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At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I find myself saying this a lot lately but here I go again. We all come to sailing with our own specific needs, our own specific goals and our own specific capabilities. The neat thing about sailing is that we all dont have to agree that there is only one right way to go sailing. There is no more truth in expecting that there is one universally right answer about many aspects of sailing than there is in trying to prove that vanilla ice cream is universally better than strawberry ice cream. One area of sailing for which there is no one universally right answer involves the amount of knowledge one needs to go sailing.
For some, all they need or want to know about sailing is just enough knowledge to safely leave the slip sail where they want and get back safely. There is nothing inherently wrong with that approach. But for others, like myself, there is much more to sailing than simply developing a rudimentary knowledge of sailing basics. If you fall into that camp, it is next to impossible to learn to sail really well on a boat as large as the one in question.
While I am in no way suggesting that this makes sense for everyone, for those who really want to learn to sail well, I strongly suggest that they start out owning a used 23 to 27 foot, responsive, light-weight, tiller steered, fin keel/spade rudder (ideally fractionally rigged) sloop (or if they are athletically inclined then a dinghy.) Boats like these provide the kind of feedback that is so necessary to teach a newcomer how to really sail well. By sailing well I mean understanding the nuances of boat handling and sail trim in a way that cannot be learned on a larger boat. Used small boats generally hold their values quite well so that after a few years or so of learning, you should be able to get most of your money out of the small boat and move on to a bigger boat actually knowing something about the desirable characteristics of a boat that appeal to you as an experienced sailor rather than some stranger on some Internet BB.
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I confess being partial for The Hill Side's products. Firstly because they are making their products by hand in New-York, caring for fabrics and paying great attention to detail. Secondly because to me, they are the basis of a new subtrend derived from workwear, consisting in demystifying formal accessories such a ties or pocket squares… Read more
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My scarf research inevitably drove me to a brand : The Hill Side. I actually found it at farfecth with a comfortable discount. Something you can always expect from the Newyorkese creator is cool patterns, the one we've got here is houndstooth. This oversized scarf is not only great looking but also warm with a… Read more
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When you're writing or reading in Young Adult, there are some things to look for.
Click on the link to connect to BTSe Mag and my column on Young Adult fiction and how kids today talk…
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Here's a helpful blog to help you brush up on your vocabulary. That's always a good exercise.
10 Commonly Misunderstood Words in English.
I'm going to add a couple of words to the list.
Dearth: I've heard people use it to mean a full complement or lots of something. In fact, it means a scarcity or lack of.
Irregardless: Doesn't exist. Use "regardless."
What misuses are your pet peeves?
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Every once in a while, I use my blog space for a language pet peeve. I tolerate it as well as a corkscrew in the navel when people end some sentences with prepositions. Not in all cases. I'm not crazy. I just like to maintain a certain elegance in language.
Ending a sentence with a preposition is not incorrect. You can do it. If someone has a small, handheld contraption that you can't identify, you wouldn't point and say, "For what is that?" Go ahead, say, "What is that for?"
From The Grammar Bible, by Michael Strumpf and Auriel Douglas [Henry Holt and Company, 2004]:
Contrary to popular belief, it is not a mortal sin to end a sentence with a preposition, as long as the sentence sounds natural and its meaning is clear. . . . It is absolutely antiquated to forbid ending a sentence with a preposition.
Fair enough. Never let it be said, I advocated something antiquated (except for genies). But. I will maintain that sometimes it just sounds better not to end a sentence with a preposition. Case in point: Jennifer Hudson's song, "Where you at?" It's a really good song. She has an incredible voice. Would it be too much to ask her to re-record the song with "Where are you?" Same number of syllables. I should write a letter.
Meanwhile, there is another language peeve I have that is, in fact, incorrect. Here comes that corkscrew: When the subjective case pronoun I is used as the object of a preposition. I know, right? Horrifying. If the pronoun is the object of the preposition, it should be objective case me or her or him. Lady Gaga offers a great example of turning that corkscrew every time she sings "There's something about you and I." Come on, Ga! It's me. About you and me. Gaaaa!
Go ahead, listen for yourself. I'm going to listen again…well, because she has a great voice. And check out those skimpy though fabulous costume changes. If she and I did a video together, there may not be enough fabric for her and me. (See how I did that…)
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An email from a demanding Medusa of a bride-to-be was anonymously forwarded to Gawker and printed in its entirety. On priniciple, I'm opposed to a bride getting wedding cake smashed in her face. In this particular case, I think it's necessary. What I find most offensive about her email is not the unreasonable list of expectations nor her utter disregard for the personal lives of her bridesmaids, but her horrendous grammar.
First, the email. Then, my wedding gift to the bride: a lovely satin purse filled with contractions, a box of commas, and a dictionary.
To m lovely Bridesmaid: [Names removed to protect the brideslaves]
As you all know I picked 10 wonderful ladies to stand by my side, share and make happen my special day to Jake. Each of you individually have a reason and a special place in my heart of why I picked you to be a bridesmaid. We have set our date for Saturday, August 31, 2013 in Vail, Colorado. That seems far away but it really isn't, the earlier the planning the better. You may have already knew that my wonderful sister L— will be the Maid of Honor, she's in charge under me. Also my lovely mom will be a big help as well. L— has a big role in throwing me a bridal shower and bachelorette party, of course all of you guys do but at the end of the day shes the go to person and makes it happen.
You all have a big roll in this wedding, so before we continue I'm going to be setting some ground rules and its very important you read and think about everything through before you accept this honor to be a bridesmaid. If you guys email anything I would also like you to put L— in the CC. Not all the bridesmaid need to be CC'd unless its coming from me or L—, if it something everyone needs to see then well do it. We set the date to August 31, 2013 if that's a problem we need to know NOW. Also by the end of the week we will be setting dates for the engagement party, bridal show and bachelorette party.
Our wedding party is really the most important people at the wedding besides my self and Jake so we want every single one of our bridesmaid and grooms at our parties, I have 10 not 8 where two couldn't make it so if you already know you cant make one of the parties then we have to find someone else, not to be harsh in the slightest it would sadden me and of course you'll still be invited to our wedding, engagement ect. But it's different if your not in the wedding party and couldn't make it. We'll give everyone well advance dates for the parties and it will always fall on a weekend. The wedding as I stated will be in Vail the engagement party will either be in NY or CT and the bachelorette party will be in Vegas, cliche yeaa but I've never been.
A few girls live out of town so if there is going to be a problem with coming to either one then I need to know now because after this week I don't want to be surprised. I would like everyone to send me any dates they are going away or planning to go away after February so if your going away in January I don't care. I want any dates from February to the day of our wedding in August, that way we know not to plan something when your away. But after this week the dates are set in stone. Also if money is tight and you cant afford to contribute to say the bachelorette party or wont be able to afford a dress etc then L— and Myself don't have time to deal with that, I'm sorry. This includes flights as well, everyone knows the states where the parties are going to be held so if you wont be able to afford a flight then that means you cant make a party which ultimately means I cant have you as a bridesmaid. Obviously we'll get the best deals and were not gonna books flights for $1000 and shit that's why were doing this in advance, that goes for bridesmaids dresses as well everything will be affordable but if you think by affordable its going to be a $25 forever 21 dress then your going to the wrong wedding.
If your out of state though don't think you have to fly in for all fittings, that we will work with you, find stores in your town, get measurements..you don't have to worry about that. Also if you accept this honor another thing is that you need to be available, I'm not going to harass you with wedding stuff every hour of everyday but if its something important and it takes you a week even 2-3 days to get back to me seeeee ya! I don't have time to wait around for responses, everyone has their phone on them, it shouldn't take you more than a day to get back to me, even if your out of the country, check your email!
Furthermore, Ever since I could remember I have dreamed about this day all my life. I want to share it with the people that are most important to me. You only get one time to plan your dream wedding and I couldn't pick a more amazing group of girls to make that dream come true! So please, what's stated above think about it all and by Wednesday I need to know if everyone is 100% in, and what I have asked about sending me dates if your gonna be away between Feb-Aug ill need that on Wednesday. If you don't think you'll be able to attend one party but can make the rest of them I'm sorry but I'll have to take you out as a bridesmaid and put you as a guest. If you want to get back to me before Wednesday, that's fine. Really think about everything I've said. This is really going to be the most epic wedding ever so I hope you girls can share this special day with us!
Best Wishes,
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After several stable years, the inbox placement rate fell from 81% in the first half of 2012 to 76.5% in the second half.
Consumers unclear on the concept of opting out are damaging email marketers' reputations and reducing their delivery rates, according to a new report from Return Path.
Return Path, which provides a solution for marketers to increase email deliverability, as well as sender scoring and certifying services for ISPs, found that the proportion of global email delivered to consumers' inboxes dropped six percentage points in the second half of 2011, according to its Global Email Deliverability Benchmark Report. While the inbox placement rate was 81 percent in the first half of last year, the rate dropped to 76.5 percent in the second half. For the past three years, the inbox placement rate, or IPR, had stayed steady at around 80 percent.
Return Path used data from its Mailbox Monitor service for campaigns conducted in the second half of the year, tracking delivery, blocking and filtering rates for more than 1.1 million campaigns, reviewing data from 142 global ISPs.
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While ISPs have tightened their screening, some marketers' reputations have been harmed by consumers who blithely click the "Spam" button on their webmail interfaces, according to Tom Sather, senior director of email research at Return Path.
The report references research by Microsoft that found that only 2 percent of true spam now reaches consumer inboxes. But consumers are staggering under the weight of their own opt-ins, with only 14 percent of their inbox being actual personal emails. The rest is newsletters, personal daily deals and such.
"People are suffering from inbox overload and receiving email they don't want to receive, even though they have opted into it. As a result, we're seeing subscribers reporting it as spam," Sather says. "They don't realize that by doing that, it's affecting all of that marketer's emails. Every time someone reports an email as spam, it does hurt the sender's reputation."
Noting that the time frame covered in the report includes the United States' nearly six-month holiday shopping season - from back to school through Christmas - Sather says that complaints about legitimate senders also increased, from 2 percent to over 3 percent. ISPs, meanwhile, like to see complaint rates of no more than .1 percent.
Consumers clicking the spam button instead of that often obscure "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of marketing emails is not the only reason for the decline, Sather says. The ISPs use changes in volume as part of their filtering algorithms, so an upsurge in emails promoting events such as Black Friday sales often trigger deliverability issues.
Taken by region, the report found that the EMEA region had the best email delivery rate, at 85 percent, while Asia Pacific had the worst, at 67 percent. The IPR for North America was second best at 79 percent.
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I spend the evening on the east side with a lifelong friend, a Chrysler worker whose son is just heading to college. The son and his friends are duly impressed with the 427 and the shotgun-blast V-8 that I rev for everyone's benefit. I find myself hoping they'll have the opportunity to own a similar car someday.
Morning brings a tour of Jefferson Avenue, a concrete microcosm of the city and its troubling divisions. It carves south along Lake Saint Clair through suburbs thick with postwar tract housing that harbored fleeing Detroiters. The city's population peaked at 1.8 million in 1950, dropped below a million by 2000, and didn't even meet the worst predictions when it plummeted to 713,777 just ten years later.
Jefferson Avenue briefly moves up a class to become Lake Shore Drive through the Grosse Pointes, the old-money paradise where the auto barons held sway, including the Cotswold-cottage-style Edsel and Eleanor Ford House. Yet even in one of America's most graceful locales, for-sale signs and plummeting home values have dented the Stepford-wife imperviousness to reality.
And that's directly related to what happens when the Corvette enters Detroit at Alter Road, possibly America's most literal intersection between rich and poor. In the time it takes the Corvette to hit second gear, broad mansions are replaced by the urban-porn blight and return-to-prairie landscape that have become Detroit's signature curse -- so surreal that it's like being wrenched into a new dream in Inception. Only this time, it's real.
Amid this squalor, this snow-white Corvette -- wearing optional sixtieth-anniversary trim and decal stripes -- looks fairly obscene, as out of place as a Rolls-Royce in the slums of Mumbai. On an otherwise deserted street, a large man pedals a two-place bicycle in the stuporous heat.
"Nice car, man," he says, with real sincerity.
Yet as with every sports car -- these are flush-times toys, after all -- the mighty Corvette couldn't outrun the recession. In 2005 and 2006, the C6 was purring along at about 37,000 sales a year, its best performances since 1985. Then the bottom dropped out. The Corvette tumbled to 13,934 sales by 2009, its second-worst showing since 1961. Sales have limped along ever since.
Rocking performance aside, it's hard to be optimistic about shell-shocked Detroiters shelling out $91,320 for this Corvette, or even its base fare of $76,900. That ticket includes an interior "luxury" package whose features, and gut-clenching $9500 price, can't hide the paucity inside: Thin leather papered over the dash. Flimsy seats as well-bolstered as a whoopee cushion and roughly as embarrassing to sit on.
No, the C7 can't get here soon enough. And we can pray that C7 designers have the wherewithal to bring the cabin up to par with the rest of this marvelous machine. For GM, however, the bigger issue is that Corvettes, especially higher-end models, may be pushing the limits of a traditional Boomer audience. This is a Heartland sports car, the aspiration of successful people -- including many whose paychecks involve the auto industry -- with blue-collar roots and Midwestern values. If those people don't have the jobs, money, or confidence to splurge on a sports car, who will be left to buy a Corvette? (In this climate, it's no surprise that the relatively affordable and practical Camaro and Mustang are doing quite well.)
Just off Jefferson on Conner Avenue, we tiptoe around broken glass at the abandoned Continental Aluminum plant, a site that still reveals ruins of an older Continental Motors facility. Across the street is the Budd Company stamping plant where my father worked. It was dismantled around 2007 after more than eighty years in business, its lines shipped to Mexico and Brazil. But next door to these sad relics is a success story, Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly, where a Jeep Grand Cherokee rolls off the line every 48 seconds. And if the Corvette wants a fair street fight, that's here, too -- workers are refurbishing tiny Conner Avenue Assembly to hatch Dodge (sorry, SRT) Vipers after a two-year hiatus.
We hang a left off Jefferson on the bridge to Belle Isle, the bedraggled, 983-acre island park (like Manhattan's Central Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted) that sits smack in the Detroit River between the United States and Canada. Let's not forget our neighbor to the north (or south, in this case). Chrysler's massive minivan plant across the river in Windsor, Ontario, is a complex that dates to 1928.
Neglected by a broke city, Belle Isle returned the favor last June with another Detroit black eye, when IndyCar's grand prix was halted for hours of embarrassing repairs when chunks of the disintegrating surface began flying hither and yon.
At least Detroit earns an occasional spotlight, for good or ill. Smaller factory towns barely penetrate the national consciousness, dizzied by the shell game of today's global manufacturing: will they stay or will they go?
Moraine, Ohio, lost that game. The final GMC Envoy rolled off Moraine's line in 2008, done in by withered demand for old-school SUVs. Under GM's bankruptcy deal, its 2500 nonunion workers were barred from being rehired at other plants.
Lordstown, Ohio, on the other hand, gained an unlikely reprieve. The plant in northeastern Ohio was long a symbol of the worst of GM and the UAW, with virulent labor battles, imaginative employee sabotage, and forgettable small cars from the Vega to the Cavalier. In 2007, GM threatened to move small-car production to Mexico. The plant's future looked bleak when most of its 4500 workers were idled by the brutal industry slump in 2008 and again in 2009, when GM slid into bankruptcy. Roughly 70 percent of the city's tax base comes from the GM plant, fed by dozens of regional suppliers and drawing workers from as far as Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
Glenn Johnson, the president of UAW Local 1112, had seen this script. The resilient folks of the Mahoning Valley, once better known as Steel Valley, had watched that industry collapse -- and virtually entire towns with it. "Recent arrivals don't know the struggles and heartache that happened here," says Johnson, whose summer job at GM turned into a thirty-five-year career. "To see it happen again would have been a catastrophe."
Today, after our stealthy cruise across the Ohio Turnpike, an enormous Chevy Cruze mural looms from the factory wall, as good a symbol of the "New GM" as any. Easily the best small sedan in company history, Lordstown's sheetmetal savior now rolls off the line on three shifts, 280,000 cars a year.
Plant manager Bob Parcell moved here from Bowling Green and seems a bit wistful about the Corvette operation he once ran. "When you're plant manager for Corvette, you're like a rock star," he recalls. "People would ask me to sign anything, their hood or engine covers."
Parcell talks about the estimated one million jobs that almost certainly would've been lost nationally had the industry gone under and the approximately nine spin-off jobs created by every auto position.
"If this place wasn't here, there'd be trouble in northeastern Ohio that ripples all the way to the Dairy Queen," he says.
Dave Green, an engaging man who's president of Lordstown's UAW Local 1714, typifies the workers you meet at today's factories: accountable, well-educated, and proud of the competitive cars they're building. "When I got here, it was like, 'You don't get paid to think, just shoot the damn screw,'" he says. "Now, if you have an idea that can save the company money, they'll listen. And we've realized that the company isn't the enemy. The enemy is the competition."
Johnson says that coworkers often keep eyes peeled for Cruzes on the streets. "Members will ask owners how they like their car or show them the part they built," he says. "I don't mind thanking people for buying our car; we're all salesmen now."
Johnson recognizes that the days when you could walk out of high school and into a guaranteed job at a plant are over. Still, "Maybe there's been a little awakening, that we still need to build things in this country."
Shooting back to Detroit, we look for hopeful signs. Like it or not, we can't forget the "foreign" automakers, which now make more than 40 percent of the cars built in America and directly employ at least 95,000 people. Hyundai and Kia have a technical center on former farmland near Ann Arbor. The Toyota Technical Center is here, too, leading its North American R&D.
The next morning, we meet Jim Tetreault, Ford's North American manufacturing chief. He's at the Van Dyke Transmission Plant in Sterling Heights, along with the mayor (a forty-five-year retired autoworker) and union leaders. A press conference touts a $220 million investment and 225 new hires to build a new hybrid continuously variable transmission that's destined for five Ford models -- including hybrid and plug-in versions of the new Fusion and C-Max, all made in Michigan. That hyperefficient transmission replaces a weaker unit supplied from Japan. American-sourced lithium-ion batteries replace cells from Mexico.
Asked to assess the future of made-in-America, Tetreault says that UAW concessions have been critical in reducing Ford's all-in labor costs (including benefits) from $77 an hour to $58 today. "This is an expensive place to produce, and we have to somehow come together to find a way to make it work," Tetreault says.
In the evening, as ever, I'm drawn to my old stomping grounds downtown. We scalp tickets for Florence and the Machine at the Fox Theatre, a restored rococo marvel. It's among the most visible of the city's fragile charms, stubborn beacons that refuse to be snuffed: Jewel-like historic neighborhoods such as Indian Village. A terrific underground-music scene that occasionally bursts into the national limelight.
And while it's Kentucky-made, the Corvette's badass song is also bred in Detroit. Top down, the Vette delivers one last Motown blast, topping 88 mph in second gear, 122 mph in third. Whoa, that's enough -- even on a Lodge Freeway on-ramp.
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Wow. Just ran my first batch of conditioned malt through my corona and all i can say is WOW! Lots of big, beautiful intact husks.
For those of you not familiar with malt conditioning (like I was, until moments ago):
but whats the other benefit beside the look of your crush?, i use corona mill but never went through the trouble of conditioning malt, seems like a lot of work for little or no gain
The 'look' of your crush is basically a quick way to judge how well your grain bed will drain and how easily you'll extract tannins from the husks. No shredding = better drainage and lower risk of tannins. Lots of shredding = poor drainage and higher risk of tannins. If you can mill your grain finer while leaving your husks less shredded you can, in theory, raise your efficiency without suffering those negative aspects. Also, corona mills are notorious husk shredders, especially when you start to mill your grain finer.
I had a much easier time lautering and sparging when I brewed today with conditioned malt, than I had previously without. I think I it's might be less key with a roller mill, but I couldn't set the corona fine enough to eliminate whole malt without shredding the husks and getting too much flour. Today's brew was 20% wheat, I'll be stoked to see if I can get through the next 50/50 wheat/barley brew without rice husks.
Why spend 5 minutes reading when you can just start another thread?
i understand the theory but im still wondering if OP sees consistent increase in efficiency, also i dont think it change the risk of tannin extraction which is ph and og depended and not affected by the husk size
I don't think my efficiency was better - maybe 2%, but that could be the new grain I'm using. I think the wort was clearer and beer will be better - and as I just posted (before reading previous) think more husks will help a lot with brews with lots of wheat, rye, or corn.


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To anyone that can help. I've been looking into buying or building an AR platform. I know this is about the worst time to do so. I'm thinking about getting a kit from rock river to build my own. I'm not sure but I'm thinking I might not have to wait as long to have it shipped to my FFL this way. I'm looking
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I'm looking for any suggestions for the best way to approach getting a new 556 223 rifle. I'm trying to find a 16" flat top. Should I wait for prices to go back to normal. Or should I bite the bullet and just get what I can now. Almost everywhere I look there asking around 1300.
I spoke to the sales rep at Rock river and they say there still taking orders but it could take months to get the rifle. Which is fine as long as the price is reasonable.
I would recommend either waiting or buying one you can put hands on. If legislation passes while you are waiting 6 months for your rifle you could have problems. Another question to ask yourself is can you even get ammo for it in your area?
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Those are some good points. I'm from western pa. There is ammo available from time to time but not at the best price. I've heard that my local Walmart gets it. But you have to be there when it arrives. I've been really disappointed at myself for not building one before that moron ruined the market for everybody . It's a shame that a responsible law abiding citizen that pays taxes can't buy a semi rifle without paying twice what it's worth. And now the government wants to take them away and have us fire shotguns blindly into the night off our back deck.
If you shop walmart at the right times, they still get AR's in stock from time to time, and they still get ammo from time to time. I got 100 round value pack by Federal the other night for $35. They still have the Colt AR come in for right about $1000
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It's been another thrilling season of cricketing action at the Home of Cricket, drawing to a close with the fourth NatWest One Day International between England and Pakistan.
Olie Broom, the man whose fundraising adventure to cycle to the 2010 Ashes began at Lord's in October 2009, has reached Australia on route to Brisbane.
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The coalition wants Bush to call a moratorium on anti-abortion legislation.
"As Republicans, we are in a unique position to work with the administration on behalf of reproductive health issues and look forward to doing so. We hope President Bush can emulate his relationship with the Democratic Texas legislature by applying those same skills to these difficult issues that have been so divisive within our Party and the country as a whole," Coalition Co-Chairman Susan Cullman said in a statement.
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The coalition wants Bush to take up an "expanded agenda" that would address problems of "teen pregnancy, maternal mortality and lack of affordable medical care for women in America."
Coalition National Director Lynn Grefe said, "While the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition is committed to keeping abortion safe and legal, we would welcome all attempts to launch a pro-active reproductive health plan for prevention. That is exactly what President-elect Bush now has the opportunity to do. It may be one of the rare proposals that would receive solid support in this upcoming gridlocked Congress."
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"Pro-choice Al Gore got the popular vote nationally, and when you add votes cast for pro-choice Ralph Nader, you have a clear voter preference for a pro-choice president," Planned Parenthood President Gloria Feldt said in a statement.
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: About the Expy entries, they aren't expies, an expy is a deliberate porting of other characters into the story, neither Kimblee or Hoenheim are such characters. It isn't about characters that look a bit like other characters, or even act a bit like them. They have to be more or less exactly the same with only minor tweaks. So I'm getting rid of
examples, unless anyone can confirm from the Author herself that they have deliberate parallels to the characters listed.
: Someone mind explaining to me how Hawkeye and Mustang are a Takahashi Couple? Am I just reading it wrong or something, because I do not get that vibe from them. They don't bicker, they don't fight, they are always professional around one another. Where in that do we get anything like the relationship between Winry and Ed?
I just decided to cut it, after a bit of deliberation it became quite clear they aren't in any shape or form a Takahashi Couple. Their dynamic is, if anything, an inverse of the Takahashi Couple, nearly always respectful, professional and conscientious.
: I feel this needs a character sheet, anyone else agree?
Fuzzy Alien: I do. Unfortunately I'm a complete newbie and don't know how to start one, but I'd be glad to help.
Damn it all, neither do I!
I fourth(?) the request for the character sheet. And also am a n00b so cannot start one. Alas.
Fuzzy Alien: Edit Edit: Ah, someone made one with a correct title. 'Tis good.
Charred Knight
: Shouldn't someone change the title of this page. The correct spelling is Fullmetal Alchemist. Their is no space between the Full and metal.
: The way the wiki works capitalisation is irrelevant.
Fullmetal Alchemist
Ful L Metal Alchemis T
ect ect. Just make sure you use
Fullmetal Alchemist
from now on.
: That may be the way wiki works, but capitalization is NOT irrelevant. Capitalizing the second half of a compound word makes it into two words, and renders the entry meaningless. Dog House is not the same as a Doghouse. Fullmetal is the word in the title, not "Full Metal" and when you search for "Fullmetal Alchemist" the proper spelling doesn't come up.
: Pulled the
Young Wizards
reference because although they're wizards who are young, they haven't got a thing to do with Diane Duane's series.
Mark Lungo
: The alchemy array logo is an appropriate illustration, but I personally would prefer a picture of the Elric brothers. While there a lot of great pics of Ed and Al out there, I'm partial to
this one
Dark Insanity 13
: What? Olivia does so sparkle like the rest of her family!
See here!
Fixing the mistake.
Full Metal
Alchemist is cool but it has alot of blood in it so they could dim down the blood.
Charred Knight
: Just to point something out, I just got Fullmetal Alchemist Volume 15, and Roy does call his teacher "Hawkeye", I don't know where you got the idea that its ever stated that Riza's real name was Grumman, its never even stated that Riza is his granddaughter in either the manga or anime, you have to get the second info book for that information.
Ouroboros: Yes, I checked too, just in case, which is why I deleted the lines.
: There's a rumour going around that Mustang was adopted. I'd just like to get confirmation of this, and the source of the information, as I'm not sure if anything of the sort has been stated in canon. Was it in one of the character profiles or something?
: Chapter 87 states that
Madam Christmas
is Mustang's foster mother.
: There is no such thing as "Full Metal Alchemist". The series is called "Fullmetal Alchemist".
: It seems to me that Mustang is something of a chessmaster, at least at first. Its been ages since I watched the whole thing, and I'm just restarting it, so maybe that's wrong eventually, but...anyone want to toss in an opinion?
Devinette: edited Roy's listing as a Mukokuseki, for being full of factual errors. Roy is not from
Central Europe
, neither in manga or anime continuity. The fact that
The Movie
stablished that anime cointinuity Amestris is a parallel to Earth's Europe is a moot point, Amestris is Amestris. Implying there are only caucasian people in anime-Amestris is also untrue, the library clerk is clearly black, and there's also Ishvalans and Liorans. Also, it's not spelled
Action Zero
: Given how there's now an anime that's going to be following the manga much closer than the first one did, stuff with "in the anime" or "in the manga" has the potential to get quite confusing. I'm thinking we should look at splitting the article up so that we have one for the manga and new series, and another for the first series. Any thoughts?
Taelor: Seems like a prudent idea to me.
Devinette: it would probably be a lot less messy.
Mr Chaim
: Agreed - Possibly however, we may just want to split this into the First anime adaption and then the Manga/Second Anime adaption - I'm not sure, we dont know how different the second anime will end up being, but i think it's worht keeping in mind.
: Two things, one I was wondering about whether Shou Tucker should really be called a
Complete Monster
in either this series or the first anime. I don't dispute that the guy crossed the
Moral Event Horizon
, but he does seem to genuinely love his daughter and isn't evil for the sake of evil. I feel the same way about Bradley- very very evil, but just sympathetic enough not to be a
Complete Monster
Also, I've thought of plotting character alignments and would appreciate suggestions. How does this look so far
Chaotic Evil
Envy and Kimblee
Neutral Evil
Yoki, Barry the Chopper
Lawful Evil
Father and most of the homunculi, the leaders of the State Military
Chaotic Neutral
Arguably Greed- I'd say he's somewhere between this and
Neutral Evil
, and I'm not sure if Olivia is this,
Lawful Neutral
, or something else.
Lawful Neutral
Mustang and most other Ishbal veterans start out this way, I'd say most of the Xingese characters, since they follow Ling regardless of whether he is pursuing good goals or not
True Neutral
Hohenheim to a degree
Chaotic Good
Neutral Good
Al, Winry, Izumi and her husband, Alex Armstrong
Lawful Good
Mustang and his subordinates eventually become this, Ling to a degree
Count Bruno
: Could someone please explain how "The Truth" is a "The Blank"? There isn't even a character named "The Truth".
: If I remember correctly, that faceless creature Ed met in the Gate identified itself as The Truth
Count Bruno
: Ah, yes, but I think that is only one of many names—the World, God, The Truth, "You", usw.
Drakyndra: This page has needed a better image for ages, and since the Brotherhood official site just got revamped with a shiny new poster (featuring animated versions of the formerly manga-only characters), I thought it might be a fitting replacement.
It's probably a bit big as is
, but do people think it'd work after a resize? (How big do people prefer the page pictures to be, anyway?)
Chuckles: Suggesting this should be cut;
For example, in the anime, Rose makes the (fairly excellent) point that even if the Elric Brothers had failed to resurrect their mother, Father Cornello still could. Cornello makes this same point in the original anime.
On the grounds that it's not an excellent point in the slightest. Cornello's wielding a crappy knock-off Philosopher's Stone that turned him into a weird
bio-mechanical...thing, and would never be able to bring a dead person back to life. Cornello makes this point in the original anime because he's a lying bastard (and possibly unaware it's a fake he's got)
Kokoro: Includes spoilers for chapter 95, in regards to Hawkeye. Just something that's been bugging me.
I've seen a few entries for various tropes that suggest Hawkeye was going to kill herself if she had to kill Roy because she couldn't live without him. Romantic, huh? But also pretty wrong, I think. Killing herself for a man is awfully extreme, as well as awfully out of character for Hawkeye. There's way more complexity to that scene. Of course, all of the following is based on matters of translation. As well, its my own interpretation of the scene as based on the literal translation Ive read.
Hawkeye said she would complete the battle for Amestris if she had to kill Roy, not instantly kill herself after killing him. If she did kill herself and destroy her body (along with the secrets of flame alchemy) afterwards, it would be because she wouldn't want to live a happy life after everything she's done and would not want anyone to fall to the madness of flame alchemy again, not because of "her great love" for Roy. Which isn't to say that there's no love for Roy involved there (either in the platonic or romantic sense depending on your preferences), but there's also masses of guilt and feelings of responsibility over letting Roy learn the secrets of flame alchemy and the things that she and he did in Ishbal and after.
Essentially, her purpose for living right now is to fix the damage that was done during Ishbal, to carry the sins and bloodshed so the next generation can live peacefully. Her other purpose is to keep a check on Roy, to act as a custodian of the flame alchemy her father entrusted her with. Now, without either of those purposes, she wouldnt see much reason to go on living.
Basically, this rant was meant to hopefully get people to interpret that scene a little differently, if they havent already. And also to help restore Hawkeyes character, which I feel is slighted by the implication that she would kill herself only for the love of a man and the inability to go on without him. Shes much too awesome for that! Mostly, I just don't want to see anymore "Riza says she can't live without Roy" entries.
Charred Knight
: I don't know how you can interpert Riza can't live alone as anything more than Riza can't live without Roy. You act as if she is some robot where if she has no purpose she can no longer live. Riza is a flesh and blood human being who has made some mistakes and is trying to make up for them. She can't let Roy go down that path, so she will kill him, but after the battle she will kill herself due to her love of Roy.
Kokoro: To me, it's disrespectful to Hawkeye to even consider that she would kill herself ONLY because of her love for Roy. I certainly never treated Hawkeye as a robot or disregarded her human emotions. In fact, it's her human emotions, her feelings of guilt and responsibility for what she's done, that wouldn't allow her to live happily even after gaining peace for Amestris if she had been forced to kill Roy. She also point blank says that she will destroy her body after the battle, not because she can't live without Roy, but because she wants to completely destroy the notes on flame alchemy. More importantly, I wanted to get across that Hawkeye is her own person, everything she does is not all about Roy.
Exploding Frogs
: One thing to note, though: this isn't a detailed essay on the themes and characterizations of
Fullmetal Alchemist
; it's a list of the tropes used, along with a
description of the context. Hawkeye did say that she would kill herself after the war if Mustang wasn't alive, and while the situation
more complicated than that...well, the same can be said of pretty much every other example on the page, and if we let every example degenerate into a morass of discussions and clarifications, the page will be totally unreadable. The original statement is accurate, if something of a generalization, and the rest of the details can be (and already are, in several cases) filled in under other trope examples. The point of the entries (as I understand them) wasn't to characterize Riza Hawkeye as a swooning, dependent Juliet figure (god forbid), but simply to point out that one facet of Hawkeye's character—which is certainly not defined entirely by her love for Roy, let alone by that one incident. Some perspective, please: no one is going to base their perception of a character entirely on one or two sentences in an site that contains hundreds of references to that character and the series they come from—especially when the character in question has several Crowning Moments Of Awesome listed that have nothing to do with that particular aspect of their character. (
No one of consequence, anyway.
Larfleeze: Regarding the images on the manga/Brotherhood character page, would it be possible to change the ones from the original anime to manga or Botherhood images? It's kind of jarring.
katyhalo: I've changed Hawkeye's to a suitably badass one from
, but the rest definitely ought to be switched too.
weisquared: I can't really tell the difference between the original anime and Brotherhood images, but if someone can identify which of the remaining images ought to be changed, I'd be happy to do so.
: I wanted to comment on an edit earlier today arguing that Father is more like
versus my assertion of him being like
. I think that both are true. I definitely agree with the suggestion of Greed as a sort of good Satan-figure rebelling. On the other hand, as noted by another poster, Father wants to replace the (already kind of evil) God of the universe tempts people and names his children after the
Seven Deadly Sins
, both good signs that he is kind of like the Devil. I don't think it's an accident that he has aspects of both God and Satan. To compare,
has a similar good
Anti Christ
idea and
God Is Evil
dynamic, but it's villains are still strongly reminiscent of traditional portrayals of demons.
Charred Knight
: I should point out that God in the Fullmetal Alchemist world is not evil. His punishing people for entering God's Domain through arrogance.
: Err, not entirely. The Truth does seem to take a sadistic liking in removing the victim's body parts. Anyway, I do agree both
Fullmetal Alchemist
do mix traits of God and Satan in their supernatural characters; I think one should take it as an alternative mythology than a direct analogy to abrahamic religions.
: I really want to question
Roy's blindness
being called a
Fate Worse Than Death
Losing your eyesight
sucks, but it's not the end of the world; to pretend otherwise seems somewhat ableist to me.
Pom Rania
: ...oh, you meant able-ist. Sorry about that. But yeah, I agree. Calling it that is an insult to the character and to the trope. And to actual real people in reality. So, we remove that entry on
Fate Worse Than Death
? ...wait, I just realized there's an ACTUAL
Fate Worse Than Death
in the series (can't remember if it's actually on the page, so I'll put it here anyways) — those people from Xerxes, especially the poor suckers who ended up as part of Envy.
: Yeah, I think that's a much more fitting example of the trope. Being disabled is NOT worse than being dead. Being a disembodied soul eternally trapped in the hideous body of an evil shapeshifting monster... I think that counts.
: Plus,
Roy being blind
just happened in the end of the last chapter. As far as we know,
he might as well regain his sight in the very next chapter
. We should wait at least a few chapters before deciding to add it.
Pom Rania
: Some disabilities, for some people, might count as worse than dead to them; imagine a quadiplegic ex-athlete with no other useful skills, who defines their entire worth (or lack of it) by their physical abilities (or lack of them). But the subject under discussion.... For him, it just incredibly sucks. And even if
he ends up never being able to see again
, with his character, he'll deal.
Xantospoc: ... Okay! We have a Wallbanger entry about the fan theories. In the first place, shouldn't we elaborate and/or move it on an entry like this... "Fan Dumb: some of their theories are really wallbangy!". What do you think?
: I just took out this example from
Ship Tease
is pretty much canon now, considering ch. 101.
Fans are free to ship whatever they want, but there are examples all over this wiki of tropers pointing at every single new chapter that comes out and saying that it 'confirms' their pairing. Not only does this add a lot of clutter, but it means that a few people are really jumping the gun before it's
confirmed - the majority of the examples so far can be easily taken either way. How about we wait until the series ends and we get a definate answer to the
Ship Tease
? (And heck, even if it confirmed, you should use
future chapter as an example, not any other previous chapter with
Ship Tease
: Not really a nitpick, but since
The Bechdel Test
has been added to the main page, can anyone pinpoint where the manga actually passes (ie. two female characters talk to one another about something other than a male character)? I've been trying to remember but drawing a blank at the moment.


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The EP's eponymous track functions as a straightforward UK bass-house record, fun build-ups and drops, and no doubt a dancefloor killer, but not a whole lot else. The real satisfying material of the release shines through on the latter tracks, "GBH" and "The Rain Is Coming," providing more thought and simply more more creative material to listen through than the repetitive "Lego." "GBH" is a spaced-out techno heater that's begging for play in the largest warehouses (shocker, coming from Manchester), while "The Rain Is Coming" is inevitably the ideal soundtrack to forthcoming rainy Spring days, a relaxed track that draws on 303-riffs for a laid-back acid flavor on an already fantastic, meandering deep house track. These latter two tunes keep the Lego EP from straying into run-of-the-mill territory, and are a welcome update Pearce on what he's been feeling lately. G'waan, Ben.
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Audrey Summers-YRP Producer Audrey Summers has been involved in youth radio for 3 three years.
Youth Show: June 12, 2014
This week on the Youth Show, we're talking about going abroad. Hear Audrey's new piece on Michaela Peterson's work in Uganda, and listen to interviews with foreign exchange students.
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Audrey Summers-Can you imagine leaving everything you've ever known to go start a new chapter in your life?
YRP interviews foreign exchange students from UNC- Chapel Hill
Audrey Summers-YRP producer Audrey Summers talked to two foreign exchange students from Northern Ireland and Scotland about their experience going to school in the U.S, and what traveling has taught them.
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Untitled Poem #10 from Czarina Crow
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Audrey Summers-The end of the school year is almost here, so Youth Producer Jocelin Deneweth asked her fellow students what they plan on doing this summer.
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Win a set of series 11 minifigures
Posted by Huw,The team over at BrickFanatics is running a competition where you can win the series 11 minifigures.
All you need do is to create a diorama that captures any of the Minifigures from Series 1-10 (plus the Team GB Olympic ones), enjoying their time off on their holidays. Maybe they have gone back home, having a chill on the beach or visiting a famous monument. Let your creative juices flow and build an 8×16 postcard scene, then upload your creation to our special contest Flickr group. You have until September 1st. to get your Collectible Minifigures Postcard Diorama complete. Full rules can be found on the site.
Good luck if you enter!
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Thanks Huw, hopefully will get people in the creative mode :-)
Where did you get these?.
I might just give it a go, nothing to lose after all. The best of luck to everybody who is planning to enter!
Why don't you enter Huw? :o)
^ the mini figure shop are providing the prizes, whsmiths will also have them in stock by Friday as we reported last week ;-)
Aww, I had an idea for the heroic knight building the summer scene sandcastle, being watched the chicken suit guy relaxing with the helmet off and hair showing, with a group of sandtroopers in the far distance standing by the escape pod... then I noticed it broke just about all the rules!!
You will just have to be a bit more inventive ;-)
Yep, I'm glad I filled up the gaps in a pick a brick cup with trans light blue 1x2 tiles the other day!
My first diorama competition entry! How exciting! :D
^ Very nice! I have (what I think is) a good idea for a vignette which I will construct this afternoon.
On a semi-related note, any idea when WH Smiths will replace the Series 1 polybags with Series 2? If I were to guess, I'd say it will coincide with the next Daily Mail promotion - that's when Series 1 came out. But what will be in Series 2?
Already got an idea XD.
not gonna tell so don't ask please
^^ My small branch, which didn't have them at the time of the last DM promo, has series 1 now, so we might have to wait a while...
Aw, I wish I could enter.
This rule is why I will most likely not be doing it...
"NO modifications are allowed to the Minifigures; so no parts swapping."
Swapping is what makes LEGO, LEGO. Without moving parts all you have is a tiny doll.
Blues Brothers!
^^I asked about that because I wanted costumed figures to take their hats off on the beach and they said that would be okay, essentially they want the figures to be recognisable. I imagine you can do a little tinkering, so long as each figure was still clearly identifiable as one specific CMF, especially if what you change has something to do with the scene you create.
I guess as it's a competition to win CMFs they want it to advertise CMFs.
What do they mean by build an 8x16 postcard scene? because I have something my figs do already, party at this modular nightclub I had made but I think it might be to big :\ Please help
Can't wait to enter....
I figured it out I know EXACTLY what Im gonna do :D
Anyone who has any questions please ask via the flickr group and/or site, the rules are in place for a reason.
@CM4Sci - if you're worried you can't enter because you're in the USA, don't fret! The contest is open to ALL countries, not just the UK.
@The Green Brick Giant - zipsforbananas has the measure of it. Removing a minifigure's hat/helmet and adding hair is fine. Something like putting Medusa's tail onto the Butcher is NOT fine.
@datsunman - 8x16 refers to the size of the build in studs. zipsforbananas has already submitted an entry and it is 100% legal, so please have a look, as this should show you what we are after. http://www.flickr.com/groups/bfcontestgroup/
If anyone has any specific questions after reading the rules, about whether something would be legal or not and you wish to keep your question/idea private, please ask us via http://brickfanatics.co.uk/contact/
When you say no modifying of the photos, does that include changing brightness and contrast, or can we do that?
Huw, is it possible to make the photo of the figure sheet open up into a larger version (instead of linking to the other site, since that's already provided)? It'd be great to finally see what they look like! :)
Here's a link to the image: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-18Pl3MQekLY/UeisUFbODhI/AAAAAAAAPgA/TgGB0uRmVh4/s1600/lego+minifigures+series+11.jpg
@Zackula - Yeah, that will be fine. What we're after is a nice clean image of the build, without things like backgrounds inserted and things super-imposed. Tweaking your brightness or contrast isn't a deal breaker.
I've decided not to enter I had 2 plans, one was to take a pic of them in my nightclub but its way more than 8x16 and the other was to have a Mr. Gold autograph signing with the harry potter note envalopes 1x2 tile but we aren't aloud to part swap. I guess I will deffinatley be buying series 11 I just think the 8x16 is crap, why does it have to be 8x16?
@datsunman - 8 x 16 was chosen because the shape resembles a postcard. The smaller size also keeps the build simpler and cheaper, meaning more people can enter, but still large enough that people can go to town on it if they have the resources.
The 'no part swapping' refers to the Minifigures ONLY, not the parts and probs used in the build. The Mr Gold scenario that you describe above sounds fine to me. Feel free to message me if you would like to discuss details in private.
Thank you for the information! :D
@CaptnRex101 Yours is very cute and uses Chicken guy, an all time favorite. I decided to make mine with a couple of the less popular guys.
@klatu003, I really like yours! Definitely in my top two!
There are some great entries in now, I fear mine is at the poorer end! There are some great concepts and some really good humour in the mix. The home swap is superb; there's just so much going on in the arcade with loads of clever techniques; I love the clever scale in the Statue of Liberty one... I could go on! It's a real feelgood sort of collection and don't envy the judges' jobs!
Is anyone else slightly bemused at how many of the entries for a holiday competition which ran in August are Christmas related? Is that a US thing that the only period known as holiday is the December holiday and no-one noticed that it's August so a beach sort of feel was more what was intended? Though I guess southern hemisphere entries will be thinking of winter scenes right now.
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As we look at other galaxies we are essentially looking back in time. Can we look back far enough to see the big bang itself? If this is so and c is constant, how did we get here before the light arrived?
It turns out that we cannot see the Big Bang for a "technical" reason. If you think about it, we can use light to look at distant objects because light propagates freely from the matter which emitted it. This was not always the case: when the Universe was less than 100 000 years old, the matter and radiation were so densely packed that light was "coupled" to the matter. This means that light which was emitted when the Universe was less than 100 000 years old couldn't "go anywhere", and hence can't reach us today. Observationally, this means that when we try to look at higher and higher redshifts, we hit a "wall" corresponding to the redshift when the Universe was 100 000 years old. This wall is the cosmic microwave background, or CMB. Look at this topic page for more information for more information about the CMB.
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