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The EU actively supports the fruit and vegetable sector though its market-management scheme (element of the "common organisation of agricultural markets"), which has 4 broad goals:
- a more competitive and market-oriented sector
- fewer crisis-related fluctuations in producers' income
- greater consumption of fruit and vegetables in the EU
- increased use of eco-friendly cultivation and production techniques.
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Competitiveness, market-orientation
Growers are encouraged to join producer organisations (POs). These receive support for implementing operational programmes, based on a national strategy.
In certain EU regions, for a transitional period, producer groups (PGs) formed on the initiative of growers can get financial aid to help them attain recognition as producer organisations.
Recognition of interbranch organisations (IBO) is favoured where they proof to be sufficiently representative of the various occupational categories of the fruit and vegetables sector and they carry out practical actions contributing to the goals of the scheme.
The scheme promotes product quality by applying marketing standards to certain products and supporting operational programme measures that improve or maintain product quality.
Income fluctuation from crises
Support is offered for crisis prevention/management measures under operational programmes, i.e.:
- product withdrawal
- green harvesting/non-harvesting
- promotion/communication tools
- training
- harvest insurance
- help to secure bank loans and cover administrative costs of setting up mutual funds (farmer-owned stabilisation funds)
Greater consumption
A school fruit scheme has been created to promote fruit and vegetable consumption by children.
Support is also given to free distribution of fruit and vegetables to schools, hospitals and charities.
Other activities promoting consumption under PO's operational programmes can also receive support.
Eco-friendly cultivation and production
At least 10 percent of spending in the operational programmes must be on environmental actions that go beyond mandatory environmental standards. Alternatively, programmes must include at least 2 such actions.
When receiving direct payments or agri-environmental payments under EU rural development programmes, growers are subject to penalties (cross-compliance) if they fail to meet mandatory environmental standards.
Products covered by EU fruit and vegetable scheme *
* the scheme does not include bananas others than plantains, potatoes, live plants/floriculture products, olive oil or table olives.


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- 14 ways to integrate Twitter into your public speaking was prompted by a reader question--one shared by many, as it's this month's most-read post.
- How dynamic starts can help you get "good on your feet" when presenting also scored high with readers. Using a dynamic start takes advantage of the already high attention level, and promises even more to your audience--something we'll cover in my workshop next week.
- Stephen Fry gets wordy with us, and readers of The Eloquent Woman loved this video on how we use language, word snobs and better vocabulary without attitudes.
- Non-anxious ways with Q&A is another skill that tells me you're "good on your feet"--but an area where many otherwise smooth speakers fumble. These tips were a big hit with readers, and can apply to meetings, in-house presentations, big speeches, testimony, news conferences and more.
- As a speaker, are you comfortable with silence? When I asked readers on Facebook how they defined "good on your feet," a group of speaking coach pros all chimed in on not wordiness, but silence. Their tips on handling silences (and a few of my own) form the core of this post.
- TED gave presenters a big gift this month: A media player loaded with videos of TED talks and a content guide, so you can run TED videos without hooking up to the Internet. Great way to get direct examples from top speakers with top techniques.
- She gave her valedictory speech 42 years late, because discrimination gave the opportunity to the desegregated high school's top white student, on a technicality. Mary French's story--and very well written speech (yes, she'd written it before she was turned away)--inspired many this month.
- Want reasons to talk more, speakers? I've got 7 reasons I want speakers to talk more (but you can't use them as all-purpose excuses for verbosity, now). This came out of the vault while my team was on retreat this month, and proved popular once more.
- There's a lectern. You can use it, or lose it. Yes, you have options with lecterns, so these use-or-lose lessons for lecterns might inspire you; another reprise post.
- This new resource for finding women CEOs and company founders in New York City suggests itself as a tool for finding women to include as speakers at your next event. An alert reader sent it, saying she thought it belonged on The Eloquent Woman. I agree--and so did you.
Inspiration, ideas and information to help women build public speaking content, confidence and credibility. Denise Graveline is a Washington, DC-based speaker coach who has coached nearly 200 TEDMED and TEDx speakers--including one of 2016's most popular TED talks. She also has prepared speakers for presentations, testimony, and keynotes. She offers 1:1 coaching and group workshops in public speaking, presentation and media interview skills to both men and women.
Friday, October 29, 2010
October's top 10 public speaking tips and inspiration
While summer's making one last stand, fall is fast approaching in my part of the world. Soon, I'll be looking for ways to get firewood to catch a flame...and this month's most-read tips and ideas will spark inspiration for your next speech or presentation, I'm hoping. Here are October's most popular posts:
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However, to grow beverage sales, we must expand beyond it.
Dairy Management, Inc. (DMI), manages the national dairy checkoff program to help grow sales and markets worldwide for our nation's producers. In a special initiative, DMI is working with companies to find the best ways to reverse decades of declining fluid milk sales. In the past few months, we have had frank discussions with nearly 50 entities and 200 people, representing farmers, processors, suppliers, retailers and others, to determine what, if anything, can be done.
Does the industry have the ability and the will to turn fluid milk around in a way that ensures the long-term viability and profitability of the category for everyone involved?
Product sales can grow
The most important finding to report from these interviews and our own analysis is that yes, the fluid milk business can indeed grow.
This is not a universally held belief, of course. Some think Americans have moved on and that our focus should be on other dairy products and ingredients. After all, dairy sales grew more than 4 billion pounds in 2012, even with a 1 billion pound loss in fluid. Why not go where the product growth is clear?
Those more bullish about the future of fluid milk see the biggest challenges to be self-imposed industry issues, things within our ability to change. The problem is not the consumer; the problems are ours.
That's a breath of fresh air and a real reason for optimism. For too long, we have heard that our competition outspends us and has taken our market.
Do we really believe the competition is our whole problem?
Didn't we give that market away?
We have stepped back, looked in the mirror and considered some cold, hard facts.
For decades, fluid milk has ranked last in terms of new product innovations among all components of the beverage category.
Standards of identity for fluid milk restrict us from saying "99 percent fat-free" but allow beans to be labeled "milk."
Industry dollars support generic ads for fluid milk that undercut brand differentiation and create the reputation that milk is a mere commodity, rather than working to enhance the ability of brands to be successful.
The fact that most of the issues with fluid milk consumption are within our control is not to say that any part of the industry has been a "bad actor." But we have all been witnesses to, if not participants in, a long period of inertia, and the road back will take time.
Competition is other beverages
The point of our discussions with fluid milk interests has been both to gauge the interest in and the will to make fundamental changes, but also to see who can really step up and move the ball forward. We need to work together, precompetitively, as an industry to face these challenges.
Even at a competitive level, opportunities exist for alliances and joint ventures to build plants, co-pack, distribute and market products. Our competition is first and foremost other beverages and health and nutrition products in the value-added space, and not each other.
For instance, the issue with at-home consumption is not how to grow the gallon business; the question is how to grow consumption of fluid milk and milk-based products kept at home, whether consumed at home or on the go. That growth will come in different packages, at different places and in fresh fluid, but with an emphasis on extended shelf-life and shelf-stable products. Additionally, lactose-free milk will become a dominant player over time. It's not about the gallon, it's about the milk.
Looking at broad concepts
Our discussions have broadened our thinking so that we are looking at some new ways to work with our partners and the industry to drive fluid consumption:
Focus on growing fluid sales through our existing partnerships.
Reinforce fluid milk as an ingredient, rather than just as a stand-alone beverage.
Translate the insights gained from our partners' short-term innovation projects into success stories and best practices that others can use.
Build a sustainable business model that balances risk and reward among identified partners in areas of innovation, infrastructure and so forth.
The gallon is a part of our future, but thinking and acting beyond the gallon is critical. If we keep asking the same questions with the same mindset, we will get what we've always gotten. That path has been well-traveled.
It's within our power to create a new path, one that leads to improved fluid sales, even as the rest of dairy continues to grow. DMI and the industry together are creating that path. In the coming months, we will provide specific examples of the progress being made to turn fluid milk sales around.
This article appears on page 173 of the March 10, 2013 issue of Hoard's Dairyman.


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Propane powers 'rookie' Link bus
January 31, 2014
By Rachel Holzknecht '15
A cleaner burning "rookie" bus in the Link fleet is the start of the College of Saint Benedict's move to alternative fuel.
As the newest member of the 11-bus fleet, the propane bus is the schools' main runner, traveling between the CSB and SJU campuses 16 to 25 times each day. The bus is fueled and serviced on site. Link Transportation Director Mike Juntunen said it's too early to begin analyzing data.
The CSB Transportation Department is tracking everything from mileage to ridership to cost in order to gauge the performance of the bus. Juntunen and his staff will compare those statistics to the diesel buses at the close of the school year.
"We really don't have a handle on it yet because the bus only has 17,000 miles on it," Juntunen said. "But we know it's a cleaner burn. We're hoping this bus will be a lot cheaper as far as maintenance - it shouldn't have the problems the diesels run into."
The Transportation Department is scheduled to sell or trade in a diesel bus each year for the next three years. Juntunen said the department plans to purchase another propane-powered bus if the yearly data proves favorable and manufacturer Blue Bird's next propane model features a better suspension system and a larger fuel tank capacity.
"As we need to replace diesel buses, the plan is to build up the fleet of propane and/or other newer technologies as they come along," said Judy Purman, CSB director of sustainability.
The move to propane
The Transportation Department and CSB Sustainability Office discussed the possibility of turning to alternative fuel for several years before purchasing the propane bus in July 2013. Juntunen said he considered hybrid electric vehicles, compressed natural gas and other alternatives before selecting propane for its cost and cleaner burn. CSB and SJU have both agreed to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035.
Employing propane over diesel reduces carbon emissions by emitting fewer greenhouse gases. CleanFuel USA said that replacing diesel with propane produces 70 percent fewer smog-producing hydrocarbons, 50 percent less carbon monoxide, 20 percent less nitrogen oxide and 12 percent less carbon dioxide.
Juntunen said that propane-powered engines are relatively new to the market, and this is the first year Blue Bird has developed a propane version of the diesel-powered bus. The propane model is cheaper than commercial-grade diesel buses because the venture is a work-in-progress.
Propane fuel was half the cost of diesel fuel, but a recent price hike from severe weather doubled the cost of a gallon of propane, with expectations of even higher prices through winter. Historically, propane prices tend to go down in the spring.
"The diesels average about 5.5 miles to the gallon, and propane (averages) 3.5 to 4," Juntunen said. "But it's still (historically) cheaper running propane because you can get almost two gallons for the cost of one compared to diesel."
Juntunen said propane's availability is one reason for its typically lower cost. Ninety percent of the United States' propane supply is produced domestically.
"This was 'out of the box' and a risky move in that until you try something, you don't know how it is going to work," Purman said. "They could have easily stuck with what 'we've always done' but they didn't. Hats off to the Transportation Department for this innovative approach."


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SAP takes a tumble
It was another action-packed, full pressure day at the penultimate day's racing for the Extreme 40 fleet at the Extreme Sailing Series in Florianópolis, presented by Land Rover.
After yesterday's full-on conditions, today fickle winds and big gusts swept across the stadium racecourse, and it was in the seventh race when the SAP Extreme Sailing Team Extreme 40 was hit by the biggest gust of the day, causing the boat to trip over its bows and capsize.
The Danish Extreme 40, helmed by Jes Gram-Hansen was coming out of a gybe when the gust hit it, resulting in the capsize. Its mainsail trimmer Pete Cumming fell the the full height of the boat, landing on the boom and suffered some bruising to his ribs, but was back ashore quickly.
Co-skipper Rasmus Kostner explained: "It was pretty full-on. There were just a couple of seconds and then we realised we were going over. Things happened very quick from there and I think everyone handled the situation very well, everybody was safe, although Pete took a hit."
The experienced Danish match racers quickly rallied round, craning their Extreme 40 out of the water within three hours of the incident occurring.
The team have been putting in an impressive performance this week, including a race win today before the capsize, and as one of four teams in the running for the overall 2013 Series podium position. Kostner is hoping the team will be down, but not out: "We need to see what is broken to see if we can go racing tomorrow. We need to look at the scoreboard and if we have a chance, or if it make sense for us to race then we'll try and get the boat on the racecourse – there's nowhere else we'd rather be than there! We might have a long night ahead of us!"
The Extreme 40 fleet took to the Florianopolis Stadium for the penultimate day's racing of 2013 with the absence of the invited home nation representative, Team Brazil Mapfre which was unable to repair damage sustained to its bowsprit and traveller during yesterday's racing.
Alinghi hit the throttle as they came off the blocks in the first race of the day, powering off the startline and storming around the track to take a win in the first race – the first of four for the Swiss America's Cup winners with their crew working slickly together in the testing conditions. The team's sterling performance leaves them just three points behind The Wave, Muscat ahead of tomorrow's final, and you can be sure the crew and their helm Morgan Larson are going to give it all they have got.
Larson commented: "We knew we were going to have to push The Wave, Muscat a little bit harder. They're a really talented team and they're too good to make mistakes on their own so we had to put ourselves in a position to make it harder for them, and it worked out today. No matter what the conditions are out there tomorrow, we're going to push the boat to the limit, and ourselves, and hopefully we can overcome two obstacles. One is passing The Wave, Muscat on the overall points and the other is pushing them far enough back to get Red Bull Sailing Team between us, and that's what it's going to take to win the overall title."
For Leigh McMillan and his team on The Wave, Muscat winning in Florianópolis would guarantee them the 2013 championship title, making them not only the most successful team in the history of the Series, but British McMillan the only skipper to win the Series twice. With the pressure on, the British ex-Tornado Olympian is all the more determined to outwit his Swiss rivals: "Alinghi made it pretty clear from the start that they wanted to give us a hard time today. It's a match race between us. They're trying to put us behind Red Bull, they're not just trying to beat us, they're trying to push us back a position in the fleet so it does make it more difficult."
It will be a busy night in pitlane to get SAP Extreme Sailing Team back racing tomorrow for the final day of 2013, when up to eight races will decide the 2013 Series champion. With both the event in Florianopolis and the final race worth double points, it is going down to the wire.
Will SAP Extreme Sailing Team make it back to the racecourse? Will the Austrian double Olympic medallists on Red Bull Sailing Team finally secure an elusive first ever Series podium position in their fourth year on the circuit? Can defending champions The Wave, Muscat win the Series two years in a row, or will Morgan Larson and Alinghi ruin their plans? The final races of the Series will be live at 1730GMT.
1st The Wave, Muscat (OMA) Leigh McMillan, Ed Smyth, Pete Greenhalgh, Musab Al Hadi, Hashim Al Rashdi 156 points.
2nd Alinghi (SUI) Morgan Larson, Stuart Pollard, Pierre-Yves Jorand, Nils Frei, Yves Detrey 153 points.
3rd Red Bull Sailing Team (AUT) Roman Hagara, Hans-Peter Steinacher, Matthew Adams, Simon Cooke, Kinley Fowler 146 points.
4th ChinaSpirit (CHN) Phil Robertson, Garth Ellingham, Brad Hooker, Louis Viat, Nick Catley 130 points.
5th SAP Extreme Sailing Team (DEN) Jes Gram-Hansen, Rasmus Køstner, Pete Cumming, Mikkel Røssberg, Nicolai Sehested 122 points.
6th Realteam (SUI) Arnaud Psarofaghis, Bruno Barbarin, Thierry Wassem, Nils Palmieri, Jérôme Clerc 103 points.
7th GAC Pindar (NZL) Will Tiller, Matt Steven, Stewart Dodson, Tom Bentham, Shaun Mason 102 points.
8th Team Brazil Mapfre (BRA) Clínio de Freitas, André Mirsky, Daniel Santiago, André Chang, Bruno di Bernardi 28 points.


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Have you ever wondered how religion has influenced our language just try exclaiming!!!!
Does anyone have any decent non-theist exclamations?
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If a Lullaby comes from "Lilith-Abi" (Hebrew for "Lilith, begone"), why can't Goodbye be "God begone"? :)
@archeopteryx. Really? right that's goodbye scratched out of my vocab (might be tricky). So what is hello then? Nothing to do with hell surely?
Hail Ceci!!
Thank [fill-this-space] for that! Hello is a great word.
No, it's English, and comes from a call that travels well in terms of distance, and somewhat imitates the sound of blowing on a ram's horn, "Halloooooo!"
I never say goodbye.. I always say "See ya" ...
French also has the more commonly-used au revoir, which is secular. Are there equivalents in Italian and Spanish?
"Vaya bien," in Spanish, means, "Go well" - "nos vemos" means, "we'll see each other," or, "see ya."
I can't write it or even pronounce if, but I once had a friend from Hong Kong who told me the Chinese "goodbye" is a very poignant one - translated, it means, "walk away slowly" --
That is very poignant indeed. Language is so wonderful.
yes dear, in italian we use "arrivederci", that became a single word from the original expression "a rivederci" (like "a dio" that became "addio"), and that is the literal equivalent of "au revoir" :)
in spanish is the same with "hasta la vista" ;)


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National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery, founded in 1856, is home to the largest collection of portraits in the world, with works dating from the Middle Ages to the present day.
With over 1,000 portraits on display visitors can come face to face with the people who have shaped British history and culture, from Elizabeth I and Charles Dickens to The Beatles and David Beckham. Artists featured range from Holbein to Hockney, and the Collection includes work across all media, from painting and sculpture to photography and video.
Venue Type:
Daily 10.00-18.00
Gallery closure commences at 17.50
Thursday & Friday until 21.00
Gallery closure commences at 20.50
Closed: 24-26 December
Admission to the Gallery is FREE
An admission fee is charged for some exhibitions
- Museums Association
Additional info
Evening Openings
The Gallery is open on Thursday and Friday evenings until 21.00. In addition to being able to view the Collection and exhibitions, special lectures (in English only) are held on Thursday evenings and free music events on Friday evenings.
The Collection is displayed chronologically, beginning with the earliest Tudor portraits on the top floor, the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, through to the Victorians and early 20th century on the first floor and finishing with the most contemporary part of the collection on the ground floor.
Collection details
Archives, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Personalities, Social History
Key artists and exhibits
- In addition to the Main Collection, a programme of special temporary exhibitions and displays runs throughout the year.
Youth Forum
Youth Forum is part of The National Portrait Gallery's Young People's Programme for 14-21 year olds. All sessions are free and explore aspects of portraiture in exciting and innovative ways, drawing inspiration from the collection and temporary exhibitions. Youth Forum meets on a Thursday evening once a month.
How to obtain
For more information or to join Youth Forum, contact Rachel Moss, Young People's Programme Manager on firstname.lastname@example.com.
Family Art Events
On the 3rd Saturday of every month, explore portraits from the National Portrait Gallery's collection, then take part in an art activity. Workshops are at 11.30 and 14.30 and last approximately 90 minutes.
How to obtain
Pick up a free ticket to attend the sessions, available one hour before it starts from the Information Desk in the Ondaatje Wing Main Hall. Spaces are allocated first come, first served and children must be accompanied by an adult.
National Portrait Gallery Webquests
Webquests are online activities for children, using the collections of nine national museums and galleries.
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Third Saturday of every month, join our storytellers for monthly drop-in storytelling sessions in the Gallery, inspired by the Collection. Suitable for children aged 3+ and their carers.
How to obtain
No ticket required. Meet in the Ondaatje Wing Main Hall. These sessions are free and will last about 30 minutes.
The Sunday Sessions
The Sunday Sessions are part of the Young People's Programme for 14-21 year olds. All sessions are free and explore aspects of portraiture in exciting and innovative ways, drawing inspiration from the collection or temporary exhibitions.
How to obtain
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Aah, the glamour: the red carpet, the stars, the magic of the big screen! For movie buffs, nothing beats Oscar night. It's always fun to see those golden statuettes bestowed upon those glammed-up nominees. So bring some 'tinseltown' glitz and revelry into your home with a picture-perfect Oscar party.
The awards show, which arrives on Sunday, Feb. 24, is a great time to gather up your pals for an evening of star gazing and merriment. It's always an occasion for fun – whether you are chatting about the merits of the nominees or assessing fashion choices and mishaps and those often long-winded acceptance speeches.
The films up for best picture this year include modern-day political thrillers, a Western, a foreign-language love story, a historical drama, a grand musical, and the much talked-about dramedy that focuses on how life doesn't always go according to plan. It's a diverse group that leaves room to speculate on as to which films will win and offers endless possibilities for a movie-themed menu for your at-home film fete.
Consider these tips to make your awards night party the best one yet.
* Silver screen seating: Make sure you have ample – and comfortable – seating available. Bring in extra comfy chairs and even floor pillows to keep everyone comfortable.
* Do up the décor: Glam it up or kitsch it up –with glitter, tinsel, stars, movie posters, etc. – to set the stage for a night honoring movies.
* Pick the winners: Print ballots and have guests make their predictions before the awards start being handed out. The one with the most correct guesses wins a prize.
* Trivia time: Test everyone's film knowledge with movie trivia questions during commercial breaks. Have a prize for the one who has the most correct answers at the end of the night.
* Feed your fans: Be "the hostess with the mostest" and have plenty of snack and munchies. Movie lovers will be expecting popcorn, so keep them satisfied with a variety of flavors. Try a "popcorn bar" with different toppings to let guests customize their kernels. Topping ideas can include chocolate candies, a variety of cheese, and nuts.


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Mitt Romney's efforts to court Hispanic voters continue with the Republican candidate's latest campaign ad, a Spanish-language television spot that features his son.
The ad is the campaign's eighth Spanish-language ad of the election cycle, rolled out with an accompanying Spanish-language website at www.JuntosConRomney.com.
In the advertisement, Craig Romney touts his father's image as a family man, painting Mitt Romney as a candidate with "great convictions" who has risen to prominence through his own personal drive.
"I want to tell you who my father is, Mitt Romney. He is a man of great convictions. He's been married for over 40 years to my mom. Together they have five sons and 18 grandchildren," Craig Romney said in the ad. "He loves our country greatly. What he has achieved has been through hard work – and it is with that same dedication that he will fight to get our country on the right track and create jobs."
The ad comes a few days after Vice President Joe Biden attacked Romney in a speech to The National Council of La Raza for being out of touch with the Hispanic community.


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Waipū, a Scottish settlement - Roadside Stories
A Manatū Taonga audio guide to Waipū
Check out the Ministry for Culture and Heritage's audio guide to Waipū in the Video tab.
Firebrand Scottish preacher Norman McLeod, with over 800 of his followers, founded the town of Waipū in 1854. The group had previously settled in Nova Scotia, but hardship led them to look further afield. Today the town still celebrates its Scottish heritage with Gaelic road signs, annual Highland Games and an impressive museum.
Norman McLeod
Waipū township
Bream Bay and environs
Roadside Stories is a series of audio guides that follow major road trips in New Zealand. The stories cover the places you'll pass along the way - their people, their history, their cultural and natural significance. For more information about Roadside Stories visit http://www.mch.govt.nz/roadside/


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Scheyer's Final Playing Bio
DURHAM, N.C. – Former Duke All-America Jon Scheyer will return to the Blue Devils as a special assistant for the 2013-14 season, head coach Mike Krzyzewski announced Monday.
"What a great addition to the Duke Basketball staff!" said Krzyzewski. "Jon Scheyer is one of the amazing champions we've had in this program and he's certainly one of the greatest young men to ever wear the Duke uniform. He's universally loved by Duke fans. It is incredibly exciting to be part of his journey to become a coach. Jon will add all the things he brought to Duke as a player, this time as a member of our staff. We are so proud that Jon is joining us at Duke."
Scheyer, who lettered at Duke from 2007-10 and helped lead the Blue Devils to two ACC Championships and the 2010 NCAA Championship, will step into the special assistant position formerly occupied by Nate James, who was promoted to assistant coach in April. Scheyer's duties as special assistant will include assisting the coaching staff in developing game strategies, breaking down game film, planning practices and contributing in staff meetings.
"I am extremely fortunate to be able to come back to Duke," said Scheyer. "It is a tremendous honor to be on Coach K's staff and it is something I will cherish. I want to continue to learn from the entire staff and bring whatever I can to help the program."
A native of Northbrook, Ill., Scheyer ended his Duke career with 2,077 points to rank 10th on Duke's all-time scoring list. He ranks third all-time at Duke in made free throws (608) and free throw percentage (.861), fourth in three-point field goals (297) and three-point field goal attempts (780) and sixth in free throw attempts (706). He played in 144 consecutive games, tied for the second-longest streak in school history.
As a senior during the 2009-10 season, Scheyer took over the starting point guard duties for the Blue Devils and averaged 18.2 points, 4.9 assists and 1.6 steals per game to guide the Blue Devils to the program's fourth national championship. He was named second team All-America, first team All-ACC and first team ACC All-Tournament that year.
Following his graduation from Duke in 2010, Scheyer played professionally with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers in the NBA Developmental League and overseas with the Maccabi Tel-Aviv and Gran Canaria organizations.


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These are totally unnecessary expenses when we have so many roads in a state of dis-repair. The flyover also ruins the landscape and the and the whole ecosystem. The 5B in Bluffton is totally wrong. It provides more space to build empty buildings for business that can not be attracted because of all the stupid rules both the town and Beaufort county have. Widening 170 from 278 to the Georgia border is a better idea for the safety of people who have to commute to Georgia and back every day. Wake up, Bluffton council and Beaufort County and do what is right instead of being so money hungry for all these government funds. Use the funds wisely and improve what really needs improvement.
03/25/12 - 02:59 pm
That has not been widened is in Jasper County. They are not going to pay to have it widened. The flyover (which I think is fine) is paid for with some state funds and with the 1 percent sales tax which WE (Beaufort County) voted for several years ago. After reading this one I won't complain about 9MM for awhile.
03/25/12 - 03:42 pm
Many people use I-95. The heaviest traffic I think on 170 to Savannah was before 278 was extended to I-95. Many, especially from Beaufort choose I-95.
Google shows that for Bluffton, S.C. 46, S.C. 170, S.C. 315 to U.S. 17 is the shortest and fastest way to downtown Savannah.
For the airport, from Beaufort, the fastest is S.C. 170, U.S. 278, I-95 at 46 miles and 63 minutes. Another route is S.C. 170, S.C. 315, U.S. 17 to Port Wentworth and that is 45 miles and 69 minutes.
Unless traffic increases on 170 in Jasper, it may not reach the top of "needs list" for widening. Those developments in southern Jasper have stalled due to the housing slowdown.
S.C. 170 will get widened because of Sun City.
The flyovers have been in the works and in our elected officials minds (along with 5b) for a LONG time. Doesn't matter if we-the-people think they are a good idea or not. They are a done deal.
Much of what is happening in the future will be in the face of what we, the people, want.
That's progress.
CG - Sun City. It's so close to I-95 now and I think most people in Sun City will exit the 278 gate to I-95 rather than exiting the 170 gate and using that one. What we need are the traffic counts which will determine the widening.
I travel 170 between 46 and 278 every day. That stretch needs to be widened. There are at least 4 housing deveolpments on that stretch of road and it is very busy.
I think the new widening of 170 from the 278 overpass to the Palmetto Bluff roundabout is already in the works (design phase, etc). It has already been approved as the last project with the 1% sales tax money.


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With all the blog-swaps that are happening out there lately, I can't think of one more exciting than when the amazing women of SPELLBINDERS™ get together with the rock stars of UNITY STAMP COMPANY!
Not only are we thrilled to be collaborating on such a special 2-day event, but ONE of you will win ALL of the coordinating stamps and dies from the Samantha Walker collection! We will also have 1 winner each day from the comments that will receive 1 Samantha Walker stamp set and coordinating dies.
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You all know how much I LOVE my gift bags. Decorating a plain brown kraft bag and making it into something special and personal is so much fun. I think I am slightly addicted to this fun crafting method ;) For today's project I used Spellbinders die templates and Unity stamps with and a few pieces of patterned paper - here are the deets:
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We tried the 123 Magic discipline strategy for our foster son at the suggestion of his caseworker and therapist. We felt that it was easy to follow and understand, even for a six year old! It is a quick way to stop unwanted behavior and was helpful for us as parents to cut the emotion out of the equation. I would recommend giving it a read as it is quick to get through and implement. So, if it turns out to not work for you, there is little time wasted.
Felt this needed a little perspective, as a reaction to the other review by "poatlee". I am editing this comment a couple years after originally posting it, but I can't find a way to change the number of stars. Four is too generous. Now I'm thinking two stars might be more appropriate. This book is for individuals (parents) who feel they have lost the battle with their kids, or have lost many battles and maybe losing the war. This will offer you some support and a sense of control as quick as 123 ;-) I would NOT advocate this method for everyone, or even suggest it as a starting point for parenting, it is NOT a guide for how to be a "nasty parent". All parents love their kids and want the best for them. Kids NEED structure and discipline and 123 magic is a quick and simple behavioral method to implement those. No one likes correction when it is happening, but your kids will resent you more if you give them no boundaries and do not teach them how to respect others. Kids are not just short adults. Depending on their age/development, their ability to reason is minimal, especially when they are escalated. The other books that poatlee recommends (especially the 2nd and 3rd) have their strengths as well, and have some contradictory principles to 123 Magic. It goes to show you that parenting "experts" do not agree on methods or philosophies. Again, the main advantage to 123 Magic is that it is simple and if you do what it says, it will work (at least in the short term). Best of all it comes in a DVD.
My recommendations: If you are really interested in positive parenting, try "Positive Discipline" by Jane Nelson. It's getting kinda old/dated, but with some good, solid principles. Best parenting stuff out there right now is by Dan Seigel, a pediatrician and psychiatrist who has studied attachment theory and makes current research from neuroscience understandable and very practical. The Whole Brained Child, Parenting from the Inside Out, and No Drama Discipline. If your kids are older, Brainstorm. If you are struggling (and we all do at times), feel free to get some help from a professional, your kids worth it.
Whatever method you use, give your kids boundaries, let them know you love them and BE CONSISTENT! :-)
Absolutely the worst book on disciplining imaginable. The book teaches you to train your children like dogs, and not like little people looking for an adult to guide them as they discover their place in this world. This book is a guide for anyone who wants to be that nasty parent, whose kids grow up resenting their parents. Also the author has this distorted perspective on siblings. As opposed to viewing siblings as an essential unit that completes a family structure, his view on siblings is as if they are meant to be your kids arch enemies. I did read the entire book though with an open mind, hoping I will be able to take something away from it, and very disappointingly not one of the author's ideas resonated with my style of parenting. I would recommend:
Mommy rescue guide, The no-cry discipline solution and If I have to tell you one more time.
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Starting and then stopping
Taking off and landing
The emptiest of feelings
— "Let Down," Radiohead
What if he caught it?
What would Thursday night and Friday and this weekend and the rest of our lives have been like if Nelson Cruz had broken on the ball properly, as Ron Washington said he should have, and didn't freeze, as Wash put it, and had gotten to the wall and caught the ball?
How different would we feel?
What if, on the 23rd pitch David Freese saw Thursday night, he saw his first breaking ball, or another Neftali Feliz four-seamer at 98 that was located in such a way that he couldn't get his arms extended on it?
Freese got what he got, and did what he needed to do with it, and Cruz didn't. But what if he did?
Would we still be talking about Mike Napoli hitting eighth, or Michael Young's defense, or Elvis Andrus's lazy play on Daniel Descalso not affecting the eighth but ensuring that Albert Pujols and Lance Berkman would hit in the ninth, or the decision not to bring Feliz back out for the 10th?
Would we be thinking about the staff's record-breaking 41 walks in the Series or the fatefulness of the Game Six rainout or the intentional walks and the pickoffs and the bunts and the hit batsmen or the curiosity that the only pitchers in the World Series who saw less action than Mike Adams were Mark Lowe and Arthur Rhodes?
Would we be obsessing over Jerry Layne's terrible officiating or the stupid, silly, gimmicky foolishness that is the league's tricking up of the All-Star Game into a key component in how the World Series is played out?
None of it.
One or two strides with more conviction from Cruz, and we're talking about none of that.
Instead we're celebrating the Year and the Month and the World Series of the Napoli, and the post-season prowess of Saint (Colby) Lewis and Cruz himself, and Andrus's and Ian Kinsler's genius on defense, and the world championship title that the great Adrian Beltre deserves, and Feliz the Lockdown Closer, and the coming of age of Derek Holland, and parades, and the undeniable station of the Texas Rangers as baseball's newest powerhouse, a behemoth built by Nolan Ryan and Jon Daniels into an exemplary franchise in all phases, backed by a hungry and impressive ownership group and positioned to make American League noise for a long time.
A couple strides.
A couple strides and we'd be lionizing Cruz's running catch at the wall and preserving it in video and stills with the force of Feliz's slider to Alex Rodriguez a year and a series earlier, and then some.
But it happened the way it happened, and we'll still be confronted with images of that moment forever, only instead of chills they will elicit that type of sports pain that is so much more acute and profound when it's playoff pain.
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It was like coming this close to your dreams . . . and then watching them brush past you like strangers in a crowd.
— Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, Field of Dreams
I waited 14 years for this, and I was just one strike away twice. And it didn't happen. To let it get away, after being so close . . . .
— Adrian Beltre
I can't swear I'm not worried about Cruz and Feliz more than a little bit.
We'll see that count and that pitch and that swing and that path and that result a thousand times, and those two will, too. The highlights will be meant to honor Freese, but of course the other two key figures played key roles - a tremendous baseball player whose big league career got started abnormally late, the other's remarkably early. For Cruz you hope it doesn't label his career. For Feliz you hope he doesn't let that happen.
He's going to wear the memory of that two-strike pitch to Freese for a long time. Scott Feldman will relive the 2-2 fastball he threw to Lance Berkman an inning later, too, also a strike away from a team pile-up on the mound.
But not like Feliz, who according to several accounts was despondent after failing to get the final out of the World Series (which may help explain why he wasn't brought back out for the 10th by his manager, who reminded us after the Series that "I know my team better than anyone in this room").
Baseball's a game of failure, a game in which mistakes and the ability to exploit them are key every night. Credit Freese, who told reporters afterwards he was sitting fastball "all the way." The pitch Feliz made and the play Cruz made don't change who they are as players.
At least we hope not.
I do feel awful for Beltre, who at some point this summer cemented himself as my favorite Texas Ranger (ever) and who had played for lots of good teams but had never won a playoff series, let alone had the opportunity to play in a World Series. He hit .300/.323/.567 against the Cardinals, played virtuoso defense, and the only complaint I can come up with about his Series and Mike Napoli's (.350/.464/.700) was that they injured Matt Holliday's finger in Game Six, and Holliday's absence from the lineup and the outfield in Game Seven turned out to hurt Texas.
The additions of Beltre and Napoli were among the big stories for Texas all season, as was the tremendous work its starting rotation turned in. No American League team had more quality starts than the Rangers during the regular season. With a bullpen that was undermanned for four of six months, the rotation absolutely carried the staff, but as for the intense workload - for a starting five that needed almost no help over 162 and included two very young pitchers and two older ones who were relatively new at starting and the rigors that go along with it - maybe it caught up to them in October.
As a result, the bullpen was asked to return the favor, to carry the load in the post-season, and it worked out beautifully against Tampa Bay and Detroit.
But then, against St. Louis, the bullpen seemed gassed by all the short starts in the ALDS and ALCS, no more evident than in the case of Alexi Ogando (0.00 ERA and .111 opponents' average in 2.2 ALDS innings, 1.17 and .115 in 7.2 ALCS innings, 10.13 and .500 in the World Series).
Against Detroit, the Texas bullpen went 4-0, 1.32 collectively, holding the Tigers to an anemic .161/.220/.312 slash and issuing six walks in 27.1 innings.
Against St. Louis, the Texas bullpen went 2-1, 7.43, getting tuned up by the Cardinals' offense at an absurd .311/.447/.533 clip and issuing 20 walks in 23 innings.
The inability of the Rangers' starting pitchers to get deep into games against the Rays and Tigers helped make the club's bullpen the inferior one in the World Series.
I hate it that Arthur Rhodes was right.
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It's difficult for me to gather up a whole lot of hate for the St. Louis Cardinals, which isn't to say that Allen Craig won't go from virtually anonymous to a key figure in Rangers history, or that Rafael Furcal won't have a couple Edgar Renteria moments, or that Jaime Garcia won't turn in a Madison Bumgarner performance. Or that Albert Pujols might not go all Miguel Cabrera on the Rangers, and then some.
— Oct. 18, 2011 Newberg Report
Craig did. Furcal didn't. Garcia did, but in a game Texas ultimately won.
And Pujols did, but really on only one night.
I have a ton of respect for the Cardinals. The way that club battled was extraordinary. We talk about how Texas, before dropping Games Six and Seven, had not lost consecutive games since August 25. On that same date, St. Louis was a massive 10.5 games out in the Wild Card race, which it would eventually prevail in by going 22-9 thereafter.
Tony LaRussa and his mystique are easy to dislike. Berkman's comments, like C.J. Wilson's, are the type that rouse up fans of the opponent. Chris Carpenter's mound demeanor, same thing.
But I have a hard time hatin' on the Cards, aside from the fact that they got in the way.
(And that they're a lot more awesome than Texas, coincidentally, when Layne is calling balls and strikes.)
But I respect the Cardinals a lot. They battled a fantastic baseball team, and came out on top.
It was a spectacular World Series, something I couldn't let myself think about in the midst of the battle but that's impossible not to admit now, result notwithstanding. Ask me in five years to name the 20 most memorable moments in the Rangers' first two World Series appearances, and there would be, what, 18 or 19 from the clash with the Cardinals?
Texas-St. Louis was an extraordinary, compelling display of baseball theater, of reality TV, a Fall Classic in every sense, and I'm proud my team was there to make it what it was, right up to the minute when Bud Selig carefully recited his Congrats-to-the-Car-di-nals script (could have sworn I saw him shed a tear as he realized the speech didn't include the words "Red Sox" or "Yankees") and even more so in the aftermath of what was a riveting heavyweight fight in which momentum, up until Game Seven, had no place.
I happened to flip to a Glastonbury concert on Palladia last night, and it included a Tinie Tempah set that included the "Written in the Stars" song that so many of us had grown really, really tired of throughout the playoffs.
As I thought I might, removed from it for just a few days, I loved it.
The entire last month of baseball, starting with a historically great final night of the regular season, was majestic. A baseball post-season in which every series gets maxed out results in 41 playoff games. Remarkably, the league played 38 of those games this year. The only three made unnecessary were a fifth Texas game against Tampa Bay, a seventh Texas game against Detroit, and a seventh St. Louis game against Milwaukee.
Thirteen of the playoffs' 38 games were decided by one run. Of those, six involved the Rangers. After a season in which the club won 96 games, a .593 win percentage, Texas won 10 playoff games and lost seven, basically an identical win rate.
Yes, Texas was the final out. But that playoff pain is coupled with a pride in these players, this team, this organization. It was the best Texas Rangers season ever, and every part of it - the great moments, the (far less frequent) brutally bad ones, the intensity and the dramatics and the endless supply of adrenaline it took to get through 162 and another 17 after that - was worth investing as much of myself in as I did.
In beating St. Louis three times and lining up at the goal line for a decisive fourth win, the Rangers recorded 107 outs, some in ways I'll never forget, and put themselves in great position to get that 107th and final win of 2011, to finish off the 107th World Series. The inability to get that final strike, that final out, that final win, will unfortunately be what sticks, because the whole point of this game is to win championships. But that doesn't diminish the greatness of the season. And I've never been more excited for Pitchers & Catchers to Report, which is just about 107 sleeps away.
I won't back off my disgust that an exhibition game in July played by players from all 30 teams put Games One and Two and Six and Seven in Busch Stadium. I can get over the home field advantage from the standpoint of crowd energy and which team gets to bat last, factors that come into play in the DS and CS, but in a sport in which the rules differ significantly between the two leagues, to allow a Wild Card team the advantage of home field against a club that won its division and more baseball games - on the basis of which exhibition squad beat the other in July - is just stupid.
And I wish St. Louis had traded Berkman in August.
But we can't go back and trade Berkman away, or execute Neftali Feliz's 1-2 pitch to David Freese differently, or alter the manner in which Nelson Cruz went back on the ball.
We can't change those things, and as painful as Thursday was and as empty as Friday was, I can't sit here and complain too much about a season that twice was one strike away from something different - admittedly, something very different - just because the way that the scales tilted on the mistakes and on the moments of great baseball ended up favoring the other team, by the most narrow of margins. Late October pain beats late September fumes. By a lot.
What if he caught it?
Our team would be World Champions.
That's a difficult what-if to accept, but sometimes, as we've come to learn, that's just going to be how baseball go. The wins and losses are more clearly defined in sports than they are in most other places, even though sometimes the difference between one and the other, the turning point, the pivotal moment that puts you in one category in the record books and in our sports memories and not the other, can be a pitch located an inch away from where it was intended, or a split-second hesitation in the path to a ball hit in the air and towards a fence.
This season might be the hardest I've ever had to say goodbye to, and may always be that, largely because of how it ended, which I don't plan on getting used to, but also because I've never been more fulfilled as a sports fan as I was by the 2011 Texas Rangers.
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If the Rangers suffer from any curse at all, it has been the curse of irrelevance.
— Tom Verducci, Sports Illustrated, following Game 5
Not any more.
Far, far from it.
Not any more.
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And so ends a baseball season, and a book, leaving us with the shortest possible amount of time to wait for spring training. There will be huge free agency decisions in the meantime, and probably an impact trade or two, if not a dramatic posting contest engaged in. A lot of it will play out in North Texas, where the Winter Meetings will be held December 5-8.
"We've got to find ways to get better," says Jon Daniels, whose team so many others now chase, but whose mindset (shared by the people who lead every department and every facet of this franchise) would never allow a hint of complacency or a sense of artificial accomplishment or half-baked satisfaction.
Much will happen between now and spring training, but given where this team is right now, this may be one of those rare off-seasons for the Texas Rangers in which the winter work to be done, while important and energizing in its own right, feels like a bridge to a much more important time on the baseball calendar, a time when those buckets of baseballs, stitched 108 times each, are once again pitched and hit and caught and thrown, as the effort to build off of a season that fell one strike, one out, one win short gets underway, and the train that carried us for the last eight months starts moving down the track once again, starting and then stopping, taking off and landing, headed relentlessly toward the greatest of feelings that baseball has to offer.
And maybe next time Nellie catches it.


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After proof was discovered that the Kardashians have been filming scenes for Kourtney & Kim Take New York after she filed for divorce from Kris Humphries in order to make Kim look more sympathetic (or to make it appear that there were even any visible problems in the brief marriage), it's difficult to watch this show without thinking that all of the scenes in which Kim is talking about her relationship were filmed after the fact, like her heart-to-heart with Khloe on last night's episode.
On last week's episode, Kim and her mother were supposedly in a car in Dubai, where Kim confided that she was unhappy in her marriage. However, paparazzi photos caught Kim and Kris Jenner leaving a studio in California in the same outfits on December 6, well after Kim had filed for divorce. Now that we know that you can't put anything past this family, the authenticity of all of their scenes come into question. In their desperate attempt to salvage the family brand, they actually may have ruined it. It's not like any of this comes as a particular surprise to anyone watching, but you have to kind of feel sorry for that poor son of a bitch Kris Humphries. He actually thought he got married.
As far as we can tell—from actual footage of Kim and Kris H. together—the only real problem in their marriage was her incessant nagging. She gets on his case about everything, from the way his sneakers are organized to the shirt he chooses to wear to his massage appointment. And did she really think that a 26-year-old guy living in a hotel was gonna pick up after himself?


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The Central Connecticut football team fell to Bryant, 29-16, on Saturday at Arute Field. The game was the regular season finale for both squads. The Blue Devils (4-8, 2-4 NEC) over came a 14-3 deficit, but the Bulldogs (5-7, 3-3 NEC) used a 82-yard scoring pass to take back control of the game.
The Blue Devils scored first, receiving the kickoff and marching 59 yards on 12 plays. The drive took just over six minutes off the clock and was capped by a 30-yard field goal by junior Steven Calitri.
Bryant posted the next two scores with a one yard touchdown run by Ryan Black and a one yard rush by Michael Perry. The back-to-back touchdowns gave the Bulldogs a 14-3 lead.
The Blue Devils answered with a 28-yard field goal by Calitri with 3:37 left in the half. Calitri also opened the second half scoring with a 36 yard field goal.
A pair of interceptions by senior Chris Linares helped CCSU gain the momentum in the second half. The two picks give Linares 11 for his career moving into fourth place on CCSU's career list.
The Blue Devils regained the lead with four seconds remaining in the third quarter on a nine-yard scoring pass from sophomore Nick SanGiacomo to senior Denzell Jones. The Blue Devils added the extra point to take a 16-14 lead.
Bryant regained the lead at the 11:50 mark in the fourth quarter. The Bulldogs added another score with 2:47 left in the game to make it a 29-16 final score.
Junior Rob Hollomon rushed for 109 yards. Hollomon finishes the season with 1,452 rushing yards. He has run for 2,556 yard in two seasons with CCSU.
Senior Antwione Reese registered 12 tackles to pass 250 for his career.
SanGiacomo was 26-of-50 for the game and through for 295 yards and a touchdown.
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For over 30 years, Marquette University students have enjoyed choosing service trips during Marquette's Spring Break. Spending time living in community, reflecting upon issues of social justice, and making a difference in a community in need, is a memory not to be missed.
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I'm improving a bit day-to-day. My walking is getting better, but I'm still hobbling. I feel a bit of pain at my hip, but the worst part remains the inner upper thigh. This is consistent with what I've read about iliopsoas pulls: the one motion where my progress has been slowest is the clamshell move, laying on my left side with knees bent @ 90 degrees, then pivoting my leg at the hip and foot, and raising my knee. The knee just won't rise. Sitting with an orange Theraband between my knees I can spread them, but the mass of my leg is too much for me right now. This is likely the weak link in my recovery. It's the part most likely to cause sharp pain.
Two big sports events yesterday to distract me. One was the Tour de France. The big story on the stage, of course, was the Orica-Green Edge bus getting jammed under the finish arch. This was an error, of course: they said were sent through by finish line officials, but the officials claim they told the bus to go to the barrier and wait before proceeding. Finish lines are barely controlled chaos so it's easy to see how misunderstandings occur. The real issue was the bus was so late. But even so, stuff happens.
The inexplainable thing about it is what followed: first moving the finish line to the 3 km point, which was at the exit of a traffic circle. That was absolutely incredible that this would even be considered: it would have been total carnage. They obviously picked that point because they had timing equipment there, which is the spot where time gaps are determined in case of crashes between there and the finish.
But the announcement went out with less than 10 km to go, and not all the riders were able to hear it on their radios in the noise of racing, so you had some riders realizing that suddenly they needed to be at the front now in order to get ready for the earlier finish, others thinking they still had time. These guys ride absolutely at the edge under normal circumstances, and they've all previewed the few km leading to the nominal finish but likely not those leading to the 3 km point, so this was guaranteed to lead to a crash, and it did.
Fortunately the bus was moved, so they were able to move the finish back to the proper place. But communicating these rapid changes to the peloton, at full speed since they now thought they were just a few km from the finish, is a challenge. They're lucky there wasn't another big crash.
What I thought they should have done at the time was to stop the pack. This is difficult, but it's been done many times before when the road has become blocked, for example by protesters. The motorcycles at the front flash their lights then gradually slow. Then wait for the bus to move, and restart the group. Just a few km from the finish this also would have been a challenge. But better than the on-the-fly approach that was used. That traffic circle finish would have been insane.
The other big race yesterday was the Western States 100 trail run. I was addicted to IRunFar.com's live coverage, which was partially reports from volunteers at checkpoints, partially internet chat session with fans. It's amazing that a 15+-hour running race could be so addictive, followed via text only, but it was. I didn't follow it continuously all day, but I could have. In the end, it was an amazing result, with last year's winner Tim Olsen surviving peak temperatures of 106F on the course to finish in a very respectable time, holding off first-time 100-miler Rob Krar.
I had picked Rob for the win: he has run a 2:25 Boston Marathon, and is from Arizona, so is accustomed to the heat. And he ran a spectacular race, hanging back with the main lead pack while two other runners went out hard at the start. Neither of those two finished. Tim Olsen, who'd been in Rob's group, took the lead for good at Devil's Thumb checkpoint at mile 47.8. Olsen opened up a 12-minute gap, but Krar started to close it, and finished only 4:38 by the finish. It was a remarkably close race for the top 2.
Gary Gellin, who often runs Low-Key Hillclimbs, paced Ian Sharman to fourth place.
Race data are here (temporary link)
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|2009-03-17, 05:30
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|2009-03-17, 09:04
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Actually I thought of Clannad as better than Higuarshi. Maybe it is the humane factor involved in this series that make it easier for me to understand.
I, for one, is somebody who graduated from high school a couple of years ago, and being someone who spent an extra year as compared to my peers, I would say that although my grades are not so good and I can't make it into college or university, high school is truly an experience to be remembered. Definitely all the friends made are not forever, it is certainly the events that happened, and the things done with them (mostly stupid, but not as bad as my middle school in which I had a few legal issues) that makes it something that I want to keep going forever.
Unless you have been total goody-two-shoes the entire of your high school life, school days are always experiences worth remembering when you become a member of society. I may still be the same rude, uncouth, stubborn and insulting person I was in the past, but the experiences I have made in school have made me who I am.
In a certain South East Asian country with a rather screwed up education system rather similar to Japan, it is not the content learnt during the lessons that make the students effective and useful members of the society, but rather, it is the experiences they had that made them that (apparently the semi-useless Ministry Of Education and certain principals likes to take credit for something they made a mess of, and the teachers had to clean up for them). Each student will come out differently, but if society is willing to give them a chance to prove themselves in the tools of trade they excel in, everyone benefits, and in order to do that, empathy is probably the most important thing that is required.
Likewise for everything one sees in life, it is important to play on the strengths that one has rather than constantly criticising the weaknesses he/she/it possesses. It takes incredible perception to see from all points, but the amount of experience one harnesses adds to the empathy one is able to give. It is a pity that disillusioned self-declared "pragmatists" and "realists" continue to discredit the fact that everyone is useful to the society.
If one has a heart, let him love. If one has no heart, but has a brain, teach him how to love. If one has no brain, no heart, but has a spirit, teach him how to fight in order to protect.
After all, it is what life really is. A coconut. And Clannad really puts it in the most optimistic way one can see. Even Tomoya lost almost everything he had by Episode 21, he was given a chance of redemption, and he took it, and all that convinced him to do it is to tweak his pessimistic outlook a little, as evident of his actions throughout the story to change the experiences and memories he had in his life.
|2009-03-17, 11:16
|Link #24
I don't give a damn, dude
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Location: In Despair
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This just popped up on Sankaku Complex:
Spoiler for Tomoyo After END spoilers, MAJOR:
Clannad's Storyline Explained
It'll help fans of the ending to explain their stance better, it probably won't change the minds of non-fans in any case, but either way, I think this should be put into the OP.
EDIT: As monir advised, I have uploaded the image to my own Photobucket account. I'll keep the spoiler tag for the time being while I try to figure out how to post it in thumbnail....or perhaps a mod can assist me on this?
EDIT 2: Ok....this is as best as I do. Sorry, alcohol in the system really kills my thinking process. Can some mod out there finish the job for me?
EDIT 3: Bah, Proto pointed out the Tomoyo After spoiler, so I put it back in spoiler tag....please, someone, anyone, finish the job for me. -_-
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|2009-03-17, 11:48
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Asacloth, I can't see the image for whatever reason. Are you hotlinking? Upload it to any image hosting site (my favorite) and then post it in thumbnail form so dial-uppers don't curse and your children for the injustice.
|2009-03-17, 12:10
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With all the episodes at hand, I resumed Clannad once again from episode 10 and marathon through the ending. I want to quote the brief talk Kotomi had in episode 16 about the "hidden world" by using SS-Eclipse's translation. I'll also omit the dialogues by other characters to keep her statement as whole:
"It's another world that exists right next to this one, but can't be seen or felt. But we are starting to find out that's not entirely true. It's probably akin to a warped extra dimension. The current theory states that what we perceive as objects are stuck firm to high dimension planes and they cannot remove themselves from their maximum existence. For example, energy due to gravity is said to transcend through dimensions. Time, space, and people's minds echo in a strange way to recreate both worlds or create whole new ones. They might be affecting each other like that."And now Ushio's explanation in episode 22 about the Illusionary World/Hidden World to the robot (aka Tomoya). Once again, I'll forego most of the robot's dialogue and some of Ushio's response to keep things simple and straight to the point:
Ushio: I can finally hear your voice. I soon won't be a human so I can hear your voice. I was having a dream. I learned a lot of things in it. About myself. About you.... You and I used to be in the same world. We were very close, too. Long ago, though. Actually, we might still be.And finally, the little portion of the dialogues that goes along with the blurry background imagery of the town right after Tomoya hugs Nagisa in episode 22. Those portion of dialogues should fill in the blank for what is about to transpire and how the happy ending comes forth:
Nagisa: "Would you like me to take you to a place in this city where wishes come true?"
When I put these three pieces of dialogue together, the ending starts to make sense.
- Everything that has happened up until episode 21 took place quite sometime in the past (or to quote Ushio from IW, "Long ago"). All those events are also from Tomoya's point of view. As we come to see, he has been pretty miserable through out his life. His mother died. His father has been pretty rotten to Tomoya as he wallowed himself in self pity, but was determined to take care of his son because Tomoya was his obligation. As a result, he drifted apart from Tomoya which adds to Tomoya's misery because he pretty much raised himself where he probably couldn't brag to his dad about that he took a dump all by himself. Tomoya meets his future wife and has lost her after giving birth to her. Then the daughter also dies eventually. The grief stricken Tomoya asks for a miracle as he holds her daughter's life-less body. He also specifically states, "No... I don't want this." As he lies down on the snow along with Ushio still in his arms, the screen starts to fade into whiteness. This is where Kotomi's explanation about the hidden world comes into play. To quote her:
"Time, space, and people's minds echo in a strange way to recreate both worlds or create whole new ones. They might be affecting each other like that."The Illusionary World is a given premesis for this show. We need to accept it as fact to understand the rest of the ending. The creation of the world comes into play when Tomoya refuses to accept how his life has transpired thus far with the death of Ushio. His desire was so strong that he was able to transcend into the Illusionary world and attract Ushio's (aka Hidden World's) attention. Ushio helps him to change the direction of the event from the point where Nagisa gives birth to Ushio. And to do that, a new world needed to be created. In this new world Nagisa doesn't die at child birth. And Tomoya finally find happiness after a long, long journey through misery.
The last part where Fuko meets Ushio... now this is where I face roadblock to understand the last puzzle. Fuko is meeting Ushio for the first time after the creation of the world. My confusion is this world is Tomoya's or another world created by Fuko's desire to meet Ushio. If it is Tomoya's world, then Fuko is just taking a nap under the tree, and Tomoya-Nagisa are somewhere nearby. If it is Fuko's world, Ushio has made her appearance in this world just for Fuko.
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|2009-03-17, 12:18
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Spoiler for heavy spoiler regarding higurashi loops:
The general and usual theory is that, the miracle was powerful enough that it manages to bring back "Original Ushio" who is the last piece that should be drifting into nothingness after her job done.
It is unclear why she was appearing there, but it is very likely that Fuuko is somewhat related to this phenomenon due to her astral experience "remotely" similar to "original Ushio" existence.
|2009-03-17, 12:22
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That part is briefly touched upon on the CLANNAD Another story chapter, memories of a town. I encourage people to read it as it kind of explains how things fared out after the story ending for the Okazaki family.
|2009-03-17, 12:33
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By the way, she did drift into "nothingness" as shown outside the window when Tomoya held the newly born Ushio. Those blue lights were drifting upward. As the Ushio from the Hidden World said, her feelings became many lights and were shimmering.
Ascaloth: Thumbnail has been added to your post. You and your children are saved! *cough - Ascaloth*
|2009-03-17, 12:36
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And it's Ascaloth.
|2009-03-17, 12:39
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Actually, considering how the last scene was executed, it is showing the IW crumbling to send back Tomoya in the normal world. As far as I can see, the lights were gathered in the IW so far, until the journey was finally over.
Then only afterwards, the lights appeared back in the normal world, creating the miracle (synchronization with the town?).
IW Ushio had to remain as "the world" so that these lights wouldn't turn into despair, but since the lights were now used for the miracle, IW Ushio existence becomes rather moot as the "IW".
|2009-03-17, 12:52
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Is Tomoya going back to the hill really considered time travel? In the science fiction sense of the word I really don't consider it time travel and more of a wish being granted via metaphysical means? Especially when you consider time travel in the sense that say "back to the future" the time machine propose it as.
|2009-03-17, 12:55
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|2009-03-17, 12:57
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Or perhaps what is left of her and the IW become the Town in the remaining world. Thus the IW "ends" and IW Ushio is "reborn" into the world as Ushio. Thus she may or may not have some of those memories (Ushio has always seemed a little too good of a kid and always wondering off without anyone really bothering her). Add to this the scene with Fuuko...perhaps that is meant to mean that even IW Ushio found happiness and is within Ushio still, and thus why Fuuko can "smell" her and fleetingly sees the IW Ushio.
This would, by some definitions, mean that Ushio still is the world.
|2009-03-17, 13:06
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Knowledge is the solution
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Spoiler for CLANNAD Another story:
|2009-03-17, 13:15
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Japanese must have a very romantic view of some countries. Because...
|2009-03-17, 13:17
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Your sarcasm doesn't work well proto
Well honestly, I never considered that side story seriously, even if it is "canon". As you say, even 15-16 years old kids would have hard time to travel alone sometimes, so a grade schooler is basically suicide (as she isn't even sent to an acquaintance whatsoever).
Edit, Sheba: oh yeah, big time. It would be scary if she was sent to Paris. Somehow, Japanese are really too daydreaming about France, despite even the language has nothing that charming (spare me the usual crappy "langue de banlieu" and the rest..OTZ)
|2009-03-17, 13:19
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I'm going to give my interpretation as when I played the game. This may be right, it may be wrong, but it's what I thought until reading other interpretations.
Spoiler for Possible Game Spoilers?:
That is just how I interpreted it on my first playthrough. Though the explanations here make more sense. XD
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|2009-03-17, 13:24
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cho~ kakkoii
Join Date: Nov 2003
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For reference purpose:
Ushio-IW: Ushio from Illusionary World
Ushio-RW: Ushio from Real World
If all those lights are indeed used to create the miracle, it doesn't mean more lights won't be transcending into the Illusionary World from there on. Hence, the existence of the Illusionary World is always a given. The need for its existence will be there as long as people's feeling are in constant flow. Surely, the need for miracle won't end with Tomoya's either. As a result, the Illusionary World continues with its barren existence.
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