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If Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman are hitting all the right notes in the hit film "Les Miserables," they have one talented Chicago area resident to thank for their vocal prowess.
That would be Roberta Duchak, the Jeff Award-winning musical director ("Miss Saigon," "Ragtime," among many others, and the upcoming "Sunset Boulevard") at the Drury Lane Theatre in Oakbrook Terrace. Duchak, who owns a voice studio in Chicago and also teaches fundamentals of musical theater singing at Columbia College, put the two megastars through their vocal paces, working with Crowe from the audition through the actual filming — which in an unprecedented movie musical move featured the cast singing live as the cameras rolled.
Duchak, who spent nearly four months in England for rehearsals and filming, and three weeks in Australia at Crowe's request to augment his training, said fate had a hand in all of it.
"My vocal teacher, John Komasa, originally got the call from the movie company," Duchak said. "Russell was auditioning for the role — everyone had to audition for their parts. Hugh Jackman had a three-hour audition for the role of Jean Valjean. Don worked with them for a while, but he was leaving for Europe in June or early July last year and he called and asked me to fill in for two weeks with Russell. So that's what I did.
"Then a month later, Russell called me directly asking me to accompany him to his audition. So off we went. I played a few warm-ups with him, he sang a few songs, and then in came Cameron Mackintosh, the producers and director Tom Hooper. It was just us and a piano. Russell nailed it."
Duchak recognizes that not all the commentary about the cast's vocal abilities (she also did on-set vocal warm-ups with Anne Hathaway, Samantha Barks and Amanda Seyfried) has been positive, something she said is very misguided.
"There have been a lot of opinions, and yes, criticism of the live singing in the film," Duchak said. "I feel like we, within the industry, should embrace the live singing and hope that this becomes the industry standard. It enhances the storytelling with an intimacy we've never seen. Honestly, auto-tuning, ghosting voices and lip synching seems cheap and antiquated. I think Tom Hooper has elevated the art of making movie musicals."
Crowe is no stranger to music or musical theater, having starred as Eddie and Dr. Scott in an Australian production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" in the 1980s, as well as busking on the streets of Sydney as guitar-in-hand teen, and more recently fronting his rock 'n' roll band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts.
The first note heard in the film is Crowe's high "F" as he sings "… bring me prisoner 24601" in the pouring rain, Duchak said. Getting to that note was a testament to Crowe's unrelenting dedication to honing his vocal skills.
"Like anyone who walks into my studio for voice lessons, I warm them up to evaluate where they are so I know how to proceed to make them grow," Duchak said. " 'Les Mis' is among the three hardest musical theater pieces out there, in addition to 'Ragtime' and 'Miss Saigon.' Everyone in 'Les Mis,' from Fantine to Jean Valjean, has to have huge ranges. The cast in this film had range, but we had to push it even further."
Duchak says she found Crowe's voice fascinating from the get-go.
"He is a true bass baritone," she said, noting that his favorite warm-up song was the hugely demanding basso classic "Ol' Man River" from "Show Boat." "There are very few men who have that gorgeous bass baritone voice. It was exciting to see how deep it was. But the challenge was to make him into a high baritone. The most challenging song for Russell was 'Javert's Suicide,' because it's so rangey. You're hitting that F-sharp over and over again. In all, I ended up increasing Russell's range by about four notes. That's a big leap for a singer who isn't used to singing every day.
"With Hugh [whom Duchak began coaching eight weeks into the filming], we added maybe three notes to his range because 'Bring Him Home' is just an unbelievably difficult and emotional song. But both of these guys they were like Olympic athletes when it came to retraining their voices and getting them ready to sing 12 to 14 hours a day. Because all the singing was done live, if you did a take multiple times, you sang it over and over again. I don't know of many musical theater veterans who could even do that."
Duchak, 47, started playing piano at age 3. Music was always in the house, she said; her father was a musician. She went on to participate in choir, dance and musicals throughout grammar school and high school. At Indiana University, Duchak majored in broadcast journalism and theater.
In addition to Broadway and national tours, her local credits as musical director or an actress include Chicago Shakespeare Theater, American Theater Company, the Goodman Theatre and Marriott Lincolnshire Theatre.
While "Les Mis" afforded her months to get her singers into shape, at Drury Lane, Duchak said, there is no such luxury; the pace is lightning-quick.
"I think musical theater in Chicago does what it does extremely well in an incredibly short amount of time, sometimes with only a few weeks in between shows," Duchak said. "That's a real testament to the high caliber of talent we have here."
Duchak had similar praise for her film cast, calling Crowe and Jackman two people "who I think will always be in my life as my friends."
"All these actors were so brave to sign up for a musical that is being sung live," she said. "We were making history and we all knew it. All they heard was a piano in their tiny ear pieces [Duchak played piano for Crowe during his turn on 'Stars,' per the actor's request]. The songs all sounded a cappella to the crew. That's a very cool and different way for a cast and crew to 'hear' a musical. To be able to act and sing in a musical when you're hearing everything a cappella, that's simply marvelous talent."
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The Manufacturing Institute, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, University of Phoenix, and Deloitte announced the recipients of the first Women in Manufacturing STEP (Science, Technology, Engineering and Production) Awards. The inaugural STEP Awards honor women who have demonstrated excellence and leadership in their careers and represent all levels of the manufacturing industry, from the factory-floor to the C suite.
The STEP Awards are part of the larger STEP Ahead initiative launched to examine and promote the role of women in the manufacturing industry through recognition, research, and best practices for attracting, advancing, and retaining strong female talent.
The Manufacturing Institute and its STEP Ahead initiative partners recognized the 122 recipients of the STEP Awards at a reception in Washington, D.C. on February 5, 2013. The STEP Awards program highlighted each honoree's story, including their leadership and accomplishments in manufacturing.
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The number of coupons used by Americans to stock their pantries plummeted 17 percent in 2012.
After surging during the Great Recession, the old-fashioned savings tool seems to have lost favor among consumers. Or has it?
Coupon industry insiders disagree on whether the drop is an aberration caused by a poor mix of coupon offers in 2012 or whether it signals the beginning of the end of the paper coupon era.
"There's a lot of discussion within the industry," said John Morgan, executive director of the Association of Coupon Professionals, the coupon industry's trade organization.
"The industry is not used to having double-digit (swings) either way," Morgan said. "That's a big deal. Historically, it has been slow single-digit (increases or decreases) either way."
With an uneven economic recovery as the backdrop, coupon-clipping shoppers have taken notice.
Kim Maney, 38, of Apex, N.C., shops at multiple supermarkets and drugstores, follows coupon blogs and takes advantage of double- and triple-coupon offers to stock her pantry. A lawyer, wife and mother of a 2-year-old, Maney said she has noticed a drop in the quality of paper coupons.
"A quarter off toilet paper? Really? What am I going to do with that?" said Maney, who admits to being "horrified by the idea I'd have to give somebody full price for something."
Last year, U.S. consumers redeemed 2.9 billion coupons on consumer packaged goods, which includes everything from cereal to toilet bowl cleaner. That's according to the most recent tally by NCH Marketing, a Deerfield, Ill.-based company and one of the country's major coupon clearinghouses. NCH is a division of Valassis, which publishes the Red Plum coupon inserts for newspapers.
The 17.1 percent drop in 2012 is even more dramatic considering that the total number of coupons made available — paper and digital — remained steady at 305 billion.
Charlie Brown, vice president of marketing at NCH, attributes the decline to a calculated move by manufacturers to correct an "unusually high" redemption rate in 2011.
Coupon redemption reached 3.5 billion coupons redeemed in 2011, a 6 percent increase over the previous year and a 26 percent increase since before the recession.
During the worst of the economic downturn, Morgan said, "marketers ramped up (coupon offers) to protect their market share."
In 2012, manufacturers put the brakes on coupons. The coupon values became skimpier, the expiration dates shorter, and oftentimes the coupons required that shoppers buy two or even three of an item before getting 55 cents off.
Manufacturers also issued more coupons for new products, which Brown said, "doesn't have the same level of appeal."
"For the manufacturer, the redemption of the coupon is an expense," he said, so they purposely made the coupon offers less attractive. "They don't want 100 percent of the coupons redeemed."
Coupon shoppers Veronica Shores, 48, of Raleigh, N.C., and Michelle Morton, 42, of North Raleigh, have also noticed the decline in coupon quality and adjusted their shopping habits to compensate.
Shores is on a fixed income and has relied on coupons to help make ends meet. She attends local coupon swaps, where she meets with other coupon clippers thumbing through stacks of everyone's cast-off coupons looking for the ones their families will use.
"They have really started dropping the coupon values," she said at a recent monthly swap held at Wake County's Southeast Regional Library in Garner, N.C. "It makes it harder to save." To supplement her coupon savings, she's also using more store brands.
In contrast, Morton has cut back on her coupon use. Raising three kids, she started wondering if her time clipping and organizing all those little slips of paper was time well spent.
"It got to be too overwhelming. It got to be where I was dreading it, cutting coupons and matching them to lists," she said. "I started to kind of realize, 'OK, is it worth my time?'" But that doesn't mean Morton has abandoned her search for deals.
She now does a lot of her shopping at the no-frills grocery chain, Aldi, where most of the products are store-brand and coupons aren't accepted. She hits Harris Teeter for the best of the coupon deals.
Citing the competitive nature of their business, manufacturers wouldn't discuss their coupon offerings. Jeff LeRoy, a representative for Procter & Gamble, declined to comment. "We consider coupon redemption information proprietary," he said in an emailed statement.
Likewise, grocery chains don't like to comment on coupon redemption. Harris Teeter would not comment beyond saying its coupon programs are popular.
Heather George, vice president of brand strategy at Lowes Foods, acknowledged a dip in redemption but not as severe as the reported nationwide decline. She said Lowes Foods numbers were better because of its policy of offering every-day double coupons and occasional special coupon events.
Phil Lempert, a consumer analyst known as the Supermarket Guru, said he thinks the discussion about coupon expiration dates and lower coupon values, while valid, misses the point.
He argues that paper coupons, in particular, are an outmoded way of delivering deals to consumers, pointing out that only about 1 percent of all coupons are redeemed – even in a good year.
A contributing editor to Supermarket News, Lempert is the keynote speaker at the Association of Coupon Professionals annual meeting in New Orleans next month. He forecasts continuing drops in paper coupon redemption.
"We'll continue to see people empowered to save money but not the way it used to be," he said. "Look at how quickly we left our records, cassettes and CDs. When's the last time you wrote a real letter?
"Our smartphones are running our lives."
Lempert plans to be blunt in his keynote speech. "When you drop 17 percent in one year, you're like the Titanic," Lempert said. "You better get the lifeboats out or be ready to go down."
The sudden drop in coupon redemption has been felt by small companies that have sprouted up in recent years to capitalize on the coupon craze.
"Our business dropped by about 50 percent from 2011 to 2012," said Mindy Weschler, an Apex mother who runs TheCouponPro.com, shipping three-ring binders, plastic pages and dividers across the country. She's not optimistic for 2013.
Weschler, who also sells coupon supplies at The News & Observer coupon classes, started selling coupon organizers out of her home in 2009 and had a hard time keeping up with demand. She saw her online business grow to the point where she had to lease space to store her inventory. At the end of the month, she'll be moving the business back home.
"This was not our livelihood, so we're very fortunate in that respect," Weschler said. "It's sad but you've just got to roll with the trends."
Brown, the coupon clearinghouse executive, said his company doesn't forecast coupon trends. But he did say he suspects manufacturers would be "adjusting the dial" on their coupon offerings for 2013.
Based on his company's most recent consumer survey, he said consumers will continue to clip and save. Nearly 80 percent said they use coupons "always," "very often" or "sometimes." That number has remained steady over the last several years.
Jackie Warrick, the president of CouponCabin.com, an online site that compiles coupons and coupon codes on everything from groceries to the latest electronic gadgets, said she believes coupon savings are here to stay, although perhaps in different forms.
"I think companies are working to try to find the right mix," she said. "They definitely need to work on making coupons as hassle-free as possible."
As of 2012, about 90 percent of all coupons were still distributed in coupon books, the vast majority delivered via the Sunday newspaper. Thus far, the so-called "click-to-card" digital coupons that shoppers load to their store loyalty cards have amounted to only about 1 percent of coupons distributed, and redemption is similarly small.
Traditional coupon clippers have been slow to adopt them, citing their limitations. The paperless coupons are typically only good on one purchase and are not doubled in value as paper coupons often are. For instance, if a shopper wanted to buy three boxes of cereal and had three 50-cent paper coupons, the shopper would realize a $3 savings. That same shopper, using digital coupons, would only save 50 cents off one box.
But Inmar, a Winston Salem, N.C.-based company that analyzes coupon use and also operates paper coupon clearinghouses, is forecasting a surge in the popularity of paperless coupons. It's projecting a nearly 900 percent increase in paperless coupons by 2015.
And at least one supermarket chain has addressed the complaint that digital coupons can only be used once. Kroger recently released a set of digital coupons that permitted shoppers to use each one up to five times.
On one point, everyone agrees. The appetite for savings — sparked by the recession — remains high.
"Whether the economy is good or bad, people like to save money," Lempert said. "But it's not just about the coupon."
Consumers are buying private-label brands, they're shopping at dollar stores, and they're buying groceries at drugstores — wherever they can find a deal, Lempert said.
Instead of coupons, Lempert recommends manufacturers and supermarkets ramp up efforts to entice shoppers through their smartphones using Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
For instance, alerting consumers to in-store flash sales, when a particular item is marked down drastically for a short period of time, is a much more efficient and cheaper way to offer a deal, Lempert said.
Not all coupon clippers, however, are quite ready to embrace all-digital discounts.
"I would be very dismayed if I woke up one Sunday morning and I found there were no more coupons," Shores said.
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What is an Engine Braking?
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Engine braking occurs when the retarding forces within an engine are used to slow a vehicle down, as opposed to using additional external braking mechanisms such as friction brakes or magnetic brakes.
The term is often confused with several other types of braking, most notably compression-release braking or "jake braking" which uses a different mechanism. The term only applies to gasoline engines and other throttled engines (as opposed to diesel engines, electric motors, etc.).
Additionally, traffic regulations in a large number of countries require trucks to always drive with an engaged gear, which in turn provides a certain amount of engine braking (viscous losses to the engine oil and air pumped through the engine and friction losses to the cylinder walls and bearings) when no accelerator pedal is applied.
Gasoline engines
The term 'engine braking' refers to the braking effect that occurs in gasoline engines when the accelerator pedal is released.
When the accelerator is released, the butterfly valve that controls intake airflow (the throttle valve) is closed and the air flow through the intake is greatly restricted (but not cut off completely). This causes a high manifold vacuum which the cylinders have to work against - this saps energy and is where the majority of the engine braking force comes from. The concept can be illustrated by the amount of effort required to blow/suck through a narrow tube vs. a wider one. It is the work the engine has to do against this restricted air flow that provides the braking effect.
While some of the braking force is due to friction in the drive train, this is negligible compared to the effect from the manifold vacuum caused by the air-flow restriction.
Diesel engines
Diesel engines do not have engine braking in the above sense. Unlike gasoline engines, diesel engines vary fuel flow to control power, rather than throttling air intake and maintaining a constant fuel ratio as gasoline engines do. Because they do not maintain a throttle vacuum, they are not subjected to the same engine braking effects. This is partly why non-turbo diesel engined vehicles can coast in-gear for longer than an equivalent gasoline engine.
The higher compression ratio in diesels means they are harder to start, but once they are running the energy expended in compressing air is regained during the expansion stroke when the compressed air is allowed to 'spring' back, so the higher compression ratio doesn't cause any engine braking.
Compression release brake
A compression release brake or "jake brake", is the type of brake most commonly confused with real engine braking; it is used mainly in large diesel trucks and works by opening the exhaust valves at the top of the compression stroke, so the large amount of energy stored in that compressed air is not returned to the crankshaft, but is released into the atmosphere.
Normally during the compression stroke, energy is used as the upward-traveling piston compresses air in the cylinder; the compressed air then acts as a compressed spring and pushes the piston back down. However, with the jake brake in operation, the compressed air is suddenly released just before the piston begins its downward travel. (This sudden release of compressed air creates audible sound waves similar to the expanding gases escaping from the muzzle of a firearm.) Having lost the energy stored within the compressed air, there is no 'spring back' from it so the engine must expend yet more energy pulling the piston back down again
This type of brake is banned or restricted in many locations where people live because it creates a machine gun like sound loud enough to disturb the peace, including waking people at night. It is very effective however, and creates immense amounts of braking force which significantly extends friction brake life - a 565 hp (421 kW) diesel engine can produce up to 600 hp (450 kW) of braking power.[citation needed
Exhaust brake
An exhaust brake works by causing a restriction in the exhaust, much like the intake throttle causes in a gasoline engine. In simple terms, it works by increasing the back-pressure of the exhaust. Nearly all of these brakes are butterfly valves similar to a throttle valve, mounted downstream of the turbocharger if there is one.


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I just need to find out how to say it in Slavonic!
Re icons in the Assyrian Church:The "Nestorian" church in Famagusta, Cyprus, has medieval wall paintings with Syriac inscriptionshttp://famagustawalledcity.org/wall-painting
Father, from a quick reading of your blog you seem to have fairly positive or at least non-polemical view of the Assyrian church despite the fact that you switched from the Assyrian church to the EO Church. Care to tell us why did you became an EO?
I was under the impression that the Assyrian Church did not really make use of icons aside from the Cross. Were these murals added later by the Orthodox?
The Syriac inscriptions seem to indicate that it was the Assyrians. Syriac is their liturgical language.
Quote from: Alpo on September 21, 2012, 10:57:58 PMFather, from a quick reading of your blog you seem to have fairly positive or at least non-polemical view of the Assyrian church despite the fact that you switched from the Assyrian church to the EO Church. Care to tell us why did you became an EO?Father, when you have some time, would you kindly please answer this question?In Christ,Achronos
I think you can say ~ In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and post with charitable and prayerful intentions.
If you spend long enough on this forum, you'll come away with all sorts of weird, untrue ideas of Orthodox Christianity.
I would suggest most persons in general avoid any question beginning with why.
Greetings!In the interest of providing the Orthodox world with a basic introduction to the Assyrian Church of the East (AKA "Nestorian Church") I started a blog: http://eastmeetseastblog.blogspot.com/ I'm just taking snippets from various church fathers of the Syriac tradition and from the Assyrian Church's own canonical writings and translating them, with some commentary. Hopefully, this can help us have an English repository of the texts needed for a basic understanding of this tradition. I also have an eye to informing the Assyrian Church world about Orthodoxy. If it's interesting, please follow by email (I update about every 12 days, so I wont be flooding your box, promise) and comment on the blog itself. It's been great going to a dozen different places to see what people are writing but I have 10 comments on the blog and around 12 times that elsewhere. http://eastmeetseastblog.blogspot.com/ Thanks,Ephraim, unworthy priest
In the mid 1890's, Abun Mar Yonan, the Nestorian Bishop of Urmia, petitionedthe Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church that he and his flock be received into the Russian Church. Mar Yonan traveled to Saint Petersburg in 1898, where he and several of his clergy accepted Orthodoxy. They were received into the Russian Orthodox Church by confession of faith and vesting on the Feast of the Annunciation at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Saint Alexander Nevsky Lavra. ...Also in 1898, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church established the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Urmia, in order to aid Mar Yonan in the con- version and education of his flock.
See http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php/topic,52932.0.html
Firstly, why does it make it seem as if Fr. Ephraim was never a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church, despite the fact that he describes himself as such on the blog and specifically mentions being out of communion with the Church of the East? I'm not actually sure how anyone here would answer it, but it's odd enough that I wanted to mention it.
Secondly, I'm no expert on Oriental vesture, but it looks to me like Fr. Ephraim is wearing Syrian vestments, instead of Assyrian like the bishop who ordained him. What's up with that?
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Following a workout, the Iowa State men's basketball team slowly started rolling in 30 minutes before the NCAA Tournament Selection Show began Sunday.
Following a workout, the Iowa State men�s basketball team slowly started rolling in 30 minutes before the NCAA Tournament Selection Show began Sunday.
They would grab a plate of barbeque in coach Fred Hoiberg�s kitchen. Some would eat upstairs. Most would wander down to the basement and cluster around one of the two TVs, trying to grab a seat while avoiding Hoiberg�s twins, Sam and Charlie, who were in the midst of an intense game of one-on-one with a rubber basketball.
The closer it got to the 5 p.m. broadcast, the more people descended down the stairs, until about 50 sets of eyes were glued to the show. The media, coaches and student-managers sat in one room. The team lounged on couches in another.
There was plenty of joking as the first team, Louisville, was placed in the tournament. Assistant coaches pranked a student-manager. The common guess for the Cyclones� seed was a 16, the lowest in the field.
Things were loose. Everyone was enjoying themselves like it was happy hour, until Colorado State showed up as a No. 8 seed.
Former ISU coach Larry Eustachy is at Colorado State. Several in the program started muttering about facing anyone but Larry. The Cyclones were expected to likely land a No. 7-10 seed.
The tension built like in a slasher film, some leaned into the TV, waiting for the announcement like those standing in Basilica Square for the revealing of Pope Francis I.
Missouri wound up being Colorado State�s opponent. Sighs of relief filled the room.
This process is repeated again and again throughout the hour-long show. Any time there is an opponent the Cyclones could face, or a team they don�t want to because of personal connections, time stands still.
It happened again minutes later when Creighton, directed by former ISU coach Greg McDermott, was named a No. 7 seed. Before the show, coaches were trying to guess the likelihood of this matchup. No one came up with a firm answer.
Silence turned into gasps when Cincinnati became Creighton�s foe.
By the first commercial the Cyclones were already in unfamiliar territory. Their selection show experience lasted all of 10 minutes last year.
As they were forced to wait it out, some made a second food run. Players buried their heads in their phones, looking at anything to pass the time. Hoiberg huddled with assistant T.J. Otzelberger to figure out a potential opponent.
Before the show returned, Otzelberger proclaimed ISU would be a No. 8 or 9 seed.
Each time a potential 7-10 or 8-9 game came up someone channeled their inner psychic and claimed this was where the Cyclones were headed.
After two regions were laid out, ISU still didn�t have a home in the bracket.
With each team shown, Otzelberger marked off potential opponents on a sheet he brought. During the second commercial break he proclaimed ISU would face either North Carolina State or Butler.
He was asked where it will be.
�I don�t do the where,� he said.
When former Cyclone players Eric McKnight (now at Florida Gulf Coast) and Tavon Sledge (Iona) make the tournament, cheers erupted, as if some of the pent-up energy needed to be released.
The third region was shown and still, nothing for ISU. The jokes about missing the tournament and being lucky to get a 16 seed were said as a defense mechanism. No one wanted to settle for an NIT bid.
After missing out on his first two guesses, Otzelberger predicted the Cyclones will face Wichita State in an 8-9 game.
�Everyone else is gone,� Otzelberger said.
The Shockers were the No. 9 seed in the final region, but ISU wasn�t the No. 8. It was Pittsburgh. The players started glancing at each other, asking if this is really happening.
Expecting the worst is the natural state of Cyclone Nation. It�s starting to creep into the basement.
With only eight teams left to be unveiled, the Cyclones believed they must be one of them. They had to.
Hoiberg couldn�t take it. He watched the end of the selection show alone. His mind kept coming back to a bracketologist that put ISU as a 98-percent lock to make the 68-team field.
�Did he know something with that last two percent?� Hoiberg asked.
No, he didn�t.
ISU was revealed to be the No. 10 seed facing No. 7 Notre Dame on Friday in Dayton, Ohio.
Hoiberg�s nerves subsided. Assistant coach Matt Abdelmassish quickly whipped out his phone to make a call. There was a game plan to put together. The other assistants quickly moved out of the basement, a long night of film study awaiting them.
The players jumped off the couch. They hugged and exchanged high-fives, this being the reward for a year of work.
�To see it come up there is a great feeling,� guard Chris Babb said.
Hoiberg, and the more prominent players, scattered across the basement for interviews, talking up Notre Dame.
Those without TV cameras and digital recorders directed at them played an NBA video game.
There seemed to be more interest in the virtual Oklahoma City-Orlando contest than the selection show based on the hooting and hollering after each basket.
Once the interviews concluded, 90 minutes after most arrived, the basement began thinning out. When everyone left they walked past a sign that read: The time to be happy is now.
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Garber also ordered Burch to attend diversity and sensitivity training.
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So the background might be blurry, the characters grainy and the animation won't be the smoothest possible but we'll still be able to visit a rooftop where mahou ensemble plays in the background with a blue sky and Komari's original VA talks to us in her high voice while alternating between embarrassing speeches on happiness and then panicking about some trivial thing. We know the music and the voice acting will be good, if the script and direction are decent, we won't need perfect visuals to have a successful scene I suspect. Big if, but visual quality isn't the most important thing, I'd take a show that's entertaining over one that looks like a moving painting but bores me to death.
When that first episode comes out, for just a little while I'll try to forget about animation production studios and watch the show to relive some of the most fun scenes ever imagined. I think they'll do a good job with making things such as Komari's clumsiness have a good comedic impact. If you're worried too much, you'd be like my friend who thinks a movie is unwatchable in 480p just because he's used to 1080p. Unless you're going to let yourself be hung up over a number, the fact that you won't be able to see a mole on some actress' face isn't going to make the show that much better. Or in LB's case, maybe the eye will look assymmetrical for a frame or something. If you look for that sort of thing, you've got a very good eye and you need to join a QA team and get that out of your system or something :P.
For anyone with sky high expectations, yea, you should lower them :P. This way you'll either be pleasantly surprised or not disappointed :P.
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Visual Arts seems to have some sway in decisions since obviously the Seiyuu cast was their move and not JC Staff's. My guess is that they didn't give them free reign over the anime.In fact, Maeda apparently went on record not so long ago, according to unofficial tweets from the Festa, saying he is personalliy supervising the scriptwriting for Little Busters. While supervising is not the same as writing it himself it means he can make sure the scriptwriters don't fuck up the original story.
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We don't even know what the real animation looks like. We're probably talking not bad visuals here.
If PA works was in charge, I'd be just as worried, because I've yet to be really entertained by any of their shows. Great visuals don't mean much without a compelling story. I'm actually not as concerned with the visuals as them just being able to tell a compelling story. J.C. Staff can make visuals as good as A-1, White Fox and other plan B studios on people's lists. I think what most people were/are afraid of is J.C. Staff's ability to adapt the storyline and to transfer the atmosphere of the game to the anime. I'm much more worried about that than perfect visuals.
Watch to be entertained and re-experience a great story-line. (New VA performances, characters being finally being animated, maybe not in the way you hoped but still, there's plenty of new things to be entertained by. Just because they're not new and the prettiest visuals doesn't mean they can't be new and still interesting.) Don't watch just for eye-candy. If you want that, just watch the next series PA puts out.
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Oh, and it was hilarious to read the livid comments on MAL and /a/ screaming bloody murder on J.C. Staff.
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For this anime to be a success for me personally, it has to have that magic touch for it to be something I would reminisce about for a long time. Not just it being an above average show, but a memorable one.
What KyoAni did with Kanon 2006 and CLANNAD succeeded in doing so. Can J.C. Staff's team do the same? That's all that matters to me.
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Again, I'll be happy to eat my words, but it better be pretty damn good.
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This is the most entertaining thread in a while.
My main worry isn't so much the length or the story, I'm confident they know what they're doing in those regards as this has been years in the making. No, my main concern is the quality of animation, that's what everyone should be worried about when they hear J.C. Honestly, the only shows I've seen them produce with stunning visuals were Index (season 1 and a couple eps of II), Railgun, Toradora sort of, and Yumekui Merry. A lot of their other shows are plagued with studio factory-level animation. I just simply can't see them living up to KyoAni's standards of animation and those tweets don't do anything to rest me at ease in that regard. It's almost like they're trading off quality for J.C.'s ability to pop out multiple cour shows without getting bogged down by one project (which is why no other studio could handle this, I bet).
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Hahahaha I was correct on Little Busters! being animated by JC Staff.
Well given the right budget, JC Staff can actually pull off a good looking series (Raildex). Also if given the right staff, they can make relatively amazing stuff like Toradora, Ano Natsu, Nodame Cantabile, Honey and Clover. . . though I really did want to see someone like Kyoani or PA Works do this since there would have been a 100% ensurement that it would at least look visually stunning.
Oh well at least it's not DEEN or Xebec.
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^ But DEEN are good now! DEEN > GAINAX. And if XEBEC was doing this I'm sure Production I.G would be doing it with them.. since they own them after all and tend to work together on some productions... like the Break Blade movies.
Shana 3 (Continued from Fall 2011)
Bakuman 2 (Continued from Fall 2011)
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Ano Natsu de Matteru (didn't this look rather good too? I haven't watched it so I can't say)
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That's a massive shift in the amount of shows they've been doing, obviously Fall will get more shows with Little Busters more than likely being 1 of them... and who knows when Joshiraku will air and you have the Index Movie... but only 1 show airing during Spring, a major season? And only 1 confirmed for Summer.. when most shows are already announced? Quite a change from the usual J.C Staff, so while it won't obviously look as good as Kyoto Animations works.. I still expect it to look good which is all that matters.
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I've almost given up on them changing their 'strategy', but it looks like they might actually be doing that by focusing on one-two series per season like the other studios?
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Besides LB there's bakuman confirmed,anything else?
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Let's look at the positives:
The executive producer is also the producer in Accel Word and Index II. Index II had some problems, animation-wise, in the middle but relatively speaking, these two look really good. There's some budget invested so we might see the same in Little Busters.
The director did Hatsukoi Limited. Now I'm sure lots of people will think, "Hey it's just some fanservice crappy harem anime" but it actually had some substance and they did do well in adapting a short manga that ended prematurely (it got cancelled in SJ). He also storyboarded in a few episodes of Mushishi, Nodame Cantabile: Finale, and Saraiya Goyou.
The one working on screenplay worked on The World Masterpiece Theatre a bit and has 30 years of experience. In a way he's a veteran.
The character designer worked on InuXBoku SS which made Ririchiyo really really CUTE!
JC Staff is actually really good when they put their mind into it. Ano Natsu de Matteru, Railgun, Toradora, Honey and Clover, Nodame Cantabile, Aoi Hana, Azumanga Daioh. . . all of these are regarded pretty highly in the anime fandom. People seem to forget this because they only concentrate on thinking that JC Staff only does crappy LN adaptations.
If you want to stay positive, you gotta look at the bright side of the staff. (in all honesty though, the staff is crap).
|2012-04-08, 07:23
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Is it really though? I mean look @ Haruko Iizuka.. he's doing character designs (which will more than likely be close as possible to the VN) and he was one of the chief animation directors for iDOLM@STER as well as Inu x Boku SS which were both hits from the last two seasons. He'll more than likely be doing that for Little Busters as well... and Shimada has done two adaptions for World Masterpiece Theater and if the source material is strong enough even an average director can look good... I remember that people didn't think much of Baccano!'s staff when it was announced.. and now look @ how that team and Brains Base itself is looked at.
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Shipping your Firearm ~ Long Guns are sent UPS ground fully insured to your FFL dealer or C&R holder when valid on the firearm. Handguns are sent USPS Priority Mail, insured, to your FFL dealer or C&R holder when valid on the firearm. Please note that gun purchases cannot be "picked up" at our location. The "VALID" C&R holder is the person whose name is on the C&R License, and is the "SAME" person who wins the auction! NO EXCEPTIONS! We ship Monday through Friday so your gun reaches you in a timely manner. Once payment and FFL are in hand, we ship the next business day. And email you the delivery date and tracking number at that time! The shipping cost is for the lower 48 only, Alaska and Hawaii as always will cost more.
Inspection Period ~ All used firearms come with a 3-day inspection privilege. Inspection period begins the day of delivery to your FFL. It is your responsibility to inspect the gun in that time frame. In the case of a return, buyer pays all return costs. This does not cover items damaged in shipment; you must save the damaged shipping box and file a claim with the appropriate shipping company. All items must be in the exact condition that they left us in. The inspection period does not include the firing of the firearm. If the Buyer does fire the firearm at any time during the inspection period, the sale is considered final. Inspection consists of external examination, working the action by hand to see it operates, checking bore and having the headspace checked by a gunsmith. No further disassembly is permitted, includes but not limited to turning any screws or removing any punch pins.
Shipment Requirements ~ All firearms are shipped to your FFL or a valid C&R holder if the firearm qualifies for it. A copy of your dealers FFL must be in hand before we ship! The same applies for a C&R holder. Any firearm that qualifies for "Antique" status will be shipped directly to the winning bidder. A copy of bidder's driver's license for proof of age will be needed. We ship ship "5" days a week, Monday through Friday!
Contact and Local Pickup ~ Please note that purchases cannot be "picked up" at our location. If you need to contact us about the auction our email address and phone number are included in the invoice that is sent to the winning bidder.
End of Auction ~ We send out an email directly at the end of the auction to the winning bidder. This is done through the Gun Broker system and sent to the email that you registered with and is on file. Please make sure that email is current with Gun Broker! There are instructions on how to complete the purchase included in that email.
Please Note ~ All firearms will be transferred to your FFL dealer. A signed copy of your dealer's license has to be in hand before we can ship. A C&R License is acceptable for C&R firearms only. Or firearms listed by the BATF on the C&R list, and guns known to be at least 50 years old. California laws DO NOT allow shipping of a handgun directly to the C&R holder. It must be shipped to an FFL dealer. Antique firearms require bidder to supply proof of age. Some areas still require an FFL transfer for antique & black powder firearms (New Jersey, NYC, etc.) Please find out if there are any special regulations in your state before bidding! BATF C&R List
Residents of HI, MA, and NJ, please check your local laws for restrictions before bidding on any black powder firearm.
Residents of NY, MD, CA (California Firearms Laws.), you have special requirements and restrictions on certain types of firearms, especially handguns. Some of these laws require your firearms to be specially registered and tested. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE TO MAKE SURE YOU FULFILL THESE REQUIREMENTS, NOT US. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EXPENSE OF THESE REQUIREMENTS, NOT US.
Magazine restrictions ~ We will not ship any magazine to a state or area that violates state or local law. It is that simple! So if you win a firearm that has a magazine that violates your state or local law. It will NOT be shipped with the gun.
DISCLAIMER and Return Policy ~ PLEASE READ BEFORE BIDDING!!! - Winning Bidder Responsibilities are that of determining that a used firearm is safe to shoot. Firearms have been given a visual inspection only for auction purposes, unless noted in the description. Dust 2 Dollars urges that every winning bidder have their used firearm inspected by a qualified gunsmith before firing, whether won here, or purchased anywhere! By placing a bid, you are agreeing to hold Dust 2 Dollars harmless against damages, injury, or death caused by defective firearm.
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I don't know if the swap is yet, but I hope its soon!
According to a promo from Amazing Race, this episode will have a "never-before seen" twist.Also, a quote from Colton verbatim "I'm running the show. If you can't see that, the you're Helen Keller."
I seriously think that Colton is playing this way deliberately. There is no way he could be like this in real life. I think he believes he can out-villain Russell H.The swap next week should be veeeery interesting for him.
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Tuesday, 25 December 2012 07:50 AM
Though more somber than a typical Christmas, the holiday has given Newtown a respite from the mourning. All the funerals for the victims have concluded.
"We're getting through this with our faith and our prayer. People are smiling a little more now," said John Barry, owner of an information technology staffing company. "The week was so horrible. Now it's time to celebrate Christmas."
This largely Christian town was shaken on the morning of Dec. 14, when a 20-year-old gunman armed with a military-style assault rifle shot dead 20 children aged 6 and 7 and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. It was the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
Little is known about the shooter, Adam Lanza, who also killed his mother before the rampage and later himself to create a death toll of 28 in a tragedy that has revitalized the debate over U.S. gun control laws.
The sadness has moved some to act. Makeshift monuments to the dead have popped up all over town, funds have been raised, and many visitors have made a pilgrimage to Newtown, offering support.
Husband and wife Dan and Michelle McAloon of Newtown decided to go Christmas caroling this year for the first time, gathering other families and children to roam a neighborhood where the families of three victims live.
"We were just spreading some cheer, trying to make the situation a little better," Michelle McAloon said.
"They all smiled, and they all cried a little," she said of the victims' families.
"Everybody said we are doing it again next year," Dan McAloon said of the carolers. "It's going to become a tradition."
The McAloons and Barry were among those in an overflow crowd that attended Christmas Eve Mass on Monday night at Saint Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church, which held its biggest service at the high school auditorium.
Nine families from the parish lost someone in the shooting, and at least four of those families came to the big Christmas Eve Mass, Monsignor Robert Weiss said.
"Everything is just a lot more somber. Some people are just going through the motions because it's Christmas. Others are trying to make it special," Weiss said after the service.
"There is reason to celebrate. Hopefully when people start to see their extended families, or people from outside of Newtown, or even go out of town, they will be able to. You can't get away from it in this town," he said.
Christmas Eve Mass featured a pageant that told the Christian story of Jesus' birth. One of the more poignant moments came when people applauded a group of two dozen little girls dressed as angels. They all knew shooting victim Olivia Engel, 6, was supposed to be among them.
"I highly recommend that before you rip open those gifts, say a prayer for those children," Weiss told parishioners. "Then give your own children a hug."
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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -- Sophomore Oliver Strecker and freshman Daniel Hernandez led the Lipscomb men's tennis team this past weekend at the "Austin Peay Fall Tournament," each winning their brackets, giving the Bisons two out of the three championships.
Strecker dropped only one set in his road to the "A Flight" bracket championship. He easily took down North Alabama's Matt Feury 6-0, 6-2 in round one before going on to defeat Kennesaw States' Louis Theodor 7-5, 6-4 in round two. After dropping the first set 6-4, Strecker held a 2-0 lead in the second set of the semifinals when his opponent, Lewis' Uno Lamipaa retired from the match. Strecker posted a solid 6-3, 6-4 victory in the championship, defeating KSU's Alex Toliver.
Hernandez took the crown in the men's "B Flight" bracket when he took down Middle Tennessee State's Dimitri Pippos 6-3, 6-4 in the finals. Hernandez defeated Lewis' John Richert 6-4, 6-0 in round one and Austin Peay's Michal Hriciste 6-2, 6-4 in the second round. In the semifinals, Hernandez went on to defeat Eastern Illinois' Kevin Bauman 6-3, 2-6, 10-5 before continuing on to take the bracket title.
Sophomore Miguel Cortez picked up wins in the first two rounds, defeating KSU's Ryan Spencer and AP's Drew Kerr. Cortez eventually went on to lose his third match to KSU's Gianni Kubin 6-1, 3-6, 10-3.
Sophomore David Salazar, freshman Stuart Tierney and junior Colby Shaw all posted consolation bracket wins for the Bisons as well.
The Bisons head to Memphis, Tenn., on Friday, Oct. 14 to compete in the "USTA/ITA Regional Indoor Championships."
Oliver Strecker (LIP) def. Matt Feury (UNA) 6-0, 6-2
Strecker (LIP) def. Louis Theodor (KSU) 7-5, 6-4
Strecker (LIP) def. Uno Lapimaa (LEWIS) 4-6, 2-0 ret.
Strecker (LIP) def. Alex Toliver (KSU) 6-3, 6-4
Toliver (KSU) def. David Salazar (LIP) 6-4, 6-3
Warren Race (EIU) def. Salazar (LIP) 7-5, 2-6, 10-8
Salazar (LIP) def. Freeman (WKY) 6-2, 6-1
Sean Baley (AP) def. Stuart Tierney (LIP) 7-5, 6-0
Tierney (LIP) def. Lance Freeman (WKY) 6-1, 7-5
Tierney (LIP) def. Race (EIU) 6-3, 4-6, 11-9
Aleksas Tverwonas (AP) def. Tanner Brown (LIP) 0-6, 6-1, 10-6
Daniel Hernandez (LIP) def. John Richert (LEWIS) 6-4, 6-0
Hernandez (LIP) def. Michal Hriciste (APSU)6-2, 6-4
Hernandez (LIP) def. Kevin Bauman (EIU) 6-3, 2-6, 10-5
Hernandez (LIP) def. Dimiti Pippos (MTSU) 6-3, 6-4
Tyler Mills (KSU) def. Colby Shaw (LIP) 6-2, 6-4
Shaw (LIP) def. Jonathan Vick (UNA) 6-1, 6-1
Shaw (LIP) def. Andrew Fish (WKY) 6-1, 6-0
Miguel Cortez (LIP) def. Ryan Spencer (KSU) 6-4, second set unavailable
Cortez (LIP) def. Drew Kerr (AP) 5-7, 7-6, 10-4
Gianni Kubin (KSU) def. Cortez (LIP) 6-1, 3-6, 10-3
Faulkengerg (SIUE) def. Chad Pierron (LIP) 6-0, 6-1


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WWF's study: Water footprint of Italy
To what extent do our food consumption choices impact the environment, and water systems in particular? How much of this water originates from abroad and what are the main sources? To what extent can we improve our food consumption patterns through more-informed choices so that the burden on the environment is lessened? How can we promote water accountability in supply chains? Is it possible to inform citizens about the impacts on ecosystems and water resources of the products they consume in Italy? Is it possible to improve our internal water footprint, by improving the quality of the water used for food production?These challenges and possible solutions are discussed in the report. Future trends will be explored with particular attention to water saving, irrigation efficiency and rainfed agriculture in the Italian
context. Identifying a pattern towards water accountability and ways for improving our water footprints, calling for a joint effort of government, citizens, the private sector, and financial institutions,
is the ultimate aim of this report.
In January 2012, the WWF Italy has launched the One Planet Food Program dedicated to promoting dietary
patterns with low environmental impact and to improve the relation of food to the sustainability of natural systems and biodiversity on Earth. In order to achieve our ambitious targets for change, an holistic approach is needed: we need in fact to address both demand side (food consumption) and supply side (food production) issues within the food supply chain.
It is a complex challenge that requires an integrated approach and efforts from the scientific community, civil society, producer, government, business and other organisations. The One Planet Food Program strategy is ambitious in approach and is based on a stakeholder engagement process which will allow WWF, and a critical mass of other key stakeholders, to work together and drive forward a number of agreed
objectives: consumption of resources - primarily water -, pollution and the emission of greenhouse gas arising from the production of food are at sustainable levels and the adverse impact of food production in key areas of biodiversity impacted are restored.
In recent years, the problem of water consumption and its management has become increasingly central issues in the debate on global sustainability, especially vis-à-vis the intensifying water scarcity at the global level. Adequate quality of water resources is not only a prerequisite for the human society welfare, but it is also fundamental for the natural ecosystems that provide essential benefits to human societies and life on earth as a whole.
For further information:
Eva Alessi
Head of One Planet Food Programme
WWF Italy
Via Po 25/c, 00198 Roma (Italy)
+39 06 84497252
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