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Family dinner time helps parents stay in touch with their kids.
With the start of school our household has been busy this fall. Both children are involved in school sports and their homework load has increased. We continue to participate in church and volunteer activities. And somehow we find time to tend to our routine work duties!
Despite the complex schedules, we have worked hard to honor our family dinner time. This is a time when we sit around the dining room table consuming a well-balanced meal and catching up on the day's activities for all family members. Sometimes the meal doesn't start until 7:00 or 8:00 p.m. due to sports, but we strive to eat together.
The family mealtime is a lost art. With busy, fragmented schedules families tend to eat quickly, independently and often the fastfood drive-thru becomes the dining setting.
I am thankful for the family time we have instilled in our household. It demonstrates a genuine concern for our children's activities and whereabouts, our children engage in honest conversation and it allows us to confirm schedules and plans. I leave the dining room table each night knowing my children have consumed a healthy meal and had the opportunity to share about what is important to them.


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Several years ago, I heard a wise man discussing the concept of societal neurosis in the western world. Simply put, it is when a society does not live by its professed set of values. The disconnect is a sort of mental illness, if you will, where all manner of irrationality ensues.
Several years ago, I heard a wise man discussing the concept of societal neurosis in the western world. Simply put, it is when a society does not live by its professed set of values. The disconnect is a sort of mental illness, if you will, where all manner of irrationality ensues.
For example, we say we value education, but as a society we have chosen to invest more in prisons than in schools. While ballplayers are paid millions, teachers and health care workers are afforded a pittance. We have chosen to treat the mentally ill as criminals or ignore them altogether. We say we are all created equal but live out the Orwellian prophesy that "some are more equal than others."
In the ongoing gun control melodrama, we may have crossed the line from neurosis to psychosis. No matter your opinion on "gun rights," is it not unbelievable that background checks, which over 90 percent of Americans favor, cannot be enacted because the gun lobby known as the NRA threatened their puppet congressmen with "punishment" if they voted in favor. The bill still received 54 votes but fails due to another layer of minority rule, the filibuster sham. Unbelievable, sad, infuriating. Not our finest hour.
For years, when driving in or out of D.C. and passing the NRA headquarters, I have never failed to toss a few obscene hand gestures and expletives their way, for clearly this is a corrupt organization.
Their response to the Newtown shootings was to recommend more guns. It is their answer to all problems from personal safety to immigration to global warming to tooth decay. In the gun business, where overall volume is in decline, they will do or say anything to keep the money rolling in.
The NRA has evolved into an incredible propaganda machine for their gun manufacturer overlords. The scheme is based on three simple points:
1. Redefine the Second Amendment away from a "well-regulated militia" to a God-given right to any implement of destruction imaginable and only we, your friendly NRA, protect you in this .
2. The fear card: You are constantly in danger (mass killings only re-enforce the point), and you, too, can be Rambo or Tony Stark if you only have the hardware.
3. Someone is coming for your guns, so you better stock up now.
Very clever, very simple (for their simple audience), and totally evil in every sense of the word.
Other arguments against gun control run the gamut from the merely illogical to the ridiculous. One hears repeatedly, "If you take away guns, the criminals will get them anyway …" Yes and they can be arrested for that before, not after, they kill someone. Also, the logical conclusion of that thought is why have any laws at all if someone is just going to break them anyway.
Some excuses are merely distraction such as, "More people are killed in cars than by guns." Yes, but cars have other purposes and, by the way, every one of them is registered, and their operators are licensed. So why can't we at least do that with your God-given gun?
The "patriot" excuse is that we have to be armed against the tyranny of the federal government. Well, good luck with that. If you were a serious threat, they could take you out before you finish reading this sentence. Those days, like those of a "well-regulated militia," are but an anachronism.
My favorite is this, "More people die of obesity than from guns, outlaw McDonald's." Well, that is a very real and complex issue that warrants further discussion, but for now, let me say this, you can indeed kill yourself with what you eat, but you absolutely cannot walk into a school and kill 27 people in three minutes with a Big Mac.
My obvious anger, which I normally keep in check with meditation and spirits from foreign lands, has been ignited by news reports of the NRA convention this weekend, where this crowd ran around congratulating themselves on killing the background check bill.
Featured speaker Sarah Palin said the president was exploiting the Newtown shootings for political gain. Maybe you should look up "exploiting." I believe the NRA's full bore "the answer is more guns in the schools" fits that definition. The president's reasonable response was to push for passage of a bill that 90 percent of us favor. Alaska independence (and Texas, for that matter) looks better all the time.
The big anti-control argument is that it doesn't work. Well, in Australia there were 13 mass killings in the 15 years prior to 1996. After the last one, the prime minister, John Howard, a conservative no less, had had enough and enacted a ban on semi-automatic and automatic weapons. The ban was opposed viciously with much the same rhetoric as we hear today about rights and freedom and police state and all that, and many good politicos lost their seats, but they passed it and confiscated and destroyed 700,000 guns. Since 1996 there have been exactly zero mass killings, the gun murder rate has decreased by 59 percent, and the gun suicide rate has decreased by 65 percent .
The anti-forces fallback argument is that it's not the guns but rather our eroding morality, the effect of violent movies and video games and — wait for it — our loss of religion. Well you can take the Aussies and add Japan and Great Britain and Canada and most of Europe where gun control exists and find a comparable population to ours and a comparable demographic. In those countries where they have the same exposure to movies and games and are demonstrably less religious, the total gun deaths per year are less than 500. In the U.S., they are over 10,000.
Actually, I am not necessarily anti-gun, but nobody needs military weapons with high-capacity clips. I also tend to agree with the leader 30 years ago who said, "I can't imagine why the average person on the street should have a handgun." Of course, that was Ronald Reagan, and you know how those Hollywood types are. I would like to see a more sane and civil discourse with some honest recognition of the issues.
It's not any of these bogey men that are thrown at us. It's the guns — and the money.
We should be better than that.
Jim Nance congratulates all the soon-to-be graduates at all levels.

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CRYSTAL LAKE – At least 10 residents pleaded with city officials Tuesday to evaluate alternatives to a proposed 200-foot-long median in front of their homes and businesses.
With repairs on East Crystal Lake Avenue ongoing since April, the city wants to install the median to prevent drivers from making a left turn onto East Street from East Crystal Lake Avenue and to stop cars from queuing up or stopping on the railroad tracks.
After more than two hours of discussion at Tuesday's City Council meeting, the council approved temporary barriers to stop drivers from making the left turn while city staff reaches out to the Illinois Department of Transportation to see whether other options are feasible.
The city said it is looking to mitigate liability and ensure driver safety when crossing the railroad tracks.
Without access to the left turn, residents said, more traffic will go to neighboring side streets, such as Poplar, Morgan and Erick streets, as drivers divert around the median.
"[A median would] cut off traffic to a street I've been traveling on for 50 years," Poplar Street resident Dale Nelson said. "... [The city] is operating under the assumption that we need to be protected from ourselves because we're not smart enough to navigate a relatively simple traffic pattern."
A portion of the funds for the construction project – $877,000 – would be at risk if the city doesn't install the median, officials said. The state requires a solution, such as a barrier median, for intersections within 200 feet of a railroad crossing. The intersection has only 50 feet.
Furthermore, a safety analysis of a four-block area called it a "high crash location," with 23 reported crashes there from the 2003 to 2006.
Mayor Aaron Shepley pointed to the 1995 train-school bus crash in Fox River Grove that killed seven children.
"The fact of the matter is that was a worst-nightmare scenario," Shepley said Wednesday. "My feeling is that if we don't put in the barrier median or physically prevent people from turning left there, we could be unintentionally create the same scenario."
If drivers are stuck on the tracks with a train approaching, residents argued, a median would prevent their escape. But city staff countered that the 6-inch-tall median can be driven on and over.
Neighbors also raised concerns that a median would cut off access to emergency vehicles and increase emergency response time. But Police Chief Dave Linder told the council he didn't think it would be a problem to get around the barrier or over it.
In August, the city put up a no-left-turn sign at the intersection, but that doesn't appear to be working, city officials said. In the two months since the sign was erected, Crystal Lake police have issued 111 citations and warnings for drivers making left turns.
James Tomasello, who lives in the neighborhood, collected 167 signatures from residents and business owners who oppose the median.


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Advocates, parents decry delay in car rear-camera rule
Automakers have put rearview cameras as standard equipment into more than half of all new cars, but federal regulators have delayed making cameras a requirement four times in the past five years.
Parents of young victims of backover crashes came to Washington on Thursday to pressure the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to immediately issue the rule. The advocacy group Kids and Cars noted there have been 1,000 backover deaths and 70,000 injuries since the 2007 law requiring NHTSA to issue the rule was passed.
The Centers for Disease Control says an average of two children die every week in a backover incident.
"Two year olds don't know cars are dangerous," said Michael Dahlen, whose daughter Abigail died three years ago Thursday.
Dahlen, whose wife Brandy stood teary eyed next to him holding a photo of Abigail, described how he had to "get up under the car and pull her out" after a neighbor' backed over her in a Chevrolet Suburban.
The rule has a very high cost for the expected number of lives saved, which is believed to be the main roadblock to the rule's mplementation. NHTSA estimated in 2009 that it could cost $1.5 to nearly $3 billion when rear cameras are installed in all cars.
But the fact carmakers have already installed cameras in more than half of new vehicles would be considered by OMB in its cost assessment, according to John Graham, who was rulemaking chief at the Office of Management and Budget in the last Bush Administration. Still, he noted, NHTSA and OMB are "generally reluctant to issue safety standards that cost consumers more than $5-$10 million per life saved."
Edmunds.com says 53% of 2013 models have rear cameras as standard equipment, up from 19% in 2009 when NHTSA first proposed its rule.
All major rules must go through a cost-benefit analysis that is reviewed by OMB. Even if costs are high relative to benefits, the rule might be issued anyway due to mitigating factors such as strong interest in Congress or a special consideration for children, Graham says.
Joan Claybrook, who headed NHTSA in the Carter Administration, blames the Administration for bowing to pressure for delays from automakers, who at least publicly supported the bill.
OMB "has got their green eye shades on and are completely off the mark.," said Claybrook.
Rep. Peter King, R-NY, who co-sponsored the legislation that required NHTSA to issue a rear visibility rule, said the Administration should "never forget the human cost" of the incidents.
"Is it dollars or is it children's lives?," he asked.
Wade Newton, a spokesman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, said automakers have only asked that regulators consider all possbile ways to improve rear visibility. Citing Edmunds.com's numbers on camera installation, Newton noted that "automakers are providing consumers with many options" for safety technology,
Consumers have "many choices when it comes to what type of safety technology is appropriate for their families," Newton says.
When it issued its proposed rule in 2010, NHTSA noted that the cameras were the most expensive option for improving rear visibility, but cited the fact nearly half of the 228 annual victims of backover crashes are very young children "with nearly their entire lives ahead of them."
"There are strong reasons, grounded in this consideration and in considerations of equity, to prevent these deaths," the agency said.
Patrick Ivison, 18, appeared at the press conference in a wheelchair. He was backed over when he was 14 months and became a quadrigplegic.
"I feel so lucky to be alive," said the California college student. "This can be prevented and it should be prevented."
But Edmunds analyst Jeremy Acevedo says "while there is no denying its contribution to safety, it's difficult to gauge the effectiveness" of rear cameras. He wonders if more effective alternatives might exist with advanced .driver assistance programs like collision avoidance."
The Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act was signed into law by President Bush on February 28, 2008. NHTSA was required to issue a final rule by February 28, 2011. According to CDC, every week 50 children are backed over by a vehicle and 48 are treated in hospital emergency rooms. At least two die.
In a statement Thursday, NHTSA said it "remains committed to improving rearview visibility for the nation's automobiles. The rule remains under review."


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The Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded today for work in the field of quantum optics, an area of physics that was pioneered in large part at the University of Rochester. According to Professor Nicholas Bigelow, Chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester and who is a leading expert in the same field as the 2012 Nobel Prize winners in Physics:
"Some of the central ideas of quantum physics are puzzling and even disturbing. Through a series of beautiful experiments, Wineland and Haroche (and others) have shown that these startling aspects of quantum physics are not limitations but resources. Their work has provided a better understanding of Nature and opened the door to new technologies that are already having commercial impact."
"Both Haroche and Wineland are familiar faces at the University of Rochester, notably as speakers at and organizers of the University's conference series on Coherence and Quantum Optics. We are all excited by today's announcement and we are especially proud because the University of Rochester is recognized as a birthplace of quantum optics as a field."
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."


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Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
This week's collection includes a spectator watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York; children warming themselves near a bonfire in Dhaka, Bangladesh; a worker loading trash for recycling in New Delhi; and anti-government protesters pulling on barbed wire in Cairo.
This gallery contains photos published Nov. 27- Dec. 4, 2014.
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Mass. woman charged by Merrimack police with filing false sexual assault complaint
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MERRIMACK — A Massachusetts woman is accused of falsely claiming she was sexually assaulted.
Gabrielle Caughey, 21, of Mendon, Mass., was arrested Friday for filing a false report to law enforcement and two counts of theft by unauthorized taking.
Merrimack police were originally investigating a complaint that Caughey stole some items from an individual's home on Oct. 28. Investigators determined Caughey pawned the stolen items at a nearby shop, police said.
It was during the investigation into the reported thefts that, according to police, Caughey claimed a man sexually assaulted her. Those allegations turned out to be false, police said.
Caughey is free on $5,000 personal recognizance bail with a Feb. 25 arraignment set in 9th Circuit Court, Merrimack District Division.


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Earnings for ships that haul liquefied gases, cars and oil products are most likely to recover this year amid a continued glut of merchant vessels that may spur more bankruptcies, said Arctic Securities ASA.
Gas, auto and oil-product carriers are "niche" areas of the industry helped by conditions including barriers to entry, the Oslo-based investment bank said today in an e-mailed report. Arctic selected Golar LNG Ltd., which operates a fleet of gas ships, and vehicle transporter Wilh. Wilhelmsen ASA as two of its top stock picks for this year.
Fleet oversupply will again weigh on freight rates for container vessels, crude-oil tankers and ships carrying dry-bulk commodities including coal and iron ore through 2013, Arctic said. Still, the bank chose dry-bulk carrier Golden Ocean Group Ltd. as a top selection for this year along with Frontline 2012 Ltd.
"Shipping equities have generally been under pressure through 2012 as most segments are suffering from overcapacity, but we see 2013 as the year when deliveries abate in most markets," Arctic said. Billionaire John Fredriksen is the largest investor in Golar LNG, Golden Ocean and Frontline 2012.
Charter rates for the largest crude tankers will average $23,000 a day this year, down from $25,200 in 2012, according to Arctic. Hire costs this year for the ships and smaller oil carriers as estimated by the bank are "unlikely to be enough to keep cash balances intact for the industry," according to Arctic, which maintained a sell rating on the crude-tanker fleet.
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Earnings for dry-bulk vessels will remain pressured even as deliveries of new ships in 2013 ease from a record and combine with scrapping of older ships to pare fleet growth to 4.1 percent from 12 percent last year, according to Arctic.
"Applying our earnings forecasts to any company model should lead to a decline in cash balances and we expect more newsflow on distress sales or companies 'checking out,'" the bank said of dry-bulk shipping.
Arctic said it's concerned that steps taken by banks to help prevent ship operators from running out of money may create "a sub-class of 'zombie' companies," delaying a rebalancing of supply and demand. Still, now is the right time to invest in the industry, according to the report.
"Despite our view that 2012 may have been the trough year viewed across all markets, we find the likelihood of more restructurings in 2013 as very high given the fact that our earnings forecasts only offer a small uptick," Arctic said.
Weaker Demand
Shipping of dry-bulk commodities by sea will rise 4.6 percent to 3.9 billion metric tons this year, with the market's focus likely to shift to slowing demand from the oversupply of vessels, Arctic said.
Demand for liquefied natural gas carriers is poised to remain firm in 2013 after rates gained to records last year amid demand for the fuel from leading global importer Japan, according to the bank.
Freight rates for very large gas carriers will average $27,000 to $33,000 daily over the next three years, "a level that should keep ship owners and investors happy," Arctic said. The vessels haul liquefied propane and butane.
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We recently came across Unconditional Clothing and loved this seasons collection. The London based fashion label was founded by Philip Stephens in 2000 as a small one off collection for Concrete shop in Soho.
The high-end menswear line has certainly grown since then, and has now shown at both London and New York Fashion weeks. Unconditional has however stayed true to its London roots which is demonstrated in its edgy yet laid back collection.
The backbone of each collection is a unique range of 'luxury basics' with an attention to detail and tailoring. They are also dedicated to using pure, natural, and ethically produced fabrics and yarns to make their clothing. In recent months the label has been receiving a lot of celebrity attention from the likes of Orlando Bloom, David Beckham, Kanye West, and Tinie Tempah.
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ROCK FALLS – Painting and repair work have begun on the U.S. Highway 30 bridge at the interchange with Interstate 88, and should be done by the end of June, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direction. Drivers should reduce speed and be alert for vehicles changing lanes.
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This is quiet time around the local golf scene, with just a few fun tournaments slated for New Year's Day. There's one at Pine Lakes, another at Grand Haven and one at Halifax, sponsored by the Executive Women's Golf Association. The Pine Lakes and EWGA events are open to all.
Meanwhile, this is a big week for football — and perfect weather for watching. The last regular season game is Sunday and the playoffs begin next week.
There is a big connection between football and golf, as many football players are avid golfers who participate in off-season golf tournaments. I'm a Giants fan whose team will most likely miss the playoffs, but some things may be a little more important than football: for example, the Giants player who has a very special relationship to golf.
That player is quarterback Eli Manning, who sponsors an annual golf tournament in June to aid the blind. Manning, winner of two MVP awards for the Giants' two Super Bowl wins in five years, gives a lot back to the community. He has hosted the Corcoran Cup for the past six years, an annual golf tournament that benefits the Guiding Eyes for the Blind organization. The event has raised more than $10 million since its inception in 1978 and allows the nonprofit school to breed and train guide dogs and partner them with the visually impaired and children with autism.
The group is headquartered in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. (in my home county) and is an internationally known nonprofit guide dog school. The Corcoran Cup (known as the "Masters of blind golf"), is named after the late Fred Corcoran, a sports promoter, PGA official, agent, and a founder of the LPGA.
Manning became involved in the Guiding Eyes event for blind golfers because of a longtime family friend, Patrick Browne, Jr., who is blind. Browne has won the United Sates Blind Golf Association's Corcoran Cup 24 times. Manning hosts the two-day tournament, held at Mount Kisco Country Club in New York's Westchester County. In one recent tournament, he played in it with a blindfold and used the same coaches the blind golfers do to experience what it was like being unable to see. Browne, a native of New Orleans, as is Manning, lost his sight in a 1966 automobile accident. Before the accident, Browne had been an exceptional high school and college athlete.
A spokeswoman for Guiding Eyes said Manning is interested in the relationship between the guide dogs and their owners and how the dogs affect their lives. His dedication makes Manning not only a Super Bowl MVP, but a super person.
Become a rules expert
The United States Golf Association is holding a rules workshop in Port St. Lucie Jan. 4-7 for anyone interested in learning more about the worldwide code that governs the game.
The workshops are attended by officials employed by the various tours, volunteers who help the USGA and state and regional golf associations run competitions, PGA pros and competitive amateur golfers, and especially, average golfers interested in knowing more about the rules.
The three-day program offers classroom instruction and interactive exercises with two exam options on the fourth day.
The workshop is led by two instructors, one affiliated with the PGA of America and one with the USGA. It includes a review of all 34 Rules of Golf, all the definitions and more than 100 decisions on the Rules of Golf. It uses presentations with photos, illustrations, animations, and videos.
Anyone interested is encouraged to participate; there are no registration prerequisites.
The rules of golf, as we know, are complicated; it's always good to have someone at a club who has a good handle on them. Not all pros do, as I sadly learned many years ago when my club pro erred on interpreting a rule. It cost me a possible club championship. I now carry an up-to-date rule book with me at all times along with a phone to call the pro shop.
Cost of the program is $300; for more information, call the USGA Rules Department at 908 234-2300, ext. 5100.
Woman's Golf Association
Dec. 24. Presents Galore. Flight 1: 1. Deb Crowley, 67; Flight 2: 1. (tie) Patte Garofalo, Sonya Sapp, 68. Flight 3: 1. Marcia Paull, 74. Birdies: No. 3, Deb Crowley. Chip-in: No. 12, Sonya Sapp.
Men's Golf Association
Dec. 26. Count as many as you can. 1. 24, Jerry Chiddister, Jerry Garnett, Bruce Hinman; 2. 22, Otto Bohmueller, Bob Schwarlow, Blind Draw; 3. 20, Tom Sweeney, Tom Richards, Ed Gormley. Closest to the pin: No. 5, Blue/Silver, n/a, White/Red, Chuck Culver; No. 8, Blue/Silver, Otto Bohmueller, White/Red, Jerry Garnett, No. 14, Blue/Silver, Otto Bohmueller, White/Red, Jerry Johnson; No. 17, Blue/Silver, n/a, White/Red, Bruce Hinman.
Area golf scene takes a holiday breather
This is quiet time around the local golf scene, with just a few fun tournaments slated for New Year's Day. There's one at Pine Lakes, another at Grand Haven and one at Halifax, sponsored by the Executive Women's Golf Association. The Pine Lakes and EWGA events are open to all.


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Typically, when one thinks of nurseries, powdery blues, pinks, and yellows come to mind. But nurseries can be beautiful in darker colors, too. Plus, babies just might appreciate it, too. Just think — they enjoyed hanging out in a pretty dark and cozy space for a while before joining the household! Plus, colors and whites alike will really pop in contrast against such dark walls — yet another thing newborn babies really like!
1. Apartment Therapy's winner of the Small Kids, Big Color contest last year.
2. House of Honey
3. Apartment Therapy
4. Elements of Style
5. House Tweaking
1. Iron Ore by Sherwin Williams
2. Iron Mountain by Benjamin Moore
3. Kendall Charcoal by Benjamin Moore
4. Down Pipe by Farrow & Ball
5. Dependable by Pratt & Lambert
6. Steel Wool by Pratt & Lambert
7. Almost Charcoal by Valspar
8. Seal Gray by Glidden
9. DKC-98 by Donald Kaufman
10. Mercer by Ralph Lauren
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Weekend Confirmed Episode 16
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 16 - 07/09/2010
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Weekend Confirmed comes in four segments to make it easy to listen to in segments or all at once. Here's the timing for this week's episode:
Whatcha' Been Playin: Start: 00:00:00 End: 00:30:37
Whatcha' Been Playin and Cannata-ford a New Game: Start: 00:31:39 End: 01:05:49
The Warning: Start: 01:06:53 End: 01:42:15
Music Break featuring Simon Jain's "Feels Like You": Start: 01:42:15 End: 01:45:42
The Front Page: Start: 01:45:42 End: 02:17:11
Music Break features Toronto talent Simon Jain's summer groove "Feels Like You". Beautiful vocals overlay an arrangement that speaks to what progressive house is all about. It's available now exclusively on the 44th & Filth label through Beatport and all other retailers including iTunes, Traxsource, Masterbeat, DJ Download, and Juno Download starting August 3. For more on Simon Jain keep up with him at the official Simon Jain site, Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace.
Big thanks to our guest Christian Spicer.
Original music in the show by Del Rio. Get his latest single, Small Town Hero on iTunes and check out more at his Facebook page.
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Looks like a good finding.
Thursday is turning out to be a good day so far (in terms of MS news stories).
New 'stars' in formation of nerve cell insulation 16 March 2006
The insulating myelin sheath enwrapping the cable-like axons of nerve cells is the major target of attack of the immune system in multiple sclerosis. Such attack causes neural short-circuits that give rise to the muscle weakness, loss of coordination, and speech and visual loss in the disease.
Now, Douglas Fields of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and his colleagues have reported in the March 16, 2006, issue of Neuron that supporting cells called astrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS) promote myelination by releasing an immune system molecule that triggers myelin-forming cells to action. The finding, they say, "may offer new approaches to treating demyelinating diseases."
Astrocytes, so named because of their star-like shape, are the most prominent supporting cells in the nervous system. They provide critical regulatory molecules that enable nerve cells to develop and connect properly.
In their studies, Fields and his colleagues sought to understand other research findings indicating that the electrical activity of nerve cells somehow triggers myelin-producing cells, called oligodendrocytes, to form the myelin membrane surrounding the nerve cells.
In their studies, the researchers cultured rat and mice neurons together with oligodendrocytes and conducted experiments to understand the mechanism of myelin formation. They found that electrical stimulation of the neurons caused production of the energy molecule ATP, and this ATP increases myelination.
Drawing on other researchers' findings that an immune signaling molecule called leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) might be involved, they explored whether LIF was a key molecule in the ATP-triggered myelination machinery. Their experiments revealed LIF's central role in the machinery, and further studies showed that astrocytes were the source of that LIF.
Indeed, when they tested directly whether astrocytes were important in promoting myelination in the cell cultures, they found the cells to be potent promoters of the process.
"Taken together, these results reveal a new mechanism by which electrical activity promotes myelination of CNS axons at a later developmental stage and possibly into postnatal life," concluded the researcher. They wrote that the "new findings may provide novel approaches to understanding and treating myelin disorders in the CNS" after the immature oligodendrocytes have matured into myelinating cells.
The researchers include Tomoko Ishibashi, Kelly A. Dakin, Beth Stevens, Philip R. Lee, and R. Douglas Fields of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, MD; Serguei V. Kozlov and Colin L. Stewart of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD. This work was supported by the intramural research program at National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Ishibashi et al.: "Astrocytes Promote Myelination in Response to Electrical Impulses." Publishing in Neuron 49, 823–832, March 16, 2006. DOI 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.02.006
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UC Santa Barbara 2010
As a junior Ben played in 23 games, making 14 starts ... Posted 64 at-bats while hitting a team-best .344 ... In Big West competition he hit a team-best .375 in 11 games, racking up 15 hits, two of which were home runs ... Eight of his 10 RBI on the season came in league play ... Had a .432 on-base percentage in Big West action ... Was a perfect 6-for-6 in stolen bases ... In the Cal State Northridge series, from May 7-9, he racked up nine total hits - three in each game - scored four runs, drove in another two and stole three bags ... In the Gauchos' series finale at Pacific, Ben went 5-for-13 with six RBI and three runs scored ... Was 2-for-4 in the Friday game in Stockton with a triple, a home run and three RBI ... Had his first multi-hit game as a Gaucho on March 14 vs. Northern Illinois.
2010 Summer
Ben played for the Kelowna Falcons in the West Coast Collegiate League... In 124 at bats he compiled a .347 average and .444 slugging percentage on 43 hits... He stole 5 bags and had an on base percentage of .460.
Saw action in five games before suffering a foot injury...Accumulated five at-bats...Scored two runs and had one hit on the season...Went 1-for-3 with a run scored on Mar. 15 at Saint Mary's.
Cañada College
Batted .308 as an outfielder, starting 33 of the 35 games he played in...Scored 29 runs with seven doubles, one triple and two home runs...Swiped 13 bases in 14 attempts...In 117 at-bats, struck out just 19 times compared with 18 walks...Had a .411 on-base percentage and a .436 slugging percentage...Named Second Team All-Coast Conference.
High School
Played shortstop, second base, and pitcher for Tink Reynoso at Sequoia High School...Hit .406 with 14 doubles and had a 1.31 ERA junior year for the Cherokees...Named First Team All-Peninsula Athletic League all four years at Sequoia...Helped his team to a Peninsula Athletic League Championship...Was a standout football and basketball player.
Benjamin Anthony Edelstein was born on Sept. 16, 1988 in Redwood City, Calif...Majoring in business economics with a minor in sports management at UCSB...Wants to become a sports agent...Would be playing football if he were not playing baseball...Roots for the San Francisco Giants, 49ers, Golden State Warriors, and San Jose Sharks...Has made the Dean's List every year from 2002 through 2007...Played summer ball in 2008 for the NorCal Longhorns...Batted .308 with 16 stolen bases as the team's center fielder...Favorite athletes are Patrick Willis and Monta Ellis...Most memorable sports moment is the Cal vs. Stanford "The band is on the field!"...Favorite movie is "Animal House"...Favorite TV show is "Entourage"...Favorite magazine is "Maxim"...Would be played by Jeremy Piven in a Hollywood movie about his life...Would invite Michael Jordan, Jessica Alba, and Joe Montana to dinner if given the opportunity...Has siblings Lauren and Brian...Parents are Jim and Michele Edelstein...Mother and sister are both UCSB alumni.
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  At-bats	6	Cal State Northridge	5/7/10

  Hits	3	three times	three times

  Runs	2	Cal State Northridge	5/8/10

  Runs Batted In	3	@ Pacific	5/28/10

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There's something exhilarating about a good, old-fashioned battle of the wills between myself and my daughter. Partly, I think, because we're very well-matched in this area. She is a worthy opponent. An expert at holding her ground.
But guess what, little one, so am I. Not all the time, mind you. Just when I feel like it. Eliza's the exact same way. Most of the time she does what I tell…
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I bought Eliza a potty this week. I figure we should get her interested in the potty and see what happens. She's always (in her 17 long months of life) been pretty good about making transitions and wanting to move to the next level, so I'm hoping she just kind of figures out this potty stuff on her own. I'm pretty sure she can. I'll just sit back and…Continue
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I'm out of Cherry Coke. In fact, I'm out of any kind of pop besides my husband's Mountain Dew super blue beverage that I refuse to drink. Normally, being out of Cherry Coke wouldn't be a huge deal. Target is just a quick trip down the road. The thing about being out of Cherry Coke today is that it's 14 degrees outside.
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If there's one thing I've learned from having a kid, it's how to fail. Not in some dramatic way. I'm certainly not perfect, but I don't think I'm a total failure as a mother or anything. I've just learned how to fail at the little things. Every day.
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December 01. 2012 11:47PM
Patrick Buchanan: U.S. is not so indivisible
By JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
Patrick Buchanan speaks, during the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications, First Amendment Event, at the Capital Center for The Arts, on Thursday in Concord. (Thomas Roy/Union Leader)
Buchanan's ties to newspaper and the Loebs go way back
MANCHESTER - Two decades ago, after conservative commentator, columnist and author Pat Buchanan won nearly 40 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, he exulted that his "Buchanan brigades met King George's army all along the Nashua Manchester Concord line and they are retreating back into Massachusetts."
The reference was to then-sitting President George H.W. Bush and the GOP establishment.
In 1996, again with the strong editorial backing of the New Hampshire Union Leader, Buchanan defeated the Republicans' "next-in-line" establishment candidate, Bob Dole, in the first-in-the-nation contest, leading his "peasants with pitchforks" on a journey he hoped would transform the Republican Party and the country.
It didn't work out that way, but Buchanan left a mark that in many ways re-emerged when the Tea Party reached a high-water mark in 2010.
Today, Buchanan believes the Nov. 6 election told a different story about where America is headed. And in his customarily blunt opinion, it's not to a good place.
Buchanan, now 74, still fights the populist-conservative fight in books and columns and television appearances.
His contention that the America he knew as a young man - a united country rooted in the Christian values and culture on which it was founded - is vanishing, has opened him to fresh charges of racism and anti-Semitism.
His most recently published book contained controversial passages about the fate of "Christian America," which cost him his 10-year role as a rare conservative voice on the left-leaning MSNBC cable network.
Buchanan, former adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, returned to New Hampshire last week to keynote the 10th Annual Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment Awards ceremony in Concord.
In an interview before his appearance, he summed up his view of the nation's future:
"A guy whose last four books were 'State of Emergency,' 'Day of Reckoning,' 'Suicide of a Superpower' and 'Death of the West' is not going to be a roaring optimist," he said.
In "Suicide," Buchanan pens a chapter titled "The End of White America," in which he maintains that as a result of a steady influx of both illegal and legal immigrants, the United States is "Balkanizing" along religious, racial, ethnic, cultural and ideological lines.
"And," he explained in a column written just after his termination last February by MSNBC, "Western peoples are facing demographic death by century's end."
In today's America, Buchanan told the New Hampshire Sunday News, "People don't like each other and want to move away from each other," as evidenced by the secession movement in Texas.
Americans of different ethnic backgrounds clashed during the early 20th century, he noted.
"But because of what we went through - the Depression, World War II - public schools, which were deeply patriotic and forced kids to learn English and study English literature, all these things created a new America," Buchanan said.
"By 1960, everybody was assimilated, 97 percent spoke English, we were one nation," he maintained.
Today, he said, "people are coming from different civilizations, different cultures, and the melting pot is not working. It has been rejected by the elites who say that more and more diversity is better.
"We used to say, 'One nation, under God, indivisible.' Now we say diversity is our strength.
"We're risking the dissolution of the country," said Buchanan. "People more and more want to be with their own kind, and the American idea of bringing them all together and creating a new people isn't happening."
This divide is exacerbated by a media that he said is decreasingly objective.
With the new dominance of the Internet, especially Facebook, Twitter and the like, "Now we are at war all day long every day," said Buchanan. "It never stops - every day, every hour, every minute.
"Look at MSNBC and Fox," he said. "They go at each others' throats daily.
"And the use of the term 'racist,' that was used on people like Bull Connor (the pro-segregation safety commissioner of Birmingham, Ala., in the 1960s), but now it's used commonly."
Buchanan said the election of Barack Obama in 2008 spoke well for the country, culturally, if not, in his opinion, politically.
"I was on the (Washington) mall when he was inaugurated, and it was a wonderful event," he said. "Everybody was up.
"Everyone was saying, 'This is good. Look at the statement it says to the world.' I thought it was terrific."
But, said Buchanan, "he hasn't been able to unite the country and neither did (George W.) Bush.
"The question is: Is it their fault or is it really getting to the point where the country cannot be united under one individual?" Buchanan asked.
The controversy surrounding the Obama administration's handling of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi is a current example of how deep divisions are manifested in Washington, Buchanan said.
If Obama nominates United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice as Secretary of State, he said, "he's asking for a fight, and he should think long and hard whether he wants to nominate someone for that position who is a divisive figure in her own country."
But Buchanan laughs at the notion, held by some conservatives, that Obama should be impeached because he and his administration gave wrong information about the nature of the attack.
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"I went through Iran-contra and Watergate, the two biggest train wrecks in American history," he said. "I don't think this is one of those."
But, he said, a close examination of what he called a "cover-up" to protect Obama prior to the election "could expose incompetence, and I think you're going to expose mendacity."
So, we asked Buchanan, what will become of the America in the 21st Century?
"I'm a believer that you can't go home again," he said. "People tell me, 'You're nostalgic for the 1950s and such.'
"But I don't see how you pull it together again to become one country, one nation, one people the way we were because the disagreements are so fundamental and so profound and so deep and so irreconcilable that they're going to manifest themselves in constant conflict in society and in politics."
Buchanan recalls "the way we pulled together" after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik "to put a man on the moon," and "even the way we pulled together for a couple of months after 9/11.
"And we pull together during things like Hurricane Sandy, but it's fewer and fewer and shorter-lived."
In the end, he said, "We know what's going to happen. When America looks like California demographically, it will look like California politically.
"When I grew up, California was a place everybody went to," he said. "Now middle-class folks, white and black, they're leaving."


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American Potash & Chemical Corporation
List of Deals
American Potash & Chemical Corporation was incorporated with $1 million in capital in 1926. On the same date, it acquired American Trena Corporation, which was organized in 1913 and specialized in sodium and potassium products.
In its early history, American Potash produced potash and borax from the brines of Searles Lake in San Bernadino County, California. By 1928 it could claim to be the world's largest producer of borax, producing 20 percent of the U.S. consumption of potash. Despite the fact that the price of borax fell by over 50 percent during the mid-twenties, American Potash saw its net income change from a loss of $12,145 in 1926 to a profit of $759,202 in 1928 by improving its processes. During the 1930s, the company continued to do well. In 1936 sales doubled to $1,907,550 from the previous year's figure of $931,059.
During World War II, American Potash broadened its activities by entering the finished chemicals field. Up until this time, the company had limited its activities to the production of potash and other basic chemicals. The company now began processing and marketing chemicals such as potassium bromide, a medicinal drug, rather than just the raw material, bromine.
In the years following the war, American Potash grew through acquisitions and it continued to diversify. In 1946 it opened a plant in Trona, California, to make soda ash used in the production of glass and soap. In 1952 American Potash purchased Eston Chemicals of Los Angeles, a manufacturer of agricultural chemicals, refrigerants, aerosols, and industrial chemicals. In 1953 it also added Western Electrochemical, a producer of chemicals used to make jet-assisted take-off units for aircraft, as well as matches, flares, and weed killers.
Sales rose rapidly for American Potash in the 1950s. In 1956 sales rose to $41.8 from $17.1 million in 1950 and net income grew from $2.6 to $5.1 million. Part of this growth was attributed to sales of boron and lithium compounds for high-energy fuels and propellants. Defense business accounted for about 25 percent of revenue in 1956. The Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was a major customer during these years as lithium hydroxide monohydrate, an American Potash product, was used by the AEC in reactor coolants and in reactor fuel elements.
In 1958 American Potash acquired Lindsay Chemical Company, which produced thorium, cerium, and rare chemicals. At the time of the merger, American Potash was described as a producer of more than sixty chemicals for industry, agriculture, and national defense.
America Potash built an $800,000 boric oxide plant in Trona, California, in 1959. In 1962 American Potash purchased from the U.S. Navy the largest ammonium perchlorate plant in the country. American Potash acquired a 42 percent interest in Compagnie des Potases du Congo, a concern that operated a potash deposit in the Republic of Congo, in 1964.
American Potash continued to grow during the 1960s, yet at a slower pace. In 1967 American Potash merged with Kerr-McGee, a uranium and oil producer that had been moving into potash production. The deal was worth $130 million and American Potash continued to operate, but as a wholly owned subsidiary of Kerr-McGee.


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The Fireman Merit Badge was one of the Original Merit Badges from the 1910 BSA Handbook. It was relabeled as the Firemanship Merit Badge in 1911. This merit badge was a predecessor of the Fire Safety Merit Badge.
The Firemanship merit badge was one of the original 57 merit badges issued by the Boy Scouts of America in 1911.


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THERE is more woe for St Helens town centre following confirmation that Burtons and Dorothy Perkins will shut their stores next month.
Closure notices on the stores – situated at the corner of Bridge Street and Church Street – state they will close on June 14.
It is one of the most prominent stores in the town centre.
The posters point customers to their nearest stores, situated on the Ravenhead Retail Park, which is on the outskirts of the town centre.
Dorothy Perkins also has a clothing section within BHS, which has a large store located inside Church Square.
Church Square Shopping Centre had denied speculation Burtons and Dorothy Perkins were to close when asked by the Star in March.
The news will come as another hammer blow to the high street, which already has empty units, most notably the former WH Smith in Church Street.
Internet shopping, competition from city centres and regional shopping zones, such as the Trafford Centre, and the cost of local parking are all cited as reasons why town centres are struggling.
St Helens Council, which has faced criticism from Star readers for the plight of the town centre, has vowed to invest £1million to bring about improvements.
The ruling Labour party has also pledged to introduce free parking on Saturdays and appoint a task force to review the town centre's future.
It is not clear at this stage whether a new tenant is lined up for the shop or if it will be left empty.


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Norris Green Youth Centre Battle Of The Bands
The first two weeks of March saw the build up of grand final of the NGYC Battle of the Bands. This took place on the 15th March at the Picket to an audience of 150.
All three finalists : The Ora, Kyoga & Soul Free had received coaching sessions on Saturday afternoons to prepare for the final and from their performances it could be seen that they had worked extremely hard.
After some great live music from the three bands it was Soul Free who came out on top with the most points from the judges and so were announced winners of the NGYC Battle of the Bands '07.
They were awarded the 1st prize of a Fostex Porta-studio donated by Dolphin Music and the two runners up were given a mixed bag of musical accessories.
This is a short comment given by the winners – SOUL FREE.
"Norris Green Battle of the bands 2007 was not just an excellent experience, but also a great opportunity for bands like ourselves to become exposed to the musical "gig" scene in Liverpool as a whole.
The coaching sessions were led by professionals who knew what they were talking about. All the tips/tricks taught us a lesson not just as a group, but also to develop individual skills which collectively added to the groups advancement musically.
The fact that it was for young people, encouraged other young people to get involved in music, which gives them focus and keeps them occupied and safe.
We definitely intend to carry on visiting the Norris green youth centre in the future.
Great opportunity and we gained a lot from the coaching especially."
Soul Free - winners of NGYC BATTLE OF THE BANDS 2007
The heats & the final attracted over 400 young people with 10 bands performing their material. (See NGYC's website) This has raised the profile of the youth centre's music resources, evidenced through the increase in young bands wanting to take advantage of the facilities at NGYC.


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Gordon Cheung on Using Tulips to Critique Capitalism
Artsy Editorial
Publisher: Alan Cristea Gallery
Using the financial index of British newspapers as collage materials, together with spray paint, acrylic, and inkjet and woodblock printing, artist Gordon Cheung composes complex landscapes and still lifes that suggest a brave new world or a society in decline. The fluctuating stock listings serve as the backdrop for his psychedelic, apocalyptic videos and illustrations, which might depict a barren terrain bathed in the lurid glow of a fading sun, or multicolored flowers in a vase, blurring to reveal a virtual, pixelated realm beneath. Employing digital imagery in saturated hues, Cheung both appropriates and subverts contemporary technology and media. Many of his nightmarish compositions prophesy an economic and social armageddon, while his pyrographic etchings are influenced by such classical illustrators as Albrecht Dürer.
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Ketoacidosis, a condition that can happen to people with diabetes, occurs when the body uses fat instead of glucose for fuel. When fat is broken down, chemicals called ketones are produced. They get into a person's blood and urine (pee). High levels of ketones cause the blood to become more acidic.
Symptoms of ketoacidosis include nausea, vomiting, belly pain, fast breathing, and, in severe cases, unconsciousness. People with ketoacidosis need to get emergency medical treatment.
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LinkedIn Earnings: Profit Soars, but Shares Fall on Weak Outlook
LinkedIn Corp. nearly doubled its revenue and more than quadrupled its profit in its latest quarter. But the professional social network's stock still fell back down to earth.
Shares of LinkedIn, which were up more than 76% so far this year, plunged more than 10% in after-hours trading Thursday to $181.36 after the Mountain View, Calif., company reported first-quarter earnings.


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Time to Put on Retail ETFs?
Holding to true seasonal tendencies, select retail stocks and the ETFs that track them have been performing well.
Holding to true seasonal tendencies, select retail stocks and the ETFs that track them have been performing well over the past month. Digging deeper into the retail space, investors may want to consider ETFs that are heavy on apparel makers, according to a research note published by S&P Capital IQ. The research firm apparel retailers have benefited from slumping cotton prices.
"Higher cotton prices and rising manufacturing costs drove retail prices up last fall (2011) and this spring," said S&P Capital IQ. "Fortunately, many apparel retailers found that their customers, while demanding value, were willing to stretch their budgets when the product was right. However, as price increases only partially offset higher apparel costs, most retailers felt a pinch on their merchandise margins."
Regarding cotton prices, investors can track the iPath DJ-UBS Cotton TR Sub-Index ETN (NYSEARCA:BAL) to keep an eye on that commodity and the impact it is having on apparel sellers. BAL has continued its fall from grace this year, slumping 16.4 percent. The ETN closed just over $47 on Wednesday. In March 2011, BAL traded above $110.
"With cotton prices declining this year, apparel costs are lower this fall," according to the S&P note. "However, many retailers have kept their prices flat, year-over-year, in order to regain lost margin. Some retailers have also used their cost savings to improve the quality of their apparel offerings. In our view, lower product costs will continue to be a tailwind for apparel retailers through next spring."
Investors should remember that not all retail ETFs are created and that some good funds can toil in obscurity. In its note, S&P Capital IQ highlighted two retail ETFs, including the Market Vectors Retail ETF (NYSEARCA:RTH). S&P rates RTH Overweight.
Home to just 26 stocks, RTH allocates a mere 8.7 percent of its weight to pure play apparel retail names. However, those holdings include TJX Cos. (NYSE:TJX) and Limited Brands (NYSE:LTD), which S&P rates as four-star names. TJX is RTH's ninth-largest holding with a weight of nearly 4.3 percent.
An ETF with a far larger allocation to the apparel sub-sector is the PowerShares Retail Portfolio (NYSEARCA:PMR). PMR, which has $52 million in assets under management, devotes offer a third of its weight to apparel names. Limited is the fund's second-largest holding at just over five percent while TJX is PMR's number six constituent at almost 4.7 percent. Other apparel names found in PMR include Gap (NYSE:GPS), Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) and American Eagle (NYSE:AEO).
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|2009-07-07, 21:52
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* not to redirect the subject please continue on with the talk of vol 17 after my opinion has been addressed
Well one thing for sure at this point is this, Zero no tsukaima is going to be just like Inuyasha. Seemingly never ending.
For as long as Louise hides her true feelings on things. (though Saito should know her by now to say something she doesn't mean...Idiot)
And Henrietta is a female with out a lover in sight. I mean please, if Saito is the best she can find in her kingdom then its sorely lacking or she needs to get her royal arse out of her castle to go window shopping.
And Tiff has big tits and good personality....Do I have to elaborate further?
Tabitha remains "to herself" aka not outgoing therefore posing as a challenge to Saito to break through her exterior demeanor.
Whats her name with the red hair.... (yeah i forgot her name her fans please dont kill me) Remains a flirt.
Siesta remains well herself, giving yet not so giving. (She to can get on her legs and go window shopping with Henrietta , I mean for Pete's sake shes a commener she has more options than anyone else).
And Saito's proverbial "head" still remains "attached" he will forever remain guided by that "broken compass".
There is nothing what so ever stopping this series.
In truth, yes, a good option would be for Saito to just, GO HOME!!! After all absence makes the heart grow fonder...for some one else.
But a better option would be for the ladies to realize that they are better than this "dog". And loving him is just simply not any good for them. If they were all to meet men more worthy than Saito is of them things for the girls would be better.
Unless, that is, you all wish for your favorite girl to have a "Nice Boat" ending?
But if for example:
Louise was to find a male that was slightly perverted (because we all know that she likes it) yet he was faithful and loyal to her, while also being able to tell when she is hiding behind the proverbial "hidden bookshelf door" (yes i like saying proverbial). Life for her would be dandy.
If Tiff was to find some one that could (lord help him) look pass that big chest of hers into her personality, she would be pretty much set as well.
For Henrietta, she would need a comforter (maybe she needs to stop down at bed bath & beyond), who would be willing to listen to all of her woes, yet being able to understand the duties as a princess as well as being able to give good advice and being a excellent protector at that. (Shes going to need a 9000 thread count for that)
For Tabitha she needs a support, and no not the dell customer help kind, one that is dependable and also understanding. Let alone he should be fun loving, well really her opposite. After all opposites do attract, i think the same can work for her.
But this all shall never come to pass, as am starting to think that this guy is playing on making the story loop on forever. Why? I have a good reason for believing this, the more volumes he makes the more money he makes selling them. And don't let an unknowing few get into this story, that's more money in the bucket for him.
Whats done is done though, really and truly, I started out as a "LouisexSaito" fangirl, and now am slowly becoming a, "Screw Saito, am in this just for the Louise content" fangirl. On the other hand screw this entire story, note me when this is all over, I just wanna know what happens to Louise in the end...
You can now continue with your volume 17 conversation.
I'll hear from you guys after volume 55~ And it would be soo much funnier if I guessed the right number of volumes, though the author perceives me as the kind to end on an odd number it'll still be odd if I was close~
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|2009-07-09, 13:07
|Link #1502
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The more the story goes and illustrations shows. The more I keep thinking of to aru majutsu no index. And is it just me but I hate saito for being like total dog. But as for the gilrs I don't know
if I pity them or understand their feelings for saito. Yeh saito is great and all but still his a big dog.
|2009-07-09, 15:07
|Link #1503
Senior Member
I was the Saito/Louise myself but now with all the acts that Saito pulls I do not think he deserves anyone. Henrietta should aim higher, that the stupid (and by stupid I mean really idiotic) pervert. Siesta and Tabitha too. Louise though seems to fit Saito's masochistic side with her sadistic tendencies, should try to find someone with whom she can be more open instead of constantly being jealous and worried about him not loving her.
I do not see as Index because Touma is still an important character, while the only one who is lost is the supposed heroine - Index. In ZnT both main characters remain main, its just Saito is becoming less and less like-able with the stuff he pulls off.
|2009-07-10, 00:44
|Link #1504
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Location: In my room
I'm not saying the story its the picture. with all the nuns and religion being pulled in the story.
As for saito he can just go back to japan for all I care. And for and for most he doesn't deserve to get one of those flowers. He can rot in our world. Even though his cool in the battle field he really is a moron to the max. Can't hold back at all and I don't even want to compare touma to saito.
|2009-07-11, 06:47
|Link #1505
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Saito's problem is pretty much the same than that of Makoto from School Days: his behavior is too much what one would expect from a normal teenager boy of his age. Because it strikes so close to home, such behavior tend to make fans mad because they unconsciously realize that any other guy (maybe even said fans themselves) would have done exactly the same thing if they were in his shoes, even though knowing that was probably the worst course of action to take in said situation.
Now, coming back a little to the main topic, does anyone has any new spoilers about the upcoming novel?
|2009-07-11, 07:01
|Link #1506
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Join Date: May 2008
More to the point, in the story he represents the modern world compared to the ancient one. In a world where Louise is shocked to learn the maid can read and write, we have a main character, from a time where the internet lets you pick up any desired skill, who is actually less useful than a medieval serving maid (he can't cook or clean). If that isn't a kick in the pants, nothing is.
|2009-07-11, 21:43
|Link #1507
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That's not true for all. I wouldn't do that even if its kills me. For someone learning the path of a
warrior. Discipline yourself. And I know the modern world lacks the discipline. But his a japanese.
Isn't that the blood of the samurai. Plus his strong now face countless death fights. From
weak to the strongest with his own strength. He should learned to self control. And its not
because his a teenager that many are mad of him ITS BECAUSE HIS A TEENAGER that's why we
are mad of him. Teenager this days lack the discipline. Following stupid trends and just go with
the flow doesn't care for tomorrow. Hmmmm.... maybe he represents the current teenager.
But I'm a teenager that still follow discpline.. maybe I'm influence with too much anime and manga that shows discipline and heroic deeds.
|2009-07-11, 21:53
|Link #1508
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|2009-07-11, 21:55
|Link #1509
Senior Member
I mean idiot not just as an insult but as a real lack of brainpower. He is totally socially unaware of things as in not knowing common social interactions. Yes, hand-kissing is a western custom f.e. so he may not know, but that would be a case for a person who still lives in the beginning of XX age, not of someone who uses internet.
And besides I think you are simplifying things. I mean if everyone would be like Saito then there would be very little people who have steady relationship at all, because everyone would be like Saito going after other girls (sometimes not actively, but passively as in putting a sign 'I am always ready.') I mean yes, guys do have some thoughts about other attractive females even with their girlfriends around but they do restrict themselves from such acts, simply because they are social sense of responsibility and are mature enough to divide what is important and what is not. Saito looks more like a social retard rather than a normal, average person. Thats why I think it is pretty hard to feel like him.
You may feel for some points of his character, but as a whole - he is way too retarded for a normal person to think that he would totally act like him in most of these situations.
You may start saying - man he is a teenager, rebellions age, and other stereotypical crap like that, but the truth is even among teens there are plenty of acts of self-restrictions, because they are not kids anymore and know that you have to restrict yourself sometimes. Saito on the other hand acts more like an infantile rather than a teen. And he is already at age of 18. If it continues he might never grow up and stay infantile and a retard for the rest of his life.
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|2009-07-12, 01:54
|Link #1510
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Location: In my room
is he 18? does it ever say his 18? I think his younger than that though not sure. And as for his
acts though I only see it in the tv but the internet also suggest it. Teens this days are wild
and if you surf the internet it roams of adults stuff. And even if I say IQ I don't know if that's
the right term for it. I see people... smart people and good looking but total B*st*** like him.
I don't think IQ is right maybe in his right senses?. I'm a hard boiled otaku sorry to say but I
believe what I read and sometimes judge based on it. Sorry guys but saito is a trash.
btw what happen to the novel being license and all? I was waiting for it. but baka-tsuki said or somewhere
in here said its stops or something not sure what happen on it?
|2009-07-12, 02:26
|Link #1511
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|2009-07-12, 05:14
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Yes it is said that he is 18. Well actually it is said that he is 17 as series start (Louise is 16) but since the start already more than a year passed, so he must be 18 at the moment (Louise is 17).
Due to hard times seven-seas postponed the release of ZnT but it is as good as canceled really.
|2009-07-12, 22:53
|Link #1514
Join Date: Oct 2008
EDIT: They don't even list the fact that they have the license anymore and all the info I can find stated is that they are going to keep it until their contract runs out...Which could be forever...
|2009-07-13, 00:36
|Link #1515
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: In my room
ohh great. Well I'm not hoping for it anymore.
And I'm not good with grammar. I just think that the word IQ doesn't fit for saito being totally
perverse. I think even some people who are smart are also like him. And better, they can
manage their harem well. I think its the state of mind. His pretty much insane for me or not
in the right senses... Just being swayed by his instincts.
|2009-07-13, 00:40
|Link #1516
Senior Member
Shana at least released first few volumes before going into a long long break, seven seas didn't even manage a single volume.
After such experience I think more groups should do the same - just because it becomes licensed doesn't mean it will be released. Or even if the first few volumes are released doesnt mean that they will continue to do so (Shakugan No Shana example).
|2009-07-13, 02:40
|Link #1517
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2008
If Saito knows better but can't control himself, that makes him contemptible. If he only follows his instincts then he's not that different from all the animals inside the nearby forests. He has the advantage of being human; instead of simply reacting to changes the world inflicts upon him, he can act to shift the world.
He doesn't do anything like this. He just follows along with what others want, and can't even take care of himself when left alone.
|2009-07-13, 03:26
|Link #1518
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Location: In my room
As for saito if his just following through than his just like an animal. Just above average. As I see him I like his character. His strong, kind and honest, and to boot
it up brave. I don't blame the girls around him falling for him. Its just he can't control
his emotions. Being swayed by those girls ( though its hard to resist them )
Its just as opposite of him in the battle field. His cool in the battle field of life but
sucks in the battle field of love.
And I suck with my grammar
|2009-07-13, 04:45
|Link #1519
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|2009-07-13, 12:54
|Link #1520
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I think his self determined. But not when if comes with the girls. I think the way someone's nature when has been mold as he/she grows up. With each interaction with everybody. As for saito when his a kid he wants to help but his powerless but when he hot the power for it. His just being pushed or used. Even though he always say that human is not a tool. If I view him now by the events occurred that's not the things he must be doing. I think he must return home. But meeting with louise and becoming familiar and all falling in love with her. Though I personally think its due to her being his master. And their relationship grows stronger. I know when the link has been cut in volume 8. Their love didn't fade but WHAT IF SAITO'S MASTER ISN'T LOUISE? will it be the same? Fate connects them both I think. But then again I'm contradicting myself. Kinda confused in a way. But saito must learn to control his emotions. And I agree he lacks braincells. Maybe it got toast in the end of volume 7.
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