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Earlier this month word came out that Ubisoft's next Assassin's Creed title will not be called "Assassin's Creed 4" and was code named "Assassin's Creed: Golden Age." Shortly after, news broke that Ubisoft was holding a "mysterious" Assassin's Creed meeting on February 27th, presumably to show off the next installment in their series, officially titled "Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag."
Looks like a Samurai.
There were rumors of Assassin's Creed to take place in China or Japan a while back. So whoever disagree prepare to eat your words. Just look at the picture that is evidence enough.
There was no rumor of the game taking place in China or Japan. A fan made art of the concept, nothing more.
And it doesn't look like a samurai at all, lol ruffles coming out of the sleeves, and it's pretty obvious that's not a samurai sword on his belt. And the artwork kinda gives it away as pirate themed. Sorry bro :(
Yep i'm with you. If the words "black flag" wasn't pirate sounding enough, we then have a piece of concept with pirates in it.
PockyKing is right it was a fan made art.
But what if.... it taking place in China?
The I say bring it on it will be great!
Second pic looks like they are on a ship. I'm thinking Pirates considering the dudes beard.
They really aren't giving anything away at this point.
E3 I guess..
Asians cant be pirates? lol. But i still need to finish liberation :(
If "Black Flag" isn't pirate enough for you, petition Ubi to call it ACIV: Peg Leg... of something like that. Now that I think about it, it would be badass to assassinate people with a peg leg. Oh, and I must say... AC is officially played out for me. I just can't keep up anymore. I love the series, but damn... really??? We don't need an annual game. It just wears on the player. Bi-annual would keep it fresh. Although the ship levels from AC III were incredible.
I agree that it very well may be pirates, but @irepbtown, you're really basing the theory just because of the guys beard? lol.
The second image clearly shows a skull and crossbones flag.
There's no "it could be pirates". It's pirates. Unless these images are BS.
According to the article it is indeed about pirates and will take place in the Carribbean.
They SHOULD do one set in Japan. I think it would be the most interesting setting.
Another Assasin's Creed already??? Ubisoft is really milking the franchise.
I agree as well, as @mep69 said Black flag sounds like a pirate game, on top of that they wouldn't have spent all that time developing naval battles in Assassin's Creed 4 for nothing. It was a tech demo for a true Pirate based Assassin's Creed.
I think Black Flag is more punk than pirate.
Set in the caribbean
Maximum hype, I always wanted one in Caribbean.
You done goofed. the amount of disagrees you recieved is astronomical!! I dont think you will be able to recover from this fail so easily lol.
Awesome assasins creed 4! wonder if it will be on the ps4!
Only way this game is gonna be interesting is if the pirates are somali pirates!
Looks like more of the same.
You mean Assassin's "press counter button to win" Creed?
this has me worried, AC series has a lot of potential, and some of the games in the series are good, but I really disliked 3, it felt like it wasn't polished at all and rushed in some parts. If we already have a poster, I'm worried AC4 will have the same problem.
I've said this before, people are quick to jump on the COD hate band waggon with it's annual release, but Assassins Creed ALWAYS gets a free pass
More of what we don't want. We don't want another fucking terrible game like ACIII, we don't want fucking pirates or whatever. We all want an asian setting for the next AC, too bad we won't get it..
I stand by what i said a few weeks ago about the AC series.
I will buy one of these when they go into space.
Because by that time it will be so ridiculous that it will be comical.
This pic got me a little excited because it's a bit blurry and it looked for a second like he was wearing a space suit.
I got as far as Assasins Creed revelations... too burnt out fromt he series to play AC3, let alone ANOTHER sequel.
Umm - Black Flag says Pirates, even the cover, shows a bunch of pirates.
Meh not into pirate themes.. I also could tell that one screen shot looked like a pirate outfit.
No, it looks like Connor. The poster in particular. It's the hair in the screenshot that gives it away for me.
EDIT: Just realised the whole Edward Kenway thing.
If it's anything like AC3 I'm not interested...
Ok I was wrong so stop responding you prove your point lol!!!
They are going to stick to this generation of ac for about three games or more than move onto an other generation, i personally dont like the generation ac3 took place, doesnt feel unique to me, feels abit too generic, it wouldve been nice to go for a different pace, like as china, japan, f&$k at this point i wouldnt mind africa, something different
well it would be pretty awsome if this game takes a world approach, i mean like you could travel to places like singapore, the middle east, Africa, Britain,
Africa? Sounds cool!
If it was Japan, you'd just be a typical ninja.. probably won't feel too special :P
It's obviously something piratey. "Black Flag"
Not a samurai.
Samurai wore flags called sashimono on their backs so they could be identified. The title could easily be a way of saying that it's a samurai without a cause. Ronin type stuff.
I doubt a development team would use the term "black flag" to describe a ronin / samurai setting for an AC game. Not recognizable enough for the mainstream.
True. It's just odd to me, because the screenshot of the character doesn't look pirate-y to me. And he looks nothing like the person in the promo poster. So one has to be fake.
Wow another ASS creed coming what a surprise just like COD now.
then it looks like something i've been asking for since the first AC creed
Can't get excited anymore. This game is official, officially milked.
Yeah and to many assassin creed like games on he market.. Oh wait despite it being milked it's Assassins creed unique?
Even I'm not that excited :/
They need to give the series a break... they say a new dev team was working on this for years... but how can they address the problems with AC3 in such a short time...
Why is AC the only ubi game with a yearly release... I really don't want the series to go stale...
I was the biggest AC fan, story, gameplay everything. I absolutely loved AC1/2/B/R but I can't even get through 3..
Well, let's wait and hear more details. AC3 was released a year after Revelations yet it was in the making for 2 and a half years. Not that AC3 was very enjoyable, it had a lot of faults.
Hopefully, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag can be a breath of a fresh air for the series.
I was sold on Pirates, tbh. Not enough games based on Pirates...or Dinosaurs for that matter.
We need a Dinosaur-fighting Pirate game.
New one already?
This one takes place on a farm. :-)
the first 42 missions will be based around crops and farming. The last 3 you will become an assassin.. :')
i agree this is so soon as the one that just released October last year is still fresh but that's just the business of gaming as they strive to keep content fresh when they have no more DLC to send out but they can easily put this game as DLC into AC3 but it would not be logical for business and they want to be in tune with the next generation.
It's to be expected..i mean for the past few years, AC has been releasing yearly.
I love the series,but please be somewhat pretty at least. AC3 was like a PS1 game in some areas and others completely gorgeous. It was all over the place.
waaaaaaaaaaay to early for them to be showing this off. is ubi turning AC into the next COD with all the milk they are trying to squeeze out of it? I havent even finished ACB or started ACR let alone touched AC3 and now this wtf
You can easily beat each AC game in 20-30 hours. (That's WAY less than it would take to get to max prestige in a CoD game, kids.) It's all the running around/killing/exploring that people do that turns them off/makes them get bored and not complete it. It's the same with the GTA franchise. But, if you buckle down and just pump out the missions, it's a very enjoyable story.
I tend to enjoy the exploring part of things. Like right now I am playing Far cry 3 and have like 40-70 hours of playtime in and i've just gotten to the 3rd island not long ago. hard for me to tell the exact time ive played since i quit and the ubisoft launcher stays on when i walk away for hours making my steam playtime add up when im not really playing.
i explore and run around getting in random encounters and firefights and set booby traps and all kinds of stuff.
will AC4 be using same engine as watch dogs?
I doubt it, watchdogs engine was built specifically for watchdogs. A lot of engines are game-specific. It's actually better that way, as you can push performance in the right areas with more efficiency. You build the engine up to do specifically what you want it to.
Well we will know by this time tomorrow.
I hope the character is like Haytham Kenway as he was more interesting than Connor.
I was personally siding with the Templars idealogieis spoken by Haytham, tbh. More so than Conner and his Assassin agenda.
Whats the point of calling this one AC4 when it's basicaly what Revelations and Brotherhood were to AC2
Why give it a subtitle...I mean if it's before AC3 then basicaly it's a prequel
Yeah, it should at most be like a second game in a III trilogy. "Black Flags" being a subtitle much like "Brotherhood" and "Revelations" were.
You don't subtitle a main numbered AC game...
I thought the whole point of the subtitles was to give us new titles with the same engine and then show us the jump in gameplay/graphics etc in the main title games.
This is going to look so out of place in the series. Reminds me of Mission Impossible....you had Mission Impossible 1-3 then all of a sudden Ghost Protocol
Agreed. I'm hoping they drop the "IV" from the title. Especially with the rumored animus story taking place before AC3's, it just seems like a spin-off and not a true follow-up to AC3.
I was thinking about that....so will the animus still be a part of AC4. I mean I havent finished AC3 yet but I know "you know who" is gone
They can't say his story is over then bring him back for a main titled game it wouldn't make sense
Plus having an entire game without an out of the animus break who seem too much for me


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Wednesday's tragic accident on Long Island Sound that left one teenager dead and another with serious injuries shocked the Greenwich community. But it was a reminder of the dangers that can exist on the water. Each year, recreational boating takes hundreds of lives, and Connecticut is not immune.
"Accidents aren't common, but unfortunately, they're not uncommon enough," said Greenwich Harbor Master Ian McMillan
Nationwide, the U.S. Coast Guard reported 4.7 deaths per 100,000 registered recreational watercraft in 2013 -- 560 fatalities in all, with operator inattention, operator inexperience and improper lookout accounting for largest number. All four girls involved in Wednesday's accident are under the age of 18, and while their level of experience is unknown, inexperience is believed to be behind 385 accidents, 34 deaths and 262 injuries last year.
And 2013's death toll was down from previous years, representing a 14 percent drop from 2013.
In Connecticut, the Coast Guard reported 35 accidents last year, one of them fatal.
The number of total accidents in the state has generally dropped over the past five years: 2012 saw 49 accidents, six of them fatal; 2011 had 42 accidents, eight fatal. There were 52 accidents in 2010, six fatal; and 56 crashes in 2009, one fatal. Connecticut ranked 33rd nationally in statewide boating accidents in 2013.
There have been recent deaths in the waters off Fairfield County. On July 22, 2012, Keith Morris, a New Rochelle, N.Y. firefighter, left a Stamford dockside bar with a blood alcohol content of 0.25, more than three times the legal boating limit. He veered his boat into a seawall in Stamford Harbor, tossing him and passengers overboard, and trapping others inside. Morris drowned, the sole fatality.
Just weeks before the Stamford accident, three children were killed in the waters across from Greenwich in Oyster Bay, N.Y. when their overcrowded yacht tipped during a Fourth of July fireworks show.
In Greenwich last summer, police prevented another potential tragedy when a speedboat bucked its drivers and began to rocket skipperless across Long Island Sound. Two Police Marine Division officers were eventually able to drive up alongside the runway boat, board it at 50 miles per hour and cut the engine.
Such incidents are a reminder of the everpresent dangers of going out to sea, said McMillan.
"I can't stress enough, the sea is an unforgiving host," he said. "It is beautiful in many ways but there is death around every corner."

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'Can-Do AC' Blog Launched To Update Atlantic City Progress After Sandy [AUDIO]
Not content to let over a year of positive momentum be derailed by Hurricane Sandy, Atlantic City is documenting its recovery and welcoming visitors back by launching a new blog called "Can-Do AC."
The blog focuses equally on recovery and the community says Atlantic City Alliance Director Liza Cartmell. She notes the Atlantic City's various tourism offerings employ thousands of people and the blog's goal is to give them a voice in letting the rest of the state (and country) know that AC's spirit is far from done.
Additionally, Cartmell says they want potential visitors to know that Atlantic City is open for business.
"The community depends on this business for their livelihoods. This is a tourism driven marketplace, and we were lucky to the degree that our tourism assets were really not damaged."
The blog format was chosen because it allows everyone; ACA employees, hotel and casino staff, and residents, a chance to express themselves and give the world updates on their city.
"It just gives people an outlet, that they may not have directly to express something positive because in the midst of all of this trauma and depressing situation for so many people there's always an opportunity in the human spirit to find the good."
Cartmell notes AC businesses have millions of people that they keep in regular communication with through social media, and the blog will give them one more avenue to deliver photos, news, and other content from the businesses and the people to show they are up and running.
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As China and Japan continue to spar in their worst diplomatic crisis for five years, prospects that the two Asian giants will be able to enjoy normal relations anytime soon appear slim.
The fierce row over Japan's detention of a Chinese fishing boat captain in disputed waters "shows how really fragile and easily changeable relations are" between the two countries, says Mel Gurtov, chief editor of the Seoul-based "Asian Perspective" quarterly.
The surprising speed with which the dispute turned ugly also suggested "how little has actually been achieved" by continuous efforts at Sino-Japanese reconciliation over the past five years, says Tobias Harris, who runs observingjapan.com.
The ball is in whose court?
Japan's release of the trawler captain, accused of deliberately ramming Japanese patrol boats, did not defuse the crisis. Beijing then demanded an apology and compensation for his detention, which Tokyo bluntly refused.
Instead, Japan has demanded that China pay for repairs to its damaged patrol vessels, and repeatedly complained to Beijing about the presence of two Chinese fisheries protection ships near the islands at the heart of the territorial dispute, since Friday.
China, meanwhile, continues to hold four Japanese citizens arrested last week for investigation on charges they had illegally trespassed into a military zone.
On Tuesday, each side held the other responsible for the next step to improve ties. "The ball is already in China's court," said Yoshito Sengoku, the Japanese chief cabinet secretary. "We hope that Japan will take practical steps to repair Sino-Japanese relations," countered Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu.
What happened to diplomatic warming?
Only a few weeks ago, Beijing and Tokyo were still pursuing the diplomatic efforts that they had been making for nearly five years to try to mend their troubled relations, soured by Chinese memories of harsh Japanese occupation, military mistrust, and competing territorial claims.
In what the Chinese termed a "warm spring" in the relationship, one Japanese Prime Minister after another visited Beijing, and both Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Chinese President Hu Jintao went to Tokyo. Chinese warships visited Japanese ports, Japanese schoolchildren visited China on school trips, and Sino-Japanese trade leaped to record levels.
None of this seemed to count for much when the Japanese coast guard seized a Chinese trawler and Chinese diplomats went into overdrive to win its release.
"For all the diplomatic visits, all the talking, all the naval exchanges, all the trade, the underlying dynamic of conflict in the East China Sea has not changed," Mr. Harris points out.
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That conflict has been given an added twist, says Professor Gurtov, by the "change in relative power and influence" of the two rivals. "Japan has been on a long-term downslide in terms of its capability to project and preserve its interests in Asia, while China is on a very different trajectory," Gurtov points out.
Japan, however, is not the only neighbor of China's to have found that closer formal ties with Beijing do not always bear the fruit that had been expected, says Drew Thompson, director of China studies at the Nixon Center in Washington.
South Korea, he recalls, was bitterly disappointed earlier this year to find that the "strategic partnership of cooperation" it had sealed with China in 2008 did not mean China would do anything more than express regret at the loss of life when a North Korean submarine sunk the Cheonan, a South Korean naval vessel, killing 36 sailors.
"Are the Chinese ready to pay for their desire for better relations?" wonders Dr. Thompson. "Are they ready to go the extra mile and pay the domestic cost, for example, of accepting Japan's apology for its behavior during World War II?"
The official messages currently coming out of Beijing suggests not. "Peaceful development does not mean constantly surrendering and giving up core interests," declared an editorial in last Sunday's People's Daily, the official organ of the ruling Communist party.
The current crisis, argued the editorial, is a result of "the serious mistakes and ignominious conspiracies of Japan's policy towards relations with China.
"Japan cannot on the one hand hitch its economy to China's 'fast-development train' and on the other hand be suspicious of China and play the containment card," People's Daily warned.
"There will be continuing ups and downs," predicts Gurtov. "There'll continue to be positive interactions … in fields such as the environment and trade, but from time to time the negatives, like mistrust and territorial disputes, are going to trump the positives."
It shows, Gurtov adds, "that the strong economic ties that China and Japan have developed don't necessarily create political bridges that last."


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Any respectable "Star Trek" fan is dying to see "Into Darkness," director J.J. Abrams' latest installment in the rebooted franchise. But if Trekkers can't wait until May 17, might the latest attempt at a respectable Star Trek video game be enough to tide them over?
As a more colloquial Spock might say, "That's a big old negative, captain." This sci-fi institution has long deserved but never received a proper interactive rendering, despite repeated attempts over the years (including 2009's shallow, frustrating Star Trek: DAC) and 2013 is no different.
There's a thrill or two to be had in the latest attempt by Digital Extremes, but it ultimately squanders the voice talent and gorgeous design of "Into Darkness" on a generic, at times infuriating third-person shooter than would have been painfully behind the curve even two or three years ago.


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Supernovae observations strongly support the presence of a cosmological constant, but its value, which we will call apparent, is normally determined assuming that the Universe can be accurately described by a homogeneous model. Even in the presence of a cosmological constant we cannot exclude nevertheless the presence of a small local inhomogeneity which could affect the apparent value of the cosmological constant. Neglecting the presence of the inhomogeneity can in fact introduce a systematic misinterpretation of cosmological data, leading to the distinction between an apparent and true value of the cosmological constant. We establish the theoretical framework to calculate the corrections to the apparent value of the cosmological constant by modeling the local inhomogeneity with a $\Lambda LTB$ solution. Our assumption to be at the center of a spherically symmetric inhomogeneous matter distribution correspond to effectively calculate the monopole contribution of the non linear inhomogeneities surrounding us, which we expect to be the dominant one, because of other observations supporting a high level of isotropy of the Universe around us. By performing a local Taylor expansion we analyze the number of independent degrees of freedom which determine the local shape of the inhomogeneity, and consider the issue of central smoothness, showing how the same correction can correspond to different inhomogeneity profiles. Contrary to previous attempts to fit data using large void models our approach is quite general. The correction to the apparent value of the cosmological constant is in fact present for local inhomogeneity of any size, and should always be taken appropriately into account both theoretically and observationally.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT men's heavyweight crew finished third in races for two different trophies this weekend, opening the stretch with a solid performance in the Cochrane Cup before yielding another third-place finish in the Jablonic Cup.
Quick currents resulted in exceptionally fast times in Hanover, N.H, Saturday afternoon. Despite the difficult course conditions, MIT's varsity eight enjoyed an impressive start and pressed Dartmouth and Wisconsin for the first 700 meters. Around the mid-way point, the more powerful crews put some distance on the Engineers, while a late surge by the Big Green enabled Dartmouth to power to victory in the last 400 meters.
The following day in Boston, the Engineers hit the Charles River for the Jablonic Cup against Boston University and Wisconsin. Unfortunately, the Cardinal and Gray didn't start nearly as strong as the previous day, gradually losing distance against the leaders from the start. The Badgers shot off the line and staked a length lead on BU by the 700-meter mark. The Terriers responded to Wisconsin's quick start with a monster middle effort that pushed Boston in front where it continued to build a lead through the final stretch.
MIT's novice crew enjoyed a much better start on Sunday than at the Cochrane Cup, and combined with a better boat rhythm, kept the Engineers within striking distance most of the race. Making some internal changes for Sunday's tilt, the second varsity also performed better, putting Tech on pace for its best racing of the season with the EARC Sprints just two weeks away.


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Many artists, photographers in particular, suffer from wanderlust. They can be seen perching with their tripods on the stone walls of Santorini or lugging their camera equipment through the rivers of Katmai, Alaska.
As the late-summer days grow shorter, and the shadows begin to lengthen, children start planning for Halloween. The costume catalogs are filled with ghosts and mad scientists, and point to our human obsession with the underbelly of life.
Evergreen is fortunate to have a large artistic community, rich in both experience and media. But of all the mountain area artists, only one can claim six decades of continual artistic work in a range of more than 15 media. For this reason, the Center for the Arts Evergreen is pleased to present "Six Decades of an Artist's Journey: Roger Ambrosier."
The American Association of Community Theaters is a nonprofit organization that represents more than 7,000 theaters in the United States. Those 7,000 community theaters present more than 45,000 productions each year and reach 7.5 million audience members. In this dizzying world of statistics, it is rare that a community theater can boast about a premiere. In the case of StageDoor Theater, September is a month for boasting. StageDoor's first production of the 2013-14 season is a regional premiere of the hilarious Mel Brooks' show "Young Frankenstein."
Twice a year the improvisation specialists from the Evergreen Players gather for improv performances of epic proportion. In past performances, audiences have seen the improv troupe joke about their celebrity dopplegangers or use the bear-claw bangs and racing-stripe haircuts from their high school graduation photos as comic fodder.
Living in our mountain community provides our local artists with many types of inspiration — including a vast array of local wildlife. Some of the world's most famous works of art contains many of our mountain neighbors such as mountain lions and bears.
Since its inception almost 25 years ago, StageDoor Theatre has established itself as a unique place for the performing arts in the 285 Corridor.
William Shakespeare said, "All the world is a stage," and in the case of the 285 Corridor, the newest stage will be at the Venue Theatre in the Conifer Town Center. Set to open its doors in August, the Venue Theatre Company is the newest arts education program in the mountain community and is dedicated to musical theater education and performance for mountain area youths.
The Center for the Arts Evergreen is celebrating its signature summer event, Summerfest, on Saturday and Sunday, July 20 and 21, with new offerings and some old favorites, which definitely bring the arts alive in Evergreen.
Summerfest is a two-day fine art-and-craft festival held at Buchanan Park. The outdoor festival kicks off Arts Alive Evergreen, a 10-day showcase event featuring the best of Evergreen's visual and performing arts.
Evergreen's musical theater community has certainly had success with the 1960s. Last year the Evergreen Players presented "Hair" as the summer musical to kick off Arts Alive week. This year, we do the Twist and the Mashed Potato even further back in time in the early 1960s in the Players' production of "Hairspray."
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|2004-04-10, 06:26
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Twirly! Twirly~!!
I'd just like to give a big thanks to all the fansubbers out there. If it weren't for you guys, I'd be stuck without anime during the school year! (No TV in my dorm room! ) Special groups I'd like to mention:
1) Anime Daisuki: You're the only group out there that I know of who's fansubbing Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne. It's a good show; I look forward to watching the next episode.
2) Anime Keep and ANBU: I love what you guys did with Scrapped Princess, Full Metal Panic Fumoffu, and Full Metal Alchemist. Can't wait to see the rest of FMA!
3) Solar: I adore Tenchi Muyo! Thanks for getting the latest episodes out for the 3rd OVA! I love it!
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|2004-04-27, 01:01
|Link #26
Senior Member
Ani-Kraze for spiral and scrapped princess
ANBU and AonE for naruto
Bakasan for naruto
Anime-Keep for FMA
Elite-Fansubs for Hikaru no Go
and EVERY anime fansub. You provide anime fans with fixes of this addictive drug that is anime! You should be worshipped!
EDIT: i kinda wonder why i got a negative rep. point for this.... .o well.
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|2004-04-27, 15:27
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Senior Member
First off is to thank all those fansubbers out there, you fuel my addiction and allow me to watch the always 99% better original instead of the Dubbed versions which almost always resembles in one way or another poop on a stick (dubbed anime is a big ) So Props to you all for allowing me to escape reality every now and then
With That said, todays big thank you goes to all fansubbers out there
::EDIT:: Special thanks to The triad...Those guys rock, good shows out and the right attitude to send off annoying kids that keep asking for them to sub some perverted series that was dropped..their retaliation to these people are classic and other fansubbers taking shit need to take points from these guys.
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|2004-05-15, 19:10
|Link #31
Kerazy.com Editor
'shed a tear'
Anyway i would like to thank ANBU&AONE for giving us good quality Naruto every week.
|2004-05-22, 01:16
|Link #33
Romanji is evil
Thanks to ANBU for FMA, Scrapped Princess and Planetes
Thanks to E-F and R-F for Hikaru no Go.
Thanks to We Suck and AC for Uninhabited Planet Survive.
Onigiri for KGNE
And everyone who did Tsukihime
Edit: Also thanks to A-F for Twin Spica
And If I think of anything else, ill write it down.
|2004-05-28, 13:13
|Link #34
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2004
i wanna thank A-Classic & AiA on a terrific Job on Panda-Z,Aikousha for bringing us the longest-running anime of all time "Doraemon", The Traid for "Dogtato-kun", and Mognet for "Ocha-Ken" even though they tried their best on their 1st batch
note to Raspberry Heaven: i apologize for negativity towards your group
however this .mkv business (with all do respect) just won't cut it... Fansub groups use the .avi format, i humbly suggest that you REALLY revert to .avi because this .mkv thing is totally monatonous!
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|2004-05-30, 01:06
|Link #36
Loves Kaori
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Singapore
Age: 33
I thank every fansub groups and respect them for giving out their time and effort into serving this community. I know that as a group you will receive some bad comments once in a while but this post is to tell you that I appreciate what you did for the community.
|2004-06-04, 08:10
|Link #38
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Ship in the sea
Age: 37
I've been thanking groups since i started watching anime , but it's never enough .. so
Thank You all ... you really helped us alot and everytime i watch anime i remember how u work hard to release those series ...
Wish you all the best.
|2004-06-10, 01:02
|Link #40
Fate/Stay Delight
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Caster's Magic Ball ^^
Age: 32
A huge thank you to allll subbing groups who devote their time to this community. Some special thx go to:
AonE and Onigiri for quality bishoujo subbing
Aozora-Seichi for subbing the funniest series ever.
afk for quickly pumping out Kenran Buto Sai, my fav anime of this season
big ty to AznPro for coming back to finish off Yumeria for us.
and how can we forget those short-lived renegade subbing groups like Hayaku fansubs? lol.
My biggest ty goes to AKeep and ANBU, tho especially AKeep, for subbing more than half the series I've seen, and doing them fantastically. You guys are my heroes, and if it's subbed by AKeep, I'll watch it, b/c I know whatever it is, it has to be quality.
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Your wedding day is undoubtedly one of the most important days of your life, and it is only fitting to have the best photographs as visual reminders of that special day.
Practically anyone can take photographs at your wedding, especially nowadays when so many people have their own digital camera. However, you can't deny the difference in the results when you hire a professional photographer to do the job.
By hiring a professional, you can have wedding pictures fit for displaying in your house, keeping in albums and even posting on the Internet for your friends and relatives to see.
Look at the Portfolio
In order to determine if a particular wedding photographer is the perfect person for the job, the first thing you should do is look at his portfolio. The portfolio should include samples of his previous work from other people's weddings.
By looking at the lighting, clarity and artistry of the photographs, you can easily see if his style matches your expected output for your own wedding pictures.
If you do not know a lot about professional photography, you can enlist the help of a friend who does, and ask her to go with you when you interview potential photographers.
Photographer's Style
Besides the technical elements of professional photography, there are also some other features you have to observe.
For instance, you should take a close look at the poses of the people in the picture. A good photographer should be able to take pictures of people wherein they look comfortable and natural and not like they are always sitting for a portrait.
You should also notice if there is a wide variety of angles and lighting used, as opposed to only a limited style. If your wedding is going to be held outdoors, your photographer should be able to take good photos in this setting. The same goes for an indoor wedding.
While the skills of the photographer are definitely the most important basis for your decision, it is also vital to hire a photographer with whom you can get along very easily.
After all, you will be working with him or her during your wedding day, and there is definitely no sense in getting stressed out during the most important moments of your life.
It is particularly important that the wedding photographer's personality does not clash with the bride's personality since they will be spending many hours together even before the wedding, and this is the time that the bride can be quite touchy due to wedding jitters.
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Once you have interviewed a number of wedding photographers, you will surely have chosen one who could work well with you. However, there is still the question of professional fees and other expenses related to processing and reproducing the photographs.
Before finalizing your deal, you should discuss with your chosen photographer the mode of payment for their services. Some photographers charge a flat fee for the entire service, with fixed inclusions. Others may charge by the hour for their services, plus an additional amount for the proofs and printouts.
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It is getting harder to find products with the label "Made in America." Out of curiosity, we recently went through our house looking for that designation and found only a few such items that get our daily use. When some people see the Nissan brand, they assume it's another Japanese import, but they could not be more mistaken.
When Nissan offered to loan an Xterra Pro-4X to Lone Writer, Inc., for use during our 2011 season, it included a tour of its plant in Smyrna, Tennessee. That plant is one of the largest of its kind in North America. Under one roof, there is room to set up more than 90 football fields and have room for parking. It encompasses 5.4 million square feet of space. Construction inside that massive building is never finished as different lines are added and deleted. It all began June 16, 1983, and has grown to an investment of $2.5 billion.
More than 1,000 people had a hand in building the Pro-4X as it moved along conveyors that rarely paused. Each person along that line has a specific task in the process that begins with raw metals and ends on a test track outside the building. At peak production, there are 3,400 employees at the Symrna plant and many more at another facility that builds the engines one piece at a time.
It takes about 24 hours from the time bare materials enter the plant to be transformed into a vehicle that rolls out the door. The plant can produce more than a half million vehicles a year consisting of eight different Nissan models.
In another area of the plant, the frame has been constructed. Engines are manufactured at a different plant in Tennessee and shipped to Symrna. At this station, the engine and frame are joined together. The process takes only a few minutes. The frame moves at a steady pace along a conveyor mounted on the floor. The engines travel along another conveyor high above. As the frame passes below, the engine lowers into its saddle in perfect synchronization. There are eight different engine combinations for SUVs and trucks, but the system knows exactly which engine to lower onto which frame. Workers bolt the two together as the new assembly leaves their station and enters another. Only moments will pass before another frame and engine will enter their station and the process repeats again and again.


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In the wake of the June 4, 2008, report in The New York Times on the impending struggle over the presence of "strengths and weaknesses" language in the Texas state science standards, the Times addressed the issue editorially, writing (June 7, 2008), "The Texas State Board of Education is again considering a science curriculum that teaches the 'strengths and weaknesses' of evolution, setting an example that several other states are likely to follow.
Senate Bill 1361, introduced in the Michigan Senate on June 3, 2008, and referred to the Senate Committee on Education, is yet another "academic freedom" bill aimed at undermining the teaching of evolution.
When the South Carolina legislature adjourned on June 5, 2008, Senate Bill 1386 died in committee.
"A battle looms in Texas over science textbooks that teach evolution," Laura Beil reports in the June 4, 2008, issue of The New York Times, "and the wrestle for control seizes on three words.
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Whether they're fleeing tight job markets, taking advantage of cheaper home prices or just looking for a change of pace, nearly 34 million people moved in 2007, according to the U.S. Census. But where are they going? Relocation.com, a Web site that helps consumers relocate, crunched numbers from 500,000 searches conducted on the site in 2008. These 10 cities drew the most interest. Click on to find out the cities and what their housing and job markets look like.
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Photo by Kaleb FulghamWe're only four weeks away from the last day of classes. How is your research coming along on that paper? Sorry to bring it up, but I thought I should ask. Don't worry, you still have time to find the information you need.
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We design referral programs and sweepstakes for clients - in this case, the pizza franchise Papa John's (http://www.papajohns.com). Our programs are meant to be fun and exciting and to really engage people.
Age 18-40 years old Americans. Both male and female, but more male since this contests is in conjunction with college basketball.
We currently have the landing page hosted at http://buzzreferrals.com/Signup.asp…7EEE3D62B0. People will be coming to this landing page after hearing that Papa John's is offering a deal on pizza and breadsticks. This is in conjunction with the college basketball tournament, so our ideal image on this landing page will incorporate basketball. It should not use the term NCAA or March Madness
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Like many parents, I'm full of good intentions during those first school-free days of June. Mindful of the well-documented learning losses that occur over the summer in math and reading, I've been known to stock up on spelling books and flash cards, and even post a vocabulary word or two in the kitchen.
But it isn't long before my grand ideas of academic achievement are forgotten along with the flash cards now buried under the damp swimsuits. My daughters simply don't want to go to school during the summer, and, frankly, neither do I.
So we play games instead. We take walks and make things, we read books together in the hammock. It isn't school, and an increasing amount of research says that's more than okay. It turns out that there are a whole lot of nontraditionally academic approaches that can engage your child's brain in the summer equally as well as, and often better than, any workbook. So don't worry if school's around the corner: Chances are your child has already been doing a lot of learning -- and here are more easy activities you can do while summer's still in swing:
School-Year Habit: Study For a Science Test
Summer Substitute: Do Science!
We've heard about American kids' needing more exposure to the sciences, and if that makes you think of dreary formulas and dusty beakers, think again. There isn't much that's more fun than science: Kids can make crazy things happen while learning about cause and effect, the natural world, and lots more.
Take the science-fair volcano to the next level. You have to sacrifice a two-liter bottle of diet soda for this one (it's less sticky than regular soda, so easier to clean up), but it'll be worth it. Open the soda on the driveway or in the yard. Now, as quickly as possible (it helps to use a funnel; you can make one out of paper), drop an entire roll of Mentos candies into the bottle and run: The soda will explode from the bottle, making a huge geyser. So cool!
Conjure up some goop. Put two cups of cornstarch in a bowl and slowly add water (you'll need about a quarter cup). Mix until a soft clay forms. Your kids will find it irresistible as the mixture changes from hard to soft to gooey, then to a ball they can hold in their hands. Add food coloring for extra fun.
Create some botanical art. Draw a landscape line on a piece of sky-blue card stock or construction paper and then head out with it and a glue stick to collect items to fill in: Pick up leaves to glue on the trees, grass to stick on the ground, petals to dot the grass with color. Voila! A three-dimensional masterpiece and a lesson in nature.
Turn your kitchen into a lab. Making lemonade from lemons and simple syrup (sugar dissolved in boiling water) is a great lesson in proportions and problem solving (more lemon juice? more water?), while experimenting with yeast breads can demonstrate a chemical reaction.
Sit around and watch ice melt. Hand everyone an equal-size cube to hold, put on a plate, leave on the grass. Whose will become a puddle first?
School-Year Habit: Memorize your Math Facts
Summer Substitute: Play a Board Game
Math skills falter in summertime because -- aside from practicing the times tables -- it can seem as if there's no natural way to keep them fresh. But many popular strategy games (like chess, checkers, Monopoly, Battleship, Clue, and more) involve counting and subtracting, and working with money, as well as making predictions, seeing patterns, following rules, and using logic. In other words: math.
Move the games out of the closet and into a central, visible location (kitchen table, living room basket), and set up a time (say, after dinner) for regular play. On particularly beautiful days, take the whole setup outside to the porch, the picnic table -- even a piece of sturdy cardboard on the grass in a park.
Invest in a Scrabble set, rather than a spelling or math workbook. This classic game reinforces both skills as you spell words and count up points -- even multiplying the numbers when you land on the right space. To even the playing field with younger players (under 10) and get them excited about the game, let them use a dictionary and a calculator. Boggle's a good choice, too, for the patterns and connections your child will see in the grid of letters.
Rejuvenate the jigsaw. This old-fashioned pastime develops critical spatial and pattern-recognition skills and manual dexterity. Start with 100- to 300-piece puzzles for a 7-year-old; see how she does and adjust your next purchase accordingly!
Our family's secret weapon for puzzle protection and transportation: a cardboard trifold display board -- the kind you'll find at any office-supply store for about $5. The large center section gives you a flat surface for working on the puzzle (and allows you to easily carry it from place to place) -- even in the yard -- while the side flaps fold over to keep all the pieces together. If your kids aren't inspired to complete a picture -- or are crazy for puzzling and want more -- consider two great games that use the puzzle skills, but in a competitive format: Blokus and Tantrix. Both sharpen geometric and strategic thinking.
School-Year Habit: Read for 30 minutes a night
Summer Substitute: Read whenever you want
Even when your child can read on his own, listening to books read aloud radically improves vocabulary, attention span, and love of literature by exposing him to higher-level books than he could comfortably manage on his own. It's usually not until eighth grade that a child's reading level equals his listening level, says Jim Trelease, author of The Read-Aloud Handbook.
Think outside the book-and-bed box. Reading time can be at breakfast, in the afternoon, whenever works for your schedule. Then get creative. Cozy up under the shade of a tree, in a backyard tent, on the porch after dinner, poolside during a swim break.
Keep fidgety kids busy while they listen with a hunk of clay, a piece of knitting, or a coloring book.
Choose a book that you remember reading as a child or that interests you as well.
Let your child draw what she's hearing as you read. She can illustrate a character or a place in the book.
Listen to an audiobook. These are available at public libraries or bookstores, or you can download them on services like Audiblekids.com, where you can listen to samples before buying.
School-Year Habit: Sit at your desk
Summer Substitute: Run around
Experts say that exercise can boost thinking skills. Plus, research suggests that simply being outside near something green and growing can improve attention span, creativity, mood -- even IQ. So round up a posse of kids and play these classics with zero guilt: They're practically like homework.
Kick the Can Whoever is "It" stands next to a soda can (taped up at the top, with a few pebbles inside), shuts his eyes, and counts to 100. All other players run and hide. "It" then goes off in search of the hiding players. If he finds someone, he can tag her and put her in "jail." Meanwhile, players try to run from their hiding spots to kick the can: If they make it without being tagged, they're safe (and get to be "It" next time). If not, they're out.
Capture the Flag Define a large playing area with a center line and a jail area. A varied geography (including trees) is helpful. Create two teams, and place a bandanna at the far line of each team's territory. To play, teams try to sneak over the center line and steal the other team's flag without getting caught. Caught players stay in the other team's jail until they are rescued by being tagged by a teammate. The game's up when one team has both flags on its side of the dividing line.
Summer Olympics Train for, and then host, a family Olympics. Include these events, or make up your own: Yo-Yo, Jump Rope, Rock Skip, Hula-Hoop, and Water-Balloon Toss. Elaborate medal ceremony optional.
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Parishes that want to have teens actively engaged in youth ministry need to make it worth their while, according to leaders of successful youth ministry programs.
That doesn't mean throwing a party for them every time — although dinner or snacks can help bring kids who might not come otherwise. It means giving them something of real value to do.
Jim Chesnes, who has been in youth ministry for more than three decades, started a program 20 years ago in which young people who have been confirmed serve as mentors to students just coming into the confirmation preparation program.
The mentors not only attend classes with the young people in formation, they plan some of the segments. They also work to get to know the students they are mentoring, said Chesnes, who does confirmation preparation and youth and young adult ministry at St. Paul of the Cross in North Palm Beach, Florida.
During their second year, confirmation students are told that they will be invited to the leadership program.
New student leaders start in September to prepare for the confirmation classes, and a large proportion of the newly confirmed young people choose to participate.
"It's a part of our parish," Chesnes said. "I've been thrilled by the number of kids who choose to participate."
At Holy Spirit Parish in Fountain Valley, California, youth minister Catherine Ord asks her youth group members — juniors and seniors in high school who have generally been confirmed at the end of their sophomore year — to help with formation activities for the seventh- and eighth-graders she works with. They also do a variety of service projects both within and outside the parish, and members can sign up to work on particular projects during a defined time frame instead of committing to attend weekly or monthly meetings without advance notice of what will happen there.
"With juniors in high school, it is really hard," she said. "This time of the year, they have band camp, they have AP classes and tests. I'd rather they be there part of the time than make more demands and not be there at all. When they are there, they are active and engaged. The juniors and seniors, they are there because they want to be there."
When Ord took her position seven years ago, there were about a half-dozen juniors and seniors active in youth ministry. Now there are more than 50, doing everything from designing and creating posters for the junior high formation program to helping with parish fundraisers. "The last three years, they planned a dance," she said. "Sometimes they make videos for the parish website."
Chesnes and Ord have the right idea, said Kevin Driscoll, coordinator for the Office of Youth and Young Adult Ministry for the Diocese of Gary, Indiana. Youth ministry must help teens experience God in their lives, not just teach about God, and it must respect the demands that school and other activities place on their time.
"The one thing we are battling more than ever is that teens don't have time to participate in youth ministry programs — it's simply their busy schedules," Driscoll said. "We have to develop a team of mentors who are willing to journey with our young people and walk that road with them."
That means focusing more on doing than sitting and learning.
"Most of our traditional Catholic formation has been classroom-based. It's been about learning about God, not experiencing God," Driscoll said. "When our teenagers start to see how God works, they see the meaning of Christ played out in 2014."
Teens often get excited about the high points of youth programs — trips to national events such as the National Catholic Youth Conference or service trips, for example, would be among the "mountaintop experiences" — but that can't be all there is, Driscoll said.
"Large events, big events, 'wow' moments, have been proven to have a positive impact on a teenager's faith life," he said. "There still need to be adult leaders who journey with teenagers, encourage them and help bridge the gap between church and school. When they walk back down the mountain, there has to be someone waiting there to help them connect their faith to their everyday life."
Making that connection is key for teens, who live in a secularized world where many, if not most, of their classmates do not share their faith, Driscoll said.
"The most detrimental thing to a teen's faith is when they don't make the connection to their everyday life," he said. "It's more important than ever for teens to recognize the power of evangelization. It doesn't mean being a weird Bible thumper. It means representing your faith well by a joyous appreciation of Christ's love."
Driscoll said he sees positive signs among today's teenagers, but also omens that should cause leaders to make sure young people are properly catechized.
"I see an openness to religion that wasn't there 20 years ago," he said. However, "this is a generation that is so über-tolerant of the other that they might not necessarily see the differences between denominations. It scares priests, bishops and youth leaders, because we need young people to stand up for the truth of Catholicism."
One way to keep young people involved through youth ministry and beyond is to encourage involvement as music ministers, readers, extraordinary ministers of holy Communion and roles in other parish ministries.
While the 5 p.m. Sunday Mass at St. Paul of the Cross is not labelled as a "youth Mass," Chesnes said, most of the lay liturgical roles are filled by young people, and it has become popular among young families.
"We want [young people] to have positions of leadership. It's easier to translate their ministries wherever they go. My goal was always not to have a strong youth group, but to have young people who will be strong in their faith 20 years from now. Confirmation isn't graduation; youth ministry is the stepping stone to adult participation in the Church."
Michelle Martin writes from Illinois.
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AT&T federal gets new leader with Kay Kapoor
Kay Kapoor, a former Lockheed Martin executive and leader of Accenture's federal business, has taken over as the head of AT&T Government Solutions.
She'll lead a 4,000-employee organization, based out of Oakton, Va., and report to Frank Jules, president of global business solutions for AT&T.
"At a time when the federal government is transforming how it does business, Kay brings the necessary focus, depth of experience, and proven record to lead our federal business, helping our customers succeed in this new environment," Jules said.
The federal unit delivers IT and professional services solutions to a variety of agencies.
Kapoor left Accenture in September after about 18 months as the leader of the company's federal business. She also was a senior executive at ITT Corp.
The bulk of her career was spent at Lockheed Martin where she spent 20 years, including being vice president and deputy to the president of the company's federal civilian business.
"I'm proud to join and lead AT&T's federal business at this critical time," Kapoor said in a statement. "The federal government is going through a technological transformation, embracing mobile and cloud solutions while combating new cyber security threats to our nation's infrastructure. AT&T is clearly established in these areas and uniquely positioned to help federal customers meet these pressing challenges."
Kapoor was recognized in 2010 as a Fed 100 winner by Washington Technology's sister publication, FCW. She's also active with the American Council for Technology/Industry Advisory Council, TechAmerica, the Society of Women Engineers and Women in Technology.
Kapoor also is on the governing board of the Arena Stage theater in Washington, D.C.
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Latos roughed up in opener as offense stays quiet
MILWAUKEE -- It was Friday the 13th at Miller Park, and Reds starter Mat Latos was feeling every bit unlucky.
The right-hander watched Carlos Gomez bloop run-scoring singles off the handle of his bat in his first two plate appearances, and Gomez added a two-run single up the middle in the seventh to lift the Brewers to a 5-1 series-opening win.View Full Game Coverage
MILWAUKEE -- It was Friday the 13th at Miller Park, and Reds starter Mat Latos was feeling every bit unlucky.
The right-hander watched Carlos Gomez bloop run-scoring singles off the handle of his bat in his first two plate appearances, and Gomez added a two-run single up the middle in the seventh to lift the Brewers to a 5-1 series-opening win.View Full Game Coverage
The Reds remained 2 1/2 games behind the Pirates, who lost Friday, for the first Wild Card position, and 3 1/2 games behind the Cardinals for the lead in the National League Central.
"A couple jam shots that beat us," said Latos, who suffered just his third loss since July 11 to drop to 14-6. "They got three runs off of two fisted balls that landed real shallow in the outfield. It was just one of those days that you've got to push the reset button and go after it again the next time you go out."
The Reds wish they could rewind the past five days. After taking three of four from the Cardinals and sweeping the Dodgers to start a 10-game homestand, they dropped two of three to the last place Cubs and lost the opener of a three-game series to the Brewers to kick off their final road trip of the season -- a nine-game stretch against Milwaukee, Houston and Pittsburgh.
Cincinnati has dropped seven of its last 11 games against the Brewers this season after winning five of the first six, and it fell to 3-5 at Miller Park.
Reds manager Dusty Baker could not get the image of Gomez's early base hits out of his mind.
"Boy, that's one of the cheapest hits I've ever seen," said Baker of Gomez's first flared single that drove in two runs in the first inning. "It looks like a single and two RBIs in the scorer's sheet. And then the next one by Carlos is the same way, and the last one with the bases loaded was the same way. It was hit a little harder. I guess that was his night when things like that happen over and over."
Gomez, mired in a 5-for-29 skid entering Friday, tied his career high with five RBIs and started the scoring with a bloop two-run single with the bases loaded in the first inning off Latos. The bags were packed after Norichika Aoki walked on four pitches, Ludwick misplayed a Jonathan Lucroy line drive and Aramis Ramirez took a Latos fastball off his left wrist.
Ludwick had a chance to record the second out of the inning, but he said he lost Lucroy's liner into the left-center field gap in the Miller Park lights.
"Second time it's happened to me in this ballpark," Ludwick said. "It happened to me in right field once, too. I tried to get down low and tried to get it out of the lights, but ... I was trying to just get a different angle on it, and I just couldn't get it out [of the lights]."
Gomez got jammed two batters later, but muscled an 0-2 fastball over first baseman Joey Votto's head to put the Brewers up 2-0.
Devin Mesoraco cut the deficit to 2-1 with an RBI fielder's choice in the second inning off Brewers starter Kyle Lohse, but Gomez flared another single -- this time on a first-pitch fastball -- into left field, scoring Jean Segura from second base with two outs in the third for a 3-1 lead.
Latos said both pitches Gomez hit were executed well, but the Brewers' center fielder got just enough wood on them to push them to the outfield grass.
"It's just what we wanted to do," Latos said. "He's a free-swinger, but he's that type of guy. He's a real good hitter, and he's real strong. Maybe if that's somebody else that [doesn't have] super human strength, I guess. I jammed him, I got exactly what I wanted. I got a shallow, little popup, but it just wasn't right at somebody. It happened to be where we weren't."
Meanwhile, the Reds could not muster anything against Lohse after Mesoraco's RBI groundout. Lohse escaped a bases-loaded, nobody-out jam to allow just the one run and threw six consecutive 1-2-3 innings. The only baserunner Lohse allowed in the final seven innings was a two-out walk to Jay Bruce before Ludwick grounded out, sealing the right-hander's ninth career complete game.
"The big inning is eluding us," Baker said. "You can't guide the ball. I can't take nothing away from him. He threw the ball well. He spotted it, he changed his speeds, he caught guys looking for the offspeed and he'd throw fastballs, looking for the fastballs, he'd throw offspeed. And he had good control. But like I said, we actually hit the ball better in my mind than they did, but the score didn't indicate who hit the holes."
"He missed a lot of bats tonight," Ludwick said. "He was getting a lot of balls hit off the end of the bat, a lot of people getting jammed."
While the Reds are in the thick of a playoff chase, Lohse said the Brewers have to put themselves in the mindset that they are too.
"You have to look at it as your playoff situation," said Lohse, who improved to 10-9 with the win. "These guys [the Reds], they're more than likely going to be in the playoffs. You're not going to knock them out or anything. But to be able to go out there and pitch well against a playoff-caliber team, it makes you feel good.
"That lineup can swing it quite a bit. I just went out here and did what I could, and it was fun."
Gomez added a two-out, two-run single up the middle in the seventh inning against Reds reliever J.J. Hoover. With two outs, Segura bunted his way on and Lucroy walked to end Latos' day. Hoover came in and walked Jeff Bianchi before Gomez lined the first pitch he saw into center field for two insurance runs. Both runs were charged to Latos.
Latos had sent down 10 of 11 hitters prior to the Brewers' two-out rally.
Kevin Massoth is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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|2009-12-30, 09:17
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|2009-12-30, 09:23
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Isn't Nisio's strength his witty conversations? (which he makes his characters so much better through) I really don't think any manga series can have conversations like Bakemonogatari's and get away with it.. especially not one in WSJ aimed at young boys who love action. Could you imagine 4 chapters of Zen and Medaka just verbal sparing in WSJ, yeah right lol.
|2009-12-30, 10:06
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Also it's not as if Hitagi's lost her ability to flay Koyomi with her tongue. She just uses it more sparingly. Besides it's not as if Hitagi has even appeared onscreen yet so writing her off is way premature.
|2009-12-30, 10:14
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|2009-12-30, 11:42
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Nishio is a good novel writer - his Zaregoto or Monogatari series are interesting to read, but there are also works that do smell like mediocre writings. Not that it is bad thing as we see markets full of such stuff, but that is what makes me to look skeptical at all that calling Nishio a novel God. He is good, but not that good, or else we would not see such mediocre titles at all and he would be releasing one big hit after another.
He is not a god, but a person and can make mistakes/run out of ideas just like all writers do at one point or another and I think Hitagi's character development, though planned (to show she is becoming normal happy girl) was a mistake because this character seems to be loosing its attractive charm in the firs place and making Nishio difficult to find her a place in the story at all.
Like Westly rightfully noted Nishio's strength is witty conversations and somehow with the new Hiatgi character development it becomes hard to create such witty dialog as it was before when she is taking a part in it, so he goes for other characters who can still provide it with ease (Kanbaru etc) to fill the place left after reducing Hitagi's role.
|2009-12-30, 12:33
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Show me where you have proof that it is hard for Nisio to create witty conversation with the new Hitagi personailty ?
Do you know his real reason for reducing her role ?
Where is the evidence that his choice for her change was a mistake ?
It sounds as if you people hate Hitagi !
I mean you guys ought to be cheering for her !
Why do you not support the character you claim to like so much ?
If you guys truly like the Hitagi character, then her change should be welcomed because she regains her emotions and is "HAPPY"
I thought Hitagi becomming happy, softer and sweeter to Koyomi would be more important to her fans.
Consider her stuggles to get there !
Now that she is free, people are saying she is boring and that it is hard to write for her ?
This is incredulous !
All we have is speculation and baseless assertions.
Just because we have not read it we think the worst ?
We really are hard to please.
|2009-12-30, 14:22
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Its like saying why do you not like BMW its all good and fine, so what if it was a Diablo before, its still a car. Yeah, but there are still quite a few differences, what I liked before is very different from what it is now, its almost like a completely different thing all together.
Just because you like the old Hitagi does not mean you will like the new one, simply because she has very little to do with the old Hitagi that you grew to like. It is not so hard to understand, is it?
People change. Just because that person is the same in name, does not mean that you will like him/her the same if from optimistic energetic person he/she turned into sad pessimistic one prone to violence. The name of the person does not matter - its what that person is and how that person acts. And if that person acts and who he/she is changed, even though the name is still the same you cannot expect to like him/her the same.
My main 'proof' is the lack of Hitagi's appearance which means that the author feels like the character does not contribute well to the current storyline and that the character like Kanbaru provide much more to it and can produce more plot turns, while such characters like Hitagi feel like they do not have as much plot-value as before.
I haven't seen other more solid arguments than this. If the author does not find a place to the character in the story it seems like the story and the author himself alienated from that character in question, and that character just do not have enough depth-plot wise to give more situations. One of the reason for that - happiness. Its much harder to writye about happy poeple than about unhappy ones or ones that have problems. Hitagi is like case solved and her bag looks empty to give us something new.
The only other argument I can think of would be that Nishio knows about Hitagi (old) popularity and wants to suppress this character on purpose so that he would get more reaction when the character makes a comeback, but again, this particular plan would be very risky considering hat Hitagi's character went under major transformation and the new Hitagi seems to barely have anything to do with the Hitagi of old.
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|2009-12-30, 17:17
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Are you kidding ?
Wait... so Hitagi changes, you only HEAR (hearsay from koyomi) about the changes, you haven't seen it for yourself in print and yet you have mostly negative views.
Come now my good comrade.
Think you not in terms of fear ?
What I suspect is we are fearing that the new Hitagi will not be fun.
So in order to prevent a dissapointment, if she is given "future screen time" in her new form and fails to impress, we go with a negative view.
We say things like Nisio can't write for her... and she is boring now to him and to us... her change is too much she is not the same... etc.
Listen... I have invested entertainment interest in this character but I am not prone to such intense investments.
Even so... I remain positive... and I say Nisio and Hitag are both...
I will not believe he can't write about Hitagi as happy or he wont.
For me, Nisio has to write about her being happy and fail at it first.
If you understand my thinking.
I have no proof that Niso has a dynamic and new and improved version of Hitagi. But I also have no proof that he is out of steam for the new one. Her absence is not proof.
It is pure negative fear driven suspicion.
You cant see it so you fear it.
If you understand what I am trying to say.
|2009-12-30, 17:49
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This is related to medaka box but just came to mind...
You know one of the things I have learned since reading manga and anime... is that Authors need to know when to quit despite the fans.
Every story has a head and a tail.
Japanese authors seem to be terrible at it... Fans seem to be greedy.
Publishing houses seem to want to wring every drop out of a story and a character and the whole thing last longer than it ought to.
Naruto and Bleach. They were good but should have ended long ago with NEW ideas broght to the front.
This is why I respect the CLAMP girls.
The reuse characters... in new ways... but end a story... when it is time to end it.
This is what I think Nisio has learnt from them.
I retrospect... by keeping Hitagi out of the Monogatari line leaves him free to bring her back to life in a new work.
For example, A light novel story/series about oddity fighting college students living together (the high school thing is really tiring) and getting through it all to graduation.
Arguments between Hitagi and Shinobu should be fun.
Hitagi : I told you to call me Okasan you blood sucking brat !
Shinobu: Shut up or I'll drain you. Then Koyomi will be all mine.
Hitagi : I wonder if I put too much garlic in Araragi kun's dinner, come here, taste this for me.
Shinobu: Agghhh, get away from me !
Hitagi : But, if you do away with me, I at least want to make sure you know how to cook well for Araragi kun and knows the tastes he likes.
Shinobu : Stay away !!!
*Hitagi chases Shinobu around apartment with bowl and spoon*
Shinobu : Araragi kun ! get thy crab off meee !!!
Hitagi : Ara, Koyomi-sama is not able to hear you now. He is fast asleep. I made sure I did some draining of my own to him last night. He hasn't any energy left. But I made sure to send him to a paradaise. See the smile on his face.
Shinobu : You Succubus !
Hitagi : Ah, so. We are family Shinobu-chan !
*Koyomi in sleep mode wrapped head to toe in futton with dirty perverted smile on his face... drool included.*
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|2009-12-30, 22:33
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Hello everyone.
I just wanted to point out that everyone has already seen a "happy" Hitagi. Everyone recalls the 3rd episode and a completely different Hitagi from the first 2 episodes. When I think of a happy Hitagi, this is how I imagine her. As you recall, she was happy because she had gotten her weight back and now had a first love. Poor Koyomi was even more helpless against her than if she came fully "armed" with stationary. Even with the other issues that she had, this was some pretty heady stuff for Hitagi.
The more problems or issues you face and overcome, just seems to make room for others to appear. She will still have issues when she goes to college and lives with a greedy and perverted lover that has a donut-eating vampire living in his shadow.
Hopefully Nisio will not allow Hitagi to be shunted aside.
By the way... wasn't classrep-chan planning to travel for a couple of years after graduation? She may not be an issue for Hitagi or Koyomi to deal with if that's the case.
|2009-12-31, 04:49
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BTW, supposely Hitagi was in love with Kaiki Deishū when he first "helped" her three years ago. Hitagi of course denies it but...Araragi has never been able to look at Hitagi the same way again..... that's probably why she purposed what she purposed that night. She said that she only acted all lovely dovely because she was being helped, but of course she wasn't that way when Araragi helped her.....
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|2009-12-31, 10:31
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Spoiler for Nise 1:
|2009-12-31, 10:46
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Spoiler for Big Big Questions... For me.:
|2009-12-31, 11:39
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BUT!!!! This is all my own theories here, I mean she kinda did purposed what she was planning to do that night BEFORE she met Deishuu again, which denies my theory completely. And of course I'll bring up the point again that there is a slight chance that they didn't fool around that night.
Yozuru and Deishuu were Oshino's clubmates in the their occult club back in their college days. Yozuru is a onmyoji that specializes in dealing with "immortal kaiis" and Deishuu specializes in dealing with "imposter kaiis" or kaiis that doesn't exist. Oshino is kinda like a wild card who is a genius that specializes in everything. (At least, that is the image people get from him.) There is also a senpai in the club, but we don't hear a lot about this person. Basically, the occult club was these four people doing their usual occult club stuff. Turns out, between the three kouhais only Yozuru managed to graduate college. Both Deishuu and Oshino dropped out in the middle. The funny thing is that Yozura considered herself to be the dumbest out of the three and she turned out to be the only one that crossed the finish line.
|2009-12-31, 11:49
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Spoiler for Nise 1:
|2009-12-31, 11:51
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Also, I won't say that he was actually beaten since he is freaking Kaiki and I'm sure he had a few tricks up his sleeve. I think he just didn't bother since it was to much of a drag. That's the thing with Kaiki, he LIES ALL THE TIME, I mean it is almost impossible to analysis a character when you can't take any of his words to heart.
|2009-12-31, 12:00
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Spoiler for Koyomi:
|2009-12-31, 12:19
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Nisio - The only author with the balls to put two jailbaits together....and get away with it.
|2009-12-31, 12:35
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April 14, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT men's volleyball capped off another successful year with the announcement of the North East Collegiate Volleyball Association's (NECVA) postseason awards. Head coach Paul Dill was the inaugural recipient of the David Hildebrandt Rising Star Award, which is given in memory of the former Newbury College head coach who passed away last summer.
Beginning in 2009, the award is presented to a head or assistant coach, who best exemplifies the attributes for which Coach Hildebrandt were known. Dill was selected by the NECVA Executive Board from among a half dozen finalists.
"It is very humbling and quite an honor to receive this award honoring the memory of Dave, especially in its first year," Dill said. "It means quite a lot to me that my peers see me as someone, like Dave who has developed a consistent program and is passionate about furthering men's volleyball at the Division III level. I will certainly work hard to give back to the sport that has given so much to me, and hopefully continue to live up to the ideals for which this award stands."
Scott Pollom and Michael Demyttenaere were voted to the New England All-Division Second Team. Pollom was tabbed for his second honor while Demyttenaere was a first-time pick.
The Engineers paced the field in All-Academic Team selections with seven in addition to collecting the Team Academic Award. Pollom and Randolph Li earned their third honor as Demyttenaere, Eugene Jang, and Eric Reuland were repeat honorees. Malcolm Bean and Tim Lee rounded out the list with their first accolades.


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Alfresco to deliver presentation on Web 2.0 and next generation ECM
Boston—April 17, 2007— Alfresco Software Inc., the first and leading provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced its participation in the AIIM Conference and Exposition.
John Newton, Chief Technology Officer, Alfresco, will be co-presenting with Wilson D'Souza of MIT. The presentation will focus on how Web 2.0 has forced the creation of a new generation of enterprise content management systems.
The presentation will begin at 2.00pm on Tuesday April 17 in Room 153A of the Boston Convention Center. The presentation will focus on three main objectives:
- How new communication tools combined with ECM minimizes the time it takes knowledge to reach the community
- How content and content applications can now combine with other applications to create new types of interactive applications in the browser
- How the open source movement affects both Web 2.0 and ECM going forward.
About Alfresco
Alfresco Software, Inc., the first and the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It is the first company to bring the power of open source to the enterprise content management market, enabling unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Founded by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell. Alfresco is based in London. For more information, visit www.alfresco.com.
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