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Havelock�s quest for a baseball playoff spot was dealt a blow with a 7-4 loss to Jacksonville in nine innings in a Coastal 3A Conference game Friday at Havelock High.
Havelock�s quest for a baseball playoff spot was dealt a blow with a 7-4 loss to Jacksonville in nine innings in a Coastal 3A Conference game Friday at Havelock High.
With the game tied at 4-4 in the top of the ninth, the Cardinals struck for three runs, With Blake Heatherly scoring the go-ahead run on a wild pitch and Talon Mulnix driving in the other two runs on a single.
Havelock threatened in the bottom of the ninth, loading the bases, but Jacksonville (12-7, 8-4) pitcher David DiCicco worked out of the jam without giving up a run, ending the contest.
The Rams answered each run Jacksonville got in the early innings, as both teams scored single tallies in the first, third and fourth innings.
The Cardinals went on top in the sixth before Havelock tied the contest in the bottom of the seventh inning, forcing extra frames.
Chris Toler took the loss on the hill for the Rams, giving up two runs in 1 1/3 innings. He gave up three hits and walked three, while striking out two.
Josh Little started on the mound for the Rams, giving up three earned runs on six hits, while striking out seven in seven innings.
At the plate for Havelock, Pharoh Cooper hit a home run and doubled as part of a 2-for-5 night, driving in two runs. Little was 2-for-4 with an RBI, and Ryan Lewis was also 2-for-4. Toler went 1-for-3, while Austin Coley had an RBI double as part of his 1-for-4 night. Justice Provencher and Aron Rossi had Havelock�s other hits in the contest.
With the loss, Havelock falls to 9-13 overall and 4-8 in the conference. The Rams face a must-win contest against West Carteret Wednesday, with the game scheduled for 7 p.m. in Morehead City.
Havelock is scheduled to wrap up the regular season against West Craven at 7 p.m. Friday at Havelock High.


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Religious freedom is one of the most difficult and vexing issues of our day—whether the subject is Muslim schoolgirls in France or Christian photographers in New Mexico
And that's before government starts calling just about any sincerely held belief a "religion."
That is essentially what has happened in Britain. In July 2008, Tim Nicholson was let go from his job at a property management firm. According to Nicholson, his dismissal was due to his beliefs about man-made global warming.
Nicholson calls man-made global warming "the most important issue of our time" and believes that "nothing should stand in the way of diverting this catastrophe." This led to "frequent clashes" with his co-workers over his concerns.
For instance, Nicholson, out of concern about excess CO2 emissions, refuses to fly. He objected when the firm's CEO flew someone from London to Ireland to retrieve his Blackberry.
When he was dismissed, Nicholson sued under Britain's Employment Equality act, specifically the part that prohibits discrimination on account of "religion and belief."
According to Nicholson, "Belief in man-made climate change is…a philosophical belief that reflects my moral and ethical values."
For its part, his former employer countered that "green views were political and based on science, as opposed to religious or philosophical in nature."
In what's being called a "landmark ruling," a British judge ruled for Nicholson, saying that "a belief in man-made climate change…is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose" of laws covering discrimination in employment.
The judge's ruling opens the door to the possibility of employees suing their employers "for failing to account for their green lifestyles, such as providing recycling facilities or offering low-carbon travel."
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And what of the faith that actually created and nurtured Britain? (That's Christianity.) Let's just say that British officials aren't as solicitous of its practitioners as they are of those belonging to newer arrivals.
For those of us who say that could never happen here, let me remind you of a Supreme Court case defining religion decades ago as "a sincere and meaningful belief which occupies, in the life of its possessor, a place parallel to that filled by God."
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This is a log (on the web of course...making it a blog) of my practices and meet results. This way, I can track my progress and hopefully entertain others with my tales of slowness!
Downtown YMCA, SCM (shallow) With Lunch-Time Masters
Warm Up
300 free
200 IM drill
Main Set
2 x Through
2 x 100 back on 2:00 (laughable for me - it took me 2:15 to finish the first)
3 x 50 fly (left down/right back) on 1:10 (~1:00)
3 x 50 free on 1:10 (~0:50)
50 easy
2 x Through
2 x 175 fast on 3:15 (~2:45)
2 x 50 breast with 3s glide on 1:15 (~0:55 to 1:00)
100 IM on 2:10 (~2:00)
Cool Down
100 easy
I think our coach may have been sleep deprived when he wrote this workout (his wife had their first baby last night. Anyway, anyone who knows me, knows that backstroke is my achilles heel. I have a terrible kick and my backstroke definitely suffers for it. Oh well. It WILL get better.
I haven't looked at this blog in a LONG time. And even though I got back in the water in January, I'm just now feeling motivated enough to start posting to it again. So, without further adieu:
SCY with Lunch-Time Masters at Jamerson YMCA
Warm Up
300 free
200 IM drill
100 anything
Main Set
2 x through:
5 x 50 fr pull @ 1:00
50 fr build @ 1:45
250 fr - every 4th 25 all out @ 4:45
50 easy
2 x through:
4 x 75 fr fast @ 1:20
2 x 50 fr @ 1:20
2 x 75 fr (25 left/25 right/25 swim)
Cool Down
The first half of the workout went pretty well. The 250s hurt a bit, especially that first 25 after the all-out 25s. Plus, I probably held back just a bit on the all-out part.
The 75s fast started off pretty poorly since I was still tired from the 250s and I finished them in ~ 1:10. The second time around, they felt much better and I finished them in ~ 1:00. The one-armed swims are starting to help my significantly weaker left side. My stroke is starting to feel a bit more balanced.


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Across the Forbes.com platform yesterday Jon Entine, Executive Director of the Genetic Literacy Project, offered an op-ed on concerns regarding the existence of plant virus DNA sequences in transgenic plant food products. Read his article and the comment thread to see the concerns.
My apologies in advance to those not well versed in the technical jargon of plant molecular biology but here's my response to those deeply-engaged in promulgating the concerns about this viral DNA sequence:
My scientific opinion is that real-world impact of any concerns regarding the Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S gene promoter would require a combination of several, low-probability-to-highly-unlikely biological events.
1. The viral DNA would have to survive digestion.
2. The viral DNA would have to be successfully taken up by our cells in the gut, or microbes that live in our gut.
3. The transfer would have to occur in a very high percentage of cells.
4. The 35S promoter would have to be somehow spliced out of the plant DNA and be successfully transferred into an area of human DNA where it might drive a harmful gene.
5. The 35S promoter, while highly-effective in plants, would have to somehow have gene promoter activity in human cells (or gut microbes).
A few scientific reports do show that some of these effects might occur in highly-specialized environments that are designed to make "something" happen.
For example, one 2006 paper (PDF) shows that foreign gene expression driven by the 35S promoter can occur in a special "enterocyte-like" cell line (Caco-2, for those in the biz) if you 1) hammer high amounts of a specially-designed DNA construct 2) coated with a special combination of lipids designed to get the DNA into the cells that is 3) engineered to make the activity of a high-sensitivity enzyme (firefly luciferase) or high-sensitive protein (jellyfish green fluorescent protein) appear.
So, one can make "something" happen if one has a preconceived conclusion and the experiments are designed to produce this change using heroic, non-natural techniques. And that's just one of the five rare-to-impossible factors that would have to occur in combination for there to be any risk of ingesting transgenic plant products containing the 35S gene promoter.
Remember, the viral identity of the 35S promoter in no way affects how the DNA might be transferrable. The 35S promoter does not drive the expression of any genes involved in viral infection of the plants. It merely drives high-level expression of target genes in the transgenic plant.
I'm in no way saying that we shouldn't test GMO, transgenic food plants for long-term safety issues. My first college degree was in toxicology, the science of substances with the potential for adverse effects. So let's do the experiments.
But let's do them under real-world conditions, not in some artificial and heroic system designed to see some small event of questionable human significance.
One last note: We ingest foreign DNA every day: gene promoter DNA sequences from traditionally-bred corn, beans, yeast, lettuce, bacteria, onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes, collard greens, cabbage, (and chicken, beef, pork, lamb, etc. for non-vegetarians) as well as all manner of viruses that can normally affect each of these organisms.
Pass me another plate.
This post originally carried the title, "A Combination of Unusual, Rare-to-Impossible Events Would Be Required for the CaMV 35S DNA Sequence to be a GMO Human Health Risk."


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'Life of Pi' is a visionary masterpiece
His name is Pi.
No, it has nothing to do with 3.1416 and the mathematical ratio of diameters and circumferences, but rather "the most beautiful public pool in Paris," the Piscine Molitor. Unfortunately, his fellow schoolchildren abbreviate the name of Piscine Molitor Patel with the schoolyard word for urination.
As resourceful as he is bright, he renames himself "Pi."
Before Ang Lee's astounding "Life of Pi" is over, he has survived a shipwreck and a long founder in mid-ocean with a perpetually hungry Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
It's tempting to fling words like "miracle" and "awe" around, but let's just settle for "visionary masterpiece" to denote what we see on-screen – something absorbing and extraordinary that you've never seen before or probably imagined, either.
Unless, of course, you have read Yann Martel's massive – as well as massively odd and massively successful – best-seller (7 million copies), also called "Life of Pi." Though we come to understand it as a distinctly post-modern story about storytelling, what we experience in Lee's film is cinematic wonderment in its purest form circa 2012. Future technology will, no doubt, make even more things possible in movies, but, for the moment, you are seeing wild, terrifying, primal things in "Life of Pi" – ravenous big cats at perpetual feeding time, catastrophic ocean storms tossing boats around as if they were specks – with a graphic realism utterly unlike other films.
You've seen shipwrecks in movies before. And scary creatures, too. But "Life of Pi" literally waited a decade to be made for the cinematic technology to be just right.
When you watch the tale unfold, you will have absolutely no idea where the largest water tank ever used in a movie ends and a homicidal storm at sea begins. Nor will you know when you're seeing one of the four real tigers used as Richard Parker and when you're seeing the mind-bending triumph of animatronics and digital animation.
The whole point of cinematic animation and special effects always has been to make anything cinematically possible. Think of George Melies' 1902 "A Trip to the Moon." What's shown hasn't always been credible, of course. Even in something as recent and as stunning as Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park," there is a point where the creatures' menace – or beauty – becomes metaphorical rather than real, i.e. it's a gift the audience bestows on the movie from our childlike desire to be awed and shaken in our seats.
Spielberg always knew that desire is there. He's always known, too, how generous we are in bestowing it.
In "Life of Pi," what comes back at you isn't your own desire. It isn't your own gift that terrifies you but one of the most harrowing storms ever put on film – and the frights of a huge, hungry tiger whose ability to devour those lower on the food chain is total.
All of it is very much a story. The context is very much "once upon a time." But the horror is palpable and immediate.
And that, by the way, brings up a crucial caveat with "Life of Pi." Though the film's magic realism is spectacularly apt for older children and adults, it would be an awfully rough way for littler ones to get a crash course in the ways of nature – that, for instance, if a ship carrying a zoo full of animals is wrecked at sea, there will be a certain order of things if a tiger, a 12-year-old boy, a zebra and a hyena take refuge together on a lifeboat.
We adults know the zebra won't last long. Nor will a hungry hyena with slavering killing laughter of his own forever plastered on his face. It is nature's way on such a boat that the tiger's hunger will win out easily – and bloodily and cruelly, too. It would be a tough experience for littler ones in 3-D, not to mention resulting in complicated car rides home testing all the adult logic and tenderness parents possess.
At the same time, the genuine terrors and thrills of "Life of Pi" are matched by the greatest cinematic adaptation of what literature has long called "magic realism" I've ever seen – courtesy of Ang Lee, production designer David Gropman and cinematographer Claudio Miranda.
Lee, in his quiet way, has long since been known as a great filmmaker. His gifts are as lavish as they are impossible to pigeonhole. Yes, he's comfortable adapting literary sources, but they've been as varied as Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility," the Annie Proulx story that became "Brokeback Mountain" and now "Life of Pi." Nor is he a respecter of physical and natural laws. He likes putting the impossible on-screen (see "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"). It's not much of an exaggeration that he, more than anyone we've got, is the embodiment of what movies are all about in the year 2012.
So his tale here is of Pi, the 12-year-old Indian boy whose family runs a zoo and perishes aboard a Japanese ship while taking the zoo to Canada. Pi and some animals – including Richard Parker – are left to survive as long as possible.
By the time it's over, you have feasted on both the terrors and the wonderments of nature – a whole world of sea and land creatures presented to us as the magic that the world can't help but seem to be.
All are seen through the eyes of a plucky, clever, infinitely resourceful boy who tells us that the Hindu gods "were my superheroes growing up" and who believes "animals have souls. I have seen it in their eyes."
Though there are parts for many other actors here – including the great French actor Gerard Depardieu (and almost Tobey Maguire, who was replaced for being too famous for his role) – the movie depends on the creative splendors of Lee and his remarkable people and the talents of young actor Suraj Sharma as Pi.
The result is, in the most literal and complete sense, wonderful.
The Life of Pi
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Suraj Sharma, Gerard Depardieu, Adil Hussain, Tabu and Rafe Spall in Ang Lee's 3-D adaptation of Yann Martel's best-seller about a boy stuck on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Rated PG for nature's violence, which will probably be upsetting to very young children. Now playing.
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The "noble savage" sometimes is used for fictional groups when I looked into it more so that is why I corrected myself.
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Aoyama and Azubu are fine, which is why I didn't say anything about them. They're pretty soulless and lacking in character too, but no more so than any upper-class haven.
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OK, I totally wondered in my last post episode 21 about whether or not the Akki was truly a fiend since he seemed to be at the beck and call of the queerats. This suggests that he is "tame". But then again, Tomiko's fiend from the hospital wasn't quite the berserker type either. He was still walking, talking, and functional when not in kill mode.
From previous explanations, violence associated with the fiend appears to be indiscriminate (ergo, "Fox in the Henhouse" Syndrome). As in, a fiend can easily turn against his own friends, and family.
I think Saki makes two intriguing points in this episode:
1) Is their Akki really a fiend?
and ...
2) How do you turn a child into an Akki?
Satoru mentions that it happens quite suddenly but there were definitely tell-tale signs with prior fiends.
And finally, I'm going to reiterate my last question about Kiroumaru.
I really wonder at his motivation for siding with the humans. I want to say loyalty but I'm just not sure. A part of me thinks he's driven by revenge for his lost soldiers, or hatred for Yakomaru or because it's convenient but I feel like there's something more there. Maybe something he knows that Saki, and Satoru don't.
Otherwise, just want this series to finally end because the suspense is killing me!!!
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Sorry, one more question to make myself feel better.
I truly believe that Kiroumaru will come through until the end based on how he's acted throughout the series. A sudden about-face in the form of massive betrayal for Kirou would seem out of character.
BUT in this episode ... I didn't understand what was meant by showing Kiroumaru clenching his teeth. I think he had just requested to be made Tokyo squadron leader and said something about how many of his soldiers died in their former expedition but why the grimace? I took that to mean that he was hungry for revenge ... or maybe hiding something that we were only meant to see?
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|2013-03-02, 20:21
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Kiroumaru is a terrific wild card. He's in the perfect position within his own personal arc that he could go either way and stay perfectly in-character. It makes sense for him to be the wise old berserker out to visit revenge upon Squealer. In the end, he would teach humans to respect the bakenezumi, just as Squealer has taught humans to fear them.
On the other hand, it also makes total sense for him to betray them. He's already indicated that his race knows far more about the powers (and limits) of the "gods" than the humans imagined, and all his talk about bakenezumi trying repeatedly to get to Tokyo makes me wonder if they haven't been after that weapon -- one which can wipe out the yoke-wielding telekinetic humans without destroying the land -- for a long time. Now he has three humans to guide him through the otherwise impassable tunnels to reach it.
|2013-03-02, 20:27
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One another note, I agree with the others who think Kiroumaru is secretly aligned with Yakomaru. Inui's tale of how he snuck by the akki, then somehow passed out, couldn't use his Cantus, but then was rescued by Kiroumaru really smacks of a set up. Inui believes he tricked the akki, but he was probably the one being tricked.
|2013-03-02, 20:41
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As I told you, I'm not arguing with you about this, or the other things you listed. You can easily find the answer if you pay attention or just use your head. *shrug*
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Not saying if this is or isn't a lie, though.
(By the way, have the fansubbers translated "aisuru Saki-chan" as "to Saki-chan my love"? hur hur.)
|2013-03-02, 22:39
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|2013-03-02, 22:43
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Hmm, kind of a low-key episode, but it was a big information dump. Like the rest of you, I'm really not sure what to make of Kiroumaru at this point. I feel like how he was being mistreated and put in chains before Saki and Satoru arrived might hint that all those grins/smirks/weird-ass queer-rat facial expressions might indeed be hinting at something sinister brewing in his mind...
Also, we can say for certain now that the 'fiend' isn't actually one, but merely recognizes the humans as 'animals' akin to the way people do to the rats. Can someone clarify to me at the beginning of the episode, didn't Inui say that he got the fiend to stop attacking by saying that he was being hurt in the rats' language? That's how I interpreted that part and if that did stop the attack we pretty much have our confirmation there. I'm guessing the child won't actually end up killed and now something else will come of this search for the weapon. It may end up in the hands of Yakomaru like some of you are speculating, which would be a worst case scenario for the humans.
|2013-03-02, 22:53
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I don't think he'll betray them, but they've set it up so that anything could happen at this point. I can even believe that the main cast could all die to "save the world" at this point.
I like how they've managed to break free of a lot of the usual anime tropes, even if they have overdone some things to emotionally yoyo the audience a little bit (though the maria bit sounds anime-only).
|2013-03-02, 22:56
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Nice episode! Seeing Kiroumaru alive got e tears in my eyes. I really loved his character, as oppose to Yakomaru.
Man, I could say Yakomaru has a mind like Sherlocks that could speculate and predict events like this. Does he knows what Saki's gang is finding?
Man, talk about Anthrax... the choose of bacteria is lame...
|2013-03-03, 06:36
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Wouldn't the biggest twist be that... Kiroumaru is the true mastermind behind everything! The Giant Hornets actually had more advanced military weapons than the others first, so they probably had a false minoshiro before the others. Also, the only way to gain the trust of the humans was to alienate himself from the rest of the queerats; hence, destroying his army was a necessary sacrifice.
As for the suggestion earlier that the fiend (probably not, but we don't have a better name for him right now) cannot kill the queerats, I revisited episode 18. For the discussion of the defeat of the Giant Hornets, the arrows were undamaged and the dead were lumps of flesh. To be lumps of flesh, they either had to have been blown up by a bomb or destroyed with Cantor. However, as mentioned in the episode, a bomb would have damaged the arrows as well. Hence, the only option currently known left is that the fiend killed the Giant Hornets (unless the they took suicide drugs that blew them up from within).
|2013-03-03, 08:11
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man yakomaru better watch himself if ever Kiroumaru ever catcher him without the akki beside him...he's really gonna feel the pain. Kiroumaru certainly showed how competent and badass he is, makes you wonder though, it seems he is a special case (as is yakomaru in a way) I don't think He is out to betray Saki & satoru BTW i do believe he really is so mad with Yokumaru that conniving with him like this would feel out of character for me.but i can be wrong though. Also That "akki" can & do kill Bakenezumi, that's what Yakomaru said his men charged the "akki" weaponless to distract it so he can escape. they were killed by the "akki"
So it seems maria/mamoru's child is not really an akki. i've thought of this before since he doesn't really fit the profile of previous Akki. Previous Akki seems to act for their own selves and not in response to a command and in collusion with a group of other individuals.
|2013-03-03, 08:19
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|2013-03-03, 10:15
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There's some elements of this latest episode that smell fishy to me. And I'm not talking about Kiroumaru's grins (although that is somewhat suggestive given everything else).
Kiroumaru's survival story is a bit hard to swallow. He jumped right by the fiend, and into a ditch, and somehow survived? When everybody else in his tribe were killed?
That seems very uncharacteristically sloppy of Yakomaru to me. To allow an enemy commander to get away like that. Nobody is perfect, of course, but still...
The Psychobuster is designed to wipe out cantus-using humans in general, not just fiends. And it's very contagious. It's not hard to see how this could backfire horribly on Saki, Satoru et al if it's not used wisely...
Consider the following possibility - Yakomaru and Kiroumaru came up with this complex plot for freeing their people from the yoke of humanity. They make sure to make it look like they hate each other - Kiroumaru in particular goes out of his way to look seriously pissed when both he and Yakomaru were questioned by the humans several episodes back.
Kiroumaru and Yakomaru then set up a bunch of semi-fake wars to make it look to the humans that the Queerats are in a massive all-encompassing civil war. Kiroumaru's side is wiped out, but Kiroumaru still has an important role to play, so Yakomaru lets him go.
Kiroumaru helps save a human to make it look like he's still loyal to humans. He backs that up by what he says.
Kiroumaru's job is to have the humans bring him to the one remaining piece of the puzzle for his and Yakomaru's master plan - The Psychobuster.
Who needs fiends when you have a Psychobuster? Fiends are risky, as various commentators have stated on previous episode threads and elsewhere. Some have argued that Yakomaru is overreaching in planning to make an army of fiends to take over the world with. That this will backfire on him. What if Yakomaru himself knows it's too risky? What if he's just making it seem like that's his plan by taking captive all those baby humans? For all we know, he could have had all those human babies killed and disposed of shortly after he kidnapped them. It could have been a pure ruse to make it look like he plans to raise an army of fiends... when Yakomaru's real goal is gaining the Psychobuster.
Yakomaru and Kiroumaru push the humans up against the wall, to the point where the Psychobuster is their last resort, forcing them to turn to it. The humans play right into their ploy, and give Yakomaru a much more reliable WMD than an army of fiends.
And is Maria's child a fiend? They say there's no coincidences in fiction. Red herrings are rare for much the same reason. Saki raising the possibility that the fiend is not really a fiend strikes me as a truly pointless bit of dialogue to bother with unless the author is in fact aiming for red herrings. Which is possible, but I find it somewhat doubtful. This narrative has plenty of good plot twists without needing to use red herrings.
If the fiend isn't a fiend, then perhaps he's simply a cantus-using human that Yakomaru has removed Death Feedback from. Maybe Yakomaru has discovered a way to do that.
And Kiroumaru's a smart guy, but even so, he's rather quick on the uptake and he seems to know a lot of things easily, a bit too easily. The way he helped Saki et al escape from Queerat patrols gave me a strange impression of being a little bit of stagecraft just to make the humans think that nothing fishy is going on here. In other words, Yakomaru puts on a show of just enough resistance and "border patrols" to make it seem like he really doesn't want Saki et al to get away... even though he does want them to.
When I put all of the above together, it really, really looks quite suspicious.
I'm not sure how I feel about it though. On the one hand, it would make Yakomaru and Kiroumaru one of the very best antagonist duos of all-time. Just deliciously brilliant and cunning antagonists if I'm right (or close to right) here. Yakomaru is already an impressive antagonist, but this would truly put him over the top, and Kiroumaru would join him.
On the other hand, I admit I am fond of Kiroumaru's established "noble beast" characterization to date. A queerat that is loyal to humans to the very end is also an interesting notion.
But the good news here is that I could see either approach working well if executed decently. I agree with ThereminVox that the narrative has done a good job of setting things up so that it could believably go either way with Kiroumaru, which adds great suspense going forward.
Overall, an excellent episode. I do find the pacing a bit slow, but that might mostly be due to how the suspense is killing me. This is one climax I can't wait to see.
|2013-03-03, 10:32
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Ok, I watched the episode with my mind already set to the fact that Kiromaru would have played the savior role. We already knew that he sooner or later would have came back in some way or another. So, even thanks to the preview, I was expecting to have him so helpful, knowing things that Humans didn't and what not. So the episode went quite smoothly, very interesting being quite informative, but quite expected in terms of character interactions. I didn't take account Kiromaru's smirking here and there because this series is not really consistent in facial expression regards, I stopped paying attention to that long time ago. But probably it's just me.
The only thing that really felt out of place, letting aside Saki being assigned of this task, was Yakomaru supposed leading the chase. I thought it was really out of character of him. I mean, he never showed up until now, why in the world our coward strategist would follow them into an sort of unknown and very very dangerous place, letting aside the presence of three Pkes and his nemesis, Kiromaru. But I thought that was due to the fact that humans should have had a chance to pay him back sooner or later, narrative-wise, so even if it felt a bit weak I let that slip away.
Then I came here and read the Kiromaru-as-traitor theory and now I can't keep that out of my mind. I mean, to me Kiromaru has always been the loyal warrior, your samurai equivalent, the one who will give his life for his "daimyo", so the eventuality never crossed my mind.
But now, thinking back to the episode, things went really smoothly for them. Kiromaru came back saving Inui, he already knew the place, Tokyo and he can trace down obviously his own species much better than them. The submarine. Nothing else? Dunno, some coffee, tea?
And he kept pressuring them telling they are chased. How did Yakomaru know? Ok he is smart, he is a great strategist and whatever, but he is not omniscient. And then he said that Yakomaru was leading the chase. Everything about the moment they passed queerats check points was based on his words and only. He could say whatever he wanted. A bit scary thinking back
Now, despite I agree taht Kiromaru could betray or stay loyal to them remaining in-character in both cases, surely him betraying them would fit much better the tone and the flow somehow I have been perceiving by the show so far. And even a hell of a twist, because it wouldn't be cheap or not consistent. So, everything could happen. Very interesting.
Thinking about it, the only inconsistency would be that it would contrast with Saki being "the one", giving the fact that she would have been fooled for the nth time by a queerat. So if Kiromaru betrays them that would go against basically Saki's peculiarity, or what I think it is, her sympathy/empathy for the queerats.
|2013-03-03, 11:12
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Okay I've been thinking about this Kiroumaru betrayal thing. First of all despite my feelings I do think it is a real possibility.
However my personal issue is Kiroumaru has shown to be honorable, to be different from Yakomaru. Betrayal and underhanded techniques don't seem to be Kiroumaru's style.
Now I don't think being against the humans in itself is bad. The monster rats even have reason to be against the humans. But if Kiroumaru tricks & betrays Saki and Satoru, it's making it out that the entire story is us vs them. That the humans and monster rats can only be enemies. And in fact it would actually solidify the negative view of monster rats for the humans. It would mean Saki was wrong to trust and stand up for Kiroumaru. I think that is a bit sad.
But then again I think one of the issues with this series is we have only seen this conflict through the human side. We might understand why the monster rats are revolting but the only think we have seen of the monster rats are somewhat negative too. For some reason or another the author never really reflects on the good side of the monster rats (although perhaps that is just my perception since a lot of people seem to side with them) Kiroumaru seems to be an exception to this (Sqounk was another one).
And please note: when I say good side, I don't necessarily mean just good to the humans but even good to each other.
Although I wonder if somehow Kiroumaru could betray and still be honorable. Is that even possible?
|2013-03-03, 14:23
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It's possible that Kiroumaru has his own agenda. On the face of it, he just wants revenge, but assuming he wants more - say, rights and recognition for Queerats - then he may pursue that agenda even if he isn't working with Yakomaru.
The Queerats are in a critical state. If the humans recover, there's a real risk that they would just wipe out all the Queerats. Kiroumaru might be thinking of his species as a whole here, or he might not. If he does care - he's in a good situation with Saki and Satoru. Saki seems to be the humans' new leader, and she doesn't seem inclined to kill him or all the Queerats off. Killing her would be a bad idea, if he wants to keep both their species alive. But that doesn't mean he can't take advantage of the situation with the Psychobuster to try to come to some sort of compromise where everyone can live.
|2013-03-03, 14:43
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My impressions in chronological order of sorts:
Kiroumaru's in for the long haul along with Yakomaru. Common knowledge among his species? Hell yeah sure if you're all working together. This shed entirely new lights on that one incident where one colony loyal to you switched sides to Yakomaru just like that in the battlefield. What a set up lol.
And how convenient is it for the one true nemesis among the bakenezumis for Yakomaru to have escaped the slaughter, no? Not like Yakomaru would have prioritized his mortal enemy or anything. Oh and even more conveniently, this nemesis of the arch-villain happens to rescue the sole survivor of the squad that was sent to exterminate the villains. What a coincidence, seriously. Best part? The "messiah" who seems to have had near omniscient knowledge of humans that were anywhere remotely close to him doesn't kill this one human right in his territory, surrounded and discovered as he was.
Oh hey there's some weapon after all. Damn Minoshiros are freaking kawaii. Don't know what I am supposed to make of those scenes in the background. Guess it's something like undoing some of the hypnosis so that you can at least attack that "fiend"? Not kill, just attack him with this psychobuster, whatever that shit is. A laser gun would be cool but hey it's supposed to be a WMD so something like a neutrino bomb with some uberhax particle that disarms psychic powers maybe? Oh well whatever. Wait what. Tokyo? Guess freaking Japanese cartoons always have to have Tokyo somewhere. All plots lead to Tokyo and such.
Right right, Yakomaru didn't think "that" one through, heh, I bet he did, you're just trying to get the humans' confidence by acting like their compass. Smell your kind my ass. Why couldn't you smell a non-your-kind in the big battlefield uh huh? And heck, talk shit about Yakomaru more to keep the humans convinced of how low you think of him as a creature. Good going brother. Bet Yakomaru's gonna come chasing soon enough though. Just need the humans to know that you are in danger yourself and not infallible with your navigation to show that you actually don't know what's going on in the little bugger's head.
Oh hey. Okay, what's next. Oh right. These humans never learn do they. They are making that machine talk all around you.
Enter description of pyschobuster (initially, I had thought it would be more of a traditional weapon, albeit one that would only kill the psychich portion of the psychics, like some bomb that released some specific particles / microorganisms / chemicals or a ray gun or some shit like that, I didn't consider freaking anthrax because what the hell that shit kills o_o) and I am like oh wow holy shit these Queer Rats are fucking good at this. They even have a contingency plan in place in case the "fiends" go against them. God damn that's next level. Relying on your enemy to figure out the weapon needed.
Everything's going as planned... not for Saki and co. though.
Oh shit what the hell Saki. You are supposed to have mental fortitude and decisiveness that makes you the perfect candidate for the supreme leader vis a vis and you can't walk over that? Screw hell, people do that for a few grands in public TV. Heck people consume those things here and there.
Ouch Satoru. That's gotta hurt lol. Care about yourself and not the girl please. Although this is one case where she's probably raising a valid point. That kid doesn't exactly fit a fiend's description if you ask me.
Meh... this should have been a 1 hour special.
TL;DR: Kiroumaru, I don't trust you. Yakomaru, and whoever else devised this "strategy", you are genius(es). I doubt you guys win though? I don't know.
|2013-03-03, 16:43
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Nineties pop group Steps have made what is likely to be their final stride towards setting a new world record in a supermarket dance-off.
The quintet pulled in a crowd of around 200 people to help them complete their mission to get more than 180,000 people dancing to their 1998 number one hit Tragedy.
Leading the dance-off at Sainsbury's in Crayford, south-east London, Steps added to the 179,850 fans that danced to their famous routinem, which is a cover of the Bee Gees track, during this year's 22-date sell-our arena tour.
The group, which is made up of Lee Latchford-Evans, Claire Richards, Faye Tozer, Lisa Scott-Lee and Ian "H" Watkins, now eagerly await verification from Guinness World Records,.
Claire said: "Supermarkets are filled with guilty pleasures to tempt shoppers, and today we were one of them. Fans and foodies danced their hearts out, topping off what has been a phenomenal and now record breaking tour."
Faye added that dancing for fans in a supermarket was not the strangest experience the group have had.
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On setting a new record, she said: "I think it's really exciting for the people who have come along to join in with us and for us it's just a really great benchmark because we've had such a fantastic year, and a massive thank you to everyone."
The group will play a mini-Christmas tour this year and are releasing a live DVD with footage from their most recent dates on the road.
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A US judge says Lindsay Lohan must undergo frequent therapy sessions now that the actress has successfully completed a court-ordered stint in rehab.
Superior Court Judge James Dabney ordered Lohan to meet with a therapist in person three times a month for the next 18 months.
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My daughter has just now reached the age (she is 5) when people start asking her on play-dates that don't include me. So far, they've only been with other parents who I know very well and for a long time, but I know there is a time in the not-so-distant future when my daughter will want to play at someone's home and I won't know them. Scary!
This is why stories like this one where a dad accidentally put on his own porn instead of the Smurfs movie he had intended to show at a child's birthday party scare me to death.
If I were the parent of one of the kids at the birthday party, I would be livid, and this is a classic example of how hard it is to trust other people with your kids. This is why I have a plan.
My plan is multifaceted. First, I plan to BE the cool hangout pad. Oh yes, I will have all the Tang and cookies my kids could want. I will provide red paper for Valentine's and plenty of candy and fun. My house will be the place to be for kids after school.
My mom was the queen of this herself and I almost never went over to anyone else's house after school because she was so cool and all my friends wanted to be around MY mom. It's a genius plan, really.
My other plan is to really get to know parents of my kid's friends. This past January first, we invited one of my daughter's friends and her whole family up to my family lake house. We did skiing and snowshoeing and ice skating. At night, we put the kids to bed and we got to know the parents.
Now I consider them somewhat good friends of ours and it was really a very simple thing. The fact is, I want my daughter and son to make many, many good friends. But I also want to know the parents. I am never going to be comfortable sending my child over to a stranger's house. That would just not be me.
So I have to bake a lot of cookies, make my house super appealing, and be prepared to make a lot of new friends.
Do you trust other kids' parents?


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Legislation would end cancer agency's bond funding
A state senator filed legislation Tuesday that would end guaranteed funding for the state cancer agency.
Sen. Kevin Eltife, R-Tyler, filed a proposed constitutional amendment to discontinue issuing bonds for cancer research. The amendment would not abolish the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, but would require it to compete for funding.
"I believe this agency will be held much more accountable if they have to compete for general revenue dollars like other agencies rather than operating on borrowed tax revenue," Eltife said. "We cannot continue to put this state further into debt and we must prioritize our spending."
Although he was not a supporter of the constitutional amendment that created the cancer agency, passed by voters in 2007, Eltife said he was not prompted to take legislative action until reports of improper grant-giving by the agency emerged in recent months.
The cancer agency, backed by $3 billion in taxpayer bonds, has spent about $800 million of its available funds on cancer research and prevention.
It has come under intense scrutiny after reports in the Houston Chronicle that an $18 million grant to the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center was influenced by a wealthy biotechnology investor, and wider reports of an $11 million grant to Peloton Therapuetics that underwent no review at all.
Legislators also have expressed concern about the potential shift from funding cancer research to more commercialization activities, a move that has been endorsed by Gov. Rick Perry.
Earlier this year House and Senate budget writers sent a message to the cancer agency by providing no funding during the next two years in initial budget drafts. However it's expected that the funding will be restored if a state audit finds the cancer agency is doing its best to fix its problems.
Wayne Roberts, CPRIT interim executive director, said in a statement that the agency would work with Eltife and other legislators "to fund and operate CPRIT however they deem appropriate."
"The legislative process is just beginning. The bills we've seen, including the proposed budgets, reflect the Legislature's concern and its need for assurance that this agency has firm controls in place so that state money is used as intended," the statement said.
A sponsor of the legislation that created the cancer agency, Jim Keffer, R-Eastland, said he hoped Eltife's bill did not garner widespread support.
"The people I have talked with want to see things fixed," he said. "We've got a lot of work to do, a lot to prove up. But I think that except for Senator Eltife, I get the sense that everybody wants to see it succeed, but to make sure the checks and balances are there to ensure we won't ever have to go through this again."
Keffer said he believed several investigations, including an inquiry by the Travis County District Attorney's Office and a state audit due at the end of this month, would not find criminal activity or evidence of systematic fraud.
A spokesman for the cancer agency's chairman, James Mansour, said Tuesday the agency has been cleared in the criminal inquiry.
"Mr. Mansour met with the Travis County DA's office last week and was assured that CPRIT, as an organization, and all current board members, are free from suspicion in the ongoing CPRIT investigation," the spokesman, Bill Miller, said. "Mr. Mansour is pleased that this cloud has lifted. Mr. Mansour reiterated that CPRIT will continue to work closely with investigators and the Legislature to bring this to a close."
Representatives of the district attorney's office could not be reached late Tuesday.


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Luke told ear story
Most movie reviews have a twofold purpose (aside from providing some people with a job): to alert a reader to avoid the movie if the reviewer praises it and to encourage a reader to see it if the reviewer pans it. However, one does expect a reviewer to know the facts ["Excruciating: The Gospel According to Mel," February 26, 2004].
Warren may be correct in presuming embellishment regarding children attacking Judas and the thief getting his eyes plucked out, but Jesus restoring the man's ear after it gets chopped off by Peter is straight out of Luke 22:51. And none of the gospels identify the chopper-offer as Peter except John's. (And why was an apostle carrying a sword anyway? Another question for the ages.)
Readers may wish to recall similar brouhahas over Life of Brian and The Last Temptation of Christ, both of which were embraced by the young, hip, break-with-tradition crowd and denounced by their opposite. Now it seems those positions have been reversed, presumably because this movie neither mocks tradition nor dwells on the sexuality of Jesus.
Since I haven't yet seen The Passion, I can't judge whether it's on an artistic par with the other two. But I do think, from perusing some of the verbiage being wasted on this film, that only three writers have had anything intelligent to say about it: Kenneth Woodward's op-ed in the New York Times (2/25/04) predicting that it is Christians who will be most shocked by it ("Do You Recognize This Jesus?"); Rabbi Daniel Lapin's 2/12/04 on-line piece in "Toward Tradition" contemplating the folly of Jews reeducating Christians about Christian theology ("Why Mel Owes The Jews"); and Gary Leupp's two-part (2/23/04 and 8/30/03) disquisition in Counterpunch arguing a whole caboodle of stuff rather well.
One of the nicer things about getting old is learning how to truly appreciate Whitmanesque contradictions instead of just thinking how rad it was during my youth. It don't care if a reviewer chooses to be flip, but please don't assume your readers are stupid.
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The idea that there is a perfect match out there for everyone seems to be nonsense to me. Where is the evidence for this? And even if it were true that doesn't necessarily mean you will find that person. Maybe they are on the other side of the world, maybe they haven't been born yet or maybe they are dead - who knows. In the end we can settle for and love a person, but it's often far from a perfect soulmate.
And another thing -- when somone says "you will definitely meet someone eventually" or "there is someone out there for everyone." How do they know this? Are they psychic? The bottom line is this: maybe you won't meet your match - ever! This is a very real possibility, it may seem depressing but it is true, and I'd take a cold reality over a comforting delusion anyday.
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Dear sir. My grandmother is a godless liberal. She loves the woods. She is 73.
I would not hesitate one moment to consider someone "bald, short, ugly, godless, liberal," when he is in my own age group and willing to negotiate his hygiene and a fair deal of giving and receiving by a tit-for-tat strategy. In fact, my mindmate to be found is godless and liberal. Not being taller than myself of 5"4 would be very welcome. Why climb a ladder to look into someone's eyes?
Can't speak for everyone but this is a topic my sister and I have a lot. She has religiously romanticized love so much that she argues that GOD made her one true soul mate in the world.
I find this notion of a one true love/soul mate that God made just for you ridiculous. It has nothing to do with being fated and everything to do with compatibility. More often than not I've asked her, "If GOD made the one just for you than wouldn't he make it not only obvious that that person was your one when you first meet but that he would bring you together sooner rather then later or not at all." Seems stupid and a waste of supreme almighty power when he could be out curing cancer not a persons love life.
If a person considers that every time they claim someone is their soul mate when they date them then how many time do you have to keep repeating it to disprove it. It seems the unspoken answer is, "OH that last one wasn't my soul mate but this next one is for sure". This reasoning is just stupid to me.
The soulmate concept is just another manifestation of human desire for permanence. Nothing in this universe lasts for ever. I had probably 20 out of 26 years of marriage that she was my equivalent of a soulmate. It faded, now I have a new soulmate. Instead of measuring relationships on longevity I measure then on intensity. You only get one life, the secret is to jump in head first, seize the moment, and allow someone to be your soulmate.Works for me anyway!
While I do not believe there such thing as 'soul mates' (or a soul, for that matter), I think that the real question is why the idea of soul mates is propped up as some romantic ideal. Think about it. The soul mate premise is that a god selected a match for every single person. Basically, this is your match, you have no choice, you're destined to be a match no matter what, take it or leave it. Okay, so you are a good fit (or that's the premise at least). But isn't reality more romantic. The fact that if you love someone with all your heart, that you had to overcome the overwhelming odds that us two would happen to meet and begin a courtship that we both find mutual pleasure and fulfilling emotion from. When you look at how many people there are and how different everyone is, isn't the perseverance toward that statistically unlikely joy much more romantic. Soul mates have to meet, but me and my wife didn't have to but did anyway. To me, that feels much more special.
Heh... not looking for "prince charming" just looking for a good friend with whom I have sexual chemistry.
If you're out there looking for your "perfect fit" you aren't going to find it. What is most important for a lasting relationship (from what I've heard - never been in one that lasted long) is chemistry, SOME common interests, and mutual respect.
That's all I'm looking for.
I feel the same way. Love doesn't need to be tied to a marriage or fit some pre-destined, fairy-tale narrative to be true.
I've never believed in soulmates or love--I'll go with Tim Minchin's song on this--
There's a great variety of people I could probably date, marry, whatever--but there's not that ONE PERFECT PERSON out there. That's something that religion likes to propagate so they can tell you that sex is only for that person, etc, etc. WRONG. There is no perfect true love, there is no one person just for you--there is an amount of people that I could date and be happy with--and the fact that I haven't found anyone yet doesn't mean that there isn't someone out there--it just means I haven't looked in the right spot yet!
Once I move to a city my odds will be better, but that's really all it is--odds, finding a guy who will say yes when I ask him out, rather than no. It's the same with guys who are looking to date--you've got to keep asking to find someone--but there's not 'one someone' there's all likelihood that you'll find several people in your lifetime that you feel close to.
Also this "true love" concept--whut? I think it's a really convenient word to bundle up something that is much more useful and real than 'love' ever will be--caring, trust, history, comfort, ease of conversation--literally this is what 'love' encompasses--at least love that lasts--short term 'love' consists more of interest in another--excitement about the future relationship, sexual feelings, etc--that's the 'love' that I see more often.
Do keep in mind that christianity has infiltrated many parts of life--including how we view relationships--the idea of a soul mate or true love is an easy way to force people to limit their sexual relationships or attraction to others. Ironically, some of the happiest couples I've met are basically a long-term friendship where they happen to get nude and have sex on a regular basis.
Atheists are just people who don't believe in God,
I think it's time for some Minchin...
There's also this video:
It's a brilliant follow-up.


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Patrick Allen is a fanatical Kansas City Chiefs fan.
The Brooklyn, N.Y. resident has been hooked since Joe Montana signed in 1993. He is the senior editor for a Chiefs blog, Arrowhead Addict. He helped turn a Manhattan bar, The Village Pourhouse, into a Chiefs bar.
Not exactly the type of person the Chargers would actively want at a home game — at least, he thought.
Then, the email came.
Last week, a Chargers ticket sales representative invited Allen to "come down" to Qualcomm Stadium on Nov. 1 when the team hosts the Chiefs. He can bring a whole group of Arrowhead Addict friends over — at least 14 others — and see savings of up to $10 a ticket.
Yes. The Chargers sought out rival fans to come to their stadium.
It wasn't by design, the team insists, calling the email "disappointing" and a point of emphasis during a Monday staff meeting.
For Allen, it was material.
He quickly wrote up a blog entry last Thursday under a rather pointed headline: Chargers So Desperate For Ticket Sales They're Inviting Chiefs Fans To Home Games. By Friday, the incident had gone viral on the Internet, picked up by the likes of Deadspin, ProFootballTalk, and Yahoo!.
"When I saw that email, I thought, 'Wow. This is kind of hilarious. I'll have a little fun with them on this,'" Allen said. "It kind of just steamrolled from there."
On Friday, it was A.G. Spanos' turn to get an email. He didn't find it funny, reading a story about the Chargers targeting rival fans for group tickets.
Online, many Chargers fans gave a scathing response, filling up comment sections with words like "pathetic" and "weak."
"I totally understand that reaction," said Spanos, the team's executive vice president and chief executive officer. "It's disappointing because we've been so aggressive this year with trying to sell to new Chargers fans. We hired 18 new people. We're launching a season-ticket holder referral program, where season-ticket holders are going to be able to get rewards if they refer a new Chargers season-ticket holder customer.
"We've been very aggressive. We're trying our best to pack the stadium with Chargers fans. This article, it hurt."
After Allen received the personalized email from the Chargers, different theories surfaced as to why.
Maybe Allen is registered to their official fan forum. (He's not.)
Maybe Allen is part of other Chargers mailing lists. (Nope.)
Maybe this is part of a new Chargers initiative, a way to stop blackouts, of which there have been six the past two seasons, including a pair last year. (No.)
"This was an overeager sales rep, I would say, who was selling groups," Spanos said. "He acted on his own without checking with his manager. We have sold to visiting fan groups in the past. We don't proactively solicit them for new business. That's not a standard practice of the Chargers.
"I was disappointed the story made headlines. It paints the organization in a poor light, and that's not how we operate. Our goal is to maximize our home-field advantage. But I'm grateful to clarify our policies with our sales reps. … That's not a policy of ours, to go out and seek business from visiting teams' sites."
Asked if the sales rep who sent the email still works with the team, a Chargers spokesman said the team "will not comment on any disciplinary action."
As for Allen, he's letting bygones be bygones.
He thought the email was amusing more than anything, he said, a chance to poke Chargers fans in a sore spot, given their recent blackouts.
And in case there was ever a doubt, he doesn't plan to take the Chargers up on that email offer.
"I'm getting married Nov. 11," Allen said. "I'll be a little busy. I don't know if I'll have time to make a road trip out for the game. But I'll certainly be watching. I hope to see a lot of red in the stadium that day. That'd be fun."


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Finish up my Hybrid APP for Movie Streaming Service -- 2
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I need someone to create a New Hybrid App to run on Android and Apple Devices. Or you can finish my Hybrid APP that is 50% done.
I own a Movie/TV Streaming Site. So i need to bring it to the Mobile Platform with a Hybrid APP. You must start ASAP and Finish in a reasonable time frame. Must have Full Stack Developer Experience with Apps. You can use Angular, React Native, Ionic, Phone Gap or Any other Good Stack and Code.
My actual web site uses React / Redux on Front End. On Backend Node / Express / Mongo / MySQL.
The idea is the have a UI with Sliders in the APP and categories. Then a streamer to grab the TV Channels and Videos from my Database in the Video Streamer Player in the Mobile Hybrid App. The APP must run fast and be able to have search function. Menu with categories. Sliders. Video Stream Player. Everything can be Server Side Ran in APP.


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Colin White scored at 1:34 of overtime and the Ottawa Senators snapped an eight-game losing streak by rallying for a 2-1 victory over the reeling Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday night.
The Brewers just snagged the best catcher on the free agent market. One of the better stories from the 2018 season was the emergence of the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers were aggressive in their attempts to become competitive in the NL Centrals wit
The former No. 2 overall pick will see if he can get his career back on track with the club that drafted him. The Mariners are bringing back 2009 No. 2 overall pick Dustin Ackley on a minor-league deal, as Roster Resource's Jon Becker first reported
Texas takes a chance on adding injury-riddled veteran to its rotation for 2019. The Rangers have signed right-handed pitcher Shelby Miller to a one-year, $2 million contract, according to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic and Mark Feinsand of MLB.com.
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