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King Pine race brings community together to support Boston Marathon victimsBy SARA YOUNG-KNOX
Special to the Union Leader
April 28. 2013 8:41PM
EAST MADISON - The Mount Washington Valley community came together Saturday to show its support for those affected by the Boston Marathon bombings, raising over $6,000 for The One Fund Boston at the White Mountain Milers' Boston Memorial Run/Walk at King Pine Ski Area/Purity Springs Resort.
Paul Kirsch, president of the White Mountain Milers, said the outpouring of support for the event, which brought out folks of all ages and abilities, was amazing. Registration was free, with donations welcome.
Everything, from the use of the King Pine facilities, to the food, beverages, raffle prizes, and music was donated, and 100 percent of the proceeds from the day are going to The One Fund Boston. The fund, the formation of which was recently announced by Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts and Boston Mayor Tom Menino, is being organized by Boston law firm Goodwin Procter.
"We're just so excited to do this," Kirsch said as he waited for the participants to loop back to Milt's Place at the ski area after running and walking on 2.6K of the Nordic trail across the road. He said he's never put together an event in such a short time.
"It seemed like we should do something up here, he said." "King Pine/Purity Springs has been wonderful."
He said he approached the Hoyt family - owners and operators of King Pine Ski Area - about holding the event, and within an hour they said yes. The Milers found others just as generous, and, through social media, others who wanted to give found them.
"Tell me where I need to be, I'll be there," Kirsch said was the common response, coupled with, "How much do you want me to bring?" More than 30 businesses donated goods and services.
Participants were kept off the road because there wasn't time to get the necessary permits, and parking overflowed to the area's main lodge, but there were plenty of volunteers - 30 in all - to guide, feed, and entertain the crowd. Kirsch said they had so many people who wanted to help, they had to turn away volunteers.
Besides promoting running and walking events, the nonprofit club is involved in community service activities. Kirsch said about 125 families are members, and that five or six of those members ran in the 2013 Boston Marathon.
One of those marathoners was Linda Parish of Albany, who reflected on the bombings and how close her family was to the second explosion just 45 minutes before the blast. Her husband, adult children and six-month-old grandson had been a couple of blocks from the finish line, waiting for her to come in, an hour before the bombings.
She said she will be going back next year - it will be her 25th consecutive Boston Marathon - but she's not so sure she wants her family there.
"It's one thing to risk yourself," she said, "it's another thing to risk your family. That's what I really thought of all week."
"It's just wonderful to see all the people, it shows how much people really wanted to do something for the cause," Parish said.
Cheryl Wilson of Ossipee agreed with that sentiment. Wilson, who works at the resort, brought family and friends with her.
"It's a great cause and shows we're all united," she said.
Eight-year-old Dylan Spur of Alton said he felt good about coming to the event.
"People want to make a difference," Kirsch said, saying the event allowed people to come together for a "little bit of grieving, a little bit of support."


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Volunteer efforts continue in search for missing Conway teenBy DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
November 10. 2013 8:57PM
CONWAY — The goal of the volunteers taking part in the virtual search for Abigail Hernandez is very simple and very broad: To reach as many people as possible as quickly as possible with Abby's photo and details.
To that end, the online vigil network that reached more than 3,200 screens two weekends ago was busy again this weekend. On Saturday, all who originally participated were asked to post Abigail's photo and details on their Facebook pages once more to mark the one-month anniversary of her Oct. 9 disappearance.
It's all part of the developing strategy of the residents who are leading the volunteer side of the search, which is distinct from the law enforcement side, in which investigators are conducting targeted searches and inquiries.
The virtual search has not led to Abigail's discovery, but it has been successful in reaching people, said Paul Kirsch, a local marketing professional who is volunteering his time for the search.
The virtual home for the volunteer search is Kirsch's new website, bringabbyhome.com, which has resources for volunteers, including printable missing posters and photos for sharing on Facebook pages.
The site is helping to keep the search, and hope, going strong, he said.
"Every medium we can use to get her information out is important," Kirsch said.
"The Facebook groups are doing their part, and I hope that this website helps support their effort with resources," he said.
Among the resources available on the page are Spanish versions of the posters, as Abigail is Hispanic, he said.
"We now have a Spanish page on the website. This gives people a means of sharing information about her in the Latino community if they have connections there – including printing the Spanish language missing posters."
The site and the volunteer effort will continue to grow, he said.
"As people think of other resources that are needed, we will continue to use the website as that central resource of static information which can be referred to by social media sites," Kirsch said.

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You Call It Urban Sprawl, I Call It Home
You Call It Urban Sprawl, I Call It Home
Hardly a single Michigan family trip will occur this summer without a child growing restless from passing mile after mile of farm and woodland and asking, "Are we there yet?"
Some anti-growth activists dont seem to realize that our state is more than 90 percent rural. They grimly warn that our agricultural industrys most basic resourcelandis being gobbled up by so-called "urban sprawl."
Despite dire warnings, sprawl is not reducing agricultural output. During the last six years of economic growth that has fueled urbanization, Michigans annual farm output has remained steady at around 24 million tons. Even if our last two centuries of urbanization doubled overnight, the state would still be more than 80 percent rural!
Those who want strict limits on the growth of new cities as a way to invigorate old ones should try more carrot and less stick. Older cities can be made more attractive by lowering high taxes, relaxing stringent zoning ordinances, and improving urban schools through competition and choice.
People happy where they are may disparage "urban sprawl," but people who need jobs and places to live welcome the addition of new houses, businesses, parks, and neighborhoods they can call home.
For the Mackinac Center, this is Catherine Martin.


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LONDON (AP) - May 2, 2013 --Organizers say Jennifer Lopez has joined the lineup of a Beyonce-headlined charity concert in London next month.
John Legend, Rita Ora, Ellie Goulding and Florence + the Machine are also due to perform at the "Sound of Change Live" show at Twickenham Stadium on June 1.
James Franco, Blake Lively and Jada Pinkett Smith have been lined up as presenters.
The concert is raising funds for Chime for Change, a Gucci-backed campaign to support projects improving health, education and justice for women around the world.
Organizers said Thursday that concertgoers will be able to choose which projects they want to support when they buy their tickets. Partner organizations include UNICEF, the Global Fund for Women and Plan International.


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Year-end auto loan deals: Free financing from Ford, Lincoln
Ford and Lincoln are rolling out some good year-end deals, hoping to clear the remaining 2012 model-year vehicles from dealership lots.
The discounts come in the form of cash-back offers and 0% financing for up to five years.
Here are some of the 2012 models that come with free financing through the end of the year:
Ford: Fusion, Fusion Hybrid, Flex crossover and Expedition SUV.
Lincoln: MKZ, MKX crossover and Navigator SUV.
In most cases, 0% financing is the best discount you can get on a new vehicle.
These interest-free auto loans are offered through Ford Motor Credit or Lincoln Automotive Financial Services, depending on the car model. Buyers need to take delivery from dealer stock by Jan. 2, 2013.
How much can 0% interest save you?
A couple thousand dollars.
Here's an example: Sticker prices for the 2012 Ford Fusion start at $21,500, including delivery, processing and handling fee. Make a 10% down payment, and the balance is $19,350.
Borrow that amount with a 60-month, interest-free loan, and the monthly payment is $323.
But what if you had to finance the vehicle with a traditional 5-year auto loan, which costs 4.25% on average, according to our latest national survey? In this case, your monthly payment would be $359.
The automakers' deal saves you almost $36 every month, or an extra $2,160 in your pocket over the life of the loan.
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The manufacturers also are offering bonus cash rebates on top of the cheap loans.
For example, the Fusion has an extra $1,750 bonus cash incentive, while the Lincoln MKS has a $3,000 incentive.
Ford and Lincoln offer even larger cash bonuses for buyers who choose to finance at regular rates. But the savings from an interest-free loan and smaller cash bonus would probably be the better deal.
Use our auto loan calculator to help figure out the best option for your budget.
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With 3 Commando Brigade Established on Mount Longdon, Two Sisters and Mount Harriet, the way was clear for 5 Brigade to follow through and capture the last range of peaks before Stanley. Despite evidence that the main British attack was coming overland from the west, the Argentine Command still maintained strong forces in Stanley itself, at the airport and on the surrounding coastline, rather than reinforcing the mountains.
2 Para, back in action after their fighting at Goose Green, were allocated Wireless Ridge. Fittingly, Wireless Ridge is just to the east of Mount Longdon, captured by their counterparts in 3 Para three days previously. The Battalion was now commanded by Lieutenant Colonel David Chaundler, who had been parachuted into the South Atlantic to replace H Jones. The capture of Wireless Ridge would be crucial, as it was the last obstacle before Moody Brook barracks, and the road into Stanley.The morning before the attack found the Paras waiting at Furze Bush Pass, to the north of Mount Longdon. Chaundlers plan was for a noisy attack, with companies taking each contour in turn before occupying Wireless Ridge. 2 Para had strong support, with 2 Scorpions and 2 Scimitars of the Blues and Royals, twelve 105mm guns, 3 Paras mortars from Longdon, and HMS Yarmouth and HMS Ambuscade out to sea providing naval gunfire support. Wireless Ridge was defended by the 7th Infantry Regiment, who had also fought on Mount Longdon.
The attack began at 2115, and the first objective 'Rough Diamond' was captured relatively easily, the Argentine defenders seemingly having withdrawn after coming under heavy preliminary bombardment. However, having established themselves on Rough Diamond D Company come under fire from Argentines on 'Apple Pie' to the east. A and B Companies assaulted Apple Pie, and the defenders withdrew under the weight of British fire. With the attack going so well, C Company captured Hill 100 without difficulty. With Apple Pie secure, D Company then 'leapfrogged' from Rough Diamon onto the western part of Wireless Ridge itself, codenamed 'Blueberry Pie'. The Scorpions and Scimitars and also 2 Paras own heavy weapons moved up and joined A and B Companied on 'Apple Pie'. Under such a heavy weight of fire, the Argentines wielded the first half of the ridge, but fought tenaciously over the eastern edge of the objective. After bunker to bunker fighting, by dawn all of Wirless Ridge was in British hands, with the Argentines streaming down the road back into Stanley. A small group attempted to regroup at Moody Brook and attack the Paras again, but were soon driven off. With dawn the Paras could see the road to Stanley, and were pressing for permission to advance into the town. The Paras had fought a fine battle, with the loss of only three men killed.
The 2nd Scots Guards were given the objective of capturing Mount Tumbledown, a long and narrow high feature just to the south west of Stanley. Capturing this would give the British Forces another commanding position over Stanley, and bottle the remaining Argentine forces into a narrow peninsula, limiting their room for maneouvre. The Guards were helicoptered to the north of Mount Harriet, and from there began a detailed reconaissance. The area approaching Tumbledown had already been patrolled by the Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre. With a long, open approach to the objective, Lieutenant-Colonel Scott decided on a stealthy attack, retaining the element of surprise. Equally, an attack across the open southern slopes was bound the be spotted. The Guards battleplan was therefore threefold. G Coy would cross the start line at Goat Ridge, and occupy the westernmost part of the mountain. Then, using this as a platform, Left Flank company would pass through them and occupy the middle, highest section of the mountain. Finally, Right Flank Company would come up and take the eastern portion of the ridge. The Guards had in support two Scorpions and Scimitars of the Blues and Royals, up to five batterys of 105mm guns, 42 Commando's mortars from Mount Harriet, and also the mortars of 1/7 Gurkhas. The Frigates Active and Avenger were also on call for naval gunfire support. Tumbledown was defended by the Argentine 7th Marine Battalion, who were also defending Mount William and Sapper Hill. Thus the Guards, who were going into action for the first time in the war, were coming up against one of the Argentines few crack units.
Before the attack began, a diversionary attack was made along the southern road to Stanley, aiming to confuse the enemy into thinking the target was further south. G Company, meanwhile, secured the western part of the Mountain by 10.30pm. Even with G Company's fire support, Left Flank Company came up against firm opposition in the craggy peaks in the middle of the objective. Anti-Armour weapons such as MILAN, which had worked elsewhere, were only partly succesful in hitting Argentine bunkers. It was not until 0230 that artillery fire could be brought down on the Argentine defenders, restoring momentum to the stalled attack. After savage, hand-to-hand fighting, a handful of Scots Guards reached the summit. Right Flank Company then came up, and by 0815 the whole of Mount Tunbledown was in the hands of the Scots, for the loss of eight Guardsmen and a Royal Engineer.
The 1/7 Gurkhas had been brought up from Goose Green by helicopter, leaving a company behind to Garrison the area. They were given the objective of capturing Mount William, to the east of Tumbledown, after the Scots Guards had taken that feature – attacking Mount William on its own while Tumbledown was still in Argentine hands would have been foolhardy. With the coming of dawn and with Tumbledown only just taken, it appeared that the Gurkhas would have to make a daylight attack on Mount William. However, the Gurkhas fierce reputation preceded them, and with the news of the fall of Wireless Ridge and Tumbledown filtering through, the Argentines on Mount William fled back into Stanley.
The British troops has fought brilliantly in the mountains, capturing every objective given to them, apart from Mount William – which could be seen as an opportunity for exploitation IF Tumbledown had been captured early. Although the Argentines still had considerable men available, and a variety of heavy weaponry, they were now bottled up into a narrow peninsula only a couple of square miles. With no air or naval support and with the thousands of conscripts completely demoralised, the Argentine Commander Menendez had run out of options. Although the Junta back in Argentine has ordered him to fight to the last man, white flags were already flying over Stanley.
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Nearly 2 years have passed since Square Enix first demonstrated in game footage of its upcoming action rpg to the public.
While details surrounding the long awaited Final Fantasy Versus XIII continue to be secluded for another year, word on the street suggests that the media blackout regarding Versus XIII may end as early as the new year.
According to the Final Fantasy grapevine, Square Enix is preparing a special conference to be held January 15th-17th. It's rumored that Noctis and company will have their day in the sun once more after a two year absence as new in-game Final Fantasy Versus XIII footage is expected to be revealed. A new playable character will also reportedly be shown as well.
i hope so waited for to long for ffvs 13 to come out but inthe end it will be the best rpg this generation?
I hope they rename FF Versus...I really do
Final Fantasy Versus or Final Fantasy 15 either will do
if there is no FF versus details, then piss off sqaure. there isn't anything i want to hear from you period.
I really couldn't give less of a crap about this game anymore. 5 years ago, sure, but not now. If they're done with this, Nomura can finally start of KH3.


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Having two different wedding dresses for your big day makes perfect sense for some brides. It can be such a fun way to debut your style AND feel comfortable. But it all depends on different factors for you and your wedding day. If you answer "yes" to most of the questions below, perhaps you should consider two dresses for your wedding day.
Do you have an extravagant venue?
An extravagant venue should be paired with an extravagant dress! If your ceremony takes place in a big grand church with a long aisle, imagine yourself walking down the aisle in a beautiful ball gown with a cathedral veil. Your look will tie the whole ceremony together as you make your grand entrance, but perhaps you have a quiet more intimate wedding reception that doesn't require the full glam look. This is a perfect excuse to justify both a ball gown and a more understated dress. Think Kate Middleton on her wedding day... she went from full on Princess Glam, but wore a simple satin A-line for her reception.
Do you love to dance?
If you're a bride who loves to dance, chances are you will want to spend part of your reception on the dancefloor. This is a perfect chance for you to put on a shorter or lighter dress that allows you to move comfortably throughout the reception. You will seamlessly be able to go from dancing the night away, to mingling with guests. Bonus... you won't have to worry about people stepping on your dress all night. Another bonus... you can show off those amazing pair of shoes that have been hiding under your other dress all day.
Will your wedding be over the course of a long day?
If your wedding day has an early ceremony, a big break between ceremony and reception and a late reception, you will be hauling around your dress all day long. You may get a little tired of that dress after you've been in it for 6 hours and you're still taking pictures before the reception. Having a second dress can be a nice option that will make you comfortable during the long day ahead.
Is your wedding in an extreme weather climate?
If your wedding is in a climate that's very hot or very cold, a second dress may be the perfect answer for you. If it's hot outside, you may be dying to wear a heavy satin ball gown with a cathedral veil for your ceremony, but want something lighter for the reception so that you're not sweating. Or perhaps your wedding is in the winter and you want a sparkly dress with a fur shrug for the reception, but want a light airy dress for the ceremony. The temperature and your comfortability can easily sway you towards two dresses.
Are you struggling to decide?
This can totally happen! As you try on wedding dresses and narrow it down, you may feel stuck deciding between two dresses that you've fallen in love with. If you can make it work in your budget, why not wear both? If you're going to treat yourself like a Queen for one day, shouldn't that day be your wedding day!?
Do you have to follow a dress code in your ceremony venue?
Some ceremony venues require brides to cover their shoulders. This can quickly narrow down the type of dress you can wear. If you find a strapless lace mermaid dress that you love, it may be a HUGE bummer to not be able to wear that for your ceremony. But two dresses can easily solve this. Cover your shoulders with a gorgeous cap sleeve A-line dress for your ceremony, and throw on the strapless lace mermaid for your reception. Don't let a dress code stop you from wearing the dress of your dreams.
Are you re-wearing your mom/grandmas wedding dress?
In the spirit of nostalgia and family tradition, you may be leaning towards wearing your mom or grandmas traditional wedding dress. I've seen this done beautifully but you may not want to be in that dress all day. No matter how classic those dresses are, they tend to be extremely itchy which can irritate your skin. Or perhaps you want to wear the dress because "it's a tradition" but you're not completely in-love with it. Wear the dress for the ceremony and then put on the dress you love for the rest of the day. This is a great way to follow a family tradition and make your ceremony extra special, while still getting to express your style.
Two wedding dresses can be a perfect fit for you depending on your needs and your wedding day. As the bride, you should feel like a Queen on your big day and two dresses can allow you to be both stunning and comfortable!
Style Me Pretty Contributor - Kylie Thompson is a freelance writer, blogger and marketing professional from Grand Rapids Michigan, where she resides with her husband and golden retriever. When she isn't working, you will find her exploring Grand Rapids' newest culinary establishments with her husband, or traveling up and down Lake Michigan's coast.


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The unicode branch
This branch aims to make Django's internals fully Unicode-aware.
How to get the branch
svn co http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/unicode/
See our branch policy for full information on how to use a branch.
The main goals of this branch are:
- Make it easier for developers to work with non-ASCII character data when working with Django.
- Be more consistent in our string handling behaviour inside Django (see StringEncoding for details on this).
Upon completion, you will be able to pass around unicode strings anywhere inside Django (or between Django and developer applications).
Note that we are not trying to switch to forcing everybody to only use unicode strings. You will also be able to pass around bytestrings and Django will assume they are UTF-8 encoded (we have to make an assumption because there is no way to tell what the encoding is otherwise). This feature means that a large chunk of existing code that uses Django will continue to work unchanged.
The branch was created on April 7, 2007.
Todo Items
The various pieces will be converted in roughly the following order:
- Template rendering (Done in [4971])
- Database I/O (Done in [4971] for postgresql, postgresql_psycopg2, mysql, mysql_old and sqlite backends)
- Needs testing for servers/tables that are not in UTF-8 or ASCII encoding. The theory is that the client connection for each backend should be automatically converting everything to UTF-8 or Unicode objects (depends on backend), but this needs verifying. (Ivan Sagalaev and Malcolm have tested this feature a fair bit with various database servers, but more stress tests would be nice.)
- Model class support (Done in [5057])
- Form input encoding (Done in [5192])
- Other output methods (if necessary; unchecked as yet)
- syndication
- serialisation
- Google sitemaps
- Other contrib modules
We also need to look at the i18n support functions (in django.utils.translation):
- Decide on usage of gettext() versus ugettext() in a number of places.
- Look at rewriting gettext_lazy() so that it acts as a better string and unicode proxy.
Finally, some documentation needs to be written describing good practices for creating unicode-aware Django apps.
Porting Applications
One of the design goals of the Unicode branch is that very litte significant changes to existing third-party code should be required. However, there are some thigns that developers should be aware of when writing applications designed to handle international input.
This section is no doubt incomplete. User experiences are welcome. If you discover something that is necessary to change, please add a bullet-point to the list (although we may edit the list periodically to be more coherent).
String Encoding
- In many cases, Django will convert any bytestrings passed to functions, such as filter functions, into unicode strings. All bytestrings, with the exception of form inputs and data read from files, are assumed to be UTF-8 encoded. Internal bytestrings that are not valid UTF-8 will cause fatal exceptions (because
my_string.decode('utf-8')will fail).
- Template files read from disk may be in an encoding that is not related to the output encoding or UTF-8. To specify the on-disk file encoding, use the
FILE_CHARSETsetting, which is new in the Unicode branch.
- String data read from the database will be converted directly to unicode strings. So model attributes based on text fields (TextField, CharField, etc) will be unicode strings.
- Field sizes for text fields such as TextField and CharField are specified in terms of characters, not the number of bytes used in the encoding in the database. All databases supported by Django can handle this (i.e. their VARCHAR fields are sized in terms of characaters and can store unicode characters). So you do not need to worry about how many bytes the encoded version of your data will take up when working with lengths.
- Make sure that your database tables support an encoding that can hold all the data you are going to send to it. For example, if you may possibly be sending Chinese characters to the database, using the Russian KOI8-R encoding is going to cause errors. Django does not need to know what encoding your database uses, since the Python database wrappers take care of that. However, you should ensure your database is configured to handle the data you wish to send it. Generally, using a UTF-8 encoding for your tables is the simplest solution.
- TODO: Write up how to set and check this information for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite.
- As mentioned previously, all model attributes retrieved from the database will be unicode strings.
- If you are supporting international data, it is not safe to return the value of a field directly in your model's
__str__method (in Python,
__str___will always coerce the result to a bytestring object, even if you return a unicode string from the function). There are two possibilities here:
- The simplest solution is to replace any
__str__methods with a
__unicode__method. This method returns a unicode string, so you can safely writeThe default
class MyModel(models.Model): name = models.CharField(maxlength=50) ... def __unicode__(self): return self.name
models.Model.__str__method will call your model's
__unicode__, if it exists, and then convert the result to UTF-8. So this single change should be transparent to the rest of your code.
- Alternatively, if you want to explicitly write the
__str__method for your model, it must return a UTF-8 encoded bytestring. No other encoding is acceptable here (certainly not
settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET), because the result of calling
str()on a model is used in more places than just template output.
- The simplest solution is to replace any


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Girl Friends - love that manga :3
Screw relationships, I got chocolate and manga~
My favourites:
ANYTHING by Morinaga Milk.
Highschool Girls (kindasorta yuri)
Aoi Hana
Sasameki Koto
Yuyushiki (there are yuri undertones)
Candy Boy
Notes From the Garden of Lilies
Hanjuku Joshi
The yuri couple from Loveless
Poi is the new Desu!
I really like Sasameki Koto too. That's not the only reason I chose this avatar, though. I just think it gives a good expression of my reaction to the anime fandom at times.
FameMonster wrote:yuri is srs business.
anyway, I don't really tend to like outright yuri manga/anime.
I tend to lean more towards something that has lesbianism in it, but focuses on the story and not their romance so much.
Sailor Moon, Utena and such.
But my favorite yuri anime is Sasameki Koto, very sweet.
I love yuri and shoujo-ai, deeply.
Especially I love older series, for example Riyoko Ikeda's works. Also Girl Friends, Marimite, and Yuru Yuri.
Keksimonsteri is in a tragedy seinen manga. http://en.shindanmaker.com/234977
Thanks to Seven seas for releasing Girlfriends & Kisses, Sigh and Cherry Blossom Kiss (please release some more Yuri)
I love Yuri manga, some of my favorites include:
Strawberry Panic
Gokujou Drops
Love Slave
Candy Boy
Strawberry Shake Sweet
Pure Water Adolescence
Indigo Blue
Lost :'(
Sasameki Koto is not only one of my favorite Yuri/shojo ai manga, it is one of my favorite manga, period! It has one of the finest endings of any manga I have ever read. I love that it is a story that doesn't use the yuri aspects only for titillation, but also advocates for equality and uses the girls' sexual preference in the story by having it used against them by rivals at one point.
Some of the other Yuri that I have read:
Candy - a short and sweet shojo ai story about a pair of girls who are trying to make a relationship work around busy school schedules, societal pressure, and peer pressure. They try to keep the relationship a secret at first, since it is not "socially acceptable" and have trouble when studies and club activities get in the way of their time together. It adds a nasty bit about an evil school nurse who tries to seduce the younger of the two
It has a wonderful ending,
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to get back at the older one it turns out, because she had been her tutor and was fired after making a pass at her student or something like that
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showing the two of them living together in the future.
The art is nice, with very pretty, shojo style characters. It would have benefited from either being longer or by being shorter or using some device other than the evil nurse character.
Hen - by Hiroya Oku - There are two versions of this, or a first and a sequel or something like that. The other one is mostly shounen ai, and those characters come into the story late in the process. An interesting fieature is that Hiroya Oku (better known for Gantz) is one of the characters in the story (the best friend of the trap character that comes in late in the story and is one of the main characters in the other version). The story is OK for the first part of it. You have a tall, "beautiful", half-foreign girl with a huge rack who is just shy of being a sociopath. She seems to not have a home, but instead stays in the homes of various men whom she has enthralled with her womanly charms, or blackmailed, depending on the situation. She most decidedly has never been "in love", despite spending time with many, many men. Her story about herself is inconsistent and, one feels, most likely a compilation of lies surrounding a truth in the center. She seems to come from either a broken home or is an orphan now, but it is unclear if any of the things she says about her own past are true or not. (I finished the manga not really knowing if what her family story really was about. All I figured out is that she was picked on because of her foreign looks at one point and she seems to have a brother that looks a lot like her who said something about all of his sisters being consummate liars who use men...)
Everything changes for her when she meets a new transfer student. She is suddenly struck by that nasty disease "Love" for the first time in her life. Much to her shock, the object of her ardor is Azumi Yamada, a petite (to the point of appearing to be an elementary school student), adorable, and decidedly female student who lives next door to the guy she is freeloading off of.
The plot falls into pieces about 2/3 of the way through when the shounen ai characters are introduced and the ending is massively rushed, because the series was cancelled from what I read, but it does have a nice twist at the end, when you think the author was going to end it with everyone with the "wrong person". The yuri parts are non-explicit, but there is plenty of ecchi and several hetero sex scenes, so be warned.
The art is pretty iffy. I am not a huge fan of the art style. It has a lot of really pointy chins and angular bodies that are not particularly attractive and the body proportions are way out of whack. (However, some of Oku's later work, Me-Teru no Kimochi in particular, have fantastic art, so I have to assume this was merely an early work where he was learning how to draw characters better. They are a bit better near the end of the series, though still too angular. I haven't read Gantz, so I am not sure what his style was in his most popular work.)
I'm sure there are a couple of others that I have read, and I know I have seen a couple of yuri/shojo ai anime that I loved (Blue Drop and the far to short, but still incredibly sweet anime version of Sasameki Koto, in particular). I plan on picking up a few more yuri titles soon...
I remember correctly my first yuri was girl friends or kannazuki no miko.I'm not much of a fan for yuri manga, but I need some recommendation for a good yuri manga.Can you guys help?
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Can't go wrong with Strawberry Panic. I've been meaning to read Girl Friends by Milk Morinaga, myself.
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I remember correctly my first yuri was girl friends or kannazuki no miko.I'm not much of a fan for yuri manga, but I need some recommendation for a good yuri manga.Can you guys help?
Amerio Kouchakan Kandan is a great yuri/shoujo-ai manga. It's a really sweet story of a women who runs a tea shop and the high school girl who comes to work for her. http://myanimelist.net/manga/11685/Ameiro_Kouchakan_Kandan
Sorairo Girlfriend
Aoi Hana (same level of explicit content as Girl Friends)
Hatsukoi Simai
These four I found to be really good and are light on the explicit content found in yuri. If you're not a big fan of yuri then not having that in the story might make it more enjoyable.
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I'm looking for some yuri/shoujo ai manga with a decent amount of chapters translated(more than 6). I rather they not contain any incest or bdsm, but other than that anything goes. Doesn't matter if they're continuing or not, and I don't care if it's on indefinite hiatus like Prism. I rather they not be licensed, like the Last Uniform, because I don't have any way of buying manga off the internet.
A MAL link will suffice
Off the top of my head, here is a list of stuff I've already read or am reading currently:
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Aoi Hana
Girl Friends
Secret Recipe
Gauken Police
Sasameki Koto
Strawberry Panic
Most of Morishima Akiko's manga
Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl
Sakura Trick
Hana to Hoshi
Maria-sama ga Mitteru
I'd actually use crunchryoll if its encodes weren't ass
Yuru Yuri was decent from what I remember.
My loli complex grows stronger by the day.
Sakura Trick all the way! Volume 3 is amazing!
Kisses, sighs, and cherry blossom pink
and who can forget the legendary Strawberry panic
same ol same ol
14-Sai no Koi (14 Year-old Love, Love 14, 14 Year's Love... whatever), ha a yuri side-couple I think. But besides that, it's insanely cute, sweet and romantic. <3
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South Korea's tycoons were relieved when the pro-business Park Geun Hye was elected last month as the nation's 11th president.
The main criticism against her predecessor and party mate, Lee Myung Bak, was that he was as beholden to corporations as leaders get. Park's win was seen as a victory for the economic system that raised Korea from devastation in the 1950s. Yet 60 years on, it's time to highlight the absurdity of this view. Returning to the past is no way to secure the future for Asia's fourth-biggest economy.
There's much to admire about where South Korea is as 2013 begins. The 2.8 percent growth forecast for this year isn't scorching, but is quite respectable among nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. South Korea is a role model for middle-income nations and annual per-capita income is already more than $30,000, placing it among the world's 30 most-prosperous nations.
Yet that success comes at great cost: a widening income gap, struggling small businesses and the highest suicide rate in the developed world. At the root of this paradox is the very engine that powered the nation. Its celebrated family-run conglomerates, the "chaebol," have become for South Korea what too-big-to-fail banks are to the United States.
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As love-hate relationships go, few rival the one that South Koreans have with their corporate overlords. No company personifies the success and peril of Korea better than the one Lee Byung Chull founded in 1938. What started as a small grocery-trading firm is now the pride of 50 million Koreans. Today, the gadgets that Samsung Group's electronics division sells in soaring numbers exemplify the can-do spirit that has Apple Inc. and Japan's entire economy looking over their shoulders.
Some go so far as to refer to their country as the Republic of Samsung. It's possible, after all, to live a Samsung-only life. You can work at Samsung, live in one of its apartment buildings in Seoul's glitzy Gangnam district, pay for your Galaxy phone with a Samsung credit card, invest in your future with its financial-services units, get your health checked at one of its medical centers, blow off steam watching Samsung-owned sports teams, use its travel agencies and even buy a latte at a Starbucks outlet owned by the retailer that is run by the nephew of Samsung Chairman Lee Kun Hee.
When South Koreans gush about the "Miracle on the Han River," the pivotal role of top corporate names such as Samsung, Daewoo, Hyundai, LG or Lotte is sure to come up. If only there were more recognition given to how these giants also left the nation's economy dangerously top-heavy.
Every economy has a certain amount of innovative oxygen to sustain its dynamism and prosperity. Too much of South Korea's is absorbed by the chaebol. Their dominance not only starves young would-be entrepreneurs of air, but also impedes the creation of a vibrant stable of small and mid-size companies.
In 2010, exports by the chaebol accounted for 84 percent of overseas shipments. Today, South Korea's 10 biggest conglomerates make up more than half the total value of the 1,757 companies on the Korea Stock Exchange. Ever wonder why South Korea can be so prone to cyclical shocks? When the goliaths falter, South Korea does, too. It's not that different from the U.S. relationship with its financial industry; when Wall Street lays an egg, the rest of the country suffers.
Make or break
These next five years are make-or-break ones for South Korea. China is trying to be a technology leader and has surpassed the United States to become the largest filer of patents. Just as China is honing its skills, Japan's new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, is unleashing a $116 billion stimulus package and a variety of tax incentives to encourage investments in technology. South Korea must find a new path to compete in Asia. Complacency is no longer an option.
Yet the odds don't seem great that Park will be the visionary who will embrace a new economic model. It was her father, former dictator Park Chung Hee, who built up the chaebol in the 1960s and '70s with easy credit, subsidies, tax breaks and protection from foreign markets. Nor is her New Frontier Party famed for its independence from the country's political-donor class.
Park pledged to move away from a system dominated by "big business groups," but executives hardly seem cowed. To get their attention, she should break up cross-shareholdings used by the founding families to control conglomerates with minority stakes; take antitrust actions against monopolies; and provide incentives for startups.
Many of the chaebol are into the third generation of familial control. Can this kind of dynastic entrenchment be good for South Korea — an economy dominated by a bunch of grandkids?
Park has some monumental challenges, and grappling with North Korea's nuclear ambitions must be at the top of any to-do list. Ridding the economy of this dysfunctional family affair is a close second.
Pesek is a Bloomberg View columnist.
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Thomas P. Beyer, a lifelong area resident, passed away Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital, Cornwall, NY. He was 26 years old. Son of William V. and Mary Karb Beyer, he was born November 4, 1986 in Westwood, NJ. Thomas was a Trader with WTS Proprietary Trading Group, New York, NY. He was a 2005 graduate of Monroe-Woodbury High School, Central Valley, NY and a 2010 graduate of Fordham University.
A family statement reads, "Tom was a drummer and took great joy making music with his friends and fellow band members. He enjoyed golfing. Tom was also an accomplished high school athlete in football and wrestling. He was loved by many and will be dearly missed."
Survivors include his parents, William V. and Mary Beyer of Highland Mills, NY; his brothers: William C. Beyer of San Jose, CA, John P. Beyer, James J. Beyer and his sister, Margaret M. Beyer, all of Highland Mills, NY; his paternal grandmother, Lorraine M. Beyer of Laurel, DE; his aunts, uncles and cousins.
Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight, April 26th, at Smith, Seaman & Quackenbush, Inc. Funeral Home, 117 Maple Avenue, Monroe. A funeral mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 27th at St. Patrick's Church, 448 Route 32, Highland Mills, NY. Interment will follow in Cemetery of The Highlands, Highland Mills.
Memorial donations may be made to Make-A-Wish Hudson Valley, The Wish House, 832 South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY 10591-6602.
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Ask a fan of "The Hunger Games" to describe the character of Haymitch and they usually start with the words "alcoholic" or "drunk." That actually presented a challenge to Woody Harrelson, who said he didn't want to slip into "Barfly" cliches with his portrayal of Haymitch Abernathy in the upcoming Hollywood adaptation of the Suzanne Collins sci-fi novel.
"He's got a drinking problem and he's got some issues and he's damaged, but I didn't want to do it totally like your typical version of an alcoholic in a movie," Harrelson said Monday. "So I tried to keep him a little put-together. I dressed him up from what you would expect, too. That was one of my things I wanted — to make him, particularly in the Capitol, a bit of a snazzy dresser — or at least a dresser with his own style."
In the grim future world of "The Hunger Games," Haymitch is the sour and besotted mentor to Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), two young people who must fight to the death in a televised, government-sponsored tournament of blood. Haymitch is a former champion in the contest but, in the years since his victory, his demons have chased him into the bottom of a bottle.
Cynical and slippery, the character is a fan-favorite among readers but those fans will see a slightly different Haymitch on the silver screen when the Gary Ross-directed adaptation arrives in theaters on March 23.
In the books, for instance, Haymitch is described as a paunchy, gone-to-seed middle-aged man with short, dark, curly hair, but Harrelson's version looks more like Kurt Cobain's fashion-conscious uncle. For the 50-year-old Harrelson, meanwhile, the Haymitch character might deliver a career-first; despite this era of ubiquitous sequels, the actor has never played the same character in two films. That will change if all goes as Lionsgate hopes and a four-film franchise can be made out of the three "Hunger Games" novels.
Harrelson said there's plenty on the page for the films to mine.
"It's good writing and it just keeps you on the edge," Harrelson said. "And making [the movie] was a fun experience with just really cool people. I was really impressed by everybody that was associated with it. The look of everything is amazing too. The wardrobe is incredible and the makeup, the [stuff] they came up with is mind-blowing. The imagination behind the hair and the makeup and set decoration, it was just really impressive. It's the work of brilliant people."
Harrelson lives in Hawaii but was back in Los Angeles on Monday to do publicity for his new film "Rampart" and also a bit of ADR work for "The Hunger Games."
"I only saw one scene — that's all they had me in to do, just loop [the sound for] one scene — and that scene looked great," Harrelson said. "I don't know how the whole movie is going to turn out but it's Gary Ross so I'm sure it's going to turn out great."
— Geoff Boucher
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Suffolk Law graduate Judge Richard J. Leon—JD '74—made headlines this month when he declared the National Security Agency's collection of Americans' phone records "most likely unconstitutional."
Leon, of the D.C. District Circuit Court, wrote that the technology used by the NSA was "almost Orwellian" and that James Madison would be "aghast" to learn the government was encroaching on liberty in such a way.
In the ruling, Leon granted a preliminary injunction ordering the government to stop collecting data on the personal calls of two plaintiffs in the case and to destroy the records of their calling history. However, Leon stayed his order pending an expected appeal by the government.
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Leon's colorful 68-page opinion included a reference to the Beatles' Ringo Starr (footnote 36) and a sarcastic aside about the government's defense of the vast surveillance program ("Candor of this type defies common sense and does not exactly inspire confidence!" he wrote in a footnote).
Suffolk Law boasts more than 200 active judges among its alumni, including many members of the federal bench.
Leon was the first federal judge not from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to review the legality of the NSA's data collection on behalf of someone who is not a criminal defendant. The FISC authorized the once-secret NSA program.
Leon, a Republican, was appointed by President George W. Bush on Sept. 10, 2001, and confirmed in 2002.
Before the NSA decision, Leon was best known for his cases involving Guantánamo detainees. In 2005, he agreed with the Bush administration that foreigners imprisoned in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp could not challenge their detentions in federal court. However, in 2008, Leon ordered the government to free five Algerians who he ruled were illegally detained.
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QPR midfielder Park Ji-Sung could retire after the 2013-2014 Premier League Season, father Sung-Jong has claimed.
The former South Korea captain has struggled since leaving Manchester United last summer, and may step down after the conclusion of his current contract in what will have been a career lasting 14 years.
"My son has had difficult times at QPR this season; it was a new experience to him," the elder Park said in an interview with Sports Chosun. "He's never had times like this with PSV Eindhoven or Manchester United.
"Nobody knows the future; maybe he could play one more year with a new team after next season. But I think [Ji-Sung] has made his mind up to retire."
Park, who turned 32 last month, began his career with Japan's Kyoto Sanga just months after making his national team debut.
After winning the 2002 Emperor's Cup with Sanga, he captured two Eredivisie titles with PSV before a trophy-laden seven years with Manchester United that included four Premier League wins and the 2008 Uefa Champions League crown.
Yet despite being one of Asia's most popular footballers, Sung-Jong denied that his son would return for a victory lap in his native country before hanging up his boots.
"He won't play in the K-League," he elaborated. "He wants Korean football to be popular but he wouldn't be able to perform well.
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WASHINGTON – Less than a year before Americans will be required to have insurance under President Obama's health-care law, many of its backers are growing increasingly anxious that premiums could jump, driven up by the legislation itself.
Higher premiums could undermine a core promise of the Affordable Care Act: to make basic health protections available to all Americans for the first time. Major rate increases also threaten to cause a backlash just as the law is supposed to deliver many key benefits Obama promised when he signed it in 2010.
"The single biggest issue we face now is affordability," said Jill Zorn, senior program officer at the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, a consumer advocacy group that championed the new law.
Administration officials have consistently downplayed the specter of rate increases and other disruptions as millions of Americans move into overhauled insurance markets in 2014. They cite provisions in the law that they say will hold down premiums, including new competitive markets they believe will make insurers offer competitive rates.
Exactly how high the premiums may go won't be known until later this year. But already, officials in states that support the law have sounded warnings that some people may see considerably higher prices than expected.
That is because of new requirements in the law aimed at making insurance more comprehensive and more affordable for older, sicker consumers.
Insurance regulators in California, which has enthusiastically embraced the law, cautioned the Obama administration in a recent letter about "rate and market disruption."
Oregon's insurance commissioner, another supporter of the law, said new regulations could push up premiums for young customers by as much as 30 percent next year. He urged administration officials to slow enactment of the new rules.
A leading advocate for consumers in their 20s, Young Invincibles, sounded a similar caution, suggesting in a letter to administration officials that additional steps may be needed to protect young people from rising premiums. Young Invincibles mobilized in 2010 to help pass the health-care law.
And regulators in Massachusetts, which was the model for Obama's law, recently warned that although many "will see premium decreases next year, a significant number will see extreme premium increases."
The law does include many new protections for consumers. Even those now sounding alarms emphasize the importance of those provisions, including guaranteed coverage for Americans with pre-existing medical conditions.
"For most people, this will be a dramatic improvement," Zorn said.
The new law also is designed to make insurance more affordable for many consumers. Millions of Americans who make less than four times the federal poverty level — or about $92,000 for a family of four — will qualify for federal subsidies to offset the cost of their premiums if they don't get insurance through employers.
But these new protections and benefits — largely intended for Americans who do not get health coverage through their employers — also threaten to drive up costs.
Next year, there will be new limits on how much insurers can charge older consumers. Insurers will be banned from charging more to women or people with illnesses.
The industry will have to offer plans that cover a new basic set of benefits, including prescription drugs, mental health, pediatric dental care and other services. And insurers will be prohibited from placing annual or lifetime limits on coverage.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that insurance premiums for those who buy coverage on their own probably will be 10 percent to 13 percent higher in 2016, in large part because health plans will be much more comprehensive. Many consumers will probably pay less, however, because of the subsidies available.
The health-care law also includes a new tax and new fees on insurance companies that the industry says it will pass on to consumers.
The provision that will prevent insurance companies from charging older consumers more than three times what they charge young consumers has generated particular concern among regulators.
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The Arts in Music City
Nashville's love for the creative and performing arts can be seen, heard, and experienced all around Music City. From the fresh and innovative exhibits on display in the galleries that make up 5th Avenue of the Arts to the evocative performances by the Nashville Ballet, there is no shortage of creativity found in Nashville's art community.
Blair School of Music
Blair School of Music serves as the focal point within Vanderbilt University for the study of music as a human endeavor and as a performing art, addressing music through a broad array of academic, pedagogical, and performing activities. The Blair School maintains and promotes the highest standards in the pursuit of scholarly and creative work, in the delivery of instruction and in the promotion of professional and public service.
Nashville Jazz Workshop
Founded in 1998 with a focus on jazz education, the Nashville Jazz Workshop hosts twice-monthly performances to its offerings; "Snap on 2&4" (on the second and fourth Fridays of each month) as well as other performances throughout the year. The performances take place at the Jazz Workshop, located in the Neuhoff Complex at the end of Monroe Street in East Germantown. The venue has been known to feature nationally-recognized jazz artists as well as top local musicians. With seating for only 100, an unforgettable jazz experience is guaranteed.
Nashville Opera Association
The Nashville Opera Association offers a fully-staged opera production at their 26,000-square-foot Noah Liff Opera Center. Additionally, the Nashville Opera, who seeks to be accessible to the entire community, performs at various locations throughout their season as part of their On Tour educational outreach program.
Nashville Symphony
The spectacular $123-million Schermerhorn Symphony Center boasts 1,844 seats on three levels and features 30 soundproof windows, making it one of the few major concert halls in North America with natural light. The lovely facility also houses a public garden, a gift shop with music-themed items, and a bistro-style cafe.
The Schermerhorn is home to the seven-time GRAMMY® Award-winning Nashville Symphony which has earned an international reputation for its innovative programming and its commitment to performing, recording, and commissioning works by America's leading composers.
With more than 140 performances annually, the 85-member orchestra offers a broad range of classical, pops, jazz, and children's concerts, while its extensive education and community engagement programs inspire over 100,000 children and adults each year.
Tennessee Performing Arts Center
The performance venues at TPAC are Andrew Jackson Hall (2,472 seats), James K. Polk Theater (1,075), Andrew Johnson Theater (256), and War Memorial Auditorium (1,661), the historic landmark located across 6th Avenue and the plaza from the Center. Among its many operations, TPAC presents a series of Broadway shows and special engagements, and administers a comprehensive education program.
TPAC is also home to two resident performing arts organizations: Nashville Ballet and Nashville Repertory Theatre. Presenting their work on the stages of TPAC, these organizations are independent of the center.
Performing Arts
The performing arts offer some of the best, and perhaps most unexpected, entertainment you'll find in Music City. Taking center stage at venues all over the city, the performance arts offers something for everyone from a children's marionette show, a comedy, or an inspiring classical play.
ACT 1, Artists' Cooperative Theatre, is an organization dedicated to bringing theatrical gems, both classical and modern, to Nashville audiences. ACT 1 has presented productions of more than 100 of the world's greatest plays.
Actors Bridge Ensemble
Actors Bridge is a training program for new and seasoned actors dedicated to progressive and provocative productions. A group of artists committed to the ensemble's principle, the Actors Bridge is an incubator for new theatrical works.
Chaffin's Barn Dinner Theatre
Chaffin's Barn was Nashville's first professional theatre. Guests can enjoy dinner while watching professional Broadway-style plays, comedies, and musicals in the MainStage theatre.
Circle Players
Circle Players is the oldest non-profit volunteer arts association in Nashville, and it specializes in presenting and performing musicals and comedies.
GroundWorks Theatre
GroundWorks Theatre specializes in cutting-edge plays and premiering original productions.
Marionette Shows at the Nashville Public Library
Held throughout the year, marionette productions represent the best of Tom Tichenor's marionettes and his legacy as a puppeteer at the library for 50 years. They acquired marionettes from Chicago's Peeko Puppet Productions, as well as new productions developed by the library's talented children's staff.
Miss Jeanne's Mystery Dinner Theatre
Solve a musical-comedic mystery while enjoying a gourmet dinner. Work together with other dinner guests to decipher clues, bribe suspects, and make a guess as to "whodunit." There are prizes for the winners.
Nashville Ballet
Founded in 1981 as a civic dance company and established as a professional company in 1986, Nashville Ballet has flourished as the only professional ballet company in Middle Tennessee. The Nashville Ballet presents a varied repertoire of classical ballet and contemporary works, while its outreach and community engagement programs are offered throughout the year to schools, businesses, and community groups.
The Martin Center for Nashville Ballet is the organization's customized facility that serves as a home for their professional dancers, students, and administrative offices. Some performances are held at The Martin Center, but most are held at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Downtown.
Nashville Children's Theatre
Ranked by TIME magazine as one of the top five children's theatres in the country, the Nashville Children's Theatre is the oldest professional, non-profit theatre dedicated exclusively to kids and families in the country. NCT enjoys producing quality performances in its state-of-the-art theatre. NCT also offers camps and classes throughout the year for children of different ages.
Nashville Repertory Theatre
The Rep is Tennessee's largest professional theatre company. The Rep performs five main-stage and three off- Broadway productions annually in theatres at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.
OZ Arts Nashville
OZ is a destination for innovative, contemporary art experiences. Housed in a newly-renovated former cigar warehouse, OZ's modern, flexible performance and installation space enables leading artists from multiple disciplines to present brave new art in a non-traditional context. OZ offers a diverse program of performing and visual art events and inspires curious audiences of all ages..
Real Life Players
Real Life Players is Middle Tennessee's only teen-owned-and-operated theatre company. Proceeds from Real Life Players productions traditionally benefit a Nashville non-profit organization that impacts youth.
Museums and Art Galleries in Music City
The recent growth of the fine arts scene in Nashville is adding greatly to the city's creative culture and offering another way for Music City's heritage to be told.
Aaron Douglas Gallery at Fisk University
Founded in 1866, Fisk University was one of the first private educational institutions offering a secondary liberal arts curriculum to freed slaves. During the mid-1900s, the school determined that aesthetic development was an important part of the education process, and painter/ illustrator Aaron Douglas commissioned the Fisk Murals for the new library in 1930. Douglas later established Fisk's first formal art department where he served as chairman for over 30 years.
The Aaron Douglas Gallery, a free museum, has become a venue of changing exhibitions highlighting artworks from the University's permanent collection, as well as temporary exhibitions of artworks loaned by organizations in the art, education, civic, and business areas. The collection contains pre-modern, modern and contemporary paintings, sculptures, photographs, textiles, and prints from a variety of cultures and by many mid-career, established and worldrenowned artists.
Artober Nashville is a month-long celebration of arts and culture in Nashville, designed to inform and inspire the community's awareness of and participation in the array of activities during the month of October. Artober Nashville is one of the single largest celebrations of the arts and culture in the South and includes hundreds of events in visual, performing arts, music, craft, film, and more.
The Arts Company
Located in a historic building Downtown, The Arts Company is home to contemporary artwork, ranging from photography to painting to sculpture. They welcome works of both emerging and legendary artists, with a focus on local art. The Arts Company also pioneered Fifth Avenue of the Arts as a Downtown destination for art lovers.
The Carl Van Vechten Gallery at Fisk University
Housed in a late 19th century Victorian building, The Carl Van Vechten Gallery was founded when Georgia O'Keeffe donated The Alfred Stieglitz Collection to Fisk University. The collection includes works by O'Keefe, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Auguste-Pierre Renoir, and more. Today, the gallery rotates works from the university's permanent collections, travelling exhibitions, and The Alfred Stieglitz Collection, which returns to the university every two years.
Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art
Just eight miles southwest of downtown Nashville stands Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art. Cresting the hillside of this 55-acre property is a 1932 mansion where Cheekwood's permanent art collection is housed. Located in the 30,000-square-foot Georgian-style home are world-class collections of American contemporary painting and sculpture, English and American decorative arts, and renowned traveling exhibitions. Collections also include silver and 350 pieces of the most comprehensive Worcester porcelain collection in America. Cheekwood's American art collection includes 600 paintings and 5,000 prints, drawings, and photographs, as well as the largest collection of William Edmondson's sculptures.
The Contemporary Art collection, housed in the galleries created out of the estate's original garage and stables, includes paintings by Larry Rivers, Andy Warhol, Robert Ryman, and Red Grooms. Additionally, seven small galleries were created in the old horse stable stalls to enable the Museum to display installation art (rarely exhibited in the Southeast). The Woodland Sculpture Trail, comprised of 15 sculptures by regional, national, and international artists, moves the contemporary art collection outdoors. The trail uniquely integrates art into nature.
Cheekwood's Temporary Contemporary was initiated in 1996 and consists of four solo exhibitions each year. Each show features innovative, influential, and thoughtprovoking works by artists inside the TC gallery. Some exhibitions have installations outside on the estate grounds as well.
Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum
The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum recently unveiled a $100-million expansion in 2013, doubling its size to 350,000 square feet of dynamic state-of-the-art galleries, archival storage, education classrooms, retail stores, and special event space boasting stunning downtown views. The ambitious 210,000-squarefoot expansion, completed in April 2014, includes the 800-seat CMA Theater; the Taylor Swift Education Center— featuring three classrooms and an interactive, hands-on immersion into contemporary country music with the ACM Gallery and the Fred and Dinah Gretsch Family Gallery; the legendary letterpress operation of Hatch Show Print (expanded and relocated inside the museum); and multi-purpose event rental spaces already in high demand.
Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and called the "Smithsonian of country music" because of its unrivaled collection, the museum adds a strikingly modern touch to the Nashville skyline. It is situated at the epicenter of the city's rapidly growing core, a block from the popular honky tonks of Broadway, across the street from Bridgestone Arena and Music City Center, and adjacent to the Omni Hotel.
David Lusk Gallery
Originally out of Memphis, David Lusk Gallery opened their Nashville gallery location in Wedgewood-Houston, where they represent a small crowd of talented artists. The artists range from those with national reputations to those who have never shown in a gallery before.
First Saturday Art Crawl
Hosted by the Fifth Avenue of the Arts, First Saturday Art Crawl takes place on the first Saturday of each month when multiple downtown galleries open their doors to avid art lovers for a night of art enjoyment.
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Located in downtown Nashville, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts is the city's largest art exhibition center. The Frist has no permanent collection, but instead specializes in exhibiting premier collections on loan from other galleries around the world, and curating exhibitions that go on to travel to other museums. Many of the exhibits on display are compiled exclusively for the Frist Center and cannot be seen anywhere else. Located in Nashville's former historic main post office, this city landmark was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Hatch Show Print Haley Gallery
Owned and operated by the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum, Hatch Show Print has been in business since 1879 and is one of the nation's oldest working letterpress poster shops. Hatch has created original art for circuses, Grand Ole Opry stars, concerts, and sporting events, and continues to produce restrikes of classic Hatch posters in addition to creating new work enjoyed by music fans, graphic designers, and art critics worldwide. The Haley Gallery showcases the historic restrikes of original posters from the Hatch collection, as well as Master Printer Jim Sherraden's monoprints.
Haynes Galleries
Unique in many ways, Haynes Galleries is the result of Mr. Haynes's passion for and commitment to the connoisseurship and appreciation of fine art. Haynes Galleries offers a distinguished list of American artists from three centuries – works by important 19th Century artists such as John Singer Sargent and William McGregor Paxton, as well as 20th and 21st Century masters including Yousuf Karsh, Stephen Scott Young, David Brega, and the legendary Wyeth family.
LeQuire Gallery & Studio
The gallery features contemporary paintings, drawings, and sculpture with an emphasis on figurative work. Exhibits change quarterly with work from Alan LeQuire – the nationally recognized sculptor of Musica and Athena Parthenos – always on view.
The Parthenon
The Parthenon, the world's only exact replica of the ancient Greek temple, resides only two miles from downtown Nashville. Inside the temple stands the 42-foot-tall gilded goddess of wisdom, Athena, the western hemisphere's largest indoor statue. Housed in the downstairs gallery is the city's permanent art collection. Known as The Cowan Collection, it spans the years 1765-1923. This 63-piece collection emphasizes landscapes and seascapes with techniques ranging from the smooth, almost non-brushstroke of the Neo-classic to the impasto and laded brushwork of Impressionism. All of the artists in this collection were American, and many were members of the National Academy.
The Rymer Gallery
The Rymer Gallery is one of the largest contemporary galleries on Downtown's Fifth Avenue of the Arts. Reflecting Nashville's creative community, they display wideranging mediums of art, from a diverse pool of talent and experience.
Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University
The Sarratt Gallery, a free gallery, showcases artists from all over the country, as well as from students and faculty at Vanderbilt. Located in the main lobby of the Sarratt Student Center at Vanderbilt University, shows change each month and include the popular Holiday Arts Festival, which features contemporary crafts by Tennessee artists.
Tennessee State Museum
Free to the public, the Tennessee State Museum is one of the largest state museums in the nation with more than 60,000 square feet of permanent exhibits and a 10,000-square-foot changing exhibition hall. The museum's interpretive exhibits span 15,000 years of Tennessee's history during the Prehistoric, Frontier, Age of Jackson, Antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods. These sections include special displays of furniture, silver, weapons, quilts, and paintings produced by Tennesseans.
The Tennessee State Museum's Civil War holdings of uniforms, battle flags and weapons are among the country's finest. The museum also has many one-of-a-kind items associated with such famous Americans as Andrew Jackson, Daniel Boone, James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson, David Crockett, Sam Houston, Alvin C. York, and Cordell Hull.
Tinney Contemporary
Tinney Contemporary is a modern art gallery housed in a chic space on Fifth Avenue of the Arts Downtown. Known for bringing both local and international talent, they rotate exhibits of photography, painting, drawing, and more throughout the year.
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, a free museum, features a series of engaging exhibitions each year that represent the diversity of artistic production today, as well as throughout the history of Eastern and Western art. In addition to exhibitions drawn from the permanent collection and organized from public and private sources, a number of traveling exhibitions are presented as well.
The University's permanent collection, totaling more than 5,500 works, serves to illustrate the history of world art in its most creative and comprehensive aspects. This historical art collection is the only one of its kind in the area, serving the needs of students and the community at large. The collection has grown to include strong works in East Asian art, European Old Master paintings, paintings from the Barbizon school, and African, Oceanic, and Pre- Columbian art and artifacts.
The gallery's most recent addition to their permanent collection was a donation of approximately 150 original Andy Warhol photographs and prints. This collection helps to strengthen the Gallery's growing collection of 20th century art.
Zeitgeist Gallery
Founded in 1994, Zeitgeist is a beacon of art in the Nashville community. Started by owner Janice Zeitlin in Cummins Station it has served as a cultivation ground for new artists and a safe place for established artists to experiment and grow. Under the direction of Lain York, Zeitgeist maintains a firm place in the Nashville art scene today. Bridging the gap between collectors and creators, Zeitgeist provides a venue for world class shows in the south.


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DAYTON, OH (FOX19) - A plane carrying a wing walker crashed Saturday at an air show and exploded into flames, killing the pilot and stunt walker instantly, authorities said.
The pilot, Charlie Schwenker, and stunt walker, Jane Wicker, were killed in the crash. The plane flipped just as Wicker sat atop the wing and then went to the ground.
One of FOX19's own performed the very same harrowing feat as the two who died in Saturday's fatal crash.
Kris Nuss works in the FOX19 traffic department making up the station's daily programming logs. However, on Friday Nuss decided to try what few of us don't have the nerve to do.
Nuss flew with pilot Charlie Schwenker on Friday before the crash. She was a wing walker on the plane.
"The ride was interesting. They strapped me on top of the Stearman with a safety harness and while we were taxiing it was great fun and I thought how wonderful is this," explains Nuss. "I was waving to the crowd on Fifi and as soon as we took off it was an incredible experience, but the higher we got I thought I've made a terrible mistake."
Nuss says that the experience has taught her to embrace her fears.
"I didn't have any choice but to trust the pilot, Charlie, and he held my life in his hands and I felt confident the whole time."
Nuss was at the air show Saturday when pilot Charlie Schwenker and wing walker Jane Wicker lost their lives.
"We saw it through the canopy of the tents and we just heard that horrible noise and then boom." It was a sound Nuss will never forget. "I was crushed. They were wonderful people. In the short time that I met them I wished I could have been friends with them for the rest of my life, frankly, and they were such fun loving people. They lived their life to the fullest and Jane even said I'm doing what I love and I really wish more people would do that."
Even in the short time she knew Jane Wicker, Nuss says she became close to the veteran wing walker.
"The bond just came from her because she was such a gregarious, nice, fun loving person. She struck me as the type that never met a stranger."
From this tragedy, Nuss says she's learned a valuable life lesson.
"I encourage people do what you want to do," said Nuss. "Live your life with as much passion as you possibly can and don't wait until it's too late."
Nuss says Jane Wicker also told her that sanity is boring. Wicker lived her life and had fun doing it.
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|2013-03-10, 14:44
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I think that Kurugaya is going to have her whole route animated... including their romantic relationship, it will make a lot of sense since at the end (normal end) Riki forgets everything including his romantic feelings for Kurugaya, and it's imposible that they cut off the time loop or the explanaition of some of the world's basis so her route must be just before Rin 1 or 2. Kurugaya's arc will be the breaking point of the secret of the world's hints...
|2013-03-11, 12:36
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am about to suggest a cracktastic heresy. Inspired by all those WMGs Anime only viewers have been throwing in the Episode 22 thread, about the significance of Suginami (one of the three bullying clowns who has a crush on Riki) , JC Staff shalt commit the ultimate blasphemy of an anime original route.
Now, burn me with fire.
|2013-03-18, 19:06
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I think that teh routes of Kurugaya and Rin have not been adapted to the anime.
But I don´t know that I have the correct information (I complete the game) But I not remember if they have been adapted in episodes (if is adapted, can also remember to me in which episodes).
|2013-03-19, 05:17
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That said, a *cough* Saya Route would be nice. XD
|2013-03-19, 10:29
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For example, Love Love Hunters would be a Kurugaya sponsored bit of trolling. Kurugaya feeling happiness and emotions for the first time with the Little Busters will be given greater emphasis. Kurugaya pwning those bullies would be presented not as protecting Riki as a prelude to romance but the final straw after prior provocations and insults to Kud ( the showdown between those two idiots and the Little Busters after Kud was called a mongrel), Mio (having her book stolen) and Rin1 (Suginami's friend's love letter).
And they then axe the looping time-line, therefore denying Anime only viewers one of the biggest hints so far as to the Secret of the World.
Actually, come to think of it, with Romance stripped out of the routes, a Friendship route with regards to Suginami... could work, but we'd be straying into anime original territory, and may suffer the usual fate of filler arcs.
But, why ask such a prominent VA to voice such a minor character, I wonder?
|2013-03-19, 19:41
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Come to think of it, I think they can do the Saya route after the ending of the Kurugaya route, even before Refrain. Isn't the only thing that you need to know for the Saya route to make sense is that the Little Buster's world is a shared dream world?
In-fact, I wonder whether they are going to actually going to shaft Rin, and divide her route into two. I suspect the structure might well be:
Kurugaya Route
Rin 1 Events
Rin accepts the offer to transfer Schools. Rin is removed from the plot.
An interlude, where the Ecstasy routes unfold, while Rin is away . All the while, Riki would be receiving messages from Rin.
- Sasami's route
- Kanata's Route
- Saya's Route.
Rin returns home, and Rin 2 proper begins.
Refrain. All of it. I wonder whether 13 episodes will cut it.
A final "Beach" episode.
Perhaps a Summer going away party episode, like was mentioned in Kud Wafter.
Of course, the structure could easily be reshuffled. From the summaries about the Kanata route, it seems that it could theoretically go before the Kurugaya Route.
|2013-03-20, 03:55
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How the heck can Sasami arc fit in there if her route happened after Refrain.
Kanata route doesn't really have anything to do with the secret so it can be anywhere.
Alot of people said for Saya arc to reach its fullest,viewers need to know about the secret first so it should be after refrain in some kind of OVA.
It doesn't matter to me where her route will be placed as long as there's romance in it.
They can took out romance in every other heroines arc for all I care but not Saya...nuh-uh .__.
And whoever is making this seem to like spending alot of time for common route episodes and then shorten/rushed with the heroine arc so I expect 1/4 of the second season will be for common episodes .__.
|2013-03-25, 04:27
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^ People also said the same whe it come to Haruka an Kud's arc,now look what happened.
Removing romance isn't always necessary bad.Look on the bright side,we might get to see Kurugaya arc filled with wonderful friendship and nice stuffs we've never seen before in the VN.
Seriously,they aren't going to dump friendship away just because it's Kurugaya considering how far and deep they're going with it.
So like even if there're still romance,I bet friendship will still take about at least half of the arc.
|2013-03-25, 07:42
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In Kurugaya Arc, the ENTIRE thing is based on romance, including the fact that the entire thing happened because Riki and Kurugaya er....clicked. You cannot turn that into terms that equate friendship, and even then, it would be relatively bad.
|2013-03-25, 08:20
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There goes my lunch...
|2013-03-25, 16:13
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While it seems like the route cannot function without romance, the same worries were shared when any VN had multiple heroine routes. The common way of doing it, and the way J.C Staff is doing it, is having the main heroine as the love interest while the MC simply helps the other heroines sort out their issues. Kyoko Animation did it with all of Keys other works, White Fox did so with Steins;Gate, and J.C Staff is doing the same with Little Busters.
Honestly speaking its for the best that they remove the romance elements from the story. From the various reviews I've read of the series its a general agreement that the Common Route and Refrain were the most enjoyable parts, while the romance was a mixed bag. If they actually did include the romance for each route it would kind of ruin the friendship theme, and it might have given the show a "Harem anime" feel to it which doesn't sit right with me.
TL;DR: What I'm basically saying is that this is an adaptation, not a rehash of the visual novel in moving picture form. There needs to be compromises in order to fit 60+ hours of content into a meager 26 (Or 52 when they do a second season) episodes. Some of my favorite scenes have been left out, while I am disappointed about it, I can understand that J.C staff needed to cut some scenes in order to fit the important ones.
TL;DR of TL;DR: The route will most likely have no romance, its necessary, please try to get over it.
Last edited by Hollownerox; 2013-03-25 at 16:30. Reason: Some parts of comment more scathing than I intended.
|2013-03-25, 17:39
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Not even the VN gave off a harem feel, much less would an anime adaptation of it if they kept in the romance anyway. A careful and smart use of the loops was all that would be needed to pull it off, but they didn't even bother with it.
And Refrain alone is a romanceless route all about friendship...it's all you need really.
Personally, it's not about whether or not they will animate the Kurugaya route (they most certainly will) but mostly because of the fact that the whole route is centered around Riki and Kurugaya's romance. It's not just an important plot point like in the Haruka and Kud routes (that even taken out severely downgrades the plot but still works) it's the core of the damn plot and by the way things are going they will come up with a BS way to turn it all about friendship rather than the romance.
This hits harder for me since the Kurugaya route and her character are both my favorite parts of LB.
I'm not saying the anime has been wrong in everything and is the worst thing ever...I kind of like some of the things they did...hell, I loved it up until midway through the Komari route. When it comes to showing friendship within the group it's actually spot on and handled a bit better than in the VN, the minor Common Route scenes are also generally well done and nicely adapted and most of all Rin's relationship with Komari seems much deeper and fleshed out than in the VN (I always considered the Refrain scene with both of them was much weaker because of the lack interaction they had throughout the VN).
My problem ultimately boils down to the Cons far outweighing the Pros, not in number but in individual weight.
|2013-03-25, 20:32
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A scene in the anime cqn feel less powerful because you've already seen it before, and therefore thinks it's inferior to the original.
Oh and the VN doesn't feel like a harem because of how VNs work. You're not going to capture the same feel in anime, ever. It's a completely different medium.
So if the changes done in this adaption were deemed necessary by KEY for it to work, I for one will wait until we reach the conclusion and I've seen everything before I judge if something important was left out or not.
|2013-03-25, 20:58
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But regardless, obviously I'm not better suited to say what's truly important for the plot than the creators of the damn thing and I never claimed I was. I am, however, saying that not adding romance was a CHOICE, not the huge necessity some make it out to be, whether it was good or bad...well that's subjective, I believe it to be bad, it hindered my enjoyment of the adaptation (along with other things) but I am fully aware that others think otherwise.
PS: Love it when people resort to the "Derp, you think you know better than the creators." argument when discussing personal opinions...it just makes them so much more valid and reasonable.
And yes, that was sarcasm.
I doubt most will deny that scenes like the Komari Mental Breakdown scene had a weaker impact in the anime than it had in the VN (just one of the examples from when I still watched it regularly).
|2013-03-26, 03:43
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Removing the romantic elements to further emphasis the friendship theme is a good move as well, in my opinion, since LB! was always mainly focused on the friendship.
So it's mostly subjective, yeah.
If it's doing a good job hiding the loops, I can't tell, because I'm aware of them.
Anyhow, the meaning of my post was mostly to point out that it's not always JC Staff pulling the strings when there are changes in the adaption, and give possible explanations as to why you might feel the way you feel about the anime without necessarily be because of bad choices done while adapting. I do believe it's a good practice to refrain judginf if the choices they made were good or bad until you've atleast seen the whole finished adaption. It was late and I was tired, so if my post came out as something else, then sorry.
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In forum, Manchester's welfare chief knows his election opponentBy DOUG ALDEN
New Hampshire Union Leader
October 21. 2013 11:36PM
MANCHESTER — The candidates running for city Welfare Department commissioner addressed topics including homelessness, resources, salary and budgets during a public forum on Monday night.
Commissioner Paul Martineau is being challenged by Diane Guimond in a rematch of a close race won by Martineau two years ago. Guimond is Martineau's former deputy in the Welfare Department, appointed after he was first elected in 2001. It's been nearly 10 years since they worked together, and it was clear Monday night in the chapel at Brookside Congregational Church that the two have decidedly different views on how the job of commissioner should be done.
Martineau faced questions about his salary and staff salary. Opponents repeatedly have questioned whether his $114,000 annual salary is out of line with the demands of the job. Martineau pointed out that staff salaries comprise about 68 percent of his budget, which he said is about 20 percent less than other city departments.
Martineau also said the welfare budget had been $1.4 million, but has been slashed to about $1 million.
"Needy people in Manchester are being assisted. They are getting help," Martinaeu said.
Martineau was also asked about the welfare application process, which he acknowledged can be time consuming because it encompasses a long list of qualifications that must be met to receive assistance from the city. Each case is documented and the applicant has the option of challenging if the application is declined.
Despite the claims of his opponents, Martineau said the welfare office has always been about service.
"We're not making money," he said.
Guimond, who was town administrator in Lee from 2008 through 2011, said she hopes to get back to helping people through the welfare department.
While financial resources are always going to be limited, Guimond said more can be done with money there. "Communication with all of the agencies within our community is paramount," she said.
Guimond was second to speak in the forum, which gave each candidate 40 minutes for their own remarks and to take questions from the audience. There were about 75 people in attendance and many seemed already in favor of Guimond, who shook hands afterward as she made her way down the aisle.
One of the first questions she was asked was about the importance of preventing homelessness, helping families before they end up on the street.
Guimond said it was a good question and the concept sound, but the answer was complicated.
"It really is a case-by-case individual and family kind of thing," she said. "You can not just say arbitrarily say we're going to do one thing. You can't. You have to look at the entire picure."


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Dutch Beer (Netherlands)
Here at Beers of Europe we pride ourselves on having the widest selection of European and international beers around, and with plenty of Dutch beer to choose from we think you'll find just what you're after. But first, an overview…
The Dutch beer market
The Dutch beer market is largely dominated by multinational companies, with Holland being the home of Heineken, Grolsch and Bavaria. These brewing giants easily take the lion's share of sales with Heineken accounting for some 50% of the market, and given it's the world's third largest beer brewer that figure certainly isn't surprising. Then there's the export side of things—the Netherlands exports the largest proportion of its beer in any country in the world, approximately 50% of overall production, and considering the fact that the main breweries are so well known it isn't hard to account for this level of exportation.
But, despite the giants holding the market share, it doesn't mean that local varieties can't be found. There are several other large breweries that operate from the Netherlands as well as around 45 microbreweries and brewpubs, and luckily those numbers are expanding all the time. This injects some welcome variety into the mix, and some parts of the country even have their own distinctive style of beer to offer something different to the norm with seasonal and special varieties (such as witbier and bock) starting to take hold.
New breweries tend to focus on top-fermenting beers, similar in style to Belgian varieties, and there are even some examples of British-style ales and lagers. Then, of course, there's the Trappist brewing tradition. The Netherlands is home to one of the seven traditional Trappist breweries with the Koningshoeven Brewery creating the internationally-recognised La Trappe, offered in a range of different varieties, meaning there's far more to Dutch beer than pale lagers. Want to see for yourself? Then take a look around and see what Dutch beers you can uncover!
Amstel 330ml£1.69 by the case: £39.36
Budels Organic Lager£1.58 by the case: £36.96
Grolsch Flip Top (BB Date 02/12/18)£3.19 by the case: £49.44
La Trappe Blonde£2.59 by the case: £60.24
La Trappe Bockbier£2.59 by the case: £60.24
La Trappe Dubbel£2.99 by the case: £69.60
La Trappe Isid'or£2.89 by the case: £67.20
La Trappe Quadrupel£3.79 by the case: £88.32
La Trappe Tripel£3.29 by the case: £76.56
La Trappe Witte£2.18 by the case: £50.88
Zundert Trappist£4.09 by the case: £95.28