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A NIGHT OF great live soul, funk improv fun starts at 10pm with a rotating cast of Seattle's finest funky musicians including the guitarist for Digable Planets Thaddeus Turner, FUNKY 2 DEATH bassist MARK MATTREY, with local stars like Jamal Robinson aka ROCPHIZZLE or CURTIS SEALS on keys, or JOE DORIA on the hammond organ, Seattle Funk Elite drummers DERNEILL WASHINGTON or DOUG PORT, + horn players like MEDEARIS DIXON, FREDDY FUEGO, ALEX DUGDALE, and many guests rotating in on the fun. opening bands start at 7pm with great live CUBAN/LATIN music. sometimes we feature touring acts or extra special guests in addition to our 7pm and 10pm lineups. most nights will have a $10 cover charge, but special nights might be more.


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Bachelor: Students Cautious About Saying 'I Do'by Alex Avtgis '11 • February 5, 2010 Share:
With forecasts predicting chronic unemployment upwards of eight percent for the next decade, the nation is reconsidering its prospects for the future. For many aspiring grooms and brides, this means reassessing the idea of marriage.
According to data from the Ohio Department of Health, the national trend for marriages has been decreasing steadily over the last decade. The rate of marriages has gone down from eight per 1,000 residents in the 1990s, to around six in recent years. Experts predict that the recession could be having an impact.
This does not daunt certain Wabash men, however.
Over the past semester, the campus has seen over eight engagements, with Wabash men such as Colin Ridenour '10, Marcus Manges '10, and Anthony Morton '10 eagerly waiting to tie the knot. For these select individuals, marriage appears to be the ideal strategy to combat the growing uncertainties of America's recession.
"Despite the unknowns, it's good to have a sidekick," Ridenour explained. "To have that support system is very important, and it's granted by a strong person standing beside you."
The next year marks a transition time for both he and his fiancé. While Colin plans to attend IU Medical School, his fiancée Brooke is entertaining the idea of attending law school also at IU. Because of the crisis, however, the two are unsure exactly when that will happen.
"I am worried about getting into [medical] school; the recession means more people are applying into graduate programs," Ridenour said. "There is doubt there, but I am able to find support in our relationship."
Ridenour is correct in his statement, however, with the last few years bringing a surge of interest in graduate study across America. Test preparation company Kaplan was quoted to have seen a 45 percent increase of interest in their business, law and graduate school preparation programs since September of 2008. As such, graduate programs themselves feel a likewise surge in applications, flooding the market with competition.
For now, the couple has decided to place the marriage date sometime after his graduation in the spring.
"I wanted to graduate before taking that next step," he explained. "It is sort of the equivalent of putting too much on your plate at once. I just wanted to be fully committed to my academics at Wabash."
Several couples have chosen to likewise postpone their marriages until after graduation. Wallies offer varied reasoning, with some quoting the high price of weddings.
"We are paying for the wedding ourselves, but we don't have a real source of income," said Anthony Smith. "I want to give her a wedding she's always wanted, but the more I try and obtain it, the more we'll have to wait." Smith and his fiancé, Charity, have a tentative date set in the spring of '11.
Other Wabash men, such as William Beard '10 and James-Michael Brazill '11, decided to go ahead when it came to the actual ceremony. Despite a limited budget, the Brazills' wedding coincided with Halloween this past semester, and was enjoyed by its many attendees, including both faculty and students.
"Stephanie planned our wedding for much cheaper than we had imagined," James described. "As a result, we got to invite a lot of friends and family, and had a great time."
Likewise, Chris and his fiancé, Miri, ushered in the New Year with the first of their two weddings. With the service held in Chris' home church in Danville, the couple kept it small, in hopes of having a second wedding in the summer.
"We plan to return to Miri's home in] Korea to have another wedding for her parents," Beard explained.
Both couples, which currently reside together, do not find many differences between their pre- and post-marriage lifestyles. Nevertheless, living together has affected levels of flexibility.
"Take for example when it comes to studying," said Brazill. "When I had an assignment due before I got married, I could pick up and go to the library whenever. Now I am conscious of Stephanie's schedule also, which I try and coincide with as much as possible."
Anthony Morton and his fiancée, Sarah, who have spent considerable amounts of time together over the last few months, also agree.
"Getting engaged does a lot; you become more mindful of your partner's feelings," said Morton. "By the time I get out of school, I will have made a lot of progress in the engagement and in the relationship."
No matter what stage the relationship is in, however, other students at Wabash choose not to pursue marriage at the present time; the recession still speaks volumes to those with undecided future plans.
"Though I'm certain she would say yes tomorrow, with the whole uncertain money thing, I've chosen not to get engaged," said junior Seth Young '11.
It is for these people that Beard shared his personal philosophy during the interview.
"You learn [as you go along in life] that you don't really know anything, so it is kind of pointless to plan ahead; too many variables. You could be prepared for bad things, but there is no way to micromanage your future."
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If anyone has seen anything like this anywhere else I'd love to know as the motivation behind it was partially that I didn't think that anyone had done it before. That and it's a beautiful place looked at in a different way and good from an educational viewpoint.
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After a raft of early-decade scandals like Enron and Worldcom, an embarrassed corporate America built and developed programs to encourage high ethical standards in the workplace. Now recession is pressuring those same companies to trim those programs.
They aren't really mission-critical, the thinking goes. You can always catch up on training next year.
There's just one problem.
Stressful periods – like the great recession of 2008-09 – are precisely the times when managers and employees most need a little help to keep them on the straight and narrow.
"In a time where the economy is bad and corporations are struggling to survive, there is more temptation to cut corners and step over the ethical line than there is in other times," says Michael Hoffman, executive director of Bentley University's Center for Business Ethics in Waltham, Mass.
There's some statistical evidence to back this up. Workplace misconduct tends to increase by at least 11 percent during periods of turmoil, including times of layoffs and budget cuts, according to a 2008 report by the Ethics Resource Center in Arlington, Va.
Also, 46 percent of executives expect fraud levels in their organizations to increase this year, according to a Compliance Week/Deloitte survey of 249 public company executives in December. Only 3.6 percent expected it to go down.
Even regulators are worried. In a rare bit of budgeting advice, the Securities and Exchange Commission in December warned firms not to make short shrift of compliance programs, which often include ethics training, when cutting expenses. Last month, panelists at a Washington, D.C., conference coached international business leaders on how to manage an effective compliance program in a resource-constrained environment.
Companies, in other words, are trying to pursue ethics on the cheap.
The Ethics & Compliance Officer Association says that at least six of its member firms have recently cut ethics budgets, and at least two others have consolidated their ethics and compliance programs. ECOA declined to name the companies. And firms making such cuts don't exactly trumpet the fact.
The question is: Is cut-rate ethics really feasible?
"The main thing that [clients] say – and this may be optimistic – is that they're deferring," says Steve Priest, president of Ethical Leadership Group, a consulting firm in Wilmette, Ill. "They're saying, 'This is not the year we can do assessments, do training, or engage managers' " in ethics initiatives.
One possible solution: Make the ethics arena more efficient.
Training may be the core testing ground for the idea. Forty percent of companies have recently decreased overall employee training and another 14 percent are considering doing the same, according to a Hewitt Associates survey of 518 executives in April. Ethics training – one of the more expensive parts of compliance programs – would be a natural area of scrutiny for corporations looking to cut costs.
"I don't think a whistle-blower hot line costs all that much, and obviously an audit is something you have to do, so the [ethics cost] issue tends to come up in terms of training," says Noah Pickus, director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University in Durham, N.C. "That's the thing that you're going to cut."
Ethics training is where workers develop skills for such challenges as saying no to bribery, spotting conflicts of interest, and treating subordinates with respect. The training impact tends to be highest through in-person interaction with instructors and colleagues, experts say, but that approach is also pricey since it may involve consultants, travel, and valuable time away from the job.
Online training, a growth area for the past five years, can help firms save on travel and other costs. Mr. Priest says companies are increasingly using Web-based seminars or "webinars" to cover content that, in the past, would have been addressed at conferences. But some in the ethics field question whether online training is very effective.
"A company comes out and says, 'All of our employees have done ethics training,' and then you ask what it is, and they've been filling out a questionnaire online," says Frank Vogl, cofounder of Transparency International, an anticorruption organization. "I wonder: Wait a second. Is that training? Does it really sink in? Or are they going through a pro forma, compliance-type operation that really doesn't have much effect?"
Ethicists say high-tech fixes aren't the only option. Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Pickus urge companies to seize a recession-induced opportunity by integrating ethics discussions into routine staff meetings. This serves the dual function of saving on outside consulting fees and making managers more active players in the formation of ethical cultures.
Corporate leaders are finding no shortage of fodder for ethics discussions. At one media company that Pickus has advised, managers have recently begun reading aloud the company's code of ethics at the start of every budget meeting. This practice reinforces values and frames every spending decision in a context of fairness and responsibility.
Still, cash-strapped companies must pick their battles. That sometimes means focusing where ethical infractions would pose the largest legal or reputational danger. For pinched clients, Daylight Forensic & Advisory sometimes does a data analysis to identify an organization's highest-risk areas and then concentrates compliance initiatives there, according to Scott Moritz, one of Daylight's executive directors.
Today's lean initiatives will have to prove their effectiveness in blunting temptations to fudge numbers, abuse power, or cheat in pressure-cooker work environments. Already in 2007, the ERC's biannual business ethics survey has found that the incidence of workplace misconduct had climbed to pre-Enron levels. Results from the 2009 survey are expected later this year.


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Is Too Much Gold, Apple a Bad Thing?
Gold and Apple dominate many portfolios and that can be a bad thing, Chuck Jaffe explains on MoneyBeat. Photo: Getty Images.
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White Villages of Cádiz, light of Spain
Explore this area of the Sierra de Cádiz, in Andalusia, and 19 unique towns.
Cádiz, in Andalusia, is full of wonderful things to see, including the White Towns, 19 inland towns and villages, each with its own history, although they all share common features: Alcalá del Valle, Algar, Algodonales, Arcos de la Frontera, Benaocaz, Bornos, El Bosque, El Gastor, Espera, Grazalema, Olvera, Prado del Rey, Puerto Serrano, Setenil de las Bodegas, Torre Alháquime, Ubrique, Villaluenga del Rosario, Villamartín and Zahara de la Sierra. The first thing that will strike you is how they look: everything is whitewashed, the streets and squares, walls and ceilings, churches, houses and mansions… The towns look like splashes of white paint scattered over the landscape, dominated by the rocky peaks of Sierra de Grazalema Nature Reserve, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.
The bright, intense light of Andalusia will accompany you on this journey among olive groves and forests of pine, holm oak, cork oak and Spanish fir, a native tree of these highlands. The area is a surprise for the traveller, just a few kilometres from the beaches of the Costa de la Luz, and ideal for visiting in spring and autumn, when the temperatures are milder. The route can also be followed on foot, by bicycle, or even on horseback.
You can choose from several different routes to explore the White Towns. A good starting point for an excursion is Arcos de la Frontera: its views of the mountain range and its old quarter are well worth a visit. The built heritage of the White Towns will surprise you, with their castles, courtyards, narrow streets and Gothic and Baroque churches, and so will their natural heritage. Caves and grottoes, canyons and waterfalls are everywhere, and the area is home to many protected species such as the Imperial Eagle, Golden Eagle, and Griffon Vulture.
As well as culture and nature, these Cádiz towns and villages are excellent bases for outdoor and adventure sports: paragliding, fishing, hunting, canoeing, rowing, hang-gliding, hiking and cycle touring.
While you are here, be sure to try the local olive oil, and some of the traditional dishes of the area - mostly stews and casseroles, hearty soups, and large and small game. To sum up, the White Towns offer historic buildings, fiestas and traditions, artisan crafts, nature, and plenty to do outdoors... Ask about them at the tourist offices, where the staff will help you plan your stay.
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Saint Michael's biology students make networking connections through internships and research work that can lead directly to employment and other post-graduate opportunities.
Students may also informally shadow professionals in careers such as human and veterinary medicine or dentistry.
Several Saint Michael's biology students have worked with Professor Declan McCabe on the Vermont Streams Project, a National Science Foundation funded, state-wide water quality study.
Professor McCabe's research team determined how macroinvertebrates can be used as indicators of water quality in local streams.
This research has the potential to affect the management of our state's waterways and their respective watersheds.


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by Lou Mancinelli
If you want to learn how to cook authentic, organic Old World meals, the organic part comes natural, or at least it used to.
"Everybody was organic those days," said Muriel Bennett, a private chef born of Moroccan parents in Marseilles, about the cooks of southern France from whom she learned the Moroccan tradition. "And no one knew it was organic."
Bennett will teach her popular class, "Moroccan Cooking," on Sunday, Feb. 12, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., via the Mt. Airy Learning Tree (MALT) for only $5. The class will take place in the home near the intersection of Elm and Willow Grove Avenues in Wyndmoor that Bennett said is reminiscent of an Italian villa. She has taught the class at least 10 times in the past.
Bennett brings with her the experience of a former private chef in San Francisco. In 1981, she came to the U.S. "because the world is small and [I] wanted to visit California." She fell in love with the place and stayed. At first, she worked as a French and Moroccan chef. In about six months, she started her own catering business and began to work private parties.
"In San Francisco in the '80s, people hired private chefs like crazy for parties," she said.
That's how she met a gentleman from Radnor she would later marry. While she is no longer married, she has lived on the east coast since 1988. And while she went to nursing school in France, she has earned her keep on the Atlantic seaboard by working as a private chef and by practicing estate management.
"I think people want authenticity," said Bennett, 56, about why a number of the people who come to her class are repeat attendees. "I didn't learn it here. I learned it from there [in Europe.]"
During her class, Bennett will set the mood with wine and music as she teaches her students how to prepare a traditional meal. She'll make a "tajine" dish, a slow-cooked stew braised at low temperatures with beef or lamb and aromatic spices. She'll also teach students how to prepare a vegetable and royal couscous.
While Moroccan meals are known for a variety of color and multiplicity of spices — cinnamon, cumin, cilantro, paprika — and dishes that can often feature fruit like raisins with the food, or salads with radish and orange, Bennett's class will feature an American (or "fast") twist to its preparation. She'll teach students to prepare the couscous grind in the microwave and cook the tajine a little faster than normal. She will do most of the prep work outside the class.
"To do the class is a labor of love," she said.
It has been a few years since Bennett has taught her interpretations of the traditional Moroccan cuisine she learned from her mother as a child in Marseilles. Then, people went to the butcher every day, she said. Cooking was an all day affair. Yet, it was also simple.
"Nothing was processed," she said. "Everything was fresh, fresh, fresh … It's sumptuous, yet people made it every day."
If her class is nearly as sonorous as a telephone conversation with Bennett, it might be a classic snapshot of old French cooking, so fabled in the kitchens of the world's greatest chefs and gourmands.
To sign up for Moroccan Cooking, or for more information, visit www.mtairylearningtree.org, email email@example.com, or call 215-843-6333.


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High School Coaches To Honor Rob Johnsonby Matt Wilson
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Rob Johnson spent 37 years as Wabash's track and field and cross country coach, but on Jan. 29 he will be honored for contributions outside of the college ranks. Johnson will be inducted into the Indiana Association of High School Track and Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame Jan. 29 at the Sheraton at Keystone, in Indianapolis.
The banquet runs from 7-9:45 p.m. and will be part of the IATCCC annual clinic Jan. 28-30.
"This is quite an honor," Johnson said. "They kept telling me to bring my resume in and show them what all of my accomplishments were, but I never did, they must have just seen my information on my coaches bio on the Web site.
"There are a lot of prominent people connected with the organization that I watched growing up as athletes."
This marks the second time Johnson will be inducted to a Hall of Fame. He also was named to the Wabash College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994.
The morning of his Jan. 29 induction, Johnson will speak at the clinic about the 4 x 100-meter relay.
When Johnson first came to Crawfordsville in 1970, he started working with Bloomington South coach Marshall Goss. He spent time with Goss looking over high school clippings and rankings and also putting a newsletter together with cross country results. Johnson helped keep the newsletter going for several years before high school coaches took over.
Johnson has spoken at high school clinics numerous times.
Other coaches being inducted on Jan. 29 include North Central's Bruce Blomberg and James Johnson, Sr. of Hobart. Female athletes being inducted are Jessica Gall, West Lafayette; Andrea Kremer, Bishop Chatard; Christina Poulson, Delta; and Morgan Uceny, Plymouth. Male athletes being inducted include Leroy Dixon, South Bend LaSalle; Mark Jelks, Gary West; David Neville, Merriville; and Don Young, Gary Roosevelt.
Johnson was nominated for the honor by North Montgomery track and field coach Ed Stuffle, who also serves as the IATCCC Academic All-State Track and Field Chairman.
"Once is a while, they will honor people from outside of the high school association that they still feel have contributed to high school track and cross country," Johnson said. "I want to thank coach Stuffle and the other coaches from around the area, because this really is a nice honor."
Johnson invited former Southmont coach Ron Hess and his wife to be his guests at the banquet. He also invited Crawfordsville track and field coach Brian Miller, who during his senior year at Southmont won the state championship in the 440-meter dash in 1979. Miller won't be able to attend because he's taking his nephew on a college visit.
"I invited coach Hess because I really appreciated the fact that he would bring in some inner-city schools to his meets," Johnson said. "He also did a good job of developing state-ranked talent in both the distance and sprint events."
Johnson's immediate family also will be at the banquet.
Johnson's coaching success went beyond just helping at the high school level. During Johnson's time at Wabash, was named the NCAA Division III Cross Country Coach of the Year in 1995. Johnson was one of five assistant coaches for the
United States Track & Field team at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. He was the first Division III coach to make that claim.
In 1981, Johnson served as an assistant coach at the National Sports Festival in New York, and one year later he coached sprints, relays and hurdles in Ethiopia as part of the Olympic Solidarity Project. He also was the head track coach for the North Team at the 1983 Olympics Sports Festival in Colorado Springs and was an assistant for the US Junior National Team, which set two world records. He also was the sprint and relay coach for the US Track Team at the 1983 World University Games.
Johnson came to Wabash the same year Stuffle came to North Montgomery. Johnson gave Stuffle the opportunity to start officiating at the NCAA level in the mid-1970s.
"We crossed paths on many issues over the years about a multitude of ideas concerning events and competition," Stuffle said. "He has been very successful in the training of athletes in many different events and has had quality team representation at the national level. His success has been rewarded a number of times with him being selected to coach and/or train world class elite athletes at many track and field venues across the United States.
"His selection as one of the U.S.A. coaches at the Olympics was his ultimate reward for the study he has done in the sport. His clinic presentations are super, because he talks to the coaches instead of at the coaches, as many collegiate coaches will do. He will help any new or veteran coach, at any time, because he truly cares about the success of the sport."
Photos - (top right) Johnson working with high school students at the Wabash Summer Hurdle Clinic in 2009.
(Bottom left) Johnson (right) with All-American runner Geoff Lambert after Lambert finished second in the 800-meter run at the 2007 NCAA Division III Indoor Nationals.


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Well, it finally snowed on January 2nd, and it stayed like that since. It's all white, beautiful, and it's much warmer, like without any snow, but it came too late. Not to mention that snowball fights IN the classroom is one thing I hate the most.
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The US snowy climate must be changing...the forecasts stay terrible, something to the tone of 4-6 inches where I live, yet the next morning all I see is a clear sky and a 3cm light layer of half-melted snow on the ground. Nothing seems to accumulate anymore since 4 years ago.
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Germany, probobly last day of snow, since we had 5°C for now and tomorrow, probobly 6 - 7°C.
In west, we had much snow and the streets werent free so everyone had to be special careful while driving. The last time, we had this much snow was round about 10 years ago.
I personal prefer sommer with warm to hot temperatures but to see the snow, that changed the whole scene was beautiful.
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Yep in France too there is snow today, it's great But it doesn't snow anymore. It's been a long time since i've seen so much snow in a year ! My best snow experience was when i was on winter sports holiday with my best friend and spent the entire day doing luge and all ! That was very funny I want to go back on a winter sports holiday
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God I wish we had some snow right now to cool it all down. It was 30 C today and we're heading for 40 C at the weekend.
And I don't have air con.
That being said. My only real memories of snow from when I lived in the states was a day or two off school and breaking my back shoveling that damn driveway.
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There is a snow thread, which this'll prob get merged with, but yeah. London gets the most in 18 years and I'm not home to enjoy the national holiday T_T
(as in all buses were cancelled, planes grounded, trains suspended, most schools nationwide closed, most pple stayed home on monday as public transport was shot to hell.)
London in white
Brits get creative with the snow
In pictures, tho there are tons of them. I gotta say London can be quite beautiful in white
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The snow has returned to the United Kingdom, and England is experiencing its most worst (and very much affecting) blizzard since 18 years ago.
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Hoilman, an A-Sun first team selection, is only the third player in the program's history to be named the conference player of the year joining Caleb Moore and Gary Roninette. Hoilman is also one of only five ETSU players that have received first team honors in back to back seasons.
A local product, Hoilman leads the Atlantic Sun in batting average (.428), hits (95), runs (76), home runs (24), total bases (194) and slugging percentage (.874). On the season, Hoilman set new single season school records for hits, runs, home runs, total bases, RBI and extra base hits (49).
Joining Hoilman on the All-Conference first team is Trent who is hitting .358 with 16 doubles, 13 home runs and 63 runs driven in. A Bench Award semifinalist, Trent leads the Atlantic Sun having thrown out 23 runners on the year.
Reeder earned All-Conference for the second straight season as he was named to the A-Sun second team. Reeder is second on the team with a .359 average and 19 home runs. The third baseman also has ten doubles, three triples and 60 RBI.
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text: Day 1. Sat Mar 8 2008 Austin, Texas, 114 miles to Devine, Texas Each March, for five years running now, I dust the cobwebs off my trusty (+rusty) 1985 Harley Davidson Low Rider (aka The Green Hornet) and take it places angels fear to tread. Namely road trip Mexico way. This year were no different 'cept my usual riding partner would not be accompaning me. This would a solo ride. The Lone Wolf rides again. At 6pm Saturday night, I was finally leaving my casa. Lord, why does it take me so long to pack? Once on the road all my misgivings evaporate. I don't care about time anymore. No deadlines. I finally feel like I'm on vacation. Logged 114 miles to Devine Texas, just south of San Antonio, where I checked into your basic overpriced ($60 night) frumpy motel room. Stained carpet. Torn upholstery. (No rooms at the La Quinta in San Antonio.) I was pretty layered-up against the cold, and almost warm actually. Tee shirt, long johns, long sleeved heavy flannel shirt, pull-over goose-down shirt, AlpineStars riding jacket, and finally the rain jacket for its wind cutting properties. The little East Indian man at the Country Corner Inn motel said, in broken English, "You-have-a-lot-of-jackets." Yeah, lots of jackets. Oh, you-have-motorcycle. Oh, and by the way, I have no idea where I'm going. I'm just pointed south. Ok, I'm headed for Cuartocienegas, Coahuila, Mexico, but from there, I'm not real sure. Day 1


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The Avondale gallery that's helped Northeast Florida art lovers meet world-renowned artists Peter Max and Mackenzie Thorpe and actress-turned-artist Jane Seymour is closing on or before April 20.
Avondale Artworks proprietor Ken Stutes told Folio Weekly that "revenues haven't been sufficient to justify continuing it," and parking in Avondale had become a problem for visitors to his gallery.
Avondale Artworks has also hosted the works of Salvador Dalí, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Dr. Seuss and others; it was open nearly five years at two locations on St. Johns Avenue.
"I really liked the Dali exhibits. We had over 107 pieces. We had six original works by Dali," Stutes said. "Being able to bring that work into Jacksonville was incredible to me."
Stutes reminisced about the interactions he and visitors had with the artists. He was at first hesitant to display Thorpe's "Leap of Faith," because it depicted children jumping off cliffs.
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The Dudgeons were farmers in Taylor County, Kentucky. Things appeared to be fine for the Dudgeon family until 1875. Their home was ravaged by a bout with diphtheria killing Shelby, Emma and Martha all within two weeks. George Senior would have been left with three children under the age of ten. Two years later he married a woman named Linda Lyle and the couple had three more children.
Sometime between 1883 and 1886 the Dudgeon family left Kentucky and moved to Ray County, Missouri. I determined this based off of the birth places of two of George's half siblings: Ernest, born in Kentucky in 1883, and Fannie, born in Missouri in 1886. George Tate Dudgeon married Elizabeth Riffe on March 20, 1890. If documentation is correct, Elizabeth or Lizzie was only 15 at the time. The couple were farmers and lived in Grape Grove township of Ray County. The couple had six children and the 1900 census states one of them had died by that time. I have been unable to locate the name or burial place of that child. I only assume they fall between Ottie and Alberta based on the large gap between birth dates there.
The Dudgeons lived in Grape Grove for the rest of their lives. George remained a farmer and he rented his land. I do not know much about the Dudgeons. Like many rural residents, they are not mentioned in any local histories. I have not done an extensive search for them in the local paper, but I'm fairly sure I wouldn't find much.
George lived to be 72 and died as the result of a stroke on February 14, 1941. He is buried next to his wife in the New Hope Cemetery, near Millville, Missouri.
George's Obituary (Sadly, I do not have the paper source, but have still chosen to post)
Millville, Missouri 1941
Funeral services for George Tate Dudgeon, 72 years old, were held at the Millville Methodist church Sunday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. H.T. McGrew. Mr. Dudgeon died Friday afternoon at his home in Millville.
He was born September 17, 1868, the son of George and Mattie Lou (Phillips) Dudgeon, and had spent 50 years of his life in Ray County.
On March 20, 1890 he was married to Elizabeth Riffe, who survives. Other survivors are: two sons Elmer Dudgeon, Millville; and Cecil Dudgeon of St. Joseph; three daughters, Mrs. Minnie Lee White, Mrs. Ottie may Carter, and Mrs. Bertie Layman all of Orrick; two brothers, Thurman Dudgeon of Orrick and James Dudgeon of Cameron; a half-brother and two half-sisters and fifteen grandchildren.
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The year is 1899 and you are currently visiting the Last Name: choose from 1-100 family, a nice upper-middle-class family in Manhattan, New York. Topics range from what to expect in the next century, your travels, children, old stories, President McKinley's campaign, and that beautiful chiffon your hostess bought for her eldest's honeymoon evening wear.
The couple is made up of...
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*born in 1850
*earnest, long-time clerk at a local bank
& his wife of 20 years,
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*born in 1864
*daughter of a hardworking immigrant family from (you choose)
They have been blessed with seven healthy children aged 1, 9, 13, 13, 16, 18 & 19.
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DD2: First Name Middle Name (b. 1881)
DS1: same first and middle name as his father (b. 1883)
DS2/DD3: Boy's First Name Boy's Middle Name/Girl's First Name Girl's Middle Name (b. 1886)
DS3: First Name Middle Name (mother's maiden name) (b. 1890)
DD4: First Name Middle Name (b. 1898)
After a lovely visit with your friends (and a wonderful dinner!) it is time to head back to the train station. You promise to keep in touch while you travel and hope to visit again sooner than later - in the next century at least
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LOS ANGELES : An AIDS activist group filed a workplace safety complaint against Larry Flynt on Thursday, accusing the porn king of creating an unsafe environment for his stable of sex stars by not requiring they use condoms.
To illustrate its point, the AIDS Health Foundation also delivered 100 DVDS of hardcore Flynt films to the state Division of Occupational Safety and Health's Los Angeles office. Only a single scene in one of the films shows a performer using a condom, said AHF spokesman Ged Kenslea.
The films, most with innuendo-laden names, "clearly demonstrate workplace activities highly likely to spread bloodborne pathogens in the workplace," the complaint says. It urges the state agency to order the use of condoms on film sets.
Larry Flynt Productions President Michael Klein indicated that is an unreasonable demand, adding porn audiences don't want to watch people using condoms.
"We won't budge when it comes to condomless productions," he said in a statement. "That's what the consumer wants, and we deliver it."
Federal law requires that all porn actors be tested for HIV 30 days before the start of filming, and Klein said Flynt's productions adhere to those standards. He added that none of the company's actors has ever tested positive for HIV.
AHF President Michael Weinstein said his group targeted Flynt in part because he is arguably the world's most famous and successful pornographer. Hours before filing the complaint, AHF members, clad in bright red shirts, demonstrated outside the plush Beverly Hills skyscraper that is home to Larry Flynt Productions.
Earlier this year, the group brought similar complaints against nine talent agencies it says promote actors willing to have unprotected sex on camera. Cal-OSHA spokeswoman Krisann Chasarik said Thursday those complaints prompted an investigation, although she didn't know the status of it.
Depending on the nature of a complaint, Chasarik said, Cal-OSHA can launch a workplace inspection or ask that an employer prove the complaint is groundless.
"Our next step now would be to evaluate the complaint," she said of Thursday's filing.
According to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, workers in the adult film industry are 10 times more likely to be infected with a sexually transmitted disease than members of the general population. The department documented 2,013 cases of chlamydia and 965 cases of gonorrhea among workers between 2003 and 2007, and noted that some performers had four or more separate infections over the course of a year.
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Congratulations, You're Man-Pregnant
Yes, we men play a role in baby-making, but it's small. And it's over superfast. What can we really know about what the mothers of our children go through during those nine months? With help from Japanese scientists
I stand over the giant cardboard box with the Japanese postmark, kind of looking forward to and kind of dreading what waits inside it. I slice open the packing tape and there it is: my pregnancy suit. It looks a little like a flak jacket—a froggy shade of green, ribbed with stitching, and made from nylon thick enough to bend a butcher knife. The Velcro straps come together over each shoulder and three times around the back. Its breasts are as round and hard as tennis balls. And the belly beneath them swells with a giant gel dome zippered into a sleeve. Weighted bags fill another compartment, each bag meant to replicate another month of pregnancy. This is not a Halloween costume. This is my reality. For the next few months, I am going to be a mother-to-be.
When our son was born, when my wife tried to breast-feed him, he had trouble latching on and began to precipitously lose weight. It would have been easier to stir up some formula, but my wife was determined: Her gyno-Guinness would not go to waste. So every time the boy woke up to feed, she would pump, and I would ready a bottle and kick back in the recliner with him. For the first five months, before he began sleeping through the night, this was our routine, so that I fed him through his infancy, the boundary between mother and father blurred, which seems indicative of a larger trend.
No one has bought me the World's Greatest Father coffee mug yet, and I don't deserve one. I'm crabby. I'm impatient. I wear skull T-shirts. I kind of look forward to my children growing old enough to walk twenty yards ahead of me in the mall and pretend I don't exist. But male empathy— at least among the co-op-shopping, NPR- listening crowd—seems never to have been greater. And when I see a man coaching in the junior soccer league, or watching his kids for the week while his wife travels for business, or shopping for groceries while patiently playing spelling games with his 5-year-old, I know I should do better.
I never felt like a better father than when tucked into that La-Z-Boy, feeding my son, his wrinkled face hardly distinguishable from the swaddle surrounding him. Maybe, ridiculously, the pregnancy suit will bring me back to that time. Maybe—by helping me experience the one thing unavailable to men as parents—it will be more than a costume, but a way for me to alter my point of view, deepen my empathy, help me overcome my mouth-breathing-caveman deficiencies.
The pregnancy suit was shipped to me by the Kanagawa Institute of Technology, where a scientist and professor named Dr. Takayuki Kosaka has headed up the development of an even more technologically advanced pregnancy simulator, the Mommy Tummy, which somehow hooks up to a computer and supposedly replicates nine months of weight gain and balance struggles and baby kicking. In a few months Kosaka will host me outside Tokyo, where I'll try it out. It is hard to know what to expect. I imagine I will swim through a giant glass vaginal channel in a white scuba suit or be strapped to a table and stabbed with hormone-oozing needles, all while Dr. Kosaka studies me and takes diligent notes on a clipboard.
But in the meantime, because part of the agony of pregnancy is how long it lasts— and experiencing the extent of the agony is kinda the point—I've agreed to wear the rudimentary prosthetic he has mailed me for a nine-week term. And if the women in my life love me for it, all the better.
At first it feels cumbersome, parasitic. I knock into walls, tables, door-ways. I cannot fit it under my clothes, so I wear it on the outside, my torso green and rounded, turtled. I do push-ups in my pregnancy suit. I mow the lawn in my pregnancy suit. I chop wood in my pregnancy suit. I read the newspaper in my pregnancy suit and rest a steaming mug of coffee on the belly. I sweat in the pregnancy suit—horribly—and I develop a rash and begin to smell fungal. I do not have sex in the pregnancy suit.
I wear the pregnancy suit to a neighborhood gathering, where the men slug me in the gut and the women tenderly pat my back and say Bless your heart and my 6-year-old son pulls me aside and tells me I really ought to take the thing off, I'm embarrassing him. Of course I expect the attention—the funny expressions, the eager hands, the endless questions—but that doesn't mean I like it. I am reminded of the strangers who would approach my wife, once she started to really show in her second trimester, and put their hands on her stomach without asking. She always smiled at them through gritted teeth, because she knew what I know now: When you're pregnant, you become public property.
Often I whistle or sing under my breath. There was a time when I might have sounded like a jukebox worth listening to—as I favored Johnny Cash or Guns N' Roses or the Rolling Stones—but that time is over. I now sing along to the Laurie Berkner Band. (I have tried without success to cure the constant flow of kindie rock by blasting Led Zeppelin on the stereo and leaning into the noise.) And now, at Cub Foods, when I stand before the meat counter and eye up the porterhouse cuts, I find myself humming Chim chim- en-ney, chim chim-en-ney, chim chim cha- roo. One of my hands grips a shopping basket. The other rests on my pregnant belly. When the butcher, in his bloodied apron, narrows his eyes and asks if I need any help, I get the feeling he isn't talking about the meat selection.
I clear my throat and hitch my pregnancy suit and in the deepest voice I can muster ask him to round me up some steaks. "Big ones." In the produce section, I am approached by a woman with scissored jean shorts and dark roots showing beneath her highlighter-yellow hair. "Um, what are you wearing?"
"A pregnancy suit."
"So that I know what it feels like to be pregnant."
"Like in that Arnold Schwarzenegger movie?"
"Junior. Yeah. Pretty much."
Our friends Jeremy and Abi crash at our place for the weekend. When I answer the door and welcome them in, I am greeted by stunned silence. Then Abi claps a hand over her mouth to muffle a laugh that sounds like a strangled bird. She has three children, and her hand falls from her mouth to her stomach, remembering. "I'm having shortness of breath just looking at you."
Of course she wants to try on the pregnancy suit. Every woman wants to try on the pregnancy suit. In part they are motivated by nostalgia—all of them, like Abi, instantly begin to rock their hips and rub the belly—but more so by their compulsive dissatisfaction. They know, long before they Velcro the straps over their shoulders, that the suit cannot possibly substitute for the nine-month imprisonment they endured. "How long do you have to wear this, again?" she says.
"Nine weeks."
_The author traveled to Tokyo to meet Dr. Takayuki Kosaka and take his Mommy Tummy pregnancy simulator for a spin. _
"Nine weeks?" Her tone of voice implies, Nice try, pussy.
Abi circles the kitchen table. She grabs the back of a chair and squats so low her knees pop. "I guess it's all right." She has a way of narrowing her eyes that seems at once bemused and suspicious. "But you don't get the boob weight and the pressure. You don't have the itchy skin or the swollen ankles. Your bladder doesn't feel like there's a hot brick sitting on it. Maybe they should inject you with hormones? Maybe you should wear ankle weights? And roll around in poison ivy?"
She lies on the floor and rolls one way, then the other, using her arm to sling the belly. "And it doesn't pull everything around." She wrinkles her mouth at my wife. "Do you remember that? When you lie on your side, there's that side thing? Your guts get yanked around? I hated that."
Jeremy helps her up and loosens the straps, and the suit drops to the floor so heavily that the dishes in the cabinets rattle.
Everyone stands around staring at the thing for a minute, and then Abi says, "Well?"
"Well what?"
"What are you waiting for? Put it on. It's your baby."
I shrug on the suit once more and then dig four Fat Tires from the fridge and pour them into pint glasses. Just before I am about to raise my glass in a toast, Abi says, "What are you doing?"
"Having a beer."
"No way."
"Yeah," my wife says and snatches the beer and drinks from it, and the foam mustaches her upper lip. "No way."
"Think about the baby."
"How about a nice sparkling water?"
But nothing. For the rest of the night, I pretend my Perrier is vodka. When I first agreed to this experiment, I thought women would respect me for it, pat me on the back, and say what a sweet, understanding man I am. Instead they seem to take glee in my discomfort and relish pointing out the suit's inadequacies. "Good start. But is there some way I can make you bleed seven days a month?" a female friend posts on my Facebook page.
"Go sit down," Abi says. "Go sit down on that soft sofa right now. Yeah. Uh-huh. Comfortable yet? Now try to get up. It's hard, isn't it?"
I am sweating heavily. I go to crank up the air conditioner, and my wife pauses my hand and says leave it, she's perfectly comfortable.
"You're not hot?" I say.
Her voice steadily rises in volume when she says, "You know when I was hot? Constantly? When I was pregnant."
I make my way to the kitchen for another Perrier. "Look at him!" she says, her laughter like the sound of a knife being sharpened. "He's waddling!"
The Japanes customs agents at Narita International Airport do not like the pregnancy suit. Not one bit. They wear white gloves when they unzip its compartments and remove the weighted bags, the giant gel stomach, and turn them over and hold them up to the light and pose questions in a language I cannot understand. They wave over more agents. They have the pregnancy suit surrounded.
I tell them I am here to visit Dr. Takayuki Kosaka at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology. I tell them he invented the Mommy Tummy, the Cadillac of pregnancy suits. The portable vest they're inspecting, the one I've been wearing the past nine weeks, will seem prehistoric by comparison. For a long minute they whisper among themselves. Then one of the agents approaches me. "You mean like Junior?" he says.
Hours later I am wandering through Tokyo in my Carhartts, my boots, and my pregnancy suit. Wherever I go—Shinjuku Station, Piss Alley, Central Park—more and more people seem to follow me, orbit me, as if my increased mass has given me the gravity of a sun. Cicadas scream. Neon signs flash. Clouds of cigarette smoke and metallic thunder spill out of pachinko parlors. Sweat runs down my back, darkens my armpits. I am jet-lagged, sleep-deprived. My legs ache from the thirteen-hour flight. My guts feel twisted up with airline food. Maybe this is what my wife and Abi were talking about. Maybe this is a dose of the misery they endured.
I take the train to meet Dr. Kosaka, an hour out of Tokyo. People jam in all around me, and it isn't until three stops later that I find a seat. No one speaks. Everyone is reading, staring at their phone, or listening to music. The man next to me wears the standard uniform of most office workers: a white-collared short-sleeve tucked into black slacks. A magazine is split open in his lap. He licks his finger and snaps through the pages. I see an anime lady giving a blow job. I see another bent over a table. I blink hard, thinking thirty hours without sleep has finally caught up with me. I later learn that it is not uncommon in Japan to see men consuming porn in public, but right now I am shocked and fascinated, even more so when I lean in to see another naked cartoon woman being strangled and penetrated, her face geisha white.
His face reveals no emotion when he looks up at me. He glances at my distended belly and returns to his magazine.
This is what Dr. Kosaka is battling, a culture he claims remains rather insensitive to women. We meet in the glass-walled, concrete-floored laboratory at the Kanagawa Institute, where he teaches as an assistant professor. He is no great and terrible Oz, more of a Wonka, a boyish 34 with floppy hair parted down the middle. He speaks through a translator and wears black-framed glasses, a striped button-down, and tight blue-black jeans.
I un-Velcro the mobile pregnancy suit and return it to him with an "Arigatou." He bows. I bow, and as I do, I notice how easy it is, the absence of mass at my center, as if a part of me is missing.
Kosaka asks how long I wore the suit, and I say nine weeks, and he says something the translator doesn't bother repeating, what I guess must be, "Jesus, that is a long freaking time." Most men wear it for a few minutes, maybe a few hours. His smile grows wider.
He tours me through the laboratory. Students tinker with a solar car. A professor readies a piece of wood beneath a laser that cuts designs into puzzles. From the ceiling hangs a glider as big as a pterodactyl. Kosaka talks about the initial spark that led him to develop the Mommy Tummy. He kept seeing pregnant women standing on the trains and subways. Men seemed to dutifully ignore them, never offering to give up their seats or help carry a bag.
"I know!" I say. "The same thing totally happened to me. I had to wait like three stops before I finally sat down."
He looks at the translator, who shrugs, and we continue.
Right now Kosaka travels the world with the Mommy Tummy, visiting technology conventions, and he hopes one day to sell the suits to schools, hospitals, parenting classes. He hopes to create a kinder man. He hopes for empathy. There is a population decline in Japan, he says. Many believe this is due to the rising professionalism of women. Their husbands won't help, their bosses won't accommodate them, so they choose not to have children at all. Kosaka hopes to battle this insensitivity with the Mommy Tummy, creating a greater awareness and consideration for pregnant women. He hopes to maybe even develop a remote unit that men might wear surreptitiously, something that will connect them to their wives and let them know when their baby is kicking. We arrive at his corner of the lab, where the Mommy Tummy is laid out on a mat. At the moment, it appears to be nothing more than a pink dress, cupcake-patterned and tied around the middle by ribbons with strawberries at their tips. Kosaka sewed it himself, out of the girliest materials he could find, as an antidote to what he calls macho Japanese posturing: "I want a man to feel as feminine as possible when wearing this." I want to tell him that no man—Japanese, American, or Kiwi—would ever wear this thing, but I don't want to crush his spirits.
He helps fit me into it. All around us, students and professors pause to smile. Some of them call out to us, and some of them whisper among themselves. The pregnancy suit seems a curiosity even in the laboratory where it was born.
He tours me through the laboratory. Students tinker with a solar car. A professor readies a piece of wood beneath a laser that cuts designs into puzzles. From the ceiling hangs a glider as big as
What looks like a long umbilical cord, as wide as my arm, reaches from the dress to a mainframe unit that branches off into a computer and air compressor. He asks if I'm ready. I nod, and he switches on the system. Not all at once, but in swelling increments, the dress comes alive.
I notice first the familiar heaviness as the belly gurgles full of hot water. My breasts begin to swell, constricting my breathing. At the computer terminal, Kosaka points out an image. "Your child," he calls it. At one month, then two months, then three, it looks like some Silly Putty crossbreed of snake and mole. Eventually it morphs into something more human, a big-headed infant curled up like a shrimp. My belly and breasts continue to grow. Four months, five. And then, for the first time, after nine weeks of dead weight, I feel something move. I know it's not real—three layers of balloons mimic fetal movement—but I can't help but feel giddiness and horror, the willful delusion that a creature lives inside me. I feel a hard kick, a fluttering of fists. What could be a head presses into my bladder. I am reminded of the chest-bursters from Alien.
Kosaka holds out a tube of lipstick. When I reach for it, he drops it to the floor. "Pick it up," he says. I want to tell him, "You pick it up, asshole," but I do as he says. With some difficulty, I fall to one knee and fetch the lipstick and lumber up and return it to him. He drops it again. Then again. Then he orders me to lie on my back.
On the computer screen the 8-month-old baby stares back at me. My belly squirms and bulges. The baby is restless, rolling around like an insomniac trying to find the cool side of a pillow. "My baby is so pissed!" I say. Synthetic fibers spiderweb the suit and serve as conductors that react to my touch. Kosaka tells me to rub the belly gently and soothe the child. I do, and the kicking slows, the baby calms. I try, and fail, to stand up. I roll on my side—then, with a heave, end up on all fours. Kosaka appears before me and refuses my hand when I reach up. "It's hard, isn't it?" he says. "It's hard to be a woman."
I think of my wife, red-faced from a severe contraction, bowing over her pregnant belly, crying softly as the doctor fumbled the epidural into her spine. I think of my mother, who refers to my sister and me as her life's work, and I think of my father, who brags about never having changed a diaper in his life. I think of Hemingway, who said, "To be a successful father, there's one absolute rule: When you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years."
And in this cupcake-patterned apron, with this robot fetus prodding and bulging against my torso, I cannot help but feel as though I am back in the living room with Abi and my wife yelling at me, disciplining me, punishing me, as if I were not one man but many men, all men, a faceless mass of hair and penis and cluelessness spanning generations. It's almost like, with their cruel, badgering insistence, the women want a confession or some kind of acknowledgement. So I give it to them. "Yes!" I say. "Yes! It is hard!"
I turn to Kosaka and, with the well-earned impatience of a woman in labor, say, "Now get me out of this thing."
Benjamin Percy's new novel, Red Moon, _ comes out in May._


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|2006-04-08, 18:41
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Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
Kirarin Revolution
This is a pure shoujo title that airs at 6 p.m. Saturdays, and is probably aimed at pre- and early-teen girls. But I loved the first episode.
It is the story of Kirari, a very cute 14-year-old who loves to eat. She meets a guy on the street and falls in love. He gives her a ticket to his show. It turns out that he is a member of an idol group. In order to get close to him, she determines to become an idol, too. It's a crazy comedy. She dreams of food, gobbles down stacks of pancakes, and often seems to have drool coming out of her mouth (except when she is being impossibly cute). And she has a little mascot animal that rides around on her head (nobody seems to take much notice) and has the means to defend her from danger. Kirari herself is a nice combination of gluttonous child, bold heroine, and pretty idol.
I enjoyed the shoujo look and character design, with the impossibly large eyes. And I thought the chibi-face moments were used as well as I have ever seen them used.
The voice acting isn't great. The star is an idol from Morning Musume, Kusumi Koharu. She sounds older, but is supposed to be 13. I often defend untrained seiyuu as bringing something special to a role, but in this case I found her voice difficult to hear and either unexpressive or over-expressive. But the character still works really well for me. The animation is quite witty, in my opinion. The star does the OP and ED, neither of which I found anything special, but both of which I enjoyed.
All in all, I enjoyed episode 1 a lot more than I expected. I found it very warm and funny. YMMV. On 2channel, there are mild supporters and strong detractors. And people who just lust after the very idol-like Kirari.
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official site (very sparse)
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|2006-04-12, 23:52
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Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
episode 01 raw
I've blogged episode 1. I liked it just as much when I watched it for the third time. There are caps and a full summary on the blog.
I kind of doubt this will have much resemblance to Ashita no Nadja or Princess Tutu, but I found it really funny.
It's refreshing for me to find a show I like that doesn't air after midnight. How I can like the humor in this when I like Suzumiya Haruhi and Dai Mahou Touge so much? Can there be some hidden similarity? Well, all three are totally absurd....
|2006-04-13, 15:56
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Lolli for loli :D
I've got the job of translating this for Shinki fansubs. I love the character designs. Kirari LOOKS like the 14-year-old that she is and thank god she doesn't have the C-cup figure that seems to be trendy in SHOUJO, yes, SHOUJO series nowadays. XP
This show is really cute but I am not impressed by Kirari's seiyuu so far. She needs to sound.....cuter? Kirari herself is pretty kawaii but I wish she wasn't such a glutton.-_- I hate it when they do that to shoujo heroines-it's just repulsive,degrading, DUMB, and really not funny. But.....Hiroto? LUV
|2006-04-22, 00:47
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Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
episode 3 raw
I just had a chance to watch episode 3 and found myself laughing out loud several times. This is not the series to watch if you demand originality or real tension. But if you like to have these buttons pushed, this show pushes them beautifully well. This week we have the nasty competitor (with her own nasty little companion animal). You can guess how their audition may turn out, but the ride is a lot of fun. Like I said before: fun for the whole family.
I now have confidence in the producers of this show. Whether I'll be able to blog it or not, I'm not sure, but I'm in for a while. Really funny and cute. And although the real idol seiyuu who voices Kirari has a very raw voice, she makes the character work for me in some bizarre way. Of course, I don't mind the meme of the beautiful girl who turns into a sloppy glutton at the drop of a fork. I think it may be a way of honoring the child within.
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|2006-04-22, 11:21
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Lolli for loli :D
Lucky you-I'm still waiting for l33t raws to release epsiode 3. >_< Hm, the eating thing, yeah it still bugs me but I read somewhere that Japanese like to show characters eating a lot because it indicates that the character is healthy? Or something? *shrug* It's crazy-Kirari's such a tiny little girl-wtf does all the food go? XD
The opening song is starting to grow on me. I still don't favor the voice but it is quite catchy now.
I ordered the first volume of the manga and will post info about it once I get to read it. I think I know who Kirari is really going to end up with...
|2006-04-25, 19:14
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Still trying to decide...
Kaoru-san, I think you should definitely blog this series, especially since that no one else is. This is not surprising since its target audiences do not have a blog to run.
Chiibi, is this Shinki fansubs going to release any episode any time soon? Also, I think the 6th volume kind of finalizes the couples since Kirari realizes her true feelings or something.
Lastly, can any of you weager a guess at how many episodes this would run for?
|2006-04-27, 23:47
|Link #8
Lolli for loli :D
Also, I just recieved my copy of volume one of the manga! Here's the juice:
*Kirari-chan's not as gluttonous-what a surprise.-_- She still likes crepes and eating in general but we don't see her cram her otherwise pretty face half as much. There was no devouring a barrel of apples, a mountain of hotcakes OR a whole ham.-_-
*Here I was wondering where her mother was in the show but the manga hasn't even shown either one of her parents and there ain't no chipmunk granny yet either.
*Erina does not have ugly mascot dog. She is still an evil little bitch though. XD
*Hiroto and Seiji are pretty much the same. However Hiroto is just a tiny bit more playful...^^
*In case anyone was wondering, Naa-san is a male cat.
With the exception of extra characters and very very minor changes, the anime follows the first manga chapters quite loyally. What wasn't shown in the manga though, was Kirari's determination speech and all the boys clapping for her in episode 2. Kinda disappointing, ne?
|2006-05-02, 14:23
|Link #12
Mahou Shoujo~!
I saw this series at the gym for the first time last week and was shocked that no one was subbing it yet. It seems to be prime fandom material if you ask me. Even if it is kinda silly and cheesy. (Yes, the MoMusu seiyuu is soooo bad...)
|2006-05-02, 14:57
|Link #13
Hajimari no Kaze
doinkies is also following this series, partially because I'm a sucker for anime about idol singers (especially if they're shoujo), and partially because I like Morning Musume. Yes, I admit it, I like Morning Musume and I'm not ashamed of it! That said, compared to, say, myco in FMoS, Kusumi Koharu's acting is rather...doinky. Her singing is better than her acting, I think. Hopefully her acting will improve as the series goes on. Also anxiously waiting the cameo appearance of Yoshizawa Hitomi (another MoMusu member). And chiibi, if you need any help translating KR for Shinki, please PM doinkies...^^
*wonders why ep 4 raw hasn't been posted on TT yet...*
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|2006-05-05, 09:34
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Lolli for loli :D
|2006-05-07, 18:09
|Link #16
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Still trying to decide...
Is volume 06 the last volume of the manga? I did not think so, but since its summary is filled words like "final confrontation" and "true feelings," I really am not sure. I do think that the manga is coming to a close, and I think that the anime would strive to end after the manga ends. But then again, I am always wrong.
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|2006-05-07, 18:30
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Still trying to decide...
Sorry for the double post, but I do not know how long my post can be before it gets deleted.
I saw episode 05 and I liked the fact that the main characters are very well-drawn. I am not looking forward to 06, however, since I saw at least 3 scenes in the trailer that has been recycled from the previous episodes.
Koharu-chan is not getting any better, but one does get used to her. Some websites have claimed that her single for OP and ED is coming out July 12th, so MM fans may have something to look for.
I wonder when the singing in the anime actually starts, since the longer the postpone goes, the longer the series would be, not that I am complaining, of course.
I found the description for volume 03 of the manga in a language I could understand and it said: (I don't know if this qualifies as a spoiler, but since I do not know how to use the spoiler tags yet, do not read the paragraph below if you do not want to be spoiled)
edit: Yeah! I learned how to use the spoiler tags!
edit: Looking forward to the angst that's bound to come!
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|2006-05-07, 21:48
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Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Still trying to decide...
Also, Konami is developing a DS game for this series called Kirarin Revolution: Kira Kira Idol Audition. I guess this anime is rather popular in Japan, which is a contrast to the apathy here. Who knows? If it gets subbed, it might be a little bit more popular.
|2006-05-08, 12:12
|Link #20
worshipping the pantyhose
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Manila, Philippines
You know, ever since I watched the first episode I always get reminded of MMPPP (Mermaid Melody). The big eyes, the cute innocence, the...yes, I like this series.
Wanna know the contradiction? I hate food. Period.
love that eye-catch
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Task-based language teaching is now a well-established pedagogic approach but problematic issues remain, such as whether it is appropriate for all learners and in all instructional contexts. This book draws on the authors experience of working with teachers, together with his knowledge of relevant research and theory, to examine the key issues. It proposes flexible ways in which tasks can be designed and implemented in the language classroom to address the problems that teachers often face with task-based language teaching. It will appeal to researchers and teachers who are interested in task-based language teaching and the practical and theoretical issues involved. It will also be of interest to students and researchers working in the areas of applied linguistics, TESOL and second language acquisition.
Rod Ellis has written (yet another) agenda-setting book, this time charting a journey through key issues in task-based language teaching. This is a must-read for researchers committed to the pedagogic relevance of their work, and for language educators in search of a deeper understanding of task-based research and pedagogy.- Jonathan Newton, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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She entered the congregation of Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters on Oct. 30, 1947, and made first vows on Aug. 5, 1950. She served in missions in California, Iowa, Arizona and at Victory Noll. She returned to Victory Noll in 1997 to work in the print shop and as a proofreader until retiring in 2008.
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BABSON PARK, Mass. – The Babson College men's lacrosse team defeated visiting MIT, 15-9 on Saturday afternoon in a Pilgrim League contest at MacDowell Field. Nine different Beavers scored in the win including James Schmidt, who led all players with four goals and one assist. With the win, Babson improved to 9-5 on the season and 4-1 in the Pilgrim League. MIT saw its record move to 6-6 overall and 2-3 in the Pilgrim League.
The Beavers came out strong scoring the first four goals of the game, taking the commanding lead with just over seven minutes remaining in the first quarter. Cam Caruso, Alex Patinkin and two from Schmidt built the early advantage. MIT's Dan Piemont put the Engineers on the board at the 5:11 mark with a goal off a pass from Nick Sisler. The two teams then traded goals once more to end the quarter including a remarkable shot from MIT goalkeeper Christopher Rullan with one second remaining from his defensive end. Babson entered the first break with the 5-2 lead.
The hosts scored four of the five second-quarter goals including an unassisted tally from Travis Clarke. Schmidt chipped in two more goals during this span and Babson's Armand Wilson added one to give the Beavers a 9-3 advantage at halftime. Sisler found Piemont for MIT's lone goal of the period.
Babson scored twice during the opening minute of the third quarter, but MIT responded with a pair of its own goals. John Kucharczyk's solo effort was followed Gabe Blanchet's man-up tally that was set up by Corey Garvey. The Beavers registered back-to-back markers to increase their margin to 13-5. Garvey picked up his second point of the day courtesy of an unassisted goal with six seconds on the clock.
The Beavers tacked on two more goals, with their last tally coming at the 8:39 mark of the final frame. MIT closed the gap with three scores during the last 3:34 of the game. Blanchet found the back of the net while Carl Tilbury connected on a feed from Kucharczyk for an extra-man goal. Garth Grove wrapped up the game with his first goal of the season.
Patinkin, Caruso and Thomas Mallon finished with two goals each as Patinkin chipped in with two assists. Wilson tallied one goal, three assists, and five groundballs. Clarke, Ryan Kucinski, Paul Grip, and Andrew Packer each finished with one goal. Defensively Babson was led by Christian Ebert who picked up a game high eight groundballs and Benjamin Jette who added five groundballs. Michael Griffin won seven of nine face-offs to lead all players.
Piemont and Gabe Blanchet each tallied two goals for MIT. Rullan, Garvey, Tilbury, Grove, and Kucharczyk each contributed a goal. Justin Myers led the Engineers with four groundballs.
Babson's three goalkeepers all saw time in net with Mike Saucier earning the win making four saves. Ryan Lee finished with four saves and no goals against in just over ten minutes of play while Jay Whalen had two saves. MIT goalkeeper Rullan finished with 17 total saves playing all 60 minutes for the Engineers.