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|2012-07-18, 06:55
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My reason for watching Madoka Magica does not have any relevance in this subject nor does it contradict my initial post. Like I said I went into the show completely blind... No promos no commercials and whatsoever the only thing I know is that it is made by Shaft and is obviously a magical girl show. Tell me how does this contradict my initial post? What are you going to say if I did see it's commercials and I went into it because I liked the designs? It seems to me you are trying to make an argument out of anything. :-/
Even in written works a character's outside appearance is always established first the moment that character is available for scrutiny before delving any further. It does not go the other way around.
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|2012-07-18, 08:10
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Kusoru who flew all the way from Japan won earlier this year UMvC3 evo 2012 with his obsecure team of Rocket Raccoon, Frank West and Viewtifull Joe.
After winning the tournament he said that he probably won't be back the next time and there was a huge commotion about what he said in the in American fighting game community saying how bad his attitude was based on those few words (a few days later Kusoru explained why he won't be back though), seeing that japan didn't even take the game seriously at all (it was only played in minor tournaments and even in the local tournaments it's not that common) and yet some "random japanese person" won a major American tournament.
As for samurai spirits, Samurai Spirits Zero Special was still played in last and this years Ura Tougeki and Acho and many other tournaments as well. So stop saying things that you have obviously no clue about.
In 1993 (samurai spirits) it was still not that common to see cute female characters in video games that you could actually control and fight with.
You were not going blind into Madoka, because you even said it yourself that you started it because it was made by Shaft. Which is loyalty to a certain studio and that is also a possible factor for watching a show.Thus making your primary reason of watching Madoka in the first place not the character design but rather studio loyalty.
This had nothing to do with a first design of outside appearance, seeing that also a huge amount of characters didn't change at all (aside from the drawing style, because it was obviously done by a different artist).
Same designs were changed over the years, for reasons like for example the original super hero left or went missing in action (or dying, but in some cases they ended up being alive or were revived later on. So i rather call it missing in action) and a new one who took the same name replaced him/her or the comic series were canned at some point and rebooted later on.
Those redesigns took into account the current trends and other factors of that time.
edit: i didn't notice that you are also talking about written works as well. In the case of written stories, it's even more important to establish how the characters act and behave. Like for example, my first impression of sherlock Holmes was that he is an excellent observer and deducer rather than how his appearance was discribed. His appearance does supplement his sometimes odd behavior but it's not the most important thing about him.
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|2012-07-18, 09:03
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You say it is pretty obvious but it looks to me you don't understand why the outside appearance is described first. Oh and did you know that first and primary are synonyms?
Tell me how can people recognize Madoka in a picture drawn by a fanartist? How can people recognize Madoka in a doujinshi acting like a perverted old man? I'm going to tell you now that being animated by Shaft does not have anything to do with it.
|2012-07-18, 09:43
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As for Tougeki , it only uses recent games (just like Evo) and samurai spirits hasn't had a game the last few years. It's because it's such a popular franchise so that previous installments of that game are still played in tournaments.
So far i haven't seen any actual proof of you claiming that Samurai spirits was a bad game and she became popular just because of her design. In fact if it weren't for the succes of the game, she probably wouldn't have become popular. That is what i am saying.
As for loyality it is a trait. Some people watch animes because it's directed by their favorited director or if the anime has their favorite seiyuus in it. Having loyalty to a studio is the same as well. Your claim that you were going blind into Madoka was false because you were already expecting something already based on the fact that it was made by Shaft (thus implying that you were atleast impressed by their previous works).
For example my first reason for hating a show does not mean that it's the primary (most important)reason why i hate a show.
Also first impressions can be deceiving. Like the already used example of Madoka.
As for fan creations, they can easily do anything out of context. Same people don't even consider that identifiable seeing how much the character differs from their original.
But that would be an entirely different discussion if i start about that.
|2012-07-18, 10:23
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I beg to differ but the fact of the matter is many doujinshis have the characters going OOC. It never stopped anyone from recognizing the characters.
|2012-07-18, 10:57
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When it comes to characters I merely ask that their personality not clash with the animes goal for them and how other characters act around them. If a character is useless and weak-willed but everyone insists that they are to be relied on and that they have the ability to lead despite that obviously not being the case (i.e Shu from Guilty Crown) I typically don't find said character very likeable or easy to get into. Likewise if the character is just an insufferable jerk or sociopathic to everyone around them and are met with the other characters and plot bending over backwards to reward them and claim how great they are (Almost any NisoIsin female character) I also won't find said character very identifiable. I also just find certain character types like the main characters half-retarded ecchi best friend to be just truly loathsome, irritating and iredeemable as character types because it even makes the otherwise kind of likeable hero look like some kind of idiot for hanging out with and calling on them for support from time to time.
As for anime, that's far more subjective, but for me I tend to identify/appreciate certain genres like mecha/sci-fi/fantasy/drama over others like Comedy and Romance. That's pure preference though.
|2012-07-18, 12:07
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It's the same as the American people played MvC2 tournaments in which infinites/loops and other things were available due to the bad design and it was allowed.
Also only the 4th game were played in those tournaments, because of it's balancement issues.
You deliberately neglicted the fact that there have been no new Samurai spirits released in the past few years , so of course it won't show up in many major tournaments.
Also loyalty does not mean that you have to like everything. Fans of George Lucas, Steven Spielberg or Ridley Scott don't automatically love every film they have made. But based on their experiences, they might want to try (as in what you also did with Madoka or some people did with Ridley Scott's Prometheus ) some of their films.
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|2012-07-18, 21:56
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And again 3rd strike. When was the original third strike? When is the HD?
|2012-07-19, 04:41
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As for third strike, it was remade with hd graphics last year.. Seriously, atleast pretend to know what we are talking .
As for making a gallery, it 's doomed from the start. The fact is that your gallery suggestion is so stupidly vague that i can put everything in it and i can easily manipulate the results depending on what the contents of my gallery are and the audience that i am showing it to.
It makes no difference if i put BRS and Okabe in it if i fill the entire gallery with completely different things like monsters, comic book characters or real live people and show it to either small children ,teenage girls or the non asian, non caucasion couple in my street.
Also there is probably a reason why the first 2 episode discussions had less than 40 replies while starting from episode 3 the amount of replies rose to over 300.
People who started watching it from the start had different expectations.
How am i changing the topic again? A show in this context was an anime show, if i also need to remind you of that as well.
|2012-07-19, 05:19
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Some of it are on topic though, seeing that we are mostly having a debate on character design being the most important factor for making an anime/character identifiable or not.
But yeah, it does seem like a whole wasted page.
On topic , the topic starter hasn't made any followup replies himself what he actually meant with identifiable.
|2012-07-19, 07:44
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Ok I'm going to make this short. I misread the topic title into "anime character or character" I will give you that... all this time I never debated about the show and all my arguments are based on a character only basis. With that I respectfully admit that it was my fault in this misunderstanding and I do apologize for it.
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|2012-07-24, 13:49
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usually the MC is a loser, which is "Identifiable" to you.
simply put, anything that be thrown over to RL (emotions, sad events, etc) are what makes it identifiable to you.
also dreams. the kinds that you know will never happen to you, thats the kinda stuff that makes you root for the MC
|2012-07-31, 20:33
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I get interested by the characters appearence, the anime genre, the plot, anime style, supernatural power or beings, and how inappropriate it is. If the anime has cute main characters I would watch it. But if they are ugly like the main girl having short hair i wouldnt watch it. But under the cercumstances of Ouran high school host club I would still watch it.
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This blog discusses items of interest to genealogical researchers, with an emphasis on California. It also focuses on internet-centered genealogy research, and covers tools and techniques unique to that space.
25 May 2011
Paper? Or Something More e-Tastic?
So, you would think, I'm a natural candidate for a digital version of the Register. But I'm also someone that doesn't do a whole lot of extensive reading on my computer. Too many temptations to get on Facebook, too hard to read the text on the screen, and my computer chair just isn't that comfortable.
I love that the NEHGS Register is available as a searchable PDF, and I love that the issues are available and searchable online. But I wish that they were available as an ePub file, instead of (or, really, in addition to) a PDF.
PDFs are great, but reading them on a Kindle really is NOT. I like to fall asleep to the soothing well-citationed sounds of Register articles in my mind, but reading PDFs on a Kindle is a navigational and low-functionality nightmare that I'm not interested in ruining my reading experience for. How excellent would it be to have an ePub version of the Register on my Kindle, where I could read and take notes? Pretty darn excellent.
It seems to me that genealogy societies have a vested interest in encouraging members to adopt e-versions of their publications. Saves them lots of money in printing and shipping costs, for one. So why aren't they making it just that much easier for me (and other Kindle users like me) to go digital?
Hey Genealogy Society, want me to adopt the e-version of your publication? Give me an ePub version!!!
Or send me a new iPad.
Totally up to you.
3 comments:
- Susan (Nolichucky Roots) said...
I could not agree more! May the geneapowers-that-be hear you.
- May 25, 2011 at 5:07 PM
- Greta Koehl said...
Yeah, I'm waiting for my iPad....
- May 25, 2011 at 6:13 PM
- Elizabeth O'Neal said...
I signed up for NEHGS as a Mother's Day present to myself (after an absence of about 10 years). I opted for the electronic versions of both magazines. We've reached maximum capacity in our house, and there just isn't room for more magazines. It took some adjusting, but I do like the electronic mags, especially since I can make the font bigger. But then, I have a NOOKcolor, so the display is probably better than on a Kindle. However, ePUB would be a MUCH better solution, as the PDFs are cumbersome and non-searchable. Either that, or B&N needs to come up with a way to make PDFs searchable on their readers.
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Amy Adams' fiancé, Darren Le Gallo, once serenaded her with the theme song to "St. Elmo's Fire" before she was due to shoot a sex scene with the film's star Rob Lowe.
"The Fighter" star had to film an intimate moment with one of her personal idols, Lowe, on his short-lived TV show "Dr. Vegas," so Le Gallo attempted to break the tension by singing the theme song to the heartthrob's 1985 drama.
Adams tells Vanity Fair, "Here's how great Darren is – I don't think I've ever told anyone this story. On the day I had to shoot a love scene with Rob Lowe, he called up and sang the theme song for 'St. Elmo's Fire.' He is in it. That's how awesome he is.
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Chris Bartocci is circling the aisles at The Gun Store in Las Vegas, a firearms mega-mart lined wall-to-wall with handguns and rifles and shotguns of every design and price range. There are cheap utilitarian pistols and delicately-engraved collectibles with four-figure price tags; classic wooden-stock deer rifles and pistol-gripped AK-47s.
In the back of the store, crowds are lined up to rent high-powered weaponry – even machine guns – for a chance to obliterate paper bad guys. For $500, the "Shotgun Wedding" package comes with a legal marriage ceremony in the VIP firing range, capped off with a round of his-and-hers shooting by the bride and groom.
Bartocci has come to The Gun Store to talk about assault weapons, and along one wall are a dozen rifles, most with a classic military appearance – black matte finish, pistol grip, large ammunition magazine. These firearms are at the heart of a fierce debate in Connecticut and beyond about restricting or banning the sort of weapon used in the Sandy Hook massacre. They are also frustratingly difficult to define.
Bartocci literally wrote the book on these guns, with his 2004 reference work, Black Rifles 2. So how many of these fearsome-looking guns are actually assault weapons?
"To the uneducated weapons person, they would say they all were," Bartocci said, scanning the rifles. "To somebody who is familiar with small arms and the U.S. military's definition of an assault rifle: none of them."
That divide – the inability to agree even on definitions – is reflective of the gulf between the two sides of the gun debate as lawmakers grapple with a possible assault-weapons ban. Last month, Lori Haas, whose daughter Emily was grazed twice in the head during the mass shooting at Virginia Tech, traveled to Danbury to help deliver hundreds of thousands of petitions to the Wal-Mart closest to Newtown, pressing the retailer to stop selling rifles like the .223 semi-automatic Bushmaster rifle used with horrific effect by Adam Lanza.
"Do we really want military-grade people killers on the shelf next to the strollers? I don't think so," she said.
Gunmakers prefer a decidedly more benign description, calling them "modern sporting rifles," though the term has found limited traction beyond the industry.
It's more than a semantic battle, and illustrates the difficulty of drafting legislation that is both meaningful and comprehensible.
In the eyes of the industry, the term "assault weapon" or "assault rifle" applies only to fully automatic weapons that fire continuously and extremely quickly with a single pull of the trigger. There are severe restrictions on civilian ownership of fully automatic weapons, and most are used by the military or law enforcement. But manufacturers of those fully automatic weapons also make cosmetically similar civilian versions that shoot only in semi-automatic mode, in which one bullet is fired with each pull of the trigger.
Lawmakers in Connecticut and elsewhere have defined some – but not all - of those semi-automatic rifles as banned "assault weapons." Lanza's Bushmaster, for example, was not a prohibited assault weapon under Connecticut law, leaving some legislators keen to draft tighter legislation.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, co-sponsor of a federal assault-weapons ban, watched earlier this month as State Police Sgt. Shawn Corey quickly emptied a 30-round magazine from a semi-automatic, military-style rifle into a target at a state police shooting range in Simsbury.
"It gives you shivers to think that we allow for that kind of weapon to be in the hands of madmen who are out to do the kind of destruction that we saw in Sandy Hook," Murphy said after the demonstration. "So I do think it's important to take these assault weapons off the street."
But despite the aggressive appearance of military-style semi-automatics, the same semi-automatic action is now found on most new rifles, whether they are designed to look like a SWAT Team weapon or grandpa's wooden-stock hunting rifle.
"Semi-automatic firearm technology is simply the sort of modern basic technology," said Paul Barrett, an editor at Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine and an expert on guns. "It is simply the way a gun works."
Bartocci said gun enthusiasts have always been drawn to civilian versions of military firearms, and guns like the one used by Lanza have been a popular choice for nearly 40 years.
"This is as American as baseball, apple pie, hot dogs. It's part of our history," he said. "Mechanically, it's no different than weapons that have been around since World War II."
That leaves lawmakers in a dilemma. Critics say restricting access to guns that merely look like military weaponry amounts to outlawing cosmetics while permitting the sale of other, equally lethal semi-automatic weapons.
But Murphy said cosmetics might matter in the hands of a disturbed shooter.
"I don't know why Adam Lanza walked into that school," he said. "But I do think that his access to a military-style assault weapon, that he may have used in video games, gave him a sense of confidence that he might not have otherwise had."
While lawmakers wrestle with definitions, the firearms business is booming. Gun sales are up five-fold at The Gun Store in Las Vegas. Across town, at Bargain Pawn, the last pawn shop the city specializing in guns, prices for military-style rifles have tripled.
"When people who are skeptical of gun ownership and of guns identify a particular gun as evil or dangerous, that makes people who like guns in this country run out and by two of them," Barrett said.
And with proposals to tax bullets and restrict the shooting capacity of rifles, even ammunition and magazines are tough to get. Brownells.com, a major online firearms retailer, sells 27 varieties of 30-round magazines for military-style semi-automatic weapons. All 27 are out of stock, and on every page of the store's website, a banner pleads with customers to be patient with delays caused by "extreme order volumes."
Richard Feldman, a former political director for the NRA, thinks the legislative debate should focus more on keeping guns out of the wrong hands and less on trying to identify what is and isn't an assault weapon.
"Let me give you a definition for an assault weapon that works every single time," he said. "Any loaded firearm pointed at me is an assault weapon. And any loaded firearm I have in my hands is a defensive device that I can use to protect myself, my family, my community, and you."


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A World on Two Wheels
Can you imagine a city where bikes rule? Flashback to the Netherlands' vibrant mid-century bike culture.
What if bicycles ruled the road?
In the spirit of National Bike Month, here's a glimpse at what a society based on the power of two wheels looked like—not that long ago. In the Netherlands, in the 1950s, bike culture boomed.
The trend has continued today, making the country one of the most bike-friendly in the world and an inspiring example for an increasingly traffic-choked and fossil fuel-dependent planet.
- :: The Americas have lagged behind Europe in promoting bicycle transportation, but recent government efforts may change that.
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Bring out your inner lab rat: Take this test to find out if you are truly an intelligent design type - or not
As we are already on the subject of psychology and the intelligent design controversy (volunteers are recruited in the post below for an unrelated study): Clinical psychologist Jack Cole offers a simple perceptual test to differentiate between intelligent design types and atheistic naturalists.
Do take Cole's test. He has thought of designing a clinical experiment along these lines, and that would be fun.
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(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - The Dow Jones industrial average surged 286 points, its best day this year.
The Dow jumped 2.4 percent to close Wednesday at 12,415. The gain turned the index positive for the year and erased a 275-point plunge set off by a dismal U.S. jobs report last Friday.
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Vol. LXI, No. 26
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
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Greg O'Neil
As municipal arborist and open space manager for Princeton Township, Greg O'Neil spends more time out and about in Princeton than he does behind his desk at the Department of Public Works on Witherspoon Street. The Boston native and Bridgewater resident typically spends an hour in the office and seven on the road taking care of plantings on Princeton Township's 16 and a half square miles. With an intimate knowledge of the town's flora that includes 13,000 street trees, he is reluctant to pick a favorite species but reveals a fondness for the white oak and for the tree known as the Washington Oak. Since the loss of Princeton's signature Mercer Oak, he has planted many of its descendents around town. Here, in his own words, he describes his work.
You never stop learning about trees. It's a lot like the medical profession very dynamic there's always something new coming down the road. Take the gypsy moth infestation that we discovered last year through the defoliation occurring at the upper canopy. A lot of people thought that it was cicada damage but it was a whole other insect that had reared its head again. There hadn't been a gypsy moth outbreak in Princeton for about 25 years, so this did come as somewhat of a surprise to us. We got caught a little off guard and so this year we decided to be a little more pro-active with spraying. The epicenter of the infestation was in the Riverside area where the egg masses, each with about 500 eggs, hatched on May 11. It put a lot of trees under significant stress. When a tree opens its leaves in the springtime, that takes a tremendous amount of energy, which the tree draws from reserves stored up from the previous season. Those reserves then drop and the tree uses photosynthesis to grow through the season and build up reserves for the next season. If that process is interrupted through defoliation, the tree has difficulties in the following season. It's like not getting enough sleep or not eating enough, you get run down. Now the trees are run down. So if we get a heavy drought, for example, we could be in a very serious situation. To recover from this sort of infestation, it normally takes between five to ten years.
The other problem we have right now primarily affects our oak trees. There is no treatment for bacterial leaf scorch. That's our main nemesis right now. It's not cyclical, so unlike gypsy moths, which will go away for a while, this disease continues. For a tree that is badly affected there's no choice but to remove it. I've been working with Rutgers University Plant Diagnostic Laboratory, and Jim Considine, the grounds manager at the University on this. Jim's a brilliant tree man with a wealth of knowledge.
I've worked for Princeton Township since 1997. Before that I worked for multiple tree companies as a tree climber or crew leader, doing tree removal, insect and disease control, fertilization, pruning, and planting. I'm a New Jersey certified tree expert and a certified arborist through the International Society of Arboriculture. I'm also a graduate of the American Society of Consulting Arborists [a group dedicated to the enhancement of the community and the protection of the environment] and I teach equipment and pesticide safety to people working in the public sector at the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation at Rutgers University.
Typical Day
I'm part of the department of public works and my crews are doing either park maintenance mowing, planting, weed control, work on trails, construction, or tree maintenance normally responsible for tree removal and planting. We normally try to set up for the following day so that we can get landscape or mowing crews out at the start of the workday around 7 a.m. The most challenging part of my job is simply trying to keep up with all the day-to-day activities, to make sure that everything is progressing satisfactorily, that we are keeping our residents happy, and working with them. I receive calls about street trees within the Township's right of way. Either there's a concern over the tree because it doesn't look healthy or because of a landscaping project or a home addition. People will call me and say "I think this tree is dying, can you come and look at it." Approval is needed for tree removal and there are four factors to consider: size, species, condition, and location. Trees 16 inches in caliper are not to be removed without a permit. Location usually plays the biggest role. If a tree has been struck by lightning, for example, it could be hazardous if it is near a house. Species is also important when someone wants to remove a tree to make way for a pool or home-addition. Usually people will work with us, especially when they realize they have a valuable tree on their property, such as a big beautiful white oak. Periodically we have to tell someone they can't take a tree down, if it's perfectly healthy and part of the Princeton streetscape canopy that we try to maintain, for example. We don't want to cause hardship, so we seek alternatives. Each year we do an Arbor Day celebration with the school district. Three years ago we planted cherry trees at Riverside School, replacing trees that had to be removed during renovation. When a storm comes through and a tree blocks a roadway we respond immediately. Typically we've had our worst storms in late summer or early fall. We had one my first year here, a Labor Day storm that came roaring through and wiped out a lot of trees. Birch Avenue was shut down for almost two days and the Battle Road area took a vicious hit. All the wood is recycled, either made into mulch or milled for use as boards on the sides of our trucks.
This is a great community to work for. I get asked a lot of good intelligent questions, sometimes questions that I might not have the answer for and have to go look up. Residents ask about the growth habits of trees, during our road improvement project plantings. People are interested in all facets of what is going on. That makes my job easier, because we want people to feel satisfied with what they are getting. I will tell people to walk around the local nursery and find something that they like and come and tell me about it and we'll put it in. I enjoy working for Princeton. The people are great. I hope to stay here until I retire.
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Respect for Mother Nature
I grew up in Norwood, a suburb of Boston, and I wound up in New Jersey because I fell in love with my wife, Maureen. We met at Marquette University in Milwaukee and I came back with her to New Jersey in 1987. Maureen is a special education teacher for Bernards Township and we have two boys: Connor is 12 and Kyle is 8. My parents James and Patricia still live in Norwood and one or two times a year I get up to the Boston area. I love to spend time on the beach. We go to the Point Pleasant area. We are big Rutgers fans. I've attended a lot of courses there and I teach classes there. I'm a football fanatic Fall is my favorite time of the year because the foliage is changing and it's football season and I coach football and basketball in Bridgewater. I'm a pretty straightforward guy and this line of work is perfect for me. As a kid I was rarely indoors. I thought about being a police officer but when I was 15 I started mowing lawns and got into landscaping. I love being outdoors. That's the best part of my job. It's enjoyable to be outdoors in all kinds of weather. But you have to learn to deal with the elements and work with Mother Nature. You can't work against her, otherwise you get beat.
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Rams Fall in First Round of NCAA's to Gettysburg
Gettsburg College- 68, Farmingdale State - 57
Bethlehem, Pa. - The Farmingdale State women's basketball team saw the best season in program history fall short in the first round of the Division III NCAA Tournament, as Gettysburg College took the 68-57 victory from the Rams on Friday night at Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pa. Senior guard Kim Blakney (Brooklyn, N.Y./Benjamin Banneker) scored a team-high 29 points, 10 rebounds, and six steals as Farmingdale ends the season with a 25-2 overall record.
The lead never changed hands in the game as Gettysburg's
Lauren Dadigan put in the opening bucket 43 seconds in. The Rams
posted the only tie on the ensuing possession before the Bullets
rattled off the next four points to take the lead for good.
Farmingdale State, which came into the game leading the nation in steals and scoring margin, never let up the defensive pressure and pulled to a single point twice in the opening period, the last on a three-pointer by junior guard Janel Monah (Westbury, N.Y./Westbury) which made it 18-17 with 7:17.
The Rams made only one field goal for the remainder of the half, a three-pointer by national scoring leader Kimberly Blakney, and the team only made 6-of-37 shot attempts (16.2 percent) in the opening half. A 7-0 run gave the Bullets an 11-point lead (31-20) at the break.
Gettysburg put up the first six points of the final stanza and opened up a 20-point advantage (47-27) on a three-pointer by Courtney Fields at 12:54. The lead dipped to 13 (50-37) at 10:16, until another 7-0 run capped by a pair of Allie Drechsler free throws regained the 20-point margin (57-37) with 8:35 on the clock.
Minutes later, Blakney almost brought Farmingdale State back from the brink with eight-straight points to slice the margin to nine (61-52) with 3:22 left. Junior Caitlin Moser provided the counter, posting six points in the final three minutes to help stave off the comeback.
The teams combined for 97 rebounds in the contest with Gettysburg holding a 54-43 edge. Farmingdale's pressure resulted in 18 Bullet turnovers, but the Orange and Blue's zone defense resulted in a 19-for-71 effort from the field (26.8 percent) by the Rams. Gettysburg dominated inside action, out-scoring Farmingdale State 34-18 in the paint.
For the Rams, Blakney led the stat sheet, while senior guard
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other with more than five points, putting up 13 and handing out a
team-best four assists.
Moser turned in the greatest single-game in Gettysburg postseason history, posting a career-high 34 points and grabbing 14 boards. Sophomore Julie McGrory posted seven points and five rebounds, while Dadigan finished with six points and six caroms. Fields also posted a double-double with 10 points and 11 boards. Drechsler grabbed a career-high 10 rebounds, scored seven points, dished out five assists, and was Gettysburg's primary ball handler against the Rams' full-court press.
With the victory, Gettysburg (23-4) breaks the school record for
wins and advances to the second round where it will meet either
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Nick and Rachel Whitner announce the birth of their daughter Delia Natalie Whitner on Dec. 30, 2011 at 8:04 a.m. at Macon Medical Center.
Natalie weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces and measured 20 inches long. She joins a brother Holden, 6.
Maternal grandparents are Stephen and Rachel Dunn of Milner and the late Leah Daniel.
Paternal grandparents are LeeAnn and Mark Thompson of Barnesville and David Whitner of Panama City, Fla.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. - Travellers across the country faced days of grief as thousands of flights were cancelled Saturday because of Hurricane Irene.
Airlines scrapped more than 9,000 flights this weekend from North Carolina to Boston, grounding would-be travellers as Irene travelled up the East Coast. There were more than 3,900 cancellations on Saturday alone.
Millions of passengers will be affected by the time the storm finally dies as airlines work to accommodate travellers on very full flights. The biggest airlines, United Continental Holdings Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc., each cancelled thousands of flights.
All New York City-area airports closed to arriving flights at noon on Saturday, when the city's public transportation system shut down. By evening, the five major airports were closed.
Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport were both open Saturday afternoon, but most flights had been cancelled.
The airports that will be most affected Sunday will be Newark Liberty International and New York's John F. Kennedy International, both with more than 1,200 cancellations, according to flight tracking service FlightAware. Boston's Logan and Washington Reagan were next in line.
Airlines have already cancelled dozens of flights on Monday, but all the major U.S. carriers said they would wait to assess damage before cancelling more. ExpressJet, which operates regional flights for United and Continental, has the most cancellations for Monday so far at 140.
Philadelphia International Airport closed altogether at 10:30 p.m. Saturday and planned to stay closed until at least 4 p.m. on Sunday.
The storm's timing was compounding problems. August is a busy month for air travel. The storm was expected to hit the Northeast overnight Saturday and early Sunday, which is the busiest time of the week to fly. Sunday is when many vacationers return from trips and many business travellers leave.
Airlines wouldn't say how many passengers would be affected by the hurricane, but the numbers will likely reach into the millions. That's because so many flights, both domestic and international, make connections through major East Coast hub airports. Even passengers not flying anywhere near the East Coast could be delayed for days as airlines work to get planes and crews back into position.
New York City experienced an unprecedented shutdown of its transit operations, the nation's biggest system of subways, buses and commuter rails ahead of Hurricane Irene. It was unclear when the system will run again. City subways alone carry about 5 million passengers on an average weekday.
Train and bus service was cut back elsewhere. Greyhound suspended service between Richmond, Va., and Boston for the weekend. Amtrak reduced its Northeast schedule Saturday and cancelled all trains from Washington to Boston on Sunday.
Amtrak has five main routes throughout the Northeast, each serving multiple cities, as well as regional service in Virginia. Several long-distance trains to spots like Chicago and Montreal were affected as well.
Public transportation around New Jersey came to a halt, as trains stopped running and incoming flights were suspended at the New York area airports, including Newark Liberty.
Maryland transportation officials closed the Chesapeake Bay bridge when wind gusts reached 82 mph and suspended transit service Saturday evening. The bridge connects Annapolis and the rest of Maryland to the Eastern Shore.
Hurricane-force winds arrived near Jacksonville, N.C., at dawn. Around 7:30 a.m. EDT, the centre of the storm — estimated to be about 500 miles wide — passed over North Carolina's Outer Banks. The hurricane's vast reach traced the East Coast from Myrtle Beach, S.C., to just below Cape Cod. Tropical storm conditions battered Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, with the worst yet to come.
Airlines were most recently hit with a natural disaster last winter, when they cancelled thousands of flights ahead of a pair of massive snowstorms. The storms in December and February led to more than 10,000 cancellations over several days and left many thousands of people stranded at airports.
Airlines have been cutting flights over the last year, resulting in planes flying full or nearly so, in an effort to be more efficient. That makes it harder for stranded passengers to find empty seats on new flights once the weather gets better. Airlines waived ticket-change fees for most East Coast travellers affected by the storm. Some pushed off the $150 penalties for as much as a week to encourage travellers to make new arrangements.
American Airlines spokeswoman Andrea Huguely said the airline cancelled some flights for Monday. The airline, owned by AMR Corp., is aiming to resume flights in North Carolina and Virginia after noon Sunday. She said it wasn't yet clear when flights in and out of New York would resume.
"The one thing about a hurricane is that you can prepare for it and you just have to adapt your plan based on how the storm travels," Huguely said. "It's basically an educated guessing game."
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NL DIVISION SERIES: REDS v PHILLIES
October 8, 2010
Charlie Manuel
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: Game Two
Philadelphia – 7
Cincinnati - 4
THE MODERATOR: Questions for Charlie Manuel.
Q. You always talk about the home-field advantage in this park. How much of that came into play in the 7th inning when their defense seemed to come apart and your team was able to take advantage in that big inning?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Yeah, the park is different. It's different from theirs, and there is a way that you play. Obviously different teams play different especially in the outfield. Tonight they made a lot of mistakes, and we finally started cashing in on some of them. It took us a while. But our ballpark, you know, the mistakes they were making, to me, was pretty basic mistakes.
Q. Your team was always known as living and dying by the long ball. But the latter part of the season and into the playoffs you've won quite a few games without the long ball, playing small ball. Just wondering if you can comment on how that's changed.
CHARLIE MANUEL: Yeah, I think it's changed. A lot of it has to do with the way the pitch is. I think Arroyo showed you that tonight. You know, like the way he approaches it, he throws a lot of soft stuff, and his command was good. Plus, you know, like we were having a hard time with it.
Couple two, three years ago, most teams would have looked at us and they would have said we're going to make the top of the lineup, first two hitters hit fastballs and then we're going to work on Utley and Howard. From there on down, we're going to mix them up, throw them a lot of breaking balls and stuff like that. And they pitch us different.
If you know how to pitch us, then on a given night, you can be very successful.
Q. Dusty said he didn't think Utley was hit by that pitch. What did you see?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Yeah, he got hit. Yeah, he was hit, yeah. He got hit.
Q. How bad was he hit?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Huh?
Q. How bad was he hit?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Bad enough to take his base. So did Francisco, so did Chooch. Chooch might have gotten hit the worst.
Q. For a few innings here, it looked like Chase, might end up talking about him under different circumstances. Can you talk about him as a baseball player beyond the power and all the other stuff?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I don't have to say a whole lot about him. Anybody makes mistakes in this game. You know, when he makes mistakes, I don't worry about them because, you know what, I know there's nobody in the world that's going to work any harder to correct them. That's what I think of him. I don't have to worry at all. If he makes mistakes, and especially errors and stuff, there is nothing, nobody out there trying any harder than him; and I'm not going to bench him. How about that (smiling). Yeah, I'm too old to fight, too?
Q. Roy seemed out of sync tonight. What did you see from him?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Basically I saw his stuff was good. When you say he's out of sync, Phillips had a pretty good night on him. Phillips swung the bat good. But he was aggressive. It was just one of those nights that he gave up what, he gave up a couple home runs and doubled to Phillips. So that ended up being one run. Then Ut made a couple of mistakes and that was their other run.
But he was all right. They scored some runs on him, that's all. I mean, you know.
Q. Coming into the series, Chapman was kind of billed as an X-factor for them. All of the runs he gave up today were unearned. Do you think you guys chipped away at his invincibility, and if you did, how beneficial can that be in the balance of the series?
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think he's got a big arm. I think I like him. He's going to be real good. Of course, he lacks big league experience, but at the same time he's got a high ceiling, and he throws hard and his breaking ball. But at the same time I think of him and when I watch him, to me, and I watch our hitters, he is tremendously good, but at the same time he's also a big challenge for you.
He's also a guy that I would say that you should want to go up there and see if you can hit him. Kind of like Nolan Ryan when he was in his prime. He had real good stuff, and I always thought it was a feather in your hat if you could hit him. But I didn't hit him too good.
Q. A lot has been made of the experience factor in this series. Do you think that kind of showed itself tonight? You guys were able to weather an early storm and take advantage of their mistakes down the stretch.
CHARLIE MANUEL: I think some of their mistakes could have come from experience. But you know what, at the same time, they're a much better team than that. But for four or five innings tonight, they were a good team. I mean, they just started making some mistakes and it caught up with them and the game cost them.
But at the same time they are a good team. They had 92 wins, they won their division. They've got a lot of talent. And you might -- we can go out there two days from now when we play them, and they might play a perfect game as far as defense and stuff, because I've seen them play good. They can turn double-plays as good as anybody in our league. They can play defense.
Q. How is Ruiz?
CHARLIE MANUEL: He's fine. He's okay. He's good.
Q. Get him like right on the kneecap?
CHARLIE MANUEL: Yeah, it's three foot from his heart. He's okay. No, he's okay, really. He's all right (laughing).
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale will pay tribute to its senior class this weekend at Johnson Field, as the Bulldogs host Columbia (Saturday, Noon) and No. 15 BU (Sunday, 2:00 p.m.) in the final home games of the 2012 season.
The senior class -- back Lexy Adams (Lancaster, Pa.), midfielder/back Mary Beth Barham (Fairfax, Va.), goalkeeper Ona McConnell (London, England) and forward Maddy Sharp (San Diego, Calif.) -- has led Yale to 38 victories in the last four years, the third-best total in school history. That includes second-place finishes in the Ivy League each of their first two years, and an Ivy League championship last year. They twice helped Yale set the school record for wins in Ivy League play with six. This class also beat Harvard four times, becoming the first class in school history to do so. They were a part of a nine-game winning streak, and helped Yale earn votes in the national polls in three seasons. They have also helped Yale earn the NFHCA National Academic Team Award each of the past three seasons.
Saturday's game is "Youth Day", and will include a post-game autograph session. The four seniors will be recognized as part of Senior Day ceremonies at Sunday's game.
Yale (4-10, 1-4 Ivy League) dropped a pair of games at Johnson Field last weekend. Entering this weekend, junior midfielder Erica Borgo (Randolph, N.J.) leads the Bulldogs in points (4-2-10). She is currently tied for fourth on Yale's career assists list (26, 18 behind all-time leader Dinah Landshut '12).
Sophomore forward Jessie Accurso (Jamison, Pa.) is second on the team in points (3-1-7). Accurso and Borgo both have five points in the last four games, more than any other Bulldog besides junior forward Brooke Gogel (Bronxville, N.Y.) (3-0-6).
Junior goalkeeper Emily Cain (Laytonsville, Md.) is 12th in the country in saves per game (7.5). She has a .714 save percentage and a 3.83 goals-against average.
Columbia (8-6, 3-2 Ivy League) gave Yale a scare last year in the Bulldogs' second-to-last league game. With the Ivy title within reach, the Bulldogs took a 2-0 lead on goals by Erin Carter '12 and Borgo, but the Lions closed to within 2-1 on a goal by back Desi Scherf 10 minutes into the second half. Yale finally put the game out of reach with a goal by Carter at 50:35. The Bulldogs then beat Brown in the regular season finale to clinch a share of the Ivy championship with Princeton.
Columbia, in its third season under head coach Marybeth Freeman, had a six-game winning streak earlier this year but has dropped four of six since. Forward Gabby Kozlowski is tied for third in the league in goals with nine. Backs Bridget DeSandis and Katie DeSandis are tied for second in the league with nine assists.
BU (10-6, 3-1 America East), which plays Fairfield Saturday, started the season with five straight wins but has dropped six of 11 since. The Terriers are 5-4 vs. ranked teams this season. Goalkeeper Jess Maroney is second in the country in save percentage (.824) and eighth in the country in goals-against average (1.24).
Every goal Yale scores this season brings the world closer to a cure for myotonic dystrophy. Senior goalkeeper Ona McConnell (London, England) has been diagnosed with the disease, the most common form of muscular dystrophy. The Bulldogs are taking pledges for a season-long "Goal-a-thon" as part of their "Get a Grip" campaign to raise awareness and funds for the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation. For more information, visit http://www.yalebulldogs.com/getagrip
- Columbia Statistics
- BU Statistics
- Live Stats Saturday vs. Columbia, 12:00 p.m. and Sunday vs. BU, 2:00 p.m.
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Report by Sam Rubin '95 (firstname.lastname@example.com), Yale Sports Publicity