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Good stuff. I wanted to watch this when it first came out but I didn't feel like supporting fansubbers and the first few eps didn't grab me as much as the original series did. Now that it's on CR, I can finally finish the whole thing.
wow a little late crunchy i literally just finished watching season 2 oh well its nice that they put it up anyway
If you're too lazy to start anything, you may get a reputation for patience.
you have to be kidding. they cant show it in australia but they can show it in africa. whats up with that.
Haha, your comment coupled with your Victorique's avi was hilarious!
Seriously, I had trouble going through the series after six...I left it and then went back to finish it up. God, I don't think I even remember the ENDING of the time loop. Pass...I do enough writing for school.
Oh gods... I love Haruhi, but sitting through those eight episodes was pure torture. Thankfully it gets better afterwards, but I fully understand why so many people gave up on it mid-way.
If I go back to watch season 2, I'll be skipping the bulk of the Endless 8. I think simply watching the first and last episodes will do me fine.
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Oh man, I nearly forgot about the fact that I still need to watch it's second season (Code Geass too, comes to mind). I kinda want to make room in my schedule for this, but I already have a pretty occupied queue of shows here.
Always love it when CR adds new anime. Thanks!
I envy the fool who actually sits through and watches all of Endless 8 and not get bored or feel frustrated. Whoever came up with the concept must've been on some kind of a controlled substance. At first I was the only one offended and ticked off by this production move, but I was wrong. Even fans in Japan were pissed off so much so that Aya Hirano, the voice actress of Haruhi Suzumiya felt the need to apologize for Endless 8 and even expressed her frustration with it.
Probably the only people who this would make sense for are people with Alzheimer's Disease or some other form of dementia and people with amnesia.
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I already have the DVDs for season 2 so I will pass on the contest. I must be one of the few people that actually liked the Endless Eight episodes.
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I never made it through season 2 because of the Endless 8. Maaaaybe I'll try again. Lol, maybe I'll finish season 1 while I'm at it.
You really won't miss anything at all with the middle six episodes, watch the first of the Groundhog Day then go to the eighth episode after that and you'll know everything that happens between first and eighth.
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You can always skip it since those episodes are clearly labeled. Skipping episodes you don't want to watch is part of the beauty that is Video on Demand.
Why, yes, yes it is. Not knocking CR getting the second season, just pointing out the legendary monotony of those episodes which comprises most of season 2. I liked it, but it would've been helpful to be able to skip to the end when I was unaware of how many times the day was going to repeat.
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It seems that CR made a late choice to add Haruhi season 2. . . =.=' everyone know Endless Eight well. . . The only episode I like is Tanabata episode.
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Usually I start ingesting small amounts of Irish Creme Liquor (17% variety) as a pleasant libation when Cowboy Bebop or Ghost in the Shell airs in the wee am hours Sunday thanks to Adult Swim out of Atlanta, GA. It's a pleasant sendoff to a good snooze after GITS airs. However, the mere suggestion that a living breathing person re-subject him/her/itself to that Haruhi Suzumiya endless 8 eps of Season 2 mindless blather and then further desecrate any manner of human dignity to oneself by writing an op ed piece praising its virtues.....well, the heroine overdose required beforehand has too many costs to my psyche:
1) I don't think my mindstate could ever recover sufficiently to perform simple functions afterward (whizzing on the original napkin copy of this script aka Chuck in PSG comes to mind),
2) doubtless the ambo would not arrive in time and I would die account this poor excuse of a redo dopey anime because the writers were too damn lazy and/or insipidly stupid to write anything worthy of content. Who would be left to pay all those real estate taxes on this flyover state homestead?
3) I have a giant fear I might like the stuff. Affording GOOD anime is hard enough. No one can afford H.
Actually the real test would be writing positive ad copy explaining why the first series was such a phenom. There was 2 episoodes I really liked while the rest were muddling. The male narration by Kyon is the main reason I sat through the entire first season because his script was funny.
I own the dvd sets from Season 1 and 2 (damned if I know why) and imported some of the action figures offered about 1+ yr ago ( I reiterate: damned if I know why...collector mania, something silly to do??).
You might want to sweeten this deal for any future script writer re Season 2. Maybe an all-expense paid 2-week trip to Japan. Or, you could promise the potential winner of this writing contest a job interview working for some political insider lobbyist who needs a fresh crop of good liars that can create unique believable fiction for the 2012 election cycle. Bon appetit!
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Reykjavik, Iceland - The Rainbow Reykjavik Event Team has put together an outstanding program for this international LGBT festival Jan 31 - Feb 3, 2013.
"The Rainbow Reykjavik program provides a colorful mixture of various events, including tours to see the Northern Lights, geysers, waterfalls and the Continental Divide, great meals and dance parties....as well as pure wellness and relaxation in the world famous geothermal spa of the Blue Lagoon," says Eva María Thorarinsdottir Lange, Managing Director of Pink Iceland, Iceland's top tour operator dedicated to LGBT clientele.
In addition to experiencing Iceland's unparalleled nature, attendees will be treated to a top-knotch concert in Reykjavik's remarkable and elegant Harpa Concert Hall. In fact, many of Iceland's most celebrated Eurovision icons will be performing Saturday, February 2nd, providing an amazing night of power ballads, disco beats to wild techno.
Two of the top acts confirmed for this year's concert are the amazing Hera Björk and Paul Oscar, both of whom have enjoyed national as well as international success following their participation in Europe's most loved talent show, the Eurovision Song Contest.
A host of other Icelandic Eurovision contestants will join them on stage to perform their own songs as well. "We're planning a late concert starting off with the ballads and moving our way up to the songs that will make you want to throw your chair into a corner to get up and dance....which you will be allowed to do, of course!" says Eva María Thorarinsdottir Lange.
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Paul Oscar is one of the nation's most beloved performing artists. He's been one of the country's true leaders in the battle for LGBT rights since the early 90's. His flourishing solo career includes a triple win at the Icelandic Music Awards in 2007 for his solo album, Allt fyrir ástina (Anything For Love).
Oscar has represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest, was a judge in both the Icelandic Idol and X-Factor TV series, and is currently Iceland's most sought-after DJ and entertainer booked 12 months in advance. His float in the Reykjavík Gay Pride parade is always the most anticipated and his performance on the Gay Pride big stage has become a Reykjavík Gay Pride tradition.
Hera Björk competed in the Icelandic Eurovision preselection contest in 2007, and sang backing vocals for the Icelandic Eurovision entries in 2008 and 2009. She also participated in the Danish Eurovision preselection ('Melodi Grand Prix') in 2009, finishing in second place with the fan favourite 'Someday'.
Eurovision trivia buffs will be delighted to know that she was also one of the dancers in Selma's comedy video for her Icelandic Eurovision entry 'All Out of Luck' in 1999. Hera Björk's defining Eurovision moment was her participation at the 2010 Eurovision on Iceland's behalf singing the fantastic and catchy Je ne sais quoi.
Hera has been busy touring the US and Europe with her Eurovision since 2010 and is one of the most sought after performers on the Eurovision scene.
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The tide seems to have well and truly turned for Jose Manuel "Chepo" de la Torre, with his Mexico side falling 2-0 Wednesday against a Neymar-inspired Brazil to end its Confederations Cup campaign after two consecutive defeats.
Not that Mexico didn't have its chance. A more clinical side with a sharper offense would've finished off a Brazil team that was held loosely together by the leadership of David Luiz and the sheer brilliance of Barcelona-bound Neymar. It was another missed opportunity for Mexico and 2013 continues to be a year of negativity. The record now reads: 11 games, one win, eight ties and two defeats.
It is safe to now say that the jaunt to South America hasn't been the necessary change of environment to lift El Tri out of its World Cup qualifying doom and gloom. Instead, more question marks have been raised about how Mexico is going to reach that "fifth game" at a World Cup, the quarterfinal, if it indeed does qualify for Brazil 2014.
We've seen little to argue that this Mexico team has it in it to go to the latter stages and that is disconcerting for a side that had major ambitions to become one of the competition's dark horses after recent successes at youth level.
Giovani Dos Santos was the bright spark against Brazil, causing problems every time he got the ball and boosting his chances of finding a top European team. Gerardo Torrado and Carlos Salcido – with a combined total of over 250 caps - weren't popular choices in the center of midfield, but they largely did their job, although there was never going to be much invention from a couple of defensive-minded players.
On the downside, Gerardo Flores was played out of position and looked lost for large swathes of the game as it passed him by and Hiram Mier was given the runaround by Neymar.
In off-the-field matters, mentions of Mexican players visiting strip joints after the Italy defeat hardly looks good under the strict disciplinarian De la Torre, although the coach denied all knowledge after the game.
The battle now is to regroup and reassess.
The first question to be raised is that of the coach.
The conservatism of Chepo belies the attacking talent at his disposal and isn't based on a solid enough defense. Brazil attacked from the beginning, scored its goal and from then on Mexico was hampered by having two central midfielders who weren't supporting offensive plays. In general, Brazil's defense looked shaky – Luiz aside – and it was Mexico's impotence in creating that handed the Selecao the victory.
Why wasn't a second striker thrown on until the 87th minute? Why did Mexico manage so few shots on goal? Is there really a future in the Salcido-Torrado partnership in the middle of the field for a side that has real World Cup ambitions?
All these are legitimate questions and ones the bigwigs at the Mexican soccer federation (FMF) will be forced to mull over.
What will likely save De la Torre, at least for now, is that the team didn't crumble, players didn't drop their heads and kept fighting until the end. Then there is the mediocrity of CONCACAF, which sees a horribly out-of-form Mexico sitting in third position.
"In qualifying we are in third place. At the moment we're in (the World Cup)," Chepo stated after the Brazil game. "The main thing is qualification."
The problem for him is that fans' expectations are – rightly or wrongly – much higher than scraping into the World Cup and not making any impact on tournaments such as the Confederations Cup. It remains to be seen how far the FMF's patience will run.
The vultures are circling and Saturday's game against Japan suddenly has real importance, for all the wrong reasons.
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ORLANDO - It may not have been the prettiest affair, but it was a game the Black & Gold needed to win in order to maintain their 2013 preseason momentum. On a blustery night in central Florida, the Columbus Crew defeated USL-Pro side Orlando City by a final score of 3-2, leaving Ohio's Major League Soccer club 3-0-0 in the Disney Pro Soccer Classic and 5-1-0 in preseason play overall. The victory sees the Crew finish as group winners following consecutive victories over Toronto FC, Philadelphia Union and Orlando City. The Black & Gold face the Montreal Impact - winner of the tournament's other group - in next Saturday's Disney Pro Soccer Classic Final.
"The game was very physical and [Orlando] was very aggressive," said Crew boss Robert Warzycha following the win. "We tried to play the same game. We were aggressive...the second half was a little bit better. We started focusing on the game and playing the ball around. We found a way to win."
'Aggressive' might be the most appropriate word to describe the match, as the contest was marked by seven cautions, including the ejection of Orlando's James O'Connor in the 68th minute.
Central midfielder Agustin Viana kick-started the scoring by heading home Federico Higuain's set-piece in the 4th minute. However, veteran Chad Marshall sustained a head injury on the play, leading to his early exit. After the match Warzycha cautioned that his removal was just a precaution, and that Marshall will likely be on the mend soon.
"Chad got hit in the jaw, and he didn't have a headache or anything else. He'll be fine for the next game," said the Crew Head Coach.
Newly signed Drew Beckie replaced Marshall despite playing 45 minutes earlier in the day during the club's scrimmage with Sporting Kansas City.
Jamie Watson drew a goal back for Orlando, beating the Crew's backline in the 57th minute. Following O'Connor's dismissal, Josh Williams gave the Crew the lead once again during an Higuain corner kick, giving the Crew's Designated Player two assists on the evening. The Argentine added a goal to his final tally, converting a penalty kick in the 89th minute, negating Orlando's second goal ten minutes earlier.
The Crew will use Sunday as a regeneration day before resuming training in Orlando next week. The Disney Pro Soccer Classic Final on Saturday, February 23 will kick-off at 8:00 p.m. ET.
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"Unfunny" is key here. Screenwriters Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah return, this time for director David Bowers ('Astro Boy'), and they've lost whatever grasp they had on the material the first time out. Their slapdash script, coupled with Bowers' flat, point-and-shoot direction, make for a series of inconsequential scenes that go nowhere, their calculated wackiness punctuated in all of the wrong ways by Edward Shearmur's too on-the-nose score.
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Masters Plagued By More Problems As Its Final Sale Begins
Customers have slammed failed hardware store Masters for failing to deliver on their promised 'fire sale'.
The home improvement chain, owned by Woolworths' has been advertising its liquidation sale, saying it had between $600 to $700 million of hardware up for sale.
However, customers have been left disappointed with the discounted items as items were only reduced between 10 and 30 percent.
One customer told WAToday ''It's pretty rubbish. They are not going to sell much at these prices.'
A staff member told the Perth-based newspaper that whitegoods were actually on six-per-cent off, and most items were ten-per-cent off, with just a handful of articles being discounted by 30-per-cent.
The Master's website is listing the discounted items, with just 110 being listed in the Bayswater store in Perth, whereas, 200 are on offer in Chullora in Sydney.
In-store signage only shows ten-per-cent off power tools, while other stock is between ten and thirty-per-cent.
The Masters Facebook page has become the centre of complaints with customers saying 'If you're thinking about going to Masters FIRE CLOSING DOWN SALE !! Don't bother. Everything 10 to 30% off except pretty much after browsing the store for an hour I can tell you that everything is pretty much only 10% off,' one wrote.
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Manchester Central High's John Rist, back in charge, wipes slate clean for someBy MARK HAYWARD
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March 05. 2014 10:22PM
MANCHESTER — Back in charge at the school he used to lead, acting Principal John Rist granted amnesty this week to any Manchester High School Central students facing after-school detention.
Rist said the gesture, which does not apply to students facing the more serious Saturday detentions, was done to wipe the slate clean and start fresh. He took over the reins of Central on Monday, after the abrupt resignation of Ron Mailhot last month.
"It's just a gesture so they'll understand I'm a decent guy," said Rist, who retired in 2011 with 10 years as Central principal under his belt. He is 64 years old.
Detention is a 45-minute period after the school day dismissal. A student can be put in detention for tardiness, being fresh to a teacher, throwing garbage on the floor or not obeying a teacher or administrator, Rist said.
The principal said he's clamped down in other areas. He told students to stop wearing hats and hoodies inside the building; he's a stickler for the dress code.Rist said he's told the students they will have to prove to him that Central kids are the best out there.
Little has changed since his departure, other than there are 300 fewer students, he said."Much is the same. The quality of the institution I'm happy with. The response to me has been great," Rist said.
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Saint-Gobain to fund design to bring water service to 61 Bedford homes
— More than 100 property owners expecting significant increases in their home assessments have had the numbers lowered because of contamination in private wells, according to town officials.
"As part of the revaluation process, we did get a number of concerns with people whose property values were originally looking at going up in the bottled water area," said Town Manager Rick Sawyer. "They certainly proved to us and showed us, then we reviewed based on case law, there was reason to provide at least a temporary reduction in value for those properties."
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"The residents of these homes have been significantly impacted since they learned of the contamination in April 2016," three Bedford state representatives wrote in a recent letter to Edward J. Canning, director of environment, health and safety at Saint-Gobain.
The lawmakers went on to say that families cannot brush their teeth, rinse food or drink water from the tap in their own homes because of elevated levels of perfluorooctanoic acid — contamination likely caused by Saint-Gobain's plant in Merrimack.
"We are approaching 500 days that people have been on bottled water, which I think is ridiculous," Chris Bandazian, vice-chairman of the Bedford Town Council, said last week. "Adding five cents to everybody's tax rate because of Saint-Gobain is also ridiculous."
It was announced in March that Saint-Gobain is considering extending public water to at least 61 homes with contaminated wells in Bedford, however town officials continue to hope that more residences will be included in the plan.
To date, there are about 100 properties in Bedford receiving bottled water because their private wells are contaminated with PFOA.
The Department of Environmental Services announced last month that three design estimates to provide public water to 61 Bedford properties were being reviewed by Saint-Gobain and town officials. Those options include extending public water from Merrimack Village District water and two options to extend public water from Manchester Water Works.
"We continue to ask them to do the Manchester solution," stressed Sawyer.
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CHICAGO — They call this "The City that Works" — a metropolis anchoring middle America with thriving neighborhoods, prosperous business and a skyline unmatched.
It's a city that avoided the decline that befell Rust Belt casualties Detroit and Cleveland, steered through decades of turmoil by an old-school political boss. It's a city guided into a new century by the boss' son, a second Mayor Richard Daley who kept it vibrant through passionate promotion, a sometimes absurd focus on random details of city problems, and, yes, the family tradition of arm-twisting and spreading around the spoils.
That is the vast inheritance left to the winner of Tuesday's mayoral election in Chicago, the first in more than 20 years in which Richard M. Daley won't be on the ballot as a candidate for mayor. It's a legacy that also comes paired with a legion of challenges the Daley era leaves unresolved, some which he helped foster.
There is the corruption that still makes the front page: Just this month, a top Daley lieutenant headed off to federal prison. The scars of racial segregation linger: Cement scabs on the city's West Side mark places where buildings burned in the riots that followed Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Daley's administration has torn through cash reserves that were supposed to last decades and the city may soon be as much as $1 billion in the red. Students in Chicago's public high schools are as likely to drop out as they are to graduate.
Daley hasn't publicly endorsed any of the candidates running for mayor, commenting only indirectly on the choice of who will take his place at City Hall. But, in the weeks leading up to Election Day, The Associated Press asked some of city's top creators, thinkers and doers for advice on how the next mayor will keep Chicago "The City that Works," and how to do it without the often uncontested clout that came with the Daley name.
"What I think will be different is the new mayor will be required and expected to more specifically explain to the citizens of the city the nature of the problem and why a recommended solution is necessary," said airline chief Glenn Tilton, the chairman of Chicago-based United Continental Holdings Inc. "Less will be taken for granted and the new mayor is going to have to be very, very explicit with respect to the definition of the problem and his or her view of the solution."
"Incidentally," Tilton said, "that is probably a good thing."
The first challenge for the new mayor might just be to match how Daley turned his pride in the city into action. Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz recalls how Daley beamed last year while riding atop a double-decker bus with the Stanley Cup, as proud of the team's championship as the clean, safe streets the team traveled on their way into the sparkling heart of the city's famous downtown Loop for a rally with 2 million fans.
"He kept saying to me, 'Look at this, Rocky,'" Wirtz said. "He was excited. He was amazed that you had this outpouring of people ... and it was a great way to show off the city."
It's not an understatement to say that no U.S. mayor in recent memory has changed the look and feel of a city more than Daley. He lined the city's historic boulevards with trees and pushed for the construction of Millennium Park, blithely ignoring hundreds of millions of cost overruns to build one of the nation's most widely acclaimed city parks.
Renowned architect Stanley Tigerman said Daley succeeded by obsessing over tiniest of details, something city department heads discovered when they got a call from the boss about overflowing trash cans or, heaven forbid, a rat the mayor saw scurry across an alley. Upset with seagulls fouling a spit of land along Lake Michigan, Tigerman recalls, Daley asked the city parks department to plant something "spiky and unfriendly to birds."
"He said if that didn't work, he would round up every feral cat in the city," Tigerman said. "He was going to get rid of those damned seagulls no matter how he had to do it."
The rabid attention to the little things was paired with thinking that some thought "too big." Many in the city wondered why Daley pressed the ultimately unsuccessful bid for the 2016 Olympics at a time when the city could not afford to hire more cops or improve schools.
But a walk along the Chicago River shows how the big-thinking Daley helped transition the city from its industrial past into booming hub of international commerce. There are the headquarters of Boeing Co. and United Continental, corporations he lured with millions in financial incentives. There is Donald Trump's 98-story tower, slipped neatly into the city's world-famous skyline. There is Groupon, a billion-dollar web sensation that leads a pack of dozens of start-ups sprouting across the city.
It's also in the city's neighborhoods, many of which evolved during his time in office as Daley helped a city with blue-collar sensibility become a magnet for young professionals. When Christopher Kennedy — the son of Robert F. Kennedy, head of Chicago's giant Merchandise Mart and chairman of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees — arrived in the city in 1986, "there were only two or three neighborhoods your parents would want you to live in."
"Now there are 25 or 30," Kennedy said. "I don't know that any city in America is like that."
But as the city's Loop and surrounding neighborhoods prospered in the past decade, areas on the city's South and West Sides lost population. Roughly 200,000 residents, many African Americans, left neighborhoods that didn't share in downtown's success.
Those slices of the city continue to struggle "with many of the same forces that were bearing down on them 15 to 20 years ago — poor schools, the shortage of affordable housing," said Alex Kotlowitz, a Chicago journalist and writer whose book 1992 book "There Are No Children Here" exposed the horrors of a child's life in the city's public housing.
Daley tore down those housing projects, ironically erected by his father, and aimed to improve the city's public schools by seizing control of the system in 1995. While he succeeded in balancing the district's nearly $3 billion budget, getting students to schools safely is a lingering problem left for his replacement to solve.
"If we don't get education right, then I think we continue to relegate our children to futures that are hopeless and that only further increases the burden on the rest of society," said Tim King, head of Urban Prep Academies, a private network of all-boys schools that for the second year in a row sent every senior — students from some of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods — into a four-year college or university.
The next mayor won't start from a position of financial strength. The combination of the nation's economic downturn made for an ugly combination with what critics say is a municipal government that under Daley lived beyond its means. One of Daley's solutions backfired when the city burned through all but a fraction of the $1.15 billion it received in 2008 in return for a 75-year lease of the city's parking meters — money that was supposed to last the city nearly a century.
"The person is walking into a city that is broke and they're going to have to make some tough financial decisions," said the Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Church in Chicago. "They have to be careful those decisions are not made on the back of social programs and poor people that are already desperate."
Daley also leaves a city government that's still known as a place where it pays off to be the mayor's buddy, where people land plum jobs for no other reason than they "know a guy who knows a guy." While the prosecutors have reined in the political machine built by his father, the outgoing mayor has seen top aides end up behind bars, including one convicted for handing out patronage jobs years after federal decrees outlawed the practice.
Many say they're watching closely who the next mayor brings in to run the schools, police force and other key departments. And in contrast with Daley — who Tigerman called "a benign dictator" — the new mayor may actually have to work with a newly recast 50-member City Council, instead of simply telling them what to do.
The election is expected to bring in a big cast of new aldermen, who won't be as beholden to whoever is elected mayor. In the years before Daley was first elected in 1989, a council ensnared by racial division earned the city another nickname: "Beirut on the Lake."
That ability to lead a city as diverse as Chicago might just come down to the new mayor finding a way to become as likable as the old mayor.
Carlos Tortelero, president of the National Museum of Mexican Art in the city's Pilsen neighborhood, said Chicago liked Daley because he mangled sentences and still teared up when asked about his 2-year-old son three decades after the boy died.
And residents liked the fact that the mayor was up at 6 a.m., riding around the city looking for lots filled with seagulls, rats running through alleys and any other thing that needed to be fixed to keep Chicago "The City That Works."
"It's a city where a person will brag that my father worked at the steel mills. That whole family connection is important in Chicago and Mayor Daley exudes that," he said. "Whoever the next mayor is, they need to connect to that."
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Key witness in Cates murder case indicted on sexual assault chargesBy NANCY BEAN FOSTER
Union Leader Correspondent
July 26. 2013 7:48PM
NASHUA — A Hillsborough County Grand Jury has indicted Kyle Fenton, one of the key witnesses in the Kimberly Cates murder case, of four counts of felonious sexual assault, and one count of aggravated felonious sexual assault.
Fenton, 23, formerly of 98 Elm St., Apt. 1A, Milford, and now of 7 Cody Road, Londonderry, was arrested on May 27 by Milford Police.
According to Capt. Chris Nervik, police received reports that Fenton had sexually assaulted two female victims, ages 14 and 15, between October and December 2012, and allegedly forcibly raped the 14-year-old.
Earlier this month, a Hillsborough County Grand Jury indicted Fenton on four Class B counts of felonious sexual assault, and one Class A count of aggravated sexual assault for his alleged abuse of the two girls. He is currently out on bail.
Fenton played a key role in the arrest of Steven Spader, Christopher Gribble, William Marks and Quinn Glover following a home invasion and brutal attack on Kimberly and Jaimie Cates in Mont Vernon on Oct. 4, 2009. Kim Cates was killed in the attack and Jaimie suffered serious injuries.
According to court documents, while police were trying to identify suspects in the Cates case shortly after the home invasion, Spader, Marks and Gribble stopped at Fenton's home. Fenton, who lived in Amherst at the time, listened to the men brag about their assault on the sleeping mother and child. They also showed Fenton the weapons they used in the attacks.
After seeing reports of the crime on the news, Fenton told his mother what he had he heard from Spader, Marks and Gribble, and his mother contacted the Amherst Police Department, giving investigators a big break in the case. Fenton also testified against Spader during his murder trial.
If convicted, Fenton is facing prison time for the crimes against the two girls. Each of the Class B felony counts carries a sentence of three-and-a-half to seven years, while a Class A felony conviction could fetch 10 to 20 years, plus fines.
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Creation Blocks
A fun activity to help the kids learn about the seven days of creation.
Creation, Power of God
Seven empty tissue paper boxes
Approximately 10 minutes
Before class obtain seven empty cubed-shaped facial tissue paper boxes. Wrap each of the boxes with plain wrapping paper. Print out the seven templates and attach one template to each of the wrapped boxes. When this is complete, you will have seven creation blocks, each with a different day of creation attached.
Have the children sit on the floor in front of you or across the table from you depending on the size of your class. Tell the kids that you have an exciting activity planned for them today. Say, "Today we are going to learn about how God created everything in the heavens and the earth, and He did it all in just seven days!"
Tell the children that you mixed the creation blocks up and that you will need their help to put the blocks back in order. Have the blocks facing the children so that they can see the pictures. Begin telling the creation story and ask the children to listen carefully for key words that will help them put the blocks back in order. Pause as often as necessary and be generous in giving them as much help as needed after reading each portion of the story.
This activity will help the children understand that God is the Creator of all things, understand on a basic level the seven days of creation, and further their basic counting skills.


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Why Are My Periods Becoming Lighter?
Dear doctor, I have regular periods but lately, I have been experiencing lighter periods than usual. While it would normally last 5 days, within the last seven months it has been reduced down to 3 and a half days. I am 28 and not sexually active. I have always had testosterone a bit higher than the normal level but my doctor said it was Ok and not needed to take any pills to bring the testosterone level back to the normal range. Now, my periods becoming suddenly lighter (for the past seven months) make me really worried as to whether it may be a sign of ovarian suppression. I would appreciate your thoughts about the issue.
There is a wide range of normal when it comes to menstrual periods. Some women have very light flow lasting just a couple of days, and some have heavy flow for over one week. Menstrual flow may change over time, for example with age or after having a baby, or it can be affected by medications such as the birth control pill or blood thinners.
If your periods remain regular and there is no other problem with pain or excessive bleeding, there is no reason to think that there is any medical problem that needs attention.
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College of Medicine
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Vanessa Hudgens Loves London
Vanessa Hudgens spends her last night in London checking out some of London's trendiest hotspots in Soho on Thursday (March 31).
The 22-year-old Sucker Punch actress dined out at a small Italian restaurant before heading to Chinawhite Nightclub, where she spent half an hour before moving on to The Box. She was accompanied by her mother as she went back to her waiting car, and then sent a few text messages on her iPhone.
Vanessa premiered Sucker Punch in the UK wearing an Alberta Ferretti dress on Wednesday (March 30).
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Demolition of Amos Alonzo Stagg Memorial Stadium at University of the Pacific entered a new phase June 3 when crews began bulldozing the berm surrounding the former playing field. Field hockey coach Andy Smith and associate director of athletics Dan Chapman spoke about the changes coming to the spot where the former football stadium stood for decades.
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OfficeMax had a visibility problem. "Two years ago we started a major, third-party drop-ship program that caused us to lose some visibility of the orders after they left our network," says Brian Walmsley, divisional vice president of EAI technology at OfficeMax. This problem became a customer service issue, particularly for orders that went through many different suppliers. "Not only were call centre staff unable to see where orders were in the process, but there was no way to determine which suppliers were underperforming and which were on target or better. The best we could do was to generate historical reports or have a staff of people carefully track individual vendors manually, which was not a great use of resources."
The company turned to webMethods Optimize, a BAM (business activity monitoring) solution that rides on top of the webMethods EAI platform OfficeMax used to integrate with its suppliers' systems. Walmsley is excited by what he's seen so far. "We'll be able to see in real time the state of each and all our transactions by vendor ... how many transactions are falling out of the process model, and get live, ranked vendor scorecards. The system will also alert us if a vendor hasn't responded to orders in a while, so we can contact them before customers are impacted. If a vendor's scorecard is falling, we'll be able to correct the situation before it becomes a problem."
OfficeMax's experience is typical of today's "real-time" enterprises. "There's a lot of pressure on companies today to respond to business events much more quickly," says Bill Gassman, principle analyst at Gartner. "Business managers don't want to wait for the next day for data warehouse information to be rolled up. They want to know in a couple of minutes if inventory on a product has fallen below a certain amount, if sales didn't make this number of calls, or if they got a purchase order over a certain value from an important customer."
In fast-paced businesses, such as financial services, each hour of nonresponse can cost tens of thousands of dollars. And such regulations as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act -- which requires regulated businesses to report significant business events, such as multimillion dollar orders, within 48 hours -- are also driving the need for real-time information. "How long would it take before such an event percolates up into the reporting world of most large enterprises today?" Gassman asks. "A week? A month? Businesses will have to be able to get to and trust a single version of the truth fast. BAM will be one of the key tools they use."
BAM everywhere
Live or near-live monitoring of business processes and KPIs (key performance indicators) is precisely the mission of BAM, which typically pulls information from a variety of applications and data sources then presents it to the user as live, integrated, "dashboard" displays filled with speedometers, bar graphs, maps, and tables. BAM also filters the information it monitors based on user-defined business rules, sending out alerts when key thresholds are reached, including inventory running below a certain level, or, in the case of OfficeMax, lack of response from a vendor within a certain time period. In some cases alerts may initiate other actions, such as e-mails to staff, customers, or suppliers.
BAM can be used to monitor a single indicator, but in many cases the business processes and indicators it monitors are spread across many enterprise business applications – enterprise resource management, supply chain management, manufacturing resources planning, or customer relationship management -- that don't normally interact. That's why enterprise application integration vendors such as webMethods, Tibco Software, and SeeBeyond Technology have jumped into the BAM market as a way to add value to their business integration offerings. But many other types of vendors also offer BAM. Application and data integration work hand in hand, so business intelligence and real-time data integration vendors such as Informatica, Ascential Software, and Metatomix have also entered the space (the BAM solution offered by webMethods is the result of a partnership with Informatica).
IBM and Microsoft have muscled their way in, too. Two years ago, IBM purchased Holosofx, whose BAM software morphed into IBM's WebSphere Business Integration Monitor. And Microsoft BizTalk Server 2004, released in March, is the first version to offer BAM capability. Meanwhile, pure-play BAM vendors, including iSpheres, FirstRain, and Celequest, cater to organizations that may not need or want to invest in a full-fledged EAI solution. iSpheres provides its own adapters and specializes in correlating multiple asynchronous events in real time. Vendors iSpheres, Informatica, Vitria, and Celequest also offer vertical BAM solutions for financial services companies or health providers and related organizations, particularly for compliance.
ERP vendors PeopleSoft, SAP, and Oracle offer BAM-like monitoring features, but they tend to be simpler and less flexible than those of fully developed BAM solutions and limit themselves to ERP (or even one ERP app). Many of these vendors are working on implementing a more flexible BAM framework within their ERP solutions.
Even the IT infrastructure management vendors Micromuse, Computer Associates, and BMC Software are getting into the BAM act, though they tend to target IT rather than business managers, with the mission of "enabling the alignment of IT with business objectives". And BPM solutions from InterSystems, Lombardi Software, and others offer ways to monitor the business processes they manage.
"BAM is a function, not an application," Gassman says. "Just as we saw browsers become ubiquitous, real-time reporting will become ubiquitous."
BAM finds its footing
So what is or isn't BAM and how does it fit in with BI, BPM, and other enterprise software that feeds on integration? To begin with, BAM is not business intelligence, which is rear-view information, not real-time. BI users tend to be business analysts; BAM users are typically line-of-business managers. And BAM information tends to be focused rather than broad.
"In a data warehouse, you want to collect lots and lots of information that you can slice and dice a hundred ways for future analysis," says David Kelly, president of Upside Research. "BAM alerts the user based on a few carefully chosen business metrics and thresholds that affect the bottom line directly and require quick action."
Debbie Rosen, executive vice president of worldwide marketing at webMethods, agrees. "It's like the difference between looking at a live stock ticker symbol versus looking at the stock's 52 week history and company financial information. You want both."
Whereas BI pulls information from a data warehouse, BAM tends to tap information sources directly, linking to a message broker for example, or using a very low-latency data store. Information gleaned from BI, however, often plays a role in choosing hot spots for BAM to monitor. "Your BI analyst will tell you these are the predictive measures and types of things that lead to problems, so you can start using BAM to catch those things as they happen," says Scott Fingerhut, senior product marketing manager at Tibco. In fact, some BAM solutions continuously compare BAM information to historical data to provide context.
BAM also works hand in hand with business process management, which provides a means of developing end-to-end processes across a range of enterprise business applications. "BAM might send out a notification that a salesperson hasn't called a threshold number of prospects, while BPM might shift some work from one person's work queue to another automatically," Upside Research's Kelly says. On the other hand, BAM typically can expose more business metrics than BPM, because it can consume data outside of a typical BPM process. And BAM can solve problems that BPM can't. "For example, you could automate a process with BPM so that it runs very well technically, but still loses tonnes of money," Tibco's Fingerhut points out.
The BAM market is small and young. "At this point the whole market is at the $US100 million to $200 million level," Gassman says. "It's still in the learning and experimenting stage for most companies." Some of the principal users so far are financial service companies and currency traders, which need to make quick investing decisions based on numerous and varied information sources, including news feeds. Health care organizations and hospitals are using BAM for epidemic outbreak and bioterrorism detection as well as monitoring emergency room visits to determine how many beds they may need.
Many telecommunications companies are using BAM to monitor service levels and speed up provisioning. "We use Tibco's BusinessFactor to monitor each stage of the ADSL provisioning process to make sure our accounts are in line with key performance indicators," says Christian Righi, manager of eFoundation Projects at Telecom Italia. "We can get live information on which orders are bottlenecked at which stage of the process in which region of Italy."
Making the connection
Just about everyone agrees that a successful BAM implementation comes from starting small, using what you have, modelling relevant business processes, focusing tightly on a few important KPIs, and marrying business users with IT.
Integration is a significant part of the BAM implementation process, so if you've already gone through EAI or some other form of business integration, it makes sense to leverage what you have in place and seriously consider what BAM capabilities your integration vendor offers. "Don't ask for all those references, benchmarks, '-ilities', and '-isms'," says the vice president of enterprise services at a large, regional bank that uses webMethods-based BAM. "Just pick the product that's in line with your integration strategy."
If you haven't invested heavily in integration and don't plan to, check out some of the pure-play vendors or a vertical solution. "Pure-play vendors often compete with the vertical vendor that knows everything there is to know about, say, Wal-Mart," Gassman says. The trade-off is generally between flexibility and a deep knowledge of your business.
Whatever the choice of product, deploying useful BAM dashboards requires close collaboration of business and IT. "The business-process owner is the one who knows exactly where in the process she lacks visibility and where things fail on a bad day," Rosen says. IT, on the other hand, can help the business user understand what is possible.
"It's too much to presume that the business user can imagine what he'd like to see," says the bank vice president. "IT needs to work iteratively with him, helping him envision the dashboards by which he can monitor the operational state."
As with most people we spoke with, the bank vice president advises starting small. "Don't apply BAM end to end in your first pilot. Start with a few key processes that run your business."
"Map out the process you want to monitor," Kelly says, "so that you know exactly which KPIs you're looking for. Most organizations haven't done this, and it becomes a big stumbling block." Careful modelling clarifies which dashboards and alerts to deploy and ensures that they provide the context necessary to help the user make decisions. Be sure to choose information that will actually be used.
"If you use BAM to send the sales rep a lead every time someone hits the Web site, pretty soon the rep will ignore those alerts," Gassman says. He also points out that data quality is a big issue. "If you're not doing the right data cleansing, consistency checking, and validation, you'll end up with unreliable data streams and lots of false positives and negatives."
IT should also make sure its BAM solution provides users with easy tools, such as drop-down menus to manipulate KPIs and thresholds as business conditions change, so users don't have to go back to IT each time they want to make a small adjustment.
Once you succeed with your first BAM pilots, your business users will think of many more ways of leveraging BAM to improve business operations. You just may be on your way to realizing the dream of the real-time enterprise.


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Set atop a gorgeous mountain overlooking Washington, this wedding not only has views for days but also details that highlight natural, unabashed beauty. From a neutral, elegant color palette to greenery infused florals crafted by Kaleb Norman James Design and a couple that's equal parts former NFL star and Entrepreneur/ model, there's not an inch of this celebration that isn't absolutely breathtaking. See every last pretty image captured by Sally Pinera with even more in the vault.
From the Photographer... Surrounded by mountains, evergreens, and and the splendor of Seattle mountains, former Denver Broncos wide receiver, D'Andre and model/entrepreneur wed at the beautiful Switftwater Cellars in Washington. Blending earthy, rustic and elegant details, Kaleb from Kaleb Norman James Design, created a gorgeous neutral toned palette. Rian wore an Alexandra Grecco gown that was elegant and simple, highlighting her natural beauty. Simple but beautiful details were included in this wedding such as: lots of greenery, different cakes of different flavors, lots of ivories and greens in centerpieces, and hints of blue with the Jenny Yoo bridemaids gowns and groomsmen blue suits.


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MADRID (AP) — The British parents who were pursued by police for taking their critically ill son out of a UK hospital for treatment abroad reunited with the child Wednesday after they were released from a Spanish prison.
A hospital spokeswoman said Brett and Naghmeh King visited their 5-year-old son Ashya at the Children's and Maternity Hospital in Malaga, but local authorities had received notification from British officials that the parents should not be allowed to take the boy away.
A British judge has made the child a ward of court, said the spokeswoman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because hospital rules bar her from being named.
The parents were sought by police on child cruelty charges after they took Ashya, who has been treated for a brain tumor, out of a British hospital against doctors' advice. They then traveled to Spain where they planned to sell a property to pay for proton beam radiation therapy in the Czech Republic or the United States.
They were arrested on Saturday and were being held in a prison near Madrid pending a British extradition request, but were released after U.K. authorities dropped the charges against them.
Their ordeal has generated a heated debate over whether authorities acted appropriately in chasing the parents through Europe.
The boy had a brain tumor removed and needs treatment to prevent it from returning.
Brett King told reporters in the Spanish city of Seville earlier Wednesday that everything he and his wife did for their son was for the boy's own good.
"We just want to help our son get through this bad time, because he hasn't got too many months to live," King said.
The British doctors have previously said Ashya's chances of survival were between 70 percent and 80 percent with standard radiotherapy.
King criticized his son's medical care in southern England at Southampton General Hospital, saying "they were going to kill him in England or turn him into a vegetable."
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Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) demonstrated today its Trusted Service Manager (TSM) service live at NFC Payments Europe, The Royal Garden Hotel, London. The system allows remote deployment and removal of payment applications and demonstrates the use of mobile Point-of-Sale (POS) terminals for payment transactions. The solution provides financial service providers with the capability to issue their applications to secure elements in NFC handsets while retaining complete control of their products, risk parameters and data.
Richard Anell, Head of IPX, Ericsson, says; "With this demo, Ericsson and partners showed today the removal of one more barrier-to-entry for financial card issuers. We have further reduced the complexity of connecting to secure element issuers and demonstrated how simple it could be for credit card issuers to load payment cards securely onto mobile phones."
John Wiese, Zenius CEO continues, "The standardized NFC ecosystem is rapidly becoming a reality, reducing the complexity and cost of commercial rollout to application issuers of all types and further underlining the ease and security of payment at the point of sale. We are providing a next-generation system that will finally allow the rapid introduction of mobile commerce globally."
The demo shows the entire card issuance process, from consumer request, through delivery, activation and payment using the card. In this case a major credit/payment card is requested on a website. Card data is generated by Aconite's MoAM system, and the card is then loaded onto the mobile phone using Ericsson's IPX TSM remote application management service. A visual image of the card that was ordered and the credentials appear on the phone and the card is securely activated OTA (Over-The-Air). After provisioning the phone with multiple instances of two credit cards, the wallet phone was used to successfully select a specific account and complete a transaction using that account by tapping against the POS phone, running Zenius' M-Transact software. This authenticated the account online and debited funds after confirmation by the consumer.
Patrick Register, Sales Director, Aconite, says: "The collaboration of Aconite, Ericsson and Zenius has created an end-to-end solution, for financial issuers, which gives them complete control of their business processes and payment data, without investment in mobile infrastructure. By minimizing investment in infrastructure components and maximizing issuer control over their mobile applications, we reduce capital investment and improve ROI, demonstrating the benefit of the standards based component system."
The solution uses the Ericsson's IPX TSM service, integrated through GlobalPlatform standard interfaces to Aconite's MoAM Service Provider system and the Zenius mobile wallet. The solution allows payment application data to be generated, securely delivered to the TSM and then personalized OTA to secure elements in the phone, to permit payments to be made using the NFC interface.
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About Ericsson's Trusted Service Manager
With the Ericsson Trusted Service Manager (TSM) service providers have a shortcut to the NFC ecosystem, allowing them to securely and easily distribute and manage their contactless applications remotely. The TSM is offered as a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and follows GlobalPlatform standards and makes it easier to offer NFC services reducing the need to integrate with each Secure Element issuer.
About Aconite's Mobile Application Manager
Aconite's Mobile Application Manager (MoAM) provides mobile application issuers with a GlobalPlatform standard compliant service provider system, offering TSM plug-in capability and full application lifecycle management and data preparation functionality. MoAM can be offered as an in-sourced or managed service component and allows issuers to create, distribute and manage their secure mobile applications while simplifying the task of integrating to TSMs.
About Zenius' Mobile Wallet System
The Zenius Wallet System includes an API that enables card emulation and communication for all transaction applications including open and closed loop payment, transit, ticketing, loyalty, coupons, access, and identity. With the Zenius Wallet API, developers can easily integrate NFC functionality into mobile apps for both Android and iOS. The Wallet API provides access to applications for card emulation and peer-to-peer communication.
About Ericsson's Internet Payment Exchange
Ericsson Internet Payment Exchange (IPX) is a global mobile commerce and connectivity enabler. As a carrier/operator payment broker with connections to more than 100 network operators, IPX provides delivery and charging, using direct billing, premium SMS, Web and online mobile payment. Customers include more than 1000 successful multinationals reaching consumers with high disposable incomes in many countries across the globe.
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