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Video display South Midlands Area More detail Place count in area: 31, OSI/LPS Maps: 53, 54, 55, 59, 60, 61, 66, 67, 68, 74 Highest place: Slievenamon, 720.2m Maximum height for area: 720.2 metres, Maximum prominence for area: 711 metres, Places in area South Midlands:Ballaghmore Hill 268mBallynalacken Hill 314mBallyscanlan Hill 132mCaponellan Hill 253mCarrigadoon Hill 296.9mClashabeema 137mCoolnahau Hill 265mCorbally Hill 285mCroghan 365mFaranaree Hill 283mFossy Mountain 332mHewson Hill 261mKill Hill 241mKillough 235mKnockmannon Hill 315mMonabrogue 284mMonaughrim 206mMount Alto 276mNewtown Hill 208mTory Hill 292mBrandon Hill: Brandon Hill 515mCoppanagh 365mSlieveardagh: Clomantagh Hill 349mKnocknamuck 340mSlievemargy: Clogrennan Hill 336mCullenagh Mountain 317mSlievenamon: Knockahunna 502.8mSheegouna 553.5mSlievenamon 720.2mSlievenamon North-West Top 564mWalsh Mountains: Carricktriss Gorse 314m Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such. Centre on map. Croghan Hill Kilkenny County, in Binnion List, Dark blue-grey slate, phyllite & schist Bedrock Height: 365m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 68 Grid Reference: S66346 45538 Place visited by 17 members. Recently by: Nakoz, conormcbandon, Barry28213, Pepe, bbarry2015, bryanjbarry, GoldCircle, frankmc04, simon3, madfrankie, paddyhillsbagger, chalky, katekat, sandman, Fergalh I have visited this place: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.) More detail Longitude: -7.022529, Latitude: 52.557535 , Easting: 266346, Northing: 145538 Prominence: 124m, Isolation: 2.4km ITM: 666280 645583, GPS IDs, 6 char: Crg366, 10 char: CroghanBedrock type: Dark blue-grey slate, phyllite & schist, (Maulin Formation) Croghan is the 1022th highest place in Ireland. Croghan is the third highest point in county Kilkenny. Trackback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1086/?PHPSESSID=dllre8798f0g6br1n4ng74btu3 Rate Gallery COMMENTS for Croghan 1 of 1 Picture from group : View of the summit from the south. Picture: View of the summit from the south. Wooded summit with a few good views and large telecoms installations. Short Summary created by simon3, 8 Sep 2014 This is a mainly wooded summit with an extensive telecoms setup at the top. There are some views. Park at the forest entrance around S6711 4589 A. The shortest way up is to walk back along the road to S 6694 4570 B where there is a steep vehicle track leading directly to the summit. It is also possible to walk along a forest road to the summit from the forest entrance. Enter the forest and take the first turn left. This route goes round the NW ridge that extends from the summit before reaching the top. Do not attempt to take any tempting short cut through the trees because there is extensive wind damage with blown-over trees sometimes covered in brambles. Trackback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1086/comment/15330/ Picture from sandman : Summit Area Picture: Summit Area A Public Access. by sandman 8 Sep 2014 Parking at the entrance to the Coillte forest which also is the main access to the masts.Following the main tract uphill allows you to reach the summit without the need to enter private lands.Nice views to Brandon Hill. Round trip time: around 30 to 40 mins. Trackback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1086/comment/17504/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average Picture from eamonoc : View to Brandon Hill from Croghan Picture: View to Brandon Hill from Croghan Nice views from Cross by eamonoc 5 Apr 2014 Climbed Friday 4/4/2014, started at S66395 44840 C, take the R703 Thomastown road out of Graiguenamanagh, at Coppenagh gap crossroads take right onto Dungarvan road, there is a 1798 monument at this crossroads. Croghan is clearly visible from here, after large two story house on the right take a right turn and drive uphill with Croghan to the left until a white bungalow with a black surrounding fence is reached, just across the road from this there is a metal gate giving acces to a really green grassy field with a white cross above in a prominent position uphill. Head steeply up to cross, pass it and onto higher ground, A vast array on communication masts are visible to the NE head towards them over some rough ground to summit area. Total time from car to car 25mins, and a distance of approx 1.5km Trackback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1086/comment/15967/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average Picture from katekat Straightforward short walk by katekat 30 Jun 2014 Following the way up according to sandman, very straigtforward walk up and down to the summit masts. Loved the views of Blackstairs Mts. and Brandon Hill, wow. Trackback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/1086/comment/17522/ Your Score: Very useful << >>Average (End of comment section for Croghan.) Some mapping: Open Street Map (Various variations used.) British summit data courtesy: Database of British & Irish Hills (Creative Commons Licence) MountainViews.ie, a Hill-walking Website for the island of Ireland. 11 Million Visitors Per Year. 1300 Contributors.


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Worlds Apart
Here's Ray's original comment:
Huh. The "problem that had long puzzled" Josipovici was precisely -- like precisely, except for some name-swapping which sharpens the point, like Joyce for Mann and Beckett for Bernhard -- what led me to start looking into science fiction in 1976. (And eventually led me here, of course.)My feelings are similar, and are one of the reasons that though my particular pleasures are different from Josipovici's, I'm sympathetic to his argument. Those feelings are also a reason why I have a knee-jerk negative reaction to arguments that pose science fiction (broadly defined) as the opposite of Modernism. (Different, sure. Opposite, nope.) That's an interpretation that doesn't work for me because it contradicts my own reading life, which is, yes, a narcissistic (solipsistic?) approach to an argument, but hey, it's what I've got. For me, science fiction and Modernism are complementary.
From what I've read of Josipovici, I suspect he arrived at different answers than myself.
Before exploring any of these ideas, here's the relevant Josipovici passage:
I wrote [What Ever Happened to Modernism?] in the first place to try to make sense of a problem that had long puzzled me: why was it that works of literature such as the poems of T S Eliot, the stories of Kafka and Borges, the novels of Proust, Mann, Claude Simon and Thomas Bernhard seemed worlds apart from those admired by the English literary establishment (works by writers such as Margaret Atwood, John Updike, Martin Amis and Ian McEwan)? The first group touched me to the core, leading me into the depths of myself even as they led me out into worlds I did not know. The latter were well-written narratives that, once I'd read them, I had no wish ever to reread. Was it my fault? Was I in some way unable to enter into the spirit of these works? Or did they belong to a kind of writing that was clearly to the taste of the English public but not to mine?That is very much the problem (in the sense of a math problem, or a nagging anxiety that leads one to write criticism and blog posts -- a good problem, overall!) that made me a voracious reader, and it is the problem that has kept me returning to paraliteratures.
I said my interpretation of Modernism/SF is narcissistic or solipsistic, so perhaps autobiography will clarify how I find these two different modes to be complementary.
When I was, I think, about 12 years old, I discovered both science fiction and James Joyce. I had become a devoted reader of adult books a few years before when I discovered Stephen King and somehow got permission to take Pet Sematary out of the library. Science fiction I discovered when my mother's boss loaned me some 1986 issues of Asimov's. Somewhere in that same time-frame, I brought a copy of Catcher in the Rye while on a visit to see family in Illinois. My uncle saw me reading it and said, "Don't bother. Read Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." This was crazy, brilliant advice. Who would think to recommend Joyce to a 12 year old who could barely understand Salinger? But children should not read appropriate books; it stunts their growth and imagination -- or, at least, it does if they're children like me. I was the sort of young reader who found it much more interesting to delve into what I couldn't understand than what I could. My general antipathy to YA books has been life-long -- even as a child I didn't want to read about children. I didn't want to "relate" to stories. I wanted escape, intellectual challenge, weirdness, terror, and beauty.
My uncle sensed this somehow, and his recommendation changed my life. I didn't give up my appreciation for Salinger -- we've had a love/hate relationship ever since, depending on my mood -- but that first page of Portrait changed everything. Seeing how the diction of that page then developed in the later pages was a profound lesson for me both as a reader and writer. I went to the college library and checked out a stack of books by and about Joyce, a stack I remember being nearly as tall as I was then. A friend of mine was working the circulation desk, and I still remember his bemused look, and his words: "You know, Matt, Finnegans Wake isn't really light weekend reading."
So true, and I didn't read a lot of Finnegans Wake then, nor have I since, nor will I ever, but I keep it around, and I love certain passages, even if the whole is too long and too abstract for my tastes.* It wasn't so much Ulysses itself or Finnegans Wake itself that had a profound effect on me, but rather the idea of them -- and the idea of them expressed in the various critical and exegetical works on them. The idea that fiction could be something more than just a story. That was thrilling.
Around the same time, I also encountered T.S. Eliot's poems for the first time, especially "Prufrock". It took me many years to get to the point of understanding the poem in any way, but the spell its words and structure cast was immediate. I wrote pastiches of it and homages to it; I performed it as a theatre piece a couple of times, I absorbed its rhythms into much of what I wrote. One of the first single-author collections of poetry I owned was a copy of Eliot's Complete Poems & Plays, a treasure-trove of wonders. In high school, I wrote stanzas from "The Hollow Men" on a biology test that I thought was a stupid exercise in rote memorization (this caused consternation).
I discovered Kafka, Beckett, and Virginia Woolf in high school, and it was pure love (the first pages of Mrs. Dalloway had the same effect on me as the first pages of A Portrait of the Artist). I didn't "understand" them in the sense of being able to pull a whole lot of literal meaning from their words, but I understood, in some other-than-words way built from their words, a Weltanschauung and an attitude toward the relationship between text and the world -- and thus experienced the touch to the core that Jospipovici speaks of. This would only grow stronger as I learned to understand what such writers seemed to be up to, as I developed knowledge of their place in history and literature, as I gained experiences in life that created a synergistic loop between their interpretation of the world-text and my own: my reading of such writers influenced how I saw the world and its texts; my experiences of the world and its texts influenced how I responded to those writers.
And it continued on through college and to today -- Sterne, Samuel Johnson, Kleist, Büchner, Chekhov, Faulkner, Bernhard, Borges, Gertrude Stein (sometimes, in small doses: again, the abstraction), Mac Wellman, Suzan-Lori Parks, Coetzee -- not all Modernists, certainly, but the writers who (well, along with Shakespeare) blew my brain apart and put it back together again.
And alongside it all, SF. At the same time I was learning to read the Modernists (and their predecessors and followers), I was learning to read SF. The two experiences informed each other. In some ways, I read Modernism as if it were SF and SF as if it were Modernism, but more than that, I read each as a kind of response to, and complexification of, reality. It why, when in high school I discovered Philip K. Dick (when I was in high school, most of Dick's books were out of print), he instantly became among my favorite authors -- he melded, it seemed to me then, Kafka, Beckett, and SF. (I'm not sure I'd say that now, but it was how I first read his books.) The Jewel-Hinged Jaw was an inspiring problem for me at the same time that Finnegans Wake was, and it made me view SF as a textual experience in the same way I viewed Modernism as a textual experience.
At the time I was first reading SF, my mother, concerned for my intellectual well-being, asked a very old-school (proudly New Critical) English professor at the college, a wonderful man who remains a friend, "Is science fiction literature?" His response: "No, it's formula fiction." I remember exactly where we were at the time he said this: In our car, driving away from our house, about to turn onto Rte. 3 from River Road. It was another life-changing moment, because it sent me on a quest to figure out what this "literature" thing was (another professor gave me a copy of the 3rd edition of Laurence Perrine's anthology Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, which I devoured, and which provided no good answers). Much of my life since then has been spent trying to address, avoid, or complicate my mother's question, our friend's answer, and my own response.**
I don't know what (or how) any of this means, exactly. Perhaps it has something to do with The Force.
I don't particularly believe in a thing called Literature, because I've never seen the word wielded in a useful way -- it is a word that people use to condemn, condescend, and marginalize that which they don't know how to appreciate. I spend most of my reading time with the twin loves of my youth, SF and Modernism, and with the love of my recent years, African fiction; Literature has been used against each (though to a different degree with Modernism -- strangely, it's seen by most people as Literature -- indeed, the very embodiment of High Lit -- but it's also resented, and so it has moved from being marginalized as not-Literature by the Arnold Bennetts of the world to being resented as too-Literature by the sorts of folks who most detest and/or misunderstand Josipovici).
The problem remains. And so we must keep reading and writing.
*Josipovici, p. 187: "My own 'story', as I have tried to present it here, discovering what it was as I went along, is that only an art which recognizes the pitfalls inherent in both realism and abstraction will be really alive. That is why I warm to the novels of Perec and Bernhard more than to Finnegans Wake or the novels of Updike and Roth, to the pictures of Bacon and Hockney more than to Pollock or Tracey Emin, to the music of Birtwistle and Kurtág more than Cage or Shostakovitch."
**My response at the time was to send him a copy of Pat Murphy's story "Rachel in Love" and dare him to deny it to be literature. He did, though I forget the details of how -- something to do with character development. It was, however, a response that both Modernism and SF had prepared me to reject, but he was a Dickens scholar, and his idea of the ultimate fiction was the Victorian novel, a form that, to this day, I have only occasional interest in. Josipovici, p. 67: "Not having doubts is a blessed state, but it is not the same thing as having genuine authority. There is something hollow about Balzac, Dickens, and Verdi compared with Dante or Shakespeare, but even compared with their older contemporaries, Beethoven and Wordsworth. It doesn't rest on their frequent clumsiness, for that is to be found in Betthoven and Wordsworth. It rests more on the very thing that is the root of their strength as artists and their enormous success as entrepreneurs: their inability to question what it is they are doing. In that sense they are the first modern best-sellers and in their work one can see the beginnings of that split between popularity and artistic depth which is to become the hallmark of modern culture." (I'm wary of some of the implications embedded in that last sentence, but the rest seems right to me, and I do think there is a particular quality of confidence in the power of words as representational tools in fiction that finds a mass audience.)

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Bedminster-based Aerie Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced today the pricing of its initial public offering of 6.72 million shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $10 per share. The offering totals $67.2 million, before underwriting discounts.
According to the announcement, the shares are scheduled to begin trading on Nasdaq today under the ticker symbol AERI. The company has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1 million shares of common stock at the same price to cover over-allotments, if any. The offering is expected to close Oct. 30, subject to customary closing conditions.
The company first filed its IPO registration in September.


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Last season seven of the starters were freshmen. This season's roster includes one senior, three juniors, eight sophomores and six freshmen.
"It is a very young team," Lady Bisons coach Jon Ireland said. "It is very similar to last year. The good news is that a lot of our freshmen last year got playing time and experience.
"The biggest thing now is to try to manage the players and make sure that everything meshes. We want to make sure that everyone is getting along. "
Midfielder-forward Katie Spellman is the lone senior. The juniors are midfielder Danielle Bethke, forward-midfielder Meghan McGuire and forward Kirsten Heikkinen.
"We do have very good leadership in our juniors and our senior," Ireland said. "I think that is going to help.
"All four of them came in fit. From a leadership standpoint they understand what needs to happen. They will be working with the younger players and helping them."
Defender Katie Wood was a member of the Atlantic Sun All-Freshman team last season. Ireland expects the sophomores to be driven by what they experienced last season.
"We definitely had some highs and lows throughout the season," Ireland said. "Part of it was their inexperience. I have seen more maturity in our sophomores. They are more focused. They came in fit. They seem to understand what is expected of them."
"Their maturity level will be a key to how much they have improved. Last year's freshmen went through a lot and really bonded. They are very close."
Preseason practice often provides surprises, and one of the biggest for Ireland has been the chemistry of the team despite the youth. Chemistry is something that has to develop between players. Coaches can't force it or control it.
"Without a doubt we have the best team chemistry of any year since I have been here," Ireland said. "The hardest thing to get is team chemistry, having girls who want to be together and enjoy being together. I have really been excited with how the girls are getting along.
"The freshmen seem to fit in very well personality-wise. The sophomores have done a great job with them. There is no drama with our older girls. They have a great work ethic. Our younger players can look up to them."
Offense was a problem for the Lady Bisons last season. Ireland, entering his fourth season at Lipscomb, thinks that a pair of freshmen _ midfielder-forward Tatjana Shirley and forward-midfielder Jenna Price_ could provide an offensive boost.
"Both of them will be playing midfield or up top," Ireland said. "I think we have several girls that will have the opportunity to score several goals this year."
Ireland is counting heavily on this year's freshman class and he likes what he has seen from the group.
"The freshmen have come in and all done a very good job," Ireland said. "They have definitely met my expectations and more. "When you recruit players you like to think you know what you are getting, but truthfully you don't always know until you see them in preseason. You can tell they worked hard this summer. They have impressed me from a technical standpoint and with their understanding of the game."
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Travel Tip: Put a Phone Number On Your Kid
A few months ago, I took my youngest to an amusement park with a large group of friends and their moms. As we all gathered at the front entrance with a gaggle of 5 - 7 year olds, I noticed one mom writing her cell number on her child's arm. Brilliant idea! For kids who aren't ready to remember a phone number, it's a simple way to keep an emergency number visible in case she gets lost. Once we started looking, though, we found a number of clever ways to connect your child to your phone number. Read on for our top tips!
Wherever you are traveling this summer, you might feel more secure if you knew that your child could get help if he or she got lost. Making sure that someone can call you can provide that extra step of prevention. The ideas we liked best range from simple DIYs to slightly more involved purchases. Either way, whichever appeals to you will get the job done.
• Sharpie on the arm: Easily the simplest and most economical version, simply write your phone number on your child's arm in Sharpie. Done!
• SafetyTat: A slightly more "official" version of the Sharpie on the arm, SafetyTat is a temporary tattoo on which you can write your phone number.
• Phone Number Bracelet: This bracelet is super easy to make with some simple products from the craft store. Check out Crafty Soccer Mom's tutorial.
• Safety Shirt: Certainly this shirt gets the message across without displaying your number for all to see. You simply write your number under the left sleeve so it can be found in case of emergency.
• Safety Necklace: Another take on the phone-number-as-jewelry. We love the clever use of a bottle cap as the medium for your number. The necklace can also be unobtrusive if worn under a shirt. Unique By U provides a great tutorial.
Do you have a foolproof way of keeping your number and your child together? Let us know in the comments.
(Images: 1. Flickr user Zen licensed for use under Creative Commons 2. SafetyTat 3. Crafty Soccer Mom 4. Tig Tagz 5.Unique By U)


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Sesame's VP of Outreach Receives Outstanding Civilian Service Award
By Graydon Gordian
As an entire organization, Sesame Workshop is dedicated to improving the lives of servicemen and women and their families, but a few people at Sesame deserve special recognition for the work they do on behalf of military families. Lynn Chwatsky, Vice President of Outreach Initiatives and Partners for Sesame Workshop, is one of those people. That's why we're proud to announce that last week Lynn was awarded the Outstanding Civilian Service Award, an award given to civilians who make a "substantial contribution" to the military.
General Raymond T. Odierno, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, presented the award to Lynn and an esteemed group of fellow recipients: New York Giants Head Coach Tom Coughlin, Baltimore Ravens Head Coach John Harbaugh, NBA referee Bob Delaney, and Linda Patterson, President and Founder of America Supporting Americans.
"I'm humbled," Lynn said. "Every second of everyday our servicemen and women serve our country with dignity, honor and respect. For them to thank me – I was honored. It was very special. It was one of the top few days of my life."
To learn more about the ways Lynn and the rest of the Sesame Workshop team support military families, click here.


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Text Messaging Is Just as Rude as Talking on Your Cell Phone in Most Scenarios
Cell Phone Rant: Why Texting Is Just As Bad
I suppose it would be OK to text in certain places that it's not appropriate to be using a cell phone; while you're in a drive-thru, or happily tapping away in the backseat of a taxi cab, but in most scenarios, it is just as rude to be clicking your thumbs through texts as it is to be flapping your lips on your phone.
I don't mean to be ageist, but there's a younger demographic that I've encountered that thinks this is OK — I say this because I found myself chewing out my 20-year-old sister several times (I still love you, baby girl) over the long weekend for texting.
Yes, I know that younger people (man I sound SO old) text more often than they talk on the phone and maybe starving college students can't afford pricey smartphones to email on — I get the practice, but not the dependence.
To see the places I have given my sister the stink eye for texting (including the movies, the most sacred of cell phone abstinence), just
Stink eye delivered: At the dinner table (really?), in a movie theater (come on), and (my fave) while we're having an intent conversation, just the two of us. In an effort to keep our sisterly bond intact, she gamely apologized, but I knew she'd have those texts flowing the minute she was free to, when the old-lady big sister looked the other way.
And so I urge you, on behalf of the geezers who don't understand why you are always texting, indulge us and don't text anywhere you would feel weird talking on a cell phone.
Got a good cell phone or texting rant? Join the Cell Phone Rant Group!


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RSW: Introduction to Digital Research II (iDLR II) is an interactive RSW that puts you in the shoes of a criminal defense attorney who may or may not have a problem. How do you take a bunch of facts and boil them down into a researchable legal issue? Once you have your legal issue, how do you use Lexis Advance to find the answer?
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The Irish Homecoming - My Forever American Valentine - meeting the love of my life in New York
It was across a dark bar in the Bronx back in 2004 that I saw him. Just what the doctor ordered -- a tall, dark, handsome Irishman looking my way...READ MORE
St. Valentine's Day romance: 10 surprising facts about the Irish and sex
What is it about the Irish and sex? Pre-Christian Irish attitudes to sex were decidedly more conservative than in recent times, where Cupid was saddled with a chastity belt by an outwardly pious nation. But have times changed? You be the judge. Here are 10 surprising facts about the Irish and sex...READ MORE
Royal fury as Italian magazine publishes photos of pregnant Kate Middleton in a bikini
Photos of Prince William and his pregnant wife Kate Middleton on a private Caribbean holiday have sparked fresh anguish for the Royal family...READ MORE
Queen of England asked to turn Buckingham Palace green for St Patrick's Day
Tourism chiefs want Buckingham Palace to go green on St Patrick's Day – as they wait to unveil Kate Middleton's Irish links...READ MORE
Miracle mums after Irish cancer victim has her best friend carry twins
In 2004 Angela Boylan, then 34, had just got married to Pablo Ruiz. Mass General Magazine reports the Irish woman living in Boston was looking forward to starting a family but soon after received the shocking news that she had uterine cancer and would likely never bear children. A second medical opinion bore out the first diagnosis...READ MORE


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Romney�s insult
To the editor: My wife and I are two of the 47 percenters, as Mitt Romney called us. In other words, we, in his opinion, are moochers. Yes, we collect Social Security (which we paid into for many years) and Medicare, and both of us are veterans.
To the editor: My wife and I are two of the 47 percenters, as Mitt Romney called us. In other words, we, in his opinion, are moochers. Yes, we collect Social Security (which we paid into for many years) and Medicare, and both of us are veterans.
Mitt Romney avoided military service during the Vietnam War with a couple of deferments. He was asked by a little lady why none of his five sons has served in the military. He told her that helping with his election, they were serving their country. That�s a far cry from serving in the military. Mitt Romney as our commander in chief. That�s scary.
We have paid our taxes. We have not placed any of our savings into Swiss bank accounts to avoid taxes. We never had anything to do with sending companies and jobs to other countries. Too many executives like Romney have sent our companies and jobs to other countries.
Mr. Romney, you have insulted us and many good American people.
If Romney only wants to serve half of the American people, think about that, folks, when you vote.
William Lilly
To the editor: In response to the article concerning the killing of a three-legged bear, I live in the community in which the bear was located and was involved in the search for a sanctuary for the bear.
I find it incredulous that the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission thought it best that the bear be �removed� from our community, dead in the back of a pickup truck, rather than be relocated to a natural habitat enclosure in a sanctuary that wanted it. The WRC refused to give permission for the bear to be relocated but instead gave permission for it to be killed.
They say they examine each situation on a case-by-case basis. Here we had a young three-legged bear, and we had a sanctuary that would take it. What else did they need to save this bear? It would have been such positive publicity for the WRC had it allowed this little bear to be relocated.
The WRC answers to no one. The wildlife belongs to we the people who live in North Carolina. I would like to see a change in policy within the WRC. Killing the animal should not always be their answer, especially when there are viable alternatives.
Beverly Hammond
Yancey County
To the editor: Peter Knight was attorney for Kanuga Conferences during my 22-year tenure as president. He was available, knowledgeable and thorough. He listened carefully, asked questions and gave considered advice. Fortunately, there were no serious legal matters during those years, but regardless of the degree of importance, I knew him to be a continuing student of the law and therefore had confidence in his judgment. It was an excellent professional relationship.
During those years and since, I have been proud to call him my friend, and was especially pleased to support his successful candidacy for District Court judge four years ago. He has served with dignity and integrity. He has been fair-minded. He has been courteous but firm. He has earned the respect of his colleagues in the law.
His legal record and his personal reputation stand him well for re-election. I plan to vote early, and his will be the first name I will check.
Albert S. Gooch Jr.
Flat Rock
To the editor: Did you know why the majority of Democrats, Republicans and unaffiliated voters want voter ID? Simple. These folks want to make sure that no United States citizens� vote is disenfranchised. They do not want their vote being canceled out by an illegal vote.
To protect that legal vote, United States citizens ask their Board of Elections: What is the state doing to assure that each voter is a citizen? If the Board of Elections suddenly is overwhelmed by voter registration materials just before an election, is there adequate staff to verify citizenship? Unreasonable?
The difference between this election and the ones in the past in raising these questions is this: We the people are now awake, aware, watchful and demanding that no legal citizens� votes be disenfranchised because they are canceled out by an illegal one � the deceased, non-citizens, fictitious names and addresses!
The Voter Integrity Project and True The Vote program volunteers will continue the watch well past this election to assure that every vote is counted and every vote is verified as legitimate. They do great work. Please join them!
Jane Bilello
Asheville Tea
Party chairwoman,
To the editor: I want to congratulate the Times-News for publishing Robert Danos� insightful letter wherein he enlightened us all on the judicial races we will be voting on.
Since very few of us know anything about the judicial candidates (the system really does need to be changed), Mr. Danos could not have been more timely; my wife and I were just about to mark our absentee ballots and there it was, a guide that gave us all the information we needed on how we should vote.
What a guy! Thanks, Mr. Danos, it is so comforting to know that we voted for the �right� candidates.
Charles Williamson
To the editor: Polk County Liberty has targeted Commissioner Renee McDermott by printing negative full-page newspaper ads.
Fact 1: Commissioner McDermott did not write any of the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO); she had no greater role than any other member of the committee. Fact 2: The UDO does not zone Coopers Gap or White Oak townships. Fact 3: In their prior term as commissioners, Ted Owens and Tom Pack voted to hire Holland Consulting to work on the Comprehensive Plan and UDO project, and to pay Holland Consulting $90,840.
I am angry that people can make this kind of organized attack without even putting their names on an ad or website. I am angry they can take an ordinance our county needs and twist the truth in order to convince people it is going to do them harm. And I�m angry they have chosen, for purely political reasons, to target a single person out of the 100 or more who have been a part of the UDO creation.
I know Renee McDermott is strongly ethical, extremely hardworking and totally dedicated to doing the best for Polk County. She is the kind of commissioner Polk County needs. I urge citizens not to be manipulated.
Helen Boucher Trevathan
To the editor: Mitt Romney told some rich supporters that �there are 47 percent of the people who are dependent upon government � who believe that they are entitled to health care,� �these are people who pay no income tax� and �I�ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.� I just realized that he was talking about my mother in an insulting and demeaning manner.
My mother was a hardworking, responsible person all of her adult life until retirement, helping our family maintain a middle-class, though modest, lifestyle. In her later years, after the death of my father, she paid no income taxes because of her low retirement income. Due to failing health, she spent several years in a nursing home, completely exhausting her savings. Consequently, she reluctantly became dependent on Medicaid until her death.
When talking to rich supporters, Romney said that people in my mother�s situation �will vote for this president (Barack Obama) no matter what.� Ironically, as a lifelong Republican, if she were still alive, she would probably vote for Romney for ideological reasons, contrary to her own self-interest.
Romney is wrong about my mother, and he is wrong for America.
Judi Johnson


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|2010-01-27, 09:35
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I know we have bread!
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Chicago
Age: 34
Because the parents are 100% unaccounted for from 7:30 PM of the first day until the next morning, it is possible that the six of them were killed, say, before 11:00 PM. Maria, who wants to check up on her rose, is feeling restless and decides to go check up on it at, say, 11:30 PM. There, she encounters "Beatrice", who hands Maria one last envelope. That envelope has the key.
Edit: Or better yet, perhaps the first note was instructions on when and where to meet up with Beatrice to receive one final gift: the envelope with the key, thereby tricking Rosa into thinking that it was the first envelope all along and convincing everyone that this is the doing of a witch.
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|2010-01-27, 14:14
|Link #2322
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Chicago
Age: 34
So what does this mean?
1) Natsuhi is Gohda's savior.
2) Natsuhi has been murdered quite grotesquely.
3) Therefore, Gohda may be seeking revenge.
This is one possible explanation:
Gohda, under whatever circumstances, eventually figured out that Shannon was indeed the mastermind, so he plots to kill her in revenge for Natsuhi. George comes to her defense, but Shannon isn't a skilled fighter (maybe), so it's basically a one-on-one battle, and Gohda somehow defeats them both. He searches Shannon's body and finds the stakes. Then he realizes that he is guilty of murder. So to protect his honor, he dirties the door with the blood of his opponents, locks the door, lays out the stakes, and then falls on the last stake to his death.
I might be close, I might be far off. Any ideas?
If it was the big mirror, then it means that there was likely a huge scuffle in the room, as opposed to a clean assasination.
|2010-01-27, 15:03
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Well... 'hidden places' are denied with the red, but that isn't a direct denial of someone being hidden. Still, your theory puts Gohda back on the very short list of possible suspects.
... What bothers me most is that the killer not only faithfully carried out the twilights, they also knew which twilights to carry out- the fourth through sixth. Even though Nanjo and Kumasawa were purportedly already dead, the killer in the bedroom knew they were staked according to the seventh and eighth... Further, if the one who killed those two was outside the bedroom, he or she knew Gohda had carried out the fourth through sixth.
Genji claimed that 'last time he saw the corpses' (I'm taking that to mean when they supposedly died in the servants quarters) the stakes weren't there. Though that could easily be a lie.
Hrm. Maybe it's not significant after all.
|2010-01-27, 15:47
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Edit: Wait, that sounds a bit weird. Why would they cover up their deaths only to be ambushed by them? Ugh! Well, I'll see if I can still make the ends meet.
|2010-01-27, 16:42
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Dea ex Kakera
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Sea of Fragments
There's also the oddity that Genji didn't say anything to Rosa about the three going to the chapel. He just said that they went to Natsuhi's room, even though he supposedly never saw them after they left.
Hm, is there a possibility that the room key actually got picked up earlier in the day, when the first twilight was discovered?
Regarding the first twilight, I'll see your theories and raise one of my own: Someone unlocked the chapel on October 4th prior to 1pm. The Halloween party was set up by one or more of the servants at that point, and then one of them met with Rosa and Maria and handed over the key, leaving the door unlocked. The adults were able to enter without trouble, and they were killed there sometime around midnight by a person who knew about their meeting, again leaving the door unlocked. In the morning, Genji lied to Rosa about the chapel being locked to maintain the locked room illusion, not realizing that there were dead bodies inside since those weren't a part of the original plan.
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|2010-01-27, 17:13
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Location: Chicago
Age: 34
"Rosa readied herself and approached, and tried pushing and pulling the knob. ...All she felt was the resistance of the sturdy lock."
|2010-01-27, 17:17
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|2010-01-27, 17:43
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Chicago
Age: 34
At least with my blue truth about the letters (the one where the letter says "meet me in X at Y PM"), you can say that Beatrice's meeting with Rosa and Maria (except Rosa didn't see Beatrice get the candy from her pocket) and Rosa's checking of the lock can still work out as if they are not fantasy scenes.
|2010-01-27, 18:00
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|2010-01-27, 19:15
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Location: My beloved hometown, the mackerel river running through it
If Rosa is completely innocent in EP2, why did she claim to have talked to Kinzo? I can't literally recall her exact words (although I don't remember thinking that she meant anything else), but I do remember that she learned something (the alibis of two people that she apparently suspected) that she would have no reason to accept from anyone else.
|2010-01-27, 19:15
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Senior Member
As for the "door wasn't locked" hypothesis:
After they've leaving the chapel, Rosa says "Until I took the key out of Maria's envelope and opened this door, it was definitely locked!! But this key was in the envelope and in Maria's care, right?! And that happened yesterday before noon?!?!"
If Rosa is innocent, why would she lie here?
|2010-01-27, 20:03
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Location: Chicago
Age: 34
But I can't dismiss her vomiting on the floor like that (go ahead, argue it's fantasy). Maybe she's partially guilty, partially innocent. This is screwed up.
In any case, even if she isn't fully innocent, she can still be innocent of the first six murders. I need to go over this a bit more...
In any case, with all of the child abuse going on, I doubt Rosa would want Maria believing in this witchcraft. And yet, she reports at the table that she saw Beatrice, and she's freaked out? This doesn't add up well.
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|2010-01-27, 20:10
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Homo Ludens
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Canada
Age: 29
What if Rosa lied about the door being locked because she thought she might be implicated otherwise? After all, if she was actually in the chapel with the rest of the adults... how can she prove to the others that she isn't the killer?
It's better to pretend that she was never in there at all and that, indeed, there was no way that she could have been.
|2010-01-27, 21:57
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Senior Member
It is pretty hard to say Rosa is innocent in the 1st twilight of game 2. The reason being the chapel key. It's pretty obvious the door was already unlocked when Maria was given the key.
How does the door get locked then in the morning? Rosa simply goes and gets the key in the morning, and locks it. Then, to give herself some cover, she pretends to go get it a 2nd time later when the chapel is discovered (or maybe she put it back after locking the door and gets it again, who knows).
The only way I can think of to deny this is to say that the door was never locked and all of the scenes we are shown regarding that are false. I say that is pretty lame and we have no reason to doubt that the chapel really was locked.
As for Rosa's letter and meeting Beatrice. It seems possible that Rosa may not have actually "met" Beatrice here. Instead, Maria met her, got a new candy and 2 letters. Rosa received a letter and was shown Maria's new candy (which she might be surprised if it is the same kind if she didn't buy that many) and to her, that was like meeting Beatrice. Since we are shown it is clearly a fantasy scene, it is hard to say exactly what happened.
As for what is in the letter, I would guess it is instructions to Rosa from Beatrice. I imagine it says something about Battler, and also probably has the location of the 2 extra gold bars we know about. Rosa probably becomes a killer in the 1st twilight because of this. Perhaps even an accidental killer. She may have been told drug her siblings and then lock them in the chapel. As she left to go get the key in the morning (sometime past 12:01AM), perhaps someone snuck in and gutted her siblings. Rosa just comes and locks the door without looking inside. This may explain why Rosa gets sick when she sees the real thing.
I still think Rosa killing them is more likely, though.
|2010-01-27, 22:18
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Homo Ludens
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Location: Canada
Age: 29
Why would Rosa kill her siblings with drugs/poison, and why would she bother to arrange them in such a fashion?
It's too cold-blooded for Rosa. She's not very logical and is very short-tempered. If she killed someone, it would be in the heat of the moment and probably with a gun or some other kind of available weapon. Futhermore, if she was going to dispose of the body, she'd probably chuck it into the ocean rather than GUT IT AND STUFF IT FULL OF CANDY.
|2010-01-27, 23:50
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Join Date: May 2009
I've said this before, but even if you believe someone is innocent, it is entirely possible for them to be a killer. If Rosa (or Genji) is NOT the killer in the First Twilight, they can still kill someone in self-defense, or out of an earnest (or even irrational) suspicion. Therefore, you can argue that Rosa suspected she was being set up to framed and took steps to keep herself safe (faking the chapel lock, getting only one gun for herself, collecting the keys) while seeking out the real killer. If we posit that the killer is one of the other people on the island (excluding the six FT victims), then the fact that everyone else turned up dead except Rosa, Maria, Battler, and Genji means that the killer MUST have been killed by an innocent party, unless we believe that Rosa or Genji was the primary murderer. But assume they aren't and look at what happens: At the end of episode 2, no one who is still alive is a murderer (or THE murderer, anyway).
Regarding Genji's eyesight: The magic scene in ep2 could perhaps be a hint. He seems to react with unimaginable speed and senses, but is it possibly a hint that Genji operates primarily through hearing? This would make it easy for him to get around (he has the layout of the mansion memorized and can probably see a little bit), make him capable of recognizing people reasonably enough, make him more perceptive to sound than other characters might anticipate (giving him certain advantages), but less perceptive to seeing something (such as a culprit sneaking right past him silently, or at a distance).
This should be easy to prove: Does Genji ever behave in a manner which suggests he cannot recognize someone or something before hearing them speak? Does he ever appear to Battler WITHOUT announcing his presence first? Does anything suggest Genji might have limited eyesight, such as the way he behaves or how he reacts to the appearance of a murderer or murder scene or something? And likewise for any evidence that his eyesight is fine.
|2010-01-27, 23:54
|Link #2337
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Chicago
Age: 34
Are there any other theories out there regarding the chapel that work? So far, we have:
1) "Unlocked Chapel" Theory. (Incompatible with unlocking scene.)
2) "Additional Envelope" Theory. (Compatible with unlocking scene.)
(Forget the small bombs.)
Is that it? Do we have any other ideas? Maybe something off-the-wall-but-it-could-work?
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|2010-01-28, 00:14
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|2010-01-28, 00:27
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The additional envelope is really irrelevant to the chapel. It just provides a motive and possibly means. It makes the most sense to me that Rosa is being manipulated in game 2 and it fits with several scenes that hint at such.
Later in game 2, we have the scene where Rosa, Maria, and Battler are returning to the parlor while it was locked the whole time and only Rosa has all the keys. How does the letter appear on the table? Rosa placing it there is the most likely scenario. She says Maria didn't do it. Genji couldn't have gotten in the locked room. The only other option is that someone is hiding in the room.
The problem with hiding is that people are the most dead in game 2 out of any other game. The only deaths that are maybe questionable are Jessica (though Battler checks her out some), Kanon (via his furniture-self dying and him assuming his real name), and... that's it. Even if others were faking death, they still couldn't get in the room.
The likeliest scenario to me is that Rosa placed the letter. But why did she do it? Probably because she was trying to get something out of Battler. After she fails and they split up, she is in the chapel asking for Beatrice.
I think the events of Natsuhi's room give us a big hint. First, the door and windows were locked from the inside. This means only George, Shannon, Gohda, and possibly hidden person X (even though there is no hidden place in red).
I can imagine a couple ways it could play out, but the situation seems to point to Gohda being stabbed to death, George being stabbed, and then him shooting Shannon. It ends with George locking the door and waiting for help (Genji heard the gunshot and finds him and goes looking for Nanjo?), but he bleeds out.
|2010-01-28, 00:37
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Forget about Apple's November plea to the European Telecommunications Standard asking for regulations for "patent holders playing dirty." Apple has turned face, and in its evident hypocrisy, returned fire on Samsung, using four newly acquired patents in its arsenal, and filed a patent suit to ban the sales of Samsung Galaxy Nexus in the U.S.
The preliminary injunction, filed on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, leverages the following four patents:
- U.S. Patent No. 5,946,647: "System and method for performing an action on a structure in computer-generated data." This patent was coined the "data tapping" patent by intellectual property analyst, Florian Mueller. At risk from this patent is any algorithm that scrapes unstructured data, including emails and calendars. This has once before been successful in convincing the U.S. International Trade Commission to ban the import of HTC Android phones starting April 19, 2012.
- U.S. Patent No. 8,086,604: "Universal interface for retrieval of information in a computer system." This newly minted patent is Apple's response to protect its mobile search engine, Siri, and a threat to Google's own mobile search engine.
- U.S. Patent No. 8,046,721: "Unlocking a device by performing gestures on an unlock image." The patent for the swiping motion to unlock a phone, once unique to Apple, was granted only recently to the Cupertino, California, company.
- U.S. Patent No. 8,074,172: "Method, system, and graphical user interface for providing word recommendations." Some of you may recognize this as the infamous auto-correct that spawned entire blogs around the algorithm's misappropriation of letters.
Instigated by Apple's suit against Samsung for selling mimicry mobile products of the iPhone and iPad lines, the lawsuit is the latest development in the blow-by-blow exchanged in the patent war. Prior to Apple's suit, Samsung had attempted to ban iPhone 4S sales in Japan, Italy, France and Australia, to name a few.
What doesn't meet the eye in this commencing battle is Apple's true target: Google's latest Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich. With every new Android OS launch, Google has partnered with a vendor. With the release of Ice Cream Sandwich in 2011, Samsung was to be the, "official lead device that comes with a time-to-market advantage for the vendor in exchange of the device maker's compliance with Google's rules," Mueller writes. Under Google's terms, Samsung's Galaxy Nexus (all lead devices are labeled with "Nexus") was to come installed with only Android software, bare of the OEM bloatware that is often included by non-lead device manufacturers.
With this in mind, "Google has sometimes refrained from implementing certain features in 'stock Android' just to steer clear of infringement, knowing that some of those functionalities would be implemented by OEMs anyway," Mueller reveals. But this time, Apple has walked into battle, armed with hard-hitting patents that would implicate the core functionalities of non-iOS operating systems that are found in all mobile devices today.
Boasting three new all-encompassing patents and one already effective patent in tote, Apple appears to be sitting pretty with the upper hand. It's likely only a matter of months before the verdict is read. Until then, we should be in for quite the show.


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Back in the day (i.e., 30 or 40 years ago), small slaughterhouses existed throughout the US; this was great for small farms since livestock could be processed locally without much hassle or expense. Unfortunately, the transition to factory farming spawned the creation of huge, highly mechanized, corporate-controlled mega-slaughterhouses, which ultimately put most small, independent slaughterhouses out of business.
Although industrial slaughterhouses are able to churn out cheap meat faster than you can say "big mac," they also have a disturbing tendency to severely compromise food safety. Quick summary: processors try to maximize profits by running production lines at breakneck speeds, making it easy for meat to be contaminated by pathogens from manure (yes, manure, yes in your burger). Meanwhile, government regulations and inspections are lax, and manufacturers combine meat from many different animals and slaughterhouses when creating products like ground beef. These factors make it easier for contaminated meat to be distributed widely, thus increasing the risk of outbreaks of foodborne illness.
The shift to mega-slaughterhouses also created serious challenges for sustainable livestock farmers. These industrial facilities are unsuitable for most small farmers since they can't (or won't) separate sustainable meat from the factory farmed stuff - and because big processors prefer to deal with industrial farms capable of continuously supplying a tremendous volume of livestock.
Meanwhile, many sustainable farmers must transport livestock long distances to reach the few remaining small slaughterhouses - this is time consuming, expensive, and stresses the animals. Furthermore, while most mega-slaughterhouses are USDA inspected (this enables the meat to be sold across state lines), many small slaughterhouses are state inspected, which restricts the meat to in-state sale, thus limiting the farmer's potential customer base.
Though some sustainable farmers resort to slaughtering livestock on their own farms, regulations vary by state and locality (so it's not always a viable option), and again, the meat can't be sold out of state. As a result, despite growing consumer demand for sustainable meat, some farmers choose not to raise livestock simply to avoid the cost and inconvenience of meat processing.
On the upside, some big strides have been made in addressing the slaughterhouse dilemma. One innovative solution is the mobile meat processing unit (MMPU), which is essentially a mini slaughterhouse that fits into a tractor trailer. Since MMPUs are driven right to the farm, they eliminate the expense and inconvenience of transporting animals, and can serve farmers in a large geographic area. As an added bonus, a USDA inspector can travel with the MMPU so that all the meat is USDA inspected.
Another noteworthy development is the proposal of new inspection regulations by the USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS); under the proposed rule, certain small, state-inspected processing facilities will receive inspection services from federally trained and supervised inspectors, which will allow meat from these facilities to be sold across state lines. This will enable small processing facilities to enter new markets, making it easier for many farmers to sell sustainable meat.
Learn more about the proposed FSIS rule by participating in a webinar conducted by the Niche Meat Processors Assistance Network.
Time: Today! Tuesday, Oct. 20, 10-11am PST/1-2pm EST
go to http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/nichemeat/ and follow instructions.
Read the FSIS news release.


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Victorious (stylized as VICTORiOUS) is an American television series created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon. The series revolves around aspiring singer Tori Vega, portrayed by Victoria Justice, who attends a performing arts high school while getting into wacky screwball situations on a daily basis. The series' Pilot episode premiered on March 27th, 2010, and viewership was estimated at 5.7 million. The show ended on February 2, 2013.
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The cast of Victorious: Matt Bennett as Robbie (who is holding his puppet, Rex), Ariana Grande as Cat, Daniella Monet asTrina, Victoria Justice as Tori, Leon Thomas III as André,Elizabeth Gillies as Jade, and Avan Jogia as Beck. All female cast members started out to be brunettes before doing Victorious.
- Victoria Justice as Victoria "Tori" Vega, a 16-year-old aspiring singer who enrolls at Hollywood Arts, a prestigious performing arts school, after unexpectedly filling in for her older sister, Trina Vega. Though initially self-conscious and uncertain among Hollywood Arts' talented student body, she soon embraces her own talents and new life. She is very respectful to others, except Robbie sometimes. She seems to have a crush on Beck proven in Tori Goes Platinum since she almost kissed him twice but rejected him once, and the second time Mrs. Vega walk in right before they kissed. Since she felt kissing him was wrong and something she could not do to Jade who seems to be her friend now.
- Leon Thomas III as André Harris, Tori's best friend and biggest supporter at Hollywood Arts. He is a gifted musician and is also a talented song writer. He can play any instrument, but he prefers the keyboard. He has written every song Tori has performed so far in the series. He first met Tori when he was assigned to work with Trina on a performance for the school's annual talent showcase. They became best friends right away. His grandmother is afraid of everything and everyone. He is the guy everybody likes and is always the shoulder to lean on.
- Matt Bennett as Robert "Robbie" Shapiro a shy and awkward student who is more comfortable speaking through his ventriloquist's dummy,Rex. His grandmother, Mamaw, implies that Robbie has had Rex for a long time; she tells her husband that Robbie "still" takes the puppet to school. He tends to take the slightest romantic advance from a girl, even while acting, very seriously. He is lactose intolerant. He can play the guitar and the harmonica.
- Elizabeth Gillies as Jade West, who considers herself a "not good friend" of Tori's. Although she has a
caustic personality, Jade is hard working, talented, and popular, but she can be somewhat of a masochist, implying in several episodes that she likes pain. She was Beck's girlfriend for three years, but it could now be considered longer. She wears a lot of black clothing. Jade is seen to get jealous easily. Although she and Tori were adversaries at the beginning of the series, their rivalry has decreased and Jade has occasionally asked Tori for help.
- Ariana Grande as Caterina "Cat" Valentine, a sensitive drama queen.
She tends to overreact and is extremely emotional, but becomes close friends with Tori, André, Beck, Trina, and Robbie. She is a brunette but dyes her hair to a red velvet cupcake color. She is seen as eccentric and random. A running gag about Cat is that she gets easily offended by people even when they are not trying to be nasty. Its usually results with her saying, "What's that supposed to mean?!" Her favorite foods are cupcakes, candy, noodles, and potatoes. In the episode The Birthweek Song, Cat admits that she has psychological problems. She is always talking about her weird brother and the strange situations he gets into.
- Avan Jogia as Beck Oliver, a handsome and respected actor. He is kind and supportive to everyone at Hollywood Arts. He lives in an RV parked in his parent's driveway in order to avoid listening to his parent's rules. He wants to get a Rottweiler as a pet. His girlfriend is Jade.
- Daniella Monet as Trina Vega, Tori's 17-year-old sister. Though she has good intentions and truly cares for Tori, Trina is materialistic, egotistical, and truly believes stardom is her destiny. Unfortunately, while she behaves like an diva, her performance level is of a significantly lower grade. Not a lot of people really like her because of her diva ways. Nonetheless, she has managed to somehow get into Hollywood Arts. Trina can sometimes be spoiled and will stop at nothing until she gets what she wants. She is physically strong, contrary to her image. She claims nothing scares her due to the fact that she's seen her grandmother naked. It is unknown exactly what Trina's talent is, but it may be acting and/or singing.
Recurring characters Edit
- Eric Lange as Erwin Sikowitz, the school's barefoot 34-year-old acting teacher. He has strange methods of teaching, such as throwing balls at students during their performances to see if they are dedicated enough to remain in the scene. Tori (and possibly everyone else) believes he is crazy. He likes to drink coconut milk, saying that the milk "gives him visions". Despite being eccentric, he is caring, smart, and has a lot of wisdom. Tori once mistook him as a homeless man and gave him money.
- Jennifer Carta and Jim Pirri as David and Holly Vega, Tori and Trina's parents.
- Michael Eric Reid as Sinjin Van Cleef, a dorky and somewhat creepy boy at Hollywood Arts. He has a crush on Jade, Tori, and Trina, but they don't really like him. Sinjin was intended to be a one-time appearance, but Schneider enjoyed Reid's performance so much that he cast him in nearly every episode of the series so far.
- Lane Napper as Lane Alexander is the school's guidance counselor for Hollywood Arts. Lane is a good guidance counselor, and often helps students with their problems and resolves their arguments, but sometimes can be reluctant at times, asking students "Why Me?". He is usually the one making the big announcements at school. He appears to either hate dry skin or is obsessed with lotion, as he can be seen frequently applying lotion to his hands. He has a nephew named Devin, shown in one episode, The Diddly-Bops. Lane is the one who made The Wood leave (and showing he's not afraid to get physical), because it was becoming an issue with the students and disrupting the learning environment. He appears in Pilot, The Bird Scene, Stage Fighting, Tori the Zombie, Robarazzi, Beck's Big Break, The Great Ping Pong Scam, Cat's New Boyfriend, The Diddly-Bops, The Wood, and IParty with Victorious. As revealed on his profile onTheSlap, Lane's last name is Alexander
Production Edit
Development Edit
Victorious is the fifth series created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon, following The Amanda Show, Drake & Josh, Zoey 101, and iCarly. Schneider first met Justice in 2005, when she was twelve and arrived to audition for the part of Lola Martinez on Zoey 101. Impressed by her energy and look, Schneider hired her and, after working with her on three episodes, called Nickelodeon to say, "I've got your next star." Justice continued her role on Zoey 101 until the series ended in 2008. In the meantime, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon's main competitor, had experienced immense success with franchises like Hannah Montana and High School Musical, which featured original songs and generated revenue through music as well as television. Seeking to "follow where the kids are", Nickelodeon executives asked Schneider to create a music-based show for the channel. Near the end of Zoey 101's run, Justice was summoned to meet with Schneider about a potential series starring her.
While discussing possible concepts for the series during the meeting, Justice mentioned that she had attended a performing arts middle school. The idea intrigued Schneider, who recognized the appeal of series concerning fame. "If there is anything I've learned about kids today—and I'm not saying this is good or bad—it's that they all want to be stars," said Schneider. Marjorie Cohn, who was then Nickelodeon's executive vice president of original programming and development, agreed. "Every kid thinks they're five minutes away and one lucky circumstance from being famous," Cohn stated. She noted that Schneider's iCarly, a sitcom about a girl who hosts a popular web show, was spurred by the rise of YouTube celebrities and had become a successful show for Nickelodeon.
On August 13, 2008, Nickelodeon announced that Justice had signed "an overall talent and music deal" with
the company, agreeing to star in a then-untitled musical-comedy series about a girl who attends a performing arts high school. While discussing the show's premise, Schneider stated that while it would be nice if more children "wanted to be teachers and social workers" instead of celebrities, "At least in 'Victorious,' you see a world where they're all working on the talent part." Nickelodeon Productions and the Columbia/Epic Label Group of Sony Music Entertainment agreed to co-produce the series as part of a partnership to develop talent and release their music.
CastingEdit Edit
Several of actors on Victorious had appeared in Nickelodeon programs prior to the premiere of Victorious'. In addition to Zoey 101, Justice appeared on TV series iCarly, The Naked Brothers Band and True Jackson, VP. She also co-starred with Avan Jogia, who plays Beck, on the Nickelodeon television movieSpectacular!. Daniella Monet guest starred in three episodes of Zoey 101 while Leon Thomas was cast in episodes of iCarly andThe Naked Brothers Band. Justice earned $12,000 per episode for Victorious.
Sets Edit
The series is filmed in Hollywood, California. According to Paula Kaplan, Nickelodeon's executive Vice President for talent, "In our adult world, nobody accommodates us for down time. But in a child's life on a set, we do take that seriously. At our studios on Sunset Boulevard, where we shoot iCarly and Victorious, the greenrooms are filled with games and Rock Band. We create an environment where they can have fun with their colleagues and take it easy."
The series is set primarily at Hollywood Arts. Outdoor shots of Hollywood Arts depict Burbank High School, which is located approximately fifteen minutes from the set. According to David Hinkley of the New York Daily News, "Outside of school, Victorious has the same look as iCarly, with most of the action taking place on one main set with a few basic home-furniture items."
- So far, Victorious and Sam and Cat are the only Dan Schneider shows to be filmed completely at Nick on Sunset. iCarly was filmed there seasons 1-5 and consisted of 7 seasons, Drake and Josh was only filmed there seasons 1,2 and 4, All That was only filmed there seasons 3-10 and Zoey 101 wasn't filmed there at all.
ReceptionEdit Edit
The series premiere did well among viewers. The pilot episode, advertised as a "sneak preview" of the series, aired after the 2010 Kids' Choice Awards on March 27, 2010 to 5.7 million viewers. This audience made Victorious Nickelodeon's highest rated live-action series debut. Victorious's second episode was advertised as the series' official premiere and drew 3.48 million viewers. By comparison, Nickelodeon's Big Time Rush received 3.5 million viewers for its "sneak preview" debut in November 2009, and 6.8 million viewers for its "premiere" in January 2010.
MusicEdit Edit
|Make It Shine
|Single by Victoria Justice
|from the album Victorious Soundtrack
|April 13, 2010 (2010-04-13)
|Digital download
|Dance Rock
Electropop Powerpop
|Nick Records, Columbia Records
|Victoria Justice, Dr. Luke, Michael Corcoran
|Dr. Luke
Make It Shine is the theme song for Victorious, and is performed by Justice. It was written by Dr. Luke and Michael Corcoran and released as Justice's debut single on April 13, 2010. The song is an up-tempo electro-pop song with elements of dance and rock. The song has peaked at #16 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart.
Victorious features approximately one song every three episodes. For a list of these songs, see 'List of songs heard in Victorious'.
International ReleaseEdit Edit
|Country / Region
|Series Premiere
|United States
|March 27, 2010
|United Kingdom
|Nickelodeon (UK & Ireland)
|September 2010
|Nickelodeon Germany
|August 2010
|Nickelodeon Portugal
|November 2010
|Nickelodeon Brazil
|October 2010
|Nickelodeon Canada
|September 2010
|Netherlands and Belgium
|Nickelodeon Netherlands
|October 2010
|Malaysia and Singapore
|Nickelodeon Southeast Asia (With Malay Subtitles)
|July 2010
|Nickelodeon South East Asia
|August 2010
|TV3 (In 720p)*
|April 2012, 11.30 am (Now showing at 11am and 7pm)Link to promo:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YFbSYzi5Pg
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The MorphOS Team has announced the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.0. The release brings, among many other things, PowerBook support for 1.67GHz models, the CD / DVD authoring application Jalapeno, the FTP / SFTP client Transfer, an updated Odyssey Web Browser, new Reggae classes, the Reggae based music player Jukebox, and many other improvements. The update is free for the owners of MorphOS 2.x keyfiles. Moreover, older machines can now be registered at reduced prices.
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Works as good as expected
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Just updated my Mac mini 1.5 GHz with MorphOS 3.0. Updating took less than 10 minutes and everything seems to work (haven't tested all things yet). It's a real pleasure to use.
Unfortunately the WLAN on the powerbook is not yet supported, but except of that it's also pretty nice on the Powerbook.
The release of 3.0 took indeed quite some time, but while not not out there to conquer Windows (or other major OSes) it is pretty polished and delivers quite some fun, usability and productivity. Probably you cannot expect more from a project with such little number of developers and users.


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As Jerry Remy enters his 26th season of analyzing games on NESN, he wants Red Sox Nation to know that he's feeling great.
Remy, 60, has experienced no lingering problems with the cancer that was removed from his lung or from the ensuing infection and depression that sidelined him for nearly four months during the 2009 season.
When Remy missed games due to pneumonia and a sinus infection the past two years, fans feared that the cancer may have returned, but that wasn't the case. When Remy skipped a Sox game this spring training, NESN issued a press release explaining that he had a previous commitment so fans wouldn't worry about him.
"I wish they didn't have to do that, but I understand," Remy said this week from Fort Myers, Fla. "From what I've been through, if you're not there for a game, if you happen to get the flu, all of a sudden it's something more than that. Quite frankly, I'm feeling great. I've been through my regular checkups and everything is fine and I feel strong, I feel ready to go, but you can't avoid getting sick sometimes and if you're sick sometimes, you can't go to work.
"So it does become a major story every time I miss three or four games, but it hasn't been because of what I've been through in the past. I feel very good. I'm really looking forward to the season because last year was no fun at all. I'm looking forward to hopefully a competitive season, with fans interested all year long."
Fans certainly weren't interested all season last year. Sox ratings plummeted on NESN while the team stumbled to a 69-93 record. Its sellout streak of nearly 10 years is expected to end as early as the second home game of this season. The team has slashed prices of beer and other concessions for April in an attempt to lure more fans to Fenway Park. Many experts pick the Sox to finish last in the AL East for the second year in a row.
"The optimism isn't there," said Remy said, "and I can understand that coming off a 69-win season."
The Sox lost 12 of their last 13 to post a losing record for the first time since 1997 and the franchise's worst record since 1965.
"It was very hard," Remy said. "When you look at the last month and a half of the season, it was basically a Triple-A club playing against major league teams. There was little chance they were going to win many games. It was, 'Let's please get this over with, let's turn the page and let's get started on something fresh and new.' They did that.
"That's why there's some optimism going into this season, but it hasn't really reflected yet on the fan base. They're going to have to win the fan base back."
That won't happen unless the Sox win. Remy admits he may be caught up in the excitement of being around the team in spring training in Fort Myers, but he expects the Red Sox to be better than many of their fans do.
"I think expectations and goals should be set higher than a .500 ballclub," he said.
Even if he's wrong about that, he's convinced the Sox cannot be as bad as they were last season.
"The best day of the year," Remy said, "was the last day of the year last year when it was over and we could finally say, 'OK, let's get started on something different.' "
Outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. has provided something different and the Sox must decide whether to overlook his .439 batting average in spring training and return him to the minors for 20 days so he won't reach free agency until 2019 instead of 2018.
"It's going to be a very tough call," Remy said. "My feeling is if he's not going to be an everyday player, he's got to go back to Triple A and play. It makes absolutely no sense in my mind to have a kid with that ability and that talent still in the development stage to come to the big leagues and not play every day."
While Remy is concerned about how long David Ortiz will be sidelined with inflammation in his heels, he believes the team's chances for success depend more upon the pitching.
"The starting pitching has been very good down here," Remy said, "which basically means nothing, but it's a good start. If it carries into the season the way it's been down here, if they pitch well, I think they're going to be pretty good."
Remy credits new Red Sox manager John Farrell with helping Jon Lester and Clay Buchholz regain the form they exhibited when Farrell was their pitching coach.
"He knew them when they were pitching at their best a couple years ago," Remy said, "and he knew exactly what their mindset was, what their mechanics were, and he could see from a distance when he was with Toronto that those things weren't the same."
Remy thinks the AL East is up for grabs.
"You have to go with the Toronto Blue Jays," he said, "because of all the moves they made, but that doesn't always turn into winning. We've seen that here firsthand in Boston. For a couple of years, we were supposed to have the greatest team on earth."
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"We're in lean times and things are going to get less generous."
Over the next few years, as farmers and agricultural observers reflect on how the 2013 farm bill ultimately played out, perhaps this quote by economist Jim Novak will best express it.
One thing is certain: This thinking is reflected in the Senate Ag Committee version of the farm bill, which passed by a 16 to 5 vote in committee, according to Novak, an Alabama Cooperative Extension System agricultural economist and Auburn University professor of agricultural economics.
The bill, which would reduce farm program spending over the next decade, will likely be presented to the full Senate within the next few weeks.
Looming federal budget deficits and a desire on the part of many policymakers and trade advocates to remove U.S. farming from the criticism generated by Brazil and other developing countries over price supports are reflected throughout the Senate Ag Committee version of the farm bill, he says.
The U.S. safety net — at least as it is reflected in Committee version — is not being replaced insomuch as it is rewoven, Novak says.
Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) as well as direct and counter-cyclical payments would be repealed beginning with the 2013 crop year and replaced with an Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC), which would essentially function as a revenue protection program for covered commodities.
"ARC could be considered a shallow-loss revenue protection program covering individual commodities for a farm operation," Novak says.
Based on data compiled by Carl Zulauf, an agricultural economics professor at Ohio State University, losses covered by ARC would be between 11 and 21 percent of a benchmark revenue, Novak says.
Senate version summary
If the Senate Ag Committee version could be summed up in a few words, Novak says it is a bill that emphasizes a risk-management approach to farm policy that also provides some protection against revenue loss.
Commodities covered by ARC as outlined in the legislation include wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats, long-grain rice, medium-grain rice, pulse crops, soybeans, other oilseeds and peanuts.
Upland cotton would be covered under a separate Stacked Income Protection plan in this version rather than ARC. Extra-long staple (ELS) cotton would be covered by a non-recourse loan program.
Under ARC, producers would be offered the choice of two options. "Option 1 bases ARC payments on individual average farm revenue, while option 2 would base ARC payments on county average revenue," Novak says.
"These selections are binding regardless of the covered commodity planted and applicable to all the acres under what the legislation describes as the operational control of the producer."
Reorganizing the farm to receive multiple ARC payments would be prohibited under the Senate Ag Committee version.
In addition, acres no longer under producer's operational control will be excluded from coverage, Novak says.
If some version of the Senate Ag bill ultimately is passed and direct payments are ended, Novak says this will translate into a changed set of dynamics from the perspective of farmers.
"Direct payments have essentially meant money in the bank for eligible producers during the growing season," Novak says, "and this will essentially translate into less liquidity for those producers during a critical time of year."
During periods when producers enjoyed good commodity prices, such as the last couple of years, liquidity issues have not been as pressing a concern for producers, Novak says.
"We've had a couple of pretty good years," he says. "The problem will be if we get into a couple of bad years.
"The history of farming has demonstrated time and again that those years do occur."
Likewise, while producers are receiving higher commodity prices, energy and other input costs are also rising rapidly — and this may be the reason why liquidity, which has enabled producers to cover costs during critical periods, will emerge as a concern.
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Vampire Knight Manga Discussion
Does anyone read this manga? I know it's in Shojo Beat and is a shojo manga but................it has vampires in it! Personally I love it and will read every chapter they publish in the States. But I do want to know how many Chapters are currently published in Japan. If anyone has information reguarding that subject, do tell. And if you just want to talk about the series...yay someone to talk to.
^not a spoiler, just a picture
|2006-10-24, 22:48
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I'm reading this in Shojo Beat and enjoying every minute of it! I'm more a fan of the mangaka than the vampire theme, since I already have her completed Meru Puri series.
From what I've read on Anime News Network, there are four volumes out in Japan right now with the last just coming out this month. No idea on the final length, maybe someone else will know...
|2007-01-25, 13:45
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I've just picked this up and it's really a very fun read. Now it's waiting until May to get the second volume...ugh...impatience.
This is bishie heaven I must say, I've never spent so much time just staring at a page before...*daydreaming*
It's up to 4 volumes in Japan...I can see this turing into an anime when (or if) enough volumes come out. If you ask me there are simply not enough anime about bishie vampires...
Anyway, thought I'd put in my two cents for this manga and revive a thread....
plus here's some eye candy, cause it's always fun, right?
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|2007-01-26, 12:39
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I really like Vampire Knight, it has a really dark environment and great suspense, I also see this manga getting an anime conversion when enough volumes come out. Its a great read even if your not a shoujo reader (and you can stand seeing bishies all the time ).
|2007-04-16, 00:35
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Vampire Knight
it's a new manga that i like..
a friend of mine introduced it to me and i recently bought my own copy..
uhmm...i really like it since the drawings were so good..
has anybody heard about this somewhere??
if you have what can you say about it?
i really like it..and i really can't wait to buy the 3rd installment..
argh!!the agony of waiting!!
|2007-04-29, 08:47
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Read the first 4 volumes of this one and I like it.
First time I see vampires and humans trying to interact and co-exist together like normal people. It's like a high school manga with some romance and drama, but this time with vampires.
A shame only the first 4 volumes are out now.
|2007-04-29, 22:41
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I like the art (of course) and the characterization, in other words I like that it's good well-articulate shoujo.
The plot is a bit slow and depressing and by the latest scanlated chapter the main conflict, that
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Also, Yuki being so completely indecisive about how she feel about anything related to Zero or Kaname kinda throws me off, it's like I have no basis for how to think about the love triangle plot. (Kinda like Fruits Basket I guess, except that I don't follow Fruits Basket for romance, in fact I don't care for romance between Tohru and any of the characters in that series.) I like shoujo that is less subjective and less totally focused on how the characters think they might feel about one another at any given time.
But it's still a good series that I enjoy following, and I'd be able to read it at this pace for a while yet before I became tired.
|2007-04-30, 10:04
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Bloody Hell...
I've read a bit of it in Shojo Beat and got to read the first half while loitering in Hastings, but it worries me that only a handful of volumes are out in Japan (I have no idea how long the series is going to be anyway). At this rate, America will catch up in no time, then I will be impatiently awaiting the next volume. So I'm hesitant to pick it up because I know I'll be upset that I have to wait forever for the next release, and yet at the same time... it's just so awesome. Damn the choices.
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im reading into volume 6 at the moment and i am quite addicted to the series
Kaname surely is the kind of person that has a dark side hidden in his shadow, much like a snake lol
as for other events things change a little as they are still in development
as for the love triangle, yes there surely is a love triangle going on.. however it makes me think more of Fruits Basket's Kyo - Tohru - Yuuki lol
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I saw on Blows someone said it is actually the first 2 episodes not so much one long show.... any one heard this yet? IF this is true we will have 2 gone the first night.
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