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Ello darlings,
I have, like many of you I'm sure had dozens of very intense religious debates with friends and family. I've come to realize something, which I haven't ever witnessed either Sam, or hitchens or Dawkins mention.
Religious people are in love with their God.
It's obvious they love their God, but I think it goes much further than that. They are in love like a teenager falls in love, totally and utterly and be damned the consequences or opinions of others. They say love is blind, but the bigger truth is that it's also blind and deaf, and if you will pardon the expression, partially retarded as well.
I have wondered to myself since I had this rather minor revelation, how someone like Sam Harris would use a point like this ( if he even would consider it a valid point…lol). How do you deal with a friend who is so obviously in love with the wrong person? We all know the futility of trying to "debate" a person out of their faith. It just doesn't stick. You can throw all the dates and research and modern ethical/philosophical notions at them like you can muster… and they will still hug their loved God to their chests, fiercely defensive and always loyal.
I watch talks by Sam and Hitchens and Dawkins, and all three of them are brilliant in their own way but none of them seem to put their ideas across in a way that is understanding of how the religious people of this world feel about their faith. Perhaps Sam does to some extent with his acceptance of spiritual ideals and practices..but I feel it's not enough.
Anyhoo, this is my first post in these forums..so hello to everyone!
Hey Lexie,
thanks for your reply. I agree with you that there are many factors that contribute to the existence of religions, the 5 you posted being good examples. I suppose my initial post wasn't about why there is religion, or what causes it but more about why it's so hard to disengage someone from a system of faith once they are "romantically attached".
The way many people I've met defend their faith and become flustered and very emotional if you dare question it, reminds me quite acutely of romantic love, and the firely passion is brings out in folks.
We may indeed be genetically disposed to having faith, but then switching from faith in one thing to another should be fine, so long as that need is being met. This rarely happens.
The social factor you mentioned is probably the biggest one, I think in terms of sheer day to day pressure.


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Sibshops: Workshops for Siblings of Children with Special Needs
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Children who have brothers and sisters with special needs have needs of their own - needs that are often overlooked. This practical resource details Sibshops, the award-winning program that brings together 8- to 13-year-olds to express their good - and maybe not so good - feelings about having brothers and sisters with disabilities. And because Sibshops provide support and information in a recreational atmosphere, siblings have fun while they learn.
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It is this newly displaced population that is likely to determine the future complexion of the region. In Eclipse of the Sunnis, Deborah Amos gives voice to the experience of exile and the ongoing trauma of the dispossessed and displaced. She shows how individual stories have combined to create a new political dynamic in the Middle East.
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Time really is not as big and expansive as we think it is. Nor is it as harsh and cruel as to be feared. It is as natural as breathing. There is
no tragedy in the march of time. To me it is almost hauntingly beautiful.
Reading and learning of my own ancestors at the end of the 1700's brings the realization that people really do not change. Time only silences those who have gone before so that we walk the path a little more on our own. It gives us a better chance to prove what we are made of. There is no doubt that we will meet those quieted again.
Today provided an opportunity for reflection. I feel as close as I ever have to some of my beloved family. In fact, I think time has only increased the desire to see and meet up with them again. The greatest solace is when they are present but nothing more. It increases all the hopes and passion to drive for more holy and better things. Death is purely beautiful.
Those three dear centarians are closer to the veil in their every day walk. They could easily pass through at any moment. But that is true of all of
us. Somehow though, it shows on their face and their demeanor. That brings and gives a reverence for those who glimpse that.
Life is big. Life is large. Life is grand. There is so much of goodness and beauty all around.
In my ode to Sunday School, I wonder where these three souls would be had we not had Sunday School. Having played my part, I think I value Sunday School the most of all the meetings. Perhaps I just don't grasp the meaning of the rest. Sacrament was something you sort of feared as a missionary. Priesthood was something that never seemed to be totally taken seriously. But Sunday School has a mingling and seeking that brought it more home. I find myself preparing for Sunday School where I cannot for Sacrament. Priesthood as a rule seems to read from the book, I do that at home. But Sunday School….
I hope and pray to live older than 100. I would like to see the 300th birthday of our country and the 250th of the church. At current age levels,
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I have an external font and be able to use it in my documents on my desktop computer with MiKTeX 2.9.
Now I try to use the same font with portable MiKTeX 2.9. The external font is located in my local TeXFM. With normal MiKTeX I need to call
initexmf --edit-config-file updmap
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updmap.cfg for inserting
Map thefont.map. Portable MiKTeX (starting from the Command Prompt you get from the taskbar entry for MiKTeX portable) opens the system
updmap.cfg in
<portable-MiKTeX>\miktex\config, which is changed always you update portable MiKTeX.
It is a quick and very dirty workaround to change the system file until the next update, but how can I tell portable MiKTeX to use the external font and remember it over the next update?
For me this is an unwanted behavior, I would tend to see it as a bug.


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5 Affirmations for a Discouraged Spirit
By Maureen Pratt
Sometimes, we are our worst critic. Whether at work, home, or in a social setting, the lens we train on ourselves can be brutally harsh. Before we know it, the faults we find in our actions, words, even our appearance, can weigh us down. Our spirit suffers. We can feel very, very discouraged and hesitate to try again, if we've failed, or forge into new friendships, jobs, or situations that could be very beneficial - if we felt more resilient. Here are five powerful affirmations for when our spirit is discouraged, and we feel unworthy of the things we would most want to have, achieve, and be.


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In 1989 three American converts to Islam joined together to form Saheeh International. Initially established to edit Islamic literature in English submitted by authors to Dar Abul-Qasim of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, shortly thereafter the group began to produce material of its own as well. Their most notable work was published in 1997 – a translation of the Qur'an's meanings. Numerous scholars now regard it as one of the most accurate Qur'an translations available. Another highly acclaimed book by Saheeh International is Clear Your Doubts About Islam: 50 Answers to Common Questions, which is now being used as part of the da'wah training program at GainPeace.com in the USA.
Executive Director: Amatullah J. Bantley was born in Rochester, Minnesota in 1966 and holds a degree in Business Management. She embraced Islam at the age of 20 and moved to Jeddah a year later. In 1995 she founded The Path to Knowledge, the exclusive distributor for Dar Abul-Qasim publications in the USA for five years. When the previous owner closed Dar Abul-Qasim in 2005 due to poor health, Amatullah aspired to reopen it in hopes of sharing the knowledge she had learned while working with the publisher. After overcoming many obstacles, she obtained ownership in 2007 and now hopes to bring Dar Abul-Qasim into the international arena, concentrating on authentic, well-written Islamic reading material.
Author & Translator: Umm Muhammad, Aminah Assami was born in southern California in 1940 and embraced Islam in 1974 in Syria after completing intensive Arabic language courses. In 1981 she moved to Saudi Arabia, and has taught classes in tafseer and basic fiqh at the Islamic Cultural Center in Jeddah since 1991. She has authored and/or revised more than 80 Islamic books in English, mostly for Dar Abul-Qasim. Her precise translation skills and effective writing style has gained her an impressive reputation appreciated by a dedicated reading audience. Some of her bestselling titles are The Global Messenger, Realities of Faith, The Path to Prayer, The Marriage Procedure in Islam, The Forty Hadith of al-Iman an-Nawawi (in which each hadith is accompanied by explanatory notes), and From the Guidance of Surah Ya Seen.
English Editor: Mary M. Kennedy was born in Orlando, Florida in 1965 and graduated from The Florida State University in 1986 with an English/Business Pre-Law major. She embraced Islam in 1985 and moved to Jeddah in early 1987, where she currently resides. Her expertise in the English language has been a valuable asset to the team's production of appealing literature. Having been on leave for several years, she returned at the beginning of 2009 to continue her work with Saheeh International.


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The only point in clarifying the response chain is because you acted as if I were supposed to be defending ucim's viewpoint. I'm not. My viewpoint is different, and I have no interest in defending that particular chain in reasoning. I am happy to discuss inequality, as I have repeatedly in this thread, you just seemed to have strange ideas regarding what I was talking about. So, I clarified. Is this enough meta-conversation, or are you going to stall still further? I believe I last discussed the incredible lack of real world evidence in favor of a Citizen's Wage, and pointing out that observing that inequality exists is not sufficient to support this as a superior solution. Have you come up with data to support some universal income scheme being better than other forms of safety nets?
I mean, if there's absolutely no data, then I guess, continue with the ad hominems, I suppose. Looks like it's the best you've got.
Trebla wrote:Tyndmyr wrote:The general thrust of the conversation thus far has been that we should convert over to a citizen's wage in preparation for these technological developments or because it is a better system than current social welfare systems, depending on who is doing the arguing. In either case, a pro-active approach is being argued for, not merely that it is the inevitable result of the passage of time, etc.
If it's inevitable, it seems like a proactive approach would mitigate the difficulties that some people would feel when getting to that as a balance in an "after-the-fact" fashion. If we can meaningfully predict (big IF, I know) that automation is going to cause the loss of ~3M jobs between 2021 and 2025 in the trucking industry alone (even if just temporarily while new industries arise around them), then I don't see why we wouldn't consider a citizen's wage (as well as other options) proactively to deal with a problem even if we don't technically have the problem yet.
Back to futurism, we don't need a driverless society to switch to driverless trucking. The segments of the population that see the greatest benefit (i.e., trucking) will be the first to move into the technology. So while it may take 100 years to truly get to a driverless society, it takes significantly less to supplant the trucking industry. (I kind of hate that I used this as an example since it's not the only industry that will likely get redefined in unprecedented ways by automation).
The precise example isn't critical, I think, we can swap that out if a different one works better.
The inevitability of it seems doubtful. It hasn't arisen as a system in any country yet, I think it's awfully premature to insist that it'll inevitably arise in them all. Hell, even though democracy has had a pretty good run, it's been around a long time, and isn't universal yet. I think very few social changes actually are inevitable, and social change can often be particularly slow. I'm not sure that forcing it to happen early is necessarily advantageous, either. Even if future changes would make something optimal in the future, that doesn't make it optimal now.
Sure, being able to predict job losses is great, but nothing about a CW grants us additional predictive power. Nor does it establish why a CW is the proper solution to use for the problem. It's a solution seeking a problem. People have invented this system that seems really nifty, and are casting about for a reason to use it. I am as skeptical of that as I would be a salesman who walks up to my door, certain that his product is the cure for whatever ails me. The step about comparing a CW to existing solutions usually seems to be skimmed over, and it seems like you'd want to establish that fairly well to justify restructuring society and employment in a pretty major way.


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Extend controller of a standard SAP Fiori app
You will learn
In this tutorial you will learn how to extend the controller of a standard SAP Fiori app. The app that you will extended in this tutorial is "My Leave Requests". The key steps are:
- Start the extension using the extension pane in SAP Web IDE
- Locate the controller to extend
- Test the app
If you've already worked through the tutorial Hide view element from a standard SAP Fiori app you can skip the steps 1 to 6. Please make sure that you have worked through the tutorial Getting started with the SAP Fiori, Demo Cloud Edition. Log into the SAP Fiori Demo Cloud Edition and locate the group Human Capital Management. Click on the My Leave Requests tile.
Open the Standard app and familiarize yourself with how it appears. To start extending the app click on the gear wheel icon on the top right beside your name and choose Develop Apps:
You will be forwarded to a screen called "Create App Extension" where you find instructions for the next steps. Click the Launch SAP Web IDE button. You may have to click this button twice as the new tab may remain empty on the first attempt.
You have to login to the SAP Cloud Platform. Please provide your credentials and then click Login.
Click OK to accept the project name.
The SAP Web IDE is launched with your extension project created.
With your extension project folder selected, the graphical extensibility pane is the easiest way to preview the app and extend it. Start it via Tools > Extensibility Pane.
- In order to select the view/control to extend, change from Preview Mode to Extensibility Mode.
The first step is to find the extension point for the user selecting a date. In the Outline pane filter for Show extensible elements.
Drill down to Controllers > S1 and select
extHookTapOnDate. Right-click on it and select Extend UI Controller Hook.
A notification that the extension code stub was generated appears. This time open the extension code directly by clicking on Open Extension Code.
The extension code is displayed in the Editor panel.
S1Custom.controller.js, replace the hook implementation comment // Place your hook implementation code here with the code below.
var arr = this.cale.getSelectedDates();
if (arr.length === 1) {
} else if (arr.length > 1) {
var index = arr.length - 1;
var orderedArr = [];
for (var date in arr) {
sap.m.MessageToast.show(new Date(orderedArr[0]).toDateString() + " - " + new Date(orderedArr[index]).toDateString());
Then, right-click somewhere in the white space of the editor pane and select Beautify.
Save your edits and again note that the asterisk ( * ) on the filename goes away after you click Save.
Test out your changes by selecting the
index.html file and clicking the Run icon.
A new browser tab is opened with the application running.
Test it with one date, by clicking on a single day and notice the toast displayed at the bottom of the screen.
Test it with a date range by clicking on another day (the second date can be before or after the first date selected).
Congratulations, you've successfully extended a controller of a SAP Standard Fiori app.
Step 1: Log into the SAP Fiori Demo Cloud Edition
Step 2: Open the Standard app
Step 3: Launch SAP Web IDE
Step 4: Log into the SAP Cloud Platform
Step 5: Open the graphical extensibility pane
Step 6: Switch view to extensibility mode
Step 7: Show extensible elements
Step 8: Extend UI controller hook
Step 9: Open extension code
Step 10: Replace comment with code
Step 11: Beautify the code
Step 12: Save your edits
Step 13: Run code to test
Step 14: Test with single date
Step 15: Test with date range
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Google Launches Consumer Surveys
Google has announced a new product named Google Consumer Surveys.
It is Google's version of offering market research in a "fast, accurate, and affordable" manner. You can create a fast survey and within minutes already get responses from people all over the world. Google works with publishers to embed these surveys on their sites, almost like they do with ads, and pay publishers a percentage of what Google charges the business for the survey.
Saturday, I received an email from a friend asking me about an ad they saw on synonym.com. It wasn't an ad, but it seemed to be powered by Google. I asked Google about it but never heard back. Now I know why. These ads are indeed not ads but rather Google Surveys.
As you can see, they are embeds on a site that are interactive micro-surveys. Google said they are working with several publishers including this one and The Texas Tribune, the Star Tribune and Adweek. If you are a publisher and want to participate, fill out this form.
Google charges $0.10 per response for the general US population or $0.50 per response for custom audiences. They share that with the publishers running these surveys.
Matt Cutts of Google ran a survey asking what percent of people in the US have heard of SEO? He published a couple of the reports:
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22 of the best budget signature guitars
22 great budget signature guitars
"IT WILL be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine." No sentence in popular culture sums up the act of guitar lust as well as Wayne Campbell's declaration from 21 years ago.
The Olympic White "Excalibur" Fender Strat in Wayne's World may not have been a signature model per se, but it was a definite nod to Jimi's Woodstock Strat, and that's an important point to remember.
All guitar purchases stem from somewhere.
It starts with the idolising of your favourite player, continues with the beg-borrow-steal mentality of saving every last penny you can to cop a piece of their style, and ends... well, it never really ends. But what if it didn't have to be quite as hard as this?
The good news is that it doesn't. Thanks to progress, it's now possible to buy extremely decent gear at extremely decent prices, and that extends to budget versions of your favourite guitarist's iconic axe.
You might be wondering how we chose our list: firstly, the guitar has to be available as a current model; and secondly, it has to be 'affordable'. Granted, that's a pretty loose term, but we're starting at a big fat zero, and setting a ceiling street price of around a grand.
Set your mouth to 'drool', and prepare to make a shopping list. Reading this is gonna cost you (an affordable amount).
Epiphone Zakk Wylde Les Paul Custom Plus Bullseye
The former Ozzy axeman is all about three things: brutal riffs, beards and bullseyes.
The latter makes a starring appearance on Wylde's iconic Les Paul, which has appeared in Camo and Buzzsaw forms, but perhaps the most faithful in this price bracket is Epiphone's Les Paul Custom Plus Bullseye.
Here, you get that essential finish in Antique Ivory, plus Grover machineheads and Zakk's preferred EMG 81/85 pickup combo – bullseye indeed.
LTD SCT-607B Stephen Carpenter
The Deftones riff merchant has a huge range of ESP/LTD axes, from six-strings to eight-strings and everything in between.
However, we're particularly taken with this T-type seven-string baritone. Stef's made some wise decisions with the hardware, which includes EMG 81-7 humbuckers, 24 frets and locking tuners, while the 686mm (27-inch) makes it ideal for those low tunings that Stef just couldn't get enough of – until he got his hands on a few eight-strings.
Brian May Signature
The Queen guitarist's main instrument – that he used on all but two of the band's recordings – is one of rock's most iconic squeezes and the fact that he and his father made the entire thing virtually from scratch in a shed at the bottom of the family garden almost beggars belief.
Fans had been reduced to putting together their own versions of what is affectionately known as the Red Special, and with widely differing results. Brian actually has a small collection of the better submissions at his home, but the world was crying out for an official model.
May had dallied with the likes of Guild and Burns, who produced the first BM signatures at a number of price points to rave reviews before the relationships turned sour (something about inconsistencies in quality), and finally, in 2004, the fully sanctioned guitar hit the streets.
Loaded with the same TriSonic pickups and switching system as the original, it's very close to the Red Special in both tone and feel, even though it boasts a slightly slimmer neck and modernised vibrato.
The incarnation with the Antique Cherry finish is easily the most authentic, but maybe think twice before opting for the all-black Metal May.
Washburn N2
Nuno Bettencourt made such a reputation with Boston rock funkateers Extreme that no less than pop megastar Rihanna hired him to melt the frets as part of her touring band. Thanks to him, Rhi-Rhi's show rocks most satisfactorily.
Nuno's original axe, apocryphally put together from Schecter parts, is about as road-worn as guitars get, and it sounds amazing. The nicely priced N2 is very close to it in spec, vibe and feel. Funky!
Dimebag Dean From Hell
Ever since Pantera's glam-metal days, Dimebag had been keen for Dean, and the most iconic guitar on his guitar stand is the anything-but-subtle lightning bolt'd Dean From Hell, as wielded on the cover of Cowboys From Hell.
The guitar is based on Dean's ML series, but Dime had the bridge cavity routed to take a Floyd Rose vibrato, and fitted a Bill Lawrence L-500XL pickup in the bridge position. Today's models are similarly spec'd – and also come from hell, of course.
LTD KH-25 Kirk Hammett
Almost as synonymous with Metallica's lead machine as the wah pedal, Kirk's ESP axes have toured the world with him for over 25 years.
To celebrate this milestone, in 2012 LTD unveiled the KH-25, a budget version of Kirk's touring guitar with a number of faithful touches.
Dings, replica nstickers and skull and crossbone inlays are standard – the only differences are in the hardware department, with a Floyd Rose Special vibrato and ESP ALH-200 active humbuckers replacing the KH-2's Floyd Rose original and EMG 'buckers. It's still some kind of monster, though!
Fender Jim Adkins JA-90 Telecaster Thinline
Jimmy Eat World's frontman caused emo kids to cheer up worldwide by announcing his signature Fender Tele.
Jim had previously been playing a double- cut TC90 Thinline, which, like his signature model to-be, featured a semi-hollow ash body and soapbar pickups.
Jim's signature model has Seymour Duncan soapbars for the fine balance of punch, clarity and weighty tone. Adkins' TC90 is available in three fetching finishes: Natural, Transparent Ebony and a Transparent Crimson.
Sterling Petrucci JP60
Low on smiles but high on flurries of notes, Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci is a well established member of the Music Man family, and his new 13 model has just hit both the streets and fans' wallets.
The guitars are universally droolsome, but do cost a pretty penny, and MM's offshoot brand Sterling provide guitars of a similar ilk at the fraction of the price.
The spec of the JP60 is just about close enough to the full-on JPX6, but with the JP13 costing around £2,659, the compromise starts to look rather attractive.
Epiphone Tom Delonge Riviera ES-333
Back when Blink-182 had as many dick jokes in their songs as they did in their onstage banter, Tom was best known for his signature Fender Strats.
However, as he turned serious with Box Car Racer and Blink's self-titled 2004 album, he worked with Gibson to craft a new take on the semi-hollow ES-333, with a big ol' racing stripe down the middle of its brown finish.
Like his Strats, the ES-333 features just one pickup and one volume control, but this time that pickup is an overwound Gibson USA Dirty Fingers humbucker. This Epi version is faithful to Tom's original.
Fender Jim Root Telecaster
When you're playing gigs with Slipknot and Stone Sour, you need a guitar that can not only bring the riffs, but withstand a beating, too.
Jim's takes on the traditional Strat and Tele fuse a few Gibson- esque traits with the Fender designs. So, there's a heavyweight mahogany body to contend with, plus an EMG 81/60 humbucker pairing, contrasted by a 648mm (25.5-inch) scale length and classic headstocks. Squier makes a budget version of Jim's Tele, too, but we'd stretch for the Fender.
PRS SE Mikael Åkerfeldt
For a player who stretches his formidable fretting hand between the tones of death metal and folk in Swedish progressives Opeth, Mikael's signature model had to be a flexible steed.
A 24-fret Singlecut is a rare brown beast in itself, and the bridge HFS humbucker can deal out everything from twang to meaty rhythm.
Squier J Mascis Jazzmaster
Here are a few things you need to know about Dinosaur Jr's frontman: 1) he's one of the loudest guitarists on the planet; 2) he owns more Big Muffs than you; and 3) his Squier Jazzmaster is a monster of a signature model.
"The Jazzmaster is just the first guitar I really had, and I learned how to play on it," Mascis explains. "I kind of built my sound around it. So I'm just used to it, I guess. Now, when I hear it against other guitars like a Strat, it sounds like it has a little bit more. It's not as trebly or thin.
"People first thought it was weird playing distorted music with a Jazzmaster because they only thought of surf and stuff with them," he adds. "But by now it's become pretty accepted that they can make a lot of noise also."
This isn't J's first signature model, though. Back in 2007, Fender launched the Purple Sparkle beast that was J's first signature model, but after some persistence from J, the company agreed to launch the more wallet-friendly Squier version you see here.
"First, I had the Fender [signature model] but still I always wanted something cheap that people could buy," Mascis explains. "The Fender one started out at, like, $900 and they kept raising it and suddenly it was, like, $1,200 or something and so I was interested in the Squier and finally persuaded them to let me do a Squier one."
As is common with Fender's offset designs, the bridge has been replaced with an Adjusto-Matic model, but otherwise all of the classic Jazzmaster appointments – single-coil Jazzmaster pickups, rhythm/lead circuit, floating vibrato and three-way pickup switch – are present.
The whole thing is finished with a blingy White/Gold paintjob and scratchplate, and will appeal to players outside of Dinosaur Jr's remit. If you look around, you'll bag one of these for just over £350, making this a retro-junkie's dream.
Ibanez Premium UV70P
Step back a few years and mention seven-string guitars, and you'd be met by some dude with dreadlocks and an eyebrow ring telling you why guitar solos suck.
To be fair, you can ignore the watered-down soundalikes and skip straight to Munky and Head's groundbreaking guitar work on Korn's first three albums, carried out under the influence of Steve Vai's signature guitar.
Seven-strings are hotter than ever right now, and it's all thanks to the Universe – the first mass-produced seven-string electric guitar. The first iteration of Vai's seven-string collaboration with Ibanez, the UV7, was launched in 1990.
It was available in three finishes: a Multi-Coloured Swirl (as seen on the cover of Passion And Warfare), White, and the most coveted fan-favourite, Black and Green. It's the 'Green Dot' or 'Green Meanie' finish that Ibanez has gone with for the latest version, the sub-£1,100 UV70P.
"Basically, the initial idea of the UV70P project came out of a discussion with Steve," says Ibanez's Mike Taft. "Because of the surge in popularity of the seven- string guitar in the last few years, particularly in the extreme and technical metal genres, Steve felt it was a good time to take a fresh look at the Universe. [The UV7BKs] are sought after by many fans, so based on the success of the Premium JEM70V model, we made the new Universe a Premium model to make it as affordable as possible, but still retain the quality."
The striking look is set off by the green inlays, logo controls and pickup bobbins. It's pushing the top-end of our price limit, but the spec sheet confirms you're getting an extremely high quality, yet still affordable tribute to the original.
There's the titanium reinforced Wizard-7 neck, DiMarzio Blaze pickups, Edge-Zero II-7 vibrato, and, of course, that finish.
Jackson Adrian Smith SDX
Got gallop? If not, you soon will have. Adrian's full-fat Jackson was actually modelled on a Fender.
"Grover Jackson came to a lot of the shows with different prototype guitars for me to try," he says. "I had a 50s Fender Strat that I liked, so he took measurements from that and it formed the basis for the [signature] model."
In 2012, Jackson unleashed the cut-price SDX version of the Maiden man's San Dimas model. But wait! What about the spec differences? Okay, so you get a basswood body instead of alder, own-brand pickups instead of DiMarzio/ Samarium aftermarket models, and a Floyd Rose Special rather than a 'real' one.
But you need to put down the spec sheet, stop listening with your eyes and trust us – it doesn't matter. You still get the fundamentals of Adrian's guitar, with the all- important compound radius neck, HSS pickup configuration and the (in reality) rock-solid Floyd.
When we reviewed it in 2012, we were bowled over, describing it as "a bit of a game changer in the sub-£500 guitar market. The SDX could convince you it's worth double the street price: no small feat." Do yourself a solid and try this guitar.
PRS Mark Tremonti SE
"Creed? But I hate them!" Silence, idiot, for you're missing out. Mr T's signature has become a modern mid-price single-cut classic when it comes to providing tones for the heavier side of rock or the lighter side of metal.
That sleek 'bevelled mahogany' body looks and feels the business, and the Wide Fat neck profile combines with PRS's usual 635mm (25-inch) scale-length (pitched directly between traditional Fender and Gibson scales) for the perfect mixture of speed, tension and tone.
Two humbuckers, two volumes and two tone controls means you're as well stocked as ever with this type of guitar. We like the solid vibe of the original version (available in Black or Vintage Cherry), but if you're after a little more luxury, take a look at Mark's latest SE Custom model, which adds a flame-maple cap, SE-245 Humbuckers, a PRS vibrato and a thinner neck profile.
Don't let the price tag fool you, either. We've seen these guitars used on stage by 'proper' bands in 'proper' venues. You'll be hard-pushed to find a better single-cut for the money.
Fender Chris Shiflett Telecaster
Part punk, part honky-tonk twanger and very much a crucial member of one of the biggest rock bands in the world, Chris Shiflett is a versatile guitarist with a signature model to match.
It's based on Chris's 'Shifty' Telecaster, which isn't actually a Fender, but rather put together with Warmoth parts. "I wouldn't even say that I actually ever dreamt of having a signature guitar, because that just seems silly, it's like, ridiculous, you know?" Chris told Fender.com.
"A lot of my favourite guitar players played Telecasters through the years... you see a picture of Joe Strummer and he's playing a Tele and it had that cool vibe to it. [Fender] said, 'Hey, we noticed you've been using those parts guitars out there. Would you be interested in a signature model?' The obvious choice was something based on what I'd actually been using."
The production model is a no- nonsense electric, providing a solid base for gigging players. "It's got a rosewood fretboard, and we did a four-bolt neck [plate] instead of the usual three-bolt," he says. "The pickups are hotter humbuckers and, of course, you know, it's got my name scribbled on the back!"
Squier Simon Neil Stratocaster
Few rock players have emerged in the last decade with as much personality and tonal muscle as Biffy's frontman and Simon Neil, who continues to amaze listeners by making such a huge racket with single-coil pickups.
Simon's signature is based on his Fender Custom Shop Time Machine 60s Strat, and this Classic Vibe-derived model is loaded with great looking vintage-esque features like the tinted neck, three-ply mint green scratchplate, Custom-Vintage-Style single coils and the Fiesta Red finish.
The idea came about when Fender's Neil Whitcher suggested a signature model: "Neil came up with the idea just before we were making [Only Revolutions] and we were delighted. My very first guitar was a Squier, so it's come full circle. For us, it was basically getting the best possible guitars for a reasonably cheap price. We've used these guitars live and they sound absolutely amazing."
It's a versatile guitar that'll work for plenty of styles from blues to funk, to Biffy's own brand of riffy rock. You're getting a far bigger slice of Fender tone and aesthetic than you have any right to at this price.
G&L Tribute Jerry Cantrell Rampage
Jerry's love for G&L is well known, and the Tribute Series Rampage offers the foundation of his sound.
Like Jerry's stage axe, it's a stripped-back guitar with one pickup (a Jerry Cantrell Alnico V humbucker), one volume control, and a Kahler X-Trem. We'd suggest the Ivory finish, but it also comes in a Gloss Black. If you're a fan of Jerry's meaty sound but find yourself down in a hole financially, this is the guitar for you.
Ibanez Paul Gilbert FRM100
We out a little bit of wee when we first got wind of this model. It happened by accident when we received a press release about Paul Gilbert's then-new DiMarzio Injector pickups – usually enough of an announcement to get us excited on their own – but what grabbed our attention was the guitar they were fitted into.
Gilbert went on to explain further: "This is my newest and most favourite Fireman, and I've heard a rumour that they [Ibanez] are gonna mass-produce them. The first Fireman was an incredibly cool guitar, but although I love it, it was really expensive, so I wanted to make one that's more affordable for you."
It may have taken longer than we'd hoped to surface (about 18 months longer), but last year the wait was finally over, as the FRM100 landed on our desk. The cut-price Fireman doesn't disappoint: a sturdy mahogany body, fixed Tight-Tune bridge and set neck lay the foundation for Paul's single coils, delivering on their promise of a noise-free, modern single-coil sound for shredders.
Whether you can sweep pick or not, the reverse Iceman shape combined with the Transparent Red finish makes this a fine-looking axe. Paul Gilbert is one hell of a player, and this is one hell of a signature guitar at a bargain price.
Ibanez Paul Gilbert FRM100
We out a little bit of wee when we first got wind of this model. It happened by accident when we received a press release about Paul Gilbert's then-new DiMarzio Injector pickups – usually enough of an announcement to get us excited on their own – but what grabbed our attention was the guitar they were fitted into.
Gilbert went on to explain further: "This is my newest and most favourite Fireman, and I've heard a rumour that they [Ibanez] are gonna mass-produce them. The first Fireman was an incredibly cool guitar, but although I love it, it was really expensive, so I wanted to make one that's more affordable for you."
It may have taken longer than we'd hoped to surface (about 18 months longer), but last year the wait was finally over, as the FRM100 landed on our desk. The cut-price Fireman doesn't disappoint: a sturdy mahogany body, fixed Tight-Tune bridge and set neck lay the foundation for Paul's single coils, delivering on their promise of a noise-free, modern single-coil sound for shredders.
Whether you can sweep pick or not, the reverse Iceman shape combined with the Transparent Red finish makes this a fine-looking axe. Paul Gilbert is one hell of a player, and this is one hell of a signature guitar at a bargain price.
LTD Snakebyte
Yes, we could have gone with Jaymez's Truckster, and LTD doesn't make an affordable Iron Cross, but we actually think that the classic Hetfield is the Hetfield holding an X-shape.
Just in time for the Big Four shows in 2011, the man with the most reliable right hand in metal set his mind towards creating a brand-new signature model with ESP. Based on that shape, Het snipped a bit of the arse-end, introduced some curves to the slab body and smashed his trusted combination of EMG 81/60 pickups into it.
The result? One of the coolest signature models in metal. It's a relatively simple animal – one volume and one tone control, 22 XJ frets and a three-position switch – and the finish options are either White or Black, but it's built for huge riffing, crystal cleans and speedy leads.
The SRP is out of our 'budget' bracket, but this is the real world, where you can bag one for well under a grand. Chhhhyeauuuuuh!
Fender Kurt Cobain Jaguar
The Jagstang had Kurt's direct input; his Competition Mustang featured in the Smells Like Teen Spirit video; and the Vandalism black Strat was the most punk. But as far as desirability goes, Kurt Cobain's '65 Jaguar comes top of the heap.
The story goes that around the time of the 1991 Nevermind sessions, Cobain bought his Jag from a classified ad in the LA Recycler. The identity of the seller is unknown, but the guitar came in a roadworthy Anvil tour case, with a plethora of mods carried out by the previous owner.
The curiosities start with the 'Spaghetti' Fender logo (out of use by 1965), Strat-sized headstock and small Jaguar lettering, which, according to Fender, are freak original features, maybe due to a shortage in left-handed necks, rather than modifications.
Next up are the DiMarzio Humbuckers: a PAF in the neck and Super Distortion in the bridge. The Jaguar slide-switches were swapped for a three-position toggle (mounted to the horn), and the bridge was replaced by a black chrome Gotoh model.
Fender's replica includes all of this, but the beauty of the guitar is brought out by the finish. Cobain's Jag had undergone its share of abuse over the years – it had a melon smashed into it, was slammed into the ground, and was even used as a weapon against security at the Trees Club in Texas.
The age of the guitar and the punishment it underwent meant that the red colour of the Three-Tone Burst finish had faded. Fender has matched the tone of the paintwork, and authentically relic'd the guitar with dings and a patina that could fool even the most well-trained eyes.
With a full-whack price tag of around £1,300, it's a stretch to call this a budget model, but with street prices just tipping a grand, and given the fact that a real 65 Jag would cost you a lot more than this, we're allowing it into our list.
EVH Striped Series
You know this guitar. You may also know that the last (and extremely faithful) replica of Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein in 2007 cost $32,000.
They were so limited that by the time you could fill out the forms to simultaneously re-mortgage, sell your nan's kidney and get divorced, these puppies were already off the market.
Well, it might not be quite the heavy relic that Eddie built, but this guitar is close enough. It's the most anticipated rock guitar of the year – if not decade – and it can be yours in a choice of three striped finishes for less than half-a-grand. Let's start at the beginning...
The Frankenstein has been Ed's number one guitar since he put it all together from parts sourced largely from Wayne Charvel's San Dimas repair store. Legend has it that he literally had to trawl through a pile of blanks until he found two that he just felt went together.
"You know, I bought a body from them for 50 bucks and a neck for 80 bucks, slapped it together, put an old Gibson pickup in it, and it's my main guitar," said Ed at the time. "Painted it up, you know, with stripes and stuff. I guess that's my thing."
The Frankenstein's hardware was stripped from a vintage Strat Eddie had bought previously during his time with various high school bands.
"[The vibrato] was actually from my old '58 Strat: I took the tailpiece out. Like with new Fenders, the vibrato tailpiece isn't half as good as the original old ones. So I took that out..."
Eddie's guitar features a humbucker that's shrouded in confusion – it came from a Gibson ES-335 and was fitted into Frankenstein for use on Van Halen's first album, but Ed subsequently used the guts of that same PAF to rewind – by hand – a DiMarzio unit.
"Yeah, a DiMarzio with a PAF magnet, rewound with copper tape around the windings," Ed confirmed. "Well, I dipped it in paraffin [wax] before I put the copper tape on. I mean, you have to be really careful with the plastic. It looks like a wrinkled prune, actually, but it still works."
By his own admission, Eddie had fallen in love with using vibrato but found that – perhaps unsurprisingly – it was very difficult to keep the guitar in tune. As a result, he was forced to go looking for some solutions.
The list of these included hand-stretching the strings while playing after using the whammy bar, boiling his strings to remove their elasticity, carefully stringing the guitar so that the ball end wasn't in any way twisted and having as shallow an angle as possible over the nut – so much so that Ed found he'd actually have to pop the strings back into the slots while playing.
Then along came a young American innovator by the name of Floyd Rose... And Eddie was set up.
"The Floyd Rose thing is a real good idea," confirmed Ed at the time. "My brother actually had the exact same idea years ago. He said, 'Why don't you clamp it down here and there, and there's no way it will go out of tune?' But I just kind of passed it off because I don't have a machine shop, so I couldn't build it. So Floyd pursued it, and he's got a hot item."
Not only did Eddie create one of the most iconic electric guitars ever, but he also sparked the hot-rodding revolution, the influence of which still rings through guitar design to this day. There's no way you can expect EVH to replicate every inch of the Frankenstein in a budget model – there's a reason for that whopping price tag and hen's-teeth availability – but the company has captured the essence of the Frankenstein with the new Striped series.
You get an EVH Wolfgang bridge pickup, EVH-branded Floyd Rose with Eddie's D-Tuna and compound-radius neck (with the same hand-rubbed oil finish as the Wolfgang Special) and the all-important striped paintjob. Eddie's original was finished with tape, and the Striped series comes in a choice of three colour schemes: Red with Black (and White), Black with Yellow, and White with Black stripes.
We've placed this guitar at the top of our list for a number of reasons: 1) it's an instantly recognisable icon; 2) it's one of the most anticipated guitars we've seen in a long time; 3) the features and that all-important finish give you a ton of options; and finally, and most importantly, 4) it offers all of the above at what we consider to be a ridiculously low price.
Of course, this is all totally dependent on whether or not you like the Striped finish to begin with, but surely that's the whole point of a signature model? Ultimately, it's fitting that the man who took customisation to the extreme should top our list.
Subtle it certainly is not, but if veiled scrawls and hidden tweaks are your bag, buy a standard production guitar. Meanwhile, we can feel an eruption coming on.


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As the wounds are still gaping and the baby's body not yet cold, the ghouls on the left attack those of us who have been warning of this very thing.
This vicious tool should be thanking me and apologizing for the years of smears, defamation and libel that the enemedia has directed against me, my work, and my colleague. Instead, she aids and abets the most gruesome slaughterers ever on American soil.
The suspected Boston marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsaraev, are Muslim.Were their actions motivated by religion? And if it was, were they part of an organized radical Islamist group? We don't know. But that doesn't matter to a segment of anti-Islam bloggers who are latching onto the sparse biographical details as vindication.
"BOSTON JIHADI BOMBER'S FACEBOOK PAGE: ISLAM AND BOMBS," writes the anti-Islam blogger Pamela Geller, who is famous for boycotting Campbell's for offering halal soup and opposing the so-called Ground Zero Mosque. In a followup post, she writes, "The war is here and they continue to disarm the American people."
Just like Elspeth Reeve is doing.
For the record, I never called for a boycott of Campbell's for offering halal soup. The truth is that I objected to Campbells getting halal certification from the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a group with ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
And the "so-called Ground Zero Mosque"? What was "so-called" about it? It was at Ground Zero, slated to take the place of a building that was extensively damaged in the 9/11 attacks, and so was part of Ground Zero. It was a mosque, as that is still all that is happening in the Burlington Coat Factory building: Muslim prayers. And we defeated it.
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National Catholic Register - North Haven, CT
WASHINGTON — Catholics choosing between a pro-abortion Democrat and a pro-life Republican for president were largely credited with moral victories in the 2004 election.
Hoping for similar results, a variety of Catholic organizations have published voters' guides to help the faithful discern their choice in a year that lacks the clarity of pro-life vs. pro-abortion presidential candidates defining the issues.
The "Faithful Citizenship" voting document of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops isn't published in mid-term election years, but organizations as diverse as the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, Priests for Life, Red Letter Christians and the Kansas Catholic Conference have stepped forward to fill the gap.
In play is the balance of the U.S. Congress, a variety of gubernatorial races in which pro-life candidates face pro-abortion opponents, and ballot issues that will determine whether life and traditional families should be defended by government.
"It's a mid-term election, so there's obviously less awareness among voters," said Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life. "But I don't see that the values voters that surprised analysts two years ago have gone away. I see a lot of grassroots activity that's not necessarily reflected in polls."
Key ballot issues important to Catholics include: an initiative in Missouri to allow human cloning; a proposal to nullify a law in South Dakota that would outlaw abortion, a measure to protect traditional marriage between a man and woman in Virginia, an initiative that would give homosexual unions in Colorado status nearly identical to heterosexual marriages, and a proposed Colorado constitutional amendment that would define marriage as the union of a man and woman.
"We are in a time when the sovereignty of the people is in play. We are turning to the people and saying, 'Accept or reject this major change in cultural tradition,' and it's a responsibility that we ought to view by the providence of God as a special responsibility that we should consider as a great privilege," said former GOP presidential candidate and Catholic political scholar Alan Keyes.
To educate Catholic voters about important issues in each state, Father Pavone has been traveling throughout the United States distributing the Priests for Life election booklet, homily materials for priests and church bulletin inserts.
"We have speakers on the road, more than ever before, going to all 50 states," Father Pavone, a priest with the Missionaries of the Gospel of Life, said. "We also have a major prayer novena going on, and that can be found at www.prayercampaign.org."
Father Pavone said some of this year's candidates and ballot issues can be confusing for Catholic voters, because some progressives on the issues of abortion and homosexual "marriage" have learned to soften their rhetoric and disguise what they truly stand for. Catholics, he said, must study voters' guides and ask questions.
"The question is not only, 'Where does the candidate stand,' but, 'Where does the party stand?' There is a moral component to be considered: What does this vote do, not only to put a candidate in power, but a party in power?" Father Pavone said.
In Colorado, voters are given the choice between two Catholic gubernatorial candidates who both claim to be pro-life. A ballot initiative that would give homosexual relationships all the rights and privileges of heterosexual marriage has been advertised as, "It's not marriage, it's basic legal rights" for homosexuals. Another ballot initiative would change the state Constitution to define marriage as an institution between a man and a woman.
The Archdiocese of Denver and the Colorado Chapter of Legatus, a Catholic business leader's organization, hosted a debate Oct. 5 in an effort to facilitate Catholics in deciding which Catholic gubernatorial candidate to vote for. In the debate, Democratic candidate Bill Ritter said he favors abortion in cases of rape and incest, favors the measure establishing homosexual unions, favors making the "morning after" pill more easily available, favors funding Planned Parenthood and promised to veto any bill similar to the South Dakota law that would outlaw abortion.
In his closing remarks, Ritter told the audience that Catholic public servants sometimes must stray from their Catholic beliefs in order to balance conflicting needs of society, which is why he distributed condoms in Africa while serving as a missionary.
Congressman Bob Beauprez, the Republican candidate, said he opposes abortion in all circumstances, opposes state-sanctioned homosexual unions, and supports defining marriage as between a man and a woman.
Mainstream newspapers, before and after the debate at the archdiocese, reported that both candidates are Catholics opposed to abortion. But when asked how their faith would influence their public service, Beauprez said he can't "be Catholic part time and secular part time."
"My faith has always guided my principles, and my principles guide my actions, and they are always intertwined," he said.
In the Denver Catholic Register, all three Colorado bishops urged voters to read the new voters' guide published by neighboring Kansas bishops before casting their votes.
"For Catholics, conscience is never merely a matter of personal preference or opinion," the Colorado bishops wrote. "Nor can conscience be formed in a vacuum. Conscience is shaped by our understanding of the truth."
The Kansas guide states: "In some moral matters the use of reason allows for a legitimate diversity in our prudential judgments. Catholic voters may differ, for example, on what constitutes the best immigration policy, how to provide universal health care or affordable housing. Catholics may even have differing judgments on the state's use of the death penalty or the decision to wage a just war. The morality of such questions lies not in what is done (the moral object), but in the motive and circumstances. Therefore, because these prudential judgments do not involve a direct choice of something evil and take into consideration various goods, it is possible for Catholic voters to arrive at different, even opposing judgments."
The guide says Catholics may not differ regarding "the fundamental dignity of every human person from the moment of conception to natural death. This is a non-negotiable principle. It is the foundation for both Catholic social teaching and a just society."
The apologetics organization Catholic Answers came up with a list of five "non-negotiable" principles for Catholics in the 2004 election and has updated the guide this year with reference material. The organization's voting guide used Vatican documents to identify the issues, which are: abortion, human embryonic stem-cell research, euthanasia, same-sex "marriage" and cloning.
A million copies of an alternative Catholic voter's guide are being distributed this year by a new organization called Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, based in Washington and headed by the former religion adviser for John Kerry's presidential campaign. Kerry, a Catholic, promoted a pro-abortion agenda but said he personally opposed abortion.
A press release announcing the Alliance's voter's guide said it was written in response to the Catholic Answers guide.
Alexia Kelley, who heads Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, told the Register she has been troubled that other voter's guides she has read do not focus on the need to reduce poverty, increase the minimum wage, achieve nuclear disarmament and improve conditions for immigrants.
Catholic League President Bill Donohue charged in a press release that the Alliance's guide is trying to fool voters into believing a candidate's stand on social issues such as the minimum wage should be given equal weight to a candidate's position on abortion, euthanasia or fetal stem-cell research. He called the guide "a slick attempt to get the abortion albatross off the necks of Catholic Democrats."
But Kelley said her organization is non-partisan. She downplayed her association with Kerry, saying she worked with him "for only several weeks during his campaign."
"This guide came out of a movement of Catholics who are committed to the social traditions of the Church," Kelley said. "We wanted to emphasize the fact that God gives us reason, and there's no litmus test for how you participate in public life."
Father Pavone said Kelley's guide appears to emphasize an array of issues that are important for Catholics to consider when voting, but said Catholics must understand the "non-negotiable" issues no matter what guide they're using.
"On immigration, there is a non-negotiable," Father Pavone said. "The Church stands with the natural right of people not only to live, but live where they want, obviously within the bounds of reason. That is a teaching to which we are bound. But there is not a particular policy on immigration that can be identified as non-negotiable. By contrast, abortion is simply wrong in all circumstances."
Like the Kansas bishops, Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted, in a new voter's guide, specifically directs Catholics to distinguish between poverty concerns and fundamental life issues.
"When it comes to direct attacks on innocent human life, being right on all the other issues can never justify a wrong choice on this most serious matter," Bishop Olmsted wrote.
Jimmy Akin, an apologist with Catholic Answers, said he hopes the vast array of Catholic voters' guides will help Catholics make solid moral choices.
"Today, we're seeing broad dissatisfaction with both parties," he said, "and I'd like to see Church teachings articulated the way in which the Church itself would articulate them."


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|2011-06-05, 11:34
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 32
The only thing special about episode 10 is that it showed an insecure, weakened and depressed Ohana as opposed to the usual cheerful, optimistic, and energetic Ohana. That made for an interesting change of pace.
Tooru has definitely fallen head over heels for Ohana, and I can't blame him. It's almost impossible not to like such an adorable person. Futhermore, she was pretty hot (not pun intended... nah, of course it was intended) in this episode, the porridge scene was very erotic.
Jiromaru was hilarious as usual. "Oh, this 16-year-old is sick? I'd better go read her a porn novel! The main character of this novel is based on her grandmother too, I'm sure it will cheer her up to hear about her grandmother getting bukkaked!"
Nakochi was as lovely as ever and Minko, although she obviously feels jealous, was also pretty kind to Ohana. It's obvious she's grown to like her.
The shrine scenes were... weird. I was particularly creeped out by the stalker loli and the fox. It seems like Ohana has been torn between the inn and Ko for a while, and eventually chose Kissuiso over him. Huhu, Ko's gonna friendzoned!
|2011-06-05, 11:43
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Tohru is like 23 and he is going after a 16 year old. What a pedo.
I feel like one of two things might happen when Ohana runs to Ko when she is upset. I feel he might comfort her hopefully so she recognizes his feelings or blow up at her because she only communicates with him when she is having problems. It seems kinda like Ohana just uses Ko.
|2011-06-05, 11:53
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Join Date: Jan 2004
I agree that Ko is being used as an emergency crutch like that best friend or relative who is far away that you only call when it's important.
|2011-06-05, 11:57
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Two remarks on their care for Ohana:
- who the hell let creepy men into the room of a sick, helpless Ohana? And yes, I count Tooru as a 0.7 Jirou on the creepy scale. Loved the manager and Tomoe's "Ohana doesn't need your crap" scene at the end, though. At least, the uncle was bringing her food, but he probably couldn't have resisted the urge to tease her. And Jiroumaru, seriously? The hell?
- Can't they leave the remote next to her hand, instead of forcing her to get off her bed to turn the TV on or off? The whole point of a remote is to not have to do that.
Minchi realized Tooru liked Ohana, but she didn't take it out on her. Progress!
That dream sequence was really bad for Ko. But the preview sounded good. Hm.
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|2011-06-05, 11:59
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I felt this episode was probably the most frozen episode so far.
You get to see the girls act all nice to each other. Hoorah...?
Frozen as in, practically none of the story moved at all. Except that Kou-chan seemingly died and his spirit is talking to Ohana in her dreams and trying to drag her to hell too.
And the way he hyped it up wasn't that it was amazing story-wise, but just very appealing to otaku... You know, in that way.
People are disappointed elsewhere too, by the way.
|2011-06-05, 12:10
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Location: United Kingdom
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I can't say I'm disappointed. On the contrary I loved the episode, but there was something about it that was very strange and made me go ''what am I watching?''
I might need to re-watch it again.
|2011-06-05, 12:13
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|2011-06-05, 12:22
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What I take away from this episode is that Tooru for some reason found Ohana's lips interesting... I have no idea why.
On next week's preview - the calling out to Kou may just be a flashback. Either way, should be more... exciting than this week's episode.
|2011-06-05, 13:38
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Sure, nothing really moved forward plot wise except more confirmation regarding Tohru's feelings for Ohana but damn, that was such a cute episode.
Ohana crying and Nako going out of her usual way to reassure her, that was such a touching scene. I mean, it's probably impossible to remain passive when a character as lovable as Ohana reacts like this.
Feeling bad for Minko though. But she would have probably noticed sooner or later. The sooner the better I guess. So far she's taking it quite well, but that's maybe because she might still think she's somehow mistaken. You know. Love blinds people, like they say.
I wasn't disappointed at all by this ep because I just didn't jump into the hype wagon. I guess not watching previews helps.
|2011-06-05, 14:24
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Location: Miami, FL
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I've never liked Minchi very much due to her prickly attitude , but oh man did I feel sorry for her this episode. She was genuinely worried about Ohana being sick but at the same time had to deal with Tohru being obsessed with Ohana as well. Talk about conflicted emotions! But I am glad that in the end she didn't let her jealousy get the best of her, and managed to comfort a friend.
As for the preview, it's not a straight-up flashback. It looks like it deals with Ohana having trouble in the present with someone (at school?) and having flashbacks of a similar situation.
|2011-06-05, 14:31
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Join Date: Jul 2004
Loved the episode. Beautiful tone and feeling. And Itou Kanae's sick/sleepy voice was wonderful.
Personally, I feel as if the whole increasing distance from Kou thing is a troll, and she will end up with him. But if they go the other way and there really is increasing separation, that would be pretty moving, too. Sad and beautiful.
Who is the little dark-haired girl in the shrine? Kid Minchi? Ohana's mother? Her grandmother? Her true self?
I noticed the episode was written by Nishimura Junji (director of Simoun, true tears, etc.). Works for me.
Storyboard, Shinohara Toshiya (director of Bantorra, Kuroshitsuji). Episode direction, Hanyuu Naoyasu (director of Great Teacher Onizuka).
I guess the main director is involved in everything: Andou Masahiro (director of Canaan). And the lead writer: Okada Mari (Sketchbook, true tears, Kodomo no Jikan, Vampire Knight, Kuroshitsuji, Canaan, Bantorra, Hourou Musuko, Fractale, Gosick...many episodes of Simoun.).
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|2011-06-05, 14:57
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That was a refreshing, relaxing, rewarding watch. Sweetly sublime sentimental charm to end off the weekend with.
Slight superfluous streaks here and there, though, so I'll settle on 9/10 for this episode.
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|2011-06-05, 15:00
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Location: Kobe, Japan
Interesting ep, but there's some relationship trolling going on here. We're less than halfway through - as anyone who survived a series shipping series (which I still don't think this is) can tell you, the worst thing that can happen is peaking too soon. It was a big week for Tohru and seemingly bad for Kou, but it's too early to call that definitive. There's also no reason to conclude Ohana has any feelings for Tohru whatsoever.
I did find the whole sequence with Ohana concluding she was no longer needed a bit flimsy and overwrought. Really, that was a massive overreaction even for someone with a fever - and it came totally out of the blue as well.
|2011-06-05, 15:28
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Nako's choice of words there really could have been much better. It read to me like how an insult would, though that's obviously not what Nako intended.
Still, precisely because it came from Nako, and clearly wasn't mean-spirited at all (bit ironically intended to comfort), Ohana probably felt there was some painful truth to Nako's comments.
Feeling as though you're an easily expendable part of a team is a horrible feeling, and many people have experienced that at least at some point in their lives. That's a big part of the reason why the emotionality of this episode resonated nicely with me. Ohana's crying at the end was maybe a bit much, I'll admit, but the emotional pain of her situation was palpable to me.
|2011-06-05, 15:35
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Fair enough - didn't work for me, though. I do find this show has a tendency to manipulate coincidence and character behavior for dramatic expediency, and this felt like an example for me. Especially give last week's events where she (and everyone) was utterly indispensable.
I did enjoy lots of the episode, though. I kept wondering why Nako was turning the TV on, and I loved the explanation. This was probably Nako's best episode for me, in fact. But I was really creeped out by Jiromaru walking into a feverish 16 year-old's room to read her his porn. I know he's supposed to be comic relief, but I don't find him funny - and that was downright disturbing.
|2011-06-05, 15:42
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singing heartbreak
Isn't that what they call 'sex hair' or something?
I think the whole Ko-drifting-away thing is being looked upon too negatively. Isn't this a sign that she wants to go back to Ko? The fact that the dreaming sequence constituted that more 'she really wanted to be with Kou' rather than 'her giving up Kou for Kissuiso'. This is rather understandable. Her mother technically left her behind and Kou told her to go ahead and leave(1st ep). Now, she's a part of the lifestyle at the inn and people tell her she's needed. Therefore, she'll remain 'where she's needed' over 'where she wants to go', which is why she cried at the end. I'd like to remain optimistic about the whole thing =03.
Also, lol'd at the Jirou/Uncle(name?) backing away from the manager and Tomoe. That was cute.
And Tohru doesn't acquire any Ohana points this episode. Doesn't look too good for him (yes, I'm smiling).
|2011-06-05, 15:44
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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Am I the only one who thinks we're getting seriously ribbed by this episode? I genuinely don't think we're supposed to know what really happened and what was a fever dream.
Spoiler for Well doc, first there was this bat, see..?:
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|2011-06-05, 15:54
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Senior Member
Yeah, the timing of this could have been better given what you wrote there.
Some characters (like Jiromaru and the Management Consultant) are a bit overused in this anime, imo.
It's not a big deal or anything, but given we do have a large cast here, I'd rather characters with more limited range (like Jiromaru and the Management Consultant) to be used more sparingly. Characters like Jiromaru and the Management Consultant can get old very fast if you use them too much, or they could get watered down into plain "normalcy" in order to compensate for their lack of range.
|2011-06-05, 16:09
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