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Feedback: Best fertiliser regime for good harvest from Hass, Fuerte avocados
Friday May 25 2018
Please give me advice on the best fertiliser application and pruning of Hass and Fuerte varieties. What should be the ideal height and diameter of the canopy?
David Bor
To obtain maximum growth and optimum yields, it is important to supply the avocados with necessary nutrients. It is, however, dangerous to give excessive amounts on any size of trees at one time as it may cause root damage, leaf burn and defoliation.
The type of fertiliser to be used depends on soil pH. In the planting year, it is advisable not to top dress the orchard since this may retard root development during the first 4-5 months after planting.
After this period, 60g of 26 per cent of N fertiliser should be applied after every three months when the soil is moist. In addition, about 25kg of well-rotten manure should be spread around the trees after each year.
The following are recommendations for N and P fertilisers to be applied each year (CAN and SSP) per tree:
1st year after planting: 60g CAN + 250g SSP
2nd year: 85g CAN + 500g SSP
3rd year: 500g CAN + 750g SSP
4th year : 750g CAN + 750g SSP
5th year: 1kg CAN + 750g SSP
6th year: 2kg CAN + 1kg SSP
7th year: 3kg CAN + 1.5kg SSP
8th year: 4kg CAN + 2kg SSP
9th year: 5kg CAN + 2.5kg SSP
10th year: 6kg CAN + 3kg SSP
The CAN should be applied in splits. The use of farmyard manure is particularly strongly recommended because it improves the physical condition of the soil and promotes the adsorption in the soil and uptake by the plant of micronutrients.
Avocado trees also have a very high requirement for potassium, magnesium and zinc. Measures should therefore be taken to supplement these when they fall short.
Pruning: Normally, no pruning is required besides the removal of broken and diseased branches and trimming those touching the ground.
Sucker growth is checked to remove shoots coming out of the rootstock.
Carol Mutua,
Department of Crops, Horticulture and Soils, Egerton University.
Please refer me to any turkey farmer around Nairobi. My younger sister wants to venture into the business. I would appreciate any advice.
Esther Nasike, Nairobi
I am interested in turkey farming. Is there a farm in Nairobi that I can visit?
Mwaura, Nanyuki
Rearing turkey for commercial purposes is a profitable business idea. The birds can be kept for meat production, which is the most popular, eggs or as pets/prestige.
The objectives notwithstanding, it is important that you understand the basics not limited to feeding, health management and products market analysis.
The easiest way to know these is through learning from experienced farmers. For Nairobi and its environs, contact Dr Subiri Obwogo on [email protected]
Felix Akatch Opinya,
Department of Animal Sciences, Egerton University.
I'm 21 and I plan to start a dairy goat farm in Nyeri. Is there market for goat milk?
Dairy goat production is one of the ventures you can hardly go wrong as long as you begin with the right breeds, offer good management for optimal performance and have assured market for the milk produced.
In Nyeri, Dairy Goat Association of Kenya (DGAK) works in collaboration with government to carry out their activities and deliver to farmers services such as maintenance of high quality animals, marketing of dairy goats and their products and trainings. Contact them through 0721398906/0734530201 or email [email protected]
Felix Akatch Opinya,
Department of Animal Sciences, Egerton University.
Please answer the following:
1) Is there a special banana variety meant for export or is it the normal one we grow locally?
2) If there is, where can we get the export variety locally?
Banana varieties which are exported from Kenya include Giant Cavendish, Lacatan, Sabaki, Valery, Red banana (all dessert types), Apple (sweet banana) and Ugandan green (cooking type).
All these banana varieties are locally available.
Carol Mutua,
Department of Crops, Horticulture and Soils, Egerton University.
I am interested in farming garlic and capsicum on my 1.5 hectare farm. It is located in Narok, on your way to Nakuru (about 50km from Narok), which means it borders Mau Forest.
It's not as cold as Mau but nevertheless, it's cold. My question is, can these two or either of them do well there? I will appreciate your response.
Garlic will do well in Narok. Capsicums are warm season crops and are highly susceptible to frost. The optimum temperature for capsicum growth and development is 21-24°C for sweet pepper and 21-29°C for hot pepper.
The minimum temperature for both types is 18°C and maximum is 27°C (sweet pepper) and 35°C (hot pepper).
Therefore, capsicums may not do well in Narok because of low temperatures unless you plant them in a greenhouse.
Carol Mutua,
Department of Crops, Horticulture and Soils, Egerton University.
I am a pig farmer in Limuru and I would like to know whether there is a way of weighing the pigs manually in the absence of a weighing scale.
Kindly note that there are weigh bands available in the market which farmers can use to get live weights for their animals (pigs included).
Some of the tapes have scales for cattle, pigs and goats. You can buy from agrovets and always ensure it has the scale for species you keep (pigs).
Musyoka Duncan Mbai,
Department of animal Sciences, Egerton University.


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Being Human (US) - Season 02
Aidan tries to keep the peace in Boston by trying to satisfy Bishop's followers with donated blood until Mother, the queen of the vampires, arrives to pass judgement on Aidan and the others. Nora moves in with Josh, Aidan, and Sally, and while unable to see her,...
Genre: TV Show, Drama, Horror, Fantasy,
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The implemented process monitoring ensures constant transparency of the manufacturing status and the possibility to quickly implement modifications. A continuous flow of information and client support are very important for LR Fahrzeugbau. This is also emphasized through the quality management according to ISO 9001:2015 standard.
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Exhibits allow insight into the operation of a technical system. Perfect technical implementation and high-quality surfaces, supported by multimedia animation make these exhibits an optical experience and a highlite in each show.
From design sketch and first sample to complete exhibits, LR Fahrzeugbau is an experienced partner. No matter if portable sample cases for sales force or entire vehicles, with complete moving powertrain for worldwide exhibition purposes – the individuality of an exhibit is as broad as the variety of products.
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Trickle-Down Trump Is Pissed
So to speak.
Hair Hostility can't help himself. No impulse control. He must share his bile. Meryl Streep is overrated. U.S. intelligence agencies are like Nazis. CNN is fake news. Yada-yada-yada.
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I know I know this is way late. but you can start on it for next year right?
Brook and I wanted to do a Halloween Countdown there are so many cute ones out there but this is what we came up with.
(Sorry the picture is upside down)
We made countdown cards each different and each super cute
On the back we attached different activities with velcro. That way next year when the days change we can change the activities so we can actually do them.
It was super fun and super exciting to get a new activity to do everyday as we waited for Halloween!!!


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Who's watching your home when you're away? It can be more than your neighbor. Though much of your belongings could be easily replaced, most of your "special" souvenirs and beneficial items could be irreplaceable. If you're unsure whether you require a door alarm system, below are some factors why you should put in one.
1. Protection from burglars – Protection from burglars is obviously the most outstanding benefit of this system. All of the alarm systems are produced with this feature in mind. When the gate is opened, the alarm sounds, and you will be able to understand that someone is at the gate. Additionally, because these systems are extremely cheap, it is possible to put them to use to your front and back gates at a very low cost. Door Alarm systems will usually be combination of noise and light and so are intended to make the surrounding area mindful that a home invasion is taking place. Basically, the purpose of the alarm would be to surprise those in the process of breaking in to your dwelling and make them flee before they are able to steal anything. Although this doesn't always work, a good alarm will work as a deterrent.
2.Fire Protection – Besides sensing the entry or exit of any person, these systems also are perfect for sensing smoke and carbon monoxide. In the US, it is required by law that all homes and businesses has to be equipped with working smoke alarms. However, carbon monoxide detectors aren't that common in households. When you buy a door alarm, additionally, it offers you these 2 additional benefits at no extra cost. Nevertheless, understand that even if you have a door alarm, you'll need a smoke alarm.
3.Property insurance discount – Setting up door alarm systems isn't only good for your home safety. Additionally, it is useful with regards to property insurance. Home insurance providers offer you special discounts to properties with alarm systems since the risk of robbery is really a lot lower when compared with those without alarm system.
Once a burglar gains entry to your garage, they're able to work undetected and the tools that they need are often right there. They may be able to open your garage door, and back their vehicle inside to take out items from your house secretly. Nevertheless, door alarms can be a dosage to their own medicine. The need for a door alarm system should not be ignored.


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Whitehaven Coal Maules Creek project stalled by protests
Australia's Whitehaven Coal (ASX:WHC) hit another roadblock on Monday when dozens of protesting traditional owners formed a picket line at the company's Maules Creek mine and workers walked off the job in north-west New South Wales, The Guardian reports.
The project received final government approval last week after three years of regulatory review during which the company spent A$160 million. Whitehaven was expecting to begin construction of roads and other infrastructure this week and to be selling coal by the second half of 2014.
"The project has been through one of the most rigorous planning approvals processes ever undertaken by a mine in New South Wales and has been reviewed by a wide range of highly regarded environmental experts," Paul Flynn, the company's managing director said in a statement last Thursday.
But aboriginal communities are not convinced and are concerned that the mine will eliminate 4000 acres of "culturally significant forest, artefacts and cultural values," Stephen Talbot, a spokesman for traditional owners told The Guardian.
Talbot says the protests will continue on Tuesday with more demonstrators expected to attend.
The Maules Creek open cut mine is expected to extract up to 13 Mt of coal per year and would clear areas of the Leard State Forest where Whitehaven operates another mine, the Tarrawonga project.
Idemitsu Kosan, a Japanese mining company, also operates a coal mine in the Leard forest.
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Dropbox to Close Carousel and Mailbox
Dropbox has announced that it is closing its Carousel photo sharing app and service, and its Mailbox mobile email service. If you have used or have planned to use either of these services, read the Dropbox's blog post that explains these closings and provides links for more information for users of either service.
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Wesley Helps Give "Hope for the Children of Africa"
Hope for the Children of Africa is a task force of the Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Methodist Church. Since 2000 through a partnership with the South Congo Episcopal Area, we support two orphanages and collaborate with mission teams in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
This spring, the churches in the Pacific Northwest UMC conference donated $80,000 to Jamaa Letu orphanages: $40,000 for the boys' orphanage and $40,000 for the girls.'
Wesley UMC provided approximately $571 to the campaign. Please know that donations can be made at any time of the year to the Jamaa Letu orphanages. Just put your contribution in an envelope marked Hope for the Children of Africa or Jamaa Letu. It will be sent to the PNW UMC conference office.
You can learn more about "Hope for the Children of Africa" here.


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This slatwall poster rack has deep fitments so is ideal for larger format or more 'difficult' sized print items such as maps, posters, guides etc. It has been manufactured from high impact acrylic so is great for busy retail environments and is easy to clean and maintain.
The slatwall poster rack can be ordered online today and is part of our extensive range of shelves and shelving units for retailers, caterers and reception/waiting areas. Most of the items are manufactured by us in theUK and all are offered at 'direct' prices and ready to order online.


text: Return-to-play Guidelines After Concussion: The Message Is Getting ThroughGoodman, David PhD; Gaetz, Michael PhDClinical Journal of Sport Medicine: September 2002 - Volume 12 - Issue 5 - p 265 Editorial Free Author InformationAuthors Article OutlineOutline School of Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Address correspondence to Dr. David Goodman, School of Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada. E-mail: email@example.com REFERENCES The interest in concussion occurring during sport has grown considerably in the past few years. Medical practitioners, sport scientists and other researchers, athletes, and the media have all become more aware of the nature and magnitude of the problems that may follow a concussion. Journals, conferences, and the popular press have addressed this issue with increasing frequency. A review of MEDLINE databases (PubMed) revealed that in the 15 years from 1982 to 1996, only 101 articles addressed the issue of concussion; in the 5 years since, there has been a tripling of the rate of reporting on this important topic. An electronic search using a popular Internet search engine (Google) revealed 28,300 articles using the keywords "concussion" and "hockey"! Although these numbers must be viewed with caution, they serve as a gross indicator of the increasing level of interest regarding concussion in sport. Major concerns, expressed in several research articles, 1 are the immediate and long-term effects of these injuries. As an awareness of the importance of managing concussion has increased, so has the number of return-to-play guidelines that have been published. 2 Our own experience suggests the significance of these return-to-play guidelines is being felt in at least one amateur sport: hockey. Our data 3 are encouraging. Beginning in 1998, a 2-year study involving the British Columbia Junior Hockey League (BCHL) examined the problem of concussion in junior hockey. More than 270 players (aged 16–21 years) from 14 teams participated in the investigation, which included a detailed retrospective and prospective player questionnaire. An important element of the questionnaire was a comprehensive history of previous concussion that permitted an analysis of return to play after any such injury experienced from 1995 to 1999. Virtually all players (more than 90%) who were members of a team at the beginning of the season responded by completing the questionnaire. Of those, almost 60% had sustained at least one concussion while playing hockey. In response to the question "Did you return to the same practice or game (after a concussion)?," 66% of the players indicated "No" in 1995, but by 1999 the percentage had increased to 83%. This substantial increase in the percentage of players who suffered a concussion of some form and did not return to the practice or game is encouraging. When asked "If you did not return to the same game or practice (after a concussion), when did you return to play?," the responses indicated that only 25% of the athletes delayed their return beyond 1 week in 1995; by 1999, that figure had increased to 58%. Taken together, the responses indicate that during a 5-year period, there is an indication that junior hockey players are convalescing longer before returning to play after a concussion. The message, it seems, is getting through. It is difficult to identify one factor as being responsible for this change in athlete behavior. Greater public awareness of the significant problems that can follow concussions, the publicity attached to the career-ending concussions of high-profile players, and changing levels of awareness of coaches, trainers, players, and team staff all played their part in effecting a change in the manner in which concussions were addressed. Participation in a research project designed to improve the assessment of concussion undoubtedly raised the consciousness of many in the league and compelled an examination of return-to-play guidelines. Continual, intensive education of coaches, trainers, and team physicians regarding the appropriate management of concussions will allow this welcome trend to continue.Back to Top | Article Outline REFERENCES 1. Meheroz H, Rabadi H, Jordan B. The cumulative effect of repetitive concussion in sport. Clin J Sport Med 2001; 11:194–198. Cited Here... | View Full Text | PubMed | CrossRef 2. Johnston KM, McCrory P, Mohtadi N, et al. Evidence-based review of sports-related concussion: clinical science. Clin J Sport Med 2001; 11:150–159. Cited Here... | View Full Text | PubMed | CrossRef 3. Goodman D, Gaetz M, Meichenbaum D. Concussion in hockey: there is cause for concern. Med Sci Sport Exerc 2001; 33:2004–2009. Cited Here... | View Full Text | PubMed | CrossRef © 2002 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.


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Two years ago, on a 720 mile drive, Brooklynn developed an attachment to a blanket. We thought it was great. She would hold it in her car seat. She held it when she went to sleep. She used it to calm herself down. She never had used a pacifier as a baby, so this was her soothing device, or more literally, her security blanket. And it would be ok. Kids outgrow this stuff eventually, right? But no only does she hold her blanket; she chews it. After two years of being in her mouth, the blanket is not great looking[1. We have a few different blankets, but she has settled on one of them that we only have one of to be her main nighttime one.]. She needs one at school for naptime. She needs one at home for nighttime. We have mostly eliminated the blanket during the days, but we still coordinate our laundry schedule around her nap time to make sure a blanket is available.
At the end of the week, the blanket smells disgusting, especially on Saturday morning when she brings it with her and wants to stick it in my mouth while we lay in bed. "You want it, it's good," she tells me. No Brooklynn, I most certainly do not want that thing anywhere near my face. And so, it's time for the blanket to go[2. If only she didn't chew it. I like to hold a pillow when I sleep, so I'm not really one to talk of soothing issues, but at least my pillow doesn't reek of stale saliva at the end of the week.].
We've been talking with her for quite some time that when she is a big girl, she doesn't need her blanket. She agrees. In June, we settled on when she turns three, she doesn't need her blanket. Except for the fact that we had a long road trip coming up again, so we pushed back to mid-July.
No, blanket right? Not when you're a big girl? Nope, and nope. Big girls don't have blankets, from the mouth of a three-year old. Her cousins don't use blankets. Other kids at school don't use blankets.
So last night, after Rhiannon and I discussed the fact we would rather go through the pain of blanket separation before she goes back to work in August, we initiated the removal of the blanket.
We talked to Brooklynn about how she really doesn't need one. Agreed.
We talked about how if she sleeps through the night without a blanket, she could have a good treat in the morning. That's very good.
We talked about how if she goes for three nights and earns three stickers, we can go to the pool this weekend. Wonderful.
And then it came time to go to bed. She grabbed her blanket and climbed in. Remember, no blanket. We were really trying to get her to give it up voluntarily because she is a big girl now rather than just taking it from her or having it just mysteriously be gone one night. She took the blanket out of her mouth and handed it to Rhiannon.
And then immediately grabbed it back and started crying.
We talked about all the reasons why she didn't need it, and the fact that she has her Curious George monkey to hold, and she agreed to every one of the statements we were making, all the while clutching her blanket tightly.
So eventually, we stopped trying to talk her into giving it up. We kissed her goodnight, and as I was getting ready to leave her room, she asked, "Daddy, you want my blanket?" and held it out to me.
So I took it. I told her she was a very big girl and I got two steps away before she started screaming.
I took the blanket outside her room while she dissolved into tears and sobs about how she wanted her blanket. She wants to give it up, but she has no idea how to soothe herself without it. So I sat with her. Her fingers were rigid and outstreched with both hands held awkwardly at her sides. I had to hold her hands and cuddle her to stop some of the physical stress she was going through not having a blanket to hold.
I laid down with her. Rhiannon came and talked with her. Thirty minutes later, she was still sobbing. Finally, Curious George playing and being silly and the fact that it was an hour past her normal bedtime was enough to get her to sleep.
She made it 5 hours before she was in our room crying for her blanket. Rhiannon went back and laid with her again for a little while. Let's hope that this bedtime routine doesn't become a habit as well.
Night one with no blanket is over. We hope that was the worst. I don't know how naptime today will go, or tomorrow with no blanket at school. At this point, with all the work and crying we put in last night, we really don't want to go back. Step one in being a big girl complete.


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Revise the ADA Law to STOP Service Dog Fraud
This petition had 447 supporters
Service animals are wonderful companions and partners for people with varying levels of disabilities. They help the blind to see, alert the deaf to things like an alarm clock, and help those in wheelchairs with daily tasks such as picking up a cell phone that was dropped on the floor. To obtain these animals is a very time consuming, and often costly, process. Very few organizations in this country, such as Guiding Eyes for the Blind, or Canine Companion for Independence, are able to provide these animals. There is a screening process that can often take months, so that there is a perfect match between the person and their new working partner and friend. Even with this, there are still people who slip through and claim a pet as a service animal. Due to a lack of education, many will give them a pass. The current law states that a service dog is a dog that has been specially trained to perform one or more tasks to enhance their handler's safety and independence. Such tasks can also include medical alerts to seizures and diabetic issues and other medical episodes that inhibit their handler's ability to live a normal life. I'm not saying that we should abolish "owner training," people who enlist private trainers rather than going through a program, as I have high respect for owner trainer's out there as long as they go about it the right way. All I'm saying is that we need to provide better education to service dog handlers everywhere so that the "frauds" can get the message and leave Fido at home.
By signing this petition you are agreeing to:
Enforce the laws that are already in place to protect service dog handlers and their dogs.
Provide better education to the public as it pertains to service dogs entering businesses and other places where "normal" dogs aren't allowed.
Shutdown the private distributors of service dog vests and other equipment and subjecting them to fines
The launch of a federal and/or state mandated service dog registry system. Which would require all handlers to have their animal micro chipped or tattooed to help with the reunification of the animal should it become lost or stolen.
The recommendation that all service dog handlers connect with professional trainers to ensure that their dogs meet the requirements mandated by federal law to enter the public.
Hefty fines for all persons who pass off their pets as service animals.
Carrying around both proof of training and shot records at all times to protect yourself and your service animal in the event of a catastrophic event such as an attack by a "fake service animal."
It is also my hope that if we can get enough signatures that Congress will listen to us! Let's make a change starting today!
For more information visit the link provided. Thanks! �
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text: As a cozy fan who works in academia, I love to read (and write) cozy mysteries that take place on college campuses or feature sleuthing professors. While there are some great contemporary campus cozies, there aren't, nearly enough. Campus cozies are greatly outnumbered by cat, culinary, and craft subgenres.But if you're willing to broaden your horizons a little, you can find a great read that skewers Machiavellian administrators, Byzantine bureaucracy, pompous professors, and slacker students.Here are five of my favorites. The publication date or genre might place them outside of the contemporary cozy category, but consider giving them a place in your library. As in your favorite cozies, sex and violence take place offstage; entertaining characters, rich settings, and compelling stories are front and center.Read more: Guest Post/Virtual Tour with Giveaway ~ The Black Thumb by Frankie Bow


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The Aegir family is based on a proven commercial design offering a mature yet customisable blueprint for unique capability requirements.
By adopting commercial design rules, local shipyards are able to build and support Aegir-based designs, meaning that customers not only benefit from tailored solutions, but can also guarantee sovereign control for supportability post-build.
This blueprint for economical tanker design has already been adopted by several of the world's navies, including the UK's Royal Fleet Auxiliary who recently chose a detailed customisation of the Aegir-based platform as their preferred solution for their MARS tanker.
The twin skeg hull-form extends double-hull protection to bunkers as well as cargo tanks and is capable of handling warships' waste water discharges.
The propulsion configuration capitalises on energy efficiencies gained from new technologies. The system facilitates standard naval auxiliary practices for reliable and efficient operation at task force speeds over extended periods, yet is flexible and economic at all other times.
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I read an article recently that recommended walking with bare feet. I've been dutifully trotting outside each morning while I wait for my coffee to brew and walking on the little gravel patch on the side of the house.
Back and forth. Bare legs. Bare arms. Bare feet.
The rocks are hard and cold on my tender feet. It hurts. I feel the nerves in my legs responding and muscles contracting. I feel where I am unstable and where I overcompensate. It's fascinating and disturbing but answers some questions about my body. Doing this makes me feel very vulnerable. I become aware of things I need to change and of the temporal nature of life. It's also making me feel stronger and more alive, day by day.


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This is a Complaint / Review about Kohl's.
June 2, 2013 I bought a Philips Sonicare, model HX6512/50. Kohl's offered a $20 rebate for item purchased between 5/5/13 and 6/30/13 and if the rebate application was postmarked by 8/15/13. I met these requirements. I sent the original Kohl's rebate form, along with the original proof-of-purchase (UPC symbol) and my original Kohl's dated sales receipt. I checked status of my rebate with Kohl's on-line website and Kohl's says they have no knowledge of my rebate request. I kept copies of all that I originally sent.
Thank You for reading of this Complaint / Review. For viewing of other complaints, reviews or scam reports about Kohl's, press here. Complaint author: domschot
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Today a comment made by a friend inspired a few tweets, which are now turning into this post as it prompted some inspiration. It is the suggestion of a classification of gods into "dark" and "light" gods, as if to give some sort of division in the ranks of the gods of that which is innately "good" and that which are "dangerous". Yet it seems to me that either of these would easily in fact apply to any deity in some manner or another. However, Apollon seems to be, quite erroneously, held up to a standard in which he is a god that opposes all of the traditional associations with darkness as is a god, not only of light, but of those qualities which seems to negate those….reason over magic/illusion. A lot of this seems to be based in early explorations regarding a sort of neo-dichotomy between Apollon and Dionysos which appears largely based on the early work of Neitzche in an attempt to polarize the gods into separation of what is primal and earthly (dark) and what is intellectual and civilized (Apollon). Unfortunately one of the side affects is that it delivers a rather skewed perception of Apollon that actually has the additional affect of driving away worshipers, or alarming new worshipers when they discover he is not all kindness, sunshine and rainbows. That he is as a tempest…and yet that is very true of each of three cousins who are primarily light bearing deities: Apollon, Artemis and their cousin Hekate. Each of them has a kind of violence associated with their activity in nature, which more importantly seems to me that it is directly related to their association with light.
This is because from observation it seems that any who bears any kind of light or illumination is themselves at least partially or mostly obscured in darkness. They shed light in all corners but on themselves except what they wish to be seen. Therefore any light bearing deity would be in this mode considered "dark". They are obscure and black as pitch. Consider too the darkness of the Agyieus stone, the upright pillar of the the most unfathomable and obscure and archaic part of the nature of the god. This would be no different to any practice of erecting a firey pillar of light as one is so enamored and captivated by the light it sheds that we do not realize instantly that we are not seeing the source of the illumination. We are blinded by their light. Yet that very dark source is the very being which is generative/nurturing, protective, knowing and destroying.
Yet one may protest, but Apollon is a god of civilization, knowledge, healing etc. This is true, yet he is a healer for being a destroyer, for he averts and drives away the miasma that he himself can also inflict one with. He is a prominent lord of civilization in such a manner that he is a god who opens the way of civilized life by holding in check the wilderness that he loves and often dwells in, especially considering how many of his temples were on the boundaries of their cities, and his pastoral nature that allows for the survival of the people. He is that which brutally cuts away illusion, which at times can be painful to us. He is Bacchic, rejoicing among his nymphs and muses in their company of the splendor of Dionysos (as does Artemis). He is a slayer of men even as he is a protector of children with his twin. Like Hekate he holds keys to the fathomless recesses of the unknown from which he bubbles like a sacred spring his holy prophecy. Meanwhile Artemis is a healing goddess and a goddess who brings on madness too. Even though such dichotomy is obvious in any deity, it seems to swing even more sharply and be more apparent in the natures of the torch bearers. So to suggest a pairing of deities (like Apollon and Hekate for instance which inspired this whole mess) as being a good dichotomy of worship because one is "dark" and one is "light" completely misses one of the most important points…..that there is no such division in truth. And what may be perceived as light can be the most pitch black of all.


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Consider this article sort of a longwinded placeholder until I document a full installation with closeup images.
Its not hard to install an MGB top (aka hood), but it is kind of fiddly. Moss has been selling Robbins tops for years and they are probably the best top available, now that Coventry (the OEM) has stopped making them. I have installed dozens of them. I guess its time to do a write-up.
Disregarding any mechanical repairs, it takes about 3.5-4 hours to install a new hood. Plan for a whole afternoon if you have not done it before.
First of all, inspect your top bows for fit and operation. Its pointless to install a new top on bows that don't work.
There are three types of bows. Early cars came with either Scissors bows or a stow-away. Scissors bows are not particularly well liked and should only be used if you are keeping an early car original. '71 and later cars came with a folding top. If the bows bolt to the car body, its a folding top. If the bows drop into a rectangular socket and are not bolted to the header rail, you've got a stow-away. Its possible to use a stow-away hood on a later car and its possible to install a later folding hood onto an early car. Some people like the option of removing the top in the summer to gain the extra space. You need to know what you have to so that you order the right one. Additionally, there is also the choice of fixed or zip-out window. That is completley up to you. Fixed windows tend to stay nice and taught, which improves visibility. Zip out windows let you zip the window out for better ventilation, but the window tends to be a bit wavy when zipped in place.
Once you know what top to order, be sure to order a new header seal. Also, have a look at the aluminum strip that holds the header seal. If it is beat up, order one of those too.
If you still have a top on the car, check it for operation. Make sure it goes up and down smoothly and ends up centered on the windscreen. Check the shape of the bows, they should be smoothly convex as they go from side to side, not flat across the top from having boxes piled on top. If you need to adjust or fix things, now would be a good time to razor blade the old top off. Starting from just aft of the wing window, where the inner snap flap joint is, cut up through the sewn seams, then straight across the top to the other side. Don't worry about the part left on the header. We are doing the bows now. If you have a folding top, the rear bow may be attached to the hood with little cloth strips called listing. Slice that off too. Extract the anchor bar from the rear edge of the old top and save it. Once your bows are in good shape, you can continue with installation. I prefer to remove the bows for cleanup, but you can do it in place.
I will continue as if you have folding bows. In the case of stow-away bows you can clean them up at your leisure since they are not attached to the top. The installation and fitting at the header are the same for all hoods.
Remove your bows from the car by holding them about half way erected and by then the three screws (#3 Pozidriv, not Philips!) per side. This is easier with two people. There may or may not be a plate for a tonneau bar clamped behind the bows. If the six long screws are buggered up, or any of the captive nuts in the body are missing or loose, now is the time to replace or fix them. If there are any cracked welds or loose rivets on the bows, now is the time to fix them.
Remove the remnants of the old top from the header. This may or may not help you in installing the new one, depending if it was done right by previous guy. At each end, there should be a single counter-sunk screw (#2 Pozi) with a flush trim washer. Unscrew and save. If this screw is missing, which is common, you will need to source #6 counter sunk sheet metal screw with a suitable flush trim washer. Flush washers have a larger surface area than a similarly sized countersunk washer a nd are preferable. There will be two hard plastic bumpers with flat headed sheet metal screws. Sometimes hood material is under the edge of these. If so, loosen the screws to free up the material. There are a dozen or so 1/8" pop rivets holding the aluminum strip to the bottom of the header rail. Drill these out with an 1/8" drill bit. If your header rail has been drilled out to take larger pop rivets or *gasp* sheet metal screws, by previous guy, get a new header, or locate a used one from your local club/Flea Bay. Larger fasteners make the header seal want to push out and its generally not worth the trouble to repair a buggered header. If the holes in the aluminum strip are all wallowed out from repeated installations or the seal retaining lip is all bashed up for whatever reason, buy a new one. They are cheap.
At the top of the driver's side end of the header is a small hole. Shake the remnants of all the dead pop rivets out of the header via this hole, so it doesn't sound like a rain stick every time you put your hood up or down. You can open this hole with a uni-bit to make extraction easier. Clean off any old adhesive with adhesive solvent. If you want to paint your bows with satin black paint, now is the time. Don't forget to clean and paint the anchor bar as well, if it needs it. If you elect to repaint your bows, let the paint cure a couple of days, so that it won't be affected by solvents in the glue. If you had to drill out the little access hole to a larger size, you can find little flush plastic plugs to fill the hole at the hardware store. The plug will not be visible under the new top, but the edge of a large hole might be.
Gather ye your supplies. You will need some good contact cement. Either buy a small can of brush-on DAP Weldwood or opt for a spray-can of Weldwood or 3M Extra Strength (not Super 77 or repositionable). It must have a "spider-web" vertical spray pattern, not a generic round aerosol pattern. Spray adhesive is faster to use, but you can also make a bigger mess if you have not used it before. Brush-on takes longer between coats, but is more idiot-proof. Your call.
Pick up a small roll of 4-6" masking paper, or newspapers, and a roll of masking tape.
Grab a box of cheap single-edged razor blades. Top material is tough stuff and you will go through more than a few.
Get a supply of 1/8" aluminum pop rivets. You will want a 2-4 of the longer, 3/8" ones for double-thick areas, but short ones will suffice for the rest.
Obviously, you will need a pop-rivet tool.
You will need a #2 Pozi screwdriver (#2 Phillips, under duress, don't get me started) and a small awl or scribe.
You will also need a 1/8" hole punch and a Durable DOT snap installer tool. You can buy a crappy one at your local fabric store or you can beg/bribe your local upholstery guy to crimp the final two snaps at the top of the windscreen.
Pro-tip: spring for a can of 3M adhesive remover, about $16 for a quart. It is not only great for cleaning up contact cement, it is good for all kinds of clean up jobs in the shop. Also, it won't eat your car's paint. You will find that it becomes your second most-reached-for can o' stuff, right after your favorite penetrating oil, which is Kroil.
Install your bows back onto the car and make sure they operate correctly, nice and straight, and the header ends up centered side-to side on the windscreen. Leave the bows up, but not latched.
Take a look at the front corner area of the new top. This is the most important part and how this is installed will determine 98% of how good your top looks once finished. There is the main stretch of material that goes across the header. Parallel to the top of the door glass flap, there is a shorter, double-thick flap with a scalloped front corner, next to the edge binding. Finally there is a small, thin strip hanging out at a funny angle. Once you have located these parts, we can talk about how they go on the car. Over the years, I have seen almost every possible combination that these bits can be attached to a header, and most of them are wrong.
It might help to connect the back part of the top to the car at this point.
Bear in mind that you can NEVER fold an MGB hood while the rear is hooked to the car. It will stress the seams of the top and you will most likely permanently damage the windows. While installing the top, you will get very good at hooking and unhooking the back of the top. Once you know how an MGB top goes on and off, you can help spread the Good Word to keep others from damaging theirs. :-)
The anchor bar should have a slight concave shape to match the deck of the car. Its easy to bend, so take this last chance to get it right. Slide the anchor bar into its slot in the back corner of the top, tapered edge facing the rear. Work it all the way across through the top keeping it up over the folded internal seams until the free end is able to be slipped in, then work it back from the other end so that it ends up centered. The bar should be on top of the internal flaps, not peeking out the corners.
Fit the rear edge of the top to the car, sliding the anchor back into the two chrome brackets. From either corner behind the doors, pull the lower edge of the top forward so that the stainless tongues can slip into the stainless sockets on the car. Only now can you snap the Lift-the-Dot snaps onto their studs, four on each side.
Reach up inside the top and move the rear bow so that it lays in the seam above the window. Don't worry about the thin listing material at this time, just keep the bow in place.
With the door windows rolled down, pull the top material forwards so that you can see how it will fit on the car. It might help to sit inside the car to see how it must fit. Look at the frontmost corner of the flap that hangs over the window. There is a trimmed tab sticking forward. This will take a DOT snap and connect to the stud at the top of the windshield post. Outboard of this tab, there is a double-thick section that has a little scalloped cut at the front edge (this is important). Outboard of that is the drip rail tapering down at the front end to a single bound edge. The way that this Great Conjunction of Stuff fits at the corner of the header is key.
The double-thick section gets screwed to the bottom of the header with the single sheet-metal screw and flush washer, what I call *the Big Stab*. Once you have located this section and poked your awl into the single screw hole, you are kind of committed. You don't get a lot of error correction that will not be visible once its finished, so take your time and get it right. Its better to waste half an hour looking at this from every possible angle than to start off wrong and end up with a mangled flap with a bunch of extra holes.
1) From the inside, the window flap/snap-tab will want to be tight up against the top edge of the door glass. However, it can't be so tight against the glass that the snap flap can't reach around inside to reach the stud. The tab generally will have a slight jog as it stretches around the top edge of the wing window frame. If you get this flap too tight, you will probably have problems with the wing window hitting the drip rail.
2) Viewed from the outside, the line of the rounded taper on top of the drip rail will want to visually flow right down into the leading edge of the wing window frame. Not so far forward that the drip rail meets up with the windscreen frame, it will be difficult to put up. Not so loose that the line meets the back of the wing window frame, it will not fit correctly on the header.
3) Viewed from the side, the bottom of the drip rail will be at the same level as the double-thick section behind it as it wraps underneath the header. If you can see the double-thick section past the drip rail edge, you need to pull more side-to-side to bring the drip rail lower. However, too much pull side-to-side will leave the drip rail hanging too low and the wing window will hit it every time the door is opened or closed, wearing a hole into the drip rail edge.
4) The taped edge of the drip rail just sort of folds under at the front corner of the header. Too much tension forward will leave the taped edge loose with nowhere to go. Not enough tension and the leading edge of the header will not be covered, and your angled flap will not end up in the right place.
Keeping all of that in mind, free the back of the top from the car. First the LTD snaps, then the forward tongue tab, then the anchor bar, and let it flop back onto the boot.
Lift the header up to about half-mast so that you can get at the bottom of it. Being careful not to let the bows collapse onto the top, bring the top up into place and hold the three sections on one side approximately where they should go. With this bottom view, it will become clear where the things will have to end up.
The double-thick section has a scalloped corner cut out to clear the edge of the weld on the header. Holding the edge of the drip rail against the outer corner of the header, you should be able to fold the double-thick section onto the bottom edge, pulling forward to just shy of the weld. Finally, the thin flappy strip will now line up exactly with the inside edge of the front lip of the header. Over time, the hood material will tend to shrink. This strip keeps tension on the material to stop if from pulling up from the header at the corners.
Once you have determined the correct location of the corner of the hood, its time for the Big Stab. Using your awl, poke a small hole through the double-thick section into the original screw hole and secure it with the screw and washer.
Now, do the same thing on the other side! You will need to stretch the top quite a bit laterally to accomplish this, but it will work. This is the same way the factory installed the hoods, starting well over 50 years ago. They did not spend a huge amount of time custom fitting each top to each car. They installed the hood to the header using the pattern of the hood itself as an installation guide, trusting that the hood was fabricated correctly. There is enough stretch and shrink in the material that the rest of the hood will fit well as long as it is mounted to the header correctly.
OK, now we have the two screws in place. The hood should be in the right spot. Reattach the back of the hood to the car, and this time clip the header into place. Yes, its kind of scary having all that tension on two little screws. That's what the flush washer is for. It spreads the load so that it is pulling along a wide section, not just a single screw head. You should be able to pull the hood into what looks like the correct place by pulling along the drip rail and the front edge.
What we are looking for is the line of the drip rail lining up with the front of the wing window frame, and the lower edge of the drip rail being flush with the bottom of the header and the double-thick section. At this point, you should be within 1/8" from the right spot, within manufacturing tolerance for Megs at least. If you really want to, you can make a small adjustment by reversing the last step and moving the screw location a small amount. The extra hole will be hidden by the flush washer.
Hooray! The hard part is done! Now it is just following the steps and detail work.
Unlatch the hood to release the tension and flip up the front of the material as far as you can. You can use masking tape to hold it back. If you want to cover things with masking paper, now is when to do it. Put some across the top of the windscreen, the wing windows and, if you tend to be sloppy, across the front seats as well. You are going to apply glue to the front 1-1/2" of the header and the corresponding area of the inside of the hood. Its OK put glue forward of that on the hood, it will get cut away, but don't go any farther back or the glue will be visible from the inside. You will note that the front edge of the hood matches the shape of the header very well. Its not just extra material. This is by design and will help you pull the hood evenly forward.
Let the glue dry until it smooth and just a little tacky. You may need to apply additional coats. See the instructions on your adhesive.
Now, plan ahead for your next move, so that you can work quickly. Its going to take less than a minute. You are going to pull the hood material forward at each corner, so that the material at the "hump" at the shoulder at the end of the header is taught and even, and your drip rail in the correct location fore-and-aft, and then pull downward so that the material will stick to the header. Quickly move to the other side of the car and do the same thing. Once your corners are down, you can move inwards and pull the front of the hood forward so that it has even tension across the front. Use the shape of the material as a guide. As you move towards the center, you won't have to pull as hard as you did at the start to keep things even. If you get a wrinkle or a spot of uneven tension, don't panic. You should be able to pull the material back up and correct it, though you may have to re-apply adhesive. Once your hood looks good across the front, go back and rub it down good and hard, so that the adhesive bonds well.
You might want to take a break and have a beer/cup of coffee and let the glue cure and the material stretch into place a bit. Think how good its gonna look!
Unlatch the clamps and unhook the back of the hood. Again. Fold the hood back to where you can get at the lower side of the header.
Using contact cement, glue the thin angled flap along the inside of the front lip. It should follow the shape of the header fairly well. Let it dry completely.
Apply adhesive to the inside of the lip and along the bottom about as far as the line of pop rivets. Fold the front edge of the hood over the lip and press it into place. As you near the ends of the header, you will need to cut two little darts into the back side of the hood, so that it will lay down flat and not form a wrinkle. One will be near the welded longitudinal seam and the other an inch or so from the end. The taped edge should end up fairly close to the rivet hole.
Using your awl, poke holes through the hood material to line up with the existing holes. Pop rivet the aluminum strip down over the material, using longer rivets for the thick sections. Trim the hood material flush with the rear edge of the aluminum strip.
Install the header seal by folding the hidden edge into the aluminum retainer and poking the exposed edge into place with a screwdriver. The ends of the seal are cut at an angle to match the shape of the header. If you are not sure, leave it a little long and trim it after it is clamped onto the windscreen frame.
Hook up the rear of the hood to the car and clamp the header into place. Be aware that the header seal is supposed to sit in front of the lip on the windscreen frame, not on top of it. You might have to poke it into place when you first clamp it down until it "learns" where it should sit.
Pull the snap tabs tightly forward over the DOP snap stud and using your awl, make the location of the snap. Punch the hole and install a snap at each tab.
If you have a stow-away frame, your done! If you have a folding frame, you have one more step: glue the listing.
Crawl inside the car and make sure the rear bow is sitting in between the listing flaps. If you need to just shove the listing into place with your finger. You can push the bow up or down a little bit to get it nestled nicely in the welded seam. You can have a friend give helpful advice as to what looks best. I generally try to get it right in the middle of the seam, but some cars want to be a bit high or low. Tape the front listing out of the way. Apply contact cement to the face of the rear flap and to the bow, up to the front edge. It does not need to wrap all the way around the front. In fact its easier to trim it just in front of the flat inner face of the bow. When the glue is ready, pull the rear listing around towards the front and press it into place. Razor blade off the extra material, holding the blade at an angle so that it trims off smoothly. Now, glue up the front flap of the listing. You are going to want to wrap the glue pretty far around the back on this one, but you don't have to go completely all the way around to the seam, just mostly. When the glue is ready, wrap the front listing around the back, pressing it tightly into place. Carefully trim the listing up around the back as far as you can reasonably get without slicing your hood open. It does not have to be completely flush with the back edge. All that surface area is probably stronger than the thread its made of. Its not going anywhere and no one can see back up there anyway. You just don't want it falling down in a couple of years.


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I agree with you, that prayer is the most precious thing we can --do for Ashley! God treasures our prayers too--amazing. Let's fill heaven with incense on Ashley's behalf. ;)Conniehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-33735305.post-6259202154731031052006-12-21T00:02:00.000-06:002006-12-21T00:02:00.000-06:00Dave ...give the Gherkin a kiss for us. (= I am ...Dave ...give the Gherkin a kiss for us. (= I am thankful Trish gets some needed time away to spend with her precious Allie & Blake..... to cuddle & love on them...& give them some "mommy time"....I thank God that you guys have this time together. Continued prayers for Ash....(that is a given).... Hang in there.... check on you guys in the firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-33735305.post-47414735423425372032006-12-20T22:39:00.000-06:002006-12-20T22:39:00.000-06:00Glad you are all together in Omaha for Christmas. ...Glad you are all together in Omaha for Christmas. I am still praying. God is awesome and we are ALL so blessed to have such a loving and forgiving FATHER! May you and Trish have HIS peace and may Allie and Blake feel that too. Christmas blessings! God Bless You ALL and good night.marva firstname.lastname@example.com


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Hi guys, I just found a very insightful and amazing interpretation to the whole Clannad story. Warning, this link contain spoilers, read at your own risks.
Here's the link: http://yuenhoe.com/blog/2012/07/clannad-people-and-a-philosophy-of-doing/
Now this is very interesting! I've collected the average ratings for each route and displayed the results in the graph below!
Kotomi is considered the best character route by a significant margin! The worst was Misae, followed closely by Sunohara and Koumura. DAT AFTER STORY THO.
Generally though, all these scores are on the high side. CLANNAD is pretty well loved!
It frustrates me how low Kyou's route is rated, considering it's my favorite route in all of Key's stories
But then I look at the scale on the left and feel happy again! Man, CLANNAD sure has some pretty high standards
I also feel like Kyou and Kappei should've been quite a bit higher! :c
Interestingly, Tomoyo and Yukine got exactly the same score…
Ayyyyye! Yukine master race!
Glad to see people liked Yukine's route as much as I did.
Holds a lot of weight and subtlety towards the bigger picture. Despite people usually calling it filler in the past.
Plus, it's impossible to not like Yukine. And if you do, you should feel terrible.
Surprisingly, Fuuko route got a fairly high score, considering the direction of the route's discussion here. Basing on the anime alone, it must be because of the high entertainment value. Well, it's considered to be among the most emotional Clannad arcs outside After Story, after all.
But hey, nice that Kotomi's score is high.
I'm very surprised at how high Kotomi's route is rated. Guess it goes to show how masterful a storyteller Yuuichi Suzumoto is.
I'm fairly okay with how the rest of the graph plays out. I mean, Fuko's my favorite of the bunch, but I can't really complain with how everything fares on this graph. That bias towards After Story, though…
Yay! Kotomi's route~ I think when I look back at CLANNAD now that is my favorite. I had gone into it disliking Kotomi, and was quickly charmed into changing my mind there, and I just really enjoyed the progression overall.
"Kotomi After - Its a wonderful life" should have been another spin-off. Who says you can only spin-off 1 heroine ? I'm still waiting for the Kurugaya Wafter ! #-#
Maybe I'm biased, but the low Kyou rating makes me sad. On the other hand, Kai (the writer) once said it's very much an "anti-Key" kind of scenario, so maybe it's just not what everyone's looking for in a Key work.
Her rating is at a 4. That's not low at all compared to routes from other Key works.
I hope you know why Kud's fandisc is called "Wafter" :kudshock:
Yeah same… but as stated, it's actually high compared to other works. CLANNAD just has very high standards.
Actually that's one thing I love about CLANNAD, even back when I read it in 2010: None of the routes are actually bad. It's a solid VN all throughout and that's something other VNs have a hard time achieving.
Well, relatively lower.
Glad to see people liked Yukine's route as much as I did.
Glad to see people liked Yukine's route as much as I did.
Her route was OK, but I could just not see and hear Yukine without grinning ear to ear. Its amazing how well they demonstrated how calming her presence is. Everything from her sprites to her style of speaking and voice is just indescribably cute.
I also feel like Kyou and Kappei should've been quite a bit higher! :c
I loved Kappei's route. I know that it was left out of the anime because it doesn't really tie into anything, but it was so short it could have easily been fit into a single episode (at least better than Kyou and Tomoyo's routes were). I feel like it could have brought a lot (more) feels to the show at the cost of only one episode. They could even have added the epilogue in After Story.
Just finished reading After Story (and listening to the After Story podcast) and just wanted to pop in and say thanks for the podcasts and bookclub discussions! They really helped me better grasp some of the themes of the VN and to look at things in a different way (even though they are now about a year old).
I'm probably one of the few who read the VN before the anime (which is what I will watch next since I've finished reading) and I was almost completely blind (only knew one big event from After Story) so everything was new to me. For some anime I like to go back to previous discussion threads and read other people's comments and takes on things just to get better immersed and catch anything I missed, so when I found the podcasts and route discussions I liked being able to do that for this VN as well. I had to catch up (I had already read Misae and Tomoyo) but after listening to those I made sure to leave time to listen to the route's podcast before jumping into the next route.
As for Clannad itself, it sits at the top of my (rather short at 9) VNs read list with Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, and Steins;Gate beside it. I was hooked pretty early and really got into it, especially with how it made me really care about the characters. At first, I didn't much care for Tomoya and his attitude (I had similar feelings with Okabe in Steins;Gate at first) but as time went on I grew to like just about all the characters in their own ways. However, I think Nagisa was my favorite character overall, and not just because she had the most time spent on her. I followed the route order in the book club and found myself really enjoying the short scenes with Nagisa when they would happen in other routes, so to finally conclude the school arc with her route and continue on with it was something I had been waiting the entire game for (those first few scenes in common with her, meeting her on the hill and having lunch with her, sold me).
Clannad was a spectacular ride and makes me 2/2 on good Key VNs (the other being Planetarian which was my first ever VN). Eventually I would like to have read them all (Tomoyo After and Clannad Side Stories being next, followed by maybe Air?) so when I do get around to those that have had bookclubs done I will be checking those out!
Thank you so much @Z-95. Hearing comments like this makes me feel like the Bookclubs were absolutely worth the effort.
I really hope you'll join in for the upcoming Little Busters! Bookclub when it launches on Steam! I'd love to hear your thoughts on that one.
Hello Everyone!! I just joined Kazamatsuri recently, and I wanted to interact with the community and make some Key friends (YAY! ) So! My first Key Anime I have ever watched, what introduced me into the world of feels and emotion, and otherworldly drama!.. CLANNAD!
This was my first Key anime, my third anime I have ever watched and became my favorite anime instantly and gives me a lot of nostalgia and is a special place in my brother and I's hearts! We watch all anime together, and me and my brother will always remember the feels (that no other anime had), and memories that we cherish together from this anime!
So, I want to know everyone's opinions and memories with the Anime, so I can make friends and talk about Clannad with you all!
I'll start with a question I have for you all. What was your funniest memory in Clannad/Afterstory? One of my favorites that comes first from the top of my head, is when Sunohara is told from Tomoya to say something and always follow it up with "All that… and a TOILET!!!". It's hilarious and so silly, but I love it so much, Sunohara is one of the funniest characters in existence!!! Now, tell me your guys' favorite funny moment in CLANNAD the anime!!
Mine would definitely have to be his pranks with Fuko. Especially where he does a switch with Ryou and convinces Fuko he changes genders. That's a classic.
Haha! Oh yeah! I remember that, those moments with Fuko are 10/10!!
Tomoya giving Sunohara "great" tips on how to win Tomoyo's heart.
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A Long Time Ago ... I became a Star Wars fan. My love for Star Wars was born when my father took me and my brother to see the original movie at the Regent Theatre in my home town, Great Yarmouth, in January 1978. I was 7 years-old. Needless to say, it made quite an impact on me. To celebrate The Force Awakens, I have created a 100-day countdown to its release. Using images from my collection, I will share my favorite memories of 35+ years of being a fan and collector of all things Star Wars.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
37 days to go: There's a reason that action figures are small...
A few years back a company called Gentle Giant, which specializes in making collectibles, released a 12" scale replica of an original vintage 3¾" Star Wars action figure. They replicated every tiny detail. It brought back great memories of collecting those figures as a kid, so for old times sake I thought it would make a nice addition to my collection. The trouble is, they continued to release them. There are now over 40 of them and they take up an awful lot of space!
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Growing up I went to an all white school in a very small town. Many of my classmates did not even learn about race until late middle school. Race was never really talked about. It was never a "needed" subject as my English teacher once explained. "We're all white here, we all look and act the same around here so there's no point in discussing what racism is and what kind of races there are. It would be a waste of class time." A few months later we got three new students. They were all very much like my classmates and I. Very kind and polite and well raised. But of course that's not how the school seen them. The only thing that seemed to matter was the color of their skin. My community was raised to think all black people were nothing like us whites. Therefore us kids were scared to talk to them. I'm positive those kids felt so unwelcome and uncomfortable with our behavior. Eventually they moved out of the community. Growing up in an all white population or even an all black population isn't always the best thing. It is shocking that race is still being uneducated. We have all these ideas about other people, but we never know the whole truth. I don't think we ever will when it comes to race.
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There are some problems on Ingleby Moor, south of Baysdale.
Park at NZ611069 on the moor near the Cleveland Way. They are a bit esoteric to
say the least (!) but as proper boulders are so rare around here they are worth
a look for locals. As you don't really need a mat for any of the problems they
can liven up a walk/run/bike in this classic moorland setting. The Cheese Stones
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… our persecuted brothers and sisters.
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) have given us a prayer for December.
Almighty and everlasting God, we ask that you comfort the millions of Christians who are unjustly discriminated against and persecuted for believing in you and proclaiming your name.
We ask especially this Advent that your Holy Spirit will be with our Christian brothers and sisters in the Middle East, bringing healing, relief and hope to them and their families.
We thank you Lord for the work of ACN, that this Christmas will be delivering food, shelter, medicine and gifts to the children.
We know that Christians who live in the Middle East, the birth place of our Lord, are particularly vulnerable to attack during their special Christmas celebrations and so ask that you to bless and protect your people.
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A couple free or cheap things to do with the kids this summer:
- Holiday Cinemas has $1.00 kid's movies every Wednesday and Thursday throughout the summer.
- Regal Cinemas at Westview also has $1.00 kids movies this summer. They are Tuesday and Wednesday starting at 10AM. Call 301-620-4081 for more details.
- Kids Bowl Free at Terrace Lanes all summer.
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Despite the myriad of ways accountants can communicate today, one of the main reasons they lose clients is lack of communication. But how much is enough?
The first thing to do is to broaden the definition of "contact." Millennials are today's largest generational segment and, for them, mobile apps, websites, texts and e-mails are the main points of contact. As such, social media websites like LinkedIn and Twitter need to be part of the technology in your client contact mix.
Although it's counterintuitive, you need to discount statements by clients who indicate they don't want to be contacted. As a New York financial services manager explained, "Under the right circumstances, no one doesn't want to be contacted." The key is playing by their rules.
For years, the standard in the financial services industry has been that clients consider they are getting good service if they receive six or more meaningful contacts a year. Sometimes contacts are perceived as sales calls or frivolous.
A meaningful contact is one where the client feels they have learned something or are more knowledgeable after that conversation or connection. Today, clients are concerned about the impact of changes to the tax law, they want to know you are on top of the situation.
Even if you called a client just to tell them they are fine based on their current situation, this relives a level of anxiety and they would feel this was a meaningful contact.
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In the cascade of sexual-harassment allegations now coming to light, a central question has emerged: Why did so few speak up before?
Research from psychology provides an answer: Many women feel complicit in their own assault and are ashamed that they did not react more forcibly at the time. Consider the experience of the actress Rachel McAdams, who as a 21-year-old theater student was lured by the director James Toback to a hotel room and pressured to take off her clothes. McAdams, now 38, kept quiet about the episode for 17 years. "This has been such a source of shame for me—that I didn't have the wherewithal to get up and leave," she told Vanity Fair.
Like McAdams, many people feel embarrassed that they "let" themselves be sexually harassed, and they keep quiet as a result. Yet according to research from psychology, finding the resolve to get up and leave is much harder in the moment than it seems after the fact.
A study conducted at Boston College in the 1990s sheds light on this issue. Psychologists Julie Woodzicka and Marianne LaFrance asked nearly 200 women what they would do if, during a job interview, they were asked questions like, "Do you think it is important for women to wear bras to work?" and "Do people find you desirable?" These questions were chosen because they were clearly sexually harassing.
Most women thought they would be angry and confrontational if an interviewer used these lines on them. They said they would storm out, tell the interviewer to shove off, or, at the very least, refuse to answer his inappropriate questions. Some said they would report him to his supervisor.
But what do people do when actually subjected to sexual harassment? To find out, the researchers placed advertisements in newspapers and posted fliers around campus advertising a position as a research assistant in a psychology lab. They recruited 25 women to come in for what appeared to be a job interview. The researchers trained a male actor to pose as the interviewer and to subject each woman to the sexually harassing questions. The researchers covertly videotaped the interactions.
Continue reading the post by visiting Behavioral Scientist.
Roseanna Sommers is a joint-degree student pursuing a J.D. and Ph.D. in psychology and law at Yale University. She seeks to understand our intuitive folk theories of morally and legally salient concepts such as consent, voluntariness, and autonomy.


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Is a Car an Asset or a Liability?
Recently I had to purchase a new car. The old minivan had seen the last of its days. Not that it was really that old, just 12 years, and had less than 200,000 miles still, but it had some problems. First the transmission was going out. According to the mechanic at the dealer it needed to be replaced, at least that was what I was told a few years ago, when it had been slipping for a while. We decided to keep it going until it failed since the cost was more than the van was worth. Needless to say during the next few years with the constant repairs and trouble it sure seemed like a liability.
Over the years I've heard a bunch of different things about cars and how they are not assets because of reasons like they lose value, or they aren't part of a business, or they don't make you any money. All of these statements can be true, but don't really answer the question is a car an asset.
What is an asset?
In the dictionary an asset is defined as "a useful or valuable thing". On Investopedia they go a little further defining an asset as "An asset is anything of value that can be converted into cash. Assets are owned by individuals, businesses and governments."
Let's compare that with the definition of a liability.
Again, the dictionary definition for a liability is "the state of being responsible for something, especially by law." Looking at Investopedia again on this one they describe a liability as "a company's financial debt or obligations that arise during the course of its business operations. Liabilities are settled over time through the transfer of economic benefits including money, goods or services." The same applies to individuals. Liabilities are obligations.
So back to the question, is a car an asset or a liability?
Cars fit under the category of assets. It's a useful and valuable thing and it can be converted to cash. But what about that new car I just bought, I have a huge debt obligation on that. Because I have the debt is the car still an asset. Yes. The car is an asset, the debt, which is a separate promissory note with the bank is the liability. They secure the debt by putting a lien on my car, which is the valuable asset that they are willing to make a loan against.
Here are a few examples of asset:
- Cash
- Real Estate
- Stocks
- Bonds
- Cars
- Retirement accounts
- Personal Valuables
Here are some examples of liabilities
- Home Mortgage
- Student Loans
- Car Loans
- Credit Card Debt
Most all of us have assets of one sort or another. Most of us have liabilities as well. The goal, get rid of those liabilities that don't serve a useful purpose. In business, sometimes you need to take on liabilities to expand and grow. Sure you could just reinvest the earnings, but when an opportunity arises and your business doesn't have the cash you may take a calculated risk and take on some liabilities to make it happen.
On a simpler case, like my car, I probably could have purchased another car and avoided taking on a new loan payment and avoided the liability, but having a good reliable form of transportation has greater value to me at the present, so I took that calculated risk of taking on a new liability to purchase a new asset, the car.
That said, cars are depreciating assets, which mean they decrease in value over time as their usefulness declines. Kind of like the old van I just got rid of. It was at the end of its useful life. It was still an asset, but nowhere near the original price I paid for it over 12 years ago. And no, that car in the picture is not my new car, nice car though.