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Koenen listens to the people
Dear fellow constituents and voters of state Senate District 17:
Tuesday, Aug. 14, is primary election day in Minnesota.
I am a moderately-conservative voter since 1974. I have supported Republicans perhaps 70 to 75 percent of the time. However, this year in the primary I endorse Lyle Koenen in the state Senate race on the DFL ticket.
As a state Representative, Lyle voted "aye" on the Defense of Marriage Amendment. Lyle has experience in the state Legislature and he listens diligently to the people. He'll also explain the progress of the people's business at the St. Paul Capitol.
I consider Lyle Koenen to be a good friend. If you vote on the DFL ticket on Aug. 14, I highly recommend a vote for Lyle Koenen.
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Don't spread ignorance, hatred
I was very disappointed after reading your "Heaven Help the Home" segment, and after reading part 2, I am absolutely disgusted.
I would like to be shown the study that Mr. Runyan uses to support his "facts" about children in households with same-sex parents. If his only reason for saying this is a negative environment for children is that they will be more open to a same-sex relationship, then I don't see how this affects them in any sort of a negative way.
It's not the same-sex couples who are at fault for their children, or anyone's children, being unhappy or emotionally stunted, it's the people who condemn them for their lifestyle.
I cannot even begin to counter half of the opinions stated in the article because they were beyond hateful and ignorant. The church should spread messages that are conducive to peaceful and harmonious relationships and viewpoints. Reverend Runyan stated that legalizing gay marriage is like opening Pandora's box. That is absolutely false. Spreading hateful and bigoted opinions, on the other hand, most certainly will lead to more hatred and insanity.
In this article he compares gay marriage to pedophilia and beastiality. If I write an article comparing interracial marriages to people being allowed to marry their hamsters, will you publish that as well? Allowing someone to express views this hateful is absolutely not acceptable. It is hard enough for homosexuals to be accepted as it is; they absolutely do not need or deserve any added negative attention simply for being who they are.
Suicide rates in homosexual teens are rising at a very alarming rate and yet, instead of trying to comfort them, you publish an article comparing what they feel to being attracted to a young child or an animal. Homosexuality has existed as long as the world has, and homophobia is a complete backtrack on evolution and a detriment to world peace and acceptance of others.
On your site, one of your rules for comments asks that no one discriminates against anyone else because of their orientation. I would ask that you follow your own rules for your own articles. Please think before you spread ignorance and hatred.
—Cassie Wright
Vote 'no' on amendment
Polite society has traditionally avoided certain topics in conversation — politics, religion, sex — but this fall Minnesotans are being asked to amend our state constitution to provide that only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as marriage in Minnesota.
Now we find ourselves needing to have polite conversations about issues we have often avoided. In honor of friends and relatives living in or wishing to one day live in a committed relationship and in memory of those who lived very difficult lives at a time when such a thing could not even be imagined, I will vote "no" in November. Please join me.
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This is a multiple choice question. Why do you block?
- To keep from getting hit.
- To deflect the attacker's punch.
- To stop the attacker's punch.
- To destroy the attacker's arm.
- To set up for a counterattack.
- To get closer to the attacker to that you can counterattack.
- To protect yourself while simultaneously counterattacking.
- To push off the attacker temporarily while you try to reason with him.
- To give the attacker a chance to back down.
- To create a space that will enable you to escape.
- To establish that you tried to protect yourself first before counterattacking (thus bolstering your self-defense argument in court).
- Because when you are caught unaware, your first instinct is to protect yourself by throwing up your hands (in a block).
- Because we are taught to block in Karate.
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I have to admit that I hated multiple choice questions in school. I would either think that all the answers were right (or at least partially correct) or I would have my own different answer. Perhaps that is why I became a lawyer -- in law there is usually not only one answer, and your get points for being able to argue the facts and law.
So when it comes to blocking, why the multiple choices? Because... why you block shapes how you will block and move.
If you are only trying to stop a punch, you will probably get hit by a second or third punch. No one can stop every punch. Eventually one will get through.
Beginners are taught to simply block. We do pairing off drills. One student punches and the other blocks. Punch, punch, block, block. But that is only for beginners.
For more advanced students, the drills have to be more complete. What comes after the block? Do you counterattack, and if so, how?
Block, then counterattack.
Even that is basic. A more advanced student will simultaneously block and counterattack.
Even that is basic. A more advanced student might not block at all. If a punch is coming, he might simply punch the attacker in the face before the attacker's punch can land. Blocking is slow. Even the fastest block is not as fast as a swift punch. Sometimes we divert the attacker's punch with our own punch. He misses and we hit him in the face (or wherever we desire).
The more advanced a student becomes, the less he relies on simple blocks.
But at a very, very advanced stage, a student might revert to blocks to destroy the attacker's arm. This sounds very severe, but actually it is very humane. Which is worse, a broken arm or a broken neck? Can you imagine the damage an expert would cause if he hit an attacker in the face? A broken arm is much more humane, and should stop the fight.
My good friend and senior Sensei Pat Nakata once told me about an incident. A guy ran up and tried to punch him (I'm leaving out the details that led up to this, but it was not Nakata's Sensei's fault). Nakata Sensei punched the guy in the head and knocked him out. While he was unconscious, a policeman came. Nakata Sensei started to explain what happened. Without warning, the guy regained consciousness and jumped up. He was ready to continue the fight and had no idea that he had been knocked out. Fortunately, Nakata Sensei and the policeman talked him down. Actually, the guy was impressed when he realized that he had been knocked out by such a well known Karate Sensei.
But the point is -- he wanted to keep fighting. Being knocked out did not permanently injure him (he probably did lose some brain cells). He could have kept going.
But he probably would have been unable to continue if his arm had been broken. And that would have been more humane. If he had been able to continue, he could have been killed. (Also, he certainly picked the wrong person to mess with.)
Why you block will shape how you block. What are you trying to accomplish?
In the dojo, someone punches and you block. In the real world, it is not so simple or nice. My Kenpo friends often say that the fight isn't over if the attacker is still standing. When you block, are you thinking of simply stopping or avoiding a punch, or starting a process leading to the destruction or incapacitation of the attacker?
Block and counter should not be thought of as two things. They are parts of the same thing.
Just something to think about.
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I added you by email Erika. I was not sure how to do the other one. Sorry new to the blogging world. I might not show but I am following.
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I would love to increase my readership as well. I am finding it a bit difficult. I do like coming on to the site and reading other blogs. I have found some great blogs. I normally keep track of the blogs that I join and try to comment on them at least once every other week until I just never hear from them. I love having tons of blogs to read and respond too.
Hello! New to MBC and always looking for new mommy friends. :) My boy/girl twins will be 2 years old in September, and their big brothers are 13, 9, and almost 8 (August). Can't wait to get to know you all! Thanks for having me.
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Jeff was born in May 1967 in Montreal, Quebec. He discovered comics when he was 14. He ultimately ended up graduating from Concordia University in 1990 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Animation, having specifically focused on the screenwriting aspect.
That September, he co-founded Comicopia, and is still a contributing member, with his newsletter The Old Detective's Watering Hole published in 100issues.
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Starting in 1996 he began to write reviews and columns for fps: The Magazine of Animation (fps stands for frames per second, an animation term) and still does today. He also has written for the now-defunt publication RPG Gazette and the also long-defunct Web site RPG Action.
In 2005, he was involved in three charity benefit e-books (one for the tsunami of 2004, two for the Hurricane Katrina disaster}, has written "Hunters Inc.", a sourcebook e-book for Cracked Mirror Publications (a second edition is slated to come out in 2006), and since 2002 he has been a victorious 1-month novelist with NaNoWriMo (the National Novel Writers Month, held each November). He also regularly submits short stories to various science fiction anthologies and magazines--so far unpublished--and he is involved in a few other zines.
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Revised start times for tonight's CBS programs: 60 Minutes (7:17pm ET), Amazing Race (8:17pm ET), Undercover Boss (9:17pm ET) and CSI: Miami (10:17pm ET) due to CBS Sports live coverage of the NCAA Basketball Tournament/Regional Final.
Even though we are a spoiler board, we do NOT want to have the episode spoiled while it is airing.If you are watching anything but an EST US feed, it is your responsibility to be sure you are not ahead of us if you want to post in this thread. Canadian and Asian satellite feeds are often way ahead of us.SO PLEASE ** NO WIKI UPDATES or Satellite Viewer updates** to be posted before the show is done airing East Coast time! Anyone breaking the rule is at risk of being banned.
BTW, why is there no TAR next week?
You could literally hear how desperate/exasperated/tired she was in her posts. Damn you CBS.
I don't normally share FB info...but Mallory posted that her Dad was planning on donating that money....
Quote from: georgiapeach on March 28, 2011, 08:32:42 AMI don't normally share FB info...but Mallory posted that her Dad was planning on donating that money.... I think they would donate the million if they win and just be genuinely happy for the experience. The cowboys might too.
Well of course anyone has the right to keep the money especially if they need it. I probably would. I just like these two teams spirit because they try hard but they are not all about winning. They seem to really enjoy the places they go and the people they meet while at the same time being incredibly good at the Race and getting along with each other and other teams. I would be very disappointed if one of them did not win.
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|2011-03-03, 21:53
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|2011-03-03, 22:14
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Anyways, I don't think it's a good idea to speculate if the name really was Yasuda or Yasu as it seems like some kind of obvious troll. At the very least it's no coincidence or accident that Ryukishi chose that name. Although there's no reason why he *couldn't* just use it...
Anyways, it's been mentioned before, but just in case:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portopi...Satsujin_Jiken <-- The meme comes from this game in which the culprit is the Yasuhiko (nicknamed Yasu) character.
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|2011-03-04, 01:26
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Did you guys learn about it after reading EP7 or before? I'm curious because knowing the meme while I was reading it colored how I approached the whole EP7. Continued below:
Case in point, the name of Yasu, was, I thought her way of saying, "I don't really know what the name of the girl is; let's just call her Yasu of 'Hanin ha Yasu' fame."
I thought her control of Claire, forcing the pieces on the game board to talk and even the scene of Will and Lion as pieces she could manipulate at the end showed us that almost the entirety of EP7 was made up by her. Mostly with outside-researched facts from Rokkenjima Prime and whatever else was needed to fill it into a smooth narrative possibly imagined up.
The red guts scene, I thought was because of this. Perhaps the red guts scenes were alternate theories, or facts she (and by extension people on Rokkenjima Prime) dug up and could be interpreted in multiple ways. The happy way or the awful way.
In addition, that's why I thought we never get a sprite for 'Yasu.' To me, both the name and the lack of a sprite makes me think of this character as one big shadow with a '?' on it. Someone we can detect was there, but her details and information are hidden in the shadows behind Shannon, Kanon, Beatrice and whoever else.
It's almost as if she should be named 'Anonymous' or 'Unknown', except the meme about Yasu is that she's supposed to be the Hanin. So, I thought she's supposed to be the 'Convenient Culprit' that Bernkastel shoves at us. And this lines up with what we thought about Beatrice; that she didn't have an active hand in murder but that she was some kind of excuse to blame the tragedy on. (And that's what EP7 showed that we all kinda rejected; that she and she alone had planned all the murder, set the bomb, etc.)
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|2011-03-04, 02:35
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This over-arching Bernkastel is who I assume to represent someone or some people who've done outside research into the background. She seems to have cast herself as a villain in her own story... 8) But at the very least, if she's the one moving the pieces around on the board then she must be the ones making Will, Claire, Lion and whoever else do as she commands. She has to know something, I would think.
But yah, down on Claire and Will's level, it is a story that Clair narrates. However I wonder how much of it has been manipulated or which parts were 'filled' in thanks to the real 'Yasu' hiding herself... As for Will, I would assume that ... Uber-Bernkastel... *cough* was using him to drive the plot forward.
On the whole, I didn't really like having yet another 'layer' that seemed to look down on EP7. Now there seemed to be two Bernkastels... one who's clearly a villain and another that seems to just be interested in the story. But, there it is...
|2011-03-04, 02:55
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She can find out that someone named Sayo Yasuda worked as a servant on Rokkenjima. That's it. Without literally using magic, or calling up Clair's soul to give testimony, Bern would have to make everything else up herself; and doing so not only means everything we went through was a big waste of time that tells us absolutely nothing in an episode that was meant to give answers, but it's also incredibly against Bern's character; she would not have dedicated THIS MUCH TIME to love, emotions, feelings, magical metaphors, and sympathy-building character development if she had any hand whatsoever in the storytelling process.
This isn't Bern expanding her character into a humanoid storyteller; this is just the same Bern we've always known being a Gamemaster just like Beatrice, Lambdadelta, and Battler have. This is not an additional layer.
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So far the most common interpretation was: She is the obvious culprit and Ryuukishi named her "Yasu" as a joke. After all the culprit is always Yasu.
I personally buy this interpretation, he needed to decide how to call her, and he chose "Yasu", I don't see it as a red herring. Red herrings aren't likely to exist in an episode that was meant to explain Beatrice's background.
That being said, Yasu is just the culprit of the various Beatrice's games, it doesn't need to be the culprit of Rokkenjima Prime. Anyway Will seems pretty certain that she's the culprit.
About Clair. Maybe you can have some doubts about the Clair in the meta theater, but the Clair in the chapel is definitely "the culprit of Beatrice's murder". Nobody even called her Clair or Yasu. The Clair's look was given to this culprit because "Bern hates people that can't reason".
Even so, this culprit later talks in first person about something that Shannon did... so yeah it's pretty damn obvious. This culprit also seems to subscribe to anything that the Clair in the meta theater said...
Anyway this culprit with Clair's look is the one that Will later "kills". It is obvious to me that it's Yasu, but whatever...
Quoting something that Chrono reported in another thread:
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|2011-03-04, 09:51
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Apparently he underestimated Lambda's bro potential. Or else all that stuff about Lambda doing things behind the curtain for the entirety of Chiru was purely accidental and he didn't intend her to be as awesome as The Genius Battler Conspiracy claims she is.
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On the subject of Yasu and her name, has anyone seen those extra bits that came with the Anime's box set? In one of them, they actually say 'the culprit is Yasu". Kind of ironic that an extra, short bit of humor would name the culprit several months before Ep.7 came out...and yes, I am aware of the meme, but still...
The extra is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsrInYNn1Ow
|2011-03-04, 14:19
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Remember guys, Ryukishi is the guy who tried to make us root for the bad guy on multiple occasions. I bet he was like "Woah, wait, self-sacrificing heroes get votes? The fuck? I'm gonna have to look into this in When They Cry 5..."
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|2011-03-04, 16:03
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I'm not saying it's his goal, but it IS something he does. He makes an effort to make all of his characters sympathetic unless they're bit parts with no real personality.
Takano Miyo
Erika Furudo
Kasumi Sumadera
It's sort of a running theme, and Ange pretty much dedicates a monologue to it in EP4 when she talks about white magic.
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Hi, I've finished EP8 and I have some points I'd like to check.
I'm assuming that EP1-2 are written by Yasu and EP3-6 by Touja/Battler-Tohya.
If EP1-2 were written before the murders took place, then... how could Yasu know (in her stories) that there will be real murders? I mean, she just wanted to make Battler remember and understand her with that fake murder game. Why her stories don't show just that?
And... is there a general agreement about the murderer in EP1-4? I suppose that Yasu is not the culprit because she has no motive at all (and Battler forgives her and apologizes at the end of EP5). Were the siblings still faking their deaths when the rest found them at the chapel? If so, how can they fake their guts being pulled out?
And regarding EP8, the Tea Party was a metaphor of Battler's personality death, wasn't it? My japanese sucks, you know.
|2011-03-04, 18:14
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One of the running theories is that in her stories, she made herself a real murderer as a conservation of details, but then in real life, she was doing her murder game, but then someone took advantage of the opportunity to kill for real. Only the First Twilight is faked at best, before the killer then goes behind Yasu and "finishes the job."
And yes, the Tea Party is as you say. Battler "died" that day through memory loss, and his personality changed as a result, making him a different person. Depending on how you wish to interpret the ending, either Toya dies and goes to the afterlife with restored memory, or my personal favorite, the Battler and Toya personalities divide, with Battler going to the Golden Land.
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The "everything was fiction" angle bothers me, from Meta-Batter perspective the stories and the killings are real.
I mean, he really saw his sister getting burgered etc. Even if they are just stories, Meta- Battler is a character inside those stories.
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There's a difference between feeling sympathy for the insane things Takano had to endure and encouraging her to carry on and succeed in her unethical plans.
There has never been to me anything that pushes me to believe Ryuukishi would ever want us to root for murderers. In fact Minagoroshi's whole point was to tell us that it will never really solve anything.
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Random post is random.
Not to get off topic, but I opened EP1 to take a gander at the order the chacters appear in, and, you know how, upon rereading, you find an utterly ridiculous amount of the dialogue foreshadows something, be it intentional or no?
I stopped (randomly) on Battler saying, upon meeting George at the airport : "Heheh, don't scare me like that, you just shaved 3 years off my life.
...coincidence? Well ... probably. Maybe?
...probably. But still.
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Could the Senate Intelligence Committee Do Oversight of CIA Drone Strikes?
Different Senate committees are supposed to do oversight of different federal agencies. The Senate Judiciary Committee is supposed to oversee the Department of Justice. The Senate Armed Services committee is supposed to do oversight of the Pentagon. And the Senate Intelligence Committee is supposed to do oversight of the Central Intelligence Agency. Since the CIA is conducting drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, and since this is, to say the least, a controversial policy, the Senate Intelligence Committee is supposed to be doing oversight of that.
But contemplating the Senate Intelligence Committee's past oversight of the drone strike policy evokes the quote attributed to Gandhi when asked what he thought about Western civilization: "I think it would be a good idea."
Now that criticisms of the drone strike policy are getting some play in the press, people are floating ideas for various reforms. That's great! Let a hundred flowers bloom. But please call on me. I have an idea for a reform.
Why don't we ask the Senate Intelligence Committee to do its job of overseeing the CIA?
Now, you might think, that's a pretty arrogant claim, saying that the Senate Intelligence Committee has been asleep at the switch. Here, therefore, are three pieces of evidence for the claim.
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I've always wanted a Commodore 64. It can sit next to my 1995 Compaq Presario, and kidko's insanely old laptop (nearly green-screen).
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Tzan wrote:I liked games where you could make up your own objectives like that.
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IVhorseman wrote:Tzan wrote:I liked games where you could make up your own objectives like that.
i distinctly remember super mario 64, where i would pretend that mario had a job as a mailman. some levels had boxes that would be destroyed upon taking any damage, and you could carry very slowly. i would attempt to carry them from the beginning of levels and "deliver" the "package" to the boss, who i usually decided was angry that i was late or something, and had to "subdue a disgruntled customer".
being eight years old kicked so much ass.
Almighty Benny wrote:An even more fun "minigame" was to get as many stars as possible and see how long you could survive. Simple as that, once you die or get busted, you pass the controller to your friend.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 13th Jan 2014 10:06 UTC
Paul Thurrott on the next version of Windows and the future of the platform.
In some ways, the most interesting thing about Threshold is how it recasts Windows 8 as the next Vista. It's an acknowledgment that what came before didn't work, and didn't resonate with customers. And though Microsoft will always be able to claim that Windows 9 wouldn't have been possible without the important foundational work they had done first with Windows 8 - just as was the case with Windows 7 and Windows Vista - there's no way to sugarcoat this. Windows 8 has set back Microsoft, and Windows, by years, and possibly for good.
With even Paul Thurrott claiming Windows is in trouble, it becomes virtually impossible to deny it is so.
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Some estrogens used to treat dysfunctional uterine bleeding are taken as pills. And some can be given through a vein (intravenous).
High levels of estrogen trigger the rapid
growth of the uterine lining (endometrium). This stops sudden, heavy
bleeding from the uterine surface.
estrogen is used to reduce sudden, heavy uterine
bleeding. Usually, 24 hours of
intravenous (IV) or oral (pills or tablets) estrogen
therapy is followed with 7 to 10 days of oral estrogen plus
perimenopause, when the body makes less estrogen, some
women take estrogen along with progestin to regulate the menstrual cycle and
dysfunctional uterine bleeding. For more information,
see Birth Control Pills, Patch, or Ring.
Estrogen therapy effectively
controls sudden, heavy uterine bleeding that is not caused by disease,
pregnancy complication, cancer, or another serious medical condition
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Recurrence. Dysfunctional uterine bleeding may return when treatment
with estrogen and progestin is stopped.
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
Call your doctor if you have:
Common side effects of this medicine include:
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug
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Estrogen therapy is
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Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
CitationsFritz MA, Speroff L (2011). Abnormal uterine bleeding. In Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility, 8th ed., pp. 591–620. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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Vancouver Canucks Daniel Sedin crosses sticks with San Jose Sharks Dan Boyle in pre-season NHL hockey Tuesday night, September 28, 2010 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, B.C. Photo Credit: Steve Bosch, PNG
Game Day Recon #38 – Canucks @ Sharks
The Vancouver Canucks end their 3 game road trip with the second half of back-to-back game. Tonight, they visit the Bay Area to face the San Jose Sharks.
Can the Canucks go 3-for-3 on their road trip, and take the outright lead for first place overall in the NHL? Or will the Sharks take a bite out of them?
Broadcast Info
Game Time: 7:30 PM PT
The Intel
The Sharks have been hot and cold all season. Right now, they're more hot than cold, as they've gone 6-3-1 in their last 10 games. Keep in mind though that the visiting Canucks are absolutely the hottest team in the league right now, going 9-0-1 in their last 10 and 15-1-2 in their last 18. Positively ridonkulous.
For the first time in a while, the Sharks don't have a player in the top 20 in points. Rookie Logan Couture is leading the goal charge with 18, good for a 6-way tie for 7th. Couture has definitely been the biggest surprise for the Sharks this year. While the Sharks may not have a one player in the top 20, they do have 7 core players that score the lion's share of their points, and that's about it. Heatley, Thornton, Clowe, Marleau, Boyle, Couture, and Pavelski all have 27 points or better so far. But then their next leading point getter is Devin Setoguchi with 12 points. So while the Sharks have two solid top lines, their goal scoring drops off. Compare that to the Canucks who have 11 players with points or better. And two of those players (Raymond and Tambellini) have missed at least 8 games.
While one of their biggest disappointments has been free agent acquisition Antti Niemi, who has seen back-up Antero Niittymaki eclipse his numbers this year. Niemi is a very average 9-9-2 in 20 GP with a 2.91 Sv%. Compare that to NIittymaki who, also playing 20 games, is 12-4-3 with a 2.44 Sv%. Why is this important? Because it looks like Niemi will start for the Sharks tonight.
The last time these two teams played, the Canucks laid a whoopin' on the Sharks with Niemi in net. Vancouver prevailed 6-1 at home over San Jose after beating Colorado in their previous game. Let's hope the Canucks have a similar fate tonight.
The Three Keys
Here are the three keys for the Vancouver Canucks tonight:
1. Win the game at even-strength. Both the Sharks and Canucks have terrific power plays, and the Sharks have a decent PK as well. So the bread-and-butter for the Canucks this year likely won't be their key to success tonight. The Sharks rank 19th in 5-on-5 goals-for, while the Canucks rank 5th. The big key tonight for the Canucks is to win the battles at even-strength.
2. Take the body early. The Sharks, despite being a pretty big team, don't record a lot of hits on home ice.
3. Win Da Turd. The Canucks are the league's most potent team in the third period, while the Sharks are one of the worst defensively. If the Canucks can get to the third period tied (at a minimum), they need to step on the Sharks throat like they have done to so many other teams this year.
BONUS: FACE-OFFS. The Canucks rank 1st in face-off winning percentage. The Sharks rank 2nd. Whichever team wins the battle in the face-off circle will win the game.
The Links
Here are your top 5 links for today's game:
1. Tale of the Tape: Canucks @ Sharks (canucks.com)
2. Sharks try to stop Canucks tonight (The Province)
3. Sharks happy to be home after long but successful road trip (San Jose Mercury News)
4. Canucks-Sharks Preview (Yahoo! Sports)
5. Canucks At Sharks Game Preview: A Daunting Task Awaits (Nucks Misconduct)


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Small Space Solution: 5 Stylish Stacking Chairs
Each of these chairs is gorgeous. Each one would work well around a dining table. And each and every one can be stacked and moved when necessity calls for it.
1. Solid oak Profile Chairs from Matthew Hilton, approx. $319 at Case.
2. A classic chair by Hans Wegner done in beech and leather. Elbow Chair, $1030 at Danish Design Store
3. A handmade heirloom piece from from Portland. Klamath Chair, $575 at The Joinery.
4. Philippe Starck's elegant Masters Chair, $1036 for 4 at YLighting.
5. Lucian Ercolani's iconic 1957 Ercol stacking chair, approx. $413 at Nest UK.
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Lil' Romeo Takes A Shot At USC On His Way OutPosted by nvr1983 on May 30th, 2010
When Percy Miller (aka Lil' Romeo) announced that he was leaving the USC basketball team earlier this month it was more of an entertainment story than a college basketball story. The rapper/actor currently has already released six albums with a 7th album coming out later this year, but his college basketball career, which we never expected to amount to much, has been significantly less profilic. In two seasons with the Trojans, Miller (a Tim Floyd "recruit") appeared in nine games for a grand total of 19 minutes scoring five points on four field goal attempts (1.25 PPS!!!). After Miller left USC, Trojans coach Kevin O'Neill issued the following statement: "Percy thought it was in his best interest that he pursue his (entertainment) career rather than play basketball. . . I was able to evaluate him. I think his future is more off the court than on the court, which I think he understands. . . He's a great guy and was a pleasure to have around. I think he made a decision that was in the best interest of his future."
While that seems like a fairly benign (and true) statement, Miller was a little less than graceful when he issued the following Tweet: "College Bball is all politics…I've never quit n never will.If my scholarship is wanted thats wat Yahoo should clarify." [Ed. Note: We don't even know where to begin with grammar on Tweets so we'll let this [sic] cover the entire Tweet.] Although that may be the final shot that Miller fires in his college basketball career (bringing him down to 1 PPS) we would be remiss if we did not provide you with what will be our lasting image of Miller playing "defense" against J.R. Smith at Vince Young's Celebrity All-Star Game.


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There is a desperate need for better and more accessible mental healthcare in our nation, in our state, and yes, even in Tallapoosa County.
It is a tragedy in itself that the subject of mental healthcare only arises when a tragedy occurs because mental healthcare, or the lack thereof, is an issue that affects us each and every day. America, "The Land of the Free," should be leading the way in mental healthcare, but instead we lock citizens up in cages for nonviolent offenses like drug possession, and now, in Alabama, threatening to prosecute folks for voting across party lines in runoff elections.
.Many of those who wind up in local jails and in state prisons are dealing with mental issues which helped put them on the wrong side of the law in the first place. Too many times people who need long-term mental healthcare are faced with no options and put on the street where law enforcement and ill-funded social agencies struggle to deal with the issues that accompany the people so desperately needing help.
In talking with local law enforcement officials, they can list case after case where individuals with serious mental problems have to be dealt with by officers on an almost daily basis. If people have issues when they are incarcerated, imagine their state when they get out if they get no assistance while they are locked up.
For a start, we must elect public officials with empathy and who earnestly attempt to treat others like they would like to be treated ? those who genuinely care about the welfare of our society's most marginalized individuals, including the poor, the downtrodden, and the mentally ill. But it is also a societal problem because society still stigmatizes mental illness to the point where people who desperately need help would rather conceal their illness than seek treatment. And in more extreme cases, this can result in the afflicted taking their own or other's lives.
Courts have already said that the state's prison system must improve its mental health options for those who are in the state's prisons or face federal repercussions.
How about getting people help before their mental issues lead to criminal charges? That's a start.
Nothing will happen without funding and a carefully thought out plan that politics play no role in formulating.
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ArenaLeague finals
Toxic Youth and Evil Genius battle out who will advance into the ArenaLeague finals today! Start 5pm CET.
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ArenaLeague finals will be played this Sunday and this is the schedule.
25.08.2013 - Sunday
Start - 17:00 CET (19:00 MSK)
Evil Genius vs. Toxic Youth
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AJ developer interview
ArenaJunkies content editors Vanguards and Hildegard interviewed the World of Warcraft developers Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street and Brian Holinka.
We talked about Blizzard's decision to hold no regionals, the new match ending mechanic "The Crowd Chose You!!!", the dispel cooldowns, rewards for 2v2, the win/loss statistics with the new 5.4 arena system and online tournaments like ArenaLeague.
After the interview Zilea, Novoz and Gothiques (ArenaLeague organisator) joined the call and we discussed the interview together.
Interview as MP3
The interview is also available as MP3 with adjusted audio levels. You can download it here: AJ Dev Interview audio only
The questions about the regionals not happening have been dodged by Holinka and GC. They agree that the lack of regionals is disappointing and later on GC wrote on Twitter that they knew the answers were disappointing but they are still in the process of deciding.
Arena participation, especially for alts, has increased in patch 5.3 due to catch-up mechanic.
A role check is implemented before arena queues can be initiated. This serves the protection against malicious players queueing up arenas without asking their group members first.
For now cross-server chats are not implemented. The idea is considered for the future to help finding players for cross-realm activities like rated battlegrounds, arenas, old raids, LFR or world bosses. They like the tools players use, like e.g. oQueue and OpenRaid.
Cross-realm PUG are less needed for high-rated players.
Arena statistics only show games played and wins, but not losses. Losing games on purpose, however, should have a penalty and the statistic serves this purpose.
97% of the arena games are less than 5 minutes long. Long turtle games can destroy the experience of an arena session. The match ending mechanic called "The Crowd Chose You!!!" is intended to make these matches shorter. Some things can only be tested on live. The mechanic will be monitored on live and evaluated further.
Regarding Battle Fatique: Tanks in raids have double the health of arena players and therefore a tuning mechanic is needed to tone down heals. Healing outpaces health pools, so constant adjustments are needed.
The game in 5.3 got to bursty and so base resilience got buffed. Numbers on PTR feel better than on live. The reason why base resilience is used, instead of resilience on gear, is that new players and alts got destroyed by geared players too fast. It improves the experience for lesser geared players.
The ArenaLeague tournament is something the developers like a lot. They also like the pick and ban system ArenaLeague uses, but it's unlikely to be implemented into the game. The devs want to support ArenaLeague and similar tournaments as well as the ArenaLive tournament UI.
Streaming increased a lot over the last 5 years. Twitch.tv now has 32 million viewers. They will explore ideas like adding streams to the new launcher in the future. This is not a feature promise of any kind.
The tools to track wintrading are being improved constantly. SC:2 does not have the problem of wintrading like WoW has.
Rank 1 titles will be granted for 3v3 and 5v5 for the next arena season but that may change in the future. They are still looking at 5v5 and are unsure in what direction to go.
No titles for 2v2 are planned. 2v2 does not need help as the participation is already high. 3v3, however, needs help so moving rewards from 3v3 to 2v2 might have bad consequences.
Seasonal based achievements are a good idea, but they might cause achievement bloat. They will not be included into 5.4.
Classes in World of Warcraft have too many abilities but removing abilities may alienate players.
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Government spending cuts are having a negative impact on the construction sector, official figures show.
Total construction work done rose 1.7 per cent in the September quarter, figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Thursday show.
That was despite a 7.3 per cent fall in public sector construction work.
JP Morgan economist Tom Kennedy said the figures showed government spending cuts were weighing on the construction sector.
"It looks like the weakness has once again been on the public side of things and that is not really surprising given the fiscal objectives of both federal and state governments," he said.
He said the bright spot in the figures was a 7.8 per cent rise in private sector engineering, which includes work done in the mining sector.
"Obviously, it's not a fantastic result (overall) but I guess the silver lining is that the weakness is on the public rather than private side."
HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham said the numbers showed that mining activity was still going strong.
"It met expectations and, if you look at the components, they look broadly as you would expect," he said.
"We're still seeing strong growth in engineering, so it looks like the mining boom is continuing.
"At the same time, the public construction numbers look very weak, so the fiscal consolidation that's happening is having a negative impact on that."
He added that a rate decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) next week could be a close one.
"I think they could afford to cut interest rates further ahead of Christmas," Mr Bloxham said.
"But I think it will go down to the wire. We still have more information to come, with capex (capital expenditure) due tomorrow, retail sales data on Monday."


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Hi guys,
I'm excited to venture into this hobby and have been wanting to for quite a while now. So I'll start by saying that I have about $1200 to spend on a record player setup (amp, speakers ect..). This is embarrasing but all I really know what to get is the actual Vinyl player, amp, and speakers. What else do i need?
I have researched for hours and found that I think I want to start with the Pro-Ject Debut III. This has gotten pretty great reviews and is supposed to be a good bang for the buck. Do you have any other suggestions?
Seeing that I get that player which runs for about $350, can you guys reccomend other components that can set me up for sweet sound? My taste in music is rather eclectic but I will be using this for jazz and hip hop. I have a few of my dad's frank sinatra albums that I would also like to play.
So I guess to sum it up, what amp, speakers ect should I be looking at. i know theres been a million forums about this but I suppose im looking at one more tailored to my budget.
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A day after the legislative session began in Louisiana, the sponsor of Senate Bill 561 was in the news, denying that the so-called academic freedom bill would pave the way for creationism to be taught in the state's public schools.
Kenneth R. Miller will be speaking on "God, Darwin, and Design: Lessons from the Dover Monkey Trial" at 7:00 p.m. (Central Time) on April 4, 2008, at the University of Texas, Austin -- and his talk will be webcast live, [Link broken] so people around the world can watch, and even submit questions for the discussion period. (It is necessary to download a small plug-in to view the webcast.) A Supporter of NCSE, Miller was a scientific expert witness for the plaintiffs in Kitzmiller v.
The defendants in the ongoing case Association of Christian Schools International et al. v. Roman Stearns et al. won a legal victory when their motion for partial summary judgment was granted, and the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment was denied, in a March 28, 2008, ruling from Judge S. James Otero.
Senate Bill 561, styled the "Louisiana Academic Freedom Act," was prefiled in the Louisiana Senate by state senator Ben Nevers (D-District 12) on March 21, 2008, and provisionally assigned to the Senate Education Committee, of which Nevers is the chair.
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Lately I'm having trouble changing up gear from 4 up to 5. The lever pops back out of 5 and I have to juggle it a few time to get it to stay in. I've checked the linkages are fine and when I looked in the top of the box there seems to be a lot of play between the cogs.
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Living in the "right" coast all my life I've spend most of my time in ADK's, Whites, VT, and ME. I'm looking to venutre out and begin hitting some 14er's in CO. I'm a big fan of snow/ice but not going to try winter until I have a much better feel for the CO's Mt.'s.
One issue I'm concerned about is adjustment to the altitude. I've purchaed Bezruchka's Altitide Ilness: Prevention & Treatment.
From what I can gather it sure can be specific to an individual irregardless of fitness level. That said, I would really appreciate anyone willing to tell me there experience coming from flatlander areas to 10k - 14k elevation.
I'm entering a totally new realm for me and want to understand as much as I possibly can before experiencing it for myself. I tend to like to "assault" a peak. I'll get up 330AM drive 6hrs to Mt. Washington (NH) hit Hunnington, summit, and come down Lion head or Tuckerman's.....hit the brewery in Franconia for food and a drink....and back home. Usually a 22hr day depending upon driving conditions home.
My shcedule is pretty crazy so for me, as much as I'd like it, a week in CO isn't going to happen. Short duration will most likely be my window of opportunity. Shorter duration will also allow me 2 and possibly 3 trips in a year!
Sooo wanting to hear others experiences. Haven't had any issues being at 6288ft....but that sure isn't much height.
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Paul Franklin Crouch March 30, 1934 - November 30, 2013
Paul Franklin Crouch, founder of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), died November 30, 2013 at the age of 79 following a decade-long battle with degenerative heart disease.
With a heart to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to every corner of the earth, Dr. Crouch spent his life and energy using television for that very purpose, building TBN into America's favorite faith-and-family network as well as the world's most influential Christian broadcaster.
The son of Assemblies of God missionaries to Egypt, Dr. Crouch was born in St. Joseph Missouri, March 30, 1934. Feeling a strong call to Christian ministry, he attended Central Bible Institute (CBI) in Springfield, Missouri, earning a degree in theology in 1955. While at CBI Paul Crouch also got his first taste of broadcast, helping to establish the college's campus radio station, KCBI-AM.
In 1957, Paul married the former Janice Bethany, and the couple moved to Rapid City, South Dakota, where Paul took a position as an announcer at radio station KRSD-AM, quickly progressing to become the station's program director. Before long he was promoted to head KRSD-TV, NBC's new Rapid City affiliate — an important training ground that immersed Paul in the emerging field of broadcast television.
Four years later the Crouches moved to California, where Paul was called by the General Council of the Assemblies of God to organize and operate its new Department of Television and Film Production, a position that gave him an opportunity to create and oversee a wide variety of Christian films and audiovisual productions.
In 1965 Dr. Crouch moved on to become the general manager of radio station KREL-AM in Corona, California, eventually purchasing a minority ownership of the station before leaving in 1970 to manage Christian stations KHOF-FM and KHOF-TV, owned by a church in San Bernardino, California.
In 1973 Dr. Crouch's leadership in Christian broadcasting began in earnest when he and Jan stepped out in faith to launch Trinity Broadcasting Network with one small, low-power station in Southern California. Over the next forty years, under Dr. Crouch's prayerful direction, TBN not only became America's most watched Christian network, but grew into the second largest television broadcast group in America and the world's largest religious broadcaster. Today TBN and its 26 global networks and affiliates reach every inhabited continent on 80-plus satellites and over 20,000 television and cable affiliates, as well as via the Internet.
As the President of TBN, Dr. Crouch had the opportunity to empower scores of ministries to expand their reach and influence through television. With that leadership he also took an active role in helping to lead tens of millions of individuals to faith in Christ — an eternal harvest that he considered his most important legacy.
For his leadership in Christian broadcasting Dr. Crouch was presented with three honorary doctorate degrees: the Doctor of Litterarum (D.Litt) in 1981 from the California Graduate School of Theology; a Doctor of Divinity in 1983 from California's American Christian Theological Seminary; and a Doctor of Laws degree in 1985 from Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Dr. Crouch was also honored with numerous awards over the years by both local and national organizations, and was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the Private Sector Initiative Project.
Dr. Crouch was the author of several books, including the auto-biographies I Had No Father But God and Hello World, as well as the novels Omega Code, Megiddo, and The Shadow of the Apocalypse.
While acknowledged throughout the broadcast industry as the foremost leader in Christian television, Dr. Crouch maintained a characteristic modesty concerning his role, preferring to emphasize the countless friends and partners who stepped alongside him and Mrs. Crouch to make TBN a successful outreach. Above all, in reflecting on his crucial role in TBN's continuing impact, Dr. Crouch inevitably pointed to the importance of an undying faith in God, which he characterized as "walking to the edge of all the light you have ... and taking one more step."
In addition to his wife Jan, Dr. Crouch is survived by sons Paul Jr., Matthew (Laurie), grandchildren, and one great grandchild.


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Description: Due to maintenance at the New Hope United Methodist Church, their first football supper on Friday, September 3rd will be held at the Pleasantville Senior Center from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. They hope to be back in their basement starting on Friday, September 10th and before each home game during the season.
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Some prospects play hard-to-get and may dodge a financial adviser's overtures. Here are some tips to win them over.
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Life in Christian County, Kentucky...
I read once about the buffalo in Yellowstone. Before the spring thaw finally starts, they wait, wait, wait for the snow to melt and the grass to grow again. The last weeks of winter are the very hardest for them because they are weakened by what they've already endured and they're very thin and hungry.
Our circumstances in Kentucky are not nearly that dire, but we're waiting for spring and warmer weather with eagerness because we want to put away our winter coats.
Years ago, when we moved to Germany from the Kansas City area, we were accustomed to some snow and cold weather in winter. When winter in Germany came, we put on our heavy warm coats and wore them everywhere as people of the colder latitudes do in winter.
We had become friends with a young married couple from Kentucky. It seemed odd that Doug and Rita never wore their warm coats even if they had them in the backseat of the car. They were always running across the parking lots, shivering in just their sweaters. I asked Rita one day why they never wore their coats. She laughed and said she guessed it was the Kentucky way.
Now I understand why she said that. The temperatures are often in the 40's on winter days here -- sometimes even warmer. It's usually easy to go from the car to the store with just your sweater. Lately though, we're lucky if the temperature is above freezing even in the middle of the day. I've had to wear my big coat a lot, and I'm sure tired of it.
You'd never dream that I grew up where the winters were long, cold and snowy. After 15 years in Kentucky, I whine right along with everyone else every time we get just a little taste of real winter.
On February 10th a year ago, I wrote about "Living With A Well." I am so thankful that we finally got county water last summer.


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Have you ever wondered how ceramics began? I did but it took this blog for me to do any research. So I will share what I have learned with you all. There is so much that I will start with the very beginning and as weeks go by bring you up to current day practices.
It turns out ceramics is a very ancient industry. Once people discovered that clay could be dug up and formed into objects by mixing with water and then firing, the ceramic industry was born. As early as 24,000 BC, animal and human figurines were made from animal fat, bone mixed with bone ash and a fine claylike material, and then fired in kilns at temperatures between 500-800°C in domed and horseshoe shaped kilns partially dug into the ground. I sure am glad I can just put mine in an electric kiln! At around 9000 or 10,000 BC the first use of functional pottery for storing water and food was invented. Clay bricks were also made around the same time.
Glass was believed to be discovered in Egypt somewhere around 8000 BC, when overheating of kilns produced a colored glaze on the pottery. While firing pottery, the presence of calcium oxide containing sand combined with soda and the overheating of the pottery kiln may possibly have resulted in a colored glaze on the ceramic piece. It was not until approximately 1500 BC that glass was produced and fashioned into separate items. At some point I will go into firing glass with you. Glass is fairly easy to work with but really expensive. Thank you for taking time to read my blogs, until next week.


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by Miracloman » Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:09 am
This is Andrea we are talking about,you know.
by dairydead » Mon Feb 11, 2013 9:25 amYeah, not the best episode. I agree that it seemed quite a bit "off"
by Garofani Spruzzo » Mon Feb 11, 2013 10:57 amDamn, my f key is sticking this morning!
by Grayson » Mon Feb 11, 2013 12:09 pmAt this point, even if the showrunners made a dramatic change and decided to turn Andrea into the character she is in the book, I would probably still want her dead on the show. She is just terrible. Every time she takes a half step forward, she runs a marathon backwards. In the context of the Walking Dead universe, Andrea knows that if a person is bitten then they die and come back as a zombie. So here is a guy who has been bitten, laying at her feet. He is suffering, dying, and pleading for somebody to help him. What does she do? Asks somebody else to do it for her and then gets upset when somebody actually steps up and does it! Listen, I am all for being civil in an uncivilized world and I actually agreed with Dale a lot of the time...but what did she expect someone else to do? Magically cure the man who had been bitten multiple times? Bandage him up and he'll be fine? All she wanted was for somebody else to shoot him so that she didn't have to.
Aside from that, this episode was really very bland. I really wasn't a fan of Rick's last minute freak out in front of Tyreese and his group. These are characters who should already be on the show to begin with so to see them struggle so hard to become part of the group is a little frustrating to watch. I understand the group's reluctance to allow strangers into their new home, especially with all the things they have been through but eventually they need to trust somebody.
I am also curious why nobody seemed to think of the idea of blindfolding Merle, taking him back to the prison, locking him up, and interrogating him since, you know, they live in a prison and all. If the group is so concerned about the Governor and Woodbury, wouldn't it make sense to attempt to gain some valuable information from a person who lived there and was a big part of their security force? I'm sure that Merle wouldn't have had much of a problem with giving up information and it would have kept Daryl around long enough for everyone to have cooled down and figured out a plan.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Mon Feb 11, 2013 2:19 pmBlindfolding Merle would be pointless in any case, wouldn't it? He already knows which prison and where, and even how many there.
by Grayson » Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:11 pm
Good point. In that case, I still would have knocked him out to shut him up and then locked him up in one of the cells in order to interrogate him later.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Mon Feb 11, 2013 3:44 pm
Definitely seeing Merle and Daryl walk off into the zombie-infested wilderness slapping each other's backs was a weird sort of a denouement, I suspect the writer needed to get them both off scene for a bit for Rick to have his psychotic breakdown, because I can't see the bros putting up with that shit for more than a quick minute.
It's funny, the comic flirted briefly with the idea of a nagging ghost-Lori too, but then dropped it suddenly with no real explanation. I wondered at the time if Kirkman had decided it would be a better idea for the show instead of the comic.
by xshane666x » Mon Feb 11, 2013 7:51 pmI'm bored so I did the math and the current rating of all ours combined is 6.66
Totally childish and pointless but I felt the need to state it.
It was a silly episode for the most part and easily one of the seasons worst. The end spazz out just made me laugh.
by Mojo Ichiruto » Tue Feb 12, 2013 10:07 amI was pretty okay with this episode up til the ending few minutes. The opening with the fight was cool, Daryl grabbing his crossbow while escaping was awesome, didn't think Merle and Daryl should have left like they did but of course they will surely be back, Tyreese's buddies just flipping the switch and wanting to taking Carl and Carol was stupid, Tyreese is awesome though and really hope they get him more involved quickly. Glenn stomping the shit outta the zombie from the truck was brutally awesome! All the stuff with Andrea and the Governor in Woodbury as a whole just sucked. Then we get to the end and Rick seeing Ghost Lori and freaking the fuck out, that was just fucking stupid. I could understand the talking to the phone thing but seeing the Ghost Lori especially like that was just stupid and didn't fit the tone of the show at all, just made the whole episode fall apart for me. Thats something that they should have just stayed away from, there is enough real shit going on in this world so there was no need to bring in the ghosts of dead wives bullshit.
by misac » Tue Feb 12, 2013 1:46 pm
Completely agree about Andrea, she's the worst, but they could have taken him "out back" and shot him there. Totally worthless.
They could have kept Merle separate, they do have an excess of cells.
by GOSD » Tue Feb 12, 2013 5:59 pm8.
Because of the Ghost of Lori (Christ, really?) and Andrea STILL STAYING THERE KNOWING THAT RICK'S GROUP IS OUT THERE!
Cannot stand her character.
by PDH » Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:01 pmSeriously, though, how the Hell have they mishandled Andrea's character so profoundly? She's such a believable and cool character in the comics, it baffles me that they could mess it up so profoundly.
by PDH » Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:06 pmDouble post.
by Grayson » Tue Feb 12, 2013 8:17 pm
I would say that a large part of why she has been mishandled in the show has to do with the fact that they horribly miscast the role. I don't believe that they ever actually said how old she is in the comics but it is my understanding that she was actually closer in age to her sister then how she is portrayed on the show. They probably originally cast Laurie Holden as Andrea with the intention of trying make her relationship with Dale less controversial but between that and completely scraping the relationship altogether, they really lost a big part of the character and why we came to like her in the first place. We came to know Andrea and were able to identify her through her vulnerability with Dale.
Also, like I pointed out earlier, they never really move her character forwards. This past episode is a perfect example of what I mean. She should have been the one to take charge and either put that poor guy out of his misery or just grab somebody and have them help her carry him out back so she could do it away from the rest of the group. Instead, she just stood there like and idiot waiting for somebody else to do something she was perfectly capable of doing herself.
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A true choice. That's what the U.S. Rice Producers Group and the USA Rice Federation were seeking when the House and Senate Agriculture Committees began the process of making recommendations to the Select Committee on Deficit Reduction earlier this fall. The Select or Super Committee process failed, but Rice Federation leaders hope the work they did will pay off when the Ag Committee resume their farm bill deliberations. The Federation's Reece Langley explains in this video from the USARF's Outlook Conference in Austin, Texas.
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All In The Family...
"Now in this middle part of my life, I've got to tell you, winds come, storms blow, and I have problems, but I feel pretty rock solid".
(Thomas Wilson)
My family is approaching a period of transition. On August 24, Dennis (my husband) will arrive home from Iraq and on August 28, his retirement from the Army-Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) will be official. He has been in Kuwait and Iraq for a total of 3 years in the last 3-1/2 years (not counting R&R time.)
I'll be very thankful to have him home safe and sound! Fortunately, his work as a Department of Defense employee has been in military facilities (not out on patrols), but he has made many trips on convoys and there is always the possibility of hostile attack or some terrible accident -- even in camp. I've prayed for his safety every day.
Along with the relief of having him home, I'm feeling a little anxious. Isaac and I will be adapting to a father and husband at home full time after a long absence. Dennis will be adapting to life at home with his family instead of life in a combat zone -- as well as retirement and probably a different job eventually. No doubt we'll all need to make some adjustments and concessions as we enter the next phase of our lives.
Since our income is going to drop off sharply and we'll have two children in college starting next year. I need to go to back to work soon, if not immediately. I have applied for several jobs, and hopefully I might get one of them.
This week, I'm trying to whip the house, yard, shed, and all the paperwork into shape, and next week if I'm still unemployed, I will kill the fatted calf and prepare the feast for Dennis' arrival on Thursday.
And if I've started a new job by then and I just barely get off work in time to run to the airport -- well, we'll stop at Cracker Barrel on the way home and buy him his favorite -- a gravy-smothered country-fried steak.