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Legend of Korra Book 2 - DO NOT WANTJournal Entry: Sun Jul 21, 2013, 6:14 AM
Its rare that I find myself wishing that we as fans of series do NOT get more of something, but after a very VERY bad reboot of Avatar, the last airbender in Korra the schizophrenic love triangulating bitch who came out a year or two ago, I'm just not hyped to see more. Let me be more clear:
I do not want to see this. I don't know anyone that wants to see this. I haven't met any fans of Avatar: TLA that want more of Korra.
Korra lacked any import, she was a side character in her own series. The series was too short to tell any sort of meaningful story or experience real character development. She was never in any real danger, not with all the drooling slack-jawed male half-wits competing over who will get to bang the avatar willing to die for her at EVERY opportunity. Then in the final episode, bam! Suddenly all holes plugged, literally, superpowers attained as if by plot convenience, suddenly spirit powers go!, and 'i luv u forevar korra!'
Yeah, no. Fuck no. Hell no. DiaF.
PS: Nickleodeon, its very telling that you've disabled comments on your trailer video.
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"I do not want to see this. I don't know anyone that wants to see this. I haven't met any fans of Avatar: TLA that want more of Korra."
Um, where on this planet Earth have you been dwelling on? I've yet to meet a single soul who's watched LOK and isn't ecstatic for more. Of course, it's perfectly fine not to like this show, but claiming that you haven't seen a SINGLE person who isn't the least bit excited? "I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man."
"PS: Nickleodeon, its very telling that you've disabled comments on your trailer video"
Actually, it doesn't. ALL but one of videos on that channel have the comments disabled and a good half of them also have the like/dislike ratings disabled. Also, look at the trailer's like bar. It's arguably the most liked video on that channel. Them having the comments disabled out of your suggested hate doesn't really make any sense.
I haven't met a single person out of all the people I know and knew that had watched Avatar: TLA that want more of Korra. I don't consider social media a proper means to know people or meet them. So no, coming across the zero Korra fansites that I've never visited (that I'm sure exist) and the many many 'shipping tumblrfag sites that I also never cared to go looking for don't really count as people I know. So while I'm sure that there is a militantly vocal, yet small number of people who cluster together on various fan pages/sites to express feelings of over-saturated joy over the news, amongst the people I have met and can count, no one wants more of Korra and her many overly dramatic relationship problems.
I find the disabling of comments to be a show of bad faith regardless of who's channels are involved. Also, sure its the most viewed video on that channel. Of course it is, there's only 11 videos...and half of them didn't exist when I posted this journal. And most of those are ultra short crappy interview snips from comic con. Not exactly awesome content compared to the single biggest announcement trailer for Nickelodeon in over a year.
I for one would love to see the new part of Legend of Korra. Sure, the original LoK was supposed to only be a mini-series (hence the rushed relationships and overall plot), but it shows that some fans took a liking to it. They want another chapter to the Avatar series, especially after that bad M. Night movie (didn't watch it since no one around me wants me to experience its horror...) and people want a definite conclusion to what happened to Zuko's mom and the rest of the TLA crew. It's cool if you don't want to see it coming out. It's just a cartoon so, I hope you're not too upset over it... I'll respect your opinion nonetheless~
yeah, notice that last part you wrote. we, the fans, want more of the real avatar aang and the plot holes in that series resolved. not korra.
I think you'll find quite a lot of people think that Korra's the best thing that happened to Avatar next to M. Night Shyamalan. That doesn't mean they're right.
Oh no, I think the fandom as a whole can agree that the M. Night Shyamalan movie was a bust. (Even my grandmother, who loves TLA, but has been out of the country to not see Korra yet, disliked the movie.) And to them, they're right that Korra was a great step up from Mr. Shyamalan. Just like you're right for your own opinion on this.
Actually there are a lot of people who want this...look at tumblr. There are also a lot of people on tumblr who do not want this, and that's fine. They don't have to watch it. You don't have to watch it. Is there any reason to bitch and whine because they're choosing to cater to the fans who DO enjoy the series? Good lord.
Also, Tumblr is not a good excuse for anything. That's like saying that the 'shippers are wetting their pants over this new season. Whoopdyfuck
Yeah, because it sucks, and they aren't doing anything to actually improve anything or the writing or the pacing. That's quite a bit that's a valid reason to complain. Its more of the same, would you like another Shyamalan movie plz. Its going to be more exploring Korra's sexuality, more e-drama, vagina worshiping bullshit. Ooo, its the Spirit Realm (TM)! How about money down now, that Korra will get a new boyfriend (FB) who at the end turns out to be the shape changing face stealer from the real Avatar series? Because he showed up in the first series, and sequelitus tells us that if it was in the first one, it needs to be in the second. Also, because we have a female protagonist, that means sexuality strife, because why waste a perfectly good opportunity to have more teenage angst?
Hey, here's a brilliant idea! Don't watch it if it gets your panties in a knot, okay? 8'D
The wonders a little 'critical' thinking might do for you.
Darlin' you can't speak for an entire fandom. I'm sorry but it's the truth. some people actually do like this and they actually wanted more of it. Grow up, okay? :3
Don't you worry your little bonnet. I won't be watching it. That said, that's not going to stop me from complaining about it!
I've only dwelled in Avatar:TLA a little bit seeing as I used to watch it as a kid, but not often because it wasn't too much of a topic that captured me (I prefer cartoon-y LOL RANDOM BACON or whatever cartoons as opposed to serious HERE IS THE STORY IT SHALL BE GREAT cartoons, if you get what I mean). I did enjoy it if it was on though. I've heard a lot of LoK via Tumblr and I can honestly say it doesn't look as great as TLA does.
I am sort of a fan of Avatar: TLA. Personally I think its more enetertaining than a good series, which isn't bad, but whatever. I have never seen The Legend of Korra, and somehow I feel blessed now after reading this.
We have to kill this series man, this show is terrible! And it's not getting any better, I can tell.
Okay that's incredible, you seem to hate the series almost as much as I do.
Personally, I loved Korra, but I think you're right in regards to the show not being as good as the original,but I still loved it. Avatar is my freaking obsession and always will be. However, I'm a bit stunned that you are not excited for book two, I think that if it relies more on the spirit world and less on an over-debated love triangle, it should be pretty kick ass. Maybe you should give it a shot, this is basically the season I've been waiting for since ATLA. It should be amazing to find out more about the avatar and its origins. However, if you blatantly dislike Korra, that's entirely up to you. Anyway, like I said, give it a shot will you? I think this is going to be a great season now that Korra is FINALLY using the avatar state. And addressing the rather rushed ending, it IS a show for kids, they expect that kinda thing, you know? Do it for the kiddies!!! On another note, do you like the comic books they're coming out with?
Avatar: TLA took three seasons to do what Korra tried to do in LESS than half of one. I hate Korra, I hate everything about her from the stupid arrogant "I can do no wrong" attitude, the love triangles from hell, and the "i'm a strong independent woman, don't anyone judge me, I can do no wrong!" and, then turns around and plays the victim card, "why won't everyone leave me alone, whine, simper, cry..." when it suits her particular desire (usually when bad shit happens as a consequence of her OWN STUPID ACTIONS). Typical female bullshit.
I don't read american comic books and never will. american comics suck, have shitty writing, and bad artwork. Oh and comics based off of a series, no thanks. Like game adaptions of movie licences, they're doomed to suck from the start.
Do it for the kiddies? Please that's as banal and stupid as "won't someone think about the children" that's often said when politicians and activists are trying to ram some stupid legislation down our throats. So no, I won't "do it for the kiddies."
Fans like you are the reason we're getting more of the same banal shit, and you'll scarf it up without complaint. Like shit eating rodents, you'll thank them for it too. Don't worry, you'll get more. Lots more, because as Avatar fans, we don't deserve nice things. How's that airbender movie sitting in your stomach? Maybe they'll get Mr. Sham-a-lam to direct the Korra movie too.
American comics are shit? Hello, Bone? Watchmen?
Both limited run, both discontinued after the stories were resolved. Short, point-to-the-point stories were fine. But I'm talking about the comics industry, and that's basically Marvel, DC, and the small spin-offs that are just as bad filled with the same people that can't write, and can't draw that fill the big two. I went to the "Free Comics Day" events around town, read through all the demo comics and they're the same dreck that pissed me off growing up. Same over-boooooooobs'ed style women with impossible waists doing stupid hormone driven stupid with male characters doing yet more stupid angsty crap. Its like the 90's kept going strong in the comic book industry. There's nothing good in American comics. Not even Neil Gamin. Just look at what he did with Books of Magic. Truly awful stuff. Never mind that there hasn't been a single good wonder woman story since I've been alive. Top it off with yearly reboots to the entire universe and I couldn't give two shits. I'll take my manga once every few years fan-scanned thank you very much. At least the Japanese can still tell a good story, even if the artwork is somewhat lacking.
Manga undergoes the same situations.
Also, check the works of Jack Kirby or Will Eisner and tell me how they look like shit.
P.S. Neil Gaiman is British writer who has been praised by Stephen Motherfucking King. Go back to reading Twilight.
Stephen Motherfucknig King can go learn how to write a good story. Last I checked he stopped writing good stuff decades ago.
Nah, I'd rather throw American shit under the bus where it belongs. As for Jack Kirby and Will Eisner, after looking them up, their stuff is relevant to the golden age of comics and has nothing to do with the modern shit that I've endured whenever I've tried reading American stuff.
Sure Manga has issues, that's why reading a series once every few years is necessary. As for Twatlight, you can go fuck yourself. Meyer writes about on par with modern comics writers, which looks up at hell from its current position.
Well, I can see there's no changing your mind, but I don't think any of the things you just said were really needed. All I did was say that I love this series. Seriously, you're gonna rage and bash just cause you hate? I honestly don't think you deserve to be alive if you can't simply empathize, keep you're anger to yourself and move on. I'm a hardcore Avatar fan, so it's kinda obvious that I would love anything that Mike and Bryan put out, but you're being an obnoxious prick. What you need to understand is that this is a kids show, like it or not. There's gonna be happy endings and whatnot, there's gonna be a short storyline for the 12 episode window they were given. You know what, sit your ass down and get a show off that ground that receives as much love as the one you're badmouthing, then come back and say that the show is worth nothing. I was trying to be nice and feel where you were coming from. You're critically biased against the show for some reason, and I don't care why. There's no need to dis it and whatnot. Seriously, coming from a 32 year old that likes MLP? I honestly have no respect for you if you can't simply be polite and respectful of other people's feeling and ideas. I bet you're a sad, lonely guy who focuses his outrage and frustration that his life isn't amazing and uses it to bash children's shows... sad. Shit eating rodents? What does MLP teach you? Friendship? Respect? Obviously you haven't picked up on any of that from watching the show. I can respect your urge to vent, but when you needlessly hate, you cross the line. You think of my as a rat, you think of me as a politician who lies to get his way, at least I'm not a sour, bitter human being who has to put others down to feel better about himself. I may have sounded "banal and stupid" but at least I don't sound like an arrogant, pompous fool who does nothing but try to start wars. It's my turn to generalize. People like you are warmongering, sour, men and woman who think they know better than everyone else. Or at least, that's the image you've painted for yourself. You make me sick and I don't think you deserve to be a part of this fandom. On another note, the Last Airbender was only hated by stereotypers who couldn't get over the fact that M. Night drew a little more from Asain cultures, where the show freaking originated. The only thing that was really bad were the actors and the casting. Please don't bother spreading more of your hate. In these times, if we are divided we will fall. I really wish I could make you see yourself from my point of view, that I could help you register the needless and hate you spread. Farewell, and should we meet again, I hope that it is not on differing sides of the bored. But like I said, think on this, release your rage and instead be empathic.
wow, look at that fat wall of text. please learn to use paragraphs.
also, there's really no point in getting so mad and worked up over someone not loving your silly fandom. just saying.
also, there's really no point in getting so mad and worked up over someone not loving your silly fandom. just saying.
I'm seconding what *KashimusPrime said. I'm in love with both Avatar and Korra shows, solely because of the animation and the art style...Especially the expressions. And I hate the M. Night version because he pretty much butchered the absolute hell out of the original story and screwed up the casting. But there's a reason why I avoid fandoms; this attitude. Nobody deserves death threats. I don't give a damn what they've said that made you this upset, but nobody deserves being told to go die. You not only shame yourself with how immature you are by throwing such threats around, but you shame the rest of us fans. Just because other people don't like what you like, doesn't mean you need to go around insulting them and throwing threats at them. They can hate what the want, just as we can like what we want.
Can I honestly say that entire speech was... wow.. First of all, I enjoyed The Last Air bender series, But I hated the movie M. Knight did because he left out a lot of shit that was important to the original series plot. Even my 16 year old nephew who obsessed over the original series fucking hates that movie with a passion and laughs at morons who even like it.
But, what I'm trying to say here is, just because someone doesn't like something you don't like, doesn't mean you should go tell them to die. Because that's just being a bad sport and a bad fan. You're not doing anything for the series you obsess over by telling people to die.
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So Vibrant!
Great job!
one of the best of the new 52!!!
Man that close-up of Arkillo is just sweet, love his eyes, killer work as always Nei
wow dudette, your sequentials are getting better and better! really amazing work!
i love it amazing
I flipped through this issue, your colors were fantastic throughout!
Nice work, good to see you doing superhero stuff again. I miss when you did Birds of Prey
Nei Ruffino + Green Lantern = Awesomeness
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Seeing this makes me strangely feel like a little kid again, thank you!
Seeing this makes me strangely feel like a little kid again, thank you!
New Gaurdians is the first time I've really enjoyed a Green Lantern book, the whole team is doing a great job and I'm really liking the how the colors are turning out (Granted with a book with a primary color in the title you may have some added incentive). Looking forward to seeing how this first arc wraps up and how it continues on as a series.
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In the cool of the evening
When everything is getting kind of groovy
You call me up and ask me
Would I like to go with you and see a movie?
First I say no, I've got some plans for tonight
And then I stop and say all right
Love is kind of crazy with a spooky little boy like you
You always keep me guessing
I never seem to know what you are thinking
And if a girl looks at you
It's for sure your little eye will be a-winking
I get confused, I never know where I stand
And then you smile and hold my hand
Love is kind of crazy with a spooky little boy like you
If you decide some day to stop this little game that you are a-playing
I'm gonna tell you all the things my heart's been a-dying to be saying
Just like a ghost you've been a-haunting my dreams
But now I know you're not what you seem
Love is kind of crazy with a spooky little boy like you
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Note that charter and TFA teachers tender to be younger than traditional public school teachers.
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Note that charter and TFA teachers tender to be younger than traditional public school teachers.
Education Post hopes to create "a new conversation" about improving education, writes Peter Cunningham, who worked for Arne Duncan in the Education Department and Chicago Public Schools.
With the support of Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation, we are launching a new organization called Education Post to provide a strong voice for those who believe the current education system needs to get better.
Education Post will give voice to parents, teachers and students who are often drowned out in the current debate and amplify the voices of a diverse group of leaders who have dedicated their lives to bringing opportunity to communities that need it most. Those leaders include Democrats like former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, Republicans like former Louisiana Education Superintendent Paul Pastorek, and educators like Montgomery County school teacher and 2006 National Teacher of the Year Kim Oliver-Burnim.
Here's the first day of school at a Montessori charter in Chicago.
Boston has the highest-performing charter schools in the country, writes MATCH founder Michael Goldstein on Flypaper. Why? Boston has lots of elite colleges, talented people — and the highest proportion of "authentic" adherents to the "No Excuses" model.
CREDO studies have identified top charter cities, measured in "days of learning."
Two-thirds of Boston charters are "No Excuses" schools, writes Goldstein. Sharing a common philosophy, the schools share ideas and talent.
The Charles Sposato Graduate School of Education (SGSE), embedded at Match Charter Schools, provides teachers to all the No Excuses charters in Boston. SGSE is able to train rookie teachers whose students go on to get unusually high value-added numbers. . . . The message: "Here is what will be expected of you in a No Excuses school. That job is not right for everyone, but if it's the one you want, we'll help you practice, practice, practice to become good in that context."
. . . Will Austin from Uncommon teaches a rookie teacher about effective math instruction; that teacher, in turn, takes a job at KIPP; now Uncommon's ideas have moved to KIPP; and so forth. When Kimberly Steadman of Brooke teaches literacy to a rookie teacher, even fellow instructors (from other charter schools) perk up and jot down notes.
New York City, New Orleans, D.C., and Los Angeles charter students show large gains on CREDO studies because of No Excuses charters, writes Goldstein. "Boston outperforms these cities is because it has even more."
Richard Whitmire's On the Rocketship looks at the high-flying, fast-growing Rocketship network of charter schools.
Rocketship is fueled by the "start-up ethos," writes Conor Williams on TPM. The network "began as the brainchild of John Danner, a tech startup guy who cashed in his chips and became interested in the achievement gap." After teaching for three years and helping to start a KIPP charter school, Danner set out to provide "one million high-quality school seats…[in] 2,500 charter schools" in 30 years.
Rocketship "operates by backward mapping," writes Whitmire. "First define your long-term goal, then decide how you will measure it, and then determine the steps that will get you there."
Rocketship students work on computers for part of the school day, using adaptive software that lets them work at their own level and move at their own pace. Teachers target instruction to smaller groups, while aides supervise learning labs.
Rocketship's first schools have been wildly successful in San Jose, but expanding rapidly while maintaining quality is proving to be a challenge.
Work Hard. Go to College. Change the World! is the motto of Democracy Prep Charter High in Harlem. The first graduating class shows where they'll be going to college in the fall.
Alise vs. the Mayor the first in a pro-charter mini-series, pits a cute 10-year-old girl who loves reading against Mayor Bill deBlasio, who tried to close her school. Alise Alexander is a student at Success Academy's Harlem Central.
The school's fifth graders — nearly all black and Latino and more than three-quarters from low-income families — scored first in the state in math in 2013 notes The Blaze.
A HuffPost story on public school "apartheid" complains that a Harlem Children's Zone charter school is better equipped, more cheerful and serves a much better lunch than the ones district students get.
(At the Promise Academy charter), the brightly lit hallway is decorated with the student's artwork. Every class has three teachers, 20 students and an abundance of computers, lab equipment and books. More grown-ups monitor the hallways.
One floor up is public middle school 469. It is Depression-era Kansas to the Promise Academy's Oz. The hallway is grim, undecorated, and poorly lit. A group of older boys shove one another against lockers, which are mainly unused because they are too easy to break into, and a gaggle of eighth grade girls are huddled together whispering, plotting, gossiping. There are several hundred children bursting with energy and one security guard at one end of the hallway leaning against the wall.
The classrooms are largely devoid of books and equipment. One room has square black tables pushed together into groups suggesting a scientific purpose. It is easy to imagine beakers bubbling over Bunsen burners, but that was a long time ago, before the kids threw the scalding beakers at one another and a teacher.
. . . At some point, we tacitly consented to the notion that providing only 20 percent of the children in Harlem, those that win the lottery and go to charter schools, with adequate teachers, equipment and food, is a morally acceptable public policy.
The story is nonsense, writes Robert Pondiscio. He works for Democracy Prep, which runs a second charter school in the same building. "We run it on public dollars, at a per pupil rate that is lower, not more, than district schools."
If the charters provide more for students than the district-run schools, why not expand the charters so more students can enjoy adequate teachers, equipment and food, plus lighting and supervision?
San Jose's Downtown College Prep — the charter school in my book — is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its first graduating class at commencement ceremonies for the class of 2014. Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, will be the keynote speaker.
DCP now has three middle and high schools — the fourth will open in the fall — and more than 500 alumni. Nearly all are Latinos from low-income families. Eighty percent of incoming students are 2+ years below grade level in English and/or math. Ninety-six percent will be the first in their family to go to college.
All DCP seniors apply to four-year universities and 96 percent go directly to college
DCP students are 4 times more likely than all California Latino high school graduates to enroll in a state university
DCP students are four times more likely to complete college in six-years than their low-income peers nationwide
DCP was ranked #36 out of 2,000 schools in California by U.S. News in 2013 and 2014.
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Once again, Oakland's American Indian Public Charter High has topped the Washington Post's list of the nation's most challenging high schools. The index measures the percentage of students taking a college-level exam. It also shows the percentage of students who qualify for a subsidized lunch and the percentage of graduates who passed at least one college-level test.
The Oakland school board revoked the charter of three high-scoring American Indian schools last year, due to financial improprieties. AIPCHS and its sister schools remain open on appeal.
The list excludes selective schools, such as Stuyvesant in New York City, and schools that attract primarily high achievers, such as BASIS Scottsdale, a charter that became very popular with parents of high achievers. Mathews explains:
We do not include any magnet or charter high school that draws such a high concentration of top students that its average SAT or ACT score exceeds the highest average for any normal-enrollment school in the country. This year, that meant such schools had to have an average SAT score below 2005 or an average ACT score below 29.3 to be included on the list.
The Challenge Index is designed to identify schools that have done the best job in persuading average students to take college-level courses and tests. It does not work with schools that have no, or almost no, average students. We put those schools on our Public Elites list.
Here are alternative ways to rank high schools.
Two-thirds of the most challenging schools don't field an 11-member football team, writes Mathews.
We Know (A Few) Things That Work to improve high-poverty schools, write economists Greg J. Duncan of University of California at Irvine's School of Education and Richard J. Murnane of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education, they describe the success of Boston's pre-K program, the University of Chicago's K-12 charter school network and New York City's small high schools of choice.
A Day in the Life of a No Excuses Charter School Student is highly regimented and repressive, writes Sarah Goodis-Orenstein on the Center for Teaching Quality site. After four years teaching English at a "no excuses" charter in Brooklyn, she switched to a more progressive charter school. She blogs at Making Room for Excuses.
At 7:40, the first period teacher rolls her cart in and immediately begins to issue commands. "Aside from two pencils, and your IR book in the top left corner of your desk, your desk should be cleared. As soon as you get your classwork packet, begin on your Do Now. You have 3 minutes." A timer is set and placed under the document camera, and any students not on-task within thirty seconds are first reminded to get started, and then issued a demerit, sometimes privately, sometimes publicly.
Class proceeds to enfold in a highly-systematic structure with a review of the warm-up, some sort of mini-lesson, some sort of guided practice, and a chunk of independent practice before the exit ticket is collected. Packets in hands high over their heads, the teacher snaps, and the last page is signaled to be torn from the staple in a crisp sound of unison tearing.
The teacher bustles out as the next teacher and her cart rolls in, ideally with less than 1 minute wasted in this transition, a transactional cost that, over the course of the year, equates to literal days of wasted learning.
Mid-morning and mid-afternoon breaks of 10 or 15 minutes are "the only opportunities for unbridled conversation," she writes. "Otherwise, during and between classes, students' voices are to be 'off' unless specific accountable talk procedures or partner share expectations have been put into place."
Students learn "that rigidity and compliance are predictors of success, and that imagination and interpersonal skills are of nominal use," Goodis-Orenstein concludes. "They also likely learn that school is boring, that it has little relevance to their lives, or in the case of my last school, it is a place where white ladies try to control Black and Latino children."
And, yet, no excuses schools narrow the achievement gap, giving students choice in life they wouldn't have otherwise. And they tend to have long wait lists.
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Ovechkin misses practice with upper body injury
Caps top 5 plays of the week: 10.28.13
Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin sat out Wednesday morning's practice at Kettler Capitals Iceplex with an upper body injury. The club is listing him as day-to-day.
Center Jay Beagle also missed practice with an illness, while John Erskine was placed on long-term injury reserve.
Ovechkin did not appear to be injured in the Caps' 3-2 loss in Vancouver on Monday night. He played 19:49 against the Canucks and was on the ice for each of the Canucks' third-period goals.
The Caps also recalled defenseman Dmitry Orlov and center Michael Latta from the Hershey Bears.
Erskine's assignment to LTIR is dated back to Oct. 26. He needs to miss 10 games or 24 days of action before being taken off LTIR. Erskine underwent knee surgery over the summer and told CSNWashington.com that he was about a month behind schedule when training camp began.
With a jumbled roster, Adam Oates reassembled his forward lines to look like this:
Marty Erat – Nicklas Backstrom – Eric Fehr
Marcus Johansson – Brooks Laich – Troy Brouwer
Jason Chimera – Mikhail Grabovski – Joel Ward
Aaron Volpatti – Michael Latta – Tom Wilson
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This isn't a hostel so much as a long-term stay. My bunk was in an apartment filled with people moving to Edinburgh. There were 3 rooms with 6 bunks sharing one bathroom. Budget backpackers across the street was much better in terms of 'hostel environment'
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"Smash and grab" robberies targeting a wide variety of businesses and organizations and items are becoming almost epidemic. There is one basic security measure that could be put in place and immediately stop the majority of these attacks: bollards and barriers.
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There is no doubt that Ole Miss guard Marshall Henderson loves to be the center of attention. He put that on full display in the teams NCAA Tournament press conference on Thursday from the moment he entered the room and greeted the media with a '"What up, y'all?" Henderson is a love'em or hate'em type player, with more people being of the latter as he embraces a villain type role. SEC fans aren't particularly fond of his jersey-popping and taunting. He gator-chomped Florida fans when Ole Miss captured the SEC Tournament Championship. Here are some additional highlights of this afternoon's presser, with the quoted sections via Game On! : "I've been a Duke fan since my dad ever told me anything about basketball. It was all about Duke, Duke, Duke. I love the way they play." A Duke fan? Well, that just ups the villain role even more, right? "I guess. I don't know. I'm not real good at math.… Other than two, plus three. I know that one well." Probably not a math major. "I know [Wisconsin has] got, like, the 10th-best defense or something. But we also know that Florida and Alabama have better defenses than them. I [...]
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Yep, Mewtwo is still catchable. Also, which thing is he still saying about the egg? Is it a phone call dialogue that I missed, or is it something he says in the lab? That will make it quicker for me to go to it and change it.
EDIT: Oh wait, he does mention the egg at one point after you get it from the Daycare couple. I think he or the daycare couple are supposed to indicate that they talked about it to explain why he knows.
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Comsys, one of the nation's leading IT Consulting Services companies,
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The game of tower-defense genre at it's best! After years of peace the defenseless planet of intelligent mushrooms is being attacked by the army of evil mechanoids! Mushroom people will have to call the ancient powers of magic in order to resist the onslaught of invaders! But only YOU can lead them to victory and save the whole nation's future! The battle begins right now!
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I love this game, a little hard to get some of the evolutions, but otherwise perfect! Nice graphics and a smart setup! Very unique!
I had one PROBLEM though, it crashes on levels where a lot of enemies appear, and then you can't open the game again. The screen goes black after showing "Battle Mushrooms" and nothing happens. I had to delete the game and get it again to fix this. If it happens again........ Well.............
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I love mushrooms, then I searched for it on AppStore then this app popped up. It gave my love to mushrooms and mythical magics and totems a push. Combining mother nature against machines. It's very unique and I'm addicted to it. Evolutions is a bit hard to get hence the rare stars and gems, but that's part of what makes this game so unique and epic. If I could give it more stars than 5 I would. Keep up the good work, hope to see an upgrade or possibly a new game from the team.
Great with a problem.
The game is great all around. I enjoyed it for as long as it lasted.
However eventually when you try to open it, it just shows a black screen for all eternity and there is no way to fix it.
This is a shame, especially for those who want to play it on a supervised ipad that allows no deleting apps.
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Staples Coupon Thread.
1. What's the Staples app?
This is an app from Staples that provides access to your Staples account, as well as Staples rewards account, and provides some useful tools.
You can read more about it here: Linky [staples.com]
2. How can I get it?
Android version is here: Linky [google.com]
iOS version is here: Linky [apple.com]
Any android phone or iPhone will work. In addition, you can install it on iPod Touch, iPad, Android Tablets, or HP TP running Android.
3. What's "check-in"?
When you are in a Staples store, you can click on the "Check in" button, and once your location is determined by the app, you'll be presented with a confirmation, and a coupon will be issued. The coupons state that they expire in 24-48 hours after they are issued, but in reality they can be used until the "real expiration date" (see WiKi for details). Please note that you do NOT need to sign into your Staples and/or Staples rewards account to receive the check in coupons. Coupons are generated once per device every 24 hours if you check in every 24 hours once the previous coupon has expired. The store makes no difference to the process. Multiple store check-ins in the same 24 hours does not get you any more coupons. You get the same one with the same 16 digit code. Since the device number is stored at a Staples server and coupons are per device, multiple devices will give you unique coupons per device.
4. Do I have to be physically in the store to check in?
Luckily, the answer is no. You can "spoof" your location by using certain apps that trick your phone to report specific coordinates. Depending on the app, you can either enter the coordinates of a Staples store or find it on a map and use that to create check in coupons from home/work.
For Android, Fake GPS [google.com] works great, along with few other examples (e.g., Location Spoofer, etc). For iOS devices, please see the WiKi (you need to jail break your iOS device).
5. Can I keep the coupons beyond the 24-48 hour expiration time frame?
Yes. If you take a screen shot of the coupon, you can keep it and use it later. On some Android phones, as well as iOS devices, pressing down power and home (or power and volume down) buttons simultaneously takes a screen shot. For devices that don't have this "built in", there are 3rd party apps.
6. Are the coupons random?
As of now, they seem to follow a certain sequence as outlined in the Wiki.
7. Can I stack these coupons with other app and/or paper coupons?
The % off coupons stack with $ off coupons. If you have 1 app coupon and 1 paper coupon (in either format), it will work "easier" compared to having 2 app coupons, since you are not supposed to have 2 of them at the same time. You can try printing out some of the app coupons to combine them.
8. Can I obtain any other coupons, in addition to the check in coupons, from the app?
The app generates coupons that can be used in store, online or over the phone. You can log into your Staples Rewards account from the app and access your Coupon Wallet and use whatever coupons you may have in there based on their T&Cs (e.g., in store only, online/phone only, etc). Those coupons have nothing to do with the app; they are under your Staples Rewards account and can be accessed from the web interface using a PC or directly from the mobile app.
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I do but I am not even sure I am going to install the Staples app on it. Wary about the reset process, I guess, as I already have some data on the device. I will be resetting a phone soon though and keeping it for Staples.
ETA: And yes there can be a lag with the coupon showing up.
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Yep, but not so easy under Bluestacks, that had problems too (nothing would happen when I pressed the Shazam button). But thanks to lex2000 I was able generate a bunch late last night after installing Firefox.
Tomorrow I'll break my purchase into 2 transactions, 1 for the paper and 1 for the McAfee and use 1 coupon for each. That would be the same as the $10 off $75 that I was hoping to get.
Since I have not gotten any check in coupons yet, can you tell me when they expire and if the expiration date on the coupon is really when they expire or if there is a grace period like some others have.


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Definition of square meal in English:
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Something I found about the photographer-- Adele Enersen of Helsinki, Finland is a "bored photographer" on maternity leave so she came up with a creative way to photograph her daughter while she naps. Her inspiration were what she thought her daughter might be dreaming about while she sleeps. She uses noting but fabric and material she finds around the house.
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John Calipari: NCAA is 'kind of like our government right now'
On Wednesday night we passed along Jim Boeheim battering the concept of paying college players, essentially rebuking that ideal on behalf of the NCAA. Today, we've got Kentucky coach John Calipari doing pretty much the opposite. In an interview with Kentucky Sports Television, Calipari again attacked the infrastructure and much of how the NCAA operates these days.
"I hate to say it -- it's kind of like our government right now," Calipari said in the interview, which you can watch above. "It's not working. And for our government, it's not working for the people. For the NCAA, you're not working for the kids. The suit that was won, or paid off by EA Sports, the next one's gonna be ridiculous. And those are all players that are suing the NCAA -- and they're gonna win."
Calipari referenced the likely addition of Division 4 as a way that change (for the better) will come for college players. He posited that approximately 80 schools will fit into that classification -- the Division 4 concept is seen as revolutionary to the bedrock of college sports -- and Calipari said he expects it to come into existence "in the next year or two."
This drumbeat is not new for Calipari, who's long campaigned on behalf of his players and vocalized himself as a player's coach; it's a big reason why he's made Kentucky basketball as powerful as it's ever been. In the clip above Calipari makes convincing arguments of why players deserve more, giving examples such as Brandon Knight's family not being able to attend the regionals two years ago -- and how UK wasn't allowed to fly them there.
"There's all kind of things we can do to make this a better environment for these players, that isn't like, 'You're making them different than the other students.' I would say they are," Calipari said. "Players first. How do you do right by them, and then let's make this work without losing our minds."


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Privately Optimal Securitization and Publicly Suboptimal Risk Sharing
Privately informed owners securitizing assets signal positive information by retaining sufficient interest. Signaling provides social benefits, allowing uninformed investors to insure without fearing adverse selection. Instead of signaling, owners of high value assets may prefer a pooling equilibrium in which they securitize more of the asset, relying on speculators to gather information and bring prices closer to fundamentals. This induces suboptimal risk sharing, since uninformed investors face adverse selection. We analyze privately optimal securitization and the choice between signaling and reliance on speculative markets. In the model, prices are set competitively, with an endogenously informed speculator trading against uninformed hedgers placing rational orders. If a structuring exists providing sufficient speculator gains, her effort is high, mispricing is low, and all/most of the asset is securitized in a pooling equilibrium. Here risky debt and levered equity are optimal, with optimal face value trading off higher unit profits for the speculator against lower hedging demand. Hedgers imperfectly insure, buying only the concave claim, the only source of speculator profits. If risk-aversion is low and/or endowment shocks are small, hedging demand is low, leading to low speculator effort. Here high types sell only safe debt in a separating equilibrium with perfect risk sharing. The owner's incentive to choose the separating equilibrium is weak when risk-aversion is high and/or endowment shocks are large, precisely when efficient risk sharing has high social value.
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We're talking laying on the beach on a Saturday, standing up, and deciding to go for a quick run. Or driving home from work, and pulling over to do a trail run. Or one of my favorites, being in a new city and just going out and exploring the area with my own (very quickly moving) two feet for a little bit. In fact, I recommend keeping a pair of running shoes in your car at all times for this very reason.
I think what I like about this type of workout is this: Instead of driving to the gym to do a 30 minute run on the treadmill three scheduled days a week, it's making fitness be a part of your daily life. A random run is as enjoyable to me as, let's say, an out of the blue stop for some coffee, or a quick stop at your favorite boutique, or watching that fifth episode in a row of your favorite TV show you stream on Netflix (Friday Night lights. I miss you).
Random runs (to me) are a way of saying, hey I've made it to the point where I really DO enjoy being active, and it's not a chore, but a way of life.
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Eli's grave was marked by the General Henry Dearborn Chapter of the DAR on August 25, 1931. On June 13, 1991, the Eli Skinner Chapter, NSDAR, rededicated his monument in honor of the 100th Anniversary of NSDAR and the 45th Anniversary of this Chapter. At the age of 14 years and 9 months, in the town of Shelburne, Massachusetts, he enlisted for a term of eight months with the Massachusetts state troops. Due to his young age, he was employed as a Fifer. In a few days he and several others from the town that had enlisted set out for Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Boston. On arrival at Cambridge he was assigned to a company under the command of Captain Agrippa Wills in a regiment under the command of Colonel Asa Whitcomb and Lt. Colonel Whitney. Eli Skinner served his 8 month enlistment at Cambridge, and was discharged and returned to Shelburne.
In December 1776 a call was issued for troops to serve for a period of three months. Eli Skinner enlisted for this period, being mustered at Greenfield, Massachusetts on December 26, 1776 in a company commanded by Captain John Wells. From here they marched to Northampton, Massachusetts. Here, Captain Wells' company was ordered to Fort Ticonderoga, for which they departed on December 27th by way of Chesterfield, Pittsfield, Greenbush, Albany, Fort Anne, Skeensboro and on to Fort Ticonderoga, arriving about January 6, 1777.
On reaching Fort Ticonderoga Captain Wells' company was attached to Colonel Robinson's regiment. Here Eli Skinner remained for his three month enlistment performing garrison duty until his three month term expired and he was again discharged and returned to his home in Shelburne.
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A recent Scandal episode highlighted a few barriers when attempting to seek an abortion while deployed, but what's a service member to do when she doesn't have Olivia Pope's help navigating the system?
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Two veterans advocacy groups filed a lawsuit this week alleging that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is making it harder for military sexual assault survivors to claim disability for PTSD than other veterans.
Sen. Claire McCaskill has said she will filibuster her Democratic colleague's Military Justice Improvement Act, which would remove prosecution decisions for serious crimes like sexual assault from the military command.
When the Senate votes on the annual defense appropriation, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's Military Justice Improvement Act won't be part of it. But the senator says she's not going away.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's renewed push comes on the heels of a new poll reporting that six in ten Americans support letting independent prosecutors, rather than the chain of command, decide whether to prosecute cases of sexual assault and other serious non-military crimes.
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The positive outcome of the Trent Lott affair seems to have revived the old Hillary. She has spotted yet another vast right-wing conspiracy, this time a vast Republican racist one. She said: "If anyone thinks that one person stepping down from a leadership position cleanses the Republican Party of their constant exploitation of race, then I think you're naive."
The nasty rhetoric reflects Democratic disappointment that Lott stepped down. The party seemed to have the Republicans in a bind: Either Lott stayed as a soft-on-segregation party leader, or he "cleansed himself" in the only way the Democrats can imagine -- by endorsing the full Democratic program of race preferences, set-asides and quotas. In one apology, Lott had already come out for undefined version of affirmative action. He was so desperate to please that one columnist (not very seriously) said Lott might endorse slavery reparations next.
Constant exploitation of race? In an effort to keep the charge of racism alive, umpteen Democrats in the past two weeks have pointed to the Willie Horton issue and Jesse Helms' old "hands" ad that showed a white male losing out to a black because of affirmative action. But the Willie Horton issue -- whether it makes any sense to grant dangerous felons unsupervised vacations from prison ("furloughs") -- is obviously legitimate. It was aired at great length in Massachusetts when Dukakis was governor, and was introduced into 1988 presidential politics by then-candidate Al Gore.
Beyond that, "the constant exploitation of race" in recent political ads has been a virtual Democratic monopoly. How about the 2000 ad in Texas that associated George W. Bush with the vicious dragging killing of a black man? (A vote against enhanced penalties for hate crimes was depicted as a vote for racial murders.) Or the Democrats' 1996 California ad opposing Proposition 209 that featured David Duke and burning crosses (a vote against quotas and preferences was depicted as a vote for the Klan). After the wave of church burnings, radio ads aimed at black voters suggested that a vote for Republicans was a vote for more arson at black churches.
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Neighborhood News Roundup: Peak Yums Edition
A regular summary of irregular news and notes from neighborhood blogs and email lists around the District.
Burning Up: Over the past week, a flurry of letters between the Bloomingdale Civic Association and the would-be manager of the supposedly forthcoming Engine Company 12 have been exchanged—predominately via local blogs. We Love DC has a very apt summary of the correspondence: "This past Friday, the General Manager Stephen May Jr. of Engine Company 12 wrote an open letter to lambast the local civic association for dragging its feet in supporting the restaurant publicly with a letter of support, which would help them through the process of obtaining an ABRA license that would allow them to serve alcoholic beverages. On Sunday, the Civic Association responded. Late yesterday, Curbed published another response from Mr. May." The blog also reflects on what it all means: "Liquor licenses are especially contentious things. One need only look at the kerfuffle around Big Bear Café in Bloomingdale last year to see that this is a community that, in the parlance of the Internet, feels ways about things. Knowing that much, working with the BCA management more than just a few days ahead of a meeting would seem to be a wise event, even if you're doing a lot of community outreach, which to their credit, Engine Company 12 has done." One commenter thinks the neighborhood is particularly wary of getting burned by yet another promise for this property. "It's worth noting that multiple other business plans for the space have come and gone in the last five years, and it's safe to say a lot of people in the neighborhood got tired of being burned by promises that never materialized. I think it's been a safe position for Bloomingdale and Eckington to take a wait-and-see approach on things regarding the old firehouse," they write.
Keep It Clean: The Takoma email list has been in hot debate over the various aspects of Walmart. The usual topics—wages, insurance, and whether or not the neighborhood wants "that kind" of retail"—have abounded, so much so that a referee needed to step in. In a thread titled "PLEASE TRIM YOUR TAILS," the email list moderator writes, "The messages are flying so fast and furious that I can't get a reminder in edgewise. I've been sending this message to people privately but I just can't keep up. PLEASE TRIM OFF THE EXTRA MESSAGES AT THE END OF YOUR POSTS. Only repeat the few lines to which you are responding. I won't approve any more messages today that have a string of old messages included. I will return them to you to revise and resend. So if you want people to see your messages in a timely way, trim your tails. The digest of today's messages is going to be three miles long and most of it just repeated messages. No problem, just a reminder."
A Historic Designation in the Making: 14th & You picks up on City Paper's Lydia DePillis' reporting that yet another condo building will be erected on 14th Street NW. The blog observes that the architecture is rather uninspiring, but commenters don't mince words and lambast the plan. "This building is hideous and unoriginal. Do they think we LIKE this sort of crap being built? What the hell does it CONTRIBUTE?" writes one. Another blames the architect: "That's because Eric Colbert is one boring unimaginative architect. He has always been and has only gotten more mediocre over the years. I do not understand why DC's developers can't find someone with true style and creativity to design buildings. DC is becoming more and more ugly by the day." But 14th & You raises a question more critical than mere aesthetics: "No matter–progress is progress, right? A potentially greater issue than mundane architecture was raised on the Twitters today: namely, is DC starting to run out of Yums? With the loss of this location, and the anticipated loss of the one between Rhode Island and P street when that section of the block gets redeveloped, one does have to wonder: have we reached Peak Yums, and are venturing along the beginnings of a downhill slide from which we may never recover? Heaven help us."
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