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As the East Coast is left reeling from Sandy, West Virginia is experiencing a storm that has dropped almost two feet of snow on some areas and is expected to intensify before it gets better. The Weather Channel's Janel Klein reports.
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Snow covers the streets Tuesday, after Superstorm Sandy moved through Elkins, W.Va. Sandy buried parts of West Virginia under more than a foot of snow on Tuesday, cutting power to at least 243,000 customers and closing dozens of roads. At least one death was reported.
Wet snow and high winds spinning off the edge of Superstorm Sandy spread blizzard conditions over parts of West Virginia and neighboring Appalachian states Tuesday, shutting one interstate as trucks and cars bogged down and knocking out power to many.
The National Weather Service said more than a foot of snow was reported in lower elevations of West Virginia, where most towns and roads are. High elevations in the mountains were getting more than two feet and a blizzard warning for parts of the state was in effect until Wednesday afternoon.
Nearly 265,000 people in West Virginia were without power on Tuesday morning, according to The Charleston Gazette.
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Authorities closed more than 45 miles of Interstate 68 on either side of the West Virginia-Maryland state line because of blizzard conditions and stuck cars.
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The higher elevations in western parts of Maryland received more than a foot of snow since Monday afternoon, and it was still snowing Tuesday before dawn, Boulware said.
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(CNN) - The school shooting in Newtown has put guns on the front burner in some states, as well as with President Obama.
New York and Maryland may have grabbed recent headlines for taking a tough stance on guns, but they're heavily Democratic states.
It's a different story in red states – and purple states.
Attitudes are shifting in Virginia, home of the National Rifle Association. A recent poll by Quinnipiac University showed most Virginians are in favor of requiring background checks for buyers at gun shows. That's not the law now.
But in the Virginia legislature, the pro-gun rights folks have a lot of friends.
A House panel flat out killed a number of gun restriction bills last week. And a House delegate just proposed a bill to try to bar Virginia from helping the federal government carry out any "investigation, prosecution, detention, arrest, search, or seizure" that would "infringe on the individual right to keep and bear arms…"
People on both sides of the gun issue showed up in Richmond on Monday to lobby lawmakers during an annual lobbying event.
The Virginia Citizens Defense League – whose motto is, "Defending Your Right to Defend Yourself" – had dozens of supporters there, some of them motivated by Newtown to lobby their cause for the first time.
Among the pro-gun crowd were a number of women, and a young interracial couple – in their 20s – both college grads. At a meeting of the Virginia Citizens Defense League to plan for the lobbying trip, there was a guy in a business suit, a State Department employee, an intelligence analyst and a videographer.
Bruce Jackson's on the board of directors for the group:
[2:10] "Basically, a lot of people think when you go to a gun show, all you're gonna see is mouth-breathing, camo-wearing, red-necked, fat, old, white guys driving pickup trucks. And that's not true. Basically, it's a big swath of humanity."
Dozens of folks also showed up to lobby for gun restrictions – some of them for the first time – because of Newtown.
Rebecca Caffrey is working with a group called One Million Moms for Gun control – it was formed after Newtown to push for background checks, an assault weapons ban and other restrictions. She asked the group in Richmond for help – beyond just "liking" the group on Facebook:
[4:45] "We have a lot of very passive supporters and we need people who will actually show up."
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Having a gun for home or self defense is understandable. Deciding what type of gun that should be is a problem. Every situation is different, but like with all things people will tend to get more than they need.
Gun manufacturers, like car and coffee machine, and clothes manufacturers will try to sell you as much as they can, because in the end they are interested in making as much money as possible. Every added feature means more money. High end products get more profit per item and help cover costs of producing more numerous lower end models. We don't like to be told we can't have a 20-round mag, even though a 7-round mag might be perfectly suitable for defending ourselves. Instead of becoming proficient at making 7 rounds count, we'd rather buy four or five guns with long barrels, combat sights, lights, and double 30-round magazines – just in case. Because, we can.
Gun owners will say "people are the problem, not guns". I will say if people have guns, they will use them. If they don't have guns, they cannot use them. We are all more afraid of being "out-gunned", than looking at what caused the "bad" person to pick up a gun in the first place. Much like our healthcare industry, we love to put money into treatment, but resist putting money into prevention. I say we wouldn't need to keep out-gunning the "bad" guys if we cut the number of and lethality of the guns we have now. We kill ourselves and our family members, and people we know at a greater rate than we kill "bad" guys. Instead of talking, we shoot. Legal or not-so-legal gun owners allow excessive amounts of weapons to be lost, stolen or misused. The "bad" guys get guns because we let them.
Which gets back to the point that the guns are there. We allow them to be manufactured even when they are not needed. Oh, wait-we do need them. We need them to out-gun the last batch we made that the "bad" guys have now. If there's money to be made, it's all good. Again, if the guns are not there, they can't be used by "bad" or "good" guys.
Why do we give the NRA so much power? They do not represent gun owners or American individual rights as much as they represent the manufacturers. The gun industry is happy to let the NRA cover them, and pay them handsomely for it. Let's let the industry answer the question of why we need so many weapons for one, then why so many with such high rates of fire and such high ammunition capacities and such long-range effectiveness.
What are we afraid of, people? If we are afraid of our government or of "bad" guys, there are things you can do other than making sure you have more guns than the next guy. Look at the causes of why we are reaching for guns. Guns beget guns. Every gun we put out there is a gun that is potentially going to be pointing at us. If we need them, we will be able to get them. Truly ask yourself, what do I need and why, not what can I buy, just because I can.
American this is our country if you can not stay under our constitution and get out USA
Second amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791. At the time guns was single shut with a flint! Even Smith & Wesson came around in mid 1800's. In 1700' west was just opening and new settlers, needing protection from Native Americans and from each other, had to carry guns. Today assault weapons used by the military are mass annihilation weapons. Tomorrow and very soon, if germ and deadly gas throwing guns is made, is second amendment will justify them too? Are atomic bombs in small packages will be protected by the same amendment! There must be a limit to desire to destruct and exploit. Defenders of the second amendment and NRA are twisting and using the spirit of the amendment to obtain endless gain to wealth in spite of the destruction that will come with these weapons. Nobody objecting to keep at home a handgun even a shut gun for personal protection, at the level the amendment was written in 1791. Beyond that, desiring to have assault weapons at home and at a person's possession is an addiction that should be treated as a sickness.
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Mr. Ergontok,
You make a comparison between the need for guns by the early populance of our country, but if you had watched several hours of documentary today on the Revolutionary war, you would realize that the people of the time were in fear of Government arms being used against them as those people were usually using inferior weapons to defend their freedom and rights.
Then you go on to say that "Today assault weapons used by the military are mass annihilation weapons. Tomorrow and very soon, if germ and deadly gas throwing guns is made, is second amendment will justify them too?..."
First of all the term "assault weapons", as defined by the military and gun experts, refers to fully automatic weapons such a Thompson 1927 or "Tommy Gun" and does NOT apply to AR15's and many many other semi-automatic guns that are sold and owned by MILLIONS of responsible gun owners. The line between the media bad boy AR15 and many guns that are not banned by name is such a fine line that legislators have not been able to put into words a way to ban this gun without banning many other less "offensive" guns short of banning it by name.
For example SIG makes a gun that is nearly identical the the Armalite AR15 except that it has a wood stock instead of a black plastic stock. Feinstein's bill says the SIG very is OK, while the Armalite version is banned by name...almost no practical difference....
You further go on to say,"Nobody objecting to keep at home a handgun even a shut gun for personal protection,...." I'm sorry sir, but you are quite wrong there. The City of Chicago tried to ban exactly that and handguns are the ultimate target of many gun control proponents. After after all, the most common type of gun that criminals choose to use is not the semi-automatic "assault" rifle, but the handgun....and the stats aren't even close, the "assault rifle" is used in a miniscule proportion of gun crimes. Fact is the stats show there is very little if even any gain to be had by attempting to ban this type of gun, but millions of law abiding citizens will be deprived of their right to own one.
As for your comment about the relationship between desire to own firearms with mental illness....well I don't have a comment for that one....I think most would agree your idea is a little out there on that one.
The first amendment was also created around that time. The Founding Fathers never ever thought about media. Should we get rid of TV, the Internet, and radio since the only media that existed was paper?
The 2nd Amendment does not dictate the degree to which government can REGULATE the purchase and possession of firearms. Here are some steps that may better control the situation.
1. Slow down the time it takes to purchase a weapon. If it takes 90-100 days to purchase a weapon... so what?
2. Sell only to those who have taken standardized training that is provided by law enforcement agencies or those licensed by an agency.
3. Make licensing an annual activity that requires:
a. Passing a current background check
b. Passing a psychiatric test from a licensed provider
c. Firing range qualification provided by a licenced provider
d. A licencing fee adequate to pay for administration of all the above
e. Ammunition to be heavily taxed with revenue used for administration of the above
f. Waiting period for the sales of ammunition
4. Severe penalties should be associated with failure to register weapons or for re-register/licence. Harsh penalties should be associated with illegal possession, sales or use of weapons.
p.s. Let the military deal with a future armed invasion of the USA. No need to stock pile weapons in anticipation of a future war or use that as an excuse for doing so. You are all starting to sound like a bunch of nuts... you really should't have them in your condition. Paranoia will destroy ya.
The paranoid behavior here appears to be on your part, since your fear of guns makes you want to restrict them to only the government and the rich.
Maybe such restrictions as you mention should be applied to your 1st amendment rights instead?
Guns are neither good or evil, the poeple who handle them are. Putting more guns in the hands of good people and keeping them away from whackos is the answer but even whackos have rights. Psychiatrists do not want to tell the gov that each of their unstable patients should not be allowed to handle guns. If they did fewer whackos would go to them in the first place. That whole doctor patient privelage seems to be a bigger problem for keeping guns away from those who should not have them than the 2nd amendment. People who have never used a gun or have absolutely no clue about guns watch tv and see all the shootings and cry that all guns should be melted down. The 2nd amendment was not intended to form a militia to defend our nation against foreign invaders but to defend ourselves against our own Goverment. In case you have not noticed our Gov is reaching into more and more parts of our lives all the time and never backs out.
You have brought up the term "licensed provider" so many times I believe that you have a vested interest in some sort of for profit firearm licensing scheme. Am I wrong?
It is more than obvious that you know nothing of history and gun control and government regulation of firearms.All of these items were also favored by Hitler,Stalin and Lenin.Remember them and the millions of their own citizens that they killed.Liberal low brow Democrats are a larger threat to the constitution and freedom than any terrorist or foreign enemy.
"shall not be infringed" seems pretty clear to me. Where you get off thinking any of those are not infringments is beyond me.
Trolls just be trolling.
Poster brings absolutely nothing intelligent to the discussion. Made obvious by the name.
Meh, 6 of every 10 per 100,000 gun deaths are suicide, 1 is an accidental shooting (usually a child) and some of the 3 homicides are husbands, wives and kids killing their own family members. Gun owners have far more to fear from guns than non-gun owners. Let them kill each other off. (numbers from FBI & CDC websites)
I live in Central America, through which most of the drugs find their way to the USA from S.A. and Mexico. We are living in a violently uncontrolled chaos, where we fear both the National Police, the Army, and the bad guys. Usually we have a diffcult time telling the difference.
The good guys have to confront the bad guys with woefully inadequate weapons; the bad guys have heavy weapons which COME DIRECTLY FROM THE USA AS PART OF THE PAYMENT FOR THE DRUGS, AS PART OF GUN SHOWS, OR FROM IDIOTIC ATF OPERATIONS.
The USA spends so much time trying to control the movement of drugs from the south to the north. Why dos the USA not look at the gun flow to the south? Please support us in our struggle against the bad guys. STOP giving them weapons! CONTROL GUNS! STOP DRUGS.
I'm very curious as to what the Founding Fathers would say on the current gun debate. I do believe that people should have the right to bear arms...the 2nd Amendment is important and necessary. However, I also believe that the Constitution (and any other document written before the Civil War) is severely outdated. As foundation pieces for a beginning nation, they were effective and accurate. But with the advancement in manufacturing and technology (which will only get better and more efficient with time) there needs to be an "advancement" in our Constitution.
This nation exist and remains somewhat free because of this "old" document that was written by men of a far greater intelligence level that any one in public office today or for the past 200 yrs.Letting liberal Democrats with an IQ of 40 rewrite our constitution to suit their fantasy world would be the death of America and freedoms.
I am a native of a "blue" state, Maine. It used to be a "Red" state , but with the constant influx of people from Mass. N.Y. NJ it is now predominately "Blue" in the south where the largest portion of the population resides. Maine has the highest per capita gun ownership in the country and the lowest incidence of gun violence in the nation. Could someone rationally explain to me why since this is the case, we need more restrictive gun laws ?
Blah, Blah, Blah... people wake up! The 2nd amendment, like the Bible and any other document is subject to the reader's interpretation The NRA and the people that believe Big Brother is out to take ALL of their guns will NEVER change their minds and the people that believe that every law abiding citizen has the right to own hand guns and hunting rifles, but NOT assault rifles, semi-automatic, and fully automatic weapons, will never change their minds. There are others that have opinions somewhere in between NO guns and give everybody guns and you are not going to change their minds. The bottom line is that everyone is doing exactly what the spineless politicians want you to do, bickering back and forth constantly, knowing that NO ONE is going to change the other's opinion on this issue, but it takes your focus off of the people that make the laws. They are ALL afraid of the NRA and the fact that they may not get re-elected if they vote against them. The ONLY way to get this resolved is for EVERY registered voter to call their Congressmen and Senators and tell them that how they vote on new gun legislation will determine how you vote in 2014. THEN if they do not vote the way you believe they should, VOTE AGAINST THEM. Let the democratic process handle these issues. This is the ONLY way we have any power to correct the policies and legislation that we disagree with, not bickering back and forth with each other. I'm not going to change your mind and you are not going to change mine on gun legislation, but I WILL sure as hell vote against anyone that doesn't vote for the new legislation that President Obama has proposed. I suggest ALL of you call you representatives and voice your opinion and then follow up in the voting booth in 2014. THIS is the ONLY power that we have to control these clowns.
For those who are so adamant that guns are the problem and government is the solution I encourage you to stop for a moment and look at the history of those who have followed your solution. Look at at Poland during the blitzkreig, Hitler stopped first to look up all the registered gun owners and then killed them first to eliminate the threat. The UK followed your path eliminating handguns then rifles then finally shotguns. In the late 1990's a homeowner in a burglary ridden neighborhood stopped two thieves breaking into his home killing one and wounding the other. The citizen received a life sentence for his efforts at self-defense. If you make guns illegal then those who ignore the law will be armed and those who follow the law will be victims. Thomas Jefferson had several appropriate comments, i.e. those who beat their swords into plows will be slaves to those who do not. An armed man is a Citizen and unarmed man is a Subject. The right to bear arms is a defense against theft but also the final defense against government. Before you give away your rights, take the time to educate yourself as once gone, they can never be recovered. If guns kill people then spoons made you fat and pencils misspelled your words!
Three Things
1. Hitler targeted all Poles and Russians as part of his final solution.
2. The UK's homicide rate is 722. The US's is 14,748, the highest of any 1st world country and a majority of 2nd and 3rdworld countries.
3. If you are saying that getting shot to death is only as bad as being fat or a poor speller, than you have a far bigger problem.
100% correct method here
This all about government control nothing about safety.
"By an overwhelming 92 – 7 percent, Virginia voters support background checks for people who buy guns at gun shows"
Stop twisting the facts! You WILL have a background check if you buy from a retailer at a gun show. You do NOT have to have a background check for a private to private sale (which can be done in your back yard, in a parking lot, or yes, at a gun show). But to word it that way implies that anyone can walk into a gun show, buy whatever they want, and not have a background check. Stop spreading ignorance.. please.
The Extreme party here is not the people whom believe in the constitution. I am sick and tired of people calling the Right/GOP extreme. The Extreme party here is the Liberal/Left party whom are always attempting to change how we do things in our country. Why is it the Extreme party, "the Liberal/Left" need to take everything they can from the american people. When will you guys wake up and stand for your rights and freedoms and stop letting this happen? The Extreme party are for limiting your rights, higher taxes and more ridiculous regulations at all levels of govt. The Extreme party is the party of take take take with the short term promise of giving. They can only take so much, then all you people brainwashed by them, will be stuck without any rights and freedoms and no handouts due to a failed govt. That will be all on you. And then when another country sees this as an opportunity to invade (which by the way could happen, don't fool yourself), the citizens wont have guns to defend themselves with. Is this the history you want? Protect the 2nd amendment. Protect the Constitution. That is not Extreme, that is the normal thing you should be doing as an American!
What I would like to know and I can't seem to find the answer online is this; How many guns used in ALL deaths by firearms (excluding suicides) are actually purchased at gun shows?
And you won't find that number either. Why? Because it is counter productive to the anti-gun nuts' claims. You will only hear of an incident here and an incident there (cherry picking) because as a whole, guns make society safer.
Yeah! right tell that to the maintenance worked caught in the crossfire yesterday or to the nine bystanders wounded in crossfire by police in the Empire State Builing shooting last year. You guys are loons.
We'll never know, since the NRA fights tooth and nail to make sure any meaningful data is never collected.
Its time for taker red states to stop mooching off of Blue State taxpayers.
It is time for you to post numbers. The 4 most solvent states in the US are RED.
I find it funny that you liberals claim the Red states have all the money AND they are the poorest. You need to coalesce your lies.
Uh! No, with the exception of Texas, the Red states all take from the Fed more than they kick in. The Texas exception is only due to oil royalties. The Red state are all leeches.
How come the 2nd amendment extremists also tend
to elect representatives who promote a strong US
military? If they're truly in fear that the government
could turn the military on its own citizens, it would
figure they would push for a weaker military. And
to say something like "my 30 round clip can handle
your drone strike", yeah right.
Q: How come the 2nd amendment extremists also tend to elect representatives who promote a strong US military?
A: Where did you get your numbers? Are they made up? on 1/19, far more blue states had lines than red states. The bottom line, your liberal dance party is falling apart.
Q:If they're truly in fear that the government could turn the military on its own citizens, it would figure they would push for a weaker military.
A: Just so you know, the military is not thee to serve the President. I find it interesting however, that you ask questions from the totalitarian mindset. Of the hundreds of Military personnel I interact with, not ONE would take up arms against the US citizenry.
Q: to say something like "my 30 round clip can handle your drone strike", yeah right.
A: I find it interesting that you imply that the President would use drones against his own citizens. Who is REALLY paranoid. FACT: the US military has been working for close to 10 years to get a country under control that rely on camels as their primary mode of transportation. Between the massive walkout of military forces and the highly ubiquitous technology and firepower in the hands of the common US citizen, the US military would not stand a chance.
So if you're not worried about the military taking up arms
against US citizenry, then what are you worried about?
Breaking down your replies:
1) I didn't mention red or blue.
2) I didn't say anything about the President.
3) Ubiquitous technology of the common US citizen?


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The 44-year-old Pretty Little Liars star welcomed a baby girl with his wife, Kim, Thursday in Los Angeles. The proud dad took to Twitter this afternoon to announce the news.
"It's a girl!!! And she's as beautiful as her mommy (@ikimlowe) &big sister Mabel!! We are blessed!," Lowe wrote.
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He and Kim also have a 3-year-old daughter, Mabel.
The Emmy-winning actor--who was previously married to Hilary Swank--and his producer wife have been married for two years.
Over the weekend, Chad told People magazine that they were busing gearing up for the little one's arrival, and it looks like their bundle of joy arrived right on time since he revealed that his wife was due this week.
We're thrilled for the entire Lowe family, and we can't wait to hear how much the adorable Mabel loves being a big sis.
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Hey all, I found this story and just wanted to get your opinion on whether this is true or not. Apparently, a linesman was hit in the groin by a tennis ball, fell over and fractured his skull, and died a few days later. http://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/06/sports/tennis-group-sued-over-dea...
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I have heard about this for years, but do not know about the details. Well, now it's time to read about it. Thanks, Joe.
So this happened when Edberg was playing his junior finals. Very interesting. The family really couldn't sue Edberg personally, even though it was his serve. I wonder if referees then had to sign something in regards to possible injuries.
If it's true, it sounds like one of those freakish things that happen on occasion in almost any sport.
I have a tournament friend from Thailand tell me one of his partners became blind because of a doubles poach shot to the eye. If I am playing against a brash and wild player who slaps volleys and overheads, I will protect myself and turn my back if my partner has put up a sitter. I don't care if my partner complains, either.
Yup, that's what I do too. No sense in unpaid heroics.
I do remember hearing about this when it was going on or shortly after, very sad and bizaar. It seems to be one of those things that not many talk about, I have followed edberg and his career for years and never heard him mention or others ask him about it. It must have been a hard issue to deal with especially at a time his career was just getting started.I believe its his birthday today.
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Hi everyone, I know my code works when I run it in eclipse but it does not load in my browser. I have tried my best to find similar posts but none of the solutions helped me fix my problem.
I have Java Plug-in 1.6.0_31 for my Chrome / Firefox browser
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The error I recieve when trying to load my applet in a browser is this:
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I've tried to debug this myself and have failed.... I tried looking up the error and from what I read, I thought maybe it was because I was trying to use 1.y java to read 1.x compiled code.
If anyone can help me with this problem I would greatly appreciate it and if more information is needed I'll gladly give it.


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- Fetish of the Sand Reaver
- Item Level 77
- Binds when picked up
- Unique
- Trinket
- Requires level 60
- Use: Reduces the threat you generate by 50% for 20 sec.
- Sell Price: 8 63 70
- Cooldown: 3 min
Fetish of the Sand Reaver is a trinket reducing the user's threat when activated. Sought by all damage-dealing classes; especially classes without an innate aggro clear.
Note: This item's amount of threat reduction decreases past level 70.
This item drops from Fankriss the Unyielding in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj.
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You are such a busy little bee! Where on Earth do you find the time! *smiles
Yes, you are busy...and spending time working on your blogs is probably the answer to one of the questions I asked!
So how EASY are these recipes? Do they have more than say, 6 ingredients? Are they Cecily-proof? Because I need some easy stuff, but I have a feeling that your easy and my easy are two wildly different things...:)
Oh, I can't wait to read your story!!
And your cooking blog!!
oh more than one blog and 5 kids! you are making us look bad! :) ha ha kidding. Seriously impressed with how much you get done and still look totally together :)
♥ I loved reading everyones stories over there! It's so amazing!
wow i missed question day. can't wait for your answers though.
Is it too late to ask a ?
Wow, you are a busy blogger, huh?
I love those actresses too. I haven't seen Cate Blanchet in very many things but most people I know have her right at the top of their list as being amazing.
I have popped over to the feeding your family site and love it. I'll have to check out your other site so I can read your story. Thanks for all the yummy foods you've shared.
i need to check out your cooking blog. i have been burnt out trying to come up with easy recipes!
Hey, maybe it's my monitor, PROBABLY it's my monitor, but I can't see your links? Maybe my mouseover isn't working or something? I know the first one is your cooking blog, but not sure of the others...?
Man Angie, how do you find the time? This blogging business is a serious hobby, though you are very talented. Everything looks so professional, and it is interesting to read...Bonus!
Your cooking blog is great! It looks cute, too.
I like the blog. I'm a monoamniotic twin... red headed too... wonder what percentage that is... ha!
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Okay, so we are working with linked lists, nodes and the stack ADT. I do believe that I have somewhat of a firm grasp on each of these concepts respectively. However, it is the implementation of all these ideas into code that I am metaphorically tearing my hair out over. When I look at it I am not seeing the big picture. The problem is my teacher just handed us the code and I guess expects us to learn it. What really would have worked is if he could of walked us through the building of the entire piece, step-by-step then I know I would understand these things. I guess my question too all you programming guru's is this: can you help me understand what each of these individual lines of code is doing? I really do not know if that is even possible with the constraints of not actually being face to face with each other but maybe you could take the time *and I am not saying you should* but it might help me if someone went through and gave assertions or comments for each line or something.
The problem is, as I have stated in previous posts, I am in a class that I do not seem prepared for. However, I have been working my butt off to try and catch up to the level that these other students must be on. We have a quiz on Friday over stacks, queues and linked data structures and I will probably fail it... sorry I am venting: in any case yes please help if you can!
package stack1_dog_Linked; import java.util.Scanner; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { int choice; String breed; Dog dogReference; boolean done = false; DogStack dogStack = new DogStack(); Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); while (!done) { System.out .print("Enter 1 to push, 2 to pop, 3 to check empty, and 4 to quit: "); choice = keyboard.nextInt(); System.out.println(); switch (choice) { case 1: System.out.print("Enter a dog breed to push: "); breed = keyboard.next(); dogReference = new Dog(breed); dogStack.push(dogReference); System.out.println(); break; case 2: if (dogStack.isEmpty()) { System.out.println("Can't pop, stack is empty!"); } else { System.out.println("The top dog was a : " + dogStack.pop().getBreed()); System.out.println(); } break; case 3: if (dogStack.isEmpty()) { System.out.println("The stack is empty."); } else { System.out.println("The stack is not empty."); } break; case 4: done = true; break; default: System.out.println("The number you entered, " + choice + ", is not 1, 2, 3, 4. Try again!"); System.out.println(); break; } } System.out.println("...quitting"); } }
package stack1_dog_Linked; public class Dog { private String breed = new String(); private String name = new String(); public Dog(String breedName) { breed = breedName; } public void setBreed(String breedName) { breed = breedName; } public String getBreed() { return breed; } }
package stack1_dog_Linked; public class DogStack { private Node top = null; private class Node { private Dog doggy; private Node nextNode; Node(Dog newDog) { doggy = newDog; } } public void push(Dog aDog) { Node dogNode = new Node(aDog); dogNode = new Node(aDog); dogNode.nextNode = top; top = dogNode; } public Dog pop() { Dog topDog = top.doggy; top = top.nextNode; return topDog; } public boolean isEmpty() { return (top == null); } }


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Has your Michael Phelps hangover left you with a pounding headache? Try a little hair of the dog.
Just hours after the closing ceremonies for the 2012 Olympics, A photo of Phelps lounging in a bathtub in Speedo, open Louis Vuitton bag at his side, made its way to the Internet via Just Jared.
With a pair of swim goggles perched atop his forehead, the look on Phelps' face is somewhere between "come hither" and "get out"--maybe a bit of both. On the floor next to the tub a pair of jeans and towels sits a top the luxury bag.
The image appears to be an ad for Vuitton, which is featuring Phelps as the latest celebrity in its Core Values campaign, according to the Daily Mail. In that ad, he sits clothed in a three-piece suit on a couch with 77-year-old former Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina. But the fashion giant was mum on details on the bathtub photo. None-the-less fashion blogs around the nation pronounced it divine.
If the two images don't give you your fill of Phelps, stay tuned for the start of season five of "The Haney Project," during which Phelps will travel the globe with acclaimed golf coach Hank Haney, playing the best courses in the world.
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Since its introduction in 1994, the Environment for Visualizing Images (ENVI) has been a powerful tool employed by specialists for purposes such as detecting abnormalities in medical images, looking for signs of climate change in satellite photos or searching for targets in surveillance imagery.
The problem was that ENVI's sophisticated tools required a lot of training. And as the tools implementing visual analysis have been implemented more broadly, ITT Visual Information Solutions, which makes ENVI, has received many requests from users for enhancements to make ENVI more usable by nonspecialists.
With the new Version 4.6, ITT tries to address those requests by adding workflows in a graphical user interface.
"Our 'aha!' moment on workflows was about four years ago," said Richard Cooke, president of ITT. "We were working with the folks at the National Ground Intelligence Center. They loved ENVI but they were getting a host of young analysts in who didn't have the image science background that ENVI traditionally required. So they asked us to find ways to distill the key processing tasks into workflows that would make it easier for the new analysts but that would not compromise the scientific rigor of the analysis."
The result was a set of predefined workflows called Spear. Refined during the past several years, the Spear workflow concept has been implemented as a modern, single-window GUI. The workflows supported in the new interface include things such as change detection, target detection, feature extraction and anomaly detection.
Cooke said the company intends to expand the number of workflows in upcoming releases. In the next version (4.7), the company promises tighter integration with ArcGIS. More information is available at www.ittvis.com.
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why is SUSY QM important ? i mean for each one DImensional Hamiltonian , can we write 'H' as
$ H= A.A^{+}+C$ (or similar constant)
here $ A= \frac{d}{dt}+A(x)$ and $ A^{+}= -\frac{d}{dt}+A(x)$
1) can we always express 'x' and 'p' as a combination of A and its adjoint?
2) does SUSY QM makes easier to solve the Hamiltonian
3) can we apply second quantizatio formalism with operators $ A,A^{+}$ in the same way we did for the Harmonic oscillator
4) let be $ Ay(x)=\lambda _{n} y(x) $ an eigenfunction of the anhinilation operator, then is it true that $ E_{n} =C+ |\lambda _{n}|^{2} $ ¿what happens for the eigenfunctions ??


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Yet another study was published this month showing that habitual wine drinkers are, all things considered, healthier than habitual beer drinkers. This one was about Dutch people — part of a national dietary survey — but similar findings have come out of the United States and other parts of Europe. We can draw all kinds of conclusions from such data, some of them plausible, but many of them ill-advised. Let's jump to some conclusions and see where they take us.
1. Wine is better for you than beer – Maybe. Let's say that you're a marathon runner who runs the eight miles each way to work every day, teaches yoga in the evenings, eats salads for breakfast and lunch and half a pizza for dinner most nights. Your next-door neighbor drives to his desk job, gets winded walking up the stairs, and eats stir-fried tofu and veggies for dinner most nights. A study could conclude that you, the pizza-eater were healthier than your neighbor, the stir-fry eater, but that wouldn't mean that pizza was healthier than tofu. Clearly, other lifestyle choices are contributing to your difference in health. The same is true for studies of habitual wine or beer drinkers: wine drinkers may be likely to make healthier choices in general.
In fact, this study came to exactly that conclusion: wine drinkers ate more fruits and veggies and less red meat, soda, margarine, and snacks than beer drinkers. We clearly can't ascribe the health difference between the two groups just to their choice of beverage. That said, the study found that when the effects of several other health behaviors were accounted for — that is, when we measure and remove the effect of total calorie consumption, or smoking — wine drinkers were still healthier. Moreover, this study looked at healthy lifestyle habits, not at measures of the participants physical health other than body mass index, and measuring healthfulness by weight-to-height ratio alone is pretty simplistic. This study gives support, then, for the idea that wine might be healthier than beer, but doesn't give us enough information to reach that conclusion.
2. People who want to be healthier should start drinking wine – Maybe but, again, not supported by this study. We've already concluded that beverage alone isn't responsible for the health difference between wine and beer drinkers. There's no reason to believe that starting to drink wine, or switching from beer to wine, will help you eat more veggies.
3. Wine drinkers are better educated than beer drinkers – Yes, actually. Among the four groups considered in this study — wine drinkers, beer drinkers, spirits drinkers, indiscriminate drinkers with no preference, and alcohol abstainers — wine drinkers were most likely to have university degrees.
4. Wine drinkers tend to have healthier lifestyles than beer drinkers – Yes. This is the study's primary conclusion: "alcoholic beverage preference was associated with dietary habits in The Netherlands." On average, wine drinkers eat more healthfully, consume fewer calories, are less likely to smoke, and tend to have a higher socioeconomic status (which is itself strongly correlated with healthful habits) than beer drinkers. But we don't know why this is true, though we can say that socioeconomic status and education have a lot to do with it.
So, we can fairly say that regular wine drinkers tend to live healthier lifestyles than regular beer drinkers in the Netherlands. Generalizing these findings to other countries is dangerous. Similar studies in other northern European countries (Denmark, for example) and the U.S. have come to similar conclusions. No surprise: any American could probably guess that American wine drinkers in general tend to be better educated and wealthier than beer drinkers. But that's a cultural phenomenon. In Italy and Spain, where regular wine drinking in volume is a habit of the old guard, wine consumption doesn't necessarily go hand-in-hand with healthy eating or other markers of a healthy lifestyle.
The conclusion? Studies such as this are interesting. Maybe they help the medical profession get a better picture of who to target with healthy lifestyle interventions (though education and socioeconomic status do most of the work here). But they tell us nothing at all about whether wine is good for you.


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Even before any hammer is nailed on new campus projects, the Solano Community College Measure Q bond is generating considerable interest among labor organizations, students and faculty.
Solano Community College board members Wednesday got some nuts and bolts on how the
$348 million bond funds might be spent, and also heard wide-ranging concerns about possible impacts to math and science programs, and use of Project Labor Agreements.
Approved by voters in November, Measure Q is designed to modernize the Fairfield, Vallejo and Vacaville campuses, and upgrade nursing, firefighter and biotechnology programs, among other items.
A study session drew dozens to the Fairfield campus, increasing an hour-long study session to nearly double the length due to the number of speakers in the public comment forum.
The college"s possible use of Project Labor Agreements drew the most speakers as labor organizations, union groups and construction trade associations outlined what they perceive as the pros and cons of such accords.
In place for previous Solano College bond-funded projects, Project Labor Agreements are collective bargaining pacts with one or more labor organizations establishing the terms and conditions of employment.
Yulian Ligioso, SCC"s vice president of finance and administration, said such accords were used for the building of the Vallejo and Vacaville satellite campuses, and the Fairfield campus" new student services center, which were paid for with voter-approved Measure G bonds.
A proposal for Project Labor Agreements for Measure Q-funded work may go before the board at its next meeting. Options may include using such agreements on some campus improvements, but not on others, Ligioso said.
Ligioso added that while some opponents argue that such agreements favor unions, some non-union firms won bids on projects funded through Measure G.
Other advantages include that they prohibit strikes and contractors walking off the jobs, he said. Some requirements are that workers are hired from union halls and employees must become union members to get paid, Ligioso said.
However, many speakers voiced opposition.
Eric Christian, of the Coalition for Fair Employment in Construction, said such agreements are "highly discriminatory" in favor of unions and also promote waste, fraud and abuse. He urged the college not use them for Measure Q projects.
But, Local International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers official Dan Broadwater said such agreements are good for the economy, local workers and the college. Another speaker said they do not drive up costs, or exclude non-union firms.
Several faculty members and students also voiced concerns about a combined math and science building on the site of the current 800 building.
Genele Rhoades, math program interim dean, said she and others are concerned the math division will lose much-needed space while other speakers said architects need to consult more with faculty to get the best value and school improvements.


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I have two servers, which are collocated at an ISP. One is a production server with email and an extranet and the other is a backup - development server. There are no client workstations, just the two servers, which are accessed via the internet.
There are obviously a number of experts here. What would you recommend as the most cost effective solution?
What is your opinion of the Fortigate 60, which is what we are considering purchasing?
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Invoicing is a vital part of running a business. Without accurate and timely invoicing your cashflow will suffer. So use this invoice checklist to help you do it right.
Invoicing – more than just a request for payment
An invoice isn't just a request or demand for payment for goods or services. It's also a contact point with your customers. If you invoice well, you'll get paid faster. But you'll also build up a better relationship with your clients.
Keep your invoices and other financial data safe using online applications
Online accounting software stores your data securely on remote servers. This keeps your invoices and other financial information safe from loss. It helps protect your business against fire, flooding, earthquakes and other disasters.
Agree payment dates and amounts with your customers in advance
A written Statement of Work is a good way to ensure there are no misunderstandings. You can provide estimates or quotations in advance for the goods or services you provide. Good accounting software can convert your quotes into invoices.
Invoice for everything – don't let anything fall through the gaps
You need to be thorough and invoice for all your costs. It's OK to give away freebies like minor expenses to generate goodwill. But do it sparingly, as your customers might expect the same treatment next time.
Let your accounting software do the hard work preparing invoices
Smart accounting software will generate invoices for you quickly and easily. It will include all the expenses you incurred when working for a particular client. This means you'll always recoup your costs when you invoice.
Ensure your invoices are comprehensive and itemised, with all the necessary details
If you want your invoices to be paid quickly you need more than just your company name and the total amount due. Be sure to include:
- Your business contact information, including name, address, email, and phone.
- Any legally required information, like tax numbers or company number.
- Your client's name and contact information. Make sure you address it to the correct person in their organisation.
- A list of the services or goods provided and the prices for each. Use clear descriptions so there are no misunderstandings.
- The quantity of each service or item purchased, then a column of sub-totals.
- The date of invoice.
- A unique invoice number. Your accounting software can generate this for you.
- Your client's purchase order or sales order number (if they've supplied one).
- If you are invoicing a foreign company, indicate which currency you want to be paid in.
- Your bank details for direct deposits. This needs to include your bank's name and address, account number, and other codes.
- Any other methods of payment you offer, like PayPal or credit cards. Be sure to account for transaction fees, so you don't lose out.
- Your payment terms, such as 14 days from date of invoice. Make sure you include the date due as well so they don't need to work it out. People typically pay two weeks later than required by the payment terms. So make the term shorter to compensate.
- A request that direct payments include references, like your invoice number. Then you'll know who has paid.
Every invoice is a branding opportunity, so use a good design and add your company logo
Spend some time finding an invoice template that shows your business at its best. Choose accounting software with customisable invoice templates to help you do this easily.
Send your invoices as soon as the work has been completed
For healthy cashflow, invoice as soon as you can. Every day you wait means another day before you get paid. If you're on a retainer, it's a good idea to invoice on the last Monday of the month.
Set reminder alerts to notify your customers that payment is due
Your accounting software can warn you when invoices are overdue. It can also warn when they're nearly due. Some software notifies your clients that their payment is due, which can save you a lot of work chasing late payers.
Talk to late payers politely, but be prepared to act decisively if necessary
Cashflow is the lifeline of your business. So if reminders have been ignored, pick up the phone and talk to your client in a friendly and constructive way. If they persistently fail to pay on time, you might need to consider dropping them as clients.
Build invoicing into your business workflow using add-on applications
There are more benefits to online invoicing software than simply issuing invoices. It can tie in with project management tools, inventory solutions and POS (Point of Sale) software. And all of this helps you improve your workflow.
Consider outsourcing invoice management to your bookkeeper or accountant
If you don't have time to manage invoicing yourself, outsourcing can be a good option. With online accounting software, you can give secure selective access to your bookkeeper or accountant. You can still see every transaction at a glance.
Invoicing is one of the most important aspects of running your business. So take the time to get it right. Your cashflow will be much healthier as a result.


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Worley's Sherman City Directory, 1950
Description: The directory for Sherman, Texas includes address listings for businesses and individuals as well as advertisements from local businesses. According to the title page, the directory contains "an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Directory of Householders, Occupants of Office Buildings and Other Business Places, Including a Complete Street and Avenue Guide, and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character; also a Buyers' Guide and a Complete Classified Business Directory." General index is on page 7; index to advertisers starts on page 8.
Date: 1950
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Lila vs. Kells at the Roll Call
It was a hella enjoyable night last week at Kate & Coalmine's Roll Call, thanks largely in part to the very funny and ultimately surreal set played by Lila Cugini (seen here getting clubbed by, uh… a sadomasochistic police officer?).
The Roll Call, a recurring feature on Wednesday nights at the Toad in the Hole Pub in Santa Rosa's Railroad Square, operates like a well-organized (and, thanks to the beers on tap, well-oiled) open mic. Performers are booked in advance, but the carefree, anything-goes attitude is the same. Basically, you never know what you're gonna get; a time-honored concept which can be excruciating when it fails but awesomely surprising when it succeeds.
It worked for Lila, who happened to be celebrating her birthday last Wednesday and had plenty of well-wishers in tow. Lila opened her set by showing off and reading from her latest present, just given to her by a friend outside on the sidewalk: an autographed script of the pilot episode from M*A*S*H.
Then, kicking things off with a tongue-in-cheek ditty called "I Want An Ugly Man," Lila told a story about copying and pasting the song's lyrics onto a personal ad on Craigslist, just as an experiment. "And here's the really terrible thing about dating in Sonoma County," she related: two hours later, she opened an inbox full of responses from 19 homely, disfigured, fat slobs, all professing their undying, requited love.
Lila plays simple chords and sings simple melodies, and even when she forgets her own lyrics, she's got a charming, hey-I-could-do-that-too thing going on. Her voice reminds me of a younger Lucinda Williams circa Happy Woman Blues, and her songs—"My Lovin' Days Are Over," "She Wants Him Back"—reveal a similar plaintive heartbreak.
But it was the set's closer that brought the house down.
Last time I saw Lila, oh, about five years ago, she dedicated a cover song—Green Day's "She"—to her son, Adler. On Wednesday, her cover song of choice had changed considerably: R. Kelly's "Real Talk." Totally goddamned hilarious. You haven't lived 'til you've seen a birthday girl with a voice full of heartbreak, strumming slow chords on an acoustic guitar, singing lines like "I been with you five years and you listenin' to your motherfuckin' girlfriends / I don't know why you fuck with them ol' jealous, no-man-havin'-ass hoes anyway."
(P.S.: Throughout the set, North Country bike enthusiast and all-around man-about-town Chris Wells projected weird-ass videos on a screen, and just when the night couldn't get any stranger, he quickly followed "Real Talk" with a candid clip of Lila, Kate and Dani (all of whom were at the Toad, none of whom knew they had been filmed) sitting around a campfire at a dustbowl hoedown party, singing Neutral Milk Hotel's "King of Carrot Flowers" at the top of their lungs. Awesome.)


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In 2004, the quietly masterful Japanese director Kore-Eda Hirokazu (After Life, Still Walking) made Nobody Knows, a shattering film based on a true story, using nonprofessional child actors, and in large part utilizing an off-the-cuff, quasi-documentary style to effectively drive home the grim situation of siblings whose mother abandons them. Kore-Eda's latest feature, the winsome I Wish, just now being released to DVD, reveals itself to be very much a companion to Nobody Knows (the two would make a sublime double feature): In mood, it's 180 degrees from the tragedy depicted in Nobody Knows, but I Wish uses notably similar means to take and develop its rich portrait of what contemporary Japanese childrens' lives in mid-size cities look and feel like, both in their wide-eyed, fanciful, literally "childlike" aspects and in their more solid, mundane realities. No "redemption" was ever needed for Nobody Knows's masterfully and empathetically made (while also very troubling) look at children who are utterly failed by the adult world's neglecting of its responsibilities to them, but I Wish does provides a perfect balance for that picture. It's a counterweight in Kore-eda's filmography, a yang to Nobody Knows's yin, wherein contemporary childrens' lives in Japan's smaller (i.e., not Tokyo or Osaka) outlying metropolises are less despondent or troubled, more bittersweet and guileless rivers flowing toward the choppier waters of adulthood.
At the time we meet them amid their daily routines of school, hanging with friends, and dealing with teachers, parents, and grandparents, the film's protagonists, 12-year-old Koichi (Koki Maeda) and his younger brother, Ryu (Oshira Maeda, Koki's real-life younger brother), have been living apart for six months due to their parents' seemingly inevitable divorce, each in a different town -- Koichi with his mother and his grandparents in Kagoshima, Ryu in the more northerly Hakata -- on Japan's southernmost island of Kyushu, both towns offering their own view of the recently active, still ash-spewing Sakurajima volcano (30 years since the last eruption; their grandfather works as a sort of civil engineer whose team monitors and ameliorates the ash situation). The boys are, however, in touch via cell phone, which provides an invisible link between their lives -- Koichi's busy junior-high existence with his buddies, all of whom crush on their teacher and their school nurse, and Ryu's routine of swim practices, playing with his friends (schoolgirls of different ages), and looking with equal parts admiration and unimpressed skepticism at the footloose existence of their father, a semi-deadbeat dad due to the financial straits that inhere in his struggling-rock-musician vocation. (Perhaps in keeping with that, or possibly as a nod to most contemporary young people's semipermanent iPod attachment, there is much more score here, and much "rockier," too -- courtesy a famous Japanese pop band called Quruli -- than one remembers from Kore-eda's other work, but it fits.)
The wishing referred to in the title derives from a more tangible connection that's in the works between the brothers and their two towns: a soon-to-be-completed extension of Japan's storied bullet-train lines that will run between Kagoshima and Hakata, much better facilitating travel between the two places and physical connection between their people (even, in a point never overemphasized, split-up families). The film's main storyline revolves around Koichi and Ryu's grappling with their distance and their parents' rancor, and the fanciful scheme they develop to get them back together, which is based upon the boys' whimsical, apparently self-invented notion that, if they're present at the exact spot where two bullet trains traveling in opposite directions, at top speed, between their towns, any wish they make at that moment will have serendipity on its side and therefore come true. But the brothers, their conundrum, and the heavily-planned odyssey they and their friends eventually undertake to make their way to the wish-fulfilling sweet spot are just an epicenter for the film's ever-widening circle of sincere interest in and empathy for all of its "little" people's "ordinary" lives, setbacks, and hopes. When we cut, for one example, to a very brief shot that reveals the boys' mother has taken the supermarket-clerk job she was initially unwilling to because of the shame she, at age 30, would feel were her former classmates to see her reduced to wage-slave status (or, for another, when one of Ryu's friends, a sweet-natured aspiring actress already landing parts in commercials, bears the brunt of her mother's discouraging hostility and derives courage from the bullet-train expedition with which to assert herself), it feels not at all like digressions, but a natural, ever-widening circle of Kore-eda's assured design that wants to encompass as much of life as it can. Thus does I Wish casually reveal its true nature as a relaxed, subtle, character-driven picture whose plot has been kept simple by design to allow it plenty of air to breathe, a liberating "slowness" that lets us feel the various rhythms of not just Koichi's and Ryu's lives, but that of a great many of the people, and even big swathes of the entire cities, around them. Emphasizing anything "symbolic" is the last thing this deceptively modest movie would do, but the wary viewer will note that one of these little details encompassed by the expansive, unconditional hug I Wish means to give its characters are the little cakes Koichi's and Ryu's grandfather hopes to market, which have a flavor described alternately as faint and, more accurately, as mellow -- also the perfect description for the not-too-strongly sweet flavor of the film itself.
The performances are roundly unaffected and naturalistic in the best way, vindicating Kore-eda's choice to work with mostly nonprofessionals (particularly the children), but Kore-eda's style, too, though always flexible and self-effacing, has been modified to fit his story. None of his work that I've seen is ever less than calm and relaxed in its pacing, eager to let us slow down and get a real sense of the simple richness of the lives being lived onscreen. Here, though, he lets not just the pacing but the stylistic parameters themselves relax in a more literal way, to the point of becoming almost freewheeling: He's given us forays away from his most recognizable, contemplative, Ozu-like compositions (for which there are still plentiful occasions in I Wish) before, veering off into cinema-vérité hand-held sequences in Nobody Knows; here, however, he segues more freely between those modes, and finds plenty of room left over for surprises without precedent in his work, like the aforementioned pop/rock score, or a breathtaking, entirely unexpected and spontaneous-feeling montage at the film's crucial moment that includes within it flashbacks and even animation (!) as one of the children's drawings comes to brief, smile-eliciting life. Kore-eda is too sage, sensitive, and inventive to force his film to conform to preconceived notions of what it means to be a child (full of wonder, etc.); he builds the film's joyful tone and lyricism from the elemental level up, improvising with the kids from a skeletal script and bringing a child's simple, unabashed eagerness to the film's camera eye (and to the wonderfully intuitive flow of the editing, which he has not incidentally undertaken himself). Even the most humdrum urban-infrastructure settings are granted a delicate, light, sunset-pastel feel through the grace of Kore-eda's blockings and rhythms, all immeasurably enhanced by Yutaka Yamasaki's (Kore-eda's habitual cameraman) kindred-spirited gift for lighting and lensing the film's children and their worlds.
It's just slightly misleading to claim Kore-eda as an heir to Ozu, since the great, late Ozu's and his contemporary countryman have ways of showing us life that differ significantly (Ozu's compositions are always meticulously precise and most often quite still, whereas Kore-eda, though many of his shots of daily/familial life in the Japanese city certainly do partake of that contemplative stillness one associates with Ozu, has a less minutely concentrated sensibility and is sometimes just as likely to give us New Wave-style shaky-handheld shots or wide, Antonioni-esque views of his characters placed firmly within their natural and architectural environments), but the comparison is both tempting and apt, for the life they mean to show us -- its joys and tragedies inevitable, its worthiness unmistakable and inherent in each everyday, even mundane detail -- is very much the same. It's not that I Wish is any more or less life-affirming, for all its markedly more ebullient tone, when compared to the other Kore-eda films that have made him a name in the West, at least among the cinephilic. If anything, his more subdued, more melancholy films are living, irrefutable proof that life needn't always be affirmed through frenetically happy endings or forcible accentuations of the positive, and can in fact be much more deeply appreciated through a calm, accepting acknowledgment of human life's inevitable snares and reversals. But I Wish does distinguish itself as perhaps the purest, simplest (though never simplistic), most unqualified expression yet of Kore-eda's habitual embrace of life -- an honestly and authentically brightly-colored new entry (may there be many more to come) in what by now stands as an impressively large gallery of films from one of the most warmly observant, visually delightful, honestly humanistic writer/director currently working.
The transfer of the film presented here, which widescreen-anamorphically preserves its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1, is quite nicely done. The often delicate color palette and lighting (differently calibrated for nighttime interiors, mid-day or dusk exteriors, etc.) comes through very well, and it appears that most if not all of its 35 mm celluloid texture has been retained, without falling victim to over-clean up via digital noise reduction (DNR). I noted very little aliasing, and any edge enhancement/haloing is kept to a barely-noticeable minimum. An excellent transfer overall.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 (in Japanese, with optional English or Spanish subtitles) surround track conveys in great, rich detail all the documentary-direct dialogue and ambient noises, as well as kicking into the all-channels high-gear as the story occasionally necessitates, i.e., putting us sonically right up close to those bullet trains. Everything is sonorously immediate and full, with no distortion or imbalance to muddy the aural waters.
I hesitate to describe Kore-Eda Hirokazu's I Wish as gentle and sweet and fail to do justice to its surprisingly powerful emotional heft (which I don't hesitate to admit brought me near tears), but those descriptors have to stand, since the film's ability to move so deeply would have been impossible without its fearless embrace of gentleness and sweetness. That doesn't, however, mean that there's even a smudge of sentimental goo to mar its story of two brothers forced to live apart because of their parents' divorce; these siblings' and their friends' fanciful ideas about how, by being at the right place at the right time, they can make their wishes come true; and, most importantly, the oft-invisible but unbendingly strong familial connections that hold together all the everyday routines of their lives. The film isn't projecting some fantasy of childlikeness onto its kids, but taking its characters' childish attributes, positive and negative, on good faith, and it makes a world of difference: Neither unfairly pigeonholed as precocious spewers of sass or falsely ennobled as guileless naïfs, 12-year-old Koichi, his 8-year-old brother, Ryu, and their friends become real in a way that's authentic and compelling, as do their fallings-out, reconciliations, misadventures, and newfound wisdom, all of which threads its way seamlessly through the film's calm, quietly rich portrait of family life in contemporary Japan. I Wish is decidedly "lighter" than Kore-eda's other, more dramatically fraught films with their frankly grown-up problems, for example 1999's After Life and 2008's Still Walking (or 2004's Nobody Knows, in which the children are unfairly forced to handle grown-up problems before their time), but it's very much of a piece with this wonderful, unfailingly humanistic director's genuinely open-hearted, unabashedly beautiful body of work, which at this point is already a constellation replete with enough stellar works (I Wish absolutely included) to distinguish it as one for the ages, an especially bright spot in postmillennial world cinema. Highly Recommended.


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