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Despite�its denials, Washington does seem to have a very specific roadmap for facilitating peace in the Indian subcontinent.
Though he isn't mentioned by name, America has set 2004 as the target for ending Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's right to dismiss the Cabinet�and the National Assembly.
This self-given right of the president and army chief of Pakistan has led to a political standoff in the country, with the opposition parties refusing to accept it as legitimate.
In its 'mission plan'�for 2004, the American embassy in Islamabad says a key area of focus is�consolidation of the 'emerging democracy' in the nuclear-armed nation,�where military coups and fragile democratic institutions are a�cause for international concern.
This is not the first American attempt�to restore democracy in Pakistan, which remained a frontline ally of the US�through the Cold War and is now an ally in the war against terrorism.
The paper, prepared in 2002, says that in 2001 there were 'no elected national or�provincial decision-making bodies'. The political situation was 'disorganised and confused' and there was a lack of�'political party confidence in the Federal Electoral Commission'.�Political activities were 'limited by law and GOP�(Government of Pakistan) practice'.
In 2002, restrictions on political activity ended and the press�was�'unfettered'. There was 'higher voter turnout in the October elections; reduced incidence of voting irregularities, and full participation�of political parties, including women'.
The October 2002 election was evenly contested, though dull, owing to the law barring two of the country's most charismatic leaders�-- former prime ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharief�-- from contesting, says the paper.
'With the elections of October 2002, Pakistan will return to democratic rule, but will still face significant political and�economic challenges,' says the mission performance plan.
In 2003, the American mission was to see that 'national and�provincial assemblies' were formed in accordance with constitutional provisions. Washington would also like to see 'corruption proceedings�against politicians and other prominent figures on a non-partisan�basis'.
A key area of American focus while consolidating democracy in Pakistan is promoting�the participation of women. In fact,�just before the October 2002 election, General Musharraf had�revived and increased reservations for women.
In 2004, the US would like to see Pakistan's parliament consolidate its powers and 'function without interference or dissolution from outside sources'. This requires that the government and the�opposition 'reach modus vivendi', while media and political�groups are allowed to criticise the government freely.
So how did Washington achieve all this? And what else is planned?
The first step was to promote last October's general election.�For that, the embassy�pressed the government 'for a competitive and open�political process', while it worked with 'government and parties as an advocate',�providing $4 million for NGO-based�democratisation programmes to strengthen democracy.
As for the media, ever since Musharraf assumed power after deposing Sharief in�1999,�the press in Pakistan has been under attack. The editor of The News was forced to flee the country, while several other reporters and�editors, including Friday Times editor Najam Sethi, were harassed.
While stressing and advocating�the 'principles of media�freedom and political activity, criticising any clear violations of either',�the US is providing Pakistani journalists and media�organisations international exposure through exchange programmes to create awareness about the independence of the media.
As part of the efforts to strengthen democracy, there were also 'police and judicial reform projects'. Both are tools of repression in the hands of a authoritarian ruler.
In 2001, Pakistan had severely 'limited law enforcement and judicial capabilities to investigate successfully and prosecute�criminals'. In 2002, 'training, equipment, and technical advice' were 'provided to national and provincial law enforcement�agencies', the paper says.
In 2003, the US hopes to persuade Pakistan to carry out�'investigations and prosecutions of prominent human rights cases'.�And by 2004, Pakistani 'legal codes and procedures' are to be�brought 'in line with established international standards'.
The US is also using 'International Visitor and other exchange�programmes to educate Pakistan's next generation of leaders on�democracy and good governance'.
But the most pressing problem�is not the return to democratic civilian rule, but for it to be�'viewed as legitimate by the Pakistani people'.
For this, the US embassy took 'a leading role, both publicly and privately, in encouraging a return to such rule�by October 2002' and had 'specific projects -- a�get-out-the-vote campaign, election monitoring, support for televised debates -- to make this a reality', says the mission plan.
Now, with the elections behind them, the Americans plan long-term 'projects to�address the structural weaknesses of Pakistan's democratic�institutions, including for the National Assembly, and helping it�play a vigorous and positive role in governance'.
They will try to promote 'rule of law at district, provincial and�national levels', encourage judicial reform, and work with the local government to strengthen its�'prosecutorial capacities'.
The paper says political stability in Pakistan 'through�sustainable and effective democracy is critical to promoting�economic development, regional stability'. It also recommends continuing the partnership with Islamabad for 'counter-terrorism,�counter-narcotics, and law-enforcement cooperation'.
'Years of unstable elected governments and a military regime have scared external and domestic investors from Pakistan, and created�a dearth of resources. A peaceful transition to�democratically elected government will restore confidence in�Pakistan as commercial and diplomatic partner,' says the paper submitted to the state department.
Part I: US charts the road to peace in J&KPart II: Diplomacy, not forcePart IV: Containing�Pakistani proliferation


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The Star and its masters would be absolutely foolish to think that Malaysians are taken up with all their crappy advertisements, writes Pro-Change.
The Star can still be relied on for sports news and stock market reports – but its national news section really sucks, writes Francis Loh.
Aliran is bemused again. Last week, the focus of attacks was on Suaram. This week, they have turned their attention to Malaysiakini.
Wong Chun Wai's statement that the faithful must not be afraid to challenge their religious leaders if they are wrong prompts John Inbaraj to ask The Star's group chief editor a searching question.
In a democracy, dissenting voices are part and parcel of societal life just as opinions in agreement with the government have their rightful place. So is it asking too much for equal space in the media for dissent, asks Mustafa K Anuar.
In a recent comment piece in The Star, the paper's Group Chief editor, Wong Choon Wai asked, "Can we stop being angry people and try to make sense of the issues affecting the nation?" Tan Seng Hai responds.
Is it possible that Barisan may one day lose by popular votes but still form the government and maybe even have a two-thirds majority in Parliament? What will The Star say then, wonders John Inbaraj.
John Inbaraj urges the management of The Star to recognise in its news coverage that certain groups' persistent attacks on the Penang state government have gone a little overboard.
S Arulchelvan expresses dismay over how his words have been taken out of context by an English-language daily. It appears that this daily is keen to pit political parties that are allies against each other over the appointment of councillors.
'PSM impatient over PKR snub in Selangor'? I am quite disgusted by this piece of reporting by The Star.
A reporter called me on 25 August 2010 and asked if PSM had decided anything during the Central Committee meeting on the councillor's position.
I said we did not discuss it and that we had written a letter to Anwar and Khalid seeking further discussion. I did not say anything more on this topic. At one point, I got irritated with the journalist who kept suggesting ideas as to what I should say and I said that we don't want to play to the tune of the media and that there were more important things facing the nation which we addressed in the CC meeting.
The journalist wanted to know what sort of things were discussed.
Then I spoke about the labour amendments and the subsidy cuts.
The journalist then asked questions to that effect.
Finally, this piece of trash (below) appeared. I don't know if it is the work of the journalist or the editor.
I normally don't blast the media but this is getting a bit out of hand. The other day, a Star journalist by the name of Lee asked and suggested that the PSM field a candidate against Sivarasa because he does not speak Tamil and is (purportedly) not popular among the grassroots. That is why i am getting irritated with this kind of reporting.
S Arulchelvan is secretary general of Parti Sosialis Malaysia.
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PSM impatient over PKR snub in Selangor
PETALING JAYA: Parti Sosialis Malaysia is growing impatient over the continued snub by the PKR over the loss of PSM's sole local council seat in Selangor last month.
PSM sources said they had been waiting close to a month to get an explanation for the PKR's alleged unilateral decision to take the Petaling Jaya City Council seat.
PSM secretary-general S. Arutchelvan, when contacted, said the party had written to PKR leaders seeking a meeting .
"We have requested to meet the Selangor Mentri Besar (Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim) and PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim,'' he said.
Following a revamp of the 12 local councils in Selangor last month, a third of the 288 councillors were replaced.
The sole PSM representative V. Paneerselvam lost his seat to the PKR's S. Kandiah in the reshuffle.
"We have yet to get an explanation although the mentri besar had said he would discuss the matter with us,'' said Arutchelvan, adding that the issue was not discussed at the PSM central committee meeting here on Thursday.
Frustrated with the lopsided coverage of the general election campaign, a reader of The Star, Sudhagaran Stanley, vents his anger in a letter to the publishers of the self-proclaimed 'The People's Paper'.
The mysteries of Malaysian journalism: The Star and theSun have produced separate reports written by their respective journalists about the grilling of Samy Vellu in India. But the reports look similar. How can that be? Even the sequence appears to be the same.
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- Differential Drive Optimizes Active Mixers
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A broadband balun is a useful component for creating a signal path for an active RF/microwave mixer.
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Broadband active mixers and in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) demodulators are available with excellent performance across more than three octaves. This equips them for receiver designs aimed at broadband applications and multiple frequency bands. Optimum performance with double-balanced mixers and I/Q demodulators can be achieved by driving them with differential, rather than single-ended, signals. This necessitates the use of baluns on the mixer RF and local-oscillator (LO) ports.
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Single-ended drive without a balun is an option, but results in degraded performance. Narrowband baluns can provide low insertion loss and good return loss, but with limited frequency coverage. Operating an active mixer with a low-loss broadband balun on the local-oscillator (LO) and RF ports is the most desirable option when designing a broadband or multifrequency receiver platform. What follows will compare the performance of an active RF mixer and I/Q demodulator when driven with differential signals and with single-ended signals.
Broadband wireless receiver designs tend to fall into one of two categories: wideband or frequency-selective types. Wideband receivers can be tuned over a frequency range of several octaves, with relatively frequency-agile tuning. Reconfigurable radio designs, on the other hand, are hardware platforms that can be easily adapted to work at different frequencies. For example, a receiver that is deployed in two different geographical regions would have the same core receiver design. However, each would be built and configured to accommodate a particular wireless standard.
The analog component building blocks with these receivers that vary from system to system include filters, low-noise amplifiers (LNAs), and voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs). The core receiver circuitry employs a common design for multiple frequency bands and standards. Development of reconfigurable radio designs is cost effective because the end result is a single radio platform which can be reused in different frequency deployments. Additionally, from a manufacturing perspective, this reduces the diversity components that must be stocked.
Models ADL5801 and ADL5802 active mixers and model ADL5380 I/Q demodulator from Analog Devices were specifically designed to serve the needs of these systems. The ADL5801 and ADL5802 are single- and dual double-balanced active mixers, respectively, designed to operate from 10 MHz to 6 GHz. They exhibit single-sideband (SSB) noise figure of 9.75 dB and an input third-order-intercept point (IP3) of +28.5 dBm at 1900 MHz. The active mixers operate on a single supply of +5 VDC and have adjustable bias for low power operation. Model ADL5380 is an I/Q demodulator which operates from 400 MHz to 6 GHz. It has an input IP3 of +28 dBm and a noise figure of 12 dB at 1900 MHz.
Ideally, the LO and RF ports of these devices should be driven differentially. This has implications for the support circuitry that is required to convert signals between single-ended and differential formats. Before considering this more closely, it may help to examine the operation of the double-balanced active mixer core used in these devices.1
Figure 1 shows a transistor-level schematic diagram of a Gilbert-cell double-balanced active mixer. The term "double balanced" refers to the mixer's LO and RF ports being driven differentially. The basics of a Gilbert cell mixer can be best described as a multiplication in the time domain of the input RF signal by a square wave, with value +1 or -1, at the LO frequency. Referring to Fig. 1, first consider what happens when the voltage at LO+ is positive and the voltage at LO- is negative, so that transistors Q1 and Q4 are turned on, while transistors Q2 and Q3 are turned off. This results in Q1 and Q4 behaving as closed switches with the outputs are taken at the IF ports, with the outputs multiplied by +1.
For the opposite scenario, where the voltage at LO- is positive and LO+ is negative, the IF outputs are now interchanged with respect to the previous case. In other words, the outputs have been multiplied by -1. This square wave with amplitude of +1 or -1 at the LO frequency is the mixing signal. It is the multiplication of the mixing signal with the RF signal which results in the sum and difference terms at the IF outputs. It may not be obvious, but the sum and difference terms reveal themselves when the RF and LO signals are expressed mathematically and the multiplication expanded.
Mathematically, the RF input voltage can be defined as VRF(t)cos(ωRFt) and the mixing signal is a periodic square wave which can be expanded as follows:
Vmix(t) = (4/π){cos(ωLOt) - [cos(3ωLOt)/3] + [5cos(ωLOt)/5] -…}
Multiplication of the RF and mixing signals yields:
V(t) = VRF × Vmix
V(t) = (2VRF/π)[cos(ωRFt – ωLOt)[cos(ωRFt + ωLOt)] - (2VRF/3π)[cos(ωRFt – 3ωLOt) +[cos(ωRFt + 3ωLOt)] +…
After applying filtering to reject higher-order harmonics, the resulting output of the mixer can be written as:
V(t) = (2VRF/π)[cos(ωRFt – ωLOt) + [cos(ωRFt + ωLOt)]
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The thought of waterfront living usually calls to mind the shoreline of Long Island Sound for most people. But any body of water can provide a hypnotic and relaxing setting.
Case in point: The riverfront estate at 4 Manitou Road in the town's Compo Beach area. The Nantucket shingle style Colonial house sits on a 2.02-acre level and sloped property along the Saugatuck River. This impressive private retreat has so many assets it's difficult to prioritize them or even mention all of them, but they start with the river.
Built in 1999, this house replaced a smaller contemporary structure, and the architect made the most of the property. It has many vantages from which to enjoy the water view; from the walls of windows, terraced bluestone patios, bedroom balconies and the covered back porch. There is even a way to enjoy the water views while swimming in the water of the property's 50-by-36-foot heated elliptical in-ground pool.
Author and radio and television personality Art Linkletter had a connection to this property. A commemorative plaque on the pool reads. "Dedicated by Art Linkletter June 13, 1968." Linkletter was a friend and business associate of Westport entrepreneur Wilson Harrell, who originally owned the property. Harrell, Linkletter and David Woodcock purchased the cleaning product Formula 409 for $30,000 and Linkletter promoted it in on television commercials nationally. Six years later, the trio sold the company to Clorox for $7 million.
There is a deep water dock from which to launch boating vessels into the Saugatuck River. The path to the dock is lined on both sides by stone walls topped with slabs of slate. The river also holds a secret nearby passageway from one shore to the other, which creates a commuter's dream: Easy walking distance to the Saugatuck train station.
Inside, there is an open floor plan comprising 5,976-square-feet of living space. It's impossible to mention every worthwhile element of this house, but highlights include the exposed beam ceilings in many rooms, the unusual and intricate design of the coffered ceiling in the office, the marble surround of the master bedroom fireplace as well as its ornately paneled walls and hand-painted beams, the outdoor stone fireplace, and the wine gallery that doubles as a butler's pantry. The wine gallery has built-in racks that can accommodate about 400 bottles of wine and other spirits.
A first-floor half bath and the laundry room both have slate flooring. In the bath the slate tiles are bordered by double rows of mosaic tiles. The laundry room has double LG washers and dryers.
The kitchen features a two-tiered center island topped in granite and wood, a farm sink, and custom cabinetry with dovetail drawers. Appliances include a Viking Professional six-burner range with double ovens, Sub-Zero refrigerator and Gaggenau dishwasher. Across from the kitchen is a sitting room that could be a breakfast nook with a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace and built-in desk area.
Off the mudroom is an au pair bedroom en suite. There is a bonus bedroom suite with private entrance above the three-car heated garage.
The remaining bedrooms, four of them, are all en suite. One is the actual master bedroom on the second floor. The others, one on the first floor, could easily be mistaken as master bedrooms given their size and amenities. The one on the first floor is a guest room with a dressing room and door to the covered back porch.
The master bedroom has French doors to a balcony looking out to the river, and another bedroom has a door to a large roof top deck. Both master baths have travertine marble floors and large cedar closets. Her bath has a custom vanity with honed marble counter and double Jacuzzi tub with hand shower. His has a large frameless glass shower with rain head.
The large basement has wall-to-wall carpeting and enough space to divide it into a play area and a family room or media center.
Despite the property's proximity to the water, the house is sufficiently above the water that carrying flood insurance is not required, according to a residential property condition disclosure report.
For more information or to set up an appointment to see the house contact Vera Rudd at 203-722-2230 and Tammy Zelkowitz at 203-984-5649; both of William Pitt Sotheby's International Realty.
TYPE: Nantucket shingle style Colonial
ADDRESS: 4 Manitou Road
AMENITIES: water community, beach rights, water views, direct water frontage on Saugatuck River, 60-foot deep water dock, outdoor stone fireplace, walking distance to Compo Beach, Longshore Club Park, and Saugatuck train station, 50-by-36-foot heated elliptical in-ground swimming pool, terraced bluestone patios, covered porches, wood decks, balconies, generator, three interior fireplaces, Surround Sound audio system, wet bar, laundry room, mudroom, gourmet kitchen, butler's pantry/wine gallery, gated entrance to 2.02-acre level and sloped property, guest or au pair or in-law suite, circular driveway, two cedar closets, security system, professional landscaping, exterior landscape lighting, exterior sprinkler system
OTHER INFORMATION: six bedrooms, seven full and two half bath, three-car heated attached under house garage, full finished basement, forced air oil heat, maple hardwood floors and wall-to-wall carpeting, wood shingle roof, Palladian windows, central air conditioning, exposed beamed ceilings, circular driveway, septic system, public water
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Perfect 10 | 94 | 20.84% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 58 | 12.86% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 59 | 13.08% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 58 | 12.86% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 43 | 9.53% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 27 | 5.99% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 14 | 3.10% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 12 | 2.66% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 8 | 1.77% | |
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If I'd rewrite School Days, I'd add parental influences (like confrontations between parents) and a less psychotic, more realistic reaction of the characters.
The problem is, that everything is too Higurashi (considering Higurashi came earlier) -- oh, make that too B-grade. The plot becomes too flat and well, Kotonoha's descent was all too predictable for some, even laughable. Makoto's indifference to whatever he's doing (he should at least have some doubts about having sex with the "mook" characters :P) and the fangirlism of the non-Sekai non-Kotonoha girls are disgusting, even for a man like me.
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That's why I took back my Higurashi comparison. I'd rather choose to compare School Days to a B-grade movie. I have no qualms about Higurashi, but I have no interests in watching it either.
2010-04-08, 21:07 | Link #247 |
Lol School Days. While I admit the ending was disturbingly creative the general plot is just too silly to take seriously anyways. They might as well have just crapped on the keyboard. Shock value alone can't really carry something. With flat characters I couldn't care less about and the sorry attempt at a plot just really hampers any chance of effectiveness. Basically it does avoid some harem cliche but in heading off the other end of stupidity, it fails to do any real deconstruction. Not that they cared anyways.
It's simply pornography as in "having no socially redeeming value". Or ultimately, pornography without porn. Might as well made it a hentai; would have been better off that way. But at least the OVA is amusing. Overall, I'd rate it 2/10; it's probably not the worst thing possible given what it did try to pull off; I mean it did pretend to be some crappy harem romance series at first and then suddenly off the deep end. Unfortunately, that's really all that they came up with. So now it's just a crappy harem romance series with a moderately ugly twist. Could have been good but mostly wasted. D- for (non)effort. Well, it can also serve as a PSA for the many dumbass anime male protagonists lying around. Learn well, assholes.
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But outside of the last episode, I can't think of many examples at all where School Days uses empty shock value. I think people make this show to be a lot dumber than it really is... I thought a lot of care was taken to balancing things so that the characters could be morons or jerks but still remain in-character and have believable reasons for acting in such a way, and I was also impressed with the very measured, gradual rate at which the characters lost themselves and changed from their beginning series selves to their end. Sometimes it seems like people think the School Days cast is stupid enough to break suspension of disbelief simply because they're not perfect, the same way anyone that shows any emotion or frustration in response to problems is emo, angsty, and annoying. (I'm mostly defending the first ten episodes here, I agree that the finale is over the top and so's 11 in parts.)
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These series gets a 4/10 for me. This mainly due to the lack of good characters. Now lets take a look at the three characters and see if the author wrote it so that the viewer would actually care about the characters.
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The characters being weak (I mean in the actual sense, as I don't buy the notion of the series having all that weak writing, myself) makes the series bad? Oh, God, than the great majority of the human race makes us all look really bad, no? Oh, wait... I guess it does. But how's that a reflection on fiction, again?
And whoever said you were supposed to "believe in true love" as regards Makoto and Kotonoha? What happened to desperation and co-dependency?
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This series is not about true love, that is for sure. It's very realistic except for the lack of parental supervision, which would have prevented the mind blowing (my mind) and heart breaking (my heart) scenes at the end.
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Yeah, I always did ask myself where were all those kids' parents. Then again, it's not like in real life these kinds of situations don't occur at an alarming rate, as well...
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Ok, this series seriously freaked me out ._. I don't know which version you guys watched, but I think the way they colored the blood black made it even more scarring to me.. I don't know why.. I'm not really saying I liked the series.. but it's a series i'll never forget watching for sure ^^'
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Horrid series. Infact, I stopped on like episode 10.
You can never take this type of series seriously and actually care about the series -_-. I've read about what happens in the end. It still doesn't make up for the stupidity used in this whole damn thing. I gave the series 3/10 -_-
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I mean I don't like this series at all, but I wouldn't call it unrealistic. In fact the show is well aware that the typical idea of a male being surrounded by tons of love of interests with only concern for himself is gonna hurt people. And the outcome isn't gonna be nice no matter what happens. So yes, it accomplished something different. I just don't care for how they did it. edit: Well, I liked the uniforms though, so it wasn't a total loss.
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So I guess I can officially join the "Makoto is a bastard" club, because he was indeed one. There were traces of what I thought would be his actual character; moments, like when he was talking with Setsuna alone(at the entrance ceremony as well as some moments in ep 6 or 7). This, even if he still blazed down the path of absurd denseness about what he was doing, should be who he really was. Otome said he was kinder as well back in middle school. So why do we end up with a ridiculous char that is so oblivious to what he's doing?
At least, at the end of episode 11, after seeing what he had done to Kotonoha, I thought he would understand the implications of his actions, even if he still met with a violent end. But instead, he acts EXACTLY the way he has from the latter half of the series, not even taking into account how Sekai was feeling. Maybe it was Sekai that led him on and 'tempted' him, but it was he that said Kotonoha was 'a bother' and 'boring' to Sekai . He said he liked Sekai more amongst other things. He NEVER says the opposite to Koto, even when he broke up with her in ep 10. This is why it's not truly Sekai's fault, imo. We've seen in typical fashion how such advances are carried out, Shuffle's Kaede being a good example. He took advantage of her kindness, even if it was under a subtle pretense of wanting to love him, and constantly remind everyone that he and Sekai were dating. I mostly thought as I watched the anime that Koto wasn't getting any love; getting bullied, ignored(but not from her perspective), etc, but when I thought about it at the end, is that really so? For him to just dump Sekai like that at the end, and make out with Koto right in front of her in the last episode, actually made me pity Sekai more. It was more properly emphasized that they were a couple as opposed to Makoto/Koto was, plus the baby and being ignored, Sekai surely got the shorter end of the stick. Koto was different. Her love wasn't particularly stemmed from "he's fun to be with" love, but an 'infatuation from afar' love, or maybe the love of being in love, further multiplied by reading romance novels and self-assuring herself despite his attitude at times with her. edit: After watching the last ep a few more times, and looking at Makoto's nuances, maybe he DID slightly change. The wording he used when Sekai came over, I guess he didn't want her to have an abortion, but still had a hard time talking about it. Kinda sad, he still deserved to die, but he could have at least been able to redeem himself a single time had he managed to tell her that. The one thing I truly wished that didn't happen was Makoto/Setsu having sex. I know that it may have been 'implied, but not known', but judging how Minami? tried to get him to see Sekai in ep 11 and he never didn't, I can only assume that Setsu did it with him. Setsu being with that bastard... makes my blood boil, even more than him doing anyone else >=0(. A minor thing is that I wished he died a slow, agonizing death, so that he could reflect on what he had done before he died. Generally though, I dulled my senses while watching this, and I think it had the heavy dramatic atmosphere that I've been looking for recently. Although Makoto was a horrible char in that he was TOO oblivious to what was going on(or didn't care) and did nothing but think of himself, I enjoyed how balanced the story was in preventing you from knowing how his relationship(s) would end, with both Sekai and Koto having somewhat fragile relations that could tip over at anything(can't word this right =0\). Not my favorite show by any means, but it was enjoyable enough. Last edited by frubam; 2010-07-10 at 19:04. |
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i dont think anyone really needed to die at the end because mikato saw how his actions had hurt people and was going to change by getting back together with katsura but i suppose it was too late RIP i suppose
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Watching the coverage of the passing of Ted Kennedy, I am overwhelmed by the simple stories of his impact on the personal lives of so many people. So I shall tell mine.
I've rarely told my story to anyone because it is relatively insignificant but for the fact that it was Ted Kennedy. Ted taught me how to tie a flying bowline one early evening at the end of a private dock in the Vineyard Sound in 1974, I think.
If the setting puts me in elitist territory, it by circumstance. It wasn't my choice, I was 14ish. Some of the Kennedy/Schriver clan had sailed over in the Maya from Hyannisport, as they did sometimes several times every summer. They always stayed next door at the Styron's and invaded the small detached house house that was our primary hangout.
I was the summer of poker. There were a group of us, all 14-years old. We played poker into the wee hours of the morning, every night with a vengeance. That was also the summer I first met James Taylor and Carley Simon. Tommy and I were sitting on the green steps of the front porch of the main house when Carley strode down the lawn with this straggly, skinny guy wearing nothing but gym shorts. I recognized Carley immediately. As they continued toward us, I asked Tommy, "Who's the straggly guy with Carley?"
Things like that happened at the Styrons all the time. Ted rarely came over on the boat. He seemed to show up out of nowhere and disappear as fast, as was the case that day.
So there I sat, alone at the end of the dock at dusk when Ted Kennedy came walking out. I held a piece of line in my hand. He sat next to me and offered to show me how to tie a flying bowline. I thought to myself, "sure, old man. Lets see what you got." Of course, I could already tie a bowline in my sleep. But he did it faster than anyone I had ever seen. I was impressed. He knew it.
Then he showed me in slow motion how to do it. I practiced a few times until he approved. Then we sat for a while and looked out at the Mya anchored a hundred yards off. He said "nice to meet you," and walked back.
I have taught this technique to many people since. That was my only encounter with Ted.
As you listen and watch to stories, histories, and postmortems, you will hear one single word more than any other; Justice. For all the Kennedy's justice was the litmus test. The standard. The bold clear line. It was never a thin one for any of the Kennedy's, and justice is not a thin line for me or any of the millions of progressives for whom the Kennedy's were the standard bearers.
Many in conservative America cannot understand how such a liberal man could be so powerful for so long. The answer is justice. Justice prevails over righteousness and 'freedom' every time. This is the essence of America. Justice must win every time and in each case where justice meets freedom, justice must always prevail.
Teddy Kennedy's passing leaves a gaping hole in The American Psyche that I fear may never be filled.
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Barzagli joined Juventus from the Bundesliga outfit in January 2011 for a fee of around €300,000 and has gone on to make 94 appearances for the club so far.
Speaking to Gazzetta dello Sport, the 31-year-old Italian praised his former coach and highlighted the changes he made to his game under the German's tutelage.
"Magath was the coach who has changed my level mentally," the former Palermo defender stated.
"I was able to force myself into rigidity and consistency at the level of work during the week."
It was this psychological training, Barzagli believes, that has enhanced his reputation and allowed him to now be considered one of Italy's finest defenders.
"There are potentially defenders stronger than me, but in certain areas, namely concentration and physical preparation, I am among the best in the league."
The Old Lady currently sit top of Serie A with 65 points from 29 games and their central defender is very clear on his ambitions for the remainder of the campaign.
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At Fort Bragg, N.C., a partnership of three St. Louis-based firms teamed up to create a low-cost solution to the U.S. Army's needs using sea containers that are 8-feet (2.4-m) wide, 40-feet (12-m) long and 9-feet (2.7-m) high. Because these blocks are structurally reinforced to accommodate the strains of long transit, they are ideal for creating the structural support required for a building. The buildings can be assembled quickly, are adaptable and can be delivered at the same or lower cost than more traditional construction assemblies.
When stacked together, the shipping containers can create a fast, flexible, durable shell. They contain high percentages of recycled content, are themselves completely recyclable and can be used again at the end of their newfound use.
The new Officers Building at Ft. Bragg was an excellent location to demonstrate the versatility of this building concept. The Army wanted a durable structure that could be built quickly and taken down just as quickly.
Twelve containers form this 2-story, 4,500square-foot (418-m2) office building. Six of the 12 containers were secured to a concrete-masonry-unit block foundation. The remaining six containers were stacked and secured on top of the lower level, creating the second floor. The reinforced hull of the containers allows for penetrations in the interior and exterior walls to create openings for doors, utilities, stairs and windows.
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Attention to safety makes Halloween less scary
Tonight, we advise you to be less concerned about that eerie howling in the woods. There's something scarier on Halloween that we can actually prevent: pedestrian and drunk driving fatalities.
The traffic statistics for Halloween tell a frightening but all-too-true story.
And that's why the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration urges motorists and pedestrians to use extra caution on Halloween night.
NHTSA data indicates that, in 2011, 38 percent of fatalities on Halloween night occurred in a crash involving a driver or a motorcyclist with a blood alcohol content above the legal limit of .08. And 11 percent of those fatalities involved a pedestrian. In fact, over the five years from 2007-2011, 23 percent of pedestrian fatalities on Halloween night involved a drunk driver.
When we talk about pedestrians on Halloween night, we're talking about children. SafeKids reports that on average, more than twice as many child pedestrians are killed while walking on Halloween than on any other single day.
To help protect drivers, passengers, and pedestrians, NHTSA offers some simple safety tips:
- Use caution behind the wheel.
- Slow down and be alert in residential areas.
- Enter and exit driveways and alleys carefully.
- Eliminate distractions so you can concentrate on the road and your surroundings.
- Drive sober or get pulled over.
- Always designate a sober driver and plan a way to safely get home at the end of the night if you plan on celebrating Halloween with alcohol.
- Use your community's sober ride program or take a taxi, call a sober friend or family member, or use public transportation.
- Watch out for your family, friends, and neighbors.
- If you see a drunk driver on the road, contact local law enforcement.
- If you know someone who is about to drive or ride while impaired, take their keys and help them make safe travel arrangements to where they are going.
- Keep kids safe.
- Children out at night and under the age of 12 should have adult supervision.
- Kids should stick to familiar areas that are well lit and trick-or-treat in groups.
- Choose face paint when possible instead of masks, which can obstruct a child's vision.
- Decorate costumes with reflective tape and have kids carry glow sticks or flashlights.
- Remember, everyone is a pedestrian.
- Always cross the street at corners, using traffic signals and crosswalks.
- Look left, right and left again when crossing and keep looking as you cross.
- Walking impaired can be just as dangerous as drunk driving; designate a sober friend to walk you home.
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The suspect turned himself in to police without incident about an hour later, said Golbeck.
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De Villota, daughter of former F1 driver Emilio de Villota, drove a Renault F1 car at Paul Ricard in France last year.
The 32-year-old raced in Spanish Formula Three from 2001 to 2005, recording a best finish of fifth. In the last three years she has raced in Superleague Formula for Atletico Madrid as well as in Spanish GT racing.
Team principal John Booth said de Villota will get to drive the team's car later this year: "We are pleased to welcome Maria to our test driver programme, which will enable her to be integrated into a Formula One team environment and gain a vast amount of experience that will be useful to her career progression.
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A judge threw out "Octomom" Nadya Suleman's bankruptcy claim Tuesday after she failed to file the proper paperwork to show she can't pay as much as $1 million in debt.
That means creditors can move to collect what they say they're owed, and a pending foreclosure can go ahead against the La Habra, Calif., house Suleman lives in with her 14 children, according to The Orange County Register ( http://bit.ly/KMFV8L).
Suleman's case was thrown out because she didn't file a dozen financial documents and statements required to prove bankruptcy. In her initial filing April 30, Suleman estimated that she owed as much as $1 million that she is unable to repay.
Suleman had sought protection from her debts under Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which means a court-appointed trustee would have liquidated her assets to pay off creditors before she is discharged from most of her debts. According to the filing, she owed money to more than 20 parties, including utility companies, her father and a Christian school.
A representative for Suleman did not immediately provide comment.
Suleman is an unemployed single mother who became famous after giving birth to octuplets in 2009. Her octuplets are the world's longest living set.
All of Suleman's children were conceived through in vitro fertility treatments.
Suleman has sold photos of herself and her children to tabloids, including a spread of topless photos to a British magazine. She has also agreed to answer pay-per-minute phone calls along with other D-list celebrities and reality television personalities.


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It was a frank conversation about money with other leaders at our church. We tackled what most of middle-class America considers a taboo subject and faced some hard truths. As a result, I was awakened to my habits and how they influenced the financial situation of our closest friends.
For example, in our community of friends, eating out had become our cultural gathering point—church and then lunch. It had become our Sunday ritual. We love to eat together. Unfortunately, this ritual was causing friends to increase their personal indebtedness to credit card companies.
How did we get to this point in our habits?
Fulfilling Two Human Needs
We had taken two genuine needs (food and friendship) and chosen a luxury (going out to eat) as a way to fulfill those needs. As we talked openly, we agreed we needed to make some lifestyle changes. We all agreed we didn't need to go out to an expensive restaurant to meet these needs and took the opportunity to forge a new way.
We began having lunches together in our home, and everyone brought a dish. Or we gathered for games and dessert later that evening. As we started to place a higher value on community over convenience, our friendships reached new depths.
In every community, people live in need and in excess. What is enough?
A Poignant Experiment
This critical question will define our personal lives. It's too easy to be taken over by desire. When we define enough, we step off the conveyor belt of consumerism and create a new intentional rhythm of life. Over time, advertisers, credit cards and the quest for more lose their control. I personally no longer feel pushed around by others choosing my needs and wants. Sometimes less can do more.
How you define enough may be different from how I see it. I can't determine what you need. I have found the best starting point is a social experiment.
Sarah Flemming, an administrative assistant at Connexus Community Church in Ontario, pursued a social experiment to buy nothing new (no new products purchased from a store other than food) for a year. Her goal was to put the excess money into places that needed it more than her desires. For toiletries, she could restock only when everything was used completely. She didn't even pay for haircuts (friends cut her hair).
By the end of the yearlong experiment, Sarah had gained great wisdom: "The more we get, the more we want. When will we stop believing in stuff? We buy things we don't need; meanwhile, we have neighbors in need."
Sarah now has a fresh view toward needs and wants. Her intentional commitment to live on less inspired her community to do more. Now, five leaders in her church have adapted her experiment to their lives, purchasing nothing new for a year. Including her pastor, Carey Nieuwhof.
When one leader in one community determines what is enough, it ignites a community to think and live differently. Your example of choosing to live with less moves your community toward a more generous lifestyle. What would happen if you and your church wrestled with the question of enough?
Jeff Shinabarger is the author of More or Less: Choosing a Lifestyle of Excessive Generosity, releasing in March. He is a social entrepreneur, experienced designer, cofounder of the Q event and creative director at Catalyst. He's been featured in national media such as CNN, NPR and Relevant Magazine and has been interviewed by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Chicago Sun-Times, among others. He and his family live in East Atlanta Village.
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New analysis of ocean currents may solve eel mystery
- 27 December 2013
- From the section Science & Environment
A new analysis of wind-driven Atlantic currents may help scientists solve a mysterious decline in eel numbers.
These secretive creatures are born in the Sargasso Sea but migrate to Europe where they spend most of their lives.
But unexplained fluctuations in the numbers of those traversing the ocean have thwarted efforts to save the species.
Now researchers believe they have built a computer model that will accurately predict the level of migration.
The research is published in the journal, Current Biology.
Smoked, fried or boiled, eels remain a popular dish in many parts of Europe, particularly at Christmas.
Newspaper reports in the UK have indicated an upsurge in their consumption due to the recession as the fish are cheap and nutritious.
But numbers of European eels have declined rapidly in recent decades and scientists have struggled to explain the reasons behind the drop.
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Complicating matters is the creature's complex life cycle. They are born in the Sargasso Sea, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
The young, called elvers, are sometimes known as glass eels, as you can literally see through them.
Carried by the Gulf stream, they end up in European rivers where they can spend 20 years before embarking on the return voyage to spawn.
A team of scientists has now managed to simulate these journeys on a mass scale, using a computer model that followed 8 million tiny drifting particles that represented the eel larvae. This model simulation covered the years between 1960 and 2005.
The researchers found that small scale, wind-driven ocean currents strongly determined fluctuations in eel populations in Europe.
The numbers were big when favourable currents made for a short trip. But when the currents changed and the journeys were much longer, fewer elvers survived.
"There is a clear link," Dr Christophe Eizaguirre from Queen Mary, University of London told BBC News.
"If the weather changes then there is a clear risk for the eel population."
The destruction of river habitats and infections with a parasite have also impacted the eel numbers. But researchers believe that, if they can't figure out the scale of returning young, they won't be able to save this endangered species.
"Between the moment the eels are born and when they arrive on the European coast takes two years," said Dr Eizaguirre.
"So we can look at the currents and predict the number successfully arriving on the European coast so we have time to adjust management programmes."
This would mean that, if numbers were low, eel fishing quotas could be lowered until stocks recovered.
Homeward bound
By combining their modelling with genetic analysis, the researchers now believe that each eel returns to the spot where it was born - similar to turtles and salmon.
"This is a new finding," said Dr Miguel Baltazar-Soares, from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research and the lead author of the study.
"So far it was assumed that the mating in the Atlantic takes place completely independently of the area of origin. Future scientific expeditions will have to verify this result in situ."
The scientists say that the first draft of the eel's genome, which will be available in the coming months, might shed new light on just how these slippery creatures manage to navigate the ocean so accurately.
"Is it the Earth's geomagnetic field as some believe?" posed Dr Eizaguirre.
"Or do they have large numbers of olfactory genes like turtles, and somehow find the smell of home?"
"It is the one million dollar question," he said.
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Home > Wellness > Health Library > Heart Failure: Working With Your Medical Team
Heart failure is a lifelong condition. So you will have dozens—or even hundreds—of appointments with various health professionals while you have the disease.
Creating ongoing and lasting relationships with these professionals can give you:
You will not be left alone with the task of managing your disease. You will see several doctors, specialists, and nurses. Each will offer you specific suggestions and guidance that can help you to control your heart failure. The number of health professionals you see will probably grow over time. Your health care team can include doctors, nurses, cardiac surgeons, physical and occupational therapists, dietitians, social workers, and pharmacists.
With such a large care team, you might forget that you must also play an active role in managing your heart failure. In fact, you are the most important member of your treatment team. If you don't take part and cooperate in managing your condition, no amount of effort by your doctors and nurses will improve your health.
Each member of your medical team plays an important role in heart failure treatment. But your doctors and nurses help guide you in making the best treatment decisions for you.
Your primary care doctor will act as the coach of your health care team. Your coach may be a family doctor or a cardiologist. He or she will create and correct your drug treatment plan, regularly check in on the symptoms of your disease, and coordinate your care with other members of your care team. Your doctor will also help you to understand your overall prognosis and the specifics of how your drugs should be taken.
How often you see your doctor will usually depend on how far your heart failure has progressed. If you have class I or II heart failure, you may see your doctor 2 or 3 times a year. At those visits, your doctor will check your overall health and ask you important questions about your lifestyle. If you have more advanced (class III or IV) heart failure, you might see your doctor more often.
The nurses involved in your care have four main roles. They:
You can't follow your health care team's orders unless you take the time to understand them fully. Open, two-way communication between you and the members of your health care team is the key to a successful relationship. Make sure to listen to everything they have to say. But they will also be listening to you. Tell them about how you have been feeling between visits and about any concerns you have about your health.
Remember that you should feel comfortable discussing any aspect of your health or life with your health professionals. There are no wrong questions, especially if it is something that concerns you. Do not be intimidated by their level of education or by how busy they are. Focus on taking an active role in your visits with the health care team members.
It may be hard to remember exactly who does what. The following table may help you understand the roles of each person on your care team.
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Coming onstage after her rollicking performance of 'Die Young,' Kesha gave hugs to the fellow panelists on 'The Graham Norton Show,' including Joan Rivers. When the glitter enthusiast was handed a glass, she asked delightedly, "Is that … booze?!" Yes, Kesha, it is.
She seemed a little bit confused by her release date for 'Warrior' (for the record, it is due in stores Dec. 4), but when asked if the lead single was, in fact, 'Die Young,' she quipped, "Yes! I do know that."
Kesha began chatting, rather nonchalantly, about breaking into different celebrities' houses, but Norton was asking her specifically about breaking into singer Prince's pad. "I've snuck into a few people's houses," she explained, tilting her head. "It always turns out different." In terms of the Purple One's house? "I didn't actually break anything," she insisted. "I just slid under a fence. And the door was unlocked, so for me, that's like a giant welcoming sign." K-Dollar Sign revealed that she did it all because she just really wanted to work with Prince, and that he was actually playing guitar when she entered.
So why does she lurk around corners instead of just approaching her idols, including Iggy Pop, through her management? It's simple. "Sneaking around is just really fun!"


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Grant Holt got the ball rolling after quarter of an hour by prodding home Simon Lappin's free-kick and youngster Korey Smith, one of the new boys, doubled Norwich's advantage 10 minutes later with a scorching low drive.
Jon Otsemobor made it three with a curling header which went in off the upright on 35 minutes.
Wycombe, whose defending had been desperately poor, looked shell-shocked although Jon-Paul Pittman gave them some hope six minutes before the break after pouncing on a defensive error from Jens Berthel Askou.
Wycombe suggested they may be capable of making a sensational comeback when Matt Harrold took advantage of more slack defensive work to fire home 20 seconds after the restart.
But Norwich quickly restored their two-goal advantage with a bullet Askou header from another Lappin free-kick and Holt scored his second after 71 minutes following a swift counter-attack to complete the rout.
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2. Chop half the herbs and press them into the skin all over.
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5. Roast the turkey for 1 hour and 30 minutes (calculate 15 minutes per pound) or until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the breast registers 160 degrees. Remove the turkey from the oven and let it sit in a warm place for 20 minutes before carving. Remove each breast from the bone in one large piece. Set on a cutting board and carve into thick slices. Save 4 slices for the Waldorf salad. Arrange remaining meat on a platter and garnish with the remaining herbs. Sheryl Julian


text: Rachel Zoe Sees Her Fashion Line Sitting Beside Alexander Wang And DVFJenna Sauers1/11/11 12:00pmFiled to: Rag TradeRachel ZoeLi & fungBravoThe rachel zoe showBarneysBarneys New YorkMark LeeSimon Doonanjulie gilhartJudy CollinsonDennis FreedmanTom FordRichard Buckleylara stonelgbtEstee Lauderelizabeth hurleytwitterFreja Beha ErichsenCalvin KleinValentinoTaylor SwiftcovergirlH&mElin KlingElin Kling for H&Mcelinedaria werbowykendall jenner42EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkRachel Zoe is seven months pregnant, and in possession of a brand-new fashion line. She has a new assistant, and gets followed around by a team of 20 for her Bravo show. Also, she's having a boy. But the clothes:The clothes are '70s-inspired and very tailored, with a heavy reliance on capes and flared, shoe-eating pants. The line includes accessories and footwear, and it'll retail for $250-$700. "I'm a Virgo and I'm more — I don't want to say negative — but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show — that's just how I think," says Zoe. "The same applies to this. I don't want to let people down." [WWD]AdvertisementBarneys' new C.E.O. Mark Lee has removed Simon Doonan from his position as the department store's creative director. Replacing Doonan is former longtime W creative director Dennis Freedman. Doonan was given the B.S. new job title "Creative Ambassador At Large" to make it seem like he wasn't being fired, like his friends Julie Gilhart and Judy Collinson, whom Lee canned just before the holidays. [NYPost]Racked ran Barneys' coldly worded press release: "No one will be speaking further on the record today, the release stands for itself." Freedman will be taking over Doonan's most visible duties: Designing the Barneys window displays. Doonan still has his immensely entertaining Slate column, his books, and his memoir was adapted into a television series, so we're sure he'll be all right. But still. [Racked]When Tom Ford fell for Richard Buckley, he fell hard. The designer reports, "We did our Christmas shopping together one Saturday, and we spent almost every night together after our first few dates. It was probably a few days before we were saying things like, 'I think I'm in love with you.' Now, we say it to each other every night before we go to sleep, and we say it at the end of every telephone conversation, and we write it at the end of every e-mail. Every time you think, I love you, I really believe you have to say it. If you think about holding their hand or kissing them, you do it. I do it all the time." Awww. That almost melts our cold little hearts. Ford also says: "[O]ften, I'm at dinner parties with very close friends, straight, and they realize that Richard and I have been together 24 years, and the response is often, 'Wow, you guys have been together 24 years! That's so amazing. I don't think of gay men being together that long.' And I'm, like, 'Why? What are you talking about?' Some of the longest relationships I know of are same-sex couples. A lot of my straight friends have married and divorced and married and divorced in the time Richard and I have been together. I think that preconception, from even very educated liberal friends, that being gay is possibly more sex-based than emotionally based, is surprising and shocking in today's world. I'm someone who likes being part of a couple and always wanted that and always sought that, and it would probably be true for me whether I was gay or straight." Click through for the meet cute, AIDS, cancer, shopping, etc. [Out]Lara Stone's second season as the exclusive face of Calvin Klein sees her wearing a white suit for the main line campaign. [Modelinia]And Freja Beha Erichsen continues her iron-fisted rule over fashion by booking Valentino. [Design Scene]Elizabeth Hurley has been criticized in England — and even drawn the attention of advertising standards regulators — for littering her Twitter account with laudatory references to Estée Lauder, without disclosing her financial relationship with the brand. Hurley says, via Twitter, "it's hardly a secret" that she's a paid face of the brand. [ContactMusic]Taylor Swift has a new CoverGirl ad out. [StyleList]15-year-old Kendall Jenner and some hideous blue eyeshadow landed a modeling gig for some designer called Marc Clark. [Kim Kardashian]H&M is launching another designer collaboration — this time with the Swedish fashion blogger Elin Kling. Her collection is only available in Sweden. Bummer, cus some of it's quite cute (especially that black leather jacket). Ten percent of the sales go to UNICEF. [Telegraph]Céline's spring campaign features Daria Werbowy in a variety of sporty outfits. In one shot, she holds an orange skateboard in front of her apparently nude torso. Werbowy, who loves snowboarding, is actually one of the supermodels we find slightly plausible when presented in a "sporty" guise. [TFS]Adrian Joffe, the president of Comme des Garçons, has accused Women's Wear Daily of sensationalizing and "twisting" its recent interview with Rei Kawakubo. Joffe says, "We were rather upset if not shocked by the way they twisted the words of Rei and made it sound like she was dismissive of young designers in general. Everyone knows that Rei respects enormously all-young designers that work hard and believe in creation...She is in no way dismissive of young designers, as she only wants to encourage them to be strong and creative and follow their own vision." Kawakubo had been quoted as saying that many young designers are too lax with themselves. "She was merely making the comment about a lot of young people in general these days, not just in fashion, as they hope and expect for success too quickly and are too impatient." And as for WWD saying Kawakubo had submitted to a "rare" English interview, "Rei did at least ten or fifteen interviews in 2010 alone. We did five in Beijing just last week, even though WWD falsely called their particular one 'rare.' What nonsense!...She basically doesn't trust journalists because they often twist what she says and turn it around to make their point. She has very often been deceived by journalists in this way. The scandal-mongering WWD article of last week is a case in point." Joffe also says that WWD's photo of the designer was "completely unauthorized." And the company is not for sale. "They made it sound that Comme des Garçons is for sale, which it totally isn't. They called my 100% joke about waiting for an offer, a 'half joke.'" [Hypebeast]There were rumors that Victoria Beckham would be showing her line in London this season. They are not true. She is showing, as she always has so far, in New York. [Vogue UK]Jil Sander-the-brand's first diffusion line — unless you count Jil Sander-the-individual's excellent +J line for Uniqlo — launches this season. Jil Sander Navy's first campaign features Valerija Kelava. [TFS]Now that Emmanuelle Alt has been officially named as Carine Roitfeld's successor at Vogue Paris, Alt has pledged to stop consulting on the side for what is known in the industry as "major skrill" for brands including Balmain and Isabel Marant. Most designers and photographers, understandably, fairly effervesce with praise for Alt. Not Karl Lagerfeld: "Her style is her big shoulders, long legs, tight jeans, sleeves up to the elbow, one hip out. I personally like her. She's a handsome French woman. She has a style, but is it enough to make a whole magazine?" Lagerfeld nonetheless allowed that he would have to give Alt the chance to actually preside over an issue before passing final judgment. [WWD]The guy who designs Diane Von Furstenberg's prints says, "Diane is very particular about color. One time, she spilled beet juice and wiped it up with a paper towel. She brought in the dried-up towel and said, 'This is the color that I want.' It was as simple as that." [WSJ]Joe's Jeans has been ordered to pay $158,952 in back wages to 110 Los Angeles-area garment workers. Joe's contractor failed to pay the employees required overtime and minimum wages. [WWD]Last week, the Irish Independent sifted a two-month-old Fashionista interview with editor Katie Grand for reporting — quite as though the idea that Grand might respect and admire Carine Roitfeld was some kind of new bombshell, and quite as though people didn't actually read that quote two months earlier, on the Internet. Today, the New York Observer runs a story about the photographer Todd Selby's new-ish coffee-table book, headline "Let's All Marvel At Karl Lagerfeld's Chic and Well-Stocked Library!" Back in November, the Cut ran a post about Todd Selby's then-new coffee-table book, headline "Look At Karl Lagerfeld's Enormous Library." Same hed, same story, same newspeg, same angle, same frikkin' picture. Has the Observer been in a coma for three months, or does it merely think its readers are? [NYObs]Sephora is putting out a Glee- branded collection of nail polish in February. [WWD]Picking up a bespoke suit in Singapore or Hong Kong is getting more expensive, due both to the rising costs of fabric (cotton and wool prices in particular) and the increasing affluence of those societies/fading glory of the U.S. dollar. The rag trade raises all boats, eventually, we suppose. [WSJ]Shoelaces by Marc Jacobs read: "Jacobs by Marc Jacobs for Marc by Marc Jacobs in Collaboration with Marc Jacobs for Marc by Marc Jacobs." Next up: "Marc Jacobs by Marc Jacobs for Marc Jacobs Eats Itself." [Racked]To celebrate fifteen years of its website, British Vogue is publishing the top-fifteen-noun lists of various famous fashion types — Kate Moss, Diane Von Furstenberg, Tom Ford, Amanda Harlech, etc. Our favorite so far is probably John Galliano's, self-promotional though it is. We'd never actually seen a photograph of his graduate collection until now. [Vogue UK]Reply42 repliesLeave a reply


text: Star Wars: The Old Republic Patch 1.1 Breaks High-End PVPMike Fahey1/18/12 2:30pmFiled to: Star WarsStar wars: the old republicPatch 1.1PvpBrokenImbalanceBiowareoutrageUproarKotaku Core416EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Before Star Wars: The Old Republic's 1.1 patch went live early this morning, player-versus-player combat on the level 50 world of Ilum was slightly broken, with more players focusing on completing non-PVP goals than fighting. After patch 1.1 the zone has been transformed into an Imperial PVP wonderland. Advertisement There are plenty of non PVP-related issues with patch 1.1, Rise of the Rakghouls. Folks are reporting blank loading screens, hotbar buttons that don't properly cycle, and various frame rate related issues. None of these are quite as bad (or entertaining, quite frankly) as what's going on in Ilum.What was previously a zone where players went to take care of their daily / weekly quests without much interference from the opposite faction is now hell for players of the Republic, and a glaring reminder to all players of the imbalance between the two factions. Advertisement In a move aimed at making PVP more attractive on Ilum, BioWare patched the game so that the daily and weekly mission objectives now require killing players of the opposing faction. To sweeten the pot, developers also upped the amount of Valor (currency used to buy high-end PVP gear) players earned from killing enemy players. Were the factions completely balanced, this wouldn't have been an issue. Unfortunately on most servers the Empire outnumbers the Republic by a large margin, resulting in scenes like the ones you see here. Imperial players are camping Republic spawn points, dominating objective areas, and generally farming the entire zone willy nilly. As an added bonus, BioWare added in a feature that announces whenever an enemy player approaches an important point on the map, turning the Imperials into one rolling announcement-seeking missile of Republic destruction.Needless to say, the players are up in arms. The official forums are filled with angry posts. Some are calling for a rollback. Others are thanking the Ilum issue for reminding them to quit before their free month is up. Sponsored BioWare has created an official forum thread where issues can be discussed, kicking things off with the following message: "We're currently investigating potential issues related to the Ilum open world PVP area post 1.1. We understand that this is a topic of much discussion and we ask that you please direct all discussions to this thread."That's a neat idea. It's not working, but definitely a neat idea. Advertisement Will BioWare roll back the update? Will the Republic rise again? At this point it's anyone's guess.I told you Star Wars: The Old Republic PVP was a mess. Post 1.1 Ilum PVP Potential Issues Discussion [Star Wars: The Old Republic Forums - Thanks Toph and Sathor!]Reply416 repliesLeave a reply


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LSU's Johnny O'Bryant III, a 6-foot-9, 256-pound junior forward from Cleveland, Miss, was named SEC Player of the Week after averaging 26 points, nine rebounds and two assists in wins over Kentucky and Arkansas. O'Bryant III had his highest scoring game of the season against Kentucky with 29 points to go with nine rebounds, two blocks and a steal. He followed that up with 23 points, nine rebounds four assists and a block against Arkansas. He shot 63.8 percent (23-of-36) from the field in the two games. He has five straight double figure scoring games that has raised his scoring average two full points from 13.8 to 15.8. In his last five games he has led LSU to a 4-1 record while averaging 21.6 points, hitting 58.6 percent from the field.
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- Centennial Field is the oldest facility in pro baseball
- The ballpark's bleachers date back to 1922
When you're visiting Burlington to watch the Lake Monsters, you'll rarely hear the term "Centennial Field" thrown around with the prefix of "Historic." And with good reason. As you'll quickly notice once you pass through the ballpark's gates, Centennial Field is not a modern facility. In fact, it's the oldest baseball field still in use by a professional club in the country. Its first game, held on April 17, 1906, featured a University of Vermont 10-4 win over the University of Maine.
Centennial Field was built, and got its name, as part of the university's centennial celebrations in 1906. A fire in 1913 destroyed the facility's wooden bleachers. In 1922, builders added the concrete bleachers and steel seating areas that are still in use today.
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Today, Centennial Field seats 4,415 for baseball. Its dimensions are 330 feet to left field, 325 feet to right field and 405 feet to straightaway center field. In 1995, the ballpark was renovated to receive modern amenities, such as concession stand and bathroom upgrades.
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