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Some of you reading this may have heard of a website called outragedatabase dot com. Many of you won't, and that's great you're doing great! Unfortunately I have heard of it, lured there as…
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Last Saturday we picked nettle tips. Nettle soup was out of reach (still have no blender) so we had nettle stew, which was not too bad. The soup is probably better. Oh a whim I decided we may as well … Continue reading
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My birthday! Into the woods. Saw pheasants, moorhens and a moorhen chick (moorchick?), a heron, and a swan making a nest. Not bad. Everything's new and green and flowering! The jacket is my birthday present to myself; 60s-ish wool … Continue reading
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This is the character sheet for the Gundam series Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.
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HeliopolisA space colony in Earth's orbit, Heliopolis is part of Orb territory, and is thus neutral in the conflict between ZAFT and the Earth Alliance. Unfortunately for them, they're attacked by Rau Le Creuset nonetheless, and the colony is eventually destroyed. A number of refugees end up on board the Archangel, and become de facto Earth Alliance crewmen despite being citizens of a neutral nation.
Kira Yamato
Voice Actors: Soichiro Hoshi (Japanese), Matt Hill (English)
"If you just did nothing because you thought it wouldn't help, than you'd end up doing less than nothing. Because nothing would change."
The main character, who was attending a technical college on Heliopolis when the series began. Naturally, he ends up Falling into the Cockpit of the Strike Gundam. He's a Coordinator, which he attempts to hide at first, but it quickly comes out into the open. Kira undergoes the most Character Development of anyone in the series; starting as a somewhat goofy but generally normal kid, he forces himself to become cold and nearly mechanical in order to deal with the realities of war, but eventually breaks out of this and becomes much more idealistic (but no less determined) before the series ends.
Miriallia "Miri" Haw
Voice Actors: Megumi Toyoguchi (Japanese), Anna Cummer (English)
One of Kira's friends from Heliopolis. Dates Tolle and serves as Kira's Mission Control, Miri is probably the most level-headed of the press-ganged civilians.
Sai Argyle
Voice Actors: Tetsu Shiratori (Japanese), Bill Switzer (English)
A friend of Kira's and Flay's boyfriend. He seems to be the unofficial leader of Kira's social clique — he's the cool, confident guy with the hot girlfriend. Between Flay's issues and Kira's rising importance, this is slowly Deconstructed over the first half of the series, though Sai's resilient enough to bounce back from it. During the second half of the series, he reprises his leadership role, acting as the unofficial first-among-equals for the bridge crewmen.
Tolle Koenig
Voice Actors: Takayuki Inoue (Japanese), Richard Ian Cox (English)
One of Kira's friends. Dates Miriallia and looks up to Kira. The one to come up with the idea to join the Archangel's crew, he's always looking to make himself useful. One of the Bridge Bunnies at first, he eventually spends enough time in the simulator to graduate to Skygrasper pilot, and begins to help Kira and Mu in battle.
Kuzzey Buskirk
Voice Actors: Yasuhiro Takato (Japanese), Keith Miller (English)
One of Kira's friends, he's something of a minor character compared to the rest of the Heliopolis crew. He's the most average of the clique, lacking any outstanding quality comparable to Sai's confidence, Miriallia's warmth, or Tolle's determination. When the Archangel reaches Orb, he decides not to stay on.
Flay Allster
Voice Actors: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese), Tabitha St. Germain (English)
"Why didn't you save him? It's because you're a Coordinator too!"
Living on Heliopolis at the beginning of the series, Flay is the daughter of the Atlantic Federation's Vice Foreign Minister, George Allster. She'd recently begun dating Sai at the beginning of the series, though Kira had had a crush on her for some time. A fairly air-headed type, the war is not kind to her.
Earth AllianceA military alliance consisting of the nations who funded the construction of the PLANTs, formed when the Coordinators living there declared themselves independent. Devastated by ZAFT's mobile suits, they develop the Gundams with the aid of neutral nation Orb in order to counter this. Initially presented as the more sympathetic faction of the war, they're still no barrel of laughs, conscripting several of the Heliopolis refugees to crew the Archangel. As the series progresses, they become less and less sympathetic as the true nature of the leaders running it is revealed.
Captain Ramius
Murrue Ramius
Voice Actors: Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese), Lisa Ann Beley (English)
"It's becoming more and more difficult to understand who or what we're fighting for."
A Lieutenant stationed on the Archangel, she's forced to take command after the ZAFT attack on Heliopolis. Though uncertain of herself at first, she eventually grows to be a capable officer and a dangerous opponent to ZAFT. She keeping the Archangel in one piece through space, reentry, and all over Earth.
Lt. La Flaga
Mu La Flaga
Voice Actors: Takehito Koyasu (Japanese), Trevor Devall (English)
"I'm the man who makes the impossible possible."
One of the few mobile armour pilots to survive the war long enough to appear in the series, he's also lucky (and good) enough to survive the initial ZAFT attack on Heliopolis. Surprisingly laid back for a guy who's been on the brink of a messy death for months at a time, he provides much needed advice and experience for the Archangel's rookie crew. Provides support for Kira and Murrue most specifically — he outranks them both, but having no experience as a ship's officer and being unable to pilot the Strike, he prefers to leave the lead roles to them. Has a rivalry with ZAFT commander Rau Le Creuset, which precedes the beginning of the series. Pilots first the Mobius Zero mobile armour, then the Skygrasper, and finally the Strike.
Lt. Badgiruel
Natarle Badgiruel
Voice Actors: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese), Sarah Johns (English)
Originally an Ensign on the Archangel, she graduates to Murrue's Number Two after the attack on Heliopolis. Harder and more pragmatic than Murrue, Badgiruel remains loyal to the Earth Forces, and is eventually named captain of the Archangel's Evil Counterpart, the Dominion. A professional soldier, she buries any doubts she has behind her ironclad faith in the military, even when forced to work with Muruta Azrael and his squad.
Mr. Neuman
Ensign Arnold Neumann
Voice Actors: Isshin Chiba (Japanese), Philip Pacaud (English)
The soft spoken helmsman of the Archangel, Mr. Neumann is one of the unsung heroes of the show. Taking on a leadership role among the ship's NCO's in times of crisis, Neumann's greatest contribution to the survival of the Archangel is without a doubt his insane piloting skills.
Admiral Halberton
Lewis Halberton
Voice Actors: Naoki Tatsuta (Japanese), Richard Newman (English)
The commander of the EA's 08th Fleet, Admiral Lewis Halberton was the commisioner and mastermind behind the G-Weapons' project that created the Gundams. A capable battlefield commander, and a mentor Captain Ramius, Halberton is one of the few high-ranking OMNI officials to have any sympathy for the Coordinators, and Kira Yamato in particular.
Muruta Azrael
Voice Actors: Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese), Andrew Francis (English)
"Misunderstandings create enemies, and when you have enemies, you shoot them."
The leader of the anti-Coordinator terrorist group Blue Cosmos and a powerful figure in the Atlantic Federation. Boyish. Charming. Takes his evil Up to Eleven. He joins the crew of the Dominion with his squad of modified soldiers, more or less subverting Badgiruel's position as captain.
Captain Sutherland
Captain William Sutherland
Voice Actors: Minoru Inaba (Japanese), Ron Halder (English)
A member of the OMNI General Staff and a card-carrying member of Blue Cosmos, Captain Sutherland is a key member of Azrael's network and provides his link to the upper echelons of the Earth Forces' military. The mastermind behind the use of the Cyclops system at JOSH-A, Sutherland sees to it that the worst of Azrael's proposals are made a reality by the military.
Clotho, Orga, and Shani
Clotho Bauer, Orga Sabnak, and Shani Andras
Clotho's Voice Actors: Hiro Yuki (Japanese), Andrew Toth (English)
Orga's Voice Actors: Ryohei (Japanese), Ted Cole (English)
Shani's Voice Actors: Shunichi Miyamoto (Japanese), Richard Ian Cox (English)
Three "biological CPUs" brought in by Azrael to pilot his shiny new Gundams during the attack on Orb, Clotho Buer, Orga Sabnak, and Shani Andras are the Earth Alliance's most powerful weapons during the final weeks of the war. Fed a steady stream of drugs that are both performance enhancing and highly addictive, it's unclear whether this is what drove them nuts or if they were always that way. Regardless, the trio are capable of taking on Coordinators in superior mobile suits toe-to-toe and coming out on top more often than not, despite being completely and utterly psychotic. Clotho pilots the Raider; his primary hobby outside of battle is playing Shmups, and he's fond of shouting gaming-inspiring phrases like "game over!" in combat. Orga is assigned to the Calamity; outside of battle, he's usually found reading paperback novels. Shani pilots the Forbidden, and spends his downtime ignoring the rest of the world by listening to music on his headphones. He cultivates his Peek-a-Bangs to hide his heterochromia.
ZAFTThe group representing the Coordinators living in the PLANTs, its military arm is the primary antagonist at the beginning of the series. Fighting for independence from the Earth nations that built the PLANTs they live in, their fight is far more complicated than an idealistic crusade against tyranny. Their presentation changes drastically during the course of the series, managing to become both more and less sympathic at the same time.
Commander Le Creuset
Rau Le Creuset
Voice Actors: Toshihiko Seki (Japanese), Mark Oliver (English)
"Suspicion, ignorance, prejudice, the dark emotions directed at those who can be loved. If love is the brightest light, then are these emotions created from the shadow it casts? Things that are different, things we don't understand, differences that foster anxiety, leading to hatred, and ultimately...confrontation."
Athrun's commanding officer and Patrick Zala's right-hand man, Le Creuset is a feared ZAFT ship captain and mobile suit pilot, renowned for his ability and his ruthlessness. He is assigned to hunt down the Archangel, and is later given command of the assaults on Alaska and Panama, and the defence of Jachin Due. Aways masked, Le Creuset is an enigmatic figure with a grudge against Mu La Flaga, and his own agenda, which he keeps entirely to himself. A very dangerous man, Rau originally pilots a series of Elite Mook mobile suits, but eventually upgrades to the Providence.Le Creuset is a Walking Spoiler, so read with caution.
Captain Ades
Fredrik Ades
Voice Actors: Yasuhiko Kawazu (Japanese), Michael Dobson (EnglishThe captain of the Vesalius, Ades is Le Creuset's right-hand man and a capable officer in his own right. Sometimes taken aback by Le Creuset's penchant for acting without orders, Ades nevertheless follows his superior's instructions loyally. Despite his secondary role on the ship, he seems to command the respect of the Le Creuset team's pilots.
Athrun Zala
Voice Actors: Akira Ishida (Japanese), Samuel Vincent (English)
"I can't exactly fight a war with a big smile on my face."
Kira's former best friend and one of ZAFT's elite pilots, he spends the first half of the show trying to capture Kira and the Strike. Much more cynical than Kira, he considers himself the realist of the two, and believes Kira is being manipulated by the Naturals. He too grow progressively darker and more bitter as the series progresses, culminating in a brutal fight between he and Kira in the middle of the series. Pilots the Aegis and then the Justice.
Yzak Joule
Voice Actors: Tomokazu Seki (Japanese), Michael Adamtwaite (English)
"Come out and fight, Strike! Or else this pain I feel will never go away!"
A member of the Le Creuset team, he's the most bloodthirsty and callous of the group. He has little respect for anyone he considers weak, and absolutely zero respect for Naturals as a consequence. He's close friends with Dearka, who shares many of his views, and has a developing rivalry with Athrun. He has no particular hate for the Earth Alliance (just contempt) until he's wounded during a battle with the Strike. After the resulting scarring, he develops a massive hate-on for Kira. Extremely temperamental and impulsive, he's the member of the group most loyal to ZAFT as a whole and Le Creuset personally. Pilots the Duel.
Dearka Elsman
Voice Actors: Akira Sasanuma (Japanese), Brad Swaile (English)
A member of Athrun's team, he, along with Yzak Joule, formed the darker half of the foursome. Snarky and condescending at times, Dearka often has to act as the more impulsive Yzak's conscience. An artilleryman at heart, he prefers to engage his opponents at range, while mocking their inability to touch him. Pilots the Buster.
Nicol Amalfi
Voice Actors: Mami Matsui (Japanese series), Romi Park (Japanese Compilation Movies), Gabe Khouth (English)
"Mother... my piano..."
The youngest and most sensitive member of the Le Creuset Team. He looks up to Athrun, but is often bullied by Dearka and (especially) Yzak. He pilots the Blitz, and pulls his weight in combat despite the fact that he's not as skilled as the rest of the team. A genuinely Nice Guy, Nicol's only real character flaw seems to be his belief in My Country, Right or Wrong.
Lacus Clyne
Voice Actors: Rie Tanaka (Japanese), Chantal Strand (English dialogue), Jillian Michaels (English singing)
"I'd like you to inform them: from now on, Lacus Clyne will be singing the song... of peace."
The daughter of PLANT Supreme Council Chairman Siegel Clyne, Lacus is an extremely popular Idol Singer and political activist, and is engaged to her friend Athrun. Early in the series she is picked up by the Archangel and meets Kira, an event which will come to define the rest of both their lives. The public face of the "Clyne Faction" (those moderates who support her father's policies), Lacus is a pleasant, friendly, idealistic girl, who is a heck of a lot smarter than you'd think.
Chairman Zala
Patrick Zala
Voice Actors: Kinryū Arimoto (Japanese), Andrew Kavadas (English)
"We Coordinators are very different. We should view ourselves as a completely new species. There's no reason to coexist with Naturals."
Athrun's father, Patrick Zala was one of the founding members of ZAFT alongside Siegel Clyne. At the beginning of the series, he's the head of ZAFT's armed forces. Patrick is a stoic but driven man, throwing himself into the execution of the war to the exclusion of all else — including his son. Patrick's fanaticism comes from the loss of his wife Lenore in the Bloody Valentine tragedy, which has left him with a deep-seated hatred of Naturals. He believes that Coordinators are a new species, distinct from (and superior to) Naturals.
Former Chairman Clyne
Siegel Clyne
Voice Actors: Yosuke Akimoto (Japanese), Don Brown (English)
"You still fail to grasp the underlying truth, Patrick. We [Coordinators] didn't evolve."
Siegel Clyne is Lacus's father. He helped found ZAFT with Patrick Zala, and is the PLANT Supreme Council Chairman at the beginning of the series. Leader of the moderate faction of Coordinators, he and his allies believe in coexistence with the Naturals, but they're steadily losing ground to the radical faction that favours all-out war. Eventually voted out of office and replaced by Patrick Zala, he attempts to remain a voice of reason, earning him the enmity of the radicals.
Ezalia Joule
Voice Actors: Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese), Lee Lau (English)
Yzak's mother, and a member of Patrick Zala's faction on the ZAFT Supreme Council, Ezalia is his second-in-command, and is even more ardent than Patrick in her belief that Coordinators are a new, superior species. Proud of her son's military service, Ezalia nevertheless worries about his safety, and can be quite controlling — if well-meaning — in her interactions with Yzak.
Commander Waltfeld
Andrew Waltfeld
Voice Actors: Ryōtarō Okiayu (Japanese), Brian Drummond (English)
"At what point do we put an end to [war]? When every single one of your enemies has been destroyed? Perhaps then."
Known as "the Desert Tiger", Waltfeld is a feared ZAFT commander operating in the Libyan desert. He serves as the first major opponent Kira faces other than Athrun and his team, and poses a serious threat to the Archangel and her crew, despite being a pretty decent guy. Meeting him forces Kira to further reevaluate his moral stance on the war. He pilots a BuCUE and then the LaGOWE command unit.
Voice Actors: Vivian Hsu (Japanese series), Fumi Hirano (Japanese Compilation Movies), Saffron Henderson (English)
"You're taking this rather well. This is difficult for you, isn't it? I can tell you're really fond of him."
Girlfriend of Andrew Waldfeld, the Desert Tiger, and a capable pilot in her own right. Just as sympathetic a character as Andy, she's rather friendly toward Kira and Cagalli when they encounter each other.
OrbAn island nation in the Pacific, Orb has a high-tech industrial base but little in the way of resources; they built Heliopolis primarily as a way to mitigate this strategic weakness. A very idealistic nation, their stance in international politics is one of aggressive neutrality; though they will not attack others, they will vigorously defend themselves against any attacks. The war between the Earth Alliance and ZAFT has strained this position to its breaking point, especially after the destruction of Heliopolis.
Cagalli Yula Athha
Voice Actors: Naomi Shindo (Japanese), Vanessa Morley (English)
"That's right, I'm a girl. What is it with you guys?"
The adopted daughter of Uzumi Nara Atha, Chief Representative of the Orb Union. Also a rebel leader, guerilla soldier, and a capable, if brash, politician. Hates ZAFT and distrusts the Earth Forces. She provides the military backbone of the Three Ships' Alliance. Pilots a Skygrasper and then the Strike Rouge.
Lord Uzumi
Lord Uzumi Nara Atha
Voice Actors: Tōru Ōkawa (Japanese),
"We can't leave Orb, or this world, in the hands of those bastards."
The leader of Orb and Cagalli's adopted father, Lord Uzumi is completely dedicated to maintaining Orb's neutral stance. This becomes ever more difficult as the war spirals out of control. Faced with increasing pressure to choose a side in the ZAFT-Earth Alliance conflict, he refuses to compromise his nation's ideals.
George Glenn
George Glenn
Voice Actors: Hideyuki Hori (Japanese), Michael Dobson (English)
"I have a body capable of greater strengths and a brain capable of acquiring greater knowledge than a human being who was born naturally."
The original Coordinator, he gained international fame and fortune excelling at basically everything ever (from professional sports to cutting-edge scientific research); he eventually revealed that his spectacular success was largely due to having been genetically engineered. He released instructions for his enhancement process to the public, inadvertently coining the term "Coordinator" at the same time. Eventually assassinated by Blue Cosmos.In the Gundam SEED Astray side stories it is revealed that his brain was kept alive inside the "GG Unit", a device resembling a very large futuristic boombox, which eventually came into the possession of the Junk Guild. Equipped with a holographic avatar to interact with the living, Glenn now serves as the captain of the salvage ship/Gundam carrier Re-Home.
Reverend Malchio
Reverend Malchio
Voice Actors: Kazuya Nakai (Japanese), Brian Drummond (English)A blind monk who is one of the few individuals trusted by both the Earth Alliance and ZAFT, he acts as a mediator on the rare occasions that the two sides get along well enough to discuss anything. Among other things, he also maintains an orphanage on Earth. There is a fair bit more to him than meets the eye.
Al Da Flaga
Al Da Flaga
Voice Actors: ? (Japanese), Mark Oliver (English)
"Laws can be broken after all. They're only made by humans."
Mu La Flaga's deceased father. He considered his son too weak to be his true heir, and is later revealed to have cloned himself in an effort to gain a more worthy successor. He went on to deny said clone any sense of identity, which ended with his death in a "mysterious" fire. Whoops.
Dr. Hibiki
Dr. Ulen Hibiki
Voice actor: Eiji Yanagisawa (Japanese), Fred Handerson (English)
"The urge to make things better has always driven progress, and then that is what brings about happiness."
A very brilliant, very ambitious, and totally amoral scientist who was behind the Ultimate Coordinator project.
Via Hibiki
Via Hibiki
Voice actor: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese)Ulen Hibiki's wife, also implied to be his scientific partner. She does have standards, though, as she's horrified when he goes too far with his experiments.
Caridad Yamato
Caridad Yamato
Voice actor: Kikuko Inoue (Japanese), Rebecca Shoichet (English)Kira's mother. Actually, his maternal aunt. She and her husband Haruma raised Kira, who has no idea.


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To Søstre ("Two Sisters") is a family run guesthouse situated in the historic centre of Bergen. The traditional wooden house lies in a quiet, cobbled street only a five minutes' walk from the city's historic water front and UNESCO world heritage site, Bryggen. We offer comfortable rooms and a family suite, with a wholesome breakfast, including homemade breads and local produce. In addition to the rooms, we also have an apartment for up to four self-catering guests in the basement of the house. The apartment has one bedroom, a living area with a sofa bed and a kitchenette, and a spacious bathroom.
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My wife, our daughter and her husband stayed in two of the rooms available on the second floor. Rooms were very clean and neat, the pictures here on the site are accurate, but the rooms are brighter during the day. Both had good beds, windows to the street (not exactly a view, but not looking out on a wall either), each had a hot water boiler, tea, sugar, etc. and were good sized. Our two rooms shared a bathroom with shower, seemed to have been recently redone and very nicely. Breakfast was served on the main level which had a kitchen, dining room and small living room for all renters to share. Breakfast had standard european flare: cheese, sliced meats, hearty toast, yogurt, coffee, tea, espresso, with offer of making eggs, which were perfectly cooked. The two sisters that operate the place were very friendly and helpful. The place is off a main street and in walking distance to Old Bergen, city center, and rail ride. I'd definitely return a happy customer!
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Three friends and I stayed in the loft for five days recently (May 2013) We absolutely loved it! Renate was very friendly and made us feel at home right away. We were in walking distance to the Kurt Nilsen concert.( the reason we came) We were also very close to shops, the fish market and restaurants.I had a wonderful time and hope to return as soon as possible! G C.
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As soon as you enter the house it feels like home. The warm and nice atmosphere, the service and the fantastick breakfast. At my stay at To sostre I was served home made food like bread, creamy schrimp salad and musli. Also we had the nicest salmon, good cheese, vegetable and fruits. The bedrooms are really delicate. The beds so soft and nice. What really surprised me was who quiet it was in the house in the morning even when there were several guests in the house. The Bed and breakfast is located in a very charming area in the old town of Bergen. I will definetlly go back. Highly recommended
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If you're a pufferfish then Garfield will be very ill.
No you're not, however, soon you'll be ON toast.
I like the fish's expression in the left panel. The old, OH CR@P look.
Wait, I'm a FUGU!
and then Garfield produces a book called "fugu for experts".
Garfield can digest everything that is edible in this world…
Tryin to act smart eh fishy???? U can't out smart our Garf!
He's been at this for 33 years come this June. I think he knows what cuts of the fugu are edible and which are lethal.
I agree He has a highly disgestable stomach, He can eat anything if prepared properly. He can make a lasagna, think he can't prepare a fish?
ladyfinger86,I'd suggested Jon get piranha a number of times but I guess Jim Davis is not willing to comply.
Explain to Garf that you're a very young Synanceia verrucosa. Not yet old enough to have the other colorings of the mature fish but still poisonous enough to kill him if he bits you.
Synanceia verrucosa=Stone Fish
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I believe that Garfield has the stomach of a goat.
I love that Garf's stomach is its own breed.
The trouble is, this poisonous fish won't kill him, just make him sick. "What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger!"
I once trained mine to hack-up in the litter box. Much easier to clean up. What I could not do was train her to leave the remains of her nightly catch in the tub. Yuck!
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State Rep. Charles Jeter offers an example to other lawmakers and maybe even a judge. The Republican legislator from Mecklenburg County stood in a teachers shoes for a day on Thursday, and found the experience humbling.
Jeter volunteered in a fourth grade classroom at Charlotte-Mecklenburgs Stoney Creek Elementary School. He didnt just spend the hour or two that politicos typically give such efforts. He spent the whole day actually working. After a busy day of helping one student after another with math and other work, Jeter acknowledged what most who arent teachers fail to appreciate. I didnt realize how difficult it really is until today, he said afterwards. We havent stopped. Theres no five-minute breaks... Its those little conveniences of life you forget that teachers go without.
We hope Jeter will share this experience with his fellow N.C. lawmakers during the short legislative session that begins next week. Their past actions eliminating teacher assistants, increasing class sizes, mandating unnecessary tests, paying too many near-poverty wages have made teachers jobs harder.
Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning might benefit from spending a day working in a classroom too. He might not be so quick to dismiss the need for additional resources for educators to effectively carry out the N.C. Constitutions mandate of providing all children a sound basic education.
This week Manning, who has been overseeing the states compliance with rulings in a school equity case, issued a stinging report noting that way too many thousands of (N.C.) school children have not received an adequate education. He based the 38-page report on hearings and reading test scores through 2013.
Mannings report came in the same week that lawyers for the low-income districts that filed that equity lawsuit charged in new court filings that the state has abandoned many of the remedies that were planned to address the problem.
Both the plaintiffs and Manning are right to focus a spotlight on these failings again. The most vulnerable of North Carolinas students are not getting what they need to achieve. The status quo is unacceptable and must not stand.
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The law had the admirable intent of ensuring students are reading proficiently by third grade. But the program focuses on testing, not on resources and strategies to help struggling readers achieve success. Help in the form of mandated summer reading camps comes only after theyve failed.
Testing is not teaching. Testing is one tool to spot where help is needed. But a test is not a magic elixir. Educators must do the work of deciphering that data and using it to help each child learn. That requires time and resources something lawmakers have robbed educators of by cutting teacher assistants, textbook money and training.
Jeters time in Stoney Creek gave him an idea of what that has meant. Imagine what educators face in the low-wealth districts that sued the state over inequities.
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|Height: 1m78 (5'10") Weight: 94kg (14st. 13lbs)
|Date of Birth: 06 Nov 1982 Place of Birth: Naroi, Moala
|Fathers Village: Naroi, Moala
|Mothers Village: Tavea, Lekutu, Bua
Skillful back with a habit of scoring tries at all levels. Picked up seven tries in his first season with English club Saracens and another three with Digicel Pacific Islanders in November, 2006. On his provincial debut at age 19, he scored a crucial try for Tailevu against Lautoka to help them snatch Farebrother-Sullivan Trophy for the first time in the 60-year history of the competition. Scored on his international debut with the Flying Fijians.
Fiji 7s:
2004 – Chile and Argentina (with Dev't squad – won both tournaments, top try scorer), Dubai, South Africa
2005 – Germany (World Games)
IRB Pacific Rugby Cup:
2006 – Fiji Warriors (6 games)
Total – 6 games
Colonial Cup:
2004 – Tailevu Knights (4 games)
Total – 4 games
2001-04 – PWD Lines, Tailevu
2003 – Tailevu (won Farebrother-Sullivan Trophy)
1995-2001 – Lelean Memorial School (U13-U19 centre/wing)
Likes: Gardening, reading, movies
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If you thought you heard Magneto going a bit Oirish towards the end of
X-Men: First Class
, don't worry, your hearing hadn't gone all wonky.
Michael Fassbender is actually half German and half Irish - though he has an Irish accent because he grew up in Killarney, south west Ireland.
"I suppose the German side wants to keep everything in control, and the Irish side wants to wreak havoc," he's joked in the past. Which probably accounts for that devilish Irish wobble in
First Class
Just because he grew up in Ireland doesn't mean that Fassbender's ignored his father tongue (his dad's German). In fact, Fassbender is able to watch German films without subtitles, and only needed lessons to help him brush up his rusty verbal skills for
Inglourious Basterds.
When his dad saw the film, he commented that Michael didn't sound "that bad, actually". Bless.
Fassbender was originally in the running to head up Len Wiseman's
Total Recall
reboot. He was up for the role of Quaid alongside Colin Farrell and Tom Hardy - the producers clearly had their eyes set on gruff European talent for the role.
Instead, fellow countryman Farrell bagged the role. Which Fassbender's probably not too upset about, considering how the film turned out…
"You can imagine the combinations you can make with a word like 'Fassbender'," the actor has joked in the past, clearly taking his surname in good humour (well, he's had to grow up with it, after all).
In fact, his name has nothing to do with bending (or
futuristic, beer-guzzling robots
) - it's actually the German word for 'cooper', somebody who binds or repairs barrels…
Acting wasn't a priority for Fassbender in the beginning. Instead, he wanted to be a guitarist in a band.
"I wanted to be a lead guitarist," he recalls. "But I wasn't good enough. And it's always hard to find a drummer, especially in small towns. Or a bass player. So it was just me and this other guy Mike - the two Mikes - and we tried to put on a gig one time in this pub at lunchtime, playing Metallica. It didn't go off too well."
No worries, though - in 2003, Fassy fulfilled his music dream by appearing in the video for 'Blind Pilots' by Brit rockers The Cooper Temple Clause. Yes, that's him as a minotaur…
In 2012,
Time Out
named Fassbender one of the 100 Most Influential People of the year, in no small part thanks to the bumper year he'd had at the movies with
Jane Eyre
Meanwhile, The Guardian branded him 'the man to take on Brando's mantel' after director Steve McQueen (
) likened him to the star. "There is no one like Michael out there right now," says McQueen. "And there hasn't been, for me, since Marlon Brando."
High praise indeed, and it doesn't stop there…
Back-slapping and general up-talking is the lifeblood of movie junkets, but even outside of the promotional circuit, nobody seems to have a bad word to say about Fassy.
Ridley Scott has called him "one of the best three or four actors out there; he holds the screen", and David Cronenberg has branded him "so perky it drives you crazy". Meanwhile, McQueen commends the actor for his "fragility" and "femininity".
"There's … also a masculinity that can translate," adds McQueen. "You're not in awe of him. You're part of him. He pulls you in. And that's what you want from an actor. You want people to look at him and see themselves."
Movies may be his life, but Fassbender's also got a passion for rubber burning. His grandfather introduced him to Formula 1 racing in 1989, and he's followed it ever since.
"I did go to Monaco to the Grand Prix recently and because of the position I'm in, I was allowed to stand beside Michael Schumacher in his car on the grid," Fassbender has said. "That was pretty amazing and something of a childhood dream. I've been a fan of motor racing for 20 years."
In fact, he loves it so much that he's even signed on to narrate awkwardly-titled F1 racing documentary, er,
If you're going to play a robot, there are worse people you could base that robot on than David Bowie. Which is exactly what Fassbender did with
, the
prequel in which he played android David.
"We took inspiration from David Bowie and some of his looks as well," Fassbender says. "I liked the idea of having a feminine quality to him for sure."
He also watched
Blade Runner, The Man Who Fell To Earth, The Servant
Lawrence Of Arabia
, plus studied Olympic diver Greg Louganis in order to capture a lithe, fluid physicality.
In order to portray Bobby Sands, the Irish republican who went on hunger strike in 1981, in
Fassbender went on a medically-monitored crash diet that saw his weight drop to horrifying lows.
"I lost about 14 kilos and weighed 59 kilos by the end," he says. "It was the only way we could do it and make it convincing."
He adds: "We live in this society where nowadays if I want something, I take it, I eat it - it's so easy and readily available. When you take all that away, you actually become more appreciative of the things around you. I don't want to do it again, but there is a level where it humbles you in a good way."
Perhaps one of the reasons directors love him is Fassbender's unwavering dedication to his craft.
He's been known to read a script 300 times before filming (though we can't imagine he read
that many times, that would just be silly). Fassy's pretty certain where his diligent work ethic comes from, too, attributing it to his German father, Josef.
"If I came home with 85% in a test, he'd always ask what happened to the other 15%."
"I always approach film as a fan," Fassy's said.
Unlike some actors who value stage work more than their dabblings at the cineplexes, Fassbender's a movie man through and through.
"In drama school, they don't think of movies as a pure form like theatre, and it's films that I love most," he's said of his time studying at London's Drama Centre. "There's an intimacy in movies - I wanted to have the same impact on others that movies had on me."
It's not hard to see why Fassbender loves the movie so much when he has people like Quentin Tarantino as his celluloid heroes. Michael worked with Tarantino on
Inglourious Basterds
, where the auteur's passion for pictures proved infectious.
"You know the man eats, breathes, lives film," Fassbender says. "You could bring up the most obscure movie, like some fuckin' Swedish film from 1963 or whatever, and he'll know it. It's quite staggering, actually, he is encyclopedia of knowledge."
And how about acting heroes? "For me, Daniel Day-Lewis is in a league of his own. I think that he's amazing. And he's always been a benchmark of excellence." Yep, doesn't get much better than that.
Though he's wearied recently over incessant chatter about his full-frontal moment in
, Fassbender stands by the work. "It was important to go all out, not take shortcuts there, and to be sort of naked in every respect," he says. "Otherwise, I don't think the film would have worked."
He was also all up for addressing the gender imbalance when it comes to on-screen flesh-bearing.
"To be honest with you, I think it's the idea of male frontal nudity," he says of just why his pant-less promenade has garnered so much attention. "It just baffles me: women can parade around naked all the time, but the guy conveniently has his pants on.
"I remember my mum always complaining about that to me, saying, 'This is such bullshit, it's always the women who are naked' ... So I did this one for you, Mum!"
Before he dropped his trews for
and went all-out nasty in
12 Years A Slave
, Fassbender made audiences sit up with his affecting turn as bastard Connor in Brit flick
Fish Tank.
Fassbender remains pragmatic about leaving characters on set when he's finished shooting, though. "It washes away," he says. "I think it's important to go to places that are uncomfortable. For the benefit of others, maybe.
"You're facing all these ugly things, and knowing well this is an ugly thing and it's there somewhere in all of us. And so you're representing the ugliness.
"Connor does cross the line in
Fish Tank
, but on the flip-side he is the catalyst for [
the heroine
] to become her own person... And so it's again playing with that ambiguity."
Where Fassbender's concerned, the scarier the better - at least when it comes to taking risks in the acting biz.
"The problem is, we feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure," he says. "You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen? I'm trying to tell a story - what's the worst that can happen? You fall flat on your face, then hopefully you get back up again and go for it again and try something else.
"We're all going to die one day. I'm stealing that off Steve [
]; it's what he'd say when he ordered me to take my clothes off. 'WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE ONE DAY!'" Too right.
He's not above admitting that his
co-star, Gina Carano, could easily kick his ass off-screen. "In real life, Gina would beat the shit out of me in any circumstance. I mean, have you seen her on YouTube?" he laughs.
Not that Carano went easy on him during filming. During their showstopping hotel brawl, Carano was actually meant to miss Fassbender when she threw the vase. Instead, she got so caught up in the moment that she smashed the vase over Fassbender's head. What were we just saying about risks?
Like all the best people in the world, Fassbender counts himself as a
Star Wars
fan. Not only that, but when he was a kid, he had his very own Ewok village.
Star Wars
was really the only sci-fi sort of fascination I had as a youngster," he says. "I collected and I've still got the AT-AT and the Millennium Falcon and the Ewok village."
Going by his ability to describe the Ewok village pretty clearly, it seems he's still playing with it. "It's three trees or four, perhaps, joined together with a platform bit, it's kind of cool: you go into the trunk of one and come out of another, there are some winding trap things..."
Fassbender once staged his own stage version of
Reservoir Dogs
. He was 18 when he directed and starred (as Mr Pink) in the play, which he staged in his hometown of Killarney.
"It was pure naïveté and enthusiasm but a good lesson to learn by doing," he recalls. "I basically didn't know what I was getting myself into and there were plenty of hitches."
Oh, and did we mention he staged the show in order to raise money for charity? "We also had problems finding a charity that would take our money - nobody wanted to be associated with
Reservoir Dogs
. It's funny that nobody wanted our money…"
Years later, when he met with Tarantino to discuss playing a character in
Inglourious Basterds
, Fassbender was actually interested in tackling Nazi baddie Colonel Hans Landa (a role eventually taken by Christoph Waltz).
"I had sort of done 27 hours of prep on that, and then I arrived and Quentin said, 'Okay, let's take a look at Hicox.' And I thought, shit. 'What about Landa?' And he said, 'Oh, I cast my Landa on Tuesday.'
"So I just did a cold reading of Hicox and although they had said to prepare Hicox as well, I didn't have time to mediate between the two. But they seemed to like it."
Enough to give Fassbender the role when Simon Pegg, who was originally set to play Hicox, pulled out because of a conflict in his schedules.
He'd take Comic-Con over the Cannes Film Festival any day of the week. Fassy first attended Comic-Con in 2010 to chat about, um,
Jonah Hex
. Despite that film's shortcomings, he fully embraced the geekdom.
"I loved it, because these are the guys who are diehard fans - so passionate about film and whatever sort of genre it comes from, comic books essentially.
But you get the feeling that they're all well-read and well-versed in all sorts of things.
"And it's a rush when you go into an auditorium and there are 600 to 800 of these die-hard fans all together and enthusiastic. It's really cool to give something back to them if you can and they're all so gracious as well. And Cannes is just this glamorous fanfare. Again, a fantastic experience, but there's more exclusivity to it."
His first feature film was
, which was notable not only for its stunning (and bloody) visuals, but also for its proliferation of six-packs, making it perhaps the most homoerotic fight flick ever made.
Fassbender underwent a gruelling training regime to get in shape for the film, training for 10 weeks, five days a week, four hours a day. "But that's fun," he told
The Times
in 2011. "You get the best people training you and you get paid to look good and feel strong."
Filming a torture scene for hoodie horror
Eden Lake
required Fassbender to sit in freezing mud for three days - not that he complained.
"He's a very committed actor," says director James Watkins. "Michael's so passionate and incredibly generous. There was one torture scene that required him to sit for three days in the mud. I mean, we had to go and shoot it from all the angles and it took ages.
"But even when he was off camera he was performing and giving the kids (some of whom had no acting experience) the intensity they could feed from. He's a lovely man and very unselfish."
He's been long-linked to Bond, but he's not sitting around waiting for Daniel Craig to retire.
"I really don't plan anything ever because it never seems to work," Fassbender says. "I'm just [
] – let's just get this film out and see how this one does. And, you know, Daniel [
] is doing a great job. We'll see what happens. I'm very flattered that people are sort of making that link, but – I don't know. We'll see."
Fingers crossed he's next in line for the double-O.
Remember what we said about being fearless? Fassbender was adamant that he wanted to tackle one of the most outrageous stunts in historical epic
. The stunt involved jumping from a high gorge into dark, rushing water.
"He's up for anything, you know?" said director Neil Marshall. "Whether it's jumping into an icy, cold river or getting on a horse and riding at high speed. I'm sure if I'd said yes he would have jumped off the cliff into the river, but somebody had to hold him back and say, 'No, no, no, let's not get carried away here!'"
In the end, the stunt was performed by professional stunt workers instead…
Fassbender was one of the best things about the otherwise woeful
Jonah Hex
, mostly because he was as diligent as ever in creating his character, the psychotic right-hand man to John Malkovich.
Drawing on other movie villains before him, Fassbender based his character on sociopaths like Alex in
A Clockwork Orange
and Batman baddie The Riddler.
"I thought I'm going to … do
Clockwork Orange
meets Frank Gorshin,1970s Riddler with a Carrey accent," Fassbender recalls.
"Then the guys at prosthetics created this kind of tattoo thing that started at my face and went all the way down my torso and arms. It's like the people around you that are doing these things, do the work for you. It began a really fun sort of character."
Michael was so dedicated to playing Erik Lensherr aka Magneto in
X-Men: First Class
that he actually studied Ian McKellen's portrayal of the character in the previous
films in order to give a realistic continuity.
"You want to respect what someone else has done, especially because the fan base really liked what Ian has done with it," he says.
"But while I could have gone and studied him as a young man and brought that to the performance, I don't think Matthew [
Vaughn, director
] is very interested in that. So I'm just going my own way and working with whatever is in the comic books and the script."
Could Fassbender be the man to break the so-called videogame movie curse? That's what everybody's hoping for with his movie adaptation of
Assassin's Creed
, in which Fass will play Desmond Miles, who goes back in time to collect mystical artefacts.
"That's definitely happening," he said in October 2013. "We're just developing the script at the moment. I'd heard of it but had never played the game. I don't have a video game player … that's not what they're called. [
"I met up with the guys from Ubisoft and they told me the story behind it, and I thought it was very interesting - the idea of reliving memories." The film's due in 2015.
Fassbender was famously (and outrageously) snubbed by the Academy Awards for his performance in
('Did Fassbender's Big Part Cost Him A Nom?' asked the
Los Angeles Times
), but he's not that fussed.
With renewed Oscar buzz building around his role as an evil plantation owner in
12 Years A Slave
, Fassy's concentrating on the work instead of the awards. "There's nothing I can really do. Sit at home and think about winning a statue? Or being nominated for a statue? This is the film. This is what it is."
So Fassy's hot stuff at the moment, but he's level-headed about the whole fame business.
"I don't know what's going to happen," he says about his future in the film industry. "I'm flavour of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!"
Hopefully he won't stop for a long, long time.
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