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Shop cats catch more customers than mice these days
By Deborah Lynn Blumberg
Villager photos by Christopher Lanning
Si, at Vintage New York wines on Broome St. in Soho, is a favorite of local shoppers. Hes a conscientious cat and rarely knocks over a wine bottle.
Snacking on oyster crackers, listening to rock music and keeping a keen eye on customers are all part of a days work for a select group of workers in the Big Apple Manhattans working cats.
Quaintly known as shop cats, these tabbies spend their days in delis, record and bookstores, wine and copy shops and even hotels sleeping hours away on warm copy machines and under bright store lamps and indulging in the tender attention of customers happy for a soothing moment in a harried day. In the past, many city business owners kept cats in their stores primarily to catch mice. Today, these mostly stray animals serve what business owners and researchers say is an even more important function, enhancing the workplace and attracting more customers into stores.
Animals are a nice distraction, said Alan Beck, director of the Center for the Human-Animal Bond at Purdue Universitys School of Veterinary Medicine. They keep people in the store a little bit longer, so maybe theyll start looking at some of the products.
Aquariums and fish have long been the most common animal intervention in the workplace, according to Beck. But now, furry creatures are beginning to make their mark on the work environment as well.
And not just cash-and-carry businesses, either. Beck said that in Indiana, for example, 25 percent of elementary schools have adopted some type of animal into the classroom and 85 percent of the countrys nursing homes have animal programs, mostly involving cats and rabbits. Data show that animals improve how people deal with their environment, and that people in the presence of animals are perceived to be nicer and more approachable.
The idea of animals in the workplace is enjoying a certain amount of appreciation, Beck said. We already enrich the work environment with nature with plants and flowers. Now people are beginning to put animals there too.
The New York City Health Code prohibits animals in restaurants and other stores that prepare and sell food, and in food packaging and processing plants; but no city regulations exist that specifically forbid animals in non-food service businesses.
At the Broadway Panhandler, a Soho purveyor of kitchen supplies on Broome St. between Greene and Wooster Sts., 16-year-old Pancho has made himself at home among the stores cookie cutters, copper pots and crystal glassware for most of his life. Like most shop cats, Pancho lives in the store all day, every day, and has his own bed and litter box in a back room. The gray-and-white tabby has free run of the store but, according to sales associates, never tries to jump on tables stacked with martini and shot glasses and pink and purple crystal plates and pitchers. When children toting cat toys and catnip run into the store searching for Pancho they usually find him curled up under a wooden case of frilly napkins.
We love having him here, said Rebecca Mazzoni, the stores associate manager and marketing department assistant. And he brings business into the store, which is great.
All Panhandler employees take turns feeding Pancho, cleaning his box and accompanying him to the veterinarian for his yearly visit. The store takes care of all costs, which Mazzoni said total $500 a year a small price for the regular customers Pancho attracts. Hes equally a hit with visitors from overseas.
Japanese tourists love Pancho, Mazzoni said. In Japan, according to a 1999 survey from Japans Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, 82 percent of apartment buildings forbid pet ownership. Perhaps this accounts for the popularity of places like Tokyos Nekotama, a cat theme park where visitors pay $7 to spend an entire day petting and playing with different breeds. Or of shops like the Panhandler.
A few years ago, a Japanese woman on vacation in New York visited the Panhandler, snapped pictures with Pancho and showed them to her friends in Japan. When the friends later traveled to New York, they made a special trip to the store to pose with Pancho for their own photos.
At Generation Records in the West Village, regular customers often bring presents for the stores three cats. Each of the music stores felines has its own quirks, store associates said Lulu has attitude, Read is the diplomat and Archie is the grumpy old man. Lulu loves flowers and jumps into bouquets brought in by unknowing customers. Some regulars have learned her likes and stop by the store, at Bleecker and Thompson Sts., to bring her a flower. Its Archie though, big, orange and the oldest of the three, who has earned special status in the store. Hes been here longer than most employees, sales associate Justin Fulcrod said.
During the day the cats lounge on records, nibble on a catnip plant behind the counter and bask in customer attention. Many times, Fulcrod said, the cats serve as a pleasant distraction for non-music lovers who accompany browsing friends to the store.
The three cats can be found on the Internet on Shopcat.com. On this site, Web surfers read the stories and see the pictures of 420 of the cats living in stores in the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan.
Miss Pepper, 15, and Miss Masala, 13 of Bleecker St.s Aphrodisia Herb Store, between Sixth and Seventh Aves., have also found their way onto Shopcat.com. The cats sharpen their claws on afghans draped over tall wooden chairs before falling asleep amid smells of sage, lavender, rose and pine. Owner JoAnn Pelletiere bottle fed Miss Pepper in her spice shop after finding the newborn cat down the street behind Zitos Bakery.
Miss Pepper loves ice cream and trails behind cone-carrying customers. Her favorite flavor is vanilla, Pelletiere said. Some customers even buy her ice cream. Throughout the year neighborhood children visit the cats and on holidays bring Valentines cards and Christmas presents.
The cats are a part of the store, Pelletiere said. If people dont see them in the window theyre very concerned. Its neighborhood lore.
Back on Broome St., at the Vintage New York wine store on the corner of Wooster, regular customers insist that shop cat Si sit on their lap while sipping wine at the shops tasting bar. Leon Hernández, the stores delivery and maintenance man, adopted the two-and-a-half-year-old Burmese for the store from an elderly neighbor who could no longer care for the cat.
Si and Leon have a very special relationship, assistant manager Sandra Fluke said. Theyre good friends. Hell give him some of his breakfast, a piece of ham or some sausage. Thats why Sis fat.
Si hunts mice in the shops basement, sits on the checkout counter on busy days and begs customers for tastes of the stores cheese and chocolate samples. Customers love him, Fluke said, and always comment on his light blue eyes and the white tip of his tail, uncharacteristic of his breed. Once in a while hell bump into a bottle of wine or sneak an oyster cracker from a bowl on the bar, but in general hes well behaved, Fluke said, and causes few problems for the staff.
He definitely brings in business because people come in just to see him, she said. At Print Mor Copy shop on Broadway at Bleecker St., worker Tommy Johnson stashes a brush behind the stores front counter for customers who like to use it on the shops three cats Sophie, Smokey and Joey. This is similar to playing casino games in Cool Cat Casino sites from here http://www.coolcatcasinous.com/ in cool cat casino online sites. The cats entertain staff and attract neighborhood cat-lovers, Johnson said.
Copy shop employee Ivon Siswandy waves a strip of yellow plastic in front of Joeys face as the cat rolls over onto a stack of colorful test papers on his warm, copy-machine perch. These cats can do whatever they want, she said. Theyre part of the family.
Sonya Sklaroff, an artist whose frequent travel keeps her from having a cat of her own, plays with Sophie and admits shes a regular cat petter at the store. I have copies to make today, but usually I just come in to pet the cats, she said.
Unbeknownst to his boss, one employee from a store down the street with a pet-allergic roommate also uses the copy shop to get his cat fixes. He sneaks off to pet Print Mor Copys cats at least two or three times a day for a relaxing break from the long workday.
I guess you can compare cats with fish, the employee said as he rubbed a purring Sophies whiskers and stroked her soft, black coat. Theyre both very therapeutic. Or as human-animal relations expert Berk puts it, pets soften the environment and make a business less of just a commercial enterprise
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This spring, we have had a lot of fun new products coming through our doors here at Bella Luna Toys, but I'm not sure that any has caused as much excitement around here as our new book Making Peg Dolls.
Its author, Margaret Bloom, had contacted me recently about carrying it. Since I've been interested in adding more doll-making crafts so that parents can make their own Waldorf toys, I didn't hesitate to say yes, but I was unprepared for just how excited I would be once I got the book in my hands and was able to look between its covers.
My assistant Amy and I probably lost an hour of work time as we ooh-ed and ah-ed over Margaret's adorable creations, and our hands started itching to get busy making families of these sweet little dolls!

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Lipscomb University track and field coach Karen Robichaud has announced the signing of Hannah Joiner from Maumelle, Ark.
"The first time I stepped on the campus I felt like I was supposed to be here," said Joiner. "The spiritual side was exactly what I wanted out of a school.
Joiner is a two-time state champion in the discus. She is also the reigning Miss Teen Arkansas for 2005-2006.
Joiner,5-foot-7, was an all-around athlete at Central Arkansas Christian, lettering in track and field and volleyball for four years and basketball for three years. She played on state champion basketball teams in 2005 and 2006.
She was named to the All-State team in track and field in 2004, 2005 and 2006. She was the team MVP in 2004, 2005 and 2006. In 2006 she was also named All-Metro.
Her personal best in the shot put is 34 feet, eight inches. Her personal best in the discus is 124 feet.
Off the field she has also been active. She was Top 10 finalist in the Miss Teen America pageant. Academically, she is member of the Student Council, National Honor Society, BETA Club, MU Alpha Theta, Girl's State representative, All-Academic Team (2006) and Key Club. She was named "Most Spirited" Senior.
Joiner plans to major in pre-architecture.
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I am looking into FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I'm sure you've heard a lot of 'FreeBSD vs OpenBSD' threads, but I'm going to make it simpler.
Here are some things I don't want to hear because I know them:
- OpenBSD can work on far more systems - DEC Alpha, Intel i386, Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC, AMD AMD64 and Motorola 68000 processors, Apple's PowerPC machines, Sun SPARC and SPARC64-based computers, the VAX and the Sharp Zaurus, while FreeBSD only works on Intel x86 family (IA-32) IBM PC compatible computers, DEC Alpha, Sun UltraSPARC, IA-64, AMD64, PowerPC, ARM and NEC PC-9801. I don't really care what it can run on, x86 and amd64 is all I really need.
- There are more packages using ports in FreeBSD - I know that, and that is something that interests me more than anything else atm, but there might be something that might convince me more to use OpenBSD than FreeBSD, and thats why I ask the questions below.
Here are some questions:
I know that OpenBSD is far more secure to FreeBSD (Correct me, if I'm wrong), but will OpenBSD make my BSD experience in any way better if I use it as a desktop instead of a server over FreeBSD in the security aspect?
And are there any other benefits of OpenBSD over FreeBSD visa versa?
Here are some unrelated questions:
Is it possible to get mono working on FreeBSD or OpenBSD?
And I love fspot (The photomanager) and Banshee (The music manager/player), is there a way to get these apps running on FreeBSD or OpenBSD?
Is it possible to compile tarballs for FreeBSD or OpenBSD, or is that just a Linux thing?
I am leaning more towards FreeBSD, but as I said, I don't know much and there might be things that you guys can tell me that can change my mind.
Just for the mono part. Mono application run fine on FreeBSD and mono is in the ports. I have had a little bit of success getting MonoDevelop to run on FreeBSD. But compiling Mono apps inside of MonoDevelop is a pain. It seems never to be alble to find the required libs.
I believe fspot and Banshee are in the ports. I installed Banshee once but didn't cre for it.
If your asking can you compile from a tarball of an application yes you can. If the application is Linux specific you may have to do some tweaking. The ports system basically is a wrapper for compiling from tarballs - that's a way over simplification.
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." -Philip K. Dick
Are you so paranoid???
If you roobed bank using windows, and now think that BSD system will help you to hide backtrace....I doubt it will. lol
FreeBSD is Great system.
I use it as desktop and it Works well.
I haven't tried OpenBSD, but who, and why the hell someone would like to bother hacking my FreeBSD system?
also FreeBSD security relies on how you configure it....
Even OneBSD ain't foolproof....
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You can build stuff from tarballs but it's usually easier to use ports where possible because that is basically what ports does through makefiles.
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
If its performance on multicore processors that you're after, then FreeBSD is the way to go.
Well I couldn't manage to find banshee or fspot, can someone help me out?
PCBSD doesn't even have it in their PBI directory, which I find unusual because it seems like a place where they have all those novice programs.
graphics/f-spot in ports, banshee I have no idea where it is in ports.
It's a c# app so it probably depends on either lang/mono (The Mono Project) or lang/pnet (DotGNU portable .NET and C# compiler) along with various gnome related ports.
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Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
I doubt, they will
OpenBSD is great on security. But I simply can't use it on a multi-cpu, multi-core system and expect to squeeze excellent performance out of it. I've seen OpenBSD crash to it's knees when running performance testing.
Now in terms of security, a good administrator could secure just about any OS. Heck, you give me a Windows Server 2k3 box, and I'll make it one of the most secure boxes in the world by pulling the cat5, locking it in a cabinet and melting the key down.
So it's really a matter of what you're using it for. Need a high performance MySQL server? I'd go with FreeBSD. Want a desktop? Well personally I'd still go with FreeBSD just because it's what I'm used to and have been using for years, but OpenBSD is a viable alternative on the desktop.
I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by fleeing the scene of the accident!
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OpneBSD=XFree86, FreeBSD=Xorg7.x
Meaning, Desktop <=== FreeBSD
OpenBSD uses Xenocara, (Xorg 7x).. and it has since 4.2.
Again, do your research before spreading lies..
Does anyone actually use XFree86 anymore?
Well, who wouldn't consider using Windows 3.11 for the same machine... hehe
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A post-mortem examination is due to be held on the nurse who apparently took her own life after she was duped by a hoax call made to the hospital treating the Duchess of Cambridge.
Tributes have been paid to Jacintha Saldanha, who died in a suspected suicide on Friday after she was fooled by two Australian radio hosts making a prank call to the King Edward VII's Hospital in London.
The hospital worker transferred the presenters, believing they were the Queen and the Prince of Wales, to a colleague who described in detail the condition of Kate during her treatment for severe pregnancy sickness last Tuesday. Ms Saldanha, 46, from Bristol, was found dead three days later in a block of nurses' flats close to the hospital.
The two Australian DJs behind the hoax call - Mel Greig and Michael Christian - gave an emotional account of their reaction to the nurse's death. Interviewed on Australian TV networks, the 2Day FM presenters said their prank call to the hospital had "a tragic turn of events no-one could have predicted or expected".
Southern Cross Austereo has cancelled its Christmas party later this week following the death of Ms Saldanha. A spokeswoman for the company said it would be "inappropriate" to go ahead with the event for Sydney staff. Instead, money which would have been spent on the party will go to charity, she added.
The company said a minimum contribution of around £320,000 would be made. SCA also announced that it is resuming advertising on 2Day FM from Thursday, and that until the end of the year all profits will be donated to a fund directly benefiting Ms Saldanha's family.
Rhys Holleran, SCA's chief executive, said: "We are very sorry for what has happened. It is a terrible tragedy and our thoughts continue to be with the family. We hope that by contributing to a memorial fund we can help to provide the Saldanha family with the support they need at this very difficult time. The company today reiterates that it is deeply saddened by this tragic and unforeseen event and offers its condolences to the family of Jacintha Saldanha."
Meanwhile, MP Keith Vaz met the nurse's family in Parliament on Monday night and said they had been left "devastated" by the loss of a "loving mother and a loving wife". The family also visited the King Edward VII's Hospital, while a memorial service will be held later this week.
Flanked by Ms Saldanha's husband Benedict Barboza and her two teenage children, Mr Vaz said: "They just want me to say that they are extremely grateful to the public here in the United Kingdom and throughout the world who have sent them messages of condolences and support following the death of Jacintha - a loving mother and a loving wife. This is a close family. They are devastated by what has happened."
In response to Mr Vaz's criticism the hospital said its chief executive John Lofthouse had spoken to the nurse's husband on Friday by phone and offered to meet him whenever he wanted. The hospital has also established a memorial fund in the nurse's name to provide financial support for her family and made the first donation to the fund.


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|Mark Carroll (seated) and Lauren Abele
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this years train display.
"I sent a letter to the company that manages South Station last year saying that I could do a whole lot better than what they had been displaying" says Carroll, "Now here I am!"
During his youth Carroll spent six years working in a hobby emporium and train shop, now out of business, on Tremont Street in Downtown Boston. He says that working in that shop fostered his love for model trains. Today, in his free time, Carroll fixes and paints model trains to depict area rail roads.
The model train show at South Station has been around for many years, but this is one of the first times it is being fully redesigned. Carroll said that none of this could have happened without the help of South Stations' property manager Biederman Redevelopment Ventures (BRV). He says that both Ted Furst and Matt Coogan, both of BRV, "took a risk" on letting him design the new train display. "He (Ted) has been the best art director I have ever worked with" says Carroll, "I had a vision that was locked in my head and he helped me get it into this display."
Carroll also had a number of current and former Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) students helping him out on this project. Most of the scenery work was designed and built by Lauren Abele and Joseph Taylor who are both in the Visual and Media Arts program at BHCC. A few international students were also kind enough to lend a hand; Kidanun Nye who is from Thailand, Jainci Liang from China, and Ilana Tal from Israel.
"I've spent the past six nights sleeping here (South Station) in the basement" says Carroll, "this project has taken a lot of time but it is truly worth it"
Funding for the display has come from sponsorships by a number of area companies. Some of this years sponsors include the Massachusetts Bay Commuter Rail (MBCR), Boston's Children's Museum, Go Charge, Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts, and Durgin-Park Restaurant. Carroll says that sponsors will either get a rail car or part of the scenery painted with their logo, depending on how much money their sponsorship was for.
The display will officially be completed tomorrow and will run until January 13th. The display features "O"gauge model trains that are painted to represent the MBTA, MBCR, and Boston and Maine Railroad. The tracks are surrounded by a 1950's village, luscious mountains, and a large harbor.
Carroll's love for design and his attention to detail really shine in his display at South Station. "I just turned 50 and I could just be sitting at home watching television, but instead I'm out here doing the best job in the world" says Carroll, "I couldn't be happier."


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Mohican Valley Door of Hope (Danville, Ohio, USA)
Mohican Valley Door of Hope was started as an outreach in Danville, Ohio in January 2006. The idea was to branch off from Mount Zion House of Prayer in Utica, and reach out to the people of Danville. Originally, 12 families formed the core of the church. The congregation joined the Biblical Mennonite Alliance in 2007.
In 2012 the leading minister was Marcus Yoder and the assoociate pastors were John Mullett and James Mast. The congregational membership was 65 and the average weekly attendance was 126.
Hershberger, Brenda. Anabaptist (Mennonite) Directory 2012-13. Harrisonburg, VA: The Sword and Trumpet, 2012: 40.
Mohican Valley Door of Hope. "About Us." Web. 13 May 2012. http://mvdoh.org/aboutus/.
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Telephone: 740-668-2801
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Well, a RIAA spokesperson had responded to the SOPA and PIPA protests in the NY Times. And of course, it's the same old rhetoric.
Apparently he thinks everyone that opposed the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act were either severely misinformed or want everything for free.
Of course RIAA are doing their best to "inform" people of their spin, that the industry is suffering. And by "inform" I mean suing Americans and foreigners willy nilly. But it is obvious that the public is not buying their claims.
For two decades every expert in the industry has stated the music industry would shift from physical formats to digital. But they resisted, to their detriment, and wish to continue resisting even when international music sales are growing substantially.
It's obvious that they're crying foul on behalf of the manufacturers, who will be unable to capitalize on format shifts in the past.
These manufacturers, many of which are owned by the labels, profited from format shifting, when people upgraded from vinyl to 8-track, from 8-track to cassette and from cassette to CD. And if they had their way they'd get a royalty whenever someone copies a recording to a device.
This is an industry that thinks that because you aren't paying to copy your legally purchased mp3s to your mp3 player that you are a "thief". That you are just like those pirates that mass produce CDs and DVDs and sell them in pawn shops, farmer's markets and online.
No ? Then why are these people lobbying the current government in Canada to disallow private copying of copy protected works with Bill C-11 ? Why are attempting to push a levy mp3 players in Canada ?
We've heard the excuse that some people use the internet to download mp3 files illegally. But have they ever produced a study proving the majority of these illegally downloaded recordings end up on mp3 players ?
Of course not.
They don't want to distinguish previewing and private copying from illegal downloads. They'd rather just use one word, "infringement", to gloss over the issues and call pretty much everything piracy to get their way with the technologically inept politicians.
Some members of the industry are also currently attempting to obtain royalties for the 30 second previews retailers posts online in Canada, in order to disqualify music downloads as "fair dealing" research for Canadians.
The Stop Online Piracy Act, Protect IP Act and Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement impose RIAA's views in regards to fair dealing and private copying on foreign nations.
They circumvent the democratic processes of nations who have established their own legislation on these subjects and an undue influence in regards to policy is imposed on nations that are undergoing copyright reforms.
It is obvious that the inflexibility of ATCA in regards to fair dealing and copy protection is causing the current government in Canada to refuse to alter Bill C-11 in accordance to the public's wishes.
This proves that our political process has been polluted by foreign interests and SOPA/Protect IP like legislation in the United States could further undermine Canada's democracy and sovereignty.
When Bill C-11 was introduced as Bill C-32, the Canadian Bar Association openly questioned the workability and purpose of some of the provisions, including the fair dealing and technological protection measure provisions.
They also questioned the need for additional legislation to address unauthorized distribution on the internet, so there is clearly a disconnect in-between the people of Canada and the legislation's proponents.
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A grand orchestral ident, based around a distinct, six-note brass melody, supported with a large string section, timpani, trombones, snare drums, a glockenspiel and a harp.
The piece begins with a low rumble and cymbal swell, which is quickly followed with the first two notes of the brass theme. The third note enters, accompanied by the glockenspiel and violin spiccato, creating a truly epic feel which is then heightened with two booming timpani and brass thuds. The piece then quickly builds to a clear and grand conclusion, consisting of all the instruments mentioned above, including a harp run.
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My husband and I always have been Democrats. We always have voted, but never actively participated in the campaign process.
Our involvement changed when my cousin, Georgiann Kerr, began chairing the Butler County Democratic Committee.
Her enthusiasm is infectious; we became committee members, and on a Saturday prior to the Nov. 6 election we found ourselves putting up Barack Obama and Missa Eaton signs in northern Butler County.
I was the runner, scampering up banks and leaping over drainage ditches. My husband, Kevin, who is a member of Local 66 of the Operating Engineers, drove the truck.
We were having a great time and in a small way felt that we were part of something important.
Cars honked at us, drivers made obscene gestures, and passengers rolled down their windows and yelled obscenities. We took the abuse and finished our mission, placing 25 Obama signs and Eaton signs along Route 38 and its environs.
None of the Obama signs lasted 24 hours. The next day all were gone.
I plotted my revenge but was dissuaded from any overt retaliation. Instead, this letter is my revenge.
To all of the ungracious opposition, to all of the fat cats who wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on misleading ads, to all legislators who tried to win the election by suppressing the Democratic vote, I wish to emphasize the fact that we won a decisive victory. We retained the White House, we picked up seats in the Senate, and we now have 20 women senators.
We added to our minority in the House of Representatives, we secured the Supreme Court for at least a generation, and we swept every Pennsylvania row office that was up for grabs.
My advice to the Republican Party is to abandon trickery and try to find some better candidates.
Why would anyone believe a word Mitt Romney had to say? He took every position on nearly every issue, and sometimes flipped a couple of times in less than a week.
He is a tax dodger. He ran for the presidency with no foreign policy experience.
Meanwhile, his actions on the night of the attack on our embassy in Libya bordered on sedition.
He bought the GOP nomination and tried to buy the election.
Obama's re-election was historic. The last Democratic president to win two terms with a majority of the popular vote in each was Franklin Delano Roosevelt and that was before I was born.
We now have four more years with a great commander in chief.


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Volume 16 Issue 42 | March 19 - 25, 2004
AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN IN CINEMA festival, the 7th annual, takes place this weekend at the Tribeca Film Center. Screenings and panel discussions including Screening of Our Youth, highlighting the works of adolescents of color. Pictured above are teens on a break from filming in Central Park. For information: 212-769-7949 or www.aawic.org.
NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS FILM FESTIVAL This international festival, produced by a Tribeca couple, will be held throughout the month of March in venues around the city, including the Regal Union Square. Above photo is from Hammerboy a film from South Korea, the English language version. Variety of films geared for specific age groups toddlers through teens. For information: www.gkids.com or 212-349-0330
JAMES JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM at the Film Forum. Tale of a pious young man from a Zulu village on a pilgrimage. James is mistaken for an illegal alien, but rescued by a smooth operator. His journey has just begun. Opens March 5; 209 West Houston St., 212-727-8110.
HIVES, 32 Second Ave., 505-5181: Call for information on upcoming film schedule for February including Demonlover, From Zero, and a John Cage film festival.
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April 14, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the first time in her career junior Casey Flynn was voted the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Women's Lacrosse Player of the Week. In a 3-0 week for MIT, she tallied 16 goals, six assists, six groundballs, four caused turnovers, and one draw control.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Hopping down the bunny trail
Today is officially the first day of spring but so far the sunny spring weather is seeming pretty hit or miss. Hopefully you are getting better weather in your neck of the woods. :)
So I bet you thought I was off the bunny kick, huh? But how could I be when this sweet little guy was just hanging around anxious to get on a card? This is Daba from Sister Stamps and his giggly pose makes me smile every time I look at him. He totally looks like he is getting into some Easter mischief if you ask me. Perhaps the Easter egg hunt will be especially challenging this year... ;)
The papers and stickers are all older Doodlebug and I think the playful print pairs up really well with this silly rabbit.
Ok, I know that this has been a short one but I've really got to get the ball rolling on the day. So time for me to hop to it! LOL
Later gators!
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paper/sticker/alpha rub ons- Doodlebug (Easter)
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14 comments:
- Nancy Thomas said...
That bunny is adorable - he looks fabulous amongst all the Doodlebug goodness. I swear we have all the same paper from years past!
- March 20, 2012 at 5:16 AM
- Heidi Brawley said...
AWE this Easter card is Adorable!! love it all!
hugs, Heidi
- March 20, 2012 at 5:24 AM
- Hlora said...
realy georgius. love the spring colors)))
- March 20, 2012 at 6:05 AM
- Annette said...
Amy this is just too cute...I love that little bunny...
- March 20, 2012 at 7:12 AM
- Annette said...
Amy this is just too cute...I love that little bunny...
- March 20, 2012 at 7:12 AM
- Sudha - Art Admirer said...
So cute. Love the bunny.
- March 20, 2012 at 9:16 AM
- Marzenciuk said...
This bunny is so sweet...Beautiful card :)
- March 20, 2012 at 9:33 AM
- Jenny said...
Your ability to put together papers is amazing. Love this card!
- March 20, 2012 at 9:39 AM
- Rhonda Miller said...
How adorable. I just love the little bunny. TFS.
- March 20, 2012 at 11:51 AM
- Maria Therese said...
So cute ♥
- March 21, 2012 at 12:56 AM
- Queen B said...
That bunny is just adorable.
- March 21, 2012 at 8:47 PM
- Leanne said...
Awww!! Love it! Daba is adorable! This card is the perfect start to Spring!
- March 23, 2012 at 1:46 PM
- gobeagirl said...
Hi Amy. I think this is just adorable! I really love this Doodlebug paper. I think it is just so charming and happy looking. Your little bunny is adorable as well. I love the way you have colored Daba and the little bit of pink on the ear is just perfect. So so sweet looking. I hope that you have had a great week. I am so so sorry that I haven't been around. I had today off, so I was able to catch up and get my desk cleaned up so that I can be creative once again. lol.. Hugs, Lisa
- March 23, 2012 at 3:38 PM
- RiNNE said...
this makes me wanna giggle along! the paper is perfect for him, and i adore the stripes! perfect for the first day of spring!
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La mise à jour 18.104.22.168 du jeu vient de sortir. Une mise à jour qui ajoute une DeathCam, améliore les sons, leur spatialisation et corrige pas mal de bugs concernant le système de gestion des armes.
Par ailleurs, ils apporteront des précisions lors de l'annonce de la mise à jour d'Avril la semaine prochaine au sujet de la version 2 des animations, les nouvelles maps, l'éditeur de carte, les commandes vocales et plus...
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- Added deathcam
- Adjusted uniform colors and brightness for better enemy visibility (also made the Germans less green)
- Fully revamped 3p sounds (New 3p sounds for guns, sound occlusion to better judge distance and location of enemies, footsteps have not been reworked yet and will be next)
- Added polish and art to Foy
- Patched exploits that allowed players to get outside of the play area, into objects, get into "protected" boxes in the forest, etc.
- Weapons can now be targeted when hip firing
- Rifles no longer retarget automatically after firing if player is not holding target. Fixed bug where rifles did not untarget after firing
- Fixed bug that allowed players to target rifle immediately after shooting
- Fixed bug where quick switching could allow you to fire rifle faster than it normally cycles
- Destroying objective now awards 1 obj point. Exploding objective now shows death message for anyone it kills
- Jumping will now transition player out of crouch
- We now play placeholder DefuseBomb sound cue when bomb is defused
- Fixed issue where new weapon system did not implement user defined custom weapon mesh FOV
- Fixed issue where thompson and garand did not use their respective brass eject particle emitters
- Fixed issue where deployed MG could jump
- Fixed bug where rifles would show bullet casing even when they did not cycle bolt on last shot
- Fixed bug where cooked grenades were not dropped by players on death
- Fixed issue where grenades could be picked up on overlap
- Made fix to hide sniper rifle mesh and show scope overlay when spectating sniper in new weapon system
- Added smoke back to shotgun classes lost during new weapon system refactor
- Fixed bug where smoke grenades could detonate in hand and not consume itself.
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This account of Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox was written by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a division commander who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his conduct on the second day of Gettysburg. Chamberlain was appointed by Grant to recieve the Confederate surrender. He later wrote this account of the event. The second half of it is particularly interesting and sad. This section is entitled "The Furling of the Flags."
"It was now the morning of the 12th of April. I had been ordered to have my lines formed for the ceremony at sunrise. It was a chill gray morning, depressing to the senses. But our hearts made warmth. Great memories uprose; great thoughts went forward. We formed along the principal street, from the bluff bank of the stream to near the Court House on the left,--to face the last line of battle, and receive the last remnant of the arms and colors of that great army which ours had been created to confront for all that death can do for life. We were remnants also: Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York; veterans, and replaced veterans; cut to pieces, cut down, consolidated, divisions into brigades, regiments into one, gathered by State origin; this little line, quintessence or metempsychosis of Porters old corps of Gaines Mill and Malvern Hill; men of near blood born, made nearer by blood shed. Those facing us--now, thank God! the same.
As for me, I was once more with my old command. But this was not all I needed. I had taken leave of my little First Brigade so endeared to me, and the end of the fighting had released the Second from all orders from me. But these deserved to share with me now as they had so faithfully done in the sterner passages of the campaign. I got permission from General Griffin to have them also in the parade. I placed the First Brigade in line a little to our rear, and the Second on the opposite side of the street facing us and leaving ample space for the movements of the coming ceremony. Thus the whole division was out, and under my direction for the occasion, although I was not the division commander. I thought this troubled General Bartlett a little, but he was a manly and soldierly man and made no comment. He contented himself by mounting his whole staff and with the division flag riding around our lines and conversing as he found opportunity with the Confederate officers. This in no manner disturbed me; my place and part were definite and clear.
Our earnest eyes scan the busy groups on the opposite slopes, breaking camp for the last time, taking down their little shelter-tents and folding them carefully as precious things, then slowly forming ranks as for unwelcome duty. And now they move. The dusky swarms forge forward into gray columns of march. On they come, with the old swinging route step and swaying battle-flags. In the van, the proud Confederate ensign--the great field of white with canton of star-strewn cross of blue on a field of red, the regimental battle-flags with the same escutcheon following on, crowded so thick, by thinning out of men, that the whole column seemed crowned with red. At the right of our line our little group mounted beneath our flags, the red Maltese cross on a field of white, erewhile so bravely borne through many a field more crimson than itself, its mystic meaning now ruling all.
The momentous meaning of this occasion impressed me deeply. I resolved to mark it by some token of recognition, which could be no other than a salute of arms. Well aware of the responsibility assumed, and of the criticisms that would follow, as the sequel proved, nothing of that kind could move me in the least. The act could be defended, if needful, by the suggestion that such a salute was not to the cause for which the flag of the Confederacy stood, but to its going down before the flag of the Union. My main reason, however, was one for which I sought no authority nor asked forgiveness. Before us in proud humiliation stood the embodiment of manhood: men whom neither toils and sufferings, nor the fact of death, nor disaster, nor hopelessness could bend from their resolve; standing before us now, thin, worn, and famished, but erect, and with eyes looking level into ours, waking memories that bound us together as no other bond;--was not such manhood to be welcomed back into a Union so tested and assured?
Instructions had been given; and when the head of each division column comes opposite our group, our bugle sounds the signal and instantly our whole line from right to left, regiment by regiment in succession, gives the soldiers salutation, from the "order arms" to the old "carry"--the marching salute. Gordon at the head of the column, riding with heavy spirit and. downcast face, catches the sound of shifting arms, looks up, and, taking the meaning, wheels superbly, making with himself and his horse one uplifted figure, with profound salutation as he drops the point of his sword to the boot toe; then facing to his own command, gives word for his successive brigades to pass us with the same position of the manual,--honor answering honor. On our part not a sound of trumpet more, nor roll of drum; not a cheer, nor word nor whisper of vain-glorying, nor motion of man standing again at the order, but an awed stillness rather, and breath-holding, as if it were the passing of the dead!
As each successive division masks our own, it halts, the men face inward towards us across the road, twelve feet away; then carefully "dress" their line, each captain taking pains for the good appearance of his company, worn and half starved as they were. The field and staff take their positions in the intervals of regiments; generals in rear of their commands. They fix bayonets, stack arms; then, hesitatingly, remove cartridge-boxes and lay them down. Lastly,-- reluctantly, with agony of expression,--they tenderly fold their flags, battle-worn and torn, blood-stained, heart-holding colors, and lay them down; some frenziedly rushing from the ranks, kneeling over them, clinging to them, pressing them to their lips with burning tears. And only the Flag of the Union greets the sky!
What visions thronged as we looked into each others eyes! Here pass the men of Antietam, the Bloody Lane, the Sunken Road, the Cornfield, the Burnside-Bridge; the men whom Stonewall Jackson on the second night at Fredericksburg begged Lee to let him take and crush the two corps of the Army of the Potomac huddled in the streets in darkness and confusion; the men who swept away the Eleventh Corps at Chancellorsville; who left six thousand of their companions around the bases of Culps and Cemetery Hills at Gettysburg; these survivors of the terrible Wilderness, the Bloody-Angle at Spottsylvania, the slaughter pen of Cold Harbor, the whirlpool of Bethesda Church!
Here comes Cobbs Georgia Legion, which held the stone wall on Maryes Heights at Fredericksburg, close before which we piled our dead for breastworks so that the living might stay and live.
Here too come Gordons Georgians and Hokes North Carolinians, who stood before the terrific mine explosion at Petersburg, and advancing retook the smoking crater and the dismal heaps of dead--ours more than theirs--huddled in the ghastly chasm.
Here are the men of McGowan, Hunton, and Scales, who broke the Fifth Corps lines on the White Oak Road, and were so desperately driven back on that forlorn night of March 31st by my thrice-decimated brigade.
Now comes Andersons Fourth Corps, only Bushrod Johnsons Division left, and this the remnant of those we fought so fiercely on the Quaker Road two weeks ago, with Wises Legion, too fierce for its own good.
Here passes the proud remnant of Ransoms North Carolinians which we swept through Five Forks ten days ago,-- and all the little that was left of this division in the sharp passages at Sailors Creek five days thereafter.
Now makes its last front A. P. Hills old Corps, Heth now at the head, since Hill had gone too far forward ever to return: the men who poured destruction into our division at Shepardstown Ford, Antietam, in 1862, when Hill reported the Potomac running blue with our bodies; the men who opened the desperate first days fight at Gettysburg, where withstanding them so stubbornly our Robinsons Brigades lost 1185 men, and the Iron Brigade alone 1153,--these men of Heths Division here too losing 2850 men, companions of these now looking into our faces so differently.
What is this but the remnant of Mahones Division, last seen by us at the North Anna? its thinned ranks of worn, bright-eyed men recalling scenes of costly valor and ever-remembered history.
Now the sad great pageant—Longstreet and his men! What shall we give them for greeting that has not already been spoken in volleys of thunder and written in lines of fire on all the riverbanks of Virginia? Shall we go back to Gaines Mill and Malvern Hill? Or to the Antietam of Maryland, or Gettysburg of Pennsylvania?--deepest graven of all. For here is what remains of Kershaws Division, which left 40 per cent. of its men at Antietam, and at Gettysburg with Barksdales and Semmes Brigades tore through the Peach Orchard, rolling up the right of our gallant Third Corps, sweeping over the proud batteries of Massachusetts--Bigelow and Philips,--where under the smoke we saw the earth brown and blue with prostrate bodies of horses and men, and the tongues of overturned cannon and caissons pointing grim and stark in the air.
Then in the Wilderness, at Spottsylvania and thereafter, Kershaws Division again, in deeds of awful glory, held their name and fame, until fate met them at Sailors Creek, where Kershaw himself, and Ewell, and so many more, gave up their arms and hopes,--all, indeed, but manhoods honor.
With what strange emotion I look into these faces before which in the mad assault on Rives Salient, June 18, 1864, I was left for dead under their eyes! It is by miracles we have lived to see this day,--any of us standing here.
Now comes the sinewy remnant of fierce Hoods Division, which at Gettysburg we saw pouring through the Devils Den, and the Plum Run gorge; turning again by the left our stubborn Third Corps, then swarming up the rocky bastions of Round Top, to be met there by equal valor, which changed Lees whole plan of battle and perhaps the story of Gettysburg.
Ah, is this Picketts Division?--this little group left of those who on the lurid last day of Gettysburg breasted level cross-fire and thunderbolts of storm, to be strewn back drifting wrecks, where after that awful, futile, pitiful charge we buried them in graves a furlong wide, with names unknown!
Met again in the terrible cyclone-sweep over the breast-works at Five Forks; met now, so thin, so pale, purged of the mortal,--as if knowing pain or joy no more. How could we help falling on our knees, all of us together, and praying God to pity and forgive us all!
Thus, all day long, division after division comes and goes, surrendered arms being removed by our wagons in the intervals, the cartridge-boxes emptied in the street when the ammunition was found unserviceable, our men meanwhile resting in place."
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Release Date: March 13, 2013
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Several University at Buffalo graduate and professional degree programs have been recognized as among the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report in its annual ranking of "America's Best Graduate Schools" released today.
"UB has many outstanding graduate programs, led by very talented scholars," said Charles F. Zukoski, provost and vice president for academic affairs. "We're pleased to be recognized for the excellent education we provide our students."
According to U.S. News, the rankings are based on two types of data: expert opinions about program excellence and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research and students.
The data come from surveys of administrators at more than 1,250 programs and more than 13,000 academics and professionals conducted during the fall of 2012 and early 2013.
"We are thrilled to see SUNY colleges and universities once again ranked among the best in the country by U.S. News & World Report," said State University of New York Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher. "The SUNY campuses to make the 2014 Best Graduate Schools list are consistently recognized for the top quality and top value that they offer students, and rightly so. Congratulations to the University at Buffalo and to UB President Satish K. Tripathi on this much deserved recognition."
Among the U.S. News rankings for the best professional schools, the UB School of Social Work is ranked No. 26, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is ranked No. 61; the School of Nursing is No. 79; the Graduate School of Education is No. 79; and the Law School is No. 86. The School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences is ranked No. 64 for medicine research and No.79 for primary care.
The UB School of Management's MBA program is ranked No. 75 out of 448 programs surveyed, up 14 places from last year.
"We've worked hard to enhance the quality of our academic programs and global reputation by focusing our resources on the recruitment of high-caliber students and top faculty," said Arjang Assad, dean of the School of Management. "It is most gratifying to see those efforts reflected in this ranking."
The UB School of Management is the only business school in the Buffalo-Niagara region to be included in the U.S. News business school rankings.
Among the best programs in the social sciences, arts and humanities, UB's PhD program in English is ranked No. 44 in the country, the university's PhD program in psychology is ranked No. 63 and the master of fine arts program (MFA) is ranked No. 72. UB master's program in library and information studies is ranked No. 39. Other UB rankings include history (92), political science (75) and sociology (78).
In the U.S. News' health sciences category, three UB programs earned a No. 17 ranking: audiology, nursing-anesthesia and the doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) program. Other UB programs ranked in this category include clinical psychology (42), occupational therapy (36), physical therapy (51), public health (36), rehabilitation counseling (23) and speech-language pathology (25).
Several UB programs were included in the U.S. News rankings of the best programs in the sciences: biostatistics (64), biological sciences (115), chemistry (74), computer science (61), geology (69), mathematics (68) and physics (85).
UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences distinguished itself in the U.S. News rankings of engineering disciplines: aerospace engineering (36), chemical engineering (43), civil engineering (24), electrical engineering (76), environmental engineering (42), industrial engineering (25) and mechanical engineering (68).
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This cap and gown ceremony included X-rated pomp and circumstance too.
A graduation ceremony at a high school in Denmark was reportedly interrupted when a video showing a male student's sexual encounter with a woman was broadcast on a big screen.
The indecent broadcast in front of about 450 people happened during the showing of a film about the graduating class at Gammel Hellerup Gymnasium, The Copenhagen Post reported.
While displaying a host of student-submitted photos and video featuring images of smiling teens, the film transitioned to what seemed like hidden camera footage of one of the graduating students having sex, according to the Copenhagen Post. The woman was not a student at the school.
Jørgen Rasmussen, the headteacher at Gammel Hellerup Gymnasium, told a local news source he did not hold the male student shown in the video responsible for the graduation day snafu.
Instead, Rasmussen blamed those who secretly recorded the sex tape and uploaded it to the graduation video.
"We've agreed not to press charges," Rasmussen told Berlingske Nyhedsbureau. "However, we have encouraged the two young people who appear in the video to proceed with the case. It is really them, and not the school, that was violated."


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And Tobirama. The fact he that he came up with a jutsu like Edo Tensei put his morality into question before. And his suspicion against the Uchiha was already known. Still, I didn't think he was this cold-hearted of a bastard. To be so openly prejudiced against the Uchiha. Not even a little bothered to hear the clan had been massacred. Though he's still a good guy, he's definitely a bit of an a**hole, which he seems to be perfectly aware of.
But, I do imagine Naruto will lose the Kyuubi and Bee the Hachibi. Now that the bijuu have been shown to have human-like feelings and attachments, it seems kind of unfair to have them sealed as prisoners, even if they may genuinely care about their hosts. Wouldn't be surprised if they somehow merge back with the juubi and "purify" it, then leave so that its power can't be used for destruction again.
|2013-02-10, 18:42
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That being said, I'm still expecting Naruto to become the Jinchuuriki for the re-emerged Jyuubi.
|2013-02-10, 19:21
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- The alliances are already fighting to protect the jinchuuriki, furthermore Naruto's already giving the Kyuubi's power to everyone to fight with, showing the Kyuubi's power can actually be power shared for the good of everyone, even though one person holds the source.
- Gaara is already Naruto's biggest supporter, kazekage and a former jinchuuriki. Bee, isn't a kage, but very influential in the Cloud and also has a bond with Naruto. The Mizukage is eager for peace and acceptance of the other villages to throw off the stigma of the "Bloody Mist". The Tuschikage would probably be the most reluctant, but even he seems to have changed his outlook during the war.
- All the villages have suffered major casualties and devastation during the war. More than ever, they'll need to rely on others for support and aid to rebuild.
And Naruto has become an icon. Rather than fearing him, I think they'd probably admire his strength. Unlike past Hokage, Naruto has never built infamy in other villages fighting for Konoha in wars (the sneak attack by the Sound and Sand notwithstanding). So personal bitterness from past conflicts won't be an issue. He is in a much better position to become a leader during a time of peace.
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Imagine this world without Hashirama because for all his talk about the greater good of the village Tobirama wouldn't have been able to create it in the first place. He'd never have asked a truce with the Uchiha and in the off chance that it somehow happened the Uchiha would never have chosen him as their leader over their own. This so called rabid clan accepted peace with their mortal enemy, chose the greatest of them as leader and it took then 5 generations of Tobirama's policy + the Kyubi attack and the distrust and segregation that followed for years to make them revolt and plan a coup.
Do you really think that had Hashirama lived the same would have happened? Because it really doesn't seem to me that's what the author is going for. Peace is impossible with [insert any clan/village/people] is what Madara's gunning for but it's not the moral of the story.
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Maybe we are arguing semantics, but an asshole to me is someone that takes pleasure in the pain of others (schadenfreude is an extreme version). Tobirama is definitely prejudicial, maybe even hateful (debatable) of the Uchiha, but overall I didn't read any joy in Tobirama's treatment of the Uchiha nor their demise. (he was very matter the fact about his fear of the Uchiha's eventual decline, so much so that I doubt he realizes that he created a self fullfilling prophecy ). He's more of a douche than an asshole.
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But I take it that almost everyone is tired of the Uchiha clan history/heritage and just pretty much become haters so anything negative against the clan is viewed as good
what can ya do?
|2013-02-11, 09:09
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Now that this convo has reached it's South Parkian level of inanity, I'm going to bow out.
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|2013-02-11, 11:30
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tobirama sounds a bit envious of the uchiha power imo...i kinda get that frieza to the saiyans vibe...just me. could be wrong...
anyways, im itching to know what the revelation means to the story. from the sage all the way to the present. was the eldest son really intended to be the successor but was usurped? did the eldest son choose might as the way to govern cuz he was well aware of the consequences of emotion? will that damn rabbit ever get that bowl of trix??
|2013-02-11, 11:33
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Tobirama like many old school shinobi in the story is simply the product of his time and he couldn't rise above it like his brother did. We've seen many old ninja like that, generally until Naruto turns on his Colgate power and change them into Carebears (although considering Tobirama appears to be immune to his brother's maybe he's a hard-case).
So the part I think you were wrong is more concerning the fact that the Uchiha were a lost cause. Hashirama proved it wasn't the case and Tobirama worst sin was to give up on this ideal which as Naruto painfully repeats all the time is really something you shouldn't do.
|2013-02-11, 12:38
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Tobirama sacrificed himself for the simple reason that it was more practical for his team to survive and lead Konoha than it was for him to survive but the future generation die. He didn't sacrifice himself out of the kindness of his heart, nor do I think he was being altruistic in any respect. He sacrificed himself because logically he was the only one there that could do what needed to be done while also helping his village. (Shikimaru did something similar during the Sound/Sand invasion.)
Honestly, I do not know if Hashirama appealed to their humanity or he simply made them complacent, whatever the case it is hard to see how simply treating the Uchiha with kindness helped to stave off the monster that presumably lives inside of them. Hopefully Hashirama will be able to discuss this problem next chapter and give us some further insight into why he felt the Uchiha could be saved (whereas Tobirama felt they were doomed since birth).
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The Uchiha still rationalizing that they are somehow the victims is just laughable. Wanting to revolt just because they didn't get good real estate IS a good reason to be put down by Itachi.
Tobirama gave them a chance to regain the village's trust and they blew it. So what if they were suspected for the 9 tails' attack? An Uchiha WAS responsible for it. They should have just swallowed their pride and slowly regain the village's trust instead of plotting a revolt and confirming Tobirama's sterotypes of them.
After reading this chapter I'm glad Itachi did what he did. The clan was hopeless from the start.
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|2013-02-11, 14:19
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I am not discussing the real world, so please do not bring up realistic examples of humanity or human interaction. The Narutoverse does not correlate to reality, and Naruto is always correct (even when he is not).
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|2013-02-11, 17:17
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Nagato and Itachi bad people?
They did fail at doing the right thing, but they're not bad people.
Maybe the word you're looking for is weak or flawed if you think weak is inappropreate.
A bad person is someone who kicks puppies for whatever reason.
I hereby proclaim that Tobi would kick a puppy if it meant seeing Rin again.
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The Andro-Entitling Man
In the 1897 issues of Pearson's Weekly there appeared a serialized story by H. G. Wells. It concerned a scientist who had developed and tested on himself a method of altering the refractive index of the human body so that it neither reflected nor absorbed light. That same year, the complete story was published in novel form as The Invisible Man. Not as fondly remembered as The Time Machine nor as far-reaching a story as Things to Come. It was, however, the first of many science fiction stories to bear a title of the form /The \w+ Man/. At least, that's how you'd put in PERL regular expression syntax. If you prefer grep, then it would be 'The [a-zA-Z]+ Man'. However you like your regular expressions, it's a title that begins with "The", ends with "Man", and has a single word in between, usually a compound, interesting, and somewhat technical adjective.
My first literary encounter with this title form was a short story called The Non-statistical Man (1968, Raymond F. Jones), the story of statistical analyst who gets a first experience of the powers of intuition. Later, I ran across Isaac Asimov's Hugo and Nebula winning short story, The Bicentennial Man (1976), a story about a positronic robot's 200 year journey to be accepted as an equal in human society. I recently read the misogynist and so-bad-it's-fun novel, The Reassembled Man (1964, Herbert D. Kastle) in which a sexist jerk is kidnapped aliens and agrees to having his body disassembled for research purposes provided the aliens will reassemble him according to his ideals of the perfect man. Stephen King wrote a novel called The Running Man (1982, as Richard Bachman) which was turned into an Arnold Schwartzenegger movie a few years later. I've not read the original story but the movie is about a wrongly convicted and imprisoned man who escapes prison only to be recaptured and sentenced to die on reality TV.
That exhausts the stories I've read but there are still more I've only heard about. I recently managed to locate and purchase a copy of the long out of print Colin Kapp novel, The Transfinite Man (1964) and I've just started reading it. Philip K. Dick wrote the reasonably well-known novel, The Unteleported Man (1964) and also published a much earlier novella called The Variable Man (1953). Both are on my reading list.
There's something I find appealing about that adjective in the middle of the title, especially when it includes an unexpected prefix like un- or dis- (e.g. unteleported or disassembled). Think of all the interesting prefixes that have become common in the last couple of decades thanks to science and technology. There's the entire range of Si unit prefixes like pico-, nano-, tera- etc., common scienctific prefixes like omni-, contra-, hyper-. It seems like an inexhaustible supply.
While writing this, I noted with interest that three of the above books were published in the same year: 1964. Maybe there was a fad among authors or publishers for using this title format during the early 1960s? The last usage I could find was Stephen King's The Running Man over 30 years ago. I think we're overdue for a resurgence of this form. My question for anyone reading this is, what other stories, science fiction or otherwise have been published with this title configuration. I'm willing to be flexible enough to include other genres besides science fiction, so anything from comic books to journal articles are fair game.
While it's not exactly what I'm after, I'd even be curious to hear close but slighly different title formats such as The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold or The Woman Who Would Not Die by Carolyn Busey Bauman), though I think that form is likely to be much more common.
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The A-Sun coaches tabbed UNF's sophomore center Larkira Jones as the Defensive Player of the Year after she led the conference with 66 blocks on the season and grabbed 11.4 rebounds per outing during conference play. FGCU's Karl Smesko earned the Coach of the Year award following a 17-3 league record and 24-3 overall mark for the Eagles. The Eagles, who claimed their second conference title in four years, opened the season by winning its first 14 games.
Joining McMillan on the First Team All-Conference includes ETSU's Tara Davis, FGCU's Shannon Murphy, UNF's Brittany Kirkland and Campbell's Tonisha Baker. Davis helped ETSU to the top seed in the upcoming General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Women's Basketball Championship by leading the Lady Buccaneers in scoring, assists, steals and minutes played, while Murphy followed up her second-team selection last season by averaging a team-best 4.3 assists and 2.1 steals and ranking second on the Eagles in scoring (12.3).
Kirkland led the Ospreys in scoring in 15 games this season en route to a 13.9 per game average – eighth in the A-Sun – to help UNF to a three seed in the conference tournament. The junior guard added 71 assists and 33 steals on the year. Baker made the jump from the A-Sun All-Freshman team last season to First Team All-Conference by averaging a team-best 11.9 PPG and ranking third in rebounds (6.2), assist (2.7) and steals (1.2).
Four newcomers adorned the A-Sun Second Team with freshmen Destiny Mitchell, Sarah Hansen and Williams joining sophomore transfer Victoria McGowan. USC Upstate's sophomore guard Tee'Ara Copney and Jenna Bartsokas earned the distinction as the lone returning players from a season ago to make the second team. The quartet of first-year players combined to win 11 A-Sun Newcomer of the Week awards including each of the past eight weeks, while also earning two Player of the Week honors.
Before falling victim to injury at the end of the season, Mitchell averaged 14.5 points and nine rebounds for the Lady Bucs to go along with 2.2 steals and 1.6 assists. Williams, a prolific scorer, produced four 30-point games including the top-two scoring outputs of 41 against Jacksonville and 35 versus Campbell. Her 41-point game ranks in a tie for fifth-best in the nation this season and best overall by a freshman.
For the Eagles, Hansen earned top billing in both points and rebounds per game with her averages of 13.1 and 6.1, while shooting at 52 percent throughout the season. McGowan's production this season served as a main reason why the Hatters jumped up to the second seed in the A-Sun Tournament as the sophomore led the team in scoring, assists and steals, while ranking second in rebounds.
Copney eased some of the scoring pressure on McMillan this season by averaging 14.9 points for the Spartans, while also leading the Spartans in assists and steals. Bartsokas ranked fifth in the A-Sun in scoring at 14.8 and topped the Lady Bisons team in assists (2.8) and steals (1.8).
Mitchell, Williams and Hansen all also appeared on the A-Sun All-Freshman team with Williams and Mitchell being unanimous selections. Stetson's Sasha Sims and Belmont's Molly Ernst joined them on the team after helping both of their teams to the conference tournament.
The 2011 General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Basketball Championships get underway on Wednesday with ETSU tipping off against Lipscomb at 11 a.m. The first two days of action can be seen for free on ASun.TV, with CSS carrying the semifinals and final.
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Located the corner of Scott Troy Rd and Hwy 50, our address is 205 Rec Plex Drive, O'Fallon, IL 62269.
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Wine trail featuring several wineries throughout the Carlyle Lake region. More details coming soon.
New "Formula Blue" Design with indoor pool, exercise room, ExpressStart Breakfast.
Start your day right with our free deluxe continental breakfast and free coffee in our lobby. Enjoy a refreshing swim in our heated indoor pool. Take advantage of our business center. Appreciate the convenience of our on-site guest laundry facility. Stay connected with free wireless high-speed Internet access in our common areas and guest rooms. Step into the privacy of your own guest room with amenities including a microwave, mini-fridge, coffeemaker, cable TV with HBO and ESPN, iron, ironing board, hairdryer, clock radio, desk with lamp, free local calls, and wake-up service. Children age 15 and younger stay free in their parent's room with existing bedding. Pets weighing 50 lbs or less are welcome for a small charge in select guest rooms.
Strip center with specialty stores and restaurants located along Hwy 159.
Just down from the Mall is Kohl's , Lowe's, Old Navy, Marshall's and more.
Red Lobster, TBD Bar & Social and Olive Garden are located here along with Gordman's, Guitar Center, and several hotels.
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This center houses Ulta, Bed, Bath & Beyond, Best Buy, DSW Shoe Warehouse and other specialty stores.
The Centre features Hobby Lobby, Home Goods, Office Max, PetCo and Fresh Thyme Farmers Market.
Adjacent to St. Clair Square are Talbots, New Balance, Barnes & Noble, Chico's, Loft, and others.
The two-level mall has more than 1,000,000 sq. ft. devoted to national retailers, boutiques and specialty shops. Dillard's, Macy's, Sears, and J.C. Penney are the anchors.
The hotel is conveniently located near St. Clair Mall and a variety of restaurants. Enjoy our Free Breakfast, free Wi-Fi and indoor pool.
Ten thousand sq. ft. of meeting and pre-function space, full-service catering prepared by an award-winning chef, a dedicated banquet staff and high speed internet access help ensure the success of your event.
The 15,000 square foot space has 20 foot tall inflatable houses for kids to jump in and bounce off the walls, along with slides and mazes.
Shop T.J. Maxx, Chuck E. Cheese, Deals, Big Lots and more.
Spend the day at the Slik Trak, go karts, miniature golf, batting cages, bumper boats and video arcade – all in one spot.
This 3.8 mi. asphalt trail has several bridges and picturesque views of Richland Creek. It's ideal for a family or group outing, a quiet walk or a short bike ride. It is altogether flat except for its one steep rise to the MetroBikeLink Trail.
Sand volleyball courts, baseball/softball diamonds, soccer field, a 1.5-mile walking/running path, concession stands, picnic shelters, a large lake and the new playground make this park a getaway for visitors. Every year the Midwest Salute to the Arts is held here in August.
This live comedy venue draws local and national performers. Open Mic Night every Thursday. Open Wednesday – Saturday.


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This week started by returning from spending the weekend with kelly in Fairfax.
The possible sty in my eye was really flaring up so Monday I went back to the eye doc and
ended up having a minor surgical procedure in the office. It hurt. Like heck it hurt. It impaired
my productivity and creativity the entire week. Just not myself. The eye was draining and it was
bitterly cold so when I walked Dixie I swear it froze up. Thursday Kelly called in crisis mode
because she needed either a birth certificate or passport for a new internship thru the school. So
I had to stop everything and drive down to Fairfax again. two hours down and two hours back.
All the driving and my eye issues wiped me out. A week I hope not to repeat!
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