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After a drunk driver killed his parents and left him paralyzed, the fictional character John Weller was a bitter 22-year-old in St. Louis who sat in his wheelchair and watched television.
That all changed on a rainy night when he met two other characters from a new animated feature film, "The 99: Unbound."
Dana Ibrahim (a.k.a. Noora The Light) and Nawaf Al Bilali (a.k.a. Jabbar The Powerful) told Weller that the gemstone he received from a nurse endowed him with the powers of causing or reliving pain.
"Where are you from?" Weller asked.
"We're from all over," answered a man, calling himself Ramzi Razem, "but we have much in common."
The scene from "Unbound," which premiered Oct. 2 at the New York Film Festival, is based on "The 99," a popular Kuwaiti comic book series whose superheroes each represent one of Islam's 99 attributes of God.
An animated cartoon based on The 99 nearly made it in the U.S. when The Hub (a network owned by The Discovery Channel and Hasbro) bought the rights with plans to air the series last October. That ended after conservatives warned the series would indoctrinate children into Islam.
Creator Naif Al-Mutawa hoped his comic books would give Muslim kids their own set of superheroes while also appealing to non-Muslims and promote multiculturalism and acceptance.
To make it work, Al-Mutawa tried to avoid being overtly religious: characters are from different countries, some with Muslim names, some not. Fifty of The 99 are female, but only six wear headscarves. The characters never mention religion nor reveal their beliefs. For all the viewer knows, John Weller (a.k.a. Darr the Afflicter) could be just another Midwestern evangelical.
"They're inspired by my culture, but they're not in your face," said Al-Mutawa, 40, who first read comic books at a Jewish summer camp in New Hampshire and went to college and medical school in the U.S. He still spends a few months in America every year.
"The only way to beat extremism of any kind is to have secular content based on the underlying belief systems."
The comic books premiered in 2006 and are now translated into nine languages, including English, French, and Spanish. The animated television series currently runs in several Arabic countries, and the Cartoon Network bought broadcast rights for Europe, Asia and Australia.
The 99 received the ultimate stamp of comic book credibility last year when DC Comics produced six crossover issues that paired Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman with several of The 99.
But the series' entrance into U.S. markets came to a halt when it ran into a swift tide of post-9/11 Islamophobia.
"Be prepared for the latest exercise in Muslim propaganda," warned Adrian Morgan, editor at Family Security Matters, a conservative website, in a column last year. "Are we going to see ass-kicking Christian superhero nuns, called Faith, Hope and Charity, whooping sinner's butts and sending Satan into hell? It is doubtful."
A few weeks later, New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser griped that "Wonder Woman-style cleavage has been banned from the ladies," in "The 99," and "male and female characters are never alone together."
In fact, there are several scenes from "Unbound" in which male and female characters appear alone together.
Al-Mutawa says critics who accuse him of peddling Islamic extremism haven't actually seen "The 99." Neither Morgan nor Peyser answered emailed queries about whether they had watched or read "The 99."
Al-Mutawa said he was disappointed by the reaction, even if he wasn't surprised. "How cliche is it that something that's been created to promote tolerance is being shot down by haters?" he asked.
The series has become a hit with at least some Muslim American parents, although only a small number seem to know about it. Sadia Ashraf, a publicist in Chicago with two kids, 8 and 10, said she heard about "The 99" from her nieces in Canada, and bought a copy of the first issue. She now regularly reads the comics with her kids.
"The only fictional Muslim-like characters Muslim kids glimpse in the media are stereotypes, or hail from their parents' immigrant countries," Ashraf said. "A series like 'The 99' can be a great role model, even though there is no actual link with Islam."
Jack Shaheen, a retired professor of mass communication at Southern Illinois University, who has written about portrayals of Arabs, said Muslims and Arabs have long been cast as villains in American pop culture. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and GI Joe have all taken on Middle Eastern enemies.
"The 99 is an amazing breakthrough," said Shaheen. "Up until now, kids have only been able to read stuff that says Arabs and Muslims are evil."
As a father of five boys, it's a problem Al-Mutawa said he understands.
"It's very important to me that my kids don't grow up hating themselves," he said. "If you tell a kid enough times that they're stupid, they're going to believe they're stupid. If you tell them they're a terrorist, they're going to start believing they're a terrorist."
As for The Hub, spokesmanMarkKern suggested the series may yet appear on American television screens, though he declined to go into detail.
"'The 99' is one of many series that The Hub is considering for our future schedule," he said, "but no scheduling decisions have been made."


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Wabash Music Department to Present Spring Spotlightby Karen Handley • April 15, 2005 Share:
The Wabash College Music Department invites you to the 16th Annual Spring Spotlight Concert at the College. The musical performance will take place on Tuesday, April 19 at 8:00 p.m. in the Lewis S. Salter Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Center.
Songs that will be performed include Spring, a web-delivered multimedia by music professor Peter Hulen; Sonata in D Major, opus posthumous by Arcangelo Corelli; Don Quichotter á Dulcinée by Maurice Ravel; Autumn Leaves, arranged by Wabash senior Abraham Lucas; Ascop, a Peruvian Andes folk song; Allegro, from Sonata in A Major by Ludwig Beethoven; Sankoch, a traditional Indian harmonium music; Allegro poco maestoso, from Sonata #2, opus 43 by Bernhard Romberg; and Die beiden Grenadiere and Allegro, ma non troppo, from Piano Quintet in E-flat major by Robert Schumann.
The Spotlight Concert has become a great year-end tradition sponsored by the Wabash College Music Department, a gift of light, relaxing entertainment for the whole community. Please join the Wabash students and staff for a delightful evening of musical entertainment.
Admission to the performance is free and everyone is welcome.

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Great article- really enjoyed it. I'm looking at Soundswim.com and I think it's a really good idea. I find that I download much more than purchasing physical cds, so I can't wait to start buy some titles from this site. A question: Will it be purely Hypnos and Binary? or will it be similar to the Hypnos shop?Who here has heard of emusic.com and what are your thoughts on it? It has a big ambient/electronic section, and I've personally a sold a lot of cds through it. I would say probably about 3 times more than physical cds.
Good question, to which there is no simple answer...in fact, there isn't even a complex answer that anyone can be sure of.Anyone who takes a Macro-economics class learns that higher prices for any product or service causes demand to drop, and conversely a decrease in prices leads to higher demand. A great example of this is what's been happening with gas prices, people changing their driving habits or getting more efficient cars, so they use less gas. If it were clear that decreasing the price of CDs would increase the number I sold substantially, I would probably sell Hypnos CDs for even less than they sell for now. The thing is, independent music CDs are a very limited market, not a commodity like gasoline or steel or corn with a very liquid market. A good argument could be made that most of the people who guy Hypnos CDs would buy them whether they were $10 or $16, and that many would still buy them if they were $20. Certainly the number of people who would say "I would definitely buy Message from a Subatomic World for $12 but I will definitely not buy it for $13" is a small number... a very small number, like maybe a few people, or at most 20 or something. It's not like with gasoline, where a gas station will lose 50% of its business if its price is .10 per gallon more than the station across the street.Having said that, if I'm unsure where the optimal price is for Hypnos CD sales to "maximize profits" I'd rather err on the side of "too cheap, more accessible" because I'm a little uncomfortable with keeping "maximize profits" as my highest priority. I prefer to get the CDs into the hands of more people even if I could bring in more money, hypothetically, by selling 10% fewer CDs for $3 more per copy.In fact, I've given some consideration to the idea of lowering prices even more. I think the music business has passed a threshold from which it will never return, concerning the free (as in, without paying) exchange of music via internet downloads. The number of people listening to ambient and electronic music is actually much, much higher than the number of people paying for it. Sometimes I wonder if many of those downloading unofficial (sounds nicer than saying "illegal") copies might buy the CD if it were just a lot cheaper, like maybe $10 or even less. In the abstract, I like the idea of selling 1,000 CDs for $6 each better than I like the idea of selling 200 CDs for $16 each, even though in the latter case, the return on investment is better (if you take into account that in the latter case you still have a lot of CDs left to gradually sell).I'm not willing to just say "screw it, all Hypnos CD prices are cut by half" but I've considered releasing a less expensive CD or two and seeing what happens. If we put out another "various artists" Hypnos compilation and sold it for $7.99 for the CD, or $5.99 for the download, I wonder how many more we might sell?I really don't have the answers, just expressing some thoughts. I don't feel inclined personally, though, to decrease the number of CDs sold even more, just to squeeze out another $2 or $3 from each copy sold. Also, the recording artists don't like that, because it means fewer people are hearing their work.


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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - New York State Police conducting a special speed enforcement detail on the Sprain Brook Parkway in Yonkers on Wednesday issued nearly three dozen tickets and arrested a city resident on drug charges.
Between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 19, state police conducted the special detail, which resulted in 24 tickets for speeding, five other vehicle and traffic citations, two seatbelt violations, and tickets for two drivers who failed to move over for an emergency vehicle and using a cell phone.
During the detail, police also reported the arrest of Emily Vallario of Yonkers, who was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of marijuana, criminal possession of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance that was not in its original container. Vallario was issued an appearance ticket and is due back in Yonkers Court on Monday, May 15.
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Selena Gomez's ELLE cover image has leaked. Justin Bieber's main squeeze is racking up the magazine covers with Lady Gaga and Beyonce-like frequency. She can't help it if she's talented, gorgeous, fashionable, dating the biggest teen pop star on the planet and photogenic!
Sel looks ultra sexy on the cover, with her long mane of glossy black hair tumbling around her shoulders in waves. Her lips are painted red and she's wearing a long-sleeved, print pattern tunic top. A little bit of her toned thighs are showing. She's giving off a distant stare, too. All of these factors come together to up the sexy quotient. Gomez, 19, is almost too hot to handle. She sizzles.
She's splashed against a bright yellow backdrop, with a cover tag asking, "Why Justin Bieber Can't Get Enough of Her." Uh, is that really even debatable? It's totally rhetorical, since we just listed all of Gomez's qualities. She's adorbs and it's obvious why girls want to be her and why boys want to hook up with her. The Biebs would be crazy not to be head over heels about her.
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Match Report: Ulster Rugby 14-15 Munster Rugby
In a finish that was remarkably similar to last week's win over the Exeter Chiefs, Munster took victory from the Kingspan Stadium after a late Rory Scannell drop goal handed them a 14-15 win over Ulster.
Despite leading at half-time courtesy of a first try for Charles Piutau and a further effort by Rob Lyttle, the home side couldn't hold onto their advantage, and missed a chance to steal the win at the end when Paddy Jackson pushed a drop goal of his own wide.
Man of the Match Scannell added a...
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Match Preview: Ulster Rugby vs. Munster Rugby
Whoever decided interpros should be the same week as we're preparing for a Test against the All Blacks needs a stern talking to.
Still, we can only work with the hand we've been dealt and fortunately we have the returns of Wiehahn Herbst and Dan Tuohy to offset a portion of the international losses. It's not ideal that their returns from long term lay-offs are to be thrown straight in against one of the biggest packs in the Guinness PRO12, but given our injury situation it was more a...
Oct 25
Injury Update: 25-10-16
Ulster have released an injury update ahead of their interprovincial clash with Munster on Friday night at the Kingspan Stadium (kick-off 7:05pm).
Darren Cave has returned ahead of schedule and is available for selection at the weekend, as is Robbie Diack who has missed the last few games as well.
Both Luke Marshall (knee) and Dan Tuohy (hip) received injuries in their respective matches at the weekend, but it is hoped that they will both be available for the game.
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Match Report: Ulster Rugby 19-18 Exeter Chiefs
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Gareth Steenson and Jackson traded drop goals in the last five minutes, and Steenson had a second chance to put the Chiefs ahead again but pushed a second drop kick wide.
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Match Preview: Ulster Rugby vs. Exeter Chiefs
First and foremost, the rugby takes second place this week.
Last Sunday we lost a legend of the game. The news of Anthony Foley's death rocked the rugby community, and at just 42 it came as a shock to everyone. As the European matches continue, Axel will be commemorated across Ireland, Scotland, Wales, England, France and Italy, a true reflection on how much he impacted rugby, not only in Munster and Ireland.
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PINs (Personal Identification Numbers) are now required to login to your library account online and onto the public PCs in all of our locations. This is being done to increase the security of your library account and to pave the way for new technologies coming soon to the library.
How Do I Get a PIN?
If you have a phone number on record with the library, then great, you already have a PIN! By default your PIN will be the last four digits of the phone number you have on record with us. If you don't have a phone number on record with us, or don't remember what it is, you can fill out the form below, call 801-524-8200 with your card number and birth date ready, or come in to any City Library location with your library card or valid photo ID and speak with a librarian.


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NASA: US Space Agency to Announce 'Major Science Finding' About Mars During Monday News Briefing
The agency's press release said it would "detail a major science finding" of its Mars exploration mission at the event. The discovery of liquid water is one possibility, Inverse reported.
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FERRISBURGH — Despite at least modest increases in town spending and in the Ferrisburgh Central School and Vergennes Union High School budgets, Ferrisburgh's 2012-2013 property tax rates dropped from this past year.
Ferrisburgh's new residential rate stands at $1.6276 per $100 of assed value — 10.58 cents lower than the 2011-2012 rate.
That decrease translates to a tax bill that is about $200 lower for a Ferrisburgh home assessed at $200,000, assuming its owners are not eligible for property tax relief.
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ADDISON — Due to a combination of factors, the town Addison's residential property tax rates dropped by 14.8 percent for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, while the town's commercial property tax rate fell by 10 percent.
Addison's new residential rate is $1.5412 per $100 of assessed value, down from $1.8084.
That decrease of almost 27 cents translates to a tax bill that is about $534 lower for an Addison home assessed at $200,000, assuming its owners are not eligible for property tax relief.
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After a record-breaking 10th season, NBC's top-rated summer series "America's Got Talent" returns with some big news: "Got Talent" creator and executive producer Simon Cowell joins the judges panel alongside Heidi Klum, Mel B and Howie Mandel. Nick Cannon is back as host, and the series returns to Los Angeles this summer, with live shows broadcast from the famed Dolby Theatre. With the search open to acts of all ages and talents, "America's Got Talent" has brought the variety format back to the forefront of American culture by showcasing unique performers from across the country. The series is a true celebration of creativity and talent, featuring a colorful array of singers, dancers, comedians, contortionists, impressionists, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists and hopeful stars, all vying to win America's hearts and the $1 million prize. Last summer, "America's Got Talent" remained the #1 summer show in total viewers for the 10th consecutive year. The season concluded with a star-studded performance at Radio City Music Hall with contestant Paul Zerdin taking home the grand prize by winning over viewers with his inventive and unique take on ventriloquism, using comedic characters and personalities to outshine thousands of acts. In 2014, for the first time, America chose a magician as their winner with Rhode Island native Mat Franco, who went on to headline the "America's Got Talent Live" stage show, as well as the "Magic Reinvented Nightly" stage show - both held in Las Vegas. Franco also starred in the "Mat Franco's Got Magic" special that aired on NBC and featured appearances by Neil Patrick Harris, Heidi Klum, Rob Gronkowski, Jason Mraz, Penn & Teller and others. Past "AGT" highlights include Season 7 winner Olate Dogs in 2012. Led by Richard Olate and his son Nicholas, this high-energy, fast-paced dog act was an audience favorite filled with unbelievable pet tricks. In 2011, sentimental favorite and West Virginia native Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. beat out thousands of acts to take home the coveted $1 million grand prize. Prior to that, Mississippi-born soul singer Michael Grimm was crowned the winner of a spectacular Season 5, which also brought national attention to 10-year-old classical singer and phenom Jackie Evancho, who has gone on to release several best-selling albums. In that same season, the show also discovered Lindsey Stirling, a hip-hop violinist. She has since gone on to release two albums, with her second album, "Shatter Me, " selling 56,000 copies in its first week and reaching the No. 2 position on the Billboard 200. The second season of "America's Got Talent" introduced audiences to the incredibly talented Terry Fator, a ventriloquist, singer and comedian from Dallas who has had a headlining show in Las Vegas since 2007 and currently performs at the Mirage Hotel. "America's Got Talent" is produced by FremantleMedia North America and Syco Entertainment. Simon Cowell, Sam Donnelly, Jason Raff, Trish Kinane and Richard Wallace are the executive producers.


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In Reply to: Stone the crows posted by Markku on June 13, 2008 at 08:10:
: I was searching info on the Scottish band Stone the Crows and bumped on the explanation that meaning "To hell with it". Now since the crows -to my knowledge- have special meaning in British mythology including the crows in Tower, King Arthur, could it be possible that the Scottish would have been more than delighted to stone them down? Hence Stone the Crows!
: I understood that the phrase is typically Scottish.
Your information is incorrect in just about every respect. "Stone the crows" doesn't mean "To hell with it" - it is an expression of surprise. (E.g.: "He really believed you? Stone the crows!") Nor is it remotely Scottish - it is Australian, of 1930s vintage. Its origin is still felt in the UK, to the extent that many British people will put on an Australian accent when they say it. Nor do crows have any special meaning in British mythology. The birds in the Tower of London are ravens, a different species of corvidae, and King Arthur is most associated with the Cornish cough, a different species again. And even crows had had some "special meaning in British mythology", unless they had had some specially evil significance, why on earth would than make Scots want to stone them? Scots are British, you know! (VSD)


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City officials are looking at nearly 20 ways to cut costs or increase revenue for the 2013-14 budget including property tax increases, fee increases, cuts to public safety and hiring freezes.
City officials are looking at nearly 20 ways to cut costs or increase revenue for the 2013-14 budget including property tax increases, fee increases, cuts to public safety and hiring freezes.
The proposed budget which currently features $45.7 million in expenditures and revenue compared to the 2012-13 fiscal year�s $47.7 million needs to decrease by another $2.4 million.
Richard Woodruff, Jacksonville City Manager, told the City Council Tuesday night that they�ve come to the �fork in the road where we have to make some very difficult decisions.�
None of the 17 options presented to the council, he said, are things that �any of us even like to discuss.�
The options, he said, include:
� Increase fees for building, inspection and planning fees to cover all costs of building, inspection and planning. Permit fees would increase from $768 to $1,376 for a 1,500 square foot home, from $16,886 to $20,000 for a 109 room hotel, and from $4,299 to $6,547 for a 12,000 square foot restaurant. The move could bring in an estimated $300,000 in revenue, however, Woodruff told council members that it is not a guaranteed number.
� Reduce the police force by six officers to reduce workforce and taxes. The move would save the city $300,000 but could also force the city to repay grant money the department has received. Councilman Robert Warden said that he was uncomfortable with the idea since the department was working to justify additional officers in their budget request. Woodruff also suggested renegotiating an 800 mHz project the city and county are involved in that could save $3.9 million.
� Close fire station No. 5, which is scheduled to close in the next two or three years when station No. 2 opens, and reduce fire personnel by six firefighters. The move would save $300,000 but could require grant repayment and may result in a higher ISO rating and, as a result, higher property insurance rates for area residents. Closing the station would only save about $1,400 a month in rent, according to Mayor Pro-Tem Mike Lazzarra.
� Increase recreation fees for sports programs so that the programs are self-funded. For example, youth baseball costs would increase from $30 for a city resident and $55 for a non resident to $75 for a city resident and $150 for a non resident. The estimated revenue would be $150,000 but could result in reduced participation and lower quality of play. Mayor Sammy Phillips said that the city already tried this route of revenue stream and they �know it�s an abject failure.�
� Reduce contribution to nonprofits and cut community and affinity programs, such as Sturgeon City Institutes, HARMONY Program, Jacksonville Youth Council and Citizen Academy. The estimated benefit would be $50,000. Woodruff also suggested looking at a fee for providing event support.
� Freeze vacant positions. The move could save $100,000 but could also impact the customer service citizens receive. Woodruff called the move a �no brainer� and said that city staff typically keep positions open for 60 to 90 days before filing them to save money.
� Reduce contingency fund from $200,000 to $100,000. The estimated benefit would be $100,000 but Woodruff said it�s difficult to project contingency needs and called the move a �shell game.�
� Increase residential sanitation charge. Estimated benefit would be $675,000 per $5 increase to city collection fee which would make sanitation a step closer to being self-funded and places the cost on sanitation customers. �This is one of the ones that can, in fact, produce revenue,� Woodruff said.
� Increase property tax. The estimated revenue is $360,000 per penny increase. Woodruff said a 6.79-cent increase is needed to fully fund the $2.4 million deficit.
� Impose a vehicle tax on the 27,000 taxable vehicles in Jacksonville. The estimated benefit is $135,000 and a new revenue source for street improvements that would be collected by the DMV. However, Lazzarra, said, the benefits don�t outweigh the costs of adding more taxes to living in the city.
� Freeze capital projects for three years and take a penny of capital improvements levy for general fund, leaving three-cents for debt service. The anticipated revenue is $360,000 and would not result in a tax increase but would eliminate future projects for parks and quality of life for three years.
� Adding $1 for each commercial garbage collection monthly bill for the service from contractor. The estimated benefit is $10,000 but would result in higher fees for solid waste collection for all commercial accounts. Council members indicated that the benefit would not be worth the effort.
� Early retirement is also an option but city staff are unsure how much money that would save, if any, as only eight people are eligible.
� Cut travel, cell phone, health fair, Christmas party, Spring Picnic, copiers and leasing. The estimated benefit is $50,000 but Woodruff said a dollar figure cannot be promised, though �we will be slimmer and trimmer.�
� Use part of the general fund unrestricted fund balance, which serves as the city�s savings, rather than a dramatic cost cutting or revenue increase. Woodruff said that $4 million was already budgeted for this fiscal year to avoid a tax increase and did not advise taking another $2 million out.
The city council also unanimously decided to cut $60,000 by decreasing their contribution to the Economic Development Commission from $90,000 to $30,000 and discussed non resident fees for fire rescue but, according to the city attorney John Carter, that isn�t legal.
Phillips said the City had its budget figured out �long ago� until the City of Jacksonville saw a $2.4 million cut in sales tax revenue after the Onslow County Commissioners voted to change from a 40-perecent per capita/60 percent ad valorem split of the sales tax to 100 percent ad valorem.
The vote to change sales tax revenue distribution gives more money to the county and its beach towns, which have higher property values but smaller populations, and leaves Jacksonville and Richlands with less.
The current sales tax distribution method returns $31.2 million to the county and $11.765 to Jacksonville. The new ad valorem-only redistribution plan will realize a 3.8-percent increase while Jacksonville will see a drop of more than 15.3 percent.
�None of us � want to pass along any of this cost to the citizens,� Phillips said.
The Jacksonville City Council will have another budget workshop on Tuesday, May 28, from 5 to 8 p.m. The first scheduled attempt at adopting the budget will be June 4 at 5 p.m.


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3+3 Bean Salad
From: The Bean Institute
Quick Facts
Servings: 16
Prep Time: 15 min.
A colorful bean medley tossed in a tangy ginger dressing.
- 1 16 oz can green beans, drained
- 1 15 oz can dark red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 15 oz can garbanzo beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 15 oz can great Northern or navy beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 15 oz can pinto beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 15 oz can black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1/4 cup green onions (tops included), sliced
- Ginger Dressing1/2 cup canola oil
- 3/4 cup apricot preserves
- 1/3 cup cider vinegar or rice wine vinegar
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp ground ginger
- Mix the oil, apricot preserves, vinegar, sugar, and ground ginger together; set aside.
- Put the drained beans and onion in a large bowl with a cover; add the dressing and mix. Cover and refrigerate.
- Turn the bowl over occasionally during the first few hours to mix the dressing and ingredients. Serve cold.
Nutrition Facts
Calories 237
Calories from Fat 67 (28%)
(12%)Total Fat 8g
(3%)Saturated Fat 1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 2g
Monounsaturated Fat 4g
(0%)Cholesterol 0mg
(24%)Sodium 565mg
(10%)Potassium 352mg
Total Carbohydrate 37g
(29%)Dietary Fiber 7g
Sugars 14g
Sugar Alcohols 0g
(15%)Protein 7g
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- NOAA pulls a help-wanted ad for a magician to appear at a leadership training event
- Ad sought a person who could use "physical energizers, magic tricks, puzzles, brain teasers"
- U.S. Sen. Scott Brown said he's angered by what he calls a waste of tax dollars
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it will investigate
In the wake of the GSA convention scandal that is still reverberating across the government, officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday pulled a help-wanted ad for a magician to appear at a leadership training event for its staff in the Washington area next month.
The ad sought a person who could use "experiential exercises, physical energizers, magic tricks, puzzles, brain teasers, word games, humor and teambuilding exercises."
The person also was asked to create "a unique model of translating magic and principles of the psychology of magic, magic tools, techniques, and experiences into a method of teaching leadership," according to a copy of the ad released by U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Massachusetts, who was angered by what he called a waste of tax dollars.
In a statement, NOAA said it would investigate how and why the ad was placed.
"NOAA has removed a solicitation for a speaker at a leadership training for career staff posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website, and has referred the solicitation to the General Counsel and NOAA's Chief of Resource and Operations Management to review the statement of work and the process surrounding the solicitation. No speakers have been hired or confirmed for this training session," said Scott Smullen, NOAA deputy director.
Brown, who has battled NOAA over what he says is too much regulation of the fishing industry in his home state, called the ad "outrageous."
"This is taxpayer abuse, pure and simple, and I urge Commerce Secretary John Bryson to immediately cancel these frivolous plans. This is a low point even by Washington standards and an insult to the fishing families that have been harmed by NOAA's overregulation and attitude of indifference," Brown said in a statement.
Beyond their statement, NOAA officials were not immediately available to answer questions about the ad.


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I attended Target's Holiday Toy Preview on November 9, and had the great pleasure of meeting Soleil Moon Frye (Punky Brewster, Sabrina the Teenage Witch). She is Target's Mommy Ambassador, and frankly, one of the nicest people I've ever met. Soleil has two daughters herself, and seemed to have a ball talking about her favorite toys for the holidays. Rocking a pair of comfy slipper socks, Soleil walked me through Target's top holiday toy picks, and introduced me to the toys she chose as her personal top picks:
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- At the beginning of November, I wrote an article -- 2013 Prediction: Apple and Facebook Will Fly, Intel Will Die -- that was widely read throughout the halls of Intel (INTC - Get Report).How do I know this? When TheStreet gave me a fancy title, Director of Social Media, it didn't provide the corner office I requested at 14 Wall Street. It didn't give in to my demands for a lifetime supply of Jim Cramer bobblehead dolls (those things break if you throw them hard enough). And it would not subsidize the cost of my recently-purchased Macbook. I guess they were being reasonable and corporately responsible. TheStreet did give me access, however, to our complete slate of Website traffic data. (By the way, thanks (!), we have been kicking butt lately). Among other things these data allow me to see the Internet address that "refers" a user to TheStreet. The above-linked article made the rounds over 1,000 times via an internal Intel blog -- aka, the Intranet. Whoever included the story added one word to the end of the title: Yikes. I didn't think much of that until I wrote a bearish article after CEO Paul Otellini stepped down and received a call from Intel's public relations/communications department. They weren't happy. They made their case. They warned not to count Intel out. But I stood my ground. Here's what I told them, in a nutshell: Let's be honest here, if Intel did not miss mobile five years ago ... if Intel chips powered every Apple (AAPL - Get Report) iPhone, we would not be having this conversation right now. We agreed to keep an open dialogue going forward. I haven't heard from Intel since. It's my sense that they're operating in defensive denial mode over there. Witness a classic case of a company accelerating its own demise. In the "Intel will die" article, I wrote:
I don't want to be anywhere near Intel. I can't put faith in the dividend yield providing support above $20 as erosion of the company's core business continues. I'm afraid INTC in the teens becomes a reality next year, if not sooner.And here we are, with INTC fighting -- sort of -- to scratch and claw its way back to $20. It's so bad that it's not just fighting to get back to $20, it has to fight just to scratch and claw. Some suckers will buy this thing in the near-term on value. Has Intel accelerated its dividend payment yet? If it does, we might see a pop. Fiscal cliff deal? That's good for some upside. Don't believe and definitely don't buy into the hype.


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U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. recently announced an agreement with S.H. Bell Company to open a new silica sand storage facility to support growing demand from oil and gas customers in the Utica and Marcellus Shales. U.S. Silica will ship barges and railcars of premium Northern White frac sand to the new transload facility in East Liverpool, Ohio, from its network of sand plants.
"We are excited to have S.H. Bell as a strategic service provider as we further expand our supply chain reach," said Bryan Shinn, chief executive officer of U.S. Silica. "This is a prime location for a new facility and is another example of how U.S. Silica is leveraging our flexible logistics to bring high quality products closer to market. We have opened nine strategic frac sand transload facilities this year and continue to move our point of sale closer to the shale basins, providing convenience and flexibility for our customers."
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Bazinga! Pajama Bottoms
Pajamas: The Pants Alternative
- Fuzzy, red, and definitely not Elmo.
- Great for Pajama Day at work, if you have that. And if not, perfect for Get Yourself Fired Day.
- Officially-licensed Big Bang Theory merchandise.
So there are sites out there that track the shirts that the guys wear each episode (hai, Sheldon Shirts!), but we don't think there's one out there yet that tracks Penny's comforters. There's this one she has that has a red baroque floral pattern in the middle with an ombre effect fading to white at the edges? No? Just us? Speaking of other bedtime oddities, is that a King-sized bed Howard has in his mother's basement? Creepy. We're just gonna hum a little Soft Kitty to ourselves to drift off to sleep now....
These red Bazinga! pajamas are perfect for the Big Bang Theory fan in your life. And no, they're not footie pajamas. Sorry.
Bazinga! Pajama Bottoms
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An Eye-Opening Discovery
By Anna Fiorentino
December 2012 • Thayer By Degrees: BE
Anyone who remembers waiting as a child for Magic Grow Dinosaurs to expand in water understands the gist of an invention by a team of recent B.E. graduates. While this capsule morphs into a dinosaur sponge in minutes, it takes months for the polyacrylamide gel also used in Expandable Hydrogel Sphere for Orbital Implantation to slowly expand the eye socket in patients with anophthalmia and microphthalmia, conditions of lacking an eyeball or having a small eyeball.
In November, the device earned the three dual-degree students—Elizabeth Chang '12, Chris Ng '12, and Amanda Christian '12—the chance to compete against only six other teams from undergraduate schools at the prestigious 2012 Collegiate Inventors Competition in Washington, DC.
"The team may not have placed in the competition, but just getting the chance to defend their product was a victory—that and a trip to the White House to meet the President's science advisor," says Assistant Professor Douglas Van Citters Th'03, Th'06, who has sent three teams, including this one, to the Inventors Competition in the last four years. Presenting both science and business aspects of their Expandable Hydrogel Sphere to judges also convinced the team to pursue the commercialization of their product.
The device crosslinks the polyacrylamide gel with another polymer commonly used in biomedical applications to make soft contact lenses called HEMA (hydroxyethyl methacrylate), with a third agent that manages the expansion and mechanical properties. Together they enable water to enter the socket and swell up like a sponge over a long period of time as the child grows.
The a need for a device with slow swelling properties was brought to the table by to a team of eye doctors from the Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, India, where patients don't have the luxury of follow-up visits, yet 15 children a day are born with a small eye or no eye, due to genetic factors.
"Several summers ago I met with the eye surgeons at Aravind Eye Hospital, a Gates Foundation award winner that makes its own inexpensive yet highly effective medical devices, and we discussed areas where we could collaborate—since the Aravind System and Dartmouth have several existing connections," says Van Citters. He presented the challenge in an ENGS 89/90 course last fall, and the B.E.s hit the ground running.
The students traveled last spring with Van Citters to India to present the device to Aravind's affiliate Aurolab, who sponsored the project, and with help from their advisor, Thayer School Senior Lecturer Mark Laser, they pursued an independent study during their final semester at Thayer. At that time they also took home Thayer's 2012 Special Faculty Award for Engineering and Service to Humanity. And it was then that they began to validate the device's mechanical properties, fabrication details and bio compatibility—a task that Taylor Gray '13 since took over with the goal of animal testing in 2013, followed by human testing. Chang and Ng, now both research assistants at UC-Irvine and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center respectively, and Christian, who recently returned to the United States after traveling abroad, are now looking to file a provisional patent.
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In Spain a few months ago a Muslim had killed a horse by anally raping him, and now in Italy an illegal immigrant, an unemployed Moroccan has been arrested for repeatedly raping a dog on a farm in Sicily.
The 32-year-old-man was caught in the act by CCTV cameras.
He had previously spread panic in the countryside near the town of Ragusa by committing two arsons, the second of which on Boxing Day, causing damage for tens of thousands of euros to two local farms, by the use of a lighter.
But that's not enough. He was responsible for the theft of electrical appliances, farm equipment, clothes and food.
In Muslim countries the practice of having sex with and raping animals is much more common than we think.
In Pakistan, a donkey was honour killed after being raped, a treatment ususally reserved to Muslim women. From Wikipedia:
Karo-kari is part of cultural tradition in Pakistan and is a compound word literally meaning "black male" (Karo) and "black female (Kari), in metaphoric terms for adulterer and adulteress. Once labeled as a Kari, male family members get the self-authorized justification to kill her and the co-accused Karo to restore family honor, although in the majority of cases the victim is female, while the murderers are male.


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"I'm going to fucking bury that guy. I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill... OH MY GOD!!! AHHHHH!!! MY LEG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO AGAERLBARGLEHAESL..........."
"It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a Grue."
"Roses are red, violets are blue / I'm sorry to say, you'll be eaten by a Grue"
"You're dead!"
A grue (Gruesomicius ravenousi) is a box-shaped gap-toothed mammal known for eating humans, though more recently they have been known to kill certain lone wolves, construction workers, a gerbil or two, speranah, the occasional monkey, people who send annoying chain e-mails, your pets, and...well, Grues like eating a lot of things. Grues are not often seen roaming the wilderness in herds, whistling old-time Irish pub songs, working on crossword puzzles, and calculating the amount of back taxes owed by car salesmen. The reason Grues are not often seen doing anything is because grues live in total darkness, so the whole "seeing" thing would be kind of hard to do. The likelihood of being eaten by a grue is probably non-zero.
It is widely believed that all emeralds are grue, but in fact, all emeralds are bleen.
There are an estimated 47 grues left in the United States today due to the Grue conservation program - luckily all grues are kept under heavy rocks, or locked away in abandoned biker bars. Of course, being creatures of darkness that tend to eat anything they can get within range of, these numbers are likely inaccurate, outdated, or simply made up by the same people who tell us that pretty much everything causes cancer.
The game of Zork consists entirely of being repeatedly eaten by a grue.
- 1 Grue-Slaying
- 2 Natural Habitat
- 3 Grue Subspecies
- 4 Grue Hunters
- 5 How to Deal With a Grue
- 6 Grue and other names
- 7 Articles eaten by Grue
- 8 See Also
- 9 Footnotes
Grues cannot be killed with these things[edit]
- Guns, lasers, religious charactors, fruit, air freshener, croissants, dubs, Pikachu, scented candles, Chainsaws, Stalin, two cows, milk, martial arts, any sweet or sour foodstuffs, dentists, Democrats, Wikipedia, Uncyclopedia, Republicans, Karl Marx, Ben Affleck, the IRS, shoulder blades, chain mail, semen, gambling, swords[1], axes, Jack Thompson, Dick Cheney, Quail, Sugar-snout Beavers, Trix, pretzels, Neil's Bike, lances, pirates, Pirates, or any combinations, the Anti-Ninja Organisation, the Anti-Pirate Organisation, the Anti-Pirate-Ninja Organisation, blind people, fat people, Tony Blair, goatse, SpongeBob SquarePants, Online RPG's, Pure Genius, Hummer H2s, 50 Cent, porn, asian people, 12 year olds invading the internet, Dan's Mum, Maozilla, sermons, speranah, your mom, cheesy poofs, the system, pi, poop, wheelbarrows, Marth, or George. Attempting to use any of the above in Grue-slaying will result in you being eaten by the grue.
- In recent tests performed by experts who asked not to be named but were killed anyway, Grues CAN in fact be killed by ninjas. This however is extremely unlikely to happen outside of testing as Ninjas and Grues have made certain agreements about sharing the darkness (ninja-pirates are not included in this). However this was made without the knowledge of the anti-ninja coalition and the anti-anti-ninja coalition and has since then been proved untrue on account of the ninjas being orange.
Grues can be killed with these things[edit]
- Light, except when the plot demands that they don't.
- They can also be killed by Hadoukens, but that requires nine levels of Black Magery.
- Grues can be killed by a good Shoryu-reppa in the face.
- The Anti-comma, although it will not only destroy the grue, but asplode the hell out of anything within 5 miles, thus not being very useful.
- The german dub of Azumanga Daioh will make a grue commit suicide.
- The Grue can be killed with most things on the LOWTDEBS, although they don't actually exist and should thus be disregarded.
- The Master Sword. What can't the Master Sword kill?
- Giratina can kill grues.
- Offer a Grue a cigarette. If they accept, Good job buddy, you just killed yourself a Grue. Grues have very weak lungs and will most likely die on the first puff.
- Fatality is a Grue's 2 Girls 1 Cup. Yeah, it's that disgusting.
- The Grue can also be killed with abominably bad grammar. If you is grue; stops read before now, you eye start frys.
- The RYNO from Ratchet and Clank is one of the few manmade weapons that can kill a grue.
- If a grue tells you to STFU, continue to be loud. This should be able to kill the grue. However, this method of Grue killing only applies if you're a n00b. If you are not, the grue will probably just kill you.
- The Haruhi dance can make a grue explode on the spot.
- The legendary Super Art Seichusen-Godanzuki can liquify a grue.
- Grues can be killed by the Anti-Grue and its brilliant schemes and use of sarcasm, but unless you can summon the Anti-Grue, you're still screwed...
- Doc. Louis can kill grues as long as he has a bike to run them over with.
- Grues can also be killed by eurgs, but that destroys the entire universe in the process, so nobody's ever tried it. Plus, carrying an eurg around with you invariably results in the eurg eating you.
- Extreme sarcasm (yeah, right(!)) (Note: this risks killing everyone else in the vicinity)
- Chuck Norris can kill Grues. No questions asked.
- Haruhi Suzumiya can kill Grues. Once again, no questions asked.
- Ninja Chef eats Grues for dinner, although whether or not he kills them first is unknown. Also, eating grues for dinner is not a known way of killing them (cf Oprah).
- A method once tried for slaying a Grue is to attack it with your own Grue, but you should look at this table for the reasons why this is incredibly stupid.
|Better-than-best-case scenario
|You win the lottery and become a multi-millionaire.
|Best-case scenario
|Both of the Grues kill each other, which is damn near impossible.
|Next-best-case scenario
|Your Grue kills the other one and eats you. You're dead, buuuut at least you killed a grue.
|Worse-case scenario
|The other Grue kills your Grue and eats you. You're dead, and your Grue got its butt kicked.
|Worst-case scenario
|Both Grues realize they've been tricked, then they team up and eat you. You're dead, and you were betrayed by your own Grue.
|Worse-than-worst-case scenario
|The grues decide that you make a better sex toy than a meal. Imagine that for the rest of your life!
Natural Habitat[edit]
Grues can be found in all the dark places of the world, your mom's cookie jar, for example. They also have been found in your basement and under the bed of bad little children who don't brush their teeth or eat their vegetables. One characteristic of Grue dwellings is that all of them contain an equal quantity of priceless treasure. Nobody knows for certain why this is so. The prevailing theory is that the presence of the treasure provides the Grues with a near-constant supply of adventurers to devour. An alternative theory reverses this relationship: since adventurers often carry treasures with them, and Grues cannot digest treasure, any treasure found in a Grue dwelling is merely detritus from its many meals.
Grue Subspecies[edit]
Apart from the common grue (Gruesomicius ravenousi ravenousi), there are many, less common types.
Russian Grue (Gruesomicius ravenousi soviet)[edit]
"In Soviet Russia, Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!!"
The rare Russian Grue can be killed by almost anything, and is common prey for oxen, weeds, cow tongues, sand castles, and lawyers. When a Russian Grue reproduces with a regular Grue, it will create a kitten. The reason for this is unknown to modern science. But who really wants to study the reproductive aspects of Grues? Not me!
Auld Grues (Gruesomicius ravenousi mediaevalis)[edit]
Old Grues, seen on the left, were chivalrous and swordwielding knights, who would (unlike today's Grues) offer mercy and be courteous as the victim was eaten, usually offering a quick and painless death as opposed to fiery fangs and searing pains ripping through the enemy's body. Old Grues liked to rescue damsels, but this became a problem when the Grue was unable to resist eating the damsel. This was very troublesome for Old Grues and damsels stopped calling for help, afraid they would be eaten by an Old Grue. Real knights errant were really pissed off that they couldn't find any damsels anymore, so they took advantage of the Old Grues' mercy and non-ruthlessness and killed them all.
Ur-Grue (Gruesomicius superiori youhavediedii)[edit]
Scrawled in the margins of medieval bestiaries are descriptions of a single terrible and powerful grue spellcaster known as the Ur-Grue. It is said to be completely immune to all of the traditional Grue's weaknesses - it is constantly surrounded by magical darkness which nought but sunlight can penetrate, and most conventional weapons will either miss completely or cease to exist upon contact with its body. It is, however, partially vulnerable to extreme sarcasm. In addition to its fearsome natural armaments, the Ur-Grue is armed with a multitude of spells, such as cleesh (change foe to small amphibian), yozozzo (change foe into small duck), and onkik (unknown, possibly magic missile). The Ur-Grue is currently serving as the final boss of Zork, after usurping the position from the Grue King.
For a short time, speranah were considered to be a subspecies of grue, but the person who suggested this was soon beaten to death and everyone forgot about it.
Though not technically a subspecies,"grue" is also a type of paste used exclusively in Japan (popularly manufactured by "Ehrmers".)
Grue Hunters[edit]
Grue Hunters are people who fight grues for a living so they can eat them because they're disgusting pigs who think grues are tasty. Most Grue Hunters usually die being eaten by Domo-kun because they can't control their sick urges.
How to Deal With a Grue[edit]
- Die.
- Scream and die.
- Scream, struggle, and die.
- Scream, struggle, shit yourself, and die.
- Scream, run, struggle, shit yourself, and die.
- Scream, run, struggle, shit yourself, look at a picture of Michael Jackson, and die.
- Scream, run, struggle, shit yourself, listen to any emo song, look at a picture of Michael Jackson, and die.
- Recite every line of Moby Dick in Italian. Grues love the Italian language, so it will subdue them for awhile. Of course when you are done reading, the grue will still eat you.
- Sing one of Michael Bolton's classic songs. Grues hate Michael Bolton. Of course they will still eat you, but you can have the satisfaction of having irritated a grue.
- Drink a glass of milk; 2.6% of grue are lactose intolerant, safe in the knowlege that the Grue will get diarrhea when it finally gets round to eating you, which is very quickly.
- Use extreme sarcasm.
- Build a sandcastle. It won't help at all, and you will be eaten, but it is a fun activity.
- Cast Frotz. This only works for wizards, enchanters, and other magically-enabled people.
- DON'T WANDER AROUND IN THE DARK, YOU MORON! Alternatively, light your torch.
- It is a little known fact that Grues like hearing haikus. Therefore reciting a haiku to a grue will extend your life by 17 syllables.
- Wrap a towel around your head. Although the grue will still eat you, it will make the postprandial cleanup easier. Plus, if you have telepathy you will be able to see the grue while it eats you.
- Yell for your mum over and over again until you die.
- Strip naked and perform an ancient Mayan rain dance, and pray that the rain distracts the grue.
- Call for a republican, and die.
- Continually masturbate. That's right. Day in, day out. It'll work, so long as there are kittens in the world.
- Summon Chuck Norris. This is not a very effective method though, because chuck norris is likely to wait until you are eaten so that he will get a show, and a kill.
- Kill yourself before the Grue can get to You.
One example of how to deal with Grues is shown here.
Some people recommend turning on the lights, as according to the legend this will cause the grue to 'melt away.' Clearly this course of action is futile and should not be undertaken by any means. For a start, it is logically impossible for a creature to 'melt away' on exposure to light; notwithstanding, the Great Ice Creature of Neptune. Furthermore, as shown by Darwin, only mutated Grues which can survive light will survive, and eventually only these mutant Grues will be left, thus leaving the human populace with no weaponry to take them down. It is how ever possible to kill a Grue with a Republican, as they usually carry guns and love hunting. A T.V. can cause a Grue to melt away as they are allergic to non-natural sounds.
It is recomended that you always keep a republican and a T.V. in your home to kill the Grues that you see on near your home. Sacrifice yourself to a Grue today so your children can melt them tomorrow!
Another alternative is to move to Russia. In Soviet Russia, YOU eat Grue! It should be noted, however, that the Russian Grue is a subspecies of the common Grue.
Grue and other names[edit]
Some also know grues as "Domo-kun", due to parody site Wikipedia's Domo-kun article.
Articles eaten by Grue[edit]
See Also[edit]
- Zork InvisiClues on Grues
- The Gruesome Book of Grues
- Eurg - The antipode of a grue
- Anti-Grue
- Ubergrue
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|2011-06-14, 04:43
|Link #1901
Paper-Fan of DOOM!!
Join Date: Jul 2010
"Bad Habits You Picked Up From K-ON!!"
To Kick It Off:
Saying "U~waii!!" when happy (From Yui-chan)
Eating copious amounts of sugared biscuits and drinking sweet milk tea when watching TV/Anime (From Mugi-chan)
Using "Meow" and "Nya" as exclamations (From Azu-nyan).
More to come later.
|2011-06-16, 20:45
|Link #1902
Gamilas Rises
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 41
Since they seems to use some of the more skilled musicians in Japan, I await a third season...if only to see what else HTT can pull off.
Or a 1967 era Beatles level song (with all sorts of time changes...just to see if they can show Ritsu pull it off....see "Good Morning" by the Beatles)
|2011-07-20, 03:29
|Link #1903
To the salt mines
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: God Knows...
i don't know, but i guess this is the best place for asking these questions, hehe.
well, i just watched some of the first episodes of season 1 (admittedly for the first time) just recently (thanks to cable), and yeah, the animation seems different from season 2, as if it has evolved over the seasons. and i noticed something/s weird.
1. episode 5 season1(i think), Sawako trained Yui how to sing and play the guitar at the same time. on the subbed version that i've watched, it said that "Sawako's been training Yui in her place". hmmmm, but how about on episode 26 (if i remember correctly, i have a really bad memory), Yui imagined Sawako's place as a dark and "metal-infused-eardrum-piercing place". how could she guess what Sawako's place looks like, if she have already been there in the first place? or is it just a bad case of bad translation?)
2. not really that important of a question, but noticed in the same episode (ep 5), Mugi was dazing off to la la land quite frequently, i mean a lot (i don't know what she's thinking, and i don't wanna guess either) which she hardly does in season2. well, is that "normal" Mugi? well, i don't really know Mugi's personality that much (the best i know is that she's rich, has thick eyebrows that turn upside down, plays the keyboard, and easily gets amused by stuff, oh and some other stuff that i am too lazy to mention).
bees discovering such stuff, kept me thinking throughout school, hehehe well, not entirely).
|2011-07-20, 04:55
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Smiling beauty
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Indonesia
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2. Yup, that's normal her. She's the cheery and "always smiling" type after all It's normal if you feel her to be quite different compared to S2. It seems that the personality of the girls were changed quite a bit. (For example, we never see Mio's Moe Moe Kyun and also Mugi's "Vision" in S2).
|2011-07-20, 08:28
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Location: Making metal ... for fish
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A) There is at least one other music room on the campus (as others said, it's the one where the Future Klokateers Association Mio Stalker Fan Club got 'Pure Pure Heart' performed for them,) and it's likely that's where Sawako took Yui to train. It'd have to be pretty far away from the club room, though, since (apparently) Japanese schools are well-known for their thin, cheap, walls.
B) Season One Yui has the attention-span and memory recollection ability of an ADHD Alzheimer's patient. It could be that she (somehow) completely forgot where Sawako's place was, or that she'd ever been there.
C) Yui is a bit of an evil genius who occasionally uses the others' obliviousness of this fact for her personal amusement. Making outlandish speculations on the nature of Sawako's place for the lulz while denying having ever been there would be completely in-character for her.
|2011-07-20, 10:56
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Mio (mistakingly) jumps to the conclusion that Mugi has a crush on Sawako, because she didn't notice those times when Mugi spaced out while looking at her and Yui as well, or anyone, really. Unfortunately, as this was all pretty subtle in the anime (much more clear in the manga) a lot of viewers failed to realize that Mio was actually wrong and believe to this day that Mugi has a crush on Sawako that KyoAni just forgot about. Sigh...
|2011-07-20, 11:05
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Gamilas Rises
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
Age: 41
The animation and art quality increased during the second season slightly because now they had a budget, a known success story, and the production company wasn't animating five other things at the same time (KyoAni was really busy in 2009).
MugiVision is one of those few things I wanted to see more often. While it was classed as fanservice I suppose and mostly dumped, we get a little of it from time to time...plus with Mugi's "date" with Ritsu we get that Mugi wanted in on the "skinship".
The Anthology series based on K-On takes MugiVision to another level...where she almost always has a video camera handy to take pictures of anything remotely like a girl on girl situation. Usually while having a nosebleed.
|2011-07-20, 14:09
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|2011-07-22, 05:18
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Join Date: Aug 2010
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oh, okay. thanks everyone for clearing that out. well let me see, if i got it correctly:
1. YUi's been training either in a seperate music room at school or at Sawako's place. but if the latter would be justified in terms of episode 26, it would seem that Yui may be lying, or must have forgotten, or Sawako probably moved. (hmmm, pretty broad description there, but at least it's not bad subs that is to blame).
2. well, i've figured that much. her actions are pretty much "Mugi-ish" (i could say something else besides this, but i have no idea what), even on season 2. but that kind of personality (along with the others from the other girls) is what makes the whole series such a successful comedy, IMO. (but still, i wonder what she's thinking, while in daze. hmmmm. hehehe).
well, pretty much eyebrow-raisers from season 1 (why am i learning all of these just now).
a. why the heck can Yui play the solo of Maddy Candy, if she was only practicing the guitar for 3 months? (am i retarded, or is it too good to be true).
b. on the music video of Fuwa Fuwa Time, the poster of the 4 girls shown being ripped, and changed into a wanted sign, contained the letters HTT. well, their band will be named a couple of more episodes in the future. hmmmm, conspiracy?
c. wait, i forgot, i'll just tell it when i've remembered it again (a lot of questions can arise from watching the qhole thing for the first time).
really, thanks you guys again....
|2011-07-22, 07:44
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The Voice of Reason
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Netherlands
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You could also look at it the other way around: we hear the song for the first time, and they then show what a future music video for it would look like, after HTT has become more famous (maybe even after playing at the Budokan for the first time).
|2011-07-22, 08:03
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|2011-07-22, 12:43
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Gamilas Rises
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With the renewed manga going on, it makes me wonder if the "music video" segments could possibly have been made while the girls are in college (the early first season, pre-Azusa, videos done in their first year at college, and the rest afterwards). Or right after college, with Azusa not being avalible due to her still being in college.
|2011-07-22, 12:54
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Smiling beauty
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Indonesia
Age: 30
As for the learning ability, In Yui's case, however, are gained with a great compensation too. Once she focused on one thing, she forgot the others
She's a genius, but also a hardworker. She keeps practicing guitar everyday (she also once intended to study drums for Ritsu in s2). Her guitar ability is at its peak when she is at a performance, surpassing Azusa (temporarily), her academic abilities could also surpass Mio at times
|2011-07-23, 17:51
|Link #1915
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
I also got the feeling it was *A* future - not fixed in concrete. We know how keen the industry is on 'parallel reality reboot alternative" nonsense that lets them pretty much do anything they want at any time
That would, of course, fit in with the "during college" hypothesis you propose and explain the absence of Azunyan in the first videos.
|2011-07-23, 18:08
|Link #1916
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Just a couple pictures I would like to share, that I took awhile back
Future HTT.
Notice how Yui has no hair pin
Comparison Archive
HTT and The Beatles (I)
HTT and The Who
HTT and The Beatles (II)
HTT and The Beatles (II) part 2
HTT and The Beatles (III)
HTT and Jimi Hendrix
HTT and The Beatles (IV)
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|2011-07-24, 00:30
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
sorry if that was unclear.
|2011-07-24, 01:49
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Spoiler for Episode 23 :
|2011-07-24, 03:17
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|2011-07-24, 03:54
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I think that maybe you want to avoid having borders of countries that converge into a single point, such as Ste-Anne, Kirland, Baie d'Urfe, and Beaconsfield. It is not clear whether Beaconsfield can attack Ste-Anne or whether Kirkland can attack Baie d'Urfe.
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Dread Wains wrote:Here's an idea for our revered CC Founder: allow maps to define certain "express lanes" that can transport troops between any two countries bordering such a lane, during a fortification. An example would be the Lachine Canal. For example, Lachine could send a barge of troops all the way Downtown in one move.
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