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I don't think Tomoya and Nagisa are exactly a quality couple. By all means, the storyline advanced in a way that made them getting together a nigh-inevitability, but I still think their chemistry is weak, and I've already explained why many, many times before.
If anything, Tomoyo is more Tomoya's "opposite" than anything. She's strong, determined, and studious, while Tomoya is a lazy slacker with neither motivation nor future aspirations. Tomoya pushes her buttons while Tomoyo challenges him. They complete each other like yin and yang.
Tomoya and Kotomi aren't even opposites, they're just radically different in every way possible, lol.
|2010-09-28, 02:46
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and sorry, but I think Nagisa and Tomoya are the couple that makes the most sense in Clannad, and the reason why was stressed many times, he gives her strength that she desperately needs and she gives him happiness and eventually a family. And they are just generally cute.
|2010-09-28, 04:17
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No....just being completely different doesn't make you a good couple. It just means your different and have less of a chance to connect on something. I know there's that "opposites attract" mantra, but they aren't opposites, they're just two different people from two different walks of life and hardly share a personal connection at all. You have to share something in order to be a good couple. I guess Kotomi and Tomoya had that childhood friend thing going on? I don't know why he put up with her, honestly, she'd just annoy me.
I mean, we wouldn't even be having this conversation if you'd read Tomoyo's arc in the visual novel. It's just uncanny how Tomoyo and Tomoya connect right off bat under such hilarious circumstances...and it's all so believable. Between the Sunohora beatings, she has a few words with him and she's all "for some reason, I feel a lot more comfortable talking to you". Of course she is, Tomoya is lax that way (in stark contrast to his idiot friend). And Tomoya is, of course, not taking shit seriously at all until they hang out some more and she starts to grow on him.
That's how real romances develop. You don't know the person, one initiates, the other accepts, the attraction eventually becomes mutual...none of this "let me go completely out of my way to help you with everything because I have nothing better to do" crap. I mean, Tomoya didn't help Tomoyo win student council in her route at all, he actually hated the idea and bagged on it every chance he got, then told her up front "yo babe fuck the student council, let's make out". Then they just throw caution to the wind lol.
The story just gets better and better from there. I fuckin' love it...going to read it for a third or fourth time tomorrow just because it's that good and I have some time to kill. TomoyoxTomya forever, bitches.
|2010-09-28, 08:56
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It's silly to say that having different personalities would mean no connection, is that what connection is about? Being similar?
The story of Nagisa advanced through the romance and her overcoming her fears, which were linked, and fair enough if you don't like her, but that recap was enough to pull the life out of any story.
I'm not even going to comment on what you said about "how real love develops", as if real love cant come by helping somebody achieve something, it can come in a thousand ways, since there are a thousand ways to interact, love can be triggered by anything positive.
|2010-09-28, 18:57
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I know, I know, it's fiction, suspension of disbelief, etc., but that's the way I feel about it. If it doesn't make sense, it just doesn't make sense.
|2010-09-30, 17:44
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Fair enough, but to me I never had any problem with the development of Nagisa's arc, everything seemed to run smoothly and realistically, it was believable at least to me. In the visual novel, you have to opt to keep talking to her and meeting her, which is basically creating a situation in which Tomoya is interested in Nagisa, so it makes sense that there is eventually an option to help her form the club. He didn't have much to do in his school life anyway, and at first he was fooling himself into thinking it would be a small act of kindness that wouldn't take long, that's how I saw it anyway.
Edit: Although your sarcastic "I'm bored and have plenty of time to kill, so I'm going to help you stop being completely and utterly useless" example seems a bit weird, you never met up with someone random and helped them out because you could? That's basically how all my friendship's started, at least in school.
|2010-10-01, 02:19
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Oh no, I do that all the time, but I don't start campaigns to get people elected into the student council just so I can found an entire club for some chick I don't know and could barely even make it to school without fainting.
But hey, apparently Key created a character that helps people undergo personal transformations in his spare time, so who am I to argue?
|2010-10-01, 21:35
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|2010-10-25, 23:55
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As far as Tomoya and Nagisa, I felt he gave her what she needed. Rather than someone who "did everything for her" he gave her a push and confidence to try do it on her own. Even if she required support, Nagisa needed to accomplish something with her own power.
Spoiler for Tomoyo, anime/vn spoilers:
Spoiler for Kotomi anime/vn spoilers:
Its been awhile since I played though so if I did forget something I'm sorry x.x
|2010-10-27, 09:08
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They had to do Tomoyo and Kyou's routes on a different timeline to the anime because their stories were centered around the romantic relationship, whereas the romantic side of Kotomi and Fuuko's arcs were easy to cut out because they came at the very end.
In case you didn't know, the visual novel is played by going through different routes, every story is on a separate timeline and you end up on a certain characters route depending on what you choose to do. Basically you have to replay the game again and again to complete it.
|2010-10-27, 20:24
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Still it isn't enough, besides she seems to be the first girl that Tomoya gets close to....
l wanted to see what may likely happen if a almost forgotten friendship returns and sprouts as a romantic lovers relationship
|2010-10-28, 10:42
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Then came the followups with more episodes Munto 2: Beyond the Walls of Time, Sora o Miageru Shōjo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai, and Tenjō Jin to Akuto Jin Saigo no Tatakai
But thats the only original they seem to have...
|2010-10-28, 18:52
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Did you see any of them? Are they good?
|2010-10-29, 15:31
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by William Gibson
Technology Imagery
Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory
Case often describes the world, people, and his own emotions in with computer and mechanical terms. And we mean often. Want proof? We've got it:
- The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel (1.1). (Yep, first sentence of the whole novel).
- And now [Case] remembered [Linda Lee] that way, her face bathed in restless laser light, features reduced to a code... (1.41).
- The drug hit him like an express train, a white-hot column of light mounting his spine from the region of his prostate, illuminating the sutures of his skull with x-rays of short-circuited sexual energy (12.38)
- But weren't the zaibatsus more like that, or the Yakuza, hives with cybernetic memories, vast single organisms, their DNA coded in silicon? (17.16)
And those examples are just off the top of our head. Of course there are many, many more to find. But why so many to begin with? There could be as many different reasons as there are people who read the novel. We're going to suggest two possibilities.
The computer and mechanical terminology tells us about Case as a character. The entire novel is told to us from his point of view. So it seems reasonable for us to assume that Case sees his world through a technological filter in his mind. Should Molly have been the focal character of the novel—or her own sections of the novel—it's possible the imagery would have been different.
Also, the imagery shows the fusion of machines with things we generally associate outside of technology (people, nature, the human body). By figuratively connecting these together through imagery, the novel suggests that the impact of machines like computers and TVs have on the world and the people inhabiting them is far greater than we initially perceive. They're inextricably intertwined. We have plenty more to discuss and question about this in the "Themes" section, so check it out.
Of course, there's always room for more than just these two possibilities. Did you think of something we missed? What other affects does the technological imagery have on your reading of the novel?

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Volume 85, Issue 8, 15 April 1999
Giant magnetostrictive multilayers (invited)85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.370231View Description Hide Description
Multilayers combining exchange-coupled giant magnetostrictive materials(amorphous TbFe) and materials with large magnetic polarizations (FeCo or FeCoBSi) exhibit significant improvements in terms of low field magnetostriction and magnetostrictive susceptibility compared to state-of-the-art giant magnetostrictive single layer materials, due to the polarization enhancement and the anisotropy reduction in such multilayers. The magnetic, magnetostrictive, and mechanical properties of these multilayers can be engineered by varying their layer thickness ratios. With TbFe/FeCo multilayerssaturation magnetoelastic coupling coefficients exceeding 25 MPa in combination with a magnetic saturation field of 20 mT and a coercive field of 2 mT can be obtained, while in TbFe/FeCoBSi multilayers the hysteresis almost vanishes but at the expense of the magnetostriction. Furthermore these multilayered materials show and magnetoresistance effect, which should allow the realization of smart thin film actuators.
Magnetic mesostructure of giant magnetostrictive spring magnet type multilayers85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.370232View Description Hide Description
The magnetic behavior of giant magnetostrictive TbFe/FeCo multilayers show that individual layers of as-deposited multilayers in their demagnetized state are single domain due to stray-field coupling between adjacent layers. Such multilayers do not show a collective behavior during magnetization reversal. In contrast, stress-free films obtained by annealing at 543 K for 1 h subdivide themselves into multiple domains to lower their overall energy, and show a collective magnetization behavior. An interesting observation is the dynamic formation and collapse of magnetoelastically induced domains in TbFe layers in annealedmultilayers during reversal.
Preparation of FeRhIr/Ag/Fe multilayer films and their unique magnetic phase transition being applied to a small magnetic field85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.370233View Description Hide Description
Magnetic properties of multilayerfilms composed of FeRhIr (or FeRh), Ag and Fe layers were investigated in detail. The results showed that the multilayerfilm with structure exhibits a very unique magnetic phase transition, where the transition temperature was subject to change from 40 to 170 °C by the application of a magnetic field ranging from 250 to 150 Oe. The change in pinning strength of magnetization in antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic phases of FeRhIr layers with a magnetic field is considered to be responsible for the unique properties. Associated with the magnetic phase transition of FeRhIr layers, magnetostrictive response of the film was actually obtained by applying a magnetic field up to 100 Oe.
Enhanced in-plane anisotropy of Tb–Fe thin films by Sm addition85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.370234View Description Hide Description
Effects of Sm on the magnetic and magnetostrictive properties of Tb–Fe thin films are investigated. Four alloy systems, with 41.9, 43.7, and 45.8, are examined with Sm content varied from 0 (Sm free) to 2.2 at. %. In-plane anisotropy is found to be enhanced by the addition of Sm and the strongest in-plane anisotropy occurs in the Sm content range of 1 to 2 at. % depending on R content. At low magnetic fields of 1000 Oe and below, magnetostriction increases significantly with increasing Sm content, and reaches a maximum at an intermediate Sm content where well-developed in-plane anisotropy is observed. At higher magnetic fields of 3000–5000 Oe, however, no substantial improvement of magnetostriction occurs with the addition of Sm. The Sm content dependences of magnetization and coercive force are also examined.
In-plane [111] crystallographic texture in Terfenol-D films through magnetic annealing85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.370235View Description Hide Description
The annealing conditions that favor the formation of phase in amorphous Terfenol-Dfilms include preventing preferential Tb loss during annealing and a narrow annealing temperature window around 600 °C. The amorphous Terfenol films were obtained by magnetron sputter deposition using alloy targets on glass, Si and Terbium substrates. Use of Tb substrate provided a nearly stress free film after annealing due to a good thermal expansion match. The presence of magnetic field (2000 Oe) parallel to the film plane during annealing of samples on Tb substrates promotes in-plane orientation of {220} planes of RFe2 phase indicating preferred in-plane orientation of 〈111〉 directions.
Magnetization and magnetostriction of single crystals85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.370236View Description Hide Description
Magnetization, magnetostriction, and elastic modulusmeasurements were made on single crystal specimens of Easy axis magnetization rotation as much as 26° were observed in the (001) plane of below 33 K. From these measurements, values of the anisotropy ratios were calculated. No easy axis magnetization rotation was observed in the and single crystals.Magnetostriction and modulus measurements at 77 K in showed a saturationmagnetostriction of and a maximum magnetomechanical coupling factor of 0.96.
Hysteresis and magnetostriction of [112] dendritic rods85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.370127View Description Hide Description
The magnetization and magnetostriction of a variety of 3/16-in.-diam Laves phase rods of grown in the form of [112] oriented dendritic compounds were measured as a function of applied magnetic field and compressive stresses of 22 and 47 MPa at room temperature. Compared to Terfenol-D the widely used room temperature magnetostrictive material, Ho containing alloys can have substantially lower hysteresis with only slightly lower magnetostriction. The Ho concentration was kept relatively small (⩽0.3) to avoid a substantial decrease in the magnetostriction, while the ratio of x and y was chosen to examine alloys spanning the line of minimum magnetic anisotropy. Most of the compositions have twice the Ho content of the previous study. As expected, alloys with higher Ho concentrations showed narrower hysteresis curves. The data shows that at 22 MPa, the composition has a minimal (3%) loss of magnetostriction, while the hysteresis width decreased by 15%. Between 15% and 20% Ho content, the magnetostriction drops abruptly. For alloys with a fixed Ho concentration, the strain showed a peak near the expected anisotropy minimum, but the hysteresis width always increased with increasing Tb content.
Magnetostriction of single crystal and polycrystalline at cryogenic temperatures85(1999); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.370128View Description Hide Description
At cryogenic temperatures, single crystals of TbDy alloys exhibit giant magnetostrictions of nearly 9000 ppm, making these materials promising for engineering service in cryogenic actuators, valves, and positioners. The preparation of single crystals is difficult and costly. Preliminary results on the magnetostriction of textured polycrystallinematerials are presented here. For instance, polycrystalline plane-rolled (one direction of applied stress) to induce crystallographic texture, has shown magnetostrictions at 77 K of 3000 ppm for an applied field of 4.5 kOe and an applied load of 23 MPa, or 48% that of a single crystal under similar conditions. Comparisons are presented between the magnetostrictive response of plane- and form-rolled (two orthogonal directions of applied stress) polycrystalline at 10 and 77 K. It is reported that at 10 K plane-rolled exhibits 1600 ppm magnetostriction at an applied field of 4.4 kOe with a minimal applied load of 0.28 MPa. An observed restoration of the initial unstrained state may be a useful feature of polycrystallinematerials for engineering service. Finally it is reported that thermal expansion measurements provide a measure of crystallographic texture for comparison with the magnetostriction.


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Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett have been married since 27th Jun 2009. [view couple]
Kendra Leigh Baskett (née Wilkinson; born June 12, 1985) is an American television personality, businesswoman, glamour model and author. She is known for being one of Hugh Hefner's three girlfriends and for her role on the E! reality television serie...s The Girls Next Door, on which her life in the Playboy Mansion was documented. Although not a Playboy Playmate, she has appeared in three nude pictorials with her Girls Next Door co-stars and fellow Hefner girlfriends Holly Madison and Bridget Marquardt. Her first reality series, Kendra, debuted in June 2009.
Connect any celebrity with Kendra Wilkinson to see how closely they are linked... romantically!
She looks like she would be a decent model
I guess old Hef got tired of her
This fun-loving challenging woman is at the crossroads. I hope everything works out well for her!
Oh my gosh I am so happy for her and Hank!
You go, girl!Lookin' so hot!
Smart smart girl. She know what's up at such a young age. Saved her money well and stuck to her goals. I wish her and her family very well.
I love the way she shows herself. She is sympathetic, esthetic, especially she is not contrived.
what an awesome couple kenra and hank are.
I love her. :)
You are gorgeous Kendra !
hi looking veru beautiful
para mi punto de bista es la mejor


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2 weeks post op is way top early to expect anything except getting off the CPM machine, hobbling on crutches to PT, starting PT, and saying good bye to those weird pain killers. Continue to ice when you cac. You will get your flexion back, but it takes time. Just be religious about the PT. Each PT will have a diff. approach so you may want to go to a few if your PT practice has more than one. I did that and got a good variety of moves. Regarding the knot - I had a big one right on the incision - it is probably scar tissue - rub it all the time and over time and it will disintegrate. Regarding pain - it is going to KILL to get that knee back to full ROM. There is no way around it. But you just suck it up (sort of like the last 6 miles in a marathon) and then it wil be over (the pain doesn't linger after they stop bending the knee.) and then you will forget about it until next PT sessions. Good luck. You will do fine.
Thanks Penny, I had my 4th session today, they said i got to about 90 degree's today (while they were cranking while i was on the table) it so little by little. They also started trying the ultrasound where i was complaining about the knot. They picked up the CPM today, so it's up to me to keep it up. The PT said long as i was improving, not going back to not be so concerned.
I appreciate your encouragment!
A question to everyone who has had ACL surgery? I ruptured my ACL two weeks ago playing soccer and I'm trying to make the best decision regarding which type of reconstruction option to choose. Like many of you, I want to (have to, actually) get back to participating in my sport, so I am curious what your experiences have been with each type of surgery (patella, hamstring, cadavear)? What do you recommend? There is so much conflicting info. out there on which is the best approach. I'm 38 and a male. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks!
Originally posted by skypenny:
Who out there there has had ACL replacement and gone back to running ? (I used to run a lot.) Surgery was last May - ham graft, medial meniscus repair and partial lateral menisectomy. Reinjured MCL in Sept. from coming back too fast. Now I am back on treadmill again (walk/run - short increments.) I do lots of PT and lots of cross training so still quite strong and in OK shape. But I need some encouragement - or else a reality check. Would like to get back to double digit runs on the weekends and my annual marathon. PT thinks bad idea. I have not really run any serious miles since my injury last February.(Also, I am kind of scared to run outside because I might fall and rip my leg up again....) What's your story ?
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Originally posted by Karl Markeset:
A question to everyone who has had ACL surgery? I ruptured my ACL two weeks ago playing soccer and I'm trying to make the best decision regarding which type of reconstruction option to choose. Like many of you, I want to (have to, actually) get back to participating in my sport, so I am curious what your experiences have been with each type of surgery (patella, hamstring, cadavear)? What do you recommend? There is so much conflicting info. out there on which is the best approach. I'm 38 and a male. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks!
Sorry to hear that Karl. I also tore mine in Soccer,Im 39. I am 4 weeks post op from a PT graft,.I would say to return to soccer PT is going to be top choice. Look at what most professional's have. Having said that my co woker had a cadaver in the same week and his rehab has been much smoother. If you want to ride a desk and quit soccer then maybe cadaver is a better choice ( plus increased cost for the donor) . What does your OS recommend ?
Good luck in your decision,
Six months and six day post surgery - first half marathon. Not fast, but I know I'm back!
Good luck to all of you who have gone through the same.
Well - based on everything I have read and heard I pretty much told my doctor, I want the PT graft because I want to be able to play soccer again. He pretty much said OK. Didn't really challenge me much, which makes me wonder. Ya I heard the cadaver graft is easier in terms of rehab. Anyway, thanks for your response. I hope your rehab is going well. By the way how long were you on crutches after the surgery. I am trying to determine if I can travel on a plane internationally 22 days after surgery - doctor advises against this though.
Thanks, K.
Originally posted by dl7265:
Sorry to hear that Karl. I also tore mine in Soccer,Im 39. I am 4 weeks post op from a PT graft,.I would say to return to soccer PT is going to be top choice. Look at what most professional's have. Having said that my co woker had a cadaver in the same week and his rehab has been much smoother. If you want to ride a desk and quit soccer then maybe cadaver is a better choice ( plus increased cost for the donor) . What does your OS recommend ?
Good luck in your decision,
I'll post a race report in the appropriate thread later, but I just wanted to let my fellow "wounded soldiers" know that I just completed my first marathon post ACL replacement(s).
I was able to achieve all of my race objectives (time, negative split, race the last 10K, have fun) and had NO PAIN in either of my knees.
My thanks to all of you on this thread who encouraged me with your testimonies. You have been an inspiration to me and I thank God for the blessing that Skypenny gave us with this forum topic.
Hey. I tore my ACL and MCL this past summer playing soccer with some family. I'm a varsity college cross country and track (10k) runner, but obviously missed this past cross country season. Tomorrow will be 4.5 months since my surgery and as long as the brace comes in I should be able to start running again. Any tips on how to increase the mileage safely but not too slowly? or even a starting point? I go to school in a pretty hilly area so the treadmill might be best to start off with, but I'm not too sure. Before I tore up my knee I was averaging between 50-60 miles a week and getting ready to bump up to 60-70 miles a week. I had a hamstring graft. Any tips would be great. I have enjoyed reading this thread and found it helpful. Thanks!
Help! Had ACL replaced (cadaver) 8 months ago and meniscus repair. Felt really good, working out regularly, elliptical, strength training, walking, short jogs. Did something stupid- ran a Turkey Trot race on Thanksgiving day- only 5 miles- just to prove to myself that I could do it. Lots of aches and pains all over my body- not use to running- but now just KNEE pain- right under my scar. Knee feels weak and buckles sometimes now. Using Ibuprofen to manage the pain- feel almost good as new until that wears off. What have I done to myself? Any suggestions- icing and elevating when I can.
tntfinn, how is the knee pain now? did you end up getting it checked out by your doctor? I also tore my ACL (on 9/10) and had surgery using cadaver (on 10/12). Its 8 weeks now and my doc advised me not to job till about 12 weeks postop. how long did it take for you knee to stop feeling stiff? I currently walk about 2 miles everyday (for work) and my knee feels stiff, doesn't hurt just stiff.
I have ACL surgery on my right knee a week from today (on Tue-Feb-05). ACL allograft (from a cadaver) and also some miniscectomy (forget from which miniscus, I think medial). I've been a little freaked the past few days, just trying to figure out what to expect. I just spent the morning reading the ENTIRE ACL thread. This is such a great resource. It really lets you see ACL rehab progress from so many different points of view and from different voices.
My right knee's been pretty crappy most of my life (I'm 32). I injured it on Dec 1st of last year, playing touch football (just landed weird on my foot, and CRUNCH). Complete tear of the ACL. I'm pretty bummed because I was planning on running the Bronx half-marathon in Feb. Before the past year or so, I'd never really been into running that much, so it's new to me. My doctor said my running had little if nothing to do with the ACL injury.
My goals are: 1) to run the Bronx half NEXT February 2) be in workable condition for my summer vacation to Cape Cod in July -- nothing major, just being able to bike, run in the surf, eat lobsters, ect. 3) do some major hiking by late summer and 4) be able to play football again by late fall.
Has anyone had experience with returning from ACL and playing pickup football?
I've been doing pre-op PT since early December, going to the gym periodically (trying not to push my knee to hard though).
Am VERY MUCH looking forward to getting this puppy on the road -- the waiting has been awful.
Hi Dave,
I don't have ACL experience with playing flag football but I play soccer, ski/snowboard, racquetball, etc and run regularly.
I'm a 30 year old, athletic and active female. I had ACL recon (hamstring) on my right knee in Sept. '06 along w/ partial lateral meniscus removal and medial meniscus repair. I then went back for a 2nd surgery Jan. '07 for arthoscopy scar tissue removal. While I can tell you my recovery was less than desirable with all my scar tissue issues (not normal - my body we found out just happens to produce a lot of scar tissue), I am well on my way to recovery. Up to running 4-5 times a week 25-30 miles a week, on my way to pre-surgery mileage and pre-surgery pace and also back to doing everything I was doing pre-surgery. My knee is still not quite back to normal, I'm stilling work on getting my full ROM back (just a little left), and building my hamstring strength back however in the end it was definitely worth it. As I'm sure you know... without the surgery it will be hard to resume flag football again as you'll always be paranoid...
Post surgery hang in there. I had a few down moments but throughout my recovery I maintained as much as my normal exercise level that I could. I listened to my ortho and PT but went all out on the stationary bike (biked on vacation) and whatever else they would allow me to do to maintain my fitness level.
Hang in there with your recovery as it is definitely not always fun... and good luck!
Thanks dskier -- I know I've heard people say it before (about being able to return to FULL activity), but it's always reassuring to hear it said just one more time.
Now I just have to wait for the ride ... t-minus 6 days.
I tore my ACL and partly tore lateral meniscus 2 years ago. I was hit by a car while training for the Boston Marathon. Had surgery (cadaver replacementthey tried to use the hamstring but it was too narrow) the week of the marathon. I didn't find the surgery or PT too bad. The pain was not bad at all (thanks to the stuff they shot into the leg while I was out). I only needed one painkiller, and then switched to Tylenol. Nor was the PT too hard I regained ROM pretty quickly. THe hard part was not runningI walked all the time, even with the brace. But the result was that I ran Boston in 07, with a PR! The less good news is that I overcompensated with my good knee, and now have pretty bad osteoarthritis in it. I'm sure this is all related, and it's a bummer. But, try to be patient and you'll get back--and hopefully the patience will stop you from overdoing it until you have full use.
Good luck!
Hi Bronx, listen to PT trainers and it all works out I had my ACL repaired att 44 in 1994 and still running, fixed it with one third of my patella tendon. Fixed 1-18-94, walking on rds. 2-15-04, lite running on treadmill under Pt supervison 2-18-04.
Did the cororate cup 9-18-04, 10k at Mahoney Stare Park
10-8-04, and 10k at omaha Riverfront Marathon 11-6-04, so if you follow the trainers rules you can make a complete recovery, I hurt my knee playing basketball and that next winter was back playing full court with out problems even though my wife would rather I dont play sports. That fall in 1994 I also was back to playing flag football but was carefull and seemed to have lost a step but was getting older to so who knows. My brother blew his out playing college football and did not have it fixed and is looking at possible knee repacement 30 years later, have it fixed you will not regret it Good luck.
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VIEW; Fashion's High Priestess of Gnosticism
By HERBERT MUSCHAMP
Published: November 17, 2002
WHY don't you . . . give all your ideas away to other people, so that you'll fill up again with new ones? Diana Vreeland, the great fashion editor, understood that this is how creative minds work. It's fatal to be a hoarder. When you have an idea, get it out there. Pretend you're Josephine Baker, tossing fruit into the audience. Hit someone on the head with a pineapple. Circulate the energy. Distribute the wealth. Rinse your child's hair with dead Champagne.
This is a gnostic way of thinking. Now relax. It's Sunday. You won't mind a bit of Gnosticism with your Styles. Glamour and knowledge both share the same root in gnosis (secret learning), so why shouldn't Gnosticism be fashion's true faith?
The gnostics were a religious order, circa the year 0, but in modern times it makes better sense to view them as a personality type. Vreeland was one of them.
''If you do not bring bring forth what is within you,'' the gnostics believed, ''what you do not bring forth will destroy you.'' And I suspect Vreeland truly believed that if she had an idea and didn't get it out there, it would kill her. Killer-diller. If she couldn't come out with observations like ''pink is the navy blue of India,'' she would die.
Thanks in part to those observations, she hasn't. Or, rather, the point of view defined by Vreeland's insights remains indispensable. It is the viewpoint of fearlessness, the stance of ''Why not?'' And if Vreeland's legend looms larger today than it did during her lifetime, that may be because this particular stance has become harder to sustain.
Vreeland is the subject of a new biography by Eleanor Dwight, and it is the first to explore the personality behind the histrionic public persona. The book rides a wave of printed material by and about Vreeland that did not begin until years after her retirement from Vogue. ''Allure,'' a coffee-table book, written with Christopher Hemphill, of black and white photographs punctuated with Vreeland's taped recollections of them, was published in 1980 and has been reissued this year.
The first book was followed in 1984 by the editor's memoir, ''DV.'' Two additional volumes of Vreeland's musings have appeared in the last year: ''Why Don't You?'' a collection of her columns for Harper's Bazaar, and ''Vreeland Memos,'' an issue of the fashion periodical Visionaire.
Why don't you . . . buy Dwight's biography and read it, so that I don't have to try your patience with one of those super-compressed summaries that nobody reads anyhow? ''Elegance is refusal,'' Vreeland once pronounced. I don't know whether this is a gnostic idea precisely. But it appears to be an essential antidote to excessive gnostic fecundity. If what you have to bring forth is tedious, just leave it alone.
Vogue in the 1960's was as much the creature of its time as it was the creation of an editor. At the beginning of the decade, fashion magazines reflected a relatively rarefied realm of elegance, style and social poise. Ten years later, they had become a mass medium. Vreeland's Vogue occupied the pivotal place in this transformation. Herself a latter-day Edwardian Woman of Style, she hit her manic professional stride in the postwar years, when people were just beginning to grasp the full extent of changes brought about by mass communications.
These circumstances are unrepeatable. That's why it is pointless to complain that no magazine quite like Vreeland's exists today. No world like hers exists today. When she started out, celebrity was tantamount to notoriety. Now, the news media are glamorous in their own right. Today, everybody knows who Diana Vreeland was. In her own time, she communicated to audiences who never gave much thought to who an editor was.
I know, because I was part of it. When I started reading Vogue in my early teenage years, I had little interest in fashion and knew even less about it. Rather, like The New Yorker, and Ada Louise Huxtable's architecture columns, Vogue represented what I recognized as an urban point of view. I found my suburban life confining. It was a relief to project myself into the escapist fantasies offered by those texts. I wouldn't know of the existence of Diana Vreeland or William Shawn, the editor of The New Yorker, until many years later. Now the situation has changed. We're all regaled by the antics of editors without magazines.
Vreeland, I later read in a biography of Alexander Lieberman by Calvin Tomkins and Dodie Kazanjian, once described Vogue as ''the myth of the next reality.'' The myth was accurate in my case. The next reality was relatively exempt from the pleasures of cold war normalcy.
People were onto something when they called Vreeland the high priestess of fashion. She was a gnostic priestess. In the gnostic system, there was an outer mystery for the many and an inner mystery for the few. So it was with Vreeland's Vogue Many readers may have regarded it as the leading fashion magazine. Others, too few to constitute a mass readership, understood that glamour has only incidentally to do with clothes. It has mainly to do with personality structure, with the places we choose to dwell or avoid within the architecture of our subconscious fantasies.


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HOUMA — Louisiana lost a favorite uncle this past week with the passing of John Frederick Hoffmann, for 80 years a resident of Thibodaux and Houma, or, as he often claimed, the fictitious Barricade.
A sampling of Uncle Noon's jokes
Aunt Mess was down by the bayou washing clothes the other day, tending to her business.
This gang of fellows pulled up in a car, got out, picked her up and took her away. They kidnapped her, is what they did.
Before the day was over, Uncle Noon got a ransom note.
"Dear Uncle Noon: We have your wife, and if you do not give us $10,000 in small bills, placed in a shoe box under the bridge by six o'clock tonight, we will return your wife unharmed."
One time Aunt Mess asked Uncle Noon, "Noon, when you go out, what you drink?"
"Scotch," he said.
"Well, I tell you what. You sound like you're having such a good time when you go out, I want to go with you to see what's going on," Mess said.
So she did, and when they went in the bar and Noon ordered a scotch, Mess said, "I want one, too." She picked it up, tasted it and said, "That's the worst thing I've ever tasted in my life."
"See that, and all this time you thought I was having fun," Noon said.
Somebody at the bar asked Noon, "You ever drink enough Scotch to where your tongue burns?"
"I don't know. I ain't never been drunk enough to try to light it," Noon responded.
Better known as Uncle Noon, Hoffmann, beginning in the 1950s, entertained regional audiences with humorous tales of life in the mythical Cajun town. Over time, he created a series of commercial recordings which he marketed to fans.
Hoffmann was one of the "ancient ruins" who graduated from Thibodaux College in 1947, said R. Gibbens Robichaux, a fellow ruin.
Hoffmann played baritone in the school band, and for 55 years, sang bass in the St. Joseph Cathedral Choir.
Hoffmann held a civil-engineering degree from LSU and worked for the U.S. Corps of Engineers, J. Hugh Dupuis Engineers and Nicholls State University. He retired in 1995.
Ellis Larose, today director of the St. Joseph choir, said Hoffmann continued singing with the group until recently, when illness made it impossible to climb the church stairs.
Larose met Hoffmann in 1961, and in 1968 blended his tenor with Hoffmann's bass in the Tune Aces, a barbershop quartet which for years competed with other groups on regional and state levels. The Tune Aces won four area competitions during the 1970s.
The Cajun pun in the name Tune Aces was intended, Larose said, but not everyone got it right away. They did get the humorous stories delivered by Hoffman between musical numbers.
"We would do a set, and in the second half of the show, Johnny would do a joke."
Then, additional songs alternated with Uncle Noon jokes. "He tested jokes that way, and often, he would tell one we had never heard."
Sometimes the new joke came just before the Tune Aces' closing song, Larose remembered, "And the rest of us would have to sing after that."
The quartet's competitive years were hard work, Larose said, requiring hours of practice. But the group has continued in the years since, getting together to enjoy the music and share it with friends and families.
Lately, such gatherings, at Larose's home, required one member driving in from Loranger in Tangipahoa Parish.
Hoffmann, Gibbens Robichaux said, was also a good cook, winning the grand prize in The Courier's second-annual Bayou Gourmet cookoff with a dish entitled "Oysters Noon."
His prize-winning recipe, published in the 1977 Bayou Gourmet cookbook, combines a quart of oysters with bacon, mushrooms, bread crumbs, cheese and spicy seasonings to make a casserole.
Hoffmann's website, www.unclenoon.com, includes the prize-winning recipe and the newspaper story detailing his win.
The site is also where fans could buy his CDS, "Uncle Noon Makes Number One" and "Uncle Noon Makes Number Two," and his 2006 DVD, "Uncle Noon Goes to the Beach."
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Another major achievement was the successful shifting of 18 rhinos to Manas National Park, including one which strayed out of the Park, along with others from Kaziranga and Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary in April.
Kaziranga, home to the famous rhinos, bore the brunt of both nature and poachers with more than 670 animals left dead due to flood fury and poachers.
Seventy rhinos died in the Park -- 25 killed by poachers, 22 dying due to natural causes and 23 drowned in floods.
The Park, which boasts of a 2,290 strong rhino population as per the census conducted this year, was in the headlines as poachers continued to kill the pachyderms with impunity.
The scourge of annual floods, poaching threat by both illegal Bangladeshi migrants and militants and lack of adequate staff and equipment with forest department threatened the existence of the rhinos and raised the hackles of environmental conservationists and political parties.
Stung by criticism on rhino killings, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi announced setting up of a State Wildlife Crime Bureau to deal with poaching, smuggling of animal products and related issues and also recommended a CBI inquiry into the killings.
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The Fresno Bee reports that a California Highway Patrol review of James Jewett's cell phone records shows that he was not on the phone at the time of the July collision.
Jewett and five others were killed when the bus, carrying 32 people, struck an overturned sport utility vehicle on Highway 99.
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CAPS MAKES ME FEEL SPACIAL!!! This is a great remix. a lot of people seemed to like the EON remix but I didn't. The bass in this one was good too
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I never was too fond of crazy frog(for obvious reasons), but I do love the songs that were used in the videos, such as Popcorn. Since Popcorn is such a popular mix, its a wonder Ive heard so many remixes. This is awesome, but theres that EON remix thats got everybody by the reins. Still, great work, and I bet this wasnt easy.
Great job, and keep up the good work!
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I didn't like the crazy frog remix (cus crazy frog sucks, duh) of this, and before realized what I have in parentethese, I though the song just wasn't all that good, but then I found this cool remix! Lawl, nice job.
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Keep up the good work I love the song Popcorn and you made sooooo much better.


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- "You must see Highgarden. You'd love it there, I know you would. We have a great masquerade the night of the harvest moon... you should see the costumes, people work on them for months."
- ―Margaery Tyrell to Sansa Stark
Highgarden is the seat of House Tyrell and the regional capital of the Reach. Located on the banks of the river Mander, Highgarden sits astride the Roseroad, a major thoroughfare linking Oldtown and King's Landing. Highgarden also forms the southern terminus of the the Searoad, which leads to Lannisport. As King's Landing, Oldtown, and Lannisport are the first, second, and third largest cities in the realm, heavy trade and traffic across a large swath of southern Westeros ultimately passes through Highgarden.
History Edit
Background Edit
Highgarden was founded by Garth Greenhand, one of the legendary kings of the First Men. His descendants, House Gardener, ruled from Highgarden as Kings of the Reach until the invasion of Aegon the Conqueror. King Mern IX Gardener and all his issue were slaughtered by Aegon's dragons on the Field of Fire, and his steward Harlen Tyrell yielded the castle to Aegon. In gratitude, Aegon bestowed Highgarden on the Tyrells and named them Lords of the Reach. This sparked off a long-standing complaint from House Florent of Brightwater Keep, who claimed a superior blood-link to the Gardeners, though this has been constantly dismissed by later kings.[1][2][3]
Season 2Edit
During the tournament held by King Renly Baratheon, when Ser Loras Tyrell duels with Brienne of Tarth, Margaery Tyrell cheers on her brother by standing up from her seat and shouting "Highgarden!".[4]
After Renly is assassinated, most of his bannermen from the Stormlands submit to his older brother Stannis Baratheon. However, Margaery and Loras withdraw House Tyrell's sizable army back to Highgarden, along with the other Houses from the Reach they command.[5] A few Tyrell bannermen, however, bend the knee to Stannis.[6]
Season 3Edit
Cersei and Joffrey attend a dinner with Margaery and Loras. To win the support of the smallfolk of the city, Margaery has been giving out food aid with her handmaidens - Cersei is unsettled because while she only knows how to rule through fear, Margaery is adept at winning the hearts and minds of her people, a skill which Cersei lacks. Indirectly mocking Cersei, Loras pointedly says that Margaery has previously been greatly involved with charity work for the poor back at Highgarden. Cersei also mocks Margaery's revealing dress by sarcastically asking if she is cold, to which Margaery counters that the climate is warmer in Highgarden - though thankfully, the Tyrells' blood runs quite warm.[7]
When Margaery introduces Sansa to her grandmother Olenna Tyrell in the gardens of the Red Keep, Olenna scoffs that her son Mace Tyrell was a fool for supporting Renly Baratheon's attempt to claim the throne. After admitting to Olenna that Joffrey is a psychopathic monster, Sansa fears that this will mean Joffrey won't marry Margaery, and will instead force her to marry him as before. Olenna reassures Sansa that Mace, whom she calls "the Lord Oaf of Highgarden", is too deeply set on having his daughter Margaery be Joffrey's queen to call off the wedding no matter what.[8]
Season 4 Edit
When Jaime Lannister returns to King's Landing, Cersei enumerates the many grievances she has suffered in his absence, and voices her extreme displeasure at Joffrey marrying Margaery, whom Cersei deems "a wicked little bitch from Higharden".[9]
Season 5 Edit
After Tywin Lannister's murder, Loras presumes that the arranged marriage between himself and Cersei will be canceled, given that Tywin was the one pushing for it. He tells his sister Margaery that he is not happy to be free of the match, however, because it means that instead of Cersei returning with him to Highgarden as originally planned, she will now remain in King's Landing and undermine Margaery at every turn. Margaery wryly implies that while Cersei will be staying, she won't find undermining Margaery to be that easy.[10]
Season 6 Edit
Margaery is studying and praying at the Sept of Baelor when the High Sparrow makes a rather thinly veiled threat against Olenna. Margaery returns to the Red Keep and encourages her grandmother to return to Highgarden, saying it's where Olenna belongs.
After the deaths of Margaery, Loras, and Mace in the Destruction of the Great Sept of Baelor, at the hands of Cersei Lannister, Olenna leaves Highgarden for the Water Gardens of Dorne where she meets with the Sand Snakes. Whilst there she makes an alliance between House Tyrell and House Targaryen, though admits that the Tyrell line may not survive, offering the revelation that Highgarden could be without Tyrell leadership for the first time since Aegon's Conquest when they took over from House Gardener, approximately 300 years ago.
Notable residents of the castleEdit
- Lady Olenna Tyrell, known as the Queen of Thorns, the dowager-lady of the house. Formerly Olenna of House Redwyne. Now ruler of House Tyrell after the deaths of her son and grandchildren in the Destruction of the Great Sept of Baelor, at the hands of Cersei Lannister.
- Lord {Mace Tyrell}, the former ruler of House Tyrell, eldest son of Lady Olenna. Killed in the Destruction of the Great Sept of Baelor.
- Queen {Margaery Tyrell}, Mace's only daughter, reputed to be a beautiful maiden, close to her brother Loras. Queen to Renly, Joffrey, and Tommen Baratheon. Killed in the Destruction of the Great Sept of Baelor.
- Ser {Loras Tyrell}, the deceased heir to Highgarden as Mace's son and Margaery's younger brother. Killed in the Destruction of the Great Sept of Baelor.
- Lord {Mace Tyrell}, the former ruler of House Tyrell, eldest son of Lady Olenna. Killed in the Destruction of the Great Sept of Baelor.
In the booksEdit
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Highgarden is among the most beautiful castles in the Seven Kingdoms. Situated on a broad, symmetrically shaped hill, the castle includes three concentric tiers of white stone walls, which increase in height and thickness as one travels upwards. Between the outermost and middle walls is Highgarden's famous "briar maze", a labyrinth of beautifully maintained hedges that serves two important purposes; entertainment for the castle's inhabitants and deterrence against enemies (any invaders who manage to penetrate the outer wall would have no easy task finding their way through the elaborate growth of thorns and greenery).
The inner rings of Highgarden are a beautiful complex of towers, courtyards, colonnades and statuary, and greenery is just as prominent inside the walls as in the fields outside; ivy, grapevines and climbing roses can be seen snaking around the buildings, and gardens and arbors are filled with flowers. Water features are also common inside the walls, with pools, fountains and even man-made waterfalls visible throughout the complex.
Highgarden is also notable for its places of worship. The castle sept is lined with rows of stained-glass windows depicting the Seven as well as Garth Greenhand, the legendary first king of the Reach. Highgarden's godswood, instead of the typical single heart tree, contains three tall weirwood trees known as the Three Singers. Said to have been planted by Garth himself, the branches of the trees have become so enmeshed over the centuries that they resemble a single tree with three trunks.
A fine selection of horseflesh can be found in Highgarden's stables, and pleasure barges offer river cruises on the Mander. Outside the walls, meadows and fields of flowers can be seen in every direction, along with fruit orchards rich in peaches, melons and fireplums.
Willas Tyrell, the elder of Mace's children, is the heir of Highgarden.
See also Edit
- ↑ HBO viewers guide, season 1 map, Highgarden entry
- ↑ HBO viewers guide, season 2 map, Highgarden entry
- ↑ HBO viewers guide, season 2 map, Brightwater Keep entry
- ↑ "What is Dead May Never Die"
- ↑ "The Ghost of Harrenhal"
- ↑ Season 2 Bluray: War of the Five Kings feature
- ↑ "Valar Dohaeris"
- ↑ "Dark Wings, Dark Words"
- ↑ "Two Swords"
- ↑ "The Wars to Come"
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Absolutely! Your gf doesn't log on and read myfico, does she?
The path of least drama for you is to buy the house that suits you best. If she wants to tag along, ok. But realize that she may be thinking you might be changing your mind about your relationship with her (ie: marriage, co-habitating, etc).
If possible, my advice would be to move forward with your financials, figure out what you can do and find a house on your own. Buy it. Move in. Tell you moved. Don't involve her in the house hunting.
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Canterbury Triple Crown: Beer, Betting, and Belmont UPDATEDx4
This Saturday you'll find me screaming my fool head off at Canterbury Park, wagering this week's pay on the Triple Crown.
Our local place to play the ponies is hosting special Belmont Stakes betting in honor of Big Brown, who has a chance to make history by becoming the first horse in 30 years to win the Triple Crown.
Betting Big Brown is a tricky proposition. The galloping UPS ad is expected to go off at 1-5 odds, meaning you'd have to risk $5 to win $1. That means that the only bets worth making are exactas, trifectas, and the like.
The Belmont Stakes begin at 5:25 p.m., so get your bets in early.
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If you're looking for a good exacta pairing, you could do worse than Denis of Cork.
Denis of Cork's trainer, transplanted Irishman David Carroll, knows every inch of Belmont Park. Carroll, 48, was the exercise rider for 1989 Belmont winner Easy Goer during a six-year stint under Shug McGaughey. Easy Goer derailed his archrival Sunday Silence's Triple Crown bid, but Carroll isn't predicting his colt can knock off Big Brown.
UPDATE 1: The field (prior to Casino Drive scratch):
1 Big Brown Desormeaux 2-5
2 Guadalcanal Castellano 50-1
3 Macho Again Gomez 20-1
4 Denis of Cork Albarado 12-1
5 Casino Drive Prado 7-2
6 Da' Tara Garcia 30-1
7 Tale of Ekati Coa 20-1
8 Anak Nakal Leparoux 30-1
9 Ready's Echo Velazquez 30-1
10 Icabad Crane Rose 20-1
UPDATE 2: Casino Drive, the Japanese horse considered Big Brown's chief rival, has hoof problems and has been scratched.
UPDATE 3: Gambling site is picking Denis of Cork 10-1 to spoil Triple Crown.
UPDATE 4: Anak Nakal: An intriguing horse.
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It's already the new year here, but probably not where most of this blog's small remnant of readers are residing. So here are some "echoes from the future" to you folks still back in 2011. I hope you -- and all of us -- have a good year in 2012. As long as our sister, Life, is still with us, we'll keep plowing on, I reckon.
(And if you have any spare coinage to keep the plow going here, it would be much appreciated. The tip jar is empty at the moment. However, as always, be sure to first give to any and all who need it more -- such as Arthur Silber, who depends solely on his blog to survive amidst much pain.)
Meanwhile, here's a little reprise of a Pasternakian echo: "My sister, Life, is calling .... "
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