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Traders might be scanning the indicators on shares of Tencent Holdings ADR (TCEHY). We have recently noticed that the PPOH level is currently above zero. With the PPOH above zero, traders may be alerted that the stock is in buy territory.
One of the most basic ideas that goes along with the stock market is buy low and sell high. Although this advice is overly obvious, many new investors will do the exact opposite when trading stocks. Inexperienced investors have the tendency to buy stocks that have been performing the best recently. This may be caused by certain factors such as not looking into the underlying fundamentals or just hoping that the stock will continue to rise. Rookie investors may also make the error of holding onto shares that continue to drop in value. Instead of cutting the loser loose, they hold off with the hope that eventually the stock will at least get back to the breakeven point.
The Average Directional Index or ADX is technical analysis indicator used to discern if a market is trending or not trending. The ADX alone measures trend strength but not direction. Using the ADX with the Plus Directional Indicator (+DI) and Minus Directional Indicator (-DI) may help determine the direction of the trend as well as the overall momentum. Many traders will use the ADX alongside other indicators in order to help spot proper trading entry/exit points. Currently, the 14-day ADX for Tencent Holdings ADR (TCEHY) is 22.97. Generally speaking, an ADX value from 0-25 would indicate an absent or weak trend. A value of 25-50 would indicate a strong trend. A value of 50-75 would signal a very strong trend, and a value of 75-100 would indicate an extremely strong trend.
Moving average indicators are used widely for stock analysis. Many traders will use a combination of moving averages with different time frames to help review stock trend direction. One of the more popular combinations is to use the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Investors may use the 200-day MA to help smooth out the data a get a clearer long-term picture. They may look to the 50-day or 20-day to get a better grasp of what is going on with the stock in the near-term. Narrowing in on Moving Averages, the 200-day for Tencent Holdings ADR (TCEHY) is at 48.33, the 50-day is 38.63, and the 7-day is resting at 37.10.
Traders may be leaning on technical stock analysis to help with investing decisions. Tencent Holdings ADR (TCEHY) currently has a 14-day Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of 39.78. Despite the name, CCI can be used on other investment tools such as stocks. The CCI was designed to typically stay within the reading of -100 to +100. Traders may use the indicator to determine stock trends or to identify overbought/oversold conditions. A CCI reading above +100 would imply that the stock is overbought and possibly ready for a correction. On the other hand, a reading of -100 would imply that the stock is oversold and possibly set for a rally.
Technical traders have a large inventory of technical indicators they may use when doing technical stock analysis. After a recent look, the 14-day ATR for Tencent Holdings ADR (TCEHY) is resting at 1.53. First developed by J. Welles Wilder, the ATR may help traders in determining if there is heightened interest in a trend, or if extreme levels may be indicating a reversal. Simply put, the ATR determines the volatility of a security over a given period of time, or the tendency of the security to move one direction or another.
Tracking other technical indicators, the 14-day RSI is presently standing at 48.31, the 7-day sits at 50.20, and the 3-day is resting at 38.62 for Tencent Holdings ADR (TCEHY). The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a highly popular technical indicator. The RSI is computed base on the speed and direction of a stock's price movement. The RSI is considered to be an internal strength indicator, not to be confused with relative strength which is compared to other stocks and indices. The RSI value will always move between 0 and 100. One of the most popular time frames using RSI is the 14-day.
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Dimitri, so nice to finally be on first name basis!Dimitri M wrote:Laughingman,....describe how a kite feels... a 14m what? a 19m what? if you took the same kite in 14m would it then still turn like a 14m? are they comparing this to 2005 kites... its such a BS statement it is laughable.
You have to understand that people are different. Some people like to compare the kites with other kites they have been flying with to compare the difference in the power and the turning speed of the kite, and some other kiters like yourself need to know the scientific formula why the kite has so much power and turns so fast.
You don't know how many people I meet on the beach when I do my demos and few of them after demoing the INFINITY kite use these feed back:
-"My God this kite is fast for a light wind kite, it turns as fast as my 2011 15 meter ________ kite that I just got. What size is it!!!"
-"Whaooo... I am impressed this kite has as much power as my friend's foil kite but turns as fast as my 14 meter _______. Is this kite for sale!!!"
-"I don't like big kites but this one made me think about getting a big kite for light wind days. Is this a 19 meter kite!!!!"
-"Did you see me doing a kite loop on that kite it was so easy. Does this kite come in smaller size?
-"I can't beleive how fast this kite responds and how alive it is, and the pressure on the bar is so light...
And so on....These are the comments I get on the beach. But hey don't beleive me just get a chance and try it. I can't wait to hear what you have to say.
Oh I totally understand, I just want both sets of data, not only how the kites flew and felt etc, but also to be able to reference the data and compare. I think it is an excellent learning tool. No one is wrong here, not even Oldnbroken, we are just sharing opinions.


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Recently we had a visit from a patron who only had about 30 minutes to spend in The Genealogy Center to find the birth date and birth place of his immigrant ancestor. The patron explained that his sister was currently in Greece on vacation and needed the information TODAY so she could search for the family at the General Archives of Greece. This ancestor, let's call him "Demetri," came to this country from Greece around 1890* (*details changed to protect patron privacy). We were able to help the patron find Demetri's birth date from his tombstone via the free website, Find a Grave, and from a World War II Draft Registration (found on Ancestry), although the two dates did not match exactly. A specific place of birth for him was not found, although it might have been possible, had the patron more time to spend on this question. While the patron seemed satisfied with what was found, I'm not sure how successful the sister's search was at the Greek Archives, with only this sketchy information. What could this family have done differently to ensure greater success?
Just as you apply for a passport, make your plane reservations, and arrange hotel accommodations all way in advance of your departure date, you need to do your genealogical homework beforehand for an overseas research trip as well. The most important thing you can do to prepare for your trip is to start researching your immigrant ancestral origins as soon as possible. There are many factors outside of our control that can make your particular ancestor search easier or harder. Finding an ancestor who came to the United States within the past 120 years is generally easier because more records were created and have survived from that time period. The search can be complicated by an immigrant's decision to Americanize their name, and by political upheaval in Europe that has resulted in geographic boundary and town name changes. You will want to look for records created after the immigrant's arrival in America that provide clues of immigrant origins, specifically, those that might show an ancestor's date of birth, parents' names, and/or birth place in the old country. Types of U.S. records to consult include: ship's passenger lists, naturalization records, death certificates, marriage licenses, Social Security applications, obituaries, organizational records, land records, employment records, newspaper articles, probate records, family papers or Bibles, and church records - most of which are not typically available on the internet. Remember to research all members of the family who immigrated (father, mother, their children, siblings of the parents, cousins, etc.) because if you find where one of them originated, chances are the rest of the family was from the same place. This research may take some time to complete, but will be worth the time spent, if it helps you find your immigrant origins, right? Armed with this data, you can then travel to the old country with the correct information and increase your chances of success in foreign archives and libraries. You might also be able to pre-arrange a visit to your ancestral village(s) of origin.
A second important task you should complete before your trip is to find the website for or current information about any foreign libraries/archives you wish to visit; check their hours, location, and holdings; and try to set up an appointment via email or telephone for a specific date and time to look at specific records. Not doing this can lead to upsetting situations, such as arriving at an archives on a Monday, only to find out that the building is closed to the public on Mondays or that the English- speaking archivist is only in the office on Wednesdays.
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Image Gallery: Indigenous objects from Peak Hill
The Australian Museum has a collection of eight miniature weapons, two boomerangs and a carved tree from the Peak Hill District, New South Wales.
From the 20th century, there was an increased demand for Aboriginal products. This led to an increase in artefacts made for sale to tourists. Common objects include household utensils, weapons (boomerangs, spears, woomeras, clubs and shields) and carved figurines. The miniature weapons, carved by a local Aboriginal boy, demonstrate the interest in Indigenous objects for the tourist trade.
The full size boomerangs are returning boomerangs, characterised by their curved appearance, with two straight arms joining at a sharp-angled curve. Returning boomerangs were mainly used for sport and hunting. Great care was taken in the making of boomerangs, which were carved, smoothed, polished or decorated from a single piece of carefully selected wood.


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caketress needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 151 designs submitted by 43 freelance designers.
High End Wedding Cake Designer looking for an fresh new UNIQUE elegant vintage inspired logo to go on a new web design , new business cards , and watermarking photos.
Good posibility for follow design work for winner!!
Please read brief for do's and don'ts
Have fun and be creative always looking for something new.
EDIT: color combos to be elegant not bright candy tone
EDIT: If cake illustration is used please use elegant cameo / silhoutte type designs and please no cartoony topsy turvy cakes or cupcakes
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The Caketress Lori Hutchinson Designs
The logo should be able to be used for multiple places: website,blog, business cards, and WaterMarking photos. I am a custom cake designer that appeals to a high end market for mainly weddings and large events . Majority of my clients are women(brides) . I want the logo to be elegant and help market my company as a custom "Designer" not mass bakery. The cakes are very much like couture, custom and one of a kind . Please feel free to view my work http://www.Loriscakes.com (the whole website will change so disregard style, colors, and logo . I'm looking for something new.
- The name should be "The Caketress" with "Lori Hutchinson Designs" included
- Possibly like a design for logo for website and cards with full company name and matching logo shortened with "the caketress" for watermarking
- The design should be fresh looking and elegent, I am open to fresh color palate. Feel free be creative with colors , though I do like muted pastels against black , I'm open to anything
- Open to: Modern patterns (I like demask ,filigree, floral type pattens ) , cake silhouette / illustrations (done in elegent way), vintage inspired
- If cake illustration is used , I highly recommend looking at my designs first to give you idea of my style
- I'd like the design to portray couture
- Be creative!
- Nothing Cartoony , No Bride ,hearts , cupcakes
- Don't not feel obligated to use cake illustrations , but I am open to it if done tastefully
- Nothing overly "Cute" or kiddish
- No actual photo's used
- EDIT: Colors should be elegant combos please stay away from too much candy type colors
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Read all of the recommended procedures before you begin.
This recipe assumes the following:
Thoroughly clean and sanitize ALL brewing equipment and utensils that will come in contact with any ingredients, wort or beer.
Add the specified amount of clean water to your brew pot and heat it to the temperature indicated in the Description of the "Mash In" step.
Heat 2.41 gal of water to 168.0 F to prepare the sparge. Lift the bag of grain out of the water and hold it over your brew pot. A Large Strainer helps with this. Slowly pour the sparge water over the bag of grain. Once completed, your brew pot should contain approximately 4.27 gal . Discard grains.
Add the malt extract. Once all the malt extract is in the pot add enough water to reach 4.27 gal . Make sure all of the malt extract is fully disolved before turning the heat back on.
Bring your wort to a vigorous rolling boil. Right before the sweet wort begins to boil, break material will form a foam that can boil over quickly and unexpectedly. Spray some water on it to break up the foam or use a anti-foaming agent like Fermcap-S. Continue the vigorous rolling boil for 60 minutes.
For any LME or DME additions that were not added earlier turn off the heat and make sure the extract is fully dissolved before turning the heat back on. If there are steeping hops add them after flameout.
Cool the wort down to approximately 67.0 F by placing the brew pot in a sink filled with ice water or by using a wort chiller. Pour or siphon the wort into a sanitized fermentor.
Add enough clean water to the fermentor to bring your wort to 5.00 gal . Thoroughly stir the water into the wort. Once you are satisfied your wort is at the proper volume and close to the estimated OG, record the OG on this sheet. It should be approximately 1.075 SG .
During the boiling process most of the oxygen is removed from the wort. In order to provide our wort with healthy yeast we must add oxygen back into the wort. The yeast will use the oxygen to build healthy cell walls resulting in greater attenuation and an overall healthier fermentation. To aerate the wort you can shake your carboy back and forth or stir the wort vigorously. Some people use pure oxygen and a diffusion stone to add the maximum amount of oxygen.
If you are using liquid yeast open the pack and pour the yeast into the wort. If you are using dry yeast, open the pack and sprinkle the yeast onto the top of the wort. There is no need to stir. Firmly secure the lid/stopper/bung onto the fermentor. Fill your airlock halfway with water and gently twist the airlock into the lid/stopper/bung. Move fermentor to a dark, cool, temperature stable area at 67.0 F .
The wort will begin to ferment within 24-72 hours and you will notice CO2 releasing (bubbling) out of the airlock. If you do not see any activity and you are fermenting in a bucket, spray sanitizer on the airlock and around the grommet. Gently twist the airlock out of the grommet and peek inside. If you see a foam also called "krausen" then fermentation is active. There may be a ring of dried krausen around the edge of the bucket right above the beer. This is normal and means that fermentation is working. Replace the airlock gently twisting it back into the grommet.
After 7.00 days it is time to dry hop. Dry hopping is simply the proccess of adding hops to the beer to increase hop aroma. Hops are antimicrobial so there is no need to sanitize them, just throw them in the secondary fermentor. If there are multiple hop additions add them as if it were a count down to bottling. For example if you have 2 hop additions"Cascade [7.00 %] - Dry Hop 12.0 Days"
"Citra [9.60 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Days"
Add the Cascade and wait 7 days (12-5=7) then add the Citra and wait 5 days. The Cascade is in the wort for 12 days total, the Citra for 5 days total.
Add the hops listed below to a cleaned and sanitized secondary fermentor. Carefully siphon the beer from the primary fermentor to the secondary fermentor, avoid transferring any sediment (trub). Some hops will float, some hops will sink, as long as the hops are in contact with the beer don't worry about it. If there are multiple hop additions there is no need to transfer your beer every time, just add the hops on top of the beer. Once the dry hopping time is done you are ready to bottle your beer. Before proceeding take a FG reading with a cleaned and sanitized hydrometer and record it on this sheet. It should be approximately 1.018 SG .
In a small saucepan dissolve 4.11 oz of priming sugar into enough boiling water to dissolve the sugar. Cool and pour this mixture into a cleaned and sanitized bottling bucket. Carefully siphon beer from the fermentor to the bottling bucket. Avoid transferring any sediment (trub). If the hops are getting in the way of your siphon put a small hop bag with a drawstring on the end of your siphon and pull the drawstring shut. This will act as a filter when siphoning your beer. After the beer is in the bottling bucket, cover it and let it sit and mix for 5 minutes. By siphoning your beer onto the priming sugar stirring is not necessary.
Connect a hose and bottling wand to the spigot on your bottling bucket. Fill the bottles to the top of the bottle. When the bottling wand is removed the perfect amount of head space will be left in the bottle. Use a bottle capper to apply sanitized crown caps.
Move the bottles to a dark, cool, temperature-stable area (approx. 67.0 F). Over the next 21.00 days, the bottles will
naturally carbonate. Carbonation times vary depending on the temperature and beer style, so be patient if it takes a week or so


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Car News: 2013 La Auto Show
Jaguar F-Type Coupe Teased Ahead of LA Debut
- Jaguar F-Type Coupe to debut at LA Auto Show
- Teaser image shows sleek, hardtop body style
- On sale this spring; engines and pricing not announced
Jaguar has officially released its first image of the upcoming F-Type Coupe. The brand showed a teaser image of the sports car ahead of this year's Los Angeles Auto Show, where it will unveil the F-Type Coupe in production form.
While the teaser image is taken from the top down, it provides a good look at what we can expect from the F-Type Coupe. Think of the standard F-Type's aggressive, muscular styling, except with a hardtop rather than a folding roof, and you have an idea of the latest Jag. The teaser image also reveals that the roofline narrows in back, giving the car an especially sleek look.
In terms of powertrain, Jaguar hasn't announced what to expect. But we think the F-Type Coupe will offer the same engines available in the convertible. That means there will be a 340-horsepower V6, a 380-hp V6 and, in top-level F-Type V8 S guise, a 495-hp supercharged V8.
The F-Type Coupe may also offer an engine that's foreign to the Jaguar brand: a 4-cylinder. Some think base-level versions of the car will include the same 240-hp turbocharged 4-cylinder as the Range Rover Evoque. If those rumors are true, the 4-cylinder could be offered at a lower price than V6 and V8 powerplants, which would help Jaguar increase sales.
Speaking of price, the F-Type Coupe will likely be a little cheaper than today's drop-top model. While current starting prices range from $70,000 with shipping for the base-level F-Type to nearly $95,000 for the F-Type V8 S, we'd expect to see the coupe priced a few thousand dollars below those figures.
If you're interested in the F-Type Coupe, be sure to check our LA Auto Show coverage for more information. After that, look for the sporty new Jag to start reaching showrooms next spring.
What it means to you: The Jaguar F-Type Coupe will bring a little more performance to the brand's lineup, which Jaguar hopes will help attract a new range of younger buyers.


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Grandma Mary Anna Shield's father Union was b in Olney, Richland Co., Illinois, Jan 1, 1854. No one knew much about his family history. There were family stories but not many proven facts. Finally Union was found in an 1860 census, staying in the household of J C Stewert. Other siblings were then found the same year in different households. Thomas M in the home of a relative, Samuel Colburn. He later served in the Il. 6th Calvary he attained the rank Captain. John in the household of Benjamin Ulem, He also served in the Il. 6th Calvary. Albert was in the houshold of Marcus Walker, He too joined the Il. army. Albert was a law man in LA and died in Monrovia. Cal. More and more information was found, the parents of the orphans was supposed to be Willaim Shieds and Hannah Ward. What happened to William and Hannah? Did they actually die leaving all the children orphaned? If any one knows the answer to this puzzle please let me know. I will share all I have on the Shields.
Wyants, descended from Abraham, iof Indiana
Searching for my husbands ancestors. Abraham was from Va. b 1796 m Comfort Ann Bennet. He died in 1878.They were listed in various Indiana censuses. I'd like to know if there are others doing this research. Son of Abraham, John I Wyant was my husbands great grandfather.
John C. Nelson b S Carolina, d Ridgeway, Gallatin Co., Illinois
According to family stories John C. Nelson was a captain from England. He married Elsie McGloan, who left Ireland, maybe because of the famine or strife. They are listed in the following: 1850 Fed. census for Clay and Richland Co., Illinois, 1860 Fed. census Noble, Richland Co. Illinois and 1870 Fed census. Olney, Richland Co., Illinois All state that Elsie was born in Penn. and John S. Carolina. The children are; Mary, Margaret, Judah, Rachel Eliza (my g grandmother) Franck, Leah Amanda, and Elijah Micheal all born in Illinois. John was born about 1802 and Elsie about 1818. I would love to fine John and Elsie's roots. If anyone know anything please let me know.
Looking for Harris family in Illinois
After searching for many years I finally discovered my Bates roots in Illinois, However my grandfather's maternal side is another puzzle. My great grandparents were Ezra Bates and Matilda Harris. Matilda's parents have eluded me. From census information I know Matilda was born in Illinois. Ezra and Matilda's first child Serepta was born in Effingham Co., Illinois in 1849. In 1860 they were in the Cumberland Co., Illinois census with children Serepta, Willard, Harriet, Melissa, Edgar. In 1870 they were in Big Springs township, Shelby Co. Illinois, with childrn Willard, Harriet, Melisse, Edgar,Clinton, Grant (my grandfather) and Henry. Ezra I assume passed away before 1880 because Matilda married John Cornwell and they were in 1880 census Paradise Township, Coles Co., Illinois. Two children were listed with them My granfather Grant and Clinton. What happened to Henry who would have been 10 years or less?? 1880 census also said Matilda's father was b in Virginia and Mother in Kentucy. In 1900 Matilda is in the household of Grant in Marion Co., Kansas. She is listed as a widow and 75 years old.
Matilda died in 1907 in Mulvane, Coles Co., Illinois but was buried in Burns City Cemetary, Marion Co., Kansas . Beside the grave of John Cornwell. I think she was probably visiting children or relatives in Mulvane or perhaps moved back after Johns death. Please help if you have any information about her people. I'd be so grateful.
Looking for Bates in Il
I finally found my gg grandfather in Illinois. In a census he was listed as a minister of the Gospel. I would like to know if he was affiliated with a particular church there in Cumberland, Co. Illiois area. He was married to Sussanah McNitt. Reuben Bates was born 1797 in Vermont, lived in New York where my g grandfather Ezra was born, then the family resided in Ohio, then Illinois.
I had been searching for my g grandfather's family for years and they were there in the same area of Illinois all the time.
Reuben and Sussanah had the following children: Ezra, Willard, Reuben, Marshall, Evaline and Henry C.
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MartinM necesitaba un nuevo diseño de otro y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 30 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
We at Tyoaikanappi strive to ease the life of entrepreneurs and employers, by automating payroll related bureaucracy – time tracking, billing, and payroll. If you did not know, manually processing these chores is mind dumbin hard work that must be repeated regularly (every month or bi-weekly) depending on billing and payroll intervals.
Company owners and HR assistants in companies of less than 100 employees. May be blue-collar or white-collar workers.
* Draw a cartoon that roughly fits a Letter-size (or A4) print page. Can be 1,5 pages if necessary.
* Make it 900 px wide and 1242px tall so that fonts can be more readable.
* The idea is to market a software using the cartoon, which should be "educational and informative but still entertaining"
* The cartoon should have approximately 6-8 scenes, preferably "side by side" along the lines of the movie "Sliding doors" (for the enterpreneur in the left column everything goes smoothly because he uses TyoaikanappiTM and for the enterpreneur of the right column life is full of challenges as he has not yet began to leverage the benefits of TyoaikanappiTM; he learns about the benefits by discussing his mishaps with the guy in the left column).
* Develop YOUR version of the proposed "educational story" consisting of 6-8 cartoon scenes, including callouts, titles, and necessary the discussion dialog between the cartoon characters.
* Style is free but as a guideline something along the lines of dilbert or simpsons
* Can have colour or can be Black&White
* All relevant text should be localizable, i.e., fonts.
* About fonts: We will need to localize (=rewrite all texts) so we have to use some sort of standard fonts, for example from http://www.searchfreefonts.com/
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* Layered AI vector file such that, e.g., text can be localized. Delivery formats:
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* Full ownership of the copyright of the winning entry.
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An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, "Meditation," JESUS THE TEACHER WITHIN (New York: Continuum, 2000), pp. 212-213.
When he tells us not to worry, Jesus is not denying the reality of daily problems. It is anxiety he is telling us to abandon, not reality. Learning not to worry is hard work. . . .[Yet] despite its "attention-deficiency disorder," even the modern mind has its natural capacity to be still and to transcend its fixations.
In depth it discovers its own clarity where it is at peace, free from anxiety. Most of us have half-a-dozen or so favorite anxieties, like bitter sweets we suck on endlessly.
We would be frightened to be deprived of them. Jesus challenges us to go beyond the fear of letting go of anxiety, the fear we have of peace itself. The practice of meditation is a way of applying his teaching on prayer; it proves through experience that the human mind can indeed choose not to worry.
This is not to say we can easily blank the mind and dispel all thoughts at will. In meditation we remain distracted and yet are free from distraction. This is because---however minimally at first---we are free to choose where to place our attention. Gradually the discipline of daily practice strengthens this freedom. It would be childish to imagine that this is fully realized in a short time. We stay distracted for a long time. We soon get used to distractions as traveling companions on the path of meditation. But they do not have to dominate. Choosing to say the mantra faithfully and to keep returning to it whenever distractions intervene exercises the freedom we have to pay attention.
It is not a choice in the sense in which we choose a particular brand off the supermarket shelf. It is the choice to commit. The way of the mantra is an act of faith, not a movement of the ego's power. Within every act of faith there is a declaration of love. Faith prepares the ground for the seed of the mantra to germinate in love. We do not create the miracle of life and growth by ourselves, but we are responsible for its unfolding. Coming to peace of mind and heart—to silence, stillness, and simplicity---requires not the will of a type-A high-achiever, but the unconditional attention, the sustained fidelity of a disciple.
After Meditation: "Five A.M. in the Pinewoods," Mary Oliver, NEW AND SELECTED POEMS (Boston: Beacon, 1992), pp. 83-84.
I'd seen
their hoofprints in the deep
needles and knew
they ended the long night
under the pines, walking
like two mute
and beautiful women toward
the deeper woods, so I
got up in the dark and
went there. They came
slowly down the hill
and looked at me sitting under
the blue trees, shyly
they stepped
closer and stared
from under their thick lashes and even
nibbled some damp
tassels of weeds. This
is not a poem about a dream,
though it could be.
This is a poem about the world
that is ours, or could be.
one of them—I swear it!—
would have come to my arms.
But the other
stamped sharp hoof in the
pine needles like
the tap of sanity,
and they went off together through
the trees. When I woke
I was alone,
I was thinking:
so this is how you swim inward,
so this is how you flow outward,
so this is how you pray.


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|2012-12-07, 11:18
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Yuuta didn't entirely relinquish his chuuni exactly because he uses it as a bridge with Rikka, and felt that it wasn't so bad, as long as it keeps it in check. That doesn't mean he can't express himself at all without that. There is no such evidence of it.
And there is a major difference between Yuuta and Rikka's chuunibyou: Yuuta actually uses it very rarely and only when it is required. However, Rikka keeps her chuuni approximately...99% of the time, and to a more disruptive degree (her actions towards clubs staff who were trying to recruit people pretty much confirms she has no problem to act chuuni, both in speech AND acts with complete stranger).
So dropping the chuuni act is much more important for Rikka's case.
Really, to act like a oddball like Rikka is absolutely abnormal and unlikely to attract sympathy from those who don't know her, and her actual comfort zone is extremely narrow: her relatives, Yuuta and the other club members. That's it.
Her inability to acknowledge her father's death is a major issue: those who can't get over such fact are often seen falling in depression or using substitution and whatnot that will hurt them sooner or later. It also severely affects their relatives, who are sensible to that as well.
Her inability to speak with her mother stems from both issues above.
Worse: since the "priestess of the investigation bureau" will be absent for a while, are we certain that Rikka won't choose someone else as a substitute to act as her enemy? Rikka's setup is a classic "dark (anti)hero who fights darkness with dark power, often against humans from a shadowy organization", so it is unlikely for her to stick with her setup without someone taking the role Touka had.
Really, Rikka's chuunibyou is the main enjoyment of this show, but it is time to realize that it is absolutely not healthy, and even more troublesome in a rigid society like in Japan.
|2012-12-07, 11:23
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|2012-12-07, 19:02
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I think that some people are missing what caused Yuuta to take action at the end of the episode.
When Touka talked to him he took Rikka's side all the way.Thinking that Rikka would work her way out of it herself given time.But what Touka told him about her mother and then him seeing her for himself made him have to face the fact that Rikka was tearing her family apart.He may not have gone about it the best way but something had to be done.
|2012-12-07, 20:31
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The only one I see who is responsible for "tearing her family apart" is her mom. If you all think Rikka should grow up, shouldn't you all also think that her mom ought to grow up and take responsibility for her actions, as well?
Frankly, Yuuta had no business butting into someone else's family affairs. Touka should never have asked him to do so. She should have shouldered her own responsibilities, instead of passing them off onto someone who is not part of the family.
But this isn't reality, and Yuuta wouldn't be the hero of the day if things were portrayed more realistically.
|2012-12-07, 21:01
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I hardly see any parent, sibling and whatnot to leave someone they care for to stick with such behaviour: again, it is not healthy, and will be extremely detrimental to her sooner or later.
Also, such behaviour is also a "scar" due to Rikka's father.
Also, remember that she -really- thinks Rikka hates her for not telling beforehand about her dad's weak health. So instead of spilling oil to the flames, it isn't surprising to expect her to not show herself in front of her. It is a common occurence, that isn't always wrong.
Yuuta was -asked- to do so, and Touka's reasons are valid and reasonable: as of now, Yuuta is the closest person for Rikka, and he is the only one she actually listens to (again, several scenes indicated how Touka noticed how Yuuta and Rikka relationship grew extremely close).
Also, it isn't only a family matter, as Yuuta -is- Rikka's boyfriend. Heck, even as a friend, he has the right to intervene should something out of hand is occuring right in front of him. Even he surely wasn't that bothered by Rikka's chuuni, he knows full well that Rikka has to get over it, otherwise it will never end, and with Touka leaving soon, shit will hit the fan if Rikka meets her mother in such state.
|2012-12-07, 21:15
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|2012-12-07, 21:22
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I surely cannot comprehend them, while you paint Yuuta, Touka etc in such way with basis that hardly make sense within the series actual setup. Reading again your posts, there is only one statement that keep going: "why the rush"?
Again the point was pretty clear from the very premise of the show: however fun chuunibyou can be, it is a behaviour that is not acceptable should it goes past private activities to a certain degree, and the Takanashi family backstory supplement how this behaviour is hardly what Rikka essentially was, and will lead to a disastrous result.
So repeating ad nauseam such points, and expecting people to understand your reasoning whereas you apply a contradicting "reality" statement (as you certainly don't get why Touka and Yuuta are that concerned by Rikka's chuuni, and still say it isn't reality) surely looks more like you claim the sky is green to me, but heh.
I certainly don't expect you to like Touka and Yuuta's methods, since it is your opinion and perspective. But to ignore the facts, setting and actual themes behind the show is actually what warrants such answers.
|2012-12-07, 22:35
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RUSH > but isn't that the point exactly? now on this part.
as iv'e stated before, being forceful and aggressive is hardly the recommended approach against psychological conditions. (makes you think back to the days of shock therapy, barbaric times indeed...). More often than not such an approach would only lead to aggravation or additional different problems altogether. The best approach should be Constancy, Firm but not forceful, which is pretty much what Yuuta DID NOT DO this episode. YES IT WILL TAKE TIME. so on this
IN fact in some ways Rikka is already starting to heal due to her REGULAR interactions with Yuuta an the club members. so why the need to be SUDDEN & FORCEFUL about it? and what about being in High School? there a far worse offenders and delinquents in High School than Rikka would ever be. even in real life.
Which of course relates to 2 things. the WHY? META reasoning is of course the show is ending. And Rehab isn't exactly an exciting thing to show in anime >.<. they needed to finish this fast. IN-universe, the only change is Touka's leaving. I'm not belittling that, in fact that is a life changing decision (but this is mostly for her personal career advancement). I understand that, but then she needs to contrast that on what is good for her little sister. well i don't envy her situation. But hoping Yuuta would come up with a miracle just so that she could bypass that decision is....
of course this being ANIME, we know that is most probably what would happen. unfortunately it kinda cheapens everything. asspull for the hero, who miraculously saves the girl. curing her of chunibyou IN NO TIME AT ALL! hence my nagging irritation for the second part. hope they do it some other way though. which i feel would make the show better.
well I'm not one of those who would just condemn Yuuta (him being a kid) or Touka (as the show implies she is doing it out of concern, but in no world would I condone hitting a child with a Ladle in that way, even though it has been played for laughs) or even the mother (as much as we don't now yet the full story behind her apart from 2nd hand sources, but it is true that in a way she did abandon her kid), I understand that we shouldn't be too harsh on them especially since THIS IS A DIFFICULT situation. I understand completely, i've been on that position (and far far more than 2 years) and yet "passing the buck" isn't exactly an admirable action on their part, MORE SO THE MOTHER.
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|2012-12-08, 03:42
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And as for Rikka's mom, yes, the initial parts of the episodes do give the impression that she left her. But in this episode, when you saw the flashbacks of Rikka's mom's and then her sadness, I can see that Rikka's mom had done everything to try to communicate with her, but Rikka is just too stubborn to do so. But I agree that she shouldn't have left the family and should have at least persisted in solving Rikka's problem.
You sound as if eighth-grade syndrome is easy to deal with when in fact, it is not. Especially when Rikka is doing this to escape from problems and reality, which is certainly an unhealthy thing to do.
But I do agree that "tearing the family apart" is not really the right phrase to use. It's just that she is creating discontent within her family. She is just not accepting reality and no matter what her family members do, she just won't give in.
|2012-12-08, 08:11
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Touka could potentially take action much earlier considering how long it took, but she didn't, so time wasn't an issue... until now. And that's the point: yes it take time for such wounds to heal, moreso for someone who is that young and react so strongly about that. However, whereas they can fix it or not isn't the problem: the problem right now is to take care of the catalyst that enforce such grief and even affects everyone else.
So even if her behaviour isn't fully normal, if she actually can have a transition towards real behaviour (which is slowly happening due to Yuuta), that would be the best.
Yuuta managed to deal with Rikka exactly because he knows how chuunibyou works (explaining how he can "translate" Rikka and acts accordingly), even if his reasons are fairly harmless compared to Rikka's. That being said, I disagree with the fact that Rikka's family didn't do enough: they also grieved Rikka's father death, and also are in grief due to Rikka's behaviour, and unlike other severe psychological case, Rikka is "salvageable" as chuuni is "just" a tendency, not a psychogical impairing disease at all and must perform her chuuni willingly, which is the big factor here: they see their relative in good health, and conscious enough to do things in her way, yet even after talking with her, it just doesn't drive in her skull.
That's also why Touka used a "let's play along" approach and was roaming around with her ladle to get her back home when Rikka is outside: she could potentially fetch her back and use normal physical punishment like what she did during the summer vacation incident, but she didn't so she is trying to approach Rikka within the latter's setup, but that's not working, since she doesn't comprehend it.
The best solution would have been a gradual transition, a bit how Yuuta was doing so far, but right now: they don't have time.
However, please note that I don't see it as an asspull, exactly because their interactions spanned for months: it has been more than 6 months Yuuta and Rikka are together at school, so if Rikka decides to change a bit due to Yuuta, that would be natural, especially if there is an epiphany behind that.
But the main point is that: if she is left unchecked, due the the recent circumstances, it will be really ugly.
That's why this situation is in the absolute grey area: Rikka has reasonable circumstances that lead her to chuunibyou, whereas her family has the responsibility to help her, which involve an education and support that would not impair her future, and this is where her chuunibyou must be dealt with. And if it is, it will decrease her social difficulties by a certain margin (not making it absolutely flawless, but fairly less awkward than with chuuni), but it will be also a good start to get over her father's death.
But right now, her chuunbyou is actually a major problem: it isn't like Rikka won't be able to live normally, but it will isolate her socially sooner or latter (and having Yuuta and a tiny handful of people "tagging along" is not enough) and might lead to issues because of possible incidents due to her chuunbyou (disrupting public order etc). That's the very reason why chuunibyou is a derogative term, as you hardly will see Japanese people having "fun" with people like that.
Hell, I don't think non japanese people will have fun either if they see high schoolers/adults acting like kids with a setup like that, without any clear indication it is a performance or anything: they will point them as completely nuts.
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|2012-12-08, 08:39
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Finally watched episode 10. I'll make it short and briefly
First half was epicly awesome. The insert song was beautiful and a miracle happened in that Dekomori was able to give an actual useful advice/dialogue to Rikka. The scene where Yuuta and Rikka layed in the rain head-to-head in reverse with the umbrella in between was quite nice. The pinky-holding was cute-ish as well.
I would have punched Dekomori if I had been Nibutani in the club room as Deko's (re)action was out of the blue and had nothing to do wit their usual bickering.
@2nd half: No comment as I (to no great surprise) hate such drama in "my" rom-coms. The few bits until this ep. were okay, though .
Nah, one short comment about the Touka and Yuuta dialogue: It was done well because it's one of the rare times when she had such an uhm .. "open"(?) conversation and her deep plea to help Rikka. The short interaction of her with Yumeha would make her a fitting onee-chan .
A very, very quick LN comparions for me: I prefer the way the romance is handled in the anime, but the (so-called) "final drama" seemed lighter thus for me better in the LN. that's if you ignore the other rather large differences.
|2012-12-08, 09:42
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For Yuuta and Rikka's relationship well it's debatable but I agree that they do have a good connection, and yeah 6 months is enough to have some kind of good relationship. But the key word/phrase here you said yourself "Rikka decides to change a bit due to Yuuta" DEFINITELY! that would be very natural and in fact heavily foreshadowed and expected. The ass-pull, or rather feels like it's forced is when it's more, far more than that bit....
PS> she could delay her training/trip enough to "introduce" the mother into the environment, with the help of yuuta of course.
much like 50 First Dates and, It could have been somethin really epic.
oh well any chance of a follow up season anyone?
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|2012-12-08, 13:06
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The question is, strip the Chuuni, and what is there Riika's character? I'm very interested in that answer. We know what Nibutani and Yuuta were beyond their Chuuni, and those two are very interesting characters.
Would Rika minus Chuuni be a Rei Clone? A Kuudere?
I felt that Yuuta's best response to Touka should have been a promise to commit himself to efforts to get Rika out of her Chuuni. I agree: Ideally, forcing Rika out of it would not work, she has to be coaxed out of it.
On another front, I think one of the points raised in this anime is that you don't really completely grow out of Chuuni - instead, it manifest itself as more socially acceptable obsessions. In the case of Nibutani, that's Fengshui, and in the case of Yuuta, that's in weaponry.
Ironically, I'd say Rika is lucky. She has one of the best possible support network and circle of friends to help her in finding herself after abandoning Chuunibyou. Dekomori won't have cut it, but Yuuta and Nibutani are probably one of the most suitable of persons to help Rika here.
|2012-12-08, 13:09
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Her grandmother discard it as a way for Rikka to entertain herself, so it isn't like she judge Rikka, aside of not putting the full scope of the issue.
Touka OTOH is actually her relative that adjust herself the most: so far, she never went went as far as forcing Rikka to cut it out, save 1) when she goes really out of hand (Rikka confronting her due to Chimera) 2) when things should be settled down (confrontation in front of their old house land).
Heck, she even lets Rikka moving out with all of her "treasures" despite japanese appartment are hardly anything spacious, so having so many meaningless trinkets, souvenirs etc would definitely be a bother.
Furthermore, she plays the role of the antagonist Rikka has set in her own chuuni, and still look after her (lunch and so forth). So really, while Touka has difficulty to approach Rikka due to the latter's chuuni, she basically has set all accomodations Rikka would need.
If Rikka can't have a serious talk without the use of chuuni, there is hardly any possible way to have a "better environnement".
None of Rikka's family were scolding her or made lectures that she should represent their family appropriately or whatnot. However, her behaviour is surely going to cause her several problems at some point.
Perhaps I was using the wrong word here, but Rikka's current state obviously saddens them as she is the utmost devastated family member after her father's death, but they just can't manage to knock her some sense, so it goes nowhere.
Sanae is still in middle school, so her behaviour isn't far from many that would do that, and to her advantage, she has the knack of studies, so she can have people attention in another way.
And remember that while the chuuni antics are mainly set as a comedy, it is vastly less amusing if you consider the situation at hand: Rikka has absolutely -no- friends in her classroom, save the club members, to which are set this way for narrative and premise sake. Also, no one in their right mind would be able to handle indefinitely such antics, and there are obvious reasons why chuunibyou is a derogative term, as the brats with such attitude are just tiring past a certain point.
If you simply remove Yuuta and the rest of the club members in the equation, Rikka would basically be in her own little world, to which was already confirmed (no contact with people except Touka and Sanae).
So really, Rikka's chuuni antics are funny and sad at the same time, because it also reminds everyone who knows her that she keeps clinging on her father's whereabouts.
This is also why Touka states she has no real reason to decline (since her relatives -can- take care of Rikka), but yet, she still cares for her sister, hence why she needs Yuuta's help to settle things before she has to leave. If she really didn't care a single bit, she wouldn't even have that talk with Yuuta, nor even take care of Rikka since the latter was with her grandparents before moving out to Touka's appartment.
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|2012-12-08, 21:22
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I recently marathoned up through this episode.
A few points on a few topics...
On Touka: I certainly don't fault Touka for choosing to pursue her culinary dreams instead of continuing to look after Rikka. Touka has been Rikka's primary caregiver for some time now, which is more than what most people do for their siblings. No, I think that Touka has been reasonably caring and concerned towards Rikka. Touka's methods are certainly questionable, but I think her heart is in the right place.
That being said... Touka has no business telling Yuuta that his approach towards Rikka is irresponsible. Yuuta has been much more effective in his approach towards Rikka than Touka has been. Yuuta has given Rikka the one thing she desperately needed: Somebody that truly understands her and accepts her. Yes, Rikka needs to become more normal of a person before she reaches adulthood, but there's no reason it can't be a slow, gradual process rather than the "cold turkey" approach that Touka seems to favor. Touka should be thanking Yuuta for all that he's done for Rikka, not chastising him for supposedly being irresponsible.
On Rikka's Family in general: The above being said, I think it's important to realize what a nightmare situation this is for Rikka's family. Rikka is amusing to us because we're only seeing her in 20-something minute intervals once a week. Her chuunibyou is amusing in such a limited time-frame. But imagine living with such a person; a person with no "off" switch, and hence is in this chuunibyou persona 24/7.
It reminds me of what I sometimes say about Yui Hirasawa, even as someone who likes Yui. Yui is amusing in small bits here and there, but I think that actually living with a person like that would eventually drive me batty. I would imagine that Rikki's family are at their absolute wit's end with her. I'm not writing this to blame Rikki for anything, but just to say that we shouldn't be too harsh on her family.
On the confession scene: I agree with some other viewers here. I liked the twist of the girl being the first one to confess. I also like how it hit just the right balance between "too awkward" and "too smooth".
On Yuuta: I hope we'll eventually learn exactly what he shouted at Rikka. Otherwise, I have to admit I see that as a bit of a copout.
I feel a bit sorry for the guy in that, really, him and Rikka deserved a nice, fun scene of performing in front of the crowds in their chuunibyou personas. I especially feel sorry for Rikka here.
On Rikka's Song: A very nice touch, but yeah, I think this is one time KyoAni should have dropped the ED and allow this moment to last a bit longer.
Overall, an excellent episode. Nice ambiance with the artwork/animation in this episode.
|2012-12-08, 23:21
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As for why Yuuta "yelled" at Rikka, Yuuta already gave us his reason. He knew about her family situation etc. Then he got presented with this situation where Rikka's mom comes to him and presents him with STILL WARM bento but Rikka wouldn't acknowledge her. As somebody who cares for Rikka, and as somebody who is more reasonable than her, it was only natural that he would tell Rikka the sensible thing to do after being presented with something like that. It's not like he straight up told her to "grow up" or forced it down her throat with a mean demeanor. He told her to get rid of her eyepatch. The yelling part is more or less going to happen when people who are passionate get into any meaningful debate. It's impossible not to raise your voice a bit when you're dealing with such situation, specially with somebody as stubborn as Rikka. That scene was anything but a copout.
|2012-12-09, 00:36
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on the bolded part: where was it ever stated that she's playing along with Rikka's chunni. Being the Overseer priestess whatnot might be how Rikka sees her but never was it reflected in Touka's mind. Never has she tried to do anything chuuni, in fact in her words "what good would it do to encourage chuuni" (or something to that effect) Don't see where you ever got the idea she's playing along rikka's chuuni like a role she gladly accepted to get closer. It's all in Rikka's mind.
(well meta issues regarding storytelling, and time constraints might have made this worse, still it stands in my opinion)
on the bolded part, REALLY? when has psychological defense mechanisms ever been a rational "doing it on purpose" kind of thing, especially when it's associated with a heavy trauma like what Rikka suffered. You and I we probably have countless def. mechanisms we don't know about, might be as small as a small tick, or stammering when in pressure situation, usually unknown to the person involved,often just put aside as nothing more than quirks, when not too disruptive. IN FACT defense mechanisms are good in the sense that it is the minds way of coping with possible unbearable pressure, instead of breaking down.
on the point of the suddenness : in yuuta's own thinking and he even stated it to touka, that eye patch is her shield against the world, and what did he do? He flat out commanded her to remove it, out of the blue, in the middle of the freaking fair (can't he have even waited until after, sigh but of course its a plot device), in front of their friends, without prior preparation and hardening, and funnily enough while they were wearing chuuni garb, and set to do a performance, definitely Rikka's into chuuni mode/thinking right there and then. wow way to go 180, that's definitely not A BIT. if you think otherwise then we just have to agree to disagree on this point.
on the point of the High School environment. Plot reasons or not,rikka has friends in Shibutani & Yuuta + dekomori, kumin. My point is 1) she is currently in a stable environment no need to go rushing into things. 2) a lot of people have even less friends, even in real life. and they're not even chuuni mostly just different or introvert. on this note kumin might even be in the same boat , as you said she was never shown with anyone else 3) there definitely are more disruptive & dangerous behavior than rikka's chuuni even in real life, in anime Haru in Tonari no Kaibutsu would be harder for most to approach. for example, and more dangerous to boot. how many people has he hurt already, and twice his girl. again if you think otherwise and feel the change has to right there , then we just have to agree to disagree on this point.
Well anyway it's been a nice Chat with you Klashi, i think mostly it's a difference of opinions and probably family viewpoint. we both definitely agree rikka must leave chuuni behind ( or at least the extreme part), it's just a matter of timing thing.
see you next ep
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|2012-12-09, 04:44
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I will simply take the "agree to disagree" part, although few points will be answered for clarification sake, not reigniting the debate.
Now, I believe most scenes with her ladle are actually quite obvious in such pattern: she could always end any of Rikka's chuuni fight on the spot, but generally let her go by her own terms (the most noticeable part is the first fight due to chimera): instead of confronting Rikka with her chuuni and reality like she did in ep8, she tags along. Heck if she was really going not to take part of it and stopping Rikka doing such things, she would have made sure nothing of that kind can be done (removing the calculator, disposing of the rope, Rikka's stuff etc)
This also explains Touka's speech episode 8: having Rikka still acting chuuni even after seeing the harsh truth (old house is gone) made Touka give up the chuuni pretense, uses "conventional physical punishment" and asks Rikka what the latter wants to be finally satified. That is a huge indication her family (at least Touka) tried some compromise, but it didn't work in the end.
The second one is the chuunibyou behaviour. The reason why I called the later done on purpose is because too many things require her own will for doing that: she was shown keeping a certain degree of comprehension of the real world, as well as a conscious attempt to stay on her setup (the fact she stopped calling Touka "Priestess" at some point pretty much indicate she isn't entirely chuuni in her head).
Some of her compromises also require her own volition in there: using a calculator as a passcode terminal pretty much shows she knows such thing isn't at her disposal, and to make it seemly working with her setup, she needs something else. This is pretty much comparable to Yuuta DFM scene in the park, and suddenly removing all his chuuni attire when a policeman shows up: even if they are playing hardcore sometimes, they know there is an extent they can't really play out without making compromise or realizing it is outright no possible to do that.
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Greenville's senior forward Agomo and junior guard Hilliard were both named to the second team all-conference squad. Agomo led the entire conference in offensive rebounding (2.5) and was top ten in the SLIAC in a number of statistical categories including points (12.4), rebounding (6.5), blocked shots (0.7), and free throw percentage (.710). For his efforts, Agomo was also named to the SLIAC all-defensive team.
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Did you see the article in this month's (July) Fly Rod and Reel? It goes into great detail about the behind the scenes struggle between the Board of Trustees and the Grassroots membership concerning TU Chapters involvement in River Access issues. I think Jeff informed us fairly accurrately on these details. Thanks Jeff! Now everyone can see these issues brought out in the light of day. I think the aurthor's suggestion of polling the general membership on this issue, with the pros/cons of involvement in these legal issues, could give some direction to the Board of Trustees as to the feelings of the general membership on these issues.
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A local business is hoping folks will flock to its weekend seminar on raising chickens now that the Town of Swansboro is allowing residents to do so.
A local business is hoping folks will flock to its weekend seminar on raising chickens now that the Town of Swansboro is allowing residents to do so.
S & H Supply and Feed in Hubert sells supplies necessary for owning chickens and will hold a seminar at 9 a.m. Saturday. The session with be led by store owner Michael Stanley and will teach best practices for correctly raising baby chicks.
The class is free and will last about an hour at the store.
Topics discussed will be types of feed to use, an explanation of the watering process, how to control bird interaction and spacing.
�With Easter weekend approaching, people become more interested in baby chicks,� Stanley said. �Caring for chickens may sound a little overwhelming, but doesn�t require that much more care than a dog or cat plus you get the benefit of fresh eggs.�
An ordinance was passed Tuesday by Swansboro mayor Scott Chadwick that allows town residents to legally raise chickens. Previous ordinances prohibited the possession of livestock and waterfowl within town limits, such as duck or geese, but did not specifically address chickens.
The issue was discussed by town commissioners after Swansboro resident Blake Price sent a written request in 2013 to keep a flock of his own. A motion instructing town staff to research and prepare a draft on the matter was unanimously approved with a 5-0 vote, according to meeting minutes. Price was not immediately available for comment.
Commissioners considered data from 10 communities across North Carolina concerning how chickens are regulated and their impacts on the community. The amendment to the Swansboro livestock ordinance to allow up to six hens was passed Feb. 18 with a 4-1 vote. Swansboro Town Manager Harvell said the changes remove a level of bureaucracy and allows residents to operate with little to no interference from the town; however, the town will step in as a regulator if problems arise.
�Our staff anticipates very little issues concerning the chickens,� Harvell said. �Trends across the country show when a town allows activity, there usually is minimal participation. Typically, the residents who want to have these expenditures will responsibly take care of their hobby.�
Robby Zorzi with The White House on Freedom Way in Hubert has experience taking care of chickens and once owned two hundred birds before losing his flock last year to woodland predators.
�Chickens are a part of the history of the area and I�m excited Swansboro passed the ordinance,� Zorzi said. �They are very rewarding and mesmerizing to watch. There is nothing like having a fresh chicken egg and knowing where it came from.�
Zorzi said new chicken owners should be wary of critters, such as ospreys, foxes and snakes who are not afraid to approach a coop even when in close proximity to humans. He also explains that chicken droppings may be used for fertilizer, but only after letting them sit until their strong acids subside.
�The droppings have to season before you use them on a garden,� Zorzi said. �If you try to put it directly on there, it will burn your plants pretty bad.�
S&H is expecting between 20 to 80 people to attend Saturday�s seminar. Customers seeking to form their own flock may also pre-order baby chicks of various breeds from S & H Supply and Feed. For more information on the seminar, call S & H Supply and Feed at 910-326-5690. For details and questions about the new ordinance, Swansboro Town Hall may be reached at 910-326-4428.


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This new dietary awareness leaves a large opportunity in the marketplace as a gluten-free diet has quickly become a fast-growing nutritional movement.
For many consumers, gluten free foods are a welcome friend. Nearly 1 out of every 100 Americans has Celiac Disease or what is known as gluten sensitivity. This is not a completely new disease; Americans first started being diagnosed with Celiac disease as early as the 1940s.
Nearly 21 million people have Celiac disease or some form of sensitivity to gluten, a protein found in all foods and products containing wheat, barley and rye according to National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. In addition to the 1% of the population with Celiac Disease, 6% of Americans have some form of gluten sensitivity while another 5-8% of consumers are looking for gluten free products for various reasons according to researchers at the University of Maryland.
This new dietary awareness leaves a large opportunity in the marketplace as a gluten-free diet has quickly become one of the fastest growing nutritional movements in America according to the NFCA. Some food retailers are seeing green envisioning the dollars they can make from this fad. For others, this new word is reminiscent of fads, like the Atkins diet, they have seen come and go.
The gluten-free category has defied the recession by continuing to grow with a compound annual growth rate of 30% from 2006-2010 according to Packaged Facts, a Rockville, MD based research firm. This firm expects the gluten free market to exceed $5 billion by 2015. Now retailers must understand this market and cater to these consumers if they want to cash in on this trend.
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Many progressive retailers are already seeing results with their gluten free nutritional programs. Three years in the making, Safeway recently instituted a program called SimpleNutrition after surveying their customers who wanted to make more informed food choices. They use green tags through out the store highlighting up to two key nutrient and ingredient benefits such as "organic", "low sodium" or "gluten-free".
Other retailers like Whole Foods only work with vendors who are certified gluten-free by one of the independent third party agencies or allergen control programs which use a 20 parts per million threshold which is the standard proposed by the FDA. Whole Foods offers gluten-free shopping list for customers with these special dietary needs.
Wegman's is another supermarket offering consumers with dietary restrictions a place to go and find variety and guidance in their choices. The retailer dedicates aisles for gluten-free under its Nature's Market Place department. A Wellness Key Program throughout the store indicates, with a brightly colored dot, whether or not a product is gluten free, lactose free, fat free as or helps with any other dietary restrictions. Wegman's is taking proactive steps with 6 Registered Dieticians on staff, a Fresh News email newsletter that is distributed weekly with new products, recipes and nutritional education, an educational video on their Gluten Free page of the website and they offer lists of products and recipes that are gluten free in their stores.
Laure Stasik, R.N and dietician is the owner of Alternative Eating, gluten free specialty store, in Scranton, Penn. She has been in business for more than five years because she found a marketplace niche. Stasik herself has Celiac disease and could not find the products she wanted at her local grocery store; she went into business for herself and others with this dietary restriction.
With a variety of retailers dedicating shelf space to this fad market, researchers from Packaged Facts expect to see a much wider range of gluten-free products on shelves by 2012.
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Many national food manufactures have realized that gluten-free is not a fad but rather a lifestyle. Consumers are not necessarily looking for new brands but rather want to continue eating brands they know and grew up with. Some of the more progressive companies are recapturing this brand loyal customer that they have invested in for decades.
Brands such as Kellogg's, General Mills, Frito Lay and Snyder's of Hanover are capitalizing on this market by reformulating or relabeling in some cases their existing brands.
- Kellogg's Gluten Free Rice Krispies cereal is made with whole-grain brown rice and eliminates barley malt (the source of gluten in the original Rice Krispies cereal). The gluten-free option is produced in a separate facility, and each batch is tested to ensure its gluten-free status. Gluten Free Rice Krispies cereal is in the cereal aisle, right alongside the original Rice Krispies cereal, and at the same price.
- Betty Crocker was the first national brand to launch gluten-free brownie, cookie, and cake mixes in traditional grocery stores. This innovative line of products satisfied gluten-free consumers' previously unmet desire to find great tasting, affordable and easy-to-prepare desserts.
- Frito-Lay has re-labeled several of their products "gluten free" starting in 2011. "Since many of our chips are made from simple ingredients like corn or potatoes, they have naturally always been made without gluten. However, consumers with Celiac disease have told us it is more helpful when they shop to have the words 'gluten free' included on the packaging. So to help meet their needs, Frito-Lay is now validating with analytical testing that these products contain less than 20 parts per million (ppm) of gluten then adding the 'gluten free' claim to our bags" according to FritoLay.com.
- Snyder's of Hanover has been working with the Gluten Free Certification Organization (GFCO), a program of the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG), since September 2009. As of today, they are happy to announce that their Gluten Free Pretzel Sticks are GFCO certified.
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The first day of the 2013 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has brought several developments that seek to transform the industry, from the prices to the shopping experience on the devices. Here's what took the spotlight on the first day:
New Lumia Phones
Nokia unveiled two new Windows smart phones, the Lumia 520 and the Lumia 720, IBN Live reports. The smart phones, which come in five colors, have a 1 GHz dual-core processor and 512 RAM.
The Lumia 520 has a 4-inch screen and a 5-megapixel camera. Estimated at 139 euros ($184), it is the lowest-priced Windows 8 phone. The Lumia 720 has a 4.3-inch display and a 3.7-megapixel camera. The higher-end phone is estimated to start at 249 euros ($330).
For the first quarter, both models will go on sale in Hong Kong and Vietnam, with the 720 also available in Singapore. Nokia will release the phones in other regions in the second quarter, including other parts of Asia (particularly China and India), Europe, Latin America and Africa in the second quarter.
CNET describes the Lumia 720 as a 920 "light" with its simpler, but slightly higher-end level of hardware.
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Speaking of Nokia, it seems that the company may be working to become competitive in the Chinese market. CNET predicts that this may be Nokia's direction since it has struggled to jump into Lumia Windows Phone devices and maintain its hold on the traditional cellphone market. China's new title as the world's largest smart-phone market (which it took from the US recently) makes it even more appealing to Nokia.
The Chinese market is somewhat familiar with the Lumia line. Nokia released the Lumia 920T there as an alternative to the 920 that's tailored to China Mobile. The company, which has the largest customer base, has also signed on to sell the new Lumia models.
Phone meets Firefox
ZTE introduced the Alcatel One Touch Fire, the first device with a Firefox OS. The phone is an orange, 3.5-inch device with only a single-core 1 GHz processor and a 3.2 megapixel camera.
GSM Arena noted that when Mozilla announced that it had deals with 18 carriers, a partnership with Qualcomm to use their Snapdragon chipsets, and four manufacturers.
Android tablet by HP
Hewlett-Packard introduced the Slate 7, a 7-inch tablet running Android 4.1. This is the first tablet HP has released since the HP Touchpad, which it discontinued less than two months later, according to TechCrunch. The Slate 7 is expected to go on sale in April with a price tag of $169.
HP hopes that printing will set the tablet apart in the eyes of consumers. The company has enabled printing from most apps through drivers and HP's ePrint technology.
Ars Technica says the tablet looks attractive for the price, but that it might not be able to shut out the Nexus 7 and its higher-quality specs. The Nexus has a quad-core Tegra 3 processor, a higher resolution, and more internal storage. The Slate 7 has 2.4 GHz processor, 1 GB in RAM, 8 GB of internal storage.
Chris Velazco of TechCrunch says the Slate 7 functional and affordable, but not much else: "Swiping between home screens could be a little jerkey (if it worked at all; quick swipes didn't always get the job done), and there was a bit of delay as I went to fire up new apps — though some non-final software probably has something to do with that."
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Visa and MasterCard are trying to make mobile pay happen with their new digital services. While MasterCard introduced its digital service, "MasterPass," Visa announced that the Samsung Galaxy S4 will incorporate the company's PayWave mobile payment applet.
Samsung has worked on improving the connection technology for mobile pay, near-field communication, but the partnership with Visa suggests it will finally worked out the kinks, CNET suggests.
The MasterPass service will support NFC, QR codes, tags, and mobile devices used at points for sale, according to ZD Net. One plus of the product, according to Master Card at least, is safety. MasterPass is expected to store personal information through a secure cloud.
Galaxy S4 to launch elsewhere
Samsung will launch the Galaxy S4, the successor to the world's most popular smart phone. Just not at MWC, ZD Net reports. Instead, Samsung will host its own launch event on March 14 (also known as Pi Day) in New York.
The company decided on a New York venue after receiving numerous requests from American carriers to reveal the devices in the US, according to a Reuters report.