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MELBOURNE, Florida, December 6, 2012 — Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has reached an agreement to sell Broadcast Communications to an affiliate of The Gores Group, LLC for $225 million. The price includes $160 million in cash at closing, a $15 million subordinated promissory note and an earnout of up to $50 million based on future performance. The transaction is subject to customary regulatory review and closing conditions and is expected to be completed in early calendar year 2013. On May 1, 2012, Harris announced plans to divest Broadcast Communications.
«The sale of Broadcast Communications reflects our strategy to optimize our business portfolio and focus on our core businesses,» said William M. Brown, president and chief executive officer of Harris. «As previously communicated, we plan to repurchase up to $200 million of our shares after the deal closes. This is in addition to the $200 million of share repurchases already planned for fiscal 2013 and reflects our ongoing commitment to effectively deploy capital, including returning cash to shareholders.»
«In Harris Broadcast Communications, we are investing in a proven technology leader with great products and a great team. We are excited to provide the capital and support to transition this division to a strong and independent company further enabling it to continue developing and delivering market leading technologies to its customers,» said Ryan Wald, Managing Director of The Gores Group.
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Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 125 countries. Headquartered in Melbourne, Florida, the company has approximately $5.5 billion of annual revenue and about 15,000 employees — including 6,000 engineers and scientists. Harris is dedicated to developing best-in-class assured communications® products, systems, and services.
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Hi, we are a boutique realty and real estate investment company in South Florida, Aventura, Sunny Isles, Bal Harbor, Miami Beach and Brickell and South Beach, to be more exact.
I am trying to create a very simple branding of our logo so I am trying to design an enhancement to our logo that will be used on the website home page, print marketing and other promotional products.
I have personally designed the current one but would like to add a professional touch to it.
We are a boutique South Florida realty. We are all very friendly and extremely energetic. We work in the sunshine state and we like to portray that.
I would like any interested designers to see the home page of our company and work with what is there (only the area: SMK Realty Logo and the addition of the Buy, Sell, Rent and more...). I made this and the Buy Sell Rent and more... where suppose to be children building blocks. This is what I want to concentrate on. The SMK Realty & Investments is our logo, at this time I don't want to change that. Just want to add the Buy, Sell, Rent, more... in a clean and professional way. I would like them to be buidling blocks but if you really want to go out of the box that's up to you.
Thanks for helping us out.
As I mentioned in the about ourself section of the project, we are targeting all our current and future clients. We will be using this for several marketing campaigns including: the website home page, print ads, shirts, and other promotional material. Of course we might change it up a bit for each campaign and will definitely work on these projects in seperate contests. That is, more will be coming.
I want this design to be really clean. Would like to send a repetitive statement, that is, SMK Realty Logo and "Buy, Sell, Rent, more...". Simple, clean and fun
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I am trying to creat the Buy, Sell, Rent, more... slogan on childrens building blocks and different colors (the colors should be chosen with a color scheme in mind for the relaunch of the website later on)
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The 260-day astrological calendar, also known as the sacred calendar or divinatory calendar, was used by all the major cultures up to the Aztecs, and is still being used by Mayas in the more remote sections of Mexico and Guatamala. It consists of a cycle of 20 days, each having a name and a specific symbolism, that cycles 13 times. A person's birth is recorded as occurring during one of the 20 signs, the day-sign, and also during a 13-day period or sign. Again, These are signs of time, not of space like the zodiac.
Twenty signs or symbols form the core of the Mesoamerican astrological tradition. The Mayan word for the 260-day calendar is Tzolkin, the Aztec word is "tonalpouhalli" and the order of the days was kept in picture-books called "tonalamatl," which means "book of fate."
In Western astrology, one is born under a particular sign, or more properly, the Sun was in a particular sign at birth. Likewise in the Aztec sacred calendar, one is born during a day that is "ruled" by one of the twenty named-days. Like the twelve signs of the zodiac, the day-signs follow a definite sequence and symbolize a kind of evolutionary movement. The 260-day calendar was also used to find auspicious times. When merchants were to set off on a long journey, the astrological calendar readers were consulted.
An understanding of these 20 signs, similar to an understanding of the zodiac, is the key to Mesoamerican astrology. Here is a system in the process of rehabilitation that offers an extraordinary personality matrix.
Bruce Scofield, PhD has been a practicing astrologer since 1975. Bruce is one of the very few astrologers who has studied MesoAmerican astrology in depth. His books include Timing of Events: Electional Astrology; The Aztec Circle of Destiny; and Signs of Time: An Introduction to Mesoamerican Astrology.
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2012 CMT Music Awards Winners – Readers Poll
The 2012 CMT Music Awards winners will undoubtedly be the best of the best, as the show honors country music's top videos — mostly decided by fans. Female artists dominate the nominees, with Carrie Underwood leading the way with five and Miranda Lambert close behind with four. Eight total awards will be decided by the fan vote. Who do you think will win each award at the 2012 CMT Music Awards?
The major awards are Video of the Year and Male and Female Video of the Year. Two 'American Idol' contestants in Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina will battle four others for the USA Weekend Breakthrough Video of the Year. Awards will also be presented to winners of the top group and duo video. In between the presentations, country music's top stars will perform. For more information on the show, visit the official 2012 CMT Music Awards website.
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Now that cooler weather and darker evenings are here, haunted houses, hay rides, and ghost tours abound in Southern California. The city of Fullerton, located thirty miles south of Los Angeles (and a convenient half-hour train ride from Union Station) offers "haunted" walking tours within its downtown area. One fascinating spot rumored to have paranormal activity is Plummer Auditorium, part of the Fullerton High School campus, where witnesses claim to have seen ghosts watching the stage from the balcony. But it was something outside the auditorium that really caught my eye: a large wall mural entitled Pastoral California by Charles Kassler.
Murals such as these were very common. To combat the high unemployment rate and faltering American spirit of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt created a series of social/economic programs called the New Deal; artists like Kessler were hired under the Public Works of Art Program, designed to inform the public by showing art in public buildings and by displaying works of an American scene. The US government also hired artists for other New Deal programs; Dorothea Lange documented the effects of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression for the Farm Security Administration, and Lester Beall designed energy posters (which were on display in the American Art galleries this past year) to promote the use of electricity in the agricultural states.
Kassler's Pastoral California (1934) reveals the history of southern California at the time. Painted over just five years later—it was considered inappropriate by school officials—the mural was eventually discovered and fully restored in 1997. Pastoral California depicts a scene of ranchers and animals, with evidence of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture. On the right-hand side, Kassler depicts a fight between wild animals—a bear biting viciously into a bull.
While the origin of the bear and bull market terminology is debated, some believe it has to do with the attacking styles of each animal, and at the time the mural was painted, the triumphant bear may have revealed the artist's pessimistic assessment of the economy at the time.
The Fullerton Haunted Walking Tour continues until November 6, but if you're interested in other works of art created under the New Deal closer to Los Angeles, you can check them out here. And if you already have a local favorite, please comment!


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This shall be my first time taking in clients for private photo shoots. I like to try and bring cosplayers to certain scenic location to make the cosplay look even more brilliant. There are many places at Katsucon to go to get a great picture.
This photoshoot is a FREE photoshoot. I'm having a free photoshoot to build clientele.
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The news just keeps getting better for the millions of Americans making minimum wage. Today, three weeks to the day after President Obama called for raising the minimum wage to $9 an hour in the State of the Union address, two congressional Democrats have done him one better: Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa and Rep. George Miller of California introduced a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10, then tie the wage to the cost of living.
The bill would also increase wages for tipped workers, for whom the minimum wage is currently $2.13 an hour. This bill would increase their wages to at least seventy percent of the minimum wage.
The minimum wage has not been voted on since 2007, with the last raise raise going into effect in 2009. Tipped workers, such as waiters in restaurants, have not seen a minimum wage increase since 1991.
According to the National Employment Law Project's fact sheet on the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013, the bill would, if passed:
- Raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 by 2015, in three steps of 95 cents each.
- Adjust the minimum wage each year to keep pace with the rising cost of living starting in 2016 – a key policy reform known as "indexing," which 10 states are already using to prevent the minimum wage from falling in value each year.
- Raise the minimum wage for tipped workers – which has been frozen at a meager $2.13 per hour for more than 20 years – to 70% of the minimum wage.
At the press conference announcing the bill at noon today, Harkin said that the key part of this bill would be to build opportunity for the people that perform essential functions for our everyday lives, and are rewarded by poverty. The senator noted that most of the people who earn a minimum wage are female, and that despite the idea that only teenagers earn this wage, almost 90 percent are adults.
Harkin reminded the audience of the rising child poverty numbers, and that many of these children had a parent who earned the minimum wage.
Miller followed Harkin, saying that income inequality in America threatens our economic security. This bill would, if passed, raise the pay of nearly a quarter of the working population, he said.
The lawmakers were joined by Margot Dorfman, the CEO of the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce; Andy Shallal, the owner of Washington-area restaurants Busboys & Poets and Eatonville; Amie Crawford, a Chicago fast-food worker, and Gregory Reynoso, a New York pizza delivery driver.
Dorfman and Shallal, at the heads of their respective businesses, dispelled myths associated with raising the minimum wage. Dorfman suggested that the right would trot out the old boogeyman of "raising the minimum wage would hurt small businesses." This, she said, was a lie propagated by the large corporations that pay their workers minimum wage, the same corporations that can keep prices low and depend on smaller businesses paying their employees enough to buy products in the big box stores. Shallal railed against the National Restaurant Association ("The other NRA"), and said that from his experience in Washington, with Washington's $8.25 minimum wage, restaurants were opening too quickly to visit them all. "When I want to provide a morale boost, I give a raise, and I think that we could all use a morale boost in this situation," Shallal said. These are two business owners who get it.
Crawford and Reynoso's stories painted a picture for the audience of what raising the minimum wage would mean for minimum wage workers.
For Reynoso, living in New York City, it would mean that perhaps his daughter could go to a better school, and his wife would be able to finish school. Instead of relying on food stamps some months, he could proudly put food on the table, much like he delivers to your door. Reynoso wants a higher minimum wage so that he could provide a better future for himself and his family.
Amie Crawford does not look so much into the future, but rather yearns for the past. She went to school, worked hard for 30 years, had a savings account, then moved to Chicago for family reasons. In Chicago, she could not find a job, so, to hold her over for the time being, she took a minimum wage job to feed herself. She is still in this position. She received a 50-cent raise, but will not get another. She makes $8.75 an hour, and her take-home pay in February was $788. In Chicago.
These are both people that have worked hard and played by the rules, yet barely get by.
Raising the minimum wage already faces an uphill battle against congressional Republicans and some conservative Democrats. The morning after President Obama announced his desire to raise the minimum wage, House Speaker John Boehner called the bill a non-starter, saying "when you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it."
This reason for opposition is one that has been questioned by many in the progressive community. The evidence that raising the minimum wage will hurt workers is tenuous at best, a bald-faced lie at worst. While economists still do not agree on whether or not a higher minimum wage negatively affects employment, those skeptical have fallen from 60% in 1990 to 46% in 2000.
A November 2010 study published in the MIT Review of Economics and Statistics studied all pairs of counties that had a wage differences in a contiguous county and found "no adverse employment effects. We show that traditional approaches that do not account for local economic conditions tend to produce spurious negative effects due to spatial heterogeneities in employment trends that are unrelated to minimum wage policies. Our findings are robust to allowing for long-term effects of minimum wage changes." In other words, sorry businesses, there is no good reason not to raise minimum wage, except to pocket the difference yourself.
The Economic Policy Institute has said that "the resulting impact on the overall economy would be demonstrably positive, as minimum-wage workers would spend their new earnings immediately, generating a positive impact on GDP and related modest employment growth."
The reasons for not raising the minimum wage are reasons of greed. It has been proven that raising the minimum wage would not hurt job production, yet some on Capitol Hill refuse to believe these facts, protecting the CEOs that line their pockets on the backs of their employees.
When asked what he would say to the senators and representatives that oppose this bill, Harkin responded, "Do what's right, do what's just, do what's fair."
America is the richest country in the history of the world, it is a crazy notion to believe that we cannot afford to pay the people that make our lives easier enough to be above the poverty line.
To spread the word about the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013, supporters are using the hashtag #timefor1010. If you believe that the people that cook and serve your food, take care of your children during daycare, and work in the service industry deserve the same right to get ahead as anyone else, help push this bill through to the president.


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WASHINGTON — By 2043 white people will no longer make up a majority of Americans.
The new government projection announced this morning is a year later than previous estimates, made before the impact of the recent economic downturn was known.
The nation continues to grow and become more diverse due to higher birth rates among minorities, but no longer at a torrid pace as immigration wanes.
The total U.S. population should climb to 420 million by 2060, with whites making up 43 percent. Hispanics, currently 17 percent of the population, will jump to 31 percent, or nearly 1 in 3 residents. Blacks will make up 14.7 percent, up slightly.
The point when minority children become the majority of children is expected to occur in 2019. Last year minorities became the majority among U.S. newborns.


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Life in Christian County, Kentucky... Life in The Upper South...
In spring here in western Kentucky and across the region, daffodils bloom along the roadsides. Their bright yellow flowers often mark the site where a farmhouse sat years ago. One can only speculate what the farmhouse might have looked like, but it's safe to say that in Christian County, many of them were log houses.
The daffodils in the photo above were planted within the last ten years or so, but they mark an old homesite. An old two-story farmhouse used to stand here and a young couple lived in it. She loved flowers and planted daffodils, iris, and much more. They moved away when the land changed hands, and the new owner recently tore down the old house and the little sheds that had stood around it.
Unlike most of the daffodils that spring up in such places, these are large-blossomed double daffodils. You can tell by their fat buds.
I was amused yesterday to see a photo of old-time simple daffodils in our local newspaper with a caption labeling them as "wildflowers". They are certainly common enough along the roadsides to be a native wildflower, but they were all planted here by human hands, and they don't spread over much of an area naturally. For efficient propagation, the clumps have to be dug up, and the bulbs separated and transplanted.
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As a Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney should wear a warning label: "CAUTION: following changes in this candidate's positions could cause whiplash and other injuries." Seriously, you could hurt yourself trying keep up with the speed with which this guy changes his mind.
The only thing more stunning than Romney's ideological agility and changeable convictions is that — contrary to what you might be inclined to think — Romney's flip-flops aren't quite the gaffes the appear to be. Neither, for that matter, are his convictions. They're more tactics than convictions, really. Thus they change whenever necessary, and always in service of Romney's real, bedrock conviction.
Digby already covered Romney's latest flip-flop. It happened in a matter of days. Romney inveighed against President Obama's "attack on religious conscience" during the last GOP debate, referring to the controversy ginned up in response to a mandate that all employer insurance plans — including religious institutions — cover contraception. After his Michigan primary win, Romney again accused the president of "attacking religious liberty," over the issue of contraception. Then, within one twenty-four hour period Romney managed to put himself on both sides of the contraception debate.
Perhaps the question was poorly worded. Or perhaps it was a slip of a tired tongue.
Either way, Mitt Romney created a new tempest when he told an Ohio news station that he was opposed to a Senate amendment, favored by conservatives and under debate in Congress on Wednesday, that would allow employers and insurers to limit coverage of contraceptives if they have religious or moral objections.
"I'm not for the bill," Mr. Romney said, but then added, "the idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception within a relationship between a man and a women, husband and wife, I'm not going there."
Mr. Romney seemed to be further distancing himself from the hard-edged social conservatism of his chief Republican rival, Rick Santorum, who has argued that contraception is damaging to society.
… The episode began when Mr. Romney was asked about his view of the sweeping amendment, sponsored by Senator Roy Blunt, Republican of Missouri, that would permit employers and insurers to refuse to offer health coverage that violated their beliefs.
This, really, is only the most recent of Romney's flip-flops. He's managed to either flip or forget a number of his previous positions, like his support of an open primary in Michigan. (Before "Operation Hilarity," that is.) He isn't just running from RomneyCare, after all. Candidate Romney may denounce the Obama stimulus and tout his conservative cred, but as Governor Romney proposed more than $700 million in stimulus packages to turn around Massachusetts' economy.
What's stunning about this flip-flop is the speed with which it happened. But underscores the same thing as another of Romney's ideological shifts.
To understand Mitt Romney, you have to understand the most difficult passage of his political life: how he changed his position on abortion. Not the story he tells about it, but the real story.
Romney began his political career as a pro-choicer. In the story he tells, he had an epiphany, a flash of insight, and committed himself thereafter to protecting life. But that isn't what happened. The real story of Romney's conversion—a series of tentative, equivocal, and confused shifts, accompanied by a constant rewriting of his past—paints a more accurate picture of who he is. Romney has complex views and a talent for framing them either way, depending on his audience. He values truth, so he makes sure there's an element of it in everything he says. He can't stand to break his promises, so he reinterprets them.
Parts of the story have been told before. But no one has put it together. And no one has assembled the many video and audio clips that bear witness to what happened. In this article, the first complete examination of Romney's journey, you'll see his transformation on camera. (You can also watch a video narration.)
When you see the story in its full context, three things become clear. First, this was no flip-flop. Romney is a man with many facets, groping his way through a series of fluid positions on an array of difficult issues. His journey isn't complete. It never will be. Second, for Romney, abortion was never really a policy question. He didn't want to change the law. What he wanted to change was his identity. And third, the malleability at Romney's core is as much about his past as about his future. Again and again, he has struggled to make sense not just of what he should do, but of who he has been. The problem with Romney isn't that he keeps changing his mind. The problem is that he keeps changing his story.
Romney may have said he's not going to "set his hair on fire," to excite the base. But his shift on contraception shows that he's willing to cut off his roots to convince the base that he's one of them.
The "religious liberty" Romney referred to was a newly discovered "constitutional right" to deny women access to contraceptives. The son of Lenore Romney, who ran for the Senate in 1970 as a reproductive rights champion, was not just abandoning positions he once said he learned from his mom. He was framing that abandonment as part of an embrace of the new GOP orthodoxy that says religious groups should define the national agenda on issues ranging from education to healthcare policy.
It was a far cry from the Mitt Romney of 2007, who in an attempt to echo John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech in favor of church-state separation (and to dispel wariness about his Mormonism as effectively as Kennedy did about his Catholicism), explained that "we separate church and state affairs in this country, and for good reason." More and more, the formerly pro-choice social liberal has been sounding like Pat Robertson in 1988 or Gary Bauer in 2000, candidates who tried to rally the party's evangelical base against more rational Republicans.
For Romney, there is no choice. The party he joined as a Massachusetts moderate has ceased to be. This is no longer the GOP of patricians like George Romney or even George H.W. Bush, or of Western individualists like Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan or even John McCain—all of whom maintained at least a measure of secularism in a party that has for decades been under assault by the likes of Phyllis Schlafly, Jerry Falwell and Ralph Reed.
Except that Olympia Snowe's example suggests that it is a choice. The Maine Republican's announcement of her retirement from the Senate make her the latest moderate Republican to leave shaking her head over what's become of the "party of Lincoln." Tired of bending over backwards to mollify the extreme right, Snowe simply said "Enough," and decided there was life beyond the Senate — and probably a much better life at that.
Romney has a choice, too. He's fond of saying that, if elected, he will "go to Washington, change Washington, and then leave Washington." (Probably to decamp to one of his six homes.) He just as easily do that now, rather than forge on through the GOP primaries, changing one position after another, in pursuit of the nomination of a party that still doesn't seem to want him. As his ideological 180s become more and more transparent, that idea ought to look better and better.
But Romney knows what he's doing. He means to do whatever it takes to win the nomination. So, he panders to the right because the right controls who ultimately gets the nomination. He'll swallow as much poison as they demand, if he wants to be their nominee, even if it weakens him in the general election.
That's why I say what look like flip-flops on basic conservative ideological positions are really just tactical changes in pursuit of a goal. Put another way, it's all in service to Mitt Romney's one unchangeable conviction.
If he weren't so smug, it would almost be possible to feel sorry for Mitt Romney. Beyond the flip-flopping, has any worse actor ever attempted the role of presidential candidate? It's beyond Romney's powers to persuade most people of his sincerity about things he does believe, much less the many tenets of contemporary GOP faith he probably doesn't share — assuming for the sake of argument that anybody, including himself, knows which is which.
There's little doubt, however, that Romney believes he deserves to be president, in rather the way the fictional Lord Grantham deserves to preside over Downton Abbey. It's his inability to conceal that sense of entitlement that makes him such an awkward politician.
It may not serve him in well that so his many flip-flops tend to lay bare the ambition and entitlement at the heart of Romney's race for the White House. But at least we know Mitt Romney has at least one conviction of which he stands firm.


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Curated and organized by the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery with funding assistance from the City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Arts Board, SaskCulture, Saskatchewan Lotteries, and the Canada Council for the Arts. Toured through OSAC's Arts on the Move program. In our continued partnership with the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, we are pleased to present In Prints/ Imprimer, a solo exhibition of works by internationally renowned, Joe Fafard; one of Canada's most recognized and prolific artists. Although Fafard may be best known for his work in clay, bronze and steel sculpture, drawing and printmaking have been sustained curiosities throughout his artistic practice. Whether three-dimensional or two-dimensional, his work is characterized by his connection to his rural Saskatchewan roots, his reverence for art history and his inquiry into form. The exhibition In Prints/Imprimer presents woodblock, silkscreen, etchings, lithograph and embossed prints of cows, horses and bison, each series a response to or an extension of his sculptural process. While the embossed images offer beautifully subtle forms, the woodblocks are arresting in their colourful graphic quality. Reminiscent of Matisse's paper cut-outs, these images have fluid, exaggerated and almost lyrical forms. Moving in varying degrees towards abstraction, the anatomy of these forms is broken down into pattern and embedded symbolic imagery. Perhaps in their subtlety, these works speak to the interconnection and dependence of human existence on agriculture and nature.


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Ladiges Makes 30 Saves
STORRS, Conn. – A pair of Yale shots hit the pipe in the third period, and on a night where offense was hard to come by that made all the difference. Robert Morris came away with a 1-0 win over the Bulldogs Friday night at UConn's Freitas Ice Forum on a third-period goal by forward Thea Imbrogno, advancing to the championship of the Nutmeg Classic. Yale goalie Genny Ladiges made 30 saves.
This marks just the second time in the tournament's eight-year history that Yale has lost in the first round. The Bulldogs came into Friday night's game as heavy underdogs, given that they had one win on the season while Robert Morris had one loss. But with help from Ladiges, Yale played the Colonials evenly for most of the night. This was the fewest goals Yale has allowed in a game all season, and tied for the fewest shots Yale has allowed. The Bulldogs also had their second-lowest penalty total of the year (four).
"We played as well defensively as we have all year long," said Yale head coach Joakim Flygh. "We're getting better and better, but you can't win if you don't score."
After winning just once in their first 11 games, the Bulldogs took a brief break this past week. There were no classes, and with Thanksgiving in the mix as well the much-needed time off may have helped re-energize the team.
"It was not a bad thing to have a little bit of a break," said Flygh. "It was good mental relief. We took an extra day off to help ourselves heal up after a long road trip (to No. 9 Mercyhurst last weekend). We had a good week of practice with a lot of energy."
Ladiges had a busy first period, stopping all 11 shots she faced. The Bulldogs did not get a shot on goal for the first eight minutes, but they then got two in a span of 30 seconds from senior forward Aleca Hughes and senior defenseman Heather Grant. But shortly after that a pair of penalties on Yale gave RMU a 5-on-3 for 73 seconds. Grant got a clear 15 seconds in, and after a pair of saves by Ladiges the Bulldogs cleared the puck again and freshman forward Lynn Kennedy was able to chase it down in the RMU zone to kill off more valuable seconds. After junior forward Alyssa Zupon won a faceoff in the neutral zone, junior defenseman Jamie Gray dumped the puck into the RMU zone and the Bulldogs were soon back at full strength.
After getting outshot 11-2 in the first the Bulldogs managed to largely even out the shots in the second period (8-6 RMU), and each team had its chances. Yale got its first power play of the game 90 seconds into the period but only managed a deflection of a shot by freshman defenseman Madi Murray that went wide off the stick of junior forward Danielle Moncion. After a Bulldog penalty three minutes later sophomore forward Jackie Raines blocked a shot and that led to a short-handed chance for Moncion at the other end of the ice that RMU goalie Kristen DiCiocco gloved.
Yale's second power play of the period saw more offensive chances, with Grant sending a slap shot wide and Hughes putting a wrister high. Back at even strength, a deflection of a shot by Gray bounced wide.
Ladiges made one of her biggest stops of the second by denying Colonials forward Kelsey Thomas right in front of the net with 6:30 to play in the period. Yale got one more power play, for the final two minutes, but was unable to score.
The Colonials got the game's first goal on a power play in the third, when a blocked shot popped right to Imbrogno in the right circle and she rifled it in at the 3:04 mark.
The final signs that it was not going to be Yale's night came midway through the third. First, freshman forward Stephanie Mock slid one just wide of the net, hitting the bar with a thud at the 9:45 mark; immediately after that the Bulldogs heard a "ping" as Raines' backhand attempt in the slot hit the crossbar. Then, four minutes later, Zupon's shot hit the bar along the ice just to DiCiocco's left and bounced through to the other side of the crease, where if there had been any Bulldogs they would have had an open net to shoot at. Instead, the Colonials came away with the puck and could breathe a sigh of relief.
"You create your own luck, but it feels like we haven't gotten the bounces all year," said Flygh.
Hughes tried a long wrister with four minutes to play that DiCiocco gloved. In the final minutes Yale was never able to maintain possession long enough in the RMU zone to pull Ladiges for an extra skater, and the Colonials finished off the win.
Quinnipiac beat host UConn 4-2 in the other first-round game to advance to Saturday night's championship game. Yale and UConn play the consolation game at 4 p.m., while Quinnipiac and RMU play for the championship at 7 p.m.
Report by Sam Rubin '95 (email@example.com), Yale Sports Publicity


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Transformers: War for Cybertron challenges players to become the ultimate weapon as a Transformers character in the final, epic war that will determine the survival of their entire race. Armed with a diverse arsenal of lethal, high-tech weaponry and the ability to instantly convert from robot to vehicle at any time, players will engage in heart-pounding battles on land and in the air in this gripping, 3rd person action shooter set in the Transformers' war-ravaged homeland.
Complete with several multiplayer modes, Transformers: War for Cybertron allows gamers to play through story missions with their friends in drop in/drop out online co-op, and also create their own Transformers character for competitive head-to-head multiplayer modes, choosing among four distinct character classes, personalizing its look and selecting from a huge variety of weapons, skills and abilities.
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La Combe is also a city in France! Today, the temperature is 59 degrees fahrenheit.
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original name: La Combe
geographical location: Rodez, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrenees, France, Europe
geographical coordinates: 44° 15' 0" North, 2° 27' 0" East
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My ancestor Andre LaCombe is a great-great-grandchild of pioneer ancestor Pierre Balan Lacombe who came to Quebec from Castillon, Perigueux (Dordogne:) Gironde, France. His father Pierre Balan was from Cantillac (Dordogne : 240079), France.
I am a great-great-great-grandchild of Andre Lacombe, who pioneered the LaCombe family in the Waterville area of Maine. My great-great-grandmother was Andre's daughter Sophie Rosalie Lacombe who married Henri-Jean Poulin (aka John Pooler). They married at a civil ceremony on 27 October 1838 in Skowhegan, Maine and a sacramental marriage took place on 12 January 1841, at St-Francois-de-Beauce, Beauceville, Quebec, Canada.
First LaCombe generation
Sophie Rosalie LACOMBE was born 4 August 1819 in Beauceville. She was baptized the following day St-Francois-de-Beauce, Beauceville, Quebec, Canada. She passed away on 5 May 1904, in Waterville, Kennebec. Maine.
Second LaCombe generation
Andre LACOMBE, born 31 May 1785, St. Vallier, Bellechase, Quebec, Canada
Baptised on 31 May 1785, St. Thomas, Montmagny, Quebec, Canada
Death on 16 September 1863 in Waterville, Kennebec, Maine, USA
married 10 January 1809, St-Francois-d'Assise, Beauceville, Quebec, Canada
Marie Louise aka Josette GAGNE or QUIRION or ROY or --------
Born circa 1787 to 1782 Beauceville, Quebec, Canada?
Death 1850 in Waterville, Kennebec, Maine, USA
Third LaCombe generation
Joseph Marie BALAN LACOMBE
Born 26 January 1746 St. Vallier, Bellechase, Quebec
married 11 February 1765, Berthier-en-Bas, Quebec
Marie Josette CARBONNEAU dit PROVENCAL
Born 17 April 1745 Berthier-en-Bas, Quebec
Fourth LaCombe generation
Joseph Marie BALAN LACOMBE
Born 14 Nov 1710, St. Jean, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec
Baptized 16 Nov 1710, St. Jean, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec
Death 30 March 1777, Berthier-en-Bas, Quebec
Burial 31 March 1777, Berthier-en-Bas, Quebec
married 10 July 1736, Berthier-en-Bas, Quebec
Marie Anne COULOMBE
Born La Durantaye, Quebec
Baptized 30 May 1719, Beaumont, Quebec
Death 22 Oct 1754, Berthier, Quebec
BALAN LACOMBE m. COULOMBE
Chart of BALAN LACOMBE m. COULOMBE posted on GENEANET
Fifth LaCombe generation
Pierre BALAN LACOMBE
Born 1 January 1683, Lauzon, Quebec
Baptized 15 January 1683, Lauzon, Quebec
Death 10 January 1749, Quebec, Quebec
married 17 Jam 1708 St. Francois, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec
Elisabeth CHARTIER
Born 15 February 1690, St. Francois, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec
Baptized 17 February 1690, St. Francois, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec
Death 10 Oct 1714, St. Francois, Ile d'Orleans, Quebec
BALAN LACOMBE m. CHARTIER
married 9 June 1672, Quebec, Quebec, New France
Renee BIRETTE
Born La Rochelle, Aunis, (Charente-Maritime) France
Death circa 14 March 1715
Burial 14 March 1715 Beaumont, Quebec
BALAN LACOMBE m. BIRETTE
Pierre Balan-Lacombe, from Cantillac, France
Pierre Balan-Lacombe is the ancestor of the largest family using this name in Quebec. Born in France around 1642, son of Pierre and Perinne Courrier, he departed from a village called Cantillac. He came to Canada in 1665 with the Carignan regiment as a soldier in the Companie de Labrisardiere. After he finished serving with this regiment, he chose to settle in Canada. He married Renée Birette (daughter of Jean Birette and Simone Perinne) at Notre Dame in Quebec City on June 9, 1672. Pierre obtained lands on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the region of St-Michel de Bellechasse. The lands were originally part of the seigneurie owned by Sieur Oliver Morel de la Durantaye. There, they raised their numerous children. Pierre Balan-Lacombe died at 47 around the year 1688. Renee Birette, then widow, married Jean Brias-Latreille. She died in 1715. Today's descendants of Pierre Balan-Lacombe are located in most parts of Quebec, and also in Ontario and in the United States (mainly in New England). A more comprehensive work on Pierre Balan-Lacombe is available from the l'Association des Lacombe, Inc.
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Pierre BALAN
married before 1645, from Cantillac (Dordogne : 240079), France
Perrine COURIER
BALAN m. COURIER
The above links are to the families of that generation.
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State and county officials envision the marketplace as a portal where any government agency can research and access a host of government solutions.
A new IT partnership between Oakland County, Mich. and the state of Michigan has begun. Called the G2G Marketplace, both entities predict that it will not only save taxpayers money, but also expand cloud computing options for government-based software in the state.
As the National Association of Counties (NACo) reported, the partners have issued a request for qualification from national IT companies to implement their plans.
"Collaborating with the state will broaden our ability to offer low-cost technology solutions to other governments," Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson told NACo.
Though savings are expected, it's still too early to quantify the amount -- that will occur once the private sector begins responding with proposals, according to Phil Bertolini, deputy county manager and CIO.
The vision for the G2G Marketplace? "A multimedia-rich information portal" that any government agency can use to research and access ecommerce, website hosting and other government solutions, NACo reported -- and it's not specific to Michigan or Oakland County. It's open to all governments to submit and share their own products and services, which Bertolini said may attract more private-sector companies.
Expected benefits of the G2G Marketplace, which will be accessible via desktop, laptop, smartphone, tablet or other mobile device, are less time and fewer resources necessary to investigate vendor products and services, and to draft complex contracts and agreements with vendors.
For Michigan CIO David Behen, GIS is a great example of a shared service where one entity can act as service provider, and governments can purchase that service versus building their own capacity.
"The best part here is that it's about governments sharing technology with other governments," Bertolini added. "I think that's what everybody needs today with the tough economy."


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Cricket. Now theres a sport that stepped in history, heritage and culture. From the evocative names such as Lords, Headingley, The Oval and the 'G, to the origins of the game itself, Cricket is literally dripping in tradition and history.
Look at the teams that play Test Cricket – England, Australia, India, South Africa, West Indies, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Pakistan, Bangladesh. All former British colonies. Cricket was exported as a genteel game for the well-to-do by Brits abroad in the mid Nineteenth Century, during the height of the British Empire. In the same manner, Polo became popular in the Indian-Subcontinent, and Rugby in South Africa and the Antipodes. Fine example of sport having strong cultural roots.
Empire History is even evoked in song: 'Captain Cook only stopped for a shit', 'You all live in a convict colony', and even 'we come with rucksacks, you came with a ball and chain'. The banter even goes into national stereotypes – one Barmy Army t-shirt has on it 'Your nation has been found guilty of being a barbecue-obsessed, Olympic-whinging, rugby-choking, mullet-sporting lazy bunch of convicts. I hereby sentence you to another 200 years of having a chip on your shoulder'. Classic.
Cricket tends to remember and cherish its history better than most games. While most Pompey fans have no idea who Jimmy Dickinson was, all English cricket fans will know hallowed names like Grace, Trueman, Cowdrey, Boycott and Botham. Stands at Cricket Grounds are almost always named after ex-players. The Pavillions hark back to the old days of the sport, reminding us of roots long before newer larger steel and concrete stands. Lords in particular is a cricketing world all of its own – the Long Room, old father time, the Museum, and even the new media centre.
The other thing about Cricket is that due to the way its played – and its long history – its a statto's wet dream. Virtually every match sees some record or other being broken, be it individual, team, partnership, or batting, bowling, fielding or whatever. There's even a Society of Cricket Statisticians out there. I don't think it would be inaccurate to say that players play with one eye on their statistics – their averages and their place on the honours boards, for example. And even in a moral sense, events such as the miracle of Headingley in 1981, the infamous Bodyline tour in the 1930's and even the story of the little urn itself… they hang over the sport like some kind of mystical cloud.
The Culture of Cricket is also legendary. Hence the phrase, 'its just not Cricket', implying that certain things are just not on. Such as claiming a catch when you know it didnt carry, or staying at the crease when you know the ball took a nick. These sorts of values encapsulate the old-fashioned British sense of fair play, and for many people transcend the sport. Sadly these have been less in evidence in recent years – Australian arrogance in success and bitterness in defeat (see Ricky Ponting, also see 'worlds worst loser'), and numerous ball-tampering, match-fixing and spot-betting allegations. But there are still examples of sportsmanship – how Adam Gilchrist used to walk of his own accord, and Freddie Flintoff consoling Brett Lee after the second test at Edgbaston in 2005, for example.
Thats not to say that I agree with all things to do with Cricket. The 'old boys club' part of it does make me feel like projectile vomiting – especially at Lords when you have the wonderful spectacle of row upon row of portly gentleman sat in MCC Blazer, who couldn't chase a ball across the outfield if their life depended on it. I abhor snobbery in all its forms, and especially in sport. The snobs who criticise the Barmy Army for standing up and daring to support their team should just go home and listen on the radio. They're the same ilk who years ago held that batsmen were 'gentlemen', and bowlers were 'amateurs'. Pathetic.
But yes: to cut a long story short, I'm looking forward to watching England knock the Aussies all over Sydney again, it will be particularly sweet.
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Based on the 2008 movie of the same name starring Angelina Jolie, "Wanted" sold only 100,000 units in the U.S. in its first month, generating under $6 million in retail revenue. High-quality games like "Wanted" typically cost $20 million or more to produce, before marketing costs.According to the article, all of Universal's movies that feature some kind of videogame potential are now going to be farmed out to other publishers.
Universal probably wants to be cautious about money-losing ancillary ventures in a year when its movies generally have performed poorly at the box office. "Weapons of Fate" was hurt by production delays that saw it come out nine months after the movie hit theaters and three months after the movie was released on DVD. That meant it wasn't able to benefit from the studio's substantial marketing campaign for the film.
Sling your hook, Mr. Two Guns...
Bryn says: For a moment there, I thought that Universal was taking a stand against trashy games based on movies. But sadly it looks like it just doesn't want to deal them internally. Sigh. When will these people realize that we just don't need this kind of tat on our systems?
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What could be sexier than some sweet pillows of love in your mouth? She will melt as the gnocchi melts in her mouth. Eating gnocchi is the second best thing you can do with your mouth after kissing! It is great to share and feed each other the little dumplings.
Pumpkin Gnocchi Dumplings
- 1 lb. potatoes, cooked until soft and mashed
- 1 lb. pumpkin flesh, roasted until soft and mashed
- 1 cup parmesan cheese, grated
- ½ tsp. ground nutmeg
- 2-3 cups of flour
- 20 sage leaves
- 2 tbs. butter
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Mix the cooked mashed potatoes with the cooked pumpkin (squeeze with a towel if flesh is too wet) in a standing mixer with paddle attachment. Set speed to low.
- Add grated Parmesan cheese, nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste while mixer is running.
- Add about 2 or 3 cups (3 if potato mixture is too wet) of flour and mix uniformly.
- Remove the pumpkin/potato dough from mixer and shape it into fist size ball. Roll it into cigar-shaped pieces and cut it with a knife in dumplings, about 1 inch pieces.
- Cook them in salted boiling water until dumplings float to top, about 3-5 minutes. 6. Top dumplings with brown butter sage: Cook 20 leaves of sage in 2 tbs. of butter in a skillet over low fire until butter is browned and sage is crisp, about 5 minutes.


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NYO-USA: On the Intricacies of Applause
Nina Morales, a violinist from Spring Hill, Florida, noticed some differences between audiences in the United States and Russia. Read more about her experience performing in Moscow.
After saying goodbye to Washington D.C., the last bit of American soil for the rest of the tour, and going on a flight that seemed to span a few consecutive days, NYO arrived in Moscow. This was our first concert overseas, away from the home crowd that was often comprised of enthusiastic, supportive parents. This concert would be the acid test, I thought, to determine if our orchestra was worthy. Russians, I was told, take their classical music seriously.
Now, I am unfamiliar with the general mood of Russian audiences, having never traveled to this country before but they seemed eager to give NYO a chance. The concert was sold out, without an empty seat in the Moscow Conservatory Hall. Decorated with the portraits of famous composers, the booming hall also didn't have air conditioning, so playing or sitting in such an energized room was a commitment in itself.
We began with Shepherd's Magiya, which was received with polite applause, though a bit more subdued than the previous concerts. Perhaps this was a combination of unfamiliarity with the piece and the politeness of the audience itself, but it is difficult to draw any conclusions, having had no prior Russian concert experiences.
Next came the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Joshua Bell. This is a well-loved, virtuosic staple in the violin repertoire and probably familiar to everyone in attendance. I wondered how it would be received - this glorious piece of music written by a composer whose statue greets guests at the entrance of the conservatory and whose giant portrait gazes serenely inside the hall itself.
The first movement of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, with its long length and high voltage, conclusive ending, always seems to elicit enthusiastic applause from the audience - despite the concerto being far from over. Would this audience clap between movements, I wondered, or would they mistake the first movement for the end of the piece (which happens so often, it's become customary)?
The first movement ended and I waited. Silence. The audience knew. THEY KNEW NOT TO CLAP and for once, the lack of applause pleased me. Then, after about 10 seconds, some noises of appreciation trickled in, and some applause came from the audience. This response was even better to me somehow – they were aware that the piece wasn't over, but still wanted to recognize Joshua Bell's well-executed performance of the gigantic first movement. It showed me this Russian audience was conscious of concert etiquette - and appreciative! I loved it.
Then, when we really did finish the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto - to the racing, roaring end of the rapid third movement - the applause came. Not as bombastic as the two concerts in America, which elicited immediate cheers and screaming, but the strongest applause of the concert yet, appreciative and polite, punctuated by some "Bravo's" from more verbal members of the audience. Slowly some people stood up, and what I didn't expect was the clapping to grow, and then fall into rhythm, the audience keeping a beat of their own. Joshua Bell went on and off the stage countless times, and the longevity of the applause led us to play the encore - Tchaikovsky's Melodie.
Joshua Bell pointed to the aforementioned portrait of Tchaikovsky before we played the encore, a gesture that seemed to fit the moment, a salute to rich Russian culture. But what I didn't expect was the clapping to continue so long even after our encore – enough to convince Joshua Bell to come out with a SECOND encore, a point which we had never reached yet, and didn't know existed until tonight. Cheerfully playing Vieuxtemps's "Yankee Doodle" Variations, Joshua Bell ended the first half on something distinctly American, parallel to our encore for the second half of the program.
After intermission came Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10, another piece by a great Russian composer during a turbulent time period. Having spent a day in Russia, this piece gained another dimension in my mind, as I pondered over the people I had observed and the juxtaposition of old and new at every corner of the city. Soaking in the atmosphere changed my perspective - and my performance in an unidentifiable way.
We finished the massive first movement of the piece - a remarkable work by itself that seems to portray the complexity of a journey of many years, filled with a range of ebbing and flowing emotions. It ends with a slow fade into silence with a lone piccolo solo, not with a bang like the first movement of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. And yet, people clapped. This was so unexpected to me – there's no sort of fake ending or rousing finale to incite the audience into applause, just fragility and uncertainty that melts into silence. This touched me the most out of all the applause we received tonight - the audience had gone with us on the long journey through the first movement and applauded because it was moving. They clapped between movements, and once again, it didn't bother me. I felt like they had really understood and appreciated our music by giving us recognition at the end of the first movement - a connection, shared by 120 members of the orchestra and the hundreds of people in the audience, that somehow seemed intimate.
We finished the symphony and encore to many cheers and a standing ovation, which seemed easier to draw from the crowd as the mood brightened with our lighthearted, distinctly American encore of Porgy and Bess.We stood up and down as Maestro Gergiev was forced to come back to the stage countless times to receive the admiration of the crowd. Whatever applause we received, it seemed to be on the very enthusiastic side of a typical Russian audience.
In hindsight, I noticed another thing about the audience in Moscow – they don't fidget, or cough, or get up from their seats mid-movement, or leave their cell phones on, bring in crying children, unwrap cellophane-covered candy, or cause any of those typical distractions that you've been trained to ignore while playing in classical music concerts. I don't know how many more anecdotes I can add to show how striking the level of awareness, consideration, and attentiveness there was from the audience at the concert.
The US ambassador to Russia, Mr. Michael McFaul, addressed NYO at dinner, thanked us for our performance, which he believed strengthened relationships with Russia by transcending political issues through music. I think that we did unconsciously try to convey a few things tonight, like paying homage to great Russian composers, fostering international friendships between the shared American and Russian culture that is balanced so well on our program and of course, a sense of gratitude for listening to our music. In response, I think we received some sort of thanks back – or whatever sort of approving emotion one may construe from a nod of the head or a slight smile from a previously taciturn audience member.
In comparison, it was the gentlest response to our playing out of all of the concerts on tour, but by far, the most gratifying for me. Through our music, I think they might have understood our message, and I, theirs - all without having to speak a single word of Russian.


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The Westside Pioneer asked the District 3 candidates for basic personal information and to respond to a question. The personal information pertained to age, family, career and time in District 3 (which covers the southwest part of the city).
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
John McClelland (1919 - )
McClelland was born in Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1919. He began his education at Alabama Polytechnic Institute and finished it at the Art Career School of New York. His illustration work first appeared in Collier's in 1947.
This work above and below, from various 1951 and 1952 issues of Woman's Day magazine, is representative of McClelland's experimentation with style and technique during the early period of his professional career.
Below, a series of illustrations from Cosmopolitan magazine from 1953 by John McClelland.
Once again, we see McClelland trying something a little different.
While none of what McClelland was attempting could be called wildly experimental...
... it still seems like he was not interested in settling for one way of doing things, as many other artists who found their comfort zone typically did.
Then, in August 1958, John McClelland did something dramatic!
What could have compelled John McClelland to transform himself with such a radical stylistic departure?
Was it a restless spirit? was it the encouragement of Cosmo's forward-thinking AD, Robert C. Atherton?
Or did McClelland, like so many other illustrators of the 1950s, sense that the more literal, realistic, painterly illustration styles were falling out of favour among magazine clients?
Whatever it was, for the next several years, John McClelland infused his work with a distinctly more graphic approach.
If this new direction was successful for the artist, I cannot say. I have too few examples of McClelland's work to get a good grasp on what his circumstances were at the time.
Walt Reed's book, The Illustrator in America, includes John McClelland's biography. Walt writes that McClelland went on to great success as a portrait artist. Later in his career he returned to his native Georgia - settling in Savannah - where he co-founded the Landings Art Association.
In the 1980s, McClelland won several awards for his paintings reproduced on collector's plates. He was still actively working around the year 2000, conducting occasional workshops and participating in regional exhibitions. I was not able to find any more recent information on the artist.
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He lived in my home town of New Canaan CT. His daughter Susan McClelland was my sister's best friend.ReplyDelete
No wonder you never get my comments. This site asked for my comment, which was long and involved.After I wrote a long and involved comment it erased the whole thing when I decided how to send it I am now re-posting that I am Susan McClelland and am sitting next to my father John McClelland! He was so thrilled to see this page! He is 95 and a stroke 3 years ago, so he does not paint anymore unfortunately. The illustration of the cat in the foreground and a couple in the background is hanging on the wall in front of me. Please contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com or 912-660-7465. It would mean so much to my Dad!ReplyDelete
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I have a wooden decopage ? a little girl blonde holding stuffed animal signed by john my dad born in 19 but was in junk business and got burned at 92 and died after fighting for amonth and now his son is throwing out everything of his collection of things from scraping to the dump and I can't stop him and am being kept from my mother I need a lawyer your lucky you have no siblings that are rude and meanReplyDelete
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Eh, I cant decide. Would have preferred a happy ending but the one they gave it worked.
Great show!
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This has been discussed over and over I'm sure. At first I thought Hayami was a spirit like Otoha (and she may be, the ending is open to interpretation) but from what Otoha said I like to believe that Hayami is in fact alive again.
Despite what others have posted I believe she did die. I mean if she cared for Hirose so much how could she have stayed away for so many years. One might argue that it was to keep Hirose from regressing but it was clear he was cured from the moment he remembered the truth about what happened to his mother. She did die... :(
As fantastic as it was the ending was great. I keep wondering if Hayami was real or a spirit. The one thing that would have cleared up the debate is if others could see Hayami but I guess I'll just have to wonder. If she was real then did that mean that Otoha was real this time?
Anyhow, enough aching about that I could go on and on... I do hope this is re-released, perhaps with a dub this time. Either way its a must buy if it is re-released.
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Its very good I totally understood
Her mom didn't suicide she saved a life
Like what hayami-chan did
That's the most effective cure for hirose's sickness
Then hayami-chan died but resurrected
And they lied happily ever after the fuckk~~
Its something like a realistic fairy tale
What life? Who's life?
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I really enojyed this series, which surprised me, given the background art of the various characters posing in bathing suits-- which makes it look like yet another fanservice-laden harem show, and a forgettable guilty pleasure at best. Instead, the story gripped me right at episode one. Hirose Takuma is a male lead character with real integrity, and both he and Kohinata Hayami well exemplified in my mind the saying "do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good" within the limits of a frail fallen human nature. I found myself really caring for those two, and wanting good things for them in the end, after all they've been through. The ending really ripped a jagged tear in my heart
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when Hayami dies just as Takuma regains his sight and sanity. Because I so wanted them to be happy together forever, I think I can accept the deus ex machina (well put-- quoting an earlier person's comment) of Otoha magically bringing Hayami back, but I think it would have been dramatically fine or even best to have ended the story right after Takuma finishes the windmill. While we all would like a happy ending, being an adult in real life is taking the bad along with the good, and not being defeated by the former nor spoiled by the latter.
Well I agree with you about "in real life is taking the bad along the good, and not being defeated by the former nor spoiled by the latter". And while I kind of wish they had gone with that approach in the "Clannad: After Story" anime.....I don't think that would have worked for me in this one.
I for one would have been severely disappointed if they hadn't brought back Hayami and ended it at the completion of the windmill because I felt she had suffered unfairly so much to this point and didn't deserve this kind of end. There's a fine line between having a truly sad ending and going too far and ending up with a horrible story overall. All during the train scene near the end from the moment you see a close up of their hands and she started pulling away to save that kid, my jaw dropped and my eyes were bulging and I was like "OHNOOHNOOHNOONOOOO", all the way until that part with Otoha saying she convinced the spirit council. If that hadn't happend, I shudder to think what my mental state would be right now.
As implausible as the happy ending was, I was willing to take it. Even though it did seem kind of like cheating, I figure if they got away with it in "Clannad", then it would work here.since in both series "magical realism", a narrative style where magical/fantasy elements have a part in what would otherwise be regarded as a "realistic setting", is used. So to have that Deus ex machina moment at the end is acceptable. Well for me at least, 'cuz I sooooo wanted to have Hayami get a good ending. Especially after seeing her get all those beat downs at the hands of everyone else, even Takuma at that one point out in the rain. And especially since she really didn't deserve that, even though she may have felt she did at the time because everyone believed her family drove Takuma's mother to suicide, when it was revealed later that was not actually the case.
Yeah, Hayami definitely deserved the happiest of happy endings because of all this and I am so glad it turned out well for them.
Point taken. :-) I just chalk it up to dramatic license, and come away still having enjoyed a fine series. It was time well spent. And yes, if anyone in H2O can be said to deserve some happiness in life, I'd say Hayami would be one. Maybe "Clannad" will be worth watching too-- I've heard the name many times, but have never seen it. Alas, while there's plenty of crap in anime, there are also gems out there too, and just not enough time amidst the other pressures in life to see all the good ones!
And yeah, I'd probably buy the DVD (and I wouldn't mind at all if it was subs-only-- but that's just me...) if an official U.S. release ever comes into being.
KaiserSoei, sorry, I know how you feel. I wish they had chosen a different road, but the way the ending is designed, her coming back is just a cathartic element. It's clear that she died, and she needed to in order to create the symmetry (death of mother, death of first love). She had to die in order for the statement, "Accept all of it" to make any sense. He has to accept ALL of it, including this final loss. Her living would invalidate her smile at the last moment, she's smiling because she knows she's fulfilled her mission in life--awakening the love of her life.
Let's assume she came back as a spirit at the end, even then, can he have babies with a spirit? If they do a sequel with that in mind, it would have to be a pure fantasy show, not the magical realist show they created here.
As for Clannad, I found it to be more heart wrenching in the end, because you get to know the characters for span of over 40 episodes instead of just 12. At least an entire third of a season is after the first big gut shocker/tragedy in Clannad:After Story (you know which episode I mean).
Also, is it too much to ask for an anime where the couple just lives out a tumultuous but ultimately normal relationship for many years instead of a few snatched moments of happiness before some long gutwrenching problem/tragedy or whatnot? Guess it wouldn't be tearjerker anime otherwise, I guess *sigh*'
Indeed, It was all clear how everybody was.
Some anime doesn't end that way so im kinda happy the producers made the ending very clear.
I liked how it ended. If you ask me i think this is the best ending among the anime I've watch yet because in the end they showed how or who did everyone ended with but i might be wrong there might be an anime that i have already watched that ended the same way but anyways all i can say is that "Its a master piece" and "Its so nice to in love"
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I'm glad they didn't completely leave it "open ended" like many anime shows has started to do in the past few years. Finding closure is a plus to me, vs having to wonder and being left with that empty feeling to the story.
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I really loved the ending to this, so bittersweet & emotional...I cried my eyes out
I love the end, though i wish it was a little longer, i want to see how things worked out! They should have at least hugged!!! i want more, SEASON 2 PLEASE!!!
One more episode... One more... more.. more! MORE!
Honestly, i think that what would have left me most satisfied is that he fall to his knees and cry as he did in the flashbacks with his mom, but as hes falling to peices a voice calls out to him. He looks up to see Hayami. Shes next to the tracks as the train has missed her, she has saved the boy and herself. Hayami has been treated so poorly through this show and i truly felt sorry for her. I wanted more than anything in the world for her and Hirose to end up together. I'm truly a sucker for happy endings!! I cryed so hard when she died!!! Hayami deserved better, She deserves love, Hirose's love. From the beginning i know who i want the guy to end up with, thats how i am when i watch anime, but it seems that the one i pick is never the one that gets the guy. When Hirose gave Hayami the bell it made me wanna cry tears of joy! I loved this show, i didnt want it to end!!!
One more episode... One more... more.. more! MORE!
i don't know easy to understand but. i dont really sea if she died or lived. and the old man was just looking for power that's why he told the blind poor kid that hayami-chans family killed his mother because it will affect hirose psychologically. a little satisfied but still thinking i want to see hirose having a family and being cured. And is he blinded psychologically or physically?
I fell in love with this anime!!!
99.9% Chance I Will Hate You <3
I was expecting an ending similar to School Days. But im really glad that it wasnt like that lets just say that.
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RIDGEFIELD, Conn. -- "Brook Farm," a 1905 Ridgefield home that was once owned by playwright Eugene O'Neill, has been listed for sale by Sotheby's International Realty.
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