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Monday, 2 August 2010
Nothing new going on with the arthritis, taking my pills and feeling generally fine and not seeing the rheumatologist until October.
So why is it that I'm feeling oh-so-blue?
For the first 6 months after diagnosis I think arthritis is all I thought about. I still think about it a couple of times a day, and some days more than others but it's often not the most overwhelming thought in my head. So that's good.
However, now that I've had a good few months and I've been feeling more 'normal', I've kinda realised how terribly bored I am of the way my life has been going.
When I'm not dealing with hospital appointments, or aching joints or whatever else RA decides to throw at me, all I think about is work. I work all the time and I do love my job but I'm starting to get sick of just work/arthritis, work/arthritis.
I don't mean to say I stay home every night, in fact quite the opposite. I'm a very outgoing person with a large circle of friends and I have lots of hobbies. However, it's been the same hobbies, the same friends, the same bars, for about two years.
I've also been single for two years which is really getting to me lately. I stopped dating when the RA started and recently began again, so I've just been reminded of how much more there is to life. I am 24 and I feel about 40, settled in a routine and all medicated up. I feel like I shouldn't be wasting time just working away or worrying about my health. I want some fun and excitement, something out of the ordinary to distract me from dull every day thoughts.
I guess everyone feels like that at some point, but I think because arthritis had taken up so much of my headspace lately I didn't quite realise it until now. The question is.. what am I going to do about it?
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I know how you feel...I work at the Arthritis Foundation (and love it) and I have RA, so sometimes I just want to scream and not hear that word for at least 1 day!!ReplyDelete
I suggest finding a new hobby, like sewing, knitting, musical instrument playing {these are on my wish list, along with photography}, etc. Something you have always wanted to try, but put off, maybe, because of arthritis or just life in general. Or take a fun class somewhere. Do you have community colleges there? {Hubby wants us to take a German class together at the local community college this fall or next spring}. Or volunteer somewhere. {I have been wanting to do more with Boston Buddies, a Boston Terrier rescue here in CA, but never seem to have time...but planning to this Fall, for sure. Also, I am planning on volunteering with Suicide Prevention sometime soon, as well}.
Wow, didn't realize I related so well to this post until I started to answer it!!
Hope it helps a little.
I know that headspace and I've learned that it means you're getting better. It's like when you have the flu and you start getting bored because you're well enough to want to do something but not quite well enough yet to have the energy. This means you're about to have the energy, so you can spend the next little while trying to figure what you want to do. Of course, that's the thing, isn't it? What to do, what to do...ReplyDelete
is there something you've always wanted to do, but never had the chance to because you were too busy with responsibility or feeling like crap? Maybe now's the time to make a dream come true.
Jenn, there are soo many things like that I want to do! I think you're right, instead of sitting on my computer most nights I should just try to do one new thing a week and see what I enjoy. I just really want to meet new people as well.. that's probably the main thing. Hope you get to start your German class, I did a bit at school and enjoyed it! Thanks for the ideas :)ReplyDelete
Lene, you're right, I am feeling better and now I feel like I need to do something worthwhile. I know it could all be taken away from me so quickly, I don't want to waste my time feeling stuck and uninspired. Small steps, I think.. hopefully I'll figure it out!
I completely understand what you are talking about. I just passed my six month mark since my diagnosis and the doctor says things look good enough to push my appointments farther apart.ReplyDelete
Until recently, it felt like all my time was taken up by lab tests, appointments, or just feeling awful. The pain is better but the fatigue is still a problem and I spend all my energy on my job or thinking about being sick.
My days all feel the same - work, read, spend time with the hubby and pets. Don't get me wrong, it's a good life, but I am only 30!
I need to push myself to get out more or try something new. I think I will make a list of things I would love to do / places I would love to go today.
Thanks for letting me know I am not by myself in this!


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What's a Better Name for "Bodacious Space Pirates"Post Reply
When I hear "bodacious" I think of stuff like Bill & Ted and Ninja Turtles. I think the name is pretty awesome. Does it really not fit the series? I mean, it's about teenagers in miniskirts piloting a space ship with a pretty light hearted art style. Is it really some super serious, "this show makes me reevaluate my outlook on life and the world around me" series?
Moretsu Pirates please!
Please be my nakama!
I prefer the original title.
While there's nothing wrong with the word "bodacious", the problem is that a lot of people really don't know what it means. And, it's picked up some connotations that don't help. Really, if you need an English title, then go with "Audacious Space Pirates". Adventurous just doesn't carry the same punch. Dauntless is a good word too.
If it's going to be 'renamed', then I think it should return to the original Japanese Name.
Honestly, Bodacious Space Pirates paints a picture of an entirely different show than what the show actually is -- especially when you try to follow up by explaining it's about a high school girl that becomes a pirate. Minds will wander.
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Moretsu Pirates! The original Japanese name is awsome ^__^
。◕‿◕。 ♥ Takenoko no Sato!! ♥
Hardworking Space Pirates, or maybe Workaholic Space Pirates.
To hell with the haters i love that its called Bodacious Space Pirates. That's the main reason i started watching this show. I would always scroll through the anime and when i read that i would say it in a Californian surfer accent as a joke and it started interesting me so i watched it. I think the name should stay, if people are hurting over a name then let them hurt the name is just too awesome.
Also why isn't there an option in the vote to keep the name as it is?
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I voted Moretsu Pirates.
I admit, I almost skipped it because of the name, and that's because I didn't know the actual definition of the word bodacious, which now does sound fitting. However, the image it brought up was definitely of a sleazier nature. I also always liked how Moretsu rhymed with Pirates.
I can think of quite a few series that should stick with the original japanese name. One that comes to mind is "Asobi Ni Iku Yo" which they decided to change to "Cat Planet Cuties" (Why Funi WHY?!?!?!)
I voted for the original Japanese name as well. But really, anything would be better than the current title. Bodacious Space Pirates sounds so completely absurd that I hesitate to even recommend the anime to other anime loving friends. The one time I did mention it to a friend of mine, he looked at me like I just recommended him Barbie Horse Adventures. Yeah, I won't be doing that again....
I don't read manga.
Four pages in and noone have stoped to think abour what moretsu (モーレ) actually means?
From what I've looked up, it seems to mean roughly "hard-working with a gung-ho attitude".
As for bodacious, I also think its sad that the word has gotten ruined by pop-culture. Oh well, at least it hasn't turned into something riduculously offensive, as the synonyms for happy and sigarettes. Like demonstrated in this humorous example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtaPaQwSQPA
Regardless, I do preffer the original japanese version of the name.
I like the original Japanese title better.
I'll be honest, I think crunchyroll should keep the original names of the anime. it's kind of hard to search them up on the website when the name of the series is tagged only under the English name. I.E. I tried looking up "Nichijou" but no hits. so I tried alternative English names that translate from the show's name "everyday life" "regular life" "Normal life" then I literally had to look up all the series by season because I was too lazy to look up synonyms for "normal" on dictionary.com.
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I have seen as many as 20 or more of these kinds of words listed at the top of a resume — in a candidate's executive summary. It's a waste of real estate on the page and can quickly get you tossed into the "no" pile.
These are not the key words that recruiters and hiring companies are looking for. Many of these clichés are really just "tickets to play" or basic skills you need to have if you are going to be successful in the job for which you are applying. If you are hoping a recruiter will find you with these words when he does a key word search, you are misguided.
Here is an exercise to check yourself on the importance of the skill sets you are highlighting. Read each phrase and ask yourself "What is the opposite of this?" For example, you might call yourself a "team player" as opposed to "a loner who doesn't work well with others." It is a basic and empty description that should already be implied with your other skill sets and experience.
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Try to think of these words in terms of how they have been applied in your career. Look at your current and past positions, reflect on your experiences, and identify real examples for each term. Most importantly, can you measure your success using quantifiable metrics for each of them?
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Katie Kauffman compiled a game-high eight points for MIT on five goals and three assists. Laura Wacker tallied five goals and an assist while Stephanie Leger registered a hat trick and two draw controls. Erica Little earned a pair of assists as Kaitlyn Nealon chipped in one goal and an assist. Kelly Duncan rounded out the offense with a helper while Molly McShane posted two groundballs and two draw controls. Lauren Rodda and Alex Wright both collected three groundballs as Rodda added two caused turnovers. In net, Sarah Ritter finished with 11 saves and four groundballs.
Tess Meyer (two goals, one assist) and Sydney Ferguson (one goal, two assists) paced Wheaton's balanced attack. Charlotte DeSantis and Brittany Whynot both notched two goals while Leila Mills, Katie Powers, and Hailey Colburn each tacked on a goal. Meyer led the Lyons with four groundballs, followed by three from Colburn. Kristen Palmer contributed four draw controls as Devon Soucier totaled three draw controls and two caused turnovers. In net, Marianna Marcellino turned away 10 shots.
Kauffman and Wacker accounted for the Engineers' first five goals of the game while Meyer put Wheaton on the board midway through the spurt. A solo effort by Powers brought the Lyons within three (5-2) with 12:53 left in the half, but the Engineers closed out the frame with five unanswered goals.
Wacker connected on a pass from Kauffman to open the second-half scoring early in the frame. Wheaton responded with an unassisted goal from Whynot which sparked a 5-2 run during the next 10 minutes that narrowed Wheaton's deficit to six (13-7). Kauffman found Leger to end the Cardinal and Gray's scoring drought with 7:35 to go, but Colburn's blast just over a minute later keyed the Lyons' late rally.
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Renovations to the oldest theatre in Britain, Bristol Old Vic, have unearthed new evidence about the rowdy nature of public entertainment in the 18th century.
The 246-year-old building, which in 2007 suffered a period of closure and a threat to funding, officially reopens this week after a year and a half's makeover. As well-loved by architectural historians as by British actors, it has given up some surprisingly subversive secrets.
The £12m restoration project, funded by public donations and £5.3m from the Arts Council, appears to have brought the venue closer to a rather disreputable past. It is clear now that middle-class members of the audience in the Georgian age once paid more money to stand and shout together in a "pit" at the foot of the stage than to sit in comfort in the gallery, while those in the best boxes expected to socialise with the actors during the intervals. The atmosphere was irreverent and closer to that of a speakeasy or nightclub, particularly since the covert theatre was run illegally without a royal patent for the first decade.
A key controversy of the refurbishment has centred on whether the seats on the sides of the stage should have been reinstated. Their position was a concern for artistic director Tom Morris, who is determined to get close to the intimacy of the original theatre and hopes to set up something of the authentic feisty atmosphere.
"This is the most beautiful theatre in the country and it is also the most loved by actors because of its shape. Now at last, much of its original, lost geometry has been exposed again," said Morris, who co-directed the hit War Horse while working at the National Theatre. "Perhaps we can reconnect with the audience here in the way that was intended, in a way that allows performers to relish the presence of the public."
Morris and his team reached a compromise by fitting seating that can be removed in the pit and at the side. Archives confirmed that the original stage projected out into the audience in what is known as "a thrust". Although it is the only remaining 18th-century horseshoe auditorium in the country, it also became clear that in 1888 builders took an axe to the front of the stage. This was well before another infamous re-modelling almost a century later when the building was effectively cut in half in order to fit in larger pieces of scenery.
Theatrical historian Mark Howell believes drawings show that James Saunders, the 18th-century carpenter who built the theatre for architect William Paty, intended spectators to sit in boxes on the side of the stage floor. The plans show the same dimensions as the Rose Theatre of 1587, used by Shakespeare, Howell argues. They also share the same number of boxes and the same size stage, yet these similarities have been ignored in the past simply because the theatre was in Bristol, not London.
"Standing on the restored thrust stage front at Bristol's Old Vic feels very like standing on the stage front at Wanamaker's Globe in London because spectators surround you on three sides," said Howell. "The energy from the stage front is extremely powerful. When actors stand there, it's like a spotlight falls on them, even when the stage lights are not on."
For Morris, the theatre stands a good chance of capitalising again on its unique proportions. He described it as the "freak survivor" of an era when the average theatrical building stood for only 17 years.
During the restoration work, graffiti by one of the original carpenters was found, along with a hidden doorway that led from a box to the backstage area. Builders also discovered a huge upturned funnel in the ceiling that drew hot air out above a central chandelier to act as a basic air-conditioning system, while a tarred gutter in the flies was once used for rolling cannon balls to simulate thunder.
"The history of this place is enormously inspirational, but it has only survived because it has kept working. The minute we become just a heritage site, we die," Morris said on the eve of the first preview of a production of John O'Keeffe's Wild Oats.


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I. It is clear that everything we know, beyond our own immediate sensations, is inferred from those sensations.
a. Put in its most general form the inference would run, 'Since I am presented with colours, sounds, shapes, pleasures and pains which I cannot perfectly predict or control, and since the more I investigate them the more regular their behaviour appears, therefore there must exist something other than myself and it must be systematic'.
II. All possible knowledge, then, depends on the validity of reasoning… Unless human reasoning is valid no science can be true.
III. It follows that no account of the universe can be true unless that account leaves it possible for our thinking to be a real insight.
IV. Naturalism discredits our processes of reasoning or at least reduces their credit to such a humble level that it can no longer support Naturalism itself.
a. There are two senses of the word 'because'.
i. Cause and Effect
1. Definition
a. a dynamic connection between events or 'states of affairs'
b. essential to every event in Nature
2. Example
a. 'Grandfather is ill today because he ate lobster yesterday.'
b. 'He cried out because it hurt him.'
ii. Ground and Consequent
1. Definition
a. a logical relation between beliefs or assertions
b. essential to valid trains of reasoning
2. Example
a. 'Grandfather is ill today because he hasn't got up yet (and we know he is an invariably early riser when he is well).'
b. 'It must have hurt him because he cried out.'
b. Two answers to the question 'Why do you think this?'
i. 'Because…' (Ground-Consequent)
1. Valid thinking flows thusly: One truth necessarily follows from another truth.
ii. 'Because…' (Cause-Effect)
1. Our acts of thinking are events.
2. Every event in Nature must be connected with previous events.
3. Our acts of thinking must be connected with previous events.
c. This raises a dilemma: How can a thought-event be both valid and caused? Or What is the relationship between logical causation and natural causation in the event of a thought?
i. To be caused is not to be proved.
1. Example
a. Wishful thinkings, prejudices, and the delusions of madness, are all caused but they are ungrounded.
2. Often, in fact, if a thought can be wholly accounted for in terms of cause, it is considered false.
a. Example
i. 'You say that because you are a capitalist, or a hypochondriac, or a mere man, or only a woman.'
3. The system of logic (ground-consequent) and the system of nature (cause-effect) are wholly distinct.
ii. But even if a thought is grounded, this seems irrelevant to its causation.
1. Thoughts tend to happen both logically and illogically – in either case, they are caused.
iii. The solution may be this: We must say that just as one way in which a mental event causes a subsequent mental event is by Association (when I think of parsnips I think of my first school), so another way in which it can cause it, is simply by being a ground for it.
1. Being logical causes a thought to happen.
2. Being a cause and being a proof coincide.
iv. But this is false because a thought does not cause (like a trigger) the thoughts which logically precede or proceed from it.
1. This would mean thinking the thought 'This is glass' would instantly trigger an infinite series of thoughts that are deduced from it.
v. So then, this: One thought can cause another not by being, but by being seen to be, a ground for it.
vi. Thoughts are unique events.
1. Most events are value neutral (neither true or false, but merely states of affairs.)
a. To say 'these events, or facts are false' means of course that someone's account of them is false.
2. But a thought is about something other than itself and can be true or false.
vii. Acts of inference demand to be seen in two lights:
1. A subjective event in somebody's psychological history.
a. In the inference 'If A, then B' we would say 'Thought B followed Thought A'.
2. They are insights into, or knowings of, something other than themselves.
a. In the inference 'If A, then B' we would say 'A follows from B'.
i. If it ever 'follows from' in the logical sense, it does so always.
b. We cannot possibly reject this as a subjective illusion without discrediting all human knowledge.
i. We can know nothing, beyond our own sensations at the moment unless the act of inference is the real insight that it claims to be.
ii. An act of knowing must be determined, in a sense, solely by what is known; we must know it to be thus solely because it is thus. That is what knowing means.
3. An act of knowing can be described in the Cause-Effect version of 'because' – but uniquely so.
a. An act of knowing is conditioned by attention, states of will, and health.
b. But its positive content is determined by the truth it knows.
c. It is caused, but it is not determined by the sum of its causes.
d. Any thing which professes to explain our reasoning fully without introducing an act of knowing thus solely determined by what is known, is really a theory that there is no reasoning.
e. Naturalism offers what professes to be a full account of our mental behaviour; but this account, on inspection, leaves no room for acts of knowing or insight on which the whole value of our thinking, as a means of truth, depends.
V. The origin of reason, historically, is difficult to account for on a purely naturalistic basis.
a. Mental behaviour is to be distinguished from Rational Thought.
i. Natural selection adequately explains the arrival of complex mental faculties.
1. Lewis uses the example of vision.
ii. Rational Thought is marked by abstract (reflective) thought.
1. Our Physical vision is a far more useful response to light than that of cruder organisms which have only a photo-sensitive spot. But neither this improvement nor any possible improvements we can suppose could bring it an inch nearer to being a knowledge of light.
2. It is not men with specially good eyes who know about light, but men who have studied the relevant sciences.
b. Tradition and Repeated experience are to be distinguished from Rational Thought.
i. Repeated experiences of finding fire where he had seen smoke would condition a man to expect fire whenever he saw smoke. This expectation, expressed in the form 'If smoke, then fire' becomes what we call inference.
1. All such inferences are invalid.
a. Example
i. Water always boils at 212 (until someone tried a picnic in the mountain).
2. The assumption that things which have been conjoined in the past will always be conjoined in the future is the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behaviour.
ii. Reason comes in precisely when you make the inference 'Since always conjoined, therefore probably connected' and go on to attempt the discovery of the connection.
iii. Sometimes, an inference can be made without experience.
1. In these cases, those inferences proceed from tautologies (axioms).
2. Tautologies are things which are completely and certainly known.
3. The degree to which any true proportion is a tautology depends on the degree of your insight into it.
a. Example
i. 9 x 7 = 63 is a tautology to an arithmetician.
ii. 9 x 7 = 63 is not a tautology to a child.
4. If Nature is a totally interlocked system, then every true statement about her would be a tautology to an intelligence that could grasp that system in its entirety.
VI. The problem is this: a naturalistic history is… an account in Cause and Effect terms, of how people came to think the way they do. And this of course leaves in the air the quite different question of how they could possibly be justified in so thinking.
a. This imposes on him the very embarrassing task of trying to show how the evolutionary product which he has described could also be a power of 'seeing' truths.
b. The naturalist may in turn claim that inference, too, is a product of natural selection, even if we cannot yet explain the origin of inference.
i. The argument goes thusly:
1. What is most useful is what is selected.
2. Inference is quite useful.
3. Therefore, it is likely naturally selected.
ii. 'If useful, then true.'
iii. This, of course, is an inference.
1. And so is reducible to mere matters of Cause and Effect.
c. The humble alternative for the naturalist is to suspend any value to things like theology, ontology, metaphysics, etc…
i. But this also means suspension of belief in naturalism, which is, after all, a metaphysical claim.
VII. Theism, on the other hand, offers itself as a less audacious alternative to naturalism.
a. For the theist, reason is older than Nature, and is the source of nature's orderliness.
b. Reason, Logic, and Order, inherent in God, and imparted to Nature, is the very thing that allows us to know Nature.
c. To subsume Reason under Nature would be to lose both Reason and Nature.


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The best part about the company is that it benefits Queens.
RCN was founded in 1996, offering services to medium and large carriers and enterprises in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and Chicago metro area. Specifically in New York City, there are RCN offices throughout Queens and some parts of Manhattan.
Harrison said the company's purpose is to provide a true alternative carrier to other service providers by using fiber optics.
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Fiber optics is the technology of choice according to the government's National Broadband Network (NBN). Promising to deliver speeds of up to 100 megabytes per second, Yousaf said fiber optics are thin lines of pure glass that carry digital information through light rays. As the white light travels through the glass center of the fiber, it helps provide a faster Internet connection.
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|2004-06-25, 23:22
|Link #42
Watakushi wa heiki desu!
|2004-06-26, 11:11
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Cute Killer
Haha, best action movie ever? wow. No. It is good, but ever? no.
I also did not thing it stole alot from anime rather more so older chinese movies and japanese movies. I'm sure there has already been enough said in this thread however.
|2004-06-26, 21:24
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Join Date: Apr 2003
It's all about Revenge.
Hunting those people who supposedly killed her and her unborn child.
also lots up flashback. And 2 swords made by same master meet
The funniest portion was when she(the bride) was being trained by a Sifu. Its like watching a bad 70s Kung Fu flick.
Kill Bill 1, i heard it was very popular in the states.
But here, it was a flop. Even i can't understand why it was popular.
I guess maybe the crazyness made it so.
Kill Bill 1, the only memorable thing for me is the Green Hornet theme (the cycle rides in the highway) 'cuz' i was a fan of Bruce Lee.
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|2004-06-27, 00:00
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Watakushi wa heiki desu!
Funny side note: As a joke I told one Japanese friend that I didn't remember seeing so many people carrying swords around Tokyo like that. She thought I was serrious and said "I don't think people do carry swords in Tokyo." So then I had to explain that it was a joke.
|2004-07-26, 13:01
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Kurumada's lost child
Join Date: Nov 2003
I heard that Taratino is working on Kill Bill the ANIME! and that it will come out this fall. Is that true?
That would be COOL!
|2004-07-26, 13:25
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 35
They were entertaining movies, but nothing memorable to me. I didn't identify with any of the characters and the action scenes were actually kind of bland. I mean, how can you say either of those had the best action scenes if you've seen any of the Matrix movies? I will give the movie props for story-telling method, but then, that is what Tarantino has always been best at. Storytelling is what made Pulp Fiction a great movie.
I thought these movies were WAAAAY over-hyped in the U.S.
|2004-07-26, 13:45
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Kurumada's lost child
Join Date: Nov 2003
Regarding Story telling I consider that both of these films excelled on this aspect.
Kill Bill > Matrix
|2004-07-26, 14:09
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woaaahs. I'd have to say no way there. The action sequeances in the first Matrix completely dominate Kill Bill. Make it look amateur ... it's the presentation in Kill Bill that makes it an alright movie. Music + chopped up storyline that falls together + somewhat humorous diologue that comes once in a while. The action in Kill Bill was really weak :/ ... The GoGo fight was alright ... the rest was "cmooon get this over with ... christ" for me.
|2004-10-29, 20:12
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Kurumada's lost child
Join Date: Nov 2003
As perfect as Saint Seiya!!1
I just watched the second part of Kill Bill and I must say, it is definitely the best Action/Drama movie I've ever watched.
It doesn't even have a single part that was "alright". I enjoyed every single second of it.
All the scenes were carefully planned. And the character development was just outstanding. I have never seen a movie that can combine as much detail and action at the same time. The footage was just as good as the first one. Every single shoot of it was carefully thought out and each one of it carries its own meaning. Incredible. Tarantino is a genius.
The music was fantastic. I can guarantee that even if you don't like the movie at all you WILL love its music. This movie manages to combine Spanish music, Japanese music and techno perfectly. The ending credits music was so good that I listened to it over and over again. The movie has the best music in an action film as well.
Story wise it was complex and simple at the same time. It was complex because each of its characters has their own way of thinking. All of them are complex in a certain way, and all of them are charming in one way or another. And simple because as Tarantino said in his making of Kill Bill:
"Well it is a revenge story, what else do you need? She is got a list of people and she is going to make them pay all right? There is not much story... I can come up with some other crap that would be useless... But no I hate that in movies... Lets get rid in the of crap... and just tell a revenge movie..." Then he adds: "In the first one you are learning the mythology and world in which this story takes place. The second one; now you got the world, now you got the set up and the idea of the story, and now you get to know the characters"
David Carriade (BILL) adds in this special that "The essence of a Tarantino movie is not the violence, not the action... is the inside look at the heart and mind of violent people" I personally think that this makes clear what Kill Bill is all about.
My favorite scenes is were:
Kill Bill is the best action movie ever, and if you don't agree with me YOU ARE WRONG!!11!
Not that I am biased or anything...
This movie MUST get the Oscar!
PS. Kill Bill the anime is going to kick ass when it comes out
|2004-10-30, 00:02
|Link #56
What is, what is?
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Miami, FL
Age: 33
Lady Snowblood , I believe Quentin Taratino based Kill Bill off Lady Snowblood.
|2004-10-30, 00:39
|Link #57
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003
The above link has an interview with Tarantino where he mentions where most of the references for Kill Bill came from.
|2004-10-30, 01:23
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Kurumada's lost child
Join Date: Nov 2003
I got more information about the anime spin off now:
" 'Q: Are you and Quentin still considering a Kill Bill anime spin off?
LB: Yeah. Absolutely. Honestly though, I dont think Quentin is thinking about anything else right now except finishing this movie. I mean, weve got two weeks left to get this entire thing finished, and I dont know exactly what we are going to do next. As for anime though, we could do something about Vivica A. Fox`s kid, or when BB grows up. It could be a flashback about Bill and Buds relationship flashback. Theres a lot of stories that could come out of it, and I think Quentin would love to do that. It just a matter of what hes going to do next. You can talk to Quentin at different times over the year and hell tell you something slightly different each time about where hes going next. But at the end of the day I just know that theres no way hell actually be able to say what hes going to do next, even if he tells you himself. I mean he finishes a movie, goes to Cannes with it, then promotes it, then goes home and takes a breath and says, okay, what girl do I want to date next?' "
I am waiting impatiently...
Oh and by the way, don't you think that this movie has a "perfect ending"?
PS. Can any one here tell me what are the names of the 2 ending songs? The first one was "Malagueña Salerosa", it was really good. Then there is a second one in English, which sounds like soft rock. Right after that song comes the last one which is in Japanese and is quite beautiful.
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|Storm Petrel feeding
The Easyjet flight arrived on time and I was picked up by Anthony McGeehan and we drove through the night and reached Kilbaha with forty five minutes to spare. I set the alarm for five had a quick kip before meeting up with Owen and the guys, some who were Twitter friends and Facebook friends that I hadn't previously met, who were all heading out on the pelagic.
|Owen Foley's Pelagic Summer 2012
|Lone Manx Shearwater at dawn
|Common Dolphins in early morning light.
|A pod of Common Dolphins with Loop Head Co.Clare in the background
|Common Dolphin beside the boat
|Great Skua
|Juvenile Gannet and Great Skua
|Storm Petrel
There were quite a few Manx Shearwater flying past but whenever we approached a raft of birds they were very quick to disappear and they weren't really attracted to the chum. In each raft there appeared to be one or two Sooty Shearwaters some of whom came quite close to the boat.
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|Sooty Shearwater
|Sooty Shearwater
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|Arctic Skua harassing a Kittiwake
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|2nd Summer Pomarine Skua
We had been out on the water for seven hours and the skipper called it a day and as we headed back to Kilbaha we saw another Minke Whale. We were accompanied most of the way in by a few Fulmars. We passed the cliffs of Loop Head which in daylight were spectacular and made from sedimentary rock a geologists dream. It had been an absolutely wonderful day worth the sleepless night and the upcoming 300 mile journey home. Click on photos for larger version
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MACON, Ga. - Lipscomb's Danny Prichard earned Atlantic Sun Defensive Player of the Week honors as announced by the league office on Monday.
Prichard blanked Western Kentucky on September 14 for his second straight shutout. The freshman is the only goalkeeper in the A-Sun with two shutouts. For the year, the Tacoma, Wash., native leads the league in shutouts and total saves while ranking second in goals against average. Pritchard is majoring in pre-Physical Therapy.
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More than a dozen shootings and several slayings in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park over the last six months are linked to a deadly feud between two rival street gangs, police chiefs from the two cities said Tuesday.
And in an effort to help stop the violence, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, San Mateo County Gang Task Force, Countywide Narcotics Task Force and the Palo Alto Police Department are joining forces with Menlo Park and East Palo Alto police in a multi-agency crackdown on gangs.
East Palo Alto police Chief Ron Davis said in a phone interview Tuesday that he couldn't discuss what sparked the violence that has exploded between the gangs, known as the "Taliban" and the "DaVill," but noted both cities started seeing a marked increase in shootings this summer.
"We started connecting the dots," Davis said.
The chief noted that a similar effort involving San Mateo County law enforcement agencies led to the arrests of several dozen Taliban members in 2009.
"We had that major dismantling operation," Davis said. "Maybe those arrested are now coming out of prison."
On Tuesday night, Menlo Park interim police chief Lee Violett informed the Menlo Park City Council about the joint enforcement program that sprung up in response to the "significant uptick in gang violence" over the past several months.
"With the increase in violence we've seen, it's amazing the homicide rate is not higher," said Violett, who attended the meeting with Davis and Palo Alto police Chief Dennis Burns.
The Taliban gang is primarily based in Menlo Park and DaVill in East Palo Alto, according to police.
Gang battles seemingly have intensified in the last month. Menlo Park has had four shootings, including one homicide and a drive-by that left four wounded — all in the Belle Haven neighborhood.
East Palo Alto has had six shootings, including one late Tuesday morning on Bay Road and Palo Verde Avenue that sent a 19-year-old man to the hospital with a gunshot wound to his upper body, Davis said. Although police do not yet know the motivation for the attack, the law enforcement teams from East Palo Alto and Menlo Park are investigating the incident as potentially gang-related, Davis said.
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Yamaha RDP0F56WRD Hot Red Rydeen 5-Pc Drum Set w/ Hw-680W 20'' Bd Configuration
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This drum set utilizes Yamaha hardware featuring Genuine Yamaha tom and pipe clamps and features solid and glitter finishes, each with three color options, for a total of six vibrant, stylish looks.
- 086792362304
The new RYDEEN (5-piece shell pack) is exactly what any beginner or intermediate player would love to play. This drum set utilizes Yamaha hardware featuring Genuine Yamaha tom and pipe clamps and features solid and glitter finishes, each with three color options, for a total of six vibrant, stylish looks.
- 2 size Variations(5-piece shell pack)
- 6 Color Variations
- Genuine Yamaha tom and pipe clamps
- P3 type Bass Drum Head
2 size Variations(5-piece shell pack)
RDP2F5(22"x16" bass drum /16"x15" floor tom/12"x8" tom tom/10"x7"tom tom/14"x5.5"snare drum/ tom clamp<CL940LB> x2) RDP0F5(20"x16" bass drum/14"x13" floor tom/12"x8" tom tom/10"x7"tom tom/14"x5.5"snare drum / tom clamp<CL940LB> x2)
Genuine Yamaha tom and pipe clamps
Two 22.2 mm diameter tom clamps, and a pipe clamp. A versatile ball mount gives you the freedom to mount toms at any angle you want, and lets you incorporate other hardware* to create a configuration that's perfect for you. *Hardware must conform to the standard Yamaha 22.2 mm specification.
P3 type Bass Drum Head
The double film on the edge section provides a muting effect, for a tight, powerful bass drum sound.
Design/Architecture Detail
|CL940LB x 2
|Separate lug
|6 ply (7.2mm)
|SD : Coated , TT / FT : Clear
|SD : S-side , TT / FT : Clear
|BD : Ebony w/ring mute +Yamaha logo
|BD : Clear w/ring mute
SD/TT/FT : Triple Flange Hoop(Steel 1.5mm) , BD : Steel Hoop w/matching color inlay
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Express-News girls soccer super team
Rachel Gurinsky
School, position, class: Churchill, defender, junior
Notable: Spearheaded a defense that compiled a 0.79 goals-against average and 14 shutouts in 28 games. ... Scored two goals, including one that clinched the Chargers' third-round victory over Reagan.
Courtney Bertholf
School, position, class: MacArthur, forward, senior
Notable: Totaled 20 goals and 21 assists this season. She had 60 goals during her varsity career. ... Super Team selection last year. ... Signed with UTSA.
Gaby Lio
School, position, class: Reagan, midfielder, senior
Notable: Was named MVP after leading team to title at the North East tournament ... Tallied 12 goals and nine assists for Rattlers, who advanced to third round for 13th straight season.
Brianna Livecchi
School, position, class: MacArthur, forward, senior
Notable: Had 27 goals and seven assists for the Brahmas, who advanced to at least the third round for third straight season. ... Scored 51 goals in three varsity seasons. ... Signed with UTSA.
Morgan Stearns
School, position, class: Johnson, goalkeeper, senior
Notable: Despite missing parts of the season because of U.S. national youth team commitments, allowed just three goals — two to state champion Plano West and one to regional finalist Churchill — in 13 games, and had a streak in which she played in all or the majority of 11 straight shutouts. ... Super Team selection last year. ... Signed with Virginia.
Gaby Lopez
School, position, class: New Braunfels, goalkeeper, senior
Notable: All-District 25-5A Goalkeeper of the Year. ... Had a 0.95 goals-against averaged and recorded 11 shutouts in 22 games for the district champion Unicorns. ... Signed with Our Lady of the Lake.
McKenna Mangold
School, position, class: Bandera, midfielder, senior
Notable: Totaled 26 goals and 17 assists. ... Had 128 career goals, the fourth-most by an area public-school girls player. ... Super Team selection in 2011 and 2012. ... Will play at Hardin-Simmons.
Nia Stallings
School, position, class: Johnson, midfielder, junior
Notable: Recorded 21 goals and 12 assists for the Region IV-5A champion Jaguars, both team highs. ... Named to the UIL Class 5A state all-tournament team. ... Being recruited by Houston, Boston University and Penn.
Lisa Tomenendal
School, position, class: Brandeis, defender, senior
Notable: Powered a defense that registered 16 shutouts and a 0.54 goals-against average in 25 games. ... Super Team selection last year. ... Signed with Abilene Christian.
Karey Tylman
School, position, class: Alamo Heights, forward, junior
Notable: Had 29 goals and nine assists for the Region IV-4A finalist Mules. The 29 goals were one shy of the school record for juniors held by Kyle Hyslop. She holds the record for goals in a season by a sophomore. ... Super Team selection last year.
Sophie Zolinski
School, position, class: O'Connor, defender, senior
Notable: The backbone of a defense that yielded a 0.68 goals-against averaged and had 15 shutouts in 25 games. ... Also contributed three goals.
Newcomer of the year
Brooke Hanson
School, position, class: New Braunfels, forward, freshman
Notable: Had 21 goals and three assists. ... Her 21 goals tied for the team lead and also equaled a third of her team's total for the season. ... All-District 25-5A.


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MPAA Exec Admits: 'We're Not Comfortable With The Internet'
from the and-it-shows dept
The Hollywood Reporter's version of the postmortem is a good read, even though it covers much the same ground as many other such recaps. Still, it's worth reading to get a good feel for Hollywood's view of the world. But the really stunning part is the quote from Michael O'Leary, the MPAA's number two guy, who makes what may be the most tone-deaf statement we've seen to date in this fight:
The MPAA's O'Leary concedes that the industry was out-manned and outgunned in cyberspace. He says the MPAA "is [undergoing] a process of education, a process of getting a much, much greater presence in the online environment. This was a fight on a platform we're not at this point comfortable with, and we were going up against an opponent that controls that platform."Yes, even when he tries to say that they're trying to learn about that confounded internet thingy, he sounds ridiculous and dismissive. But the real point is his inadvertent admission within that statement: the MPAA (and the rest of "old" Hollywood) simply "is not comfortable with" the internet. And that's really what SOPA and PIPA were about. Rather than trying to understand this new platform, and learn from the many entertainers who do get the internet, they did what the MPAA does and simply tried to regulate that which they don't understand and fear.
Furthermore, even more ridiculous is the end of that sentence: "an opponent that controls that platform." As the article makes clear, he means Google. Which shows that he still doesn't get it. First, Google didn't lead the protests. It came late to the game, after the grassroots had already taken off with this stuff and run with it. But, more to the point, contrary to what O'Leary and the MPAA seem to believe: Google does not control the internet. No one does.
This, of course, explains why the MPAA wants to "negotiate" with Google these days. But that's not going to work. The folks on the internet don't want a backroom deal, whether it's negotiated by Google or someone else. Either way, this suggests that the MPAA is desperately in need of new leadership. They need leaders who don't try to regulate that which they admit they don't understand. They need leaders who aren't so clueless as to think that Google controls the internet (or that Google is somehow "the enemy"). And, really, most important, they need leaders who recognize and understand that the internet is their future too -- and any leadership needs to not fear the internet, but understand it and learn to embrace it. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem likely that the MPAA is going to find such leadership any time soon.


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HAVELOCK � Havelock coach Jim Bob Bryant didn�t like what he saw. He shouted at his running back. �You�ve got to cut that up inside!�
Bryant wasn�t about to let a 63-0 lead get in the way of an opportunity for a coaching moment with a young player.
Julian Cuthbertson returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown, and Havelock never looked back, beating the outmanned Jones Senior Trojans 63-0 Friday at Havelock High.
�We wanted to get some young kids some looks against varsity competition,� Bryant said. �Our future�s bright. We had a bunch of young guys out there playing the whole second half, and the majority of them are freshmen and sophomores. We brought up a bunch of guys from the junior varsity, and I thought they came in and did a good job.�
Two of those players, Tony Sharp and Cory Cooper, had touchdown runs in a second half that included a continuous running clock as the defending state 3A champs hosted the 1A Trojans in their home opener.
Cuthbertson�s 58-yard runback of the opening kick set the stage for a Rams team that scored on seven of eight first-half possessions, with halftime interrupting the final drive. By then, Havelock led 49-0.
�Jones Senior�s a good football team, but they�re 1A and they just don�t have any depth,� Bryant said. �When you�ve got 22 players and you have to play everybody both ways, but those kids never quit fighting the whole night. Coach (Greg) Hampton and Coach (John) Davis are two of my really good friends, and they do what they can. They don�t have a whole lot of players, but they will keep fighting and they should be commended for that.�
Havelock quarterback Travis Sabdo threw for two touchdowns, 59 yards to Matthew Boykin and 41 yards to Kyran Bowman, sandwiched around a Boykin had a 6-yard rushing touchdown to lead 28-0 in the first quarter. Sabdo was 3 of 4 passing for 105 yards and for the third straight game as a starter, did not have an interception.
Jones Senior got a 32-yard pass play from Glen White to Nihkee Jones, and converted on a fourth-and-1 play to move into Havelock territory midway through the first quarter, but a penalty pushed the Trojans (0-3) back and they weren�t able to recover.
�We showed some flashes of brilliance, but they the wheels would come off,� Davis said. �That�s going to happen when you�re playing a bunch of freshmen and sophomores. For a 1A school, we probably play the toughest schedule in the state. We�ve got our work cut out for us, but this is great experience and we hope it pays off in October.�
Taylor Woods had a 30-yard touchdown run for the Rams in the second, and Derrell Scott added TD runs of 18 and 5 yards as the Rams led 49-0. Scott totaled 176 yards on just 10 carries.
�It was great, but I have to give the credit to my offensive line,� said Scott, who had a pair of 58-yard runs that did not go for touchdowns. �If they didn�t block for me, I wouldn�t be able to do anything. They really opened up some holes for me.�
Scott said he was pleased with how the Rams played but said they are always looking to get better.
�There�s always ways you can improve,� he said. �Jones Senior came out here and played a great game. I give credit to them. But, there�s always things for us to improve on. Tonight, there are some things we learned, some things we know we need to work on. Every game, no matter what the score is, there�s always things we can learn.�
As for the defense, Havelock didn�t allow a point and got an interception from Jordan Cuthbertson and a fumble recovery from Shondel Granison. The Rams have given up just two offensive touchdowns in three games.
�Our defense, we wanted to get a goose egg on the board,� Bryant said. �And our defense played great.�
The Rams are next scheduled to play at Kinston at 7:30 p.m. Friday.


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Thirteen O'Clock
Paul Michko 3/30/2005 4:18:35 AMDoes anybody really care. :) Fantastic creativity, Wally. I thought of doing something like this, but the wife shot that idea down. :) #230591
Carolyn M. Fletcher 3/30/2005 4:24:56 AMVery good job, Wally!!! I think it's time somebody said so. LOL #1216179
Kelly Abernathy 3/30/2005 4:37:43 AMCool shot Wally - lol Carolyn. -K #1216209
Claudia Kuhn 3/30/2005 4:52:48 AMCool composite Wally! Nice work! #1216253
Cathy Barrows 3/30/2005 5:24:09 AMvery timely...lol...sorry...great collage...love it #1216336
Linda D. Lester 3/30/2005 5:31:28 AMWally, this is AWESOME! Great shot! #1216353
Marcie A. Fowler 3/30/2005 5:50:03 AMGreat collage of time keepers Wally. Wonderfully put together. The universe filter is a very nice touch. A combination of time and space! #1216419
Donald K. Cherry 3/30/2005 6:14:36 AMWally, I think Allan Jackson said it best when he sang "Its 5 O'clock somewhere"! Great image!! #1216486
Kara L. Hendricks 3/30/2005 6:33:07 AMWow What a great job on this Wally!! Very fun clock image!! #1216545
Tammy Scott 3/30/2005 6:37:55 AMGreat collage, Wally!!!! Very funny title, too!!! #1216568
Charlene Bayerle 3/30/2005 6:40:20 AMOutstanding Wally....wonderful title to match this great shot!!! #1216583
Stacey M 3/30/2005 6:44:55 AMThis is outstanding and so creative Wally!! WONDERFUL!! And I agree with Donald---it's 5 o'clock somewhere---quiting time!!! #1216597
Karen Engelbreth 3/30/2005 6:47:16 AMCool shot, Wally! #1216603
Sharon Day 3/30/2005 7:15:29 AMFantastic and creative, Wally!!! I love the starfield in the BG! Great job! #1216700
Susana Ms Heide 3/30/2005 7:25:58 AMTimeless collage, Wally :o) Very creative! #1216723
Larry Lawhead 3/30/2005 7:33:26 AMGreat collage, Walley!! I really like the background, my forst thought was "Twilight zone"!
"Does anybody really care...(about time)?"
S J 3/30/2005 8:14:56 AMSplendid image, Wally!! Wonderful creativity!! #1216864
Cindy Paquette 3/30/2005 10:16:45 AMVery "timely" shot Wally!! Love the collage effects of all your time pieces...very unique and quite interesting! #1217067
Cindy Paquette 3/30/2005 10:16:54 AMVery "timely" shot Wally!! Love the collage effects of all your time pieces...very unique and quite interesting! #1217068
Cindy Paquette 3/30/2005 10:17:22 AMVery "timely" shot Wally!! Love the collage effects of all your time pieces...very unique and quite interesting! #1217070
Tom Andersen 3/30/2005 11:34:58 AMWell, it's about "time" I comment, Wally! Wonderful time piece! Timely composition and I sure am glad I had the "time" to comment! Great work and very well-timed! #1217255
Colleen Braun 3/30/2005 11:44:28 AMit's almost time to change the clocks... #1217272
Marsha S. Smith 3/30/2005 1:06:13 PMSuper shot, Wally. You said combined in PS - were all the clocks separate shots? Just curious. #1217380
Leanne M.E. Boyd 3/30/2005 2:29:20 PMYour guess is as good as mine! Great image, Wally. #1217519
Dan Holm 3/30/2005 3:14:11 PMEXCELLENT clock image, Wally!! Very creative take on the theme! Beautifully done! #1217569
Diane Addonizio 3/30/2005 3:51:46 PMFantastic image, Wally !! #1217660
Terry R. Hatfield 3/30/2005 5:06:31 PMThis Is Really Cool Wally,Love The Digital Work!! #1217772
Donna J. Taff 3/30/2005 5:16:20 PMFantastic image, Wally!!! #1217794
Gloria B. Wood 3/30/2005 6:13:45 PMTerrific image...very well done! #1217945
Deborah Sandidge 3/30/2005 6:58:40 PMVery clever creation, Wally, beautifully accomplished! #1218024
Stanley J. Contrades 3/30/2005 7:35:41 PMIt's 1736hrs Hawai'i time as I write this and we don't change our clocks here :-), Hooray!!
Carol Brill 3/31/2005 12:37:55 AMWow, you're going to have a busy weekend springing forward with all these clocks, Wally, but don't be alarmed, they make a timeless collage! #1218360
Debra Booth 3/31/2005 6:18:41 AMFantastic collage, Wally! Reminds me of work right now. The favorite phrase is, "Perception is reality," which, when you really analyze it, just means that the only opinion that matters is that of who has the power at the moment. Hey, I think you've just provided a much-needed therapeutic moment for me! LOL! Thanks! #1219066
Janet L. Skinner 4/21/2005 2:40:14 AMCongrats, Wally!!!! This is so cool! #1273167
Cindy Paquette 4/21/2005 3:36:29 AMWonderful Wally and a huge congratulations on this great image!!! #1273447
Deborah C. Lewinson 4/21/2005 3:48:02 AMCongratulations on your finalist, Wally, for this marvelous collage!
Leanne M.E. Boyd 4/21/2005 4:22:36 AMCongratulations Wally, good luck on the next round! #1273731
Deb Holmes-Hatfield 4/21/2005 4:36:48 AMCongratulations Wally!!! #1273815
S J 4/21/2005 4:43:20 AMMany Congratulations on this creative and outstanding Finalist, Wally!! #1273853
Karen Engelbreth 4/21/2005 7:16:25 AMCongratulations Wally :0)! #1275030
Susana Ms Heide 4/21/2005 8:06:00 AMCONGRATS Wally!! Well deserved finalist! #1275404
Tom Andersen 4/21/2005 9:18:51 AMCongratulations on this wonderful finalist, Wally! #1275961
Tammy Scott 4/21/2005 9:39:21 AMCongratulations Wally! #1276108
Laurence Saliba 4/21/2005 10:34:06 AMA Big Congrats!!!!! #1276478
Karen Bacon 4/21/2005 11:07:41 AMFantastic work Wally,congratulations on this finalist! #1276638
Linda D. Lester 4/21/2005 12:21:10 PMCongrats Wally!!!!!!!!!!1 #1276880
Debra Booth 4/21/2005 2:44:04 PMCongratulations, Wally!! #1277417
Deborah Sandidge 4/21/2005 4:17:37 PMCongratulations, Wally! #1277760
Gail Vitikacs 4/21/2005 6:30:29 PMAwesome Wally! Congrats! #1278415
Carla Metzler 4/22/2005 4:23:42 AMCongratulations, Wally! #1279711
Wally Orlowsky 4/22/2005 5:52:39 AMThanks to all!!! #1280218
"Does anybody really know what time it is?"
Collage of 13 timekeepers from around my house (only a sampling).
All shot with the same camera and Nikkor 18-70mm lens. Indoor light without flash. Combined in PSP8. Universe filter used for starry background.
Uploaded on 3/30/2005 4:15:41 AM
Camera: Nikon D70 Digital SLR Camera
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Whenever Lipscomb's Lady Bisons and the University of Memphis meet the game is usually a battle.
It was no different Monday night as the Lady Bisons stayed even with Memphis until the final two minutes of the game in a 57-52 season-opening loss at Elma Roane Fieldhouse.
With the game tied at 48-48 Memphis pulled ahead on a 3-point shot by Victoria Crawford to keep the lead for good.
The first half set the stage for the rest of the game. Memphis held only a 28-27 advantage at intermission.
Both teams shot 42.9 percent from the field in the first half. The Lady Bisons dropped to 28 percent from the field in the second half, for a 34.8 percentage for the game. Memphis shot 37.9 percent in the second half, 40.4 percent for the game.
The Lady Bisons held a huge advantage on the boards, outrebounding Memphis41-28.
Penny Jones led the way with seven rebounds. Courtney Boynton and Katie Beth Pate each added five.
Boynton was the only Lady Bisons shooter in double figures with 13 points. She was a perfect 6-for-6 from the free throw line


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As Expected, Republicans Push To Get Telcos Off The Hook For Illegal Activities
from the who-woulda-thunk-it dept
"More than 66 days have passed since House Democrats allowed a key piece of terrorist surveillance legislation to expire--not because they had concerns with the bill, but because they were seemingly more concerned that not enough trial lawyers would be able to file enough expensive and frivolous lawsuits against U.S. telecom firms."That's both incorrect and misleading at the same time. First of all, there were concerns with the bill: the concerns about giving telcos immunity for potentially illegal activities. As we've pointed out, there are really only three potential reasons for wanting immunity, and they certainly have nothing to do with filing frivolous lawsuits. If this was about frivolous lawsuits, immunity wouldn't be needed -- because the cases would get thrown out. The only real reason to push for immunity is because it's known that the telcos and/or the administration acted illegally. In such a case, immunity obviously shouldn't be allowed. No one has yet given a decent reason for immunity, and the statement here to back up the discharge petition is incredibly disingenuous. Hopefully, a majority of Congressional representatives will realize that and reject the petition.


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Exclusive Points Races Not Changing Results
Is it too early to tell? Or have enough 2011 races been run in the Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series to determine whether or not this new points system is working as intended?
With the Sprint Cup Series taking Easter weekend off, it was time for the two junior national touring series to shine last weekend at Nashville Superspeedway.
Predictably, the Nashville 300 Nationwide race was dominated by moonlighting Sprint Cup regulars -- with the top four spots taken by race winner Carl Edwards, runner-up Kyle Busch, Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano. Eight of the next nine spots, however, were claimed by Nationwide regulars -- led by the young and talented duo of Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Trevor Bayne -- with Truck Series regular Austin Dillon coming home seventh.
As usual, there weren't as many Cup guys participating in the Bully Hill Vineyards 200 truck race at Nashville. In fact, as normally is the case, there was only Kyle Busch. And naturally, Kyle Busch swept the pole and the race victory. At least Ron Hornaday Jr. did what he could to make it a little interesting down the stretch, but even he knew it was a mirage.
Just trying to keep up with Busch, Hornaday later admitted: "I drove it too hard and wore the tires off."
Then there was Timothy Peters, who eventually got past Hornaday and finished third in the race to move up to second in the point standings behind leader Johnny Sauter after five of 25 races in the series. Peters' crew chief, Butch Miller, made the call for only two tires on the last pit stop to gain track position and it paid off. The driver sounded like a guy who had won the race afterward.
"It was a great night. ... This right here is what wins this championship," Peters said.
So is it working?
By now everyone knows what the new deal is in the championship battles in each series. Prior to the season, NASCAR declared that drivers had to declare the one and only one series in which they intended to run for the championship -- eliminating the double dippers such as Edwards, Busch and defending Nationwide champion Keselowski from running for the title in one of the lesser series unless they did the unthinkable and gave up that opportunity in Cup.
It hasn't prevented all of the big boys from competing -- and excelling -- at the lower levels. Much of that is driven by sponsors who sometimes agree to dole out money to teams only if a bigger-name driver will wheel the car in a specific race. And some sponsorship deals with the Cup regulars were in place, or at least nearly in place, before the new rule was made public.
Thus, Busch and Edwards have started each of the eight Nationwide races this far -- and have combined to win six of them. Busch has one pole, four wins, five top-five finishes and six top-10s, while Edwards has registered a series-high three poles, two wins, four top-fives and six top-10s. Keselowski also has started each of the eight races and has four top-five finishes and six top-10s.
In fact, eight races into the 34-race Nationwide schedule, there has yet to be a winner who is a non-Cup regular. The other two victories went to Mark Martin (who has made two starts and won at Las Vegas) and Tony Stewart, who won his only Nationwide start in the season opener at Daytona.
Currently tied at the top of the Nationwide standings are fresh faces Justin Allgaier and Stenhouse Jr. They are trailed, respectively, by Jason Leffler, Reed Sorenson, Bayne, Elliott Sadler, Aric Almirola, Brian Scott, Kenny Wallace and Michael Annett. It is an interesting mix and their battle makes a strong case for the new system putting the names of some different folks up at the top, but should it matter that none of the top 10 drivers in the standings has won a race? Or that the top five have combined for the grand total of six top-five finishes on the season -- only one more than Kyle Busch has registered by himself?
Basically what it comes down to is would you rather see yet another Busch vs. Edwards battle for the title? Or are you content with seeing those two wrestle each other for squatting rights to Victory Lane nearly every week, while focusing on the race within the race for the championship amongst the Nationwide regulars? That's where a third like the one posted by Peters in last weekend's Truck race feels virtually the same as a win -- and can count the same if the only finishers in front of you are Cup guys who don't receive points in the other series.
Perhaps more importantly in this sponsor-driven sport, which scenario do the folks investing the most money prefer?
The Peters Principle
The Camping World Truck Series is a bit of a different animal than Nationwide. Not only is Busch the alpha dog as a driver, but he is attempting to claw to the top as an owner as well, fielding teams for Kyle Busch Motorsports.
In most ways, Kyle Busch is great for the Truck Series. He is the only big-name Cup driver who competes regularly in it, and he obviously has invested a great deal of his own time and money in an organization that consistently places great trucks on the track and draws positive attention to a series often left starving for it despite great on-track action.
But holy smokes, does he have to lead so many laps and win so doggone much? In capturing the Bully Hill Vineyards 200 last weekend, Busch led 140 of 150 laps. One week shy of turning 26 years of age, he has now led more than 20,000 laps across the three national touring series in his relatively brief NASCAR career.
Busch has made four Truck starts this season and won two of them, finishing in the top five in the other two. Two of the other Truck races were won by former Cup regular Michael Waltrip, who is mostly retired as a driver; and current Cup star Kasey Kahne. They each won their only Truck start.
The only driver in either of the two junior series to actually win a race in the series in which he's elected to compete for a championship is Johnny Sauter, who surprisingly held off the hard-charging Busch for a win in the Kroger 250 truck race at Martinsville. Not coincidentally, Sauter is the points leader in the series.
The aforementioned Peters is second. Perhaps he best put the new championship scoring system in perspective after his strong finish last Friday night in Nashville.
Of Kyle Busch, he said: "Obviously we want to beat him. He is good; you can't take anything away from him. You can learn from him. When we beat him -- and we will beat him -- it's going to make our team shine that much more and it's going to make the resume look a lot better. We're going to keep fighting. What we did [last Friday] is a championship-caliber deal for our team. I was really excited about that."
To be the best, usually you've got to beat the best. Only time will tell if that ends up being a true prerequisite to winning the 2011 championships in the Nationwide Series and Camping World Truck Series.