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It seems that with girls, whether friends or those I'm interested in as more than friends, always seem to take much more than they give in any type of relationship. Whereas guys are bros more often than not, and will help you out much more often if you need it, they take about as much as they give, and possible give even more sometimes. I like hanging out with guys much more for that reason, there's never any drama or bullshit you have to hear about, you can just chill, have a few beers and watch football or whatever you want to do that's fun. Whereas with girls, you always have to hear about their day that's assuredly filled with drama, among other things. I've had fun days with girls before, but it's a rarity. Hanging out with them tends to be a much more emotional chore than a fun time. Not to mention their lack of loyalty. The one time I ever went to a club (big mistake), I actually got a girl's number and she wanted to come back to my apartment. She did, and then got a text from some guy and immediately left, and I never heard from her again. I've had other "dates" where girls blow me off, and have never gotten any help from my girl "friends" to help set me up, or help me make tough decisions. I only trust my guy friends with that stuff from now on, because those are the people who actually care about me.
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Because you're a misogynist. That's how... people like you think.22|00|3
I don't think I hate women, guys just tend to be nicer.
Since college I've just had a bad series of interactions with women that have jaded my views toward women. It's not so much that I hate women, I like women and want them in my life, it is just I don't enjoy the continual bad interactions I've experienced and know that I will continue to experience.


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Bangalore: In a move that could indicate a significant slowing of business for Indian IT firms, Infosys Technologies Ltd may declare revenue lower than previously estimated for the three months ended 30 September on account of the dollar's rise and a slowdown in the US.
While the company itself would appear to have been laying the ground for this over the past few weeks with talk of a difficult economic environment in the US, the biggest market for Indian IT firms, and an increasing focus on the domestic market, things came to a head Thursday night when securities firm CLSA released a report that said Infosys was likely to miss its dollar guidance for the second quarter as well as for the entire year.
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The company's chief financial officer V. Balakrishnanadmitted that the dollar's appreciation could hurt the company. "It is too early to speculate on the guidance now. (However), there could be impact on the reported dollar numbers because of the sharp cross-currency movements." The dollar has appreciated against currencies such as the British pound, the euro and the Australian dollar in which Infosys bills around 28% of its revenue.
The CLSA report sent shares of Infosys and other IT firms plunging. Shares of Infosys fell 6% to close at Rs1,644.10 each on the Bombay Stock Exchange on Friday, on a day when the exchange's benchmark Sensex index fell 2.3% to 14,000.81. The exchange's IT index fell 4.6% to 3,806.74.
Govind Agarwal, an analyst at UBS, said the "sharp and sudden" appreciation of the US dollar against the pound and the euro would hit the revenue of Indian IT firms, in dollar terms, by one, or two percentage points. In a report, he said the US dollar had risen 5.5%, 13.8%, and 13% respectively against the rupee, the pound and the euro in the current quarter.
Indian IT firms were hit by an appreciating local currency in 2007-08 because almost all (or much of their) billings are in other currencies. This year, they have been hit by a slowing of business in the US, an effect of the credit crisis-induced slowdown in that country. And they haven't been helped by the dollar, which has appreciated not just against the rupee, but also against other major currencies.
In an interview with Mint on 1 September, Infosys chief executiveS. Gopalakrishnan had said there was "still a lot of uncertainty left" in the US and "bad news...is coming in everyday".
S. Mahalingam, executive director and CFO of India's largest IT services firm Tata Consultancy Services Ltd said that the environment is still "challenging".
"The growth will be slower than last year. Nasscom (India's software lobby group) has said there is slower growth 21-25%, at least 10% lower than last year, let us keep it at that. We will see (foreign exchange) losses (and) most of the companies will see the same."
However, Wipro Ltd does not see currency volatility having an impact on its September quarter earnings, a senior official said on Friday. "We don't rely on cross-currency volatility to drive our business," Suresh Vaswani, the joint chief executive of Wipro's IT business, told reporters.
On Thursday, H.R. Binod, vice-president of the unit Infosys set up this year to focus on India, said to The Wall Street Journal that the firm was sharpening its focus on the domestic market. Billing rates on domestic contracts are typically lower than those on overseas ones.
The statements by Gopala-krishnan and Binod could be one way in which Infosys is preparing investors for a relatively poor performance in the quarter ending September, although the firm is renowned in the stock market for "underpromising" and "overdelivering". The last time Infosys had trouble meeting its revenue and profit estimates—it eventually did, but barely—was in early 2002. Every quarter since, the company has met, and often exceeded these estimates.
In its report, CLSA said that because of the "cross-currency headwind", Infosys would have to revise downward its revenue growth guidance for the September quarter by two percentage points. Infosys had previously said that it would earn revenue of between $1.22 billion and $1.23 billion (Rs5,588-5,633 crore today) in the quarter, its second of fiscal year 2008-09.
Research firm Forrester Inc. said in a report released this week that 40% of large businesses across sectors have cut their IT budgets this year, including almost half of financial services companies, which are typically the biggest spenders on technology.
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Malaysian Airlines (MAS) is to lay off just over 30 percent of its workforce in a restructuring that will see it brought under the full ownership of state-backed sovereign wealth fund Kazanah Nasional Berhad. Approximately 6,000 of the flagcarrier's 19,500 workers will lose their jobs as part of a plan that will result in the removal of many long-haul routes from the network, with MAS focusing mainly on services within Asia. Kazanah is to inject approximately $1.9 billion in fresh capital to bolster the airline's balance sheet.
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CAMBRIDGE – As inflation continues to soar everywhere, maybe the world's central bankers need a jolt to awaken them from complacency. How about holding one of their bi-monthly meetings in hyperinflationary Zimbabwe? It might not be comfortable, but it would be educational.
According to Zimbabwe's official statistical agency, inflation topped 66,000% in 2007, which looks more like Weimar Germany than modern-day Africa. While no one is quite certain how the government managed to estimate prices, given that there is virtually nothing for sale in the shops, most indicators suggest that Zimbabwe does have a good shot at breaking world records for inflation.
Of course, curious as they might be, central bankers could decide that meeting in Harare would be too inconvenient and politically unpalatable. Fortunately, there are lots of other nice – albeit less spectacular – inflation destinations. Inflation in Russia, Vietnam, Argentina, and Venezuela is solidly in double digits, to name just a few possibilities.
Indeed, except for deflation-ridden Japan, central bankers could meet just about anywhere and see high and rising inflation. Chinese authorities are so worried by their country's 7% inflation they are copying India and imposing price controls on food. Even the United States had inflation at 4% last year, though the Federal Reserve is somehow convinced that most people won't notice.


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I don't know if I've heard that one. I've just heard the ones where aliens from the Orion constellation came down and built the Pyramids of Giza (hence their arrangement being uncannily similar to Orion's Belt) lol
Oh, that could explain Stonehenge too!
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I love a good conspiracy. Interesting fact- every single US President bar the 8th, President Martin Van Buren (yes, even including Barack Obama) can trace their patrilineage back to King John I of England (the villain in Robin Hood), and are all members of the Capetian Dynasty. They're also all descendants of former Grand Masters of the Knights Templar. And of all the candidates who ran in the Republican and Democratic run-offs to represent their party in the upcoming election to decide the next US President, there were only two of them who could also trace their patrilineages back to King John I and the Knights Templar, as with all the other US Presidents for the past 200yrs or so- John Ellis 'Jeb' Bush, and Donald John Trump. Might the USA's holy crusade against Islam in the Holy Land actually have deeper, older roots than we know?00|00|0
For my aliens theory, I'd go back to the End-Ediacaran extinction event, 542 million years ago, when all of the living things on earth which weren't micro-organisms, the Ediacaran biota, were suddenly and mysteriously rendered extinct. The earliest fossil records in the Cambrian, just after the Ediacaran period, shows that the Cambrian explosion, which gave rise to the Animal kingdom which we see today (along with the very first multi-cellular plants and fungi, which emerged simultaneously), didn't happen straight away, but 0.3>2 million years later.
This data seems consistent with the radiation of an entirely new kingdom of life, animals, to fill in vacant niches, left empty as an extinction cleared out all of the pre-existing fauna. The boundary between the Cambrian and Pre-Cambrian was also marked by an inexplicable massive and sudden surge of the calcium concentration in Earth's oceans, and by a similarly inexplicable massive fall in the abundance of carbon-13 across the planet.
Could it be possible that these strange creatures, the Ediacaran biota, which had a completely different design to life on Earth today, were the original, indigenous equivalent to animals on our planet? And that their total extinction, and wholesale replacement by the Animal kingdom, which appeared out of nowhere and took over in the Cambrian explosion, along with the first multi-cellular plants and fungi- along with the depletion of carbon-13, massive upsurge in calcium in Earth's oceans, and the unparalleled levels of global warming which finally brought an end to the repeated Snowball Earth periods once and for all, have been as a result of aliens invading and/or colonising our planet, terraforming it and exploiting its resources for their own ends for a short period? Could the entire animal kingdom potentially have originated elsewhere, and be an invasive alien kingdom on Earth?


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People who have been planning to support the annual shoebox appeal in the Pickering area are being reminded that Saturday is the final date for the collection of boxes.
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Reigning champion Australia defeated 2009 winner England in the final of the ICC Women's World Twenty20 at R.Premadasa Stadium on Sunday and in doing so became the first team -- male or female -- to retain the ICC World Twenty20 trophy.
Jess Cameron led the way with the bat as Australia reached 142 for four - a score that was close to what Australia set when the teams clashed in the group stage.
On that occasion England successfully overhauled Australia's total of 144 but, this time, England's big hitters Charlotte Edwards and Sarah Taylor were unable to replicate their Galle match-winning performances as Australia's all-round effort saw the side to victory by four runs.
Australia had not exhibited any decisive individual performances until Sunday but peaked at the right time, and, after being put in to bat, the Southern Stars got off to an excellent start as openers Meg Lanning and Alyssa Healy put on a devastating opening partnership of 51, scoring at a run a ball until Lanning was caught and bowled by Holly Colvin for 25.
Healy continued the charge until being out second, bowled by Danielle Hazell in the eleventh over for 26 with the score on 68.
But the real batting power was supplied by Jess Cameron, who came in at number three and smashed the England bowlers around the park, scoring five fours and the first six of the final.
She was joined at the crease by Lisa Sthalekar, and the two put on another 51-run partnership. But it was the 15th over of the Australia innings that might have been the most decisive, as Cameron plundered 17 off Anya Shrubsole.
When Cameron departed off the first ball of the next over, Australia was already on its way to an imposing score.
Alex Blackwell made a brief cameo, scoring 13 before being run out on the last ball, leaving Australia on 142 for four from its 20 overs. Left-arm spinner Colvin was the pick of the England bowlers, taking two wickets for 21 runs, with the lowest economy rate of the side.
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A comic expression of eyes not reflecting light
Eyes not reflecting light and our interpretation of them
In Japanese comics, most of characters' eyes are reflecting light, which we call "highlight" in Japanese. For instance:
("YOTSUBATO!" vol.2 p116)
We often see,however, a comic representation of eyes which don't reflect light.
For example:
("Ushio to Tora" vol.11 p143)
("Cynthia the Mission" vol.7 p66)
("G.S.Mikami Operation for Paradise" vol.11 p122)
We accept them and interpret as some kind of meanings without any explanation.
How do we interpret them?
In many case, we could regard characters who have eyes not reflecting light as "being out of their mind". I chose the three examples according to this interpretation. In the first, this character is manipulated by a monster. Second, she is losing her will by drugs. Third, he is a fake to which a monster is transformed, that is, his words are not explaining his "real" thought.
From these, we can make derivative interpretation.
("Eye-shield 21" vol.27 p179)
("Monkey-turn" vol.16 p221)
In the former example, she is dumbfounded by hearing shocking news. In the latter, he, a player of speedboat race, is depicted as enormously strong player.
Let me explain the latter example in detail. In this scene, he says slight appreciation to two young players after he won the championship, in which he had shown the amazing power. Two young men lost and were overpowered by his attitude toward the race. Light of his eyes are removed so that we can synchronize with two men who are feeling his overwhelming atmosphere.
Here, eyes not reflecting light mean that two men, who are facing the champion, cannot understand his thought, and also signify a psychological distance between the champ and them.
Accordingly, I can summarize them as "A person who has eyes not reflecting light and others are not on the same communicative level". No matter which is high or low, the person and others cannot communicate well each other.
Then, why do we interpret the eyes like this? No one has such eyes in the real world.
Why can we "see" with eyes?
First, let's think of eyes from biological point.
Eyes are acceptor of light. It means that we can "see" if eyes accept light. Though you have well sight, you cannot see in absolute darkness.
In other words, your eyes are necessarily reflecting light whenever you can "see". A person without depiction of eyes not reflecting light, thus, is not be able to "see".
This is only theoretical matter, of course. If a person really has such eyes, their surfaces must be uneven like frosted glass. When I was a schoolboy, a soccer ball hit my right eye, and a doctor examined me, "the ball made small wounds like traces swept by a broom on your eye." I don't know how the wounds weakened my sight, and how many wounds are there on my eye. This means, however, that wounds of this degree don't change looks of eyes. Now I don't have well sight, but it is a normal level. The wounds wouldn't harm my sight probably.
Objects come into view, but are not recognized
Next I shift the matter from the biological topic to comic expression.
In the examples mentioned above, the characters' eyes don't normally reflect light despite their well sight. Such eyes, I think, symbolically represent that the characters cannot "see" although objects come into their view. A person faces me directly, but I can't feel I am recognized by him/her. This is what such eyes represent.
I've happened to hear that there are persons who speak to others without looking at them. Fortunately, I have never met such a rude ones in real life, but often find in comics. If we really meet them, we might think, "I can't make communication with him/her".
A sign of incompleteness to communicate is represented by an attitude not "seeing" me. He/she speaks to me, but I feel I'm not recognized as a destination of words at all. The attitude make me feel I'm out of recognition.
According to "turn-taking system" in sociology, conversation goes well by throwing one's last word to others or being taken on by them. Voluntary taking on the last word occurs from not only speaker's intonation but also an exchange of glances.
In a one-to-one conversation, by a glance at a person you are talking with, you can notify him/her that your conversational turn has just finished. In more than three, by throwing your last word to someone and a glance at him/her, next conversation starts. Like this, glances play a very important role when we are making conversation.
Hence, a person who sees others but doesn't recognize them causes incompleteness of general communication evidently, so representation of the eyes not reflecting light symbolizes that bad situation.
In the examples, the picture of "Monkey-turn" would most clearly show this interpretation. Though the champion is facing two young men, they cannot feel that he is recognizing themselves. This incompleteness of communication symbolically shows a gap between the champ and two mens. That is to say, the young players cannot understand champ's thought because of large differences of their power.
O.K., let's compare two examples, one is reflecting light and the other is not.
("HUNTER×HUNTER" vol.26 p80)
("Hunter×Hunter" vol.26 p81)
Gon and Killua assault Neferpitoh in this scene. Gon's eyes are reflecting light in the former picture, still not in the latter. What had caused this change is Neferpitoh's incomprehensible words for Gon. Gon, who was burning with his anger, is confused by the words in the latter.
We, as readers, can understand Neferpitoh's words because there have been representation much enough to understand them. On the other hand, for Gon who is a person concerned in the comic world, Neferpitoh's words are out of understanding.
Killua cooler than Gon managed to guess what Neferpitoh really means, but angry Gon cannot.
Here, Gon is the most incapable of guessing each other's thought of the three. In other words, he is the most distant from a base of communication. Therefore, it is Gon who has eyes not reflecting light.
I don't know who started this representation, but this must be a great technique. As we say "The eye is the window of the mind", representation of eyes is also important in comics.
original article in Japanese:漫画表現の中の、光を反射しない眼について - ポンコツ山田.com
A rule of conversation in one panel, thinking from "YOTSUBATO!"
In most of recent Japanese comics, character's voice(and non-verbal voice such as inward thought) is written in a balloon. There are some rules, and one of them is "to finish conversation done in one panel within one round trip". That is to say, assuming that there are two persons(A and B), A shouldn't speak again basically in the same panel in which A first spoke and B first replied.
It may be hard to understand with only language, for example;
("YOTSUBATO!" vol.7 p36)
In the right panel, the girl replies after utterance of the man, and in the left panel, the man says after laughing of the girl. The sequence of their communication has two round trips, and it is separated into each conversation in two panels so as not to be written in one panel. This is the concrete example.
This rule exists for not to break down the multilayered structure of time in one panel.
To begin with, what is the multilayered structure of time ?
When you say something, time same as your having said it passes, of course. In regard to the quoted example of the right, when the man says "Yoshi ja-a itterasshai, kiwotsuketene", time same as his having said it passes(maybe about two seconds), and when the girl says "Wakappaaa !!", time same as her having said it passes(maybe about a second). That is, time including their utterances, three seconds at least, passes in this panel.
In addition, each speaking characters is depicted at the moment they are just speaking, and they are not influenced by behavior done after their utterances.
("YOTSUBATO!" vol.10 p208)
In this panel, they speak by rotation from right to left(Ena→Yotsuba→Miura). Looks of first speaker, Ena, is depicted at the moment she speaks so, and not influenced by later utterances which Yotsuba and Miura make. Though a few seconds must pass between Ena's utterance and Miura's, Ena keeps her face steady without Yotsuba and Miura's influence. On the other hand, Miura makes her face after listening Ena and Yotsuba's utterances.
From this, I can think that a panel cuts off not only an overall view of one point on time axis but an arbitrary expression of each objects between arbitrary two points on time axis, and pushes those expressions into itself. It is a forcible way, in a sense. In the above panel, Ena is depicted with her own time, Yotsuba and Miura are in the same way. They are not depicted with the identical time.
There is differnt time on each characters in one panel. It is the meanig of the multilayered structure of time. Though a picture is an instantaneous expression, once it is placed in a panel of a comic having utterances, complex phases of time occur in it.
Well, if a author draws a character twice in one panel without any explanation, we may think "Oh, he/she is a Japanese Ninja". It has to be avoided to draw the character whenever he/she makes any utterances. In other words, though a character says more than two time in one panel, he/she must be depicted just once. So, because charcters stop their time when they primarily say something, they must say second utterance with looks they makes at first utterance, notwithstanding passage of time.
Situation has changed, but looks haven't changed. This is the breaking down of the multilayered structure of time.
The multilayered structure of time causes unnatural situation that utterance and looks are in discord. To avoid it, we adopt the rule which is "to finish conversation done in one panel within one round trip".
But everything has the exception.
To answer the demand for drawing the exception, there is other rule which make us feel no unnatural even though we read conversation done in one panel more than one round trip.
However, it's not so difficult. Formaer rule contributes to avoid "unnatural situation that utterance and looks are in discord", so you should depict the situation seen natural even though conversation more than one round trip is made.
First, don't make a situation that looks at second utterance differ from these at first.
("YOTSUBATO!" vol.9 p99)
In this panel, we don't feel unnatural. Still To-chan, the man who is to the right most, speaks even three times. Because his looks made at first utterance are valid as second and third utterance. His a little bit stern looks with suspicion contain no wrongness which utterance he says, first, "Koitsu-wa-aho-nanoka", second, "Ikura-sun'no?" or third, "Aho-ka".
("YOTSUBATO!" vol.10 p138)
Also in this example, Asagi, the long-haired woman, and Yotsuba, the girl who tied up hair, speak twice, the former in the right panel and the latter in the left one. Their looks are suitable for either first utterance or second. In the left panel, I can even say it is funny because of Yotsuba's content looks.
Like this, you can avoid unnatural situation by contriving a conversational context which doesn't need change of Character's looks,or which unchange of Character's looks brings about some meanings.
But if you want to make conversation which differs from that, which contain the context changing character's looks in one panel, adopt this rule.
Second, you don't depict character's looks from beginning.
("YOTSUBATO!" vol.9 p64)
To-chan first explains calmly, but at the second utterance, he speaks loudly listening to Yotsuba's words. Looks at first utterance should be depicted calmly, and the second angrily. But by being depicted from behind, that is, by not depicting looks from beginning, two different looks coexist without problems.
Of course, there are many exceptions. Conversation more than two around trips in one panel is often depicted without these rules. So we should grasp it not as rule but hint.
well, considering rules behind works is interesting, isn't it?
original article in Japanese:『よつばと!』から考える一コマ内の会話のルールの話 - ポンコツ山田.com
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In vol.12, a story about camp which is mentioned briefly in vol.11 is drawn. I was impressed by rather the toast of adults after children's sleep than frolicsome children, and I thought it meant my aging. However that may be, I was specially affected the final panel of the camp story, and which is also the final one of vol.12.
(よつばと! 12巻 p222/YOTSUBATO! vol.12 p222)
Because Yotsuba smiles and speaks to us as if she stared at us through "fourth wall", I felt so bracing and doubted whether "YOTSUBATO !" concluded by this story. How amazing this expression is.
Then, I thought why I felt like this from this panel, in other words, why I felt as if Yotsuba had stared at us who were behind "fourth wall". From vol.1 till this story , certeinly, although there are several (though not so many) panels in which Yotsuba turns her face toward the front, that is to say, toward reader's side, I have never felt like that. This panel made me feel so for the first time. Why ?
It is her aloneness that we must consider. She doesn't communicate with other people in adjacent two panels.
(よつばと! 12巻 p222/"YOTSUBATO!" vol.12 p222)
This is the final page of final story in vol.12. As you see, no one but Yotsuba is there, and she also doesn't speak to others on a final panel of p221. This aloneness gives us an illusion of her staring through "fourth wall" though she, an character of comics, stares at only objects in the same comic world, I think.
For example, there is a scene in which Yotsuba turns her face toward the front in vol.12.
(よつばと! 12巻 p27/"YOTSUBATO!" vol.12 p27)
In the upper panel, though Yotsuba looks toward the front(not directly the front, but it is the same as the final panel of vol.12), I don't think she stares at us. Because Yotsuba talks with Torako in panels before and after this panel. Readers understand unconsciously that Yotsuba looks toward there since she is communicating with Torako who is a character in the comic. So we comprehend automatically that Yotsuba's eyes toward readers are merely identical with ones toward objects in the comic by chance.
But in the final panel, Yotsuba hasn't communicated with others for several panels. So it is not clear who is looked at by Yotsuba in the panel. Yotsuba looking at readers keeping the unclearness, we get a start, "Is she staring at me ?"
In addition, in order to express her happy smile, she isn't drown her pupils, and this expression prevents us from precise recognizing who Yotsuba is staring at. Eyes without pupils give readers the illusion of her staring through "fourth wall" much more. Of course it is only an illusion, but it is an illusion that makes us immerse ourselves in the comic world.
I can depict this feeling as an illusion that I, as a reader, am suddenly dragged in the comic world by Yotsuba who smiles at me without having communicated with others. In other words, I was changed my position of the third person into of the third position.
When we read "YOTSUBATO!", we are always placed in the position of the third person, and it means we aren't placed in the position of the first(Yotsuba's or other comic caharacters') position. In "YOTSUBATO!", there are so much composition. Much of them trace Yotsuba's eyes which look upon from the bottom, or other's eyes which look down Yotsuba, but there are themselves in the composition(or in the panel). So we are forced not to be identical with them but to see the comic world in the ways similar to the comic characters. We are inevitably the third person. We must see the world by the eyes very similar to, thus differnt from theirs.
To tell the truth, there is a very very little composition that our eyes are identical with Yotsuba's.
(よつばと! 9巻 p53/"YOTSUBATO!" vol.9 p53)
This is a very rare example. We are perfectly identical with Yotsuba's eyes looking toward a teddy bear. In addition, Yotsuba looking through a finder of a camera(vol.11 "Yotsuba and camera"),Yotsuba looking upon ceiling of the tent(
vol.12 "Yotsuba and camp the latter part"), and so on.
But in the final panel of vol.12, Yotsuba is drown as if she smile at readers, and then, we are placed in not the third person but the second person, looking toward Yotsuba directly. Prbably this is the first expression since "YOTSUBATO!" was drown. This is why I was attracted so much.
Though we have only seen this fortunata world from outside, we can face Yotsuba in the same world when we read this panel. That' very very exciting experience!
original article in Japanese:http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yamada10-07/20130314/1363267396
Hello, this blog about Japanese comics is written by Ponkotsu-Yamada.
I originally write this blog' s articles in Japanese in the blog ;ポンコツ山田.com
and transrate them into English for my practice of English. And, of course, I hope you'll enjoy these articles and be interested in Japanese comics.
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An abnormal channels on Phobos, one of the two satellites of Mars, was the result of a fall on the surface of this celestial body fragments of his own breed, previously trapped in space under the influence of tidal forces. To such conclusion the group of geophysicists, who presented his research on the pages of the scientific journal Nature Communications.
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International School Ho Chi Minh City (ISHCMC) is part of Cognita, a global leader in independent education that is committed to enriching the lives of children to achieve more than they believe they can.
The group was founded in the United Kingdom in 2004, and now the Cognita family includes over 65 schools worldwide. Thanks to the efforts of our talented educators and support staff, we have helped thousands of students achieve beyond expectation.With the most diverse portfolio of schools in the world, Cognita draws upon our international breadth and the wide-ranging expertise of our educators to share best practice and raise standards across our group. At the same time, we value and respect the individuality of our schools. Each one retains its own unique ethos with curricula and programs tailored to the needs of the parents and children they serve.
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An alarming number of patients are admitted to Howrah General Hospital each year, suffering from gastro-enteritis and other water-borne diseases. But the Howrah Municipal Corporation (HMC) authorities appear indifferent to the situation.
Barely eight months have passed since an outbreak of gastro-enteritis assumed an epidemic form and rocked the town of Howrah, where over 18 days, there had been eight deaths among a total of 2,715 cases.
By the time the civic body realises the gravity of the threat, the situation will have spun out of control, warned a senior official of the health department. During the outbreak last October, it was we who brought the situation under control, he added.
According to official reports, the enteric outbreak in Howrah was caused by the consumption of highly-contaminated water. The state health directorate admitted that the water distribution pipelines had sprung leaks and sewerage water had seeped in, causing the outbreak. Besides, in a few places,water supply lines spill over drains.
The health department collected samples from a number of wards and sent them for tests to the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED). The NICED reports confirm the existence of cholera bacilli. Samples collected from the affected parts also indicate the presence of faecal coliform (found in human excreta).
Official statistics of the health department reveal alarming figures. In 2001, a total number of 47,042 cases were reported, with 77 fatalities. In 2002, the figure climbed to 61,974 cases, with 89 deaths. This year, the first three months have claimed seven lives and 12,308 cases have been reported.
There is nothing unusual in the number of cases reported, observed the superintendent of the Howrah General Hospital. In a few slums, residents have drilled a hole into the pipeline and installed tubewells to draw water from it. These are outlets from where the water is getting contaminated, he added.
His views are echoed by mayor Gopal Mukherjee.Who told you that gastro-enteritis, dysentry and other such diseases are caused by contaminated drinking water' There could be many other reasons. We have done all that we could do, he retorted, when the official figures were placed before him.
Subhash Dutta of Howrah Ganatantrik Nagarik Samity, a social welfare organisation, alleges that the HMC has not done much, apart from repairing the pipelines at points where the leaks were minimal. Dutta had lodged a complaint with the Howrah police and has charged the municipal authorities with culpable homicide, not amounting to murder.
Mayor Mukherjee turned a deaf ear to Duttas threats and said the situation was normal.
But residents of wards 16, 17, 30, 31, 36 and 47 are probably courting trouble by drinking the the unhygienic water.


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Welcome to "Healing through Affirmations". This course provides an in-depth guide to healing many common physical, emotional and mental ailments through conscious thought correction and healing affirmations.
Increasingly, science has shown that there is a deep connection between our thoughts, emotions and our physical state. This course will explore this concept in detail and provide tools for the novice, as well as the seasoned metaphysical practitioner to effectively harness the power of positive affirmations as a healing tool.
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Some of what we will cover includes:
- The mind/body connection: We will explore how our physical state can be directly impacted by our mental patterns and emotional trauma.
- Which types of illnesses can manifest as a result of a mental blocks and how healing affirmations can cut through to the heart of the issue.
- Ten principles which are critical to long term health and wellness
- The major prerequisites needed to set the stage for your healing journey
- The keys to mastering healing through affirmations, including visualization and embracing emotions that may surface
- Creative ways to expand your consciousness for deeper awareness and healing
- The best techniques for structuring powerfully healing affirmations
- Mind/body healing techniques and affirmations from various indigenous cultures around the world, as well as contemporary metaphysical scholars
- Specific illnesses and their metaphysical cause, including sample affirmations to treat them
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Lesson 1: Demystifying Healing Affirmations
This lesson will provide the foundation for understanding what an affirmation is and how it can aid in the recovery and healing from mental, emotional, and physical illnesses. 11 Total Points
- Lesson 1 Video
- Review 2 Articles: Affirmations; The Power of Affirmations
- Take Poll: Affirmations
- Complete Assignment: An Introduction
- Complete: Lesson 1 Exam
Lesson 2: Understanding the Mind/Body Connection
During this lesson, you will come to understand that the mind and body are linked and have a profound affect on one another. 10 Total Points
- Lesson 2 Video
- Review 2 Articles: The Mind-Body Connection; Biopyschosocial Model
- Complete: Lesson 2 Exam
Lesson 3: Application of Affirmations Throughout History
In this lesson, you will become familiar with individuals over the years that have used affirmations to better their own lives, and have helped to popularize their use today. 10 Total Points
- Lesson 3 Video
- Review Article: Napoleon Hill
- Complete: Lesson 3 Exam
Lesson 4: Illnesses Amenable to Self-Healing
In this lesson, you will learn about spontaneous remission, how illnesses have proliferated over the years, and how disease manifests in the mind and body. 10 Total Points
- Lesson 4 Video
- Review Article: 5 Steps to Make Affirmations Work
- Complete: Lesson 4 Exam
Lesson 5: The 10 Keys to Wellness Part 1. (Keys 1-5)
In this lesson, you will be given a general overview of the 10 keys to optimal health and learn in-depth about Keys 1 through 5. Keys 6 through 10 will be covered in the next lesson. 10 Total Points
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- Review 2 Articles: Forgiveness; Health Benefits of Forgiveness
- Complete: Lesson 5 Exam
Lesson 6: The 10 Keys to Wellness Part 2. (Keys 6-10)
In this lesson, we will explore Keys 6 through 10 and learn how actions such as cleansing our environment, cultivating self love, and setting boundaries can all help on the journey to healing. 10 Total Points
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- Review 2 Articles: Setting Personal Boundaries; How to Love Yourself
- Complete: Lesson 6 Exam
Lesson 7: Setting the Stage for Healing Part 1
In this lesson, you will put into place tips and mechanisms to best support you as you move through the rest of the course and begin to implement what you have learned. 11 Total Points
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- Review 2 Articles: Color Therapy; Creating a Healing Home Environment
- Take Poll: Healing Environment
- Complete: Lesson 7 Assignment
- Complete: Lesson 7 Exam
Lesson 8: Setting the Stage for Healing Part 2
This lesson will discuss some of the ways you can reach out and involve those in your life to support and nurture you on your journey. 12 Total Points
- Lesson 8 Video
- Review 2 Articles: Building a Support System; Support Systems
- Complete: Lesson 8 Assignment
- Complete: Lesson 8 Exam
Lesson 9: The Essentials of Mastering Affirmations
This lesson will outline the mindset and practices that are important to master to ensure you attain the most benefit from using affirmations to heal. 10 Total Points
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- Review 2 Articles: Using Affirmations; Using Affirmations Effectively
- Complete: Lesson 9 Exam
Lesson 10: Types of Affirmations
In this lesson, you will learn the different forms an affirmation can take and how each can be effective on its own, or in conjunction with other forms. 9 Total Points
- Lesson 10 Video
- Review Article: Types of Affirmations
- Take Poll: Types of Affirmations
- Complete: Lesson 10 Exam
Lesson 11: Structuring and Implementing Your Affirmations - Part 1
In this lesson, you will begin the exciting and creative process of crafting your own healing affirmations, using a few interesting techniques. 10 Total Points
- Lesson 11 Video
- Review Article: Using Affirmations to Meditate
- Complete: Lesson 11 Exam
Lesson 12: Structuring and Implementing Your Affirmations - Part 2
In this lesson, you will graduate to actually writing out your affirmations. You will also learn how frequently affirmations should be used for best results, as well as keeping track of your journey. 12 Total Points
- Lesson 12 Video
- Review 2 Articles: Effective Affirmations; Effectively using Affirmations
- Complete: Lesson 12 Assignment
- Complete: Lesson 12 Exam
Lesson 13: The Use of Affirmations Throughout History and Around the World
In this lesson, you will learn how different religions and cultures from around the world use affirmations in their health and spiritual practices. 0 Total Points
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Lesson 14: Affirmations for Specific Illnesses
In this lesson, you will learn about some of the illnesses and conditions that it is possible to heal through affirmations. 34 Total Points
- Lesson 14 Video
- Review 2 Articles: Affirmations for Depression and Self-Esteem; Weight Loss Affirmations
- Complete: The Final Exam
The mind and body are connected and what happens to one affects the other. 2 Total Points
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- Review Article: Healing Affirmations
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Larry Bird was named President of Basketball Operations of the Indiana Pacers on July 12, 2003. Ironically, Bird's first move as GM of the Indiana Pacers was to re-sign Jermaine O'Neal. Larry inherited a team that had won 48 games the previous season but had been defeated in the first round by the sixth seeded Boston Celtics. Not surprisingly, Bird fired coach Isiah Thomas a little more than a month into his tenure and replaced Isiah with Rick Carlisle.
But aside from firing Thomas and hiring Carlisle, all of Indiana's success should be attributed to Donnie Walsh. Walsh drafted high school phenom Al Harrington with the 28th pick in the 1998 NBA draft, traded Antonio Davis for Jonathan Bender in 1999, traded Dale Davis for Jermaine O'Neal in 2000, and traded Jalen Rose, Travis Best, and Norm Richardson for Ron Mercer, Kevin Ollie, Ron Artest,and Brad Miller in 2002. [ Read ]


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Due to a change in our timing company, we have a new registration platform--Runsignup.com.
Thank you for participating this year. The results for both events is available at http://www.synergyracetiming.com/brian-waterbury-memorial-rock-pier-run-half-marathon/#
The date for the 2017 Brian Waterbury Memorial Rock to Pier Run and Half Marathon will be July 15, 2017. Registration will begin May 1, 2017.
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE 2017 RUN. DUE TO A CHANGE IN TIMING COMPANY, WE HAVE A NEW REGISTRATION PROGRAM. ONLINE REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE AT https://runsignup.com/Race/CA/MorroBay/BrianWaterburyMemorialRocktoPierRunandHalfMarathon
Rock to Pier Registration Fees:
Pre-Registration After 6/16 After 6/30 Race Day
$30.00 $35.00 $40.00 $45.00
$40.00 w/shirt $45 w/shirt $50 w/shirt $55.00 w/shirt
(T-shirts are available only while supplies last)
Course Map
The 6th running of the Rock'n Around the Pier Half Marathon will take place on July 15, 2017at 8:30am.The course will begin at Morro Rock and follow on the Beach to the Cayucos Pier. Runners will go around the pier and head back to Morro Bay on the Beach. At Azure St (1.5 miles from the finish), runners will head off the beach (through soft sand) and onto the path for a 1 mile loop around the pond at Cloister's Park returning to the beach (through soft sand) at Azure and continuing to the finish line at the Rock.
Registration will begin on May 1,2017. This year we will be using Runsignup.com for our registration.
Registration fee will include a Performance t-shirt, finisher's medal, aid stations at miles 2.5, 4, 6, 8, 10.5 and 13.1 as well as breakfast back at the Rock.This event will be limited to the first 350 participants ages 14 and older. Registration will open on May 1st at 8 am on Runsignup.com. Registration fee will be $70 until June 16, then $80 until June 30, then $90 to July 15.
This year we are proud to be part of the California Half & Full Marathon Series. To learn more about the series click here to visit their website.
Awards will be given to the top three in the following divisions: 14-19; 20-24; 25-29; 30-34; 35-39; 40-44; 45-49; 50-54;55-59; 60-64; 65-69; 70+. Awards for the overall finishers will be announced at 10:30 at Morro Rock. All other finishers may pick up their awards at the award tent after 10:30 am.
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Did we mention that they will be free to download? Please check them out after the event.
The Morro Bay Tourism Bureau has links to hotels, restaurants and other activities to participate in during your stay in Morro Bay. (805) 225-7411 or their website: www.morrobay.org
We have listened and have added women's sizing to our Rock to Pier shirts and our half marathon shirts. The shirt color this year will be maroon.
Rock to Pier Run--sizing chart
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Packet Pickup will be held on Friday July 14 from 3:30-7:00 pm at the Morro Bay Community Center, 1001 Kennedy Way, Morro Bay or at Morro Rock on Saturday July 15 starting at 6:30 am.
Morro Bay Recreation would like to thank the following 2016 Sponsors for the generosity:
Kitzman Culligan Water
San Luis Distance Club
True Organics/Greenway Farms
La Rosa
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Shoreline Calvary Church
Road ID
Trail Runner Magazine
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California Half and Full Marathon Series
City Of Morro Bay
Morro Bay Tourism
Course Records for the Brian Waterbury Memorial Rock to Pier Fun Run are:Men's-- 29:47 posted by Cameron Miller in 2015
Women's--34:53 posted by Linda Somer Smith in 2003.Course Records for the Rock'n Around the Pier Half Marathon are:Men's--1:11.51 posted by Cameron Miller in 2012Women's--1:31:47 posted by Lan Clayton in 2015


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A severe drop in first-class mail vol- ume over the past few years is one of the driving forces behind the U.S. Postal Service's decision to close retail post office locations nationwide.
According to a new federal formula for determining graduation rates, Henry County's two school districts are on both sides of the state average.
When New Castle Elementary School students head back to school today, they'll walk into a building that's practically new.
"What kids are going to see when they come back is new tile flooring throughout the hallways and cafeteria, new paint on all the classroom walls, new ceilings and lighting throughout the entire building," Henry County Public Schools Superintendent Tim Abrams said. "It's much brighter... but that does not complete the project."
It has been a little more than a decade ago since the General Assembly revamped the state's adult education programs, a high point in the legislature's ongoing efforts to improve the classroom from preschool to the workplace.
While a lot of work remains, the past decade has been exactly what we had hoped. In fact, from 2005 to 2009, adult education enrollment grew by 30 percent – faster than any other state over the same period. There are now about 40,000 citizens who are helped academically each year.
Do you remember the days when cruising was a weekly event?
Or the days of the Eminence v. Henry County football games?
Or how about B&D Video or Lola's Restaurant in Eminence?
Or, better yet, do you remember the days of Big Henry?
If so, you're probably from Henry County.
It's the latest Facebook rage — community pages where folks share their favorite memories from the communities they grew up in. The memories are touching, funny, sad and some a smidge risque.
Michele Lee Oller, 40, Eminence, to Chad Elliott Straughn, 30, Eminence.
Phillip Gene Crawford, 55, Turners Station, and Crystel Renea Ferguson, 43, Campbellsburg.
Michael Ray Gorbrant, 63, La Grange, and Saundra Kaye Hume, 65, Louisville.
Gary Allen Davis, 32, Pleasureville, and Candie Christine Murphy, 33, Pleasureville.
Christopher Lee Stangle, 28, Lockport, and Kelly Nichole Sharp 24, Lockport.
Daniel Thomas Taylor, 29, Smithfield, and Shana Marie Taylor, 29, Pleasureville.
Kentucky's 4-H country ham project teaches kids where food comes from and reinforces Kentucky's rich heritage of dry-cured hams, similar to age-old practices used to make Italy's prosciutto, Spain's jamón ibérico and Germany's Black Forest.
Recent findings indicate that even infants and toddlers are now at risk for becoming obese. Current national figures for infants and toddlers show that one in 10 is overweight, and more than 20 percent of children between the ages 2 and 5 are already overweight or obese.
Early obesity can lead to adult overweight or obesity and the chronic diseases that stem from weight management issues. Reversing this alarming trend is critical for parents or care-givers to ensure health for children as they grow up. Recommendations include the following:
Woman held for slaying
An all-day drinking party in a Shelby County farmhouse ended with the shotgun slaying Tuesday night of Robert "Red" Lewis, 35.
In a signed statement made before three State policemen, Mrs. Maggie Smith, 29, Louisville, said she shot Lewis, a tenant farmer with whom she had been living for two months "as man and wife."
County Attorney William H. Hayes quoted her as saying, "It was either him or me."
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The sparring over who will control Baltimore's struggling school system intensified yesterday as the mayor charged that the governor and state officials are trying to undercut the city's educational and financial progress for political purposes.
Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley accused Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. of orchestrating the routine release of bad news about the city's public education system to tarnish the reputation of the schools and hurt O'Malley, a potential Democratic gubernatorial candidate in 2006.
"Just as we're doing things to make our schools look good and to increase enrollment ... there will be others who for political reasons will be doing everything in their power to make us look bad, especially just on the verge of school opening, so as to depress our enrollment numbers and make the fiscal recovery more difficult," O'Malley said at his weekly news conference in City Hall.
O'Malley's broadside at the governor was prompted by the state Board of Education's decision Tuesday to place 16 city schools on probation for having high rates of violence. The mayor and the governor have been publicly battling over the financially troubled school system since it teetered on bankruptcy this year and O'Malley's local bailout trumped Ehrlich's state [See Schools, 11a] rescue package.
"I anticipate a new event every couple of weeks to make the schools look bad," O'Malley said. "There's obviously people at the state that don't want the city to be successful at anything so long as I'm mayor."
Ehrlich spokesman Henry P. Fawell said the governor's office has nothing to do with the release of information from the office of state schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick.
"It's Grasmick's job to put out the facts," Fawell said. "Citizens of Baltimore need to know the reality of the city school system. It's not Dr. Grasmick's fault or anyone else's fault if the mayor can't accept the facts."
Grasmick denied that her department has a "vendetta" against city schools. She said the probation list was a requirement of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and she produced copies of letters showing that Baltimore schools chief Bonnie S. Copeland had been warned of the bad news almost a month ago.
"The only tension we have with the city is our fiduciary responsibility and our responsibility to comply with federal law," she said. "Whenever we have to deliver bad news, people think we invent it. It's just not true."
The mayor's rhetoric yesterday seemed to renew last spring's lengthy struggle between Ehrlich and O'Malley over control of the schools.
Although the state and the city have shared a partnership since 1997 -- when Baltimore ceded partial control in exchange for a major infusion of state money -- tension has mounted significantly since the system's financial situation became dire over the past year.
In March, Ehrlich proposed to bail out the schools with a $58 million package that included money from the city and the Abell Foundation but would have given the state more authority in running the system. The mayor responded with a $42 million loan with no state aid that did not cede any additional oversight.
Matthew Crenson, a Johns Hopkins University political science professor who follows state and local politics, said O'Malley's accusations reflected the rivalry between potential gubernatorial opponents.
"This is payback for O'Malley's taking over the schools," Crenson said. "It's in the governor's interest to see that this doesn't work so he can point out that O'Malley has failed."
O'Malley's bailout has seemingly lingered with Ehrlich. In a meeting with the Roland Park Civic League this month, Ehrlich said he was frustrated with O'Malley's intervention, according to an article in the Baltimore Messenger, a neighborhood newspaper published by Patuxent Publishing, which is owned by The Sun.
"The mayor wasted two weeks of my time when he told me to pound sand," Ehrlich is quoted as saying in the Messenger's Aug. 11 issue. "The mayor said they don't need the state. They're going to need the state at some point."
The article also quoted Ehrlich as saying: "Beating up on Baltimore is good politics in some places in the state."
Fawell said the governor was referring to tactics used by other elected officials in the state who could blame the state's bailout of Baltimore's schools on why money would not be available for their constituents' needs.
"It could be good politics for someone who wanted to do that, but it's not something that [the governor] does," Fawell said in explaining the quote.
In discussing the release of the city schools list, state school board President Edward L. Root said yesterday that the state was following strict federal guidelines in reporting "persistently dangerous" schools before the end of the month. Contrary to an assertion by the mayor, discussion of the matter was on the state board's meeting agenda that is circulated well in advance, Root said.
O'Malley's office and state Sen. Nathaniel J. McFadden, a Baltimore Democrat, said the item was not on the state board's draft agenda.
"We were blindsided," McFadden said.
Root said the city should not have been surprised.
"This is their [the school system's] data," Root said of the dangerous schools information. "We didn't make it up."
Copeland said she was not aware that the state was going to release the names of the 16 schools -- though Grasmick alerted her in a letter dated July 29. Two weeks ago, the State Department of Education sent another letter to inform Copeland that she had until Sept. 10 to submit plans to remedy problems at each of the schools.
"We thought we were still in conversation with the state," Copeland said. "We didn't know it was going to be the subject of the state board meeting yesterday and that it would be portrayed in this way. We do not believe we have persistently dangerous schools."
She said that her staff discussed the list with State Department of Education employees Monday and that no one mentioned it would be made public Tuesday. She also said she believes the statistics for Forest Park High School are wrong.
O'Malley also questioned the statistics used by the state.
Schools are put on the probation list if they have had rates of lengthy suspensions and expulsions for violent offenses that are at least 2.5 percent of the student body for two years.
"We tend to look at victims rather than the number of suspensions," O'Malley said. "I would strongly believe overall that the trends in our schools is a reflection of the trends in our city and, therefore, I do believe, though I don't have the numbers to show it, that things are getting better."
O'Malley's office was unable to produce statistics yesterday showing that violent incidents at schools are declining.
"His repeated attempts to cast himself as a victim of some political conspiracy are bordering on paranoia," said Deborah Martinez, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Republican Party.
But Crenson said O'Malley has a legitimate argument that the state is deliberately delivering bad news shortly after the city delivers good news.
When the city announced in late June that the schools had improved scores, Grasmick announced two weeks later that the system had misspent $18 million in federal funds, a move O'Malley's staff questioned.
Two days after Copeland and O'Malley announced the repayment of $34 million of the city loan Aug. 2, Grasmick testified in federal court that the schools should be placed under the control of a trustee.
Today O'Malley is set to kick off another stage in his campaign to renovate schools.
"The timing does seem remarkable," Crenson said.
Sun staff writer Laura Loh contributed to this article.