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December 2016
Strategies for Success Newsletter December 2016 Issue 132
Published by Emily Huling Selling Strategies
Copyright 2016 Emily Huling. All rights reserved.
In this December 2016 issue:
- Emily's Mailbag
- Thoughts from the Road
- Josmo's Cafe
- Stay Energized
- Emily Live
- Emily's Mailbag
Take it or leave it?
Dear Emily,
When dining with clients on business, is it acceptable to ask for a to-go box to take the rest of the meal with you? It's a regular occurrence these days no matter who is paying for the meal or whether the person is going home or back to a hotel. I think it's unprofessional and looks like the person is a cheapskate.
Doggie Bag Dilemma
Dear DBD,
I've noticed the same thing even at the fanciest restaurants with high-level professionals in attendance. Restaurants don't do us any favors by serving single portions large enough for two.
Here are things to consider before asking for a to-go box.
- If it's a large group function, don't ask for a box to go. Large groups generally get served appetizers through dessert. Just eat what you want. I'm a small eater and make it habit to eat only half of the many courses served.
- For individually ordered meal functions, ask yourself if the food is of high enough quality and quantity to take with you. If not, leave it.
- If it's a guilt trip to leave food on your plate, only order what you can eat. Notice the food being served at other tables. If it's gargantuan, order from the appetizer or small plate portion of the menu.
- Are you going straight back to a hotel or to your own office to put the food in the refrigerator? This is both a food safety and professional issue. Don't be lugging food bags around with you.
- Do not take food back to a client's office and ask to use their refrigerator.
Bottom line is when in doubt, leave it. It's not worth looking unprofessional for a half-eaten steak even if it cost $65.00!
- Thoughts from the Road
Overcoming fear.
I knew that look the moment I saw it.
As a frequent flyer with early boarding privileges, I had already settled into my aisle seat. I usually ignore the 100-200 people boarding after me, but for some reason I looked up. I saw a young woman frantically looking at her boarding pass and then at the seat numbers posted overhead. First time flyer I guessed. I caught her eye. "Can I help you find your seat?" I asked. "Yes," she replied with a sigh of relief. Her seat was directly in front of me so I helped her get herself and her bag situated. Another sigh. "Thank you so much."
When the plane landed in Minneapolis, we exited and walked side-by-side to the nearest restroom. "Do you have a connection?" I asked. "Yes" she said, eyes wide as she looked around at the huge terminal. I told her I had loads of time and could help her find her gate. On the long walk, we chatted.
Savannah told me it was her first time flying. I smiled. She was 22 and a new dialysis technician on her way to a training class. I praised her for such a good career choice. She said the hardest part isn't the schooling, it's all the other stuff that scares her. Like flying. She then said with quiet determination "I've decided I'm not going to let things that scare me stop me from living a great life."
Moral of the story. Consider what you are losing out on by allowing anxiety and fear (Fantasized Experiences Appearing Real) to get in the way. Press through to gain new experiences and broaden your world.
- Josmo's Cafe
With the holiday season upon us, we are featuring our popular brunch dish Grand Marnier French Toast. In fact, we will be serving this to friends on New Year's Day. It's a perfect party dish because it is prepared the evening before and cooked on the griddle the next morning. We all hang out in the kitchen and drink Mimosas while John cooks. We serve it with Apple Maple Chicken Sausage links and a big bowl of fresh berries.
Look at our Josmo's Cafe recipes list to find something new and yummy for your holiday gatherings. All dishes have been taste tested many, many times!
John and I wish you very happy holidays and a spectacular 2017!
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Weekend nights, weather permitting; rain and high winds stop the show. About 45 miles east of Twentynine Palms on Amboy Road, north of Sheephole Pass on the dry lake. Bring a map, and if you hit the train tracks you've gone too far. Make sure your gas tank and water jug are full before you go. www.poplight.net

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Ron is an endurance athlete, having completed many marathons, triathlons and "ultramarathon" events. He is an expert when it comes to recruiting, sales training and coaching individuals and teams to reach higher than they ever imagined. He lives with the strong belief that true success and enduring joy comes from principle-centered living… that's the foundation and everything else flows from there.
- Former Regional Sales Director for The Southwestern Company, recruiting, training, mentoring and managing over 600 salespeople over 19 years
- Company Record Holder – Personally achieved the highest level of sales 70 times with Southwestern
- Six-time "Sales Manager of the Year" with Southwestern
- Leadership Record Holder – Coached and trained more 10,000+ producers than any other manager in the 158-year-old Southwestern history. Personally coached and trained 6 of the top 10 lifetime salespeople in the history of Southwestern
- #3 lifetime producer out of over 150,000 salespeople from Southwestern Company history


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CCD is a non-political, non-governmental, non- profit, and non-religious Afghan led local organization which provides services for the socioeconomic inclusion of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) in Afghanistan. Established in March 2004, initially as a project of Handicap International (HI) running till 2007, CCD was then registered as an independent NGO with the ministry of Economy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
CCD believes in the equal rights of all the segments of the Afghan society including the PwDs in all the social, economic, cultural and political aspects. CCD works for Human rights (PwDs rights), Advocacy, Awareness, Education, Livelihood, Capacity building Peace and Democracy promotion, and Rehabilitation. CCD has been supported by local organizations, international organizations and governmental institutions.
CCD is headquartered in Kabul, while it has sub-offices and focal points in different regions of Afghanistan, mainly including Bamyan, Balkh, Herat, Nangarhar, Kapisa, Parwan, Takhar, Daikundi, provinces of Afghanistan
Your Rights , We Protect.
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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in policies. Analyzing the government policies on disability inclusion , Integrating the disability into the policies of gvt. and CSOs and Developing and improving policies and capacities of PDOs and other disability organizations.
CCD is a social development organization, and it strives to achieve maximum outputs for the uplift of PwDs and general communities through utilizing the limited resources efficiently. The key areas of operations for CCD consist of:
- Education and Awareness
- Advocacy & Human rights with emphasis on PwDs rights
- Livelihood and Income generation
- Peace building and Democracy
- Capacity building and Skill development
•Extensive experience in HR & Information-Technology, Administration and Finance Management.
• Professional education in organization Management.
• Very good language proficiency in Dari, Pashto and English.
Mr. Haidari has completed the Master degree in Business administration (MBA) HRM discipline in Bakhtar Unversity in Jan 2016.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Merriam, Kansas, police announced Sunday night that Preston Ladd had been found.
Ladd — 5-feet-3 with brown hair — was the missing 15-year-old, who was last seen Friday at Shawnee Mission North. He didn't return home after school, but he turned up safe two days later.
Missing juvenile Preston Ladd is safe and has returned home. Thank you to those who contacted the Merriam PD.
— Merriam Police (@MerriamPolice) December 10, 2018
Police told 41 Action News on Saturday that Ladd has run away from home before and thanked the public for the calls it received attempting to help locate him.


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Yes my third buy and for the year and im a cruising so far of course now i need more money but who doesnt? Yesterday I bought 30 shares of T. Yes i pushed it to do that but its worth it in the end. The 30 shares cost me $1,102.10 including commission. This 30 shares brings my total to 81.38 and adds $15.00 dollars a quarter or 60.00 a year.
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NIKSUN is the recognized worldwide leader in making the Unknown Known. The company develops a highly scalable array of real-time and forensics-based cyber security and network performance management solutions for government & intelligence agencies, service providers, financial services companies, and large enterprises such as retailers and manufacturers. NIKSUN's award-winning appliances deliver unprecedented flexibility and packet capture power. The company's patented real-time analysis and recording technology is the industry's most comprehensive solution for secure and reliable network infrastructure and services.
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NetDetector is a solution for full packet capture, application fingerprinting/reconstruction, IDS and anomaly detection.
Year of Invention: 2000
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NetDetectorLive gives you the full power of NetDetector with real-time reconstruction, indexing and content alarming. Use for proactive cyber security, data leakage prevention, and real-time surveillance.
Year of Invention: 2004
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IntelliDefend is a lightweight (notebook size), full packet capture, and forensics/analytics device for branch offices.
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It's time for some more trivia! If you are one of the first 15 to answer correctly, we'll award you the in-game title "Know it All"!
Answers can be found on the website or in the game, and before you copy someone else's answer it's a good idea to make sure they are correct! ;)
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Although purely speculation and quite possibly an old wive's tale, Elrar is known for once spilling this on a server.
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Once Methodism came to America, its message sparked an evangelical awakening. Summed up as "all men need to be saved, all men can be saved, all men can know they are saved, and all men can be saved to the uttermost," the message of Methodism resounded in the hearts of the early American people. After its official founding at the Christmas conference of 1784, Methodism spread quickly, becoming the largest Protestant denomination in the country. As the country moved west, Methodism moved with it. It was said that with every wagon train going west, a Methodist circuit rider went with it.It was out of this revival that the Congregational Methodist Church came into existence in 1852. Desiring to share the message of a heart-warming religion, and organize the people for discipleship, the founding fathers of the CMC exercised their faith and formed a doctrine based on the beliefs and teachings of John Wesley, yet with the spirit of American liberty.
Congregational Methodists are conservative, evangelical Christians in the Wesleyan Arminian tradition. Our faith is grounded in the infallible, inerrant, inspired Word of God. We believe that the scriptures are God's revelation of Himself to us, as well as the rule of faith, containing all the truth necessary for faith and Christian living.We believe that God has revealed Himself in three distinct persons... the Father, the source of all life; the Son, the mediator of God's life; and the Spirit, the extension of God's life to us. This 3-in-1 God has made us for fellowship with Himself.We believe that Christians are meant to be an active part of the body of Christ. The Church is where encouragement, spiritual growth, and the development of spiritual gifts occur. The Church purpose is also for equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry. Our community, our nation, even our world, is our responsibility. As John Wesley stated, "I consider all the world as my parish." The Church, therefore, is to be the physical manifestation of Jesus to its community and world. This is accomplished by the indwelling Spirit empowering the saints to continue the ministry and publish the message of Jesus.
The Congregational Methodist Church is unique in that it maintains the Wesleyan doctrine, but is representative in government.
- Each church calls its own pastor and owns its own property.
- Each church has its own conference (business meetings).
- Each church is represented in its Annual Conference and in the General Conference by elected delegates from its membership and by its pastor.
- Ministers and laymen have the same opportunities in the conferences.
- Local churches participate in the support of its denominational ministries, missions, and other cooperative endeavors, by tithes of churches' income and gifts.
It is said by some that our uniqueness as conservative methodists in a day when liberalism is very common, sets us apart. We have held true to the Gospel as Wesley preached it. We have added no doctrines, nor have we taken any away. We believe, as Wesley did, that we are to preach the Christ of the Bible and to spread spiritual holiness throughout the land.
The mission of the Congregational Methodist Church is as changeless as the heart of God, and that has never changed. God has always loved us. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16) It is still the desire of God that all should come to salvation in Jesus Christ.
This verse in 2 Peter 3:9 shows that the purpose of God is immutable. "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." Because of these treasured beginnings and the immutability of God, the Congregational Methodist Church is a 'message driven' organization that is dedicated to proclaiming and preserving the Gospel of Jesus Christ across continents, cultures and centuries.
We believe that the one God exists as three persons relating. The Father, the source of all life, shares His life, begetting the Son, and Hislife as the Spirit proceeds from the Father and Son. The three are unitedin substance, equal in the sense of being God, and are distinct in their personhood.
God is a sovereign, just, holy, and loving heavenly Father. It is God's nature to share Himself, and therefore exists as trinity. God shared Himself with sinful man when, because of His love for theworld, He gave His only begotten Son. Because He is the source of alllife, all living things are responsible to Him. He is a rewarder of those who obey Him, and the Judge of those who do evil.
God revealed Himself to us through His Son, Jesus Christ. The Eternal Son came to dwell among men as a man through the incarnation. The Holy Spirit was the agent of the incarnation, while the virgin Mary was the instrument. By taking humanity to Himself, the Son of God lost nothing of His divinity, but was fully God, and fully human. As the perfect man, without sin, He gave His life as the perfect sacrifice for man. Having offered Himself "once for all," He now exercises His High Priestly ministry by interceding on behalf of the saints, waiting forthe day when He comes again.
The Holy Spirit, the third person of the trinity, is the giver and renewer of life. He works to convict of sin, convince of the truth, and call sinners to life in Christ. It is the Holy Spirit who applies the work of Christ for salvation, and sanctification, as well as the empowerment for holy living. He is a comforter, an encourager, a giver of gifts, and our guide as we walk each day for Christ.
The Bible is the word of God, written by holy men of old as they were enabled to communicate God's truth without error. We therefore believe that the scripture is infallible and inerrant in its original autographs. The scripture is our rule of faith, and a revelation of God Himself. Written over a period of 1500 years by as many as 40 authors, the scripture is authoritative in matters of faith, doctrine, and practice.
God created man in His image, with the ability to relate to God in freedom, as immortal, spiritual beings. Man's original state was one of holiness. After the fall, man became a corrupt expression of God's image. Because of the corruption of our nature, man is incapable of any positive move toward God, except through the work of divine grace. This grace, which works in advance of our salvation to bring us to favor, toward salvation, is called prevenient grace. Only through the justifying, regenerating, sanctifying grace of God can we be saved from the pervasive corruption of sin, and be conformed to the image of God.
Salvation is the process by which God forgives sin, renews man to quickens a soul dead in trespasses and sin, and draws a soul to sanctification. Full salvation indicates a full redemption from all the effects of sin. Guilt, separation, death, and depravity all must be dealt with in salvation. Thus, the work of Christ is sufficient for all our needs. This salvation is grounded in the love of God, provided by the atoning work of Christ, and applied by the active work of the Holy Spirit.
Sanctification is a process beginning with initial sanctification, occurring at the new birth. It is at this time that the believer receives the Spirit and is changed. However, it is not long until a new Christian realizes that an inner battle between flesh and Spirit, or carnality and grace is happening in his soul. While the believer has been forgiven of his sins, inbred sin (carnality) still has a hold on the soul. God initiates a second stage in the sanctification process, bringing the fully committed Christian to a complete consecration. This is the crucifixion of the self-centered mind of the carnal Christian. As Wesley said, "The more alive to God a Christian is, the more dead to sin he comes." Thus, when a believer is fully consecrated, and trusts God for His promise of cleansing, the Holy Spirit fills the heart, cleanses from carnality and sin, and empowers for service.
The Congregational Methodist Church believes that the gift of tongues, as stated in the Bible, is an ability to speak in an actual language, unknown to the speaker, but known to the hearer, for the purpose of evangelism. We do not accept the modern definition of tongues as a prayer language, or an ecstatic utterance, or as evidence of the filling of the Holy Spirit.
The Christian Church was founded by Christ on the day of Pentecost. By the infilling of the Spirit, the followers of Christ become the Body of Christ. Being called out from the world to fellowship with Christ, the Church is a unique organism. It is universal, being made up of true believers of all nations, and it is holy, belonging to God. We believe that God's plan for the financing of His Church and work is with the tithes and gifts of its members.
We do not believe that the Congregational Methodist Church, or any other denomination, is the only true Church, nor that any other orthodox church is excluded. Those cults claiming to be Christian, but denying orthodox Christian doctrine, are not accepted as a part of the Body of Christ.
Whereas in the Old Testament God used specific people as priests, in the New Testament, God calls all believers to service and ministry. Through the presence of the Holy Spirit every Christian not only represents God, but also has been empowered to be an instrument of His grace to the world. The dual duties of representing God to man and man to God, belong to every born again Christian. The responsibility of witnessing, the ministry of prayer, and the use of our spiritual gifts are included in the privilege of being His priests.
Once a believer experiences new life in Christ, he strives to live a life holy and acceptable to God. The Christian life is a daily, disciplined walk with God. We believe the means of grace--prayer, Bible study, meditation, corporate worship, and fellowship--are all necessary for Christian growth. As Christians, we should focus on reproducing the character, or fruit of the Spirit, in our own character. We should also discover, develop, and use our personal spiritual gifts within the body.
The Congregational Methodist Church recognizes two sacraments, Baptism and Communion. Baptism is a testimony to the inner work of salvation. Whether it is by immersion, sprinkling, or pouring, baptism itself does not save, but is a reflection of salvation as a cleansing of sin. Children are baptized as a dedication to God, but such baptism or christening does not take the place of believer's baptism.
Holy Communion, or the Lord's Supper is a celebration of Christ's sacrifice on our behalf. Communion in the Congregational Methodist Church is open to all who believe and not to members only.
God created man to know Him intimately. Originally, God breathed into man His own breath, or life. Man, after the fall, was deprived of the Spirit, or life, of God. Salvation is the re-breathing of that life into the soul of man. That life, the very breath of God, is the basis of what the scripture means by eternal life. Jesus said, "This is eternal life, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent." (John 17:3) Knowing God in an intimate sense is to experience His life and therefore can be experienced in this life. Eternal life continues in heaven as we experience God in a new way - face to face. Eternal life, therefore, starts now and continues in eternity forever. Those who finally reject the offer of salvation in Christ will spend eternity separated from God and condemned to suffer in hell for eternity.
We believe that the culmination of human history is designed by God and will occur according to His timing. The literal interpretation of scripture reveals that Christ will rapture His faithful in the twinkling of an eye, after which the anti-christ will be revealed, and the wrath of God poured out upon the earth. After seven years of tribulation, Christ is revealed in His glory and comes to reign for one thousand years on the earth. After this millennial reign, the earth will be destroyed, and a new heaven and new earth will be provided for the faithful to live in the presence of God forever.
The Bible teaches that there are two resurrections. The first, the resurrection of the saved, will occur at pre-tribulation rapture, when the dead in Christ rise first, and those who remain are changed in an instant, escaping death, and meet Him in the air.
The second resurrection, the resurrection of the dead, occurs after the millennial reign of Christ, at which time they will be judged according to their works, and condemned to the lake of fire forever.


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when was the last time you cried because of an anime?
Definitely not SAO.
I like these threads but /a/ seems to hate them. I mean aside from obvious shows ( Clannad / Angel Beats! / Ano Hana etc etc. ) There's not a lot of new "Feels" type shows lately. I mean with regards to shows dedicated to a feels trips. So odds are no one is going to keep this thread alive. Maybe one day someone will post a good feels / sad / etc type of thread and will be alive longer than 20 seconds.
anime : afterstory
manga : mygirl
you sure?
This fucking episode.
i cried during clannad (especially after story) as well. it's too bad i watched it alone (like every anime i watch). would have loved to hug someone
/a/ main interests are :
1. waifu war
2. shitpost on overrated show
3. shitpost/discussing anime/manga before/after its release (oregairu sub, onepiece scan, etc)
4. best/worst girl
5. ??
6. i dont even know anymore
And I'll input: Yuna is a Hero the last half of the last episode. Throughout the whole series they developed her and then at the end...
They tried to be like Madoka, but it failed throughout. Great watch, but when you feel only at the end ( which is ok ) it wasn't enough. All well. This is recent one that made me cry.
"I loved you Araragi"
I fucking bawled.
Fuck SHAFT. Fuck Nisioisn. Fuck everything.
Got to me, man.
The train station part. Nothing beats the power of
Papakiki made me cry like a bitch on more than one occasion. I feel like there was something even more recent than that but I'm drawing a blank now.
God damn you. I don't want to remember that. So settle, but so perfect for the moment.
I guess you have softspot for family themed.
/a/, what manga made u cry?
Gurren Lagann, Kamina's death
Prety sure.
AS, the only anime that has made me bawl like a bitch.
Lucky Star
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso
Made me cry like a bitch the last few episodes
girl friends made me cry, and im not even a yuri fag. it was just so sweet and perfect
Watching Log Horizon S2, not even at the sad parts just randomly. It's pretty weird, I think it's kind of subliminal. Maybe it was the QUALITY. Am I the only one that experienced this?
when they re-assembled mechazawa
Last sunday when I finished
Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso.
Less than a week ago.
Chelsea's decapitation.
Gunslinger Girl. Also, the ending to Shin Angyo Onshi wrecked me for days.
to the end of death parade.
I hope one day to have a son and to watch it with him.
To OP, pic related, Steins Gate because in a way it felt like Madoka.
I am glad I watched it without the spoilers...well played it first, it was all unexpected then.
Is true that the dub is actually good?
I have never cried in front of an anime , are you guys this fragile?
anyways , the anime that brought me the most feels are Rainbow, Steins Gate, Cowboy bebop, Bokurano...I might add some more if I remember
being able to show emotions which are considered as weak is a strength
I can't cry.
Too lazy to get the ep and screencap it but this scene.
I love that adorable bastard.
Idk dude , crying in front of an anime... well I won't judge , but I've never been able to
One one japanese thing made me cry.
It wasn't an anime.
no anime is good enough to make one cry.
Steins;Gate (VN reccomended)
Katawa shoujo? (VN)
>forced drama
twgok i have a lot of softspots ;_;
maybe in Clannad
The other ones aren't mostly forced drama.
I haven't watched any other shit worth crying over.
Crying because an anime or a manga?
Hell no.
Because of a VN? Only once. But it made me cry myself to sleep like a little bitch.
what youre essentially crying to, are human emotions and interactions displayed in an artform (anime). if just sounds stupid because you simplify it.
it's like you are saying "dude why are you crying in front of a stone and a few flowers?" when i'm at the funeral of my mother.
Anime is forced animation.
EoE (a day later)
Madoka Magica 10
After Story
Aoi Hana
Tsukihime (VN)
Kanna Imouto
Is it any good?
Have you played any other VNs?
>crying over shit
Im chihirofag, i enjoy other fag tears.
the last time i cried because of an anime was when genshiken killed my family right before my eyes and then spat at my feet
It is good and short.
I've played/read a few, mostly non-eroge with an interesting summary.
Try True Remembrance too. It's good stuff.
manly farewells are the best.
i remember planetarian being pure shit, but i cried during
danganronpa 2
will check them out.
VNs a best.
Yeah, dude.
The end of K-on was rough because it made me remember how much I miss highschool, and that I will never return to those days when I had good friends and wasn't so sick. Ulcerlative colitis has destroyed my early 20s.
I think Evangelion is going to do it soon. Asuka in that bath tub scence,and shinjji almost killing toji nearly got me.
It was her rejecting him that got me ;_; and the dokuro arc
I've only played DR one. Didn't think it was possible to cry with murder mystery.
I think you wasn't in the mood with Planetarian. It's not possible to dislike that buildup and ending.
Did you read it few by few? I thought it was more effective because i've read in one go.
A few minutes ago. I am watching Tatami galaxy for the first time and ep. 9 made me cry.
Shit hit me really hard
When her hand fell and Sougo put it on his face while crying
I cried so hard i choked
it wasn't a murder mystery that made me cry in the second one. it was in the final trial, the pull off huge twists like they did in the first one, but a whole lot crazier. if you want to know it put simply
you and all the other kids were the bad guy all along, and a few other things
but the final trial was pretty messed up for me, and it made me feel a little sick the first time i played it. near the end i reached my breaking point and teared up a little until the credits
Tatami galaxy? Cry? Did we watch the same series anon??
I didn't see it from this angle
ty based anon
Gundam Unicorn episode 7. Like, I knew it was coming, but it still fucked me up so bad. There was snot and everything.
Man, I just wanted this stoic pile of cliches and badly written shock factor backstory to find some fucking happiness in life.
Damn. It sounds very good. I'm still mad at NIS America, i could only play it on the PSP with the fan translation that was in progress. The Vita is too expensive here and the translation didn't appeal to me.
actually, despite what people say about nisa, their translation was phenomenal, and so was the dub. the vita version also has better resolution and extras, including new modes and trophies.
sucks about vita being too expensive though. where do you live?
This was the moment that made me cry because of an anime in a very long time.
Yeah, DR2 is top tier.
Long time ago now. Not sure if it's because I already watched everything that could make me cry or I just became emotionally dull. Probably both.
The last time I cried was when I finished Saya's route from Little Busters EX and the true route for Period.
I was tearing up a bit at that part, but then it went to Hijikata eating the senbei and tearing up and that's when I really lost it.
I've only seen the dub for the first one. It was cringeworthy,
I'm from Hueland. And it's only going to get worse.
ah yeah, i heard that video games are expensive in hueland.
if you wanted you could just watch a playthrough on youtube
Whoever did QA for the second game should be fired. There were errors everywhere.
Solving mysteries: never.
When i stumble on enough spoilers to know every culprit, i'll do just that though. Thanks.
I thought the dubs for both games were pretty good. Something else interesting is that thebfan translation of DR1 is actually way worse about taking liberties and that kind of thing than the NISA release, partially because the devs kept NISA on a very tight leash.
that whole genocide jack/jill thing sounded like a bad idea when it was announced, but worked out a lot better than anyone expected
and what do you mean by QA?
Really? What the fan translation did that wrong?
inb4, "Mankind's Most Despairingly Maleficent and Monstrous Malefaction"
Not him, but DR2 had a bunch of spelling mistakes and at least one example of the blue colour tag being fucked up, as well as some occasionally weird word placement. I didn't notice very much but that's just me.
Stuff like memes where there were no memes before and really contrived references for no apparent reason. There was a thread on /v/ about it ages ago and I can't remember much. The fan project was still a hell of an effort, though.
Quality Assurance. Basically checking everything to make sure no one fucked up.
I should rephrase that, though... Whoever was typing the lines made some mistakes, like pic related.
he tried to stick to the "style" of the game, and a lot of things that were said were really weird and vauge.
>high roller
lots of the kid's abilities were actually hard to tell because of this, and so were a lot of the rules of the killing game. some of the dialouge was also too goofy to take whole heartedly because of this too
Vandread. The episode when Bart got his haircut.
yeah, i noticed a typo in the second game, and a few names on the text cards were wrong in some places in the first game
Shigatsu wa kimi no uso, just that
>shit art online
You must cry pretty fucking often, eh?
This just made me angry. Violin dies in surgery, and apparently it's more important that we see MC in a concert being sad about her? The general treatment of the characters (as drama setpieces) was horribly manipulative and just got my goat in the extreme, because I wanted to love the show, but they just made it really hard. The last time I was this mad over creative decisions was probably Arsonist Ape.
Pretty much everything from this moment on.
A couple years ago, first time on the Texhnolyze finale.
I'm quite a faggot so i normally cry if the anime is somewhat decent and has an emotive moment.
Last time i cried was watching the episode 24 of K-On when they played that song to azusa.
Only time I legitimately cried while watching anime
This shit right here. Everything about this.
What an obnoxious faux-important cartoon.
I have to admit this and the final episode made my eyes teary.
Based PA Works, I had some doubts about them without Okada and after Glasslip, but they delivered.
Anime: FMA Brotherhood, that moment when Al's body sends Ed back and Ed swears he'll find him again.
Manga: No Need for Tenchi, when Ryoko defeats evil Ayaka and knows she's fucked into a black hole, she just smiles and says, "See ya."
Even though /a/ has spoiled this beforehand, the scene's execution and the OST are really great.
uhhh....last night watching A Certain Scientific Railgun, that conversation Misaka has with Kamijo on the bridge right before he goes to fight Accelerator. And several parts before that, seriously the second season is so much better than the first.
PA works is going in the right direction, normally they portray relationships in a very non-realistic way. That always bothered me.
I'm not the type to get super emotional when watching anime, but man this fucked me up.
Let's just be happy that Mother's Rosario ending was... almost respectful. That was already something.
There actually is no friend like your right hand, apparently.
I'm not sure if that's a good message thouhg.
This. Shit was sad, man.
the last 2 episodes of ping pong
>people crying over chinese cartoons
this made me sad, almost shed a tear, but what is more sad that the faggots give them a fucking asspull reincarnation
>muh happy ending
>muh special pig that survives to everything because no one knows why
they killed the sacrifice scene
The thing is, I think it could have been good. If someone (filthy secondary here, so I don't know whose fault it is) had cared about their characters and paid attention to what they were doing with tones and themes, they could have made something really good. But they were more interested in throwing flash-in-the-pan, sentimental "drama" at the viewers, so everything else suffered. The main character inspires a girl to undergo dangerous surgery, and then she dies under the knife while he's off winning a competition? That would be maximum edgy, except they don't even realize what they've scripted.
I didn't cry since I have a hard time connecting and feeling empathy in sports anime, but during
that scene when everyone was just little boys playing Ping Pong, having funI definitely felt sad.
Last week when I watched the ending of Darker than Black Episode 14. I wish I had seen the series sooner.
Yin's dub voice is great That ED fade in with Yin trying to smile was incredible
RahXephon Episode 19. MotherFUCKER.
People also crying over book and movies. Will you also stop them?
Its not about the media, its the content you faggot.
No you're right. Please continue crying over your chinese cartoons.
big... brother
Ending of Rolling Girls. I'm probably a huge fag but best girl leaving forever totally got to me.
Fuck the anime, but that manga was too emotional for a chinese cartoon, holy shit. I didn't cry, but I remember being an edgy sixteen year old utilitarian and shocking the hell out of myself by wanting them not to
mercy kill AU grill to protect the world.
I wouldn't generalize books like that due to erotica and shit like that, but if you just mean novels, then you're right in some ways.
Anon, are you some sort of faggot?
When DAL 2 aired
I cried because it's shit.
When I rewatched PLANETES, and then this.
>watch a playthrough on youtube
Not him (but am also from Hueland), but it's not the same thing, imho...
it's even more sad because in comparison the season 1 had good animation
yeah, TTGL was amazing
you see references still to this day
But... the twins...
>stop having emotions people!
I dunno. Oddly enough why I wa actually angry at this show, at the end I didn't feel so enraged. I think I didn't feel the dissonance between sad and "funny" moments so much because I already saw how manipulative it was and I was like "well, I know what they're gonna try to convey: it's bullshit but what the hell, it has its moments, production values are very good, so don't take it too seriousy and enjoy".
For example, I actually lol'ed at the cat. So damn corny and predictable. Still, it didn't made me angry, at most a little pissed that it dragged on.
The glorified bulliying in the first episodes on the other hand, I wasn't even sure why I watched it.
Anyway I think I cried the hardest at a manga, actually. Near Nausicaa's end. Probably not the most emotional manga out there, but the "purification" was pretty intense to me.
Just because there are more mature books than mature anime doesn't mean that there are NO mature anime, nor does it mean that people who get emotionally invested in anime are any more faggoty than those who read books.
still agree that people who cry to shit like SAO are colossal faggots, though same thing with shit like Twilight, though
Space Dandy - dog episode
Symphogay made me tear up more than I expected. Some of them were tears of joy.
End of Shinsekai Yori. Not from Squealer, just their resigned melancholy towards the future.
I admit I teared up a bit in SAO II
Reiko's death in Parasyte made me cry, I think. I know I cried at several points in Aoi Hana, especially the ending.
>Why do you keep apologizing?
we lost.
I just wanted cute girls doing cute things.
> I think I didn't feel the dissonance between sad and "funny" moments so much
If the funny moments were at least funny, maybe I wouldn't have cared, but going from people crying because they're traumatized about death to "LEL I TSUNDERE-SLAP YOU BCUZ U R PERVERT AND I CANT GET MARRIED NOW" was just baffling.
oh fuck, I think it might be starting to rain.
Had good tits?
SAO is something really strange to me not really because people enjoyed the stupid parts, but because I can't see how people that enjoyed the first cour (I'll use the anime for the sake of simplicity) can like parts like Sinon's Ass, basically. I mean... I could see it if they were different animes. Aren't people angry/disappointed that it had so different tones?
It's almost dawn here anon.
I'm tempted to stay awake, look at the sun rewatching it, and crying like a puppy exaclty like I did that day.
Oh, look down on me...
Mature, maybe. Emotional, not so much. Most of the time, I'm too interested in the writing of a book to get emotionally affected by its story. It's easier with a visual medium.
Yeah, this. That ending was just one heartbreaking but sweet scene after another.
2015 has gotten off to quite a weepy start, because I cried during the last episodes of Garo and Death Parade too, as well as episode 23 of Shirobako. Nothing made me cry in all of 2014 except Shingeki no Bahamut Genesis and a couple episodes of Mushishi.
I can see your point. I dunno, I probably got that it was deeply flawed already and it didn't bother me anymore, just that.
Actually in retrospect maybe they should've played the harem card a little more for variety, at least it would've been funnier. See more Emi action, damn, I wasn't even sure she was still interested in him at the end.
What anime deals with father/son relationships? I can only think of clannad, and that scene where he reconciles with his dad made me break down in tears more than any other scene in that anime.
I didn't get sad, I got fucking angry at the end of Texhnolyze. Even though I saw it coming.
Came here to post this.
Just read Lone Wolf and Cub.
Garo was really damn good on that front, as well as many others.
>It's easier with a visual medium
yeah, for fags autistic people that have never read a book, when you are reading you use your mind to imagine the scenario, from shitty quality animes, to 5cm/s quality
Oddly enought the "best" death for me was Lulu's, I dunno why. I probably liked her more, I didn't know if to smile or weep at the final reunion.
Yatterman Night is about 2 goobers raising a future hero and their best friend's daughter.
More Emi would have been great, but I don't think they could have pulled off a harem. Their idea of romance was "we say two characters are dating, and then go five episodes without seeing them together, then mention that they're still dating, and then five episodes later they break up."
Stell ball run
3 day after i finish it because
i had a dream about gyro's death ;_;
> when you are reading you use your mind to imagine the scenario
Anon, you are the Maximum Pleb.
Lucky Star gave me that "Well shit" feeling, but nothing really sad
K-On and Angel Beats made me feel depressed for a few days
The first season of Clannad made me shed tears because of the whole "DONT FUCKING FORGET HER" bullshit.
Always bet on red
God, what happened to Mayu and Harada was so unfair. Ginti sucks.
Everytime I rewatch OP
so many great moments
This one time I bet on red but 00 came up instead.
when Kisaragi sunk.
overrated piece of dung honestly. get over it.
Always bet on green.
On a completely unrelated note, I am reduced to tears at the end of every Kawamori show.
As far as moving deaths, then that one was unbeatable, yeah. Lulu was such a good girl; she really did want nothing more than for the person she cared about, and the person that person cared about, to be happy.
Shoo. You don't earn any edgelord points for shitposting in this thread.
This got me
Fuck you, she's as plain as fucking bread
Idk what even happened because I didn't really even like the character but at the end of TG manga ver. when Juuzo broke down
I cried so fucking bad with Yoh "death" in Shaman King. Anna picking his earphones, everyone talking about him, very emotive.
Most recently was your lie in april when [spoilers]kaori died[/spoilers]. Shit had me laughing because it was obvious, but was still heartfelt none the less
>I am reduced to tears at the end of every Kawamori show.
I'm watching SDF Macross for the first time, and episode 18 already cut seriously deep. How much worse it it going to get?
Yes, because only the LN is tolerable, and as moving as text can be it has never made me cry.
If this post is bait, bravo, you got me. If not, fuck off, newfag.
At the end of Aria.
Rewatched Darker than Black during Animejapan, started crying when Amber died, realized I'd been awake for twenty-eight hours straight and was falling apart.
Oh god, that and the part when Anna's spirit appears and tells Leon that the flames were never a curse or about revenge at all.
Fuck, I already miss this show so much. Season 2 has big shoes to fill.
Hit me hard the first time, but didn't make me cry.
The ending got me to tear up a bit. (I watched the anime forever ago, so it may be Lagann-hen exclusive, I don't remember)
Shigatsu, but I would have cried when finishing Yuri Kuma if I wasn't in public.
I think the only time I actually teared up was Suzuha's note when I played the VN the first time.
It's getting S2? I dropped this after the three ep rule because it seemed like generic action, but then it got a huge following later. Did I fucked up?
I don't get how people found this less than insufferable.
I caught up on Ace of Diamond a couple weeks ago.
If you've seen the series, you know what part I cried at.
Fate/Zero Rider's final fight. He's the only king for me
Last night when I rewatched shirobako finale. I cry a lot to anime, but then when I don't cry I feel kind of cheated I guess
RIP puru ;_;
Tears of joy.
Nah man. Hawk coming back was beautiful. My heart cried even more because of that. The point was that it wasn't a useless pig. When it came down to serious shit, this bro ass nigga was gonna sacrifice himself for everyone.
Nobody knows what true happy crying is until they've finished Aria.
>I don't get how people found this less than insufferable.
The plot was actually good, but it was the dialogue that was bad. Would have been better if they compressed it to a movie so it would meander less.
Girls und Panzer at the Katyusha song after a month away from anime due to real life.
>wow I want to be a 2d little girl
overwhelmed my thoughts and emotions. Strange experience in retrospect.
Rewatched this today.
The dialogue and the character development were the problems. I swear, they just teased the same developments for a dozen-plus episodes without any major progression.
I never knew GuP made people so emotional
I hope things get better for you anon.
That didn't get me, but that scene in one of the final episodes where they show all the team members having their alternate reality dreams and it's all of such mundane, ordinary stuff like going to their kids' PTA meetings or working in a bakery brought the tears. Everyone remembers that part for Viral's dream family, but it was that one shot of two of the bridge crewmembers sleeping side by side with their glasses folded on the bedside table that made me break down.
Cried? Never.
Came pretty close?
This scene from The Garden of Words.
>Did I fucked up?
In my opinion, it's more than worthy of another shot. It was the ride of the season, and it makes pretty intelligent use of many action tropes. Plus the cast is great.
First time was the majority of NGE episode 20 and on, more so in 24-26.
I rewatched Spirited Away a week ago and it made me cry a bit at the end, tears of joy though.
Yesterday watching the last episode of YowaPedal and Yuri Kuma Arashi.
I even watched it in the theater and it wasn't anything special.
Maybe I'm a monster.
>they had the commentary
>hearing Hanakana saying "it's really a fetishist movie!" in the same theater where you watched The Avengers
>feels weird man
>Ping Pong
watching about Butterfly Joe and especially Kong struggle to be someone that everyone else expected him to be, brought me to tears ;_;
i don't cry for forced drama like what they did in sao.
I think the only time was rewatching the Clannad Ushio scene and Kyousuke's scene in Little Busters (though the emotions were mainly built from reading the VNs).
Generally I cry more from reading VNs than anything.
>Maybe I'm a monster.
No. You just have shit taste.
Nah I'm just riding ya. You're alright.
and this
she does die eventually, but not suddenly. the surgery was successful in extending her life so she play her violin for a while longer.
I cry to pretty much every good anime, and some not so good ones, I watch.
Cried during Parasyte, Death Parade and Precure in the last few days.
I was watching DxD 2nd season the other day and fuck, i teared when the souls of Yuuto's friends come back and encourage him to not worry about being the only survivor, i didn't expect it to make me cry.
Now you can call me gay if you want
me too anon, whole ending sequence had me going. That and the insert song had me on a bit of an emotional rollercoaster.
What the fuck was the "miracle," anyway?
Minmay a worst.
I cried because it was so terrible
I don't think she meant to dick Hikaru around the way she did; she just didn't know how to handle her fame, and "be nice to everyone" is just her default state. Remember, Minmay's only fifteen for the majority of the story. Teenage girls are like that.
I've been feeling really bad for her after the timeskip.
>4 cucking chan
>Not liking traps
>Year of our lord 403*5
When Alexander Anderson died. I think the music is what pushed me over the edge.
Utilitarianism isn't necessarily edgy. You can be an edgy utilitarian and say shit like that we should sterilize disabled people or execute all criminals, but you can also be a non-edgy utilitarian and say all human life is extremely valuable, hatred and revenge are both wrong, and we should do everything possible to make people happy. Edgy people will be edgy, whether they believe in utilitarianism or fucking virtue ethics.
Besides, what you want has nothing to do with what you think is right. I often find myself wanting things that go against what I believe intellectually. While I believe revenge is immoral, it still FEELS right and it is difficult to overcome that instinct. That's what makes me the most upset in fiction: when I understand something is right but it feels wrong.
I watched the tokusatsu version of this a few years ago and it was pretty mediocre. How much better is the anime than it?
> we should do everything possible to make people happy
That's both edgy-and-non-edgy utilitarianism. That is the defining tenet. I don't think you know what you're saying.
>If I can see you again, I will say the words that I could not say 8 years ago...
I read naruto from when I was 12 to the very end.
When I finished, I knew my childhood was dead and life lost a bit of it's shine for me. For my older brother, this was dragon ball and for my dad it's gundam, but he gets to watch gundam until he dies because it will never fucking end.
I honestly thought it was cringeworthy as fuck. I couldn't stand it.
Dragon ball didn't end. There's still ssj4 in japan but not in america.
When I realized it was all a dream.
yeah but mine did.
>tfw born too late for infinite gundam
>tfw born too early for future infinite manga
>tfw born just in time to be addicted to the cheesiest bullshit of all time.
what a great movie this turned out to be
>That is the defining tenet.
It is the defining tenet, but you can view it in one of two ways which is either edgy or non-edgy.
Actual tenet:
We should try to maximize the sum of human happiness minus the sum of human suffering.
Edgy version (me at age 15):
People are disposable tools who should be used for the good of society. Each person is practically worthless when compared to all 7 billion. We must maximize the good of all people, so individuals are disposable pawns.
Anti-edgy version (me now):
All people are extremely and equally important. We should do everything we can to make all people happy as every person is deserving of happiness.
It's the same in actual content, but quite different in tone.
He was a true hero
u fucking wot m8?
Original anon here. I was the "actual" version, but I still managed to be edgy about it because
>muh logical philosophy
>muh superiority to deont plebs
>normal people marry
>wife gets pregnant
>wife spews a gelatinous mass of living green mold instead of a baby
>no sons or daughters
>find baby under floor months later
>mother overjoyed, father terrified
>it grows to have the appearance of a 3-year old kid in half a year
>mutant baby
>become attached
>more babby under floor
>firstborn freak child grows spores
>"He's dying"
>mfw short lifespan
>MFW they have to kill it
>_MFW_ it's a cycle: they have to kill every single child that appears under their floor after having raised it for years and growing attached
because of how shitty it was
That episode just freaked me out. It was staged like a horror movie. Plus it was kind of hard to empathize with the mother, especially after she stabbed Ginko. I cried at a bunch of others though, like the rainbow episode.
I see. Though I also think it isn't as bad as you think since some people don't have ANY sort of ethical philosophy at all. I respect anyone who has sat down and hammered out what they believe and how they will act, but I do go full
>muh logical philosophy
when people use their feelings as an argument.
Most people do have some sort of formalized moral philosophy, but I have no patience for anyone who does not.
Life made me cry from my dick.
I actually can't remember the last time I cried over a manga or anime. I remember getting depressed over how shoddily the last couple of arcs were written in TWGOK, though.
Little busters! Refrain is getting to me tonight. Goddamn.
sora no otoshimono: eternal my master
The Little Busters are forever!
Gintama. episode 71.
I have found something I want to protect.
No matter how many times the power's cut, the breakers short...or even if this body is destroyed, I will never forget.
So please don't forget me as well. This way my soul...will be able to live on in everybody's heart!
forever best girl
I actually broke down when she said she remembered the meaning of "samurai".
this fucking scene, jesus christ. First anime to make me cry
Town of evening calm, country of cherry blossoms. But it always seems like noone ever read it. Oh well.
Viral dream in TTGL, that shit was depressing/sad as fuck
I cried the first time I read
Chibi Vampire
1. The Train Scene
2. Refrain
3. End of Aria
>Ulcerlative colitis
Yo dude, this is gonna sound weird but you should start smoking or take the nicotine patch, at least for a while.
SnK anime, it was too sad for me cannot hold alll my feels
Update: I am bawling like a bitch at episode 11.
No, its not cry material. Sad at best.
It's been a while.
I cried so much at the manga when
the heroine is going blind and her love interest comes to visit her.
He was too good for this mean earth.
I wish he'd hung around a little longer and at least got to meet ero dad. It would have been fun to watch them play off each other, I bet.
Just rewatched diebuster, so this scene
Time for me to leave, bro.
As a man with two brothers, and me being the youngest; I can confirm the sadness of this scene.


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Push the brake cylinder piston inside the caliper. Put a vice clamp on the back of the brake caliper, and open the bleed valve, letting the fluid out. Tighten the clamp stem to fit the brake cylinder into the caliper. Take off the brake pad.
Step 3: Attach the New Brake Pad
Put the new brake pad in place, and release the vice clamp. Fill the master cylinder with new fluid and bleed it to make sure it has no air bubbles.
Step 4: Bleed the Cylinder
Attach a hose to the brake cylinder and put the other end in a large jar. Pull the handle of the hand brake to release fluid, checking for air bubbles. Top up the fluid again and close the cylinder.


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What a wonderful recipe this is, and it makes me very nostalgic. This is Elizabeth Coblentz's famous recipe for homemade chili soup. She used fresh sausage in place of hamburger and it just made a really tasty "chili soup" as she would call it. Now, if you are reading this from Cincinnati…we're strange here…We have our chili as…well, to outsiders it sounds..uh, not so good…our chilis are known as "three ways", "four ways" and even "five ways" withj spaghetti, cheese, onion…How many Skyline or Gold Star Chili fans do we have among our readers? (sorry, unless you are from Greater Cincinnati you won't know what Skyline or Gold Star is) Okay, here is Elizabeth's recipe for homemade chili soup and this is for people everywhere, not just Cincy:) For newcomers, Elizabeth Coblentz was the original Amish Cook columnist who wrote it from 1991 – 2002.
2 pounds bulk sausage
1 cup chopped onion
2 quarts tomato juice
1 1/2 quarts water
1 quart cooked kidney beans
1/2 cup brown sugar
3/4 teaspoon chili powder
salt to taste
1/8 teaspoon red pepper (optional)
4 rounded tablespoons cornstarch, enough to thicken to satisfaction
In a stainless steel skillet, saut onion and sausage until brown. Drain grease. Put sausage and onion in a 6 quart stainless steel kettle, warm tomato juice, sugar, chili powder, salt, and all the water except two cups to the boiling point. Use the two cups of water to dissolve cornstarch. Add cornstarch and stir until thickened. Add beans to the chili soup. Cook for 5-10 minutes. Some who like a spicier soup add more chili powder.
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Larger than 20 microns or smaller than 20 microns; know if your product will sift.
Commonly used as shorthand for micrometer, a micron is the measure of length universally used to describe tiny particle size. The official symbol is μm, although it's acceptable to simplify as um. A micron is a unit of length equal to one-millionth of a meter, a little more than one twenty-five thousandth of an inch. The naked eye can generally see particles larger than 40 microns.
Making the complex understandable: A human hair is 70 microns in diameter. A white blood cell is 25. Milled flour and milled corn range from 1 to 100 microns, while paint pigments can range from 0.1 to 100. Beach sand is enormous in comparison, reaching anywhere from 100 to 10,000 microns in size. Common household crystal sugar is typically 400 microns, while the average powdered sugar particle is approximately 50.
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Some particles are too fine and require the bulk bags be made with sift resistant construction. For better sift resistant construction, fabric edges can be wrapped over and sewn together, and a polypropylene coating of approximately 1 mil thick can be added to one side to further reduce the chance of sifting, thus enclosing very tiny products. Super Sack® containers manufactured with sift resistant construction can contain products of 19-20 microns. For particles smaller than 20 microns, the use of a bulk bag liner is recommended. It is important to note that due to the construction of an FIBC, a sift-proof design cannot be achieved unless an inner liner is used.
Besides creating a sift-proof feature for bulk bags, liners can additionally provide barrier properties to products susceptible to chemical reactions. Some products are hygroscopic, or water absorbent, and will agglomerate, or form a rounded mass, when exposed to moisture. For the packaging of such products, the Moisture Vapor Transmission Rate (MVTR) of the liner material should be considered. You can contact a BAG Corp sales representative to discuss your MVTR, OTR (Oxygen Transmission Rate), or to learn the propensity of your specific product to sift in a bulk bag.
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The stable was made by my father. A good memory. He always liked to make things with his hands. The wooden animals are bought in a store with toys. And so are the angel, sheep, donkey and shepherd of felt. They can be bought at "Dille en Kamille". The wooden figures are made by me. And here is a card.
Wishing you all the warmth of loved ones! Thank you for visiting here!
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At Snappers, it's no secret we love caramel. We couldn't miss out on caramel apples this fall, so we found the perfect way include friends in the fun with a caramel apple party! Snappers Caramel Apple bar, anyone?
Fresh apple slices, dipped in warm caramel, and rolled in your favorite chopped Snappers. Whether you create these treats with your kids, dunk away with your friends, or indulge all on your own, this is a recipe you'll return to every single fall!
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Hurray, finally I made something from an activewear pattern that I actually like! This is the Jalie 3670 Loulouxe Skort. I made the version with leg bands and two pockets (obviously!).
I added about 3 inches to the skirt length (ha) and flared the front skirt panel a bit more, but otherwise followed the straight size for my hips. And it's very comfortable!
I'm not sure exactly which fabric this is since I bought two cuts of black activewear knit in the same order and they weren't labeled when they arrived. I wish I knew because I like this fabric a lot so far, but the other one still smells faintly of rubber, even after washing twice. (I used that one for a dress; will post about that soon.) Otherwise, they are a similar weight and conveniently don't curl, so I didn't have to hem either garment (hurray!). UPDATE: I contacted the retailer and they said they think this one is their Interloc Wicking item #4325. At that price, I'll definitely try ordering again!


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I've been getting writing lessons from George R. R. Martin lately— OK, I've been binge-reading the Game of Thrones series. (I've never seen the TV show except for a few minutes when HBO had a free preview. Didn't care for it at the time.)
The main thing I've learned so far is actually from an appendix of Book One (A Game of Thrones) in which it lists characters by which families they are associated with. There's House Baratheon, House Stark, House Lannister, House Arryn, House Tully and more. Not only are the family members listed, but also their servants, knights, bannermen and the lesser houses connected to them.
In my own current WIP, I've come to realize I need to work on forming sets of characters like this myself— for two different kingdoms, Schwalenland, and a neighboring, poorer kingdom called Ruthenia where my protagonist goes into exile, hidden from the tyrannical king who kills her parents, her father's dragon, and his own wives, whenever he wants a different one.
For Schwalenland, writing lists of the noble houses and other noble families is part of the worldbuilding. For Ruthenia, it's important because my protagonist will be meeting different Ruthenian noble families, including, eventually, the Tsar-Autocrat of Ruthenia, who is also the Postmaster of a postal service which uses firebirds to get messages across the land (to the few Ruthenians who can read.)
Character groups are not only important in sweeping fantasy fiction series. Even in a contemporary mystery novel, your character may interact with a group of characters in a workplace, another group in the home environment, and other groups in places associated with solving the mystery.
I've realized that NOT thinking about the character groups I shall need, and creating them, slows down my progress on the WIP. I'm trying to take time to create a few of the character groups I shall need. For my Ruthenian characters, since Ruthenia was settled by small groups from the different Slavic-language-speaking countries, I have to research names typical of Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Russian, Polish, Czech and other Slavic groups, and find names for the noble estates as well. And work out the economic resources of the different estates. House Pavliuk has a copper mine, vicuna wool, and rare types of wood valued by woodworkers.
One creepy thing about the mass-market paperback edition of the books I am reading— among the endorsements by other fantasy writers they include one by MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY. Whose daughter Moira Greyland has interesting things to say about the abuses inflicted by MZB and her husband, Walter Breen, a convicted pedophile. MZB is no longer someone whose endorsement would be respected by anyone, I am afraid. (I used to be an obsessive Darkover fan, but now I can see too much of the real MZB in some of the stories.)
Comment: How do you create character groups for your fiction? Do you create them in advance or as you need them? Do you have any good tricks for doing it?


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WASHINGTON, March 29, 2005—Authorities at China's prestigious Beijing University have effectively dismissed top media studies professor Jiao Guobiao after he penned a blistering attack on the ruling party's propaganda machine, which tightly controls the news industry.
"I haven't seen the official letter yet, but it has already been delivered to our house," Jiao, who is in the United States as a visiting scholar, told RFA's Mandarin service.
"It is being treated as a voluntary quitting of my post...It's not quite the same as being fired outright, but I don't really know what the difference is from an administrative point of view."
Jiao said the letter came following months of political persecution from the Chinese authorities in reaction to his article, "Crusade Against the Propaganda Department", which was circulated on the Internet last summer.
"At the beginning of last September, they stopped my classes. By the middle of the month they had stopped me acting as supervisor to graduate research students," Jiao said.
"Then publishing houses across China were banned from publishing my books, and the media was banned from publishing any articles by me. By the end of the year, I wasn't allowed to remain in the Journalism and Communication Studies School any more," he told RFA reporter Shen Hua.
"At the beginning of this year, they wouldn't let me leave the country. Really it's part of a whole program of persecution. If I didn't fight it, there was no knowing where it would end," Jiao said, adding that he had refused a suggested transfer to the university's Archive Research Center.
"I don't think I have done anything wrong," said Jiao, who arrived in Washington on March 16 at the invitation of the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy.
During his six-month stay, Jiao plans to carry out research into the Chinese news industry, past and present.
"If Chinese society really hasn't changed its attitudes towards freedom of expression, towards spiritual and ideological freedoms in the past 50-60 years, then this is unacceptable," he said.
While the authorities had succeeded in blocking Jiao's work fairly swiftly from Internet users in China, it had already gained a wide circulation in photocopy form, both among students at Beijing University (Beida) and among China's thousands of petitioners, pursuing complaints against official abuse of power, he said.
In the article, Jiao called the Propaganda Department, which closely controls all news coverage in China, 'a stumbling block to the civilized development of Chinese society'.
He said its actions had provided a helpful shelter for evil forces and corrupt officialdom. The department had become a bastion for the forces of ignorance and backwardness, the article said, calling for its abolition at every level of government.
China has invested billions of yuan in a nationwide Internet surveillance system, and manages to block Web sites it considers sensitive from most of its netizens.
Last summer, the authorities also closed a highly popular on-line bulletin board based out of the Beida campus, Yitahutu, causing outrage among staff and students alike.
"That was an awful thing to do," Jiao said. "They have upset a whole generation of students."
But he said that today's Beida students, while they had shown him personal support, were a different prospect politically from those who took to the streets calling for democracy in 1989.
"They were raised in captivity, so they haven't got a sense of whether they are free or not...But they tasted the difference when the BBS was shut down," he said.
Original reporting in Mandarin by Shen Hua. RFA Mandarin service director: Jennifer Chou. Produced for the Web by the Mandarin Web team and in English by Luisetta Mudie.


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BOP man recalls the day the Allies arrived
Rotorua resident Henk Buissink vividly recalls the days the Allies arrived at Arnhem Road Bridge, despite it being 75 years ago.
At the tender age of eight, Henk was aware of airborne troop descents and enemy movements in his native Netherlands.
He lived through the German occupation of The Netherlands at Eindhoven; in a suburb he says is the size of Lynmore on the outskirts of a town the size of Rotorua.
From the age of four to nine, excitement gripped a boy like tentacle who, even today, excitedly recalls the dogfights in marine skies.
It didn't occur to a youngster that within the dust clouds – as if someone were having a kapok fight – as he remembers them, that lives were being lost.
But then this was the Allies against the Axis countries, with German occupation in the low countries like the Netherlands at the mercy of the jackboot.
Here, a play station televised live played out to the young Henk Buissink.
In late September 1945, the Allies moved in on Nazi Germany forces as they retreated while the aggressors looked to secure towns and bridges and real estate.
The raid, a major advance on war-torn Europe and especially the Netherlands, was immortalised in Cornelius Ryan's epic book A Bridge Too Far and, in 1977, a movie of the same title.
And it was in a town near Arnhem that Henk Buissink's mind, already mottled by five years of Dutch resistance to German occupation, has carried to the present day the sense of relief by the Allied advances.
Henk remembers the advance of September 18, 1944, as the day his and his country's war tacitly ended, close to five years after it started. He was aged eight and a half, he recalls.
Paratroopers at Arnhem.
"In June we knew something was happening because the troops had landed (elsewhere nearby)."
Yet, all Dutch inhabitants in every domicile moved with trepidation.
Henk's father, who worked for the Dutch resistance, had secreted a fellow citizen into the family home, a death sentence if discovered. Well connected with the underground, his father also kept the family relatively well fed.
Nazi sympathisers were omnipresent, so even the children were careful in sharing confidences.
The few people with radios soon spread the word the invasion had started, that a large armada of boats with troops, plus naval and aerial support were on their way to relieve the Dutch of years of privation and fear. The invasion was led by Field Marshal Montgomery.
The retreating Germans scorched the country side, blew up bridges, destroyed anything of use to the advancing Allies.
"When the Germans invaded in 1940, I was four and half and I saw my father putting gum paper [blackout curtains] on the windows [to counter the impact] of blasts," Henk says.
He and his sister were siting eating lunch, when convoys of German artillery and troop trucks arrived.
"All those thousands of trucks and cars…"
Near the Buissink family home stood the Philips factory, which manufactured electronic and communication equipment and which remain strong in the retail market today. The factory under the German control for obvious reasons was a frequent target by the Allies, particularly in the summer of 1942, Henk says. "But sabotage was at hand, too."
"When the planes came over on the way to German to Bremen or Hamburg we were standing there. "The Germans were shooting cannons in the air and we saw 'pchuw' in the air – planes strafed – and we picked up the little pieces of metal from the grenades."
The staccato sound of aerial gunfire sometimes ended in descent of aircraft badly hit and "sometimes they came down".
The major combat occurred during the end of the war, a time when the Allies carpet bombed German cities; they created a massive canopy overhead as they flew to their appointments for peace.
Air raid sirens frequently interrupted studies. Pupils hastened to hunker under their desks if they missed their cue for shelters outside the school yard.
On September 18, a Saturday, the skies blanketed Henk's world as Allied Air Borne in their thousands flew over to Holland to push the Germans back.
Arnhem Road Bridge.
"What they did," Henk says with a nod to two movies Band of Brothers and A Bridge Too Far "was to get to Eindhoven and on the same day they landed at Arnhem".
"A few days before I was standing on the road and I saw those 'poor' German soldiers marching out of Eindhoven pinching a pram off anybody to put their luggage in."
On September 18, the Americans dropped their paratroopers from towed gliders and one-person tanks and subsidiary machinery at Eindhoven and Arnhem (the towns were about 60kms apart).
The Americans engaged the Luftwaffe and "ping, we said, there goes another one," Henk recalls with same boyish delight today as of 75 years ago.
Apparatus on tanks were loaded to Arnhem road river to construct Bailey Bridges, providing the genesis for Cornelius Ryan's famous account.
The scene Henk says was "unbelievable" for the British had joined the Americans in the final push. "They all came through and all night we stood there," Henk says.
"We were so happy – the Germans had gone and we were now liberated."
On Sunday, September 19, a final farewell by the fleeing Germans – parachute floated down with an orange flame – the national colour for the Dutch – a marker to illuminate Eindhoven.
"The Germans attacked. They bombed and they tried to recoup Eindhoven," Henk says.
"We had the most terrible bombardment of which I have never forgotten. We were in the house when bombs fell near. Some of our friends were killed in other places.
"During that time my parents and the man who was hiding with us went out into the field where we sheltered in a ditch."
Peering gingerly over the ditch, they witnessed Eindhoven on fire, as though a terrible biblical conflagration.
Bombs continued to rain on the town.
"It was dark and we had no light at the time – the houses were blacked out and there were no street lights."
The Allies in effect flew blind over ink black cities relying on their own aptitude as a pigeon might its internal homing navigation or snow geese over the Himalayas or the flight of the godwit.
For the Germans, it was a final kick at a levelled nation, riven by war and privation and jackbooted martial authority.
Yet, Henk says, the Eindhoven population had also sensed the markers may have been an Allies release for night time landing – until the bombs landed.
Henk's wife Nan, a teacher of religion in Rotorua, says she lived in the north of Holland and "it was another year before we were liberated".
On liberation from the south at Eindhoven, a corridor was forged to the river at Arnhem.
"On the other side, over the river, they (the Dutch population) were all killed off by the paratroopers," Henk recalls.
While Eindhoven was effectively liberated by the Allies, the small towns and villages en route to Arnhem was not so fortunate as the Germans held an adhesive line, resisting the Allies.
Each of those villages, Henk says – he and Nan frequently visit their childhood towns – has a memorial church. None has towers out of respect to observers posted in them who were shot and killed.
Winters were frigid, he remembers.
In one particularly severe season, the Germans lowered trees and empty buildings and "everything they could chop down for the fire".
With no coal heating was at a premium, food scarce in such major cities as Amsterdam and Rotterdam were the mortality count through starvation was high.
After the war, Henk met Nan - four years his junior. They married and left to start a clothing factory in Zambia.
Neither Henk nor Nan hold grudges in the subsequent 75 years. A testament to their dispositions is Henk's two business partners are Germans.
They became and remain close friends and trusted partners to this day.
Over the years, since settling in Rotorua and raising a family, Henk returned to his business in Zambia at 10-week intervals, timing his return home for three weeks for his children's school holidays.
Where once Nan visited many schools to inculcate religious instruction, her schedule is now down to visits to one school a week.
The couple are active in the community, with Henk taking an intense interest in the future of Rotorua.


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Hey guys,
I'm trying to access an array of structs with an index. But since I do that, I got an error and the build program function fails. Additionally, the function doesn't exit with CL_BUILD_PROGRAM_FAILURE. If I comment out the part with the array access, the program builds without errors. Can anyone help me?
The opencl code is as follows:
__kernel void
calc_triangle_mapping(__global const Mesh* mesh, __global const Triangle* triangles,
const int res_x, const int res_y, __global int* triangle_mapping,
__global Color* pixels) {
int index = get_global_id(0);
Triangle t;
Point2D top, bottom, middle;
float inc, inc_bottom_top, inc_bottom_middle, inc_middle_top;
bool right_side = false;
int begin, end;
// check bounds
if (index >= mesh->num_triangles)
// get the triangle of the current thread
t = triangles[index];
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Yes, you can pay for your items online and collect them in one of our stores. Please select Collect In Store before you checkout.
More from 2 for €30 T-Shirts Men's