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Of course I read Yotsuba&! I like it, but I'm a slightly weirded out whenever Jumbo is attracted to the middle sister instead of, say, the oldest one. I think I would be cool with it if it was the other way around, like if the junior high girl liked 20-something Jumbo instead, it would be realistic instead of slightly creepy.
Actually all of the Yotsuba& kind of makes me think about the declining birth rate in Japan. Like, there are a lot of 30-something otaku dudes out there who are longing to be fathers. Yotsuba& could almost be read as a sort of wish fulfillment - Yotsuba was adopted by a single man, after all. (She's like Punky Brewster!)
Nevertheless, why do I feel like a perv when I'm at a con, and there's a young Yotsuba cosplayer, and I have to ask her dad's permission to take her picture? This has happened to me at least twice.
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It...it's not like I post for you or anything!
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|Hey, any chance Shelf Life will eventually get a horndog male otaku commentator so that we don't have to read the same, standard, prudish hysteria EVERY! SINGLE! TIME! an underage female character shows up onscreen in anything less than a head to foot outfit that the Taliban would approve of? Bamboo seemed to be obsessed with the presumptive onanist habits of the male viewing audience too and now we have Bamboo Redux. Jesus Christ.
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There are approximately 8.9 billion blogs out there that would accommodate your desire to have a standard-issue male otaku talk about anime he likes.
Feel free to go read those instead of bitching about Shelf Life.
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I hope I can stay out of the fray and still say something in defence of Yotsuba&.
When Jumbo meets Fuuka (age 16) for the first time, his reaction is: "Whoa! A beautiful young girl!" He then proceeds to tell his friend Koiwai: "What's the big idea?! She's too young for you!" Soon after this he falls in love with a college student (Asagi). Fuuka he considers a kid.
While I do feel that it is inappropriate for an grown man to tell a 16-year-old girl that she is "beautiful" or "attractive" the first time he sees her, I don't think there is anything particularly odd about a man in his twenties thinking such things. In other words, Jumbo is being rude – but hardly creepy.
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Uh, what? Jumbo does have the hots for Asagi, pretty badly in fact. It's like Conversation said, Fuuka's just a kid to him.
Sorry, didn't mean to attack you, just wanted to point that out.
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Umm.....could we stop beating this dead horse already? I'll admit, i'm not a fan; i disagreed with Erin's review of the Gunslinger Girl OVA (though that was in part because she opened it with "i've only seen a few episodes of this"), but this is bordering on kafka-esque. Someone tells her her opinion (which varies from person to person, by the way-i happen to dislike Ergo Proxy, but there are a bunch of people who i'm sure love it) and someone tells her why her opinion is wrong. That's why her column is in views, and not news. Opinions can't be right or wrong-they're not based on facts. That's why this isn't a straight up anime review-and even so, you can disagree with the reviewer. It's ok. It's not the end of the world. The world isn't going to stop just because they like something that you don't, or dislike something that you do. Speed Grapher for example. Loved the anime-then came on here and found the reviewers hated it. So i grumbled for a few moments, and then went on to the next review.
Though, to be fair, if you're going for morally iffy, i do think context is somewhat important. I don't think that any part of Gunslinger Girls is wank material-and it does have some relevance to the story. But that's my opinion.
I may not agree with all of her reviews, but it doesn't mean i'm going to spend a week telling her why her opinion is wrong in the forums. Lighten up-i thought these were supposed to be tounge in cheek reviews of anime that was out right now-not the flashpoint for a no holds barred battle.
Anyway, rock on......shelf life girl?
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Honestly though, these"standard issue male otaku blogs" are not really easy to find, and most of the blogs you're talking about aren't even legibly written.
The majority of anime blogs I find generally do have a fairly negative attitude towards male "otaku" tendencies. (And then proceed to paste their avatar and webpage full of "moe" and half-naked "loli" images, all while condemning this practice in every other blog post... )
As for the Azumanga talk in here, it is absolutely and utterly a "cute girls doing cutely amusing things" show aimed specifically at the male demographic who enjoys that kind of thing. But the show itself is fairly harmless and does what it does well. When anime fans review the show, they review it based on that alone. And you can enjoy a show/movie even though it may be used for suspect purposes by other people. For example, James Bond. On the surface, just another action movie franchise right? For some though, it is escapism to a world where women are objects to conquer and men can bypass all the fluffy stuff and get to the sex and violence. But it's still a damn fun franchise.
As long as you are aware of and accept that fact you can still enjoy something without getting too deluded by what it's doing on a subliminal level.
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Shelf Life is an opinion piece. What Erin writes in it is her opinion, and no one elses. You don't like her opinion? Tough. Deal with it. No one is asking for your approval. As Zac wrote earlier in this thread, if her column bothers you so much, don't read it. Belittling her for expressing her opinion accomplishes nothing, so save yourself the aggravation, heartburn and elevated blood pressure and direct your attention somewhere else.
Erin, I read Shelf Life every week. I also read your articles in Otaku USA. Do I always agree with everything you write? Who cares! You certainly shouldn't. Whether or not I agree with something you write in any particular portion of any particular article is my problem. I think you're doing a fine job.
This horse has been beaten for so long, and so vigorously, that it's barely recognizable as having once been a horse.
Give it a rest.
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He started it
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Actually, having female reviewers like Bamboo, Erin, Hope, and others I've seen around the internet just seems to confirm that the demographic for anime here has become a bit different from the demographic for anime in Japan. As the female fanbase for anime grows over here (and I really have observed that happening), there is going to be a correlation to how many female reviewers are writing about it.
I can't really fault Erin for how she perceived the OVA. My guess? Her knowledge, not her ignorance, of the subject is what fueled her opinion. I too, am somewhat suspicious when I see an underage character depicted in a swimsuit. Considering the volume of what is released in Japan, the trend toward this kind of subject, and to what audience it is directed, it is difficult to not be suspicious given that criteria. Sometime it can color our opinions, unfortunately.
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"Suspicious" would be putting it gently. There's really very little doubt that a lot of anime creators want to have their cake and eat it too. Franchises like GSG may very well have truly noble and ambitious intentions in mind...but don't disregard the input of producers, networks and shareholders. That's why quite often you have a show that simultaneously criticizes and panders to its audience at the same time. That's marketing at work there.
When I see GSG, I'm reminded of Leon/The Professional (Little girls with guns), and I can pretty much tell which of the two has been more touched by marketing execs. And you know what, nobody criticizes Leon for being skeezy even though Besson has actually come out and said that there is still a definite sexual element there in Natalie Portman. But the point is that film wasn't made to pander to lolicons AT ALL. It was basically made to appeal to, and mostly for, french-style thriller fans.
GSG may not exclusively appeal to male fans of that persuasion, but it can't help but still subtly do it anyway. Oh, they're a clever bunch though. You can't really say they're actually SHOWING anything, but you know very well that the creators just *know* THOSE GUYS will be watching this.
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I saw the Director's Cut of Blade Runner before I saw the stuff with narration in it. I felt the narration was out of place. Apparently, Harrison Ford had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the studio to do this.
For the record, it isn't true. The Nova sold better than GM had predicted, and Nova also happens to be the name of a major gasoline company in Mexico, an industry that you'd think would be affected by "no va" even more so than cars. Here's a Snopes article that explains it in great detail.
That makes me curious. How do the Japanese view the behavior of American young'uns in regards to sex and sexual expression? Do they see Americans as sex-starved maniacs? I mean...a lot of Americans as portrayed in anime are loud, brash, large, and obnoxiously sexually open.
Though of course, as so much discussion has happened on the topic, there are some forms of sex that everyone in America is okay with and infact becomes saturated seeing them, and then there are some where we're trained via culture to feel repulsed by them. While having girls in middle school portrayed with swimsuits on the beach would be perfectly normal, I think American media tends to avoid putting them at the center of such sequences or actively draw attention away from what they're wearing. If a show is about kids but there are adults as major characters, the adults become the center of attention (like in The Simpsons). If there are no adults, you just have people acting like they were far from any water--they just happen to be on the beach, building sandcastles or surfing or whatever (like in Peanuts). Pretty much the only place you'll ever see underage girls wearing swimsuits as the focus is in catalogues selling girls' swimwear...and even then it feels like the department stores are apprehensive about it and take every measure to make sure it's meant only for parents, like placing them in the middle of the catalogue or accompanying a single image with many pictures of the swimsuits on a clothes hanger.
It thus would stand out to an American viewer like Erin to see not only characters undeniably physically under 18 wearing bikinis and whatnot, but from my impressions reading on what's been said, attention is drawn to their swimsuits and the way they dress. Me, I've seen far, far less anime than I have American TV and I'd probably be quick to notice this and get disturbed by it myself.
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Americans are more apprehensive about it, but there's definitely been a shift in the direction of younger skewing--and underage--females in American media.
Look at the sexualization of Britney Spears back when she was 16. Oh sure, parents groups complained, media pundits yakked, but when all is said and done, Britney was doing her coo-coo poses and thangs all over the covers of Rolling Stone, Teen, MTV and what have you. At 24 she was considered a washup and now she's just considered "old" by Hollywood standards.
A similar phenomenon has happened with Miley. A few "suggestive" photos here and there may have got the parents and talking heads out, but they didn't stop the barrage of Miley-as-sex-object promotion at all.
Or how about the American Apparel ads? They got slammed for showing presumably teenage girls in gritty, suggestive pics but that hasn't stopped its use and popularity.
I wouldn't try to place America on some more conservative ground here. There's this conservative-liberal dynamic at work here in that we talk the talk, but the action shows something else.
More damning about American media is just how many young female stars have been dropped by promotion companies after hitting age 25, and the amount of venom the hype machine spews toward some of these "aging" females. Bring them up when they're young and take them down when they're no longer young and vogue, right? To me that hints at the larger trend in America of exploitation of young females. Disney is the master of this, and I can't believe nobody has actually analyzed it further.
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I'm really liking that lately I'm starting to find these reviews that take a much tougher stance on Clannad After Story (which I sometimes jokingly refer to as Clannad Overrated/Overhyped Story) then I'm used to seeing. i.e people forgetting or just not forgetting to critique it at all and just showering it with fanboyish praise as the greatest anime of all time.
It's interesting because just last night I nominated it as my undisputed #1 pick for most overrated/overhyped anime of all time in a related thread on another board, but not for the reasons listed in the article in question which I now think are equally good. Nagisa really is just a boring and uninteresting character for a female lead in the long run and there are just far to many holes in the narrative and more macguffin's then you can shake a stick at for a series that has been so heavily praised and highly ranked even on ANN which has some of the only people I've seen willing to actually critique this show and where I think it's hit #1 or close to it after less than a year of being finished on the timelessly questionable Top 50 section.
I'm not saying it doesn't have it's share of highlights nor that it isn't a pretty show, but it's legacy to me is not unlike that of Hernan Cortes and the Conquistadors who conquered and converted an entire civilization of people (In Clannad's case younger anime fans) not through unquestionably peerless skill and tact, but mostly by being in the right place at the right time and knowing exactly how to take advantage of that civilizations eager willingness to accept and worship them as bonified gods because of a prophecy (in Clannad AS' case hype and a release right off of the heels of the successful and popular Kanon).
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It...it's not like I post for you or anything!
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Well, all I can say is that somebody who has delicate sensibilities will find no shortage of opportunities to vent their moral outrage in anime. About what? - 80 percent all anime series made prominently feature female characters under the age of 18 wearing schoolgirl outfits, swimwear and less. Perhaps the "Shelf Life" column should be renamed "Stuff that I, Erin, Find Gross and Creepy (and That You Digusting Pervs Are Probably Jacking To)."
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Did I ruin my tomato plant?
I waspruning my tomato plants tonight (they are about a foot high) and got carried away. I pruned off the top of the plant where it grows upward. Did I ruin it or will it develop another path to grow from?
I have another I can transplant there if need be, but this particular plant is very healthy and growing so well, I hate to have to ditch it.
I accidently pinched the top off of one of mine this year and it will continue to grow. It will send out a sucker and continue on like nothing ever happened. It may take a little while before it does send off a sucker if you have pruned all of the branches and plucked all of the suckers already but it will continue to grow.
also if you like that particular kind, stick those in water, and they'll root really easily, (if ya want more to plant) and heck, befor long, you'll have some more plants, i did that last year, and i had tomatoes later in the year than when my original plant had died off. it was really neat! ~Medo
thanks for the answers. I was just sick when I realized what I had done, which of course was within nanno seconds after I did it!
I never thought about trying to root is, I was so upset I threw the whole handful of suckers on the compost pile and just walked in the house. I have a couple iffy plants, maybe I will just root a few to have on hand in case I need them.
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Vine Peach
I am ordering some plants/seeds from eburgess.com
Anyone know anything about the vine peach?
I've done some research and have even found some spots were people have discussed the vine peach in the past on this site, but it seems none of them ever "conclude".
Has anyone here ever grown them? Has anyone eaten them?
For only 90 cents for a packet, I thought it might be kind of fun to grow for the heck of it, but at the same time, if it's not worth the space, then I'd rather use that space on my trellises for something else.
It's a muskmelon.
It's also called an "apple melon" or "mango melon" in some areas.
You should care/grow the plant like a melon. If you're expecting something like a peach you'll be disappointed, though I personally like the small "single serving" melons.
Nice price on the seed.
If you like an old time novelty, to grow for fun, the vine peach is in the same category as garden huckleberry. Been around since Noah, never popular, but like the citron, once used to make preserves. It tastes like the most tasteless cantaloupe you ever tried. The bad ones we use to call dead vine melons, that ripened before thier time. During WWII, my mother made preserves from them, but I can't say the preserves were very good. Raw, a hungry teenager (me) would not eat them.
Agree with farmerdilla - they are a waste of time and space.
There was a lengthy discussion on them on the Harvest forum here last year and a couple of discussions on the Fruit Growing forum here too. Most all agree.
Before you get too carried away with your order you may want to do some reading on that company. Garden Watchdog forum only gives them a 32/100 score on quality of merchandise. Several discussions on them that a search will pull up.
Here is a link that might be useful: Rate and Review Vendors forum
I have ordered from burgess before (planed on ordering some things this year). Their prices are cheap but you get what you pay for. Don't be surprised if you don't get exactly what you expect to get. I have never ordered any kind of fruit tree from them and would probably be afraid to. I have also not ordered seeds form them so I can't tell you what to expect from their seeds.
I usually just get plants, I figure if it isn't what I was hoping at least I didn't pay too much.
So far everything I have ordered from them has survived.
Last year something that I had ordered was out of stock and they sent me something else instead (I forgot to tell them I didn't what any substitutions). It was some kind of evasive ground cover and I hate evasive things so I called them and told them that I was not happy with what I received. They told me that I would have to send a letter to them stating what I wanted: a refund, something else instead, or the plant I ordered when it becomes available. So I sent them a letter stating that when the plant became available I would like one sent to me. It was not very long before I got what I had wanted in the mail, I believe it was only a month or two.
I have gotten some nice flowers from them even though they were not always what I expected. Again you get what you pay for.


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Scientists create living embryo of extinct frog that gives birth through its MOUTH
- Scientists implant cells of extinct amphibian into the eggs of living relative
- Resulting embryos began to divide and lived for several days
- Results bring the 'de-extinction' of creatures like the dodo a step closer
An extinct frog is on the verge of revival after scientists used cloning technology to implant a 'dead' cell nucleus into a fresh egg from another frog species.
Although the resulting embryos lived for just a few days, the groundbreaking research by an international team has brought the 'de-extinction' of creatures like woolly mammoths a step closer.
The scientists working for the so-called Lazarus Project are yet to publish their results, but say future barriers to bringing the frog back to life are 'technological, not biological'.
Jesus wept: Like Lazarus, the long-extinct gastric-brooding frog, Rheobatrachus silus, could be be brought back to life - some 30 years after the last living specimen died out
The project is named for the famous biblical character Lazarus who, according to the Gospel of St John, Jesus brought back from the dead after he had lain in his tomb for four days.
The achievement of the Lazarus Project team is, in some ways, almost as miraculous.
The last of the bizarre gastric-brooding frog, Rheobatrachus silus – which uniquely swallowed its eggs, brooded its young in its stomach and gave birth through its mouth – died out in 1983.
The woolly mammoth could again be walking the Siberian steppes in less than 20 years, scientists say.
Teams from around the world are racing to sequence the mammoth genome from an analysis of DNA from remains found frozen in the ice of northern Russia.
George Church, a geneticist at Harvard University, says that despite the animals dying out nearly 4,000 years ago, it could still be possible to extract usable DNA from mammoths preserved in the permafrost.
An exact picture of the mammoth genome would be used as a template to edit and rewrite the genetic make-up of the closely related Asian elephant until it matched, the Siberian Times reported him as saying.
Hendrik Poinar, associate professor at McMaster University in Canada, added: 'We can actually pull out and rejig all these small mammoth fragments and match them against the genome of an Asian or African elephant chromosome and find all the little points of difference.
'So that means we can take Asian elephant chromosomes, modify them to match that of a mammoth and then create an embryo by inseminating an Asian elephant egg.
'It would be long and arduous but eventually we would have something that looked like a mammoth. It would not be an exact replica but it would look and feel much like a woolly mammoth did.'
The last mammoths died out some 4,000 years ago on Wrangel Island, between the East Siberian and Chukchi seas. The most likely habitats for re-born mammoths would be north-eastern Russia and northern Canada.
But researchers were able to recover cell nuclei from R. silus tissues collected in the Seventies and kept for 40 years in a conventional deep freezer.
In repeated experiments over five years, the researchers used a laboratory technique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Using a method similar to that imagined in the blockbuster Jurassic Park, they took fresh eggs from the distantly related Great Barred Frog, deactivated their nuclei and replaced them with genes from the extinct frog.
Some of the eggs spontaneously began to divide and grow to early embryo stage – a tiny ball of many living cells from a creature extinct for 30 years.
Although none of the embryos survived beyond a few days, genetic tests confirmed that the dividing cells contain the genetic material from the extinct frog.
'We are watching Lazarus arise from the dead, step by exciting step,' said Mike Archer, a professor at the University of New South Wales and the leader of the Lazarus Project team.
'We've reactivated dead cells into living ones and revived the extinct frog's genome in the process. Now we have fresh cryo-preserved cells of the extinct frog to use in future cloning experiments.
'We're increasingly confident that the hurdles ahead are technological and not biological and that we will succeed.
'Importantly, we've demonstrated already the great promise this technology has as a conservation tool when hundreds of the world's amphibian species are in catastrophic decline.'
The technical work was led by Dr Andrew French and Dr Jitong Guo, formerly of Monash University, in a University of Newcastle laboratory led by frog expert, Professor Michael Mahony, along with Mr Simon Clulow and Dr John Clulow.
The frozen specimens were preserved and provided by Professor Mike Tyler, of the University of Adelaide, who extensively studied both species of gastric-brooding frog – R. silus and R. vitellinus – before they vanished from the wild in 1979 and 1985 respectively.
Another candidate for 'de-extinction': Scientists believe similar techniques could be used to bring back the dodo, which was once widespread on Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean
Professor Archer spoke publicly for the first time about the Lazarus Project, at the TEDx DeExtinction event in Washington DC, hosted by Revive and Restore and the National Geographic Society.
He told the audience his long-term ambition is to clone the extinct Australian thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger.
Researchers from around the world gathered there last week to discuss progress and plans to 'de-extinct' other extinct animals and plants.
Possible candidate species include the woolly mammoth, dodo, Cuban red macaw and New Zealand's giant moa.
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Endless Summer hydrangeas
Has anyone in the PNW grown the Endless Summer hydrangeas? From the hydrangea forum, it seems people in other parts of the country have problems with no blooms and not much growth. Some posts said that they were bred in the Midwest for very cold winters. I'd love to know how they've done so far here as I've just bought three.
Daphne in Tacoma
Found growing at Bailey nursery by M. Dirr. Origin unknown. Stems of young plants often unable to hold heads up well. Flowers may be more prone to sunburn than some others, do not seem to last very long. Other introductions (such as 'Nikko Blue') circulated here before this came on the scene probably better.
Main selling point is that new growth blooms, so in colder climates freezing of over-wintering flower buds does not eliminate all flowering the following summer.
By the way I was talking about the blue/pink mophead cultivar 'Bailmer' which is what people are usually thinking of when they call a hydrangea "Endless Summer". The latter is actually a marketing device used to sell a "collection" of dissimilar cultivars, of which 'Bailmer' is only one example.
Endless summers do wonderfully in the pacific northwest. They seem to need at least three years in ground before the stems get strong enough to hold the flowers up off the ground after a heavy rain . Its not unusually to see one with a flower on every stem . Blushing bride seems to be the earliest bloomer of the series.
We've had the lacecap one called Twist & Shout since last August, but planted out only this spring. Stems have flopped outward, but there are lots of blooms now that it's been warmer the past month. Early July had one small bloom at first low on the plant, so not showy like now. I sure hope the stems strengthen up for a more upright display.
Compared to my other young hydrangeas that have been slower growing this year with no buds or blooms yet even on the one that has bloomed the past 2 years (once in the pot & last summer in the ground).
That one is the most striking in flower of those kinds seen in local outlets during recent years. Last year one place near here had some stunning examples for sale in tubs.
Here is a link that might be useful: Hydrangea macrophylla 'PIIHM-I' PP20,176
I have a Twist and Shout I planted last summer, foliage healthy this summer and moderate blooming that is very beautiful shades of blue, love it. I'm thinking over time once plant has been in ground for a few years foliage will get even more full and flowering better yet. I planted a bunch of different hydrangeas last summer and this is probably my favorite.
Thanks for all the good info. I've just discovered that Joy Creek Nursery (in Scappoose, OR) has a wonderful selection of hydrangeas, many that bloom on new wood. I think they have a hydrangea garden, too. I've always wanted to visit them, and this has given me a good excuse. I'll check them out this week.
Here is a link that might be useful: Joy Creek website
I did go down to Joy Creek Nursery. It was about a 2 hour drive from Tacoma. They have a wonderful display garden with lots of hydrangeas there. I ended up purchasing seven good sized hydrangeas (about $16-$18 each) plus other misc. plants, enough to almost fill the back seat and trunk of the car. I felt the trip was well worth it. There's no sales tax in Oregon, so I almost saved the gas it took to get there, and didn't have to pay shipping charges. Plus the hydrangea selection was wonderful, and I got to see them growing in the display garden, although not lots of blooms due to this past hard winter.
The staff were very helpful. They don't do a big Fall sale since they winter over all their plants.
Daphne in Tacoma
The Home Depots by me have Twist and Shout Endless Summer hydrangeas nice sized ones for $16 and huge ones for $27


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• Featured attraction is a free concert by Flamenco A3 in the RVC Performing Arts Room at 7:30 p.m.
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Flamenco A3, featuring Flavio Rodrigues, Ismael de la Rosa and David Coria, will come to Rock Valley College (RVC) Saturday, June 9, to engage interested participants in three different workshops before capping the day with a free concert in the college's Performing Arts Center (lower level of the ERC building on RVC's main campus).
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Palmas 7 Compas (Flamenco Percussion & Rhythm) — Saturday, June 9: 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., ERC Room 0214 (RVC main campus). Course Code: MUS 814 RV. Cost is $48 per person.
Sevillanas for Beginners (Flamenco Dance) — Saturday, June 9: 1:30-3 p.m., ERC Room 0214 (RVC main campus). Course Code:DNC 802 RV. Cost is $48 per person.
Introduction to Flamenco Guitar — Saturday, June 9: 3:30-5 p.m., CLII Room 228 (RVC main campus). Course Code: MUS 802 RV4. Cost is $48 per person.
To register for any of the workshops, call RVC Community Education at (815) 921-3900 or go to www.rockvalleycollege.edu/ceonline.
The featured attraction of the day will be a free concert by Flamenco A3 in the RVC Performing Arts Room at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free, and all from the community are welcome to attend. For more information, call (815) 921-3337.
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For the third year in a row, Best Buy will sponsor the 2015 HR Tomorrow Conference, in hopes of empowering HR professionals to develop their knowledge and skills, and better their organizations.
"Every company's No. 1 resource is its people," says Charlie Montreuil, '06 MA-HRIR, vice president of enterprise rewards and corporate HR at Best Buy. "We hope that our sponsorship will help the HR profession to learn about leading research in strategy and organizational theory, and apply the best practices to its business needs."
Shari Ballard, Best Buy president of U.S. retail and chief human resources officer, will be the afternoon keynote speaker at HR Tomorrow.
"We are very privileged to have Shari Ballard as a keynote speaker representing all 150,000 employees who make up Best Buy," says Montreuil. "Shari leads with the heart and delivers results. Her unique position will give the audience a great perspective of the interconnectedness of the retail business and our people practices.
Because of Best Buy's sponsorship and Shari Ballard's featured role, a number of other Best Buy employees will be attending the conference. Montreuil believes that these young HR professionals, "who are in the midst of transforming their respective functions, [will be] able to collaborate and learn best practices from other leading organizations."
As a Carlson School alumnus, Montreuil says, "it has always been my hope that the University of Minnesota will continue to gain national prominence for its work in developing the human resource profession."
The Carlson School provides both short-term and long-term opportunities for MA-HRIR students to take business classes at international universities to deepen their global perspective. The benefits of international learning are wide ranging: students prepare for global HR careers, get exposure to other cultures and languages, experience personal growth and development, and create a global network of friends and colleagues.
Meet four alumni who made unforgettable memories studying abroad, and developed a greater sense of global mindfulness.
Exploring Denmark like a local
During the summer of 2006, Kristin Lee Lewandowski, '06 MA-HRIR, and her husband ventured to Norway for a week. She then continued on to Denmark, where she took an elective MBA class on entrepreneurship and economics at Copenhagen Business School. In her undergraduate program, Lewandoski studied French and went abroad to France. However, comparing the two experiences, she says she equally enjoyed her time studying in a country where she did not know the language.
"This experience helped prepare me for a global HR career by exposing me to other cultures, giving me an experience where I was not a native speaker of the language, and helping form an international network of peers," she reflects. In her free time, while she wasn't also traveling to Germany, Sweden and Norway, Kristin recalls spending time bicycling across the city, as many citizens of Denmark do.
Practicing language skills in Italy
Zachariah Roberts, '14 MA-HRIR, hoped studying abroad would boost his professional career, expose him to the stunning architecture native to Italy, and give him an opportunity to practice his Italian. During his stay, he took electives concerning the media landscape and sustainability impacts while developing global HR experience. Roberts says that two key skills he developed while studying abroad were independence and patience.
"You have to be motivated during periods of ambiguity, patient learning a new culture, and outgoing enough to create new connections quickly," he says. Roberts says studying in Italy was one of the best experiences of his life, and he still video chats with his international friends.
Preparing for global HR challenges
Mary Kate Gross, '16 MA-HRIR, spent two weeks in India as part of the Managing in the Global Environment course offered through the Carlson School. The opportunity caught her eye because the content was highly interactive.
"I wanted the opportunity to be integrated into the culture instead of sitting in a classroom that happened to be in a different part of the world," Gross says.
During her experience, the students spent one week in New Delhi and one week in Bangalore. Gross learned how large and small businesses, government agencies, non-profits, and other institutions operate in India and on a global scale.
"This study abroad experience helped me prepare for my global HR career, as I was able to gain deeper understanding of things corporations need to consider when expanding their business to India when it comes to hiring workers and what benefits and compensation to offer," she says.
Forming lifelong connections
Jill (Boyd) Sawa, '01 MA-HRIR, returned from a stint at the University of Otago in Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand with a host of new friends. She lived with people from all around the world including China, Sweden, Fiji, Malaysia, and France. She also met her husband while studying abroad. "We have been together 14 years now and have a 2-year-old daughter," she says.
Sawa cherishes the memories of making cauliflower soup with her Danish roommate, and now she and her family travel to Sweden to see their international friends get married. "The bonds and friendships made so far away and so long ago continue!"
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JFF 'just' 30 ? its still 30 Welcome to the dark side, we have cookies on the check points Which one is it?
Snaily, one good thing is that your solicitor could instruct no communication except through solicitors. That has a double edged sword, its stops him being abusive directly, the downside (the one I went with) was I grew to fear every letter and email from the solicitor. On the whole, and probably more in your case, the 'talk only through solicitors' approach is better. And if he wants a meeting, make it with solicitor(s) present preferably at their office.
I have no idea what washing machine or dryer I have, w machine is a bit too small really, when it goes, I'll get one of those 9k ones with sports wash, most likely a Bosch as i've never had bad experiences with other Bosch stuff. German engineering and all that ... (probably made in a small village in Taiwan)
Cycling definately does not directly help running. It uses the muscles differently. However, it still helps build leg muscle mass, capileries and Mitacondria which when running help with endurance. You just need to run, and run slowly, to make the new muscle adapt to running.
Diets? Hmmmm Eat good quality stuff, small quantities on a regular basis, dont eat more than you use, excersise long enough including a few harder sessions to burn a good amount. Thats what I do. It doesnt always work (I wont drop beer of the food list) And some days after particularly long weeks (50+) I can eat like a horse.
We always use Advocate now. Used to be a frontline fan until we tried this stuff, it simply works Frontline was good, but only most of the time.
We also use another advocate which does mites aswell as the other worm, once every three months. Tiggs got a real sore patch on his back and scratched iy down to skin, it always looked inflamed. We tried several things including sea salt bathing (which he loved..... not) but it always came back. The vet suggested it could be mites, so gave us this other stuff and it cleared in a few weeks and so far has not returned. His fur has grown back too
If I remember rightly, the two main types of worm are treated differently, so the main monthly flea treatment does one, and this other stuff now does the other.
(OK proper names would be useful, but I have run out of the mite stuff, only know it was an advocate spot on, just different to our normal advocate flea spot on)
Hope your friend improves Fiona, I jnow thats a horrible place to be. After I had my breakdown 8 years ago, I lost interest in litterally everything. I did not believe the number of idiots who told me to just pull my self together and get on with it! Talk about clueless! Others told me what I should be doing to cheer myself up. It doesnt work like that. When there is no spark of enjoyment in anything, everything seems dull and you cant force it. My GP (the nice one from then, not the idiot I have now) made me come and just talk with her every week (she had had similar so knew it well) and after many many weeks just talking, she said "Paul, despite all the things you used to do, since this happened the only time i've ever seen even a glimmer of light in you, is when you talk about your motorbike (pic on left) so I am prescribing you an order to ride your bike as often as you can, even if it is just for a few miles". And do you know what? it worked. after a many more weeks, I started to feel that littlle glimmer of enjoyment and the lovely feeling when you first smile after being miserable for so long. That year I rode lots, several long trips across country with the club, and the more I rode, the more things turned. Even so, it was not a quick fix, it was 1 1/4 years before I was able to work fully again, and several after that I still had relapses. This was pre running.
What I am slowly getting to Fiona, is the same prescription, look for the tiniest thing (what ever it is) that puts even the smallest glimmer of happiness in her, and work on that. Try not to give her things that 'may' make her happy, it has to come from within her. LIke it did with me. If that happens with running then there will be the added bonus that wee all know from it too(does she like the outdoors? trails, woods wildlife etc?)
I can never understand the black cat thing either, a pure black cat has such a beautiful silky sheen to its fur, if it wasnt for my love of silver tabbies I would get one. Mind you, Roni wants a black cat, so I have said when we have finished our building project, she can have one, provided I can get another tabby same age at the same time. Back to a 4 cat household then ,,,,=^..^=,,,,
Teeth.... JFF your right about the 70's dentists, mine have been a train wreck most of my life and have fallen out with my last 3 dentists over poor work. It wasnt until in desparation I bit the bullet and went to a local private dentist, that they finally got sorted out. She is such a good one, its well worth paying the extra. I even managed to pursuade Roni to do the same a month ago, and her first words after the visit were 'Sally is brilliant, I didnt realise how much of a butcher my previous was'
24 slow miles last night, Ave HR 132 heel still painful so staying easy.
I STILL havent got around to posting a few of our mountain pics from Ronis B Day holiday before XMas
Clearing loft junk today, making space ready for the beams arrival in 4-5 weeks, when the project goes full on
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to create your own life. First thing to change is you. I been a bit sceptic of that. Today, as I look at it all. I grow more skeptic.
For some more time you won't be finding me posting and blogs, how long? I don't know.
As per as my adventure was concerned- things are not that good, to take on life is not a type and forget case. Not for me.
Not only my computer is not working, my phone, the blog… Everything has stopped working.
Off course, my brain is headed the same way. Good news is I do am earning back again.
Now starting back life is also not easy.
It is fun. Hard fun. I have always kept my trust in God. So, i know I'll make it through.
I realized, the theory has remained unpublished, but then again, I am unable to publish right now. (this post too I am writing on a six word window. So, pardon me for any grammatical mistakes. I can't see a full sentence.
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ATF Jubilee Edition
Welcome to the jubilee installment of At the Forge. This is the 50th column that I have written for Linux Journal (or for SSC's short-lived Websmith magazine) since early 1996. Over the last few years, we have explored a large number of Web-related technologies, techniques and applications, ranging from simple CGI programs to sophisticated database-backed applications written using mod_perl.
This month, I want to spend a bit of time prognosticating, looking into the future of web application development. On the one hand, things have never been more exciting for web application developers; the technology continues to advance at a remarkable rate, making it easier and easier to create sophisticated applications. At the same time, the increasingly crowded field of embedded programming languages, application servers and database adaptors makes it harder to decide which technology is most appropriate.
Because this column describes where I believe web technologies and application development are headed in the coming years, it should also serve as a sort of guideline for what future issues of ATF will contain. You can think of this month's installment as an indication of where my consulting firm is headed professionally, and thus what you can expect me to suggest and describe in the year (or more!) ahead. Since this is Linux Journal and Linux is my company's primary server platform, I will focus here on items that run with Linux and, preferably, those that are free software.
Web application development began soon after the Web itself was formed. Ever since the first dynamically generated content was sent to the first browser—an act which predates the CGI standard, to say nothing of Netscape, Internet Explorer and Apache—programmers have been designing increasingly sophisticated applications for use on the Web.
CGI, or the "common gateway interface", soon arrived on the scene. CGI got its name because dynamically generated content was originally a means to give a web interface to non-web applications. With the advent of CGI, it was suddenly possible to create portable server-side programs. Most web applications continue to be written using CGI, because of its simplicity and its extreme platform-independent nature, as well as the fact that web space providers can give their clients CGI access without endangering the server's stability.
You can write a CGI program for any web server, in any language, on any operating system, and be virtually guaranteed that it will work. However, CGI has a number of drawbacks. In particular, it requires that the web server spawn a new process for each HTTP request aimed at a CGI program. In other words, a web site that receives 100 hits/minute is spawning more than one new process every second.
By itself, this should not scare you. After all, a basic Linux box should be able to handle the creation of one new process each second, right? However, the size of the new process, as well as the speed with which it starts up, are both important factors.
Perl, my programming language of choice for the last few years, has proven itself as a powerful means for creating CGI programs. The CGI.pm module provides an amazing array of functions that do nearly everything you would ever want from a CGI program (as well as a number of things that I would never consider doing). Moreover, Perl includes a powerful pattern-matching engine, along with modules that handle most popular Internet standards and protocols. The DBI (database interface) module has proven to be an additional boon, making it easy to include the output from an SQL query in a dynamically generated page.
However robust, flexible and secure Perl might be, the CGI standard was never designed for producing a large volume of dynamically generated pages on the fly. Each invocation of a CGI program written in Perl forces the computer to create a new process, load Perl into memory, load your program into memory, compile your program into Perl's internal opcodes and then, finally, interpret it using the Perl run time mechanism. This all takes time and means that CGI programs will not scale well over the long term. Indeed, it does not take a lot of concurrently running CGI programs to bring a typical server to its knees.
At the same time, CGI has been successful because it's so easy to use. With no other API can you write a "hello, world" program as simple as the following:
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