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|2012-11-18, 18:33
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If you're an anime only viewer then I can understand why you may think that. However, if you're a game player, then I'm really curious as to why you think the game players that are complaining don't know why they're dissatisfied.
|2012-11-18, 19:20
|Link #62
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As you might guess, their primary means of competing is to produce shows fast (which lets them adapt to a client's business schedule where other studios are unable) and often on a low budget. It helps that they succeed with moe characters, plus their ability to handle complex production work (R.O.D., Shana, Index) gives them an edge.
Each studio has its own mission, and they're out to fulfill a particular demand from the industry. That's even true for low priority productions, where fast and cheap are the orders of the day. Investors don't know what will become a hit, so with low priority stuff, it's all about throwing mud on a wall and seeing what sticks. Cheaper is better, and some studios focus their activities around that.
If VisualArt's had been turned down more than once (which is my gut feeling), they probably got the message. KyoAni's priorities lie elsewhere.
Shifting back to video games, it's like a developer gaining a reputation on licensed properties and then moving onto their own work. While Bioware could've stuck with Dungeons & Dragons or Star Wars RPGs, they let go of those in favour of Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age (exception = Star Wars: The Old Republic, which was supposed to kick off a major MMORPG division). As a company, their aspiration was to build their own brands.
Risking too much can potentially destroy a company, so they'll have to balance between their aspirations and their adaptation work.
The anime business never fails to surprise or teach me new things, which is why I love it. Sometimes ideas that seem obvious to me as a fan become questionable once the interests of investors (usually several, all with different agendas and motivations), producers, and copyright holders come into play. Whether I like the result or not, I'm trying to gain understanding into why things work out the way they do.
|2012-11-18, 19:43
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Off the top of my head, I can't think of many anime adaptations of very popular source material properties that didn't go on to be successful anime shows. Heck, even some properties that were widely criticized for being unfaithful (Fate/Stay Night, Shakuga no Shana's second season) went on to be commercially successful.
A KyoAni made LB! would almost certainly have pulled down 20K or more sales, based on the proven and consistent track record that we see with Air, Kanon, and Clannad. It would have reinforced the strong brand identity that KyoAni had built in large part due to their Key work. I think that this would certainly be to the benefit of both Key and KyoAni. So I firmly disagree with your argument that KyoAni was right in turning down VisualArt.
Prior to Chuunibyou, KyoAni's only "anime original" was Munto, which was a rare commercial failure for KyoAni.
So KyoAni's exceptionally strong repudiation (and we see this in various anime fan-polls, not just on places like Anime Suki) has long rested on "someone else's products".
A year ago this time, who had the better reputation: P.A. Works, with a few prominent and successful anime originals, or KyoAni, who's only anime original was Munto? Would you argue that P.A. Works was seen as a stronger "content company" than KyoAni?
I respect how knowledgeable you are about the anime industry, but I do think there are some things that you are underestimating the value and importance of (or, conversely, I think you might be overestimating the importance of an anime studio having some anime originals to its name - The general lack of them certainly doesn't appear to have held KyoAni back over the past few years).
Last edited by Triple_R; 2012-11-18 at 20:07. Reason: Clarifying argument
|2012-11-18, 21:09
|Link #64
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It's kinda like revealing the name of Saber's sword in Fate/Stay Night or telling people Archer's real name. It's much too heavy of a spoiler.
|2012-11-18, 22:34
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Also, popular and well-selling doesn't mean every investor benefits a lot. A manga publisher invests to sell print media, so success that's localized to anime may not be of great interest to them. It's a problem that many visual novels face.......with proper treatment, Little Busters may be an expected hit, but do partner companies believe they have much to gain?
In short, they have a broader vision than what some fans may like. Perhaps this will bite them in the ass one day, but with Chuunibyou, they have little to complain about.
If that's what they want to do, then more power to them. I disagree that letting LB! go was dumb when the alternative is turning out well.
Adaptations aren't the only way to please fans, and the decision on Little Busters isn't going to make or break their business.
|2012-11-18, 23:45
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At a perverse level, the negativity regarding Little Busters has just been so entertaining to me. To be honest, I think now that the Kyoani exceptionalism is absent (No gorgeous visuals) KEY is really being evaluated for what it truly is: a mediocre visual novel company.
Much of Clannad was very similar to little busters in that the side routes were mostly forgettable, with few highlights. You also either rolled with the slapstick humor or it whiffed completely. It's funny for me to see the very same complaints I levied against Clannad much to that fanbase's chagrin be said here and elsewhere.
This is putting aside source material fans who always seem to be displeased no matter what show it is.
|2012-11-19, 05:06
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If this anime is inferior to Kyoani versions of other KEY VN...why would fault fall on KEY?
|2012-11-19, 06:50
|Link #68
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I agree to a certain extent though. I think Nichijou and the moderate success that is Hyouka has changed them. They want sustained profits so they can continue to adapt whatever the heck they want. Chuunibyou looks like a money grab to me, if it's successful I'd speculate that they'll probably try and adapt even more shows that go against the grain of what we're used to seeing by them. Maybe if they have a lot of bombs we'd actually see a real new season of Haruhi (Not that Endless eight junk.) I mean there's no way a new season of Lucky Star or Haruhi with it's 20k+ sales and the demand it creates for character goods(For new characters as well.), that would make delving into shonen comedies or slice of life mysteries make sense? I think they take on different types of works, instead of hammering their big successes, to satisfy the staffs creative urges, not their pockets. Is this too naive? Has Kyoani ever talked about why they decided to go with Nichijou or Hyouka? If I were concerned about the companies well being, I don't see how I would ever make that decision, maybe Nichijou if I wanted to test my boundaries on what I could make while still being successful, but then to come back with a light mystery seems off to me.
Now for some LB talk (No spoilers, but I will talk about typical VN structure.). This episode was probably my favorite episode so far since episode 2. The preview for Ep 8 is all about Kud, so it looks like they're finally going to introduce all of the characters properly now. I loved it when Kyoani would tease all of the characters and their routes inside of just one episode. They'd get a little bit of every heroine which is much truer to how a session playing the VN feels. I actually get disappointed sometimes transitioning into a characters route, there was never any transition here since it was so short! This episode is still lacking a true common route feel, but this is at least close. They should have been doing this from the start. This show is based on a VN, and as VNs typically go, you get to know all the characters first before you have to choose one and focus on their route. To cram the common route into three episodes or skip most of the common route is just a recipe for disaster. A good VN adaptation just can't enter a character's route so early. Especially with one episode perplexingly thrown in there that focuses solely on another heroine. The way they chopped the scenes up and allocated them in the first six eps, IMO is a disaster. At least as far as it pertains to be being as good as the VN from my standpoint. But it's all about expectations, I loved Komari's route in the VN. Not so much Haruka's route, so maybe I'll enjoy that? who knows.
For as much flack that J.C. Staff is getting, now this is ironic - I'm finding Sakurasou to be my favorite show so far this season. To me, the animation isn't the most important thing. Just from watching LB, I can tell you that comedic timing, scene placement, character development, plot development are far more important. This episode had much better comedic timing on the most part, but the scenes before the OP still had far too many lame jokes, a really good anime shouldn't have to make me disregard the first 4 minutes to enjoy the rest. If I were the type to roll my eyes, this anime adaptation would make my eyes roll way too much. Some of the jokes are inherently lame, but there's a way to make them funnier, that Key and Kyoani are experts at. J.C. does some good things too though. I think my favorite thing about the anime so far is the ED sequence, probably the most artistic thing I've seen from J.C.'s LB so far.
On a sidenote, I preordered the First print limited edition of Vol.1 from Amiami. They're "unable to obtain a copy from their usual distributors" maybe that doesn't mean anything about the sales, but that would seem to imply that the usual distributors have sold out. Maybe a good thing for sales? I like Chuunibyou, but it'd give me some sort of sick satisfaction to see LB do better than Chuu2byo.
Sorry. I made a tldr.
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|2012-11-19, 07:10
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Regarding this episode, I thought it worked mostly pretty well. However, I felt the pacing was kinda loose. Still, it was not bad. I always find Masato hilarious.
|2012-11-19, 07:33
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I am sure all the negative comments about LB is more about the anime adaptation itself rather than the original work.
Plus i don't see any relations between "poor/average animation" of the LB anime made by J.C. staff and the company that originally brought us LB: Key. That's like saying that Minato soft is a bad company because of the MajiKoi anime or Navel for the OreTsuba anime.
I also think that you might not have read any Key VN's when you made that comment, seeing that the "Key games" are more praised for their story rather than the art (atleast I am not that much of a fan for the art in their games)
I think that some people forgot that the first Kanon anime was animated by Toei and it did end up selling very well, despite that the animation was far from really good.
edit: the current discussion doesn't seem directly related to episode 7 anymore, but it looks more like something for the general discussion
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|2012-11-19, 18:18
|Link #71
Have some salt
But you can't really expect someone to repeat the same repetitious content 4 times over. What is this? Diablo 3?
Though for me personally none of them really worked til the 1/2 point. Or I guess 1/4 for Clannad.
|2012-11-19, 20:23
|Link #72
Bittersweet Distractor
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Age: 27
I played Little Busters, and while they certainly take liberties here with the order in which they adapt the content (Which some people have criticized and well time will tell if their choices are the right one), the content itself that is being adapted can be criticized for being almost TOO faithful.
Then there are several complaints throughout, by both source readers and some anime viewers, about some of the humor not being funny, for the drama lacking impact, or other things. What is a lot of this attributed to? JC staff. They even make backhanded comments like "if only that other studio" (Who rejected this project) was doing it...
I don't care if people want to criticize the anime here. I just find it funny how something that's awfully similar in style and content to clannad gets smeared while that anime got praised. This is why I raised the point of kyoani exceptionalism, since it seems they get praise for doing things that are really no different from what we see here.
I won't argue that KyoAni would probably do much better visuals, but as far as story composition and direction goes... I don't believe we'd see much different.
I was just trying to express bemusement at the apparent negativity of this show for many of the same reasons I found myself disoriented when I first watched Clannad.
Not saying the criticisms are unfair. I thought Komari's arc was bad. As for this episode, well there isn't a whole lot to say. Lots of slapstick humor and more cutesy KEY character exposition. Very typical stuff for them.
|2012-11-19, 20:53
|Link #73
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All you have to do is watch Kanon 2002 vs 2006 to know how much a difference things like timing, presentation, and adding more scenes and doing them right helps. IIRC both were faithful to the original. 2002 was enjoyable enough but 2006 is in a different ballpark. Toei just makes everything cheesy as hell. I've said it before in the first or second episode thread, J.C.s adaptation reminds me of Toei's adaptations. I love the VN but the anime is average so far. Komari's route is beautiful and magical to me in the VN, even if I read it now, but the whole Komari Komari Ganbare in the anime was lame.
As to whether Key makes only average VNs. let's just put it this way, Kanon 2002 didn't do 10kish sales because the anime was a masterpiece, it's because the VN is so great and has so many admirers.
|2012-11-20, 07:17
|Link #74
reading #hikaributts
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I used the examples of Majikoi and OreTsuba, because those 2 VN's had excellent story that got "butchered" in the adaptation.
|2012-11-20, 19:02
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Talking more about it would require discussing it in the comparison spoiler thread, but several of us already noted how they changed things, to the point bigger concerns are at stake than simply "quality issues".
I for one would rather have something more akin to "showing HP bar" which would actually make the fighting scene more of a "game" than being just "action" going on.
Also, Ceral took a very good example: Kanon 2002 and 2006 are completely different, despite both are faithful (although some parts in Toei version are totally whacky, such like in Mai's route). It is really the direction that changes a toncrap, and frankly, LB anime has a lot of miss parts I doubt it is just the original novel.
|2012-11-20, 20:35
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Regarding the composition of the story, it's probably worth mentioning again that all of the episodes so far have been written by same writer who also did the overall adaptation/story planning, which is itself extremely unusual for a 2-cour (+) show. (I don't know if she will end up doing the script for the entire 26-episode run, plus the next season, but if so, it'd be pretty-damn impressive for a TV anime.) So I think the elements that people don't like about the script treatment are probably attributable a lot (entirely?) to the lead writer. And, as a reminder of the conversations that happened before the anime started airing, the writer does not work for J.C.Staff and has never worked on a J.C.Staff show before; from what Key stated, she was selected with their approval based on her work on long-running adaptations of classic/well-known literature.
As much as people complain about the "budget", spending the time and money necessary to have a single writer do so much of the script for a weekly anime requires a lot of trust and dedication. It'd be a lot more financially-efficient (if they just didn't care) to have someone generate a rough outline and have sub-writers do the episode scripts, as happens for most shows. We also know that Key themselves said in the past that they had come up with the "trick" to make a TV adaptation of Little Busters work as far as the story goes, so we don't know how much of the story layout was also done under their influence, not to mention the have also said that they are also consulting on the writing on an on-going basis as well.
So all that to say... I think that a) they probably do have a plan in terms of what they're doing with the story and b) whatever that plan is doesn't sound like it has much to do with J.C.Staff. So I tend to agree that even just changing the animation production studio may not have changed the aspects of the story presentation that some people dislike. (However, I tend to think that some people may be more forgiving of the story issues if a) they had more faith in the production company, and b) if there were pretty animation to talk about. I think there is a lot of angst among some VN readers right now because the anime is not as popular as they think it deserves to be, and they are looking for people to blame.)
Now the way that script is adapted into anime (the storyboarding, direction, etc.) is obviously more under J.C. Staff's control. I think it's interesting that three of the seven episodes so far have had their storyboarding done by the main director, which is what was expected based on him having been chosen (he was seen as a very "hands-on" director). Perhaps the nature of this is also that, if you don't really gel with the main director's style, you'll just have to live with it, because his style has a large influence on the way everything goes. If this does indeed end up being a split 52-episode show (which is how it's looking), I suppose people will likely get used to it eventually (or they won't).
Regarding the comparisons between Sakurasou and Little Busters in terms of production values... I honestly would be surprised if one show has that much of a bigger budget than the other (notwithstanding that Little Busters may be scheduled for double the episode count, so would have needed double the investment from the production partners). I really do think it's a) the experience and skill of the staff involved, and b) the techniques used to mask the budget. The digital compositing and 2D effects in Sakurasou are top-notch and adds a sort of "shininess" to everything that Little Busters doesn't have. Meanwhile, Little Busters commits the "sin" of falling back on some really well-known and much-ridiculed shortcut techniques (like speed lines and still frames) that are obvious, while they seem to focus a bit more on things that are a bit less commented-on or obvious (like smoother character animation).
Anyway, it'll be nice when the story picks up enough steam that this will be the main focus rather than the production values.
|2012-11-20, 22:18
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I also hope that the constant criticisms get toned down at least by Episode 13. For some reason, looking for a discussion amongst anime-only watchers and stumbling upon six or so episode discussions teeming with negative opinions can be quite disheartening.
|2012-11-21, 09:49
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Still, it seems that alot of Anime Only viewers are dropping in left and right. The only reason why I haven't dropped this yet is because I looked up Little Busters on TVtropes a year or so ago. But most anime-only viewers with a "No Spoiler" viewing policy seems to be dropping, or are on the verge of dropping LB, judging by the content of the recent Episdodic Threads.
The worse case scenario is actually, that criticism for Episode 13 would be toned down, BECAUSE the most critical Anime viewers decided to abandon Little Busters. And it has happened for quite a few anime too mind you: for example, Medaka Box First season came under amazing amounts of flak, which slacken off towards the end (as well as in it's second season), largely because most of the Flak issuers dropped that show by then.
Ultimately, of course, the Fate of the LB adaptation is in the hands of the Japanese Viewer market, and I wonder whether the mood towards the adaptation is just as vitriolic over there. It's one thing for the English Speaking Animesuki, MAL or Anime Bloggers listed on Animenano to be dropping or condemning LB. But it's fate, as it is with all anime adaptations, hangs on the Japanese Market, and not so much the English one.
|2012-11-21, 19:13
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Toji Affairs Secretary
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^ One side of me is saying "good riddance" for those who haven't truly enjoyed the series despite its clear flaws in direction, but the other side mourns the lack of a decent discussion for the series.
I can probably say that Little Busters! is the biggest tragedy of the Autumn 2012 anime season.
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Happy Quinceañera
The Alibi turns 15
So what? Why now?
Those words were some of the first bestowed upon me when I started working at the Alibi as an intern three years ago. Then News Editor Tim McGivern sat me down on the gnarled couch in his (now my) office, turned down the Tom Waits bellowing from his computer and explained that every story worth telling answers those two basic questions: Why does it matter, and why does it matter right now? I've tried to apply that lesson to every story I've written since and, in that tradition, I'll try to do it for this one as well.
So Long (and Thanks for All the Fish)
Bittersweet isn't my favorite flavor in the world, but sometimes you just have to swallow the pill and hope the effect will be a healthy one. Indulge me for a moment while I daydream about how I got to this point.
Alibi Vital Stats
Mostly useless trivia about your favorite alt.weekly
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Date of first publication of NuCity: Oct. 9, 1992
Where Are They Now?
A noncomprehensive list of former Alibi staffers who moved on to bigger and better things
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Wed, 16 March 2011 at 9:20 am
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Hi, there! I'm pretty new to Blender so I feel I've barely scratched the surface with what I know. I can import/export simple meshes (without UVs) to Unreal... which probably sounds like nothing to you guys, but is quite a step for me!
I'm just wondering what would be the best way to make a floor grate. Like a catwalk grate, or drain cover almost. I looked for ages for tutorials but all I could find with the words 'grate' and 'blender' were cooking guides, haha!
Here's something similar to what I'm after:
I found a pretty good tutorial the other day on YouTube (here's a link for anybody interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s9ikE1RktY), and it showed me a really nice way to make hexagonal grates, which look pretty cool -and I expect to use a few times- but I'm after a more the traditional one too, like the one pictured above. I can sort of see it in my head, but can't put my finger on exactly how to do it. If anybody knows how and could let me know, or forward a tutorial for me that would be splendid.
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I was wondering if anyone knows: Are the odds better to get into a part time program than they are for a full time program.?
can't you apply to both?
I would be coming back to law school after a dismissal. I was diagnosed with ADHD and figured a part time program may be better for me to start off with. That would be the main reason I would apply to a part time program. I don't know if that's a strong enough reason for admissions offices.
I was diagnosed after my first time in law school. It went undiagnosed my entire life, after the dismissal I knew something was wrong. I always did ok in school, but made a lot of careless mistakes, no teacher bothered to think that was a problem. So, since the diagnosis I've been on meds and have been taught techniques to focus when studying. I'm not looking at a part-time program in terms of the work being easier. My focus is to get my foot in the door and prove myself then.


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James Inhofe may be the single craziest man in the U.S. Senate and he shows why with this fact-free diatribe about Obama's "November surprise," purported to be the unleashing of "massive regulation" that will continue his pattern of destroying everything that Inhofe holds dear.
Inhofe told WND's Greg Corombos people from his state constantly tell him they feel targeted by government regulations, and he used energy as a prime example.
"They have this war on fossil fuels," Inhofe said. "He's doing everything to kill domestic production of oil, natural gas and coal. This is something that is just un-American."
Yes, he's done so much to kill it that domestic production of oil and natural gas is at an all-time high. Killing the industry: He's doing it wrong.
Inhofe said the track record is similar on defense.
"In his first budget, he destroyed our only fifth generation fighter (the F-22), he destroyed our lift capacity (the C-17), he destroyed our future combat system, he destroyed our Poland operation to stop missiles from coming from Iran to the United States," he said.
Uh, what? Poland operation to stop missiles from Iran to the U.S.? Iran doesn't even have missiles that could reach Poland, much less America. They can barely reach the Mediterranean with their most up-to-date technology (and their test of those missiles didn't go too well a few months ago). And the F-22 was a major boondoggle, with cost overruns, serious mechanical problems (like depriving the pilots of oxygen) and the highest accident rate of any aircraft in the fleet. But we still have 187 of them; nothing was "destroyed."


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If you don't burn your bra Dicey, I will. My bra, not yours. That would be weird. It is a femminst issue and still something a lot of the gaming community needs to catch up on.Then we can talk about da gays. This is the natural order of things.First da wimmenz. Den da blacks. Den da gays.
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For teenagers, earning a driver's license is the ultimate mark of independence. But getting behind the wheel at 16 can be a time-consuming and expensive endeavor.
On the steps of Framingham High School, juniors Hodan Gudal and Kayla Claxton were waiting for their driving instructor to pick them up after the first day of school on Wednesday.
Gudal waited a few months before she got her learner's permit while Claxton got it right after she turned 16.
�It�s just a whole new level of freedom,� said Claxton.
Despite her eagerness to drive, Claxton has a lot of work to do. She is splitting her time between school, driving lessons and getting a job to save enough money to pay for a car and insurance.
According to a 2013�report commissioned by InsuranceQuotes.com, an online insurance database, Massachusetts has one of the lowest car insurance increases for teen drivers in the country. The average family will see a 66-percent increase in their insurance after adding a teen driver, compared to Arkansas which sees a 116-percent hike.
But the state still has hefty drivers education requirements.
In Massachusetts, teens are required to have 30 hours of classroom instruction, 12 hours of on-the-road lessons and six hours of driving observation. Parents must also take a two-hour class.
Teenagers can start taking their classroom instruction when they�re 15 years and nine months. At 16, teens are eligible to get a learner's permit, which involves taking a 25-question test. They can only start the driving and observation lessons after getting a learner's permit.
Regardless of driving requirements, teens are only�eligible for a road test at 16 and a half.�Currently the average wait time to schedule a road test at the Registry of Motor Vehicles is six weeks.
Bill Anderson, who runs Anderson�s Driving School in Framingham says his students take between one month and one year to finish their driving requirements, depending on how well they plan ahead. The summer is the busiest time for booking classes while the demand slows down in the winter, he said.
Driver's ed at Anderson�s costs $780 plus a $15 registration fee.
The CMSC Auto School, which is run under the Central Massachusetts Safety Council, has multiple driving schools across the state including offices in Milford and Northborough. That school charges $850.
For many parents those prices are a wake-up call.
�I was shocked by the price when I found out how much it was going to cost,� said C.C. Chapman of Milford. His son, Dylan, is turning 16 soon and getting ready to take driver's ed. He�s looking at a $1,000 price tag for his son's lessons.�
Anderson said he had to nearly double his fees after the state upped the driving requirement from six hours to 12 hours. He has also raised his fees to accommodate insurance and fuel costs. CMSC also had to double its fees to accommodate the extra driving hours, but has charged the same amount since 2007.
Despite the costs, Anderson�s hasn�t seen a dip in student enrollment.
�Our numbers are increasing. There are kids turning 16 every day,� said Anderson.
CMSC�s numbers told a different story.
Three years ago, the driving school had more than 1,500 students statewide. This year, that number has been closer to 1,420, according to Tim Cooney, president of CMSC Auto School.
�Kids are saying, �I�ll just wait until I�m 18,�� said Cooney, who sees this as a negative trend.
�I think that�s going to create poor drivers.�
While Chapman was surprised by driving school costs, he believes the classes are�important for his son�s safety.
�I�m all for the regulations.�
Chapman, who grew up in New Hampshire, recalled taking classes through his high school, a concept that is less common today.
Some driving schools partner�with area high schools to offer a discounted rate. CMSC charges $650 for�classes held at high schools including Shrewsbury and Westborough, according to its website.��
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Region: Securing a driver's license time-consuming, costly
For teenagers, earning a driver's license is the ultimate mark of independence. But getting behind the wheel at 16 can be a time-consuming and expensive endeavor.


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UPS, TNT Express Deal Collapses, iPhone Sales Weak
Dow Jones Reporter Chris Dieterich joins the News Hub to discuss what to expect from the global markets; UPS pulls out of TNT Express deal in Europe, Apple is expected to open lower on weak sales. Photo: REUTERS.
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The Missouri General Assembly will not be in session this week, as we are taking this week off from our Jefferson City legislative duties to enjoy Spring Break.
The Missouri General Assembly will not be in session this week, as we are taking this week off from our Jefferson City legislative duties to enjoy Spring Break.
The break marks the halfway point in this year's Legislative Session, and it gives legislators the opportunity to spend valuable time in our home districts. Spring Break gives me the opportunity to visit area fourth grade classrooms and speak to the students about Missouri government and our state's history. This is a very enjoyable time for me because I get to interact with many of our fourth graders and share with them how state government works, even for them at their age level.
In 2008, a group of Missouri school children got an opportunity not only to see how state government works, but also to take an active part in the lawmaking process. They helped in the passage of legislation that gave Missouri an official state dessert—the ice cream cone. In the legislative process, the school children learned how an idea could become a law. They communicated their idea with legislators, and saw firsthand how Missouri citizens—even young people—can impact legislation in their state.
Young people are always welcome at the Capitol, and one thing that seems to be enjoyable to our young visitors is the Hall of Famous Missourians, located between the House Chamber and the Senate Chamber in the third floor rotunda. While not all of our area fourth graders will have the privilege of visiting Jefferson City, they do have the chance to learn about those prominent Missourians whose busts appear in the Capitol.
When I come to speak to area fourth graders, I give each student a copy of Showing You the Show-Me State, a booklet about Missouri history and government. Included in this booklet, besides some Missouri history, information about Missouri's government, facts about our state, and our state symbols, is information and pictures of the famous Missourians whose bronze busts are on display in the third floor rotunda.
The Hall of Famous Missourians started in 1982 to honor prominent individuals for their achievements and contributions to not only our state, but to our nation as well. Today there are forty-one inductees in this Hall. Individuals are selected for Hall status by the sitting Speaker of the House. The first inductee was Samuel Clemens ("Mark Twain"). Twain is best known for his Adventures of Huck Finn and Adventures of Tom Sawyer, two novels that are set in his boyhood home of Hannibal.
Inductees from the immediate area are George Washington Carver and Thomas Hart Benton. Carver was born in 1863 to slave parents near Diamond and began his formal education in Neosho. As a scientist, he developed more than 300 products from peanuts, 100 products from sweet potatoes, and 75 products from pecans. Additionally, he worked with soil conservation and was instrumental in helping develop modern day farming practices. Benton, the Neosho-born artist, is best known for his colorful murals that frequently created controversy. His most famous—A Social History of Missouri—can be seen today in the House Lounge of the Missouri Capitol.
The bust of Harry S. Truman is also in the Hall. Truman, born in Lamar, is one of the most highly regarded U.S. presidents in American history. Carthage-born Marlin Perkins, a zoologist and naturalist and well known for his many years as host of "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" television show, is represented there as well. Others include baseball great Stan Musial, Jack Buck—radio voice of the St. Louis Cardinals, and who can forget Walt Disney? Or Laura Ingalls Wilder? Or Generals John J. Pershing and Omar Bradley? Or Walter Cronkite? Or Dale Carnegie? Or Sacajawea?
In my three years as your Representative, I have been privileged to be present at the installing of the last three inductees. Speaker Steve Tilley selected John "Buck" O'Neil, Dred Scott, and Rush Limbaugh as the last three individuals to be honored in the Hall of Famous Missourians.
As I visit area classrooms this week, I look forward to the opportunity to share more of Missouri's history with these young people and help them develop a stronger appreciation for our state and the legislative process.
If I can be of help to you with any state matter, please do not hesitate to contact me by one of the following means:
Mail: Bill Reiboldt, Office 235-BB, State Capitol, 201 W. Capitol, Jefferson City, MO 65101. Telephone: (573) 751-9781. Personal cell phone: 417-456-0441. Email: email@example.com. My website is www.billreiboldt.com
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You know I couldn't come off and say it's "good" for you because then it just wouldn't be eggnog. You know what I'm sayin'? But I did manage to make it "better" for you so you can drink it with a lot less guilt.
- 6 eggs
- 1/2 cups sugar (I used Coconut Sugar. It's Low Glycemic)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 4 cups coconut milk (the refrigerated kind), divided
- 1 tablespoons rum extract
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- Additional nutmeg, optional
- In a heavy saucepan, whisk together eggs, sugar and salt. Gradually add 2 cups of milk. Cook and stir over low heat until a thermometer reads 160°-170°, about 30-35 minutes. This is the labor intensive part.
- Pour into a large heat proof bowl; stir in the rum extract, nutmeg and remaining coconut milk. Place bowl in the freezer for about 2 hours or until mixture is completely cool. You could put it in the fridge but if you're like me you don't want to wait that long. If mixture separates, process in a blender until smooth.
- When ready to serve, beat cream in a large bowl (put beaters and bowl in the freezer for 10 minutes to speed up the process) on high until soft peaks form; whisk gently into cooled milk mixture. Pour into your favorite Christmas glasses and enjoy! Sprinkle with nutmeg if desired. Yield: Approx. 7 servings.
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Cocaine Operation Taken Down in Ocean County
Three arrest and the seizure of cocaine and cash following a month-long probe into drug activity that spanned several Ocean County communities.
Prosecutor Marlene Lynch Ford says search warrants were executed Tuesday morning at residences in Jackson, Lakewood, Bayville and a Howell storage facility as well as a 1998 Acura by the Special Operations Group along with State, County and Local law enforcement agencies.
Arrested were paroled ex-offenders Calvin Presley (A.K.A "I-Rule"), 41, and Shilyre Collins, 37, of Jackson. Prosecutor Lynch Ford says as a result of raid on Larkspur Lane in Jackson, Prospect Street and Edinburgh Lane in Lakewood and a storage facility identified as Extra Space Storage on Route 9 in Howell, authorities confiscated quantities of both "Crack" and power cocaine, approximately $1,800 in cash as well as drug paraphernalia including a digital scale and packaging materials associated with the distribution of cocaine.
Darlene Ott , 43, of Fernwood Drive in the Berkeley Township section of Bayville was also arrested for allegedly conspiring with Presley to commit robbery in Lacey Township on March 22nd. Officials say an investigation into the Robbery is still on-going and additional arrests and charges are expected.
The A.S.P.C.A was also contacted when eleven pit bulls were found chained at a Prospect Street residence in Lakewood.
Presley is charged with Possession of Cocaine, Possession of Cocaine over one half ounce with intent to distribute and Conspiracy to Commit Robbery. Bail is set at $350,000. Collins faces the same charges with bail set at $200,000. Ott is charged with Conspiracy to Commit Robbery and Possession of a CDS (Zanax). Her bail is set at $200,000.


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|Adam Schall (汤若望 [湯若望], Tāng Rùowàng, 1591-1666), Imperial Astronomer in Beijing. Designed the current Chinese calendar
Chinese New Year is the main holiday of the year for more than one quarter of the world's population; very few people, however, know how to compute its date. For many years I kept asking people about the rules for the Chinese calendar, but I wasn't able to find anybody who could help me. Many of the people who were knowledgeable about science felt that the traditional Chinese calendar was backwards and superstitious, while people who cared about Chinese culture usually lacked the scientific knowledge to understand how the calendar worked. In the end I gave up and decided that I had to figure it out for myself.
|Chinese astronomers determining the summer solstice
I have a written a long paper on The Mathematics of the Chinese Calendar. It gives you all the details. This web page is just an introduction to the topic. I have also written a shorter introduction called When is Chinese New Year?. This paper won a fourth prize in the Fifth Annual Boeing Writing Contest, which is organized by the Griffith Observatory. The article appeared in the Griffith Observer, 66 (2002), no. 2 (February), 1-17. I have also written a paper on Fake Leap Months in the Chinese Calendar: From the Jesuits to 2033.
I give a lot of public lectures on calendar topics and here are lecture notes on Heavenly Mathematics: The Mathematics of the Chinese, Indian, Islamic and Gregorian Calendars, The Mathematics of the Public Holidays of Singapore, The Mathematics of the Chinese Calendar. You may want to only download the first file. The two other are subsets of the first.
To view PDF files, you need to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
The main focus on my paper is the study of leap months in the Chinese calendar. In the early 1990s, Chinese astronomers discovered that there was an error in the Chinese calendar for 2033. The traditional calendar claimed that the leap month would follow the 7th month, while in fact it comes after the 11th month. It is very unusual that the 11th month has a leap month, in fact it hasn't happened since the calendar reform in 1645 (before 1645, all months had the same probability for having a leap month). But many Chinese astronomers still claim that there will never be a leap month after the 12th and 1st month. I have found that there will be a leap month after the 1st month in 2262 (in fact, it should have happened in 1651, but they got the calculations wrong) and there will be a leap month after the 12th month in 3358. Since the Chinese calendar is an astronomical calendar, predictions require delicate astronomical calculations, so my computations for 3358 should probably be taken with a grain of salt. I also discuss other mathematical issues related to the Chinese calendar.
If you can't read the Chinese characters or the pinyin on this page, please go to my page on Reading and Writing Chinese Characters and Pinyin on the Web Using Unicode.
|Astronomical instruments in the Imperial Observatory in Beijing made by the Jesuit missionary Ferdinand Verbiest, 1670
The mathematics behind the date of Chinese New Year is explained in full detail in my paper The Mathematics of the Chinese Calendar or the shorter introduction When is Chinese New Year?, but I will give two quick rules of thumb here.
One rule of thumb is that Chinese New Year should be the new Moon closest to the beginning of spring (立春, lìchūn). This rule is correct most of the time, but it can fail if Lìchūn falls close to halfway between two new Moons. It failed in 1985 and will fail again in 2015. Since Lìchūn falls around February 4, this helps explain why Chinese New Year will always fall between January 21 and February 21. It also helps explain why Chinese New Year is called the spring festival. If you have a Western calendar that indicates the phases of the Moon, this will give you an approximation of the date of Chinese New Year. But notice that the Chinese calendar uses the time of new Moon in China.
As explained above, Chinese New Year will always fall between January 21 and February 21. The tropical (or solar) year is about 365.25 days, while a synodic (or lunar) month is about 29.5 days. Hence a lunar year consisting of 12 months will be about 12 x 29.5 = 354 days. So a lunar year is about 11 days shorter than a solar year.
The second rule of thumb is therefore that most of the time Chinese New Year will fall 11 (or sometimes 10 or 12) days earlier than the previous year, but if that would take us outside of the Chinese New Year range of January 21 to February 21, we must add a leap month, so Chinese New Year jumps 19 (or sometimes 18) days later. If this rule takes you close to January 21, you can end up being one month wrong, otherwise you will be at most one day off.
|date of CNY
|Feb 16
|Feb 5
|Jan 24
|Feb 12
|Feb 1
|Jan 22
|Feb 9
|Jan 29
|Feb 18
|change in date of next CNY
|Equatorial (left) and ecliptic (right) armillary spheres in the Imperial Observatory in Beijing made by the Jesuit missionary Ferdinand Verbiest, 1670
An important aspect of the Chinese calendar is the sexagenary cycle (干支, gān zhī). This is a combination of the 10 heavenly stems (天干, tiān gān), and the 12 earthly branches (地支, dì zhī).
|tiān gān
|dì zhī
To explain how this cycle works, let us denote both the stems and the branches by their numbers. We denote 1 by (1,1) or (甲,子), 2 by (2,2) or (乙,丑) and so on up to (10,10) or (癸,酉). But now we have run out of stems, so we denote 11 by (1, 11) or (甲,戌) and 12 by (2, 12) or (乙,亥). Now we have run out of branches, too, so 13 becomes (3, 1) or (丙,子). We continue in this way through 6 cycles of stems and 5 cycles of branches up to 60, which is (10, 12) or (癸,亥). The next number is then (1,1) or (甲,子), which starts a new sexagenary cycle.
|Dengfeng Observatory, designed by Guo Shoujing in 1276
|Armillary spheres at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing designed by Guo Shoujing
This cycle is used for keeping track of years, months, days and (double) hours in Chinese astrology. Your date and time of birth is determined by the eight characters (八字) formed by the pair of cyclical characters, or pillar, (柱, zhù), for the year, month, day and hour. The 60-day cycle has been used for keeping track of days since ancient times and go back to at least the 13th century BCE during the Shāng Dynasty (商朝, 1600--1046 BCE). The 60-month cycle is also old. The 60-year cycle was introduced during the Hàn Dynasty ((汉朝 [漢朝]) and is related to the orbital period of Jupiter. In modern times, the year cycle is the only one in common use. The branches are often associated with the sequence of 12 animals: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. It is not clear when the branches were associated with the 12 animals, but it seems to have taken place around the time of the Táng Dynasty.
Notice that each branch, or animal, occurs five times in each 60-year cycle. An animal corresponding to an odd number, will meet the stems that correspond to the odd numbers. Year 2000 is the 17th year in the current cycle, so it corresponds to (7,5) (17 = 10 + 7 = 12 + 5) or (庚, 辰). So we see that it is a metal dragon year, or a golden dragon.
Determining the stem corresponding to a month is easy. The 11th month has branch 1, the 12th month has branch 2, the first month has branch 3 and so on. So the only problem is to keep track of the stem. There are two things to notice here. First of all, this system ignores leap months. The month pillar of a leap month is the same as the month pillar of the previous months! Secondly, why does the first branch correspond to the 11th month and not the first month?
In fact, both of these paradoxes are easy to explain. Since two months can have at most 60 days, the day pillar will still separate two different days. In a sense you can think of a month and its following leap month just as a one long month. And why does the first branch correspond to the 11th month? Because the 11th month contains the winter solstice, which is fundamental to Chinese astronomy!
The hour cycle is similar to the month cycle. The first branch corresponds to the double hour from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m., and so on. Again, we only need to worry about the stem.
According to Ho Peng Yoke, the year of birth was considered the most important in astrology until the Táng Dynasty, when the month of birth assumed greater importance. Since the Míng Dynasty, the day of birth has become the most important in Chinese eight characters astrology.
The cycle of 12 branches is probably related to the 12 months, while the cycle of 10 stems is probably related to the ancient Chinese 10-day ``week'', xún (旬). The seven-day week was probably introduced not earlier than the Sòng Dynasty (宋朝, 960-1279).
Because of this web page, I get a lot of e-mail about the Chinese calendar. I once got an e-mail from a greeting cards company who needed to know which year 2000 would be in the Chinese calendar. The answer is that the Chinese do not have a continuous year count. They started counting from one again with each new emperor. However, some scholars tried to reconstruct ancient Chinese chronology by adding up years of reigns, much the same way some westerners in the past tried to reconstruct Biblical chronology. Some claim that the calendar was invented by the Yellow Emperor,Huángdì (黄帝)), in 2637 BCE in the 61st year of his reign. However, others prefer to start the count with the first year of his reign in 2697 BCE. Since these years are 60 years apart, it follows that 1984 was the first year of either the 78th or 79th 60-year cycle. Using this as a starting point, Chinese New Year in 2000 marks the beginning of the Chinese year 4637 or 4697. To give you an example of the level of confusion on this point, in Chapter 3 of Volume III of the translation of the Shoo King (Shūjīng, 书经) by James Legge, he refers to the current year, 1863, as being in the 76th cycle, implying a starting point of 2697 BCE. However, the book has an appendix on Chinese astronomy, written by John Chalmers, where the starting point is taken to be 2637 BCE! Chalmers actually writes 2636 BCE, but that really mean -2636, using the astronomical year count, where 1 BCE is year 0, 2 BCE is -1, etc. This is fairly typical of the level of confusion about the continuous year count in the Chinese calendar, and simply illustrates the fact that the continuous year count is not an integral part of the Chinese calendar, but rather an afterthought. While there isolated incidents of Chinese scholars who have used it, it only gained popularity with the Jesuit missionaries. Most of the people who use it are Westerners who refuse to believe that it is possible to have a ``civilized'' society without a linear, continuous year count. That's why I told the greeting cards company to stick with calling it the year of the Dragon!
To add to the confusion, some authors use an epoch of 2698 BCE. I believe this because they want to use a year 0 as the starting point, rather than counting 2697 BCE as year 1, or that they assume that the Yellow Emperor started his year with the Winter solstice of 2698 BCE. In particular, this system was used by Sun Yat-sen (孫逸仙, Sūn Yìxiān or 孫中山, Sūn Zhōngshān, 1866--1925). He and other political activists wanted to use a republican and "modern" year numbering system. This system actually won some acceptance in the overseas Chinese community, and is for example used occasionally in San Francisco's Chinatown. (At least around the time of Chinese New Year!)
However, let me stress again that using an epoch is not the traditional way of counting years in Chinese history. The traditional way was to use emperor's era name (年号 [年號], nían hào) together with the 60-year cycle. In the past, the emperor would often change his era name during his reign, but by the time of the Míng and Qíng dynasties, the emperors would use the same era name for their whole reign. This system worked well most of the time, but the Kāngxī Emperor (康熙) ruled more than 60 years. He ruled from February 7, 1661 to December 20, 1722. Since Chinese New Year fell on January 30 in 1661, the first year of his reign started on February 18, 1662, and the last year of his reign ended on February 4, 1723. Since both 1662 and 1722 are rényín years, the term Kāngxī rényín (康熙壬寅) is ambiguous. However, this is the only such problem in Chinese history. His grandson, the Qiánlóng Emperor (乾隆) ruled from October 18, 1735, to February 8, 1796. The first year of his rule started on February 12, 1736, but he chose to retire on February 8, 1796, as a filial act in order not to reign longer than his grandfather, the illustrious Kāngxī Emperor. Despite his retirement, however, he retained ultimate power until his death in 1799.
It is well known that the 60-year cycle was introduced during the Hàn Dynasty, so it came as something of a surprise when scholars realized that the 60-day cycle had been in use in the Shāng Dynasty (商朝, 1600--1046 BCE). This shows that the two systems are independent, and there is no point looking for an ancient origin with a (甲,子) day in a (甲,子) month in a (甲,子) year in either 2637 BCE or 2697 BCE. I should also point out, that while Chinese chronology is fairly reliable going back to 841 BCE, and oracle bones with date inscription go back to the 13th century BCE, modern scholars consider the Yellow Emperor to be a mythological figure. So this whole discussion of ancient dates is just a curiosity.
|Chinese sundials from the Adler Planetarium
The best source for information about calendrical calculations is the book Calendrical Calculations by Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold. If you need a calendar conversion program, you can either go to their Calendar Applet or get the program Chinese Calendrics from Hermetic Systems: Calendars, Encryption, Astronomy, Prime Numbers and More.
Two undergraduate students at the NUS, KUAN Shau Hong and TENG Keat Huat have written a UROPS (Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme in Science) report on The Chinese Calendar of the Later Han Period. They have also written a program for doing computations involving the Sìfēn lì (四分历) calendar. Both the DOS executable and the C source code are available. Their project is very interesting, and shows that during the later Han, the no zhōngqi rule was not just a rule of thumb, but the actual rule used for determining leap months. We are writing up a paper on this.
I have developed a Mathematica package, ChineseCalendar.m (version 2.0, 2011 June 3) that I use for Chinese calendrical computations. It uses the code from the second edition of the book Calendrical Calculations by Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold. Their Lisp functions were translated into the Mathematica package Calendrica by Robert C. McNally. Please note that this package is only available from the book. If you don't have the book, you can use V1 of the Calendrica package, which is freely available (I have a version that is updated for Mathematica V8) and version 1.07 of the my package, ChineseCalendardV1.m.
I have created some notebooks that illustrate some of the computations I have done. (If you don't have Mathematica, you can download a copy of the MathReader.) ChineseCalendar.nb (or ChineseCalendarV1.nb if you use the V1 code) demonstrates the commands. LeapMonths.nb lists the leap months between 1645 and 3944, and ChineseNewYear1000.nb lists the date of Chinese New Year between 1645 and 2644,
I'm teaching a General Education Module called Heavenly Mathematics & Cultural Astronomy.
Together with Tey Meng Khoon and Frederick H. Willeboordse of CITA, I have developed several interactive Java applets that I hope will help you understand the motion of the Earth and the Sun.
We have also developed several interactive applets to explain What Does the Waxing or Waning Moon Look Like in Different Parts of the World?
I have a separate page about my public lectures on topics in astronomy and mathematics.
I have a separate page about the student projects I have supervised. The following have been related to the Chinese calendar.
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I am going to make a "holiday" beer, an amber ale with cinnamon. All grain 5 gallon final volume.
How much cinnamon should I put in the boil and how long to get a taste of cinnamon , I don't want it to over power the beer.
How much cinnamon should I put in the boil and how long to get a taste of cinnamon , I don't want it to over power the beer.
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I brew a pumpkin ale every year. I use cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and ginger. In my pumpkin pie spice mixture I use 1/2 tsp of cinnamon, 1/4 tsp of ginger, 1/8 tsp nutmeg, and 1/8 tsp of allspice in a five gallon batch (I think this is a pretty common recipe). I have found that if I use more than about 10 grams of this spice mixture the cinnamon becomes very bold. I guess what I'm trying to say is you could probably start out with about 3 grams of cinnamon in the last one minute of the boil. Right before bottling taste it and if it needs more grind some more cinnamon and add the dry powder to the carboy and let it sit for another day or so in the carboy then bottle or keg. Hope this helps. Good luck.
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San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum is expected to make his first scheduled start of the regular season despite getting hit in the left knee by a comebacker.
The two-time NL Cy Young Award winner walked through the clubhouse without a noticeable limp and rode a stationary bike before Saturday's scheduled exhibition game against Oakland, which was ultimately cancelled because of rain.
A night earlier, Lincecum was on the ground near the pitcher's mound writhing in pain after getting struck by a hard-hit grounder from Daric Barton in the fourth inning. Lincecum tried to run toward first but immediately fell, unable to put any pressure on his leg. He limped off the field with the assistance of two trainers and underwent X-rays, which were negative.
Giants manager Bruce Bochy said Lincecum appears fine and is hopeful the right-hander will start Thursday in Arizona.
Quentin on DL
San Diego Padres left fielder Carlos Quentin will start the season on the disabled list.
Quentin, who's been slowed by knee injuries the last two seasons, injured his left knee during spring training. He had surgery on his right knee last season, the third operation on the joint in 18 months. He's making $9.5 million this season.
Center fielder Cameron Maybin also will start the season on the DL.
Another Braves injury
Atlanta Braves general manager Frank Wren says right-hander Cory Gearrin has a "significant" injury to his right elbow.
Wren said tests on Friday found "ligament involvement" in Gearrin's elbow. Gearrin, a reliever, will be examined by Dr. James Andrews this week and will open the season on the disabled list.
The possibility Gearrin could face season-ending surgery is another blow to a Braves staff that already has lost starting pitchers Kris Medlen and Brandon Beachy this spring to their second Tommy John surgeries.


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Desalina Allen, Senior Assistant Director at NYU Wasserman Center for Career Development
Twitter: @DesalinaAllen
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/desalina
Some of the assessment activities I have shared take time to develop (like the Pre/Post Dining Etiquette Survey) and/or require staff buy-in, training and socialization (like the Resume Rubrics). Just last week, I decided super last minute that I wanted to assess a networking presentation for international students…last minute, as in, 20 minutes before the event. This exercise is proof that assessment doesn't have to take hours and hours of your time—sometimes a quick pre/post writing exercise can give you insight into what needs to be changed about a program.
I need to invoke my earlier reminder that I promised to be honest when sharing my experiences with assessment, and this post is no different. I'd like to say I was happy with these results, when instead I was disappointed to find that I probably assessed the wrong learning goal. I started with the fact that I wanted students to gain a more nuanced understanding of networking. Here's what I did:
Twenty minutes before the presentation I grabbed some colorful paper—yellow would be used for my pre-assessment and pink for the post assessment. This color choice was not at all based on any carefully planned and research-supported theory that bright paper makes people happy; in fact, I did it to make sure I could keep the two "surveys" separate.
At the beginning of the event, I asked the students to spend two minutes writing about networking. It could have been their definition of networking or just words that come to mind; grammar and complete sentences not necessary. I then did the same thing at the end of the event.
I could have just looked through and summarized key trends from each sample, but I decided to get fancy, transcribe the text, and enter it into Wordle, a tool that generates word clouds.
Here's the Pre-Workshop Wordle
And the Post:
While the results show that I focused on the importance of relationships, I don't think I can claim that students gained a more in-depth understanding of networking. What I did learn is that it seems like students already had a handle on the definition of networking, so perhaps I needed to assess their comfort level actually knowing how to network!
While this wasn't the most successful assessment attempt, I do think that it can be great when you are trying to compare students' knowledge of more difficult to assess topics (think professionalism, diversity, self-awareness).
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JEFFERSON TWP — A Knoch High School student is accused of shooting photos of another student with his cell phone as they were in adjacent bathroom stalls at the school last week.
State police Tuesday charged Caleb D. Haines, 18, of Buffalo Township with invasion of privacy and disorderly conduct.
The victim, a minor, told authorities that he was seated on the bathroom toilet in a stall Dec. 8 when he noticed what he thought was someone attempting to take pictures of him from the next stall, police said.
The boy saw the camera phone reach over two times. After the second time, according to court documents, he told the suspect to "stop it."
The pictures showed the victim's legs, though they did not show the victim's genitalia., documents said.
A full story will appear in Thursday's Butler Eagle.


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There's been nothing written (that we can find, anyway) about an accident involving the New Standard biplane used for giving rides at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, but this video, posted on YouTube about 10 days ago, tells quite a tale. According to the reader who sent us the YouTube link, the accident reportedly happened July 26 and, from the video, appears to be an off-runway excursion into a nasty ravine filled with big rocks.
As might be expected, the off-roading takes a toll on the wood and fabric but doesn't seem to have banged up the pilot and his passengers, one of whom kept the camera rolling through the whole accident and aftermath. There is no NTSB report on the mishap, and FAA incident reports are only available for the last 10 business days. The museum's web site says only that biplane rides are suspended until Labor Day weekend, but it's not clear whether the crash airplane will be fixed or a replacement found for rides.
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LITTLE FALLS (AP) — Local prosecutors will get help prosecuting the man accused of killing two teenagers who broke into his home near Little Falls on Thanksgiving.
Morrison County Attorney Brian Middendorf said Monday that Washington County Attorney Pete Orput and an assistant will help prosecute Byron Smith.
Smith is charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths of 18-year-old Haile Kifer and 17-year-old Nick Brady.
Middendorf previously asked the Minnesota attorney general's office for help and was rejected. He said his office was stretched thin by an unusually high number of recent serious cases.
Orput has been Washington County attorney since 2011. He has more than 24 years of experience as a prosecutor.
Smith's next court appearance is scheduled January 22nd.
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Who's The No. 1 Promoter Of Trump 2012? Right-Wing Website Newsmax
Blog ››› ››› TERRY KREPEL
Donald Trump has more than Fox News to thank for creating buzz around his testing the waters for a presidential campaign (and associated spreading of discredited birther conspiracy theories about President Obama). Right-wing website Newsmax was an early and enthusiastic promoter of Trump's presidential ambitions, and a Newsmax reporter helped pave the way for Trump to speak at a major conservative get-together.
Newsmax has been giving a platform Trump since at least 2006, when its chief Washington correspondent, Ronald Kessler, wrote a column noting that Trump "has plenty of thoughts about what he would do if he were president." Newsmax's current round of pushing the idea of Trump as president, though, began last November, when it paid for a poll asking how various people would fare against Obama in "a head-to-head race for the presidency." According to a Newsmax article on the poll, among business figures, Trump "would get nearly half the vote, 47 percent." Additionally, Trump "polled strongly among Republicans and conservatives, and got 50 percent of the vote among independents." The article also stated, however, that Warren Buffett and Bill Gates polled better than Trump.
In a December column on the Newsmax-operated financial news website Moneynews, Bill Spetrino touted Trump's prospects: "I can tell you that dealing with the Chinese and Russians wouldn't be one-sided if Trump was in charge. He won't hire power-hungry academics without real-world knowledge but instead will hire experienced businessmen and women with practical knowledge."
Newsmax's Kessler followed up on January 3 with a column stating that Trump "is telling friends he has decided he will definitely run for president as a Republican." A few weeks later, Kessler wrote about how he and his wife "spent the Martin Luther King holiday weekend with him at Mar-a-Lago, [Trump's] home and club on Palm Beach," where it became "clear" that "when it comes to a successful run at the presidency, don't underestimate him":
Don't expect to see him shaking hands in Iowa; he has a notorious aversion to shaking hands. But with every news outlet begging to have him on, he doesn't need to press the flesh. When it comes to cresting a controversy -- such as with Rosie O'Donnell -- he has a perfect sense of timing, knowing when to add more fuel to the fire and when to pull back before the public tires of the subject.
In short, to those who are understandably skeptical about Trump and his intentions, don't count him out. Donald already has a winter White House picked out.
For good measure, Kessler dropped references to Trump's "stunning wife Melania" and noted how Trump's 4-year-old son, Barron, "speaks Serbian, French, and some German, as well as English."
Shortly after Kessler's sycophantic fawning over Trump, Newsmax did an "exclusive" video interview with Trump that generated five separate articles:
- Trump: Obama 'Isn't Doing Anything in Middle East'
- Trump: U.S. 'Whipping Post' for World Under Obama
- Trump: 'I'm Thinking About' Running for President
- Trump: Rebuild America, Not Afghanistan
- Trump: Hannity, O'Reilly, Other Fox Hosts 'Great'
In February, Newsmax promoted Trump's speaking appearance at CPAC, followed by an upbeat article on his "rousing speech" there and a fawning Kessler column in which Kessler took credit for his role in getting Trump the speaking slot:
Trump was not listed on the CPAC agenda. The back story is that after I had written stories saying Trump will announce a presidential run in June, Dave Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union, whose foundation runs CPAC, asked over lunch if I would extend an invitation to Trump to speak at CPAC. In a faxed note touching on other matters, I did so on Jan. 24.
In introducing the star of "The Apprentice," Lisa De Pasquale, director of CPAC, cited those Newsmax stories, which most recently included "Don't Underestimate Donald Trump for President."
(Kessler and Keene are pretty tight; Keene awarded Kessler the ACU's "Robert Novak Journalist of the Year Award" at last year's CPAC.)
In March, Newsmax launched an opt-in poll titled "Donald Trump -- Would You Vote For Him?" that it has heavily promoted for weeks in web ads like this:
Newsmax apparently shared early results from the non-scientific poll with Trump. An April 4 Newsmax post highlighted that Trump said in a Fox & Friends appearance: "A Newsmax poll said I'm winning." The article added: "Trump was referring to early results of a Newsmax poll asking for respondents' preference among 10 potential GOP presidential candidates for 2012, and their choice in a Trump-Barack Obama race. The Newsmax poll will close shortly and the results will be released in the coming days."
The first Newsmax article on the results didn't appear until April 11, which claimed that "Americans overwhelmingly favor Donald Trump as their preferred candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012."
Kessler, meanwhile, took a victory lap of sorts in his April 13 column (which was later apparently removed -- the Google cache version can be found here, and a screenshot can be found here):
Since writing the first story in January to report that Trump will definitely run, I have been amazed at how much the idea of a Trump presidency is catching on across the political spectrum. As I wrote in my story, Don't Underestimate Donald Trump for President, he can be outrageous and boastful. But when it comes to a successful run at the presidency, don't count him out.
(UPDATE: Kessler's article has returned to the Newsmax website.)
Kessler did acknowledge that Trump had "problems," such as "womanizing between marriages," but insisted that "what will also become clear -- as depicted recently on 'The Oprah Show' -- is that he has been a model father to his five kids," adding: "Every morning, Trump reads the papers with his 4-year-old Barron, commenting on developments. His devotion to his kids and loyalty to friends speak volumes about his character."
Kessler concluded: "From talking with him, I can tell that he has thought through the details of running." Kessler and Newsmax have clearly thought through the details of serving as public-relations agents for Trump and his presidential ambitions.
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