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Stâshippu operêtâzu (2005)
Excellent sci-fi anime
The 73rd class of cadets of the Defense University of the planet Kibi is out on a training voyage in the battle ship Amaterasu are heading home when they see on the news the Kingdom of Henrietta has invaded and taken over Kibi. The cadets, led by Cisca Kanzaki, Shinto Kouzuki, Rio Mamiya, Takai Kiryu and Shinto Mikami decide to wage a one-ship war against the kingdom, despite overwhelming odds. For supplies and funding the cadets contact the Galaxy News Network and agree to have a reporter, Dita Mircov, join the crew and provide the show with real life action packed space battles against the Kingdom. The show's producer Peter Spikes cares first and foremost about ratings, and little about the crew's lives. Soon after the first battle Kibi's former prime minister Tatsuma Mamiya, Rio's uncle, joins them as well so the ship and it's crew can be declared a nation in exile. The seemingly hopeless war against the kingdom begins...
The story, animation and characters are all fantastic, just what you'd expect from any worthwhile anime these days. If you like watching anime in English and you've seen INUYASHA, you'll notice a few familiar voices. There's Kelly Sheridan (Sango from INUYASHA) as Sinon, Kirby Morrow (Miroku from INUYASHA) as Takai and Paul Dobson (Myoga and Naraku from INUYASHA) as Peter Spikes.
Also the characters here are serious and intelligent, there are no ditsy, child-like characters in this show. If you're a fan of anime and/or space opera, check this one out.
Megami Tengoku (1995)
Underrated gem
The story is set in a world populated entirely by beautiful goddesses. It is watched over by a head Mother Goddess, and is kept pure by a special gem known as the Astrostar. When the current mother goddess prepares to retire and chooses a successor, the new mother goddess picks a girl to be a shrine maiden to act as a guard for the mother goddess and the Astrostar. The girl, Lilith, must now find other goddesses to be fellow shrine maidens. Lilith asks one girl, Stasia, who plays the harp, if she wants to be a maiden, but Stasia's not interested. Then Lilith meets Rurubell, a young goddess who wants to be a maiden, but Lilith doesn't think she has what it takes and is reluctant to take her, but Rurubell insists on tagging along. Then Lilith tries to recruit Juliana, a fierce swords woman. However, there exists an alternate plane ruled by an evil dark goddess and her followers, who want to take over the realm of the good goddesses. They send Maharaja, another harp player who has the power to take control of people, Angela, a dark goddess with a staff and elf ears who can summon monsters, Rouge, another swords woman who can also throw energy balls, and Pastel, direct messenger to the dark mother goddess. They attack and knock out several of the good goddesses, and soon it looks as if Lilith and Rurubell are the culprits. Now they must clear their names and defeat the dark goddesses.
In episode 2, as the new mother goddess is having her coronation, the bad guys return and kidnap Lilith and steal the Astrostar. Stasia and Juliana go out to rescue her and get the Astrostar back, insisting the Rurubell stay behind. All of Megami Paradise hangs in the balance.
I'd really love to see this one to get a DVD release. And though it may be hoping for too much, it'd be even better if they made a dub for it, like they did for the original ALL PURPOSE CULTURAL CAT GIRL NUKU NUKU video series.
Grey: Dijitaru tâgetto (1986)
I really wish they'd give this a DVD release
GREY: DIGITAL TARGET is set in a future a few centuries from now, when the world is a wasteland ruled by a super computer. Humans live poverty-stricken lives in towns. The only chance for a better life is to become a trooper and then earn points by killing troopers from other towns and completing enough missions to eventually become a citizen and then be taken to the city where all citizens live lives of luxury. The only thing is, of all the people who become troopers, only %3 live to achieve their ultimate goal. Grey is a trooper who has gained legendary status by killing an especially large number of enemies and climbed through the ranks at an especially fast rate, and has earned the nickname "Grey Death". When Grey learns that his old friend and mentor Red, the man who taught Grey how to survive, was attacked and captured while out in the field, Grey violates orders and steals a plane from his own town and, along with female trooper Nova, the only other one to survive Grey's last mission, he goes out on a personal mission to bring back Red.
Based on a manga, I like the anime better for one reason, that one character who dies halfway through the manga lives in the anime. It made the story more interesting to me. I would really love to see this get a DVD release some day.
Makai senki disgaea (2006)
Don't worry, this show is complete!
This is one of the last shows to be released by Geneon, the anime company that recently went bankrupt. For anyone wondering if this is one of those shows that got dropped in the middle (like KARIN,) fear not: this show is in fact meant to be exactly 3 disks long, all the episodes of the show are here.
The story: Flonne is an angel-in-training sent down from Celestia (Heaven) to the Netherworld (Hell) to assassinate the demon overlord. As the show begins, she finds a coffin with the young demon prince Laharl inside, who wakes soon after it's opened. It turns out his father the demon overlord is already dead. None too bothered by that, Laharl sets out to reclaim his throne. Flonne tags along, determined to teach Laharl the value of love. Soon they are joined by Etna, a female demon who commands an army of prennies (lost souls who resemble penguins.) It turns out a ten million bounty has been placed on Laharl's head, and now all sorts of demons are after him. The trio must also deal with a group from Earth who've arrived in their dimension-traveling ship: a man (the heroic and dramatic but brainless type,) a woman (a scantly-clad vixen,) and their robot.
I had a great time watching this series. I highly recommend it for anyone who loves fantasy-adventure-comedy anime.
Tales of the Third Dimension (1984)
Horror anthology 3-D style
This is one of six 3-D films released in the 1980s by a man named Earl Owensby. They're all very fun movies, but also very hard to find. All but one are VHS-only films. Your best bet of finding them (assuming you haven't thrown out your VCR,) is to go to the website www.earlowensby.com and buy them online. The films are:
*This is the only film in the group that has been released on DVD.
(There is also another 3-D film Owensby released called HOT HEIR a.k.a. THE GREAT BALLOON CHASE, however it's not available for purchasing.)
This anthology horror/comedy film is presented to us in a cemetery at night by a living, rotting corpse who calls himself Igor and speaks from his open grave. He is also accompanied by some talking vultures who are modeled after the Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy. The three stories are:
Two people who work at an adoption center, Dudley and Ms. Markette, are called over to a mansion at night near a graveyard by a couple who call themselves the count and countess. They speak with Transylvanian accents, and the Count wears a red and black cape. Dudley doesn't like the looks of them, but Ms. Markette finds it somehow impossible to refuse their requests to adopt a child, especially when the count gazes directly into her eyes. Soon the vampire couple have gotten custody of a young boy. What the two vampires don't know is he's an even more terrifying monster than they are...
In the second story, two men, Charlie and Freddy, meet with a gravedigger, Nigel, seemingly friendly. In fact they are using Nigel to get info on where and when someone rich has died and taken some valuable jewels to the grave with them. Later in the night they go dig up the grave and steal the jewels. Then Charlie gets a plan for a really big score. He's heard of some underground catacombs where there's supposed to be lots of valuables hidden underneath. The two go re-visit Nigel, and Charlie is able to force Nigel to tell them where the entrance is. What neither of the two grave robbers know is the underground tomb contains some deadly surprises...
In the last story, two young children, Dennis and Suzie, are sent to spend the holidays with their grandmother while their parents go on vacation in Hawaii. What no one else knows is grandma needs to be on medication to stay sane, otherwise she goes dangerously crazy...and she's almost run out of pills.
If you like horror mixed with broad comedy, this is a great film to watch. Again, though, the previously-mentioned website may be the only place now to get it, and you'll need a VCR.
Hit the Road Running (1983)
A hidden gem.
This is one of six films that was released in the early 1980s by Earl Owensby in 3-D. The others were:
HOT HEIR (a.k.a. THE GREAT BALLOON CHASE) CHAIN GANG (1984) TALES OF THE THIRD DIMENSION DOGS OF HELL HYPERSPACE.
Other than HYPERSPACE, none of these films were ever released on DVD, so unless you still have a VCR, that's the only one you'll be able to see. These are extremely hard to find movies. Your best bet if you want to see them are to go to the website (www.earlowensby.com) and buy them online. (HOT HEIR wasn't available, at least when I visited the site, and it's the one film out of that group that I still haven't seen.
As for this movie, it was clearly inspired by the popular T.V. show DUKES OF HAZZARD. It has many country western-style songs that play throughout, and the singer acts as a narrator. It tells the story of Beau Jim Donner (Beau is pronounced "Bo", F.Y.I.) who after years of traveling the world returns to his rural home town in Indean Head County. The town is now under the thumb of wealthy tyrant Sam Grady, who holds morgages on everyone's lands and keeps people in debt to him. He uses intimidation and thuggish tactics to take over independent businesses. When Jim's uncle Rusty refused to sell out, Sam had him crippled and confined to a wheelchair. The law isn't much of a problem since Sam's had the town's own sheriff, Little Leon, personally appointed. After coming home and seeing what's happened, Jim becomes a deputy and then secretly works behind the scenes to sabotage Sam's plans, such as intercepting a truck that Sam's had hijacked, and then calling the State Police. The mysterious, unidentified Robin Hood has become a local folk hero, and the radio D.J. Freighttrain Fremont has high praise for him. Jim lives at home with Rusty and Jim's friend Fred T., and Jim often quotes words of wisdom he's heard from various people while traveling the world. After six months of covertly messing up Sam's plans, Jim catches Sam speeding. A high-speed chase begins, and soon Jim has Sam pulled over for refusing to pull over for the police. When Leon comes by later and sees his boss in a jail cell, he lets Sam out, and Sam is now ready to go after Jim. Jim, at the urging of Rusty, leaves town with his friend Fred T. tagging along, and Sam sends Leon and his deputy Hector Jones after them. Sam's main thug Monty also goes out on his own to try to get Jim. From this point on the film becomes a series of car chases and near misses as Jim manages to stay one step ahead of his pursuers. Eventually after a few narrow escapes Fred T. decides a life of danger isn't for him and he gets on a bus and goes back to town while Jim goes on alone.
This film has a great deal of humor and exciting car chases. If you're a DUKES OF HAZZARD fan, you'll love this. If you haven't thrown out your VCR, I recommend visiting the earlowensby site and buying this film, unless there's a video store that specialized in hard-to-find films that's close to you that has it.
Inuyasha: Ôgi ranbu (2005)
A remake of "InuYasha: A Feudal Fairytale"
The second InuYasha fighting video game to come out in the U.S., in many ways it is a big improvement over the first, "InuYasha: A Feudal Fairytale" for the original Playstation, but in at least one way it's a major downside. I'll be going over the similarities and differences between the two games.
The first InuYasha game used the original Japanese voice actors to do the characters. This one uses the American ones. I'm a fan of the dub, so for me this was a big step up (although the Japanese voice actors do a great job, I'm just used to the U.S. dub), however purists will understandably be irked by this.
The graphics are undoubtedly a great improvement. The first game had a 2-D background (like most fighting games,) where you could only move your characters forward and backward, but not all over the map. That's changed here.
Both games have a "story mode" and a "vs. mode" where you select one or two characters and battle in a single match against a friend or the computer.
The first game had three mini-games which were in the story mode and you could access from Kagome's backpack after beating the game as her. Those games aren't found here, however there is an alternate "mission mode" where you pick a character to play as and a partner, and then select one of several areas on a map, each area has three progressively harder missions. Some are INSANELY tough, such as where your partner is one hit away from dying and you must protect him/her from the enemy, who has full health.
The story mode is pretty cool, however it's a let-down in that I could only unlock four games! (InuYasha's chapter, Miroku and Sango's, Sesshomaru's, and Shippo's) This is a major downside from the first game, which had eleven different stories, one for each playable character. Each story itself is fun, though, with the dialogue scenes before and after each match played out with moving animation (the dialogue scenes in the first game were just still images of the characters with dialogue spoken and shown in text). Also the enemies you fought in the first game in the story mode would be selected randomly by the computer, for example when fighting as InuYasha in one game you may have to fight Koga and in another game you might fight with him against Kagura. In this game each character's story is the same anytime you play.
To summarize, this is in most ways an improvement of the first game, but it really needed more stories.
Takahashi Rumiko gekijô: Ningyo no mori (2003)
Why are two completely different shows listed as one on this site?
First, it should be noted that these are in fact two different series, but for some reason IMDb has them listed on as one. They're both based on manga stories by the same person, Rumiko Takahashi, and they're both released by Geneon and thus feature many of the same English dub voice actors (I don't know about the Japanese ones,) but that's about where the similarities end. There is the "MERMAID FORREST" T.V. series, which is one (fairly) long-running series that tells an ongoing story. (Although both the Mermaid manga and the anime leave a few loose ends hanging that never get resolved, for example that little immortal boy never gets killed, the one thing that left me dissatisfied with it.) Then there is "RUMIKO TAKAHASHI ANTHOLOGY", which is a series of self-contained stories, each containing it's own situation and set of characters.
Even the tone of the two shows is very different. The Mermaid series is another fantasy by Takahashi (though a much darker one,) while the stories in "Anthology" tend to be more realistic, with a few exceptions. (For example, one story has an actual "gremlin" which only one woman can see.) More importantly, though, "Mermaid Forrest" is a horror story (and often times a pretty graphic one,) while the stories in "Anthology" are much more light-hearted, though they do sometimes venture into the realm of suspense. (In one story a woman begins to suspect her next-door-neighbor may have murdered her mother-in-law, while in another tale a girl becomes afraid that her family's latest outing is in fact a planned suicide.) Each show is well-worth seeing (though again Mermaid Forrest does leave you feeling like you haven't seen the complete ending,) however it must be stressed that again they are in fact two different shows. Trying to lump them together is like trying to take two different shows like "Tales From The Crypt" and "The Cosbys" and then trying to say they're both the same show.
Inuyasha: Sengoku otogi kassen (2002)
A game any Inu-Yasha fan should own.
This is one of 4 Inu-Yasha video games available (counting the online game, which can be reached at the adultswim website).
As for this game, however, it's for the original Playstation. It can't be found on amazon website, which is a shame, because it's a lot of fun to play.
You can adjust the game between 5 levels of difficulty, which affects how well the computer-controlled opponents fight you. You can also adjust how long fights are; you can have each round have a time limit of 30, 60 or 90 seconds, or no time limit, where each round only ends when one or both fighters have been knocked out, and whether you want each match to be best 2-out-of-3 rounds, best 3-out-of-5 rounds, or for each match to be just 1 round.
There are 3 types of games you can play. One is the Vs. Fairytale mode, where you play 1 match as 1 of the characters against another character who is played either by the computer or by another player, and Dream Fairytale, where you select 2 characters and have them fight against 2 other characters in tag-team mode. You can play the Dream Fairytale game either with just you against the computer, with a friend against the computer, or you can play against your friend with each of you controlling 2 characters.
Then there is the 1-player-only Feudal Fairytale mode where you take control of one of the characters (in the beginning you can only play as Inu-Yasha or Kagome, but as you beat the game you can unlock and play as the other characters) and you find yourself on a map of the area. You send your character to different points on the map and must defeat the other characters. There is a dialogue exchange between the characters before and after every match. You must win 5 battles (sometimes you must fight against 2 characters by yourself, sometimes you get to join another character in fighting a lone opponent,) and after winning all the fights the barrier around Naraku's castle falls and you must enter and defeat Naraku. The other characters you battle (the exact ones you fight against in each game are selected randomly by the computer,) are: Shippo, Miroku, Sango, Koga, Sesshomaru, Kagura and Kikyo. These are the characters you can unlock and play as later on, including Naraku. (You can also play against Kagome when playing as Inu-Yasha, or against Inu-Yasha when playing as Kagome.) There are also 2 mini-games in each level that you can play, however these are optional, and you must play them BEFORE fighting all 5 regular matches if you want to play them at all; any mini-games that are left over disappear when Naraku's barrier falls. You have one chance to play each mini-game per game, but you don't have to beat them to advance; win or lose, after the mini-game's over you move on. You must also collect a certain number of jewel shards in each game when playing as each character. You can collect shards by playing and beating the mini-games, and some characters have between one and four shards which you can collect. (Each character have a certain move that makes other characters drop shards if they are carrying any.)
More on the mini-games: there are 3 types. Each mini-game has a time limit, and depending on how well you do you can get anywhere from 1 to 3 shards, or none if you do really badly. The mini-games are: Myoga has found a huge rock and says shards are in it. You must smash open the rock within 30 seconds to get the shards. Then there is one where Jaken has gotten 3 shards that he plans to take to Sesshomaru. You must try to get them from him, however he has his flame-shooting staff with him and you must slash your way through the flames before you can get to him. You have 60 seconds to do this. How many shards you get depends on how much time you have left when you beat Jaken. Fail to get through his defenses before your time is up and you get no shards at all. In both theses games a poison insect periodically flies across the screen, and if it hits you it stuns you for a moment. You must try to hit it before that happens. The final mini-game is where a whole swarm of poison insects fly across the screen, and you must swat 45 within 60 seconds. How many shards you get depends on how many insects you hit. Swat all 45 to get all three shards. In all 3 mini-games at certain points a character in peril will appear being carried by an insect. Fail to rescue the character and you lose 5 seconds.
There is also an eleventh character you can play as. Unlock and beat the game as all 10 of the other characters, and when playing as Kikyo and Naraku (the last 2 to become available,) collect as many shards as you can when playing as each one of them. Then sit and watch the end credit sequence. Afterwards you get a special message screen from Myoga telling you how to unlock the special hidden character Totosai. Complete the required goals and Totosai becomes available. You can fight against him as any of the other characters in any of the game modes, or you can play as Totosai. Play as him in Feudal Fairytale mode and get the required number of jewel shards, and you unlock Full-Demon Inu-Yasha. Now you can fight against Full-Demon Inu-Yasha as any of the other characters in Vs, Dream or Feudal Fairytale mode. (You can't fight against Full-Demon Inu-Yasha when playing as regular Inu-Yasha in Feudal Fairytale mode, but you can in Vs. or Dream Fairytale mode.) You also can't fight AS Full-Demon Inu-Yasha in Feudal Fairytale mode, but you can in Vs. and Dream Fairytale mode.
Rumik World: Faiyâ torippâ (1986)
Rumiko Takahashi's precursor to INU-YASHA
As someone else stated, this is clearly the shorter, rough draft for INU-YASHA, a story about a modern, Japanese high school girl who is transported back in time to the futile era and meets and befriends a young, rough-around-the-edges warrior.
Based on a short manga story of the same name (which can be found in one of the "Rumik World" short manga story collection books,) it tells the story of Suzu, the afore-mentioned modern high-school girl who is walking home with neighborhood elementary school boy Shuhe (pronounced,"Shoe"). They pass by a gas plant, when suddenly there is a leak and the building explodes. Somehow, instead of being obliterated, Suzu is transported back in time to Japan's medieval period! She is attacked by bandits with evil intentions, but luckily before they can do anything a young warrior, Shukumaru, comes with his friends and kills the assailants. He takes Suzu back to his village, where Suzu meets among others a little girl, Suhu, who is Shukumaru's younger sister. He gives his sister a bell that is just like the one Suzu had. Over the next few days Suzu develops an uneasy friendship with Shukumaru (think the kind of relationships that are typical for Takahashi stories, where at times she can't stand him and at times she finds herself liking him quite a bit.) But then Suzu finds a set of Shuhe's clothes in the village. It seems that he too was transported back in time! Suzu wants to look for him, but there is an impending problem in that more of the bandits are expected to attack the village soon, and even if she survives, will Suzu ever be able to return home...? Even as short as it is, (and the animation is clearly of the older "early-to-mid 1980's" Japanese animation,) the story is a beautiful one, and you really get attached to the characters and come to care about them. It's no wonder to me that Takahashi decided to return to and expand on this idea with INU-YASHA. Sadly, although FIRE TRIPPER was indeed dubbed (and subtitled) into English and released on VHS in the U.S., it apparently fell under the radar, and now is nearly impossible to get ahold of. I can only hope that some day, preferably before long, it gets released on DVD. This has happened to such hidden gems as ROCK & RULE, CHOPPING MALL, FIRE & ICE, CHEERLEADER CAMP and DATE WITH AN ANGEL, so I suppose it's always possible.


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In a game full of penalties and turnovers, College of the Canyons used its defense to beat Antelope Valley College on Saturday night at Brent Carder Marauder Stadium.
The Cougars forced six turnovers, highlighted by defensive back Antwan Smith's 28-yards interception return for a touchdown, to beat the Marauders 35-7.
By the midway point of the second quarter, COC hadn't allowed a single AVC first down.
"Defensively, I was very impressed. We had great speed," said COC head coach Garett Tujague
Neither team avoided the first-game jitters in their respective season openers, combining for 27 penalties for 336 yards.
"We knew who our opponent was and what we had to bring, but we just shot ourselves in the foot," said Marauder head coach Perry Jehlicka.
Smith's interception of AVC quarterback Josh Firm opened the scoring early in the first quarter.
"We watched a lot of film this week, and I've seen that play a few times," Smith said.
In all, the Cougar defense only allowed AVC 130 yards of total offense and just 13 in the second half.
COC had possession of the ball for just over 44 minutes compared to AVC's 16.
"We did a great job," Smith said. "We've just got to fix some mistakes and get back to it next week."
After stalling on its first two series, Cougars quarterback Justin Arias and the offense began to settle into a groove, scoring twice in a span of 26 seconds.
The first score came at the conclusion of a 78-yard drive that was capped by a 5-yard touchdown strike from Arias to wide receiver Rickeem Jackson.
The Cougars recovered an onside kick on the ensuing kickoff and took just two plays to get back into the end zone again. Saugus graduate and COC running back Ryan Zirbel punched in the score from 5 yards out for a 21-0 lead.
Zirbel finished with 120 all-purpose yards on 15 carries and five receptions.
"We just wanted to show everybody what we can do," Zirbel said. "We had a lot of turnovers, but those kinds of things are fixable."
The Cougars fumbled the ball seven times but only lost two of them.
However, it was a revealing day for Arias, who won the starting job among three other candidates coming into the season. He completed 32-of-51 passes for 358 yards and two touchdowns, in addition to running for a score in the second quarter.
Tujague said Arias' job as starter is secure after today's game, which was Arias' first live football since his recovery from a torn ACL last year.
"It's been over 12 months since he played, and he did phenomenal," Tujague said.
The Cougars will have little time to celebrate the win as they face defending state and national champion, Mt. San Antonio College on Saturday in Walnut.

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- Farm law: $125 million earmarked for HLB research
- More studies
The 2014 farm law includes $125 million earmarked for Huanglongbing disease (citrus greening) research.
Symptoms of Huanglongbing disease (HLB), also called citrus greening, include yellow leaf blotching asymmetrical in shape.
Efforts to combat citrus greening or Huanglongbing (HLB) will receive a five-year, $25 million per-year shot in the arm, thanks to the 2014 farm law.
An additional $6.5 million was given to several other projects through the USDA's Huanglongbing Multi-Agency Coordination Group (HLB MAC).
The USDA programs will fund multi-state, multi-disciplinary research to find a cure for the deadly citrus disease.
Grant funding information is available.
Successful applicants are expected to engage stakeholders to insure solutions are commercially feasible. Due to how grant funding works, a USDA spokesman says it is umknown which agencies, organizations, or universities could receive funding.
Projects should also include an economic analysis of the costs associated with proposed solutions.
A letter of intent to apply is due to the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) by June 27. Full applications, requested based on relevancy review, are due Sept. 29.
"USDA is committed to the fight against citrus greening, including making major research investments to counter this destructive disease," said U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
"The citrus industry and the thousands of jobs it supports are depending on groundbreaking research to neutralize this threat."
Since there are wide differences in the occurrence and progression of HLB among the states, there are regional and national priorities for the Citrus Disease Research and Education Program (CRDE). These priorities fall within four categories: those which deal with the pathogen, insect vector, citrus orchard production systems, and non-agricultural citrus tree owners.


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Every decade or so for the last 200 years, someone who isn't getting his way decides that it's time to "reform" politics.
After all, a system that elected these bozos to pass these laws has to be inherently defective. So from the election of 1800 debacle--in which Jefferson and Burr tied and then Burr killed Hamilton and tried to secede and invade Mexico--to the all white primaries that the Southern Democrats established in order to exclude black candidates, the mantra has been reform. This year's reform package comes right on cue. See also here, here and here.
Let's face it--the beloved Founding Fathers feared the populace. They established a system in which property owning white men could vote...sort of. They couldn't vote for their US Senator; he was chosen by the State Legislatures and they couldn't vote for President; he was chosen by electors who were in turn also chosen by State Legislatures.
These procedures were no accident. The Founders believed that if elections were decided by voters, then a certain, shall we say...unsophisticated political class would arise and be able to ignore elite opinion. Their nightmare came true in 1828 when Andrew Jackson was elected based on the fact that he killed a ton of Indians and then mowed British Soldiers down until they had to be stacked like cord wood.
"Reformers" have gradually made politics more democratic and the Founder's views have been realized...now the reformers are shocked and want to turn back the clock.
For the record, let me say that I'm pretty happy with the current system. However--even among my friends--I appear to be the only one.
Unfortunately everyone wants to change the system, but no one seems to understand why it is the way it is.
Before I discuss individual reforms, let me explain the fundamental problem.
The Fundamental Problem
Here it is: "We have winner take all elections in which very few people vote so the more power you give to voters, the worse the situation gets."*
All the reforms of the last 200 years have tried to give more power to the voters and the results have been exactly what the founders envisioned. Now, the elite opinion makers like Sue Clark Johnson and Lattie Coor are shocked at the results. That's because they've never been to Wal Mart.
The Golden Era
So let me take you back to the Golden Era of Arizona Politics, say, 1984 or so. Burton Barr was the House Majority Leader, Art Hamilton was the House Minority Leader and Alfredo Gutierrez ran the State Senate. Most long-term politicos will consider that period the very best of Arizona Government.
So what has changed?
Well, in 1984 men like Burton Barr controlled the money. Lobbyists gave their contributions to the leadership PACs and the leadership doled it out to individual candidates. That meant that the caucuses worked as a team and fell in line with leadership. If you weren't "statesmen like" you didn't come back--actually, if you weren't hand picked, you never got to the legislature in the first place. It worked like a well oiled machine...true, a political machine, but a well oiled one. The reformers raged against the machine and eventually the machine had to change.
The modern era changed with Prop 200 in 1986.
Prop. 200 was a reform effort that limited individual contributions to $200 and prohibited leadership PACs from donating to individual members. That change sparked a revolution that emasculated leadership and ended the need for a cohesive caucus.
That's how I got elected.
Of course, I wasn't the first one to see the opportunities...Stan Barnes was.
Barnes realized that he could raise money from a wide group of friends and didn't have to kiss Leadership's ring. So with incumbents unable to raise money from large donors or leadership, Barnes-- at 27--set up his own organization, raised money from outside sources and took his campaign directly to voters... defeating an incumbent along the way.
The next cycle saw the rise of the under 30 caucus--I ran against a team that included the House Majority Leader and was elected together with: David Schweikert, Lisa Graham, Keith Bee, Jim Buster, Chris Cummiskey and Chuck Blanchard. Soon followed by Jeff Groscost, Rusty Bowers and John Kaites.
The Leadership Era was over.
But you look at that list and say, those guys weren't so bad. That's because we still had some hurdles. We still had to raise money and we still had to fight for newspaper endorsements. In short, we couldn't be too crazy.
Clean Elections changed all that. I was the first one to point out that eliminating the chamber crowd and the lobbyists from the equation wasn't going to have the desired effect. I predicted that there would be "No New Moderates" and indeed, there were 16 self described moderates of the 33 Republicans when I served in the House. Now there are 35 Republicans in the House and maybe 3 could be called moderate.
Then there were the newspapers. We actually had newspapers in the mid 1980s. Endorsements mattered, and if you spent your campaign railing against the Federal Reserve Board, Trilateral Commission or Council on Foreign Relations, you weren't going to get far.
Those days are gone too. The Gazette, Citizen and Tribune are gone. The Republic's circulation has been gradually declining for the last 20 years, but the population of Maricopa County has skyrocketed in that time, so the paper's penetration and influence has plummeted...and it's not coming back. Unlike 20 years ago--when the paper could topple a sitting governor--the papers don't matter much now.
So now, if you think that Obama was born in Kenya or you think that AIDS was created by the CIA and you have 200 people who will give you $5 then you are golden. You don't even need to meet with Chamber and you don't give a damn what the Republic thinks. You have plenty of money and your own private grassroots army. Try to beat that combination Mr. Moderate Insurance Salesman from Arcadia.
Of course, the easiest way to create a legislature that shares the vision of Lattie Coor, Sue Clark Johnson and the Chamber is to enable Lattie Coor, Sue Clark Johnson and the Chamber pick the legislators...like the old days. But the Golden Era is over, so what should Lattie Coor, Sue Clark Johnson and the Chamber do now?
Well, first eliminate Clean Elections. That would force candidates to go through the filtering process of special interests. If they can't get the backing of business, utilities or the unions, they probably shouldn't be there anyway, should they Lattie?
Then repeal the 1986 campaign limits. Let everyone give as much money as they want, because, believe it or not, most of the crazy people don't have lots of rich friends. Then let leadership control the money. That way the recalcitrants who don't step into line will be stenciling plywood signs in their garage next cycle. Now that's what I call cohesion and Statesmanship.
What? You complain that allowing the elites to chose who gets elected is "undemocratic"? But that's entirely the point. The current system is what you get when you let actual voters decide elections. I happen to like the current system and the current legislature--of course, I also like to shop at Wal Mart.
Post Script: There are a handful of "reforms" that people think would make the process better--many of which involve repealing "reforms" that they think have made the process worse.
This is wrong on both accounts--most of the past reforms don't matter. Here are some examples of the conventional wisdom and why its wrong.
Term Limits:
The theory is that term limits deprive the legislature of much needed perspective...yada yada yada. That argument might be true if we, you know, actually had term limits. I served with the current Senate President Bob Burns...18 years ago. In California, you can serve 8 years in each chamber and then you are banned for life. Now that's a term limit.
Burns, of course, took two years off and then ran again. I also served with Debbie McCune-Davis and Jack Brown who simply bounce back and forth between the House and Senate. There's no shortage of institutional memory, and no real limits
The legislature has consistently had about 1/3 of the body turn over each cycle with a handful of legislators staying for many years, but most staying less than 8...just like now.
"Independent" Redistricting.
This reform is the most ironic. Former Republic Editorial Page Editor, the hapless Keven Ann Willey made "independent" redistricting her personal cause and put all the muscle of the editorial board behind it with editorials that ran almost daily. The Democrats were solidly behind her effort because the legislature was supposed to re-write the districts and the legislature was in Republican hands.
Of course, no one could have predicted that in 2000, Democrats would tie the Senate at 15/15 and would have been able to draw districts of their choosing. Oops. Democrats also failed to understand that growth patterns move from rural and urban to suburban districts. That means Gilbert gets bigger and central Phoenix gets proportionately smaller. So an Independent Commission that just looks at math and doesn't take politics into account will give Democrats worse maps than a legislative compromise in which legacy Democratic legislators wield more power.
Ultimately, the maps looked pretty much like they did before--that's because people tend to live in groups with like minded people--so the Democrats sued and lost. When the maps were drawn in 2000, the Democrats had 15 seats in the Senate, now they have 12. But the good news is that Keven Willey moved to Texas, so it's not like she can screw it up next time.
Competitive Districts.
"Independent" Redistricting is really just a means to an end. The real goal is "Competitive" districts. But that's a fallacy too. For some reason, people seem to think that if the district is half Republican and half Democratic, the candidates will be moderate. I have no idea why that is. Dude, it's a winner take all primary, followed by a winner take all General. That means the both parties will elect someone from the fringe and then they will fight it out in the General.
Al Melvin is in a competitive District, is he a moderate? His opponent was Cheryl Cage? Is she a moderate? How about the Tempe's District 17, are Ableser, Schapira and Cahil moderates? In the 1990's central Phoenix was considered a swing district and it was represented by very Conservative Margaret Updike and very liberal, Sue Labey.
Increase the Salary
This is my favorite fallacy. "Golly, if we just raise the pay, good people will run." No, if you raise the pay, Russell Pierce and Carl Seel will make more money. But I like Russell Pierce and Carl Seel, so that's fine with me.
Dude, the seats are competitive and they are won by people who know how to campaign and who don't have a lot of opportunity cost; they can spend months campaigning for free. If you raise the salary to $100,000, the same people will still win. You will bring in candidates who otherwise wouldn't run because they could be making more money elsewhere. But that doesn't mean they will win. We've had examples of candidates who make decent money running against incumbents. My favorite example is Art Nelson (Linda Brock Nelson's husband) who ran for two open seats and was crushed by David Schweikert and Lisa Graham.
Good campaigners beat bad campaigners no matter how high a salary the office pays.
Let's explore the fundamental problem a bit more.
When I was in the legislature, I represented a district of 126,000 people and I won my first election with a total of fewer than 6,000 votes. If anything, the numbers have gone down since then. In central Phoenix today, you can win the Democratic Primary--and thus the election--with 1,500 votes. The people who get elected are representative of those few thousand people. Who are those people? They are the ones who go out on August 24th and vote every two years. Frankly, they are not normal or in any way representative. That's because unlike the mass of the population, those voters care. They have strong opinions they know the candidates and they vote. Voters who are well informed and have strong opinions are rarely moderate.


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Jenkui Liu, a senior staff scientist, noted that this technology can be used for both automated and manual systems. "Two major attractions to users are the performance of the magnetic particles in automation procedures and the ability of the chemistry to deal with diverse sample types. We have demonstrated that the PrepSEQ chemistry and purification procedures can be easily automated in different instruments up to 96 samples each time. Automated and manual procedures produced similar results in getting accurate reads and high DNA recovery from diverse sample types."
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Dr. Hatch's work focuses on lab-on-a-chip approaches for rapid detection of biomolecules in trace quantities in complex biofluids and matrixes such as blood, saliva, or extracted cells. "Our group is developing a number of on-chip capabilities including sample preparation."
At the symposium, Dr. Hatch described a suite of microfluidic sample-prep modules in development that are specifically designed for isolating protein fractions from complex samples. "The modules include size-based filtration of cells and particulate matter, immunodepletion of high-abundance interfering proteins, isoelectric fractionation of proteins, and preconcentration membranes that mix and enrich proteins greater than 10,000-fold. All elements can be integrated in various arrangements for rapid, streamlined processing and analysis."
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The ceremony will be held at the main entrance to the baseball complex at 23437 Valencia Boulevard, Valencia 91355, off Valencia Boulevard at Auto Center Court, between the BMW and Mercedes-Benz dealerships.
Terry Tull was a very active coach and helper/friend of the Hart Pony Baseball complex for many years in the '70s, '80s and '90s. He help construct and installed most of the field lighting during that period. He was instrumental in the construction of many of the grandstands and other projects.
Besides his volunteer work at the field, Terry was a long-time coach in the boys baseball program (he is survived by four sons, Jason, Matt, Kirk and Clint). His dedication to the kids learning the game was his greatest concern. He always wanted the kids to learn the mechanics, the rules and the ethics of fair, honest baseball.
Terry really knew baseball. He was a letterman baseball player at Hueneme High School (graduated in 1964).
He coached his four sons and numerous other boys in both baseball and soccer. His sons went on to play baseball and soccer for Saugus High School. He is also survived by his wife Sue.
In 1988 Terry coached the hometown Mustang baseball team to the Pony Baseball World Series Championship.
The Santa Clarita Oaks Conservancy donated the native Valley Oak. "Coach" Tull's friends have provided a commemorative plaque.
Terry Tull is fondly remembered and honored by all the those kids and adults whose lives he touched.


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As loose adaptations of classics go, this is slightly less puddin'-headed than Demi Moore's The Scarlet Letter. But it's a disgrace, even so. Daniel Defoe's 1722 novel is the memoir of a woman, illegitimate and poor, who grasps at every means to stay afloat. Her curriculum vitae, as the book's subtitle spells it out, includes "Twelve Year a Whore, Five Times a Wife, Twelve Year a Thief, Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia." Moll narrates these wild, often sordid events with a tone of Christian remorse, earned late in life, that doesn't sound quite genuine.
As directed and scripted by Pen Densham, an Englishman making his first feature film, the movie Moll is a headstrong, gutsy thing (and devoted mom!) who refuses to settle for second best. I half-expected her to have a personal trainer. As Moll, Wright is one-dimensional, which exactly matches the depth of the role. Freeman, as the assistant to (and ex-lover of) the powerful madam who employs Moll, gazes on her misadventures with a sort of serene sorrow. He's the one good thing here. (PG-13)
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Do you remember in the 1980s when everyone was getting their colours 'done'? Obviously I don't, because I wasn't born for the first couple of years of the 1980s, and was more interested in what kinds of muck I could smear onto my clothes than the clothes themselves for the rest of the decade. Anyway.
The first time anyone mentioned colour analysis to me was when a kind-of-relative (assuming you can call the mother of the chap who married someone who's sort of your cousin apart from all the step and half relatives in between a relative...) sang its praises to me the best part of a decade ago. She persuaded me (and my kind-of-relative) to go and have our 'colours done' and I, after much to-ing and fro-ing (turns out I have freaky skin tone) was analysed as 'Clear and Warm', which roughly tranlates to a Clear/Bright Spring within other systems, if you're interested in such things. I could instantly see the benefits of the analysis - pretty much all the colours within the little swatch book I was given matched one another, and all of them looked good on me. In theory, at least.
Very quickly, though, I realised that some of my (wide range of) colours weren't actually that great on me, and began to self limit to only about a third of my palette, and gradually more or less forgot about the whole thing.
However, two children and a bit of a style crisis later, I began to look into the idea again, and became more and more interested in the process and the power of wearing your best colours (when you're getting less than four hours sleep a night you need all the help you can get to look healthy, right?). The interest turned into fascination, and I quickly read anything I could lay my hands on that covered the subject. And there is a lot of reading matter out there, of varying quality.
Late last year I finally bit the bullet and got re-analysed by a House of Colour consultant and was surprised (although not entirely shocked, given the research I'd done) to come out as an Autumn. For various reasons I am infinitely more comfortable with this analysis, not least because my lovely consultant talked me through every single aspect of the process and made sure I was completely happy with each step before carrying on. And finally, I have the holy grail - a palette of colours that co-ordinate perfectly and make me look healthier! And it, turns out, being an autumn doesn't mean a lifetime of beige and coffee colours - indeed, most of my best colours are the brighter colours within my palette (House of Colour, unlike most other analysis systems, 'score' the colours within your palette so you know which ones are best near your face and which ones to stick to trousers and skirts with).
Now, try not to laugh, but seriously, if you've never thought of doing it, I can't recommend having a colour (and style, but we'll worry about that another day) analysis highly enough. Make sure you pick a consultant who has been fully and properly trained (House of Colour do the most in depth training I know of in the UK, and Sci/Art consultants in the States appear to receive great training too, although the two analysis systems operate slightly differently). If you're in the South East I'll happily recommend my consultant, but the training that House of Colour give is so thorough that I reckon you'd be safe visiting any of them.
Oh, but maybe think about avoiding the whole thing if the idea of abandoning your trusty white or black clothes terrifies you - I know a few people who just cannot cope without black, for all that it makes them look like a freshly dug corpse.
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The Riverside Inn and Dinner Theatre in Cambridge Springs is ready to usher in another Christmas season with its annual holiday show.
The 2012 production, "A Riverside Christmas," is written by Leslie Ford and musically arranged by Brenda Evans. It's an energetic tribute to high school fun and Christmas cheer.
"It's great for all ages," Ford said. "It's very music-heavy, so audiences can expect to hear a lot of nostalgic songs and can enjoy a simple plot."
The show revolves around the Riverside Rockers, a band made up of students from Riverside High School. Fifteen years after graduation, they decide to hold a reunion benefit concert to restore the school's auditorium.
While the first act focuses on character development and features several flashbacks to high school, the second act presents the concert itself, which includes several harmonious duets and lively audience singalongs.
Andrew Alesso, Mark Miner and Brian Strobel provide the instrumental accompaniment. The cast consists of Maribeth McCarthy, BJ Waide, Ciaran Cavanaugh and Justin Moyar.
As always, audiences can count on getting a tasty meal, though it will be served on individual plates rather than family style, which is the norm for Riverside Christmas shows.
Dinner will include turkey, roast beef, ham, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, vegetable medley, and corn and potato chowder, and the dessert is bread pudding with caramel rum sauce.
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Andrew Lutz had 20 kills, Michael Henchy added 17 and Chen Levitan had 16 as Ohio State beat Hawaii 22-25, 25-23, 20-25, 25-17, 15-12 on Thursday in the Outrigger Hotels and Resorts Volleyball Invitational at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu.
Peter Heinen had 58 assists for the No. 10 Buckeyes (2-0).
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By both chance and design, Brian and Mike have poked a dragon—one that devours its enemies like fire eats tinder. Their mission is to protect and serve others. But who's going to protect them?
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End of Watch is about family—the kind of family that comes about when people spend day after day riding in the same squad car, eating the same bad food and fighting for the same cause. Mike and Brian come from different cultures and backgrounds, but they consider themselves brothers. Mike served as Brian's best man; Brian goes to all the parties Mike's relatives so often throw. "I would lay down my life for you," an inebriated Brian tells Mike at the aforementioned wedding. Mike tells Brian that if Brian should fall during the line of duty, he'd take care of his widow.
"You got my back?" one will say to the other. The other always says yes.
And that familial relationship doesn't just extend from one partner to the other. End of Watch suggests that the police force itself is a family: When one member is wounded, the rest hurt. When one member is wronged, the rest seek justice. It's a dynamic this film stresses with stark, bloody poignancy. The Godfather, Scarface and dozens of other mafia- and gang-based movies tell us about how strong crime-family ties are. But we sometimes forget that the same sorts of ties—even better ones—can bind the good guys together too. This movie reminds us.
Brian and Mike are heroes, and they're recognized as such. We see them rescue two kids who've been tied and gagged in a closet. They rescue three more from a burning building. They really believe they're doing good work, and every day for them is about making a difference.
Spiritual Content
Mike is no saint, as we shall see. But he does cling to a semblance of faith. And he tells Brian that marriage is a commitment before God—so sacred a promise that it should never be messed with.
A fellow officer snidely refers to Brian and Mike as "street gods" and tells them they're doing "the Lord's work." An officer encourages his partner by saying, "God loves cops." In the credits, the moviemakers salute police officers with, "God bless you all."
A killer crosses himself before he tries to gun down members of a rival gang. Houses and apartments sometimes boast crosses or religious paintings. A couple of these abodes hold makeshift shrines filled with small, kitschy and not overtly religious statues. A funeral is held at a church.
Sexual Content
Brian and girlfriend Jenna passionately make out on his bed. The next morning, she picks up a video camera and confesses to it that she can't believe she stayed over; she rifles through Brian's wallet, uncovers a list of girls' names and phone numbers, and tosses it aside, telling the camera he won't be needing those anymore.
The two get married and dance sultrily at their after-wedding party. Mike's wife, Gabby, tells Jenna that she'll have to have sex with Brian all the time to keep him satisfied—describing a bevy of creative and sometimes outlandish sexual tricks she can use to keep him interested.
Before getting married, Brian tells Mike how his typical relationships go: "First date is dinner and a respectful kiss," he says. "Second date is dinner and full carnal knowledge." He says that he and his newest girl will continue to have sex a few more times before he gets bored and moves on. Mike, conversely, tells Brian that both he and his wife have only been with each other, sexually speaking—but that they got started before their vows (in high school). He tells a story about how he and Gabby were about to "do it" when Gabby's parents came home; he hid under a bed naked, and Gabby's parents proceeded to have their own (creative) sex above him.
Gang members solicit a female dancer. And it's a woman with a fistful of money who eventually gets her to cozy up. The two kiss passionately. Women dress provocatively. References are made to prostitution. A joke is made of Brian wanting to have sex with the police captain.
Violent Content
End of Watch is, in its own way, a war movie, and an R-rated one at that. As such, we see many, many acts of violence—some of them grotesque.
One cop winds up with a knife in his eye socket. (We see the handle protruding from his skull.) Another has her face sliced to ribbons. (We see her cheeks covered with bloody wounds.) Still others are shot repeatedly, one coughing up blood as he fades out of consciousness.
Multiple shootings and shootouts terminate in bloody spatter on walls or car windows. One follows a wild car chase. Brian and Mike bash their way into a home and immediately smell what they assume is a dead body. Turns out, it's several bodies—beheaded and disassembled. We see the heads, the limbs and copious amounts of smeared blood.
When a belligerent man tells Mike that he wouldn't be so tough without his badge, Mike engages him in a long, drawn-out fistfight. Officers joke about shooting someone and roughing up criminals.
Crude or Profane Language
End of Watch isn't the most profane movie in cinematic history, but it makes a serious run at the record. Characters utter at least 325 f-words, nearly 100 s-words and scads of other obscenities, vulgarities, profanities and epithets, in English and Spanish. We hear "a‑‑," "b‑‑ch," "n-gger," "p‑‑‑," "d‑‑k," "pr‑‑k" and "h‑‑‑." God's name is abused 10 or 12 times, as often as not paired with "d‑‑n." Jesus' name is abused six or eight times. Obscene gestures are made.
Drug and Alcohol Content
We see drug stashes on occasion. People are shown smoking marijuana. (One woman lights up in front of a cop, who slaps her with a reprimand.) Officers search for what they refer to as "all the food groups: dope, money and guns." We hear about how someone "smells like weed and sneakers." We see a sign that mocks the U.S. war on drugs.
The good guys are affected by substance abuse too. Mike, Brian and many others get drunk at parties. Jenna sings along with a song playing on the car stereo, repeating lyrics about getting high.
Other Negative Elements
Most of the movie is ostensibly filmed with portable cameras toted around by Brian and Mike—cameras they shouldn't actually be using. Brian's told several times to shut it off and get rid of the camera(s), but he never does. Both Brian (who's white) and Mike (who's Mexican) joke around with racial stereotypes.
"Do you feel like a hero?" Brian asks Mike after the two receive medals for rescuing the kids from the fire.
"No," Mike says.
"Me neither," Brian says. "What's a hero feel like?"
Well, if this movie is any indication, not very good. At least not in the moment.
End of Watch is intended to be a salute to those most of us would consider to be true heroes—our police officers who help draw the line between us and the bad guys. But this is no romanticized view of police work. Little in it seems designed to encourage anyone to sign up to serve. Still, it does give us a greater appreciation for those who do. Those who see things no person should have to. Those who deal with dangers few of us can comprehend.
The police, of course, deal with that stuff, in part, to save us from it. But End of Watch deals with it, in part, to entertain us. A movie like this can't kill us. But experiencing its extreme content can wound us. It can scar us.
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Now it's a three-day weekend for many Americans, filled with barbecue, trips Up North and parades.
In 1868, General John Logan, national commander for the Grand Army of the Republic, on May 30 recognized both Union and Confederate soldiers who died in combat by laying flowers on their graces in Arlington National Cemetery, according to Memorialday.org. Throughout the next two decades, the Northern states also recognized the holiday.
U.S. Congress with the National Holiday Act of 1971 moved Memorial Day to the last Monday in May from May 30.
In 2000, Congress passed the National Moment Remembrance Act, encouraging Americans at 3 p.m. local time to "observe in their own way a moment of remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence or listening to 'Taps.' "
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On the last trip to Belize we went cave tubing and it was such a blast that we couldn't wait to go again. The water was much lower this time, though and there wasn't much current, so our poor guide wound up towing us through the caves. There has been a lot of development at the site with a fancy buffet restaurant area and a much nicer bathroom/changing facility.
We have always done ship sponsored excursions in Belize, because the trips can be a bit long and the roads a bit rough.
Make sure that you pick up some Marie Sharp's hot sauce and exotic sauce (yum!) and try the Belikan Beer before you get back on board the ship. Too many and you might easily succumb to Belikan Sleeping Sickness!
I prefer to hire a cab driver for the day to take us across to the wild (ocean)side of the island. There is a beach restaurant called Playa Chen where the beer is cheap, the margaritas pack a punch and they serve delicious seafood that was caught that morning. This restaurant has a swimming area that is protected by some large rocks, so the water is calm enough to be safe.
We booked this cruise last minute on the last weekend of Mardi Gras, so I was unable to find an affordable room pre-cruise. We stayed in Covington which was an easy 30 minute drive. We stayed at the Holiday Inn on Royal Street before we headed home, which gave us a little New Orleans time to unwind before heading back to home, work, and real life!
The Holiday Inn is not the most fabulous hotel, but is conveniently located within walking distance to many things and has parking available.
Make sure to visit the Acme Oyster Bar, and Johnnie's Po-Boys. Fabulous music is on every corner...it's the vacation before and after the vacation!


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After attending Wednesday night's Opening Ceremonies, William and Kate, both 30, got right to the action on Thursday, cheering on the athletes at some of the very first events of the Games.
Meanwhile, William's brother, Prince Harry, is expected to attend some swimming events at the Paralympics, in what would be his first trip back to the pool since his scandalous adventures in Las Vegas.
William and Kate were outfitted casually Thursday, but were dressed up for Wednesday's Opening Ceremonies – with Kate sporting a coat dress by DAY Birger et Mikkelsen that she has worn on three separate occasions at weddings of friends.
Queen Elizabeth, attending without Duke of Edinburgh, who is recuperating from his recent illness, wore earplugs.
Also announced Thursday: Kate will make her first speech on foreign soil when she visits a hospice in Malaysia as part of a Sept. 11-19 tour with William that will have them jumping from Singapore to Malaysia, the Solomon Islands and the remote island of Tuvalu.
Soon after arriving in Singapore, they are due to have orchids named for them – and one for William's late mother, Princess Diana.
Reporting by SIMON PERRY
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text: AIDS Drugs, Violence And The AIDS Crisis Are Among Seattle Author's 'List Of Things That Didn't Kill Me' By Gabriel Spitzer • May 28, 2016 Courtesy of Jason Schmidt Jason Schmidt was three years old when police barged into his house and arrested his father for selling cocaine. "That was a very confusing evening for me," said Schmidt, a Seattle author. It turned out to be just one episode in a chaotic childhood, where love and warmth mingled with drugs, violence and crime. Seattle Scientists' Fresh Look At Vaccine Could Be Big Break For HIV Prevention By Gabriel Spitzer • Oct 28, 2014 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation / via Flickr Even as momentum builds for an Ebola vaccine, researchers working to contain another virus say they've gotten their first big break in years. An older HIV vaccine candidate is showing new promise, and Seattle scientists will be leading a new trial of it early next year. Public Health Crusader And College Student Talk Sex, AIDS And What Makes Them Mad By Gabriel Spitzer • Jun 16, 2014 Courtesy of Bob Wood. Editor's Note: "Senior Thesis" is a special week-long series that brings together venerable veterans in various fields with university students hoping to forge a career in the same field. Bob Wood and Carolyn Wortham sat opposite each other in the KPLU studio, separated by a generation during which a whole lot had happened. Between the time that Dr. Wood took up arms against the AIDS epidemic and when Wortham took on the same fight, the illness has gone from mysterious killer to manageable condition. The battlefield had moved, to some extent, from urban gay neighborhoods to the developing world. Gates Foundation wants to make safe sex more fun By Tom Paulson • Mar 12, 2013 bnilsen / Flickr The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation thinks safe sex isn't as much fun as it should be. At least, that seems to be the gist of one request for a grant application from the world's largest philanthropy as part of its Grand Challenges Explorations program. One of the goals for this round is to develop a better condom. "It is a bit unusual," said Stephen Ward, the program officer with the Gates Foundation administering the project. Seattle bucks the national trend on HIV rates By Keith Seinfeld • Nov 29, 2012 Alex Alonso / Flickr A resurgence of AIDS among young men nationally is raising alarm bells – but not in the King County area. Local health officials say outreach efforts here could be a model for how the rest of the country can keep the AIDS epidemic under control. Two More Nearing AIDS 'Cure' After Bone Marrow Transplants, Doctors Say By Richard Knox • Jul 26, 2012 The so-called Berlin patient is famously the only person in the world who has been cured of HIV. But he may soon have company. Two people in Boston also seem to be free of HIV after undergoing bone marrow transplants for cancer, just as the Berlin patient did five years ago. The crucial difference is that the Boston patients have not yet stopped taking anti-HIV drugs — although that may happen in the coming months. Why 'the Berlin Patient' is NOT heralding the end of AIDS By Keith Seinfeld • Jul 25, 2012 The Associated Press Even though the AIDS epidemic is still spreading, the disease is not killing as many people as it used to, because of new drugs. And that's emboldened many leading AIDS researchers and policymakers to talk about ending the epidemic in the next few years. AIDS 2012: Bill Gates skeptical of ending AIDS anytime soon By Tom Paulson • Jul 23, 2012 Tom Paulson / Humanosphere WASHINGTON, D.C. — The International AIDS Conference, a mega-meeting of more than 20,000 people, has opened here to fanfare, protests, calls to action and (overly?) ambitious proclamations aimed at fighting complacency. The world's biggest AIDS conference has returned to the U.S. – to a city with HIV infection rates comparable to some African nations – after 22 years of 'separation' due to our government's ban against HIV-infected visitors. The Obama Administration repealed the travel ban in 2010. It appears to be a critical moment for the global response to AIDS. The theme of AIDS 2012 is "Turning the Tide Together." Read more on Humanosphere. The Seattle science that led to FDA approval of HIV-prevention drug By Tom Paulson • Jul 16, 2012 GILEAD The FDA today approved the first drug, known as Truvada, for preventing HIV in people at high risk of infection due to 'discordance' – science lingo for being HIV negative but having a sex partner who is HIV positive. Seattle scientists played a critical role in demonstrating the drug's effectiveness in Kenya and Uganda studies. Read more on Humanosphere. Traces Of Virus In Man Cured Of HIV Trigger Scientific Debate By Richard Knox • Jun 13, 2012 Top AIDS scientists are scratching their heads about new data from the most famous HIV patient in the world — at least to people in the AIDS community. Timothy Ray Brown, known as the Berlin patient, is thought to be the first patient ever to be cured of HIV infection. Was a homosexual life as public before WW2 as now? By Jennifer Wing • Mar 26, 2012 Right now the Tacoma Art Museum is the only place on the West Coast where you can see the controversial exhibit, Hide-Seek, Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. The show covers nearly 150 years of art from the gay and lesbian perspective. It also explores the theory that the gay and straight worlds intermingled more freely before World War II. Study: Gates-backed project prevented 100,000 HIV infections in India By Tom Paulson • Oct 11, 2011 John Isaac / World Bank A $258 million initiative sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aimed at preventing AIDS in India appears to have paid off overall, researchers say, resulting in more than 100,000 fewer new HIV infections over five years. Many aren't quite ready to judge this project, Avahan, a success, however. Read more on Humanosphere. Botswana: An African success story in the fight against AIDS By Tom Paulson • Jun 29, 2011 Tom Paulson / Humanosphere The southern African nation of Botswana has one of the world's highest rates of HIV infection and yet is also widely considered one of the big success stories in the fight against AIDS. On Tuesday, at a Seattle event sponsored by the World Affairs Council, former Botswanan President Festus Gontebanye Mogae spoke and took questions from an audience of several hundred people at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center. Read more. Thirty years of AIDS in Washington, USA By Keith Seinfeld • Jun 3, 2011 Thirty years ago this month, the first cases of AIDS were identified by the medical community. It was still a mystery disease. A strange form of pneumonia was striking young men in Los Angeles. Since then, the epidemic has been a dramatic roller-coaster of death, disease, politics and what some people call the greatest medical success story of the past half century. (This interactive timeline is from the federal AIDS.gov website. Click and scroll for dates and highlights.) I sat down with Dr. Bob Wood, one of the most prominent local faces of AIDS and the fight to contain it, to discuss the highlights and low points. You can listen to the interview by clicking on "Audio." Cancer joins AIDS, malaria as global health issue By Keith Seinfeld • Mar 21, 2011 Rob Gipman, Uganda Program on Cancer and Infectious Diseases / FHCRC The fight against diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis has made Seattle a center for global health. Now, increasingly, the battle is including cancer -- which might seem ridiculously impossible. Isn't it hard enough to fight infectious diseases in poor countries? Can we afford to start talking about the diseases like cancer, which we still struggle with in the United States? Feds deny funding to UW health project in Mozambique By Tom Paulson • Feb 4, 2011 UW Health Alliance International The Obama Administration says it wants to re-invent foreign aid and one of its mantras is to increase "country ownership" of the programs it funds for improving health and welfare in poor countries. Given this, it came as a shock to Dr. Stephen Gloyd and others at the UW's Health Alliance International (HAI) when the government basically pulled the plug on a long-running AIDS health care project in Mozambique that is, or was anyway, widely regarded as a model of doing just that. "It's ironic given their goal of wanting to strengthen local governance," said Gloyd, director at HAI. Read More HIV cases stay steady, predominantly gay By Keith Seinfeld • Dec 1, 2010 The number of people getting newly infected with HIV has stayed steady in Washington since 2005. There are about 570 new cases a year. Most of those – 63% -- are gay and bisexual men. The Washington Department of Health says those numbers justify changes in how it distributes funding, starting in January.


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BayHawks face Armor in Springfield tonight
The Erie BayHawks will try to snap their five-game losing streak tonight against a team that's had their number lately.
The BayHawks (13-31) visit the Springfield Armor (19-23) at MassMutual Center in a 7 p.m. tipoff. The Armor have beaten the BayHawks three straight times and five times in their last six meetings since Erie won the first two meetings of the season.
Losers of nine of their last 11 overall, the BayHawks continue to make over their roster. They released former NBA veteran guard Ricky Davis on Wednesday and added Marcel Anderson earlier this week.
Point guard Lewis Jackson, who has a D-League record 10-plus assists in 13 straight games, has missed the past two games with an injury.


text: Consider a binary communication system that transmits either a zero or a one with equal probability. Because of channel noise, about 10 percent of the time a transmitted zero is received as a one, and 20 percent of time a transmitted one is received as a zero. (a) Compute the probability of receiving a zero (b) Suppose a zero is received, what is the probability that a zero was transmitted ? (c) Determine the overall error rate of the system.


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Comic for Monday, May 5, 2008
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The Goo
Shade, Part 1
Shade, Part 2
Relations, Part 1
April Fools Week
Relations, Part 2
Part 1 - Open The Box
Part 2 - Read The Rules
Part 3 - Set Up The Pieces
Part 4 - Play The Game
Part 5 - Knock The Board Over
Part 6 - Scattered Pieces
Part 7 - Fist Fight
Part 8 - Clean Up
Flipping Cardboard
Lady Mysterious
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Squirrel Diplomacy
Lunchtable Revelations
Part 1 - Martial Arts Crew
Part 2 - Elliot's Crew
Part 3 - Ellen's Crew
Tam Eh Tedd
Part 1 - Walk In The Park
Part 2 - Missing Persons
Part 3 - Interviewed By The Devil
Part 4 - Into The Dungeon
Part 5 - The Truth About Grace
Part 6 - The Brewing Storm
Part 7 - Fallen From Grace
Part 8 - Humanity
PB Special Features
Sleepy Time
Second Life
The Child Left Behind
Red Alert
Moping Squirrel
Intro to South
Party Recruiting
Even More Recruiting
Party Fashion
Family Reuinion
Part 1 - Arrivals And Presents
Part 2 - Bending Genders
Part 3 - Festivities
Part 4 - Hold On Hope
Hidden Genesis
In The Shadows
The New Students
Susan Draws The Line
Squirrel In The Classroom
Part 1 - The Trials Of Susan
Part 2 - The Statue
Part 3 - Pent-Up Magic
Part 4 - Evil Monkey
Part 5 - Moperville News
Part 6 - Weregirl
Part 7 - The Dark Clouds Gather
Part 8 - Talon vs. Scythe
Part 9 - Wrath of God
Part 10 - Pandoras Box
Indiana Elliot And The TOSF
T-Minus The Demon Ally
Hammerchlorians - 1
Hammerchlorians - 2
Hammerchlorians - 3
T-Minus Dark Allegiance
New And Old Flames - 1
New And Old Flames - 2
New And Old Flames - 3
New And Old Flames - 4
New And Old Flames - 5
New And Old Flames - 6
One Way Road
Legends of Celida
Death Sentence - 1
Death Sentence - 2
Death Sentence - 3
Death Sentence - 4
Death Sentence - 5
What Is Love
The End Of Spring
Power Fantasy
Rocks Fall Nobody Is Hired
By The Numbers
Duel Of The Discs
There Be Whales Here
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There Be Whales Here Pt 3
End Of An Era
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Family Tree
Summer Moments
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So A Date At The Mall
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Tedd continues to be confidant in Susan's abilities. Annoying, but confidant.
Many have asked why Tedd doesn't simply cut his hair, and this is his justification for keeping it long. Now, one might take Susan's view on this and claim it is illogical and injures the brain, but it makes sense to Tedd.
There is a solid logic to this, however. If one looks girly either way, it might very well be better to have a specific attribute to act as a scapegoat. Or it might be totally ridiculous. Either way, it's Tedd hair, and the only person it truly needs to make sense to is him.
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Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 11-NVZ3BUK
Reviews for the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 11-NVZ3BUK
Source: BCW - Business Computing World
There is no doubting that the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 11 is an attractive machine both in terms of looks and price. It is light and portable and its battery life is conducive to working outside the office. However, the reflective nature of the screen may prove a challenge for some people and the somewhat cramped keyboard might make it difficult for larger hands to work comfortably.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 02/17/2011
The Thinkpad Edge series, introduced at the 2010 CES in Las Vegas, were marketed as cheap business notebooks in the lower price segment for small companies and freelancer professional alike.
The main advantage of the Edge series is the premium appearance and feature of the ThinkPad line on top of an affordable price. Reliable performance, good workmanship, matte screen and especially low weight are business-oriented features. Office users should also consider the Edge for its comfortable keyboard, popular trackpoint and high resolution screen.
However, as is is a budget business notebook, corners must be cut for the Edge series to maintain its low price. First of all, as it lacks VGA, HDMI, and DVI, the user must carry an extra adapter while traveling. Average brightness and weak contrast makes the Edge not suitable for multimedia or working under sunlight. Even with the latest generation hardware, the Thinkpad Edge gets with almost 50° Celsius very hot under load on the bottom side. The battery life is also shorter due to its smaller battery – which is noticeable compared to other business laptop. Thus for a long travel, users should always have an adapter ready. The lack of a docking station also somewhat limits the usability of the Thinkpad edge.
Despite all the weakness, the Thinkpad Edge still remains an affordable business and office notebook in the lower price segment. Users with a bigger budget or demanding other features such as a good display or longer battery life should definitely look at other high-end business laptop.
ATI Radeon HD 4225: Onboard graphics card (in the RS880M chipset) that is able to decode HD videos (thanks to the UVD2). Technically a slower clocked HD 4250.
Only some 3D games with very low demands are playable with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
K125: Slow entry level single core CPU for small and light laptops. Still faster as 1.6 Ghz Atom based systems.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
This screen diagoal is quite large for tablets but small for subnotebooks. Some convertibles are also represented with that size.
Large display-sizes allow higher resolutions. So, details like letters are bigger. On the other hand, the power consumption is lower with small screen diagonals and the devices are smaller, more lightweight and cheaper.» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
1.5 kg:
This weight is typical for big tablets, small subnotebooks, ultrabooks and convertibles with a 10-11 inch display-diagonal.
Lenovo: Lenovo Group Limited is China's largest and the world's fourth largest personal computer manufacturer. Lenovo produces desktops, laptops, servers, handheld computers, imaging equipment, and mobile phone handsets. Lenovo also provides information technology integration and support services, and its QDI unit offers contract manufacturing. Its executive headquarters are located in China and USA. It is incorporated in Hong Kong. Lenovo was formed in 1984 as a spin-off of the Chinese Academy of Sciences new technology unit. The company initially began as a reseller, distributor and later CM for foreign brands, including IBM, entering the Chinese market. In 1990, Lenovo started to manufacture its own PCs and by 1997 became the market leader in China. In 2004, Lenovo bought IBM's PC business for $1.25billion. Market share regarding sales of personal computers in 2007 (market research IDC): HP 18.9 %, Dell 16.4 %, Acer 9.9 %, Lenovo 7.5 %, Apple 5.7 %
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.