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Location: Garden City, New York
Demonstrated mechanical aptitude.
Intermediate to advanced proficiencies in building trades including painting, wallpapering, plumbing, seating, and equipment repair.
Demonstrated administrative and follow up skills to achieve successful maintenance and repair programs.
Work well with supervisors, peers, subordinates, guests, vendors and corporate partners.
Strong communication skills including the ability to provide clear and concise details regarding building issues.
Proven ability to lead teams and achieve results through resources.
Proficiency in MS Suite.
Perform daily, weekly, and monthly building inspections with a high attention to detail to identify necessary repairs.
Perform routine maintenance and timely repairs in the areas of painting, carpentry, plumbing, food and beverage equipment, seating and all related building components.
Oversee vendor activities that include the scheduling of repair and maintenance needs as required; closely monitor progress to ensure quality of work.
Provide constant attention to all life safety issues; ensure building emergency systems are operational through in-house inspections and vendor maintenance contracts.
Inspect and provide direction and follow-up with janitorial service provider and/or regarding cleaning issues that do not meet AMC standards.
Report all facility issues that are not immediately repairable to the theatre General Manager and seek technical support from the AMC Facility Engineer as applicable.
Ensure consistent maintenance and repair methods for all building components.
Develop routine systems to ensure constant monitoring of problem areas.
Work with General Manager to ensure Film Crew procedures support an environment that is clean, safe, and in good repair for both associates and guests.
Understand and track theatre Variable Operating Expenses (VOE) related to maintenance, repairs, and supplies.
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Ability to work and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
Provide training support for the market as directed.
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Maintain regular personal attendance for all scheduled shifts per the Management Work Schedule Policy.
Complete all other functions and assignments as assigned by the General Manager/Senior Manager (where applicable).
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A Parody of a Classsic Comic Adon September 5th, 2011
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While we're in-between chapters, I thought I'd take a moment to present a parody of one of the classic ads that used to appear in the comics that I read when I was a kid. (Along with being a superhero-comics fan, I also loved the old Mad and Cracked magazines….)
The Charles Atlas ad "The Insult that made a MAN out of "Mac" was probably the most memorable of all the ads that I ever came across, and it was a lot of fun to put this parody version together. If you aren't familiar with the ad, you can see a copy of the REAL ad here: http://www.toptenz.net/comic-book-advertisements.php
Let me know if you liked this page. I'm thinking of doing some other classic comic ad parodies and dropping them in when we come to the end of another chapter.

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Eugenie de Sade (US - DVD)
Gabe takes a dip into perversion with Senior Franco and the Marquis de Sade
Esteemed author Albert Radeck (Paul Muller) is the toast of the Berlin literati and the object of his stepdaughter Eugenie's (Soledad Miranda) affections. However, when his doe-eyed little darling unmasks her sophisticated father figure as a sex-crazed psychopath obsessed with perpetrating the perfect crime, she transforms from innocent ward to a willing accomplice. The deadly duo seduce and destroy everyone in their path—until Eugenie's charms spark a jealous rage in Albert that threatens to consume them both (taken directly from the box art, I couldn't have put it better myself.)
First things first, this movie is called Eugenie de Sade and is also known as simply Eugenie. It is not, I repeat not to be confused with Justine de Sade, or Marquis de Sade's Justine, or Eugenie…The Story of Her Journey into Perversion. There may be some other Marquis de Sade adaptations with similar titles I've missed, so be sure to check the label, because these films are not, contrary to popular belief, entirely interchangeable. Some are period pieces, but others, like this one, are modern. Some of them even feature different actors than other ones, though usually not.
And now I turn off the sarcasm machine, just in case some of you were taking me seriously.
Eugenie de Sade is definitely one of the better '70s softcore de Sade adaptations (a very lucrative sub-genre, as you can see), but that isn't really saying a whole lot. Shlock-maestro Jess Franco was actually still interested in film in 1970, and his effort in telling a coherent story without too much filler is almost commendable considering the director's track record. There's still quite a bit of filler, but the ninety-minute feature moves swiftly enough. Senior Franco pays particular attention to sensuality, and relies on some really wacky camera work during scenes of violence, which help to stay off the boredom so common in his later features.
Lead actress Soledad Miranda's undeniable sexiness is another big plus. The star of other Franco 'classics' like Vampyros Lesbos and She Killed in Ecstasy (both vampire based softcore, where she also spent a lot of time hugging her legs) is hard not to watch, and her minimalist yet thoughtful acting style is genuinely seductive. The other actors, including Paul Muller as Eugenie's sadistic father, and Franco himself, are the usual exploitation fodder, but not entirely unconvincing either. The entire film, which is told in flashback, narrated by the nearly dead Eugenie, is quite dream like, and the dialogue is almost classically de Sade, at least the narration is.
Eugenie de Sade is hardcore in its perversions, but softcore in its execution, not unlike most of Franco's features from the era (he became more comfortable with hardcore pornography as such things became more acceptable in mainstream Europe). This isn't a porno, so those looking for such things will likely be disappointed, and unfortunately the constant nudity and taboo subject matter will likely chase most everyone else off. These Blue Underground releases are most practical not in that the films are the best of their kind, but because such preservation is important to all film, even the exploitation quickies.
Blue Underground keeps up appearances, and presents another miraculously remastered transfer of a forgotten exploitation relic. The overall image is often a bit soft, but Franco was known for his fondness of soft focus. Detail levels are sharp, even for a Blue Underground disc, though edge enhancement is an issue throughout. There are some minor strobing effects during camera moves, and darker scenes are grainier then lighter ones. The colour pallet is slightly dulled, but considering the detail levels I'm pretty sure this was part of Franco's 'grand design'. When the colour scheme becomes livelier, as in the baked reds of the various nightclubs Eugenie frequents, the colours are vibrant, and relatively free of noise.
As per their standards, Blue Underground supplies two channel Mono versions of both the original French and dubbed English soundtracks. Again, I use the word 'original' loosely because the whole film was dubbed in post for both languages, and only some of the actors were speaking French anyway. The English track has the edge on general volume and clarity of voice (Eugenie's father sounds a lot like Christopher Walken), but has issues with distortion at higher volume levels. The French dialogue has a tendency to blend into the rest of the soundtrack. The sound effects on both tracks are minimalist in favour of dreamy music (the sounds of Eugenie's father slapping her at films end is actually missing on the English track). Each track has a slightly differing score; the English score is more dependant on the vocal heavy themes, and the French score features a few more jazz influences numbers. The score is slightly flatter on the French track, but not entirely warm on the English track either.
The minimalist extras start with a new interview with director Jess Franco, and end with a theatrical trailer. The Franco interview runs a patience testing twinty minutes. The interview takes place in the same room, and likely on the same day, as all the other Blue Underground Franco interviews. This particular interview focuses mostly on Senior Franco's obsession with all things de Sade, specifically on the film at hand. The director has nothing but great things to say about Miranda (who died the year the film was released), which really means something considering the not so nice words he's had for some of his other leading ladies. Franco's English isn't very good (he's subtitled), and one can't help but wonder if the interview would've been a lot shorter if he'd spoken in Spanish.
Eugenie de Sade will only appeal to a small spectrum of DVD collector, but fans of the director and sub-genre could do a whole hell of a lot worse. Blue Underground keeps their record clean with another outstanding video remastering, but the Franco interviews are becoming a bit trying. Stay tuned for more Francoific sexploitation from the Underground very soon.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 29th January 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, single layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.66:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital Mono English, Dolby Digital Mono French
Subtitles: English
Extras: Director Interview, Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jess Franco
Cast: Soledad Miranda, Paul Muller, Jess Franco
Genre: Drama
Length: 91 minutes
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Maybe they were waiting for the governor. Attendance was sparse at Wednesday's special meeting to discuss East Stroudsburg University's response to an alleged sex scandal and cover-up.
Maybe they were waiting for the governor. Attendance was sparse at Wednesday's special meeting to discuss East Stroudsburg University's response to an alleged sex scandal and cover-up.
Members of the student Senate say low attendance could indicate students are waiting to express themselves today during a peaceful protest at 2 p.m. on the campus quad. The protest will start just an hour before Gov. Ed Rendell is scheduled to speak about tuition relief at the Hoeffner Science and Technology Center at 3 p.m.
The protest is sponsored by the student Senate, the Stroud Courier campus paper, and WESS radio 90.3 FM.
They are protesting the university's lack of explanation for why it took a year to fire Isaac Sanders, head of the ESU Foundation, after complaints of sexual misconduct surfaced from multiple sources. One current and five former students have sued the college, Sanders and top administrators, alleging Sanders pressured students for sex in return for scholarships and special treatment, and that ESU covered up for Sanders.
Before opening the meeting to comments, Student Senate President Michael Quick told the group he would not be able to address questions about the scandal.
"I cannot answer any questions because the university has not released any information to the student Senate. The only information we have been able to get is from the Pocono Record and from the complaint found on the Pocono Record's Web site," Quick said.
He said the student Senate has demanded a statement from ESU President Robert Dillman, but received no communication from university officials until Tuesday, when Dillman send an e-mail assuring students of their safety.
"I was not happy with the e-mail," one attending student said. "It was a week and a half too late. Just because he says the campus is safe does not mean that it is."
Another student said the letter circulated from Dillman on Tuesday stated that nothing like this should happen on campus. "Well it did happen. What are they going to do about it?" the student asked.
The two prevailing sentiments from students were a loss of confidence in the ability of university leaders to keep students safe, and concern about a tarnished reputation for ESU.
"I feel bad about it because it makes people look down on all faculty. We have a great faculty here," said Audra Kern of the student Senate.
Student Senate member Robin Abshire said that not every student is going to be vocal and it is the student Senate's job to speak out for them. The group is asking students to express themselves to Senate members so they can bring the student's thoughts to school officials.
"Some students have said they are embarrassed to wear their ESU hoodie outside the ESU community," Abshire said.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee Tech baseball coach Matt Bragga has been working tirelessly in the off-season, having inked six in his early signing class for the 2011-12 season, three out of Tennessee, two from Georgia and one player hailing from Pennsylvania.
"Our 2011-2012 early signing class is a special group of high character young men that have been incredibly successful in the classroom," Bragga said. "They are all extremely talented baseball players. Each of these young men will have a chance to be contributors early in their careers.
"This is another special recruiting class for Tennessee Tech Baseball," Bragga continued. "We look forward to having these great young men as a part of our TTU Baseball family. Our assistant coaches, Coach Suttles, and Coach 'B' do such a wonderful job in evaluating and recruiting and I cannot thank them enough for all there help and the hours they put in finding this Championship group of young men."
SETH LUCIO – 5'10 185 RHP/IF Locust Grove High School , GA
A product of Locust Grove, Ga., Seth was a four-year letterwinner at Locust Grove High, earning honors as Offensive Player the Year once and twice consecutively named Defensive Player of the Year and all-region shortstop. As a pitcher and a shortstop, Lucio helped his team to the all-region title his sophomore year of high school. He batted .450 with four home runs and held a 5-1 pitching record during his junior year
Bragga on Seth:
"Seth is a special baseball player with a dominating fastball from the mound and the ability to be a real good infielder for us. One of his outings this summer typifies his ability to be dominant, as he struck out 21 hitters in a game. He has the ability and mental desire to compete early in his career on the mound and on the field, we believe he is going to have a special career here at TTU. Not only is Seth an excellent baseball player, but he is an outstanding person with strong Christian faith. We are thrilled that Seth will make Cookeville and TTU his home away from home."
DAVID HESS – 6'1 185 RHP/OF Tullahoma High School, TN
Hess is a native Tennessean out of Tullahoma and a three-year letterwinner under coach Brad White. He was named all-district in 2010 as his team claimed the district championship as well as the regional runner-up spot. Hess was once named Tullahoma Player of the Week by Lighttube as he maintained a .340 batting average with nine homers, as well as a 3.00 ERA with a 6-1 pitching record.
Bragga on David:
"David jumped on our recruiting board very early. His tremendous athleticism and ability really caught our eye. David is incredibly intelligent, this is not only good for the classroom, but it carries over to the baseball field and enables him to elevate his game. David has such a high ceiling as a baseball player, we look forward to watching him grow on the diamond. He also runs cross country so we know he is in great shape and mentally tough. He again is a special young man that 'wowed us' with his ability to communicate and brighten a room. We could not be happier that he chose Tennessee Tech to call home."
DYLAN BOSHEERS – 6'0 170 IF Lawrence County High School, TN
An infielder out of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., Bosheers earned three varsity letters under Lawrence County High coach Mike James. He was named all-district as he batted .513 with 57 RBI's, 52 runs scored, 13 stolen bases and a .980 fielding percentage last season.
Bragga on Dylan:
"Dylan can flat play the game of baseball. He is a great athlete with a strong arm and he has a great understanding of driving the baseball as a hitter. He is an 'old school' type player ( he absolutely gets after it ) and we believe he has the ability to contribute very early in his career. His competitive fire allows him to set goals and know that he will reach those goals. On Dylan's visit to campus he absolutely blew me away as a charismatic, wonderful young man. He is another great fit for our program, a Championship player and human being."
JORDAN HOPKINS – 5'11 170 C Grace Christian Academy High School, TN
A five-year letterwinner at Grace Christian, Hopkins was a member of his varsity baseball team from 8th grade on, being named to the all-district team all five years, as well as the district MVP after his sophomore year. A catcher out of Knoxville, Hopkins batter .406 including 15 doubles and four long-balls last season, and helped his team to the district title during his sophomore and junior years.
Bragga on Jordan:
"We have been looking for a 'great' and I mean 'great' defensive catcher for 2 years and we know Jordan fits that bill. He is one of the finest receiving and throwing catchers I have seen in high school in many years. He has the ability to lead as well, which is obviously an important characteristic of a catcher, not to mention he is a fine offensive player. Jordan is extremely competitive and brings a fire to his team. He is not only a great baseball player, but his character and academic abilities are also incredibly strong."
BOBBY ROACH – 6'3 190 UTL/RHP Erie McDowell High School, PA
Roach is a utility player out of Eria, Pa., having earned three varsity letters at Erie McDowell as a shortstop and a pitcher. A six-time scholar athlete, Roach was named the second team region seven shortstop his sophomore year, first team his junior year, and was awarded the team batting title as a junior. He helped his team to the district 10 championship title in 2008 and the PIAA Region Seven championship in 2009, as well as the PIAA Region 7 co-championship title in 2010. He batted .469 his junior year, logging 14 RBI and a .750 slugging percentage. As a pitcher he was 1-0 with two saves in 8.1 innings pitched, logging 11 K's and maintaining a 1.68 ERA.
Bragga on Bobby:
"Bobby is a versatile athlete able to play anywhere on the field and that includes pitching. His athleticism is off the charts and allows him to not only play multiple positions, but to thrive at playing multiple positions. Offensively, Bobby has a mature approach at the plate and a great ability to drive the baseball. Bobby is another incredibly gifted student and he uses his strong mental capacity to make himself and his team better. He is also a tremendous young man. We are excited to have Bobby as a part of our TTU Baseball family."
JORDAN DUKES – 6'3 205 RHP Locust Grove High School, GA
A pitcher out of Locust Grove, Dukes earned three varsity letters as well as his team's Utility Man award in high school. He was named first team all-region and helped his team to a state championship.
Bragga on Jordan:
"Jordan has a pro-style body with a very strong arm. He has the ability to dominate games with his plus fastball and split finger. We believe as he continues to progress that he could one day be not only a weekend starter for us, but a big time pro prospect. Jordan is the second player in this signing class from Locust Grove High School in the state of Georgia and we hope to continue to build the relationship with other high schools throughout the state of Georgia. We are absolutely thrilled that Jordan will be joining out Tennessee Tech Baseball family."


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Well into the twenty-first century, it is hard to imagine New York City as a dark place. Electric lights against the night sky have come to define New York as the ultimate modern city, with its locus as the Great White Way, Broadway, with thousands of lights shimmering in its skyscrapers and on the neon billboards crowding Times Square.
Artificial lighting changed city life—even the notion of nightlife is a fairly recent invention—and it changed various art forms, argues William Sharpe, professor of English at Barnard and author of New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography, 1850-1950.
Prof. Sharpe spent a few moments with Barnard Magazine to discuss how lighting changed the artistic world.
What defines the nocturne?
The word "nocturne" has evolved. (James McNeill) Whistler was the first to use nocturne to refer to painting and he took it from music, namely (Frédéric) Chopin. Nocturne gives you the feeling of relaxing at night. Whistler wanted to create a painting that was as emotionally sensitive, and as nuanced as music.
As soon as the urban landscape became more brightly lit with electrical lights, artists became more interested in the relationship of light with nighttime activity. You get members of the Ashcan school of painting like John Sloan and Everett Shinn who are interested less in the idea of "nocturne" as a dreamy phase of mental activity and more in the vibrant side of night life.
How were photography and literature changed?
Photography was the most directly impacted by the need to capture artificial light. Film speeds weren't fast enough and cameras weren't ready to deal with nighttime situations until the late 1890s. Many people were tricked by the nocturnal pictures from the 1850s and '60s, because they were faked moonlight shots, done with a filter.
The impact on literature has more to do with psychology and subject matter. The writers were very interested in the kinds of things people do at night, and their accompanying emotional states.
Some of those things are fairly risqué.
That's right. On the one hand, light reveals dark deeds, but on the other hand, light can lead people to dark deeds.
Trying to deal with nighttime led writers, artists, and photographers to depict things they would not have dared to do before. It released them from some of the taboos on depicting risqué behaviors. So after [electrical] lighting, you have a greater emphasis in art on prostitution, homelessness, poverty, and certain types of violence. Our interest in the sensational and the lurid was fed by images of the city at night.
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AT&T's trial balloon of charging app developers for bandwidth their users consume might not stay in the air very long.
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John Donovan, AT&T's senior executive vice president for technology and network operations, told the Wall Street Journal this week that the carrier was considering developing "a feature" that would be "the equivalent of 800 numbers that would say, if you take this app, this app will come without any network usage" from the end user's perspective. Instead, the company whose app was being used would be the one to foot the bill for the bandwidth consumed. Or put another way: People using the app wouldn't incur any data usage on their monthly service plans but app developers would have to pay a price as condition of users' unlimited data use through the app.
The question, though, is whether a significant number of app developers would agree to pay a premium so that consumers would be able to use their apps without fear of incurring data overage charges. Donovan told the Journal that app developers that use data-heavy services could reach a wider audience if users were able to access their applications unhindered.
"Why don't we go create new revenue streams that don't exist today and find a way to split it with them," Donovan explained.
Gerald Faulhaber, a professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, says AT&T's reasoning is perfectly sound and that no application developer will be forced to pay AT&T if they don't feel they their users will feel inhibited by bandwidth limits.
"It seems clear that AT&T is offering this as an 800-type service that firms can buy or not buy, as they choose," he says. "If a firm wants to give customers the option of downloading an application without risk... then this would be a good marketing tool for them. Otherwise, the firm wouldn't buy it. Lots of firms, big and small, offer their customers 800 telephone service and it is a win-win. Why not do the same on the Internet?"
The big problem from AT&T's perspective is that it's unlikely to get big-time app developers to sign up for its new payment scheme if it's the only carrier to offer it. In all likelihood it will at least take Verizon to jump on board with a similar plan to make app developers see the value of buying in. Doug Humphrey, the CEO of Joss Heavy Industries, says it would be relatively simple for big-name app makers to essentially gang up on AT&T by lowering their service quality on AT&T devices if the carrier tries to get them to pay for their users' bandwidth consumption.
"How long is this effort going to last if Facebook, Spotify, Google and YouTube announce that they will be bumping AT&T customers to lower priority and that their performance may suffer a little bit, because of the AT&T charges," he says. "I am guessing maybe two days? One day? Sub-24 hours?"
Carl Howe, an analyst for the Yankee Group, expresses a similar notion and says carriers may be underestimating the power of app developers if they think they'll fall right in line and happily sign up for the new pricing scheme.
"Personally, I bet the Four Horsemen of Mobility — Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google — which now comprise more than U.S.$800 billion in market cap and U.S.$207 billion in annual revenue, won't want to negotiate 150 different new deals to pay more to operators for no new benefit to their businesses," he writes. "I wouldn't want to be an operator who tried to sell the idea that their service won't be able to offer Facebook or Google on their network because Facebook and Google don't want to pay the bandwidth fees."
Keith Pichelman, the CEO of app developer Concrete Software, says even though his company's mobile games aren't likely to use enough bandwidth to need AT&T's new proposed pricing scheme, he has trouble seeing how AT&T will be able to sell the system to both end users and app developers.
"This sounds like it would only work for AT&T if the consumer downloaded the app through AT&T," says Pichelman. "How could they charge the application owner if they don't have a relationship with them? If that did end up being the case - could AT&T spin this to consumers as a "safe" place to download apps - a place where you don't get charged unknown data fees? My guess is that the backlash will have AT&T pull back this plan or limit it to those apps that are large data consumers."
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ROCKFORD - Seven years ago, Rockford First Assembly of God was on the brink of bankruptcy. The megachurch's Sunday attendance had dipped to as low as 700 people.
The board asked youth pastor Jeremy DeWeerdt to put his name in the hat to be the next lead pastor. More than 600 votes were cast and in April 2007, the 38-year-old pastor received 92 percent of the votes and was named pastor.
A year later, DeWeerdt was being honored at a Rockford Chamber of Commerce Forty Leaders Under 40 reception.
Under DeWeerdt's leadership, the church changed its name to Rockford First, its identity to a church that "loves God, loves people, and loves life," and welcomed the curious inside its sanctuary by airing Sunday morning sermons on TV.
Seven years later, attendance routinely swells to more than 4,000.
DeWeerdt was reached in February in Thailand where he was leading a team of 11 individuals from Rockford First on a missionary trip in support of Zoe, an international nonprofit organization committed to rescuing children from the human slave trade.
DeWeerdt said it wasn't one thing that turned the church's financial plight around.
"We had to make very difficult decisions to downsize in all areas," he said. "Simultaneously, I prioritized a message of hope in God and faith on Sunday mornings in my sermons. So as I was preaching about hope, we were having to pray to keep the doors open. Eventually, as we continued to grow in attendance, the finances stabilized. It was if we had to first believe better days were ahead, and then eventually we experienced them."
'He prays'
Rockford First's origins, DeWeerdt said, date back to 1929, as a small Swedish assembly in a storefront hall on Fifth Avenue in Rockford.
It wasn't until 1971 that Pastor Eugene Whitcomb moved the church east to its present location at 5950 Spring Creek Road and opened First Assembly with a seating capacity of 1,200.
Christian Life Elementary School opened in 1973, and Christian Life High School opened in 1975. Ground was broken for the church's 3,650-seat sanctuary in 1986.
Senior Associate Pastor Dan Valentine also spoke of the church's seven-year rebirth and called it "a journey of lives changed." Leading that transformation, he said, was DeWeerdt. The unassuming pastor's business card may say lead pastor, but when you lead a staff of 75 full- and part-time church employees, 600 volunteers, 78 Christian Life Schools employees, four retirement centers and work with an operating budget in excess of $10 million, Valentine said you are also a CEO.
"He's got a great business mind and a great marketing mind, and he prays. He prays a lot," Valentine said. "He's a student of ministry and what other growing churches are doing around the country to reach more people and what they are doing to impact their communities."
Rockford First members knew they had a dynamic but down-to-earth pastor, but non-members didn't.
"So we thought, how can we introduce or reintroduce our community to Rockford First?" Valentine said. "How can we introduce people to Pastor Jeremy in a large-scale way. So we decided to do a TV program.
"Pastor Jeremy agreed on one condition. He said we'll never ask for money on our TV program. You'll never see him ask for a donation."
'A voice of faith'
Rockford First is more diverse than at any time in its history.
"We have seen God bring all types of people from the stateline region; people with a diversity of backgrounds, ethnicities, stories and experiences," DeWeerdt said. "Most are asking if God is real and if so, what does that mean for their lives? We are seeing many people (that) have never attended church before, which is why we say 'At Rockford First, there is no experience necessary. Come as you are, and let's see what God does.'"
Kevin Klaas, 34, of Rockford, and his wife, Jennie, joined the church six years ago, one year into its transformation.
"We actually met a couple from the church who led a Life Group Bible Study, and then we started going to the church," Klaas said.
Klaas said the church, their faith and God have permeated every aspect of their lives.
"It impacts everything in how we raise our kids, what we do, where we go, our friendships. It didn't start out that way, but over the course of six years and after the teachings and contacts and relationships we've made, it has grown into that."
In addition to 12,000 volunteer hours to the community, Rockford First outreach ministries are impacting the lives of countless individuals outside of the church.
DeWeerdt is well aware of the Transform Rockford movement and believes Rockford First has a role in it.
"I pray Rockford First can be a voice of faith for our city's future. God never consults our past to determine our future. Alongside many others in this community, I pray to be a voice of hope, who chooses to believe rather than to criticize."
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Outdoor Water Efficiency
Help Conserve Our Drinking Water Supply
Water consumption varies by season within the City of Markham. Markham experiences peak demand during summer months when water use is at its highest. Peak demand often represents wasteful or unnecessary water use which is not sustainable for Markham's water conservation goals and the life-span of the City's waterworks infrastructure. Summer water use also results in higher water bills, but we have some tips to help you manage your outdoor water use and your water bill.
Summer Water Restrictions
What You Need To Know About The By-law!
- In effect between June 1 and September 30 every year
- Applies to all owners, tenants or lessees of residential properties
- Restricts the use of municipally-supplied drinking water for the purpose of watering your lawns, gardens, trees and shrubs
- Outdoor watering on residential properties is allowed between 6-9 a.m. or 6-9 p.m., but not both
- Properties with an even-numbered street address can water their lawns on even-numbered days during this time
- Properties with an odd-numbered street address can water their lawns on odd-numbered days during this time
- Those in violation of Markham's Summer Water Restrictions (By-law 105-95) may be fined up to $5,000 upon conviction.
Why Are Summer Water Restrictions Necessary?
During summer months, water consumption can more than double due to increased outdoor water usage. From June 1 to September 30 each year, residents are required to follow Markham's Summer Water Restrictions (By-law 105-95) to ensure that the demand does not exceed the delivery capacity of the City's existing water distribution system. Reducing how much water we use during peak hours (10 a.m. to 5 p.m.) decreases the need to expand current infrastructure and prolongs its lifespan. This also keeps construction, operation and maintenance costs lower, while keeping the overall cost of providing reliable and safe water to our community affordable.
Summer Water Restrictions Help:
Reduce Infrastructure Demands
Water and wastewater infrastructure is built to handle peak demand times, typically between 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is when we collectively use the most treated water. Reducing how much water we use during these peak hours can reduce the need to expand current infrastructure and prolong the lifespan of our distribution pipes and pumping stations. This would lower construction, operation and maintenance costs keeping the overall cost of providing clean water to homes and businesses affordable.
Maintain a Reliable Water Supply
A reliable water supply helps ensure drinking water reserves, adequate water pressure and fire protection. Reducing our use of treated water during peak hours will ensure a reliable water supply we can all count on.
Support Environmental Sustainability
The water used outdoors from sprinklers, hoses and driveway car washing runs off into storm sewers on your street, picking up all sorts of pollutants along the way. Contaminated water entering our storm sewers flow directly into Lake Ontario without being treated. Reducing outdoor water use may also reduce the pollutants that end up in our drinking water source. Remember, there are many plants, wildlife and aquatic animals that rely on a clean lake too.
Beware...Non-Compliance Notices
The City actively patrols for violations in an interdepartmental initiative between Waterworks, By-Law, and Waste Management. Residents that receive the notice have been identified as being non-compliant with the summer water restrictions (By-law 105-95). The notices are distributed to inform, educate and raise awareness throughout the community about proper outdoor water use during the summer.
Are there any exemptions to the By-Law (105-95)?
- Properties with newly laid sod for a period of 2 months after the sod is first laid.
- Properties not connected to the municipal water supply. However, we encourage all property owners to be good environmental stewards and follow the water use restrictions.
For more information, read Markham By-law 105-95 [PDF].
Automatic Irrigation Systems
When selecting an irrigation system, choose a system and timer that enables you to:
- Water parts of your property independently;
- Program which days you water;
- Increase or decrease the length of watering time;
- Purchase a soil moisture sensor to monitor moisture levels to ensure optimal plant growth;
- Purchase a rain sensor to automatically stop watering during rain periods.
Using an Irrigation System
- Change your settings on the irrigation controller to suit seasonal weather conditions. (Over-watering is most common during the spring and fall).
- Water your property according to sun or shade exposure and soil type.
- Inspect your irrigation system for leaks, broken or clogged heads and other problems.
- Ensure sprinkler heads are distributing water evenly.
- Never water driveways, or other hard surfaces or structures.
- Do not cut your grass too short – shorter grass requires more water.
- Look for indicators that your lawn needs watering - grass turning a bluish-gray colour, dry soil and footprints remaining in the grass. When you water your property – remember...
- Water early morning - to reduce evaporation, avoid fungus growth and mould.
- Let the water soak in - if water puddles due to dry or compacted soil, stop watering and allow time for it to seep into the ground.
- Less is more - watering too much and too frequently can cause plants to have shallow roots. This enables weed growth, attracts pests and makes plants susceptible to disease/fungus.
Water Efficient Backyard Oasis
Vibrant Landscapes
The plants you choose and the area of lawn you maintain directly impact how much water you need to keep your yard healthy. Native plants are the best choice when landscaping as they grow in our region naturally and are adapted to the climate. You can save water by limiting the lawn area you keep green and weed free. Trees, shrubs and ground cover absorb much more rainfall and require less maintenance than grass. Placing mulch around plantings will also reduce water evaporation. Another great tip is to groups plants with similar water needs so that the appropriate amount of water is being supplied to reduce water waste.
We do not encourage the use of pesticides, chemical treatments and the over-use of fertilizers. When landscapes are watered or it rains, these chemicals may enter our storm sewers polluting our fresh drinking water source.
Rain Gardens - Low Impact Development
Rain Gardens are a great way of managing storm water runoff and protecting the quality of water that flows into local streams, ponds, rivers, and lakes. A rain garden uses a depression in the landscape to collect water runoff. It incorporates loose, deep soil and native plant species that are both drought and water tolerant, permitting 30% more water to penetrate into the ground than would a lawn. You can visit a demonstration rain garden at the Markham Museum, or see other demonstration rain gardens in the region. Find out more information on how you can create water efficient landscaping from the TRCA Rain Gardens publication.
Maintaining a Healthy Lawn (Courtesy of York Region)
- Aerate every other fall to limit soil compaction, increase water absorption and help to reduce thatch
- Top dress every spring or fall with compost; rake into the lawn to a depth of half an inch
- Over-seed every spring or fall with a grass seed high in fescue content (at least 60%) and low in Kentucky Blue content (20% at most)
- Fescue grasses have fine glades that are drought and disease resistant due to their deep rooting system
- Kentucky Blue grass which is the only grass found in sod, has the shallowest root system and is therefore the type of seed that is the weakest, most water dependent and most susceptible to disease
- Mowing height should be six centimetres to eight centimetres to shade roots and prevent weed seed germination
- Fertilize every fall with compost to give your lawn the nutrients it needs to make it through the winter for more Tips Watch This Video
For more tips watch the "Be Water Smart - Lawn Maintenance Tips video.
Rain Barrels
Disconnect Your Downspout and Collect the Rain
Disconnect your downspout from the sewer system and redirect the water to your yard and garden. A rain barrel is an efficiency way to collect and store rainwater from your roof. Rain barrels are available at local hardware stores and have minimal maintenance once installed. Choose a barrel that holds a minimum 200 litres and has a mesh screen covering the water entry to keep out mosquitoes and other pests. Use an overflow hose to direct water into the garden or a grassed area where it will soak into the ground. You can elevate your barrel to create increased water pressure, and link multiple barrels for greater capacity. Be sure to empty your rain barrel and bring it indoors or turn it over before it freezes in the fall. Water left in the barrel over winter can crack the plastic walls. TRCA has produced an information sheet.
Related Resources
York Region has produced a number of publications and short videos on lawn and garden care. To help you choose the right plants for your space, Water for Tomorrow has developed the York Region Water-Efficient Plant Selection Guide.
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority has information on everything from deer and rabbit resistant plants to beneficial insects. Visit the Healthy Yards Connection website to access this material.
Sustainable Pools, Spas and Hot Tubs
Splash and Save with These Easy Tips!
- Be attentive when filling your pool, spa or hot tub to prevent over-flows or over-filling.
- Use covers to reduce water loss due to evaporation and make sure they fit properly. You may also see a reduction in your energy bill as this will decrease heath loss.
- Repair any leaks, they won't fix themselves!
- Warmer water evaporates more quickly; turn down the temperature.
- Refrain from using fountains and waterfalls; the effect of aeration accelerates evaporation.
- Manually cleaning filters uses less water compared to backwashing. The average backwash can use between 950-3,780 litres of water.
- Most people backwash more frequently than necessary. Some pool filters do not have to be backwashed at all; they can be taken apart and cleaned.
- Try to avoid water loss though excessive splash-out.
- Maintain proper chemical levels and adequate circulation time. This will avoid the the need to use excessive amounts of make-up water or drainage to correct an unbalanced environment.
What You Need to Know About Proper Drainage!
Pools, hot tubs, and spas should always be drained properly. This water may contain high concentrations of substances harmful to our environment.
- Do not add chemicals for 2 weeks prior to draining your pool, spa or hot tub.
- Make sure you remove chemicals from the water before draining (i.e. if your pool uses chlorine, dechlorinated before draining).
- A good option is to drain onto your lawn.
Outdoor Summer Chores
Save Water, Save Money
- Cleaning your driveway with a garden hose wastes water. When cleaning your driveway or sidewalk, sweep away dirt with a broom. Rain will do the rest!
- Take your car to a commercial car wash! They may use up to 50% less water than washing your vehicle in your driveway and prevents chemicals and pollutants from entering our storm sewers.
- If you must wash you car at home, use a bucket and sponge. This can save about 300 litres of water per wash. That's enough water to do two full loads of laundry.


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The Best Green Gifts Under $20
Boom. You have a gift to buy but not a lot of money. No worries! Whether you're looking for a stocking stuffer or participating in a gift exchange, we've got 20 gifts under 20 dollars to impress everyone on your list (without breaking the bank)!
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2 Goat Milk Skull Soap, $8 from I Am Home (Etsy): Super weird handmade soap cast from a real raccoon skull — perfect as a quirky stocking stuffer.
3 Wine Ring Wine Tote, $15 from LEIF: A cheeky reusable cotton canvas wine tote.
4 The Garden Primer, by Barbara Damrosh, $12.89 from Amazon: From our list of the best organic gardening books, this is a great reference book covering the basics of gardening.
5 2012 Lexicon of Sustainability Calendar, $18 from The Lexicon of Sustainability: A limited edition photographic guide to the basic terms and principles that define sustainability.
6 Porcelain Mason Jar Votive, $15.95 from EcoElements (Etsy): Adorable handmade translucent porcelain mason jar replica; comes with one jar and one unscented votive candle.
7 Acorn Cap Candles, $12.60 from Pretty Dreamer (Etsy): A charming set of 24 tiny acorn caps filled with 100% beeswax — they even float in water!
8 Avenir Woodsie 11 Folding Bike Tool, $12.73 from Amazon: A great stocking stuffer for the cyclist in your life, the Woodsie features 11 tools in one tiny wood finished handle.
9 Source Toothbrush, $6.95 (or 18.77 for 3) from Radius: These are no ordinary toothbrushes. The long-lasting handles are made from your choice of recycled flax, dollar bills or wood, comes with replaceable heads, and is reversible for right or left-hand use.
10 Air Plant, $2 and up from Air Plant Supply Co: Air plants are awesome, they don't need soil so they can be placed in or on just about anything, and if you're lucky you'll find one with beautiful flowers.
11 Apartment Gardening by Amy Pennington, $12.89 from Amazon: A great urban gardening reference for beginning and experienced gardeners, this guide is full of tips, recipes, DIYs and illustrations.
12 Triangles Tea Towel, $18 from Leah Duncan: An adorable triangle pattern printed on 100% organic fair trade cotton.
13 Butcher Pig Diagram Felt Coasters, $16 from Renegade Handmade: Industrial felt coaster sets are screenprinted by hand, one at a time, and cut into four pieces. More diagram designs available at Girls Can Tell.
14 Recycled Juice Glass, $6.60 from LEIF: Perfect for a cup of OJ, these glasses are made from gorgeous recycled Moroccan glass.
15 Wooden Bookmark, $6.32 from Bliss in a Cup (Etsy): Handmade bookmarks made from pieces of scrap veneer and embossed with your choice of charming vintage style images.
16 Elm Log Dish, $20 from Small Stump (Etsy): Handmade log dish made from salvaged elm and coated with mineral oil and beeswax.
17 Farmer's Market Basket, $14 from Anthropologie: Cast in stoneware from real containers, this is a great gift for the foodie who has everything. Dishwasher and microwave safe.
18 Batik Coffee Scoop, $10 from LEIF: Great for a coffee lover, these scoops are handmade from olive wood and recycled bone.
19 Govino Wine Glasses, $12.95 from Govino: Perfect for a fancy picnic, these ergonomic wine glasses are BPA-free, shatterproof, reusable and recyclable. Available in three designs in sets of 4.
20 Wildflower Seed Bomb, $14 from UncommonGoods: Each reusable muslin pouch holds five seed balls made from clay and worm castings to enrich depleted soil.
2011 Green Gift Guides
• Green Gift Guide For Kids
• Green Gift Guide For Food Lovers
• No-Gift Green Gift Guide: Charitable Gifts and Donations
• 10 Hostess Gifts for Friends Who Love to Entertain
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John C. Banks, Andrews University professor of anatomy and physical therapy, recently received news that the Atlas of Clinical Gross Anatomy, is one of two recipients chosen to receive the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) R. R. Hawkins Award for the Outstanding Professional, Reference or Scholarly Work of 2005. Banks co-authored the textbook with two Andrews alums Kenneth Moses, staff physician and assistant professor at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, Calif., and Darrell Petersen, biomedical photographer and architect in Elkhart, Ind., and the chair of the pathology and human anatomy department at Loma Linda, Pedro B. Nava.
The full-color atlas was published in May 2005 by London-based Elsevier Publishing, the world's largest publisher of medical education materials, and has been well-received by the medical education community, already appearing in the classrooms of Harvard Medical School, the University of Connecticut Medical School, and University of Southern California's physical therapy program.
The R. R. Hawkins Award, named for the former head of the Science and Technology Division of the New York Public Library, was presented at a special awards luncheon at the PSP Annual Conference in Washington, DC on February 7. Richard Taruskin's The Oxford History of Western Music, published by Oxford University Press, is this year's second Hawkins Award recipient. This is the first year that two texts have been chosen for this award. Awards were also passed out for books, journals, digital media, and more in 30 different categories. Winners were chosen by a panel of nine experts consisting of librarians, academics, and publishers.
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Must we feel that assembling the Governor, the Senate President, the Speaker of the House, and their respective minority leaders and staffs is going to resolve the largest crisis Illinois has ever faced? The answer is simple and it's almost an insult to every one of the 12.8 million citizens of the great state – "no."
We learned June 21 that "The Five Leaders" met for over two hours and could not come up with an answer to the state's growing pension crisis. What a tremendous grasp of the obvious. Must we feel that assembling the Governor, the Senate President, the Speaker of the House, and their respective minority leaders and staffs is going to resolve the largest crisis Illinois has ever faced? The answer is simple and it's almost an insult to every one of the 12.8 million citizens of the great state – "no." There are 177 elected members of the Illinois General Assembly. You elected us — arguably we created or at least allowed the problem to explode out of control. Assemble us and let's fix it. I wrote Speaker Madigan and Leader Cross on June 22 asking for a meeting of the whole — yes every one of the 118 members of the House — with the hopes that the Senate would do the same. This thing truly is the 800 pound guerilla in the room, and we cannot ignore the short and long term ramifications. My good friend and former Deputy Superintendent Dr. Joe Crawford shared with me an interesting Old Russian Proverb: "when you are dancing with a bear you can't quit if you get tired." All of us want this problem to just go away. We are tired of it. Well thanks to our parents we are the baby boomers now approaching retirement and, simply put, down the road there won't be enough money to go around. Blame it on a sagging stock market for the past four years; blame it on entitlements that government simply cannot sustain. It doesn't matter where the blame is placed, we, the sitting members, must fix the problem. We must do it now, tired or not! Charles Osgood, reporting on the Osgood File June 20, noted that California must cut its public pensions by 10 percent to sustain itself. Illinois with its $100 billion deficit along with Rhode Island must cut theirs a staggering 50 percent to keep from totally sinking. Daily I meet with concerned state employees and teachers telling me none of this can be done while being fair to our employees — on that we certainly agree. I'm told over and over it would be unconstitutional. That comment is usually followed with words to the effect, "we put you in office, and we can take you out." Please understand that comment does nothing to fix the problem, and it goes nowhere with me. I'll work as hard as I can while I'm in office to fix the problem, being as fair as I possibly can. If that gets me voted out, life will go on. I will continue my efforts with the five leaders to bring us all to Springfield at no cost to the tax payer, sit us in that elaborate, beautiful chamber with the comfy chairs and nobody leaves until the bear himself is exhausted. I will be at the Warren Village Hall on July 11 at 10 a.m., please join me for coffee and conversation. That same afternoon I will be at the Elizabeth Village Hall to discuss your concerns. As always, you can reach me, Sally or Barb at (815) 232-0774 or e-mail us at email@example.com. You can also visit my website at www.jimsacia.com.


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Gawker :: Shepard Smith Is An Angry Gay
Fox News anchor Shepard Smith is not only closeted, claims Gawker in a recent article, but he was also a total asshole to the NYC club's wait staff.
According to the Oct. 22 article, Smith, the new director of Fox News' breaking news operation, has been caught several times over the last year being belligerent and abusive in public. According to Gawker, the victim of his ire last March was Katya Minskova, a 30-year-old waitress at the Chelsea speakeasy Bathtub Gin.
Minskova told the website that on the evening in question, the 49-year-old Smith was drinking his usual off-menu mix of gin, muddled cucumber and shaved ice when he grabbed the waitress, demanding the next round.
"He got up from his table, grabbed my elbow and started yelling, 'Where the fuck is my drink! Where is my fucking drink! Get my fucking drink!'" said Minskova.
The waitress said she tried to explain to Smith that the bartender was mixing the second round, but he said, "You're fucking slow, I told you I wanted a second round."
When the Fox anchor demanded the check, Minskova passed it on to another waitress, and Smith left without an apology or a tip.
"I've dealt with assholes and drunks before, but nothing like this," said the waitress, who ended up quitting several months later.
Gawker reports that during this incident, Smith was sitting with a straight couple and his "regular date," a 6'2" thirty-something white male who Minskova and another source said they had seen Smith with there on multiple occasions, and whom the Bathtub Gin staff referred to as "his boyfriend."
The sources said that the couple frequently holds hands under the table; none of the sources, including Fox insiders, said Gawker, knew the name of this alleged boyfriend.
Slate chastened Gawker reporter J.K. Trotter for burying the lead outing Smith, saying, "If that's Trotter's big scoop, and Gawker deems it so newsworthy, why did they dump the outing in the middle of a fluff piece about a speakeasy tantrum? Probably because there's no other way to do it without seeming sleazily reactionary."
Slate reporter Mark Joseph Stern criticized Gawker for unnecessarily outing the anchor, saying that despite working at the ultra-conservative news outlet, Smith was not a hypocrite, and had taken Republicans to the mat for their anti-gay stances on TV.
"Smith's sexuality isn't really juicy," wrote Stern. "It's just a personal detail, widely thought to be the case, which Gawker has now seemingly confirmed. They can feel free to dress it up as newsworthy, but that doesn't mean the rest of us have to pretend that it's real news."


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Our Center is committed to providing you with a wide range of student services that support you throughout your educational journey and engage you in college life. Student Affairs offers "Great Programs & Services (GPS)" and we are proud to serve as your "GPS on the road to success."
The Higher Education Center at National City Student Services Center is the hub of student support on the Southwestern College's Chula Vista campus and serves as a one-stop location for services, including, Admissions, Counseling, EOPS, Veterans Services, Disability Support Services, Financial Aid, and many other critical programs.
Students taking classes at the college's Chula Vista Campus, Higher Education Centers in San Ysidro and Otay Mesa can receive similar services on-site.
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The terrorist attack that took place on September 11, 2001 in New York City resulted in thousands of lives lost, the collapse of the twin towers of the World Trade Center as well as damage to adjacent buildings, and extensive disruption of transportation and other lifeline systems, economic activity, and other social activities within the city and the surrounding area. When the final accounting takes place, this attack will almost certainly constitute one of the most deadly and costly disaster events in U. S. history.
In a very real sense, the September 11 tragedy, the nature of the damage that occurred, the challenges that the city's emergency response faced, and the actions that were undertaken to meet those demands can be seen as a "proxy"-albeit a geographically concentrated one-for what a major earthquake can do in a complex, densely-populated modern urban environment. Like an earthquake, the terrorist attack occurred with virtually no warning. As would be expected in an earthquake, fires broke out and multiple structural collapses occurred. As has been observed in major urban earthquakes and in other disasters (e.g., Hurricane Andrew), structures housing facilities that perform critical emergency functions were destroyed, heavily damaged, or evacuated for life-safety reasons. Additionally, because the majority of the damage occurred to relatively new and well-engineered structures and because the emergency response system in New York City was considered very well prepared for all types of emergencies, particularly terrorist attacks, the attack and its aftermath provide a useful laboratory for exploring a variety of engineering and emergency management issues.
In this perspective, the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research initiated a research project (funded by the National Science Foundation) to collect perishable data in the aftermath of the attack for later study to gain a better understanding of how resilience is achieved in both physical, engineered systems and in organizational systems. The project is divided into two major components, focusing on the impact of the disaster on engineering and organizational systems:
Damage to Buildings in the Vicinity of Ground Zero - The objective of this effort is to collect perishable information on the various types of damage suffered by buildings at Ground Zero, including, most importantly, those that suffered moderate damage from the impact of large debris but that did not collapse, and to investigate whether state-of-practice analytical methods used in earthquake engineering can be used to explain the observed structural behavior.
Organizational and Community Resilience in the World Trade Center Disaster - The objective of this effort is to collect information on the response activities of the City's Emergency Operations Center and on other critical emergency response facilities. Of particular interest is to identify the plans that were in place at the time of the disaster, as well as how decision systems and remote sensing technologies were used and coordinated with engineering decisions. Efforts will also include identifying the technologies and tools that were most useful or failed (or did not meet expectations) during the emergency period, the types of adaptations that had to be made by these organizations, how well intra-organizational communication and coordination functioned, and whether any emerging technologies were used during the emergency period.
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|2006-12-25, 22:37
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|2006-12-26, 00:22
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Join Date: Aug 2006
(Sorry gang - Nergistotle moment)
I know. I lived there. But there's something to be said for ideals that people try to live up to. Peoples (maybe I should say - cultures) tend to portray themselves in art the way they want to be seen (especially by themselves) and the way they'd like to live up to. Or at least, that used to be the case. Americans would - or did - want everyone (again, especially themselves) to think they were the John Wayne archetype - tough but fair, respectful of others, intolerant only (but extremely) of injustice, brave, uncomplicated but upright, never one to start fights but never one to run from them, courtly but uninclined to take undeserved crap, and so on. Now, did America always live up to that? Of course not. But the idea was instilled in Americans that they should try, and in trying, they became better people.
It's questionable wether it's a case of a coarser culture not being able to produce ideals that inspire people to be better, or wether the degrading of ideals coarsens a culture. They probably feed off each other. Either way, what do we have now? Brangelina? Paris Hilton? Snoop Dogg? Wouldn't more John Waynes be better, in a culture where kids spend 100 more hours a year in front of (learning from) television than they do in school?
Same in anime. Less Takayukis and Mitsukis, more Reinhard von Lohengramms and Kyoko Otonashis, says I. The portrayal of less ideal characters may be more "realistic", but it may also be self-fulfilling - when people shoot lower, they hit lower.
Anyhow, Nergistotle moment over. As you were.
|2006-12-26, 15:37
|Link #464
Blue Dawn
Join Date: Jun 2004
Age: 39
Actually, it was based upon the game of the same name, much like KimiNozo was. Mind you, MuvLuv has a wildly different tone than KimiNozo, but is equally loved for it's story in the same way KimiNozo was, Akane Maniax was meant to have the middle-ground allowing fans of KimiNozo a way to move into MuvLuv's theme.
Mind you, the original market for the game still bought Akane Maniax based upon their affection for Akane, despite many knowing that even in the game reaching the Akane main path wasn't really and 'easy' feat. So when the OVA came around, I'm sure the original market was well aware that the series would focus on Gouda's adventures in his Akane fantasies.
So again, this is a misconception based upon someone going into Akane Maniax not understanding it and only carrying the preconception of it being a sequel to KimiNozo.
|2007-03-18, 17:39
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Join Date: Apr 2006
I read find the name of this anime thread, and saw Otome wa Boku ni Koishiteru and it sounded interesting from the plot so I checked it out....
Saw the first ep and I could tell from that how bad it was so I stopped
One I don't like fan-service, two especially when there is no use for it. This anime was SO pathetic the way they tried to insert the fan-service. It was just really awkward and random and it was a sad sight. The characters with the very forced fan-service made them so crappy, they just acted really strange and unrealistic and stupid.
And the comedy, it was bad.... I didn't laugh, I mean I knew what the jokes were, they just weren't funny. They just tried to pass it off like it was a "good" anime but it's way below average.
|2007-03-18, 18:27
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|2007-03-20, 20:48
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FMP wubber
Join Date: Mar 2007
Age: 34
I'll admit Otome wasn't that great. I originally watched it because I thought the premise for it sounded good, and then I continued it because I'm really bad about dropping series... I don't remember that much fanservice (cept for maybe a few episodes), so if that's all stopping you from watching it, then pick it back up.
From what I've seen:
For me, I'd say that "My wife is a highschool girl" was probably the worst series. Runner-up was Happy Lesson.
Stuff I couldn't even finish:
Excel Saga, 2x2, FLCL -> I'm not big on this type of humor, not if that is the ONLY thing that makes the viewer want to watch it. Something like School Rumble also has crazy humor at times, but at least that TRIES to have a plot...sorta.
Also didn't finish Gunslinger Girls, but because some people have a fascination with it, it could just be.
Okusama wa Joshikosei -> Probably worse than the stuff I couldn't finish because well... I finished it . Overall I didn't see the point of this series. It centered around the girl fantasizing about sex with her hubby' all the time but not getting it. It had some fan-service (if I can recall) but that couldn't save the series.
Happy Lesson -> If there was comedy in this series, I didn't understand it... Plus no plot, until the third installment (why I watched that far I have no idea) and it just seemed thrown in.
Other Stuff that I didn't like:*** [aka don't wanna do hw so I'm writing this long list...]
Cowboy Beebop: I really didn't see the hype with this series. Was it ok? Yea. And I did like the music... alot. But there was little to no plot and I just didn't see the characters caring enough for each other to interact. I felt no emotion between there interactions.
This could partially be because I think I had just recently watched Outlaw Star, which I liked a lot more.
Da Capo: I remember originally seeing this on anidb and thinking, "Wow, maybe I'll get a really interesting harem". I'll admit it had its moments were I was intrigued (the plot wasn't bad) but I think that I didn't like the lead roles. Also the girl I liked didn't get picked, so maybe that made me sad... (that was a first for me).
Hand Maid May: Sub-par plot and very little fanservice (that I can remember).
Kiddy Grade: I think the first 8 episodes were like bg information? Then the "story" starts. I guess it was somewhat interesting, although, I didn't like how the leads kept
King of Bandit Jing: I'd say this was a bit of action, but mainly "slice of life" as Jing just goes around doing different little mini-adventures. Like most of these, interesting at times, but I kept waiting for some huge plot to unfold, sadly, nothing ever did.
Piano: I used to play piano so I picked it up because of that. I wasn't expecting much when I got this, but I got even less. The ending didn't even feel like an ending! It just sorta stopped...
Someday's Dreamers: First half was really slow, second half was better. I think I expected too much for this series. Plus, I'm a big 'normal' mahou shoujo fan. SD had more of a casual magic stance, which while interesting for a bit, bored me after a while. Needless to say I do stay away from slice-of-life series. I still need to finish Aria though...
To Heart: See Da Capo, except less of a plot, and the characters just seem thrown in.
*** Note: This is just personal preference, no flames please
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|2007-03-21, 00:32
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I have maybe a couple
Sokou No Strain: AIIIIIIEEE... Oh wait false alarm, I haven't been lynched yet. the reason why is that I felt they completely botched the most important part of the series, that being Ralph's development and motivations and Sara and the other characters interactions, which were at best forced along a predetermined course that looped around a couple times.
Shuffle! Aside from the all but unbearable soundtrack and goofy scripts for each episode I could swear Liathansius (sp?) and Nerine were the exact same character only with different hair colour and neither were written too well. I basically finished this one up by Wiki plot summaries and Episode Summaries. Two redeeming values are Kaede's arc and Primula.
Gundam Seed Destiny The first experience I have ever had with a series that consisted of mostly flashbacks to Seed with random narration often loosely fitting the images on screen, and a clip show every 8 or so episodes that resulted in having to view all the flashbacks yet again. If Fukuda and the Wife wanted to kill my favourite franchise they came as close as anybody will probably ever come.
God Mars This is honestly one of the most boring and repetitive Super Robot Series I think I have ever seen and it makes Getter Robo and Mazinger Z look fresh with each episode by comparsion. That and a lot of scenes are animated merely with sliding frames or stills to show off the special moves. No wonder they were able to stretch it out so darn long eh. It's probably the only robot series I've ever gotten bored with so quickly. The most criminal aspect though is that it has the potential to be one of the most interesting robot series of the 80's with the story of Takeru and Marg, The Space Arc and The Cosmo Teams trust in Takeru, but they insisted on squandering it with that darn monster of the week formula again.
That's about all the wit and spite I can come up with for a couple of my most reviled series.
|2007-03-23, 21:37
|Link #473
Join Date: Aug 2006
Evangelion, I dont get why people think highly of it so much? I thought it sucked.
Inuyasha-It got too long and tiresome. Unlike One Piece IMO which still keeps a good story, even after over 400 manga chs and 300 eps.
Happy Lesson-No plot at all. Not even any character development.
|2007-03-23, 22:31
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007
"We will continue to fight on till the end against naraku"
and then in the screen appears:
I looked plain stupid to me, and this wasnt the reason i disliked it i just felt it worth mentioning, the reason is that it had no real END, the series was simply CUT.
Hikaru no Go i like it very much, i dont like chess nor Go, but it was very entertaining and interesting, i have already watched it like 6 or 7 times.
|2007-03-23, 23:17
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|2007-03-25, 02:39
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Enigma of Nothing
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Seattle WA, USA
Also, I detest Bleach, Inuyasha, Pokemon, all the hypes, or the majority of them anyway.
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Indonesian Chicken Turnovers with Spicy Peanut Sauce
Linda Blakely of Berne, N.Y., won $5,000 for her Crisco is Cooking Award recipe. Prep Time: 50 Min Total Time: 1 Hr Makes: 8 (2 turnovers each) servings 8 tablespoons Crisco® Pure Canola Oil 3/4 cup finely chopped onions 2 cups shredded rotisserie chicken (from 2-lb chicken) 1 tablespoon McCormick® Curry Powder 3/4 teaspoon McCormick® Garlic Powder 1/2 teaspoon McCormick® Cayenne Pepper 1 can (6 oz) pineapple juice 1/4 cup canned crushed pineapple 1/4 cup raisins 1 tablespoon shredded coconut 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped bread-and-butter pickles (not pickle relish) 2 cans Pillsbury® refrigerated crescent dinner rolls 1/4 cup Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter 2 tablespoons soy sauce 2 tablespoons sugar 2 teaspoons white vinegar 1 tablespoon finely chopped green onion with top In 10-inch skillet, heat 3 tablespoons of the oil over medium heat. Add 3/4 cup onions; cook 2 to 3 minutes, stirring frequently, or until onions are softened. Add chicken, curry powder, garlic powder, and 1/4 teaspoon of the cayenne pepper; cook 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Stir in pineapple juice, crushed pineapple, raisins, coconut and pickles. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer uncovered 7 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until liquid is absorbed. Remove from heat. Heat oven to 350°F. Unroll both cans of crescent dough; separate dough into 8 rectangles. Firmly press perforations to seal. Press each piece of dough into 7x3 1/2-inch rectangle. Cut each rectangle crosswise into 2 squares. Place about 2 tablespoons of chicken mixture onto center of each square; fold dough in half diagonally to form a triangle. With fork, seal edges. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 11 to 15 minutes or until light golden brown. Meanwhile, in 1-quart saucepan, combine peanut butter, remaining 5 tablespoons oil, soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, remaining 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper, and green onion. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly with wire whisk, or until thoroughly heated. To serve, place 2 turnovers on each of 8 plates. Drizzle each turnover with 1 teaspoon of the sauce. Serve with remaining sauce. Sprinkle turnovers with additional chopped green onion, if desired.
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Slang for hands. In reference to grabbing or touching male genitals violently or aggressively.
Look at the cock wrenches on her! I Bet she's got a kung fu grip!
Keep your cock wrenches off my samich!
Look at the cock wrenches on her! I Bet she's got a kung fu grip!
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when a man cheats on his girl and thinks he gets away with it his wife/girlfriend may give him a cock wrench to resolve the problem.
by aaaaarochey March 24, 2005
when a males cock becomes so physically stimulated by a female it feels like it might snap off,hence the sensation of a wrench clamped around a phallus
Shit man this chick last night was so good,just about had my dick caught in a cockwrench!
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BISMARCK, N.D. - The State Board of Higher Education approved a Fees Performance Audit Action Plan proposed by North Dakota University System Chancellor Ham Shirvani at SBHE's meeting today in Fargo. The action plan addresses the June State Auditor's performance audit of fees charged by the University of North Dakota and North Dakota State University. Completion of the plan is expected by Dec. 31, 2013.
"The Fees Performance Audit Action Plan approved today was well received and is consistent with the Board's expectation for increased accountability and transparency," says Duaine Espegard, president of SBHE.
The action plan expedites a thorough analysis of all non-mandatory fees and dovetails with NDUS' comprehensive draft Three-Tier Access Plan, which also was presented for Board review and discussion at the meeting. The proposed Access Plan includes the development of a new tuition-rate structure and will determine the appropriate fees to merge with tuition.
"We will make sure that all fees are spent appropriately and that balances are applied to benefit students, including underwriting fees," says Shirvani.
The plan puts accounting controls in place to ensure revenues and expenditures can be separately tracked for all remaining stand-alone fees. It also will review all current accumulated fee balances as of June 5, 2012 (audit report date) to ensure proper use of fee balances in support of unique purposes of initial fee assessment. Beginning in Fiscal Year 2013, all accumulating fee balances in excess of a defined appropriate reserve threshold (to be determined) would be used to offset future rates.
NDUS Response to Fees Performance Audit
Approved by the SBHE 9/5/12
In response to the June 2012 State Auditor's Performance Audit at UND and NDSU and consistent with the central themes of accountability and transparency, the NDUS shall complete the following action plan by not later than December 31, 2013:
1.) As part of the 3-Tier Access plan, including a plan to implement a new tuition rate structure by Fall 2014, a thorough analysis of all non-mandatory fees must be expedited to determine which fees are most appropriately merged with tuition. All plans for the merger of non-mandatory fees with tuition will be evaluated by the System Office prior to implementation. Once approved campuses will have discretion over the use of the merged tuition revenues to support programmatic goals, without the need to separately distinguish between what used to be former tuition and former fees.
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Shellie Zimmerman, the wife of the man accused of murdering the Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, was arrested on a perjury charge on Tuesday.
Sheriff's deputies escorted the 25-year-old into the Seminole County jail in Sanford, Florida, at about 3.30pm. She was freed an hour later after posting $1,000 bail.
The office of special prosecutor Angela Corey, who in April charged Zimmerman's husband George with second-degree murder over the shooting of the 17-year-old, issued a warrant for her arrest earlier in the day.
It followed testimony from Shellie Zimmerman given by telephone at her husband's bond hearing on 20 April, at which she told circuit judge Kenneth Lester that the couple were virtually penniless. Lester freed Zimmerman, 28, on bail.
However, prosecutors say they later discovered that the Zimmermans had at least $135,000 available to them in donations raised on a private website set up in the weeks after the incident on 26 February in which the neighbourhood watch captain shot and killed the unarmed black teenager.
A clearly angry Lester revoked Zimmerman's bail at a hearing on 1 June and he returned to jail two days later to await a new bond hearing on 29 June.
According to the arrest warrant signed by assistant state attorney John Guy, Shellie Zimmerman "did knowingly make a false statement, which she did not believe to be true, under oath in an official proceeding" namely the bail hearing.
Under Florida law, perjury committed during capital cases is considered a second-degree felony and carries a potential penalty of up to 15 years in prison and a possible $10,000 fine.
George Zimmerman, who claims he killed the teenager in self-defence, faces at least 25 years in jail if he is convicted of second-degree murder.
A probable cause affadavit that accompanied Shellie Zimmerman's arrest warrant stated that she was asked by her husband's lawyer, Mark O'Mara, if there were any "assets that you have which you can liquidate reasonably to assist in coming up with money for a bond". She replied: "Not that I know of."
Yet prosecutors say that they have bank documents from four days before that hearing that clearly show Shellie Zimmerman transferred $74,000 from her husband's account into her own.
A further $47,000 was transferred a day later into the account of George Zimmerman's sister, prosecutors allege, and they say they have spoken to a Credit Union bank official who personally assisted Shellie Zimemrman with the transfers.
The affadavit also claims that Shellie Zimmerman and her husband spoke in code to disguise the amount of money that was in their bank account at the time.
O'Mara took over as George Zimmerman's lawyer after the private website was closed and has said that the amount raised for his defence fund, which now exceeds more than $200,000, is independently administered.
Jackelyn Bernard said the state attorney would be making no comment on Tuesday's arrest. No date has yet been set for a hearing in Shellie Zimmerman's perjury case.
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Spurs hit Celtic for six
Roberto Soldado and Erik Lamela were among the goalscorers as Tottenham Hotspur thrashed Celtic 6-1 in Saturday's friendly in Helsinki.
- Crace: Six-hitters show promise
Spurs raced into a 2-0 lead thanks to efforts from frontmen Harry Kane and Soldado in the fourth and 11th minutes respectively.
Jamie Lindsay pulled a goal back for Celtic in the 43rd, but a minute later Lewis Holtby restored the two-goal cushion and Tottenham kept the momentum going after the break.
Midfielder Lamela -- who, like Soldado, is looking to bounce back after a disappointing first season with the London club -- made it 4-1 just before the hour mark.
And a Christian Eriksen free-kick and an Emmanuel Adebayor penalty wrapped up the rout in the last 10 minutes, while Celtic's misery was compounded by a red card for Efe Ambrose -- his second this week, having been dismissed in Wednesday's Champions League qualifier against Legia Warsaw.
Ashley Young scored either side of a Gareth Bale penalty in the first half, and Manchester United beat Real Madrid 3-1 on Saturday in front of the largest crowd to see a soccer game in the United States.
United remained unbeaten in this year's International Champions Cup, advancing to the final of the preseason tournament on Monday night in Miami, where they will face Liverpool.
Javier Hernandez added a goal in the second half to cap the scoring.
The crowd of 109,318 at Michigan Stadium broke the previous U.S. mark of 101,799, set at the Rose Bowl for the 1984 Olympic final.
Cristiano Ronaldo came on as a second-half substitute a day after Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti said he would not play.
Arsenal striker Yaya Sanogo plundered four goals as Benfica were swept aside 5-1 in the Emirates Cup. Sanogo produced a clinical display as he bagged a first-half hat trick while Costa Rica forward Joel Campbell, back from a loan spell at Olympiakos, also impressed, scoring his first goal in an Arsenal shirt.
Dimitrios Diamantakos scored twice and Roberto Jimenez Gago made two saves in a shootout to help Olimpiakos beat Manchester City 5-4 on penalty kicks after a 2-2 draw.
City opened the scoring with a Stevan Jovetic goal in the 35th minute. Samir Nasri picked out Jovetic and he dribbled past one defender, then split two others with a right-footed shot that beat a flat-footed Jimenez Gago. Two minutes later, Diamantakos equalised for Olimpiakos.
Aleksander Kolarov put City 2-1 in the 53rd minute with a penalty after David Silva was tripped in the box. But Diamantakos levelled in the 65th minute when he collected a pass just outside the box, moved past goalkeeper Joe Hart and blasted it into the open net
Newcastle United, playing at Schalke's Veltins Arena, conceded three goals in 18 first-half minutes en route to a 3-1 loss to Spanish side Malaga.
Sergi Darder opened the scoring in the 25th minute with a long-range strike that went in off the woodwork. Samu Castillejo volleyed in at the far post in the 32nd minute and the same man then netted a deflected effort towards the end of the half before Gabriel Obertan fired in a consolation on the hour.
Competing in the same Schalke Cup tournament as Newcastle, West Ham United drew 0-0 with the host club at the Veltins Arena before triumphing 7-6 on penalties.
The Hammers had survived a few scares during the 90 minutes, with their German opponents hitting the woodwork twice.
Aston Villa slumped to a 4-1 defeat away against Dutch side Groningen after conceding two goals in the opening eight minutes.Both of those were scored by Tjaronn Chery, and Jarchinio Antonia then made it 3-0 on the half-hour.
Charles N'Zogbia responded with a free-kick with around 15 minutes to go, but Groningen were not done and Dino Islamovic added their fourth in the last few seconds.
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Inter Milan beat AS Roma 2-0 in the International Champions Cup.
Nemanja Vidic met a free-kick from Dodo to head Inter into the lead just before the break. Roma almost levelled in the 48th minute, but Mattia Destro headed wide of an open goal unmarked six yards out.
Yuto Nagatomo doubled the lead in the 69th minute as he collected a loose ball and buried it past Lukasz Skorupski into the top corner.
Barcelona and Nice played out a 1-1 draw. Dario Cvitanich gave the Ligue 1 side the lead in the 21st minute but Xavi was on hand to make sure the game finished level as he netted on 68 minutes.Summer signing Bafetimbi Gomis was again on the scoresheet for Swansea City as they beat Reading 3-1 at the Madejski Stadium.
The France striker provided a cool finish to seal the victory in the second half. Wayne Routledge had earlier -- after Wilfried Bony crashed a penalty against the crossbar -- scored twice in three minutes to put the Swans in charge, with the hosts replying through a Nick Blackman wonder strike.
Crystal Palace suffered a 3-2 defeat at Championship newcomers Brentford. A flurry of goals early in the second half saw Jonathan Douglas and Andre Gray put the home team 2-0 up and Palace then draw level through Glenn Murray and Marouane Chamakh. Moses Odubajo subsequently notched the winner.
A Stoke City XI drew 0-0 at Burton Albion and West Bromwich Albion went down 1-0 at Nottingham Forest courtesy of a Matty Fryatt goal.
Charlie Austin and Junior Hoilett scored a brace apiece in Queens Park Rangers' 4-0 win at Shamrock Rovers, while summer recruit Marvin Sordell's effort steered Burnley to a 1-0 triumph at Blackpool.
Leicester City drew 1-1 at Preston North End, with Liam Moore's goal cancelled out by a Tom Clarke header.
Sunderland were held to a goalless draw by Vitoria Setubal in the last of their three friendlies in Portugal. The draw comes after Gus Poyet's men had beaten Recreativo Huelva 1-0 before losing to CD Nacional by the same scoreline.
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