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Ancestor Approved: Thank You for the lovely surprise
This morning, still not feeling 100%, I received a message from Jo at Images Past awarding this blog the Ancestor Approved Award, a lovely surprise. Thank You very much Jo. Back in April Carol at Reflections From the Fence and Sharon at Kindred Footprints recognized this blog with the award, and I am very grateful to receive it once again.
My list of ten lessons learned needs a little tweaking, so I ask that you allow me a little time to get that done, and to pass the award along. The old saying "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" seems most fitting at this time; however, the spirit of gratitude is alive and feeling very well, and I thank you so very much.
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Sorry to hear you are under the weather, get well soon. Congrats on being recognized as an Ancestor Approved blogger!ReplyDelete
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All the best, hope you feel better soon.
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The world no.2, who had been struggling with his eyesight, didn't fancy trying the glasses made famous by 1985 world champion Dennis Taylor.
Maguire said: "It is what everyone who has had the surgery says, but I really wish I had got my eyesight corrected earlier.
"I used to need glasses for driving and watching TV. Playing snooker I could never get used to the special glasses you needed to wear, so I got by without anything, which was not ideal.
"Last season I felt my eyes strain under the tournament lights. I was aware that my eyesight was not as clear as it could be and I had to concentrate harder to see the pockets.
"I visited Optical Express in Glasgow who recommended laser eye surgery and within two weeks, I had gone through the consultation and had my treatment done.
"It was such a simple process and I'm delighted with my results. I have already changed the lenses in my old glasses to make sunglasses as I have no need for driving glasses anymore."
The first test for Maguire will be an exhibition event in Beijing on July 7, which includes Stephen Hendry, Mark Allen and Liang Wenbo.
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It's good that Maguire's fixed his eyesight. He's an outstanding player, and a real character to boot - just what this great game needs more of.
- 5:36 pm
I agree with Anon @ 5.36
There's not enough characters in the current game, unlike progressive sports like darts and WWF wrestling.
Snooker sure could do with a Hulk Hogan and a Jocky Wilson gracing the baize.
- 5:45 pm
- Matt said...
Interesting, wasn't aware that he had problems. Hope he can rediscover his 2007/8 form next year.
- 6:05 pm
who are the charicters in Darts and Wrestling ?
because you just names people thats past it for atleast 10 years+ in theire chosen sports so youre strugling in thoes sports aswell.
you compare Hulk Hogan and Jocky Wilson to Alex Higgins and Cliff Thorburn and not to Mark Selby and todays players.
- 6:08 pm
- Chris said...
Interesting news. I never knew that Maguire was having problems with his eyes. I know how Maguire feels as I had the same problem. If your vision isn't good and it isn't good enough for snooker then you would need to wear glasses, however the normal glasses aren't the right size or shape for snooker and you'll find yourself looking over the top of the frames in the correct playing position, or the glasses will be too heavy.
Or you could get contact lenses or laser eye surgery, these two options are what many people don't want.
The only other option other than carrying on as before which isn't what you want is to get snooker glasses. Glasses perfect for snooker, which I use now after suffering from terrible eyesight for snooker for a few years.
- 6:43 pm
Sounds like an advert, is he on commission?
- 7:27 pm
- George Riley said...
I had my eyes done earlier this year too. As Hendon will testify to, I am now unbeatable with cue in hand.
- 7:29 pm
In snooker are you allowed to put any kind of sighting on the cue, making it a bit like a rifle I suppose.
- 7:41 pm
Maybay WildJONESoneeye kood get aye surgery, two.
- 7:49 pm
I got glasses made to measure a year ago, not them big DT ones! lol
Now im back on the tour, i can even see the nets in the bag from miles away :)
Wish i done it earlier but ive got my chance now!
- 8:17 pm
I remember while on the bevvy with Patsy Fagan a few years back, he picked up a couple of glasses we'd been drinking whisky out of and held them to his eyes.
Oh, how we laughed.
We were a wee bit pissed :-)
- 9:04 pm
The BBC need glasses. I've just tuned in to watch Crimewatch and the bloody tennis is on!
They never shift programmes around if there is a snooker match on do they? No, they just tell you to hit the red button. This is a disgrace. My red button doesn't work.
Our great sport is suffering because the BBC are showing other sports. To help snooker grow we've got to get other sports off of our screens. Who on earth wants to watch tennis? Or football, cricket, golf, rugby or darts. What chance do we have when these minority sports are taking over the airwaves? The BBC schedulers should be on Crimewatch!!
- 9:12 pm
anon 7.49pm
atleast spelling is superficial being a pratt is heredatary..
- 9:32 pm
I love darts.
Best sport on TV at the moment!
- 10:42 pm
No drugs or gambling ricks in darts.
- 11:15 pm
There are no characters in tennis any more.
Where are the Ile Nastase's or the Jeff Tarango's or erm, the Ivan Lendl's...?
All we have now are boring Roger Federer and Andy Murray.
Its a joke.
- 11:51 pm
anon 10.42
you think
i find it boring and repetative just throwing arrows at a wall.
like watching paint dry.
- 12:01 am
11:51pm you say tennis is a joke and Roger and Murray are boring, might have something to do with the £850,000 that's on offer to the winner.
- 12:40 am
Watching the tennis last night the crowd got involved after every point, and sometimes during them. The players didn't seem to mind. Maybe that's what snooker is missing, and perhaps why our great sport is suffering. We should allow spectators to stand up and applaud and cheer loudly between shots. This will get the excitement back into the beautiful game.
The great characters of yesteryear didn't seem to mind too much if there was background noise going on. In fact they seemed to thrive on it.
- 8:43 am
it does happen now and infact theres a letter regarding passionate crowds in this months Snooker Scene from ex pro Colin Bingham.
the letter was in regard to the Mark Allen v Ronnie O'Sullivan match in the WC this year where the Referee did it seems Stamp on Allens Suporters without any real need when they did Get Loud.
i think the Refs has to be a little Forgiving and let the crowds as much as possible get in to the match.
Mark Allen brings with him great suport and it would be a shame if thoes people didnt travel because they are Fed up with getting a Hard Time.
- 9:38 am
Maguire probably got the treatment for nothing (or at a reduced rate) for putting his name to the advertorial.
Like the line about the betting slips !
- 10:37 am
- Dave H said...
I didn't, which is why I deleted it
If the law suits start flying about it'll be me who's up before the beak, not some anonymous 'comedian'
- 12:43 pm
No chance of a law suit being issued on that basis.
Stephen Maguire has admitted many time he likes to punt on horses and fixed odds soccer coupons.
Case dismissed!
- 12:58 pm
I'm glad the laser has worked ofr him. I wish I could have laser treatment, but it's far too expensive - anyone want to sponsor me?
- 2:01 pm
Janie, I wouldn't bother even thinking about laser treatment if I was you. My OH has been receiving treatment for his eyes due to diabetic problems for a few years and his consultant (one of the very best in the world) wears glasses - that I think speak volumes!!
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Three new books are of particular interest, including Under the Eagle, which tells the fascinating story of Samuel Holiday. Holiday, a Monument Valley native, was a Navajo Code Talker in World War II. He will be a grand marshal in the Independence Day parade in Blanding on July 4.
Another new book, Viewing the Ancestors: Perceptions of the Anasazi, Mokwic, and Hisatsinom, answers the questions often asked by academicians, visitors, and residents in the Four Corners region, "What happened to the Anasazi? How did they live and why did they leave this area?"
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BOSTON -- Anal intraepithelial neoplasia seems to develop during in the first year of HIV infection, according to the results of a cross-sectional study.
Among 82 patients in the study group, 32.4% were diagnosed with high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia and 35.4% were diagnosed with low-grade disease, said John Lough, a medical student at Rush Memorial College in Chicago, in his presentation at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. In addition, 3.7% were observed with atypia and 18% of the group had normal pathology.
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He said that 22% of the patients diagnosed with HIV infection for less than six months tested positive for high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia compared with 51.6% of patients who had been infected for more than six months (P<0.01).
Individuals who had more than one unprotected receptive anal sex partner during the past six months had a 4.53-fold increased risk of developing high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia (P=0.06).
"High-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia likely develops in the later part of early HIV infection," Lough suggested. He said that CD4-positive cells counts were not particularly helpful in determining the lesion grade.
"There is a need to continue to build capacity for screening for anal cancer especially among HIV-infected men who have sex with men," Lough concluded.
Screening patients for anal intraepithelial neoplasia is controversial, commented IDSA session moderator Joel Gallant, MD, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
"Many of us assume we should be screening for this because of what we know about cervical cancer which is such a similar disease," he told MedPage Today. "We extrapolate from cervical cancer that we should be doing this screening."
But there is currently no evidence that screening can help prevent anal cancer, Gallant said, pointing out that some professional guidelines recommend it while others do not. One problem with anal cancer screening is that high-resolution anoscopy requires special training and equipment that may not be widely available, he added.
Lough and colleagues had no disclosures.
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My first blog post (!) will be devoted to the Dos Lunas 100m/100k scrub run which took place over April Fools weekend in the mountains above Ojai, California. Thirteen of us agreed to play guinea pig for this hopefully-next-year's inaugural event, with five starting the 100 miler, six opting for the 100k, and two more running the first 27 miles (and then providing crucial aid station support for the next 20+ hours).
This event will be different in that runners' start times are based on their estimated finish times, with the objective that all the runners finish around 6 a.m. Sunday morning. (See why we needed to do a trial run?!) Also, the race will be held on a weekend near or on full moon, hence the name "Dos Lunas." It will be a toughie, with just under 25,000 feet of elevation gain, topping out at Topa Topa Bluff at ~6,300 ft.
Only Don Lundell finished the 100 miler (in 34:15), with Bruce and myself opting for the 90 mile version (still requiring 28 hours!), and Howard putting in a solid 80-mile effort. The "math" had Don finishing his 100 miles--he started at 9 p.m. Friday night--along with the 100K'ers' only full finishers, Darcy and Bob Africa (16:15, with a 3 p.m. Saturday start). Voila -- the math was perfect! They finished at the same time! Now to see if the timing works as perfectly during the Real Deal...
A HUGE thank you to the support crew (Bill, Mike, Drew, Brian, Lisa, Otto, Karen, & Pat), as well as to all the other guinea pigs (Mark, Patty, Andy, Nattu, & Brian), but mostly to Chris, who keeps coming up with fun, unique, not your run-of-the-mill events.
Friday, April 6, 2007
Dos Lunas 100 test run
3 comments:
- Loomdog said...
Hey Sue is on the net!!!!!!!!! Good for you and wow, fun run! I like the idea of separate start times. That will really make things interesting and help make the final hours which for me are usually REALLY lonely more lively. When during the year do they plan to do this?
Good luck in the Zan Grey run... was that you I saw in pictures at BRR?
Take care,
- April 18, 2007 at 2:03 AM
- Sue J. said...
Hey Greg,
Dos Lunas is tentatively planned for next March's full moon weekend. Hope you can make it! In my opinion it'll be harder than any hundred out there--LOTS of elevation--except Hardrock... and Barkley. :p
- April 26, 2007 at 4:38 PM
Hi Sue,
Thanks for the info! I'm considering entering the upcoming Coyote Two Moon. Looks truly mean. :-)
My only concern is the weather. March is during the peak rain season, and on the off chance it rained for a few days, I might be put off by thirty-some hours in the rain... How wimpy of me, eh?!
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|2010-12-02, 02:43
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I have to wonder if this really the best set of talent they are capable of scrounging up (do they not have a lot of contact with the rest of the industries seiyuu, writers, directors, animators etc?), because it's getting more than a little bizarre at this point that they haven't tried to expand their brand....like in any way shape or form.
Surefire hit with the usual crowd, but wow......the blandness of the music and washed out colour pallet just says it all doesn't it?
Ya'll have fun with that 4-girl-koma slice of life show ya hear! And I'm sure I'll be hearing about this one a lot come 2011.
|2010-12-02, 03:22
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I guess I'll also add that for an OVA, and one by Kyoani (who are supposed to be known for their higher quality animation) to boot, what I've seen in this trailer doesn't look very well or interestingly animated like the majority of OVA trailers that are coming out recently. Granted the material doesn't really necessitate it, but it's an OVA for crying out loud, this is the chance to have animation that is a cut above what you'd see in a TV series and get more people really interested and paying attention. Unless as mentioned above they really don't care too much about expanding their brand beyond the core audience of devoted fans at the moment and are simply anticipating their purchase regardless of any other factors.
I wish there was some insight into the Kyoani executive's decision making process because I am genuinely interested in whether their business plan is as the cynical side of me sees it, but what can you do eh?
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I'm mildly interested in the series.
Wasn't there a boy who was like, the main character of the story in the manga? Didn't see him in the trailer. Is KyoAni gonna cut him out?
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I also kind of have to agree with the generalization charge, but I don't take it as an insult by any means because I'm sure it wasn't intended that way. Still, it'd be nice if people would consider more closely whether any given individual would even find what Shiraishi offers to be in tune with what is considered a good male character (I for one found him annoying beyond reproach in Lucky Star) before they start throwing out accusations of people hating good male characters.
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Also, I said 'many', not 'most', or 'all'. That isn't a generalization, merely a statement of which the validity is arguable.
I'd just like to say that I don't think I'll even LIKE Nichijou. I'm just arguing in its favor because I've read some of the manga and it's nothing like K-On, even though certain people are probably going to assume that it is.
|2010-12-03, 16:38
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4 office buildings (2nd only to Sunrise among major anime studios) and a regular employee count in the hundreds last time I checked, but okay whatever you want to believe in that's fine with me.
Though I must say I'm honestly surprised people still believe in the whole Kyoani is a small studio myth? If that were the case then by what standard could a studio be considered large I wonder....
|2010-12-03, 16:43
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Either way, they only work on one anime ever couple of seasons, unlike JC, BONES, or Sunrise, who usually have at least one or two shows per season, so they must not have very large animation teams...
|2010-12-04, 01:58
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Read the article? Alright, now you might understand why I am about to say that I'm pretty sure the one show a season thing is another myth. For starters, why have four studio buildings if you are not going to be putting them to use to split up teams in order to work on different projects simultaneously? For another, having 10 times the number of regular employees that Sunrise does (and I can't even begin to imagine how many people that is), unless they have a massive group of workers that are idle the majority of the time, they must have some simultaneous projects going on otherwise what the heck are all those people doing? Finally the K-On and Haruhi S2, Haruhi film and K-On season 2 works must have seen some overlap in production since they all came out within the span of about a year. It would certainly go to explain why they have 4 buildings at current count.
Obviously the only way to put this to the mythbuster test is to obtain a log of the companies production schedules, but I'd say that there is a lot more evidence to support the theory that they do have overlapping productions compared to the pure speculation required to come to the conclusion that they don't.
And what does this have to do with Nichijou? Absolutely nothing! So in an effort to not trigger post deletion I will now proceed to shut the hell up.
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Umm... few things to point out.
1. It is still unconfirmed whether this is getting actual TV series or not. It's still a rumour stage, but it is likely this getting TV adaptation still as OVA is named 'episode 0'. One of the newbie seiyuu 'accidently leaked' that Nichijou will be spring release, but the part where it says 'Spring Broadcast' is now deleted.
2. About that article, comparing Sunrise and Kyo-ani is ridiculous. Sunrise and Toei are largely focused on so-called 'main-stream' animations airing on golden time, when Kyoto animation is more of 'late night airing' series. Income from DVD sales are totally dependent on contract between the distributors and providers, not really much on business model or its size.
Sunrise uses tons of freelance animators, which is the main reason why they don't need much in-house employees from the start.
3. Sunrise has 'offices' in TEN different buildings, when Kyoani has four. The thing is, it's an "office per building", not entire. SHAFT and Toei has a single huge building by themselves without having divided offices. Number of offices does not necessarily means they are 'bigger'. You know how most of Kyoto animation product is focused on same production staffs all the time. What matter is number of 'core' staffs, not individual animators.
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I do think it's a considerable waste of Ishihara's talent as a director, though.
|2010-12-04, 03:31
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So the article says kyoAni is a small studio...
applejuice already pointed out other tings,like the fact that if you're not outsourcing anything you're going to need lots of employees
I can understand not wanting to discuss more here,there is a kyoAni thread in the 'general anime' section though.
|2010-12-06, 10:10
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Well, except for differences in shading, color, and possibly being a better quality upload, it's about the same. However it should be noted that the old video was made private.
|2010-12-11, 16:52
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KyoAni really is a small studio. I've visited the studios in person, and I can say that applejuice is correct in saying that they are only offices in those buildings. I've only visited the main building and the 3rd building from that link above, so I can't say much about the 2nd and Tokyo branches listed.
A bit of trivia, the KyoAni shop is actually a tiny store one floor below the studio office in the 3rd building mentioned above.
|2010-12-21, 05:03
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As expected, Nichijou is a new TV series releasing this April.
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I love KyoAni because of their Key-adaption so I'm always looking forward to their shows. But unfortunately, it seems I'm gonna miss them this season too. I dislike the "genre" of Lucky Star, K-On and Nichijou.
But I'm still wishing them best of luck and pray this'll be their new cash cow.
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^ Well, according to what I've heard, Nichijou falls better into 'Shafto ARAKAWA' and 'Gainaxu FLCL' mindfuck area astral gag than traditional Kyoani style. That's why I'm anticipating this anime more than I did with K-On.
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Kio can try his little communicate thing, just off the battlefield. No matter what he says he isn't going to change the minds of hardened and loyal soldiers just because he's a kid that really wants understanding.
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Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not denying that Kio is naive. But to be completely fair, nothing has happened in front of Kio's eyes yet that challenges his naiveté. Such as the death of an ally due to his inaction. Someone needs to be his sacrifical Woolf.
See, the thing about being naive is that people don't magically stop being naive just because someone tells them to. Usually it takes an event that shakes up the image of the world that they've built up to that point.
IE at this point I don't think there is bad writing yet. At least not concerning Kio's actions.
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btw, I find your comments incredibly ironic considering who you have as your avatar...you know, endless waltz and all....
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Actually during the moon battle when he was fighting he was crying out to the Vagans in general that they should all understand and not fight.
It's just with the named pilots that he goes one on one with.
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|2012-09-08, 16:40
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Granted, the Federation is corrupt okay we understand that. When the colonization failed the higher-ups covered it up and the rest became history. That there is a huge betrayal on their end and in the end Flit made them pay the price for it.
But wait! As Kio finds out it's not even about that. It's all for some crazy Destiny plan that Ezcelant cooked up to find the best and strongest for his Eden plan and that also involved killing his own people.
That's what makes zero sense on how Kio came to the conclusion about "understanding" and get's a big fat zero on that part. If the war started because some Federation warship opened fire by accident and killed a Vagan civilian ship, I could see that but that's not what the war is about.
It's about revealing the truth that the Vagans are being misled but as we've seen with Asemu that avenue didn't work at all. IMO that's what Kio should've been doing but crying on the battlefield is the worst place to do it.
Kio understands nothing. He meets one sick girl and all of a sudden the war is about misunderstanding? It's like meeting a sick German girl in WWII that had no knowledge of what was happening in the war and then all of a sudden every Imperial Japanese soldiers' (Loyal to Emperor) actions are excused and they should be protected? He also complains about Flit not understanding but he should be aware that Flit lost a whole lot of loved ones over the decades and that takes a huge toll on an individual. At the very least he should try to understand him instead of preaching his nonsense.
It would've helped a lot of Kio had met other civilians on Vaga that weren't too happy with the way the war was going and such but so far in AGE we've seen like nothing on the Vagan side. I mean with all of them like Zeheart, how the hell does one even reason with them?
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Vagans resemble the Imperial Japanese Army more than anything. Fiercely loyal and fanatical towards their leader, with countless atrocities under their belt that sure made Hitler-sama proud...
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|2012-09-08, 20:23
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Despite all the atrocities the Vagans committed nobody in the Federation we've seen so far wants to go as far as they did.
Even when Flit was in command he was focused on building a shield to protect.
And now that Second Moon is in the vicinty even the Federation officers aren't exactly on board with Flit's "destroy them all" mood. Even with the Plasma Driver missile the top brass wasn't keen on using it either.
This isn't Gundam SEED where the Alliance builds nukes and ZAFT retaliates with GENESIS cannons and vice versa.
Hell the Federation in G2 was willing to sit down and have peace talks and you say the whole thing is a vicicous cycle? Person A keeps attacking Person B who tries to defend himself but at the same time refuses to drop to Person's A level and keeps trying to offer peace.
And no, this whole war is about Ezcelant and his destiny plan (he's the leader running the show). That's why the Federation cannot make peace with the Vagans because it's not your typical conventional war. This is one madman's experiment.
Any war that goes for more than a year the populace is more than ready to revolt against you in this day and age.
It is hard to believe that the populace would follow a man for nearly 100 years with no results being produced (seriously, even Zeheart noticed that the operations were always giving the Feds a chance to survive which would prolong the war. Surely he can't be the only one to notice that). Hot heads like Zanald IMO are the kind that would lead a coup, take over, and work towards finishing the war faster.
My beef with Kio is that he preaches nonsence about understanding and to stop fighting when in fact it's NOT about misunderstanding. And in regards to his understanding how can he claim to understand the sorrows of the Vagans through one little girl he barely knew and not the pain and suffering his own grandfather (whom he spent his whole life with)? It's just plain stupidity that makes no sense.
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|2012-09-08, 20:38
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Nice try but I didn't put any words in your mouth. For example you say that this whole thing is a a vicious cycle yet I'm calling you on it and you can't even back it up.
You claim that no populace would be unhappy with a person who spends 100 years waging war with a faction that they could easily win yet as history tells the populace would revolt even after a year. Hell even North Korea who worships their leader and are starving have defectors now and then.
You claim the Federation is in the wrong throughout this whole ordeal(or just as bad) yet it's them that have offered the peace treaties yet the Vagans hold even colonies that aren't aligned with them as guilty as the next guy.
If all you can come up with is straw arguments then don't come back and say I'm putting words in your mouth.
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Interest in Montessori first swept the country in the early 1900s, but the frenzy was short-lived. Though more than 100 schools sprang up in the space of 5 years, by the 1920s Montessori had virtually vanished from the education scene.
By 1960, however, a distinctly American version began to take shape. In the decades to follow, Montessori schools in the U. S. would grow steadily in number, and today the country is a worldwide leader in Montessori education.
The leader of the resurgence was Nancy McCormick Rambusch. Like Maria Montessori, the founder of the Montessori Movement, Dr. Rambusch was charismatic, well educated, and a tireless advocate.
In 1953 Rambusch was a young teacher in search of alternatives to traditional American schooling. Her quest took her to Paris for the Tenth International Montessori Congress, where she met Mario Montessori, Maria's son and successor (as leader) of the Montessori Movement.
Mario urged her to take coursework in Montessori education and to bring the Montessori Method to the U.S.
Rambusch embraced the idea, and within a few years she was conducting Montessori classes for her own children, and others, in her New York City apartment. In September 1958, in collaboration with a group of prominent Catholic families, she opened Whitby School in Greenwich, CT.
The following year, Mario Montessori appointed Dr. Rambusch to serve as the U.S. representative of the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI). Six months later, in 1960, the American Montessori Society (AMS) was born. The goals of AMS mirrored those of AMI: to support efforts to create schools, develop teacher education programs, and publicize the value of Montessori education.
The last goal was clinched in 1961 when Time magazine featured Dr. Rambusch, Whitby school, and the American Montessori revival in its May 12 issue. The article galvanized the American public, and parents turned to AMS in large numbers for advice on starting schools and study groups. Additional publicity in the popular media, including Newsweek, The New York Times, and The Saturday Evening Post, and the publication in 1962 of Dr. Rambusch's book, Learning How to Learn, led to dramatic growth in the number of Montessori schools and students.
From the beginning, Dr. Rambusch and AMS advanced Montessori education into mid-20th century American culture. AMS insisted that all teacher educators have a college degree so that the coursework could, potentially, be recognized by state education departments. AMS also broadened the curriculum for teachers and sought to forge inroads into mainstream education by offering Montessori coursework in traditional teacher preparation programs.
Mario Montessori disagreed with these changes, and in 1963 AMI and AMS parted ways. The two organizations have since reconciled their differences, and now enjoy a collegial relationship of mutual support and respect.
Today, AMS is the largest Montessori organization in the world, with more than 1,300 member schools, over 13,000 individual members, and close to 100 AMS-affiliated teacher education programs. Timothy J. Purnell, EdD, serves as executive director.
In recent years, both AMS and AMI have made it a priority to extend Montessori education to greater numbers of children in the public sector. Today there are Montessori programs in more than 400 public schools, many of which are charter schools. Among the states with bragging rights for the most Montessori public programs are Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas.
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A bloke who frequents a bulletin board I use has written a book about the Seventies: Francis Wheen seems to like it.
His review struck a chord with me, because those of us who remember the Seventies remember a mental world almost incomprehensible to those born later: nothing to do with flares and Spangles and progressive rock, but a world of capital and labour and of the corporate state that compromised between the two. He writes:
A couple of years ago I wrote a TV drama about Harold Wilson's last government. Although the thirtysomething producer liked the script, she found many of the allusions baffling. What, she wondered, was a "prices and incomes policy"? Or a "balance of payments crisis"? These appeared almost daily in British headlines during the 1970s; a mere generation later, they are as impenetrably archaic as Babylonic cuneiform.When I emigrated, a couple of years ago, I met a friend beforehand in a pub outside Victoria Station and in the course of the conversation remarked that the world I knew seemed to have largely disappeared: the world of trades unions, a labour movement and a Welfare State, and one in which these were regarded as good things, where the idea of making sure that everybody was properly provided for was considered fundamental to the outlook of millions of people. I asked my great-aunt, once, whether she thought her Labour Party had achieved anything: oh yes, she said, these days you didn't see anybody sleeping in the streets of London any more. I don't think she said "homeless" - in truth, I don't think I remember even hearing the term until a few years later.
Not The Nine O'Clock News began in 1979. In one show there was a spoof of Just A Minute using news footage of trades union leaders: they were challenged to speak for a minute without using the term "aspirations". Naturally they failed the test and used a phrase like "our members' aspirations" within the first few seconds. "Aspirations" - who today, and who, born any later than I, would even connect the word "aspirations" with trades unionists rather than with hostility to them? In truth the world had changed already: the 1979 Election had already come and gone, decided on that very basis. In the course of that campaign I realised that I was a socialist - and so it was, looking back, that I got into the socialism market just as everybody else was getting out.


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Alain Locke's 1925 issue of the Survey Graphic was a special issue of the social work journal known as Survey. This issue attempted to illustrate the African-American political and cultural developments emerging through Harlem. When this publication came to the attention of Kansas artist Aaron Douglas, it was "the most cogent single factor" in encouraging him to move to New York. Like African-Americans throughout the country, Douglas was drawn to Harlem and its community of creative artists.
The Survey Graphic also introduced him to the modernist and folk-art inspired work of Winold Reiss. The German artist became Douglas's teacher and encouraged Douglas to study African art forms and embrace modernism. Along with Reiss and Miguel Covarrubias, Douglas provided illustrations for The New Negro, the book-length development of the original Survey Graphic issue. In a letter to his wife, he noted, "I'll be the only Negro artist with a drawing in it... Some sampling, eh?" The New Negro provided a springboard for Douglas, and his work began appearing in magazines, including Opportunity and The Crisis.
Among Douglas's best-known works are his cover for Fire!! and his illustrations for James Weldon Johnson's collection of "seven Negro sermons in verse," God's Trombones (1927). His work has become a visual marker of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Charlotte Osgood Mason, white patron of Harlem Renaissance artists Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay, was also a sometime "godmother" to Miguel Covarrubias. Covarrubias, born and raised in Mexico, was one of many international writers and artists who were inspired by the cultural renaissance taking place in Harlem.
Covarrubias arrived in New York in 1923 and began documenting African-American life in and around Harlem, sometimes publishing these images in Vanity Fair.
With introductions provided by former New York Times music critic Carl Van Vechten, he was soon tapped to provide illustrations for The New Negro and Langston Hughes's The Weary Blues. He published a collection of these works in 1927 under the title Negro Drawings.
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Shoaling in the Hatteras Inlet channel has been an ongoing issue, but Hurricane Sandy and other storms worsened the problem. Ocracoke has had no ferry service to Hatteras since mid-January.
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Genius Learns Painful Lesson While Trying to Jump Train Platforms
The light bulb was a great idea. This? Not so much.
In this video, a man decides it will be fun to try and jump from one train platform to another. We know, we know -- he should find a more constructive hobby (like, oh, say, buying shirts).
Needless to say, but we'll say it, anyway, things did not go according to plan and his idea may go down alongside the third 'Matrix' movie as one that someone should've stopped from happening.