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Jennifer Lawrence has been named FHM's sexiest woman in the world for 2014.
"The Hunger Games" star tops the British men's magazine 20th annual list, unseating last year's champ Mila Kunis and sending her down to the No. 6 spot.
The reasons: JLaw's pixie-cut popularity, "shaming" Jack Nicholson after the 2013 Oscars, her starring role in "Hunger Games," that notion that apparently "no heterosexual man is safe from developing a ferocious crush on her" and her near-naked reprisal of Mystique in "X-Men" Days of Future Past" kept FHM paying attention.
The mag, which polls readers to determine its 100 leading ladies, also noted the 23-year-old's "out-cleavaging" of Amy Adams in "American Hustle," her photobombing of Taylor Swift at the Golden Globes, her self-deprecating charm when she coined the term "armpit vagina" at the SAG Awards and her infamous second fall at this year's Oscars.
"She probably trips up on hearing the news, because she's such a big clumsy klutz. Dear God, she's just so lovable," the mag said.
Rounding out the top 10: Britain's "Coronation Street" star Michelle Keegan, pop star Rihanna, "Blurred Lines" model Emily Ratajkowski, "The Big Bang Theory" star Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Kunis, pop diva Beyonce, British actress Lucy Mecklenburgh, Pussycat Dolls alum Nicole Sherzinger and "Her" voice actress Scarlett Johansson.
Not mentioned anywhere in the 100? People magazine's most beautiful woman of 2014: Lupita Nyong'o. And apparently it was a banner year for "older" women -- those in their 30s and 40s -- as well.
"Sandra Bullock and Kate Moss are the sole survivors from the class of '95," wrote FHM editor Dan Jude.
But the tastes of the magazine's readers weren't "all that different" since then, Jude wrote.
"Actress is still the most popular profession. Brits are still the most-voted-for nationality. And the twenties remain your favourite age group. Plus you still rate your royals," he said.
Here's a breakdown of some of notable names on the list:
Pop stars: Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Selena Gomez, Ellie Goulding, Miley Cyrus, Vanessa Hudgens, Ariana Grande and Shakira.
Movie stars: "Noah's" Emma Watson, "Amazing Spider-Man 2's" Emma Stone, "Transformers" star Megan Fox, "Lovelace's" Amanda Seyfried, "Wolf of Wall Street's" Margot Robbie, "We're the Millers" star Jennifer Aniston, "American Hustle's" Amy Adams, "Arthur Newman's" Emily Blunt, "Gravity" star Sandra Bullock and "Machete Kills'" Jessica Alba.
TV stars: "Game of Thrones" beauty Emilia Clarke (who was AskMen's No. 1 pick), chef Nigella Lawson, "Doctor Who" companion Jenna Louise Coleman, "New Girl" star Zooey Deschanel, reality TV stars Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner, "Modern Family's" Sofia Vergara and Sarah Hyland, "Mad Men's" Christina Hendricks, Lois Griffin from "Family Guy" (seriously), "Glee's" Dianna Agron and "How I Met Your Mother" star Cobie Smulders.
Big-time models: Kate Upton, Irina Shayk, Miranda Kerr, Cara Delevingne, Kate Moss, Bar Refaeli, Candice Swanepoel and Rose Huntington-Whitely.
Royals and royal-adjacent: Kate Middleton's sister Pippa Middleton and Prince Harry's now ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas also made the list.
See the full 100 here.
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Congrats on the Indy pick-up - that is one that I have been thinking about picking up for years. Nice score!
What is the difference between the carded one and the SW Series 2 Chase?
Got restless waiting around for DX4 so I pulled the trigger on a DX2 Rebel Trooper via Yahoo Japan. Glad to have another one of the chases out of the way...
I'm still waiting for the final invoice, but the auction ended at $144. I'm guessing another $25 for fees and shipping when it's all said and done.
Well ****. Hedging my bets, I had also put in a bid on another Hoth Rebel. As luck (or lack thereof) would have it, I won that auction too. So needless to say, I now have two Hoth Rebel chases on their way. Anyone need one and willing to buy one of mine? Shoot me a PM and hopefully we can work something out.
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EFF Quits Global Network Initiative To Protest Tech Firms' Inability To Be Transparent On Surveillance Issues
from the incompatible dept
EFF has been a civil society member of the multi-stakeholder human rights group since GNI was founded in 2008 to advance freedom of expression and privacy in the global information and communication technologies sector. While much has been accomplished in these five years, EFF can no longer sign its name on joint statements knowing now that GNI's corporate members have been blocked from sharing crucial information about how the US government has meddled with these companies' security practices through programs such as PRISM and BULLRUN.While this may be more symbolic than anything else, it highlights the wider breakdown in trust that the NSA's overreach has brought about. The NSA and its defenders like to pretend that there's no downside to their dragnet surveillance efforts, and the secrecy that encases every program. But it has a very real impact for so many people, organizations and companies.
"We know that many within the industry do not like or approve of such government interference, and GNI has, in statements, made it clear that member companies want permission from the US government to engage in greater transparency," EFF's International Director Danny O'Brien and Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian C. York write in a letter to GNI leadership. "However, until serious reforms of the US surveillance programs are in place, we no longer feel comfortable participating in the GNI process when we are not privy to the serious compromises GNI corporate members may be forced to make. Nor do we currently believe that audits of corporate practice, no matter how independent, will uncover the insecurities produced by the US government's—and potentially other governments'—behavior when operating clandestinely in the name of national security."


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conservative needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 16 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
The purpose of this project is to design a logo for a site that will provide people in the political world the opportunity to connect with each other. It will feature social and professional networking
Grand Central Political
Desired Color Scheme:
red, white, blue, black
Desired Style:
Accepted File Formats:
Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai)
The logo has several elements that we want to include, so the overall design will need to include simple lines and shading so that it's not overwhelming. We think we want it to be in an illustrated, cartoonish style, although we are open to other ideas too.
The company name for the logo is GrandCentralPolitical.com
One main theme for the logo is "trains†(like Grand Central Station).
One thought we had was to have a cartoonish drawing of an elephant going head-to-head with a cartoonish drawing of a donkey, with both with their heads down, charging at each other. There should be steam coming out of the donkey's nose and elephant's ears (similar to steam coming out of a locomotive).
As I said, we are open to other conceptualizations as well.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


text: An exhibition organised by the Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali Caltanissetta and the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Among the world-famous as well as historically and artistically uniquely valuable treasures now housed in the Secular Treasury, the regalia of the Holy Roman Empire are surely the most outstanding and important. The Treasury is almost the only collection in the world to house such a wealth of royal vestments of such outstanding historical importance, age, and beauty as the coronation robes of the kings and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. In the Treasury they are displayed in a room by themselves. The inventory recorded at Trifels Castle in the Palatine in 1246 shows that the oldest and most magnificent objects had entered the imperial treasury by the middle of the thirteenth century. However, the most important pieces making up the coronation robes were not made anywhere within the territory of the Holy Roman Empire, and they were not originally intended for the ruler of the Empire.Two Arab inscriptions document that they were executed by Saracen and Christian textile artists employed in the royal workshops at Palermo. The cloisonné enamel on the golden decorations must be the work of artists trained in Byzantine workshops. In order to find our way through this maze of contradictions, it will be helpful to recall some historical facts. By about 1100, Norman adventurers led by the brothers Hauteville had, with cunning and brute force, conquered a double kingdom consisting of Lower Italy, taken from the Byzantines, and Sicily, until then under Egyptian-Islamic rule. The Pope really had little choice but to invest King Roger II (ruled 1130-1154) with this Norman Kingdom of Sicily. Roger II was the first to introduce an elaborate court etiquette modeled on that of the imperial court at Byzantium, and to support a flowering of the arts by patronising the royal workshops, the Ergasterion (or Nobiles Officinae in Latin). The most magnificent work produced by them is the coronation mantle dated 1133/34, which is decorated with a lenghty Kufi inscription and two symmetrical depictions of a lion triumphing over a camel.In the Nobiles Officinae, Moslems (Saracens) and both Greek-Orthodox and Roman-Catholic Christians were employed side by side. And just as they should probably all be classed as "local artists", the art produced at the court of the Norman kings of Sicily was able to rise to such uniquely spectacular heights because of this exceptional heterogenous cultural mixture.


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Udev provides a means of dynamically creating devices in /dev
Udev provides a means of dynamically creating devices in /dev.
Kernnel 2.6 and above. However, I have also had this working on 2.4.20
Installation and configuration
To install, under Debian distribution, type:
apt-get install udev
This also requires the legacy hotplug but this is slowly being removed.
udev establishes a directory /etc/udev. Within this are the configration files and rules for udev. The configuration file udev.conf can be left as installed. The rules (udev.rules and directory rules.d) will be left to the user to edit depending on the devices being used. The rules detail what is to happen on detection of certain hardware types. Descriptions can use manufacturers names or device code, pretty much anything really and wild cards can also be used. This can then indicate what kernel modules are required, permissions and launched scripts.
Another directory, /etc/dev.d is also created. This contains directorys pertaining to the type of device, say block for a scsi based device. This directory contains a file (extension of .dev) which is the script that is auto run on detection of the device. This script will perform actions depending on if the device has been 'added' or 'removed'.
Example uses
For 'hotplug' USB devices, install usbmount:
apt-get install usbmount
This installs a udev script at /etc/dev.d/block/usbmount.dev and also a bash script in /usr/sbin. A configuration file is used to determine where the media is to be mounted, defaults to /media/usb1..9. udev will auto-detect the drive and the usbmount script will mount each detected partition at /media/usb1, /media/usb2, ... On removal, the drive will be un-mounted and the device node removed.
The current version of usbmount does not support NTFS-3G. It will always use the kernel NTFS driver that has some drawbacks writing to NTFS volumes.
Applying the following patch to usbmount allows you to specify a new configuration variable USE_NTFS3G in /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf. If this variable is set to "yes", then usbmount will utilize NTFS-3G instead of the kernel mode NTFS driver.
diff -Naur /usr/share/usbmount.old/usbmount /usr/share/usbmount/usbmount --- /usr/share/usbmount.old/usbmount 2007-01-27 12:22:14.000000000 +0100 +++ /usr/share/usbmount/usbmount 2007-11-05 08:02:24.000000000 +0100 @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ MOUNTOPTIONS="" FS_MOUNTOPTIONS="" VERBOSE="no" +USB_NTFS3G="no" # Read configuration file. if test -r /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf; then @@ -119,7 +120,11 @@ # Mount the filesystem. log info "executing command: mount -t$fstype ${options:+-o$options} $DEVNAME $mountpoint" - mount "-t$fstype" "${options:+-o$options}" "$DEVNAME" "$mountpoint" + if test $fstype == "ntfs" && expr "$USE_NTFS3G" : "[yY]" > /dev/null; then + mount "-tntfs-3g" "${options:+-o$options}" "$DEVNAME" "$mountpoint" + else + mount "-t$fstype" "${options:+-o$options}" "$DEVNAME" "$mountpoint" + fi # Determine vendor and model. vendor= @@ -166,6 +171,11 @@ elif test "$1" = remove; then + # if we utilize ntfs-3g, we need to add the fuseblk fstype to allow proper unmounting + if [ `expr "$USE_NTFS3G" : "[yY]"` -eq "1" ]; then + FILESYSTEMS="$FILESYSTEMS fuseblk" + fi + # A block or partition device has been removed. # Test if it is mounted. while read device mountpoint fstype remainder; do
And what should you do with this patch?Just copy & past the patch source code from above into your favorite editor and save it as "usbmount-ntfs3g.patch". Now transfer the file to your LS. After this, apply the patch as user root issuing the command
patch /usr/share/usbmount/usbmount <path>/usbmount-ntfs3g.patchThats it!


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Now available: install the Android 3.0 SDK extract to your NOOKcolor
Deeper-blue has been teasing us with images and video of Android 3.0 on his NOOKcolor for a few days now. In that time, he's managed to enable support for the touchscreen, accelerometer, hardware buttons, wireless connectivity, and even graphic acceleration. Development progress has been quick, but in an effort to speed things ... Read More »


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I'm assuming the lid has a hole for the airlock (with a grommet)? Even so... you'd have to modify for a BBBOT, drilling out a bigger hole.
+1 for glass being a non starter for me. I have a couple of these and really like them: http://morebeer.com/products/speidel-plastic-fermenter-30l-79-gal.html.Large enough so I've never needed a blow off tube, easy to clean, has a port to easily rack and the integrated handles are sturdy and great for moving around 5 gallons of wort.
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$45 - Write 3 Hot and STEAMY First Time Gay Male ERom Short Stories
Budget $30-250 USD
I'm looking for a ghostwriter to form a long term relationship with. This project is for a 3 5k word (15k word total) first time gay male (a straight man becomes gay) E-romance shorts. Please be comfortable writing HOT and STEAMY scenes. We can discuss the exact subject and outline over messages.
Stories should be at least 5k words each for a total of 15k words. Pay is $15 per book $45 total. Higher bids will NOT be entertained. Complete work should be delivered within 10 days. If we like working with each other you can expect fairly regular work.
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torin555 wrote:Exactly, but there are ways to use those spells to gain more experience. And I always end up at about level 8 with 1,2, or 3 health left. Also I used all my potions at that point.
Something that a lot of people don't notice when they start playing is that if you explore on full health, you're wasting the limited resources the game is giving you. If you're having problems with the Den or Venture Cave, that probably means that you're wasting exploration quite a bit. Those levels are tuned to be definitely winnable


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Reusable Bags for DC Shoppers
As of this year, a 5 cent tax is charged for each plastic bag used for food purchases in DC. Proceeds go to a worthy cause: cleaning up and protecting the Anacostia River. But if you want to be good to your pocketbook and the environment, use reusable bags. See our favorite tips and bag options below the jump.
• the free reusable bag distributed by the DC government and CVS/pharmacy last December
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• Snarky Reusable Bags by TBWA\Vancouver
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-Earliest Check-In Time 2 PM.
-Latest Check Out Time 12 Noon.
-City Center Shopping District close to all Major Attractions and Government Buildings.
-Parking available in Front of the Hotel Free of Charge, Underground Parking is also available closed after 7 PM.
-Wireless Internet is available in the entire hotel free of charge.
-All Major Credit Cards accepted, currency exchange available in proximity.
35 SQM - Seperate Lounge Area & Bedroom.
2 x 100 CM Beds & Queen Sofa Bed, European Style Furniture.
Extra Person charge is US$ 22.00 Maximum 4 Persons.
Children under 12 Years are charged US$ 11.00 per case.
LCD Satellite TV, Direct Dial Phone and Private Air Conditioning.
Kitchenette with Refrigerator & Hot plates.
Bathroom with Bathtub, full set of amenities and Hairdryer.
Work & Dining Table with Electrical Outlets.
In Room Safety Deposit Box.
Adapters are provided upon request.
Wireless Internet services. (Chargeable)
Iron / Ironing Board provided upon request.
Laundry Service available within premises.
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Beatiful and soft! She is so pretty.
So pretty. It reminds me of the sun setting through trees in a forest :) a definite 5 hearts!
super pretty , great coloring 5h
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|View Poll Results: Sora Kake Girl Series Rating
|Perfect 10
|9 out of 10 : Excellent
|8 out of 10 : Very Good
|7 out of 10 : Good
|6 out of 10 : Average
|5 out of 10 : Below Average
|4 out of 10 : Poor
|3 out of 10 : Bad
|2 out of 10 : Very Bad
|1 out of 10 : Painful
|Voters: 35. You may not vote on this poll
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|2009-07-07, 12:11
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Sora Kake Girl - Overall Series Impressions & Total Series Rating
This thread is to be used for discussing the entire series of Sora Kake Girl ... your thoughts about the show, overall impressions, speculation on the possible DVD only bonus episodes, etc., etc…
A few subjects you might want to ramble on about:
The poll represents your total series rating. In other words, how you would rate all the episodes combined (1-10)? If you'd rather rate the whole series by technical/artistic merits, you can do so. An example:
Animation Quality: 1-10
Voice Actors: 1-10
Script: 1-10
Editing: 1-10
Average = Total Series Rating
Or a combination of the two. Or your general gut feeling.
|2009-07-07, 14:45
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Animation Quality: 10
Very good! To the end, the animation was very nice, moving a lot and not breaking like a few other anime this (rather, the previous?) season.
To the point you'd almost feel sorry that such great animation had to be used on this script~
Script: 3 <--this looks like an emoticon...
It started out with potential and was nice for a while... Kind of lost quality when the group fell into the jungle and Akiha spends several episode not reacting to Takane's betrayal... And by the time we got to the end, the very talented script writer made the scenario go \(^o^)/
...The sudden/disappointing return of Takane and Kagura, the entire thing about Imo-chan's "death, the people brought out for no real reason other than to kill Imo-chan, etc. ,etc. And by the time it ends, a good amount of plot lines were thrown completely away. Hako-chan...? Those followers of Nerval...? What did that note from Kagura say anyways...? (,,゚Д゚)y─┛
Fell even worse than that MUNTO thing. Well, it had a even worse last episode than this, but it didn't exactly have any hope in the first place, unlike this.
Characters were a big disappointment too...
Akiha... "Heroine" <--*snort*. By the time it ended, I almost find myself a fool for investing any interest in her.
Honoka and Itsuki are rather nice, but along with the story's fall, I lost interest in them...
Then a good rest of the other characters just don't get enough time to develop a character. Especially the student council, who originally looked like important characters, but turned out to be more air than that female pair. Did they introduce so many characters that they couldn't keep up with them in the end? Who knows...
The only character I really liked was Nami... Really entertaining watching this type of evil just going crazy. It was also really nice to see that she doesn't magically return to the side of good. Too bad she got the worst end of all of the characters... (ノдT)
OPs were nice, the 2nd ED was great.
Well, I guess I'll have to choose 4/10. I'd do 5/10 instead, but in my faint memories, I rated AYAKASHI 5/10, and for some reason, I don't want to put the two in the same level...
...Try better next time then, Sunrise.
|2009-07-08, 00:01
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Animation Quality: Pretty good overall. The character designs took some getting used to, but the whole show looks pretty great in general. Especially the shots of space.
Story & Characters: It's a pretty simple story, but then again the story was never what this show was really about, it was about the mecha parody and throwback nature of the whole affair. I mean it when I say this show really reminded me of the spirit of the brave saga. That said the theme was pretty much what I always thought it was, and it really comes through in the end. It's a stock one, but "choose your own path" probably holds a lot more water with Japanese audiences do to the group mentality in Japan and placing oneself after the family, the business, the party etc. It can be stifling, and the nature of both Akiha and Nami's story's are thus reasonably relatable. Akiha has the burden of being the girl who leapt through space onto her, which she herself thinks she is not cut out for. Despite that she plays the hero when it is needed in the end, but refuses to have the title forced onto her in the end and instead just chooses to gaze upon the universe with Imo Chan and the mass of possibilites for her out there.
Nami on the other hand was taken in by the power offered to her and didn't have a whole lot of choice in the matter to begin with, what with Kagura all but luring her in to the fold. Granted it was part her own choice, but Kagura had some fault in it, and if you look upon their final controntation, it's not that Kagura isn't taking any responsibility, she's just not taking all of it, and thus robbing Nami of her choice. Kagura merely takes the power away from Nami that she all but forced onto her in the first place, thus reverting her back to her normal state. At that point Kagura leaves her to herself, because she recognizes that the first step towards Nami being who she wants to be must belong to her at this very point. The last scene with her paints an uncertain future, but it's Nami's choice to make, and in a sense she has grown from the experience and the theme of choosing one's own path HAS been conveyed. Both grew out from under the shadow of the Shishidou family to become their own unique selves, albeit in different ways as defined by their experiences and personalities which were allowed to come forth in their rawest form.
The whole choosing one's own path can also bee seen in the fight against Nerval. The whole time it was a matter of taking the hard, but true to oneself path, versus taking the easy, but lacking in free will path. Nerval may have had noble intentions and truly felt that he was helping protect humanity from the harshness of reality and making life easier for them with his box system, but in his case the ends did not justify the means. Nor did Prince of Darkness trying to blow everything up. Reading the message of this show kind of feels like reading the U.S Constitution, it's all about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, just not on a super serious level.
As for the other characters, I can't complain really. Sure I would have liked for more time spent with Takane and BuuMin, but I realize that the scriptwriters aren't here to cater to pleasing me with my pet characters. If that's all I cared about I can think of a thousand series that are solely dedicated to pleasing character fans, but it's not, it's about just kicking back, having fun and enjoying the ride they present. I really can't find any reason to trash on the scriptwriters for anything they've done. I do have a few minor quibbles with Kagura's note being forgotten, but I figure it will probably be taken care of in a picture drama anyway. If not I can guarantee I know just about what it says. "Went off to choose my own path, that's what life is all about, always be true to your own desires", or something like that. As for things like Hako-Chan, that was an active subplot? I always just interpreted it as a way to formally introduce the box concept and Nerval's goals. Same with Uray People's Republic, that was more of a mini-arc and they were pretty much dealt with by Nerval anyway. I really can't complain too much as I just never for a second took this show seriously enough to want to scrutinize every detail of the simplistic plot.
That said I can say for certain that I found it better than Munto (is their even room for comparison here) seeing as how the theme and nature of this series characters came through crystal clear, whereas I still have no idea what Munto was supposed to be about yet it had such a pretentious air about it.
Music: Awesome stuff overall. Like Shiro I'm definitely going to be listening to this one for a long time. I loves me my stoner techno music.
Overall: Good, show but not great. Definitely not bad though. Admittedly I came in with low expectations, but warmed up to the show and it's characters fairly quickly. There was just something about it that made me actually able to laugh and just go along with the constant zany happenings. It wasn't that it was overly clever or unique, just unusual. And I like unusual, especially lately where it seems like there's too many shows with the same modern day Japanese setting. Give me the future, give me a post apocalyptic wasteland, give me a fantasy setting, give me anything that gets my imagination whirring, and usually you'll have my attention pretty quickly. I love escapism, and Sora Kake Girl was it for me for much of 2009. I didn't think I would at first, but I will miss this show now.
|2009-07-08, 03:05
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Anyway Nami has hardly gone through living hell in the end. Whatever happened with her she pretty much was largely the harbinger of it herself, even if the temptation of her newfound power was what provoked her into it (which Kagura was to blame for and which she remedied), it was almost certainly always an aspect of her personality to be that vicious in her quest to make the people she felt ignored her suffer. She was a ticking time bomb. And the show still isn't about her anyway and I still don't understand why some people are trying to make her a pivotal aspect that makes or breaks the entire 26 episodes of the show. I mean I thought she was interesting and I liked her character and role, but not at the expense of ignoring the remaining cast of characters.
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|2009-07-08, 03:25
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As for the baseball episode, in some bizarre way I actually enjoyed it. There's a surprising bit of foreshadowing hidden between all the layers of surrealism. As for the ending, it's another one of those the final battle is the ending type affairs. I prefer series to have an epilogue, but in this shows case I'm lead to wonder whether it really needed one. In any case, maybe they saved it for the picture drama if there is one.
|2009-07-08, 11:50
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anyways. i feel this show is rather enjoyable for most of the area. but i wish they didn't made the beginning rather random(which probably made a lot of people dropping this show).
the good part for this show is that, we can see neither side is really the good side or the evil side. so it's rather cool that we can root for either side fairly.
the ending was a bit too packed, and some answers are still not answered, so let's hope there will be some ova or season 2 to wrap up everything.
so i feel this show should deserve at least a 7/10
|2009-07-08, 14:39
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I'm still catching up on the show, but I'm a bit disappointed at what I'm seeing so far. In the beginning, the characters started out as quirky and brimming with potential, and the setting itself was both interesting and well-thought. By midway into the show, almost nothing has been done with either the character potential or with the setting itself. Instead, the creators are shoring up the entertainment value by introducing new characters, quirks and circumstances rather than working with what they had already established.
By itself, this wouldn't be such a drawback as there is some room for playing with the story in most circumstances, but it fits with Sunrise's preference for doing things like this in the last few original shows they've made (from about My~Hime onwards). I think that they did fairly well with this technique in My~Hime, but they've been far less successful in the subsequent shows. As it is, I think that Sora Kake Girl is starting to devolve into an ugly mess of convolution and characterization if it hasn't done so already. I wonder if I'm going to have to mentally compartmentalize Sunrise the way I do for SHAFT. Oh well, at least Sunrise's anime adaptations have a pretty good track record...
|2009-07-08, 14:45
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And yeah maybe you should mentally compartmentalize Sunrise's shows if it's going to make them unenjoyable to you. I don't think it's really necessary to go through yet another nitpicking session on this show of the kind that happens to pretty much all of their shows nowadays. That's even harder to understand, what is it specifically what drives some people to bash Sunrise shows to such an absurd extent and comment on their supposed practices when they really just don't seem to know anything about the company or it's history beyond Gundam, Mai-Hime and now Code Geass. Maybe it's because I consistently enjoy their shows that I really can't even begin to comprehend what people find so entirely awful about them, but somehow I think there's more too it then that. I'll just say that I find they have an incredibly good track record with their original shows and that they've given me little reason to complain over the years. That includes recently. I thought Sora Kake was going to be their first show to really let me down in a long time, but once I figured out what angle it was working it's schtick from that feeling quickly dissipated.
Anyway just don't take Sora Kake so seriously. I honestly cannot stress that enough because it IS pretty random and convoluted, that's the point. The wacky mecha parody comes first, plot and characters second with this one.
Finally isn't midway into the show when they end up on earth. I consider that pretty new by Sora Kake standards. They introduce a lot of concepts and details about Nerval as well for the first time.
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Edit: Then again maybe it's all simpler and layed out in C.A's post below me. I'm a huge sci-fi junkie and Sunrise is primarily a sci-fi studio, so their shows almost certainly speak more to me then they do to non sci-fi mecha fans. I also know what I'm getting into when I pick up one of their shows, but it seems like a lot of other people don't, even if they honest to god think they do. It like when people watched Code Geass for the shipping and then trounced it when there was no conclusive pairing. I knew that conclusive pairing in a Sunrise series is a rarity and was watching it for more than just that, but other people didn't and thus felt they had been personally slighted by the show somehow. Like it was supposed to have been a given or something that Lelouch made some sort of choice between C.C and Kallen when it was never really about that with their relationships. Who was it that really missed the boat in that situation I wonder? It all comes back to what I said earlier, that people think they are experts on the studio, but really what they usually talk about is barely scratching the surface on either the specific series level or entire works level. It can have a hugely negative impact if ones expectations and prior experiences are not in line with what is being presented.
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The show gets 9/10 for me, not sure why it doesn't get 10, but I know why it gets 9.
I'm feeling lazy so I'll just copy some from my earlier posts:
Its really sad to see that many people who watch this show is not a mecha fan. By mecha fan, its not limited to Gundams or such, I really mean people who watch more mecha than anything else.
To many people watching this show, is just like watching Lucky Star as their first anime, without ever having any anime experience before. This show is wonderful because it is a Lucky Star for mecha fans, every episode is packed with tons of mecha and science fiction references.
The lack of people noticing this stuff makes it a complete waste of its potential. Alot of people find the entertainment and jokes missing because they don't get the parodies and homages.
Every single random name or term that they shout out there is a reference, homage and parody, so are seemingly random events.
The lack of subs killed the fanbase for this show, people who don't know Japanese will never get anything good out of its raws. It has too many references that works by the ear, word puns and jokes. The few subs that eventually made it to the last episode though we should be grateful, did no justice to the dialogue, or they cannot even translate to English in the first place, Sakura or example. Sakura's speech has even been called by Japanese as 'Sakurago/ Sakura language', because her speech is hard to understand even by Japanese themselves, but extremely amusing. The dialogue itself simply has too many Japanese word puns that will never work in English, western audience will never be able to grasp the full essence of the show if they don't understand Japanese. One of the simplest examples is Leopard calling Akiha 'dead leaf', you won't know why unless you know Akiha's name in kanji. Her name means 'Autumn Leaf', which Leopard gets 'deaf leaf' from.
Some people who watched the raws had such bad first impressions from understanding nothing, it affected their rewatch in subs, or worst, didn't even watch subs after that. There's this guy who thought Nami got kidnapped in episode 10, he had no idea why colonies would warp in at various times, didn't know why characters are appearing at various places, didn't know why characters are doing various things, its like he's watching a different show when he described what he watched.
Anyway back at the show itself:
The show has wonderful design, it looks great. But it doesn't just look colourful, the characters themselves, including the colonies are wonderful characters. They are all based on cliches, but done very unconventionally. All of them are cliched characters and stereotypes, but it is to make puns and references.
Akiha doing the Inazuma Kick in the last episode, I expected that since episode 9. I knew she had a hidden Top spirit in her, afterall she's the only other pink haired female mecha main protagonist which the story centers on. All other characters have subtle references or simply just wacky personalities.
The style in the show is outstanding whether its serious or spoofing. The ancient or retro futuristic design provides a very nostalgic atmosphere that contrasts with the high technology, this is a major attraction to sci-fi fans.
The show is not meant to be serious. And if you don't know what's 'I CAAAN FRRYY', 'Overfreeze', 'ZA POWER', 'Inazuma Kick' and especially the whole deal with colonies, you probably aren't the intended audience for this show.
|2009-07-09, 07:39
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Well I finally had some time to myself to watch episode 26 after so many weeks. Too busy.
I think the mecha is nice, though we don't get much of character development other than the 3 main girls and Nami. And I would say the script is pretty lousy, though the parodies in there are hilarious.
Hatsune Miku's appearance in the last episode is unexpected though.
|2009-07-10, 05:05
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Finished this series at last. Give it a 9/10
This series must be the kind of "too ridiculous that it's good" that people often mentioned.
The level of realism is just so much that...... well, it's good xD
Everyone did so many non-sense/unnecessary things.. So many characters were built up but don't have a specific roles. Others just appeared out of thin air (with little previous development) suddenly becomes so important. Then there is no one completely good, or completely evil (except those who support the world destruction)
Haha, everyone spent so many years opposing to Nerval when he's no where near the big bad guy. He's nearly the hero of the anime when think about it. I likes how Kagura disappeared for like 50 years and come back (She is a cool character so i approve it). Seeing Honoka all clingy to her is also so adorable xD
|2009-07-10, 19:16
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This show was surprisingly enjoyable. The first episode really left me with an impression that this was going to be something I'd be dropping like a hot potato, but I stuck with it, and I'm glad I did. The animation was great, and the general art-style really appeals to me. While there was a lot of fanservice, which might be seen as unnecessary, I didn't feel that it detracted from the show at all. It wasn't used as a replacement for content or character depth.
The characters were endearing, though some I felt didn't really rise above their given stereotype. The series had a large cast, which was a mixed bag. I was left feeling that many of the characters weren't given their chance to shine, but with such a large cast, that's probably asking too much to begin with. I'm just glad Itsuki was given a lot of screentime.
I found the voicework to be great for the most part, Fukuyama Jun as Leopard was a pure joy to listen to.
I don't have much to say about the plot. It kept me watching, but never really grabbed me, though comedy and the characters themselves kept me wanting more. I think that if you approach the show with the right attitude, you'll get a lot of entertainment out of it. I'd rate it somewhere around the 6 mark, i.e. roughly "good" on my personal scale.
|2009-07-12, 01:07
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I've finished watching Sora Kake Girl, and I have to admit that I was more generous in my original assessment than I should have been. The low point in the show has to be Imo's death and the way the creators milked it for a couple of episodes. I find that kind of manipulation to be utterly atmosphere-killing if not downright insulting.
The story is a mess; and I never got the feeling that the creators ever had a good handle on what they were doing. It really does feel as if they learned precisely the wrong lessons from their work on My~Hime. I'm rewatching that show right now, and the contrast is rather remarkable.
As for the characters, I really wanted to like Itsuki, but the only characters I cared much for were Xanthippe, Tsutsuji and Nami. I rather liked Xanthippe and Tsutsuji's antics around the middle of the show, but they weren't so interesting by the 20-odd episode mark. By the end, the only character I liked was Nami and her sheer insanity.
|2009-07-12, 01:09
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I mean if I approached this show in the same manner you did I would have almost certainly arrived at the same conclusion, but luckily I know what they were actually going for, and it wasn't a deep and involving work with memorable characters or whatever it is you wanted it to be. Anyway maybe there are more lessons to be learned in this experience then one might think. Maybe these shows just aren't for you.
|2009-07-12, 20:46
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Location: Hungary, Europe
Age: 33
Well, I'm sorry Kaioshin-Sama, despite that I didn't take the show seriously at all, I was also disappointed in it (I might add that I'm not very fond of the mechashows, but there wasn't so much of that here anyway)
The whole series could have been much much more better, and not just story-wise. Fair enough as C.A. said, I would have probably enjoyed it more, if I were to know the obscure references and such. However I couldn't really "immerse" myself into most of the characters (thus I ended up not really caring about them and even disliking some), + some of the plottwists really made me facepalm, and I really felt the episodes were a bit disproportioned especially in the later parts.
If those parts would have been better balanced, and the conclusion of the story don't leave so many loose ends (I really despise loose ends), then I could consider the show as "good". However as it is now, I voted it as 6/10 and I really contemplated to vote it as a 5. No offense intended, and I don't really want to argue, it's just my opinion .
|2009-07-14, 12:36
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I just thought that NERVAL was totally EVIL until I saw Honoka had a grudge against it. I mean it gets me on my nerves until the last episode.
oh great, he's just mentioned Xenoglossia now(the one that I had been anxiously paranoid about since Mai otome during 2007). I'm not gonna watch this show from now on to avoid getting the same thing like those shows that I was mentioned about.
But still, I liked those shoujo characters though like Akiha, Itsuki, Honoka and others.
That's all I have to say.
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The Rams (20-4, 7-2 Mountain West) matched their win total from last year and extended their home-court winning streak to 27 games.
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A month ago we received an e-mail invite for the AIA Los Angles 2010 Home Tours in Venice, California. For years we've wanted and intended to be a guest on one of these great architectural home tours in LA but never made it to prior events. This time we didn't let the opportunity pass to tour the modern homes of Venice.
Every home on the tour brought its own personality and captured the details of the design. We expected to see the furniture design classics and the usual high end furniture that you may see in many luxury homes. We were pleasantly surprised to see original designs and design creativity that fit each individual home. When touring the well designed houses, we paid particular attention to elements of the design that we could share with readers. As we all know, great design doesn't have to be expensive. The brilliance of design is the power of the mind, not the power of the pocketbook.
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Commercial construction costs will increase on average by 6% to 8% in 2007 — two to four times faster than inflation — despite a slowing economy, according to Kenneth Simonson, chief economist for the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). Driving those increases are international demand for materials, limited domestic supplies and high energy prices. Labor costs will grow more slowly, 5% to 6% over the course of 2007, but still well ahead of last year's 2.5% core inflation rate, which excludes food and energy.
But wait a minute. The plunging housing market should lower demand both for materials and labor, right? Shouldn't a less constrained supply be reflected in prices for commercial construction?
Well, yes. But that's already included in Simonson's forecast. Had single- family construction this year barreled along as before, commercial construction costs might be increasing 10% annually, as they did in 2004. In other words, deflation of the housing market is taking the edge off the severe price growth of the past three years, but prices keep rising.
Slowed housing activity is bringing price relief for some products used in commercial construction, including copper, plastics, plywood and gypsum, used in wallboard. Gypsum prices climbed 20% annually from 2003 into 2006, fell slightly in December, and at year's end were only up 5.4% over year-ago prices. Milled copper and brass, which spiked up 30% annually in 2004 and 2005, climbed another 44% last year, but a 1.6% price drop from November to December suggests slower increases ahead. "We will still have to expect price increases in 2007, but hopefully they won't be as dramatic as in recent years," Simonson says.
Most of the materials (and the labor sets that go with those products) that are expected to experience slower price growth going forward are used in residential and non-residential construction, including sheetrock, fiberboard, plumbing and wiring.
A lack of substantial overlap between residential and commercial construction, however, means prices will climb unabated for many building materials. The same is true of labor; few homebuilding skills are transferable to the construction site of an office building, hospital or mall. "You can't take a framing carpenter and put him in a tower crane," Simonson says.
In 2004, demand by developing economies, like China, contributed to a 49% spike in the price of steel. Today, China has stepped up manufacturing and now exports about as much steel as it imports. As a result, steel prices dropped 4.3% in the fourth quarter and were only 11.6% higher than year-ago prices at the end of the year.
Concrete, on the other hand, is expensive to transport and is usually purchased near a job site. Concrete demand for buildings, roads and sewers has grown in recent years, while U.S. cement production is little changed from a decade ago.
At the same time energy prices, which climbed 4.5% in December, have increased the price of concrete and other materials, and raised the cost to mine and transport the aggregates that are mixed with cement to form concrete. Concrete prices climbed 10.1% in 2005 and 7.9% in 2006.
What does the AGC's forecast mean for developers and investors? For one, expect further price spikes and shortages on materials this year, as well as bottlenecks and high transportation costs in getting those supplies to the job site.
Given a choice, contractors will prefer to deal with developers that include materials price-adjustment clauses in their contracts and will be reluctant to work with government agencies and developers that insist on fixed budgets.
Frequent commodity shortages are a sign that the U.S. economy is operating at capacity, says Craig Thomas, research director at CBRE Torto-Wheaton Research. Once builders begin to calculate anticipated price spikes into their contracts, inflation kicks in, potentially ushering in the end of the economic expansion.
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text: « back to directory print Samuel Murumba Professor of Law 250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 780-7577 | Email | CV Areas of Expertise International Human RightsIntellectual PropertyProperty Education LL.B. (Hons), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda LL.M., Ph.D., Monash University, Melbourne Biography Courses Publications Noteworthy All Articles Books Contributions to Books Articles Book Review (reviewing Intellectual Property in the Global Marketplace (2d ed., 1999)) New York Law Journal (May 23, 2000) at 2 The Emerging Law of the Digital Domain and the Contract/IP Interface: An Antipodean Perspective, 26 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 91 (2000) HeinOnline The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 50 and the Challenge of Global Markets: Themes and Variations, 25 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 5 (1999) HeinOnline Globalizing Intellectual Property: Linkage and the Challenge of a Justice-Constituency, 19 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economin Law 435 (1998) HeinOnline Grappling with a Grotian Moment: Sovereignty and the Search for a Normative World Order, 19 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 829 (1993) HeinOnline Recordal of Other Interests on the Trademark Register, 23 Australian Business Law Review 75 (1993) Good Legal Writing: A Guide for the Perplexed, 17 Monash University Law Review 93 (1991) HeinOnline Character Merchandising in Australia: Welcome Home Wanderer, Industrial and Intellectual Property in Australia (1990) Intellectual Property, 1989 Annual Survey of Australian Law 339 (1989) Intellectual Property, 1988 Annual Survey of Australian Law 267 (1988) Book Review (reviewing C.R. Williams & M.S. Weinberg, Property Offences (1986)), 15 Australian Business Law Review 73 (1987) Negligence and the Child en Ventre Sa Mère, 1974/75 Makerere University Law Review (1975) Books Commercial Exploitation of Personality (Law Book Company, 1986) Contributions to Books Trade, Peace and Human Dignity: An Inter-Play of Freedom and Cognition, in Trade as Guarantor of Peace, Liberty and Security? Critical, Historical and Empirical Perspectives (The American Society of International Law, 2006) Cross-Cultural Dimensions of Human Rights in the Twenty-First Century, in Legal Visions of the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Judge Christopher Weeramantry (A. Anghie and G. Sturgess eds., Kluwer, 1998) Passing Off, in Laws of Australia (John A. Riordan ed., Law Book Co., 1996) The Doctrine of Precedent, in The Process of Law in Australia (G. Bird ed., Butterworths, 1988) Related Links: Faculty News Curriculum


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Deadline for all nominations Friday May 19, 2017
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Hi Michael, a shipment of toys was shipped to us on Wednesday of this week from Japan but the Star Wars Kubrick DX2 was not included yet. According to the distributor, the release date is August 30 and we'll update our customers when we see the shipment dispatch. Thanks.
Chases: AT-ST Driver and Hoth Rebel Trooper
While I'm hopeful we will get a General Reikan, FX-7 droid, a Rebel Trooper (or two), or a AT-ST driver/Veers in AT-AT Commander gear, I have a feeling we are going to get a brown coat Han with goggles down, another Chewie with snow effects, or Wampa-damaged Luke. Considering Medicom released a 'damaged' version of one of their Evangelion basic figures as a chase, I could definitely see a damaged Luke in our future...
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March 2, 2007
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - UC Santa Barbara's was not selected by the NCAA in its bid to host either the 2008 or 2009 NCAA Men's College Cup. Dallas, Texas and Cary, N.C., were chosen, it was announced Friday.
UCSB, which won the College Cup in St. Louis this past season, submitted the bid in January.
"I want to thank everybody at the University and in the community who worked so hard to get this bid submitted," said Gaucho Athletics Director Gary Cunningham. "In particular I want to thank Diane O'Brien (Associate Athletics Director) who really did an outstanding job pulling this together."
Cunningham also noted that the NCAA did not award bids for 2010 or 2011 and that UCSB will re-submit its bid for both years.
"We will continue to put forth bids to host the College Cup," Cunningham said. "It would be a great event for this community and it is definitely worthy of the time and effort."
O'Brien believes that the experience of submitting the bids for 2008 and 2009 was valuable.
"The value of going through the process is immeasurable," O'Brien said. "We can use the experience as we submit future bids."
"I appreciate the effort that our department and the community put into this bid," said UCSB head coach Tim Vom Steeg. "I am disappointed that we were not awarded the bid because we believe that we could host a great event, but we are also looking forward to addressing some of the concerns raised by the committee and hopefully we will be successful in our effort in 2010 or 2011."


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Here she is stock, but with Yellow fogs
Pic of the Engine Bay....still stock to date
Then decided to hilite some letters and painted em...
My 20" Konig Unkown Rims
Then I got my billet grille, aftermarket fogs, and tinted windows
My Stereo System
Just intalled Rockfore Fosgate Tweeters
Cute little door sill things
Painted my calipers red
Tinted Headlights, Fogs, and Taillights (Backup lights after I install lights under my back bumper)
Extra badges I got from mrherbig. Churched em up. Not sure where to put them yet
Painted the base White
Then did my newest little paint project on em. Hope they match my car!
I've painted some stuff in the enigine bay to make it pop a little since I'm all stock
Just got my Car Club vinyl put on. "Visual Obsessions Car and Truck Club" and I removed my rear wiper assembly....
Got a Konig logo made into a vinyl and put on the hood
Front bumper BEFORE lip
And AFTER the lip
A picture editef for me by Ponta. THANKS!!!
My snazzy little antenna. Looks great, works horribly I always use my iPod through my HU tho
A few pics of the whole car...
Put a Vibe emblem on the dash for some "flare"lol
Covered up the "blemish" from the fender bender with a Vibe emblem.. Ignore the bugs
New Soundstream Tweeters
Hooray for getting closer to 1,000!
Got a Konig emblem in the steering wheel to match the hood. Dude at the shop didn't charge me for it
Just painted my Gauge Cluster White!
Made me a png image of my car!
The new Sony XAV-60
Who's the newest GenVibe God? I AM!!! (8-07-10)
Interior Trim: Some painted Gloss White and some wrapped in leather
Green lit up Grilles and engine bay!
Bomz SRI and freshly wetsanded Engine Cover:
My brothe gave me his K&n cone filter and recharge kit from when he had CAI on his Sentra. Just gotta clean it and it'll be on here
And just a recent all around photo from today (12-9-10)
Put Yellow Lamin-X on my fogs
Finally bought and installed my mid-gate spoiler. Coated in Plasti-dip (rubberized coating) along with the bottom section of my bumper
Ok here's the new headlights! Bought from Ultimate Retrofit (KeithVibe)
details: 5th Gen Projectors w/ red Devil Eyes and White Angel Eyes and 6000k Bulbs.
Housings are painted Gloss Black and the side markers are tinted as well
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Dr. Thomas R. Frieden is the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). He was New York City Health Commissioner from 2002–2009.
Frieden graduated from Oberlin College (BA), Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (MD) and Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health (MPH). He completed training in internal medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and sub-specialty training in infectious diseases at Yale University. One brother, Jeffry Frieden, is a noted international political economist and the Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University. His other brother, Ken Frieden, the B.G. Rudolph Professor at Syracuse University, specializes in nineteenth-century literature.
Frieden's work on TB in New York fostered public awareness and helped improve public funding (city, state and federal) for tuberculosis control. The epidemic was controlled rapidly, reducing overall incidence by nearly half and cutting multidrug-resistant tuberculosis by 80%. The city's program became a model for tuberculosis control. From 1996 to 2002, Frieden was based in India, assisting with national tuberculosis control efforts. As a medical officer for the World Health Organization on loan from the CDC, he helped the government of India implement the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP). The 2008 RNTCP status report estimates the nationwide program resulted in 8 million treatments and 1.4 million saved lives. While in India, Frieden worked to establish a network of Indian physicians to help India's state and local governments implement the program and helped the Tuberculosis Research Center in Chennai, India, establish a program to monitor the impact of tuberculosis control services.


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Adrian Bayley has been jailed for a minimum of 35 years for the rape and murder of Irish woman Jill Meagher in Melbourne last September.
Meagher's widower Tom has described the sentence as a "disgrace".
Bayley, 41, was sentenced to life for the murder of the 29-year-old and 15 years for what Justice Geoffrey Nettle said was "a savage violent rape of the worst kind".
Justice Nettle of the Victorian Supreme Court ruled that Bayley would have to serve at least 35-years behind bars before being considered for parole, RTE reports.
The accused stared at the floor throughout sentencing as his victim's husband Tom, parents George and Edith McKeon, and her brother Michael McKeon looked on.
During a pre-sentencing hearing last week the prosecution revealed Bayley's long history of attacks on women, which spanned over two decades.
Bayley was out on parole for the rape of five women when he pounced on Meagher as she walked home after a night out with work colleagues.
Speaking to ABC Australia after the sentencing hearing, Tom Meagher broke down describing his late wife as "the funniest girl in the world".
He said: "I don't think anything's enough. I can't think of a worse person than that man. And I wasn't expecting anything else. I wasn't expecting the judge to hand down life without parole, simply because people had told me this wouldn't happen.
"I certainly don't think the sentence for the rape charge was enough at all. Given what this man has done in the past, I think that 15 years [for rape] is a disgrace, considering the maximum penalty for rape is 25."
The Irish man spoke about how much his life has changed since his wife's death.
"It's made me extraordinarily angry, really fearful," he said. "I mean and that's the worst thing for me. Because the way Jill and I lived was very free of that.
"We trusted people that we met, just because I think that's a good way to live, just because you can be open with people and you can be honest with people if you're like that and I think that's been ruined for me. And I think that's the worst part of it. It's just not being able to be myself anymore.
"She was incredibly funny. Incredibly witty. Just so smart and intelligent that she just brightened up any room she was in."
The victim's father issued a statement on behalf of her family.
"The police and prosecutors have ensured that justice has been done and we as a family want to thank them for this," he said.
The family has "no sense of personal outrage, just a feeling of great sadness and great loss," he added.
The victim's family has asked for "privacy and space" following the sentencing.


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In the event, Pope Francis truly was the dominant presence at the Nov. 11-14 meeting in Baltimore. And in that regard the gathering's single most unusual event was the address by the papal nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. Departing from a tradition of bland remarks by Vatican representatives, he told the 262 bishops in attendance in effect to get with the program coming out of Rome. And what is that? Chatting with him last June, Archbishop Viganò reported, the pope made "a special point of saying that he wants 'pastoral' bishops, not bishops who profess or follow a particular ideology."
If the bishops had a problem with that, they weren't letting on. Most would probably say they're already pastoral. Repeatedly, too, they cited Francis' own charismatic style with appreciation, though some also privately admitted to feeling uneasy about his penchant for impromptu comments whose meaning is open to debate.
There was no indication of any backing-off on the so-called social issues — abortion, gay marriage and the rest. At most, the meeting seemed pointed to the likelihood of increased efforts by USCCB to make clear the pastoral dimension of what it's already doing.
A small but telling instance was the bishops' decision, by a margin of 225-9, to give the USCCB pro-life office a new staff position for liaison with Project Rachel and similar diocesan programs, without any lessening of its involvement in the law and public policy aspects of fighting abortion. Project Rachel provides pastoral help to women who have had abortions.
The bishops' choice of a new USCCB president and vice president was consistent with this approach. Elected to three-year terms were two mainstream bishops commonly described as moderate conservatives — Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., and Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston. Archbishop Kurtz, 67, succeeds Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, while Cardinal DiNardo, 64, follows Archbishop Kurtz in the No. 2 position.
All this may have disappointed people looking for immediate and dramatic change in the USCCB, but it should have come as no surprise even to them. There are compelling reasons why backing off on the social issues is, for the American bishops, simply not in the cards.
One is that their stands on questions like abortion and same-sex marriage reflect Church doctrines that aren't subject to change. Nor is there any reason to think change is what Pope Francis — a self-described "son of the Church" on doctrine — has in mind. His frequently declared support for collegiality in Church governance also would seem to rule out direct intervention in the internal affairs of a national bishops' conference such as the USCCB.
It's likewise important to bear in mind that, despite complaints about the bishops' conference supposedly investing too much time and energy in fighting the culture war, the two top items on the USCCB agenda for the past decade weren't chosen by the bishops but were imposed by external events. They are the sex abuse scandal and the Health and Human Services mandate.
The bishops' conference had been dealing with sex abuse since the late 1980s, but starting in 2002 the disclosure that some dioceses, ignoring conference policy, had practiced systematic cover-up turned it into a national issue. Since then adopting and enforcing tough new measures have been top priorities for the USCCB.
The HHS mandate — the government's rule requiring many Church-related institutions to provide employee health coverage that covers abortifacients, contraception and sterilization — was a policy decision by the Obama administration as part of its implementation of the new health care law. Under Cardinal Dolan's leadership, the USCCB has vigorously rallied opposition to the mandate as a violation of religious liberty and at the conclusion of the assembly, the bishops unanimously passed a special message on the HHS mandate.
As the Baltimore meeting underscored, though, the question of where the conference goes next has now become unavoidable — partly because of Pope Francis and partly because of developments in the United States. Some students of Church affairs believe that, without either quitting the culture war or dropping out of battles for social justice, the time has come for the bishops' conference to give far more attention to the escalating pastoral crisis in American Catholicism.
Here the Catholic Church is hardly alone. Americans with no religious affiliation now number about 20 percent — up 5 percent in just a few years. Mainline Protestant churches have suffered devastating losses. American adults who say they're Jews have declined from 4 percent to about 2 percent since the 1950s.
But the Catholic crisis is alarming in its own right, with steep declines not only in familiar categories like Mass attendance and confessions but now also extending to Catholic marriages, infant baptisms, confirmations and converts, as well as enrollments in parochial schools and religious education programs.
Quoting Pope Francis during a news conference after his election as USCCB president, Archbishop Kurtz said the bishops need to "warm hearts and heal wounds." Francis might say that includes binding up some of American Catholicism's own gaping wounds.
Russell Shaw is an OSV contributing editor.
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