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European Commission
Joaquín Almunia
Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Competition Policy
Antitrust enforcement: Challenges old and new
19th International Competition Law Forum, St. Gallen
8 June 2012
Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is a pleasure to return to St. Gallen and I thank Professor Carl Baudenbacher for inviting me to address this forum's distinguished audience for the second year running.
Over the past twelve months we have talked a lot about the crisis, the tensions it is causing and its consequences.
The times call for urgent action and bold decisions, and I am confident that – once again – Europe will emerge stronger and more united from this crisis. Among other important steps forward – such as a banking union and further integration within the EMU – we need to renew our trust in the potential of the internal market to generate growth.
Antitrust enforcement is not insulated from this reality; in fact, the task of competition enforcers is particularly delicate in this turbulent period for Europe's economy and society.
And, in the present company, I don't need to make a case for the crucial role of competition policy for the smooth functioning and the completion of the internal market. Keeping the Single Market open, integrated and fair has never been more important.
I cannot see a better platform on which a dynamic and competitive economy can flourish again in our continent.
Against this background, today I would like to update you on the recent activity of the European Commission in selected areas of antitrust and merger control.
In the course of my presentation, I will share my reflections on the challenges – old and new – that we have been encountering in our work.
But first, let me just mention an important policy development recently adopted in the competition domain. Last month the European Commission launched on my initiative a broad and far-reaching overhaul of State aid policy.
The goal of the State aid Modernisation initiative – as it is called – is quite ambitious; the reform package is designed to turn State aid control into a simpler, stronger and smarter instrument to help EU governments boost growth in times of extraordinary fiscal constraints.
The package includes many policy reforms and its main elements will be gradually introduced between this coming autumn and the end of 2013.
I discussed the initiative in Brussels yesterday before an audience of State aid law experts; as I have no time today to share with you its main elements, I invite you to read the ideas I explained in my speech, available on my page on the website of the European Commission.
Before entering into antitrust territory, I would also like to update you on a topic I touched upon last year; the cooperation agreement on competition between the Swiss Confederation and the EU which, at the time, was still under negotiation.
I am pleased to report that the negotiations with the Commission are now over. On 1st June, the Commission adopted the proposal to conclude the agreement and we have now moved to the stage where the Council and the European Parliament need to give their approval.
Many anticompetitive practices have cross-border effects on the EU and the Swiss markets, and closer cooperation between our authorities will doubtless bring large benefits to both sides.
A notable feature of this 'second generation' agreement is that it covers the exchange of evidence obtained by our competition authorities during their investigations. This part is quite innovative and testifies to the level of mutual trust between our authorities.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I will now turn to our work in different areas of antitrust over the past few months, starting with a look at a sector of our economies that is not present very often in our decisions at EU level: food markets. I will do so on the basis of a report on the activity of the European Competition Network in the sector published last month.
The main goals of our competition enforcement are better understood when we deal with products and services that people buy and use every day, such as food; and citizens are worried about how food prices evolve.
The report helps us better understand how food markets work and identify the problems that hinder their smooth functioning.
Despite the fact that the Commission has not dealt with many cases in this area, given the predominantly national dimension of the relevant markets involved, between 2004 and 2011 competition authorities in Europe carried out over one hundred market-monitoring actions, about 1,300 merger cases, and 180 antitrust cases – half of which were cartels, mostly in food processing and manufacturing.
This means that the European competition authorities have swiftly addressed anticompetitive behaviour at all levels of the food supply chain; many problems were located at the processing and manufacturing stage.
This work has benefited all market actors – from farmers to consumers – and it will continue.
Of course, the evolution of food prices is more often a reflection of market fundamentals than a result of lack of competition. In addition, there are still structural obstacles to tackle.
The report suggests that producers should develop their business models to generate efficiencies; for instance, by setting up cooperatives and pooling some activities. The regulatory barriers that still exist at retail level in some EU countries should also be eliminated.
I welcome these suggestions. They are much better solutions to the sector's problems than the calls to shelter the industry from competition control – especially to insulate farmers from changing market conditions.
The conclusions of the report will be useful to guide our enforcement work in the food sector and to coordinate the action of competition enforcers across the EU. I also believe that its findings could find a place in the debate over the future of our Common Agricultural Policy.
Even if most cases in this area have a national dimension, this doesn't mean that we are not paying attention to what is going on along the food value chain. As an example I can refer to a merger decision that the Commission took last month.
On May 16, we approved in Phase II the acquisition of ED&F MAN – the world's second largest sugar trader – by Südzucker – Europe's largest sugar producer. We cleared the deal on condition that ED&F sells its biggest and most modern refinery in Italy.
Sugar markets are already fairly concentrated and are characterised by high prices and scarcity across the EU. Our decision will maintain the present level of competition in the Italian market, where our concerns were concentrated.
To continue my review of our antitrust work in established markets, I will now look at our recent record in the fight against cartels.
Last year we took four decisions and imposed a total of €614 million in fines. This is a reduction compared to 2010, when we took seven decisions for €2.9 billion in fines.
However, looking at the cases we have in the pipeline, I expect these figures to pick up again this year and in the more distant future. Over the last year and a half, we have conducted quite a few inspections and received a large number of applications for leniency.
Beyond these numbers, the recent decisions confirmed the growing success of our settlement procedure.
In 2011, we adopted three settlement decisions in cases concerning consumer detergents, refrigeration compressors, and Cathode Ray Tube glass.
Clearly, the settlement system has become a well-established and effective tool that can considerably shorten our proceedings and generate benefits for everyone.
Let me add, however, that settlements are not suitable in all cases and neither of the decisions we have taken so far in 2012 has been a settlement.
In the first decision, a global cartel in freight forwarding was fined €169 million and in the second a European cartel in the mountings for windows market received a fine of €86 million.
In the Mountings case, the fines of nearly all companies would have reached 10% of their total turnover. As a consequence, we reduced the fines to take into account the mono-product nature of the companies and their different degrees of responsibility.
As to the judicial review of our cartel decisions, the Courts are exercising close scrutiny, which reflects the complexity of the cases and the seriousness of the infringements we have to deal with.
I am happy to report that most of our decisions have withstood this review. More importantly, the Courts have confirmed several fundamental points for our practice. For instance, they have confirmed for the first time key elements of our 2006 Fining Guidelines.
The Courts have also upheld the principles we apply in the complex area of parental liability.
In particular, they have affirmed that when a subsidiary that is almost fully owned by another company breaks competition law, we can hold the parent company responsible.
To use more precise language, we can still rely on the presumption that the parent exercised decisive influence over its subsidiary. It is then for the parent to prove otherwise.
I believe that this will have a positive impact on business practices. Parent companies can now be certain that they can be held responsible for the infringements of their subsidiaries if they together form a single economic entity.
As a consequence, they will arguably take better care that the latter stay on the safe side of competition law.
In a few cases, the Courts have also ruled against the Commission. For example, they criticised the Commission for not sufficiently stating its reasons when it rejected the attempts of the parties to rebut the presumption of parental liability.
However, since the time when the decisions the Court criticised were taken, our policy has evolved. Our practice has now come fully in line with the judgments of the Courts.
Overall, the judgments prove once again the importance of judicial review in our system of enforcement.
Our system has evolved over the years to guarantee the highest standards of fairness and impartiality. Among other things, in the past two years we have further improved our process through the adoption of Best Practices in antitrust and an expanded role for the Hearing Officers. The Court has also confirmed that our system is fully in line with the fundamental rights guaranteed at European level.
Let me add one more thing on cartel enforcement.
We are committed to protecting our leniency policy following last year's Pfleiderer judgment.
This is a matter of common concern for Europe's public enforcers. Just a few weeks ago, the heads of the agencies associated in the European Competition Network adopted a joint resolution on the protection of leniency material in the context of damage actions.
But we are seeking a more general solution. I intend to propose legislation later this year that will strike the right balance between the protection of leniency programmes and the victims' rights to obtain compensation.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I will now turn to the antitrust work that the Commission is carrying out in less established industries.
Addressing the fresh challenges that fast-moving markets pose to us is crucial for competition policy, because we must ensure that they deploy in full their considerable potential for innovation and growth.
I will review our work using examples from the market for search engines, online commerce, and the new systems of payments we have to develop to tap the potential of the digital economy.
My first story has been covered extensively by the media. On May 21, I sent a letter to Google underlining our concerns in its business practices that we identified in our preliminary investigations that started in November 2010.
I want to give the company the opportunity to offer remedy proposals that would avoid lengthy proceedings. By early July, I expect to receive from Google concrete signs of their willingness to explore this route.
In case we engage in negotiations to address our concerns and the proposals we receive turn out to be unsatisfactory, formal proceedings will continue through the adoption of a Statement of Objections.
I strongly believe that users and competitors would greatly benefit from a quick resolution of the case; it is always better to restore competition swiftly in fast-moving markets, provided of course that the companies concerned are ready to seriously address and solve the problems at stake.
To remain in the digital domain, let me share my views on a couple of mergers in the music business that have interesting implications for online commerce.
The digital era and the Internet have brought a revolution in this market. The consumption of digital music continues to rise at the expense of sales in physical formats, although in Europe physical sales still account for the majority of them.
We know that internet users can legally find and consume digital music in different degrees in the various Member States.
The key is finding new services and business models that can fairly remunerate artists and bring music to consumers at competitive prices through legal pathways. To encourage this evolution, digital platforms must offer the widest possible repertoire, including recent chart hits and evergreens from the past.
The size of the catalogue is crucial in this market because if consumers cannot find what they are looking for, they can quickly jump to the next service.
This is where record companies get into the picture; a company with a large and popular catalogue can have significant market power over digital platforms, which would have a keen interest to strike a deal with it.
Competition authorities have the responsibility to monitor these market developments and allow all participants to play their part.
This is the context for the two merger cases I referred to earlier. The first one is the deal that gave control of the music publishing business of the EMI Group to Sony and Mubadala, an investment fund based in the United Arab Emirates.
We cleared the merger last April on condition that the new company created by the merger sold four of its catalogues and the works of 12 contemporary authors. Without these conditions, the new company would have owned – fully or in part – the publishing rights in over half of recent chart hits in the UK and Ireland.
The other case is the proposed acquisition of the recorded music business of EMI by Universal Music Group.
We opened our in-depth investigation last March and we are getting ready to move to the next stage in our proceedings. Ultimately, we will need to make sure that, in this already concentrated market, the company that would emerge from the deal would not be in a position to shape the future landscape in the digital music market to the detriment of users and artists.
Preserving competition and innovation is crucial in other dynamic industries as well, such as the markets for payments.
Open, secure and innovative payment systems are strategically important for the growth of e-commerce and the smooth functioning of the internal market.
We are currently studying how to complete the internal market for cards, internet and mobile payments. In the past couple of months, we have closed a popular public consultation and – together with my colleague Michel Barnier – I have launched a Green Paper to discuss our options in this domain.
I can report that the interest among stakeholders and the general public is very high, and we are preparing to announce the next steps this summer.
Obviously, the landmark judgement recently handed down by the General Court in the MasterCard case has a significant impact on these reflections and on the course of action the Commission will take.
On May 24, the General Court fully confirmed the Commission's 2007 decision prohibiting the multilateral interchange fees applied by MasterCard.
In particular, the Court confirmed our assessment that collectively agreed interbank fees have restrictive effects and that they lack justification in terms of benefits for merchants and consumers.
We have already opened cases against VISA and the European Payments Council. Now we are considering whether part of the Court's findings can be translated into rules applying to the whole market.
In the meantime, I expect MasterCard, Visa, domestic payment card schemes and, of course, banks to bring their fees and scheme rules in line with the judgment.
The effects of the MasterCard judgment will be felt in national jurisdictions too. Enforcement procedures are ongoing before a number of national competition authorities and courts across the EU.
Finally, there is the possibility that victims of anticompetitive behaviour go to court to claim compensation for the damages incurred. I understand this is already happening regarding interchange fees.
So, there are many good reasons why payment card schemes and banks should align their practice to the judgment. But the best reason I know is that consumers, retailers and companies in Europe expect the industry to develop transparent and justifiable business models that offer good value for money.
Finally, let me tell you that our commitment to protect openness and innovation in the payments markets is not limited to enforcement of Article 102 of the TFEU.
We are also looking at merger cases, such as the proposed joint venture by Telefónica, Vodafone and Everything Everywhere that was set up to launch new mobile-commerce services in the UK – including the new form of payment called mobile wallet.
We have opened an in-depth review of the deal to make sure that the services developed by the joint venture do not block future competitors from offering their own mobile-wallet services to customers.
We are, of course, in favour of initiatives that bring new services to our consumers – I would say it's part of our responsibilities – and mobile commerce is quite a promising field.
But for this very same reason we need to be especially vigilant, because it is important to keep this market open and the incentives to innovate high.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The last topic I would like to discuss today – standards and intellectual property rights – go to the core of the knowledge economy.
A healthy system for the protection of intellectual property creates incentives for researchers and inventors granting them exclusive rights – within certain limits – for the commercial exploitation of their findings.
But the system can be abused, which can be particularly harmful for the economy. This is why we want to prevent the trend we can observe in certain industries toward the strategic use of patents as a means to block competition.
For instance, following the conclusions of the sector enquiry carried out a few years ago in the pharmaceutical sector we have opened four antitrust cases against the companies Servier, Lundbeck, Cephalon, Johnson & Johnson and Novartis.
In all these cases we investigate whether the companies unlawfully extended their market exclusivity beyond the limits granted by their legitimate IPRs with the aim to delay the entry of generic products into the market.
Other indications of a strategic use of patents come from the mobile communications industry, which the media describe as a 'patent war'. Let's see why the war broke out in the first place.
Thousands of patents are needed to build a modern smartphone, including some common standards required to exchange information with other devices.
The companies that hold standard-essential patents have a large market power, which they can use to threaten to ban the products of competitors from the market.
In the worst-case scenario, these legal battles can effectively hold up the entire industry to the detriment of users.
This is unacceptable and I am determined to prevent such hold-ups.
The patent wars are keeping us increasingly busy. Back in January, we opened an investigation on Samsung to make sure that its standard-essential patents are made available in fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.
In April we opened two more cases on similar complaints by Apple and Microsoft against Motorola.
As to the latest developments, we have received complaints by the Chinese handset manufacturer Huawei against InterDigital – a US-based company – and by Google, alleging that Nokia and Microsoft use a so-called 'patent troll company' to start legal challenges on their behalf.
We are carefully looking into these allegations.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Let me quickly summarise the main points I have touched upon today before I conclude.
This morning I have explored our work in established markets, such as the food market, and discussed developments in our fight against cartels, including some of the recent judgments by the European Courts.
I have also given you a taste of the fresh challenges that we encounter in the more dynamic industries of the digital age.
Finally, I have reviewed some recent issues in areas that are central to the development of e-commerce and the digital economy.
In all these domains, I have tried to illustrate how the European Commission – in these difficult times for Europe – is dealing with old and new challenges to ensure a level playing field and a healthy competition environment in the internal market.
This is our duty and responsibility, and I can assure you that we will redouble our efforts to keep the EU competition authority ahead of the curve.
Thank you.
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MLK Day: Oware Talks About Rap Musicby Patrick Bryant '16 • January 22, 2013 Share:
Dr. Matthew Oware told a Wabash audience Monday that since rap went mainstream in the late 1980s and early 1990s it has seemed to be a genre that is "extensively hyper-masculine, homophobic, sexist, and violent."
In his talk entitled "The Brotha Who Loves: Complicating Hegemonic Black Masculinity in Rap Music," Dr. Matthew Oware, a sociology professor at DePauw University, said it isn't that simple. The talk given Jan. 21 was in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day..
Oware spoke of a correlation between manufacturing jobs leaving urban areas in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and rising crime, unemployment, and births out of wedlock, among African-American families.
"What the consequence of [a movement of manufacturing jobs] is you lose a primary means for individuals to make a living," Oware said. "Some individuals, essentially to make a living, they turn to gang-related activities or engaging in illegal activities."
Since then, according to Oware, the role of African-American men has switched to that of a "provider" to that of a "player of women."
A crucial and devastating effect has been the loss of the family unit. Oware shared a speech made by then-Senator Barack Obama who said that fathers in the African-American community need to become men and stop acting as boys. Obama went on to say that the responsibility of a father doesn't merely end at conception.
The ideas of violence, subjugation of women, and disregard for the family unit, according to Oware, are certainly glamourized in the lyrics of many rap songs. After sharing examples of profanity-laced excerpts from songs, many of which included racial slurs, Oware then shared excerpts from other rap songs which included appeals to family, a calling to provide for family, and the beauty of a child's birth. One of the issues, Oware said, is that what sells in the market right now are the songs that glamourize ideas of violence, infidelity, and sexism, are consumed in many cases by young, Caucasian males. In many cases, rappers are forced to "appeal to market forces," he said.
The glorification of these such is not limited to the rap genre though, Tyler Griffin '13, Chairman of the Malcolm X Institute for Black Studies, said. Griffin said country music videos often portray scantily-clad woman and emphasize a heavy usage of alcohol. The difference as it pertains to the African-American community is the fact that rap music is almost an obligation when one grows up in an urban area, he said.
"The same discussions that we take from rap we can also take from [country music]," Griffin said. "It's more pertinent to the black community because in the inner-city, hip-hop, rap, if you don't know that stuff, you don't really survive."
What can be done begins with communication, Oware said. He said that he grew up listening to rap music, and although students should not stop listening to the genre, discussions need to take place.
"My major point is, even when we see instances of misogyny, sexism, and homophobia, it's complicated," Oware said, "[The rappers] are saying other stuff too. This is a complication; this is the complexity that we need to bring to the floor. I think it definitely needs to be critiqued, it needs to be discussed, but we also need to have a fuller picture."
Since the talk was meant to be a part of the College's and the MXI's observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Griffin said King would be sympathetic to the income inequality that exists in today's urban centers, but King would be extremely disappointed in the lyrics of rap music, especially the usage of racial slurs that King worked to take out of vernacular altogether.
"I think if Dr. King rose from his grave today, he would not only be fighting the injustice of the American economy," Griffin said, "but he would also be fighting people within his own community because unfortunately they are perpetuating [some of] the things that he fought against."

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The Art of Becoming a Real Adult
I have coached around the world for a well known Law of Attraction and Positive thinking guru. I recently started my own coaching business and need a logo that "speaks" to the viewer and has a life of its own.
Note: With enormous regret I had to cancel a previous contest regarding another name. I had challenges regarding a name which was not completely available for patent. This name, "The Art..." however, is clear... All things happen for a reason as I absolutely love this name.
Sophisticated self thinkers, trend setters motivated for self improvement and seeking answers to their life's challenges.
Under "attachments" is the style of the logo and font. I would like a design simple and sophisticated which this font will be a part of.
Have you ever seen a piece of artwork highlighted by a light shining from over the work of art? This is one idea that appeals to me to have the words "a Real Adult" highlighted in the business name. Like a light is shining on those words so they stand out. Something to make it "come alive." Almost as if "a Real Adult" has fireworks coming from it... A creative and inspired design that speaks hope and of coming home.
I would like the business name to "reach out" to the reader and to have a life of its own in a quiet, calm and positive way.
Nothing crazy or abstract as the font is already chosen (unless you have a better idea and sell me on it).
Also the ease at being able to transfer the image is important whether it be a website, letterhead or a business card.
This logo doesn't have to be complicated, but classy, sophisticated and leaves a positive and clear impression of what I do.
What do I do? I help people "attract" good and positive things in their lives by working on the inside out. I show them how to achieve self control and become a real "grown up" often for the first time in their lives. The results are dramatic and unbelievable as they achieve abundance in all of their life.. It truly is like finally coming home.
Good things come freely instead of a frustrating chase. Everything flows instead of feeling like they are running in circles.
Thank you for your talents and I welcome your creative and inspired designs.
Good Luck!


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I'm giving up on the p-divisible group posts for awhile. I would have to be too technical and tedious to write anything interesting about enlarging the base. It is pretty fascinating stuff, but not blog material at the moment.
I've been playing around with counting fibration structures on K3 surfaces, and I just noticed something I probably should have been aware of for a long time. This is totally well-known, but I'll give a slightly anachronistic presentation so that we can use results from 2013 to prove the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture!! … Well, only in a case that has been known since 1973 when it was published by Artin and Swinnerton-Dyer.
Let's recall the Tate conjecture for surfaces. Let be a finite field and a smooth, projective surface. We've written this down many times now, but the long exact sequence associate to the Kummer sequence
(for ) gives us a cycle class map
In fact, we could take Galois invariants to get our standard
The Tate conjecture is in some sense the positive characteristic version of the Hodge conjecture. It conjectures that the first map is surjective. In other words, whenever an -adic class "looks like" it could come from an honest geometric thing, then it does. But if the Tate conjecture is true, then this implies the -primary part of is finite. We could spend some time worrying about independence of , but it works, and hence the Tate conjecture is actually equivalent to finiteness of .
Suppose now that is an elliptic K3 surface. This just means that there is a flat map where the fibers are elliptic curves (there are some degenerate fibers, but after some heavy machinery we could always put this into some nice form, we're sketching an argument here so we won't worry about the technical details of what we want "fibration" to mean). The generic fiber is a genus curve that does not necessarily have a rational point and hence is not necessarily an elliptic curve.
But we can just use a relative version of the Jacobian construction to produce a new fibration where is a K3 surface fiberwise isomorphic to , but now and hence is an elliptic curve. Suppose we want to classify elliptic fibrations that have as the relative Jacobian. We have two natural ideas to do this.
The first is that etale locally such a fibration is trivial, so you could consider all glueing data to piece such a thing together. The obstruction will be some Cech class that actually lives in . In fancy language, you make these things as -gerbes which are just twisted relative moduli of sheaves. The class in is giving you the obstruction the existence of a universal sheaf.
A more number theoretic way to think about this is that rather than think about surfaces over , we work with the generic fiber . It is well-known that the Weil-Chatelet group: gives you the possible genus curves that could occur as generic fibers of such fibrations. This group is way too big though, because we only want ones that are locally trivial everywhere (otherwise it won't be a fibration).
So it shouldn't be surprising that the classification of such things is given by the Tate-Shafarevich group:
Very roughly, I've now given a heuristic argument (namely that they both classify the same set of things) that Ш , and it turns out that Grothendieck proved the natural map that comes form the Leray spectral sequence Ш is an isomorphism (this rigorous argument might actually have been easier than the heuristic one because we've computed everything involved in previous posts, but it doesn't give you any idea why one might think they are the same).
Theorem: If is an elliptic curve of height (occuring as the generic fiber of an elliptic K3 surface), then satisfies the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.
Idea: Using the machinery alluded to before, we spread out to an elliptic K3 surface over a finite field. As of this year, it seems the Tate conjecture is true for K3 surfaces (the proofs are all there, I'm not sure if they have been double checked and published yet). Thus is finite. Thus Ш is finite. But now it is well-known that if Ш being finite is equivalent to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture.


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A New Strategy for Best Buy Founder?
Best Buy founder Richard Schulze is weighing whether to scrap a plan to take over the struggling electronics chain and instead line up investors, Joan Solsman joins digits. Photo: Best Buy.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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CORTLAND, N.Y. – Junior Will Evans (Newark, NJ/Malcolm X Shabazz) returned a kickoff 89 yards for a touchdown late in the third quarter for what proved to be the winning points and Kean stopped Cortland twice on the 2-yard line in the final minute as the nationally 18th-ranked Cougars held on to win 21-16 at the 11th-ranked Red Dragons in a New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) matchup.
Kean improves to 2-0 (1-0 NJAC), with both victories against ranked opponents. The Cougars opened the season at home last week with a 31-28 win over then third-ranked Wesley. Cortland falls to 1-1, both overall and in the NJAC.
Kean senior quarterback Thomas D'Ambrisi (Eatontown, NJ/Monmouth Regional) completed 15-of-23 passes for 192 yards and two touchdowns, both to senior receiver Chris Suozzo (Old Bridge, NJ). Suozzo and Matt Pitarresi (New Providence, NJ) each finished with four catches.
Cortland graduate student quarterback Dan Pitcher (Cortland) recorded career highs of 22 completions (in 36 attempts) and 265 yards. He threw TD passes to sophomore wide receiver John Babin (Warwick Valley) and senior tight end Brian Haber (Northport). Babin led the Red Dragons with seven catches. Senior tailback Dorian Myles (Lackawanna/Hamburg) came off the bench and rushed for 91 yards on 17 carries and junior starting tailback Justin Autera (Mahopac) finished with 20 carries for 73 yards. Cortland outgained Kean, 455-277, in total offense.
Kean senior defensive lineman James-Edwards Boyd (Highland Park, NJ) and senior outside linebacker Richard Esdaile (Neptune, NJ/Saint John Vianney) shared the team lead with nine tackles each. Junior defensive back Chris VanFechtmann (Hazlet, NJ/Raritan) finished with eight tackles, an interception and a pass breakup.
For Cortland, junior safety Kyle Nisbett (Staten Island/Monsignor Farrell) led the way with nine tackles. Junior linebacker Mike Wilson (Penfield) recorded seven tackles, including 2.5 for lost yardage.
Trailing 21-16, Cortland started its final drive on its own 35-yard line with 5:21 remaining. Three plays into the drive, a wild snap from center forced the Red Dragons into a 2nd-and-32 from their own 30. However, Myles ran for 15 yards on second down and Pitcher hit Haber on a 26-yard pass to keep the drive alive.
Cortland eventually had 1st-and-goal on the 5-yard line after a Myles 5-yard run on 3rd-and-1. Myles was stopped for no gain on first down and gained three yards on second down. With 52 seconds left, Pitcher was held for no gain on a quarterback draw on third down. On fourth down, Pitcher lofted a pass to the front left corner of the end zone. Haber jumped for the ball, but Kean junior safety Brett Yajcaji (Toms River, NJ/Toms River East) was able to knock the ball away. Kean took a knee three times to run out the clock.
Cortland took a 7-0 on the game's opening drive – a 10-play, 63-yard series that ended with a 19-yard pass from Pitcher to Haber. Kean started a drive with 5:38 left in the first quarter that eventually progressed to the Cortland 6-yard line early in the second quarter. On 1st-and-goal, however, Cortland defensive lineman Vaughn Labor (Norwich) stripped D'Ambrisi on the quarterback keeper and the Red Dragons recovered on the 1-yard line.
Kean, however, forced a Cortland fumble near midfield when Yajcaji hit Autera. The Cougars took only three plays to score, capped by D'Ambrisi's 18-yard pass to Suozzo that knotted the game at 7-7.
Toward the end of the half, Cortland mounted a 15-play, 82-yard drive that featured four successful third-down conversions. Pitcher's 7-yard TD pass to Babin gave the Red Dragons a 13-7 lead, but Bekim Bujari (Secaucus, NJ) blocked the extra point.
Kean's first drive of the third quarter appeared to be heading for a score, but Cortland held the Cougars on four plays from the Red Dragon 2-yard line. On the fourth down play, D'Ambrisi tried to score on a sneak but fumbled the ball into the end zone. Kean recovered, but, by rule, only D'Ambrisi was allowed to recover his own fourth-down fumble to gain yardage and Cortland took possession at the 1-yard line.
The Cougars held, and a 21-yard punt return by T.J. Denehy (Monroe Township, NJ) set up Kean at the Cortland 33-yard line. Denehy then caught a 31-yard pass at the Cortland 2-yard line on 3rd-and-10 and, three plays later, D'Ambrisi hit Suozzo on a 3-yard TD pass to give Kean a 14-13 lead.
Cortland responded with a 12-play, 70-yard drive that stalled at the Kean 5-yard line. Senior Marc Corrado (Newburgh/Newburgh Free Academy) made a 22-yard field goal to give the Red Dragons a 16-14 lead. That advantage was short-lived, however, as Evans broke free down the left sideline for an 89-yard kickoff return that put the Cougars up 21-16.
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Someone fired a gun 17 times toward a man and hit him once in the Bronzeville neighborhood overnight, according to authorities.
The 21-year-old man was a passenger in a car 47th Street about 12:30 a.m. when someone in another car on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive opened fire, leaving shell casings all over the intersection.
The back window of the man's car was shot out and the girlfriend drove him to Garfield Boulevard and Indiana Avenue.
From there the man was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital with a gunshot wound to the head. Police said he was "walking and talking."
Family members tried to retrieve the car from Garfield Boulevard but were told it needed to be checked for evidence.
It's not clear what prompted the shooting. The man's girlfriend, driving the car at the time of the attack, was uninjured.
In the Old Irving Park neighborhood about 6:30 a.m., a 32-year-old man was shot near Cicero and Warwick avenues, a couple blocks north of Addison Street. He was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with a wound to his groin.
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I know this is probably a noob question but there are some VERY intelligent guys on this forum that give a lot of good advice.
Do you still need a domain registrar (like godaddy) if you run a domain service such as BIND? I know that a name server is for resolving www name to ip and the reverse but is this just on your local network? How do the domain registrar's register the domain name?
Thanks in advance
If your nameserver is private, you need no name registration. Commonly, private nameservers act as caching servers and may also provide local name resolution on private, RFC 1918 LANs, as I mentioned to frcc in this recent thread.
If your nameserver is public, server requirements will be set by your zone authority.
After reading several tutorials I think that this is well beyond the scope of what I am trying to accomplish. I will use a registrar for this task.
Thank you for your input!
You never described what it is you wanted to accomplish. As an example, you can have a nameserver on a local, private network that only has an internal private network address and is not addressable from the Internet at all. I do this on my home network, where I have named(8) listening on a server at 192.168.1.1. Not addressable from the Internet, no FQDN, no registrar.
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Basically I was wanting to not use godaddy to provide the dns lookup. Since i found out that it is hard to get on 'the list' so that other dns servers will use you for lookup. It doesnt make much sense to run this out of my house for one site.
As far as the local dns, that doesnt make much sense either since i only have a small network of a few computers.
Mostly I am just expanding my knowledge of openbsd but in the case of dns, it doesnt make much sense.
There are two sides to DNS: "authoritative" and "recursive". Authoritative is when a domain you control is being asked "where is www.${yourdomain}.com?" by someone outside of your domain, recursive is when a machine on your domain asks your ISPs dns server "where is www.${someotherdomain}.com?", which your ISP may or may not immediately know. If it doesn't know, it either refers you to an upstream DNS server, or it asks upstream on your behalf.
It sounds like you're trying to setup an authoritative server (this is all the registrar really needs to know about), in which case jggimi's advice is what you're looking for.
If not, though, you can look into named as a recursive resolver, or unbound (my preference), or even a few others. The major use case there would be "I want to use ${ISP}, but ${ISP}s name servers suck...so I'll run my own recursive dns server and point it at the internet's root dns servers!"
This, I can tell you, runs nicely and is fun. You can do all manners of fun stuff when you run your own recursive (well, either recursive or authoritative) dns server.
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LYNCHBURG, Va. (Jan. 30, 2010) - Senior Kenneth Rotich (Nairobi, Kenya) ran his way to the title in the 3000m, and fellow senior Zachlynn Blackburn (Tazewell, Va.) captured her second weight throw title this season, as the ETSU track and field team wrapped up competition Saturday afternoon at the Liberty Open inside the Tolsma Track Center.
With cold temperatures and snow flying outside the track center, Rotich was heating things up on the track as the Kenyan sensation dominated the 21-man field with a top time of 8:27.79. Rotich, who was racing in the 3000m for the first time all season, beat his nearest competitor by over 10 seconds.
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from the but-of-course dept
Apparently waiting for actual evidence of infringement, or even specific liability for Mega, is too much to ask. This is silly. While we may have doubts about how Mega is running, shutting it down without even understanding what it's about seems incredibly short-sighted. Plenty of successful legitimate companies have been built out of those who were earlier sued for "infringement." Isn't it worth at least making sure he's breaking the law before insisting he must have done so?
Robert King is the lead figure behind StopFileLockers (SFL), an anti-piracy group dedicated to bringing file-hosting services to their knees by strangling their finances. Last year King claimed his group had a hand in disrupting the cash flow to hundreds of sites and actually shutting down dozens more. Now he has a very big scalp on his mind.
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At Nemours, we promise to do whatever it takes to treat children as we would our own. When your child comes to Nemours, we know you're placing your trust in us. This trust and our dedication to improving the health of your child is what inspires us to provide exceptional care and the most satisfying experience possible.
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About two-thirds of patients with critical heart disease are diagnosed as infants. So it's often the tiniest hearts that need the most help—and as soon as possible. But thanks to advanced technology and our expert team of Nemours cardiac specialists, most children born with a congenital heart defect—even newborns only hours old—can be quickly diagnosed and treated right when it matters the most.
Our heart surgeons at the Nemours Cardiac Center (located at Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE) are right at the forefront, contributing to the incredible ongoing advances in cardiac surgical management. Now, reconstructive heart surgery can help virtually all patients with structural heart disease, even the most complicated.
No matter what your baby's diagnosis or predicted outcome, we do whatever it takes to improve the lives and the longevity of every patient we see. In 2011, we had lower-than-expected cardiac surgery mortality (death) in newborns and infants, compared to the national average provided by the Society for Thoracic Surgeons' congenital database. That is, we have fewer deaths in babies (under 12 months old) who received heart surgery, compared to the national rate at other pediatric facilities for the predicted number of deaths in babies with similar conditions who received heart surgery. Our rate was 3.5% of the infants who received heart surgery, compared to the national predicted rate of 5%.
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At Nemours, we've become a leader in minimizing the number of operations our young patients need. The techniques and advances we use can help babies and children avoid the trauma and recovery time of open-heart surgery. Our treatment options improve the outlook for scores of kids—with less discomfort and shorter hospital stays. And duPont Hospital for Children is actually one of only a mere handful of centers in the United States where certain treatment capabilities are available.
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If your unborn baby has a heart defect, close coordination among specialists is also critically important. The Nemours Cardiac Center's fetal cardiology team works with your obstetrician and/or perinatologist (a doctor who specializes in high-risk pregnancies) to help plan for the evaluation and treatment of your baby's heart condition before and after birth.
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Cooler than Kale? Not likely!
I love Kale. It's strange I know, but I am not the only one! There is Bo from Eatmorekale.com who makes his own t-shirts with awesome sayings screen printed on them, (go buy a shirt then show it to me. I will be pumped!); there is the crazy farmer lady who owns the blog 365daysofkale.com, where she documents her year of eating kale every day, and of course there are the nutrition scientists who love kale because it is one of the healthiest things you can put down your gullet.
The amount of good stuff in kale and other relatives of the brassica family (think collard greens, broccoli, mustard greens and kohlrabi) is overwhelming. It could take up to 30 or so pages to fully explain the benefits of this vegetable, so here is a short summary of the goodness that is in kale:
Your natural multi-vitamin
Kale has a high content of calcium, vitamin C, vitamin B6, folic acid, vitamin A (in the form of beta-carotene), vitamin K, potassium, manganese, copper, and even the plant form of omega-3 fatty acids (alpha-linolenic acid or ALA). In addition to the carotenoid beta-carotene, kale contains other very important carotenoid molecules called lutein and zeaxanthin (both necessary for eye health) and numerous others (probably too many to count, and maybe even yet identified).
Eating kale is like winning the health lottery!
Kale has a substance called sulforaphane in it. Sulforaphane is a big deal when considering heart disease and healthy arteries. I recently came across some research that explained how sulforphane can "turn on" certain protective mechanisms in the arteries to protect against inflammation and atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. Kale and its brother broccoli have been tapped as containing the most sulforphane when compared to other vegetables and foods. So eat your kale. Your heart will thank you!
Need calcium? Kale has got you covered! One cup of cooked kale has more bio-available calcium then 2 glasses of milk! We need a T-shirt that says "got kale?"!!!
Kale: the James Bond of vegetables
What else does kale have in it? Yep. You guessed it – glucosinolates. Now, I am sure everyone knows the deal with glucosinolates….What? You mean you don't??? Well, let me hit you with some knowledge!
Glucosinolates are compounds found in high concentrations in leafy green vegetables (especially kale). These molecules are especially cool because they activate the body's own antioxidant system. This cascade of antioxidant activity actually cycles over and over within the body and continues to protect your system as many as 3 to 4 days after the glucosinolate-containing food has been consumed. Talk about protection! By this process, glucosinolates help the liver eliminate toxic molecules.
These toxins come from many sources: cigarette smoke, pollution, drugs, even free radicals generated by our own bodies in response to illness. So the big picture here is even if you eat super clean, it is good to have some kale in your diet to protect against the bad stuff that may be floating around in your environment.
Kale – it is like a vegetable Ninja!
O.K. you get the point, you should be eating some kale right now, but what if you really don't want to gnaw on raw kale all day long? Never fear! I found some recipes from Diana at 365daysofkale.com that look delicious. Here are a few I found: More


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Gabe learns everything he needs to know to raise his own pet sharks...
Some of us might be old enough to remember the early days of cable television, when the advertising money wasn't enough to sustain much in the way of original programming. When most of the stations we now consider the high end of the format started they didn't have a lot to work with, and were forced to rerun stuff produced for other purposes. For this reason movie stations had it the easiest. The Discovery Channel, which was launched in 1985, started as a sort of collection depot for nature and science documentaries. Over the years they developed original series and additional channels, but one event has remained a constant source of revenue and excitement for more than twenty years—Shark Week. For this Blu-ray release the Discovery Channel has collected six full episodes of shark related series specials, so that fans can have their very own Shark Week any day of the year.
Surviving Sharks sees Survivorman host Les Stroud putting himself and his friends in danger in hopes of informing us how to survive various shark related situations. I'm personally not a fan of Survivorman's unintentionally hilarious brand of melodrama, and this episode is more unbelievably melodramatic than most, including a goofy musical score worthy of the Metal Gear video game series. It's kind of goofy, but not nearly as goofy as How Not to Become Shark Bait, where three idiots looking to be bitten by sharks put themselves in needlessly dangerous situations to prove… something. I guess they're supposed to be warnings on how not to handle a situation, but things feel more like they could break into Faces of Death any minute. Unfortunately, nothing really happens, mostly both shows just prove it's really hard to get attacked by a shark.
Mysteries of the Shark Coast is less dramatic than the rest of the collection's episodes, but is probably the most informative, as the scientists conducting the on-screen experiments are genuinely learning something about shark behaviour, rather than proving things most eight year old boys already know. The team and narrator are more personable and 'real' than the tough guys and personalities running us through Surviving Sharks and How Not to Become Shark Bait. There are actually lessons to be learned here about over-fishing and other environmental factors that have put the creatures in increasing danger, along with cool information concerning the technical aspects of studying underwater creatures. Animal rights activists that don't appreciate scientists messing with the beasts (even if they are trying to help them) should joy at the site of a tiger shark knocking one of the taggers unconscious with his own pole.
The best part of the set is Mythbusters: Shark Special 2, the Mythbusters' second shot at disproving various shark related tall tales. This second helping features fewer Jaws specific myths, which should make the proceedings less interesting to a film nut, but the actual entertainment value is even higher this time around, thanks in great part to the efforts of the Mythbusters personalities. Really every myth tested leads to a share of entertainment and informational value, but highlights include Grant Imahara creating an impressively realistic robotic dog, Jamie and Adam testing various simple shark repellents, including magnets and chili powder (neither of which really worked against big sharks), Grant and Tory Belleci tossed into the water with frenzied sharks to test what kind of movement attracted sharks, and a really cool industrial sized mechanical shark set to stop thrashing when its eye socket is pressed.
Day of the Shark is pure, visceral, goofy fun, concerned with extreme real-life shark attacks. The show is made up of melodramatic, music video cut reenactments, interviews with the subjects, and occasional photos of the real carnage. Most unfortunately the best story comes first, which involves a surfer being eviscerated by a great white. The dude is saved in part by a pod of pissed off dolphins that attack the shark, likely not to save the human, but simply because dolphins seem to naturally hate sharks. The rest of the short feature is more of the same, minus dolphin rescues. Not for the squeamish.
The episodes not considered extras by the disc's producers end with Dirty Jobs: Greenland Shark Quest. Host Mike Rowe and his crew take to Northern Canada in search of the elusive Greenland Shark. Why? Because they were asked to, that's why. The special kind of stretches the series theme of dirty jobs that make modern life possible, in that the crew is doing scientific work that isn't necessarily intrinsic to modern life, but it is in-keeping with the usual sarcastic and warm tone, and Rowe does manage to capture the difficulty of such work. The hi-def video insures that the audience experiences at least a fraction of the freezing cold.
The video quality various throughout the disc, but the overall consistency between shows is relatively persistent (though Mysteries of the Shark Coast is the 'weakest' of the collection). The video quality depends on the surroundings, which vary in lighting and environmental elements. On the whole we're talking about the difference between full on perfection, and relatively gorgeous. The variances are in grain, which increases when situations are at their darkest, and details, which also decreases when lighting is either too low or too high. The colours also vary based on environmental ideals, but fans of shark footage should find themselves swimming in beautiful blues and greens. The underwater stuff is the most exciting (and feature some fun bits of poppy contrast from diving gear), but the most impressive moments are aboard boats, where the waves of blue appear so realistic you can almost touch them. Despite the increase in grain and loss of detail in dark scenes, underwater night scenes feature some powerfully deep blacks. The Dirty Jobs special's time in the Artic leads to the set's finest bright whites, while the Mythbusters special features the most variety of bright colours.
The consistently impressive video quality doesn't quite extend to the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 tracks, which definitely vary from show to show. The less impressive shows don't feature distorted or damaged audio, they simply feature less in the way of exciting surround and stereo effects. Most of the activity outside of the centre channel is devoted to the various musical scores (which is where Survivorman sets itself apart through intensely silly music), but there are plenty of artificial sound effects added to the underwater footage. These added effects are the track's coolest moments, and do genuinely create an illusion of immersion. The narration is perfectly clear and consistent throughout every show, and the LFE channel is positively throbbing throughout the collection.
For extras Discovery includes three additional shark related episodes. First up is Shark Attack Files IV: Summer of the Shark (50:00, SD). This is the most cheaply produced special on the entire set, with ham-fisted re-enactments, ugly, public-access-like titles, and awkward camera work. The special starts as an informative look at the media frenzy that accompanied a series of shark attacks in 2001, but the overall study features basically a random assortment of shark attack stories from different years, all using a similar formula of set up, scary part, and assurance that sharks aren't actually bad creatures. It's not great, but good enough as an extra.
The second and third episodes are the first and second Dirty Jobs: Jobs that Bite specials. In the first part (80:00, SD) Mike Rowe learns to chum the water, bait great whites, watches great whites underwater, dissects a tiger shark (that's a whole lot of liver), tags some great whites, makes shark repellent, tests shark repellent, and practices shark watching (not very dirty). In the second part (41:00, SD) Mike learns some taxidermy, including making moulds and painting the final project, repairs chain mail, chops chum, and goofs off with the crew. All good fun.
If you're looking for a nature documentary to use as a reference sample for your high definition TV, and want the extra added entertainment value of the various Discovery Channel personalities, you might want to give this reasonably priced collection a purchase consideration. I don't personally see myself sticking the disc in for another go-round anytime soon, but I can find little to complain about, even if the shows presented aren't exactly consistent in their quality. The audio and video qualities are somewhat inconsistent as well, but overall pretty impressive, and the extra added value of three standard definition episodes is a definite plus.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 14th July 2009
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH and Spanish
Extras: Three Extra Episodes
Easter Egg: No
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Director: Various
Cast: Mike Rowe, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Kari Byron, Tory Belleci, Grant Imahara, Les Stroud
Genre: Documentary
Length: 346 minutes
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The 2012 Conference Carolinas Tournament Champion Tornado softball team will host three summer camps in the month of June for interested area players. Camps will be hosted on June 13-15, June 20-22, and June 27-29 at the King College Softball Complex.
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Campers may select one or more camp to participate in. The cost for each camp session is $75. All camps will be held at the King College Softball Complex. Registration for the camp will open at 8:15 a.m. on the first day of each camp and last through 9 a.m. The camp will run from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
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Payments can be made by sending in a check made payable to "King Softball" to the address below or can be made at the time of morning registration. Campers must also complete and return the attached Waiver Liability and King College Athletics Camps Waiver forms.
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|2012-02-04, 00:49
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Though obviously i haven't been a father before so i wouldn't know.
Perhaps next weeks episode can give us more to talk about this !
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|2012-02-04, 07:22
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Age: 35
Wow. Excellent episode again.
First, the Sage-Mode Massive Rasengan Barrage certainly looked awesome and unexpected. Naruto sure knows how to come up with awesome techniques in the brink of a moment...
Now, it felt a bit like cheating as Naruto isn't supposed to be able to control so many Shadow Clones in Sage-Mode. It was stated back in the Pain arc that he could only handle an handful of them and there are certainly more of that.
Considering he didn't have much opportunity to perfect his mastery of Sage Mode since the Pain battle, the only explanation is that he could do it because it was a battle in his spirit, where conditions are a bit different...
I'm not sure we could see the same attack in the outside world unfortunately... since it looked awesome...
I'm not sure how much Naruto actually "controls" the Kyuubi right now...
At the different of Killer-Bee and the Hachibi, who seem to share a friendly bond, it doesn't look like so for Naruto who seem to just have stolen his chakra rather than tamed it like Bee managed to do...
Again, it looks like the Kyuubi is a significant more malevolent bijuu than the Hachibi anyway...
I find it a bit surprising considering the weak point of women jinchuriki that Kushina was chosen as she was a woman like that Lady Mito.
You would think they would get a male for the job since you're sure they wouldn't give birth...
Maybe the Uzumaki clan was too decimated for this to be possible though and that only Kushina could do it, maybe it was also because of her special chakra, but that was certainly taking a significant risk which would be taken advantage of later on...
At any rate, even if Kushina was the only one up to do it, you would think the Third Hokage and his advisors, including Roots, would have forbidden her to have a children, and frowned upon any intimate relationship she might have.
The Hidden Leaf has been painted as a more humanist village than most others so far, but the Shinobi World is very cruel and Konoha has also committed its fair share of atrocious acts for the sake of the greater cause, power balance, and peace... most noticeably the Uchiha massacre, killing civilians from other villages like Nagato's parents, or even sealing bijuus in young children for that matter.
Preventing a young woman to have intercourse (or making her sterile) or force her to an abortion seems something pale and insignificant in comparison, especially considering the associated risks...
The other interesting thing is that Naruto so far took the fact he was the Kyuubi Jinchuriki for granted, like a curse... like some are born with disabilities...
Until recently, Naruto and the most other characters always assumed that the Kyuubi was still running wild at that time and possibly manipulated by Madara, but even without Madara, there were probabilities the Kyuubi would have attacked the village if he was in the wild sooner or later anyway...
However the fact that Madara extracted the Kyuubi from Kushina makes the matter even worse.
If not for Madara, the Kyuubi would have remained in Kushina's body and Naruto would never have become a Jinchuriki, but also lived an happy family life as a bonus.
In other words, Madara is the one who destroyed Naruto's childhood and family, rather than the Kyuubi: the Kyuubi was the tool rather than the root cause.
Naruto has put all the blame for his bad childhood on the Kyuubi so far, and relatively few on Madara, but now, he could divert it towards Madara and have more reasons to take him down than just him being the Akatsuki leader and main villain of the show.
It is interesting that it is also the same for Sasuke... if Kushina didn't lose the Kyuubi, there would have been no attack on Konoha, and thus no preemptive strike against the Uchiha's clan...
Once Sasuke finally accepts to see the truth, maybe they would team up against Madara...
Sasuke still probably wouldn't forgive Konoha though, he would just want to take both of them down...
I like the moment between Kushina and Sasuke's mother and what Kushina said to Baby Sasuke... it re-enforces the idea of fate between Naruto and Sasuke and that their destinies were intertwined right from the start.
We can also wonder if the real cause for Naruto having been ostracized by the village, in addition of being the Jinchuriki, isn't also due to his being the root reason for the seal weakening...
How many villagers knew about the seal's weak point and how many knew that Kushina was the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki is not really clear at this point...
Kushina seemed to be well known in the village though, especially as the Hokage's wife (I mean, everyone knows who Michelle Obama is) and Naruto's last name was thus well known, so you would think they would see the relationship...
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That aside though, this was inside his mind. I'm not sure if the same rules would apply even if I were mistaken.
|2012-02-04, 10:57
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|2012-02-05, 14:15
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The only thing that stopped it from getting a perfect score was the $hit with how they made Sasuke bond with Naruto before he even escaped the womb! I was like reeally? They were pre-womb buddies too? That was a bit too eyerolls for me...
But the rest of the episode was pretty beast...They did have some weird animation at times as it looked like from panel to panel in some of the Kyuubi fight it went from average animation to epic animation in a cycle of sorts, but great atmosphere nonetheless (Could have shaved a couple of clone rasengan scenes though)...
I mean Micheal Vick got damn near 2 years for kicking his dawg's a$$...I wonder if Naruto would get lethal injection with the way he beat the $hit out of his 9-tails doggy..I actually felt a great deal of sorrow for what foxy went through...
It's a pity as naruto fans it's impossible to ignore the horror of the filler and the endless infinity of flashbacks that without a doubt have clouded the overall impact of this show where an episode like this only garners 30 replys. But in the alternative universe where naruto aired an abridged series that was just the manga content, you'd be hardpressed to find any shonen that has committed to explaining every nuance of it's plot going all the way back to the first episode quite like naruto (The tetagram seal stuff with Naruto's trademark swirl reveal was masterful)...It's something it does honestly better than all it's counterparts...This episode was a great example of that...
Minato vs. Pre-Tobi Tobi, will be the culmination of that...Can't wait...
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I dunno why, but it still cracks me up that I have the same birthday as Naruto.
It was pretty eye-rolling.
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The flavor swirl of Narusasuke is a carton of ice cream found at your local grocers' freezer…C'mon now people…
The womb scene is dishing that ice cream into the endless Naruto bowl and putting a cherry on top of a cherry on top of a cherry on top of a cherry on top of infinity…
Regardless of pre-Tobi's interference, we get it like a WWII propaganda film with our eyelids taped open…
The show has found every single conceivable way to say this sans a ramen-use –only commemorative coin with both players (Naruto's obviously the tails side^^)…
It wasn't needed…Not that I didn't expect them to do evenmore to astroglide this rivalry into my soul…But the ice-cream I mentioned is getting spoiled and turning into cheese factor…This was that cheese…The rest of the ep was dope though…
|2012-02-08, 08:09
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This thought just came to me.
Isn't it interesting how it's always planned as such that the 'Top Anbu' members would guard the 'VIPs'. But its always these Top Anbu's who gets killed without even having the chance to put up a fight , almost as if they were just there for show ~_~
If the Top Anbu's are of that level , it'd make me wonder what is the true strength of the so called Elite Anbu Black Ops :3
|2012-02-08, 08:25
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