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|2012-12-26, 18:59
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how do we manage to always end up discussing Kirito? yeah he's generic. what else is new?
i thought i would see people talking about the upcoming release but I keep seeing Kirito. he has a thread for discussion/bashing, no..?
|2012-12-26, 19:12
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How, you ask? It's quite simple: some people are just butthurt that their preferred series isn't the one that has/had people translating the light novels.
I'd like to point that there's a difference between discussion and bashing (from what I've seen here, the latter is all a few select members are capable of), but yes, he does indeed has his thread.
|2012-12-26, 19:26
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I know of the difference, It just seemed like there was a mixture of fact discussion and sarcastic blows to his character. Anyway I don't mean to dictate what people should discuss, but really, the Kirito stuff is already far past drawn out. we've been on this dude for months..
Come to think of it, there are/have been a handful of subjects we couldnt seem to get off of. like the Chiyu-hate bandwagon or something about WC trying to force KYH away because shes evil and jealous or w/e. the "being taku is suffering" was my favorite though. lol its so true XD. poor fool
|2012-12-26, 19:41
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To be fair, the translating god, Teh Ping, was on SAO. That's why it was so fast. Let's be patient here.
Moving on...
Spoiler for :heh::
|2012-12-26, 20:48
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Haru still isn't on the same level as Touma in the "luck with girls" category, though.
I can hear chants of, "Screw ARG, give us the Six Kings nao!" But I guess fandom can't have all the nice things. If I could read the LNs at all, I should just wait until the ARG arc gets done and Haru gains better control or even better, gets rid of the CD Armor.
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|2012-12-27, 12:35
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I don't know why they change the next event or delay the inevitable battle which was the reason Haru was in a hurry to learn the skill to reflect light. I can only see Haru getting trouble with girls next volume.
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Now then, solidvanz gave us an image of White Cosmos from the 2nd psp game. Check this post.
One word. Whoa.
|2012-12-29, 13:29
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Wonder if that is her external armament.
For some reason it reminds me of a small Death Star.
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Whenever I see spoilers for the later LNs of Accel World, they always seem to be of a certain type. Mostly concerning death and betrayal and other shocking things.
But I seldom if ever see spoilers for the questions that REALLY burn me.
Spoiler for Acceleration Research Society:
Also, when word got out that Black Lotus was back, why didn't the Purple King send hordes of Purple Legionaires to challenge and destroy her (or at least her small, budding new Black Legion) before Silver Crow and Cyan Pile claimed the Suginami Territory (and therefore got protection from random challenges).
Or, why isn't the Purple Legion fielding its strongest fighters to rip the territory away from the Black Legion and leave them open to constant attack?
|2013-01-01, 21:18
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Join Date: Aug 2010
White Cosmos being leader is unconfirmed, though evidence thus far suggests that to be the case. And as for sending delegates, that can also been seen as prudence on her part; Black Lotus did try and kill off the rest of the Kings 2 years ago, it's reasonable for her to stay hidden.
ARS recruit I think people that doesn't have qualms with their methods, ranging from amoral scientist types to complete B@#$&%ds that revels in other people's pain.
As for why Purple Legion doesn't just storm Lotus' district, there's the greater political issues to be careful of (ref Vol6). Each legion holds about 100 players, which means the other Kings against Lotus have about 600 people. There's about 1,000 Burst Linkers in total, and of the 400 left not in a legion many of them are resentful of the Kings for holding the pact that forbids inter-legion conflict. That stalled the game and they can't gain Burst Points easily. If the Kings attack Lotus solely for the fact she's against them popular opinion may be incited enough to be against them, leading to a high influx of Black Legion recruits or allies. Black Legion with 200-300 or so people can feasibly take down any other legion 1v1, and the legions don't trust each other enough that they'll band against Lotus the same way they would against Chrome Disaster. And even if Lotus loses her district, it's unlikely her and her legion would be erased from the Accelerated World for good in the process, and events would be as suggested above with the neutral players siding with her.
|2013-01-01, 21:54
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Sulphur Pot was actually working on something that could potentially benefit his organization, with his Enemy farming/hunting project.
It still doesn't fully explain why Purple Thorn restrained herself, since people often don't act with a great deal of sense. I can only suppose that she had at least one wise and trusted advisor to talk sense into her.
Or else Thorn is much more cunning than I'm giving her credit for.
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|2013-01-01, 22:25
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Pictures of yet another Sony Xperia handset, the Sony C660X, have leaked, teasing us on what we can expect from the Japanese electronics company in the near future.
Codenamed the Yuga, several pictures have turned up showing a number of specs and details beyond the monolithic design and stand-out power button.
First spotted on Android Schweiz, the Yuga will supposedly come in a unibody design with a 1.5GHz quad-core processor, 2GB RAM, a 12MP camera and a 5-inch 1080p display.
As can be seen in the pictures below, this prototype is running Android 4.1.1, a new kernel version (3.4) as well as 10.1.A.0.XXX firmware, which we already know is Jelly Bean.
Xperiablog, which first picked up on the new smartphone, has been burnt before over fake rumours when it was duped into believing that a different set of pictures claimed to be the latest smartphone. These photos, however, seem to be a lot more genuine.


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MIDDLEBURY — Gov. Peter Shumlin on Wednesday appointed longtime deputy Donald Keeler to succeed the late James Coons as Addison County Sheriff.
Keeler, a Middlebury resident and 40-year member of the Addison County Sheriff's Department, had recently been endorsed for the post by both the Addison County Democratic and Republican parties. Keeler began as a part-time deputy with the department in 1972, and joined on a full-time basis in 1988 at Coons' request after Keeler sold his Court Street gas station.


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The City of Carrollton has never had such a windstorm before. Trees and limbs were everywhere: in the streets, in yards, on homes and on other buildings. The most amazing thing to me was that as bad as the storm was, all the streets in Carrollton were open (except the corner of Seventh and Sycamore) by six o'clock Sunday evening. People seemed to appear from everywhere with chainsaws to help clear the streets.
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Scared to fly? Despite recent air tragedies, experts say flying has never been safer
"Ugh, this year is doing nothing to help with my fear of flying in a plane."
That tweet from an Edmonton book blogger named Jenni (@XpressoJenni) sums up a lot of how people are feeling about the aviation industry these days.
This has certainly been a season of airline disasters.
Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 went missing March 8 and experts have still been unable to locate it.
Then Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, killing everyone on board including one Canadian.
On Thursday, 110 passengers, including five Canadians, were killed when Air Algerie flight AH5017 that crashed in the West African state of Mali on Thursday. There were no survivors.
It's enough to shake people up, one psychologist says.
If you're already afraid of flying, recent tragedies in the airline industry aren't going to help you overcome that fear, says Christine Purdon, the executive director of the Centre for Mental Health Research at the University of Waterloo. Even if you're hesitant about flying, the news could push you over the edge.
The headlines "incubate fear in people who are already afraid," Purdon said. "People are more jumpy and nervous."
But reports of plane crashes won't deter most travellers. In fact, Purdon said the day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S., she booked a flight to Philadelphia.
When you look at the statistics, "almost nothing ever happens," she said.
The recent headlines have become so frequent, the International Air Transport Association went so far as to release a statement Thursday to assure travellers flying is safe.
"Every day, approximately 100,000 flights take to the sky and land without incident. In 2013 more than three billion people flew and there were 210 fatalities. Regrettably, we have surpassed that number already this year. But even so, getting on an aircraft is still among the safest activities that one can do," reads a statement from the association's CEO Tony Tyler.
Mark Salter, a professor at the University of Ottawa who studies aviation security, agreed Canadians do not need to fear flying.
"Statistically, they should be more worried about driving to the airport than getting on a plane. Canadians are way more likely to die in an auto accident than through an airport security failure," Salter said in an e-mail Friday.
To overcome fears, Purdon suggests ground-bound travellers expose themselves slowly to the idea of being in the air. That could mean starting with just a trip to the airport or taking a course that helps them address their phobias.
"Exposure to the fear really, really works well," she said.
"People aren't going to become completely zero-anxiety," she said, but systematic exposure will help them take control of the situation.


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The Pentagon's Laughable Weapons Test
Fire missile. Miss target completely. Success!
It looked like a headline from the Onion, but it was from CNN and the story was real: "Missile Misses Target, Officials Call It a Success." The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency had conducted a test the afternoon of June 18. A Standard Missile-3, fired from a Navy cruiser 160 miles off the Hawaiian island of Kauai, tried—but failed—to intercept a target missile that had been launched a few minutes earlier from the island's test range. And so it seemed another setback had afflicted President Bush's most cherished military program.
However, the Missile Defense Agency's spokesman, Chris Taylor, saw the test differently. "I wouldn't call it a failure," he told CNN, "because the intercept was not the primary objective. It's still considered a success, in that we gained great engineering data. We just don't know why it didn't hit."
Oh, it's hard to be a satirist these days.
The thing is, Taylor's reasoning is common in the Pentagon, and always has been, for tests not just of the missile-defense program but of all weapons programs.
Officials planning a test usually divide it into several discrete phases. If only one of the phases goes off successfully, and if the others at least yield some interesting data, then the test is marked down as a "success" or, if it was an almost (but not quite) total failure, a "partial success." In the June 18 missile defense test, these phases would have included a) launching the test missile; b) detecting and tracking the target-missile in midflight; c) transmitting information about the target back to control panels on the ship; and d) intercepting the target missile.
The system passed a) through c) with flying colors. Three out of four isn't bad. Call it "success." That's what happened, even though the point of missile defense is to intercept missiles. In fact, the specific aim of this test was to assess a new solid-state enginefor the interceptor's guidance system. It now appears that the two missiles didn't collide because the engine malfunctioned. In other words, by any serious measure, broad or narrow, the test was an abject failure, regardless of how the Pentagon grades it.
"This happens all the time," one Pentagon official told me with a sigh. "It's incredible."
Just recently, the Air Force tested a new type of air-to-air missile for its F-22 stealth fighter plane. The missile missed its target by a long shot, but its firing mechanism worked, so the test was counted as a "success."
The problem with this practice is that, when it comes time to decide whether to move ahead on a particular weapons program, an assistant secretary or deputy chief of staff, not having time to study the raw test data, will look at the summary report. The sheet will say, "Eight successes, three partial successes, one failure." That will seem pretty good, and the program will graduate to the next stage of development. At some point, the flaws might get ironed out in the field, but at great cost, not only financial but—if the weapon has to be used on the battlefield in the meantime—strategic and human.
Of course, the Pentagon's standard of success in testing is not entirely ridiculous. In the early stages of a weapon's R & D, especially if the program involves advanced technology, there is real value in learning practically anything about its performance. If one part of the test fails but the other parts work fine, it might legitimately be called a success. However, President Bush plans to start deploying the missile-defense program in the fall of 2004. In order to do so, he formally withdrew * from the 30-year-old Anti-Ballistic-Missile Treaty. He has requested, and Congress has approved, $9.1 billion for the program next year, and he plans to ask for more than $10 billion the following year. Either the tests should be judged by the standards of an advanced program, or the program should be scaled back to what it really is, despite its advocates' fervent efforts: an interesting but still quite primitive research project.
[ Correction, June 23, 2003: The story originally said that the United States abrogated the Anti-Ballistic-Missile Treaty. In fact, the United States withdrew from the treaty. This " Explainer" discusses the difference.]


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When you're starting a company you're going to hear a million "no's". No to your money raising requests, no to giving you referrals, no from referrals that were given to you. The list goes on. But the key is to keep persisting. Eventually there will be "yeses".
I have been a certified woman-owned business for many years. I go to lots of meetings. I meet lots of nice people. But no work. Even when I was the agency for a division in a Fortune 500 company, I could leverage my certification within the company. And I tried. More recently when I started work with another Fortune 500 company, I mentioned that I was certified (I already had the work through other channels) and they took my certification credentials.
Most people I know, in many different businesses, gave up on certification because it was too time consuming. They went on with their businesses. I keep plugging. And two weeks ago it paid off. A "prime" contractor (that is the company who actually gets the contract – usually a larger company) contacted me and wanted Holtzman Communications to work on a piece of business that they had obtained with the City. They actually went to the certified data base and sourced me. Along with others but that's fine. Suddenly, all my years of persistence and staying on lists etc. is starting to pay off.
It's never been tougher for start-up businesses looking for connections, work, and especially cash. Lots of people are going to tell you no, and processes may put you off. But if you have a good product or service, then you just keep going because you will prevail. But you have to believe in yourself and have all the properties above. In a good way of course.
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I'm a big fan of the great work done by Archipelago Books, one of the few publishers in the U.S. specializing in literature in translation. I first discovered them around the time I read Büchner's Lenz in the beautiful edition they released a few years back. Since then, they've released a bunch of marvelous books that might otherwise be unavailable to English-language readers (while I'm making recommendations, Mandarins is a magnificent collection of stories. Oh, and any fan of weird fiction should take a look at Palafox. And you can't go wrong with Breyten Breytenbach. And-- Well, take your pick...)
Archipelago recently sent out an email saying that the current economic environment has hit them pretty hard. All of their basic sources of funding -- book sales, grants, donations -- have suddenly been reduced, causing Archipelago to have to scramble to stay alive.
Basically, they need some help to get through this. If you don't want to just send them money, you can buy their books -- preferably from them, because that way they get the biggest percentage of what you spend. Or you can subscribe to a season or a year of their books, which is a really great deal (I mean, you're going to buy Breytenbach's book for writers, Intimate Stranger, and Kleist's Selected Prose and a bunch of others anyway, so why not get them all for a good discount and help a valuable publisher keep publishing?
We need books in translation. We need books from beyond our own provincial shores. Very few publishers specialize in such work. Archipelago is one of the few and one of the best. They're the good guys. Let's help them survive this difficult moment and build a strong foundation for the future -- we'll all be better off for it.


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A few months back, commenter Becca mentioned the book Names From Africa (1972), which I believe was the first baby name book in the U.S. to focus on African names exclusively.
I have yet to see Ogonna Chuks-orji's book in full, but Ebony ran an article in 1977 about African-American naming traditions (a few months after Roots first aired) and included a selection of names from the book.
I've included the names below, but first here's a snippet of the article:
Then came the '60s and '70s and the rejection of assimilation efforts. Cultural nationalism and separatism replaced integration and Afro-Americans changed their names to reflect their new consciousness. The name of people of African descent as a whole was changed from Negro or colored to Black or Afro-American to reflect an aggressive pride in the African heritage, and an affirmation of the validity of self-defined identity. Africa became a source of names. Very Anglo-Saxon or exotic European names were changed to African names–usually Swahili names with meanings pertinent to the struggle. African leaders, past and present, like Shaka, Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Toure, began to provide the heroic, strong, inspirational names. The eclectic choice of African names reflects the Pan-Africanist orientation of the Afro-American identity.
Here are all the girl names:
Some of the these girl names have appeared on the SSA's baby name list:
- Aba debuted in 1978.
- Abayomi debuted as a male name in 1972 and peaked in 1977.
- Abimbola debuted in 1973.
- Akwete debuted in 1977. One-hit wonder.
- Chinue debuted in 1977.
- Efia debuted in 1975.
- Habibah debuted in 1974.
- Ifetayo debuted in 1969.
- Jamila debuted in 1962 and peaked in 1977.
- Kamilah debuted in 1970 and first peaked in 1977.
- Layla debuted in 1950 and first peaked in 1977.
- Masani debuted in 1999.
- Naila debuted in 1953 and first peaked in 1977.
- Ramla debuted in 1998.
- Rashida debuted in 1964 and peaked in 1977.
- Safiya debuted in 1973.
- Sauda debuted in 1976.
Akwokwo, Bayo, Chuki, Dada, Folayan, Hembadoon, Ifama, Ige, Kambo, Mawusi, Ode, Oseye, Pasua, Quibilah, Serwa and Sigolwide have never been on the list (as girl names).
And here are all the boy names:
Some of the these boy names have appeared on the SSA's list as well:
- Abdalla debuted in 1973.
- Abubakar debuted in 1977.
- Ade debuted in 1919.
- Ahmed debuted in 1929.
- Azikiwe debuted in 1971.
- Bobo debuted in 1935. One-hit wonder.
- Habib debuted in 1972.
- Hasani debuted in 1973 and peaked in 1977.
- Hashim debuted in 1971 and peaked in 1977.
- Idi debuted in 1977. One-hit wonder. (The name of infamous Ugandan president Idi Amin.)
- Jabulani debuted in 1975.
- Kamau debuted in 1971.
- Kefentse debuted in 1977. One-hit wonder.
- Khalfani debuted in 1975.
- Kontar debuted in 1977. One-hit wonder.
- Kwasi debuted in 1970 and peaked in 1977.
- Lateef debuted in 1967 and peaked in 1977.
- Lukman debuted in 2002.
- Makalani debuted in 1977. One-hit wonder. (Makalani also happens to mean "heavenly eyes" or "eyes of heaven" in Hawaiian.)
- Mensah debuted in 1977.
- Nizam debuted in 1974. One-hit wonder.
- N'Namdi debuted in 1976.
- N'Nanna debuted in 1997.
- Nuru debuted in 1977.
- Oba debuted in 1915.
Bwerani, Chionesu, Chiumbo, Dingane, Dunsimi, Fudail, Gamba, Gogo, Gowon, Gwandoya, Kamuzu, Lumo, Machupa, Mbwana, Mongo, Mosegi, Mwamba and Nangwaya have never been on the list (as boy names).
I was very curious about the definition of Machupa, "likes to drink." Turns out it's not alcohol-related; another book on African names specifies that the root of Machupa is probably chupa, a Kiswahili word meaning "bottle."
- Stewart, Julia. African Names: Names from the African Continent for Children and Adults. New York: Citadel Press, 1993.
- Walker, Sheila S. "What's in a Name?" Ebony Jun. 1977: 74+.


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Chapter meeting Tuesday, April 12
PAOLA — Quail hunters and conservationists in Miami County have formed the 12th Quail Forever chapter in Kansas. The group, known as the Border Bobs Quail Forever chapter, will dedicate its efforts to improving habitat for bobwhite quail and providing opportunities for youngsters to learn about hunting, conservation, and the outdoors.
The chapter is led by newly-elected president Paul Scruggs of Paola. Scruggs' passion for quail hunting is fueled by owning bird dogs, and his passion for creating habitat has been fueled by efforts to improve quail numbers on his own property.
"Having a Quail Forever chapter provides a much more visible opportunity for others to get involved and will help conservation outreach to area landowners," Scruggs says. He adds that working with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Farm Service Agency, and conservation districts in Miami, Franklin, Johnson, and Wyandotte counties to promote federal Conservation Practice 33 to landowners will also be crucial. Better known as "bobwhite buffers," the program establishes edge habitat along fields, streams, and woods that bobwhite quail need. There are currently 39,344 such acres enrolled in Kansas.
Scruggs also says the chapter's youth focus is equally important. "You can spend millions on habitat, but if you don't have anyone to take over down the road, it's all in vain. The Border Bobs Quail Forever chapter wants to get youth excited about being outdoors, to put that fire in them."
The chapter's next meeting is 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12, at the Gardner Public Library. For more information about the chapter, including upcoming meetings and events, phone Scruggs at 913-221-5705.


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KHAR, Pakistan – Dozens of militants from Afghanistan who attacked a Pakistani village and took scores of hostages have fled back across the border, leaving the captives behind after a deadly battle with the army, officials said Friday.
The fighters who staged the cross-border attack on Thursday around 2 p.m. local time came from Afghanistan's Kunar province and appeared to be targeting members of an anti-Taliban militia in Kitkot village near Pakistan's Bajur tribal area, in the northwest.
Pakistan has railed against Afghan and NATO forces for not doing enough to stop the rising number of cross-border attacks, which it says have killed dozens of members of its security forces. However, there has been little sympathy from the U.S. and Afghan governments, which have long complained Pakistan allows sanctuary to militants fighting in Afghanistan.
The militants in Thursday's attack fled Kitkot under the cover of darkness late that night, said Framosh Khan, a government official in the surrounding area. Locals reported seeing them carrying the bodies of 15 dead fighters, he said. Two anti-Taliban militiamen were also killed in the fighting.
Pakistani soldiers managed to free dozens of villagers who were taken hostage by the militants or were trapped in their homes during the fighting, said Khan.
The information could not be independently verified because the area is largely off-limits to reporters.
Elsewhere in the country, a bomb exploded on Friday near a political rally in the southwestern city of Quetta, killing at least five people, officials said.
The bombing appeared to target a rally being held by the Awami National Party, which has been attacked many times before because of its opposition to Islamist militants.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
In addition to the five people killed, 11 others were wounded, said Mohammed Jafar, a doctor at the city's main hospital. Most of the victims were attending the political rally when the bomb went off.
Quetta is the capital of Baluchistan province, home to both Islamist militants and Baluch nationalists who have been waging a decades-long insurgency against the government for greater autonomy and a larger share of the province's natural resources.
In southern Pakistan, prisoners at a jail in Hyderabad city took 15 staff hostage and tried to break out of the facility, said senior prison official Gulzar Channa. Guards opened fire on the prisoners to prevent them from escaping, killing one of them. Officials are trying to get the prisoners to release the hostages and go back to their cells, said Channa.
Several Islamist militants convicted in connection with the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 are held in the jail.


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Strom Thurmond
James Strom Thurmond (1902-2003) was a Unites States Senator from South Carolina for over fifty years. He served from 1954 to 1964 as a Democrat and from 1964 to 2003 as a Republican. He holds the record for length of service in the Senate, and he is the only major office holder in American history to serve at age 100. Prior to 2010, Thurmond was the only senator in US history to have been elected by write-in vote; Lisa Murkowski was elected senator of Alaska by write-in during the 2010 midterm election.
In the late 1940s, Strom Thurmond—a Democrat—was a moderate and a modernizer who represented the middle class, the wealthy landowners, and the business community in the state to bring in new industry. In South Carolina terms he was a New Deal liberal, but he rejected the populism of the "lint heads" (mill workers and poor farmers) led by Cole Blease and Olin Johnston. Thurmond belonged to the more conservative faction of the Democratic party led by James Byrnes.[1] As Governor of South Carolina, Thurmond said on a radio broadcast: "We need a progressive outlook, a progressive program and a progressive leadership." In his inaugural address as governor, Thurmond not only called for abolishing the poll tax, but also advocated expanding workman's compensation laws, and better working conditions in plants and factories. He repeated his call for better public education, and told the state that "more attention should be given to Negro education".
Thurmond advocated in his inaugural speech: ..."equal rights for women in every respect...equal pay for equal work for women."
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Thurmond as a Democrat had been a supporter of segregation as most were in the South at that time, and ran for President on the breakaway Dixiecrat platform in 1948.
Dixiecrat was the informal term for Southern Democrats who in 1948 refused to support President Harry S. Truman for reelection because he was too liberal on racial issues. The official name was the States Rights Party. They formed a third party that nominated Thurmond, who carried four states in the Deep South where he was the official nominee of the Democratic party, gaining 39 electoral votes. Thurmond had 1.2 million popular votes, or 2.4% of the national total. The party did not nominate any other candidates at any level, and dissolved after Truman won the election. Dixiecrats like Thurmond went back to their old party. By the Presidential Election of 1964, the former "Deep South" had undergone a great political realignment, whereby many of the former Dixiecrats and Southern Democrats had switched political affiliations from the excessively liberal Democratic Party, led by Lyndon B. Johnson, to the Republican Party under the banner of Barry Goldwater.
Like many New Dealers, Thurmond by the 1960s was disenchanted with the Great Society and changed parties. At Thurmond's one hundredth birthday party, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott stated if Thurmond had been elected in the early days of the Cold War "we wouldn't have had these problems all these years." Liberals were in an uproar, and suggested some racial motivation behind Lott's comments, demanding he not only apologize, but resign from the Senate and his leadership position. This politically motivated pressure and defamation, a continual distortion and interpretation of his remarks, eventually caused Lott to resign his position as Majority Leader, as Thurmond had indeed run on a segregationist platform.
After Thurmond's death, it was revealed that he had fathered a child with a woman in his family's employ. The woman he fathered the child with was an African-American domestic worker in the Thurmond family household. She was 16 and Thurmond was 22. This was decades before he would run for President on the Dixiecrat ticket that opposed miscegenation. [1] Thurmond and the child did not meet until she was 16 years old and she was unaware of the fact he was her father until that time. After that meeting, Thurmond (who had always privately given financial support to the mother and child), did take a more personal interest in her life. His now 71-year-old daughter spoke affectionately of her father, and pointedly told reporters she and her mother had never held a grudge or ill feelings toward Thurmond.
Strom Thurmond was married twice. His first wife, Jean Crouch, died of cancer in 1960. He married his second wife, Nancy Moore, in 1968. She worked on his staff prior to their marriage.
- ↑ Jack Bass and Marilyn W. Thompson, Ol' Strom: An Unauthorized Biography of Strom Thurmond (2003), pp 121-22; ch 8
Further reading
- Bass, Jack, and Marilyn W. Thompson Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond (2nd ed. 2006) excerpt and text search of 2003 edition
- Frederickson, Kari The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 (2001) 310 pgs. online edition
- Pietrusza, David 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Changed America, New York: Union Square Press, 2011.
- Leip, David "1964 Presidential General Election Results", http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1964, Web. 2012


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06 Mar 2014 by Jérome Sauvage
In Washington, D.C., a number of U.S. Government agencies and think tanks are preparing for the forthcoming Mexico Ministerial Meeting of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation.
At a recent prep meeting, I met enthusiasts and skeptics. The optimists pointed at the progress achieved from Monterrey 2002 to Busan 2011 and how the Paris Declaration started to align programs with developing countries' priorities. This brought more harmonization and accountability between donor and recipient countries. The process now includes inter-governmental, civil society and private-sector actors and addresses gender equality, climate-change financing and the fight against corruption.
The skeptics think that the "aid business" is beyond repair, that the so-called aid effectiveness agenda does not measure "effectiveness" but "efficiency" — looking at bureaucratic processes rather than the actual impact of aid on reducing poverty. One of their spokespersons, American scholar William Easterly, attributes a good share of aid's failings to a lack of feedback and accountability: "The needs of the poor don't get met because the poor have little political power with which to make their needs known and they cannot hold anyone accountable to meet those needs."
But optimists and skeptics seem to agree on one thing: the need to reform the aid architecture before the world gives in to fatigue — and to a free-for-all of disorganized and even less accountable initiatives.
This, to me, is the challenge of the Development Effectiveness process: to reform aid to the benefit and agreement of all actors, and firstly those we are meant to serve. As co-Secretary to the Chairs (Indonesia, UK, Nigeria) in Mexico, our organization can play a major role to help meet this challenge.
One angle of approach is UNDP's strong advocacy for the poor, at the field level and on the international scene.
One book provides a possible direction. Time to Listen (Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid) gathers voices, insights and lessons from people across 20 countries on the receiving end of international aid. It points out that communities overall wish to be better listened to.
Listening implies respect, information and participation. It secures greater sustainability. And if listening requires more deliberate, even slower delivery, that is a subject best discussed at a Development Effectiveness forum.
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Thanks for your impressions/reviews, sounds like great game so far.
Average rating on erogamescape is not that amazing though; 83/100, not bad but not nearly as high as Ever17 (which is 90+ I think). Could be that C and D routes are not nearly as good as A and B ones.
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|2012-07-02, 03:30
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I might have to buy a copy of this game even though I have no way of playing it, just to increase sales so a computer port is more likely. That is how much I want to play this game after reading this review.
How many years after I/O debuted did it get a PC port?
|2012-07-02, 04:48
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Location: Japan
EDIT: I also forgot to mention this, but I clocked in at about 72 hours. It's partly due to my Japanese reading speed, but it's still way longer than Ever17.
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Location: Japan
Last month, a character popularity poll was conducted on Root Double's website for the characters, which ended a few days ago with 5110 votes cast. I figured I might as well post the results of the poll here.
1. Yuuri
2. Louise
3. Mashiro
4. Watase
5. Ai Shimizu's character
6. Kazami
7. Jun
8. Ena
9. Natsuhiko
10. Miyoko
11. Ukita
12. Momoko Ohara's character
Yuuri actually only beat Louise by 5 votes (1295 to 1290).
|2012-08-23, 19:11
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Btw. Nakazawa-san was featured at exp-inc ustream program this week talking about Root Double and stuff for over an hour, stream is recorded here if anyone's interested http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/24883067
|2012-09-21, 07:10
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Japan
Well, just one week to go until the PC version release!
On that note, I got the novelizations of Roots A and B today. Since both of them were written by Souki Tsukishima, the game's screenplay writer, it's more or less an exact replica of the VN (I only skimmed it, but they seemed to have kept pretty much everything, minus the visuals, sound, and voice acting, naturally).
The only real difference of note that I saw was that while the VN is written in third person, the novels are written in first person from Watase and Natsuhiko's perspectives in their respective routes.
I also went to this event where they gave out this booklet/magazine of sorts for Root Double, and in it was an announcement that the novelization of Root C is scheduled for October 2nd, while Root D's is scheduled for November 2nd.
|2012-09-28, 01:18
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Japan
Well, I got the Root Double PC version... but my computer can't even read the disc. Just great.
Can anyone possibly help me? According to the box, it says my disc drive (I have a Blu-Ray drive) needs a comp speed of at least 8, but I don't know what that means.
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Japan
Hey, I've announced it elsewhere, but Root Double is now getting a PS3 port, called the "Xtend Edition". Because it's not just a port, it has new content as well. The content includes:
-New CGs
-New Endings
-Revised gameplay
-Some slightly altered scenes in order to increase the excitement factor.
-A mode unlocked after you've cleared the game that allows you to view deleted scenes ultimately left out of the final version.
Really looking forward to this. Hope it gets a PC release too, though I'm not counting on it.
|2013-08-03, 07:14
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Utsunomiya, Japan
Hmm, how good should me Japanese be to fully enjoy this game? I know it's very subjective, but anyway.
I can manage normal spoken conversation with anyone about pretty much anything (or interpreting in automotive factories, maybe ), but it's pretty hard to understand very specific topics (with police, military, yakuza, science etc. vocabulary, which is pretty difficult even in English), especially in TV or games. Reading is worse, about between JLPT N2 and N1 (I can read Chinese better which helps at times though). I just finished Steins;Gate in English and all the scientific and nerd words were so hard I couldn't really understand the Japanese dub and relied on English subs heavily at some points (time travel theories, Large Hadron Collider explanation, world line divergences and stuff).
Do you think it may be playable (and enjoyable) for me under this conditions? I haven't played a VN in English yet so I myself have no idea. Thank you!
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I doubt it. VN narration tends to be real tough for a beginner (and unvoiced), and Nakazawa's games tend to be very heavy on the in-depth science use and explanations.
The general advice tends to be to go for standard moege (typical high school romance VNs with no serious plot) first, since they use easy language and are generally easier to follow.
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Today I'd like to share a picture of the second cowl I knitted.
The pattern was from Cowl'd and Frosty Morning, I messed up a bit with counting the rows and it got a bit taller than the pattern intended. This was a happy accident though, as it is very cozy and ideal to snuggle down into 🙂
Hope you like it, the yarn is James Brett Marble Chunky in colour MC19 which is amethyst, its very difficult to get it to photograph the colour correctly.
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Dark Skies
No one is more surprised than I am that I liked Dark Skies, only because when the trailers are inscrutable and studios keep it away from critics, well, we can connect the dots. This isn't the case. Dark Skies is well written and executed, with effective sound design, good performances from the cast, and eerie creatures that are left mostly to our imagination. Frankly, it's baffling.
Keri Russell (The Americans) and Josh Hamilton (The House of Yes, Kicking and Screaming) play the believable, likable Barretts, a couple that's hit a rough patch in their marriage. Daniel lost his job, Lacy's struggling as a real estate agent, and the marriage bed is a little chilly. Their two kids Jesse (Dakota Goyo) and Sammy (Kadan Rockett) are smart, sweet kids who are the first witnesses to the weirdness happening at their house. Jesse and Sammy have a cute bedtime ritual where Jesse reads Sammy scary stories before they fall asleep using walkie-talkies. Their latest scary story is about the Sandman, whom Sammy blames for the pranks that the Barretts begin finding in the morning. As these occurrences escalate, it's clear there's no way that Sammy could be the perp.
Like most good supernatural thrillers, the weird things happening can be ascribed to stress or nightmares or overactive imaginations. The Barretts become increasingly isolated from their friends and neighbors, which only adds to their stress. The way the Barretts experience this internal/external strife can be read as an interesting bit of social commentary; the family unit that stays together and remains strong is the only thing that can defeat whatever threatens them. Daniel is upset and ashamed he can't take care of his family, either financially or from whatever is stalking them. Jesse is mad at his parents for fighting and acting weird and making being a teen even more awkward than usual. Lacy thinks something out of this world is terrorizing them or maybe it's her husband. This theory about the strength of the family unit is made even clearer later in the film when they meet with a sort of specialist in extraterrestrial phenomena.
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In front of a crowd of nearly 10,000 people in Abany, Assemblyman John Ceretto, R-I-C-Lewiston, called Thursday for the repeal of the controversial SAFE Act.
"Today, I joined thousands of New Yorkers from across the state to again voice my opposition to the SAFE Act," Ceretto said. "We need to repeal this bill and replace it with sound legislation that does more to improve the safety of our communities, while not stripping away the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
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