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Rough Beasts (2008)
Written for our writing group The Quota in 2008. The title was literally pulled out of a hat.
"Mutt! Is I Rattus! You must come, come now. Carry me! They have come, they are here, is Chrissymus!"
Freezing fog cloaked the land of the jenimals and Mutt want nothing more than to stay in his hutch. He'd made it from one of the broken pods that lay outside the centre, dragging it as far as the sea. The jagged edges of it he'd buried in sand, and dug a burrow up and under to come within. He'd dragged blankets and foam from inside the derelict centre and knotted them with clumsy fingers into a mattress that was almost comfortable. On the floor was the remains of wooden goods pallet, studded with bent nails he'd hammered in with a rock when he'd fashioned it into a bed. His body thus held from the freezing floor, Mutt was warm and drowsy. He had a covered pit for his toilet in the farthest corner from his bed, and stacks of food packets close to hand. There was nothing to do and nowhere to go while winter chilled the jenimals' mean domain, but Mutt did not care. He slept. He woke to eat, he woke to expel his waste. He resented the soft light of the day that strained through the plastic walls, but he knew it would be gone almost as soon as it came. So he waited patiently for the warm times when there would be live food and flowers, as he had waited for them every one of the past five winters. But now, now this racket.
Rattus' feeble claws scrabbled on the plastic, his voice was shrill, his blurred shadow huge on the opaque walls. Mutt tried to ignore him, but Rattus' pleas became ever desperate. "Please Mutt, please! Is Chrissymuss" Annoyed, Mutt dragged himself from the warmth of the bed, and went down his burrow. He felt the cold of the frozen ground as he wriggled round the U shape of the tunnel, even that was poor preparation for outside.
He popped out of the entrance, hidden cunning-wise among heaps of garbage, and felt the hairs freeze in his nose. He had a covering of thick fur as he was born, now horribly matted. He held a ragged blanket with a hole chewed in it to make a poncho. This he slipped into quickly, before the shivers set it.
"Rattus, Rattus, what do you want? Why do you come to scrape and bang on my walls like this? Is it the warm time? No, it is not."
"No! No!" squeaked the tiny Rattus. He hopped from one misformed foot to another with irrepressible excitement, and held a crumpled sheet of paper in his hand. "No, is not warm time. Is better time, is Chrissymus!"
"And what," asked Mutt wearily, "is Chrissymuss?"
"Is this!" said Rattus, and unrolled the tattered paper. "Is light and warmth and nicenesses and joy! Look! Look!"
"What is that?" asked Mutt.
"Why, is Chrissymuss! See!" Rattus jabbed a crippled finger at the picture on the page. "This – tree! These things, these – children! They are happy and warm. Chrissymuss is happy and warm. Bedgore tell me all about it, 'fore he die. He say, in old days the peoples in the centre they have Chrissymuss every cold time. He tell me 'bout it. I no believe him, like you. Rattus think it stupid story. But here, see! Picture! Look, special tree and shiny boxes with treasures inside, just like Bedgore say!" Rattus was talking faster and faster. It was all Mutt could do to follow his squeaking.
"It's just a picture, Rattus," said Mutt gently. His friend was forever getting excited about all kinds of things. Mutt sat down on the ground, his tail carefully curled between his bottom and the cold. "It's just a picture." The 'children', strange smooth, nearly hairless things in brightly coloured cloaks looked pink and warm. He was briefly jealous.
"Yes, yes! But is more, is more!" Rattus scrambled onto Mutt's knee. A few months ago he would have jumped, quick as you like. Not now, his litheness was gone. "I not stupid! I know what Mutt think! But there is more. Bedgore tell me, that at Chrissymuss angels come, come like lights in sky, then soon after them nice-man Jeevus, and he love everybody, and he bring treasures!" Rattus clapped.
"That's nice Rattus, that's really nice. But there have been no nice-men here for a very long time."
"No, no, no!" said Rattus angrily. "This not stupid story! Jeevus even better than nice-men, is special! Bedgore tell me, 'fore Bedgore die. You stop listen stories, you think you so smart. You see, you see…!" Rattus was momentarily too excited to speak.
"What Rattus, what?" Mutt ran his hand up and down his tiny friend's back, and this seemed to calm him. He suppressed a deep shiver from the cold, lest Rattus think he recoiled from the hard tumours beneath his fur.
"The lights! Lights in the night and in the sky and everything! Angels come, angels come here. I have seen the lights. Lights! So soon there will be Jeevus too, don't you see? Now is Mutt stupid, not Rattus! Is Chrissymus!"
"That's nice Rattus," said Mutt. It was something he found himself saying often. "But I think I might go back to bed now. It is cold and I am tired and it is a long ways until the warm times come again."
"Nooooooo!" squeaked Rattus. And "Pleeeeease." The tiny creature grabbed at Mutt's poncho with both hands. "Rattus want to see the lights, to see the angels, to meet the Jeevus. But it too far. You Rattus' friend. Please, you come see the lights. You carry Rattus. Mutt, please!"
Mutt sighed. His broken pod, dragged from outside the centre with so much effort and made nice and warm with more, beckoned to him. He wanted to sleep, to wait out the cold time. But Rattus looked at him pleadingly. The little creature shivered, its oversized head bobbing on its neck pathetically. "Oh, alright then," he said. He put Rattus down, and stood.
"Hooray!" shouted Rattus, and danced a frenetic little jig. "Hooray! Now you come too and see the lights and the angels and be loved by Jeevus just like Rattus!" Rattus' one good eye shone like a diamond from behind the bandages on his face. The bandages were cracked and stiff. Mutt resolved to change them as soon as he could. Rattus had never been very good at looking after himself, and had become somewhat less skilled in recent months.
"Very well! Be calm, Rattus, be calm." Mutt tied a piece of string about his waist, to stop his poncho dragging while they travelled, then he dropped to all fours and placed Rattus on his back.
"You good friend, Mutt," said Rattus, and patted Mutt lightly between the shoulders. "You very good friend!"
"Where to?"
"The lights, the lights they are over the centre," and Rattus' voice went a little quiet, and his excitement burned a little lower. Most of the jenimals did not like to go near the centre, did not like to go near it at all. Most of them, but not Mutt. He was not frightened of it. Well, maybe a little.
"Sure," said Mutt.
Rattus coughed then. His tiny body shook and heaved with the effort so hard that Mutt feared he would fall. Mutt lifted his head and looked backwards over his shoulder.
"Are you alright Rattus?" asked Mutt. "Why do you not come into my house where it is nice and warm. We can go tomorrow, when the light time comes again."
Rattus' breathing was ragged, he swallowed hard. "No, no, Rattus is fine. He shuddered. "We go now, today."
"Then lie down on my back under my poncho, and keep warm, little friend, and sleep."
"Yes," said Rattus weakly and sniffled. "Yes."
When Rattus was settled, Mutt set off at a gentle trot toward the centre, taking care not to jostle his friend.
Mutt thought the land of the jenimals to be an island, but not in the sense of land surrounded by sea. What he knew of such things were that islands were long ways away from everywhere else, and hard to leave. To the south was the sea, a crust of ice along its shore and floating white fangs beyond. The west was the big blue lake, which never froze no matter how cold it became, and from which all the jenimals knew not to drink. North were hills, low but hard to climb. Mutt had climbed them once in the warm, and seen a carpet of brown, low plants and crescents of white nestling in the shade even at the height of the endless sun. In the plants nested strange birds with heavy feet and accusing eyes. A long way off, he had seen the shine of more sea. East was a scrubby forest of dwarf pines. They looked like the special tree in the picture, but not so perfect. Any jenimal that went that way never came back. Mutt had a dim realisation that there was probably more to the world than the small, bare place at the centre of these things, but for him that was all he knew; life on an island.
Mutt's house was near the sea to the south, about as far as a jenimal could go from the centre. Mutt said it was because he liked to watch the ice teeth in the cold and chase the birds in the warm. What he did not say that it was far away from the other jenimals, and that he liked to be alone. Rattus lived close by, the only one that did, and only because Mutt was his friend. The centre was too far for his hobbled feet, and would have been were it only over the next dune.
Mutt's fingers and pads were nearly numb when they reached the centre, for he had no gloves for his hands as he had shoes for his feet. He was glad to take them off the ground and go upright once more. Rattus climbed up to Mutt's shoulder as his bigger friend stood, and together they took in the centre and its new addition.
Bedgore was the only one any of the jenimals had ever known that had seen the centre when it was alive. While he was above the ground, he had regaled them all with stories of how once the centre had been filled with light and the nice-men who had cared for the jenimals in the warm inside, so warm, even in the long cold. The young pups had sat entranced by Bedgore's tales. But Mutt was wise enough to know that they weren't all true. A giant fly that held nice-men in its gut and filled the air with a roar as it flew in the sky? Growling beasts that sat silently when the nice-men did not ride them, but when they did shot shouting across the snow on one long foot? Nonsense! Bedgore had become annoyed by Mutt's refutations and shown Mutt some of the things he said had borne the nice-men. Mutt was the only jenimal pup brave enough to go with him into the shadows of the walls. But all Mutt saw was rust and wrack and broken garbage as that which cluttered the rest of the jenimals' island.
One day, according to Begore, when he himself was a pup the nice-men had upped and gone and the jenimals saw them no more, and now no-one went in the centre. Only Begore's stories reminded the jenimals of those who had been so good to them, and then only Bedgore's stories told those who came after what had been. And then Bedgore was gone. When he had died, the jenimals became fearful of the centre. They reminded each other that the nice-men had gone, and pointed to the dark streaks above the windows where Bedgore had once said the nice-men had set fires. Why had they set fires? asked the jenimals, and shook, saying the centre could eat fire, and would eat them too. It was a badplace, just like the blue lake.
Fearless Mutt had not cared what the others whispered, and when he was full-grown he had gone within. He wandered here and there, through never-ending halls with no windows that nevertheless glowed bright, and he had become puzzled. Why had the nice-men gone? It made no sense, all was good. There were many shining things of great beauty and mysterious purpose, there were the lights, and things that were warm besides but not fire, just like Bedgor had told. Best of all were the stocks of food, lots of food that Mutt fetched from inside in its shiny packets to give to the jenimals to eat. He had even slept there, next to the warm things.
Then one day, two warm times ago, he had gone deep within and down, far deeper than usual, so that the scents changed from air and wind and tundra to the oily powder of carved rock. He found a place with strange tables and many cages that stank of ancient terrors; of pens that smelt of things that were like jenimals but not; of cases and boxes and shiny metal tanks. On all was a strange symbol: a yellow triangle full of thorns. It loomed huge on doors that would not close, glowered from rusting barrels, hid inside sealed glass boxes. It was so quiet, so cold and dark there, that Mutt could hear nothing but the thudding of his heart. There were shadows and things in jars and he had panicked. He had found himself running out, faster and faster, careening from tables on wheels and trays and chairs. He had not told the others about this, how he had finally found fear. He had not ventured so far inside again, nor did he ever slept there. He had known then for sure that some of Bedgor's tales about the marvellous nice-men who fed and cared were true, and some were most certainly not.
From the outside now, in the gathering long night of the cold time, Mutt found the centre sad rather than frightening. It was old and cracked, walls breaking slowly in the face of frost and gale, windows the same. Every year it looked a little greyer and a little less white, every year more of its long, long fence turned deep red, every year more of the smaller hutches about the main part fell in. The lights in the windows and on the fence became fewer every month, until now only a handful twinkled. But there was something shiny and new there tonight. By the complex was a tall hutch on long stilts like legs. It sat high up against the luminous evening sky, black and clever with big bright lights that stopped you looking at it for too long.
Nearby, there was a fire, and around the fire sat five jenimals. Three were bigger than Rattus, one of these even bigger than Mutt and he was accounted one of the largest of all jenimals. Two of them were the same as Rattus, and both of these bore signs of the disease that ravaged Mutt's poor friend.
"Ho, Squeaker! Ho Gnawer! Ho Littleman, Spot and Ladylad!" greeted Rattus. The other jenimals returned his salutation.
"Whassup Rattus?" said Squeaker, one like him. "Are you here to see the angels too? Do you want to meet the Jeevus? He has treasures, like Bedgore said! Like in the centre!"
"See Mutt, see! They know it is Chrissymuss too! Do you believe me now? Do you? Say yes Mutt, says yes!" said Rattus, once more full of his old energy.
"Maybe," said Mutt. He sat by the fire on a flat rock, awkwardly arranging a form only just suited to bipedalism. The pleasure he gained from the fire's warmth was almost unbearable, and he allowed himself a luxurious shiver. "What do you know of what is in the centre, Squeaker? You are all too scared to go in. Only I know. Only I am brave enough to go inside."
"Mutt say," said Squeaker sullenly. "Mutt tell of treasures."
"And how do you know they are treasures?" asked Mutt.
"Is true, Mutt," said Ladylad, the biggest of the jenimals. "Is true there are angels, Squeaker is sorry for his excitement, he listen to too many of Bedgore's stories when he a pup, he think too much. I am sorry, for Squeaker's sake. But angels, I will say no Mutt, no! Listen! We have seen them with our own eyes; two legs, two arms, no tails. They have flat silver faces, and bodies made of metal that is not red, but shines!" Ladylad's eyes shone too, bright as the angels he described.
"Really?" said Mutt. "Have you seen this too, have you Gnawer, Littleman,and Spot?" The other jenimals nodded enthusiastically.
"They came last night," said Gnawer.
"They came and they took four jenimals into their hutch!" said Spot. "They touched them and they fell asleep and then they went into hutch into the air with them with the lights."
"To m-m-m-meet Jeevus in the stable, just like Bedgor said!" said Gnawer.
"You too have heard of Chrissymus too then?" asked Mutt. "I had not myself before my friend Rattus told me."
"Bedgore not tell you," said Squeaker angrily. "Because you stopped listen by then."
"I did," said Mutt.
"Do not be a-a-a-a-angry!" said Gnawer. "Wait w-w-w-w-with us. We wait where the o-o-o-others waited. Spot saw."
Spot nodded. "It was here the angels came and took the others, to the stable up there," he pointed to the hutch. "To see the Jeevus."
Mutt looked hard at the hutch in the sky. It looked like a hutch, looked like the same shape as his broken pod, only bigger and whole. "No," he said eventually. "No, we will not wait here. We will go and wait somewhere else. But we will watch."
Ladylad shrugged and poked at the fire. He looked at Spot and nudged him. "Stay here," said Spot, "stay with us Rattus. Mutt will see. He can come and meet the Jeevus later. He will see."
"No," said Rattus. He pulled a sad face and looked at the floor. "I will go with Mutt, because he is my friend. He always look after Rattus."
Rattus and Mutt walked away from the camp, Rattus casting longing glances backwards. The other jenimals shouted after them, asked them to stay. Squeaker cried. Spot growled. But Mutt had made up his mind, and they found a camp elsewhere. Mutt, being clever did not light a fire, but dug a hole in a snow bank, snug as you like. He wrapped Rattus in his poncho and they fell asleep.
Night fell, the stars shone out bright and hard. Above the ribbons of light that the jenimals thought were their fathers and mothers gone under the ground rippled across the sky, back and forth, back and forth, like waves stroking the beach. Mutt was outside. Mutt was cold, but Mutt had to see. Rattus he left in the snow burrow, his breathing rattled and his chest rose and fell unevenly. Mutt did not want to wake him. He would go out and check and see the Jeevus and then he would get Rattus if it was indeed Chrissymuss.
He did not.
There had been no nice-men at the centre nor anywhere else on the jenimals' island since before Mutt was born. He had little idea what they had looked like. He only knew that they were tall, and that they had arms and legs and no tails like some of the jenimals. He knew this from the tall doors and the strange clothes he had found on his trips to the centre, three times too big for him. There were fragments of pictures in the piles of burnt things that could be found everywhere in the rooms of many-chairs-and-tables, but none showed a complete nice-man, nor one's face.
He was sure what he looked at now was a nice-man's face.
The nice-men-angels walked the night, and they were not nice. They held in their hands stabbing spears of flame. Slowly they turned to face a something, then 'whoosh!' out spat a tongue of fire from their hands, and all before them was ashes. The sky was orange, the centre burned.
He had watched them as they had thrown something, a stone that smoked, into the circle of fire. He had heard the jenimals, Spot, Ladylad, Squeaker and the others shout with happiness, and call out. Then they coughed, and they fell, and the not-angels came out of the night and picked up the jenimals' small bodies in their huge hands and put them in barrels. From his hiding place in the big rocks, Mutt could see, the barrels had the symbol on them, the one from the centre, a yellow triangle with a tangle of thorns within.
Not long later, there were two nice-men come to near his place, and they sat three of their tall, tall body lengths away from him. They had fiddled with something at their necks, and then silver flat faces had come away. Their faces were like those of the children in Rattu's picture, but heavier, and sterner, and Mutt realised that they too, must be nice men, perhaps of a different breed, like jenimals, as different as he and Rattus, but the same nonetheless. The nice-men watched the centre in its bower of flame as Mutt watched too, unseen, behind them. He was terrified that they would smell him, but they did not. They spoke together. Mutt did not understand much. They talked fast without pauses, and used many words that Mutt did not know, though he was the cleverest of the jenimals. They seemed sad and angry.
'Howcouldtheydosuchathingisapeveeshunisgainstnature,' one said. 'IdunnoIdunno,' said another. 'Idunnohowtheygotawaywiththis,' said the other. 'Anyriskofcontameenashun?' said the first. 'Nono.Firellbrunitallout.' 'Iamsorryforthecreechurs,' said the second. 'Poorthingsisagainstnature.' And they gabbled quicker and shook their heads and looked unhappy. Then they put on their silver angel faces, and took their fires and burned the night.
From across the world, Mutt heard jenimal screams.
Mutt was careful. He stayed away from the nice men and out of the bright eyes of the big hutch on long legs. He watched as it came down like a giant kneeling and saw as the nice-men went two at a time inside, each pair carrying a barrel with its tangle of thorns mark between them. There were strange noises from the hutch, and a worrisome smell, and smoke came from the new hutch. None of the jenimals that went into the barrels came out of the hutch again.
Mutt ran south. The nice-men ranged over the jenimal's territory. He watched them poke their hands into holes and crevices and saw flames lap from hutch and burrow. He saw them go to his half-pod, so laboriously dragged from the centre to be by the sea where he had wanted it. The flames went in, and it lit up like one of the lights in the centre before it sagged and died like ice in the warm time.
Mutt stayed as close to the edge of the jenimal lands as he could. He was very cold, and wanted to sleep, but did not, because he feared the cold death, and because he wanted to see. At one point two nice-men walked towards him, searching, and he thought they could smell him, but they could not. They put things to their faces, and looked across the land as if they watched the ice teeth like Mutt did in the warm time. Mutt stayed behind lumps of rock and ice, and they walked away.
He went back to his snow hole. He was relieved that Rattus was still there. Inside it was dark and he could not see the flames. He was confused, and angry, so he pretended nothing was amiss, and went to sleep.
His dreams were terrible, and for only the second time in his short life did Mutt know fear.
The following day, the nice-men had left and so had their hutch.
"See Rattus," said Mutt, as he pointed to the wreck of the centre. "All the jenimals have gone."
Rattus cried, he could smell the burnt fur on the air, the smell of cold meat. "So, so, there is no Chrissymus, there is no nice-man Jeevus? Why would the nice-men come back and hurt, why?"
Mutt put his arm around his friend, and took the picture that Rattus still grasped in his paws, tight as an amulet. "I don't know, Rattus," he said, "perhaps there is Chrissymus like in the picture," he showed the tree and the small nice-men and the treasures to Rattus. "But it is not here."
Rattus huddled close and hugged Mutt, his tears freezing in Mutt's fur.
"Do not cry. I promise you. If there is a Chrissymus, come the warm time we will go and find it together."
"But, but, how where?"
"Through the forest Rattus, east through the trees. We can do it, others that have gone and they have not come back. Maybe they have found it? That will be nice, Rattus, eh?"
Rattus dried his eyes and nodded.
The cold time was long and hard. When the warm time came, Mutt was all alone. He had nearly died, but he had not. He was weak, but he fattened himself up on the birds with the heavy feet and the accusing eyes of the low moor, and ignored their cries of murder.
When he was well and sleek and fat again, and his fur was free of the cold time tangles, he took the bundle that Rattus' small, dry body rested in, and he went east, into the forest as he had promised his friend.
He never came back to the land of the jenimals. The burnt stones of the centre sat silent through the cold and the rain and the sun and the dark and slowly crumbled away, until there was no sign there had ever been anything there at all.


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|Chicken Stock made from a whole chicken, chicken backs, wing tips & leftover roasted chicken carcasses, all saved up in the freezer.
How to Make Homemade Chicken StockMaking a homemade chicken stock and is a breeze, whether it's from a whole cut up chicken, chicken backs, pieces and parts, or just a leftover carcass. No bones go into the garbage around here - they are either turned into a stock or bagged and put into the freezer to make a stock later.
Here's how to make it.
Recipe: How to Make Homemade Chicken Stock©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 2 hours | Yield: About 4 quarts
- 1 (3 to 4 pound) whole raw chicken
- 2 to 3 pounds of chicken backs, leftover chicken carcasses, or other parts that you've saved
- Water to cover, plus two inches
- 2 whole celery ribs with leaves, rinsed and cut into large chunks
- 2 large carrots, unpeeled, rinsed and cut into large chunks
- 1 large onion, unpeeled and quartered
- 4 sprigs of fresh parsley
- 2 bay leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon of whole peppercorns
Split up the whole chicken into quarters and break up any other parts. If using a carcass, clean the chicken of most of the meat and set aside the meat to use or freeze for later. Place the cut up chicken or bones into a tall 10 quart or larger stockpot, add enough fresh cool water to cover the chicken plus about two inches, about 4 quarts. Cover pot and bring to a boil, reduce heat, remove the lid and low simmer (do not boil!!) uncovered, skimming off any foam that accumulates. When foam subsides, add the celery, carrot, onion, parsley, bay leaves, and peppercorns. Cook, uncovered, at a steady but low simmer for about 2 hours, or longer.
Strain stock into another container. Discard the vegetables. Set the stock aside to cool, then refrigerate or freeze.
Cook's Notes: This recipe also applies to a turkey carcass. Make this in a half batch by using a Dutch oven and only the 3 pounds of chicken carcasses, bones, and other extra parts that you have reserved in the freezer - wings, thighs, backs, whatever you have on hand. Never throw these parts away - they make a wonderful stock. Reduce vegetables and seasonings by half and add enough water to cover plus two inches. You can also use a mixture of water and commercial chicken broth for richer flavor. This should yield about 2 quarts.
Tips: Take care when you strain the final product be sure to strain into another container. Don't pour it down the sink after all that work - yes, I've actually done that before. If you are making this ahead and have time, let the broth cool and refrigerate. Once well chilled, the fat will rise to the surface and harden and you can easily skim off most or part of it to reduce fat in the stock. I like to freeze stock in quart sized zipper freezer bags because they lay flat.
Slow Cooker: Add carcass/bones and water to slow cooker. Cover and cook on low for 6 hours. Add remaining ingredients, cover and continue cooking on low for 2 hours.
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The adverse World Trade Organization ruling, allowing most of Brazil's claims against the U.S. cotton program, particularly a requirement that Step 2 payments comply with the WTO's edict by July 1, leaves the U.S. Government with three avenues available, says Neal Gillen, Executive Vice President and General Counsel for the American Cotton Shippers Association.
"Compliance is a challenge," Gillen said, "as there are no clear guidelines in the ruling, just vague language stating that the current Step 2 program payments were not single or 'monolithic,' that different terms were specified for domestic and export shipments, and different types of documentation were required."
Gillen mapped out the challenge of compliance in an address to the annual meeting of the Texas Cotton Association recently in Austin.
Options include:
1. Make appropriate administrative changes in the Step 2 payment formula by tailoring the program to comport with the WTO's panel reasoning. "That's the most desirable approach," Gillen said. "But its complications make it the most difficult to sell to the mills, producers, and cooperatives. Should we accomplish that difficult task, we must sell the proposal to USDA/USTR and ultimately to the Brazilians. Should it not be acceptable to Brazil they will take it back to the WTO and the same panel that found the program to violate the Uruguay Round Agreement would hear any new challenge."
2. The Administration could refer the matter to the Congress with specific recommendations to bring the Step 2 Program into WTO compliance with specific restrictions such as a higher threshold level, a cap on certificate increases to limit high sales volumes, or recommend that the program be repealed.
3. The Administration could take the view that since the industry is at odds on how to fix the Step 2 Program Congress should make this determination in its review of the Farm Bill later this year and early next year. "This in effect would be a decision to continue the program and to structure compliance with the WTO decision through a new agricultural trade agreement," Gillen said.
"This could subject the Administration to criticism, but whether the Brazilians would go along with such an approach is another question. We would have to convince Brazil that we will comply by phasing out the Step 2 program no later than the expiration of the 2002 Farm Bill. This would allow the Step 2 Program to be part of the compromise reached in the ongoing Doha Round of agricultural negotiations."
Gillen said the third option is the approach many in the industry and some in Government prefer. "(That option) would require consent of the Brazilians," he said. "If such an approach is not acceptable to the Government of Brazil, it could seek authorization to invoke sanctions against U.S. products – an approach that both governments want to avoid. The U.S. and Brazil desire a successful Doha Round and the final resolution of the Step 2 issue could be the key to achieving that end."
Gillen said significant questions remain before the July deadline. "Will Brazil force our hand? Will it give us the time we need to either correct or repeal the Step 2 Program?
"While answers to these questions are critical to resolving this issue – regardless of what USDA, USTR, Brazil or the WTO say or do, nothing changes. We will continue to have a Step 2 Program until Congress takes it away. Congress created the Step 2 Program and only Congress can end it."
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Has The Recording Industry Reached The Bargaining Stage Of Grief?
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Instead, the word that I kept hearing was "quiet." Almost everyone you spoke to mentioned how "quiet" Midem was this year. Attendance was down (apparently about 10% from last year, when I remember them saying that attendance had also been down about 10%), but that's not too surprising given the state of the economy and the general turmoil of the industry. However, it was still quite well-attended, and the thing I noticed was that there was actually quite a lot of activity going on behind the "quietness." And that activity was dealmaking. Lots of it. I talked to many people working for companies that are enabling and embracing new business models, and they were swamped with deal opportunities and discussions. Sure, the major record labels have all but disappeared from the show, but the companies that are enabling what comes next were quite busy -- just behind the scenes.
In thinking about it overall, I began to think about the famous Kubler-Ross model of the five stages of grief. You know the one: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. I'm beginning to think that the recording industry has reached the beginning of the bargaining stage. Last year, we were still seeing the end of the anger stage, which followed a long period of denial. I think the bargaining stage is what we see with things like the pressure to get three strikes laws passed around the world, rather than suing individuals. It's what we see in the ACTA negotiations behind closed doors. While it's not as loud and as angry as what we've seen in the past, it's still a bit questionable. As Wikipedia notes:
The third stage involves the hope that the individual can somehow postpone or delay death. Usually, the negotiation for an extended life is made with a higher power in exchange for a reformed lifestyle. Psychologically, the individual is saying, "I understand I will die, but if I could just have more time..."That sounds about right for the recording industry, doesn't it? Of course, rather than a "higher power," it's politicians around the world. I have no idea how much longer this stage will go on, but it's worth noting that the fourth stage is still depression, which apparently involves much "crying and grieving" and during this stage "it is not recommended to attempt to cheer up" those going through the grieving process. I'm not quite sure how exactly that will play out in the recording industry, but if this is accurate, then the industry will need to go through that process before finally reaching the acceptance stage that it needs to get to.
All in all, though, like the stages of grief, this is part of the necessary process, and it should be seen as a good sign that the industry at least appears to be moving through them, rather than hanging onto denial and anger completely. Midem itself was actually quite encouraging in that regard, and I'm hopeful that going forward we see more and more positive signs of an industry coming to grips with the changes thrust upon it, rather than still trying to hold back the tide. So while Midem may have seemed "quiet" this year, I think it was actually a sign of good things happening.


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Alicia Vikander to star in Man From U.N.C.L.E?
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Alicia Vikander is in negotiations to star alongside Tom Cruise and Armie Hammer in Guy Ritchie's big-screen adaptation of 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'
Alicia Vikander is in negotiations to star in 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'
The up-and-coming actress is said to be in talks for the lead female role in Guy Ritchie's big screen adaptation of the secret agent TV series, starring alongside 'Oblivion' actor Tom Cruise and 'Mirror, Mirror' star Armie Hammer, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The original series - which had a successful run from 1964 to 1968 - followed United Network Command for Law Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.) spies Napoleon Solo and Soviet agent Illya Kuryakin, who fought against villainous group Thrush using their charm and gadgets.
Vikander would play a British agent who has an interest in cars - a role written specifically for the film - while Cruise is set to play Solo and Hammer will take on Kuryakin.
Lionel Wigram and John Davis will produce the feature for Warner Bros., who initially rooted for 'Side Effects' filmmaker Steven Soderbergh to direct with George Clooney as star, but Clooney pulled out of the project after having surgery and Soderbergh followed soon after.
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Network Rendering with Bryce 7 Pro - Anyone Tried it?
Hi all,
Has anyone successfully set up Bryce to render to multiple machines over a network? I see that the Bryce 7 Pro supports network rendering, but can't find any detailed information that explains how to setup the hardware, and configurations?
I was wondering if you need to buy any kind of licenses or do you just install Bryce on any machine that you want to use as a render node? What is the maximum number of machines you can use for the render farm?
Any information would be gratefully accepted :-)
LordHardDriven Posts: 937mtrappett said:Hi all,
Has anyone successfully set up Bryce to render to multiple machines over a network? I see that the Bryce 7 Pro supports network rendering, but can't find any detailed information that explains how to setup the hardware, and configurations?
I was wondering if you need to buy any kind of licenses or do you just install Bryce on any machine that you want to use as a render node? What is the maximum number of machines you can use for the render farm?
Any information would be gratefully accepted :-)
When you downloaded Bryce 7 Pro you should have also gotten a file called Bryce 7 Pro Lightning or something to that effect. Lightning is the program for running Bryce on multiple machines over a network. You should not need any additional licenses or anything. Now I've never really had a network available to me worth setting that up so I myself have never tried it and can't tell you much more then what I have already said. I can tell you though that there have been a number of people who have reported here that they have and it worked as expected. I'm sure someone will be along soon that can give you more detailed info.
You have to install and run Lighting on all machine you want to use. You have the license to run Lighting on as many machines as you can. You can also run Lighting on the machine you do the actual render - in fact, if you don't, that machine won't participate in the render job. You can also run Lightning just on the rendering machine to get the hang of Lightning.
You can mix Mac and PC in a limited manner. If your render machine is a Mac, PC clients can be used. If the render machine is a PC, no Mac clients can be used, just PC.
The Priority setting on the rendering machine determines the CPU usage for all clients in the network. If set to high priority, all clients will render at full throttle,
If you render pictures, enable Use Tile Optimization, if you render an animation, do not, because each frame can be considered as a tile. Tiles are 100 by 100 pixels, the rendering machine distributes the tiles to the clients running Lightning, gets them from the clients and builds up the picture.
The source file is sent over the network to each client - one after the other. This may take a while, depending on the size of the br7 file and the speed of your home network. Once the render starts, Lightning is quite stable. You can pull out the LAN cable on clients and put them back after a while. Bryce is aware that a tile was lost and will resend it to another client. Bryce also senses when the disconnected client joins again and starts sending tiles (or frames in an animation) to that client again.
Since there is some overhead sending and receiving tiles, you better not use network rendering if your machine can finish the job in an hour or two. If it takes longer, it makes sense to render on the network. Be aware that you'll finally have to wait for your slowest machine to send back the last tile. I'm using network rendering on Win 2000, XP and Win 7; laptop, netbook and desktop.Post edited by Horo on
greymouser69 Posts: 483
I have used lightning to render on both my wife's desktop and my desktop together before and it works great. Btw, thanks Horo for that tip about using tile optimization for stills I didn't know about that one. I tried to include my notebook but it doesn't have enough cooling and overheats within a few minutes of starting a render and then just shuts off. I need to find some way of cooling it before that one will be useful.
Another limitation for the clients may be memory. If the scene to be network rendered needs more memory than a client has, it may either not render at all or you get a very unexpected result.
captaingeek Posts: 0
Nice write up! One issue I ran into has been opening the proper ports on your firewall. In the past I havn't been able to get lightening to use much CPU power. Also I'm having trouble getting it running on windows server 2008 64 bit. Whens Daz going to build 64 bit versions of all this software?? seems like it would be a good performance boost.
Ah the ports, yes, the firewall, right. Bryce assigns ephemeric port numbers, a new one for each Lightning client. It usually starts at TCP and UDP port 28257 counting up by one for each additional client. Then, there are TCP ports 3416 and counting up used by Bryce. Best practice would probably be to open UDP and TCP ports 28250 to 28300 and TCP ports 3400 to 3450 or something like that.
captaingeek Posts: 0
tile optimization - I think that's for rendering single frames cause it doesn't seem to help when rendering an animation on my system. maybe for back in the day when a single frame would take a few minutes...
captaingeek said:tile optimization - I think that's for rendering single frames cause it doesn't seem to help when rendering an animation on my system. maybe for back in the day when a single frame would take a few minutes...
Consider a frame as a tile. Tile optimization makes only sense for stills. If it is enabled for animations, it will slow down the render.
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The other night I rendered a 1-second animation as a test on 3 older machines. The render completed in about 35 seconds!
Bryce found the other nodes automatically, immediately - no issues there. A far cry from trying to configure Vue's RenderCows (still haven't gotten them to work right)
Machines are:
Dell Inspiron 560 / 64-bit, Windows 7 Ultimate / Pentium Dual-Core E5400 @2.7Ghz / 8GB RAM, 500GB HDD / NVIDIA GT240 1GB
Dell Inspiron 620 / 64-bit, Windows 7 Ultimate / Core i3 Dual-Core @3.3Ghz / 8GB RAM, 500GB HDD / NVIDIA 550Ti 1GB
Dell Inspiron 570 / 64-bit, Windows 7 Home Premium / AMD Athlon X2 / 4GB RAM / 500GB HDD / NVIDIA GT610 2GB
I started the render from the AMD machine (Dell 570). Render specs were:
Quality Mode: Regular (Normal Antialiasing)
Optimizations: Uniform / Minimal
48-bit Dithering - checked
Maximum Ray Depth: 3
Just left the other settings at default. Granted, it's a simple scene and simple settings, but to render even just a test clip at that speed is incredibly useful. I can't wait to test it out in HD size with 2 or 3 more nodes.
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1) I am probably wrong about this because someone would have mentioned it. I though I had to have Bryce3D and textures, objects etc installed on the other machines also to use lightning.
2) When you download lightning from Daz3D where does it store it on your computer?
@RexRed - generally, if you wonder where Bryce content must be installed to, here's a summary http://www.horo.ch/docs/mine/pdf/BryceContent_v4.pdf. As for Lightning, it can be installed anywhere on the computers. An idea would be a folder right under the Bryce main folder on the host machine and on the clients just Bryce\Lightning, but that's just an idea. The clients do not need Bryce installed, only Lightning. I don't know where DAZ Install Manager installs stuff, it is made for Studio, not Bryce. I always download the zip.
Roland4 Posts: 0
I never use Bryce 7 Pro Lightning, it is not necessary because I have either a fast computer or a fast laptop. Normally, this is enough, we are working with Bryce because to have fun and not to operate Marathon as the film industry. Before I buy two or more computers to operate them in a network, rather I buy an expensive computer which has the ultimate power.


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Mario scored that goal in the days of "tackle hockey".
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I can't find video of this goal on the internet. Straka stole the puck off of Gonchar, walked in all alone on Kolzig and ripped it top shelf. Awesome play by one of my favorite players at the time.
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2006, december. day jimbo basille decided not to buy the penguins. great game.
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TengoInternet CEO Sets Out on Mercy Mission
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Most campground operators know Eric Stumberg as the founder and CEO of TengoInternet Inc., the Austin, Texas-based company that provides wireless Internet service to campgrounds, RV parks and resorts across the country.
What most park operators don't know, however, is that Stumberg frequently volunteers on international humanitarian missions. In 2005, he joined a medical and church planning mission to Uganda. In 2008, he joined a group of volunteers who built a school and community center near the site of the Old Silk Road in Pakistan, according to a news release.
And last month, Stumberg and his wife, Keri, joined nearly 50 volunteers from Christ Church in Austin who partnered with volunteers from Potters House in Guatemala who are involved in several humanitarian projects to help the impoverished people who live in and around the Guatemala City dump.
Thousands of Guatemalan children and adults scavenge the dump every day for scraps of food as well as recyclable materials and other items they can sell with the hope of surviving another day.
For the past 25 years, a Christian nonprofit organization called Potters House has recruited volunteers to provide people who live in and near the dump with free healthcare and education services and other humanitarian assistance.
And earlier this summer, 50 volunteers from Christ Church in Austin traveled to Guatemala City to join other Potters Volunteers in making a difference in the lives of people who have nothing.
"It was an incredible experience," said Stumberg. "From a distance, you look over the dump and you see all this trash and amid all this trash is people scavenging. After we arrived there, we saw that that the Guatemala City Dump is a place with an amazing amount of brokenness. But there's also an amazing amount of hope and it's all in the same spot."
Stumberg said the Christ Church volunteers paid for their own flights and food to make the trip. They also made donations to Potters House, which provided them with seminary dorms to sleep in.
While in Guatemala City, the Christ Church volunteers completed projects that had been started by other groups of volunteers who came before them. "We finished a cinder block house the team the week before had started," Stumberg said. "We poured a concrete floor and put the windows and doors in. We also sandpapered and spackled walls. We also made and assembled bunk beds and delivered and installed them in people's homes. We felt like we were able to have an impact because we were able to help them finish some projects that they had underway there."


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The newest trend in Big Data is the personal touch. When both the New York Times and Fast Company have headlines that trumpet: "Sure, Big Data Is Great. But So Is Intuition." (The Times) and "Without Human Insight, Big Data Is Just A Bunch Of Numbers." (Fast Company) you know that a major trend is afoot.
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The claims for what Big Data can do have been extraordinary, witness Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson's seminal article in October in the Harvard Business Review: "Big Data: The Management Revolution," which began with the showstopper: "'You can't manage what you don't measure.'" It's hard not to feel that Big Data will provide the solutions to everything after that statement. As the HBR article noted: "…the recent explosion of digital data is so important. Simply put, because of big data, managers can measure, and hence know, radically more about their businesses, and directly translate that knowledge into improved decision making and performance."


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Friends Frank DiGiovanna and Adam Caccavle, recently purchased the deli from founders and husband-and-wife team Walter and Mary, who opened the local eatery in 1963, featuring various authentic American, German, and Italian foods and salads.
Growing up in Maspeth, DiGiovanna couldn't imagine opening his first food business anywhere but his old neighborhood. As a kid, he was a regular at Walter's Deli.
"We want to run a family deli, and Walter's Delicatessen was a great deli to start with," he said. "It was a famous deli in the neighborhood, and we all liked coming here."
He and his new business partners plan to keep the name.
"Walter and Mary have been helping us with rebuilding and teaching the way to keep the traditional deli," said DiGiovanna. "And this is our way to respect them, without changing its original name that belongs to a great reputation in Maspeth."
DiGiovanna always has passion for food and wanted to be a chef. He eventually went to Aviation High School and then plumber's school for five years. Now a supervisor at Con Edison, his love for food drove him to follow his dream.
DiGiovanna and Caccavle bought Walter's Deli last December. For the most part, they are planning to keep it the same way, with some minor renovations.
"We are taken over an established deli and we want to keep the same tradition and food," said DiGiovanna.
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The provider of human services for southeastern Massachusetts has earned the highest level accreditation.
NEW BEDFORD — LifeStream, Inc., a leading provider of human services for southeastern Massachusetts, has earned the highest level accreditation award from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. CARF announced that LifeStream has been accredited for another period of three years for its community services, community integration programs, as well as service to medically fragile populations.
Meanwhile, the Massachusetts Department of Developmental Services (DDS) also acknowledged the excellence of LifeStream's programs, services and facilities by issuing a two-year license for both its day and residential supports.
The current CARF accreditation marks the ninth consecutive three-year accreditation that the commission has awarded to the organization. It is the highest level of accreditation that can be earned.
CARF is an international, independent, not-for-profit accrediting body whose mission is to promote the quality, value, and optimal outcomes of services through a consultative accreditation process that centers on enhancing the lives of the persons served.
According to the CARF's summary, "LifeStream has very knowledgeable and well-tenured management staff members who demonstrate effective and visionary leadership for the organization." The survey also points out that "LifeStream is well-respected in the communities in which programs are operated…Families report high appreciation for the supports provided by the organization. They feel understood and valued as part of the team."
The CARF survey also commends LifeStream for its organizational strengths. Among those attributes are the quality, longevity and commitment of the staff. LifeStream earns praise for providing the tools and training to support its staff's personal and professional development.
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Observations included in the DDS report show that during the review process LifeStream "…exhibited a continued commitment to ensuring that services promote the optimal health and safety of people served. Additionally, the homes visited during the survey reflected individuals' preferences and tastes, and staff demonstrated their commitment and knowledge of people's unique needs." The organization, which achieved 100 percent on all the reviewed indicators for the second successive survey, was also recognized by DDS for recent advances in the care of those with Acquired Brain Injury.
"Earning CARF accreditation, once again, along with renewal of our DDS license is joint testimony to the respect and acknowledgement extended to LifeStream by those we serve, their families and the general communities within which we operate our programs," said LifeStream President & CEO John A. Latawiec. "The agencies' findings recognize that among LifeStream's greatest strengths are its staff and management team who continuously support and encourage all individuals, advocating that everyone we serve has the right to live a meaningful life. The Commission's accreditation and the continued licensing by DDS validate our work."
LifeStream, founded in 1976, is a leading employer in the region with more than 450 workers. Its operating budget of $21 million is funded primarily by state and local agencies. The organization's core services include: Residential Services; Day Support Services; Community and Family Support Services; Employment and Training; and Clinical Services.
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|2009-03-29, 05:22
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Hi, brand new member here, so please bear with me. Someone commented in the Season 4 Ep. 13 thread how there is a sense that Yumi is "moving on" from Sachiko to Touko. Without spoiling particular plot points etc., I just wanted to ask readers of the novels if they also get this impression in the last 5-7 novels of the series. I myself am limited to what English translations/summaries appear on the web (okazu and Baka-Tsuki, etc.).
Call me old fashioned, but the crux of the franchise for me has always been the development of the Yumi/Sachiko relationship. Now, I don't view it as a lesbian relationship (neither is the Yumi/Touko one IMHO), but rather as an eloquent apostrophe to romantic friendship (look it up in wikipedia) -- a type of relationship that (for too many reasons) is all too rare in this day and age (alas!).
[quasi-rant mode on]
If there really is a sense that Yumi is "moving on" from Sachiko to Touko in the novels, I must say it makes me worry about Sachiko. I'm not too worried about Yumi -- she's got a great support structure in place, and she has gained so much in confidence and maturity. Despite how much more warm and open Sachiko has become, I still get the impression that only Yumi can completely unlock her heart. Yes, I know where Sachiko will be going for college, but that doesn't make me worry about her any less. Though I could see how it is (in many ways) inevitable, the thought that Touko's presence has diminished Sachiko's place in Yumi's heart just saddens me (for Sachiko's sake) to no small degree.
Of course I'm aware that it is Sachiko herself who pushes Yumi into finding a petite soeur. Aside from that poignant conversation between the two about the importance of love at the end of Soeur Audition (completely and utterly ruined in the anime!), do the novels give any insight into Sachiko's thought process on this matter (forgetting the practical matter of the Yamayuri Council)? Does Sachiko somehow think that she can do nothing more for Yumi, that Yumi is better off with someone else, or that she is being a burden to Yumi? If so, I must disagree with Sachiko herself -- the stories covered in Season 3 touchingly show how the relationship becomes a catalyst for personal growth for both of them. Sheesh, I've succeeded in depressing myself even further!
And if Sachiko ends up being stuck in a loveless marriage with her cousin, that would sadden me even more! No need to address this particular issue -- I'll wait until the last novel is translated.
[quasi-rant mode off]
Mods, please feel free to move this post to another thread if necessary. I myself am unsure whether it belongs in this thread, the Ep. 13 thread, or the Q & A thread.
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|2009-03-29, 10:21
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Well, it's one of those things where Sachiko realizes now that she has to share Yumi now, but she also realizes that it's for the best, so it's probably a little bittersweet for her. Sachiko is going to move on and graduate, and it's only proper that Yumi has an imouto to support her, just like Sachiko did.
That said, don't think that Yumi is suddenly "over" Sachiko or something. Far from it. Sachiko is still the Sun that planet Yumi orbits. The last few books are all about this. The main difference now is that Yumi has Touko to help her. If Sachiko had graduated, and Yumi were soeur-less, well, that might have been a little messy.
And don't forget, Sachiko is going to Lillian U because she wants to be near Yumi. It's not like they're going to just drift apart. They may not see each other every day, but as Sachiko said before, she considers Yumi as 身内, or part of her real family.
|2009-03-30, 07:36
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Many thanks, cynicalicious. I suppose the Touko-centricity of the latest season made me panic on behalf of Sachiko. Come to think of it, I worry about Rei and Yoshino as well -- I have no idea what will happen to them in the end (and I'm not asking to be spoiled at this point). If another animated season is made, I hope the other characters/relationships will be given due weight.
It's good to know that the last few books focus on Yumi and Sachiko. I've always found their relationship to be deeply touching.
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|2009-04-01, 00:21
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4th season ended =( cant wait for the 5th season
guess the next season will be featuring on the farewell of the current roses and the welcoming of the new 1st year.
any one who reads the novel of maria sama ga miteru? do yumi still remains as the main character after she graduate? or author have yet to touch on that part
|2009-04-01, 21:47
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Just found this while searching around on Bk1. In the May issue of Cobalt (which came out today in Japan), guess who has a short story called Maria-Sama Ga Miteru: Hankachi Hiroi? Yes, that would be Konno Oyuki. It's a 13 page story, illustrated by Hibiki Reine.
(It translates to "The picked-up handkerchief," I guess. I suck at translating, if you haven't already figured it out.)
This is more proof that someone isn't done with a certain series. She might be done with a certain storyline, but not with the rest of the series, I guess? Or maybe she's just tying up loose ends? Bah. Now I need to get my hands on a copy of this.
Bk1 happened to list the contents of this month's magazine, and it happened to turn up when I was doing a search of Konno Oyuki's name.
If you go down past the gray horizontal line about halfway down the page, they list the contents of the magazine. (Too bad it's a JPEG, and not text.) Anyway, the fifth line is the short story, with illustrations by Hibiki Reine.
This is one of those things that could be big... but might not be. It's hard to tell.
|2009-04-01, 21:57
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|2009-04-01, 22:25
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Well, the thing is, everyone thought that "Hello, Goodbye," was it. The end. We're done. Nothing left to see here. These aren't the droids you're looking for. Move along.
Then we find out O-Shaku Sama is continuing. Okay, no biggie. That's Hanadera. Maybe she's just not done with that. She is a writer after all, and she has bills to pay. That's a different storyline, and I'm sure it sells just fine.
But this is going back to Maria-Sama, a series that Conventional Wisdom thought was over. Done. Finished.
When I scanned through "Hello, Goodbye," I thought so, too. It had a feeling of being over and done with. She even put -了- at the end, which is kind of like putting -THE END- at the end, which I don't remember her doing before.
So I guess she's not done with the series (or at least the *setting*) after all, and what that means is anyone's guess. It's one of those things we'll just have to wait and see over time what happens.
It could just mean that she's going to put out some random stories about random people at Lillian while she tries to find something else to write, (because she has to pay the bills), or she could be gearing up for a whole new chunk of books featuring Yumi & Co. as 3rd years. (Which I would love to see, for a spoilery reason.)
Spoiler for Why do I want more books? This will spoil stuff you didn't see in Season 4!:
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|2009-04-02, 13:13
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Obviously, what we need is for her unconscious to be coming up with the brilliant complication-abounding petite soeur character for Touka-san or Noriko-san or both, to join the incoming Rosa Foetida en bouton to form a first year trio ... which would then be another twenty or more novels in the new series as they grow to second years. So after "The End" comes a whole new beginning.
After the four or five volume "Spring II" OVA is produced, I will agree to forgive the absence of a "Lillian Tales" short story OVA if there is a Maria-sama ga Miteru: New Wings series of novels coming out. Otherwise, I am going to be adamant (unable to do anything to bring it about, of course, but still, adamant).
|2009-04-02, 15:50
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I do believe that Oyuki Kanno, after she's done with story supervising of the Anime she would probably rest awhile before pursuing whatever she's gonna tackle. With hope it's related to Marimite.
That said, I do believe there will indeed be a 5th season. As i was correct in predicting that the 4th season will end with Yumi making Touko her Soeur. (sorta...)
I predict the 5th season will end with Yoshino taking in Nana. I also believe that it will probably be a TV version. repeating the schedule they did on the first season that started in January and second season in July. So July is my target bet.
Given that the DVD of the 4th season are selling really well (though i heard there were Hiccups on the product) and they have a big fast food chain backing them , plus Right Stuf/Nozomi most likely infused them with fresh cash to get the license in a hurry. I'm sure they don't have money problems.
J.K. Rowlings did finished her H. Potter books and i guess end of the Marimite Novels is a very fitting ending. Though i should point out that H Potter books rely it's story on the life of the main protagonist, whereas Marimite is kinda set up like the girl group Morning Musume were after one memeber graduates a new member comes in, thus it's like an endless cycle.
I'm a big fan of Sachiko (she's the reason i watched it) but new charcters keeps popping up that are also interesting that you want to watch too. It would be nice to see how Noriko, Touko and Nana will do when they became roses.
|2009-04-02, 20:46
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I wouldn't hold my breath on a 5th season starting anytime too soon. This isn't a series that rushes out new seasons. I'd also wager that they'll still have to get the money together either way, and popular or not, it's going to take work to get everyone happy. If you're extremely lucky, the earliest would be something in fall or winter of next year.
And that's being very optimistic. There's nothing in the works as far as I've heard, either.
Also, keep in mind that they aren't just handing money out these days.
As for Nana...
Spoiler for Massive Spoilers that will ruin that and the ending:
Theoretically, yes, Marimite could go on endlessly as you posit, and I wouldn't mind seeing it, too, because I'm a character-driven reader as well.
Also, to be honest...
Spoiler for another kind of spoilery reason why I want more books:
But I think we're going to have to be patient and see what happens. We may a better idea around July, when her next book will probably come out. They usually come out every three months or so.
She may just use MSGM as a way to write random short stories for now. Why struggle to create a whole new setting for your fiction when you have a canned setting that readers already grok right at your fingertips. (And it sells, too?) Just don't necessarily expect to see familiar faces.
|2009-04-03, 11:54
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cynicalicious did the future novel after episode 13 have moment of yumi and touko?
could you please give me some spoiler because i want to know how their
relationship develop after the anime because i think the anime cut to many great scene from novel
|2009-04-03, 12:14
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There are 5 more books after the last episode of season 4. I'm not going to summarize them all here, mostly because I've only read 3 of them, and skimmed the last 2. (I haven't had a chance to sit down and properly read them yet.)
Bottom line: yes, their relationship progresses like any relationship would, but it's not all sunshine and happiness. Touko is trying to do something she's not used to, and so is Yumi. So there are going to be all sorts of bumps in the road.
Spoiler for Last Arc in the series. Big Obvious Spoiler:
There's more to it than that, but yeah, they go through some stuff.
|2009-04-05, 20:25
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|2009-04-24, 22:49
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Having recently reviewed the first three seasons, it struck me how particularly graceful the third season was, and how it managed to incorporate so much of the novels they were based on (judging from Okazu's translations/summaries and Baka-Tsuki). But in many ways, those novels were perhaps the least problematic to adapt, given their relatively uncomplicated structures and/or plots.
Obviously the meat of the fourth season was Yumi/Touko, but judging from what I've learned of the novels, many things had to be sacrificed simply to get to the Valentine's date by thirteen episodes.
So here's another question for those who have read the remaining novels -- do they present structural and/or narrative problems that may hinder their transformation into another season (whether it be broadcast or OVA)? Can the remaining novels be satisfactorily translated into a thirteen episode season (or five or six OVAs) without leaving out too much? Can they incorporate the important things they left out from the fourth season, or would that create further structural problems?
I know it's not the end of Yumi/Touko, but I hope they can somehow make a hypothetical fifth season more balanced (assuming there aren't any other things/relationships that could potentially make things lopsided). If they could somehow recover the wonderful sense of ensemble the first two seasons had, that would be lovely! But then again, maybe aspects of the remaining novels may not allow a balanced ensemble season to take place, hence my query.
P.S.: I know aspects of my query have been touched upon in previous posts, but I just want my particular concerns addressed in more depth, if anyone is willing. Many thanks in advance.
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