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History and form make them the odds-on favourites but Mumbai are not taking things for granted ahead of tomorrow's Ranji Trophy summit showdown with Saurashtra, who have upset many an apple cart en route to the final here.
The sheer weight of having senior cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, captain Ajit Agarkar and Wasim Jaffer along with top performers like Abhishek Nayar and wicketkeeper Aditya Tare in their ranks tilts the scale heavily in favor of the 39-time champions.
West Zone rivals Saurashtra, who have advanced to the summit clash for the first time, are the underdogs in the five-day clash on a wicket that is believed to be loaded heavily in favour of the pace bowlers, at least initially.
However the hosts, who have lost just four finals out of the 43 they have figured in, in the long history of the national championship, are not taking things for granted.
"I am very happy with the way it has gone for us, from struggling a bit to qualifying and being in the final. Saurashtra, obviously, is a tough opposition who we cannot underestimate," said Agarkar at the pre-match media conference on Friday.
"It's a one-off game and we need to be at our best. Looking forward to the game," said the wiry former India pacer who had notched up an important century against Services in the semi-final at the Palam ground in New Delhi.
Saurashtra skipper, Jaydev Shah, said that it was very important for his team to get off to a flying start.
"It's a very big game for us. Mumbai is an experienced side. We would like to get a good start and put in best effort in the first innings."
Shah, who had scored 87 in the semi-final at home against Punjab, said the key against Mumbai would be to score heavily and put them under pressure.
"Against Bombay you always need to score big runs and then put pressure at the start and if they don't get a good start, they sometimes collapse. If you take a few crucial wickets in between and hold them out it will be good," he said.
It's though, easier said than done, as Saurashtra realised in their last meeting in Rajkot in the league stage in December, when Mumbai rattled up over 600 and bowled them out for 300 to take the vital first-innings lead.
Both the teams would miss key members for the all-important clash with Saurashtra appearing the more handicapped in the absence of players like Cheteshwar Pujara and Ravindra Jadeja, both playing in the ODI rubber against England.
"They were doing very well in domestic cricket, but we can't help it as they are playing for India. If they would have been with us we would have been mentally up and the opponents would have felt more pressure. But we have to fight without them," Shah said.
Agarkar said, though Mumbai would miss Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma (both playing in the ODI series) and the injured Zaheer Khan, others have stepped up to do the job and there was Tendulkar to boost the team big time.
"That has been the case for a while now. We have been lucky enough to have Sachin. Does not change anything as other guys have stepped up for us and so is the case with them. We are missing some big players and so are they, but it's an opportunity for others to try and make a mark.
"We are obviously missing Rohit, Ajinkya and Zak (Zaheer), all big players. But we have Sachin whose mere presence in the dressing room helps a lot of the younger guys. His involvement on the field is still the same since the first time I met him. We are very happy he is part of the squad," added Agarkar.
Tendulkar has played just three games this season and has contributed in each of them, scoring a ton in the league opener against Railways and in the quarter-final against Baroda, before notching up a crucial 56 against Services to help Mumbai recover from a difficult position (23-3) in the company of Nayar who made 70.
Nayar has been the stand-out batsman, notching up 940 runs at over 100 per innings, inclusive of three hundreds and eight fifties, and close behind him are Tare (839 runs), Rohit (712) and Wasim Jaffer (703).
"We have had good performances from most of the squad, and that's what you want though there have been stand-out ones like Nayar, Tare and Wasim. Everyone has chipped in at important times," said Agarkar.
Mumbai's bowling's stand-out performer has been left-arm spinner Ankit Chavan with a haul of 33 wickets in nine ties, including an incredible 9-23 in their league game here against Punjab.
Mumbai lack an off-spinner, and Agarkar insisted they have the two left-arm bowlers in Chavan and newcomer Vishal Dabholkar to turn to.
"Ramesh (Powar) has been missing for a while because of injury. We are still looking for (an off-spinner in Powar's absence), but these two left-armers have bowled well for us."
Asked about Mumbai's awesome record in finals -- they have won all nine finals they have figured in after losing by two runs to Haryana in the May 1991 final at the Wankhede --the skipper felt it was because of their superior experience.
"I suppose it comes with experience as we have got more than one guy who have played more than one final. That generally helps in winning big games. Plus you have got the great man (Sachin). We have generally played well in finals."
Saurashtra, on the contrary, have been heavily dependent on Pujara and Jadeja in batting and their absence is likely to hit them hard though youngsters Sheldon Jackson and Aarpit Vasavada have propped up the middle-order well.
Veteran Sitanshu Kotak, who frustrated Mumbai by batting for two full days when the two teams last met at this stadium in 2007, is there to launch the innings with wicketkeeper Sagar Jogiyani.
The medium pace attack of the visitors -- comprising Jaydev Unadkat, the experienced Sidharth Trivedi and either Sandip Maniar or Saurya Sanandiya -- needs to step up against the strong Mumbai batting line-up.
Saurashtra's spin attack is, however, more varied than the home team's and comprises off-spinners Vishal Doshi and Kamlesh Makwana and left-arm spinner Dharmendra Jadeja. According to curator Sudhir Naik, the wicket would help the pace bowlers with seam movement and bounce over the first three days before affording turn to the spinners on the last two days.
Agarkar was not sure how the wicket would behave. "I am going to have another look as it generally changes (appearance) when the sun comes out. It was quite dewy in the morning. Probably they have had less time to prepare it than otherwise as the match got shifted here at the last minute. Women's WC matches were to be held here, so they were preparing for it.
"Hopefully, it gives both batters and bowlers good chance. That's what they always try to do," he said.
"I can't see too many changes (in playing 11) at this stage though I will have to go and have another look at the wicket," said Agarkar when asked about team composition.
"We won't play a leg spinner as the ball moves a bit here. We will play an extra medium pacer," said visiting captain Shah.
"The last time we played here we took the first-innings lead. Let's hope we take that thing with us. Kotak played a big innings (in terms of time consumed), two days or so, a record I think," he said.
Mumbai: Ajit Agarkar (Capt.), Sachin Tendulkar, Wasim Jaffer, Suryakumar Yadav, Dhaval Kulkarni, Kaustubh Pawar, Abhishek Nayar, Hiken Shah, Aditya Tare, Ankit Chavan, Nikhil Patil (Jr.), Javed Khan, Sushant Marathe, Shardul Thakur, Vishal Dabholkar.
Saurashtra: Jaydev Shah (Capt.), Sagar Jogiyani, Sitanshu Kotak, Sheldon Jackson, Arpit Vasavada, Rahul Dave, Kamlesh Makwana, Chirag Pathak, Sidharth Trivedi, Jaydev Unadkat, Vishal Joshi, Dharmendra Jadeja, Sandip Maniyar, Saurya Sanandiya, Harsh Angha
Ranji finals: Mumbai start as favourites
History and form make them the odds-on favourites but Mumbai are not taking things for granted ahead of tomorrow's Ranji Trophy summit showdown with Saurashtra, who have upset many an apple cart en route to the final here.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Carolina Panthers star linebacker Luke Kuechly is back in the concussion protocol. And that could leave a big hole at the heart of the Panthers' defense.
Kuechly left the Panthers' 28-23 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in the first half Thursday night after taking a hit near the left side of his neck. He walked to the sideline and later jogged to the tunnel but didn't return to the field with his teammates at the start of the third quarter before being ruled out for the game.
Now the Panthers will have to wait to find out Kuechly's status for Week 7 trip to Chicago.
"All I can tell you is he's in the protocol," Panthers coach Ron Rivera said, adding: "I don't know anything other than that."
It marks the third straight year the former Associated Press NFL defensive player of the year has dealt with concussion issues, which have cost him nine games over the past two seasons. And it followed the scary visual from last season when Kuechly was carted off the field while sobbing uncontrollably.
This play seemed far more routine, with Kuechly going low as he took a hit from offensive lineman Brandon Brooks on a run by LeGarrette Blount.
Brooks' left arm and shoulder collided with Kuechly near his left shoulder and helmet as he went to the ground. Moments later, Kuechly paused to squat down on the field with 5:19 left in the second quarter, then walked to the sideline for trainers to test the range of motion in his neck before he jogged into the locker-room tunnel.
"Last year was a little scarier," Panthers cornerback James Bradberry said. "This year I had just seen Luke walking away. It looked like he had full consciousness. I figured it was his shoulder or something. I wasn't sure."
Instead, Kuechly didn't join the team for the second half and was ruled out in the third quarter.
"I'm sure that the air kind of went out of the building," Bradberry said.
And Philadelphia took advantage, scoring all three of its touchdowns after Kuechly's exit — the first coming five plays after his injury. As Eagles coach Doug Pederson put it: "It can change for us on offense without him in there."
Now the Panthers face the uncertainty of how long Kuechly could be out. He missed three games with a concussion in 2015, then went on to miss six games after last year's concussion. In that case, Kuechly was in the protocol for three games then was cleared to return, but Rivera held him out as the Panthers closed a playoff-less season.
"We care about Luke as a person," Panthers cornerback Captain Munnerlyn said. "I love Luke the player and I love Luke as a person. We definitely are concerned about that. We're definitely concerned about his health. Hopefully it's not that bad. Hopefully he can be back with us. We don't know, so we'll see."
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FLORENCE — — With the passage of Amendment 64 in 2012, Florence City Council continues to mull whether to allow recreational retail marijuana facilities within its city limits.
During a workshop Monday, several people spoke in favor of it, but no one spoke against it.
Amendment 64 states any person 21 and older can legally under Colorado law possess, use and grow up to six plants for their own personal use or share it with their families as long as they are not selling it. It also has all the guidelines for certain requirements, including the licensing structure to be in place no later than July 1 of this year and applications for licensing of retail recreational marijuana started Oct. 1.
During the workshop, Manfred Bereuter stated the rest of the world is viewing the cannabis opportunities that are centered around Colorado. So far, the Arc View Investment Company met with 75 investors pledging $50,000 for cannabis investment. They see this as a viable investment.
"Are we going to put up the open for business sign or not," Bereuter asked. "If not, they're going elsewhere. There's not a whole lot of cities that has said yes to it. I hope you realize that the ship has already sailed on this. Legalized marijuana is a reality in Colorado."
In the past, the council and residents have talked about how to move Florence forward, but the ideas have not panned out.
"I hope council realizes the economic issue we are facing in Florence is very, very serious," Bereuter said. "This is one of the opportunities that is going to come along once in our lifetime and I feel it's not only in the best interest of Florence, but it also in your duty as elected public servants to move forward on what the voters very clearly asked for."
In the same view, Mike Vendetti agreed recreational marijuana would be a good fit for Florence.
"It's about money and it's legal," he said. "We need to move ahead with (Amendment) 64."
If it is voted in, Colorado's personal income tax would be increased by an estimated 8 to 18 percent while Question 1A would add 1 percent to Florence's sales tax, increasing it 14.5 percent from 6.9 to 7.9 percent.
In the meantime, a yes vote on Proposition AA would increase it to 15 percent excise tax on wholesale recreational marijuana sales and a 10 percent sales tax on retail recreational marijuana sales.
"These are sin taxes, which do not affect me unless I use the facilities," Vendetti said. "I find it difficult to be in favor of Amendment 66 or Question 1A. We're just adding another tax burden that will affect me directly since Fremont County has chosen to reject income they would receive from allowing a legal, yet controversial and high revenue industry to operate in our back yard. They should not come to me for their shortfall."
He cited a well-regulated industry marijuana consisting of recreational marijuana stores, medical marijuana stores, retail marijuana cultivation facilities, marijuana processing facilities, retail marijuana products manufacturing facilities and retail marijuana testing facilities.
"These businesses do not have to be in our downtown," Vendetti said. "I suggest you go through with the annexation of (U.S.) 50 and (Colo.) 67 to use it for cannabis."
If the council moves to license the industries within the Florence City limits, then it could improve sidewalks and streets, educational and other programs.
A Florence resident whose legal name is Makara said she was concerned with the misconceptions about taxes.
"The excise tax has nothing to do with Florence," she said. "The excise tax is not what's taken from here for our roads and our schools. The excise tax was voted on in Amendment 64. It's the 15 percent excise tax on the wholesale of pot so the people who grow it are selling it to the people who are going to sell it. That is wholesale. Fifteen percent of that is what will go to the schools.
"You don't have to vote yes to get that money for your schools," Makara said. "I have not read anything .... that if we don't say yes that we don't get that money for the schools."
She noted there should not be a limit on the number of facilities in Florence.
"I think they should be right smack anywhere an owner wants to put them," Makara said. "You don't tell an antique store they have to be out at the airport," she said. "You don't tell a bar or a restaurant they have to be over by the county line. How is a retail marijuana (facility) supposed to bring more business to the antique stores and restaurants if it's on the edge of town. How is that going to benefit the rest of the businesses in Florence?"
Councilwoman Nichole Prickett said she talked to City Clerk Dori Williams, who told her there were no other issues to be placed on the 2014 ballot.
"Since there is nothing else, it would cost us about $4,000 to put it on the ballot," she said.


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The New York Times best-selling and award-winning author writes fiction for everyone, but she has a particular affection for young readers, from kids to twenty-somethings. Her fiction is noted for its diversity, humor, lyricism, imaginativeness, compelling action, and mid-to-southwestern settings.
The Tantalize series is gothic fantasy and currently consists of six books - Tantalize, Eternal, Blessed, Diabolical, Tantalize: Kieren's Story (a graphic novel), and Eternal: Zachary's Story (a graphic novel). In 2013, the first book of the Feral series, Feral Nights, was released. Drawing on the world created in the Tantalize series, werepossum Clyde and other favorite secondary characters — plus all-new ones — take to the fore in this all-new series
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Librarians are very busy people so what's better than an easy program to go with an awesome book display? This program is designed to be simple, quick to set up and requires very little maintenance on the part of the librarian. In this program teens will be able to vote for their favorite vampire, werewolf or zombie. Included in this program are also directions for making a cute vampire lollipop station.
Table or Shelf Top Display
List of Supplies
- Table Cover
- Halloween Decorations
- Laminating Machine
The first part of this program is super easy! First, find a nice area in the library in which to set up a book display that will also have room for a poster and lollipop station. This may mean setting up a small table, however if space is not available for a table the top of a book shelf would do just as nicely. It may also be necessary to have the display within eye sight of the reference desk so that it can remain clean and orderly in appearance.
Second, make this display pop out! The best time to shop for this display is after Halloween when stores are having great sales on Halloween decorations. Add a black table cover, bats, webs, spiders, vampire teeth-the sky is the limit. Next add books to the display from the Books to Display and Book Talk list. Additionally, this list can be copied or shortened and/or included giveaways on the display.
And last of all let's not forget about the posters! Below are two examples of posters that are in pdf format and are ready to print. Both posters allow teens to write down their favorite character. One poster is specific to vampires, and the other poster could be used to for voting on vampires, werewolves, zombies, or angels. After the poster is laminated, patrons can write on it with Sharpie markers (which can be removed with Off mosquito repellant.)
Activity-Vampire Lollipop Station
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- Red cellophane
- Lollipops
- Black felt
- Twist ties
- White address labels
- Scissors
- Peel and stick wiggle eyes
- Pattern
This is a wonderful project to have set up right beside your book display. Teens can make these vampire lollipops at their leisure. Directions, the pattern for the cape, and step by step pictures for project can be found here. These lollipops were designed by Amanda Formaro.
At the lollipops station, it is good idea to have a sign with the steps listed above as well as include the pictures with each step. Don't forget to have a picture of the completed Vampire Lollipops! The capes, fangs, and cellophane can be precut ahead of time to help reduce mess. Finally, place the cellophane, capes, twist ties, fangs, and wiggle eyes in individual baskets in front of the display.
Incentives are not necessary for this program to be a success; however, they could be used to help motive teens to participate in the program. A prize could be given for the most original or unique character named. Things like fake vampire teeth, eyeballs, etc. could be used as incentives. Incentives like this can be found at Oriental Trading Company. A popular donated book whose theme features vampires, werewolves, zombies, or angels would also be a nice choice as an incentive.
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Teen Resources
- Teen Angel: True Stories of Teenage Experiences of Angels by Glennyce S. Eckersley-This book looks at real life stories of teenagers and their encounters with angels.
- Wanted Dead or Alive: Vampire Hunters and Other Kick-Ass Enemies of Evil by Jonathan Mayberry-A guide that describes mankind's worst enemy.
- Dracula - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/dracula/- This website is an online companion to a Masterpiece television program based on the classic Dracula. The program focuses on Victorian era fear of sex and syphilis. The website also contains a nice bio on Bram Stoker and filmography of Dracula.
- Fear files. Zombies! Produced by The History Channel: A&E Television Network-A documentary and history on the legends surrounding zombies.
Professional Resources
- A Catalogue of Angels: The Heavenly, the Fallen, and the Holy Ones Among Us by Vinita Hampton Wright - The author of this books focuses on the topic of angels and how they are approached in the Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
- How to Be A Zombie: The Essential Guide for Anyone Who Craves Brains by Serena Valentino - This book discusses various aspects of zombie lore.
- They Suck, They Bite, They Eat, They Kill: The Psychological Meaning of Supernatural Monsters in Young Adult Fiction by Joni Richards Bodart - This book discusses the six monsters that show up in young adult literature the most: vampires, shapeshifters, zombies, unicorns, angels, and demons.
- Vampires: A Field Guide to the Creatures that stalk the night by Bob Curran - A book to help librarians get all their facts straight about vampire legends.
- Werewolves: A Field Guide to shapeshifters, lycanthropes, and man-beasts by Bob Curran - This book looks at the mythology surrounding the legend of werewolves.
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Can you imagine a better way to spend the evening than chocolate (mmm), Italian food (mmm), with a few vampires or werewolves thrown in? Not me. This program develops an atmosphere reminiscent of Sanguini's Restaurant in the Tantalize series. Teens are encouraged to dress up and play characters from the books visiting Sanguini's, where they will be treated to a "Predator" and "Prey" menu and a chocolate tasting, all while learning a bit about Italian food.
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For the purposes of this program, the predator and prey menu will be created based on Italian cuisine. A lovely and realistic addition to the Tantalize books, it allows readers a deeper understanding of Sanguini's restaurant and the food. After the detailed description in the book about the time and discussion needed to create a menu, the printed menu is nice to see. However, there is little discussion about the reasons for each course. So that is first thing we will discuss….what exactly do all those fancy Italian words mean?
The information for this part of the program was taken from an article entitled How to Decipher an Italian Menu by Michael San Filippo found on About.com.
- L' antipasto- This is the first course and it includes your traditional Italian hot and cold appetizers. Mozzarella and bruschetta could be served to the prey and a small meat and cheese plate could be served to your predators.
- Il primo- This translates as the second course which can consist of either pasta or soup. Preys could have a plain pasta and sauce or soup without meat, while the predators could have a soup with meat like Italian Wedding Ball soup.
- Il secondo- This is considered the main course. It will need to consist of some type of meat (if you're a predator that is). Those teens that chose to be prey could have something like vegetable lasagna, while predators could have something like spaghetti and meatballs
- Il Contorno- This course comprises of a vegetable or salad of some type. This will be an easy course to serve prey. A simple salad or just a plate of chopped vegetable served with dipping sauce would do nicely. The predator would need to involve meat of some type -- the more adventurous among you may wish to try serving pigs feet, but a nice alternative would be salad with deli meat or tuna.
- Il dolce- a personal favorite, dessert. Dessert is completely up to you. To keep it simple you could serve cake with chocolate sauce for prey, and cake with a raspberry or strawberry sauce (resembling blood) to predators. You could also forgo dessert in favor of the chocolate tasting that will be discussed later in the program.
Some things to keep in mind when developing your predator and prey menu:
- Make sure you plan the menu in advance and even hand it out as teens sign up for this program. This is important because as with every program involving food you need to be careful of allergies. As you plan this program check with administration and see if a waiver is needed and consider posting signs during the program asking teens and parents to speak to you of any food allergies they might have.
- Careful budgeting will be critical for a program with so much food. A nice modification for a smaller-budget program would be to serve only three courses. You could also simplify the dishes -- serving cheese pizza and meat lovers' pizza as lower-cost and lower-labor options for the predator and prey menu.
- Remember to keep your portions small, since five courses is a lot of food. If you are having trouble finding interesting things to serve, ask your teens for suggestions. Make it a part of your program to have teens design the meals they will be served.
- Crock pots are your friend, especially if you want to serve soup.
Atmosphere for the Evening
Part of the fun of this whole evening is atmosphere. You want the teens to really feel like they've stepped into the middle of Sanguini's Restaurant. Part of that is accomplished by encouraging your teens to read the Tantalize series. Once they have read the books ask them to show up in character. Are they going to be a predator or a prey? Tell them to make a decision before they arrive and act the part throughout the whole evening.
However, a lot of the atmosphere is created by how the room is set up. Do you want a gothic club like atmosphere or more of a traditional Italian Restaurant with a few crucifixes thrown in? Or perhaps you want to emphasis more of the heaven vs. hell, puffy white clouds vs. the hell fires of damnation? Whatever you choose, plan ahead and as mentioned during the Vote for Your Favorite Character program hit those after Halloween sales.
Chocolate Tasting
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- Chocolate of Your Choice
- Food to Pair with Chocolate, see Chocolate Matching in Pair Section of website
- Crock pots if using melted chocolate
In Tantalize, the main character Quincie loves food. This comes across very clearly in her dedication to making the family's restaurant a success, and as well as the time she spent in designing Sanguini's menu. This part of the program teaches teens about the fine art of chocolate tasting.
This wonderful website details everything you need to know about how to host a chocolate party. While the site is maintained by a commercial chocolate provider, Ghirardelli, it contains great information to get you started. This website is divided into four sections: learn, pair, party, and play.
- Play- The play section includes games you can use at your chocolate tasting party. It has a nice chocolate personality quiz you can use as an ice breaker during your party.
- Learn-The learn section has not only chocabulary, but an article entitled How to Taste and Appreciate Chocolate. It is very specific and can be easily adaptable for use with teens. There are even tasting placements pdf which give you step by step directions on to properly taste chocolate.
- Party- In this section they have pdfs with chocolate party invitations and chocolate IQ game cards.
- Pair-This section of the website examples what foods are best to pair with different types of chocolate. The will show you pairings for both beverages and foods.
Please keep in mind that if you can't afford individual chocolates, a small crockpot or two of different kinds melted chocolate for dipping works just as nicely, or perhaps a coworker would have a chocolate fountain you could borrow. Foods that have a firm consistency such as strawberries, pretzel rods, marshmallows, graham crackers, bite size pieces of pound cake and cookies are easier to dip into the chocolate. Remember having the teens liberally shake the excess chocolate off each item before eating helps with not running out of chocolate very quickly!
Finally, if you are looking of a variation on the chocolate tasting program try doing Mexican hot chocolate in a crock pot. You could include information on the history of the Aztecs and how chocolate was used and influenced Aztec culture. The Aztec culture has some very bloody history so it could go nicely with the rest of the program.
A nice recipe for Mexican Hot Chocolate can be found at Allrecipes.com.
Historical information on the Aztec culture and chocolate can be found at the following websites:
Vampire protection wreaths
List of Supplies
- Christmas Wreaths
- Black Spray Paint
- Halloween Decorations
- Fake Garlic
- Flowers to Weave into Wreath
In Bram Stoker's Dracula van Helsing tries to protect Lucy from Dracula with a wreath of garlic. With all the mixing of predator and prey at your evening at Sanguini's your prey might feel much better with a little protection. Check out your local hobby store for fake garlic (or you could use a really garlic bulb, just don't smash or pierce it) and some flowers that could be weaved together to create a nice pin or wreath for prey wear around their necks. Or as an alternative spray paint some smaller Christmas wreaths black and let teens add on Halloween decorations like little crucifixes.
Bling out Your Vampire Fangs!
List of Supplies
- Fake Vampire teeth
- Jeweled Bling
The predators in your group are not going to want to be left out of all the fun. What better way involve them then letting them working on accenting their teeth. For this activity have plenty of fake vampire teeth and jeweled bling. Jeweled bling can be found in the scrap booking section of your local hobby store or in kits for decorating cell phone cases. Allow teens to bling their vampire grill to their hearts content.
Chocolate Rose Corsages
List of Supplies
- Hershey's Kisses in red or pink foil
- Green floral tape
- Wood dowels
- Glue dots
- Clear cellophane cut into small squares (approximately 3x3")
- Green floral leaves
- Pull the paper out of each kiss.
- Place a glue dot on the bottom of one of the kisses. Now put the bottoms of both Hershey Kisses together.
- Open one ends Hershey Kiss pointed end. Place the wood dowel there and rewrap the Hershey Kiss's foil around the wood dowel rod.
- Wrap the square of cellophane around the kisses and finish by twisting the ends of the cellophane around the wood dowel rod.
- Next take your green floral tape, and starting at where you twisted your cellophane around your wood dowel wrap, wrap your green floral tape around your wood dowel rod.
- As a finishing touch, add green floral leaves to your rose. Do this by placing the stem alongside the wood dowel rod and wrapping the green floral tape around your leave stem and wood dowel rod.
If you would like to view step by step images of this craft you can easily Google it Hershey Kiss Roses and get many hits. Some of the better pictures can be found at the following sites:
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Self Defense Classes for Prey and Predator
Try offering teens a class in self-defense by having local police officers come by and teach a class. However, be sure to keep it in character with the evening by showing some adaptations for vampires trying to escape staking or a guardian angel's sword, while also including a move to help prey escape vampire bites.
Finally, you could invite a sword fighting group to do a class for all the guardian angels in your group to help them learn how to vanquish evil vampires. A good place to look get information on sword fighting demonstration classes is the Association of Renaissance Martial Arts (ARMA).
Other Programming Ideas
If you are looking to spice up your evening then make sure to take a look at Texas Teens Read program for 2012- TSI- Realm of the Unknown at the Texas State Library and Archive Commissions.
Under the chapter called Vampire Ball they have recipes for Vampire Cupcakes and Vampire Blood Punch. This chapter also discusses having a Scavenger Hunt by hiding various vampire repellents around the room and asking guests to identify them. It is a terrific chapter and well worth looking into.
Under another chapter entitled Scream- In this chapter has a lot of neat games that you can play with your teens during their evening at Sanguini's. They have a food fear factor program for anyone who feels brave enough to eat pigs' feet or chicken feet, ugh! And they also have some suggestions for monster jeopardy.
There is a chapter entitled Friends with Fangs. This is a chapter of Improv Theater based on a script that involves the love of vampires, werewolves, and zombies. The program is set up to be a murder mystery dinner.
Teen Resources
- Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond - A historical look at the America's candy industry.
- Italy by Sally Garrington - A brief look at Italy as a country aimed at teens.
- The Sweet Lure of Chocolate - This website gives a nice history on the development of chocolate.
Professional Resources
- The Chocolate Connoisseur: For Everyone with A Passion For Chocolate by Chloe Doutre-Roussel - This is a book for those who want to explore the elitism that exists within the world of chocolate. It also explores the taste of good and bad chocolate.
- Chocolate: Discovering, Exploring, Enjoying by Sara Jayne Stanes - Besides a history of chocolate the author also explores the different variety of chocolates that exist and where they can be bought. The cover looks absolutely scrumptious.
- Good & Garlicky, Thick & Hearty, Soul-Satisfying, more-than-minestrone Italian soup Cookbook by Joe Famularo - For anyone nervous about the Il primo this book will give you lots of ideas and yummy recipes.
- Italian Cooking for Dummies by Cesare Casella and Jack Bishop - For those who need recipe ideas and the thought of using an extensive recipe book is frightening.
- True History of Chocolate by Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe - This book explains the history behind the chocolate we eat today. It is also offers a good explanation of the importance of the Chocolate in the Mayan culture.
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These activities are designed to allow classroom teachers to connect the classroom experience to the library related activities. The activities will align with current TEKS and grade level expectations of grades 9-12 in multiple subject areas. This is directed more at the classroom teacher and school librarians.
Brief Description of Each Activity
Activity One – Narrative Writing (TAKS)—see below
Student will write an essay based on a time that they put someone they cared about before themselves. This essay should be 2 pages in length.
- ELA 11th ---13A, 13D, 13E, 14A, 17B, 18A, 19A, 20A
Activity Two – Literary Writing Prompt (STAARS)—see below
Students will respond to the prompt and picture provided. There will be three options. This will be a one page story. Feel free to substitute your own pictures instead of the Microsoft Clip art.
- ELA 9th --9C, 9D, 10A, 13A, 13C, 13D, 13E, 14A, 16D, 17C, 18A, 18Bi, 18Bii, 18Biii, 19A, 20A
- ELA 9th PAP—9D, 10A, 13A, 13C, 13D, 13E, 14A, 17C, 18A, 18Bi, 18Bii, 18Biii, 20A
- ELA 10th—9D, 13A, 13D, 13E, 14A, 17C, 18A, 18Bi, 18Bii, 18Biii, 19A, 20A
- ELA 10th PAP – 13A, 13C, 13D, 13E, 14A, 17C, 18A, 18Bi, 18Bii, 18b iii, 19A,
Activity Three – Research All Levels – see below
This will be a research project to find out the history of paranormal creatures such as vampires, angels, zombies, witches, wizards, etc.
- ELA 9th – 2C, 9D, 10A, 13A, 13C, 13D, 13E, 15D, 16A, 16B, 16D, 16E, 17C, 18A, 18Biii, 19A, 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B, 21C, 22A, 22B, 22C, 23A, 23C, 23D, 23E, 25A
- ELA 9th PAP--13A,13C, 13D, 13E, 16D, 16E, 17C, 18A, 18Bii, 18Biii, 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B, 22A, 22B, 23A, 23B, 23C, 23D, 23E, 25A,
- ELA 10th – 13A, 13C, 13D, 13E, 15D, 16A, 16B, 16C, 16D, 16E, 16F, 17C, 18A, 18Bi, 18Bii, 18Biii,19A, 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B, 21C, 22A, 22B, 22C, 23A, 23B, 23C, 23D, 23E,
- ELA 10th PAP – 13A, 13C, 13D, 13E, 15D, 16A, 16B, 16C, 16D, 16E, 16F, 17C, 18A, 18BI, 18BII, 18BIII, 19A, 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B, 21C, 22A, 22B, 22C, 23A, 23B, 23C, 23D, 23E,
- ELA 11th – 13A, 13D, 13E, 15D, 16A, 16C, 16E, 16F, 17B, 18A, 19A, 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B, 21C, 22B, 22C, 23A, 23B, 23D, 23E, 25A
- ELA 11th AP—13A, 13C, 13D, 13E, 15D, 16A, 16C, 16D, 16E, 17B, 18A, 19A, 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B, 21C, 22A, 22B, 23C, 23D, 23E, 25A
- ELA 12th AP – 13A, 13C, 13D, 13E, 15D, 16A, 16B, 16C, 16D, 16E, 16F, 16G, 17B, 18A, 19A, 20A, 20B, 21A, 21B, 21C, 22A, 22B, 22C, 23A, 23B, 23C, 23D, 23E
- World Geography –5A, 7C, 16B, 15B, 16D, 17A,
Professional Resources
List of TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills)
Activity One - Written Composition
Write an essay about a time when you put someone's needs before your own.
The information below will help you remember what you should think about when you write your composition.
- Write about the assigned topic
- Make your writing thoughtful and interesting
- Make sure that each sentence you write contributes to your composition
- Make sure your ideas are clear and easy for the reader to follow
- Write about your ideas in depth so that the reader is able to develop a good understanding of what you are saying
- Proofread your writing to correct errors in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure
Activity Two A- Literary Writing Prompt
Look at the picture
Write a story about the fear. Be sure that your story is focused and complete and that it has an interesting plot and engaging characters.
Activity Two B - Literary Writing Prompt
Look at the picture:
Write a story about the fear. Be sure that your story is focused and complete and that it has an interesting plot and engaging characters.
Activity Two C - Literary Writing Prompt
Look at the picture:
Write a story about the angel pictured above. Be sure that your story is focused and complete and that it has an interesting plot and engaging characters.
Activity Four – Research and Multi-media Presentation
This project is designed to have students experience the research process in the classroom and library. The topics center on the characters in Cynthia Leitich Smith books. Students will research the origins (What country/area did the creature originate from? When in history did the creature first appear? What are the origin stories surrounding the creature?), the special skills/powers, the current beliefs surrounding these creatures, and could include a comparison/contrast aspect if desired. All examples for this will be done on Power Point using MLA format. This project can be done in small groups or as an individual project.
Supplies needed:
- Computer access for all students
- Library access for all students
- Power Point or Presi (free online presentation software that requires registration) Type software
- For low tech version you will need half sheets of poster board, markers, glue, pictures, etc… for slides.
- Have students pick topics from supernatural creatures such as vampires, zombies, angels, witches, wizards, etc… You can add to the list as you see fit.
- Students will be finding 3 sources on their topics.
- They will cite their sources using MLA or another style manual depending on your school's requirements. You can use online citations engines like SLATE or Word References tab to aide in your teaching of citations.
- Students will take notes from their sources based on the sub topics:
- Origins – country/area, dates, and origin stories
- Special skills/powers
- Weaknesses/strengths
- Current societal beliefs
- Differences between this creature and another (Optional)
Make sure the students use parenthetical documentation (or whatever internal documentation is required by your style manual if not using MLA). So when students take notes they will need to have page numbers if the information is from a book.
- Students will also need to find pictures (cite these also with at least the website name) for their project.
- Using the information and pictures gathered students will create an 8-20 slide presentation on their creature to inform the class on their creature.
- The student will need to produce a thesis for his/her project to guide them in the construction of his/her presentation.
- At the end of the presentation, the students will need to create a Works Cited page and a page that shows where they got images from.
- After the students have completed the presentation, they should have others go over their projects to help them revise and edit their presentations.
- Example of this project that will highlight the formatting for this particular project. This is a simplified example that is almost entirely made up using fake sources.
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In late May, Mario and Luigi were sitting on a couch on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show." Not the real Mario and Luigi — they aren't real, of course — but caricatures of the Nintendo brand icons.
The joke that afternoon was that the famous video game duo were not brothers but were, in reality, gay. Their true relationship had remained a secret, revealed only after an online campaign forced Nintendo to apologize for not including same-sex marriage in its just released game "Tomodachi Life."
You can, however, create a character in your likeness — a Mii, in Nintendo parlance — or the likeness of your boss or your ex or Daenerys Targaryen, and you can write them an opera song that is an ode to gay marriage. They will also fall in and out of love, sometimes with others, sometimes with key lime pie.
Nintendo doesn't traffic in realism, and the recent Internet-fueled rage was one the company didn't need on the eve of the release of one of its biggest games of the year, "Mario Kart 8." There is no controversy surrounding "Mario Kart 8." It is universally agreed upon as a brilliant game, one that's unpredictable, fanciful and off-the-wall (this is true, as your carts, cars and motorbikes now have anti-gravity hovering ability, and if you're not distracted by the fact that you can race through airline terminals, it's really neat).
But that is not the only reason "Mario Kart 8," or much of the Nintendo catalog these days, is unique.
As the game industry matures and moves toward cinematic realism — often a welcome change when emotional depth is emphasized over gunplay — the Wii U's "Mario Kart 8" is a vestige of a time when games were not a regular part of the cultural conversation, when issues of diversity, sexism and social realism in games could fly beneath the radar of, say, Ellen DeGeneres.
And bless the crazy racetracks of "Mario Kart 8" and the game's cart-eating piranha plants. Nintendo missed an opportunity to lead the game industry when it comes to same-sex diversity, but no other company in interactive entertainment remains as committed to flying its freak flag.
For those who have been paying close attention over the last few years, there's been mounting evidence that Nintendo's designers have completely lost their marbles. Last year a 3DS game titled "Toyko Crash Mobs" made its way to the U.S. The game's two female leads — Grace and Savannah — are fed up with the overcrowding on the streets of Toyko.
So what do they do? They start hurling people.
It's a puzzle game, one in which the women just want the "scenestars" out of their way so they can eat in peace at their local restaurant. The overall play of the game is similar to many puzzle games, in that one simply needs to line up three or more matching colors to make the blocks, in this instance people, vanish.
"Delusion now!" the game commands just before it begins, driving home its gleefully nonsensical approach. Hundreds of mobile games may have similar mechanics, but I will never not choose "Tokyo Crash Mobs" first, as the sheer surrealism trumps any sense of predictability.
And even for a company that gave us an Italian plumber with a raccoon tail and an ape with blond extensions, "Tomodachi Life" is downright insane. Available for Nintendo's handheld device the 3DS, the game is nominally a life simulator — except instead of creating a digital avatar to live out our digital dreams, one essentially guides and watches a character live out its own.
Initially created for and reflective of a Japanese culture where same-sex couples do not enjoy the legal rights of many U.S. states but are also free of much religious opposition, "Tomodachi Life" instead subverts via its weirdness. In a way, this isn't all that different from what Nintendo has always done. To this day fans will debate whether Link, the hero of Nintendo's fantasy adventure "The Legend of Zelda," bears more resemblance to a female than to a male.
Last year's "Fire Emblem: Awakening" was a sword-and-sorcery role-playing game where half-dragon humans could cross-species mate, and "Tomodachi Life" will interrupt players with news reports of mutant ducks that have human heads. Your Mii look-alikes will also engage in rap battles, and I've dressed my Miis modeled after co-workers in banana suits.
Why? Perhaps the best explanation is found inside the in-game description from "Tokyo Crash Mobs": "Who knows?"
One person who knows is Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's legendary game master who has been responsible in one way or another for "Donkey Kong," "Super Mario Bros.," "The Legend of Zelda" and more, essentially overseeing the development of most of the industry's instantly recognizable nonviolent franchises.
Now in his early 60s, Miyamoto is something of a goofball himself. Mention the recent "Super Mario 3D World," which enabled Mario and Co. to turn into felines, and Miyamoto will use his fingers to mimic cat ears and meow.
"Nintendo isn't one simple element of an overall gaming industry," Miyamoto explained through a translator at the recent Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), North America's largest video game trade show, in Los Angeles. "I really think there needs to be a Nintendo genre, that's almost its own entity."
Thirty years ago Nintendo's absurdities drove the game industry, and today Nintendo's games often bear little resemblance to those found on Sony's PlayStation 4 or Microsoft's Xbox One. And while Nintendo's reputation as delivering kid-focused, family-friendly entertainment is deserved, it also sells its outlandish creations short.
At E3, Nintendo's two mainstream competitors trotted off game after game that showcased increasingly human-like characters in action-movie situations. Most modern game previews, in fact, look like film trailers, with a teaser of an upcoming "Tomb Raider" game emphasizing Lara Croft's visit to a therapist.
The latter was, admittedly, engrossing, but it drove home the differences between Nintendo and, well, everyone else. Nintendo's constant re-imaginings of Mario, Luigi, Link, Princess Peach and more aren't nostalgia trips; they're keeping the game industry weird.
When Nintendo trots out an upcoming game such as the Wii U's "Splatoon," which stars adolescent characters who can turn into squids ("who knows?"), or a forthcoming 3DS game such as "Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.," in which great American heroes (and what appeared to be a cat-person) are assembled by Abraham Lincoln to battle aliens in Britain ("who knows?"), they feel as much art-house surreal as they do silly.
And that makes sense, really, as Miyamoto talks of designing games as making performance art.
"It's not that I don't like serious stories or that I couldn't make one, but currently in the video game industry you see a lot of game designers who are working really hard to make their games seem really cool," Miyamoto said. "For a lot of us at Nintendo, it's difficult to decide what cool is. In fact, it's a lot easier for us to laugh at ourselves. It's almost as if we're performers. Our way of performing is by creating these fun, odd and goofy things."
Later, my look-alike in "Tomodachi Life" came to me with a rhetorical question. "I wonder what's popular right now in your world," he said. I hope he knows it's not nearly as interesting as a human-headed duck.
– Todd Martens| @toddmartens | @LATHeroComplex
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5year old day time wetting
My 5 year old daughter is dry at night and has been since about 3 years old. However, although not continual she has periods when she wets herself during the day. She tells me she doesn`t feel that she needed to go - but she can have periods when she is dry for months and we have no problems. However, just recently she has started wetting herself during the day whilst at school and is increasing now to twice a week. She sometimes complains that she has a sore tummy but this doesn`t always link to the days she wets herself. Or am I just trying to find a connection somewhere! She has always tended to leave going to the toilet to the last minute.
This is a fairly common issue around this age group. The most common cause for intermittent urinary incontinence and associated abdominal pain would be constipation. When the rectum is distended or even impacted with stool, it can push on the bladder (located right in front of the rectum) and cause an involuntary bladder contraction (termed "urge incontinence"). Sometimes the children will have a sudden, strong urge to urinate and not be able to make it to the bathroom in time. Other potential causes for urge incontinence at this age include bladder irritants in the diet such as caffeine, carbonation, chocolate (which has caffeine in it), and citrus (like orange juice), termed the "4C's".
A typical initial treatment plan would be to try an over the counter laxative appropriate for her age (such as glycolax), have her urinate on a timed schedule (every 2-3 hours), increase her daytime fluids (water is best), and avoid the 4C's as mentioned above. If there is no improvement or if she has had problems with urinary tract infections, discussion with the pediatrician regarding referral to a pediatric urologist for further evaluation may be appropriate. If she has a good response to this treatment regimen, then typically no further testing is necessary.
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Nearly everybody does it. Flopping, that is.
Soccer, famously known for its players taking phantom dives to draw calls, has nothing on the NBA anymore.
"We have seen throughout these playoffs some outstanding acting by our top-notch players," color commentator Reggie Miller said during the last postseason.
Takes one to know one. Miller, in his time, was one of the league's best floppers.
"The master speaking," play-by-play analyst Marv Albert said, taking a playful dig at Miller.
In 2008, the NBA threatened to fine players for theatrical flopping, but little, if any punishment, has been doled...


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MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. - July 16, 2013 --Police say a woman who is seven months pregnant fought off a man who tried to pull her out of her car at a red light in Manchester Township.
The 23-year-old Toms River resident was stopped on Route 571 just before 11 p.m. Thursday when a man opened the driver's door, grabbed the woman and attempted to yank her out.
The woman fought the man off and drove away.
The Asbury Park Press reports the woman sustained injuries to her neck and knuckles.
Information from: Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, http://www.app.com


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Triceratops horn find supports meteor extinction theory
Hell Creek fossil not actually coated in iridium, but ...
A team of boffins from Yale University look likely to have uncovered the world's youngest dinosaur and in the process provided support for the Alvarez hypothesis – that the dinosaurs were wiped out as a result of a massive meteor strike some 65 million years ago.
Since the early 1990s, it has been generally accepted that an asteroid strike in Mexico killed off the dinosaurs. It created the K-T boundary – a transition line in the earth's crust rich in iridium – a metal not common on earth but often found in asteroids and meteors.
The only problem with this hypothesis was a lack of dinosaur fossils anywhere near the line – which suggested the giant lizards might have died out thousands of years before the space strike.
But now a team from Yale led by Tyler Lyson has found a likely triceratops horn just 13 centimetres from the KT line.
Lyson said: "The fact that this specimen was so close to the boundary indicates that at least some dinosaurs were doing fine right up until the impact." Exact aging is impossible but the team believe the creature must have lived within some tens of thousands of years to a few thousand years before the impact.
The team is now looking at over fossils in Hell Creek, Montana and will use soil analysis to judge exactly how far from the boundary those bones lie.
But Gregory Retallack, a soil scientist from the University of Oregon, warned against reading too much into the finding. He told Science Now that finding one bone did not prove either the gradual or the meteor impact theory. He said researchers would expect to find fewer bones close to the line, whether it was an instant or a gradual extinction.


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The day Charles Holland resigned last spring as president of the Writers Guild of America, forced out by his lying about serving in the Armys elite Special Forces, marked an escalation of the brush war between military impostors and the fakebusters who bring them down. Fought over the Internet and through Freedom of Information Act requests, this war is a uniquely post-Vietnam phenomenon born of the information revolution, a newfound reverence for the armed forces and old-fashioned American gullibility. As impostors use bogus credentials to bilk and flimflam their way into jobs, business contracts and free medical care, informal networks of obsessive fakebusters track them with a zeal reminiscent of Nuremberg Trial investigators. But are the impostors worth the effort? And have the fakebusters, by recently applying their zeal in a highly partisan effort to discredit presidential candidate John Kerry, lost sight of their mission?
The liars have been at it for years. Actor Brian Dennehys oft-repeated claims of having been a wounded Marine in Vietnam were uncovered when, in 1998, B.G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley revealed in their book, Stolen Valor, that Dennehy had never set foot in Vietnam. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has been forced by angry former SEALs to stop claiming hed been a member of their group in Vietnam. Pulitzer Prizewinning historian and Mount Holyoke professor Joseph Ellis was suspended when his imaginary war heroics were debunked. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patrick Couwenberg lost his job for making up his war résumé. Then there was Joseph A. Cafasso who, using a counterfeit Special Forces past, finagled work as a terrorism expert at FOX News and with Patrick Buchanans 2000 presidential campaign.
Categories of service claimed by military fakes include Vietnam War POWs and combat veterans, Purple Heart winners and members of Special Forces teams. According to various shame lists posted on fakebuster Web sites, the number of verified military impostors tips well into the thousands. The POW Network (www.pownetwork.org), begun by Chuck and Mary Schantag in 1989, is a mom-and-pop outfit that possibly operates the largest nongovernmental database of proven prisoners of war. (Chuck runs POWnets Web site, Mary does the research.) The Missouri couple became fakebusters by accident when they began hearing from people claiming to have POW neighbors who did not show up in the Schantags database. On the phone Mary Schantag sounds like an exasperated den mother when she describes the long-term effects of sifting through so many lies.
Sadly, Schantag says, it makes us doubt everyone we come into contact with. Its forced us to take a whole different look at humanity. If Im shopping and see a car with POW plates in the parking lot, Ill leave a calling card requesting the owner send me confirmation. If I dont hear from them Ill run the license number and call them.
Schantag says she began tracking phonies in 1998 and that about 75 percent of POWnets time is now spent exposing them. Although service records cannot be released without members permission, the Freedom of Information Act permits third parties to receive a redacted summary of a personnel file (DD Form 214) to tell whether they are lying. Schantag says she receives about 20 inquiries a week and has exposed more than 1,500 people.
We file Freedom of Information Act requests seven days a week, she tells me. People will fax me [inquiries] on Christmas Day theyve been sitting at the dinner table and have had enough of years of listening to their fathers war stories. Or someone will make a deathbed request for a military funeral, only to have the family find out the person was never in the military. I had a woman [living with an impostor] call who said, Im pregnant and need to know if my baby might be at risk from Agent Orange.
Fakebusters will tell you they dont go after the guy bragging in a bar, only those people who go public or use a fictitious military record for personal gain. About a half-dozen well-established Web sites expose phonies by posting information, including photographs, of identified fakes and descriptions of their claims. Some pictures were taken at formal galas or barbecues, and their subjects tend to be heavy-set, late-middle-aged men stuffed into beribboned dress uniforms or, sometimes, biker-type vests impressively splattered with unit patches. POWnets long columns of fakes describe the masqueraders in terse sentences:
Claims 5th SF, Major, 4 DSC, 5 Purple Hearts, 101st Airborne. Wears tan TAM (not U.S. MILITARY ISSUE beret) with flash on it! Oak leaf (rank) is not worn properly.
Claims SEAL, Green Berets 1969, 10th Special Forces Group 1970, 5th Special Forces MACVSOG with 41st Rangers in Moc Hoa. Shot by sniper 6 days before end of 2nd year in Vietnam.
Some impostors use their phony credentials to run scams ranging from embezzlement to lonely-hearts swindles. (Others have allegedly even used falsified records to get jobs within the Department of Veterans Affairs.) Convicted cocaine smuggler David Silbergeld became a SEAL with a typewriter, as one fakebuster told me, referring to Silbergelds fictional SEAL war record, which earned him full disability pay of more than $2,300 per month. Silbergeld used a prison-earned doctorate from a diploma mill to become a Pennsylvania community-college history professor and contributor to National Defense magazine, as well as to set up a business that defrauded the U.S. government through sales of night-vision equipment. At his sentencing he pleaded for leniency by pointing to his bogus military record.
Not every impostor is a civilian or a crook. Some once served brief, undistinguished hitches in the service, some were even decorated; others seem happy to use imaginary backgrounds to become officers in veterans groups, to regale school assemblies with make-believe combat yarns or, bizarrely, to show up at military funerals in full-dress uniforms. (Falsely wearing military uniforms and medals are minor federal crimes, though rarely prosecuted.) Jerald Jellison, a psychology professor who teaches at the University of Southern California, is an expert in the field of impression management, which he defines as the study of how we go about the management of other peoples impressions of us.
This phenomenon of deception takes place in other species besides Homo sapiens, Jellison says. There are animals that for their own protection look like other, dangerous animals. Two questions are important for the impostor: Whats the incentive? And whats the likelihood of getting caught? It helps if [they] live in a highly mobile environment where people dont know [them]. Another thing that helps is our belief that were good at detecting lies.
Jellison says that impostors in any part of society tend to unintentionally back into fictitious identities through a kind of primal white lie that soon snowballs:
They usually start small and go through some steps. The full-blown thing of putting on a uniform with medals is preceded by a lot of smaller steps that are often started in some very specific situation. Maybe its an argument about parallels between Vietnam and Iraq, and a person wants to win that argument. Hed find it very easy to say, Well, I was in Vietnam. Or maybe its to impress a woman Yeah, Ive seen duty, dont want to talk about it.
The case of Micah Ian Wright, a TV animator and popular anti-war illustrator whose work has appeared in the L.A. Weekly, fits Jellisons profile. Last April, Wright had his new book yanked from the printer after admitting hed lied about serving as an Army Ranger in the 1989 Panama invasion during which, he claimed, hed experienced an anti-war epiphany. When I contacted him, he, like other alleged fakes sought out for this article, declined to speak and instead sent an e-mail, stating, Im still trying to put this whole thing behind me, so Im gonna pass.
Wrights online narrative, at least, confirms Jellisons theory of steps. Like most lies, Wright admits on his Web site, this one started off small and rapidly spiraled out of control. I never could have imagined that it would grow to eventually consume every facet of my life.
Once you go public with these claims, youre often trapped, says Jellison. Other people will want to publicize you. Once the ball starts rolling you have to keep it moving. And you have to be convincing you have to deceive yourself into believing yourself you were there.
Ive met phonies my whole life, says Steven Waterman. I just didnt have any way to check them. Waterman, who speaks in a gruff, Maine accent, is part of an investigative team called VeriSEAL (www.VeriSEAL) and quick to point out that he is not a SEAL, but a former Navy deep-sea diver, intelligence and combat photographer who served in Vietnam. His autobiography, Just a Sailor, was published last year.
My affiliation with VeriSEAL is busting persons claiming to be former SEALs, he says. Not the kind whos trying to impress a girlfriend, but people who are using the rib cages of others who have gone before as ladders of success.
One of Watermans former competitors is Steve Robinson, who is an ex-Navy SEAL. In 1972, he was taking a radio course at Coronado, California, when the Navy made a design change in the enlisted SEALs Budweiser badge (the eagle and trident emblem that somewhat resembles the beer companys logo) from silver to gold. Robinson immediately faced a dilemma.
I was newly married and very poor, he tells me. I made about $200 per month with jump and demolition pay.
Unable to afford the $14 for a new badge, and with an inspection coming up, Robinson sold his silver Budweiser to a non-SEAL classmate, who told Robinson he planned to apply for SEAL training and merely needed the badge for inspiration.
Three weeks later, Robinson says, hes at a bar in cammies telling tall tales about being in Seal Team Three which was not yet in existence. I confronted him before class one day. Word about the deceit quickly spread. His mattress was rolled up by the end of the day and he was gone.
Today Robinson lives with his wife in Missouris Ozark Mountains, where he works as a blacksmith and knife maker. On the phone Robinson speaks in an earnest, though agitated voice, while in the background his parrot, Manu, whistles Scott Joplins The Entertainer or perfectly mimics a meowing cat. Until recently Robinson was an investigator for a fakebusting rival of VeriSEAL called AuthentiSEAL (www.authentiSEAL.org), then left to write a self-published book on frauds, No Guts, No Glory.
(AuthentiSEAL advertises itself as The only service where all investigators are U.S. Navy SEALs. For its part, VeriSEAL alleges that Robinsons group stole many of VeriSEALs Hall of Shame names for AuthentiSEALs Wall of Shame.)
Any SEAL will recognize another within 30 seconds of conversation, Robinson says. Theres no secret handshake or code words. Talk will go something like, Do you remember instructor so-and-so, were you in training class such-and-such? Names of other individuals and instructors will come up. You know theyre lying when they say their records are classified and it would violate the law to talk about them, or when an hour later, after three beers, they start quoting the plot line of a Discovery Channel program on SEALs or the movie Navy SEALs.
The phony SEALs are easy to expose because SEALs are a small community, agrees Waterman. A lot of them never were in the military, some were Army that got shitcanned in boot camp. One woman claimed she was a SEAL even though theres never been a female SEAL.
Both Robinson and Waterman see status as the main factor motivating fakes who pose as members of the Special Forces.
In the male culture of our time, Robinson says, the guy perceived as the most dangerous is the one everyone looks up to. During Vietnam it was the Green Beret. Today its the Navy SEAL.
I think they believe its something they themselves respect, says Waterman. The people who do it dont know much about the teams or have seen too many Steven Seagal films.
Fakebusting is not a hobby for its partisans, but a relentless, obsessive hunt for certainty. I dont know of a single investigator who hasnt boiled over and stepped back to take a break, says AuthentiSEALs Robinson. It takes over your waking life and enters your dreams.
Busting fakes can turn nasty when a suspects e-mail, home address and license plate number, along with home and work phones, are posted on the Internet and especially if former SEALs or POWs suddenly appear on his doorstep. Robinson claims he has been warned away from contacting suspects by lawyers fearful for their clients safety.
VeriSEAL, originally formed in 1992 to conduct background checks on job applicants for the Security Enterprise Corporation, is also pitiless in tracking down and exposing phonies. When celebrity bodyguard Tony Maffatone, who is sometimes credited with being the inspiration for Sylvester Stallones Rambo character, died in 2000, the New York Post described Maffatone as a hero who was one of 11 of his 30-man SEAL unit to survive Vietnam.
VeriSEALs Web site begged to differ. Fake SEAL, So-Called Security Pro Dies in Diving Accident, headlined its account of Maffatones death.
When I asked VeriSEALs Waterman about this, he replied, with Mickey Spillanelike fatalism, Just because youre dead doesnt mean youre not a phony.
Fakebusters claim suspects are given every opportunity to clarify the record and that the POW database and Freedom of Information Act requests ensure virtual DNA maps to the truth.
We havent found one authentic POW who was left off the list, says Schantag.
Still, other alleged fakes, including Charles Holland, have been threatened with violence, and the humiliation and pressure of public exposure can cause men to snap. David Silbergeld committed suicide after being unmasked, as did Americas top Navy officer, Admiral Jeremy Mike Boorda, in 1996, when he learned Newsweek was about to run an article questioning his right to wear valor clasps on his Vietnam service ribbon.
After the publication of Micah Wrights first book, a remixing of patriotic WWII posters with anti-war messages called You Back the Attack! Well Bomb Who We Want!, fakebusters within the Ranger community bombarded him with hostile e-mails and, in a typical strategy, went to the media after doing their own research. When he learned the Washington Post was about to expose him, Wright admitted hed lied and began publishing not one but three apologies on his Web site, each more contrite than its predecessor, a sign that the Rangers were not happy with the earlier ones. Tellingly, one mea culpa ends, And please . . . no more death threats.
Every swinging dick on TV in a uniform is considered a hero, Steve Robinson says. Theres been a big turnaround in military honor, everyone wants to know about the military its in high repute.
Over the past 20 years Americas attitudes toward the armed forces have undergone a radical about-face, which can be directly attributed to the countrys re-evaluation of the Vietnam War at one time regarded as an imperial disaster but now nostalgically held up as a moment of American innocence. This radical change in public perception, in turn, owes much to what might be called the cult of the POW and the forgotten-man syndrome.
The first created an enormously powerful movement that popularized the accusation still heard today that there are thousands of Americans languishing in Vietnamese prison camps, left behind by an ungrateful country. Forgotten-man syndrome springs from a similar complaint that soldiers returning from Southeast Asia never got their parade or monuments, but were instead spat upon. Today, however, the parades never stop in America, which embraces the Vietnam conflict with a culture of remembrance befitting a world war or the Holocaust.
As Robinson says, this new reverence has recast all American soldiers from field grunts to mess-hall cooks as warriors and heroes above reproach simply because they wear uniforms. Such an uncritical environment offers hustlers and wannabes alike an irresistible temptation and explains why, as the number of Americans who have served in the armed forces steadily shrinks in proportion to those who havent, the ranks of people illegally masquerading as military veterans have exploded.
There has been another consequence: Even now, as the first Iraqi war impostors are beginning to appear on fakebusting shame lists, the resurgence in military pride has also provided ammunition to those still fighting the culture wars of the 1960s and 70s. The official Web sites of the U.S. armed forces, fraternal veterans organizations and military benevolent associations, with their sleek graphics and politically neutral pages, have become part of a well-paved information highway. Beyond these, however, lie military sites catering to war buffs, gun enthusiasts and paintball warriors. Here the information highway turns to gravel as spelling becomes shaky and the tone gets shrill and profanity-punctuated. This is where youll find fake and long-ago debunked photos of John Kerry sharing a podium with Jane Fonda during the Vietnam War, along with evidence that Kerry shot himself to get out of continued service in Vietnam or that he really received a dishonorable discharge.
Not since the end of Franklin Roosevelts first term has a presidential candidate been the object of so much partisan hatred as Kerry. None of the vitriol directed toward him appears on fakebusters Web pages, but the anti-Kerry attacks are only one mouse click away from some, while individual fakebusters pour out their bile from personal online sites. Forget that Kerry hasnt falsely claimed to have been a POW or Vietnam combat vet he may as well change his name to Michael Moore, as far as some veterans are concerned. These same fellow Vietnam vets who turned on John McCain with such fury (even questioning whether or not hed truly suffered during his years as a POW) for opposing George W. Bush in the 2000 Republican primaries regard Kerrys early anti-war activism as treasonous.
Indeed, POWnets Chuck and Mary Schantag have been widely quoted as saying no veteran theyve spoken to would vote for John Kerry, while Erika and Henry Mark Holzer, who co-authored a fakebusting book in 2003 (Fake Warriors), have gotten into the act by publicly obsessing over the appropriateness of Kerrys medals rather than whether or not Kerry was actually in the Navy or served in Vietnam. Meanwhile, B.G. Burkett, whose Stolen Valor is a kind of bible for vets who believe their honor has been sullied by fakes and political correctness, is busy speaking on behalf of the anti-Kerry Vietnam Veterans for Truth, a group cloned from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
Last month Burkett (who did not return phone calls for this article) spoke at a Kerry Lied rally held in Washington, D.C., and organized by Vietnam Veterans for Truth president Captain Larry Bailey, USN, Retired himself a key SEAL fakebuster. Photos of the rally, posted on Steven Watermans personal Web site, show a banner with caricatures of Fonda and Kerry, wearing Vietnamese peasant hats, their names spelled in the kind of oriental lettering you find on Chinese takeout boxes. Perhaps more comically, Burkett later admitted, in a Washington Times interview, that his rally had been attended by none other than a notorious military impostor.
What has been even more startling than the anti-Kerry veterans charges is the ferocious anger with which they burst onto the election campaign scene. Retired U.S. Army Colonel and author David Hackworth, in his online Soldiers for the Truth column, pleaded for both sides in the Kerry-Bush service disputes to halt their attacks, yet singled out the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as a chorus of haters who were harming the cause of all veterans. A judge, Hackworth wrote, would call these men liars and disallow their biased statements.
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Regardless of whether John Kerry becomes president, the credibility of military fakebusters will be questioned by at least some Americans who wonder why a decorated combat veteran is being hounded by people who dont bat an eyelash over George W. Bushs phantom National Guard service. Justifiably or not, when they see B.G. Burkett on FOX News dusting off McCarthyite guilt-by-association tactics, in trying to link Kerry with Jane Fonda, theyll begin to wonder how fair and balanced is his own fakebusting research. (He absolutely caused more deaths in Vietnam, Burkett told Hannity and Colmes. He extended the war. Thats why hes mentioned favorably in virtually every north Communist [sic] book, biography . . . His picture hangs in honor.)
The deeper lessons of the Kerry donnybrook may lie in a realization of how nearly impossible it is to define the past. Both sides in this campaign issue have assembled experts and even eyewitnesses who still swear by diametrically opposite truths.
Since John F. Kennedys assassination, historic events have been captured in increasingly detailed relief by ever more sophisticated recording technologies, yet remain Rashomon-like mysteries open to interpretation. Forget about solving Kennedys murder how would his PT-109 legend fare under the gaze of todays history police? In the 21st century military fakes have unprecedentedly sophisticated tools at their disposal via the Internet. Their implacable hunters also use cyber research to expose them, yet new fakes begin operating every day. As Steven Waterman says, We bust them but keep finding more under the rocks.
Perhaps distortion has become second nature to Americans. I certainly would condemn these people, professor Jellison says of military fakes, but lets not treat them as though they are completely different from us. Theres an element of impression management that we all engage in. It can be something as simple as inflating your résumé, using cosmetics or having plastic surgery. It is important to recognize that we all have that trait.


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Biology 410
BIOL 410:411 Human Anatomy and Physiology for Science Majors I and II
Prerequisites for BIOL 410: A grade of "C" or better in BIOL 131, 132, BIOL 231, and BIOL 232, and CHEM 101:102; or a grade of "C" or better in CHEM 302.
Credit Hours: (4)
Provides an in-depth introduction to human physiology and anatomy. The course will include an overview of major organ systems and processes as well as discussion of homeostatic mechanisms, physiological integration, dysfunction, and development. The course will incorporate aspects of organic chemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology. Laboratory will involve both cadaver dissection and active investigations of organismic physiology. Recommended for science majors, and students of any major who plan to enter medical or physician assistant programs. Not recommended for pre-nursing majors; ESHE students preparing for careers in athletic training, fitness/strength, health education, nutrition or sports administration; recreation students; or other non-science majors.
Detailed Description of Course
In 410, Lecture will typically include (but is not limited to) such topics as:
I. Physiological homeostasis
a. Internal consistency in a varying environment
b. Negative feedback and interaction with external stimuli
c. Allostasis
II. Metabolism & Energetics
a. Metabolism and catabolism of major nutrients (carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins)
. Regulation of food intake
c. Processes of thermoregulation
d. Integration of all major systems in metabolic maintenance.
III. Dermal tissues
a. Epidermal, dermal and hypodermal tissues
b. Endodermis
c. Specialized dermal substructures (hair, apocrine & merocrine glands)
d. Diseases and disorders of the skin
IV. Osteonic tissues
a. Bone structures and functions
b. Bone growth & Wolff's law
c. PTH/Calcitonin balance
d. Osteoclast/blast/cyte growth and regulation
e. Dental morphology
f. Morphology of tendons, ligaments, and supporting connective tissue in addition to bone.
g. Diseases & disorders of bone
V. Muscular physiology
a. Sliding filament theory
b. Aerobic and anaerobic respiration
c. Muscle diseases & disorders
VI. Cardiopulmonary function
a.Cardiac control and function
b.Endocrine regulation of blood pressure
c. Integration of respiratory and cardiac physiology
d. Lung volumetrics
e. Cardiopulmonary disease and dysfunction
VII. Hematology
a. Marrow and hematopoiesis
b. Splenic function and hemolysis
c. Erythropoietin
d. Adaptations to altitudinal variation
e. Hemoglobin transport capacities and affinity
f. Transport of dissolved gases
g. Blood typing
h. Blood diseases & disorders
VIII. Immunology
a. Hemostasis
b. Leukogenesis
c. Development, maintenance, and integration of specific and non-specific defenses
d. Pathogens and infections agents
e. Cancer
f. Allergies & autoimmune diseases
g. Immune disorders & diseases
In 411, Lecture will typically include (but is not limited to) such topics as:
IX. Neuroanatomy, Central and Peripheral Nervous System
a. Neuronal morphology and neuronal subtypes
b. Major brain areas and nuclei
c. CNS integration and major sensory function
d. PNS integration and major sensory function
e. Sympathetic and parasympathetic regulation of the ANS
f. Major disorders of the nervous system
X. Neuroendocrinology and Endocrinology
a. Signal-Receptor dynamics
b. Molecular production pathways
c. Binding globulins
d. Metabolic and growth management
e. HPG axis
f. HPA axis
g. Energy regulation
h. Renin, angiotensin, aldosterone, ANP, ADH
i. Excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters
j. Dopamine, serotonin and other catecholamine hormones
k. Endocrine disorders
XI. Reproductive & developmental physiology
a. Male reproductive physiology & anatomy
b. Female reproductive physiology & anatomy
c. Hormonal regulation of reproduction
e. Embryogenesis
f. Placental function and fetal development
g. Reproductive disorders
XII. Gerontology
a. Physiology of aging
b. Cellular aging, Hayflick limitations, apoptosis
XIII. Renal physiology
a. Nephronic anatomy & function
b. Dynamic regulation of water balance, electrolytes, and pH
c. Kidney diseases & disorders
XIV. Gastrointestinal systemics
a. Histology and anatomy of the GI tract
b. Mechanisms of digestion
c. pH & Enzymatics
d. Methods of nutrient absorption
e. Role of emulsification
f. Dynamics of intestinal bacterial symbiosis
g. GI tract diseases & disorders
XV. Hepatic function
a. Liver macroanatomy
b. Liver lobules
c. Metabolic pathways of the liver
d. Bile production
e. Hepatitis & cirrhosis
Other topics that may become important through ongoing research in physiology or through changes in medical practice may be incorporated or substituted.
Laboratory may include (but is not limited to) such experiences as:
I. Identification of the human anatomical features, using cadaver tissue and physiological models, of all major systems: skeletal, musuclar, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, immune, digestive, urinary and reproductive.
II. Utilization of various laboratory techniques to explore questions in physiological processes and anatomical features
III. Designing and maintaining experiments
IV. Collecting data and managing databases
V. Analyzing, synthesizing, and presenting physiological data and results
VI. Identifying, critiquing and utilizing scientific literature and/or scientific case studies
Detailed Description of Conduct of Course
The course will be taught as a lecture paired with group-based exploratory discussion of primary literature paired with an inquiry based laboratory component. Students will be introduced to basic concepts of the field during interactive lectures and familiarized with the material through the use of select examples in lab. Student groups will then be required to present and critique current research articles relevant to the subject in question. During these discussions students will be rewarded for accurately explaining and critiquing articles utilizing knowledge gleaned from the course, as well for proposing alterations or subsequent research projects that build on the study in question. In laboratory exercises students will learn through active dissection of cadavers and similar instructor demonstrated activities, as well as through guided experimentation, data collection and analyses. These and similar pedagogic strategies will provide students the opportunity to engage in interactive discussion and critical analysis, as well as improving verbal and written presentation skills.
The overall goal of the course is to familiarize students with a variety of topics incorporated under the general field of human anatomy and physiology. The course is intended to familiarize students with ongoing research and recent developments in the field, as well as to increase their appreciation for the synthesis, integration and application of knowledge gained from earlier courses. The course will also provide students with the analytical tools needed to deconstruct research within the field and to connect human physiology and anatomy to other fields of biological inquiry.
Student Goals and Objectives of the Course
Having successfully completed this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate critical analysis and discussion skills related to key topics in human anatomy and physiology
- Demonstrate an understanding of how homeostasis is maintained under the pressures of a dynamic external environment.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how homeostasis is maintained under changing life history stages
- Describe mechanisms supporting homeostasis in multiple organ systems
- Describe interactions and integration of primary organ systems
- Demonstrate an understanding of developmental and infectious disease in relation to discussed organ systems
- Describe function, location and nomenclature of primary organ systems
- Describe organ system development and aging
- Demonstrate dissection skills and an understanding of anatomical features
- Describe how organs and tissues functions can be related to genetic, cellular and molecular features
Having successfully completed the laboratory component of this course, the student will be able to:
- Utilize appropriate methods in experimental design
- Manage, collect, analyze, synthesize and present data
- Demonstrate adept dissection skills
- Identify form and function of various human anatomical features from cadaver tissue as well as laboratory models
- Demonstrate an understanding of and utilize the application of various laboratory techniques and methods of analysis
Assessment Measures
Student comprehension may be assessed through quizzes, exams, laboratory activities, discussion, essays and presentations. Tests may be designed so that the students must demonstrate synthesis and critical analysis.
Other Course Information
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George Bald, commissioner at Department of Resources and Economic Development, recently signed Rochester's application to designate the development district as an Economic Revitalization Zone (ERZ).
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There are approximately 100 ERZs in New Hampshire. The zone provides a benefit that may attract and retain businesses within an ERZ and has proven successful over the years, according to Karen Pollard, deputy city manager and director of community development.
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Torta de Congrejo
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|Day Part
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These saffron infused crabcakes are cooked until golden brown and crisp. A spicy chile cheese sauce is the perfect accompaniament.
1 knob of butter
1 cup onion, diced
3 cups red pepper, diced
1⁄2 cup garlic, chopped
1 potato, peeled, diced
2 tbsp. saffron
6 cups clam juice
1 lb. frozen yuca
Canola oil, as needed
1⁄2 cup Cotija cheese, grated
1 red onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, chopped
1 green pepper, diced
1⁄2 cup mayonnaise
1⁄2 cup dijon mustard
1 tbsp. cayenne pepper
5 dashes hot sauce
- In a small saucepan, melt butter and sauté onion, 2 cups red pepper, garlic and potato. Add saffron and sauté until onion is translucent. Add clam juice and bring to boil, then simmer 30 min. Season to taste; reserve.
- In a stock pot over high heat, place yuca in boiling salted water. Return it to a boil; simmer 15-20 min. until done, but firm. Cool, remove fibrous vein and refrigerate.
- In a large skillet, heat 2 tbsp. oil and sauté onion, garlic and remaining peppers approx. 5 min. Add sautéed vegetables, mayonnaise, mustard and cayenne pepper to yuca. Work through with hands, smashing, until combined. Add crab meat and season to taste. Refrigerate.
- Form mixture into cakes, flour each side and brown in a lightly oiled skillet. Finish in a 350° F. oven for 5-10 min.
Place warm cakes on a plate. Spoon huacaina sauce around plate. Top with a saffron mayonnaise.


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A bee can only survive 20 seconds without air even butterflies can survive a bit longer they are all going to die .....
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Might watch Fate/Zero out of curiosity
Another announcement Today awesome
Hope to see Mirai Nikki and/or Mashiro iro Symphony and/or C^3(C Cube) and/or Ben-To
Line-up for CR for the Fall looks small
Right now I'm watching 4 out 5 of the anime CR is simulcast/streaming
Yeahhhhh Boiiiiiii Crunchyroll adds Working!! S2
SCHOOL DAYS HQ ENGLISH (SUB) VERSION - 77% of the Game Completed
Why can't you guys ever get these things approved in Germany? Seriously what's the deal?
Still not Norway lol.
First I was like Yeah awesome!!! Fate/Zero!
Then I was like Noooooo.... not available in my country....
Could you guys at CR maybe explain why you couldn't get it to other countries?
You probably getting sick of the negative comments about region locks, but it might be better if there was a place of the site where you explain how this licensing works.
I find it strange, because no TV channel will ever air this in my country, and there is even a very low chance of a DVD coming available here.
And where does the money go from my subscription, hopefully it won't go to the company's of anime's I can't watch.
Being lazy
who didnt see this coming is the question people should be asking
Currently single and I love anime
Good release, but I'll not watch again.
Just boring releases avaible in my region. =/
Keep your Hero alive!
Im glad its coming out, but I kind of wish I could get the game in english.
"One more thing!" - Jackie Chan Adventures
didnt think it was gonna happen, but huzzah! it did
An entire week late for each episode is not Simucasting.=\
Noo. I really wanted to see this! But I can't because I live in Sweden D:
I must say.... Am I the only one who thinks that Nico Nico stream is good looking? And I'm looking it from 23" screen, so...
Yeah, it would be fun to watch Fate/zero from CR (which isn't shown in Finland >:) but I don't have any complaints from Nico. Am I just lonely odd one who can watch he's anime legally free in HD? =D
Delaycasts aren't worth watching
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I must say.... Am I the only one who thinks that Nico Nico stream is good looking? And I'm looking it from 23" screen, so...
In discussing this with llamaben in the "Fall 2011 Anime" topic, it is clear I somehow got a lower quality stream. The one he snagged reported a file size of 380MB, while the one I got totaled only 87.2MB. I can only surmise that when you click to obtain full screen video, they up the bitrate.
Regarding the other simulcast Crunchyroll just added to this topic, I was surprised they got Wagnaria!! S2 (Working'!!). While in the past this has meant CR would obtain the first series as a library title, given that NIS America already holds that license, this may end up like Hayate no Gotoku!, where the first series was not available to CR users until much later.
Yes, that's my real age
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Im glad its coming out, but I kind of wish I could get the game in english.
It is coming out in English I forgot the name of the company, but they got Fate/Zero and Hakuouki. I think they are called ARKYS or something they also released the Blazblue games stateside too.
Life is a bitch, so if its easy you're doing it wrong
It's strange that the Fate Zero page is at the moment available for Germany...so I hope it stays that way.^^
Unfortunately, no sign for Working`!!. I don't understand why the Japanese licensors block certain countries and Germany doesn't even have a local simulcast website and most fans understand English here...