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He even shed tears - an unlikely remake of "From Russia with Love". The Russian Orthodox Church - which steadfastly supported his campaign - was more than pleased.
The tears of the Czar were, in theory, in honour of the citizens of "a great country", to whom he wants to guarantee "a decent life". He's back - with a vengeance; the gentler, softer Putinator.
The task at hand is formidable. His vertical model of democratic sovereignty - designed by former adviser Vladislav Surkov - is already being tweaked. He must simultaneously fight horrendous corruption, curb bureaucracy and discipline central and local oligarchies.
He must fight a non-stop brain drain of over two million Russians so far.
He must maximise the returns of a staggering $1.5tn in oil exports since he first came to power in March 2000. That still has not been enough to substantially improve Russia's infrastructure.
I vividly remember March 2000 in Moscow; no one could even imagine whether the Czar would have the skills to lift Russia from the wobbly, Washington-dependent Yeltsin years - or would just slog on as a puppet.
And no one could ever imagine how he would break the bank with his now-legendary February 2007 speech in Munich - when he forcefully denounced the Bush administration's warmongering and declared the end of a unipolar world.
Washington was blind with fury. After all, the new strategic design placed Russia as no more than a trusted vassal. Yet suddenly Russia hatched its own foreign policy. Russia was back reshaping its influence over the Central Asian "stans". BRICS members Russia and China started getting closer and closer - when Russia was supposed to meekly accept NATO's missile shield and be assigned to "contain" China.
No wonder Washington elites - and their hagiographers at Time Warner, News Corporation and The New York Times - are still puzzled or barely disguising their stupor.
It was Putin who almost single-handedly reorganised Russia as a state-controlled energy superpower; the Gazprom nation - the world's top exporter of natural gas and its second-biggest exporter of oil, behind only Saudi Arabia.
Now the challenge is to offer a "decent life" to each and every Russian. According to Sberbank, Russia's biggest lender, the Czar will have to spend no less than $170bn a year over his six-year term. It will be tight - considering the bill for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2018 World Cup.
And even tighter, when one considers that capital flight from Russia in 2011 was an astonishing $84bn. The Czar badly wants to reverse it and make Russia attractive to foreign capital - jumping from a lowly 120th place to at least 20th.
The world according to Putin
There's no hidden conspiracy. Putin's essential worldview is here. No war on Iran. No "humanitarian" bombing. No predominance of "illegal instruments of soft power" (a new concept to smash the so-called colour revolutions). The main pillar of the world order remains "the time-honoured principle of state sovereignty". Tell that the to Three Graces of R2P ("responsibility to protect") - Clinton, Rice and Power.
Increased geopolitical coordination among the BRICS - the top emerging powers, which produce over 25 per cent of global GDP and rising - will be crucial. Putin qualifies the BRICS as "the most telling symbol of transferring from a unipolar to a more just world order".
Putin sees Russia as open for business with everyone. Never autarkic economicall, Russia is more than ready to "catch the Chinese wind in the sails of our economy".
Counteracting Washington's Greater Middle East - which the Pentagon deploys from western Africa to Xinjiang in China - Putin will focus on a Eurasia that includes the whole of China, the southern rim of Central Asia, Iran and Southwest Asia (also known as the Middle East). India definitely likes the idea - because an intimate relationship with Moscow works as a counterweight to the Sino-Pakistani axis, while for Moscow a more assertive India in Central Asia works as a counterbalance to China.
Most of all, forget about the March 2009 Clinton-Lavrov "reset" of formerly Cold War US-Russia relations. Not by accident, the label on the button both of them pressed was translated into Russian as "overload" instead of "reset"!
Washington and NATO - obsessed by missile defence - are bound to feel the full force of the Putinator. Although Putin admits that Obama's idea of a "reset" may have been sincere, he bluntly dismisses the practical results: "In missile defence plans, it gave nothing." That's because the US is bent on acquiring "complete invulnerability" through missile defence, and is not guaranteeing in full that Russia will never be a target. Assuming there will be an Obama II, the reset will have to be reset all over again.
May you live in interesting times
Chris Hutchins, the biographer of Princess Diana and billionaire Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, and author of a new book - Putin that took six years of research to complete, swears that the Czar is "the most interesting politician on the world stage today".
Fans of carnivalesque Silvio "Bunga Bunga" Berlusconi - a close pal of Putin's - may disagree. Yet the Czar might indeed personify the ultimate Everyman, constantly surpassing his own limits, and so demonised in the West - but not in the East. Call Dr Freud - and blame it on Western fears of its own decline. In contrast, the Putinator is relentless in his self-belief - and in his blunt, stinging criticism of limitless Western hypocrisy.
Few Anglo-American elites - unlike Germany, with which Putin will solidify a strategic partnership - will ever give Putin credit for battling hard to position Russia in the emerging, multipolar world.
His previous motto - "stability" - worked out so well that most Russians never felt as stable since the fall of the Soviet Union. Now it feels like there may be a whiff of Rosa Luxembourg in the air. Reform or revolution?
Forget about a colour revolution in Russia. It will be reform, but under the Putinator's terms.
Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times. His latest book is named Obama Does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009).
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The chairman of the broadcaster's governing body described revelations about the BBC?s multiple missteps in reporting a historic child sex abuse scandal in Britain as a ?ghastly mess? and said the BBC needed a ?radical overhaul.?
"The basis for the BBC's position in this country is the trust that people have in it," Chris Patten, a one-time senior figure in Cameron's Conservative Party and the last British governor of Hong Kong, told the BBC. "If the BBC loses that, it's over."
The widening scandal also had implications on the other side of the Atlantic: Mark Thompson, until recently the man in charge of the organization, takes over as CEO of The New York Times on Monday.
Thompson's successor as Director General, George Entwistle, resigned Saturday -- taking the blame for an editorial blunder in which flagship BBC program ?Newsnight? aired false child sex abuse allegations against a former politician.
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It is also facing awkward questions over how the same "Newsnight" program chose not to air a report last year that investigated complaints against Savile.?
The BBC's governing body confirmed that Entwistle would get a payout of $715,000. It said the settlement took into consideration that Entwistle would continue working on BBC business, including two inquiries in the child abuse scandal.
The U.K. government quickly signaled its displeasure at the payout, with minister Maria Miller saying:?"This is a large amount of money, and tough to justify considering the circumstances of Mr. Entwistle's departure."
BBC Director General George Entwistle resigned on Saturday as the BBC spiraled further into scandal over its coverage of two separate sex abuse cases ? one, a cover up, and the other, a possible wrongful accusation. NBC's Keir Simmons reports.
John Whittingdale, chairman of the House of Commons committee on culture, media and sport, said he was surprised by the settlement and has sought an explanation.
Sweeping child abuse scandal shakes BBC and other UK institutions
?My immediate reaction is that it cannot be justified but I will want to hear exactly why they think it is appropriate. ...?I think almost everybody hearing this news will say 'how can somebody who has had to leave in these circumstances, as a result of a serious failure, nevertheless get a whole year's salary,'??Whittingdale said.
Opposition politician Harriet Harman said the payout ?looked like a reward for failure,? according to a BBC report.
The BBC said Entistle's contract stipulated that he receive six months' salary, but that sum was doubled in order to ensure a speedy departure and transition.
Former minister David Mellor has criticized Entwistle as having the "leadership skills of Winnie the Pooh,"?according to The Telegraph.
Incoming New York Times chief in spotlight
Thompson, the new CEO of the New York Times, said he did not know about the nature of the investigation by "Newsnight" into Savile, and had no involvement in the decision to drop the report, which occurred while he was director general.
BBC Director General George Entwistle resigned Saturday after the network wrongly implicated a 90-year-old politician in a child sex-abuse scandal. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports.
He later said he had a "chance meeting" with a journalist who mentioned the Newsnight investigation into Savile, but said he had not been told any of the details or the scale of the problem.
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Entwistle's departure and his acceptance of responsibility for editorial decisions as director general, adds pressure to any evaluation of Thompson's role at the BBC and whether he was ultimately accountable for the shelving of the Savile report.
Thompson did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding Entwistle's resignation. Earlier, he declined to be interviewed about his plans for the New York Times, Reuters reported.
The BBC, celebrating its 90th anniversary, is affectionately known in Britain as "Auntie," and respected around much of the world.
But with 22,000 staff working at eight national TV channels, 50 radio stations and an extensive Internet operation, critics say it is hampered by a complex and overly bureaucratic and hierarchical management structure.
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Rupert Murdoch's Sun tabloid gleefully reported Entwistle's departure with the headline "Bye Bye Chump."
Murdoch, whose own News Corp. is at the center of a recent phone-hacking scandal, was watching from afar.
?BBC mess gives Cameron golden opportunity properly to reorganize great public broadcaster,? he wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
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Im going on the tour that begins on the 21st, may even bump into you unknowingly :P
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I am traveling alone too mike, will be nice to meet you when we get together to start the adventure:)
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And yet, with all the evidence against them, the fearmongers of voter fraud -- a mantle most recently taken up by the tea party -- soldier on.
Take Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA), poised to become the chairman of the oversight committee, who this July sent a letter to the Minnesota secretary of state directing him to save all records concerning the hotly contested 2008 election that put Al Franken in the Senate. Issa says his staff "has uncovered the concerted efforts of nationwide organizations to subvert the American electoral process," and makes ample mention of ACORN and convicted felons.
Much of the right-wing rage focuses on the perception that racial minorities are disenfranchising whites.
The most prominent example, of course, is the aforementioned New Black Panthers case. After the Obama administration decided only to act against one member, ordering him away from polling places in Philadelphia until 2012, Adams and other Bush appointees cried foul. They allege that Obama's DOJ, under Attorney General Eric Holder, is purposely dropping cases against black defendants, and got the conservative-dominated Commission on Civil Rights to investigate it. Gail Heriot, who sits on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, expressed concern in one meeting that the New Black Panther who held a nightstick at the polling place could "just hop on a bus" and intimidate other voters on election day this year.
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Other cases trumpeted by the right have similar racial undertones. In Harris County, Texas, a tea party offshoot called True The Vote and the Republican registrar of voters have accused a low-income voter registration program of falsifying thousands of applications in an effort to conduct "an organized and systematic attack." True The Vote says they found the alleged fraud by scouring voter registration records in districts with a high number of households with six or more registered voters -- which also happened to be the predominantly poor, black voting districts. True The Vote is now advocating for proof of citizenship to be required at the polls. And the Tea Party Nation has told its members to "steal their good idea."
Then there's former ACORN employee Anita MonCrief, a self-described whistleblower who's making the right-wing conference circuit and urging tea partiers to take up the cause of voter fraud. They should keep an eye on places like welfare offices and bus stops, she says, where liberal vote-stealers look for marks. As she tells it, the successors of ACORN use diversity as a ploy.
"I called it 'Operation Darkie Shield,'" she said at one recent conference.
In Wisconsin, the state GOP scrapped a planned operation with tea party groups to "investigate" possible fake registrations -- but someone still put up billboards featuring dark-skinned, jailed figures who admit to voter fraud to warn Milwaukee residents of jail time if they vote illegally.
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Amidst the fears, voting experts say they want to make sure that those who become poll watchers know the rules of the polling place so legitimate voters are not unfairly challenged.
"We just want to make sure that everyone is clear on the rules -- that voters know their rights, that these groups know what they are and aren't allowed to do," said Tova Wang, Senior Democracy Fellow at Demos.
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A spokesman for actor Brad Pitt says a report published Friday linking him romantically with actress Angelina Jolie is "completely untrue."
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Mother Knows Best
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Mother Gothel:
You want to go outside? Ugh, why, Rapunzel.
Look at you, as fragile as a flower.
Still a little sapling, just a sprout
You know why we stay up in this tower...
I know, but -
Mother Gothel:
That's right! To keep you safe and sound, dear
Guess I always knew this day was coming
Knew that soon you'd want to leave the nest,
Soon, but not yet—
Mother Gothel:
Trust me, pet,
Mother—Knows Best.
Mother Knows Best,
Listen to your mother,
It's a scary world out there,
Mother Gothel:
Mother Knows Best,
One way or another,
Something will go wrong, I swear,
Ruffian, thugs,
Poison ivy, quicksand,
Cannibals and snakes,
The plague!
Mother Gothel:
But -
Mother Gothel:
Also large bugs,
Men with pointy teeth, and
Stop, no more, you'll just upset me!
Mother's right here,
Mother will protect you,
Darling, here's what I suggest,
Skip the drama,
Stay with Mama,
Mother Knows Best!
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Go ahead, get trampled by a rhino,
Go ahead, get mugged and left for dead,
Me, I'm just your mother, what do I know?
I only bathed and changed and nursed you,
Go ahead and leave me, I deserve it,
Let me die alone here, be my guest,
When it's too late,
You'll see, just wait,
Mother Knows Best.
Mother Knows Best,
Take it from your mumsy,
On your own, you won't survive...
Sloppy, underdressed,
Immature, clumsy,
Please, they'll eat you up alive!
Gullible, naive,
Positively grubby,
Ditzy and a bit, well, hmm vague -
Plus, I believe,
Gettin' kinda chubby,
I'm just saying 'cause I love you!
Mother understands,
Mother's here to help you,
All I have is one request,
Mother Gothel:
Don't ever ask to leave this tower - again.
(sighs) Yes, Mother
Mother Gothel:
(sighs) I love you very much, dear.
I love you more.
Mother Gothel:
I love you most.
(sung) Don't forget it -
You'll regret it...
Mother Knows Best.
- This song is remarkably similar to "Stay in Here," the first half of "Out There" (The Hunchback of Notre Dame), as both seem as though the antagonist is trying to protect their hostage, who, coincidentally, both want to go to a festival/party.
- Ironcially enough, Mother Gothel sings "soon, but not yet." (Reffering to Rapunzel leaving the tower) Yet, later that same day, she said Rapunzel will never leave the tower ever, contradicting herself.


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If you want a long range carry, go Arachna or Flint.
She's Support type with ganker role, and shouldn't be played as anything else. She doesn't benefit well from item stats and there's a reason wards is in her recommended tab.
If you were to make her a carry, i'd stack -armor
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andro is not a carry. but in a pub, if u happen to get very farmed, go geo -> (shrunken head) wingbow / savage mace.
Ok, thanks for all sugestions. As far as i remmember Vegenfull was nice carry tho
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In news I really hope doesn't turn out to be too good to be true but probably will, Korean pop sensation Psy is claiming that tonight could be the night he retires "Gangnam Style." Pinch me, I think I'm dreaming.
The singer, who will be performing the song on tonight's broadcast of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, told MTV that he thinks it's time to end the phenomenon:
"Being in Times Square on New Year's Eve is already special — it's the biggest stage in the universe — plus it's my birthday, so, with all that, it may be the ending of 'Gangnam Style,'" Psy told MTV News. "I mean, what better way to do it? It's my biggest and most meaningful birthday."
How nice of him to give the world a present like this on his birthday! I don't know about you, but I'm tired of "Gangnam Style." Not only am I tired of everyone's differing pronunciations of the song title. I'm also tired of everyone and their mother trying to do the move. I actually think the song is quite catchy and addictive, and the dance is fun to watch when Psy does it, or when anyone with any dance ability does it, but it's gotten old. If in ten years I'm at a party and someone starts trying to do the horse dance, I will not be excited. I will, however, be excited to do the Macarena, which is the greatest dance ever invented and should never be forgotten.
Of course, Psy could just be easing our minds going into the new year, because he went back on his word a little in his subsequent comments:
"The song became too popular, and so you start to have some concern about its life period," he said. "I'm really working hard on a new single right now, and I'm not saying ['Gangnam'] is ending on 'Dick Clark' — I still have a lot of invitations to perform it … I'll be in Paris, and in February I got invited to perform in China, and I've still got to do promo. So let me say that in America I need a new single because 'Gangnam Style' got too popular, so I've got to write a new single."
This comment makes me think he knows something we don't about the world ending tonight (Kim Kardashian is pregnant, after all), and he wants to go out with a bang. I find it hard to believe any artist would think having the most-watched video on YouTube is "too popular." And sadly, I'm not confident his new single will even come close to the phenomenon of the first.
While we're making promises going into the new year, can we retire Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" too? Before that song came into my life I didn't miss it at all.
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During the study, five prenatal centers and university hospitals in Germany and Switzerland recruited a total of 522 maternal blood samples from pregnant women with high risk of chromosomal alterations in the unborn child. Gestational age ranged from week 11+0 to 32+1. The main goal of the study was to compare detection rates for trisomy 21 of a test method based on Next Generation sequencing using maternal blood with conventional karyotyping using invasive methods, e.g. amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling. For the study, maternal blood was sampled in two different ways, either using regular K 3 EDTA blood collection tubes or Cell-Free DNA™ blood collection tubes (BCT). While for the K3 EDTA blood collection tubes the study centers had to prepare blood plasma at their sites before shipment, the use of Cell-Free DNA™ BCT required direct dispatch to LifeCodexx without any prior preparation work at the physician´s site. First-cut analysis of the full set of recruited samples with 42 positive trisomy 21 cases showed an overall clinical sensitivity of 95% and specificity of 99.5%. However, a more detailed analysis revealed substantial differences between the blood sampling methods with regard to clinical sensitivity and specificity. The results of the blood samples which were stabilised in K3 EDTA blood collection tubes achieved a sensitivity rate of 81.8% and a specificity rate of 98.7% only. In contrast, blood sampling using Cell-Free DNA™ BCT yielded far better results with 100% clinical sensitivity and specificity. Cell-Free DNA™ blood collection tubes preserve cell-free DNA circulating in plasma, allowing sample collection and shipment at room temperature without any additional preparation work at the phycisians' site.
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"The results of the study are very encouraging, because they clearly show that the test allows a very reliable noninvasive diagnosis for trisomy 21 in high-risk pregnancies," comments PD Dr. Markus Stumm from the Berlin Center for Prenatal Diagnosis and Human Genetics. "The new test has the long-term potential to considerably reduce the number of procedure-related pregnancy losses induced by invasive diagnostic methods. It is a very interesting second-tier test, especially for women with an increased aneuploidy risk after first trimester screening."
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TUESDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) -- Women who give birth to large infants may have a more than twofold increased risk of developing breast cancer, according to a new study.
Having a large baby may be associated with higher concentrations of certain pregnancy hormones that boost the chances of breast cancer development and progression, the researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston suggested.
The team analyzed data from two long-term U.S. studies and found that women who gave birth to the largest babies were 2.5 times more likely to develop breast cancer than those who gave birth to the smallest babies.
The increased risk associated with a baby's weight was independent of the mother's birth weight and traditional breast cancer risk factors, the investigators found.
In addition, the study authors noted, women who gave birth to the largest babies were 25 percent more likely to have higher concentrations of hormones that affect infant birth weight and breast cancer risk.
The news from the study, which is published in the July 17 issue of the journal PLoS One, may help improve prediction and prevention of breast cancer decades before it appears, the researchers said.
"Women can't alter their pregnancy hormones, but can take steps to increase their general protection against breast cancer," study lead author Dr. Radek Bukowski, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, said in a university news release.
Breast-feeding, having more than one child, healthy eating and exercising have been shown to reduce breast cancer risk, Bukowski noted.
The researchers pointed out that while the study found an association between hormonal levels and infant birth weight and maternal breast cancer risk, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship. They added that more study is needed.
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SOURCE: University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, news release, July 17, 2012
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If the page says Minto why is the article called Mint?--Davidaipom 11:06, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
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Torrenostra Beach and the El Prat Nature Reserve are the two main attractions in this village in the province of Castellón.
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Anomie et Ivoire, you're a technical writer? Then you are well qualified to invent the word "upthread," which is simply perfect.
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Two main storylines from a 4-3 Penguins win over Adirondack tonight: the continuing red-hot scoring of the Jeffrey-Letestu-Johnson line and another white knuckle third period.
The Letestu line created the first three goals of the game, with significant help from a couple of big plays by Lane Caffaro. In the first period, Caffaro scored from a bad angle off a rebound of a Johnson shot off the end boards. In a span of 68 seconds in the second period, Jeffrey beat his man down the left wing and scored on a backhand, then took a cross-ice backdoor pass from Caffaro and buried it.
In seven games together, Jeffrey-Letestu-Johnson have combined for 14 goals and 31 points. The Canadian team for the AHL all-star game is being announced tomorrow and it's a pretty safe bet Jeffrey will be on it.
As for the late-game intrigue, Wade Brookbank was called for tripping with the Penguins up 4-2 with 3:43 left. Adirondack coach Greg Gilbert pulled his goalie during the power play, and Stefan Legein scored from the top of the left circle with 2:09 left.
Love the decision to aggressively pull the goalie there. I think I read somewhere that an economist looked at the data and theorized the optimum time to pull a goalie down one even strength is with three minutes left. And when going on a power play while down two goals, I would think it makes sense to be even more aggressive than that. If anyone can find a link, I'd love to read it.
Also, while we're on the topic of the Adirondack goalie, John Grahame did not look good tonight at all. It's only his second start of the year, so maybe he was rusty, but he looked unathletic and uncomfortable all night.
Anyway, the Penguins barely held on, just like they did in their previous two games. Coach Todd Reriden said that the team will work on some 5-on-6 play when they have more practice time. Short of that, it's giving them good practice for the postseason.
Patrick Maroon had Adirondack's best chance late with 22.4 seconds left, but he couldn't get a shot through traffic. If he had scored, it would have been his fifth goal of the season. That means the box score would have read "Maroon 5″ and that would have made me laugh.
OK, moving on.
@pensfan44: Tangradi is on the third line because the two left wingers ahead of him are Caputi and Jeffrey. I wouldn't consider it a big deal. He's playing with Joe Vitale and Tim Wallace, so it's not a line of misfit toys or anything. He gets plenty of ice time. Scored a big insurance goal tonight too and it turned out to be the game winner. Wallace dumped a puck into the corner, charged in and dug it out himself and nudged it ahead to Vitale who centered to Tangradi coming down the slot. He's making progress. It's slow but steady.
@Crusher: No doubt in my mind Nick Johnson is a legit NHL prospect at this point. Don't know if he has top-six skill, but he's a good athlete with good size who plays a fluid game. He might be the kind of kid who adapts well to the NHL style of play.
@Malk: Jeffrey was scoring at a pretty good clip before moving to the wing. I think his recent success (7 goals-5 assists in seven games on that line) has more to do with chemistry with his linemates than a position change. But he's also still killing penalties effectively and playing anywhere they put him on the power play. His value in the NHL is his versatility more than his raw scoring ability.
And Spurgeon is on a 25-game PTO. @saunders: Pushkarev signed his second 25-gamer too. He's just not in the lineup right now because there are four pretty good lines intact ahead of him.
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Well, I'll be damned if I ever expected to see a manga inspired by Western superhero comics made by Katsura Masakazu, the guy who's best known for drawing swimsuits and panties in questionable love comedies. While on paper it may seem a good idea to bathe the superhero mythos style in Japanese shōnen storytelling, it's an operation that combines two things that are full of overused clichés, so it needs to be done well to work. And if a very long manga is to be adapted into a very short anime series, the balance gets even more unstable.
Ten years after the genetically-engineered beings called "Players" revolted and escaped, strange murders occur in town. Kanzaki Jin is a young boy of extraordinary strength who lives in a slum with a man he considers his grandfather; he makes a living by performing good deeds for money, together with his justice-minded friend Kōga and his sister Konoha, heirs of the Amagi family, head to Japan's richest and most powerful company. When his grandfather is killed, Jin will soon learn of the superhuman powers inside him, of their purpose… and the threat he may pose to mankind.
After the premise got me really intrigued with its promise of a dark tone (it reminded me of Nagai Gō's manga Devilman, somehow), and the beginning for the first time in my life made me consider dropping the show at the first episode, in the end I found myself enjoying Zetman. But while certainly darker than your average shōnen, it's also full of many of the clichés that, combining with the clichés of the superhero genre, make it mostly predictable; it may take a while for it to draw the audience in, and the seen-before-ness (yeah, I just made that word up) makes it easy to lose them. Many of the developments are also very rushed and forced, but that's probably because the anime is adapting more than 16 volumes in 13 episodes, so it's pretty unavoidable and you can't fault the story itself for that, but it does make it a bit confusing at times. I'll say, though, that if Katsura's intention was to write something reminiscent of classic Marvel and DC stuff, he succeeded: I only watched some movies and cartoons of that tradition (oh, and I read Duck Avenger. Shut up, he's awesome), yet even I could clearly breathe the "superhero" atmosphere, especially of the Batman flavour. Of course, though, it IS Katsura we're talking about, so a fair share of his trademark fetishes (panties, swimsuits, nude shots and I swear a gosh-damn pissing scene) will be there…
Anyway, through ups and downs, through few involving moments, through a lot of underwhelming battles, the series leads to an actually really good ending: the plot twist is prepared and pulled off nicely, managing to be pretty moving, and the finale itself is also quite satisfying. Of course, since as far as I know the manga is still ongoing at the moment of writing, how much it reflects Katsura's plan is anyone's guess.
This department is probably the one where Zetman suffers the most: most characters are flat and uninteresting cardboard cut-outs, with only one defining characteristic, if at all. To be fair, it's probably due to how the whole manga was compressed into a mere 13 episodes unavoidably losing a lot of character exploration, I don't know. The female characters are the worst offenders, as for the most part they aren't but damsels in distress: Konoha is the heroes' "that whom must be protected" kind of doll, Tanaka is given a bit more room and a very good plot twist but personality-wise she just has one big "'tis the love interest" above her head (not to mention how forced and dull her relationship with the hero feels), Akemi's personality is a bit different but her role is very marginal. Most of the secondary characters are only walking plot devices without any real personality if not a very basic stock type; I could count as partial exceptions only the Amagi chairman, who has his moments but left most of his potential to expire in the fridge, Kanzaki, and inspector Sayama. Don't get me wrong, a lot of them (Akemi and Tanaka in particular) actually manage to be likeable, but they're simply… bland. Jirō and Haitani, on the other hand, are at least effective at being the manipulative bastard kind of villain, but again I feel like a lot of potential was wasted in favour of simple, bi-dimensional characters with poorly explained motives (Jirō does have something, actually, but it feels like a Batman villain backsto… wait, maybe that was the intention? OK, maybe, but it's still stupid).
The heroes Jin and Amagi Kōga hold much more interest. Jin is still kind of flat, and his innocence as a kid felt very exaggerated to me, but his personality (dark and cold, but full of the sincerest ideals of justice) makes him quite different from the typical shōnen hero. Even more interesting is Kōga: it is constantly questioned whether his dream to become a "superhero" comes from sincere ideals of justice or a childish desire to be praised as he imitates his childhood cartoon hero, and his way is frequently put to test, leading to a sort of "breakdown" near the end. It's a shame that both the conflict and its resolution are treated so superficially, because it's a theme that could have filled a whole anime by itself.
Despite all my joking around, I actually think Masakazu Katsura draws some of the best faces and female bodies I've ever seen in manga, and in the end I can't but praise his talent. His distinctive character design transpires nicely here, especially with the female faces, and despite Konoha being basically the female lead from I''s, I'd say it's pretty strong. Unfortunately, the anime has some close-ups with really lazy shading and weird-protuding lips that seriously mess it up. Apart from this, though, the art is just great: the animation is fluid, the landscapes are stunning, the design of Zet, Alphas and the Players is surprisingly intense… but, and this is another letdown, the battles are too often poorly choreographed and resolved with one-hit-kills, which isn't a small defect in this genre.
As far as the soundtrack goes, we've got a collection of decently effective orchestral tracks cured by, fact I'd take pride in pointing out, Gabriele Roberto, an Italian soundtrack composer who made it big in Japan because my fucking country doesn't seem to be able to recognise talent when she's got one in her womb. They punctuate well every moment, but never stand out. The ED song is the ObligatorySappyBallad™ du jour, while the OP… OK, maybe I shouldn't be talking given my distaste for rap, but Zetman holds the record for being the first anime that made me skip the opening EVERY damn time because it felt like someone was sucking my brains out through my earholes with a drill. Am I the only one who, despite its very nicely edited sequence, thinks this track is completely out of place?
Well, the protagonists are two big stars known for their wide range of roles, Namikawa Daisuke as Jin (Italia in Hetaria, Anakin Skywalker in the Japanese dub of the Star Wars prequels surely doing a better job than Christensen, among God knows how many more) and Miyano Mamoru as Kōga (mainly known as Tamaki from Ōran and Light from Death Note… hey, again playing a character with a strong but flawed sense of justice, aren't we?), and they both do an awesome job, especially Miyano. The rest of the acting is OK, but never stands out much due to the bland characters; I'd only give special mention to Yusa Koji as the manipulative Haitani, the awesome Romi Park (Temari in Naruto, Ichijōji Ken in Digimon Adventure 02) as kid Jin managing to leave an impression even in a one-episode performance, and Kanazawa Hana (Nadeko in Bakemonogatari, Mato in Black rock shooter) as Konoha, who while awesome can't save the character from blandness.
In the end, I'd consider Zetman just another generic shōnen, only a bit darker and with some Western superhero comic book influence. If it wanted to attract attention to the manga it succeeded with me, because I'm seriously considering reading it, but as an anime by itself, it manages to involve only here and there and feels kind of cliché (Nagai Gō's Devilman comes to mind as a comparison). It probably could have used an extra season, to avoid being so rushed and to show some proper battles, but Jin's character, Kōga's conflict, the good finale and the Batman-like atmosphere do give it some interest. In my opinion, it's quite forgettable, but not that bad, and worth a try if you enjoy this kind of story.
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The eyes of sheep infected with scrapie—a neurological disorder similar to mad cow disease—return an intense, almost-white glow when they're illuminated with blue excitation light, according to a research project led by Iowa State University's Jacob Petrich.
The findings suggest technologies and techniques can be developed to quickly and non-invasively test for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, progressive and fatal neurological diseases such as mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans. Petrich, in fact, is working to develop a testing device. The findings were published earlier this year in Analytical Chemistry (doi: 10.1021/ac100179u).
The research is the result of an accidental discovery while Petrich and his collaborators were developing a fluorescence spectroscopy device that's now used in slaughterhouses to test livestock carcasses for faeces and possible E. coli contamination.
"One day we were testing the apparatus by shining light on the carcass and we saw the spinal cord glow—it fluoresced," said Petrich, professor and chair of Iowa State's chemistry department. "We saw the spinal cord through the skin. The light was pretty intense. It was an amazing result."
That suggested that fluorescence technology could be used to test animals for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy—often called mad cow disease. To reduce the risk of human exposure to the diseases, the brains and spinal cords of animals are removed during slaughter and processing. But there is no quick test to identify animals with the diseases. So Petrich and a team of researchers began studying the feasibility of a fluorescence test. The researchers collected 140 eyeballs from 73 sheep. Thirty five of those sheep were infected with scrapie; 38 were not. The researchers took fluorescence readings from various parts of the eyes of all the sheep.
"The bottom line is the scrapie-positive retinas fluoresced like crazy," Petrich said. "And the scrapie-negative ones did not."
A previous study published in Veterinary Pathology (doi: 10.1354/vp.08-VP-0206-W-FL) reported that the function and structure of retinas are altered in cattle infected with transmissible mink encephalopathy. Other studies have reported that lipofuscin, an intracellular fluorescent pigment, accumulates in the eyes of animals infected with the neurological diseases. Petrich and his team attribute the glow from scrapie-positive retinas to the elevated levels of lipofuscin.
Whatever the cause, Petrich said it's clear there are distinct differences in the fluorescence and spectroscopic signatures of retinas from sheep that were naturally infected with scrapie and those that were not. And so he and his research team think there's great promise for a diagnostic test based on that discovery.
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