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In his career, Stephen has sought out work that deals with themes of homosexuality and identity, and his roles typically go against the stereotype of what it is to be Chinese and gay. How Stephen sees himself is complex and contextual… he identifies as 'Eurasian', 'British Chinese' when he is in Europe, and 'Hun Xue'er' or 'Mixed Race', when he is in Asia. His sister Louise on the other hand, describes herself as English in relation to her race, but nevertheless her Chinese heritage is very important to her. Louise currently works in the financial industry, however she also has a strong footballing pedigree having played internationally for Malaysia, (the twins' father's birthplace). Stephen and Louise's mother is English and they were both born in London.
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The University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Model United Nations Team, Hui Na Lahui Huipu (Club United Nations), reinforced its reputation as a force to be reckoned with on the international stage by turning in another strong performance at this year's Model United Nations Competition, which recently took place in New York.
UH Hilo, which last year captured the highest honor of Outstanding Delegation, earned Honorable Mention, which is essentially a third place award presented to teams who place in the top fifteen percent of the competition.
"12 of our 15 members were competing at Model United Nations for the first time, so they did extremely well," said Dr. Phillip A. Taylor, political science professor, who served as the team's coach and faculty advisor. "Instead of re-building, we re-loaded."
This year's team was led by head delegate Krista Aoki. Other members included business manager Mindy Alles, Ashley Branch, Taylor Coons, Euclitos Da Costa, Hannah Furumo, Soyoung Han, Marcus Hoeflinger, Aimehio Iyeke, Saerom Lee, Kirstie Naone, Michael Nurnberger, Corey Patton, Priya Rashid, and Ardena Saarinen.
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Indy Hunter Reviews: Keith Brown's, "It's an "Extra Spooky Heebie-Jeebies Creepy Halloween!"
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by LOLtron » Thu Oct 31, 2013 2:54 pm
This October's Surprise is a special spooky review with creator Keith Brown's All-ages effort, "It's an Extra Spooky Heebie-Jeebies Creepy Halloween!"
So what would the Inaugural issue of Indy Hunter Presents: The ZineSmiths be this October 31st without any mention of some spooky stories? I mean, we're not always about doom and gloom, angry underground, us against them, rah, rah! No we celebrate and talk about artistic efforts of all kinds, for all ages here…
Speaking of walks?, The leaves are changing. I'm actually quite fond of this season, esp. the months of October to December. I look forward to all Hollow's Eve themes flying across my TV and in the aisles of the stores I bless my presence with. (Wal-Mart, I just tolerate you). I enjoy me some pumpkin brews and Charlie Brown specials, and yes, I too, the Indy Hunter am cable of spawning young ones as well!
With those young ones comes questions about all sorts of subjects, an uprising of new found fears we grown-ups have become jaded with, (or so we tell ourselves). Sometimes we need a bit of folk-lore to break down shapes, catchy hooks and rhythms to help communicate concepts. Sometimes we just need a Storyteller!
The All- Ages story, "It's an Extra Spooky Heebie-Jeebies Creepy Halloween!" By creator Keith Brown prompted me to do I something that I rarely do. Rather than internalize what I've read before reviewing. I figured it was time to seek other experiences of the material outside myself, (next week bellybutton lint! I swear!). So what was that? Who were they?
Basically I did the kid test when I started to review Mr. Brown's all-ages story. I had my two oldest on my lap and we read through the story. Their eyes lit up, they asked questions. Once again, before I wrote this review I showed them the cover again just to make sure and they exclaimed "Ohh! I like that story, can we read it again?!" So as it stands, right here.... right now- Witness these words from my mouth! I am always on the lookout for something fun, spooky and charming that the little ones and I can read together and enjoy. My little gremlins are avid readers and tend to burn thru stories quickly, but one thing I can always rely on them for is to bring back a few of their favorites books quite often for us to read. (imagine how that feels when it's a book that sucks?!).
In a family like ours where we like to put on Werewolf masks and scare each other, (I'm looking at you Uncle Scott!), or do drawings of things turned into monsters, stuff like adding some teeth to that Fairy Princess Pony Unicorn? Yea, that's us! It's important for us to stock up on our favorite festive stories to read every season. I truly believe we've found another favorite in the form of Writer/Artists Keith Brown's "It's an Extra Spooky Heebie-Jeebies Creepy Halloween!" Never mind that I'm not the only one that likes adjectives in their titles! I don't think my oldest will forget it when this time of the year comes around!
This Halloween rhythmic story follows our lead character, a lad dressed as a Pirate as he braves a night of trick or treat and neighborhood watchful worries from the things that go bump in the night. Author/Cartoonist Keith Brown playfully taps into those shapes and sounds that a young imagination warps into scary things with teeth and talons. It's a fun ride as I read through the story, plentiful with twenty pages of monstrous mirth and watching the expression on my children's faces as I played around with the emphasizing and meter of Mr. Brown's spooky serenade.
Adults can read this and fall back on times when they too were scared of the shapes your night lite or the hallway lamp would make on the wall above your bed or across the room. It's especially a treat…or is that a trick? (Yea I went there), trying to anticipate Mr. Brown's artwork that excels at contrasting scary objects and descriptions right before the suspense of revealing what they actually are through our Pulse-pounding Pirate's point of view. Brown's line art and images as a cartoonist are competent and light enough to pass even the six to almost thirty-six year old's eye brow test and Keith was also "fore-sightful " enough to throw a few mazes/games in the back of the book for you and your child's dueling pleasure.
I took a moment to ask Keith Brown what the motivation was for doing a story like this and here's what he had to say:
"I wrote It's an Extra-Spooky 15 years ago. The title just pooped in my head and I had to run with it. It's nice to finally have a published version and so far it seems as if kids really enjoy it and that's all I could ever ask for." –Keith Brown
To check out other works that Keith Brown has out now including his latest comic strip, "The Wages of Sin", kindly click the link Spooky kid.
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by Keith Brown » Thu Oct 31, 2013 3:29 pmThanks so much for your kind words. I really appreciate it and I am thrilled your kids enjoyed it. Happy Halloween!
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You have to love how when you get cheated on, it's always easier for the cheater to get over it.
A couple of weeks ago, I went to visit my parents in Portugal with my cheater and kids. Why is that no one (including my parents) have never said two words to him about what he did to me and the kids.
You know, no one steps up the plate and says,
"How dare you cheat on my daughter. If you ever do that again, you won't only have to deal with her wrath, but also mine."
Wouldn't it be nice to know someone cares about you so much to defend you like that. I haven't had one person in my life do that for me.
Well, I lie. My best friend kind of said that, but not very convincing.
Who says that I don't need support behind me. Who says I don't need someone to come in front of me as a shield. Apparently, no one wants to feel the pain. But what about me? I am feeling the pain. I am the one who still has dreams about it.
The cheater? HA. He walks around like he's done something oh so wonderful in his life. He didn't choose to go off with his slut; instead, he stayed to own up to his "mistakes" and is doing what he should have been doing all along.
Why do I feel like this is some sort of sham? Why do I continue to feel as though I get the bum wrap out of this deal? Why am I still feeling as though he should have suffered more from this...?
If I had left him, I guess that would have made him suffer, but then I may have suffered more than I do now. So, why would I do that?
I'm still not quite at the acceptance that my whole view of marriage, love and everything else is out the window. While he thinks that our love is so strong, I think about how much love is big game that everyone pretends to play.
I guess it's just me though...no one really feels sorry for me...no one wants to protect me... and no one really cares about it anymore. That's sad, but it's the truth. I'm in this alone...and alone I continue to walk through it all.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
I'm Alone in this Fight
You have to love how when you get cheated on, it's always easier for the cheater to get over it.
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Are you currently involved in counseling? Individual or couples? If not, I think you really should consider seeing someone. That said, there are a lot of shitty counselors out there, and if you get on who tries to blame it on you, switch to a new one.ReplyDelete
You appear to have a lot of unresolved feelings and it is clearly harming you.
It seems as if your husband hasn't felt your pain. Perhaps you both swept things under the rug to quickly? Do you discuss the affair at all anymore? Did you discuss it much after D-Day? (And by discuss, I mean not yelling and bitterness but actual communication?)
It seems to me that your husband is happy to bury his head in the sand - almost as if to him not talking about it must equal that we're over it. It is easier to try to sweep things under the rug than to look in the mirror and face the shame of his actions, but there has to be a change on his part or your resentment will only grow.
Also, maybe you should work on yourself for a while, a part from all the affair crap. Work on improving your self esteem and your own happiness. What makes you feel happy and gives you a sense of self worth?
I'm just an internet person and I'm not really sure I'm qualified to be giving any kind of advice. I hope it make sense.
You're not alone in this fight, I'm rooting for you.
Thanks so much Alice. It's nice to know you're a regular follower of this blog, and you seem to care about my journey.ReplyDelete
I agree that I need counseling - more than ever. I didn't mention that my parents never showed me love nor had ever said they loved me in my whole life. They have always beaten me down by telling me I am not good enough. They are very emotional unattached, which is partly due to their cultural differences. It's amazing - If I didn't look like them, I would seriously think I was switched at birth since I am completely the opposite from them.
But to answer your questions - you are completely right. My husband would love to just forget it ever happened. He never talks about it - not even since D-Day. Well, he does talk about it, but only when I talk about it. He usually turns the discussion over to his feelings when I try to talk about my own. I am big on "This is about me right now...not you." I think he knows if he shifts the focus onto him and his "oh so horrible guilt over it" that I feel sorry and will forget about my own shame, sadness, anger...etc.
Ever since I got back from my parents, I haven't been the same. I've had to cut down on work, and I've been much more subdued. It could possibly be depression or just an exhaustion over my emotions. Hopefully, I can get into a therapist soon, so I can start to iron out these stupid problems I've been dealing with for years on top of my husband's infidelity. Ugh...
Thanks again Alice... you may only be an internet person, but your a great Internet person.
- AnonymousNovember 17, 2012 at 2:24 PM
Such a crap and painful journey. I'm walking it too. Everything has changed. Only one person has told my cheater that what he did was wrong. Not even my parents stuck up for me. I think I share similarities with you - my folks were emotionally distant. I became quite emotional/analytic maybe to make up for what was missing. Sadly I chose a partner like my parent (but a liar). When what I needed was attention, affection, love and to actually matter to someone he hit me right in my vulnerability and had an affair, lying to me once I'd caught him for 6 more months - like I'm some sort of fool. The lies and disrespect are as bad as the physical acts of betrayal. I have two kids (4 and 2 now) and for some stupid reason I can't understand we are still going to marriage counselling. No one can ever understand my hurt. I will never forgive him. This has ruined me but I'm trying to make my life easier for me and the girls. I loved him once and I can probably tolerate him now. The partnership and financial security are the real reasons I'm considering reconciliation. Of course I'll never trust him again. I have the flashbacks to make sure that I don't. He begs me to stay and promises to change, but his word is mud. What a rambling post... Just wanted to say I hear your pain, anger, trauma, mood, exhaustion. Deep deep wounds. Go slowly my friend and look after that little child within you. You're blog has helped me. Thank you.ReplyDelete
How crazy... you're right, we are similar. I could have written what you wrote myself. I am also very analytical and now with what you wrote, I wonder if there is something about us that either makes us vulnerable to affairs or makes us strong enough to deal with them the way we do.ReplyDelete
If you end up reading this, how far out are you from discovering it all?
Also, yes, I was in the dark for 6 months too with all of the lies. But looking back, all I had were signs, and it wasn't until I had proof that it really couldn't have come to an end. It just stinks that I had to go through all of that abuse for soooo long.
Stay strong and post as much as you would like...


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Our target audience is small to medium business owners/managers who are looking for an exciting and innovatative company to manage their marketing operations.
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We are happy to give designers free reign on the design to let the creativity flow. However, we do have some ideas about the layout of the page. An example of a kind of layout we like is http://www.made.com . Logo and main navigation are at the top of the page (5 items on main navigation). Two thirds of the above fold page are taken up by a large image/illustration. We like this idea for capturing attention. We would also need somewhere below this showing or describing the different main services we offer (5 in total).
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There is no logo for the company at the moment so this needs to be part of the design too.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post115155772888554779..comments2009-04-06T15:31:57.963-07:00Comments on The Wizard of Odds: Why Expansion Makes Sense to the email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-9562034691392078542008-12-08T19:59:00.000-08:002008-12-08T19:59:00.000-08:00In terms of Pac-10 expansion and all the discussio...In terms of Pac-10 expansion and all the discussion about colorado joining, here is an intersting historical point. when the big 12 was about to be formed with the demise of the southwest conf in the early-mid 90's, bill walsh of stanford suggested expanding the pac-10 based on athletic and academic quality. the two schools were colorado buffaloes and texas firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-4217622765659943122008-10-13T21:54:00.000-07:002008-10-13T21:54:00.000-07:00I agree with so many things on this post. BYU and ...I agree with so many things on this post. BYU and Utah would be the premiere fit to join the Pac-10. I don't see why a conference would shy away from the opportunity to have a conference championship. I understand that it can lessen the chance of two teams making it, but it can also bring unspeakable amounts of money to the conference. Conference championships are CONSTANTLY sold out, and are always a hot ticket game to go to. BYU has sold out every single game this year (65,900 fans), and will continue to do so I believe. Utah has shown they are a good football program (2004 BCS, consistent winners).
Academically speaking, according to Forbes.com, BYU Marriott school of Business is ranked three behind the magnificent "UCLA." This ranks them at the #17 business school in America. How does this not fit the academic excellence of the Pac-10. For law schools, BYU ranked behind USC, UCLA, UC Berkley, and Stanford. Those are the PRIME academics in the Pac-10. I just don't see the downside to BYU and Utah joining. It would unite the whole western fan base, and I already know BYU and UCLA have quite the rivalry brewing these past few years. I am sure UCLA, USC, Stanford, ASU, U of A, Washington, Oregon, and all the other teams would love a shot at the Cougs. Lets make it official.BYU email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-68994892569699451272008-09-15T00:18:00.000-07:002008-09-15T00:18:00.000-07:00All current PAC-10 schools are premiere research b...All current PAC-10 schools are premiere research based (oriented) schools. That cuts UNLV, UNR, Boise State, Colorado State, Colorado, NMSU, UNM, and Fresno State off of the list. This leaves Hawaii, Utah, and BYU.

Hawaii has a medical school and would attract large crowds at events. They, however, need to show a little more consistency in all sports. I also doubt they bring much to the TV market and they don't have a rival team to fit into the PAC-10 trend.

The best fit is BYU and Utah. They are premiere research institutions. BYU has a top law school, business school, engineering program, accounting program, and more applicants to medical/dental school every year than any other school. Utah has a top medical school, a good business school, and a respectable law school.

They have the ability to attract large crowds. However, an expended TV market isn't Utah's strong suit. I like the idea of the basketball championship at the Utah Jazz stadium.

As for playing games on Sunday, that wouldn't be a big deal. The former WAC commissioner, Joe Kearney, said that he never had a problem with this issue. He says "it's a bogus criticism." (http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/wildcats/37920.php)

Adding Utah and BYU would also keep with the rivalry concept. The only problem you deal with is dividing the conference into two divisions. One thing is for sure though, most years if it isn't BYU winning the conference in football, it's Utah. And this year is no different. The MWC just doesn't provide the competition to compete with BYU and Utah.

I do get satisfaction knowing though that this last week the MWC swept the PAC-10 in football. 4-0. BYU over UCLA, UNM over Arizona, UNLV over ASU, and TCU over Stanford. Heck, so far BYU is in front in PAC-10 play at 2-0!Kevinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-85283202202761858382008-08-26T13:48:00.000-07:002008-08-26T13:48:00.000-07:00I know the PAC 10 does not wnat to expand, but let...I know the PAC 10 does not wnat to expand, but lets say in a few years the college athletics landscape changes and they are sort of forced to do it. BYU will not be considered as they don't play on sundays and the culture does not fit in the PAC 10. They might want to consider UNLV as a serious candidate. It is in a fairly large TV market, fits the geographical footprint, and is an excellent travel destination city. Vegas is practically So Cal anyway with the culture. Granted the football program needs a little work, but throw some BCS money at it and it would be respectable. UNLV is on a serious up swing in b-ball and would right now finish in the top 2-4 in the PAC 10. UNLV also has some other decent sports programs such as W. Soccer, W. Volleyball M&W swimming, and M&W golf. Not only that, it is the premere academic institution in Nevada and it houses a dental school and a top 100 law school. I think UNLV would be a great fit in th PAC 10.Trina and Chrishttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-30235924407712687362008-08-26T05:07:00.000-07:002008-08-26T05:07:00.000-07:00I'm confused... Why wouldn't the Pac-10 take in Ha...I'm confused... Why wouldn't the Pac-10 take in Hawaii? They've had a good program in multiple sports fot the past few years and they fit in geograpically.

someone brought up the big 12 stealing iowa from the big ten? hahahahaha... ha. If anything the Big Ten is gonna steal Mizzou from the Big 12 to give us a championship game and another quality team.matt from email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-53170060386373348412008-07-12T23:30:00.000-07:002008-07-12T23:30:00.000-07:00That would be a dream come true for the blue guys ...That would be a dream come true for the blue guys from BYU to join the PAC 10. Going with UT would be the best scenario, but going with CU would be fine as well. It would provide some nice trips instead of Laramie, Albuquerque and Ft Collins where the cougs are hated to the core due to those teams being trounced most years. Conference championships have been watered down, I would prefer one PAC 10 championship over 10 MWC championships. BYU also had a nice rivalry going with ASU until the AZ schools defected in '78. With the additional millions of dollars and recruits desiring to play in the conference of champions would elevate BYU's current already competetive level. Plus the PAC 10 has gotten stale with no additions for 30 years now--time to get over their narcisism and add BYU!Jeffhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-23224124709164492612008-06-24T16:05:00.000-07:002008-06-24T16:05:00.000-07:00You do realize that Colorado is ranked behind UT, ...You do realize that Colorado is ranked behind UT, A&M and Baylor and is only slightly ahead of ISU and KU right?

I can see wanting to go to the locals of the PAC 10, but lets not pretend CU is the academic class of the Big 12.CFBrulzhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-13577587466228910182008-06-11T13:47:00.000-07:002008-06-11T13:47:00.000-07:00I think that if the pac 10 does expand it will not...I think that if the pac 10 does expand it will not only look for large television markets, but it will also look to keep it's state rivalry pattern (UofA ASU, UO OSU, UW WSU etc.) as well as look for good academic schools. BYU and Utah would fit the bill, but their conservative views do not fit with the Pac 10, CU snd CSU are an option, but i don't think it really fits the pacific theme. That leaves very few options. new mexico and NMSU might be an option, or Possibly UNR UNLV, Las Vegas is a very large and growing TV market and UNR is a tier 1 reasearch university, UNLV is tier 2 and on the fast track to tier 1 status. UNLV has the b-Ball program as well as some decent olympic sports, and with BCS money UNR would be respectable in both B-Ball and firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-8859432505772159122007-12-03T11:53:00.000-08:002007-12-03T11:53:00.000-08:00BYU/UTAH make the most sense to me. but PAC - 10 w...BYU/UTAH make the most sense to me. but PAC - 10 would score if they got both Colorado and BYU.

As a BYU fan - I could learn to really hate Colorado as much as firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-30399283225508937312007-11-19T09:36:00.000-08:002007-11-19T09:36:00.000-08:00As a BYU fan we would LOVE to be in the PAC and re...As a BYU fan we would LOVE to be in the PAC and rest assured we are not joined at the hip with Utah. BYU is the top non-BCS school in football attendance, has gone to the NCAA tourney the last two years, and is a top 30 in the Sears cup. Academically we would rank fourth (about equal with UCLA). In a few years being in a BCS conference, recruiting would get even better and we would be competitive on a yearly basis. That and we hate the MWC. We travel well (15K in the Rose Bowl vs. UCLA this year). Down side: mainly the no Sunday play. Inconvenient, I understand, but workable.Oz of the firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-5893661695133779532007-10-25T11:34:00.000-07:002007-10-25T11:34:00.000-07:00Found your blog while doing a search. I think CU s...Found your blog while doing a search. I think CU should go to the Pack ten along with Boise State or BYU. As for the little XII I am thinking TCU would be a good fitUgohttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-45635640614340448872007-10-16T11:02:00.000-07:002007-10-16T11:02:00.000-07:00I have been dying for Colorado to leave the Big 12...I have been dying for Colorado to leave the Big 12 for the Pac-10. Other than Texas, every other school in the Big 12 is not an academic/research peer to CU in terms of budget. CU falls right in the middle of the Pac-10 close to UW, ahead of AZ/ASU and WAY ahead of the Oregon schools. Arkanasas should bolt from the SEC, join the Big 12. Utah and BYU are the only schools that could reasonably join the Pac-10 with Colorado on an academic/sports basis. U NM needs could compete in sports but needs to kick up its academics to Oregon State email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-15987121510668694802007-06-11T20:15:00.000-07:002007-06-11T20:15:00.000-07:00the only real solution for the big 12 to escape me...the only real solution for the big 12 to escape mediocrity is to expel colorado, iowa state and baylor (all three teams the last two especially have been suffering greatly in the athletic field) and to bring in iowa from the big 10 and actually give them a chance to compete for a championship because there is no way they will ever beat michigan and ohio state in the same year, boise state which will lead to some excellent football games (i.e. v OU, Texas) and Arkansas from the sec and relive old swc days when they were rivals against texas and email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-1157841297122577962006-09-09T15:34:00.000-07:002006-09-09T15:34:00.000-07:00Sure they would. The bg 12 is a crap conference mi...Sure they would. The bg 12 is a crap conference minus Texas, and the only reason Texas won a title is because they had such a patsy schedule = Big 12 schedule. Of course Colorado would leave. Better academic schools, better tradition, more titles, and the california market plus recruting base. You Big 12 fans live in a fantasy world. I mean, why would you want L.A. when you can have Norman and Lincoln. I mean, truly email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-1152246268587087432006-07-06T21:24:00.000-07:002006-07-06T21:24:00.000-07:00CU won't leave the BIG XII...keep dreaming dude.CU won't leave the BIG XII...keep dreaming email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-1152069996598083412006-07-04T20:26:00.000-07:002006-07-04T20:26:00.000-07:00Sorry, Zach, but not Fresno State. Without getting...Sorry, Zach, but not Fresno State. Without getting into academics which is an issue for any new Pac-10 member, Fresno doesn't bring anything to the party other than a good team -- not enough. TV market? Nah. California is covered. Recruiting territory? Nah. All they will do is compete for recruits and add nothing of value as in $$$. Also, the UC schools will not have it. Fresno is a non-starter through no fault of their own. You can subsitute San Diego State, too, for Fresno. Same email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-1151720966080750472006-06-30T19:29:00.000-07:002006-06-30T19:29:00.000-07:00The Pac 10 may well expand in the relatively near ...The Pac 10 may well expand in the relatively near future. But don't expect the league to split North/South. The heart of the league is the California recruits, and the northern schools would never accept an arrangement that cuts their existing access to those email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-1151705238884967272006-06-30T15:07:00.000-07:002006-06-30T15:07:00.000-07:00As a diehard CU fan, I would much rather spend a w...As a diehard CU fan, I would much rather spend a weekend in Seattle, LA, or Tempe than Lubbock, Norman, or Manhattan. But, tradition rules, and I dont think I could give up hating the huskers and others. Oh well, here's to another drive through Kansas.Commish CHhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-1151637091181593922006-06-29T20:11:00.000-07:002006-06-29T20:11:00.000-07:00So who would replace Arkansas in the SEC? Louisvi...So who would replace Arkansas in the SEC? Louisville?, Memphis?,Square Turdhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-1151629232745365432006-06-29T18:00:00.000-07:002006-06-29T18:00:00.000-07:00getting fresno st. in the pac-10 mix could be inte...getting fresno st. in the pac-10 mix could be interesting as well.Zach Landres-Schnurhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-1151596323253317592006-06-29T08:52:00.000-07:002006-06-29T08:52:00.000-07:00While I think expansion would broaden the sphere o...While I think expansion would broaden the sphere of influence for the Pac-10, I don't think it will happen. I remember a few years ago hearing some of the AD's (from the Washington and Oregon schools) being concerned about losing a home date with USC if expansion took place. As for potential schools coming into the conference, Colorado certainly makes sense since their recruiting base lies west of the Rocky Mountains. In addition, you have to wonder how long BYU can sustain their program in the Mountain West. They no longer sell out Edwards Stadium on a regular basis like they did in the past. I know the former AD stated in the past they did not want to join a bigger conference but their financial well-being may just depend on making such a decision. It's not enough to be a big fish in a small pond since none of the other MVC schools approach the size of their fan base.greg6363https://email@example.com


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Vegetable Still Life Oil Paintings by Jane Cruickshank
We loved Faith's look at Camera in the Cupboard, photography that looks like paintings. Which brings us to these paintings that we at first mistook for photographs.
British artist Jane Cruickshank's still life oil paintings feature vegetables that are some of the real beauties of this season: garnly turnips and deep, dark plums to name a couple. They are painted in such painstaking detail here that they are even more realistic than reality.
• See more: Jane Cruickshank
Related: Camera in the Cupboard
(Images: Jane Cruickshank)


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The original CIA World Factbook 2002 import is atTalk:Vietnam/CIA World Factbook 2002 import.
Naming Conventions
Our article naming conventions say to use the most common English-language name for a place as the destination guide article name.
Saigon was renamed to Ho Chi Minh City, but it's still widely known as Saigon, and many guides, as well as internal tourism offices, use the name.
I don't think Ho Chi Minh City is the right name to use. --Evan 12:17, 31 Dec 2003 (PST)
Standard names: to combine or not to combine syllables?
Sai Gon or Saigon? Da Lat or Dalat? I think we need to come up with a standard for how to spell these places. My preference would be to use the combined named for English ("Hanoi") and then separate the syllables for the Vietnamese ("Hà Nội"). Jpatokal 23:50, 15 Oct 2005 (EDT)
Anyway, see Wikitravel:Romanization#Vietnamese for my stab at a policy. Jpatokal 06:46, 18 Oct 2005 (EDT)
Turalo 16:26, 14 Mar 2008 (ICT)
I'm not entirely convinced the current regions make sense. Should "South" and "Mekong Delta" be rolled into one, and should "Central Highlands" be moved into just "Highlands", as eg. Sapa isn't "central" by any definition? Jpatokal 09:28, 31 Jan 2006 (EST)
Cities . . . I have found in my travels in South Vietnam, that some cities have been moved or renamed. My first experience with this was when I hired a driver to take me to Song Be. I was stationed there during the war and wanted to see the sites (it's there, but not in the same place). I believe some cities that were to friendly to the Americans, and south Vietnam's army, were literly wiped off the map . . . it would be very helpful to list the changes. In the near future many vets will want to travel back to their old familar cities . . . This would be a great resource and I'm sure many vets will be greatful. Also I think it will help not cause some veterans bad feelings and thoughts about the friends they may have left behind in these cities (both vietnamese and American.)I know I will, and have been, taking tour groups back to Vietnam; I intend on resuming my tour groups soon; And this kind of help would be great. Please let me know if there are current maps that show the changes. Thank you very much in advance; From a disabled Vietnam veteran, who wants to help; Both the x-soldier, and the Vietnamese people. Mike Nielsen [email protected]
Tuấn [email protected]
Whoever wrote the respect section seems to have a real grudge against much of the country. When I travelled there we found everyone to be really nice and friendly. The fact that we were from Australia who participated in the war never came up at all. The person who wrote the section really seems to think otherwise. I think it should be rewritten.
Cities and OD's
In the process of drawing the Vietnam map I was struck by the lack of a National Park listed in ODs. Surely Cuc Phuong at least should be there as one of the nine? I suggest replacing Vung Tau (which is a town not an OD in any case). Also there are 11 cities listed. We need to cull two and I suggest Da Nang and Can Tho. --Burmesedays 10:38, 28 December 2009 (EST)
In the cities section, the destinations are more than 9. Please limit the number of destinations to 9. - SnappyHip 19:38, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
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Is it just us, or have your wallets been feeling a whole lot lighter these past few months, too? We'd blame it on gas prices, but being based in NYC, we don't drive. A more likely culprit might be our constant urge to update our wardrobes. Whatever the reason, the fact remains that we're about two soy lattes away from a negative bank balance.
Fortunately, while everything else seems to be on the rise, beauty products have started to reach rock bottom prices. We stumbled across plenty of primpers that were either on mega-sale (hello $12 Stila Lip Glaze trio) or just priced really wallet-friendly to begin with.


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Companies Reach 'Deal' On Net Neutrality... But What Does That Mean?
from the not-really-their-call,-is-it? dept
I'm still at a loss as to how this actually matters. The companies can agree to whatever they want, and none of it makes a difference if Congress acts (or the courts say that the FCC is allowed to act). I guess the idea is to think that an "industry agreement" will stave off legislation, which perhaps might work for some time, but still reeks of collusion without consumer input or review.


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Folioed Again!
Why Shakespeare is the world's worst stolen treasure.
When Raymond Scott—the colorfully eccentric 51-year-old book dealer, champagne connoisseur, and shiny-suited wooer of nightclub dancers—walked into the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., recently to get a 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare appraised, he didn't realize, he says, he'd be accused of possessing a folio stolen from the Durham University library in England. His folio, he claims, was simply a friend's lucky find in Cuba. As Scott proclaims in a Washington Post profile today, at the time of the 1998 robbery at Durham University, "I wouldn't have known the difference between a First Folio Shakespeare and a paperback Jackie Collins." The Folger's expert verification of the stolen Folio's identity, he contends, is just plain wrong.
Just how much Scott knows about rare first editions, only time—or perhaps a plea bargain—will tell. But what he clearly doesn't know is what any folio scholar could tell him: that aside from a face-melting Ark of the Covenant, a Shakespeare First Folio is the lousiest loot in the world to steal.
That sounds unlikely, seeing as how every major media source from the Times on down has trumpeted the recovered Folio as "valued at $30 million." At the time of the 1998 heist, the BBC reported a rather more modest value of £250,000 for the folio and the four other books stolen. Since then, other folios have indeed commanded an eye-popping $5.2 million and $6.2 million at auction—but they were in their original bindings, which the Durham folio is not. So this folio is not worth the fabled $30 million to any thief—and, for reasons unique to folios, it's not even worth a warm bucket of spit.
Here's why: The 230 surviving First Folios are now the most minutely studied published works in history. The folio is unusual in that two centuries of records trace the path of specific copies. In recent decades, similar censuses have been held of all surviving copies of the Gutenberg Bible, Audubon's Birds of America, and Copernicus' De Revolutionibus. But the pursuit of folio-spotting remains unparalleled in literature, beginning with Thomas Dibdin's first census of folio owners in the London area in 1824 and Sidney Lee's worldwide folio census in 1901, detailing the condition and identifying marks of every known copy.
Does the folio have graffiti inviting the reader "to kisse the wrightere's arse"? Then it once belonged to theologian Daniel Williams. Were several plays used as scrap paper for loopy handwriting exercises by a quill-wielding 17th-century child? Then you're probably looking at the Sutro Library's folio. Did your folio contain greasy food stains and crumbs fallen into the binding? Then you're in the British Library with Samuel Johnson's old copy.
University of London scholar Anthony James West has been crisscrossing the world in the survey's fourth and most insanely ambitious iteration, a decadeslong project of traveling to examine every folio in existence personally. After two volumes that traced folio prices and the particulars of each of the 230 copies, West is compiling material for projected future volumes that will include such minutiae as the paper-manufacturing chain marks and watermarks in each page of each copy.
In the case of the Durham copy, there's plenty for authorities to work with. The dimensions of the Durham folio are already known, because each time a book is bound or rebound, as folios often are over the course of four centuries, they're likely to be retrimmed slightly. Their exact resulting size depends upon the hand of the binder. Folios, as a result, have a range of sizes. Also, folios weren't issued in uniform bindings; the original customers often bought unbound sheets and hired their own binders, so each folio has its own distinct local binding.
It gets even worse for folio fiends. Thanks to the rather shaky quality control of Renaissance printers, corrections were done on the fly, and the uncorrected pages were still used, anyway. Shakespeare's publisher, William Jaggard, routinely bound together various runs of both uncorrected and corrected pages, in no particular order, so each folio has a unique combination of sheets mixed in various stages of correction. Scholars spent years in the 1950s and 1960s using a bizarre optical contraption known as a Hinman Collator to compare folios for textual variants: No two copies have been found to possess exactly the same combination of pages.
Thanks to a careful inventory of Durham folio pages performed in 1905, a number of its identifying marks are already well-known. There's a patched hole in the colophon, for instance; there's a broken clasp on the outside of the book; there's a specific annotation regarding Troilus and Cressida. What's more, any scan or photos made of Durham folio pages before the folio was stolen would have preserved its distinct set of textual variants. History suggests that the odds of another folio having the same set of variants are essentially nil; common sense would dictate that any other details like telltale pen marks, ember burn holes—which are surprisingly common in old folios—and tears are not likely to be duplicated exactly in any two books.
It's because of obstacles like these that the last theft of a First Folio—from the Williams College library in 1940—also ended disastrously. Four months after gaining entry with the forged papers of a fictitious "Professor Sinclair E. Gillingham" of Middlebury College, the thief turned himself in and fingered three fellow conspirators. The reason? The folio they'd stolen was hot enough to roast marshmallows over. It was unsalable. This didn't exactly end their criminal careers, as folio historian Harold Otness has noted: "The sentencing judge received a letter asking for leniency for the aircraft worker [of the gang] because he was designing a special military plane. That letter was a forgery."
The Durham thief faces a particularly nasty bit of bad luck, though. Although reports indicate that a potentially telltale marked-up endpaper is now missing in this copy, it's highly unlikely that a thief would have sliced out the title page, with its iconic portrait of Shakespeare. As it happens, during a couple decades in the mid-1600s that the Durham folio spent at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, the school's pressmark—an idiosyncratic cataloging notation—was applied to the title page.
If that Peterhouse mark turns up in the copy now in the Folger's custody, Mr. Scott may want to have a long talk with that book-loving friend of his in Cuba.


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[Intro: Jean Grae]
He's back again for the first day
We gonna do this one a little different
Jean Grae, trying to test the waters with this one
(Where you gonna run?)
Not far
(Where you gonna run?)
Where you gonna go? Jean...
[Verse One: Jean Grae]
Alright, underground climb up, this a new line up
Niggas fight your way through
If you're not ready to lose, may I suggest that you let us the fuck through
Everybody clap your hands now, tear the walls down
Dance like Rudy Huxtable scoring a touchdown, you know
Hands in the air, knees in, knees out
Drop a little cymbal on them this time, no doubt
Let's go
Alright, ten years deep and my tenure's still deep
My bad I'm sorry I don't like when phrases repeat
I meant that a decade's almost passed since Baseball was released
And I'm struggling still hustling to eat
I must be built with adamantium skin
While y'all motherfuckers where you flushed in
With your heart poking through on your arm stupid
Drop more bombs than on Saddam's house unarmed
My mouth's a weapon I shout like Armguard steppin'
Didn't mean to get loud, no disrepect
But you know the Jean is a threat to your checks
Niggas heart burning no prowl no sec to stop the attack
Ya neck back's gettin hot on every drop on the track
And now I finally got some hate it's good, let it be known
I'll still be here after all this shit is done said and gone
Can't keep running the same formula, I'm imploring ya
To quit fucking the game up, before it fucks all of ya up
Where you gonna run
Where you gonna run
Where you gonna ruuuuuun
Where you gonna ruuuuuun
Where you gonna hide
Where you gonna ruuuuuun
Where you gonna ruuuuuun
Yeah come on, yeah come on
[Verse Two: Talib Kweli]
Watch these niggas start to run soon as I hit the track
What get the sack, eyes low like Friskin' cat
My flow get cap throw they gun like official Nas
I'm draftin you niggas hard quick fast like tiptonat
Diamond cut lyrics so sharp the spit split the glass
Your mouth writing a check that you ask and quick to cash
Screaming how you quick to shoot don't even know the screenplay
Niggas rappin black and white, I rap in shades of Jean Grae
Sick of niggas licking boots I pick and choose my battles when I spit the truth it's hot
Let the pride and move the cattle
Y'all don't really want no beef, that's too real you want veal
You baby sheep hanging in the air and tend to raffle me
Me? I don't like the taste this shit's gamey
Like magazines telling lies and starting wars like Dick Chaney
It sucks though they losing they flavor like Now and Laters
When I bust them niggas run for the hills like Al Queda
[Verse Three: Jean Grae]
She lacks delivery - really, nigga?
I pack rap symmetry and send it to ya dorm
Why y'all iggin' me for sure
Jean is synonymous to chivalry
Open doors but I step through first
Test the waters and I pee in them got no network
But now everyone's a rapper and everyone'll shoot you dead
Only lead I strapped with a razor sharp pencil
That could write but it could stab you rapid
It's all ass backwards, you're all mall performers, actors
What tho?, come on let's race to where the cash is
Get mauled like Roy the alter boy
I'll jet through you like a Jet through flight, I'm unemployed
You still cared to touch me, I gotta keeps the rap level
You face screwed ugly
I'm chasing all you club bunnies
And racing you tackle you down
Take your money with your chest on the ground
I know it's foul, what you gonna do now
(I think it's time you gave it up!)


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Awards And Their Politics
From the desk of George Handlery on Sun, 2013-01-13 06:28
Honors for good behavior.
Without intending to do so, real life produces more absurdities than the fantasy of the talented creators of fiction could conjure up. Alas, most of these abnormalities are as entertaining as they are ultimately harmful to those involved. Especially disturbing is that the clowns that cause these slip-ups are not in the humor business full time. That makes the jest, if you can discover it, unintended. That also means that no praise is due for the amusement provided. The chuckles provoked are unintended byproducts. They reflect bias, incompetence, and lack of realism.
Not only individuals but also institutions can have failure built into them by the personnel they recruit or due to their mandated duty. Selected nincompoops in charge of ridiculous assignments are prone to cause the slips that inadvertently amuse us. However, even organizations of good reputation can fall victim to actions that elicit ridicule or incredulous head shaking.
Time magazine's recent "Man of the Year" choice is apt to make one ask "what did they think when they did that?" This is especially the case if the bypassed alternatives are considered. Then there is the Nobel Committee. That body enjoys an earned claim to a rating above "Time". Even so, in the soft categories, the choice can discredit that venerable institution. If you are an American, regardless of party affiliation or sympathy, the nomination of Obama for the Peace Prize on the heels of his election, elicits recognition as a fitting example for doubtful judgments. Kudos is due, but not for the convincing nature of the choice. From a safe distance, it rewarded BHO generously on a pre-paid basis. The jury's blue-eyed anticipation projected a hope bolstered by a campaign promise upon their nominee. The selection had little to do with the weighting of results following the calm evaluation of the record. In some ways the judgment of the Committee is water tight; there was no record yet when the award was made. Perhaps for the better. The facts would have messed up the picture adjusted to mesh with imagination that was projected upon a yet-unpainted and thereby unspoiled canvas.
Let us first deal with the Obama story in "Time." To proclaim someone the Man-of-the-Year does not imply approval. Hitler and Stalin are among the many villains that "made it". All that the title tells is that the "nominee" has played a significant role. Regarding the "approval" part, there is hardly any doubt that, the pack that produces Time approves of Obama regardless of what his actions might be.
If that sounds like an accidental definition of "prejudice", then so be it. Decisive are leftist policies, near and dear to the heart of the editors. The favorable tilt in this case is enhanced by the compulsive effort not to appear to be racist. Skepticism regarding the President, who is to be approached formally in a color-blind manner, is tainted with the suspicion of soft-pedaled race-based motivations. However, the opposite, namely giving credit automatically and engaging in anticipatory acclaim, is also a form of racism even if it is tagged as bad manners to call it that. Racial prejudice is more than an inclination to downgrade or upgrade the merit of future actions because of a person's background. It is also present if one judges future and current policies by first counting pigments and not the to-be-expected or actual benefits of actions.
Now, to Obama's "significance." In his case we have the admittedly notable achievement of won elections. Beyond that, even using magnifying glasses and after the rhetoric is peeled off, little of consequence shows up on the monitor. "Man of the Year" for surviving a rocky first term? We seem to be left here with a new standard for assigning the honor. However, in the case of future Presidents from the "other party", the norm of "honors in advance" that approvingly acknowledge as a fact a verbal down payment of good intentions is unlikely to be upheld.
Newly, the theory that no award and honor is too significant so as not to be wasted in the support of approved causes has again been confirmed. This time not "Time", but the Nobel Committee has acted in a way that supports the nasty allegation.
Obama got the Peace Price before he could do anything presidential either to save the world as insinuated, or to toss it into an Armageddon. We might call this to be the equivalent of the prize for literature handed out for a bundle of blank sheets. The potential of the paper happens to be unlimited and confirms that, there is nothing compromising on it that would taint its pristine condition.
The recent Peace prize awarded to the European Union is a reward for pious hopes left intact thanks to hither inaction and cover-ups. In the EU's case, the recognition represents the appreciation of an imagined quality regardless of the institution's record. The equivalent would have been to assign the prize for economics to Gosplan (the Central Planning Committee) of the USSR. The medal would have recognized the anticipated contribution of the "Plan" to the Soviet Union's scarcity-dominated development. The money from Scandinavia would also have been the only profit that the "5-Year-Plans" and their planners have ever produced. Overwhelmed by the record, one wonders whether "Stockholm" accepts belated nominations for the terminated institutions of defunct systems.
As with the entertainment industry's awards, - the Oscar's and the lesser imitations of that original come to mind- pompously displayed recognition can pervert the official purpose. Prizes are supposed to acknowledge high quality performance in some field of endeavor. In practice, the committees that award the prizes tend to represent the interests and views of selected categories of people. Most of them have the same ax to grind and they form a homogenous group reflecting comparable backgrounds and shared world-views. This will mean that, on occasion, not past performance, but a correct attitude projected into the future will be rewarded and advertized. In doing so, the award becomes an instrument to call attention to a product, an issue or a person and it drums up support. With the publicity, an approved legitimized cause is to be furthered not for its achieved merits but for its promises to insiders. That tells more about the persons that make the award than about the quality of the feature that is handed formal recognition. For these reasons, honors for good behavior will continue as a means to recruit the approval of the impressionable among the politically innocent.


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Over this past summer my wife and I had to landscape our entire yard, all 20,000 square feet of it. This was our first time doing anything like this because we purchased a brand new house and none of the yard was landscaped. Most builders of new houses will leave the entire yard for the new home owners. In some locations the builder is required to at least landscape the front yard, but in our location nothing was required. This became a huge project and we knew it going into it.
Landscaping an entire yard can be expensive. The bids from different landscapers will also come at a shock. We called many landscaping companies and while some actually took the time to come to our house, others gave us a 'free' quote over the phone. Those phone quotes, guess how much more they came in at? I wonder how they ever get business! Our first two quotes came in at $12,500 and $13,900 respectively. That is without them come to our house. I am glad they stayed away. That puts us at a price of about $0.625 cents per square foot. The landscaping companies said that the price paid for everything, all of the dirt, seed and labor.
We also called two other companies who actually came out to our house. Their bids came in at $6,500 and $8,000 each. Why such a huge difference? Especially with the landscaping companies who didn't even come out to the location?
Through this experience I have learned that you ALWAYS have a landscaping company come out to you to give you the bid. Nothing should be done over the phone.
We obviously went with the lower bid of $6,500 which included grading the entire yard, laying down top soil as well as laying beauty rock down our driveway and in the ditch out by the street. It took one full day to grade, lay the dirt and rocks and then a few hours the next day to spray the entire yard with grass seed.
The cost don't stop there! Why? Because when you have a new yard put in you have to keep the grass seed moist. Therefore, we had to purchase hoses and more hoses and sprinkler heads. We bought everything needed to keep our half acre lot moist with water. This allowed the grass seed to start growing within 7 days.
Even after the added cost of the sprinklers and sprinkler heads the costs do not stop there. Now we needed to buy fertilizer and buy enough for our half acre yard. We were told to put a fertilizer called Triple 16, it actually says 16 16 16 on the bag which is a specific blend of fertilizer we needed for the new grass. Those bags can get expensive, so its no wonder why landscaping companies charge so much. Its hard to imagine that they make much money on their fertilizing jobs.
After it was all said and done, our new landscaped yard probably cost us close to $8,000. I don't even want to think how much more we would have spent had we gone with the first landscaping company we called.
Always call around before setting your mind on one company. I know Jesse with Spokane Landscaping will actually take the time to drive out to your house and give you a true 'free' bid. Its always good to talk to someone who comes out and looks at your property. You can also give them ideas of what you want and find out what the different cost of doing the project would be. Spokane Landscaping is a great company located right in Spokane, WA. They will save you money on your large landscape jobs. I know they also service commercial buildings, but they are not too busy to help the 'smaller residential client'.
Another way of determining if a landscaping company is good is by looking up their reviews online (here is Spokane Landscaping's reviews). If they don't have any, then find another company. You don't want to be their 'test subject' and you don't want to 'hope' they will work out for you.
If you are looking to save money on your next landscaping job then I highly recommend you call or at least contact this company:
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REN TV, one of the biggest national television channels in Russia, broadcast a documentary called "Origins of Life" on the 5th of November, 2011. In the program, there were sections from the interview with Mr. Adnan Oktar. Thus, for the first time in Russia, a program about the invalidity of the theory of evolution and the fact of Creation was aired on official state television. You can watch a section of the documentary here.
REN TV: Turkish researcher and author Harun Yahya thinks that the claim of man coming from apes is a complete hoax, because there was no evidence that proves Darwin's theory until now.
99% of the world blindly believes in the theory of evolution, which is against science and logic.
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Parents of special needs student slapped by teacher looking for $700K in lawsuit
LAKEVILLE — The parents of a 12-year-old LaVille Junior/Senior High School student reportedly spanked and slapped by a special education teacher has notified the Union North United School Corporation that they intend to proceed with legal action.
Parents Tracy Martin and Michael Cuthbert have secured legal counsel through the Frazier Law Firm in Indianapolis. The tort put forth shows that the parents are seeking a maximum of $700,000 per incident.
According to Union North Superintendent Mitch Mawhorter, the corporation received a notice on Nov. 26 that legal action was being taken. Mawhorter said the interests of the school are being handled through Attorney Susan Traynor-Chastain, hired by JESSE (Joint Educational Services in Special Education) ,and that the matter was reported to the corporation's insurance carrier. Mawhorter said there is a 90-day period for a response to the notice by the corporation.
The former teacher, Saundra Yute, who resigned from Union North within 20 minutes of the alleged incident on Nov. 20, is now facing a Class D Felony charge for battery to a child. Police say that Yute slapped and spanked the 7th grade student after the youth had a bathroom accident. The child has Sturge-Weber Syndrome, which leaves her with severe neurological problems.
Yute bonded out of the St Joseph County Jail within 90 minutes of her arrest Dec. 13. Yute is a licensed teacher and was working for Union North under an "emergency license" allowing her to teach in a special needs classroom. LaVille Junior/Senior High School Principal Jeremy Tucker indicated that Yute was a guidance counselor prior to coming to LaVille.
The child has now returned to the school after being absent for three weeks. Tucker said the class that the student attends is now being taught by a retired special education teacher. He said that plans are to transfer a special education teacher from another special education class in the corporation to the "Life Skills " classroom and fill her current position with a teacher who will be certified on Jan. 1.
Mawhorter said they held a case conference with the parents and others before the child returned to the school.


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|2008-01-18, 03:01
|Link #501
Loveable Jerk
I do like this idea for why we don't see barriers deployed on Mid though it seems like a fairly tiddy little excuse for why the barriers suddenly vanished. that said barriers are also fairly clearly at least somewhat taxing to maintain and can be destroyed so when the need for stealth is removed and they won't even get allot of noncombatants out of the area it probably just seem less attractive all around. This likely holds on pretty much any planet with a viable mage population.
On another note I also was thinking about you force field idea and think I might have stumbled upon a bit of a sticky wicket in it... Namely I think we can both agree a device when deployed seems to have a mass proportional to it's size yes? And force fields kind of umm... don't.
|2008-01-18, 04:23
|Link #502
"Begin, the operation!"
Device Power:
I'm guessing it also depends on the Device type itself. Storage Devices I would guess take very little energy to use, since they provide the mage no actual support of any sort. They have no AI (exception: Durandal) other than basic spell function, and so probably just serve as a conduit for spell focus, or something.
Armed Devices would be next up, though to me it seems that they would only use power when active. IIRC, Armed Devices don't speak while in passive mode, only in active. Intelligent Devices, obviously, would take the most power, as even in a passive state, they have fully functioning AI and still allow the mage to cast spells.
(Note: For those of you who might not know, Wireless Energy Transfer is possible.)
Which suddenly brings up another point: Is there really a purpose to Storage Devices? I mean, we see Nanoha cast Divine Shooter without the use of Raising Heart in the first episode of A's, and in the series prior Fate is able to summon her cape without the help of Bardiche. The anime, I believe (correct me if I'm wrong), implies that a Device is required to focus mana for attack. Now, with an Intelligent Device (I'm ignoring the fact that Nanoha and Fate are uber-powerful for this demonstration), there's a good chance they help passively (or actively in Mach Caliber's case), by making adjustment's to a mage's spell before casting it.
This goes back to the previous argument of ergonomics. The reason Nanoha doesn't need them is because Raising Heart is not only an Intelligent Device, but probably an advanced Intelligent Device. My reasoning is this (a good bit of this is subjective, so feel free to toss it out the window): Throughout the first two seasons, Nanoha relies on Raising Heart to do a lot for her, including spell casting using the Device as a focus, flight, and adjusting spells like Divine Shooter for her (this last bit is definitely debatable, but I'm guessing the first time Nanoha cast the spell RH did a lot of the homing work).
By A's, this has lessened to a degree, and we see Nanoha cast Divine Shooter on her own, with no AI support of any sort (unless you count RH serving as a counting tool ). By StrikerS, she casts Crossfire Shoot and Divine Buster without RH's help (which is now doubling as a PDA of sorts).
My point is this: Mages, once they've learned magic to a certain point, can cast spells without the need for a Device to support them. Storage Devices have no ability to support the mage. So what's the need for a Storage Device to exist? Does not having one somehow increase the amount of mana needed for a spell? Do they serve as a focus of sorts?
...then again, it's highly likely I'm completely downplaying the need for a Storage Device.
...well okay I didn't think about them being one and the same. But I don't think Devices are ever stated as having a limited amount of matter at their disposal. Really, IMO, it would depend on how much energy a mage can pump into the Device to force it to summon parts. A Device can regenerate itself so long as the mage wielding as power to provide it.
It's the same concept behind a Barrier Jacket/Knight Armor. A mage can use it to protect him/herself so long as there's energy to burn.
Barrier Spell:
I think we can all agree that was only the most useless spell to exist. Like TK said, it's only purpose was so there wouldn't be any civilians running around.
Actually, it might be even simpler: They use the Barrier spell because 7arcs didn't want to animate people flipping out (if you'll notice in StrikerS, any surprise by the Gadget Drones has a conspicuous lack of people other than the main characters).
And I disagree with the reasoning for using Barrier spells on Mid. To paraphrase TK on the OC thread about 300 pages ago: There simply aren't that many people who can do magic.
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|2008-01-18, 04:59
|Link #503
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Again. Matter = forcefield. Matter = mass. Thus forcefields can have mass.
While the nature of magical "particles" is unknown, it is likely that the particle(s) making up magic will have some mass. Otherwise, it'll be hard to explain how they can be trapped into various stationary positions. Remember that the only velocity a particle with no mass can have is lightspeed.
|2008-01-18, 05:11
|Link #504
illusion control
I'm not sure whether this should be asked in Magic And Tech or elsewhere, but I've been wondering:
What's up with the Abandoned City on Midchilda? It just seems odd that there's an entire city just there, in ruins and abandoned, and there doesn't seem to be any signs of reclamation or squatters.
Is there a story behind that? (Other than the obvious "urban combat possibilities without civilians" meta-explanation.)
|2008-01-18, 05:21
|Link #505
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|2008-01-18, 05:27
|Link #506
***y translator
Join Date: Jan 2006
I'll try to list out what I remember from the DVD booklet articles...
EDIT: Actually, all this is irrelevant to the discussion at hand. I must be going crazy .
For anyone saying that the attacks don't miss or don't need user input, well, Teana's Phantom Blazer attack:
About the "Sealed Domain" barrier:
According to the article, it's a Belkan barrier spell, where only the "targets that meet the requirements specified by the user" are left behind.
|2008-01-18, 05:34
|Link #507
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2007
Even as a liquid in the macro sense, there's the forcefield of surface tension, and below the surface, there are still inter-attractions even though the molecules are not rigidly held togehter.
Even as a gas, not all forcefields break down. For example, the bond between carbon and oxygen in CO2.
|2008-01-18, 05:39
|Link #508
Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
|2008-01-18, 06:03
|Link #509
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Join Date: Jul 2007
2) If I'm going to do melee, I'll get an Armed Device. At least that will be specialized for lcose in work.
3) Explain to me your theories that make a staff shape device the ideal compromise b/w all the requirements you spit up there. Without trying to paper over weaknesses with unproven magitech - we're discussing the base shape here.
Hayate is artillery - the indirect fire variety at that.
|2008-01-18, 07:16
|Link #510
Truth Martyr
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Doing Anzu's paperwork.
Age: 32
Well, sorry to burst your bubble... but the US and most nations on Earth have been doing it since the 60s. I'm talking about Semi Active Radar Homing.
Take the AIM-7 Sparrow. You fire the Sparrow at the target; once fired you continue to maintain lock and send course correction updates. Or the RIM-67 Standard Missile 2 used on Aegis cruisers and destroyers. The Aegis system designates the targets, fires the missiles, then tells the missiles where to go and keeps on sending course corrections.
Or the Lock On After Launch mode for the Hellfire missiles mounted on the Apache and the latest Cobras. As the name says: launch first, then lock on.
Now, consider that the US military operates in high intensity warfare. Consider that they wargame for the worst possible senarios. And if firing first and then sending course corrections works for them, then it fucking better well work for us!
(A note on the Sparrow: Sparrow was replaced by the AIM-120 AMRAAM, which is lock on first, then fire, because this is a better option for dogfighting. However, AMRAAM is capable of receiving targeting data and course correction updates so long as the datalink is active, and thus using those to steer itself to the target with greater precision. Which is to say that you can guide it in semi-manually until you need to bug out, at which point you scram at let the AMRAAM go hunting.)
Now, if these can do it, I don't see why RH can't do it.
Incidentally, RH DOES have a move whereby it moves Nanoha outta the way. It's called Flash Move. And it's an evasion tactic.
As for rifles and stocks: most of my OCs use rifle-shaped devices. On the other hand, they're also barely 20 years removed from actually using guns, before a war of annexation and occupation between their planet and the TSAB.
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|2008-01-18, 08:21
|Link #511
Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
Of course, one can do this whether they carry a rifle, staff, axe, sword or whatever device they like, but it shows my preffered method of combat. I'll use this instead of a gun, grab a close/long-range weapon combi, and manage to deal well on all acounts instead of just one.
Second, while firing magic rounds in several directions is possible with a gun, you can't aim in several directions with a gun. You'll have to rely on self controling the rounds anyway, thereby discarding the aiming advantage of the gun. With your weapons main advantage rendered useless, you might as well have taken a staff.
Third, thanks to Nanoha's long-range shot in A's, we already know that having a physical stock or sight present is not a requirement for deadly accuracy even on long ranges. Weapon stabillity does not seem to be an issue (through what methods are theorycrafting, I'll admit) and sights are done mentally.
The staff gives more advantages then a gun or rifle, while sacrificing only minor compensatable ones itself.
So no, it's not a single spell. It's not even a spell designed for that purpose. Mach Calibur took full control over the knuckle and controlled Wing Road. Not just a 'replay cast' but actually controlled the direction the road was going. When controlling the knuckle (which is not even a part of Mach Calibur, if you recall) she activated it and formed Subaru's hand into a fist, punching with a strength that forced Ginga back.
This spells out that devices have the abillity to physically support their wielders. True, it does not prove the existence of an auto-correction feature, but it also renders the excuse of its possible existence being 'baseless' futile.
"Teleportation: a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another "
Dematerialized. No longer matter. If its no longer matter, then what is it?
Speaking of Fate, she can actually be described as melee oriented, but with a fair share of ranged spells. More in the direction of a versatallity expert then a melee expert.
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|2008-01-18, 09:48
|Link #512
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Join Date: Jul 2007
So, if you aim, you might miss but at least you can manuever after firing. If you don't aim and rely solely on command guidance, you save a second or two pre firing (maybe, or did you waste that entering target data?) but lose as you stand there like a statue, with your eyes closed because you don't even have the brainpower left to maintain the broader situational awareness with your eyes.
1) Accuracy, so it might kill swordsman before he can close? Remember that if he closes, even if you might do somewhat better with a staff, you are still at a disadvantage. Wouldn't doing your best to kill him at your favored distance be a better move? For example, if the effective range of the rifle is 200m, and the staff 100m, then I get twice the time to bust him (and more chances to increase that time further by appropriate extension), and thus avoiding what is ultimately a disadvantageous encounter! If I use a sniper rifle to extend that to 600m (Vice's sniper rifle had some of the highest MVs in the series), then there is little comparison.
2) The ability to have a bayonet, which would at least be a cutting surface. The staff is blunt all the way through.
3) Presumably, if I'm duelling w/ someone with my rifle, I'll be contacting his weapon mostly with my barrel. Based on Bardiche, barrels are not likely to be the core, so even if he slices my barrel in two, I can a) quickly replace it and b) have a chance to shoot him at PB, with the psychological advantage of surprise (since he's just done slicing downwards in truimph). As Fate vs Chrono showed, attacks with surprise, even with lower power, can be decisive.
4) Small point: The fact that I have a rifle means I don't need a half-assed Shooting Mode to give me some of the advantages of a rifle (my melee mode will involve adding a bayonet). That means my rifle may potentially have only one form. I don't know, but all else being equal, having only one form can't hurt its good construction.
And did I say "No papering over weaknesses with unproven magitech?" Yes, I did. I might as well say that I can arrange for not only a bayonet, but for my whole barrel to create a magic sword a la Bardiche's scythe (it'll also protect the barrel)! That basically gives me almost a shortsword or shortspear versus your staff in melee.
The problem with the staff is that it is neither fish or fowl. It clearly does not match up to the rifle. Nor does it match up to the sword. The sword is superior in melee and will be comparable to the staff at range with all the paper overing magitech you are trying to give it.
Further, it is clearly an improvised measure that more shows the ingenuity of the particular AI then the feature set she was endowed with.
By the way, remind me how this section disintegrated into an exchange of character assassinations?
|2008-01-18, 10:10
|Link #513
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Join Date: Jul 2007
While we are talking about the Sparrow, shall we mention the need for it to continue to guide causes the plane to be a relative sitting duck and it is considered a weakness.
In theory, if the target is non-maneuverable, an AMRAAM can be completely autonomous LOAL - inertial + ARH. However, that is only true if you allow time to aim (fire control solution), so the correct trajectory and seeker activation points are chosen. Keroko, on the other hand, will just point and shoot (if the WCS has such an override) before this is completed to save himself a few seconds. Thus, he is probably doomed to keep sending correction signals to his missiles (if the WCS even allows this) even if it should be un-necessary, making him a sitting duck.
The point of my objection, as you see, is not so much that he wants to use course correction, but that he apparently believes it a substitute for proper initial aiming (fire control solution).
|2008-01-18, 10:19
|Link #514
Sleep beneath the flowers
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Lording above all of humanity >;3
Age: 29
I'm pretty sure whatever Nanoha imagines RH would turn into. She could imagine a giant planet-cracking hammer and it'd turn into one. She'd just probably get crushed by it and die or something. There isn't evidence to suggest a Device cannot turn into any feasiably useable piece of 'weaponry' if its user wills it too. Nanoha picked a staff and a (sort of) variation on her school uniform simply because she was rushed for time and thinked of the first things that came to mind. And I suppose she watched a few magical girl animes or played some of Arisa's games and thought of a staff.
And I don't think the barriers can just be Belkan. Mid-Childan mages (like Yuuno) use them just fine and they don't even recognize Belkan when it was first used. Unless you mean there are two seperate styles of barriers. I always imagined they simply just moved the battlefield a few dimensions over... Since any damage done to a building or street, etc. etc. doesn't effect the real world when the barrier collapses. We know there are well, a lot of dimensions, I don't think I'd be too odd that it'd just push everything into another one where there isn't anyone to get killed. The article that a barrier only allows who its user wants in makes more since then the idea that anyone with magical talent can get in it. If so that suggests that somehow the previously unmagical Arisa and Suzuka have magical talent by the end of A's.
|2008-01-18, 10:42
|Link #515
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There have been at least a couple of FanFics (Saint X and Dragonzoid) where it turned out those two had magical powers and of course there's that fanmade manga too.
If "only who its user wants in" can get into barriers in general, how did Signum break in in Ep5 A's, Yunno and Fate break in in Ep 1 A's and Yunno and Nanoha in Ep 9 original series... as a rule, those with magic power, enemies or friends can exist, the rest fade.
Two ways to deal with that quotation. One, I can say that the "requirements" that are settable is limited to power level (pressure exerted by barrier), thus the two have some latent magic talent that hadn't shown up until now.
Two, under my theory, if is actually possible to allow some special exceptions, assuming you can locate them. What you will do is specially and specifically anchor them with your own power, so they cannot be pushed out when you extend your barrier. But while one can understand why Hayate (did she?) and / or Rein wanted Fate and Nanoha dead, why they would specifically target Suzuka and Arisa is plainly unclear, so personally I think one is more likely.
|2008-01-18, 10:58
|Link #516
Truth Martyr
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Doing Anzu's paperwork.
Age: 32
Hell, in a combat aircraft, all the pilot does is designate the targets. It's the computers that give the guidance data...
I admit that Sparrow made the launching aircraft a sitting duck. On the other hand, to follow the Hellfire example (since it IS LOAL-capable), once the correction signals are sent it's off an away.
My position on the rifle/staff debate is that the Mid-Childans use staves because it's what they're used to; the Erusian mages of the OFM's Assault Platoon use rifle-shaped devices because many of them have had experience with conventional weapons, and are more used to rifles than staves.
On the subject of scopes... one OC is trying to be Simo Hayha, in that he uses Variable Shot and a sniping spell with iron sights.
As for Nanoha's mentally controlled magic balls...essentially, the designers wrote Nanoha has the magical equivalent of a fin funnel/DRAGOON-equipped Gundam. That's what her magic ballshots are, DRAGOON shots. That's why she doesn't really need to point RH at anyone when she uses Accel Shooter. She just fires away and controls them mentally.
@Kagerou: Storage Devices are probably cheaper and easier to massproduce. As for purpose... if Intelligent Devices are automatic transmission, Storage Devices are manual.
And really, if you're a grunt, you rate an M16. Nobody's gonna give you a HK416 all tricked out Delta Force styles. Or it's like Mobius One getting the F-4 as a noob before he upgraded to the F-22 and the Fighter of Badass and Justice.
...actually, that may be it. Storage Devices are F-4Es. Intelligent Devices are F-16/15. And Raging Heart is an XF/A-27.
|2008-01-18, 11:21
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Adeptus Animus
Join Date: Jan 2007
Age: 31
Teana's Dagger Mode is much more viable, and even that is calling upon my SoD. It looks more like a 'crap, last resort' type of weapon then an effective melee weapon. If they had reshaped the handguard just a tad more straight, they'd be more believable.
Heh. would you look at that. So this is what the other side of the fence looks like.
|2008-01-18, 11:23
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***y translator
Join Date: Jan 2006
I didn't translate the full article, since I never realized anyone might be interested in the rest of it, but anyways...
Do make sure you're using the right terms. The Barrier spell in question is only specifically dealing with the likes of Vita's A's Ep01 barrier, and I assume the one that the Book of Darkness used, not "barriers" in general. Also, it doesn't "let people in" according to the user's specifications, it "leaves people behind" according to those specifications.
封鎖領域 - Sealed Domain
A Belkan barrier spell, with a meaning similar to that of a "magic prison". Leaving behind only "the targets that meet the requirements specified by the user", this spell causes a break in Space-time. As shown by the prison in the name, this spell's main purpose is to "prevent targets entrapped within the barrier from escaping". Because of that, it is relatively easy to break in from the outside, but extremely difficult to escape from the inside.
So they specifically state that it's easy to get inside the barrier, but don't mention why. They never mention what kind of requirements can be specified, so as to why Alisa and Suzuka got stuck inside, who knows?
|2008-01-18, 11:51
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Sleep beneath the flowers
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Lording above all of humanity >;3
Age: 29
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