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The showdown in Denver. To my right, in the red corner, Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. To my left, in the blue corner, President Barack Obama. If you are looking for insightful political analysis, if you (still) need to decide who you're voting for, you're in the wrong place. Go to CNN for that. If you believe that watching smart, well-prepared, talented people debate issues in the race for the highest office in the land can teach you a thing or two — how to present, pitch for business, sell. Then read on.
The Run-up
Medialand, Punditville and the Twitterverse have been buzzing with expectation. According to polling, the majority of the country has decided, leaving only 4% undecided. Each candidate has similar goals: Appeal to the undecideds (especially in the battleground states) and motivate the already decided to get up and vote. Two conversations with the American public matter: the one that frames or reframes the way voters see the world, and the one that moves them to action. Obama, carrying a lead, must do no harm. Conventional wisdom dictates that Romney must not only do no harm, but gain momentum for the race to swing in his favor.
For each candidate, we'll take an example of the elegant, the obvious, and the ugly.
The Elegant
Gavin on Obama
Obama's best turf, I thought, was healthcare. But I will single out a particular exchange, on social security and entitlement reform, where the President had his strongest moment. He summarised by looking directly to camera, speaking, and engaging the audience. "If you're 54 or 55, you might want to listen." He went on to make a very clear statement, in plain language. "I don't think vouchers are the right way to go…" contrasting his view of medicare with his opponent's proposals. He then summed up with a little verbal seasoning, "I have become fond of this term, Obamacare." That line, and the way he delivered it, drew a little laugh from the moderator and showed his human side. It was content-free, but charming and disarming, a little verbal jiu-jitsu on a word that is often used by his opposition as an insult. The lesson for all of us? Always remember who the audience is. Engage them. Be Real.
Peter on Romney
Interestingly, I thought Romney also had his finest moment on healthcare. He also had his worst, which we'll come to later.
For health care it was Romney's turn to have the first say. He started with speaking about real people whom he had met and who were suffering. It's an effective technique, and both candidates used it. Romney's people however, most always seemed to be living in swing states. He clearly had his audience in mind. From here he moved into what became a signature Romney technique throughout the debate, listing his points. Points 1, 2, 3, and 4. It was point four that brought him squarely to, Small Businesses. This seemed to be Romney's key talking point, and in most exchanges he logically segued to it. My third reason for picking out this moment was that he then linked across to all the other things the President could have focussed on during his first year in the White House, and by doing so diminished the achievement represented by ObamaCare.
Finally however, the reason Romney gets full points, was that he ended with talking about his pride in how he created the Massachusetts health care program while he was that state's Governor, and strongly framed it as being an example of cascading more power to the states.
The Romney team had identified "RomneyCare" as being an Achilles heel Obama would go for, and through framing it as States Rights, Romney took the sting out of some of Obama's best lines.
That was the elegant. How about some examples of the obvious?
The Obvious
Gavin on Obama
Most of the Obama side of the debate was workmanlike. He answered questions, and then segued swiftly if not elegantly to his talking points. He explained more than connected. A typical moment was his summary of the first segment on taxes.
"I would just say this to the American people. If you believe that we can cut taxes by $5 trillion and add $2 trillion in additional spending … and you think that by closing loopholes and deductions for the well-to-do, somehow you will not end up picking up the tab, then Governor Romney's plan may work for you.
But I think math, common sense, and our history shows us that's not a recipe for job growth. Look, we've tried this. We've tried both approaches. The approach that Governor Romney's talking about is the same sales pitch that was made in 2001 and 2003, and we ended up with the slowest job growth in 50 years, we ended up moving from surplus to deficits, and it all culminated in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression."
Peter on Romney
I've already mentioned Romney's habit of listing-off his talking points. Those talking points create a logical path of stepping stones, leading to point 4, which normally had something to do with small business. Like all techniques, it shouldn't be overdone or it becomes obvious, and eventually annoying.
And finally, the ugly, where there was no answer to the question, but a brazen attempt to answer their own question rather than the one that was asked.
The Ugly
Gavin on Obama
Obama started the night poorly answering the jobs question. Prior to the debate, Obama's strong point on the issue was who would handle taxes better. He moved the jobs question quickly to a discussion on taxes, and then lost me and I am sure thousands of others in an unclear explanatory monologue of numbers and percentages. In that, he got professorial, and went in to a back and forth he said she said about Romney's $5 Trillion tax cut. 78% of adults in the U.S* don't know the difference between a billion and a trillion. It's just a big number. The lesson learned here — When you're talking numbers, you have to make them relevant. He got close saying that his opponents bill would add $2,000 to every middle class voter. But pound it home by saying that's a vacation you can afford. A down-payment on a new car. Putting of fixing up the kitchen for another year.
*This is not true. In fact, it's completely made up. But it seems right. It's just a big number with lots of zeros. I know one is bigger than the other, but after that, I go into math class mode, and my brain quietly shuts down.
Peter on Romney
For the ugly with Romney, it's back to health care and an example of seizing defeat from the jaws of victory. There was a noticeable moment when the President, de-fanged by Romney's unexpected embrace of the Massachusetts health plan, suddenly had the wind back in his sails.
Romney made the mistake of moving the frame to portray the President as having been non-bipartisan during the health care debates, by contract to the Massachusetts debates. As Romney attempted to represent the Republican-led Congress as being the nice people seeking consensus however, Obama smiled. He was suddenly back into his old form. Romney had pushed the frame too far and lost credibility. The secret to good framing is that there needs to be at least a basis of logic in there somewhere, and this frame didn't!
The winner.
Obama was in ugly mode for most of the debate. When he spoke directly to camera, summed up and concluded, he was good. Unfortunately for him, that was rare. Mostly he took on the role of explaining.
Romney however, had a great evening. He appeared calm, in control, and from his first answer, fully in command of the facts and the frame. On the downside, he came across as being aggressive at times. When there is a debate with rules about timing, one should really stick to them.
What did you think?
The TwitterVerse certainly had it's say last night. What did you think to the debate? Post a comment and come join the conversation.
About us:
Gavin is a founding partner at fassforward consulting group. He blogs about PowerPoint, Presenting, Communication and Message Discipline at makeapowerfulpoint.com. You can follow him on twitter @powerfulpoint.
More at Google+, Facebook and Pinterest. Comments are welcome, links are appreciated. If you're interested in writing guest posts for this blog, please contact me.
Peter is a writer, trainer, and speaker on all aspects of Presenting. He coaches business executives in how to be at their best when on their feet. His bi-weekly blog, The Presenters' Blog, examines core disciplines of public speaking and looks at how those disciplines are being illustrated by new stories around the world. You can follow his Twitter feed on @speak2all
A Note about bias. Neither of us can or will be voting in the US elections, but, like all humans, we have biases. We will try to look at the debates purely from a point of view of speaking, messaging and presenting, to see what the rest of us — those that will never run for President, can learn.


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Yes we are talking music here not places of worship.
New band (kinda, been really into them since hearing 'Shelter Song' which came out today. Off to see them tonight support somebody at the Old Blue Last in Shoreditch.
Anybody else like them, or if not, thoughts on the tune?
Really wish I hadn't clicked that link
Awful retro nonsense.

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Clemson junior receiver Charone Peake expects to be ready to contribute in the team's Saturday opener at Georgia.
Clemson junior receiver Charone Peake expects to be ready to contribute in the team's Saturday opener at Georgia, but whether or not it will take some weeks of actual game situations before he gets his old burst back remains to be seen.
The former Dorman standout has all the physical tools to become an elite receiver in the ACC, but after fully recovering from a torn ACL suffered nearly one year ago, he underwent a second procedure late last month on his meniscus in the same knee. Now having undergone a full week of practice, Peake told reporters Monday he figures to be on the field at Sanford Stadium.
"I think I'll be able to play," Peake said. "I've been able to practice starting last Monday and I felt pretty good out there so I think I'll be ready to play. Everything felt good. I got a lot of confidence in my knee throughout the summer and a lot of lateral stuff and I guess it transitioned to after my meniscus and I feel fine now."
Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris also met with the media on Monday and acknowledged there will be plenty of emphasis regarding Peake in the game plan.
"I think Charone had a good week last week and I think his issue is getting back into playing shape," Morris said. "He hasn't had any issues at all off the knee, it's been more so just getting him in shape. Last week was pretty hot so we had a chance to really test him and he's going to play, hopefully quite a bit, and we're excited about it. When he's out there and he's fresh, he's a difference maker."
New Georgia defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt, who surprisingly left Florida State where he held the same position for one season, oversaw a Seminoles defense that limited Clemson to 326 total yards on 86 plays, an average of only 3.8 yards per snap.
Peake said the Tigers have been watching a combination of film from last year's Georgia and Florida State games, attempting to match up the Bulldogs personnel with the style that Pruitt likes to play, which has been a press-man, in your face style of defense.
"You have to prepare for (defensive backs pressing) going into any game because you never know," Peake said. "You can watch all the film you want, but you never know what they're actually going to do in the game. The way we look at it is if they press us they don't think we can get off of it so we just have to go out there and prove it to them."


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Masters announces new cut and qualification rules
Augusta, GA – Augusta National and Masters Chairman Billy Payne announced two changes to the season's first major during his annual pre- tournament press conference Wednesday.
Payne announced the cut will be increased from 44 to 50 players and ties, plus those within 10 strokes of the leader, and amending three qualifications for an invitation to the event.
"In recent years, and as our field of participating players has grown, I have said repeatedly that we annually examine our invitation criteria in order to maintain Bobby Jones' desire to keep the Masters an intimate gathering of the world's best competitors and to afford all players a reasonable expectation of completion in the reduced hours of sunlight available each spring," said Payne.
Previous winners will continue to earn an invite to the tournament, including those who win the events providing full-point allocation for the season-ending Tour Championship. The latter includes the fall tournaments that will become full-point events in the PGA Tour's new 2013-14 schedule, which will increase the number of players invited to the Masters.
That change caused tournament officials to drop invitations to the Masters' top-12 finishers from the top 16, the top-four players from the U.S. Open from the top eight, which will make the qualification criteria consistent with the British Open and the PGA Championship, and removing the qualification from the year-end, top-30 PGA Tour money winners.
Payne also said the only significant change to the golf course for this year's event was that the 14th green was rebuilt and regrassed, and a heating and cooling system was added beneath its surface.


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Travelers who left behind their belongings in the chaos of the shooting at Los Angeles International Airport are being allowed to retrieve them today.
Although authorities originally had announced that luggage and other belongings left behind at Terminal 3 could not be retrieved until an FBI investigation was complete, airport officials began allowing passengers in to claim those items beginning at 10 a.m. today.
A Transportation Security Administration officer was killed and five others were wounded, including the gunman, in the shooting Friday morning.


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Man Faces Down Charging Gorilla [FBHW]
Apparently, Free Beer and Hot Wings have been watching old gorilla documentaries. The 1976 film 'Gorilla' has several scenes where the host, Adrien Deschryver, stands his ground against a charging gorilla. In realm of bad asses, Deschryver is on par with Chuck Norris, Sylvester Stallone, or Jason Statham.
We can all learn a lesson from this brief clip... If you are ever in a jungle in Africa and you get charged at by a massive gorilla, just stand there and you'll be fine! What could be easier?
See what the guys had to say about one the biggest bad asses on the planet:
He walks up with a baby gorilla and this big one doesn't like that. And goes running at him banging it's chest... The guy's got balls as big as damn bowling balls. - Zane


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Schultz Collection
David Hall: The story of the Oregon Trail commemoratives is one of explotation and greed. The coins were struck in large quantities to begin with, i.e. the 1926, 1926-S, and 1928 issues, but after several years of trying to sell all 100,055 1926-S Oregons before the 1928 issue could be released, the dealers involved realized that a lower, obstensibly rarer issue would be easier to sell for a good profit and they convinced the Mint to melt 44,000 of the 50,028 originally minted of the 1928. After that the Oregons had lower mintages and were struck in 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, and 1939. In other words, Oregons were struck from 1926 thru 1939. No other silver commemorative issue had an issue period that long
While the actual issue of the Oregon Trails was somewhat contrived, the design of the coins is very beautiful. Some people, myself included, consider them to be among the most beautiful U.S. coins ever made.
The 1926 Philadelphia was the first Oregon Trail commemorative struck. There were 47,955 distributed at an issue price of $1.00. Although both the 1926 and 1926-S Oregons had original mintages that were way higher (by many multiples) than later issues, they are just a little bit more common in MS65 condition and about as common in MS66 condition. Actually, the most common Oregons in MS66 condition are the three much lower mintage 1938 issues. But in MS63 and MS64 condition, the 1926 and 1926-S are much more common than the the later issues.
The 1926 is just slightly scarcer than the 1926-S in all grades. The typical 1926 Oregon has very frosty luster and most examples are relatively mark free. Strike is not usually a problem with the 1926, but it can be a problem with the 1926-S.
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death of many a beloved friend twenty-five days was the average time for ships to cro^s the atlantic in 1s30 the average time now is about 8 or 8 days it has been done in 6f but it is supposed a great reduction will yet be made and the trip accom plished in about three days is leaping off the back of a horse which is running away just the thing to do ? advice on the subject will not be paid for because it will not be re membered or valued by those who may have occasion to consider it bracing news for democrats washington correspondence philadel phia press 1 was informed to-night by reliable authority that the president emphat ically told some southern and new york democratic politicians saturday that he was going to change his tactics you think said he i am not re moving republicans quick enough do you ? well wait and you will see if i don't turn out republicans quick enough for you during the next six months let me know these gentle men came away from the white house almost hirlarious 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seriously wrought upon and parched arid and uncouth leaned forward nervously two thou sand eves were riveted upon the ac tress there was a long wait then she slowly pressed her lips to romeo's and seemed lost to everything around her the people sat like stones a programme floated down from above and fell athwart a woman's bonnet and she did not raise her hand to remove it a spinster coughed juliet raised her head slowly and glided away look ing back over her shoulder as she dis appeared with an expression that no man who saw it will ever forget there was a long silence and then the play went on but no one paid the slight est attention to it one by one the people relaxed their strained and intent attitudes and leaned back in their chairs there was no rustle or noise the woman did not notice the pro gramme on her bonnet until the cur tain fell miss anderson played juliet there when she returned from london re cently and in the forth act she kissed romeo as she approached the event the bald-headed man in the orchestra who habitually dwadles with the base viol rose from his seat and looked over the footlights everybody knew the kiss was coming and the actress lean ed forward frigidly and resolutely placed her face in the immediate prox imity of romeo's the house was all at tention she leaned back again the deed had been done the bald-headed man in the orchestra sank back in his chair shivered a bit and turned up his collar the lights flickered an usher sneezed and tiptoeing softly to the door he put his hand across the crack to see if he could find out where the chilling draft came from then a howling swell rose from his seat blew open his fingers pulled on a fur over coat went out into thirteenth street and wished audibly that he was dead fish traps when mr cox of north carolina introduced a proposition in the com mittee on rivers and harbors to abolish fish traps in the yadkin river it caused some speculation no one could im agine what was the reason for the pro position and the mystery was deepen ed by the fact that mr cox appeared to make it a personal matter between himself and the fish traps again no body could see what business he had with the fish tramps in the yadkin river anyway as that stream is not in his district but in that of his colleague mr cowles with whom he seemed to be on the most friendly terms the matter has finally been explain ed says a correspondent of the cincin nati commercial-gazette and it is shown that mr cox was really acting in the interest of his colleague and en deavoring to aid in his re-election it appears that at the time of a re cent fresh in the yadkin a united states letter carrier was trying to ford the stream with the mail his horse was in danger of being swept away and he was borne down by a huge bag containing the speeches of mr cowles which that gentleman was sending out to his tar-heel constituents to save himself he cut open the bag and dump ed out the larger part of its contents the carrier as soon as the act was known was arrested and put in jail and the case reported to the govern ment authorities mr cox when the matter was canvassed reported that when the people living along down the river below the lord where the carrier crossed went the next day to examine their fish traps they found them full of mr cowles speeches and other con gres i nial eloquence statistics s(_e.ls etc and were greatly surprised and not thoroughly pleased at the nature of their catch mr cox then pro posed to abolish these fish traps on the ground that they interfered with the free circulation of current literature and congressional eloquence he thought the man who threw the matter into the river was doing only his duty and that the fish traps were the real offen ders he pressed his point but finally had to compromise on the release ot the mail carrier as long as the fish traps remain mr cowles will continue to circulate his speeches by muleback and buckboard as heretofore — boston herald haunted to death about three months ago a woman named eva hebron died at hound brook n j just previous to her death she obtained a promise from her husband that he would never marry again he soon forgot his promise and his wife had been in her grave scarcely six weeks when he sought to soothe his sorrows by wedding mary handler a buxom widow of some 4 years she was a roman catholic and hebron immediately renounced his con nection with the methodist church and embraced catholicism shortly after his second marriage acquaintances be gan to notice that he acted queerly he seemed ill at ease and had the ap pearance of a man haunted with some secret trouble hi said himself that he was troubled with insomnia one night he arose from a troubled sleep to watch the burning of the episcopal church in tliis place which was on fire suddenly while watching the flames he started back with an excla mation of horror and in spite of all his wife could do to arouse him he ap peared as though held by some strange fascination then he shrank back placed his hands before his eyv as though to shutout some horrible vision all the while trembling in every limb he called upon his wife to see the spirit of his di id wile which had come t h;iu!ir him and remind him of the broken promise he made her on her deathbed he also declared that she brought an army of ghastly creatures to end his life ten thousand devils who jeered and jibed at him he then fell to the floor in a dead faint from that time hebron believed he was a doomed man his dreams were hid eous and his wakeful moments fright ful one morning he came to some of his friends with a countenance more ghastly that ever and told them of a dream he had had during the night he said he thought the skeleton of his hist wife lay beside him and when in terror he sprang from the bed the specter followed him at length it pinioned him to the wall with one of its long ghastly fingers and he felt his life blood ooze from his pierced heart and drip to the floor then he said the specter licked up his flowing blood screaming so i stop the vitali ty of my false husband 1 , this story convinced hebron's friends that he was insane and they were tak ing steps to place him in the asy lum when one morning of last week he was found dead in his bed he had died from fright a little patti oossip new york star from swansea wales comes the news that mine adelini patti was married there to signor nicolini on the yth inst this is the third time that patti has married nicolini she was divourced from the marquis de caux about eight years ago and in 1878 she married nicolini in a greek church in russia she was married to nicolini again in paris about four years ago on nov 8 1884 patti's divource from her husband the marquis de caux was made absolute by the new french law and last wednesday the diva for the first time became nicolini's lawful wife the marquis de caux made no objec tion to these proceedings as he is a man of large fortune and always has been nicolini was divorced from his wife in 1882 after he had married patti in a greek church his five children are kept by his wife who receives pay out of mine patti's treasury when patti was over here last year her fond ness for nicolini was more marked than ever and she seemed anxious that he should inherit her property she owns an estate in the south of france valued at 400,000 which she feared might become a matter of litigation at her death nicolini has therefore fallen into an extremely soft thing he is as faithful as a watch dog with patti guards her as he would a child cooks most of the dishes of which she is particularly fond and has cracked his voice in singing the praises of the woman he adores patti is married again this was the wedding hymn eliaffwer wynwes hen gwontawe a cherddorol dan a chyd floetldiwn croesaw idils fanon lioft y gan literally translated this beautiful anthem signifies patti cake i'atti cake ■marry me again : i take the cake it marrying take me i ra amen !" a cave found correspondence of the aslu-villc citizen messrs editors persons having formerly visited the warm springs will no doubt remember the mound in front of the old hotel on which stood the pavalion or music stand yester bay men were put at work to remove tliis mound in order to level off the lawn in front of the new hotel which obstructed the view towards the rail road depot and in the excavation of the lime stone rock was discovered the mouth of quite an extensive cave from which vapor arises supposed to come from the hot water at the bottom of it this cave may prove a very im portant discovery both on account of the interest as a curiosity and also for its usefulness as the vapor arising from the hot water may be utilized for vapor baths the workmen are now engag ed in tho exploration of the cave and its extent will soon be ascertained j.m tlernan dictation vs liberty in these days when the old-fashion ed doctrine of personal liberty seems to be undergoing revision by the very class that it might be thought would ch rlsh it most the working classes it may not be amiss to ask whether the principle and restraint might not be ex tended beneficially in direct ions hith erto uncontemplated suppose for in stance leagues should be formed requiring working men to give account of how they expend their earnings and even to dictate in a measure the proportion that should be devoted to certain objects would not this invasion of the privilege of the individual be at least as conducive to his welfare and to the welfare of society as the dicta tion of the terms on which they shall work and the listing of tradespeople with whom he shall not deal most persons would probably prefer the maintenance of the sort of liberty con templated in the declaration of inde pendence still if another principle is to be substituted it may as well be in terpreted beneficially as injuriously the south gibbs so the man was killed at the hotel was he squibbs yes shot right in the r tunda giubs lir.-iit scott no wonder it killed him that's a terrible pi ice to ' hit a man chicago ramble the expulsion of the princes pari june 23 — prince victor and in cluding the most puominent adherents j including the harqnis ofvaletteand baron i hanssmann started to-day for brussels the train bearing the party left the station amid cries ol vive i'empereur an re voir,"and shouts for vive la republiqne there was some hissing several persona were arrested prinre napoleon plon ploni is going to geneva the count and countess of paris and their son prince louis phillippe after i receiving their friends tomorrow will em bark at trppnrt in the afternoon they will arrive at tunbridge wells england un j | friday and will take up their residence there the count will i>sue a manifesto ! protesting against his expulsion and out lining the monarchical programme one thousand persons called at the ' chateau d en today ami inscribed their names in a book the conipte de paris shook hands with each one and briefly ex pressed his thanks most of the royalist ' senators and deputies intend to witness the departure of tho count de paris l'roin france count foucher de carcil ambassador to the austrian court has resigned in protest against the action of his government in expelling the french princes it is believed that m waddington french ambassador to the court of st janus will resign inconse quence of the expulsion of the princes his resignation is momentarily expected the royalist press pronounce the pas sage of the expulsion bill the forerunner of the downfall of the republic the moder ate republican papers generally criticize the measure as unjust the opportunist journ i als urge the government to discard the demand of the irreconcilables and radicals and they demand a firmer republican pol icy near the red sulphur springs on friday a young lady and gentleman eloped from the lady's parents tot the purpose of get ting married the flung pair were in a buggy and made good time until indian creek was reached the creek was very high but an attempt was made to ford it when midway of the stream the vehicle was washed over and the occupants thrown in i the water they lodged against a broken tree i in the middle of the creek the young man caught the young lady ns the rushing waters were earning her down and in id her fortunately just at the root of this tree there was sufficient fo.it hold for the young man to stand so that the water only came up to his armpits but on either side of him it was too deep and the current too strong for him to venture to reai li the shore he held the young lady in liis arms for two hours before they were discovered the position was made more unpleasant by the hot sun pouring its rays upon them for tunately when the buggy was overturned an umbralla was thrown in reach of the young man and he managed to open it and hold it over the lady novel as was the catastrophe the rescue was even more novel a young man although the risk was g-eat swam a strong horse to the place and the imperrilled lady and gentleman hung on to the animal's tail and were brought liack safely virginia paper an old scotch lady was told that her minister used notes she disbelieved it said one go into the gallery and see she did so and saw the written sermon after the luckless preacher had concluded his reading on the last page he said but i will not enlarge the old woman called out from her lofty position ye canna ye canna for your papers give out ' a card to all who are suffering from the errors and indiscretions of youth nervous weak ness early decay loss of manhood a:c i will send a recipe that will cure you kkke of cuakoe this great remedy was dis covered by a missionary in south america send a self-addressed envelope to the kev i joseph t in man station i new york city 4 : 1 y the man who worrits about things that cannot be helped is sawing timber for his own coffin kotseared but i he heart-throbs of true manhood sparta c.a sept 82 1885 to out com ttitvtivn atlanta were i to practice decep tion in a case like tliis i would think that my heart had become seared beyond recog nition to be guilty of bearing false testimony thereby imperilling the lives of my fellow men would place me beneath the dignity of l uellt ] fill nil the facts which i disclose ore endorsed and vouched foi by the community in w hick i live and i trust they maj exert the influ ence intended for twenty long yean i hare suffered untold tortures from a terrible pain and weakness in the small of my back which resisted all modes and manner of treat ment for i long time the horrifying panes of an (•-•• t iiilz cancer of my lower lip hasadded to my misery and suffering this encroach ing burning and painful sore on my lip was pronounced epithelial cancer by the prom inent physicians in the section which stnbbornly resisted the l>cst medical talent about eighteen months ago a cutting piercing pain located in my breast which could not be allayed by the ordinary modes of treatment these sufferings of misery and prostra tion became so great that on the 18th of july a leading physi ian said thai i could not live longer than four days and 1 had about given up in dispair the burning and excruciating ravages of the cancer the painful condition oi my lack and breast and the rapid prostration ofiny whole system combined to make me a mere wreck of former manhood while thus seemingly suspended on a thread between life and death i commenced the use of b.b.b the grandest bl i med icine to me and my household ever used the effect was wonderful it was magic al the excruciating pains which had tormented me by day and by night for twenty years were soon held in obeyance and peace and com fort were restored to a suffering man the cancer commenced heal ing strength was imparted to my feeble frame ami when ciirlit bottles had l>cen nscd 1 was of the happiest of man and fell aboul as well us ! ever did all pain had vanished the cancer on my lip healed and i was pronounced cured to those who are afflicted and need a blood remedy i uiltc the use of li.b.b as r wonderfully effective speedy and cheap blood purifier am.es grant sparta 6a september 22 1885 1 saw mr allen grunt when he was suffering with epithelial cancer of under lip and alter using the b.b.b medicine as stated above i find him now almost if not per fectly cured signed j t andrews m l sparta ga september 22 1885 we take pleasure in certifying to the truth of the above statement having supplied the patient with the blood balm signed rozieua vardeman druggists sparta ga september 22 1885 i often saw mr allen grant when suffering from epithclioin.i and from the cxtcut of the canci r though he would soon die f now uppers p riw-th well and i con ider it a iiio-i u ondi-rful runs signed li ii lew is < ordinary a book of wonders free alivhci desire full inforniallon about the fiuso and cure of blood poisons scrofula nnd scrofulous swelihi-s i ei,r sores klieiimntlsm kldnoj r:orc plalnts 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|The Carolina Watchman
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|United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury
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|The July 8, 1886 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina
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the carolina watchman vol xvii.-thihd series salisbury n c july 8 1886 no 28 d this column carefully meroney & bro's th e grand central fancy and dry goods establishment of salisbury :<">: p or . . se tson their line ol dress triin ipproachable , .-.;; line of rosary bead trimmings fancy balls anj crescents for lambrequins special bargains in hamburg and swiss leries j ir r varieties of buttons large and nth clasps to match largest and cheapest line of pearl buttons in the city a all competition they have the best • laces in all widths of escurial sh black and colored oriental egyptian crcain and u hitc jlrasenc and f ■silk flosa in all shades the best 50c corset ever sold a full line of warner's corset parasols from 15c to 6.00 hire bargains in kid and silk moves an.i mitts of til shades and quality a complete line of undressed kids for an unequalled assortment f ladies and misses hose at all prices ribbed hose for chil dren a speciality gent's silk scarfs from 25c to 1.00 jusl the place to get white and colored cuffs and collars for ladies f you want straw il.it fur hats and shoes for gentlemen ladies or boys you can find them here i'l , il , : ; read the inure you will be convinced that they have the best in town and will sell to you at prices to compete with any one sk^s opxxxa in nil the recent popular shades of dkessgoods they have ill wool nun's veiling at c uuti-t and embroidery to match embroidered etomine holies embroid ered zephyr it'ibes full line plain etomine dress goods combination wool kobe dress ljrocudc combination dress goods striped combination dress goods bouclay canvass plaid dress goods sheppard plaid drc goods cotton canvass dress goods 15c satteens crinkled seersuckers ging hams white goods in white goods you cannot be pleased better anywhere they have linen l)u dac ca india linen persian lawn victoria lawn white and colored mull nainsook at i)l prices all shades of cheese cloth calico 58 xg;j at 5c per yard cassimers for gent's wear all prices cottonades from 12c to i()c ladies and misses jerseys a full line cur tain goods in persian and russian drapery curtain holland in all shades did shades in nil colors curtain poles and fixtures linen lap robes 7-">c to 1.50 meroney & bro 16:6m salisbury n c ' best remedy known for catarrh sore mouth on in all forms and stages purely vegetable mm re0uir£3 hj instrument it cures where others failed to give relief i>r.i!.n davis athens oa says 1 suffered wuii catarrh nveye.ire but since using ceutain at\m;ii ci kk am entirely freerrom the dls dr.o.b howe muens.ga says certain cataurh cure curt-d me of a severe ulcerated sore throat . and 1 cheerfully endorse it ." mi lucj iw co i id writ ■-. sepl . litli isss of 3 our remedj entirely cured me t ua.t-.irrh with which i had suffered ■years j h v.i . 1 1 athens fia . writes sept 2 65 i ■i h in i ao weeks is entlrelj cured by ceutain catarrh i'l ukln one


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The second-line parade beat powering so much of New Orleans' R&B legacy was at the heart of The Meters' groovemaking exploits. Organist Art Neville, guitarist Leo Nocentelli, bassist George Porter, Jr., and drummer Joseph 'Zigaboo' Modeliste took their highly infectious instrumentals to an even funkier realm than previously envisioned, reinvigorating the entire Big Easy recording scene in the process.
Neville, born December 17, 1937 in the Crescent City, was the most experienced. He had pounded his aunt's piano at age nine. "Professor Longhair and Fats Domino and Ivory Joe Hunter, that's who I listened to," says Art, who joined The Hawketts at 15 and fronted their Mardi Gras Mambo for Chess in early '55. "We were the hottest group in the city at the time," he claims. Neville made some great rock and roll on his own on Specialty from '56 to '58—Oooh-Whee Baby, Cha-Dooky-Doo, What's Going On—and crooned Allen Toussaint's lovely ballad All These Things for Instant in '61.
Things slowed down after that. "I just didn't bother about playing, right before we put The Meters together," says Neville. "Art kind of went around and handpicked that band from different bands around the city," says Porter, who had been with Irving Banister & The All Stars. Leo came over from Sam & The Soul Machine, and Zig had been a sub for a previous drummer. "When he came back, he heard Zig playing with the band, and he just never asked for his gig!" says George.
Originally billed as Art Neville & The Neville Sounds (Art's brothers Aaron and Charles were also involved), the band was scouted by Toussaint and his partner Marshall Sehorn at a joint called the Ivanhoe. They pulled them in the studio to wax the funk-oozing instrumental Sophisticated Cissy , a national hit on New York-based Josie Records. "It kind of lingered around the charts, and Marshall and them got kind of worried, so he released 'Cissy Strut,'" says Porter, whose bass line, played in unison with Leo's axe, locks in with Zig's second-line traps in a pure distillation of New Orleans funk. Art has his say later on organ, albeit a brief one.
The Meters were a fixture on the R&B charts into 1971 on Josie with such anthems as Ease Back, Dry Spell, Look-Ka Py Py, Chicken Strut, and Hand Clapping Song. They eventually added Art's brother Cyril as vocalist, and had more success in '74 with Hey, Pokey-A-Way for Reprise before breaking up rather acrimoniously in 1977 when the Nevilles formed their own family band. Happily, there have been Meters reunions in recent years—and the funk they dish out still drips as easy as ever.
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Carl Bernstein, Nathan Englander and More Set for the Public's THOUGHT IS FREE: An Evening of Protest and Solidarity, 12/3
The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director; Patrick Willingham, Executive Director), in association with PEN American Center, will present a Public Forum program on Monday, December 3 on behalf of writers and artists who have been imprisoned speaking truth to power. THOUGHT IS FREE: An Evening of Protest and Solidarity will be hosted by Liev Schreiber and feature Carl Bernstein, Nathan Englander, Shirin Neshat, Lou Reed, and Salman Rushdie. Member tickets, priced at $15, and single tickets, priced at $20, are on sale now and can be purchased at (212) 967-7555, www.publictheater.org, or in person at The Public Theater box office at 425 Lafayette Street.
In THOUGHT IS FREE, high-profile champions of free expression will read the work of imprisoned artists speaking truth to power. Legendary journalist Carl Bernstein will read a story by Eskinder Nega, the Ethiopian reporter whose arrest on anti-terrorism charges has been protested by PEN, Amnesty International, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the U.S. State Department. The globally renowned Iranian-born artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat will read a statement by Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist who has been barred from leaving the country because of his criticism of the government. Ai Weiwei's involvement in the program has been facilitated by Larry Warsh, United Expression Media, and the Friends of Ai Weiwei. Lou Reed, rock icon and frontman of the Velvet Underground, will read a text from the Pussy Riot trial, which sent three members of the Russian punk band to prison. Two of them remain in jail.
The program coincides with the world premiere of Nathan Englander's play The Twenty-Seventh Man, about Yiddish writers imprisoned by Stalin. The evening will conclude with Salman Rushdie joining Nathan Englander onstage for a conversation about The Twenty-Seventh Man, Rushdie's new memoir, and the responsibilities of the artist. Rushdie is the founder and chair of the PEN World Voices Festival and Englander is a member of the PEN American Center Board of Trustees.
CARL BERNSTEIN shared a Pulitzer Prize with Bob Woodward for his coverage of Watergate for The Washington Post. In the four decades since, in books, magazine articles, commentary, and television reporting, Bernstein has continued to build on the theme he and Woodward first explored in the Nixon years – the use and abuse of power: political power, media power, financial power, and spiritual power. His most recent book is the best-selling biography, A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is the author, with Woodward, of All the President's Men and The Final Days, and, with Marco Politi, of His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time; and the author of Loyalties: A Son's Memoir — about his family's experience in the McCarthy Era. He has written for Vanity Fair (he is also a contributing editor there), Time, USA Today, Rolling Stone, and The New Republic, and was Washington bureau chief for ABC News. In the summer of 2011 he wrote two ground-breaking articles for Newsweek/The Daily Beast about Rupert Murdoch and the shaking his of media empire, noting "Too many of us have winked in amusement at the salaciousness without considering the larger corruption of journalism and politics promulgated by Murdoch Culture on both sides of the Atlantic." Bernstein also appears regularly on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" broadcast. He is currently developing a dramatic TV series with Turner Broadcasting about the US Congress; a separate film project with director Steven Soderbergh; and is writing a memoir about his youth – from age 16 to 21 – at an old-fashioned newspaper, The Washington Star.
Nathan Englander is the author of the short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, as well as the internationally best-selling story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, and the novel The Ministry of Special Cases (all published by Knopf/Vintage). His short fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Washington Post, as well as The O. Henry Prize Stories, and numerous editions of The Best American Short Stories. Translated into more than a dozen languages, Englander was selected as one of "20 Writers for the 21st Century" by The New Yorker, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Malamud Award, the Bard Fiction Prize, and the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He has been a fellow at the Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library and at The American Academy of Berlin. He teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Hunter College, along with Peter Carey and Colum McCann, and, in the summer, he teaches a course for NYU's Writers in Paris program. This year, his translation of New American Haggadah (edited by Jonathan Safran Foer) will be published by Little Brown. He also co-translated Etgar Keret's Suddenly A Knock at the Door forthcoming in March from FSG.
SHIRIN NESHAT is an Iranian born artist/filmmaker living in New York. Neshat has held numerous solo exhibitions at galleries and museum internationally. She directed her first feature-length film, Women Without Men, which received the Silver Lion Award, "Best Director" in the 66th Venice International Film Festival in 2009. She is currently working on her second feature length film, based on the life and art of the legendary Egyptian singer Oum Kolthum. Neshat is represented by Gladstone Gallery in New York City.
Lou Reed is an American Master who was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and is a founding member of the legendary Velvet Underground. In Mr. Reed's work with the Velvet Underground and solo, he is recognized as one the finest songwriters in history and has is considered among the most profound influences on modern rock music. His latest 2011 album recording "LULU," a historic collaboration with Metallica, is based on songs Mr. Reed wrote for the Bob Wilson 2011 German production of "LULU" staged at the Berliner Ensemble Theater. In late 2008 Reed released a new album of live electronic music called "Lou Reed's Metal Machine Trio: The Creation of The Universe," which inspired two extremely well received performances by the MM3 Trio in New York in April of 2009. Reed released his first suite of electronic mediation music, "Hudson River Wind Meditations," on the Sounds True label in 2007. In December of 2006 Lou Reed premiered the live staging of his masterwork Berlin at St. Ann's Warehouse in New York. The performance was filmed by Academy Award nominated director and artist Julian Schnabel for a feature film which debuted at major film festivals across the world. Mr. Reed made a second film, Red Shirley, which told the story of Reed's cousin Shirley, an immigrant who lead a long and distinguished life; the film took the format of a conversation between Reed and Shirley on the eve of her 100th birthday. Mr. Reed is a playwright, a poet, and a photographer whose photos have been exhibited worldwide. His third photography book, Romanticism, was released in 2009. In 2010 Reed collaborated with with artist Lorenzo Mattioti, who created a graphic novel based on Lou's album, The Raven. Lou Reed also co-hosts a weekly radio show on Sirius XM Satellite Radio with friend and distinguished producer Hal Willner called "The New York Shuffle". He is the recipient of the Commander of Arts and Letters from the French government and numerous other awards.
Salman Rushdie was born in Bombay, India, and is the acclaimed author of eleven novels - Grimus, Midnight's Children (Booker Prize, 1981; "Best of the Booker" award, 2008, for the best novel to have won the prize in its first 40 years), Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Fury, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence and Luka and the Fire of Life – and one book of stories, East, West, as well as four works of nonfiction—Imaginary Homelands, The Jaguar Smile, Step Across This Line and, most recently, Joseph Anton, an autobiographical memoir. His stage adaptation of Midnight's Children was performed in London and New York by the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2004, an opera based upon Haroun and the Sea of Stories premiered at New York City Opera. A Fellow of the British Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Salman Rushdie has received, among other awards, the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (twice), the European Union's Aristeion Prize for Literature, Author of the Year Prizes in both Britain and Germany, the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature, the Premio Grinzane Cavour in Italy, and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, as well as the Freedom of the City in Mexico City, Strasbourg, and El Paso, and The Edgerton Prize of the American Civil Liberties Union. He holds the rank of Commandeur in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's highest artistic honor. From 2004 to 2006 he served as President of PEN American Center, and continues to work as president of the PEN World Voices International Literary Festival, which he helped create. In June 2007 he was knighted for services to literature. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages. A film of Midnight's Children, directed by Deepa Mehta, with screenplay by Salman Rushdie, will be released in the coming months.
Liev Schreiber has appeared at The Public in Macbeth, Henry V, Othello, Hamlet, Cymbeline, and The Tempest and his Broadway credits include A View From the Bridge, Talk Radio, Glengarry Glen Ross, Betrayal, In the Summer House. His additional Off-Broadway credits include The Mercy Seat; Moonlight; and Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). Schreiber's select film and television credits include Salt; X-Men Origins: Wolverine; Defiance; Love in the Time of Cholera; The Manchurian Candidate; and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation."
THE PUBLIC FORUM presents the theater of ideas. Curated by Jeremy McCarter, this series of lectures, conversations, and performances features leading voices in politics, media, and the arts. Alec Baldwin, Anne Hathaway, Cynthia Nixon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Sam Waterston, and NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman have hosted its programs, which have featured the insights of Kurt Andersen, Carl Bernstein, David Brooks, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Nathan Englander, Hendrik Hertzberg, Arianna Huffington, Bill Irwin, Tony Kushner, Jay McInerney, Suzan-Lori Parks, Francine Prose, Reihan Salam, David Simon, Anna Deveare Smith, Ben Smith, Stephen Sondheim, Emma Straub, Sam Tanenhaus, Marc Tracy, Damian Woetzel, the culture writers of New York Magazine, and young veterans of the war in Afghanistan - plus performances by Anne Hathaway, Michael Friedman, Gabriel Kahane, and Michael Cerveris, among others.


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Boise St.-Michigan St. Preview
Michigan State and Boise State turned in big seasons in 2011,
combining for 23 victories and winning their bowl games.
Replicating those performances could prove very difficult this
year with each team adjusting to numerous key departures – most
notably both star quarterbacks.
The No. 13 Spartans begin the post-Kirk Cousins era as they host
24th-ranked Boise State, which will also have an unfamiliar look
under center with Kellen Moore gone, in the programs' first-ever
meeting Friday night.
Michigan State (11-3) capped its second straight 11-win season
by earning its first bowl victory since 2001 in thrilling fashion,
beating Georgia in triple overtime in the Outback Bowl. That game,
however, was also the final one for the steady signal-caller who
guided the Spartans for the last three years and left as the
winningest quarterback in school history.
Cousins threw for 45 touchdowns and 20 interceptions the past
two seasons while posting a 146.1 rating in his career. Replacing
him will be senior Andrew Maxwell, who's played in nine games.
While Maxwell performed well in limited duty in four games last
year, going 18 for 26 for 171 yards and one TD, each appearance
came in relief of Cousins during blowouts. Only one was against a
Big Ten opponent.
"Our big goal is to get to the Rose Bowl, the BCS games and the
national championship," Maxwell said. "We haven't accomplished that
yet. But for me, the only pressure is to do my job the best that I
can. If I can do that, we can really be a special team."
Making matters more difficult for Maxwell is the loss of top
receiver B.J. Cunningham, who had 1,306 yards and 12 touchdowns,
along with receivers Keshawn Martin and Keith Nichol.
Michigan State does get back leading rusher Le'Veon Bell, who
ran for 987 yards and 13 scores, and the Spartans' defense should
continue to be solid. William Gholston had five sacks and 70
tackles in 2011, Denicos Allen had 11 sacks and Max Bullough topped
the team with 89 tackles along with 3 1/2 sacks.
"Ultimately, we don't want to lose a game," Gholston said. "It's
really up to us how far we go, but I think people have started to
respect us a little more. I really appreciate that."
The Spartans will have to knock off a marquee opponent to get
past the first week undefeated, but the team that shook up the BCS
with its success over the past several seasons has a very different
look. The biggest difference for Boise State is the absence of
Moore, who passed for nearly 15,000 yards with 142 touchdowns and
only 28 interceptions in his stellar career.
The Broncos (12-1) will also be missing star running back Doug
Martin and defensive lineman Shea McClellin. Both of them and Moore
are now in the NFL after helping Boise State to a 50-3 record in
their four seasons, and numerous other key contributors are
Boise State's amazing recent success allowed it to earn a move
to the Big East starting next season, but coach Chris Petersen is
left with an inexperienced roster in the Broncos' final year in the
Mountain West.
"In the past, we've gone through fall camp, and guys you know
might not look great one day, but you've seen them play for
extended periods in the past and you don't really worry about much
with them," Petersen said. "Now there are so many new guys you
worry about how they are practicing every single day. And really,
you don't know what anything is going to look like until you go for
Junior Joe Southwick, Moore's backup the past two seasons, will
make his first career start Friday after winning a four-way battle
during the preseason. He's gone 40 of 54 for 400 yards, two TDs and
an INT in 16 career games.
Southwick does have the benefit of a solid returning receiving
corps. Matt Miller tied for the team lead with 62 catches last year
and totaled 679 yards and nine touchdowns, while Kirby Moore and
Mitch Burroughs give Southwick other experienced targets.
Boise State's defense, hit hard by key departures, could be
quickly exposed by Michigan State. The Broncos' four starting
linemen from last season have departed, along with their top three
"I think we've got a pretty hard schedule, and it's going to be
a tough test for this team all season long," Petersen said.
"Michigan State, even at (No. 13), I think is totally underrated.
And we've got some tough places to play away from home."
Boise State has won all six season openers under Petersen.


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Uhuru Design
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Red Hook based Uhuru Design built upon last year's collection with three new products at Brooklyn Designs. The company's focus on sustainability and practical reuse of wasted and discarded materials is transformed into functional and decorative furnishings...
• 1 The Uhuru booth showcasing their new Standard Chair.
• 2 The Standard Chair uses found carved wooden chair backs and completes them with a steel plate seat and legs — it's available in 6 colors.
• 3 The joint between wood and metal.
• 4 The oval back is completed with and industrial expanded aluminum mesh.
• 5 Standard Chair in white.
• 6 The Stitched Table uses a slab of walnut that naturally split in 2 and reinforces the table surface with stitches made from recycled detergent bottles.
• 7 Uhuru's Metal Stooolen is made from metal scrap from the design studio.
• 8 Metal Stoolen up close.
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A blast from the past
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Fortaleza-CE, Brazil
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As for Tatsu and Kou similarities... I'd say they are very similar, myself. And I do love both characters, as well.
|2010-04-07, 13:33
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Location: Toronto, Canada
Age: 29
Certainly you will find differences between them simply because the story itself is different and they have had different life experiences at these stages in their lives. However, I still think they are pulled from the same general "stock" - though you've all made quite a good case about their differences.
BTW Am I losing my mind or was the brother's name Kazuya and not Katsuya? Or is this an anime/manga thing?
Also Guardian Enzo, to be hypersensitive for a moment, a part of your post could be considered a mild spoiler for Touch.
|2010-04-07, 14:18
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♪~ Daydreaming ~♪
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Italy
Yes, it is borderline talking. Several people may not have seen Touch, so there's no real reason to discuss it here (more so without using spoiler tags), even if it's a comparison.
|2010-04-07, 15:32
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Seishu's Ace
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Location: Kobe, Japan
|2010-04-10, 10:18
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Seishu's Ace
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
On that note - I opened a Touch thread on the manga board. Seemed odd to me not to have one. Only 23 more volumes to go!
I'm up through episode 4 of the re-viewing of CG. Best line of 04: "Blue ones!"
|2010-04-12, 00:23
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Seishu's Ace
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
Episode 5 ("Can I Borrow Your Cooking Pot") is even more compelling, with the benefit of hindsight. This was the ep that sort of opened my eyes that something truly special was going on here, though at the time I wasn't completely sure why. Now I know - the lack of cliche, the depth of unspoken emotion subtly portrayed, the first real proof of what an amazing kid Kou was and just how conflicted Aoba was.
I've said it before, but I find Kou's relationship with the rest of the Tsukishimas almost as moving as his relationship with Aoba. Such an afterthought of a relationship - just Aoba's kid sister after all - yet this episode pays so much respect to it, and it shows the viewer so much about all three of the characters on screen. The entire New Year's sequence is so realistically portrayed as the three kids go about their day. Much attention, I recall, was given to Kou's grabbing Aoba's collar when she might her thoughtless "Go ahead and die!" comment to Momiji - and rightfully so, as it's a powerful emotional shift in the series. But this was a watershed episode for other reasons. In hindsight it marks the first real thaw in Aoba's feelings for Kou - in my view, because she sees for herself how much he cares for Momiji and in that moment, truly understands what Waka-chan loved about him.
One other interesting element is that Kou and Aoba (a 15 yer-old boy and 14 year-old girl!) casually sleep together in the same futon. Further evidence that whatever her protestations, Aoba is completely comfortable in Kou's presence and, in a sense (at this stage) forever 10 years old in his presence. And when she hugged him in her sleep, there was no cliche moment of misunderstanding. He simply closed his eyes and went to sleep, and when he woke up (before Aoba, natch) untangled himself and cooked them all breakfast.
|2010-04-12, 22:31
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Komrades of Kitamura Kou
Join Date: Jul 2004
Age: 33
Man not having internet connection on vacation is hell. Posting here from a terminal in Singapore's Changi airport.
Gonna rewatch everything when I get home. I'm still trying to hunt down the complete Touch series but being poor right now doesn't help.
|2010-04-13, 01:18
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Location: KS
|2010-04-15, 15:24
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Kana Hanazawa ♥
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 32
Finished watching it today. I'd like to thank you guys for advertising Cross Game as you did, I doubt I would have even noticed the series without that. Yup, those things happen. Truly a great anime ! I really regret not picking this up sooner, I would have liked to follow it weekly, I'm sure it would have made me love it even more. "Marathoning" a series this long is just not the same.
That said, I still loved it a lot. Pretty much everything was perfect, though I expected to see more romance and less baseball (this really bothered me in the early stage of the series). The best thing about the series for me were its characters, and that's also where my only complaint lies: Mizuki. What the hell was the point of his character, other than giving me urges to strangle him? I thought he'd be a love rival when he first appeared, but it's made clear pretty much right away that he has no chance whatsoever with Aoba, which makes him useless, and he sort of dissapears into the background after a few episodes. And in the few instances he appeared, it was just to be obnoxious. I was thinking the whole time that Azuma would have made a better rival and... that's what happened later . It should have been that way from the start. In a way, it makes Mizuki's character even more pointless. Speaking of Azuma, I think his character development is the one I enjoyed the most throughout the series. He can even smile now !
Akane is another character that bothered me at first. Bringing in a Wakaba clone out of nowhere seemed like a very lame trick to use to easily introduce a new love interest for Kou. But I actually warmed up to her pretty quickly, and as opposed to Mizuki, her character was actually very useful. I think she greatly helped Kou, Aoba and Akaishi get over their issues. Though I still find it creepy that everyone was interested in her just because she's Wakaba 2.0, at least at first. Must have been really weird for her...
Aoba is easily my favourite character. There's so much to say about her... but I'll just post this quote from the final episode:
Spoiler for Just in case... final episode spoiler:
Hmm, I think I'll stop here or I'll go on for hours if I get started on the good points. Ended up writing more than I intented to already
PS: I really liked the pictures Poko-kun posted a few pages back. Nice cosplay !
|2010-04-15, 15:34
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|2010-04-15, 15:48
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Kana Hanazawa ♥
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Location: France
Age: 32
|2010-04-15, 18:03
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Knowledge is the solution
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: St. Louis, MO
Age: 34
On the contrary, I think that Akane is her own character, it's just that it is very subtle. But there do are some very important differences between Akane and Wakaba's character. To the point that, like it was hammered to us, Aoba is far more similar to Wakaba than Akane is where it matters.
|2010-04-15, 19:46
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|2010-04-15, 19:49
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The men's basketball team dropped their third straight contest Tuesday as they failed to counter a strong second half performance from Spalding University in a 90-76 loss. Jonas McBride was the Panther's top contributor in the defeat, chipping in a season high 19 points while adding four rebounds and two steals.
Greenville (5-4, 1-1 SLIAC) came out firing on all cylinders, jumping out to a 42-34 first half lead. The Panthers sank 48.3 percent of their attempts from the field while netting 50 percent of their shots from behind the arc. K.J. Hilliard led the surge for the Panthers, posting 12 points and five rebounds.
The second half proved to be a much different story for the Greenville squad as the Golden Eagles blasted the Panthers with a debilitating 27-12 run. Spalding caught fire and shot over 60 percent in the second period to close the door and wrap up the 90-76 victory.
Spalding was led by Deshawn Curtis who posted 15 points to go along with his game high 12 rebounds.
Greenville will hit the court again January 6, as they will defend H.J. Long Gymnasium against conference foe Eureka College. The game is scheduled for 8 p.m. and will be broadcast live on WGRN 89.5 FM.


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Life is now, for the moment. At Odyssey Teams, Inc. we strive to bring emotion and insight in our programs so people get at a visceral level what it means to Plan, Support, Align, Create etc. together. Two of our goals during our Philanthropic Corporate Team Building sessions are to create an emotional connection to the 'why' of people's work and strengthen the connections to the people they work with on the job/projects.
It is a busy time of year for us. In the past 24 days we've been in 2 countries, 5 states, delivering 4 types of philanthropic and team building programs to 19 different groups. Needless to say we are a bit road weary though proud of the results we've co-created with our partners and participants.
At the start of this 'run' I was at UCLA Medical Center and watched a friend (45 years young, wife, 2 kids 6yrs & 3yrs) just four feet away take his last breath. My wife had her hand on his heart, while his wife held his hand as he went to the next place. From that moment on it has been a special kind of Team Building and Charitable event. His family and friends mobilized to plan and align on all of the many known and unknown next steps. Support, brainstorming, creativity and care were all on hyper aware mode. The results made the best (and beautiful) of very challenging times for all involved.
It seems more and more people are being 'Teflon Business Nice' to each other — Being pleasant, saying just enough, following protocol, a bit of 'game face' on, keeping it surface level. While this may work on a typical/average day, the risk is that a crisis, critical choice point, or other breakdown may occur and these people have no depth of connection/relationship to reach out to those who need help or the ability to extend to those who may help them with their issue.
Things are easier with others by our sides. Share a bit more of yourself- Life is now.
So, connect. Connect now.


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A Better Understanding of Christmas
By Alison Ray
Edgar Cayce gave a number of psychic readings for the Norfolk Study Group #1, the group that wrote A Search for God, the book used by Study Groups around the world today. On December 20, 1936, a group gathered at the home of one of the members with their questions. By the time of this reading, the group had been studying together for over five years. I can imagine Edgar Cayce folding his hands over his stomach while his wife, Gertrude, prepared to ask the questions. The Study Group quietly surrounded him in prayer and meditation while Gladys Davis prepared to record the answers.
That afternoon, the group asked for a reading to give them a better understanding and deeper appreciation of the real meaning of Christmas and the birth of Jesus. It was a topic discussed often in the readings. Although the message was given over 70 years ago, the hope and possibilities from the answer are still relevant today for all people of every faith.
The reading explained that there was never a time when there was not a Christ or a Christ Consciousness in the world. Edgar Cayce went on to explain the Jesus was born "to give the more perfect concept of the relationships of man to the Creator." The angels rejoiced at the birth and the message was heard by those "close to nature, to the hours of meditation and prayer… Only then to those that sought could such a message come, or could there be heard the songs of the angels, or that music of the spheres that sang, "Peace On Earth—Good Will to Men!""
"For as He chose to enter, so ye have entered. As He chose to live, so may ye live. As He chose to give of Himself that there might be a greater understanding, a greater knowledge; yea, the showing forth of the wisdom of God that God is love, poured forth upon the children of men in this experience."
Each of us can be a channel of blessing and allow the Christ Consciousness to become manifest in our lives and in the earth. The thought that we can bring this awareness of our connection with God into our lives daily by setting an ideal, choosing to be of service, and taking time for meditation and prayer fills me with hope for our future. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas.
Excerpts from Reading 262-103. All readings are available in the member-only section.
Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993-2005 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation. All Rights Reserved.


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Norway's Hattestad wins men's cross-country freestyle sprint
KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — On a day of slips, falls and crashes, Ola Vigen Hattestad took the safest route to an Olympic gold — staying in front from beginning to end.
The Norwegian won the men's cross-country freestyle sprint Tuesday after dominating every stage from qualifying to an eventful final, where three of his rivals were involved in one big crash. Hattestad avoided the mayhem by staying well in front, and then held off Teodor Peterson of Sweden for the gold medal.
"The final was maybe a little crazy," Hattestad said.
It certainly was for Emil Joensson of Sweden, who had all but given up earlier in the race after running out of energy but ended up with the bronze after Sergey Ustiugov, Marcus Hellner and Anders Gloeersen crashed.
Joensson had dropped far back and was cruising home when Gloeersen, who was in third, fell in the treacherous downhill curve and hit the protective barrier. That ended up dragging down Ustiugov and Hellner as well, and suddenly Joensson had passed them all and had a clear path to the bronze.
After crossing the line, an exhausted Joensson needed help from a Swedish team official to get up off the snow and leave the finish area.
It was a medal performance that brought back memories of Stephen Bradbury's short track speedskating gold at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games after his rivals all fell in front of him.
"I feel like him today," Joensson said of Bradbury. "Right now I don't know if I should be happy or feel bad."
Hattestad said he didn't realize what had happened behind him until one of the Norwegian coaches yelled that he was alone with Peterson when they were on the final uphill section.
"I didn't know those guys had fallen," he said. "That was the first time I realized we were away. I was just focused on my own race."
Peterson couldn't seriously threaten Hattestad in the two-way race to the finish line, and seemed pleased with the silver.
"I've had the best day of ski racing of my entire life," he said.
Warm temperatures have softened the snow over the last two days at the Laura Cross-Country Ski and Biathlon Center, and a number of skiers fell on the same downhill section in the qualifying run.
Hattestad, however, said that's just part of the sport.
"I guess that's sprint," he said, adding that organizers had actually made that downhill section easier than it was at last year's World Cup race at the same venue.
"The organizers, they worked well," he said. "I don't know if they can do anything more."
Skiathlon champion Dario Cologna also fell twice in his quarterfinal and was knocked out. Petter Northug of Norway, another pre-race favorite, again looked sluggish and was knocked out in the semifinals.
Cologna refused to blame the snow conditions for his mishaps. Both his falls came on relatively flat sections, seemingly without contact from other skiers.
"No, no, the track is all good," he said. "There are many falls today, I am not the only one but that is bad luck."
Hattestad, meanwhile, had dominant performances throughout the day. He was nearly 2 seconds faster than anyone else in qualifying and won both his quarterfinal and semifinal heats.
Hattestad won both the individual and team sprint at the 2009 worlds, but had to settle for a disappointing fourth place at the 2010 Vancouver Games.
"I didn't want that to happen again," he said.
Hattestad has struggled for much of this season, but won the last World Cup sprint race before the Olympics. That led to the Norwegian coaches dropping another skier from the sprint team in favor of Hattestad.
The Norwegian proved Tuesday they made the right decision.


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I just level up'd my human team's ogre to lvl4, and rolled boxcars (6 + 6). what do I do give him the st+ or give him
He already has:
ma+ 1
Im leaning towards block. Just want to be sure that I'm not missing some hidden (but insanely useful) reason to have a fast roided out ogre instead of one with block.
Lvl 3 ogre rolls boxcars
Your rosters, your strategies, advice, etc.
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Re: Lvl 3 ogre rolls boxcars
ST is more fun, block is better.
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Re: Lvl 3 ogre rolls boxcars
I gave him block. And I don't regret a thing he's now level 5 and a mass murderer. Averaging 2 injuries inflicted a game. St+ definitely wasn't needed but I know for a fact he has rolled "both down" at least once every game since.
Re: Lvl 3 ogre rolls boxcars
Block is almost always a better choice for big guys than Strength, except in very specific circumstances. It helps with both blocking and defense, since a team is less likely to try a 2-die against block to push you off if the threat of taking both down is there.
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Re: Lvl 3 ogre rolls boxcars
Update my ogre still alive at level 6 here also secure like 7mvp's and a nurggling injury being uis only weakness
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American-born Kenji and Amy Ota were teenage lovers when they were loaded aboard a train with its windows covered for the long journey from the Bay Area to Topaz. They were married in 1945, shortly before Kenji was drafted and sent to Japan as a U.S. Army translator.
"Topaz was a very important part of my life," Amy Ota says after participating in the ground-breaking ceremony. "I feel robbed. I lost those years."
The Otas also have little confidence that camps like Topaz won't reappear in America.
"Oh, yeah," says Kenji Ota, 91. "It all depends on who the government is fighting and who they decide is the enemy…." Amy Ota, 87, finishes her husband's sentence, "… and who's in charge."
Though many internees, ashamed of the history, avoid talking about their imprisonment, the Otas, who have visited the sites of all 10 internment camps, told their three children about their imprisonment as soon as the kids were old enough to understand.
"I told them, 'I want you to know what happened to us,'" Amy Ota says. "When I finished, I told them, 'It's a little better now.'"