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Hacking reviews creationism/evolution books in The Nation
Writing in the October 8, 2007, issue of The Nation, the philosopher Ian Hacking reviews five books relevant to the creationism/evolution controversy: Philip Kitcher's Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith, Michael Lienesch's In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, the Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, Michael Behe's The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, Ronald L. Numbers's The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design, and A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial, a collection of H. L. Mencken's contemporary reportage.
Hacking begins by looking on the bright side -- "The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school." -- although he subsequently observes, "The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum." With Kitcher, he prefers to classify creationist bunkum not as bad science or pseudoscience, but as dead science -- or, borrowing a term from the philosopher of science Imre Lakatos, "degenerate" science.
"Degenerate programs paint themselves into smaller and smaller corners, skirting problems they'd prefer not to face," Hacking explains. "They seldom or never have a new, positive explanation of anything. In short, they teach us nothing." In contrast, "evolutionary theory is a living, growing, vital organism ... a blooming, buzzing, confusing delight, finding out more about the world every day." He cites debates over the phylogeny of the primates and the extant of horizontal genetic transfer as cases of genuine scientific controversies within evolutionary biology.
"Contrast that with pseudo-controversy," Hacking continues, "and take, for example, Michael Behe, a professor at Lehigh University who must be the most ingenious and prolific anti-Darwinian biologist at work today." Referring to Behe's first book, he says, "There is no give and take of explanation and counterexample, no new methodology, no new anything -- just the same old question dressed up in slightly new clothes." With respect to Behe's latest book (which has already taken a pounding in review after review after review), he concludes, "Once again, we get a recycled objection in slightly new packaging, and no new ideas. ... Can't they do better than that? Apparently not."
Hacking ends his review on a theological note. "Intelligent design is silly," he remarks, despite its predecessors in the history of philosophy, and its central weakness is that "[i]t says nothing about the designer." Its silence about the nature of the designer, he argues, allows a number of variations on "the trite ad hominem observation" that the design in nature is imperfect: that the designer is evil, that the designer is insane ("obsessed with intricate details so long as they do not get too much in the way of other devices he concocts"), and -- in what he describes as a "more attractive thought" -- that the designer chose to operate through chance and selection.


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Ivory poachers are killing some 22,000 African elephants a year. Among the recent casualties was a group of rare forest elephants in the Central African Republic.
Those elephants were featured in an NPR program, Radio Expeditions, in 2002, when former NPR host and correspondent Alex Chadwick and sound engineer Bill McQuay went to central Africa to record them.
The Central African Republic was peaceful back then. We were expecting to find an amazing new world of sound to record, and the experience lived up to its reputation — the insects, the tropical downpours, and of course the cacophony of the elephants themselves.
But we also discovered field biologist Andrea Turkalo, who's now a conservation scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society. At that point she'd already dedicated more than a decade of her life to studying forest elephants, which for centuries had remained hidden within the dense canopy of the rain forest.
Turkalo is back in the U.S. now, living near Providence, R.I. She had to flee Africa last year because of the civil war in the country that is home to the elephants she shared a life with.
So we — Bill McQuay and Chris Joyce, who've worked together on stories from the mountains of China to the copper mines of Michigan — recently decided to go see Turkalo and find out what happened.
We meet in a busy coffee shop full of students from nearby Brown University. Turkalo is compact and direct, and wears her dark hair pulled back in a bun. She's bundled in a heavy coat – rarely needed during her years in the African bush.
Turkalo's pretty famous in the world of elephant research, as one of the first to study forest elephants. She had gone to Africa to do aid work, but was drawn to the intricate lives of these elephants. She turned her life around to be near them, settling in a rough camp in the rainforest and building an observation platform where she could safely watch the animals that congregate there. It's called the Dzanga bai — a clearing the size of several football fields that's rich in the mineralized mud that the elephants depend on. It was to become her home, and her life's work.
"We didn't know anything about (the forest elephants) in terms of their social structure, numbers, genetics, communication," Turkalo explained back in 2002 when the NPR team visited. "All that was wide open to me ... I didn't go looking for this. It sort of found me."
To identify the elephants, Turkalo learned to draw the animals' ears — each ear's shape and markings are unique to each individual. She and other scientists also recorded their calls. "Not only do they recognize each other's calls, but the calls go far," she told NPR correspondent Alex Chadwick, who spent days with her back then, observing the elephants with Bill McQuay. "I could hear the call and say, 'Yeah, that's a juvenile being pushed out of a hole by its mother; it's protesting.' Or you hear a rumble, and you know it's probably an adult female, rumbling for a family — either saying, 'I'm here,' or 'Let's go.' "
But Turkalo's 22 years with those elephants came to a disastrous end last year, when civil war in the republic found its way to the Dzanga bai. Turkalo had lived through civil strife before, but this time, she tells us, it was much worse. "This time they covered most of country," she says, "pillage, rape and kill."
They were the Seleka — the Muslim rebels who had overthrown the national government in the spring of 2013. As she sips her tea in the Providence coffee shop, Turkalo is the picture of calm. But last year at the bai, she says, she feared for her life. It was just impossible to stay. She well remembers the day when the war came to the bai. "It was the 24th of March," she says. "I heard they were on their way."
"We got into a boat; we went downriver," Turkalo says. "We were all women — five women." The women motored downriver toward the Democratic Republic of Congo. Andrea says all she was able to rescue were electronic copies of her research data. That evening, they floated by a village. "The people on the shore, they started discharging their automatic weapons in the air," she remembers. "So we heard this 'rat-a-tat-tat.' " Turkalo and the other women stopped their boat, afraid they'd be fired on if they kept going. "And they were yelling at us," she says. " 'Everybody out, everybody out.' "
Turkalo says she walked up to the man in charge and saw he had an AK-47 assault rifle. "And there was moonlight and I could see he had a revolver and he might have been drinking. So I said to myself, 'I better go into a very passive mode.' "
To her relief, the men turned out to be local. One of them knew one of the women in the boat. The tension broke. "We gave them a little money and said the Seleka were coming," says Turkalo. "They were terrified. They had nowhere to run." The women pushed on downriver. After six hours on the dark river, they got to safety, to a campsite in the Congo.
But Turkalo decided not to leave the region right away. In fact, she tells us, two weeks later she went back to the bai — something we found pretty astonishing given the circumstances of the civil war. There were armed combatants roaming the countryside. It was still too dangerous, Turkalo decided, so she made her escape by boat a second time.
It was several weeks after that, that she heard that poachers — taking advantage of the chaos in the country — had invaded the bai. They shot 26 elephants and cut out their tusks.
That's painful to imagine, especially for anyone who's had the chance to watch these animals. The NPR team had spent hours on that platform with Andrea, seeing these huge animals in a way few people in the world have a chance to do, and with someone who could "translate" what they were doing. "They recognize each other's voices," she told us in 2002, "just like women recognize their babies' cries. It's nothing extraordinary for humans. But seeing it in front of you, and knowing those individuals are related, that makes my day."
Now, a year later, Andrea is stoic about the loss. "I can never get too emotionally attached to things there," she says of central Africa, "because otherwise you set yourself up for a lot of disappointment. I mean, I've been through a lot of poaching."
We ask if she recognized any of the elephants in the photos taken of their carcasses after the poachers fled. "I don't know which ones they killed," she replies.
"But I'm certain I knew a few of the elephants they killed," she says — including some that the NPR team had recorded.
Turkalo clearly would rather be back in Africa than in a coffee house in Rhode Island. But she knew she had to leave; she's a researcher for a non-governmental wildlife organization, not some kind of soldier-of-fortune. "You know, a lot of the NGOs, we just cut and run," she tells us matter-of-factly. "When it gets bad we leave."
But that's not the end of the story. Turkalo is now part of an extraordinary operation to protect the surviving forest elephants. It's run by a band of men who, if not exactly soldiers-of-fortune, certainly are trained warriors who can deal not just with poachers, but with civil war, too.
We'll tell you more about them — Friday, on NPR's Morning Edition.
Bill McQuay now works as a sound engineer with the National Public Radio - National Geographic Society Radio Expeditions Sound Collection at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library. You can hear the original field recordings and interviews from Radio Expedition's 2002 elephant story, and see photos and night-vision video from the elephant bai, on the archive's website.
This is unbelievable, no matter how many times you hear it. Every year, ivory poachers kill some 22,000 African elephants. Recent casualties included a group of rare forest elephants in the Central African Republic, and longtime listeners to this program may have heard some of them. Back in 2002, we broadcast the story of a researcher with a wildlife conservation society who lived among them.
More recently, the story changed. A civil war spread across the country and the researcher had to save herself, returning to the United States. Two people who worked on that 2002 story went to visit her. One is NPR's Christopher Joyce. The other is sound engineer Bill McQuay, who recorded some of the amazing sounds you're about to hear.
BILL MCQUAY, BYLINE: I went to the Central African Republic when it was still peaceful. I was expecting to find an amazing new world of sound to record for NPR's Radio Expeditions program. And I did that, but I also discovered researcher Andrea Turkalo. She had dedicated more than a decade of her life to studying forest elephants, which for centuries had remained hidden within the dense canopy of the rainforest. When I heard she had to flee the CAR because of civil war there, I knew I had to track her down and find out what happened.
CHRISTOPHER JOYCE, BYLINE: I was the editor of those stories in 2002. I didn't get to go to Africa, but I've never forgotten what my friend and colleague Bill told me about Andrea and her elephants. So we decided to go see her in Providence, R.I., near where she lives.
All right, we're off.
MCQUAY: We're off.
JOYCE: Take a right on Post Road.
JOYCE: So what was your impression when you first rolled into the Dzanga, the camp?
MCQUAY: It was hot; it was humid.
MCQUAY: We walked through - it was then called the Elephant Swamp...
MCQUAY: ...which led us to a path through the rain forest, where we ended up at the bai - this large clearing in the center of the rainforest, which was a gathering ground for elephants.
JOYCE: Andrea Turkalo had this platform that she'd built to observe elephants, but I guess at a height where she was safe.
MCQUAY: The platform was about 15 feet off the ground. It was large enough for a group of people to stand or sit, and observe the elephants.
JOYCE: Turn left on Thayer Street. Thayer?
MCQUAY: OK. Thayer.
JOYCE: Do you want to try to park on Hope Street?
MCQUAY: Yeah.
JOYCE: Let's go find Andrea.
JOYCE: We meet in a coffee shop. Andrea wears her dark hair pulled back in a no-nonsense bun. She's compact and direct. She's famous in the world of elephant behavior. She was one of the first people to study forest elephants. She explains they're not like elephants that live out in the savanna.
ANDREA TURKALO: We didn't know anything about them in terms of their social structure, the numbers in the area, their genetics, their communication. So all that was wide open to me. I didn't go looking for this. It sort of found me.
MCQUAY: Unfortunately, a year ago, civil war in the CAR eventually found her, too. She'd lived through civil strife before but this time, she told us, it was much worse.
TURKALO: This time, they were able to cover most of country, and pillage and rape and kill.
MCQUAY: They were the Seleka, the Muslim rebels who had overthrown the government.
TURKALO: It was the 24th of March. We heard that these people were on their way.
JOYCE: As she sips her tea now, Andrea is the picture of calm. But in the chaos of the civil war, she says she feared for her life. It was just impossible to stay.
TURKALO: We got in a boat. We went downriver. We were all women - five women.
JOYCE: They were heading toward the Democratic Republic of Congo. Andrea said all she was able to rescue were electronic copies of her research data. After several hours, they floated by a village.
TURKALO: The people on the shore, they started discharging their automatic weapons in the air. So, we heard this rat-a-tat-tat. We stopped the boat, and they were yelling at us: Everybody out! Everybody out! And I walked up to the one man in charge, and he had an AK-47. There was moonlight, and I could see he had a revolver, and he might have been drinking. So I said to myself, I'd better go into a very passive mode.
JOYCE: To her relief, the men turned out to be local, and knew one of the women in the boat. The tension broke.
TURKALO: We gave them a little money, and we said the Seleka are coming. And they were terrified because they had nowhere to run. We left just before 6 p.m., and we got to the campsite in Congo at midnight.
JOYCE: Andrea did go back to the bai two weeks later, but there were armed combatants roaming everywhere. She fled once more. And it was several weeks after that when she heard that poachers had invaded the bai. They shot 26 elephants, and cut out their tusks.
MCQUAY: It's so painful to imagine that scene. I spent hours on that platform with Andrea, listening to those elephants.
MCQUAY: She told me what they were doing, and how they were communicating with each other.
TURKALO: When they get together, groups that have not seen each other for a while, they're elated. There is an emotional thing that goes on between them. They start ear-flapping and vocalizing - and the whole recognition thing.
JOYCE: Now, a year later, Bill and I are a bit surprised at how stoic Andrea is about that loss.
TURKALO: I can never get too emotionally attached to things there because otherwise, you set yourself up for a lot of disappointment. I mean, I've been through a lot of poaching.
JOYCE: You knew these elephants.
TURKALO: Well, I don't know which ones they killed, but I'm certain that I knew a few of the elephants that they killed.
JOYCE: And I assume some of the elephants that Bill recorded might be among those.
TURKALO: Yeah, very possible.
JOYCE: Andrea would rather be back in Africa, instead of a coffee house in Rhode Island. But she knew she had to leave. She's a researcher for a non-governmental wildlife organization. She's not a warrior.
TURKALO: You know, a lot of the NGOs, we just cut and run. When it gets bad, we leave.
JOYCE: But now, she's part of an extraordinary operation to protect the surviving forest elephants. It's run by a band of men who are warriors, and who can deal with civil war as well as poachers.
MCQUAY: We'll get to that story tomorrow.
JOYCE: I'm Christopher Joyce, NPR News, with Bill McQuay.
INSKEEP: McQuay is with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where the Radio Expeditions archive is located. And for more information about the archive and a glimpse of night vision video from the elephant bai, go to npr.org. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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|2011-09-26, 02:02
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They actually had the guts to close down the inn and I respect that (referring to the P.A. Works, not the characters).
Honestly, I don't know what kind of ending I had wanted prior to seeing this. Perhaps this was it. Hanasaku Iroha had a good start as a show, managed to stir up my emotions in the first couple of episodes and make me care about the characters -- and I still do care about them. However, the oscillating quality, ranging from average to slightly above average in everything except animation and pathos, which were both kept high and relatively low respectively, as constants, throughout the show, make it awfully forgettable I'm afraid.
P.A. Works have in the end pulled it off (in a way), and managed to bail out without screwing it up. Don't think there was much they could have done to give the story more punch in the finale; the romance between Ohana and Ko had already started to become too awkward so yeah, I'll settle for a confession and yakisoba sharing. Additionally, Ko's timidness had only made it more obvious how young they both are so a happily-ever-after would be a tad...hmm, unnatural and forced.
As for the side characters - looking at the bigger picture it's hard to believe that Minchi and Tohru did not end up together. Well, not really together. Though they did give us a hint of them moving forward in that direction. I had also expected to see Tomoe and Renji pairing but alas, that did not happen either. Kind of makes me sad that those two oddballs stayed alone. This lack of couples in the finale makes it more melancholic and realistic at the price of it being a pretty lukewarm experience.
I don't think I've come across an anime that falls into the 'Very Good=8' category quite so well as Hanasaku Iroha. Definitely better than the plain 'good' on account of the visuals, the characters and rather amusing plot digressions but still miles away from being anything close to exceptional. Like Sol Falling put it - a bit too real slice of life.
|2011-09-26, 02:24
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So I correctly called a few things - that the final arc would be rock solid, that the ending would be low key and not entirely conclusive rather than super dramatic, and that Sui's wouldn't die. Actually, I'm not surprised that both her illness and Ohana's nosebleeds were red herrings. The inn being shut down and the cast parting ways did surprise me though.
Overall I consider the ending great. I do agree with Triple_R that the resolution of Ko/Ohana was maybe a little too understated, but that was relatively minor. I also agree with Calorie that I would have liked to have seen Tomoe finally luck out, but that's such a minor issue for me I wouldn't actually factor it into an assessment.
As to the series itself, I consider it to have some major flaws but the overall result was extremely impressive. The PVs got me pumped and even the weak episodes never dulled my enthusiasm for long. Perhaps this is because I never doubted the show as much as some - in fact, I guessed in advance which episodes would be sidestories/comedic and which would be major plot episodes with a fair degree of accuracy. And since I tend to be very forgiving of flaws in shows I love for other reasons, I'm really hoping this gets licensed by NIS America - because I want those in character commentaries and NIS is probably the only licensor I can see translating them. Plus their artboxes are beautiful.
|2011-09-26, 02:28
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Of course, we can always go for the dissection of the slice of life genre (like we had with Madoka) and have all the characters in depressing situations. But I guess we can leave that to the dark fiction guys.
|2011-09-26, 05:27
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some highlight in this episode :
Ohana's wish to become like Sui Shijima (well, Sui's hardworker nature is very good. The only weakness is her bold way to treat her family)
Ohana's confession... (why should she confess in front of Yakisoba's stand... can you find somewhere more romantic?? lol.. )
Satsuki and Sui's relationship (both of they are really in good term and understand each other. I'm very touched when I see Shijima family)
Jiroumaru ruined the scene.. lol... I was guessing Ko want to say "Date me" to Ohana but looks like we can't manage to hear that word... too bad
Inn closed (Enishi become very mature. The whole Kissuiso's crews are also great. They have changed a lot and looks like Ohana is one of the reason why they're changed)
The ending is absolutely going like my wish... I'm very happy so I give this episode 10/10
Maybe they should put the reunion scene at the end (like Minchi become master chef, Nako become chief waitress, and Ohana is Madam Manager... lol)
|2011-09-26, 07:23
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Really sad it's ended, hopefully eventually they'll maybe make some more after Enishi has studied enough, but I doubt it.
|2011-09-26, 08:07
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Hanasaku Iroha - Episode 26 and some final thoughts
Fantastic final episode. Everything was resolved decently, with the open ends simply being the characters moving on with their lives. The drama was laid thicker than usual, but not so much as to go against the nature of the anime and just enough to evoke sweet, sentimental feelings.
If only most of the anime were up to the caliber of the finale. I'm not sure what exactly happened during the writing process of Hanasaku Iroha, but I suspect that it had something to do with the sheer length of the anime having to adhere to a shorter script. It's ironic to think that, with a few adjustments, HanaIro might have worked better as a 13-episode anime while PA Work's other anime Angel Beats seemed tailor-made to be 26 episodes long.
While I was thinking rather pessimistically about the anime when watching around the middle of HanaIro's first half, episode 10 and the following arc considerably revived my faith. The second half had its ups and downs, but never veered near the worst of the first half. And I was delighted for the anime to wrap itself up in such an excellent finale. In my opinion, the ending of a piece of entertainment can be a real make-or-break deal as to the quality of the entire piece. So it's extremely fortunate that HanaIro was blessed with a good finale.
Best anime by PA Works yet. Even though that isn't saying much, it still gives me hope that PA Works can make an anime that really blows me away someday.
|2011-09-26, 08:34
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The finale reminded me of Ohana's fighting spirit which made the show "sparkle" every now and then. Somewhere along the way that got diluted with the wish-wash like the unnecessary drama and certain side character focused episodes. It could very well be that the show wouldn't have lost some of the pacing if it had been 13 episodes long.
|2011-09-26, 08:37
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This isn't to say that I think that Ko NEEDED to be removed from the series (though I do admit this is a viable possibility.), but he certianly needed more direct involvement to make the drama surrounding him more relevant to the main plot. Alternatively, they keep Ko, but lower the level of plot drama surrounding him to what's appropriate for how involved he is in the show. Ohana can have a sweetheart back in Tokyo that she can sometimes get a bit flustered over, but the existential angst shouldn't be played up.
With where Ko/Ohana ended up going...I'd have much rather have had more exposition on Satsuki, Ohana's deceased husband (seriously. We're about to find out more about this, but Ohana hangs up due to Ko) and even on Ren.
|2011-09-26, 09:01
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|2011-09-26, 09:44
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See, the problem with the "Blooming" metaphor, is that's not the impression you get. Ohana going from a motivated, responsible outgoing worker at the inn, to a brooding, melancholic, flustered crying girl doens't convey that Ohana's "Blooming". It makes it look like Ko is a walking regression emitter.
This could have worked to nuance how their relationship had progressed. Ohana and Ko managing to display their feelings to each other in a mature, tender manner would have played in with the "blooming" motif. But when at the end of the series they're still at the "EEEEK! HOLDING HANDS!" stage? Completely falls flat.
Though I think you've caught onto the *(un)important* aspect of the relationship. Think about it. The last scene between Ko and Ohana ends with Ohana catching Jiroumaru listening in on them. The relationship ends on a punchline.
|2011-09-26, 09:45
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Until We Meet Again.
The decision to close Kissuiso was most likely one that Sui had been mulling over for a long time, probably even before Ohana had even come to the inn. What I surmise is that part of Suis decision in closing changed. Previously it seemed possible that she had planned to close the inn at some point for good, but all that changed when Ohana came into everyones life, bring with her Suis estranged daughter. Ohana was a grandchild she never knew existed, the daughter of the daughter she had all but disowned. But she saw something in Ohana: she saw herself. Perhaps the youthful exuberance she used to have when her husband was alive, that excitement mixed with worry as she struggled with him to turn an old rundown inn no one wanted into a respectable establishment. Ohana came into the inn determined to make it her new home, her new life, to breath into it her own sense of life and living that would invariably change not only the inn but also herself. She did what she had to do to make the inn functional and, ultimately, a place where staff and guests alike could find a place to live and relax. She did it for the customers, for the staff, and for herself.
And when she saw her younger self in Ohana, she knew that there was hope for the inn when her previously unknown daughter first started to wipe the floors. Her faith was restored not only in her but her son, and everyone else in the inn, that she could leave it in good hands one day. That day might not be today, but that day would come. Until that day, everyone will be better, and she will wait on that train platform when everyone, not just Ohana, comes back.
What ultimately began as a show about a girl being displaced, exiled even, from the world she knew and transplanted into the countryside eventually became a story not just about her, but of a group of workers of 3 generations trying to make a home for themselves in the hustle and bustle of running an inn. Personalities clash, tempers flare, quirkiness ensues, but in the end in our brief glimpse of a little less than a year in the lives of Kissuisos staff we learn just how these things have brought everyone closer and have made them a family. We have perverts, workaholics, anger issues, domineers and the like, a motley crew indeed, but families are made of of such motley men and women. At the end of the day the inn runs and runs fine because of these people, their conflicts, and their idiosyncrasies.
And when there is a time to be together, there is a time to part ways. What happens at this time and beyond is no longer within our sights to see, but I fully believe that there will be a time for them to be together again, older, wiser, more mature, ready to come back together and put the inn back in business. They may have parted ways to build new lives, but their days and memories of the inn will always be there, waiting, in its wooden halls, steamy baths and busy kitchens.
Kissuiso is their home, is it not?
|2011-09-26, 10:06
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Ko-chan had really become a coward by the end of the show, which started by him manning up and confessing.
|2011-09-26, 10:15
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I'd argue this isn't out of character for Ko.
|2011-09-26, 11:21
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Here is why I have a different view on Ko/Ohana than perhaps most do, and why I think it really deserved more time and emphasis in this finale:
Maintaining serious romantic feelings for a person when you live far apart from him or her for several months is not that easy, especially for teenagers I would think (given the raging hormones of that age, and what have you). I mean, Ko had to keep turning down a perfectly cute alternative in that library girl simply to have a chance with Ohana.
Ko's almost sisyphean display of patience in waiting on Ohana, and Ohana's tendency to have her thoughts automatically go back to Ko whenever the thought of "romance" or "boyfriend" crossed her mind, makes me think of something a lot stronger than a simple and easily passing high school crush.
And a lasting romance is obviously not unimportant.
Honestly, I think that Okada just doesn't like writing happy romantic ends. If you look at True Tears' finale, for example, there's much more focus on the person who lost the romantic triangle than on the happy couple that arose from it.
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How open-ended was the romatic ending, really? They've both confessed to each other and the series ends with the two of them meeting up and walking off together. They're 16 - if you wanted a wedding or a consummation I think you're barking up the wrong tree. Isn't it enough - and perfectly natural - that the first thing two shy 16 year-olds who decide to have a relationship do is start dating?
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These are typically file and intranet servers on small to medium sized networks of up to 50 or so clients, typically providing additional services such as DNS and DHCP. Above all, I am impressed by Slackware's stability, clean layout, easy customisation, and excellent package building and management system.
Slackware 10 has now arrived after much anticipation, and my initial assessment is that the latest offering is even more appropriate as a server platform than the previous one. Generally speaking, the overall layout and inbuilt Slackware tools have not changed much, which is a good thing, while the software selections represent a balanced mix of old and new. At the time of writing, all software was also fully up to date in security terms, which is always nice.
The installation process using the standard Slackware installer was a breeze, as it was with the previous version. I honestly believe that Slackware's reputation for being difficult to install is not just undeserved but quite wrong, particularly in the case of servers being installed by system administrators who presumably have a basic level of Linux knowledge. Overall, the process is certainly no more demanding than any other mainstream distro that requires users to make choices about their installation.
The only caveat I'd place on this statement relates to creating a RAID array during installation. Slackware doesn't provide a simple option for doing this, though it is still possible to create an array. The task requires the use of command-line tools such as fdisk and mkraid, and some hi-jinks with swap partitions and lilo configuration files, so a reasonable level of Linux skills are necessary.
Older packages that remain in the mix include things like lilo and inetd, which for some is evidence of Slackware being an "outdated" distribution. I am of the opinion that in situations where stability and reliability are paramount, the use of such packages has more advantages than disadvantages. In terms of functionality and security, lilo and inetd perform as well as any alternatives and if something "ain't broke", why fix it?. In any case, such packages are hardly critical: bootloaders are irrelevant once the system is running, and I normally never run anything that inetd manages anyway, apart from the occasional FTP server. Looking instead to what could be considered "core" server software, Slackware 10 is clearly one of the most up to date distributions currently available.
One of the most significant updates in Slackware 10 is the inclusion of the 2.6.7 kernel (in /testing on CD2). It appears to be quite reliable and is very easy to install alonside the default 2.4.26 kernel. Whichever kernel you opt for, you are sure to have the latest available stable version. The 2.6.7 kernel brings with it many improvements both big and small. These include the udev dynamic device management system which greatly reduces device clutter and makes it easy to locate devices, and new CD-ROM handling that no longer requires the ide-scsi module. Nevertheless, for production server installs I'd definitely recommend sticking with the 2.4.26 kernel in the interests of stability. In particular, Slackware developer Patrick Volkerding notes concerns over the safety of hard drive partitions under the current 2.6 kernel, and believes that overall system performance is still better under 2.4.
With increasing demand for the deployment of Samba on Linux as a file server and primary domain controller (PDC) for Windows NT domains, the inclusion of the latest stable version of Samba (3.0.4) is a big plus. It is now no longer necessary to install third party packages to replace the older 2.x version that shipped with Slackware 9.1. Samba 3 now allows a Linux box to completely emulate an NT domain server, with considerable inroads being made into Active Directory integration as well. In the server market, Samba is definitely a "killer application" that makes migration to Linux an attractive proposition for many small to medium sized organisations.
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Missoula Makes List of "Awesome U.S. Cities You Need To Visit In Your 20s"
Heck yeah Missoula makes the list!
Our hometown is not only an excellent place to visit in your 20's but at any age. But everything's better in your 20s right?
Killer music, the kindest people in the world, the creative community, the students, the brilliant, witty minds, nature, nature and more nature... the glorious Missoula CULTURE. Yes, Missoula rocks.
A couple of my other favorite cities made the list too. Seattle, as a resident of the northwest, I hope by now you have experienced Sea-Town. It's virtually impossible to be bored in Seattle.
And Portland, ahhh Portland. I had the honor of living there for a year, it's like a huge Missoula, the people and culture are amazing.


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Canadian Universities Agree To Ridiculous Copyright Agreement That Says Emailing Hyperlinks Is Equal To Photocopying
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The agreement reached last month with the licensing agency includes provisions defining e-mailing hyperlinks as equivalent to photocopying a document, an annual $27.50 fee for every full-time equivalent student and surveillance of academic staff email.As the article notes, it seems incredibly premature for anyone to sign such an agreement, since the Supreme Court is expected to weigh in shortly about Access Copyright's mandate and limits, so there's simply no reason to rush into such a ridiculous deal. But, even worse is the message this kind of agreement sends to students. Accepting the idea that emailing hyperlinks is like making a photocopy is a ridiculous message that only serves to make more young people mock copyright as being a law that makes no sense at all.


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This winning yellow laser tree is from our Whimsical Collection. It is an exciting hard-to-find designer color with a fun tottering shape.
Our designers worked very hard to find the perfect shades of yellow to create this outstanding masterpiece, so you won't find colors like these just anywhere because they were custom made just for us.
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Photos: Seal pup rescue
A six-week-old, 25-pound gray seal pup was rescued from a Hull beach Tuesday afternoon.
New England Aquarium staff rescued the seal pup.
Many people were crowded close to the seal, giving the animal so much attention it needed to be relocated for safety reasons.
Wild animals are incredibly sensitive to stress, said a New England Aquarium spokesman.
Workers used nylon "crowder boards" and a dog kennel to rescue the animal.
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Mushkin Mulholland Drive 2GB USB Drive Review
Are you looking for a new flash drive to transfer your digital files? The more that we rely on our computers we are going to have the need to transfer our sometimes large files between them, the easiest and most simple way to do this is to use a flash drive. The convenience of a flash drive means that you do not have to find a blank CD and have to wait for the files to be burned to the disk, you just have to plug your drive in and drag your files into the drive that is plugged into your computer. Well, the Mushkin Mulholland Drive claims that not all USB Flash Drives are created equal and that their's is going to provide you with incredible read/write speeds which will save your valuable time when you are transferring files. I am curious to see just exactly how well this drive is going to compare to the others that are out on the market.
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The packaging for the Mulholland Drive 2GB USB Drive is very simple, as it is just what you would expect to find a flash drive packaged in at the store, you have the plastic packaging that has a piece of cardboard in the center. The Mulholland Drive sits atop the cardboard insert which allows you to see the drive from all angles, except for the back of the drive, while it is inside of the packaging. The front of the package is where you are going to see the Mulholland Drive USB Flash Memory name printed across the top with a picture of a camera, a document, and a film strip below the name letting you know a few of the things that you could store on the drive. Printed under the Mulholland Drive itself you will see the Mushkin enhanced logo. The back of the package is where you are going to find the blurb about the flash drive and Mushkin has also printed their shipping address with their website and phone number to get a hold of them if there was anything that you needed answered.
When you take the drive out of the packaging, you are going to notice that the Mulholland Drive is actually quite light in weight. The front of the drive has the Mushkin enhanced logo printed on it so that you will know who manufactured the drive and when you take a look at the back of the drive, you are going to see the Mulholland name with 2GB printed below it so you will never forget how much space is on the drive and what model it is. A nice feature about the Mulholland Drive is the fact that there is a clear plastic cap that goes over the male USB end so that it does not get damaged and keeps dust or anything else that may find its way in during transportation.
Now that we know exactly how the Mushkin Mullholland Drive is packaged and what it looks like, it's time to see what this thing is going to be able to do against the competition!


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"Peers and scientists including Professor Stephen Hawking are once again pushing for an official pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing. Turing's death from cyanide poisoning in 1954 was ruled a suicide, coming after his conviction for gross indecency at a time when homosexuality was illegal." The fact that he still hasn't been pardoned is an utter disgrace.


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Super Duty Slotted Disk Brake Upgrade – Part I
Title: Power Slot Installation and Overview
By: Written by: Daniel C. (DCSpecial)
Synopsis: This article will cover the installation and overview of the Power Slot Cyro Rotors and Hawk LTS Pads on my 2001 F-350 Super Duty.
In today's aftermarket full size truck industry we're always looking for ways to make our trucks bigger, badder, and faster than the next guy. One item that seems to be often overlooked is brake upgrades. With trucks pumping out well over the amount of factory rwhp and often running much larger tire and wheel combinations it is very important to upgrade the factory braking system to be able to harness all that power and weight and bring it to a stop. Driving a 2001 F-350 Crew Cab 4×4 Diesel with a slightly modified motor and large 38″ mud terrain tires often leaves you wanting/needing some extra stopping power over the stock setup.
With a slew of products to choose from, it's often tough to decide which is the best, most cost effective route to take. After taking a look at all of the rotor and pad upgrades available, it became evident that the Power Slot Cryo Rotors and Hawk LTS Pads were the decision to make. Power Slot has teamed up with Frozen Rotors to offer cryogenic treatment on their Power Slot rotor line. Deep cryogenic treatment is a one-time process that permanently improves the performance and service life of metals from brake rotors and engine parts, to machine tools and gear sets. Using a proprietary computer-controlled process, the metal is cooled gradually to -300°F and then slowly returned to room temperature and heat-cycled as the final step. Although not apparent to the naked eye, the improvements to the rotor are significant. The cryogenic treatment process redistributes residual stress in the rotor giving it an extra level of protection against warping. Another nice feature is the fact that Power Slot applies a proprietary military-spec Cadmium plating on their rotors. This protects the rotor from harmful corrosion throughout its life. Other competitors use inferior Zinc plating on their rotors, or no plating at all! In salt spray testing, their Cadmium plating last up to 60% longer than Zinc. The Hawk Performance pads are the perfect companion to the Power Slot Cryo Rotors. The LTS pads are designed for light truck and SUV use for daily driving, hauling and if you are frequently towing. The LTS pads are made out of a higher friction compound than their HPS pads, while still maintaining their low dust and low noise properties while still being gentle on your rotors.
With the product selection completed it was time to find a good, reputable vendor to purchase the Power Slot Cryo Rotors and Hawk LTS pads through. Mark Craig at Diesel Performance Parts, Inc. (DPPI), 1-866-455-7788, was contacted and got the ball rolling to upgrade the big Ford's braking system. DPPI has been involved in the light duty diesel performance market since 1985. As the truck industry and aftermarket industry have changed over the years they have maintained themselves among the leaders in supplying parts for the light duty diesel trucks offered by the auto manufacturers. DPPI has done this by offering only products from the best manufactures on the market and offering great pricing while maintaining excellence in customer service. Mark Craig proved to be a great guy to deal with ordering up the Power Slot Cryo Rotors and Hawk LTS pads. It truly was a pleasure to deal with him, he took the time answer any and all questions and offered up feedback that he has gotten through customers has well as his own experience with the product since he runs the same combination of products on his truck as well as his wife's SUV. I would definitely recommend Mark Craig and DPPI for Power Slot Cryo Rotors, Hawk Pads, as well as the countless other products that he offers.
With the order complete, the Power Slot Cyro Rotors and Hawk LTS arrived shortly there after.
With all the parts in, it's time to begin the installation. The first thing to do is jack the truck up and properly support it by placing jack stands underneath the axles of the truck. Be sure that the floor jack and jack stands are rated for the vehicle. With the vehicle properly supported remove the tire/wheel combo from the truck.
Starting at the front of the truck, the first thing to do is remove the two bolts that secure the brake caliper to the caliper mounting bracket. With the bolts removed, remove the caliper from the bracket (a pry bar may be needed).
Securely place the caliper on the leaf spring so that it is out of the way and isn't pulling on the brake line.
With the caliper out of the way, remove the spring that connects the two brake pads in the caliper bracket.
Next, remove the two bolts that hold the caliper bracket to the steering knuckle. Turning the wheels will give more room to be able to get to the bolts. Hold onto the bracket as the bolts are removed to keep it from falling to the ground.
With both bolts removed, place the caliper bracket to the side and remove the stock pads out of it.
With the caliper bracket off, remove the rotor from the wheel hub. The rotor will just pull off of the wheel hub. Depending on the condition of the truck it may be necessary to spray the area where the rotor meets the hub with penetrating oil and strike the back of the rotor with a dead blow hammer to break it loose.
Now with the disassembly done, it's time to reassemble with the Power Slot Cryo Rotors and Hawk LTS pads. There are "Right" and "Left" Rotors (Left refers to drivers left). Slide the new Power Slot Cryo Rotor onto the wheel hub.
Before reinstalling the caliper bracket verify that both caliper slides are moving freely and are lubed.
On this truck, on the front axle, both brackets had the upper slide frozen/rusted in. So they were soaked in PB Blaster and worked them free using a 13/16″ wrench and pliers.
Be sure to clean off the rust, lube the slide pins and reinstall into the caliper bracket (being sure to properly install the dust boot over the slide pin).
Next, reattach the caliper bracket to the steering knuckle. Be sure to tighten using hand tools and torque to factory specs.
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Alternative rock pack consists of five tracks. All the tracks have a powerful sound and full of creative sound effects. The basic mood is rage and anger.
Every track has a very tight sound and cool guitar riffs. In the mix, there are additional effects that make the sound more creative.
Depard – Watch This [2:42]
Depard – Empty Soul [2:44]
Depard – Last Chance [3:12]
Depard – Extreme Weekend [2:22]
Depard – Alternative Opener [2:27]
Depard – It's Time To Destroy This Town [2:08]
Thank you very much for your interest in using my music! I really hope that my tracks will make Your project sound great. If You need some corrections in my tracks – just let me know.
If you would like, let me know where my music is used – I will tweet your work as well as post an icon of your project on item page.
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One thing I've noticed about people who work in technology is that we're never short on opinions. Whenever I feel my area of expertise covers a topic of discussion, I express my position. But when does a technology expert stop offering opinions and start creating solutions?
As app developers, we have the chance to influence people's lives by helping them use their computing devices to the fullest potential — this transforms us from problem creators to problem solvers. If you can create technology that solves problems, then you have every right to complain about the problem you solved. Actions speak louder than words and, in the case of app development, those words are usually code.
Three steps you can takeCreate a new model
As technologies have progressed, so have the business models that make that technology work. The "freemium" business model is one that has solidified its existence with many thanks to apps. Banner advertising and other forms of embedded ads have become standard practice thanks to the Internet. New technologies and new models can create widespread change if they work. If you can create a new model for technology to function, you can implement change.Create a new platform
The task of creating a new platform can be overwhelming, but it can be simplified and broken down into manageable parts. You do not have to create hardware, an OS, and an ecosystem to create a platform; if you create a system that enables people and that system becomes adopted, you have a platform. Many successful technology companies were built on creating a platform for users.Create a new channel
There are many places online where people can share their views, but there are still opportunities to discover and explore new channels or sub-categories of niches that already exist.
Voicing about what does not work without providing a solution is merely complaining. I think IT pros, and especially app developers, should use their abilities to propose solutions to technology problems.
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MILTON, Mass. — Junior fullback Jordan Shairs rushed for 161 yards and a score and also caught a touchdown pass leading Curry to a 27-24 win over Coast Guard in a New England Football Conference (NEFC) game Saturday afternoon in Milton. The Colonels (2-3, 2-1 NEFC) extended their win streak to two and handed Coast Guard (2-4, 2-1 NEFC) its first league loss.
Junior Jake Wawrzyniak's 2-yard touchdown run with 2:37 left pulled the Bears to within 27-24, but Curry recovered an onside kick, and senior Phil Bigelow (23 carries, 69 yards) converted a 4th and 1 with 2:10 left at the Bears 23-yard line to run out the clock.
Curry had 395 total yards while rushing for 275 yards and controlling the time of possession, as the Colonels had the ball for 37:18 of the game's 60 minutes.
Coast Guard finished with 273 total yards, just 38 rushing. Freshman quarterback Derek Victory was 28 of 50 for 235 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions.
Senior Nick Fredericksen had 10 receptions for 67 yards and a touchdown while junior Collis Brown had eight catches for 49 yards to lead the Bears. Wawrzyniak led the Bears on the ground with 11 carries for 43 yards and a touchdown.
Curry, which led 13-3 at halftime, tried to catch Coast Guard sleeping with an onside kick to start the second half, but the kick went out of bounds. The Bears offense took advantage of the short field and drove 48 yards as freshman quarterback Derek Victory threw an 8-yard touchdown pass to senior Nick Fredericksen with 11:58 left to cut the deficit to 13-10 with 11:58 left in the third quarter.
The Colonels responded as Shairs went 59 yards for a touchdown to cap a 90-yard drive to answer the Coast Guard touchdown and increase the lead to 20-10 with 7:17 left in the third quarter.
Senior Blake Thompson then caught his first touchdown of the season, an 8-yard touchdown pass from Victory, to cap a 70-yard drive as the Bears pulled to within 20-17 with 4:01 left in the third quarter.
Following an exchange of punts, Curry added to its lead, going 74 yards with Bigelow scoring on 4th and goal from the 2-yard line for a 27-17 lead with 8:07 left in the game. Earlier in the drive, Fruwirth converted a key 4th and 1 with a two-yard run to the Bears' 15-yard line to keep the drive alive.
Victory was intercepted on the next play, but the Bears defense got a stop and forced a punt. Coast Guard, aided by a roughing the passer call, which negated another interception, drove 65 yards and junior Jake Wawrzyiak's two-yard run on 4th and goal from the 2-yard line made the score 27-24 with 2:37 left.
Senior Kevin Fruwirth (15 of 24, 120 yards, 2 TD) threw a 9-yard touchdown pass to classmate Tyran Harrigan to cap a 13-play, 76-yard drive on the opening possession of the game. The extra point was no good and Curry led 6-0 with 7:50 left in the opening quarter.
The Bears defense came up big on the next possession as Curry had great field position after Coast Guard sophomore punter Tyler Henning was picking up a bad snap when his knee hit the ground giving Curry the ball at the Bears 37-yard line, but the defense got the ball back on downs.
Victory was intercepted on the next possession, then a roughing the passer call negated the turnover, but again the Bears were forced to punt.
Moments later, the Bears' special teams came up big as sophomore Mark Behne recovered a fumbled punt at the Curry 26-yard line and this time the Bears took advantage of the miscue as Henning booted a 26-yard field goal with 14:46 left in the second quarter to cut the deficit to 6-3.
Curry junior Tim Crowley missed a 31-yard field goal with 1:57 left, but the Colonels defense got the ball back and Fruwirth threw an 8-yard touchdown pass to Shairs with 11 seconds left to cap a short 46-yard drive. The Colonels led 13-3 following the extra point to close the first half scoring.
The Colonels dominated time of possession in the first half as they had the ball for 19:44 while the Bears had the ball for just 10:16. Curry had 216 yards of total offense in the first half, 121 of those on the ground while Coast Guard was held to just 106 yards in the first half, just eight yards rushing on nine carries.
Junior linebacker Stanley Sainterlien led the Colonels' defense with eight tackles (six solo). Freshman linebacker Ethan McCullough had six total tackles (5 solo), including a sack with an eight-yard loss. Senior Jeff Janoski and sophomore Curtis Davila each had an interception.
Junior defensive end Aaron Black and sophomore linebacker Cory Sonnega, making his first collegiate start, each had 10 tackles to lead the Bears' defense.
Curry resumes play on Friday, October 18, kicking off Homecoming Weekend by hosting Salve Regina at 7:00 p.m. Coast Guard returns home next Saturday to host Maine Maritime on its Homecoming Weekend with kickoff set for 1:30 p.m.


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Sep 15, 2012
Junior quarterback Matt Grimard accounted for 363 total yards and had a hand in four touchdowns, but the Bethany College football team came up on the short end of a 49-33 shootout at Randolph-Macon Saturday afternoon in Virginia.
The Bison (0-2) opened the game with a 44-yard pass from Grimard to senior WR Ed Holmes on the first play from scrimmage. Following a big third down conversion pass to senior WR Johnathan Foster, the Bison struck first on a 12-yard scoring run by junior RB D.J. LeSane for a 7-0 lead.
The Yellow Jackets (2-1) running attack, which ran for 281 yards in the game, went to work on the home team's second drive. They gained 59 of 61 yards on a scoring drive that was capped by a one-yard plunge into the end zone by RB Drake Sanders. R-MC did not convert the two-point conversion and Bethany held a 7-6 lead into the second quarter.
Randolph-Macon opened the second period with a quick scoring drive. A 41-yard screen pass to Will McGhee was the big play of the 66-yard drive, which culminated with McGhee's one-yard scoring run. The two-point conversion was successful, as QB Zac Naccarato hit Dan Crouch to make it a 14-7 lead. Then two plays into BC's next drive, Grimard was intercepted and the Jackets were at the Bison 13. On the next play, Naccarato tossed a touchdown pass to Vance Hendren and the Randolph-Macon lead grew to 21-7.
The points came fast and furious in the second quarter. Bethany answered quickly, as Grimard broke off a 46-yard run deep into R-MC territory. Two plays later, the Bison signal caller ran to paydirt from five yards out and it was a 21-14 score.
Both teams would put TDs on the board in the final two minutes before halftime. The Jackets' score came on a two-yard scoring pass from Naccarato to TE Zach Midulla with 1:53 left. Bethany then moved 70 yards in 12 plays, with sophomore RB Phil Acrie providing two big plays, one coming on a 17-yard carry and the other being a two-yard run on fourth-and-two. Then on third-and-ten, Grimard tossed a 10-yard touchdown pass to Holmes and although the extra point was blocked, it was a 28-20 Bison deficit at halftime.
The quick scores continued into the third quarter. Bethany forced an R-MC punt on their first drive, but a fumble on the Bison's first play gave the Jackets possession on the BC 18. The Green and White defense would force the home team into a fourth-and-goal at the one, but Naccarato snuck into the end zone to make it 35-20.
Bethany stormed back for an answering score. Grimard fired a 45-yard pass to freshman WR Eric Blinn as part of a four-play, 67-yard drive and Grimard posted his second TD of the day with a four-yard carry. But Randolph-Macon had a fast response, as four carries from McGhee netted 31 yards and then a play-action pass led to a 44-yard touchdown completion from Naccarato to Luke Sellers that took the Jackets' lead to 42-27 through three quarters.
The Jackets put their final touchdown on the board midway through the fourth quarter when Naccarato flipped a nine-yard TD pass to TE Dan Crouch. Bethany scored the final TD of the day when Grimard ran in for his third touchdown of the game, a 16-yard carry with five minutes to play. When the final second ticked off the clock, the teams had combined for 82 points and 960 total yards.
Grimard was productive on the ground and through the air. He rushed 18 times for 124 yards and three TDs, his highest rushing output since posting 172 in the 2010 season finale against Saint Vincent. In addition, he was 14-for-28 through the air for 239 yards and the one TD and in the process, became just the fourth Bison quarterback in school history to surpass 4,000 career yards (4,135).
The top receiver for Bethany was Foster, who hauled in eight passes for 96 yards. On the defensive side, senior safety Simeon Young had his second straight double-digit tackle game, making 13 stops, including 11 solos. Senior DT Blake DeBord also had a nice game, registering seven solo tackles, including one for loss, and recovering a fumble.
The Bison will enter the PAC portion of their schedule next week. Bethany continues its three-game road swing with a trip to Grove City for a 2 p.m. kickoff next Saturday.


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I'll pick it up down the line. Sounds up my alley.
As previously stated in the LAST review of this game, this doesnt sound that bad. Even yahtzee said "meh" instead of shitstorm. Since most games are shitstorms, i think ill give this game a try. Yes, its probably tiring or something.....but it has some very unusual....varieties, which is good, which youll find if you try to look some of the characters up. very....new character types....
not that anyones going to read this 5 pages in
Also, "Alright, I'm declaring this a boosh-free zone."
so it sounds like he liked it... or as close to like as something gets thats not psychonauts or portal or something by sudo 51
Huh, i was expecting him to rip the shit out of it. Yet he calls it "above average"? Yikes.
Thanks a bunch for putting a smile on my face after a long Wednesday!
I wasn't really impressed with the look of this game on the video review that was on the Xbox 360 dashboard, looked kind of lame to me but after seeing Yahtzee had a little bit of praise for it i might rent it just to see what it's like.
I love how someone or people are Criticizing him lol.
I loved the Play on words at the end.
Well Yahtzee, since you got so excited over this game for slipping in under the radar, try Metro 2033, you just might like it since I do recall you kinda liked Salker: Clear Skies and Metro 2033 is known for being very similar.
I've been looking forward to Yahtzee reviewing a game that no one has ever heard of. So this made my day.
O man, I was hoping Yahtzee would know about the localization they did with this game. They actually changed the main character of the game between the Japanese version of the game. He is an angysty teenager in the Japanese version, but they decided to change that as it wouldn't "Appeal" to western players. Something I actually agree with.
If I recall, the game actually does poke fun at the characters and how they dress. I remember seeing one scene that pokes fun at the woman for fighting in her underwear.
I did, but I realised I was in private mode and just signed in and it loaded up fine, so I guess it just needs a refresh sometimes.
Isn't this made by the people who made Drakengard? If the what the fuck levels are anywhere near that game's level it might be worth checking out. Of course Drakengard has the glaring problem of having the most boring gameplay so I'm a bit skeptical.
So is "not complete hatred" from Yahtzee considered a positive review?
Funnily enough he IS a scrawny prepubescent in the Japanese version, and the girl is his sister instead of his daughter. And they changed him into a scowly buff dude for the Western release.
It can be interpreted as either smart or incredibly xenophobic.
The whatnow game?
"But it's flown completely under the radar. I asked everyone I knew, and neither of them had heard of it, either."
Dude, after opening the bar/pub, I expect you'd have increased your friend count by at least 50%.
So, basically, Yahtzee can only describe Nier by doing this...
Read the thread please.
The original is the one we got (Nier:Gestalt for the Japanese 360)
Again, the character we got in the West IS the original. Get it straight.
agreed, seeing "twattycake" made me literally lol
I almost suspect he has been reading the forums, noticing the large amount of praise for Zelda games and decided to take them down a peg or two. If so I am very amused.
I also like the terrible Nier death experience joke because of the "boosh!" afterwards.
I didn't see nier coming, just like the robin hood movie, it just came out of nowhere and i knew it was carap the second i saw it. Actually i had to reconsider Nier as it's a sQuare eniX game.
Trivia, nier is dutch for kidney
Thanks erana for the link!
Looks like I got 33 videos to watch (hope to god I don't go insane, yaaaaaaaaaay)!
Crack knuckles....Oh you so going to get it.
"The funny thing is...I had that in my other tab."
But then again if you look at the sales of Gestalt and Replicant, it was a smart decision to alter the main character for sales in Japan. So in a way, Replicant has become the primary model. And don't bring about the PS3 has more consoles in Japan because regardless, Replicant would have sold more if released on both consoles.
Did I just spot an ILLBLEED reference in those credits?
It seems that ILLBLEED should be added to my list of things that stalk me wherever I go. By the way, has anyone seen my Jimmy?
Zork, wow, that brings back memories
Sounds like a game that should have never been made. I wonder if the first game you went in the store for would have been a better buy.
I hadn't heard that. I assumed it was the other way around, in which case Yahtzees' comment would be quite ironic.
A....A....A JRPG that Yahtzee kinda liked?!
OT: Great review Yahtzee. That pun at the end choking on my own laughs.
Don't do it!
hahaha I love a good pun!
No argument there.
I'm also an advertiser so I understand the impact of target demographics and focus groups
The boosh thing seemed like it was from Frisky Dingo.... Hm....
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Arthur B. Kline, Jr., 73, of Williamsport, PA, passed away after a brief illness on Saturday, March 7, 2009, at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix, AZ, while visiting friends. He was born on February 5, 1936, at the Williamsport Hospital, Williamsport, PA.
He graduated from Williamsport High School in 1954. He enlisted in the United States Army in December of 1954 and was honorably discharged in November of 1956. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Lycoming College in 1958. He received the degree of Bachelor of Science with a double major in Business and Psychology, earning a secondary teaching certificate as well. He was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi academic honor society in 1959.
He was employed at Piper Aircraft, formerly of Lock Haven and served as Human Resources Director at Little League, Inc., South Williamsport. Incidentally, he played baseball as a boy in the very first official Little League World Series Tournament, scoring the very first hit on record in the history of the series.
After retiring from Little League Baseball, Inc., in 2001, he volunteered with several area organizations. An accomplished computer expert, he was heavily involved in the Susquehanna Chapter of SeniorNet, serving as Chairman of the Advisory Board and as a computer class instructor. He served as Vice President of the South Williamsport Mummer's Parade. He frequently donated his time on Saturdays helping to staff the Lycoming County Visitor's Information Center. He was also a member of the Williamsport Community Theatre League, where he participated onstage and backstage.
His wife Jane was always at his side and the two of them shared the honor of being named Williamsport-Lycoming Chamber of Commerce Volunteers of the Year in 2002. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on September 27, 2008.
He was preceded in death by his father, Arthur B. Kline, Sr in 1968, and his mother, Madalene B. Kline in 1999. He is survived by his wife L. Jane Kline, Williamsport; his daughters, Karen Burd (Robert), Casper, WY, Alice Alt (Matthew), Mansfield, TX; three grandchildren, Kline, Micah, and Madeline Alt; his sister, Janet Green (Henry), South Williamsport; his brother, Kenneth, Williamsport; his nephew, David Green (Marilyn, deceased 1994), Williamsport; his niece, Sheri Shutt (Gene), Montoursville; his great nieces Richele Rupert, Williamsport, and Melanie Shutt, Montoursville; and two great nieces, Emily and Marcella Green, both of Williamsport.
Visitation will be Thursday, March 12, 2009 from 9-11 a.m. at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 142 Market St., Williamsport. A memorial service will follow at 11 a.m. at the church. Memorial contributions may be made to Susquehanna SeniorNet, c/o James V. Brown Library, the Community Theatre League, Williamsport, or St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Williamsport.


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Posted by Genevieve Netz on 8/22/2009
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- ptg said...
Nice. I took as many meteorology course in college as I could. They filled my 'science' requirements, didn't stink like chemistry and involved looking at clouds.
We called these spent thunderstorms 'anvil heads'. Naturally, there was no mention of Vulcan. Myth is the unacknowledged root of science.
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Meteorology is a useful subject to study. Every day has weather, wherever you go.
John Ruskin said, "[T]here is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." I'm going to try to remember that next time it's 32° and raining with a good stiff wind.
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It's no secret to my friends or to regular readers of this blog that I consider quinoa to be an absolutely essential staple grain in anyone's kitchen and diet. As simple to cook and as versatile an ingredient as ordinary white rice, quinoa's light and fluffy texture and a delicately sweet and nutty taste make it a treat on any plate even on its own. But it's an almost perfect balance of essential amino acids and proteins — rare in the plant kingdom — that make quinoa such an important food, especially for vegetarians. You just can't lose.
So it was a no-brainer for me to pick up Patricia Green and Carolyn Hemming's wonderful new quinoa cookbook, Quinoa 365: The Everyday Superfoodthe other day. And it was not a disappointment! Filled with beautiful colour photographs and a wide selection of easy-to-follow recipes for all sorts of dishes and occasions, this book is a perfect introduction to those who have never tried quinoa before, and will provide plenty of inspiration to those who have long enjoyed this amazing grain.
This simple but colorful and delicious salad is adapted from Quinoa 365and can serve as a side salad or as a light lunch or supper on its own. An appetizing and healthy light lunch for me today, I'm also posting this as a friendly reminder that I'm taking quinoa recipes until November 20th for this month's No Croutons Required food blogging event. Anyone with a favourite quinoa recipe is invited to submit it to me following the instructions posted here. Bon appetit!
This also goes to Jayasri who is asking for recipes featuring pomegranate seeds. Thanks to Priya for starting this event.
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Published on November 19, 2010
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The company had previously forecast earnings of $3.25 to $3.60 on revenue of $1.15 billion to $1.20 billion. Analysts surveyed by FactSet estimate $3.33 a share on revenue of $1.16 billion.
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Lord Finesse's Lawyers Now Using Copyright To Stifle Dan Bull's Criticism Of His Lawsuit Against Mac Miller
from the copyright-as-censorship dept
In our post on the subject, we pointed to a song that Dan Bull put together, using the same beat, but as commentary/parody of this legal fight. The song highlights how hip-hop has a long history of building on the works of others, and does a nice job laying out the history with Oscar Peterson's sample being used first. And... this morning Dan Bull logged into his YouTube account to discover that Finesse's lawyers had issued a takedown on his song.
Furthermore, it seems like there's as pretty strong argument for fair use (or fair dealing in the UK) for Dan's video. It's clearly using the music to comment on the lawsuit and the fact that it involves this beat. It's difficult to discuss the nature of the beat without actually being able to use the beat, as Dan did. In many ways this seems like a classic case of what fair use/fair dealing was designed for. The beat is integral to the criticism and commentary that is the whole point of the song, and is used out of necessity.
Of course, even more amusing is that the entire point of Bull's song was to tell Finesse just how bad legal action like his lawsuit against Miller really looks -- and instead of getting the message, it appears that Finesse and his lawyers want to look even worse, using the same sort of "copyright as censorship" effort that made Bull call them out in the first place.


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Officials with the Big Spring Police Department say Wednesday's arrest of a pair of alleged counterfeiters could be tied to recent reports of fake bills in other Permian Basin cities, however, it's too early in the investigation to know for sure.James Anthony Griego, 17, was arrested Wednesday and booked into the county detention center Thursday by the BSPD on a charge of forgery of a government instrument after police officials say he and a juvenile suspect tried to pass counterfeit $100 bills at the Wal-Mart SuperCenter.According to Sgt. Tony Everett, public information officer with the BSPD, cashiers with the local department store spotted the fake bills and alerted authorities."The cashiers weren't fooled by the counterfeits, which weren't of a very high quality at all," Everett said. "They altered the police department. The suspects left the store without the merchandise because the store employees are not allowed to detain the suspects."Shortly after the call came in on the counterfeit bills, a patrol officer spotted a vehicle matching the description fitting the one provided by the employees at Wal-Mart. The occupants in the vehicle also fit the description and they were arrested and charged."Everett said this may not be the first time the paid have tried to pass funny money in the Big Spring area."We've had similar counterfeit $100 bills turn up previously," Everett said. "We had one show up at the H-E-B a while back that was very similar to the ones these two were trying to pass. We're not sure if they were passing them or if they might have made their way there by circulation. The investigation is ongoing."Everett said the Secret Service — the federal agency charged with investigating most cases of counterfeiting U.S. Currency — has been notified."We're not sure yet, but there's a chance this case is tied to other counterfeiting cases in Midland and Odessa," Everett said. "We're hoping the Secret Service will get involved and pick up the investigation in a larger scope so we can see how far this thing goes."In the meantime, Everett said local vendors should be on the lookout for fake bills that could still be in circulation."The bills that were being passed Wednesday weren't of high quality at all. It's not hard to tell they aren't the genuine article," Everett said. "Trust your senses and use the resources you have available to you. Nothing is foolproof, but the pens that identify real bills are very helpful in most situations. Only very, very old $100 bills aren't compatible with them."To report a counterfeit bill, contact the Big Spring Police Department at 264-2550.


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Since Power BI has gone to preview there have been a lot of great apps created by our developers that really enhance the Power BI experience. In this guest blog Rui Romano from DevScope will walk you through an application they built that really enhances the Power BI developer experience. This app is the Power BI PowerShell Modules. The PowerShell Modules for Power BI are a wrapper around the Power BI REST APIs that allows a user to call all of the API functionality without having to know things like REST or OAuth and without having to register any new applications with Azure Active Directory. Take it away Rui:
We are going to walkthrough a specific example of what you can do with the Power BI PowerShell modules. Say we wanted to upload the data in a CSV file to a dataset in Power BI and then append new data to the same dataset as new files arrive. Below is the script that someone could write:
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
$currentPath = (Split-Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition -Parent)
#Create Archive Folder
new-item -Name "Archive" -Force -ItemType directory -Path "$currentPath\CSVData" | Out-Null
Import-Module "$currentPath\Modules\PowerBIPS" -Force
# Iterate each CSV file and send to PowerBI
Get-ChildItem "$currentPath\CSVData" -Filter "*.csv" |% {
#Import csv and add column with filename
$data = Import-Csv $file.FullName | select @{Label="File";Expression={$file.Name}}, *
# Send data to PowerBI
$data | Out-PowerBI -dataSetName "CSVSales" -tableName "Sales" -types @{"Sales.OrderDate"="datetime"; "Sales.SalesAmount"="double"; "Sales.Freight"="double"} -batchSize 300 -verbose
# Archive the file
Move-Item $file.FullName "$currentPath\CSVData\Archive\" -Force
Write-Output "Sleeping..."
Sleep -Seconds 5
Let's examine the pieces of the script:
First we get all of the files with the extension .csv in the folder \CSVData
Get-ChildItem "$currentPath\CSVData" -Filter "*.csv" |% {
Import all the data from each file and add File column with the file name to make tracking easier
$data = Import-Csv $file.FullName | select @{Label="File";Expression={$file.Name}}, *
Then we send the data to Power BI, using Out-PowerBI command, specifying the Dataset name, table name and column types.
$data | Out-PowerBI -dataSetName "CSVSales" -tableName "Sales" -types @{"Sales.OrderDate"="datetime"; "Sales.SalesAmount"="double"; "Sales.Freight"="double"} -batchSize 300 -verbose
Finally we move the file into an archive
Move-Item $_.FullName "$currentPath\CSVData\Archive\" –Force
We will continue to monitor the directory for new files to arrive
Write-Output "Sleeping..."
Sleep -Seconds 5
Let's see it in action.
I have a directory of CSV files:
We go ahead and run the above PowerShell script
A login dialog will show up and ask you to log into Power BI and consent to certain permissions:
Once you consent, the data upload will begin.
Once the upload is complete, the CSVData directory will now look like this:
and you will also see a new dataset created in Power BI:
You can explore this dataset by clicking on it and quickly create a Report on your csv files data:
And then pin your favorite report items to a live Power BI dashboard:
If a new CSV file is dropped into the \CSVData directory, they will automatically be uploaded, the new data will be appended to the existing PowerBI data and the dashboard will update right in front of you (no need to refresh, it will update automatically!):
DevScope have made the PowerShell modules available at: https://github.com/DevScope/powerbi-powershell-modules and have included lots of sample scripts to try. You can follow Rui Romano on his blog and twitter for more updates on PowerBI tools & resources.
This is just one example of a Power BI application that can be built. Which apps and scripts do you want to make?


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Katie was just spotted doing the walk of shame. Her hair was all over the place along with her clothes and makeup. She looks like a complete disasterfest.
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IBM plans to mount its most ambitious challenge in years to Microsoft's dominance of personal computer software, by offering free programs for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. Steven A. Mills, senior vice president of IBM's software group, said the programs promote an open-source document format. The company is announcing the desktop software, called IBM Lotus Symphony, at an event today in New York. The programs will be available as free downloads from the IBM Web site.


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Add 1/2 cup white vinegar.
Dissolve a small amount of Wilton icing tint paste in a cup of hot water.
Add dye to pot.
Pre-wet felt in warm water and then add to the pot. Let felt simmer.
The felt will absorb most of the dye.
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Want to use our music in your next project? We would love to see this happen. You are more than welcome to use any of our preview tracks in your project(s).Just follow these simple steps:
- Download the watermarked preview file of the track you like.
- Incorporate the audio into your project: It would be nice, if you add credits in your project if that is possible. If it fits within your project and doesn't distract, just add "Music by dreamsonix" somewhere.
- Also please add a link to the music item in the description on your project page (like it's common with all marketplace items).
After you have released your project, please let us know about it! Perhaps we can help you promoting your project by placing an icon of your file on our profile and/or item page.