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Seventeen associate professors at The University of Auckland have been promoted to professor.
Promotion to professor is a mark of distinction. It recognises professional and academic eminence at an international level.
"We are proud to acknowledge these fine academic leaders, and proud that our university and its students benefit from such a wealth of knowledge, perspectives and experience. The quality of the applications and the achievements of the candidates were highly impressive," says Vice-Chancellor, Professor Stuart McCutcheon.
The new professors hail from the Faculties of Arts (4), Creative Arts and Industries (1), Engineering (3), Medical and Health Sciences (4), and Science (5).
Professor Frederick Kroon (Department of Philosophy) has research interests in mathematical and philosophical logic, the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and the philosophy of fiction. His work is published extensively in books and journals, among them some of the most prestigious English-language journals in philosophy, such as the Philosophical Review, the Journal of Philosophy, Nous, Ethics, and Philosophical Studies. Much of his recent work has resulted from invitations to contribute to essay collections for publishers such as Oxford University Press, for whom he is currently completing a book on language and pretence. For the past 15 years he has also been an editor (more recently an author) for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Professor Kroon has served as Head of the Philosophy Department, and has chaired the University's Human Participants Ethics Committee. He is currently the Associate Dean (Postgraduate) for the Faculty of Arts.
Graduating from the University of Otago with BA, MA First Class Hons, and PhD in Anthropology in the 1970's, Professor Julie Park (Department of Anthropology) received academic appointment to the University of Auckland in 1993. Her research interests include medical anthropology in New Zealand and Polynesia, transnationalism, and New Zealand anthropology. She is currently working with colleagues on projects funded by the Health Research Council of NZ (HRC) and Marsden Fund respectively, on Pacific health, and on moral reasoning at the intersection of reproductive technologies and genetic difference in New Zealand. A book, co-edited with Dr Susanna Trnka and Dr Christine Dureau, Senses and Citizenship: Embodying Political Life (Routledge) is due out in April. Amongst significant publication of journal articles, books and monographs, Professor Park's publications include "Whakapapa in anthropological research on tuberculosis in the Pacific" (Sites, 2011); "Tuberculosis and syndemics: Implications for Pacific health in New Zealand" (Social Science & Medicine, 2009); and Ladies a Plate (Auckland University Press, 1991). Professor Park's current teaching and graduate supervisions include Medical Anthropology, Ethnographic Research Methods, and New Zealand ethnography.
Professor Laurence Simmons (Film Television and Media Studies) was co-founder of the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies at the University of Auckland in 1992, employed full-time in the Department 2005, and appointed Head of Department in 2010. He has three main research and publication interests: contemporary art and film; Italian Renaissance culture and Italian film; and critical theory (including film, media and television theory) and visual culture. His publications include a book on contemporary New Zealand painting and photography, The Image Always Has the Last Word (Dunmore, 2002), a volume on Freud's papers on aesthetics, Freud's Italian Journey (Rodopi, 2005), Rethinking New Zealand: Essays and Interviews on Intellectuals and Public Culture (Auckland University Press, 2006) and Tuhituhi: William Hodges, Cook's Painter in the South Pacific (Otago University Press, 2011). Professor Simmons has been awarded two Creative New Zealand grants, a Senior Fulbright Fellowship and Visiting Scholar awards at the Universities of UCLA Santa Barbara, Australian National University and the University of Cambridge.
Professor Joanne Wilkes (Department of English) was educated at Sydney and Oxford Universities and specialises in Romantic and Victorian Literature. Her 1999 book, Lord Byron and Madame de Staël: Born for Opposition, won two international prizes. Her most recent critical study, Women Reviewing Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Ashgate, 2010) examined how women literary critics responded to novelists such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot. Professor Wilkes also has a long record as an editor of women's writing, beginning with Geraldine Jewsbury's 1848 novel, The Half Sisters (1994, revised 1998). She went on to edit for Pickering & Chatto Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton in 2005, and has recently been involved in editing / co-editing for the same publisher, three volumes of the literary criticism of Margaret Oliphant (1828-97). She has been active too in service at Departmental, Faculty and University levels, and is currently Head of the English Department.
Professor Michael Parekowhai (Elam School of Fine Arts) is one of New Zealand's most important contemporary art practitioners. His work is held in all significant public and private collections throughout New Zealand and Australia, as well as in permanent collections across the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. He has an extensive exhibition history, including the Venice Biennale (2011); the Asia Pacific Triennial (2006-2007); the Gwangju Biennale (2004); and the Sydney Biennale (2002). Professor Parekowhai received an Arts Foundation Laureate Award in 2001 and was awarded the Premier of Queensland Sculpture Commission in 2012.
Professor Grant Covic (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) heads power electronics research at The University of Auckland and co-leads the inter-operability sub-team within the SAE J2954 wireless charging standard for electric vehicles. He graduated from the University BE (Hons) PhD and was appointed as a full time lecturer in 1992, a senior lecturer in 2000, and associate professor in 2007 within Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2010 he co-founded (with Professor John Boys), a new global start-up company "HaloIPT" focusing on electric vehicle (EV) wireless charging infrastructure. Today his research and consulting interests include power electronics, electric vehicle battery charging and inductive (contact-less) power transfer (IPT).
Professor Jason Ingham (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering), did his BE (Hons) and ME (Dist) at The University of Auckland, followed by a PhD at the University of California at San Diego where he investigated the seismic response of elevated concrete freeway frames. Professor Ingham joined The University of Auckland as a staff member in 1995 and undertook a University of Auckland MBA in 2004. In that same year he was awarded a $3.75M research grant to investigate and develop guidelines for seismic assessment and retrofit of earthquake prone buildings. This project led to The University of Auckland being admitted to the Natural Hazards Research Platform in 2010 with Professor Ingham subsequently receiving further grants linked with reporting the damage to unreinforced masonry buildings in the Canterbury Earthquakes and research recommendations arising from the earthquakes. Currently Professor Ingham is also the President of the New Zealand Concrete Society.
Professor Poul Michael Fønss Nielsen (Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Department of Engineering Science, and Liggins Institute) is a Principal investigator in the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, an academic member of the Department of Engineering Science, and an Honorary Professor of the Liggins Institute. Professor Nielsen's research focuses on using novel instrumentation, detailed computational models, and quantitative descriptions of physical processes to gain a better understanding of human physiology. Many of his projects couple mathematical modelling with innovative instrumentation to improve our ability to understand and interpret measurements of complex biological systems, subject to the constraints of well-understood physical conservation and balance laws.
Professor Frank Bloomfield (Liggins Institute and Department of Paediatrics: Child and Youth Health) completed his clinical training as a neonatologist in England, Canada and New Zealand and studied for his PhD at The University of Auckland. After a postdoctoral placement at the University of Toronto in Canada, he returned to join the staff of The University of Auckland. Professor Bloomfield practises clinically at National Women's Health, Auckland City Hospital, and heads the LiFePATH research group at the Liggins Institute. He leads a large multidisciplinary research group of scientists, clinicians, research nurses, technicians and administrators in a programme focusing on fetal and neonatal nutrition, growth and development. He is well-known internationally for his research on development of the fetal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and the developmental consequences of altered intrauterine growth and is currently President of the Perinatal Society of New Zealand and President-Elect of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand.
Professor Simon Malpas (Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, and Auckland Bioengineering Institute), investigates the role of the central nervous system in the development of cardiovascular disease, with a specific focus on the sympathetic nervous system. His research team has developed a range of platform technologies for the wireless monitoring of physiological signals. This research was commercialised in 2005 through the spin-out company Telemetry Research, which maintains a strong research and development programme in collaboration with the Auckland Bioengineering Institute. More recently the company merged with Millar Instruments and Professor Malpas is Chief Scientific Officer for the company. He is a graduate of Victoria University and The University of Otago and did postdoctoral research in Japan, the United Kingdom and Australia before returning to New Zealand in 1996 to an academic position in the Department of Physiology.
Professor Phillippa Poole (Department of Medicine) has a BSc in Mathematics and MBChB from The University of Auckland and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. She gained an MD (Auckland) in 2012. Professor Poole has contributed strongly to the development of medical education throughout Australia and New Zealand. She is now Head of the Department of Medicine, and combines her clinical academic position in the department with her work as a specialist general physician with Auckland District Health Board. Her strong and continuing commitment to the health of New Zealanders is shown in her research interests, which span two distinct areas. One is in the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the other is in medical education and development of an appropriate medical workforce for NZ, which was the topic of her MD research and has been a continuing theme in her career.
Professor Susan Stott (Department of Surgery) completed her MBChB at The University of Auckland, became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1989, and was awarded a Fellowship of the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitative Medicine in 2004. Professor Stott joined the University staff in 1997 after working in the United States and completing her PhD at the University of Southern California. She divides her time between the Department of Surgery and Starship Children's Hospital, where she is a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon and Clinical Director of the Paediatric Orthopaedic Department. She is a Board Member of the Health Research Council of New Zealand and a member of the HRC Ethics Committee. Professor Stott's research is on the impact of acquired neurological disorders such as cerebral palsy on musculoskeletal function and walking ability in childhood. She is working with colleagues from Auckland Bioengineering Institute to develop musculoskeletal models to better understand the changes in muscle and joint function in children with neurological and other physical disabilities.
Professor James Curran (Department of Statistics) is a world leading researcher in forensic statistics, in particular statistical analysis of trace evidence, forensic genetics and expert systems for evidence evaluation. He consults with forensic agencies in New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom and is involved with the production of expert systems software for the interpretation of evidence. His work has influenced forensic operations internationally, and he has developed several major commercial software packages that allow people without his level of statistical expertise to evaluate forensic evidence. In addition to his focus on forensic statistics, Professor Curran also has strong interests in statistical computing and automation projects. Professor Curran earned his BSc and MSc in mathematics and PhD in statistics from The University of Auckland. He is currently a director of the University's Bioinformatics Institute and President of the New Zealand Statistical Association.
Professor Alexei Drummond (Department of Computer Science) describes himself as an evolutionary biologist who relies heavily on computational science to model complex biological processes. His research interests are centred around probabilistic models of molecular evolution and population genetics, using evolutionary methods to study everything from the spread of HIV to the expansion of languages. Professor Drummond completed his BSc and PhD at The University of Auckland and spent three years at the University of Oxford before returning here. He is the developer of open-source scientific software package BEAST, used by scientists around the world for the analysis of molecular sequences, and wrote the prototype for the award winning software package Geneious. He is the founding scientist and Director of Biomatters, a bioinformatics software company. Since returning to New Zealand Professor Drummond has been principal investigator on two Marsden Grants and recently was awarded a Rutherford Fellowship.
Professor Andrew Jeffs (Leigh Marine Laboratory) is an expert in aquaculture and marine biotechnology, industries that have been rapidly growing in New Zealand. His research interests are broad, ranging from applied projects working closely with the seafood industry to more esoteric marine ecological issues related to aquaculture. He undertakes consultancy in these areas for international companies and government agencies. Professor Jeffs has played a major role in the emergence of research describing the ecological significance of underwater sound in the marine environment, and has developed novel underwater equipment to advance the field. He is also a leader in the ecology and aquaculture of spiny lobsters, and studies a wide variety of commercially important species. Professor Jeffs earned his BSc and MSc in zoology and his PhD in marine biology from The University of Auckland. Before joining the University as a member of academic staff, he was General Manager for Aquaculture and Marine Biotechnology at NIWA.
Professor Paul Kench (School of Environment) is a coastal geomorphologist and a leading scholar in coral reef and reef island geomorphology. Internationally, he has developed a unique research programme focused on understanding the environmental controls on the formation and future stability of low-lying coral reef islands located throughout the Pacific and Indian Oceans. His work has made a major contribution to global debates concerning the vulnerability and physical stability of small island nations. In New Zealand, his research focuses on coastal morphodynamics and processes on gravel beach systems, shore platform processes and medium-scale coastal change. Professor Kench completed his BA and MA at The University of Auckland, and earned his PhD from the University of New South Wales. He has held academic positions at the Universities of Melbourne, Waikato and Auckland and this year will take up the role of Head of School of Environment.
Professor André Nies' (Department of Computer Science) primary interest is in computation and its connections to mathematics. Much of his work is in computability, a subfield of mathematical logic, which gives a theoretical background for applications such as analysing the limits of current computers. Over the last decade he has studied the interaction between computability and randomness, and more recently he has focused on the connection between randomness and effective analysis. Professor Nies studied at Universität Heidelberg, and has held academic positions at the Universities of Wisconsin at Madison, Cornell University for a semester each, and the University of Chicago for five years. He joined The University of Auckland in 2002, and has since won two Marsden grants as a principal investigator. Professor Nies' research is internationally renowned and he is one of only three New Zealand-based mathematicians to be invited to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians. His book Computability and Randomness appeared in 2009 with Oxford University Press.


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SUMMER 2010: Israel – A Heart of Flesh in a World with a Heart of StoneIsrael is a miracle and is the most exciting project of the Jewish people in 2,000 years. Yet this young country is in ever present danger, from within and from without. How do we help Israel regain her self-confidence in a hostile world which seeks her destruction? How do we balance the modern needs of a democratic state with the vision of a Jewish Homeland powered by Jewish principles? How do we bring about a sense of unity in the Holy Land? What can we do to assure Israel's success in this trying moment of need?
Join Yishai Fleisher as he tackles Israel's unique challenges and articulates a vision for a winning direction forward. If you care about Israel, you won't want to miss this talk!
I stood up for Israel (especially the Temple Mount) and was unjustly deported. Where were Jews to decry this outrage? If Israelis fail to support those who highlight the plight of the Temple Mount suffering under Nazi Muslim occupation, they deserve to lose it all and they will when the German-Jesuit EU stomps Jerusalem.

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2. The International Day of Peace ("Peace Day") provides an opportunity for individuals, organizations and nations to create practical acts of peace on a shared date. It was established by a United Nations resolution in 1981 to coincide with the opening of the General Assembly. The first Peace Day was celebrated in September 1982. In 2002 the General Assembly officially declared September 21 as the permanent date for the International Day of Peace.
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As a way to acknowledge the devastation that followed Hurricane Katrina in 2005, we published, in our January/February 2006 issue, "Begin Again: Reflections on Writing Post-Katrina," a special section of essays by authors from the New Orleans area. To mark the five-year anniversary of the catastrophic event, we've republished the essays from this section online, along with an article by New Orleans native Nicole Cooley, plus an excerpt of John Biguenet's essay "The What and the How of It," which will appear in the book Before During After, edited by Elizabeth Kleinveld, to be published by the
University of New Orleans Press this year. These essays contribute the writer's perspective to the ongoing narrative of a national tragedy.
"Literary New Orleans, Post-Katrina" by Nicole Cooley
"The What and the How of It" by John Biguenet
"Believe It or Not" by Joshua Clark
"Finding the Right Words" by Michael Depp
"Writers, Interrupted" by Katheryn Krotzer
In 2007, Poets & Writers' Readings/Workshops program, which provides funds to organizations that pay writers to give readings and run workshops, expanded into New Orleans as a way to help strengthen the literary fabric of what had been and continues to be a vibrant literary culture. Over the past three years, we've supported over sixty events, distributing more than twelve thousand dollars to writers.


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Tabs allow you to open and organize multiple websites inside a single window. This keeps your screen from getting cluttered and makes it easy to switch between sites. This article covers the basics of using tabs.
Table of Contents
- 1 How do I make a new tab?
- 2 How do I close tabs?
- 3 How can I organize my tabs?
- 4 Tab tips
- 5 Troubleshooting tab problems
How do I make a new tab?
To open a new tab, click on the plus signon the right side of the last tab. The cursor will appear in the address bar so you can start typing in your search or URL.
Opening links in a new tab
Normally, when you click a link, it opens in the current tab. If you want to open a link in a new tab instead, just right-clickcontrol-click on the link and select from the context menu.
How do I switch between tabs?
You can visit a tab simply by clicking on it, or press Ctrl+tabcontrol+tab to quickly switch to other tabs (in order of the most recent tab).
How do I close tabs?
To close a tab, just click on theon the tab itself.
- You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Wcommand + W to close the current tab.
Bringing back a closed tab
- To bring back a tab you've closed by mistake, click on the menu button , and then click on , followed by .
- You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Tcommand + Shift + T to bring back the most recently closed tab.
How can I organize my tabs?
Changing the order of tabs
To move a tab to a different position on the tab strip, just drag it there using your mouse.
Moving a tab to a new window
- To move a tab to its own window, click on the tab and drag it below the tab strip. A new window will open.
- If you want to move a tab from one Firefox window to another, click on the tab and drag it to the tab strip of another Firefox window.
Seeing all of your tabs
If you've opened more tabs than will fit on the tab strip, tab scroll buttons appear at each end. Clicking on them will scroll the tab strip left or right.
You can also click the "List All Tabs" button and select the tab you want from the drop-down menu.
Pinned Tabs
Pinning a tab allows you to keep your favorite sites open and just a click away. Pinned tabs open automatically when you start Firefox. For more information about Pinned Tabs, see Pinned Tabs - keep favorite websites open and just a click away.
- To pin a tab, just right-clickcontrol-click on it and select .
Creating Tab Groups
Tab Groups (also known as Panorama) are an easy way to visually organize a lot of tabs. You can put your tabs into groups, switch between those groups and quickly search through all of your open tabs. For information about creating and using Tab Groups, see Use Tab Groups to organize a lot of tabs.
Tab tips
- To customize your tab settings, see Startup, home page, tabs, and download settings.
- To set what tabs show when you start Firefox, see How to set the home page.
- To bookmark a set of tabs all at once use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + Dcommand + Shift + D.
- For more information on bookmarks, see Bookmarks in Firefox.
- To learn keyboard and mouse shortcuts that speed up browsing tasks, see Keyboard shortcuts - Perform common Firefox tasks quickly and Use mouse shortcuts to perform common tasks in Firefox.
- To mute audio in a single tab, click the audio button on that tab.
Troubleshooting tab problems
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WASHINGTON, March 2 (UPI) -- While the public sleeps through an unusually rough winter, the fight against climate change -- or the fight against excessive regulation, depending on the point of view -- is being waged at the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark case involving greenhouse gases.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 the Clean Air Act gives the Environmental Protection Agency had the power to regulate "greenhouse gases" emitted from vehicles. Justice Anthony Kennedy, a key swing vote, joined the four liberals to form the 5-4 majority.
The court majority said climate change was real, and the EPA had the authority to do something about it when it came to vehicle emissions.
"A well-documented rise in global temperatures has coincided with a significant increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere," Justice John Paul Stevens said in the majority opinion. "Respected scientists believe the two trends are related. For when carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, it acts like the ceiling of a greenhouse, trapping solar energy and retarding the escape of reflected heat. It is therefore a species -- the most important species -- of a 'greenhouse gas.'"
The court majority concluded that "greenhouse gases fit well within the [Clean Air] Act's capacious definition of 'air pollutant,' EPA has statutory authority to regulate emission of such gases from new motor vehicles."
Riding the strength of that ruling, EPA identified greenhouse gases -- carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride.
The issue in the current case, heard Monday by the justices, is much broader: Does the EPA have the authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from "stationary sources" -- such as power plants and factories -- stemming from its power to regulate emissions from new vehicles?
Most media observers declared the court, with its four conservatives and four liberals, appeared fairly evenly divided during argument, with Kennedy once again probably providing the deciding vote.
Though Kennedy kept his cards close to his vest during argument, he was occasionally critical of U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli's argument for the EPA.
"I have to say in reading the brief for the states [supporting the EPA] and reading your brief, I couldn't find a single precedent that strongly supports your position" changing the threshold requirements of the Clean Air Act, Kennedy said.
From the bench, conservative Justice Antonin Scalia and liberal Justice Elena Kagan fenced with each other over whether the administration's interpretation of the Clean Air Act was reasonable.
But Chief Justice John Roberts, one of the conservatives, rejected an industry lawyer's suggestion that the 2007 ruling be put aside.
"Counsel [attorney Peter Keisler], you began that discussion by saying putting Massachusetts vs. EPA to one side," Roberts said. "I was in the dissent in that case, but we still can't do that."
That was a clear signal Roberts may not be willing to revisit the issue decided in the 2007 case -- that the EPA has the authority to regulate some greenhouse gas emissions.
Media interest in the case has been high.
The Washington Post describes the dispute as a classic standoff: The court's first big battle over climate change came in 2007, started by states and environmentalists who said the EPA under President George W. Bush had chosen not to regulate greenhouse gases.
The current case has different states and industries saying President Obama's EPA "running amok" with the power it had been granted in 2007, the Post said.
The Christian Science Monitor sees the case as an end-run around the Republican majority in the U.S. House.
One point of interest in the case: The act defines a major source of pollutant as one that emits 100 to 250 tons of conventional air pollutants, such as lead, each year.
Carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas, is emitted in much larger amounts from individual sources, and those low parameters would require the regulation of millions of sources, such as hospitals, unless the threshold was raised, the New York Times explained.
To make the act enforceable, the EPA set the threshold at 100,000 tons each year, arguing that was more in line with what Congress intended in the Clean Air Act.
Though the justices are considering the case on very narrow grounds, one of the EPA's challengers, the state of Texas, said the numbers are an integral part of the equation.
In its brief, Texas asked the justices to decide in part whether the numbers change "violates the [Clean Air] Act by replacing Congress's unambiguous numerical permitting thresholds with criteria of EPA's own choosing," and whether "Congress authorized EPA to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from stationary sources, given that the act imposes permitting thresholds that are absurdly low if applied to carbon dioxide."
In other words, Texas argued, the low threshold meant Congress could not have been talking about greenhouse gases from industry in the Clean Air Act.
In the case heard Monday, six separate challenges, brought by Texas and such entities as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Chemical Council, were consolidated for 90 minutes of argument.
Legal briefs in the consolidated case were so prolific, the justices limited their wording: 45,000 words for the challengers "in aggregate"; friend-of-the-court briefs supporting the challengers "shall not exceed 6,000 words each." The Obama administration brief "shall not exceed 15,000 words," while other briefs "shall not exceed 10,000 words each."
One of those briefs in support of the EPA came from the District of Columbia, a clutch of states -- New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington -- and New York City.
"Citing a 'very large and comprehensive base of scientific information,' EPA found that the increase in solar energy trapped inside the Earth's atmosphere by these gases causes serious harms that are felt on a local level," the states' brief said, "including more intense, frequent and long-lasting heat waves; exacerbated smog in cities; longer and more severe droughts; more intense storms; the spread of disease, and a dramatic rise in sea levels."
The brief argued: "By its plain terms, the Clean Air Act's provisions for preventing the significant deterioration of air quality apply to major stationary emitters of any air pollutant. This [Supreme] Court has twice held, in Massachusetts and Connecticut, that the phrase 'air pollutant' in the act encompasses greenhouse gases, thereby authorizing EPA to regulate emissions of those air pollutants from both motor
vehicles and stationary sources. The identical use of this broad language in the PSD ['prevent serious deterioration'] program thus compels its application to major emitters of greenhouse gases.
"The PSD program's substantive requirements reinforce its broad scope. In particular, stationary sources subject to PSD permitting must apply the best available control technology for 'each pollutant subject to regulation' under the act -- language that unambiguously encompasses greenhouse gases."


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I've been studying sales, deals, retail trends and hunting down the biggest deals for the past decade. Today I want to share 10 huge predictions where I guarantee 100% accuracy.
1. BLACK FRIDAY AS YOU KNOW IT IS OVER.The days of camping out and lining up are over. This year, even more than last year, Black Friday is completely diluted with the huge deals dropping well before Black Friday. Most of the biggest deals are already live and I have this sneak peak right here.
2. BLACK FRIDAY IS WAY BETTER ONLINE. We saw the start of this two years ago. With the exception of specific sales on TV's, gaming bundles, Black Friday is now an online beast filled with bargains and more stock than ever before.
3. YOU WILL SAVE 10% MORE ON CYBER MONDAY. On specific store-wide sales - yes... not specific merchandise. On Cyber Monday, the store-wide sale amount you save will be 10% greater on Cyber Monday in most cases. For example, a 30% off all clothing sale on Black Friday will be 40% off Cyber Monday.
4. STORES WILL ATTEMPT TO RUIN THANKSGIVING AGAIN. We will hear of these stupidly early start times where stores open their doors up wide for shoppers on Thanksgiving or stay open for crazy extended hours. A reminder, we will have all huge doorbusters before Black Friday.
5. SAY HELLO TO $33 TABLETS AND $170 LAPTOPS. The trend repeats this year and I guarantee you that if you are on this deal list, I will get you ever major deal in stock and super early!
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The Battles of Chickamauga and Chattanooga and the Organizations Engaged. By Henry V. Boynton. Edited by Tim Smith. Illustrated, photographs, maps, index, 152 pp., 2010, The University of Tennessee Press, http://www.utpress.org/, 800-621-2736, $34.95, cloth.
Henry V. Boynton should be much more well known than he is. It is due to his efforts that the battlefields of Chickamauga and Chattanooga were preserved by the federal government, the first battlefields to be preserved by the federal government. This lead to the creation of other battlefield parks in the 1890s and has continued to the present day. When the battlefields were preserved one of the first tasks was to create troop movement maps with accompanying text, which then became the basis for the iron interpretive markers on the battlefields.
In his role as the first park historian Boynton wrote quite a bit on Chickamauga and Chattanooga. He wrote an extensive tour of the battlefields with a history of the preservation efforts. He also wrote a book covering the formation of the park for the grand dedication in 1895. These books can still be found in libraries and appear for sale online quite regularly. Boynton also wrote three small books that are much less readily available in libraries or for sale. Timothy B. Smith has collected these three short volumes into one book. He also provides an introduction that places Boynton and these three volumes in their proper historical context. The three volumes are presented as originally published, Smith confined his notes about the books to the introduction.
Two of the books focus on the order of battle. Boynton provides an order of battle showing regimental commanders and then gives a couple paragraphs of text explaining what the division did in the battle. There is a volume for Chickamauga and another for Chattanooga. These give a good overview of the battle. They were also intended to be used with an atlas that was created at the same time. Those maps are not included in this modern book but the University of Tennessee Press has put the maps online at http://utpress.org/chickamaugamaps.
In the third volume in the book Boynton made clear that he considered the entire campaign from August til the end of November as the campaign for Chattanooga. Chickamauga was the first battle fought for control of Chattanooga and the final battle at Missionary Ridge was only to confirm. The other interesting thing about this volume is that Boynton commissioned a topographic model to supplement the text and was intended for professional military study. Three models were built but none apparently had survived.
This is a very useful addition to the study of these battles. These rare volumes can now be owned by anyone. Then being able to pair the text with the maps, available online, makes it an even more worthwhile book.
If you wish to learn more about Boynton's role in the formation of Chickamauga check out A Chickamauga Memorial: The Establishment of America's First Civil War National Military Park by Timothy B. Smith
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I am a "creative" overall - but my coding skills are basic - however I understand code "logic" and am usually good at coming up with solutions for problems - usually in pseudo-code.
I am a named tester for Mark Overmars' Game Maker (v4.x - v6.x) as well - where I contributed many ideas which were implemented.
I am decent with Photoshop and have solid experience with broadcast television/movie productions as well. I tinker with audio as well.
I'll be happy to be of any assistance I able.
Some thoughts:
First thing we notice is the hap-hazard way the interface is set in Sandbox. The menu's need to be better organized so its user-friendly and instinctive.
Groups/Folders/Menus of resources like:
Sound FX/Tracks
Scripts //Code Snippets/Functions{x} which can be called().
Paths //patrol/flyby/AI/Cut-Scene paths so we can call() them and have the npcs just follow a certain path. (eg when_not_attacked { follow_patrol_path_01() } else when_attacked { escape_path_21() }
Time Lines // Events that trigger at certain points / cut-scenes / delayed animations / game-advancement / mesh+scenery-changes (volcano eruptions) / etc. This can be tied into PATHS to make a proper camera-oriented movie cutscenes with audio dialogues and animations. (Timelines like in After Effects or Combustion or Particle Illusion).
Zones //maps of each zone - which can be called() as needed. eg zone stitching or preloading next zone while in certain area.
The current menu's also look to be very low resolution (NES Zelda-esque) ones. Perhaps check screen resolution and change accordingly or use crisper vector/scalable ones.
Better cleaner organization of the work surface leads to better productivity and less frustration.
Thanks. Keep up the fantastic work!
Suggestion: Cleaner Menus and UI
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Techdirt 2010: The Numbers.
from the happy-new-year dept2010 was a great year for Techdirt. We thought we'd share some stats about 2010 with all of you (and yes, we're a little late on this but we finally got around to pulling together the numbers).
We posted 3,798 stories, generating 152,683 comments. According to Google Analytics, Techdirt had 11,490,135 visits in 2010. So, if Techdirt were a National Park (and you readers were visiting us in real life), we'd be the #3 most popular park in the country, just behind the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Or if we were a museum, we'd be well ahead of the top ranked Louvre, who only did a paltry 8.5 million visits last year. Yes, I know those are unfair comparisons but it's still a fun way to view things in perspective. Of course, if any of you really do want to visit us in real life, we'd love to have you.
Separately, the traffic numbers represented continued growth over the course of the year. If we're just looking at our December numbers, traffic in December of 2010 was 62% higher than in December 2009, and that was after continued growth throughout the year. So, it looks like we ended the year with a lot more folks here in the community than we started with, which is always a nice thing.
While certainly a large part of our traffic is US-based, the community here really is quite global with visitors coming from an astounding 230 different countries or territories (and yes, we did recently have a discussion about how there were fewer countries than that in the world, but Google Analytics counts "territories" too -- so a big shout out to you, the one visitor from Christmas Island).
Not surprisingly, the top four countries were all English speaking countries (US, Canada, UK and Australia) but Germany clocked in at number 5, followed by the Netherlands, India, France, Sweden and Spain. After India, Japan was the leading Asian country, which narrowly beat out China. Brazil was the leading South American country, topping Argentina by a decent margin. In Africa, not too surprisingly, South Africa was tops with Egypt coming in second. Of course, it looks like we did not get visits from every country in the world. Among those with no visitors at all were North Korea, Western Sahara & Chad. Pretty much every other country I checked had at least one visitor, though there may be some tiny Pacific Islands that I'm unaware of that didn't send any visitors and which I can't easily spot on the map.
Within the US, just looking at states, our top visitors were from California and then New York (with Texas close behind). The state that sent the least number of visitors? Wyoming. Not like anyone lives there anyway (kidding Wyomans, kidding). If we look at the top cities worldwide, New York dominated in terms of visitors, with a surprise second place finish from London, beating out all other US cities (perhaps less surprising taking into account population totals). San Francisco, LA and Chicago round out the top five. DC comes in at number seven. Sydney, Australia is the second non-US city and number 9 on the overall list.
Most of you still use Windows, followed by Mac and Linux pulling up in third place. iPhone visitors topped Android visitors (2:1) but I would bet that's going to change over the next year. Firefox was the most popular browser. Internet Explorer (?!?) eked out a tiny victory over Chrome, though I can't imagine that staying true much longer.
In any case, thanks to everyone for making Techdirt the thriving community that it is. Here's to a great 2011.
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abdominal pain
acute or chronic, localized or diffuse pain in the abdominal cavity. Abdominal pain is a significant symptom because its cause may require immediate surgical or medical intervention. The most common causes of severe abdominal pain are inflammation, perforation of an intraabdominal structure, circulatory obstruction, intestinal or ureteral obstruction, intestinal cramping, or rupture of an organ located within the abdomen. Specific conditions include appendicitis, perforated peptic ulcer, strangulated hernia, superior mesenteric arterial thrombosis, diverticulitis, and small and large bowel obstruction. Differential diagnosis of the cause of acute abdominal pain requires its localization and characterization by means of light and deep palpation; auscultation; percussion; and abdominal, rectal, or pelvic examination. Direct physical examination may be supplemented by various laboratory and radiological examinations. Aspiration of peritoneal fluid (paracentesis) for bacteriological and chemical evaluation is sometimes indicated. Conditions producing acute abdominal pain that may require surgery include appendicitis, acute or severe and chronic diverticulitis, acute and chronic cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, acute pancreatitis, perforation of a peptic ulcer, intestinal obstructions, abdominal aortic aneurysms, and trauma affecting any of the abdominal organs. Gynecological causes that may require surgery include pelvic inflammatory disease, ruptured ovarian cyst, and ectopic pregnancy. Abdominal pain associated with pregnancy may be caused by the weight of the enlarged uterus; rotation, stretching, or compression of the round ligament; or squeezing or displacement of the bowel. In addition, uterine contractions associated with preterm labor may produce severe abdominal pain. Chronic abdominal pain may be functional or may result from overeating or aerophagy. When symptoms are recurrent, an organic cause is considered. Organic sources include peptic ulcer, hiatal hernia, gastritis, chronic cholecystitis and cholelithiasis, chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic carcinoma, chronic diverticulitis, intermittent low-grade intestinal obstruction, and functional indigestion. Some systemic conditions may cause abdominal pain. Examples include systemic lupus erythematosus, lead poisoning, hypercalcemia, sickle cell anemia, diabetic acidosis, porphyria, tabes dorsalis, and black widow spider poisoning.
Abdominal PainA generic term for focal or general discomfort localised to the abdominal region.
pertaining to, affecting or originating in the abdomen. See also abdominal paracentesis, abdominal sounds.
abdominal binding
a wide bandage applied to the abdomen to raise intra-abdominal pressure. Its primary purposes are (1) to limit the displacement of the diaphragm during thoracic compression of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, thereby raising intrathoracic pressures achieved and improving forward blood flow, and (2) to maintain blood volume in the central circulation during hemorrhagic shock.
abdominal breathing
an abnormal form of respiratory movement in which the thorax is fixed and the inspiratory and expiratory movement of the lungs are carried out by the diaphragm and the abdominal muscles so that there are exaggerated movements of the abdominal wall.
abdominal cavity
the body cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvis; contains the abdominal organs.
abdominal enlargement
may result from fluid effusions (transudate, exudate or blood), enlargement of viscera (neoplasia, dilatation, engorgement or physiological phenomena, e.g. pregnancy), intra-abdominal masses or fat. Weakness of the abdominal wall usually results in a pendulous rather than enlarged abdomen.
abdominal lavage
see abdominal lavage.
abdominal muscle ischemia
an unexplained ischemic necrosis of the internal oblique muscle of ewes in late pregnancy which are carrying twins or triplets. Results in ventral hernia but often with little apparent effect on the ease of lambing.
abdominal muscles
the paired muscles of the flank and belly that surround and support the abdominal viscera.
abdominal pad
see abdominal pad.
abdominal pain
may arise from an abdominal organ, the peritoneum or be referred as from spinal nerves.
abdominal regions
arbitrary, descriptive subdivisions of the abdomen made up of three groups of three (like a noughts-and-crosses grid), three along the middle—xiphoid, umbilical and pubic, and three lateral pairs—hypochondriac, lateral abdominal and inguinal.
abdominal silhouette
the shape of the abdomen viewed from behind.
abdominal trier
see trier.
abdominal tunic
see tunica flava abdominis.
abdominal viscera
the organs contained within the abdominal cavity; they include the stomach, intestines, liver, spleen, pancreas, and parts of the urinary and reproductive tracts.
abdominal wall
consists of the parietal peritoneum, the deep and superficial layers of fascia, the transverse abdominal, internal and external abdominal oblique muscles, the subcutaneous tissue and the skin. It contains the umbilicus, the cicatrix marking the entry point of the umbilical cord, and is traversed by the inguinal canal, and at its caudal extremity carries the prepubic tendon, the ventral attachment of the wall to the pubic bones.
abdominal wall rigidity
reflex response to pain of peritonitis, accompanied by pain on palpation or percussion.
a feeling of distress, suffering or agony, caused by stimulation of specialized nerve endings. Its purpose is chiefly protective; it acts as a warning that tissues are being damaged and induces the sufferer to remove or withdraw from the source.
All receptors for pain stimuli are free nerve endings of groups of myelinated or unmyelinated neural fibers abundantly distributed in the superficial layers of the skin and in certain deeper tissues such as the periosteum, surfaces of the joints, arterial walls, and the falx and tentorium of the cranial cavity. The distribution of pain receptors in the gastrointestinal mucosa apparently is similar to that in the skin; thus, the mucosa is quite sensitive to irritation and other painful stimuli. Although the parenchyma of the liver and the alveoli of the lungs are almost entirely insensitive to pain, the liver as an organ and the bile ducts are extremely sensitive, as are the bronchi, ureters, parietal pleura and peritoneum.
Some pain receptors are selective in their response to stimuli, but most are sensitive to more than one of the following types of excitation: (1) mechanical stress of trauma; (2) extremes of heat and cold; and (3) chemical substances, such as histamine, potassium ions, acids, prostaglandins, bradykinin and acetylcholine.
The conscious perception of pain probably takes place in the thalamus and lower centers; interpretation of the quality of pain is probably the role of the cerebral cortex.
There are some naturally occurring internal systems in the body that are known to control pain but none of them has been completely verified. One of the best known is the gate control system in which it is thought that pain impulses are mediated in the substantia gelatinosa of the spinal cord.
abdominal pain
pain occurring in the area between the thorax and pelvis. Manifestations vary between species. Identifiable syndromes include: (1) horse—pawing, flank watching, rolling, straddling as though to urinate, lying on the back; (2) cattle—may depress back and paddle with hindfeet but mostly arched back, grunting, immobility; (3) dogs and cats—arched back, grunting, depression, reluctance to move. Sometimes there is elevation of the hindquarters, with the chest and forelegs on the ground (the so-called 'praying dog' attitude).
Beagle pain syndrome
see beagle pain syndrome.
projected pain
pathology in one area can affect the nerve supply to a distant area in which pain is experienced.
pain receptors
free nerve endings of tufts of fine points or buttons.
referred pain
pain felt in an area distant from the site of pathology but not mediated through a common innervation. There is no evidence that referred pain occurs in animals but it seems likely on anatomical grounds.
pain threshold
the lowest level at which a stimulus can be applied and cause perceptible pain.
pain tolerance
the level of stimulation at which pain becomes intolerable.
Patient discussion about abdominal pain
Q. What Causes Specific Abdominal Pain? Everytime I go see a doctor when I have abdominal pains he tells me I probably have gastroenteritis. How does he know that it's not something else for instance, appendicitis, just by examining my abdomen?
A. whats the symptoms of ovarian cyst?
Q. I keep having this bad pain in my abdomin and I think something is wrong with me what could it be
A. it all depends on the symtoms,could be a number of things,if it persists go see a doctor,
Q. i have pains in the lower abdominal areas what is the couse these pain usually occar off and on besides the the abdomen in the lower areasand some times all over the abdomen
A. Is the pain worsened when you cough or lift heavy weight? It may suggest hernia (protrusion of gut loop through the abdomen wall, see here http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/hernia.html ). However, it's virtually impossible to diagnose you through the net, so consulting a doctor would be wise.More discussions about abdominal pain
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Nutty Jerry's to host Grammy Award winners, MercyMe
Nutty Jerry's Entertainment Complex welcomes Grammy Award winning Christian artist MercyMe on Saturday, April 26 with doors opening at 7 p.m. Tickets to this all ages show are $75 (VIP front chairs), $50 (VIP front table seats), $40 (bleachers) and can be purchased at the venue, online at nuttyjerrys.com or by phone at (877) 643-7508.
The band is touring in support of their eighth studio album, Welcome to the New, which became the group's seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard Christian chart and also rose to No. 4 on the Billboard Top 200. Seven songs of MercyMe have crossed over on Adult Contemporary and charted including "Hear With Me," "Homesick," "So Long Self," Finally Home," and the popular "I Can Only Imagine."
From the Dallas area, but now based in Nashville, singer Bart Millard says you don't necessarily have to be a Christian music fan to enjoy their show. "We've had several songs that went to mainstream radio for us like 'I Can Only Imagine,'" said Millard. "It's the kind of song that I think gives people hope whether they profess to a Christian world view or not. I think we all understand what it's like to lose somebody and that song gives them hope. If we are making music people enjoy at the same time, then by all means come out. But when that song crossed over, people respected the fact we were who we were. We had no reason to change things. We are still honest how we write and I think people appreciate that."
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The only person I'm really sorry for is Nanaka, of course.
PS I never beat anyone, let alone girls. But if someone kills my family and then come to me saying "I enjoyed raping your wife" then I cannot exclude I would kill him. It's not the rational way to deal with these things, that I know, but I'm a human being so I'm not perfect.
Don't play the white knight... lol
grey_moon is perfectly able to speak for himself/herself.
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When it comes to Nanaka's mums actions, I think a big point about it is perspective. If I try to put myself into her shoes then it is hard to see exactly what she did so wrong that warrants a beating to death. Not that I agree with any form of violence.
So here is a list of crimes against humanity performed by Nanaka's mum in order of time.
1. Adultery
2. Lying to cover up Nanaka's real dad and crime 1.
3. Verbally attacking back
I won't include letting the bio dad teach Nanaka violin as the real dad seemed to be part of that decision too.
My take on each crime...
1. If we look at the evidence we are told that she slept with violin man before she got married. Now we don't know was this a one night stand, or were they both competing for her etc etc. So we don't know if it really was adultery, just that it was before they got married.
2. I can't really fault a parent who is willing to lie to protect the life of their child. Nanaka's dad's actions show to me that she was right in predicting that he would want to abort. If bio dad wasn't just a number one sucky f***y a**e then none of this would have happened. Lying to cover up her adulterous act is dependant on crime 1 being a crime, but if that was the number one thing on her mind then she should have fessed up earlier (like before they got married) then later.
3. I already covered that in my earlier post. We don't get to see how she was responding earlier, we just get to see her defiant after copping a blow to the face. But from the way Nanaka's dad acted when bio bastard relived himself, during the funeral and finally with his brother. I would say that he had already let the green beast take over his soul. Hulk get mad Hulk SMASH!!!!!!
So do you see from my POV, the show hasn't shown me anything to show Nanaka's mum being really bad.
I think the writers are using a trick that some interviewers are very fond of that leaves scenarios opened ended and tests the interviewees response on it.
I just realised that crime 1 can never be counted as adultery as they need to be married for that to happen , what is the word for adultery before you get married?
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It's called "cheating".
While they weren't married, the two were clearly together when Nanaka's mom cheated on him. It's not a case where she became pregnant with an ex-boyfriend, broke up, and then started dating her future husband; the three were friends since high school and hung around each other all the time.
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But the thing is, unless I missed it, we don't know the state of their relationship, just that Nanaka's mum had happy happy time with bio dad and that she ended up married to Nanaka's real dad. All I can see is that the assumption is that she was together with the bloke she married.
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And then, Sana catches a fatal disease and summons Shuusuke to hear his final words...
On that very night, Shuusuke kills Sana and Shuri because he finds out that his child (yeah, 10 years so he has one, a girl called ShuriMarkII) was actually Sana's.
Years later, history repeats.
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1) he wasn't her real father.
2) his wife made a fool out of him lying for years.
3) She made a fool out of him again making him believing the music sensei was just a sensei while he was Nanaka's real father.
4) She wasn't even sorry and she had the nerve to say she wanted Nanaka to inherit her bio father traits.
I think there is enough to drive mad anyone. Of course this doesn't change anything about the crime commited by Nanaka's father: an assassination is an assassination so he should have been punished accordingly if he would have survived, as I've said.
To sum it up: I'm very sad for Nanaka, that poor girl was the only true victim of her mother's bitchness, her father madness and her biological father selfishness.
I'm not sad at all for her parents, her mother in particular. I really liked the time-skip: Nanaka became such a beautiful woman!
|2007-12-28, 04:47
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I don't know about Nanaka's mom as a perpetual cheater. She was at least forthright about it and did show remorse, so it doesn't seem like she's that type of sneaky cheater.
Also, what if Nanaka was conceived just before the marriage? And finally, it's not like she was dating a total stranger to begin with.
Or maybe I just have life experience with this stuff, and not all of it simply falls into the 'cheating' category to me.
|2007-12-28, 04:48
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He at least had the nerves (in a good way) to confess to his old friend what he did, hoping for forgiveness.
In the end, he had no ill intentions, unlike the crazy couple.
But in the end, his confession screwed up the lives of three people...
It's not like it's not understandable for him to be "selfish". They've been friends for many years already, and he knows that the dad would be extremely shocked to find out that his daughter isn't blood-related to him, so he kept it to himself because all would be fine that way...
|2007-12-28, 04:57
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@ipnorris - I think u best watch the epi again. from the point he heard the confession, to the funeral (at least several days especially if they follow that watch the body custom), then going to to get drunk with his brother and then killing his wife is a little more then a few hours.
|2007-12-28, 05:38
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And Nanaka's father went crazy before he was provoked by his wife's words. That guy is a "traditional male" sorta person you see all those years back. The types who hold absolute authority in the house and beats their wife >.>
Nanaka's mother was making a stand in reaction to her husband's anger...which then caused him to react...then the cycle of argument repeats
|2007-12-28, 05:56
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hmm well this episode get an 8/10.
they showed background, so questions about Nanaka or Sana are gone.
they ended up together which is also good.
only downside is the time jump... (10 yrs...in which nothing happened??)
also no conclusive end on the twins...you might say stuff happened because they were holding hands...but it's all speculation in my eyes. in ep 11 they were holding hands aswell also said in the past when they wre younger they were holding hands...it's all speculation..
anyways i enjoyed the episode
|2007-12-28, 06:18
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Sana past abit short... i mean abit, huh?...
The fire is started by Nanaka father, I thought is her uncle, but ...
10 years jump, skip a lot of thing, at least at the end scene there, all friend should take photo together or something like tat, but it go back to the past....The ending is ok for me, happy end at least .
Nanaka look nice too after 10 years, but Sana hairstyle abit ..., on the stage Nanaka is wearing the ring, so she agreed to marry to Sana? And all the friend are come back as well, although the twin didnt show the face.
BTW, who is the boy with Hinako? She mention he younger than her 5 years old, is her boyfriend?
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|2007-12-28, 06:47
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Joking! It is Asami's cousin from the Haunted House episode.
|2007-12-28, 07:37
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|2007-12-28, 07:53
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Hello. watched the episode and was rather disappointed because of numerous inconsistencies.
It took on the whole 20 years for Sana and Nanaka to settle things. For me it is actually strange to see people keep in touch 10 years later especially considering the fact that their relationships were quite strained. You know 10 years is enough to graduate and then write a thesis for a Ph.D. What I saw instead was basically the same 15 year old people who grew just a bit fatter.
Speaking of Nanaka. I find it strange that she turned to be a violinist after cutting her wrist (which hand was it, right or left). Also judging by how they showed it one might get an impression that she was laying in the bath for a week, i e the whole time Sana kept paying visits to her place.
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As for the music sensei/Nanaka's bio father. I agree he was trying to make amends before he died. But he was selfish about it he hoped for the best? hoped to be forgiven? Yea right he was perfectly content to keep the secret for over 7 or 8 years and if he had not gotten cancer he probably would have kept the secret. He slept with his bestfriends fiance at the time and even after they got married never said anything, a person was truely sorry would have spoken up right away. Now im not sure if he was ever told that Nanaka was his child. It seems the mom kept that secret from him as well. I put him on the same level as Nanaka's fathers they are all bad role models. They say time heals wounds well time also lets old wounds fester in more animoisty
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Some people have the twisted thinking that even when you are in a relationship, as long as you are not married it is less harmful than after you are married, so to not have any regrets they have one last go at sex with someone else.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The coach barely entertained reporters' questions.
The owner quietly walked off the field after practice, declining to make any grand statements to the media.
And Tim Tebow, the newest member of the New England Patriots, fielded no questions, offering a 36-second statement that ended with his standard, "God Bless" as he walked away.
A little more than a year ago, the New York Jets did everything but hold a parade following their trade for Tebow. There was a press conference in the Jets' facility, and soon enough owner Woody Johnson was proclaiming one can "never have too much Tebow." Turns out Johnson was wrong — really wrong — and it's clear Bill Belichick intends to show everyone the right way to handle the Tebow sideshow.
By stomping it out along with his players.
"You just worry about playing football. Each player's caught up on striving to their personal goals and trying to get where they want to be as an athlete," said tight end Aaron Hernandez, Tebow's teammate in college at Florida. "A lot of that other stuff you don't really notice or pay attention to, but from the outside looking in, it looks like a big mess."
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Hernandez added: "The media's going to be around, and if you let the media become a distraction, that's your fault. Obviously, in this program we don't let that happen. We just play football and take care of ourselves."
Therein lies the real story line in Tebow's signing a two-year deal with the Patriots on Tuesday.
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It's not so much about whether Belichick signed the 2010 first-round pick and Heisman Trophy winner to spite the Jets or reporters who wrote that he didn't like Tebow as a player. It's not even about whether Tebow will be a quarterback, a utility player or both. It's about this being Tebow's best (and maybe last) chance to have the noise that follows him blocked out by Belichick and this franchise's ability to often handle potential distractions and win in spite of them.
Tebow's presence might very well be the biggest challenge to Belichick's no-distraction mandate since Spygate. Through one day, at least, everyone complied — including Tebow.
"First and foremost, I just want to thank the Patriots for giving me an opportunity. I'm very thankful," said Tebow, who has been assigned No. 5 since third-year backup quarterback Ryan Mallett wears Tebow's familiar No. 15. "It's such an honor to be a Patriot and play for Coach Belichick and for Coach (Josh) McDaniels, to learn under Tom (Brady) and be a part of this great franchise, a part of a very successful franchise. I found that out first-hand. I lost to them several times.
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With that, along with a promise that "I'm sure we're going to be talking a lot more soon," Tebow was gone.
That short session with reporters came after he had limited reps in the first of the team's three minicamp practices. Brady and Mallett took most of the snaps, with Tebow getting the bulk of his work during the individual portion of practice.
Tebow was wearing a red jersey and worked solely as a quarterback. Belichick is crafty and open-minded about schemes and players, so expect that to change at some point during the regular season if Tebow is still on the roster. If Tebow's being groomed for any kind of role, apparently it wasn't evident Tuesday.
"There's a reason he's here. I don't know the reason yet," Hernandez quipped.
But expect Belichick, who cut off the line of Tebow questioning when he was asked if he'll have an issue with his new quarterback "Tebowing" after a big play, to refuse to entertain the sideshow, even though he did smirk at the cameras when he entered his press conference.
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"Anything we do is in the best interest of the team," Belichick said. "Tim's a talented player that works hard, so we'll see how it goes."
Hardly a pitch to sell seats right there. Just an attempt to once again control the message, something that could set up nicely for Tebow's hopes of ever being a legitimate player in this league once again.
"Definitely," cornerback Kyle Arrington, now in his fifth year with the Patriots, said when asked if he thinks Belichick and the Patriots can keep Tebowmania in check better than any other team. "We'll give it a shot and see how it goes."
If it doesn't go well, Belichick will cut ties with Tebow as quickly as he got rid of Albert Haynesworth and Randy Moss when their situations turned sour. But those players had reputations as head cases. The issue with Tebow, on the other hand, isn't behavioral but rather a potential problem with the attention he brings.
Belichick tried to quip his way around that question by saying to the assembled media, "Hopefully there will be more (people) than this at the games on Sundays."
Bland as he might be, Belichick has been a consistently successful coach who knows how to minimize distractions. He'll try to do the same for Tebow while showing the Jets and the rest of the NFL whether refusing to embrace and promote Tebowmania works.
If it does, he'll once again look like a genius. If it doesn't, there's nothing gained or lost.
Except maybe Tebow's NFL career.
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Good for Rick Perry.
After a fairly disastrous first go at the White House, he's gearing up for a second try. Over the weekend, he told NBC News' Kasie Hunt: "I was not prepared properly." In 2012, he told CNN that the "idea you can just stroll in there and be in the mix and be successful, I think is a bit of a stretch. But, anyway, you live and learn."
That's a bit of an understatement. The last time around, Perry parachuted into the Republican primary right after the Iowa straw poll, effectively landing on the winner: Rep. Michele Bachmann. She may have been the shortest-lived front-runner ever.
Things only went downhill from there. His recovery from back surgery clearly played a role -- he was on pain medication and had trouble sleeping -- but even so, he was a hot mess. He campaigned as if he was running for the job of president of Texas -- and that's when things were going well.
"It's three agencies of government when I get there that are gone -- Commerce, Education and the, um, what's the third one there? Let's see. Oh five -- Commerce, Education and the um, um," Perry rambled during a primary debate.
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I don't say good for Perry because I'm endorsing him; I say good for him because he's doing what he should have done the first time: his homework.
This is my biggest gripe about some of the GOP candidates in recent years. They don't think they have to do their homework, perhaps because they aren't so much running for president as running for greater celebrity.
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The one thing you cannot buy in politics is charisma. If you could, Mitt Romney would have bought a pallet of it at Costco and he'd probably be president now. Cain and Perry had the charisma, the natural political talent, and they squandered it by thinking all they needed was the sizzle without the steak.
I have similar worries about Ben Carson, who's on a book tour that feels a lot like a walk-through for a presidential run. Carson is amazingly popular on the Republican circuit. He is to older traditional conservatives what Rand Paul is to younger libertarians.
A world-renowned neurosurgeon, devout Christian and an African-American with a rags-to-riches story that beats any and all possible competition, Carson has enormous strengths. (Contrary to a lot of nonsense you hear daily on MSNBC, most of the base of the GOP would love to nominate a conservative black guy.) But while he speaks eloquently and passionately about the importance of doing homework in his own life and for children everywhere, it's not obvious he's taken those lessons to heart when it comes to politics.
In his book, "One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future," Carson says he'd declined invitations to get into politics in the past. Though he left some wiggle room: "If I felt called by God to officially enter the world of politics, I would certainly not hesitate to do so."
God may be paging Dr. Carson. He recently told the Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes that he's "starting to feel it. Because every place I go, it's unbelievable" how much support there is for him to run.
I have no doubt that's true. But most of the audiences he talks to are already in love with him. You can skate by with a lot of platitudes about common sense and the evils of political correctness (all of which I agree with) when speaking to an audience of your biggest fans. Perry learned that the hard way when he encountered audiences that didn't care that much about the Lone Star State.
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Moskowitz wrote a long think-piece for Medium about it.
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