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Comedy provides us with welcome relief from the constant barrage of crap....... So here's a group for discussion of all things comedic. Share your comedy favourites, link to clips, discuss atheist comedy, and just have a laugh
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Belgium's Got Talent
Would that be called ''blind drunk''?????
A man walked into a bar.
Odd he didn't see it right there in front of him!
Terrible when all the effort is for naught, huh?
Tell people the truth and they crap all over you, Believe me, I've tried.
Rabbit meat is the healthiest meat you can eat. Lots of protein virtually no carbohydrates. There's no prescription diet that excludes rabbit meat. Rabbit produces the highest meat versus feed ratio of any meat producing mammal. Rabbit should replace chicken in the American diet. Hah!
I put everything into my Rabbit restaurant idea.
I had a bunny logo, a mascot in a bunny suit to hand Rabbit meat samples. Think anyone would try them? How come one single news picture of a bunch of crying kids can ruin a venture? It's just crazy.
I had all sorts of rabbit fur accessories and lucky rabbit's feet for the kiddies but no! People just can't see
I even had an extra twist like the lobster places. A big cage with rabbits in it, where a family could pick out their own meal
Springtime should be a good season to launch a venture, guess I didn't think-out that whole Easter thing. It would have been great without the eggs all over the place each morning. Why'd they dye raw eggs in the first place?
I'll tell you, the average Joe-Shmoe has no vision.
Gadam PITA jerks, you don't see any of them in front of KFC do you?
No matter how I try…
Sounds like a plan........
I've always been one step ahead of my time. People just weren't ready for my ideas. Time and time again I've tried.
Like in the 70's, during the generic craze. I had rights on the only generic graveyard anywhere. People just couldn't see.
Picture how it could have looked: Rows of white headstones, with "Dead Person" lettered on each one.
OK, that was just the façade in front of the site but really…
My "No frills funerals" was the epitome of genius but fell deaf upon ignorant ears. I featured a fine crafted corrugated coffins with "push-in" finger holes, for pall bearing ease. Prerecorded eulogies, and a live-action, animatronic clergy with pop up mourners. Plus, an option for live, professional mourners. You think anyone saw the potential? Hah!
The actual interment site would have been an abandoned oil well I got a great lease on. Ten inches wide, about a mile down. I had it all figured. With rate and fall ratios and that whole terminal velocity thing, we could have packed them in there for years, no problem. People just don't see brilliance in its present state.
Time and time again I've tried.
Condom factory burns down in USA]
The largest condom factory in the States
burned down. President Obama was awakened at 4 am by
"Sorry to
bother you at this hour, Sir, but there is an
emergency! I've just
received word that the Durex
factory in
Washington has burned to the ground.
It is estimated that the entire USA supply of
condoms will be
used up by the end of the week."
"Oh damn!
The economy will never be able to cope with all
those unwanted babies. We'll be ruined.
We'll have to ship some condoms in from Mexico."
Telephone voice says
"Bad idea... The Mexicans will have
a field day with this one. We'll be a
laughing stock..
What about Canada?"
"Okay, I'll call Stephen Harper and tell him we
need five million condoms, ten inches long
and three
inches thick. That way, they'll continue to
respect the US."
Three days
later, a delighted President Obama ran out to
open the first of the 10,000 boxes that had
just arrived. He found it full of
condoms, 10 inches long and 3 inches
thick, exactly as requested... all
coloured with red maple
leaves with small writing on each one:
A priest was invited to attend a house party. Naturally, he was properly dressed and wearing his priest's collar.
A little boy kept staring at him the entire evening. Finally, the priest asked the little boy what he was staring at. The little boy pointed to the priest's neck.
When the priest finally realized what the boy was pointing at, he asked him, "Do you know why I am wearing that?"
The boy nodded his head yes, and replied, "It kills fleas and ticks for up to three months."
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Microsoft Surface Pro Arrives Feb. 9 268
from the because-everybody's-clamoring-for-more-expensive-tablets dept.
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It doesn't come with a hardware keyboard or Office (unlike the Surface RT)
At the prices quoted it does the Surface Pro does not come with a keyboard at all
This is why I will never write code at a bank. The dullest environment ever.
The Surface Pro isn't good at anything.
Surface Pro is the best tablet that can run x86 applications. Show me another machine that is as thin, light, and powerful with a stylus. You can't.
I'll also save you the trouble of reading two replies to your posts....
It's too heavy, expensive and crappy on battery power to be a good tablet
You might say a tablet is defined by being thin and light and having all day battery life, but that's different from what I want in a tablet. I want a stylus for writing. Surface Pro has this, 90% of tablets today don't. I want ports for USB drives, portable harddrives, video out. Surface Pro has this, 90% of tablets today don't. I want an SD card slot for expansion and swapping cards. Surface Pro has this, 90% of tablets today don't. Hell even Google's Nexus tablets don't have this. So in my book, Surface Pro is the only real tablet out there. It all depends on the user's needs. The Surface pro is a little thicker and heavier than iPad (.5 lbs and
and it doesn't have a real keyboard or adequate screen size to make it a good laptop.
What about this [microsoft.com] isn't a "real" keyboard? Or the infinite variety of bluetooth keyboards or wired USB keyboards that can be plugged in? I also fail to see how 10.6" is not an adequate screen size but 11.6" on the Macbook Air somehow is. That extra 1" is the threshold? I might similarly say the Macbook Air has inadequate resolution (1366×768 vs 1920x1080 on Surface Pro). Or that Macbook Air is too heavy (2.38lbs vs 2.01lbs). Or too thick (0.68" vs 0.5"). Or too expensive ($999 vs $899).
Surface Pro is the best tablet that can run x86 applications. Show me another machine that is as thin, light, and powerful with a stylus. You can't.
Sure I can [microsoftstore.com]. Thinner, lighter, Core i5, and it has a stylus.
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those tools she is using to roll the braids are actually bias tape makers!
My mom many years ago would take old clothes or anything she could find and make braided rugs,I wish she would have had the braiding tools that are available now, her long,hard work might have went a little quicker. And whats sad is back then you were laughed at for having homemade crafty items and were considered very poor to have such things,we were very poor and I wish I had some of mama's homemade rugs they would probably be worth something! Thank you for the video,it's an old craft and I hope more people pick it up,I am as soon as I can find some of those braiding tools.
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And the dry stone no sound of water.
Only There is shadow under this red rock, 25
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Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
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Round Coke Bottles
Do you have them by you ? They must be available in certain areas only - I haven't seen any here. ( DARN! )
I purchased several round, plastic coke bottles at my local Wal-Mart about a month before Christmas, to use as stocking stuffers. I thought they were adorable - looked like an ornament to me - and they were $1! My kids, 26 and 27, and hubby too thought they were cute, too. I still have a bottle, but don't know how to post a pic.
I'm thinking they were a seasonal item and they sure didn't last long at the store.
I purchased them at Walmart for my grandchildren and they loved them. I found them in the front of the store in a huges box, you had to reach down into it to get the sodas. Haven't decided what to do with them yet, may wait til next year and let the grandchildren decide. Last time I was at Walmart I didn't seen the box so they must be sold out. You could always call your local Coke distributor.
When I found them, I bought 24....and then my DD bought me 6. So I have the bottles, just need to find someone to drink the coke. I don't drink many carbonated beverages. I have finished about 3 since we first found them in early Dec. I have only seen one painted on line so far. I collect coke stuff and wanted a few for my collection, but I probably will do something crafty with the others.
I recently rescued 3 round coke bottles from my son's trash and made 3 adorable snowmen!! It was quite simple to do; I painted the "bodies" white up to the "neck"...then tied fabric "scarfs" around the necks. I bought and then painted 3 wooden circles, about 1" in diameter white, and then added snowman faces with paint pens. I attached them with hot glue to the upper portion of the bottle (sort of leaning back towards the "hat." I put them on a shelf surrounded by big cotton balls...its the most adorable little collection of snowmen! Another plan is to glitter spray them and decorate with beads and/or sequins, and a friend suggested cutting the necks off, and putting electric tealights inside, perhaps poking a design thru them as well...
You lost me!! I thought all coke bottles were round??? I have Santa glass ones & American Idol season #2 ones both of those are 8 oz. Then I have 12 oz plastic coke bottles & I think plain 8 oz glass bottles that just have coca-cola in red on them. I painted 1 with cattails around the bottom. Any of these what you are talking about??? Oh, and my friend has 2 glass coke bottles about 12 oz that look like medicine bottles, they are pretty straight all the way up & writing is embossed says coca-cola they are very cool!!! Jan
Found them & the Hutchinson bottle that I think is so cool! So my friend doesn't have any of these & I went all through WalMart & didn't see any & DIL works for them & she didn't mention them,wonder if it's just in certain parts of country?? Maybe I'm not looking in right place!! I don't drink sodas at all. GF works at Sam's club, maybe she has seen them!! SIL has entire game room in coke stuff, she got the border from WalMart & the stuff for bathroom, she didn't mention them. Thanks for info!! Jan


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Betty and Bea are up for adoption at the Brookhaven Animal Shelter and Adoption Center. Dougie was adopted.
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Shukufuku no Campanella
|Shukufuku no Campanella
Shukufuku no Campanella game cover
(Shukufuku no Kanpanera)
|Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Harem
|Windmill Oasis
|Windmill (PC)
Kadokawa Shoten (PSP)
|Eroge, Visual novel
|PC, PlayStation Portable
|January 30, 2009 (PC)
September 30, 2010 (PSP)
|Written by
|Windmill Oasis
|Illustrated by
|Hyūra Konata
|Published by
|Kadokawa Shoten
|Original run
|November 2008 – ongoing
|Shukufuku no Campanella: Balzare! Tortilla Sisters!
|Written by
|Windmill Oasis
|Illustrated by
|Kanaeda Couno
|Published by
|Media Factory
|Monthly Comic Alive
|Original run
|December 2009 – ongoing
|Anime television series
|Directed by
|Shinji Ushiro
|Written by
|Koujirou Nakamura
Saharu Amiyama
|Music by
|Hitoshi Fujima
|Licensed by
|Tokyo MX
|Original run
|July 2, 2010 – September 17, 2010
Shukufuku no Campanella (祝福のカンパネラ, lit. The Campanella of the Blessing?) is a Japanese visual novel developed by Windmill. It was first released as an adult video game for Microsoft Windows on January 30, 2009, and followed by an all-ages release scheduled for the PlayStation Portable. The gameplay in Shukufuku no Campanella follows a linear plot line, which takes place in the fictional city of Ert'Aria, and offers pre-determined scenarios with courses of interaction.
Shukufuku no Campanella has received several transitions to other media. There has been two manga adaptations: the first is serialized in the comic magazine Comptiq, and the second is serialized in Monthly Comic Alive. An anime adaptation was also produced by AIC, and began its Japanese broadcast on July 2, 2010. Two manga anthologies, five light novels, and two Internet radio shows have also been produced.
Ert'Aria, a city known as the "treasury of the world" is preparing for a harvest festival. Leicester Maycraft, a young item technician of the Oasis clan, encounters a shooting star near a party he's attending. Upon finding it, a girl appears before Leicester calling him her father.
- Leicester Maycraft (レスター・メイクラフト Resutā Meikurafuto?)
- Voiced by: Nobuhiko Okamoto (anime)
- He is the Oasis clan's best item engineer and Minette's "papa". He is good in swordsmanship as well. In the anime, it is shown that he has very strong power which he can control pretty well.
- Minette (ミネット Minetto?)
- Voiced by: Mitsu Anzu (PC), Mai Kadowaki (PSP, anime)
- She was awoken by a meteor, and immediately considered Leicester to be her papa, due to him being the first man she saw. She is an automata puppet made by Mise Altoise.
- Carina Verritti (カリーナ・ベルリッティ Karīna Berurittī?)
- Voiced by: Riina Ruri (PC), Kimiko Koyama (PSP, anime)
- Carina is Leicester's childhood friend and has a crush on him. Her parents are grand dukes in the city. She is also a mage herself using a paddle-like staff, Montecchia, to fly around town. She lives in a mansion near the sea.
- Chelsea Arcot (チェルシー・アーコット Cherusī Ākotto?)
- Voiced by: Natsuki Miyagawa (PC), Asami Imai (PSP, anime)
- Chelsea is one of the Holy Knights. She has a horrible sense of direction and manages to veer off in the wrong direction even if the destination is right in front of her. Chelsea is also a friend of Shelley's. Over the course of their adventures, she develops feelings for Leicester.
- Agnes Boulange (アニエス・ブーランジュ Aniesu Būranju?)
- Voiced by: Kotomi Haruyama (PC), Kaori Mizuhashi (PSP, anime)
- Agnes is a puppeteer, and holds travelling circus acts, involving many automata puppets. Agnes also has a huge appetite, and she loves desserts. She was also Mise's apprentice. She, like Chelsea, develops feelings for Leicester, albeit in a more coincidental manner.
- Nina Lindberg (ニナ・リンドベルイ Nina Rindoberui?)
- Voiced by: Fūri Samoto (PC), Michiru Yuimoto (PSP, anime)
- Nina is Clan Oasis' maid. She never takes upon any quests but instead relays to the other members potential quests they can undertake. She is rarely seen outside of their home.
- Nick La'juck (ニック・ラジャック Nikku Rajakku?)
- Voiced by: Kotamei (PC), Keiji Fujiwara (PSP, anime)
- The only other male member of Clan Oasis. Carries a heavy two handed axe as a weapon as a close friend of Leicester.
- Salsa Tortilla (サルサ・トルティア Sarusa Torutia?)
- Voiced by: Mia Naruse (PC), Ari Yunohara (PSP, anime)
- The elder twin of the Tortilla sisters, Salsa is usually left taking the fall or blame for Ritos' actions. Most notably the twins act as the main source of comic relief throughout the entire course of the series. It is noted that she often fantasizes about Leicester on numerous occasions. This is due for her romantic feelings toward him. Her fantasies get more perverted as time goes on. (One instance is attempting to seduce him while he was asleep. This however was induced by Ritos' prank of using sleeping pills.)
- Ritos Tortilla (リトス・トルティア Ritosu Torutia?)
- Voiced by: Oto Agumi (PC), Mai Gotō (PSP, anime)
- Ritos acts clueless most of the time. She always leaves her sister Salsa, to take the blame, fall for traps, or take an attack from an enemy, while she escapes just in time. She also ignores her sister, and often leaves her out of any plan she has, and withholds important information from her sister, until the last second. She tends to imply sensual innuendos toward Leicester which he happens to brush off much to her amazement. However, she does show compassion for her sisters' feelings toward Leicester when she set them up little date.
- Shelley Maycraft (シェリー・メイクラフト Sherī Meikurafuto?)
- Voiced by: Himeno Miyabi (PC), Naoko Takano (PSP, anime)
- Mother of Leicester Maycraft who acts affectionately toward him. She will playfully grab other girls' breasts on certain occasions and even openingly teases them.(She had teased Chelsea about her soft skin once.)
- Nagan Maycraft (ナーガン・メイクラフト Nāgan Meikurafuto?)
- Voiced by: Haikikku Hidari (PC), Hiroki Yasumoto (PSP, anime)
- He is Leicester's father and a friend of the puppeteer Mise Altoise, who is the creator of Minette.
- Fabious Verritti (ファビウス・ベルリッティ Fabiusu Berurittī?)
- Voiced by: Yudana Ii (PC), Hiroya Ishimaru (PSP, anime)
- He is Carina's father and Arch duke of Ert' Aria
- Fiore Verritti (フィオーレ・ベルリッティ Fiōre Berurittī?)
- Voiced by: Haruka Kawai (PC), Satomi Kōrogi (PSP, anime)
- She is Carina's mother who is almost always acting regal.
- Garnet (ガーネット Gānetto?)
- Voiced by: Saki Nakano (PC), Akiko Hasegawa (PSP, anime)
- She is a dragon's avatar, who helps Leicester when her powers are split into two, making a shadow dragon. Like Chelsea, she has a terrible sense of direction; when asked to guide Chelsea, the two were not seen until nightfall.
- Tango (タンゴ Tango?)
- Voiced by: Haruka Kawai (PC), Satomi Kōrogi (PSP, anime)
- This is a puppet talking cat that follow Agnes around and participates in her shows.
- Golem (ゴーレム Gōremu?)
- Voiced by: Haikikku Hidari (PC), Hiroki Yasumoto (PSP, anime)
- A Rock machine that Salsa built. Is it later revealed that Ritos had installed Leicesters cheer up attitude to cheer up girls. (This was revealed when Golem cheers up Chelsea.) It also blushes when around Leicester.
- Montecchia (モンテッキア Montekkia?)
- Voiced by: unknown (PC), Hiromi Hirata (PSP, anime)
- Carina's magic staff.
- Miriam Roland (ミリアム Miriamu Rōrando?)
- Voiced by: Miru (PC), Oma Ichimura (PSP, anime)
- She is Minette's new friend in episode 5 and she is polite and shy. Her fragile body does not allow her to travel and relies on Minette to bring her stories of the outside world. It is also later revealed that she is related to Aberdeen. This is due because she is not human but in fact an Automaton like Minette. A Hidden art within the Roland clan thought to be lost.
- Aberdeen Roland (アバディーン・ローランド Abadīn Rōrando?)
- Voiced by: Noriyuki (PC), Noriaki Sugiyama (PSP, anime)
- He is a boy with white hair and a colleague of Agnes. He is after Minettes core for his person gain which is later found out it was to save Miriam. It is later revealed that he is Miriam's older brother.
- Avril (アヴリル Avuriru?)
- Voiced by: Megumi Hayashibara (PC), Yūko Gotō (PSP, anime)
- A girl Automaton that serves under Aberdeen. She does whatever her "master" tells her and is very strong. She is show to disarm Nick's axe with just her bare hand. She also is able to move in incredible speeds with no effort and is excellent in manipulating the Eru (Ale) Energy stored inside her body.
- Mise Altoise (ミゼ・アルトワーズ Mize Arutowāzu?)
- Voiced by: Tsukasa Nishikibe (PC), Hiromi Hirata (PSP, anime)
- Agnes's "maitresse" (mentor).
The game opening uses the same name as the title, "Shukufuku no Campanella" (祝福のカンパネラ), a duet by Hiromi Satou & NANA.
The anime series' first opening theme for the anime is "Shiawase wa Yori Tsuki Takaku" (シアワセは月より高く) by Aki Misato used from episodes two to seven, and nine to eleven; it was also the ending theme for episode twelve. The single was released on July 23, 2010. The second opening theme is "Yume no Preparation" (夢のpreparation, lit. "A Dream's Preparation") by Anri Yunohara, Mai Gotō, and Hiroki Yasumoto. The first ending theme for the anime is "Mirai Kaikisen" (未来回帰線) by Miyuki Hashimoto, used from episodes one to eight; it was also used as the opening for episode twelve. The single was released on August 23, 2010. The second ending theme is "AMELIA" by Yuko Gotō, used from episodes nine to eleven.
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Episode list[edit]
|Episode title
|Original air date
|"Night of the Meteor Shower"
"Ryūseigun no Yoru" (流星群の夜)
|July 2, 2010
|The city of Ert' Aria is busy with preparations for the festival of the shooting stars, a meteor shower that happens only once every seven years. Carina Verritti arrives early at the house of Clan Oasis, hoping to rouse Leicester Maycroft from his bed, but Leicester is already awake, and must find a way to console her. The two head out to the market where they see a performance by the magician puppeteer Agnes Boulange. Agnes calls Carina out of the crowd to volunteer as her assistant during the performance; afterwords, she joins them for lunch. At the restaurant, all three notice a striking young women marching with the Holy Knights who is later revealed to be Chelsea Arcot, an acquaintance of Leicester's mother, Shelly. Both Agnes and Chelsea agree to join Clan Oasis at the viewing party on the cathedral roof. En route to the cathedral, the party runs into Ritos and Salsa Tortilla, who publicly argue over which will be Leicester's bride, but decline to join the party, claiming to know of a better "higher" viewing spot. Carina and company finally make it to the roof, where they watch the falling meteors. One appears to be heading directly towards them and harmlessly strikes one of the spires. Leicester chases after it, but finds a girl (Minette) lying in bed, who awakens and calls him Papa.
|"The World of Dragons"
"Ryū no Sekai" (竜の世界)
|July 9, 2010
|The clan accepts a quest from Carina's father, Grand Duke Fabious. Fabious has detected a dangerously strong concentration of El, the magical substance that brought Minette to life, in his treasure chamber, and wants Oasis to remove it. In the treasure chamber, Chelsea senses the El behind a locked door said to lead to the realm of dragons. Carina uses her magic to unlock the door and the group passes though to a forest where they are immediately attacked by a crystal monster in the form of a dragon. No one, including Ritos and Salsa, who try to steal a march on the group, is able to defeat the monster until Minette, who came along despite Leicester's objections, captures its magic by means of the anima perla. A real dragon in the form of a girl who calls herself Garnet appears and gives Minette a glowing red and yellow sphere in thanks. The episode ends at the beach, where Leicester must think quickly to avoid offending any of the girls when asked to choose which has the prettiest swimsuit.
|"The Staff of Bonds"
"Kizuna no Tsue" (絆の杖)
|July 16, 2010
|Arriving at Oasis house, Carina is taken aback at the sight of Leicester and Agnes engaged in deep conversation. Leicester deflects her inquiry by changing the topic to light-absorbing rainbow flowers, and convinces the clan to undertake a quest in search of some. The group quickly becomes separated in the woods, with Leicester and Carina flying ahead on her staff. Ritos and Salsa intrude once again, but accomplish little. Before the rest of the group can catch up with them, Leicester and Carina battle and defeat a crystal monster hiding in the darkness of the rainbow flowers. Carina flies up to retrieve a crystal left in the tree branches and plummets towards earth when her staff suddenly runs out of power. Leicester attempts to break her fall, but the two become entangled in vines and must remain in an indecent position until rescued by the rest of the group. Back in town, Leicester reveals to Carina that he was consulting with Agnes over how to give Carina's staff the ability to talk, and was told that El must be bonded with strong emotional bonds. Carina and Leicester work through the night attempting to accomplish this, and eventually succeed in creating an outspoken talking staff.
|"Within the Darkness"
"Yami no Naka" (闇の中)
|July 23, 2010
|Agnes strikes out on her own, but after encountering an old favorite patron, returns to enlist the clan in a hunt for bath crystals. Ritos and Salsa hear of the quest, but misunderstanding, assume that the group is making a trip to an onsen. Leicester, Nick, and the girls enter an abandoned mine to search for bath crystals. They find quite a few, and after breaking for lunch, Agnes and Leicester scout on ahead, discovering a mysterious shrine built around a large crystal. Everyone enjoys bathing in the light of the crystal, but an earthquake sends them scurrying for the exits. A rockfall isolates Agnes and Leicester from the rest of the group, forcing them to find their own way out. The clan reunites outside the mine and celebrate their success by giving Ritos and Salsa some of their extra bath crystals. At home, Shelly pulls a prank on Leicester by sending the girls to the bath before he is finished. Agnes and Leicester end up hiding naked in a corner, hoping not to be discovered by the other girls.
|"Day Off for Oasis"
"Oasis no Kyūjitsu" (Oasisの休日)
|July 30, 2010
|Minette goes shopping, makes a friend, rescues a cat, and loses her skirt. Ritos and Salsa supervise from behind the scenes. Leicester comes to the rescue. Chelsea and Garnet get lost.
|"Night of the Party"
"Pātī no Yoru" (パーティーの夜)
|August 6, 2010
|Shadowed by Minette, Leicester admires Chelsea sparring after making a delivery. He invites her to a party hosted by Fabious in honor of the Holy Knights. The girls try on party dresses. Nick and Leicester replace the knights guarding artifacts in the cathedral, and the Tortilla sisters provide security for the party. A crystal monster attacks the party and is defeated by Leicester and Chelsea as the adults gossip upstairs. They are particularly concerned about the increasing concentrations of El and the corresponding rise in the number of crystal monsters. In the end, Chelsea drinks too much and has to be carried home and put to bed by Leicester.
|"The Forest of Dolls"
"Ningyō no Mori" (人形の森)
|August 13, 2010
|Oasis is hired to investigate the preponderance of El. Why do meteors continue to fall long after the shower was supposed to have ended? In search of answers, they travel to the workshop of Mise Altoise, the builder of Minette and Agnes's teacher. Despite signs of her recent presence, Altworth is nowhere to be found. After considerable sleuthing, Oasis finds a letter addressed to Agnes from Altworth that says she has gone in search of an artifact. They have no time to reflect on the meaning of this, as the group is immediately attacked by a mysterious duo trying to take Minette's core. Agnes recognizes Avril and her own older brother Aberdeen, but they vanish before she can call them to account. Ritos and Salsa make a cameo.
|"The Eighth Episode! Everyone Gets Together!"
"8 Wa Dayo! Zen'in Shūgō!" (8 話だよ!全員集合!)
|August 20, 2010
|Ritos and Salsa are hired to protect Minette while preparations are made for the Harvest Festival. Their "protection" includes convincing Minette to promote the Tortilla Company in a bikini. Ritos plays multiple tricks on Salsa throughout the episode, but her scheme to set up her sister with Leicester falls through when Salsa refuses to be separated from her twin.
|"Signs Of Abnormal Changes"
"Ihen no Yochō" (異変の予兆)
|August 27, 2010
|Oasis continues to investigate. Miriam collapses while playing with Minette. Garnet, knowing her for an automaton who is no longer human, sends Agnes to help. Agnes says that Miriam will die if she cannot get a new core, and that the only suitable replacement is Minette's anima perla. Aberdeen storms the bedroom where his sister Miriam is resting, only to be confronted by Leicester and company.
|"Minette's Choice"
"Minetto no Sentaku" (ミネットの選択)
|September 3, 2010
|Aberdeen takes Miriam back, but not before she protests that Minette should not be sacrificed for her sake. As Miriam fades, Minette lives life to the fullest. That night, Minette runs away from home after bidding Leicester good night. Shelly catches up with her on the cathedral roof, and lets Minette cry in her arms but does not stop her. The episode ends as Leicester notices that Minette is gone and rushes out in search of her.
|"Everyone's Feelings"
"Sorezore no Omoi" (それぞれの思い)
|September 10, 2010
|Aberdeen brings Minette to Miriam's bedside and gets ready to transfer the core, but Carina magically locates them before he can finish. Carina battles Avril while Leicester fights Aberdeen. Avril and Aberdeen possess mighty battle artifacts and cannot be defeated, but Leicester and Carina are also strong. A particularly large flash draws Minette out from the house: when she sees Leicester and Aberdeen fighting, she interposes herself. Miriam follows and begs everyone to work together and find a way for both of them to live. Leicester and Aberdeen agree to do so, but Garnet suddenly appears calling everyone back to town. The unregulated flow of El is reaching a crisis point and everyone must work together to save the world.
|"Blessing Of The Campanella"
"Shukufuku no Kanpanera" (祝福のカンパネラ)
|September 17, 2010
|Leicester and company go off to fix the unregulated El. Ritos and Salsa guard the home front, Avril and Aberdeen fight a rearguard action, Nick and Garnet keep the stairs clear, Carina, Chelsea and Agnes watch Leicester's back. Altworth releases the artifact, ending the creation of crystal monsters but exposing Leicester to its full flow. With Minette's help, the artifact is restored. Nina prepares for a party.
|"Shukufuku no Campanella: Isshoni Bath Time"
|September 22, 2010 to February 24, 2011
|A series of 6 specials (each 2 minutes long) called "Isshoni Bath Time" were included with the Blu-ray release of the anime after the TV series concluded but before the OVA.
|"Shukufuku no Campanella OVA"
|March 30, 2011
|A series of short skits featuring the characters in various states of undress.
External links[edit]
- Windmill Official Website (Japanese)
- TV Anime Official Website (Japanese)
- PlayStation Portable Version Official Website (Japanese)
- Blessing of the Campanella - The Official Anime Website from FUNimation
- Shukufuku no Campanella (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia


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Need to upgrade service?
I am about to undertake a kitchen remodel and in the process was considering upgrading to 200 amp service since "everyone" says to. As of right now, I have a 90 amp main breaker feeding my sub panel, and a seperate 30 amp breaker at the main for my a/c.
As for load, I have an electric washer and dryer, the above mentioned a/c, and will be installing 2 electric ovens, range hood, microwave, fridge, and a 1800 square foot house worth of outlets and mostly LED and CFL lighting throughout.
Any thoughts on the need to upgrade? FYI, I live in California if that changes anything involving code. Thanks in advance for the help!
So I think I answered my own question. I used a residential load calculator and came up with 77 amps minus the a/c (on its own circuit at the main). With the current 90 amp service, I should be ok, assuming the calculations are correct. Right?
On another note, why would I have a 90 amp breaker main service disconnect with a separate 30 amp for the a/c? 120 amp service?
Just to clarify, I looked at the wiring at the main. Service comes from the meter to these two breakers which are stacked on top of each other, with one wire connecting to each side (right and left) of these stacked breakers. Wiring to the sub panel leaves the 90 amp breaker up and out of the panel, with grounding going to a bar. The a/c wiring leaves the 30 amp and drops out the bottom of the panel going to the a/c, with grounding to the bar. A single copper wire leaves the bar out the bottom of the panel (I assume going to a grounding rod).
Assuming your load calculations are correct, you are probably right at capacity with 100A service. Note the size of the main breaker does not necessarily mean that is what your service size is.
It was not uncommon in older panels to have several large breakers (range, AC, etc) and then a "lighting main" that feeds the part of the panel with all the branch circuits for the receptacles and lighting. The code permits this provided there are no more than six breakers throws to shut everything off.
If you're adding bigger kitchen appliances, especially induction cooktops, you may indeed want a larger service. If for some reason (like you're out of spaces for breakers for the new kitchen circuits) you are going to upgrade the panel, the additional costs of upgrading the service may be worth it.
Thanks for the info. I figured that the size of the main service disconnects didn't necessarily indicate my actual service. How do find out what my actual service is? Power company? Is 120 amps a common service level (30 for the ac, 90 for the rest) or is it reasonable to assume I might have 125 or 150 amp service? I ask because if my service can handle going from the 90 amp to 100 amp to my sub panel, that would give me 25% over my anticipated household load.
So i called the power company (pg&e) and they said that for my address i have not more than 320 service amps comming in to my meter. I am confused because i figurd i would have a fixed service level. Does this mean i can upgrade my 90 amp main breaker to 100 amp, as long as my wiring is of correct type and gauge? Do i need to involve my power company if i make this change?
The wiring coming in from the utility is NOT your service entrance. It is the utility drop.
What you have on your house is your limiting factor. You have either a 100, 150 or 200A service in most cases.
You do not add up the 90 and 30A breakers to call what you have a 120A service.
If the home is newer you may have had a stickler for an inspector which is why you were limited to a 90A breaker instead of the standard 100A since that feeder does not serve 100% of the load.
Why would you possibly need to go from 90 to 100A??
Well going off my calculations, I do not need to go up to 100. At this point I am just trying to figure out what my service level is. The house was built in 79, no tag. When you say "what you have on your house is the deciding factor," what do you mean?
Gotcha. Thanks. One would think it would be easier to know your service size. I know this is hard to understand without a pic, but after talking to a buddy that is an electrician, he mentioned that this panel that I am calling my main, which is to the right of my meter might not actually be my main service disconnect and actually be a sub panel. Below my meter is a cover that states do no open or something similar and he said that in there might be my actual service disconnect. I am not home to check but does this sound like common practice?
You need to find an older electrician who understands the panel you have, and he may be able to tell you how figure out the total amp rating. Younger electricians will only be familiar with what they have installed.
My story: My house had a old 150 amp panel. There was a 60 amp lighting main breaker and space for about 12 lighting/outlet breakers, and then an area for several 240 volt breakers. However, there was no 150 amp main breaker, which really confused younger electricians. Since there was no main, you also could not shut off power to the bus for the 240 volt breakers. Even the house inspector I hired made a comment about the panel being "wrong". However, the electrician I hired for my heavy up was very familiar with this type of box. He said it was completely correct and legal when installed, and I could have waited for the 200 amp upgrade if I thought 150 amps would work.
Even younger electricians recognize a split panel like that if they are competent. Even today you have to be able to compute a load. The problem is that your young guys entire experience comes from building tract houses where they don't have to think about what they are doing.


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It always sort of bugs me when NYC is lumped in with NY state for these sorts of things. I wonder, if the city was cut out, if it would still be Chinese or not...I strongly suspect it would be different. » 5/13/14 2:51pm 5/13/14 2:51pm
Ha! That sucks: some colorblind people (*raises hand*) can't tell that the top image is layered. I can tell it's lighter up top, and darker at the bottom, but assumed that had to do with the top of the wall being closer to a light source. » 5/06/14 8:45am 5/06/14 8:45am
Correction. It's not Monday. It's Cinco de Mayo. You're welcome :P » 5/05/14 8:53am 5/05/14 8:53am
It's amazing how quickly smart people turn really, really dumb when a fire alarm goes off and it's not a drill. » 5/02/14 4:51pm 5/02/14 4:51pm
It kind of cracks me up that people are on the "This winter is SO LONG" shtick, at least in NYC (Otter, you're exempt. Snow = winter). It's not comfortable weather, but 42 and raining is not winter...that's Spring. April showers anyone? » 4/30/14 8:31am 4/30/14 8:31am
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I can't remember the last weekday that I didn't wake up at 5:30am :( I agree with you: 5:30 should be several hours later than we're currently hosting it. » 3/31/14 8:39am 3/31/14 8:39am
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Deputy's suicide prompted Tooele school lockdowns, police say
STANSBURY PARK, Tooele County — Gunfire that prompted a lockdown for three Stansbury Park schools on Tuesday was later confirmed to be a suicide.
Tooele County Sheriff Frank Park confirmed that deputy Steve Hansen, 37, took his own life Tuesday morning in his home near Stansbury Park Elementary. Tooele police are investigating the incident.
The elementary school was put on lockdown and kindergarten students en route to the area were diverted to another school shortly before 12:30 p.m. while officers responded to the home at 745 Country Club Drive.
A SWAT team went into the home — guns drawn and shields up — and quickly exited again with their weapons lowered.
Rose Springs Elementary and Stansbury High School were also placed under lockdown. All the lockdowns were lifted, however, in less than an hour and parents were instructed they did not need to come pick up their students.
Hansen worked at the Tooele County Sheriff's Office for four years, Park said. He called the married father of six a valuable member of the county's public safety community.
"Deputy Hansen will be deeply missed and our heartfelt sympathy goes out to his family," Park said.
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BEST LAID PLANS: In Ft. Lauderdale, Juan Rodriguez notes the original plan for yesterday's game "was to leave the roof open and close the window panels beyond the left- and center-field walls." For tonight's game, the Marlins will "test the playing conditions with the roof closed and panels open." When the Marlins host the Yankees on April 1 "in the second-to-last soft opening, they'll close everything." The following night "they'll open it all." More areas of the ballpark opened to patrons yesterday, and services will be extended for tonight's game "with a crowd of 15,000 (5,000 more than Tuesday) expected" (South Florida SUN-SENTINEL, 3/7). In Miami, Linda Robertson notes yesterday "was a good inaugural test run of the weather-proof ballpark." The air conditioning "kept fans comfortable and a stadium employee made sure by checking the temperature in different locations with a turkey thermometer." This is what taxpayers and team Owner Jeffrey Loria "shelled out $634 million to build and it worked without a hitch" (MIAMI HERALD, 3/7). In Ft. Lauderdale, Craig Davis wrote under the header, "It Will Take Time To Tell How Marlins Park Plays." Davis noted yesterday's game "didn't shed much light on the issue." The "ultimate answer may be that it depends." Marlins 3B Hanley Ramirez said, "After they closed the roof it was totally different. There's no wind (with it closed), but if you hit it good it's still going to go out" (SUNSENTINEL.com, 3/6).
GETTING TANKED: ESPN's Colin Cowherd said of Marlins Park having fish tanks in the outfield, "A lot of people are ripping this, but this is Miami. It's not Fenway Park. ... I totally get it. They've tried to create something new. Miami's different, it's not a diehard baseball city. They're trying to make it a unique park" ("SportsNation," ESPN2, 3/6).


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Was Bill Walton Drunk Or On Drugs During This Basketball Game? [Video]
Check out the short Vine video and then determine for yourself if NBA great Bill Walton was drunk while calling this basketball game.
Check out the short Vine video and then determine for yourself if NBA great Bill Walton was drunk while calling this basketball game.
This is another case of how stupid people using social media can actually be very positive and helpful.
We have seen plenty of videos before of animals attacking cars that are driving through the safari.
Facebook can really bring out the stupid in people. This time it worked out on the side of justice.
An Ohio man commented on his own wanted picture on the Butler County Sheriff's Office Facebook page, which eventually lead to his arrest.
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin and University of Maryland have created new music specifically for cats.
This guy in Nebraska got busted for carrying weed in a container labeled "not weed."
Above is not the actual container from the incident. This one I made myself. Pretty impressive, right?
Looks like I've got some real not weed container-making skills.
Nelson Shanks is an artist who got the incredible opportunity to paint former President Bill Clinton's official presidential portrait for the National Gallery of Art.
That's quite an honor. So, naturally he decided to stick it to Clinton.
Meet Sarah.
Sarah is just plain dumb. She got scammed really, really badly.
I'm not exactly sure what's happening in this viral video, or where it takes place.
Sounds like the "star" of the video is singing/ screaming in Spanish.
And it looks he wants to break his head open on the wall of the subway.
Wes Scantlin, the lead singer of the band Puddle of Mudd, has shown a lot of idiocy and has had many run-ins with the law.
Well, he was up to his stupidity again.
It seems like it doesn't take much to capture the nation's attention anymore.
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Great job, most people would have gone all wild west, but you are obviously smart enough to know what to do, I'm glad that you're safe and well!
Here in NC many homes and mental health facilities are closing. I am sure this is happening everywhere. Why are they closing? Medicaid is denying payment around 70% of the time due to paperwork errors. The mental health facilities have tried everything from software that is set up for medicaid billing to hiring outside consultants to deal with medicaid billing. In this area the only mental health facility that is not in danger is the federal facility that is part of Butner federal prison. They have a limited number of beds and only accept the mentally ill that are to violent to be on the streets.
Its hard to decide to take some ones life in your situation, i just hope it doesn't come back and bite you in the arse, and then every one will blame it on the system......I had a similar situation, if I hadn't seen the ill man with his father I would have shot him dead..... He came into the house like a bull. All he wanted was a cigarette.......Dimentia at the age of 30.......
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Of course, a fatality-friendly follow-up shot would be a bare minimal requirement for your safety.
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A research team from ICTA-UAB has developed a new approach to study controversies over technology governance, applied to the case of nuclear power, which has been one of the most largely deployed man-made technologies. According to the researchers, this controversy can be understood as a series of mismatches between expectations and experience.
Two of the most prominent traits of the Spanish residential system in recent decades have been the high proportion of owners and the absence of effective policies to promote rental housing. This article argues that the system is undergoing a transformation due to structural demographic change and influenced by the housing bubble and current crisis.
Water resources in coastal cities support many tensions due to different phenomena. This thesis presents new lines of research and strategies to improve urban water policies linked to the tourism sector, with frames to analyse and evaluate physical and social water flows and their governance in Mediterranean coastal cities.
The yellow sugarcane aphid feeds on plants of the family of grasses. Researchers from the UAB and CREAF and from the University of León have discovered this species for the first time in Spain. It is needed a distribution map of this species in Europe in order to evaluate its potential pest behaviour on extensive European crops of rice or maize, for example.
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Squirrels? That's where I'm a Viking!
Common knowledge about squirrels is that they are basically furry rats. Yes, they are adorable in an amnesiac sort of way, what with their inability to remember where they buried their nuts, but the modern squirrel is not typically considered a manifestation of anything monstrous. Interestingly, much like Coca-Cola and Pop Rocks, if you combine Viking aesthetics with squirrels, you produce a malevolent little rodent called Ratatoskr ("Drill Tooth" in Old Norse) that spends his days spreading malicious gossip and trying to start a fight between the eagle at the top of the World Tree Yggdrasil and the angry Wyrm beneath called Níðhöggr, generally with phrases like, "Did you hear what he said about your mother?"
No, it wasn't because of velociraptor attacks
Roughly 9,000 years ago, humans had mastered farming to the point where food was plentiful. Populations boomed, and people began moving into large settlements full of thousands of people. And then, abruptly, these proto-cities were abandoned for millennia. It's one of the greatest mysteries of early human civilization.[more inside]
Neanderthal and Sapiens, sitting in a tree...
"Scientists have reconstructed the genome of a man who lived 45,000 years ago, by far the oldest genetic record ever obtained from modern humans. The research, published on Wednesday in the journal Nature, provided new clues to the expansion of modern humans from Africa about 60,000 years ago, when they moved into Europe and Asia. And the genome, extracted from a fossil thighbone found in Siberia, added strong support to a provocative hypothesis: Early humans interbred with Neanderthals."
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AS THE SUN set over Lake Eyasi in Tanzania, nearly thirty minutes had passed since I had inserted a turkey baster into my bum and injected the feces of a Hadza man – a member of one of the last remaining hunter-gatherers tribes in the world – into the nether regions of my distal colon. I struggled to keep my legs in the air with my toes pointing towards what I thought was the faint outline of the Southern Cross rising in the evening sky. With my hands under my hips – and butt perched against a large rock for support – I peddled an imaginary upside down bicycle in the air to pass the time as I struggled to make sure my new gut ecosystem stayed put inside me.Jeff Leach's attention grabbing opening starts a fascinating overview about researching gut fauna, microbiomes and the hunter-gatherer diet of the Hadza people of Tanzania in the quest to rediscover humanity's "natural" guts. [more inside]
Inuit facial tattoos
Between the Lines: tracing the controversial history and recent revival of Inuit facial tattoos.
"Osteobiography" : the "biography of the bones"
"There's a wonderful term used by anthropologists: "osteobiography," the "biography of the bones." Kennewick Man's osteobiography tells a tale of an eventful life, which a newer radiocarbon analysis puts at having taken place 8,900 to 9,000 years ago. He was a stocky, muscular man about 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing about 160 pounds. He was right-handed. His age at death was around 40." After years of legal wrangling and scientific arguments, Smithsonian Magazine takes on the history of the Kennewick Man and the long-awaited publication of studies co-edited by physical anthropologist Douglas Owsley (of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History's Anthropology department.) [more inside]
Sorting our world: The Nairarbi and the Diiwi code
Even the first-year student of anthropology quickly learns that cultural groups are "varied" and "diverse." Yet one group that has not been studied in all its diversity is the Nairarbi, an information-working caste scattered through many societies in the modern world.
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A beacon of conscience in Australia's capital
Featured in the Australian literary journal Meanjin, Restless Indigenous Remains is a Paul Daley essay on how the Australian government's National Museum handles the remains of Indigenous people accumulated during Australia's colonial period. An engaging, thoughtful and sobering piece, it covers the history of 'remains collection' in Australia, as well as the current debate concerning whether the Indigenous defenders against colonial expansion should be recognized by the Australian War Memorial.
This is a story about the tiny trails of history the beads have left us.
Cross-cultural experiences of schizophrenia
A new study by Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann and others found that voice-hearing experiences of people with serious psychotic disorders are shaped by local culture – in the United States, the voices are harsh and threatening; in Africa and India, they are more benign and playful. This may have clinical implications for how to treat people with schizophrenia, she suggests.
The Writing on the Wall
Papyrus Turin 55001 is code for "the erotic papyrus." Then there's the 2,500-year-old erotic graffiti from Greece, with a rude claim about who did what where. If you're amid graffiti of a more recent vintage -- specifically that of the American public restroom -- you might want to consult "Here I Sit -- A Study of American Latrinalia" (.pdf) by Alan Dundes (obit, previously). Good reading!
Neymar and the Disappearing Donkey
In 1976, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ran a household survey that marked a crucial departure from other census exercises. The Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) did not ask Brazilians to choose a race category among pre-determined choices; instead, researchers went out and asked people to describe the colour they thought they were.
Anthropology, Archaeology and SETI
Archaeology, Anthropology and Interstellar Communication is a free book (PDF) from NASA. The premise is that communication with alien lifeforms will have some (cautious) analogues to interpreting past cultures, and to the work that anthropologists and linguists do cross-culturally. Among the 16 chapters are: Beyond Linear B - The Metasemiotic Challenge of Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence; Learning To Read - Interstellar Message Decipherment from Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives; and, Mirrors of Our Assumptions: Lessons from an Arthritic Neanderthal.
Ewok Anthropology
In honor of May the Fourth, I present to you more information about Ewoks than you ever cared to know: The Return of the Subaltern (Part One and Part Two)
American Museum of Natural Unlocks 1000's Of Old Photos
The American Museum of Natural History will unlock thousands of old photos from their vault, they announced this week. The new online image database (officially launching on Monday the 28th) will take you behind the curtain, delivering images that span the 145-year history of the Museum. The collection features over 7,000 images—many never before seen by the public—and includes photos, rare book illustrations, drawings, notes, letters, art, and Museum memorabilia. They say "it's like stepping into a time machine and seeing a long ago NYC or just catching glimpses of ghosts from a forgotten world now seen only by researchers and Museum staff." Previously. [more inside]
In the Name of Love
Zombies are savages, the ultimate "other".
Zombies occupy a variety of liminal spaces wherein contemporary social tensions are reflected and refracted. These tensions, however, have historical and ongoing parallels with images of "Indians." Zombies reveal societal ambivalence about race, class, gender, ethnicity, political power, agency, and other aspects of social reproduction. In other words, zombies touch upon all the anxieties commonly associated with colonialism.If you only watch one hour-long lecture on the Anthropology of Zombies today, then make it this one by Native American scholar Chad Uran.
Human Terrain Systems; Weaponizing Anthropology
Human Terrain Systems is a U. S. military program to use modern anthropological ideas, research results, and professionals to assist counterinsurgency in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. Human Terrain Systems Dissenter Resigns, Tells Inside Story of Training's Heart of Darkness on counterpunch.org by Saint Martin's University professor David H. Price is about anthropologist John Allison, who joined, participated, and ultimately resigned. Allison tells his own story here. The counterpunch article is a central part of Price's book, Weaponizing Anthropology. [more inside]
The genome of the Anzick boy
The genome of the Anzick child, who died 12,600 years ago at the age of three and was buried with ceremony in the American Rockies, has been fully sequenced. The results shed an incredible light on the history of the peopling of the Americas: his people seem to have been direct ancestors to most tribes of Central and South America, and close relatives of the Canadian tribes. The discoveries have had an emotional impact on Native Americans, and the boy's remains will be reburied with great respect. Still, tribal belonging is about much more than genetics, as anthropologist Kim Tallbear reminds us. You can see replicas of the heirloom artefacts left in the boy's grave here, or visit the collection at the Montana Historical Society if you're in the area.
Money and finance: For an anthropology of globalization
There is much talk today of a financial and economic crisis comparable to the 1930s. With the threat of a currency war and the euro's collapse looming, the specter of the Great Depression's bloody aftermath has returned with a vengeance. Several versions of how to make human beings and build society co-existed during the Cold War, when much of the world won independence from colonial empire. Yet, discussion of humanity's growing interdependence is today limited to a one-world capitalism driven by finance. What have anthropologists to say about that? It would seem very little. But a positive case can be made for the discipline's contribution to public debate. We make such a case here. We review recent developments in the anthropology of money and finance, listing its achievements, shortcomings and prospects, while referring back to the discipline's founders a century ago. Economic anthropologists have tended to restrict themselves to niche fields and marginal debates since the 1960s. We hope to reverse this trend by focusing on money's role in shaping global society and bringing world history into a more active dialogue with ethnography.Money and finance: For an anthropology of globalization by Keith Hart and Horacio Ortiz
Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny
This documentary pokes fun at the ways in which Inuit people have been treated as "exotic" documentary subjects by turning the lens onto the strange behaviours of Qallunaat (the Inuit word for white people). The term refers less to skin colour than to a certain state of mind: Qallunaat greet each other with inane salutations, repress natural bodily functions, complain about being cold, and want to dominate the world. Their odd dating habits, unsuccessful attempts at Arctic exploration, overbearing bureaucrats and police, and obsession with owning property are curious indeed. A collaboration between filmmaker Mark Sandiford and Inuit writer and satirist Zebedee Nungak, Qallunaat! brings the documentary form to an unexpected place in which oppression, history, and comedy collide.Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny
String Theory
In 1906, Caroline Furness Jayne wrote String Figures And How To Make Them - A Study Of Cat's Cradle In Many Lands [Google Books], probably the best-known study of string figures and string games. [more inside]
Waste Watching: Robin Nagle's Discard Sudies
Discard Studies "is meant as an online gathering place for scholars, activists, environmentalists, students, artists, planners, and anyone else whose work touches on themes relevant to the study of waste and wasting." It's about hoarding discourse. Migrants' material trails. The stewardship of repair. Flood level markers. And so much more, thanks to the trashiest anthropologist in New York. [more inside]
Of all the occupations in the world, why did he trade in our ancestors!
NYTimes: "The paleontologist Richard Leakey has called their removal a "sacrilege." Kenyan villagers have said their theft led to crop failure and ailing livestock. It is little wonder, then, that the long, slender wooden East African memorial totems known as vigango are creating a spiritual crisis of sorts for American museums." [more inside]
Margaret Mead's passion
"Always I love you and realize what a desert life might have been without you." —Margaret Mead to anthropologist and folklorist Ruth Benedict, who remained her companion and arguably her soul-mate despite both women having husbands.
"Overall, I think that Diamond is like Mao: 70% right and 30% wrong."
Anthropologists weigh in on Jared Diamond's latest: lack of citations, ethnographic carelessness, and the smoothing of complex narratives into quotable fables. The World Until Yesterday has prompted a flurry of commentary from anthropologists unenthusiastic about the physiologist turned evolutionary biologist turned geographer. In a recent London Review of Books, leading political anthropologist James C. Scott doesn't buy Diamond's description of the modern nation-state arising to curtail primitive tribal violence "[i]n a passage that recapitulates the fable of the social contract" given how "slaving was at the very centre of state-making." Anthropologist Alex Golub, who shares Papua New Guinea as a major research site, wrote "Still, it is telling that we live in an age when a member of America's National Academy of Sciences and one of the world's foremost public intellectuals has less concern for citations and footnotes than do the contributors to Wikipedia." David Correia pulls no punches in his opinion piece "F*ck Jared Diamond" calling Diamond's resurrection of environmental determinism as racist apologia and his latest book as essentializing primitivism in order to define Western industrialized exceptionalism. [more inside]
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: explorer, shaman, proto-anthropologist
' "Discovery" is such a loaded term nowadays in American cultural studies that one dare not use it without immediately qualifying it as problematic and politically charged. We tend to prefer "invasion" or "dispossession" or "conquest" because those words, and their attendant categories, suggest a more accurate way to characterize early American exploration.... Homi Bhabha's theory of the "hybrid" colonial subject, and his focus on the production and maintenance of colonial power, has compelling implications for the relationship between European explorers and Native Americans in Cabeza de Vaca's 1542 discovery narrative La Relación. Several scholars have commented on Cabeza de Vaca's hybridity—the collision between his Spanish heritage and his acquisition of Native American culture—but none has discussed it in terms of the exercise of colonial power and its resultant ambiguities.' This is a verbose introduction to the interesting and complex life of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, one of the four survivors of the 600-strong Narváez expedition, in the period of inland Spanish conquistadores. You could read more, or watch Cabeza de Vaca, the 1991 film that is "sometimes straightforward, sometimes pagaentlike and sometimes hallucinatory ... a road trip movie set in a time before there were roads."
Who am I? Am I Yanomami or am I nabuh [Westerner]?
The son of a Yanomami tribeswoman returns to the jungle to look for her. David Good is the child of an American anthropologist and the Yanomami woman he married while doing field research in the remote Amazon rainforest. Raised in the US, he returns to find his mother. [may be nsfw - images of unclothed tribespeople]
Bears. And etymology!
Reel 2 Real: Sound at the Pitt Rivers Museum
Reel 2 Real: Sound at the Pitt Rivers Museum is a digitization project that is taking the archival field recordings of the Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford University's museum of ethnography and anthropology), digitizing them, and placing them online with Soundcloud. [more inside]
A Scientist at War With His Tribe
How Napoleon Chagnon Became Our Most Controversial Anthropologist. "Jaguars and anacondas are impressive adversaries — 'Indiana Jones had nothing on me,' Napoleon Chagnon says — but his staunchest foes are other anthropologists."
"In the future, everything will be terrifying."
Dougal Dixon is a scientist, author, and illustrator. While he is most famous for his work on dinosaurs, his books After Man: A Zoology of the Future and Man After Man: An Anthropology Of The Future attempt to explore what might happen in the far future. The Posthuman Art Of Dougal Dixon. [more inside]
"...an enormous erect phallus, and piles of lettuce in the background."
First noticed on tumblr but now available to all, Alex Clayden's paper "Same-Sex Desire in Pharaonic Egypt" which, among other things, tells you about the connection between lettuce and semen and the Ancient Egyptian for "You have a nice ass."
It's a Samoan Thing. You Wouldn't Understand.
Ilana Gershon is a professor currently researching how people use the Internet to break up with their romantic partners, but before that she wrote an anthropological study about "strategic ignorance" in Samoan immigrant communities, all of which is just a complicated way of showing that she's the most unusually qualified person on the Internet to comment on the Manti Te'o hoax. (previously)
The Value of Culture
The Value of Culture is a five part BBC radio series by Melvyn Bragg (which can be downloaded as a podcast) which explores the modern concept of 'culture' from its roots in mid-19th Century Britain, specifically Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy and Edward Burnett Tylor's Primitive Culture (vol. 2), and exploring the discourse and uses of the concept until the present day. There are five episodes, each a little over forty minutes long, focusing in turn on Arnold and the roots of the concept of culture, Tylor and the anthropological conception of culture, C. P. Snow and the 'Two Cultures' debate, mass culture and culture studies, and then ending with a debate on the value of culture today.
"Where sex is work, sex may just work differently" & "the WEIRDest people in the world?"
When sex means reproduction, certain proclivities may simply not be part of cultural models of sexuality: "Barry and Bonnie Hewlett had been studying the Aka and Ngandu people of central Africa for many years before they began to specifically study the groups' sexuality... [T]he Hewletts conclude, "Homosexuality and masturbation are rare or nonexistent [in these two cultures], not because they are frowned upon or punished, but because they are not part of the cultural models of sexuality in either ethnic group."" [more inside]
Grape Apes: The Origins of Morality
Chimp Fights and Trolley Rides from Radiolab's morality episode: "try to answer tough moral quandaries. The questions--which force you to decide between homicidal scenarios--are the same ones being asked by Dr. Joshua Greene. He'll tell us about using modern brain scanning techniques to take snapshots of the brain as it struggles to resolve these moral conflicts. And he'll describe what he sees in these images: quite literally, a battle taking place in the brain. It's 'inner chimp' versus a calculator-wielding rationale."
'the largest, meatiest ox that money could buy.'
In 1969, anthropologist Richard B.Lee wrote about his experience 'Eating Christmas in the Kalahari.' (PDF)
"The symptom that bothers me the most is the one I can't even begin to describe."
Culture, delusions, and the early treatment of schizophrenia.
Greg Downey: Living in the prodrome, part 1, part 2. [more inside]
Greg Downey: Living in the prodrome, part 1, part 2. [more inside]
No, I won't tie your shoes for you
Drawing on recent work by anthropologists Elinor Ochs and Carolina Izquierdo (working draft in PDF format of relevant paper here), The New Yorker asks: Are Americans raising the most incompetent and spoiled children in the world? The Wall Street Journal also considers Ochs' and Izquierdo's conclusions...
The dying arts of kamra-e-faoree "instant" photographs and hand tinting photos in Afghanistan
"From photography's earliest days, enterprising practitioners realized they could take their services directly to the people. This lead to the horse-drawn wagons called "Daguerreotype Salons" and then to portable, darkroom tents that allowed wet-plate photographers to make pictures outside. As technology advanced, the tents morphed into a single apparatus that combined both camera and darkroom, which allowed photographers to work anywhere. Afghanistan is one of the last places where street vendor photographers still use such a hand-made, wooden camera called kamra-e-faoree or "instant camera." Observing this practice lead photographer Lukas Birk & anthropologist Sean Foley to undertake the Afghan Box Camera Project." - Photo Technique Magazine introduction to an interview with Lukas Birk [more inside]
Crooked Timber on David Graeber
Crooked Timber's online seminar on David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years (previously, previously, previously and previously). [more inside]
An Interview with Yanis Varoufakis
The New Priesthood - "The hapless economist uses the same tools as acclaimed physicists and astronomers. She has trained for years to speak precisely the same language as them, to understand the same advanced mathematics, to deploy most complex statistical methods which are an essential part of the scientific toolbox. It is, understandably, incredibly difficult to accept that her work is a form of higher order superstition; a religion couched in the language of mathematics and statistics. Tragically, this is precisely what it is." [more inside]
On the Aftermath of Sexual Misconduct
Having heard way to many similar stories, Dr. Kate Clancy, author of the popular Scientific American blog Context and Variation, has recently run two accounts written by graduate students about their experiences with sexual harassment in the hopes that they will spark a wider discussion. The comments in the second article are uncharacteristically amazing and include several more women sharing their experiences. [more inside]
I Am tells the stories of 36 Sri Lankan elders, about their lives and work, and their connections to their hometown. ... With the movement of people away from their hometowns, particularly from Jaffna and Galle, I also spoke to the so called 'internal diaspora', about their longing for their hometowns and their sense of belonging to their adoptive homes."
The Science of Bones
The TV show Bones is loosely based on the life of forensic anthropologist and author Kathy Reichs. But how much science does the show get right? Can you really use the mandibular angle to figure out the sex of the victim? What about diagnosing Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva from a tiny bone fragment? Biological anthropologist Kristina Killgrove dissects the science of each episode on her blog, Powered by Osteons.
Precious Loss
The ruins of Gede are the remains of a mysterious lost city on the Swahili Coast of Kenya, located deep within the Arabuko Sokoke forest. The mystery of Gede (Gedi) is that it does not appear in any Swahili, Portuguese, or Arab written records and present day research has not yet been able to fully account for what actually happened to the city. The inhabitants were of the Swahili, an ancient trading civilization that emerged along the eastern coasts of Africa ranging from Somalia to Mozambique. Archaeological excavations carried out between 1948 and 1958 have uncovered porcelain from China, an Indian lamp, Venetian beads, Spanish scissors, and other artefacts from all over the world, demonstrating the occupants were engaged in extensive and sophisticated international trade. Questions still remain as to what caused the downfall of Gede, but by the 17th century, the city was completely abandoned to the forest and forgotten until the 1920s. Today, a National Museum, Gede's sister cities from the period are part of the ethnography based archeological work of Dr Chapurukha M. Kusimba of Chicago's Field Museum, whose lifework has thrown light on the precolonial heritage of the Swahili peoples.


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Jennifer Meets Her Man!
By Dave Elliott
"I had been following Dave Elliott's posts and advice on the Ultimate Love and Passion Facebook group, when one day I decided I was ready to connect with him and seek coaching for myself. I felt I was on the cusp of something big, new, adventurous, exciting, loving, flowing....it was around the corner but I still needed a little work and coaching in order to attract that love into my life.
Dave and I met for 10 sessions over the course of a few months and each and every time we spoke, I felt as though I was making tremendous progress and the universe was feeling it. Our last session was on June 27th and a very special man found me and contacted me on a dating site on July 21st. When I read his message and profile, I felt something different. It was a breath of fresh air and a feeling of instant happiness. I felt he was a male version of me and what I had been asking for. Could this be for real?
J and I spoke continuously throughout that week and had our first date on July 26th. What I felt when I heard from him and spoke to him was solidified when we met. It was a natural flow, I felt like I had known him forever. It was easy, fun, comfortable and the attraction was mutual. What I had known deep down inside was that I deserved him more than anything and all the work I put into personal development and being at my best was paying off. I kept believing in myself and that it would happen for me.
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Pinus contorta var. latifolia 'Chief Joseph'
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Green summer needles begin turning gold in the fall. By winter, this plant is absolutely brilliant gold. It was found in the Wallowa Mountains by Doug Wills of Sandy, OR during a hunting trip. He supposedly used an axe to dig it. This variety has proven to be difficult to propagate - yellow and some variegated conifers are typically more difficult to graft. Some growers recommend using Pinus contorta var. latifolia understock which eliminates winter burn. Chief Joseph (1840-1904) was the chief of the Wallow Valley Nez Perce tribe. He became famous in 1877 for leading a three and a half month defensive war against the US Army who was attempting to forcibly remove the Natives to a reservation in Idaho.
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Pax Americana
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The specter of decline and fall has long haunted the Western mind. For fifteen hundred years after the fall of Rome, the causes of its collapse have been examined. The most common lesson was that decline was integral to the system, just as death is integral to life: the responsibilities of a great power ultimately generate its own collapse. Edward Gibbon wrote:
the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and as soon as time, or accident, had removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight.
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