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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Political Dealing with Farm ProgramsTweet
Monty Hall would love it. And farmers who gamble on the markets and big stakes revenue crops would be in hog heaven. And for those who were fans of the daytime television show Let's Make a Deal will appreciate the choices they might be afforded if the Congress approves a new Farm Bill with a trio of optional programs.
Agricultural economists Carl Zulauf of Ohio State University and Gary Schnitkey of the University of Illinois suggest farmers may have three choices of programs for a farm safety net based on what the House and Senate Agricultural Committees may develop. The Committees are slated to begin marking up their versions of a new Farm Bill in the next few days, reworking their proposals for the 2012 Farm Bill that did not get considered in the House.
Door #1 Revenue Program
While they did not get much attention per se, the Senate's Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and the House's Revenue Loss Coverage (RLC) were designed to provide year to year financial support for agriculture, since crop insurance guarantees only provide support for a single crop, and crop values can change significantly from year to year (e.g. 2012 to 2013). The ARC and RLC programs contained complex formulas involving price averages over multiple years, then multiplied by a coverage level, which was 89% in the Senate and 85% in the House. When revenue fell below threshold levels, payments were made on a per acre basis taking gross revenue into account along with crop insurance indemnity payments.
The reason a farmer would not want to pick Door #1 is because price trends, as the result of large crops, will decline and financial support will decline in lockstep. Crop revenue insurance makes payments on a price guarantee or yield insurance makes payments on bushels produced. As a result, multiple years could provide minimal insurance indemnity payments and the multiple year season average prices may work their way lower as well. Rapid declines would be protected, but slow declines would not and farming operations would have to learn to live with less USDA farm supports.
Both ARC and RLC are connected with crop insurance, and provide financial support where farmers may lower their cost by having a higher deductible. If a 65% or 75% crop insurance coverage is selected the ARC and RLC programs provide a payment that begins where the crop insurance ends, but does not guarantee 100% of expected revenue, only a "shallow loss."
Door #2 Target Prices
An old program that was phased out with Freedom to Farm was resurrected for southern farmers who wanted to retain the concept of target prices for peanuts and rice, which have enjoyed high price support programs. And the political weight of the south on the Agriculture Committees nearly assures that any new farm program will include target prices. The concept of target prices created havoc for the USDA when the World Trade Organization upheld a complaint by Brazil over high support prices for US cotton. A payment was made to Brazil, but a subsequent payment was negated by the recent sequester action.
Target prices were included in the 2008 Farm Bill, but were so low, Cornbelt farmers may not have known they were there, with $2.63 for corn, $6.00 for soybeans, and $4.17 for wheat. While the target prices were low, the government did not have any outlays for deficiency payments. However, they would not have provided any substantial economic support if market prices had faded that deep.
Since target prices are set by a Farm Bill, they will remain steady throughout the life of the legislation, but any financial support they offer could be pared by year to year appropriations. If target prices are high, payments could be made that would draw taxpayer protest, such as the current system of direct payments. And such financial support, since target prices are based on production, will draw WTO protests because target prices encourage US production at the financial risk of farmers in developing countries.
Door #3 Supplemental Insurance Program
While cotton producers only were eligible for the STAX program proposed in the failed 2012 Farm Bill, the Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) was included in both the House and Senate proposals. It was designed to enhance the use of crop insurance by offering the opportunity for farmers to cover their shallow losses, their deductible, with a subsidized mini crop insurance program. It was generally designed to take farmers up to the 90% coverage level, and was based on either county yield or revenue in the spirit of GRP or GRIP policies.
The SCO plan was a year to year plan with different levels of financial protection from year to year and could fall substantially as 2012 prices fell compared to the 2013 new crop prices. Another downside is the potential for sporadic coverage, if an insufficient number of farmers wanted SCO to create a risk pool in their county.
Contrary to the TV program, farmers may know what is behind each of the doors, but it is now up to the Congressional Ag Committee members to play Let's Make a Deal. All three of the programs, Revenue Program, Target Price Program, and Supplemental Insurance Program potentially have a substantial price attached to them and that may spell their demise. However, Congress will have ways of cutting costs, by reducing subsidies for crop insurance, by reducing target prices, and by reducing the payment levels from the 80% range down to levels that are considerably less. The Congress is a long way from approving any of these plans for implementation for the 2014 crop; however they form the basis for programs that have been given considerable support within the committees and are familiar to others in Congress.
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Shadie Ray Whitehead looks at a family photo, and a radiant smile emerges on his face.
Shadie Ray Whitehead looks at a family photo, and a radiant smile emerges on his face.
In the back row, on the left, stands a 13-time NFL Pro Bowl, a former Defensive Player of the Year and one of the fiercest linebackers in the game.
Whitehead, a proud grandfather, has a future NFL Hall of Famer in his bloodlines.
Ray Lewis, who has been donning the Baltimore Ravens� No. 52 jersey for the past 17 seasons, is preparing for the Super Bowl � his final game.
Whitehead will likely be in Charlotte, at his daughter�s home, watching his grandson win his second Lombardi Trophy.
�It�s quite a pleasure to have a guy like him as a grandson,� Whitehead said.
Whitehead was born in the Riverdale area near New Bern in August, 1935. At age 77, he spends most of his time between Charlotte and his property in Craven County.
He left New Bern for Wilmington when he was 18 years old. From there, he joined the Army and was stationed at Fort Jackson in South Carolina.
Following his military stint, Whitehead moved to New York, and lived there for more than 30 years. He returned to New Bern in 1978 when his father passed away.
Whitehead has owned property in New Bern for more than 30 years.
�I like New Bern, I always have,� Whitehead said. �I like Wilmington, and every place that I�ve lived, I liked it very much.�
Whitehead was not a part of his grandson�s life but he kept tabs on him. It wasn�t until the spring of 2008 when he finally met Ray Lewis face-to-face.
Lewis, who resides in Florida during the offseason, drove to Charlotte to see his father, Elbert Ray Whitehead.
Elbert Ray Whitehead, who was in and out of Lewis� life, drove the two nearly six hours to New Bern. Whitehead talked to Lewis for the first time in person.
The meeting came a year after Whitehead had neck surgery.
�We stayed up all night and chatted. It was like any other family would do,� Whitehead said. �It was a big deal. That was the first time I had seen him. We had conversation all through while he was playing in college and getting drafted.�
According to a recent ESPN documentary on Lewis and his relationship with his father, Lewis speaks about five generations of father�s leaving their sons.
Whitehead said the relationship between Ray and his father have been mended following that trip to New Bern.
�They have a great relationship,� Whitehead said. �(Elbert) is just like (Ray).�
Whitehead has seen Lewis, now at 37 years old, a few times since. He spent a week in Florida last July. Whitehead has nine grandchildren.
He�s seen two Ravens games in Charlotte, and another in Baltimore.
Lewis has six children of his own, a reason he decided to retire following the Super Bowl.
�He is a very good father,� Whitehead said. �He is very dedicated and responsible. He is a great father for them.�
Lewis, and the Ravens, will play the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XLVII on Feb. 3 in New Orleans.
Lewis was drafted by the Ravens in 1996 �the first draft after Baltimore relocated from Cleveland. He has become one of the elite players of all-time.
Lewis has 1,558 career tackles, 41.5 sacks and 31 interceptions.
�I saw the whole show, and it�s been very interesting,� Whitehead said. �He is a famous fellow and I watch all of his ballgames. We are family, so we call and chat just like any of my other grandkids.�
Whitehead said he remains in contact with Lewis, and makes a point to watch all his games.
�I�m a Ravens fan, of course, because of my grandson,� Whitehead said. �We are close. He is family.�
Adam Thompson can be reached at 252-635-5669 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow Adam on Twitter @Adam_matic.


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Saturday, July 23, 2011
Response to Romans Question
There have been several very thoughtful comments left on this blog, and a number on James McGrath's blog, who put the question out there as well. Tim Gombis (a NT scholar whose work I am now just discovering), blogged his own response.
One of the reasons I put the question out there is that there are some folks at Arlington who like to make altar displays and other visuals to enhance the sermon theme, and they are thinking of making one big display for the whole Romans series, so I'm hoping to state the overarching theme in a way that could be visually represented.
While we're on the subject of visuals, if you're in Nashville, come worship with us at Arlington UMC tomorrow, where you'll see a cool altar display (and hopefully hear a decent sermon) about Jacob wrestling with God.
But back to the question at hand. What do you see as the overarching theme of Paul's Epistle to the Romans?
4 comments:
- Llama Lady said...
It is about *us* and not about *me.*
- Misfit. said...
I think the overarching theme in the book of Romans, is a contrast between the Law and Grace. Paul begins by explaining the Law as our schoolmaster, showing that throught the lens of the Law we are all broken and without excuse. But then He talks about grace, and beginning witht chapter 8 explains how the inseperable love of God in Christ restores our perfection, fixes our brokeness, and brings us into a new kind of relationship with God.
- Matt Kelley said...
Misfit- that's certainly a contrast Paul draws a lot, but it also provides a tension today that was not there in Paul's time. Paul could draw such a contrast and critique the Judaism of his time because that was his tradition and his people. As twenty-first century people, most of whom have no real roots in the Judaism of any century, make sure that we're not being anti-Jewish (which is not the same thing as anitsemitic) when talking about this contrast.
- Misfit. said...
Well yes, but as far as application today, Paul is saying that it's not the letter of following the Word that is the goal, it is remembering Grace. And following Christ because of a flame ignited in our hearts through that rememberance.


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When Poland's bishops circulated a pastoral letter attacking the "ideology of gender," it touched off fierce disputes in this traditionally Catholic country.
The letter, read in all churches on Dec. 29, 2013, said the concept of gender was "deeply destructive" to "the person, inter-human relations and all social life," and called on Poles to resist it.
Six weeks on, many think the controversy is being stoked by misunderstandings.
"Gender Studies have been taught at Polish universities for years, and no one 'til now has questioned this," said Piotr Mucharski, chief editor of the Krakow-based Catholic Tygodnik Powszechny weekly.
In their letter, the bishops said the "ideology of gender" was "strongly rooted in Marxism and neo-Marxism" and had been promoted in Poland "for several months" by "vocal circles with considerable financial means" who wanted to "experiment on children."
"God created men and women — with the great and indispensable gift that, in body and spirit, they should be men for women, and women for men, assigned to married life," the pastoral letter noted. "It must therefore arouse the greatest concern that an attempt is now being made to redefine marriage and family, especially by supporters of this ideology of gender."
The claim was rejected by the Polish government's Equal Rights Plenipotentiary, Agnieszka Kozlowska-Rajewicz, who said no such programs existed in Polish schools and accused the bishops' conference of inventing the term "gender ideology" as an "imagined enemy."
Meanwhile, a group of Warsaw-based professors said the Church's new campaign risked "endangering freedom of research," while another group wrote to the pope, complaining of a "witch hunt." Several prominent churchmen also questioned the bishops' move.
A Jesuit editor, Father Jacek Prusak, said the pastoral letter appeared to have "distorted relations between religion and science," while a leading Dominican, Father Maciej Zieba, questioned the wisdom of denouncing "gender" when most Poles had never heard the term.
Gender Studies emerged at Western universities in the late 1950s, as an interdisciplinary area of research drawing on fields from literature and history to law and medicine.
Many proponents maintain that male and female roles are socially and culturally constructed, rather than reflecting inherent biological differences, and say a traditional focus on binary male and female genders causes discrimination against people displaying sexual variance or nonconformity.
In an early January commentary, the Polish Church's Catholic Information Agency, KAI, said the Catholic Church worldwide had "unanimously rejected the ideology of gender" after being warned about it by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in a December 2012 Christmas address to the Roman Curia.
In the address, the pope described gender theory as a "new philosophy of sexuality," which maintained that "sex is no longer a given element of nature" but "a social role we choose for ourselves."
The "profound falsehood" of the theory risked an "anthropological revolution," the pontiff added, which would threaten human dignity by undermining the family and leading people to "deny their nature."
Individual Polish bishops began denouncing "gender" last autumn.
In October, the head of the Church's Catholic Education Commission, Bishop Marek Mendyk of Legnica, said he'd written to the Education Ministry, demanding its removal from schools.
In November, Bishop Kazimierz Ryczan of Kielce wrote to Polish parliament members, urging them to "defend the homeland against totalitarian genderism," while Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski of Lodz warned that "gender" would bring the "denial of God and "death of civilization."
In their post-Christmas pastoral letter, the bishops said the "ideology of gender" encouraged people to "decide whether they are men or women" and "set up a new type of family," typically based on homosexual unions. They added that the ideology was being introduced to Poland "without the knowledge of society or consent of Poles," under the guise of resisting domestic violence and promoting equal rights, and threatened "not just the family, but also our homeland and all humanity."
Mucharski thinks many Polish Catholics are confused about just what's under attack. Some media commentators believe the Church chose to highlight "gender," he said, to divert public discussion away from sexual abuse by priests, which became headlines in Poland in early 2013, and has now widened the term to cover threats to social and moral issues from homosexuality to abortion.
This has been denied by the bishops' conference spokesman Father Jozef Kloch. But many Catholics remain at a loss to explain how the storm over "gender" suddenly erupted.
"There's no doubt it was the Church which started this debate — and in a radical form," Mucharski told Our Sunday Visitor.
"Some people here wish to promote egalitarian changes, loosening up the traditionalist view of women as consigned to cooking and child-care, whereas others resist all talk of change as a destructive ideological attack. The misunderstandings between them seem to be what's fueling this war."
For now, the Church is pressing on with its campaign.Addressing parliamentarians on Jan. 23, a lecturer at Krakow's John Paul II Papal University, Father Dariusz Oko, said "gender ideology" was being "pushed by atheists" and "threatened civilization."
"Just as the Church criticized Marxist and Nazi ideology, and was persecuted for it, so now it's criticizing gender ideology," Father Oko, a key bishops' conference adviser, told the members. "Whoever fails to remember history is condemned to repeat it. Just as the genderists maintain that sex is not determined, so Pol Pot argued that society is not determined and set out with great fervor to reshape it."
Polish newspapers say many parents are now calling for a ban on "gender" at schools and complained recently when children were asked to draw a picture of monks, or "men in dresses."
In January, a group of teachers backed the Church in a hard-hitting statement, claiming "so-called Gender Studies" should be banned from educational institutions. This was rejected by Lena Kolarska-Bobinska, Poland's higher education minister, who said Polish colleges would be denied European Union funding if they failed to comply with equality norms, which were enshrined in the national constitution. Piotr Mucharski fears the current conflict could damage the Church at home and hold it up to ridicule abroad.
In early January, a public meeting on sexual equality at Warsaw's main Dominican monastery was disrupted by anti-gender protesters. During a conference at the bishops' conference headquarters, an academic expert, Professor Malgorzata Fuszara, bitterly rejected the bishops' "false linking" of gender with Marxism and accused them of touching off "a spirit of moral panic" from which "incompetent people are seeking political capital."
"Perhaps the academics now teaching about gender made a mistake in failing to explain it to the wider society," Mucharski, the Tygodnik Powszechny editor, told OSV. "But many others are now saying gender is an anti-religious, atheist ideology because that's what they've heard in their churches. None of this bodes well for public discourse in our country."
Jonathan Luxmoore writes from Poland.
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Attorney General Recognizes AU Students' Anti-Drug Media Campaign
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Alumna Gives Generous Gift for Student Scholarships
The legacy of the late Phyllis Hanse lives on in Webster. She generously left 90 percent of her estate, a total of $4.2 million, to support Augustana University student scholarships, among other worthy causes.
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Research findings by an Augustana physics professor and AU alumni are featured in Scientific Reports, a nationally recognized online repository of life, physical, chemical, applied science and clinical research.
Augustana Announces Call for Art for Reformation Exhibit
The Eide/Dalrymple Gallery at Augustana University has issued a call for art for its upcoming exhibit, "To Reform: Artists Respond to the Reformation," a visual commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.
2017 Alumni Achievement, Horizon Award Recipients Honored
Five Augustana alumni were honored during Viking Days for their outstanding achievements in their fields and for exemplifying the core values of Augustana University: Christian Faith, Excellence, Liberal Arts, Community and Service.
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By Eric Gregori
Originally posted on Freescale's The Embedded Beat Blog
This week is National Robotics Week (April 9-17). "National Robotics Week is a product of a 2009 effort by leading universities and companies to create a 'national road-map' for robotics technology, which was initially unveiled at a May 2009 briefing by academic and industry leaders to the Congressional Caucus on Robotics."
A week dedicated to everything and anything robotic, National Robotics Week (NRW) recognizes the importance of robotics technology as a pillar of 21st century innovation. Robotics is perhaps unique in its ability to ignite the imagination. This ability to create interest makes robotics the perfect platform for education in the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). "During National Robotics Week, a week-long series of events and activities is aimed at increasing public awareness of the growing importance of 'robo-technology' and the tremendous social and cultural impact that it will have on the future of the United States."
The Freescale Cup is a robotics competition held by the Freescale University Program to promote STEM concepts to students around the world. The Freescale Cup is a race between autonomous robot cars. The autonomous vehicles follow a line around a track, with the winner being the car that completes the track in the shortest amount of time. The Freescale Cup is supported by a community website: StreetSmarts. StreetSmarts has over 700 members, and contains multiple videos of Freescale Cup races held around the world.
A Freescale Cup car is made using a standard chassis provided by Freescale. The chassis is a plastic 1/18 scale model car using a DC motor for drive, and a RC servo for steering. The battery provided in the kit is a VEX 7.2 volt 6 cell NiCd pack. Electronics for the robot are up to the designer, but to be eligible for the Freescale Cup it must use a Freescale microcontroller or processor. Look for a future blog detailing how to build a Freescale Cup car using the new Freescale i.MX53 Quick Start board.
The Freescale Robot Team celebrated National Robotics Week by releasing a teaser about the Freescale Robot Sensor Platform (FSLBOT) and Tower Mechatronics Board (TWR-MECH).
We at Freescale are busy putting together as many FSLBOT kits as possible, so when the official release occurs in the first week of May (and the BUY direct button at Freescale.com is enabled ) we will minimize any chance of backorders. We expect the FSLBOT kit to be a very popular training tool and general-purpose development kit. FSLBOT is a walking robot development kit, designed to highlight our sensor product line.
FSLBOT is upgradeable to a truly intelligent machine using the i.MX53 Quick Start Board. The Quick Start Board is a 3-inch by 3-inch embedded Linux computer with 1GB of RAM, running at 1GHz. The Quick Start Board runs a free public source Linux BSP from Freescale, or a public source Android BSP from Adeneo. With the addition of the Quick Start Board, the robot can be programmed in any language supported by embedded Linux such as Python, Perl, Bash, or other scripting languages.
In addition to adding programming languages for the FSLBOT, the i.MX53 adds the ability to do computer vision and/or artificial intelligence. OpenCV runs very nicely on the i.MX53 with enough horsepower to do face tracking.
Anyone who has read my blogs knows that I love robots! National Robotics Week gives everyone a chance to love robots. There is something about robots that is ingrained in an engineer. They open the imagination of what could be.


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|2012-07-05, 17:15
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Anime about partying, sex, drinking and/or drug use?
Are there any anime about partying, sex, drinking and/or drug use?
|2012-07-05, 17:19
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Well let's see:
For me the first thing that comes to mind is Nana. I don't know if this will fit your requirements but that's all I can think of. What do you think?
|2012-07-05, 17:42
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Moyashimon's first season has some of this. There's quite a bit of drinking and maybe some drunken sex assisted perhaps by aphrodisiacs.
Drug use is pretty much off-limits in anime. The main character in Welcome to the NHK! uses cocaine in the manga, but it never appears in the anime. Its absence makes the hallucinatory sequences where Satou talks to his appliances less comprehensible. His high-school senpai is a walking pharmacy in the early parts of the show, but she's addicted to antidepressants.
Two characters in House of Five Leaves appear to smoke opium, but the subject is never really addressed in the story.
Many anime shows with adult characters show them partying with co-workers after hours. Nodame Cantabile has a number of these scenes. I think there are a couple of similar scenes in Usagi Drop, REC, and Showa Monogatari, but they are less frequent.
Alcohol is obviously a key component of Bartender, but there's never any partying going on. Mostly it's a show about older folk who stop by a Ginza bar in an effort to find the right libation to soothe their worried souls. There's a lot of interesting history about the development of various liquors, though. My favorite is the story about how Scotch began as the "whisky of rebellion."
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It's quite difficult to suggest animes that solely focus on those 3. I know Spike in Cowbow Bebop and Margery in Shana often drink. If I am not mistaken, there's a character in Legendary Gambler Tetsuya who use drugs.
As for non-hentai animes that have sex scenes, Kare Kano, Tsukihime, SEED Special Edition DVD (Kira and Flay), Utena and Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien. Sorry that I can't point out the exact episode. It's been so long since I watched them.
|2012-07-05, 17:55
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The characters in Kare Kano have sex late in the show, but nothing is shown. REC has a similar scene. There's a scene where Fujiko has sex in the current Lupin III/Mine Fujiko remake, but it's also off screen. She also spends a good portion of the show nude or nearly nude. The borderline soft hentai Aki Sora has more explicit scenes of incestuous sex. The most explicit sexual encounters I can think of outside of hentai are in Mnemosyne, and most of them involve lesbians.
It's actually rather striking that, for the most part, sex in anime consists mostly of teasing in ecchi comedies. Serious sexual encounters among adults are quite rare in mainstream works.
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Thanks for all the replies!
Too bad drugs are off-limit in anime, maybe it's a taboo or something.
I'm now reading Welcome to the NHK!, I didn't know the manga was so different from the anime.
I think I will check out Nana.
More suggestions are still welcome! (note: I prefer male protagonists)
|2012-07-18, 00:25
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stuff like what the title mentions...you think with the laws the goverment is trying to pass would allow that, i mean they were almost literally trying to ban ecchi animes, saying its all bad. i dont think having a MC being high on crack would be a good idea...just saying
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list of episodes to refresh my memory and still don't recall any.
Perhaps drug usage appears in the manga?
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|2012-11-24, 05:22
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There is a lot more good racy manga that I can think of than anime. Generally in anime there is very little sex besides in hentai, almost none of which is worth reccomending even if such a thing wasn't against the rules of the board: it was my understanding that it is.
Dunno if you read manga but Nozoki Ana is probably the best manga I can think of where the main characters actually have sex like normal people.
Another one that had sex portrayed in a way that I could relate to was Haru yo Koi. It starts out a a Yuri Manga but then it becomes a hetero manga with the yuri story mostly sidelined. This one has lots of sex and is mostly about infidelity. I really enjoyed this manga.
Another popular one is Oretama. Personally, this one kind of squicks me on a lot of levels but there is a ton of sexual content far beyond most manga and a lot of people think it is funny. In some ways it is more like an ecchi comedy than a romance manga but the degree of sexuality in the jokes goes far beyond even the raciest of ecchi comedies.
Another great manga that was never adapted into an anime is Jiraishin. It's basically a detective series set in modern japan that has some overriding plot arcs as well as episodic stories. It contains drug use, violence, sexuality, you name it. To say that this one is not for the faint of heart would be a vast understatement. The violence is rarely more gruesome than your average Seinen manga but the kind of ideas and situations that are portrayed in this manga are extremely disturbing for reasons beyond just visually repulsive violence. That being said, I loved this manga. I think the writing stumbles at times but overall I thought it was a very good read.
So yeah, none of those are anime but there is really very little anime at all that fit your bill.
Nozoki Ana is being adapted soon though and it's gonna be fucking epic.
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Q. We recently installed a new air compressor at our facility (LeROI Dressor Model A782287 air compressor with a 20-hp, 208V, 3-phase and magnetic starter). When the compressor turns on, there is a loud buzzing from the conduit that carries the 3-phase wires to the compressor shed. The conduit is actually vibrating, causing the buzzing sound. The nameplate rating on the compressor motor is 54.5A at 208V. Wire in the conduit is No. 1 AWG aluminum, and the run from the breaker panel to compressor shed is approximately 200 ft.
We suspected the compressor motor. Its balance is within acceptable limits (not 2% per IEEE), and wiring of motor connections is correct. Terminations at both ends of the wire run are tight. We hope EC&M readers can help us solve this problem. —J.A.D.
A. If the entire conduit run from end-to-end is a "rigid" system, and if there are any splices in the conductors, your rigid conduit system may need some flexibility—a bad splice could cause problems. Examine the entire conduit run and its support system for sources of vibration transmission. This includes hangers, straps, joints, fittings, loose connections, etc. Also, check any physical structures, such as building/enclosure walls, structural steel, and floor supports.
You should install a length of flexible conduit at the equipment termination, which will minimize vibration transmission to the raceway system and related components. Also, double check your equipment grounding connections. A poor connection could result in unintentional current flowing in the conduit. —P.D.N.
A. Buzzing sounds from a conduit are not too uncommon. Check the contacts inside the magnetic starter. If your contacts are dirty or pitted, they will often cause chatter. It's possible the chattering from the magnetic starter is so strong it's vibrating the conduit—especially if the conduit is hard piped between your starter and panel or disconnect (that is with no flexible conduit at all in the run).
One solution is to remove the magnetic starter from the circuit and remove the contacts, or isolate them from the coil as best you can. Then, clean the contacts in a well ventilated area. Vigorously spray and clean the contacts, dissolving any contamination. Remember to make sure you wipe clean surrounding plastic components. Let everything dry for about an hour before you replace. —T.C.
A. J.A.D. listed the nameplate rating of the compressor at 54.5A, but did not submit the code letter of the motor or inrush current (if the motor is hermetically sealed). Having run into a similar problem some years ago, I guess the amount of power from the source is inadequate.
I suggest J.A.D. check the voltage at the coil of the magnetic starter at the same time the motor is started. In my situation, the starter contacts chattered until the amperage draw of the motor decreased as gained speed. Vibrations carried throughout the system—even transferring to building parts. If the voltage on the starter coil is low, consult Table 430-7b of the NEC and calculate the amperes required.
Many compressor nameplates provide a locked-rotor value in amps, which must be supplied for the motor to develop the proper torque and limit line voltage drops. —E.D.


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I think the preseason will be very entertaining with Quinn and Johnson as dueling gunslingers trying to win the backup job.
Jerrod Johnson led the Steelers on a 4th quarter preseason drive to beat Andrew Luck and the Colts last preseason. Johnson was one of their final cuts.
Brady Quinn is a former 1st round draft choice. He's played in REAL NFL games and even won a couple-three or something like that.
Gotta love the competition that's been set up here. Not to count Josh Portis out, but I basically think it will come down to these two. I expect we will have some very entertaining preseason games from these two, with both QB's trying to show Pete and the team what they can do. So who is listed on the depth chart as the #2 QB on opening day? Johnson, Quinn, Portis, or someone else?
My vote? I love the Jerrod Johnsqn signing, and I say he is a legit competitor for backup QB. Physically, he's basically a slightly slower Colin Kaepernick. Question is, which is the REAL Jerrod Johnson? I'm betting that the real Jerrod Johnson is the 30TD, 8INT guy from 2009, the guy who BEAT OUT NFL 1st round pick, Miami Dolphins starting QB, Seahawks-killer Ryan Tannehill TWICE in open competition (or was it three times?)
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Harwood says 6-month-old Kali Cochran died Friday night from brain injuries. Investigators think the injuries happened Tuesday night at Brandi Cochran's home near Hot Springs.
Deputies say the woman called 911 Wednesday night and said her daughter was having trouble breathing. The girl was flown to the Johnson City Medical Center in Tennessee.
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I grew up the son of an entrepreneur.
My father was Bill Colwell. For anyone who was in Waterloo, Iowa in the early 70s you could not miss him. He ran TV commercials on channel 7 every night for Schukei Chevrolet. This was when I was in junior high. Every night my dad would get on TV and say, "Hi, I'm Bill Colwell for Schukei Chevrolet and I'm crazy!"
Yes, I got tough fast. But more importantly, growing up around an entrepreneur who did not finish high school and did not have a direct path to success, it was a learning experience.
My Dad had a lot of sayings. Many of these have been of great value to me in my career. I would like to share a few of these with you as they have helped me grow my businesses.
- Tell the truth, you never have to remember what you said. Boy is this more true than ever. Back in his day there was no internet and social media data pile storing everything you ever said or did. I cannot tell you how many times this has saved me with a customer or vendor.
- Sell what you can see, don't see what you can sell. When I first starting selling cars, I would come back into the store and tell my dad that "if we just had xxx car" or "if it just had power seats" I would have sold it. My dad pointed to the rows of cars and said "see those cars, that is all the money we have. We have to sell those cars". That was the long version of "Sell what you can see, don't see what you can sell". In business you have to sell what you have to sell.
- Smile and dial. We did a lot of cold calling. Can you imagine taking out a phone book and dialing random numbers to try to sell someone a car? Well, I tried to do it. One thing my dad taught me was "Smile and Dial". In other words, when you are talking to a customer, smile! You will sound much more positive. Also, look up and straight out to the horizon. Your voice will be more clear.
- Shut up and Write. When the customer said yes, shut up and write up the deal. If you keep talking, you may say the wrong thing and talk the customer back out of the deal. Even today I will have experiences where a salesperson keeps talking and starts to confuse the situation. They need to "shut up and write!"
My dad learned by failing many times. These sayings of his are hard won knowledge. My dad passed away in 2001 of lung cancer. I miss him. I will never forget him or his sayings.
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Economists at government think-tanks and China watchers say Beijing will act if the economy loses traction too quickly, threatening financial and social stability, as it pushes towards more balanced and sustained economic growth.
That comforting message comes with a caveat: while Beijing may yet again hit its growth targets it does not have much margin for error. It must keep the economy on an even keel while at the same time pushing reforms.
"The economy is fragile right now and the downside risk could be very big if there are any external shocks," said Li Heng, an economist at Minsheng Securities in Beijing.
China's intended shift from three decades of double-digit, investment- and export-fueled growth towards a slower, but more balanced and sustained expansion more geared to consumption and services, has been well telegraphed.
Yet every set of weak data jolts global financial markets from Brazil to Australia by raising questions about the risk of an uncontrolled slump and the toll it could take on economies relying on Chinese demand.
The last bout of angst over China's outlook was triggered last week by an HSBC/Markit business survey that suggested manufacturing activity dipped in January for the first time in six months.
The data coincided with renewed signs of tightening in China's financial markets and worries a troubled investment product could set off a debt scare, factors that added to wider concerns about emerging markets and prompted the global selloff.
The majority view of China economists polled by Reuters remains that Beijing will manage to sustain economic growth broadly in line with both last year's 7.5 percent growth target and the International Monetary Fund's predictions.
Beijing has yet to officially announce its 2014 growth goal and there has been speculation it might drop the practice altogether to underscore the importance of economic reforms. Most pundits, however, expect the authorities to reaffirm the target to reassure markets.
They expect China to achieve that growth while ticking the boxes of its ambitious reform agenda unveiled last November, with the central bank pushing to relax regulatory curbs on interest rates and the currency, alongside the government's drive to cut red tape and open up sectors dominated by state giants to private firms.
The central bank's campaign to curb risky lending underscores Beijing's greater tolerance for a slower pace of growth, but policymakers are aware that an abrupt slowdown, its resulting job losses and bankruptcies could derail reforms.
So analysts expect authorities to provide measured economic support if they see signs of excessive weakness, which many assume would be if annual growth slips below 7.5 percent and towards 7 percent.
In that case, the central bank could pump more liquidity via money market operations into the financial system and the government could crank up budget spending, the sort of measures that were employed in 2013 to support growth.
Reducing bank reserve requirements or interest rates would be a last resort, analysts said.
"The authorities will tread cautiously, quickening reforms when the economy is on a sound footing and slow down a bit when downward pressures increase," said He Yifeng, senior economist at Hongyuan Securities in Beijing.
With debt piling up — Fitch estimates debt from all sectors reached 218 percent of GDP in 2013 — spending hundreds of billions of dollars the way China did at the onset of the global financial crisis is no longer viable.
But last year Beijing still managed to engineer a mini-upturn when growth dipped mid-year with stealthy stimulus spending on selected areas such as rail networks or urban services.
Zhang Hanya, a researcher with the National Development and Reform Commission, the top economic planner, said China could do the same again if necessary, activating projects put on hold since 2010.
"We cannot see signs of a sudden economic slowdown. There are many areas that need investment and economic growth will rebound immediately if they loosen monetary policy."
The central bank, whose campaign to rein in growth of risky investment products led to several cash crunches in 2013, has also demonstrated willingness to step in and pump liquidity to prevent markets from seizing up.
Yet despite the consensus that the authorities will not stand idle if the economy wobbles, consensus forecasts mask divergence in views about the near-term impact of reforms.
Pessimists expect growth to slow to around 7 percent or less this year from 7.7 percent in 2013 because of short-term reform pain: efforts to tighten credit markets to counter risky lending and a push to reduce overcapacity in sectors such as steel or mining.
Optimists bet global recovery, the early benefits of cuts in red tape and the opening up of protected sectors, will drive growth to around 8 percent this year.
Such a divergence of views, rare in past years when Beijing's singular focus was on rapid growth, underscores heightened uncertainty and risks as Beijing blazes a trail on several fronts.
The central bank's trouble in calibrating its liquidity management and devising best strategy to deal with shadow banking, largely off-balance sheet lending, which it wants to restrain, but not shut down, are a case in point and a source of market concern.
All bets would be off if shadow banking strains escalated into a full-blown banking crisis, but China watchers like UBS economist Tao Wang consider that a remote risk.
Her base scenario assumes growth of 7.8 percent, but comes with a warning that exposure to China will not be for the faint of heart given expected repeated spells of liquidity and credit volatility.
"While China equity investors mainly worry about weaker earnings as a result of higher funding costs ... other investors may face periodic scares of systematic risks concerning the financial system and the economy," Wang said in a report. "While we think the latter is very unlikely, such concerns in the market could nevertheless bring large shocks to related markets."
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Australian Gyms Dumping Pop Music After Massive Increase In Royalty Rates
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What it means, of course, is that the music is being played less. The gyms are looking for alternatives, because it simply doesn't make sense to pay tens of thousands of dollars to promote music to its members. PPCA is, of course, in denial. It's claiming that people are complaining about gyms not playing popular music, and that fitness centers who won't play popular music at such extortionate rates are treating its members "with utter contempt."
"We've seen a groundswell of discontent from gym members and fitness instructors who've been ordered to use cover music."I would imagine that those members would find having to get a massive increase in their membership bill creates a much bigger "groundswell of discontent," and would find that it's actually PPCA that's treating everyone with "utter contempt," by making the situation worse for everyone. The musicians PPCA "represents," now get their music played significantly less. Gyms have to offer a "worse" overall service, and members get a somewhat worse experience. The problem is that PPCA (and the Copyright Tribunal's) view of what is a reasonable royalty rate is simply out of line with reality. But since the entertainment industry has been able to set up this system where the government sets the price, and the industry influences those setting the price, then it gets to set rates that have no connection to reality.


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Poolside began in early 2011 as the recording project of Los Angeles musicians Filip Nikolic and Jeffrey Paradise. Nikolic was a Danish-born producer and DJ who spent some time as the bass player in Junior Senior before relocating to LA and Paradise lived in San Francisco playing out as a DJ and as the frontman of hardcore band the Calculators before also moving to LA. Duo members Nikolic and Paradise began honing their collaborative creations in a pool house that they converted into a makeshift recording studio, producing sunny tracks of subaquatic indie dance music. The group surfaced first in the form of a YouTube video for the catchy track "Do You Believe?" Poolside were soon gaining local and national attention, with underground DJs spinning their tracks at events and a growing online following. Throughout 2011 they made waves with the sound they were calling "daytime disco" through tracks like a reworking of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" as well as original tunes. In 2012 Poolside worked on a remix for longtime disco punks the Rapture and held fans over with a new single and video for a song called "Slow Down" as they prepared to release their debut album. That album, Pacific Standard Time, was released in July of 2012 on their own Day & Night label.
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The Vampire Diaries
How Tall Are the Stars of The Vampire Diaries?
Ian Somerhalder (Damon): There's something about Ian that makes him look as though he's eight feet tall. But then, love can sometimes cause delusions, right? According to IMDB, Ian is an average 5' 9.5". You may not want to wear sky high stilettos in his company, but then — he doesn't strike us as the kind of guy who gets caught up with something that trivial anyway.
Katerina Graham (Bonnie): Kat is the most diminutive of the group, measuring in at 5' 2". We're guessing her sturdy singing voice and larger than life fashion personality account for her seemingly tall stature.
Candice Accola (Caroline): Caroline comes up heads above the other ladies at 5' 8". You know, we could kinda guess that by looking at her. She has good posture.
Nina Dobrev (Elena/Katherine): For some reason we were thinking that Nina was a wee little woman, so we were surprised to discover that she's above average: According to our research, Nina stands at 5' 6.5". Maybe she looks shorter than she really is because she's so thin?
Paul Wesley (Stefan): Paul is tied for the tallest guy of the bunch at 6'. We never noticed him towering over Ian before, but that must be because we were distracted by his golden locks, smoldering abs, and dreamy blue eyes. Polish genes are obviously what gods are made of.
It's difficult to figure out how tall our favorite TVD stars are when we really only see them on the small screen, but we've been wondering how they stack up. (After all, don't most celebs always seem taller on screen than they actually are in real life?)
Would we be able to look eye-to-eye with Ian Somerhalder (Damon)? (And pass out as a result of his smolder-hotness, natch.) Would we be able to fit pint-sized Nina Dobrev (Elena) in our pockets? Well, we've done some digging so you don't have to! Find out how you measure up against the TVD stars. Click through the following pages and find out!
Steven R. McQueen (Jeremy): Even though Steven plays the little brother, he isn't actually little: He's tied with Paul Wesley on the height front at just over 6'. It's really true: Elena's brother is all grown up!
Joseph Morgan (Klaus): The cutie who plays Klaus is just a tad shorter than Paul and Steven, coming in at 5'11".
Michael Trevino (Tyler): Michael is 5' 9". He's not exactly towering over us, but he's certainly above average.
Zach Roerig (Matt): Zach is of a middle of the road stature, just as his character is a middle of the road guy. He stands at 5' 11". And we're not going to lie: We love every inch.
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by Juan Cena » Thu May 16, 2013 10:52 pm
Was anybody out there seriously wanting to read "Brainiac 5's Retirement Party?"
The biggest flaw with that idea is that while in theory you could do that with the Legion, you couldn't do that with Superboy/Superman. The Legionnaires should never be older than what Superman is in the present.
I'd say growing up too much is of the things that hurt the Legion.
by Herald » Thu May 16, 2013 11:38 pm
Not me. He's one of my favorite members of the team.
This. It's one of the reasons my Legion is the so-called "Archie Legion"; they stayed young, and thus got to have (and BE) fun.
by ElijahSnowFan » Thu May 16, 2013 11:57 pmHey, I understand what you guys are saying, and I'm certainly not saying that you're wrong -- I'm not saying that at all. There are certainly valid points to your points of view, and they are clear and obvious.
But to me...I think the Legion was at its peak when characters were aging, retiring. This forced new characters, new concepts. It meant that characters could grow.
Polar Boy graduated from the Subs to become Legion Leader. Tellus and Quislet were introduced as the Legion became truly representative of the very large universe they were there to protect.
You could have mentoring. True legacy characters -- I was always amazed at how Paul Levitz never followed up on the Rock of Eternity/Captain Marvel-type thread he started, then abandoned.
There was SO MUCH they could've done. So much. They wound up not doing any of it.
by Juan Cena » Fri May 17, 2013 3:21 am
I get that some people liked that. But for me, the book lost a lot of the fun it used to have back in the day, when you'd see team members hanging out, doing on dates to the 3-D drive-in in flying cars, playing D&D holographic programs, going to Galaxy Land (or whatever that floating amusement park above the Grand Canyon was). It gave the 31st century more of a "future wonderland" aspect in which the Legionnaires shared how cool it was with the readers. The older team has really lost those kind of moments since the return. Especially when they never seem to leave the HQ except for missions.
And "forced" would be a good definition of how the addition of this newer batch of team members feels. It's more like adults supervising kids at school youth group at times. (Brainy even referred to them as "children" recently.) People like the "generational" fell of the JSA, but that doesn't work quite well with the Legion, IMHO.
If anything, the Legion should be more "fraternal" instead of "generational," with the old guard acting more like older siblings or upper classmen than teachers or parents.
by Juan Cena » Fri May 17, 2013 3:28 am
It's why I said the team should have been de-aged (which it really hasn't appeared to be in the NU-52) this go-around. Levitz could have easily done it without harming continuity. Just have the events in the timeline happen in a span of five years or so. Then, the oldest members would at best be around 22-23 at best, which could account for marriages like Garth and Imra, Chuck and Lournu.*
*(yeah I'm misspelling her name. It's 4:30 AM, and I don't really care to spellcheck beyond what I can click. ESP after spending an hour writing on the blog.)
by Johnny Smith » Fri May 17, 2013 10:13 amOn the positive side, I was surprised to see a George Perez Legion cover this month.
by Juan Cena » Fri May 17, 2013 11:11 am
Sadly, it doesn't come with Perez art inside.
by Arion » Fri May 17, 2013 11:39 am
I'm a huge fan of Brainiac 5, I love that character, always have.
by Juan Cena » Fri May 17, 2013 12:23 pm
Never too much of a Brainy fan. I always liked Karate Kid, Ultra Boy, Lightning Lass, and Mon-El, better.
by Arion » Sun May 19, 2013 11:27 pm
I think besides Brainiac 5 I've always been a Mon-El fan, I'm not sure why though (in Brainiac's case I understand why).
by Juan Cena » Tue May 21, 2013 11:05 pm
I've really only found Brainy interesting when Supergirl was somehow involved.
by Herald » Tue May 21, 2013 11:21 pmMy favorites are Brainiac 5, XS, Gates, and Thunder (largely because I like the idea of having a Marvel on the team).
by alaska1125 » Tue May 21, 2013 11:56 pm
Yep, that was my Legion. I agree. It was great that you felt like the Legion was evolving and changing as the first group moved into mentor rolls and some of the subs graduated to the big leagues. "Sigh"...face it, ESF...we're old...ish.
by alaska1125 » Wed May 22, 2013 12:04 am
I've really only found Supergirl interesting when Brainy was somehow involved.
by Juan Cena » Wed May 22, 2013 5:38 am
That too.
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Shanté You Stay, Chassé Away
Heroism and heartbreak are several of the most prevalent themes in life, especially for a New Yorker. Let's face it, if you have lived in any of the 5-boros during the last dozen or so years, then you have seen heroes and heartbreakers among you — they may have tugged on your heartstrings or even played music (cue Sarah McLachlan song.) Whether you survived Sandy or the Bush Administration, or even the 'Sex and the City' series finale, one way or another these events have affected and shaped the personality you have today. Nowadays, you can #breakup via a tweet or text without remorse, would probably never ever be caught dead in a scrunchie, and are almost always prepared the day before a nor'easter or designer sample sale strikes. Oh the New Yorker lifestyle!
However, New York can be a pretty lonely place even though we are surrounded by millions of people daily (the subway during rush hour, the line at Whole Foods, the Wicked lottery, etc.,) and although technology has produced a profusion of positives, it has carved grand canyons between human-to-human interaction and made all of us some sort of Kardashian — some people think a community is a thing you join on Facebook. Long gone are those days when you had to ride your Huffy or take the subway to tell your friend about Joey leaving Dawson for Pacey. Why the need to put on your shoes when you can just update a social media status? More and more I find that we pass the time Ecommerce shopping or binge watching Felicity on Hulu, and less and less are activities that involve people. And yes, I am guilty as a Winona Ryder!
I needed to get out of the 10019 bubble and not fuggedabout the love I have for New York, so I went on my quintessential Manhattan stroll that starts on Hudson and Bleecker and moves down to MacDougal where I detour until I find my way into Washington Square Park. Although I love fashion, I am not a big fan of the SoHo-fication of Bleecker St. I admit I fueled that flame by often patronizing Marc Jacobs (that day I needed a new iPhone cover.) Aside from MJ, I frequented my usual pit-stops like Magnolia (no line!!!) and The Cornelia Street Cafe. I dodged traffic and queues leading into pizzerias by meandering onto quiet blocks that transitioned into busy streets populated by Spa Belles and tattoo parlors. I ended up at a familiar place — the front door of The Joffrey School of Ballet. So, I asked the question: "are we Human, or are we Dancer?"
I remember having to climb "up the steep and very narrow stairway" just to reach that dark and dingy changing room — it was nothing like Center Stage. This was my second act of heroism with the first being the big move to the Big Apple. The Joffrey School of Ballet in the Village was definitely "Dance Ten, Looks Three" in regards to facility, but the instructors were classical technicians who taught you the movement and vocabulary to chassé and grand jeté your way onstage. It also takes a heroic determination and moments of heartbreak to be successful in the art of ballet. In the foreword of Carine Roitfelds's 2nd issue of CR magazine dedicated to dance, she writes: "Ballet is hard work, and it is one of the last art forms that is done with pure motives — ballet stars rarely sign huge endorsement deals or become world famous. More likely they are real people giving themselves fully to one passion…Because ballet is an art form that breaks the body and the soul." At some point, you make the difficult decision of continuing the dance or choosing a new partner. I love and adore the ballet, but in a way, it was my Noel Crane. Fashion is my Ben Covington.
I would like to dedicate this post to Ballet (Noel,) because time and time again it has beautifully danced a pas de deux with Fashion (Ben,) and I am very Felicity Porter. The collaborations between Christian Lacroix and the Paris Opera Ballet and the recent assemblé of Valentino and the New York City Ballet are examples of the synergistic rapport between the two artistic mediums. Both worlds do not exist without the body. The dance is an expression erupting from within, and the cloth enhances the narrative by adding layers to the character.
Recently, ballet has been influencing fashion offstage, and I don't mean wearing your Capezio tights as meggings. Project Runway's fourth season winner Christian Siriano's SS13 collection is directly inspired by ABT's (American Ballet Theatre) The Dream. It is his version of an "off-duty ballerina" and girl be "fierce!" And although deprived of silk chiffon, colorful tulle and layers of organza, Nicolas Ghesquiere's final SS13 collection at Balenciaga was influenced by dance if not specifically ballet. Many of the looks in his collection included midriffs and leotard inspired tops. I am sure some fashion forward girls will be wearing these to an Ailey Extension class. However, the most apparent union is the ballerina flat. From Chanel to Chloé, almost every major label has made it a staple.
As in Swan Lake or Giselle, the ballerina is the embodiment of heroism and heartbreak in one. (S)he is the epitome of grace under painful pressure, and rigorously works to give you an effortless performance only for the bravos and the bravas onstage at the Metropolitan or at a performing arts center in Omaha. That's the benefit of being a New Yorker, incredible dancers are your friends and neighbors, and watching an inspiring performance at Lincoln Center or at the Joyce is a chassé or subway ride away; you really don't have to YouTube it. Get away from a Kardashian or a Real Housewife and force yourself to be among the humans. So are dancers human? Maybe, but they're definitely heroes among us. And yes, "everything was beautiful at the ballet."
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It does bump you to the next bracket. When the tournament starts, not before.
Of course, ratings can change after the tournament has started (even as a result of the tournament games). There's nothing to be done about that.
It does bump you to the next bracket. When the tournament starts, not before.
Of course, ratings can change after the tournament has started (even as a result of the tournament games). There's nothing to be done about that.
Let basic users to play on more tournaments,please.
I agree. Let basic users play in at least three tournaments. I know this is a big turn-off to many basic members considering other sites will let basic members play in multiple tournaments.
If you beat the leader, but he/she goes on to win your group, it goes to tie breaks, right? How do tie breaks work?
Thanks Narz ;) Anybody else who discovered problems with conditional moves?? Dont use it, it can be your last move!!
I read that group placement is done by having players placed sequentially. Would'nt the "snake" approach be more fair? In the example of 25 players in 5 groups, player 5 is in group 5, player 6 in group, 1 and player 10 in group 5. This seems too nice for player 5 and not fair for player 6. With the "snake" approach, player 5 and 6 would be in the same group instead of player 5 being the first choice followed by player 10 and player 6 being second choice preceeded by player 1.
Yes, snake approach seems to be the best structure..
What can we do to change this?
Question from member of my team!
He would like withdraw from one tour.so his Q is :''Do I lose my
points or just games,If I withdraw ?
How do you withdraw from a tournament before starting? (registered by mistake)
Go into the Tournaments main page, and you should see in your "My Upcoming Tournaments" list, the one you want to withdraw from.
Click on the tournament name. In the new page that opens, on the right side, it'll say "Withdraw".
If you still want to withdraw, you need to do this "Before" the tournament games begin.
How is the winner of a tournament determined. Is it the last person standing or is it the person with the most wins (or points)? I am in a small tournament where I have 4 wins and my opponent has only 1 (because be had no opponent in the last round). Even if I lose both games I will have 4 points and my opponent will have only 3.
I assume in large tournaments it is also possible for someone to last longer than someone else with more points, so how are the places determined?
Yes, snake approach seems to be the best structure..
What can we do to change this?
Perhaps nobody cares, and I will understand. However, for the sake principles, what pairing is more fair:
Assume 4 players. First player's rating is 1800, second 1601, third 1600 and last is 1200. Current system pairs first rating of 1800 with third rating of 1600 and second rating of 1601 with last rating of 1200. In that scenario player 2 has a far better chance to move up than player 1. With the "snake" approach, player 1 is paired with player 4 and player 2 with player 3, giving full advantage to player 1 and giving equal chances to player 2 and 3. Perhaps I am not making my point clear, but if interest is shown, I will try to explain again, because I am sure I have a point. All this in light that this site is just great.
Getting back to the subject :) and if i've got this right, I enrolled for the 1801 > band, but before the start I dropped below 1801 and was booted from the touney' are we saying that if I'd gone above 2000 I would still be in the 1801 - 2000 group?
Great site by the way, its rekindled my interest in chess after a very long lay-off
it's the first tournament that i join.i have a question.If you know please answer my question.
this morning i saw that it's my move . then i saw an strange thing. i notice that 2 moves has been taken but i do n't know if this is the rule of this tournament or not?


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Descendants of Robert Adams: Generation 1
ROBERT15 ADAMS (ROBERT14, RICHARD13, JOHN12, JOHN11, JOHN10, THOMAS9, ROGER8, JOHN AP7, JOHN AP6, THOMAS AP5, JOHN AP4, WILLIAM AP3, JOHN AP2, JOHN AP1) was born 10 October 1602 in Attery, St. Mary, Devonshire, England and died 12 October 1682 in Newbury, Essex, MA. He married ELEANOR WILMOT in England. She was born about 1610 in Devonshire, England and died 12 June 1677 in Newbury, Essex, MA.
Notes for Robert Adams:
Robert Adams was the son of Robert and Elizabeth (Sharlon); son of Richard and Margaret (Armager); son of Nicholas (or John) and Margaret. This Robert claimed to be 16th in line from John Ap Adam who came out of the marshes of Wales and married Elizabeth, daughter of John, Lord Gurney of Sedinham and Boyleston in Glouster and was called to Parliament as Lord of the Realm from 1296-1307 and had arms granted him.[1]
In the list of emigrants coming from England in the ship Fortune, is listed Robert Adams, coming from Attery, St. Mary, Devonshire to Salem, MA. The ancestry of Robert Adams is given as follows: Born in England, Robert Adams came first to Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay in 1635, bringing with him his wife Eleanor (Wilmot) and his first two children. His first wife, Eleanor, died 12 June 1677 in Newbury, MA. His second wife, Sara (Glover) Short, widow, died in Newbury, MA 24 October 1697. He was a farmer with many estates in the area. The book, "Robert Adams of Newbury, MA" claims he was a tailor by trade (which is disputed). According to another article, Robert came to America a rich man who invested in property and was never a tailor. Resided in Ipswich 1635, Salem 1638-39, and removed to Newbury in 1640 where he acquired a large farm and valuable property. He died 12 October 1682 aged 81 years. His will was probated 27 November 1682.
He is believed to come from Devonshire and to have been a son of Robert and Elizabeth Sharlon (Sharland), connected to the Ap Adam pedigree and through that connection to have been a cousin of Henry Adams of Braintree (Quincy), MA – the ancestor of the American Presidents, John and John Quincy Adams.
He was a member of the 1st Congregational Church.
Children of Robert Adams and Eleanor Wilmot are:
|John16 Adams, b. 1632, England; d. 1703; m. Sarah Woodman
|Notes for John Adams:
He appeared to have been living in 1680 when his father's will was made[3], and yet is passed over with a simple bequest of 20£, no wife or children being alluded to. Records show that he was married to Sarah Woodman.
|Johanna Adams, b. 1634, England; d. abt. 1701, Suffield, CT; m. Launcelot Granger, 04 January 1653/54; b. England; d. 03 September 1689, Suffield, CT.
|Notes for Johanna Adams:
Moved to Suffield, Connecticut
|Sergeant Abraham Adams, b. 1639, Salem, Essex, MA; d. 14 August 1714, Newbury, Essex, MA
|(3rd) Robert Adams, b. abt. 1640, Newbury, Essex, MA
|Elizabeth Adams, B. 1642, Newbury, Essex, MA; d. 04 May 1681, Lancaster, Worcester, MA; m. Edward Phelps, before 1681.
|Notes for Elizabeth Adams:
Removed to Andover, MA
Notes for Edward Phelps:
|Mary Adams, b. 1644, Newbury, Essex, MA; m. Jeremiah Goodrich, 15 November 1660.
|Isaac Adams, b. 26 February 1646/47, Newbury, Essex, MA; d. after 1680.
|Notes for Isaac Adams:
Unmarried. Page 5, A Genealogical History of Robert Adams.
|Jacob Adams, b. 23 April 1649, Newbury, Essex, MA; d. 12 August 1649, Newbury, Essex, MA.
|Hannah Adams, b. 25 June 1650, Newbury, Essex, MA; m. William Warham, 10 February 1681/82.
|Notes for Hannah Adams:
Page 5, A Genealogical History of Robert Adams of Newbury, MA
|Jacob Adams, b. 13 April 1651, Newbury, Essex, MA; d. November 1717, Boston, MA; m. Anna Allen, 07 April 1677; b. 03 January 1657/58, Dorchester, MA.
|Notes for Jacob Adams:
He removed about 1681/82 to Suffield (now Connecticut) where he was one of the most prominent and influential of the early settlers. He was often chosen to important offices, was a member of the General Court of the colony, then held in Boston 1711-1714 and again in 1717. He died in Boston, suddenly while in attendance upon his duties as a member of the General Court from Suffield. He acquired a large property and was greatly esteemed. His will, dated 20 November 1717, is recorded both in Boston and at North Hampton, which was the county seat of Hampshire County – to which Suffield then belonged.
|BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: Page 5, A Genealogical History of Robert Adams of Newbury, MA
BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: Adams Genealogy by Lydia Adams-Williams, Layton, Davis County, Utah.
|Notes for Anna Allen:
Anna Allen was of Dorchester, MA.
[1] Boston Transcript, 20 January 1909 – #377
[2] Bank's Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England 1620-1650 by Chas. Ed. Banks 1957 p. 24
[3] Page 4, A Genealogical History of Robert Adams of Newbury, Massachusetts
March 3, 2012 7:27 pm
He was my 9th great grandfather. Here is my connection to him:
Robert Adams m. Eleanor Wilmot
Joanna Adams m. Launcelot Granger
Elizabeth Granger m. Victory Sikes
Victory Sikes Jr. m. Mary King
Titus Sykes m. Rhoda Miller
Titus Sykes Jr. m. Abigail Baxter
Isaac Sykes m. Hannah Raymond
Saxton Sykes m. Rachel Gilson
Raymond G. Sykes m. Clarissa W. Luse
Aubrey L. Sykes m. Anna Ruth Swallow
Quintin S. Sykes (my father)
You can read more about my search for my biological father's family at:
deb permalinkDecember 18, 2013 11:45 pm
Thanks for this valuable post! I'm related via his dau. Elizabeth who m. Edward PHELPS.
Tina Snell permalinkDecember 3, 2017 2:05 pm
I am also related to Edward Phelps and Elizabeth Adams. My connection from there is Edward Jr. and Ruth Andrews, Elizabeth Phelps and Samuel Willard, Joshua Willard and Lucretia Ward, Samuel Willard and Lucinda Knowlton, then both Elizabeth Willard and Nathan Parker and her sister Lucinda Willard and Alfred Nash. Both Elizabeth and Lucinda were my 3 x great grandmothers.