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Sunday, March 26, 2017
Poetic Words and Their Translation
I found a site where poetry in Spanish is translated. This site is found at www.spanishpoems.blogspot.com There are various poems and the translations are written below them. There are some interesting activities you can do with these poems. First of all, read the poems in Spanish. Can you understand the gist of the poems without the translation? See how much you can understand by reading the poem in Spanish. Then read the translation and see if you are right. If it is too difficult, try to see if you can understand some of the words instead. Were you able to define the words? Another thing you can do is focus on the words that poets use in poetry. These are called poetic words. Write down the words separately in a column on a piece of paper. Look at the English translation and see if you can learn the meaning of the words. Try to memorize a few of them. You may not be able to memorize all of them, but collecting the words may help you focus on them. You can also write the poetic words down on paper and cut them out individually. Arrange them later on a piece of paper and read them. Can you remember the meanings? Working with poetic words and their meanings will help to give you a little bit of experience in translation. You will get a feel of how people work with words in two different languages. If you get the chance, write the words and their meaning next to them in a notebook and title them "poetic words." You will have a wonderful collection of Spanish words and appreciate their beauty not only in English but in Spanish.
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Sunday, February 26, 2017
Treasures in Print
Another way to learn Spanish is to delve into print. Gather some catalogs or magazines and find photos that really grab your attention. Find objects or words in the photos and ads. Label the words and objects with the Spanish word for them. Use post - it notes to label the photo or write the words on a separate piece of paper or in a notebook. Collect as many words as you can. Another thing you can do is ask what is going on in the picture. Is there a story behind it? What is the model doing in the photograph? What are the objects doing? What are the words saying? You can also write a story using the words you have labeled and collected. Write a small paragraph in Spanish using the words you have collected. Print has so much to offer. There's a lot going on in the photos that can teach you. Collect as many photos as you can and put them in a folder. Later, you can do this same activity with the rest of the photographs. Not only are you increasing your print literacy, you are getting familiar with the content you are researching. Don't pass over print. It is an amazing medium for young and old.
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Thursday, January 26, 2017
I just visited the site for the newspaper "La Prensa Grafica." I made a beeline to the short poll they have on the front page. I often go to it to see what the subject matter is. It is short and sweet and always about a new topic. I recommend taking the poll. You not only practice reading the questions, but you get practice reading the words and trying to translate them in your head. That develops marvelous skills. If you don't get the words, you can always look for clues in the articles or go find a dictionary. You can also use the internet to look up a word or phrase. Today, they focused on the words "espionaje" and "prontitud." You also get statistics in numerals, so you can practice the numbers in Spanish. You can practice saying the numbers and practice the percents. Visiting a newspaper's poll is a very fast way of keeping up your Spanish. Try to visit different ones in different papers today. It's a great way to stay informed on matters in Spanish.
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Monday, December 26, 2016
I meet very outgoing people that want to only learn how to speak Spanish to others. I am more of a bookish sort. I like to spend time learning Spanish from books, newspapers, or even the internet. I find that in order to speak Spanish, you need exposure to print material. If you learn a word and put it in a sentence, you can also use it in conversations. There are people that want to bypass the whole learning process and only speak colloquial Spanish. That is understandable. It takes time to sit and learn it. If you're an outgoing sort, you want to practice it more with outsiders. You want to be fluent in speaking Spanish. I once met someone that only wanted to practice conversations in Spanish. He also wanted to find an interpreter to go abroad with him for business. He didn't seem to have a whole lot of time to study Spanish. So there is the problem with time. I would say to practice patience when it comes to learning Spanish. Learning Spanish by yourself or listening to conversations on television will definitely help you get acclimated to Spanish. Practicing with another person or other people would solidify it. It takes time to learn. No matter if you bypass the studying process and go straight to conversations, you still need time to perfect it. You can loosen your tongue and practice speaking it. People may be patient to help you correct your mistakes. So you can learn to speak fluently in person with others. No matter which way you decide to tackle Spanish, it's the motivation that counts. Don't lose your interest in learning it. I hope you find the time in the New Year to practice Spanish or practice conversations. Happy learning!
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Saturday, November 26, 2016
Libraries and Conversations
If you don't know already, this blog is for people that are trying to learn Spanish alone. I call it solitary Spanish. I've thought of three other ideas to get you exposed to Spanish when it is difficult to do so. One idea is to start a Spanish library. Once I went into a store that had all music in Spanish. What if you could go to a store that carried items in Spanish? It would mean buying and collecting books in Spanish. It would be a great hobby and keep information at hand. Just make some room on your shelves for the items. Another idea is to write out conversations in Spanish on paper. Choose words and phrases that you need to practice. One example is a friend of mine that keeps getting "buenas noches" wrong. He keeps saying "buenos noches." I would encourage him to write out a conversation with the words in it and read the lines. It would be like practicing a script. Yet another idea is to choose a paragraph written in Spanish. Write the sentences out separately in sentence form and number the sentences. This gets you close enough to the paragraph to see how it is constructed. It helps you to see how the sentences are constructed too. You can practice the sentences separately. It will help you get more comfortable with the paragraph itself. Try it! You'll have the mechanics of Spanish down after working with a number of paragraphs in this way. I hope you like these ideas and use them when you are playing Spanish solitaire.
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Notes and Podcasts
I found a couple of sites that use podcasts to teach Spanish. So I thought I would share them with you. One of them is on the subject of the greeting "que tal." That you can listen to on the blog, myspanishnotes.blogspot.com The other podcasts are on the site notesinspanish.com You don't need books or paper. All you need is a listening ear. A couple, Ben and Marina, take you through the podcasts. They have intermediate to advanced listening levels. You can find this couple on youtube also. Just do a search for "Ben Curtis." If you feel like taking notes, no one can stop you. I would take notes when listening to new material. That way you have concrete matter with which to handle. You can take notes when listening to "noticias" (news) or to telenovelas. You can take notes while reading the "noticias" too. If you hear snatches of Spanish conversations you don't understand, take notes about them and ask people later about what it all means. An example is that of an online friend of mine. He kept hearing the word "donde" frequently and never knew what it meant. He found out from me that it means "where." I hope you like podcasts and news and learn Spanish from them. Jot down all your notes and study them later.
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
Word Bank
Want to create a word bank for Spanish words? All you need is a box such as a shoe box or other box, a pair of scissors, and paper. Collect words you have recently learned and write them on paper. Cut them up and put them in the box. You can inspect it monthly to see how many words you have learned. You can also cut up words you see in a newspaper. Keep two columns titled, "words I know" and "words I don't know." Choose words you know and write them on paper. You can make it an activity to learn the words you don't know and eventually add them to the word bank. Keep a tally of how many words you learn in a month. It will be exciting to see your progress each month. Saving words will become a natural habit, and you will be surprised at how much you can really learn.
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Friday, August 26, 2016
Sea of Words
A pagragraph is like a sea of words. It's a rectangular block of words that are mixed with regular words along with articles, prepositions, adverbs, pronouns, etc Imagine that you are diving into the paragraph looking for words. How many of them do you know? How many don't you know? Choose the words that are chunky, not the little ones that cement the other words in place. Choose a Spanish book or a newspaper. Look at a paragraph and pretend it's a sea and you're diving for words. It will be interesting to put them in columns titled, "Words I Know" and "Words I Don't Know." Take the words you don't know and go to the web and type in "Sentence Maker Spanish." When you get the page of the sentence maker, type in the words you don't know one at a time. Can you figure out what the word means from the sentence that is given? Use the other words in the sentence to give you clues. This is an interesting way to get close to words and paragraphs. It will help you pay attention to detail and to focus. Sentences are also like beads. The words are strung together in order. The way the writer puts the words together is creative and artistic. You can also create your own sentences with the new words you discover. Find a sea and dive in! You'll love discovering new words.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Mystery Words
I try to go to places where I will find Spanish words I don't know. Today, I read passages from the Holy Bible in Spanish. There were a lot of words there that I didn't know. So everything was new to me. The words were like little mysteries I had to solve. What is this word? What does it mean? Also, there was the satisfaction of finding out and knowing what the words meant. I looked in the Book of Proverbs which is chock full of these mystery words. Two words I really liked were "colinas" and "sabiduria." Another place you can find new words in Spanish is in menus at restaurants. The meal itself is a mystery, because you don't yet know what the words mean. When you order the food, then you know what the words or phrases meant to say. You can also ask the waiter or waitress to explain the words in the menu. That is a great way to immerse yourself in the language. Mystery words, then, are something you can always look at when you are anywhere on the globe. I want to look at travel magazines in Spanish or any other magazines in Spanish. They would be chock full of new mystery words also. I hope I have piqued your interest in finding mystery words to solve. You get to be a detective and solve a whole lot of cases this way. Remember every new word is a mystery to solve.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Give Spanish A Listen
New Spanish listeners often think that Spanish is spoken too rapidly. Spanish speakers do speak quickly. It is difficult to hear the words individually within the spoken sentences. Here are some ways you can get used to listening to Spanish. It is not enough to read, write, or speak Spanish. One has to listen to it to get used to the speed. It takes time to get used to it. You can choose an article from a newspaper or write a paragraph in Spanish. Record yourself reading the article. Read it fast. Then read it slowly. Practice listening to what is being said. This will also give your tongue practice in pronouncing Spanish words. You will also learn the structure of the sentences and phrases. It will become more familiar to you. Another thing you can do is listen to dialogue in telenovelas. At first, you might think they are speaking too quickly. Later, you get used to the speed, and you can pick out words and phrases they are using. You can write down some of the sentences they speak and practice learning them on your own time. Listening to Spanish is just as important as reading and writing. It will develop your ability to have conversations in Spanish. So give Spanish a listen. You'll have a great time following Spanish in this way.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior Elizabeth Phillips (Anchorage, Alaska) of the MIT rifle team was recently recognized by the Mid Atlantic Rifle Conference (MAC) as its Air Rifle Shooter of the Month for October. It is the first MAC Shooter of the Month award for Phillips during her career and the first for an Engineer since January of 2009.
Phillips has had an outstanding season as a senior, leading the team with her averages in both air rifle and small bore. In two matches in October she averaged 570.5 in air rifle, taking top individual honors in both matches. She has since raised her scores, including tying the MIT record with a 587 in November against SUNY Maritime. Her record-tying individual score also led the way for the Engineers to break the school record for a team air rifle score with a 2,264. A MAC All-Academic performer last season, Phillips is currently ranked fourth in the conference in air rifle average.


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Not sure how many of you guys get Autoweek, but the new issue has a story on the new Ferrari F12, which is the best looking F car I've seen in a very, very long time.
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What do you think President Obama would have to say about a huge American company that earned a whopping $7.6 billion last year and didn't pay a penny in taxes to Uncle Sam?
What would the president say on the stump if he could single this company out as an evil outsourcer, since nearly two-thirds of its employees work overseas?
What if this company was sitting on $30 billion in cash and securities, rather than using that money to hire US workers?
What if, instead of paying taxes, this company gave out more than $300 million last year in bonuses?
Surely such a company would be made an example of before the American electorate, right?
No. In fact, dead wrong.
That company is General Motors, and it has remarkably become the centerpiece of the Obama pitch for a second term.
How so? Well, here's the Obama economic plan as outlined last week in a Colorado speech: "I believe in American workers," Obama told the crowd. ". . . And now the American auto industry has come roaring back, and GM is number 1 again. . . . I want to do the same thing with manufacturing jobs — not just in the auto industry, but in every industry."
Really? If GM were truly so successful why are it and its finance arm (once GMAC, but now known as Ally) two ot the few companies that haven't fully paid back their billions in TARP loans?
Why has its stock fallen 38 percent since its vaunted return in late 2010, while the S&P 500 has risen by about 8 percent? Why is GM losing market share this year while its Japanese competitors and even Chrysler (you know, the one the Obama administration let be sold to an Italian company) are actually the ones "roaring back"?
Yet GM is the template on which Obama wants to model the future of our economy — in "every industry."
Looked through that prism, it's easy to understand why Team Obama thinks GM does indeed make the perfect engine — an engine that takes billions from the taxpayers and redistributes it to tens of thousands of union employees.
As GM goes, so goes the nation? That's the Obama mantra. What we desperately need is a president who forgets that old saw and tries to replicate the remarkable success of companies such as Apple instead.


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e4rat stands for e4 'reduced access time' (ext4 file system only) and is a project by Andreas Rid and Gundolf Kiefer. The e4rat range of tools are comprised of e4rat-collect, e4rat-realloc and e4rat-preload.
Current version is 0.2.1
- 1 Process
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- 3 Getting it to work
- 4 e4rat with different init system, e.g. systemd
- 5 Bootchart
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If you look at a classical bootchart you will notice that neither disk nor CPU are utilized fully during the boot process. e4rat changes this to make full use of both disk and CPU during boot process and thus reduce boot time drastically. It consists of three stages:
- e4rat-collect - collect files for a specified time (default 120 seconds but this can be adjusted)
- e4rat-realloc - reallocate files
- e4rat-preload - preload them
Who benefits, who does not
e4rat has proven to be extremely effective for typical single user set-ups which boot straight into X, perhaps even with a number of programs open. If you have a server set-up and boot only into the CLI your boot time decrease may not be as drastic. Users of SSD drives do not benefit because there are no moving parts and thus (almost) no disk latency - Ureadahead might be worth looking at.
It is always better to be safe than sorry. Just make backup if you cannot afford to lose data on your partition.
Install e4rat from the Official Repositories.
Getting it to work
Now for the nitty-gritty:
To have e4rat collect a list of files you will need to append
init=/sbin/e4rat-collect to your kernel parameters.For example:
kernel /vmlinuz0linux root=/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH init=/sbin/e4rat-collect ro 5
This will only have to be done once so you may prefer to append this command on the grub command line itself.
Upon booting e4rat-collect will watch your system for a default of 120 seconds. So if you boot, log into X, open your favourite browser and email client all within 2 minutes, every one of those activities is logged. To change the default of 120 seconds edit /etc/e4rat.conf. To manually stop e4rat-collect type:
e4rat-collect -k
pkill e4rat-collect
Upon successful boot and after having waited the allotted time you should see the following file: /var/lib/e4rat/startup.log
Do not forget to remove the e4rat-collect command from your boot loader configuration file (not necessary if you inserted it on the grub command line).
For the reallocation process change to init 1
sudo init 1
Log in as root and run:
e4rat-realloc /var/lib/e4rat/startup.log
This can take a while depending on how many files you have in your startup.log file.
init=/sbin/e4rat-preload permanently to your kernel parameters.
Alternative: e4rat-preload-lite
An alternative preload binary has been developed by jlindgren, it saves a few extra seconds from your boot time.
The savings come from
- using pure C with no external library dependencies, which drops the number of linked .so files from 22 to 3
Note: Current [0.2.2] version of e4rat-preload is linked against 5 .so libraries, including libc, libm, libpthread ! So there is not much of a difference here !
- preloading only the first 100 files (both inodes and file contents) before starting /sbin/init, then continuing to load the remaining files in parallel with the normal boot sequence.
You can install e4rat-preload-liteAUR from the AUR.
Append (or replace)
init=/usr/sbin/e4rat-preload-lite permanently to your kernel parameters. Reboot and enjoy.
e4rat with different init system, e.g. systemd
e4rat-collect defaults to replacing itself with /sbin/init upon completion. If you need to specify another process with PID 1, such as /bin/systemd, you can change this in /etc/e4rat.conf by setting the "init" parameter:
init /bin/systemd
This allows to launch both e4rat-preload and bootchart in the same boot sequence.
Note: this has not worked for and is still in development - any suggestions welcome
You will see a noticeable improvement but nothing can beat a nice Bootchart. Have it run before and after e4rat installation and gawk at the difference.
bootchart 0.9-9
This version of bootchart automatically stops logging as soon as Display Manager comes up. Supposedly the following overrides that and continues logging but it does not work for me:
To continue logging adjust your /etc/bootchartd.conf as follows:
To stop it manually type:
~# bootchartd stop
To run both e4rat-preload and bootchart append the following to your grub kernel line:
init=/sbin/bootchartd bootchart_init=/sbin/e4rat-preload
To get bootchart2 working together with e4rat edit /sbin/bootchartd and replace the line where it says
This will allow you to measure your boot time with the fine informations that Bootchart2 provides.
It's easy to set up when to stop bootchart2 (on opposite to bootchat) by editing its configuration file /etc/bootchartd.conf. Simply adjust the line
EXIT_PROC="kdm_greet xterm konsole gnome-terminal metacity mutter compiz ldm icewm-session enlightenment"
with any program you want Bootchart2 stop logging when it launches, or rather left it empty for logging to be stopped manually.
If things do not work you may want to try the following.
startup.log is not created
- comment out auditd from your rc.conf
- check the following for any hints
dmesg | grep e4rat
- try to increase verbosity and loglevel to 31 in your e4rat.conf
e4rat erroneously reports an ext2 files system
rootfstype=ext4 to kernel parameters from your bootloader.
/var/lib/e4rat/startup.log is not accessible
- this suggests that you have /var on a separate partition which is not yet mounted during boot. You need move your startup.log to an accessible partition (/etc/e4rat/ is just fine) and adjust your /etc/e4rat.conf to reflect this change:
startup_log_file /etc/e4rat/startup.log
Remove annoying message that mess up boot message
If you are annoyed by the e4rat-preload message during boot, decrease loglevel to 1 in /etc/e4rat.conf


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What is Disaster Recovery?
vCloud Hybrid Service—Disaster Recovery is a new RaaS offering owned and operated by VMware, built on vSphere Replication and vCloud Hybrid Service—a hybrid cloud platform for infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Together, these components form a straightforward service-oriented approach to extending disaster recovery capabilities and protection coverage to any business or mission-critical application running in a vSphere virtual environment.
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The Lasik operation can be a wonderful, life-changing alternative for many people whose vision is less than ideal. There are a number of different kinds of Lasik operations now offered, from the original and well recorded treatment to Lasik treatments finished with three dimensional wavefronts, or done entirely with lasers. Each of these variations of the Lasik treatment should be discussed with the physician that is to carry out the operation.
Like any surgical treatment, Lasik does have the capacity for side effects.
Often checking out the scary stories of the results of a Lasik procedure can deter individuals from seriously thinking about such a choice. It is also true that the large numbers of individuals who have a effective, trouble-free Lasik surgical treatment tend not to report a long and comprehensive story of their experience, unlike those that have experienced trouble afterward.
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More than one million Lasik treatments are carried out in the US every year, according to the FDA. This arm of the national government has actually built up the following statistics for the most common negative effects of the Lasik procedure. These stats will also vary by YOURURL.com the physician performing the surgery, so ensure to obtain as much info on the potential Lasik physician as possible.
After Lasik surgery, 1.7 percent of patients experience some glare or sensitivity to light after the operation. This differs by patient, however this level of sensitivity is especially noticeable when taking a look at a brilliant light, such as a streetlight when strolling in the evening, or other strong light and dark contrast. Another light associated side effect is a halo around a light, and this takes place in 3.5 percent of Lasik patients.
The brand-new, remedied vision can be discovered quickly by some Lasik patients, in as low as a few hours after surgery. Most clients that have undergone the Lasik treatment find the change is irreversible within a couple of days. In 2.6 percent of clients that have actually had a Lasik treatment done, there is relentless visual variation within a minimum of a part of their sphere of vision.
Finally, some patients do not get a fully fixed sphere of vision after their Lasik procedure. This happens with a small number of clients, and the FDA stats are that just 3 percent of patients have this impact. In check out this site all or nearly all cases, the doctor in charge will perform an additional Lasik treatment to enhance this.
This detailing of the significant irreversible adverse effects of the Lasik treatment should put any personal horror stories into point of view. Notification that none of the percentages are above 3 percent, and this need to bring convenience to many potential Lasik clients. It should likewise inspire them to look thoroughly at the Lasik doctor's individual record.
There are numerous various types of Lasik operations now readily available, from the original and well recorded treatment to Lasik treatments done with three dimensional wavefronts, or done entirely with lasers. It is good to know what the possible side impacts of the Lasik treatment are, and likewise the probability that one of these side results will occur for a particular client. Most patients that have undergone the Lasik procedure discover the modification is permanent within a couple of days. Some clients do not get a fully fixed sphere of vision after their Lasik treatment.
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Residents of Memorial Hospital's Personal Care Home in Towanda decided to make an impact on their community by collecting donations for the Endless Mountains Pregnancy Care Center and the Bradford County Humane Society. They collected generous donations of diapers, baby wipes, toys, blankets for animals and babies, dog and cat food and treats.
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On March 29th Google officially began accepting applications from students for Google Summer of Code 2010, which the Honeynet Project is very exicted to be participating in again this year as a mentoring organisation. We've recently updated our project ideas page and mentor information and students have until 19:00 UTC on Friday April 9th to apply (you can either chose one of our ideas or propose your own).
If you are interested in applying to be a student and you haven't already said hello on #gsoc-honeynet on irc.freenode.net then please pop by if you have any questions. Most people find speaking to a project mentor before they apply helps them understand more about what is required to write a good application and we are always happy to answer questions (although please remember that since our members come from chapters all round the world it might take a few hours for someone to respond.
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Matt Jones is the online sports director for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. A double graduate of the University of Arkansas, he is a member of the Football Writers Association of America and National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, and voter for the Heisman Trophy.
Bielema introduced as Arkansas head coach
NWA Media/MICHAEL WOODS --12/05/2012-- Bret Bielema, the new University of Arkansas head football coach, speaks to the media during a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
FAYETTEVILLE Nearly a quarter-century after leaving his parents' hog farm, Bret Bielema arrived in hog heaven Wednesday.
Bielema and his wife, Jen, were introduced in front of hundreds of fans and media at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium. He referenced growing up in the midwest several times during a humor-filled news conference, saying his childhood on an Illinois farm shaped the tough-nosed mentality his teams reflect on a football field.
"Just to clarify, that was my first public pig sooie," Bielema said. "I did it from the age of 4 to 18, but my only partners were pigs.
"Today is an opportunity to chase a dream."
Bielema was hired Tuesday after spending seven seasons as head coach at Wisconsin. He led the Badgers to a 68-24 record and three consecutive Big Ten championships.
Wisconsin (8-5) will face Stanford in the Rose Bowl next month. Bielema said he will not coach in that game.
Bielema's hiring signifies the end of a turbulent year at Arkansas. He is the 32nd head coach in school history, but the third in less than eight months.
After leading the Razorbacks to a school-record 11 wins last season, Bobby Petrino was fired in April when it was discovered he hired a woman to the football staff with whom he had an affair. John L. Smith was hired to an interim basis, but the Razorbacks never reached their preseason No. 10 potential, finishing the season 4-8.
"I can't wait to stand in front of you and be the favorite," Bielema said. "Right now we're going to embrace being the underdog. We're going to throw two arms around it, we're gonna kiss is and make it feel good.
"I'm not going to promise you anything. I will tell you I'm here because I want to give you something you've never had."
Bielema signed a 6-year contract with Arkansas worth $3.2 million annually. According to an adjusted USA Today survey, he will be the 10th-highest paid coach in college football.
UA athletics director Jeff Long said Bielema's on-field success and academic success stood out during the coaching search. Wisconsin's football team had an Academic Progress Rate score of 975 during the last reporting period - 45 points above the national benchmark.
"I was looking for someone who shared the passion for success of fans, embraces high expectations and leads with honesty, integrity and class," Long said.
Long said Bielema reached out to him following the Petrino firing with a handwritten note of encouragement. Bielema was one four candidates Long said he interviewed face-to-face for the Arkansas opening, but declined to mention the names of the others.
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By Lou Mancinelli
For Germantown resident, drug and alcohol counselor, preacher and gospel rapper Laverne Hoffler-Duckworth, music has been an instrument of self-improvement. It's music that inspired Duckworth to return to and finish college, and it's through songs the rapper encourages others and shares her story of overcoming
This August, Hoffler-Duckworth, whose professional name is Blessed Noble, will release "Changed," her first full-length gospel album, recorded this year. Though Blessed Noble brought her gospel rap to numerous churches through New York, Jersey, Maryland and Delaware in the late 90s into the early 2000s, where she preached, rapped and spread her message to crowds, she's been off the circuit for almost eight years.
That's because Blessed Noble could not afford to return to finish her final year of studies at Philadelphia Biblical University in Langhorne (formerly Philadelphia College of Bible). In foolish fashion, she had spent extra money she received from school loans on personal indulgences like a trip to California and clothing. No one had educated her about the proper way to manage her money. She learned her lesson the hard way, by almost forfeiting her opportunity at a college education.
"I got discouraged about school, and I got discouraged about rap," said Laverne/Noble, 33, during a recent interview. "I left it all behind."
Perhaps it was destiny that caused her to leave Philadelphia Biblical University behind at that time. A year later, while working as a waitress at a Ruby Tuesday's by the Philadelphia International Airport, the John Bartram High School graduate (in Southwest Philly) met her husband. A romance developed between the manager and server, and in September, 2006, the couple married.
It was her husband, Joseph Duckworth, who paid for his wife to return to school to finish her final two semesters. It was her husband who continued to encourage his wife to express herself and to pick up the microphone and take up gospel rap again.
"He would say, 'You're pretty talented,' and tell me to get back into what I love doing," said Blessed Noble. "It took a few years before I was actually convinced."
What convinced Laverne that she could capture the stage again was a performance she gave at the KeyStone Center in Delaware County, where last year she became a drug and alcohol counselor. When she received a standing ovation, she felt the old feeling of performing to share a message resurge within her. "When I perform I get to be another person," said Blessed Noble. "I feel alive. I'm able to express myself as an artist and bring my message across."
That message, that "God's love conquers all, and anyone is capable of change if their heart is in it," is something she's inherited from the artists she grew up listening to like Diana Ross, Lionel Ritchie and Stevie Wonder. Their wisdom and her message is that of pressing on through hard times.
In the mid-nineties, at 17, Blessed Noble started performing and recording hip-hop with her group, Ms. Conduct. By 1997, Rhymestone, as she called herself then, left traditional hip-hop when she picked up gospel rap from the kids at the Sharon Baptist Church, formally located at 59th and Christian Streets in West Philadelphia. She began attending the church a year earlier and with the encouragement of Pastor Keith W. Reed, she wound up touring the tri-state area spreading her message through gospel rap.
The tours lasted for a few years, but when Laverne could not finish school, she thought she had left her dreams of higher education and performing behind. Blessed Noble says her husband, the patients at the KeyStone Center and the song "I'm not Afraid," by Eminem were the trinity that ultimately inspired her to go back to school, however, and to return to the stage.
In 2009, Laverne graduated from Philadelphia Biblical College. She also released her first studio-produced EP, "Delivered," that year, a six-song introduction to her rebirth as a gospel rapper. Most recently, Blessed Noble shot a video for her song "I Believe in You," at the home of the Sykes-Gerhard family in Glenside. Janet Gerhard responded to a Craigslist post Blessed Noble made looking for a place to shoot her video.
"I Believe in You" is from Blessed Noble's effort, "Changed," to be released this August. So far, Blessed Noble, who now attends Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church, on Cheltenham Avenue near the Route 309 Intersection. Under Pastor Alyn E. Waller, Laverne recorded eight of the album's 10 tracks at Philly studios Smashed Cat Recording and BMR Entertainment.
"When Blessed Noble approached our family, we had three requirements," said Gerhard, whose two sons helped capture the video. "The music should honor and glorify God, strive to advance a message that is uplifting in the face of the trials and difficulties of marriage and family, and sort of jokingly, could she have the camera crew wrapped up before dinner begins at 7 o'clock?"
The video shoot fit right in with the Sykes-Gerhard family's commitment to promote young, talented musicians in the region. For the past five years the family has been part of the Cresheim Valley Church that worships at Chestnut Hill Academy, where one can hear nationally known vocalists like Ruth Naomi Floyd and Justin Hopkins sing at religious services, according to Gerhard.
"We wanted to be a part of the framework of support for Blessed Noble," said Gerhard. "She's a talented singer with an important message to advance in the world in which forgiveness seems harder to ask for and to receive and is needed more than ever."
If you're interested in experiencing the energy of a Southern Baptist gospel choir and a new interpretation of an old message of overcoming obstacles, Blessed Noble will perform June 25 at Six Flags Great Adventure in Baltimore, MD, with longtime gospel artist Marvin Sapp. Following that, she'll grace a gospel festival in Atlanta.
Laverne will be having a CD release party in the near future, but the date was not firmed up by press time. For more information, to listen to and/or purchase music performed by Blessed Noble, visit www.blessednoble.com.


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Boehner: GOP Won't Approve More Tax Revenue [VIDEO]
House Speaker John Boehner says additional tax hikes are out of the question.
He's reacting ahead of time to President Barack Obama's request this afternoon for Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue. The goal is to put off the automatic across-the-board cuts that would take effect on the first of March, and allow time to work out a 10-year plan that includes more than $1 trillion in deficit reduction.
In a statement, Boehner says Americans "do not support sacrificing real spending cuts for more tax hikes."
The automatic cuts, if they are allowed to proceed, could lead to widespread layoffs, and hit hard at some defense programs and domestic spending accounts.
White House officials say Obama will ask for a targeted way to reduce the deficit in the short term, perhaps several months. He has insisted that any efforts to reduce the deficit be "balanced" between spending cuts and new tax revenue.
Obama already won about $600 billion in higher taxes at the start of the year, and congressional Republicans say they are not about to approve more tax revenue.
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Gold prices held steady Thursday, after plunging Wednesday on signs the Federal Reserve could back away from its bond-buying stimulus program.
Gold for April delivery was virtually flat, rising 60 cents to $1,578.60 per ounce. May silver rose slightly, up 8 cents to $28.761 per ounce.
Gold dropped Wednesday after the Fed hinted that some of its members are doubtful about continuing the central bank's bond purchases. If the Fed were to end its bond-buying program, that would make gold less attractive to many investors.
The Fed's bond purchases are meant to spur the economy, but they can also cause inflation. That pushes some investors into gold, because they view the precious metal as a hedge against inflation.
Adrian Day, of Adrian Day Asset Management in Annapolis, Md., said some of his clients have been asking if they should sell gold. The metal's price has been declining since early October, and news that some prominent hedge funds are cutting their gold holdings has also spooked some investors.
Day said it's too early. The U.S. economy is hardly improving at a rate strong enough to convince the Fed to abandon its bond buying, he said. Hedge funds, he added, just "tend to jump on trends." Day has told clients that gold would be a sound investment for the long term.
"This is a painful period for holders of gold stocks," he wrote, "but we have been here before and come through it."
Prices for industrial metals and oil, which tend to mirror how traders feel about economic growth, were down. May copper fell 1.5 percent, down 5.55 cents to $3.5695 per pound. April platinum lost 1.6 percent, down $27.10 to $1,620 per ounce. March palladium fell $2.80 to $733.60 per ounce.
U.S. benchmark crude oil fell $2.38, or 2.5 percent, to $92.84 per barrel in New York, the second drop of 2 percent in two days. Prices were pushed down by a government report that showed the U.S. had more crude supplies than analysts expected.
Brent crude, used to price crude that many U.S. refineries use to make gasoline, fell $2.07 to $113.53 per barrel.
Natural gas fell 3 cents to $3.25 per thousand cubic feet. Heating oil fell 6 cents to $3.10 per gallon. Wholesale gasoline for April dropped by 2 cents to $3.24 per gallon.
In agriculture contracts, wheat fell more than 2 percent, down 17.25 cents to $7.2125 per bushel. Corn fell more than 1 percent, down 9.75 cents to $6.9075 per bushel. Soybeans were slightly higher, up 5 cents to $14.8775.
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Comic books have been a staple of Americana since their debut in the 1930s. The medium enjoyed spectacular success starting in the post-war 50's era, and national comic sales climbed well into the 1980s. In the mid 90s, however, major publishers like Marvel and DC re-invented many of their main characters story lines. Nihilism, realism, and darkness became popular motifs in superhero franchises, and sales declined.
The industry has since largely rectified its dark reinvention of these characters, but comic book sales in the 2000s remain at an all-time low. One possible explanation is that the public consciousness doesn't respond well to relentlessly negative stimuli, and the types of stories publishers were putting out were simply too depressing for consumers. Another popular theory is that the printed medium underwent a decline in relevance as video game consoles and digital media became popular with 90s youth. The idea gains credibility when one considers the spectacular success of Marvel and DC-branded superhero movies from the past ten years. The Batman, X-Men, and Spider-Man trilogies are among the highest grossing films of all time, after all.
It may be that the comic book industry simply needs time to adapt to a new digital environment. While it seems that many of the larger publishers are maintaining relevance by licensing movie rights, technology has also given small, independent comic book artists and writers an unprecedented chance for exposure. The ubiquity of devices like the iPad have already had a measurable effect on digital comic sales, and with so many easy-to-install Wordpress themes available, it's easy for independent publishers to showcase their comics online. No doubt adaptivity is a hallmark of business success, but it will certainly be a dark day when the steady whir of machine shop presses ceases altogether.
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#2 Baseball Takes Both Games Of Twin Bill From Towson
Feb. 27, 2010
TEMPE, Ariz. - The No. 2 Arizona State University baseball team swept a doubleheader against Towson on Saturday at Winkles Field-Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark. A crowd of 3,196 saw the Sun Devils improve to 6-0 on the season with the two victories.
The Sun Devils took Game One of the doubleheader 9-1. Jake Borup earned the win, allowing just one hit in six shutout innings to improve to 2-0 on the season. Mitchell Lambson got his first save of the season, pitching the final three innings and allowing just three hits and one run with three strikeouts.
Zack MacPhee had two hits, including his sixth triple of the season, while Riccio Torrez and Xorge Carrillo both hit home runs in the victory. It was the first career home run for Carrillo.
Torrez's two-run homer got the scoring started in the bottom of the fourth, and he then scored on a wild pitch in the sixth to put ASU in front 3-0. Carrillo then hit a solo homer to lead off the seventh, and MacPhee brought in a run later in the same inning with a triple.
After Towson scored its only run in the top of the eighth, the Sun Devils added four more in the bottom of the inning. Zach Wilson had an RBI triple and then scored on a groundout by Carrillo, and Deven Marrero and MacPhee added RBI singles to cap off the scoring.
In Game Two, ASU jumped on the board quickly with five runs in the first inning. MacPhee drove in a run with a single, Riccio Torrez had a two-run double and Raoul Torrez capped off the inning with a two-run single.
However, Towson would battle back to tie the game in the third, but the Sun Devils answered quickly with four runs of their own in the bottom half of the inning. Austin Barnes led off the inning with a solo home run, the first of his career, and then Riccio Torrez had a two-run single followed by an RBI double by Matt Newman.
Brady Rodgers got the win, going five innings out of the bullpen and allowing just five hits and one run with seven strikeouts. Jimmy Patterson made his first career start on the mound and got a no decision, going three innings and giving up seven hits and five runs.
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Friday, July 12, 2013
The effective utilization of resources
As part of thinking about mechanisms, and metrics, for driving green manufacturing, it came to mind that there is always a lot of talk, specially in the US, about the tremendous advances in labor productivity that have occurred over the last several decades. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (or BLS) is the official keeper and generator of this statistic about the performance of the US economy.
The BLS website defines labor productivity as the relationship of "output to the labor hours used in the production of that output." It measures these in terms of two productivity metrics - major sector and industry productivity. BLS states that "The Major Sector Productivity program publishes quarterly and annual measures of output per hour and unit labor costs for the U.S. business, nonfarm business, and manufacturing sectors. These are the productivity statistics most often cited by the national media. The Industry Productivity program publishes annual measures of output per hour and unit labor costs for U.S. industries."
The kind of "news" this generates is typical of the following, from the BLS website, reported on June 5, 2013. "Productivity increased 0.5 percent in the nonfarm business sector in the first quarter of 2013; unit labor costs decreased 4.3 percent (seasonally adjusted annual rates). In manufacturing, productivity increased 3.5 percent and unit labor costs decreased 10.0 percent."
This means that, thanks to a number of improvements in industry, manufacturers managed to squeeze out 3.5 percent more output per unit of labor input. This could be due to work organization, automation, simplified production, incentives, etc. This is generally considered to be "good news."
In fact, the increase of productivity in the US labor market is a driver for business competitiveness. Higher productivity maintains a strong labor-cost advantage (at present, US productivity is 3x Mexico, for example) and has been growing at about 2.5% each year.
So, what does all this have to do with green and sustainable manufacturing!?
Why not measure and track resource productivity too?
Seems obvious when you think about it. Why not consider resource productivity along with labor productivity as a measure of competitiveness for manufacturing (or any industrial sector for that matter)?
Gary Pisano and Willy Shih in their book "Producing Prosperity – Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance," Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, 2012, discuss productivity as a measure of innovation in manufacturing. They refer to something called "Total Factor Productivity" which combines all inputs – labor, capital, and others – to create a measure of overall efficiency for an economy. This is driven by innovation in products and processes and makes a company, country, region attractive to productive activities. (Note: this is a good read if you are thinking about broader manufacturing issues and not "just" green manufacturing!)
So, how does this fit in?
Recall the IPAT impact equation? Its been discussed a number of times in this blog (most recently back in May) and it proposes a simple methodology for assessing the impact of technology (and manufacturing of products) based on the population, a measure of affluence or standard of living (here the GDP/capita - an imperfect but useful metric) and the impact per unit of value created in manufacturing (impact/unit GDP).
You may remember that I made some note that the only thing manufacturing engineers can affect in this equation to move towards reducing impact is the impact/unit GDP - that is, the impact (in terms of consumption or generation of damage) of the products we create. If we can offer the same or greater value with reduced impact we are on the right path.
So, sounds a lot like productivity doesn't it?!
The problem is, we've got to get moving!
At present our impacts are too large. According to Dr. Margot Hutchins, the Associate Director of the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainabiity (LMAS) at UC-Berkeley, we are utilizing 1.5 times the capacity of the planet in terms of resource consumption with an impact of emissions of CO2 and pollutants, depletion of resources, solid waste, etc. The usual problems.
Looking to the future she predicts that population (the P in IPAT) will will increase by ~40-30% by 2050. Affluence, A in IPAT, is also growing quickly in many nations – ~3-5x increase by 2050. And this is to be expected. Everyone wants a better standard of living. The result is that we may need to increase our efficiency (that is, reduce the T) by a factor of nearly 10!!! Meaning, we've got to reduce impact of our products while maintaining their value - or growing it - in the eyes of the consumer.
Tall order. So, how would resource productivity come into this?
First of all, how should we define this? Following on the definition of labor productivity, resource productivity would be the amount of output (value) created per unit of resource expended (or unit of impact).
How might we measure this? These units of resource (or impact) could be employed -
- Global warming gases emission (CO2, methane CH4, N2O, CFC's)
- Yield or % Recyclability
- % Reuse of materials or remanufacturing
- Pollution (air, water, land)
and these could be per capita, per GDP, per area/nation, and so on.
As with higher labor productivity which bolsters a nation's labor-cost advantage, higher resource productivity maintains a strong resource-cost advantage.
More value, lower impact - sounds like something we should look into.
It is sort of like the term used in the aerospace industry - the "buy to fly ratio." This term came up in this blog back in July of 2010 as part of a discussion on "Degrees of Perfection". It is, in a nutshell, the amount of material, for example, that ends up flying on the aircraft normalized by the amount that was purchased and processed at the start of the production line. It is often, for some aerospace components, a very low number.
But we also see this in other products. You may recall a conversation on this back in June of 2011 under the topic of "Less can be more"! based on some research by Professor Julian Allwood at Cambridge University on the yield of material in processing to create some common products - like beverage cans, automotive panels, etc. But Professor Allwood is more careful in his counting. He doesn't just track yield gate to gate in part of the production but all the way from the melt on creation to the finished product. In the case of both steel and aluminum the "cumulative yield" (meaning the amount of material from the raw stock - in this case liquid metal in the ladle after it was refined - to the finished product) was as low as 40-50% in some cases and, for some aerospace components fabricated of aluminum, in the low 'teens.
And the "cumulative impact" of that material when it finally got into a product necessarily included the energy that processed the "wasted" material along the path to production. Just because you recycle material that is left on the shop floor doesn't mean you "hit the reset button" on imbedded energy, or its environmental impact, in the product.
This did not mean that the manufacturers were being necessarily wasteful - just that the process technology was not able to extract more finished product out of the material without large amounts of waste.
This is not usually accounted for (except in the price of the component which reflects the material and processing supply chain). But the associated impacts for sure aren't accounted for.
What if we were measuring, along with labor productivity, the resource productivity? Would this drive us to innovate in the process technology to improve the "buy to fly ratio"? It would reduce the impact in proportion to the increase in yield of material processed - less waste means, in addition to less cost, less impact. Each kg of wasted material has embedded energy, water, and other resources in it.
Let's start talking about resource productivity when we speak of manufacturing. And this can be a strong driver for manufacturing innovation as well.
In the next postings we'll address some of the follow-on innovation that could improve our resource productivity and, in the process, explore some ideas on tracking resource productivity.
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The Ravages of Time - I swear, this is Godly manga...
It's really a Hong Kong comic, but since it's serialised on a manga magazine, I suppose it qualifies to be in this forum.
Most of you reading this probably never heard of it, or ever will hear about it, but God, this is such a fcuking brilliant comic I absolutely NEED to praise it.
The Ravages of Time is a praphrase manga based on the Three Kingdom Period of the Chinese history. The author, Chan Mou, obviously has done thorough research into his subject. The entire comic is highly imaginative, offering interesting intepretations to the characters/events of the era, but on the other hand, it stays faithful to actual recorded history.
It's currently one of the most popular series in Chinese speaking regions, and justly so. The comic excels in all elements of a comic - story telling, themes, symbols, imagery, character development; but best of all are the action sequences. Examples below.
It is a pity that English readers (if this ever gets licensed in English) won't be able to enjoy it as much as Chinese readers, for the comic draws heavily on Chinese culture, puns and historical allusions. Nonetheless I'd recommend it to anyone.
For anyone interested, English versions maybe found here: http://fifay.net/
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Too bad his story telling style is.....let's just say very hard to follow if you are not too familiar with the romance of three kingdoms. It's kinda like Final Fantasy 6 where the story does not always focus on what you consider "main" characters. His drawing style is superb, however, much better than a lot of Japanese mangaka.
|2004-12-26, 02:22
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I love this too~
the story is full of twists and strategies that are deep and cunning. This comic isnt just a simple action war story. It's full of hidden and meaningful elements that make you think about the meaning and implication of every sentences and every actions on every pages.
Too bad the author always suddenly stop for an issue or two...
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I can't believe there aren't more posts on this fantastic manga.
Just read everything in 2 days, and man is it EPIC. I love how he made Liu Bei's character. At first I was like, wait, this is Liu Bei? However, he's turns out to be a much stronger and more likable character than in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so it's a pretty big plus. Sima Yi, being the main character, doesn't really show up all the much though. It'd seem Zhao Yun has way more screen time than he does. I guess it makes sense, considering the timeline involved Sima Yi shouldn't even be in the story, so there are a lot of liberties taken. The only thing I'm not that sure I like is the fact that Zhao Yun is loyal to Sima Yi.
Anyways yeah, I'm somewhat familiar with the ROTK storyline and I still need to have wikipedia open to look up the names once in a while. Also, it doesn't help that all the main 'younger' characters have the same bishounen face, which makes telling them apart really hard when new characters get introduced.
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And yes, it is the most epic thing since the original novel itself, lol.
But while I can praise this awesome work until the end of times, I'd rather raise points of criticism in the hopes of more fruitful discussions.
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Yet, one interesting thing that I have discovered long after becoming a fan of this one is that the philosophies articulated by Chen Mou in this manhua/manga is surprisingly authentic and not just the work of the author. Sure, they're cloaked in the guise of repeated Xanatos gambits, total bloodletting and flashy speeches from mountaintops, but there are surprising connections between this and historical Chinese philosophies and dilemmas.
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Like many poster said before, this manga is hard to follow unless you are very familiar with the original novel, but it is no doubt the best manga adaptation of Romance of the Three Kingdom, ever. Every character in the manga is drastically different than the ones in the original novel, characters like Lu Bu and Zhang Fei are more like GODS than man, but the way Chen Mou portraits them actually made them believable, as heroes of a chaotic era, not like their novel counter parts who are just idiots without a brain.
Ive been following this manga for over 3 years now, and o man it just gets better and better, too bad the flow of the story is so slow, hopefully we can see the Battle of ChiBi within ten years !!!
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I'm not familiar with ROTK so within 5 volumes I had already lost track of everything that's going on. Who's loyal to who, who's doing what to who, when why, how, eh???? Chan Mou's art is lovely, but his characters tend to look very similar, which makes the problem even worse. Maybe one day I'll read ROTK and then I'll come back to this manhua with a new understanding.
Oh, and unlike Irenicus, I love Sima Yi and I wish he'd show up more.
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Ditto for me. I got through about 25 chapters before I just couldn't get what was going on in terms of strategy anymore. And I was really enjoying it too, so that's a shame. I don't know if it's just because I'm unfamiliar with the story or if the translation made it harder to follow. I'll probably read the novel(s?) first before trying to continue.
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This one's only for the ROTK fanboys (which is, like, most of us, me included). The character designs are extremely similar which is a death warrant for a manga about ROTK due to the extensive cast. So you really need to know your ROTK to understand who's who. The plot also drags on after the first couple of volumes. The artist introduces a new faction (or at least I haven't seen any one of them in the novel, except for their master) as the protagonists from the start, the Handicapped Warriors, but later on we don't see them all that much. It's also all a bit soap opera-ish in execution. I still haven't gotten past the 14th volume, unfortunately, since it drags on so much.
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as far as character design being the same, i really didn't notice. The background character look similar but i thought all the major characters look distinctive enough.
for people who have trouble following the story and the different factions. here is a very very general overview of the plot, maybe it will help.
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BTW, Chen Mou is not the only one drawing a great saga, we have other fine examples like Berserk, Guyver and Bastard.
PS :- The disposal of Lu Bu's young daughter is heart wrenching.
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