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A Mount Maunganui woman has written a book and is using it to help fund workshops for at-risk children in the Bay of Plenty community.
The workshops, which will be run every Friday night starting June 20, will target 12 to 18-year-olds who struggle with anxiety, stress and depression.
Charlotte Hardy said inspiration for the workshops came when her friend Matt Skellern committed suicide two years ago in May. "I knew him for half his life and I thought, 'why didn't he tell someone he was bipolar, why didn't talk about it and get peer group support?'"
Ms Hardy, who works for Comvita, said the workshops were aimed at children who may be at risk.
"Children that have been a bit down, are a bit stressed out or have been through a traumatic situation, so they are struggling emotionally ... It's about teaching them skills to deal with stress, giving teenagers a safe, fun environment in which to learn about their identity and grow creatively."
Each week the workshops will be taken by an artist who will teach the children a new skill or craft.
Artists involved include musician Jamie Harkins, photographer James Stanbridge and Brazilian artist Ana Mendina.
Ms Hardy said there was no pressure for children at the workshops other than to enjoy what they are doing.
"There will be yoga in the beginning, we will have something to eat and then a workshop for a few hours followed by a guided relaxation at the end."
Ms Hardy said she wrote Recipes for Life in May last year as a series of quirky vignettes about everyday life.
"The poems and idea of the book is a celebration about life, celebrating all the things that give us a sense of belonging and enjoyment in this world."
She then collaborated with 15 other artists and has since published the book in hopes of using it as a fundraiser for the workshops.
Each week the workshops - called Friday Night Flavour: What's your flavour? - will be either held at The Incubator, or the Merivale and Arataki community centres.
To purchase a book to help support the workshops go to www.facebook.com/CharlottesInkPublishing.


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Television series such as Dallas, Dynasty and, most recently, Brothers and Sisters have done much to colour the general public's perception of family businesses. Instead of being places where people with close ties to each other work together to create something worthwhile, they are hotbeds of intrigue, characterised by sibling rivalries and worse. But real life isn't like that, is it? Well, anybody reading Grant Gordon and Nigel Nicholson's book could be forgiven for thinking that the scriptwriters had underplayed their hands.
Using examples from around the world, the two men describe how such well-known companies as the Ford Motor Company, the McCain chip-producing business and the Gucci fashion house went through various traumas, including in the last case murder. Given this catalogue of woe, the reader might think that family businesses are such poisonous affairs that they should be discouraged.
But Gordon, director general of the Institute for Family Business and a scion of the Scotch whisky business William Grant & Sons, and Nicholson, professor of organisational behaviour at London Business School, take the opposite view.
"We believe strongly in the positive magic of family firms, but recognise this comes at a price of increased vulnerability," they write at the outset. They continue: "Family firms have to be smarter and more alert than other kinds of firm to regulate the flow of positive emotional energy and avoid the dark side. They need to practise constant vigilance to manage the risks that are germane to this form of business." Indeed, they add that the book is designed to show how "quite simple measures and good risk management" would have saved many of the firms they have examined from their unfortunate fates.
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Remember how pissed you were when the city decided to start charging drivers to park at meters on Sundays -- the one day of parking freedom?
Well, that's kinda how transit people feel about Mayor Ed Lee's recent call undo all that and let everyone enjoy free parking on Sundays again. The Transit Riders Union has started a petition opposing the Mayor's opposition to metered parking on Sundays.
According to the petition, giving drivers a financial break on the Sabbath means transit riders will be paying the price. Here's the letter explaining this logic:
We oppose your proposal to end charging at parking meters on Sundays. Transit riders shouldn't have to sacrifice - both in degraded service and in the wallet - so that motorists can get free parking.
Ending Sunday metering will hurt transit riders:
- More motorists will be circling for parking and double parking, making Muni slower and less reliable
- It will deprive Muni of critical funding, which could result in:
- Less Muni service
- More waiting and crowding
- Higher fares
In addition, Sunday metering has been beneficial to both local businesses and motorists. An SFMTA study published in December 2013 indicated that after Sunday metering, drivers were able to find a parking spot twice as fast as before. In addition, parking turnover increase by at least 20 percent, helping more customers get to local businesses.
Mayor Lee: Support transit riders, local businesses, and motorists - continue the successful Sunday parking meters.
The goal was to gather 150 signatures, and as of this morning, 160 disgruntled transit riders have signed onto the petition.
It was just a year ago that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency started ticketing drivers who didn't plug the meters on Sundays. Drivers were livid and transit riders were thrilled. Then last week, during the Mayor's State of the City speech, Mayor Lee announced he wanted to do away with parking enforcement on Sundays and replace that revenue with money raised from increased vehicle license fees and a transportation bond on the November ballot.
So if you have thoroughly enjoyed shelling out more money the past year for parking, go ahead and sign the petition. On that note, you'll probably be delighted to know that drivers have to pay for parking today even though it's MLK Day.


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Everything is going according to plan. I smile as Ellie falls to the ground in my arms, her body limp and cold as a corpse. Well, I remind myself, technically she is a corpse. But it's not her body I want. Oh no, what I want is something far more precious .... but first I have to get it.
"Help!" I cry, the very picture of shock and concern. "Please help, she's collapsed, someone help me!"
The people in the park are quick to react, rushing to my side and gabbling like headless chickens. I continue my theatrics, well rehearsed after all these years of practice, tears streaming down my face as I cry for my "sister." Everything happens very fast after that; someone calls the ambulance, the paramedics arrive and inspect her, they declare her dead on the scene and take her to the morgue. However, when they look around for me I am already gone. There are far too many complications for me to bother staying around and putting on a show for them. After all, Ellie is dead and that is all I need.
I am at the morgue before the body, lurking in the shadows, silent and perfectly still. Nobody notices me as they carry Ellie's body inside. Her parents will be contacted soon, then the whole family will gather around for the funeral. But I will have taken Ellie long before that. After all, who am I to leave my new posessions lying around for anyone to claim, after I have spent all this time watching and following them? Surely my efforts must earn me some prize?
I smile to myself, already imagining the feel of Ellie's warm, bright soul in my hands. Yes, that is reward enough for me. Tonight, I shall come and claim it.


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Band of brothers
By Patty Kruszewski, Citizen Managing Editor 05/21/12
Rocky Marrin spent 30 years of his life on a spending spree. Now he's on a mission not only to return the goods, but to help others avoid his buyer's remorse.
"I was buying what the world was selling," Marrin said of the three-decade period when his world revolved around climbing the corporate ladder, owning a nice home and cars, and seeking enjoyment in "drinking buddies, golf, sports, and women."
Yes, he went to church once a week, Marrin said; but all he had to show at the end of those 30 years was "a broken marriage, hurt and angry children, and a ton of confusion in every other area of my life."
In February 2010, after eight years in a men's Bible study, Marrin's prayers about a group that would help others avoid his mistakes evolved into a vision, and he founded White Hot Ministries. The fledgling organization works with both adult men and high school seniors in weekly study sessions in which members, using scripture as a guide, discuss feelings such as insecurity, pride, and fear, and topics such as addictions, dating and marriage.
On May 5, several Deep Run High School seniors attended the GodStrong Men spring breakfast at The Place at Innsbrook, and testified to the impact that their study group, known as the Varsity Warriors, has had on their lives.
Nothing to show for it
At the breakfast, the students heard from Pastor Calvin Duncan, who played basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University and later passed up a promising career in the NBA to join Athletes in Action, a Christian traveling team and sports ministry.
Now the pastor at Faith & Family Church in Richmond, Duncan told the crowd at the breakfast that if not for a woman on Grace Street who shared the gospel with him while he was at VCU, he might have chosen a different path.
Raised by an aunt with a sixth grade education after his mother died in childbirth, Duncan called himself a "typical inner city kid. I loved basketball; I didn't value education." In his junior year of high school, he dated a girl whose mother was a drug dealer, so he was always around gangsters and drugs.
But his aunt made him go to church, and basketball got him out of the inner city (although after a placement test pegged him at a fourth grade reading level, he had to detour to Oak Hill Academy on his way to VCU).
Duncan told the audience that he has never regretted his decision to pass up the pros, and quoted an observer who said, "Calvin turned out better than all these guys who played in the NBA, made millions of dollars, and have nothing to show for it."
"The Lord is our coach," Duncan told the crowd, comparing the Bible to the play books he once used in basketball. "You have to know the plays if you want to be successful in the game of life.
"I once was recruited to play basketball. Now I recruit sinners to be saved."
Sharing faith
Duncan was one of many speakers who have inspired the DRHS students at group get-togethers throughout the year, said Tom Bostwick, citing among other favorites Buddy Childress of Needle's Eye Ministries and Bill Janis, former Virginia delegate.
"I really look forward to [the weekly meetings]," said Bostwick. "The fellowship together, sharing problems, and having people help you with it."
"It's awesome to hear the different ways people come to God, and the different paths they take," said Colin Bennett, one of the students who helped Marrin recruit seniors for the study group. "They've all had different journeys, but they're all on the same path now."
Like Marrin, and his classmate Max Huntley, Bennett is a member at Shady Grove United Methodist Church. So once Marrin's plan for Varsity Warriors had taken shape, he was quick to approach Bennett and Huntley for help with recruitment.
"You don't find a lot of guys 17 or 18 years old who are willing to step out and share their faith," Marrin told the crowd at the breakfast, adding that he originally hoped for 12 students to sign on, and perhaps eight to attend regularly.
But some 16 seniors, on average, have attended the meetings at Marrin's home -- and are now recruiting juniors to form next year's group. Although all are students at DRHS, they hail from seven different churches.
The men also take turns leading the weekly lesson and "wrapping Scripture around it," said Marrin. "I haven't led a lesson since the second week in December."
Roots-up growth
Although all of the Varsity Warriors attend the same high school, they vary greatly in their interests and activities outside of the group.
Bostwick plays lacrosse and will head to DePaul in the fall to study history. Tyler Howell works at Chick-Fil-A and will study business at James Madison University. Jason Puckett, a basketball player, will study business at Virginia Tech, and Bennett, who works at Chick-Fil-A, will attend University of Maryland. A member of the golf team, Huntley works at Daylight Donuts and will major in global affairs at George Mason University.
But all of the seniors agree on one thing: Varsity Warriors has brought them closer, and has helped prepare them to make better choices in life.
"As we're maturing, we're learning," said Jacob Butler. "It's a good combination to make good decisions."
"I feel like I take time to think before I do things, and I pray over things more," agreed Howell, adding that he feels "refreshed" after leaving Varsity Warriors meetings. "It's a support system."
"It's helped me with stress, and school work, and managing time," said Brooks Ohman. "And it's helped me grow very close to my friends."
As Huntley pointed out, "We were all friends before, but we've gotten closer friends, through God and religion."
Studying scripture together builds tighter bonds than those of a typical friendship, agreed Bennett. "When you come together through Christ, it's not a superficial growth," he said. "It's more roots-up --- a stronger, sturdy growth."
Lofty goals
Although Marrin has already looked into establishing Varsity Warrior groups in other high schools and cities, and many of the students plan to form groups at their colleges, his vision for the organization is considerably more ambitious.
"We want to take this," he told the breakfast audience, "to every high school in the country."
Marrin and his wife, Leslie (who cooks for the senior men and talks to them about prom night and dating topics), also hope to expand the groups to include women. Leslie is organizing a senior girls study group, and the couple is actively seeking leaders to help spread groups of both genders to other high school campuses.
But even in its infancy, Varsity Warriors has had a tremendous impact on 16 lives already.
"When Colin and Max came to me [about Varsity Warriors]," Bostwick said, "I had no idea what I was getting into. I went to church every week and thought my faith was pretty strong. Now we've all grown together, and I'm so thankful. Varsity Warriors is a big part of my life."
Being a high school senior, Bennett mused, he knows a lot of people -- most of whom will not be a part of his life for much longer. But because of Varsity Warriors, Bennett said, "There are 15 people my age that I know I'll be friends with my whole life. Because when you share your faith, it's a good foundation."
As Howell addressed the crowd, he noted that Varsity Warriors has helped him overcome a number of fears -- including the fear of public speaking that he had to overcome to get up on stage.
"[Varsity Warriors] has been a steadfast rock in my life when so many things are flying by," Howell said, adding that even when he was away from the group, the support of other members felt like "a backpack of friends and family" on his back.
"I will miss Mondays with Varsity Warriors -- and Leslie's cooking," Howell concluded with a smile.
"We truly became a family this year."
Smither named director of Henrico's Department of Finance
Citizen Staff Reports Government
Henrico County Manager John A. Vithoulkas has appointed Edward N. "Ned" Smither Jr. to serve as director of the Department of Finance, effective July 1.
Smither has served Henrico since 2013 as director of the Accounting Division in Finance. He will succeed Eugene H. Walter, who has delayed his retirement until June 30 to ensure an orderly transition within the department.
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Smither has served Henrico since 2013 as director of the Accounting Division in Finance. He will succeed Eugene H. Walter, who has delayed his retirement until June 30 to ensure an orderly transition within the department.
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State honors EMS officials this week
Citizen Staff Reports GovernmentPublic Safety
There were nearly 1.5 million emergency medical services calls and 4,063 incidents per day in Virginia just last year.
This week, May 21-27, declared as National EMS week by Gov. Terry McAuliffe, recognizes the more than 34,000 EMS personnel and 631 agencies in the state and commends their efforts and commitment to Commonwealth citizens.
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This week, May 21-27, declared as National EMS week by Gov. Terry McAuliffe, recognizes the more than 34,000 EMS personnel and 631 agencies in the state and commends their efforts and commitment to Commonwealth citizens.
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Norfolk man arrested at RIC after TSA catches him with gun
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A Norfolk man was arrested at Richmond International Airport May 18 after Transportation Security Administration officers detected a loaded semi-automatic handgun in the traveler's carry-on bag.
A TSA officer detected the .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun inside the man's carry-on bag as it passed through the security checkpoint X-ray machine. The handgun was loaded with 13 bullets.
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A TSA officer detected the .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun inside the man's carry-on bag as it passed through the security checkpoint X-ray machine. The handgun was loaded with 13 bullets.
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Police release photo of hoax bomb
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Henrico Police have released a photo of the clock that resembled a bomb that led to the arrest of a Richmond woman in Shot Pump earlier this week.
The device, which the woman told police she purchased at a yard sale, was visible in her car at the Whole Foods at West Broad Village May 19, and a passerby called police, fearing it was a real bomb. Police responded as they would have had the device been real, they said, because they weren't sure if it was real or not.
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The device, which the woman told police she purchased at a yard sale, was visible in her car at the Whole Foods at West Broad Village May 19, and a passerby called police, fearing it was a real bomb. Police responded as they would have had the device been real, they said, because they weren't sure if it was real or not.
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Henrico school buses with compliance issue to be fixed this summer
The 176 Henrico school buses that have been purchased since March 2011 will be fixed during the summer, Henrico Schools spokesman Andy Jenks told the Citizen. The bus manufacturers will retrofit the buses at no cost to the school division, he said.
The brake interlock device is required on all automatic transmission buses in Virginia that were purchased after March 2011, which is when the device was added to the state Board of Education's requirements for school buses. As many as 4,000 school buses in the state may be affected, according to the Virginia Department of Education.
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Breaking point
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Breaking point or The Breaking Point may refer to:
- Breaking point (psychology), a critical moment of personal stress
- Psychotic break
- Mental breakdown
- The Breaking Point (anthology), a 1959 short story collection by Daphne du Maurier
- Breaking Point (novel), a 2002 young adult novel by Alex Flinn
- The Breaking Point, a 1922 mystery novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Film and TV[edit]
- The Breaking Point (1924 film), an American rediscovered film directed by Herbert Brenon
- The Breaking Point (1950 film), an American adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, directed by Michael Curtiz
- The Breaking Point (1961 film), a British crime film directed by Lance Comfort
- Breaking Point (1975 film), a Swedish erotic horror film directed by Bo Arne Vibenius
- Breaking Point (1976 film), an American film directed by Bob Clark
- Breaking Point (1989 film), an American television remake of the 1965 suspense film 36 Hours
- Breaking Point (1993 film), a film starring Gary Busey
- Breaking Point (2005 film), a Canadian TV documentary about the 1995 Quebec sovereignty referendum
- Breaking Point (2009 film), an American action film starring Tom Berenger
- Series
- Breaking Point (1963 TV series), an American medical drama
- The Breaking Point (1991 TV series), a Hong Kong series
- Breaking Point (2010 TV series), a Discovery Channel Canada reality/documentary series
- Breaking Pointe, a 2012 American reality series
- Episodes
- "Breaking Point" (Alias)
- "The Breaking Point" (Band of Brothers)
- "Breaking Point" (The Outer Limits)
- UFC 81: Breaking Point, a 2008 pay-per-view event
- WWE Breaking Point, a 2009 pay-per-view event
- Breaking Point (band), an American hard rock band
- Breaking Point!, a 1964 album by Fredie Hubbard, or the title composition
- Breaking Point (Digital Summer album), 2012
- Breaking Point (Lunatic Calm album), 2002
- "Breaking Point" (Keri Hilson song), 2010
- "Breaking Point" (Bullet for My Valentine song), 2013
- "Breaking Point", a song by Parkway Drive from Horizons
- "Breaking Point", a song by Amaranthe from Amaranthe
- "Breaking Point", a 1989 song by The Alarm
- "Breaking Point", a 1984 song by Bourgie Bourgie
- "The Breaking Point", a song by Bacharach & David, covered by Normie Rowe
- "Breaking Point", a song by Crown the Empire, 2013
- "Breaking Point", a song by The Moody Blues from Sur la Mer, 1988
See also[edit]
- Break point, in tennis scoring
- Breakpoint (disambiguation)
- Point Break, a 1991 action film
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text: "The ends justify the means." "Dark times are coming. Curses are returning to the innocent. Those forgotten in time shall return. But until destiny starts moving again, i lie in the darkness waiting for him to return." - The Oracle In the world of Gaia, there echoes a legend. A legend held dearly by the kingdoms and clans alike that tells of a being born from the heavens. A hero that would rise against the corruption of darkness and vanquish evil time and time again whenever it shall arise by gathering a group of noble warrior known as Guardians. But when this being suddenly vanishes from time, Decades pass and the world sunk into turmoil. All hope was lost and as the world plummeted into the depths of Darkness the legend was lost to the endless current of time. Eons passed, and the old stories that where forgotten. Come to light once again, begging the question. ? Will the true hero ever return? Will the guardians rise to the challenge once more? Or will they both remain legends? Book One Synopsis: Darkness rises once again and evil tightens its grip suffocating the land. Corruption and temptation spreads like a virus causing a great depression and all hope seems to be lost. The legendary seven Kingdoms struggle for power and the thirteen clans created by the divine gods are dying off when a rival Nation with technological advancements far superior to that of the others rise. But when a shooting star falls from the heavens it seems there is one hope left in plain sight. When a child named Darsha falls from the sky as if to symbolize a gift from the heavens with no memory of who he is, or where he came from many strange events begin to take effect soon after. Troubled with memories that do not belong to him trying to remember his own origins this child goes through life as a weakling, but when war is brought to his home, and his mother is taken from him. He is faced with a choice. Watch his mother be executed, or fight against his oppressors in an epic battle of power, wits, and courage.


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Aging inmates put strain on state budget
ANGOLA - Old age is creating a big financial problem at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, and costing taxpayers millions of dollars.
Stuck in bed, hooked up to oxygen and dependent on others to get things like diaper changes, the men inside Angola's hospice unit try to keep their dignity. All are convicts serving time for things like murders, rapes and armed robberies. They will likely die in this room.
Darrell Gerstenschologer has spent more than four decades at Angola, and now lives in hospice.
"I have cancer," Gerstenschologer said. "Advanced stage cancer."
Gerstenschologer remembers his crime and acknowledges he deserves to be here. He came here in the 70's and is serving a life sentence.
"First degree murder sir, I shot my wife," Gerstenschologer said.
Gerstenschologer is among the prison's 6,000 inmates. Nearly one third are over the age of 55, and their old age means a lot of medical expenses.
Mike Smith is a hospice volunteer who's also serving time for murder. He said he volunteers because he knows one day he might end up like Gerstenschologer.
"I have a better outlook of life, period," Smith said. "I understand being a hospice volunteer, I've been able to see men take their last breath."
The aging prison population led to the creation of a handicap-accessible nursing unit which now houses nearly 50 geriatric inmates in wheelchairs. The growing number of these prisoners who can't do manual labor anymore is a problem at Angola, which sits on nearly 26 miles of the richest farmland in the state and grows food for four other prisons in southern Louisiana. Lines of workers heading to the field today are half the length they were ten years ago.
"It's not going to get better," Hospice Director Tonia Faust said.
Currently there are 18 inmates in the hospice unit. Countless more are unable to work because of their age or physical weakness.
As inmates continue to age, their birthdays continue to put a burden on prisons, the state, and the taxpayers who must foot the bill for their care.
"I know the numbers will increase," Faust said. "We're seeing numbers of cancers, terminal illness occurring and we have limited area for elderly patients."
The aging of inmates has become such an issue, prison leaders are getting creative with how they deal with the situation. Thursday night at 10, News 2's Chris Nakamoto will detail just how much sick inmates are costing taxpayers and what's being done to address the situation.


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At the end of an extraordinary day that had seen the Australians romp to a stunning victory, the elders of the side ran around the field like spring chickens. Against all the odds, Ricky Ponting's side had secured a great victory. So much for Dad's Army. Australia overwhelmed an opponent alarmed into inactivity. Although it was a magnificent team effort, the victory owed most to the side's ageing champions. Seldom have two masters raged as strongly against the dying of their light as did Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath against England in their second innings. They turned an apparently lost cause into a triumph.
Shane Warne's contribution counts amongst the mightiest of his career. Pounded by the batsmen and berated by the critics after a lacklustre showing in the first innings, he produced a stirring performance. A drawn match had been universally predicted. Only the sight of the Englishmen arriving with glum faces suggested otherwise. And the fact that Australia had a magician in its ranks.
Anyone seeking to convey the greatness of this fascinating operator need only show footage of this display. It was not merely the skill summoned throughout an unyielding stint. Certainly the craftsmanship shown was superb, the way the ball dipped and turned, the unexpected googly and most of all, the accuracy that caused almost every ball to land on the spot.
But it was not only about skill. Greatness is a state of mind. Warne had taken 1 for 167 in the first innings and had been exposed by a confident young batsman. A lesser man might have wilted. Not Warne. Instead, he wanted to make amends and convinced himself it could be done. Maybe he had seen his opponents walk into the ground with long faces. He knows that the scared sportsman is vulnerable. Now his arm was higher and he changed his line, aiming more often at middle stump, using the leg-side delivery sparingly. Astute fields were also set so that batsmen could not easily escape. And so the great competitor went to work. His first strike owed something to fortune. Bad luck stalks the timid. Next came the most crucial blow. Warne left the leg-side temptingly open and sent a ball behind Pietersen's legs. Accepting the bait, his recent tormentor swept and lost his off stump. Warne had nailed his man.
Meanwhile McGrath watched. Not so long ago he had been thrown the ball when the game was afoot. Now he did not try his arm till late afternoon. At last the ball was tossed to him. He ran in hard, bowled purposefully and took the last two scalps.
Then the old champions walked back to the pavilion and watched the batsmen knock off the runs. Finally they ran on to the field like excited youngsters. It had been a wonderful fightback, and the old warriors had led the way.
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Kevin Pietersen was put through a series of rigorous training exercises to prove his fitness for the third Test. He was accompanied for most of England's session by the team physiotherapist, Craig De Weymarn.
The close attention showed both the management's desire to do everything they can to ensure Pietersen is ready to take his place at No 4 in the batting order and the intention to take no risks. Pietersen has been receiving intensive treatment on a calf strain which he suffered during the second Test victory at Lord's.
He arrived sporting a bandage on the calf and gingerly went through some initial routines before batting, when he did not seem in particular discomfort. After the net he did some gentle running on the outfield accompanied by De Weymarn and then team masseur Mark Saxby.
Pietersen appears determined to play, although James Taylor is on standby. He has said in the past that he is prepared to go through the pain barrier to represent England and he may have to do so yet again.
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Janus Metz's unsettling documentary chronicles a tour of duty by Danish soldiers in Afghanistan. Set in a heavily armoured compound on the frontline of Helmand province, it takes a beady though nonjudgemental view of the young recruits digging in and getting to grips with a mostly unseen enemy.
The heart of the film is a tense, prolonged firefight with a cadre of Taliban gunmen, ending in scenes that highlight the gruesomely banal nature of war. The aftermath, in which the Danes analyse this violent engagement with a mixture of relief and hard-bitten humour (the one comes out of the other), later became the subject of a military investigation. "You have to be here to understand it," says one soldier, and you wouldn't doubt him – the shot of one of his comrades wide-eyed with shellshock is deeply troubling. Tin hats off to Metz and his photographer, Lars Skree, whose on-the-hoof camerawork gets as close as you'd ever want to the jerky, adrenaline rush of combat. As with last year's Oscar-nominated doc Restrepo, this avoids the wider political questions of what the West is doing here. It's simply a record of men at war, trying not to get killed.
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Discussion in 'Colorado Football Message Board' started by BuffTuba, Mar 23, 2007.
She took his parking place. I say Bitch Had It Coming.
I was going to just stay away from all this...it just wasn't worth my or anyone else's time. But the reporting of this crap is just unbelievable.
The facts...Sam was waiting for a parking spot to open up...he had even asked the guy pulling out before hand if he was leaving. The other car pulls up while Sam is waiting for the other car to clear and darts into the parking spot. Sam never used any profanity but asked the girl what she was doing and that he had been waiting for the parking spot. She refuses even to roll down her window...Sam is enfuriated and throws his empty McDonalds styrofoam drink cup (it was a small) at her front bumper. The car he was throwing at was quartering away from him so I would call it a fade route. He hit the bumper and then realizing littering was a venial sin...he picked up the cup and placed in the proper recepticle.
I can't even stay serious about this travesty of justice. Anyway, he did drive away and find another parking spot. He never swore, meant no one any harm but was obviously enfuriated by the rude behaviour of the other driver. There are witnesses who can corraborate everything said here and that they told Sam at the time they would have done far worse if this girl had pulled the same rude action on them.
word is that the styrofoam cup almost totalled the car.
Anyway, thanks for reading the truth. Sorry it isn't as interesting as some of the other stories.
I read that that styrofoam paper cup was filled with nails.
STYROFOAM !!!??? Doesn't that asshole care about the environment ? :lol:
LMAO, give me a break Tuba guy.
Roid rage at its finest.
I had EXACTLY the same thing happen to me once. It was a fat lady in a cadillac and I had my three kids. Anyway, I was so furious, I had stern words for the lady then drove off. Even to this day, 15 years later, I wish I had let the air out of her tires.
I'll bet Keller has no problem finding, umm, "witnesses," though. I can see the court hearing now. The report will read, "80,000 eye witnesses had to be turned away in Sam Keller's court hearing today." :lol:
Man, the nu kampus kops kind of remind me of the ones at CU. :huh:
maybe the lady was a CU grad :smile2:
I know a person is full of **** when he starts off by saying "the facts" on the internet message board.:lol: I bet sam asked her in his best hugh grant voice. What a super nice guy. Silly Fuskers.
I would've been pissed. I probably wouldve called her every name in the book. So what he yelled at her and tossed his cup. 75% of you wouldve done the same thing. It's a joke that they are even pressing charges. If it happened at CU the fuskers would be all over the board talking ****.
I heard it was the back up QB dequised as a girl and was trying to get Keller kicked off the team. It's a conspiracy man.
Besides what kind of a ***** throws a fit over a parking lot and yells at a girl. If it's true I'm guessing he'll be out for most of the season with a hang nail or something.
look at the NU posters line up and defend "their guy" and some philosophical justifications about parking. what a bunch of nimrods.
And urine.
Considering he is D1 College football QB with a big strong arm, couldnt him throwing something at this lady be considered assault with a deadly weapon? Lock him up, throw away the key!!!!!
heard he was aiming at the windshield :smile2:
Yeah. He almost threw it in the dirt.
So the styrofoam cup is now securely locked away in a dresk drawer in Callahan's office?
Ditto.....but he's still an idiot for throwing the cup
Here in Lincoln, the only thing people are concerned about was Sam's form and if if was a spiral with any zip on it. It's pretty funny. Way out of hand here, like everything else, blown WAY out of proportion.
People just want to talk NU football here (in NE), no matter what it is.
I heard he was throwing it at Cortney Grixby. He was standing under the front bumper... :lol: :lol:
YMSSR. Damn. I didn't know I had repped you so recently. Nice work. Subtle, yet effective. Right on the money. Well played!
Only because it accomplished nothing. I have a tow strap I keep in my truck for hunting. I probably would have gotten so pissed that I would have pulled her car out of the space and left it in the middle of the road.
It's a stupid charge for anyone whether it be a NU player or not. I probably would have done something a lot worse, but that's me and my road rage. :smile2:
Now this made me laugh! You can buy the cup that Sam Keller threw on Ebay! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200092664251 :lol: Pssst....It's not real!
Aside from the fact that there's absolutely no way in hell to authenticate that it's the right cup, are we really supposed to believe that this cup...
Did this much damage to a car? :lol:
According to the fuskers, his arm is just that strong... FEAR THE KELLER!!! :lol: :lol:
young guy made a mistake, that's all.
in my early 20s, i would probably have rammed her car or something, so i am not going to criticize him too much for throwing a cup. i can't believe he got charged for that. it is stupid.
i can think how pissed i would have been at that age. it doesn't make it right, but i ain't going to judge him too harshly for this.
could you imagine if this happened in boulder? they'd have the football player jailed and a civil suit would be filed by the girl the next day against CU for a "culture of entitlement" for athletes... :sad1:
you have to remember, at the end of the day, these are basically kids. they aren't going to always do the right thing. this is no different than the student body as a whole, but these guys are under the spotlight so they have to be "better" than their peers, but sometimes, they slip up.
Oh hell, I'm not judging the kid. Like you said, I'd probably do the same thing - or worse - in the same situation at that age. His biggest lapse of judgement was transferring to *ebraska to begin with. That alone is reason to question his intelligence.
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- Open versus laparoscopic cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis. Systematic review and meta-analysisFederico Coccolini
General Surgery Dept, Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital, P zza OMS 1, 24128 Bergamo, Italy Electronic address
Int J Surg 18:196-204. 2015..However no definitive data on its use in AC has been published. CIAO and CIAOW studies demonstrated 48.7% of AC were still operated with the open technique. The aim of the present meta-analysis is to compare OC and LC in AC...
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Int J Surg 21:32-7. 2015..There have been no previous reports on intra-abdominal bacteriology in complicated IAIs due to acute cholecystitis (AC)...
- Complete versus incomplete cytoreduction in peritoneal carcinosis from gastric cancer, with consideration to PCI cut-off. Systematic review and meta-analysisF Coccolini
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Eur J Surg Oncol 41:911-9. 2015..However no definitive data about the real effect of complete cytoreduction (CC) have still been published. Moreover the PCI cut-off to attempt CC with a reasonable risk-benefit ratio still lacks...
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General Surgery Dept, Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital, Bergamo, Italy General Surgery Dept, Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud, Hospices Civils de Lyon and EMR 3738, Universite Lyon 1, France Electronic address
Eur J Surg Oncol 40:12-26. 2014..Intraperitoneal chemotherapy (IPC) is considered to give a fundamental contribute in treating advanced GC. The purpose of the study is to investigate the effects of IPC in patients with advanced GC...
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Eur Surg Res 50:262-72. 2013..A wide variety of meshes are available for surgical treatment of abdominal wall defects. These meshes are constructed with different materials with different biological properties...
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General and Emergency Surgery dept, Ospedali Riuniti, Largo Barozzi, 1 26128, Bergamo, Italy
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Unit of General Surgery, Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital, P zza OMS 1, 24127, Bergamo, Italy
Updates Surg 65:191-6. 2013..The mean follow-up is 16.2 months. The mean complication rate is 9.4 %. Biological prosthesis seems to be useful and safe in abdominal wall repair surgery in transplanted patients...
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- The NOTA Study (Non Operative Treatment for Acute Appendicitis): prospective study on the efficacy and safety of antibiotics (amoxicillin and clavulanic acid) for treating patients with right lower quadrant abdominal pain and long-term follow-up of conserSalomone Di Saverio
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Ann Surg 260:109-17. 2014..To assess the safety and efficacy of antibiotics treatment for suspected acute uncomplicated appendicitis and to monitor the long term follow-up of non-operated patients...
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Int J Gynecol Cancer 22:778-85. 2012..The aim of the study was to analyze feasibility and results of CRS and HIPEC in patients with advanced EOC...
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Department of General and Emergency Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti, Bergamo, Italy
Urol Int 89:307-10. 2012..There is a need for more exhaustive data concerning the use of prophylactic ureteral stenting for extended debulking and cytoreductive procedures in the literature...
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Unit of General Surgery I, Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital, Bergamo, Italy
J Gynecol Oncol 26:54-61. 2015..The aim of this study was to demonstrate the feasibility of CRS+HIPEC with cisplatin and paclitaxel for the treatment of advanced EOC...
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Federico Coccolini, Marco Lotti, Luca Ansaloni, Department of General Surgery, Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital, 24127 Bergamo, Italy
World J Gastroenterol 19:6979-94. 2013....
- Single center retrospective analysis of early vs. delayed treatment in acute calculous cholecystitis: application of a clinical pathway and an economic analysisMichele Pisano
Department of General Surgery, Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital, Bergamo, Italy
Ulus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg 21:373-9. 2015..This study aimed to draw some consideration from our practice in the application of the guidelines and put forward the clinical, economic and organizational effect of it...
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World J Gastroenterol 22:1139-59. 2016..Moreover, the necessity to prevent the relapse of the disease leads to the consideration of administering intraperitoneal chemotherapy earlier in the therapeutical algorithm. ..
- Microscopic margins of resection influence primary gastrointestinal stromal tumor survivalFausto Catena
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Onkologie 35:645-8. 2012..This study analyzes the outcomes of 151 patients with GIST treated at 3 institutions. These institutions comprise the GISTologist Study Group and provided follow-up data...
- Peritoneal cystic mesothelioma: are surgery and HIPEC optimal first-line treatments?Federico Coccolini
Dept of General and Emergency Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti, Bergamo, Italy
Onkologie 35:200-2. 2012..The medical community has yet to define standardized treatment guidelines for PCM...
- Intraperitoneal chemotherapy in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer: a surveyGiuseppe Grosso
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital, Piazza OMS 1, Bergamo, Italy
Arch Gynecol Obstet 290:425-34. 2014..Unfortunately, despite the existence of these evidence-based data, this management strategy remains underutilised...
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Dig Surg 28:210-21. 2011..The aim of this analysis is to systematically evaluate the evidence available in relevant literature in order to compare the relative effectiveness of antibiotic therapy as a viable alternative to appendectomies in the treatment of AA...
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General and Emergency Surgery Department, Ospedali Riuniti, Bergamo, Italy
World J Emerg Surg 7:34. 2012..Indications for repair of abdominal hernia are well established and widely diffused. Controversies still exist about the indication in using the different prosthetic materials and principally about the biological ones...


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|2013-03-28, 17:56
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They finally had it, it seems...
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They are so mad XD
The fact that there is still a world might suggest that at the very least, wars have not erupted into world-destroying events. Compare and contrast Battlefield 3 and the mission Thunder Run
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I wonder whether any masculinists are fighting the ban in their world...
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Its not a wonder why people prefer public transportation. Driving in Japan is not exactly an enjoyable experience. It also does not help when the public highways are also known as the National Parking Lot.
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The underground man leagues (how do you underground tank battles?)
It be interesting if the producers had some of the other team captains come with Ooarai to the Internationals. For one thing it give them a spot in the end credits bouncing tank (there were some artist that kept having Darjerring pacticing for her time in the credits before they started modifying the Panzer IV and adding new tanks to Oorai's team). Though there may be serious personality clashes. Especially if they added Anchovy.
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When you have a car coming through, there is only barely enough space to stand on the side. No such thing as a proper sidewalk.
And children playing on the streets? Forget it. However, there are small recreational parks in the city, except they are often crowded, too.
And don't get me started on the neighboring gossips...
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The most important element of safety in senshadou is the cannons and shells are specifically constructed to not harm the human body. As such, if a projectile were to hit a crew member, it would just bounce off:
So it turns out that in the early days of senshadou, there actually was an all male exhibition match. It was expected that a good showing here would open the door to more men in the sport.
The battle started normally. Then, a shell was fired accidentally at an exposed tank commander. He batted away the incoming shell by reflex with his arm.
That should have been the end of that, but...
The commander, as if coming to a realization, started actively swatting away incoming shells. His crew joined in, and eventually, all of the men in the battle were concentrating more on punching, bodyblocking, or headbutting away projectiles than actually fighting a tank battle. What was worse was that most of the tank commanders carried dress uniform swords (like their comrades in the navy) and they started using those to deflect rounds.
Finally, the tanks used up all their ammo, and this farce of an exhibition match should have ended in a pathetic stalemate. Then one commander looked at his weapon in hand and bellowed:
As one, the tanks rammed into each other. A number of tanks were taken out in the collision, and it might have been possible that one of the teams may have just won.
However, the crews were past the point of caring about a technical victory, for they had all bailed out of their vehicles and were fighting in a massive brawl. The (female) judges couldn't break up the melee and local police had to be called in.
One of the observers, the future international legend Nishizumi Shiho, had only one thing to say about the match: "This is not senshadou."
And thus, whenever the matter of male tank crews is brought up, everyone recalls this fiasco, their faces turn into ﺧ益ﺨ and the topic is dropped.
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Next time they'll know better than to have production issues when releasing a series.
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Girls & Tanks FIN - Mickey Maus Club
I don't have a whole lot of commentary on what went on in episode 11. The flow of the episode was easy to get into, but it goes in one ear and out the other for me. Except for three scenes. The moment when Miho decided, when presented with the same situation from her past, to repeat it, shows that she has a real strength of character. The repair en route was also kinda cool - memories of Basquash's Miyuki, one of my favorite mechanic characters. She never repaired a robot like that, but it does make me wish the mechanics got a little more screentime. Katyusha commenting on Miho's jump was also kind of cute, mostly because I know them as Yayoi and Alice in my head.
For the final episode, the action was once again, nice and engaging, but I don't think I got much out of it beyond the surface stuff. If the final match between Saki and Teru ends up being anything like this, I'd be okay with it. (Is there a version of Achiga for this show?). The stuff after the match, while short, was nice. Mako's plotline being resolved was a nicely emotional moment for her, and her grandma can dance well for her age. I had never really noticed the Saki meme (this show's Saki, not Miyanaga), but hearing her have one line (voiced by Mikako Komatsu at that) was a nice little moment. Not sure how I feel about the Volleyball Club's decision. Maybe they can be in both clubs. A fine finale, all things considered.
These three months drove up everyone's emotions, so for my thoughts on the show as a whole, I have a lot to say. You can stop right here and I won't mind. Just a new experience for me, in my time in the anime fandom.
Girls & Tanks Retrospective - Three (Six) Months on a Blurry Venn Diagram
I was never watching for the tanks. I know that might lead to a few rebuttals of "What are you doing in here?" From the start, this anime was attempting to reach two groups of otaku, the Akiba-type and the military types, but when it comes to the Western fandom, it's clear which group ended up being dominant. Some people were probably a mix of both, but from the beginning, I was planted firmly in the first, treating the second element only as a method of conveyance for getting to know the girls. That's what my emotional reactions draw upon. This has worked for me before. Strike Witches. So Ra no Wo To. The Lime-iro series. I know World of Tanks has come up a lot in this thread, and I suppose my past isn't entirely free from war games. The only one I've really played is Advance Wars (the earlier ones before Days of Ruin... because with a subtitle like that...), and even then, I played it because I wanted to know more about the COs, particularly Sami/Domino. She's like Yukari before Yukari was ever concieved as a character. This parallels my current situation almost exactly.
The first episode was almost entirely character driven, and hooked me, but from about episode three onward, I began to feel shortchanged. The girls taking away their personalized designs was a sign of that. Both in the show and the thread itself, with only a few moments of peace amongst pages of stuff I had no interest in desire to learn about - history that didn't seem to factor into the modern lives these girls were living, statistics that felt extraneous to the narrative, an online game I've never heard of and wasn't my style anyway - I know these things weren't, but from my perspective, they were drowning out what I thought would be the real heart of the story. Only I had misaimed and it seemed like I was watching for the skin. Even when the show focused on other things that aren't tanks (Hana's flower arranging and Saori's romantic interludes), it still goes back to tanks. This is why I appreciated the moment when the student council showed photos from their past - it gave a look at the broader world, for a moment or two.
There's a lot of praise for the realism of the show, and I know having a writer who's done their stuff is important, but at times the show felt like it was just rattling off trivia. That's the same problem I had with Upotte. Since it's on a subject I don't care about, it all became a mess of white noise after a while. I would've gladly sacrificed some realism if it meant the focus could shift, just a little. Again, I point to the three series I enjoyed at the top of the list. I'm not singling out anybody in particular, but when the threads are filled with pages of this stuff, and the length of the thread is more than ten times the length of Busou Shinki's, to draw on the closest possible comparison (from the same season), coupled with the Western macrofandom's at times dismissive attitude towards moe, I ended up feeling a litle alienated. I know it's mostly my fault, but the series looked close enough to the kinds of things I enjoy, but apparently the element I was watching for was made to feel lesser, both in and outside the show. It's not the first time I've experienced something like this, but it's one of the more frustrating times.
That's not to say there weren't character elements. The Angler Dance is one of my favorite moments in the show, both times it appears. It's just that it was only for certain characters, and the tank element kind of ended up overshadowing everything. The student council and the main characters were all defined well enough (if a bit one note), but if a character was neither them nor the team leaders, I feel that they ended up functioning more as a hive mind. And that the show only kept adding more characters as it went along only worsened this problem. The first years suffered greatly, and the mechanics and the gamers both may as well have not existed with how little of a role they ultimately ended up having. Unlike Saki, where, as was previously brought up, Mahjong is an individual sport, a plurality of the characters are barely defined as individuals, which showed the most in the recap episodes. The humans got one adjective at worst/best, and the tanks could get an entire Wikipedia entry. To me, that feels like a case of wonky priorities, though I know there's an audience for it.
I really did like the characters. For what little time we got to know them, they made a strong impression that I feel was never really followed up on. Sure, everybody except for Saori got something of a character arc, but the comparative amount of screentime in relation to the action scene was too little for me. They all needed more screentime in order to feel like they weren't just being glossed over. Miho's actress is now in a role I can really appreciate over in Doki Doki, and a lot of other VAs (including some of the newbies) make strong impressions. I'm always glad to have Mika Kikuchi getting more work. Though Yukari is confusing to me by embodying the personality type I enjoy the most with the strongest representation of the series element I'm the least fond of. If the entire series had been like the OVAs, or it had more time, or if the balance had shifted even slightly, I would've looked at it much more favorably. Because I like these characters, I just want to see them in a different kind of series. Having machines that aren't sentient or humanoid be more important than the humans just feels weird to me. I don't know how or if "interpersonal relationships" became a bad word (or is it only certain kinds?), but that's what I wanted to see more of. Even if the series was more of an atmosphere/daily life kind of series that had tanks rather than a tank series that has girls, it still wouldn't have been "generic" because the tanks would still be there. Every series tries to stake its claim in some way. That's what my views boil down to. I'm not opposed to the tanks being in the series or being involved in its world building, I'm annoyed that they're treated with more screentime and definition than the girls element of the show. For example, if Miho transformed into Magicannon Girl IV it would... be a rather different show, but one I would've been able to discuss a little more passionately.
The show itself was well produced. The scenery looked good, the character designs vibrant and unique, and I enjoyed the opening and ending themes, and even the character songs were a nice treat. I can't fault it on animation, but simply due to sheer preferences, I wouldn't have minded a slight bit more fanservice. The bath scenes were good, though. Like I've stated at the start, the visuals are all really pretty, and even in the toughest battles, the show gave off the same lighthearted atmosphere found in other works I do enjoy, like Tamako Market. Even the CGI was really nice. The short version of this essay comes down to "I like everything about the show but the main content of the show", but it's not even the sport itself. It's the effects it has on the script of the story, and what that script chose to do with it. It's fine for a certain kind of audience, but coming to terms with the fact that I'm not that audience has been at times confusing, frustrating and leaving me wondering where to send these feeling toward. There's hardly been a show with a primarily female cast that I haven't enjoyed, so it's a bit of a weird feeling. If you've read this far, thank you for listening.
So, yes, I admit I got baited and switched, but I don't hold ill will towards anybody. When I was playing Ota-Ma!, the military otaku Ameri and the tokusatsu and anime otaku of Koyori and Kirara can exist side by side and be friends, so I should be able to get along with people here too... but there are some fundamental differences in what we're seeking in anime that might be difficult (but not impossible) to come to an agreement on.
There was a term used in the finale of Joshiraku, about things that only need to be experienced once. This is that series for me. If/when it gets a second season, I'll still watch, because it's a sequel to something I mostly enjoyed, but I don't think I'll be around to discuss it. Maybe I'll enjoy it more that way. It was fun, I just came out of it a little disappointed. I place it on the same level as Upotte. Some good ideas, but too overtaken by technical aspects, minimizing individuality (or in Upotte's case, severely blurring the line between trivia and personality) to be something I'll find memorable. My wish is that this summer's Stella C3 Bu is able to balance the elements of the Akiba-type and the military otaku in a way that will give both sides equal presence.
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Please read back entire log of this thread, gentlemen. Many dumb mens talk about "HOW TO KILL" outloud many time, causing trouble and want to set fire in the community who talking about entertainment for enjoy, annoying by topic of blood-leaking War & Destroy Something.......I think there's a truth. Men should not involve Sensha-Do for good.
Hurrah for Girls & Panzer!!
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