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For what length of time your gums sore after a tooth extraction?
Extraction pain: Everyday after the extraction, you should improve and should have little pain after a few days. If after three or four days you start to get pain again, you could have a dry socket and must go back to the dentist. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Gum Pain (Definition)
Is a localized physical suffering associated with gingivitis and/or periodontitis. It is a oral soft tissue sensation induced by a noxious stimulus, received by naked nerve endings, characterized by physical discomfort as pricking, throbbing, or aching. ...Read more
Can you tell me how i can relieve wisdom teeth extraction - gum pain?
See an oral surgeon : Or the dentist. Pain and swelling following dental extraction is usually at its worst 24 – 48 hours after surgery, after that it should subside more and more every day and after 7 days stop. If pain persists or worsens, it may require attention and you should call your dentist or oral surgeon for follow up appointment. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
The gums are sore around a crown. Is this normal? What does it mean?
Sore gums: The crown may be too big and not seal the margins (where the tooth meets the crown). This can allow bacteria under the crown and cause irritation to the gums. Or there can be recurrent decay or bacteria under the gums, that can be caused by not flossing or brushing enough or properly. These are just 2 examples, xrays and exam will be needed. ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
Gum pain when brushing and eating. It's very sore. What do I do?
Evaluation: Gum pain could indicate ginigivitis or periodontitis. Your local dentist will need to take a look, and together with radiographs, can determine what treatment you may need. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
I had a deep clean 1 week ago. My gums are sore, red, and itchy. Is that normal? I was fine before it.
Normal ,but: are you on antibiotics? Following post op instructions?keeping good oral hygiene? You should schedule a follow up appoint my with the treating dentist to make sure all are good. ...Read more
My toddler's top front gums are sore and he has bad breath in the morning. What can I do?
See a dentist: How is his oral hygiene? Has he or she been to a dentist? The sore gums could be due to the front teeth still erupting or cavities. The bad breath could be due to cavities or not brushing the tongue. See a dentist for a thorough evaluation. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Can you get HIV from kissing and your gums are sore but not bleeding?
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My gums are sore I have enamel wearing off my front teeth and that is where my gums are sore
Without : Without a clinical exam you have not provided enough information to hazard a guess as to what your problem is. The first impression is that you might be brushing too aggressively in that area or that you are clenching you teeth for extended periods of time. You need to schedule an exam with you dentist to get to the bottom of the problem and to be given treatment recommendations. ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
Sore gums due to dentures? I've had dentures for about a year now, but recently have been experiencing constant mild gum pain on both my upper and lower jaw. Is this likely due to something being wrong with my dentures, or them no longer fitting right?
Changes in gums: Your gums and bone may have changed allowing the denture to press extra on certain spots. These are called denture sore spots and the dentures may need adjusting by the dentist. ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
I had 2 wisdom teeth removed from my upper left. This was over a week and a half ago and my front teeth/gums are sore and painful. Is this normal?
See your dentist: The relationship between wisdom teeth surgery and "front teeth/gums are sore and painful" is mostly irrelevant. Sore or painful gums may be a sign that you are at risk for or already have gum disease. This is a serious problem, which should be checked by a dentist.See your dentist for evaluation. Do not delay, ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
Gums (Definition)
Gum are the pink soft tissue that forms a collar around our teeth, that collar acts as a gasket of sorts that protects the tooth roots and the bone that ...Read more
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This season's newest Desperate Housewives cast addition, Dana Delany, famously turned down the role of Bree before the show's 2004 premiere. But she had a very good reason for jumping at the chance to play new Wisteria Lane-ite Katherine Mayfair when show creator Marc Cherry came knocking on her door with the offer of a second chance at joining the DH cast.
The actress jokes in the new issue of More magazine that she joined the cast because several of the stars who were single when the show started –Eva Longoria, Marcia Cross, Nicollette Sheridan–have met their husbands or fiancés since then. "Marriage has never been a big deal for me," says 51-year-old China Beach Emmy winner Delany. "But I think I'm ready now. Before, I wanted adventures. I feel like, in some ways, I was smarter than anybody. I got to have all the fun in the world, to experience a lot of and figure out what I really like. I got to evolve. Now I know what makes me happy."
Her DH character's storyline also parallels her life, Delany says, because, like Katherine with her younger spouse, Delany has also dated a lot of younger men.
"I've been dating younger men since my 20s," says the actress, whose past loves have included Eagles singer Don Henley, actors Treat Williams and Henry Czerny and China Beach/The West Wing producer John Sacret Young.
Recently, she tells More she dated a wine connoisseur who was 11 years younger and a writer who is 14 younger than her. "I can't go any younger than that!" she says. "That's my limit. But younger men are just more fun. I like their energy. I've always been kind of young for my age."
But while things are looking good for Delany in real life, her on-screen love affair is about to hit the rocks. Sunday's new episode of DH (9 p.m. ET, ABC) finds her husband Adam's (Nathan Fillion) former stalker coming to town, and Delany herself spilled the beans about the show's Dec. 2 tornado episode, which, as she told Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa, spells doom for her marriage.
"One of the casualties of the tornado is my marriage. And I saying to Marc Cherry, who created the show, 'We haven't even had sex yet!' And he said to me, 'Well, that's up to you.'" –Kimberly Potts
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A guard told me, "The kids are often better behaved than the adults."
This, I believe, having observed an animated group of young art lovers stay within the brown lines delineated on the gallery rooms' wooden floors.
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If you're in the market for a higher-end (but still affordable) DSLR, the Canon 70D and the Nikon D7100 are two of the top choices. While these two cameras occupy similar spots in Canon and Nikon's respective lineups they really cater to different users. Read on to find out which is best for you....
The big story with the Canon 70D is its Dual Pixel CMOS AF focusing system, which really is a game-changer for video AF. Canon puts unique phase-detect autofocus (PDAF) pixels on the image sensor itself. Although the Canon 70D isn't the first camera with on-sensor phase-detect pixels, the 70D's imaging sensor includes these special pixels across 80% of its height and width, which is unique (other cameras have phase detect pixels over a smaller portion of the frame, so live-view focusing outside the center of the screen is either slower or non-existent). This lets you compose and frame using the touchscreen, with speedy autofocus, almost anywhere in the frame.
The best part about the 70D's on-sensor phase-detect is the incredible video autofocus opportunities it creates. Most DSLRs (like the D7100) use contrast-detect focusing during video, which can hunt back and forth for focus while recording. In contrast, the 70D video AF gives videographers smooth focus transitions -- 'racking' between near and far subjects like a pro. Additionally, use of the 70D's touchscreen LCD -- not found on the D7100 -- makes it simple to change the camera's focus during video recording.
On the other hand, the D7100, like many other DSLRs, uses only a contrast-detect autofocusing (CDAF) system for live view focusing (live view focusing uses only the image sensor itself for focusing, and is the only focusing mode available when shooting video). While CDAF is very accurate, it is significantly slower than Canon's on-sensor phase-detect AF, so video AF is neither as smooth nor as intuitive as on the 70D.
In concluding our review, we praised the 70D's "exceptionally fast (pro-grade) conventional autofocus lag." That's because Canon saw fit to pair the 70D's revolutionary video AF technology with a very competitive 19-point still AF system borrowed from the 7D (70D vs. 7D; D7100 vs. 7D). While the system is nearly 5 years old at this point, the pro-grade AF was a joy to use and did a great job acquiring and maintaining focus. In contrast, we concluded that the D7100's stills AF speed slightly slower than average for a prosumer DSLR.
On the upside though, Nikon saw fit to provide far more autofocus points on the D7100: 51 vs. 19. That gives a lot more flexibility to focus on subjects on the sides of the frame. While you can focus and recompose with the 70D, you could encounter problems with very wide angle or fast lenses, where you might put your subject out of focus after recomposing. If you want this sort of flexibility with the 70D, you'll need to use live-view mode and accept the significantly slower autofocus speed. Likewise, the D7100's both larger and finer-grained array of focus points gives it a better ability to lock on and follow a moving subject, although its not as fast-focusing as the 70D.
Perhaps the biggest selling point of the D7100 is its new 24.1-megapixel APS-C sensor that lacks an optical low-pass anti-aliasing (AA) filter. This type of sensor renders much sharper detail, but at the risk of unsightly moiré. Fortunately, Nikon appears to have done great work in this area, because we didn't find significant moiré issues until we really started hunting for them in earnest.
While issues may still crop up, it seems Nikon has delivered the benefits of a camera with no AA filter -- awesome sharpness and detail rendition -- while generally avoiding its drawbacks. Not only this, but the D7100's sensor gives you more resolution in terms of sheer megapixels compared to the 70D. Prints from the D7100 were superb, looking great at base ISOs up to 36x48". In fact, the fantastic, highly-detailed images even rivaled the output of full-frame DSLRs like Nikon's D610 (70D vs. 610; D7100 vs. D610)
With the new on-chip phase detect system of the Canon 70D, it goes without saying that they'd have to use something other than the 18MP APS-C sensor that graced many of their previous crop-sensor DSLRs, such as the 7D (70D vs. 7D; D7100 vs. 7D), T5i (70D vs. T5i; D7100 vs. T5i), and the 70D's predecessor, the 60D (70D vs. 60D; D7100 vs. 60D). However, the new 20.2-megapixel CMOS sensor of the Canon 70D, while stunning for it's Dual Pixel autofocus technology, doesn't provide a leaps and bound improvement in still image quality over the 60D.
To be clear, the Canon 70D still takes great pictures, just not ones that are exceedingly better than what the 4-year-old 60D or 5-year-old 7D can produce. The D7100 is especially strong relative to the 70D at lower ISOs, where it provides much better dynamic range (the ability to retain detail in both light and dark areas in the same frame). However, the 70D has improved noticeably at high sensitivities and, while the image quality of the Nikon D7100 still has a bit of an edge there over the Canon 70D, Canon closes the gap noticeably.
All told, the image quality of the D7100 is extremely impressive for an APS-C camera. Nikon appears to have chosen a near-optimal balance of detail and noise suppression. While the appearance of some grain in higher ISO images is a bit stronger on the D7100 compared to the 70D (at default noise reduction settings), the fine detail rendition is slightly better.
Both the 70D and the D7100 are in the mid-range DSLR category in terms of size and weight -- bigger and heavier than something like a Canon T5i (70D vs. T5i; D7100 vs. T5i) but certainly smaller and lighter than a full-frame Nikon D810 (70D vs. D810; D7100 vs. D810). Compared to each other, both weigh practically the same with their respective longer kit zoom lenses, the Canon EF-S 18-135mm and Nikon 18-105mm, and their sizes are nearly identical as well.
The eye-level pentaprism optical viewfinders differ slightly, with the Nikon providing full 100% coverage, and the Canon with only 98%, not a noticeable difference for many users, but important if you need really critical framing. The Canon viewfinder and the eyecup itself protrudes outwards from the body more than on the D7100, which provides a little more comfort and space for left-eye dominant photographers who also use back-button focusing, as it keeps you thumb from bumping your face. On the other hand, eyeglass-wearing users will find the 70D a bit more comfortable, with its higher 22mm eyepoint, vs the Nikon's 19.5mm.
One of the biggest physical design differences between these cameras is the vari-angle touchscreen LCD on the Canon 70D, which the D7100 lacks. The 3-inch LCD on the 70D features a wide range of angle and swivel adjustment that helps not only with shooting in tight or awkward angles, but also with video shooting and angling the screen away from glare when outdoors. The touchscreen is also very good with a nice, responsive touch experience. As we mentioned before, the tap-to-focus ability was a great asset for shooting video.
Another significant difference in these two cameras is the inclusion of Wi-Fi in the Canon 70D. While the Nikon D7100 is compatible with Nikon's WU-1a/WU-1b wireless adapter, wireless connectivity is not built into the camera itself. Straight out of the box, the Canon offers photographers the ability to remotely control the camera with the companion EOS Remote app for Android and iOS, as well as browse, copy and share photos and video from the camera.
The Wi-Fi on the Canon 70D is easy to setup and works really well, with the ability to not only remotely trigger the shutter, but also adjust exposure settings like aperture, ISO and shutter speed all from the mobile app. However, one big drawback with the Wi-Fi implementation on the 70D is the lack of remote video shooting, as well as a strange issue where video recording is completely disabled while the Wi-Fi radio is enabled in the camera. A big warning will be displayed on the screen telling you to turn off Wi-Fi before trying to record video.
Wireless shooting requires additional accessories and isn't as full-featured on the D7100. With the WU-1a/WU-1b wireless adapter (~$45) and the companion Wireless Mobile Utility app (Android/iOS), you can view and download photos stored on the camera's memory card, but you can't view or transfer videos. Remote shooting capabilities are also limited with no exposure adjustments like ISO or aperture available, and no remote video recording either. We did not have a Nikon wireless adapter to review alongside the D7100, however. Connectivity isn't a total win for the Canon, though, as Nikon saw fit to include dual card slots, a feature working pros will welcome.
Video features on both cameras are very strong. Both offer up to 1080/30p high definition video with full-time autofocus and shooting video was a blast with both cameras. However, their video talents are distinct: the 70D with its incredible video AF, the D7100 with the quality of its video output.
The Nikon D7100 produces high-quality HD video, with good detail, modest motion artifacts, and pleasing, accurate color. In our daytime videos, under bright sunlight, colors were accurate and high contrasts were handled well. The shadow areas weren't crushed down to black and retained lots of detail. The D7100 also excelled in our night video shots. Shooting at ISO 3200, image noise was low and the resulting footage still had good dynamic range. Shadow detail was present and fine details were still visible.
The Canon 70D HD video quality was generally good, with crisp detail and accurate color rendition, but it didn't do as well in high contrast situations. Scenes shot in bright daylight show quite a bit of contrast (a little too much for our tastes) and shadow areas were excessively dark with the Standard Picture Profile. Users looking to get the most dynamic range out of their clips should use a custom picture style with decreased contrast. In low-light scenes, the 70D did a great job, with nice detail overall and decent shadow detail. While there was visible high ISO noise in our nighttime test videos, it wasn't severe enough to significantly degrade the image quality.
Video moiré and aliasing -- a notorious issue for video on many HD-DSLRs -- wasn't a severe problem for either camera. Moiré artifacts were very well-controlled in the 1080p videos from the D7100, even in the usual problem areas of our test videos like roofing shingles, asphalt and window blinds. At 720p resolution, moiré was more noticeable in areas like roofing shingles.
On the Canon side, while we saw much-improved handling of moiré and aliasing effects in the 5D Mark III (70D vs. 5D Mark III; D7100 vs. 5D Mark III) compared to its predecessor, that doesn't seem to be the case with the 70D. In our test videos, a fair number of moiré artifacts could be seen in the standard problem areas like window screens, roof shingles, and fine patterned fabrics. Moiré and aliasing are even more pronounced in 720p video, which has been the case with other Canon DSLRs we've seen in the past. Overall, moiré artifacts on the 70D look very similar to those seen on the 6D (70D vs. 6D; D7100 vs. 6D) and 5D Mark II (70D vs. 5D Mark II; D7100 vs. 5D Mark II). While we'd give the nod to the D7100 in video quality, Canon did give advanced users a nod by offering both IPB and the higher quality pro-level ALL-I intra-frame compression schemes.
Though neither the 70D nor the D7100 are professional-grade sports cameras, the Canon 70D has the edge over the D7100 in shooting speed and buffer capacity. For an enthusiast DSLR, the Canon 70D's autofocus -- using standard phase-detect focusing -- was exceptionally fast. Its buffer depth was large for this class of camera and fast to clear, allowing the near-7fps burst performance to do its duty very well: large JPEG-only images averaged 20 frames with no sign of slowdown; RAW-only 14 frames; and RAW+JPEG 7 frames.
On the other hand, the Nikon D7100 had some issues here. As we mentioned before, the autofocus speed was a little underwhelming and slower than average for a prosumer DSLR. When using its higher-quality 14-bit RAW mode, the buffer filled very quickly, limiting the effectiveness of the 6 frames per second burst. In real-world shooting, we were only able to get about 5 frames of 14-bit RAW + JPEG images before the buffer filled at the best of times (ISO 100 with all image correction processing disabled for JPEG processing), however most of the time we found the buffer filled after about 3-4 frames.
Balancing some of these sports shooting drawbacks somewhat is the D7100's unique "crop mode." Typically seen on Nikon's full-frame cameras, where the normal 35mm field-of-view is reduced to an APS-C "cropped" view, this new mode on the D7100 lets you crop its APS-C field-of-view by a factor of 1.3x, functioning as a kind of digital teleconverter. Not only does the crop mode provide extra versatility with framing and composing shots, but also enables a little boost in the burst speed (from 6 to 7fps).
And using JPEG-only or the lower quality 12-bit RAW option, the D7100 was able to keep up with its burst rate more effectively. Note that while this performance more closely matches that of the 70D, the 70D manages the feat with 14-bit RAW, albeit with 20% fewer pixels. It's a bit of a tough tradeoff that may depend on who you are. If you're shooting fast action, you'll almost certainly prefer the 70D's quicker AF and deeper buffer. On the other hand, if your subjects aren't pro athletes or race cars shot with a long telephoto, the D7100's broader and finer AF coverage will help the camera follow your subjects more closely.
While the Nikon D7100 and Canon 70D are pretty much neck and neck in price, these two cameras cater to different users. This is a case where specs don't get to the heart of the matter: these are very different beasts.
Video AF is buttery smooth and precise on the 70D and we appreciated the modern features you won't find on the D7100, especially the built-in Wi-Fi and the articulating touchscreen. And the faster traditional stills AF and deep buffer made it a pleasure to use.
Whereas the 70D brings revolutionary new technology to the table in replacing the 60D (though not so much in the image-quality department), the D7100 offers a solid, more evolutionary upgrade to the D7000, with traditional amenities such as dual card slots and vastly more focus points for non-live view still shooting.
The D7100 really sets itself apart from the 70D in image quality, and we can't stress enough how great its images looked. You'll get more ISO headroom, much better dynamic range, more resolution and fantastic detail rendition. All of these attributes will be catnip to landscape photographers, who will love the D7100. In fact, anyone for whom performance and stills AF are not critical will adore the full-frame-rivaling image quality of the D7100.
If you are an action or sports photographer on the other hand, your decision is pretty easy. The D7100 gives you great image quality, many more AF points and a built-in crop mode for extra telephoto versatility -- all great features for sports and action shooters -- but is hurt by a poor buffer, particularly when shooting 14-bit RAWs. At the end of the day, the 70D's faster AF and deeper buffer will yield more sharp photos for action shooters.
If you're primarily interested in shooting video, your decision comes down to balancing the 70D's superior live view focusing and ALL-I high-bitrate video format versus the D7100's video quality and dynamic range. For many amateur videographers, the 70D's live view focusing will carry the most weight (it really is incredible), while those who mainly use manual focus may prefer the quality of the D7100's video output.
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Maximum effective ISO is an estimate of the highest sensitivity at which a camera can capture excellent quality photos.
Cameras with higher effective ISO will be better choices for indoor photography, night shooting, and indoor sports photography, especially if you intend to make large prints.
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Maximum effective ISO test data courtesy of DxO Mark.D7100 test data on DxO Mark 70D test data on DxO Mark
Cameras with more dynamic range allow you to take photos with dramatic differences in highlight and shadow areas while retaining detail in both.
Think of a brilliant sunset on a rocky beach: Bright sunset in the background, with dark rocks in the foreground. High dynamic range means more of the extremes will be faithfully reproduced.
Dynamic range test data courtesy of DxO Mark.D7100 test data on DxO Mark 70D test data on DxO Mark
Solid, ergonomic body design; Stunning, highly detailed photos, thanks to 24.1MP sensor upgrade and removal of optical low-pass filter; Cool 1.3x crop mode extends reach to nearly 2x the full-frame equivalent; Records Full 1080p HD video at up to 30fps with full-time AF; Many pro-level features packed into a consumer-friendly body at reasonable price.
Shallow buffer that hampers continuous burst shooting; AF slightly slower than average for its class; No real-time aperture control while in Movie mode (among other quirks); More noticeable moire patterns and aliasing artifacts (but only found when shooting fabrics with strong, distinct patterns).
Dual Pixel CMOS AF delivers full-time continuous autofocus (with phase detect at every pixel in framing area) for video and Live View still shooting; Full HD (1080p) video recording with pro-level features and quality; Improved resolution and good high ISO performance; Excellent Wi-Fi remote shooting with full exposure controls; 3-inch articulating LCD touchscreen.
Image quality only improved slightly over 60D; Dynamic range still lags behind competing models; May not feature enough upgrades to convince people to step up from 60D.


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text: Bananas Courchesne Larose breaks ground on new facility By Coral Beach May 18, 2011 | 11:34 am EDT Comments Print Courtesy Courchesne Larose The company expects design innovations to result in increased efficiency. Expecting to provide higher quality produce and save costs, Montreal-based Courchesne Larose Ltd. broke ground April 4 for its new home. Company officials say the first phase of 125,000 square feet should be complete by fall.Consequently, Guy Milette might be a bit distracted this week during the Canadian Produce Marketing Associationâs show â his attention may drift about 15 kilometers north of the show floor to the construction site. As Courchesneâs vice president of international and business development and one of the show organizers, Milette said he is busier than usual this spring.âWe had the ground leveled at the new site last fall so we could actually start work as soon as the weather broke this spring,â Milette said April 5. âNow I am working on the show and planning how we will operate in our new building.Workers are expected to pour concrete foundations while Milette is walking the CMPA show floor. He expects to see the steel super structure begin to take shape by the end of May. The site in eastern Montreal in the Anjou area is on the Boulevard of Sciences. Milette said the location has many advantages, including close proximity to the junction of two major highways.âWe were at a crossroads at Courchesne Larose,â Milette said. âWhen built 50 years ago, our building was rectangular. Now it looks more like a spider because of all the additions. Itâs hard to be efficient while moving product here.âCompany officials had hoped the space problems would be resolved with a proposed central produce market, but last year the majority of small and medium-sized growers decided to stay in the west end at the Place des Producteurs.At the time, Milette told The Packer it âwas like a slap in the face.âCourchesne Larose had more than $150,000 invested in plans and legal fees for the proposed market. Company officials decided they could not wait. They bought the proposed market site and started work on their new facility.The company expects design innovations to result in increased efficiency. For bananas, Milette said the company projects moving 40% more product, from the current 25,000 boxes per week up to 35,000 boxes.The new warehouse/distribution center will have shipping and receiving on the same side. Limiting open dock doors to one side will reduce temperature and humidity fluctuations, Milette said.A custom dock will further decrease operating costs and reduce damage to produce. The floor is lowered at the threshold of each door, making it possible for trucks to back their trailers into a protected area before opening their doors.âSo it wonât matter if itâs 25 below in the winter or 85 degrees in summer, the cold chain will remain constant,â Milette said.The layout and operation of the new facility is expected to be so different that senior executives decided the companyâs personnel structure should be revised.âWe are changing the buyer/seller structures,â Milette said. âWe will have about eight head buyers. By having a better chain of response you have a better chain of command and with the new building it will all fit together better.â


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Professor J.C. Bradbury of Kennesaw State University in Georgia tells the Voice that Roger Clemens isn't worth it. In his new book, The Baseball Economist, Bradbury calculates the value of a win in terms of revenue created. He then credits each player for his contributions to those wins in monetary termssort of like Bill James's theory of "Win Shares" converted to dollar signs. It's complicated, but then so are both baseball and economics. The bottom line for Bradbury, economically speaking, is that Clemens's worth is about $11 to $12 million, or about a third less than the Yankees will be paying him to start perhaps 20 games in what's left of the season. (Actually, the cost to the Yankees is greater than Clemens's reported $18.6 million salary. They'll also be kicking in more than $7 million to Major League Baseball's luxury tax fund.)
Bradbury isn't the only one who thinks Clemens will be overpaid. Judging from the radio call-in shows, many fans agree, and it isn't just the money some people object to. On "The Fan," former Mets GM Steve Phillips railed against special conditions that the Yankees are allowing Clemens, like not having to travel with the team when he's not scheduled to pitch. "There should be the same rules for everybody," proclaimed Phillips, as if Babe Ruth's career had never happened. ESPN's Jemele Hill was even harsher: The Yankees' indulgences are "disgraceful," she asserted.
Maybe, but everyone seems to be forgetting that deals in baseball, like all other businesses, are subject to the laws of supply and demand. In this case, Clemens has the only available supply of something the Yankees are in dire need of: quality starting pitching. Before the deal was announced on May 6, the Yankees seemed in jeopardy of calling it quits. Now, with the addition of the Rocket and the return of the Pocket Rocket (Philip Hughes, the 20-year-old version of Clemens who should rejoin the team about the same time as his idol), the Yankees have a solid chance to catch the Red Sox or at least to make the playoffs.
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Clemens: The Greatest of All Time
Actually, for Yankee fans, the reaction to the Clemens signing, to quote Yogi, is déjà vu all over again. The same adjectives were used to describe Clemens when he first came to the Yankees in 1999. Most were summed up in a piece I wrote on Clemens for the Voice in October 2001:
When he came here, Clemens was perceived as a carpetbagger, a mercenary who came to New York to finally gain recognition as a winner. The perception, of course, was entirely accurate. And why shouldn't he come to New York for those reasons? Isn't that why everyone comes to New York? Why else would anyone come to New York?
Frankly, he has been too long in coming. Roger Clemens is an asshole, and Yankee fans are assholes; why did it take them so long to get together?
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As I said seven years ago, Clemens is an assholethe kind of pitcher who would, in the words of Bob Uecker's announcer in Major League, "knock down his own kid in a father-son game"but he's our asshole. New York fans and writers ought to be happy he's back. For starters, he is probably the greatest pitcher in baseball historysecond on the all-time strikeout list, eighth in all-time wins, and a seven-time leader in ERA with seven Cy Young Awards. Allowing for the differences in eras, Clemens compares favorably with Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove, or virtually any other pitcher who has ever played the game.
I said "is probably the greatest," and this assumes, of course, that Clemens, who will turn 45 in August, is at least a facsimile of his younger self. Yankee fans are still smarting from the overnight aging of Randy Johnson, perhaps the premier left-hander of the last 25 years. That can certainly happen to Clemens, too, but his last three seasons with the Houston Astros indicate otherwise: Both his average won-lost percentage of .680 and his ERA of 2.4 runs per nine innings from 200406 are actually better than the averages of his previous 20 seasons.
Still, the question lingers: Is Clemens worth the money? What he offers is such a rare commodity that it tends to be, in times of crisis, overpricedand for Brian Cashman and the front office, nearly every issue is a case of crisis management. Having failed to produce enough pitching from their neglected farm system, the Yankees must now pay the price, which means bowing to the laws of supply and demand.
Even Bradbury acknowledges that there are reasons for signing Roger Clemens that go beyond economics. "The things that are difficult to quantify," he says, "are Clemens's star power, leadership, and some as yet unidentified unique characteristics of the Yankees market."
What's likely, though, is that George Steinbrenner isn't looking to make a profit on Roger Clemens. Given his track record, it's likely that Steinbrenner's aim doesn't fit into any economic model: All he cares about is winning.
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Milwaukee Languages girls basketball team used a fast start and big night from Kayla Brewer to clinch the City Blue Division title outright Friday.
The Hawks defeated second-place Pulaski/Arts, 55-47, on the road to finish conference play 11-0. The league plays a 12-game schedule, but Languages' game second game with Bay View was canceled so that the division's top two teams could make up a game that was postponed earlier this month because of bad weather.
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NEW YORK -- If the past few years were any indication, Michigan should have been looking at a decisive rebounding disadvantage against Pittsburgh.
Jamie Dixon's Panther teams have traditionally been a hard-nosed, physical force in the Big East. A team that rarely gets out-rebounded when it matters.
Michigan, meanwhile, has had to find ways to win games despite a constant rebounding disadvantage under John Beilein since 2007.
But on Wednesday, the roles were reversed.
A suddenly much bigger, quicker and more athletic Michigan team owned the offensive and defensive glass against Pitt during its 67-62 NIT Season Tip-Off semifinal win in New York, especially in the second half.
"They out-rebounded us," Dixon said afterward. "That's something that just doesn't happen.
"But it did."
Yes, indeed it did.
Michigan out-rebounded Pittsburgh 37-26 for the game, 10-6 on the offensive glass. The Wolverines really dominated after halftime, though, out-rebounding the Panthers 24-12 during the game's final 20 minutes.
The main contributors on the window for the Wolverines were freshman wing Glenn Robinson III and junior big man Jordan Morgan.
Morgan was especially big on the offensive glass, as four of his game-high eight rebounds came on the offensive end.
"We talked so much the last couple days about how Pitt wins games on the offensive glass," Michigan coach John Beilein said. "And we challenged him, that he had to be more physical. He had to get in there and rebound.
"We felt he had to be more assertive, and he was. He really was."
Robinson's rebounds were timely, and seemed to be the type of athletic plays that Michigan simply hasn't been able to pull off under Beilein.
He grabbed four rebounds after halftime, two on the offensive glass -- and one on an athletic play that resulted in a tip-in bucket to put the team up six with less than five minutes to play.
Last season, those type of plays probably went the other way as a defensive board -- and Michigan was probably left with an empty possession.
Michigan is averaging 41.5 rebounds per game through four appearances this season, and has an average of 10 offensive boards per game.
A year ago, Michigan won a share of the Big Ten title with just 30.8 rebounds per night, and the Wolverines were actually out-rebounded by 29 on the season.
It's only four games, but it's an encouraging sign for Michigan nonetheless.
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It's no picnic coaching high school basketball nowadays. I've heard all the stories – about the self-centered players, the meddling parents, the trouble getting kids to embrace discipline and defense.
"It's a daily struggle," said Canisius head coach Kyle Husband. "Today's world is all about 'Me.' "
But it's nice to be reminded what can happen when a bunch of teenagers submerge their egos and express themselves as a team, when the program is more precious than any individual, the sum greater than the parts.
Husband has built such a program in nine years at Canisius. The Crusaders are a deep and talented group. But it's their selflessness that defines them. On Wednesday night, they survived some ragged stretches to outlast Timon, 53-47, for their third straight Manhattan Cup title.
Canisius didn't play its best game. Bishop Timon-St. Jude, which was outmanned but battled to the final buzzer, saw to that. Adam Weir, who will compete on the same court for Canisius College next fall, had a strong all-around game and led the way with 15 points. But he had an erratic shooting game on a night when the Canisius offense seemed rushed and out of sync.
That generally happens when you're trying to beat a local rival for the third time in a season. But when a team doesn't rely on any single player to carry the offense, it wins those games when the top scorers are a little off – especially when it embraces the suffocating pressure defense the Crusaders used to wear down Timon.
"You look across the board, down the bench, we probably have eight or nine guys who could go to any high school and be the best player there," said senior Matt MacDonald. "Certain guys could average 20 a night, but choose to sacrifice for team. You look at a result like this and it tells you how important that is."
Spoken like a true coach's son. MacDonald's dad, Mike, was the long-time coach at Canisius College and is now winning big at Medaille. Mike couldn't make the Cup final. His Mavs had an ECAC playoff game in Pennsylvania.
It's true about the Crusaders' depth. Several players have transferred to other Monsignor Martin teams to get more playing time. Their second team would be one of the best teams in the area. Harold Washington, a freshman guard, had some big plays in the final. So did sophomore guard Josh Huffman.
Canisius, the top-rated large school in Western New York, is loaded with underclassmen and should contend for years to come.
"We've got a good thing going," Husband said. "The kids know what steps they have to take and the system we have. We preach it year-round. The Canisius way. It's tenacity and defense."
The Canisius way works. No team had won the Cup three years in a row since the Crusaders under the late Tom Keenan from 1996-98. Husband was a senior on that '96 team, which upset St. Joe's in the title game and eventually lost to a Jason Rowe-led Traditional team in the federation Class C semifinals.
Husband went on to play college ball at Rensselaer. When he came back to Buffalo, he felt a certain lack of direction in his life. He worked as a bartender for awhile. But deep down, he knew his heart was still in the game.
"Basketball was always my life," Husband said. "After college, when I came back to town, I thought, 'Geez, now what?'
"I had always stayed close with Tom [Keenan] and he wanted me to come and help. I knew what I wanted right away, once I started working with him."
Keenan was battling cancer when Husband became an assistant coach. Husband watched his old coach run the team for three years with the disease.
He saw how much basketball meant to Keenan, who loved the game and showed what it meant to sacrifice to see it played well.
Ben Batory coached the Crusaders in the 2003-04 season, the year Keenan passed away. Husband took over the following year and won the Manhattan Cup, the first of his five, in his first season.
Husband said this was a particularly tough season. He and his wife, Kassi, have a 9-month-old son, Will. Now a Husband and father, he also had a gifted family of teenaged athletes to nurture. It didn't come easy. The great teams always take time.
"It definitely took a little while to buy in," said MacDonald, who scored 11 points. "In November, we were all looking for 'ours,' and it just takes a while for any team to bond together. We really started to click the last month."
Hard work paid off. Jim Mauro, the Canisius AD, said he was meeting with his hockey coaches recently and told them there's a simple reason Husband and his staff win so much. They work their tails off.
Basketball can be a beautiful game when it's played well, when the five players are flowing as one unit. It can be tough to watch when they're not.
"But when it does work, it's fun to watch," Husband said. "It can be special."
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By RYAN HOLMGREN
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Clichés are clichés because they are true. Here's one that you're bound to hear every year come tournament time: It's really hard to beat a team three times in a season.
Top-ranked Bismarck enters today's Class A girls basketball state tournament semifinal against Minot High owning a 2-0 record versus the Majettes. The third meeting, scheduled for 1 p.m. at the Minot State Dome, could be a doozy.
In their last showdown, on Feb. 6, Minot (15-8) erased nearly all of a 16-point, second-half deficit. The Majettes, trailing by one in the final minute, had a chance to take the lead with a bucket, then had an opportunity in the closing seconds to tie it with a 3-pointer. Neither shot attempt threatened to score, and Bismarck (21-2) held on for a 71-66 victory at Magic City Campus.
The first time around, Minot held an eight-point lead in the early stages of the second half before the Demons breezed to a 77-63 victory in their season opener. The Majettes were outscored 22-2 in points off turnovers in that contest.
On Thursday, Bismarck pulled away from Valley City in a 60-50 state quarterfinal win and Minot upset No. 2 West Fargo 62-59, which improved its record in games decided by five points or less to 1-4.
The Majettes are in the state semifinals for the first time since 2001, when they placed second.
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In the previous part of this series we saw how to link fullCalendar via CakePHP to a MySQL events table. This is nice, but it's only really useful if all the Create/Update and Delete actions on your events happen somewhere else.
Obviously – you'll want a way to manipulate events directly from the calendar control on the screen.
FullCalendar has excellent support for event manipulation. In this post we'll see one way to integrate this with CakePHP, to create a full-fledged CRUD calendar in your application.
A calendar control is quite confusing when interactive applications are concerned. This is because the term 'event' has two meanings in this context. One type of events makes up the calendar's data, while the other type is fired when the user clicks an area on the calendar control.
FullCalendar calls both of these types 'events' – which makes the (extensive and impressive) documentation a bit confusing at times. This just means you need to keep focus when reading it.
FullCalendar exposes a few event handles for you. I am going to deal with the following:
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The way this works is quite simple. When one of these events happen, fullCalendar calls the event handler you attach to that event. The event handler receives the parameters in the list above, and all you need to do is write the code to parse and handle the data. (For full details of these parameters – see fullCalendar's documentation).
The dayClick handle is called when a day is clicked in the calendar. The data that interests us in our event handler is the date object and the allDay flag. We can use this data to initiate an add operation in our events_controller.
A nice way to implement this is by presenting the user with a simple form to add the event details. This form can be displayed in various ways – you can use lightbox, thickbox, fancybox – any box, really. In this example I'll just use a simple
 element. It is normally hidden, and is shown only when the add (and later edit) operation is called:
Inside the fullCalendar() init method, add this:
dayClick: function(date, allDay, jsEvent, view) { $("#eventdata").show(); $("#eventdata").load("<?php echo Dispatcher::baseUrl();?>/events/add/"+allDay+"/"+$.fullCalendar.formatDate( date, "dd/MM/yyyy/HH/mm")); },
What's happening here?
Simple, really. We define a function for the dayClick event. This function is called by fullCalendar whenever the user clicks an empty slot on the calendar.
The first thing this function does is call jQuery's show() on the eventdata
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Using the eventdata div is simple. Style and position it with CSS, and use the following code to define and hide it automatically:

After show()-ing the eventdata div, our event handler loads its content using an ajax request to the add() method on our events_controller.
The request parameters are the value of allDay, along with the date/time slot clicked on the calendar. We use fullCalendar's formatDate utility to split the date object into a dd/MM/yyyy/HH/mm fromat. This results in passing a total of 6 parameters to the add method.
Clicking on the slot for 09:00 at March 26, 2010 will submit the following ajax request:
The add() method in the events_controller receives this request and responds with a form that lets the user create the event.
You can let the user enter the event name, and maybe change the event's start and end date/time. The sample below is very simplistic, and only asks the user for the event's title. It defaults to a 1-hour long event, starting at the timeslot the user originally clicked:
function add($allday=null,$day=null,$month=null,$year=null,$hour=null,$min=null) { if (empty($this->data)) { //Set default duration: 1hr and format to a leading zero. $hourPlus=intval($hour)+1; if (strlen($hourPlus)==1) { $hourPlus = '0'.$hourPlus; } //Create a time string to display in view. The time string //is either "Fri 26 / Mar, 09 : 00 — 10 : 00" or //"All day event: (Fri 26 / Mar)" if ($allday=='true') { $event['Event']['allday'] = 1; $displayTime = 'All day event: (' . date('D',strtotime($day.'/'.$month.'/'.$year)).' '. $day.' / '. date("M", mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, 10)).')'; } else { $event['Event']['allday'] = 0; $displayTime = date('D',strtotime($day.'/'.$month.'/'.$year)).' ' .$day.' / '.date("M", mktime(0, 0, 0, $month, 10)). ', '.$hour.' : '.$min.' — '.$hourPlus.' : '.$min; } $this->set("displayTime",$displayTime); //Populate the event fields for the add form $event['Event']['title'] = 'Event description'; $event['Event']['start'] = $year.'-'.$month.'-'.$day.' '.$hour.':'.$min.':00'; $event['Event']['end'] = $year.'-'.$month.'-'.$day.' '.$hourPlus.':'.$min.':00'; $this->set('event',$event); //Do not use a view template. $this->layout="empty"; } else { //Create and save the new event in the table. //Event type is set to editable - because this is a user event. $this->Event->create(); $this->data['Event']['title'] = Sanitize::paranoid($this->data["Event"]["title"], array('!','\'','?','_','.',' ','-')); $this->data['Event']['editable']='1'; $this->Event->save($this->data); $this->redirect(array('controller' => "events", 'action' => "index"); } }
The method's functionality is simple: in the spirit of CakePHP – if $this->data is empty (i.e. this is the initial ajax load request, not the form submit) – the method sets up an Event object and passes it to the view.
If, on the other hand, $this->data contains information – the method takes it to be the result of a form submit, and saves the newly created event in the database.
Note that the method only sanitizes the event title it receives from the user and not the other fields. This is because the other fields are either too small to let a malicious user script (size=1) or are never re-displayed to the user. So, even if someone spoofs your form – no harm will come your way (of course, if you want to feel safe – you are welcome to sanitize the rest of the fields).
All that's left now is create the view for the add() method. This is a very simple view (remember – it is used only to populate the eventdata div):
 <?php echo $form->create('Event', array('target'=> '_parent')); echo $form->input('title' , array('label' => 'Event title')); echo '
At: ' . $displayTime; echo $form->input('start', array('type'=>'hidden','value'=>$event['Event']['start'])); echo $form->input('end', array('type'=>'hidden','value'=>$event['Event']['end'])); echo $form->input('allday', array('type'=>'hidden','value'=>$event['Event']['allday'])); echo $form->end(array('label'=>'Save' ,'name' => 'save')); ?>
If you'd like to be nicer to your users – you can add the following at the end of add.ctp:
<input type="button" value="Cancel" onclick="back();">
That's it, really. When the user submits the form, a HTTP POST request is fired to the add() method on the events_controller.
When the method receives the POST, $this->data is not empty, and therefore the method creates and saves the new event in the table.
When you return to the calendar view (the last line in the add() method redirects to /events/index) – the new event will appear there, since it is now loaded from the json event source we created in the previous post.


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Women who give birth during the fall and winter are twice as likely to suffer from postpartum depression than if they deliver in the spring, according to a study in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Seasonal variations in mental disorders are well documented, but few studies have examined seasonal births and postpartum depression. From 2006 to 2007, 2,318 new Swedish mothers, 76% of whom had no previous psychiatric history, completed questionnaires containing a post-natal depression scale five days, six weeks and six months after giving birth. Results showed that women who gave birth from October to December were twice as likely to develop postpartum depression at six weeks and six months than women who delivered from April to June. The risk of postpartum depression was 43% higher for women who gave birth from July to September and 22% higher from January to March. There was no risk associated with deliveries from April to June. Researchers said reduced exposure to daylight may alter the activity of serotonin, causing mood disorders. Mothers giving birth in the fall might benefit from closer postpartum support and follow-up from doctors, they said.
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• Work and heart disease: Men and women who regularly work 10 hours or more a day are at significantly higher risk of suffering a heart attack than those who work seven to eight hours, according to a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Risk for heart disease is traditionally based on cholesterol and blood-pressure measurements, smoking habits, age and gender. Recent studies have found a higher rate of coronary death and disease in people working overtime. In this study, the working hours of 7,095 civil servants in London were measured by questionnaire from 1991 to 1994. Work done at home was included. Workers were monitored until 2004; 192 heart attacks were recorded. Over half the subjects, 54%, worked seven to eight hours a day, 21% worked nine hours, 15% worked 10 hours, and just over 10% worked 11 hours or more. Risk of heart attack was 45% higher among people who worked 10 hours or more, and 67% higher after 11 hours or more. As working long hours has become more common, information about time spent at work may help to predict a person's risk for heart disease, researchers said.
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• Breast cancer: A protein secreted by human mammary glands, the site of most cancerous breast tumors, suppressed the growth of malignant breast tumors in mice but had no effect on healthy cells. The protein's discovery points to a possible pathway for breast-cancer treatment, according to a study in Science Translational Medicine. The protein, called interleukin-25 (IL-25), was the most potent of six factors secreted by healthy mammary cells that were tested on breast-cancer cells in laboratory cultures. In a separate experiment, eight mice implanted with breast tumors received daily injections of IL-25, while seven received a placebo. After a month, tumors in untreated mice had tripled in size while treated mice were unchanged. No signs of toxicity were observed in the mice. IL-25 was also tested on both healthy and cancerous human breast cells and only cancerous cells responded. The California-based researchers believe IL-25 binds to a receptor protein found in 19% of invasive breast cancers but is absent in healthy cells. Future research should explore IL-25's cancer-fighting properties and its relationship to the receptor, they said.
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• Beta-blockers and melanoma: Taking beta-blockers for a year or more significantly reduced the spread of malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, in a study of 121 patients published in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Beta-blockers are frequently prescribed for angina, hypertension, migraines and cardiac arrhythmias. Research has suggested beta-blockers may also reduce the risk of prostate cancer. In this study, researchers in Italy compared the growth of malignant melanoma tumors in 30 patients taking beta-blockers for at least a year and 91 others not taking beta-blockers. After 2½ years, cancer had progressed in 3.3% of patients on beta-blockers and in 34.1% of those not on the medication. Cancer was detected in the sentinel or closest lymph node of 3.3% of beta-blocker patients and 19% of the non-beta-blocker group. None of the 24 patients who died of melanoma during five years of follow-up took beta-blockers. Researchers said beta-blockers may interfere with processes that contribute to metastasis, but more research is needed to understand how they inhibit malignant melanoma tumors.
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• Herpes transmission: The genital herpes virus can be transmitted from one person to another when the disease appears to be in an inactive state, without obvious signs or symptoms, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Herpes simplex virus type 2 is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections. An estimated 23.6 million new cases are diagnosed world-wide every year. Most infections are acquired from people who are unaware they have the virus. In this study, 498 Oregon residents with confirmed genital herpes took genital swabs for 30 days. The subjects included 410 people with a history of genital herpes symptoms before their diagnosis and 88 without prediagnostic symptoms. Results showed the virus was present on 20.1% of days in subjects with a history of genital herpes symptoms and 10.2% of days in subjects without a history. The quantity of virus shed or detected was almost identical in both groups. Risk of transmission is high in people with unrecognized genital herpes, researchers said. More public education and infection programs are recommended.
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• MRI and Alzheimer's: Magnetic resonance imaging can help identify patients with an early form of dementia, called mild cognitive impairment, in people who are at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, according to a study in Radiology. Many people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are able to lead normal lives. Some develop other conditions, some remain stable for a number of years, but the majority eventually develops Alzheimer's disease. From 2005 to 2010, two MRI brain scans were taken 12 months apart on 317 patients with MCI, 164 with Alzheimer's and 203 healthy controls. The subjects were recruited from the U.S. and Canada and followed for 24 to 36 months; their average age was 75. The scans measured the thickness of the cerebral cortex, the area of the brain that plays an important role in memory, language and attention. Based on the first MRI, researchers predicted the one-year risk of MCI patients progressing to Alzheimer's from 3% to 40%. By combining the two MRIs and comparing the one-year change in brain volume with the controls, they calculated the risk of MCI conversion to Alzheimer's in the subsequent year from 3% to 69%. By comparison, Alzheimer's develops in 1% to 2% of the general population a year. MRI will be a useful tool if effective treatments for Alzheimer's become available, researchers said.
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Retina in a dish: Embryonic stem cells from mice spontaneously formed into the shape of a three-dimensional retina in a laboratory experiment in Japan. If the technique can be adapted to human cells, it could lead to retinal transplants and a new generation of treatments for blindness, according to a study in Nature. The retina, located at the back of the eye, contains light-sensitive cells that are important for seeing. Retinal degeneration is a leading cause of blindness in diabetics and people with age-related macular degeneration. Using a new technique, researchers added a protein gel to floating clusters of mouse embryonic cells. Over the next eight to 10 days, the cells underwent a dynamic change, progressively folding inward to form a two-walled, cup-like shape resembling an early stage of eye development. Researchers noted that the transformation occurred in a self-directed fashion without a lens or other supporting tissues, a result they hadn't anticipated. The experiment showed the cells functioned normally and communicated with one another.
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,....a.. nail.
Any idea?? what is that???
also is grey gnarl still live??? in ending there is dragon shadow??
wowo the ending is pretty sad.losing all my godly power. T T
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This is guessing on my part. But I think the fairy fell in love with the hero. This is sort of like the raditional keeping your feelings hidden scene. This is proven by her objection of the hero eating the fygg. The hero will lose the ability to talk and see her anymore. The loss of it wold be just as bad to her. Since she would never be able to talk to, joke around or be with the person she cares about.
On the ending. I think that it was a complete loss for the hero. Not only did he never regain his powers but has to become mortal to save the world. The other celestrians mentioned that there was no more pathetic fate than having to become mortal. And the whole can not disobey your superiors rule could be solved easily without the fygg. Give Corvus a severe demotion for all the acts of treason he had commited, or give the hero a promotion higher than Corvus for all the extra good work he had to do. Then on the subject of the other celestrians the reward for doing their appointed labor was to return to the realm of the almighty. But no the reward was that they simply drop dead on the spot and become stars. Columbia said so, If a celestrian dies after fufilling his or her role that celestrian becomes a star.
In reality the only one who got any kind of reward was Celestria. She got her freedom from being a tree, and gets to go home to her daddy. Knowing this ending I think that there is no good ending in this game at all. Sorry if I sound to negative, but there is no good ending, happy ending, or even a fair ending. Nothing good comes from eating those fyggs...
ShadownheroJoe 6 years ago#3
What if the MC was female
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i don't think that's completely right, hector. i think superiority in this case is based on strength. corvus became much more powerful than any celestrians, strength-wise, due to his anger issues. apus major mentions something to that extent; therefore the only solution would be to become a mortal
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Give Corvus a severe demotion for all the acts of treason he had commited, or give the hero a promotion higher than Corvus for all the extra good work he had to do.
Who could have done this? Who actually has more power than Corvus and can issue this demotion or promotion? Apus Major, the strongest, highest ranked and oldest of the Celestrians points out the Corvus is more powerful than he, outright.
I also wonder where you got Stella's "love" for the hero. (Or heroine, as the case may be.) Considering her parting words are that she always wanted to be a ....nail ar..., who knows?
And while it was commonly pointed out by many of the Celestrians that being mortal would be terrible, it's implied several times that the hero/heroine in his/her youth does not share the sentiment.
*Casts Doom on everything* You all must now feel the pain that I have felt...DIE!
Corvus had the highest rank and respect from all the Celestrians for centuries. Nobody topped his record or his strength in all those many years.
Hell, the main character didn't even stop him at the end, Serena did.
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Sarick_Lyre 6 years ago#7
Actually it is more than that. Corvus becomes the Almighty.
Tell me someone who has the position that can demote the Almighty. Who is above the one who can create and destroy everything?
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Sid_Starkiller 6 years ago#8
Knowing this ending I think that there is no good ending in this game at all.
You don't consider THE WORLD NOT DISSOLVING INTO NOTHING to not be a good ending? Not everything is about you (you being the main character).
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Well again sorry to be negative, but I just believe that if themain character did all that work, and put his hide on the line he should very well receive something for it. If a celestrian does his job right, he gets a promotion. It is basic military promotion mentality. But Corvus he breaks the laws of his own people, attacks the observatory granted using a whole bunch of dead evil cretins but he attacks his own people, and top it all off he tries to off his and his entire species maker. Now I call those grounds for a demotion.
The main character gets what for all the hard work? You get to live as a mortal. That is it, I at the very least would think that a nice job, a significant other to share life with, a few kids and maybe just maybe a happy life would not be so much to give a person for saving the entire human race.
But no, you get to be mortal and nothing more.
The main character gets pretty much told, "You get to live a short life, with lot of disease, emotional trauma, bodily injury and a few natural disasters to look foward too, Not to mention that most of the people if you tell your life story will think that you are insane. So thanks for doing all of our work while we sat doing nothing at all." This is the reward...
you'll find out stella's secret after more post-game dlc quests are released.. dont count on it being anytime soon. i belive the japanese are still getting new ones and we are only at our second week of them.
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The Beach Boys
The Boys' first album since the death of drummer Dennis Wilson is also their first studio album since 1980. And it is the first Beach Boys' album that was not produced by the group itself. The new producer in this case is Steve Levine. He is best known for turning out Culture Club records, yet the unexpected combination has resulted in a sound that respects the Beach Boys' style while adding some welcome rejuvenating touches. The Beach Boys have in fact almost been turned into a vocal group; Levine relies on studio musicians, synthesizers and guest-star turns for his backup. Stevie Wonder shows up to do his one-man act behind Carl Wilson's and Al Jardine's lead vocal on the Wonder tune I Do Love You. There's some real magic in this blend of Wonder and the Beach Boys, two of the most original and enduring forces in pop music. The Boys also perform Passing Friend by Boy George and Roy Hay, with Hay filling in most of the instrumentals. There's a nod to the past with California Calling, a standard paean to the Golden State in updated Valley girl language ("And when our favorite surfin' song comes on/We always let 'em know it's Totally Rad'). And Brian contributes two songs co-written with Eugene Landy, who has been his live-in shrink on and off for nearly 10 years. (Their collaboration does not represent a milestone in use of the language: "I'm so lonely/ Really, really so lonely/I wish that you'd come comfort me whoa/I'm so brokenhearted/Since we parted.") For a long time the Beach Boys have profitably perpetuated their '60s sound; this album indicates they are now ready to admit to middle age and turn out something deeper than their fun-fun-fun songs. (Caribou)
Picks and Pans Review: The Beach Boys
updated 07/22/1985 AT 01:00 AM EDT
•originally published 07/22/1985 AT 01:00 AM EDT