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A petition to preserve Canada's copyright laws is currently making its way around the net. You can find it here. I am printing it off and signing on. Perhaps in our country we can thwart the RIAA and the MPAA in order to leave ourselves with some semblance of fair use.
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Jay Pond ran for State House as Democrat in District 35 in 2012. Now he's leading the charge to place Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein on the South Dakota ballot. Stein's campaign website lists Pond as the statewide coordinator for the petition push to place three Stein electors—Pond, Chastity Jewett, and Costas Hercules, all of Rapid City—alongside the Trump and Clinton electors on our November ballot.
To make the ballot, Pond and his progressive friends have just eleven days—deadline is August 2—to collect 2,774 South Dakota voter signatures and submit them to the Secretary of State. Stein's website lists 3,000 signatures as the target—that's less than a 10% cushion! I'd shoot higher.
Interested circulators can access a PDF version of the Stein petition here. But you still can't sign and submit electronically: you have to print that document, gather physical signatures, get a notary seal, and get that printed, signed, stamped piece of paper to Jay Pond so he can include it with all other sheets and his original in the box he'll hand to Secretary Krebs a week from Tuesday.
I understand it's a rush job, so there may be only enough time to do one thing, but I would think Greens would take this opportunity to double the fun and circulate a Green Party organizing petition alongside the Stein petition. Gaining official party status requires two and a half times as many signatures—6,936—as placing a Independent candidates on the statewide ballot, but snaring 3,000-plus signatures for a party petition at the same time as a candidate petition would be a good start, and organizers could easily gather the remaining 4,000 or so signatures while campaigning for Stein through the fall.
Independents may be inclined to sign for Stein. South Dakota Republicans may throw in, too, not to tilt the result, since no maps show South Dakota in doubt for Trump, but just to tweak us Democrats and keep Hillary/Bernie tension tight through the election.
As a down-ticket Democrat, though, I wonder: could putting Jill Stein on the ballot help down-ticket Dems? Are there a significant number of progressive voters who are planning to stay home rather than vote for Clinton, who would be brought out of their chairs by a chance to protest for Stein, and who would then look at the rest of the ballot and check the Dems for Senate, House, PUC, and Legislature who align with their progressive values?


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Probe KfA, Parl panel directs AAI
A parliamentary panel has asked the Airports Authority of India (AAI) to fix the responsibility of officers who allowed the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines to accumulate dues worth Rs 294.69 crore.
The money owed by Kingfisher Airlines is part of total dues of Rs 4,579.57 crore from various entities, including airlines, at the end of December last year.
Kingfisher Airlines, promoted by liquor baron Vijay Mallya, ceased operations in 2012 following financial difficulties. Mallya, who left India in March last year and settled in the United Kingdom, is wanted in India in cases of loan default and money laundering.
Analysing the functioning of AAI, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture said it was concerned about the huge amount of outstanding dues to AAI for a long time.
The panel minced no words in criticising AAI for "allowing the accumulation of dues (by Kingfisher Airlines) to such a high level in violation of all the existing rules and procedures in practice".
It asked AAI to be cautious in future to ensure that no individual stakeholder or airlines accumulate "such high levels of dues".
"The committee also recommends that AAI may conduct an internal inquiry (i) to fix the responsibility of AAI officials for the accumulation of dues by Kingfisher Airlines and (ii) to strengthen the systems and procedures to prevent the recurrence of accumulation of dues," the panel said in its report 'Demands for Grants (2017-18) for Ministry of Civil Aviation'.
AAI has filed a legal suit against Kingfisher Airlines to recover its dues.Of the Rs 4,579.57 crore, Rs 2,905.70 crore is part of traffic dues.
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Steven Moffat, the award-winning scriptwriter and is the current driving force of the TV show, is saying that he's keen to see "Doctor Who" made into a feature film.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Moffat is heard saying:
"It would be good to see it in the cinema so long as it is great and fantastic," he said, speaking at a master class on the show at the festival here. But he cautioned that the the movie would need careful handling.
"I'm not against it ... so long as it never gets in the way of the TV show. If it got in the way of the show that would be appalling."
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Okay y'all, this may be just pure fantasy right now, but according to the Telegraph, Cher is in talks to play Catwoman opposite Christian Bale in the third Batman film from Christopher Nolan.
Look, Cher is a good actress ("Mask," "Silkwood," "Moonstruck") but isn't this a stretch?
But wait, the Telegraph is also claiming that Johnny Depp will play the Riddler, and that filming of the new Batman movie is due to begin in Vancouver early next year, with a working title of "The Caped Crusader."
More eyebrow raising quote?
A studio executive said: "Cher is Nolan's first choice to play Catwoman. He wants to her to portray her like a vamp in her twilight years.
OMG! Who are their sources? Too good to be true! AND, I don't think there's a script written yet.
So this may all just be rumors y'all.
Sorry Cher fans!
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Everyone around him is getting older and dying, while he reverses the aging process! Wow, Oil of Olay worked for him
Kidding aside, I can't wait to see this movie! The teaser-trailer is engrossing, plus, Oscar-bait anyone?
The movie opens Dec. 19th, but for now, check the fantastic teaser-trailer.
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It's the rumor of the week -- MGM is for sale! According to Business Week, its backers are getting ready to unload the studio.
But wait, MGM said they're not for sale!
"Contrary to recent media reports, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. is not for sale," the studio responded in a statement. "There is no 'asking price' for the company. MGM's existing financing arrangements are sufficient to meet its needs. Goldman Sachs has been retained to explore enhancements to MGM's long-term capital structure. All of the MGM shareholders, including Providence Equity Partners, TPG, Sony Corp. of America and Comcast Corp., are pleased with the company's current momentum and are committed to the future growth of the studio."
Really? Click here to read the full article!
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The Slamdance Film Festival's mission is "to nurture, support and showcase truly independent works, is celebrating a milestone." In celebration of their 15th anniversary, Slamdance will commemorate its watershed year with a series of special events and happenings from now until next summer.
In L.A., "The Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan will screen his first feature, "Following," at LACMA's Bing Theater on Sept. 5. "Following" first screened at Slamdance in Park City, Utah.
Another director who's celebrating Slamdance's 15th anniversary by showing his first film that unspooled first at the festival is Steven Soderbergh. He will screen "Schizopolis" at New York's IFC Theater on Sept. 16. Both events will be followed by Q&As with the directors. Go to Slamdance.com for more information.
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What Should Ladies Do
I want to say a word on the devotional nature of Hindu ladies. In India, religion is maintained by the ladies only. There is peculiar religious instinct in them. Hindu ladies are highly devotional. They infuse the religious spirit in the males through their daily conduct and practical life. They get up in the early morning, wash the house, take bath, do Japa, make a small temple in their house and keep there pictures of the Lord and Pooja vessels, etc. They keep the place sacred and in the evening do Arati and prayer. The atheistic male members of the house are forced to do some prayer or other through their influence, on account of fear. In reality the ladies of the house govern the house. They are the manifestations of Sakti. The husband is not entitled to do any religious rite without her presence by his side."Yatra naryastu pujyante ramante tatra devatah,
Yatrai tastu na pujyante sarvastatraphalah kriyah"
- - - - - —Manu Smriti III-56.
"Where women are honoured, there Devas are pleased; but where they are not honoured, there no sacred rite is fruitful." Such is the glory of Hindu ladies. My earnest prayer is that they should sing the Name of the Lord in the early morning as soon as they get up. They should train their children also to sing the Names. The whole house will be charged with spiritual vibrations. Even when they cook and draw water from the wells, they should be singing in mild tone the Names of the Lord. A strong habit of repeating the Names of the Lord will be formed in two months. This itself is quite sufficient for attaining God-consciousness. Singing the Names of the Lord is a very easy method for getting Darshan of the Lord in this Kali-Yuga. Even when anyone dies, the habit of singing the Name of the Lord will come to his rescue.
Duties Of Womanhood
From time immemorial Sita, Savitri, Damayanti, Nalayani, Anasuya and Draupadi have been regarded as sacred ideals of Indian Womanhood. They are sublime and exemplary characters who have exalted womanhood to the height of divine perfection.
Modern women should draw inspiration from their lives and try to tread their path. As long as such characters continue to exercise their influence upon the lives and character of Indian ladies, so long they will be looked upon with admiration and reverence by their sisters of other countries.
All of them were subjected to very severe tests in which their purity, courage, patience and other virtues were put to and nobly did they come out through those tests. Hindu women are, since the dawn of the early civilisation, distinguished for their disinterested love and self-abnegation.
What a wife is to a Hindu husband is well illustrated by a verse in the Ramayana where Sri Rama referred to Sita says:Karyeshu Mantree, Karaneshu Dasee,
Dharmeshu Patnee, Kshamaya Dharitree,
Sneheshu Mata, Sayaneshu Rambha,
Rangecha Sakhi, Lakshmana Sa Priya Me.
"In counsel she is my counsellor, in action she is my servant, in religious performances she is my partner, in tolerance she is like the earth, in affection she is like unto my mother, in bed she is like the celestial Rambha and in play she is my companion. Such indeed, O Lakshmana, is my beloved..." This is the Hindu ideal of a wife.
The eternal fidelity of a Hindu woman to her husband makes her an ideal of the feminine world. It makes her sublime and lofty. This sublime virtue still runs deep in the heart of hearts of every Hindu woman of India superior to any of the other countries in national integrity and honour.
The inspiring force of the home is woman. The home is the origin and the beginning of every form of social organisation. It is the nursery of the nation. It is the sweet place or centre wherein children are trained for future citizenship. The woman illumines the home through the glory of motherhood. Man is incapable of doing the domestic duties incident upon the rearing up of the children. Good habits, right conduct, formation of character are created in children spontaneously in a well-regulated home under the personal influence of the mother. The loving kindness and the cultured gentleness of the mother help the children to unfold their native talents and dormant capacities quickly. Children absorb ideas by suggestion and imitation. Early training and impressions are lasting formation of character can be done by efficiently by mothers at home. Therefore, home is the beautiful training ground for the building up of character in children under the personal guidance of the mother.
Women are the backbone or bedrock or the basis for sustaining religion and national strength and prosperity. There is no difference between her and Lakshmi, the Goddess of Beauty, Grace and Prosperity. Manu says, "That woman who does always good, who is efficient in work, sweet in speech, devoted to her Dharmas and service to her husband, is really no human being but a Goddess." If the mother trains her children on the right lines she is rendering a great service indeed to the nation and the national culture.
Women have got ample opportunities to improve and increase the national health and prosperity. They really build the nation. They can utilise their talents and abilities in making the home the cradle of culture character, personal ability and religious upheaval. It is therefore wrong to say that their life is cramped or stunted by attending to the duties at home and that no scope is given for evolution and freedom. This is a sad mistake indeed! The life of a woman is as noble and serious as that of a man. There is no doubt of this.
It is the women that keep up the life and happiness of the home through their smile, tender affection, sweet speech, charming personality, grace and angelic presence. The home will be a real void without them. It will lose its peculiar charm and beauty without their presence.
It will be of great benefit to know what the Great Ones have said about the ideal of conduct and deportment that a woman should try to live up to. Sri Rama instructs Kausalya, his mother, as follows: "To a woman so long as she is alive, the husband is indeed the Lord and God. That woman, who, though noblest of all and given to the practice of vows and fasts, does not look after her husband, will indeed obtain an unmeritorious future. Even if a woman has never bowed to the Gods and has ceased to worship them, she obtains the highest heaven by serving her husband. A woman should be absorbed in the service of her husband, taking delight in his pleasure and his good. This is the path of the Dharma, known for long ages, revealed in the Vedas, and remembered by the world. There is nothing more cruel for a woman than to desert her husband. To attend upon and to serve one's husband is no doubt the highest duty of a woman. So long as a woman lives, her husband is her only master."
Then again there is Kanva Rishi's advice to Sakuntala on the eve of her departure from his Ashram to King Dushyanta's residence. Kanva Rishi says: "Sakuntala! Serve all your elders. Though your Lord is angry with you at times, do not go against his wishes. Do not be too much attached in enjoyment. Treat your dependants and co-wives with motherly affection and tenderness. Be an affectionate companion to your sisters-in-law. Be obedient to your mother-in-law. These attributes will make you the true mistress of the house. Otherwise, you will give pain and trouble to the whole family."
It is the duty of the lady of the house to get up before her husband in the early hours of the dawn, take her bath and perform the household work. Tiruvalluvar's wife shampooed the feet of her husband, slept after her husband and rose up in the morning before he got up from bed. She is regarded as a model woman.
To a lady the husband is indeed the highest ornament of all ornaments. Being separated from him, she, however beautiful, does not shine.
The Hindu scriptures say that the wife must be very obedient and that the husband is God to her. Some ignorant persons take advantage of this and exercise undue authority over their wives and keep them under extreme subordination. Is this not a sad mistake? Woman is in no way inferior to man. The home is a co-operative organisation. It flourishes on the principle of division of labour. The husband should not think that he is superior to his wife, simply because he is the earning member of the family. Women have a definite field of their own. They are mothers of the house. The extraordinary abilities and intellectual attainments, and the magnetic personality of the modern women are a standing monument to their undoubted equality with men. The personal influence of women at home is essential to unify the various interests of the family. It is women alone who can rear and nurse children. Hindu wives are queens in their own homes. The husbands should treat their wives with intense love and respect. They should be regarded as equals in all respects and be held in the light of partners in life. Manu says, "The householder should first serve his relatives and dependants with food and then take the remaining food along with his wife," hinting thereby at the position of equal footing on which she is to be treated. If a man earns and the wife stays at home, it does not mean that the woman is a parasite and a slave. She is indeed the builder of the nation. Verily, women exercise an authority over their husbands through their love, tenderness, affection, grace, beauty, selfless service and fidelity, purity and self-abnegation.
In the west the woman is wife. In India the woman is the mother. Mother is worshipped. Mother is considered as the Goddess Lakshmi of the house. The Srutis emphatically declare, "Let thy mother be thy God." The late Ashutosh Mukherji, Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University used to wash the feet of his mother and drink the water before he went to his office. This water is called 'Charanamrit'. It is a great purifier of the heart. In the West the wife governs the home. In an Indian home the mother rules. In the West the mother has to be subordinate to the wife. In India the wife has to be subordinate to the mother.
If woman be pure she can save and purify man. Woman can purify the race. Woman can make a home a sacred temple. The Hindu women have been the custodians of the Hindu race. The Hindu religion, the Hindu culture and civilisation still survive in spite of the many foreign invasions, when other civilisations have come and gone, on account of the purity of the Hindu women. The women are taught to regard chastity as their most priceless possession, and the loss of it as equal to the eternal damnation of their souls. Religion is ingrained in the Hindu women from their very childhood. Hindu women illumine and enliven the house through the glory of their purity. This is the secret of the endurance of the Hindu religion, civilisation and culture.
Advice To Householders
Start that pure life of a Yogi the very day on which you read these lines. No leniency to mind. Self-reliance is indispensably requisite. You can get suggestions from outside. But you will have to tread the path yourself, to place each step yourself in the spiritual ladder.
You will have to train your wife also. She also will have to do rigid Sadhana. Mere gossiping will not do. If she serves the husband nicely and takes care of his body with the right mental attitude and gives him the wants of the flesh, food and drinks as soon as he comes down from meditation, she can have Self-realisation in and through the form of her husband alone, like Laila in Majnu, Savitri in Satyavan, Anasuya in Atri.
That house is a miserable place, veritable hell on earth wherein the husband moves up in spirituality and the wife pulls him down in sensual grooves and vice versa. They should be harmoniously blended or joined by the thread of the knowledge of the Self, each aspiring eagerly for attaining God-consciousness. That house is really a Vaikuntha where the husband and wife lead an ideal Divine Life, singing Hari's Name, repeating His Mantra 200 Malas daily, studying the Ramayana and the Bhagavata, controlling the Indriyas and serving Bhaktas and Sannyasins.
Renunciation is mental. Renunciation brings peace. There is no loss in renunciation. You renounce the illusory sense pleasure to get the Supreme, Eternal Bliss and Immortality. Bear this in mind. Do not be guided and influenced by public opinion. March boldly and cheerfully in the path of Truth, consulting your inner conscience and hearing the inner, small, shrill, sweet voice of the soul. Do not be hasty in doing any outward renunciation. The world is the best teacher. Unfold the Divinity by remaining in the world alone. Nivritti Marga is extremely difficult. Ninety per cent fail in this path.
Save as much money as possible. Do 200 Malas of Japa. Cut off society. Keep company with one Sattvic man. Spend every second profitably. Serve sick people. Share what you have a small portion with poor people.
May the Divine Glory shine in your face!
Nil Desperandum
(Cheer up yourself—never despair)
Sin is a mistake committed by the ignorant Jiva during his journey towards Sat-Chit-Ananda abode. Once you make up your mind to tread the path of truth all sins will be destroyed. Lord Krishna gives His assurance: "Even if the most sinful worship Me, with undivided heart, he too must be accounted righteous for he hath rightly resolved. Speedily he becometh dutiful and goeth to eternal peace. Know thou for certain that My devotee never perisheth." The repetition of even ulta-nam (reverse name) of Rama Mantra, transmuted rogue Ratnakar into a sage Valmiki. When such is the power of the inverse name (Mara, Mara), what to speak of the glory of repeating Rama, Rama with Bhava from the bottom of the heart! Ajamila who was in a degraded and abject state on account of his bad character attained Mukti by repeating 'Narayana' once in his death-bed by calling his son by his name Narayana. Licentious Vemanna of Andhra Desa became a full-blown Yogi by his devotion to mother Kali. Grieve not, my dear friends. Fear not. Stand up. Gird up the loins. Fight with the Indriyas and Vasanas. Become a Yogi. Forget the past. A glorious, brilliant future is awaiting you. Cheer up yourself. Purify. Concentrate. Do Japa and Kirtan. Meditate. Realise the Sat-Chit-Ananda Atman!


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The singer took to his Twitter account over the weekend to weigh in on the track.
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An educator just invited me to a Facebook event on Haiti that I thought was interesting. They created an event: In-school Haiti Awareness Campaign, where they have this as their description:
We will create posters about the Haiti earthquake and about Haiti to promote a schoolwide understanding of this small country and the devastation caused by this recent earthquake. Knowledge is power.
Is anyone else using Facebook to help Haiti? I quickly did a Facebook search with the words "school" and "haiti" and came up with some more schools using Facebook to help Haiti.
A Weekend in Haiti Carnival, with food booths, arts and crafts, music and storytelling is a great way of getting students involved. A collaboration of the schools with local businesses in such an endeavor works well in encouraging social responsibility.
I just received this exciting email and thought it was an incredible idea and tool:
Over the last week, a number of technology organizations (from Google
to Ushahidi to Frontline SMS Medic) partnered up with the State
Department in a coordinated effort that uses technology to support the
relief efforts in Haiti.
The Extras'(http://www.BeExtra.org/Haiti) has engineered a system where anyone in the world can use two minutes of spare time to help desperate families get information about their missing loved ones. Volunteers match a photo of a missing person, to faces in news images coming out of Haiti.
Here's the page: http://www.BeExtra.org/Haiti
This is one of the first cases where you can *actually* help disaster
relief efforts from your personal computer. Employ your social network
to get micro-work done. In this case, for disaster relief efforts.
The results have been tremendous. Over 2,000 volunteers have taken
action in the last few days alone. To-date, their efforts have
resulted in 53,573 image tags and 350 potential matches of missing
people (with seven good enough to contact the families). We've also
had over 700 searches queried by families looking for missing loved
Again, here's the page: http://www.BeExtra.org/Haiti
Together, we're using the power of the crowd to help locate and
identify missing persons with just a few minutes of your time. Let's
help some desperate families get information about their missing loved
Thanks a lot! Exciting time!
Just came across this fund raising event on Facebook.
What is everyone else doing to raise money for Haiti?
Here are a few sites for resources:
What a teacher can find at this site are free lessons along with teacher guides connected to Haiti . These lessons are ready to go right now and could be used in classrooms today.
Teaching for Change has posted a free downloadable version of Teaching About Haiti and a list of recommended resources for K-12 at this link:
Haiti and the Dominican Republic: One Island, Two Worlds How did the Dominican Republic's and Haiti's environmental pasts determine their economic futures?
Kids Around the World - Contains interviews with Haitian children and a resource page on Haiti http://www.katw.org/pages/sitepage.cfm?id=154
TeachUNICEF - Provides background information about Haiti and lesson plans on humanitarian emergencies http://youth.unicefusa.org/teachunicef/units-and-lesson-plans/unicef-in-...
TeachGlobalEd.net - Links to and describes websites that provide a variety of information and lesson plans on Haitian culture, history, etc. http://teachglobaled.net/display.cfm?parent=96&child=137
PBS NewsHour - Provides news stories, photos, video clips, and educational resources on the earthquake in Haiti http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/7548/preview/
Freely Educate: Links to lesson plans on the earthquake in Haiti, political background information on Haiti, and earthquakes in general http://www.freelyeducate.com/2010/01/free-lesson-plans-and-educational-s...
On Friday, February 19th from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST, MAGPI is
sponsoring an international videoconference and webcast to help raise
awareness and financial support for victims of the Haiti earthquake.
We're working to line up some phenomenal speakers, representatives from
aid agencies, and student presentations/performances as part of this
international event. We want you and your students to get involved!
BE A PRESENTER:Is your K12 school, university or college planning a project to raise awareness or funds to help earthquake victims? We would love to give your students 5-10 minutes to share their project. Has a student created an artistic work (song, painting, mural, etc) to help raise awareness? We'd love to have him/her perform! If you are interested in performing or presenting, please send a 100 word abstract detailing your proposed presentation/performance to Heather Weisse Walsh at email@example.com. Deadline for proposals is January 30, 2010. Presenters can perform/present live via videoconference or submit videos prior to the event. Please indicate your preference on your presentation/performance proposal. Interactive videoconference sites must have H.323 videoconference gear and, preferably, are connected to their national research and education network.
SHOW THE WEBSTREAM IN YOUR SCHOOL: If you're not a presenting/performing school, don't worry! Participate by tuning in LIVE to the webstream. We'll be posting webstream instructions at the beginning of February on the MAGPI website: http://www.magpi.net. During the webcast, collect change and donations at your school and donate to one of the aid organizations participating in the program. Or simply just tune in and be inspired by what others are doing - - and then create your own project.
LIVE BLOGGERS/TWEETERS: We're looking for schools to volunteer as live bloggers and tweeters for this event, covering the presentations and helping get word out to the world at large. Interested? Contact Heather Weisse Walsh at firstname.lastname@example.com.
GET YOUR ORGANIZATION INVOLVED: We want your organization to get involved too - - the World Food Programme, Penn Center for High Impact Philanthropy, and The Exploratorim have already expressed interest in participating! If your organization is interested in speaking/presenting/participating, please email Heather at email@example.com
MORE INFORMATION: http://www.magpi.net/Community/Programs/Crisis-Haiti-What-Can-YOU-Do-Help
Just got this notice in my inbox about a free lesson plan on responding to the disaster:
"Volunteer USA is also providing a free lesson plan to help teachers use the Haitian earthquake and other real-life disasters as examples of how Americans assist with humanitarian and recovery efforts, as well as provide a platform to discuss the need for all families to develop and practice personal disaster plans. Visit www.volunteerusafoundation.org for access to the educational material."
Just came across this article by education.com. Here's an excerpt:
Teal Bucci also suggests that parents help children look at similarities and differences between their lives and the lives of children in Haiti. What does education look like here? What does education look like in Haiti? For example, Teal Bucci explains, most families in Haiti cannot afford to send all of their children to school--they have to choose which of their children will get an education. Children in Haiti sit on benches in school. They have one pencil that they sharpen with a razor blade, and often walk as far as three miles to get to school each day. (For more details, visit Teal Bucci's Haiti Empowerment Project.)
UNICEF offers a number of terrific resources if you're looking to have conversations such as these with your children. UNICEF's World Heroes game allows children to understand the value of volunteering. Parents can play the game with their children and use it as a springboard for discussion. How can we become world heroes? Why should we?
Came across this article on nola.com on how teenagers are using video conference to connect and relate to students their own age in Haiti. Pretty interesting and a great way to use technology!
Six months have passed since a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti.
The American Red Cross issued a progress report on its efforts to help Haiti. You can view it here.
During a news briefing in Washington, Red Cross officials said new or expanded efforts include:
* A $3.8 million agreement to pay the salaries of more than 1,800 Haitian doctors, nurses and medical staff at the largest general hospital in Port-au-Prince, the capital, who have been working without pay since the Jan. 12 quake.
* Funds for prosthetics and rehabilitation totaling $1.4 million.
* Funds totaling $8.6 million to build semi-permanent shelters for people living in tarps and tents in and around Port-au-Prince.
The agency has raised about $468 million for the Haiti relief effort and spent about a third of that, it reported.
When your classes start up again, do you plan on getting your students involved to help Haiti?


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This item build will end with Evelyn being a power house able to easily take out her foes toe to toe. However; low levels she will be tower-hugging most likely.
Whether you prefer pushing lanes or roaming the field lookin for easy targets, this build is great for you. I have not tried her jungling with this build, nor will I personally, but you're welcome to have a go at it.
Note: If you don't like something about my build, leave me some constructive comments with your ideas. I'd be happy to incorporate them and credit you.
We start out grabbing speed boots, basic enough.
Next we move on to Sapphire Crystal, to be used in Sheen. This increases her mana pool so you can spam Hate Spike more often and thus gain more money from minion kills in the beginning.
Sheen is also useful in player kills. As you will be chasing players and spamming Hate Spike, gaining Sheen's buff.
Next we'll move on to Ruby Crystal for the health benefit but also, to be used in Phage. Phage helps aid us by slowing our targets, enabling us to use Malice and Spite effectively while chasing an enemy.
Next we go on to Zeal for more movement speed, attack speed and crit.
Go ahead and grab Trinity Force for inventory space and combined passives.
Next we go with some lifesteal for self-sustenance: Executioner's Calling.
Malady for the attack speed and the defense-debuffing effects.
Phantom Dancer for Attack Speed/Crit + Movement speed. She should be fairly speedy now. Speedy enough to effectively use Malice and Spite (meaning that you gain the cooldown cancelling effect each time you use it).
Guardian Angel if you have the time and money. At this point, she should be fairly well equipped to kill groups of 2 players solo fairly easily.
Skill Breakdown
Shadow Walk before you even approach an enemy's line of sight.
Shadow Walk before and after every fight, or if you get dropped to 50% or less.
Start every fight with Ravage, for best results: when you are Shadow Walking.
Use Ravage on cooldown, it's helpful when chasing enemies down, though Hate Spike is slightly better.
Hate Spike on cooldown.
Hate Spike is GREAT for chasing speedy players down since it's range and cooldown are slightly better than Ravage.
Malice and Spite when your target is at 30%-60% health or less to get a quick kill and reset it's cooldown. Popping Malice and Spite when a player is too close to death (less than 20%) is generally a waste of the ability and you tend to get the kill before you can pop it. Keep in mind her attack speed is fairly high with this build and this will boost it significantly.
Play Style
In the beginning (1-6):
Be prepared to Recall quite a bit. You will get to half health quickly. If you're not level 30 yet, or can't get flash, grab teleport, you can head back in the fray fairly quick with that. Be prepared to Shadow Walk away at a given chance. We'll be using this re-actively rather than preemptively up to about level 6.
Mid Game (7-12):
You can easily push back enemy players with a combination of Shadow Walk + Ravage. This is great for pushing lanes. If you prefer roaming, keep an eye on the map - if your teammates are pushing a lane hard use Shadow Walk and cut off your enemy's escape route. This is where your kills come in. If you see one Hero pushing hard in deep top, your team has it, flank him. This is your primary strategy mid-game.
Late Game (13+):
This is where you shine. Easily racking up the kills. Go toe to toe with your enemies. First start off from Shadow Walk, Ravage, Malice and Spite (and Hate Spike on cooldown), your enemy is good as dead. When you pop Malice and Spite at late game, you might as well chalk up a kill for yourself.
Summoner Spells
I personally prefer to have Heal and Teleport. I do recognize that for the best damage output, Ignite is superior for fleeing enemies (like Teemo). Combine that with Flash and you're fairly great at chasing people down for the kill. Honestly, Summoner Spells are just a matter of preference and play style.


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I'm a bit of a Lord Of The Rings geek, so when I saw 1 Pass For All Sites, all I could think was, "one pass to rule them all." I'm over it now, however, and am simply on to the content that you will find within this network. There are about 26 different sites, most of which feature nubile babes in hardcore sexual acts.
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Recommended Optimizations if any for windowws 8.1?[ Edited ]
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I just bought an Extreme 2 480GB, and i am very happy with the product so far.
I read alot on the internet about optimization OS's for SSD's, but tbh i dont believe half of it. Is there any recommendations that Sandisk have for my drive in regards to making it and or my computer perform better?
IE: do you recommend turning off drive indexing? Turning off page file? Enabling write caching? Disabling hibernation? Any other quirks like that? I had a breif look through the website but couldn't find anything, so sorry if its already listed somewhere, just point me in it's direction Otherwise , any advice would be welcome.
Re: Recommended Optimizations if any for windowws 8.1?
Windows 8.1 pretty much ap[plies any optimization you would need for an SSD during installation. Not really anything you need to do.
Re: Recommended Optimizations if any for windowws 8.1?
I signed up for this forum because i found the most organized well compiled easiest to understand overall guidebto optimizing an ssd in general, however I do use win 8.1 and plan on contining not to upgrade to 10 because it tried to force me,lucilly my ssd did not have enough space available for the download, and i since then disabled everything to do with the upgrade, pop ups and force dls. Have also since found 2 excellent dashboards one click binaries that will ensire windows 10 will not be forced on those who dont want it!
In replies to dr luckys amswer, yes 8.1 will recognize and optimize depending on the age model and features of your machine. A newer PC with a fancy updates BIOS will likely need no help with an SSD provided its on ACHI mode. However if an older say Dell Inspiron without ACHI option will run better with ssd, however only in RAID OR IDE, and Windows will see this as a hard disk drive, not solid-state. That is a problem since it will attempt to defragment it instead of a fast 1 second trim/optimize which will quickly kill the SSD.
Make sure your PC is running a later bios capable of ACHI and only use that with an ssd, if 16gb or more RAM disable page file, disable hibernation, disable viewing last access time in Explorer, as that's a read and write everytime you even look at a folder or in most cases many r/w. I suggest if you're not sure go to http://echostorms.net where my buddy that showed me some tricks and has himself written batch operation super small programs that will help out, from beginner to advanced. Hope this helps.


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A team of cycling enthusiasts from Withy King is preparing to cycle from their offices in central Bath to Paris to raise money for charity.
The team of 14 from Withy King's two offices, on Midland Bridge and Queen Square, comprises Abi Sutcliffe, partner Chris Kane, Claire Fennell, Dave Eagle, David Willcox, Ed Vidnes, managing partner Graham Street, Ali Cloak, partner Jessica Bent, Laura Podger, Lydia Excell, Mark Hambleton, Nicola Cutler, Paul Field and Robert Webb.
They will be joined by colleagues from Withy King's Swindon and Oxford offices, bringing the total number taking part to 21.
The 200 mile Bath to Paris cycle ride, which is taking place from 14th to 16th April, is one of several sporting events planned by Withy King to raise money for Dorothy House Hospice – the Bath offices' chosen charity for the next two years.
Nicola Cutler, a solicitor in the corporate dispute resolution team at Withy King who is taking part in the cycle ride, explained: "Every two years, the staff and partners in each of our principal office locations vote for a local charity to support over a 24 month period.
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Heli-Mount Design
Nechville Musical Products' revolutionary one-piece cast metal Heli-Mount banjo frame replaces over seventy miscellaneous pieces of hardware used in the construction of conventional hook-and-nut style banjos. Tightening or loosening the Heli-Mount banjo head is accomplished by turning a single threaded tensioning ring, which fits inside the Heli-Mount frame. Adjustments are made by rotating two Heli-Mount tensioning wrenches that plug into the back side of the tensioning ring.
Similar in operation to a jar lid, the Heli-Mount system produces perfectly even tension throughout the banjo head - in a matter of moments rather than in an all-day project!
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In our quest for uncommonly great sound and function, we have incorporated the time-tested bell-bronze, pre-war style tone ring and three-ply rock maple steam bent rim. Nechville coaxes every bit of tone from its own proprietary ring by machining the rim to acoustically superior dimensions and capping it with a stainless steel mounting ring. Unique "Cyclotronic tone spheres," roll on top of this ring, beneath the tone ring, allowing easy,quick head adjustment and mounting the tone ring without the dampening effect inherent in other designs, allowing for unrestricted resonance and beauty of tone.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] With direction of Anne-Sophie Dutoit, this movie in English (original language) was presented in 2011. This film written by Anne-Sophie Dutoit was developed in USA. You can watch Frost Winterhawk online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2011.
Rating: 5 by 10 users./
Runtime: 90 minutes
Shelley Starrett, Anne-Sophie Dutoit, Sunil Sadarangani, John Alexander, Niv Ashkenazi, Ruth Dutoit, Michael la Borde and Becky Morgan.
Science fiction.
90-minute film (full movie) directed by Anne-Sophie Dutoit.
The original audio of Frost Winterhawk has dialogues in Dolby Digital, it was produced in USA.
It premiered in cinemas or television in 2011.
Screenplay written by Anne-Sophie Dutoit.
Isaac A. Berman.
Anne-Sophie Dutoit, John Alexander, M.S. Boucher and Ivan Dutoit.
This film was produced and / or financed by Anne-Sophie Films.
Without commercial breaks, the full movie Frost Winterhawk has a duration of 90 minutes; the official trailer can be watched in streaming on the Internet. You can watch this full movie free in EnglishDolby Digital in movie TV channels, renting the DVD or with VoD services (Video On Demand player, Hulu) and PPV (Pay Per View, Netflix).
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Stock's Trading Stats:
Ultrapetrol (Bahamas) Limited (NASDAQ:ULTR) is trading up with a percentage change of 63.18% and is at $0.456 right now. The Company's market capitalization stands at $66.21 Million in the current trading Session whereas, its outstanding shares are 140.73 Million.
Recent Press Release:
Ultrapetrol (Bahamas) Ltd. (ULTR) on May2, 2016 that it is in on-going negotiations with its secured lenders to extend its existing forbearance agreements, which expired April 30, 2016, through May 31, 2016.
The Company is in ongoing talk aboutions with all of its secured creditors and expressed its confidence that a consensual financial restructuring can be achieved in order to provide Ultrapetrol with a sustainable capital structure that supports the Company's long-term business plan and results in long-term value generation for the benefit of all stakeholders. During this period, the Company believes that it has sufficient liquidity to fully fund all aspects of its operations and to conduct business as usual, counting making full and timely payments to employees, vendors, suppliers, and trading counterparties.
Ultrapetrol is an industrial transportation company serving the marine transportation needs of its clients in the markets on which it focuses. It serves the shipping markets for containers, grain and soy bean products, forest products, minerals, crude oil, petroleum, and refined petroleum products, in addition to the offshore oil platform supply market with its extensive and diverse fleet of vessels. These comprise river barges and pushboats, platform supply vessels, tankers and two container feeder vessels. More information on Ultrapetrol can be found at www.ultrapetrol.net.
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Recent Press Release:
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (FCAU) on April 29, 2016 declared that, effective right away, Doug Ostermann is designated FCA Group Treasurer. In this role, he will be responsible for all Treasury activities globally and will report directly to the Group Chief Financial Officer Richard Palmer.
In addition, effective right away, Ferrante Zileri is designated Assistant Group Treasurer, with responsibility for European Treasury and for Group Financial Markets.
Ostermann is also designated ad interim NAFTA Treasurer. In this role he will replace Ken Nilson, who elected to retire after thirty-four years of dedicated service.
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It's happened. I truly am Penny's daughter and now cry at everything. My friends would argue this happened a LONG time ago, but I'm just now succumbing to the realization. Whew, I needed this today, a reminder that I'm doing okay :) And so are you other new mommies, so are YOU!
Not only is this video one of the greatest things, but an awesome read about new mothers and friendship passed on to me from my girl Caroline has me in a great place. Sometimes other people have such a great way of bringing perspective to concepts you can't quite put into words. It's nice to know other people are going through similar circumstances sometimes too. Has a way of giving you that extra little bit of mmpph you need to get your through your day! Have a good one folks!


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On Saturday, October 15, 2016, F.L. Stanton had the privilege of hosting St. Paul's Episcopal Church "Ricky Wood Men and Boys Luncheon". Mr. Paul Bryant the Founder of the i3 Content Company and the Leadership Institute for Urban Education was the Honorary speaker. Greetings were given from distinguished guest Mr. Anthony Bryant (President, St. Paul's Episcopal Churchmen), Mr. Victor Haydel (CEO, Restaurant 755), and The Honorable CT Martin (Atlanta City Councilman). The Luncheon was also catered by Mr. Haydel and Restaurant 755. Dr. Wille Clemons (Luncheon Chairman), Dr. David V. Taylor (St. Paul's Male Mentoring Program Coordinator), Rev. Charles L. Fischer (Rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church), Dr. Phyllis P. Earls (Principal, F.L. Stanton Elementary School) and Mrs. Carla Blake (Counselor, F.L. Stanton Elementary School) presented students with special recognitions and gave closing remarks.
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Kids with Behavior Issues, Disabilities are Bullied More, Bully Others More
Posted on July 2, 2012 By clinicallypsych child psychology, developmental psychology, Featured, Psychology Research
Students receiving special-education services for behavioral disorders and those with more obvious disabilities are more likely to be bullied than their general-education counterparts; and are also more likely to bully other students, a new study shows.
Different Dynamics At Play In Cyberbullying Than Traditional Bullying
Posted on April 13, 2012 By clinicallypsych child psychology, Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology, Featured
New research from UBC has discovered a distinct difference between the dynamics of cyberbulling and traditional school yard bullying. The researchers suggest children don't equate cyberbulling with the traditional concepts and actions of bullying. Of the youth questioned for this study, 95% of those who claimed to be cyberbullies stated their actions were intended as a joke, while only 5% reflected that their actions were for the purpose of harming another individual. This suggests the majority of those involved in cyberbullying down play the impact of their actions on their victim.
High School Bullies More Likely To Be Substance Users
Posted on March 5, 2012 By clinicallypsych Addiction, child psychology, developmental psychology, Featured, Psychology Research
A new study released by researchers for Ohio State University points to increased substance use for bullies of middle and high school age. The research demonstrated that bullying was more prevalent within the middle school age group, and an increased substance use was seen in high school aged bullies. Additionally, victims of bullies were more likely to embark in fairly frequent substance use, with alcohol, cigarette and marijuana use being cited as most commonly used.
Teens With Depression More Likely To Be Bullied
Posted on February 8, 2012 By clinicallypsych child psychology, Clinical Psychology, Featured
It is widely assumed that bullying leads to depression in children and teens, however new research from Arizona State University suggests the opposite could also be true. Teens who are depressed have greater difficulty in developing peer relationships, and this can often lead to bullying. The authors suggest parents and teachers look for signs of depression within children and understand that depression can be a significant risk factor for negative peer based relationships.


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Church Women United (CWU) Milwaukee Unit, held a Life Membership Recognition Day as part of its April general meeting recently at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, 2207 N. 2nd St. Approximately 169 Christian women from 16 area churches of various denominations were recognized for their contributions to their faith, church and community. CWU is a national ecumenical movement of Christian women witnessing to unity and faith in Jesus Christ through worship, study, action and celebration. CWU celebrates the diversity that enriches the faith community by rejoicing in their oneness of Christ, which transcends differences and empowers Christians to work together for a society of peace and justice. The CWU Milwaukee unit was founded in 1921 as a channel through which Christian women might serve the community in endeavors no single denomination could undertake alone. (Photo by Yvonne Kemp)
Church Women United
Please submit your religious announcements to the Milwaukee Community Journal, 3612 N. Martin Luther King Dr., Milwaukee, WI 53212
Fax: 414-265-5300
Email: [email protected]
Church Women United – Milwaukee Unit will hold its July General Meeting and Supper at Kenwood United Methodist Church, 2319 E. Kenwood Blvd. on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, with supper beginning at 6:00 p.m., and the meeting immediately following. Reservations are required for supper. The speaker, Sherry Powers will discuss Parental Responsibility.
For more information, please call the CWU Secretary at (414) 736-5780.


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"Set Network Location" box appeared for no reason
I have a Windows 7 computer which I've been using for eight weeks. This morning when I booted, it displayed the "Set Network Location" dialog box for no reason. I haven't changed any of my network settings. I selected Home and everything seemed to be okay. I rebooted and no, that box did not appear again.
Do you have any idea why that box popped up?? I did nothing the previous time that would cause it. It's always been set to Home. I have an older DSL modem and no wifi, and just one desktop computer and Norton.
(This is the same box that appears if I go to Control Panel > Networking and click on "Home.")
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The same thing just happened to me! It's been two years since it last happened.
I know that's a long time but it should never happen.
When I booted today, I got a dialog box about networking:
I didn't change or set anything the day before. I'm not even sure what it means, but why should this appear for no reason?? It happened once before and I've had this computer two years.
I just said Cancel when it popped up.
I just have DSL with one computer, that's all.
Do you know why, when I hover over the networking icon, it says "Network 3"?
I've only ever had this computer on a DSL with no other devices at all.
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Holt, Michael. The Political Crisis of the 1850s. New York: Norton, 1978. A concise history of the partisan collapse that prefigured the sectional crisis.
Johnson, Walter. Soul By Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. An insightful cultural and economic analysis of the operation of slave markets.
Rugemer, Edward Bartlett. The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 2008. A hemispheric history of the relationship between British emancipation and secession and war.
West, Elliott. The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. A fascinating history of the 1859 Colorado gold rush and the competing agendas over development and settlement in the middle of the continent.
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Boritt, Gabor S., ed. Why the Civil War Came. A collection of essays by leading scholars attempting to answer the question of the title, paying particular attention to the political forces at play in the 1850s through the outbreak of hostilities.
Boritt, Gabor S. and Scott Hancock, eds. Slavery, Resistance, Freedom. A collection of essays by top historians examining how African Americans resisted slavery in the antebellum years, fought against it during the Civil War, and responded to freedom.
Davis, David Brion. Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World. A global history of the commercial slavery that dominated the Western Hemisphere during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
Ferrie, Joseph P. Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum United States, 1840–1860. A history of immigration during the antebellum years, which pays particular attention to the ways the immigrants and American society were transformed by the experience.
Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War. Uncovers the deeply held northern beliefs–free labor above all else–that gave rise to the Republican party and held together the various factions that constituted the party's constituency.
Freehling, William W. The Road to Disunion: Secessionists at Bay, 1776–1854. Studies the diverse social and political contours of the American South, showing how the south engages with the nation and its politics as a region at the same time it is bedeviled by internal divisions and differences.
Holt, Michael F. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. Offers a complete history of the Whig Party, including the social forces and political issues that influenced its birth and, eventually, led to its demise in the 1850s.
Johannsen, Robert W. To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination. Argues that the war—the first to be covered extensively in the press—contributed to the evolving conception of American mission and deeply impacted the conception of national identity and America's place in the world.
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The Price of Freedom: Americans at War. From the Smithsonian Institute, this web site includes timelines, short educational movies, artifacts, documents, and much more detailing American Wars including the American Revolution, Indian wars, War of 1812, War with Mexico, and Civil War.
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- Stories from Philanthropists
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And what I carved out for myself, wasnŌĆÖt just a niche, it wasŌĆ"I donŌĆÖt knowŌĆ"an empire. I wasnŌĆÖt much of a student but I guess I was a geek, even if I didnŌĆÖt know what that meant then. I was hooked on technology and was good with numbers, so when I got out of junior college I got a job as a software developer ┬Ābut what was really a turn on for me was online transactions. ┬ĀI just knew that someday everyone would be buying stuff online.┬Ā And being the boy genius I was, I taught myself the finer points of online transactions and then created and patented a totally new and entirely revolutionary piece of internet security software that is still the backbone of the system used by some of the largest online retailers in the world to protect their transactions.
Then, rather than, you know, taking my zillions, retiring at 40, and┬Ābuying an island┬Āsomeplace, I decided to mix my freaky talent for security with my love of travel and became ŌĆō a I donŌĆÖt mean to brag when I say this ŌĆō one of the two or three highest-priced and most in-demand financial security consultants in the world.┬Ā I had major international banking clients on four different continents, most of whom had assets in the trillions, and they paid meŌĆ"well, letŌĆÖs just say they paid me very well. For a while there I was living like a king, traveling the globe without a care.┬Ā I mean itŌĆ"I thought I was (expletive) bulletproof.┬Ā
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I had a prof who told us you should do a self-portrait once a year. quick one. don't spend a lot of time on it. this took about an hour. getting better at skin tones and highlights, need to work on hair techniques. (ugh, both painting AND my real hair. i'm so clueless about some girl things)
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> >SM Super S - pegasus collection vol. 1-7Am I the only one who actually likes this series? Admittedly the
> Avoid like the disease it is.
absence of the Outers is annoying, and the whole Pegasus thing is...
well, yeah... but it has the best villains of any season: the
brilliantly unhinged Amazoness Quartet, not to mention Fisheye ^_^
Well, perhaps they're not quite as good as the Stars villains. And
now that I think about it, some of the S villains were pretty good.
But anyway, R sucks more ^_^
Just recently finished watching R the whole way through, and I was
massively disappointed. Not only is it the only series with no yuri
or yaoi at all, the Black Moon Clan frankly made Jadeite look
interesting. Plus there's that whole Moonlight Knight business.
Mamoru has never sucked more.
Oh, but anyway... it's all Sailor Moon, so it's all good. Buy it all.
No, don't, that's silly. I'm trying to at the moment and it's a fast
track to bankruptcy.
PS- Objects on The List may appear to contain more yuri than they
actually do... If you want utterly unequivocal yuri, you should
definitely go for S ^_~
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