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The Bronx - IV + tour
Did you all see this?
Fuming. They're playing in and around everywhere I'm traveling whilst I'm here in the States then heading to the UK, for a date which has sold out already.
Still, a new record by the sounds of it. So that's worth a
Still can't quite believe they're playing the Boileroom
Can't wait for that.
Why are they only playing places that are awkward to get to?
12-Nov UK Middlesborough, The Middlesborough Empire
13-Nov UK Stoke, The Underground
14-Nov UK Reading, Sub89
15-Nov UK Guildford, The Boileroom
16-Nov UK Kingston, The Peel
17-Nov UK Tunbridge Wells, The Forum
18-Nov UK Folkestone, The Quarterhousekilgore-trout and chickenbones this'd this
- andyvine this'd this
£15 for the Guildford show not very punk
i like the bronx
but there's only so many times I want to see them
Seeing them in a small place is absolute bedlam.
Saw them last December in London and they slayed, proper chaos.
Oh fuck yes,
Saw them in York with less than a hundred people there, Matt spent more time in the crowd than onstage
that show was fucking amazing.
when he went to the bar and ordered a pint of carling!
I really want to see them
but those tour dates are all pretty out the way from me to get to, Stoke being the nearest, got quite a few mates into the Bronx so might be able to sort something out transport wise, but will be pretty expensive. I assume that next year they will do a more accessible tour, taking in larger towns/cities. Great news on the new album though, about bloody time
really tempted with Tunbridge Wells
never thought that'd be a sentence I'd type.
Boilerroom in Guildford for the Bronx is mental.
That venue's tiny as well and if I remember correctly, the stage is to the right and out of eyeline of where a lot of the crowd will be.
Saw them at Concorde 2 in Brighton once and it was one of the most raucous gigs I've been to.
Their last Peel show was outrageously fun.
Took a Bronx virgin there, he said he'd never experienced anything like it. Well worth it.
I can't go, as a bit too close to the Mrs' due date...and she'd kill me.
But picked up 2 tickets for Guildford for friends as knew they'd sell super fast.
The Peel Kingston was incredible, Concorde Brighton was decent!
- vamos this'd this
Go to Guildford instead!
Less in the middle of nowhere than Norbiton as well. Doesn't have a dodgy strip club though sadly, will have to settle for a noodle bar.Faceless_Opinion this'd this
Didn't mean to 'this' this
i think guildford does have a strip bar now, not that i've ever been, being boring :/
Oh yeah there is one in town, just not tacked on to the back of the venue
like there is at the Peel.
anyone going? See you in the pit. \m/


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RxBandit66 wrote:He does need to have a good playoff run this year, because his stats from 2010 to present* (excluding that insane stretch he had during last regular season) are not those of a $9 million franchise player.
*i.e. that less than 1 season worth of stats over 3 years because of injury and your made up exclusion.
Even taking the worst case sample you can find (and molding it to make him look as bad as possible):
Here are his stats - 72 games, 67 points (0.93pt/gm)
Here is someones career stats that just made a $7.5M hit LAST YEAR and we were willing to pay him close to the same - 548 games, 447 points (0.8pt/gm), which ironically is right at his pace for the time frame from 2010 to present (including any insane stretch that he had during the regular season) - 141 games, 112 points (0.79pt/gm).
Malkin haters gonna hate.

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College coaches often have the biggest houses in town-but they move frequently. The result? Homes for the buyer who wants a putting green, wet bar and stuffed alligator head. Beth DeCarbo explains on Lunch Break. Photo Courtesy: Brandon Sullivan.
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(A teenage girl receives a ticket in Santa Monica for not coming to a full and complete stop at a stop sign and a warning for riding without a helmet as a minor.)
Some readers may recall there was a debate between cyclists and the City of Los Angeles over the use of a local municipal code on bicycle licensing, primarily a program started long ago for theft deterrence and returning stolen bikes, instead being used as a way for the LAPD to harass cyclists and write citations. After pressure from the cycling community at a series of city council meetings and the one L.A. police station with bike licenses being overwhelmed for license requests they were not prepared to fulfill, a moratorium was put in place to prevent any further issuing of tickets under the law.This summer, the law was taken off the books in Los Angeles.
I have not heard of a specific ticketing incident for riding without a bicycle license in Santa Monica, but I started to research things a little. My interest got peaked when I was walking by a police office in downtown Santa Monica and a flier was posted in the window concerning bicycle licensing. This immediately raised a red flag to me considering the drama that played out over bicycle licensing in Los Angeles. So I started to look it up in the Santa Monica municipal code, a bookmark I keep handy next to the California Vehicle Code.
Santa Monica does have a bicycle licensing law on the books that includes some disturbing details that would seem to be in conflict with the California laws that govern the implementation of local bicycle licensing. I think it is also worth pointing out here that the C.V.C. grants city or county governments the right to establish bicycle licensing, and gives guidelines and certain restrictions for such systems. The C.V.C. does not require bicycle licenses state wide, and does not impose any restrictions of it's own upon bicycle riding without a license unless required by a local government. This is in sharp contrast with the bicycle license page of the Santa Monica government web site (buried under finance) which reads "The State of California requires a bicycle license for any bicycle used on any street." I cannot find anything in the list of laws in the C.V.C. concerning bicycles to back up such a claim. Thus it would appear the Santa Monica government website is lying. To me this suggests the Santa Monica government is passing the buck by implying it is the State that makes this a requirement when in fact it is the city's fault you are required to have a license. The State allows cities to do this, but it does not require that they do.
So what are those disturbing details in the Santa Monica municipal code on Bicycle licensing? How about for starters this statement, "shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars". Wait a minute, in the California Vehicle code it specifically states in C.V.C. Division 16.7 - Registration and Licensing of Bicycles, Section 39011; "No fine imposed for any violation of an ordinance or resolution, which is adopted pursuant to this division, shall exceed ten dollars ($10)". So the state of California says fines for not having a bicycle license in a municipality that require them should not exceed $10, but Santa Monica thinks up to $250 is a suitable amount. I'm not a legal expert, but something seems fishy here.
And it only gets worse from here. The Santa Monica law goes on to say the infraction may also be made a "misdemeanor, which shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars per violation". So a fine of $10 for not having an official sticker on your bike that costs $3 has ballooned to something that could potentially cost you $1000 and show up on your criminal record in Santa Monica. But that's not all folks, you could also get "imprisonment in the County Jail for a period not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment."
Now we have truly stepped into the world of the absurd. The bicycle licensing law is barely known to anyone, and I'm sure very few of the thousands of cyclists who pour through the town both from within and from popular cycling neighboring areas such as Venice Beach have ever heard of it. Yet nearly all of them, myself included, are law breakers within Santa Monica city limits for not having an official sticker. All those happy people riding home from the Farmers Market with baskets full of fresh vegetables, a bunch of outlaws. Chances are you, my readership, concentrated most heavily in Santa Monica and neighboring areas, are at risk for police harassment at anytime in Santa Monica borders for simply riding a bicycle without a special sticker on it.
(Santa Claus receives a ticket for riding too far to left on the roadway. Ticket thrown out in court after a written declaration defense.)
The reality of being detained for lack of a bicycle license is probably very slim. However if an officer doesn't like you for any other reason, maybe you look homeless, maybe an officer thinks you look like an anarchist, maybe he just plain doesn't like you dressing like Santa Claus, the officer could use a bicycling licensing violation as a pretense to detain you in the absence of any legitimate traffic violations. Thus Santa Monica, voted a Bronze "Bicycle Friendly" city by the League of American Cyclists, empowers it's police force with the ability to harass almost any cyclist on the road by making nearly every cyclist in it's borders a criminal.
Bicycle licensing as it currently exists, where it exists, is like a license plate, not a driver license, and has nothing to do with educational requirements or operation of a bicycle. It is simply a means to identify ownership. It is a legal requirement, however there is almost no attempt at communicating this requirement. You don't hear about it at bike shops, you don't hear about it at city events, and you typically won't hear about it existing at all unless you know where to dig as I just started doing.
What is also odd here, is that while punishment is clearly spelled out and quite severe for not having a bicycle license sticker, not having a license plate on a car is treated as a parking ticket if you are away from the vehicle, and a fix it ticket if you are present. This is what I gathered from reading accounts of license plate violations and every article I could find on the topic. I had trouble tracking down specific official information for fines and punishment but I'm guessing a misdemeanor and 6 months jail time are not potential punishments for the lack of of license plate, and yet it is for a bicycle sticker in Santa Monica. According to an LAPD police woman asked about tickets for lack of a license plate on a car it is a $25 fine as a parking ticket and can cost about $100 as a fix it ticket. This is of course backwards considering an automobile license plate is essential in tracking down potentially fatal hit and run drivers, while incidents of bicycles severely injuring or killing others is incredibly rare. Not that a bicycle license could serve much purpose in identification in a hit and run as they are too small to read without close inspection.
There is no useful purpose for bicycle registration apart from a means for the police to return stolen bicycles, a goal somewhat suspect since thieves routinely remove all stickers and may even grind down serial numbers on bicycles. If the fee were raised it could perhaps become a revenue stream for bicycle improvements, but a high fee would discourage ridership, which is already much slimmer than it should be and most progressive city planners recognize the benefits of increased bicycle ridership in lowering congestion and parking demands. Also if the fee were more significant it would become quite taxing for those of us who own multiple bikes (I have 5 bikes at present), which is easier to do than owning multiple cars, especially if you are aren't paying into car ownership. So if the only useful thing about our bicycle license legislation is to return stolen bicycles, which it mostly fails to do and private companies can do better, why is it written to be so punitive to cyclists and a mandatory requirement to ride? It makes no sense any way I look at it, and even if it were effective at returning bicycles it should be a voluntary program.
Considering that the City of Los Angeles tossed it's bicycle license requirement legislation after its ridicules nature was exposed in public forum, this puts Santa Monica as the odd one out in this regard. Santa Monica is relatively small independent municipality surrounded by the City of Los Angeles, and it makes no sense for Santa Monica to be so radically different in this regard. Especially since Santa Monica makes it a point of pride of being bicycle friendly. Empowering the S.M.P.D. with the means to harass almost any cyclist traveling in it's borders with the threat of severe fines or even jail time does not sound very bicycle friendly to me.
This law should be removed from the books, and I intend to contact the City Council on this issue. If it becomes necessary perhaps we can start a petition and gather a presence at a future Council meeting to bring this absurd legislation to light. The success of revoking the bicycle licensing program in L.A. sets a great precedent for scraping it in Santa Monica. My hunch is this law, started in the 70's and last updated in 1995, is probably completely off the radar of most city officials. Antiquated laws sitting around on the books are nothing new, for example Santa Monica's legislation concerning safe operating speeds for mounted horses and other animals. However horseback riding in Santa Monica is something I have never seen, while bicycle travel is thriving component of transportation here. As such, the laws concerning bicycle travel should be up to date, fair, and reasonable. The fact that thousands of people are regularly in violation of the law simply by riding a bicycle in Santa Monica without an official sticker is not an acceptable situation.
Alex Thompson has added his 2 cents to the matter, and also uncovered an additional C.V.C. that specifies that local bicycle licensing requirements to ride are to apply to residents, however the Santa Monica law is written to apply to everyone. Also handy he includes the appropriate city e-mail addresses if you want to let the city know how you feel about this law.


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Soil, Seedlings and more at Selma Avenue Elementary
At Enrich LA, we're all about taking the negatives and turning them into positives. Everything and anything is a learning and teaching moment. What's a better way to teach the students about the relationship between bugs, soil and plants than to have them dig into the soil and find the bugs that are eating the plants?? The garden had grubs and the kids loved it. They were so excited to help me pick them out. They kept yelling,"there's another one!" And "I found one!" It was so great to see their reactions, it made the task more enjoyable! One even thought the grubs were cute!
Once we had looked the soil through and through, we were ready to plant. Two whole beds are now full of rainbow chard ready to shoot up and add some color to the garden! We also had some peppers ready to harvest and take home to eat! Talk about bringing things full circle.
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Talking Native Plants and Noshing on Veggies!
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The 1st and 2nd graders of Mid-City's Prescott School of Enriched Sciences (the sprouts, the 3rd, 4th and 5th graders are the seedlings…) watched these radish babies grow from seed to seedling and last week we discovered why root vegetables sometimes grow hugging each other…like these carrots… Once roots start to grow and grow under…
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Every Sunday I teach at Taking the Reins, a non-profit dedicated to building their four core concepts: responsibility, confidence, teamwork and leadership to teen girls in LA. Last Sunday, our main lesson was on garden troubleshooting and land stewardship where we made a list of things to do when you walk into the garden: watch…
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A few months ago, I trained under master gardener extraordinaire, Alexys. She brought out a gardening journal that was given to her by a family member and I just fell in love. I've been documenting my personal garden on Insta, via texts, in journals, you name it! So, if we're going to work with kids,…
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How can e-marketplaces help natural resources companies drive dramatic improvements in procurement?
The e-marketplace is essentially a B2B platform for companies and suppliers. The concept has been around for a while, and it has been used in a number of industries to link companies and suppliers. But today's digital e-marketplace platform and technology—supported by cognitive systems, advanced analytics and a tailor-made services layer—has evolved tremendously.
Now, it not only connects organizations to one another, it can also support the full lifecycle of supplier management activities, from quotations and orders to invoicing, logistics, payments and supplier performance management. These types of capabilities are especially important to mining, metals and other natural resources companies because the sector has generally tended to underinvest in procurement processes. That means that natural resources companies, and their suppliers, stand to benefit significantly from improvements.
Why haven't natural resources companies invested more in their procurement activities?
When executives consider investments in the procurement function, they typically think in terms of operational improvements—of making procurement processes more efficient and increasing productivity. That's important because automation and optimization can generate significant savings. In our work with clients, for example, we can help cut 30 percent to 50 percent out of the procurement function's operating budget. However, that budget is a relatively small part of the big picture, usually accounting for just 2 percent or less of overall procurement spending. As a result, executives view investments in procurement-process improvements as a relatively low-impact move from an enterprise-wide perspective. However, in reality, the real payoff comes from looking beyond the operational budget to achieve much broader savings.
What kind of benefits are we talking about? What might companies expect?
Natural resources companies should think about impactful improvements that enable procurement to tackle overall corporate spending for goods and services. For example, based on our experience, zero-based budgeting and closed-loop cost management have the potential to reduce procurement spending by 20 percent to 30 percent. In addition, we see that companies can often increase savings by fivefold with category specialists, market intelligence and closed-loop compliance, and achieve an additional 3 percent savings through improvements in working capital and reduced payment leakage.
How does the e-marketplace enable those kinds of improvement efforts?
As e-marketplace technologies have evolved, they have encompassed more and more functionality. So, these platforms now do far more than increase the efficiency of company-supplier interactions. They fundamentally change the relationship between a company and its suppliers, which opens the door to addressing overall spend.
For example, an e-marketplace can give a company better visibility into suppliers and their performance, which helps in negotiating volume discounts and more favorable contracts. Beyond that, today's platforms provide an extensive range of tools for collaborating with suppliers in areas such as demand planning and supply chain management. Self-service capabilities and corporate procurement portals help keep purchases in line with contracts. And with more information flowing through the platform, it becomes easier to use analytics and decision-support tools to develop a better understanding of spending and suppliers.
Overall, it's no exaggeration to say that digital platforms and technologies are transforming the way procurement organizations do business.
Where do you see all of this that taking natural resources companies in the future?
I think that as the use of digital technology increases over the next three or four years, e-marketplaces could have a significant impact on procurement. For example, they are likely to lead to smaller, more cost-efficient procurement organizations that operate with budgets that are about one-third the size of today's typical budgets. Or, the increased use of automation and cognitive systems to support procurement professionals is likely to increase contract and policy compliance dramatically, moving it to the 98 percent range. Analytics tools, too, will play a growing role, as virtually all of a company's spending data moves through the e-marketplace. That could enable deeper insights into spending and performance, and ongoing improvements in cost-control efforts.
Overall, you can think of the e-marketplace as an enabler of the virtual integrated enterprise, with the platform enabling full control of relationships and close cooperation with suppliers. As that happens, the e-marketplace will have the potential to revolutionize procurement.
In addition to your role in Accenture's mining practice, you've taken an active role in the company's "Exceed.Inn" program in Brazil. Can you tell us about this new program?
Sure! I am really excited about the Executive Education for Innovation (Exceed.Inn) program, which launched last July as an important component of Accenture's innovation strategy in Brazil. The program aims to train and prepare our executives for the new digital era, encompassing themes like innovation mindset, entrepreneurship, open innovation, new technologies and new methodologies such as design thinking, agile and DevOps.
We have more than 500 online modules that offer ongoing, anytime-anywhere learning, and we will probably deliver more than 15,000 hours of class training this fiscal year. Feedback on the program has been very positive, and we are planning to expand it to other countries in Latin America. Overall, the program allows us to keep strengthening our ability to help clients leverage digital technology to drive innovation in their organizations.


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SynientAkash needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 186 designs submitted by 50 freelance designers.
I come from a business background. I currently work with small businesses and organizations in helping them establish or grow their client base or their membership through strengths of my other clients. Much of my work comes from networking businesses together to use resources of one to help another. For example, personally introducing a photographer to a wedding planner, or a Financial Advisor to a CPA. In doing this I have had the opportunity to reach out to other business ventures and opportunities as I connect with more and more businesses.
Synient is a brand that I have used in the past for Web Design and Hosting. I had sold the brand and clients to my ex-partner some time ago and now that I am able to relaunch, I am looking to re-establish the brand as a web host and e-commerce provider for small businesses. I already host many of my clients sites and am looking to move them over to this brand and use that as a jumping point.
My ideal client would be a small business local to me (Chicagoland). Since I am obviously looking to grow my client base, I am open to clients outside of Chicago, but primarily still targeting small businesses, organizations, and sole proprietors that have an established web presence and are looking to reach out, or those that are trying to establish a new home on the web.
If it helps in the design the name Synient comes from the word synergy. It is pronounced "Sin-ee-int"
I am looking for simplicity - simple enough to "grow" around it. I will be using this as a jumping point to establish a theme for our website, letterhead, business cards, etc. My past logo was some creative work with changing the font in the word Synient and making it blue. I'm not looking for that simple, but nothing too extravagant either. Also looking to stick with a blue/black, blue/green, red/black, green/black, blue/red combination, or any single color.
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Cyrodiil Extended is a mod compilation, which is supposed to extend each of the small villages in Cyrodiil, because most of the villages did only consist of two or three small houses and there were no details at all. Cyrodiil Extended will be released step-by-step, whereas every part will be a new village or a new place. You are able to download every single part or the complete omod-package.
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I have been thinking about the very blunt comments left by YHVH last week, and after a long episode of retrospection, I'm thinking I need to change the way I do business on this blog.
I will confess to a rather casual attitude regarding errors and flukes in the software I use. I casually mention that this doesn't work, or casually say that this doesn't do what it ought to do, or casually blather endlessly about a distro that doesn't run on hardware that is considered antique any standard.
And that's okay — this is my space on teh Internets to discuss whatever I like, and if you don't like the way I do it, or what I have to say, you can close the tab (or the window, if you're still using IE6 😛 ).
But let's look back for a moment. How many bug reports have I filed, honestly? None, or at least not in a very long time.
How many have I confirmed? None, although I might have tacked a note on to one or two, last spring.
How many times have I submitted a bug report for a distro I've "reviewed" — particularly in the last few months? None. Ever.
Really, I've mentioned plenty of problems here, and some of them I've belabored for months. I've been wondering about that bizarre tty blackout that's been happening since the Gutsy alphas, but I've never done anything about it. I've talked about it, even mentioned filing a bug report, but never did.
That's where the sloppiness factor really hits a logarithmic sweep. Because just blabbing about it doesn't do much to benefit the community or development or to serve as a (gasp!) role model for newcomers. I hope no one's first brush with Ubuntu is through this blog, because up until now, it seems like the way errors or mistakes are handled is by whining about them in a second-rate blog somewhere! 😯
So really, YHVH was right. I'm no better than the dump-and-run one-post first-time Ubuntu flamers who tickle their computers by installing it once, then dashing off a disappointed note in the forums about how Linux is doomed, only to disappear forever to their tiny self-important corner of the planet.
And I really, really don't want to be like those losers.
So here are the new house rules:
- Any bug, error or misbehavior for any software, regardless of the distro, will be accompanied by a link to a bug report. No matter how small or inconsequential it seems, I won't complain about anything unless I can track it to a known and documented report about it.
- Furthermore, if no bug report exists, I'll file one. This might mean adopting new tracker accounts for distros I only care about obliquely, but this is the way the system works. It's not enough to yammer endlessly about what does or doesn't do right by me, if I'm not willing to work back up the food chain and help make things better.
- A link to a workaround, forum thread or howto will be acceptable, but only if a link to a bug report isn't practical, possible or necessary. This is sort of a last-ditch, fix-it-yourself measure that I don't consider a good substitute, but there will be times when this is necessary.
I'm a little ashamed that after more than a year of keeping notes on Ubuntu and Linux, I've done little to contribute to fixing it, aside from jailing spam posts on the forums. I think YHVH was probably right: I could do a little more to be part of the solution, instead of just the precipitate. 😉


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Aside from clothes and shoes, handbag is also important for women to complete their overall look.
A handbag and pair of shoes is like a horse and carriage. They always come together when it comes to fashion. In fact, they can break or make your outfit, thus women really look for the best handbag and pair of shoes in their wardrobe.
Whilst most women distinguish the names and brands of different types of shoes, not everyone distinguish the names of the many different kinds of handbag. If you tell your female friends that you purchased a beautiful baguette for your date, she may well give you a poker face.
Knowing the different kinds of handbag can help you to determine which one suits you. Some of its kinds include tote, hobo, clutch, satchel and Kelly-style bags. Understanding each of this kind can help you a lot in buying your next bag. Of course, each type corresponds to the style of your clothes, so you really need to choose wisely.
A tote is an open handbag that has handles or soft straps. This is ideal on beach or in the mall. They also inspire green living, as they get rid of the necessity of plastic bags when purchasing small items.
A hobo handbag is a slouchy and semi-circular bag that has one shoulder strap. This casual bag can help you to look fashionable without really trying. You can match this kind of bag to your linen pants, vests, breezy gypsy skirts and sandals. On the contrary, a clutch handbag is a small handheld bag that is put under your arm. You can also carry it by your hand.
Satchel handbag is also called as postman bag. It is a great bag to use at your office. For me, the Kelly-style bag is the most stylish of them all. Hermes originally makes this bag for the movie star princess Grace Kelly. With its classic style and sophistication, you can surely love this type of bag, particularly in formal suits. You can also use this in your office as well. Knowing these types of handbag can certainly help you to mix and match it your outfit and shoes.
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Education & the Environment Initiative CurriculumDevelopment and review of an environment-based curriculum for kindergarten through grade 12 in the subject-matter areas of history-social science and science.
EEI Model Curriculum
The goal of the Education and the Environment Initiative (EEI) is to increase environmental literacy for California's kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) students by teaching science and history-social science academic content standards to mastery within an environmental context.
2009-10 Education and the Environment Initiative Curriculum Review
Instructional Materials Reviewer/Content Review Expert (IMR/CRE) Report of Findings
Edits and Corrections from the IMR/CRE review are available upon request.
Evaluation Criteria
Criteria for evaluating EEI instructional materials, adopted by the State Board of Education (SBE) on January 9, 2008.
Environmental Principles and Concepts
These Environmental Principles and Concepts serve as the foundation for developing the Model Curriculum for California's K-12 students that is mandated under the Education and the Environment Initiative.
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List of CREs/IMRs appointed by the SBE for the 2009 EEI Curriculum Review.


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Well, That Didn't Take Long…Posted by rtmsf on May 16th, 2008
So it's been 39 days since Kansas' Mario Chalmers thrilled us all with his clutch three-pointer that sent the national title game into OT and crushed the foul-shooting-challenged Memphins Memphians Memphisers what the hell is it Memphis Tigers in the process. That's just about enough time for our first scandal to arise!
Say It Isn't So, Darrell!
WFAA.com in Dallas broke the story last night that Kansas forward Darrell Arthur may have been the recipient of a favorable grade change in his high school math class (Dallas South Oak Cliffs HS) that would otherwise have jeopardized his eligiblity (both at the prep and collegiate levels). The tale of the transcripts:
[T]ranscripts obtained by News 8 raise questions about whether he was actually making the grade in the classroom during his junior season, specifically in math. Transcripts show Arthur received no grades at all during his fall semester. His final grade was changed to a 70 in September 2005 without an explanation. If, in fact, Arthur had failed math that fall, he would not have been eligible to play basketball, and many of his team's victories in that championship season might have to be forfeited, according to University Interscholastic League standards.
It gets worse, Jayhawk fans.
Former South Oak Cliff math teacher Winford Ashmore said Arthur had a history of trouble in math. He showed us his 2002 grade book for freshman math in which Arthur was making weekly failing grades: 45, 25 and 24. Ashmore said then-principal Donald Moten, and current head basketball coach James Mays Jr., both asked him to bypass the rules and award Arthur a passing grade. "Darrell was still failing, and was not making much of an effort in class, and was not coming to tutoring," Ashmore said. "So at that point I ensured Moten — as well as James Mays Jr. — that Darrell Arthur was going to get an F for the six weeks." Days later, without teacher approval, Arthur was dropped from Ashmore's class. And despite those low grades, transcripts reflect Arthur received a passing grade of 70.
KU better start hoping that Ashmore (wasn't he on Fresh Prince of Bel Air?) is a Texas fan with an active imagination. But credibility seems to lie on Ashmore's side. Principal Moten recently resigned from his post at the high school in light of another grade-changing scandal involving a class subsequent to Arthur's.
The Kansas blogs are strangely quiet on this so far this morning, but maybe they're still in shock. We know we would be too. After all, if Arthur is retroactively found ineligible, their season could be officially relegated to the trashbin that 1993 Michigan and 1996 UMass find themselves. Except that it's worse. 2008 Kansas was the national champion, in case you'd forgotten.
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"According to recent reports, Apple can hack into your iPhone that is password protected if absolutely necessary," Singh reports. "The court documents revealed that Apple let the agent know they can have it done, but there is actually a waiting list for when they would be able to bypass the password. Apparently, the phone would actually not be hacked into, but Apple would extract all of the files to an external device such as a USB thumb drive."
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"It was a very fast race," coach Bill Taylor said. "Amanda split 63 and held on. That's a very different race than she has had previously where the first laps have been too slow. She now knows she can run either type of race very successfully. Amanda has had such a terrific freshman season. I'm very happy for her."
Two more Lipscomb freshmen competed in the women's 800m as well. Sara Stephens ran 2:21.62 in the fast heat, while Emily Longden won the second heat in 2:18.69, her first time ever under 2:20.
"Sara ran out of gas on the second lap," Taylor said. "She'll be fine when she runs it again in a few weeks. Emily keeps getting better and bounced back very well from a rough performance last night in the 1500m. That was great to see!"
Emily wasn't the only Lipscomb athlete to bounce back from a tough Friday night performance. Ryan Chastain struggled through the second half of his 5000m on Friday. However, on day two he ran 1:53.64 for a new PR in the 800m.
"Ryan had some breathing issues Friday night," Taylor said. "We've had a lot of pollen in the air the last two days here. There was a bit of rain early this morning and it cleared a lot of it out I think.
"We threw Ryan in the 800m in place of a quality workout today. He was in the second heat, led wire to wire, and took about two seconds off his best 800m time ever. That was pretty impressive."
Also in the men's 800m, Isaiah Greer ran a new PR of 1:57.06, Cormac Carolan ran a new PR of 1:57.43 and Jonathan Williams ran a new PR of 1:58.56. Aaron Todd just missed his PR with a 2:01.17.
"We had a great day at 800m," Taylor said. "We are really competing well in the middle distance and distance races right now. I feel like our athletes are figuring this out and are stepping it up. You've got to be happy with so many PRs!"
Shelby Marvel led the way in the women's 3000m with a 10:36.71, her second PR of the meet (1500m last night), for third place. Louisa Van Batavia also earned a new PR in the event with a 10:38.28, finishing right behind. Meredith McFarlin 10:57.87, Caitlin Anderson 11:00.25 and Jenny Randolph 11:09.23 rounded out Lipscomb finishers.
Tim Muller finished second for Lipscomb in the men's 3000m in 8:58.40, which was also a PR. Ashton Fisher followed in 9:05.18. Jared Carlson ran 9:19.32 and Ben Wright ran 9:21.49.
"I didn't really know what to expect from the 3000s," Taylor said. "We doubled back a lot of our athletes in the 800m or the 3000m instead of doing a quality workout, and to get that feel of doubling back in the championship meets. I think it went really well.
"Shelby looked terrific. She ran very smooth and just kept looking stronger each lap. Louisa ran very well too and is reaching a new level. "
Muller has been steadily improving during the outdoor season after missing the entire indoor season.
"I was also very impressed with Tim. He has been improving rapidly in the late season. He missed the whole indoor season with an injury and some of the early outdoor season, but has been working hard and is getting back to where he was for us the past cross country season."
In the Jumps, Adam Austin earned a second place finish in the high jump with a mark of 6-4. Xavier Conley had a 6-2 leap while Logan Ray finished second in the triple jump with a jump of 43-2.
Alex Jerkins finished sixth in the discus with a toss of 125-7.
Burton Elrod set a new PR in the 100m with a mark of 11.43. Xavier Conley struggled with an injury, finishing 15th in 11.90.
Mike Knox broke the 50-second barrier in the 400m for the second meet in a row, running 49.85. Anika Piorkowski finished 10th in the women's 400m with a time of 60.98, while Valerie Winkler ran 61.89.
Next up for Lipscomb University Track & Field: Ryan Chastain and Jeff Musick will compete in the prestigious Drake Relays 10,000m on Thursday night. The rest of the team will compete in the Western Kentucky Invite on Saturday, April 24th.


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NZ Prime Minister Admits That The Government Illegally Wiretapped Megaupload Employees
from the yet-another-mishap dept
Mr Key says the Crown has filed a memorandum in the High Court in the Megaupload case advising the Court and affected parties that the GCSB had acted unlawfully while assisting the Police to locate certain individuals subject to arrest warrants issued in the case. The Bureau had acquired communications in some instances without statutory authority.Once again, like pretty much all of these "mishaps," this seems to suggest a rather cavalier attitude towards actually following proper procedures under the law to go after Dotcom and Megaupload. Throughout this whole process, it really does appear that law enforcement, under pressure from Hollywood, believed that Dotcom was such a criminal mastermind that they could skirt the law in all sorts of ways to try to shut him down. And each time these mishaps come to light, it just raises more and more questions about whether or not law enforcement really had any legitimate evidence or reasons to do what they did.
After being informed about the matter by the Director of the GCSB on September 17, the Prime Minister referred the Bureau's actions to the Inspector-General, Hon Paul Neazor. The Inspector-General is an independent statutory officer with the power to enquire into any matter related to a government intelligence agency's compliance with the law.


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Heavy storms and showers covered most of the state last week, dropping 5.82 inches of rain statewide with some regions receiving close to 8 inches. Total statewide precipitation was 3.15 inches above normal. There were many reports across the state of flooding along rivers and streams along with standing water in many fields. Statewide, temperatures averaged 48.7 degrees, 1.8 degrees below normal.
The heavy rains along with the below average temperatures resulted in only 0.3 days suitable for fieldwork last week and very little progress in spring fieldwork. Topsoil moisture increased dramatically this week and was rated at 35 percent adequate and 65 percent surplus. Subsoil moisture was rated at 5 percent short, 68 percent adequate and 27 percent surplus.
Cold soil temperatures also continue to be another factor delaying corn planting. The main farm activities for the week included planter and equipment preparation along with tending livestock.
Corn planting stayed at 1 percent planted compared to the five-year average of 24 percent. Oat planting was at 27 percent, well behind the five-year average of 70 percent. Winter wheat conditions were rated at 3 percent poor, 21 percent fair, 63 percent good and 13 percent excellent. Pasture conditions were rated at 2 percent very poor, 10 percent poor, 32 percent fair, 42 percent good and 14 percent excellent.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The nationally-ranked No. 10 MIT men's volleyball team wrapped up regular-season play with a hard-fought 41-39, 25-20, 25-17 victory over North East Collegiate Volleyball Association (NECVA) New England Division foe Wentworth Institute of Technology on Friday night. The Engineers finished atop the New England Division standings with a ledger of 15-1 and an overall mark of 28-6 while the Leopards saw their ledger dip to 20-9 on the year and 10-5 in league play.
MIT returns to action on Friday, April 1 in the first round of the NECVA Championship Tournament held at Stevens Institute of Technology. Wentworth will conclude its season on Saturday, March 25 when its hosts conference foe Endicott College.
The Cardinal and Gray maintained a slight edge during the early stages of the first set but the Leopards stayed within striking distance as an MIT hitting error brought them within one (14-13). The Engineers responded with six straights points; however Wentworth put together a 9-3 spurt to once again close the gap to one (23-22).
A strike by Billy Evans gave the hosts set point, but the Leopards registered the next three to reclaim the lead at 25-24. MIT capitalized on a kill from Ken Siebert and a hitting error to go in front. Following a service error that knotted the set at 26, eight lead changes and 11 set-point opportunities ensued. Ross Burdett's kill gave the Leopards what proved to be their last lead of the game at 39-38 as a pair of Evans' kills and a hitting error sealed the win for MIT.
In the second stanza the Engineers quickly established a 5-1 lead, but Wentworth battled back and evened the score at 11. MIT picked up six of the next nine points to gain some breathing room yet the Leopards countered with a 4-1 spurt to tie the set at 18. The Engineers responded by closing out the game with a 7-2 run.
MIT inched out to a 7-6 advantage in the final set, but Wentworth rattled off seven of the next 11 points to capture the lead. The duo of Mike Buonincontra and Dan Mulvey posted a trio of blocks to go along with two kills apiece while Burdett added a pair of kills. A strike by Garrett Winther sparked the Engineers' 14-4 match closing run.
Siebert finished with 17 kills and six digs as David Thomas notched 15 kills, 11 digs, and three aces. Winther totaled 11 kills and two blocks while Patrick Vatterott recorded 10 kills and four digs. Evans tallied nine kills, four aces, and three blocks as Jeremy Velazquez collected 10 digs. Tim Lee amassed 48 assists and 10 digs while Caine Jette contributed seven digs and four assists.
Burdett paced the Leopards with 13 kills and 11 digs as Derek Portugal racked up nine kills, eight digs, four blocks, and an ace. Buonincontra posted eight digs, seven kills, and three blocks while Lowell Jesmer registered eight kills, two aces, and a block. Mulvey compiled seven kills, five digs, and three blocks as Marc Larue bolstered the defense with nine digs. Tyler Moriarty rounded out the squad with 37 assists and seven digs.


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One way to get over Jetlag, is to challenge yourself and getting a wheel to the shop on the bike was the task for yesterday. Not shown is the near auto-erotic asphyxiation from the wheel hitting the helmet, which constricted the strap, under my chin. Lowered it on the back after choking. That made it float in the wind like a sail.
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Bird in a Cherry Tree
Appliqued by Klonda Holt & Edie McGinnis.
Quilted by Brenda Butcher. 2011.
This fabulous reproduction is in Edie McGinnis's new pattern book from the Kansas City Star.
Confederates in the Cornfield
The book tells the story of a guerilla raid into the Union state of Iowa during the Civil War.
Klonda and Edie named the featured quilt after the birds in the border--- a terrific example of that style of birds and berries (lotsa berries).
See more about Edie's book and a preview by clicking here
The block is one of the fad quilts of the mid 19th century. Many examples of this design were made, usually as repeat blocks, rather than being featured in samplers.
One is a stem with fruit, the other a leaf or bud extending into the block's corners.
I show nine variations in my Encyclopedia of Applique on page 84. Names given to the design include Flowering Almond from Comfort magazine in the early 20th century. This is the earliest published name from a pattern source I've found. It's a name that was still used in Tennessee in the 1980s when Bets Ramsey and Merikay Waldvogel did the Tennessee Quilt Project.
I have a flowering almond bush in my yard. It puts out a lot of small flowers on a leafless branch in the spring, looking very much like those rotating arms in the quilt pattern. I found a reference to the name Flowering Almond in a letter from 1860, in which Elizabeth Nessly Myer described such a quilt that was left to her family. (Mill Creek Journal, Kay Atwood editor and publisher, Ashland, Oregon, 1987)
Other names found in print in the early 20th century are Currants & Cockscombs in Marie Webster's book Quilts (1915) and Poinsettia in Ruth Finley's Old Patchwork Quilts (1929).
See a version dated 1853 in the collection of the Kansas Museum of History
And a mid-century example from the Quilt Complex
See more Flowering Almond applique quilts in the Quilt Index by clicking on these URLs.http://www.quiltindex.org/basicdisplay.php?kid=4C-83-470
She arranged the berries in a different way.
Here's another great reproduction at Lurline's blog
And here's one from Barb Perrin
Terry Thompson sells a pattern for a reproduction (an economy of dots in this primitive version)
Once you notice this old design you find it over and over.


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They are the players who will have their possible playing time infringed upon and could well see their futures put in danger.
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Larry Hagman, star of the celebrated television show "Dallas," died in Dallas Friday, the Dallas Morning News is reporting. Hagman was 81.
J.R. Ewing was a business cheat, faithless husband and bottomless well of corruption. Yet with his sparkling grin, Larry Hagman masterfully created the charmingly loathsome oil baron — and coaxed forth a Texas-size gusher of ratings — on television's long-running and hugely successful nighttime soap, "Dallas."
Although he first gained fame as nice guy Maj. Tony Nelson on the fluffy 1965-70 NBC comedy "I Dream of Jeannie," Hagman earned his greatest stardom with J.R. The CBS serial drama about the Ewing family and those in their orbit aired from April 1978 to May 1991, and broke viewing records with its "Who shot J.R.?" 1980 cliffhanger that left unclear if Hagman's character was dead.
The actor, who returned as J.R. in a new edition of "Dallas" this year, had a long history of health problems and died Friday due to complications from his battle with cancer, his family said.
"Larry was back in his beloved hometown of Dallas, re-enacting the iconic role he loved the most. Larry's family and closest friends had joined him in Dallas for the Thanksgiving holiday," the family said in a statement that was provided to The Associated Press by Warner Bros., producer of the show.
The 81-year-old actor was surrounded by friends and family before he passed peacefully, "just as he'd wished for," the statement said.
Linda Gray, his on-screen wife and later ex-wife in the original series and the sequel, was among those with Hagman in his final moments in a Dallas hospital, said her publicist, Jeffrey Lane.
"He brought joy to everyone he knew. He was creative, generous, funny, loving and talented, and I will miss him enormously. He was an original and lived life to the fullest," the actress said.
Years before "Dallas," Hagman had gained TV fame on "I Dream of Jeannie," in which he played an astronaut whose life is disrupted when he finds a comely genie, portrayed by Barbara Eden, and takes her home to live with him.
"Larry was the center of so many fun, wild and sometimes crazy times. And in retrospect, memorable moments that will remain in my heart forever," Eden said.
But it was Hagman's masterful portrayal of J.R. that brought him the most fame. And the "Who shot J.R.?" story twist fueled international speculation and millions of dollars in wagers. It also helped give the series a place in ratings history.
When the answer was revealed in a November 1980 episode, an average of 41 million U.S. viewers tuned in to make "Dallas" one of the most-watched entertainment shows of all time, trailing only the "MASH" finale in 1983, with 50 million viewers.
It was J.R.'s sister-in-law, Kristin (Mary Crosby) who plugged him — he had made her pregnant, then threatened to frame her as a prostitute unless she left town — but others had equal motivation.
Hagman played Ewing as a bottomless well of corruption with a charming grin: a business cheat and a faithless husband who tried to get his alcoholic wife, Sue Ellen (Gray), institutionalized.
"I know what I want on J.R.'s tombstone," Hagman said in 1988. "It should say: 'Here lies upright citizen J.R. Ewing. This is the only deal he ever lost.'?"
Ten episodes of the new edition of "Dallas" aired this past summer and proved a hit for TNT. Filming was in progress on the sixth episode of season two, which is set to begin airing Jan. 28, the network said.
The Fort Worth, Texas, native was the son of singer-actress Mary Martin, who starred in such classics as "South Pacific" and "Peter Pan."
As a youngster, Hagman gained a reputation for mischief-making as he was bumped from one private school to another. He made a stab at New York theater in the early 1950s, then served in the Air Force from 1952-56 in England.
While there, he met and married young Swedish designer Maj Axelsson. The couple had two children, Preston and Heidi, and were longtime residents of the Malibu beach colony that is home to many celebrities.


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Starring in the "Terminator" movie franchise offers plenty of perks, but there seem to be plenty of downsides as well.
"Terminator 3" actor Nick Stahl, who was reported missing by his estranged wife earlier this week, appears to be the latest star of the franchise to run into trouble, leaving some to wonder about a "Terminator curse."
After all, Stahl, 32, took over the role of young John Connor in "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" from Edward Furlong, whose own career was sidetracked by drugs after 1991's "Terminator 2: Judgment Day."
Drugs may also be to blame for Stahl's disappearance. Stahl's wife, Rose Murphy, reported him missing earlier this week, saying the last time she saw him was May 9. She added that he had been frequenting Los Angeles' Skid Row area recently.
The couple separated in January and Murphy filed court papers the following month, asking that Stahl's visitations with their daughter, Marlo, 2, be limited. She also asked for proof that he hadn't used drugs within 24 hours before seeing her, TMZ reported.
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|Edward Furlong
Following his starring role in "Terminator 2," Edward Furlong was in and out of rehab. His wife, Rachael Kneeland, then filed for divorce in July 2009 and received a restraining order against Furlong, whom she claimed "grabbed me, bruised me, pushed me, made threats of more violence, left messages saying he would hire people to come and beat me with chains and bats," according to court records obtained by TMZ.
|Christian Bale
While filming 2009's "Terminator Salvation," star Christian Bale went on a four-minute f-word-laced tirade aimed at director of photography Shane Hurlbut. The recording of the tape was later leaked to the press and seemed to point to an anger problem for the English actor, who had been arrested just a few days before the tirade for allegedly assaulting his mother and sister. No charges were filed in the assault case, and Bale later apologized to Hurlbut and others for his behavior on the set.
|Arnold Schwarzenegger
The original Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger had long been dogged by rumors of groping women on movie sets and in other settings over three decades. While running for governor of California, he apologized "to those people I have offended." But the real bombshell came out after he left office, when the world learned that Schwarzenegger had fathered a child with his housekeeper Mildred Baena while married to wife Maria Shriver.
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Actress Linda Hamilton not only starred as Sarah Connor in the first two "Terminator" films but began a romance with director James Cameron, who was then married to "Hurt Locker" director Kathryn Bigelow. "Work and women go hand in hand for Jimbo, and I should know," Hamilton told the UK's Daily Mail last year. The pair had a daughter together before Cameron left Hamilton for Suzy Amis, whom he fell in love with on the set of "Titanic."


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|2012-07-31, 12:12
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I think it's overall rooting for our favorite characters over the other which is why it's a hotly debated item. And I enjoy that. Makes character changes and expectations more exciting.
Once again I'll take the reckless abandon they treat exercises with the context of the anime as being acceptable forms of how the base conducts itself. But even then the initial encounter with the Scarlet Twins and Tarisa was not authorized. How or why they began the dog fight was never explained. In Yui's fight against Tarisa it was a deliberate destruction of equipment and not some knock out hit. (Although it can be argued that such destruction was meant to get a rise out of Argros flight) Also you're right on the fact exercise should introduce unstable and unpredictable elements that force trainees to adapt. But most training always has a slight safety margin that is always observed. Did Yui cross that line? That can only be answered by the base and command of this project.
|2012-07-31, 12:32
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Considering they're fighting BETA that are pretty ruthless I'm sure no one cared that Yui wiped the floor with the trainee's. She didn't kill them and she didn't severely damage anything that was state of the art so there should be no issues. Besides, if her actions make the overall training and testing area improve than she should be getting pats on the back.
Or when it comes to Yuuya a saddle since he might as well ride her too.
|2012-07-31, 12:37
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Yuuya: "That sword's for real combat!"
Stella: "This is going too far, Lt. Takamura!"
Yuuya (after Yui stabs Tarisa' TSF): "Are you insane!"
As I said above, Yuuya (as we know his character) should be pissed beyond belief that someone in his flight was nearly skewered by a combat sword. Do you think if during Red Flag command secretly outfitted the opposing force with live ammo and a wingman's plane got shot up that the flight leader would be happy that he then was able to take down that other plane with a "gunshot"?
|2012-07-31, 12:46
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That's the point, Yui wanted him to be pissed off so he would fight her to the fullest. He thought Tarisa was harmed but Yui is skilled enough to take her out and make it look like she hurt Tarisa badly when she didn't.
Doesn't matter, the Command didn't care at all that the TSF's were damaged. They are just training ones and as far as they're concerned the real training exercise didn't start until Yui showed up and they cut communications to get the test pilots in the dark on this unexpected change of events.
We don't know of that and from Tarisa's attitude she wasn't punished. After all TSF pilots are needed and they can't afford to be put behind schedule just because some TSF pilots got into a brawl. Since no one died and the TSFs can be repaired it isn't an issue.
Doesn't matter if it's a live weapon or not Tarisa didn't even come close to even touching Yui's paint job.
This isn't the real world, it's Alternate world where everyone is hardened by the BETA threat and they don't have all the time in the world to defeat the beta, get tests done, and roll out new TSFs. Besides this was for the benefit of the project and Yui has enough clout that it's unthinkable of punishing her unless she actually killed the pilots which she didn't.
|2012-07-31, 13:45
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So, for example, the Turkish commander might not have cared (doubtful), but it beggars belief that U.S. forces are okay with some crazy Japanese officer with a combat sword going after one of their premier test pilots in order to "prove her point", just because no one got hurt. Why? Because TE has explicitly introduced a U.S. military that is highly correlated to the real world U.S. military. So a knowledgeable viewer will expect the TE U.S. military to react in a similar fashion to its real-world counterpart. Namely, having Yui removed from the program or removing Yuuya and Boening.
When it doesn't, and the anime makes no effort to explain why, then the anime ceases to become "realistic" and instead becomes more a collection of inconsistent characters and actions that only make sense if the viewer is willfully blind to the naturally-expected consequences of a given course of action.
If this were an anime where they all rode unicorns that shot homing lasers and came from made up places and had a totally different military system, then that's one thing. But by grounding the TE story in a world of F-22s, the IJA, TOPGUN and private military contractors, it's expected that the unmentioned, though necessary concepts and traditions that underlie the development and evolution of those institutions and weapons will be the same or similar to the real world. The story can't work (well) without that.
To bring it back to Yui. Putting aside the fact that somehow she found the time to become an expert in anti-TSF combat when she's been fighting BETA nonstop for the past three years (ridiculous btw), an openly racist officer who threatens the safety of her subordinates would be drummed out of a joint U.S. program in a heartbeat, and if she isn't in the TE world, then there needs to be some explanation given as to why.
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|2012-07-31, 14:04
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Very well put. Such story telling is reliant on real world view on certain subjects to help the viewer related to the material easier. Obviously some artistic liberty is taken, but explanations on critical points of the story should also be explained.
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|2012-07-31, 14:43
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Than the audience assumes wrong. This isn't the same type of world that the audience can even familiarize themselves with since the events of WWII happened much differently and humanity in RL has never had to dealt with extinction against monstrous creatures that don't play fair and are nearly infinite. Thus the rules are far different on what is and isn't acceptable.
She isn't openly racist because she doesn't see her comments as racist since she sees Yuuya as Kin thus she expects far more out of him(After all you never see her once say she's disappointed in any of the other pilots nor is she even hard on them). Also this episodes has shown that she was only hard on him because she wants him to improve and learn to use the TSF the right away since Yuuya has the talent to be just as skilled as she is.
Furthermore you're again putting your own real world views out and ignoring the Alternate World which has tons of nationalism going around because of the BETA threat and how events happened differently. Thus you're wrong in all of your assessments because you're putting your bias of the RL and are not understanding that things are FAR different in the Alternative world.
So it's easy for you to say "That's Racist" when in Alternative World it's called National Pride and had the BETA not been such a huge threat many of the nations wouldn't have gathered up in such a way. Not to mention that many hate America and other untouched nations because unlike them the BETA has left them mostly alone while the others have lost whole countries and loved ones. Thus it breeds resentment.
Than there's the thing where TSF pilots are in extremely high demand that even children are being asked to fight from the countries closest to the BETA threat. This as long as no one dies in the exercises and nothing too important is damaged than there's no reason to punish the TSF pilots since they're needed and are hard to replace. Of course they can't go around breaking laws but as long as they behave and don't go too far(With too far being an opinion that differs between the UN nations. Such as Russia being okay with torturing strangers just because they aren't Russian).
I am not your example boy, either deal with me directly or drop the sidestepping insults.
|2012-07-31, 17:58
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This is getting away from Yui so I'll spoiler the non-Yui bits
Often the allusions to the similarity of the fictional world to our world is subtle. Some examples from TE: they have a family unit consisting of a mother and a father, and recognize extended relations (Yui's uncle); they identify as members of large-scale political units (countries) and they notice racial differences; TE also plays to racial stereotypes that mirror our world: italian men are gauche ladies-men; swedes are big-boobed and blonde; americans have trouble with authority; russians like to torture, etc. All these subtle cues are there to let us know that we're in a world not-unlike our own, and to unconsciously allow the viewer to "fill in" those parts of the Alternative world that the writers don't have time/can't describe. And when the viewer does fill-in the world, he or she does it with the underlying assumption (based on the cues we have) that what he or she doesn't see is the same, or very close to, our world.
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|2012-07-31, 21:13
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Than we're going to have to disagree. Though I will say that if you continue to try and rationalize real world things and use it for how you think things should be handled in TE you'll be disappointed since this isn't RL and their timeline has many changes on top of the BETA threat.
It's a different time/era. Look at the past, the Romans treated other races poorly because they weren't Roman however those same races treated others bad for being different. They didn't do it because of hate, they just did it because that was what was acceptable. Thus it isn't racist to them because that's just how things are around them.
Didn't you watch the other episodes? There's huge scale nationalism, hell it's the reason Yuuya was discriminated against despite Japan and America no longer being at war.
No, they don't because there's no reason to. If they killed a pilot or damaged something that's still new and isn't an old training TSF than there would be issues. At most they'll be told to not do it again, they wont slap them with penalties or lock them up since they need every skilled TSF pilot they can get.
|2012-07-31, 22:39
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Tarisa's TSF trip over wasn't done with a sword i.e. hand-to-hand defence that used Tarisa's momentum. Yuuya has warned Tarisa to not rush in i.e. Yuuya is not a rookie.
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|2012-08-01, 00:13
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yui seems to be an akido or akijutsu practitioner.
|2012-08-01, 01:06
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|2012-08-01, 01:39
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It may be a surprise to many but anime are not made for a Western audience. 'Racism' detected may be nothing more than a Japanese self-pat to the head. The fight chreography, Yui's supposed superiority complex etc are just a Japanese centric world view.
Just look at your country's Olympic coverage for similar real-life examples :P
|2012-08-01, 02:56
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|2012-08-01, 04:10
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Truth to tell, the MuvLuvVerse does have rather more RealTeck and RealPolitik in their plots, thanks to the research efforts of their writers. The amount of Realpolitik in the original series, and TE, is also one of the reasons it took so long for an anime to be released.
If you are going to discuss, do take it to the correct thread though. Here is the Yui love/hate area.
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|2012-08-01, 15:08
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It appears that Yuuya managed to get a lucky hit in that Yui wasn't expecting. She was about to end things, but the God of Despair smiled on Yuuya. That said, she was obviously dominating the fight.
As for anti-TSF trainging, the Japanese do Practice TSF kendo, afterall, as seen by the training in episode 1. They might even have an inter IJA TSF kendo tournament
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Things have been quiet lately or else I'm missing the news. Racing gear seems to be the only buzz at the moment.
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