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The edgeless pop-country trio Lady Antebellum is responsible for some of the smoothest, most elegantly rendered singles of the last five years: "I Run to You," "Just a Kiss" and especially "Need You Now," the 2010 smash that reached No. 2 on the Hot 100 and won Grammy Awards for record and song of the year.
So it was surprising — and perhaps a little troubling — to hear Charles Kelley, one of Lady Antebellum's two lead singers along with Hillary Scott, use the word "raw" recently to describe the group's new album, "Golden."
"We did loops and strings and everything for the last few records, but this one was like 'Let's just get in there, play it and be done,'" added Dave Haywood, who rounds out the band on harmony vocals and various instruments. The three musicians were sitting on their bus before their headlining performance at last month's Stagecoach festival in Indio; Haywood tuned a guitar as Kelley sipped from a red plastic cup. "It's definitely less polished."
Well, not entirely. On "Golden," due out Tuesday, Kelley and Scott are still carefully intertwining their voices in meticulous ballads like "It Ain't Pretty" and the gorgeous title track. And you can hear Lady Antebellum's attention to detail in the Tom Petty-ish "Get to Me" and in "Downtown," an elastic white-soul tune.
But with a number of twangy, up-tempo cuts — including "Better Off Now (That You're Gone)" and the fist-pumping "Goodbye Town," which feels like an attempt to duplicate Eric Church's anthemic 2012 hit "Springsteen" — the band's fourth album does roll back much of the sumptuousness that defined "Need You Now" and its last album, 2011's thrillingly wimpy "Own the Night." It's (slightly) tougher, more muscle than tissue.
It's also something of a letdown, at least insofar as the record is less distinctive than the band's best material. Coming in the wake of Lady Antebellum's journey to the outer reaches of homespun roots music, "Golden" occasionally carries a conciliatory vibe, as though the group were looking to prove that it hasn't sold the farm.
At Stagecoach it peppered new tunes and old hits with a cover of Kenny Chesney's "Back Where I Come From," which Kelley introduced by telling a story about how he and his friends used to listen to the song when he was growing up in Georgia. (In fairness, the band appended a bit of Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven" to "Just a Kiss," so maybe it's not done with soft-touch pop quite yet.)
Before their show, the musicians said the looser sound on "Golden" was in part the result of their jamming backstage while on tour in support of "Own the Night."
"We tried to get the sound of live performance," Haywood explained. Kelley added that playing concerts every night made it clear the band needed "more fun songs" to counterbalance the melodrama in "Need You Now" and "Dancin' Away With My Heart," the latter of which was a highlight of the band's set at Stagecoach.
"If you know us, we're really lighthearted," Scott said with a laugh. "We're not so serious all the time."
That may well be the case. But Lady Antebellum's shift on "Golden" is probably a matter of strategy as well: Though a creative triumph (and a commercial one by most acts' standards), "Own the Night" didn't fare as well as the quadruple-platinum "Need You Now," with approximately half the sales and a far shorter stay on the Billboard 200.
The group's follow-up, according to Kelley, represents a crossroads. "This is when fans are either gonna stay with you or zone out," he said.
And Lady Antebellum can't afford to have anyone zone out, especially with Scott due to give birth in July, prompting a lengthy break in the band's normally busy schedule.
It's doubling down until then: On Tuesday night the group is to play an album-release gig in New York, followed by performances Wednesday and Thursday on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon"; next week it will return to Southern California for appearances on "Chelsea Lately" and "The Voice."
Viewers of those shows are likely to get a taste of Lady Antebellum's old magic, particularly if the band uses its encore on "Fallon" to reach deep into "Golden" for the excellent power ballad "All for Love." Minus its trademark fussiness, though, the group might make viewers wonder what all the fuss is about.

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The calendar was successfully crowd-funded and reached it's funding mark a few days ago! There's still 24 hours to donate on pozible, if you'd like a copy of the calendar for $15. After that, it will be sold at $20 + shipping.
Jess has been profiling the artists on Bespoke, and I was featured last week, so pop over to the blog to check it out.


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Emilia Clarke: AFI Awards with Jason Momoa!
Emilia Clarke and Jason Momoa are all smiles at the 2012 AFI Awards held at the Four Seasons Hotel on Friday (January 13) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 24-year-old British actress and Jason, 32, were joined by their Game of Thrones screenwriter, George R.R. Martin.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Jason Momoa
Emilia and Jason were honored with a Year of Excellence Award for their work in the HBO fantasy series.
Game of Thrones is set to return with their second season on Sunday (April 1)!
10+ pictures inside of Emilia Clarke and more at the 2012 AFI Awards…


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Sources tell TMZ ... NBC, ABC and CBS are all competing for the first interview. Sources connected with the negotiations tell TMZ there is a "big price tag" for the interview. We're told the networks -- which say they don't pay for interviews -- are offering to license photos and other material and pay big bucks ... that's S.O.P. in the network game.
We're told NBC looks like the frontrunner so far, but ABC is in the game. We're told CBS "is a distant third." We're told NBC is paying for Baez' hotel room.
Baez spent part of the night Thursday in the Mandarin Oriental bar with famed lawyer Mark Geragos (right) -- who knows a thing or two about high-profile cases. We're told Geragos gave Baez pointers on negotiating the deal.
Will NOT be watching. I hope the interview is a ratings flop, whichever network gets it.
I mean.. unless she is going to tell everyone what happen to her kid... lost in grocery store, drowned, what ever.. the real truth is.. its just a waste of money to the fool that pays her to lie more. The girl has not said the truth yet.
Where was all the outrage when Nancy Dis Grace was pimping out this child's death for profit talk about blood money , hypocrites all of you.
Networks are such freaking hypocrites! Shame on them.
Networks will pay the big money because they know people WILL watch. If you watch, you're part of the problem!
I'll watch, but I expect it to be a lot of nothing said.
Whatever station it becomes... I will boycott!!! That woman has nothing to say that I want to hear.
I can't wait to watch Casey's interview. Whatever network gets her, I'll be watching! x
Here's what I'd give you for that interview: $0.00 It's not worth a plugged nickel to hear from that woman. Boo and bad karma to whatever Network forks over so much a dime. You can count me o-u-t out!


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Chester "Butch" Tucker, 66, of Joy, died Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 at Mercer County Nursing Home, Aledo.
Chester "Butch" Tucker, 66, of Joy, died Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012 at Mercer County Nursing Home, Aledo.
Visitation was 2 – 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012 at Dennison Funeral Home, Aledo. A private family service will be held. Following services, crema- tion rites will be accorded. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be left for the family.
Chester Logan Tucker was born June 11, 1946 in Junction City, Kansas a son of John Jr. and Catherine Thornton Tucker. He married Gail Kenney on July 15, 1992 in Joy. He served in the Army National Guard for six years. One of his proudest moments with the National Guard was serving on the honor guard for Eisenhower's funeral. Butch worked for the local tele- phone company for over 30 years, retiring in 2004. For many years he was a big part of baseball and softball in Joy. He enjoyed reading, watching television and most of all spending time with his grandkids.
Survivors include his children, Tabby (Allen) Spence, Aledo, and Brandon (Bonnie) Tucker, Davenport, Iowa; grandchildren, Paige, Zak, Tanner and Becky; great granddaughter, Hallee; father John Tucker, Mississippi and brothers, John Tucker, Virginia and Ken Talley, Kansas.
He was preceded in death by his mother.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Jan. 31, 2010) - The ETSU women's basketball team will look to go for the series sweep over Belmont on Monday evening, as the in-state rivals square off inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletic Center. Tip time is set for 4:45 p.m.
ETSU (12-7, 10-1 in A-Sun) defeated the Bruins by 14, 81-67, back on Jan. 23 inside the Curb Event Center, and a Lady Buccaneer win on Monday would mark the third consecutive series sweep by the Blue and Gold.
The Lady Bucs closed out the month of January on a high note, as ETSU won eight straight games since dropping an 85-78 stunner at USC Upstate back on Jan. 4 in
On Saturday, the Lady Bucs picked up their first series sweep in 2009-10 with the 82-59 victory over Lipscomb. Five ETSU players scored in double figures with senior TaRonda Wiles (
ETSU leads the all-time series, 8-5, and the Lady Bucs have won the last five meetings by an average of 19 points per game.
Fans unable to make the trip to
In addition, ETSU students who attend Monday's contest - along with a handful of selected Lady Buccaneer games - will have a chance to win a Nintendo Wii and enter a drawing for a $1,000 cash giveaway, which will be announced at the last regular season game on Feb. 22. Each time ETSU students attend a Lady Buccaneer game, they will have an opportunity to enter the drawing for more chances to win the cash prize at the end of the season against USC Upstate.
For more information on Lady Buccaneer basketball, visit www.ETSUBucs.com.


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I DON'T have a problem with factory Armscor Ammo - 40 or 39g 9r's. I'm using Factory Armscor 40 gr bullets.
I fell into the Lyman "M" die concept and it really does a nice job expanding and my bullets sit without support during seating. I finish with the Lee FCD.
I'm mid project now but have gone up to 11g H110 and now heading back down to the 10.2-3g loads and will watch my distance from target as well.
But remember - shooting factory ammo appears to be fine - Not that huge of a deal - as I target shoot only, and if I did carry and I needed to use it - think about the expanded wound channel.
Thanks again for everyone's interest - this appears to be a great site to learn and share.
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|2012-03-31, 20:56
|Link #21
Senior Member
Okay, if anybody else is getting the libgcc_s_sjlj-1.dll error, grab http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?rkr6kfkhnccn8ta
If you are using Never7_English_OGG.exe, right-click to select a playlist.
|2012-03-31, 23:18
|Link #23
Traveler of Infinity
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Japan
Note that Yuka's Route is the only one translated in this patch. Also, you need to clear the first four routes to unlock the Cure Route, and you need to clear the Cure Route to get Izumi's Route.
|2012-03-31, 23:32
|Link #24
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
alright, I'm assuming that "common route" just refers to the first 4 days then and is not really a route? Though from the script list it seems all the characters also have days 1-4.
If the routes split at day 4, are the script parts from days 1-4 just small events, or does day one refer to day one after the common route is over (day 5)? This is from looking at the script parts on the site, such as Yuka Day 1, Part 1: Tennis Match.
On another note, the site says that the patch lets you adjust character sound and music sound volumes. Is this in the teaser patch, and if so how do you do it? Also, I noticed you can't scroll up to read previous text...did they not include this in the game? Kinda odd since every other VN I've played uses this feature and its really useful. Would it be possible to add this feature?
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|2012-03-31, 23:40
|Link #25
Traveler of Infinity
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Japan
Not in this patch. We're working it out for the final release at this point.
Also, we forgot to include one file with the patch that we've added to the main page. Be sure to pick it up.
|2012-04-02, 03:06
|Link #27
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
I think I'm getting a problem where the game stops working when a video is supposed to play. I just got to the part where
makoto and yuka fall off the cliff at the shrine after an earthquake on April 6th.
*end spoiler*
I'm pretty sure a movie was supposed to play, but instead the screen just stays black. Also the game won't respond if I quit or alt-f4, so I have to end task it. Not sure if its a problem with my computer or the patch though. This also happens with a move that plays after not doing anything for a little bit in the main menu, the screen just goes black instead of showing the movie. Anyone know how to fix this? Is it possible to skip the movie? Also, which movie is it?
For the movie that plays after not doing anythign at the title screen, the screen is black, but I can still hear the music ( I think its the opening). Also, if I click, it will go back to the title screen. For the movie that I think played at the part from the spoiler above, the game basicly just freezes.
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|2012-04-02, 14:53
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|2012-04-02, 15:48
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|2012-04-02, 19:52
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
my yuuka video file works fine as well when I play it using a media player. The problem is that the videos fail to play in the game for some reason. Its not a problem with the video file itself. I also can't continue the game because the game essentially freezes when it happens.
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No Need to Be Afraid: Short Needle Flu Vaccine Gets U.S. Approval
French drugmaker Sanofi Aventis said on Tuesday it had won U.S. approval to market its Fluzone Intradermal vaccine for adults, allowing for flu injections with a very fine needle.
Sanofi has said that the new vaccine, developed with syringe maker Becton Dickinson, may hurt less than standard vaccines, does a better job of stimulating protection against influenza, and requires less of the active ingredient.
Most adult flu vaccines are given using a needle 1 inch to 1.5 inches (25 mm to 40 mm) long that goes into muscle tissue.
Sanofi's new needle is one-tenth that long, just 1.5 mm, and the vaccine uses one-fifth the usual amount of the active ingredient, called antigen.
The Fluzone Intradermal vaccine will be available to healthcare providers in the U.S. for the 2011-2012 flu season, Sanofi said in a statement.


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University Of Texas Claims Trademark Over 'Texas'; Wants Useful iPhone App Blocked
from the oh-come-on dept
Take for example this story, sent in by iamtheky about how the University of Texas is trying to stop some former students from making an incredibly useful iPhone app for UT students, called iTexas, by claiming it infringes on their trademark on Texas.
The makers of the app, Mutual Mobile, have made a bunch of successful iPhone apps, but UT got upset last year when the company introduced the UT Directory, which put a much more useful interface on (you guessed it) the UT staff and student directories. After the University complained, the company felt that perhaps the use of the school's colors made it look like an "official" app, so they agreed to fix that part. When the company launched iTexas, it made sure that it didn't have the school's color scheme or do anything to make it appear as the official app. But it did make the app a lot more useful:
A free download, the app retains the searchable directory but also lists menus from different cafeterias across campus, tallies students' dining-card and Bevo Bucks balances, delivers class schedules, shows campus maps, and more.This sounds like a great and rather useful app. Exactly the sort of thing that the University should be encouraging, not just because it would help some alumni succeed, but also because UT students would likely find the app quite useful. But, that's not the way UT officials think, apparently:
On Feb. 1, the Mutual team learned that UT had raised another objection to its latest app, specifically to the use of the word "Texas" in the name. "As this name is confusingly similar to the Texas [trademark], UT objects to such use," reads a notice sent to the Apple app store by attorney Wendy Larson. UT's board of regents began trademarking university properties back in 1981. A list of protected trademarks appears on the university Office of Trade mark Licensing Web page; alongside more specific trademarks such as Bevo and Lady Longhorns is, simply, Texas.Lesson learned: don't try to make life better for UT students without first paying the University.


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The SEO Essentials Guide for Beginners – Part 3
Congratulations! If you've been following along with my last few posts you're over a big hump as a beginner SEO. You're now ready to tackle optimizing the on page elements of your website. If you feel like you need a refresher, check back to read up on how search engines work and how to conduct a keyword analysis, otherwise let's start by…
Getting Under the Hood
Since we've gone to all the trouble of picking out good keywords we want to make they're actually present in well written content, and that our website code is clean, making it nice and easy for robots to crawl and index pages. This part of the process is very hands on and I'm making an assumption that you have a basic understanding of HTML and how to edit and publish files on your domain through your web hosting service.
HTML Code
There are some specific parts of the underlying HTML source code of your website that provide signals to search engines, so it behooves you to pay attention to and understand what they are. You can examine the source code of just about any webpage simply by right clicking your mouse and selecting "View Page Source" from the dialogue box that pops up. Below are some tags and a sample screen shot:
HTML Title Tags: Look for the title at the top of an HTML document between these <TITLE> tags. A title tag tells both users and search engines what the topic of a page is about. Every web page can and should have a title declared using your keywords to describe what you think is important to potential readers.
Meta Description Tag: The meta description tag looks like this in your code <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="informative description here"> and allows you to suggest how you'd like your pages to be described in search listings. Search engines can and do create different descriptions based on what they determine is most relevant to the search, but using them increases the odds that your preferred text will appear.
Header Tags: There are 6 HTML Header tags ranging from <H1> to <H6> that are used to identify and organize content in descending order of importance. Copy placed inside a header tag appears in a slightly larger and boldfaced font than its surrounding text. H1 tags are commonly used as a main headline, while a sub headline may be in H2.
URL Structure
If you blog regularly you'll have more opportunity to play around with using your keywords in the URL structure of links. Using keywords in your URL's whenever possible "does help a little bit" as Matt Cutts from Google explains in the video below. Most blogging platforms today will grab the main headline of your post and add it to the end of the URL. If you're like me, you like to write headlines that will grab a reader's attention which isn't always going to be search engine friendly. A good tip is to write that arresting headline that will garner the most readers as you publish your content across the web, then a few days after the traffic big hump go back and change the URL structure to something more search engine friendly stuffed with keywords.
Another tool you should be using to help Google better understand your site and all of its glory is an XML Sitemap. Sitemaps help search engines crawl and index pages that might not be easily discovered otherwise, like content that hides behind a form. You can submit a Sitemap via Google's Webmaster Tools. They don't affect the actual rank of your pages, and it's not guaranteed that all of your links will be crawled by submitting one, but it does lead to an increased presence and greater visibility of your site in Google's index. There are plenty of XML Sitemap generators out there you can use for free so get it done if you haven't already. More information about Sitemaps can be found in Google's Webmasters Central Blog here
As you begin to tweak your copy remember that you're writing for people, not search engines. Stay focused and on topic. If you have to write your keywords on post-it notes and stick them to your monitor to do so, then do it! Content is King is one of the most overused clichés in SEO, but it there is a lot of truth to that statement. Search engines love fresh useful content. Blogging is a great way to continually publish fresh content, especially on topics most people would consider "evergreen".
Other Useful On Page Search Engine Stuff
- 404 Error Page: A 404 error is returned when someone tries to navigate to a page on your site that doesn't exist. Having a custom 404 page can greatly improve that users experience by providing helpful information like a link back to your home page or other popular content. It can even make you laugh like some of these clever examples.
- 301 Redirects: Anyone who's ever "moved" a website to a new domain should be familiar with a 301 redirect. A 301 redirect tells a search engine that a URL it's looking for has permanently moved to a new location. This is a critical part of ensuring you don't have duplicated content on different URL's that can negatively impact your page rank. For more information about 301 redirects can be found here.
- robots.txt file: Robots.txt is a text file that gets stored in your websites root directory and provides instruction to search engine robots. It allows you to specify what areas of your site you don't want bots to crawl and index (like a 404 error page). You can also indicate the location of your sitemap and indicate the speed robots can crawl a server. More info about robots.txt can be found here.
Don't forget to check out next week's post on topics around off page optimization. We'll explore directories, link building and more! Have questions? Let me know in the comments section below.
The SEO Essentials Guide for Beginners Round Up:
Part 1 – How search engines work?
Part 2 – Where do I start?
Part 3 – Getting under the hood
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|2005-12-20, 19:01
|Link #1
Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
Noein -- Mou Hitori no Kimi e
License announced at Anime Central 2006, picked up by Manga Enertainment.
Since it is now licensed, the following posts are no longer allowed in this thread.
You still are allowed to discuss the anime, that has not changed but please remember to limit the discussion to the story. End of edit by Mod (xris)
Amazed to find no new thread for this yet. One of the best shows of the fall season. Multiple universes. Fights so well animated that even I can enjoy them. And deep emotions and romance, some of an unusual kind.
Good voice-acting, including serious work from the great Chiba Saeko (Dokuro-chan, Chika-chan), and definite improvement in the second role for Kudou Haruka, who was Hagu in Honey & Clover.
Chapter 11 is the first anime episode I've ever seen that attempts to show the "Schrodinger's cat" quantum paradox, lol. Loved the way they showed a night view from inside a high building, with water running down over the outside of the windows. I enjoyed hearing the husky voice of Shiraishi Ryoko, who was Shiratori in Mahoraba, as the young visitor from the future, Tobi.
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|2005-12-20, 19:55
|Link #2
The Commissar Vanishes
Yeah, it was a fun little episode. Although Uchida was just putting in words the notions we already thought about, the Cat was a hilarious addition. 8)
Also, this episode was the first one I've seen a character reading manga in (apart from anime about otakus, like Comic Party or Genshiken or Otaku no Video, as they don't count). 8)
But the ending was pretty dramatic...
Next episode seems to be the big brotherly battle I've been waiting for.
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|2005-12-21, 21:44
|Link #4
Yuuki Aoi
Join Date: Jul 2004
EDIT: Having read the next message, I've sent a message to the admins asking them to move the thread if appropriate.
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|2005-12-21, 21:55
|Link #5
Rock beats scissors
Join Date: Jul 2004
It's not listed on animesuki, so apparently it's considered licensed.
About episode 7+8... Yuu's mom sure is annoying, she doesn't seem to take a hint. Then again, she's in the "you're a kid, I'm an adult" mindset ofcourse. Not even thinking about what Yuu wants, just what she envisions for him, for some odd reason that might get explained more thorougly. I wonder what would have happened if Haruka hadn't been freed from the water container. Would she have died? What would the machine do? Anyway all this time / dimensional travel sure makes your head spin sometimes, damn paradoxes.
|2005-12-21, 23:37
|Link #6
Animesuki's Janitor
Thats because its a Media Factory C & D anime. So any anime that has anything to do with Media Factory will NOT be posted in Animesuki.
I dont think talking about groups doing the project is allowed, correct me if Im wrong.
I find the art a little freaky, although the music is incredible.
Mercedes-Benz W125 Specifications
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|2005-12-21, 23:38
|Link #7
The Commissar Vanishes
Noein is one of MediaFactory productions, so, although it is NOT licensed, AnimeSuki will not list it for obvious reasons.
I think this should still stay in "Fansubs", as per usual practice, but that is for admins to decide, naturally.
|2005-12-22, 03:08
|Link #9
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Fields of High Attus
Age: 29
For once I'm lagging most terribly behind. I won't do this in any of the other topics but for this one I have to indulge in a moment of bitter and sad laughter that all that stuff I organized and translated magically poofed off. -_- Well, there goes all that time. Don't know if anyone used it anyway, so heck!
Other than that, I've got nothing to add except that it seems like episode 12 will be co-animation directed by a certain Norio Matsumoto who is quite famous among people who follow animators, and is well known for great action seqences, including certain famous Naruto episodes...
It's a long way through episodes 8 to 11... grrr.
|2005-12-22, 04:23
|Link #11
Just call me Ojisan
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: U.K. Hampshire
While this series has not yet been licensed it is produced by MFI, therefore we won't be listing fansubs here on AnimeSuki. See Removal of Media Factory Inc. Works for details.
Since it is "restricted", the following posts are no longer allowed in this thread.
You still are allowed to discuss the anime, that has not changed but please remember to limit the discussion to the story.
And since the series hasn't been licensed, we treat the series discussion thread the same as any other non-MFI series. In other words, the thread belongs in the Fansub forum
P.S. If you search for "noein" on the main AnimeSuki site, you get the following info
Removed at Request
This series has been removed at request (more info).
|2005-12-24, 04:21
|Link #12
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Fields of High Attus
Age: 29
So I caught up with all the eps... I absolutely can't wait until episode 12. But so far it's been great - no huge huge huge steps except the resolution of the Miyuki-stressing-Yuu-out line (I am so relieved; and it was also very nice seeing Miyuki get drunk!...
There's way too much to say though... and it's kind of pointless, so I'll just say that
1. The characters still look so different. But I'm a Satelight fangirl and somehow I've gotten used to it. (EXCEPT in that bloody ep 2 and 7...)
2. Somehow I can start seeing where the show's going to go, but I genuinely think it could also surprise me (I hope it will)
3. Even though the show isn't holy-bovine radically different from all anime that's been around, it's certainly giving a very different feeling from the others. No idea why. Actually, it's probably just the fangirl kicking in.
4. I have a feeling that the producers decided to throw character model consistenc to hell in exchange for more character movement... let the animators feel happy and unrestrained and you'll get a better result for less money?
EDIT: Guess what, I found the website of one of the animators, Ryoochimo Sawa. He's got some nice animation in there (there's this thingy he says is copied from ep 26 of Eva, it looks really awesome...) He's 26 years old, and he has a lot of respect for people who do good animation (he really respects Satoru Utsunomiya. Yay!) Apparently he did key animatoin in Beck too... He was also in Aquarion, but he's not part of Satelight yet, I think. Or maybe he is. I dunno (his profile page says he's freelance but his oekaki bbs reply hints that he's there for now...)
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I felt really sorry for you, NeoSam and the Mahou Jigoku Shoujo Ai crew when the servers lost all that data.
|2005-12-24, 08:24
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The Commissar Vanishes
Satoru Utsunomiya... A man I genuinly dislike as far as slick, gorgeous anime is concerned, yet whom I believe to be able to fit in the production of Noein quite nicely.
I think they'll benefit from his animation techniques, and he won't f'k up their character designs too much. They are f'ked as it is, and that's one of Noein's winning features.
Now, please, Mr. Utsunomiya, just stay with Kawamori's crowd, don't ruin other shows with you uniqueness! 8)
|2005-12-24, 08:34
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Age: 27
I think this is the best Fall anime, by far. The others just can't match it. It's great on all aspects; the animation is really different and beautiful; the music score is outstanding; the story may not be very original but it's very well directed and the characters are realistic. I can't wait for more, and I can't understand the reason nobody's talking about this anime.
|2005-12-24, 10:01
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I think the look is fairly special, and I like their self-indulgence with CG: it gives me a feel of the lay of the land around Haruka's house, for example. I'm not sure how it would work, but your idea about them sacrificing consistency for movement makes sense to me. I see the characters as being drawn with very few lines, so as to make the process quicker and cheaper (?).
My experience of anime is limited, but for me this show is also unique in its plot and characters. How often do we see shows that deal with multiple universes based on many-worlds quantum theory? Or people confronting other versions of themselves? Or the threat of extinguishing a whole universe, or even a suite of universes? And how often do we see this mixed with school romance, particularly this kind of very touching but unromantic romance? For me, the sad, nostalgic looks Karas gives Yuu, Haruka and the others are like a dart to the heart.
|2005-12-24, 10:27
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Location: The Fields of High Attus
Age: 29
Well, yeah - if they don't have to draw so many details (like very detailed shading ala ep 2 and 7) you can draw many more pictures in the same amount of time. Unless you have tons of people working on it at the same time, I guess. But that costs money, and the wider range of drawings could make it harder for the animation director to correct the drawings. Also, if the team isn't pressed to have a consistent look throughout, they won't need to spend so much time making their own drawings look on-model and the animation directors can spend less time correcting the actual drawings and correct the movement more.
But then again, there's a load of animation directors for this show - ep 4 had eight of them and many others have had multiple ones (or assistants) as well as 2nd key animators (no clue what they do exactly, but perhaps they clean up the animation before passing it onto the AD?)... Perhaps it's because most of the animators can only draw nice pictures but can't actually draw good movement, so the animation directors have to spend so much time correcting that that they need to drag in other people? That's, of course, very different from how usual anime is produced... and if it's true, then that's one of the key things that makes Noein different.
And while I like Utsunomiya and I don't think that Eureka OP was all that bad, I certainly agree that his talent will find much more appreciation and have more use in shows such as Noein. In fact, when he said he was doing an OP of an anime, it was just before Noein's ep 2 and the 3rd season of Eureka, and I think everyone guessed that it would be the Noein OP but it turned out to be wrong.
Spoiler for fangirl tangent:
Just looking at the episode preview for episode 12 is already making my mouth water... A full-action episode!! And by Norio Matsumoto!! The fangirl in me is roaring! ...I shall pacify myself by watching that last bit of ep 7 (the absolutely best bit of the ep) and ep 10 (the fight)...
And I wonder if we'll start seeing Haruka's father now that he's been brought into the picture (if I got Uchida right).
and Quajafrie, nobody's talking about this anime because
1. It was known beforehand as an MFI project, so no pre-publicity (despite all my efforts , I ended up sounding more like an idiot though)
2. No subs available on AS
3. Little of it available elsewhere (hope I'm not breaking the rules here)
It isn't even so weird that people absolutely can't get into it, but oh well... There's nothing we can do except continue talking among the, uh, 3 or 4 of us, and hope somebody else chips in every now or then
|2005-12-24, 10:40
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The Commissar Vanishes
Let me join you in saying I love seeing Karasu just sitting there, petting the cat and enjoying just looking at the kids playing.
You sort of get the feeling that he is in heaven now, that he has lead a very tormented life with Hakura's dreadful fate, a destroyed horrible world and comrades that you never really trust. You can feel that he has lead a miserable life after whatever it was that happened with Haruka, but now he is back in the land of his dreams, in the world (figuratively speaking) where everything is still normal. You watch him petting that cat, looking at the gang and remembering the better times, when he didn't have to fight and sacrifice.
His face softens and becomes less mean and tormented. So, yay for Karasu and yay for the pettable cat (what's her name, anyhow?). 8)
|2005-12-24, 11:11
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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: The Fields of High Attus
Age: 29
Well, I guess SnS is more to the taste of the people over on these boards... I think most people would look at the synopsis, think "aah not another one of those shows" and turn off. Maybe it's also because Shana's got better publicity pics and people post lots of images of her on imageboards and in their sigs and avatars? I better find that Haruka avatar of mine again.
(I personally can't truly undrstand why SnS is more popular than Noein...)
And you're right, MrProphet... It's like living like a hopeless slave in the depths of the slums of the worst country in the world, never knowing if you'll see the next morning and having to eke out a living for yourself... and then being invited to have lunch with a bunch of friendly, kind and honest people, in a clean country with nothing to fear and you can't believe that you can actually just sit back and relax. Except that it's even more poignant for Karasu because he actually knew this scene. It's part of his memories.
I kind of like how the Lakrima people are coming back and kind of giving hints.. Fukurou made me smile, telling Ai "Don't bully Isami, he's just a kid", but again it was also kind of sad when he told Isami and Yuu to stay as friends, when he knows that in the future things turn out quite differently...
Another thing is Miho - see how well-off and comfortable she is, she's also got a great relationship with her mother and she can go out whenever she wants, but then look at the situation she's in in Lacrima... Consigned to the pits of the slums, never seeing the surface and living in fear (presumably, anyway). In fact, you can kind of say that about the whole of Hakodate... a 1st-world city, comfortable, clean, safe and beautiful even; reduced to a sad state.
Still don't get how the fashion changed so drastically though... o.o;
Edit: Seems like the official site's got some new things. You can see clearly who are Gokan, Enra and Taiza, the 3 head honchos of Lacrima. Am I the only one who thinks Taiza looks like Sasahara, and more worringly, that Gokan looks vaguely like a fat and ugly version of Uchida? But I wonder if it's a coincidence that she has the same seiyuu as Miho's mother ...
There's also a small pic of Haruka's dad, gosh he looks *awful*. But he looks like someone Juurouta Kosugi should voice, for some strange reason that's what my head says...
There's also this shot of an awfully cute christmas card they gave everyone in the recording studio here at the official blog..... a really funny picture (anyone gets it? )As well as some very good stuff on the creation of those intriguing Shangri La face-machine things. There's an interview with the designer and small pics of the production designs... Cool!
And Haruka's cat is called Tono.
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The funeral of former Ravens owner Art Modell has been scheduled for Tuesday morning at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation.
The 11 a.m. service will be followed by an invitation-only luncheon and a private interment.
In lieu of flowers, the Modell family is asking that contributions be made to The SEED School at 200 Font Hill Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21223 or www.seedschoolmd.org
A silent viewing and fan tribute to Modell is being held Saturday at M&T Bank Stadium between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Modell's casket will be on the field with the Vince Lombardi Trophy next to him that the Ravens earned with a victory over the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV.
Free parking is available to fans in Lots B and C with fans asked to enter the stadium through Lot A via Unitas Plaza.
Modell, the former majority owner of the Ravens and Cleveland Browns, died at age 87 at 4 a.m. at Johns Hopkins Hospital on Thursday morning.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, there were usually major model changes every two or three years. But Ford made its third major styling change in three years when it introduced the standard-size Ford Galaxie for the 1961 model year.
Of course, each new styling change is supposed to be more desirable than previous models, but sometimes they miss (i.e. 1957 Ford to 1958 Ford). This time they really got it right. In fact, according to ehow.com, the 1961 Ford Sunliner won an award for its functional beauty from the noted Italian fashion authority Centro per L'Alta Moda Italiana.
The Sunliner convertible was, of course, the top of the line for Ford, with a price starting at $2,849 ($22,300 in today's dollars). Various engine options were offered, from a 292-cubic inch, 175-HP V8 to a 390-cubic inch Thunderbird V8, generating 400 HP.
Called Monte Carlo Red, this Ford Sunliner belongs to Hayward resident Kathy Langley.
"My father-in-law, Norman Langley, bought the car in 1984 for $2,250," she said, "and owned it until 2000, when he passed away. He left the car to my husband, James, but unfortunately he passed away in 2003.
"Up until that time, I had never driven the car, but I didn't want to let it go. I thought it was too beautiful and too much fun. So I learned how to drive it. It's a great car to drive, but it's really big. You don't park a car like that," she said," you dock it."
Langley, an accountant and former flamenco dancer danced me through some of the other numbers relating to her 1961 Ford. The Sunliner sits on a 119-inch wheelbase and weighs 3,792 pounds. Of the 349,665 Ford Galaxies built for the 1961 model year, almost 13 percent, or 44,614, were Sunliner convertibles. This big convertible is 17.5 feet long and 6.7 feet wide — considered the standard size for cars in the 1960s.
Langley's Ford has the big Thunderbird V8 engine teamed with Cruise-O-Matic, a three-speed automatic transmission. Ford also offered a two-speed Ford-O-Matic as well as a three-speed manual transmission, but most customers opted for automatic.
Langley related a memorable event. "When my father-in-law had the car, he was a big Raiders fan. One day, the Raiders office called and commissioned him to drive Carol Doda around the concourse prior to a game." (If you don't know who Carol Doda is, ask someone over 50 years old.) This car was also used in a travel trailer advertisement, probably to emphasize that an ordinary car is all you needed to pull a big Airstream trailer.
The car is not completely restored, but was recently repainted by Gilbert's Auto Body in Hayward. "My husband put new upholstery in the car, added mag wheels, front disc brakes and power steering as well as a new top," the owner said.
Langley doesn't drive her 172,000-mile convertible much in the winter, mostly because of limited visibility with the top up. She drives it often April through November, always with the top down.
She treasures her car not only for sentimental reasons, but also financial. "When my husband inherited the car in 2000, it was valued at $12,000. Now the value is between $50,000 and $60,000. So I think these cars are better than the stock market."
Langley plans to keep the car forever.
"My biggest amount of fun," she said, "is just having it out on the road and having people respond to it. One day, I was wearing my scarf and sunglasses driving slowly down a narrow residential street with speed bumps. An obviously 'Southern' gentleman was working on his truck at the curb, and with his accent said, 'Honey, you look just like Elvis Presley's wife.' That just really made my day."
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Sure, you could read the box score and know who won, but we all know that won't tell you everything that happened in a basketball game. So, we will give you Suns Strokes, providing you with the analysis, quotes and notes from the Suns' 111-108 win over the Hornets on November 23. Final Score: Suns 111, Hornets 108
The Good:
The Suns beat the Hornets 111-108 on Friday night at US Airways Center in overtime to improve to 6-7 on the season. With the win the Suns also improve to 3-1 against the Western Conference this season and they earned their fourth straight victory over the Hornets.
Goran Dragic has scored in double figures in all 13 games this season and he is the only Suns' player to do that this year.
Markieff Morris scored a career-high 23 points and P.J. Tucker recorded a career-high 15 points, including 2-for-3 from three-point land.
The Bad:
The Suns have now trailed by double-digits in 11 of 13 games this season, including six of seven home games.
The Suns trailed by as many as 19 points again Friday against the Hornets. Phoenix has overcome double-digit deficits in four of their five home wins this season, but the players and coaches have said that it takes too much energy and effort to constantly dig yourself out of a large hole.
The Suns played a record nine overtime games in the 2010-2011 season, but did not play a single overtime contest last season. This is the Suns' second overtime game this year and their first since November 14th.
Phoenix finished the third quarter on a 22-7 run to get them back in the game and they are now 2-0 with the revised starting lineup of Goran Dragic, Shannon Brown, Michael Beasley and Marcin Gortat. Head coach Alvin Gentry made the change to his starting lineup on November 21st.
He Said It:
"I can't say enough about PJ Tucker," Gentry said. "He epitomizes what we want our entire team to be really. That is just a hard, grind it out worker that never quits on any play."
Up Next:
The Suns hit the road for a season long six-game trip that starts in Philadelphia on Sunday, November 25th against the Sixers. They'll then head to Cleveland, Detroit, Toronto, New York and wrap up in Memphis on Tuesday, December 4th.


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Years ago, I was covering a meeting in Greenwood or Greenville or Grenada or somewhere in Mississippi when a farmer made a comment that struck me as funny.
"We don't want people to understand too much about the farm bill," said the grower, who shall remain nameless to protect him from ribbing by his peers. "If they did, they probably would be upset."
I thought about his words while reading a press release, which the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition's Ferd Hoefner wrote after Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns outlined the Bush administration's agricultural spending proposals for fiscal 2008.
Hoefner, who has emerged as a spokesman for conservation and environmental groups on the next farm bill, was pointing out inconsistencies between the budget plan and the farm bill proposals Johanns announced on Jan. 31.
He was asking if the increases in conservation programs contained in the farm bill proposals announced by Johanns would supersede the cuts in those same programs included in the administration's budget plan. "Otherwise, instead of an increase in the budgets for working land conservation programs, the administration would actually be endorsing major cuts."
(In his comments on Jan. 31, the secretary proposed increasing funding for the Conservation Security Program and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program by a combined $475 million annually. The administration budget, meanwhile, proposes to cut $160 million from CSP and $270 million from EQIP.)
Hoefner also couldn't understand why the administration wants to eliminate commodity payments for those whose adjusted gross income exceeds $200,000 while purportedly proposing an increase in the payment limit for individual farmers from $250,000 to $360,000.
He didn't mention the administration is also seeking to eliminate the three-entity rule, which allows individual farmers to receive up to twice the payment per year in total contract payments and marketing loan gains on three separate farming operations (a full payment on the first operation and up to a half payment for each of two additional entities.)
Eliminating the three-entity rule, which allows an individual farmer to receive up to $360,000 in direct and counter-cyclical payments and marketing loan benefits ($40,000 in direct payments, $65,000 in counter-cyclical payments and $75,0000 in marketing loan gains times two) would inflict far more damage on larger farming operations than lowering the cap to $250,000.
In announcing the farm bill proposals, Johanns noted how important exports are to cotton producers, accounting for 80 percent of sales annually. Unfortunately, cotton exports have fallen dramatically, in part, because of the loss of Step 2, which the administration pushed to end to comply with a WTO ruling.
USDA's latest supply/demand report lowered its export forecast 2.5 million from last year's total to 14.5 million bales, and increased the 2006-07 carryover to an almost unheard of 8.3 million bales.
Those developments mean larger farming operations will be more dependent on government payments than ever to stay in business. But we don't want people to know about that, do we?


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Beyonce's Baby Will Bathe In Bling
Kelly Rowland was almost deported back down to the basement after she dropped the gender of the unborn wig messiah during a red carpet interview, and so she knew she had to diffuse the rage in Beyonce's eyes with something sparkly. That's where this mess of a bedazzled baby bathtub comes in. ABC News heard that Kelly spent $5,200 on a baby-sized porcelain tub from designer Lori Gardner and gave it to Beyonce as a baby shower gift. The Liberace Jr. special takes 2 months and 44,928 Swarovski crystals to make. It weighs more than 3,000 pounds.
Jay-Z and Beyonce are allegedly building a 2,200 square foot nursery in their Tribeca apartment and so this 1% of bathtubs is merely just a dim twinkle on the mound of tacky extravaganza their baby will sit on top of. Still, some of the old members of Destiny's Child are cursing life for not falling out of Beyonce's vagina as they scrub their pits in a Rubbermaid trash can full of hose water in their backyards (been there!).
I was going to write that at least those crystals will give Beyonce's au pair something shiny to focus on when her baby butt burps a tub turd, but then I remembered that the golden child of infinite light is probably going to shit Swarovski crystals anyway.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – For the second year in a row, MIT received a trio of Pilgrim League All-Conference accolades. Eric Zuk collected his second straight Second-Team selection while Bryan Beller and Carl Tilbury earned their first awards by being picked to the First and Second Teams, respectively.
Zuk is MIT's first repeat honoree since Isaac Taylor '05 was tabbed to the Second Team in 2004 and 2005. A long-stick defender, he compiled 36 groundballs, a team-high 15 caused turnovers, and a goal. Beller, another component of the Engineers' defense, totaled 35 groundballs, 12 caused turnovers, and one goal. Tilbury was the squad's top-scoring midfielder, tallying 23 goals and six assists for 29 points. He registered five man-up makers and a pair of game-winning goals.
The Cardinal and Gray also saw nine athletes named to the league's Academic All-Conference Team. Will Gibson and Tom Hay were three-time honorees while John Kucharczyk, Justin Myers, Dan Piemont, Nick Sisler, and Tomas Vianna made the list for the second time. Tilbury rounded out the squad with his first selection.


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Ever Wonder What a 240 Year Old Book Looks Like?
Lately, I've taken to going after old books. I'd say a good bit of my interest stems from my love of history, and holding an old book is holding a piece of history, even if only a small and usually insignificant part of it. It's an artifact of a bygone era, and it's fascinating to think about where all it's been. A really old book–say 75 years old at the very least–has probably seen more than one owner, and the fact that it hasn't been destroyed in some way probably means it's been taken care of, sat in a box or trunk somewhere for decades, or was just really lucky.
Yesterday, I managed to get my hands on my oldest book yet: an edition of volume 2 of Montesquieu's Persian Letters published in English in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1773. For perspective, that makes it older than the United States of America, which of course, came into being in 1776. I found it through a seller on eBay for about $28 before shipping. Knowing that I had found something of a steal, I hit "Buy It Now" as soon as I could. Officially, it's a birthday present from my parents, as I used their credit card to buy it (I got their permission, of course, heh).
It's not in the best shape. The most glaring problem is probably that its spine has a split, and what's left isn't in the best shape. I'm not willing to open any part of the book beyond about 70 degrees for fear that it might break further. The front cover is also missing, and the first couple of [blank] pages have come off. The back cover is in bad shape, but it is pretty well attached still. Of course, at almost 2 and a half centuries old, the paper shows obvious aging, but the pages are generally about as good as could be expected outside of the seemingly miraculously well-preserved books of this age that show up from time to time. It'll need rebinding for certain, but I'll have to wait a while on that since I lack the money to pay for that. It should go without saying that great care has to be taken in handling it.
What makes this even more special is that I just finished a class on the Enlightenment this past Spring. Montesquieu was, of course, one of the major French philosophes, and France was the center of the Enlightenment. However, Scotland was also a center of the Enlightenment, and works and letters frequently traveled between the countries as the philosophers in each compared notes and thoughts. This book is physical proof of that, since it is a French philosophe's work translated into English and published in Edinburgh. It's truly fascinating for me to think about that.
Anyways, I thought I'd post some photos of it, since some people are curious about it. I've posted them below the fold. Read more…


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Thanks to Brady Perl for stopping in with guitar in hand and performing a few tunes for us.
Click "more" to see the playlist and listen to the archives.
Angie hung out with me today. We threw the tunes out there for ya' on this sunny, warm, "winter we hardly knew thee" kind of day.
Lots of newer releases today, including Ray Wylie Hubbard, Steve Kaul & The Brass Kings, Justin Townes Earle, The Union Suits, Pearl Handled Revolver, Bernie King & The Guilty Pleasures, Jimmy Burns Band, Lincoln Durham, L'Assassins, Microwave Dave & The Nukes, Bob Livingston, Kentucky Bridge Burners, Nathan James & The Rhythm Scratchers, Tail Dragger & Bob Corritore.
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Angie Pykonen (of KFAI's In Your Ear) and I were joined by a couple of guests this afternoon:
Ron Thums (formerly of the great, sorely missed, Friday night show "Radio Rumpus Room"), stopped in to participate in the hijinx and keep the show focused in the right direction, whatever that means.
Also, Tea Simpson of L'Assassins stopped by. Freewheelin' is sponsoring the L'Assassins Record Release & Pajama Party, Saturday night at Lee's. Reckless Ones, Violent Shifter & DJ Travis will also be perfoming.
Anyway, Tea is a cool lady and we were thrilled she could stop in. Unfortunately, with all the pledge drive hoopla, we couldn't give her as much time as we would like. We did manage to chat a bit, play a couple of L'Assassins and Reckless Ones songs, and have a few giggles. Hopefully, she and her bandmates will be back on the show sometime soon.
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One of a Four-Day Series
Rogue GIs unleashed wave of terror in Central Highlands
By MICHAEL D. SALLAH and MITCH WEISS
Article published October 19, 2003: : (Toledo
Blade) QUANG NGAI, Vietnam - For the 10 elderly farmers in the rice paddy, there was nowhere to hide.
The river stretched along one side, mountains on the other.
Approaching quickly in between were the soldiers - an elite U.S. Army unit known as Tiger Force.
Though the farmers were not carrying weapons, it didn't matter: No one was safe when the special force arrived on July 28, 1967.
No one.
With bullets flying, the farmers - slowed by the thick, green plants and muck - dropped one by one to the ground.
Within minutes, it was over. Four were dead, others wounded. Some survived by lying motionless in the mud.
Four soldiers later recalled the assault.
"We knew the farmers were not armed to begin with," one said, "but we shot them anyway."
The unprovoked attack was one of many carried out by the decorated unit in the Vietnam War, an eight-month investigation by The Blade shows.
The platoon - a small, highly trained unit of 45 paratroopers created to spy on enemy forces - violently lost control between May and November, 1967.
For seven months, Tiger Force soldiers moved across the Central Highlands, killing scores of unarmed civilians - in some cases torturing and mutilating them - in a spate of violence never revealed to the American public.
They dropped grenades into underground bunkers where women and children were hiding - creating mass graves - and shot unarmed civilians, in some cases as they begged for their lives.
They frequently tortured and shot prisoners, severing ears and scalps for souvenirs.
A review of thousands of classified Army documents, National Archives records, and radio logs reveals a fighting unit that carried out the longest series of atrocities in the Vietnam War - and commanders who looked the other way.
For 41/2 years, the Army investigated the platoon, finding numerous eyewitnesses and substantiating war crimes. But in the end, no one was prosecuted, the case buried in the archives for three decades.
No one knows how many unarmed men, women, and children were killed by platoon members 36 years ago.
At least 81 were fatally shot or stabbed, records show, but many others were killed in what were clear violations of U.S. military law and the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
Based on more than 100 interviews with The Blade of former Tiger Force soldiers and Vietnamese civilians, the platoon is estimated to have killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in those seven months.
"We weren't keeping count," said former Pvt. Ken Kerney, a California firefighter. "I knew it was wrong, but it was an acceptable practice."
Many details of the period in question are unknown: Records are missing from the National Archives, and several suspects and witnesses have died.
In many cases, the soldiers remember the atrocities and general locations, but not the precise dates.
What's clear is that nearly four decades later, many Vietnamese villagers and former Tiger Force soldiers are deeply troubled by the brutal killing of villagers.
"It was out of control," said Rion Causey, 55, a former platoon medic and now a nuclear engineer. "I still wonder how some people can sleep 30 years later."
Among the newspaper's findings:
Commanders knew about the platoon's atrocities in 1967, and in some cases, encouraged the soldiers to continue the violence.
Two soldiers who tried to stop the atrocities were warned by their commanders to remain quiet before transferring to other units.
The Army investigated 30 war-crime allegations against Tiger Force between February, 1971, and June, 1975, finding a total of 18 soldiers committed crimes, including murder and assault. But no one was ever charged.
Six platoon soldiers suspected of war crimes - including an officer - were allowed to resign during the investigation, escaping military prosecution.
The findings of the investigation were sent to the offices of the secretary of the Army and the secretary of defense, records show, but no action was taken.
Top White House officials, including John Dean, former chief counsel to President Richard Nixon, repeatedly were sent reports on the progress of the investigation.
To this day, the Army's Criminal Investigation Command refuses to release thousands of records that could explain what happened and why the case was dropped. Army spokesman Joe Burlas said last week it may have been difficult to press charges, but he couldn't explain flaws in the investigation.
The Army interviewed 137 witnesses and tracked down former Tiger Force members in more than 60 cities around the world.
But for the past three decades, the case has not even been a footnote in the annals of one of the nation's most divisive wars.
Thirty years after U.S. combat units left Vietnam, the elderly farmers of the Song Ve Valley live with memories of the platoon that passed through their hamlets so long ago.
Nguyen Dam, now 66, recalls running as the soldiers fired into the rice paddy that summer day in 1967. "I am still angry," he said, waving his arms. "Our people didn't deserve to die that way. We were farmers. We were not soldiers. We didn't hurt anyone."
But one former soldier offers no apologies for the platoon's actions.
William Doyle, a former Tiger Force sergeant now living in Missouri, said he killed so many civilians he lost count.
"We were living day to day. We didn't expect to live. Nobody out there with any brains expected to live," he said in a recent interview. "So you did any goddamn thing you felt like doing - especially to stay alive. The way to live is to kill because you don't have to worry about anybody who's dead."
Battle-tested platoon drew special mission
The Quang Ngai province stretches eastward from the lush, green mountains to the sweeping white beaches of the South China Sea.
To the villagers, it was revered, ancestral land that had been farmed for generations.
To the North Vietnamese, it was a major supply line to guerrillas fighting to reunite the country.
To the U.S. military, it was an area of jungles and river valleys that had to be controlled to stop the communist infiltration of South Vietnam. Gen. William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, created a special task force in 1967 to secure the province.
In a conflict marked by fierce guerrilla warfare, the task force needed a special unit to move quickly through the jungles, find the enemy, and set up ambushes. That role fell to Tiger Force.
Considered an elite arm of the 101st Airborne Division, the platoon - formed in 1965 - often broke into small teams to scout the enemy, creeping into the jungle in tiger-striped fatigues, soft-brimmed hats, with rations to last 30 days.
Not everyone could join the platoon: Soldiers had to volunteer, needed combat experience, and were subjected to a battery of questions - some about their willingness to kill.
The majority of those men were enlistees who came from small towns such as Rayland, Ohio, Globe, Ariz., and Loretto, Tenn.
By the time Tiger Force arrived in the province on May 3, 1967, the unit already had fought in fierce battles farther south in My Cahn and Dak To.
But this was a different place.
With deep ties to the land, the people of Quang Ngai province were fiercely independent.
In this unfamiliar setting, things began to go wrong.
No one knows what set off the events that led to the deaths of untold numbers of civilians and prisoners.
But less than a week after setting up camp in the province, Tiger Force members began to break the rules of war.
It started with prisoners.
During a morning patrol on May 8, the soldiers spotted two suspected Viet Cong - the local militia opposed to U.S. intervention - along the Song Tra Cau River. One jumped into the water and escaped through an underwater tunnel, but the other was captured.
Taller and more muscular than most Vietnamese, the soldier was believed to be Chinese.
Over the next two days, he was repeatedly beaten and tortured. At one point, his captors debated whether to blow him up with explosives, according to sworn witness statements.
One former soldier, Spec. William Carpenter, told The Blade he tried to keep the prisoner alive, "but I knew his time was up."
After he was ordered to run - and told he was free - he was shot by several unidentified soldiers.
The platoon's treatment of the detainee - his beating and execution - became the unit's operating procedure in the ensuing months.
Time and again, Tiger Force soldiers talked about the executions of captured soldiers - so many, investigators were hard pressed to place a number on the toll.
In June, Pvt. Sam Ybarra slit the throat of a prisoner with a hunting knife before scalping him - placing the scalp on the end of a rifle, soldiers said in sworn statements. Ybarra refused to talk to Army investigators about the case.
Another prisoner was ordered to dig bunkers, then beaten with a shovel before he was shot to death, records state.
The killing prompted a medic to talk to a chaplain. "It upset me so much to watch him die," Barry Bowman said in a recent interview.
One Tiger Force soldier, Sgt. Forrest Miller, told investigators the killing of prisoners was "an unwritten law."
But platoon members weren't just executing prisoners: They began to target unarmed civilians.
In June, an elderly man in black robes and believed to be a Buddhist monk was shot to death after he complained to soldiers about the treatment of villagers. A grenade was placed on his body to disguise him as an enemy soldier, platoon members told investigators.
That same month, Ybarra shot and killed a 15-year-old boy near the village of Duc Pho, reports state. He later told soldiers he shot the youth because he wanted the teenager's tennis shoes.
The shoes didn't fit, but Ybarra ended up carrying out what became a ritual among platoon members: He cut off the teenager's ears and placed them in a ration bag, Specialist Carpenter told investigators.
During the Army's investigation of Tiger Force, 27 soldiers said the severing of ears from dead Vietnamese became an accepted practice. One reason: to scare the Vietnamese.
Platoon members strung the ears on shoe laces to wear around their necks, reports state.
Former platoon medic Larry Cottingham told investigators: "There was a period when just about everyone had a necklace of ears."
Records show soldiers began another gruesome practice: Kicking out the teeth of dead civilians for their gold fillings.
Villagers resisted relocation orders
For Tiger Force, the fighting was unpredictable in Quang Ngai.
In the first three weeks of May, platoon soldiers were under frequent sniper fire as they walked unfamiliar trails.
Booby traps covered the rolling hills and beaches.
On May 15, the unit was ambushed by a North Vietnamese battalion in what became known as the Mother's Day Massacre. From 11 a.m. to 5:45 p.m., the out-manned platoon became trapped in a valley under intense fire.
By the time it ended, two Tiger Force soldiers were killed and 25 wounded.
Over the next few weeks, the platoon would change.
A new field commander, Lt. James Hawkins, joined the unit, along with two dozen replacements.
The newcomers arrived as the platoon was about to move into the Song Ve Valley.
The Army's plan was to force the villagers to move to refugee centers to keep them from growing rice that could feed the enemy. But it wouldn't be an easy assignment.
Many villagers refused to go to the centers, which the U.S. State Department criticized in 1967 for lacking food and shelter. Surrounded by concrete walls and barbed wire, the camps resembled prisons.
Though the Army dropped leaflets from helicopters ordering the 5,000 inhabitants to the centers, many ignored the orders. "They wanted to stay on their land. They took no side in the war," Lu Thuan, 67, a farmer, recently recalled.
Unlike most of the province, the valley - removed from the populated coast by narrow dirt roads - was not a center of rebellion, say villagers and historians. "We just wanted to be left alone," said Mr. Lu.
Lieutenant executed unarmed, elderly man
But no one was left alone.
The Song Ve Valley - four miles wide by six miles long - became the center of operations for Tiger Force over the next two months.
In clearing the land, the soldiers began burning villages to force the people to leave.
It didn't always go as planned.
At times, villagers would simply flee to another hamlet. Other times, they would hide.
For the soldiers, the valley became a frustrating place.
During the day, they would round up people to send to relocation camps. At night, platoon members huddled in camps on the valley floor, dodging grenades hurled from enemy soldiers in the mountains.
The lines between civilians refusing to leave and the enemy became increasingly blurred.
One night, the platoon ran into an elderly carpenter who had just crossed the shallow Song Ve River. Dao Hue, as he was known, had lived in the valley his entire life.
He was walking to his village along the banks of the river on a dirt trail he knew by heart.
On this night, he wouldn't make it home.
His shooting death on July 23 as he pleaded for his life would be remembered by five soldiers during the Army's investigation.
It would also send a message to the people of the valley that no one was safe, leading hundreds to flee.
The platoon had been patrolling the valley and set up camp in an abandoned village, where they began drinking beer delivered by helicopter. By dusk, several soldiers were drunk, reports state.
At nightfall, the platoon received an unexpected order: Move across the river, and set up an ambush. What followed was a shooting that would be questioned by soldiers long after they left Vietnam.
When Mr. Dao crossed the river, he ran into Sgt. Leo Heaney, who grabbed the elderly Vietnamese man with the gray beard.
Immediately, the 68-year-old carpenter dropped his shoulder pole with baskets on each end filled with geese.
"He was terrified and folded his hands and started what appeared to me as praying for mercy in a loud high-pitched tone," Mr. Heaney told Army investigators.
He said he realized the man posed no threat.
Sergeant Heaney said he escorted Mr. Dao to the platoon leaders, Lieutenant Hawkins and Sgt. Harold Trout. Trembling, the man continued to babble loudly, witnesses said.
Immediately, Lieutenant Hawkins began shaking the old man and cursing at him, witnesses recalled. Without warning, Sergeant Trout clubbed Mr. Dao with the barrel of his M-16 rifle.
He fell to the ground, covered with blood.
In a sworn statement to investigators, Specialist Carpenter said he told Lieutenant Hawkins the man "was just a farmer, and was unarmed."
But as medic Barry Bowman tried to treat the villager's head wound, Lieutenant Hawkins lifted the man up from where he was kneeling and shot him in the face with a Carbine-15 rifle.
"The old man fell backwards on the ground, and Hawkins shot him again," Specialist Carpenter said in a sworn statement. "I just knew he was dead as half of his head was blown off."
Lieutenant Hawkins denied the allegations in an interview with Army investigators on March 16, 1973. But in a recent interview with The Blade, he admitted killing the elderly man, claiming his voice was loud enough to draw enemy attention.
"I eliminated that right there."
But four soldiers told investigators there were other ways to silence him. In fact, the shots ultimately gave their position away, which led to a firefight.
Said Mr. Bowman: "There was no justifiable reason that the old man had to be killed."
Nearly four decades later, the villagers who found Mr. Dao's remains said they knew he was killed by U.S. soldiers.
His niece, Tam Hau, now 70, was one of the first to see her uncle's body by the river the next day.
She and another relative, Bui Quang Truong, dragged their uncle's remains to their village. "He was shot all over his body," she recalled. "It was very sad - sad for all of us."
Soldiers intensified attacks in the valley
Four days after the shooting of Dao Hue, four Tiger Force soldiers were wounded in guerrilla grenade attacks.
The platoon struck back.
Over the next 10 days, the soldiers led a rampage through the valley.
The area was declared a free-fire zone - a special designation that meant troops didn't have to seek approval from commanders and South Vietnamese officials before attacking enemy soldiers.
But Tiger Force soldiers took the words - free-fire zone - literally. They began to fire on men, women, and children, former platoon members said.
Two partially blind men found wandering in the valley were escorted to a bend in the Song Ve River and shot to death, records show. Two villagers, including a teenager, were executed because they were not in relocation camps.
While approaching a rice paddy on July 28, platoon members opened fire on 10 elderly farmers.
The image of the bodies scattered across the green expanse has long been remembered by Tiger Force soldiers and the people of Van Xuan village.
By all accounts, the farmers thought they were safe.
They were too old to serve in the military and not openly aligned with either side in the conflict, according to their relatives.
In the end, four were killed and others wounded in what several soldiers told investigators was an unjustified attack.
The order to shoot came from Lieutenant Hawkins, the officer leading the patrol, records state.
One villager recently recalled the farmers were surprised when the soldiers began firing. Kieu Trac, now 72, said he watched helplessly as his father fell in the rice field with the others.
He said he waited for hours before crawling into the field in the darkness to look for his father's body. He recalled turning over the corpses - one by one - until he found Kieu Cong, 60.
The son and his wife, Mai Thi Tai, carried his remains back to the village for burial.
The bodies of three others, Le Muc, Phung Giang, and an elderly female member of the Trang family, were later buried by relatives.
"The farmers didn't do anything
we didn't hurt the soldiers. All they were doing was working in the fields," said Mr. Kieu, pointing to the spot where his father and the others were killed. "They thought the soldiers would leave them alone."
Another villager, Lu Thuan, who watched the attack from a nearby mountain, said he doesn't remember how many were wounded.
"Some were injured," said Mr. Lu, now 67. "They couldn't run fast enough. Others acted like they died."
Mr. Carpenter, one of the soldiers in the patrol, insists he did not fire his weapon. "It was wrong," he said in a recent interview. "There was no way I was going to shoot. Those people weren't bothering anybody."
He told Army investigators he was afraid to express his opinion. A culture had developed in the unit that promoted the shooting of civilians - with team leaders enforcing a code of silence.
Four former soldiers told investigators they didn't report atrocities because they were warned to keep quiet by team leaders.
Ken Kerney, the former private, recalled in a recent interview the briefing he received before joining Tiger Force.
"The commanders told me that What goes on here, stays here. You never tell anyone about what goes on here. If we find out you did, you won't like it.' They didn't tell me what they would do, but I knew. So you're afraid to say anything.''
Villagers recently interviewed said they dug dozens of mass graves after the soldiers moved through the valley.
Nguyen Dam, 66, recalled the grim task of burying neighbors and friends whose bodies were left in the fields.
"We wouldn't even have meals because of the smell," the rice farmer said. "I couldn't breathe the air sometimes. There were so many villagers who died, we couldn't bury them one by one. We had to bury them all in one grave."
Platoon moved north, focused on body count
Days after the attack on the farmers, U.S. planes flew over the valley, dumping thousands of gallons of defoliants to ensure no one would grow rice there during the war.
For Tiger Force, the Song Ve campaign was over.
On Aug. 10, platoon soldiers - armed with new supplies and reinforcements - rode a truck convoy into a new area 30 miles north.
Known as the Quang Nam province, the vast landscape was covered by triple-canopy jungles and intricate, enemy tunnels.
The mission was to control the province, but not in the traditional way of winning territory.
The platoon became dragged into a battle that became a mantra of the war: body count.
The success of a battle would be measured by the number of people killed - not by whether a village was taken, according to the sworn statements of 11 former officers.
In what became one of the bloodiest periods of 1967, the Army launched a campaign on Sept. 11 known as Operation Wheeler.
The battalion commander who would lead Tiger Force and three other units was Lt. Col. Gerald Morse, who had taken over the previous month.
The 38-year-old officer was described as an aggressive, hands-on commander who rode in helicopters and kept in frequent radio contact with his units in the 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry.
Within days of taking over, Colonel Morse changed the names of the battalion's three companies - an action questioned by investigators years later.
Instead of companies A, B, and C, they were now known as Assassins, Barbarians, and Cutthroats - with a sign hoisted over battalion headquarters bearing the new names. And Colonel Morse would go by the name "Ghost Rider."
Under his command, Tiger Force was encouraged to forcefully patrol the dozens of hamlets in the province.
But the soldiers soon learned this was different from the Song Ve Valley.
It was not only home to the Viet Cong, but a far more trained and disciplined adversary: the 2nd Division of the North Vietnamese Army.
Though these enemy forces previously hid in the nearby Annamese Mountains, they were now moving toward Chu Lai, the sprawling U.S. air base that was home to Tiger Force and other units.
By early September, the enemy soldiers were setting ambushes for troops, including Tiger Force.
"We soon found ourselves face to face with the enemy," recalled William Carpenter, the former platoon specialist who now lives in eastern Ohio. "It seemed like every day we were getting hit."
Within 18 days of arriving in the new operations area, five Tiger Force soldiers died and 12 were wounded in fighting that left the remaining platoon members bitter and angry.
The platoon - broken into groups of four to six soldiers - began attacking villages with a vengeance, according to former soldiers.
"Everybody was blood thirsty at the time, saying We're going to get them back. We're going to go back there. We're going to even the score,'" former medic Rion Causey said in a recent interview.
He said he watched as soldiers took out their aggressions on unarmed civilians who refused to leave their homes.
"I've never seen anything like it. We just came in and cleared out the civilian population," said Mr. Causey, 55, now a nuclear engineer in California. "It was a day by day by day thing."
In some cases, the Army dropped leaflets into villages warning people to go to relocation centers.
If the people didn't leave, "they would be killed," Mr. Causey said.
To cover up the shootings, platoon leaders began counting dead civilians as enemy soldiers, five former soldiers told The Blade.
A review of Army logs supports their accounts.
For 10 days beginning Nov. 11, entries show that platoon members were claiming to be killing Viet Cong - a total of 49. But no weapons were found in 46 deaths, records show.
Mr. Causey recalls a report to commanders.
"We would call in on the radio - seven VC running from hut. Shot and killed' - Hell, they weren't running. We didn't know if they were VC."
Sgt. James Barnett told investigators he once raised concerns to Lieutenant Hawkins that Tiger Force soldiers were killing people who weren't carrying weapons.
"Hawkins told me not to worry about it," he said. "We can always get the weapons later."
During the rampage, the soldiers committed some of their most brutal atrocities, Army records show.
A 13-year-old girl's throat was slashed after she was sexually assaulted, and a young mother was shot to death after soldiers torched her hut.
An unarmed teenager was shot in the back after a platoon sergeant ordered the youth to leave a village, and a baby was decapitated so that a soldier could remove a necklace.
During the Army's investigation, former Pvt. Joseph Evans - another Tiger Force soldier - refused to be interrogated. But in a recent interview, he said many people who were running from soldiers during that period were not a threat to troops.
"They were just running because they were afraid. They were in fear. We killed a lot of people who shouldn't have been killed."
Grenades targeted civilians in bunkers
For villagers, it was a routine: Run to the underground bunkers for safety.
In every hamlet, there were shelters, supported by bamboo and brick and covered by leaves and brush.
To the civilians, it didn't matter whether the soldiers were American or North Vietnamese. They went to the bunkers when either approached.
When Tiger Force appeared on a path leading to a village 20 miles west of Tam Ky, the people scurried for cover.
Tiger Force soldiers told investigators they remembered seeing women and children crawl through the openings.
No one knows how many were inside, but it didn't matter.
When the soldiers reached the bunker entrances, they "knew what to do," Pvt. Ken Kerney told investigators.
Without trying to talk to the people below, the soldiers pulled the clips on their grenades, and dropped the explosives through the holes.
Setting up camp nearby, soldiers heard human cries coming from the underground shelters throughout the night.
But no one bothered to help.
For platoon member Charles Fulton, the night dragged on.
"We kept hearing human sounds which came from the direction of the bunkers,'' he told investigators. "They were the sounds of people that had been hurt and trying to get someone's attention to get help. Although faint, they were clear."
The bodies eventually were removed by villagers, former soldiers told investigators. No weapons were found in the bunkers, nor was there any evidence the villagers were a threat to U.S. forces, according to witness statements.
The next day, soldiers approaching the hamlet saw the bodies of women and children lining the roadway.
Soldiers achieved objective of 327 kills
Toward the end of Operation Wheeler, there was even greater motivation for killing.
An order was given via radio one day that would be remembered by seven soldiers years later.
A voice came over the airwaves with a goal for the battalion: We want a body count of 327. The number was significant because it was the same as the battalion's infantry designation: the 327th.
Three former soldiers swore under oath the order came from a man who identified himself as "Ghost Rider" - the radio name used by Colonel Morse.
Army radio logs show the goal was achieved: Tiger Force reported the 327th kill on Nov. 19.
In a recent interview, Colonel Morse, who retired in 1979, denied giving such an order, saying it was "ridiculous ... I would never have done anything like that."
During questioning by Army investigators, former Pvt. John Colligan said the order indeed was given.
In fact, he said the soldier who reached that goal "was to receive some type of reward."
Sergeant Barnett told investigators he heard the same order over the airwaves by someone who identified himself as Ghost Rider.
Three former soldiers said in recent interviews the goal was achieved in part through the killing of villagers.
Number of killings remains a mystery
No one knows how many unarmed civilians were killed by Tiger Force from May through November, 1967.
Soldiers from the platoon killed 120 villagers in one month alone, former medic Rion Causey said in a recent interview.
Former medic Harold Fischer recalled that most of the platoon were "shooting people left and right."
"We would go into villages and just shoot everybody. We didn't need an excuse. If they were there, they were dead."
While the Army substantiated 20 war crimes against 18 Tiger Force soldiers during their seven-month sweep across the Central Highlands, former soldiers described 11 more in recent interviews with The Blade, including:
Two elderly men killed during an unprovoked attack on a hamlet near Tam Ky. One was beheaded and the other, who was wounded, was shot by medic Barry Bowman in a "mercy killing," he said.
An elderly man shot to death by Private Colligan near Chu Lai when the soldier wanted to test a new 38-caliber handgun on a live target, Mr. Fischer said.
Numerous villagers shot by Tiger Force members in a hamlet near Chu Lai, said former Pvt. Douglas Teeters. The villagers were waving leaflets at the troops asking to be relocated, but when enemy forces fired on the soldiers from another direction, the troops opened fire on everyone in their sight, said the former medic.
"We killed a bunch of them. I don't remember how many," he said. "But I remember when it was over, we just said the dead gooks were VC. But we knew they weren't all VC."
And most soldiers just kept quiet, even if they didn't participate.
"Remember, out in the jungle, there were no police officers. No judges. No law and order," Mr. Kerney said in a recent interview. "Whenever somebody felt like doing something, they did it. There was no one to stop them.
"So we watched and didn't say anything. We turned the other way. Looking back, it's terrible. We should have said something. But at the time, everybody's mindset was, It's OK.' But it wasn't OK. It's very sad."
Changing war put troops on defensive
By the end of November, the long campaign was over.
In a story in the Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, Tiger Force's Sam Ybarra was praised for the 1,000th kill of Operation Wheeler.
At a ceremony at the Phan Rang base on Nov. 27, 1967, medals were pinned on the chests of Tiger Force soldiers, including Sergeant Doyle, who ordered the execution of a farmer during the operation.
In the ensuing weeks, Tiger Force would leave the Central Highlands. By early 1968, the war was changing.
North Vietnam began its own campaign - the Tet Offensive - attacking 100 villages and cities in the south.
Tiger Force was sent to defend a base near Cambodia.
For medic Rion Causey, the war was no longer about killing civilians but defending American strongholds as the enemy moved toward Saigon.
As the base camp was overrun and soldiers were dying, he came to a grim conclusion:
"The only way out of Tiger Force was to be injured or killed."
He was right.
On March 6, 1968, he was injured, and as he was lifted by the helicopter, he recalled looking at the Tiger Force soldiers below.
"I remember just kind of saying to myself: God help you guys for what you did. God help you.'
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Electric utilities take the safety of grid-tied power systems very seriously. Any such inverter must meet UL 1741 and IEEE 1547 standards, which are intended to protect utility workers from electric shock as they repair power lines during a blackout, and also protect a homeowner's equipment and appliances from damage due to power quality fluctuations. To meet the standard, inverters must:
In your case, it's likely that your utility simply isn't familiar with your inverter because the Trace SW series was discontinued a few years ago. The SW4024 inverter was first introduced in 1994, and thousands of them are still in use for both off-grid and grid-tied applications. The SW series has gone through many different hardware and firmware versions since then, and most of them meet UL 1741 standards.
Some utilities think UL 1741 isn't stringent enough. They may require that all grid-interactive equipment be chosen only from their list of approved models, which may also specify only certain model years or firmware updates. In other cases, it is the state utility commissions that determine allowable equipment. Unfortunately, I don't know of any master database of inverters approved by different utilities, though many provide that information on their websites or will mail it to you upon request.
Utilities and electrical inspectors like to see new installations that are tidy; contain modern, new equipment; have ample documentation and schematic drawings; and were designed and installed in a professional manner. That puts the do-it-yourself homeowner with old equipment at a disadvantage. Your vintage Trace SW inverter is an old workhorse that will likely continue to perform for years to come—but is best placed into service in an off-grid situation.
Dan Fink • Buckville Energy Consulting