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The 2009 crop season was one to forget for cotton producers, but it's unlikely that many will — at least not any time soon. With that, here's one more look at the mostly ugly 2009 growing season, from Tennessee Extension cotton specialist Chris Main, speaking at the 2010 Beltwide Cotton Conferences in New Orleans.
Cotton acreage increased for Virginia, Georgia and Florida in 2009, acres while in the Carolinas and Alabama declined. Southeast yields were very similar to Mid-South yields in that yields increased from south to north, according to Main. "Most of this is due to the weather we saw across the southern portion of the country. In Georgia, they had late planting, a lot of wet weather at harvest and a lot of immature bolls in the top of the plant that they were not able to harvest."
Throughout the Southeast, Palmer pigweed resistance to herbicides "is becoming more and more of an issue every year and is beginning to move into other parts of the Cotton Belt.
On the sandy Coastal Plains soils, "Georgia is beginning to see more problems with leaf spot diseases due to nutrient deficiencies, particularly potassium," Main said.
Another challenge in the Southeast is identifying new cotton varieties for 2010-11 and beyond. "Over the past two years, over 82 percent of the acres in Georgia have been planted to DP 555 BG/RR. With that variety exiting after this year, there are in the neighborhood of 700,000 to 800,000 acres in Georgia up for grabs. Over the last two years, no other variety has had more than a 3 percent market share in that state."
Alabama Extension cotton specialist Dale Monks summed up the cotton situation in the state in one sentence, "It rained a lot, then it didn't, then it rained a lot, and it's still raining."
Cotton acreage is expected to rise in Florida, where cotton acres had risen to 85,000 acres in 2009. "That is with the caveat that they can get the 2009 crop out of the field, because a lot of it was still there in early January," Main said.
Cotton plantings decreased for Arkansas, Mississippi and Missouri and increased slightly in Louisiana and Tennessee in 2009. Like in the Southeast, yields increased as you moved from south to north, Main said.
"The Mid-South suffered through a very wet spring. We planted late, and had a cooler and wetter than average summer for the most part. What made it strange was that we had August weather in June and June weather in August."
Despite the less than ideal start, almost every state "had extraordinary crop potential on Sept. 1. Then beginning Sept. 12, it started raining, and it didn't stop until the first week of November. There were intermittent periods when it stopped raining where we tried to harvest corn and soybeans and get defoliant on our cotton. We had very little sunshine during this period, and it dramatically impacted our cotton crop."
Main noted that even early cotton was penalized by the weather. "It didn't matter if we planted early or had an early-maturing variety, we lost a substantial amount of cotton to hard lock.
"On our late-planted cotton, many producers didn't get planted until the first week of June. We had a lot of immature bolls due to wet weather at the end of harvest season."
Weed resistance also hit the region with a vengeance. "You'd be lucky to find a field from Clarksdale, Miss., north that did not have Palmer pigweed in it."
Main says in many fields, 350 pounds to 400 pounds of cotton never made it into the picker due to hard lock, boll rot and immature bolls. "Then when the sun did come out, the seed sprouted which hurt our fiber quality."
Arkansas cotton yields regressed to "levels of the mid-1980s" Main said. "Louisiana losses in cotton amounted to $81 million. They're growing 23 percent of their acreage high from the mid-1990s."
Main said another concern is the potential for loss of cotton infrastructure as cotton acres decline. "If cotton does make a comeback, we're going to have a hard time getting that infrastructure back after a few years."
Cotton yields in the Southwest "were fairly good, considering some of the challenges they saw in 2009," Main said. "J.C. Banks (Oklahoma cotton Extension specialist) says the state 'had a strong summer, but a weak finish. In both irrigated cotton and dryland, there were a lot of immature bolls that never filled out.'
"In the Texas High Plains, conditions were very similar. They had a cool September, with early freezes in many areas. As they continue to gin, they're finding that micronaire values are declining and bark contamination is trending higher."
In south Texas, cotton producers faced extremely dry conditions early, then weather turned wet late in the year, Main said. "They've continued to have problems with volunteer crops coming up where they were growing cotton in rotations.
"In the south-central area, the Coastal Bend and the Upper Coast took a dramatic hit on yield and bale production in 2009."
In the West, Arizona cotton acres increased slightly in 2009, while Upland and Pima acreage declined. "What amazes me is the yield they were able to get, a 1,700 pound estimated average for California and 1,450 pounds for Arizona," Main said. "They make a lot of cotton and a lot of quality cotton.
"Arizona had excellent conditions for getting crops in the ground, a cool beginning to summer, but then, heat returned with a vengeance. They ended the year with higher than average yields and quality."
Main said declines in dairy and forage crops could mean a lot of that acreage shifting back to cotton in Arizona.
California cotton producers "continue to be plagued by water issues. The cities want the water, and they're trying as hard as they can to take it away from farmers. But California is expecting a little bit of an increase in cotton acres in 2010."
Main said that a high point in 2009 has been the steady increase cotton prices. "World demand is increasing, and mills are starting to buy more cotton. World production was lower in 2009 because there were weather problems in the rest of the world.
"I think we can be fairly optimistic that in 2010, we're going to see some increased acres. I don't think we'll see a huge increase to where we were 4 or 5 years ago. But there is reason for optimism."
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Representatives of Catholic organizations at the World Social Forum in Dakar, Senegal, said that massive foreign investment in large tracts of land across Africa—"land grabbing," according to detractors—is pushing small farmers off their land and threatening another worldwide food crisis.
Martin Brockelman-Simon, executive director of Misereor, the German bishops' development agency, estimated that up to 48 million arable acres have been bought by interests outside of Africa since 2006. Foreign investors are using fertile or resource-rich African land to grow crops that can be exported to other countries or used for biofuel production, or for mining interests. "These deals are causing loss of food supply, social conflicts, depletion of water supplies, loss of jobs and ecological damage," Brockelman-Simon said.
"Food crops, such as jatropha, that can now be used for agro-fuels have become a very valuable commodity," said Rene Segbenou, president of the Benin-based National Network for Sustainable Management of Genetic Resources. "This is driving the push by foreign investors to buy up more and more land for the production of agro-fuels, as this has become a very lucrative business."
"Recent massive land grabs targeting tens of millions of acres for the benefit of private interests or third states...violate human rights by depriving peasants, pastoralists and fishermen of their means of production, by restricting their access to natural resources or by removing their freedom to produce as they wish," said a draft statement prepared by delegates at the six-day conference that ended on Feb. 11. Among those working on the statement were representatives of Misereor, Caritas Senegal, the Senegal bishops' Justice and Peace Commission and the Food First Information and Action Network.
Would-be private investors in Africa often suggest that Africa has huge swathes of unused and vacant lands that can be turned into easy profits, said Ruth Hall, a senior researcher at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies in Cape Town, South Africa. She said one company even claims that the purchase of African land is socially responsible, but Hall called Africa's purported land overabundance a marketing myth. Land that sometimes appears vacant is usually used by tribes or nomadic cattle herders, who need access to land to survive, she said.
Land-grabbing is relatively easy in Africa because few traditional communities maintain formal title to land that has often been used communally for generations. The Rev. Alphonse Seck, vicar general of the Diocese of Dakar and executive secretary of the Senegal bishops' Justice and Peace Commission, said customary land tenure systems must be given greater recognition. "We must not allow a new form of impoverishment of the masses that tramples on the rights of people to land," he said. The delegates' statement calls for national governments in Africa to cease what amounts to collusion with land-grabbers and to "implement an effective framework for the recognition and regulation of land rights for users through consultation with all stakeholders."
Placide Mukebo, coordinator of the Office of Development in the Diocese of Lubumbashi, Congo, said that land-grabbing by foreign mining companies is causing an exodus of small farmers to the cities. "The farmers are either forced off the lands, or they agree to go, but they don't get adequate compensation," he said. Mukebo said that 34 of the 51 farming communities the diocese has worked with have been displaced from their land in the last 10 years. Only seven communities held legal titles to land.


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Christmas may come early for Winnipeg Jets fans this year. Specifically, eight days in advance. Teemu Selanne has signed a one-year deal with the Anaheim Ducks and this season may be his last hurrah in the National Hockey League. On December 17th, Anaheim visit the MTS Centre for Selanne's first game against Winnipeg since the old incarnation of the team traded him to the then-Mighty Ducks in the 1996 season.
Winnipeg being in the Eastern Conference somehow means that the team will only play the Ducks a single time this season.
Over his four seasons (thrice shortened) in Winnipeg, Selanne scored 151 goals in just 237 games with the club, including a rookie-record 76-goal stunner in 1993 plus four more in the playoffs. Even in his limited time, Selanne was seventh all-time in regular season scoring with the team and left an indelible effect on the city. Many old school Jets jerseys are accompanied with his then-familiar number 13 and the clip of Selanne celebrating a goal against the Quebec Nordiques by shooting his glove with his stick is one of the more famous in Winnipeg sports history.
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By Michael D. Harris
That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.
"Justice" by Langston Hughes
Black males are brutes, child-like Sambos, criminals, irresponsible no-accounts, brainless athletic bodies, absentee fathers, and emasculated uncles. Each of these stereotypes is a placeholder; an idea meant to keep blacks in their "place." There is imagery built over the past two centuries to reinforce these stereotypes and still is used in movies, newspapers, and in television shows as a subtle code, though in smaller and smaller doses. Visual stereotypes amount to the one-dimensional quality of a silhouette, like those of a Kara Walker artwork. President Obama has morphed that silhouette of nappy hair and big lips into the irregular abstraction of a Rorschach ink blot and the responses to him can be read as a revelation of the psychology of the person responding.
The 2012 presidential election is a culmination of deeply ingrained white fear evoked by the image of a black president. Even though he is a mulatto and, because his father is African, has no slavery in his family history. Blackness over the centuries has been reduced to symbols, signs, and codes of ineptitude, inferiority, intellectual limitations, and dialectical use of the language; a slide from Ebonics to hip-hop Boyz in da hood.
The occasional Black Exception like Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Bill Cosby, and even Colin Powell has been given room to exist, but the President has aroused shocking levels of white racist anger, even as he makes exceptional efforts to transcend race in his behavior and rhetoric and policies.
My belief is that the President has exploded the visual signs of blackness by inhabiting the most powerful position on earth with an integrity not seen often since the Jimmy Carter presidency. He is not alienated from his children as was Mr. Reagan. His devotion to his family defies all the old stereotypes of black male irresponsibility and is in contrast with the dalliances of Bill Clinton. His intellect and command of language has driven George W. Bush into hiding.
Now, here's the punchline. The stereotypical images and symbols of blackness have been drained of power and racism – itself a primitive 18th century concoction – can never again effectively make use of the old assumptions. The emperor has no clothes! Racism is the intellectual core of white supremacy and its undeserved privilege and self-esteem. And mortal wounds to this idea have brought closet racists out into the open howling. The symbolic structure of racist assumptions has begun its collapse.
Mitt Romney belongs to a religious organization that has only recently tinkered with its structure to remove racist doctrines, something that somehow has not come up in his campaign for president. The Romney-Ryan ticket, and the Republican convention that sanctioned it, did not bother to suggest diversity and Romney's speeches have directly or with coded references told lower class white males that, if they vote against their economic interests again, Romney will defend them against women, illegal aliens, blacks, and taxes as he privatizes the United States.
When Barack Obama was inaugurated as President, the visual signifier that has been Negro, colored, blackness or whatever you might call it, including mulatto or octoroon, was mutilated and crippled. I perceive the coded white rage against him, the attempts to delegitimize him about his American birth, the unprecedented disrespect of the office of President with derisive shouts in Congress, people calling him Obama in public instead of President Obama, to be the spasms of white supremacy in a death wheeze.
The symbol has been cracked and can never function again to evoke Sambo or the black buck or the mythological rapist threatening white womanhood. Obama has the most important job in the world. He speaks more coherently than his processor. He is very public about his respect and caring for his wife and family. And he has limited the access of the wealthy to the US Treasury.
Justice, according to Langston Hughes, is blind, but we know that it is not. It can still see color beneath its blindfold. Sadly, so many whites still see in Barack Obama the color of his heritage rather than the content of his character and they would rather burn down the house than let him occupy it. Those responding to the image of President Obama in this way seem to have festering sores on the soul.
Michael D. Harris is Assoc. Professor of African American Studies at Emory University


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I checked the front and back and both faucets bibs reads 50psi. Right now I am using a 3/4" pvc coming off the faucet header line and then using 1/2" pvc lateral line to sprinkler head. My main line close to the meter is using a 1/2" copper pipe with 50psi that is 6.5 gpm.
You said 6gpm going through a 1/2" copper pipe reaches the danger zone. Does this mean I could have a pipe inside my house burst by setting up this type of system using the ouside faucet? If that is the case it would be better if I did use the main water line. thanks for your help
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If you are anything like a lot of the guys here in our office, as the summer starts to draw to a close it can only mean one thing… it's almost cyclocross season! Stretching from mid-September into February (depending on where you live), the cyclocross season fills the winter competitive void for road cyclists and mountain bikers alike.
For those in need of a quick primer, cyclocross racing dates back to the early 1900s, more than likely started after early road racers raced each other home across fields and through woods and soon decided that a race like that would be a great way to stay in shape in the winter months (plus it just sounds like fun). From it's probable origins in France, cyclocross racing spread throughout Europe in the years before World War II (and most significantly into Belgium, the undisputed spiritual home of 'cross, if only because of the rabid fans).
But it wasn't until 1950 that the first Cyclocross World Championships were organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale (the governing body for world cycling). In the US, 'cross really only became popular in the 1970s, starting from hotbeds in the Northeast, Northwest, and in California. Of course now there are races and series all over this country, although the highest professional level of the sport, the UCI Cyclocross World Cup, still takes place only in Europe. The exciting news is that that may be changing soon, as cyclocross gains in prestige and popularity here in the US, since Louisville, KY was recently awarded the 2013 Elite World Championships.
Cyclocross races usually consist of many laps over a short course (2 miles or less), ending after a pre-determined time limit. Basically the lap time of the lead rider is taken and then the remaining number of laps is determined by this initial lap time; i.e.: if the lead rider does his first lap in 10 minutes and the race is an elite level race, usually 60 minutes long, then the field will have 5 more laps to complete. The remaining number of laps is posted at the start/finish line for the field to see as they pass by during each lap.
Terrain varies from paved roads to grassy fields to dirt paths (with mud or sand pits), featuring short steep climbs, off camber sections, lots of corners and sections (like the one with barriers below) where the rider may need, or would be best advised, to dismount and run while carrying the bike (although courses are usually about 90% rideable). Because of the varied terrain in a cyclocross race, a cyclocross bike looks like a modified standard road bike, with better clearance for wider knobby tires, cables routed on top of the top tube to allow the bike to be shouldered, lower gearing, and cantilever brakes (plus mountain bike-style clipless pedals are also usually employed for their quicker entry and exit).
So that should give you a good idea of the basics of cyclocross riding and racing, but really the only way to get a real feel for 'cross is to give it a try. One of the best ways to try out 'cross is at a local clinic, where you can pick up tips and tricks from more experienced riders. Here at Performance we have an established group of cyclocross riders and racers, and they are always willing to share their hard-earned knowledge at bi-weekly 'cross clinics, where we caught up with Spin Doctor Advisors Randy and Eric (part of our team of employee product testers & advisors) to talk about why they love riding and racing cyclocross:
We'll be following the cyclocross racers from Performance here on the blog throughout the season, so check back for more updates. The first race for many of the guys (and gals) will be the Charm City Cross weekend of races, in Baltimore, MD on September 18-19. Keep an eye out for our Tyler's team kits and stop by to say hello!


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Well to be fair, the dwarves have seen a dragon before. (That and it was basically a single line out of the novel where it is hard to see if what they are seeing is real, or just figurative. They made no serious mention of it afterwards regardless, save maybe in tales. And even then....the trolls and goblins lasted longer and the dwarves and hobbit could act with them. Giants? They heed not, nor are effected by the lesser creatures of the world. Even Gandalf makes very little of comments on Giants in all versions of the wizard)
Plus...dwarves. Food first, death and worry later.
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What's the point of going on an adventure if you never comment about how amazing or terrifying the adventure is? The giants were treated so mundane as to make them no better than a fallen branch blocking their path.
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Well technically, only Bilbo is on an Adventure. The Dwarves are just heading home to retake the mountain (a quest). What happens between point A and point B means little to them if it doesn't achieve their goal (or feed them).
And Gandalf is Gandalf. He's way older that anybody and seen way more than anybody. He's technically an "angel" in terms of rank in the world.
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Personally, I had always taken the "giant" sequence as just a really nasty mountain storm with avalanches. We were just getting a dwarven mythic explanation of it in the book (imo). Peter Jackson took it literally (as some readers did).
Actual stone giants .... errrrrrr, just doesn't seem to fit in the LOTR universe well (and it was another instance in the film of dwarves engaging in Wiley Coyote cartoon physics in surviving it). This was the early part of the story when Tolkien couldn't seem to decide whether he was writing a children's book or not.
Not that I think much of children's books that treat their readers as if anything can be pulled out of thin air for a cheap "o wow". Seriously, I love "The Hobbit" but I'm completely aware that it is a very awkward work in some ways.
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The novel mostly reads like a childrens novel until I think someplace in Mirkwood, or possibly after that. There is less singing and such around that point.
I can see Jackson taking it literally due to his concept artists who go for style. Artist will make a metaphoric concept seem real, so a director, in seeing that would go "Let's do that. It would look cool and dramatic".
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I'm a literal person myself. If the text says "stone giants," I see 'em as stone giants. If it says "and he fell upon the towers of Thangorodrim, and they were broken in his ruin," I'm going to see Ancalagon as a dragon colossal enough to crush three mountains. It is a fantasy world after all. To intepret such things as metaphor (unless the author elsewhere says they are, but I don't remember if Tolkien did), just representing natural, realistic occurrences rather than being something truly fantastic, is so mundane and dull to my mind.
It hardly seems like a big deal though. Maybe they talked about it together at some other point; we didn't see them 24/7 after all, it's a movie. And really, what do we need to hear them say?
"So...how bout those giants?"
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"Sure were."
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I don't think we really needed for them to talk about it.
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Just to clarify, I don't object to the giants, that was just a matter of interpretation the text. I only objected to the dwarves/hobbit's careening about far past the level that "blood and bone" could handle. Some hyperbole is mythic, etc but over and over again and it starts gonging.
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I do agree about the over the top nature of some scenes (the escape from the Goblins just got whackier the longer it went, and the giants I think could have been just observed fighting rather than what happened), but just to throw a bit of a mind screw in the works, look at it this way... what we are seeing is what Bilbo is writing in the book and his recollection. So what we can take from this is Bilbo loves to embellish his stories to the ninth degree, and is a lying sneaking kleptomaniac. :P
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That and Bilbo revised it a few times...as did Frodo I think.
(That and if I recall Tolkien changed it a bit to fit the Lord of the Rings, the Revised version having a passage about Gandalf sort of forcing the truth about what happened with Gollum out of Bilbo...the original version being what he told the Dwarves and possibly Frodo originally).
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The Simarillion is to the history of Middle Earth what the ancient testament is to the Bible - the Genesis + everything that came until the birth and rise of an eventual savior. There are more storylines in it than in LotR, more characters, lost locations (most of the area in which things take place was destroyed by natural cataclysms before the events of LotR), etc. It's not a streamlined storyline like in the LotR saga, so it's no surprise that it's harder to read. Not to mention that by nature it's more steeped in old European (Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, etc, etc) legends than LotR ever was, so the writing style is the only things that feels quite different - the entire atmosphere is, too.
Anyway, it's not an update, but Peter Jackson did a video Q&A with fans - and it looks like there are scenes from the Desolation of Smaug (you can see Thranduil - and is that Legolas?) in it.
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There were a lot of unnamed Elves in the book as well as every other race. I really don't see too much wrong with the notion. Tolkien certainly had women in combat - see the Kelts, Scandinavian, and Germanic tribes in the history he drew from for real examples.
The Mirkwood part of the story in the Hobbit is pretty sketchy as it is. Legolas *should* have been a character in that part but isn't even mentioned. He's the son of the freaking king!
An adaptation that provides some additional context could be interesting - rather like the Appendices in the LOTR provided meat for all sorts of side stories. Just for context, I first read LOTR and the Hobbit back in the mid-1970s and have re-read them a couple of dozen times since then. I've always considered the Hobbit a bit wobbly compared to LOTR and often wished Tolkien would have gone back and retro-rewritten it.
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TORONTO (AP) — A judge has ruled that a pet monkey found wandering outside an Ikea store in Toronto should not be returned to the woman who calls herself his mom.
The monkey, named Darwin, became famous last year when he was spotted walking around the parking lot wearing a tiny shearling coat.
The monkey's owner, Yasmin Nakhuda, had asked a court to get Darwin back. But Ontario Superior Court Judge Mary Vallee ruled Friday that while the monkey may have worn clothing and slept in his former owner's bed, he is still a wild animal and therefore should not be returned to her.
Nakhuda's lawyer's office said she would not be commenting on the decision. After she lost previous interim bids to get Darwin back, Nakhuda left court distraught.


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Israel Hicks remembered at Red Rocks
Here's a report from Chris Wiger, manager of publicity and public relations for the Denver Center Theatre Company. This report will grow, as more testimonials and photos come in … The following are Chris' words:
"Red Rocks Amphitheatre sits at the foot of the majestic Rocky Mountains just west of Denver. The legendary and awe-inspiring venue has been a favorite of performers from the Beatles to Sting.
Sunday evening (July 11), friends and colleagues from across the nation joined Israel's wife, Renee, and his Denver Center Theatre Company family at Red Rocks. We felt the presence of all of you in the gusts of wind and tear-inspired sprinkles as dark Colorado skies threatened.
We came from Los Angeles' Ebony Repertory Theatre (Founder/ Producer Wren T. Brown), from New York's SUNY Purchase College (Dean Irby), from the Denver Center Theatre Company (former artistic sirector Donovan Marley, current artistic director Kent Thompson) and from Israel's company of actors (Charles Weldon, Harvy Blanks, Kim Staunton, Candy Brown, Marlene Warfield, Kathleen M. Brady, Annette Helde, Randy Moore, Leslie O'Carroll, Keith Hatten, Laurence Curry, Alphonse Keasley, Tyee Tilghman and more). We shed tears and laughed.
Israel was just directing a pre-show. We were stunned to see the finale Israel had planned… In the sky directly in front of us appeared the full arc of a brilliant double rainbow. Waiting to fade … only with the proper dramatic effect … until we gave Israel a final standing ovation.
Israel, may your spirit be at home in these mountains you loved near the stages where you and August Wilson made theatrical history.


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by LoganRSA » Fri Mar 15, 2013 9:28 am
by GOSD » Fri Mar 15, 2013 10:24 amTime to throw you down the well, yoni.
by guitarsmashley » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:07 am
In my country there is problem.
by S.F. Jude Terror » Fri Mar 15, 2013 11:30 am
by The Beast » Fri Mar 15, 2013 1:40 pm
LMFAO, you sound like a 14 year old girl in junior high, who runs around assessing everyone's maturity levels.
When, exactly, did I use Jew as an insult against yoni? All I did was challenge him on why tasteless humor based on cultural stereotypes is such a big deal that he brings it up on the internet. I experience negative feedback for my religious beliefs and philosophical outlook by the same posters, who are now offended by me advocating tasteless humor about cultural stereotypes, so why the double standard? Oh I get it, Judaism is legit but Ancient Aliens aren't. Progressive Socialism that empowers the bureaucrat at the expense of the individual is legit but Libertarianism that empowers the individual and limits the bureaucrat isn't. It's easy to dish out but nobody can take it anymore.
I can't stop people from ridiculing me for my Winterfolk philosophy and every time Jude or someone else does, it's just as "racist" as me using Jew as a verb, right? Except I didn't actually use Jew as a verb here, I only rationalized that the use of Jew as a verb and other cultural stereotypical humor isn't truly racist because it doesn't necessarily advocate hatred or intolerance. Just because I might use Jew as a verb in a tasteless joke doesn't mean I would ever verbally assault a Jewish person or tolerate such abuse to happen in my presence, unlike the rest of the people here who make repeated insults to my intelligence and my sanity for my beliefs. Now are they just having fun with tasteless humor, or because the tasteless humor is aimed directly at me and the tasteless humor is intended to serve as a rallying call to others in order to advocate intolerance and or hatred for me, does that context make their tasteless humor, "racist"?
Aye, there's the rub, it always boils down to context. For me to admit that I use cultural stereotypical humor in selective company isn't racist any more than it is when your good friends bust your ballz about being Jewish, or you bust theirs for not being part of the tribe, however, every time someone here labels me as sub standard for my Winterfolk philosophy, they are doing so in a mean spirit to advocate intolerance and hatred of me. That is, in fact, truly "racist".
Now here's the big difference between me and all the rest; I don't really care because sticks and stones are the only things I have to worry about. Names don't hurt me because I know my detractors are ignorant hypocrites who have abandoned common sense for the conventional wisdom of Groupthink. I wouldn't dream of giving them the satisfaction of knowing that they possibly hurt my feelings; that would empower them. I certainly wouldn't criminalize their behavior in order to rationalize increased censorship as a pre emptive measure so I wouldn't have to confront my fears of being ostracized and ridiculed by people that don't like me.
I have plenty of courage to face any and all challenges in life and even if I can't, I'll fake it till I make it.
by Chesscub » Fri Mar 15, 2013 1:41 pmSeeing the responses to Nkrist makes me happy that he's the only person I put on ignore.
by GOSD » Fri Mar 15, 2013 2:19 pmNt, you need to relax...
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by S.F. Jude Terror » Fri Mar 15, 2013 3:28 pm
This is good advice.
by S.F. Jude Terror » Fri Mar 15, 2013 4:13 pm
Ntkrist, here's the thing. I understand your libertarian views dictate that you should be able to say whatever you want because words do not infringe on people's rights. I'd even agree with that in theory.
The thing is, we don't live in a libertarian utopia. We live a civilization where we share space with each other. The same is true of this forum. It is a small community of people who are mostly friendly to each other.
It's not polite to say that you believe "Jew" is a word that should be used to mean "ripped off" or "cheap." You may feel that someone shouldn't allow themselves to be insulted by that, or that they are silly for being insulted like that, but the end result is that you're the one no one wants to hang out because you're "that guy," the guy that's saying shit that's offensive just to prove a point. Maybe you prove your point, you know, to yourself and the two people that already agree with you (Food Eater Lad and Thunderstorm). To everyone else, you've just pissed them off and they're not listening to your message.
I know because I've been that guy.
So take this friendly advice: I enjoy your "thought-provoking conversation" about stuff like winterfolk and summerfolk, or aliens, or libertarian philospohy.
Stick to that, and avoid racial slurs, even if you think you're being intellectual about it. It's just not the kind of thing you can have a polite conversation about. You can blame whoever you want, but it is what it is.
I'd prefer to see you stick around here. People make some concessions to be part of a group. This is the time to make that concession. Just walk away from this argument, change the topic or something, and try to think, "is there really any reason I should say this other than to shock people?" If the answer is no, maybe pick your battles and save it for another time.
-Your Friend, Jude Terror
by guitarsmashley » Fri Mar 15, 2013 5:17 pm
Or masturbate while wearing a very, very very tight neck tie. You know, whatever.
by guitarsmashley » Fri Mar 15, 2013 5:24 pm
Who the fuck are you?
by S.F. Jude Terror » Fri Mar 15, 2013 5:28 pm
I can be honest once in a while! It's hard to be Jude Terror 24/7!
by Garofani Spruzzo » Fri Mar 15, 2013 6:04 pm
Dammit, if there's one thing we've learned this week, it's that a little earnestness is murder on a thread!
We've been Jude'd!
by guitarsmashley » Fri Mar 15, 2013 7:06 pm
I blame it on the weight loss.
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NASHVILLE (March 7, 2009) -- For the second time in four years, the ETSU men's basketball team will play in the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship game for a chance to advance to the NCAA Tournament. The Buccaneers will meet Jacksonville at 6 p.m. (EST) inside Lipscomb's Allen Arena.
The game will air nationally on ESPN2.
No. 2-seeded ETSU enters the game on a four-game winning streak, but will meet the No. 1 seed Jacksonville, a team on a two-game streak of its own and the regular season A-Sun Champion.
For more on the game, click on the game notebook above, or read the game notes below.
The Bucs All-Time in the A-Sun Tournament
Entering just their fourth Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament, the Buccaneers are 5-3 all-time, having lost in the first round of the event in 2006, advancing to the finals in 2007, and falling in the semifinals in 2008 ... In conference tournaments all-time (including the Southern and Ohio Valley), the Bucs are 35-21, having gone 6-3 in league championship finals.
Last time out in the A-Sun Tournament
NASHVILLE (March 6, 2009) - Led by a game-high 30 points from senior guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis), the ETSU men's basketball team finally ended Belmont's three-year run of Atlantic Sun Conference championships with an 88-74 victory over the Bruins Friday evening in the semifinals of the General Shale Brick A-Sun Championships at Allen Arena ... On his way to his 30 points, Pigram eclipsed the 2,000-point mark for his career, moved past Keith "Mister" Jennings to stand third on the ETSU all-time scoring list, and became just the second player in A-Sun history to record 2,000 points for his career. Pigram was joined in double figures scoring by senior forward Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) with 21 points, junior guard Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) with 19, and sophomore forward Tommy Hubbard (Boston) with 11 ... Despite possessing the top two scoring offenses on the A-Sun, both the Bucs and Bruins got off to slow shooting starts to begin the game and the score stood at just 10-9 with 11:58 left before the intermission. From there, the lead changed six times until the Bucs took a 16-14 edge and extended their advantage to 10 points at 34-24 on a Pigram 3-pointer with 1:56 left in the half ... Belmont was able to regroup from there and collect the final five points of the half to make the score 34-29 at the break. In the first half, ETSU held Belmont to just 37 percent shooting and outrebounded the Bruins 18-16, forcing eight Belmont turnovers and shooting 43 percent from the floor ... The first half included an historic moment for Pigram, whose first field goal of the game at the 10:21 mark allowed him to move to No. 3 on the Bucs' all-time scoring list, passing Jennings who scored 1,988 points in his career. Pigram later added to the history with his 3-pointer at the 1:56 mark, which moved him past the 2,000-point scoring plateau. Pigram trails only Centenary's Willie Jackson on the scoring list, as Jackson finished his career with 2,535 points ... The second half opened with an 8-0 ETSU run that made the score 42-29 with 17:43 left, but Belmont immediately answered with its own 13-2 burst to get the game back to two points at 44-42 with just over 14 minutes left in the game ... Despite a pair of mini runs for the Bucs midway through the half that pushed the lead out to as many as 10 points, the ETSU advantage remained just two points at 72-70 with 3:16 left in regulation. However, from there the Bucs made five straight defensive stops and outscored the Bruins 16-4 the rest of the way to secure the victory.
Last time in the A-Sun Finals
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (March 3, 2007) - Second-seeded Belmont earned its second straight trip to the NCAA tournament with a dominating 94-67 win over ETSU in the championship game of the 2007 General Shale Brick Atlantic Sun Men's Basketball Championship ... The Bruins did it the hard way, beating the Bucs on their home floor inside Memorial Center. Of course, Belmont has made Johnson City its home away from home since ETSU joined the A-Sun, winning all eight games inside the mini-dome ... The Bruins were in control of the game from the opening tap and never relented. They were a remarkable 14-for-29 from 3-point range, but that only tells part of the story. Their sizeable early was built in the opening 20 minutes and came on the strength of remarkable shooting display from beyond the arc. A 22-7 run in the first seven minutes showed what kind of game it was going to be. Belmont started with six different players making 3-pointers ... It kept going from there. An 11-point lead at that point kept growing as the half wore on. ETSU tried to make a couple of runs to put a dent in the Belmont armor, but poor shooting snuffed out the early comeback attempts ... Meanwhile, Belmont kept firing and making from long range, sinking 12-of-19 from long distance before the break. The last one was really a dagger to the Bucs comeback chances. ETSU's Brad Nuckles finally got one to fall with four seconds left but tournament MVP Justin Hare raced downcourt and hit a running, double-pump 3 at the buzzer to keep momentum on the side of the Bruins ... Overall, Belmont shot 53 percent in the first half while limiting ETSU to 35 ... Trailing big at the half, Bartow and the Bucs did not loose faith, but a second-half run was not to be.
ETSU in conference tournament finals
The Buccaneers have played in eight previous tournament finals and hold an impressive 6-3 mark ... The following is a breakdown of those games:
1983 -- vs. Chattanooga, 70-62 (L)
1989 -- vs. Marshall, 96-73 (W)
1990 -- vs. Appalachian State, 96-75 (W)
1991 -- vs. Appalachian State, 101-82 (W)
1992 -- vs. Chattanooga, 74-62 (W)
1993 -- vs. Chattanooga, 86-75 (L)
2003 -- vs. Chattanooga, 97-90 (W)
2004 -- vs. Chattanooga, 78-62 (W)
2007 -- vs. Belmont, 67-94 (L)
E-mail campaign, pre-game chants inspire Pigram
Having struggled through a tough five-game stretch in through the month of February, senior guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis) had lost his confidence and his game ... However, instead of booing the four-year Buccaneer star, ETSU's fan base began a grass roots movement to send e-mails of support and encouragment to Pigram ... The ETSU administration then joined in by promoting a series of chants prior to the Bucs' game with Kennesaw State on Feb. 26 ... The efforts worked, as Pigram was greeted with chants of "Let's go, CP" even before the tip ... He ultimately hit his first shot and scored 16 points that night ... Pigram has sense scored 38 points, 15 and 30 in his last three games.
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With a put back at the 2:08 mark of the first half at Lipscomb on Feb. 16, ETSU senior forward Kevin Tiggs (Flint, Mich.) eclipsed the 1,000-point mark for his career ... Meanwhile, Tiggs' teammate -- junior Mike Smith (Vandalia, Mo.) -- reached that same pinnacle with a free throw at the 2:06 mark of the second half against USC Upstate on Feb. 19 ... Tiggs now stands at 1,155 points for his career, and Smith is at 1,090 ... While it is not rare to have multiple players on the same team that "eventually" become 1,000-point scorers, having multiple players on the same team that have already eclipsed 1,000-points is rare ... And now, the Bucs have Smith, Tiggs and senior guard Courntey Pigram (Memphis) that have reached that milestone ... The only two times in ETSU history that the Bucs have had three or more 1,000 point scorers on the floor at the same time was in 1990-91 and 2003-04 ... In 1990-91, four 1,000-point scorers were on the floor together at the same time, Keith "Mister" Jennings, Calvin Talford, Major Geer and Alvin West were on the floor together ... The other season this occurred was in 2003-04, when Jerald Fields, Zakee Wadood and Tim Smith all reached 1,000 points.
Pigram eclipses 2,000 pts.; joins exclusive A-Sun club
With 30 points against Belmont, senior guard Courtney Pigram (Memphis) moved to 2,017 points for his career ... With those points, he passed for ETSU great Keith "Mister" Jennings for third on the program's all-time scoring list ... And he became only the second player in A-Sun play to reach 2,000 points for his career.
Name School Years` POINTS
Willie Jackson Cent 1980-84 2535
* Courtney Pigram ETSU 2005- 1987
Sam Mitchell Mer 1981-85 1986
Craig Beard Sam 1982-85 1985
Steve Barker Sam 1978-82 1902
More Notes on Pigram
* By passing Beard and/or Mitchell, it was a change in the top three scorers in A-Sun history for the first time in 25 years. The last time a season ended with the Top 3 not being Jackson, Mitchell and Beard was after the 1983-84 season. Also, if Pigram reaches 2,000, he would end the longest active drought for any DI conference between 2,000 point scorers.
ETSU the "only" A-Sun team picked among nation's best "Prestige" programs
Since the beginning of the modern era for NCAA Division I-A basketball - marked by the expansion of the NCAA Tournament field to 64 teams in 1984-85 - ETSU men's basketball ranks in the Top 30 percent of the 300 programs that were eligible for the postseason at that time, this according to a new "Prestige" ranking released by ESPN.com in the summer of 2008 ... The Buccaneers, who have enjoyed six NCAA Tournament trips, one NIT berth, eight 20-win seasons, and a slew of conference regular season and tournament championships since 1984-85, ranked tied for 82nd out of 300 teams, meaning they were in the Top 27 percent of schools making the list. ETSU ranked ahead of every current Atlantic Sun Conference team, as well as former Southern Conference rivals Appalachian State, Western Carolina, Georgia Southern and UNC Greensboro. The Bucs were placed ahead of every member of the Colonial Athletic Association with the exception of Old Dominion ... In addition, the Bucs ranked ahead of SEC schools such as Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mississippi State, Georgia, Mississippi and Auburn, as well as other programs like Virginia Tech, Notre Dame, DePaul, Bradley, Clemson, California and Florida State.


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Diane Kruger stops at Gelson's Market to pick up some fresh flowers on Wednesday afternoon (May 8) in Hollywood.
The 36-year-old actress picked up quite a few bouquets to brighten up her home after arriving back in Los Angeles following a trip to New York City with boyfriend Joshua Jackson to attend the annual Met Ball.
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Diane sported pink hair tips while walking the red carpet at the star-studded event earlier in the week.
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I'm wondering who else from the media blogosphere got a similar package to me this week (in addition to Ian and Neville)? On Monday I got a very cryptic and little bit scary package - a photocopy of some kind of message but with details censored and with too little info left on it to decipher what it meant. And a pay as you go sim card. Here are some pics of what I got.
What happened next involved some cryptic emails and wap texts. Very cool and slick. Anyone else get sent this too?


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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A person with knowledge of the workout says the son of Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana is set to participate in the San Francisco 49ers' local pro day Wednesday.
Nate Montana will take part in the afternoon session for draft-eligible players at team headquarters, the person said Tuesday, speaking on condition of anonymity because the list of players hadn't been announced.
The 23-year-old Montana played college football for four different schools — Pasadena City College, Notre Dame, Montana and Division II West Virginia Wesleyan, where he concluded his career. At West Virginia Wesleyan, Montana started nine games last season and completed 225 of 436 passes for 2,480 yards and 19 touchdowns with seven interceptions and 12 sacks.
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No Copyright Intended: The Coming Generation Who Intrinsically Assumes Remix & Sharing Makes Sense
from the the-modern-prohibition dept
How pervasive is it? There are about 489,000 YouTube videos that say "no copyright intended" or some variation, and about 664,000 videos have a "copyright disclaimer" citing the fair use provision in Section 107 of the Copyright Act.As he notes, many kids really seem to hope that just explaining their intentions will ward off a takedown, even though so many takedowns are automated these days. But the key point that Baio makes is at the end, where he notes that "no amount of lawsuits or legal threats will change the fact that this behavior is considered normal..." And from there, he suggests that as this generation ages, and begins voting, the trend of ever more draconian copyright laws is going to start to look pretty silly:
Here's a thought experiment: Everyone over age 12 when YouTube launched in 2005 is now able to vote.We've been arguing the same thing for a while. We're often told that as these kids grow up and "learn" more about copyright they'll change their minds. I just don't see it. It may happen for a small percentage, but it's tough for these kids to deny reality. Sharing content, remixing content and building on content is so natural to them. The idea that it should be illegal simply makes no sense at all. No amount of "education" (even if it involves McGruff the Crime Dog) can fool people into believing that nonsense is reasonable.
What happens when — and this is inevitable — a generation completely comfortable with remix culture becomes a majority of the electorate, instead of the fringe youth? What happens when they start getting elected to office? (Maybe "I downloaded but didn't share" will be the new "I smoked, but didn't inhale.")
Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone voices calling for temperance. You can criminalize commonplace activities from law-abiding people, but eventually, something has to give.


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Valley Yarns 541 Glacial Project Basket
The swirling layers, shape and depth of this project basket reminds me of the Glacial Potholes here in Shelburne Falls. The Glacial Project Basket from Valley Yarns uses three strands of bulky yarn held together, which means this project comes together fast.The color changing ombre effect keeps your attention and becomes a subtle flow of tones once felted.
Finished Size: about 20" wide and 18" deep after felting
Yarn: Valley Yarns Berkshire Bulky (85% wool/15% alpaca, 100g/108yds)
5 skeins #42 Dark grey Heather (C1)
3 skeins each of #43 Med Grey Heather (C2), #41 Light Grey Heather (C3), #38 Stone Blue (C4), #24 Light Blue (C5)
1 skein #25 Blue (C6)
Hook: US size 17 (12.00mm) or size needed to get gauge
Gauge: about 5sc and 8 rows = 4"


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BOSTON, Mass. – The nationally-ranked No. 9 MIT men's volleyball team kicked off the 2012 season with a 25-16, 21-25, 25-21, 25-16 victory over Wentworth Institute of Technology on Tuesday night. Sophomore Ken Siebert (St. Louis, Mo.) recorded 13 kills, five digs, and four aces, while senior David Thomas (Carlsbad, Calif.) added 11 kills, eight digs, and four aces for the Engineers.
The opening set was a see-saw battle that featured nine ties while neither team led by more than three points at any time. Wentworth would force the last deadlock at 16; however, MIT responded with nine unanswered points to take win.
Keyed by a kill and a block from sophomore Mike Buonincontra (Shelton, Conn.), the Leopards quickly established a 7-1 advantage in the second frame. Wentworth maintained its comfortable margin throughout the set as its lead grew to eight on three occasions.
The hosts stayed in front for the majority of the third set, eventually going up 18-14. MIT slowly chipped away at the deficit and evened the score at 21 courtesy of an ace from Thomas. His tough serving closed out the set and powered the Cardinal and Gray to the victory.
In the final game, Wentworth went ahead, 3-1, but the Engineers scored the next three points to take the lead. An error knotted the set; however, MIT generated an 11-5 run which resulted in a 15-9 advantage. The Leopards continued to attack, trimming their deficit to four (20-16), but MIT countered by tallying the final five points of the match.
Siebert and Thomas also added two blocks apiece for the Engineers, who received nine kills from freshman Alex Klein (San Diego, Calif.). Senior Jeremy Velazquez (Chelmsford, Mass.) registered nine digs as sophomore Paul Syta (Fairport, N.Y.) dished out 27 assists in his intercollegiate debut.
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Makes: about 12 ice cubes
Cucmber Mint Ice Cubes
seedless (English) cucmber
fresh mint leaves
teaspoon granulated sugar
pinches salt
For each drink
ounce gin
tonic water to top
mint sprigs to garnish
In This Recipe
- Cut the cucumber into small chunks and drop into a blender. Top with the mint leaves, sugar and salt and add a little water to get things going. Puree the cucumber and mint until smooth. You may need to press down on the cucumbers to get them into the blades. Add a little more water if needed. Place a fine mesh strainer over a bowl and pour in the cucumber puree. Leave the puree to sit and drain into the bowl for about half an hour. You can shake the strainer, but don't press down on the solids or the mixture will become cloudy and pulpy – and you don't want your drink to become too thick as the ice melts. Pour the liquid into a 2-cup measuring cup (you should have about 1 cup of liquid). Add enough water to make two cups. Pour the cucumber juice into ice cube trays and freeze until solid. Don't throw away the pulp from the cucumbers, it's great stirred into Greek yogurt to make a dip for fresh vegetables.
- Place three to four cucumber cubes into a double old fashioned glass and add the gin, pour over the tonic and add a mint sprig. Enjoy!
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|2012-06-29, 15:24
|Link #881
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
I don't feel like anything was resolved at the end. I mean, sure, it's nice for the three of them to see they're all doing fine, but they've all built their lives apart from each other. What are they supposed to do now?
Especially Kaoru and Ritsuko. It's not like they couldn't have gotten in touch if they wanted to. We're supposed to believe that now they're going to reconnect? That their "love story" meant anything after high school? Is Ritsuko Kaoru's beard or something?
|2012-06-29, 15:42
|Link #882
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: UK
Age: 27
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|2012-06-29, 17:41
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|2012-06-29, 17:55
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|2012-06-29, 19:09
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I'm so conflicted on Kaoru as a character. I didn't think it was possible for someone to be such a bitch half the time and a pretty awesome person the other half. I think this is the main reason I disliked the romance angles with this show, it seemed to bring out the worst in the characters, while the friendship's left me feeling a lot happier. I feel Kaoru would of been a bunch better character if he wasn't always trying to get with Rii-chan.
And like others, I'm conflicted on the last few episodes as well. I wasn't too happy with episodes 10 and 11, and the first half of 12 was incredibly infuriating with the usual Kaouri/Rii-chan ackward awfulness that they have to jam into every episode, but I quite enjoyed the last half, even if it was incredibly ambiguous. I haven't read the manga so I can't comment on how different is was.
|2012-06-29, 20:43
|Link #887
Loves the Experience
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Earth...hopefully
Still, I've made it clear in the past that I hate narration with a passion.
|2012-06-29, 23:10
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Math Ninja
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Ventura County CA
Age: 54
I liked the church jam session. Similar things happen at my church several times a year. And since I'm the archivist for the music department, I can share one of them with you:
Spoiler for Musical selection...:
I also like that Ri-chan showed up at the end. After seeing this final episode, I now think that the primary focus of this story was not the Kaoru/Sentaro relationship, but rather the relationship between all three of them. Together they are family, and the bond runs between all three.
|2012-06-29, 23:40
|Link #889
As for the friendship side of the story, a lot of that was conveyed through the jazz jam sessions as well as the ways that they supported each other. They also fought on occasions and came back together after like happens in pretty much any friendship and unlike a lot of stuff I've seen the fighting didn't really feel like an attempt to inject tension into the story, because the tone of the story never really changed so much as shifted gears.
I don't know, I guess this one just clicked with me in a way these types of shows often fail to do and thus I just can't be disappointed in it. It felt genuine and heartfelt and decidely non-commercial and that to me is more important than how well a show follows the source or how "rushed" it feels, which is I understand of utmost importance to a lot of people. That's cool, but the way I look at it is that It's never going to be it's source material, it was evident at the beginning of production when it was announced as a noitaminA. Thus I simply did not expect it and instead chose to take the story as it was presented to me which frankly was fine.
I guess I'll let that be my final word on the overall show. Between this and Chihayafuru I'd say good character drama is alive and strong in anime.
|2012-06-30, 04:11
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Have some salt
When I was informed that the series was 12 episodes, I was kinda worried, because I was wondering what the hell could they do resolve this, and naturally this episode had plenty of whiplash, with Kaoru almost going into emo-mode, but thankfully this show is actually well written and averted disaster. Still, with the time skip it was pretty rough, but the musical performance at the end was just too awesome to ignore.
I suppose there were no grand plots to resolve, battles to be won, romances to be cemented, but that's not what Kids on the Slope is about. It's just about life itself, and we just got a piece of it for our wonderful cast; like I've said, this show is about the experience. I suppose I wasn't truly into any of them, but they were memorable, execution was great especially concerning the music and lord knows we need more quality male characters. This season has done well in providing them. That ending with Sen and Kaoru running back meeting up with Ritsuko and the very excellent OP (best one thus far this year) in the end, is really something.
8/10 for that finale, and 8.5/10 for the series overall. It's been a great ride.
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|2012-06-30, 05:14
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: U.A.E. - Dubai
Age: 32
Ep 11 + Ep 12
OH, that was breathtaking!
You just know, KNOW, that Sen will run away after his step-dad is back wether it was a car accident, or a school festival incident or anything else that might affect the fragile connection.
The 8 years time skip was quite jarring. I wish they dedicated a whole episode rather than just half, because the coincidences seemed forced. As for the open-ending... I can always wish for extras or something. (moar SEN x KAORU~ )
Over all, I absolutely loved this series! I'll never forget the jam sessions, I'm beginning to like Jazz.
In the last episode (12), When Ri-chan is with her friend in the cafe (around 2:37), what's that song in the background? It sounds awfully familiar...
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|2012-06-30, 05:48
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: .nl
I can understand that the loss of a child or some other external event could cause a person to change. But if this was the case with Kaoru, then the anime should have spent more time exposing this change and making us understand it. As is, he just seemed to throw away all his feelings for Ritsuko along with Sen's departure. He seemed to decide he could no longer be with Ritsuko, and started being deliberately hurtful, cold, and distant just so she would be soured to him. It IS possible he decided to go to Tokyo and he did all this in an attempt to make his departure easier for her. But in that case, at the very least, there should have been an internal monologue scene describing his internal strife about this. You could again argue that would run counter to the "show, don't tell" principle, but IMO this is such a crucial point to the ending of the show, that it would have been entirely appropriate.
Time to read the manga, I guess. I do feel that in retrospect, maybe I've been too negative about the show overall. Illustrates the imporance of good endings, I suppose.
It was an amazing ride, and without question one of the most memorable anime in recent memory.
|2012-06-30, 12:30
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Join Date: Jun 2007
I don't think there's quite anything wrong with treating this show negatively, at least certain portions. It's clear that they had to cut and compress things into 12 episodes but that doesn't mean what we got worked out for the better. The pacing just fell apart after episode 10 (specifically when we went from Kaoru wildly confessing to Rii-chan and it suddenly being months later after the commercial) and the show suffered for it.
Personally the last half of episode 12 is practically inexcusable. Hell, the whole situation hurts my head thinking about it. It's why I can't willingly tell people to watch this show, the end just really fucking ruins it.
|2012-06-30, 17:27
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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Spoiler for About the scene in the manga...:
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|2012-06-30, 18:51
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 27
I think people are blowing things way of proportion in regards to the ending episodes.
I haven't read the manga nor do I intend to, but seriously this wasn't ever going to be a 1-1 adaption of the manga and it couldn't realistically pack in everything people wanted it to.
If we look at the anime just by itself, there's honestly not that much of an issue.
Yes the time skip after the confession in episode 10 was a little jarring, but honestly what did we really miss? Was there some sort of plot line that was glossed over of much importance? Was there an emotional disconnection between the two parts, even knowing that the romance was hardly the main issue in the closing episodes? I honestly felt no problems otherwise, and it only made me stop for a moment before I got on and enjoyed the rest of it.
I felt the friendship of the main two characters was conveyed excellently, and the emotions in the last episodes were very real. Perhaps I find friendship more touching than others, but I really enjoy this sort of exploration we went through in this show.
I really felt this show was an easy and VERY enjoyable watch. I think what Watanabe set out to accomplish in his main priorities were masterfully done, and with that I didn't really feel I had to watch anymore at the end of the show. What more could I really say? I'd give this a 9/10.
|2012-06-30, 19:20
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I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
I've only read the last volumes, and yes, it did change my perspective on things.
For one thing, it explained how Kaoru and Ristuko really parted ways, which makes the idea of their reunion less bizarre.
It also explains Kaoru's plans for his life.
|2012-06-30, 19:45
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Hyakko Fanboy
Join Date: Nov 2008
Age: 27
To be honest, I think its will be better idea if Nakamura and co just write original anime with similar theme instead adapting some manga and trim it to the death.
I adore all production aspect on this anime, the directing, art and especially the music.. but the story, not so much.. At first its looked strong but after a couple episode I think its just another story that you can easily found in other Jousei story, the fact they rush it isn't helping too in the end.
I know everyone saying about how different this anime, but I wonder if that still true if the media isn't anime, but an asian live-action for example.
Its still enjoyable ride though, and I look forward to Natsuyuki Rendezvous after this.
|2012-07-01, 01:27
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Dude, jarring was skipping a few months ahead after Kaoru confessed to Ritsuko.
Going eight years into the future without any mention whatsoever of what happened within those eight years is absurd.
Oh look you just happened to run into Yuriko who just happens to have a photo of Sen.
Then the two of you play music together like nothing happened and Ritsuki comes out of nowhere (literally) and end credits.
Uh no lol
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Another 'Exception'? Jonathan Coulton Making Half A Million A Year With No Record Label
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Coulton is an interesting case for a variety of reasons. He tried to become a professional musician 20 years ago, but was unable to make it work. It's only through the power of the internet that he was able to become a success this time around. This is a point that gets missed quite frequently in these discussions. Part of what's so exciting to many of us about the world today is that those who wouldn't have been able to become professional musicians at all in the past now have an opportunity to do so. Yes, plenty will fail, but under the old system, almost everyone failed. Today, a much larger percentage of people wishing to be musicians can find their community, can find their niche and they can make pretty good money doing so. As Coulton notes:
Coulton says sure, he's niche. But there are a lot of niches out there for others to find, with more forming all the time. After all, he says, that's what the Internet is.


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Geraldine M. (Thompson) McLean went to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, at Harmony House in Brewster. Geraldine was born to George and Flora Thompson Sr. in Okanogan on August 13,1928, the fifth of 13 children.
Geraldine graduated from Okanogan High School in 1947. On June 13, 1947, she and Gene (Mac) McLean were married. After they divorced, Geraldine attended Prairie Bible Institute in Three Hills, Alberta. Geraldine then moved back to Okanogan area where she met and married Charles McDonald. They later lived in Moses Lake where Geraldine enjoyed working with the students in the Moses Lake School District. She moved back to the Okanogan area and remarried Gene McLean in December 1983. Gene and Geraldine lived in Brewster and Okanogan, and after Gene retired as a judge, they had a new home built in Omak.
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Geraldine was preceded in death by her parents; three infant siblings; her sisters, Frances, Margaret and Carol; and her brothers, Walter and Raymond. She is survived by her sisters, Mary Harrington and Lillian (Dick) Rogers; brothers, George (Marjorie) Thompson Jr., and Mark (Elizabeth) Thompson; sister-in-law, Jean Ray Thompson; sister-in-law, Shirley Thompson; and numerous nieces and nephews.
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Manga inspire women to embrace 'male' hobbies
From enthusiastic train spotters to history buffs, young women are getting into hobbies that have been traditionally thought of in Japan as being mostly for men. Part of the reason for this is undoubtedly down to changing attitudes towards gender roles, but both of these trends were in part due to the popularity of manga that presented these hobbies in an appealing light to a female audience. With manga so popular with young adults these days, it's more than likely that the next big hobby trend amongst women could well be fueled or even ignited by a popular manga title. Indeed, according to Nikkei Entertainment, the next male hobbies to be embraced by the fairer sex will be shogi, rakugo and mah-jongg.
Manga and anime for adults has been increasingly popular since the 1990s. "Tetsuko no Tabi," for instance, was serialized in the weekly manga magazine Big Comic from 2002-2006 and adapted into an anime in 2007. It tells the true story of female illustrator Naoe Kikuchi accompanying travel writer and train freak Hirohiko Yokomi on a tour of Japan's railways. Soon tetsu-ko or tetsu-chan (female train-spotters) could be seen at railway stations checking out the rolling stock.
Similarly, reki-jo (female history buffs) caught the bug after being inspired by titles such as "Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story."
So what's next? Well, it seems like shogi, which is known as Japanese chess, is already attracting an increasing number of female spectators at professional matches and this could well lead to increasing numbers of female players.
Two popular shogi titles — "Hachi-one Diver" and "Hirake Goma!" — have been going for a while, but the title that's particularly drawing in the ladies is "March Comes in Like a Lion," which combines both romance and game play in its storyline. Winning the Annual Manga Taisho in 2011 and the Kodansha Manga Award in the same year, the series has been a huge hit.
Rakugo, a stylized Japanese form of storytelling, is already enjoying a renaissance, especially among women, who now make up about 50 percent of rakugo audiences. This has only been strengthened by the serialization of "Jyoraku" in 2009, a manga about a female rakugo storyteller. Hopefully this will inspire more women to to perform themselves in this traditionally male-dominated field.
The popularity of the manga "Saki" might inspire a mah-jongg trend. First serialized in 2006, the manga tells the story of a bunch of high school girls getting into mah-jongg. Now that a third anime adaptation of the title is in production, perhaps high school girls will soon be clamoring to play the game, in just the same way that female high school students were inspired to pick up the guitar and form bands after the phenomenal success of the K-On series.


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The Jimmies finished behind only No. 7 Dordt College and South Dakota State. The Jimmies finished second among 11 NAIA teams in the field.
"I am thrilled with the team performance today," said James Clark, Jamestown women's cross country head coach. "We saw 11 NAIA schools and defeated all but one. Dordt is a legit team, ranked seventh in the NAIA, so it was fun to see how we stack up with them and most of the other schools in the Great Plains Conference."
Senior Aleona Reyes (Belen, N.M.) ran 18:27 to finish second overall after finishing third in this race for the past two years.
Sophomore Samantha Goff (Danvers, Minn.) finished seventh in 19:00 after placing 13th in Yankton a year ago.
Running a huge personal best was freshman Christa Lysne (Devils Lake, N.D.) with a 14th place, showing in 19:25.
"Christa ran like a veteran today," Clark said after the race. "She has been looking stronger and stronger in practices, but she took it to the course today. She got out and ran the first half of the race stronger and still finished with authority, passing a couple runners inside the last 200 meters. It is a pretty elite group that finishes in the top 20 in this race, and Christa certainly earned her T-shirt."
Katie Blais (20:46.88) cut a minute off her last meet and was the fourth finisher. Blais started the season late due to knee surgery. Kayla Byle (20:53.13) and Leah Oien (21:06.84) each posted career-bests. Brooke Grooters (21:26.88) rounded out the lineup.
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