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Re: Reading anything?
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February 17, 2014, 02:21:36 PM »
I just finished reading "Metro 2033" by Dmitry Glukhovsky. It's a distopian novel where the last survivors of a nuclear apocalypse live in the abandoned subway stations under Moscow. By the time the novel begins they have already spent decades underground, so they have their own society -more like societies- down there. Some stations have embraced Communist or Fascist ideologies, while other see themselves as the responsibles for keeping trade or knowledge alive. The main character is Artyom, a young man who is asked to take a message to the very limit of the populated stations. Travelling between stations is very dangerous: there are mutant creatures, collapsed tunnels and places where people are known to disappear without a trace for no apparent reason.
Funny thing, I learned of the book by stumbling into a FPS called "Metro: Last Light". Turns out the author is involved with the videogame studio, and they have realeased at least two games based on this universe.
Due to the horrifying nature of this film, no one will be admitted to the theatre.
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February 25, 2014, 05:59:09 PM »
Jordan R. Young's
The Laught Crafters :
Comedy Writing in Radio and TV's Golden Age
13th non-fiction book
An oral history
The highlight for me, being, as normal, the photographs, as I now can put unknown faces with known names. Some of which include . . .
Bert "The Mad Russian" Gordon -- Beryl Markham -- Fanny Brice -- Frances Langford -- Gregory Ratoff -- Jack "Baron Von Munchausen" Pearl -- James "Wanna Buy a Duck" Penner -- Marilyn Maxwell -- Peggy Lee -- and Skinny Ennis.
One of my true regrets is that I did not live thru the time when radio was the main source of entertainment in the home, but as the subtitle makes clear, may of those radio programs made the transistion to TV, and became some of the early TV programs. They include . . .
"The Abbott and Costello Show" -- "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" -- "Amos 'n' Andy" -- "Art Linkletter's House Party" -- "The Beulah Show" -- "The Burns and Allen Show" -- "The Danny Thomas Show" -- "December Bride" -- "The Ed Sullivan Show" -- "The Ed Wynn Show" -- "Fibber McGee and Molly" -- "The Jack Benny Show" -- "The Life of Riley" -- "Our Miss Brooks" -- "The Milton Berle Show" -- "My Favorite Husband" -- and "The Red Skelton Show."
We will never see their like again, and we are all poorer for that.
Next time: and again another 6 of 1 and a half dozen of the other
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Reply #1397 on:
March 05, 2014, 01:00:59 PM »
Cara Black's
Murder Below Montparnasse
13th in the Aimee LeDuc series
And an autographed copy as well.
When a valuable painting is stolen in that area of Paris, then the owner is killed. And then the thief is killed. And then another art thief is killed. The question is not only who is the killer, but also who has the painting.
Each mystery being located in a different part of Paris.
E. S. Harris'
What Darkness Brings
8th in the Sebastian St. Cyr series
7 more works of fiction
Simon Brett's
The Corpse on the Court
14th in the Fethering mystery series
When an old man is found dead on one of the courts of the local lawn tennis association, it is thought it was due to natural causes, as the old man was known to have a bad ticker. But, it turns out that the man may have been deliberately scared to death, which would make it murder.
Better than the last two, which I have also read. Maybe because the author sounds less uncomfortable discussing lawn tennis than the subjects of pedophilia and modern art, which were the subjects of the last two mysteries in the series.
Tessa Harris
The Dead Shall Not Rest
2nd in the Dr. Thomas Silkstone mystery series
I have not read the 1st nor the 3rd, which was apparently just published. This comes with a study guide, which is an idea I have not seen before.
Who killed the Italian musico? Was it the . . . ?
American doctor -- the Austrian composer -- the English medical student -- the French barber -- the Irish giant -- the Polish dwarf -- or one of the other characters: both English and non-English.
G. M. Malliet's
A Fatal Winter
2nd in the Max Tudor series
I have not read the 1st, but I have read the 3rd, which we'll get to later, and she has one more mystery series out.
When an old man is murdered in his bed, and then his sister and heir drops dead, apparently of natural causes a shortime later, the battle is on among his children and grandchildren for the old man's money.
A series in the manner of Agatha Christie. With the detective being the local minister. And like Christie the author does well with gather all the suspects in the same room, while the detective lays out who is the killer. And unlike Christie the authoress is better with child characters, as there are a couple of children in this one. In Christie, having read most of her 80 or some mysteries, I thnk the number of times children appear in them can be counted on both hands with fingers left over.
Peter James
Not Dead Yet
8th in the Roy Grace series
11 more works of fiction and a children's book
Deborah Crombie's
The Sound of Broken Glass
In the Kincaid and James series
14 more works of fiction
Next time: it does "Young Sherlock Holmes" one better.
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Reply #1398 on:
March 11, 2014, 04:41:55 PM »
Andrew Lane's
Black Ice
3rd in the Sherlock Holmes : the Legend Begins series
With a 4th one out, which we'll get to later, and a 5th one promised
When young Sherlock comes to Russia to absolve his older brother Mycroft of a murder charge in the U.K., he finds himself trapped between two secret organizations. One is known, and one is unknown, but . . .
both are all-seeing, all-knowing -- both are international in scope -- both are large -- and both are ruthless.
Besides bringing up the idea that it is those who you think you can trust are those who you can't trust, and those who you think you can't trust, are those who you can trust, the series, for a series for teens, has nothing prosaic about its threats to life and limb. So far death and near-death have come about by . . .
bees -- boat oar -- brass knuckles -- cosh -- falcons -- feral kids -- icicle -- knout -- leopards -- lizards -- ship's machinery -- slingshot -- whip -- and wild dogs.
And next time: back to the beginning or 1 of 6 and a half dozen of the other.
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Reply #1399 on:
March 11, 2014, 05:25:05 PM »
Part of my "books I was supposed to read in college but I read the Cliff Notes instead" series
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Reply #1400 on:
March 17, 2014, 03:52:16 PM »
An insanely readable account of a filmmaker's work with Sultan Productions, a company like The Asylum but much, MUCH lower tech, if you can believe it. I want to watch some of their movies, but I don't think they would be as much fun as the stories behind the scenes.
It's cheap enough if you have an e-reader. I'm buzzing through it between calls at work.
Next title I can't wait to dig into:
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Reply #1401 on:
March 25, 2014, 02:35:01 PM »
But, we'll put off what I was going to post to post this.
Beginning with "Bitter River" and Anne Perry and ending almost 70 mysteries later, here are the 16 mysteries that have . . .
a. a child either a boy or a girl or both in it. And here a child is someone of 17 years or younger.
b. a murder,
c. and sex with a child.
Cara Black's "Murder in Pigalle"
C. J. Box's "The Highway"
Julia Keller's "Bitter River"
Lynda LaPlante's "Backlash"
Anne Perry's "Murder at Marble Arch" and "Paragon Walk"
Kathy Reich's "Bones of the Lost"
Priscilla Royal's "Covenant with Hell"
Cath Staincliffe's "Dead to Me"
Ellen Hart's "Taken by the Wind"
D. A. Mishani's "The Missing File"
Anne Perry's "Blind Justice" and "Bluegate Fields"
Benjamin Black's "Holy Orders"
Michael Pearce's "The Bride Box"
Anne Perry's "Death in Devil's Acre"
The interest for me lies in the percentages.
Total books 69 So 16 is %23
Boys 4 %25 Girls 9 %56 Both 3 %19 or boys 34% and girls 66% or not far off from actual crime statistics.
Present time 9 %56 Past time 7 %44
In the U.S. 4 %25 Outside the U.S. 12 %75
Authors 12 total
Americans 5 %42 non-Americans 7 %58
Male authors 4 %33 Female authors 8 %67
Next time: What I was going to post this time.
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Reply #1402 on:
March 28, 2014, 03:13:52 AM »
Local Space 2200 AD a good introduction into the Terran Trade Authority/ Galactic Encounters universe.
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Reply #1403 on:
April 07, 2014, 03:01:46 PM »
Donna Leon's
The Golden Egg
part of the Comissario Guido Brunetti series
Another one in the Star Wars omnibus series
Speculative fiction in the world of Star Wars. What if the Death Star had not been destoryed at Yavin? What if Luke had died on the iceplanet Hoth?, etc.
Janet Hubbard's
Champagne : the farewell
1st one in the Vengeance in the Vineyard mystery series
Who killed the French vineyard owner and winemaker? Was it the heroine's boyfriend? The German who is buying up alot of the vineyards in the area? One of the man's neighbors in the Champagne area of France? A relative? Someone else?
Each book in the series is suppose to cover a different wine making area in France.
Yael Kohen
We Killed :
the Rise of Women in American comedy
Or 7 decades from 1957 to 2012 or from Phyllis Diller and Elaine May to Sarah Silverman and Chelsea Handler
The writer also talks to their agents, club owners, critics, directors, male colleagues, managers, network executives, producers, and writers.
Ewart Hutton's
Good People
A 1st novel
Robert Crais
28 more works of fiction
When his female partner is killed in a botched street robbery gone wrong, a L.A. cop suffering from PTSD, with the help of his new partner, a German shepherd, named Maggie, who is also suffering from the dog version of PTSD, after her handler was killed in Afghanistan, decides to go after and take down the robbers himself.
I had problems trying to follow some of the events in the book, but it is regarded as one of the best suspense novels of last year.
Gail Carriger's
v. 2 or chapters 8-14 in the graphic version of the juvenile book
The illustrations being better than the story.
Next time: another 6 of 1. A half dozen of the other
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April 07, 2014, 03:46:40 PM »
Love, Peace and Soul: Behind the Scenes of America's Favorite Dance Show, Soul Train
by Ericka Blount Danois
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Reply #1405 on:
April 15, 2014, 04:32:26 PM »
D. A. Mishani's
The Missing File
1st in the Avraham Avraham series
1st novel
When a teenage boy disappears on the way to school, who was responsible for his disappearance. His parents, his tutor who lives in the same apartment building, the convicted sex criminal who lives in the area, or is the boy just a runaway.
1st mystery that I read that takes place in the present Middle East, which made it interesting. The hero also has one of the most interesting hobbies I've ever seen. He reads old mysteries to prove the detective in the mystery was wrong. Using the same clues as the detective in the mystery, our hero sets out to prove that the detective arrested the wrong person. And while the hero proves to be competent, there are questions about his competency. Maybe because we ssee him not only thru his own eyes, but thru the eyes of another.
Timothy Zahn's
Star Wars : the Thrawn Trilogy
(in graphic format) and part of the Star Wars omnibus series
Normally, I prefer a graphic version of a novel to its original version, but this time I actually found the original version superior to its graphic version.
Larry D. Thompson's
Dead Peasants
2 more works of fiction
Elizabeth J. Duncan's
A Small Hill to Die Upon
4th in the Penny Brannigan series
Erin Hart's
The Book of Killowen
4th in the Maguire and Gavin series
When a car is pulled out of an Irish peat bog, two bodies, both murder victims, are found in the boot or trunk, but one was murdered just a year ago, and the other was murdered over a 1000 years ago. And what do the bodies have to do with a near-by artists' retreat, and a medieval book, as old, as the first murder victim, which is also found in the peat bog.
Geoffrey Kabaservice's
Rule and Ruin :
the Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party from Eisenhower to the Tea Party.
The history of the Republican Party over the past 60 years, and a plea by the Republican author for the Party to moderate its political positions or face its destruction.
One stop reading. It is surprising how much of what the author writes about that I remember. Though, one of things he writes about that I had forgotten is how at one time the Republican Party had a better Civil Rights voting record than the Democrat Party. Though, that has changed over the years. Also the book raises the question is whether the U.S. would be better or worst off, knowing that politics hates a vacuum, without the Republican Party. No way of actually knowing, except if history is any judge, if pne thinks things are bad now. They can only get worst in the future.
Next time: another 6 of 1 and a half dozen of the other.
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April 15, 2014, 04:56:53 PM »
After a free-view weekend of HBO last week, I decided to start re-reading the SONG OF FIRE AND ICE series, better known by its TV title,
"I'm always up for a little anarchy, as long as it's well-planned and carefully organized!"
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Reply #1407 on:
April 20, 2014, 01:39:44 PM »
Been reading two books on classic exploitation (meaning they exploited what the Hayes Codes would not allow). Great stuff when you view it from a class/sociological point of view. And I've been watching movies mentioned in the texts. Not only are they interesting, but they are also major hoots!.
Bustin' makes me feel good !
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May 05, 2014, 04:28:37 AM »
Necroscope by Brian Lumley.
It's a Cold War thriller between soviets and the UK.
With psychics. And vampires.
It's got a nice hero, devious villain. Lots of ogre and freaky horror stuff and it's very easy to read. There's loads of sequels and spin offs to read which I'm looking forward too.
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May 10, 2014, 10:13:13 AM »
Quote from: indianasmith on April 15, 2014, 04:56:53 PM
After a free-view weekend of HBO last week, I decided to start re-reading the SONG OF FIRE AND ICE series, better known by its TV title,
Funny how my views on that series (the books) have changed. When I read them in 2011 I thought they were brilliant and today I can barely stand them. Shrug.
Das was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich noch merkwürdiger. (What does not kill me makes me stranger.)
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You can find a lot of famous local restaurants here, like snake soup, pig liver noodles and red bean cake. I and my friends love coming here to after a long day at work to feed out souls.
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Das Racist started as something of a lark, two former college acquaintances riffing on not fitting in.
Himanshu Suri, of Indian descent, and Victor Vazquez, who has a Cuban father and an Italian mother, met about a decade ago at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., when Vazquez was a resident advisor at Suri's dorm. They both wound up in Brooklyn a few years later and bonded over a mutual affinity for hip-hop, especially as a means of riffing on serious issues in a not-always serious way.
Sarcastically yelling "That's racist!" at random images on television to amuse themselves became a jumping off point for raps that blended surrealism, satire and commentary. Soon a loose-limbed hip-hop group was born.
"He was my RA and for three, four years we had our own friends in college," Suri says. "When we moved to Brooklyn in 2007-08, he was in another band (Boy Crisis) and a lot of our mutual friends were also in bands, so it was something to do. It's not like we were close friends at first, but we finally hit it off because we were these brown kids around a lot of white people at Wesleyan, and even in New York we were feeling outside the American discourse on race, which is so centered on black and white. We both didn't want to be rappers -- we were 24 years old at the time, and we felt too old to be rapping. But we realized we rap about the same (stuff) and think about things in a similar way. We became friends making those first recordings."
They recorded five songs in their first session, including "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell," an absurdist song with an addictive quality, much like fast food itself. The song racked up tons of heated Internet commentary (both pro and con) and earned Das Racist comparisons to Cheech and Chong, a Dada twist on hip-hop that had "one-hit wonder" written all over it.
But the duo was just getting started. Two 2010 mix tapes, the quirky hodge-podge "Shut up, Dude" and the more accomplished "Sit Down, Man," established their credentials as MCs with inventively loopy rhyme skills that mashed together high and low culture with deceptively laid-back assurance. A new album, "Relax" (Greedhead), Das Racist's first official release, marks a new step in the group's development.
"The most difference to me between the mix tapes and album is that we weren't messing with samples as much, since I was putting the album out on my own label, so we use a lot more of our own production," Suri says. "Going into it I had a clear idea of what kind of sound I wanted to do, along the lines of psychedelic rap or slacker rap. We did songs like 'Brand New Dance' and 'Selena' in that style, but as we got deeper into it, I wanted to incorporate more elements of Indian production. I wanted to talk about being Indian instead of referencing writers who have talked about being Indian and the diaspora, to move from talking about the post-colonial canon to being a part of it. Bring more of my experience of it."
So the group wanted to be taken a little more seriously?
Suri laughs. "I wanted to be a little more sincere," he acknowledges, a trait for which the group was not always recognized.
"At first, we put some music up on MySpace, it caught the attention of some people, and when it's happening, you don't think about whether people are going to associate you with a novelty," he says. "You just think, 'Holy (expletive), I'm on a (music) blog!' 'I'm in the (New York) Times!' 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,' that song still serves as a microcosm of some of our earlier music, when we played with repetition more. I don't hate that song now. How could I? It was the Trojan Horse we used to break into music. Vic was already signed to a label for Boy Crisis, but I wasn't making music until the five songs we did that day, and that song gave us a start."
It's how quickly the duo has evolved since then that is perhaps the bigger surprise. On the new album, they work with producers from the rock bands Yeasayer and Vampire Weekend to expand their sound.
"I wanted to play around with the idea of a prog-rock production aesthetic for hip hop, which is why we ran everything through a space echo," Suri says of the new album. "We do try to experiment with perceptions of what a mix tape can be, a pop song, or a hip-hop album. It's always about experimenting in different subgenres of rap for us, and piecing them together to create something that feels new to us."
Suri bridles at the idea that the duo is making fun of hip-hop, even though they frequently undercut hip-hop clichés in their raps.
"There is this divide between mainstream and underground in hip-hop, which tends to lead people to assume we're putting down the mainstream," he says. "But I'm not making fun of rap, it's one of the things I know best and joke about. I feel comfortable talking about it like I do race or current events. We have a sense of humor about rap, and we do call out some of the more ridiculous parts of mainstream rap, but we also call out the whack parts of underground rap, and that (expletive) is just or more annoying than some of what goes on in the mainstream."
What's evident is that Suri and Vasquez feel there's more room for humor in hip-hop.
"Kanye West is a real amusing mainstream rapper," Suri says. "He writes jokes in his raps. Overall, the humor is still there, but definitely not as much as before in hip-hop. So with us it becomes a conversation of what you want from rap. What are your expectations? We're trying to find out what people want, and why, and how people have preconceived notions of rap and how rappers are supposed to act. Our music is a way of looking at those questions."
Das Racist: 8 p.m. Oct. 20 at Reggie's, 2105 S. State St., $15 and $18; ticketfly.com.


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In the first Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture of 2011-2012, Dr. Jill Korbin, Professor of Anthropology and Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences of Case Western Reserve University, lectured to a packed room of students and faculty on cultural factors of child maltreatment, as described in her study of inner city neighborhoods in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Korbin has received a diverse range of funding for her cultural and medical anthropological studies on child wellbeing and family violence, and is one of the few anthropologists to theorize methodologies for ethnographic work with children.
During her lecture, she discussed her research which uses child maltreatment as an example of how neighborhood contextual factors, as a proxy for culture, impact children and youth. Using a mixed-method approach, of neighborhood ethnography and aggregate analyses, Korbin identified three pathways through which neighborhoods impact child maltreatment rates.
For more information on her research, take a look at her lecture slideshow, downloadable here.
As part of the Center for Research on Families (CRF), the Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series brings nationally recognized speakers with expertise in family research to campus each year. The speakers provide public lectures, highlighting the importance of research on the family and its implications for public policy, and provide research consultation to CRF Family Research Scholars. The lecture series began in 1999 though an endowment established in memory of Tay Gavin Erickson.
Dr. Korbin, a recipient of the Margaret Mead Award, a Congressional Science Fellowship, the Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award, was invited to campus by former Family Research Scholar ('10-'11) Dr. Nina Siulc.
Dr. Siulc, Assistant Professor, Political Science and Legal Studies, is interested in migration, crime, governance, and interstitial spaces such as borderlands and detention centers in the urban United States, the U.S./Mexican border region, Latin America and the Caribbean. She has explored the area of crime and criminalization of racialized immigrants in relation to narratives of national identity and security.
The next Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture, "Early Environments, Stress, and the Eco-logics of Inflammation" which features Thomas McDade, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology at Northwestern University will take place on Thursday, October 27th at 4:00pm.


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Farmers and others with diesel-fueled engines in the Dona Ana County area of southern New Mexico have a local source for biodiesel. Jed Smith and Dean Belcher launched New Mexico's first biodiesel production plant in August 2006 with their Rio Valley Biofuels LLC in Anthony, N.M., located just north of El Paso, Texas off Interstate 10.
With a background in the construction industry, Smith and Belcher branched out, intensely studied biodiesel production, and now offer a locally produced, high quality alternative to 100 percent petroleum-based diesel fuel.
According to the National Biodiesel Board, biodiesel is a clean burning alternative fuel produced from domestic renewable resources for blending at any level with petroleum diesel to create the biodiesel blend. Biodiesel is created through a process called tranesterification where glycerin is separated from the fat or vegetable oil.
At Rio Valley Biofuels, 2,000 gallons of biodiesel can be produced daily. Actual daily production for the company currently ranges from 500 to 1,000 gallons a day. Used vegetable oil from a tortilla facility near El Paso, Texas, is the key ingredient for making the biodiesel.
Smith and Belcher learned some of the intricacies of producing high quality biodiesel from some of the best leaders in the industry during a workshop in Iowa.
Rio Valley Biofuels-produced biodiesel meets the stringent American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) specification D6751.
"We didn't expect it to be as hard to produce to the ASTM level. There are some pretty strict standards that basically sort out the men from the boys," Smith said.
"Biodiesel is a completely biodegradable product. It doesn't have hydrocarbons like petroleum-based fuels where it can contaminate the groundwater. Within 10 days, biodiesel completely decomposes," stated Belcher.
Prior to the venture, Smith and Rio Valley Biofuels employee Nick Mitchell worked at Deerman Farms, a crop operation in nearby La Mesa, N.M. The men worked from the planting season through harvest and soon recognized the need for quality, affordable fuels in agriculture.
Today, about a dozen customers a week drive into Rio Valley Biofuels to fill up with the locally made biodiesel. Some learned about the company from the National Biofuels Board website, www.biofuels.org.
"Most people are aware of the petroleum issue," Smith said. "Some are more serious and those are the ones turning to alternative fuels. People's consciences are telling them to be more aware of the fuel situation and use something other than just petroleum."
Current regular customers include the City of Las Cruces, N.M., to power trucks at the Corralitos landfill and at Boone Transportation in Anthony. Smith and Belcher are working to provide fuel to the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish and the City of Las Cruces bus line.
Farmer supported
Deerman Farms' owner Wade Deerman is a regular customer of Rio Valley Biofuels.
"We have equipment running from 10 percent to 100 percent biodiesel. Outside of changing the fuel filters a few times because of the cleaning factor of the fuel when we first got started, it's been fine."
Farm equipment from John Deere, Case IH, Caterpillar, dump trucks, and hay balers are burning biodiesel. Deerman's 900-acre operation this year shifted from cotton to alfalfa as the primary crop, using cotton in a rotation, plus oats and corn for silage. He used about 60,000 gallons of fuel in 2006.
"While we're running biodiesel in all the equipment, one 'on the road' dump truck is our real guinea pig for biodiesel," Deerman said. "Right now the dump truck is running on 100 percent biodiesel. We've had a 28 percent increase in fuel efficiency in the truck since we went to 100 percent biodiesel." That's a 28 percent fuel savings.
Deerman is pleased with the switch to the biodiesel blend. One difference he's noted from the biodiesel compared to 100 percent petroleum diesel is a different tone of the typical knocking sound from diesel engines.
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Deerman has experienced one negative from biodiesel use. When outdoor temperatures drop below 28 degrees, if there is a concentration of 70 percent biodiesel, it gels up. So he uses a 20 percent blend in the winter. The current summer blend is 50 percent biodiesel and 50 percent petroleum diesel.
"Every ounce of biodiesel made out of United States grown commodities is one ounce of fuel we didn't buy from somebody overseas," Deerman said. "As far as I'm concerned, that's all the benefit I need."
Smith and Belcher plan to make agri-biodiesel from cottonseed and put money back into local farmers' pockets.
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Smith and Belcher are also researching sunflowers, brown mustard seed, and possibly algae grown locally for future fuel production.
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New Mexico's youthful biofuels industry received a shot in the arm in April 2007, when New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson signed into law Senate Bill 489. The legislation mandates, in part, that all diesel fuel sold to consumers after July 1, 2012 must contain 5 percent biodiesel.
Another new law, HB 1145, provides tax incentives for the production and sale of biodiesel in New Mexico.
"Biofuels are the way of the future," said Fernando Martinez, director of New Mexico's Energy Conservation and Management Division. "The Biodiesel Standards Act and Biodiesel Infrastructure Tax (HB 1145) incentives are examples of how our state is working to reduce green house gas emissions, diversify our fuel supply, and increase the production and usage of clean burning fuels."
"The bills increase our economy in the agricultural sector by growing crops for fuels and expanding construction of renewable fuel refineries that will utilize these crops," Martinez said.
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While ethanol remains the 'King of Biofuels' nationwide, the sole ethanol plant in New Mexico is the Abengoa Bioenergy Corporation's operation in Portales.
Built in 1985 by the Energy Fuels Development Corporation, the plant was sold to High Plains Development Corporation and later to Spain-based Abengoa Bioenergy. Abengoa has four U.S. ethanol plants — Portales, Colwich, Kan., and two plants in Nebraska.
According to Scott Phillips, shift production supervisor at the Abengoa Portales plant, ethanol production was doubled from 15 million to 30 million gallons several years ago. Grain sorghum is used to produce the ethanol, Phillips said. The plant consumes about 30,000 bushels of sorghum daily. Yet the www.abengoabioenergy.com website states that corn is the raw material used.
"Most of the sorghum is trucked in and some is grown locally," Phillips said. "During harvest, they contract locally if possible." The Abengoa plant produces syrup and wet cake (wet distillers grain) as co-products that are sold to local dairies and feedlots within about a 150-mile radius.
"The main difference between milo and corn is that milo has a little higher protein content in the wet cake and syrup. The reason we use milo is that it's more readily available here. We're closer to where they grow it. We're not in the corn belt," Phillips said.
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But oh man, Hikaru, I compare him more to Chihaya actually. Obsessed about a game and only sees it and nothing else. At least Chihaya has friends.
Hikaru's only friend throughout the whole series was only Sai. Even his rivals and other Go players were acquittances at best. He never hang out with them outside of Go, and abandoned his high school and childhood female friend and ect.
I get depressed when I think about Hikaru's character nowadays.
I feel Taichi is more realistic. He was kind of a jerk, but he was a kid, so its a bit more forgiveable.
Right now, he's just trying to pursue his own goals, but he's not very considerate and is willing to step over people to do it. Its good that he has a drive now, but it kind of sucks how he handles outsiders.
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Not even that. Similar to Chihaya and seeing just Kurata, Taich is seeing just Chihaya, and by extension Kurata because it connects to her. I guess he's getting more drive into the kurata game itself, but right now I feel he's just in it for Chihaya.
Things like when he broke up with his gf on the phone instantly. Yea, it would have been wrong to lead the gf on when he clearly rather be with Chihaya, but he just didn't care at all about that girl or her feelings. If it doesn't have anything to do with Chihaya, you might as well be furniture to him.
Maybe he got that personality from his mother.
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Taichi's parents have always told him that he shouldn't waste his time competing if he wasn't sure he could win. So Karuta is his way to rebel from that philosophy, to grow out from what her mother imposed on him. That's why he plays, not for Chihaya. Of course, he would be really happy if Chihaya acknowledged his efforts, but that's not his ultimate goal. His goal is to become his own person, someone who isn't influenced by his parents.
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I don't recall seeing such disdain for Taichi when we were discussing the first season? Was I just oblivious, or is this a new phenomenon?
I'll be especially disappointed if Kana-chan doesn't end up with a nice boy by the end of the season. Porky is an obvious contender, but she'd be happier with a more romantic and literary-minded choice. Plus he has to look good in a kimono.
Kanade was my favorite character in season one; I hope she gets some serious screen time this season as well.
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I think you mixed up Desk-kun and Porky, unless I missed something.
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Crontica: I don't know which event you refer to Hikaru as "character assassination" as he did plenty of bad things . To me he did two things that I don't forgive, ditching his friends in highschool completely for his personal goal, and only thinking about himself when Sai wants to play, just because "letting Sai plays would potentially get him in trouble". If I had best friends like this who needs an enemy. Compare to Hikaru, Taichi is a saint.
I agree that Taichi is a brat when he is a kid. But if you hate him for what he did as a kid, I can also say I hate Arata for what he did when Chihaya and Taichi visit him (which is quite dick-ish)
Taichi had always like Chihaya since elementary. After 3 years they met again in highschool he realized that he had always love her. That is my take of it. He probably likes Chihaya since she is so straight forward and single minded, which is completely different from himself. I guess opposite attract.
While I agree no character can be unanimously liked, Taichi get more dislike compare to many other characters, which perk my interest.
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The problem with the other situation is that the mangaka never really focused on Taichi/Arata's friendship, so I find it understandable that people don't find it believable.
A part of the hate also stems from shipping of course, shipping does tend to generate a lot of hatred towards other love interests.
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But rather than argue about love in general, let's focus on the anime instead. Take the scene in episode 23, around the 6:00 mark, where Chihaya pulls Taichi out of the locker, to take him back to watch the nationals, where Taichi famously thinks to himself: "Yeah, I'm hopeless / hopelessly in love." Why does he say this? What about the moment prompts him to this realization?
Looking at that scene, I can see why fukarming says "He probably likes Chihaya since she is so straight forward and single minded, which is completely different from himself. I guess opposite attract." Chihaya shows here a passionate intensity that is quite beautiful, an unselfconscious and instinctual dedication that is very different from Taichi's own analytical not to mention frequently conflicted way of thinking.
On the other hand, I am really taken by ujiuji's point that Sumire loves a Taichi she barely knows. I think this is true of Taichi as well: he has been friends with Chihaya for many years, but he doesn't really get her. In these first two episodes of the new season, we don't see him entering at all into her point of view about the club, neither in her goals for the club, nor in her concerns about bringing the new members into the club. As much as everyone, he is surprised by her explanation about the responsibility she feels for collapsing at the nationals.
If Taichi resembles Sumire in this instance--and I think that is why Sumire is in the anime, to be a foil that helps us understand Taichi better--then Taichi's love for Chihaya is the expression of his own character and personality. Like Sumire, who loves for the sake of love, Taichi loves for the sake of dedication, for the constancy in purpose despite disappointment and lack of reciprocation. Taichi's love is the expression of his own beautiful soul. Chihaya herself is incidental to his pure, unrequited devotion.
The proof of this point is that many viewers and posters on this forum have a much higher regard for and interest in Taichi than they do in Chihaya. QED.
Coincidentally, I just came across a book by Ivan Morris, called The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan. Morris makes the point that the Japanese find heroism in the dedication that does not waver even in the face of failure. As one reviewer on Amazon puts it, "[i]n contrast to the Western ideal, the Japanese do not seem to require their heroes to 'win' or 'succeed.'" The applicability of this cultural concept to Sumire and Taichi seems straightforward.
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I always wondered why they trotted Tommy McCraw out there to first base so much. This guy would have been a below average hitter at second base, surely they could have at least found a half way decent hitting first basemen. Was this guy Keith Hernandez times ten with the glove or what?
Seems like Ward, Agee, and Berry were all guys that were expected to hit, but they just didn't come through in '67 for whatever reasons. Colavito was brought in to help and flopped as well, but McCraw didn't seem like a guy even expected to be a decent hitter based on the fact he had already established that he wasn't much of a hitter by '67.
Pete Ward was the opening day first baseman but McCraw had an excellent glove. Stanky moved guys all around trying to find a lineup that could hit but to no avail, team BA was .225 but they led the AL in pitching with a .245 ERA. Kenny Boyer was also brought in to help the hitting as was Colovito but their best years were behind them and helped very little.
As I said in a previous post, I was with the Air Force in NY in 67 but saw 1 game while home on leave in May, typical Sox win as they beat the Orioles in extra innings with a seeing eye single by Hansen up the middle in the 11th inning 3-2.
One other note, in 67 and 68 especially in the American League, the hitting was horrible, in 1968 only one player batted .300, that was Yaz as he wound up winning the batting crown with a .301 average. The next year (1969) MLB lowered the height of the mound by 5 inches to help the hitters.
Batting in the second position for the White Sox, number 2, the second baseman Nelson Fox.
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19 Trucks of Barrett-Jackson 2014
Going once. . . going twice. . . sold!
You've probably seen it on TV, but did you know it's happening right now? The 2014 Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction is in progress in Scottsdale, Arizona, spanning a time period of January 12-19, 2014. Today is the third of six days of auctioning. While the televised segments usually highlight the six-figure vehicles, you can catch all the bidding on www.barrett-jackson.com's Live Stream. From interesting to bizarre to flat-out awesome, there are many vehicles that will cross the auction block this week. Some really great trucks have been sold already, with more to come later in the week. Perhaps it's not too late to place a bid on that heart-throb custom or restored truck that you've always wanted to own. We've highlighted just a few of the noteworthy, rare or unique custom rides included in this year's auction.
Don't be fooled by the old-bodied, patina-clad exterior of this recently-completed stepside 1962 Chevy C-10. It's powered by a 6.0-liter, 450hp fuel injected V8 out of a 2002 Silverado and cooled by an aluminum radiator and electric fan. It sits on air ride and receives fuel from a converted custom Budweiser beer keg. A custom Lambskin interior covers the interior for ultimate comfort. Put your checkbooks away; this rusted out farm truck has already sold for $23,100.
Lot 96
Don't be fooled by the old-bodied, patina-clad exterior of this recently-completed stepside 1962 Chevy C-10. It's powered by a 6.0-liter, 450hp fuel injected V8 out of a 2002 Silverado and cooled by an aluminum radiator and electric fan. It sits on air ride and receives fuel from a converted custom Budweiser beer keg. A custom Lambskin interior covers the interior for ultimate comfort. Put your checkbooks away; this rusted out farm truck has already sold for $23,100.
Lot 96
What is it, you may ask? This is a 1955 International custom pickup that has never seen the show circuit, and it has already sold for $7,700. This custom roadster sits upon a custom steel tube chassis with 4-link suspension and an air bagged rear end. Cruise this 4-speed manual, Chevy 350-powered beast with the chopped hardtop on or off – it's removable!
Lot 80
This 1961 Willys custom woody wagon sits chopped, channeled and dropped to the ground via air ride suspension over a 1982 S-10 frame. This mechanically-sound, patina brown Willys is powered by a 350cid small block Chevy and Turbo 350 transmission. Take a look but don't stare; she's already sold for $15,950.
Lot 97
This super sick matte 1939 Ford F-1 custom pickup was recently built and has less than 200 miles since the build. It sits on air ride suspension and has disc brakes and rack and pinion steering. You can look but you can't touch; this street rod pickup was picked up for $33,000.
Lot 421
Here's a 1968 Chevy C-10 that is still available for those lookin' to sink some cash into a super cool truck. This sun-baked patina shortbed features full air ride suspension, 20" wheels, and a 383 stroker with roller rockers.
Lot 436
Update: Sold for $17,600
It might not get any better than this Night Black 1972 Chevy C-10. Some modifications include a '68 front end, 20" Budnik wheels, red leather interior, Vintage Air air conditioning, Dakota Digital gauges, and a modern LS 6.0-L Vortec fuel injected engine with a GM 4LE80 automatic transmission. Wonder what this beauty will go for?
Lot 476
Update: Sold for $49,500.
Finally, a Ford! This smooth 1956 Ford F-100 pickup has late model SS Impala front and rear suspension, 4-wheel disc brakes, power steering, air conditioning, custom tilt hood, custom side-opening tailgate, shaved door handles, and much more. This blue oval sits available with no reserve.
Lot 512
Update: Sold for $58,300.
This is a super slick 2-wheel drive 1971 Chevy Blazer SUV that sits on 20" wheels. The gas filler has been hidden behind the driver's side tail light, and a big hidden stereo hides somewhere in the original deluxe interior. A fine vehicle indeed, this rust-free California SUV still awaits a buyer.
Lot 650
This shortened, new-framed and new-bodied 1949 Willys Jeep is truly one-of-a-kind. Aboard is a 30-caliber machine gun, aircraft dash gauges and military switches, authentic military bomber seats, machine gun barrel shrouds, bomber aircraft steering yoke converted into a steering wheel, and much more. Any guesses as to what price tag will be attached to this Jeep Rat Rod?
Lot 740
This 1941 Ford Pickup is dripping in Midnight Purple metallic paint with flames done by Jeff Gangwish at Shin Bone Alley in Fresno, CA. An independent Mustang front end, power assisted rack and pinion steering, 4-wheel disk brakes, Vintage Air, power windows, upgraded gauges, and LED taillights add the perfect touch of modernity. An all-leather interior with ostrich upholstery greets occupants. Any bids?
Lot 751
This is a pretty 1957 Chevrolet 3200 custom pickup that's still available with no reserve. It has a custom built frame, front to back, boxed and notched for the air ride, with a Mustang II front and 12-bolt rear end. American Racing 20" wheels and a custom Blood Red interior complete this 350cid-powered Chevy.
Lot 780
This yellow 1955 Chevrolet 3100 attracts attention with its bold yellow exterior and tan interior. Among a long list of upgrades and modifications are the 2000 LS1 engine and 4L60 transmission, custom aluminum driveshaft, touch screen stereo, one piece side glass, Dakota dash, filled seams, and No Limit 4-link kit.
Lot 797
"Tow Mater" is for sale! Seen by over two million people, Tow Mater is assembled from a modified 1955 Chevy 1 ½ ton farm truck from Wyoming, a '64 Mack cab, and a '55 Holmes wrecker, and compiles details and accessories from all over. How do you even put a price tag on Tow Mater?
Lot 1079
Capturing the best of American heritage is this 1948 Ford Cab Over of Hod Rod icon Boyd Coddington. This classic and refined custom features a Boyd-designed chrome grille, custom headlights and Boyd's signature gloss black paint detailed with red pinstriping. It is powered by a 1970 stock 429cid engine and C6 Ford transmission. Who wants to own a piece of history?
Lot 1127
Here's one to keep an eye on. The 1956 Ford F-100 Custom Shelby truck has a supercharged 5.4 liter Shelby engine and a 6-speed manual transmission. It has a 4-link rear, tubular independent front suspension, Ford 9" rear with 3.73 posi, Wilwood 4-wheel disc brakes, ceramic coated and polished Magnaflow exhaust, a stretched wheelbase, and much more. The PPG Enviro Fort GT Tungsten Gray metallic body color and two tone leather interior complete the package. It'll be auctioned on Friday night, with proceeds benefiting the Children's Hospital Foundation of Saskatchewan.
Lot 3006
The 1967 Dodge D-700 Hot Wheels "Snake" Ramp Truck of Funny Car racer Don "the Snake" Prudhomme hits the auction block this year. The original owner of this ramp truck was Richard Petty. Used from 1970-1972, this truck got plenty of attention as an integral part of Mattel's legendary Hot Wheels "Snake vs. Mongoose" promotion, which tracked Prudhomme and Tom "Mongoose" McEwen duke it out in races across the country. After the 1972 season, the ramp truck was sold by Prudhomme to a California resident, where it remained until Prudhomme re-purchased it in 2008.
Lot 5042
The Hot Wheels "Mongoose" Ramp Truck, the complement of the "Snake" truck, is also for sale after Prudhomme located and restored it forty years after its spotlight in Mattel's Hot Wheels "Snake vs. Mongoose" promotions.
Lot 5043
This 1948 Chevy COE is a vintage truck with all of the modern amenities like power windows, power steering, power brakes, door poppers, full leather interior, custom stereo, and a moon roof. It took three '48 COEs to make this build perfect. It's powered by a rebuilt Oldsmobile 455 V8 with a rebuilt Turbo 400 automatic transmission.
Lot 1662
The proceeds of "Adel," as this custom 1971 Chevy C-10 is affectionately named, will benefit the families and children supported by the Austin Hatcher Foundation for Pediatric Cancer. This clean, mean and menacing performance build includes the Chevrolet Performance LS3 E-ROD "connect and cruise" powertrain consisting of a 430hp LS3, 4L65-E transmission, transmission attachment hardware and Chevrolet Performance controller kit. Adel was revealed at the 2013 SEMA Show.
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09/20/2013 7:26amTen homes were without power Friday morning after a two-alarm fire that heavily damaged a home in the neighborhood.
17 weekend races for runners, walkers
09/20/2013 8:21amRunners, walkers — and even rollers — will cross finish lines this weekend in at least 17 races up and down Utah, from Kanab to Bear Lake.
5 famous East High graduates over the last 100 years
09/20/2013 11:52amIn the nearly 100 years since East High School was founded, the school has grown and diversified, churning out accomplished — and sometimes famous — alumni.
Disney Channel recognizes West Jordan school for anti-bullying efforts
09/20/2013 12:15pmA middle school in West Jordan is getting national recognition for something the students all did to help a victim of bullying.
Mom accused of leaving baby in car while shopping
09/20/2013 1:29pmPolice said a West Jordan woman didn't think she did anything wrong when she left her 21- month-old baby in the car while she went shopping.
FBI confirms ongoing role in Swallow investigation
09/20/2013 1:46pmFBI officials are confirming they're playing an ongoing role investigating Utah Attorney General John Swallow.
Overcoming differences, family joins in viral proposal video
09/20/2013 5:20pmWhen Spencer Stout posted a video to YouTube of his proposal to partner Dustin Reeser, he didn't expect it to rack up nearly 10 million page views in a week. With all the attention it's getting, he hopes it shows that families can overcome any challenge or difference of belief.
Crews locate body of missing swimmer
09/20/2013 6:42pmA Clearfield man drowned Thursday while attempting to swim across Holmes Creek Reservoir.
9/11 artifact arrives in Utah, starts 20-city tour
09/20/2013 6:45pmA 9,000 pound chunk of concrete that was once part of the World Trade Center arrived in Utah Friday with an escort of almost 100 law enforcement officers and private citizens down I-80 from Wyoming.
F-35 Lightning II modifications start at Hill Air Force Base
09/20/2013 6:54pmHill Air Force Base received an F-35 Lightning II last week that will be modified in Utah. The modifications will help the F-35 stay the "most lethal weapon ever built."
Texas man faces manslaughter charges in deadly Moab crash
09/20/2013 7:05pmSan Juan County prosecutors have filed manslaughter charges against a Texas man, alleging that his recklessness led to an Aug. 16 crash south of Moab that killed three people and injured four others.
Utah congressmen vote to defund Obamacare
09/20/2013 7:20pmIn what ultimately might be more of a statement than reality, Utah's four congressmen voted Friday to keep the government running but do away with funding for the controversial Affordable Care Act.
Utah jobless rate up slightly in September
09/20/2013 7:21pmNew figures show Utah's unemployment rose slightly in August, but remains as low as it's been in five years.
Man arrested after evading police, ordering hamburger
09/20/2013 9:17pmA high speed chase ended Monday night when officers saw the car pull into a fast food drive-thru.
Head-on collision kills SLC woman
09/20/2013 9:19pmInvestigators suspect a medical problem may be to blame for a head- on crash Friday near Strawberry Reservoir that left a Salt Lake City woman dead.
22 year sentence for man who stabbed SLC attorney
09/20/2013 9:42pmThe man convicted of repeatedly stabbing a prominent Utah attorney in his home last year now faces at least 22 years in prison.
Man pleads 'not guilty' in slain teen case
09/20/2013 10:17pmFrank Reyos, 31, was ordered Friday to stand trial for aggravated murder in the 2012 shooting death of 16-year-old Kenyatta Winston.
Man charged with rape of 14-year-old girl he met on Facebook
09/20/2013 10:18pmA man has been charged with raping a 14-year- old girl he met on Facebook.
Pranks heat up during rivalry week in Utah
09/20/2013 10:23pmAs the hours and minutes counted down Friday until Saturday's renewal of the BYU-Utah rivalry in Provo, fans from both schools went to extremes to get the best of each other - from a towering "Y" flag looming over I-15 in the Salt Lake Valley, to spray-painted lawns, to revenge for spray-painted lawns.
New book examines college football rivalries
09/20/2013 10:37pmJeff Benedict, one of America's top investigative reporters, will attend his second BYU-Utah football game tomorrow night. His first was last year when fans stormed the field (three times) and the crazy finish. At the time, he was researching for his new book "The System: The Glory and Scandal of Big- Time College Football."
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ISPs Accused Of Hijacking Search Terms, Redirecting Browser Results To Marketer's Websites
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From the article, it's not clear if the companies such as those listed above are actually responsible. Instead, it looks like it may be part of an affiliate program, whereby a company signs up as an affiliate to such stores, then uses this kind of deal with an ISP to generate massive affiliate fees, some of which get kicked back to the ISP.
The report notes that Google became aware of this earlier this year and complained privately about it (why not publicly?). That resulted in the ISPs no longer intercepting Google traffic (which is the majority of search traffic), but it's still pretty questionable. Either way, the excellent New Scientist report (linked above) also notes that a class action lawsuit has already been filed here, claiming that this violates the Wiretap Act.
What's most amazing to me, however, is that anyone involved in schemes like this don't think that it will eventually come out, and that they'll (a) look terrible and (b) get sued.


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The world didn't end on December 21 as scheduled and so once more it is time for New Year's resolutions and weight is the object of most. It is also the time when the health newsletters I receive concern obesity and how to solve the escalating problem.
The world didn't end on December 21 as scheduled and so once more it is time for New Year's resolutions and weight is the object of most. It is also the time when the health newsletters I receive concern obesity and how to solve the escalating problem.
One newsletter urges me to contact the governor so that he will do something about the problem of obesity in Arkansas. Another tells about the harm being done by drugs designed to help with weight loss. Another article talks about how we are going to have to raise taxes on everyone to cover health care (which is actually disease care) for sicknesses caused by obesity and diabetes.
With all the money that has been spent, articles written, talk shows, etc that tell us to eat real food and stop eating fast and processed foods, there has been little improvement. At the present rate of diminished health, more and more parents are going to have to watch their children die. Each generation becomes a little sicker while the focus of the nation seems to be on other issues.
Remember the days when cigarette smoking was the thing to do? It was not only cool and accepted; cigarettes were actually pedaled around on carts to patients' rooms in hospitals. When I had a ruptured appendix many years ago, as they rolled me into the hospital, I pleaded through excruciating pain for them to please not put me in the room with a smoker. Not only was I put in a room with a smoker, the smoker's visitors all smoked and I lay and breathed smoke night and day until I was developing upper respiratory problems. I refused to eat hospital food and had friends and family sneak in healthy foods and supplements so I was able to get out in four days, instead of the doctor's predicted 10 to 14—or else I might not be alive today.
Today, you cannot even smoke close to a hospital, on an airplane, in restaurants, and cigarette smoking is no longer cool. How did it happen? It wasn't because laws were made or taxes raised; it happened because of education and great numbers of people changing the way they thought about cigarettes. It became "uncool" to smoke. Now, you almost have to sneak around to some little room somewhere to smoke. In some towns, people don't even smoke on the streets. We don't think it is macho any more; it is just a dumb addiction. After people became educated and decided they were not going to breathe cigarette smoke, the laws were made; they caught up with what people knew to be right.
It used to be that drinking and driving was not a big deal. You might get stopped by a policeman if you were really reckless but you were told to watch out, given a slap on the wrist, and went right on. No one thought a thing of drinking and jumping into a car and driving. Today, if you get caught drinking and driving, you can be in big trouble and even end up in jail and without a drivers' license. This change took place because of the organization called MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) who raised the consciousness of masses of people. MADD began with a mother who lost her child in a drunk driving crash. She turned her grief into positive change; then the laws caught up. This movement has saved more than 300,000 lives so far.
If we are to solve the problem of obesity and deteriorating health, it will have to happen the same way. It will happen because of the awareness of the population. It will become unpopular to drink sodas, eat sugary fast and processed foods. Large numbers of people who are in charge of school lunches and parents will have to say, "No more junk food for our precious kids!" When enough people refuse to be a part of health destroying behaviors; when we know that we are destroying our health by what goes into our mouths and have the willingness to turn away from such eating, things will change. When it becomes popular thing to eat healthful foods and junk food is ridiculed, others will follow. Only when we are sick and tired of being sick in great numbers, will we change the way we eat.
In all these cases, someone has had to go against the grain of what the masses have accepted to be normal. I see it beginning to happen with the diets of Americans. At least 60 years ago, a man wrote and distributed a publication saying eating fruits and vegetables could prevent cancer. He was ridiculed and actually put in jail for making such an outrageous statement. Now respected researchers are saying the same thing. When enough of us believe it and we start practicing what we know, health will improve.
Yes, even a few doctors are advising their patients to give up sugar and eat a mostly plant based unprocessed diet.
Be part of the movement; when enough of us do it, the whole world will change and we will see health and vitality once more become "normal".
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[Manga] Naruto Chapter 596 Discussion Thread
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仮面の傷に気付くカカシ。あの傷は� �ムイで飛ばしたクナイの傷。
三人で協力してカカシの提案で攻撃� �る事に成り螺旋丸をカムイで消して� ��面マダラ直撃。
カカシは仮面マダラの術に気付いた� �
初めて仮面マダラはうちは火炎陣な� �技を使ってたよ。
Google translate: Scarecrow notice to mask scratches. That wound scar of kunai flew in Kamui.
Madara hit in the mask to erase Kamui Rasengan will need to attack at the suggestion of Scarecrow in cooperation with three people.
Kakashi noticed the art of mask Madara.
Madara Uchiha mask I was using a technique consisting of executives for the first time flame.
English translation--> Source: http://www.narutoforums.com/showthread.php?t=527462
Kakashi notices the crack in Tobi's mask. The crack came from the kunai he teleported away with Kamui.
The three of them work together under Kakashi's direction, and by erasing Naruto's Rasengan with Kamui they land a direct hit on Tobi.
Kakashi has figured out Tobi's jutsu.
For the first time Tobi uses one of the Uchiha's fire techniques.
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I think we are getting closer and closer to the possibility that Tobi is Obito. Or at the very least Tobi has Obito's Sharingan imo.
Is it a coincidence that Kakashi's Eye technique can send things over to Tobi's hidden dimension? or Is it actually because They are related ( Back to tobi= obito theory).
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We didn't get much from the backscratcher this time, but Tobi did use a new badass Sharingan(?) Jutsu.
It looks sort of like Susano'o, ofcourse it isn't but they have the same fancy fire effects.
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the more I read Naruto this days the more I think TObi = Obito HAHAHA
but Im still wondering....
how the hell is dematerialize and make things appear dissapear is a one jutsu???
could anyone?? or someone who is genius can explain this?
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At this point Kakashi should almost be dead. But maybe being around Kyuubi Naruto recharges him or something.
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One jutsu, if you see it as a jutsu that can work on body the body of a user and all stuff around then it is one jutsu. Dematerializing in one dimention and materializing in the hidden one of Tobi's.
This one is clear for me, at least that's how I understand this.
I also hold an opinion that there are many suggestions that stand for theory of Tobi being Obito, but one thing is incompatible here, namely the fact that Tobi is way older than Obito.
I only see Tobi to be:
- sb from Kakashi's past but he older thatn him (Obito's father? = this is abstraction to me)
- person who Dwells behind the mask may have some ability similar to oro's to change bodies, in that way Tobi can use Obito's body.
- Uchiha member (do not remember his name) from Danzo and Hiruzen's team
Tobi cannot be kind of a combination of Zetsu body and programmed knowledge, he's too old to be an outcome of Oro's experiment's.
But, this is not the best place to talk about Tobi's identity.
The chapter was good, but I'm still waiting for some development of action.
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In some ways, Kakashi's kamui is superior since he can do it at range unlike Tobi who has to do it with contact. Too bad it drains Kakashi like mad. I wonder if Kakashi can learn to use it like Tobi does.
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•Strong, crafty offensive quarterback tough to stop on the crease; had 42 goals,
24 assists
•Scored Eagles' first six goals in IAAM AConference title victory
•Under Armour All-American; signed with Georgetown
Megan Whittle
McDonogh, so., attack
•Flashy, smart player with superior shot, finished the season with 49 goals
•Scored six goals in 20-9 win over Garden City, N.Y.
•Had three goals in "A" championship; committed to Maryland
Erica Bodt
J. Carroll, sr., midfielder
•Superb end-to-end midfielder
•Dominated on the draw, winning 70; had 55 goals
•Under Armour All-American; signed with Syracuse
Kassandra Bowling
B. Mawr, sr., midfielder
•Led team in scoring with 46 goals and contributed all over the field
•Sneaky attacker; excelled at reading defenses
•Signed with Georgetown
Sam Darcangelo
Maryvale, sr., midfielder
•Led No. 2 Lions in scoring with 58 goals, 14 assists
•Stellar finisher, able to catch any pass, critical to draw control and team defense
•Under Armour All-American scored
207 career goals; signed with Florida
Nancy Dunbar
B. Mawr, sr., midfielder
•Scored 25 goals with 18 assists
•Played defense last year after breaking her ankle in the fall; brought new offensive dimension this spring
•Signed with Northwestern
Alice Mercer
Century, sr., midfielder
•Led No. 3 Knights with 67 goals
•Scored three goals in Class 3A-2A victory
• Under Armour All-American; signed with Maryland
Carly Ross
Maryvale, sr., midfielder
•Go-to player had
49 goals, 17 assists
•Slippery one-on-one attacker and excellent at re-defending
•Had 179 career goals; signed with Florida
Zoe Stukenberg
Marr. Ridge, jr., midfielder
•Smooth, athletic midfielder led team with 67 goals, 27 assists
•Had 48 draw controls, 25 caused turnovers
•Committed to
play at Maryland
Morgan Torggler
Sev. Park, jr., midfielder
•Driving force in transition, on offense; led No. 6 Falcons with 61 goals, 10 assists
•Scored five goals in Class 4A-3A state final
•Committed to
play at Maryland
Liz Bannantine
McDonogh, sr., defender
•Ran defense that allowed 7.3 goals a game
•Smart, speedy, tough to beat one-on-one
•Under Armour All-American headed for Princeton
Anne Zabel
Marr. Ridge, sr., defender
•Savvy line defender for Howard County, District V champions
•Led unit that allowed 3.9 goals per game
•Under Armour All-American; signed with UMBC
Caroline Federico
Maryvale, jr., goalie
•Posted 58 percent save rate; 9.0 goals-against average
•Recorded 11 saves in 12-11 title game loss to No. 1 McDonogh
•Committed to JHU