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Kathlyn S. Zucker, 91, formerly of Chestnut Hill, a pianist and organist, died of respiratory failure Oct. 28 at Cathedral Village where she had been a resident since 1992.
Mrs. Zucker, who served on the advisory board of Settlement Music School, was widely known for her piano four hands and piano duo performances.
She also was an active volunteer and board member of the Settlement Music School in Germantown and had sung with the Mastersingers of Whitemarsh before the community chorus moved to Paoli.
For many years she tutored children at Shawmont Elementary School.
Born and raised in Bridgeport, Conn., she attended Central High School in Bridgeport and received a bachelor's degree from the Women's College of the University of North Carolina and a master's in music from Teachers College at Columbia University.
During World War II she worked in the engineering department Chance Vought Aircraft in Stratford, Conn.
Mrs. Zucker is survived by sons Peter B., of Duvall, Wash., and Jeremy M., of Seattle, Wash., and David L. of Evergreen, Colo.; a daughter, Alison B. Broadbent, of Nyack, N.Y., and four grandchildren. Mrs. Zucker's husband, M. William Zucker, died in 2006.
A celebration of Mrs. Zucker's life will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, in the Presser Lounge of Cathedral Village, 600 E. Cathedral Rd., in the Andorra section of Philadelphia.
Memorial donations may be made to the Kathlyn S. Zucker Piano Prize, Settlement Music School, P.O. Box 63966, Philadelphia, PA 19147. – WF


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A trio of 8-2 decisions in doubles action helped power MIT to a 9-0 victory over Clark University in a New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) match on Saturday. The win raised the Engineers' record to 5-1 overall and 4-0 in conference play.
Leslie Hansen and Alex Hall led off the doubles sweep in the top spot, followed by Yi Wang and Karina Pikhart and Melissa Diskin and Jen Rees.
Diskin held off Rebecca Friedberg for a 6-2, 7-5 win in the No. 1 singles position. Wang dismissed Julia Bergeron, 6-1, 6-1, as Hall defeated Emily Schweitzer, 6-1, 6-3. Pikhart posted a 6-4, 6-3 victory in the No. 4 slot while Rees dropped only one game to Andrea Nathan, 6-1, 6-0. Kerry Weinberg closed out the day with a flawless, 6-0, 6-0, outing in the No. 6 spot.
In exhibition play, Emily Onufer and Katie Smyth collaborated for an 8-4 doubles win. Kimee Boonbanjerdsri defeated Jenni Adams, 6-1, 6-1, while Sheena Bhalla picked up a 6-1, 6-0 victory.
Clark University vs. MIT
Final Team Score: MIT 9, Clark 0
1. Leslie Hansen/Alex Hall (M) def. Rebecca Friedberg/Phoebe Livingston (C), 8-2
2. Yi Wang/Karina Pikhart (M) def. Emily Schweitzer/Willa Dunn (C), 8-2
3. Melissa Diskin/Jen Rees (M) def. Julia Bergeron/Andrea Nathan (C), 8-2
4. Emily Onufer/Katie Smyth (M) def. Atulya Chaganty/Gabby Arguello (C), 8-4
1. Melissa Diskin (M) def. Rebecca Friedberg (C), 6-2, 7-5
2. Yi Wang (M) def. Julia Bergeron (C), 6-1, 6-1
3. Alex Hall (M) def. Emily Schweitzer (C), 6-1, 6-3
4. Karina Pikhart (M) def. Willa Dunn (C), 6-4, 6-3
5. Jen Rees (M) def. Andrea Nathan (C), 6-1, 6-0
6. Kerry Weinberg (M) def. Phoebe Livingston (C), 6-0, 6-0
7. Kimee Boonbanjerdsri (M) def. Jenni Adams (C), 6-1, 6-1
8. Sheena Bhalla (M) def. Atulya Chaganty (C), 6-1, 6-0

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|Bill Kelly, Susan Petersen, Mabel Petersen, Otto Petersen
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About a year ago, without reading all of the product details, I purchased a Wolverine slide scanner. It's a standalone scanner that does 35mm slides and negatives. I didn't catch the point that it was 35mm only. So that turned out to be a waste of money since I wanted to scan the 2 x 2 slides.
After reading a lot of product descriptions and reviews online and asking for advice from the aforementioned "TechGen" group, I went to Office Depot and got the Epson V500. Normally I buy nearly everything online, but I didn't want to make the 35mm mistake again. And it happened to be on sale last week. I asked the clerk to unpack the box so I could see the mattes used for slide placement. He even got a ruler for me so I could measure them. Finally! I have the slide scanning assembly line up and running.
Trip Down Memory Lane
What a delight it has been to go through these photographs from 50 years ago. But also very sad - of all of the people in the pictures, my Dad and I are just about the only ones still living. I think I had forgotten just how much time I spent with family during my teenage years. Most of my memories of the 1960s are of going to concerts and pinning up photos from TeenSet and 16 on my bedroom walls.
There are photos of me with all three sets of grandparents. I have two sets on my Dad's side since his parents divorced and remarried. The photo above was taken at Christmas, 1964, in our home. This is the only photograph of me with both of my grandfathers, Bill Kelly and Otto "Grandpa Pete" Petersen. What a treasure to discover this among the slides. I also see that we are eating from Grandma Kelly's china, a set I still have today.
It seems like a lot of our family gatherings revolved around either the dinner table or the outdoor grill and patio. It seems like our patio and deck were a focal point of our activities. I also noticed that when we took posed pictures, we stood in front of a fir tree in our front yard. It's interesting to see how it grew over the years.
In addition to photographs of special occasions, there are photos of everyday life - like when I won radio contests to get Perky's Pizza or Diet Rite Cola - there are pictures of me with the coupon and with the pizzas! Junior High and High School graduation events are captured in time, as are camping trips and boating adventures, and vacations to Missouri and South Dakota. Dad even captured a shot of me exiting the Varsity theater after watching A Hard Day's Night twice on opening day.
The photos helped me remember just how much I enjoyed hanging out with my parent's friends and the older adults, including my parent's siblings and Dad's aunts and uncle and cousins. I never cared much for the kids my own age or younger, I wanted to listen and participate in the grown-ups conversations. I remember how thrilled I was once I finally graduated from the kid's table at holidays to be able to sit with the adults.
Oh, how I wish I could turn back time and remember all of the stories they told. Mom's family were more storytellers - they loved talking about growing up in Greenwood, Nebraska, life on the farm, and the various injuries they inflicted on one another. Dad is definitely the storyteller in his family. I can ask him one question and the conversation will go on for two hours.
As I reflected on my day of scanning at twilight last evening, I teared up as I said to myself, "I miss my family." But it's so nice to still have those memories and love for them in my heart.


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The 22-year-old Dane and Sharapova were in Brazil to promote the 2016 Olympic Games, but made sure they found time to lark around during the two-set contest.
Wozniacki, whose boyfriend Rory McIlroy was in the crowd, stuffed courtside towels down her top and in her shorts to mimic the voluptuous figure of Williams, who was also in Sao Paolo doing her bit for the Games.
After the match, which ended 6-2 7-6 in Sharapova's favour, Wozniacki said: 'I really love the crowd here, they're open and they have a lot of fun.'
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Jazz Roots: A Larry Rosen Jazz Series will present "Ladies of Jazz" featuring Grammy award winners Esperanza Spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington. Sponsored by PNC Bank, the Ladies of Jazz concert will take place at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre on Friday, October 19, 2012 at 8:00 p.m.
Spalding has become the "new face of Jazz" as she was awarded the 2011 Grammy for Best New Artist of Year. According to critics Spalding is "blessed with uncanny instrumental chops and a multi-lingual voice that is part angel and part siren." She has played for President Obama and all the late- night TV shows.
Carrington is a drummer, composer, record producer, entrepreneur, and a 2012 Grammy winner. Her music is described as "an eclectic brand of jazz that incorporates elements of bebop, soul, and funk" which is all featured on her Grammy winning album, "The Mosaic Project."
"The Jazz Roots concert series sponsorship is a great opportunity for PNC Bank to share our passion for arts education with the greater Atlanta community," said Eddie Meyers, regional president, PNC Bank Greater Georgia.
Music great Quincy Jones has proclaimed Jazz Roots "the most important new concert and educational jazz series in America . . . this series is simply imperative." The Jazz Roots series also offers a unique opportunity for a host of young music lovers. 100 high school students from a metro Atlanta school will attend the show, as well as, enjoy the privilege of attending pre-concert sound checks and participating in special Q&A sessions with the performers.
The "Ladies of Jazz" concert tickets are priced $26 – $77 per person and are available at the Cobb Centre's Bank of North Georgia Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlet locations, Ticketmaster.com or via phone at 800-745-3000. The venue is located at 2800 Galleria Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30339.


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The economy is still so bad that drug addicts are now snorting foot powder. It's so bad that a bird in the hand is now only worth one in the bush, but there is a solution: the Wednesday night prix fixe ($32) three-course dinner at Sonata, a wonderful BYOB (even Craig LaBan, the Inquirer's acerbic critic, loved it) that opened almost two years ago, shortly after the economy crashed and burned, at 1030 N. American St. in Philly's Northern Liberties section.
Although Northern Liberties is one of the hottest restaurant neighborhoods in the Delaware Valley, it is easy to overlook Sonata because it is not on 2nd Street, where all the action is. Sonata is well worth seeking out, however, since it is offering one of the best dining bargains on this side of the Delaware River. It just makes cents. (The restaurant is named Sonata because owner Mark Tropea is a musician who would have made a career out of music if not for his love of cooking.)
When we first discovered Sonata last September, I wrote that you could break some fingers from an overdose of high fives after discovering this place, but there were only two other diners in the restaurant during our first visit. When we went last Wednesday, however, there were 22, so at least more people are being attracted to the glitter of this jewel. (The BYOB can seat 38 indoors and 10 more outdoors.)
On the highway of humility, there's not too much traffic, but one driver on it is Sonata's owner/chef Mark Tropea, a handsome but modest pinata of energy. Mark, 30, a Glen Mills native who got hooked on cooking as a teenager and later graduated from the Restaurant School of Philadelphia, had a pastry chef who made drool-worthy desserts, Krystal Weaver, but she left a few weeks ago. "It was amicable," said Mark. "In fact, she even left all of her recipes, which is unusual. She was just offered a job in New Jersey making more money, so I can't blame her for taking it. But her replacement (Ksenia Strockyj, of Ukrainian descent), a graduate of the Philadelphia Art Institute's culinary school, is doing a great job."
Tropea's kitchen is more than capable of delivering with precision some of the old faithfuls as well as simple but elegant presentations that leave eye-OK ingredients to the solitude of a soulfully crafted sauce. Up until this dinner, the best octopus dish I ever had was at Estia, the ultra-pricey Greek restaurant on Locust Street near Broad, but the Sonata version is definitely in a tie for first. It is a food ballet on the plate, with the braised spanish octopus pirouetting around the crispy potato and pickled ramp, caressed by a lemon cayenne vinaigrette.
It seems as if any restaurateur who can fog up a mirror is putting pork belly on his/her menu these days, but the one at Sonata is still the most elevated we have tasted. It is a naturalist, savory still life with smoked tomato marmalade, compressed apple and molasses. Consistency is king here at Sonata, and this dish comes out wearing a crown. A lemon fish entree also shows real inspiration, with the mild seafood perched on a pedestal of English pea risotto and tomato cardamom broth, and an entree of butter-poached "pot pie" with edamame and morel mushrooms has generated rhapsodies of praise on the food blogs.
A dessert of banana crème brulee, peanut butter mousse and a non-pareil homemade peanut brittle (nothing like the tooth-cracking stuff you get in supermarkets) provides the backbeat to a song your taste buds will sing about Sonata. Our comely server, Kate Connelly, was absolutely delightful.
This food is as serious as Monday morning. Sonata is a horse you can ride over and over, and anyone who says otherwise is probably cruel enough to tell his dog that he's adopted.
I would urge anyone interested in Sonata not to take my word for it but to check out what the restaurant bloggers have to say about it. As of this week, 68 customers have written reviews of Sonata on urbanspoon.com. Of those, 66 were raves. A typical comment was from A. Gras, who wrote: "This could be one of the top three restaurants in the city. Amazing menu and great atmosphere. What else can you ask for? Very well done! Don't miss this place." Opentable.com had 106 reviews, of which 102 were positive. Yelp.com had 43 reviews, of which 40 were raves. Amanda P. wrote: "We love this restaurant. Our first time dining was a few weeks after their opening, and the quality and consistency with each visit since is a true tale of the perfection of Mark Tropea."
Free parking is available in the lot right behind Sonata restaurant (even though a sign says "permit parking") or on North American Street. For travel directions, visit the Web site. Wednesday is the only prix fixe night at Sonata. On other nights the menu — with all of the same choices — is a la carte.
To use a dining metaphor, Mark has the competition licked. For more information or reservations, call 215-238-1240 or visit www.sonatarestaurant.com.


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Update: The suspect, 20-year-old Tre Lamar Bookard, was caught in a traffic stop on Monday afternoon in El Paso and arrested on the warrant for Simple Robbery. Police continue to investigate.
A bank robbery happened at the Whitney Bank on Pinhook Road Friday around 2:00 p.m.
Lafayette Police spokesman Cpl. Paul Mouton says the suspect is described as a black male, medium build wearing a blue jean jacket and shorts.
Cpl. Mouton says the suspect gave the teller a note demanding money, then left after an undisclosed amount of cash was given to him.
There were no injuries within the bank. The suspect is described as a medium build black male wearing a blue jean jacket and shorts. Detectives are asking anyone with information about the robbery or the identity of the suspect to contact Lafayette Police or Crime Stoppers at 232-TIPS.


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Characterization of Colloids Using the BET method and X-ray Scattering
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Colloids are promising materials for a wide range of applications such as selective separations, catalytic processing, and enhanced chemical activity. However, these applications are limited without proper knowledge of colloidal bulk properties. Therefore, the characterization of colloids is important for applications in industry. This work reports the use of the Nova 4200ee instrument to measure the surface area of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) nanoparticles using the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) method with nitrogen gas as the adsorbate. We investigate the effect of different drying techniques on the measured surface area of CaCO3 nanoparticles. Results reveal a higher surface area for samples that were either freeze-dried, heat-dried, or both, and a much lower surface area was observed for samples that were diluted before drying. We also characterize silica particles using Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) and employing Silver Behenate (AgBoH) as our scattering vector (q) calibrant. To probe short-ranged inter-particle interactions, we make use of the Ultra Small Angle X-ray Scattering (USAXS).. The information revealed by BET and X-ray scattering will be useful for manufacturing materials that will be of great use in the nanotechnology field.
Advisor: Michael Harris, Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
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OK, yeah we had a solid showing against TEN, and we were never behind in the game. Carr is truly top-5 QB now, elite. Period. And if Brees and Brady can't pick up their games, he could be a top-3 QB. And for fuck's sake, Coop looks like a killer out there. Brute force was never his game. Lynch looks like he has plenty left. But our vaunted OL allowed 2 sacks on Carr. And we only sacked Mariota once all game long and no INTs, and between Mack, Irvin, Edwards and Vanderdoes, we should have done better than that. Having said that, their two OTs - Lewan and Conklin - just might be the best OT pair in the league.
Discussion about us being in the top 5 is warranted. HOWEVER, how in the FUCK do they put us #2 over the Chiefs??? Maybe, possibly because Berry is out for the season? I don't know man, Reid's team looks dominant in all phases.
AND I look at the following teams and I think they're in contention for the #3 spot as well:
Vikings - The throws I saw Bradford make were fucking insane. Can't be done. And yet they were done. Stephon Diggs looks like he's here to fuck up the entire league. Dalvin Cook w 137 yds rushing. And the defense is as solid as they come. By my count MIN left 5 points on the table - settles for a FG when Bradford could have easily run it in for a TD, and missed an XP. So, MIN performance was even more dominant than it looks on paper. These guys would absolutely destroy our defense.
Eagles - Wentz is unquestionably the real deal. And that defense ripped the Skins' throat right out.
Cowboys - NYG OL no doubt is shitty, but I still didn't expect the DAL D to contain them as well as they did. Giants need a RB big-time. And hanging 19 pts on that ferocious NY defense is a solid outing. If they can keep Zeke from getting suspended they're a real force because they were converting on 3rd down like crazy. If he's suspended, they'll just throw in Alfred Morris and he'll pick up where Elliott left off.
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Heavy Rain, Wind Overnight Leaves Power Outages, Minor Flooding Behind
Heavy rain and wind that kept many awake has left behind power outages and minor flooding as it all moves to east and cold air returns.Drivers may encounter large puddles and ponding on some roads after heavy rain overnight fell on ground that is frozen despite yesterday's mild temperatures.
According to its outage map, as of 8AM JCP+L is making progress restoring power with 25,000 customers out with Monmouth, Ocean,Somerset, Warren, Morris & Hunterdon counties appearing to be the hardest hit. PSE+G's outage map shows at least 18,000 in the dark with Burlington, Bergen & Union counties the hardest hit. Atlantic City Electric's outage map indicates over 5,000 without power in its service area.
A cold front delivered bands of heavy rain and wind gusts of 50 to more than 60 mph. Those winds caused snapped trees and downed power lines; the highest official gust recorded being 58 MPH in Sandy Hook early this morning at 3:10AM recorded by the National Weather Service. Flood warnings are posted in northeast Morris County and Bergen and Passaic counties.
Winds should remain strong all day as overnight temperatures in the 50s drop back into the 40s as the day goes on.


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Reese needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 289 designs submitted by 52 freelance designers.
Nancy Stevens Wedding Flowers
I am Nancy Stevens Wedding Flowers. I do not like cheesy or typical love pictures or flowers like roses wedding rings, hearts, etc. I need something pretty, modern and interesting. Maybe even just type with no picture - or maybe with a picture or something????. I want the name Nancy Stevens to be easy to read and interesting and the main part of the logo and then with the added text of Wedding Flowers included somehow. Thanks in advance for all your hard and cool work! I'm very excited to see what you come up with :)
my market is upscale brides and grooms
I just need to be able to use this for print and web page advertising. I want women and men to be able to see the name Nancy Stevens and know that I'm creative, modern and artsy with flair. My website is Nancystevens.com. Thanks very much!
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The Internet Storm Center has a story posted today about a fake e-mail which try's to convince the recipient to download and install a security patch on their Red Hat systems. The e-mail will look something like this:
Internet Storm CenterDear RedHat user,
Redhat found a vulnerability in fileutils (ls and mkdir), that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. Some of the affected linux distributions include RedHat 7.2, RedHat 7.3, RedHat 8.0, RedHat 9.0, Fedora CORE 1, Fedora CORE 2 and not only. It is known that *BSD and Solaris platforms are NOT ed. The RedHat Security Team strongly advises you to immediately apply the fileutils-1.0.6 patch. This is a critical-critical update that you must make by following these steps:
* First download the patch from the Security RedHat mirror:
wget http://www.fedora-redhat.com/fileuti...6.patch.tar.gz
* Untar the patch: tar zxvf fileutils-1.0.6.patch.tar.gz
* cd fileutils-1.0.6.patch
* make
* ./inst
Again, please apply this patch as soon as possible or you risk your system and others` to be compromised.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this serious matter,
RedHat Security Team.


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A final six days of Sound at the Fillmore featured Creedence Clearwater Revival, Steppenwolf, the Butterfield Blues Band, Ten Years After and others in Conklin's pastel, mind-morphing imagery. This was the last concert held at the Fillmore Auditorium.
Our vintage concert postcards commemorate shows from Fillmore East, Fillmore West, Winterland and Avalon Ballroom.
Print Variations
The postcard was printed before the concert and measures 4 5/8" x 7 1/16".
There were also some pre-concert double-sized mailers printed that were conjoined with the BG128 image (see BG127/128). They measure 4 5/8" 14 1/4".
About Lee Conklin
Lee Conklin's early influences were pen and ink masters Heinrich Kley and Saul Steinberg.After seeing articles featuring Wes Wilson's poster art, Conklin was inspired to visit San Francisco and show his art to Bill Graham. Conklin was soon commissioned to do posters and produced 31 original designs for the Fillmore between 1968 and 1969. Conklin rendered both graphics and calligraphy in intricate detail. What began as a personal challenge to disguise images within images and lettering soon turned into a concerted effort to turn every single letter and figure into another form, stretching the imagination to new limits.


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A lot of people think Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is the best science fiction novel ever, or at least one of the top contenders, so I decided to read it before seeing the new movie adaptation. I enjoyed it, although it didn't have the impact on me that it seems to have had on thousands of other readers over the years. The movie's not bad, either.
A story about children training to fight space aliens is just about the last place you'd expect to find anything relating to popular Civil War historiography, but in his introduction Card identifies the work of Bruce Catton as one of his main influences:
I remembered so well the stories of the commanders in that war–the struggle to find a Union general capable of using McClellan's magnificent army to defeat Lee and Jackson and Stuart, and then, finally, Grant, who brought death to far too many of his soldiers, but also made their deaths mean something, by grinding away at Lee, keeping him from dancing and maneuvering out of reach. It was because of Catton's history that I had stopped enjoying chess, and had to revise the rules of Risk in order to play it–I had come to understand something of war, and not just because of the conclusions Catton himself had reached. I found meanings of my own in that history.
I learned that history is shaped by the use of power, and that different people, leading the same army, with, therefore, approximately the same power, applied it so differently that the army seemed to change from a pack of noble fools at Fredericksburg to panicked cowards melting away at Chancellorsville, then to the grimly determined, stubborn soldiers who held the ridges at Gettysburg, and then, finally, to the disciplined, professional army that ground Lee to dust in Grant's long campaign. It wasn't the soldiers who changed. It was the leader. And even though I could not then have articulated what I understood of military leadership, I knew that I did understand it. I understood, at levels deeper than speech, how a great military leader imposes his will on his enemy, and makes his own army a willing extension of himself.
Card thus takes the Civil War (at least the war in the East) primarily as the story of an army in search of its commander. Framing the war with this narrative is not at all uncommon, but is it accurate? And is it possible to draw such broad general lessons about the nature of war and the human experience from the study of one particular conflict?


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School Accused Of Spying On Kids In Their Homes With Spyware That Secretly Activated Webcams
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Update: Yikes. This may be more common than I thought. Julian Sanchez points us to a recent PBS Frontline episode about technology in schools that shows a school official proudly showing off the ability to spy on kids this way (well, using remote desktop emulation, rather than turning on webcams, but many of the kids seem to use webcams a lot). That part of the video starts at 4:37 and even shows him taking a photo of a girl as she does her hair via the camera:


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Everyone experiences sadness at some time in their lives. Usually it is due to the loss of something or someone. But there are good things about being sad so here are some quotes to remind you.
Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!
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Jessica Green "MacroFloral" Photos
Exhibited February, 2006
resident Jessica Green embarked on a friendly spousal competition in 2002;
to inspire and improve photography skills she and her husband began a weekly
contest. Each week we alternated choosing a topic, then would post our
five favorite images for that topic by Monday morning on our web sites. After
an entire year, we both improved dramatically." This friendly rivalry
gave Jessica the drive and patience to spend hours at her tripod awaiting
perfect lighting for breathtaking macro images of flowers, landscapes and
Arizona scenery. The resulting work was the subject of "MacroFloral:
Hidden Beauty," a one-woman show during February, 2006, in the visitor
center gallery at Boyce Thompson Arboretum.
Jessica was raised in Saginaw, Michigan and moved to Arizona in 1995 for college; after graduation she lived in California and Massachusetts briefly, then returned to Arizona in 2001. She lives in Gilbert with her husband Andrew and their three cats, the latter being well represented on her website galleries at http://www.jessicagreen.com. She currently works as an enterprise systems administrator at the Maricopa County Community College district office in Tempe. As Green laughingly put it: "computer geek by day, creative imaging enthusiast by night. In 1997, Green bought her first 1.2 megapixel digital camera and has been photographing everything since, and seeking unusual ways to improve her skills. "I needed to practice my portraiture skills and offered to take the 2005 photos-with-Easter-Bunny portraits for the San Tan Ranch Homeowner's Association where I live in Gilbert. What a riot that was!"
"I enjoy new experiences in photography. Recently a friend loaned me his Canon 50mm f2.8 Macro lens. He hasn't been able to pry it from my camera since! I instantly fell in love with the beautiful complexity of getting up close and personal with nature. Sometimes I will spend hours photographing a single subject. I shoot from every angle, with various diffusers and reflectors. I shoot at different times of day, with multiple apertures, lenses and shutter speeds. One funny thing about me is that I'll keep trying and trying until I capture something I feel that is true to the subject. Sometimes nature's beauty simply cannot be captured, but I try anyway! For example, I have spent hours photographing this one particular tree at the Arboretum. I've shot it with all three of my lenses, on automatic and in many manual modes. I've even visited this same tree in fall, winter and spring. I must have hundreds of pictures of the berries and the leaves, and did not feel that any of them did justice to the beauty in this particular tree. It wasn't until one day last fall that I noticed this little vine crawling over the bark. This is the only macro shot in the show that isn't of a flower, but I love it so much that I had to share it. Sometimes you really have to look long and hard to find the hidden beauty in nature."
"I started out digital but eventually I learned film photography on a 4x5 Graflex SpeedGraphics World War II Press Camera. Large format film processing and printing is a fascinating new world for me. I hope to get better at this in the future. My main camera is a Canon EOS Digital Rebel 6.3 megapixel. I shoot in RAW mode and use Adobe PhotoShop CS for editing. Many photographers feel that digital enhancement is a poor substitute for true photography, but I would counter that enhancing an image digitally is part of the art form, much like a painter or a sculptor. Photographers should have creative freedom to do as they like with their own images. While I, too, try to capture the true-to-life beauty with my camera, when I can bring more of it out in PhotoShop, I most certainly will! My exhibit, "MarcoFloral: Hidden Beauty" features floral and natural photographic images from around Arizona. This is my first exhibit, and it is particularly appropriate - most of these images were taken at Boyce Thompson Arboretum over the past year. I am honored to be featured at one of my favorite places to relax in Arizona! Boyce Thompson is a wonderful place to get away from it all and spend a day with a camera... or two, or three!"
To see more of her work visit the web site http://www.tumbleweeddigital.com/GREEN_BTAPriceSheet.htm or correspond with the artist via email to email@example.com. From September through May daily park admission is taken from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and the Arboretum closes promptly at 5:00 p.m. Daily admission of $7.50 for adults or $3 for ages 5-12 must be paid to enter the Visitor Center where our gallery is located. Annual memberships at the Arboretum begin at $35, and include a year's access, guest passes for your friends and family, along with many other benefits. To review other recent gallery shows from...
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Bioinformatics and Systems Biology: At the Crossroads of Biology, Engineering, and Computation
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Traditional biological research has relied on a "deconstructive" mode where piece-wise analysis of the components of complex systems was carried out in detail. The genome projects have spurred the discovery of new genes/molecules to add to the existing inventory of "parts" that make up living entities. With the availability of this information and the development of increasingly powerful tools for global analysis of gene and protein expression (chips/arrays), a "constructionist" bias has begun to appear in biology. There is a growing desire to put integrate the piecewise knowledge and achieve a deeper understanding of how living systems work as total entities. "This attempt to develop a true understanding of how living beings are "engineered" so that the emergent properties of the assembled parts serve the necessary biological functions is known generically as "systems biology."(a quote from Ron Germain at NIH). Further, this understanding and the concomitant measurements provide the basis for quantitative and predictive modeling of biological function at the level of large cellular networks. In this talk I will present how integrated analysis of data can provide insights into various aspects of the intracellular networks. Combining proteomic, small molecule and transcriptional data along with legacy knowledge, we can obtain a more detailed and dynamic picture of the response of a cell to input. Not surprisingly, the biological "context" of the input determines the response and the similarities in cellular responses arise from functional modularity within the networks.
Shanker Subramaniam is currently a Professor of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, and Biology at the University of California at San Diego. He also directs UCSDs Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate program and has an adjunct appointment at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. He also has a joint appointment at the San Diego Supercomputing Center. Before moving to USCD in 1999, he was the Director of the computational biology group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and a Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Chemical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois. His present research focuses on several important aspects of computational biology including web-based approaches to bioinformatics, going from protein sequence to structure and function and studying protein recognition and function.
Subramaniam received a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1982 from the Indian Institute of Technology. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and its recipient of Smithsonian Foundation and Association of Laboratory Automatics Awards.
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New year, new brunch. Tiffani Faison's Tiger Mama rings in 2018 with a take on brunch that can't be found anywhere else in the city. In typical Faison style, the Southeast Asian menu has wit, humor and ridiculous amounts of creative goodness. Look for the Mama Mac Burger, Eggs With Belly Bacon and Mo Toast, Fried Duck Egg, and highly craveable versions of pancakes, waffles and French toast. Brunch will be offered every Sunday, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., beginning January 14, 2018. For more information, visit the Tiger Mama website.
For the first time ever, Tiger Mama takes on the burger and it holds absolutely nothing back; the Mama Mac Burger features two pork flat patties, American cheese, wok-roasted onions, fish sauce tomato jam, sneaky mayo, lettuce and house hash browns. Rivaling this in the savory realm, there is the Bacon Cheddar Waffle With Thai Chili Butter and Belly Slab.
Egg lovers will find Crispy Eggs (a fried egg with herbs, pickles, greens and house hots), Shrimp Toast Benny (crispy shrimp toast, poached eggs and cilantro "bernaise,") as well as The Essential (two eggs with belly bacon, hash browns and Mo toast.)
For a deliriously sweet food coma, diners must try Boons Bread French Toast With Coconut Bread Pudding and White Chocolate Pistachio Crumble, Crispy PB & Banana "Dosa" with fresh banana peanut butter cream and powdered bacon, and Gingerbread Pancakes with champagne syrup and cran jam butter.
Four all-time house favorites from the Tiger Mama dinner menu make their way into brunch offerings: Singapore Street Noodles, Le Tigre House Fried Rice, Pad Gra Pow, and Cha Ca "Bahn Mi."
Finally, since nothing is better than a boozy brunch, look for a rotating list of specialty cocktails including the Tropical Mai Tai and a Bloody Mary with Sambal.
Tiger Mama is located at 1363 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. Reservations are recommended. To contact the restaurant, call 617-425-MAMA (6262) or visit their website. Reservations can also be made via TableUp.
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Dec. 2, 2006
In the Atlantic Sun Conference it is tough enough to win without giving a helping hand to the opposition.
Lipscomb's Lady Bisons found that out Saturday afternoon as they made 30 turnovers, 15 in each half, in a 53-44 loss to North Florida at Allen Arena.
"It is kind of getting frustrating making turnovers early in the game," Lipscomb coach Frank Bennett said. "It let's a team come in and gain confidence when you make turnovers like that.
"We had a lot of mental mistakes from our good players. When we play a good game on Thursday I have to do a better job of getting us ready to play on Saturday. This was a great opportunity for us, and we didn't take control of it."
The Lady Bisons went on an 11-5 run to close out the first half to tie the game at 21-21 at intermission. There were four lead changes in the second half. The Lady Bisons led 31-29 with 15:53 left in the game, but would never have the lead again the rest of the way.
"We kept saying this game is up for grabs," Bennett said. "We were within range for winning it if we could have gone out there and start making plays. But we never could get into it. We didn't play as well as we can play.
"We could have been a little more patient in feeding the post position. North Florida did a nice job of pressuring us. They played hard and got on the boards. They shut us down in the paint."
The Lady Bisons are 3-5 overall, 1-1 in the conference. North Florida is 2-5, 1-1 in the A-Sun.
It was the first game this season that the Lady Bisons failed to place at least one player in double figures. Sophomore forward Miriam McAlister just missed her second double-double in a row, grabbing a team-leading 10 rebounds and scoring a team-leading nine points.
"Miriam is a real force, but she still hasn't gone through a full-scale practice," Bennett said. "She is still rusty.
The Lady Bisons were 14-of-46 from the field (30.4 percent) and five-of-21 from 3-point range (23.8). The Lady Bisons made 11-of-17 free throw attempts.
North Florida placed three players in double figures with guard Jennifer Bowen scoring a game-high 16 points followed by guard Shandrea Moore with 12 and guard Tamara Hubbard with 11.
Forward Jennifer Guldager did not score a point, but grabbed a game-high 12 rebounds.
North Florida hit 19-of-53 shots from the field (35.8 percent), including two-of-10 shots (20 percent) from 3-point range. North Florida was 13-of-21 from the free throw line.
The Lady Bisons held the advantage on the boards 38-33. North Florida made 19 steals compared to nine by the Lady Bisons. Seven of the Lady Bisons' steals were made by Dana Carrigan.
"Rebounding has been a strength for us," Bennett said. "We played pretty good defense, but we had some breakdowns late in the game that hurt us."
The Lady Bisons are back in action Monday night at Murray State in a non-conference game. The opening tip-off is at 5:15.
"This is another quick turnaround," Bennett said. "This will be our ninth game in 18 days. We really haven't had much time to think about Murray State. I think the game will be up for grabs."


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Po Bronson's 1999 article about Epinions, then a nascent startup, is a neat little time capsule of the period just before almost everything in Silicon Valley went poof.
Everything is faster. Zero drag is optimal. For a while, new applicants would jokingly be asked about their "drag coefficient." Since the office is a full hour's commute from San Francisco, an apartment in the city was a full unit of drag. A spouse? Drag coefficient of one. Kids? A half point per. Then they recognized that such talk, even in jest, could be taken as discriminatory in a hiring situation.
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PERU — Here's your chance to become a better gardener at a bargain-price day-long symposium and enjoy the satisfaction of knowing that the dollars you spend will go to support worthy local nonprofit organizations.
The event? "A Garden Affair," returning on April 27 for its second year to St. John's Lutheran Church in Peru. The event combines expert speakers, workshops, garden and outdoor living vendors, a plant sale, food, demonstrations, Master Gardeners, potting parties, and kids' activities. It's also a great opportunity to schmooze with your neighbors and make new friends.
Returning speakers this year include Carolyn Ulrich and Mike Nowak, editor and columnist for Chicagoland Gardening magazine. Their presentations were well-received last year and they are looking forward to speaking again and meeting more area gardeners. They will be bringing copies of Chicagoland Gardening with them to give out.
There will be an admission fee of $5 for each speaker and $3 for each workshop or four workshops for $10. All earnings from speakers and workshops will go to nonprofits in the area such as the IV Food Pantry, Hall Township Food Pantry and Illinois Valley PADS. Fill the church for one presentation and that lucky recipient would receive $1,500.
Tickets for the garden talks are available at St. John's church office or online. Because of the large expected attendance, everyone is encouraged to purchase tickets in advance.
St. John's Church is located at 2000 Luther Drive, Peru. Hours are 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. For further information contact email@example.com or see the link "A Garden Affair" – WELCA on the St. John's website www.lutheransonline.com/stjohnsperu.


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Anime Comedy Roundtable
Comedy and drama are both about provoking an extreme reaction out of someone. Laughter and tears are both difficult to get right, though people have tried countless times for both. Perhaps it's the threads I go to, but I notice that drama receives more praise than comedy, or at least the people who would praise it are more vocal. I'm the kind of person who would watch a romantic comedy for the comedy more than the romance, and would unapologetically put something like Softenni on a list of favorites. Comedy is more than just one thing. There's a lot of different genres and types, so I wanted to start a discussion on the many different types of comedy. Which ones worked for you? Which kinds do you enjoy? What do you think about the state of comedy in anime today? I'll begin by listing my favorites.
Black Comedy/Social Satire: This is the kind of comedy that garners the most positive response. I know Humanity Has Declined is a favorite in this category, but I'm a huge fan of Joshiraku. It establishes the personalities and then creates comedy sketches where everyone works off each other, usually towards a punchline or a demented conclusion. The way Kumeta can start at Point A and end at Point B is very much like South Park, complete with a similar mix of highbrow commentary and lowbrow humor.
Sex Comedy: Seitokai Yakuindomo stands triumphant. Ujie Tozen is great at getting perverted puns out of a scene, in ways both intentional and unintentional. The innocence of Suzu and Mutsumi and the not so innocence of Shino can make it arrive at the same punchline from multiple angles and feel just right every time.
Absurd Comedy: It's only two minutes, but Teekyuu! is the current winner in this category. One of my favorite jokes is where Natsuno mentions that her dad is like "something seen in front of shops". She means that her dad looks like Col. Sanders, but Marimo pictures him as a barbershop pole. It makes perfect sense, but is also so ridiculous that it lands.
Pop Culture Reference Comedy: The first season of Hayate was once my favorite, but Nyarko is currently my top contender. Especially since much of the humor is tokusatsu-based. This means I may get more out of it than someone else, but part of the appeal of such a show like this is how it knows how to play to its niche.
Meta Comedy/Fourth Wall Humor: The more a series falls into absurd/pop culture comedy, the more likely it is to fall into here, too. Yuru Yuri is one of my favorites, with Akari's plight about her lack of screentime behind the fourth wall being used with a lot of variation. Seitokai no Ichizon (at times) also knows how to use this to its advantage.
Slapstick Comedy: This could also fall under "absurd comedy", but Nichijou excelled at this kind of thing. The sequence where Mio beats up a police officer, an old man and a goat to stop them from reading her manga is a standout scene in a series full of many standout scenes. The animation, the music, the camera angles... everything plays to make this scene as serious as it can be, which also makes it as funny as can be. The principal fighting a deer works along the same lines. Comic violence can be tough to play right, but when it succeeds, it succeeds.
Character Driven Comedy/Sitcom: A group of characters that live together and play off each other in ways that the audience finds familiar, but also funny and kinda heartwarming. Hidamari Sketch has been very successful at this kind of comedy for four years running (most of it coming from Miya), though I'd nominate A Channel and Minami-ke as other really good examples of establishing the character personalities and just letting them play off each other. Acchi Kocchi has a bit of this with its romance, as does the currently running GJ Bu. If given enough time, most character driven comedies will eventually turn into a romance, but I often love them enough while they're in the comedy phase.
Improv Comedy: This exists too. The only example I can think of is gdgd Fairies and the Dubbing Lake scenes. Really, check this series out if you're a fan of this (and of dialogue-driven comedy. The tea party scenes can spiral out of control wonderfully.)
It's very likely there are other kinds of comedy that I missed, and I'm curious to know what other people consider their favorite kind of anime comedy. I'd love for there to be an anime equivalent of something like Arrested Development. A show with a rich mythology and sense of quirkiness, but also some really tight plotting. (And some incredible word games.) I know comedy is a very subjective thing, and one of the hardest things to translate across cultural barriers. But I really want to have a discussion about it.
Is there anybody else out there that loves anime's sense of humor as much as I do? I'm eager to hear.
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I just want to put a shoutout here to Mawaru Penguin Drum, as long as the thread OP doesn't mind me doing so.
I feel that Penguin Drum had the misfortune of airing the same year that Madoka Magica and Steins;Gate did, and for that reason and others, I think it's sadly underrated and now rarely talked about it seems.
But I think its particularly underrated as a comedy. There's probably no anime that aired in the past two years that made me laugh more than Penguin Drum did.
I guess of the categories listed in the OP, it would fit most neatly into "Absurd Comedy".
The anime show that made me laugh more than any other is probably Excel Saga. Which also probably fits most neatly into "Absurd Comedy".
I guess I would say that Absurd Comedy is something that anime does particularly well.
|2013-01-17, 18:13
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I only gave those categories as examples. I'm really not a huge fan of listing and categorizing things. If you fit things into little boxes too much, they lose flexibility. Many of the examples I gave can fit in more than one category, too. (To use it as an example once again, Joshiraku. Kumeta's social commentary was a big part of it... but just as many of the jokes revolved around Marii's butt. And I laughed at both of them.)
|2013-01-17, 23:11
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I greatly enjoyed Binbougami-ga. I felt it did a really good job of mixing up multiple comedy routines to keep itself from feeling stale. In one episode you'd pretty much be able to go down your list with checkmarks.
|2013-01-17, 23:16
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I realized I left one kind off the list. Anti-Comedy. My favorite scene in this regard was the ping pong scene in Mayoi Neko Overrun!. It moves at a glacial pace, but eventually becomes hilarious after how long it drags itself out.
That episode was directed perfectly.
|2013-01-18, 06:20
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I share the same stand about Binbougami-ga. And I think that what you said about it could be applied to Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou. Well, excepted for the sex comedy part. Those two stood out the most to me because they did not let themselves be shoehorned inside a single type of comedy.
One of the best part about both series is that they spared no character, regardless of the status (main or support characters) or gender (Ichiko was the butt of the slapstick at occasions and Yassan humiliated herself spectacularly,and Ikushima got punched in the face just for asking how to get a boyfriend). Yes, those are the comedies I love the most, when they don't care if you are young, old, girl, boy, homo, hetero, white, black, asian, etc... Everyone and everything should get a taste of the comedy stick.
|2013-01-18, 12:35
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As someone with nearly half of the "high favorite" series as comedy or series with comedy in them, it's something I really enjoy out of series.
My favorite types would definitely be Character Driven Comedy/Sitcom, favorite ones include Lucky☆Star, K-On!, Working!! and Yuru Yuri; While I enjoy the Meta things some of Yuru Yuri, I feel it's more Character Driven comedy is a strong point to it, and a large part of what made me love the show.
A particular comedy I really enjoy and love, but some don't it seems to is Nisio Isin's sense of comedy. It does great varies for type especially in Monogatari series. As some people seem to complain about the pace of the comedy taking too much of some episode while I enjoy the comedy as much as the other parts if not more in certain episodes.
Though I suppose I enjoy most of the types, though I am a bit more picky on slapstick than other types, it can work very well at times like in nichijou though for sure.
|2013-01-18, 13:30
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I love pretty much all kind of comedy, with a preference for black comedy and absurd comedy. The classic tsukkomi/bokke routine the Japanese are so fond of has also always worked great for me.
I usually have a hard time picking out favorites, but when it comes to comedy anime, there is one that stand so far above everything else that it's very easy to choose. And that title is Gintama. I've watched a lot of comedies (American, Japanese and French alike) and I haven't found anything that comes close to it (except maybe It's always sunny in Philadephia, Scrubs and Seinfeld). It truly represents the pinnacle of comedy for me. To think I almost dropped it during the first season (which is by far the weakest, it's merely meant as an introduction to the crazy world of Gintama and its characters)... that would have been a humongous mistake. It integrates pretty much all kind of comedy: there is slapstick, meta, fourth wall breaking, absurd, sex, and toilet humor. There's something for everybody. It's very "japanese" however and you need to be familiar with anime if you want to understand everything, so it may not be for everybody.
Another thing I like about Gintama is that it's not only a comedy. There is drama and action, and they are as top-notch as the humor is. The serious arcs are just as amazing as the comedy arcs and will keep you on the edge of your seat. The characters are also complex, memorable and most importantly, highly likable.
Other comedy anime I love include School Rumble, Binbougami ga! (same director as Gintama *wink*), Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou (again, same director as Gintama *wink wink*), Yakitate!! Japan and Cromartie High school among others.
Alright. Now that I've promoted Gintama, my job here is done.
PS: watch Gintama
|2013-01-20, 23:21
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This is some of my recommendation
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (Black Comedy, PopCulture Comedy)
Seto no Hanayome (Absurd Comedy, Sex Comedy)
Gintama (Sex Comedy, Absurd Comedy, Meta Comedy, Slapstick Comedy)
Fullmetal Panic Fumoffu (Absurd Comedy)
School Rumble (Character Driven Comedy)
Detroit Metal City (Sex Comedy, Absurd Comedy)
So far my favourite one is absurd comedy, because, yes it is absurd...
|2013-01-20, 23:31
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Really, you don't have to focus on those category listings. I'm starting to second guess myself for writing those in the first place...
I just wanted a broad discussion on the idea of comedy in anime. To see what works and what doesn't, and, if possible, how it can be respected and discussed as much as drama. Because sometimes that feels like an uphill battle.
|2013-01-21, 11:06
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|2013-01-21, 18:21
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I am not saying we shouldn't discuss it, I was just saying why it is not discussed that much.
I actually love comedy in all it's forms and most of the stuff I watch is comedy based. Comedy is a great equalizer because its hard to sound like an elite-fag when you are discussing something funny. BTW don't take my seriously, especially when discussing comedy.
|2013-01-21, 19:22
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I don't mind this state of affairs too much - I'd rather have a smaller thread with a more intimate fanbase than a larger one where the voices are trying to drown each other out - but just because I'm okay with it doesn't mean it can't be better than it is.
|2013-01-21, 20:17
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Satirical anime are rare to begin with, and political satires rarer still. I attribute that to the "subject" political culture of Japan. One remarkable exception stands out though, the 2007 Madhouse work Oh! Edo Rocket. Originally produced for the stage, the playwright reworked the material into a 26-week animated romp that juxtaposed modern technologies and the late Edo period. The soundtrack by Honma Yusuke rounds out the anachronisms by making heavy use of American big-band sounds that were probably common in Japan during the immediate postwar years.
Set in 1843-44, the story focuses on a young fireworks maker, Tamaya Seikichi. Like other characters in Oh! Edo Rocket, Seikichi has historical roots in the Tamaya family of fireworks makers. Their Kagiya rivals also appear in the show. Seikichi's professional development has been restricted by the introduction of the Tenpou Reforms by the Tokugawa Shogunate. In an effort to "cleanse" Japan of foreign and modern influences, the Reforms banned many "useless" activities, one of which was entertainment. As a result Seikichi is forced to conduct his experiments in obscure locations and spends a lot of his effort avoiding the local enforcer, Nishinosuke Akai. Akai is employed by Mizuno Tadakuni, the real-life author of the Reforms.
One day a strange young woman with stars in her eyes appears before Seikichi and asks him to build her a firework that can reach the moon. That premise lets the playwright satirize political repression, the 1960's race to the moon, and the relationship between government and citizens in contemporary Japan.
The show repeatedly breaks the "fourth wall," with the characters often speaking directly to the audience. At one point the main characters all bemoan the fact that an episode is taking place without any of them appearing in it. Another time one wonders about some obscure character who "doesn't appear on the website!"
I was shocked when Funimation decided to license this show because I always thought it was "too Japanese" to appeal to foreign viewers. The cast makes the same observation in the recap episode, fourteen, when they wonder how a particular scene will play out for foreign audiences. Funimation took considerable liberties with the translation to cope with this problem. Some of their changes are quite funny and appropriate (the "playboy" character is portrayed as an Elvis impersonator at one point), but others simply miss the mark. If you are interested in watching this show, I strongly recommend finding the Shinsen fansubs. The translator ("Tom & Jerry") took great pains with this show and included notes whenever a cultural referent might not make sense to those of us outside Japan.
This is one of my all-time favorite anime series and entirely unlike anything else you might have watched.
When I watched AKB0048, I wondered if Okada Mari had watched Rocket. Her script also has a ban on entertainment at the center of the plot.
|2013-01-21, 22:12
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I really like Joshiraku, too. One thing I notice about comedies is that they can get away with things, I'd otherwise find cheesy. One of the stengths of Joshiraku is how seriously they (seem to) take Rakugo, with the care they take in animating the bows. The way they use anime to portray this... it's a sort of contrast they keep up in the Tokyou-tour section of the show, where they constantly show how things have changed. It could easily come off as sentimental or traditionalist; the show is the opposite. It's, how shall I say this, honoring tradition, but not blindly. And humour is the perfect vehicle to transport this. It's the court-jester function.
Another comedy this year shares this feature. Shirokuma Café. It's a totally different beast. Rather than juxtaposing social critique with respect for tradition, this one is simply a feel-good show. If it wasn't a comedy, I'm not sure I could handle it. (For all that I love Tamayura, I couldn't take too much of it all at once.) Again, one of the strengths of the show is that they take animals seriously in art and behaviour. They do have strategic blind spots (e.g. I dread the day a seal comes into the café...), but I don't mind that at all. So while the animals might be stand-ins for types of people, they're sufficiently animal-like to distract from this.
Oddly enough, I think that the drama in the currently airing Kotoura san is so effective because it is a comedy. The character designs, the way they overplay visuals and music... if this was a straight drama, it would come across as cheesy. But because it's self-conscious in it's melodrama it works; it's just so heart rending. If I imagine (for example) more realistic character designs, I'd be rolling my eyes at how forced it is. At least that's my hypothesis. (Best new show of the season, IMO.)
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|2013-01-22, 01:53
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Gintama is like Simpsons or South Park when it comes to continuity, it kind of resets every year to where you CAN watch every episode from the beginning but you wouldn't be doing yourself a disservice if you started somewhere randomly
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Rangers move within 1 win of Stanley Cup finals
NEW YORK (AP) — Henrik Lundqvist earned his 41st career playoff victory and his first postseason point with an assist.
The only number that mattered late Sunday night was the one win the New York Rangers need to reach the Stanley Cup finals for the first time in 20 years.
"You just have to keep the same mindset that you had for the first four or five games, and the last series. You don't change anything," Lundqvist said after the Rangers' 3-2 overtime victory gave them a 3-1 lead against the Montreal Canadiens in the Eastern Conference finals. "You don't think about what's ahead. You're just going in and trying to do your job."
The Rangers know firsthand just how quickly a 3-1 series lead can evaporate. They dug out of that hole in the previous round against Pittsburgh.
A win Tuesday in Montreal will put New York in the championship round for the first time since they won the title in 1994. A loss will make Game 6 necessary at what will be a nervous Madison Square Garden on Thursday.
"I look forward to that challenge," Lundqvist said of the return to Montreal, where the Rangers won the first two games of the series. "It's exciting to know you're one game away. You have to motivate yourself to get to a level where you're helping the team.
"That's pretty good motivation right there."
Martin St. Louis has been providing inspiration on and off the ice in recent times, particularly since the unexpected death of his mother the day after the Rangers fell behind the Penguins 3-1.
St. Louis tended to family responsibilities for a day before rejoining his teammates in Pittsburgh for Game 5.
The Rangers, who attended the funeral for St. Louis' mother near Montreal in between Games 1 and 2 of this series, were galvanized as they rallied around their grieving teammate.
New York is 6-1 since her passing, and the latest win came 6:02 into overtime on Sunday when St. Louis netted his sixth goal of the playoffs.
"I had some decent looks," St. Louis said. "The puck bounced a couple of times. You just have to concentrate on your next opportunity. You get this far, you have to trust yourself. That's what I try to do, and I was fortunate."
He has 10 career postseason winning goals and 39 overall. He hadn't scored in a playoff overtime since Game 6 of the 2004 Stanley Cup finals when he was with Tampa Bay.
Less than three months since being acquired by the Rangers, he is providing memorable moments that could lead to another championship. St. Louis has a six-game point streak — with four goals and three assists — and three goals in this series.
"He has been great for us ever since he got here," said forward Carl Hagelin, who also scored his sixth playoff goal. "He shows a lot of tenacity and emotion every time he steps on the ice."
The Rangers rebounded from a home overtime loss on Thursday by outlasting the Canadiens, who carried much of the play over the final two periods. New York didn't want to return to Montreal all even, even though it won the opening two games of the series there.
"It would have been devastating to go back there without getting one at home," forward Brad Richards said. "We still have a lot of work to do, but I'd rather it be 3-1 than 2-2. It was a very emotional time when we saw that go in."
A loose puck came to St. Louis, alone in the right circle, and he fired a snap shot over goalie Dustin Tokarski's shoulder. That gave the Rangers the win after they squandered a pair of one-goal leads.
"St. Louis had some time and picked a corner on me," Tokarski said. "It's a game of inches, and we came up a bit short."
Hagelin put the Rangers in front with a short-handed tally in the first period, and Derick Brassard made it 2-1 in the second in his return from a two-game injury absence. Hagelin also assisted on St. Louis' winner.
Lundqvist made 27 saves in tying the postseason franchise record for wins held by 1994 Cup champion Mike Richter, who was in attendance. He also earned an assist on Brassard's goal.
"I'm really proud to be out there with those guys, and hopefully can keep it going a little more," Lundqvist said.
Francis Bouillon tied it for Montreal in the second, and fellow defenseman P.K. Subban made it 2-2 in the third with a power-play goal. David Desharnais assisted on both for Montreal. Tokarski stopped 26 shots for the Canadiens, who went 1 for 8 on the power play.
"By no means are we counting ourselves out," Canadiens captain Brian Gionta said. "It's a tough loss, it's a bitter loss, but at the end of the day we are still in this series. I still like our chances with two games at home."
Though there were 13 minor penalties, there was no carry-over of the nastiness in Game 3 when a hit by Montreal's Brandon Prust broke the jaw of New York forward Derek Stepan. Prust served the first game of a two-game suspension. Stepan sat out after having surgery.
The Rangers gave Montreal five power plays through the first two periods, and New York's penalty-killers stood tall. But the sixth produced the tying goal 2 minutes into the third period when Subban scored his first goal of the series and first point in six games.
That broke the Rangers' run of 27 straight killed penalties, dating to Game 2 of the second round.


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Family, friends, dignitaries and the public will gather on Wednesday to honour the life of a respected Sydney detective killed in the line of duty.
Bryson Anderson, a 45-year-old father of three, will be farewelled at a full police funeral at St Patrick's Cathedral in Parramatta.
"We'll no doubt mourn (him)," Commissioner Andrew Scipione told the Fairfax Radio Network on Tuesday.
"We'll cry hard but we'll also remember the fine things he's done. We'll acknowledge him, the leader he was in communities."
Detective Inspector Anderson was stabbed after responding to a neighbour dispute at Oakville, in Sydney's northwest, on Thursday.
He worked as a duty officer at Hawkesbury local area command and recently turned down a promotion in order to continue in the job he loved.
"He was larger than life," Mr Scipione said.
"Having said that, he was well-respected. There were people that looked up to him. He always brought a laugh to any conversation. On top of that he was compassionate and caring."
VIPs including Premier Barry O'Farrell, Governor Marie Bashir, Parramatta Lord Mayor John Chedid and Mr Scipione will attend the service.
Bishop Anthony Fisher will preside over the church proceedings that are expected to last two hours.
Mourners will hear eulogies from Insp Anderson's wife, Donna, his brother Warwick, who is a retired police officer, and another brother Damian.
Mr Scipione invited the public to attend and said overflow arrangements would be in place for those to listen to the proceedings from outside the cathedral.
Afterwards, a roadside guard and marching escort will proceed along Victoria Road between Marist Place and O'Connell Street.
Participants will include the Mounted Unit, Police Band and uniformed officers, as well as visiting interstate commissioners and deputies.
The procession will also include the hearse carrying Insp Anderson's coffin, and his pallbearers.
Motorists are advised Victoria Road will be closed between Church and O'Connell Streets from 3pm until 6pm.


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New York University: Suppression of Discussion of Mohammed Cartoons
Category: Free Speech
Schools: New York University
In violation of its own policies, New York University (NYU) refused to allow a student group to show the Danish cartoons of Mohammed at a public event. Even though the purpose of the event was to show and discuss the cartoons, an administrator suddenly ordered the students either not to display them or to exclude 150 off-campus guests from attending. The NYU Objectivist Club decided to hold a panel discussion entitled "Free Speech and the Danish Cartoons," at which the cartoons would be displayed. The event, like previous Objectivist Club events, was open to the public. NYU Director of Student Activities Robert Butler informed the group that they had two choices: they must either not display the cartoons, or not allow anyone from off campus to attend the event. NYU President John Sexton refused to back down, despite FIRE's protesting that the university's actions blatantly violated the students' rights to free speech and expression.
Letter from NYU President John Sexton to FIRE, August 15, 2006
New York University Student Guide, Chapter 9
E-mail to NYU Bengali Students Association, March 28, 2006
Speech on Campus After 9/11: Less Free than It Used to Be?
May 25, 2006
Universities have traditionally been places where debate and the free exchange of ideas have been welcomed. But after 9/11, that may be changing — as some recent, troubling incidents suggest. In this column, I'll survey some recent incidents suggesting free speech on campus is in peril, and discuss the extent to which the First Amendment protects student and faculty speech Cracking Down on Student Demonstrators and Controversial Student Speech Recently, students at the University of Miami (a private school, but one with a stated policy of fostering free speech) demonstrated alongside striking maintenance workers to show solidarity. Now, they face […]» Read More
'Free speech' cries ring hollow on college campuses and beyond
April 19, 2006
by Nat Hentoff USA Today Karen Murdock is an adjunct professor of geography and earth science at Century College, a two-year community college in White Bear Lake, Minn.She often posts news articles and blank comment sheets on a faculty bulletin board that she says she hopes students read and argue about — and thereby think beyond White Bear Lake into the world.In February, she posted an array of the inflammatory cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that offended not only Muslim students but also college administrators. Murdock's exercise of free speech was eventually silenced, yet her cause echoes well beyond […]» Read More
N.Y.U. bans Danish cartoons' display at campus talk
April 12, 2006
Plans for a presentation at New York University about a Danish newspaper's decision to publish cartoons considered blasphemous veered off course last Wednesday night, when university administrators prohibited students from displaying the cartoons at the heart of the debate. The decision touched off a dispute at the university about the limits of free speech. "This wasn't just a knee-jerk reaction," said James Devitt, an N.Y.U. spokesperson. "As a university and a community, we have a number of interests to protect and we must try and respect everyone's sensitivities." N.Y.U.'s chapter of the Objectivist Club sponsored the event, "Free Speech and […]» Read More
Admin caves on cartoons
April 3, 2006
The NYU administration was presented with a perfect chance to defend the integrity of the academic community about which President Sexton gushes so lovingly, and they failed. Last week, the Objectivist Club at NYU held a panel discussion about the cartoons published a few months ago in a prominent Danish daily newspaper and the violent reaction to them in parts of the Muslim world. They were planning to display the cartoons in the background at the discussion, but were in effect barred from doing so by the administration at the request of the NYU Islamic Center. I received two e-mails […]» Read More
NYU on Mohammed Cartoons: Discuss, but Don't Look
April 3, 2006
by Nathan Burchfiel Cybercast News Service New York University administrators on March 29 banned the display of cartoons satirizing the Muslim prophet Mohammed but did so during a forum held to discuss the controversy over the cartoons. As a result, the president of a free speech advocacy group calls the decision to censor the cartoons "one of the most frustrating" arguments he has ever heard. Leaders of the university's Objectivist Club organized the forum to discuss the Danish cartoons that had depicted Mohammed, for example, with a fuse in his turban. The cartoons offended Muslims because Islam forbids any depictions […]» Read More
NYU Knuckles
April 2, 2006
For all the charges by the left that the First Amendment is under siege in America, the far bigger threat to free expression today is what's rightly been labeled "the heckler's veto." Meaning the thuggish tack of squelching speech with a violent threat – and a demonstration of the will to carry it out. The world saw the heckler's veto at work in the worldwide protests over those Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad: People died because rampaging rent-a-mobs declared the drawings "offensive." Around the world, governments and many publications blinked before the threats. Though the chanting and the protests […]» Read More
Cartoons Discussed But Not Shown At NYU Event
March 30, 2006
A student group at New York University last night bowed to what they said was pressure from administrators and decided not to display the controversial Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed at a panel discussion on the often-violent worldwide reaction to the cartoons. Four blank pedestals were left behind the speakers to symbolize what one member of NYU's Objectivist Club, Ryan Puzycki, called "a hijab on free speech." The Objectivist Club is devoted to the philosophy of the author Ayn Rand. The university denied the group's allegation, saying it had asked the Objectivists to be sensitive to the NYU Muslim […]» Read More
NYU Continues to Defend Wrongdoing in Mohammed Cartoon Controversy
August 29, 2006
New York University President John Sexton has written FIRE to defend NYU's decision to force its Objectivist Club not to show the controversial Danish Mohammed Cartoons at a discussion about those very cartoons. In response to FIRE's letter to NYU's Board of Trustees, Sexton claimed that the student organizers decided on their own not to show the cartoons. Sexton glosses over the fact that it was NYU's administration that told the students that they could not show the cartoons if they opened the discussion to New Yorkers unaffiliated with NYU, dozens of whom had already registered to attend. FIRE is […]» Read More
Victory for Freedom of Speech at the University of Southern California
April 10, 2006
LOS ANGELES, April 10, 2006—The University of Southern California (USC) has publicly reaffirmed its commitment to freedom of speech and repudiated two instances of censorship. USC's renewed embrace of liberty came after the intervention of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). "We are impressed with USC's response," said FIRE President Greg Lukianoff. "While we would prefer that universities not censor their students in the first place, a real willingness to address and repudiate censorship will go a long way toward restoring liberty on our campuses." The trouble at USC began in January when George Weiss Vando performed his […]» Read More
NYU Surrenders to the Heckler's Veto in Mohammed Cartoon Dispute
March 29, 2006
NEW YORK, March 29, 2006—In violation of its own policies, New York University (NYU) is refusing to allow a student group to show the Danish cartoons of Mohammed at a public event tonight. Even though the purpose of the event is to show and discuss the cartoons, an administrator has suddenly ordered the students either not to display them or to exclude 150 off-campus guests from attending. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is urging NYU's president to reverse course and stand up for freedom of speech. "NYU's actions are inexcusable," declared FIRE President Greg Lukianoff, who is […]» Read More


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Like Ramadan, the Christian season of Lent offers the practitioners of their faith an opportunity with many graces, to interiorize their experience of the mysteries. We do this by purifying and simplifying our minds as well as our ordinary lives. It is a time to accept that the spiritual is less an ideal than the real. It is about healing and wholeness rather than a perfectionism which dangerously feeds rather than diminishes the ego. About moderation rather than extremes.
It can be a stimulus and refreshment to take on new spiritual disciplines. It can also be a risk. Are they taken on as techniques that we can master to cajole or even force God to reward us? Are they ways of reprimanding ourselves for our weaknesses in a ways that secretly makes us more proud rather than leading to the humility that is self-knowledge?
This is why Jesus insisted that his disciples don't make a show of their fasting – especially to themselves. The ego is always an appreciative audience of our spiritual ambitions. To avoid this pitfall we draw on the wisdom tradition that also informed the teaching of Jesus himself. With discrete fasting there is also the complementary practice of almsgiving. In the first we reduce our own consumption. In the other we expand our generosity to others in need. In the midst of our global economic crisis fasting may seem inevitable.
People will spend less because they have less to spend. But as the poor always suffer most in such times it is important also to give more. We should not 'spiritualise' this away in order to justify possessiveness and self-interest. But also we should understand that reducing our consumption applies to more than what we buy or eat. It may also mean how much we unmindfully take in through our addiction to the media and entertainment. How much additional time we give to meditation and lectio.
A day without television, a morning without the radio. Almsgiving, too, covers not only material goods but also the time, care and loving attention we give to others. An extra session with someone we know needs to be heard. A moment to notice with appreciation a lonely person.
The best way to balance one's spiritual life and daily life – and make them more harmonious - is to be faithful and generous in the time we give to meditation each morning and evening. It is easy to avoid this interior fasting and almsgiving – meditation is both a reduction and an expansion – by dramatizing external practices. We look for ways to wriggle off the hook of the true ascesis. John Main helps us understand this when he says that meditation is the essential ascecis of the spiritual life.
Ascesis means not self-denial or the infliction of discomfort. It means, literally, 'exercise' or training. If we use the coming forty days to get into better shape we will better celebrate the Easter mysteries. If we happily embrace this time of the desert above all by being faithful to its interior silence and stillness we will better see that the desert is not deserted. It is filled. It is not a diversion from the Kingdom but its true portal.
Laurence Freeman OSB
Laurence Freeman is a Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Monte Oliveto and also Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation (www.wccm.org)


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The Washington Redskins aren't for sale and don't figure to be in the near future, but that can't stop a man from dreaming.
Billionaire Warren Buffett says he dreamed of owning the franchise as a kid growing up in Washington, D.C., which he moved to in 1942 at the age of 12.
"When I was a kid, I thought if I ever made a lot of money, I would go out and buy a team," Buffett said Wednesday on "The Dan Patrick Show," via ESPN. "I was a water boy for the Washington Redskins for two games. I thought if I ever had a lot of money, I'd buy the Washington Redskins."
Of course, Buffett went on to make more than "a lot of money." His net worth is estimated at upward of $58 billion and he's one of the world's wealthiest people. But another billionaire owns the Redskins, and Dan Snyder is wildly passionate about his club.
The Redskins struggled mightily in 2013, failing to qualify for the playoffs a year after winning the NFC East. In fact, the Redskins have made the postseason just four times under Snyder, but the team ranks as one of the most valuable in the NFL year after year.
"I don't know whether (Snyder) would sell," Buffett said jokingly to Patrick. "But Sammy Baugh was my hero in those days. That's a little before your time. It was the dream of every kid to have a sports team; well, it was the dream of every kid to be a superstar. But of course I never had a chance of that."
While the Redskins are Buffett's first passion, the 83-year-old investor calls the Denver Broncos his favorite team.