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It's been more than half a year since we last had our ES photoshoot. After Karyn was born, Xueli and couple were so busy taking care of their newborn. Jamie has decided to switch her career and I was in the mist of preparing my little princess for Primary 1. Eventhough everything came to a standstill, we were working real hard behind the scene. We decided to give ES a new facelift. LOL talking about facelift reminded me of the new Volkswagon beetle which Jonathan showed me just now. The red beetle is so yummy.
What have we done over the six months?
1. We came up with a new name and design. 🙂
Vestimento sounds really classy. It came from a latin word meaning garment or clothing.
2. We moved on to self-manufacturing. We selected so many designs and finally decided on this one to inspire from. A kimono dress from Elizabeth and James, from co-designers Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen. We love the simple design and the tassel belt. From sample to actual piece's arrival went though a really long process of about 4 months complete. When we saw the actual outfits, we totally love it.
3. We had our first outdoor shoot with the thought of creating a Lookbook. 🙂 As I had to attend the P1 Parent's Briefing at Kaitlyn's school, the whole photoshoot was handled by my team mates. So sad 😦 for not being able to have all the fun with them. All photos below were provided by Jamie.
The photographers were really onz. They actually wanted the models and team to be at the venue by 7am. Check out the sunrise. I am sure early morning scenery near MBS is really pretty. 🙂
Our lovely anchor model, Gwen, in the electric blue piece.
This time round, instead of just one model, we had another model, Peili, who is dressed in Taupe. 🙂
More pictures of the ladies dressed in the new outfits.
I think the photoshoot must be really fun. Photoshoot is not the only thing I have missed. They even went for a good brunch after the shoot at Food for Thought. Hey Jamie, how come no pics from there?
These pieces should be launching anytime this week at Vestimento. They are available in four colours: black, blush pink, taupe and electric blue. 🙂 Link will be updated once the launch is ready. 🙂

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The meeting of the St Augustine Planning and Zoning Board yesterday heard three requests from businesses wanting the required approval to sell alcoholic beverages in the city; one controversial enough to be tabled for a future meeting.
Josh Parks has applied to expand Local Hero's Cafe from 31 seats to more than 100; however, Board members said Tuesday that they want him to "provide more details" before they make any decision.
The large piece of property, once the home of 24-year St Johns County Commissioner Richard L Parks, continues through from "18 St George Street" to "11 Spanish Street" the address shown on the Local Hero's Cafe business license. Josh Parks' mother, Donna L Parks, now owns the building, courtyard and private sidewalk where Local Hero's operates. Her sister, Sandra Parks-Kennedy, is a former St Augustine City Commissioner and widow of Stetson Kennedy.
Local Hero's Cafe was first opened as a restaurant in mid-September 2004 by Jeff Sapp; after he spent about two months renewing and refitting the building that had been left dormant for about seven years.
Slowing Parks down at this point may be the fact that he is using his grandfather's 1820's home primarily as an evening entertainment spot where, in 2010, late partying, alcohol and friends, moshing and extremely loud music became such a nuisance that St Augustine bed-and-breakfast owners complained to the City Commission that they were losing business from all the noise.
No action was taken on Local Hero's application during yesterday's meeting.
Across St George Street, Colonial Quarter LLC was approved to expand the existing Taberna and add an English pub as part of the redesign of the multi-era village in the former Colonial Spanish Quarter complex. Additional consent was given allowing "alcohol sales and consumption at designated areas for evening shows and special events" after Colonial Quarter LLC's Pat Croce told the board, "We're not creating a bar here — this is part of an immersive experience for visitors."
Finally, Paul and Rebecca Morris, who promise a family-oriented movie theater on a former theater site on Washington Street, accepted conditions that beer and wine sales could only be to holders of paid admissions to the theater and that the business closes at 11:30 p.m.


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University of Wyoming Spring Semester President's Honor Roll - Platte County
(Editors: Please note local names. The complete list of students on the honor rolls can be found on the Web at www.uwyo.edu/news
and click on "Students in the News." You can refer to the Web to verify
names and to determine if students from your area are on the Laramie
list, rather than on your hometown list.)
The University of Wyoming lists five students from Platte County on the 2009 spring semester President's Honor Roll.
The President's Honor Roll consists of regularly enrolled undergraduates who earned a 4.0 ("A") grade point average for the semester. To be eligible, students must have been enrolled for a minimum of 12 credit hours taken for letter grades.
For more information about the University of Wyoming, view the Web page at www.uwyo.edu.
Students are:
Guernsey - Houston L. Martin
Wheatland - Jerah R. Henion
Brianna L. Jones
Jacob Benjamin Nix
Helena R. Wagner
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Immigration reform this year?
President Barack Obama, even before the mass demonstration on the Washington Mall, had promised comprehensive immigration reform this year. But he hedged his promise on Republican support. There was some dissatisfaction with the Obama administration lack of movement on reform, but it was muted at the rally.
Now, after reports of a quota for deportations, sloppy administration at detention centers and crowded immigrations courts splashed on the front pages of the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, the anger at the slow-moving administration bubbled to the surface again.
The Service Employers International Union blasted the Obama administration's stepped-up enforcement and warned Congress to act this year (see Washington Post). SEIU was an early and generous supporter of Barack Obama's presidential campaign and has a heavily Hispanic membership in key states, including California, New York, and Illinois. An electoral threat to Democrats seems be the intent. Few seriously expect SEIU or Hispanic voters to abandon the Democrats for the Republicans -- who are hardly trying to woe them -- but they could stay home in November. The threat is not entirely idle.
Still some believe action is possible this year. Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D, IL) puts faith in the work of Charles Schumer (D, NY) and Lindsey Graham (R, SC) (see Chicago Tribune). They are poised to introduce legislation late in April. But in the House the feeling is that the Democrats, battered by the health care bill and their votes on finance reform and global warming, are not willing to take up immigration before the November election.
The Republicans would welcome it, so to have another unpopular issue to assault them with, according to Tamar Jacoby a friendly conservative advocate of comprehensive reform. The Arizona Republic quotes her and goes on to report that the growing anti-immigrant rhetoric following the murder of a rancher near the Mexican border is poisoning even the reelection bid of Sen. John McCain (R, AZ).
The assumption, however, that the American public is tilted against reform is probably mistaken. A recent survey in California indicated that sentiment is shifting more favorably not only to "amnesty" (how it's defined is another issue) and a guest worker program. The shift is stronger among young voter, who are loosening their attitudes toward extending social services to the undocumented as well (see LA Times).
Despite McCain's withdrawal from the fight, some Republicans, such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, do see the need for comprehensive reform, though they usually coupled it with punitive barriers. Republican Jim Edgar, the popular former governor of Illinois, argued before Chicago businessmen that a legalization of the undocumented will benefit the U,S, economy by $1.5 trillion over the next decade (see Chicago Tribune).
Comprehensive reform seems possible to some this year, but remote to others. The odds seem stacked against it. The Senate has to take up bills, already passed by the House, for reform of the financial sector and an energy bill that will curb green-house emission. Now there is another Supreme Court nomination to deal with. The tea-partiers are already in the streets denouncing the Obama proposals as socialist and fascist and un-American. To add immigration will light up the Capitol switchboard with a stream of vicious xenophobia.


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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
Federal regulations mandate that all institutions of higher education establish Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) standards for students receiving financial aid. {Note: Financial Aid SAP policy criteria differs from the University's Academic Standards Suspension and Probation Policy criteria. Students who receive financial aid must understand and meet both standards.}
In order to receive financial aid ongoing, students must meet the following three SAP standards:
1. Grade Point Average:
Undergraduate students must maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.0 or above.
Graduate students must maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above.
2. Minimum Credits Completed:
Students must successfully complete 67% of total attempted credits. That means:
3. Maximum Timeframe:
A student can receive financial aid for no more than 150% of the published number of credits required for the current academic program. Most UW-River Falls undergraduate programs require 120 credits, so students can receive financial aid up to 180 credits even if they have not yet graduated.
If a student is pursuing a second degree, the 180-credit maximum may be exceeded only through the appeal process, evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Most graduate programs require 34 credits, so a student could receive financial aid up to 51 credits even if they have not yet graduated.
Financial Aid Suspension
After grades have been submitted and the Registrar's office has calculated Academic Suspension following each fall semester, the financial aid office evaluates SAP on all students. Accordingly, a student's financial aid eligibility is suspended for subsequent semesters if the student presents any of the following:
Financial Aid Reinstatement Appeal
If a financial aid recipient is placed on Financial Aid Suspension, that student may appeal for a Financial Aid Probation semester using the appropriate form:
Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) Appeal - GPA/Completion Status
Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) Appeal - Max Time Form
Appeals will result in either financial aid reinstatement (Financial Aid Probation) or financial aid denial (Financial Aid Suspension).
The student can receive financial aid during the Financial Aid Probation semester if:
The appeal must be submitted and approved before the end of the semester for which the student is appealing to received financial aid.
Students will be notified if their appeals are approved; this email will explain Financial Aid Probation and outline the specifics of their academic plans.
Regaining Continued Eligibility
All students who are on Financial Aid Probation will be reevaluated for SAP progress at the end of the Probation semester, and manually monitored following each term as long as they remain on probation or an academic plan:
Additional Information for Students Returning From Studying Abroad:
UWRF Study Abroad Program
If a student has participated in a UWRF study abroad program and receives an I (incomplete) grade, the Financial Aid Office is still required to count those credits as attempted, and they will be counted as unsatisfactory in the course completion total until the I is updated to an official grade, the student must notify the UW-River Falls Financial Aid Office to have SAP re-evaluated.
Non-UWRF Study Abroad Program
Grades for credits attempted through a non-UWRF study abroad program are historically slow in being reported to the UWRF Registrar's Office. The Financial Aid Office is still required to count those credits as attempted, and they will be counted as unsatisfactory in the course completion total until an official transcript from the other school is received and evaluated by the UWRF Registrar's Office. This situation may result in a financial aid reinstatement. The Financial Aid Office will be notified by the Registrar's Office once the official transcript had been evaluated and the Financial Aid Office will then re-evaluate SAP.


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This set of resources for teachers offers interactive environments to support work on graphical interpretation at Key Stage 4.
Show that for any triangle it is always possible to construct 3 touching circles with centres at the vertices. Is it possible to construct touching circles centred at the vertices of any polygon?
This is an interactivity in which you have to sort the steps in the completion of the square into the correct order to prove the formula for the solutions of quadratic equations.
Start with any number of counters in any number of piles. 2 players take it in turns to remove any number of counters from a single pile. The winner is the player to take the last counter.
A counter is placed in the bottom right hand corner of a grid. You toss a coin and move the star according to the following rules: ... What is the probability that you end up in the top left-hand. . . .
The aim of the game is to slide the green square from the top right hand corner to the bottom left hand corner in the least number of moves.
To avoid losing think of another very well known game where the patterns of play are similar.
Can you discover whether this is a fair game?
The opposite vertices of a square have coordinates (a,b) and (c,d). What are the coordinates of the other vertices?
Slide the pieces to move Khun Phaen past all the guards into the position on the right from which he can escape to freedom.
in how many ways can you place the numbers 1, 2, 3 … 9 in the nine regions of the Olympic Emblem (5 overlapping circles) so that the amount in each ring is the same?
A game for 2 players. Can be played online. One player has 1 red counter, the other has 4 blue. The red counter needs to reach the other side, and the blue needs to trap the red.
Given the nets of 4 cubes with the faces coloured in 4 colours, build a tower so that on each vertical wall no colour is repeated, that is all 4 colours appear.
A game for 2 players that can be played online. Players take it in turns to select a word from the 9 words given. The aim is to select all the occurrences of the same letter.
On the 3D grid a strange (and deadly) animal is lurking. Using the tracking system can you locate this creature as quickly as possible?
Can you give the coordinates of the vertices of the fifth point in the patterm on this 3D grid?
Can you put the 25 coloured tiles into the 5 x 5 square so that no column, no row and no diagonal line have tiles of the same colour in them?
Do you know how to find the area of a triangle? You can count the squares. What happens if we turn the triangle on end? Press the button and see. Try counting the number of units in the triangle now. . . .
These formulae are often quoted, but rarely proved. In this article, we derive the formulae for the volumes of a square-based pyramid and a cone, using relatively simple mathematical concepts.
A right-angled isosceles triangle is rotated about the centre point of a square. What can you say about the area of the part of the square covered by the triangle as it rotates?
Use Excel to explore multiplication of fractions.
Charlie likes tablecloths that use as many colours as possible, but insists that his tablecloths have some symmetry. Can you work out how many colours he needs for different tablecloth designs?
A and B are two interlocking cogwheels having p teeth and q teeth respectively. One tooth on B is painted red. Find the values of p and q for which the red tooth on B contacts every gap on the. . . .
Can you find a way to turn a rectangle into a square?
If you continue the pattern, can you predict what each of the following areas will be? Try to explain your prediction.
You can move the 4 pieces of the jigsaw and fit them into both outlines. Explain what has happened to the missing one unit of area.
A circle rolls around the outside edge of a square so that its circumference always touches the edge of the square. Can you describe the locus of the centre of the circle?
Balancing interactivity with springs and weights.
How good are you at finding the formula for a number pattern ?
Investigate how logic gates work in circuits.
A metal puzzle which led to some mathematical questions.
Practise your skills of proportional reasoning with this interactive haemocytometer.
Here is a chance to play a fractions version of the classic Countdown Game.
A simple spinner that is equally likely to land on Red or Black. Useful if tossing a coin, dropping it, and rummaging about on the floor have lost their appeal. Needs a modern browser; if IE then at. . . .
This game challenges you to locate hidden triangles in The White Box by firing rays and observing where the rays exit the Box.
A tool for generating random integers.
A collection of our favourite pictorial problems, one for each day of Advent.
This set of resources for teachers offers interactive environments to support work on loci at Key Stage 4.
Match the cards of the same value.
What are the areas of these triangles? What do you notice? Can you generalise to other "families" of triangles?
Place a red counter in the top left corner of a 4x4 array, which is covered by 14 other smaller counters, leaving a gap in the bottom right hand corner (HOME). What is the smallest number of moves. . . .
We can show that (x + 1)² = x² + 2x + 1 by considering the area of an (x + 1) by (x + 1) square. Show in a similar way that (x + 2)² = x² + 4x + 4
Euler discussed whether or not it was possible to stroll around Koenigsberg crossing each of its seven bridges exactly once. Experiment with different numbers of islands and bridges.
Triangular numbers can be represented by a triangular array of squares. What do you notice about the sum of identical triangle numbers?
When number pyramids have a sequence on the bottom layer, some interesting patterns emerge...
Can you find all the 4-ball shuffles?
Can you beat the computer in the challenging strategy game?
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.
There are thirteen axes of rotational symmetry of a unit cube. Describe them all. What is the average length of the parts of the axes of symmetry which lie inside the cube?
Discover a handy way to describe reorderings and solve our anagram in the process.


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Four how-to's on finding stuff in your inbox
A stream of messages most likely flows into your inbox from co-workers and friends, and from all those enewsletters and notifications you signed up for. You need a quick way to track down specific messages without having to wade through all of them. To help you cut through the clutter, we've compiled four tutorials that show you some ways search in Outlook.


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I Can Do That: A Picnic Of a Build
This simple table is at home in the dining room – or outdoors.
By Laura Ann Arnold
Pages: 24-25
From the June 2010 issue #183
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This table is a picnic to build with dimensional lumber, screws and bolts.
I'm usually not intimidated by undertaking projects. We need some artwork for the new apartment? I can paint some vivid, abstract oil paintings. Hair is not the way I wanted it? I'll trim it. Not the right color? I'll dye it. Shirt too loose? Hand-stitch it. We need a dining room table? Well … I'll drive us to Ikea.
The odd thing was, I shouldn't have been intimidated about making something. I'm not a fan of measurements, but I can use them when necessary. Making a picnic table is a large project, true, but it wasn't the size – or the numbers – that was intimidating.
It was the saws. And the splinters. What if I cut off a finger? What if I drilled through my palm like some sort of nightmarish woodshop stigmata scene? After telling my irrational and oddly descriptive fears to step aside, my husband, David, and I stepped into the Popular Woodworking Magazine shop. We went over some safety tips, reviewed the design for the table and got to work.
The miter saw was the hardest thing for me to get over. Sure it looks innocent, but the idea of pulling the sharp, quickly rotating blade down and toward myself seemed foolish, if not downright dangerous. I discovered that the key was to go slow. Not only did this make it easier and give me more control, it also made for a much cleaner cut.
From the June 2010 issue #183
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The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it has reached a settlement agreement to allow the merger of American Airlines and US Airways to form the nation's largest air carrier.
The department, which sued in August to stop the merger, said that as part of the deal, it will require the airlines to give up landing slots and passenger gates at airports where the combined carrier would dominate its competition.
The two airlines said they will abide by the Justice Department's demands to allow the merger.
"This is an important day for our customers, our people and our financial stakeholders," said Tom Horton, chairman, president and chief executive of AMR Corp.,...


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Even if we have vendor supplied driver documents they may refuse to provide all the necessary information to support devices fully.
Feel free to place changes/corrections yourself, but please follow the unified card description document before you start.
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It depends...
My TF Vader stays carded because, to me, that item is only interested carded because it is only interesting with value behind it... Without value, it's a Vader with silver paint all over it... if I wanted that, which is basically worthless, I'd spray paint one. :) Carded is all that keeps the piece "interesting" to me, even without wanting to sell it.
Open them all, let God sort them out.
Thanks guys for the insight into your worlds. How would you do with something a little less rare and value wise like the E1 accessories sets wave 2 (Hyperdrive Repair, Podracer Fuel Station, etc), or any of the other hard to find normal items from the various lines?
roron corobb
Open them all, let God sort them out.
You took the words right out of my mouth.


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CONROE, Texas Nearly a year after their two children were found living virtually unsupervised in an old school bus in Southeast Texas, the parents regained full custody of their kids Tuesday when a judge dismissed a child welfare case against them.
It feels really good, said Sherrie Shorten, of Splendora, after she and her husband, Mark, stood before Judge Jerry Winfree at a hearing that lasted only a few minutes. This is just one more thing weve gotten resolved.
If you love your family, you never give up, Mark Shorten said outside the courtroom, standing close to his two children, Jessica, 12, and Chance, 6. You do what it takes. ... It takes a lot of faith in God, belief in your family and a good attorney. You just work the problem, just dont give up, hunker down and work the problem.
The Shortens last March were serving 18-month federal prison terms for conspiracy to embezzle Hurricane Ike benefits in Louisiana when a postal worker repeatedly spotted the disheveled children in the Montgomery County neighborhood about 35 miles northeast of Houston. Child welfare officials were notified and took Jessica and Chance into foster custody.
There were no front wheels on the bus and the section of the vehicle from the windshield and engine firewall had been removed. Extensive media coverage of the case showed the bus sitting in a trash-filled yard.
Despite its worn appearance, the bus inside had been renovated, furnished, had hot and cold water and a bathroom, and was air-conditioned. The family moved it from Louisiana after their home there was flooded from Hurricane Ike. It was intended as a temporary home until they could build on the lot.
The Shortens had arranged with an aunt to care for the children while they were imprisoned, but the woman told authorities her 12-hour workdays and caring for the children had overwhelmed her.
CPS was absolutely right to take then kids when it did, the familys attorney, Chris Branson, said. The aunt obviously dropped the ball and was neglecting these kids, and it was the proper thing to take these kids into custody. However, the parents got out of jail, they fixed the problem, they cleaned up the property and the situation should have been over at that point.
Sherrie Shorten and her husband also have been fulfilling a care plan and attending counseling and therapy. The family was reunited last September under CPS watch, and still lives on the bus.
John Lockwood, an assistant attorney general and counsel for Child Protective Services, told Winfree that authorities recommended strongly the case against the couple be dismissed.
Were happy to say they are safe and their needs are met, Lockwood said.
Without the dismissal, the Shortens had faced a trial that could have resulted in the children being moved to foster care or being placed under long-term monitoring by the state.
The recommendation for dismissal had been anticipated, then reversed late Monday in what Child Protective Services officials described as a miscommunication, and then reversed again.
Things just got a little sidetracked, Mark Shorten said. Usual bureaucracy, one hand not talking with the other.
Branson said, Im happy this day finally came, but Im also frustrated it took so long to get here.
Sherrie Shorten was released a few weeks after the children were placed in foster care. Her husband was released in July. Theyre both on supervised federal release for three years and facing more than $100,000 in court-ordered restitution. Mark Shorten said the convictions were unwarranted but is moving forward.


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Reaganites for Obama?
Sorry, McCain. Barack Obama is a natural for the Catholic vote.
My dear late mother would say: "Steer clear of mixing religion and politics in public discussions." Sorry, Mom, but the mix is unavoidable. Religion shapes us, and politics is our addictive national reality show. In any event, my faith, Catholicism, teaches that pluralism is enhanced, not threatened, when religions talk to one another.
Apparently, we're pretty persuasive. Catholics have been on the side of the top vote-getter (who, as we know from playing hanging chad, is not always the winner) in the last nine presidential elections. The Electoral College and the Supreme Court threw us a curve in 2000, but many Catholics probably put their choice of Al Gore in the "you can't blame us" department. Unlike our Jewish brothers and sisters who trend Democratic, and our Protestant friends who regularly populate Republican ranks, we're the ultimate flip-floppers, picking Republicans five times and Democrats four since 1972. Naturally, this led me straight to supporting Mitt Romney, whom McCain once snidely called "the real candidate of change," claiming that the governor changed positions more often than the rest of them (which from where I sit is a bit like asserting the Atlantic is wetter than the Pacific).
As a Catholic legal scholar chairing Romney's Committee on the Constitution, I worked to help him overcome a form of religious prejudice that had previously plagued John F. Kennedy, who needed to promise Protestant ministers in 1960 that his Oval Office would not have a hotline to the Vatican. Romney was pressed to assure voters that there wouldn't be a Mormon prophet lingering behind the West Wing curtains. Had anyone actually listened, Romney's "Faith in America" address was a tour de force in defense of the best traditions of religious liberty. But his eloquence—unfortunately and unfairly—was not reciprocated with faith in him.
But now that Romney's out, whom might Catholics turn to? Since I served at one time as Reagan's constitutional lawyer, it would be natural for me to fall in line behind John McCain. Don't worry about his conservative lapses, says President Bush, the foremost expert on lapsed conservativism. There is no gainsaying that McCain is a military hero deserving of salute. But McCain seems fixated on just taking the next hill in Iraq. His Iraqi military objective is laudable, but it assumes good reasons to be there in the first place. It also ignores that Catholics are looking to bless the peacemakers.
Now, don't think me daft, but when Obama gave his victory remarks in Iowa calling upon America to "choose hope over fear and to choose unity over division," he was standing squarely in the shoes of the "Great Communicator." Notwithstanding all of Bill Clinton's self-possessed heckling to the contrary, Obama was right—Reagan was a "transformative" president. Reagan liked to tell us he was proudest of his ability to make America feel good about itself. He did. Catholic sensibility tells me Obama wants it to deserve that feeling.
Much of the Catholic primary vote has been in the Democratic column, going at first to Hillary Clinton over Obama, as in New Hampshire, where she won 44 percent to 27 percent. But lately, Obama has been narrowing the gap, using the Catholic vote to vault to victory. In the Illinois primary, where Obama bested Clinton 65 percent to 33 percent, he attracted 48 percent of the Catholic vote. When Obama's share of the Catholic vote drops, the races tighten: In still-undecided New Mexico, only 39 percent of Catholic voters went for Obama.
Clinton lost Tuesday to Obama in Maryland, the first Catholic settlement in America, but also in Virginia, where the number of Catholic households in the burgeoning northern section of the commonwealth is up more than 67 percent over the last decade. However hard-working, intelligent, and policy savvy she may be (and she is), Clinton seldom inspires even the so-called "social justice" Catholics or reveals that rare gift of empathy that defined Reagan and that one glimpses in Obama. Say what you will about not preferring style over substance, modern leadership requires both, especially now when the international community—whose help we need to arrest terrorism—seldom gives us the benefit of the doubt.
But the primary statistics do not tell the full story. For the general election, it's important to peer deeper into the Catholic mind.
Catholics shed their Republican wardrobe in the 2006 midterm election, favoring Democrats 55 percent to 45 percent—a reversal of their 52 percent to 47 percent support for Bush over Kerry in 2004. Because Democratic and Catholic dogmas collide over the polarizing issue of abortion, Catholics do have to navigate some difficult ethical waters to contemplate voting blue. McCain and Huckabee—unlike either of the Democrats—join in the Catholic prayer for the unborn, but Republican promises have often left those prayers unanswered. While no papal instruction will ever condone the "right to choose," the church does ask for a consistent and realistic defense of life that actually takes steps to reduce the incidence of the practice, not just condemns it. Catholics will note that McCain and Huckabee's pro-life postures collapse when it comes to the death penalty. Even if the Supreme Court decides later this spring that lethal injection is not "cruel and unusual" under our Constitution, capital sentencing is often erratic and erroneous in light of the modern availability and reliability of DNA evidence. It is Catholic instruction that there are better ways to deter violent crime.
Beyond life issues, an audaciously hope-filled Democrat like Obama is a Catholic natural. Anyone seeking "liberty and justice for all" really can't be satisfied with racially segregated public schools that don't teach. And there's something deeply hypocritical about being a nation of immigrants that won't welcome any more of them. And that creation that God saw as good in Genesis? Well, even without seeing Al Gore melt those glaciers over and over again, Catholics chose Al to better steward a world beset with unnatural disasters. Climate change is driven by mindless consumption that devotes more ingenuity to securing golden parachutes than energy independence.
Of course, marriage and family are indispensable as well, and until now, Catholics saw the Republicans as having a lock on the family issue. But if either Clinton or Obama would acknowledge the myriad problems associated with a declining population in the developed world and affirm the importance of both having and raising children (and not just punting these duties over to Hillary's "village"), Catholics could well contemplate a Democratic adoption.
Sorry to tell you this, Sen. McCain, but a good number of the Catholics I know are not certain to light candles at the Republican political altar. Some of us who rode McCain's Straight Talk Express before the Republican commitment to a balanced budget put us on track toward a $400 billion deficit appreciate his confessed desire to redeem himself as a faithful conservative. But there are suspicions. After all, hanging out with Joe Lieberman and Russ Feingold comes well within the Latin canon: Similes similibus gaudent. Pares cum paribus facile congregantur—birds of a feather flock together. So instead, some Catholics may be hoping for a Huckabee miracle. Southern Baptists and Catholics haven't always gotten along, but there is something just downright Knights of Columbus-friendly about the guy—squirrel-roasting aside. Huck's delegate math will need to cash in more than a few chits with St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, but hey, in theology, if you can make do with five loaves and fishes, what's the big deal about delegates?
So, here's the thing: John McCain will have many Catholics in the pews a little while longer, but more than a few of us are thinking of giving him up for Lent. Reagan used to say that he didn't leave the Democratic Party, it left him. The launch of "Reaganites for Obama" might not be far behind. We might not be there yet, but we're getting close.


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Happy Father's Day weekend everyone! It's that time of year where you buy your dad an ugly tie, socks, or just a new flask so he can cope with being a parent a little while longer. The horror genre also has dads all throughout its film lore.
Apparently my opinion means nothing because the National Society of Film Critics has named Lars Von Trier's "Melancholia" as their number one film of 2011. What that actually means I couldn't tell you but "Drive Angry" is nowhere to be found on the list so I'm calling the entire thing bullshit.
I continue to cover "Underworld: Awakening" news only because Eric has now already gone on record that it will be his number 1 film for 2012. So here's a new clip from the film for Eric to enjoy. It's got Kate Beckinsale blowing some crap up and running around in a cat suit. I assume at least. I didn't really watch them. These were specifically made for Eric.
The only thing I know about "The Grey" is that Liam Neeson fights a bunch of wolves in it. I have no idea what else anyone would want to know about the movie though because that's so bad ass it makes my tummy hurt. Just look at this new poster for the film. Neeson all bad ass in the snow and crap. Does your tummy hurt? No? Well I drank some Baileys that expired 3 years ago yesterday so that might be what's doing it for me. We may never know.
If you liked "Splice" then you're not me. Which explains why you never put in any sort of effort with the news. I should stop getting pissed at you I guess. But the director of the film, Vincenzo Natali, has been tapped to direct a new film titled "Haunter". The twist here is the movie is a haunted house story, but told through the eyes of a spirit haunting the house. Did your nose just start bleeding? That's because I just blew your mind.
When the BGH Crew began discussing its nominations for its list of the top ten horror films of the year, one thing became rather obvious.
"Splice" and "Cube" director Vincenzo Natali is apparently working on 38 movies at the same time including the recently announced "388 Arletta Avenue". From the new poster for the flick I'm guessing it has something to do with cameras, the internet and LOL'ing. Just guessing here though.
The cast for "The Howling: Reborn" is shaping up nicely and today we've got a few names to throw your way. I say nicely in the hopes that someone here knows who the hell Landon Liboiron is because I don't recognize a thing from his IMDB. Although I am interested in something called "Moondance Alexander". I can't wait for the next staff picks on the podcast.
I've got little clue what "Sucker Punch" is but I think it might be the greatest Cinamax 2am women's prison movie ever made. I could be wrong though, god I hope not. Anyway it's got a new trailer and I think I'm in love.
Here's a new exciting one sheet for "Paranormal Activity: Tokyo Night". It's just like the one sheets you saw for the US version of the film but with Asians. I'm going to stop now because honestly I have no idea what's considered racist anymore.
Joe shows up late and judges Eric, who finally sat through an entire movie for the show.
Alright who let Adrien Brody near the science kit? Whoever it was only has themselves to blame for his new super human animal hybrid creature. Need proof? Check out the new trailer for "Splice"
If you're planning to attend the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival this year, you should definitely check out the the so-called "First Look" screening of the Robert Rodriguez-produced, Nimrod Antal-directed action flick "Predators", a film I'm still on the proverbial fence about. Topher Grace and Adrien Brody? Really?
Speaking of Adrien Brody, talented direct Vincenzo Natali's highly-anticipated monster movie "Splice" is set to terrify audiences on June 4th. It's always nice to have a potentially nifty horror flick scheduled for a summer release.
Although I have my doubts as to whether or not this project will ever get off the ground, it would appear that Todd McFarlane is still spreading rumors that another "Spawn" film is in the works. I'm excited about the idea as much as the next nerd, but I'm not going to hold my breath. No sense setting myself up for soul-crushing disappointment.
Werewolves are all the rage these days with the release of Universal's "The Wolfman", but why should the dog boys of mid February get all the fun? Throughout literature and film, there have been quite a few other were-creatures that stalked the night as well as many other folks that just happen to change shape as well! So to celebrate our furry friend, I give to you 8 Other Shape Shifters to raise your hackles!


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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea held off launching a long-range rocket Monday, the first day of a 13-day window during a frigid, snowy stretch of winter weather, a day after announcing it may delay the controversial liftoff.
Pyongyang had made a surprise announcement earlier this month that it would launch a rocket mounted with a satellite one morning between Monday and Dec. 22, its second attempt this year. The North Koreans called it a peaceful bid to advance its space program, and a last wish of late leader Kim Jong Il.
However, the U.S., Japan and other nations see it as an illicit test of missile technology, and have warned North Korea to cancel the launch — or face a new wave of sanctions.
There was no indication that the launch at a west coast site in North Korea's northwest took place Monday, South Korean officials said. Experts in Seoul and Tokyo speculated that technical glitches may have forced scientists to postpone the launch of the finicky three-stage rocket, its fourth attempt since 1998.
Early Sunday, a spokesman from North Korea's Korean Committee for Space Technology told state-run media that scientists were considering "readjusting" the timing of the launch. He did not elaborate.
Temperatures in the nearby border city of Sinuiju, 35 miles (50 kilometers) to the north, dropped to minus-13 C (8.6 F) during the launch window, and the Korean Peninsula has been seized by early winter storms and unusually cold weather, the Korean Meterological Agency said in Seoul.
Engineers can launch a rocket when it's snowing, but lightning, strong wind and freezing temperatures have the potential to stall liftoff, said Lee Chang-jin, an aerospace professor at Seoul's Konkuk University.
Snow covered the site last week, according to commercial satellite imagery taken by GeoEye on Dec. 4 and shared with The Associated Press by the 38 North and North Korea Tech websites. The road from the main assembly building to the launch pad showed no fresh tracks, indicating that the snowfall may have stalled the preparations.
Still, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Monday that his government would maintain vigilance. Tokyo has mobilized its military to intercept any debris from the rocket.
"At this moment, we are keeping our guard up," Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto told reporters Monday. "We have not seen any objective indication that would cause us to make any change to our preparedness."
In addition to three failed launches, North Korea has unveiled missiles designed to target U.S. soil and has tested two atomic bombs in recent years. It has not yet proven to have mastered the technology for mounting a nuclear warhead to a long-range missile.
A successful launch would mean North Korea could develop an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the U.S. mainland within two to three years, said Chong Chol-Ho, a weapons of mass destruction expert at the private Sejong Institute near Seoul.
Six-nation negotiations to offer North Korea much-needed aid in exchange for nuclear disarmament have been stalled since early 2009.
The announcement of a North Korean rocket launch also sparked concern in regional capitals due to the timing: South Korea and Japan hold key elections this month, President Barack Obama begins his second term in January, and China has just formed a new leadership.
Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Washington was deeply concerned, and urged foreign ministers from NATO and Russia to demand that Pyongyang cancel its plans. Moscow joined calls on Pyongyang to reconsider.
China, North Korea's main ally and aid provider, also noted its concern, acknowledging North Korea's right to develop its space program but urging Pyongyang to harmonize the bid with restrictions — including those set by the U.N. Security Council.
North Korea, however, may have its own reasons for launching a rocket in snowy December. The country will be marking the first anniversary on Dec. 17 of the 2011 death of Kim Jong Il.
However, international pressure and the prospect of dialogue may be a factor in the delay, analysts in Seoul said.
China must have sent a "very strong" message calling for the North to cancel the launch plans, said analyst Baek Seung-joo of the South Korean state-run Korea Institute for Defense Analyses.
North Korea may also be holding off if the U.S., its longtime Korean War foe, actively engages Pyongyang in dialogue, said Koh Yu-hwan, a professor of North Korean studies at Seoul's Dongguk University.
Associated Press writer Mari Yamaguchi contributed to this report from Tokyo.


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The latest Latina to shine on "American Idol" immediately charmed the hearts of the judges.
Isabel Gonzalez got the surprise of her life with her unconventional audition on Season 12 of the reality competition show.
The 16-year-old Apharetta, Ga., high school student was nominated by her aunt, Bernie Haberman, because she knew her niece would dominate the competition.
"She has an amazing voice but she'd be too nervous to go alone," Haberman said. "If you give her that little push she can rise to the occasion."
Judge Randy Jackson surprised Gonzalez at her high school and told her to "come in front of us and sing."
The opportunity was a dream for Gonzalez, whom told the judges she would happily ditch high school for Hollywood.
Gonzalez floored the judges with her performance of Sam Cooke's "Nothing Can Change This Love."
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Mariah Carey echoed the sentiments of her fellow judge, and rumored foe, telling Gonzalez, "People are going to fall in with love you because you are a star!"
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The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) hosted its 2007 New Faculty Workshop at the College Park, Maryland Headquarters from Monday, June 25, through Wednesday, June 27, 2007. Each year, the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), in conjunction with the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the American Physical Society (APS), holds a workshop for new physics and astronomy faculty members at the American Center for Physics. Now in its 12th year, this conference helps new faculty understand how students learn physics and astronomy and suggests how this information can impact a new professor's teaching methods. The workshop is intended for faculty in the first few years of their initial tenure-track appointment at a four-year college or university.
"It's a great way to get updated on the latest techniques and practices in physics education," said Charles Sukenik of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. "It's a good introduction to new teaching methods."
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The state asked a federal judge in Honolulu Tuesday for permission to challenge the third iteration of the president's travel ban, scheduled to go into effect Oct. 17.
Hawaii said the latest ban, like its precursors, is unconstitutional. It will also impair the state's tourism industry, prevent the University of Hawaii from recruiting qualified individuals and undermine its refugee resettlement program.
The revised policy, issued Sept. 24, limits or bans entry into the US from eight countries: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Chad, North Korea and Venezuela. It supersedes a ban that had affected six mostly Muslim countries and is indefinite, while the second travel ban was for 90 days.
Hawaii is challenging the president's "continuing efforts to impose a sweeping policy banning the entry of refugees and nationals of Muslim-majority countries," according to the proposed amended complaint, which seeks to block the executive order from taking effect.
The second version of the ban had reached the Supreme Court after lower courts mostly blocked the president's orders. The high court dropped the travel-ban hearing it had scheduled for Oct. 10 but hasn't decided what to do with the underlying case.
While the Trump administration told the high court last week that it should dismiss the pending case, challengers urged the justices to review the policies, even while saying they may prefer to let lower courts hear arguments on the new order.
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Suspected radical Islamic militants fired a series of mortar shells early Monday on the northern Malian town of Gao, residents said, marking the first such attack in months after the French-led military operation drove the jihadists from power.
At least five mortar shells hit the town around 6:30 a.m., said Hubert de Quievrecourt, a spokesman for the French-led Operation Serval. A Malian soldier was seriously wounded in the violence, and six other people suffered injuries, residents said.
Quievrecourt declined to speculate on who may have been responsible, though suspicion immediately fell on the remnants of the al-Qaida-linked group that controlled Gao until late January.
MUJAO, or the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in and around Gao since their ouster. The area, though, has been relatively calm since late March when a dozen fighters entered the city and clashes left four civilians dead.
A Malian soldier was severely wounded in attack and remained in a coma after suffering shrapnel wounds to his head, said Dr. Dounake Diarra, the head of Gao's hospital.
Six other people suffered injuries from the attack, said local journalist Malik Alousseine.
"We know that the radical Islamic militants are not far and we know that they are not giving up," he said. "We are really worried especially with legislative elections coming up."
Resident Amadou Fall said Monday that people were fearful of renewed violence and angry that militants had been able to once again attack even with the presence of Malian and French forces on the ground.
"There lacks a will to protect the population here," he said several hours after the mortar shells fell. "We are not proud of our military."
The al-Qaida-linked jihadists seized control of Gao and other northern Malian cities in April 2012 and instituted their brutal interpretation of Islamic law known as Shariah. MUJAO meted out amputations as punishments for theft, and publicly whipped people for infractions ranging from smoking cigarettes to women going out in public without a veil.
Gao was liberated in late January by French-led forces, though the militants then sought refuge in nearby villages from where they attempted to launch a series of attacks.
Timbuktu, another northern provincial capital, also has come under siege in recent weeks. A suicide car bombing attack in late September killed two civilians and wounded seven others there.
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Scope and Contents: The Clifford and Jo Swanlund papers (1943-2002; 2 cubic feet) document the lives and careers of Cliff Swanlund and Jo Carty Swanlund. The collection contains an extensive number of letters written by Cliff and Jo from the beginning of their relationship through the early years of their marriage. It also contains many letters written by Cliff's parents to him, while he was a student at Purdue University. The correspondence gives one a unique perspective not only on the family itself, but on outside events which occurred during this time period. The letters are a wonderful memorial to the love and devotion this couple shared throughout their lives. Some of the letters are in poor condition, due to aging of the paper. The photographs also give a glimpse into Purdue life at this time. Some of the photographs are in poor condition, but one can view the subjects. Besides the strong collection of letters, some photographs and albums, there are other ephemera and miscellaneous items related to the Swanlund's lives, such as an autobiography written about the Swanlund family, plus "My Story" written by Clifford A. Swanlund, Jr. The collection consists of four boxes, which are in the order received and the contents are in chronological order, for the most part.
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Box 1: Correspondence and Albums, 1943-1954
Box 2: Wedding Album, 1953
Box 3: Albums, Autobiography and Miscellaneous, 1949-2002
Box 4: Three Photo Albums, 1920s-1955
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Hampton man dies in Route 101 rollover
October 27. 2013 11:14PM
EXETER — State police say a Hampton man was killed in a rollover accident on Route 101 in Exeter early Sunday morning.
State police say at 4:33 a.m. on Sunday, troopers from New Hampshire State Police Troop A responded to a report of a single vehicle motor vehicle accident on Route 101 westbound in Exeter, near the Brentwood town line.Police say the vehicle, a 2006 Nissan Sentra, left the road and rolled over, trapping the driver inside. The driver, identified as Christopher Poulin, 28, of Hampton, was sole occupant of the Sentra and suffered fatal injuries.
The cause of the crash is under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call Trooper Haden Wilber at NH State Police Troop A at 223-8490.


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Biogeochemical Processes Controlling the Mobility of Uranium in Contaminated Subsurface Environments
Speaker: Daniel Giammar, Washington University, St. Louis and Visiting Professor, CEE/Andlinger Center
Series: CEE Departmental Seminars
Location: Friend Center Auditorium 101
Date/Time: Thursday, March 28, 2013, 12:30:00 p.m. - 02:00:00 p.m.
Past activities associated with the mining, processing, and disposal of nuclear materials have left a legacy of uranium-contaminated soil and groundwater. Remediation of contaminated environments can be achieved by removal and off-site disposal of contaminated media, but in situ immobilization of the uranium can also provide long-term management of contaminated sites. Two potential strategies for in situ remediation are (1) stimulation of natural microbial communities to mediate the reduction of the more mobile U(VI) state to less mobile U(IV) species such as UO2 and (2) addition of phosphate to promote immobilization of U(VI) in precipitated and strongly adsorbed species. The structure and stability of biologically produced UO2 as well as a chemically-synthesized analog have been investigated using an array of techniques over a wide range of conditions. The long-term stability of bioremediation strategies can be influenced by the structure of the solid and the specific site conditions. Dissolution rates of UO2 have been examined as a function of chemical conditions that include dissolved oxygen, pH, dissolved inorganic carbon, and common cation concentrations. The impact of diffusive transport limitations on the longevity of UO2 in oxic environments has also been examined. The addition of phosphate can induce U(VI) immobilization through both enhanced adsorption and precipitation. Experiments, equilibrium speciation modeling, and direct solid phase characterization have identified regimes over which different U(VI)-phosphate interactions control the mobility of U(VI).


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About Gil Elvgren
Considered one of the most important pin-up painters of the 20th century, Gil Elvgren created iconic images of the all-American feminine ideal. From the mid 1930s through 1972, Elvgren produced over 500 oil paintings for commercial use, including illustrations for Coca-Cola, calendars, major magazines, and advertising agencies. A protégé of Haddon Sundblom, Elvgren drew from the tradition of "pretty girl" illustrations, depicting women as sexualized and domesticated consumers of household goods and embodying the American dream of a comfortable family lifestyle. Elvgren's work influenced many other pin-up artists, including Mel Ramos and John Kacere.
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No Surprise: Cajuns Headed to Baton Rouge
For many UL fans, heading to LSU for the Baton Rouge regional was a foregone conclusion.
Today it was made official.
The Cajuns are the #2 seed in Baton Rouge, and will face Sam Houston State in their first game. Sam Houston was an at-large selection out of the Southland Conference.
Jackson State, the SWAC champion, is the #4 seed.
LSU (52-9) was awarded the #4 national seed after winning the Southeastern Conference tournament final yesterday. North Carolina, Vanderbilt and Oregon State were seeded higher than the Tigers.
The Cajuns (41-18) are the #2 seed in a regional for the first time since 2007. it's their first regional appearance since 2010 when they were the #3 seed in the Austin Regional.
Sam Houston State (37-20) was the Southland regular season champion. Jackson State (34-20) earned the automatic bid from the SWAC.
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|View Poll Results: Nanoha StrikerS - Overall series rating
|Perfect 10
|9 out of 10 : Excellent
|8 out of 10 : Very Good
|7 out of 10 : Good
|6 out of 10 : Average
|5 out of 10 : Below Average
|4 out of 10 : Poor
|3 out of 10 : Bad
|2 out of 10 : Very Bad
|1 out of 10 : Painful
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|2007-12-06, 02:14
|Link #101
Black Dragon
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: In the Netherrealm, thinking who to betray next...
I just see StrikerS and I can tellyou honestly, I was disapointed...let me see were I should start...
First of all I don't like the villan, Jail I mean... he seems more like a mad sientist taked from a Jame's Bond Movie, in the past two seasons, the "Bad guys" had they're reasons to do they're actions, Did Jail show a clear reason to be "Evil"? Personally I'm tired of those guys tath say "Arrrgh...I'm evil", they're so plane and idiot's tath you just can't belibe tath they have a part on the story, they seems more like Crazy or just Stupid add-ons. I just get tired of his stupid laugh
Second, to many changes. Nanoha pass from the inocent little girl tath makeus fall in love with hear to a too militarysed girl, the same with Fate and Hayate.
Third, from episode 1 to episode 14 is just talk, talk, talk and talk, i get bored and want's just to "click" forward.
Four, I had nothig against Subaru, Teana, Erio or Caro, but they arrival was the reason to exclude so important characters in the story? Like Arf, Yunno or Chrono? They were left in a third plan, tath was not a good idea.
Five, to many characters in to little time, from episode 15 to 26 they're launched one after another, Vivio, the 12 cyberbots, the spirits of Lutecia, Agito, Zest, Gin, the tree "brains" and many more tath I just can't remeber they're names.
Six, the so boluble story, first is concentrated in the relics and then just "BAM!!!" All is Vivio and Jail
not to mention the entyre episodes "dedicated" to the four new "stars" live and motivs, many of this wasted.
Seven, the conclution Cyberbot Nº2 , Zest and the fat guy died, it don't supose tath in Nanoha someone died, Nanoha becomes a virgin mama...(no coments), And some of the cyberbots starts to become "good guys" after the big battle when no one can belive tath they're want to be "good guys", it should be better if they had became good in another moment (for example, it should be better if Nº 10 helped Nanohato rescue Vivio, because Nº 10 doesn't like tath Vivio was trated tath way by Jail and Nº 4 but she is knocked fo by Nanoha with no more relevanse)
But well, the anime had his good things, the new stars were nice characters (Vivio is so cute!!!) and at least some characters are just as they were since the previous seasons,(Vita and Sinigum for say some), but it seems tath Nanoha creators don't realise tath a good anime must end wen people like it, not wen they're tired of it, I don't want to see Nanoha transformed into another endless Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh! And I hope tath the rumors of a four seasons are just rumors, StrikerS was good, but also no so good and I think tath Nanoha Should end in A's, so im must say...
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: 9.2
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's: 9.5
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS: 7.5
PD: I say goodbye with something curios, in Dragon Ball Z, they were androids Nº 15, 16, 17 ,18 & 19. In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Appear Cyberbots (androids in other words) Nº 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12, when Gin turns "bad" she is trated as cyberbot Nº 13, and because the cyberbots also wanted to capture Subaru, we may think tath she is Cyberbot Nº 14. 14 robots in StrikerS, and in Dragon Ball never explain wath hapened to the others 14 androids...Wath do you think? Coincidense? (Sorry for my english I'm mexican)
Last edited by Evil Rick; 2007-12-10 at 13:54. Reason: Forgot someting
|2008-01-03, 17:18
|Link #102
Mecha Hunter
Hey guys, I'm new here, lurker for a very very long time, and besides the mandatory +1 Post, I would like to give my .02 USD on this show. Now this was the first magical girl series that I have seen since Sailor Moon DIC era, and this felt very fun. Now I'll go with the problems first. This series had a lot of episodes that fell into the trap of Cadet syndrome, in which it isn't logical to dump cadets into real battle situations, so there were a large bunch of training episodes. We get a lot of Tia's best characterization from the training, however I feel that Tia could have been shown to evolve as a character with real battle Scenes.
Another problem with this show was the characterization of Hayate, but its ironic in a sense. Vita gets just a smaller bit of screen time, yet I felt I knew her better than her Meister. (Hur Hur Vita X Hayate Shota Loli).
Now the fun parts of the show were the Subaru and Gina battle. This really put me into the feeling of GaoGaiGar vs GaoFighGar. The fights in this series were fairly well done, and felt like the best from the super robot scenes, or Char's Counter-Attack.
I like moeblobs myself, so I'm all right with Vivio as a character, but having the future images o f Crown Princess Vivo, were awesome. The Loli/Shota pair of Cario and Erio were nice characters, but at times, the felt like tools to advance the Fate Mama character.
The Numbers were too little, but still felt awesome when they were in their element of combat. Tia vs the three numbers felt like some of the best solider scenes that I have scene for a while in anime.
|2008-01-05, 04:42
|Link #103
Senior Member
I just finished binge watching Nanoha >> A's >> StrikerS over the past 2 days and liked all 3 series. Nanoha and A's were very good. The sudden time skip in StrikerS was a bit weird to adapt to at first, but I really got into it quickly and enjoyed it. Though there are a few things that I felt were missing from. Chrono who I liked from the other two series, did absolutely nothing in StrikerS which was disappointing. I was also saddened to get minimal screentime from Yuuno and Lindy. Arf had about a total of 10 seconds screen time in the entire series. And wtf Zaphela... were they just too lazy to draw his human form in StrikerS? I was waiting the entire series for it and it never came .
In any case i'm hoping for a season 4, because i'm addicted .
|2008-01-08, 13:22
|Link #105
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha season one was good, a well-executed maturation of the magical-girl genre. Good animation and a focus on well-choreographed magical battles as opposed to the standard shoujo fare definitely raised season one in my estimation. Especially since Card Captor Sakura was the last magical-girl show I attempted to watch, and was totally unable to finish due to the sheer volume of horrible slice-of-life school nonsense and retarded romantic subplots. I easily give it a 7 out of 10. Definitely worth watching at least once.
Nanoha A's, however, was pure awesome, sex and metal all wrapped up into one show. I rarely rewatch the first season, but I'll pop in A's quite frequently, almost as often as I rewatch my absolute favorites (Black Lagoon and Gunslinger Girl). The story is probably one of the best in the genre (not saying a whole lot though), the animation is even better than the first one. The fight scenes were tense and kept me riveted, and the inter-character mysteries and drama kept me watching even after the dust settled. Definitely an 8.5 out of 10.
Nanoha StrikerS was... so bad I couldn't stand to finish it. I watched the first nine episodes and pronounced myself so disgusted that I deleted what I'd downloaded and swore I'd never bother with the rest. Yeah, later I finished downloading and watching it just out of curiosity and the hopes it would get better with time. It didn't.
Major bad points. Most of these have been hit on by other posters but I'll reiterate for your reading pleasure (and hopefully to save future viewers the mental anguish of having to watch this lemon).
It was too long. Like the other two seasons, it should have been thirteen episodes. There wasn't nearly enough story to fill even thirteen episodes, much less twenty-six. Hooray for stupid "training" filler and moe-blob fanservice in the form of Caro and Vivio.
The new characters were boring, underdeveloped, uninteresting, uninspired and just plain ridiculous. Magic roller blades, whoo! I knew I was in for something horrible when I first found out about Subaru's weapons. I'm not even sure roller blades even qualify AS a weapon...
The old characters were pushed to the wayside or totally forgotten about. I don't understand why the animation studio really thought it was a good idea to spend the entire second season getting Nanoha and Fate allied with the Wolkenritter, and then forgetting they ever exist.
The whole "all the old characters are adults" thing. When grown women do little dances and have transformation sequences with costumes and magic wands and things, it's kind of disturbing and wrong. The series had, like others of the genre, gotten away with all kinds of off-the-wall stuff purely because it's a magical-girl story. It threw away that free pass when it turned Nanoha into an awkward adult with an absolutely tragic hairstyle. Side-ponytails died out in the 80s, thanks. If I want to see adults in an anime I'll watch something with a more mature theme.
Vivio. Seriously. There was no reason for that; she serves no purpose other than pedo-bait. The heterochromia is actually pretty cool and I wish more characters could have that trait, but she does nothing useful other than spend the entire show as the absolute epitome of moe. Nothing but fanservice, and fanservice aimed at pedos at that.
The limiters serving no useful purpose except to promote the new characters in the viewers' estimation (oh, Nanoha and Fate are restricted so they HAVE to let the newbies fight), the fact the story isn't on Earth, the fact that every last weapon, gun, pager, cell phone and probably even their damn vibrators uses a Cartridge system now when in A's it was explicitly stated that cartridges were for special occasions, NOT ordinary daily use... the tons of random and amazingly bad plot holes.
There are dozens of other problems with the series but I'm getting hungry so I'm stopping here whilst I go obtain some lunch.
Season three gets a 3 out of 10, and the only reason it gets a 3 at all is because Reinforce Zwei totally owns my soul.
|2008-01-13, 01:18
|Link #107
Knowledge is the solution
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|2008-01-13, 23:03
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Black Dragon
Graphic Designer
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Location: In the Netherrealm, thinking who to betray next...
|2008-01-28, 22:30
|Link #109
Senior Member
New poster here who only recently discovered the AnimeSuki Forums.
The Nanoha series, taken as a whole, is amongst my five favourite animes, so it's nice to find a Nanoha fan community like this one.
As to my take on the series...
The Good
1. The series is a bit too melodramatic in its character development of Subaru and Teana (who, along with Nanoha and Fate, are the main protagonists of the series, imo), but other than that, I felt that both characters were fleshed out extremely well. The Teana emo arc of sorts was a bit annoying, but how it fits in with Teana's impressive showing near the end of the anime creates a nice personal story for Teana - going from a person who overly doubts herself to someone who overcomes long odds in dire straits. I also found Subaru and Teana to both be likeable protagonists, and their character designs were solid.
2. Jail Scaglietti. One of the few flaws of Nanoha A's, in my opinion, was the absence of a good villain who enjoyed being villainous and who had a bit of a dynamic flair. Jail added a certain character to the Nanoha series that had been largely lacking before. He's also the best mad scientist type anime villain that I've seen since Professor Tomoe in Sailor Moon.
3. Character designs. Nanoha and Fate's various character designs, and outfits, were gorgeous. The same held true for most of the cast.
4. The development of Nanoha and Fate's relationship with one another. The two had a lot of cute, nice moments in Striker S that was very charming. The exact nature of their relationship remains debateable, which may or may not be a good thing. One good thing about it, I suppose, is that both fans who perfer to think of them as just close friends (including Nanoha/Yuuno shippers, for example), and fans of a Nanoha/Fate yuri relationship, can feel comfortable and contented with how their relationship is delved into here. Still, part of me would have perfered either a confirmation, or a rejection, of the "they're actually a yuri couple" position. Personally, I tend to interpret them as a yuri couple, but the lack of any kissing makes it a bit ambiguous.
5. There are a lot of wonderful individual scenes in the anime. These include the bulk of the Nanoha vs. Vivo fight, the bulk of the Fate vs. Scaglietti fight, the villains' successful attack on TSAB's HQ and the abduction of Vivio, Vita's extremely bad ass moments in overcoming severe injuries to make a huge impact in the final battle, and countless others.
6. Quattro was an excellent no. 2 villain that you loved to hate. This made Nanoha's epic blasting scene of her that much sweeter, and wonderful.
7. A solid, realistic plot in many aspects. I didn't see many plot holes, or character inconsistencies, or plot induced stupidity, in this.
The Bad
1. The complete lack of follow-up on any "normal human" character from Nanoha or Nanoha A's. It would have been nice to have seen Nanoha talk to her parents, or her siblings, or her original two close friends from school, at least once or twice in the anime. A young woman her age should have some contact with her family, given that her family was always presented as a good one.
2. Too many characters. Nanoha Striker S was a bit too ambitious in the number of characters that it used. This led to a lot of useless scenes involving characters that would ultimately be forgotten. There's also only so many characters that the average fan will care about per anime series, and Nanoha simply tries too hard to get you to care about too many characters.
3. Other than Vita, the antagonists-turned-protagonists from Nanoha A's weren't given enough screen-time, also as a result of there simply being too many characters. Hayate and Signum never got enough chances to really cut loose. Striker S really did fail badly in following up on the lives of these key characters from Nanoha A's.
The Ugly
1. The antagonists simply weren't made powerful enough. The entire ending arc just felt way too anti-climatic and easy for the three most powerful protagonists (Fate, Nanoha, and Hayate). Jail either should have been made much more powerful on a personal level (i.e. having his own massive blasting abilities), or they should have given Jail top subordinates who genuinely were at least equal to Fate, Hayate, and Nanoha combat-wise and power-wise.
2. While the ending arc had numerous great individual scenes, the sequence and pacing of those scenes was very poor. There's no way that your main villain (in this case, Jail Scaglietti) should be soundly captured and defeated in the third last episode. Ideally, you have your main villain deliver a great cliff-hanger moment for the heroes in the second last episode, and then get defeated in dramatic fashion in the final episode. Most of the Nanoha vs. Vivio fight felt horrifically anti-climatic taken in context due to how Jail is already beat, and Hayate and Fate are not any worse for wear at all (i.e. even if Nanoha gets badly beat by Vivio, you just know that someone will be there to bail her out).
Overall, I give Nanoha Striker S 8/10. The key characters are great, many of the scenes are wonderful, the plot does make a fair deal of sense... but they just failed to give it the sort of dramatic, well-timed, ending that it deserved.
|2008-01-29, 08:55
|Link #110
Although, I don't consider Nanoha/Fate a yuri couple. I tend to think they're just very close friends. I don't find it entirely unlikely that close friends of the same sex who aren't in a relationship would sleep in the same bed. I think those scenes were a perfect opportunity to clear up any ambiguity subtlety, such as Nanoha and Fate simply sleeping a bit closer together. I've slept in the same bed as another guy before; doesn't make me gay (and I'm not). Just means there weren't enough beds in the place at the time. Aside from that, I do think the relationship development between the two was very nice, and showed how much progress Fate had made since the end of A's (A's epilogue doesn't really show you anything in that sense).
As for your second point...
That really irked me how Suzuka/Arisa and Nanoha's family were completely removed from this series. Not a mention at all. I would've thought at least one episode would be devoted to a trip "back home." In the first episode, I thought it was a little bit of foreshadowing when Subaru mentioned that despite her family being descendant of people from Earth, her father and sister had never been there. I figured that was good for a trip to Earth at some point in the series. Guess all I got were those Cherry Blossoms at the end! Really didn't seem right to totally cut out Nanoha's family and the school friends.
|2008-01-29, 10:27
|Link #111
~Night of Gales~
Join Date: Dec 2005
And hot springs... voice-only.
There's a bunch of other stuff here and there throughtout the Sound Stages basically. Some quite irrelevant, but some makes you wonder why aren't they in the anime considering how much they adds to the story, etc. Same with the manga.
Basically, they lost touch of priorities. They thought spending 10 ~13 minutes of anime screentime relating to limiters (( considering that limiters had close to zero storyline relevance )), 10 minutes talking about the Cradle's 'history' to make-believe that there is cool background depth to it (( when there is not )) among other things are better than spending an episode on 'going back home', etc.
This was basically one of the main reason StrikerS got so much heat. It's very clear on paper that it has all the elements to make up a reasonably good show despite flaws, but they butchered execution and pacing.
|2008-01-29, 14:38
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|2008-01-29, 15:53
|Link #113
Senior Member
I was never a big fan of Nanoha/Yuuno, though.
|2008-03-03, 11:39
|Link #114
Join Date: May 2006
Well congratulations people, you've convinced me to TRY going through the rest of the series.... *only got through the first 3 episodes before*
I am still very worried about all the stuff they apparently left out, and other things they wasted time on... but I'll save my final verdict for later...
(while I also never saw Nanoha and Fate as a couple, I never did like Yuuno... I think I always wanted to see Nanoha and Chrono actually, alas. You have to admit it would have been ultimately appropriate with Chrono being Fate's adoptive brother and all.)
|2008-03-17, 17:31
|Link #119
Protect the Loli
Join Date: Jan 2008
Hmm.. yeah.. I watched Strikers a couple of weeks ago and it's not as good as A's
Compared to A's , The fighting was brilliant! fast-paced and I like the the episodes a lot!
On Strikers on the other hand, I really dissappointed that there's no presence of Nanoha's family nor her friends. Also the first 13 episodes was boring.. Training, talking , training , talking , mystery, that sucks.. but then on I wholeheartedly like the rest of the episodes.
I like all the newcomers and their enemies too bad Fate, Nanoha and Hayate had less screentime and that just sucks..
The plot is so cliche but I like it though.
Overall Great Anime. Added to my top 10
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|2008-03-19, 09:07
|Link #120
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Join Date: Mar 2008
i think the worst parts was that they tryed to introduce too many characters in such a short time and that the plot was not very good. plus they skipped their high school days which i was really looking forward to see. the setting in the middle of nowhere made it really hard to relate.
Plus Jail makes the worst bad guy ever. in the first two the plot was thicker and there were no bad guys which made the story line very interesting
The storyline in the first two were way better.
HOWEVER the new barrier jakets was cool. i really liked fate's new sonic form.
i still hope there is another series, cause im kinda addicted. which the characters not too old. like a year after or something.
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