brief history of the Galen Center (4,383) after the Ohio State match on Sept. 12 drew a crowd of 4,062 to the Galen Center, one day prior to the big USC-Ohio State football game at the Coliseum.
A crowd of 5,000 witnessed the arena's opening in Oct. 2006 between USC and Stanford.
USC has made four NCAA Final Four appearances in the last six years (note: UCLA has made only one Final Four appearance in the last six years).
Really Young Guns
USC does not have a senior on its roster for the first time since 1999.
Court of Dreams
The dream finally became reality on Oct. 12, 2006 as the brand-new Galen Center made its debut. The 10,258-seat arena is located on the corner of Figueroa St. and Jefferson Blvd., adjacent to the USC campus. The arena is named after Lou and Helene Galen, who generously donated $50 million towards the project.
USC mourned the loss of Lou Galen, who passed away on Nov. 12, 2007, at the age of 82.
All-Time Great Night
The USC women's volleyball program honored two former players, Sue Woodstra and Debbie Landreth (Brown), on Sept. 4. A banner for each player will be permanently displayed at Galen Center.
Woodstra was one of USC's first All-Americans, leading USC to the 1977 national championship. She was inducted to the AVCA Hall of Fame in 2006 and was captain for the 1984 U.S. Olympic Team that earned the silver medal. As the current head coach at Humboldt State, she took a leave of absence to be an assistant coach for the U.S. Olympic Women's Team that won the silver medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.
Brown, currently the head coach at Notre Dame, was a captain for USC's 1976 and 1977 national championship squads. She was a two-time winner of the Mikasa Award as the nation's best all-around player, along with being a two-time All-American. She served as co-captain for the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team and is currently in her 18th season at Notre Dame afte six seasons as the head coach at Arizona State.
Last year, USC had its first All-Time Great Night as the program honored Paula Weishoff and Debbie Green.
-- USC is 14th in the nation for blocks (2.76 bps).
-- USC is 25th in the nation for assists (12.79 aps).
-- USC is 32nd in the nation for hitting (.258).
-- Head coach Mick Haley is five wins away from his 200th victory at USC.
-- This season, USC has held opponents below a .200 hitting percentage in its last eight straight matches.
-- Freshman outside hitter Alex Jupiter is third among Pac-10 Conference players in kills (3.91 kps) and points (4.63 pps). She is 41st in the nation for kills.
-- Jupiter has recorded double-digit kills in seven matches this season.
-- Jupiter is on pace to become just the third freshman at USC since 1981 to lead the team in kills (Tracy Clark in 1982 and April Ross in 2000).
-- Junior setter Taylor Carico is eighth in the Pac-10 Conference for assists (10.53 aps) and 44th in the nation.
-- Sophomore outside hitter Kimmee Roleder is fifth in the Pac-10 for service aces (0.32 saps).
-- Junior libero Alli Hillgren is third in the Pac-10 for digs (4.32 dps) and 72nd in the nation.
-- Sophomore middle blocker Zoe Garrett is seventh in the Pac-10 for hitting (.344).
Taylor Made
Junior setter Taylor Carico (Manhattan Beach/Mira Costa HS) became USC's 29th All-American last year, earning 2007 AVCA All-America second team honors. She also earned Pac-10 All-Academic second team recognition. In her freshman season, she earned All-Pacific Region Freshman of the Year and Pac-10 Conference Freshman of the Year honors, as well as being named to the Pac-10 All-Freshman Team.
Carico needs 859 assists to break the USC career mark of 4,258 held by Janice Mounts (1995-98). Her 3,400 career assists place her fourth on USC's all-time list for career assists, behind Mounts, Toni Anderson (3,825) and Christine Brightman (3,691).
This season, she has 358 assists (10.53 aps) with 27 kills (0.79 kps), a .397 hitting percentage, 72 digs (2.12 dps) and 25 blocks (0.74 baps). She had a season-high 53 assists on Sept. 4 in a 3-1 win over Oklahoma and recorded 34 assists in a 3-0 sweep of No. 21 San Diego on Sept. 6 at the Galen Center. On Sept. 12 against Ohio State, she had seven kills on a .636 hitting clip (7-0-11) with 31 assists and six digs in the 3-0 sweep of the Buckeyes.
During the match on Sept. 19 against Army, she moved into fourth place on USC's career list, passing Missy McCaw (3,319). She was named to the West Point Challenge all-tournament team.
In the Pac-10 opener on Sept. 26 against No. 4 UCLA, she tallied 51 assists in the five-set win, adding six kills, 12 digs and four blocks (one solo, three assists).
She set the USC single-season record for total assists (1,597) last season and broke the previous record of 1,490 held by Janice Mounts (1998). She had 135 kills (1.07 kps average) with a 12.67 aps average, 253 digs (2.01 dps) and 67 blocks (0.53 bps) with a .338 hitting percentage.
She earned all-tournament team honors at the 2007 Trojan Invitational and the USC Classic. She posted 63 assists with four kills in a 3-2 win on Sept. 14 at No. 20 Ohio State. She registered 10 kills while hitting .444 with 65 assists, six digs and three blocks on Oct. 26 in a 3-2 win over No. 9 Cal. Carico answered that the following night with nine kills (.533 hitting, 9-1-15) against No. 3 Stanford in a four-game victory with 56 assists and eight digs. Against No. 9 UCLA on Nov. 2, she had seven kills with 52 assists and 14 digs in the 3-1 victory. She recorded a career-high 13 kills on Nov. 16 against No. 5 Washington and a then-career high 69 assists. She did not record an error in the match, hitting .722 against the Huskies.
During the 2007 NCAA Tournament, she had 45 assists, eight digs and one ace in a 3-0 sweep against Pepperdine and 60 assists with seven kills, 10 digs, four blocks and one ace against No. 25 Long Beach State. She recorded a career-high 71 assists with two kills, four digs and six block assists on Dec. 7 against No. 13 St. John's in the NCAA regional semifinal. In the 3-0 sweep over No. 4 seed Texas in the regional final, she had 41 assists, four kills, five digs and two blocks and in the five-set loss to No. 1 Stanford in the NCAA Semifinal, she had 56 assists with 11 digs while recording five kills and no errors for a .417 night (5-0-12).
As a freshman in 2006, she finished second on USC's single-season list for total assists (most ever by a freshman) and sixth for assists per set average. On Sept. 2 against No. 24 Utah, she collected 62 assists, three kills, eight digs and two block assists.
Carico recorded a season-high 67 assists and 20 digs in a five-game win on Oct. 6 at Arizona State. She had 58 assists and seven digs in a 3-1 loss to No. 4 UCLA on Oct. 20 at the Lyon Center. On Nov. 4 against Arizona State, she had a season-high eight kills (.500 hitting night) with 47 assists and 10 digs in the 3-0 sweep of the Sun Devils. In a 3-0 sweep on Nov. 10 at No. 2 Stanford, Carico had 47 assists with four kills, 10 digs and five block assists. In the second round of the NCAA Tournament against No. 22 BYU, she had five kills (with no errors for a .714 hitting night) with 44 assists, three digs and four blocks.
Carico won the 2005 Andi Collins Award as the nation's top senior high school setter according to PrepVolleyball.com. She was named CIF Co-Player of the Year and state most valuable player in her senior season.
Out Of This World
Freshman outside hitter Alex Jupiter (Hermosa Beach, Calif./Redondo Union HS) had her coming-out party at the Runza/AVCA Showcase against No. 4 Texas and No. 7 Nebraska. Jupiter, who was a 2008 Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 selection, led the Trojans in kills for both matches with 17 against the Longhorns and 12 against the Huskers. She also had 13 digs and four service aces on the weekend.
This season, she has 133 kills (3.91 kps) with nine service aces (0.26 saps), 52 digs (1.53 dps), 21 blocks (0.62 bps) and 157.5 points (4.63 pps). She has been the Trojans' leading kill producer in six of 10 matches this season, recording double-digit kills every time.
As of Sept. 22, she is third in the Pac-10 Conference for kills and points. She ranks 41st nationally in kills.
She was named most valuable player at the Holiday Inn LA City Center Trojan Invitational (Sept. 4-6) after totaling 48 kills in 10 sets (4.80 kps) while hitting .367 for the tournament (48-12-98). She had one assist, three service aces, 10 digs, seven blocks (five solo, two assisted) and 57 points (5.70 pps).
During the West Point Challenge (Sept. 18-19), she was named to the all-tournament team after recording 34 kills in three victories. She led the Trojans with 17 kills, hitting .438 (17-3-32) with six digs and three blocks in a 3-0 sweep of host Army on an ESPNU national telecast.
Her first collegiate double-double came on Sept. 26 against No. 4 UCLA with 15 kills and a season-high 15 digs in the 3-2 victory.
Family Gysin
It took two years before USC fans could witness the exploits of redshirt junior outside hitter Jessica Gysin (Los Gatos/St. Francis HS). Hailed as one of the top high school players in 2004, Gysin battled injuries in her first two seasons. She sprained her ankle in 2004 and suffered a left knee injury in 2005. In the summer of 2008, Gysin received a sixth year of eligiblity and has two years available to play.
This season, she has 104 kills (3.25 kps) with 70 digs (2.19 dps) and 16 blocks (0.50 bps), including 10 solo blocks.
She led the team in kills (12) in a 3-0 sweep of Ohio State on Sept. 12 at the Galen Center. She was named to the Holiday Inn LA City Center Trojan Invitational all-tournament team (Sept. 4-6) after posting double digit kills in all three matches, including 16 kills in a 3-1 win against Oklahoma.
Gysin was named most valuable player at the West Point Challenge (Sept. 18-19) after recording 23 kills in two matches. She had 13 kills and eight digs against Dartmouth and later that evening, posted 10 kills for a .474 hitting clip (10-1-19) with six digs and a solo block.
In the Pac-10 opener against No. 4 UCLA on Sept. 26, she led the Trojans with a team-high 16 kills and recorded a season-high 16 digs in the five-set victory.
She was second on the team last year with 327 kills (3.00 kps) with 219 digs (2.01 dpg) and 54 blocks (0.50 bps). She recorded eight double-doubles during her sophomore season.
She was named to the Gainesville (Fla.) All-Regional Team during the 2007 NCAA Tournament after hitting .368 in matches against No. 13 St. John's and No. 3 Texas. She had 16 kills with three digs, three solo blocks and hit .359 (16-2-39) against St. John's and had 15 kills with two digs while hitting .379 (15-4-29) against Texas.
In her 2006 freshman season, she finished third on the team with 342 kills (3.03 kps) and 401 points (3.59 pps). She was second on the team with 293 digs (2.59 dps).
King Of The Hill
Junior libero Alli Hillgren (Rancho Santa Fe/Francis Parker HS) recorded 508 digs (4.38 dpg) last season as a sophomore for the Women of Troy, playing in every match. She also earned Pac-10 Conference All-Academic second team honors.
This season, she has 147 digs (4.32 dps) and ranks third among Pac-10 Conference players for digs.
She was named to the Holiday Inn LA City Center Trojan Invitational all-tournament team (Sept. 4-6) after recording 50 digs in three matches (5.00 dps). She had 17 digs in a 3-0 sweep of No. 21 San Diego on Sept. 6.
In a 3-0 sweep of Dartmouth on Sept. 19, she had 18 digs (6.00 dps). She registered a season-high 24 digs in a five-set win over No. 4 UCLA on Sept. 26 at the Galen Center.
She had a career-high 36 digs (7.20 dps) on Oct. 26, 2007, against No. 9 Cal and followed it with 26 digs (6.50 dps) against No. 3 Stanford. She had 31 digs in a four-game win against No. 9 UCLA on Nov. 2 at the Galen Center. Against No. 5 Washington on Nov. 16, she posted 26 digs in the five-game victory.
In the first round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament against Pepperdine, she had 20 digs in a three-set sweep. She had one ace and 26 digs in last night's five-game win over St. John's. In the five-set loss to Stanford in the NCAA Final Four, she tied a season high with two service aces and added 34 digs.
As a defensive specialist in her 2006 freshman season, Hillgren played in 24 matches. She recorded four service aces (0.11 sapg) and 18 digs (0.47 dpg) overall and registered a season-high five digs on Aug. 25, 2006, against North Texas.
You're Like Butter...'Cause You're On A Roll
Sophomore outside hitter Kimmee Roleder (Pasadena/Pasadena HS) made 10 starts in 26 matches last season for the Women of Troy, recording 195 kills (2.71 kps) with 118 digs (1.64 dps) and 40 blocks (0.56 bps).
For the 2008 season, Roleder has 91 kills (2.68 kps) with 11 service aces (0.32 saps), 55 digs (1.62 dps) and 20 blocks (0.59 bps).
She hit .474 on Sept. 12 against Ohio State (9-0-19) with two assists, to aces and four digs in the 3-0 sweep. On Sept. 4 against Oklahoma, she had 14 kills with six digs and two aces. On the next night against Hofstra, she posted 10 kills with three aces and six digs.
On an ESPNU broadcast at Army on Sept. 19, she had six kills and no errors for a .600 hitting night (6-0-10) with four digs and a block assist. In the Pac-10 opener against No. 4 UCLA, she registered a double-double with 12 kills and 11 digs.
She recorded her first collegiate double-double on Sept. 1, 2007, with 17 kills and 14 digs in a 3-0 sweep of Mercer. In her first career Pac-10 match, Roleder had a season-high 18 kills and hit .469 (18-3-32) in a 3-0 sweep of Arizona State. She hit .316 on Sept. 28 at No. 10 Cal, recording 18 kills with seven digs and two solo blocks.
Roleder played last summer on the 2008 Women's A2 National Team and was a member of the 2007 U.S. Junior National Team that finished fourth at the Junior World Championship. She was the fifth-best spiker, recording 60 kills and a .389 hitting percentage and finished seventh overall among all players in scoring with 76 points.
Where There's A Will, There's A Way
Redshirt freshman middle blocker Lauren Williams (Houston, Texas/Stratford HS) recorded 11 blocks (two solo, nine assisted) in her first two collegiate matches at the Runza/AVCA Showcase against No. 4 Texas and No. 7 Nebraska.
She has 41 kills this season (1.24 kps) and a team-leading 36 blocks (1.09 bps) with six solo blocks and 30 block assists.
She had seven kills along with four blocks (two solo, two assisted) in a 3-1 win against Oklahoma on Sept. 4.
She played on the 2008 U.S. Women's A2 National Team and played on the 2007 Junior National Training Team.
It's Greek To Me
Sophomore middle blocker Zoe Garrett (Laguna Beach/Laguna Beach HS), whose first name is derived from a Greek word meaning 'life', enters the 2008 season as the lead middle blocker for the Women of Troy.
This season, she has 52 kills (1.53 kps) for a .344 hitting percentage with 31 blocks (0.91 bps).
She tied her previous best of nine blocks on Sept. 18 against Hartford with one solo block and eight block assists in the 3-0 victory. In the Pac-10 opener against No. 4 UCLA, she had nine kills and hit .400 (9-1-20) in the five-set win with six digs and five blocks.
Garrett received All-Pac-10 Freshman Team honorable mention honors last season after recording 210 kills (1.81 kps average) and 118 blocks (1.02 bps avg) while hitting .262.
A 10-kill performance came on Oct. 18 at Washington State where she also registered a season-high nine blocks (one solo, eight assisted).
Garrett had six blocks in back-to-back wins against No. 5 Washington and Washington State on Nov. 16 and 17 at the Galen Center. She recorded six block assists and one solo block on Nov. 23 at Arizona.
In the Trojans' five-game win on Dec. 1 against No. 25 Long Beach State in the second round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament, she had 12 kills with five assists, eight blocks and three digs while hitting .526 in the match (12-2-19). She posted seven kills and seven blocks on Dec. 7 in the Gainesville (Fla.) Regional against No. 13 St. John's and four kills (no errors) and two blocks the following night against No. 3 Texas.
Sophomore libero/outside hitter Geena Urango (Los Alamitos/Los Alamitos HS) received All-Pac-10 Freshman Team honorable mention honors last season for the Women of Troy.
This season, she has 14 kills (0.47 kps), six service aces (0.22 saps) and 24 digs (0.80 dps).
Urango recorded 112 kills (0.90 kps) and 347 digs (2.80 dpg) in her freshman season.
She finished in a tie for sixth place in the Pac-10 Conference with 40 service aces (0.32 saps) and recorded four aces in a match twice (Sept. 1 vs. Mercer and Sept. 15 vs. Purdue).
She recorded 21 digs on Sept. 7 at Utah in a four-game victory and posted a season-high 31 digs in a five-game win on Sept. 14 at No. 20 Ohio State. She had three aces and 10 digs on Sept. 28 at No. 10 Cal. On Oct. 11 against Oregon State, she tallied a season-high 10 kills, hitting .304 in the match and adding nine digs. She posted nine kills in back-to-back matches on Oct. 18 at Washington State and Oct. 19 at No. 5 Washington, recording 19 digs against the Cougars and 10 digs against the Huskies. She recorded a season-high 21 kills, taking 47 swings against No. 9 Cal in a 3-2 win on Oct. 26 at the Galen Center. Urango posted her first collegiate double-double on Nov. 2 against No. 9 UCLA with 17 kills and 12 digs in the 3-1 victory.
She was on the 2008 U.S. Beach Volleyball Training Team for the SWATCH FIVB World Championship. She also played two years for the U.S. Youth National Team (2005-06) and also played on the Junior National Team.
New Kids On The Block
Volleyball Magazine rated USC's 2008 recruiting class as the third-best in the nation with two Fab 50 players comprising the group of six players. 5-11 setter Kendall Bateman (Manhattan Beach/Mira Costa HS) and 6-3 outside hitter Alex Jupiter (Hermosa Beach/Redondo Union HS) are the freshman Fab 50 selections. Also joining the team this season are 5-8 defensive specialist Paige Obradovich (Laguna Beach/Laguna Beach HS) and 5-11 libero/outside hitter Kati Cattaneo (Santa Barbara/Dos Pueblos HS).
USC picked up two transfers: 6-0 junior outside hitter Emilie Stewart (Seal Beach/Los Alamitos HS) and 6-2 middle blocker Audrey Eichler (Pacific Palisades/Harvard-Westlake HS). Stewart played two seasons at Fordham, recording 141 kills (1.96 kps) with 172 digs (2.39 dps) and 35 blocks (0.49 bps) while Eichler spent one season at Boston College, where she was second on the team with 308 kills (2.68 kps) and recording 97 blocks (0.84 bps).
Returning to the Family
Assistant coach Tim Nollan is making his second tour of duty with the USC women's volleyball program after four seasons as an assistant at Pepperdine. He replaces Todd Dagenais, who was named head coach at Central Florida last summer.
Nollan was a volunteer assistant for the 2003 national championship squad at Troy and graduated from USC with a bachelor's degree in 2000 before earning his master's degree at Pepperdine in 2007.
As a lead recruiter, Nollan helped in landing three Top 10 recruiting classes while at Pepperdine.
Olympic Pride
Four former USC women's volleyball players were present at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. Former libero Nicole Davis played for the United States team that won the silver medal while two-time All-American Asia Kaczor played for her native Poland team. Former All-American Bibiana Candelas represented her native Mexico in the beach volleyball competition. Former All-American Sue Woodstra was an assistant coach for the United States indoor women's volleyball team.
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(Author's Note: Man, I have a lot to work with. No, seriously, this is the hardest anime I ever had to review or try to analyze in a way due to most of its many themes of psych analogy, mental illnesses and emotional problems and yes, this is that anime.)
What anime should I start with in the new year?
This is Neon Genesis Evangelion.
From the earlier days of famed anime studio, Gainax (creators of later works as FLCL & Gurren Lagann), Neon Genesis Evangelion centers around efforts of NERV, the paramilitary organization to fight the monstrous outer beings called Angels by using giant mechas called Evangelions, which are being piloted by select teenagers, which I really do not get. Why you select teenagers to fight these Angels? I get that people who are 18 or up can have permission to fight overseas but then again, with me being in the Western part of the world, there are different standards and traditions around the world after all but like a crime procedural, there are about 16 (well, 17) angels to battle in most of the episodes and it's kind of the monster-of-the-week show while we get into more of the character development, and speaking of the characters……….
The likability of the characters in the show averages to "they are decent characters" and "somebody, please, slap one of them". Meet Shinji Ikari, the main character (or the Third Child) and pilot of the EVA Unit 01, although it's not like he wanted the job, his father Gendo Ikari forces him to do it. Yeah, Shinji was some major daddy issues considering that he was abandoned as a toddler and a motherless child. I wanted to think that there were some similarities between him and Tidus from Final Fantasy X, but Shinji wasn't that annoying, although if I hear, "I mustn't run away!! "I mustn't run away!! "I mustn't run away!!" I swear I will throttle him but this isn't the worst phrase I heard. Shinji tries to develop himself to speak up more, be more confident, and man up but that just goes nowhere and that can become very annoying.
Rei Ayanamiis the First Child and the pilot of the Unit 00. Rei, to me, is a neutral character to deal with. She is an introvert and impersonal, with Gendo Ikari being the closest person she ever contacted with. However, she is, in fact, a doll as clones of her were developed in case she dies and her soul is transferred to another body. Rei is seemingly the only one who does keep her cool at a few times, but here is a few warnings for my description of the next character: If you happen to like this character, you might hate me or just respectfully disagree with me and that is………. Asuka Langley Soryu and she are the Second Child & the pilot of Unit 02 and also, my least favorite character of the show. But why is she? It is because she's brash? No. Sometimes she can tell the harsh truth that needed to be told. It is because of her verbal abuse to everyone she meet? Mostly, but not because of Shinji, he might have had it coming. But she is just a capital B-I-T-C-H! Yes, sometimes bitchy characters who act like that for the sake of acting bitchy annoys the hell out of me and maybe she doesn't do that all the time but with her, you just want to— you know what, I'm not like that. I don't believe in violence against women at all and I hope that did not send you the wrong message of me.
Misato Katsuragi is the chief operations officer of Nerv. She is a more flawed character throughout in the later episodes and yet, this is my favorite character of the show. How she was brought up is an example; when she was 14, she has gotten seriously injured as the Second Impact was beginning. She survived the Katsuragi Expedition, but her father did not. She also plays the role of guardian for both the whining angsty little bi—I mean, Shinji & Asuka and she has a penguin!!! YAY Penguins!! Wait………a penguin……..that she keep by giving it the fridge for a room. Well, at least, she didn't order a gaggle full of penguins (unlike a certain Mr. Jim Carrey) and the fact she gets really drunk and is a slob off-duty. Yeah, despite all of that, I still like her. Also other characters include the head scientist of Nerv, Ritsuko Akagi, who are aware of the Evangelion's true nature, friends with Misato (but they often argue many times) and Ryoji Kaji, who is Misato's ex and a triple agent investigating Nerv for the Japanese Government. Also there is the classmates Toji Suzuhara, Kensuke Aida & Hikari Horaki, two of the former are friends with Shinji (they aren't that important) and the latter is Asuka's only friend (Gee, I wonder why? Yeah, I know why. They're both [bleep].)
As I explained earlier, the show has a lot of influential themes and symbolism (mainly Christian & Kabbalistic), such as philosophy, military, biological, psychology, religion, Buddhist beliefs, and the Japanese otaku subculture with creator Hideaki Anno's own experience with clinical depression at the time.
Many examples that some of the characters are named after Japanese WWII warships and such as the two non-important supporting characters I previously mentioned named after the protagonists of Ryu Murakami's Ai to Genso no Fascism. Many of the characters suffer from deep psychological traumas connected to their loved ones (a la Shinji, Asuka, Misato, Ritsuko) but some of those themes and symbolism does get shoved in there, especially the final 2 episodes and mostly it gets garbled trying to understand it all and if you're really on an intellectual level that above me, hopefully you can understand it better than me. Most of the time, the angst levels of the characters go so high, you swear you are watching an annoying teen soap. It's not up to emo levels but Shinji is that one character who really never gets the whole situation. Well, as much as my disdain for Asuka, Shinji never even bother to improve on himself and it gets very forgetful if not.
After those two final episodes, that was a movie called The End of Evangelion to recreate a more detailed ending to replace it and then there is The Rebuild of Evangelion, where just the re-tooling is or completely new version of NGE. I don't know if that is just milking the franchise so much, soon people will just grew tired and irritated and send death threats to the creator and trash the studio—Oh wait, that did happen. It may have worked on most franchises but some of them have different storylines and characters.
In other terms, the animation does show its age (made over 17 years ago) and great for its time and for most mecha shows, it didn't feel that generic. The music…….Yes, I love the opening theme song "A Cruel Angel's Thesis", which is very energetic and the score is passable, too, with the action and dramatic themes and how many versions of "Fly Me to the Moon" are there or at least covered by many artists at the time? 31. There are thirty-one versions of that song in the franchise itself. I can't say which one I like the most considering that there are even more versions of that song.
FINAL VERDICT: This is one of the most confusing, mind-boggling, intriguing, love-hating, and nerve-racking and one of those anime that you have to watch in order to understand the form of it more. The themes can be very interesting at best but it can soon sound mostly contrived. The characters are slightly average with people that you like, feel neutral about, or just loathe. The themes get rattled once you watched it. But the problem with it is that it's just so pretentious, it wants the audience to understand the philosophical ideals but the show has a hard time trying to explain it on time. It doesn't have to be a long explanation of clunky and disjointed dialogue but for what it does in the earlier episodes, it's enjoyable to watch.
And this gets the final score of:
8/10 –
Planet Tyro Rating – High Solid B.
NEON GENESIS EVANGELION – animation by GAINAX, distributed by AeSIR Holdings.