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Intercontinental The Venetian Las Vegas
Located in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, The Venetian Las Vegas features all-suite accommodations, exquisite restaurants by celebrity chefs and world-class entertainment and shopping.The Venetian is home to restaurants from celebrated chefs including Wolfgang Puck, Mario Batali, Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud, Emeril Lagasse and Buddy "Cake Boss" Valastro. The resort also features Canyon Ranch SpaClub; a five-acre pool and garden deck; TAO nightclub; and the Grand Canal Shoppes.
CHECK IN: 3PM (Early check in available)
CHECK OUT: 11AM (Late check out available)
Languages Spoken By Staff
- English
- Spanish
- Service Animals Allowed
- Guestroom Accessibility Details
- ADA Door Locks & Hardware
- Wheelchair Accessible Closets
- Wheelchair Accessible HVAC & Light Controls
- Furniture can be rearranged for added space
- Wheelchair Accessible Rooms & Routes
- Grab Bars/Adequate Maneuvering Space/Tall Toilets
- Adequate Turning Space
- Padded Plumbing/Clearance Beneath Vanity
- Elevator Accessibility Details
- All Level Elevator Access
- ADA Elevators
- Wheelchair Accessible Elevator
- Elevator Near Accessible Rooms
- Public Area Accessibility Details
- Hotel Entrance
- Registration Area
- Public Entrance to Restaurant Route: Accessible
- All Entrances/Doorways
- Public Restroom: Padded Plumbing/Vanity Clearance
- Public Restroom: Wheelchair Accessible Stalls
- Public Entrance to Exercise Facility Route: Accessible
- Wheelchair Accessible Hotel Entrance
- Wheelchair Available
- Wheelchair Accessible Public Restroom
- Restaurant Wheelchair Seating
- Public Entrance to Meeting Room/Ballroom Area Route: Accessible
- Public Facilities Accessible
- Public Entrance to Pool Route: Accessible
- Public Entrance to Business Center Route: Accessible
- Public Entrance to Spa Route: Accessible
- ADA/Wheelchair Accessible Registration Desk
- ADA/Wheelchair Accessible Concierge Desk
- ADA/Wheelchair Accessible Restaurant
- ADA/Wheelchair Accessible Exercise Facility
- ADA/Wheelchair Accessible Pool
- Parking Accessibility Details
- Accessible Self-Parking
- Van Accessible Self Parking
- Flat Terrain Between Parking/Entrance
- Wheelchair Accessible Curb Cuts/Street Parking
- Accessible Parking Spaces with Posted Signs
- Disabled/Accessible Parking
- McCarran International Airport (LAS)
- Car parking is available
- Parking Spaces/700 Spaces
- Valet parking is available
- 10 story complimentary indoor self parking garage plus limited outdoor parking for oversized vehicles in an adjacent lot. Valet is also complimentary.
This review was written in English. Translations have been provided by a third-party service.
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At InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, we offer an array of services to suit your every occasion.
The perfect choice for meetings of any size, from 5 to 55,000. The Venetian provides unmatched service and expert assistance in plannning and executing conventions, meetings, and everything in between.


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Our welded all-aluminum frames are corrosion-resistant and extremely durable. These frames require minimal maintenance and should retain their finish after years of use. The wicker will not absorb moisture, thus will not expand or contract which can result in weakening and rotting and can be cleaned with warm water and a mild detergent. The wicker has a unique coating called Durium ® Modified Polyester Enamel which is a melamine cross linked thermoset backing polyester modified with an acrylic co-polymer to enhance performance requirements such as exterior durability and chemical resistance.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is opening the door to the possibility of a resumption of White House tours for student groups amid some confusion over who made the ultimate decision to cancel them.
The decision has been much criticized by Republicans who say it should remain open to the public and some expectant visitors who were planning to see inside the White House during the spring break travel season.
Obama says in an interview with ABC News aired Wednesday that the decision to cancel the tours in the wake of budget cuts was made by the Secret Service, citing the need to furlough some employees. "This was not a decision that went up to the White House," Obama said.
That seemed to contradict his spokesman, Jay Carney, who said last week that the Secret Service presented the White House with options for cuts including canceling tours or furloughing staff, and the White House decided to suspend tours to allow the Secret Service to focus on its core mission.
Asked to clarify the confusion Wednesday, Carney said the White House had agreed with the Secret Service's evaluation that canceling the tours was the least-bad option.
"The Secret Service came to us with a decision that because of the sequester cuts, it would be impossible, in their view, to staff those tours," Carney said. "It was our job then to cancel the tours. The Secret Service cannot, because those are White House tours."
Obama told ABC he's checking with the Secret Service to see if there is a way to ease the policy.
"What I'm asking them is, are there ways, for example, for us to accommodate school groups who may have traveled here with some bake sales," Obama said. "Can we make sure that kids, potentially, can still come to tour?"
Carney added later that while officials are reviewing potential options to accommodate certain groups, a full-scale re-opening of tours wasn't on the table.
"That's not an option, because of the sequester cuts," he said.


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DANBURY, CONN. — Western Connecticut State University will host three events this month sponsored by the university's Roots & Shoots organization to celebrate Animal Week. Each event will be on the university's Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury. The events will be free and the public is invited.
• Monday, April 16, 2012 – Talons! Birds of Prey: At noon, an eagle, hawk and owl will take flight over the Midtown campus Quadrangle, as a trainer discusses each bird.
• Tuesday, April 17, 2012 – Snakes-n-Scales: At noon, reptiles will be on display in the Student Center Theater.
• Wednesday, April 18, 2012 – Wolf Conservation Demonstration: At noon, Atka, an Arctic gray wolf from the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, N.Y., will be in Alumni Hall. Atka will be accompanied by a Wolf Conservation Center staffer who will talk about wolf behavior, habitat and more.
The Roots & Shoots program at WCSU, started by primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, focuses on making positive change for people, animals and the environment.
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This just in! The Albert Wisner Public Library Foundation has announced this year's essay topic for their annual college scholarship competition. Three $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to graduating seniors who reside in the Warwick Valley School District. Read on for the details or click this link for a downloadable version: AWPL Foundation Scholarship 2014
"For the eighth consecutive year, the Albert Wisner Public Library Foundation is offering college scholarships to be awarded in a writing competition. Applicants will submit an essay, not to exceed 2,000 words in length, on the following topic: "If I were a wealthy philanthropist, how I might give to benefit my community."
Submissions will be judged on the basis of responsiveness to the topic, overall literacy and grammatical accuracy, relevance to current events and/or community concerns in the Warwick area, and other criteria as the judges think appropriate. Authors of the three essays judged to be the best of those submitted will each receive $1,000 toward the cost of college tuition, paid directly to their college.
Any high school senior who resides in the Warwick Valley Central School District is welcome to participate. The student need not be enrolled in Warwick Valley High School.
Essays are due to the Library by 5:00pm, April 19, 2014. Students should bring six (6) printed copies of the essay, together with a cover sheet showing his/her name, mailing address, phone number and email address to the Circulation Desk. The essay must not contain any information that identifies the writer; judges will not know who wrote each essay. To ensure fairness to all applicants, the April 19th deadline is firm and final.
The three scholarships will be awarded in early May by Foundation member Glenn P. Dickes and Susan D. Dickes, who have sponsored two scholarships since the competition's inception in 2007, and by Carol Hope Arber, who added a third award in 2012. Both the Foundation and Library deeply appreciate their generosity."


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xronwin is a Perl script This script writes a new or modifies an old XRONOS window file. XRONOS window files are ASCII files and contain values for the different type of windows and text. There are 4 types of windows in the XRONOS window file: * Time : consist of up to 1000 time intervals * Phase : consist of an epoch, period and up to 10 phase intervals * Intensity : consist of up to 10 intensity in bin, newbin and interval * Exposure : consist of up to 1 exposure in bin, newbin and interval When the script is invoked the following menu is displayed: [T] Change TIME Windows [P] Change PHASE Windows [I] Change INTENSITY Windows [E] Change EXPOSURE Windows [R] READ an Input file [S] SHOW All Defined Windows [C] CLEAR All Defined Windows [W] WRITE Window file [Q] QUIT Window Program [DS] Define Series Number (Currently 1) [DB] Define Bin Type (Currently Orig. Bins) [DE] Define Epoch for Phase Windows (Currently Undefined) [DP] Define Period for Phase Windows (Currently Undefined) [DW] Copy Defined Windows from Series to Series Choose an action: One of the action in square brackets should be entered. The minimun and maximum values of the Time [T], Phase [P], Intensity [I] and Exposure [E] windows must always be given in increasing order. The different types of window can be specified in any order, the script will give the correct order in the output file. An epoch [DS] and a period [DP] are required when phase windows are selected. If not given, the script displays a warning message. Intensity and Exposure windows can be specified independently for (i) Bins , (ii) New Bins , (iii) Intervals (XRONOS basic time entities), using the option [DB]. When dealing with more than one time series, Intensity and Exposure windows must be specified separately for each series, using the option [DS] and/or using [DW] to copy the current exposure and or intensity window from one time series to another. To read an existent XRONOS window file use the the option [R]. Input files are cumulative therefore many existent XRONOS window files can be read in (via the [R] option) and further modified. All the windows read in, for each type, are added (up to the maximun value allowed) with exception of the Exposure windows for which only the last read or set is accepted. Checking for overlapping windows is done only within the Change options (e.g. [T], [P], [I], [E]). It is therefore recommended, after reading many existing files, that users to check for conflicts (and corrections) using the above options. Entering [S] gives an overview of the current defined windows and after the selection is completed the option [W] writes the XRONOS window file. The values for the phase window range from 0 to 1. Exposure windows consist of a minimum and a maximum exposure level. Units are such that 1 means 100% exposure. The default values for the minimun exposure window in bin, newbin and interval are set to 0. Three formats for time are available to enter time windows: 1. day - enter one number (e.g. 123.524268391) 2. day sec - enter two numbers, the 2nd must contain a decimal point. (e.g. 123 45296.789) 3. day hr min sec msec - enter up to 5 numbers, the 5th may contain a decimal point. (e.g. 123 12 34 56 789) The same rules apply for entering the Epoch for phase windows. Note that time windows and epoch values should be compatible with how XRONOS reconstructs the time. The time used within XRONOS tasks is Truncated Julian Days (TJD=JD-2440000.5) if either (1) the keyword MJDREF is present in the header of the files or (2) if the TIMESYS value is one of the following strings MJD or JD or TJD. If neither (1) or (2) are true, the times are given in days relative to the value found in the TIME column." COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS (all are optional) -h See this message. -i infile Name of the input window file. You may specify a window file containing some starting values that you wish to modify or add to. If you don't specify one, you will get the default values. -o outfile Output window file name. -v Verbose mode.
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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union governments want to shift the cost of rescuing troubled banks from taxpayers to the banks' creditors — including the holders of large deposits— as part the region's plan to shore up its shaky financial system.
Finance ministers from the 27-country bloc meeting in Brussels on Tuesday sought to hammer out the new rules on how to fund bank rescues but their discussions showed that they were still far apart from agreeing the technicalities underpinning the project to build a Europe-wide banking union. That plan is key to strengthening the financial sector and avoid a repeat of the crisis.
"This is at the moment the biggest project for Europe," said Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem.
"It's absolutely important to get it right."
The bloc should move swiftly and get all elements of the banking union running by 2015, well before the initial deadline of 2018, added Dijsselbloem, who also chairs the meetings of the 17-country eurozone's finance ministers.
Tuesday's meeting focused on establishing a hierarchy of which bank creditors have to take losses in case the bank needs rescuing — to be involved in a "bail-in". The ministers mostly agreed that banks' shareholders and capital must take the first hit. After that, the pecking order becomes less clear, with junior and senior bondholders and, ultimately, all the banks' clients on the line.
Most ministers said holders of deposits of over 100,000 euros ($130,000) — the EU's deposit insurance ceiling — could be forced to suffer losses as a last resort, said Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan. Deposits below 100,000 euros, in turn, are "sacrosanct" and will always be protected, he added.
While making large depositors take a hit would help limit the losses borne by other classes of creditors, some ministers expressed worries it could jeopardize financial stability and scare off savers.
The issue has become important since the bailout for Cyprus, agreed on in March, inflicted losses on deposits over 100,000 euros at the country's two biggest banks. An initial proposal was to have all deposits suffer losses. The proposal, although quickly rejected, raised concerns and confusion across Europe on how bank creditors would be treated in future bank rescues.
The European Central Bank and EU officials have since called for the establishment of clear rules on the matter so that investors can gauge their risk beforehand.
Dijsselbloem, Britain's George Osborne and others also argued that — in addition to existing capital requirements — bigger banks should be forced to hold a certain amount of investments that can be used to pay for potential rescue operations.
The ECB, which is set to become the supervisor of the bloc's banks, said it will push hard for a swift agreement on all elements of the bloc's banking union, including a central authority with the power to rescue or unwind ailing banks.
The establishment of the banking union will get credit flowing again to some of the eurozone's troubled nations, helping to "kickstart growth and employment," said ECB executive board member Joerg Asmussen.
But Germany, Europe's biggest economy, was at odds with Asmussen's comments. It argues that the creation of some parts of the banking union will require changes to the EU's treaties, which is a cumbersome and time-consuming procedure.
The finance ministers also sought to push ahead on two fronts in the fight against tax evasion, but could only secure agreement on one initiative due to a fight-back from two of its members.
Austria and Luxembourg, both of which are renowned for their culture of banking secrecy, dodged a long-delayed initiative to automatically exchange banking information between all EU countries so that interest income can be properly taxed.
The EU's Tax Commissioner Algirdas Semeta expressed "great disappointment," but said the issue will now be taken up by a summit of the EU's 27 heads of state and government next week.
"Let's hope that what our leaders agree at the summit next week is more like a giant leap," he said.
The two holdouts defended their decision, saying it was necessary to agree on an international level playing field rather than just an EU agreement.
The finance ministers, however, agreed on one step to fight tax evasion that Luxembourg and Austria had also held up in the past.
They agreed to direct the European Commission, the EU's executive branch, to begin talks on an automatic exchange of banking information with five small countries that aren't EU members — Switzerland, Andorra, San Marino, Monaco and Lichtenstein. The deal would ensure EU citizens can no longer hide capital gains made there from tax authorities at home.
"I hope all these countries will be ready to start negotiations very quickly and that these negotiations won't take long," Semeta said.
An agreement was also reached agreement on an amended budget for 2013.
The Commission said there was a shortfall of about 11 billion euros in its 130 billion euro budget, resulting mainly from unpaid bills from last year. A majority of ministers decided to propose an amendment to the budget to cover 7.3 billion euros, Noonan said.
EU Budget Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski, however, insisted that member states will have to fund the remaining 4 billion euros later this year.
Britain led the minority front opposing the amended budget altogether. Osborne said it was impossible to explain to citizens why the nation states are pushing through budget cuts and other austerity measures while the EU is getting increases.
The decision to amend the budget is significant since the European Parliament had made it a precondition for reaching agreement on the EU's long-term 1-trillion-euro budget, which covers the years 2014 through 2020.
Don Melvin in Brussels contributed reporting.
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Inventories in the U.S. rose in January by the most since May 2011 as companies replenished warehouses and shelves amid signs demand will pick up.
The 1 percent increase in goods on hand exceeded the highest forecast in a Bloomberg survey and followed a 0.3% gain in December that was more than previously estimated, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. The median estimate was for a 0.5 percent advance.
Businesses are restocking after a cutback in the pace of inventory building in the fourth quarter that weighed on economic growth. Progress in the labor market is sustaining consumer spending as companies invest in new equipment, a sign factory orders may pick up.
"As evidence grew that consumer demand had momentum, businesses had to catch up again" after the slowdown in inventory growth at the end of 2013, Sam Coffin, an economist for UBS Securities LLC in Stamford, Connecticut, said before the report. "Household spending has been moving along at a decent clip." UBS is the top forecaster of business inventories for the past two years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The Bloomberg survey median was based on forecasts from 47 economists. Estimates ranged from gains of 0.2% to 0.8% after a previously reported 0.1% gain in December.
Another report from the Commerce Department today showed retail sales climbed in February by the most in five months, boosted by purchases of motor vehicles and more expensive gasoline. The 1.1% advance in retail purchases exceeded all projections in a Bloomberg survey and followed a revised 0.2% gain in January. The median forecast was for a 0.5% advance.
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At the January sales pace, businesses had enough goods on hand to last 1.29 months, up from 1.28 months in the prior month and the highest since August.
Business sales dropped 0.3% in January, reflecting declines at factories and wholesalers. Purchases at retailers advanced 0.3% in January after a 0.4% gain the prior month.
Retailer inventories, the only part of today's report not previously released, increased 1.5% in January, the most since May 2006. Retail stockpiles excluding unsold motor vehicles rose 1.3%, the most since August 1995.
Wholesale Inventories
Wholesale inventories, which account for about 30% of all business stockpiles, jumped 1.2% in January, the biggest in more than a year, the Commerce Department reported last week. Factory inventories, which comprise about 38% of the total, increased 0.5% in January, the Commerce Department said March 6.
The rebuilding of stockpiles may help gross domestic product rebound after a fourth-quarter slowdown subtracted 1.55 percentage points from growth.
The world's largest economy grew at a 0.1% annual rate from October through December as military spending dropped by the most since the Vietnam War era, Commerce Department figures showed Feb. 28. A final revised reading is scheduled for release March 28.
Texas Instruments Inc. of Dallas, the largest maker of analog chips, said its thousands of electronics industry customers have been keeping a lid on supplies.
"Our sense is that the customers are still running pretty lean on the inventory front," Vice President Ron Slaymaker said on a March 7 conference call. "They're not committing to a lot of extended backlog."
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A New York Jets jersey. Orange soccer cones. A pair of Mizuno cleats. A blue Cub Scouts shirt and an orange bandanna. An oversized canary yellow basketball T-shirt. A gi for karate, the iron-on lettering peeling off the back of the jacket. A detailed sketch of a dragon, each scale a small "U" in red ink.
My son Jackson's closet is an extracurricular graveyard; a cluttered purgatory for the Ghosts of Activities Past. But my wife and I don't mind it (or at least I don't). I want my kids to experience a lot of different things, then decide what they want to focus on. Whatever they want to try—basketball, art lessons, Cub Scouts—I'm for it.
That free-spirited, unyielding support was tested—or should I say exposed as fraudulent—a few weeks ago. One evening, we asked Jackson what sport he wanted to play this year. "Um," he said thoughtfully, "I think I'd like to do football." He played flag football in the spring, and enjoyed it. His coach encouraged us to sign Jackson up for his team in the fall. Now it's fall. This would be a no-brainer except for one thing: In this league, they wear pads. That means tackling. That means testing Newton's third law of motion with children who are still attempting to own their unsteady, doe-like bodies. I'm not okay with that. (A fellow Parenting blogger has her own take on letting her son play football.)
"Okay, we'll look into it," I replied. But that was a lie. The truth is since that conversation, I've pretended we never spoke about it. I haven't mentioned football again, and neither has he. I'm hoping he doesn't remember.
As a society, we're kinda just figuring out that little kids running into each other at full speed wearing ill-fitting equipment is a really bad idea. In 2005, the number of children who visited emergency rooms for treatment of concussions was more than twice what it had been in 1997, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics. Something tells me the soaring popularity of youth football—more than 3 million kids play youth football every year; between 1991 to 2012, participation in Pop Warner football has more than doubled, from 135,000 to 285,000—has something to do with it.
Before May 2009, signing up an 8-year-old for tackle football was as easy as going through airport security in 1991. Today, there are laws that build in a layer of awareness and protection. Roughly three years ago, Washington became the first state to pass the Zackery Lystedt law, which requires that schools develop educational guidelines for athletes, coaches, and parents, and that parents and athletes sign a consent form acknowledging the dangers of concussions before participation in sports. Today, 39 states have signed Lystedt laws, or laws like it. Curiously, that leaves 11 states that aren't protecting and educating young athletes or their parents. Hey moms and dads in Michigan, Tennessee, West Virginia, Ohio, Georgia, Nevada, Arkansas, Mississippi, Montana, Wyoming, or South Carolina: It's time you met Zackery Lystedt, the kid who suffered multiple concussions in one junior high football game and ended up with severe brain trauma. He was unable to move for one year; he had to learn to speak and eat all over again. Zackery is now approaching his 21st birthday. He recently got out of his wheelchair to take a few steps to the dinner table. Those were his first steps since that fatefull football game in 2006.
Here's the biggest problem: Our youngest athletes are just that: our youngest athletes. They're not physically developed. Their skulls are not fully formed, which makes violent impact even more dangerous. Issues like memory problems and a reduction in blood flow to the brain can last for months, even years, after a concussion or sports-related brain injury.
Coincidentally, the same week Jackson told us about his interest in playing football, I was invited to a press event hosted by the NFL. The topic: Youth football safety. The fact sheets distributed that day pointed out that bike accidents and playground mishaps are the two leading causes of concussions in children, which is true, but comes off as a deflection. But overall, the NFL deserves kudos for trying to make this violent sport safer: Improving the quality of helmets and equipment; educating athletic trainers and coaches on the sometimes-sly symptoms of concussions; lobbying for those last 11 states to sign Lystedt laws. (To see how far player safety has come, visit nflevolution.com.)
Jackson has not mentioned football again. I'm not surprised. Between girls and birthday parties and spelling and math (his two favorite subjects), he's enraptured with second grade and all its trimmings. But perhaps one Sunday, when an NFL game is on TV, as well-compensated human missiles running at 18 miles per hour collide with each other, he'll ask once again about playing football. I'll tell him he can play in a few years, when he's stronger and more grown up. Time will tell if I'm guilty of telling my son another lie.


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|2012-11-16, 19:30
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Just... disturbed.
Join Date: Dec 2009
Another possible theory:
Weissman created Shiro as a puppet and possessed him to kill Tatara -> Shiro absorbs Tatara's personality after his death? -> Weissman kicks him off for sheer epic lulz -> Tatara!Shiro loses his memories -> Now HOMRA wants to kill him thinking he killed Tatara. ANGSTANGSTANGST
|2012-11-16, 19:41
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Why do people want Shiro to be Tatara anyway? Besides, if anything, it's Anna who overlaps with Tatara in the OP, plus, so far she's the only one with psychic powers... and I bet she serves a purpose in the story.
|2012-11-16, 19:43
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Another thought occurred to me - who's to say that the entire power display was thanks to Neko's illusions? While it's rather clear that Shiro disappearing at the end was thanks to Neko(accompanied with her signature 'nya' and pink aura), there was no hint of Neko's powers at work when Shiro actually manifested that sword and used telepathy to communicate with Kuroh. Every time we've seen Neko use her powers so far, the audience gets a pretty obvious visual and audio cue to indicate it, but nothing of the sort happened during Shiro's confrontation with the blue king.
As others have mentioned, the power surge was a little bit too 'solid' for just an illusion, especially for how long it lasted(the slasher smile cat took only one hit before it disappeared - and that was only from a sword sheath, and not a king's aura). Moreover, Reishi knew about Neko's powers of illusion and could effortlessly dissipate them - even taking into account the surprise factor, there's probably /something/ in that scene that wasn't just purely illusion.
Other hints: Shiro specifically didn't bring up the sword display as an example when he praised Neko for being amazing("The sky suddenly cleared up, and all those people appeared!"), despite the fact that it was an impressive display. I could even go as far as to say that he relied on Neko's power to escape precisely because he wants to trick all parties involved(the blue clan, Kuroh, and even us) into believing that the entire display was 'just another of Neko's illusions'...Shiro has been displaying some magnificent bastard tendencies from the very beginning, so I wouldn't put it past him.
That also brings up the possibility that Shiro's had supernatural powers all along, but never saw it in the context of the whole kings/clansmen business because of his amnesia - and that possibly also explains why he was able to remain as calm as he did in the face of the HOMRA members wielding their powers to kill him. When Kuroh was explaining the whole system of kings and clans to him, Shiro doesn't seem to be surprised at the concept of supernatural powers at all.
On a slightly related note, I like the theory that Neko first got her powers when Shiro fell through the roof. After all, if she had memory/sensory manipulation powers before she met Shiro, she would've probably had an incredibly easy time blending in with the students and getting food for herself. However, that doesn't seem to be the case, judging from her flashbacks where she generally shied away from humans and got chased down by the chef for stealing fish. I'd lean more towards her being a cat in the first place that got powers from being Shiro's 'clansman', but the fact that she seemingly 'reverted' to human form when Munakata destroyed her illusion was quite mystifying, especially when she seemed as surprised as anyone else when she first turned to human form in episode 2.
Also, Shiro's really good at holding on to his parasol, no matter the circumstances, huh...
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|2012-11-16, 20:26
|Link #1145
Just... disturbed.
Join Date: Dec 2009
Hmm, I think I'll relook at some of my earlier theories which I had from Episode 2-3:
1) Adolf is Shiro from the future, an alternate dimension, possibility, etc. I actually like this theory - because I really hope that Adolf isn't just some kind of "Designated Villain" kind of gimmick. It'll seem like such a cop-out.
2) Split personality is starting to seem unlikely at this point. Thank goodness.
3) Shiro erasing his own memories is pretty much jossed. This episode pretty much confirms that Adolf was the one who did it.
4) Amnesia, fake memories confirmed - but it wasn't done by someone "evil", as this episode kind of confirms that Neko really had no intentions went beyond purely meaning well for Shiro.
5) I still think Ashinaka High is the lair of the Green King. The main suspect being the president of the student council.
6) I'm not sure if anyone's asked this but - there are 7 kings right? We have Red, Blue, Green, Silver, Gold, Colorless - what about the last one? There should be some kind of significance, right?
|2012-11-16, 20:43
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Yeah, the telepathy is Shiro's.....was it not mentioned in earlier ep that the power of the Colorless was to see the future? Wouldn't be surprising for that to be a psychic, mind-related ability.
|2012-11-16, 21:11
|Link #1150
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Join Date: Oct 2012
That sword is not normal, this can kill a king (then maybe a hit is enough to destroy the illusion). Also, I think Reisi does not attack with all his might (not active his sword).
I do not think we've seen Shiro skills yet.
|2012-11-16, 22:06
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Anyways, if you need another hint of how Neko wasn't responsible for the entire thing, recall when she first cast her illusion of the Shibuya crossroads over the gym. All the SCEPTER4 troops inside the gym were affected, but Fushimi was in a location outside her range of influence. However, when Shiro manifested the sword, it was clear that even Fushimi saw it and was surprised by it.
|2012-11-16, 22:17
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|2012-11-16, 22:49
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|2012-11-16, 22:55
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Maybe Neko is not fully responsible for the sword. Although I'm surprised that Kuro has not mentioned anything about it.
|2012-11-16, 23:01
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Just... disturbed.
Join Date: Dec 2009
1) Neko expanded her sphere of influence this time beyond just the stadium.
2) What Fushimi did was gasp in horror - he wasn't necessarily surprised. He could very well be shocked to see that everyone was falling for the trick but he realizes that he is too late to warn them.
|2012-11-16, 23:08
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Shiro 'disappearing' is definitely the work of Neko, but she could've done that easily by manipulating the senses of the people in the gym so that they are no longer able to perceive Shiro, instead of Shiro never being there in the first place.
And Neko did indeed save their lives - she orchestrated the first illusion with the Shibuya crossroad and assisted Shiro in saving Kuroh. Shiro manifesting the sword of damocles through his own power doesn't invalidate how much Neko contributed to saving them.
Anyways, with the amount of information we have right now, there will always be room for argument. Yet the writers of K have demonstrated their capability in weaving an intriguing mystery, padding it with enough hints and foreshadowing that no reveal comes off as an ass-pull. Kukuri's line in the 1st episode concerning Shiro foreshadowing that 'Isana Yashiro' doesn't exist, the cleaning robot's failure to recognize Shiro as well as his nonexistent PDA indicating that he wasn't a registered student, his zipped up jacket hiding the blood stains on his shirt...I just feel like all the hints in this episode(specifically showing that Fushimi was out of Neko's illusion range and then showing his shocked response at Shiro's sword of damocles, the lack of visual/audio cues that indicate Neko's powers at work, Shiro conveniently only praising Neko for the Shibuya illusion - which she did orchestrate) point to Shiro actually having a greater hand in what occurred in the stadium.
Just my 2 cents.
2. Fushimi was outside the SCEPTER4 van and looking upwards at the sword. There was no way he could see what was happening with the people inside the stadium from that vantage point. If he was gasping at a screen inside the van, then perhaps, but as it stands it feels like a convoluted explanation when we could just say that he was gaping at the sword, regardless of whether it's an illusion or not.
|2012-11-16, 23:14
|Link #1158
Just... disturbed.
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So I guess if Shiro really created that sword, then - the Sword of Damocles is currently, truly, with him then?
|2012-11-16, 23:32
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Join Date: Aug 2007
I think it's pretty likely that Shiro is hiding something from everyone - including us - though I trust that he is a kind-hearted guy by nature and truly amnesiac. But well, his tendency to lie and competence at lying have been apparent ever since he made up that story about his little sister. Which also happens to be a call-back...call-forth...to how he made up his own name in a spur of the moment thing by looking at a poster. Gotta love how much detail the writers put into this show.
As viewers, we have very little idea of what exactly the sword of damocles is, except that it seems to be the manifestation of a king's power. I wouldn't be surprised if Shiro has always had it - or it has been somehow suppressed till this point for some reason. Someone did jokingly theorize that the sword of damocles is his parasol though, since it was conspicuously offscreen when the sword appeared.
|2012-11-17, 00:07
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I suppose we won't know for sure until we have more info but for now my point stands.
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Daniel Day-Lewis Credits Leonardo DiCaprio in SAG Awards Acceptance Speech
Leonardo DiCaprio hangs out on set while filming a commercial for Jack Daniels on Sunday (January 27) in Malibu, Calif.
The 38-year-old actor bounced a ball of ice up and down as part of the shoot!
That evening, Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo's Gangs of New York co-star, mentioned him in his Best Actor Lincoln acceptance speech at the 2013 SAG Awards.
"I'd like to thank Leonardo DiCaprio, my friend, and Liam Neeson – both gave me great support and encouragement," Daniel said to the viewers.
Check out Daniel's speech below where he mention's his pal Leo!


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The Compaq Presario CQ60-615DX follows the tried-and-true budget laptop formula, supplying an Intel Celeron processor, 2GB of RAM, integrated Intel graphics, a 250GB hard drive, and a 15.6-inch display for a bargain basement price. In fact, this $349 laptop features the same core specs as the Toshiba Satellite L455-S5975, which sold for $330 when we reviewed it last fall. We're not thrilled with paying more for basically the same laptop three months later, but we still think this Presario is a good value, in large part for its solid construction, comfortable keyboard, and roomy display. We recommend it more than the much slower and slightly cheaper Acer Aspire AS5532-5535.
If the cramped keyboards and small screens have kept you from picking up an inexpensive Netbook , then you should give the Compaq Presario CQ60-615DX a look. Like Netbooks, the Presario CQ60-615DX uses a single-core processor, which limits application performance, particularly when multitasking. However, for basic tasks it offers smooth performance. Note that laptops with dual-core CPUs, including the Asus K60I-RBBBR05, the Dell Inspiron i1545-4266iBU, or the Toshiba Satellite L505-ES5018, cost $150 to $170 more and offer significantly better performance.
The Compaq Presario CQ60-615DX doesn't look or feel like a low-end laptop. It has an overall polished look with a glossy lid with a simple Q logo in its middle, a matte black screen bezel, and a silver wrist rest. A long, sturdy hinge runs nearly the width of the laptop to hold the display in place without much wobble. The keyboard feels spacious, even with a dedicated number pad to its right. The keys have a matte finish and have just the right amount of travel. The recessed touchpad has the same glossy finish as the rest of the wrist rest, but it's not the high-gloss finish common to HP's Pavilion laptops, so your mousing finger doesn't experience the same annoying drag on the glimmering Pavilion models. The Presario's mouse buttons, however, are a tad on the stiff side.
The laptop weighs 6.2 pounds, slightly heavy for a 15.6-inch laptop. Most laptops of this size weigh between 5.5 and 6 pounds. The 15.6-inch display has a 16:9 aspect ratio, 1,366×768-pixel native resolution. The screen is bright and crisp. With its resolution, the screen can display 720p video. Its Intel GMA 4500M graphics were able to deliver a smooth video experience.
The Presario CQ60-615DX features Altec Lansing stereo speakers, and we were mildly impressed with their output. They are loud and clear enough at max volume to hear movie dialog, but like nearly every laptop speaker set, they lack the depth to deliver satisfying music playback. Still, they are clearly superior to the tinny speakers of the Acer Aspire AS5532-5535.
Not surprisingly, the Presario CQ60-615DX lacks higher-end–though increasingly common–connections such as HDMI, eSATA ports, and an ExpressCard slot. We were surprised to find a media card reader absent, too; the cheaper Acer Aspire AS5532-5535 features this convenient slot. However, neither system have a Webcam. The Presario does supply an always-appreciated Wi-Fi on/off button, along with another that disables the touch pad. Lastly, some entry-level laptops cut a corner by using 802.11g Wi-Fi, but the CQ60-615DX has wireless N support.
The Compaq Presario CQ60-615DX is based on the single-core Intel Celeron 900 processor clocked at 2.2GHz. That speed helped it outpace the Acer Aspire AS5532-5535, which uses a single-core AMD Athlon 64 QL-62 processor clocked at 1.6GHz. Also in the Celeron's favor is its 1MB of L2 cache; the Athlon 64 QL-62 has only 512KB. The Acer Aspire does feature 3GB of DDR2 memory to the Presario's 2GB, but the extra gigabyte of memory didn't help the Acer's cause in our tests. The Presario completed CNET Labs' multitasking test in nearly half the time the Acer Aspire took, and it was 32 percent and 47 percent faster than the Acer on our Photoshop and iTunes benchmarks, respectively.
Looking the other way, the dual-core Toshiba Satellite L505-ES5018 costs $150 more than the Compaq Presario CQ60-615DX and was 58 percent faster than the Presario on the multitasking test, 41 percent faster with Photoshop, and 22 percent faster with iTunes. In anecdotal testing, we found that the Presario CQ60-615DX provided acceptable performance when writing this review in Word while researching the budget laptop playing field in Firefox. Generally, when running basic apps in Windows 7, the system feels peppy and responsive. It's only when you begin running more intensive, multithreaded software like Photoshop that you notice some sluggishness.


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According to Boone and Crockett scoring rules, the Johnny King Buck could easily be the deer hunting world record white tail!
That is the opinion, anyway, of one longtime deer antler scoring expert.
In an exclusive video obtained this morning by Deer & Deer Hunting, certified antler measurer Marlin Laidlaw examines the rack and, in meticulous detail, explains why it should be scored as a typical. Laidlaw is one of Wisconsin's most experienced antler scorers. He has measured deer heads for more than 30 years.
In this 8-plus-minute video, Laidlaw explains the rules that pertain to typical-racked white-tailed deer. He also shows how the buck's right G-3 satisfies all of the requirements listed in the popular scoring rules used by clubs like Boone and Crockett and Pope and Young. Laidlaw is clear that these are his personal opinions, not those of any of the clubs he is affiliated with.
In talking about the rack's matching G-3s, Laidlaw states, "If you look at both of them, they both come off the top of the main beam(s). You can see real easily when you look down, that there's beam material on both sides."
The video also shows the precise measurement lines of the main beams, circumferences and tines lengths.
"You have a pair of points, and they actually mirror each other," Laidlaw said. "They look a lot alike; this one (the right side) is a little smaller (shorter), but other than that, this appears to be a typical 6-by-6 frame."
Laidlaw has been an antler scorer for many years, and has measured hundreds of record-class deer.
"As I learned more about it, I actually struggled sleeping," Laidlaw told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel last year. "I would lay awake and say, 'How could something like this have happened?' "
Johnny King killed the giant 12-pointer in Grant County, Wis., in 2006.
B&C, which has not responded to interview requests by D&DH, has steadfastly stood by the opinions of its former records director to not review the buck. The King Buck has not been officially scored or submitted for entry to B&C. Furthermore, the Wisconsin Buck & Bear Club has not requested a panel score on this deer. As reported previously on deeranddeerhunting.com, much of this controversy apparently stems from the fact that antler scorers from the state have been pressured to ignore the buck or risk their membership in official scoring programs.
This newly released video comes on the heels of developments last week, where B&C fired two of its longtime measurers for their continued insistence that the buck should be reviewed.
Deer & Deer Hunting broke Duncan Dobie's story behind the controversy last year.
D&DH talked with several official antler scorers while at the Madison Deer Expo in Wisconsin earlier in 2012. None of them wanted to speak on record, yet all of them told me they thought the deer should be scored as a typical 12-pointer.
"There's really no chance (B&C) will change their mind," one scorer said. "They've dug in their heels, and don't want to admit they went about this the wrong way. It's frustrating, because, if anything, this deer should be scored by the Wisconsin organization. If it was, it would unseat the Jordan Buck as the state's all-time largest typical ever."
The Jordan Buck was the World Record typical for many years. The Hanson Buck unseated it in 1995.
D&DH also talked with several Wisconsin Buck and Bear Club members, and they said they wished their organization would stand up for what is right … and score the buck. One member told me he was puzzled why this hasn't already happened, because WBBC is in no way affiliated with B&C. When asked why there was then a problem with scoring the King Buck, he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Some of these guys are B&C-certified scorers and others aspire to become B&C scorers some day. They don't want to jeopardize that by not towing the so-called company line."
"I talked with most of the guys, and the vast majority of the Wisconsin Buck and Bear scorers think it is a typical 12-pointer," another scorer said. "Not one of them said they thought it was a nontypical. However, we can't do anything because B&C made their decision on it, and we just have to let it go away. It's not right. It's not fair. And it definitely is making me rethink how I view both organizations. This should be about giving a deer its due. It should not be about placating some guy's ego. Some of these guys are acting like a bunch of little girls. It's almost as if they're saying, "We don't care if it is the biggest buck ever killed. We have to save face and rally around our guys."
Said another scorer, "This all very saddening. If you want my opinion, there are a lot of cowards in this building (where the rack was on hand). Someone needs to man-up and do the right thing."
For the details behind the King Buck, check out these related articles:
World Record Whitetail Denied Day in Court
There is No Gray Area with the King Buck


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Please join Northwood University and the Mackinac Center for Public Policy on Monday, October 3, 2011 as we welcome author John Blundell and "Ladies for Liberty" at the Doan History Center in Midland.more
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This paper summarizes the comments offered by Dr. George Clowes and Dr. Jay P. Greene on my essay "Forging Consensus: Can the School Choice Community Come Together on an Explicit Goal and a Plan for Achieving It," as well as providing my responses to those comments.[1] Though it was written shortly after the comments were submitted, its release was deferred until permission to publish them was received. A complete, slightly revised version of Dr. Clowes' comments is now available on-line.[2]
The sections that follow present the reviewers' comments, grouped by topic. Comments are formatted as block quotations and ascribed to either Dr. Clowes (GC) or Dr. Greene (JPG). My responses appear in the body of the text.
Dr. Clowes is a senior fellow of the Heartland Institute and contributing editor of the paper School Choice News. Dr. Greene is a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute, and author of numerous scientific studies of American schools and school choice programs.
[2] http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=16914


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Queen's Brian May Praises Adam Lambert: He Has 'Woken Us Up'
Adam Lambert keeps it fierce while arriving at Perth International Airport on Tuesday (August 19) in Perth, Australia.
The 32-year-old entertainer was joined by legendary band Queen as they arrived in town for their upcoming show on Friday (August 22) at Perth Arena.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Adam Lambert
The band's lead guitarist Brian May recently opened up about Adam joining them on tour.
"[Adam has] woken us up, and just in time," Brian told The Pulse Of Radio. "There's a big call to do more shows now. So, there's a good possibility that we will do more shows. I think, beyond that, we'll just see."


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Like puffy smoke from a steam locomotive in an old Western, Mira's tail consists of gas and dust puffed out by the star during its speedy trek through the interstellar gas of the Milky Way. The tail was discovered only now because it emits only far-ultraviolet light. As reported in the August 16th issue of Nature, D. Christopher Martin (Caltech) and his colleagues spotted signs of Mira's tail during routine inspection of images from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite, which is on a mission to map the far-ultraviolet sky. "One of our team members noted a bit of fluff around Mira," says Martin, "and we decided to take deeper images."
Mira is an old, pulsating red giant on the verge of becoming a planetary nebula. The star has about 1.5 times the mass of the Sun and is orbited by a much fainter white-dwarf companion (orbital period about 400 years). Like all long-period red variables, Mira is shedding a lot of material into space: about one Earth mass every eight years.
Mira is plunging through our part of the Milky Way with an unusually large space velocity, 130 kilometers per second. This accounts for the length of the tail that it has left behind in the interstellar medium. In addition, some the blown-off gas piles up in a bow shock in front of the star, as is dimly visible in the GALEX images.
According to the team, the far-ultraviolet glow is probably caused by fluorescence of hydrogen molecules hit by energetic electrons.At Mira's distance of 350 light-years, the 2° length of the tail translates into a physical length of 13 light-years the distance the star covers in about 30,000 years. Thus, the tail serves as a fossil record of the star's mass loss over the past 300 centuries. Says Martin, "This will tell us how other stars like our Sun [in the far future] age over time."
The tail is wider and brighter at positions that correspond to roughly 10,000, 20,000, and 30,000 years ago, suggesting a long-term periodicity in Mira's stellar wind. "It all fits together very nicely," says astrophysicist Lex Kaper (University of Amsterdam). Theoretical models predict long-term "thermal pulses" for Mira-like stars, Kaper notes; these are probably related to the shell-like structures seen in the outer regions of some planetary nebulae.
However, Martin and his colleagues note in their paper that the thermal-pulse period for lightweight old red giants like Mira should be much longer than 10,000 years. So, large-scale turbulence or density variations in the interstellar medium may be what shaped the tail instead.
Further reading:
JPL press release
Abstract of the Nature paper


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Sport, drama, Scouts and Guides, hobbies like craft or photography – extracurricular activities can be just about anything your child enjoys outside school. They can also be things you've encouraged your child to do, like language classes, music, debating, religious instruction, swimming, or paid and unpaid jobs.
Taking part in extracurricular activities can:
Not all teenagers are into extracurricular activities. That's fine. But sometimes teenagers want to try something new and just need a bit of help to get started. If this sounds like your child, you can encourage him to take part in extracurricular activities by providing opportunities and practical help.
If you feel your child hasn't considered all the extracurricular activities available, talking with her can help you work out what she might be interested in. You could find out what other teenagers do by talking to other families or by looking in the local paper. You could also ask your child's school what clubs and societies it has.
Your child might need your help to ease into a new group of people. After all, it can be hard to turn up somewhere, not knowing anyone and wondering whether you'll fit in. Perhaps your child has a friend who'd like to do the activity with him. You could also offer to go with him, or arrange for him to meet someone who already does the activity.
Your child could also start an activity gradually. For example, if your child's ultimate goal is to be on the stage with a local theatre group, she could start by working as a stage hand.
Balancing work and fun is a challenge for everyone – it's a grown-up skill that's important for your child to learn.
If you're worried that your child has taken on too many extracurricular activities, there are some signs that can show things are out of balance for her. These might include her being tired, grumpy or stressed and having trouble sleeping.
You and your child might be able to cope with this in short bursts, like around exams, at grand final time, or coming up to a big performance. But if your child is showing these signs of stress at other times, it might be worth looking at how much he's doing.
To work out whether your child is doing too much, you could start by asking her whether she feels she's stretching herself too much.
Then you could have a look at these things:
Everyone's different, and different children can balance different amounts of extracurricular activity. This changes with age too. What your child can handle when he's 9 will be different from what he can do at 12.
Talk with your child if you're concerned that he needs a better balance between extracurricular activities and other areas of his life. You might want to break this up into several sessions, focusing on his time management. You could try the steps suggested below.
Introduce your concerns
If you tell your child that you've noticed she doesn't seem happy, seems tired, or seems too busy to do the things she used to do or needs to do, it can give her the chance to think about how she's spending her time and energy.
For example, you might say, 'You seem so busy at the moment. I wonder if you've got too much on?' or 'We need to have a think about how late the sessions are finishing, because you're not getting to bed until 10.30 pm three nights a week'.
Work out how your child's time is spent
You or your child could create a weekly chart, with details for each day's activities and how long they take. You might read over the chart with your child and wait for him to make the first observation. What does he think about how his week looks?
You could let your child know how things look to you. For example, 'You must be struggling to find time for homework each night with this schedule', or 'There isn't much time for just hanging out with family and friends in your week'.
Then you could say, 'I wonder whether we need to think about this and come up with a better plan'.
Work out priorities
You might suggest that your child asks herself these questions:
This gives your child the chance to think about the issue from his point of view, rather than having you 'solve' the problem for him.
Once your child has thought about the questions above, you could talk together about her ideas for what might change. You might give guidance or feedback on the things you agree with, or any problems you see.
For example, there might be activities that you'd like your child to continue, but which he wants to stop doing.
Telling your child why you want her to do an activity might help her sort out the pros and cons. You might say, 'It's important that you learn to swim. It's too dangerous when you go to the beach if you can't swim properly'. Or 'I'd like you to be able to speak a bit of Spanish so you can talk to your grandmother on the phone'.
It's OK if you want to point out your family's priorities too. For example, 'Sunday night dinner is important to us. It's something we really want to do as a family'.
You might negotiate with your child to stick with an activity for another term or six weeks, just 'to see if it gets any better'.
Assess the plan
Your child is learning time management and priority-setting skills. Letting your child put his plan into action – even if you're not sure it will work – gives him the chance to practise these skills.
You and your child might need to tweak the new schedule. It's about juggling your child's desire to make things happen with the realities of how demanding certain activities are, how much time they take, and how possible it is for your family to manage it all.
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Campbell, L., Campbell, B., & Dickinson, D. (1996). Teaching & learning through multiple intelligences. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Dworkin, J.B., Larson, R., & Hansen, D. (2003). Adolescents' accounts of growth experiences in youth activities. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 32(1), 17-26. doi: 10.1023/A:1021076222321.
Eccles, J., Barber, B., Stone, M., & Hunt, J. (2003). Extracurricular activities and adolescent development. Journal of Social Issues, 59(4), 865-889. doi: 10.1046/j.0022-4537.2003.00095.x.
Fredricks, J., & Eccles, J. (2005). Developmental benefits of extracurricular involvement: Do peer characteristics mediate the link between activities and youth outcomes? Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 34(6), 507-520. doi: 10.1007/s10964-005-8933-5.
Hofferth, S., & Sandberg, J.F. (2001). How American children spend their time: Family time spent at meals and time spent sleeping are linked to fewer behavior problems. Journal of Marriage and Family, 63(2), 295-308. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2001.00295.x.
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by ****** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:50 pm
Yeah, but you've been Avengers Mansioning things a lot lately.
by fieldy snuts » Wed Jun 30, 2010 5:59 pmFinally read this today after having it sitting with the rest of my books on my desk for 16hrs. Review coming in a couple of hrs. It will be positive though as I liked this issue even more than the last one.
In case you're wondering, even if you didn't read #1 you shouldn't be too lost...while both issues are part of the same story they're fairly self-contained for the most part except for some stuff thats pretty clear irrespective if you read one without the other.
In case you're wondering, I was tossing up between this and Invincible Iron Man Annual but in a coin toss, Deadpool won
by Dragavon » Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:01 pm
You chose poorly!
by fieldy snuts » Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:04 pm
Is there really a competition between a Mandarin origin tale an a Deadpool origin tale?
by Dragavon » Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:10 pm
Joe Kelly already did the best Deadpool origin tale. Swierczynski is just re-hashing it. I wanted to see what Fraction would do with the Mandarin.
by guitarsmashley » Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:37 pm
The art was pretty awesome for that.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:20 pmHaving a little trouble getting this week's book...
by BlueStreak » Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:47 pm
Hipster store has it.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:59 pm
Must've...missed it or something when I was there..
by fieldy snuts » Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:15 pmDeadpool: Wade Wilson's War #2
Deadpool, if there's a more divisive character in comics right now enjoying a Wolverine-level push its him. You either love him or hate him and there's hardly any middle ground it seems. I was a big fan but the way Marvel have been throwing Deadpool books at us the past year is crazy and I was seriously getting burned out with 4 monthlies coming out only to be joined by this MK mini.
With that out of the way, this is finally the tone I've been waiting for since Kelly left the book: funny, over-the-top violent, fourth wall breaking while still given glimpses of how disturbed Deadpool truly is.
Also, gone are the Pool-O-Vision or arguing with himself via dialog boxes from the past couple of years which I'm grateful for...it felt like those dead horses were being beaten to death in the above mentioned monthlies far too often.
As for the story of this issue outside of the general plot of the mini is pretty straightforward: the origin of Deadpool, if you can believe anything coming out of his mouth that is.
A neat thing about it was that the story was being told overlapped by a conflicting intel report that described Wade Wilson as an army screwup who was diagnosed with cancer and made to be a guinea pig against his will for Weapon X. Meanwhile in Deadpool's version he was a model soldier who was offered the spot in the program to cure his cancer and took it.
That eventually leads to the formation of team Weapon X which considered of other program graduates like Bullseye, Domino and Silver Sable....but wait, doesn't that contradict continuity? Sure does, but hey, its a MK title.
All of this is tied into the larger story of the mini which involves Deadpool on trial, Domino incarcerated and Bulleye and Silver Sable still unaccounted for. The cause for the trial? Deadpool eventually came to believe he and the rest of the team were comic book superheroes and this somehow led to an incident where Deadpool apparently killed countless innocents.
My thoughts: Deadpool is a character that usually requires you to throw your common sense out of the window like you're name is Mark Millar and common sense is a baby, hang on and just take the ride. He's not some kind of serious brooding character like Batman, Punisher or something like that, he's certifiably deranged killer with a sense of humor mixed with a twisted psyche as was very evident in the opening moment with the Michael Jackson mask (complete with classic MJ crotch grab ).
Once you get that out of the way along with the continuity question the story is solid. Swierczynski is a solid writer. Loved his Iron Fist and the mini's he wrote in Deadpool #900.....of the best stories in that book. He knows how to structure a good story irrespective of the massive contrast in tones between this and his other comic work and knows precisely how to use the character. At a time where Gischler is running on decompression fumes and Daniel Way seems to be at the lowest he's been on DP since he took the book I'm glad Swierczynski put this mini out. It's Deadpool done right, which is very rare to see these days where he pop's up in every damn book.
Pearson's art is nice. It's a bit different than what I'm used to, especially in some frames, but there's no denying he can draw and he sure drew his ass off whether its close-ups or the more detailed shots.
Story: 8.5
Art: 8
Overall: 8.25
by BlueStreak » Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:17 pm
I guess the hipster store...had it?
by Garofani Spruzzo » Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:21 pm
Er, I think I was looking under the wrong letter of the alphabet maybe or something, I always get those confused, especially on Thursdays..
by The_Phenomenal_Sage » Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:41 amDeadpoool: Wade Wilson's War #2
Well I have absolutely no clue what happened in #1, and the story at least makes me feel as if I didn't need to read it. Assuming that #3 details the sinaloa incident then I have no idea what #1 dealt with and I was only slightly made to care. The character of wade is one where when you pick up a title starring him, you are in for comic relief. Not to say there is anything wrong with that, but the average deadpool comic is never going to be the stuff of legends. There are some chuckles parts here and there, like the michael jackson scene. It was a fun story and I am slightly interested in where it goes next, but not for $3.99. At $4 a medicore origin story isn't really all that all that great.
The art is nice, I was able to enjoy the story. The style kinda fit with the tone of the story, but nothing to write home about. Overall this was an ok comic made a little brighter by by deadpool's colorful personality.
Story - 5
Art - 4.5
Overall - 4.75
by Garofani Spruzzo » Thu Jul 01, 2010 2:24 pmSome addled 90 year old woman just totaled my car, chances are I won't be able to get this this week.
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Modeling Chemical Reaction and Energetics: development of simple input/output programs to allow use of existing codes (EQ3/6 and Geochemist's Workbench) over wider ranges of temperature and pressure
DOEI Project Funded: 2006
Two of the three broad research themes of the Deep Ocean Exploration Institute are concerned in part with chemical reactions and how they modify the earth, and how they can provide energy for life deep in the ocean, and below the seafloor. Fluid flow and water-rock reaction within the ocean crust occur over broad ranges of temperature and pressure, and result in significant modification of both the composition of the crust and of the oceans. As a result of these reactions, there are places both within the seafloor and at the interface of the crust and ocean where microorganisms, if present, can exploit chemical disequilibria, gaining energy by catalyzing geochemical reactions. The study of fluid flow and resultant chemical reaction is thus intimately linked to studies of the unusual fauna present at the seafloor at sites of hydrothermal venting, and of the subsurface biosphere.
Quantification of the chemical reactions that occur as fluids interact with various rock types within the crust (e.g., basalt, peridotite, sediment), and as different fluids mix either beneath or at the seafloor (e.g., hydrothermal fluid, ambient seawater), is needed 1) to understand the magnitude and significance of fluxes of heat and mass from the earth to the oceans, and 2) to estimate the potential metabolic energy available to organisms in different environments. Over the past 30 years a number of software tools have been developed for these purposes. However, the thermodynamic databases needed for use by these programs are not adequately suited for calculations of fluid flow and water-rock reaction in the ocean crust. The most appropriate databases contain data from 0 to 300ºC and at one atm pressure below 100ºC, and along the vapor pressure of water at higher temperature (Bethke, 1998). Unfortunately, many of the problems of interest in the ocean crust require data at higher pressures (e.g., at 150 to 500 bars, and with pressure not varying with temperature), and up to higher temperatures (e.g., to 350º to 400ºC for many active seafloor vents). A program exists to calculate data for these conditions (SUPCRT92; Johnson et al., 1992), and it is also possible to modify the existing databases; however, this is a painstaking process given the large numbers of chemical reactions usually being considered. Over the past 15 years, those using the EQ3/6 software package have compiled databases for use at constant pressures (e.g., 250 bars for vents at 2500 m depth, or 500 bars for consideration of water-rock reactions at depth beneath the seafloor) and for temperatures up to 400ºC. However, these databases are not compatible with GWB, i.e., they cannot be used as GWB input.
Accurate quantification of chemical reactions within the ocean crust and at the crustseawater interface requires access to thermodynamic databases at appropriate temperature and pressures. This proposal, if funded, will result in public-access software that will allow creation of thermodynamic databases compatible with either the EQ3/6 or GWB software packages. Specifically it will provide: 1) a program to convert thermodynamic databases compatible with EQ3/6 (EQ3/6 format databases) into databases compatible with GWB (GWB format databases) = Therodynamic Database Conversion (TDC) code; 2) a program to take data from SUPCRT92 output files and create new EQ3/6 and GWB format databases = Thermodynamic Database Generation (TDG) code.
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Thu, 21 October 2010
This past weekend we got fantasy author Paulette Jaxton to sit down with us as we talked about the Dreamworks animated film How To Train Your Dragon, which just came out on DVD and Blu Ray. This was an experiment with using the H2 to record away from the computer and, honestly, the results are mixed. A bit too much echo and I didn't have the same kind of control that I usually have over the sound floor. So, I left this one a bit rough and edgy from a technical standpoint, but we had a fun conversation.
As usual, there are very few spoilers in the beginning and we warn you before we get spoilery, so you can listen even if you haven't seen the movie. Enjoy!
Hurdy gur,
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Mon, 9 August 2010
In this episode Heather joins me to discuss the 2010 remake of The Wolfman, and the Grailpup makes his first podcasting appearance.
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Sat, 17 July 2010
We're back! New episodes will begin soon. In this little test episode I just explain what's going on and set the stage for what's coming. Hope you'll join me!
Hurdy gur,
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Mon, 5 January 2009
Very lazy shownotes.
Paul and Martha of the ADD Cast (and the Balticon Podcast, and all of Dancing Cat Studios other projects) hang out with Heather and I at the Grailcave to discuss parenthood, beer, and other geeky goodness. Enjoy the podcast premiere of Darth BonBon, and we'll get back to the regular episodes very, very soon.
Hurdy gur,
Direct download: GGL035.mp3
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Mon, 27 October 2008
At last, it's the Incredible Hulk geekout!
This is the same discussion that has already been run on the ADD Cast a few months ago, so if you have heard that episode, you do not need to download this episode (unless you want to hear our 15 minute intro).
We start out talking about the movie (and the DVD) in totally non-spoiler mode. Then there are minor spoilers as we discuss the deleted scenes. Finally, we completely spoil the alternate opening and talk about what is hidden in the ice...
The bulk of the episode is a discussion of the film recorded just after seeing it on opening day. Heather and I are joined by Paul Fischer, Martha Holloway, Thomas "Command Line" Gideon , Andrea, John Cmar, Sci-Fi Laura, Greg Wright, and the Command Line Canines. Many thanks to Thomas for opening Bit Bucket Labs to us, and letting us use his equipment (and drink his beer).
Hope you enjoy the discussion. And if you want to pick up the DVD, check out the Grailwolf's Geek Store by going to grailwolf.com and clicking on the link at the left. Then click "New On DVD" and the date October 21st, 2008. All three versions of the DVD are listed at the top of that page.
Let us know what you think of the movie, and the DVD.
Hurdy gur,
Direct download: GGL034.mp3
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Mon, 20 October 2008
We're still sick (again) but we're not going to let that stop us from telling you about the rest of the Fall shows that we're watching.
Well... actually we will, because we forgot to talk about Life On Mars, but we give it the ol' college try.
Anyway Heather and I share our opinions about these shows:
Send us an email (email@example.com) or call the voicemail line (240-256-7525) and let us know whether you agree, disagree, or have a good recipe for chicken soup.
Hurdy gur,
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Mon, 29 September 2008
Tonight I'm alone on mic (mostly) because Heather is feeling poorly. I talk about:
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Mon, 15 September 2008
This episode we jump right into the new Fall season.
First up, we discuss the new HBO series True Blood including the the extra advertising that HBO has done such as the trubeverage.com site. Very cool stuff.
Next it's the season premiere of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Fox.
Finally we geek out about the new JJ Abrams series Fringe.
Then, somehow, we get into Craig Ferguson, Dollhouse, Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion, Neil Patrick Harris, Dr. Horrible, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Peter S. Beagle, and The Last Unicorn. Please note that we mention that The Last Unicorn DVD is signed (and the link above is for the signed version), but all links on the Conlan Press site currently go to the unsigned version. It could be an error on the site, or it could be that Peter is not currently signing them. I'll try to figure this out and give an update later.
The Pseudopod story that Heather read (and we couldn't remember) is called The Exhibition. She also has a story coming soon on the fantasy podcast Podcastle and has recently read the story Longing for Langalana for Interzone Magazine's podcast Transmissions From Beyond.
Man, I really need to get a blogroll going...
Oh, I also mention that Doug Rapson put up a video edition of his Geek Acres podcast.
Then we have a very special announcement. Which is very special. And we announce it.
Hope you like the episode. Drop us some comments (here, or at firstname.lastname@example.com, or via voicemail at 240-256-7525) and let us know what you think.
Keep an ear out for that Middleman-centric episode coming soon!
Hurdy gur,
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Tue, 12 August 2008
Okay, guys, there are some weird problems with the audio in this one. It only happens about three or four times and mostly it's pretty short.
Other than that, we take a few minutes to talk about our move to Maryland and then we get into your feedback!
We hear from these listeners:
Hope to talk to you again soon with a bit more planning and a more cooperative computer.
Hurdy gur,
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Sun, 8 June 2008
At long last, it is part two of the mega-geekout with Tee Morris. Here we discuss the upcoming movies that we saw previewed before Iron Man. Enjoy, and hope this gets you excited for the summer of fun we have before us!
Hurdy gur,
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