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What was the anime you last completed? Post it here.
Be sure to post your personal comment and rating on that anime as well.
Just use this simple format:
Name of Anime
Comment / Review: Keep spoiler (if any) inside a spoiler tag.
Rating: ? out of 10
Recommended: Yes or No
I'll post mine in a bit.
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Name of Anime: Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere part 1
Comment / Review: Impressive first episode although plot a bit confusing. The OST for this series is eargasmic so keep that in mind and be sure to turn the volume all the way up. Anyways, you can watch it here on CR and the final episode of the first half (episode 13) has a lot of action with shit going down. (and a little romance)
Rating: 8 out of 10
Recommended: For the first half, only if you enjoy the music/OST and action. Also for the humor that Tori (the MC) brings
Animanga hunter extraordinaire
Comment / Review: Surprisingly well written anime about personal growth through the eyes of 3 friends using the vehicle of the 100 poems of the Hyakunin Isshu.
Rating: 10 out of 10
Recommended: Hell Yes
Name of Anime: Asura Cryin'
Comment / Review: One of the most badass Mechas I've seen in a long time, Especially Season 2, shit gets real
Rating: 9.5 out of 10
Recommended: Hell yea
Master of all things Dandere
Ano Natsu de Matteru
Comment: It really reminded me of Onegai Sensei. Good music and animation, likable characters and the cute drama make this anime a worthwhile watch. I didn't like the ending much though. I thought it was a bit forced. But overall, it was a good series and I definitely recommend this to anyone who's into short drama anime.
Rating: 7/10
Recommended: Yes. If you like romance and drama, you'll like this.
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Comment/Review: The anime was really good and different from other anime that I've watched. There's a lot of action in it at certain points and it only gets better as it goes. The characters are really cool and in the beginning it might seem a little slow-paced, but after it starts to pick up its friggin awesome!!!
Rating: 9.5/10
Recommended: HELLZ YA!!!!
I don't think they have it here on Crunchyroll, so if you want to watch it you can go to www.lovemyanime.net
Here's the opening for the anime
The False Truths Uttered, Always So. Of How "I Am Fine", Yes That's How It Goes.
Name of Anime: A Dark Rabbit Has Seven Lives.
Comment / Review: The anime starts off with a lot of ecchi (mainly panty-shots). However, the quantity fades away after a bit. While the story seems disjointed, the anime makes for a good watch if you want a nice time-killer, and honestly, I loved the characters
I'm hoping for a second season \>o</
Rating: 8.5/10
Recommended: Yes.
Black Rock Shooter
Comment: this anime is based off of the popular Hatsune Miku song "Black Rock Shooter." Every episode had me in suspense. The plot was surprisingly refreshing and the characters unique. The animation was also well done, something that I tend to find lacking in most anime. The only complaint I have is that the series is relatively short, about 8 episodes actually.
Rating: 9.5/10
Recommend: yes I would.
inu x boku
pretty good, but didn't really achieve anything I didn't rage at it so it is alright
yeah i recommend if you don't want to rage at anime
His Holiness Optimus Maximus Decimus Meridius Colossus Nemesis Nexus Genesis
Persona 4
Comments: This is an anime adaptation of the game. A large part of the story revolves around character accepting the hidden parts of themselves, and what happens when they don't. Overall, it is fun to watch, but has some inconsistent pacing.
Rating: 7/10
Recommended: Yes
Inu x Boku
Comments: Not my favorite anime of all time. It was a nice change from all the shonen/action and mecha anime that I usually watch> The plot is rather slow moving but I was intrigued enough to come back each week and watch another episode.
Rating: 7.5/10
Recommended: Sure give it a try.
Brave 10
Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide
This anime is filled with adventure, and takes you back to Japan's old era. I really enjoyed it, because the plot was very interesting, and well-made. I loved the fighting, and it reflects friendship, love, and honor. The character development was well put together, and as you watch, you can see how one of the main characters, Saizou changes his attitude, and has a better outlook on being with people. He begins to fight to protect Isanami, instead of fighting to kill. Overall, this anime is comical, action-packed, and inspiring. :)
Rating: 10/10
Recommended?: Hell yeahh:) If you love historial, adventure, comedy and romance, I highly recommend. ♥
Natsume Yujin-cho Shi
Comment: Fantastic continuation of the series, possibly the best season overall.
Rating: 10/10
Recommended: Yes
Comment: I loved it. It was suspenseful and kept me on the edge of my seat. It wasn't perfect because the last two episodes kinda fell flat compared the the first ten, but still, it was a great horror experience. Not to mention the animation and music were brilliant.
Rating: 8/10
Recommended: Yes.
Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful?
Shakugan no Shana
Comment / Review: A wonderful action packed ending to the anime. More action then 1st two seasons and finally something I've been waiting for between the main characters. J.C. Staff went all out on this adaptation. They were better then previous two that J.C. Staff did earlier in the year.
Rating: 9 out of 10
Recommended: Yes, If you have not seen the anime you are missing out.

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Anonymity in Tibet was once an egoless nod to spiritual practice by artists who adhered to strict formulas in rendering thangka paintings of deities and vast cosmologies.
Anonymity in Tibet was once an egoless nod to spiritual practice by artists who adhered to strict formulas in rendering thangka paintings of deities and vast cosmologies.
A thousand years later, anonymity is a tool to speak freely about Tibetan culture in a heavily censored environment.
"When people are oppressed, their freedom of expression is in their art," collector Donald Rubin said. "Their inner being shines through."
"Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art" opens Saturday at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. The show is drawn from Donald and Shelley Rubin's private collection of Tibetan art and springboards from the 2010 "Traditions Transformed" contemporary Tibetan art exhibit at the Rubin Art Museum in Lower Manhattan.
Guest curated by Rachel Perera Weingeist, senior adviser to the Rubin Foundation, the show found its genesis in a huge database of anonymous artwork Weingeist encountered when she began working for the Rubins nearly a decade ago. What would make an obvious master artist choose namelessness?
Weingeist sent out an open call for artists on the show's website in three languages to encourage playful exploration of the concept. She braced for the onslaught of video submissions sure to come from the tech-savvy artists in Tibet and China. How would expression open up when artists could tuck behind the veil of anonymity?
"Interestingly, the artists couldn't imagine not taking credit for their work. The 21st-century mindset wants recognition for their accomplishments," Weingeist said. "One artist said he wouldn't sign a traditional thangka, but when given the opportunity would sign all of his other work."
Digital submissions were another matter. Knowing all emails were monitored, communications were stilted and benign with scant commitment.
"It's a risk to communicate by video. There's no Dropbox or U-send that we take so much for granted in this country," Weingeist said. Months of encouraging videographers to participate yielded only two submissions through the website. "It ended up being a grassroots gathering of electronic material through handoffs."
The show now includes 17 videos among the 50 works of contemporary Tibetan art. "One is a documentary that just records walking down the street in Lhasa, which would be forbidden to do with a camera on your shoulder. So it's a fine line that the artists walked to create this work," Weingeist said.
The Rubin Museum of Art opened in 2004 and contains hundreds of ancient Himalayan artworks, collected since the 1970s. Rubin compared choosing artwork to falling in love, as fond of an 800-year-old stone figurine as a thangka rendered in ground stone pigments. Weingeist acknowledges that some contemporary works are more fragile than the ancient pieces.
"Except for the dyptic of the Kiss face opposite the traditional Drakkten. It's plastic and will be here forever," Weingeist said. Are these the new classics by which Tibetan culture will be known a thousand years from now?
"I don't know," Rubin said. "But if I come back in another life, I'll still love them."


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Meet the meat: Cook-Out backs up Charlottesville artery
"They can wait," barks the man directing traffic in the parking lot of Charlottesville's newest fastfoodery as he directs this reporter to pull up and thereby block a vehicle trying to exit. "I've got cars," he explains, "out on the road."
Indeed, in the days since North Carolina-based Cook-Out opened at the former site of Long John Silver's, it's been the rare mealtime when cars didn't block, or at least slow, the traffic on Emmet Street, Charlottesville's central vehicular artery.
Arteries carrying blood may find that they too could get blocked if the staples of Cook-Out– mostly various forms of grilled meats– remain too popular for too long. Still, the quiet launch on Monday, March 19 was a pretty snazzy debut for a site whose over 60 marked parking spaces and room for a snake-line of about a dozen or more cars in the drive-thru lane no longer suffice for the food cooked within.
"Everyone's happy for the Cook-Out," says City planner Read Brodhead, who approved the signage and the red roof. "Cheap burgers and milkshakes."
Indeed, when a reporter made his second visit shortly before 2pm that first Saturday, the act of scooping up four trays worth of burgers, including eight mostly meat-based side-items and a trio of Cheerwine floats, brought a tax-included bill of just $21.27.
While Charlottesville Police spokesperson Ronnie Roberts reports no complaints about the traffic, there's yet another queue inside the building. This one– of Bodo's proportions– snakes through the interior like the tapeworm that might be needed to pare down the calories from a visit.
"Finally, a place that sells old-fashioned hamburgers, hot dogs, onion rings, and thick chocolatey milkshakes," exclaims the Mom's Diner blog.
But planner Brodhead– even though he's heard happy raves from a City Hall colleague– says he'll stay put unless there's some sort of zoning violation.
"I'll probably never go to Cook-Out," says Brodhead, "because I'd rather get a greasy burger somewhere else."Read more on: Cook-Out restaurant
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America's core business is Diabesity. Bring on the greasy burgers and corn syrup concoctions. Heck, you can get a similar meal about every 100 yards along both sides of Emmet St.
Did you really just use the term "tapeworm that might be needed to pare down the calories from a visit" while describing a restaurant? I love this. I almost thought about checking this place out but now all I'll be able to think is "tapeworm".
Mind boggling that Szakos et. al. are not on the rampage to eradicate such detrimental food from our "communi-ty." This is making the cardio team at UVa and MJH drool!
R.I.P.: Brian Keith (You didn't have to die, Uncle Bill!)
Been there one time. It's not all that great. The fries taste like and compare to Hardee's. The burgers taste like and compare to Five Guys, with just a tad more flavor, like burgers cooked on a home grill. And the onion rings taste like the usual frozen variety you can buy at any grocery store. It may be OK for a quick meal if in the neighborhood. But it's nothing to write home about. I was disappointed.
There are a lot of food offerings in Charlottesville that are not meant to be part of your daily diet. Why are you picking on Cook-Out? If you had used the same phrasing in a report on Riverside you'd be BOOed out of town. Lighten up. It's just a burger place. I don't think they're trying to be anything else.
Snakes, tapeworms, clogged arteries ---what a yummy review !
Well it's good to see SOMEBODY doing new biz and hiring folks. I would not make it my destination for a meal cuz I choose not to eat that stuff, however, seems pretty tacky for the reporter to "dis" a new biz like that in this economy or at any time. People ALREADY KNOW what kind of food is served there. All the spin was rude and unnecessary.
The sagacious tapeworm prefers pink slime!
Perhaps there is a market for tapeworm on a stick. Preferably free range tapeworm and not those mangy GMO ones. Yuck! The latter are so unappetizing as they appear to have been genetically modified as to be roundup ready for MSG.
Bon Appétit!
Completely tacky 'reporting' once again. Who knew that all Hook articles are now clearly written with a writers' bias, even on articles as mundane as a restaurant review.
Amen to that!
There are a lot of overweight people in Central Virginia. Losing weight takes a lot of discipline and a lot of money to eat healthy. You don't see a lot of overweight folks at the local farmer's markets. You do see a lot of them at Spudnuts, Riverside, Five Guys etc. Price is often the deciding factor. Another factor is location. Sources for healthy food aren't located in places where folks can get to them on foot or by bus. So you eat what is convenient. Despite the wealth in this area, there are a lot of food deserts in Albemarle and the surrounding counties. If we want to fight obesity and put the heart docs out of work, we need to get healthy food to places where it is currently not available. We also need to teach folks how to cook healthy food and use spices that make for good taste and not use much fat or butter,
A few things to remember:
Fighting obesity takes planning, money and cooperation.
OK, I'm done, go eat a burger, fries, omion rings and wash it all down with a diet soda!
Ok. When is our first meeting?
Dude, people know this already. Ask ANYONE what's healthier, a Big Mac or a salad; a soda or water. They KNOW the correct answer. And you needn't be a genius to know these things. People choose what they want to choose, eat what they want to eat. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink. And we need heart doctors. Many heart ailments are not caused by poor diet. BTW, I get your points. Just do the right thing. Maybe you'll be a blessing to someone by example:)
WE ALL NEED TO BECOME VERY FAMILIAR WITH GM FOODS. THIS WILL BE OUR UNDOING! FIGHT THEM IN WHATEVER WAYS YOU CAN. START BY NOT BUYING UNLESS ITS ORGANIC: corn, cottonseed oil, canola, soybeans, Hawaiian papaya, yellow or zucchini squash. These are the most prevalent GM products. Frankenstein foods they are! Watch with friends and family: Food Inc or The Food We Eat or The World According to Monsanto. All docs available via Netflix or YouTube. Ok I'm done:)
The funniest thing about this article is that Hawes links a blog that has no traffic and praises every single restaurant it reviews.
HS- You can write some really good articles at times, but then turn around and appear to be nothing more than a sanctimonious jerk!
I know it's only a burger joint, but if you have a bias towards these places, just don't write about them. It makes you look cheap and unprofessional.
Tapeworm!?....Really!?.... What!? Are you 15 years old!?
This is just bad journalism. You should aspire to write better than this.
Ohh, that's great! Somebody had to mention Spudnuts. Now I will be craving them until I get a dose one morning this week! Thanks for nothing, Lipsticked Pig!
By the way, diet beverages cause cancer.
@Donna Downing
Genetically Modified food is a very serious issue. No one knows what the long term effect of it will be on those who eat it, the ground it grows on and what it does in the water supply.
Corporate farming has no conscience. It is all about making money. Let somebody else worry about the problems it causes. When the USDA wakes up and realizes the downside and stops listening to the K Street crowd, the corporate lobby and the farmers who sell their land to corporate farmers, maybe things might change.
I saw FOOD, INC. at a private showing long before its limited run in mostly art houses. It is too bad that most people don't want to be educated, they want to be entertained. No one ever went broke overestimating the stupidity of most consumers.
BTW, I know diet drinks cause cancer. It was an attempt at humor. :-)
@.A Pig with Lipstick on is still a Pig
I saw the movie FOOD, LLC, FOOD, INC's inspiration at an ultra exclusive showing at my friend's teepee, long long before FOOD, INC was even concieved of. You people probably havent even heard of it :-)
I saw food inc too and I wanted to recreate that tonight. So I got 6 bacon wraps, hush puppies, and a milkshake. It was ok.


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The Galaxy S 4 launch is quickly approaching, and we all know Samsung is going to spend countless millions marketing the device. Today the Samsung Mobile team from the Netherlands posted a trio of videos on YouTube that give us our first glimpse into the ads that are likely coming soon to our TVs. Check out the clips below and let us know what you think.
Bonus Video: One more clip of a different style that is floating around on YouTube.


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Dragons - 8
In the 10 & Under Boys Division, American Classic Cakes beat the Dragons 19-8. The high scorers for American Classic Cakes were Altan Guventurk with ten and Oscar Filipkowski with five. The high scorers for the Dragons were Justine Anghiine with six, and Drew and Dillion Santalucia with one a piece. The American Classic Cakes methodically built up the lead by getting the ball to their big man early. Also contributing to the winning effort was Nino Radoncic with great passing.
Team Miyagi – 50
ESPN Zone - 36
In the 17 & Under Boys Division, Team Miyagi beat ESPN Zone 50–36. It was a close game until Miyagi outscored ESPN Zone by 1tn points in the 4th quarter. The high scorers for Miyagi were Justin Ortiz with ten points and Stephen Schmengsarsky with eight. The high scorer for ESPN Zone was Ethan Dewey with 14 points. Danilo Amaro also contributed to Miyagi's win with good defense.
Woodside – 52
Queens Elite - 36
In the 17 & Under Boys Division, Woodside beat Queens Elite by a score of 52-36. Woodside started the first half on fire and led at the half by a score of 35-15. Woodside's high scorer was Kevin Siete with 27 points. Queens Elite's high scorer was Daniel Scarpulla with 14 points. Cholo Diaz also contributed to Woodside's win with five points and a number of great assists.
Al Haag – 29
Plaster Party - 27
Al Haag beat Plaster Party by a final score was 29-27. At half time, Al Haag was up by one point, but by the end of the 3rd quarter Plaster Party had a three-point lead. But Al Haag came out on top, outscoring Plaster Party 11-6 in the 4th quarter. The high scorers for Al Haag were Danny DeBiase and Orian del Fierro with seven points each. The high scorer for Plaster Party was Justin Buffamante with ten points. Joseph Light and Jonathan Sinseor from Plaster Party both had great games as well. Light played good defense the entire game and had a nice steal in the 4th quarter. Sinseor showed his talents by hitting a lay-up in the 2nd quarter while falling to the ground. The MVP of the game goes to Liam Gallagher for the pari of foul shots he made with seconds left to put Al Haag up two points for the win.
5 Boros – 39
Team Miyagi - 22
5 Boros beat Team Miyagi by a score of 39-22. Derek Asap was the high scorer for 5 Boros with 11 points, scoring as soon as he got in the game. The high scorer for Miyagi was Stephen Slusarski with nine points. Miyagi put up a good fight, but 5 Boros just kept driving and getting to the hoop. Terrell Mewborn also contributed seven points for 5 Boros and showed some great defense to keep his team ahead in the game.
ESPN Zone – 62
5 Boros - 61
In the 17 & Under Division, ESPN Zone beat 5 Boros by a final score of 62-61. It was a game of runs as each team went on long scoring stints. It was a back-and-forth game down to the last minute, but ESPN Zone finally came out with the win. The high scorers for ESPN Zone were Ethan Dewey with 22 points and Chris Satizabal with 12 points. The leading scorer for 5 Boros was George Pena with 23 points. Also helping out ESPN Zone was Thomas Sanchez with ten points and excellent ball handling.
Illmatic – 35
Al Haag Plumbing - 24
In the 17 & Under Division, Illmatic defeated Al Haag Plumbing by a final of 35-24. The game involved many fast breaks and offensive rebounds. Illmatic went up by ten early and held on for the rest of the game. Juan Gutierrez and Jonathan Villegas lead the way for Illmatic with scoring and defense. Ryan Quinn led Al Haag with six points. Chris Espinoza also helped out Illmatic with great ball handling.
Santino's Crew – 46
Street Gang - 46
An intense 17 & Under game on Wednesday ended in a 46-46 tie between Santino's Crew and Street Gang. The game could not go into overtime when regulation ended because of the failing light. It was a back-and-forth affair, with both teams were going point for point with each other. Leading Santino's Crew was Rudy Collins with 26 out of the team's 46 points. Leading Street Gang was Ricky Wahmam with 16 points.


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'Beautiful Creatures' NYC Premiere: Twi-Hard With A Vengeance?
As Lena, the spell-casting heroine of Beautiful Creatures, Alice Englert makes it snow in South Carolina, but she was powerless to stop the weather from stranding her in Baltimore for Cinema Society's New York premiere of the movie. Fortunately, her co-stars Viola Davis and Emmy Rossum were on hand to introduce the movie to a VIP crowd of New Yorkers that, judging from the discussion at the post-premiere party at Cole's Greenwich Village restaurant, came away impressed by the film's performances and writing. more »


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Florida Parks Targeting Boomers for Winter Stays
January 17, 2012 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Florida Parks Targeting Boomers for Winter Stays
As Florida heads into its peak winter season, many RV parks and resorts are reporting growing numbers of snowbirds who are showing up at the last minute without reservations, while others are splitting their time between resorts in different parts of the state.
"The Baby Boomers are coming now," said Lynda Phelps, owner of Up River RV Resort in Fort Myers. And unlike snowbirds of years past, who would book sites for the whole season, Phelps said Boomers are more likely to book campsites at the last minute, often calling from the road.
"They are more tentative, probably because they are just getting their feet wet" in seeing what Florida has to offer, she said.
But even if they only make a reservation for one night, Phelps finds that her winter guests often wind up staying for a week or more, once they get an idea of her park's amenities, which include a heated swimming pool and spa; a 9-hole non regulation golf course; tennis; bocce ball; and fishing and kayaking along the Caloosahatchee River.
Even though today's winter visitors are more spontaneous, Phelps said her winter business levels are strong. "Our business is up over last year," she said. "We're having a good season."
Tim Deputy, general manager of Sun N Fun RV Resort in Sarasota, said his business is way up from last year's figures, with a 20% increase in RV site rentals and a 27% increase in park model rentals. He said the park is "fully booked" for February and March.
He attributed the increase in part to the resort's new indoor pool and wellness center, which was completed in time for the winter season. "It's just insane," Deputy said. "I've never seen so many people working out in the resort."
John Parkhurst, manager of Holiday Travel Resort in Orlando, said occupancies at the 935-site park are consistent with last winter's figures, though he is also experiencing a large influx of snowbirds who show up at his park without reservations. "We're getting people who are staying longer," he said. "They come in for a month and they stay longer."
Carefree RV Resorts, which operates 28 resorts in Florida, is seeing growing demand for RV site rentals this winter.
While the company's daily/weekly and monthly occupancies are flat this month compared to last January, daily/weekly and monthly RV site rentals are up 3% and 4%, respectively, in February, said David Napp, the company's CEO.
Across Florida, business levels appear to be strongest along the West Coast, with parks in other areas of the state reporting business levels that are either flat or slightly down from last winter's figures, said Bobby Cornwell, executive director of the Florida Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds.
Chris Long, a general manager and partner at Central Park of Haines City, said occupancies are down 3% to 4% at his park this winter, which he attributes in part to "jumpers," snowbirds who split the winter in different parks to see what the different regions of Florida have to offer.
But while his overall occupancies are down this winter, Long is seeing exceptionally strong demand for park model rentals at his park. "Either they have an RV and gave it up or they want to try it before they buy a park model or another RV," he said, adding, "The rental market is strong."
Bill Harvey, who owns and operates Cross Creek RV Resort in Arcadia, said his business is about 6% ahead of last winter's figures. "The activity is very strong," he said.
For more information about winter business levels at RV parks and resorts in Florida, please contact Bobby Cornwell at the Florida Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds, at (850) 562-7151. The association is the Florida affiliate of the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds, the national voice of the outdoor hospitality industry. Visit their respective websites at www.campflorida.com and www.gocampingamerica.com.


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MADISON, WIS. – World Dairy Expo has pledged financial support of the pending new Alliant Energy Center (AEC) pavilion building project. World Dairy Expo is collaborating with public and private partners to fund the new project, including Dane County, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (WIDATCP) and Midwest Horse Fair. The official announcement was made Wednesday, June 19 during a Dane County press conference at the annual Expo site, the Alliant Energy Center, Madison, Wis.
The Expo Board of Directors has agreed to be a financial partner. On June 7, the Expo board approved to contribute $3 million towards the AEC project. Projected total cost of the new pavilion project is $18 million. World Dairy Expo has also signed a new commitment to call the AEC home for many years to come.
Designs for the new buildings were unveiled Wednesday. Once complete, the facilities will total nearly 290,000 square feet and house 2,600 head of cattle. The facilities would replace aging barns on the grounds – some of which date back to the 1960's – and should eliminate the need for temporary livestock housing during Expo.
"World Dairy Expo is proud to invest in this project, which, will enable our event and others to continue to thrive for many years to come," remarked Scott Bentley, Expo General Manager. "Expo is very excited about the prospect of the new buildings which will mean improved cow comfort for the 2,600 head of North America's world-class cattle that travel to Madison each year to compete."
World Dairy Expo is an international event with tremendous economic impact on Dane County and the surrounding region. Last year's event resulted in approximately $19 million of direct spending in Madison, with a regional economic impact of $50 million. Last year's attendance at the five-day event exceeded 70,000, with 2,950 registered international guests from 95 countries. World Dairy Expo 2013, themed "Center of the Dairy Universe," will be held in the current barns and facilities October 1 through October 5.
The agreements will be introduced at the Dane County Board of Supervisor's June 20th meeting, and are subject to final approvals at the County and State levels.


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Small Space Solutions: Sources for Clear Glass & Acrylic Desks
The clear glass desk is a perfect solution for the small space home office. For starters, it practically disappears from the eye line, keeping the room from appearing overstuffed with furniture. And no matter how dark the room or surrounding furnishings, a transparent desk adds a light, modern touch to the space. If you're a fan of the look, check out our roundup of clear desks after the jump…
• Glass Desk from Wisteria This is the desk used so effectively in Kevin's studio. $499
• Peekaboo Clear Console from CB2 Similar to the desk from Wisteria, this molded acrylic option from CB2 is a bit smaller and over $100 cheaper. $379
• Tier One Designs Computer Desk from Wayfair With a tempered glass top and aluminum legs, this desk still has the minimal impact of an all glass desk but at a fraction of the price. $149.30
• Air Desk L Writing Desk from FCI Available in two sizes, this desk mimics the minimal shape of the desk in Kevin's studio but actually has an aluminum frame. £2,958
• President Junior Glass Desk from Mac and Mac Interiors This curved option comes in several glass options – several colors of glossy and matt, in addition to transparent. £1,596
(Images: 1. Kevin's Cool, Collected Studio Cocktail; All others: As credited above.)


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Time and again this Icelandic Printer's clients have been recognized and rewarded within the publishing industry for creativity and innovation. For those who want their printing and bindery to be of higher standard, working with Oddi Printing is the perfect solution for books, calendars, catalogues or magazines.
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Not even George Orwell envisaged this
In 1984, George Orwell imagined a world in which surveillance technology was used only by dictators. What he didn't anticipate was society's willing integration of private information with commerce.
News that sales of Nineteen Eighty-Four have spiked following revelations about NSA's PRISM program is unsurprising. George Orwell's dystopian classic is still the way many people are introduced to concerns about intrusive state monitoring.
Big Brother and the Thought Police are seared into the general cultural consciousness, so that even people who have never read it understand the meaning of 'Orwellian' and have a sense of the novel's key themes.
But Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949, and as powerful and evocative as its motifs and slogans remain, 21st century surveillance has elements Orwell never imagined, and is accepted in ways that might have astounded him.
CCTV cameras are presented as vital to crime prevention and as an effective means of protecting innocent citizens from attack. Monitoring keeps us safe. And surveillance has become entertainment, most ironically in 'Big Brother' where people compete to be under constant scrutiny. More revealing than their narcissism is the audience's enthusiastic voyeurism, playing at Thought Police from the couch.
Television was relatively new when Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, but in contemporary surveillance the computer has in many ways surpassed the camera as the vital monitoring tool.
As the NSA scandal shows, digital information can be collected in vast and unprecedented quantities, then analysed and acted upon without our knowing. Laptops and mobile phones that we considered intimate connections to the internet and other people are resources that can be mined by agencies for useful data.
The identity and credit cards that give us access to goods and services work as 'data doubles', surrogate identities that sometimes are accepted as more valid than our physical selves. Anyone who has ever lost a wallet or purse knows the difficulty of proving their identity to bureaucracies and authorities without information from a database. The electronic traces these cards leave can be monitored and assessed.
Not everyone has thought through the implications of these changes, and rapid developments in technology mean that the social, political and ethical questions surrounding them get little extended public debate. The NSA case has changed that, in the United States at least, if only temporarily. How the debate plays out remains to be seen, but Nineteen Eighty-Four clearly provides a starting point for thinking through and discussing those implications.
By 21st century standards the technology employed in Oceania is relatively crude and only employed by the political dictatorship. The NSA leak reminds us - even as Google, Apple and Facebook protest their innocence - that surveillance today is integrated with commerce, something Orwell did not foresee. Again, many of us now know this, and many more are complicit, happily providing personal information in order to purchase over the web or connect to cyber communities.
Our unpaid labour makes billions of dollars for many of these companies, and our credit card purchases supply information for many others, invaluable in planning, advertising and product development. Orwell has nothing specific to say on these matters. But Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's bluff assertion that privacy is no longer a social norm might usefully be judged against Nineteen Eighty-Four, where party members have no privacy. The novel supplies a means of thinking critically about what privacy means now and how or whether it will survive in the future.
Despite its immense powers, the NSA largely had remained free from intense public scrutiny until last week, its role officially promoted as protecting the nation against external threat, initially within the context of the Cold War (it was formed in 1952), later in relation to the War on Terror.
But the revelation that the agency is monitoring United States citizens immediately transformed the NSA into something Orwellian, an internal Thought Police. Its defenders on both political wings insist that its activities are vital to national security, but in a country where some citizens are almost pathologically suspicious of government, these soothing voices have failed to convince.
One of the reasons for this suspicion of government is Nineteen Eighty-Four itself, a text long taught in United States high schools and often misinterpreted there during the Cold War as only indicting the Soviet Union. Orwell explained that he set the book in Britain to emphasise 'that totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere'. In today's United States that broad application is exemplified in libertarian Republican Senator Rand Paul's accusation in the Wall Street Journal that 'Big Brother certainly is watching and it's not hyperbolic or extreme to say so.'
Barack Obama also used the novel as a point of reference, responding to criticism of the PRISM program by claiming that 'while in the abstract you can complain about Big Brother ... when you look at the facts I think we got the balance right'. While the novel is being invoked at this political level by both sides to persuade a sceptical public, sales are likely to stay healthy.


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|2006-01-06, 00:05
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
I am considering getting a Neon Genesis Evangelion box set because I never have seen the entire series yet ( I know), but I want to get the complete set with all the eps, and INCLUDING the special OVA ending eps and movies? (I am not exactly sure on everything that got released). I am hoping someone knows if there is a set that has all of these, as I have read that the OVA ending really does it justice over the original aired episodes and I dont want to get screwed in not getting them..
I know some people on here know this, any help is appreciated
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|2006-01-06, 00:55
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Now we have the Platinum Edition. Is this the same as the Japanese Renewal edition? Or is the Renewal edition something that still hasn't been brought over to R1?
1. Evangelion 1-20Death & Rebirth: There is no reason to watch this movie because it contains nothing that isn't included in the list above. The first part, "Death" is merely retelling episode 1-24 with 5 minutes of new footage. All that new footage was included in the Director's Cut rendering "Death" pointless if you saw the director's cut. The second half, "Rebirth" is just the beginning of "End of Evangelion" so that is equally redundant.
The original version of Evangelion 21-24: This is merely an inferior verison to the Director's Cut, lacking all the new footage from Death.
There is no Director's Cut of episodes 25-26.
|2006-01-06, 01:56
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The Japanese release, dubbed Renewal, featured the same remastered video and 5.1 audio that you'll find on the Platinum release. In addition to this, both Renewal and Platinum have incorporated the Director's Cut footage into the normal feature. The only notable difference between the two is that the Japanese release, Renewal, not only has the remastered TV series but also the movies while Platinum is only the TV series due to conflicting license rights over the movies.
If one were to get the Renewal box (it was a limited release and is sold out), there would be no need to ever buy another EVA release... Except the ADV release if you need the subtitles. ^^
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I really contemplated whether or not to buy it since I already own the LaserDisc sets, but I am now glad that I did. Now that is a limited edition item that I don't regret buying.
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Erm for those who keep mentioning the Death and rebirth movie as a recap
You do know the 110mins part is like a prologe to explain the series the movie follows a few minutes after........
and the 2 movies are basicly alternative versions of episodes 25-26
and why would we need a platinum version if its already digitaly spectacular with dolby digital surround sound and audio commentary.....?
|2006-01-09, 11:03
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Yes, I think they're aware it's meant to be viewed as a precursor to EoE. However to many it is still a recap of the series. Also Rebirth is completely redundant.
Also EoE is the alternate version, not Death.
|2006-01-31, 19:16
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Now I will explain as briefly as I can EoE and such....
|2006-01-31, 19:32
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Thank you very much, AnimePlus, for clarifying all of that for me. I must sound like an idiot with such a little understanding of what is going on, but I did watch it at 1 AM so maybe I have some kind of excuse EoE is, then, an acceptable ending to a fantastic series that, I believe, deserves its popularity.
|2006-01-31, 22:03
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Daemon Mortis
I wanna see where the manga of NGE leads to..but it's gonna take a long while to finish at this rate... I consider the eps 25-26 of the TV to probably be the last thoughts of everyone before Third Impact fails; although, Shinji doesnt accept HCP, he is accepted by all the other souls...IMO
EoE was a perfect ending for NGE...
|2006-01-31, 23:00
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If you think that 40000 yen for the Japanese boxset is expensive you obviously haven't seen the the collectors' edition boxset that Gainax released to commemorate the day of second impact (September 13 2000 I think). Presenting the Second Impact Box. They were released in 3 seperate volumes and each set cost 20000 yen. And supposedly there were only 500 complete sets released worldwide. I bought this boxset since it was the first to be released. Little did I know that Gainax would be releasing another boxset in 2003 with better quality audio and lower price.
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|2006-02-02, 00:40
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They're basically different approaches to the same theme.
One provides an overtly intellectual view of it (which confused most people) while the other provides an action filled approach downplaying the intellectual aspect of it (which confused many people as it didn't clearly explain anything).
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She is a member of the Fremont Community Church, where she assists with Sunday school and Super Church. She is also a 4-H member. ??As a student she is involved in the Fellowship of Christian Students, National Honor Society and the school newspaper. She is a member of the volleyball team. ??After graduation she plans on attending the University of Michigan to pursue a career as an ultrasound technician.??She is sponsored by Oriole Automotive and Vozar Insurance Agency.Kailey ThornKailey Thorn, a sophomore at Quincy High School,�is the daughter of Karmen Montgomery and Carl Thorn. She is involved in several activities around the county and community. Those activities include Green Club and volunteering for the Veterans Day luncheon at Quincy American Legion. She independently organized and collected Christmas cards from the school and community to send to the troops during the holidays.??She is a member of the Quincy softball and volleyball teams and the cheerleading squad. 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Hi Joonies,
Let's talk about the advantages and disadvantages of dating FOBs.
First, a basic definition to start off with so we're all clear as to who this concerns:
"F.O.B – (n) an acronym for "Fresh Off the Boat", and refers to new immigrants to a country (mostly Western). Now commonly used to describe any person new to a country, who is not well versed with its language or culture (mainly Western). Can be taken as an insult, or a term of endearment (eg; pride of culture)."
PRO: They speak the mother tongue so well, and it gets you kind of hot when you guys are alone. And you know that amazing 'Farsi/Persian' skills means a slam dunk with the parents.
CON: But then you realize that they have a Persian accent when they speak English, and that just makes you feel all self-conscious when you bring him around your friends. (and let's be honest, you can never convince yourself that the accent is sexy.)
PRO: They seem to still have some old school culture and chivalry, and that makes you feel warm and lady-like– I mean, a man with manners who picks up the tab is always sexy.
CON: But some of that chivalry just turns out to be chauvinism and ….
PRO: In their lives, FOB guys have had it pretty rough and left everything they've known to come to a new country with a new culture. They've proved they can stand on their own two feet.– DAMN. #Respect
CON: BUT, they may be on the prowl for a woman just so she can replace his mom. He could be missing the warm meals and clean laundry. (watch out!)
PRO: Finally, there's so much they can teach you about a part of your culture that you never got to experience because you've never spent more than a vacation's time in Iran.
That, arguably, could be priceless.
CON: Or it could be exhausting because you'd have so much to catch them up on.
Hello, Pop Culture waits for no one!
So I guess the jury is out. With a FOB, you gain some -you lose some. It all comes down to a matter of personal taste (and patience), right?
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Washington: The Obama administration is set to extend waivers of US sanctions it has granted to major Asian petroleum consumers, including China, India and South Korea, for reducing their imports of Iranian oil, officials said.
Two officials said an announcement of the six-month extensions was expected from the State Department today. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly preview the step.
In addition to China, India and South Korea, the waivers will apply to Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Taiwan. All nine were originally granted six-month renewable exemptions from the sanctions in June.
The exemption means that banks and other financial institutions based in those places will not be hit with penalties under US law enacted as a way of pressuring Iran to come clean about its nuclear program.
A total of 20 countries and Taiwan have been granted the waivers. The others Belgium, Britain, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Japan will come up for review in March.
The administration says the exemptions are a sign that pressure on Iran is increasing.
In June, US officials said Iran`s oil exports have declined from about 2.5 million barrels a day last year to between 1.2 million and 1.8 million barrels a day, choking a key source of revenue for the regime, which remains defiant over international demands that it prove that its nuclear program is peaceful.
The US sanctions target foreign financial institutions that do business with Iran`s central bank by barring them from opening or maintaining correspondent operations in the United States.
The sanctions would apply to foreign central banks only for transactions that involve the sale or purchase of petroleum or petroleum products and then only if the Obama administration determined that there was enough non-Iranian oil available to make up the difference without disrupting oil markets.


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Scientist Explains Why Putting Research Behind A Paywall Is Immoral
from the against-the-basic-principles-of-academic-research dept
If you are a scientist, your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. And if you bring new knowledge into the world, it's immoral to hide it. I heartily wish I'd never done it, and I won't do it again.He goes on to respond to a number of possible responses as to why it's okay to put your research behind a paywall, dismantling each one. One key one is the claim by many that paywalls on journals are necessary to fund scholarship:
No. This is the tail wagging the dog. The purpose of a scholarly society is to promote scholarship, which is best done by making that scholarship available. A society that cares more about preserving its own budget than about the field it supposedly supports has lost its way. Societies need to find other ways to fund their activities. And yes, I am talking to you, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (my own field's society). You cannot support the science of vertebrate palaeontology by taking science and hiding it where most people can't see it.Somewhere along the way, things got flipped and people seemed to forget the true purpose of scholarship (and the fact that scholarship -- perhaps even more than other areas -- relies on the ability to build off of the work of those who came before). In the end, and this is a key point, if you're locking up your scientific research, you're doing science wrong:
No, no, no. Dammit, we're scientists. Our job is to make knowledge. If we make it, then brick it up behind a wall, we're wasting our time and our funders' money – which ultimately means we're squandering the world's wealth.


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|2010-12-28, 15:35
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^You don't have a top 5 offense in the NFL 6 consecutive years without some exceptional offensive players besides the QB...So I call shenanigans all that point, but...
The truth is almost everybody in this thread are Saints-haters...Before I even boasted this offseason people were calling us a fluke...I'm just gonna defend myself if people give me $hit...It just so happens I do it better than most so it comes off a bit brazen, but in all honesty it's words on a message board to me and I say mostly everything with a smirk and a snark rather than a violent curl of the lip...I really don't see where I'm doing anything wrong, if we loss last night no doubt I'd be getting the grief right now...I'll admit ever since that flamewar with Biff I've been a bit more stark in defending my team, but in a trashtalk sense ain't nobody go call me out in a Football thread...
Nevertheless your points aren't completely invalid and I will strive to be a bit more reserved in rebuttal verses all this hate against my team...But c'mon bro I couldn't let a botched Megatron pic go to waste^^...
|2010-12-28, 15:53
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LOL, sorry in advance Toki^^...I wanted to ignore him LMFAO...
I'll give you a star on the passive-aggressive nature of you're comebacks, it's good but not good enough to hide the truth phoneyniner...As for the rest, thanks for thinking we can get it done, I agree...Now I'll let it die ;D...
|2010-12-28, 16:04
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|2010-12-28, 16:09
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|2010-12-28, 16:28
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Dude you're not Cthulhu of course I'll respond back...Ain't nothing to fear...Words on a screen bro...
As we live and breath Saints = Win
As we live and breath Phoneyniners = kitbashed Megatron
LOL That's the fact, the fact you can't escape...It's all about the now, and right now your team sucks oldman in a sauna balls...At this moment in time I have the high ground, so keep muttering whatever histrionics your pappy told you about when you were too busy watching VR-Trooper reruns to realize what football even was...You haven't experienced one decent iota of San Fran football in your adult mind...So when you become a football adult and experience success we can talk, until then go glue your Megatron together...
|2010-12-28, 19:27
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wd will bask in the Saints glory like most of us did when it was our team's time in the sun
*looks at his Troy Aikman, Emmit Smith and Michael Irvin cards*
I leave the sports smack talk to the pros >.> not my forte, unless someone starts spouting wrong facts that makes me want to uppercut them through the internet
|2010-12-28, 23:32
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Gundam Boobs and Boom FTW
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And a better D. Ugh. BIG STEENKING FAIL this week. The NFC Patriots we are not.
Unlike the Pats, we didn't beat a third string chump today.
Though it seems that the Vikes might have found their new QB after Favre's retirement
God damn...the offensive line was just horrendous and the defense didn't help things either.
Rest the starters next week, heal up, and then it's a rematch with the giants or packers.
|2010-12-28, 23:49
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This one has echoes of what got McNabb sent packing to Washington. Just start the damn B team on Sunday against the Cowboys and get as much rest as you can, because the playoffs are going to be downright brutal.
|2010-12-28, 23:50
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The plan for beating the Eagles was kinda just revealed...Just say eff-it! Blitz every play and force Vick to make every throw...Brees got rattled last night by the blitz and he's nirvana level with the passing...As good as Vick has become he might not be ready to sling it while being blitzed efficiently all game (Plus those hits are adding up)...Bad loss for the Eagles, especially since it hands the Bears and that $hitty field the 2 seed...I'm also slightly pi$$ed that this game will cost Vick the MVP and//or Co-MVP title...Justin f**king Beiber is gonna win it again ...
First THREE PICKS of this next draft for the Iggles must be O-Line!
This just In: Vick has a leg contusion... Get ready Corn on the Kolb fans, it's time for a 2-week sabbatical for Vick now...
|2010-12-29, 01:56
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Are the Saints a better football team now: Yes
Do I give a shit: No
Is the legacy of the 49ers better making me not give a shit about the Saints: Yes.
|2010-12-29, 03:01
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^If you don't give a $hit why you been hatin so hard? You been hatin' so hard on the Saints since the beginning of this season....Alright we just beat Atlanta the team you were swooning for us to beat so what changes now? You ain't gonna say $hit different because you're a hater...Find a way to make that win mean nothing, I know you'll try...Find a way to make 11-4 mean nothing...You talked so much head about this game being the key with Atl beating so many "quality scheduled teams", but you don't give a $hit now? Your opinion hasn't changed right?
Yeah, sure...Sounds like got-served talk to me ...
|2010-12-29, 04:03
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And well I'm sure it does sound like you got served, because well, you did.
|2010-12-29, 05:12
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^Cool winning is new for me and it's old for you...Cool that's what's up, that's something to be ghey for ...Hope you get to experience winning as an adult because it's soooo cream worthy...Screw harsh criticism you're arguments for the most part have been dumb, 1st floor in thought...Now that we passed the test of beating the Falcons based on your schedules argument you should be fingerbanging it to us by now...But eff it, I've experienced championship football first hand, I didn't read about it on ninerswiki, so I'm living in the REAL...We should all be so lucky...
|2010-12-29, 05:56
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I'll say this again, because I knew the first couple of sentences it flew right over your head. What is your point? Are you trying to sway my opinion? Or do you want to just keep talking out of your butthole like you've been doing?
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The sham trial of U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan goes on at the sprawling Fort Hood Army base in central Texas.
The sham trial of U.S. Army Maj. Nidal Hasan goes on at the sprawling Fort Hood Army base in central Texas. Located near the city of Killeen in the Edwards Plateau geographical area of Texas, Fort Hood sits in an arid, sparsely settled, region that is suitable mostly for grazing.
So along with the domesticated animals that populate the region, the Army, too, was forced by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to go grazing. Grazing that is for a judge in Hasan�s trial, one who would bow to political correctness.
The first judge assigned to the trial, Col. Gregory Gross, was removed by the military appeals court because he was demanding Maj. Hasan � who had been permitted by the Army to grow a beard during the unconscionably-long, four-year delay in going to trial � comply with Army grooming and appearance standards and shave. Hasan was refusing to shave and Gross, rightfully, threatened to have him forcibly shaved.
It�s pretty simple. If you want to join our volunteer armed forces, you agree to comply with the military�s grooming standards regardless of any personal, religious, or cultural idiosyncrasies you may desire to display. In the Army (or the Marines, Air Force, Coast Guard, or Navy for that matter) beards are not permitted. Col. Tara Osborn, apparently more pliable than Judge Gross and appointed to replace him as Hasan�s judge, ruled in pre-trial hearings late last year that Hasan could continue to disregard appropriate military standards and disobey legal military orders and keep his beard.
While photographs of Hasan in his ongoing trial have not been published, courtroom artists have penned accurate drawings of a scraggly, unkempt, and unmilitary Hasan permitted to wear an Army uniform along with his illegal and illogical beard. Osborn�s submissive refusal to force him to square himself away, comply with Army grooming standards, and look like a soldier during his trial both disrespect the Army uniform and dishonor the millions of soldiers that preceded and will follow Hasan in U.S. Army service.
This display of political correctness by the Army is at best cowardly and at worst sets a precedent for any number of soldiers to use the "Hasan Defense" in deciding that their individualistic personal desires transcend that which is good for the whole Army.
And there�s another problem with the Army�s show of weakness in this matter. By permitting Hasan to sport a beard, his appearance mocks the uniform and the Army�s traditions of being well-turned out, organized, and "STRAC" � as the Army calls being sharp and squared away. And regardless of the instructions to the jury by Osborn to disregard Hasan�s appearance in deciding the verdict, the reality is that his appearance, permitted to remain as such by Osborn and like it or not, invokes that of a "typical" Muslim terrorist. Profiling shmofiling. That�s exactly what Hasan is: a typical Muslim terrorist.
This fact and the likelihood that the jurors will be influenced by Hasan�s appearance notwithstanding Osborn�s flaccid instructions, could be used by the defense in what is sure to be a long process of appeals should he be found guilty of murder and awarded the death penalty. The Hasan defense team: "My client was found guilty due to his appearance. The jury was biased. The Army should have made sure he looked like a STRAC soldier vice a terrorist in uniform."
Last week 40 eyewitnesses in his trial described Hasan randomly shooting, killing 13 and injuring scores of his fellow soldiers. Hasan himself admitted to the crimes.
Why did I write that this is sham trial at the beginning of this column? In addition to the fiasco of Hasan�s beard, the dismissal of a judge with some guts, the grazing for and appointment by the Army of a compliant judge, and Hasan being permitted to defend himself (but not being allowed to offer a plea of guilty) does anybody really think Hasan could possibly be found innocent?
If there has ever been a case in the history of the U.S. military that deserved the accused being forced to comply with military orders, and one deserving of a guilty verdict and being awarded the punishment of death, this is such a case. Regardless of the challenges of imposing the death penalty in the U.S. military (the last military execution was 52 years ago in 1961) and regardless of his possibly personal wishes to be awarded death, Hasan deserves to die.
Barry Fetzer is a columnist with the Havelock News. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Sarah Vaillancourt '08-09 joins former teammate Christina
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Canadian Four Nations Cup Roster
CALGARY, Alta. – Former Harvard women's ice hockey players Christina Kessler '10 and Sarah Vaillancourt '08-09 have been named to the Canadian National Team roster in advance of the Four Nations Cup, Hockey Canada announced Wednesday. This will be Kessler's debut with the senior national team while Vaillancourt helped the Canadians win gold at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
Kessler will see her first action with the Canadian National Team after a storied career with the Crimson. The Ontario native finished her collegiate career as the NCAA record holder for career save percentage (9.414) and as Harvard's winningest goaltender with 64 career victories. Her 21 career shutouts stand as a team record and her 12 shutouts during the 2007-08 season are an all-time team mark as well.
Vaillancourt joins the roster as one of 14 players who helped Canada win gold at the 2010 Vancouver games. In 2008, Vaillancourt became the most recent Crimson player to win the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, leading the squad to a No. 1 national ranking and a trip to the 2008 Frozen Four. Vaillancourt finished her career seventh in team history with 237 points and fifth in career goals with 106.
Kessler, Vaillancourt and team Canada will face Katey Stone and the United States in the second game of the Four Nations Cup Nov. 9 in St. John's, N.L.


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Virtual world is sign of future for scientists, engineers
|(Nanowerk News) Purdue University is operating a virtual environment that enables scientists and engineers to interpret raw data collected with powerful instruments called dynamic atomic force microscopes.
|The online tools, believed to be the first of their kind for the instruments, represent a research trend, with tools for other applications also being developed, said Arvind Raman, a Purdue professor of mechanical engineering.
|"We will see more and more of this sort of thing for many other types of instruments that are being used around the world," he said. "This allows researchers to spend more time doing research and less time and money developing simulations."
|More than 300 researchers from around the world have used the "virtual environment for dynamic atomic force microscopy," or VEDA, since it went online about a year ago.
|This rendering depicts how Purdue is operating a "cyberinfrastructure-enabled" virtual environment that enables scientists and engineers to interpret data from instruments called dynamic atomic force microscopes. More than 300 researchers from around the world have used the "virtual environment for dynamic atomic force microscopy," or VEDA, since it went online about a year ago. The software tools, provided through Purdue's nanoHub, represent a research trend, and tools for other applications also are being developed. (Image: Network for Computational Nanotechnology, Purdue University/Michael McLennan)
|The virtual environment is described in a research article featured as a cover story in the June issue of the journal Review of Scientific Instruments, published by the American Institute of Physics. The article focuses on two simulation tools needed for atomic force microscopes ("VEDA: A web-based virtual environment for dynamic atomic force microscopy").
|"This is a hardware-based journal and they put a virtual instrument on the cover, which should tell you that people regard this as a practical tool," Raman said. "I think it shows that even in that community there is a feeling that the cyberinfrastructure can really be used in beneficial ways for the experimental scientific community."
|The online tools are provided through the nanoHub, operated by the Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue, led by Mark Lundstrom, Purdue's Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
|"These are the first Web-based simulation tools for atomic force microscopy available online," Raman said. "There are a dozen or so research groups around the world with the capability of doing accurate simulations the way we do for dynamic atomic force microscopy, but there are hundreds of researchers who need these tools."
|The research article was written by mechanical engineering graduate student John Melcher, recently graduated doctoral student Shuiqing Hu and Raman.
|The nanoHub uses a high-speed fiberoptic network called the Teragrid and is an example of the cyberinfrastructure being developed for researchers.
|The online simulation tools, funded by the Network for Computational Nanotechnology and the National Science Foundation, are proving popular for researchers who otherwise would have to either purchase or create their own complex software to interpret data from the microscopes.
|The tools are needed for demanding models and simulations, using computer clusters that are equivalent to 100 personal computers provided through the nanoHub, which is housed in Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center at the university's Discovery Park.
|Researchers may access lectures and various simulation tools at http://www.nanohub.org.
|A dynamic atomic force microscope uses a tiny vibrating probe to yield information about materials and surfaces on the scale of nanometers, or billionths of a meter. Forces between atoms influence how the probe's vibration pattern changes.
|Researchers need specialized software to interpret data regarding the probe's changing amplitude, or how far it moves toward and away from a surface, and its phase, or how its vibration timing is altered by atomic forces.
|Without the interpretation, the vibration-pattern data are meaningless, Melcher said.
|Researchers use the microscopes to learn about a material's magnetic, electrical and physical properties, the contours of surfaces and shapes of objects, including biological molecules.
|The nanoHub enables researchers to use the simulations with an ordinary Web browser on their personal computer.
|"Say a physicist is operating an atomic force microscope in Japan," Raman said. "They do their experiment and then go online and access our tools to learn what the data mean. Users don't need to download software on their own computers. All they need is a browser, which they could have on their cell phones if they want. So they could take the cell phones with a browser, go to the nanoHub, go to the VEDA tools, enter the simulation data they want for simulating the atomic force microscope scanning across a certain surface, and hit go."
|Researchers developed the simulation tools over the past five years.
|"We are always updating the software and making new tools available," Raman said.
|The simulations also enable researchers to learn ahead of time how to best use their atomic force microscopes for specific experiments.
|"That means the simulations save them time by predicting the proper parameters to use before they even begin their experiments," Raman said.
|Source: Purdue University
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FEMA Trailers Spark Debate in Washington
April 29, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on FEMA Trailers Spark Debate in Washington
The title of hearings Wednesday (April 28) before the House Energy Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection was, "The Public Sales of Hurricane Katrina/Rita FEMA Trailers: Are they Safe or Environmental Time Bombs?"
The bipartisan consensus on the committee seemed to be leaning heavily toward "environmental time bombs," but now that the General Services Administration has completed the sale of more than 100,000 of the trailers, it is not clear what Congress can do about it, according to NOLA.com
"We've seen that there is an unsafe level of formaldehyde in some of these trailers and I don't think it's the wisest thing for the federal government to be selling those and having people live in them and experience more health problems," said Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., a member of the subcommittee. "We've got to figure out a better way to handle this … to see if we can unravel this."
"Unbelievably, these are the same trailers that made thousands of people ill, some severely ill, from exposure to formaldehyde gases and vapors; young children, elderly people and those with serious respiratory conditions, from asthma to bronchitis, inhaled these vapors over long, extended periods of time," said Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., who chairs the subcommittee. "Am I the only one left scratching his head at this outcome?"
But David Garratt, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) associate administrator for mission support, defended the sales. He said that the mobile homes, park models and travel trailers returned to FEMA after their use along the Gulf Coast and auctioned off this year at bargain prices, met existing industry standards. And, he said, buyers of the travel trailers — which are the ones that posed the most danger and were never intended to provide long-term housing — had to certify that they understood the formaldehyde risk and that the travel trailers "are not intended to be used as housing."
"Subsequent owners must continue to similarly inform subsequent buyers for the life of the unit," said Garratt, though some members of the committee seemed dubious that would always happen.
Garratt estimated the cost to the government of storing and maintaining the previously used units had run close to $130 million a year.
While filmmaker Gabe Chasnoff, who produced and directed "Renaissance Village," a documentary about the formaldehyde trailers, played a clip Wednesday that included then Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff's declaration at a congressional hearing in 2008 that, "we are out of the trailer business," Garratt said that is not the case.
Travel trailers are the only models small enough to be placed on people's properties while they rebuild and, in future disasters, Garratt said, FEMA will rely on a new inventory of trailers built for FEMA to new higher air-quality standards. And, they will only be placed on properties where the repairs can be completed in a about six months.
At the beginning of the hearing, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said the formaldehyde fiasco highlighted the inadequacy of the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to "assess and restrict dangerous chemicals," power that might have averted "this problem in the first place."
EPA Deputy Assistant Administrator James Jones testified that EPA's draft assessment on the dangers of formaldehyde should be released in the next month or so.
But in his testimony, Dr. Corey Hebert, an associate professor of pediatrics at Tulane University Medical Center and the chief medical officer of the Recovery School District, said that in its broadest strokes, the verdict on formaldehyde is already in.
"We know it's a carcinogen," said Hebert, who said that the market fails to heed that fact because "this is America, this is capitalism, this is what we do." Hebert said no trailers should have been resold until any formaldehyde peril was remediated.


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Alexa Chung is one of those girls who always gets it right — somehow, on her, messy hair and a mishmash outfit end up looking as good or better as two hours in the salon and a session with a personal stylist.
Because she's such a trendsetter, today, we celebrate her sartorial choices — and her birthday! Happy birthday, Alexa, the ultimate style muse and the one who's so often led us to believe that no, we don't need to shower to look awesome. You may have deceived us, Alexa, but we forgive you.
In honor of the style star's 29th Bday, we've gathered our favorite looks from the wardrobe history of a woman who could pull an iconic ensemble out of thin air. There's the gamine bow, the embellished collar, the classic preppy look...everything you know and love, in one place, ready to print out for your shrine. Enjoy!


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The increased blade speed and Cryogen blades make the Turbo A-5 more efficient than ever. It features a powerful, cool-running, universal motor, and the Cryogen blades run an average of 30 degrees cooler than conventional Oster blades. It weighs just less than 2 pounds, measures 7.5", has a 1-year manufacturer's warranty, and is proudly made in the U.S.A.
I would like to show you how to properly care for and change the blades on your Turbo A-5 Clipper. There are 3 products you'll want to have on hand while clipping. All may be purchased at www.valleyvet.com; Blade Wash, Lubricating Oil and Kool Lube.
Every 1-2 hours while clipping you will want to clean your clippers with blade wash. This flushes the hair from the clipper blades and provides some lubrication. While the clipper is running, submerge the blades in the wash. You will also want to oil your blades every 1-2 hours of use. Simply place 1 drop of oil at each end of the blade rail while the clipper is running.
Every 3-5 minutes you will want to spray the blades with Kool Lube. Kool Lube is designed to prolong the blade life without leaving an oily residue. It helps reduce friction and wear and instantly cools the blades.
Oster designed the Turbo A-5 with a detachable blade assembly, making the blades extremely easy to change. Remove the blades by depressing the blade lock at the base of the hinge, pull the blade away from the clipper, and remove the blade from the hinge. You want to leave the blade hinge open while your blade is removed. If the blade hinge is flush with the clipper it will be necessary to pry it back with a screw driver. If you use your clippers a lot, you should keep an eye on the blade drive. It will wear with extensive use and need to be replaced.
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- 44% Viscose, 33% cotton, 14% rayon, 7% polyester, 2% spandex
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- Rise: 8" (20 cm), inseam: 34" (86 cm), leg opening: 18" (46 cm)
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El Astronauta (Almanaque de Locos, 1963)
Alfonso Alamar was originally a painter, who later turned to comics. His published his first work in the 1930s, contributing to magazines like Niños and Flechas y Pelayos. He was one of the earlier contributors to publishing house Valenciana and he participated in the foundation of its magazine Jaimito. His contributions extended until the early 1960s. They included stand alone funny stories and series like 'Los Herederos', 'Pieduro, Futbolista del Futuro' and 'Kuki el Explorador', which he did in Jaimito, 'Pildorón y Tontaina', which appeared in Mariló, and 'Orejitas', which he did in Pumby. Alamar's best known character for Valenciana was 'El Jinete Fantasma Cómico', which he made with writer Amorós (1950).


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Kamza, a vibrant kingdom located on a lush ocean island, is in the midst of a national event celebrating the upcoming marriage of their princess to a valiant knight. But when a group of assassins appears during the ceremony, this dream come true transforms into their worst nightmare. As the knight lays mortally wounded, the princess reveals her long-hidden secret—there is a second soul living within her, and together they control the power to travel through time. But can they act quickly enough to reverse the course of history and find out what happened that fateful day?
Only time will tell...
Key features:
- A new class of hi-def animation RPG!: From world to battle to enemies—everything is hand-drawn with beautiful CG backgrounds! Experience RPGs like you've never seen before!
- Time is on your side: You hold the key to your own fate! Go back in time, prevent your own murder, and save your marriage! And help all the citizens of Kamza along the way!
- Real-time battle: Prepare for lightning-quick real-time battle! Each heroine has her specialties, so use them wisely to blaze a path to victory!
- Take the fight to the enemy: Take hold of swords, guns, and even time itself! Tailor your gear and skills to suit your playstyle, and unleash your fury!
- Characters in Time and Eternity are all drawn using cel animation, meaning they are neither sprites nor 3D models. The graphic style is unique to this game and completelynew!
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Co-located Light India and Electrical Building Technology India over 90% booked
Light India, India's renowned fair for the international lighting industry, and Electrical Building Technology India will concurrently open their doors from 5 – 7 October 2016 in New Delhi. The first edition of the two unified events is reportedly over 90% booked and is expected to bring over 250 companies to New Delhi to showcase solutions for smart cities. Targeting the most important visitor groups and policy makers, the co-located fairs will take place at Pragati Maidan in the nation's capital.
The organisers, Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India Pvt Ltd and ELCOMA (Electric Lamp and Component Manufacturers' Association of India), are now collaborating to bring forward technical innovations, knowledge sharing, as well as market developments through strategically planned fringe programmes. This includes a lighting conference on 6 October and a series of workshops with international associations over the three days of the fair. A Council of Architects Conference is also being planned by the organisers during the show.
From advanced materials for lighting applications for visitors from the manufacturing side to mood and ambient lighting for hospitality and retail sector visitors; and from the complete home lighting controls and automation for smart buildings for architects and interior designers to solar street lighting for urban planners, the conference sessions will offer valuable insights for every visitor segment.
A gala networking night with the lighting industry's who's who will also make way for new ideas, innovations and networking among sector players.
India's fast-developing public infrastructure together with plans for highway expansions, smart cities and smart homes is expected to drive adoption of intelligent, energy-efficient and connected technologies in the lighting, solar and building technology space. The "smart" street lighting market in India anticipates a stellar growth of USD 1,868.9 million (125.43 billion) by 2022 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 42.2 percent* as adoption of LED and solar powered systems continue to rise. Projected to achieve a CAGR of more than 22 percent during 2015-20**, the infiltration of cloud-based smart street-lighting and building technologies will also rise in the near future. Increased building automation will lead to more energy efficiency, security and safety in buildings.
Industry's topmost brands covering these innovations will all be present at this important business event making it a go-to destination for city developers, urban planners and architects. This includes technology-leading brands like Anchor, Surya, Crompton, Bajaj Electricals, Havells, Orient Electric, MLS, Opple Lighting, Century LED, Delta Electronics among others. In addition there will be building technology experts such as KNX India, Legrand, Crestron, Hensel, Ray Logic, Prolite Autoglow as well as foreign contingents from China, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan at the three-day fair. They will show a unique combination of innovative, energy and cost-saving technologies to the Indian market.


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Both games will be played at Belmont's soccer field as part of the Belmont Invitational, but even Lipscomb Bisons' coach Charles Morrow admits these are home games for his team.
The Bisons will open with a familiar foe in Gardner-Webb, a former member of the Atlantic Sun Conference. The match starts Friday at 4 p.m. on the Belmont campus. The Centenary match will be played Sunday at noon.
"Gardner-Webb had a good result against Mercer, 3-0, and they lost to Georgia State 2-1 in overtime," Morrow said. "Looking at the film the game with Georgia State could have gone either way.
"There will be some challenges there for us. It will be a big game for us to get off on the right foot for the weekend and build up some confidence."
The last time the two teams met was in 2008 with the Bisons winning 4-0. Due to a red card violation Gardner-Webb played most of the game one man short. Gardner-Webb holds a 4-3-0 overall series record, but the Bisons have won the last two meetings.
Gardner-Webb is 1-1. The Bisons are 0-2 after losing two games in the Southern Methodist Classic in Dallas Saturday and Monday. The Bisons lost 3-1 to host SMU and fell 4-1 to Tulsa.
"There were times when we gave both SMU and Tulsa trouble," Morrow said. "What is really important is to take what we learned from this past weekend and apply it to this weekend."
Morrow expects his players to learn from the mistakes they made, but he also wants them to remember the level of play they faced from both SMU and Tulsa.
"We saw how quickly decisions are made, how quickly you have to work with the ball and how quickly you have to shift and put defensive pressure on players at that level," Morrow said. "If we can put those things into practice then we will be better.
"We didn't go to SMU to have a learning experience and lose two games. But what would be discouraging is if we did not learn about the speed of play and carry that over from last weekend to this weekend. The athleticism we saw this past weekend was at such a high level."
Morrow also wants his players to remember the times they played at a high level in the SMU Classic.
"I want them to realize they have to play quick because there is no time and space," Morrow said. "If we don't step up and put pressure on the ball quick then our opponents are going to hurt us. Throughout a 90-minute game we have to apply what we have learned."
The Bisons only produced two goals in the two games, but Morrow isn't concerned with his offense at this stage of the season.
"Certainly we want to press our defensive line a little higher and bring the game to both Gardner-Webb and Centenary," Morrow said. "It wasn't like we were intending to sit back, but both SMU and Tulsa had their ears pinned back.
"We were absorbing attack after attack after attack. They were coming at us wave after wave."
Morrow stresses that when you analyze the stats for the first two games the Bisons had a pretty good ratio of chances to goals.
"We did have some opportunities that we should have converted in both games," Morrow said. "In both games we were down 2-1 and had opportunities to tie and we didn't convert.
"It would have been nice if we could have finished those chances. It is early in the season and not many teams in the country are firing on all cylinders offensively."
Morrow knows that most of the teams that are clicking early offensively usually depend primarily on one main scorer.
"Although we have some guys who could be like that we don't want to be totally geared to something like that," Morrow said. "We are not too concerned right now. The season has just started.
"It is still early for us. We will see more improvement and more growth as a team this weekend. If we continue to do that we will be all right."
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations.