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|2013-02-10, 04:25
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I don't think ep 19 will be count as Kud's arc.
I think it will be like Mio's case with ep 10,it served as an introduction to the arc,then have a common ep in the middle then the real start begin.
And where the hell is that Kengo's event ?
|2013-02-10, 04:51
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Maybe I'm misremembering stuff from the VN, but it seemed to me that Mio not responding to the phone call was sign that time is perhaps progressing backwards? I think the reason that Mio didn't respond is because she's basically disappeared out the world (like in her route). The reason that Riki has been so effective/confident up to now is because he already unlocked the other routes and is just pre-refrain in effectiveness. Maybe it's just my crazy idea, but it seems interesting haha.
|2013-02-10, 04:52
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|2013-02-10, 05:13
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But in the first anime PV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e-z9B4vPZ8
We saw Kengo with his LB jacket
And then in the 2nd PV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJihmk8qE7k
At 0:41 isnt that a scene from Refrain ?
|2013-02-10, 10:42
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From the OP, it looks like Kud's arc will be the last major arc for this season. I don't think Yuiko's arc will be in this season because a major arc requires at least 3 episodes and there are filler episodes in between arcs. Thus episodes 24-26 will be fillers.
|2013-02-28, 20:32
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Little Busters executive producer Kawase Kouhei: We can go as far to Kud Wafter. We'll adapt them all.
|2013-03-01, 01:34
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Well, I suspect that the Kud episodes would have full of very subtle ship Riki-Kud ship teasing, while the eventual Post-Refrain Kud Wafter adaptation would built ontop of it, and presented as the true blossomning of the hints in the Anime Kud Route.
And anime only viewers would be arguing whether Kud, Kurguaya or Rin represents the "true" heroine.
|2013-03-02, 03:43
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|2013-03-03, 02:15
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"Little Busters executive producer Kawase Kouhei: We can go as far as messing with Kud Wafter. We'll butcher them all."
is what I saw
Anyway,since the anime will end on episode 25 and assuming Kud's arc is from ep 21-23,I guess Kurugaya's arc won't be included after all.
Spoiler for Saya:
And what's the point of doing this again ? It's like she can only be seen through HD LOL
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|2013-03-04, 05:20
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I theorize that JC Staff is currently trying to animate the Kud Route in such a way that Kud Wafter can be built on-top of it. Hence, the stripping of romance in a certain manner - or at least, the reduction to nothing more but hints.
So far, the entirety of Kud's arc seems like it could easily remain consistent with Kud Wafter. I think JC Staff is actually doing Kud's route with Kud Wafter in mind, but that's only a theory.
How long do you think a Kud Wafter animation needs to do it justice? My only knowledge comes from the Kud Wafter manga, and I suspect just based on it alone that a single or even two OVAs may not be enough. 13, if not 26 episodes might be needed, unless they butcher it. Then again, some people here seem to think they'd butcher a theoretical Kud Wafter adaptation anyway. Personally, I think Kud Wafter is actually easier to adapt, but I am simply basing this from the first ten chapters of the manga alone.
|2013-03-04, 06:40
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I haven't played KW yet but I heard it taken place in an alternative world apart from the original.
So it doesn't matter how the original is processing,KW will still be fine because it's just a what if scenario and doesn't have much to do with he original itself.
In fact,I highly think KW would still be okay even if it's a stand alone anime without the current original anime adaption.
But ofc,that was just my guess because I haven't play KW yet.
And I'm okay with a KW movie :P
|2013-03-05, 14:19
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|2013-03-09, 11:32
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Episode 23 :
Bad news from Kud homeland is on TV daily news.
Riki started to feel regret because he think he might have made the wrong choice for Kud.He prayed for her safety while holding on to the rocket part.
Episode 24 :
Rin used to be shy and has difficult communicated with everyone,but now has open up herself thanks to Komari.
Lenon brought another mission telling them to do a puppet show.The team cooperate to make a children show.Komari help write the story while Rin make the puppet.Riki also help them,at the time Riki noticed Komari's "The eight dwarfs" story.
Episode 25 :
The first Little Busters baseball game is coming,but the team still only have 8 members excluding the manager.They still short by 1 more member but Kyosuke seem to have some kind of plan in mind.
The Kendo toutament is almost here,something seem to happened between Kengo and someone from the archery club.
Riki saw Kengo talking in serious manner with Miyuki.
Episode 26 :
One day before their first game,Kyosuke suddenly leave the leader position to Riki.
Riki is confused and worry on how to bring the team member together.
So I guess Kurugaya fans is full of relief for now.
|2013-03-10, 06:24
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I still think it will be 25 episodes.
|2013-03-10, 07:15
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Moe Kyun~!
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i woke up from the haze of adjusting back to new york time to find myself in the wednesday before thanksgiving. feasts, decorations, turkey dances at school, frenzied but fun food preparation at home filled the day. then thursday came. more preparation, a subway ride to the west side to catch the last 20 minutes of the parade (perfect- when we first arrived there was a marching band completely obscured by the 1/2-block-deep crowd ahead of us, no giant balloons in sight.. but there were plenty of street vendors selling very average sized balloons all around us. ruthie, on my shoulders; "ooooh! there sure are a lot of balloons! look at that princess balloon! oh i love these balloon parades, mom, i love it!" then the pilsbury doughboy poked his head around the dakota and blew her mind. then, just minutes later, to a wildly cheering crowd santa-- the REAL santa-- showed himself. eve; "the REAL santa came to visit us just to make us thankful?! he came early? so totally awesome."), return home, grab the food, grab the kids and, cleverly avoiding most traffic, arrive in the suburbs to spend a dreamy day in a house full of friends and insanely delicious food. i love thanksgiving.
the few next days brought sleepovers with family, our third round of fairly severe colds for the season, december, and me sitting and sniffling and behind on everything. but through the haze of jetlag and head cold i am so very happy to be home and so very happy to give my thailand report as soon as i can gather myself and my photos.
until that magical day, i'll share some photos that the talented photographer, kelsey foster, took of the girls back in october. the moment kelsey contacted me about possibly setting up a shoot with the girls in some of the clothes i've designed for them, i was giddy. her photos are lovely and she is just the right amount of sweet and easy going. watching her patience with the girls - who were ridiculous that morning - was entertaining and endearing. also, the fact that i'm pretty sure she saved charlie from getting trampled by waiters at least three times makes me especially fond of her.
kelsey chose the roebling tea room for the shoot. a great choice. the food was fresh (which made charlie happy), the light was beautiful (which made the girls happy- sunshine!) and the place was virtually empty until the moment we began to make our way out (which made me happy. especially in the moment when charlie was yelling and writhing in my arms, ruth was writhing on the floor because i took a drink of her juice and eve was running along the bench at full speed).
kelsey, thank you again! meeting you was wonderful and the pictures are beautiful and so fun.
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The days between Christmas and New Year's Day are probably the best time of the year for PR pros to regroup, relax and ruminate on what's in store for the next few months. As many communicators take some time off (and the thermostat heads south) we thought it was a good time to recommend some of the best PR movies.
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Hello to all. I have been 'lurking' for a while and am diligently working my way through all the old threads (yes, all of them!) and I have been learning lots and lots.You certainly are a knowledgeable bunch. I have several questions,but expect I will find the answer to some yet, so will hang fire. But this one I could do with a little help with for starters.
Heating my oven. Nearly all recipes say to heat the oven for at least an hour to just about the hottest setting (for a domestic oven anyway). I simply cannot afford to heat my oven for that long and have no choice other than to bake bread as soon as it reaches temperature (I have an oven thermometer so know that my oven is pretty accurate). I know that the heat is needed for good oven spring . So, bearing in mind that I can't preheat for hours, what can I do to get the best spring possible? I have an enameled steel pot with lid that works as a substitute dutch oven, many baking sheets and pans and various tins. I use a tray that I fill with hot water in the bottom of the oven for steam. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated, thank you.


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NIU Huskies defense poses threat to Seminoles with tackles for loss, sacks
Northern Illinois' defense didn't return a fumble or interception for a touchdown this season nor did it come up with a safety. When the Huskies defense comes up with big plays, it's in terms of tackles for loss, in which they were ninth in the nation, and sacks, in which they were 11th.
They usually do it with their front four, led by Nabal Jefferson (9.5 sacks) and Sean Progar (8.5). Florida State's EJ Manuel might force a change.
"Obviously, his foot speed and his size (6-5, 240) present some different issues you might not face with other quarterbacks other weeks," Northern defensive coordinator Jay Niemann said.
"So we'll have to consider bringing in a fifth rusher at times if that's what the down and distance and field-position situation calls for."
Florida State is 67th in the nation in sacks allowed, 2.00 per game while Northern gets 2.92 sacks per game.
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Northern Illinois, a 131/2-point underdog in most Las Vegas sports books, can guarantee the Mid-American Conference a .500 bowl record this season with an upset Tuesday.
Ball State lost to Central Florida 38-17 in the Beef 'O'Brady's St. Petersburg Bowl on Dec. 21, and Bowling Green lost to San Jose State 29-20 in Thursday's Military Bowl.
The MAC got two wins against Sun Belt Conference teams: Central Michigan, 24-21 over Western Kentucky in Wednesday's Little Ceasar's Pizza Bowl; and Ohio University, 45-14 over Louisiana-Monroe in Friday's Advocare 100 Independence Bowl. Kent State of the MAC plays Arkansas State in the Godaddy.com Bowl on Jan. 6.
Potential draftees
Florida State sends players to the NFL annually. Northern Illinois sends players to the NFL occasionally. Things might be different for the latter this year after another 10-win season.
"I've been doing this over 20 years now and what I can tell you is what an NFL scout sees might be completely different than what I see," Niemann said. "There's surprises every year, guys you think might be at that level don't get taken and guys who you don't think are taken.
"So, I'll leave that up to them. We have a lot of good football players in our system that are worthy of that consideration, and where all that goes I guess we'll find out when spring rolls around."


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Republican congressional leaders are "doing the bidding of the gun lobby" by zealously pursuing Attorney General Eric Holder over Operation Fast and Furious, a leader of national gun-control forces said this afternoon.
Brady Campaign President Dan Gross blasted the GOP leadership after House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy and House Investigations & Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding immediate answers about the botched drug-tracking operation.
"A strong whiff of hypocrisy rises from the letter sent today to Attorney General Holder by the House leadership," Gross said in a statement released by the Brady Campaign, a leading gun-control organization. "Speaker Boehner and his colleagues pretend to be concerned about the harm Operation Fast & Furious has done to our relationship to Mexico, but they cannot explain why the House of Representatives, under their leadership, has done nothing to respond to the Mexican government's desperate pleas for the Congress to strengthen American gun laws to stop gun trafficking from American gun shops to the Mexican drug cartels."
The Brady Campaign is named for Jim Brady, the former press secretary to Ronald Reagan who was gravely wounded in the attempted assassination of the 40th president.
Gross blamed the GOP for standing in the way of efforts to combat the illegal smuggling of U.S. weapons to Mexican drug cartels.
"The House Republican leadership decries the failure of U.S. authorities to prevent illegal guns from crossing the border, yet the House recently voted to block an Obama administration effort to give the authorities a vital additional tool to fight trafficking of assault rifles to Mexico," he said.
Gross said Boehner refuses to meet with victims of gun violence, even as he traveled to Florida "to meet with the leaders of the gun industry."
"It is difficult to take seriously these attacks on Attorney General Holder from congressional leaders who show, at every turn, that they are more concerned with doing the bidding of the gun lobby than with protecting the safety of American — and Mexican — families," declared Gross.


text: Neb00rs 2,464 Posted February 21, 2014 (edited) I am sad to say that from the moment I saw the U.S. roster announced, I knew that I could never root for this team of Zach Parises. Keep in mind I have ALWAYS loyally supported U.S. teams in any and every sport. This year, it just was too much. I have listed, just as a reminder, the roster of this team below. Dustin Brown - Just plain dirty. Ryan Callahan - a Ranger Patrick Kane - do I really have to explain? Ryan Kesler - ugh Max 'poor me' Pacioretty Zach Parise - douchebag # 1 was already planning on joining his boyfriend Suter in Minnesota when the Devils were still in the playoffs Ryan Suter - douchebag #2 he needed to play closer to his home, his boyfriend, and his mommy Derek Stepan - another Ranger James van Riemsdyk - a former Flyer and current Maple Leaf. Originally a Rangers fan from New Jersey Paul Martin - ditched the Devils for the Pittsburgh Penguins as soon as the opportunity arose Ryan McDonagh - yet ANOTHER Ranger Brooks 'Why am I on this team?' Orpik - 'Oh yeah, thanks Dan Blysma' Ryan Miller - couldn't help himself from being a sore winner and loser against the Devils and Adam Henrique Jonathan Quick - as noted in the below article, just an all around a$$hole Of course, leaving off Bobby Ryan, one of our best scorers, because of politics and omitting Andy Greene and Keith Yandle also proved to be quite bothersome. Also this article, by a Canadian journalist, does get kind of obnoxious in the second half, but his points on our players are right and reminded me that I wanted to post something like this: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/olympics-fourth-place-medal/canada-will-win--is-in-every-way-better-than-the-usa-at-hockey-064053898.html He includes some players I don't even have a problem with but more power to him!: The American roster is simply dotted with objectively bad people.Ryan Suter and Zach Parise abandoned the teams that drafted them in an act of despicable collusion and greed, signing twin contracts worth nearly $200 million with the Minnesota Wild. That's nearly more than the gross domestic product of Palau.Speaking of greed, Derek Stepan held out on the New York Rangers, refusing to join his teammates at training camp until he was paid more millions.And speaking of the draft, Blake Wheeler refused to sign an entry-level contract with the Phoenix Coyotes, leaving a team that wanted him, and believed he could help them, in the lurch. The Coyotes declared bankruptcy soon after. The city of Glendale, their home, can scarcely afford emergency services any longer. Was this Wheeler's doing? We cannot know for sure.Max Pacioretty tried to draw a suspension for Zdeno Chara after a collision with a turnbuckle, and once claimed a Toronto Maple Leafs player bit him. Neither incident earned punishment with the NHL, so the only assumption is that Pacioretty was being dishonest about both.Ryan Kesler is a known diver. He's famed for it.And Jonathan Quick is no role model. He's got a truly foul-mouth, having dropped three F-bombs during the Kings Stanley Cup parade. The children: will someone please think of them?Before T.J. Oshie was a bashful American shootout hero, he was a party animal that missed practices and let down his teammates.And Patrick Kane? He beats up cab drivers, the heroes of the road. Edited February 21, 2014 by Neb00rs Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates said on Thursday it had arrested a seven-member cell linked to al Qaeda that was planning attacks on the Gulf oil and business hub, the second time this year it has alleged a concrete threat from the militant group.
The UAE, an important military, counter-terrorism and business partner of the West, said the seven were Arab nationals who had been helping al Qaeda with recruitment, financing and logistical support.
"The cell was planning actions to target the country's security and the safety of its citizens and residents, and was carrying out recruitment, and promoting the actions of al Qaeda," WAM said.
"It was also supplying it (al Qaeda) with money and providing logistical support and seeking to expand its activities to some (other) countries in the region," WAM said.
The UAE, a federation of seven emirates including Dubai and Abu Dhabi, has been spared an attack by al Qaeda and other militants; some analysts say the groups find it too useful as a communications and financial hub.
But in December, the UAE said it had arrested a cell of Emirati and Saudi Arabian members of a "deviant group" that was planning to carry out militant attacks in both countries and other states. The term "deviant group" is often used by authorities in Saudi Arabia to describe al Qaeda members.
Dubai police chief Dhahi Khalfan told a local newspaper in January that some of the group had links to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which uses Yemen as a base for international operations.
There was no immediate word on whether Thursday's arrests were related.
Some of the emirates have seen a rise in Islamist sentiment in recent years, and in the past year the federal government has started to crack down on alleged sympathizers of Islamist groups such as Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.
A court in Abu Dhabi is currently trying 94 people on charges of plotting to seize power.
Speaking to Reuters this month, Khalfan reiterated allegations that Egypt's Brotherhood was linked to the alleged plot, saying the group's goal was Islamist rule in all Gulf Arab states.
Emirati political analyst Abdulkhaleq Abdullah said Gulf countries were being targeted by al Qaeda because it considered them to be agents of the West.
In 2010, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said it was behind a plot to send two parcel bombs to the United States. The bombs were intercepted in Britain and the UAE emirate of Dubai.
The United States has poured aid into Yemen to stem the threat of attacks from AQAP and to try to prevent any spillover of violence into Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter.
In August 2012, Saudi authorities arrested a group of suspected al Qaeda-linked militants - mostly Yemeni nationals - in Riyadh.
Saudi Arabia has arrested thousands of suspected militants since militant attacks between 2003 and 2006 on residential compounds for foreign workers and on Saudi government facilities in which were dozens of people were killed.
Like a number of other Gulf Arab states, the UAE buys large amounts of American military hardware.
It also shares some of its military bases with detachments from the armed forces of the United States, Australia, France and South Korea, according to the British-based think-tank the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
More U.S. Navy ships visit the UAE port of Jebel Ali, which can handle vessels up to the size of nuclear carriers, than any other port outside the United States, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington.
The UAE's Al Dhafra Air Base hosts a number of U.S. fighter, attack and reconnaissance aircraft, CSIS said.
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When Bridalplasty first aired on E! it really just seemed like reality TV's self-parody, but evidently it was more like a crystal ball of wedding trends. Meet Linsey Ray, a woman who is sinking as much money into her cosmetic surgery as the actual cost of her wedding. In fact, she's paying so much for her tummy tuck and breast lift that she and her husband-to-be will have to forgo a honeymoon. Of her decision to go under the knife, Ray got teary telling Good Morning America, "It is the worst thing in the world to literally wear three tank tops to hold all your suction in." If that's what she believes is the worst thing in the world, then the work entailed in marriage might prove to be devastating for her.
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Manchester United star Paddy McNair has sent a signed shirt to brave Ballyclare boy Ross Patterson who has battled cancer.
The footballer, who also hails from the Co Antrim town, sent his own United shirt to the six-year-old with the signed message "To Ross, Best wishes, from Paddy McNair,".
Ross is in remission after being diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukamia in February 2014 when he was just four-years-old.
McNair, who has his sights set on playing for Northern Ireland in the Euro 2016 finals in France, contacted Ross' mum, Claire, telling her how he had been inspired by Ross' courage.
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Investigators are still trying to determine what killed a husband and wife found in a Charlotte home.
Investigators are still trying to determine what killed a husband and wife found in a Charlotte home.
Travis Wayne Edwards, 22, and Ashely Erin Younce Edwards, 20, were discovered by a relative shortly after 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 7. The former Cherryville residents were in a house on the 5700 block of Mount Holly-Huntersville Road.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say they don�t suspect foul play but that the case remains under investigation.
Carbon monoxide did not immediately appear to be the cause of death. Firefighters tested the air inside the home upon finding the couple, according to The Star�s news partner WSOC-TV. Those tests came back negative.
Detectives are waiting for the Medical Examiner�s office to establish the cause of death.
The couple previously lived in Cherryville with their young daughter.
According to their joint Facebook page, the Edwards family moved to Charlotte days before they died.
Travis Edwards worked at Stephens Contracting Company and enjoyed fishing and hunting.
Erin Edwards was a hairstylist at Sport Clips and liked to sing and dance.
Both had fun four-wheeling and loved spending time with their daughter, according to their shared obituary.
A funeral service for the couple was held Saturday, and they were buried in Northlake Memorial Gardens in Huntersville.
The family has since set up a trust fund for the couple�s daughter.
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San Diego-based Verenium Corp. inked a $22.5 million secured debt financing with the Athyrium Opportunities Fund.
The industrial biotech (Nasdaq: VRNM), focused on the development and commercialization of high-performance enzymes, said the capital will be used to continue to advance its product pipeline to commercialization, enhance its manufacturing capabilities and fund general working capital purposes.
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Verenium's tailored enzymes are environmentally friendly, making products and processes greener and more cost-effective for industries, including the global food and fuel markets.
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As the rental car cruises up Highway 1 just outside this small northern Minnesota town, on a bright late-winter afternoon, a solitary animal lopes across the road a safe distance ahead and disappears into the snow-draped woods.
The car's three passengers stop their conversation. Certainly not a deer or bear, one says. Too small. Not a coyote, says another. Too large. Could have been a dog, says the third. But that lope...
A wolf, a wild wolf.
A lone wolf.
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That and almost every other question about wolves you could think of is to be answered over the next four days. This is a trip to do two things. One, learn more about an animal that is loved devoutly by some but to others is the snarling Satan of lore that terrified villages and ate Little Red Riding Hood and her grandma. Second, to visit again one of America's grandest and least-known preserves, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness along the Canadian border, a place of green abundance each of us first saw more than 50 years ago.
"Immerse yourself in wolf study at the International Wolf Center" in Ely, said the Elderhostel announcement. "Observe the resident pack of wolves and study wolves in the field," it went on, by walking the trails in snowshoes and learning the ways of locating packs from the air.
They had me at first reading. Then they had my two monthly lunch buddies. We have been friends since we worked together in the 1950s in Minneapolis and then migrated east. Ely would be the site of a duffer reunion. On snowshoes.
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Ely is the site of the nonprofit wolf center, which expanded into its impressive, tourist-friendly wood-and-stone structure in 1993, primarily because that's where the wolves are. More than 2,500 of them roam the "wolf range" in Minnesota's northeast corner, more than any state in the Lower 48.
Neighboring Wisconsin and Michigan have far fewer. As center founder and biologist L. David Mech points out, they "are separated from Canada by magnificent Lake Superior; Minnesota is merely politically separated."
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Ten of us show up for the program, from Vermont, New York, Florida, Tennessee, California, and Maryland. We settle in our cabins on a small lake not far from the center and put ourselves in the dexterous hands of Jess (Jessica) Edberg, information services director of the center.
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My first Jess-help comes the next morning on our hike across the lake and back to try out snowshoes. My fingers are cold and wet, and I am falling behind. She recognizes a duffer when she sees one. Soon I am shoed properly and off. The snowshoes are old-fashioned with wood frames and plastic webbing. I fall once, stumble a couple of times, but I have company.
We spend the afternoon at the wolf center, studying the elaborate exhibits and hoping for the animals to howl. They don't.
That night at the lodge Jess spins the tale of the "wolf bird," a raven that is always around to help the wolf finish off a kill. In northern Minnesota, this is usually a deer. Wolves feed mainly on hoofed animals, which brings trouble when they get too close to farms and cattle. But they'll supplement their diet, Mech says, "with anything they can catch: beavers, snowshoe hares, squirrels, mice, domestic sheep, goats, pigs, cows, horses, turkeys, and even dogs."
Outside, before bed, we look for the northern lights that can illumine the skies over Ely like phosphorus this time of year. But none.
Elderhostel literature calls Ely the "quaint but bustling gateway" to the boundary waters area. Bustling, certainly. Quaint, no. It has about 4,000 residents in the winter and several times more in the summer, and its proximity to Minnesota's Iron Range gives it an ethnic influence and blue-collar ethos that makes it a bit harder-edged than Garrison Keillor's quirky, Scandinavian-centered Lake Wobegon.
You can get a walleye pike sandwich for a song and buy wild rice (soup grade) for less than $4 a pound. But the grocery stores also sell European sausages and the polka music is more Slovenian (some nice waltzes) than the German style farther south. Another Ely flair: Spring and the melting of the lake ice, which is ushered in each year with a musical at the local college. This year it's "South Pacific."
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Snow fell overnight and the next morning the historic boundary waters trail that we are to walk is a thing of quiet winter beauty. Snowshoes, easier to get on this time, make more sense for balance on the rolling trail. Over two miles, we spot a long list of sights – wolf and other animal tracks, their markings and scat, an eagle's nest.
I make it without a hitch, then fall on my face trying to take off my snowshoes. No wolves but I agree with myself that if we don't see a wild one during the rest of the program I'll settle for just that beautiful walk.
Actually, wolf movements are tracked these days not on foot but by air. Small planes with portable antennae search for wolves that have been captured and fitted with radio collars.
The next morning we set out to do some aerial surveying of our own. We divide into two groups and weigh who's best equipped to be the "copilots" on the four-seat Cessna. It comes down to a test. One person carries a telemetry box and another waves an antennae, trying to find where Jess has hidden two radio collars.
My group waxes the other. We find our collar – and theirs. Our "copilot" gets the first student seat.
At the airport, though, we discover there won't be as much of a chance to use the fancy equipment. An instructor flight before us has already found a pack of wolves gathered around a fresh deer kill. The snow is dark with blood.
Once airborne, our telemetry box quickly picks up the signal from the scene. The pilot descends and begins a tight circle.
He tips the wing downward to reveal the primal tableau we've all seen on film but is now starkly real below us: wolves in the wild, a part of the rhythm of these woods for centuries, certainly way before man began eavesdropping from the sky.
At that night's session, a bit of melancholy seems to set in. We all know we're heading back toward our routines the next day. One of the duffers has already taken an early flight home.
The other duffer and I hope to blunt the transition, or at least prolong it, by taking in another Minnesota ritual – attending a hockey game, in Duluth. It's the first round of the "Frozen Four," the women's NCAA championship. Besides, we find out that Jess will be there.
Maybe she can help us preserve the whole adventure a bit longer.


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VATICAN CITY — In his message for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations, Pope Francis urged youth to listen to the call of God, stating that this is often faced with obstacles and requires "going against the tide."
"We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for small things; push onwards toward the highest principles. Stake your lives on noble ideals!" the Holy Father remarked in his Jan. 17 message to youth.
The 51st World Day of Prayer for Vocations is slated to occur on May 11, 2014, which is the Fourth Sunday of Easter, and it will be dedicated to the theme "Vocations, Witness to the Truth."
Beginning his address with the image in Matthew's Gospel where Jesus states, "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few," the Pope highlighted that what Jesus is asking of the Church "concerns the need to increase the number of those who serve his Kingdom."
Reciting St. Paul's words in his First Letter to the Corinthians, Pope Francis observed that we Christians "are God's field," which "is why wonder first arises in our hearts over the plentiful harvest which God alone can bestow."
Emphasizing how we are "possessed" by God through his "steadfast love," he explained that everything we have "comes from him and is his gift: the world, life, death, the present, the future."
"Christ, therefore … continually summons us by his word to place our trust in him, loving him 'with all the heart, with all the understanding and with all the strength,'" he said, quoting the Gospel of Matthew.
"Therefore, every vocation, even within the variety of paths, always requires an exodus from oneself in order to center one's life on Christ and on his Gospel."
"Both in married life and in the forms of religious consecration, as well as in priestly life, we must surmount the ways of thinking and acting that do not conform to the will of God," explained the Pope, adding that "it is an exodus that leads us on a journey of adoration of the Lord and of service to him in our brothers and sisters."
"He never abandons us," the Pope noted. "He has the fulfillment of his plan for us at heart, and yet he wishes to achieve it with our consent and cooperation."
Pope Francis then highlighted how, even today, Jesus is among us, seeking to draw close to everyone, "beginning with the least," and to heal our wounds.
He then extended an invitation to all youth "to listen to and follow Jesus and to allow yourselves to be transformed interiorly by his words, which 'are spirit and life.'"
Echoing the words of Mary to the servants of the wedding feast in Cana, "Do whatever he tells you," the Pope explained that this attitude "will help you to participate in a communal journey" that is able to bring out the best in those around us.
"A vocation," he explained, "is a fruit that ripens in a well-cultivated field of mutual love that becomes mutual service, in the context of an authentic ecclesial life."
"No vocation is born of itself or lives for itself. A vocation flows from the heart of God and blossoms in the good soil of faithful people, in the experience of fraternal love."
This "high standard" of living as a Christian "means sometimes going against the tide and also encountering obstacles, outside ourselves and within ourselves," noted the Pope, adding that Jesus warns us in the Gospel that "the good seed of God's word is often snatched away by the Evil One, blocked by tribulation and choked by worldly cares and temptation."
"All of these difficulties could discourage us, making us fall back on seemingly more comfortable paths," noted the Pope; however, "the true joy of those who are called consists in believing and experiencing that he, the Lord, is faithful."
Only with him can we "walk, be disciples and witnesses of God's love, open our hearts to great ideals, to great things," the Pope observed, highlighting that "we Christians were not chosen by the Lord for small things."
He then implored the "bishops, priests, religious, Christian communities and families" to "orient vocational pastoral planning in this direction" and to accompany youths "on pathways of holiness."
Concluding his message, he asked that all "dispose ourselves" to having "good soil" in our hearts, "by listening, receiving and living out the word, and thus bearing fruit."
"The more we unite ourselves to Jesus through prayer, sacred Scripture, the Eucharist, the sacraments, celebrated and lived in the Church and in fraternity," he observed, "the more there will grow in us the joy of cooperating with God in the service of the Kingdom of mercy and truth, of justice and peace.
"And the harvest will be plentiful, proportionate to the grace we have meekly welcomed into our lives. With this wish, and asking you to pray for me, I cordially impart to you all my apostolic blessing."


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