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Hey all,
I'm new to the area looking to potentially find a league or something to get to play regularly. I am a 3-ish. Used to be better... and worse. I've been struggling with some rotator cuff inflammation over the past year or so, but it's been feeling good for a little while. Just would like to find a group to hit around once a week or so. once the weather gets better would love to hit around a few times a week.
I'm in the fairfax corner area and have a court at my apartment, use the courts at gmu and can go anywhere with parking.
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I'm also living around the fairfax corner area and am a 3-3.5? player. If you'd like a new hitting partner, let me know. You can contact me here or my email is email@example.com
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McCauley (Need: Stories from Africa, 2004, etc.) populates his affluent, quasi-Cheeveresque world with successful professional men and women who have too much time and not enough soul, and they could hardly screw up their lives more if they had personal assistants of chaos. They drive Volvos. They rail against their unsuccessful children. They suspect one another of infidelity, usually with ample reason. Marty grows marijuana in his basement. "It's not a grow farm," he insists, explaining his sticky situation to his lawyer, but the discovery of his 20-year tradition of supplying pot to family and friends leads to the threat of job loss and house foreclosure. Susan and George consummate an adulterous affair solely to get revenge on their own unfaithful spouses. Wilbert suspects Sandra of having an affair because every week she "sneaks off" to a Wednesday Bible study at a local church. We learn that Wilbert, with unconscious irony, "[accepts] the equality of men and women in all respects—except, of course, in abilities and roles." Ben sends his wife Alice flowers and signs the card, "from a very ardent admirer," and she's disappointed to find out their prosaic source. A number of characters enjoy getting into grotesquely embarrassing conversations and cynically keep them going just to see what's going to happen. While the stories are not exactly interlocked, and characters don't, in Yoknapatawpha fashion, reappear from one story to another, the world they inhabit seems to be a common space. One recurrent setting is the "hot tub" of the title. Seemingly as an inside joke, McCauley inserts allusions to or scenes with hot tubs into almost every story. When Shree tells a sexually overheated Morgan, "God, I want to do a tub right now," she unwittingly announces a major motif of the collection.
The characters are more shallow than the hot tubs they inhabit.

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Kirklees Council will not be backing a campaign to levy a new tax on supermarkets in a bid to rescue battered high streets.
Derby Council and 19 other local authorities want to gain the right to impose a levy on large supermarkets, retain the money raised, and use it to help small businesses and community centres.
The levy – dubbed the 'Tesco Tax' – is already in place in Scotland and Northern Ireland and supporters claim the tax could raise up to £400m a year.
But Coun Peter McBride, Cabinet member for investment and regeneration, said the council was not one of the authorities backing the plans.
"We try and encourage different types of investment but sending a message to supermarkets to stay clear is not going to be a good one," he said.
"They do have a big impact on high streets but often they can help struggling areas.
"I think you have got to be careful about putting a blanket tax over all supermarket as the council can not start manipulating the market."
Batley Business Association chairman Andrew Marsden said: "We welcome any initiative that helps to promote Batley's high street but we think the plan would be hard to manage.
Perhaps a better idea would be for these companies to make payments to help town centres when they apply to open large stores, which inevitably take away trade from small independent retailers."
Dewsbury Chamber of Trade member Andrew Hutchinson contacted Kirklees Council proposing a similar idea last year, but it was rebuffed.
He said: "I still believe a special rate charge would be the best way to collect revenue.
"If you have a lump of money then that can be spent on areas of the town centre most in need and help bring it in line with the 21st century."


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How long can you hold a cache location?
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Marking TBs lost?
I've been thinking of using a 'needs maintance' log for posting when TBs have been confirmed as missing from a cache and need to be kicked into the unknown. Do you think would be a good use of such logs? or would it be too harsh?
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I don't think that would be too harsh. The "Needs Maintenance" type of post was created as less "severe" form of notification for the cache owner (compared to "Should be archived") to alert him or her that there may be something about the cache that requires looking into.
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Cut back meat consumption: experts
People should halve the amount of meat they eat as part of efforts to cut pollution caused by nutrients such as nitrogen, experts have said.
Nitrogen and other mineral fertilisers are key to feeding the world's population but burgeoning use of nutrients is causing water, land and air pollution which harms human health, oceans and wildlife, and contributes to climate change, they claimed.
Use of the minerals is expected to increase by up to 50% over the next 40 years, causing more pollution and damage to habitats, and more greenhouse gases, according to a report for the United Nations Environment Programme.
But improving the efficiency of the way nutrients are used by 20% by 2020 could reduce the annual use of nitrogen and save the world about £110 billion a year, in reduced fertiliser use and reductions in the cost to human health and the environment, the study said.
One of the main sources of pollution of minerals is agriculture. Around four-fifths of the nitrogen and phosphorus applied in farming is consumed by livestock rather than directly by humans, and about 70% of the world's agricultural land is used for producing meat and dairy.
By reducing the amount of meat they eat, people could help reduce pollution. Report lead author Professor Mark Sutton, of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in the UK, said: "People say we need nitrogen to feed people, actually we need nitrogen to feed our high livestock population."
The experts did not call for people to become vegetarian, but for people in countries such as the UK where meat consumption is excessive to reduce their intake, for example by having smaller portions, wasting less or eating meat less often.
Prof Sutton warned: "South East Asia, China and India are racing to catch up with levels we're eating. Our choices we're making in Europe are influencing the cultural aspirations in those places."
He said a good aim was to be demitarian, halving the amount of meat normally eaten. This would also benefit health, as Europeans currently consume 70% more protein per day on average than is needed.
The experts also recommended more localised systems of farming, where crops and livestock are grown and reared closer together so that, for example, the fertiliser created by manure can be used more efficiently to grow crops, rather than being wasted and causing pollution.


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Watch Metallica's Lars Ulrich in the 'Hemingway and Gellhorn' Film Trailer
Metallica fans were able to get a sneak peak of Lars Ulrich's acting chops when he played a small role in 2010′s 'Get Him to the Greek' and on the big screen in Metallica's 2004 documentary 'Some Kind of Monster' (both in which he played himself), but now the famed drummer is taking on a dramatic part in the new HBO film production 'Hemingway and Gellhorn.'
In 'Hemingway and Gellhorn,' which also stars Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen, Ulrich portrays Dutch documentarian Joris Ivens, who depicts the relationship between writers Ernest Hemingway (Owen) and Martha Gellhorn (Kidman).
While the film won't be out for a couple more months, fans can now view the new trailer which made its premiere last week across the internet. And as fans can see in the clip, Ulrich can hold his own against some of Hollywood's acting heavyweights. Perhaps we'll see more acting in his future?
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First thing to pick was this year's crop of Butternut Squash. I think my favorite squash is the kabocha squash, but I've never seen kabocha starts at the garden store, so I stuck with 2nd favorite Mr. Butternut. I've had good luck growing butternuts in the past, and I got a pretty good haul this year too.
Also, it was finally time to harvest my garlic! I've blogged about my very sentimental garlic strain before... and after a little scare when I was away from home for 6 weeks this summer and couldn't care for them, I'm glad to say that this year's crop looks great. In fact, I've already pilfered a few heads for culinary needs! Next up, I need to sort through and find the biggest heads of garlic, then find the biggest cloves, and get those in the soil for next year. What fun!
Doggies were investigating the garlic while I was trying to take pictures.
And - most miraculously! - I'm still harvesting amazing tomatoes. After a very cool summer, our autumn has been quite warm. So, the tomato plants just keep pumping out more and more delicious red orbs. I'm not complaining!
Last but not least, it's Apple Time! We have a great little apple tree out behind our garage and it makes the most delicious apples. I didn't plant it, so I'm not sure what variety they are. All I know is that they are super yum - great for eating fresh and great for cooking too. Two of those tubs have been peeled, de-icky-bit-ified, sliced and dehydrated. Two more of those tubs are still sitting outside awaiting action.


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Turkey vows to break Gaza siege
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met Hamas politburo chief Khaled Meshaal, on Monday Damascus, to discuss a number of files related to the Palestinian issue. A Turkish news agency said, among others, they have talked about possible ways to bridge differences between Hamas and Fatah.
This meeting was attended by several members of the Hamas political bureau. The sides also discussed ways to break the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian reconciliation and recent developments in the Palestinian arena.
For his part; the Turkish minister stressed his country's support for the Palestinian issue and noted that Turkey will continue to make efforts to break the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip. He also stressed Turkey's determination to get an Israeli apology for the "massacre" of Turkish peace activist on the Marmara ship as well as compensation for the families of the martyrs and the wounded along with the formation of an independent international commission of inquiry.


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Minecraft Documentary Streaming Free Dec 22nd
Microsoft is hosting the world premiere streaming screening of Minecraft: The Story of Mojang this Saturday.
Minecraft is one of the most incredible gaming phenomenons of the past few years, and the way its captured the cultural zeitgeist is quite amazing. Fortunately, 2 Player Productions was there to document the story of Markus "Notch" Persson and the rise of Mojang.
Now the documentary Minecraft: The Story of Mojang, is about to make its debut. On Saturday, Dec. 22nd, the film will be made available via Xbox Live for free to anyone with a Gold subscription. The screening will start at 8PM EST in the U.S., and 8PM CET in Europe. You can check out the trailer below to catch a glimpse of the acclaimed game and its story.


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LONDON (Reuters) - London's theatres earned 530 million pounds ($830 million) in 2012, a marginal rise on 2011, and although the Olympic Games had a noticeable impact on the West End during the summer it was not the "bloodbath" one leading producer had predicted.
Figures released on Tuesday by the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) showed 2012 gross ticket sales at 52 major theatres in the capital rose 0.27 percent on the year before while attendances, at 14 million, were up 0.56 percent.
The increases would have been greater had it not been for the London Games, SOLT officials said, with public attention surrounding the opening ceremony dampening demand and warnings of transport disruptions putting off theatre-goers.
London's flamboyant Mayor Boris Johnson was singled out as a factor, after his recorded messages warning of travel congestion on public transport during the Games were quickly dropped when the concerns proved unfounded.
"I don't think most of the (SOLT) members were relishing the Games and the impact of the Olympics was viewed with trepidation," said SOLT president Mark Rubinstein.
"It's surprising, amazing, wonderful we are standing here today saying 2012 was another record-breaking year."
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, one of the most influential theatre impresarios in Britain, had predicted a box office "bloodbath" during the summer due to the Games.
Rubinstein said there was a sizeable drop in takings during the third quarter of the year due to the Olympics, but that overall the figures were better than many had predicted.
In outright terms, the revenue figure was a new record, while attendance was not far from its 2009 peak of 14.3 million.
Producers showed restraint, perhaps with an eye on economic gloom in Britain and much of Europe, with average ticket prices last year at 37.86 pounds compared with 37.97 pounds in 2011.
Musicals dominated the West End again, accounting for eight million attendances, a fall of three percent on 2011, while play attendances were up nine percent at 4.1 million.
Hits last year included the Royal Court's transfers of "Posh", "Jumpy" and "Constellations" and the success of the National Theatre's "War Horse" and "One Man, Two Guvnors".
While London showed resilience in the face of competition from the Olympics and a stagnant economy, there was greater concern for regional theatres, some of which face major spending cuts from central government and local authorities.
Newcastle City Council in northern England, for example, announced it planned to cut all funding to arts organizations in the city, and other regions including Derby and Darlington have been badly hit.
Rubinstein said cuts to arts spending in the regions could have a devastating impact on theatres which were "part of the ecosystem" of British stage and helped make the West End great.
"We need to support those theatres and make sure the politicians support those theatres," he said.
Advance ticket sales for 2013 suggested another strong year ahead, he added.
Julian Bird, SOLT's chief executive, also announced that commercial channel ITV would broadcast the Olivier Awards for West End theatre on April 28.
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For one night only, the SLAP Gaming Minecraft Server will be revived and we would like to get as many of the 20,000+ members that once played on our server to join us for a evening of laughter, gaming, and to relive our fond memories of the server!
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- You must have Minecraft 1.8 installed to join the server!
- The world file remains as it was when we shut down in March 2016.
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Their New York event was going to be the big announcement, the moment that Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop could say not just that Nokia was back, but that Nokia was back with the best smartphone in the business. Unfortunately they had to demonstrate their new cutting edge smartphones with one hand deliberately tied behind their back by Microsoft.
As the handsets were examined by the world's press, the demonstrators kept a close eye on them. If they even so much as hinted that they were going to look at some of the new features in Windows Phone 8 then they were gently put in their place, as Andrew Orlowski of The Register found out:
Anyone who did manage to get a Lumia prototype in their mitts soon discovered new perimeters. Straying into anything messaging-related brought the Minders jumping to their feet. Straying into the 'Settings' brought out the killer Chihuahuas.
The secrecy is not around the Lumia 920, but Windows Phone 8. It's either not ready, or Microsoft wants to keep it under a tight cloak of invisibility until the expected unveiling on October 26th this year. The truth is probably somewhere in-between.
No matter the reason, Nokia's launch of the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 was hampered by an inability to show off operating system and the full user interface. Once more the resizable live tiles were given pride of place by Microsoft's Joe Belfiore, who was invited to the stage. In addition to the new tiles the Lumia's new camera interface was shown. But how Windows Phone 8 works, the on-screen furniture all the handsets will be using, the look and feel that developers will be aiming for... we didn't see any of that.
At least it was more than the slideshow presented by Samsung as they announced the Windows Phone 8 ATIV S at IFA the previous week.
I can understand Microsoft wanting to co-ordinate the launch to show all the features of Windows Phone 8 as part of their ecosystem defining Windows 8 event next month. Steve Ballmer reckons he can land one massive punch with the Windows 8 laptops and desktops, the Surface tablet computers, and a wide range of Windows Phone 8 devices, all from multiple manufactures who have chosen to work within Microsoft's vision.
I'm actually surprised that Nokia got to show off as much as they did - although a close reading of the script will show that the four main elements demoed (the low-light PureView camera abilities, the PureMotion HD+ screen technology, the AR elements of Nokia's location platform, and the adoption the Qi wireless charging system) could all be demonstrated without showing any elements directly relating to Windows Phone 8.
Arguably Nokia could have shown off a phone running Symbian, Meego, or even Android, and the bulk of the presentation would have been identical.
But Nokia was always going to have to accept the role as a junior partner when they paired up with Microsoft at the start of 2011, a position that Nokia is historically not used to. The launch of Windows Phone 8 will go at the speed Microsoft dictates. That means Nokia, Samsung, and HTC (who will presumably hold their 'smartphone launch' at their event on September 19th) will wait until Steve Ballmer says so. That's good for Microsoft, but it leaves a rather hollow taste when a product launch can only show half of the product being launched.
Nokia had to announce at this point in time to stay in control of the story, a story which was almost derailed by a number of accurate leaks in the week before. Now they have a new product with no date when it will be available in the shops (it's likely to be early November, eight weeks away). If nobody was going to buy a Nokia smartphone over the summer, they certainly aren't going to buy one now, and the retail stores won't push them because they don't want the customer back in a few weeks demanding the new model as a free upgrade.
In a year when the Finnish smartphone company needs to retain as much sales momentum as possible, Microsoft's decision to have a coordinated launch means Nokia are having to take an eight week break from making any money.
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I HEART my new vet!
My kitties are on the mend, which makes me so happy
Funny story though - my boyfriend took Alley in to get her final booster (to the new vet, not the old one), and when he walked in, he saw the tech (who had always been friendly) from the OLD vet there. He walked up to say hi, and my boyfriend was like, crap, here we go. The tech said that all the vet clinics are like a family here so they all work at all the clinics.. he asked why we were now going to this other place, and my boyfriend said it was because it was closer (which is true, but... )
The tech asked if there was any other reason, to which my bf added that we didn't really like the fact that we were charged $50 for them to watch him for 2 hours (when they didn't need to - they probably just put him in a cage) and the tech agreed that that wasn't right and that he'd fix it for us - maybe even get us a credit at the new vet..
Speaking of which - the new vet is great .. Cut Alley's nails for free (the other wanted to charge), gave her her booster and only charged us for the shot - saying that her last visit counted as a checkup, so we didn't have to pay for the visit at all!
It's so nice to find someone who is looking for the kitty at heart - my last vet probably would have charged us $200 just for telling us she needed a booster!
That's all - Jake is ing the Wellness, and Alley is nutty as usual. So happy to see my crazy critters back up to their old antics!
Your kitties are very purdy and I'm glad they are on the mend. Congrats on finding a great vet, I too have recently found a great one and I swear I can rest easier knowing I don't have to question everything they tell me because he explains it anyway, and I never feel taken advantage of, or rushed out the door. Cheers to the good ones out there!!!
The best way to get it back is to give it away
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Hepatic lipidosis (fatty liver) is a strange disorder of cats. Any cat that becomes anorectic is a candidate. Treatment is supportive care and feeding, by surgically implanted feeding tube if necessary. The gagging may be a result of a feeding tube, esophageal reflux, nausea, laryngeal irritation, secondary infection such as yeast, etc., tracheal inflammation secondary to aspiration, and my list could go on.
The kitten's ear mites need to be treated, but I can't make a direct connection to the adult cat's coughing/retching.
If your adult cat is eating well, then this problem should resolve over the next month. Sorry that I can't be more specific, but too many things can cause the symptoms you describe.
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Hello. I'm not a vet. I'm a nurse. But I wanted to share with you what I have learned. Same symptoms with my cat. Had a senior profile done. He has hyperthyroid. There is a thyroid blood test to confirm. I'm not saying your cat has this, just have him checked. My cat was sluggish, stopped eating, coughed when he purrs, lost his voice. Started him on methimazole and his thyroid decreased, he stopped coughing, started eating, got his voice back after 3 weeks b/c the size of his thyroid shrunk. My vets and specialist started with the diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and kidney disease, but these are both caused by the hyperthyroidism first so if you catch the elevated level soon enough, the medicine for it works perfectly.. A cat is considered a senior at age 10. Yours is almost 10. It could be the start. Most senior cat's get hyperthyroidism. The good thing is they respond so well to the medicine that they will return to their former self, unless it wasn't treated in time. Like mine still has cardiomyopathy and the kidney disease is a little worse b/c the decrease in blood flow to the kidneys, but what was really getting him down was the symptoms from the hyperthyroidism. The not eating, lethargy, and malaise is his creatinine going up some but he bounces right back after subq fluids. I would just have his thyroid checked. And then keep everything I've told you in mind. Good luck! Christi
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Thank you PHOOZLES and SUGARCATMOM for this enlightening discussion back in 2007!
This thread began almost identical to what is currently going on in our home. Healthy over weight older cat Yoshi (8 years) introduced to Denver a younger 10 month old kitten brought into home (a rescue from Humane Society).
After several weeks, Yoshi develops a rough purr and a nasty hairball-like cough, which only occurs while purring. Initially didn't think much of it, after all, the two were getting along, grooming each other, playing, just chalked it up to extra fur being ingested, and encouraged Yoshi to ex-spell the furrballs, which never came out. This has been going on for just under 2 weeks, and we are growing concerned.
Thank you again for posting this info for all to see. I don't know if this solves our situation, but at least it provides additional knowledge when we visit the vet next week.
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YouTube Stars Fighting YouTube Networks Over Their Contracts
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Vacas, known online as Braindeadly, has big brown eyes, a fauxhawk, a stubbly goatee and a British accent, discernible as he tells his 40,000 YouTube subscribers goodbye.
"I woke up today hoping to make a video, but I went into a call with Machinima this evening and they said that my contract is completely enforceable. I can't get out of it," Vacas tells the camera. "They said I am with them for the rest of my life — that I am with them forever. If I'm locked down to Machinima for the rest of my life and I've got no freedom, then I don't want to make videos anymore," he says quietly.
The screen fades to black.Ominous, but not entirely unexpected. Those who make their bones on YouTube and any other new platform that might arise aren't going to have traditional avenues for making sure they know what they're signing. In the case of Vacas, he admits to this explicitly, later stating that he signed his Machinima contract quickly, not realizing they would own the rights to anything he produced on YouTube "in perpetuity, throughout the universe, in all forms of media now known or hereafter devised." Even death would not release Vacas of his contractual obligations. It sucks, but he signed it.
The point is that in these early days of YouTube channel capitalization, artists need to be very wary of sharks swimming in those waters. As the article points out, this isn't really new, it's just a different venue.
A recent string of high-profile disputes is prompting comparisons between YouTube networks and the exploitative Hollywood studios of the 1930s and '40s: Both convinced young and naive talent with little leverage to sign contracts that leave them at a disadvantage. For networks, that means contracts that bind creators to them indefinitely, demand rights to their content in perpetuity and take large ownership stakes in any resulting businesses.As ugly as some of these contracts are, as are the intentions of those that wrote them, this should end up working itself out as YouTube matures as a primary entertainment platform. After all, Machinima can have all the dastardly contractual language it likes, but if the artists like Vacas refuse to produce in protest, what good does that do them? Eventually, a middle ground should and will be found. In the past, if you didn't like the contract offered to you by a major gatekeeper, you were pretty much out of luck. Today, however, not only are there more providers, but it's not difficult to "go it alone" if you choose such a path.


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Debra Wiebe
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|2009-06-28, 11:02
|Link #82
Join Date: Oct 2006
I can't say as I mind Mahou Shoujo too much (Heck one of my favorite current shows for awhile now has been Shugo Chara) but I kindof have a hard time envisioning the OP/ED suiting something in that genre...Maybe not though depending on how they handle it, guess will see.
|2009-07-01, 21:38
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Whack and Unwrap!
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Amishville!
All jokes aside... the first episode I thought had well enough pacing, and the characters for me are interesting enough. What will keep me watching this series is the lush BGM and artwork. I could eat it! The music is beautiful and really keeps the story flowing. And I really like the ED, Urin's 'comments' at the mini story, and the mini story itself is interesting. I'm looking forward to the next episode.
Though they really really need to stop wearing the booty shorts asap Dx
|2009-07-02, 05:52
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my sides are in orbit
Join Date: Nov 2007
It's not exactly Pretty Cure, it's mostly like Wedding Peach. Making monster of the week peaceful and all that.
This anime sure love peace, even during the height of action the music is the kind that normally put me to sleep, but the near-yuri tentacle raepactions keep me awake.
|2009-07-03, 00:24
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
I saw the raw because the subs are no where to be found. The assumption I made in my deleted post was correct.
Spoiler for don't feel like getting deleted again :P:
I hope the subs come out soon. I got a pretty good idea of what happened and what everyone was saying but I couldn't really understand a lot of things mentioned about the main antagonist. Still watching this but this episode was not as good as the first one.
|2009-07-03, 06:24
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Join Date: Jul 2007
So far so good...altho the henshin sequence was nowhere different from your usual mahou shoujo henshin,but that's the only thing about it that i felt similar to mahou shoujo genre.The animation style was good..no complaint about that.
The BGM,contrary to what other ppl would say about how a BGM should sound when it comes to action scene,i find that the BGM still suits the fighting scene well.I like the way they played the piano,being the only instrument used for the BGM,although it didn't convey the scene's feeling well..but still i love it.
If i were to compare it with another anime,i would say..erm..Sketchbook?or Aria?Coz the feeling Umi Monogatari emitted was kinda similar to those feeling i got when watching those 2 animes.Hope i'm not wrong by saying Umi Monogatari gives out the "calm" and "peaceful" feeling to anyone that watching it,coz that was what i actually felt when watching it.
|2009-07-03, 06:45
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Lost in my dreams...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Age: 32
After the second episode, i am not really sure what to think of the series as a whole. I definitely like the atmosphere, and the music is nice (if somewhat misplaced at times) in creating the serene atmosphere, and i am definitely enjoying the more mundane parts of the show, which, i believe, is where its strength lies. I am having mixed feelings about the magic part though - while it was definitely to be expected, i didn't really like how it was presented. While the animation was nothing to complain about as the series continues to be quite visually appealing, i felt the presentation came across as somewhat silly and overly the top dramatic. I couldn't really shake the feeling they were trying to be a tad too presumptuous with the whole deal, despite the series not really being geared towards that and more towards a bit of silliness - can't say the mix felt all that successful for me personally. Oh well, will have to wait and see what the future brings, but i believe i would appreciate more of the "slice of life" elements and less the "magical girl" ones
|2009-07-03, 08:48
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Komrades of Kitamura Kou
Join Date: Jul 2004
Age: 34
I don't know if it's just me, but while the animation, music and heck even the fights are great... the genre isn't meshing together as much as I'd hope. Granted slice-of-life and magical girl aren't two genres you normally associate together, since you're trying to unite average everyday real life with fantasy magic action, but it seems like the episode is distinctly segregating both aspects apart rather than mixing them together.
I was actually expecting something like salt and water, mix them together and you have the qualities of both at the same time, essentially both distinguishable and indistuinguishable. However it's coming off as water and oil. The first half felt almost exclusively slice of life while the last half is magical girl, separated by a noticable line.
In retrospect, slice-of-life is idealized by everyday normal life, where you don't really see major life-changing events occurring often. In contrast magical girl shows have a lot of active and altering events that shape the movement of the plot. Perhaps if you force them to mesh together one will just overpower the other, so maybe a noticable separation mught be the best approach.
I'm still liking the show anyway, so I'll want to see where it goes.
|2009-07-03, 11:56
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Well, episode 2 did not disappoint. I'm not too sure what to think, but this really isn't bad at all. Although premise is simple and the mixing of genres is a little weird, the actual quality makes you want to watch more. I just hope the Priestesses will throw a few more punches and kicks in future fights.
The whole "sea people on land" and semi-"magical girlfriend" scenario is enough to sucker me in, so for the summer this looks like a keeper. They really could have cut back on the Elder Turtle's speech on the big bad. I hope there's some Action-ey tracks in this anime - music would have really made more of an impact if there was.
|2009-07-03, 14:17
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
After watching the second episode a second time with subtitles I kinda change my mind about the bgm for this episode but I still got the feeling of schizophrenia between the clash of genres. Hopefully it blends together better later in the series
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Working Positive
Returning to Life
March/April 2004
If you think about it, it's nothing short of amazing that some of us have made it this far. We have endured despite the threat of death, despite the symptoms and the stigma and all of the sheer indignities of HIV. We have fought back the fear and the depression, the sense of vulnerability, the discouragement -- and the discouragers. For those of us who have endured in the face of this debilitating illness and who have stood up to the relentless physical, emotional, addictive and political pressures, our very lives are a victory.
Having beaten such incredible odds, the next steps are both achievable and inevitable. More and more of us are getting to a point where we're ready to claim our future. No matter where we're starting or what we've been through, all of us have some capacity to move toward greater autonomy, toward more personally meaningful social engagement, and toward something more stable and satisfying than subsistence level income. More and more of us are thinking about work.
I'm a gay man with AIDS. That's one of the ways I can be identified, but it's also true that I've been many other things in my life. I've been a student and a teacher, a protégé and a mentor, a son to two parents and a brother to two siblings, a boyfriend -- briefly -- to several guys, a partner to two men, and after years in the wilderness, a husband to just one. I've been an ROTC cadet, a frat boy, and a Catholic seminarian. I've been a waiter and a writer and a counselor to homeless and incarcerated youth.
In the context of this epidemic, I've been a street-based activist, a social services advocate, a member of planning councils and boards of directors, a prevention educator, a case manager, a program director, and now a public health administrator.
Like all of us, there are a lot of things that contribute to who I've been and who I am. But to many government officials, I am first and last a person with AIDS. To them and many others, the diagnosis in my medical chart stands out as the single defining element of my life and my identity.
When I was diagnosed with HIV in 1990 the evidence was clear that I was looking at a three to five year prognosis. In 1991, my T-cells dropped below 200, anticipating what would soon become an official AIDS diagnosis. In the fall of 1992, a few weeks before I turned 30, when the headaches and the fatigue and the other disabling side effects became just too much, I went out on "permanent" disability.
When I tested positive we were deep in the Reagan/Bush years, more than five years away from the emergence of protease inhibitors, and it never occurred to me that I would see 35, never mind 40. It never occurred to me that I'd see a Democrat elected president, not to mention a second Bush. It never occurred to me I'd see the turn of the century, or fall in love, or buy a house, or think about having children. Yet these things are all true today.
Back then, I had stopped thinking about the future at all. I took care of sick friends, and I grieved their deaths. I grieved my own death prematurely. I used the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) to access preventative medications for every opportunistic infection imaginable. Between them and the large quantities of medical marijuana I smoked for the nausea (and the boredom), somehow I endured beyond every realistic expectation.
Then, along came the protease inhibitors and triple combination therapy. To be honest, I initially experienced a sense of horror as I realized that I wasn't going to die any time soon. I used to refer to that as "the threat of imminent survival." Having experienced so much grief and having prepared so completely for my own death, I really didn't know whether I could muster up the psychic energy necessary to prepare for life.
But I did it -- with a lot of luck. I had maintained some limited involvement in the politics of social services for youth and people with HIV and I stumbled onto a few consulting gigs. People offered me the occasional part-time job related to my prior work experiences. Eventually, as I started to exist more in the "Land of the Living," a passion and excitement for life started to creep back in. I started to contend with some of the financial wreckage, the vocational confusion, and, let's call it out, the depression, fear and drug abuse that stood between me and employment.
I made some good decisions and a fair number of bad ones. I started out slowly, and in 1998, after more than six years on "total and permanent" disability, I was offered a job as an AIDS services administrator.
It hasn't been easy. I needed external support to deal with some of the issues that had been swept under the carpet along the way. Like a lot of people who make that transition, I had an emotional crash after about six months when I realized that work wasn't going to fix everything that was broken in my life. Then, after about two-and-a-half years, my third combination of antivirals stopped working. I started a new course of treatment that made me so sick I had to take two extensive leaves of absence that kept me out of work for almost a year. Fortunately I work for a large employer that understands its responsibilities under the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) and the Family Medical Leave Act about medical privacy and reasonable accommodations.
The reality is I still have AIDS, and my fifth combination of HAART has five drugs -- four classes -- which has created another whole set of challenges along with the need for still more pills with still more side effects. Honestly, sometimes there are so many side effects I lose track.
I suppose I could stay home all day and write down my symptoms, and discuss them endlessly over a bong with some of my friends who aren't working. But the truth of the matter is that my life is infinitely better now that I work. Don't get me wrong, it can be really challenging taking care of myself as well as I need to. I don't eat well enough, I don't get enough exercise and sometimes I'm late with my meds. But overall, I think organizing my life around work that I care about leaves me physically, mentally, and spiritually more healthy than organizing it around managing symptoms and pursuing healthcare. And it's great to get a decent paycheck.
I recently went to a large conference for HIV service providers. There were workshops on fundraising and management, lipodystrophy and hepatitis C, microbicides research and vaccine development; workshops on providing food and housing and healthcare, adherence and nutritional education and treatment support to people with HIV/AIDS in all of our incredible diversity. The CDC has recently discovered that people with HIV have prevention needs and a role to play in prevention, and so there were even workshops on HIV prevention for positives.
But there was nothing on vocational counseling. There was nothing on employment; nothing on supporting our efforts to seek and maintain economic independence. Nothing to help us to make informed choices when risking the relative security of our medical, housing and financial benefits by simply seeking employment; nothing to overcome the barriers to social integration we face. There was nothing for someone taking their first step toward getting a first job. For that matter, there weren't even any workshops dealing with the challenges of providing health and supportive services to those of us who never left the workforce, to those of us working again, or to those of us struggling to find our way back onto benefits after our employment efforts have faltered.
Other than a giddy moment around the advent of triple combination therapy when some overly optimistic prognosticators predicted that people with HIV were all going to surge back into the workforce, it seems as if too many of our advocates and allies have determined that employment is something we shouldn't or can't achieve. At the very least, they seem to view the challenge of employment as a marginal issue. It still hasn't captured their imaginations, commanded their attention, called forth their creativity, or in any significant manner compelled them to marshal their considerable political resources.
Let's be clear, the federal government now spends billions of dollars a year for HIV healthcare and supportive services -- and we need these resources. It's true that many of us have a vital need for publicly-funded medical services, access to drug therapies, and assistance with food and housing and other basic needs. But it's also true that with our allies we have created what many of us now refer to as an AIDS Industrial Complex, one which is predicated on our postures of passivity and dependence. Services and programs designed to assist us in our efforts to become or remain self-sufficient are left bankrupt beggars at the gate. Indeed, transition-to-work services are not a permissible use of Ryan White funds.
Certainly the dialogue at this AIDS conference presumed that we continue to inhabit what some call a disability identity -- and that this identity is in fact total and permanent. The implication is that we must maintain this posture if we are to continue to be beneficiaries of the system's good efforts and good intentions, and of the increasingly insufficient resources of an increasingly out-of-touch and disinterested federal government.
To be honest, I believe that a perverse and simplistic contradiction currently exists around issues of employment and people with HIV, one which careens back and forth between paternalism and a pernicious form of judgment. Informally, I hear many service providers say with concern and conviction that most of their clients aren't thinking seriously about employment, and that even if they are, it just isn't a very realistic possibility. Painfully, I hear others speak with scorn of those of us who (in their opinions) aren't working and could, or aren't working and should -- resentful that we left or haven't yet found our way into or back into the workforce. We are described by them in ways that sound suspiciously similar to Reagan-era descriptions of so-called welfare queens, as if the meager incomes and scraps of services we receive are so freaking fabulous, or as if we we're gleefully self-satisfied at scoring some disability jackpot that allows us to live carefree lives.
Seemingly, many of these good people have somehow failed to grasp the nature of the complexity in our lives; the reality that, despite persistent disabling symptoms of HIV disease and HIV treatments, a great majority of us experience external pressure and/or a real desire to work. Most of those not working don't feel fortunate but rather feel stuck in relative poverty or financial chaos. Many of us feel bored and isolated and stigmatized by the marginalization of not working. We feel simultaneously sustained and trapped by disability benefits. Because we continue to be vulnerable to the uncertainties of HIV, we may be deeply uncertain of our ability to compete in the job market. Sometimes we are paralyzed by the fear of losing our housing and healthcare if we try to work but then end up unable to sustain employment. And we are worried about whether we can work well enough and consistently enough to really improve upon whatever stability we might have obtained from the increasingly fragile benefits system.
So, our symptoms and uncertainties are real and based on very concrete challenges and dangers. Nevertheless, for the majority of us who have benefited and will hopefully continue to benefit from the new therapies, the question of work is going to assume greater importance, not less.
Let's look at a few facts. What limited data we have suggests that as many as three quarters of people with an AIDS diagnosis are not employed, and that some smaller number, perhaps one quarter, of people who are simply HIV-positive are disabled by the virus. In places like San Francisco, that would mean that as many as half of all people with HIV/AIDS are not working. Nevertheless, a San Francisco needs-assessment a few years back suggested that as many as one in three non-employed/disabled people with HIV/AIDS had an urgent desire and intention to return to the workforce. (In Los Angeles at around the same time, it seemed that two out of three were seriously thinking about employment.) And the San Francisco assessment showed that the need and desire to work was expressed equally across obvious distinctions like race, sex and gender, sexual orientation, and income level.
If these numbers hold true nationally, then one- to two-thirds of people with HIV/AIDS in this country may fit the following profile: we aren't working; we're totally dependent on family, friends and social supports for food, shelter and healthcare; but we're thinking about or actively trying to find a way to become employed, trying to find our way into the mainstream of American life. Why aren't these efforts capturing the attention of our allies and advocates?
One reason is that we just don't know if these numbers hold true. More than seven years after the emergence of triple combination therapy, we still have never had any kind of comprehensive national survey of people with HIV designed to determine our attitudes and needs regarding employment. Almost everything we think we know continues to be anecdotal, and this is simply unacceptable. It's long past time that the federal government invested the resources necessary to help us better identify and diminish the barriers to our full social inclusion and economic empowerment.
When we talk about a "changing epidemic," it seems to me that this dynamic concerning work should be capturing a great deal of our attention. And let me say this quite frankly, the people and the organizations that say they are concerned about our welfare had better take notice of this, or they're going to become increasingly less relevant in our lives.
Karen Escovitz from the Matrix Center in Philadelphia has written an eloquent and concise articulation of the need to pay greater attention to this issue of HIV and employment. She says simply, "Work is the single most normative experience for adults in our society. And if we believe that individuals have futures, most of those futures have to include work."
What I most appreciate about Karen's insight is that it's not rocket science. Any casual reflection on the nature of work in our society will reveal that work has not just economic, but similarly significant social and even spiritual dimensions. For many who are employed in the HIV/AIDS service field, work plays a vital role in their own sense of worth and self-esteem. Why would anyone assume that recipients of such services would place any less value on the social and financial remuneration that work brings?
As I tried to demonstrate earlier, each of us is so much more than a virus and a diagnosis. But if we're not supported in our efforts to develop viable futures as actors in our own lives, if we're not given opportunities to confront the obstacles to work (that might include but isn't limited to paid employment), how are we ever to have lives that are really worth living?
The sad and frightening truth is that the most experienced and innovative programs attempting to assist HIV-positive people with work entry/re-entry issues have been hobbled by uncertain, patchwork, and diminishing funds. Programs that showed early excitement after initially being funded as demonstration projects have not subsequently been invited to apply for anything that approaches stable government funding streams.
We know from experience that people with HIV/AIDS have discrete and particular needs for targeted services. The time has come for our friends in the larger HIV/AIDS community to join with us in pressing decision makers at CDC, HRSA, and Departments of Labor and Education to recognize the essential role of employment and employment services in the health and wholeness of people with HIV/AIDS in the only manner that has any meaning -- through strategic, coordinated, and sustained funding.
Last year, a group of people working on these issues organized ourselves as the National Working Positive Coalition, or NWPC. Our mission is to advocate for work opportunities and improved services, to coordinate the sharing of relevant information, and to promote experience- and evidence-based best practices in employment services for people living with HIV/AIDS. Working on behalf of the larger group, some of us have developed a core set of principles that we believe must guide our work together and must set the stage for national efforts and discussions about HIV and employment.
Twenty years ago a small group of people with AIDS caucused as part of the Second National AIDS Forum in Denver. They formed the country's first national AIDS organization, NAPWA, the National Association of People With AIDS. They also crafted a set of revolutionary guidelines for the empowerment and treatment of people with AIDS that came to be called the Denver Principles. These Principles were revolutionary because they rejected the words and roles of "victim" and "patients," insisting that we be recognized as "people living with AIDS," and that as people we have the full range of human rights and needs as everyone else, and that we must be involved in the decisions that affect our lives.
My fantasy is that in the not too distant future, people living with HIV/AIDS will really be seen as full members of the community, agents of our own destinies, folks with futures and aspirations and a right to meaningful inclusion in the lives of our larger communities. When that happens, our friends and allies and advocates may still be needed to assist us with the work of moving forward. My hope is that in the same way that the Denver Principles shaped the last generation's work on AIDS a new generation's efforts will be informed by the revolutionary shift in thinking represented by the values of this nascent National Working Positive Coalition.
I believe that we are at the beginning of a new era in the history of this epidemic. Here's what I mean by that. The first 15 years of the epidemic were about dying -- first quickly, then a little more slowly, but it was all about dying. The next five years were about not dying -- and I know that people are still dying, but if we're honest with ourselves, the impact of treatment in the developed world is that mortality due to HIV has been greatly diminished. It's my hope and belief that this next era of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is about living, really learning to live, fully, with HIV.
Eric C. Ciasullo is a founding member of the National Working Positive Coalition (NWPC).
This article was provided by Gay Men's Health Crisis. It is a part of the publication GMHC Treatment Issues. Visit GMHC's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.
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Chuck Rodell
Room for Everyone
Speaking and listening, teaching and learning, challenging and being challenged....as a college professor, these are what I do. How fortunate. Is there a better way to earn a living? I think not, at least not for me. I am able to engage in these activities on a daily basis while working with young adults who are willing to open their minds, accept a challenge, and respond in kind.
This is the environment in which I find myself. A perfect fit you might say, and I would agree. However, you might think differently given that the college where I work has a strong and active religious tradition and the fact that I am philosophically an atheist. When I first accepted a position at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, I had some doubt about how well I might fit in. That concern has long been alleviated. If fact, if my life view were not atheistic, I would say that this is "a match made in heaven."
Before I continue, I should comment briefly on my theological position. When I claim to be an atheist, I do not mean to imply that I am anti-theistic. In fact, I am far from it. I have a certain envy of those who accept the existence of a personal god and find comfort in this belief. The critical problem for me is having to "accept" on faith rather than on evidence.
With that said, my intent in this essay is to express how someone, who is not religious, is able to feel a part of this religious community. Most certainly the fact that the community is also academic is helpful. However, the fact that I find myself at a liberal arts college is only a partial explanation. Of significance, I have discovered, is that CSB/SJU is Catholic and Benedictine. When I first arrived here, I had little of no sense of what these labels implied. Granted I sort of knew what it meant to be Catholic. After all, I know there is a Pope in Rome or, to be more accurate, Vatican City. But what did it mean to say we are Benedictine? I had no clue. As it turns out, it is this latter feature, not the academic, not the Catholic, but the Benedictine, that I view as being the major influence on what makes CSB/SJU special for both the religious and we heathens.
When I arrived in Collegeville to teach, I was hardly a novice to the profession. I had spent some years teaching at a private university and for shorter periods of time, I had taught at two other universities. As I assumed my new position, I was struck immediately by differences among my colleagues and students compared to those from my earlier experiences. The differences lay primarily in attitude and the way we interact with each other. Among departmental colleagues the WE was emphasized far more greatly than the ME. Territorial attitudes over lab space and equipment, very common in the sciences, were nearly non-existent. I was given a key that gave me access to each colleague's office. I was quite dumbfounded by this, but have since realized that the key is more symbolic than it is useful. For the most part, I have neither need nor desire to enter the office of my cell biology or ecology colleagues. The conveyed message is that we are all together working for a common good. The resources we have are here for us all. Lessening the physical barriers, also lowers the barriers to interpersonal relations. Seeking opinions or help from colleagues becomes routine rather than rare. We do this all the time and think nothing of it. This situation is quite different from my pervious experiences.
The way we do things is another feature I initially found frustrating, but I have since learned to value. I am referring to the process by which we make decisions. The system with which I was familiar might best be described as semi-autocratic/semi-democratic. On those occasions when issues were brought before the entire department, they were simply put to a vote. The majority ruled and we proceeded from there. In contrast, what I found at CSB/SJU was a desire to reach a consensus on each and every issue. While this approach is time-consuming, I came to realize that the end result is more satisfying. Decisions arrived at in this manner are made with fuller understanding and a greater commitment of the parties involved.
In my view, both of these features flow directly from Benedictine values. Nurturing and developing community life, respecting all persons, seeking the common good, and listening are characteristics explicitly stated in the Rules of St. Benedict. All this seems so reasonable, yet it is all too rare in the outside world.
Students also made an immediate and significant impression on me. The contrast to those of my earlier experiences lay primarily in attitude rather than aptitude. Many science students are pre-professional and intend to seek admission to a post-graduate program like medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, etc. In general, these programs are quite selective and the application process is competitive. It is not unusual for undergraduates pursuing this professional track to view one another as competitors for the limited number of positions available to them upon graduation. They conduct themselves in ways that serve to enhance their performance relative to that of others. As such, cooperation and assistance among classmates can be rare. This is not the case at CSB/SJU. The spirit of cooperation and general camaraderie among our science students is striking. Again, I suspect that this approach to their academic and professional lives stems from the personality of the college, which has been shaped by the Benedictine influence. I once overheard a student trying to explain to some visitors what it is that makes our colleges special. In giving an example, he said that as you enter or leave a building, if someone does not hold the door for you, that person is most likely not from CSB/SJU. This explanation, I think, describes the respect individuals here have for each other and conveys the general social atmosphere. It is little wonder that one feels so satisfied teaching and learning in this environment.
A great deal of what biologists do is based upon attempts to understand how it is that an organism is well adapted to its mode of life. They examine, over evolutionary time, the various forms through which a given biological lineage transcends. This evolutionary insight helps to understand an organism's place in the ecological community, how it meets its needs, and why its unique set of characters enable it to adapt to the conditions in which it finds itself. Of importance in enabling us to achieve this understanding is knowing the rules of the evolutionary process. The HOW of biological evolution derives from a synthesis of the work of those two luminaries of 19th century biology, Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel. The point I wish to make is that while organisms have changed (evolved) significantly over the millennia, the rules of the process have not. The rules of hereditary transmission and natural selection have served the biological world well, and they work as well today as they did in the distant past. The result is that, except when human activity interferes, biological communities function harmoniously.
The rules that guide our college community were articulated long ago. The key, I believe, to the success of St. Benedict's Rules is that they express tolerance and respect. They enable a Benedictine philosophy to be, in effect, timeless. These values are so basic to what it means to be human that they are as pertinent today as when they were first expressed more than 1500 years ago. Over this time the world has changed from agrarian to industrial to technological, population numbers have increased by orders of magnitude, and personal awareness of the world has greatly expanded. In other words, life as we experience it is profoundly changed from Saint Benedict's day. Yet, his views on how a community should conduct itself are, if anything, more pertinent than ever. They seem to apply well to a college campus.
Biologists also make comparisons among contemporary species. From these they learn the importance of biological diversity and how each species is dependent upon others in order to thrive. They learn that each has a role, and while these differ, each has value to the community as a whole. In an analogous manner, I have consistently found that diversity of opinion and differences in thought are more than tolerated on our campuses. They are welcomed. Granted this atmosphere is what we should expect at an academic institution and, as such, intellectual freedom should go with the territory. However, I am well aware that not all colleges with religious affiliations allow their faculties and students the range of expression we find here. Of course, this is the way it is supposed to be. It is also the way it is.
It is my experience that the Benedictine presence is enhancing rather than confining to the academic spirit. All the criteria that any academic would hold dear are promoted and addressed in these values. Yes, CSB/SJU is a good fit for me. These Rules of St. Benedict provide a sensible blueprint for human behavior and social interaction. They are an articulation of what it is to embrace human values. They promote positive relationships, they allow for individuality yet value the community as a whole, they welcome new ideas yet they respect tradition. As such, I find that they are compatible with both the theist and the atheist.
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Austrian actor Christoph Waltz may have just won an Oscar, but his recent performance on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" is drawing boos from conservative Christians. In an SNL skit, a mock movie trailer, he portrays Jesus as a bloodthirsty killer bent on revenge against Roman soldiers.
The skit, which aired Feb. 16, prompted Mississippi-based American Family Association to urge major retailers – Sears, JCPenney, and Kmart, among others – to pull their ads from NBC in protest of what the group calls "blasphemy." This week, Sears pulled its ads from the online rebroadcast of the original "SNL" show.
"We informed customers that it wasn't supposed to happen, and while going forward we may advertise on the broadcast, we've taken steps to ensure that our commercials do not air online exactly as they did in this situation," Sears said in an e-mail to the Monitor.
Such calls for ad boycotts pop up regularly to punish a media outlet for airing or distributing content deemed offensive – and they come from both the left and the right of the political spectrum. Last year, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh was the target of a such an ad-pulling campaign after he smeared Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke as a "slut" after she testified before Congress in favor of making birth control broadly available through health insurance. Disney, "Dr. Laura" Schlessinger's talk show, Glenn Beck's talk show, Rolling Stone, and a host of others have all been boycott targets.
Such campaigns seldom lead a media outlet to drop a show, nor is there evidence that they cause the content of such shows to become more tempered, say media analysts. What they often do achieve, however, is a spirited discussion about a particular issue or even about free speech rights – at least in America.
This campaign and others "are not so effective in their direct effort," says Robert Thompson, founder of the Bleier Center of Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University in New York. After all, he notes, Rush Limbaugh is still on the air, despite a massive sponsor defection at the time of the campaign. Rather, the role they play "is to become a catalyst for extremely important and ultimately influential cultural conversations about important topics."
For instance, the very act of calling these companies out, says Mr. Thompson, triggers media coverage and dialogues about issues such as First Amendment protections and the line between hate speech and offensive but nonetheless protected free speech. "One of the good things about people exercising their ability to complain and ask for some form of redress as guaranteed by various rights, is that it brings the conversation about those rights to far more people," he says.
While SNL fans and its critics may disagree whether the skit insulted people of faith, the exercise of a high-profile back and forth sends an important message, notes Brett Wilmot, associate director of the Ethics Program at Villanova University in Philadelphia.
"What we see here on behalf of both parties is what we should expect in an environment in which freedom of expression is protected and encouraged," says Professor Wilmot, via e-mail. By contrast, death threats and street violence have erupted on occasions, such as in 2005 in Denmark, when Western media published unflattering depictions of the prophet Muhammad, offending Muslims in Europe and the Middle East.
AFA has not threatened anyone with harm, adds Wilmot: "It hasn't called for the writers or producers to be stoned or otherwise manhandled." It has simply asked advertisers to choose where to spend their resources based on an evaluation of the content of the material that ad dollars were previously supporting, he notes.
An important difference between "some of the scarier examples associated with Islamist responses to blasphemy is precisely that this exchange between the AFA and NBC is taking place completely within the context of 'speech,' " says Wilmot.
A free society is not one that guarantees its citizens freedom from being offended, he continues, "but it is one that encourages us to respond to offenses non-violently through a further exchange of ideas."
Such give and take shows that the First Amendment to be in a healthy state, says communication professor Jeffrey McCall of DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. "Free speech was created and defended by the constitutional Founders to provide a robust, rough and tumble societal dialogue," he says via e-mail. It is useful to remember, however, that in the case of such iconic media outlets as "Saturday Night Live" or Rush Limbaugh, "Rush Limbaugh is still on the air making money even after many attempts over the years to shame his sponsors."
These outlets might lose some sponsors, but others will want to step in, says Professor McCall. "Even if Sears or other advertisers pull out, another corporation will want to reach the viewership that 'SNL' grabs each week."


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For now Anthony Armstrong is the big addition at the Miami Dolphins' most needy position.
Soon ex-Gator Jabar Gaffney could join the fold as well. Or maybe it will be some other castoff looking for a fresh start.
Whatever the case, whatever the name, Brian Hartline knows this much: It won't be easy for the new guy to get up to speed.
Hartline missed the entire Dolphins training camp and preseason, but at least he had the benefit of sitting in meetings and taking mental reps from the sidelines. Plus, Hartline was present from Day 1 of the offseason install of Mike Sherman's offense.
Armstrong and whoever else shows up from here forward? They won't have those advantages.
"It's a huge learning curve," Hartline said. "There might be some situations where a veteran coach knows what to do with that, but as far as I'm concerned, to learn a whole offfense in a week for Game 1, that's not going to happen. Especially with all the signals and how we use the tempo."
Asked if he viewed such an integration as a multiweek process, Hartline nodded and said he "would think so."
Dolphins coach Joe Philbin was more upbeat about the potential challenge when asked about it Friday evening. He talked about bringing former Dolphins tight end Donald Lee into Green Bay five days before the 2005 opener and getting him up to speed to play in Week 1.
"They bring in Donald Lee, and say, 'Joe, go and work him out,' " Philbin recalled, "and they asked me the question ... 'Can you coach him?' So I spent an hour with him on the board, and I said, 'Yeah I think he'll work at it. It might take a little time.' "
Lee wound up making 33 catches for 294 yards and two touchdowns that season, but it took him until Week 4 to make his first reception. It wasn't until Week 7 -- after the Packers' bye week -- that Lee managed more than one reception in a game.
The Dolphins probably can't wait that long for Armstrong to make a significant contribution, but they may have no other choice but to remain patient while he learns a complex offense.


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IUCN Members networked by solar light in the magnificent Elephant House of Copenhagen Zoo at a special event held during the UNFCCC COP 15 in Copenhagen.
The evening, hosted by the Copenhagen Zoo, IUCN National Committee of Denmark and IUCN, was an outstanding success allowing representatives of Member organizations, Commissions, Council and IUCN partners to discuss and debate the latest climate change developments and upcoming International Year of Biodiversity 2010, as well as marvel at the four majestic female elephants: Inda, Surin, Kungrao and Ida, and three-year old calf Gandhi.
The evening started in darkness in respect of Copenhagen Earth Hour, with guests arriving down a torch-light path from the Zoo entrance towards the Elephant House, designed by architect Norman Foster.
Thoughtful inputs were provided by the Zoo's Vice Director Bengt Holst, the Chair of the ICUN National Committee of Denmark Jan Eriksen, and IUCN President Ashok Khosla, who urged his audience to take a holistic approach to combating conservation issues, noting that IUCN had done a great deal to already influence this work, and was capable of much more as "the organization where science and the heart come together".
Up-and-coming musician A J Moore accompanied the evening with a beautifully poignant acoustic performance featuring 'Take It All Away', a song written to raise awareness of climate change and originally inspired by the work of naturalist Sir David Attenborough. Listen to "Take it All Away" online and visit his website.
Members were then treated to a delicious buffet made from local and organic produce by the Zoo's own chef, and could explore the interactive elephant exhibition before making their way back along the snowy paths to their city lodgings, ready for another day of negotiating.
Our warmest thanks to Copenhagen Zoo, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year, to all of the Zoo staff that helped to make the evening so magical, to the IUCN National Committee of Denmark, to the Nordic Committee which met earlier in the day at the Zoo and stayed on to support the event, and to all of the guests for braving the cold temperatures for this IUCN family evening. We look forward to seeing you next time!


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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Whiskey Wednesday: The Buffalo Trace Antique Collection Est Arrivé
Last weekend, the first bottles of the Buffalo Trace Antique Collection (BTAC) started appearing on local shelves. It's always an event when the BTAC arrives each fall, but this year, it's reached a level of frenzy that I've never seen before.
David Driscoll, the spirits buyer at K&L recently wrote on his blog that he was getting a huge volume of calls and emails asking about the Collection, and his three stores get only a case or less of each bottle. (By the way, if you aren't reading David's blog, you should be; he's one of the few retailers who writes really honestly about the whiskey retail world without always trying to sell you something). On StraightBourbon.com, there is a frenzy of activity as people try to find bottles so they can add one of each (or a case of each) to their already massive bourbon bunkers.
The excitement is understandable. The Buffalo Trace Antique Collection includes some of the world's best whiskeys at reasonable prices. George T. Stagg is probably the world's most renowned bourbon. William Larue Weller is less popular than Stagg, but the reputation of this wheater is growing fast. Sazerac 18 and Thomas Handy are undoubtedly two of the best rye whiskeys around, and while Eagle Rare 17 may be the runt of the bunch, it's no slouch either. Even more amazing than the quality of this collection is the price. While some retailers have been known to jack it up into the three figures, they still regularly retail for $70-$85. I don't know that there is a better price/quality ratio in existence.
All that said, the frenzy is getting a bit out of hand. These things are becoming like the newest Xbox on Christmas Eve. I would appeal to all of the American whiskey lovers and collectors out there to, as Jon Stewart would say, take it down a notch.
While the BTAC is an annual release, they tend to be quite consistent from year to year, especially in the last four or five years. Do you really need a bottle of each when you have a closet full of the past releases? Can't we leave some for the newbies?
Even if you decide these are must haves, there are lots of stores that get the BTAC, including both the big chains and some much smaller, off the radar stores. There are always a few bottles that languish on shelves and usually some that pop up mid-year. If you live in Southern California and you are willing to put in a little bit of effort (i.e. drive around a bit), you should be able to find a bottle of each without too much effort.
Me? I picked up a Stagg, but I still have some Weller left from last year, and while I'm out of Sazerac and Handy, I have enough good rye on hand to keep my thirst quenched without buying these up.
So let's all take a deep breath. Remember folks, it's just whiskey, and there will probably be enough for everyone.
Labels: Bourbon, Buffalo Trace, Commentary, Drinks, Rye, Whiskey
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Thanks for the sanity, sku.
- November 18, 2010 at 10:24 AM
Yes, yes, yes. Spread the word Steve. Well written and well said
- November 18, 2010 at 9:41 PM
My feelings exactly. I have hinted at this also on SB but certainly lack the eloquence of how it is stated here. These are great whiskey's but there are others as great and there will be others to come. I expect my 09 Stagg will last me till the 11 is out and have only purchased a WLW. There is a lot of 08 ER 17 still around here and that will probably be my next one.
- November 30, 2010 at 9:27 PM
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Jan. 7, 2006
Florida looks a little bit brighter for the Lipscomb Bisons basketball team.
Saturday afternoon they raised their Atlantic Sun record to 3-2 with a 75-67 victory over Jacksonville at Swisher Gymnasium.
The Bisons scored on their first possession of the game, a 3-point shot by forward Eddie Ard, and never trailed in the first half. The Bisons would lead by as many as nine points on two occasions, heading into their dressing room at intermission with a 38-37 advantage.
Sanderson was concerned with the defensive efforts of the Bisons. Defense has been a key to success all season. The Bisons shot 54.3 percent from the field, but Jacksonville shot 42 percent. The Bisons did held a 34-27 edge on the boards.
""We're trying to outscore people all of a sudden and I don't know why, "said Sanderson. "On the board today I put a couple of things up there and I said focus on playing hard and playing smart but focus on defending and rebounding I mean that's what we do...defend and rebound. If we're going go out there and try to score 90 on somebody, we're going to get beat.
"Before the start of the second half I talked to them for about five minutes and, you know, I walked out of there. If we don't defend and rebound, we don't win games. We held them to eight field goals in the second half and that's what wins basketball games."
Jacksonville struck quickly at the start of the second half, taking a 44-42 lead with 18:36 left to play on a 3-pointer by Marcus Allen.
Lipscomb junior guard Brian Fisk, who scored a career-high 31 points, tied the game with a two-point shot at 44-44 at 17:47. The Bisons then went on a 10-2run to take a 54-46 lead with 12:03 left in the game. His 31-points places him in a tie for ssecond on the school's single-game scoring list in the NCAA era.
"I mean he's coming on," said Sanderson. "Every time he is shooting it right now, I think it is going in. I mean he is playing very, very good.
"He got some big steals for some lay-ups on the other end which obviously helped us a lot and he's playing good and we need to get a couple of other guys playing along with him."
The Bisons earned their first double-figures lead on a lay-up by Fisk at 9:21 for a 59-48 advantage. Jacksonville cut the lead to six 59-53 on a jumper and free throw from Allen.
The biggest lead for the Bisons was 14 points (67-53) with 5:07 remaining. Jacksonville would once again pull close, trailing 67-60 with 2:28 left to play after a pair of free throws by Mario Brown.
Fisk hit one of two free throw attempts with 51 seconds left to give the Bisons a 70-60 lead. They would keep a double-figures advantage until Jacksonville's Antonio Cool hit a 3-pointer with eight seconds to play to trim the Bisons game-winning margin to eight points.
Jacksonville, which has been hampered by injuries and personnel transfers, fell to 1-11, 1-4 in the conference. The Bisons are 7-6 overall.
"Doing what their doing in my opinion is very difficult," said Sanderson. They just continue to battle and continue to battle. Sometimes when you're getting beat you know you have a tendency to give up, and there was no give up in them at all.
"They played extremely hard the whole game, even when we got up 14 late, I never felt comfortable over there."
Ard finished with 16 points and Lusk added 11. Ard and Durant tied for the team lead in rebounding with seven each.
"Mike is solid," said Sanderson. "He played 24 minutes and he had two turnovers, but I don't really remember the turnovers that he had.
"He's just a solid non-mistake guy. He's not going to force anything. The only thing we give up in playing him there is that we give up a little rebounding."
The Bisons used a four-guard lineup starting Trey Williams, Fisk, Ard and freshman Michael Lusk along with center Shaun Durant.
"Offensively, you've got to guard every guy you know," said Sanderson. "I think when Shaun scores with that group, and he didn't score tonight, you know that is going to be a tough group to guard because that's four guys that are very skilled that pass the ball.
"It is something we are going to continue to work with. I kind-of like it myself."
Jacksonville placed four players in double figures. Cool led with 17 followed by Brown with 12, Allen with 11 and Aubrey Conerly with 10. Allen also had a game-high eight rebounds.
The Bisons are back in action Monday night at 6 against North Florida in Jacksonville.


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PrimeraDx to Co-Develop Companion Diagnostics With Quest Diagnostics Inc.
MANSFIELD, Mass., March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- PrimeraDx, Inc., a molecular diagnostics company, today announced it has formed a non-exclusive diagnostics co-development agreement with Quest Diagnostics (NYSE: DGX), the world's leading diagnostics information services company. The intent of the collaboration is to co-develop and commercialize molecular diagnostic products and services with a focus on supporting clinical development of targeted therapeutics for drug developers.
Under the agreement, Quest Diagnostics has rights to use the PrimeraDx ICEPlex Platform to independently develop and use laboratory tests in early-phase biomarker and drug development studies and clinical trials with biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device clients of Quest Diagnostics Clinical Trials, a business of Quest Diagnostics.
PrimeraDx will also have rights to develop and market in vitro diagnostic products, assuming FDA approvals for those targeted therapies. In addition, Quest Diagnostics has rights to validate and offer clinical diagnostic information services, based in part on the assays created during drug development, as aids in making treatment decisions for those drugs that are successfully commercialized and FDA approved for clinical use.
PrimeraDx launched the ICEPlex system in August 2011. The system can simultaneously detect and quantify disparate target types, such as mRNA, miRNA, SNPs, DNA mutations, fusions and DNA methylation. Its ability to characterize complex molecular changes makes it well suited to research and development for diseases, such as cancer, that involve systemic or multiple molecular changes.
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"This collaboration with Quest Diagnostics will enable pharmaceutical and other companies to access the unique capabilities of the PrimeraDx technology in the form of targeted diagnostic services and products," said Matt McManus, MD, PhD., President and CEO of PrimeraDx. "Quest Diagnostics' remarkable strength in clinical diagnostics makes them a superb partner to maximize the value of the ICEPlex system for biomarker, drug and diagnostic development. We look forward to working with them and their clinical trials clients to hasten the discovery and development of drugs and companion diagnostics that can improve outcomes for patients with cancer and other diseases."
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Bring me some. Please.
Whales have returned - surf's up - citrus is in season - nights in the mid 60s... yep, winter is near.
-1* f last night....yep winter
I haven't been able to go ice fishing in years, and and I'm more likely to need shorts than long underwear during deer season nowadays. Global warming sucks.


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Hi !
My teacher asked me to do this ..
write the program that code will write
the following to a file i:10:a:22:Emma
then, add code that will change only 10 to 2000.
the problem is how can I write the code of change 10 to 2000 because they are different bytes ?
this methods may help but I don't know how I use it : (


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|Boater Ensemble Silkstone Barbie doll
by Mattel
It has been a long while since I've paid attention to you. You've done nothing but disappoint me lately: from your defective eye screening to your bad ensemble stitching. How I miss your glamorous ways. Your latest incarnation, Boater Ensemble, has the prettiest facial screening I've seen in the past year or so. Imagine my excitement to once again rekindle that love for you. Alas, Boater's eye make-up is, unsurprisingly, a darn mess on one eye. And that navy blazer has a crappy stitching at the bottom. These defects are really testing my patience, especially since Boater Ensemble is a club doll that cannot be exchanged, based on a brilliant Mattel policy...Not.
But it's not your fault, Barbie. Your designers have tried....Oh lord, have they tried! Your bad quality incarnations is an entirely separate issue. Therefore, I will always love you and continue to hope for future better versions of you. Just don't be surprised if other dolls steal your spotlight more and more. It's not you. It's me....and my preference for better quality dolls.
Your childhood friend and admirer,