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Now lets be careful here. We cannot all "descend" on the place en masse. Elsewise they'll have to do to this DR what they do with the Lauscaux (sp?) Cave and create a "re-creation" for visitors!
I agree with Roger going in first. A picture of him at the chair will look contemporary to 1855!
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The Inasmuch Foundation has distributed $2.74 million in grants to 52 Oklahoma organizations.
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DrJinh posted...The crimson set is in Blight town.Check this video around 5:16 for the exact locationhttp://www.youtube.com/user/hsypersakura2009#p/c/580878828E255B4E/23/TzAnO6jDpRw
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was awarded to three astronomers "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". More generally, observations over the past decade strongly favour a 'concordance' model in which the Universe is flat and contains approximately 5% ordinary atomic matter, 25% Cold Dark Matter and 70% Dark Energy. The Dark Energy paradigm and its extensions pose fundamental questions about the origins of the Universe: is Dark Energy an actual ingredient, or should Einstein's gravity theory be modified?
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DES "First Light": Zoomed-in image from the Dark Energy Camera of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365, in the Fornax cluster of galaxies, which lies about 60 million light years from Earth. Credit: The DES Collaboration
DES optical corrector overseen by (L-R): DES Optical Scientist, Dr. Peter Doel; UCL's Provost, Malcolm Grant; and DES:UK Chair, Prof. Ofer Lahav
Instrument technician David Brooks and then PhD student Michelle Antonik
Optical corrector housed for shipping to Chile
An example of a colour composite image after image reduction in the DC6B release of the DES mock image simulations. These constitute the most advanced mock images of the night sky and include a host of observational effects including lens distortions, atmospheric aberration and CCD read-out noise. Credit: Dr C. Sabiu
Full Dark Energy Camera image of the Fornax cluster of galaxies. The prominent galaxy in the lower right of the image is the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365. Credit: The DES Collaboration.
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I really enjoyed this movie when I saw it at London Film and Comic Con and look forward to rewatching this on bluray (when it gets released later this month in the UK).
I really like Hosoda's movies and wish Funimation would hurry up and license his One Piece Movie for a US release
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"Hosoda can never really bring himself to tell the story from his heroine Hana's perspective"
I don't know, when I watched the movie I felt more like the film was primarily about Hana. It felt like her story more than anything. Yeah, Hana wasn't the narrator, but the whole film to me felt like it was about her struggle as a mother. The kids didn't really come into their own until close to the end of the film, but even then the focus is still on Hana.
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It's hard for me to finish this movie because of the spoiler[death of the father], though not sure that's a spoiler... Anyway. It just made me so depressed, spoiler[the way his body was discarded], just...
Made me so sad. Hopeless.
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Agreed, honestly it seems to me that Hope completely missed the thematic point of the movie.
While the movie was told from the daughter's perspective, the story is ultimately about Hana or I should say the sacrifices mother's make out of love for their children.
Also yes the events flashed by but that was another point of the movie that time itself flashes by and when you look back you wonder where the time went.
It is a shame that such a wonderful movie got such a low grade. It really deserved better. This was one of the best anime films to come out in a long time and all it gets is a C for story, wow.
And yet I have seen plenty of mediocre films and series get a B or better. This is what happens when reviews are based on only one person's opinions.
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Glad to see a clear-eyed write-up of this movie which recognizes its faults as well as its strengths. This one has been hyped-up so much.
Another animated film with similar themes and less problems from about the same time is Leafy, from South Korea.
How is the focus still on Hana when she appears so infrequently in the final third of the movie? She doesn't even seem to react much when her children spoiler[transform into wolves and wreck the house seriously fighting each other].
As opposed to what? A popularity poll?
I guess I should be used to "this review is wrong because I don't agree with it" posts by now.
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Yeah, that definitely runs counter to my experience and perception as well. When I first watched this a while ago, a friend who watched it with us had the immediate reaction of "you know, fairy tales are generally told from the perspective of the children in them - it's so refreshing to see one told from the perspective of the mother instead."
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So every single review ever written, then.
I had a lot of issues with Wolf Children myself, but most of them boiled down to Hana - she isn't a character, she's SUPERMOM, unflappable in all situations, calm in every crisis, handling everything life throws at her with kindness and patience, which isn't realistic at all and took me right out of the film.
One scene where she didn't react like World's Greatest Mom or maybe made one parenting mistake or lost her temper or something that real people do would've gone a very long way toward humanizing her and giving the film the element of slight realism it desperately needed.
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This review is very well written. I enjoyed it despite not entirely agreeing with the hearty disappointment. Those grand emotions in the film do lack depth, but the fantasy it sweeps you away in was enough to distract me from the distant characters. It's as if we weren't allowed to get inside their minds.
If only Hosoda had gone all the way with telling the story from Yuki's perspective and not confused us with how to approach Hana, then the fantasy would have been full-fledged and been free to soar. But since it didn't, I felt more like an onlooker to this tale rather than a central character. In that way, it's like having this story relayed to you,leaving that overall vagueness and glorification of events.
I feel the score deserves more recognition for carrying those grand emotions. So much weight was put on it and I felt it performed wonderfully.
Anyway, this review was unbiased, but thoughtful and did exactly what it needed to. And peppered with just enough flowery words to add color, but not detract ("cloying," "teeming," "bastions").
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I'll preface this by saying I haven't seen the movie yet, this is just from how I'm interpreting Hope's review. But there is a difference between the story being ABOUT Hana and being told from Hana's perspective. In the first form, we know what happened to her; in the second, we know how she feels about what happened to her. I think that's the point Hope is trying to get across. But, again, haven't seen the movie yet (dying to), so feel free to ignore me if I'm way off on this.
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No, I was going to mention that - the film is not told from Hana's perspective. You're spot on.
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What? She is constantly making mistakes. spoiler[Not knowing what to do when her daughter eats a silica packet and is throwing up. (Pediatrician or veterinarian? which to choose...) Child protective services comes knocking because of a lack of immunizations. There are more...] The fact that she is resilient and is able to deal with her mistakes doesn't mean she isn't making them.
I loved the film and seriously had trouble choking up thinking about it for several hours after watching it the first time. As a parent, it was an amazing film.
Exactly. I didn't get the line in the review about him not being able to bring himself to tell the story from her perspective. It isn't told from her perspective, so why should he bring himself to do so?
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Right but there is a difference when a series/film grade is based on only ONE review and when you are looking at it from aggregate review sites, that was the point I was making.
I disagree with this being a flaw. Again the story was told from the perspective of the daughter. To her maybe her mom was unflappable. She saw everything what her mother went through for her and her brother and this is the Hana she saw. That doesn't mean Hana was actually perfect but from a character perspective it works.
To put it into more perspective Hosoda actually based this story on the feelings for his own mother. The place where the film took place is based on the area of Japan where he grew up. He talked about how despite being sad that he was leaving home his mother completely supported him when he left for Tokyo to become an animator. This is tied to how the two children at the end of the film also leave Hana.
He thought of the sacrifices mothers make for their children and how they grow up and leave them in the end and this is the story he came up with.
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See, I get that, but in that sense, it's still only about the children. We never see any of these events from Hana's perspective. We're told "she feels this way!" about a million times and we see her make decisions, but she never really feels like a human being with a past, ambitions, goals, flaws, etc., she feels like a mother as seen through the eyes of an admiring child. And that would be fine if the movie wasn't supposed to be her story, but it is, and it doesn't feel like her story, or even much of a story to be told, because Yuki doesn't seem to know her as a woman. There are so many really basic ways to characterize her that are never explored. Such as:
I love Fruits Basket and Beauty and the Beast, two stories that are often accused of having super Mary-Sue-y, Little Ms. Perfect lead characters, and I often buck against that, saying no, they're just human enough, with enough flaws, to resemble extremely kind, giving, unflappable people I know. I'm not averse to the archetype, I love the characters of Tohru and Belle. But Hana...it was just too much. She really did not feel like a human being at all, largely because you never quite feel like you know what she wants. (Tohru initially wants to graduate high school and make her mother proud, and through the course of the manga, decides she wants to break the Sohma curse. Belle initially wants "adventure in the great wide somewhere," and through the course of the movie, wants to live her life with the Beast, who she loves.) You're never inside her mind and heart, you're just sort of told about them, and even so, what you're told isn't very much to flesh her out.
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The first bit you mentioned is a gag, resolved in seconds with a phone call, and the second is a plot point that drives the film into the second act, wrapped up tidily and without any kind of struggle at all.
She doesn't make mistakes as a parent in the film. It is one nonstop calm, collected and perfect response after another.
Again, I liked the film, but the characters felt very empty and inhuman to me. It's a love letter to Hosoda's single mother, which is fine and all, but it'd have been great if he'd fleshed her out as a human being instead of just being 2 hours of hero worship.
The point is that the way the film is structured, it doesn't come together thematically or emotionally - telling the story from Hana's perspective, attempting to get inside that character and make her human, that would've gone a very long way to give the film real emotional impact other than nostalgia and "gee whiz moms are great!" warm fuzzies, which is all the film really has to offer.
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I think the story is about a mother told through the eyes of a child. It isn't so much the story about Hana as Hana but as Hana as a mother. Does that limit Hana's characterization a bit, well yes. But I think narrowing the focus works for a short film. And I think narrowing that focus made the film thematically stronger, at least for me.
I don't know if you ever saw the film "I Remember Mama" but this movie's themes (minus the whole wolf thing) reminds me of that movie.
In that movie, the mom played by Irene Dunne also came off as unflappable and strong and the story was told from the perspective of one of her children.
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1/25/2006 6:17pm, #91--
If you want to LARP a feudal Japanese spy, then go LARP one in the park with your buddies. Just don't pretend you're learning how to fight.
1/25/2006 10:44pm, #92
--Thats good to hear since HIBUKI and deceptive tactics was a normal part of almost all JJ schools. (Imagine Don Cunningham as a ninja master!!! )
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And what would that strategy be? If its simply a way to strike another person down thats not ninjutsu thats henka of that technique. If its to arouse suspistions, insight chaos, etc then yes.
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Your misinformed bullshit is tiresome phrost. At least if you had actually put effort into understanding what you're talking about, you wouldn't seem like such a dick for it.
The difference between genbukan / bujinkan / jinenkan? Well for one, bujinkan does suck. The ryu are barely taught as the original ryu are supposed to be taught now. Bujinkan has basically just mixed everything up, there's no line between takagi ryu and gyokko ryu and koto ryu or whatever anymore. You'll see Hatsumi do stuff from all 3 in one technique. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's not traditional and it's also filtering down to the students. 20 more years of teaching like that and all the young students are going to be doing some fucked up combination art that used to have a legitimate history.
Kaze has already addressed the points that bujinkan training almost always sucks. I call them bujinhippies, because they seem like they're high when they train at 1/16th of normal speed, don't allow much contact and spout a lot of total bullshit about spirituality in a fight ("Control him with your mind waves, it will drain his spirit and he'll lose his will to fight!"). It wouldn't be so bad if the bujinkan crowd didnt take everything to such extremes. They often train as slow as possible, with as much reluctance as they can to sparring, and encourage to the max the modification of techniques (Ever see the pittsburgh bujinkan guy? Big fat blackbelt, can't move worth ****.)
Tanemura learned from Hatsumi at one time. But Hatsumi was only one of Tanemura's teaches. Tanemura learned from many of Takamatu's students as well as other extremely experienced martial art masters. His movement is definately not the same as Hatsumi's, you can see it very clearly just observing the two.
When I watch Tanemura move I get the impression he is far more serious about stopping his attacker than Hatsumi is. I also notice that you don't see the lunge punch too often in Genbukan, especially with Tanemura in the area, whereas Hatsumi seems to almost expect it nowadays (At least, that's what all his students do..)
Genbukan on the other hand (and most aspects of jinenkan too) is way more structured. The ryu are taught properly as they once were in the Bujinkan and by Takamatsu and Toda and Ishitani, etc. The movements of some Genbukan ryu look similar to the movements done by some Bujinkan members because those Bujinkan members, unlike most, are doing things correctly.
1/25/2006 11:18pm, #94--
This thread is starting to resemble a _ing _ung lineage war argument. "No, I have the real ninjutsu!"
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1/26/2006 12:28am, #95--Originally Posted by Meager
1/26/2006 12:33am, #96--
So you wanna be a ninja? Ok. Here is what you can do. Take a few TKD lessons, a few Karate lessons, one or two Japanese Jujitsu lesson and then buy some pajamas. Make up some interesting sounding history about a lineage and you'll be right on par with EVERY OTHER NINJA out there.
Oh, and don't forget to buy the pajamas.
1/26/2006 9:06am, #97--Originally Posted by snowcat
Go back to LARPing, Mr. Mitty.
What's your special Ninja power? Mine's the ability to sense bullshit 1000 miles away.
1/26/2006 12:03pm, #98
--The difference between genbukan / bujinkan / jinenkan? Well for one, bujinkan does suck. The ryu are barely taught as the original ryu are supposed to be taught now. Bujinkan has basically just mixed everything up, there's no line between takagi ryu and gyokko ryu and koto ryu or whatever anymore.
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Hatsumi has taught the invidual ryu to his students, though nowadays he is doing his own thing (budo taijutsu, != mere sum of the ryu). He has also stated he is teaching his judan now. So I take that as meaning beginners should not blindly skip ahead. Pay attention, sure, but learn the skillsets and feelings from his students first, and eventually what he's doing now will make sense.
Now, not long ago I tagged along when my teacher did a seminar at a Bujinkan training group, which recently broke off from its previous sponsorship. Even though they'd been under the supervision of some highly ranked Buj instructors, the students basically did not know that there ARE really nine distinct styles. They'd seen the names of the schools but that's about it. But there was some other B.S. going on with the sponsors running another organization, and students involved with that apparently had access to more in-depth training. Bad stuff.
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"Just for the record, I never been to a Genbukan Dojo or ex Genbukan Dojo that didn't spar at least once a week."
Tell that to the Genbukan message board... very odd people. They start off saying they don't spar before saying they do randori... which they then describe as essentially sparring... Apparently calling it sparring made it unbudolike or something...
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How the hell do you get a black belt in kung fu?[/QUOTE]
well 7 year training under a great sifu, a lot of examinations and, at last, the black belt examination in rome, with forms (katas as you call them), sparrings, first aid, accounting and italian low (economics, penal and so on).. well i'm a very normal people not as super fighter great warrior ass kicker as you are... you instead, you know only kick ass or you know something else too?
i do not think to dress a black pajama going around at night , i need some thing new, other than punches, kicks, blocks, grapples and trowing.. wu tao is very complete in that way, i feel pain when i fight in a sanda (or san shou as most of all know this fighting sport) and i know very well the blood taste in my mounth. i think martial arts are more than breaking bone and kicking butt, i need more martial art not a fighting sports, sanda is enought for me, because i pitt against boxer, kick boxer, savateur, jujitsu, thai boxer and once with a nut shell that studied pancratium (well italy as history and we save our tradition...)
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The members all have different jobs like selling grains, small animals, groceries, prepared food, natural medicine and tara powder and they also work in agriculture and raise animals.
Each members needs a different loan amount, some need 300 soles, others 600 soles. The total loan amount for the group is 9,600 soles.
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AngularJS is a modern, sophisticated JavaScript framework for building rich HTML applications. This talk provides an introduction to AngularJS architecture, demonstrates how to test client-side code and details how to integrate front-end logic with Spring-powered REST controllers.
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SILVERDALE - A Port Orchard man was charged Monday in Kitsap County District Court with first-degree assault and unlawfully possessing a firearm after an incident at a Silverdale nightclub.
Around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, bouncers from Old Town Bistro on Byron Street told deputies that there was a dispute in the bar and that Rashaun Williams threatened somebody with a gun. They broke up the fight, took the pistol from Williams' back pocket and detained him in the kitchen. The .380-caliber subcompact pistol, which was loaded, had been stolen, according to court records.
The victim confirmed a gun had been pointed at him and said the two had a long-standing dislike for each other.
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He was quite a fleshed out character, more so than Harry or Tom. Even if you think he was a jerk or inconsistently written he was not bland.
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Tom Paris? Lotta potential... but let's see... he's a hotshot pilot, a skilled field medic, he can pick up any woman he wants, he can lead commando missions, he designs and builds ships in his spare time, he invented a completely new propulsion system(some side effects), he's a history expert, and basically he can do anything else the plot requires. Tom Paris is a Mary Sue.
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We need to be honest about the failures of certain technologies - such as GM - to provide food for a growing world population, says Molly Consibee, the Soil Association's director of campaigns and communications.
Commenting on the recently published Foresight report The Future of Food and Farming, Molly Conisbee, Campaigns and Communications Director at the Soil Association says:
"We need to be honest about the failures of certain technologies – such as GM – to provide food for a growing world population. Despite billions being pumped in to GM, it has failed to deliver against its promises. The majority of the world is fed by small, local, often organic farmers. These systems are better for the environment, better for animal and human welfare, and offer more resilience to issues such as the rise in oil and fertiliser price rise shocks.
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I ask myself this question almost every day. It is how I get ACCESS to my own information. How I enter the part of my conscious and unconscious self to get TO the very places I know need to be illumined to have a wonder-filled life. I am in love with wonder – living a life where aliveness, wonder and creativity reign – this is my choice. But will I choose it? Yes. I have to. Poets and artists eat wonder butter spread onto toast with jam with morning tea. It's how we create. It's where we create from. It is the spaces between the spaces where our own original genius can emerge.
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Nearly everyone responds to a good yarn, and that's precisely the point behind The Story Factor by Annette Simmons. A "collaborative behaviour" consultant to public and private organisations, Simmons argues that storytelling may just be the best management tool available to modern business leaders because it exerts influence in ways that other techniques cannot. And she doesn't suggest that stories be exclusively reserved for formal presentations, either; on the contrary, Simmons shows how they can be used effectively in small group settings and even one-on-one situations. She begins by describing six basic types that can be adapted to any circumstance (Who I Am, Why I Am Here, The Vision, Teaching, Values-In-Action, and I Know What You Are Thinking). She then offers pointers for finding them, and advises that ideas be jotted down whenever they appear, built upon consistently, and practised in private until the telling comes naturally. To that end she includes helpful tips on presentation, noting that the words are only part of a package that includes body language, clothing, tone and other components. Follow her lead, and you'll likely never relate to any individual or group in the same way again. --Howard Rothman
In this highly readable book, business communications consultant and author Simmons (Territorial Games) pitches storytelling as the modus operandi for business success. Identifying six stories one must learn how to tell "Who Am I," "Why I Am Here," "The Vision," "Teaching," "Values in Action," and "I Know What You Are Thinking" Simmons illustrates how they can be applied under any circumstance. A successor to Dale Carnegie's classic How To Win Friends and Influence People, this work follows the format of a traditional textbook, mirroring a PowerPoint presentation with minimal text and maximum graphics, bullet-pointing, etc. Potentially useful as a communications text, this is a viable selection for public libraries looking to strengthen their business communications collection. Robert Moore, Itworld.com, Southboro, MA
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CLEVELAND (AP) — A United Airlines flight from New York to Los Angeles has been diverted to Cleveland because of an electrical smell, causing a celebrity passenger to tweet that perhaps she should be on the comedy "Hot in Cleveland."
WEWS-TV reports (bit.ly/ZeLRfW) that "Body of Proof" star Dana Delany was on Flight 132 from Kennedy International Airport Sunday when someone reported a smell coming from a cabin. The plane was diverted to Cleveland at about 5:45 p.m., where airport officials said maintenance workers checked the aircraft but did not find anything.
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About 50 Cedar Key residents turned out to protest a proposal that the Suwannee River Water Management District, which owns the Lukens Tract alongside Bridge No. 4 declare a portion of it used for a public kayak and paddle launch as surplus and sold — possibly to a local couple who wants to build a home in the marshy area.
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The Divine Mercy Thrift Center, located on the grounds of St. John the Evangelist Church, 4050 N.W. Highway 27A, is now open Fridays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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The Bronson United Methodist Church will open a thrift shop Fridays and Saturdays from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. in the back building on Capital Street.
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The 40 Something Sunday School Class at Cedar Key United Methodist church is sponsoring a Little Free Library.
This Little Free Library is a "take a book, return a book" free book exchange for anyone in the Cedar Key Community. In its basic form, it is a wooden box of books where anyone may pick a book or two, or bring a book to share.
The Little Free Library book exchanges have a unique, personal touch and there is an understanding that real people are sharing their favorite books with their community.
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The University of Florida's new Nature Coast Biological Station will receive a grant to evaluate the spotted seatrout fishery in the Big Bend region. The grant, for $20,000, is provided by The Conservation Fund, a national organization that funds conservation projects that improve local businesses.
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This is the most retarded decision that committee could make. To adopt the new format is one thing, but to put it into play instantly is beyond reason. They could have at least given the teams and coaches a regular season to adapt to it. As it is, confusion will reign, as well as disappointment and anger (rightly so) from players whose roles will now be greatly diminished through no fault of their own. And as for the one committee member who thought this would speed matches up? That would only be the case if a 4/3 format match averaged more than 2.7 sets per match, which is almost unheard of. This is what happens when administrators take the decision making away from those who will be dealing with the situation, and keep it in the hands of those who won't.
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Strata Announces the Production of StrataWeb™ Geocell in India
Ever since Strata Geosystems ( India ) Pvt. Ltd.'s establishment in India, it has strived to provide eco-friendly and economical geotechnical solutions to the Indian construction marketplace. Strata's relentless efforts to provide better solutions has resulted in an innovative soil reinforcement system in its newly established manufacturing unit at Daman, - the first of its kind in India.
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Ever since Strata Geosystems ( India ) Pvt. Ltd.'s establishment in India, it has strived to provide eco-friendly and economical geotechnical solutions to the Indian construction marketplace. Strata's relentless efforts to provide better solutions has resulted in an innovative soil reinforcement system in its newly established manufacturing unit at Daman, - the first of its kind in India.
The new set-up will produce advanced geocells systems, StrataWeb™. StrataWeb™ is essentially a unique three dimensional soil reinforcement system. It comprises of honeycombed high-strength cell structures of texturized HDPE.
StrataWeb™ has several applications. Its prime deployment is in the improvement of load carrying capacity of weak soils. This characteristic is used to advantage when used within a road pavement crust where not only the load carrying capacity improves, but savings can result in the design of the pavement crust and its life-cycle costs. This characteristic can also improve the load carrying characteristics of weak soils below embankments of all heights, as well as below footings carrying heavy loads.
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Retread materials available for variety of equipment
Posted By admin On February 29, 2008 @ 12:00 am In Boomerang | No Comments
Bandag will display several of its Continuum Brand OTR Retread Materials in the Bridgestone Firestone booth. Continuum retread tire designs, supplied through off-the-road retreaders, can be used on a wide variety of equipment in the construction, mining, logging, utility and marine port industries.
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