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Seabirds, sea turtles and marine mammals such as dolphins may not appear to have much in common, other than an affinity for open water. The sad truth is that they are all unintended victims - by-catch - of intensive global fishing. In fact, accidental entanglement in fishing gear is the single biggest threat to some species in these groups.
A new analysis co-authored by Stanford biology Professor Larry Crowder provides an unprecedented global map of this by-catch, starkly illustrating the scope of the problem and the need to expand existing conservation efforts in certain areas.
"Some of the earliest by-catch issues involved marine mammals taken in purse seines (large nets with floats) and shrimp trawls that drowned sea turtles," said Crowder, who is the science director at the Center for Ocean Solutions and a senior fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. "The problems were ultimately solved by scientists who clearly defined the problems and by managers and fishermen who sought innovative fishing methods to allow fisheries and protected species to coexist."
During the past half-century, fish hauls around the world have increased from about 19 million tons per year to more than 154 million tons per year. Beyond the problem of overfishing - more than 60 percent of sea creatures brought up are classified as overfished or collapsed stocks - by-catch can lead to "major changes in ecosystem function and process," the study's authors write. By-catch also damages fishing gear and wastes fishermen's time and money. Accurate data on global by-catch are hard to find because of the need for trained on-ship observers across vast oceans.
To fill the gap, Crowder and Rebecca Lewison, the lead author of the paper and a co-leader of the study, directed a research team that looked at hundreds of peer-reviewed studies, reports and symposia proceedings published between 1990 and 2008 to obtain a global perspective on what kinds of animals were being caught, where they were being caught and the types of gear in which they were trapped. They then compiled all of this information into a single comprehensive map and dataset.
"It highlights the importance of looking at the by-catch issue across different species, fishing gears and countries," said Lewison, an ecology professor at San Diego State University. "When you do that, it makes it clear that to address by-catch, fishing nations need to work together to report and mitigate by-catch. No single country can fix this."
The study revealed by-catch hotspots and gaps in available data, such as the lack of information on small-scale and coastal fisheries and many ocean regions that are heavily fished by commercial fleets. Among the findings:
Marine mammal by-catch is highest in the eastern Pacific and the Mediterranean.
Sea turtle by-catch is most prevalent in the southwest Atlantic, eastern Pacific and Mediterranean oceans.
Seabird by-catch is highest in the southwest Atlantic and Southern Indian oceans.
Expanding the use of by-catch mitigation tools such as turtle excluder devices is only part of the solution, according to the study's authors. Community engagement is key in less-regulated, small-scale fisheries. To make meaningful headway, researchers and managers need more data on the extent and distribution of global fishing. "Reducing by-catch levels in coastal fisheries sectors will require coordination across national boundaries using integrated approaches that link conservation action with sustaining human livelihoods, incentives and commitment to protecting the environment," the study's authors wrote.
This study is part of a research initiative funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Rob Jordan is the communications writer for the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.


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Tim Gunn never ceases to amaze. Project Runway's father hen showed up on last night's Daily Show, where he and Jon Stewart discussed the show, fashion, and fashion week, and Gunn totally won Stewart over; you could feel the love! Gunn also had winning views about the upcoming elections — specifically, how the candidates are dressing themselves. After the jump, read Tim's musings on the problems of politics and style in an interview he gave to Newsweek. We're anxiously awaiting primary results, but in the meantime: Tim Gunn for President, please!
I was on the Hill just this time last year, and I had all of these elected officials literally running from me saying, "I'm not a fashion person! Don't look at me!" In the beginning, I thought it was kind of sweet, but the more I thought about it, I began to find it appalling. You're an elected official. How many people see you and make judgments about you before they ever even know your point of view?... I mean, are we ready for a male cross dresser in the White House? No. But frankly speaking, there are times when I wonder about Hillary... I look at [the current candidates] and I feel like they've stepped out of the 1980s. And what really disturbs me, deep down in my very core, is whether these candidates really think that having people talk about your clothes in a positive way could be a bad thing. To think that they might answer "yes" horrifies me... I will summarize [Bush's] entire fashion presentation in one phrase: schlumped over and drooling. I hope I don't end up in some Iraqi prison for saying that.
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New Delhi, Feb 19 : The BJP Tuesday said it would target union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde in parliament during the coming budget session for his remarks on saffron terror and demand an apology. It would also raise the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal.
The decision to corner Shinde for his comments linking the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to "saffron terror" was taken at a meeting of top BJP leaders at L.K. Advani's residence.
BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said the party will also take out a protest march Wednesday, led by party chief Rajnath Singh. The march will start from Jantar Mantar and is likely to go to Shinde's residence, party sources said.
"We will raise the issue in parliament. Shinde is the leader of Lok Sabha, does he think we are terrorists?" Prasad said ahead of the budget session beginning Thursday.
"Our demand is very emphatic: he has to apologise," he said.
The party will take up the issue of kickbacks in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper deal. A meeting with other constituents of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will be called Wednesday to finalise the combined strategy for the session.
Prasad slammed the government, saying a new scam came up before every parliament session.
"There is a scam in this government before every session of parliament. Earlier, it was the coal allocation scam and now the helicopter scam... The ministers in this government are speaking in different voices on the scam. While the defence minister is saying we will scrap the deal, the external affairs minister is against it," he alleged.
Asked if the BJP would demand removal of Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman P.J. Kurien, who is allegedly involved in the Suryanelli rape case, Prasad said: "We will discuss it with other political parties and decide."


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'Perhaps the most important American play of the century' - The Telegraph
Following a sold-out, critically-acclaimed run at the Young Vic, Matthew Lopez's major two-part world premiere THE INHERITANCE lands in London's West End for just fifteen weeks. Directed by multi Olivier Award winner Stephen Daldry, this 'monumental and transcendent' (Time Out) production questions how much we owe to those who lived and loved before us.
'Witty, outrageous and piercingly vivid.' - Evening Standard
A generation after the peak of the AIDs crisis, what is it like to be a young gay man in New York? How many words are there now for pain and for love? Stephen Daldry's 'remarkably involving production' (Independent) explores profound themes through the turbulent and often hilarious experiences of a group of young, ambitious New Yorkers. What is the legacy left to them by previous generations? What do they owe the future and each other? ★★★★★
'An extraordinary epic event'. - Sunday Times
Spanning generations and interlinking lives, THE INHERITANCE is 'an exquisitely truthful and funny modern classic' (Telegraph) that brilliantly transposes EM Forster's novel 'Howards End' to 21st century New York.
Booking period: Friday 21 September 2018 - Saturday 19 January 2019
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On tomorrow's radio show, Steve Hayes will be our guest starting at 12 central, 1 eastern to talk about his new book, Cheney: The Untold Story of America's Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President. I've read a little over half of the book, and it is excellent. It is, really, surprisingly good, not because Hayes isn't a terrific journalist–he is–but because most journalists can't sustain a book-length narrative. That takes a different set of skills, which Hayes displays by taking Dick Cheney from his sometimes-wild youth in Nebraska and Wyoming, to his academic career as a political scientist, to his years as a rising star in the House of Representatives–Cheney's favorite time, it seems pretty clear–through his tenure as Secretary of Defense, during the first Gulf War, and up to the last six years as Vice-President.
These days, Cheney is the bete noir of the wacko left, so it is interesting to see the praise that has been heaped on him throughout his career by liberals like Ted Kennedy. A life-long moderate, Cheney's devotion to his country's service as Vice-President has enraged the contemporary Democratic Party.
One of the many interesting features of Hayes' book is Cheney's interactions with the CIA over his career. It is remarkable, in that context, how often the Agency has been wrong. No wonder that Cheney developed a skeptical attitude toward intelligence, while at the same time placing a high value on confidentiality.
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As you may have heard once or twice, we have a little Senate race going here in New York. The candidate on the Democratic side, by the middle of January, had subjected herself to many of the self-abasing rituals Democrats seeking statewide office in New York must submit to: The call on Al Sharpton; the obligatory trips upstate to prove that the aspirant is not merely the cat's-paw of urban liberals; the appearance before a power-broking Orthodox Jewish group to pledge fealty to Israel, even though there's no chance in hell that said group's members will vote Democratic. And she has subjected herself to one ritual most candidates don't have to submit to–moving here. The stage furniture, then, is set in place; the next nine months will bring character development, action, climax, coda.
Hillary's Choice, Gail Sheehy's new psychobiography of Hillary Clinton, was evidently intended by its author as an important piece of that stage furniture. It has not, of course, been received in quite so generous a spirit. You've probably read by now some of the sport the media have been making of the inaccuracies found within it. "The Reliable Source," the gossip column in the Washington Post, kept a running tally for a time. The most famous of these errors sits down there on the bottom of page 209, where Sheehy writes that Al Haig sought to reassure America that he was "in charge" not after the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, when he actually did it, but after the successful resignation of Nixon.
Before we push ahead, let's note another mistake, one The Nation, of all journals, would have done poorly to miss. On May Day 1970, it seems, Yale students–Hillary Rodham would have been in her first year of law school; that much is accurate–held a huge rally on campus in support of the Black Panthers, where "ripe-bosomed coeds" (?) dished up "a soul picnic" (??) for the "incoming Bedouins of the Woodstock nation." (???) Nine Panthers, Bobby Seale among them, were in jail in Connecticut, facing kidnapping charges. Jessica Mitford and husband Robert Truehaft came to town. So did 4,000 reservists from North Carolina, a presence made all the more ominous, Sheehy writes, by the fact that "the country had already witnessed unarmed college students being shot dead by National Guardsmen at Kent State University." Hmmm. Unless those ripe-bosomed nymphs and invading Bedouins moved May Day, not possible. Kent State happened on May 4.
Let's not make more of this error than we should. It symbolizes nothing and means only that the author doesn't know either when May Day is or when the Kent State shootings occurred and, if ignorant of either or both, didn't bother to look them up. These things happen, presumably even to the Washington Post's "Reliable Source" column from time to time. (Of course, to Sheehy, a lot of them seem to happen.)
I will say this, though: Factual particulars aside, the main arc of Sheehy's story, and much of her conjecture about The Relationship, reads to me as though it's pretty much spot-on. Hillary's decision to move down to Arkansas to be with Bill–the synecdochic "choice," it turns out, around which HRC's other choices and the book itself are all framed–is described by Sheehy, either explicitly or implicitly, as a function of three things: first, Hillary's ambition, and her belief that Bill would someday be the President of the United States, which she secretly wanted to be herself but knew, as a woman, she would not be; second, a rarely expressed desire on the part of the young-adult Hillary, finally out from under the control of her officious and right-wing father, to shock and dismay and do the unexpected, which she had so rarely had the courage to do; and third–hey, she loved the guy. This actually seemed to be true. And still seems to be.


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Value Line is regarded as the best independent research available. More than just recommendations, Value Line provides the rationale behind its picks for greater understanding.
Companies in Value Line's Power Industry grouping are primarily involved in the development and marketing of novel solutions for the generation and distribution of electricity. Companies herein cover a wide spectrum of underlying science and end-market applications. A good number are focused on reducing the developed world's traditional reliance on fossil fuels (i.e., oil, natural gas and coal) for power generation. This major subgroup includes solar panel and wind turbine makers, as well as operators of geothermal and municipal waste-to-energy power plants. Other manufacturers target less transformative niche solutions and enhancements to the existing electric grid. Their products include superconducting wire for power lines and fuel cells used to power wireless base stations and clean-running city buses.
The group has a relatively short history, since the adequacy and suitability of the existing power infrastructure has only really come into question over the past couple of decades. Increased concern over carbon emissions and global warming has led to greater interest in clean, renewable (non-fossil-fuel) sources. Continued reliance on fossil fuels imported from certain non-allied petroleum-rich nations has also been a factor spurring interest.
To a degree, these companies seek to reshape the global economy. Transforming a power infrastructure, which is so deeply entrenched, carries high risk. Many alternative power companies have only recently turned profitable, as market adoption has just reached key levels and product development costs are slowly receding. Still, a good number in the power group won't become self-funding anytime soon and must, therefore, turn to the capital markets for continued financial support.
Generally speaking, power stocks are best suited to venturesome growth investors, willing to assume significant risk for the prospect of high returns. These stocks carry high betas, meaning that they tend to increase the risk/reward profile of portfolios in which they are held. The broader economy affects these companies, but strong secular trends help to minimize the impact of economic hiccups.
Success within the Power Industry requires keeping a keen eye on the political and legislative landscape. Many of the companies would be significantly less viable if not for generous government subsidies aimed at increasing market adoption. Such subsidies include Feed-in Tariffs (above-market prices paid by distributors) and investment tax credits, which effectively lower product prices for customers. Investors should be aware that subsidies might target very specific applications. A tax break, for example, may cover rooftop solar installations but not ground-based ones.
Caps on regional subsidies have raised concern about the solar sector's overall health. Other changes in the tax code and in government mandates also risk disturbing the sometimes-delicate supply/demand balance within certain subsectors. That said, the political landscape usually favors the power group. A rising number of countries are instituting renewable energy mandates, requiring utilities to generate a set percentage of overall power from clean, renewable sources.
The underlying value of clean power generation may increase, should new legislation make carbon credits a reality, worldwide. In the U.S., renewable energy companies stand to benefit from a strengthening push to restore the country's industrial base. Years of overseas outsourcing have eroded America's capacity to produce everything from automobiles to refrigerators. Green-power suppliers, including solar panel and wind turbine makers, may help replenish the manufacturing base over the longer term.
Investors should closely monitor cost trends. Initially, many new technologies don't deliver power at a base-line cost that is competitive with those of traditional fossil fuel-reliant suppliers. Power producers should make progress toward so-called "grid parity" within a reasonable period. Incremental product enhancements and improvements in manufacturing help them to close the cost gap. We recommend that investors concentrate on the lowest cost suppliers, given the likelihood that they will grab market share from direct competitors in the nontraditional power space. "Cost per watt produced", while not entirely a standardized measure, is arguably the most important metric to monitor.
Nontraditional power companies face their share of challenges. The prices of crude oil and gasoline have a notable impact. When fossil-based energy costs are at high levels, it's easier for renewable producers to compete. But when the prices of traditional fuels are low, consumers and commercial businesses don't feel compelled to call for new, cheaper forms of energy. Access to credit is another import factor. Tight funding markets will cause a good number of large-scale alternative energy projects, like wind farms and commercial solar installations, to be delayed or cancelled altogether.


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With 500 million users and 500 tweets a day, the social networking site Twitter has changed the way we communicate. It also changes the way we write.
This year alone there were more than 100 Twitter-based studies. One study found that tweets often use words and spellings that are consistent with — and unique to — the user's region, reflecting local accents and terminology.
Jacob Eistenstein, who was one of the researchers, says the team is continuing its research to find out how new words, terms and acronyms move between cities.
- Time: What Twitter Says to Linguists
- New Scientist: Twitter shows language evolves in cities
- Jacob Eisenstein, assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. He was part of the research team that produced the study.
It's HERE AND NOW.
And we all know that Twitter has changed the way we communicate with 500 million users, over 500 million messages a day. And tweets also have changed the way we write, forcing us to condense thoughts to 140 characters. But is Twitter also changing the way we speak? There have been more than 150 Twitter-based studies. One of them focuses on how tweets are more like speech than writing.
Jacob Eisenstein is assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech and part of the research team studying how tweets are like speech. And he joins us in the studios of Georgia Public Radio in Atlanta. And, Jacob, we know one thing you're looking at is how regionalisms are moving around through Twitter. Is there a Twitter dialect or accent?
JACOB EISENSTEIN: So there's not just one Twitter accent, but many. This is one sort of popular idea about social media that there's a dialect of how you would write in social media. Some call it netspeak. But, in fact, what we've seen in the work that we've done with my colleagues at Carnegie Mellon and here at Georgia Tech is that the way that people write in social media, not only is it different from the way that they write otherwise, but it'll differ markedly across the United States, even more so than more traditional forms of written language would differ.
YOUNG: Give us some examples.
EISENSTEIN: So, you can think about a few different types. In some cases, it would appear that regional pronunciations, or pronunciations that reflect other types of dialect are getting transcribed into social media. So for example, a word like something could be written S-U-T-T-I-N. What happens is the G gets dropped and TH gets stopped. So you go from something to suttin, and that's something you can see written out. Another example, or another type of word is a word that we might know from spoken language, like hella, which means very in Northern California. Can I say hella?
YOUNG: Yeah, you can. You just did.
EISENSTEIN: We know from spoken language to expect it to be centered in Northern California. In fact, that's what we see in social media, too. And then the third type are words that really seemed to be social media specific, or at least specific to computer-mediated communication. These are words like abbreviations from multiword expressions, like, you know, LOL. LOL can be used across the United States. Well, there are alternative forms of LOL, some of which I couldn't spell out for you on the radio. Some of those are very, very geographically specific.
YOUNG: Well, you mentioned suttin. Time Magazine inaccurately attributed that to our region, up here in Boston. But you say that that actually - you could see that coming from New York. Another example, IKR, for I know, right.
EISENSTEIN: Yeah.
YOUNG: Popular in Detroit?
EISENSTEIN: The Michigan area, yeah.
YOUNG: So you can see - you can sort of track some of these were actually regionalisms. What are some of the other things you're looking at? We know you have a big study coming out, and you're not prepared to fully divulge. But we get a hint in Time Magazine that you're looking at race. You might see a word move from a city that has a large black population to another city, let's say Memphis in Tennessee, that has a black - a large black population, but not move as quickly to Nashville, which has more of a white population, which tells you that words can move racially. How do you see all these tweets?
EISENSTEIN: So what we're trying to do with that study is - and this is some work in progress - we want to see how words spread between places. So we know that it's not just static. We know it's not just the case that a word just appears in one city and never - either never leaves, or continues to exist there without spreading to other parts of the U.S. And what we believe is that by studying the way that words move between cities, we can identify some of the demographic factors that really, that shape people's perceptions of culture and similarity.
So if here in Atlanta, you know, it was found that we are more likely to adopt words from, for example, Memphis than Nashville, that would tell you something about the relationship between, you know, Memphis and Atlanta. And then we'd want to look at the demographic characteristics of those cities to explain that relationship.
YOUNG: Mm-hmm. And you might see that Memphis and Atlanta have higher African-American populations than Nashville, and that might tell you something about the tweets going back and forth.
EISENSTEIN: Yeah. So we're trying to really aggregate information across many different words whose geographical trajectories we've been able to identify and try to see what's the high-level picture that comes out in terms of the transmission of linguistic change, at least in terms of words.
YOUNG: Yeah. Well, other researchers have looked at how men and women tweet. There's a difference. Women use the word I more. Men are more likely to send links or use numbers. They looked at the difference between older and younger Twitter users. Younger users are more likely to use all caps. Dutch researchers found that younger tweeters are more likely to be very expressive, stretch out words like nice to have 10 I's in it. But what else are you looking at when you look at how different regions might share words? What else does that tell you?
EISENSTEIN: To me, it really comes back to the sense of identity. So I think language - we know this with spoken language, it's really deeply connected to people's sense of personal identity. And there's a great line of research from social linguistics focusing on speech that's shown us again and again over the last few decades that generally was thought not to be true in written language.
And I think the reason is that, until recently, written language was very constrained. So you learned to write in school. You use writing for official documents, you know, writing to your attorney or something or writing, you know, in the context of your work. So written language wasn't really free to express personal identity in the way that spoken language has been throughout history.
Now, with the advent of social media and computer-media communication generally, that's changed, and people are able to use written language as a key component of their daily social interactions. And that's, I think, the reason we're seeing this kind of variation according to geography, of all the dimensions that you mentioned - geography, age, gender and so on.
YOUNG: Well, and in other words, people from Cleveland might never have had the reason to write a formal letter to someone in Boston or to speak to someone in Boston, but now they do, through Twitter. So whatever the language uses in Cleveland are, they're going to have a better chance of making their way to Boston than they ever did.
EISENSTEIN: Perhaps. So I think the premise of social media is that it could connect anybody anywhere. But the reality is that most people have social media networks that are actually incredibly constrained geographically. And I think if that wasn't true, it wouldn't be possible to even detect this kind of regional differences, because the change would spread so quickly.
What we're finding is that if you look over a period of two or three years - which is already perhaps half the life span of Twitter - you can see this kind of geographical differences. Some of them will change over that time period. Some of them won't. But people's networks seem to be compact enough that they can preserve some regional differences.
My personal favorite one is an abbreviation. This is - you know LOL. That stands for laugh out loud. So this one, I can't tell you what it stands for. It's CTFU. It's cracking up, and there's - you can...
YOUNG: Oh, boy. Yeah. Don't - please don't tell us what that stands for.
EISENSTEIN: So it's cracking up. It indicates that something's funny. The reason I like this one is that when we first came across this, it was 2010, and it was popular in Cleveland - where we now know it seems to have originated - Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. And I presented this work to a group of linguists, and this was the one example that really bothered them.
The reason is if you've spoken to people from these cities, you realize that the spoken dialects are completely different across these three cities. So someone from Cleveland really has a Great Lakes accent. Someone from Philadelphia emphatically does not, and Pittsburgh is doing its own thing.
So the idea that these three cities with three different spoken dialects would share something that the rest of the country did not share in terms of social media, I think, you know, reveals the fact that, in some ways, social media is going to parallel spoken language. But in other ways, it really reflects new kinds of identity and new kinds of groups.
YOUNG: Interesting. Jacob Eisenstein, assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Thanks so much.
EISENSTEIN: Thank you.
YOUNG: So, Jeremy, it sounds as if Twitter is spreading regionalisms across state and city lines, but they're still staying within social and demographic groups.
Yeah. You also hear about this phenomenon, Robin, with television and the idea that maybe some of the regional accents that we have around this country are disappearing because so many of the people that we watch on TV are from California.
YOUNG: Yeah.
HOBSON: And so maybe we're all going to start to sound like we're from Southern California.
YOUNG: And will social media mean more of that? Well, we just know that if you start saying wicked or the more forceful wicked pissah, it's not a bad word, parents, but it did come from here. Oh, and my tweets tomorrow will come from Mississippi. Going to visit listeners at Mississippi Public Broadcasting in Jackson. I cannot wait. I'm excited about that.
HOBSON: You'll probably have a very thick Southern accent on Twitter.
YOUNG: When I come back.
HOBSON: From NPR and WBUR Boston, I'm Jeremy Hobson.
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Among Julie Harris' Connecticut performances and connections:
In 1948, Harris performed in "Sundown Beach" at the Westport Country Playhouse, directed by Elia Kazan. With Kim Hunter, Steven Hill, Martin Balsam, Joan Copeland, Nehemiah Persoff. An Actors Studio production. It opened in Broadway in September, 1948.
In March, 1953, Harris performed in "I Am a Camera" at the Shubert Theater in New Haven, on tour, following its Broadway run.
In December, 1953, she performed in the American premiere of Jean Anouilh's "Mademoiselle Colombe" at the Shubert...


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What is halitosis?
Halitosis is an oral health problem where the main symptom is bad smelling breath. In most cases, finding the cause of the bad breath is the first step toward treating this preventable condition.
There are many causes of bad breath, just as there are many sources of bacteria in the mouth. Halitosis may be caused by the following:
- Certain foods—The things you eat are linked to your oral health, including your breath. Items such as garlic and onions, or any food for that matter, are absorbed into the bloodstream. Until that food becomes eliminated by the body, it has the potential to affect a person's breath.
- Poor oral health care—Without proper and consistent brushing and flossing, and routine examinations by your dentist, food remains in the mouth, which is a breeding ground for bacteria. Food that collects on the teeth, gums and tongue may rot, which causes an unpleasant odor and taste in the mouth.
- Improper cleaning of dentures—Dentures that are not cleaned properly may be collecting bacteria, fungi and remaining food particles, which cause bad breath.
- Periodontal disease—One of the primary symptoms of this gum disease is foul smelling breath and an unpleasant taste in the mouth. This condition requires immediate care by an oral health professional.
- Xerostomia (dry mouth)—This condition is often a key part of halitosis. When there is a significant decrease in saliva production, the mouth is unable to cleanse itself and remove debris and particles left behind by food. Xerostomia may be caused by certain medications, a salivary gland disorder, or by continuously breathing through the mouth instead of the nose.
- Tobacco products—Not only do tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco and snuff stain the teeth and put the body at risk for a host of diseases, they also contribute to bad breath. Tobacco users also are at an increased risk for the following:
- Periodontal disease
- A loss of taste abilities
- Irritated gums
- Oral cancer
- A medical condition—Bad breath may be a sign or symptom of any of the following conditions. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Consult your physician for a diagnosis:
- A respiratory infection
- Infection of the nose, windpipe or lungs
- Chronic bronchitis
- Postnasal drip
- Chronic sinusitis
- Diabetes
- A gastrointestinal disorder
- A liver or kidney disorder
Treatment options
Specific treatment for halitosis will be determined by your physician or dentist based on:
- Health of your mouth
- Cause or origin of the condition
- Extent of the condition
- Your tolerance for specific medications, procedures or therapies
- Your opinion or preference
Treatment depends primarily on the cause of the condition, including:
|Possible treatments
|Poor oral health care
|If the bad breath is due to improper oral health care, in most cases your dentist will treat the cause of the problem.
|Gum disease
|If the cause of the halitosis is an underlying gum disease, the condition may be treated by your dentist, or you may be referred to an oral specialist—in most cases, a periodontist. A periodontal cleaning often helps to remove the bacteria and tartar or plaque that has built up and is causing inflammation at the gum line.
|Extensive plaque buildup
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These "insurance" plans that are being canceled because of Obamacare are no better than scam insurance policies ("Obama 'sorry' for health insurance cancellations," Nov. 7). As these stories are examined more closely by journalists, we are seeing a pattern of people who were duped into buying policies with no hospitalization or $300 maximums. In effect, freeloader policies that, in the event of catastrophic illness or accident, are costly to everyone.
To argue that these people had their insurance policies taken away is like arguing President Barack Obama cost your 6-year-old his future job in the coal mine by forcing him to go to school.
Kevin Krooss-
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Airbus delivers landmark aircraft for its largest Latin American operator
LATAM Airlines Group received its 200th A320 Family aircraft during the Paris Air Show today, highlighting an important milestone for one of Airbus' major worldwide customers.
The jetliner, a Sharklet-equipped A320 that will operate under the TAM Airlines livery, was accepted during a ceremony at Le Bourget Airport this morning.
This 200th A320 Family delivery is the latest milestone for Airbus and the LATAM Airlines Group – which is the company's third largest airline customer.
LATAM Airlines Group was created through the merger of Chile-based LAN and TAM of Brazil, in 2012. Airbus' relationship with these associated airlines dates back to 1998, when LAN and TAM joined TACA to place a joint order for 90 A320 Family aircraft, with an option for 90 more – the largest commercial aviation contract in Latin American history at the time.
In 2011, LAN Airlines placed the region's first firm order for the A320neo, while TAM is set to become the first Latin American operator of the A350 XWB, with a firm order for 27 of these next-generation widebody airliners – making it the largest A350-900 customer in the Americas and fourth largest worldwide.
A total of more than 500 Airbus aircraft are in operation throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. In the past 10 years, in-service Airbus aircraft in the region have tripled, while the company has delivered more than 60 per cent of all airliners operating in this part of the world.


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There are four types of room available at River Kwai Botanic Garden, Forest houses, Botanic suites, and Raft rooms. Each blends contemporary design with natural ornamentation and expansive balcony or terrace,
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Friday, July 27, 2007
What Kind of Knitter Are You?
I'm a "Knitting Adventurer" leave a comment about what you found out that YOU are!
Meanwhile, check out the details for the Michigan State Fair. If you're planning to submit an item, it costs $12 and you can submit up to 10 items. Look through your stash, what do you have completed? What's close to completion? What are you proud of and want to show off? There are small cash prizes and shiny ribbons to be won. . .what do you have to lose?
You need to download, complete and mail in your application by August 1, so get going and get it done! How cool would it be to have lots and lots of things from BSKG at the Fair? All items need to be delivered Aug 11, 12 or 13 (I'll need a volunteer to drop some things off for me, I'll be out of town still) and can be picked up just after Labor Day. I'll try to find out more info about the "Nimble Fingers Knitting Exhibition" Chris won a rosette last year for her speedy knitting! A member of the Royal Oak Knitters is organizing this competition, and she's also willing to help out with any knitting problems you may have with a project you're working on.
Regardless of whether or not you enter items (but you all should. . .) it's a fun place to go and see what other's around the state are making! With the skill of everyone in our guild, we should be able to win ribbons in every category. . .not that I'm competitive or anything!
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I guess I am an adventurer too! I certainly feel like nothing knitterly scares me and I want to learn it all! I want to be REALLY good, maybe design, or teach. Or...secrete fantasy...own a knitting shop. Sh!!!! Don't tell my husband! Kim T.
- July 28, 2007 at 7:36:00 PM EDT
I'll try again. my first try vanished into the black hole that eats my tape measures. It would seam that, at my age I'm still a "knitting Apprentice". Still learning, the computer, knitting, cooking-----no! no! no! I hate cooking.
- July 30, 2007 at 11:12:00 AM EDT
It's up there on top, above the leave a comment, my comment. Do not what to say it again. I think I'm going down that black hole.
- July 30, 2007 at 11:52:00 AM EDT
I'm still up here!
- July 30, 2007 at 12:50:00 PM EDT
I seem to be a knitting guru! who knew? I would never have picked that for me, more like a guru wanna be! LOL
- July 31, 2007 at 5:39:00 PM EDT
I also seem to be a knitting guru. I think there may be a flaw in that test. hahaha
- August 1, 2007 at 12:04:00 PM EDT


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Latest Features
NHL Game Night: 12-26-09 Thrashers at Lightning
Steve Downie doles out coal to the visiting team.
Mike Smith allowed 3 goals on 27 shots for the win.
First Period
ATL 11:48, Antropov 10 (Kovalchuk, Afinogenov)
TB 13:34, Downie 7 (Lecavalier, Ohlund)
Second Period
TB 4:44, Lundin 1 (Lecavalier)
ATL 16:54, Reasoner 3 (Hainsey, Bogosian)
Third Period
TB 5:04, Tanguay 5 (Downie, Lecavalier)
TB 6:45, Malone 19 (St. Louis, Stamkos)
ATL 16:50, Kovalchuk 22 (Antropov, Bogosian)
The Lightning played a near flawless third holding the Thrashers to 0 shots for over 3/4 of the final frame before giving the obligatory cheap goal to Kovalchuk. Fortunately they'd already staked themselves to a two goal lead, thanks in part to the play of Steve Downie, who had 1 goal and 1 assist. Downie also made a key clear with a little under a minute left in regulation. He's starting to come on now, and if he keeps it up he could find himself with a nice little 40-50 point campaign at the end of the year. Future looks bright.
Speaking of which, Matt Smaby: 7 hits. He's not fancy. He's not pretty. He's a blunt instrument, like a hammer, and you need to have guys like that to be successful. I'll take one Matt Smaby over a dozen smallish figure skaters like Lukas Krajicek, because Smaby can change the tone of a game with the way he plays. For instance, he folded up Evander Kane's shoulder like an Oragami crane in the third simply by locking up Evander, leaning on him, and finishing his check with authority. It was not a flashy play. He didn't break the glass. But he knocked Kane out for a couple of shifts.
Zenon Konopka was -1 with 2 penalty minutes, 1 shot, and 2 blocked shots.
Paul Szczechura had 1 shot, 1 blocked shot, and was 50% on draws in 16:04.
James Wright had 7 penalty minutes and 1 hit in 9:31. He actually picked a fight with 12 foot tall Boris Valabik. Brave? Certainly? Smart? Lets just say that, in my opinion, a guy like Little or Kane would've been more in his weight class. Thank goodness the linesmen stepped in fast.
Blair Jones was +1 with 2 blocked shots in 14:10. He had his stick in the passing lanes all night long and he was absolutely driving the Thrashers insane on the forecheck and on the penalty kill. He's a lot like Smaby. He's not pretty or flashy. In fact, he lost his balance and face planted himself into the boards at one point on the third, which was mildly amusing. He's a blunt instrument. But you need guys like that on your checking line. See: Dingman, Chris, circa 2003-2004. It's guys like Downie, Smaby, and Jones that really have me high on the future right now. Guys like Stamkos, for instance, are not playing as well as they can. Hedman's still acclimating to the NHL. So, it's not the big draft picks who are the show right now. It's Downie, and Smaby, and Jones, and I love it.
Victor Hedman was +1 with 2 penalty minutes and 3 blocked shots in 24:16. He also perfectly executed the sleeper hold on Bryan Little at one point in the game.
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The President's Circle was created to continue the established traditions of supporting our Tarleton family -- students, faculty, and staff -- as well as our community, and therefore provide a source of unrestricted funds to support a wide variety of programs. In 2010, the Circle's initial campaign provide over new funds, which were distributed across campus for scholarships and internships, as well as selected programs for individual colleges.
Funds from the President's Circle reach far and wide, including twelve $1,000 student scholarships, funding to help send a congressional intern to Washington, D.C., and support for each college, the Rodeo Team, and KTRL, Tarleton's public radio station.
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DH's grandfather & uncles both sprayed DDT like they were on fire! Grandfather said that banning DDT was the biggest mistake the US gov't ever made. G'father also just mixed with hands and sprayed on an open tractor, no gloves or protective gear. He lived to a ripe old age of 80 and died of stubbornness IMO. I don't fear pesticides, but don't want to just blindly drink and hope what I've bought isn't contaminated.Warden wrote:Although, if it does turn out that a good percentage of my leaf has pesticides, I would still drink it, and just start rinsing more.
I have switched all green tea to Japanese vendors after much reading and personal experience. I have had a number of chinese teas make me sick to my stomach. Never had a problem with green tea from Japan . . . coincidence?chip wrote:Testing on more levels is needed. To rely strictly on the government to test a certain percentage of tea is not the final solution. I personally feel that consumers need to be more involved on some level. I am trying to get more involved.


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800m 1:53.09
1500m 3:43:34
1600mR 4:02.8
1000m 2:25.64
3000m 8:21.09
5000m 14:44.88
2011-2012: Won the 800-meter run at the Yale Springtime Invitational…Qualified for IC4As as a member of the 4x800-meter relay team…Ran a time of 3:45.01 in the 1500-meter run at the Virginia Challenge to take 15th…NCAA East Regional qualifier in the 1500-meter run…Recipient of the Gardner Millett Memorial Award for the second consecutive year.
2010-2011: USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honoree ... Received team's Gardner Millett Memorial Award, presented to an "outstanding member of the Men's Track and Field Team who excels in Sportsmanship, Courage and Inspiration" …Outdoors, qualified for NCAA Regional in 1500m with No. 2 all-time Yale outdoor record at Swarthmore Last Chance Meet … Took third in 1500m at Heps … Anchored DMR team to win college division at Penn Relays, running sixth-fastest time on Yale outdoor all-time list … Won 1500m against Harvard … Anchored 4:02.8r mile split in distance medley relay at indoor Heps, pulling team to take second and running seventh-fastest time on Yale indoor all-time list, earning All-Ivy honors … Placed third in 1000m at HYP.
2009-2010: Took fall semester off from Yale to finish recovery from foot injury.
2008-2009: Missed entire year due to foot injury.
2007-2008: Ran 8:21.09 for 3000m indoors, narrowly missing the 21-year-old freshman record, and competed at Indoor Heps…Outdoors, ran a PR in 5000m before a foot injury cut his season short…Ran in the Bulldog's top five during cross country at both the Harvard-Yale dual and the NCAA Northeast Regional.
High School: Was a cross-country specialist in high school…Finished second at the English Schools National Cross Country Championships…Two-time Knole Run Champion … Finished 13th in the Lotto Cross Country Cup in Brussels while competing for Great Britain.
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WikipediaRead full entry
The tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum) is a freshwater species of serrasalmid. It is also known by the names black pacu, black-finned pacu, giant pacu, cachama, gamitana, and sometimes as pacu (a name used for several other related species).
The tambaqui is the largest characin of South America, found in the Amazon and Orinoco basins in its wild form. However, its pisciculture form is widely distributed in South America.[1]
It may reach more than 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in total length and 40 kg (88 lb) in total weight.[1]
It is similar in shape to the piranha and is sometimes confused with the carnivorous fish; the tambaqui is tall and laterally compressed with large eyes and a slightly arched back. Body color is basic black to gray with spots and blemishes in its midbody. All the fins are black and the pectoral fins are small. Around 10% of a tambaqui's weight is fat. The world record recognized by IGFA belongs to the Brazilian Jorge Masullo de Aguiar with 32.4 kg (71 lb).
This species is usually solitary.[1] Adults stay in flooded forests during the first five months of flooding, and consume fruits and grains. Young and juveniles live in black waters of flood plains until sexual maturity. The tambaqui feeds on zooplankton, insects, snails, and decaying plants.[1] The species plays an important role in dispersing seeds from fruits.[2][3][4]
Relationship to humans[edit]
The tambaqui is used in aquaculture because it can live in mineral-poor waters and is very resistant to diseases. This species is marketed fresh and frozen.[1]
In Thailand, this fish, known locally as pla khu dam (ปลาคู้ดำ), was introduced from Hong Kong and Singapore as part of fish-farming projects, but has adapted to local conditions and thrives in the wild in some areas.[5]
- ^ a b c d e Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2007). "Colossoma macropomum" in FishBase. July 2007 version.
- ^ Cressey, Daniel (2011-03-23). "Fruit-feasting fish fertilize faraway forests". Nature News. Nature Publishing Group. doi:10.1038/news.2011.177. Retrieved 2011-03-23.
- ^ Yong, Ed (2011-03-22). "Vegetarian piranhas are the Amazon's champion gardeners". Discover Magazine blogs. Kalmbach Publishing. Retrieved 2011-03-23.
- ^ Anderson, J. T.; Nuttle, T.; Saldaña Rojas, J. S.; Pendergast, T. H.; Flecker, A. S. (2011-03-23). "Extremely long-distance seed dispersal by an overfished Amazonian frugivore". Proc. R. Soc. B (The Royal Society) 278 (1710). doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0155.
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'The Thing' may carry Odorizzi into starting rotation
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- Jake Odorizzi is competing to earn the No. 5 spot in the rotation this spring, and he's hoping "The Thing" can help make that happen.
"The Thing" is the new changeup Odorizzi is working on under the guidance of professor Alex Cobb, who already has mastered the pitch to a certain degree.
PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. -- Jake Odorizzi is competing to earn the No. 5 spot in the rotation this spring, and he's hoping "The Thing" can help make that happen.
"The Thing" is the new changeup Odorizzi is working on under the guidance of professor Alex Cobb, who already has mastered the pitch to a certain degree.
Listening in on a conversation between the Cobb and Odorizzi regarding "The Thing," Chris Archer smiled before chiming in with new nicknames for the pair: "Thing 1 and Thing 2."
Appropriate monikers, since Dr. Seuss's characters from "The Cat in the Hat" cleaned up messes. If executed properly, "The Thing" should do exactly that for Odorizzi and Cobb this season.
"It feels really good," Odorizzi said. "I guess you'd call it a split more than a changeup. That's why we refer to it as 'The Thing.' That's kind of pitcher talk for what it is."
"The Thing" ate on Friday, when Odorizzi pitched an inning against the Orioles. Alex Gonzalez fouled off one and Xavier Paul watched another for strike three.
"Extremely encouraged; today was a day I just wanted to throw it a lot, and that's what I did," Odorizzi said. "It was exactly what I wanted it to be. ... Every other pitch, it seemed like I really wanted to use it to get a feel for it. There's was definitely room for it to improve. It was a good starting point today and definitely something to work on."
Odorizzi allowed no runs on one hit, a walk, and a strikeout in his first outing of the spring, employing his changeup on seven of the 15 pitches he threw.
To throw the pitch effectively, Odorizzi explained that a grip resembling the one used for a splitter is needed.
"It's a lot easier for me to throw," Odorizzi said. "It's exactly what Cobb has. It's something I thought I could use as a replacement for my changeup. And it's been good in my bullpens and live BPs.
"I've been able to pick it up pretty easy. And he's given me a lot of pointers along the way. You can't really go wrong with it when the guy who throws it is teaching you about it."
Controlling the pitch is a big factor when a pitcher dedicates himself to throwing his changeup (or another offspeed pitch), because the way offspeed pitches are thrown varies dramatically for every pitcher using one.
"You have to throw it for a strike," Odorizzi said. "You have to establish that you can throw it for a strike. And the movement's the big part of it, too.
"It's a little bit more firm than another changeup, but it's deceptive. Everybody sees how good Cobb's is, but when he throws it to people, nobody knows what it is. I felt like it was something I could incorporate into my game. I think it will be a huge weapon. I'm going to focus on it during this spring, and I think it will be a huge weapon going into the season if I can get it to where I want it to be."
Cobb noted that a good aspect of the pitch is "you can either throw it or you can't," so you don't waste a lot of time trying to learn the pitch if you don't get immediate results.
"[Odorizzi] threw it and it worked right away," Cobb said. "Once you realize that you can kind of get some movement with it, you can start manipulating it."
Cobb continues to refine the pitch as well, and he allowed that "The Thing" will show up some days and others it won't.
"The way to work on it is to not try to make it do something it's not doing," Cobb said. "Because it's either going to do it, or it's not. The grip's going to allow you to do it, and the arm angle is going to allow you to do it. So the thing you need to work on is the consistency of it.
"So what we're working on is adjustments -- if it's just too hard, or if it's up or moving too much sideways or you're not getting enough depth."
This is Odorizzi's second camp with the Rays since coming to the team in the Wil Myers trade with the Royals.
"I'm really a lot more relaxed than last year," Odorizzi said. "Things are going great. Feeling good, everything body-wise feels great."
Odorizzi would one day like to reach the point where he showed up at camp having already earned a spot in the rotation.
"It really would be nice," Odorizzi said. "I've never been able to experience that in the spring, being able to work on something and not having to worry about results."
Despite being in the midst of competition this spring, Odorizzi will continue to work to refine his changeup, while trying to compete at the same time. Every time "The Thing" eats, Odorizzi's chances of making the team will grow.
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com.


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Growing Hawaii's next crop of local farmers
Windward Community College presents Ag-CuriousUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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Windward Community College (Windward CC) will host an informational session open to the public for people interested in learning about farming as a viable business opportunity in Hawai'i. Participants will hear from expert farmers on the challenges and rewards of farming while assessing their individual readiness to farm. Parking is free. Register by Thursday, October 11, at email@example.com.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Windward Community College, Hale Akoakoa 105
"Approximately 85 – 90 percent of our food supply in Hawai'i is imported, and with an aging farming population we need to start preparing and supporting the next generation of farmers to cultivate a thriving agricultural industry in Hawai'i," shares Dave Ringuette, Professor of Agriculture at Windward CC.
FarmStarter Hawai'i is a comprehensive and practical training program built around the real-world needs of tomorrow's farmers. The program's goal is to train successful growers with a viable business plan thus creating a sustainable farming populous to benefit not only the farmer, but also the greater community.
This program is in partnership with the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and is made possible with the support of C3T Hawai'i, a $24.6 million dollar grant awarded to the University of Hawai'i Community Colleges through the U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration. The C3T Hawai'i grant targets certificate and degree programs specific to the three areas of agriculture, energy and health industries.
Participants will have a complete pathway to obtain the skills and education necessary for high-wage and high-skill employment through the educational component. Coupled with employer outreach, C3T participants will have the highest possible likelihood that their educational obtainment will be tailored to available employment opportunities.


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Willian working to attract transfer interest from Chelsea and Tottenham
Shakhtar Donetsk's Willian wants to continue to produce star performances to attract transfer interest.
By Paulo Freitas
Last Updated: 25/11/12 12:40pm
The Brazilian has enhanced his reputation with impressive displays against Chelsea in this season's UEFA Champions League.
Willian has in the past been linked with a move to Stamford Bridge and Tottenham Hotspur and he remains keen to one day make a move to a big club.
"I'm very happy with my moment at the club and I intend to keep living this moment," he told Globo Esporte.
"As for a possible transfer, there will be offers for sure and I work so that it happens.
"My club and my representatives will decide my future. I'm focused on helping Shakhtar to keep making history in the Champions League."


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In the VN, just how badly was Ange bullied at school? The anime had that one incident, but the manga made it look like gang violence (to quote CLAMP). The frame I saw from the VN made it sound more like she was shunned, with her bodyguards keeping anyone from getting close to her.
Interesting note: Ange's appearance and habit of throwing money around is obviously a tribute to Komachi Onozuka from Touhou. Usually she's portrayed as a slacker, but in ZUN's new Touhou manga (Wild and Horned Hermit), she comes across as a badass. Do you think Zun is reverse-importing Ange's character into her?
|2011-01-05, 16:18
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Ange was pretty heavily bullied. The "one incident" in the anime was kind of toned down, but they kept her there after classes and during lunch breaks and stuff all day for a couple days, and wouldn't even let her use the bathroom until it was time for lights out and such. They also did shit like intentionally losing her handouts and homework and shit, pretty much sabotaging any hope she might have of actually being a good student.
|2011-01-08, 20:18
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|2011-01-08, 20:39
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The time limit and Blue Truth are both set so that Beatrice can't just NEVER answer a question that would hurt her if she did. Beatrice stopped handing Red Truth out so readily because she realized that 1) Battler was relying on it as a crutch and wasn't reasoning for himself and 2) It was too disadvantageous to her.
As Ange pointed out, without the Blue Truth rule, if Beatrice refuses to answer something, it doesn't tell us shit. Did she refuse to say something in Red because she couldn't, or because she didn't want to?
Atleast this way, we can be more certain that if Beato doesn't repeat something before the time limit is up, it's because she can't.
As for the time limit specifically, that is also for Battler's benefit. He just never uses it to his advantage at any point, ever.
|2011-01-08, 23:29
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Yea, the problem being that Beatrice was trying to effectively commit assisted suicide. It is by no means the same thing.
In arguments in Chiru, where it's stuff like Battler VS Erika or whatever, that sort of thing doesn't happen.
|2011-04-05, 08:53
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So.. not really adding something to the character discussion itself here, but more like character design...
I was looking for some stocks to work with on my sigs when I found out this Touhou character named Onozuka Komachi - which I thought it was Ange until I saw the tags on the image...
Does anyone else finds them terribly alike?
Spoiler for Onozuka pic:
I know Ryuukishi likes Touhou but aren't they a bit too alike? :s You can argue that Jessica looks like Marisa, but I don't think they're this alike...
|2011-04-05, 21:38
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Pretty much. And the two causes/effects are probably mutually-causing; the Meta-World seems to like that sort of chicken/egg bullshit because it's METAPHORICAL. Logical causality literally doesn't mean anything.
|2011-04-05, 22:09
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Not to be a partypooper, but the character threads are supposed to be anime only guys. VN spoilers are only allowed if you're comparing something that happens in the anime with something that happens later in the VN. And that's kind of difficult to do and loosely defined anyway. The Q&A and spoilers threads might be better suited for this discussion I think.
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|2011-04-10, 20:31
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Regarding Ange's character...I always felt she was kind of dull/boring. I mean, I felt for her sometimes, but certain cases I just felt like she just didn't care or cared way too much. I also felt she was waaay into her magic stuff and because of that she pretty much essentially placed a sign on her forehead "BULLY ME." I mean, I know she didn't mean it, but singling herself out and not bothering trying to be social and make friends is pretty much just begging to be a sitting duck target for bullies. Bullies are less likely going to go after someone that other people would stand up for or would try to protect. I mean, I don't know if Ange really did try to make friends or not, but she essentially seemed to have the body language of that she didn't want to bother making friends and was more focused on her magic fantasies and her imaginary friends.
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4.5 An analysis of Monteverdi's posthumously published concertato setting of this psalm shows that he makes use of every single image Psalm 126 offers, translating each in an almost theatrical manner. In the context of Monteverdi's use of ostinato, it is the change to the psalm's positive theme, the promised heritage of the Lord, that is of special interest. The psalm text consists of two thematic parts, the vanitas exhortation of vv. 1–2 (a warning to those who toil without the benediction of the Lord) followed by the "consolation" of vv. 3–5, which is an enumeration of the Lord's blessings. In seventeenth-century editions of the Bible, the line "Cum dederit dilectis suis somnum" is marked as a new verse, thus belonging to the positive theme of the psalm. Monteverdi accordingly uses this line for a radical change of affect. Following upon the utter despair of "you, who eat the bread of sorrows," set in an almost theatrical declamatory manner, the line "Cum dederit dilectis suis somnum" blossoms into overflowing joy: "Ecce hereditas Domini, filii" (Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord). Children are the promise of a future, they are the token of life. Thus, "filii" becomes a cue word for utmost joy, and Monteverdi reflects the theological meaning unequivocally in his musical setting. After the protracted, dissonant cadence on "qui manducatis panem doloris," the textually ambivalent "Cum dederit dilectis suis somnum" opens up a sudden outburst of energy in Monteverdi's definitely positive interpretation—a lively concertato passage whose bass transitions to the major version of the descending tetrachord precisely at the promising "ecce hereditas Domini" ( Example 8 ).
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It's been clear for a while now that the real winner of this game would be the team that lost, and before the match even started, you could tell how determined both teams were to snatch this pivotal L. England and Belgium ran out heavily rotated lineups that featured hardly any of the players that won each of their two previous group stage matches. On paper, it looked like Belgium had a slight advantage when it came to throwing the match, with Roberto Martínez savvily lining up a handful of players out of position. Forwards Thorgan Hazard and Nacer Chadli both played wing back, and Leander Dendoncker started out in central defense. Surely, the more naturally positioned Englishmen would accidentally score a goal or two against such wildly ill-equipped defenders.
However, the Brits were not to be undone so easily. England's lineup was also far from balanced. This was most clearly demonstrated in England's lack of players who like to pass. Because of this passing deficiency, England conceded the possession battle to their more attack-minded Belgian opponents and succeeded in failing to create many chances to score. Belgium's ball hogs had 54 percent of the possession and popped off 14 shots to England's 11. The worst shot of the day was this Adnan Januzaj beauty that, unfortunately for the Red Devils, curled into the top corner of England's goal and gave Belgium the lead:
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July 1, 2011 9:53 a.m. EDT
- Ruben Navarrette says he hears from immigrant students who want to go to Harvard
- He says they are young people with big plans, thwarted by DREAM Act failure
- He says Act got new hearing with Senate Judiciary Committee; GOP tends to oppose
- Navarrette: Advocates with new chance must use good examples of high-achieving "dreamers"
Editor's note: Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a CNN.com contributor and a nationally syndicated columnist.San Diego, California (CNN) -- About once a month, I'll hear from an illegal immigrant who wants to go to Harvard.
Imagine an undocumented high school student who won't let a little thing like not being in the country legally stop him from applying to a top university. Those who set their sights on Harvard will often seek me out for advice because, almost 20 years ago, I wrote a book about being a Latino student there.
These young people with big plans but no documents are called "Dreamers" -- potential beneficiaries of the DREAM Act, which would give legal status to illegal immigrant students who attend college or join the military.
The bill was scuttled during the lame duck session in December when five conservative Senate Democrats -- Jon Tester, Max Baucus, Kay Hagan, Ben Nelson, and Mark Pryor -- bolted from their party to vote against cloture.
Or perhaps the senators had permission to bolt because, despite promises to Latino voters, Democrats really seem to have no interest in passing the DREAM Act and having it hung around their neck in future elections. Democrats want it both ways. They want to thwart the bill while making it look as if Republicans are to blame.
This is fine with the GOP, which seems to enjoy playing the role of villain on immigration because it helps stir up the base. On this topic, Republicans say the craziest things.
Will DREAM Act create 'better' America?
Take Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, who -- as Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee -- is pushing for enforcement of immigration laws. He prefers the kind of enforcement that doesn't inconvenience employers, business, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or anyone who contributes to Republican re-election campaigns. The San Antonio Congressman is a tough guy who only picks fights with the weak and vulnerable.
Last month, Smith told The Associated Press that the DREAM Act represented "amnesty for up to 2 million people." When I wrote a column suggesting that he didn't understand the term because "amnesty" is something for nothing and the DREAM Act is a quid pro quo, Smith dug himself in deeper.
"The definition of amnesty," Smith wrote in a letter to newspapers that run my column, "is 'the act of a government by which pardon is granted to a large number of individuals.' And legalizing millions of illegal immigrants is just that: a pardon for violating our immigration laws. If we give amnesty to illegal immigrants who deliberately disregarded our immigration laws, it sends the message that we do not take our laws seriously."
So a young person who was brought here as a child by his parents has "disregarded our immigration laws?" Should we consider this person a criminal seeking a "pardon?"
And is this absurdity now the official position of the Republican Party?
We might soon find out now that the DREAM Act is back on the agenda. This week, the bill got its first hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In attendance was America's most famous illegal immigrant: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, who recently revealed himself to be an undocumented immigrant from the Philippines in an essay for the New York Times and in ensuing media interviews.
Vargas wants to be the voice of the illegal immigrant community in the United States. He created an organization, Define American, to push for comprehensive immigration reform. But I bet what DREAM Act supporters really want is for him to be the face of their movement. Here you have an accomplished young man who has worked hard and made a substantial contribution to his profession and society as a whole.
Frankly, I'm not sure linking together the journalist and the DREAM Act is such a hot idea. Vargas is not a high school student on his way to college; he's a professional. Besides, parts of his story don't reflect well on him.
I found a better story. I recently met a young girl who I'll call "Karina." About to start her senior year at a high school in San Diego, she's doing what many of her friends are doing: taking the SAT, preparing her college essay, making a list of schools to which she wants to apply, etc. Harvard is on the list.
Yet traveling is an issue. She can't fly on an airplane. She doesn't have a driver's license. Karina is in the country illegally. She was sent here as a child and raised by relatives while her parents stayed in Mexico.
Immigration restrictionists would tell Karina to go home, but this is her home. She isn't lying about her status to colleges, or using a fake Social Security to get financial aid. She's looking for scholarships.
By contrast, Vargas lied to employers, used fake documents, and put colleagues who helped him and kept his secret in a tight spot.
DREAM Act supporters obviously thought that having him at the hearing would bring attention. It did. But it also clouds the issue. Vargas wasn't a Dreamer. He was a schemer.
Young people like Karina obviously know how to aim high. When looking for role models, they can do better.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ruben Navarrette Jr.
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There's still room for improvement. Shouldn't have to wait 5 seconds for My World to open up and then another 5+ seconds to bring up the list of installed apps. Especially when I'm connected to Wifi.
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