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Sea level monitoring in Mozambique
Nhampulo, C.I.S.
Ruby, J.
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Observing changes in the rise of relative sea level has resulted from the balance between the sea level rise due to the global warming of the planet, and the vertical displacements of the coast due to geological movements. The main objective of this paper is to outsource information about sea level monitoring in Mozambique, as part of a common global effort aiming to colect and analyse data that can help in understanding physical processes envolving ocean basins or oceans as a hole. Tidal stations at Maputo (lat. 25º 58.5' S, lon. 32º 34.2' E), Beira (lat.19º 49.4' S, lon. 34º 50.0' E), Quelimane (lat. 18º 00.3' S lon. 36º 58.2' E), Nacala (lat. 14º 27.8' S, lon. 40º 40.8' E), Inhambane (lat. 23º 52.0' S, lon.35º 22.6' E) Pemba (lat. 12º 58.0' S, long. 40º 29.3' E) has provided an important contribution in operational and research applications, being the last two stations, part of a global sea level observing network (GLOSS network). Consistent achievements as to the investigation o.....
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Monster: Sonic the Hedgehog
Robotnik: "Snively, what color is my heart?"
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Robotnik: "Exactly."Sonic the Hedgehog, though usually a lighthearted series, has a surprising amount of Complete Monsters.
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- Dr. Finitevus was once a fellow scientist of a race of prosperous echidnas, until a freak accident changed his looks and intelligence. Despite his new-found genius, he was declared mentally unstable and was to be put down. He escaped and later sold out his home to Dr. Robotnik. Everyone who had once lived there died later. Furthermore, this guy manipulated four whole sides in a war (Dingoes, Echidnas, and two Dark Legion factions) into providing the fuel for the fire of his master plan, which is him deciding the world is hopelessly corrupt and he wants to purify it...in fire. He, to this end, manipulated Dimitri, a head in a jar, into providing secrets and information, and then manipulated Knux into becoming Knuxerjak and starting a battle with his former friends after the whole corruption from power thing. Finitevus' expression at the scene where Knux becomes Enerjak shows he is not only mad, but completely delighted, even as his betrayed allies watch on and denounce him.
- The original Dr. Robotnik. During the Great War, he intended to test weapons he'd developed for the government on his own people and fled to the Mobian's side when he was to be punished for his actions. While acting as Warlord for King Acorn, he secretly captured a peaceful village of Mobian monkeys and utilized them in an early attempt to create mechanical slaves by surgically implanting cybernetics, and of that entire village only one survived the process. Afterwards, he sabotaged the roboticizer developed by Charles Hedgehog just as it was to be used on his wounded brother Jules, making him think he'd turned his own brother into a mindless drone. When Jules' wife discovered the truth, Robotnik had Jules toss her into the Roboticizer and transformed into a robian as well, orphaning Sonic and crushing Charles' spirit to the point of retiring from being a Science Minister to running a chilidog stand. He then did similarly to Tails' father Amadeus on the day of his birth, making it seem as though Amadeus could care less for his newborn son and subsequently shattering his wife's heart, throughout which Robotnik maintained a straight face. Afterwards followed his betrayal of King Acorn and the takeover of Mobius, during which countless families were broken and millions enslaved, and over the course of a decade, he'd wreak havoc upon planet Mobius, destroying the ecology and pushing more than a few mobian breeds to the brink of extinction. And just prior to his death, he displayed a deeply disturbing relish at the thought of murdering one of his own kind and was positively gleeful when he got the chance to use his latest and greatest weapon on a fellow overlander.
- Dark Enerjak is the tyrannical ruler of another dimension. He is actually a version of Knuckles the Echidna whose Chaos Powers went out of control, also fueled by a desire to make the world a better place. While he started out noble, he gradually went more and more insane as time went on, before he considered everyone an enemy. Among his atrocities are the sinking of a continent, the destruction of several enemy cities, such as Station Square, as punishment for their defiance, and the capture of his strongest opponents and ripping their souls out - victims including Sonic, Shadow, Tails, Amy, Sally, and all the villains, including the previously-mentioned Eggman and Finitevus. To re-affirm his evil, you get a full shot of many of his more prominent victims after he demonstrates the process on his newest captive. He turns the souls into robotic slaves known as "Prelates" with his power. His soulmate was one of his victims, and he made sure not to use her soul to form a Prelate until the final battle... he summoned her to fight their daughter, much to said daughter's disbelief. Dark Enerjak's mainly motivated by his own amusement, despite saying how much of a hero he is at other times. He allowed the Freedom Fighters to exist to give him something to do, sent soldiers to other dimensions to try and find new worlds to conquer, and continued to indulge Silver because of his power to actually give the living God a challenge. He derives joy from people's suffering, as seen with how he forces his own daughter to fight her mother and his former mate and how, upon seeing how upset Silver is at Enerjak using the souls to make his Prelate Army, he summons them all at once.
- General Kage Von Stryker is the leader of the Eggman-backed Dingo Regime. After ousting his father from power, Kage led his people in conquering Angel Island, imprisoning the Echidnas in what were clearly concentration camps, which led to countless deaths. He personally tortured Knuckles's father for the location of the Master Emerald, tried to wipe out the last echidna village on two occasions, and during the second attack boasted that he had crushed more Echidnas under his boot than he could remember.
- Hunter, as his name would indicate, would hunt down certain specimens of Mobian, and he debuted trying to do just this to Knuckles. Hunter revealed that not only did he hunt down Mobians, but that he would also claim their heads as trophies in the same manner of a real life hunter. After being defeated he would go on to work for Eggman and would become a gleeful participant in the genocide of the Echidna and other Angel Island inhabitants, capturing droves of poor souls to be sent to the Egg Grape Chambers, where they would perish in a slow, horrible fashion by having the very life drained of them. Though only a minor villain in the long run, his actions put him well beyond the point of redemption and into the realm of the truly malevolent, despite some pretensions earlier about having nobler characteristics.
- Shadow the Hedgehog: Big Bad Black Doom, the sinister leader of the Black Arms, essentially tried to torture every living thing on the Earth by paralyzing them with nerve gas from the Black Comet. After everything had been paralyzed, he and his offspring could then come in, and devour everything on Earth. This also included Shadow, who is who is Black Doom's biological son note . Even Dr. Robotnik himself is also disgusted by him.
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2006): Mephiles wanted to try and essentially eliminate Time itself, as well as the fact that he killed Sonic the Hedgehog for little reason than to make Elise cry so he could merge with Iblis and thus destroy time itself. Although Sonic got better, it's still quite the Moral Event Horizon. Its also implied that he was part of the reason why Shadow ended up sealed away by humanity as well as an unwilling Omega carrying out the deed (he had some resemblance to Shadow thanks to absorbing his shadow, so its not unreasonable that he would have done deeds that the populace will blame Shadow with), and he manipulated Silver into attempting to kill Sonic with the implied intention of destroying the past. If that's not enough, he also enjoyed the carnage he inflicted. He currently ranks highest in regards to being the most evil character in the series not only because of his motives simply being to wreck and destroy anything and everything he can for no reason other than For the Evulz at best, but also at how frighteningly close he came to succeeding in his goal to destroy everything, heavily damaging the time-space continuum.
- Big Bad Dr. Robotnik, unlike the version of him you'd see in other Sonic cartoons (or the games themselves), is much less pleasant. He is willing to deprive innocent creatures of their free will to get them to work for him, he is willing to turn formerly beautiful communities into severely polluted wastelands, and he doesn't show any remorse for any of his actions. He turns people into his robotic slaves if they don't obey him; they are quite aware of what's happening to them, and morally object to that which their robot bodies are forcing them to do. There are episodes in which some robots are carrying on secret conversations with their loved ones, from before roboticization, only to double over in apparent pain before proceeding to attack said loved ones because of the control Robotnik has over them. He even turns the ones who do obey him into robotic slaves.

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Corsair Neutron and Neutron GTX SSD review -
A little while ago a press-release reared its head, it was from Corsair announcing the Neutron series of SSDs. By itself that's nothing special as Corsair has a lot of SSDs in their line-up, however this series pops out, as it comes with a SATA3 controller we had never heard of. The controller is made by Link_A_Media Devices (LAMD) and honestly I expected nothing really special other then a new mid-range'ish SSD.
A couple of days ago two Neutron SSDs arrived in our lab for a quick run in our F1 SSD circuit and woaah nelly... these SSDs definitely perform above my initial expectations. Yeah see, in the SSD market things keep shifting and changing, including different types of NAND Flash storage ICs. SLC, MLC then synchronous and a-synchronous have been the topic of many a debate and discussion. A (relatively) new type of FLASH NAND memory is becoming quite popular for SSDs at the moment. Toggle NAND flash again promises to boost peak performance and at a very good price/performance ratio.
Toggle NAND flash also offers a faster maximum random 4k write performance of 85~90k IOPS according to Corsair benchmarks. So the two top dog NAND Flash types to get then are a-synchronous and Toggle NAND when it comes to SSDs.
Corsair now introduces the Neutron and Neutron GTX SSD series, and they are equipped with that LAMD controller. The GTX version is paired with Toggle NAND flash ICs from Toshiba whereas the 'regular' model comes with 'normal' ONFI Sync NAND memory. Both SATA3 SSDs offer serious performance, with the GTX taking the lead.
Both have features to benefit NAND endurance and reliability (called eBoost). This includes on-the-fly error correction and advanced NAND management technologies. The Neutron Series GTX drives also include Adaptive DSP technology, which maintains superior performance throughout the lifetime of the SSD. Both SSDs are extremely fast, and particularly suited to heavy workloads, where high random read and write are important. Theres no performance difference between compressed and uncompressed data too.
- Corsair's Neutron GTX 240GB offers 555 MB/s sequential reads 511 MB/s sequential writes with Max Random 4k Write (IOMeter 08) 85k~90k IOPS (4k aligned).
- The Corsair Neutron model will be a hint slower at Max Sequential R/W (ATTO): 555 MB/s sequential read 370 MB/s sequential write with Max Random 4k Write (IOMeter 08): 85k IOPS (4k aligned).
Each of the Neutron SSDs will be available in a two-fold of drive capacities: 120GB and 240GB, later on perhaps we'll spot more volume sizes as the controller can go up-to 1 TB.
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The Vick sneak preview
Cold, Hard Football Facts for Aug 27, 2009
We got a sneak preview of the Michael Vick Experience Thursday night – and it promises to be quite a show when the curtain rises in September.
Vick took the field for just six snaps during Philly's 33-32 win over Jacksonville. But he, and the Eagles, gave us a few little glimpses of what we anticipate will be the most exciting offense in football this year.
Play 1 – Vick lined up in the shotgun on the second snap of the game, with Donovan McNabb wide right. He made a short underhanded shovel pass to LeSean McCoy that picked up four yards.
Play 2 – Later in the first quarter, Vick again in the shotgun, with McNabb again out to the right. He ran to the left (rather hesitantly, too) for a 1-yard gain.
Play 3 – Same drive, Vick again in the shotgun: He completes a screaming 13-yard-pass to Hank Baskett for a first down at the Jacksonville 14.
Play 4 – On Philly's next possession, Vick, again in the shotgun, completes a long lateral to DeSean Jackson that gains nothing.
Play 5 – Vick completes a 2 yard pass to McCoy early in the second quarter.
Play 6 – Along the way, Vick lined up wide left as a decoy receiver, on a running play to the right.
All in all, it was hardly a spectacular day. Vick ran once for 1 yard. He completed 4 of 4 passes for 19 yards – but the first was essentially a glorified hand-off, and only one, the bullet to Baskett, showed any signs of life.But like all exhibition games, it's not so much what happened – but what we expect will happen in the future based upon the sneak preview.
In the case of Vick and the Eagles, it should like much like we anticipated when their deal came together a couple weeks ago: Vick gives the Eagles a whole slew of offensive options they've simply not had before, even with the presence of playmakers such as McNabb and Brian Westbrook (we did not see Vick line up as a running back behind McNabb Thursday night, but look for that formation sooner or later). In fact, the Eagles should have the most versatile offense in football this year – and they get that versatility out of a guy who's also going to be a pretty solid No. 2 quarterback and who's making chump change by NFL standards.
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Nestling in the grounds of a 17th Century country house in Martis, Bella Pineta provides luxurious accommodation in an italian roulotte called Little Rosa. Shaded under the pine trees and with six acres of undulating countryside to escape and relax in.
Leave your cares behind. Little Rosa is furnished with a double bed and simple storage. A table for two is set for dining inside the caravan. You have a little kitchen area fully equipped with a two ringed cooker and sink. The caravan has plenty of space. Inside it is luxuriously furnished and romantically lit. The caravan has plenty of space. We provide everything, just bring your heart and soul and romance. Little Rosa has a separate luxury private gas heated shower room, vanity basin and toilet facility all housed in a pretty log cabin. There is no electricity down in the caravan, it is lit by solar & battery lighting. Up at the house you have an area where there is a fridge, electric points and other utilities for your exclusive use. This corner ofSardinia is surrounded by nature, the sound of crickets, goat bells, night jars, and working sheep dogs are the only distraction. Bella Pineta Vintage Caravan is a nature lovers retreat and is suited to those of you who want to be based in the countryside but also want to be near Sardinia's stunning beaches. Private terrace with dining facilities -Complimentary Welcome pack - Breakfast upon request Mosquito netting
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Bella Pineta is situated just outside of the historical village of Martis with stunning views of the medieval chiesa St Pantaleo and the dramatic Mount Limbara & Montiruju range.You have 6 acres of untamed countryside to wander and relax in. We have a fully stocked orchard and are proud to sport almond, walnut and many fig trees. The house and grounds are a 10 minute stroll/2 minute drive up to the village amenities. There are delightful walks to the Martis Waterfalls and the intriguing Petrified Forest. The village has several bars (one of which serves meals) two supermarkets, pizzeria, a bank, pharmacy, post office, two museums, many little churches and several little shops. Do not expect a lively village, Martis is known for its tranquil atmosphere unless there is a festival and then, well, they will show you how to celebrate!
Martis is a tiny remote village full of history and stunning views. You are a 25 minute drive to the beach of Lu Bagnu and the coast roads along to most of the tourist resorts. The crystal waters and powder white sand are truly the envy of the Mediterranean. We are 30 minutes from the city of Sassari and 50 minutes to Alghero. We are sorry, Bella Pineta is not suitable for children or the infirm as the terrain is wild and remote. 1 hour from Alghero airport - 1hour 20 mins from Olbia airport
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Ahmad Dixon, S: Dixon, once a four-star recruit, has played on some pretty bad defenses in Waco, but he's carved out a nice career for himself with the Bears. Playing a hybrid LB/S position, Dixon gets a chance to roam the field and make plays in all facets of the game. It showed in 2011, when he made 89 tackles and 5.5 TFL, but also broke up three passes and returned an INT to the house for a touchdown. So far this year, he's tied for the team lead with 73 tackles, and his four TFL, one sack and two INTS speaks to his all-around playmaking skills. With size lay the wood and speed to keep up with receivers, Dixon's the name to worry about in a struggling secondary.
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I have a 1997 nissan pickup (4 cylander 5 speed) truck. It seems to have a bit of trouble staying idle. The rpms will go up and down for a while then it will idle back to normal. The big problem when my check engin light came on. The light came on and whent off for about 2 days then my truck died. I jump started it and had my battery checked (it was fine). My brother ( also my mechanic) said it was the radio. It would stay lit up when the truck was off, so we put in a new radio. Directly after that we jump started my truck again and every thing was very dim(we did this at night) he followed me home and on the highway my truck puttered and the lights got super dim my speedometer was flipping out then all of my lights on the dash flipped out and then my truck died we rolled into a waffle house and parked it. My brother said it was the EGR valve. So the next morning we replaced 2 things one was a egr regulator I think ( it was a small computer looking chip that was located under my air filter) and we also replaced the egr thing itself ( that sucked btw). While we were doing all this we desided it would be good to test the alternator the belt was a little loose any way(it was fine). We then put it all back together. And made sure it was all secure then and drove it around the block. The check engin light was on but the problum seem to be fixed and he left to go back to California. The next morning when I was driving to school my truck seemed to only have problems at 2000 rpms. It felt like I was constantly taking my foot off the gas then accelorating again but only at rpms around 2000. I stoped and gave it a little gas in nutral to get to 2000 rpms and ONLY at 2000 it acted as if I was reving the engin. Also my rpms went back to going crazy when im idle. The idle thing is an on again off again ocurance but the rpms thing at 2000 drives me crazy. The check engin light is still on but the truck runs fine other than that. I dont even have to jump start it any more
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The group will kick off March 18 with a waffle ball and baseball clinic and registration event beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the YMCA, 2000 W. Dean Rd. in Temperance.
Rick Morris, the creator of the league, said he is hopeful additional partnerships will take place between the league and the YMCA to offer services to children with disabilities.
Mr. Morris said he plans to launch a baseball league May 12 for children with disabilities. Games would be played Bedford Church of the Nazarene, 7866 Douglas Rd. in Lambertville.
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i have been getting soooooo many blackscreens & xbox freezes with this version hotfix than any other... and i'm getting them way more often in the past couple of days.
I haven't had a problem. Maybe the problem may be your Xbox?
i've never had any of those. might be your xbox
yes you are right. I have too. I have a 320gb Gears of War3 360 slim doing the same thing.
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It's not Xboxs. A friend and I are having our Xboxs freeze too. Only CoD that it happens on and since the DLC update.
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Alignment of deduced amino-acid sequences and three-dimensional models of FDS and CDS. (A) Multiple sequence alignment of FDS and CDS. The amino-acid positions are numbered relative to CDS in P. cinerariifolium (I13995). The consensus sequence highlights the five conserved domains identified in FDS. Sites under positive selection identified by PAML are indicated by asterisks (*sites with p>80%, **sites with p>95%, ***sites with p>99%). Amino-acids involved in the binding and catalysis of substrates [29-31,60] are marked by blue arrows. Red triangles show four sites involved in the binding and catalysis of substrates in FDS and mutated in CDS. Species name abbreviations: Aas, Achillea asiatica; Atr, Artemisia tridentata; Aag, Aster ageratoides; Can, Capsicum annuum; Cas, Centella asiatica; Cin, Cichorium intybus; Cla, Chrysanthemum lavandulifolium; Csc, Cynara scolymus; Glu,Gentiana lutea; Gan, Gerbera anandria; Han, Helianthus annuus; Lvu, Leucanthemum vulgare; Hsa, Homo sapiens (NP_001129294) (The human sequence is included for alignment since it was used as a template in the homology modeling); Mpi, Mentha x piperita; Pci, Pyrethrum cinerariaefolium; Pco Pyrethrum coccineum; Sly, Solanum lycopersicum; Tmo, Taraxacum mongolicum; Tof,Taraxacum officinale. (B) Three-dimensional model of FDS (PDB: 2F8Z). R351 and F239 are involved in IPP-binding in FDS. The red dashed lines represent hydrogen bonds. The yellow sphere indicates water. (C) Distribution of positively-selected sites in the homology model of CDS. CDS has a structural model very similar to FDS: the arrangement of 10 core helices around a large central cavity. The sites indentified as positively-selected (p>80%) were clustered in the large central cavity (shown in pink).
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'The Sessions' is a surprisingly dignified film about a man in an iron lung seeking intimacy
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Rating: R
When: Opens Friday
Where: Landmark Hillcrest & La Jolla Village
Running time: 1 hour, 35 minutes
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The international professional surrogates association has about 30-50 members, down from a peak of 200-300
One sure way to tell that "The Sessions" is bound to be an exceptional movie is that the subject of it sounds like nothing anyone would want to see. The story of a man in an iron lung who decides that he wants to experience sex in his life could not have gotten funding on its premise alone. Obviously, there had to be something there, and there is.
"The Sessions" is moving. At times, it's even erotic, which is unexpected to say the least. It sends viewers out of the theater with a heightened sense of the physical and a real feeling for all the things that sex means in human life.
"The Sessions" goes beyond what movies usually deal with when they talk about love — attraction, the mating dance, the happily-ever-after. It's about people's most basic need to connect, express and feel through sexuality. The film is raw and adult and, in the least somber way imaginable, unusually dignified.
Based on the real-life story of Mark O'Brien, a Bay Area poet and journalist who died in 1999, it dramatizes a period in the 1980s when, at 38, O'Brien hired a sex therapist. Among the ancillary revelations of "The Sessions," for those of us previously in ignorance, is that hands-on sex therapy is nothing like prostitution.
Part therapist, part sex partner, part life coach, the therapist (Helen Hunt) ministers to a severely disabled patient and makes him feel as if he's part of the world. She helps bring him into the world. If anything this is like missionary work.
As played by John Hawkes, O'Brien is a sweet and witty person who wants to get as much out of life as he can.
A polio victim, he can only move his head and needs the iron lung to breathe, though he can go as long as three hours outside of it. He is about as physically limited as a person can be, but with all the longings, even the romantic longings, of an able-bodied person.
Written and directed by Ben Lewin, "The Sessions" is most impressive in the way its tone harmonizes a whole range of different scenes and moods. The scenes between the devout O'Brien and his parish priest (William H. Macy), in which he discusses his plans to pursue sex therapy, are funny in a straightforward comic way. But the sex therapy scenes — the sessions that give the film its title — are clinical, explicit and wrenching.
People will leave the theater talking about Hawkes, about the role's physical difficulty, Hawkes' emotional nakedness, and the way he conveys, just in his demeanor, a history of lifelong disability. But this is a movie with two remarkable performances, and in "The Sessions" Hunt gets her best screen opportunity in years.


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|Figure 1.1 A concept map showing a graphical representation of the content of this book. Concept maps should be read from top down. Arrowheads may be omitted except on horizontal or upward linkages (p. 4).
|Figure 2.1 Our meanings for experiences are a composite of our thinking, feeling, and acting (p. 10).
|Figure 2.2 The Five Elements that comprise an educational event: learner, teacher, knowledge, evaluation, and context. All elements are present in an educative event and combine to construct or reconstruct the meaning of experience (p. 11).
|Figure 2.3 Teacher and each learner has his or her own perspectives on the five elements operating in an educative event. The challenge is to reach a shared perspective on each element (p. 14).
|Figure 2.4 Briefly stated, this is my theory of education (p. 15).
|Figure 3.1 Characteristics of human learning showing variation on a continuum from very rote to highly meaningful. Only high levels of meaningful learning lead to creative production (p. 20).
|Figure 3.2 A concept map dealing with the superordinate concept HISTORY showing second- and third-level subordinate concepts (p. 21).
|Figure 3.3 My definition for Concept (p. 22).
|Figure 3.4 A representation of the three memory systems involved in learning. Note that each system interacts with the other, both limiting and facilitating the acquisition of information. From Novak, 1980. Reproduced with permission. Copyright © 1980 by National Association of Biology Teachers (p. 23).
|Figure 3.5 Humans have three distinct but interacting systems for learning, each of which has its own forms of information storage. Meaningful learning underlies development of cognitive structure, which strongly influences our affective and psychomotor learning (p. 26).
|Figure 3.6 An early concept map constructed to show the structure of a novel. Novels can be compared and critiqued using such a conceptual framework. In later maps, lines linking concepts are always labeled to show specific relationships between concepts; that is, to form propositional statements. Reproduced with permission from Moreira, 1977 (p. 28).


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Obviously this isnt something I'm doing now, I may not ever do it. I just want to know when other parents out there are planning on starting spanking if at all. I also Want to know what other means of discipline you are using if you dont plan on spanking. If you have other kids and you arent spanking how is what you do working? Thanks I'm a ftm and im trying to figure out how I would like to discipline.
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As for what form of discipline I plan to use, I'm not really sure. I don't feel we are quite at that point yet but when we get there I will look into some non-violent forms.
I see spanking (not ABUSE, but actual SPANKING) as something to use in extreme situations.
My sister has a 19 year old daughter who is very well adjusted, well behaved, and successful. She has a great relationship with her mother. She was spanked exactly one time: my sister swatted her on the butt once after she ran into the street in front of a car as a toddler. She didn't do it hard, and the kid was still wearing a diaper at the time so it didn't hurt....she said she never planned to do it, she was just so scared she reacted.....but it scared my niece and she never again went near the street without an adult holding her hand.
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We will NEVER spank our LO. I come from a child development background, parents should lead by example and model behaviors they want their children to follow. Yes, you can do this even with an infant. Also, redirecting a child when they have gotten into something they shouldn't.
Montessori Philosophy & R.I.E. (Resources for Infant Educarers) are some excellent child development Methods to try. Google to find articles on these two philosophies.
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An opulent former merchant's house (decorated with Nihon-ga style paintings, marble floors, and antiques preserved in glass display cases) serves as the backdrop for this teppanyaki, or iron grill-style restaurant.
Contemporary Japanese cuisine, served in an elegant setting, features farm fresh, organic, and seasonal ingredients.
Sashimi and sake bar with fish sourced from the Izu Peninsula. Konpeki No Umi means "The Azure Sea," and the restaurants—quite fittingly—brings in over 1,500 varieties of seafood over the year.
Steaming bowls of vegan noodles, piled high with crisp vegetables and savory toppings, are served in this busy ramen joint inside Tokyo Station. Try a side of fried gluten veggie meat over rice, or a small curry rice bowl if you have a big appetite.
This eight-seat sushi restaurant in Roppongi's Ark Hills is one of the finest in the world. Chef Saito strikes a perfect flavor balance between rice, fish, and salt, allowing each tender bite to burst with freshness and flavor.
Exclusive kaiseki (Japanese haute cuisine) restaurant with admittance by invite only: but well-connected hotel concierges may be able to wrangle a reservation.
Sip coffee in the presence of the wise ones in this petting zoo-coffee shop hybrid: one of the latest animal cafes to appear in Japan. It's literally a cafe, full of owls. Hold, pet, or just stare at the birds, ranging from the miniature to Great Horned type.
Classic Edo-style sushi from Mitsugi-San. The master urges customers to eat the delectable (and reasonably-priced omakase courses) in whatever fashion pleases them most—no fuss or pomp necessary.
Shojin ryori (vegetarian Buddhist monk cuisine) is served inside this temple precinct at Mt. Takao's Yakuoin. Walk-in meals are available at lunchtime, or a more elaborate, multi-course menu can be ordered by phone with at least one day's notice.
At this Michelin star sushi restaurant, the chef serves only what is in season and looks best at the market that day. Chef Masuda trained under Jiro Ono, but puts his own twist on his jewel-like morsels.
A little shop by and for espresso aficianados, as each shot is pulled by Katsu Tanaka, the owner and operator. Caffeine freaks who want to get deep about crema and acidity will love this spot in funky Shimokitazawa.
Organic and local cafe in the rock-and-roll neighborhood of Shimokitazawa that serves rustic, vegetable-focused food in an old, converted house.
Upscale restaurant, housed in a 19th-century sake brewery, that serves traditional kaiseki featuring house-made tofu: deep-fried, smooth, or simmered in ginger. Tokyo Tower views and surrounding classical gardens can be enjoyed from the 55 private tatami dining rooms.


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There have been 165 serious automobile accidents in 13 years on this road. Consider also that at least three of those thirteen years, the roadway has been closed to automobiles.
Although this is one of my favorite bicycle routes, I've avoided riding this road after experiencing a handful of close calls with speeding motorcycles and teenage F1 wannabes. There is at least one cyclist who was a victim of a hit and run within the past few years.
Most recently, a teenager died as the car she was riding in plunged over the edge and fell down a steep cliff. This article reexamines the purpose of that roadway and if is should be closed. GMR has no destinations, just windy roads and beautiful mountain views.
My friend discussed this issue with an LA Sheriff and the deputy could give no reasonable answer to keep it open to traffic. He preferred it to remain closed.
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Standards and Baselines need to be shaken up. Not that this happened on Voyager..
Anyway Season 4 hair. A lot of people prefer Season 5 which was a bit longer but I'm a Season 4 girl. I have a flickr folder called Season 4 Hair, such is my devotion.
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THIS IS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT!!! There is no GODCRAM reason for not using a simple style like this from JUMPSTREET. She is GORGEOUS here.. strong.. powerful.. Someone id follow into the gates of ...sickbay..
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There has to be some type of marketing if a product is to remain viable, simple fact in today's world. If there is no marketing, there will be no product. It may be the best paper in the world for printing, but if no one knows about it, how long will it be in production?
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Veena Malik Project
The six body-painting based art pieces below were released at a London exhibition on the 16th of August 2013. According to a cautious estimate by a Pakistani journalist Arshad Farooq, this project has been seen at least by around 300 million people world wide. This, most likely, makes them the most seen visual works by a Finnish artist. Veena Malik is a Bollywood actress, who has been a super star since the age of 15.
Main piece: Flower of Life
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"What occurs is a reinvention of cultural norms as we understand them" – Aisha Farooq on Artevo / Veena Malik Project on DesiBlitz 8/2013
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The multi-talented and famous Bollywood actress Miss Veena Malik took a week to fly to Finland to collaborate with Vesa in September 2012. The whole thing was inspired by a video, where Veena had to defend herself as a woman and an artist. The works are currently on display for the first time at Helsinki Capital Partners.
The project philosophy is based on studying the similarities between cultural phenomena. The works were influenced by the work of Ken Wilber and Alan Watts and Joseph Campbell to mention a few.
Here is the latest article & video about the new works and the pricing system, with which the works are sold, in the finnish Taloussanomat (Economic Newspaper) 15.10.2013
During her stay in Finland, as well as doing the actual works we met with politicians, other artists, journalists as well as managed to escape to the countryside for some inspiration.
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WASHINGTON -- As memories of the Cold War fade, like photographs bleached by sunlight, few remember the Brezhnev Doctrine. It was enunciated by Leonid Brezhnev in Warsaw in November 1968 as a retrospective justification for the Soviet-led invasion of Prague the previous August by Warsaw Pact forces to halt Czechoslovakia's liberalization. The doctrine was supposed to guarantee that history would be directional, controlled by a leftward-clicking ratchet. It asserted a Soviet right to intervene to protect socialism wherever it was imposed.
We are already testing whether President Obama and other statists who have given his administration and this Congress their ideological cast have a doctrine analogous to Brezhnev's. Having aggressively, even promiscuously, blurred the distinction between public and private sectors with improvised and largely unauthorized interventions in the economy, will they ever countenance a retreat of the state? Or do they have an aspiration that they dare not speak? Do they hope state capitalism will be irreversible -- that wherever government has asserted the primacy of politics, the primacy will be permanent?
They say not, but they say many things they probably do not believe. (That a government-run "public option" health insurance would not extinguish or even harm private insurance; that cap-and-trade carbon regulations will raise energy costs without injuring the economy; that taxing Peter to subsidize Paul's purchase of a new car is a sound basis for economic growth; that a 85 percent unspent stimulus has routed the recession, etc.) Two legislative proposals are revealing the administration's real intentions regarding government ownership of companies.
The "Auto Stock for Every Taxpayer Act" drafted by Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican, would have required the Treasury Department to distribute to individual taxpayers -- evenly, to the approximately 120 million who filed 2008 returns -- all the stock the government holds in General Motors (61 percent) and Chrysler (8 percent). The legislation also would have prohibited using any more TARP (Troubled Assets Relief Program) funds for GM or Chrysler. And the legislation would have prevented government from influencing corporate decisions for social, energy or environmental policy purposes.
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I finally had a chance to sit down and watch "The Tressaurian Intersection."
"The Tressaurian Intersection"
Teleplay by Dennis Russell Bailey
Story by Jimm Johnson
Josh Johnson
Dennis Russell Bailey
Maurice Molyneaux*
Directed by Scott Cummins
It's been 10 years since we got our first tasty morsels of the Johnson brothers' fan film saga
Starship Exeter
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Star Trek
fans, thirsty for more and at a time when
Star Trek
as we knew it was whimpering, on its last legs (and which ultimately died a miserable death in 2005).
Some of these fans were unable to grasp the reasons why or how such a delay - seemingly endlessly extended and thus
the misery of said "fans" before it finally turned into outright hostility and negativity.
"It'll never be done,"
said some of you. Even the "big" names in the fan film community chimed in, with contributors
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constantly and patiently, it should be noted, reiterating with as much information as they could, what the hold-up was.
And yet still the negativity continued. I won't point any fingers, but you all know who you are. You might ask yourself why I'm recounting this snapshot of the long winding road
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has traveled to get where it is today, a few days after finally releasing -in it's glorious entirety- the complete, edited and final cut of "The Tressaurian Intersection." I'll get to that in at the end of this review. Let's get the nitty-gritty stuff done first.
Shock of shocks, I'm gonna talk about attribution. If you note above, there's an asterisk next to the title mentions at the head of this review. You might be asking why that ampersand and the two "ands" are in bold and underlined. It's to point out that these choices were made for a very specific reason -- likely, as both Dennis and Maurice are well aware -- the ampersand signifies that the Johnson brothers worked on their story together as a writing team, whereas the "and" indicates that though Dennis and Maurice worked on the stories themselves as well, they did so separately from the initial writing the Johnson brothers did, and likely separately from each other as well.
They all receive the "Story By" credit for this piece of work, while Dennis alone gets the "Teleplay By" title, as he was the one who wrote the final shooting script used by the entire production. As it seems
Starship Exeter
was attempting to mimic the production of a weekly television series, this all works properly. The script here is not titled as a "Screenplay" as it would be in a feature film, nor is there a "Written By" credit (which would be appropriate, if only one person had done the story and script writing.)
For the first time, I can honestly say that I am fairly certain the credits have been done right here. Presented in the correct order, properly attributing each job to the person who performed them. In other words, there's no petty, passive-aggressive vendettas playing out in the chyrons. The drama is on screen, where it should be.
This might seem like an extremely "inside baseball" kind of nitpicky thing to point out, but just about every last fan film on the web has gotten their titles wrong. Certainly, it's nothing to crucify anyone over but it's worth pointing out when someone gets it right. More importantly, getting such a simple thing like this right makes incredible strides toward the pros taking your production seriously.
The acting is about on par for what we got in "The Savage Empire." Jimm Johnson is appropriately gruff as Captain Garrovick, Josh Johnson is endearingly intellectual and slightly weird as B'Fusulek, Michael Buford slips right back into the role of Cutty, easily one of the best (if not the highlight) of the series as Exeter's caffeine-deprived but ever-loyal security chief, and Holly Guess is dazzling as Jo Harris, the first officer and ship's scientist, regularly holding her own against the ship of boys and pushing for the inexperienced Vandi Richards (Elizabeth Wheat) to have her chance to study under Garrovick's wing.
I recall the excitement at Richards' inclusion hack in 2004. Fans were of course enamored of her immediately, but I also recall Dennis mentioning off-hand to me that year that the intention was always to kill her off. Firstly, I'm pleased to report, Dennis, that I've managed to keep that secret for 10 long years! Secondly, having finally seen the episode in its entirety, I must apologize for my own inner doubts about that story choice. Seeing her inexperience played against Garrovick's battle-worn and embittered outlook and how her sacrifice ultimately helps Garrovick resolve his own anguish and issues was not only a brilliant callback to "The Cage" but especially just well played. Wheat's performance here is touching and admirable. It says a lot about the actor's performance, the script that actor has to work with, and the direction that actor is given for a guest character to elicit such a response from the audience, and in this case I believe everyone hit it out of the park.
It's almost impossible not to compare this episode to
Phase II
's recent offering, "Kitumba" for several reasons. To spare you all, I'll only focus on the two that really matter (to me, anyway.)
The obvious element would be the use of the shuttlecraft as a diversion. Both episodes use an empty shuttlecraft to distract their predatory enemies in order for our heroes to escape their current predicament. When I wrote about this gimmick in my review of "Kitumba" several months ago, I pointed out how it strained the credibility and science of the situation, as it seemed to me that a tiny, non-warp-capable craft would be unable to generate an explosion not only equivalent to that of a starship dozens of times larger but also an explosion that could fool the Klingons on their own turf. Even the visual of the explosion itself was presented as if it happened in real-time and as if we were seeing it with our own eyes (and not, say, via a Klingon viewscreen.)
Here, in "The Tressaurian Intersection," clever editing leads us to believe Cutty is piloting the shuttle. What's his mission? Is he on a suicide run? What can he possibly do with
a shuttle in this "weirdspace" ? Even when it becomes quite apparent that the shuttle is empty, on autopilot and in fact "rigged," the camera lingers through the cabin until it stops at the Tressaurian beacon. Aha!
I see what you did there!
The (apparently elusive) difference between what
Phase II
tried (and, in my not so humble opinion, failed) to do versus what
Starship Exeter
successfuly employed here is in creating the tension on screen. The anticipation. The emotion between me as a viewer and what was being presented to me in the story. Clever editing can achieve that. Proper editing can achieve it spectacularly. But it also speaks to my second point and illustrates this second point as well:
Part of the reason this gimmick didn't work in "Kitumba" is because unlike in "Kitumba," the writers and story aren't trying to throw everything in the kitchen sink into the episode. Time and again it seems when
Phase II
releases a new episode, I find myself rolling my eyes over and over again at how many "dots" are being connected in the
Star Trek
universe, as if it's some sort of brilliant form of storytelling. Oh look, it's Tasha Yar's grandmother! Or playing figurative "Twister" with Klingon politics and government leadership so it will all align nicely with the
era. This kind of thing is something that
Phase II
in particular seems to revel in and has shown no sign of stopping. Which is fine, if that's their bread and butter. But it's also tiresome. It's lazy storytelling. And it shrinks the expansive
Star Trek
universe we have all grown to love. Perhaps it's because of the time when "The Tressaurian Intersection" was written and produced, before James Cawley's team began farming out episodes left and right, or the old days of fan films when there were really only a half dozen of them being made, but I found it endlessly refreshing that not only was this adventure not another group of fans trying to "be" Kirk and Spock (there's probably something worth studying alone, there, psychologically), not trying to further the adventures of the Enterprise, but also simply that with the exception of the inclusion of the Tholians, every single bit of this episode is entirely stand-alone, entirely separate and entirely new to the
Star Trek
universe. There's no distant relative of Picard showing up to cause trouble. There's no one-off appearance of Q or a confrontation with the Borg. And, mercifully, there are no hamfisted references -- oblique or direct-- toward the offical productions. The Exeter crew lives in that universe, yes, but they live in their own lives too. They have their own missions to complete and aren't spending their days gossiping about Kirk and company.
I mean come on! All these years later, I don't think I've ever been as thrilled watching one of these shows as I was when Richards beamed the Tressaurian out in to space as Exeter sped away to safety, just in the nick of time. How many times have we seen that before? I'll tell you: NONE. Those slow zooms on everyone as the ship gets away -- ratcheting up the tension again -- was masterful. Is it pulpy? Absolutely. But you know what -- the original
Star Trek
was pulpy too. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Watching this all play before me, after the gluttonous deluge of self-referential, crossover-heavy fan films of the past few years was an entire and all-encompassing delight. I had always hoped the
team would finish this tale and I knew deep down they'd find a way to do so. I dared not hope that it would be the best fan film I'd ever have seen but that's exactly what it has turned out to be: Exactly what a fan film should be. Better stated, I would submit that it is the apex of what a great fan film can be and also what it should be. Is it art? I don't know if any of us are qualified to determine that definitely. But it is entertaining. It does keep you on the edge of your seat. And it does finish nicely. "The Tressaurian Intersection" reminds us what filmmaking can be once we stop concerning ourselves with pew pew space battles and perfect uniforms and flashy celebrity stunt casting and instead focus on the story and on the visual storytelling process. I can watch the Dodgers play baseball just about anytime I want but I'd rather play a game myself with my friends. Why? For the love of the game. You can say then that other productions "got it right" till your green in the face. But for my money, for my time, for my interest -
Starship Exeter
has them all beat.
Merciful Zeus -- someone finally got sound right! Words almost can't describe what a pleasure it is to watch one of these things without straining to hear what people are saying, without throwing my hands up in the air at the amateur dismissal of how important sound can be, or just the genuine pleasure of not beind distracted by uneven sound editing throughout the entire episode. The visual effects are a bit dated but considering the constraints on the production team they are quite impressive and strike me as being something we might just see done in the '60s.This shot alone --
-- had me enthralled after the teaser was released. Holy shit, they went there! we said. What could have done this? And why? Well we finally found out and it was well worth the wait, all the way to the end of the show, where we still got stunning imagery:
While we're on the subject of editing, I'd like to point out a brilliant moment where the production team not only demonstrated they understood but also proved the value of "the line" in filmmaking. Jo Harris has beamed aboard the remains of the Kongo, examining the Tholian prototype. Circling around the device, she then starts on the right side of our screens, scanning the device...
...and as she scans, she makes her way around the device, toward screen left.
We never see Harris (or anyone, in this scene) go beyond that 180 degree line. We don't see the camera go there either, to shoot the opposite direction (toward us, the viewers.) It's an incredibly simple thing that must be adhered to if you want to maintain your narrative and visual cohesion in filmmaking.
The other day, George Takei re-tweeted a video (produced by two brothers as well) of Harry Potter getting into a brawl with a Luke Skywalker. Wands and lightsabers, wizard fire and force-lighting... the whole nine yards. It's quite impressive, and you can watch it here:
Take note however that at about 2:04 in the video, they blatantly ignore the 180 degree line:
Harry Potter uses his wizard's fire, aiming from screen left to the right, at Luke Skywalker.
Luke, in turn, uses force-lightning, also aiming from screen left to the right, at Harry Potter.
The next shot in the sequence returns to Harry being on the left, but Luke is now on the right. Visually, it makes no sense.
Harry, after the blowback on screen left:
Luke, also on screen left, picking up his lightsaber...
...walking toward Harry, who is now on screen right...
And --spoiler alert-- running through "the Boy Who Lived."
It's this kind of inarticulate juxtaposition that can take one out of the viewing experience. The Exeter team got it right. Most fan films don't. Be one of the fan films that DOES get it right!
I'm not going to be that guy who defines this for you. You all know how to use Google. The point I will make however is that the starship Exeter is brilliantly portrayed in this episode. The office is lived in. The conference room has data disks everywhere -- this is a
and nobody has time to file away computer disks. It's raining on Corinth IV, and appropriately the landing party gets wet. It's little touches like this that bring the ship to life.
Framing and composition was especially striking throughout; the DP on the production clearly knew what they were doing (vis a vis the 180 line), not relying solely on over the shoulder back-and-forths relentlessly, framing the shots of lone characters skillfully and I would even say iconically:
I'd follow this guy into the gates of hell. Note how the framing of Garrovick's face, the lighting on him and behind him, and his gaze toward just off screen depict every range of feeling in the scene -- rage, grief, the desire for revenge. A skillful director who knows how to use light and frame his/her shots can work wonders for you. Clearly Scott Cummins is one of those directors.
Here, we even have shots where multiple characters appear, at varying depths of field, further establishing the three-dimensional plane which we are seeing and giving this "world" more realism:
There is even a lovely bit of narrative symmetry that bookends the episode, recreating a famous shot (a conceptual painting of the would-be bridge of the aborted, official "Star Trek: Phase II" television series that became
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
in 1979) of the bridge at the beginning of the show and then repeating it later, during the mad dash through that "weirdspace" :
One of the final shots of the film, this one stood out as especially impressive as it highlighted, I thought, Garrovick's quiet loneliness as a starship commander, his private anguish over Richards' death, and the emotional and professional distance he must maintain from each member of his crew to be a good leader. Shooting the scene from a jib from high above not only shows off the stark (but impressive) set used but isolates Garrovick, even in this place where he is ultimately in his element (and wearing his usual command gold tunic). Beautiful:
Finally, the thing I think I enjoyed the most were the subtle, not-quite-perfect-but-just-close-enough callbacks to
You may have missed them; you might have spotted them right away. But they're definitely there, and they speak to a larger concern and point that "The Tressaurian Intersection" demonstrates effectively. This isn't the Enterprise. It's not
Star Trek
, literally. It's not Kirk, Spock and McCoy, and because it isn't those things, the production team divorced themselves from the comparisons, the criticisms, the nerd-rage, and the endless debates. It gave Jimm and Josh Johnson the freedom to create their own little pocket universe in the
Star Trek
world to play in, to create in, and to entertain us in.
I'll wrap this up by finishing what I started to say at the beginning. Recounting the long and arduous road it has been for this production to at last see the light of day as a completed film highlights the tenacity, the good nature, and the craftsmanship that went into creating it. I'm pleased I was able to contribute in a small, peripheral (though, ultimately minor) way to this film but the end result has been simply magnificent.
Too often it seems, when a new fan film is launched, if it ever sees the light of day, it winds up just being an expensive vanity project for whoever is playing the captain. Sometimes those fan films can turn out to be marvelous in their execution and sometimes they don't. We likely will not see this crew in action again as we have seen them here. Real life is cruel that way, and while I would eagerly welcome more adventures with Captain Garrovick and his gallant crew, perhaps it's for the best that this is it. I don't know. I hear buzz from my friends in the fan film community all the time about how there is such infighting, drama and panic over minor things.
Starship Exeter
harks back to a time when none of that existed, at least not as we know it now.
I think, for me, the rest of the fan film community has just become so overwhelmingly joyless and there's a distinct sense of joy I detect while watching
-- it's not about YouTube views, it's not about Rod Roddenberry endorsing one group over another, or landing Takei or Koenig for an episode. It's just about
having fun and making a good movie.
For all the philosophy, for all the allegory, for all the progress the original
Star Trek
came to be about and came to engender for so many of us, first and formost it was there to entertain. And "The Tressaurian Intersection" is absolutely entertaining, in ways some fan films these last few years have consistently proven they just don't know how to do. To have faced such adversity and to have persevered in the face of it after a decade of nerd-rage and whining is impressive enough. To have done this so eloquently and with such style and grace is amazing.
Starship Exeter
has captured what fan films should be about. This is
Star Trek
. Not the show specifically,
but what the show was about.
Starship Exeter
is more than just a labor of love - it's the culmination of why we make fan films.
So, in short - word to the nerds: it can be done. It has been done. And the best part is, it can be done again.
Congratulations to the cast and crew for such a wonderful and entertaining tale, particularly the Johnson brothers, without whom we would not be here discussing these fine adventures.
As well, an extra special gratitude and thanks to our own Dennis Bailey and Maurice Molyneaux. I don't know how you guys did it but somehow you managed to put up with all the complaints, the whining, the doubts, and the fans with little faith who couldn't resist poking fun and taking those cheap shots at you guys. It can't have been easy, these last 10 years, nearly being driven away from this site by all the negativity from the shortsightedness of impatient and immature fans, but your moment to smile and celebrate is finally here and it is a moment well deserved. A grand slam if ever there was one and to which I say a hearty and genuine "Bravo!" The haters will always be out there, but you've proven that the impossible can be possible as long as you have faith.
As J. Michael Straczynski is so fond of saying, "Faith manages."
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