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Updated: Straight-ticket voting applauded, panned at House hearingBY BILL SMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 15. 2013 11:36AM
CONCORD— Advocates of a return to straight party ticket voting, abandoned by the state in 2007, made their pitch before the state House Committee on Election Law Tuesday.
The measure would let voters cast a ballot for every candidate of a particular party in a general election with a single check. They could also vote for each office individually. Some saw it as a convenience for voters; others as an unnecessarily confusing complication to voting. Still others debated the place of straight-ticket voting in modern politics.
"It is just a simplicity, a non-partisan partisan measure," said Rep. Fred Rice, R-Hampton, a co-sponsor. "A number of voters go in and say 'I know in advance that I want to vote for all one party or another;' for them it is a convenience."
Rice and another of the bill's four co-sponsors, Rep. Jeanine Notter, R-Merrimack, said the bill would reduce lines at polling places, such as the lines said to have delayed the counting of ballots in many Granite State communities. The measure was opposed at Tuesday's committee meeting by some lawmakers who saw it as creating confusion for voters casting ballots in state representative districts, in which more than one candidate is elected.
Supporters said the bill's language provides that if a voter casts a straight-ticket vote, but then casts a ballot for a member of the opposite party, the vote next to the individual candidate of a particular party prevails.
Straight party ticket voting is allowed in 15 states, according to material from the National Conference of State Legislatures. One of the straight party ticket states, New Mexico, leaves it up to the discretion of its secretary of state, who broke with tradition in 2012 by not offering straight ticket balloting in the presidential election.
In New England, only Rhode Island allows the straight party line vote, and like the proposed New Hampshire legislation, it is only offered in general elections and not in primaries. Some states allow voting for an entire slate of party convention nominated candidates with a single swipe in a primary.
In addition to complaints that straight ticket balloting would be confusing or could potentially allow members of one party to manipulate the process to gain a nominations in each party, political implications were never far from the minds of the elected officials who argued the measure.
Rep. Ruth Gage, D-Goffstown, a committee member, said she was been a political victim of straight party ticket prior to its repeal five years ago.
"Straight ticket votes were enough so that I was voted out before they even started counting the split tickets," Gage said. "I would get calls saying 'what happened you didn't win' and I said 'you voted a straight ticket, didn't you.'"
The bill was opposed on philosophical grounds by Rep. Peter Schmidt, D-Dover, who said arguments about making voting faster are not persuasive.
"Convenience of the voters as a determining factor is not a useful factor to override what should be a careful selection," Schmidt said. "It is irresponsible for voters to just give a vote to his or her party's candidate without knowing anything about that candidate."
As for the suggestion straight-party-ticket voting would speed the rate at which votes are cast, Schmidt argued that anyone inclined to vote a straight party ticket could easily breeze through the ballot in a minute or so.
"One of the reasons for straight ticket voting in the beginning was because many people were illiterate in the old days and couldn't read the names of candidates," Schmidt said. "They recognized the symbol of their party."
Bill sponsor Rice recalled his father's three word slogan while serving as longtime Republican Town Committee chairman in Hampton decades ago. "Vote straight Republican," was the elder Rice's slogan, and his son said there is still some merit to the idea of voting along party lines.
"If the person at the top of the ticket is someone you support, and you like their ideas, their principles, their approach everything about them, why in the world would you ever vote for someone down the line that is against that," Rice said, recalling his father's stance on the issue.
In addition to Rice and Notter, the straight party ticket election bill is co-sponsored by Reps. Donald LeBrun, R-Nashua and Lenette Peterson, R-Merrimack.


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Sports medicine is vital because equine athletes, just like human athletes, have a tendency to push their bodies higher, further, and faster than most. The injuries that result, even when not catastrophic, can limit a horse's ability to perform. In order to compete as athletes, horses need to be sound, able to breathe well, have an efficiently functioning heart and vasculature, and their neurologic systems, which orchestrate the whole, need to be intact. The role of equine sports medicine is to determine how each of these body systems enables the horse to perform at a maximum level, and, if the horse's performance has decreased, to determine which body system is malfunctioning.
The Equine Sports Medicine and Surgical Service at the Hospital for Large Animals focuses on offering the evaluation and management of conditions affecting the performance of equine athletes, utilizing the most advanced techniques and treatments available, including:
The Hospital for Large Animals also offers cutting-edge, regenerative equine therapies for patients, including:
Sports medicine is not only for elite horses. Whether poor performance means coming in fourth rather than first in the grand prix or having an unpleasant trail ride because your horse was coughing, limitations to a horse's physical ability means that the horse cannot do his job happily or well. Sports medicine is for the 4-H pony, the three-day event horse, the barrel racer, the endurance horse, the multi-million dollar racehorse—and the list goes on. Sports medicine is for any horse and rider/driver team that wants to be able to exercise without pain and without limitation to the horse's genetic potential.
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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Bringing Up the Past and Letting Go of Anger
Oh, my past. There are so many stories to tell. Many that I've forgotten and many more that I want to forget.
Damn you, FB.
An innocent friend request. Someone from my 20+ years ago past.
I hesitated for over a month.
Finally, I accepted. When, out of curiosity, I scrolled through her friend list the name I found hit me hard and sent me reeling.
In an instant I was back there again. I knew better but I couldn't resist, I'd gone too far already. I clicked through and found the current details. I saw photos and almost vomited.
My skin crawled and anger rose instantly.
I'd hoped she was dead. She'd almost died so many times.
But there she was. A new name. Much older and withered, but very much alive.
My first love. She not only broke my heart, but she broke me.
The emotional, physical, financial and psychological pain she caused me all those years before derailed my life for the better part of a decade.
Reliving those memories is not something I want to do. But now I'm forced to do so. And I'm angry.
My god, for the last 2 days I have been so incredibly angry.
Last night, I meditated and let my mind go. I remembered the past. The snapshots of toxic 'us' played in my head. I tried to forgive myself for making such bad choices.
My entire life had been filled with drama and abuse and bad choices. There were no good role models for me to model any other type of behavior. Of course, I would be attracted to complete trash. I was trash myself.
Ouch. Cutting myself open and bleeding it out. Bleeding out the trash, the past, the filth, the lies, the love, the hate....letting it all go.
I cried for that girl I used to be. I was only 21 and I was such a fucked up mess. How damaged must I have been to love someone like that.
I want no ties to that. I can't erase my past. What's done is done and I paid the price heavily. But I need to remember it, embrace it, forgive it and let it go.
Easier said than done. How do I do that?
I've come so far in my life and this one act brought me back 23 years. It punched me in the gut and rocked my emotional state. I need to let it go.
How do you let go of anger?
I defriended the original request as I don't want my perpetrator to have any access to my life/details.
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- K J and the kids said...
Facebook the double edge sword.
I agree that it is all so much easier said than done. Forgiving and letting go is one of THE hardest things in many cases.
I have found that in order for me to forgive I have to understand.
I try to understand my part in it and also the part of the other person. (which can be really hard)
I dig deep for empathy and when I'm able to reflect on the other persons life...how they got to that place....the sadness and misery in their life....I'm able to then understand how we both came to the place that we did.
I forgive myself. Them. and remember that all things good and bad are in my past. That I am who I am because of them. and then I let it all go.
(easier said than done)
Good luck finding that place of peacefulness with this person.
And thank you for feeling safety in telling us here.
- April 3, 2013 at 3:56 PM
- Strawberry said...
I like what KJ said. It's hard though...so hard. I find it helps to write about it, too (personal journal).
- April 3, 2013 at 4:14 PM
It is very hard.Keep in mind the memories you have are from that period and no matter how you rationalize it now you just can't. You aren't the same person you were then. My counselor used to suggest the empty chair sessions.You say what you would want to say to that person and no holding back. Swear, kick, cry, scream do whatever you feel.
Do this and then let it go. You have a good life now with chicken and the boys. The past is the past
- April 3, 2013 at 9:15 PM
- shroomie said...
This happened to me in a similar way not to long ago. For me, I find piece in knowing that all of those crazy stories, the anger has made me who I am today. And for that I have to have some gratitude, for all I have now is pretty awesome.
- April 3, 2013 at 10:38 PM
- cat said...
Ai, I think many of us have similar tales to tell, hurts to get out, regrets to process. However I think forgiving ourselves is the hardest. Know that you were only 21 and forgive yourself for your choice.
Lots of love
- April 4, 2013 at 3:37 AM
- Marcia (123 blog) said...
ouch, sounds terrible. Glad you unfriended.
I have a someone from my past (work person that hated me) and I am not friends with any of her friends either I want her knowing nothing about me!
how are you doing today?
- April 4, 2013 at 2:42 PM
I use the "hide" feature on facebook, and mostly just stay away from it. There is not enough time in my day to keep up with people that I'm not that invested in. I'd rather focus on quality communication with the people I really love having in my life...
So I guess the answer for me is no facebook, and keep the focus on the people who really matter....
- April 9, 2013 at 10:52 AM
Most of my anger about past situations comes from guilt about how I handled the situation. In that case, I repeat to mysepf "I did the best I could with what I had." Usually, as I forgive myself, I'm able to let the situation go.
- April 12, 2013 at 7:09 PM
- Jen said...
I think anger itself is a double edged sword. Do you work through it to move forward, or do you forget about it, live in denial to move forward. For myself and my personal journey, I had to do a combination. Tiff is really the only person who has truly broken my heart and my soul, and I had to not only defriend, but completely block her so that I couldn't see her comments on mutual friends walls/posts, see her profile pictures, or any evidence of her existance on fb. And, I see her face to face twice a week and it is still hard. Have you read the book, The Dance with Anger? It is a great book and helped me a lot during my own process.
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JACKSON, Miss.—The No. 11 Birmingham-Southern men's basketball team won its 12th straight game this evening, defeating Millsaps College, 64-52, in Jackson, Miss.
BSC moves to 19-1 and 11-1 in the SCAC; the Majors fall to 8-12 overall and 3-9 in the league.
BSC jumped out to a 10-4 lead before the Majors battled back to cut it to 12-10 with 12:19 left in the half. The Panthers steadily extended their lead, thought, going up 24-15 with 6:51 remaining in the half. Millsaps was able to cut the lead back to four, twice, but the Panthers led 32-25 at halftime.
The Majors came out hot in the second half, using a 12-2 run to take the lead, 37-34, at the 11:46 mark. Millsaps led until the 10:35 mark when a three-pointer from junior Kevin Kegarise tied it up, 39-39, and BSC scored seven more unanswered points to go back up for the remainder of the game.
The closest Millsaps came after that point was cutting the lead to six, 56-50, with 2:45 left to play, but BSC scored eight unanswered points after that and ended the game on an 8-2 run to win by 12.
Junior Zac Richards led with 15 points on 6-of-7 shooting and nine rebounds, followed by Kegarise with 14 points on 5-of-7 shooting and junior Blaise White with 12 points. Richards also led with three assists.
BSC shot 21-of-43 (.488) for the game, 3-of-12 (.250) from long-range, and 19-of-23 (.826) from the free throw line. The Panthers out-rebounded the Majors 35-21 while committing two more turnovers than Millsaps with nine.
BSC stays on the road to face Rhodes College on Sunday at 3 p.m. in Memphis.


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Challenged Materials:
An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights
The American Library Association declares as a matter of firm principle that it is the responsibility of every library to have a clearly defined materials selection policy in written form that reflects the Library Bill of Rights, and that is approved by the appropriate governing authority.
Challenged materials that meet the criteria for selection in the materials selection policy of the library should not be removed under any legal or extra-legal pressure. The Library Bill of Rights states in Article I that "Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation," and in Article II, that "Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval." Freedom of expression is protected by the Constitution of the United States, but constitutionally protected expression is often separated from unprotected expression only by a dim and uncertain line. The Constitution requires a procedure designed to focus searchingly on challenged expression before it can be suppressed. An adversary hearing is a part of this procedure.
Therefore, any attempt, be it legal or extra-legal, to regulate or suppress materials in libraries must be closely scrutinized to the end that protected expression is not abridged.
Adopted June 25, 1971, by the ALA Council; amended July 1, 1981; January 10, 1990.
See also Reporting a Challenge
See also Conducting a Challenge Hearing
See also Coping with Challenges: Kids and Libraries
See also Coping with Challenges: Strategies and Tips for Dealing with Challenges to Library Materials
See also Dealing with Concerns about Library Resources
See also Workbook for Selection Policy Writing


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DETROIT (AP) — The corruption case of Kwame Kilpatrick was given to jurors Friday after a blistering summary from a prosecutor who said the former Detroit mayor's bank account swelled with a "tidal wave of green" through extortion and bribery.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Chutkow tried to pull the jury to the government's view of the evidence following 1½ days of passionate final remarks from defense lawyers. He posted Kilpatrick's text messages on a large screen to show that the fix was in for millions of dollars in city contracts that benefited a buddy who had a construction business.
The government alleges that Kilpatrick got a cut of those deals from co-defendant Bobby Ferguson and spent more than $800,000 beyond his salary while in office from 2002 to fall 2008.
"The scale of corruption was breathtaking," Chutkow told jurors. "We cannot turn away and ignore the corruption that occurred in this city. It is time for the former mayor and his accomplices to be held accountable for their crimes — it is past time."
Jurors who have been together for five months ate lunch Friday, but won't start formal deliberations until Tuesday. Monday is a public holiday.
Kilpatrick, 42, is charged with 30 crimes, including racketeering conspiracy, bribery, extortion and tax evasion. His father, Bernard, is a co-defendant along with Ferguson.
The main theme of the government's case is that Kwame Kilpatrick ensured that Ferguson got city excavation work and then enjoyed the cash spoils. But he also is accused of strong-arming other contractors to give public jobs to Ferguson and shaking down businesses.
Chutkow posted a graph for jurors that looked like the rising stock price of a high-flying company. It showed a major spike in Kilpatrick's cash deposits after he was elected in 2001.
Kilpatrick's defense lawyer said his client simply saved money and got cash gifts from supporters at holidays and at birthdays, including a hotel party called "Splash of Red."
It was "no splash of red," the prosecutor countered. "It was a tidal wave of green."
Defense attorneys said the government was trying to turn the defendants' close relationships into criminal acts. They said Kilpatrick, who is black, wanted to help Ferguson, who is black, and other minority-owned businesses.
"That agenda was a smoke screen," Chutkow told jurors. "They were equal opportunity extortionists. They drove out black and white contractors who got in their way, and they laughed at people when they came to the Kilpatrick administration for help."
Kilpatrick, a Democrat, resigned as mayor in 2008 in another scandal. He pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by lying in a civil case about whether he had had sex with a top aide. He subsequently served 14 months in prison for violating his probation in that case.
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LONDON (MarketWatch) — U.S. stock futures trimmed losses ahead of the opening bell Friday, a session that will cap a choppy week marked by a retreat in tech stocks.
Deal news from Apple Inc. may be on the way, while two huge advertising firms called off their merger talks. The euro fell under $1.38.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average US:DJM4 fell 16 points, or 0.1%, to 16,494, and futures for the S&P 500 index US:SPM4 shed 1 point, or 0.1%, to 1,871. Futures for the Nasdaq-100 index US:NDM4 fell 4 points, or 0.1%, to 3,533.
Stocks finished with losses on Thursday, putting the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.88% on track for a 1.7% decline for the week.
The tech-heavy index on Friday may take its cue from Apple AAPL, -2.14% , which is in talks to buy Beats Electronics for about $3.2 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported. Beats sells premium-sound headphones and speakers, and just launched a music-subscription service that could bolster Apple's presence in that area. Beats was established in 2008 by rapper Dr. Dre and record producer Jimmy Iovine.
While Apple and Beats may be joining forces, advertising heavyweights Omnicom Group Inc. OMC, +1.31% and Publicis Groupe SA PUB, +0.93% have called off their $35 billion merger.
"The challenges that still remained to be overcome, in addition to the slow pace of progress, created a level of uncertainty detrimental to the interests of both groups and their employees, clients and shareholders," the companies said in a joint statement late Thursday.
From the corporate front, Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc. HLT, -0.86% raised its yearly forecast after the hotel operator's net earnings quadrupled in the first quarter. Shares of apparel retailer Ralph Lauren Corp. RL, +4.19% fell after warning on sales.
In premarket moves, shares of Rocket Fuel Inc. US:FUEL tumbled 28%, stretching sharp losses made late Thursday after the digital ad company's quarterly sales outlook missed expectations.
Investors will get a fresh take on U.S. labor-market conditions from the so-called JOLTS report from the Labor Department at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. While the pace of hiring and jobs openings have increased, that data may show that number of quits in March — an indicator of how willing workers are to trade job security for career advancement — remained below far below pre-recession levels. In February, there were 2.38 million quits and 4.17 million job openings.
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, who finished two days of congressional testimony on Thursday, looks at the JOLTS report for trends underlying payroll growth.
Also due Friday was the U.S. Commerce Department's report on March wholesale inventories, at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. Economists polled by Dow Jones Newswires expect growth of 0.5%, matching February's increase.
Dallas Federal Reserve President Richard Fisher, a voting member of the Fed's policy committee this year, is expected to give his perspective on the limitations of U.S. monetary policy at 12 p.m. Eastern Time in New Orleans.
The drop in U.S. stocks Thursday marked a "subdued close ... with concerns that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin's apparent pullback on rhetoric will not be enough to stop a referendum in eastern Ukraine from taking place at the weekend, the ramifications of which could be significant," said Richard Perry, market analyst at Hantec Markets, in a note.
Sunday's referendum on secession to be held by pro-Russian separatists defies Putin's call for the vote to be postponed. Western capitals, meanwhile, questioned Putin's switch to a more conciliatory tone about the conflict between Moscow and Kiev. Read: Russia parades military might amid Ukraine crisis.
Before the start of U.S. trade Friday, Asian stocks ended mixed after a lower-than-expected consumer-inflation reading from China. Stocks in Europe fell following a string of disappointing corporate updates. A day ago, the Stoxx Europe 600 SXXP, +0.39% hit a six-year high after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said the central bank may be ready to cut rates next month.
The euro EURO, +0.00% extended its decline against the U.S. dollar in the wake of Draghi's easing signal, trading at $1.3787, compared with $1.3851 late Thursday.
Among commodities, gold for June delivery GCM4, +0.00% rose $5.40, or 0.4%, to $1,293 an ounce and June oil CLM4, -0.67% gained 32 cents, or 0.3%, to $100.58.
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There are a number of articles I've read recently that addresse a rising dilemma. Well, perhaps not quite a dilemma yet, maybe it's just the start of a trend.
It is now socially acceptable to chide someone for their lack of "green-ness".
Now, I admit I have been guilty of this. Perhaps not as much as some, but that could be because I'm not quite as green as some. And, while I have been considered opinionated in the past, I've mellowed.
Realistically, going green means giving up some parts of an established lifestyle. Sometimes that is easy and requires no forethought. Sometimes, it's a sacrifice of time or convenience, but sometimes it requires sacrificing another important part of a lifestyle.
It's where this conflict of priorities comes in that it gets difficult.
Do you give up sending your child to a good school because it requires a long drive? How about a job you love that's far away? Maybe buying everything organic means you can't afford to make a bigger contribution to your church. Maybe eating local requires trips to 5 stores to actually acquire all of the groceries a household needs for the week. Maybe living in an area with public transportation means moving to a neighborhood that's less safe for your child or more expensive than you can afford.
The list goes on.
I believe that the deep green movement plays a very important role. They highlight our wastefulness. They ring alarm bells about our environment, they affect government change at all levels. And, they promote a change in attitude. All of this is good.
Though this trend reminds me a bit of the change in appropriate behavior around smokers – from casual acceptance to verbal outrage, it's not exactly the same thing. (And, by the way, I'm not a big fan of confronting a smoker rudely about their habit.)
Will it become socially acceptable to confront someone who is not being green? In some ways, I hope yes; in some ways no.
Littering is often laziness, not changing an important part of a lifestyle.
Not recycling when curbside isn't available and it requires packing up sometimes dripping refuse and driving to a recycling center may be.
Not bringing your own grocery bag…at least most of the time is a habit easy to change.
Driving an SUV, when one's family is large may not be an acceptable option.
So, I hope those on the activist edge of green continue to set examples, work hard to change government policy (so we can get curbside recycling and reusable packaging and organic foods) and be patient with the rest of us who, through a combination of greater awareness and greater options will follow them along the path to green.
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For the last three years, Harvey County United Way has partnered with Circles of Hope in the ongoing work of addressing poverty in our region. We are grateful for this source of support for a unique initiative that offers a hand up rather than a handout. Circles of Hope fosters cross-class relationships and networking that inspire people to undertake positive change at both the individual and community levels.
In a time when poverty is an escalating concern in Harvey County (over half of all school-age children come from families in economic distress), Circles of Hope partners with individuals and groups to offer a place to be actively engaged in addressing an overwhelming issue.
We are so appreciative of the role Harvey County United Way and their annual fundraising campaign play in supporting Circles of Hope, not only by soliciting funding, but by helping educate our Harvey County neighbors about this initiative that is making a difference one family at a time.
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|2009-08-18, 04:03
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|2009-08-20, 08:51
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Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 32
Brilliant news, the soundtrack for the second season will be released September 23rd.
Plenty of new pieces have been popping up in the show, especially in this weeks episode. This a must preorder in my books this weekend.
|2009-09-26, 16:23
|Link #126
Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 32
Second soundtrack is pretty much on the same level as the first, just more dramatic pieces compared to the large amount of festive cheerful pieces on the first soundtrack. Goes well with the cover art for the second soundtrack.
Top 05 tracks will come once i've gave it a few more listens.
|2009-10-20, 23:43
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Canada
A friend of mine decided to re-write the OP's English-translated lyrics so the timing matched the timing of the Japanese version. I was impressed, I think it matches very well. So I decided I'd post it here for anyone who's interested:
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|2009-10-26, 03:25
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Here, there and everywhere
|2009-10-26, 11:20
|Link #132
reads too much
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: you know that's a great question.....
|2010-02-21, 08:54
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Team Spice and Wolf UK
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: England
Age: 30
I know I'm not allowed to post links here because of associated copyrights, but I was linked a guitar instrumental of the OP Tabi no Tochuu (thanks to 'x', you know who you are).
Because the song was lacking without the vocals, through a little bit of computer wizardry, and music editing software, I've blended the instrumental and the original together, to the point it sounds like one cohesive track and doesnt harm the track in any way. If anyone wants a copy of the track with a guitar element, just let me know via PM and I'll drop you a link
Hopefully it wont cause any problems me posting this, as this is a blend I've made rather than one of the two original tracks.
If this isn't allowed here please edit out, sorry about the audio quality, adding a quickly made picture and uploading it was the easiest way of getting the mix onto youtube without a fuss, and the video editing software I have is a lot more basic than my audio editing kit!
I might rewrite Bash's friends' lyrics as well, to better suit the timing and syllables of the song.
Edit: Here we go, if you try going through/singing this in your head, it retains the feel of the series, but this should fit a little better to the song!
Spoiler for slightly more aligned vocals:
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|2010-02-23, 18:44
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My wolfu is >> your waifu
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Age: 36
On a semi-related note (while not music, it pertains the S&W CDs). I finally got the 4 audio dramas in the mail. I had to pick them up from the post office, and when I got there and had to show my driver's liscence, the guy went and got the box and then with much derision yelled for everyone to hear... "ENJOY YOUR JAPANESE PARCEL!"
I could care less if everyone knows that I buy junk from Nih. However, I certainly did not care for the tone with which he made his announcement. What did he think was in there hentai novels?
Will I let this ruin my enjoyment of said audio dramas? Nope!
|2010-02-23, 19:01
|Link #135
Team Spice and Wolf UK
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: England
Age: 30
Shame you didnt order a Japanese made tazer, that might have fixed his tone up a bit. Nothing worse than rude customer service staff (and I work in client facing myself).
Perhaps his derision comes from his own knowlege of Japan, and what he's most seen from there
I'd consider putting in a complaint about him to be honest, if you work for somewhere like the mail, it's your job to deliver the post, not judge something by where its come from. Theres a LOT of things that could come from Japan, electronics, whatever, (hell it could even be from family) however judgmental fools like that get on my nerves.
Again, thats just my personal opinion, but if you honestly feel he was taking the mick, you ought to put in a complaint. If he acts like that to other people using the mail, he needs taken down a peg or two by his boss.
|2010-02-23, 23:10
|Link #136
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
|2010-03-06, 16:23
|Link #137
My wolfu is >> your waifu
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Age: 36
Well here's an update:
1) My other stuff finally came in... among which was the "Okami to Kin no Mugiho"... very nice... took forever to get but well worth it
2) Looks like "Captain Professionalism" at the Post Office was "round filed" i.e. fired... he ticked off someone with a short fuse while I was out of town
3) New copy of the DVD came in... mint condition this time... and it ain't a stinking bootleg this time either... I am thus very pleased with the outcome with the company
That is all for now!
|2010-03-07, 15:59
|Link #139
My wolfu is >> your waifu
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Age: 36
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Breaking down barriers: Photo exhibit documents official and daily life inside North Korea
NEW YORK (AP) ' It's a simple scene that repeats itself around the world.
A man gently lifts a small child by the arms as they reach the top of the escalator inside a modern department store.
In this particular photograph, the man and the child are in Pyongyang, capital of the communist country where life's daily activities are largely a mystery to the rest of the world.
A photo exhibit that opened Thursday at a gallery in New York includes images such as these, as well as magnificent landscapes, drab cityscapes and visits by foreign dignitaries.
"Daily life is really what I try to focus on when I'm there. ... It's unscripted, it's candid," said AP Chief Asia Photographer David Guttenfelder, who took some of the photographs in the show, and who has made who has made many reporting trips to North Korea since 2010.
"For people to see their own life in other people's lives, I think it has a lot of power to break down barriers."
"Windows on North Korea: Photographs From the DPRK," is a joint exhibition by The Associated Press and the state-run Korean Central News Agency, and features a mix of archival and contemporary images.
The show was timed to open before the 100th anniversary of the birth of the nation's founder, Kim Il Sung, on April 15, and comes two months after the AP expanded its operations in Pyongyang to include writers and photojournalists. The AP became the first international news organization to have a full-time presence in the secretive communist country when it opened a video bureau in 2006.
The photographs "give us rare views of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a nation of great interest to the world, though little known," said Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of the AP.
North Korea and the United States have never had formal diplomatic relations, and the two nations have experienced tensions over the years, particularly over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. North Korea has tested two atomic devices in the past six years.
Tensions had recently eased somewhat. Late last month, the United States and North Korea announced an agreement that calls for Pyongyang to freeze its nuclear activities in exchange for food aid. But a surprise announcement by the North Koreans on Friday that they plan to blast a satellite into space on the back of a long-range rocket could jeopardize that agreement.
The exhibit's organizers said they hoped the show would help foster better understanding between the two countries.
"My expectation is that this will be the first step in some peaceful reconciliation, and in a few years there will be trade, cultural exchange and tourists from each country coming to (the) other," said Donald Rubin, who co-founded The 8th Floor gallery hosting the exhibit.
Images on display included a 1953 KCNA photograph showing residents helping to rebuild Pyongyang's central district after the Korean War, AP photos documenting visits by such prominent foreigners as Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright, as well as everyday scenes ranging from sunbathers at the beach to shoppers inside a modern department store.
"It is our hope that this exhibition would give exhibition-goers visual understanding of the people, customs, culture and history of the DPRK, thereby helping to deepen mutual understanding and improve the bilateral relations," Kim Chang Gwang, KCNA's senior vice president, said in an address at the show's opening.
"In this exhibit, we are offered two perspectives of the DPRK ' as viewed by her native daughters and sons from KCNA and by AP journalists visiting to chronicle news and daily life there. We can appreciate the different styles and techniques and points of view," Carroll said. "These photographs also show us that different people can find common ground."
The show also includes images taken by KCNA journalists who participated in a joint workshop in October led by AP instructors. It runs from March 15 to April 13 at The 8th Floor gallery, which was established to promote cultural and philanthropic initiatives.
The AP, an independent news cooperative founded in New York and owned by its U.S. newspaper membership, has operations in more than 100 countries and employs nearly 2,500 journalists across the world in 300 locations.


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