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MOBILE, Ala. – Fewer than three months after a gruesome knee injury that was initially feared to be career-threatening, former South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore said Tuesday he expects to be ready for the start of the 2013 NFL season.
"That's my goal, and it is realistic," Lattimore said.
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Lattimore, who is rehabbing at the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in nearby Gulf Breeze, Fla., spent the afternoon watching practice at the Senior Bowl and talking with NFL teams. After the practice, several players – including former Southeastern Conference combatants like Alabama safety Robert Lester – came by to embrace him and offer their support.
But that's nothing new for Lattimore, who saw just how much players and coaches around the country respected him after he tore multiple ligaments and dislocated his right knee on Oct. 27 in the second quarter of a victory over Tennessee. Sympathy poured out for Lattimore not just because the hit was captured on YouTube, but because it came just one year after he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
That combination of injuries left one of the most powerful and exciting backs in recent SEC history with an uncertain future just as it seemed it he was a sure thing to make millions in the NFL.
But Lattimore said he never spent time feeling sorry for himself and instead drew inspiration from running backs like Willis McGahee, who had a similar injury but recovered and had a productive pro career.
"I was past that two days after," he said. "I didn't ask why. I just went to work and I'm going to continue to go to work until I'm back at 100 percent and better than I was. I know it can be done and I will do it."
The good news, Lattimore said, is that he has recovering faster than expected following surgery in early November and is two weeks away from jogging on land. The bad news is he has no clue how the NFL draft process will play out for him without the ability to prove that he can make a full recovery.
"Could be first (round), could be undrafted," he said.
Either way, Lattimore, who ran for 2,677 yards and 38 touchdowns over parts of three seasons, decided to roll the dice on the draft instead of trying to come back for one more year at South Carolina and prove he could play. In the end, it simply wasn't worth risking one more injury.
"I feel like I've done all I can in college and felt like I was the best back in the draft without the injury," Lattimore said. "I wanted to get a head start on my career."
Any team that drafts Lattimore will, of course, be taking a chance on his health. But somebody of his ability might be worth the risk, and though it's too early to say whether his timetable is overly ambitious, he was walking around without a limp.
It's only within the last few weeks, Lattimore said, that returning in 2013 as opposed to 2014 seemed like a strong possibility.
"Dr. (James) Andrews came in to see me he said, 'You're doing remarkable, you're doing everything you can.' His words were, 'You're going to shock the world.'"


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Last week in this space my esteemed colleague Trent Campbell told a sad story about his personal alienation from one of the high art forms of 20th century suburban life: lawn mowing. He thought he fell in love with mowing while in college. Sitting in class he heard the grounds crew outside soaking up the sun and plugging away at the vast expanse of collegiate lawn with ne'er a care in the world while he slogged through a calculus lesson.
But what the love soured and Trent now despises the task.
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Over the past few years, our little homestead has started to look like a real old-fashioned farm, complete with all the standard barnyard animals. But if you're thinking things are all E-I-E-I-O around here, think again.
Nowhere in that classic children's farm song do I recall a verse in which Old McDonald had some rats.
Yes, rats.
It started about a month ago. Early one morning while opening up the turkey house, I spied a shadow slipping away from the feeder.
"Perhaps it's a little Beatrix Potter field mouse," I said. "I'll call him Cuddly Wumpkins."
There is much that could be said about the Lt. Governor's economic development plan and his recent press event announcing his economic plan, but for now I want to comment briefly about one of Mr. Dubie's statements. He said that Vermont's state income tax was higher than Maine, Massachusetts or Rhode Island.
This statement is terribly misleading and should be corrected.
When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, he pledged to end the war in Iraq responsibly, if elected. Tuesday night, the young president — who, in his first two years in office, has also faced an economic crisis not seen since the Great Depression and has had to work mightily to restore the nation's financial industry and auto industry, as well as making significant steps to reforming health care — declared America's military action in Iraq officially over.
And, as an opponent of the Iraq invasion from the start, he was gracious in his comments.
The last time I remember actually wanting to mow the lawn was 1983. It was the second semester of my freshman year in college and I was sitting near an open window in my Calculus II class. As the professor discussed derivatives and anti-derivatives I watched as the grounds crew fired up some lawn mowers. After a few minutes the smell of freshly cut grass wafted under my nose and I was overcome with the urge to leap from the window and take over the mowing job. I pictured myself whistling happily as I spent the rest of the day cutting a swath across acres of academic quad.
Peter Shumlin, Doug Racine and Deb Markowitz issued a joint statement last weekend saying that, while the recount takes place, "we all agree that Peter should campaign as the prospective nominee" and "we've also agreed to campaign together." Joint campaigning with Racine and Markowitz throughout the fall, not just during the recount period, could help Shumlin get elected governor.
Barbara Hofer is having more fun than the average college professor. With her new book featured on "The Early Show" and in USA Today, who can blame her?
Hofer, a psychology professor at Middlebury College, is co-author of "The iConnected Parent." The book explores the reasons behind the often creepy connection that many of today's college students have with their parents — and what mom and dad can do about it.
Vermont, like the rest of the country, has been forced to adjust to new fiscal realities as a result of the Great Recession. Throughout state government we have sought to rein in public spending to alleviate the strain on tax paying Vermonters who cannot afford an even greater burden. As we emerge from this economic downturn, it is critical that we maintain fiscal discipline and seek to reduce taxes so that we can maintain and create jobs in Vermont.
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DiS is onsite at both Reading and Leeds Festivals this weekend and through a haze of dust, here's DiS' editor with a quick rundown of Day One at Reading...
Ah, the first day of the end of summer and the sun seems to have made acquaintance with storm clouds. Weird weather and being English; it's all anyone seems to be talking about as people hide their wind-burn and sunburn in tents whilst the heavens open and close.
Your humble scribe arrives on site to hear Temper Trap play the last few notes of their set and watch the distant tent empty as I approach. There's then time to grab a cider and catch up with friends who inform me New Found Glory had awful sound and that The Virgins are, as predicted, one of the most heinous bands to walk the earth.
Then it's time for the band of the day: Deftones, fresh from a fantastic 9/10 show the night before at the Forum (review forthcoming). To be honest, the strong gusts of wind are doing more than just create dust clouds from 'the pit' and the sound keeps drifting in and out throughout the set. Meanwhile, the Sonic Youth and/or Radiohead of metal, thrash their way through 'Be Quiet and Drive' as if it wasn't a moment since their life-changing (for me, at least) set in '98. The set climaxes with 'Back To School' and every Mtv2-viewing arm flies in the air, amidst the flung beer and dust.
A quick walk around the site to see if there's anything new (The Radio 1/NME tent is positioned differently this year, now facing the mainstage to allow even more room inside) and then it's time for The Big Pink. Not massively convinced they've got the purple-thud of their TV-On-the-Bloody-Valentine thing perfected live but then I'm somewhat distracted by some cretin throwing beer all over me.
A quick towel off and then it's a few minutes of birthday girl Florence + The Machine doing her yelping thing before Placebo take the mainstage, looking strangely about ten year's younger than the last time we saw them... They play a mixture of new stuff and recent stuff, none of which amounts to much more than crimes against rhyme. The wind seems to be getting stronger and you can feel the anticipation that Brian's hair-piece might 'do a Justin Hawkins' but it doesn't and they eventually roll out the hits like it's 1996.
And then back to the Radio 1 tent to catch the band-of-the-year Friendly Fires pulse and shake their way through a set consisting of their glorious debut album which has the crowd clearly elated. Oddly, last year they played to a half-full new bands tent but their success is testament to great songs and perseverance, and I can't help but get goosebumps as the fuzz of 'Paris' begins.
Kaiser Chiefs then do their entertaining party-trick of obvious hit, album track, obvious hit, album track, album track, obvious hit, repeat to fade... Ricky is wearing an Au Revoir Simone t-shirt and has grown his hair just like Alex Turner (who set this trend and why wasn't I informed?).
Then it's Kings of Leon - who clearly are better than given credit for - but I can't help pondering "what would Kurt Cobain be thinking?" as their ready-meal version of grunge may be a crowd-pleasing commodity but it only seems to fire on one dead-eyed cylinder. Yes, yes, I really shoulda fought my way into the tent for Faith No More...


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A somewhat underrated resort, Serre Chevalier has a smorgasboard of goodies to offer its visitors. From a laid back style and friendly locals to excellent food and cheaper prices than those of its northernly neighbours, and, an abundance of quality and diverse terrain – all in all it's really quite something. If the journalists love it, you know you're onto a good thing and many are a fan of Serre Chavalier.
The ski area is not a single resort, rather, it is made up of a dozen villages including Briançon, Chantemerle, Monêtier les Bains and Villeneuve which are connected by a bus service. The area comprises 250km of well-linked pistes along the Serre Chevalier Valley between Briançon and Le Monêtier-les-Bains and forms part of the Grande Galaxie ski area. This vast region provides access to 530km of alpine skiing, with 264 individual pistes and is served by 151 ski lifts.
The resort's altitude ranges from 1200m to 2800m so you can enjoy great skiing in a high mountain atmosphere. The runs, cut in and above a large larch forest, are on the North side of the high long ridge. There are loads of bowls, valley descents and high off-peak faces. Serre Chevalier has phenomenal tree skiing too and is famed for its off-piste.
Snow cover is exceptionally good which is down to the resort's north facing position. Slopes are colder for longer and they tend to hold onto more of the white stuff. The majority of the skiing is on the top half of the mountain and the trees protect the lower slopes. Snow making machines protect the base of the valley pistes and the grooming is consistently well done.
Snowboarders love it here too and there is a dedicated freestyle zone, located in the ski area next to Villeneuve, which is divided according to level of expertise. There's also a boardercross zone in Chantemerle with banked turns and modules which are perfect for slalom addicts. If you're not quite ready to bomb down the mountain, there are many highly regarded ski schools which can help you reach your goals. We rate Ski Connections and ESI Monetier.
Serre Chavalier is an attractive resort, with narrow cobbled streets and pretty shops lining the village's main road. Most of the accommodation consists of small chalets, family run B&B's, or is self-catered.
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One of the best things about the resort is its suitability to all levels of skiing ability. And there's heaps of terrain - tight, open trees, couloirs visible from the lifts, limitless banks and gullies, natural hits everywhere and a huge natural funpark.
Much of the area is covered in openly spaced larch forest, that is, trees without needles in the winter. The effect is that you can see what's in front of you for hundreds of metres which translates into hitting the steeps without having to exercise too much caution. Yay speed! The forest also provides a solid training ground for those venturing off-piste for the first time and is accessible from the Bachas chair lift.
Beginners have easy trails next to all of the villages and separate beginner slopes up the mountain. These are generally crowd free which gives newbies ample space in which to practice. We like the green runs around the Frejus charlift. On the downside there are a number of drag lifts to contend with.
Intermediates have access to long cruising trails of up to 10km in length. At the Bachas chairlift above 1500 there are lots of pistes criss-crossing down through the larch forest . Recommended runs include the Cucumelle, Le Petit Alpe, Grand Gargouille and Bois des Coqs.
Once you've weaved through the trees you can head to La Grave in just 30 minutes, and Montgenevre isn't far from Briançon. The lift pass includes Montgenèvre on the Italian border, and if you purchase an add-on pass, it's possible to ski, if conditions are right, all the way over to Sestrière and Sauze d'Oulx in Italy.
Advanced skiers and riders, particularly those who love freesking, have masses of terrain to sample including the extensive backcountry and cross-country for which a number of guiding services are available. There are five cross-country routes in the valley of varying length and difficulty. Those who like marked runs will enjoy blasting down the Olympic Luc Alphand run – it's one of the fastest on the mountain. Expert skiers can also test their mettle on hairier challenges such as Jacksons or the Tête de Grand Pré and Montagnolle descents.
For fresh tracks make your way to the fields and trees off the Cibouit chair lift in Monêtier – take skier's right across the black run and use the shoulder above the Tabuc black run.
Every day the resort offers 90 minute tours of the ski area. Your guide or "peddlar" will take you from piste to piste, linking the Valley, while explaining the inner workings of a ski resort. Advance booking of at least 24 hours is required.
Good restaurants can be found throughout Briançon and the surrounding villages, providing visitors with a range of dining options to suit most budgets.
Briançon offers the greatest choice of restaurants, although a favourite is Chalet de Pra Long which serves regional dishes and the best blueberry pie.
In Le Bez, Le Bidule has excellent seafood and fish dishes, indulgent desserts and a rather good wine list.
Above Villeneuve is the superb family run Le Pi Maï. With a gorgeous sunny terrace, locally sourced ingredients and typical mountain fare, this is a good place for either a quick-ish pit-stop (it can get busy so be prepared to wait) or a longer more relaxing lunch. We recommend the cheese sandwiches which are oven baked.
Above Chantemerle, located on the on the Luc Alphand slope, Cafe Soleil offers homemade food laid out in a buffet style. The restaurant also offers table service from 12-2.30pm.
Serre Ratier is popular, has good food, and a large sun terrace. There is a pretty dining room inside.
Above Le Monêtier Peyra Juana serves traditional hearty fare in simple, friendly surroundings.
Since the accommodation in the region is quite dispersed, rampant après-ski is not on the cards but there are a number of decent spots.
The Blue Bird Cocktail Bar offers delicious concoctions, a cozy ambiance and jazz. For afternoon drinks, the bar does a hot chocolate cocktail creation, and have beautiful tasting plates with fresh local produce.
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USS GEORGE WASHINGTON -- USS George Washington (GW) held a three-hour "PT till you Stop" physical training (PT) competition in late July.
During the competition, more than 400 sailors from all departments were challenged in kick boxing, cardio, body sculpting and military-style workouts.
"The workout lasted about two-and-a-half hours, but it felt like four hours," said Air Traffic Controller 2nd Class Bethany Hamilton, a command fitness leader (CFL) aboard GW.
In order to eliminate participants, fitness instructors started with cardio-kickboxing and ended with difficult strength training, such as push ups.
"I have been a fitness leader for a year-and-a-half, and I was tired," said Hamilton.
The CFLs aboard GW are trained fitness instructors that have attended a course at the Navy Environmental Health Center where they learn techniques like strength yoga and aerobics.
CFLs are also trained in injury prevention, nutrition and specific techniques for their classes to target weight loss, body strengthening and body sculpting.
More than 85 CFLs are aboard, usually one from each department and one from each division.
During the competition, the CFLs kept watch over the participating sailors, making sure they were doing the exercises properly and safely.
"After the first cardio event of the competition, the CFLs noticed not one sailor dropped out," said Chief Air Traffic Controlman Pablo Rosado, Operations Department command fitness leader and OC division LCPO. "We knew we were in trouble."
After the two-and-a-half hour workout session, four participants were left.
The four winners were Master Chief Storekeeper Kristina Lasher of Supply Department, Chief Legalman Therine Walz of Legal Department, Torpedoman's Mate 1st Class Jackie Murphy and Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Robert Hock of Deck Department.
"This was a great morale booster for the sailors on board," Lasher said. "Getting first place shows you can do anything you put your mind to."
Lt. Jacqueline Pollock, GW's command fitness boss and the command fitness leaders led a challenging, fun and thorough, meticulous orchestration, a very safe event, said Capt. Garry R. White, GW's commanding officer, adding, "We will be doing this again."
The first place winner was awarded a $100 gift certificate to the Navy Exchange, and the second place winner was awarded a $50 gift certificate to the Navy Exchange.
"I had this vision of a ship-wide PT competition since the beginning of our last cruise," Rosado said. "I am so happy and thankful the event had such a good turnout."
Photo: Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington participate in "PT Til' You Can't." The event lasted for three hours and prizes were awarded to the winners. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Ian Schoeneberg


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Hubble Provide Complete View of Jupiter's Auroras
The Hubble telescope has captured a complete view of Jupiter's northern and southern auroras. Images taken in ultraviolet light show both auroras, the oval-shaped objects in the inset photos.
The "curtains" of auroral light extend several hundred miles above the edge of Jupiter. Images of Earth's auroral curtains, taken from the space shuttle, have a similar appearance. Jupiter's auroras are viewed against a backdrop of the entire planet. The auroras are brilliant curtains of light in Jupiter's upper atmosphere. Jovian auroral storms, like Earth's, develop when electrically charged particles trapped in the magnetic field surrounding the planet spiral inward at high energies toward the north and south magnetic poles. When these particles hit the upper atmosphere, they excite atoms and molecules there, causing them to glow (the same process acting in street lights).
John Clarke (University of Michigan), and NASA.;
Co-investigators: Joe Ajello, Kent Tobiska, and John Trauger (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Gilda Ballester (University of Michigan); Lotfi Ben Jaffel (IAP Paris); Jack Connerney (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center); Jean-Claude Gerard (University of Liege, Belgium); Randy Gladstone; and Hunter Waite (Southwest Research Institute) Wayne Pryor (University of Colorado) Daniel Rego (University College, London).


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With 10 teams playing a round-robin schedule and no championship game, the Big 12 is emphasizing its unique standing in the new playoff era.
The mantra "One True Champion" is part of the conference's new branding effort, complete with television ads and its own website.
"The only thing that you really have to do after adopting 'One True Champion' as your moniker is you have to go out and win some games," Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said. "We want to win national championships."
The Big 12 is the only one of the five power conferences in which every team plays each other. The Big 12 ends its regular season the first weekend of December when the SEC, ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 are playing championship games.
Texas was the Big 12's last national champion, during the 2005 season, and got back in the title game four years after that. Eight-time Big 12 champ Oklahoma won the 2000 national title.
Baylor is coming off its first Big 12 title, and like all the champions since Texas in 2009, the Bears didn't win all their league games.
So would a Big 12 champion with a blemished record get one of the coveted four spots in the first College Football Playoff semifinal games?
'With what you do going through this league, no, I don't see that as a problem at all," Baylor coach Art Briles said. "But who knows? I mean, that's why they formed the committee. We'll see how the committee thinks."
Here are 10 things to watch in the Big 12's fourth year as a 10-team league:
BEAR MARKET: Baylor moves into its new campus stadium with returning quarterback Bryce Petty, the Big 12's top offensive player, and receiver Antwan Goodley (13 touchdowns). The Bears set an NCAA record with 52.4 points a game last season.
BELL RINGER: Blake Bell was Oklahoma's starting quarterback for eight games last season, and ran for 24 TDs in short-yardage situations the previous two years. He is now a 6-foot-6, 260-pound senior starting tight end, his dad's NFL position. The quarterback is sophomore Trevor Knight (348 yards, four TDs passing in Sugar Bowl victory over Alabama).
STRONG MESSAGE: New Texas coach Charlie Strong has suspended three potential starters for at least the season opener, and maybe more games, while four other players have been dismissed for rules violations. The Longhorns are without a Big 12 title since 2009.
EARLY NEUTRAL TESTS: Oklahoma State plays its opener Aug. 30 against defending national champ Florida State and Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston in Arlington, Texas. West Virginia plays Alabama in Atlanta the same day. It's UCLA vs. Texas in Arlington for Week 3.
DECADE IN CHARGE: Mike Gundy goes into his 10th season as Oklahoma State's head coach, and 24th in Stillwater as a player or coach. "From a personal standpoint, I couldn't be any more proud of who we are and the direction that we're going," said Gundy, 77-38 as head coach, including the 2011 Big 12 title and a second-place finish last year.
K-STATE COMEBACK: Kansas State was the defending Big 12 champ last year when it opened with a loss to FCS champion North Dakota State, part of a 2-4 start. The Wildcats then won six of their last seven games, including a bowl over Michigan. Versatile standout receiver Tyler Lockett is among seven returning offensive starters.
THIRD-TIME CHARM?: TCU (Mountain West) and West Virginia (Big East) were coming off consecutive conference titles when they joined the Big 12 in 2012. Both are since 11-14 overall and 6-12 in Big 12 games. TCU coach Gary Patterson made a significant change hiring two new co-coordinators for a spread offense. Mountaineers coach Dana Holgorsen said his players now "understand what the Big 12 is all about."
BOWL BOOST: Texas Tech was 7-0 under new coach and former QB Kliff Kingsbury before losing five in a row to the Big 12's top five teams. "Our team learned how to handle adversity," Kingsbury said. The Red Raiders then beat Arizona State in the Holiday Bowl.
WEIS WOES: Kansas has won only three Big 12 games the past five seasons, and is 4-20 overall (1-17 Big 12) under coach Charlie Weis. "We haven't done a thing in the two years I've been here," said Weis. Without revealing details, he added that his team's expectations are clearly defined.
BISON VS. BIG 12: North Dakota State won its third FCS title in a row last season and opens this year at Iowa State, which lost its 2013 opener against FCS team Northern Iowa. "All of us have such great respect for all levels of football," Cyclones coach Paul Rhoads said.
Predicted order of finish:
1. Baylor; 2. Oklahoma; 3. Kansas St.; 4. Oklahoma St.; 5. Texas; 6. TCU; 7. Texas Tech; 8. West Virginia; 9. Iowa State; 10. Kansas.
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Triathlons are multi-leg, multi-vehicle races introduced to Luis after the mission This Ain't Checkers in The Ballad of Gay Tony.
Triathlons are marked on the map by a checkered flag. The player cannot be in any vehicle when entering the event. The player will be immediately airlifted into the sky and given a Parachute, and subsequently fall to the ground. Boats will be waiting in the sea or river below, and the racers will attempt to land in them. The boats are raced to a beach on the island, where there are supercars loaded with tanks of nitrous oxide waiting. The cars are then raced to the finish line.
Unlike Beat the Cock! in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, completing the triatholons is required for completion.
- Outstanding wanted levels will be erased at the start of the race.
- Each race has three opponents. They all jump out of your airlift before you.
- Players can use any of the vehicles prepared for them, but once one is selected, you cannot switch it for another prepared vehicle or traffic vehicle.
- Players have 10 seconds to return to their vehicle, should they leave it before the finish line or the vehicle switch point.
- Players may sabotage other vehicles (popping tires, denting in wheels, so on), but are impossible to explode.
- Players will be disqualified if they kill the other racers.
- In the beginning, freefall past the other contestants, then pull your parachute. This will give you an early lead.
- It best to build up a very big lead on both freefall and the boat race because the vehicles have a high chance of fishtailing, specially at the start due to them being parked on dirt and gravel, with Luis having to drive uphill and sometimes overland before hitting pavement. Vehicles also have a tendency to flip, especially if they hit obstacles with nitrous activated.
- Once a competitor lands in a boat, he cannot be removed from it, even if he lands in the same boat Luis is trying to board.
- First prize grants the player $1,000. The game will also be saved and the player will be shown their time to completion. Triathlons can be repeated endlessly.
- In addition, as with This Ain't Checkers, Luis gets to keep whatever supercar he chooses to drive, although the nitrous function is disabled after the race and the vehicle cannot be used to enter another triathlon.


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Farmland value shift signals need for cautious purchasing
February 13, 2014
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue Extension agricultural economists who follow farmland values agree that farmers need to carefully assess land prices and farm financial health before investing.
According to the Purdue Farmland Value Survey, Indiana farmland values have nearly tripled in the last 10 years - from an average of $2,509 per acre in 2003 to $7,446 in 2013. But abundant corn and soybean crops in 2013 have caused commodity prices to fall, making farm profit margins much tighter. Less profit means less money available to invest in farmland.
While this hasn't yet reduced the demand for farmland, Craig Dobbins said it could.
"The next couple of years for farmland values are going to be a little less certain than the last few years have been," he said. "Commodity prices have come down significantly in the last year, so these large returns we've kind of become accustomed to for the last few years have now shrunk.
"The probability of farmland values staying flat or seeing a small decrease is much bigger than the probability that we're going to see another double-digit increase."
That uncertainty prompted three of Dobbins' colleagues with Purdue's Center for Commercial Agriculture to publish a paper that takes a closer look at what the current farmland market could mean for buyers.
The paper, Farmland: Is it Currently Priced as an Attractive Investment?, is authored by agricultural economists Tim Baker, Mike Boehlje and Michael Langemeier. In it they analyze farmland value trends and compare the attractiveness of investing in farmland with that of other investment portfolio choices, in terms of long-run risk, return and inflation hedge characteristics.
While the results showed that farmland can be a good investment when compared with stocks, they also showed that now might not be the right time to make a purchase.
"Even though our data confirms the conventional wisdom that farmland has high returns, low risk and is a good inflation hedge, the current price to rent ratio suggests this is not a good time to buy," the paper states. "Those purchasing farmland today should not ignore the prospect of buyer's remorse."
For farmers who are still considering a farmland purchase, Dobbins said it's important to do an overall farm analysis to see how the added expense would fit.
"If the purchase fits in well with the plan for the farm business and there are sufficient cash reserves to withstand a downturn for the next two to three years, then go ahead," he said. "But if it in any way threatens the farm business then I would want to be very, very cautious about making this purchase."
While farmland values likely will hold steady for much of 2014, Dobbins said cash rents likely would come down sooner. With current crop input costs, the breakeven price for corn would be $5 per bushel. Right now corn prices look to stay closer to $4 per bushel.
The shrinking or even disappearing profit margins mean growers won't be able to afford the high cash rental rates of recent years.
"Tightening crop margins may have a more immediate impact in the cash rent market," Dobbins said. "For those using flexible cash leases or crop-share leases, an automatic downward adjustment in 2014 will likely occur. For those with a multi-year lease established under the assumption that corn and soybean prices would remain high, there may be a need to visit with the landowner."
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M. is a 54 year old woman who initially came to see us about a year and a half ago. Her pain started in 2003. She had been under a lot of stress after sustaining a work injury in 1999 but otherwise couldn't attribute the change in her health to anything specific.
In December 2007 when she arrived into HealthNOW she was walking with a cane, barely. She had pain throughout her body to the degree that she couldn't even lift a remote.
She had lost sensitivity in her hands and was so light sensitive that she "lived like a bat". She remained in a dark room much of the day. Sound was also very disturbing to her.
For 4 years she had followed all of the doctors' advice and was on a myriad of pain pills. Unfortunately she started to react to many of the drugs with side effects that made her question why she was taking them, especially since her pain was little improved.
Despite her misery, all her tests for the most part came back negative. She had a cyst on one ovary and some gall stones, but no one considered that either of those conditions explained her symptoms in total.
Mentally things were extremely challenging. She literally couldn't remember anything and had post-it notes around her home to help remind her of things. She had always been an avid reader but couldn't read at all. Concentration too had become impossible. She claimed that she grew up reciting the Lord's prayer but could no longer remember it.
Her doctors thought she was mentally unstable and recommended antidepressants. She refused these as she had never tended towards depression. Similarly they called her light sensitivity migraines, even though she had never had trouble with headaches.
M. took matters into her own hands and joined a water aerobics class to try to get some exercise despite the constant pain. There she met one of our patients and it was upon that recommendation that she began care at the clinic.
M's progress was slowed by her inability to get to the clinic and her memory challenges. We wrote down what we wanted her to do, but she still often forgot.
Despite these obstacles, within a month she felt strong enough to start walking. She was forcing herself, but she was doing it nonetheless.
When her gluten sensitivity test came back positive she brought the results to her doctor. Her doctor "rolled her eyes in her head" and told her it was ridiculous and had nothing to do with how she was feeling.
By March she was much improved. She started cooking again (always a great passion of hers) and her brain function was returning. She was stronger, in less pain and she could once again concentrate.
She made a decision to walk a half marathon and achieved that goal within her desired time of under 4 hours. That was accomplished in October, a mere 9 months after becoming gluten-free.
Since then M has continued to improve and has climbed a mountain of a 2500 foot elevation twice!
This past winter she went skiing for the first time in 25 years. Her instructor told her that she was too good for the beginner class and moved her up to an intermediate class.
M has her life back and has become such a good gluten-free cook that she is planning to write a cookbook.
Did she have a mental illness? Were her problems psychosomatic? No. She was simply one of millions suffering from gluten sensitivity and in her case specifically, was suffering from gluten-induced fibromyalgia and gluten-inducted nervous system inflammation.
And by the way, as we so often find, she wasn't particularly suffering from any digestive complaints.
Please pass the data along to your friends and loved ones. At this point a grass roots movement is all we have available. There is no drug to "cure" gluten sensitivity so the pharmaceutical industry is not interested in increasing awareness. It involves a strict dietary change so not many traditional doctors like to implement such things with their patients – not unless they can demonstrate a positive intestinal biopsy associated with celiac disease.
So help me "shout it from the rooftops" and we can continue to help more people like M!
Visit us at www.RootCauseMedicalClinic.com. If you have questions or need any help, I'm here for you! Call 408-733-0400.
I look forward to hearing from you.
To your good health,
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Division Lead In Sight, But Not So Fast
Winnipeg Jets fans are in the midst of something that has happened to the majority of Canadian NHL teams in the past 20 years - they're in the middle of a playoff run that has as much possibility of the team making the playoffs as it does them not making the post season.
Having covered and watched the Montreal Canadiens before the return of the Jets, I know very well how playoff runs that come down to the wire can go - sometimes great as when the Canadiens finished sixth last season and sometimes not so great as when the Canadiens were bounced out of the playoffs with a loss to rival Toronto in their last game of the season in 2006-07.
As any hockey fan of any team that lives on the periphery of the playoff picture year in and year out - excluding Detroit for the last 20 years, Vancouver the last 10 years, and Pittsburgh the last five years - it is nerve wracking to even watch a single game because so much hangs in the balance.
For the Jets this season, there have been the customary ups and downs of a young, yet talented NHL team.
Not since the Quebec Nordiques shuffle to Denver have NHL fans been able to see just how difficult it is to relocate and produce winning ways.
Though, the newly relocated Avalanche were stacked with some of the league's best talents - Peter Forsberg, Joe Sakic, Patrick Roy, Adam Foote - who went on to win the Stanley Cup in their first year of relocation, the Jets are not as favoured to win it as that talented group in Denver.
Making the playoffs in their first season in Manitoba would be more than enough for Jets fans. Already the ticket drive for the playoffs has opened up to season ticket holders and if the season ticket drive was any indication, there will be no hesitation from fans to fill the MTS Centre with 15,004 for a guaranteed two playoff games if the Jets were to get to the second season.
But hold on a second.
It's nice to talk all cheery and positive about how nice it would be if they did make the playoffs. Let's look at the facts.
As of February 21st, the Jets sit tied in the final playoff spot with Toronto. They sit one point in front of third place in the Southeast Division Washington Capitals and one point behind the Division leading Florida Panthers.
Both teams have two games in hand on the Jets.
Both teams will making a trip to MTS Centre before the end of the regular season (Florida - March 1st, Washington - March 16th).
Both teams will also host the Jets once each before the season is out (Washington - March 23rd, Florida - April 3rd).
For the tangibles, Blake Wheeler is on fire with nine points in his last three games, including a four assist effort against Colorado and a three point performance against his former squad the Boston Bruins.
Wheeler is finally living up to his fifth overall draft pick status in Winnipeg and has elevated everyone else's game around him.
Bryan Little has two consecutive two goal games and is inching closer to the 20 goal mark for the first time since he had 31 in 2008-09.
Evander Kane has 22 on the season, three more than his career high.
Ondrej Pavelec has surpassed his career high in wins with 22 this season already (previous career high was 21 last season).
Alexander Burmistrov has 12 goals, twice as many as his rookie season.
And believe it or not, Ron Hainsey is even doing well - with a team high +10 rating.
It's the right time for the Jets to have a home stand and for their top players to start getting hot.
The playoff push is always an indication of what a team is made of - are Jets playoff material?
I think they are even if they don't make the playoffs.
This year proves how far this team has come since tanking it last season in Atlanta.
And once this season is over, no one will remember Atlanta but for a distant memory.
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text: UK 12 September 2012 Why the "bigot" row has done Clegg no good The right are outraged, the left think he's a flip-flopper. Sign UpGet the New Statesman's Morning Call email. Sign-up When Gordon Brown described voter Gillian Duffy as a "bigoted woman", Nick Clegg declared that he would have to "answer" for his comments. Now the Deputy Prime Minister is having to do the same. A press release issued in advance of a speech given by Clegg on gay marriage suggested that he would describe opponents of the policy as "bigots". It read: Continued trouble in the economy gives the bigots a stick to beat us with, as they demand we "postpone" the equalities agenda in order to deal with "the things people really care about". As if pursuing greater equality and fixing the economy simply cannot happen at once. But after Clegg's remarks prompted predictable outrage among some on the right, his office issued a "recall" email to journalists, followed by a corrected email. The latter replaced the words "gives the bigots a stick to beat us with, as they demand" with "leads some people to demand". A spokesman for Clegg added that "This was not something the deputy prime minister has said. It's not something he was ever going to say because it's not something he believes. It was removed from the draft copy, that should never have been sent out, for that very reason." The damage, however, was done. Today, both the Mail and the Telegraph splash on the story, in an assault on the Lib Dem leader reminiscent of that before the last election. So it's worth asking whether the row will help or hinder Clegg. For many on the left, "bigot" is the appropriate term for those who believe that same-sex couples should be denied the right to marry. A reminder that the Deputy Prime Minister feels the same way should, however briefly, improve his standing among liberals. Yet the fact that the Cabinet Office withdrew the email means that Clegg is enjoying few plaudits this morning. Instead, the affair is seen as further confirmation of his flip-flop approach to politics (cf. tuition fees, the NHS reforms). Once again, the Deputy PM has performed the dubious feat of uniting the left and the right in loathing for him. › Morning Call: pick of the papers Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg denied that he planned to refer to opponents of gay marriage as "bigots". Photograph: Getty Images. George Eaton is assistant editor of the New Statesman. Subscribe from just $2 per issue


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Bil Keane's warm, humorous portraits of the intimate moments in family life, based on his own real-life family circus, have charmed readers around the world since 1960. Today, The Family Circus is the most widely syndicated comic panel in the world, appearing in nearly 1,500 newspapers. The daily panels are routinely drawn within a circle, meant to underscore the sense of closeness between the characters. More than 70 collections of the cartoons have been published, and the panel's characters have inspired three TV specials and appeared in a wide variety of educational and public-service projects.
While Keane's cartoon kids have stayed the same age for decades, his real-life kids have grown up, and two followed in their father's creative footsteps. Glen is now a prominent animator for The Walt Disney Company, and Jeff worked with his dad for years in creating the comic panel until Bil's death in November of 2011. And today, Bil's family circus of nine grandchildren and one great grandchild provide a whole new generation of ideas.
Mommy is the glue that holds this brood together. She is a loving wife and mother who derives great comfort and pleasure from her family. Although she doesn't live a "glamorous" life, and may never drive anything better than the family station wagon, she has something that is beyond any price: a home filled with love and laughter, making it the happiest place in the world.
When he's not at work as a cartoonist with the local newspaper, Daddy is usually at home with the family. He likes nothing better than spending time with them; sharing memorable moments with Thel, and watching their children grow. Sometimes, Daddy lets oldest son Billy "take over" the comic panel. This usually leads to outlandish results, as the inexperienced Billy skewers the meanings of commonplace phrases and euphemisms.
Billy takes the responsibility of being the oldest very seriously, and is more than happy to "teach" his siblings. Sometimes, Daddy lets Billy "take over" his comic panel. This usually leads to outlandish results, as the inexperienced Billy skewers the meanings of commonplace phrases and euphemisms.
No family is complete without at least one pet scampering around and getting under-foot. So, with Barfy (named by the kids, of course), Sam (a rescued stray), and Kittycat, the whole family has plenty to keep an eye out for.
Dolly will have none of Billy's domineering ways, and she can be more than a match for him in the bossy department. Dolly has all the best instincts of a big sister to Jeffy and PJ and often explains how things work to her kid brothers.
As the third child, Jeffy looks up to Billy and Dolly and relishes his role as PJ's big brother.
PJ, the baby, keeps a close eye on all three of them, usually amused by their antics.
When the kids can't get what they want from Mommy and Daddy, the first person they run to is Grandma, a widow who happily obliges and is always willing to impart a little well-learned wisdom.
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8 steps to negotiating a deal
The problem with seeing negotiation as a game of chicken is that sometimes you get what you want, but most of the time everyone just gets plucked. That is what I tell my mediation clients, when they take more and more extreme positions, and insist everyone else needs to back down.
That is what I tell my negotiation students when they give blustering ultimatums and ignore what the other side wants. And that is what I wish someone would tell the parties in Washington battling over the budget and a looming default. So, what do you do when you realize you're in a negotiation where everyone will be worse off if no one finds a path out?
Consider the following:
1) The immediate problem is not how you got here, it is how you are going to get out.
There will be plenty of time later to learn and teach lessons. Right now you need to find a path to a better outcome. Accusations, dissections of past mistakes and allocations of blame will only make it harder to get there.
2) There is no "they" on the other side.
Parties in negotiation tend to say, "They are unreasonable," "They are negotiating in bad faith," or "They are crazy!" Of course, in the current congressional struggle, pundits and politicians are saying far worse (such as "They are anarchists" and "They are fascists."). But thinking of the other party as "they" empowers the most extreme people on the other side. Instead you need to figure out who is most sympathetic to your position and who is least. And you need to negotiate in a way that empowers those most sympathetic and marginalizes the rest. When a party's position is extreme, responding in an extreme way only unifies the other side's moderates with their extremists.
3) Don't just throw the steering wheel out the window.
I recently heard a "negotiation expert" on the radio. He said that when you are in a game of negotiation chicken, you should throw your steering wheel out the window and then tell the other side that you can't turn. But what happens when both sides follow his advice? There is a reason you don't see many real games of chicken. And there is a reason that no one actually throws the steering wheel out the window if he or she does play chicken. Those people don't live very long.
4) Keep your eye on your goal and don't get lost in the negotiation game.
Strategizing, positioning and winning the negotiation game is exhilarating. But don't get so caught up in the maneuvering that you lose sight of your goals. When Congress agreed that it would give back pay to furloughed employees but not return them to work, everyone lost sight of the goal. Is there someone in the political spectrum who thinks we need to spend just as much money but get nothing for it?
5) Negotiation is not about always meeting in the middle
If negotiations always met in the middle, that would just encourage everyone to take extreme initial positions. Meeting in the middle only makes sense if you are meeting between two reasonable positions. So, an effective negotiator searches for the possible area of overlap between the parties and then tries to maximize the value the negotiator takes away. An ineffective negotiator looks only at what he or she wants and then views negotiation as inflating the negotiator's demands in order to meet back in the middle.
6) Fear can be good. Anger is bad.
Too many negotiators focus entirely on trying to scare the other party into making a deal. Not enough negotiators realize they also need to give the other party hope that a deal is possible, and that the deal would be better than walking away. And far too many negotiators push the other side beyond fear to anger. Making others in a negotiation angry just makes it harder to get the deal you want. Why would you ever want to anger the person who has to say "yes" for you to have a deal?
7) Insulting the other parties is just throwing away your negotiating capital.
If members of the other side feel insulted, they will get angry, and it will be harder to get them to say "yes" to anything. And the biggest problem is that it won't matter if you intended to insult them. So, when your worldview is very different from another party's view, be careful that what seems obvious to you is not perceived as insulting by the other party.
8) Playing chicken is for people who love risk, don't value relationships and don't mind losing deals.
If you find yourself playing negotiation chicken, make sure you have something to do if you crash. And figure out if the other side is actually prepared to crash. Chicken is for people who like the thrill of winning. Chicken is for people who value getting a marginal advantage in some deals, at the cost of losing other deals entirely. And chicken is for gamblers. Are you one of those kind of people? And, if you are a lawyer, negotiator or member of Congress, are the people you represent those kind of people? Because if they are not, they are likely to be very angry if you crash. And I have already mentioned that anger is bad for negotiators.
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NCI scientists have found that a gene, Schlafen-11 (SLFN11), sensitizes cells to substances known to cause irreparable damage to DNA. As part of their study, the researchers used a repository of 60 cell types to identify predictors of cancer cell response to classes of DNA damaging agents, widely used as chemotherapy treatments for many cancers. They found that high SLFN11 expression independently predicted overall survival for a group of ovarian cancer patients who were treated with DNA damaging agents in a NCI clinical trial. Similar results were found for chemotherapy response to colorectal tumors. These findings, led by Yves Pommier, M.D., Ph.D., NCI Center for Cancer Research, appeared in PNAS August 27, 2012.
Specifically, to identify potential genes that could predict the toxicity of DNA damaging agents, the scientists correlated the expression of more than 17,000 genes from the NCI-60 (a 60 cell line panel used to screen for, and characterize, novel anticancer drugs), with the activity of four different topoisomerase I (Top1) inhibitors. As a result, they identified SLFN11 as the single gene to show a highly significant positive correlation in all of the tested Top1 inhibitors. After finding this key gene for Top1 inhibitors, the scientists expanded their analysis to 1,444 other compounds commonly tested in the NCI-60, many with known mechanisms of action and routinely used in clinical practice. The scientists consistently observed significant positive correlations of SLFN11 expression, not only with Top1 inhibitors, but with other classes of DNA damaging agents including cisplatin, doxorubicin and etoposide. As a secondary check on their clinical findings, the researchers conducted laboratory tests on cancer cells from various tumor tissue types where it was known that SLFN11 expression was silenced, and cell death or cell cycle arrest occurred in response to numerous DNA damaging agents. The results of these studies further supported SLFN11 as a gene warranting continued investigational interest.


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You very often hear that "you can't be a Catholic and [fill in the blank]". The [blank] is then filled in with whatever the person finds reprehensible, and what they consider to be grounds for ejecting somebody from the Church. The most common ones I hear are "you can't be Catholic and be pro-choice", or "you can't be Catholic and support 'gay marriage'".
That can be a very tempting sentiment to express. Catholics must always adhere to the teaching of the Church — God forbid that I ever say or do anything against that teaching. There's also something very distressing about people who proclaim themselves to be "good Catholics" or "devout Catholics", yet take public positions or perform public acts that are inimical to that teaching. It misleads people, and it places souls at risk.
Now, I am no canon lawyer (I am a lawyer and some people want to shoot me out of a cannon, but that doesn't count). But as I understand it, the general principle in Canon Law is that once you're baptized a Catholic you're always a Catholic, unless you formally defect — make a formal statement to your pastor that you are leaving the Church. That's very rarely done. It's actually very difficult to stop being a Catholic. Merely committing a sin is not enough.
That makes perfect sense. The Catholic Church isn't a country club, where you lose your membership if you violate the rules or fail to pay your dues. It's the Body of Christ, and we are incorporated into that Body by virtue of our Baptism — we are indelibly changed by the grace of that sacrament. It has become a question of who I am, and not just what I believe or do.
The key question then is not whether one ceases to be a Catholic, but to what extent a person is in communion with the Catholic Church, and thus with Christ Himself.
Full communion with the Church can be impaired by many things, such as heresy (rejection of a truth divinely revealed), schism (no longer attending Mass, but instead joining a religious group that is not in communion with the Holy See), etc. Failing to live a life in keeping with the teaching of the Church will also impair one's communion (e.g., openly cohabiting with a non-spouse). Individual acts can also breach communion (like any mortal sin). In most of these cases, full communion is restored by sacramental Confession.
The USCCB described this once as "If a Catholic in his or her personal or professional life were knowingly and obstinately to reject the defined doctrines of the Church, or knowingly and obstinately to repudiate her definitive teaching on moral issues…he or she would seriously diminish his or her communion with the Church."
Penalties like excommunication are imposed by the Canon Law in some particularly serious cases (e.g., heresy, schism, abortion, etc.). But they do not eject someone from the Catholic Church. Instead, they are public declarations that a person has breached communion with the Church in a significant way (e.g., those who participate in the purported "ordination" of women as priests). In these cases, full communion has to be restored, often by some other public act. The goal of these penalties is not to kick people out, but to call them to return.
So, for example, the poor deluded people who participate in mock "ordinations" of women have breached communion with the Church by their actions. Under Canon Law they have incurred an automatic excommunication. In no way are they Catholic priests. But they are still Catholics. Likewise with those who ordain bishops without the consent of the Holy See, or politicians who support intrinsically evil laws (such as those recognizing abortion rights, or re-defining marriage). They haven't stopped being Catholic, but they have gravely wounded their communion with Christ and His Church.
Why does this technical distinction matter so much? Because it's much easier to dismiss people as being beyond the pale, than to grieve for their sin and to work to reconcile with them and repair the damage. Anyone who has trouble in their family knows how tempting it is to wish that the difficult person were gone from the house, and how much harder it is for them to stay and work things out.
Reconciliation and healing are hard. Just ask the father of the Prodigal Son. Just ask Jesus.
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Maybe a little too much "inside baseball" for some, but I found it very enlightening for those of us that depend on the "popular media" to interrupt news releases from various sources.
I never realized there was a "rhythm" to the timing of various subjects.
Monday is from those guys, Tuesday is from these guys, etc.
Or, getting to the reason for this editorial, that reporters could be restricted from consulting other "outside experts" on the subject before writing their story.
By the editor of Scientific American, no less.
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|2010-02-08, 14:58
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singing heartbreak
The animation looks to be pretty good, and I liked the manga, since it kinda reminded me of Shina Dark in some ways(though the manga vers of the stuCo girl arc was horrific from what was translated). Hopefully, this will turn out to be a pretty faithful novel adaptation, since ppl say its better than the manga.
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|2010-02-09, 02:41
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Don't know anything about this, but the commercial goal would appear to be along the lines of Ikkitousen.
We have the investors GENCO (Ikkitousen, Queen's Blade, Zero no Tsukaima), AT-X, and Media Factory. Director Takashi Watanabe (Season 1). Screenwriters Takao Yoshioka (Seasons 1 and 2) and Masanao Akahoshi (Season 3). It's a reunion of the staff and producers who spearheaded Ikkitousen.
Seven companies, including GoodSmile and HobbyJapan, are on the production committee, so they must be expecting some nice merchandising.
|2010-03-10, 12:59
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I like the cast a lot. Just to show my own journey through fandom, I associate Kondou Takashi with Ralph Wierec in Soukou no Strain, as well as with Sugisaki. I liked him in both, and think he has a strong voice and good range.
Yuuki Aoi (two u's just show that her surname has a long u; a long mark over the u would do, too) is becoming one of my favorites. She is only just about to turn 18 and has a tremendous amount of skill she is just beginning to develop (Vampire Bund, Yumeiro Patissiere, Kiruminzoo, Kure-nai, Yutori-chan).
Toyosaki Aki is good -- the moe voice of the moment, and winner of a "new seiyuu" award this year -- and Hikasa Youko is parlaying Mio into a nice career. She has something going for her, too.
And since Denpateki na Kanojou, I have realized that Hirohashi Ryou is one of the very best seiyuu around.
The director directed Shakugan no Shana, and I see similarities in the look. That was not a favorite show of mine, so this probably won't be either, but the quality will be there. The writer who's adapting the novel did Elfen Lied, Sky Girls, and...Queen's Blade....
|2010-03-17, 15:31
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Join Date: Jul 2004
For better and worse, I see a lot of dissolving clothing in the preview. Here's a cast photo from the official site:
(front, l-r) Hikasa Youko (Mio in K-On), Toyosaki Aki (Yui in K-On), Kondou Takashi, Yuuki Aoi (Mina Tepes in Vampire Bund); (rear) Takahashi Chiaki, Itou Shizuka, Yonaga Tsubasa, Hirohashi Ryou.
Takahashi Chiaki and Itou Shizuka seem to be vamping it up a bit in the back row there. The three women in the front row will host the radio show, which starts soon.
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If you want a sneak peek at the OP (and Sphere's newest single), now's your chance!
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|2010-03-20, 04:39
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And Mio's seiyuu from K-ON!? That's awesome!
I also like Shizuka Itou. I love Honjitsu Mankai. I love Hinagiku!
|2010-03-30, 16:03
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The Anime Network Online website will be simulcasting Iciban Ushiro no Dai Maou starting Friday, April 2. The series will be available for free to registered site members. Site registration is also free. There will be regional restrictions. [Source]
|2010-04-02, 17:05
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Location: Mt. Ordeals
Bah, I've been suckered into watching this show by a friend who said there's a childhood friend LI for the main guy. But just from the first episode, none of the girls have tripped my osananajimi radar yet, so yeah, I've been april fooled...
That said, I feel bad for the main guy. Here he is trying his best to be good, but he's treated evil just because he has been predicted to be the demon lord. Makes me keep rooting for him for some reason; maybe because he ain't the wuss most harem leads usually are?
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Location: Manila, Philippines
And, this gets added to my "gotta watch it now" list. I really like what I've seen so far in Episode 1, and not to mention even though manga translations haven't gone very far yet, it looks to be that the anime will have at least 2 or stretch 1 story into there. (3 girls meet each other in a span of less than 5 minutes!) So hopefully this will be a thread where the anime won't be brutally compared to the manga, I've gotten kind of sick of that lately.
Thinking about it... Normally the tsundere lead female (not saying she is) is bink and smacking the lead male into oblivion, but wow, Sai knocks out Junko-chan twice. Score one for a change in direction Easily my favorite moments of this episode.
And lol, I was hunting for this thread in the "Current" section, this definitely needs to be moved there to get more exposure.
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At least when there was a housing bubble, there were actual houses involved. The next bubble could ostensibly be a carbon dioxide bubble; the newly-created, artificial market for a clear, odorless gas is growing at rapid rates. According to a new article from Mark Shapiro in Harper's:
Carbon trading is now the fastest-growing commodities market on earth. Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas polluters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there have been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions.
Major financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Citibank now host carbon trading desks in London; traders who once speculated on oil and gas are betting on the most insidious side effects of our fossil fuel–based economy. Over the next decade, if President Obama and other advocates can institute a cap-and-trade system in the United States, the demand for carbon credits could explode into a $2 to $3 trillion market, according to the market-analysis firm Point Carbon."
The Kyoto Protocol allows companies to purchase offsets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Offsets allow carbon-emitting businesses to pay others to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Multinational firms hire carbon developers and carbon assessors to seek out carbon reduction projects all over the world. Businesses that have nothing to do with energy issues are diversifying. Shapiro, for instance, highlights one firm that primarily focused on product inspection, but once the opportunity arose to profit from carbon transactions the business took full advantage. These companies go around and evaluate the number of tons of carbon dioxide the project would eliminate from the atmosphere. One composting project in Brazil would reduce the equivalent of 67,000 tons of CO2 by turning food waste from grocery stores into organic fertilizer. The project is then subject to United Nations approval. If approved, at a carbon trading price of $22 a ton, the project would collect nearly $1.5 million.
Projects like this exist all over the world and are highly susceptible to fraud. A company could build a coal plant and say they've created offsets because they were going to build a dirtier one or claim that they were going to cut trees down when in fact they weren't in the first place. Bryan Leyland, chairman of the economic panel of the New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, said, "I first heard about carbon trading at a conference more than 10 years ago. I got up and said 'If I was the financial adviser to the Mafia, I would advise them to get into carbon trading.' Nothing that has happened since then changes my opinion – rather the reverse."
The failures to pass cap and trade legislation in the United States and to reach CO2 reduction concessions at the climate accord in Copenhagen may pop this bubble sooner than expected. According to the UK's Guardian, "Banks and investors are pulling out of the carbon market after the failure to make progress at Copenhagen on reaching new emissions targets after 2012. Carbon financiers have already begun leaving banks in London because of the lack of activity and the drop-off in investment demand. The Guardian has been told that backers have this month pulled out of a large planned clean-energy project in the developing world because of the expected fall in emissions credits after 2012."
Given the recent scientific setbacks, the long-existing scientific dissent, and the insignificant effects these carbon reduction schemes would have on the earth's temperature, it's better to shut this plan of trading carbon emissions down before it evolves into multi-trillion dollar market that will likely have the bottom drop out of it just like the real estate market.


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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Wednesday called on the Ukrainian authorities to pull back security forces surrounding protesters in Kiev, telling Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich the world was closely watching his actions.
"I am deeply concerned by the scenes we are witnessing in Ukraine," Cameron said in a statement released by his office. "The violence on all sides is completely unacceptable and President Yanukovich has a particular responsibility to pull back government forces and de-escalate the situation.
"President Yanukovich should be under no doubt that the world is watching his actions and that those responsible for violence will be held accountable."
British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who is attending an emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers on Ukraine on Thursday, had earlier said that the Ukrainian government should be held accountable for violence security forces had used during protests which killed at least 26 people.
Cameron called on Yanukovich to hold more talks with the opposition to try to hammer out political reforms that reflected what he called the "democratic aspirations of the Ukrainian people".
"There must be a clear commitment to the rule of law, respect for fundamental human rights and civil freedoms," said Cameron. "This is a critical moment for the future of Ukraine".
Reporting by William James; Editing by Andrew Osborn