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Marcella Hazan: Rest in Pizza and Pasta and Everything We Love About Real Italian Food
As someone who is old enough to know, I can say without equivocation that without Marcella Hazan, who passed away last weekend, there would be no real Italian food in this country. That's right. There would be no Mario Batali, no Marc Vetri, no Giada DeLaurentis, no Paul Bartolotta, because all of their food was, at the very least, inspired by Hazan's seminal 1973 book, The Classic Italian Cookbook: The Art of Italian Cooking and the Italian Art of Eating. Though no longer in print, its spirit reigns strong in the widely acclaimed Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, written with Karin Kretschmann and published by Alfred Knopf in 1992.
Marcella, who I don't think I ever met, was no fancy, pretentious cook hiding behind pompous authenticity. She was just a great Italian cook, inspired by the food served at her family's table. Her food was, and remains, sophisticated in the best possible way: in its elegant simplicity. Marcella applied serious rigor to her cooking and recipes, but she always made it sound like if you had the will and the patience, you would end up cooking something seriously delicious and resolutely Italian. Her pork braised in milk is a staple at our house, as are many pastas.
So rest in peace, Marcella. Every serious eater is eternally grateful for what you brought to our tables. And don't just take my word for it. Next time you find yourself on Amazon or at a bookstore, buy or pick up a copy of Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking. I promise, once you open and use it, your eating life will be changed forever.
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Recently I received another example of a Move-O-Graph portrait from David Brook, depicting his father Archibald Brook (1888-1967). It was probably taken in the late 1910s or early 1920s. The mechanism, which from Tony Rackstraw's description appears to consist of two layers, has survived intact. The lower layer consists of a composite photographic image made from two distinct views, and the second is a covering "filter" of cellulose with very narrow vertical black strips. The "movement" effect is created by the gaps between these strips alternately revealing first one image and then the other, as the filter is moved slightly from side to side.
The reverse of the card which encases the photograph has printed instructions for achieving the full effect. The pencilled "530a Oxford Street" was added by the subject at some stage.
I've used images sent to me by David in an attempt to recreate this "movement" digitally using an animated GIF. The effect is a little unnerving, and David ensures me the original is even more so.
To be honest, I can't imagine why a perfectly good-looking gentleman like Archibald Brook, pictured in a more conventional portrait at around the same time above, might want to preserve his features in such a manner. None of the examples I've seen so far - and several more have appeared on the net since my last article - have been very flattering, and I would even be bold enough to say that most are positively bizarre. I'm not particularly suprised that the format apparently never lasted more than a few years.
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Here is a story about how the car dealers are trying to keep Tesla from selling their cars. The biggest problem for Tesla to get their cars out through dealers is that dealers make their money from servicing the cars, Teslas don't need servicing, this makes it hard to use the current system to sell them and also why once people realize this they will sell like hotcakes. Not sure this fits here, but buying a Tesla is like getting solar power on the roof it's another way to step out of current economic system just a bit and becoming more self-sufficient.


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Eredivisie Wrap: Ajax maintain lead at the top
Lasse Schone scored a hat-trick as Ajax regained their four-point lead at the top of Eredivisie with a 3-0 home win over Heerenveen.
Ajax's advantage had been cut to one point after Twente's 2-0 win over Vitesse on Saturday, but Schone's treble ensured that Frank de Boer's men continued to set the pace on Sunday.
Schone completely overshadowed the Eredivisie top scorer Alfred Finnbogason, with Heerenveen failing to register a single shot on target during the game.
The Denmark international scored twice from the penalty spot in the opening 18 minutes before completing his hat-trick eight minutes from time as Ajax extended their unbeaten league run to 12 matches.
Feyenoord, meanwhile, lost ground on the top two after being held 1-1 at mid-table NAC Breda.
Daryl Janmaat put Feyenoord in front in the 25th minute, but Rydell Poepon's penalty hauled the sides level 12 minutes later.
The hosts saw substitute Stipe Perica sent off in the 84th minute for serious foul play just two minutes after he was introduced, but Feyenoord could not force a winner in the closing stages.
At the wrong end of table, Cambuur climbed out of the bottom three with a 3-1 home win over PEC Zwolle.
Marcel Ritzmaier put Cambuur ahead in the ninth minute before Martijn Barto scored either side of half-time to put the result beyond doubt, Steve Fernandes Pereira netting a consolation for Zwolle 12 minutes from time.
Elsewhere, Tjaronn Chery's third-minute goal was enough to earn Groningen a 1-0 win over Go Ahead Eagles.


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ROCHESTER — The Police Commission Thursday morning officially adopted additional language in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the commission and the City Council, as part of an agreement that allowed police command staff to get their merit-based raises late last week.
While the three police commissioners had already signed the document before their meeting on Thursday, the official vote to accept the amended MOU took place during Thursday's public session.
The new MOU contains an addition stating the Police Commission will submit requests for merit-based raises for non-union police members while the city budget is being developed — at least 10 days before the city manager hands over the proposed budget to the City Council for revision and approval.
Neither the city manager nor the council will have authority to change the budget line for the police command staff wage increases, but the change will allow the council to prepare better for the budget, knowing how much money will be dedicated to the wage increases for those staff.
The change to the MOU came after a dispute between the council and the Police Commission over how much funding to dedicate this year for wage increases for about eight non-union police command staff.
Last spring, as the budget for this fiscal year was being prepared, the City Council appropriated about $12,000 for wage increases for those staff. The Police Commission, after the budget has already been adopted, voted to dedicate about $18,000 toward those raises. Over the subsequent months, command staff did not see any raises, because the council did not appropriate additional funds into the budget, and Police Commission members expressed that per City Charter, it's their duty to set wages for non-union police staff, not the council's.
After wage claims were made by police command staff, an agreement was made with the city — the claims against the city were dropped, on condition that the staff get awarded raises as set by the Police Commission, and the MOU change is made so the problem doesn't arise in subsequent years.
The council approved the MOU change on Tuesday, and the Police Commission unanimously voted to accept the MOU change on Thursday.
Police Commission Chairman James McManus said with the change in the MOU, the commission will now have to evaluate command staff performances earlier in the year, around November. That way, the merit-based raises can be submitted to the city manager on a timely basis, as dictated by the MOU.
"Business has been taken care of," said McManus after the meeting.


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Cyberchase "A Whale of a Tale" With special guest star Al Roker. A trip to R-Fair City nearly turns into a monster mash when Hacker abducts Glowla, a beautiful cyberlady who generates pure energy. Hacker is able to snatch Glowla by reprogramming her trick whale, Snout. D
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Quilting Arts "Quilting Around The House" Art quilts are not just for hanging on the wall. Contemporary quilting can be found all around the house. We begin with guest artist Sue Bleiweiss as she adds a touch of whimsy to your table with a house themed table runner. D
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Paint This With Jerry Yarnell "Trademark of Spring, Part 3" At this point Jerry shows how to begin shaping the distant bushes/trees, then how to begin applying highlights on distant grasses; also applying first distant layers of Blue Bonnets as well as blocking in trunk of large Oak tree. Then mixing the proper color for the Oak tree leaves and under-painting them with #10 bristle brush using a "scumbling" technique for proper form. D
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Chef's Life "A Peanut Pastime" Vivian visits neighbor Marty Harper's peanut farm just before and during harvest. Vivian's dad introduces Ben and Vivian to the old school break snack, a pack of salted peanuts dumped into a Pepsi in a glass bottle. At the restaurant, Vivian translates the snack into Pepsi glazed pork belly with country ham braised peanuts. D
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Kevin Dundon's Modern Irish Food "Fish, Hunt and Harvest" Kevin prepares smoked mackerel with a blackcurrant Jus, Skeaghanore duck breast with black cherries, pickled wild mushrooms, sauteed garlic potatoes and to finish, a spiced apple with Killowen yogurt. D
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Rick Steves' Europe Classics "Egypt" Rick climbs the Giza Pyramid. In Luxor, he rambles with Ramses through the temple of Karnac and the Valley of the Kings, and bicycles into today's village Egypt.G
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Travelscope "San Antonio, Texas - More Than The Alamo" The finer things in life have always been a big part of the San Antonio experience and there's a slew of attractions to entertain the visitor - the Alamo, Riverwalk, fine dining, music, art - but it's San Antonio's diverse cultures and the way the people love to celebrate that is most impressive. Joseph returns to San Antonio, a town he's visited regularly since 1969, to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and introduce viewers to some of his favorite things and shows them why it's said that San Antonio is every Texans' second hometown. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Italian Flavor Or Slow Food, Italian Style" Joanne loves Italian flavors. She prepares a Spinach and Fennel Salad enhanced with Prosciutto di San Daniele. Then, hungry for a little comfort food, she creates a hearty Tuscan Pot Roast with her student Cheryl and shows her the secret to the perfect creamy polenta. D
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Reza Badiyi, a prolific television director whose credits included "Get Smart" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and who set a Directors Guild of America record for directing the most hours of episodic series television, has died. He was 81.
Badiyi, who had been dealing with a number of medical issues in recent weeks, died Saturday at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, said family spokeswoman Bita Milanian.
The Iranian-born Badiyi, who launched his filmmaking career making documentaries in Iran before moving to the United States in 1955, began directing for TV in the late 1960s.
Among his long list of credits are "Mission Impossible," "The Rockford Files," "Baretta," "Mannix," "Starsky and Hutch," "The Six Million Dollar Man," "The Incredible Hulk," "Cagney & Lacey," "Falcon Crest," "In the Heat of the Night," "Baywatch" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
Badiyi also directed episodes of the original "Hawaii Five-O" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and was involved in the creation of both shows' memorable title sequences.
In March 1998, Badiyi achieved a Directors Guild milestone for directing the most hours of episodic series television when he finished his 400th TV episode, for the sci-fi series "Sliders."
Badiyi's last credit as a director was the 2006 feature film "The Way Back Home."
In 2009, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Noor Iranian Film Festival.
A year later, members of the Iranian American community honored Badiyi for his 80th birthday and his 60th year in the entertainment industry at UCLA's Royce Hall.
"He was very passionate about his Persian heritage," said Milanian, recalling that Badiyi could recite Persian poetry by heart. "Even though he moved away from Iran, he was still very connected to his community."
Badiyi was born April 17, 1930, in Arak, Iran. He graduated from the Academy of Drama in Iran, for which he received a Gold Medal from the Shah of Iran for his acting.
"Later on, I went from acting to cinematography and had the honor of being the shah's personal cinematographer and traveled all over the country with him," he recalled in a 2009 interview with Iran Times International.
He made 21 documentaries before moving to the United States, including "Flood in Khuzestan," which was selected by the Red Cross for screening internationally to generate awareness of the disastrous flooding in the Iranian province. It also earned him the Golden Ribbon of Art from the shah.
"When the U.S. State Department saw the documentary, they invited me to come to the U.S. to study filmmaking," he recalled in the 2009 interview.
After studying filmmaking at Syracuse University, Badiyi moved to Kansas City, Mo., to work at Calvin Co., a major industrial film production company, where he met a young director named Robert Altman.
Altman, Badiyi said in the 2009 interview, became his best friend and mentor.
Badiyi was assistant director on the low-budget 1957 film "The Delinquents," which marked Altman's feature film debut as a director.
Badiyi was once married to actress and writer Barbara Turner and was stepfather to actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
He is survived by his third wife, Tania; his children, Mimi, Mina, Alexis and Natasha; two brothers, four sisters; and two grandchildren.


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After 8 yrs of TTC I got pregnant May 2005. I lost the baby at 5 weeks. I only knew less than a week.
I'm still TTC without success.
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We have had several losses, 1 at 4wks June 2000, 1 at 11wks Sept 2003, 1 at 5wks Nov 2003 & 1 at 10wks Feb 2004.
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Sofia 1/20/05 50mg clomid, 400mg prometrium, B.A. & lots of prayers
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We lost our first child at 11.5 weeks at our first ultrasound (8/05)--they could not find a heartbeat and our "Bean" was measuring at 10.5 weeks old. I had no pain whatsoever, nor any other signs of a miscarriage. I've always felt this was God's tender mercy on me.
We found all of this out on a Monday, Wednesday was more bloodwork and another U/S to look for a heartbeat--by Friday I was in surgery having a D&C (my mother endured 2 of these.. she calls them a "Dust and Clean".. I suppose we find humor in all things...). It was all very tramatic--we'd been trying to concieve for 2 years; my husband had to have surgery to remove a vericose vien that was stopping the flow of sperm on the left side of "his boys."
As tramatic was it was, the day that we found out that we had lost Bean we prayed together as a family (my husband and I) and we recieved a very clear messege that this suffering would be short. I was so terrified of having to wait another 2+ years to even have another chance.
We waited a month for my cycle to return and got pregnant again in 10/05--expecting dear son July '06. This pregnancy has been very easy so far (I'm currently almost 32 weeks along).
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To all who has posted thus far!
We were PG with our 3rd baby and found he had died about 17 weeks. It was a missed-miscarriage, no bleeding and no pain. (thank goodness!) Had a D&E a day later. But it was so hard to go back for my 6 week check up and see a teenage girl with her (supposed) boyfriend and friend, giggling and laughing. I was VERY bitter towards her and now I feel horribly badly about that.
I still get quite depressed about that and wonder if the pain will ever go away? That was 5 years ago. His due date was May 5th so in 2 more days he would be 5 years old
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I have been out of the loop for so long.
We just lost our little boy at 32 weeks. He lived for 40 minutes after his birth. We found out at 31 weeks that he had a fatal form of dwarfism that was the cause of my fluid increasing. Our birth was wonderful and I am so glad I got to hold and love him, even for that short time.
We would love to concieve again soon, but that is in God's hands.
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My first loss was when I was 16 years old. and with my HS sweetheart. I was about 5-6 weeks pregnant and the baby left me the day after my 16th birthday. I fell pregnant again about a month later that baby only made it to 5 weeks as well.
I then got pregnant again at 18 with my hubbys baby. I lost this baby at 7 weeks in june of 97. I married hubby in april of 98, and we got pregnant again in may of 99. This time it was triplets. I had my first loss with this pregnancy at 5 weeks, and went on to an US at 18 weeks that showed I had twins who had twin to twin tranfusion syndrome. They were born about a week later on Sept 1 1999, after my water broke. I went on to have 3 healthy babies in a row, which I am ever grateful for. We ttc for 15 months before i was pregnant with my laast angel. Everything this time was perfect. until my 17 week appointment when my midwife couldnt find heart tone. we were told later that day that baby has died. it is now a week later, and I am stil carrying my sweet baby. My body doenst know yet that baby has died. All in good time i know, and I will birth my precious angel and home, and then he or she will be laid to rest in a beautiful angel garden at a local cemetary.
I dont know when or if I wil want to have another baby. I am getting into looking into fost adopting. I am jsut so scared to have my heart broken again. NO mother should have to bury their baby. No matter how old the baby is. It is a pain that I wish no mother had to feel
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I just lose a baby on the 23rd. I was 9 weeks 2 days. This is the 1st miscarriage. We have 4 other kids Alexa 13, Ian 11,Ariel 7 and Adalynn 19 months. Iwent to the dr yesterday and everything has passed so we can try again. We re just going to leave it in Gods hands and let it happen when it does.
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Hugs to all of you who have lost!
Dh and I got pregnant easily with our first two. No problems. After ds we couldn't get pregnant. We very actively ttc for 18 months, including all kinds of fertility treatments (except IVF) with no pregnancy. So, we decided to adopt internationally. We were still not using any bc during that time. Well, an adoption process that should have taken 9 months to a year took 2 years. And, after spending $50,000, two trips to Russia and falling in love with our twin girls, we lost them. When we got home we went right into IVF. We produced 3 beautiful embryos and implanted all three. We got a BPF and then were told we would miscarry. Well, that "miscarraige" turned 6 months on May 6th. If all that wasn't enough, we found out April 18 that I was pregnant with an ectopic and my belly was full of blood. I was rushed into surgery. How we got pregnant while I was EBF and after 3.5 years of ttc, who knows.
I am healing well, but emotionally I am still a little bruised. That little baby was so wanted. Now we have no clue if we'll ever get pregnant again and if we do we will be worried about an ectopic. And we are having to prevent pregnancy right now which just seems crazy, but I understand why. In 2 or 3 months we are going to do an HSG to see if there's any tubal damage.
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I'm not ttc, but I thought I would share.
We had our first dd with no problems. Then I had a miscarriage at 9 weeks, then again at over 6 weeks, then lost our son due to a severe NTD at 20 weeks, then finally had our little one last September. That was a long hard road with lots of up and downs. We are having no more children as my body is trashed from being pregnant for so very long and I'm getting close to 40. I will never forget the feelings of those losses and if you ever need to talk, I'm here.
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Hi, I'm one of the host in a podcast about anime and videogames and I made a deal with one of my co-hosts that if I watched a really bad anime, he would have to watch yaoi.
I've asked our fans to give me options but I thought it would be nice to also ask the comunity of crunchyroll for some imput.
Oh, also, it doesn't have to be strictly of this past seasons, but the more recent, the better.
Looking for new animes to talk about
Dragon Crisis – It just got incredibly annoying at the end with the stereotypical angsty teenagers and a stupid ending.
La storia della Arcana Famiglia – I honestly thought I would like this when I first read up on it; unfortunately when I actually watched it, it just got from bad to worse. It seems a load of people don't like this anime lol.
Queen's Blade Rebellion - I liked Queen's Blade, but somehow the sequel just didn't quite make it.
Total Eclipse - Just SUCKED. Yes another anime with beautiful animation and horrible characters and story. Do yourself a favor and do not watch.
Saint Seiya Omega - I'll NEVER understand why they decided to make a spin off of Saint Seiya...But apparently they did and it's pretty bad.
But the worst anime I've watched this year (that ISN'T from this year but which I MUST mention) was Angel Beats, hands down. Just...UGH. Gorgeous animation, but honestly...Gorgeous animation doesn't make a classic series. There's a reason why a lot of people prefer older anime to new ones, and this is one of them. I'm going to get hate for this, but really...This is my opinion, so why bash it?
Okay...I had my list of anime out FROM THIS YEAR but for some reason people are ONLY pointing out that I mentioned Angel Beats. Uh, I mentioned that I know AB isn't from this year but I had to mention it anyway so...
And I also see people ARE hating on me for saying what I said about Angel Beats lol. Ah well. Not going to change my opinion.
I think a lot of modern animes have a big problem in making their series filled with tsundere/overly moe/ kawaii characters and are just choking the viewers with amazing animation so they think they're watching an amazing show.
Truth is most modern animes cannot even come close to competing with classics like Cowboy Bebop, or Evangellion (just for examples).
1% evil. 99% fangirl.
I get the impression that magicuser360 don't watch much anime.
Worst this season is probably:
- La Storia della Arcana Famigla (Poor animation, poor drawing, poor acting, main girl looks subpar and the way things progress is awkward and clumsy)
- Ebiten: Kouritsu Ebisugawa Koukou Tenmon-Bu (I haven't seen this anime, but it doesn't look good at all, and the story makes it clear that it is a bland harem anime)
One of the worst I've tried watching was "Zettai Karen Children". The manga is okay, but the anime is just ugh terribad. I forced myself through 3 episodes, and then I couldn't stand it any more.
Other than that, Dragon Crisis and Yumekui Merry was terrible.
Dragon Crisis was fine in the beginning, but at one point it just spiral downwards into a horrible pit of teenagers in full angst+hormones behaviour, and it was so frustrating watching it. Things didn't get better and the ending was a real "What? are you serious, get out of here!"
Yumekui Merry had potential, but it squandered it all away on an absolutely downright awful ending that made little to no sense and was just frustrating as hell to watch. I was originally going to rate it 7 out of 10 or so, but because the ending was so ..ugh, I rated it 4/10 (same as Dragon Crisis).
For reference, a rating of 5 means I managed to force myself through it, only because I wanted to see how it ended. A rating of 1 would be someone failing completely at animation and drawing and such..
This is beyond helpfull. I'll be sure to check them all out.
Thank you.
Looking for new animes to talk about
Angel Beats! aired in 2010........LOL.
Worst series so far this year 2012 imo are Ebiten: Kouritsu Ebisugawa Koukou Tenmon-Bu, Hiiro no Kakera, and To Heart: Dungeon Travelers (if that counts).
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I think they are all fine not enough for me to say worst as in worst.
but on a relative scale there is the worst anime for me is jinrui, families,
edit: also angels beats is bad? are you sure you watched angel beats? and not angel blade? the hentai?
angel blade was pretty bad yeah...
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Magicuser360 got the dates wrong AND has bad taste in anime.
La Storia della Arcana Famigla - watched it purposefully to give me perspective on the good anime I'm watching and it is doing the trick.
Phi Brain - (I think the first season started in 2011 but ended in 2012 so I'm counting it) take average shounen plot - throw in puzzles that seem complex but are never shown that way - add code-names of actual smart people and presto-chango you get a crappy anime.
crunchyroll finally did an award
For 2012
La Estoria della Famiglia d' Arcana...sorry i even have to change the title in order for it to make sense. I dropped it after episode 3 and I almost forgot Hiiro no Kakera
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Some of the above are, imho, disappointing anime, not full out really bad. If you're co-host has to be subjected to yaoi over this, you should have to watch something at least as terrible as 2012's Upotte.
And for the record, the worst anime I've subjected myself to was Burst Angel. I bought the Blu-Ray on a whim, and only got to the end of the series with help from a lot of beer. For full terrible effect, the OP must never be skipped.
My Top 5 (1 being the worst), leaving aside 3 minute series:
1. Black Rock Shooter
2. Kill Me Baby
3. Acchi Kocchi
4. Shining Hearts: Shiawase no Pan
5. Hiiro no Kakera
Ahh yes, I forgot about Shining Hearts: Shiawase no Pan. One of the worst series I've seen this year.
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Some of the above are, imho, disappointing anime, not full out really bad. If you're co-host has to be subjected to yaoi over this, you should have to watch something at least as terrible as 2012's Upotte.
And for the record, the worst anime I've subjected myself to was Burst Angel. I bought the Blu-Ray on a whim, and only got to the end of the series with help from a lot of beer. For full terrible effect, the OP must never be skipped.
Aahh..yeah, I had forgotten about upotte. Another of the co-host that I teamed up with to make the other guy watch yaoi, is doing the fan-service review and I'm pretty sure he's gonna do that one.
Looking for new animes to talk about
Most of them, because story and plots have turned into making most characters into cute kawaii bs.
I try not to watch bad anime unlike some people here apparently... lol
I don't really know any bad anime so far for 2012, are u just looking for newly released ones? So far I've only SOA, Total Eclipse, and Mysterious Girlfriend X, which all have been good - decent (so far)
sorry I'm no help but for fun's sake I hope you win the bet, It would be hilarious if you made him watch that xD
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by xshane666x » Fri Mar 08, 2013 9:33 pmI'm a bit perplexed by all the negativity being directed toward, "Oz, The Great and Powerful". I'm uncertain what people wanted or expected from this film, but what I got was a fun, magical, astonishing, trip into a realm of fantasy the same way that Victor Fleming's 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz, took my eager childhood eyes To a wideness not prior achieved.
If you walk in expecting Judy Garland to be reanimated in a musical tale, well, I dare say that you stay clear...but if you walk in with the same childhood vigor you once had, when heart and imagination were more important than death and taxes, well I'd be surprised if you left in sorrow or disdain.
I'm happy that I viewed this film and cannot wait until the Bluray lay at my feet waiting to view in the comfort of my home, where the welled tears don't quite diminish my manhood the way they do in public...and tears of happiness formed for me in the final scene.
I'm a Sam Raimi fan, and I found his direction fantastic. He did what Tim Burton used to for me, but Mr. Burton seems to have lost...He dared me to imagine and believe in magic.
Thanks Sam, I'm grateful...
by Lord Simian » Fri Mar 08, 2013 9:46 pm
Honest question: have we been directing negativity towards it?
by xshane666x » Fri Mar 08, 2013 9:53 pmNot here. I meant critics. My bad.
by Lord Simian » Fri Mar 08, 2013 9:54 pm
Gotcha. Carry on, then, sorry!
by e_galston » Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:13 pmI enjoyed it as well. I had a lot to compare it to, since i'm a huge fan of the musical and book for Wicked, and it met and exceeded my expectations. Still not a big fan of James Franco, but the rest of the cast was great. Only issue is every time Mila Kunis opened her mouth and spoke i heard Meg Griffen...
by xshane666x » Fri Mar 08, 2013 10:36 pmAgreed. Mila Kunis threw absolutely zero accent in...she sounded like she should be ordering a deli sub or asking out Kelso. If I had any gripe, her laziness was it (and I love her) but it wasn't enough to make me feel less for the film.
I did think it was funny that her sister had a British accent but she was...well, a green Mila Kunis haha
by misac » Tue Mar 12, 2013 11:11 amI really liked it as well. I haven't seen much of James Franco's work but I thought he did a good job.
I was having trouble believing that these actual powerful witches would be defeated/saved by Oz but the way it played out was very satisfying. They didn't even buy into his BS.
Favorite parts where little china dolls footsteps and when the witch is first reveal coming out of the flames. And the total Raimi moment in the balloon with the debris piercing the basket.
by eltopo » Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:08 pmI haven't seen the movie but I do love the books I read a ton of them as a kid (I feel like I read all the Baum books) I just wish they'd make a book that was closer to the source material it doesn't make sense to have the wizard as the hero considering every oz book has a female lead. But if this is meant to be more like the Judy Garland movie (which also wasn't all that close) I guess it's fine but the way I see they missed an opportunity to get into some of the other great oz character
by e_galston » Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:14 pm
from what i read, they focused on the Wizard because so many Fairytales have a female lead, and they wanted to do a fairytale with a male lead.
by eltopo » Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:28 pm
I mean I guess but if you wanted a fairy tale with a male lead (sidenote cuz you know there's just not enough fiction with male leads I guess?) why pick OZ? Feminine leads are a trademark of the series ?
by misac » Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:37 pmMaybe the next one. Aren't there plans to make more?
by e_galston » Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:38 pmdisney has been trying to do something with Oz for a while... And i'm sure they stayed away from the female character angle so they didn't get accused of stealing/copying Wicked (which has been in production movie wise for years, and is getting closer to a reality everyday (especially after Les Mis))
by e_galston » Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:39 pm
yep, they are already planning a sequel to take place AFTER "The Wizard of Oz"
by Lord Ice » Tue Mar 12, 2013 1:10 pm
Suppose Button Bright might be too pedo-homoerotic for them, so they choose James Franco for a male lead.
by IvCNuB4 » Mon Apr 08, 2013 9:28 amWe saw this last night. Very entertaining and held your interest through the entire thing. Franco hammed-up his role but didn't overdo it.
The stand-out characters were definitely the China Girl and Finley the flying monkey
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eddysnake wrote:Spangler wrote:The changes to Arya's story disappoints me.
Again, the new Mountain is not good. He's actually swimming in his own armor.
he does have a cool voice.
I think I've figured out that even though they have the bigger budget, sets, cast, crew, they haven't told the story as well as they did in season 1. Everything is here, I'm just not being emotionally drawn into as much as the first season, anyone else feeling this?
I don't feel like its the storytelling that has taken a hit, I think its the story. Its just not as interesting.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - For the second year in a row the MIT women's fencing team kicked off Northeast Fencing Conference (NFC) action with a 5-1 record. The Engineers defeated Boston University (22-5), Wellesley College (19-8), UMass-Amherst (21-6), host University of New Hampshire (21-6), and Sacred Heart University (14-13) before falling to Brandeis University (15-12). Cordelia Link paced the Cardinal and Gray's efforts with a 14-1 ledger.
Link's top mark helped guide the foil team to a 44-10 record as it swept BU and UMass-Amherst and also posted an 8-1 decision over UNH. Jenna Caldwell bolstered Tech's total with a tally of 15-2 while Lindley Graham went 11-6. Julia Hopkins registered a 2-1 performance as Shuchen Song won both of her bouts.
Powered by Molly Kozminsky's 16-2 ledger, the sabre squad compiled a 38-16 mark that featured a sweep of Wellesley and an 8-1 win over UNH. Elena Tatarchenko posted a record of 10-5 while Lauren Chilton finished at 11-6. Laura Evans rounded out the squad with a 1-3 outing.
The epee team picked up a pair of 6-3 victories over BU and UMass-Amherst en route to a 27-27 team total. Stephanie Shin led the charge with a 12-6 ledger, followed by Kirsten Hessler (10-8), Sophie Monahan (3-7), and Breanna Peterman (2-6).


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McIlroy facing Valhalla challenge
Rory McIlroy was not having it all his own way as he looked to claim a second major title in four weeks and third win in a row in the 96th US PGA Championship.
McIlroy took a one-shot lead into the third round at a soggy Valhalla which seemingly played into his hands, but the big-hitting world number one was struggling to reproduce the form which saw him claim the Open Championship at Royal Liverpool and a first WGC title on Sunday.
With six holes of his round remaining, the 25-year-old was tied for the lead with playing partner Jason Day and American pair Rickie Fowler and Ryan Palmer, with Jim Furyk, Bernd Wiesberger, Mikko Ilonen and Louis Oosthuizen all a shot back.
Rory McIlroy was unable to move clear of the field (AP)
McIlroy's fellow Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell felt the course was playing more like a regular PGA Tour event than a major championship, but the final pairing of McIlroy and Day were soon scrambling for dramatic pars.
Day hooked his tee shot on the second so badly that it cleared Floyd's Fork, the creek running down the left-hand side of the hole, and found deep grass on the far side.
Television commentator David Feherty initially looked to be searching for the ball in order for Day to work out where he could take a penalty drop, but the Australian then sent his caddie Colin Swatton to wade through the creek to assist.
When the ball was found in a good enough lie for Day to be able to play it, the 26-year-old then took his shoes and socks off as well and made the journey across to the other side.
Instructing Swatton to "throw me a pitching wedge", Day duly hacked out of the rough, pitched onto the green and holed from 12 feet for a remarkable par.
Two holes later it was McIlroy's turn to escape with a par after pulling his drive into a hazard on the par-four fourth, which had been reduced to 292 yards to allow players to try to drive the green.
After taking a drop McIlroy pitched to 11 feet and holed the putt, although he was joined in the lead by Day who was left with a tap-in birdie after missing from close range for an eagle.
Both players then made birdie on the fifth but McIlroy reclaimed the lead when Day bogeyed the sixth after a wild drive and the three-time major winner was two clear when he holed from five feet on the par-five seventh for birdie.
However, McIlroy duffed his chip from the edge of the eighth green to drop his first shot of the day and it looked like he would drop another when he had to play his second shot on the ninth with his feet in sand and his ball resting on the top of a fairway bunker.
But after his approach flew over the green, McIlroy hit an excellent chip to five feet and holed the putt and then holed from 11 feet on the par-five 10th to reclaim the lead.
Another duffed chip on the 12th meant that lead did not last long and a tense finish was on the cards.
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Liberace's former lover allegedly snubbed by Michael Douglas
Thorson carried on a six-year affair with the flamboyant entertainer until 1982, and he wrote about their controversial romance in his memoir Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace.
Producer Jerry Weintraub picked up the project in the hopes of adapting the book into a new movie and it is now in production, with Douglas playing the piano legend and Matt Damon starring as his much younger boyfriend Thorson.
In August (12) Thorson was diagnosed with advanced anal cancer, prompting him to reach out to the Oscar winner, who recently beat stage four throat cancer, for support, but his request was promptly shut down.
He tells the National Enquirer, "All I wanted to do was meet Michael and talk to him about my cancer. But I was bluntly told it would be impossible. That really hurt... Right now, I'm very scared... I don't know if I'll make it to the premiere in May (13)."
But Thorson admits he did get some sympathy from Weintraub: "About three months ago, I got one phone call from Jerry Weintraub when he found out that I had cancer. He said, 'I'm very sorry that you're going through cancer.'"


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WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department watchdog who detailed Internal Revenue Service mistreatment of tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status says he has no evidence the IRS also mishandled progressive groups' applications.
In a letter obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, the inspector general for tax administration, J. Russell George, acknowledged that the term "Progressives" appeared on a list of terms used by IRS screeners from 2010 to 2012 to look for applicants with potential problems that would merit close scrutiny.
But George said there was no evidence the IRS set aside progressive groups' applications because they appeared on that list.
George said his investigators have "multiple sources of information corroborating," including interviews with IRS employees, emails and other documents, that tea party groups' applications were set aside for care examinations.
But he added, "We found no indication in any of these other materials that "Progressives" was a term used to refer cases for scrutiny for political campaign intervention."
George's letter, dated Wednesday, was sent to Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan, top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee.
Levin is among Democrats who have complained that the report George released last month revealing IRS mistreatment of conservative groups unfairly focused on those groups and omitted mention of progressives.
Democrats also have criticized George for not disclosing the inclusion of progressives even though lawmakers asked him about it at hearings.
Levin wrote of "increasing evidence" that George's audit last month "was fundamentally flawed and that your handling of it has failed to meet the necessary test of objectivity and forthrightness."
Some progressive groups seeking tax-exempt status have complained about facing lengthy delays and detailed questions from the IRS.
It is unclear whether progressive groups faced the same extent of mistreatment as conservative organizations. Dozens of them ran into delays exceeding a year, and many received scores of detailed questions that officials have since said were overly intrusive, including demands for information about their donors.
The back-and-forth came as the IRS' acting commission readied for questions from Congress for the first time since revelations that progressives joined the tea party on a list of groups whose applications for tax-exempt status drew extra scrutiny.
Members of the House Ways and Means Committee planned to ask Danny Werfel about the report he issued Monday, six weeks after President Barack Obama named him to head the troubled agency. Werfel wrote that he found mismanagement but no purposeful wrongdoing at the IRS in a report that also pointed to the officials who have been replaced and other changes he has made.
The committee chairman, Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., said Wednesday the report didn't answer key questions Republicans have had about the IRS' screening of conservative groups.
"Who started it? Why was it allowed to go on for so long? Why were conservative groups targeted for their political beliefs?" Camp said.
Democrats seem determined to shift the focus to this week's disclosure that the term "Progressive" was also on the agency's watch lists.
IRS regulations allow tax-exempt social welfare organizations to engage in some political activity but it cannot be their primary mission. The agency must decide whether each applicant's activities meet those vague guidelines.
The IRS has been under withering fire since May 10, when an agency official acknowledged that it had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt designations for tough examinations. Until then, IRS officials had insisted that conservatives had not been singled out for such treatment.
Some Republicans have suggested that the focus on conservative groups came from the White House or other Obama allies.
There has been no evidence of that so far. Instead, according to investigators and testimony from IRS workers to congressional committees, workers in the agency's Cincinnati office that handled tax-exempt applications developed the lists to help them find groups that merited additional scrutiny.
Obama and members of both parties in Congress have said such targeting is inexcusable. At least five top officials, including former acting Commissioner Steven Miller, have been removed.
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Debunking The Logic In Favor Of Paywalls
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Marion Maneker over at the Big Money website wrote a piece entitled "The Weird Logic of Paywall Challengers." He attempts to show that the arguments used by those against paywalls are illogical. He also attempts to show that paywalls are not only a good idea but a necessity for news websites.
First, a little background. Some internet news sites are making people pay to view content. That's called a paywall. You can't view the content without paying. So far the attempts to implement paywalls have been complete failures. For example, when Newsday set up a paywall, only 35 people paid. After the Times instituted a paywall, its readership dropped by 2/3rds. And because those articles are not being indexed by Google (or Bing or Yahoo), they're essentially invisible to people on the web.
So what's Maneker arguments in favor of paywalls? What errors in logic have those against paywalls made? Let's go through his points.
His first point is that even if ad revenues are back, news outlets should diversify by charging anyway. He doesn't seem to get this, but as I explained above, paywalls kill off advertising by driving viewers and readers away. So Maneker's argument that news outlets should diversify by relying on both advertising and paywalls fails as it is self contradictory.
His second point is that news outlets charging "for content has always been part of its long-term strategy." He's absolutely right that newspapers have tended to charge for content. However, that was never done for profit. Profits always came from advertising, classifieds, and obituaries.
There were two reasons newspapers did charge. The first was to cover the costs of publishing. However, those costs no longer exist in the digital realm.
The second reason newspapers charged was to show advertisers how many actual readers they had. If a newspaper publisher simply gave away its papers, it could claim that millions of people are reading when in fact no one is reading. People paying for newspapers is a pretty good indication to advertisers that people are in fact reading. But in the digital realm news outlets do not need paying customers to tell advertisers how many unique people are reading. All that information can be tracked automatically in real time. Heck, in the digital realm news outlets can give specific information about page views and what ads are working and what ads are not.
His third point is that "central to any media strategy should be the idea of charging for some content." Has he never listened to broadcast radio? Has he never watched broadcast TV? Has he never used Google, Facebook, or Twitter? And despite being contradicted by legitimate business models, his third argument is circular. He's essentially arguing that news outlets should charge for content because they should charge for content. It only concludes its premise without telling us why.
Along with his third point he pulls the following assertion out of his ass, "Digital distribution should make content much cheaper--but it shouldn't make it free." Why shouldn't it be free? He never explains.
Hundreds of years ago the most efficient means to distribute news was to print it on paper and deliver it locally. Times changed. Radio came along and made delivering news in real time more efficient. But it still lacked the newspaper's depth. TV news had the same problem. But the internet does not. It has the efficiency, the immediacy, and the depth. Because the distribution costs are essentially zero, economically speaking, there is no reason why the cost of the content should not also be free.
If Maneker's piece is any indication, the pro-paywallers' dream of making us pay for news is a lost cause.


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WELLESLEY, Mass. – Junior Michelle Teplensky (Somers, N.Y.) was voted the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Field Hockey Defensive Player of the Week following an outstanding performance in MIT's 1-0 victory over Springfield College on Saturday. Her selection marks the second straight for the Engineers as senior Molly McShane (Lake Bluff, Ill.) was tabbed for the award last week.
Teplensky helped MIT contain the Pride in the midfield as it only generated three shots compared to 22 by the Engineers. In addition, she limited Springfield's leading scorer to just one shot on the day.
MIT kicks off a three-game home stand on Tuesday, Oct. 16 against NEWMAC foe Wheaton College.


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Humble leadership and the police service. (Scottish Institute for Policing Research http://www.sipr.ac.uk/downloads/Briefing6.pdf, 2009)SMITH, R., 2009. Humble leadership and the Police Service. SIPR Briefings. [online] 6. Available from: http://www.sipr.ac.uk/downloads/Briefing6.pdf [Accessed 23 November 2009]The concepts of 'Humble Leadership' and 'Leader Humility' are emerging as areas of interest in leadership studies and this briefing note is intended to highlight their potential relevance as a leadership style in the police ...


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As the 126th Inter-Academic League track and field championships unfolded last Saturday, Penn Charter was hoping that it would still be within striking distance of defending champ Malvern Prep going into the final event, the 4 x 400 meter relay. But before the Quakers' Penn Relays champion quartet could line up on the track, Malvern had nudged its lead up out of reach, with 68 points to PC's 60.
Charter won the final race, as expected, netting six points to finish with 66, but the Friars only needed a fourth-place showing to come away with 70 points in the standings. The Quakers, who were also the runner-up team in 2011, trailed Malvern 39-21 when the field events were completed at midday, and on the track PC was not able to close the gap as much as it hoped.
Haverford School's hurdlers and middle-distance men helped the Fords finish third with 39 points, and several strong efforts in the longer footraces were the foundation for a fourth-place performance for Germantown Academy (24 points), the host for the 2012 championships.
Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, third at the 2011 meet, faded to fifth with 21 points this time around, despite victories in the 1600 and 3200 meters by senior superstar Dustin Wilson. The Episcopal Academy girls did very well at the championships, but the EA boys almost disappeared from the radar screen, landing in sixth place with four points.
In the morning, Malvern made hay in the field events, led by senior Tom Pitt, who would win the league's George Greenwood Award for the highest individual point total at the championships. He won the high jump, long jump, and triple jump and later was third in the 100 meter dash. The only other team to reach double digits in the five field contests was PC (GA garnered six of its seven points via sophomore Matt Miller's victory in the pole vault). Charter junior Mike McGlinchey won the shot put, and overall the Quakers did a little better than expected in some events, and a bit worse in others.
"It didn't go exactly as I thought, but things sort of evened out and we were close to what I expected in the field portion," said Penn Charter's veteran coach, Steve Bonnie.
SCH, lacking in depth compared to past years, came away with five points from the field events, and a dozen of the remaining 16 points the Blue Devils scored came from Wilson's wins in the two longest footraces.
"My goal was just to win my two events," he said. "Even though we didn't have the best shot at winning the meet, we weren't going to come out here and just joke around. We wanted to compete, see what we could do, and get points for the team – that was really our objective."
In his final race in an Inter-Ac meet, the 3200, Wilson won by a half-a-minute. Earlier, in the 1600, he was happy to have a challenge from GA junior Ben Ritz, who was still on Wilson's shoulder at the end of the back straight on the final lap. The Columbia-bound senior pulled away after that to set a new meet record of four minutes, 18.17 seconds.
Penn Charter was trying to chip away at Malvern's lead, but the Quakers didn't score quite as well as anticipated in the hurdles and in the 400.
"It was mainly a number of little things up until the 800, and I don't know what happened there," related the Quakers' Bonnie. "The whole race was out-of-whack."
From the start, officials and coaches commented on the unusually slow pace in that two-lap contest. Haverford's Lucas Elek picked up speed during the second loop and was ahead by more than five meters heading down the home straight, but GA junior Max Haung-Hobbs treated Patriot fans to a gutsy finishing sprint and edged Elek at the line, 2:01.43 to 2:01.46. Charter, which had three of the five fastest times in qualifying, wound up with only three third-place points in the final, courtesy of sophomore Charlie Hoyt.
Malvern took fourth and fifth to also earn three meet points, and instead of making a significant dent in the Friars' lead, PC remained 15 points back, 62-47. The Quakers' talented junior sprinter, Daryl Worley, had already won the 100 and 400 meter races, and now he turned another first-place performance in the 200. However, Malvern runners came in second and fourth to match PC's six points.
In the second-to-last event, the 3200, Charter junior David Kotch and freshman Ben Szuhaj each ran a personal best to take second and third place, respectively. The Friars didn't score here, but they were still up 68-60, an insurmountable advantage with only the 4 x 400 remaining.
In the relay, PC won in 3:26.14 with Worley, junior classmates Sean Joseph and Brennan Mellor, and sophomore Corey Kelley, while Haverford was runner-up and SCH ran third in 3:35.10, with senior Dan Trulear, juniors Mac Concannon and Jamil Poole, and sophomore Graham Allen.
Despite a modest point total and a fifth-place finish, there were some bright spots for Springside Chestnut Hill, aside from the expected excellence of Wilson. There were PR's from Trulear and Poole in the 300 hurdles, and in the 110 hurdles from Poole and sophomore Frank Jackson, who finished fifth in the long jump. Concannon had a PR in the 400, and another junior, Drew Dowds, had a new personal best in the high jump, placing fourth.
"The numbers on our team were down this year, and it looks like that will be the case next year, as well," said Paul Hines, the Blue Devils' longtime coach. "We have to do some work at school and get more kids out for the team. We need to rebuild the kind of base we had for a number of years, which is to have guys hurdling and jumping, and scoring in multiple events."
Winners & Area Scorers
100 meters
1. PC Daryl Worley 11.21
4. PC James Biggs-Frazier 11.58
6. GA Earl Edwards 11.64
200 meters
1. PC Daryl Worley 22.27
5. GA Earl Edwards 23.10
400 meters
1. PC Daryl Worley 49.42
4. PC Brennan Mellor 51.10
6. PC Sean Joseph 51.87
800 meters
1. GA Max Huang-Hobbs 2:01.43
3. PC Charlie Hoyt 2:02.60
1600 meters
1. SCH Dustin Wilson 4:18.17
2. GA Ben Ritz 4:19.66
3. GA Sam Ritz 4:24.55
4. GA Nick Meloro 4:32.01
5. PC Tre Williams 4:34.29
3200 meters
1. SCH Dustin Wilson 9:36.46
2. PC David Kotch 10:06.02
3. PC Ben Szuhaj 10:06.89
5. GA Sam Ritz 10:22.52
6. PC Scott Mason 10:32.85
110 high hurdles
1. HS Geoff Bocobo 15.28
3. PC Austin Williams 15.54
6. SCH Frank Jackson 16.13
300 intermediate hurdles
1. MP Eric Purnell 39.45
3. PC Josh Cannon 40.78
5. SCH Dan Trulear 41.49
6. PC Austin Williams 42.02
High jump
1. MP Tom Pitt 6'6"
3. PC Austin Williams 6'1"
4. SCH Drew Dowds 5'11"
Long Jump
1. MP Tom Pitt 22'3.25"
3. PC Alex Palladino 20'9.5"
4. PC David Miller 20'5.5"
5. SCH Frank Jackson 19'11.25"
Pole vault
1. GA Matt Miller 12'0"
2. (tie) PC Bobby Wurtz 11'0"
2. (tie) PC Steve Miller 11'0"
Shot put
1. PC Mike McGlinchey 51'2"
4. SCH Chris Howard 45'5"
5. GA Keith Corliss 44'5.5"
Triple Jump
5. PC Ryan Burnett 40'8.75"


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The other day, my wife had her students write about their families. First, you will be glad to know, one of the first things that my too kind and loving wife discusses at parent-teacher conference is, "Look, I won't believe everything that your kids tell me about you; if you won't believe everything they tell you about me."
To get them going on the writing assignment, she had to give them more direction. "Write a paragraph about each person in your family. Try to describe them… like tell me what color their hair is or what their favorite food is."
A hand immediately shot up, "I don't know what color my mom's hair is... she always dyes it."
That brought about giggles and consensus from all the kids that they have no idea what color their mother's hair is. Except one girl explains you just have to look at their roots, "that's their real color."
Another boy declared, "My dad hates my mother's meatloaf. He fed it to our dog once when she wasn't looking."
"Yeah! My dad drinks coffee, but we aren't supposed to tell anybody. Can I put that in my story?"
One little boy, we'll call him Eric, who comes from a large family, handed in his paper. As my too kind and loving wife looked it over, she noticed that he had forgotten one of his siblings.
She inquired about it and he looked surprised, "Huh? Whadda ya know? You know you're right."
He took his paper and was about to go back to his desk to fix it but decided that the day was too nice and recess too short to worry about details like an extra sibling, so he turned back around and handed her the paper and said, "I don't really like Thomas anyway."
And with that scampered outside.
Most people, and especially kids, can spot a teacher a million miles away. If a kid is ever lost, they always come up to my too kind and loving wife and ask directions. When I walk by, little kids grab their mother's pant leg and look suspiciously at me out of the corner of their eye.
Little things are a dead give away that you are married to a teacher. While eating, I notice that she pushes my glass away from the edge of the table and watches carefully to make sure I don't hide my vegetables in my milk or feed them to Turbo.
When I finish eating and get up, grab my plate, rinse it, and put it in the dish washer, she grandly announces, "I like the way you did that." and continues, "Daniel, did you see how your father acted so big and rinsed his own plate?"
That's it! That is how you know if you are married to teacher. We went to Moab to see a movie for date night, and she about got me into a fight with a 300 pound gorilla a thick neck and a gold tooth.
Gorilla-man butted in front of us and she called out, "Excuse me... there are no cuts in this line!" I was already scrambling to give him my lunch money.
And just before we go into the movie, she announces "Does anyone need to go to the bathroom before the movie starts? We won't have anyone leaving the movie and disturbing everyone once the lights go out!"
Once one of the ladies decides she had better go, they all decide to go to the bathroom together. I decide to test the guys, just to see how comfortable they were with their feminine side. "Hey Bubba... want to go to the bathroom with me?" He avoided eye contact and shuffled away from me.
The movie we went to watch was "27 Dresses". A "romantic comedy", which is a code word for Chick-Flick! Nobody was wounded or shot, no helicopter crashed, nobody had to find a handy internet-café and hack into FBI headquarters. It all seemed so unbelievable.
Gorilla-man is squirming in his seat directly in front of us and she flips him with her index finger and firmly whispers, "Sit still! You are disturbing everybody."
Later, when Gorilla-Man sneezes, without thinking she hands him a tissue. And after the movie is finished and we are about to leave, she announces, "Movie is over...everybody pick up their mess and get in a single file line, first one with everything picked up gets to lead."
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The lineup of musical performers playing over three days from May 3 to May 5 was formally announced Thursday, Feb. 28, although much of the lineup had already been confirmed.
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Saturday headliner The Black Keys is also making their debut at the festival that began in the mid-1970s on a parking lot next to The Orpheum theater. The two other Saturday headliners are The Roots and ZZ Top.
The other Friday headliners are Hall and Oates and BassNectar, an electronic dance music act coming to Memphis as the festival expands into the genre with a new feature.
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class represented on stage this year includes Patti Smith and Public Enemy, who is in the 2013 Hall of Fame class.
The hip-hop trio marked its 25th anniversary in late 2012 with two albums.
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This is the start of my attempt at translating Chapter 02 of the Sanguo zhi, the Annals of Emperor Wen of Wei. A few things to note: First of all I'm a total novice in Classical Chinese, so no doubt I have made lots of errors. Especially the orders and decrees are difficult to make sense of. Secondly, I'm not, for now at least, translating Pei Songzhi's commentary, the main reason being the sheer length of it. So this will be a translation of Chen Shou only. Lastly the annal of a reigning emperor as codified by Sima Qian Ban Gu is essentially a court chronicle, so it is heavy on dates, omens, court appointments, decrees and other official buisness, and light on stirring narrative.
Book of Wei, Chapter 02
Annals of Emperor Wen
The Cultured [wén] August Emperor, taboo name Pi,[N1] courtesy name Zihuan, was the Heir-Apparent and son of Emperor Wu. In the 4th Year of Zhongping [188 AD], Winter, he was born in Qiao. In the 16th Year of Jian'an [211 AD], he became Commander of the Palace Gentlemen of the Five Officials [N2] and Assistant to the Imperial Chancellor. [N3] In the 22nd Year [of Jian'an, 217 AD], he was established Heir-Apparent to Wei. When Taizu[N4] collapsed [on 15 March 220 AD][N5], he inherited the rank of Imperial Chancellor and King of Wei. He honoured the Queen[N6] as Queen Dowager [N7], and changed the 25th Year of Jian'an to be the 1st Year of Yankang ["Perpetual Happiness"].[N8]
[N1]: A ruler's personal name was taboo and the character avoided by his subjects. Historians from later dynasties were not bound by this restriction, but tended to honour them anyway. For the rest of the chapter, Cao Pi is called first "the King" and then "the Emperor"
[N2]: 五官中郎將 wǔguān zhōng láng jiāng
[N3]: 副丞相 fù chéngxiàng
[N4]: Temple name of Cao Cao. He is also referred to by his posthumous titles, King Wu, later Emperor Wu.
[N5]: There were distinct rules for which word to use for a person's death depending on his rank. 崩 bēng, the verb used for the death of an emperor, has the basic meaning of a mountain collapse or cave in.
[N6]: 王后 wánghòu
[N7]: 王太后 wáng tàihòu
[N8]: Changing the reign title was the Emperor's prejogative. Emperor Xian had last changed it, to Jian'an, in 196 after his escape from Chang'an, and Cao Cao never had a new one proclaimed. Maybe to avoid the embarrasment of the other warlords not accepting the change?
In the 1st Year [of Yankang, 220AD], the 2nd Month, on renxu [6 April], used the Great Palace Grandee, [N9] Jia Xu [N10], as Grand Commandant [N11], the Secretary Grandee [N12], Hua Xin[N13], as Chancellor of State[N14], and the Great Judge[N15], Wang Lang[N16], as Secretary Grandee. Set up Cavaliers in Regular Attendance[N17] and Gentlemen-Attendants[N18], four people each. His eunuchs who were officials were not to obtain promotion beyond Prefect of the various Offices [署 shǔ]. There was a metal document compiling the order, stored in the Stone House.
[N9]大中大夫 dàzhōng dàfū
[N10] Jia Xu's biography is in SGZ10: http://kongming.net/novel/sgz/jiaxu.php
[N11] 太尉 tài wèi
[N12] 御史大夫 yùshǐ dàfū
[N13] Hua Xin's biography is in SGZ 13 (no translation)
[N14] 相國 xiāng guó
[N15] 大理 dà lǐ
[N16] Wang Lang's biography is also in SGZ 13 (also no translation)
[N17] 散騎常侍 sànqí chángshì
[N18] 侍郎 shìláng
Earlier, in Han's 5th Year of Xiping [176 AD], a yellow dragon was seen in Qiao. The Brilliantly Blessed Grandee[N19] Qiao Xuan asked the Prefect Grand Scribe[N20], Dan Yang: "Is this a good omen?" Yang said: "Its state later shall have a ruler prospering. Before 50 years, it shall be seen again. Heavenly affairs are regular phenomena, this is as it should be." Yin Deng of Neihuang [in Wei commandery] was silent [?] and recorded it. 45 years later [I.e in 220 AD, by inclusive counting], Deng was still alive. [?] In the 3rd Month, a yellow dragon was seen in Qiao. When Deng heard of it, he said: "The words of Dan Yang, they have now been verified!"
[N19]: 光祿大夫 guānglù dàfū
[N20]: 太史令 tàishǐ lìng. His responsibility was to record and interpret omens.
On jimao [23 April], used the General of the Van [N21], Xiahou Dun[N22], as Great General [N23]. The Huimo [N24], the Chanyu of Fuyu [N25], Yanqi[N26], the King of Yutian[N27], each and all dispatched envoys to offer presents.
[N21]: 前將軍 qián jiāngjūn
[N22]: Xiahou Dun's biography is in SGZ09: http://kongming.net/novel/sgz/xiahoudun.php
[N23]: 大將軍 dà jiàngjūn
[N24]: A north-eastern people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemaek
[N25]: A north-eastern state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buyeo
[N26]: A state in the western regions. Modern Karashar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karasahr
[N27]: A state in the western regions, also known as Khotan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Khotan
In Summer, the 4th Month, on dingsi [31 May], in Raoan county [in Bohai] they say a white pheasant was seen. On gengwu [13 June], the Great General, Xiahou Dun, passed away.
In the 5th Month, on the day wuyin [21 June], the Son of Heaven [i.e. the Han empeor] instructed the King to posthumously honour the August Grandfather, the Grand Commandant, [i.e. Cao Song] as the Grand King [N28] and the Lady Ms. Ding as the Grand Queen [N29], and enfeoffed the King's son Rui as Marquis of Martial Virtue.
[N28]: 太王 tài wáng
[N29]: 太王后 tài wánghòu
This month, mountain thieves of Fengyi, Zheng Gan and Wang Zhao, led the masses in surrender. Both were enfeoffed among the feudal lords. Huang Hua of Jiuquan, Zhang Jin of Zhangye, and others each seized the Grand Administrators [N30] to accordingly rebel. The Grand Administrator of Jincheng, Su Ze [N31], punished Jin and beheaded him. Hua surrendered.
[N30]: 太守 tàishǒu
[N31]: Su Ze's biography is in SGZ 16. (No translation)
In the 6th Month, on xinhai [24 July], put the troops in order in the eastern suburbs. On gengwu [12 August], followed with a southern expedition.
In Autumn, the 7th Month, on gengchen [22 August], an order said: "Xuanyuan [N32] had the discussions of the Bright Platform. [??] Fangxun [N33] had the enquiries of the Crossroad House. Both by these means broadly inquired into the below. [N34] The hundred officials have directed, their exertions according to their duties exhaustively regulating remonstrances, the generals leading and exhibiting the army regulations, the court scholars clarifying the standards and measurements, the shepherds protecting and reporting government affairs, the gentry [N35] examining the six arts. I want to combinedly inspect them." [??]
[N32]: Another name for the Yellow Emperor, lit. "Carriage axle"
[N33]: Another name for Emperor Yao
[N34]: I.e what was going on in their realms. These two precedents appear to be drawn from the Guanzi. http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature ... uanzi.html
[N35]: Lit. "red silk girdle"
Sun Quan[N36] dispatched envoys to offer presents. Shu's general Meng Da led the masses in surrender. The King of the Di of Wudu, Yang Pu, led his tribe in adhering to the interior, residing in Hanyang commandery. On jiawu [5 September], the army lodged in Qiao. A great banquet for the Six Armies and the elders of the hundred families of Qiao to the east of the town.
[N36]: Sun Quan's biography is in SGZ Wu 2: http://web.archive.org/web/200504190736 ... unquan.htm
In the 8th month, in Shiyi county [in Changshan] they say phoenixes assembled.
In Winter, the [10]th Month, on guimao [13 November][N37], an order said: "When the various generals conquers and subjugates, soldiers who die and perish are not gathered and collected. I greatly mourn them. Their reporting commanderies and states to give coffins for storing for funeral collections, sending and delivering [them] to their homes, officials to be furnishing worship." On bingwu [16 November], moved to arrive at Quli.
[N37]: The text actually has the 11th Month, but this is an obvious error.
The Han Emperor due to the masses' hopes being with Wei consequently summoned the multitude of excellencies, nobles and scholars, and reported and sacrificed to the Exalted Temple. He sent the Acting Secretary Grandee Zhang Yin, Holding the Tally [N38], to offer the imperial signet and seal to abdicate the throne. The tablet said: "Discuss this with the King of Wei: In antiquity Emperor Yao abdicated the throne to Shun of Yu. Shun likewise accordingly instructed Yu. Heaven's instructions are not everlasting [N39], but reverts to [those?] having virtue. The Way of the Han is in decline, the generations have lost their order, descending to reach Our body, greatly confusing this dim-wit [??], a multitude of fiends indulge in rebellion. Inside, the house is upside down. [We] relied on King Wu's martial spirit, who aided in these difficulties in the four quarters, pondered the clarifying of the region of the Xia [i.e. China][??], accordingly protecting and soothing Our ancestral temple. How will I, the single person, obtain the government, so that the Nine Clothes truly accept its favours? [??] Now the King respectfully inherited the former thread [i.e. his ancestors' profession], brilliant in his virtue, restoring the great profession of the civil and martial, bright is your experience's vast flame. [??] The August Ling surrendered to omens, people and spirits announced and summoned, giving birth only to the bright collection, the regiments bestow Our instructions. [??] All say you to consider overcoming uniting in Shun of Yu, employing and leading my canons of Tang[N40], respectfully yielding to you the throne. [??] Oh! Heaven's complete fortune is in your body [N41], consent to hold its midst, Heaven's blessing to the eternal end. [??] Your Lordship respect and obey the great rites, host now the ten thousand states, to accordingly reverently inherit Heaven's instructions. [??]"
[N38]: 持節 chí jié. This honour conferred executive authority.
[N39]: Quoting from the Announcement to Kang, the Book of Documents
[N40]: Tang was the home state of Emperor Yao
[N41]: Quoting from Shun's abdication speech in the Counsels of the Great Yu, the Book of Documents.
Thereupon had an altar built in Fanyang[N42]. On gengwu [10 December][N43], the King mounted the altar and assumed the eastern steps [i.e. the imperial throne]. The hundred officials accompanied the throne. The affair concluded, he descended the altar, observed the beacon, completed the rites and returned. He changed Yankang to be Huangchu ["Yellow Beginnings"][N44]. A great amnesty.
[N42]: A village in Yingchuan commandery's Yingyin county.
[N43]: Some sources dates it to the next day, 11 December. Fang, p. 38
[N44]: Obviously name of the new reign title was linked to the yellow dragon omen reported under the 3rd Month above.
In the 1st Year of Huangchu, the 11th Month, on guiyou [13 December], used Henei's Shanyang with a district of ten thousand households to offer the Han Emperor as the Duchy of Shanyang [N45], [with the privileges of] following the Han calendar, to use the rites of the Son of Heaven for the suburban sacrifices, in letters to the authorities not to call himself subject, when the capital city have affairs at the grand temple to send him the meat. Enfeoffed the Duke's four sons to be among the feudal lords.
[N45]: The Duchy of Shanyang went on to outlast the state of Wei, the last Duke was killed in the summer of 307 during the breakdown of the Western Jin.
Posthumously honoured the August Grandfather, the Grand King, as the Grand August Emperor, the late Martial King as the Martial August Emperor. Honoured the Queen Dowager as August Empress Dowager. Bestowed on the males of the population one grade, on father's heirs, the filial and brotherly, and those able in farming, two grades. Used Han's various marquises and kings as Marquises who Venerate Virtue, the feudal lords as Marquises Within the Passes. Used Yingyin's Fanyang village to be Fanchang county. Fiefs and ranks were increased in position each according to merit. In the commanderies, states, counties, and towns there were many changes and alterations. Furthermore conferred on the Chanyu of the Southern Xiongnu, Huchuquan, the Wei imperial signet and ribbon. Bestowed green covered chariot, riding cart, precious sword and jade disk.
In the 12th Month, started to build the Luoyang palaces. On wuwu [27 January 221 AD], favoured [i.e went to] Luoyang.
In this year the Colonel of the Chang River [Regiment], Dai Ling, remonstrated and did not act properly several times when shooting and hunting. [??] The Emperor was greatly angered. For the mortal crime Ling was demoted one rank.


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