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WordWorld "Runaway O/Happy Birthday, Dog!" Runaway O - When Sheep and Bear open Cat's box of Os, one rolls away, sending them on a madcap chase to catch it before Cat wakes up. Happy Birthday, Dog! - It's Dog's birthday and all his friends are planning a surprise party. There's just one problem - they need a cake! Frog must get to the party safely without Dog finding out. D
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Caillou "New Places and New Things!" Caillou and family go on a trip on Helen's boat, an old friend of Mom's. Caillou is surprised to find there's a whole house packed into the boat. Caillou learns about wind and sails, and even gets to steer the boat too! When Mom and Dad are getting ready to go out to a restaurant, Caillou doesn't understand why he can't go too! He's disappointed until Julie the babysitter suggests they make their own restaurant, complete with menus! When Caillou accidentally breaks one of his toys because his room is a mess, Mom suggests a way to make cleaning up fun: with colourful stickers and a chart. D
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Barney & Friends "Sweeter Than Candy: Greece" Barney, Baby Bop and BJ are helping the park kids get ready for a school play. When Barney tells everyone that putting on shows began in Greece, they want to go visit! While there, they meet some friends and decide to put on a play in an amphitheatre. Barney knows a great story that originated in Greece called "King Midas. D
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Thomas & Friends "Giving and Sharing" When Victor has to be away from the Sodor Steam Works, Thomas is asked to take over for the day. Victor tries to tell Thomas how to run the Sodor Steam Works, but Thomas doesn't listen. He just wants to get started with his very special job. D
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Curious George "George and Marco Sound It Out/A Monkey's Duckling" George and Marco Sound It Out - Nothing can stop George from listening to his favorite band, Lobos de Plata, a Latin band that plays in Endless Park. So when the bandstand is taken down, George goes on a mission with his friend and band-member, 8 year-old Marco, to find a perfect place for the band to play. After a day of checking the acoustics at Pisghetti's, the zoo, and George's lobby, their last hope is the museum. D
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Martha Speaks "Skits under the Weather/Martha the Weather Dog" Skits under the Weather - Martha and Skits hate the sound of thunder. One day Skits gets fed up and tries to outrun the storm, but soon discovers that all roads somehow lead back home. Martha the Weather Dog - Windy McCloud, Wagstaff City's meteorologist, wants Martha to be her weather dog.G
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The Electric Company "The Great Compromise" The Electric Company and the Pranksters have to work together to preserve their ability to use their special powers in the neighborhood. D
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WordGirl "The Two-Brains Boogie/Field Day Fun with Robo-Tobey" The Two Brains Boogie - Dr. Two Brains is at it again-this time he's threatening to turn all the town's buildings into cheese. When he traps WordGirl outside the city limits she has to figure out how to stop his cheesy plan and get to the Boogie Oogie Oogie dance contest on time! Vocabulary Words: Shimmy, Indestructible. Field Day Fund with Robo-Tobey - Becky's really excited about the big field day competition at school. D
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Wild Kratts "Caracal-Minton" The Wild Kratts crew is are playing badminton on the African savannah when a high jumping wildcat called a caracal steals the birdie. And this is no ordinary birdie - it is Aviva's precious family heirloom. As they rush to get back the treasure from an elusive, leaping Caracal cat, they learn how the caracal's musculature is specifically designed stalking and leaping- a perfect example of the concept of "form for function. D
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Cyberchase "Of All The Luck" The kids go to Hacker's hideout and use logic to free the Ten Lucky Charms that he has collected.G
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Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman "Who Wants to Trade for Some Old Tracks?" Someone has just stolen Ruff's garden gnome and he's determined to get it back! In fact, he's so obsessed that he hasn't bathed in several days and is covered in flies-prompting Charlene to send him some fly swatters. Ruff sends Emmie and Marco to the Amherst College Museum of Natural History to analyze the footprints left behind by the perpetrator who stole the garden gnome; while Rubye and Shreya try to barter the flyswatters for something better that Ruff can give to Charlene. D
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Nightly Business Report Shares of Apple get bruised in after-hours trading following good, but not great quarterly results. NBR's Tom Hudson speaks with Morningstar Analyst Brian Colello. From the debt ceiling debate in Washington to Europe's ongoing struggles. D
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Life On Fire "Phoenix Temple" Nicaragua, in the middle of Central America, is home to Masaya, a huge volcano that has been active for more than 30,000 years. It has caused some of the largest eruptions known. Each time the volcano destroys everything around it, life returns, re-emerging in the ash at the foot of the mountain.G
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Hustle A hard-nosed high-powered businesswoman seeks revenge on her now ex-husband. Meanwhile the team targets her for a scam to raise cash to help care for Ash's brain-damaged ex-wife. Mickey spins a line to Katherine who spins a line back to Mickey.G
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Curt Smith struggled to keep his singing voice distinct and his throat clear during his performance at the Whitefire Theater in Sherman Oaks Thursday night, at one point resorting to several shots of throat spray to soothe his vocal chords.
Fortunately for the audience and for Smith, he didn't have to sing loud. The Whitefire only has 84 seats.
To say the show was intimate is a massive understatement. It's more like having lunch with Jack Nicholson or sitting next to Magic Johnson on a plane.
It's a bit like having U2 playing in your living room.
Perhaps sensing the extraordinary venue and unforgettable circumstances, the room was respectful, absorbed and dead silent from the moment the band took the stage.
It doesn't seem that long ago that the English pop rock band Tears for Fears were producing multi-platinum-selling records and packing stadiums world-wide.
But as we all know, nothing lasts forever and the band's co-founders Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith parted ways in 1989.
Orzabal continued to record and tour through the 1990s using the Tears For Fears name and although the duo reunited and released a record of new material in 2004, the level of success TFF achieved in the 80s wouldn't be reached again.
Smith moved to New York in 1991 and later to Los Angeles where he now lives in the San Fernando Valley.
Since moving to the Valley Smith has played residency shows at the Cactus Lounge at The Standard Hollywood in West Hollywood and is now nearly halfway through a six-show engagement at the Whitefire.
The show, dubbed "An Evening of Music and Sarcasm" draws mainly from Smith's solo records and includes a sprinkling of TFF favorites, a couple of covers and, plenty of sarcasm.
Between songs Smith jokes, tells stories banters about songwriting and talks about the meaning of the lyrics most of which come from his life experiences, his parents, his childhood and his friends.
The show's first set opened with Smith playing a solo, acoustic version of "Drive," the much-covered Cars hit from, surprise, 1984. That was followed by several songs from Smith's solo work including his album "Halfway Pleased" and "Mayfield."
The second set included more Smith solo songs, a sweet cover of Coldplay's "Yellow" and ended with a soft, melodic version of "Mad World" from TFF's first album.
The band consisted of longtime collaborator Charlton Pettus on guitar, sequencers and various MacBook Pro applications, Doug Petty on keyboards and squeezebox and Jamie Wollam who played a cajon, a kind of box drum, thing.
The acoustics at the Whitefire, typically used for live theater, are surprisingly good and the sound coming from the stage was clean and authentic.
Smith will play four more nights at the Whitefire including Thursday, April 28 and Wednesday May 18, 25 and June 1, all at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 general admission and are available online only at eventbrite.com/.

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Recently, the hotel health club industry has been getting a lot of mainstream press. Some hotels have developed fitness equipment standards, some have formed strategic relationships with various manufacturers and others now have associations with health club chains (And for the record, I wouldn't be surprised if one of the larger hotel players doesn't buy a health club brand in the near future). Many hotels now offer personal trainers and in-room exercise options. The problem they face — or better put, where they fail most of the time — is with the follow through. The follow through boils down to changing the mindset of the hotel staff and the hotel management. Even if you change out your equipment and build nicer looking facilities, you can't go anywhere if your management is still focusing on the "heads in the beds." Far too often, once a hotel fitness facility is built, the management forgets about the fitness opportunities. After all, they wonder, what business are we in — restaurants, health clubs, spas, bars, entertainment, or are we in an industry evolving into a lifestyle industry or the leisure industry?
Just recently, I visited a fitness facility at one major hotel chain that had rolled out a branded product. While the gym was relatively small, it had all the equipment to get a full body workout — and, by the looks of it, probably some sort of rare disease as well. The place looked like it hadn't been cleaned since they installed the equipment. Okay, I might be exaggerating a bit; they had done some surface cleaning, but they had not moved anything when they dusted. The weight rack had so much dust on it that I could have written my name on it. Despite the dust, I decided to give the cardio equipment a try. Once I elevated the treadmill, I saw so much dust and dirt underneath it that I thought they were growing vegetables under there (keeping with the health theme). And one glance up at the ceiling air returns showed a similar state of affairs. They had such an accumulation of dust that it was difficult to even discern their original color.
The first treadmill I tried was inoperable. So what did I do? I went to the next one. Did I tell anyone? No. The facility was not staffed and I did an express checkout. So how long do you think the piece of equipment remained out of order? Was housekeeping (who obviously never moved it) going to test each piece of equipment? Probably not. Honestly, if I'm not going to take the time to inform the staff about the lackluster (and mostly broken) facility, then do you really expect your clients to? Just like me, they don't have the time, and it's just not convenient for them to do so.
The problem often is staffing. If the hotel staffs the facility, it becomes a cost center, and how does the hotel go about offsetting the cost? Some hotels decide to sell memberships to bring in added revenue. However, selling memberships requires more staff and could possibly make the facility crowded — especially during prime times — thereby turning off the hotel guests for whom the facility was originally built. Equipment would also get more use requiring more servicing and more frequent replacement (which translates into more money output).
Some hotels are convinced that their guests want to work out in their room. However, in the time that it takes for the guest to call to request a bike or a workout kit, wait for someone to find it in storage and deliver it to their room, they could have already been in the gym with half of their workout completed. The workout kit that many hotels offer typically is some form of dyna band (a stretch band with handles) with instructions. One cruise ship company used to offer these bands, but it stopped because of the large number of lawsuits that occurred after the bands slipped and hit people in the face and other sensitive areas. The cruise line also had problems with children using them as slingshots and hitting each other with them.
As far as partnerships with health clubs go, Hilton recently developed a strategic relationship with Bally Total Fitness. But I wonder, did Hilton check with the Better Business Bureau to see how many complaints have been filed against this club chain? Did Hilton search the Web to find out how many sites are dedicated to bad-mouthing this chain? Does Hilton really want to be associated with a reputation like that?
There are ways to address the issues discussed above, but for the most part, hotels have not figured them out yet. However, hotels must begin by re-evaluating their goals. Only after doing this can they decide what role the health club will play within their overall package and their marketing campaign.
Glenn Colarossi is the president of Colarossi Spa & Health Club Consulting & Management. He has worked on projects throughout the world for five-star clients. He can be reached at 203-357-7555 or www.healthclubandspa.com.


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Arcus, of course, if our species were naturally regulated by resources, that would be true, but we aren't. We are able to MODIFY our carrying capacity through engineering. Therefore carrying capacity is not a useful tool when discussing Homo sapiens. The next available tool is our destruction of everything around us. By the time we die, I'm assuming you're within a 10y age of myself, most large animals we take for granted will have disappeared from the planet. This human cause mass extinction is unprecedented in earth's history.
Carrying capacity is equally valid for humans as any other species. We do indeed have the tools required to adapt the carrying capacity, but we have always had it, and it is exactly what has made us successful as a species. We are a highly adaptable species, but then again, there are other species which share this trait. The point is that we have always struggled with limited resources, but the resources we require have changed. 100 years ago we were running out of wood, today we are running out of oil, and in 100 years we'll be running out of something else.
While I haven't lived too long, I have learned that predictions about the future almost inevitably fails. I recall that prediction from a science mag circa 1990, which predicted extinction within a generation. That would be around 2020, and I believe it was next to the expected flying car and cure for cancer in the same time frame...
Carrying capacity is equally valid for humans as any other species. We do indeed have the tools required to adapt the carrying capacity, but we have always had it, and it is exactly what has made us successful as a species.
And isn't it true that, in many cases if not all, what makes it successful tends to be its downfall? The predator is so successful it runs out of prey, the herbivore strips the land of foliage, etc.
Also, I think I can fairly safely predict that when we run out of oil, we're screwed, unless we find a way to make synthetic petroleum in almost unimaginable quantities without squandering some other resource.
To say carrying capacity is the only tool to measure human overpopulation is missing the point. We must use a different tool, other wise it becomes a circular argument, if looking strictly at CC, threshold of overpopulation simply follows along. It's not helpful to this debate. We are not overpopulated because we've exceeded our CC, we're overpopulated because of the downfall of the rest of the ecosystem, as well as the downfall of our quality of life.
If you insist on looking only at CC, then we will never be overpopulated, which is the religion economists follow, because they don't understand about the biosphere balance.
To stay with the abortion topic, sure, if there were only 1000 Homo sapiens on the planet, I might disagree with abortion, but that's a very different situation.
@Unseen: A species successful in its niche tends to thrive, not be eliminated. When a species becomes unsuccessful it evolves or dies out. Oil is used because it's cheap and convenient, but that doesn't mean there isn't a substantial number of complimentary sources of energy. In a longer term I would hedge my bets on algae and CCS technology.
@T A A: Which means that you are arguing for humans having a special place in nature and isn't governed by the same laws which apply to other species a point which I disagree on. Carrying capacity can be easily defined but is virtually impossible to measure, and it tends to be an ex-post observation after a population crash. To say that humans are causing the downfall of the entire ecosystem is hyperbolic at best. While we have certainly had a major impact on the ~7.5% of the Earths surface we currently utilize is undeniable, that still leaves 92.5%% which has been left largely alone. Seeing as more humans than ever is enjoying the highest quality of life ever in history, the evidence is against you. I wasn't aware economists were following a religion - I must have missed that part - and I do believe my previous professor had some knowledge on the subject, seeing as he wrote the book on it.
It seems as if you guys are utilizing religious concepts of original sin and armageddon, seeing as everything touched by humans seems to be inherently flawed and that we are causing downfall/doom/destruction on the planet.
@Unseen: A species successful in its niche tends to thrive, not be eliminated. When a species becomes unsuccessful it evolves or dies out. Oil is used because it's cheap and convenient, but that doesn't mean there isn't a substantial number of complimentary sources of energy. In a longer term I would hedge my bets on algae and CCS technology.
It appears that every species eventually becomes unsuccessful.
It's hard to imagine algae producing enough energy to power the world. The idea that algae will replace petroleum as a base for plastic seems even more remote. Try to imagine life without plastics.
@Unseen: Species either evolve successfully or die out. One could say that from the evidence that almost all species eventually die out, but that doesn't mean that no species survive. And this would be on extremely long time scales in which talking about individual species such as humans make little sense. The longer the time frame, the higher up in the taxonomic rank you'll have to move.
It's not really that hard to imagine and Synthetic Genomics is working hard on it. Venter believes that it will be possible for large scale production from algal biofuels by the end of the decade, and I find his opinion to be relevant to the subject. I have high hopes that genetic engineering will solve many of our current problems, and in the process probably create new ones.
@Arcus, I would never hire you to manage a bioregion, you have too narrow a view and do not understand the fundamentals of population ecology. You cannot use a moving goal-post as a baseline for any measurement, it makes little to no sense. Humans are the ONLY animals to achieve global destruction, we are NOT like other species, but this will be my last reply on this, for you are the same as economists, you will use only words that favour economic and human growth, you ARE of that religion, it is a utopia. Good day sir, I'll go back to the abortion portion of this debate.
TAA, Everyone talks about overpopulation, but the only ones who seem to do anything about it tend to be horrible psychotic dictators. I cannot seem to find the research now, but as I understand it, the biomass of the dinosaurs were far more than we humans occupy now. (Wish I could find it, but sorry)
What would you say the tipping point was 50 years ago? (Maybe its me--I was born right around then)
The charts reference UN figures regarding birth for 200 countries since 1962. The charts reveal 2 things to me
But the topic of the discussion is abortion, and abortion is a mechanism by which these changes can happen. What I appreciate, is that other tools are reducing the need for abortions. Prosperity is a pretty good tool in that respect. So is condom use and access.
You seem to be talking about the Malthusian concept of overpopulation. Not enough land to support a given population well. Today's world isn't overpopulated if you figure person per area of land. What are overpopulated are urban areas. Too densely populated for healthy living.
The world isn't overpopulated in the Malthusian sense. Take Brazil for example. Millions and millions of square miles with hardly any population. Even the United States isn't overpopulated or even near being overpopulated.
But today the real concern of overpopulation has more to do with pollution, climate change, overfishing the oceans, and so on.
Any comments on that?
My take on:
Pollution--Technology and recognition by governments that energy reduction is cost reduction is going to dramatically change our world in short order. The U.S. Navy is well on its way to being carbon neutral.
My concern these days regards populous developing countries drawing resources so fast that "dirty" methods of manufacture become profitable again. This is China's problem with coal right now. Once a worker starts making a living wage, he or she all of the sudden wants electricity in his house. With an economy of a billion people and increasing production, if just 1% of them change from not using electricity to using it, the results are staggering. More on this, but maybe for another thread someday.
Climate Change--The forces against the recognition of climate change seemed to have dissolved from the mainstream this past election cycle in the U.S. So if we can all finally agree that it is happening (regardless of the cause) I think we can finally start doing something about it. Jury is out, but I think we will find a way through it.
Overfishing--thats the most important one, and why I mentioned biomass at all. I fear that technology has hurt us up to now in this instance, by providing super trawlers to the fishing industries of the world. Until we start growing and eating proteins similar to meat and fish grown in petri dishes, we run the risk of out-eating the oceans which is a truly scary thought. After all, Solent Green is people!
I have zero beef with the numbers in the third world. All they're trying to do is reach economic prosperity, AS WE'VE DONE (wrongly or not). Also, most of what we wear, use, consume, is now made by those very countries through outsourcing. Our government policies reduce international aid if they practice planned parenting, because OUR governments/tycoons NEED the cheap labour in the developing world in order to maintain our hegemony.
As for the oceans, we'll never out-eat them. Sharks and tuna get replaced by jellyfish, I don't think the oceans will ever empty.
Conversely, the biggest threat to ocean health is not fishing but CO2. Right now the ocean is absorbing ALL the extra CO2 that the above ground cycle cannot handle, which is massive. The ocean is becoming an acid soup. If when we kill our oceans it will be CO2 and not fishing. Mind you, I'm not letting overfishing off the hook (pardon the pun), I'm just second in line for deadliest human ocean effect.


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Parents and educators hear time, and again, how crucial it is to introduce quality literature into
the lives of children. Reading is one of the most enjoyable ways to learn new skills, expand
imagination and develop critical thinking skills. Books make excellent gifts and the following
tips will help you select the right book for your favorite reader! If the book is not a gift, bring
your child along to choose a book and guide the selection process.
1. The best place to begin is with what interests your child. Is your child into sports?
Futuristic adventures? Mysteries? Rhymes? Silly poetry? Fairy tales and princesses? Animals
or how-to books? When your child is interested in the topic, he or she is more likely to read the
2. Selecting the correct reading level for your child is important. A book that is too difficult will
frustrate your child and a book that is too easy will result in boredom. Talk with your child's
teacher to the general reading level. If you need specific title suggestions for your child's
reading level, Google search "Accelerated Reader book lists". Book titles will display a
numeric code which suggests a reading level. For example, 1.2 = First grade, second month,
3.6 = Third grade, sixth month.
3. Think about what the book will offer your child. A fun tale? A moral? Interaction by
encouraging participation? Open up imagination and worlds of wonder? Introduce new
vocabulary or a new skill? If the book doesn't offer something worthwhile, keep searching.
4. A good book will offer enjoyable, quality illustrations. An early reader should have vibrant
and engaging illustrations that match the text. A chapter book will offer fewer pictures, but
may have diagrams, maps and charts to appease the curiosity of older children.
5. Another quality of a well thought out book is the addition of support materials. Is there a
parent guide, teacher guide, companion journal, or audio CD? Is there a movie based on the
book? Additional materials will help you extend learning and keep discussions open about
your child's latest reading adventure!
6. If you plan to read the book only once, check it out from the library. If you and your child
plan to read it again and again, obtain a durable, hardcover copy for your home library.
7. Some terrific books will be award winners, but not all great books win a shiny medal. Award-winning
books have been selected by a committee of experts, including librarians, teachers and
booksellers, as having excellent qualities. Award winning books can be a good choice, especially
if the topic and illustrations are appealing to your child.
Books can become a treasured item. They make a great gift, especially when inscribed for a
special occasion such as a holiday or birthday. I still have special books from my childhood,
dedicated to me by thoughtful relatives. I plan to share these worn literary treasures with my
own family. I hope you find some great books and start your own reading traditions!
Julie Rebboah has been a professional educator since 1998. She has been an Early Reading Intervention instructor, an English language development teacher, and a private tutor. Julie wrote Magic Letters; The Keys to the World of Words and Magic Words; Discovering the Adventure of Reading out of a need to provide materials to support and extend learning in her diverse classroom. http://www.lightningbuglearning.com


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This is the third module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Each activity is self-directed by students or student teams and utilizes online videos, data from the SDO satellite and hands-on activities to explore,... (View More) research and build knowledge about how the Sun's varying activity impacts Earth and space weather. Each activity provides opportunities to build knowledge and vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections and create resources to use in investigations. Both a teacher and student guide are included with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos, tutorials and internet resources. In Activity 3A: Sun-Earth Interactions, students gather information from online videos and create a 3D model to demonstrate the relationship to Earth's place in space and the affect of Earth's axial tilt on our seasons, then film a short video explaining the reasons for the seasons. Activity 3B: Space Weather, students use online videos to gather information on what space weather is, and its causes and effects, to create a concept map. They then use real-time SDO data to forecast space weather. Activity 3C: Solar Research in Action! Make a Magnetometer has students view information in online videos about to Earth's magnetosphere and the impacts of space weather, then create a magnetometer to detect and visualize changes in the Earth's magnetic fields to monitor solar storm impacts. A computer for student-teams and access to the internet are needed for this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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This is a lesson about the solar wind, Earth's magnetosphere, and the Moon. Participants will work in groups of two or three to build a model of the Sun-Earth-Moon system. They will use the model to demonstrate that the Earth is protected from... (View More) particles streaming out of the Sun, called the solar wind, by a magnetic shield called the magnetosphere, and that the Moon is periodically protected from these particles as it moves in its orbit around the Earth. Participants will also learn that the NASA ARTEMIS mission is a pair of satellites orbiting the Moon that measure the intensity of solar particles streaming from the Sun. (View Less)
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We are the most ardent subscribers of our indigenous defense industries and pride ourselves as being a "builder's navy"—a phrase that reflects the enormous investment our navy has made in conceptualizing ship and submarine designs. Our indigenous aircraft carrier project, the construction of destroyers and frigates, light combat aircraft (naval) and strategic submarine programs, are a few examples of how we intend to invest in domestic industry. Of the 49 ships and submarines presently on order, 45 are from Indian shipyards. We also see this as an opportunity for global cooperation since the intention is to adopt leapfrogging technologies that will bridge prevalent gaps.
The dangers of maritime terrorism have dictated that we develop a whole-of-government approach toward ensuring the security of coastal areas. That has created an extensive national maritime infrastructure, which is intended to provide the navy operational flexibility.
Another vital component of our strategy is a commitment to bilateral and multilateral cooperative engagements with other maritime forces. "Malabar" with the U.S. Navy, and the "Indian Ocean Naval Symposium"—of which we are a founding member—are illustrative.
Sitting astride busy sea lanes of communication, we intend to fully use our strategic geography, demonstrated by our unrelenting efforts to combat piracy in the Gulf of Aden since 2008.
Investments in technologies related to network-centric operations aim to focus their use across a wide geographic area, thereby balancing costs.
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A man's pet monkey was put on house arrest after the animal bit someone last weekend near Cocoa Beach, Florida Today reported.
Brad Berman said Mookie, his 19-year-old white-faced Capuchin monkey, had never bit anyone before. So Berman didn't think twice when a couple approached him Saturday near a convenience store on Merritt Island and asked to pet Mookie, according to Florida Today.
But the monkey got startled and bit the man, identified as 32-year-old Justin Debree, on the shin, officials said. He was not seriously injured.
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|2010-06-14, 01:50
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this guy.
|2010-06-14, 01:51
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I'm having trouble suspecting anyone as well, except for maybe Kinzo. I don't actually believe Kinzo is as bad as everyone says he is...
but if he IS... then maybe he's the only one willing to kill his whole family, house, island and everything else.
Does the culprit for the 10th Twilight have to obey Knox rules though, along with all the other culprits (if they are indeed separate)? And therefore has to be someone who was introduced early in the story?
EDIT: Ohhh wait... can we also suspect Krauss? Who arguably has done an investigation on the island, and probably has discovered enough explosive to do the damage that we have seen? One plausible reason is that if he's going to be ruined then he'll make damned sure everyone and everything else goes with him. It's not the first time we've seen murder-suicides on financial ruin... the question is, is this plausible for Krauss. I'm assuming that he does have the ability to disarm it and was counting on that.
We have never seen Krauss survive though, so maybe he and certain other people are guaranteed to never survive to the end.
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Doesn't say anything about culprits that were first introduced in the second, third, or fourth games.
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|2010-06-14, 02:25
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As for the how Krauss got the explosives you can thank Oliver. He has an awesome explanation for that.
Keep in mind though that this method could just as easily be an accident as it could be deliberate.
|2010-06-14, 08:05
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It saddens me how everyone gives practically for granted that the "unfortunate incident" was caused by bombs, even so I believe there are tons of elements to understand that this isn't a likely scenario.
But this kind of general agreement leaves me too discouraged to start a debate, just don't say I haven't warned you.
Your understanding of the proportion of the disaster is also very far from the kind of destructive force that I think, at this point, is reasonable to assume.
This is what I believe should be expected:
Spoiler for Rokkenjima before and after the incident :
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|2010-06-14, 08:23
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And I know I'm going to be shoot to death by BxB fans... but I actually believe that Beatrice = Asumu.
.... *runs away*
|2010-06-14, 08:26
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I think "bomb" is convenient shorthand for "whatever causes a substantial environmental and anti-personnel disaster." We don't actually know what the causative event is, except that it is highly lethal and has a large, but not island-encompassing danger radius.
Calling it a "bomb" somewhat attributes to it a human cause. And I think most people expect, or at least are hoping, that the cause is a human agent. It would seem kind of silly if it were an accident or natural disaster. So even if it's a volcano or landslide or swamp gas or something, some person on the island or off it was acting on that to exploit it and ensure it did whatever it was it did.
|2010-06-14, 08:31
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I think that if it was a bomb or something, there has to be proves. And, of course, before Ep5, because Battler supposedly "reached the truth" at EP5, and Ryuukishi says it's more than possible to solve it up to EP5.
That is what I believe. (Yeah, I'm mystery xD)
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|2010-06-14, 09:10
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Location: In a badly written story.
However, there's one interesting thing about Krauss and his investigation of the island that has yet to be addressed.
Let us assume that the guesthouse is to be a hotel. But it only contains about 10 rooms. For a resort hotel, that's very small. Average room counts in hotels differ depending on their intended markets, but they start at about 70. Even if one is aiming for a 'quiet little hotel in picturesque wilderness', 40-50 would still be a more reasonable number, because it's simply not sufficiently profitable to bother otherwise.
Construction on an undeveloped island is a lot more expensive than it is on the mainland, or on a more developed island, because you have to pay for marine shipment of labour and materials, energy to run the construction, and various expenses associated with delays when anything of this is arriving late because of weather. It is not very reasonable to assume that Krauss planned to build five of those modular guesthouse blocks -- it would be far more expensive than just building a single 50-room one.
Building a 10-room guesthouse when a 5-room would suffice for the foreseeable future is obviously odd, but building a 10-room resort hotel is no less odd. So what did he really plan to do with the island?
|2010-06-14, 11:25
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|2010-06-14, 12:35
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I think almost everyone here has concluded it was some kind of explosion triggering a massive geological event, most likely a landslide.
Actually, that picture that you got, was that from the anime? Because that's a rather large, large blast radius. So maybe something activated a volcano... but anyways, I think we've been down this path already.
I'm mostly interested in searching for the culprit of the 10th Twilight (which seems to be Krauss) and then his motive.
What it seems like to me now is that maybe there's absolutely no way for Krauss to survive any game. Like the opposite to Battler; there's just too many people out for his head. If someone like him never survives then it makes sense that the final incident can never be disarmed, only avoided.
|2010-06-14, 12:47
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Yeah, the Bomb Theory is just a convenient title to combine the Boiler Explosion Theory, the Volcanic Gas Explosion Theory, the Generic Unexplained Explosion Theory and the Orbital Particle Beam Shot Theory into one idea: that Rokkenjima has an explosion on it sometime around midnight.
Well, since Ryuukishi's all but confirmed it, I guess it's not really a theory anymore.
Underground Explosion Theory, anyone?
And I mean deep underground. Not just the boiler in the basement deep. Probably thirty to fourty metres underground deep.
|2010-06-14, 13:37
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My main problem with a landslide or an underground explosion is that it makes finding Maria's jaw less likely, and that seems to be important evidence. (with a landslide it'd be like looking for a needle in a hay stack) I guess it's not impossible, but I'd have doubts if the entire mansion area was underwater.
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DGBarca: Lol XD I can't say more than that, it's just so LOL XD
|2010-06-14, 18:48
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No kind of human or dead person on the island could have killed Kanon This statment can really be taken two ways. 1. Kanon never died, and 2. Kanon was never alive in the first place, therefore making it impossible for any thing to kill him, ever. Because if he was never alive in the first place, it is impossible to kill him, since he is already 'dead.'
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More Oreimo, Usagi Drop, and AnohanaPost Reply
i have to wait till friggin august? Ill just watch it elsewhere
I have nothing to give,So I can at least not be a burden to others
Awesome, more fun stuff to watch. I'm excited.
Chasing kitties.
Nice haven't seen that last anime on there might check it out.
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Whats up everyone,
Summer's fast approaching and we're warming up to delivery some very good news. :)
First we started with releasing Attack on Titan early this past Saturday for a special early showing.
And now, we're going to bring you 3. MORE. EPISODES of Oreimo!!!
The OVA's of this popular title will be on Crunchyroll at the same time as the Japanese internet broadcast on August 17, 2013 at 9 pm Pacific Time.
This will be a limited screening event between August 17 and August 31 this year. Premium users will be able to view all 3 OVAs immediately with free users able to view it one-week after immediate Crunchyroll broadcast.
Moreover, from July 17 to August 31, both the regular season of Oreimo 2 and its corresponding OVAs upon its August 17th broadcast on Crunchyroll, will be available to world-wide audiences except for those in: Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Algeria, Monaco, and Tunisia.
But that's not all, starting on July 1, we're also bringing back Usagi Drop!!!
It will be just as if it never left the site in the first place :)
Synopsis for those unfamiliar with it:
By force of circumstances, a 30-year-old single man with a full-time job suddenly starts raising a 6-year-old girl. While running each other ragged, the two of them gradually grow into a "family". This is the long-awaited anime version of "Bunny Drop", the extremely popular and finely crafted comic by Yumi Unita. It's a heartwarming and entertaining work that naturally depicts child-raising experiences, but also the instantly relatable warmth and noise of being in a family.
Finally, all Anohana episodes are now available to BOTH premiums and free members!! That's right, now you can get a good ol' fashioned cry-on as you progress down that emotional rabbit hole.
Jinta Yadomi and his group of childhood friends have become estranged after a tragic accident split them apart. Now in their high school years, a sudden surprise forces each of them to confront their guilt over what happened that day and come to terms with the ghosts of their past.
Get ready for summer folks!
This is so great! I just recently started watching Oreimo and love it. I've been wondering where I would be watching the OVAs/when they would be released. *sheds internet tears of joy*
Edit: Everyone should view Usagi Drop as well. It's VERY good!
Neither usagi or anohana in the UK, as expected
Maths is hard
Apple tv owners and crunchyroll subscribers Apple just added Crunchyroll, to their apple tv ( a native apple tv app, no airplay ). Im testing it and every thing looks good and in HD, youll need to update your firmware in order to see it.
For the Oreimo 2 OVAs, good luck with that.
They won't be available to audiences in Japan until August (August 18 @ 1:00 PM in Japan, which is August 17 @ 9:00 PM PDT in the United States). Their premiere in Japan will be via a webstream on Nico Nico.
Yes, that's my real age
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I watched all the Oreimo season one ova on fansub but the last one didn't exactly work for some reason so dispite knowing hat happened I didn't get see it fully so ... awesome glad were getting ova for oreimo2 and this other shows look cool .
Just a great update! Wanted to watch Usagi Drop before it was removed but had too much work Everyone in the world should experience Anohana so this is a great start and finally I'll watch the Oreimo OVA's! (been watching season 2 as I already had a general idea of what happened but its nice to actually watch them.
Oh great anime gods, what do I watch on this day?
Could anohana being now available to free users be in celebration of the movie coming out
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I was recommended to watch Anohana in a comment I made on a My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU episode, and I must say I'm really glad I did (Thank you Podracer35). For me it ranks near the top on my favorites list, so I'm happy other people will hopefully get the chance to further view this great anime on CR as well.
Just got around to watching Kokoro Connect recently and couldn't agree with you more, especially because the Michi Random episodes really finish the anime nicely in my opinion. While I may not be as experienced or dedicated an anime watcher as others, I was glad I hunted those last episodes down. Being able to spare others the trouble and keeping them watching here on CR would be an awesome feat.
(I might have fallen in love with Inaba... /sigh. Go watch Kokoro Connect. )
O.O I did not expect to see my name in here! haha You're very welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed the series! It was actually the main reason I started a CR membership. >.> Anyways, your comment just made my day! ^_^
Adding the Oreimo OVAs is great news! I wonder what they'll be about... My guess is a bunch of different endings for each of the main girls and Kyousuke? At least, that's what I'd prefer. Any sort of conclusion would be great! (Or maybe a lead up to Oreimo 3?!?)
I've never heard of Usagi Drop (maybe only in passing) but I'm definitely interested! I know what I'm doing tonight! haha
And I agree! Kokoro Connect Michi Random on CR would be amazing!!! Such a great series deserves to be complete! Hopefully we get the Anohana movie when it comes out too? .... Anyone?.... Maybe? :/
EDIT: Is there a chance of a higher quality version of Anohana to be put up? I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, but does that happen on CR? The show looks great at 480p as it is, but watching it in HD would be... Too great for words!
The worldwide simulcast of the final episodes #14-16 of "Oreimo 2"?the idea of presenting this event came from the "passionate support" of our fans in Japan and also from all the international submissions we have been receiving for the "Oreimo 2 Web Radio Show."
Every staff and cast member who has been involved in this series has put their hearts and souls into these last 3 episodes of "Oreimo 2," and we have all been hoping to share these final episodes with as many fans as possible. When we saw so many dedicated fan submissions to the "Oreimo 2 Web Radio Show" from our international fans who watch every week through various streaming services, we knew we had to provide an environment where every fan can watch and experience these final episodes simultaneously.
At this time, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all the staff who was involved in making this event possible. With everyone's support, we were successfully able to make this announcement to our fans everywhere.
I am truly delighted to be able to bring the finale of this wonderful series, "Oreimo 2" to as many of our fans of the world.
製作プロデューサー 柏田真一郎
Shinichiro Kashiwada / Producer
Source: Oreimo | Worldwide Simulcast
I'm looking forward to the finale. It's going to be emotional for me that's for sure I'm glad that you are able to simulcast it even though it's a limited timed event.
I love you Miichan, Takamina, Sasshi & Nako! (^_^)/
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Just got around to watching Kokoro Connect recently and couldn't agree with you more, especially because the Michi Random episodes really finish the anime nicely in my opinion. While I may not be as experienced or dedicated an anime watcher as others, I was glad I hunted those last episodes down. Being able to spare others the trouble and keeping them watching here on CR would be an awesome feat.
(I might have fallen in love with Inaba... /sigh. Go watch Kokoro Connect. )
Believe me, you aren't there only one who fell in love with Dere-ban (Inaba)!
Too bad that isn't the end of the story. 6 more novels could have been animated... but as you observed, Michi Random (episodes 14-17) is still a good place to end it, much better than episode 13 which is the last one they broadcast regularly and have here.


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Syria's civil war recently entered its third calendar year. With worse still to come, in recent days it has been estimated that the number of people killed in Syria since the uprising began now stands at more than 90,000. Any death is a tragedy for someone and the people close to him; and a million deaths are not a statistic but a million individual tragedies. How can this fact glide by us with so little comment?
When it comes to Syria, there are probably a few practical reasons. One, undoubtedly, is that people get bored with long news stories. As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown — in which American, British and other Western troops have after all featured prominently – public and media attention was fairly short-lived. After an initial burst of fascination, once the new norm was established, peoples' attention wandered elsewhere. Syria has now dragged on too long to hold peoples' ever-smaller attention spans.
There is also the fact that in Syria – as in other recent wars – journalists have found themselves becoming targets. While many journalists are willing to take the same risks as the population at large, few are willing to stay in situations where they might be the actual object of death-squads or the attentions of RPG's. In Syria, most journalists have found it hard to get in, or once there, are unwilling to stay, so the amount of footage coming out is necessarily limited. With an absence of plentiful footage, if the story cannot be visualized, there is now rarely a story. Evidently we need pictures.
But there is another, more important, reason why this story has got so little attention. There are often underlying, as well as immediate, reasons why something does not make news. There are some situations in which a tragedy helps a political cause and others in which it hinders it. For some people, casualties are not tragedies or statistics, but simply a well-spring for political point-scoring. To compare the cases of Israel and Syria is to see this at its most stark.
Take, for instance, the highest figures for all the wars in which Israel has been involved throughout its history. The upper estimates suggest that the War of Independence in 1948 cost around 20,000 casualties in total – that is 20,000 on all sides. The upper casualty estimates of the wars of 1968 and 1973 are similar: another 20,000 and 15,000 respectively. The smaller wars in Lebanon and Gaza in the years since add several thousand more to this sad total. But something is striking here.
All the wars involving Israel, throughout its history, have caused at least 30,000 fewer deaths than have been caused in Syria in the last couple of years alone. Say that you added together all the wars involving Israel, and they had all happened either consecutively or in one go. Would we have seen the same amount of coverage that we have seen in Syria? Would there have been more or fewer protests around the world involving people of all religions, races and backgrounds, than there have been outside of Syria in recent months? Would the nations of the world, the United Nations and the U.N. Security Council, have been quieter or noisier than they have been when it has come to the matter of Israel's neighbor, Syria, over recent months?
The answer to all these questions is that the air and ground incursions in Gaza in recent years have on each occasion led to deaths — tragic though they may be — that are a fraction of the number in Syria since the uprising there began. Yet the world, and the world's press, and the world's protest movements, and the world's governments and the world's supra-national organizations have on each and every occasion mobilized in a way which seemed at the time, and in retrospect, to demonstrate an obsession which is probably at best unhealthy, and at worst the expression of straightforward bigotry. All those people who claim that small incursions into Gaza have not been small incursions, but in fact a "holocaust," where are they now? If the death of a hundred people is a "holocaust," what is the death of 90,000?


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SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) Syracuse quarterback Ryan Nassib is rewriting the school record book in his final season, mainly because he has the luxury of throwing to a talented group of receivers and has the blockers up front to give him the time.
Nassib has shattered his single-season record of 2,685 yards passing set last year - he's at 3,404, 14th nationally - and he's spread the ball around: Alec Lemon (65 catches), Marcus Sales (60), Jarrod West (39), Beckett Wales (31), Prince-Tyson Gulley (25) and Chris Clark (10) top the list.
``When all those guys are playing well, it opens up a lot of opportunities for us,'' coach Doug Marrone said. ``I see a chemistry with Ryan and the receivers.''
Especially so with Lemon, who has 989 receiving yards and seven touchdowns. Entering his senior year, the 6-foot-2, 205-pound Lemon had 129 career receptions, which ranked fifth all-time at Syracuse, and his 11 touchdown receptions was tied for ninth-best. He's now the leader in the former and just four behind Rob Moore in the latter.
Lemon's 12 catches in Saturday's comeback win at Missouri were two shy of Art Monk's school record for a game and his 244 receiving yards were just five off Scott Schwedes' mark.
``People don't understand how they can complete what they can complete,'' offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett said. ``That's something that's been growing for three years. They've connected so many times. They have a great feel for each other. It's awesome to watch. I really haven't seen anything like this since I was a kid watching Joe Montana throw to Jerry Rice.''
After sitting out the season opener against Northwestern because of an injured hamstring, Lemon started slowly but has come on like gangbusters. In the last five games, he has 41 catches for 727 yards. The Orange (6-5) won four of those games to qualify for the postseason for the second time in three years.
``It's come from a long time of just working together, a lot of practice, a lot of hard work, a lot of time and effort,'' said Nassib, who is 267 of 420 passing and has been sacked just 14 times. ``We've been fortunate enough to play together for four years and built such a great relationship.''
Lemon, on target to eclipse the school record of 68 receptions for a season that he set last year, is ranked 13th nationally at 98.9 receiving yards per game. He needs 143 yards to surpass Marvin Harrison's school record for a season and just 75 to move past Moore, his position coach, into second place.
``He's a really smart football player. You can throw a lot at him,'' Moore said. ``He remembers a lot of things, little nuances of certain routes and plays and techniques. He's got a toughness that's very, very underestimated, he's very tough to bring down after he catches the ball, and he catches the ball well in traffic. Some guys can stretch the field, but they don't like going in the briar patch where it's awful thorny.''
Lemon was in that briar patch on Saturday and it never fazed him as Syracuse rallied in the final minute for an important 31-27 win over the Tigers. Lemon accounted for all 81 yards on the deciding drive. He made four receptions, the big one a 19-yarder over the middle on fourth-and-10 from the Missouri 36.
``It was tough. (The defender) was holding me,'' Lemon said. ``But once I saw the ball in the air I said, `I've got to catch this no matter what.'''
On the next snap, with 20 seconds left in the game, Lemon made the clinching catch with no defender in sight.
``He was faced with some adversity this year,'' Moore said. ``He was injured early, had a stretch where he had a couple of games where he didn't perform to the level we expected him to. He's held himself accountable, came back, put the work in, and now he's starting to reap the rewards.''
Clearly, Lemon has put a midseason loss at Rutgers - three catches for 50 yards - far in the rearview mirror.
``I had my worst game ever,'' Lemon said. ``I just said to myself that I didn't ever want to play like that again. I put in my head that I had five more weeks left of college football, and I just wanted to take that next step, go out there and perform the way I know I can, show everyone that Rutgers game was a fluke.
``It really wasn't me.''


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|2013-01-13, 20:57
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So about S3 , only Future and hope are set after the anime... the rest of the stories are a prequel...
I'd really like to read Friagne the Hunter IV , there seems to be a lot of useful information...
About the picture where shana-yuuji-yoshida-ike are eating together,which story is that ?
|2013-01-13, 22:47
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Location: Costa Rica
The picture its from Hope & Future SS, I think there's some summaries here few pages back.
I read on Mahouka Koukuo no Rettousei tread the popularity females characters ranks and Shana its there, same the Book, so its curious how the Author, Editor, Dengeki, anime and manga producers will take this, I mean, I don't know exactly the reason cuz the author said will finish, maybe just tired, but the Fans keep increasing, I think some like Evangelion phenomena, I even tried to see if there is some doujinshi but couldn't have success.
That's why I have on mind if just Shana no Shakugan story line was ended and come another arc on Future & Hope, another one its could continue only on manga and/or anime format, anyway, time to time to see what will come.
|2013-07-18, 09:09
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Location: the Philippines
Finally, I'm halfway into the third season.
I feel like Final was a different anime series. Well, it's not really a surprise, since first season was the most balanced in romance and action, then Second became too saturated in romance, and all the action got stuffed into Final. That said, watching Final at this stage is like spectating a chess match. The game was passed on from a young girl to experienced Flame Haze with the disposition of the greatest generals in history.
At this stage, I think I could already see some problems with the plot, namely how overpowered the Trinity are, and how this series seems to be a too abrupt shift of playfields, from Flame Haze to Denizen fights to an all-out war on a worldwide scale. Maybe the problem lies with how focused the story was on Misaki City all this time.
I'm not gonna drop this due to the sheer amount of dedication I had to the series, but Shana's no longer as good as I thought it to be a long time ago.
|2013-07-18, 22:33
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Shana will always hold a place in my heart as one of the greatest series I have ever known. The sheer character development that both Shana and Yuuji go through, as well as the way their relationship deepens and grows is something the crappy pandering harem shows of today will never be able to come close to. And reading the ending, it was...just perfect. It truly moved me, something the recent works of the past few years have all failed to do.
I wish something like this could come again. I guess the decade is still young, and there'll be surprises out there yet. Until then.
Time flows on.
|2013-07-19, 08:00
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|2013-07-19, 09:30
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I guess so. Maybe the transition between the events in the first two seasons and the third was too much for me, especially since it doesn't seem like the tension between Denizens and Flame Haze was that widespread outside of Misaki City. It doesn't help that most of the events shown in the anime are focused on Misaki City and Misaki City alone. Anime only viewers probably thought, "Oh, seems like Misaki City is always involved in something," then suddenly Second Great War.
|2013-07-24, 08:07
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Toji Affairs Secretary
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Location: the Philippines
I finally finished the anime series, and I think I may have underestimated the season.
What's interesting in this series was how Xanadu ended up as the product of the thousand years of war between the two sides, although the efforts of the people of the present were the ones who really made the change. From gods to denizens to Flame Haze to humans, all made their respective efforts to do what they can. Everyone and no one is a hero.
It's like what they say: peace is the consensus of the many, while love is the consensus of two. However, the free will of the Flame Haze and Crimson Denizens will continue to be a threat to the peace in Xanadu. Shana and Yuji's love story will continue on, with more challenges awaiting them.
What's unfortunate is that Kazumi would live most of her life with the memories of everything that happened in her heart, and that she may never be able to share those memories with anyone else. On the other hand, Ike should start trying to date Yukari sometime.
|2013-07-28, 01:52
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I think the blame lies mainly with the second season of the anime, though it definitely had some good parts (like the confrontation with Sabrac). It had too much anime-original padding. Instead of the whole Konoe Fumina arc, more time could have been given to the Crimson Denizen-Flame Haze conflict that lay outside of Misaki City (and its history prior to the main story of Shakugan no Shana), which Marcus H. alluded to. It provides a lot of explanation about the motivations of the various characters and factions, and the factors that led to the Second Great War. As Marcus H. said, a lot of events in the third season seem to come out of nowhere, despite it faithfully following the light novels. In particular, previous light novels went into more detail about the Ancient War, the Snake of the Festival, Bal Masqué's purpose, etc, which are enormously important when it providing context for the events of the third season. It's like trying to understand World War II without a basic awareness of World War I. It particularly egregious that the Snake and the First Great War are not mentioned or even alluded to until the third season. Other things missing as well. The Great War between the Flame Haze and Töten Glocke are only briefly discussed in the first season, despite it having a huge impact on the lives of the Flame Haze and their Lords. Révolution receives a passing mention in the second season, despite their ideology having an impact on Snake of the Festival Yuji's goals. The Flame Haze Civil War makes no appearance whatsoever, despite it being important for understanding the Four Gods of the Earth.
In short, I think the third season was fantastic, and it was the second season that was flawed.
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|2012-12-18, 15:17
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The Tiger isn't all that much slower than the Panzer IV. Not even sure the Tiger is slower off road than a Panzer IV.
Black Forest team has a lot of equipment that cannot be dealt with except with the Tiger (P). Though I imagine Black Forest's heavy tank destroyer and assault gun usage might become a problem for them, if the other tanks can get around them. But I suppose that is what their Panthers are for.
Two episodes of combat is what we are expecting. But 20 on 8 (well 7 now) seems like it shouldn't take two episodes. But all they need to do is hit the flag tank.
|2012-12-18, 15:30
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Ooarai has three known competent teams in terms of hitting and tactics (the problem is that one of those teams uses a Type 89 which as far as I can tell cannot take out any of the Black Forest tanks from any range or angle). The Student Council tank destroyer might be a competent team as well, depending on if they can hit anything (we know they have a skilled driver, and if motivated a skilled gunner/loader combo. If not motivated, they have a trigger happy gunner and a lazy radio operator/commander).
The Freshman team and Morality Squad are still not proven to be good at tactics or gunnery. They make good blockers for the flag (they have courage now) but that might not be enough. The Mechanics are a wildcard. We have no idea what skills they have outside of fixing up tanks. The Gamers squad is already out and only managed to be a blocker by accident. We cannot assess their gunnery or tactics yet.
Which leave the heavy work to the Panzer IV, the StuG III and the Type 89 (the volleyball team has the greatest point handicap in history it seems). The hope is that the Tiger (P) will add to the compentent pool, because they are really going to need that 88mm in this fight. The Hetzer would also be helpful, but again, who's the gunnery now?
|2012-12-18, 15:44
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The Comet has Come
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Location: Republic of California
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Looking over the St. Gloriana fight again I note the Churchill was hit three times during the fight. Twice at the end by the Panzer IV and once at the start of the retreat by the Type 89. The Volleyball team can hit stuff, can be tactical minded, and have good evasive driving skills. They just have a really crappy tank being setup against mid-late war era tanks that it cannot fight against (that was why Japan built the Type 3 in the first place).
They can scout, lay smoke, or act as a shield for the flag tank...but they can't harm any of the enemy tanks.
|2012-12-18, 15:55
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Still, they're really working Kitaeri, eh? I'm surprised they put the scene with Darjeeling right after the reporter, but it worked out well enough.
Also, there were a lot of mistakes with the art; shows how pressed they were just to get this latest ep out. Can't wait to get my hands on the BD version all the more.
|2012-12-18, 15:58
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The Type 89 is only scouting due to the grace of the writers, though. Its real-world analogue might be able to outrun a riding mower on flat ground.
I can't not look at this from the World of Tanks perspective. DAMN YOU, GAME! I would have argued to transfer the more veteran Volleyball team into the Type 3 Chi-Nu, since it would at least give them a more powerful tank (still undermanned), and put the newbie Lit crew into the Type 89, since that thing hardly ever has a reason to fire its gun.
|2012-12-18, 15:59
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Logician and Romantic
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|2012-12-18, 16:05
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|2012-12-18, 17:13
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Catholic = Cat addiction?
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Location: MURICA!!
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|2012-12-18, 17:46
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Location: England
What I want to know is how Miho turned out into such a nice sweet although shy girl with a older sister like Maho and quite frankly a cold hearted bitch for a mother? Seriously this woman is too full of herself, Miho snatched victory when the odds were heavily against her and she she doesn't care one bit! At least Maho sees that fight aren't just won by sheer numbers and superior firepower and defence.
Why do I feel the entire basis for their family fame is just because every girl attended the school with the best collection of tanks and nabbed the captain role? Hell maybe as their fame grew each generation automatically gained the commanding role even if they weren't the best choice and just steamrolled the opposition. Such a inflexible way of approaching battle is bound to be defeated sooner or later. The mother is acting like they're a samurai
family or something, it's just a sport!!
That said Maho seems to just as smart as Miho since she predicted the Ooarai would want to make some distance between and even the exact spot they would go to do so. I hope the final outcome of the battle is decided between a direct confrontation between the sisters. 3 months can't pass by fast enough.
|2012-12-18, 17:56
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Catholic = Cat addiction?
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: MURICA!!
That being said, Maho is not as bad as she appears to be. I think with the few details we have been given about her, deep down inside, she cares.
- Tak
|2012-12-18, 18:00
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~ Your Smile ~
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: 346Pro
Age: 32
If anything... I just wished the Nishizumi family didn't turn out so cliche. Overbearing mother? Check. A gentle soul emerging from her shadow? Check. Silent sister who is somewhere in between? Check.
The problem with this is that I've seen it before and I know where its going. Just a minor nitpick given that the rest of the show is so enjoyable.
|2012-12-18, 18:02
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Catholic = Cat addiction?
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: MURICA!!
Although if they want to make characters more awesome (like you know... Nonna), I suggest Maho sing Panzerlied... nao!
- Tak
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Family planning for mosquitoes: Genetically modified insects to fight dengue fever
We're publishing the shortlisted entries to the 2012 Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize. Here, Michael Conway writes about efforts to stop the spread of dengue fever by using genetically modified mosquitoes.
It is 6am in the cool of the tropical morning, and early risers in the village of Itaberaba, Brazil, are waking to a strange yet increasingly familiar ritual.
As the early morning sun begins to warm the low-slung houses with hints of the brutal heat it will inflict as the day progresses, a small white truck bumps along the unpaved road between them. In the back sit two men, surrounded by what appears to be a collection of small ice-cream tubs. As the truck makes its way slowly along the street, its passengers set to work: with a calm deliberation, the ice-cream tubs are picked up one by one, opened, shaken. Then, looking almost like participants in a bizarre parade, the two men confetti the community with what many of its slumbering residents might consider their worst nightmare – small black clouds of mosquitoes.
Watching it unfold, an uninformed bystander might be forgiven for taking the whole exercise to be a particularly well-planned and malicious prank. But these are no ordinary insects, and Itaberaba's streets are, in fact, host to a ground-breaking experiment that has opened a new front in humanity's battle against a dangerous and highly resilient pest: the Aedes aegypti mosquito. Tiny, voracious, extremely bothersome, it can also be a killer, and so far it's been winning the war hands down. But in Itaberaba, a new weapon has been unleashed.
Mosquitoes have always been an annoyance and a menace to people, but the real flash point for this interspecies conflict is disease. Dengue fever, spread by Aedes aegypti, infects between 50 and 100 million people each year, and the numbers are growing; up to a quarter of the world's population is now thought to be at risk. The flu-like fever and joint pain it causes can be so crippling that it has become known to its unfortunate victims as 'break-bone' fever. For at least 25,000 people a year, the infection is fatal.
The rapid spread of this dangerous virus is due to the wanderlust of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which during the last century has hitchhiked upon international trade and travel networks to establish itself in more than 100 countries. Where the mosquitoes go, dengue fever can follow, and thus far our best efforts at removing these unwelcome immigrants have proved woefully inadequate.
But new technology developed by an Oxford University spin-out company may change that. For the past 10 years, Oxitec Ltd has been applying advanced genetics to the problem of mosquito control. Led by Dr Luke Alphey, its scientists have genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes so that they pass on to their offspring a fatal inheritance: a gene which, when activated, results in an untimely death for the unfortunate insect.
Now, in the streets of a small Brazilian town remote in every sense from the sandstone and greenery of Oxford, genetically modified insects are being released, distributing this genetic timebomb.
The principle is simple: release male mosquitoes (the males don't bite, so there is no additional risk to the human population) carrying the lethal gene into the environment and they will seek out and mate with wild females. Any female which mates with a modified male will have offspring that inherit the lethal gene and die before reaching adulthood – reducing the wild population. Keep releasing the modified males and eventually the wild mosquito population in an area will be dramatically reduced or eliminated altogether. The approach is pesticide-free and completely specific to the target species.
It's a simple theory but Oxitec scientists had to overcome another problem – how is it possible to rear insects that harbour a lethal gene? The solution developed by Dr Alphey and Oxitec was to engineer a 'back-door' to their genetic system. The gene works by enhancing its own activity – in effect, switching itself permanently on. In doing so, it greedily cannibalises cells' genetic machinery, sacrificing more and more essential regulatory proteins to its drive for self-propagation – with catastrophic results for the cells. But an antibiotic, tetracycline, binds to the protein produced by the lethal gene and stops it from activating this terminal cycle.
This crucial molecular switch allows Oxitec to rear millions of healthy GM mosquitoes in the lab by adding tetracycline to their diet – ready for them to be released into the wild unaware of the deadly bequest they will pass on to their offspring.
Oxitec's approach has already been demonstrated in the Cayman Islands, where releases of its modified mosquitoes reduced the Aedes aegypti population of the treatment area by 80 per cent.
Now, the company's novel form of pest control is being tested in one of the most dengue-infested areas in the world. If it works, it will be an important step towards a completely new way of combating a dangerous and debilitating disease. And in the power of genetic technology, Aedes aegypti may finally have met its match.
Michael Conway
This is an edited version of Michael's original entry in the general (non-scientists) category. Views expressed are the author's own. Michael is a PhD student at the University of Oxford conducting research in collaboration with Oxitec, whose vector control project to combat dengue is part-funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Find out more about the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize in association with the Guardian and the Observer and read our 'How I write about science' series of tips for aspiring science writers.
Over the next couple of months, we're publishing the shortlisted essays from the 2012 competition. Read them all, and the 2011 essays, in our archive.
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ITEM 114-1006-R0302 Addition of Option in Forensic Anthropology to the Master of Arts Degree in Anthropology; The University of Montana-Missoula
THAT: The Board of Regents of Higher Education authorizes The University of Montana to add an option in Forensic Anthropology to the Master of Arts degree in Anthropology.
EXPLANATION: The University of Montana offers the only Master of Arts degree in Anthropology with a specialty in physical anthropology in the State. Students increasingly express interest in the forensic sciences, in general, and Forensic Anthropology, in particular. The Department of Anthropology has added new courses to serve these students and has experienced growth in the number of students with interest in Forensic Anthropology. Students often indicate a desire to pursue a graduate option in Forensic Anthropology similar to the Cultural Heritage option. Professionals in the field of the forensic sciences express their belief that students have an advantage when it comes to employment if they actually have a notation on their transcript that says "Forensic Anthropology."
The completed signature page resides on file at the President's Office, The University of Montana-Missoula.


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What's News: Bond king Bill Gross's Pimco Total Return Fund has its fifth month of outflows. President Obama invites congressional leaders to meet at White House to discuss budget impasse. Best-selling author Tom Clancy dies at 66. Joanne Po reports. Photo: Bloomberg
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