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|2012-06-11, 12:29
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This match has it told almost entirely in the perspective of Toki, she is essentially the "main character" in this match. Given the set up and circumstances, and how she's going to extreme lengths to try and do something (and factoring in popularity) it seems like a slap in the face should her moment to shine be taken by the true main character. Kuro can have her crowning moment of awesome, what worries me is if it overshadows Toki. Just how i feel.
|2012-06-11, 12:34
|Link #1142
The slacking one
Join Date: Apr 2012
The only way this could end up in an infuriating manner is if Kuro believes she did it all on her own, "finding" a weakness in Toki's hand or something like that. That would be plain stupid and would go against all the awesomeness that Toki and Kirame have been pulling out since the beginning. The idea should be that they all join forces to fight a seemingly undefeatable foe, not one moron leaving the table going "wai, go me!" and getting free hugs while the others end in the losers' bench or the hospital.
Also, this is so a shounen series now.
-OP final boss
-Bro character taking the hits for the team
-Powerful good guy risking life by going beyond the limits of her own power
-In the end, the seemingly useless, good-hearted character is the key to salvation
I'm sure there's a specific series that does all this, but the name doesn't come to me right now.
|2012-06-11, 23:06
|Link #1147
Join Date: Jul 2010
*W0 vulcan'd me to death*
Me: I thus now die with NO REGRETS!!! *Dies*
A few minutes later revived again.
Back on topic,
But Toki is sick. Sick people can't run as effectively as normal people.
I would train in jogging... (I am slow in running. )
While you guys are at it, Question which may be off topic but related...
Q. Knight of 1(From Code Geass)'s Geass is what ability? How effective is it? Then how about Innovators(00 series)'s ability?
Reason for asking this: It may be related to Toki's 1 turn/2 turn/3 turn ahead skill as Toki's ability to look some turns ahead is considered on and off. Not subjecting to constant geass activation.(a.k.a constant 3 turns ahead.)
|2012-06-12, 15:01
|Link #1148
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|2012-06-12, 19:56
|Link #1150
Join Date: Jul 2010
*Kicks ex- out of the car.*
|2012-06-12, 20:41
|Link #1152
Join Date: Jul 2010
Mission 11: The True despair. (Key Mission.)
Player: Kuro's Dragon Gundam
Supports: Toki's 00 Gundam(0 Raiser infinite time.), Subara's Astray Gold Frame Amatsu.
Target: Teru's Extreme Gundam Tachyon phase(Kai)
Objective: Defeat the final boss/Time runs out. Fail if any one of the allies or yourself die.
Note: A Crossbone Gundam X-2 Kai will spawn every 30sec. But all will be used to heal Teru's unit. Careful. While an Exia will spawn at the same time to heal you or your supports. ex- will join in as neutral and will hit either side.
Teru: Still standing? I will make sure you will not stand after this. Prepare yourself.
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|2012-06-12, 21:33
|Link #1153
The slacking one
Join Date: Apr 2012
By the way, in case someone here doesn't know, it seems
Spoiler for Their bodies are not ready (especially Toki's):
|2012-06-12, 21:50
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Age: 29
The rest of this match is gonna be tight. I think the key to Achiga's chance at second place is clear now: whereas in the Quarterfinals, the gap between Senriyama and Achiga was something like 90,000, and the vast majority of it came from the difference in performance between Toki and Kuro (Kuro going about -40000, and Toki going about +40000), here in the Semifinals since Teru has been spreading her domination out pretty evenly the gap between Senriyama and Achiga will likely be less than ~15000. Even though it was established through the rest of the matches that Senriyama's other players are still overall probably stronger than Achiga, ~15000 is a much more manageable gap than 80000. Now, provided that Yuu and Ako don't perform too badly compared to their previous runs against Senriyama--the match is gonna come down to the Vice-Captain and Captain matches with Shizuno and Arata.
Arata still hasn't shown her ability yet, so I think we can expect a good performance from her. This will probably be the key to setting the stage. Finally, the climax will come down to Shizuno, but with Shiraitodai likely being 100000+ points ahead and everyone else about even, it'll probably be possible for her to pull out some last minute miracle and come from behind for some second place victory.
|2012-06-12, 22:14
|Link #1155
The slacking one
Join Date: Apr 2012
About the other subject, Yuu and Ako shouldn't have that many issues against Senriyama sine at least Yuu's style is slightly less predictable, and Ako is at least good enough to put a fight against Sera, my only concern is Arata and whether she'll be able to pull off her power, whatever it might be. However, there are some unknown factors, mainly, if the rest of shiraitodai is team rocket or team Toguro. Sumire should be a Yumi level player at the very worst and Awai could be one big surprise in wait of us all, but the other two are total enigmas. Also, there's shindouji to consider, which could put a pretty decent fight, after all, they're going from weakest to strongest.
While I have no doubt it will all come down to Shizu, the way we get there could be very unexpected.
Having said that, I'd really like if Shiraitodai does turn out to be a den of monsters, mantain total domain over the game, and then Shizu decides to go all out against Awai, taking whatever chance she might have to strike at her, as some way of saying "we're sick of playing prey, it's time to attack the big fish!". I know might sound similar to what Kuro could do next chapter, but I think it would leave a bigger impression with Shizu since she'd most likely not spend the entire match sobbing and whimpering when she isn't dazed and confused.
|2012-06-12, 22:21
|Link #1156
Join Date: Jul 2010
But then again, Ryuuka and Toki are 3rd year already right?
Also, we have to tahan 3 episodes of TERU TIME! Condition of the train in manga: 10000km/s.
This is what I will do.. Unless they don't follow Kuro Command, they will attack Teru's unit. So I will have to lure Teru in to let her hit Kuro.(Note: That thing deals increasing damage per hit.)
After that I run while hitting( To keep making her focus on me), until timer runs out.
Thats why a pro is needed to even out(Because she wants to make sure all goes negative.), and I think Teru is gonna do another overkill again... (Beyond 400k)
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|2012-06-13, 09:07
|Link #1160
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: In my room
Is that the last page for chapter 98 of Saki and their is still no full raw for Saki and Side-A yet? full of interesting pictures but still no full detail yet. Saki is taking her sweet time to play around while her sister just dominates the round.
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Notable Ravens fans react on Twitter to the news that the team will be heading to the Super Bowl:
Oriole Adam Jones, @SimplyAJ10: Unreal victory. BMORE STAND UP.
Pastor Jamal Bryant, @jamalhbryant: God is with the Ravens......meet me in New Orleans!!!
Actor/Baltimore native Josh Charles, @MrJoshCharles: Saw this earlier today walking down my street. Seems appropriate. NOLA bound baby. #Ravens [Twitpic of "We clean UGGs" ad]
Gov. Martin O'Malley, @GovernorOMalley: WAY TO GO RAVENS!!! Great night for Maryland!
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MLS Review: Real Salt Lake go top, Impact win
Real Salt Lake moved top of the Western Conference in MLS on Saturday as the Montreal Impact finally won again.
In the top-of-the-table clash in the west, a header from Joao Plata and an Osvaldo Alonso own goal helped Real to a 2-1 win over the Seattle Sounders.
The result saw Real move above the Sounders and into top spot, a point clear of Seattle – who hold two games in hand.
Luke Mulholland set up the opener at Rio Tinto Stadium as his set piece from the right found Plata to head in at the back post in the 53rd minute.
Just four minutes later, the hosts doubled their lead as Luis Gil's smart pass was poked into his own net by Alonso under pressure from Mulholland.
Chad Barrett scrambled in a scrappy goal for Seattle in the 72nd minute, but they were unable to find an equaliser.
The Impact ended a seven-match losing run in the league with a 1-0 victory against the Chicago Fire.
Marco Di Vaio found the bottom corner from inside the area with six minutes remaining as Montreal finally got back to winning ways.
Former West Brom, Birmingham City and Aston Villa defender Liam Ridgewell scored his first MLS goal in the Portland Timbers' 1-1 draw at New England.
The Columbus Crew thrashed the Los Angeles Galaxy 4-1 thanks to two goals in each half.
A pair of Dom Dwyer penalties in the first half helped Eastern Conference leaders Sporting Kansas City crush Toronto 4-1.
Tesho Akindele scored a hat-trick as Dallas cruised to a 5-0 win over the San Jose Earthquakes.
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NEW YORK, May 18 (UPI) -- Jay Z and Beyonce are a pair of gun-slinging outlaws in "RUN," a fake movie trailer used to promote the couple's upcoming 16-date "On the Run" tour, which starts June 25 in Miami.
The four-minute clip comes the weekend after Jay Z's elevator fight with Solange Knowles rocked the entertainment world.
It features an impressive collection of celebrity pals, including Sean Penn, Blake Lively, Emily Rossum, Don Cheadle, sisters Rashida and Kidada Jones, Jake Gyllenhaal and Guillermo Diaz.
"RUN" echoes the video for Beyonce and Jay Z's 2003 collaboration, "03 Bonnie & Clyde," in which they play modern versions of the notorious criminal lovebirds.
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(CNN) -- Venus Williams is through to the final of the Dubai Open after defeating younger sister Serena in a three-set thriller on Friday.
Venus took a 10-9 career lead over Serena after defeating her younger sibling in the Dubai Open semifinals.
Sixth seed and Wimbledon champion Venus beat the world No.1 6-1 2-6 7-6 to take a 10-9 lead in competitive matches between the two siblings.
Serena made an awful start, hitting six double-faults in the first set and dropping her serve three times -- while Venus won all of her service games without the loss of a point.
And, despite losing the second set, Venus always looked on course to beat Serena for the fifth time in their last seven meetings when the knee problem which caused Serena to pull out of the Paris semifinals last week appeared to gradually get worse.
But, despite that handicap, the Australian Open champion took her older sister to a third set tie-break, only the second time a set has gone all the way in their 19 career meetings.
"It was definitely a finals-quality match," Venus, who has returned to the top five for the first time since August 2003, told the tournament's official Web site.
"Obviously winning a match that close is satisfying, especially against the top-ranked player. Of course when I walk onto the court with Serena I have respect for her, so that's obviously the best part about winning," added Venus.
For her part, Serena refused to blame her troublesome knee for her defeat. "I thought Venus]played well. I didn't serve that well and I thought she served really well which I think ultimately helped her win the match," said Serena.
American Venus is now the hot favorite to beat Virginie Razzano in Saturday's final after the Frenchwoman took just over an hour to beat 16th seed Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 6-1 6-2 in the other semifinal.
It has been a dream run to the final for unseeded Razzano, who also accounted for world number two Dinara Safina and fifth seed Vera Zvonareva prior to Friday's last four showdown.
Razzano took the final four games for the loss of just three points to reach her first final since late 2007. "I didn't want to give her and chances," Razzano told the official tournament Web site.
"I wanted to be the boss today and it worked. To beat me, Kaia had to play better than me but she didn't," added Razzano.


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by PDH » Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:10 pmNot seen the latest episode of this (had, like four hours to myself in the last two weeks) but I seem to like this show way more than the rest of the internet does. Maybe I just have weird taste in TV shows.
by Wally Brando » Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:15 pmI like it. I feel like every episode has been better than the last.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:16 pmI didn't catch this week's episode.
by Juan Cena » Thu Nov 07, 2013 2:19 pm
Given Sony's recent financial troubles, especially with the entertainment division, it might be open to listen to a reasonable offer.
by Rockman » Thu Nov 07, 2013 4:25 pmLatest episode was fantastic.
by Grayson » Thu Nov 07, 2013 8:53 pmI agree with the sentiment that this was the best episode so far especially since 2 of my least favorite characters, Fitz and Simmons, finally received some much needed character development. I'll even go as far as to say that I was really pulling for Fitz to save the day, so much so that I was actually mad when Ward took the parachute away from him and jumped out of the plane instead. We get it Ward, you are supposed to be awesome at everything but it's already getting old and it's not really allowing anybody else the opportunity to shine.
I also really enjoyed the further development of Coulson this week. It seems like he is starting to catch on that something isn't right with the way that he was brought back and his scenes with May were highlights of the episode for me.
by misac » Fri Nov 08, 2013 12:47 pm
I didn't mind Ward saving Simmons. That fact that Fitz was willing to try was enough for me, showed real courage. He would have totally botched it anyway.
by HNutz » Fri Nov 08, 2013 2:51 pm
Yeah, the fact that he grabbed the parachute and was about to jump instead of asking someone to go instead was pretty impressive to me.
by Grayson » Fri Nov 08, 2013 4:05 pm
Oh, I appreciated the fact that Fitz was going to jump out of the plane to save Simmons. I just had a problem with Ward making the save when there are other competent people on that plane too. Coulson or May could have appeared out of nowhere and made the save just as easily as Ward but instead we got another episode where Ward shows up in the nick of time and saves the damsel in distress. In my opinion, it was just the weakest part of what was otherwise a really good episode.
by HNutz » Tue Nov 12, 2013 8:23 pmHeh... "Tahiti's a... magical place"... "he's acting like a robot version of himself" ...
Still no new clues about Coulson.
digging the two-man mission so far.
Coulson doesn't much like it when Skye and Simmons snuck a look at some files. And he really didn't like hearing that there was no extraction team planned for the rest of his team. So they went to go get them.
Coulson finds out about Skye's file, that the redacted parts mention an agent (who may or may not have been her mother) dropping her off as a newborn... but apparently there's more to this story that Coulson "can't" tell Skye and he asked May for help finding out more. Honestly, I didn't quite catch what happened there...
Also... Coulson calls about his file but apparently he doesn't have access to his medical file. Uh oh...
I REALLY liked this one, too. I think they're getting better...
by Chessack » Tue Nov 12, 2013 10:45 pmI thought this was probably the best episode yet. This, to me, is what a SHIELD episode should be about. Espionage and intrigue and more normal-type enemies and plots. Leave the over-the-top stuff to the Avengers. That's what they're there for anyway.
As for the redacted Skye stuff... could anyone tell what the picture was that May was looking at? I rewound it and freeze-framed it and tried to figure it out. It looked like a dead body but I couldn't tell any more than that, or even if it was one.
by Mojo Ichiruto » Tue Nov 12, 2013 11:46 pmDefinitely my favorite episode of the season thus far. Little things like Victoria Hand, them mentioning Hawkeye and Black Widow, more spy/espionage stuff that actually feels like SHIELD happenings, those are things that made it feel like it was part of the actual bigger Marvel Universe to me. I definitely think this episode had the little bits that I thought had been missing and I loved it. I hope they continue to go in this direction with future episodes. Things with Coulson moving forward, finding out more about Skye's parents, who I hope were Hydra Agents that experimented on their daughter that will eventually reveal Skye to be Spider-Woman! Anyways great episode!
by fieldy snuts » Wed Nov 13, 2013 2:52 amTahiti seems like a forced reaction which Coulson caught on to this ep.
by S.F. Jude Terror » Wed Nov 13, 2013 3:23 amWorst episode ever!
Nah it was pretty good.
by Strict31 » Wed Nov 13, 2013 3:53 amI'm glad that they're doing more with Fitz and Simmons than just having them say technobabble every five minutes. I feel like they're actual characters now, and I'm starting to really give a shit about what happens. At the beginning of both of the past two episodes, I was sorta hoping either of them would get killed off, and at the end of both episodes, I'm glad they're still around.
Maybe the next episode will make me feel that way about James Bond Jr.
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Stolichnaya announced the "elit Pristine Waters Series Himalayan Edition," which uses water collected from the freezing cold majesty of the Himalayas.
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As you step into the next season of your life, prepare yourself for the best and receive all that He has for you. May His everlasting love and peace be with you forevermore.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Psalm 1:3
There is a season for everything, and a time to every purpose under the heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1
Spring, summer, fall and winter are characterized for each season that we experience throughout the year. As each season transition from one to the other, each will bring about a different meaning and purpose. When the spring season rolls around we can see the rebirth and growth of the herbs and trees, while the summer months bring forth fruition and fulfillment. The fall season is a time for harvesting, as the winter months slips in with the bitter coldness and barrenness. When we focus on each season, we are able to see the beauty of God's creation as well as appreciating his divine order and purpose.
Our lives are much the same as the seasons of nature. We go through seasonal changes, and with each change come transition. The Apostle Paul speaks to us in Ephesians 4, about stripping away the old nature of man and taking on the new. As we expect elevation in Christ, a season of change must come.
However, you may be experiencing a season of rest, perhaps a season of barrenness or maybe the time has come for you to harvest. Whatever season you are in right now, be encouraged to know that God is with you. When the dry season come, he will allow you to draw from the living waters, and your roots will run deep and grow strong. In the dead of winter, He will renew your spirit and bring life back to your soul. He will now allow you to grow weary while you are laboring, for He will give you the strength to endure.
Be reminded of His incredible promise recorded in Psalm 128: 2, "You will eat the fruit of your labor; blessings and prosperity will be yours in everything that you set your hands out to do. "
As you step into the next season of your life, prepare yourself for the best and receive all that He has for you. May His everlasting love and peace be with you forevermore.
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Repeal of Prohibition in the United States
The repeal of Prohibition in the United States was accomplished with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 5, 1933.
In 1919, the requisite number of state legislatures ratified the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, enabling national prohibition one year later. Many women, notably members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, were pivotal in bringing about national Prohibition in the United States, believing it would protect families, women, and children from the effects of alcohol abuse.[1]
Impact of prohibition
The proponents of prohibition had believed that banning alcoholic beverages would reduce or even eliminate many social problems, particularly drunkenness, crime, mental illness, and poverty. In 1925 journalist H. L. Mencken believed the opposite to be true:[2]
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.
Some supporters of Prohibition, such as Rev. Charles Stelzle who wrote Why Prohibition! (1918), believed that prohibition would eventually lead to reductions in taxes, since drinking "produced half the business" for institutions supported by tax dollars such as courts, jails, hospitals, almshouses, and insane asylums.[3] In fact, alcohol consumption and the incidence of alcohol-related domestic violence were decreasing before the Eighteenth Amendment was adopted. Following the imposition of Prohibition, reformers "were dismayed to find that child neglect and violence against children actually increased during the Prohibition era."[4]
During Prohibition, people continued to produce and drink alcohol, and bootlegging helped foster a massive industry under the control of organized crime. Drinking in speakeasies became increasingly fashionable, and many mothers worried about the allure that alcohol and other illegal activities associated with bootlegging would have over their children.[5]
Prohibitionists argued that Prohibition would be more effective if enforcement were increased. However, increased efforts to enforce Prohibition simply resulted in the government spending more money, rather than less. The economic cost of Prohibition became especially pronounced during the Great Depression. According to Association Against the Prohibition Amendment (AAPA) and Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR), an estimated $861 million was lost in federal tax revenue from untaxed liquor; $40 million was spent annually on Prohibition enforcement.[6] The AAPA also released a pamphlet claiming that $11 billion was lost in federal liquor-tax revenue and $310 million was spent on Prohibition enforcement from 1920 to 1931.[7] This lack of potential funding during a period of economic strife became a crucial part of the campaign for repeal.[8]
Organized opposition
During this period, support for Prohibition diminished among voters and politicians. John D. Rockefeller Jr., a lifelong nondrinker who had contributed between $350,000 and $700,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, announced his support for repeal because of the widespread problems he believed Prohibition had caused.[1] Influential leaders, such as the du Pont brothers, led the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, whose name clearly asserted its intentions.
The repeal movement also attracted a substantial portion of women, defying the assumption that recently enfranchised female voters would automatically vote as a bloc on this issue.[9] They became pivotal in the effort to repeal, as many "had come to the painful conclusion that the destructiveness of alcohol was now embodied in Prohibition itself."[10] By then, women had become even more politically powerful due to ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in support of women's suffrage.[11] Activist Pauline Sabin argued that repeal would protect families from the corruption, violent crime, and underground drinking that resulted from Prohibition. On May 28, 1929, Sabin founded the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform (WONPR), which attracted many former Prohibitionists to its ranks.[12] By the time repeal was finally passed in 1933 the WONPR's membership was estimated at 1.5 million. Originally, Sabin was among the many women who supported the Eighteenth Amendment. Now, however, she viewed Prohibition as both hypocritical and dangerous. She recognized "the apparent decline of temperate drinking" and feared the rise of organized crime that developed around bootlegging.[13]
Additionally, Sabin worried that America's children, witnessing a blatant disregard for dry laws, would cease to recognize the sanctity of the law itself. Finally, Sabin and the WONPR took a libertarian stance that disapproved of federal involvement in a personal matter like drinking. Over time, however, the WONPR modified its argument, playing up the "moral wrongs that threatened the American home" as a result of the corruption of the Prohibition era.[5] As a women's organization during the early 20th century, adopting a political stance that centered around maternalism and home protection appealed to the widest audience and was favored over personal liberty arguments, which ultimately received little attention.
The WONPR was initially composed mainly of upper-class women. However, by the time the Twenty-first Amendment was passed, their membership included the middle and working classes. After a short start-up period, donations from members alone were enough to financially sustain the organization. By 1931, more women belonged to the WONPR than the WCTU; by 1932, the WONPR had branches in forty-one states.[14]
The WONPR supported repeal on a platform of "true" temperance, claiming that "a trend toward moderation and restraint in the use of intoxicating beverages [was] reversed by prohibition."[15] Though their causes were in direct opposition, the WONPR mirrored the advocacy techniques of the WCTU. They canvassed door-to-door, encouraged politicians on all levels to incorporate repeal into their party platform, created petitions, gave speeches and radio interviews, dispersed persuasive literature, and held chapter meetings. At times, the WONPR also worked in cooperation with other anti-prohibition groups. In 1932 the AAPA, Voluntary Committee of Lawyers, The Crusaders, the American Hotel Organization, and the WONPR formed the United Repeal Council. The United Repeal Council lobbied at both the Republican and Democratic national conventions in 1932 to integrate repeal into their respective presidential election campaigns. Ultimately, the Republicans continued to defend Prohibition. The WONPR, which initially began as a nonpartisan organization, joined with the Democratic campaign and supported Franklin Roosevelt.[16]
The number of repeal organizations and demand for repeal both increased.
Organizations supporting repeal
- Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
- Constitutional Liberty League of Massachusetts, a nationwide organization despite its name
- The Crusaders
- Labor's National Committee for Modification of the Volstead Act
- Moderation League of New York, a nationwide organization despite its name
- Molly Pitcher Club
- Republican Citizens Committee Against National Prohibition
- United Repeal Council
- Voluntary Committee of Lawyers
- Women's Committee for Repeal of the 18th Amendment
- Women's Moderation Union
- Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform
Organization leaders
- Nicholas Murray Butler
- Joseph H. Choate, Jr.
- Fred Clark
- Henry Curran
- Lammot du Pont II
- Pierre S. du Pont
- Henry Bourne Joy
- Colonel Robert McCormick
- Grayson Murphy
- Thomas W. Phillips
- Raymond Pitcairn
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Repeal as a political party issue
In 1932 the Democratic Party's platform included a plank for the repeal of Prohibition, and Democratic candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for president of the United States promising repeal of federal Prohibition laws.[1]
A. Mitchell Palmer used his expertise as the Attorney General who first enforced Prohibition to promote a plan to expedite its repeal through state conventions rather than the state legislatures.[17]
The Cullen–Harrison Act, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 22, 1933, authorized the sale of 3.2 percent beer (thought to be too low an alcohol concentration to be intoxicating) and wine, which allowed the first legal beer sales since the beginning of Prohibition on January 16, 1920.[18] In 1933 state conventions ratified the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed Prohibition. The Amendment was fully ratified on December 5, 1933. Federal laws enforcing Prohibition were then repealed.[19]
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Following repeal some states continued prohibition within their own jurisdictions. Almost two-thirds of the states adopted some form of local option which enabled residents in political subdivisions to vote for or against local prohibition. For a time, 38 percent of Americans lived in areas with Prohibition.[1] By 1966, however, all states had repealed their statewide prohibition laws, with Mississippi the last state to do so.[19]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 David J. Hanson. "Repeal of Prohibition". Sociology Department, State University of New York, Potsdam. Retrieved October 7, 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Sylvia Engdahl (2009). Amendments XVIII and XXI: Prohibition and Repeal. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press. ISBN 9780737743289.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ David E. Kyvig (1979). Repealing National Prohibition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 9.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Kenneth D. Rose (1996). American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition. New York: New York University Press. p. 43. ISBN 0-8147-7464-4.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kenneth D. Rose (1996). American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition. New York: New York University Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-8147-7464-4.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- ↑ Kyvig, Repealing National Prohibition, p. 132.
- ↑ Mark Thorton and Chetley Weise believe that tax revolts were a key component in the repeal movement. See Mark Thornton and Chetley Weise (Summer 2001). "The Great Depression Tax Revolts Revisited" (PDF). Journal of Libertarian Studies. Ludwig von Mises Institute. 15 (3): 95&ndash, 105. Retrieved October 7, 2013.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- ↑ Kyvig, "Women against Prohibition," p. 468.
- ↑ Kyvig, "Women against Prohibition," p. 474.
- ↑ Kyvig, "Women against Prohibition," p. 472.
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- Kyvig, David E. (1979). Repealing National Prohibition. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226466415.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Kyvig, David E. (Autumn 1976). "Women against Prohibition". American Quarterly. 28 (4).<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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Chan Chan was the capital city of the Chimu Empire, an urban civilization that appeared on the Peruvian coast around 1100 AD. Chimu cities and towns throughout the region stretched from Tumbes in the north to as far south as Paramonga. Their cities were always elaborately planned, with large, flat-topped buildings for the nobility and intricately decorated adobe pyramids serving as temples. Recognized as fine goldsmiths by the Incas, the Chimu panelled their temples with gold and cultivated palace gardens where even the plants and animals were made from precious metals. The city walls were brightly painted, and the style of architecture and relief decoration is sometimes ascribed to the fact that the Mochica (who predated the Chimu in this valley by several centuries) migrated from Central America into this area, bringing with them knowledge and ideas from a more advanced civilization, like the Maya.
According to one legend, the city was founded by Taycanamu, who arrived by boat with his royal fleet; after establishing an empire, he left his son, Si-Um, in command and then disappeared over the western horizon. Another legend has it that Chan Chan's construction was inspired by an original creator-deity of the same name, a dragon who made the sun and the moon and whose earthly manifestation is a rainbow. Whatever the impulse behind Chan Chan, it remains one of the world's marvels and, in its heyday, was one of the largest pre-Columbian cities in the Americas.
The Chimu inherited ideas and techniques from a host of previous cultures along the coast, including the Mochica, and, most importantly, adapted the techniques from many generations of trial and error in irrigating the Moche Valley. In the desert, access to a regular water supply was critical in the development of an urban civilization like that of Chan Chan, whose very existence depended on extracting water not only from the Río Moche but also, via a complicated system of canals and aqueducts, from the neighbouring Chicama Valley.
By 1450, when the Chimu Empire stretched from the Río Zarumilla in the north to the Río Chancay in the south and covered around 40,000 square kilometres, Chan Chan was the centre of a chain of provincial capitals. These were gradually incorporated into the Inca Empire between 1460 and 1480.
The events leading to the city's demise are better documented than those of its birth: in the 1470s Tupac Yupanqui led the Inca armies down from the mountains in the east and cut off the aqueducts supplying Chan Chan with its vital water supply. After lengthy discussions, the Chimu council managed to persuade its leader against going out to fight the Incas, knowing full well that resistance would be met with brutality, and surrender with peaceful takeover. The Chimu were quickly deprived of their chieftains, many of them taken to Cusco (along with the highly skilled metallurgists) to be indoctrinated into Inca ways. Sixty years later when the first Spaniards rode through Chan Chan they found only a ghost town full of dust and legend.
The Museo de Sitio is a good place to start your visit to Chan Chan. It offers an interesting eight-minute multimedia show in Spanish, and uses scale replica models, ceramics and other archeological finds to reconstruct life in the hot but irrigated desert before modern Trujillo was built.
The best place to get an idea of what Chan Chan must have been like is the Tschudi temple-citadel, even though it's now stuck out in the desert among high ruined walls, dusty streets, gateways, decrepit dwellings and open graves.
Following the marked route around the citadel through a maze of corridors, chambers, and amazingly large plazas, you will begin to form your own picture of this highly organized, ancient civilization. For example, in the courtyard just past the entrance gateway, some twenty-five seats are set into niches at regular intervals along the walls. By sitting in one niche and whispering to someone in another, you can witness an unusual acoustic effect: how this simply designed council room amplifies all sounds, making the niches seem like they're connected by adobe intercoms.
Fishing-net motifs are repeated throughout the citadel's design, particularly in the sunken ceremonial patio (an antechamber before the entrance to the audiencias, or little temples area), and show how important the sea was to the Chimu people, both mythologically and as a major resource. Dedicated to divinities and designed to hold offerings and tributes, the audiencias lead to the main ceremonial courtyard and also to the corridor of fish and bird designs.
The westernmost open point of the site is the burial area, known as the Recinto Funerario, and was the most sacred part of Tschudi, where the tomb of El Señor Chimo and his wives was located. Beyond the citadel extend acres of untended ruins that are dangerous for foreigners – some, certainly, have been robbed after wandering off alone.
One of the most beautiful, and possibly the most venerated of Chimu temples, Huaca La Esmeralda (The Emerald Temple) lies in ruins a couple of kilometres before Tschudi, just off the main Trujillo-to-Huanchaco road. Unlike Tschudi, the huaca, or sacred temple, is on the very edge of town, stuck between the outer suburbs and the first cornfields. It was built in the twelfth or early thirteenth century – at about the same time as the Tschudi temple-citadel – and is one of the most important of the huacas scattered around Trujillo. Uncovered only in 1923, its adobe walls and decorations had already been severely damaged in the freak rains of 1925 and 1983. Now you can only just make out what must have been an impressive multicoloured facade. All the relief work on the adobe walls is original, and shows marine-related motifs including friezes of fishing nets containing fish, waves, a flying pelican, a sea otter, and frequent repetitive patterns of geometrical arabesques.
The huaca has an unusually complex structure, with two main platforms, a number of surrounding walls and several sloping pathways giving access to each section. From the top platform, which was obviously a place of worship and possibly the cover to a royal tomb, you can see west across the valley to the graveyards of Chan Chan, out to sea, over the cultivated fields around the site and into the primitive brick factory next door. Only some shells and chaquiras (stone and coral necklaces) were found when the huaca was officially dug out some years ago, long after centuries of huaqueros (treasure hunters) had exhausted its more valuable goods. These grave robbers nearly always precede the archeologists. In fact, archeologists are often drawn to the sites they eventually excavate by the trail of treasures that flow from the grave robbers through dealers' hands into the market in Lima and beyond.
The Huaca Arco Iris (Rainbow Temple) is the most fully restored ruin of the Chan Chan complex and one of the oldest sectors at 1100 years old, located just to the left of the Panamerican Highway, about 4km north of Trujillo in the middle of the urban district of La Esperanza. The huaca consists of two tiers: the first tier is made up of fourteen rectangular chambers, possibly used for storing corn and precious metals for ritual purposes, while a path slopes up to the second tier, a flat-topped platform used as a ceremonial area where sacrifices were held and the gods apparently spoke. From here, there is a wide view over the valley, towards the ocean, Trujillo, and the city of Chan Chan.
Several interpretations have been made of the central motif, which is repeated throughout the huaca – some consider it a dragon, some a centipede and some a rainbow. Most of the main temple inner walls have been restored, and they are covered with the re-created central motif. The outer walls are decorated in the same way, with identical friezes cut into the adobe, in a design that looks like a multi-legged serpent arching over two lizard-type beings.
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Crimson, starring the genius mangod Paul Naschy, aka Jacinto Molina, aka Paul Nash (as he is credited in this particular film), is a movie that titillates and enthralls on so many levels. Starring a cast of characters so nefarious and fabulous-looking that it forever scars the mind, completely ruining all future movies with its brilliance and subtleties, but alas I get ahead of myself. Let us start at the beginning.
Surnett, played by Naschy, is the head of a gang of thieves. Our movie opens with Surnett cracking the safe of a jewelry store in the early morning hours while his gang waits nearby. After hiding from a cop, the safe is cracked, but before it can be opened one of Surnett's henchman, a guy who resembles a '70s sex predator, botches the whole thing by stupidly setting off the alarm. Fleeing in a car, the gang runs for the hills, only to run right into a police roadblock. In the process of getting the car turned around, Surnett takes a bullet to the back of the head.
The criminals escape back to their lair. Surnett's girlfriend is called in and one of the lackeys goes for the only doctor that they can get to help, a drunk who owes them. The movie is filled with both intentional and unintentional hilarity, and the scene in which the bumbling lackey gets the doctor is one of the former. Unable to rouse the doc, who is passed out drunk, the thug grabs a vase of flowers, thinking to throw water on the doc, only the vase contains no water and he succeeds in dumping only flowers all over the oblivious doctor!
Finally getting the doc to come help, via a combo of slapping and threats, they race back to the hideout. The doc deems the task of saving Surnett beyond his less than capable hands, and suggests they take the gang leader to a friend of his, another doc who is on the cutting edge of mad science. Seeing no alternative, they load Surnett up and head that way. I must pause here to describe Naschy's gang. First we have the idiot who stole a necklace and set of the alarm, next we have a stereotypical Frenchman who is tall and overtly gay. The default leader in Surnett's absence falls to this grey-haired gent who alternates between brutality and more brutality to get his point across. Finally, we have the girlfriend, a busty blond who I'd assume Paul was hitting between shots (and sometimes in them!).
Arriving at the scientist's house, the gang coerces the unfortunate doc into helping them via threats against his hot wife and young daughter. I say unfortunate because the scientist apparently lost the use of his hands in an experiment gone wrong. He takes Naschy in for an exam and quickly deduces that the only way to save him is to perform a BRAIN TRANSPLANT! Is that all? No problem! But where to get a brain? The gang figures out that the only brain that will do belongs to none other than Surnett's greatest enemy: The Sadist!
With a name like that, you know we are in for a treat! A quick cut later and we are at a nightclub. Two gentlemen are watching a burlesque show. One of them, a suave, mustachioed gent, is The Sadist, the other his right-hand man. What a show it is, too! I haven't witnessed such awesome since the last Druid orgy I attended. On stage, two men resembling Klingons and dressed like Russian sheepherders, leap around a nubile woman in a gold, sparkly bikini. Pantomiming a fight, the dudes push and pull, all the while the woman is tugged around between them. Suddenly, employing the use of real magic, the woman blinks out of existence!
The Sadist and his partner look on with the same bored expressions they constantly wear, seeing nothing out of the ordinary. Personally, I would have been at least somewhat impressed, but apparently these guys are hard to please. Inexplicably, the woman is suddenly back, now dressed like one of the dudes, and the dance continues a bit more before they bow to thunderous applause, but not from our two bad guys, no, they finish their drinks and leave.
In the next scene, The Sadist and his lackey are at a card game, which quickly goes bad when The Sadist accuses another player of cheating. Threatened with a switchblade and a gun, the other players quickly leave, which signals to The Sadist that he'd better head home for bed time. This allows one of Surnett's gang to follow him. After being offered a flower from a local merchant, who recognizes both Surnett's henchman and The Sadist, we finally get to see some real action. The Sadist is confronted by Surnett's girl, who apparently left The Sadist for Surnett a while back. Claiming to now hate Surnett, she seduces The Sadist in a dark alley, allowing the trailing henchman to shoot The Sadist in the back! We get a tiny amount of boobage here, but that is more than made up for later.
Two of Surnett's gang carry The Sadist's body off in a large wicker basket to a local graveyard. Unable to perform the necessary decapitation themselves, they decide to bring the whole body back with them, until a stroke of genius hits one of them as they are passing a railroad. If you need a head severed from a body, why not use a train?! In no time at all, the head is neatly severed and off they go, leaving the body where it is.
The scientist, employing the use of his wives hands as well as a kaleidoscope, begins the brain transplant procedure. Meanwhile, in a flash of brilliance, Surnett's right-hand man sends The Sadist's severed (but now empty) head to his own gang, wrapped up like a Xmas gift. The ensuing scene, in which the head is unwrapped, sets off The Sadist's gang like a nest of angry hornets. The Sadist's girlfriend, in particular, is incensed.
Meanwhile, Surnett is finally out of surgery, which was an apparent success. After convalescing for a while, he regains conscienceness, only to discover that he now shares The Sadist's perverse desires. These include throttling his own girlfriend and basically macking on anything young and nubile that enters his gravity. And gravity it is, folks! Naschy exudes raw manliness in waves; a virtual avalanche of masculine power that would turn even the straightest among us into pride-flag-waving friends of Dorothy. But, alas, Paul loves the ladies, and in this film we get to see that again and again. Whether pressing a young nymph up against a tree in a fit of animal passion or throwing a woman across an examination table and tearing open her shirt like a sexual beast, Paul approaches these scenes with a poise and grace that few, if any, achieve.
The unfortunate delivery of The Sadist's head quickly results in most of Surnett's gang being accosted by their rivals. The figure out Surnett's gang is responsible via the flower merchant, who rats them out. The drunk doc is beaten to a pulp and unceremoniously dumped out of a car. After making his way back to the scientist's house, he warns of the impending danger before succumbing to his wounds. Surnett's girl is captured and tortured with cigarettes until she gives up the gang's locale. A rotating guard is posted, but alas this is not enough for the machinegun-wielding Sadist-worshippers, who quickly surround the house.
Under a withering hail of bullets, Surnett's gang is reduced one by one, until only Surnett himself is left. With a bandage wrapped around his head, he runs through the woods, before finally returning to the house and having his way with the scientist's wife, who very much looks like a young Judy Dench. Finding the good scientist's pistol, he runs headlong into danger via the front door, confronting cops who have arrived. In a spectacular death scene, in which no less than 25,000 bullets are fired into Surnett, Naschy collapses, a bullet-riddled man with a confused idea of who he is.
It is with great fortune that the DVD of Crimson contains as extras sexy scenes thought myth by some, and lost by others. We are treated to several scenes that border on the hardcore (no penetration is shown, but man it looks real). Most of them are dull, but the scenes with Naschy more than make up for it! Paul disrobes and kneads some breasts with his meaty paws. We get to see some bare ass, but unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) Naschy chose to use a stunt-butt.
No doubt this is to stave off the wave of suicides that would result from men everywhere, who would witness such a perfect male ass and choose death, knowing that they could never achieve this perfection, and knowing full well that this would be the ass by which all other asses would be judged by all of woman-kind. Thank you, Paul, for such a wise decision. Many of us would be eager to gaze upon the sun, only to get a few seconds of glory before our eyes ran like milky fluid down our blackened and crumbling faces, burned to ash by the awesome.
I encourage everyone to watch Crimson, and to check out the extras on the DVD. It is by no means a perfect movie, for it has far too little Naschy screen-time to be called such, but what there is works on many levels. I give Crimson Two Solid Thumbs Up, and deem it a must-own for Naschy fans everywhere. It is unfortunate that the movie isn't known here by its international title, "The Rats Don't Sleep at Night". So much better, no?
As an added bonus, check out this picture of The Sadist. (hint: he's the one with the rakish good looks, the molester mustache, and the glint in his eye that says he'd do a whole room full of nuns before breakfast, then watch non-stop go-go dancing for 10 hours)
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Crimson (1973), Or The Majesty That Is Paul Naschy
Posted by The Duke of DVD at 11:19 AM
Labels: '70s, 2-3 thumbs, Mad Science, Paul Naschy, Psycho Killer, Thriller
6 comments:
- Tenebrous Kate said...
Darling Duke, there is so much, so right about this review :) While I didn't share your abundance of love for this film, I'm glad it exists because it inspired this unbridled Valentine to hetero mancrushing. Related to this--I deeply appreciate the equal-opportunity ass-bearing that I find here on MMMMMovies.
The Paul Naschy Boob-Touching Contract Rider was in full effect in this flick, though in much rapey-er form than I'm used to seeing. That was more than a little alarming to me! The Naschinator is generally in much smoooooother form. Such is the brilliance of his actor's craft that he was able to make it *look* as if the ladies weren't putty in his hands.
I raise a glass to you, Mr. Naschy. *clink*
Now, as an Official Naschy Scientist--do you think that dance number was ganked from an entirely different and probably-ten-years-earlier film? Cos it looked so out-of-place in this flick. Clue a sister in, wontcha?
- September 16, 2008 at 2:45 PM
- The Duke of DVD said...
I do believe you might be correct in your musings on the origins of the dance sequence. Perhaps someone filmed a Beltaine ritual, or simply put a motion-activated camera in one of the Vicar's gardens and this is what was captured. I have spent many hours mulling over all things Naschy, and this is one of the greatest unknowns.
As for Naschy's rapist tendencies in this film, in my research I've read passages that suggested Paul himself denied the scenes in question even existed, so perhaps a double was used for most all of them. The close-up camera work does hide a lot, but Paul definitely grabs some free-range teat roughly a few times, I must admit.
Such is his dedication to the craft.
- September 16, 2008 at 2:58 PM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Ah, Duke, I remember the first time we watched this as part of our second annual Naschymas celebration. The relative lack of Naschy screentime is a problem, but as you point out, what's left is certainly entertaining and exciting.
I do wish the DVD company had taken the time to integrate the excised "sexy" scenes back into the movie itself, though, because in my mind that would significantly change the tone and overall effect of the movie for the better. Not for the added sexiness--in point of fact the scenes are NOT sexy at all, but largely to do with rape, torture, and murder (in fact, only one scene was a "good time" sex scene IIRC, involving the seemingly gay Frenchman who in the cut scene earns his nom de guerre "Booty Slappin' Pierre"!). The re-integration of those scenes would have taken the movie from a silly, slightly hilarious crime/mad science caper into a sort of gritty, disturbing, sleazily violent exploitationer. More visceral, dirtier, more soul-withering--as I say, BETTER. :)
As to the Dance Scene in question, I for one don't care where it comes from--I haven't been so entertained by a vanishing dancer since the Pope's bachelor party. As I've said before, the Europeans have it ALL over us for night club acts!
- September 16, 2008 at 3:32 PM
- The Duke of DVD said...
In addition to the Booty-slappin' Frenchman, there's another scene that comes to mind that I failed to mention: the conversational go-go dancer. At one point in the film, The Sadist's right-hand man is out looking for his boss and stops back by the club that they were at the night previous.
He talks to a couple of the girls at the club, including one that appears to be in her 50's and who simply cannot stop dancing! Such a boogie she's throwing out, I just had to stand up and applaud. The henchman finally asks her to stop "wiggling about" so he can question her. Before they are even done talkin' she sets off again, traveling without moving, Jamiroquai-esque in her gyrations.
All of the oddness that this movie contains, coupled with the inclusion of His High Manliness, makes it a must-watch. If only the first half of the movie had had more Jacinto, then it would have been perfection. (and perhaps a few more booty-slappin' scenes)
- September 16, 2008 at 3:42 PM
- The Duke of DVD said...
As an added bonus to our dear readers, I've included a bonus picture of The Sadist at the end of the review so that everyone can bask in his slimy glory.
- September 16, 2008 at 4:56 PM
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- September 17, 2008 at 2:10 PM


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Following their spectacular performances at last weekend's MIT Invite swim meet, Anna Kokensparger and Brendan Deveney, both freshmen, were honored by the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) as Women's Swimmer and Men's Swimmer of the Week.
Hailing from Omaha, Neb., Kokensparger won all eight of her races last weekend, helping the Engineer women post a second-place finish out of seven teams. Kokensparger recorded NCAA "B"-cut times in all three of her individual events, 200 Breast (2:24.97), 200 IM (2:06.56) and 100 Fly (56.79), as well as her opening leg of the 200 Free Relay (24.12). She also contributed to five Engineer relay victories, including three more "B" cuts in the 200 Free Relay (1:36.71), 800 Free Relay (7:50.19) and 400 Medley Relay (3:58.78). Kokensparger also recorded new MIT team records in two individual events (200 Breast and 200 IM) and three relays (200 F.R., 200 M.R. and 400 M.R.).
Deveney, a resident of Newton, Conn., was a stand-out for MIT as the Engineers' men's team topped the field of seven teams. Deveney recorded four "B"-cut times with wins in three individual events [200 IM (1:53.03), 400 IM (4:06.15) and 200 Back (1:51.33)] and a second-place finish in the 100 Back (52.11). Deveney was also a part of four winning relay teams. Deveney's times in both individual medley events broke old MIT team records, including the previous best time in the 200 IM posted by Marcos Fernandes in 1987.


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Amy's Rooms: Decorating With Playful Details
While we can certainly appreciate the aesthetic appeal of tailored, formal interiors, the rooms that really make us swoon also have a certain playfulness or whimsy that's missing from many published interiors we come across. Of course, it takes a good editing eye to avoid getting overly cute. From what we can tell, Amy Hanson is pretty much a master of the art of playful décor, so we're sharing some photos of her home's details. Here's what we learned from Amy about decorating with a sense of play…
Often it's the little things that bring a sense of playfulness into a home. Here's what we learned from the fun details in Amy's rooms (photos from left to right):
• 1 Using unexpected items as furniture, like this sled Amy has put to work as a coffee table, creates a relaxed and quirky vibe. We also love the idea of setting out a little tray of toy tops for guests to play with. (Amy has two children, so we imagine there are always plenty of takers for those tops.)
• 2 Typographical signs can be fun because they feel slightly out of place in a residence. Here, the "2" makes a sweet statement above a couple's bed.
• 3 Light shining through patterned paper makes any room feel like a party. Amy hangs pretty lanterns in a few of her rooms, but we love these parasol lights from her studio best. They might not work in every space, but for a creative workspace we think they're great.
• 4 To lend your home cozy warmth, create nooks and crannies using room dividers of various kinds. Amy uses a hinged shutter in her studio.
• 5 Of course it's easy to go overboard with this, but mixing and matching painted furniture can be a great way to lend your dining area or kitchen a sense of play. We love that pop of red against the blue curtain.
For more shots of Amy's home, visit her Flickr page, or check out her blog, Sweet Sweet Life, for crafty inspiration.
(Images: Amy Hanson)


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Warriors' play as bad as officiating
Chicago -- In a way, the Warriors have to be somewhat thankful that the officials were so determined to make Friday's game about their three-man crew.
The incessant whistles turned the game into a disjointed mess and took some of the attention off just how badly the Warriors played during their 103-87 loss to Chicago in front of the 111th consecutive sellout crowd at the United Center.
"I wish we had an excuse," Warriors head coach Mark Jackson said. "We got outworked, we didn't have the right mind-set to start the game, and it just snowballed from there.
"That wasn't Warriors basketball. I'm disappointed in the way we played."
The Warriors (26-16) never led, trailed by as many as 26 points and got manhandled. The Bulls (26-16) beat the Warriors 56-37 on the boards, 30-6 on second-chance points and 36-22 on points in the paint.
The Warriors shot 34.6 percent from the field, but it was difficult to tell if that had more to do with Chicago's stingy defense or the officiating. The Warriors rushed into and took any briefly open shot, but they might have also been racing to attempt shots before another whistle was blown.
The officials stopped the action going in either direction as much as possible for any seemingly innocuous incident. They called ticky-tack fouls, questionable traveling violations and anything else they could think of to upset the fluidity of the game.
Only 11 of the teams' 26 combined turnovers were lost balls or bad passes. The other 15 were traveling violations, illegal screens or offensive charges. Traveling was called three times during one 33-second stretch, and it took only 46 seconds to whistle four illegal screens during a third-quarter span.
"It wasn't disjointed in the first quarter, and that's when they made their move and won the game," said Warriors power forward David Lee, who was 1-for-7 for two points as Chicago jumped out to a 31-13 first-quarter lead.
Lee finished with 23 points on 6-of-15 shooting and six rebounds a night after snapping an NBA-record 15-year drought by becoming the Warriors' first All-Star selection since Latrell Sprewell in 1997.
Stephen Curry had 21 points on 7-of-18 shooting to go along with one rebound and one assist. Only Jeremy Tyler, who played the game's final 5:18 in garbage time, made half of his shots (1-for-2) among the 13 Warriors who got playing time.
"They outworked us, across the board," Jackson said. "With rebounding and aggressive cuts, they got what they wanted. We didn't respond until it was too late. It was a disappointing performance by us. It was just a bad performance."
The Warriors finished the toughest 11-game stretch of their season at 5-6. During the span, the Warriors played the Western Conference's other top five teams and only one team with a losing record (New Orleans, which had won six of seven before playing the Warriors).
The combined record of the Warriors' opponents during this portion of the slate was 303-166 (.646) heading into Friday's games. The game in Chicago represented the end of that gantlet and the start of a stretch with eight of the next 10 games on the road.
Chicago had three players put up double-doubles, with Jimmy Butler recording 16 points and 12 rebounds, Carlos Boozer going for 15 and 13, and Joakim Noah adding 14 and 16. Kirk Hinrich scored a game-high 25 points to give the Bulls their 40th consecutive victory when reaching the 100-point mark.
"Joakim's energy, that rubs off on the other four guys," Butler said. "When you see him rebounding and yelling, you go in and rebound, so you can yell."
The Bulls earned the right to do a lot of yelling, but it was hard to hear over all the whistles.
Saturday's game
Who: Warriors (26-16) vs. Bucks (22-19)
Where: Milwaukee
When: 5:30 p.m.
TV/Radio: CSNBA/680
Of note: This will mark the Warriors' first game in Milwaukee since the teams swapped Andrew Bogut and Monta Ellis in a five-player deal just before the trade deadline last season. ... The Bucks lost 113-108 at Cleveland on Friday, falling to 12-4 on the season when scoring 100 points. ... Ersan Ilyasova has scored 84 points in his past three games. ... Larry Sanders, the NBA leader in blocked shots, has rejected at least one shot in 28 consecutive games.
- Rusty Simmons
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After two members survive cardiac arrest, music keeps Telesma alive
Last spring, Ian Hesford dropped to the stage from cardiac arrest while playing a show with his band, Telesma.
After 93 minutes of CPR, a hypothermic treatment and stents in his heart, Hesford survived. Knowing CPR saved their friend's life, band members and dedicated fans took classes.
Telesma vocalist Joanne Juskus didn't realize how soon she would put that training to the test.
In the middle of the night November 5, Juskus' boyfriend Adrian Bond suffered the same cardiac arrest her band mate survived months earlier.
Her CPR training kicked in, and with the guidance of a 911 dispatcher, she kept Bond's heart beating until paramedics arrived.
"I have to say that if I hadn't gone through this with Ian," Juskus said, "I wouldn't have been able to handle going through it with Adrian."
Telesma band members surrounded Bond's hospital bed, just as they had months before Hesford's, not knowing what would be. Band members went to the hospital every day to chant, sing and play music to their unconscious band family member.
"None of us could believe we were having another hospital vigil just months after we had been though it with Ian," Juskus said.
Both band members survived and are again healthy. But neither has health insurance. After Hesford's heart attack, band members set up a trust fund and a benefit show to raise money for the medical bills.
They are doing the same for Bond.
Join Telesma along with Swampcandy, Contra, The Corsicans, The Moll Dyers Band, Naked Blue, Jimi Haha (of Jimmie's Chicken Shack), Joe Karr, McAdoo, Hot Tub Limo and Dean Rosenthal for a 12-hour benefit concert on Jan. 20, 1pm to 1am, at Metropolitan Kitchen and Lounge in Annapolis. Bid in the silent auction for handcrafted electric guitars, art photography, jewelry, marketing sessions, voice lessons and feng shui consultations.
Telesma goes beyond music to give its audience an "organic experience." Painters, acrobatics, belly dancers join on the stage when the eight-year-old band performs what Juskus calls "psychedelic tribal world music."


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Built during the 14th and 15th centuries to ward off Scottish raiders, Newcastle's ancient city walls are a proud testament to the rich history of the city.
This couple were snapped, er, hard at it by workers in the nearby WhatCulture offices, last week.
"Congratulations to the happy couple who just had sex on top of the Newcastle city wall. Rumbled," tweeted Simon Gallagher.
The sentiment was apparently echoed, with 1,106 retweets following quickly afterwards. And they say romance is dead.


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Newtown photographer seeks to start toy company
NEWTOWN -- When Jim Barber began clearing out his children's old toys from the basement a few years ago, he realized that most of the toys were made in China.
It was around the same time that thousands of toys were being recalled by Chinese manufacturers because of toxic paint.
"I just assumed when our children were playing with these toys that they were safe," he said. "Apparently, I was wrong."
Barber, a professional photographer with a studio in Danbury, thought Americans can do better.
"I started doing some research about what was involved and thought it's something we can do here," he said. "It's time to bring toy manufacturing back to the United States."
While the Wilton-based toy giant Melissa & Doug makes most of their products from wood rather than plastic, Barber noted that the company manufactures mainly overseas.
Barber teamed up with his son, Luke Barber, to design a new series of toys that could be manufactured in Connecticut using innovative composite plastics which are recycled, safe and sustainable.
Barber settled on a wood-and-plastic composite similar to what is used today for outdoor decking and can be injected into molds. The material has molded colors, so no paint is needed.
Using a 3-D printer, the Barbers created prototypes of their first products: EcoTruck, a line of firetrucks that are interactive and can be built over and over again easily by small hands. The trucks and their parts will work with future planned product lines that including dump trucks, a flatbed, container trucks and a train series.
Barber launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the $15,000 he needs to bring the first product to market. To date, they've raised nearly $5,000 of that amount.
"The kind of technology available today is making it possible for people like me to do this," Barber said. "Five years ago, we couldn't have done this."
While Barber said he has yet to reach out to retailers, some have already begun knocking on his door.
"We've already received calls from a racetrack in California that's interested in the product, a retailer from Texas and several online retailers," he said. "It's certainly getting some attention."
Barber and Greater Danbury Chamber of Commerce President Stephen Bull said manufacturing is a natural fit for Connecticut given its history as the innovation state.
"There is no reason we can't get back to that," Barber said.
Bull noted that the area has a long history of innovation and manufacturing, including the Hubble space telescope that was built in Danbury by Perkin Elmer.
"There are a lot of people who would be proud to support a company that's not only trying to grow in Danbury but is trying to provide a safe product for our children that you can't always get from international companies" he said.
View the project on Kickstarter
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There are gifted people who are "dog whisperers" and "horse whisperers." Last month at the Savannah Wildlife Refuge Discovery Day, I got to see a new variation - a "bird whisperer."
One of the rangers at the refuge, mild-mannered Peter Range, demonstrated bird-banding during the day. And, based on how comfortable the birds were in his hands, he apparently has some St. Francis of Assisi genes in the family tree.
You don't think of spring without thinking of birds singing in the fresh air. What a treat it was to see them up close, getting banded for scientific research.
Peter and biologist Lindsay Coldiron explained the techniques and reasons for banding to fascinated kids and families. And often, as the final step, they let the banded bird rest in a child's hand before it flew away.
The first step is catching the bird. That's done by stringing almost-invisible mist nets along paths in the woods nearby. They check the nets every half hour so that any snagged birds aren't stressed for long.
Peter and Lindsay carefully untangled the birds, transferred them to light mesh fruit bags, and brought them back to the banding table.
"Our No. 1 concern is the safety of the bird," says Peter, as he crimps a numbered metal band onto the bird's ankle.
He examines the bird while Lindsay records its species, sex, age, wing measurements, condition and weight.
Peter determines a bird's age by the shape and molting condition of feathers and by ossification spots on the skull.
He blows on their chests to part the feathers and calls out a number to indicate how fat or skinny they are, to show well they are feeding.
I swear, most appeared soothed by his blowing on them - like they were getting a gentle air massage. They blissed out, like his breath had dreamy notes of fresh hayfields, sunflower seeds and millet. He must use some Audubon brand of mints.
Weighing the bird is done by wrapping it in a soft fleece sleeve so it can be placed on a scale. Peter calls this a "bird burrito."
The last part is amazing. Peter gently unwraps the bird, strokes its head and chest, and lays it in the open hand of one of the kids. The bird lies there comfortably until the child rocks his hand a bit to tip it out.
Even the cardinals, that had squawked and turned their heads around looking for a soft part of his hand to nip, relaxed at this final step. It must be that comfortable snuggie at the end.
Lots of other things were going on at the event, co-sponsored by the National Wild Turkey Federation. Kids got to target practice with BB guns inside a bouncy house.
And they got to make realistic turkey calls out of plastic cups, string and sponges. It occasionally sounded like a turkey stampede.
There was archery training and kids got to meet the Refuge Fire Crew, see its fire engine and use the hoses.
Boy Scouts from Marlow Troop 691 led walks along the nature trail, identifying trees and showing the ground torn up by feral pigs.
At the "Band-A-Kid" station, you got a color-coded bracelet according to age, sex, height and birth state. A nice connection with the bird banding.
There was an Animal Olympics course, staffed by 7-year-old Keeley Haughie, who just completed Junior Refuge Manager training. Kids got to "hang like a bat," "crawl like a gopher tortoise," "balance like a squirrel," etc.
For the finale, Puddles, the big blue goose that is the symbol of the National Wildlife Refuge System, got a sizeable band attached to his ankle to track his migration to other refuges.
Refuge and nature center admission is always free. The bird-watching, alligator-watching and fishing are great, as are the walking and biking trails and the wildlife drive for cars.
So fly, don't walk, to the next banding demo. Or just visit on the next sunny day.
Ben Goggins, a retired marine biologist, lives on Tybee Island. He can be reached at 912-786-6181 or email@example.com.