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The leaves are falling, days are getting shorter and nights are turning downright chilly. In short, it's time to sit down in your favorite chair with a hot beverage and dig into a good book.
Don't know what to read? Don't worry, Our Sunday Visitor staff members have done the research for you and have come up with a selection of books that might be worth a look this season.
On the following pages, we feature tomes that delve into the history of the papacy and explore Pope Francis' theological insights while he was archbishop of Buenos Aires. Important family issues such as the genius of women and Catholic fatherhood also are addressed. Yet we make space for spiritual growth and the all-important topic of humor. What follows is a variety of books that we hope will appeal to diverse tastes.
Happy reading.
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Digital ministry tips
By Cathy A. Dee
When Pope Benedict declared the Year of Faith in October 2011, he called for a "New Evangelization," writing that it would be a "good opportunity to usher the whole Church into a time of particular reflection and rediscovery of the faith." Catholics around the world have responded, finding new ways to share the good news of Christ, from websites, to Twitter feeds, to smartphone apps.
Pope Francis has continued that effort, and, following Pope Benedict's lead into the brave new world of social media, has shared his teaching and faith through his Twitter account, @Pontifex, and recently surpassed the 10 million follower mark.
How do busy Catholic pastors and parish leaders, juggling duties, schedules, liturgies, planning, budgeting and more, fit Facebooking, tweeting, pinning, Googling and general updating into their day?
Author Meredith Gould — who is not Catholic, but says she's "committed to working across denominations" — has written a book designed to help.
Gould is a sociologist and self-described "digital strategist" who has worked with a number of industries, especially health care and church-based organizations. In "The Social Media Gospel: Sharing the Good News in New Ways," she shares a blueprint — with background — for incorporating social media into evangelization and church community building and communication.
Gould begins her book by establishing a framework for social media, which will be particularly helpful for those just beginning to explore its possibilities. What makes a method of communication social? How does reaching parishioners with social media, say, Facebook or Twitter, fit in with traditional methods?
She also addresses the theological concerns a pastor might have. Is social media biblical? Is it a worthy way to share the message of Christ?
As a social media enthusiast, of course Gould's answers are yes, and she does a good job of supporting the use of new tools — or, "seeing social media through the God-lens," as she puts it.
In the second section of the book, Gould addresses the who, what and when of social media use in clear, well-organized chapters. Who should drive social media messages in the parish? Who creates and curates the content? How should a social media message fit in with a parish's traditional (usually print-based) methods of communication?
In an especially helpful series of chapters, Gould offers advice for choosing social media platforms — blogging, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and more. She emphasizes that each parish should make social media choices that are right for them, and each one will be different.
In the last section of the book, Gould tackles the really hard stuff — integrating social media into your parish life. She has advice for managing multiple social media accounts, and the advisability of using personal social media accounts for church use. Gould recommends having an official social media policy in place and has advice for setting one up; she also has help for controlling any conflict, or "trolling," that might occur.
Gould ends the book with the most useful chapter: "Best Practices for Digital Ministry." It's a checklist for making social media work that's comprehensive and not overwhelming, from "fully integrating social media into all other church communication plans" to "Pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances" (1 Thes 5:16-18).
The book's appendices are also useful: checklists for strategic choices, social media policy and a communications audit.
Reading 'The Social Media Gospel' won't make you a social media expert, but combined with hands-on experience and parish participation, it will help build a solid foundation of communication and evangelization for the Church well into the future.
Cathy A. Dee is social media editor at Our Sunday Visitor.
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If Pope Francis played baseball, some people might say that he nearly batted for the cycle this morning.
First, in morning homily, he stressed importance of life at every level.
For a double-whammy, the pope later also said this about clergy sexual abuse.
Then he added this about the reality of the devil in the 21st-century.
In other news ...
A Holocaust survivor/poet has fond memories of JPII.
Catholic voices weigh in on climate change.
On his blog, Father Z offers audio Stations of the Cross in time for Holy Week.
As tax day approaches, maybe you'll find some comfort in this.
A hat-tip to @CatholicHound for this: France has banned work emails by employees during these times.
Palm Sunday is approaching — are you ready?
Want to know what's in the April 20 issue of OSV Newsweekly? Check out our preview.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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I need help making my financial projections for a new beverage start up. Any suggestions for some good resources. Joined the bevschool. Not much help there. Although it was when it was first introduced. Has it improved?


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We already know Wilson had a great season in his rookie year. Not just great for a rookie, but great, period. Here are the final Pro Football Focus QB ratings for 2012, for the top 16 QBs. (I.E., the half that matters.)
Wilson's tied for 5th with Matt Ryan. His 39.4 is a very impressive number. When you consider that he's a rookie, it's mind-blowingly good. As you can see, there's also a very steep drop-off once you get past #9, RG3. Wilson had a historically great rookie campaign. This, we all know. It's not news.
What I really want to discuss is how he handles pressure. We all know he's a great scrambler, but there's more to a QB than scrambling when there's pressure. Passing under pressure is a huge part of every QB's game. The graph for this is even more impressive. Here are the Pro Football Focus QB ratings specifically for plays where the QB was under pressure. Not just blitzes, but any pressure regardless of whether it was the O-line's fault or not. I went with the top 18 here so as to include Brady and Hasselbeck. (I had to compile it myself in Excel.)
Wow. Just...Wow. He ranked 3rd, and 4th on the list is a steep drop-off. I thought initially that his rushing stats were bumping it up; but nope, because Roethlisberger topped the list and when I looked up his 2012 rushing stats, I lol'd. The ranking looks to be pure passer stuff. Now, some very elite passing quarterbacks have negative ratings on here. Remember, this is only the PFF total passer rating for plays where they were under pressure; which means that throwing the ball away is an important part of this number. I don't know if PFF gives this a flat (0) number, or if throwing the ball away is a positive or negative one, since I can see arguments for and against it.
Throwing the ball away could be positive, since it's not a sack or turnover; but if it was, I imagine Peyton's number would be quite a bit higher. It could be neutral, since it's really neither a positive or a negative. Much better chance that it's neutral. It could be a negative grade, though, since no positive play happened; you lost a down with nothing to show for it. I think this is by far the most likely way they calculate it, but it's probably not a big penalty. It makes sense; while throwing the ball away isn't really a bad thing, (million times better than a sack, or a bad-throw-turned-interception, or a forced fumble) it doesn't get you anywhere, either. Good QBs throw the ball away before any of the aforementioned bad things can happen, but guys like Peyton and Brady have a tendency to sometimes throw the ball away too early. PFF might even penalize them if they throw it away when a receiver was clearly open; I don't know, that's just speculation.
The PFF under pressure ratings are definitely not ratings you should just use as your one big piece of ammo about how good a QB is, but they're very important. I was surprised Rapistberger topped this list. Apparently he really stepped up this year when under pressure, because his average under pressure rating for the past 5 years is a negative value, including his great 2012 year with this particular stat. Peyton had positive numbers (though never a double-digit one) for this stat every one of the prior 5 years that he played in, so I'm chalking his negative value up to being on a new team, still recovering from injury a bit, etc. Brady, on the other hand, had a negative value for each of the past 4 years. (5 years back is season he missed from the ACL tear.) Brees was negative 4 of the past 5 years, but had a good positive rating last year.
So, will Wilson's great PFF under pressure rating be a fluke, like Rapistberger's was this year; or will he have a positive rating every year? I'm leaning towards the latter. Remember, running is irrelevant for this stat.
I can't wait to find out. The 2013 NFL season cannot come quickly enough.
Also, lol @ Kaepernuts. 14th overall, 9th under pressure. Not bad, don't get me wrong, but not like Wilson. You lurking 49ers fans can point to the NFL passer rating and ESPN QBR stats all you want, but they are both stats with a whole host of problems. (I do believe QBR will get better over time, though; but until that is demonstrably proven, it remains a "meh" stat.) We also need more data on both Wilson and Kaepernick to have a better long-term picture, which is also why I eagerly await this next season. Once 2013's over, we'll be able to evaluate them a lot more accurately. Also, everyone should keep in mind that no stat covers everything, though recent advances in "deep" stats, particularly Football Outsiders's DVOA stat, are making some of these key stats way more accurate and valuable than traditional stats have ever been before.
(p.s., Dom; don't stroke out on me, I know you have a serious hate-on for stats.)


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ROCKFORD - Illinois House Republicans are united in their opposition to a proposed graduated income tax, but that may not stop voters from deciding the state's tax system in a November referendum
GOP leaders outlined in Rockford today how they're gearing up for a tax policy battle when they return to Springfield next week. All 47 House Republicans are opposing HJRCA 33, which would replace the state's flat income tax with a progressive tax based on income, said House Republican Leader Jim Durkin, R-Western Springs.
Durkin was joined at a news conference by Rep. Joe Sosnowski, R-Rockford; John Cabello, R-Machesney Park; Rep. Brian Stewart, R-Freeport; Rep. Patti Bellock, R-Hinsdale; and Rep. David Leitch, R-Peoria.
"We're here today to warn the taxpayers throughout the state of Illinois and also the Rockford region that the Democrats plan to grab more of your money," Durkin said.
"The same party responsible for years of overspending, over-taxing and a mountain of debt wants to move to a graduated tax for one reason and one reason only - to raise taxes and spend more money."
The state Constitution stipulates that a single tax rate will apply to everyone, regardless of income. The rate is 5 percent for individuals and 7 percent for corporations, but those rates are set to go down at the start of 2015.
There is legislation in both houses that would allow lawmakers to adopt a graduated income tax if voters approve a November referendum. A three-fifths majority is needed to approve any measure that would amend the Illinois Constitution. Democrats hold 71 House seats, the minimum amount needed to meet the requirement. Democrats also hold 40 seats in the state Senate, the minimum votes needed is 36 to pass the measure.
Proponents say a graduated income tax is fair because it taxes lower earners at a smaller rate. They also say it will help grow the middle class and help small businesses succeed.
Bellock said 75 percent of small businesses pay at the individual income tax rate and would be hurt if a graduated income tax was adopted.
"A graduated tax system punishes success and discourages small business from creating jobs," she said.
Sosnowski said a progressive tax would mean higher taxes for many families in Winnebago and Boone counties and throughout the state.
"Illinois needs to be creating incentives to work and a friendly business environment instead of punishing working families," Sosnowski said. "We cannot keep relying on taxpayers to feed Springfield's spending problem."
Kristen Crowell, director of A Better Illinois, which has pushed for the progressive tax, said legislation doesn't include a rate structure.
"They're dishonestly fabricating doomsday scenarios to mislead Illinois voters," Crowell said of Republicans.
A large majority of Illinoisans would pay fewer taxes, which would stimulate the economy, Crowell said.
"There is no surer way to spur economic growth and create new jobs than by putting more money in the hands of lower and middle-income taxpayers who will spend it in their communities and patronize local small businesses," Crowell said.
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What ever happened to OfficeSpace??
Don't believe everything you think.
The more I know, the less I know.
7. Kelly's Heros - corny WWII movie w/ Clint Eastwood & Donald Sutherland
That is actually one of my favorites movies of all time. I suppose it could be considered a comedy in some respects, but corny? Noooo!
Ok, will recant on the corny on Kelly's Heroes... I use "man, lose the negative waves" all the time. It's a very well done movie, and I've actually just realized I think I'll get it for my parents for Christmas.
Wasn't "A shot in the Dark" a Peter sellers Pink Panther movie?I forgot all about those and how they made me laugh!
LOLThe scene where they bust up the railroad blasting "I've Been Working on the Railroad" makes me laugh just thinking about it.Someone mentioned Peter Sellers, I can't believe I forgot to add "The Mouse that Roared"
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Quote from: ytterbiumanalyst on February 22, 2009, 08:25:49 PMRobin Hood: Men in TightsI don't often walk out of movies, but this one I had no choice. It was THAT bad.
"Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?". Originally meant as horror, but last time I saw it I couldn't stop laughing.
Sean of the Deadand Hot Fuzz are both pretty freakin funny.
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The dorkosphere lit up this week with a preponderance of ponderings about what it all means, man, what it all really means– by which, of course, I refer to the announced class changes for Cataclysm.
Euripides over at Critical QQ ruminates on the proposed mage changes and hates on Shamans, and even throws in a few references to Dragon Age in So This Will Mostly Be Rambling.
The inestimable Death Goddess weighs in on DK changes with DKs in Cataclysm; First Look. Even better, to my way of thinking, was her week-long experiment in being a Blood DPS in Blood dps spec for 3.3.3. I'd been contemplating a change to a Blood DPS on my own DK and she did all the hard work to find out that, in fact, it really doesn't make sense. And I didn't even have to re-gem.
Finally, one of my very favorite bloggers, Linedan at Achtung Panzercow, has the obligatory ZOMGWARRIORCHNAGES post and makes the unlikely comparison between Charlton Heston and Ghostcrawler sound completely plausible.
And to veer away abruptly from all of that Cataclysm chatter, I've been thoroughly enjoying- not to mention accidentally learning from- Soph's Down and Dirty Background Info, By Area (my name for it, not hers) over at The View Through The Branches. They're bite-sized lore bits in easily digested nuggets.


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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
* Re-Cycled Paint Stick Snowman Snow Ruler!
Here's a fun oldie but goodie, winter time craftivity!
Frosty the paint stick has made an appearance on the blog before
but it's that time of year for him to come out again!
"E" made him when she was 3 and-a-half or 4-years-old and I love him.
Start with a wooden paint stirring stick from the hardware store
(or, if you're like me, from the garage box of misc. house painting stuff)
Let your kids paint it white (acrylic craft paint or house paint works best)
After it's dry, help your child use a ruler to measure
and mark the stick with one inch increments
using a black permanent marker.
Embellish and add "Snow Man" details
at the top with scraps of ribbon, fabric, or fleece for a hat and scarf.
A face can be drawn or painted on.
Or, raid some mini pom poms like we did,
or use googly eyes, dried beans, beads, sequins -- whatever you have around.
Carrot nose can be made out of paper, felt, or craft foam.
This is a fun and easy winter craft
and they make fun gifts for relatives, teachers, and neighbors as well!
Now you have your very own (adorable) way
to measure the snow - just take your snow man outside
after it snows to stick in the snow and see how many inches you got!
(You can spray him with clear sealer if you're worried about his paint running)
Happy Winter Crafting!
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GISCafe Tutorials
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Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2012 Tutorials
December 5th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
Autodesk has made a number of tutorials and demos available for 'Autodesk Infrastructure Modeler 2012'.
The first video shows how to use the CAD, GIS and design data you already own and manage as part of the planning and design process.
You can sketch and manage conceptual designs directly into the infrastructure model, potentially reducing the time frame required to generate and communicate project proposals from weeks or days, to hours.
Designing Maps Applications for Usability on Mobile and Desktop
December 3rd, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
Maps API applications are accessed on desktop and mobile devices of many shapes and sizes. Each application has unique goals for conveying information effectively and for facilitating user interactions. Learn how to improve user experience by optimizing the presentation of your map and data and by thoughtful user interface design.
This is a presentation by Jez Fletcher and Luke Mahe at the Google I/O Conference in May, 2011.
GIS with Google Earth and Google Maps
December 2nd, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
Building a robust interactive map with a lot of data involves more than just adding a few placemarks. Josh Livni and Mano Marks talk about integrating with existing GIS software, importing data from shapefiles and other formats, map projections, and techniques for managing, analyzing, and rendering large datasets.
This presentation was given at the Google I/O 2011 conference in May, 2011.
Learn Google Earth: 3D Trees & Street View
December 1st, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
Learn Google Earth: 3D Trees
Explore 3D trees in parks, neighborhoods, and forests in cities all over the world.
Learn Google Earth: Street View
Navigate the streets like never before with the new integrated Street View in Google Earth 6. Download for free at http://earth.google.com
Mosaics with Erdas Imagine
November 29th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
Here are a few popular video tutorials on Mosaic'ing with Erdas Imagine:
Basics of Mosaics with Erdas Imagine by David Meek, Doctoral Candidate at the Anthropology Department at the University of Georgia
Become a Mosaic Pro! – Paul Beaty, ERDAS Product Manager discusses how you can become a Mosaic Pro.
Google Earth Pro Data Layers
November 28th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
Google Earth Pro Data Layers – This video features Traffic count, demographic and parcel data in Google Earth Pro 5.2. Download the latest version at http://earth.google.com/pro
ArcGIS 10 Tutorials on Esritv
November 24th, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
Esritv has posted a number of great tutorials highlighting new capabilities in ArcGIS 10. Here is a sample:
ArcGIS 10: Analysis in 3D – See new ways to analyze geospatial data in 3D
GIS Pathway's ArcGIS and ArcMap Tutorials
November 21st, 2011 by Sanjay Gangal
GIS Pathway has been publishing a number of GIS Tutorials on their Youtube Channel. Here are some of the more popular tutorials:
Creating Points from XY Table – An ArcMap GIS tutorial to add points to a map from a table of XY coordinates.


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Monday Morning Offering - 64
Image: George Mendoza
Good morning, good God!
It's September in your parish, Lord,
and everything is starting up,
beginning again, getting in gear,
cranking up to running speed...
That means that life is exciting,
challenging, stressful, promising,
annoying, moving much too slowly,
moving much to quickly and sometimes,
it seems, not moving anywhere at all!
So I offer you this morning, Lord, my anticipation
of work to be done in your name,
for the good of your people
and for the sake of the gospel..
I offer you my worry
that what I do is not enough
and my surety
that I never do enough
and the insecurity
that makes me do more than I need
and my trust
that my mistakes can never shorten
the reach of your arm...
I offer you the frustrations of these days
and ask for patience, gentleness,
a smile on my face and a welcome in my voice
especially when I want to pout or whine or scream...
I offer you my weaknesses,
the ones others see and the ones only you see,
and I ask for your strength to fill in
the gaps, the errors, the mistakes in my work
lest any be harmed or cheated by my carelessness...
I offer you the busyness of these days
and ask you to slow me down
to rest, to pray, to praise you for all you do...
Slow me down, Lord,
that I might see your face in those around me,
hear your voice in other's pleas,
sense your presence in every place I go...
I offer you the best of what my work might yield:
let me not forget that you are the source
of all my words, ideas and gifts,
that your Spirit is the font from where flows
the grace that graces our parish life...
Make me mindful, Lord,
of all who make their way through these September days
and help me to walk with care among the many
whose paths cross mine...
Good God of Monday mornings,
I offer you these days and nights of new beginnings
and pray you bring to fulfillment
the holy work you have begun
in the hearts of all your people...
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Thank you! This is just what I needed today...September is such a challenging month for all of us in parish ministry...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 14, 2009 at 3:05 PM
The "change of seasons" is palpable in your MMO. I am glad that you are keeping the urge to pout, whine or scream in check (at least in public)!ReplyDelete
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Audrey Hepburn Wearing The Dress She Gave Away
(Offered at Auction By Kerry Taylor: Estimate £ 8,000 to £ 12,000)
In 1952 Audrey Hepburn was engaged to marry James Hanson. She was in Italy to film her first starring role alongside Gregory Peck in "The Roman Holiday. It is 7 years after the devastation and ravages of WWII.
I wonder if you know that Audrey Hepburn spent the last years of that war in the Netherlands, hoping she would survive the Allied artillery shellings, and the famine the Dutch endured as a result of Operation Market Garden.
In that short seven years, a lot happened for Audrey Hepburn
She Became a Star
Audrey Hepburn decided after already having her wedding gown designed by the famous Fontana Sisters to call her planned wedding to James Hanson off; stating "That the demands of their careers would keep them apart most of the time."
Here is the Wedding Dress Audrey Hepburn Was Going To Wear
The Fontana sisters who designed this gown were renowned for their highly romantic ball and bridal gowns. The sisters Zoe, Micol and Giovanna founded their business in Rome in 1944.
While Audrey Hepburn was filming `Roman Holiday' with Gregory Peck in Rome, she approached the Fontana sisters and asked them to make her bridal gown. Signora Micol Fontana said that the 23 year old Hepburn was 'young, fresh, and on top of the world'.
But this was a wedding that was not to be, Audrey was not going to say "I Do." She had other plans…
Once she had decided to call the wedding off, the dress she had had made, still at the Fontana Sisters shop, needed to be dwelt with. And this Audrey did with such generosity and grace that it leaves me with a smile still, as I hope it does for you as well.
She Gave The Dress Away To Amabile Altobella
Never heard of Amabile Altobella? Well of course not, she was a young girl from the town of Latina, Italy. You see Audrey had asked the Fontana Sisters to give the dress away, saying "I want my dress to be worn by another girl for her wedding, perhaps someone who couldn't ever afford a dress like mine, the most beautiful, poor Italian girl you can find."
So Audrey Hepburn Helped to Create A Dream Wedding
Amabile Altobella, was a poverty stricken young Italian girl engaged to be married to a farm worker named Adelino Solda. Here is a quote from Amabile, "I have had a happy marriage, so the dress brought me luck." Indeed, she and Adelino stayed married, had three daughters, and five grandchildren, which is more than can be said for most Hollywood weddings…
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Fwiw, I wasn't required to get a baptismal certificate when I was chrismated, though the priest did ask me to get a copy if I could.
Thank you for the very detailed (and yet concise) review. It seems like a lot of reading must have gone into that little condensed bit!
I only have one question, you mentioned conditional baptisms performed by Catholics, but I also believe that Orthodox sometimes do this, and I'm curious what you think of that? The place that I remember this from is a hagiographical text in which a woman (I think) was at a monastery and wasn't sure if she had ever been baptized, and someone came to her in a dream and told her to tell the priest to look at such-and-such a canon, which allowed for conditional baptisms in a case like hers. Apparently, the priest looked and did find the canon--at least in the story.
I was baptized Episcopalian but just this past Saturday, I was BAPTIZED into the OCA. I was told that baptizing Protestants is the practice of the entire Diocese of the West of the OCA.
As he [Bishop Tikhon] is a former Baptist
...to rebaptize all Protestants...
[anal nitpick]Ahem....no one is ever "re"baptized in the Orthodox Church[/anal nitpick]
Well I'm not concerned or anything about the fact that I was rebaptized. I agree with Bishop Tikhon that Protestants should be received through baptism.
 I, however, was "baptized" in 1988, well after things had gone belly up in the Episcopal Church.  So, maybe in the years to come baptizing of mainline Protestant will become more and more common...
While I'm sure the Priest here had no reason to doubt you were baptized by your previous church, this strikes me as "playing it loose" even within the parameters of the "extreme economy" which the SCOBA Churches are accustomed to practice (which basically imitates old Russian practice).
I don't think it would be a problem... Aren't there a couple converts who are now bishops?
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Sacred Heart men's and women's track and field teams opened the 2013-14 indoor season on Saturday at the Yale Season Opener at Coxe Cage.
The men's team got a pair of top-five finishes from redshirt-senior Marc Troiani (Valhalla, N.Y.) in the field. Troiani won the shot put with a throw of 52'7.5" (16.04m). He also finished fourth in the weight throw with a throw of 52'3.75" (15.94m). Troiani qualified for the IC4A's in the shot put and the New England meet in the weight throw. He currently ranks second in the NEC in both events. Daniel Pepitone (Oakhurst, N.J.) placed eighth in the weight throw with a throw of 44'2" (13.46m). Drayke Jackson (East Northport, N.Y.) had a fifth place finish in the pole vault, clearing 13'3.5". Brandon Hutchinson finished sixth in the long jump at 21'9.5", as Joshua Beloff (Marblehead, Mass.) came in eighth with a leap of 20'11.75".
The Pioneers' top finish on the track came from Sean Ferguson, who won the 3,000m race by over 25 seconds in a personal-best time of 8:32.01. He currently leads the NEC rankings by more than 27 seconds. Gregory Hazell (Airmont, N.Y.) finished fifth in the 60m hurdles in a time of 8.77 seconds. Freshman Cameron Swift (Oxford, Conn.) placed eighth in the mile with a time of 4:37.22 as Colby Jennings (North Haven, Conn.) finished 10th, clocking in at 4:40.58.
Brianna Castrogivanni (Commack, N.Y.) won the women's 5,000m race in a time of 17:04.72. Elizabeth Hutchins (Pawcatuck, Conn.) was second with a time of 17:28.89, as Emma Bolduc (Peterborough, N.H.) came in third in 17:48.08. Both Castrogivanni and Hutchins surpassed the ECAC qualifying standard of 17:33.64. Hutchins broke the 18 minute barrier for the first time in her career, setting a new personal best by 36 seconds. Bolduc also recorded a personal best and topped the New England qualifying standard of 18:20.64. Castrogivanni, Hutchins, and Bolduc currently rank first, second, and fourth respectively in the NEC.
Sacred Heart had a pair of top-four finishes in the 800m race. Katelyn Racanelli (Riverside, Conn.) finished second in a time of 2:21.49 as Bridget Carey placed fourth in 2:23.92. Their times are the top-two in the NEC. Freshman Nicole Bartosch (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) came in third in the 60m hurdles with a time of 9.36 seconds. She was also sixth in the 200m dash in 25.87 seconds. Bartosch automatically qualified for the New England's in both events.
Ashia Wright (Cheshire, Conn.) had a fourth-place finish in the 60m dash, recording a time of 7.76 seconds. Wright easily beat the qualifying standard for the New England's, and has the second-fastest time in the NEC. Mia Imbesi (Syosset, N.Y.) finished fifth in the 3,000m race with a time of 10:50.70. Alexandra Kaeslin (Bethel, Conn.) was right behind her in sixth in 10:52.72. In the field, freshman Lorraine Santiago (New City, N.Y.) finished sixth in the long jump (16'7") and seventh in the triple jump (35'4.5"). She is currently second in the NEC in the triple jump and fourth in the long jump.
Sacred Heart will next compete at the Brother Jasper Invitational at Manhattan College on Dec. 13-14.


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Wizards of the Coast Announces Plans for Star Wars CMG A spokesperson for Wizards of the Coast recently announced that WotC will release a Star Wars Collectible Miniature Game in August of 2004. The first set will include 60 prepainted miniatures of characters from the Classic Trilogy Films.The SWCMG will be packaged and sold as both a starter set (SRP $19.99) and booster packs (SRP $9.99). The first set will include common, uncommon, rare, and unique figures. Plans for expansion sets have not been detailed, but will be created to follow the initial set. The debut starter set will include everything needed to play the game and randomly packaged figures.The format of the game is not known at this moment, but it may not be a 'clickable' CMG like Heroclix. Images have not yet been released from WotC. JediDefender.com will update as soon as more is known and images become available.Wednesday, January 14, 2004 | Thomas Grey
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its nice character arent safe, this keeps one thrilled about what could happen next, and better is that there are no changes of heart so overused nowadays, that in the end the cast gets absurdly big with characters you dont even care.
|2012-05-30, 02:44
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It really is nice to characters from the Mc's group dies compare to other series even if its sad but... how did the author do it?
Is his way of picking who to killed of next in the clash of the protagonist's side and the empire's by his will or by lottery-like system? kinda curious about that...
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Like every other aspect of a story, deaths are based on what serves/drives the plot, characters and theme at that given point in time. Most Mangakas usually have events like that planned long beforehand. This series death toll isn't particularly high compared to some of other manga in genre, but it does well evoking a real sense of danger and unpredictability in battles. While the main characters are strong they aren't invincible, nor antagonists simple pushovers. Furthermore they're Assassins, a line of work that's very high risk, full of strife and emotional turmoil. This something that naturally comes with that territory.
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He killed Braht because he needed a Teigu to give to Tatsumi, and because he looks like Kamina.
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Well, that teigu, Inclusio was created with material from the most ferocious beast in the world aka the strongest rare species according to the manga (they use rare species instead of monster). I don't know about what seems to appear behind Tatsumi when he activated it though, need translation on that part.
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From the spoilers it appears when Tatsumi grabbed the sword, the aura of that thing behind him is showed. So maybe the sword Tatsumi is holding onto is a Teigu. Though the beast looking thing reminds me of that Ax guy who craves the experience of fighting. I most likely think it is one of the big 3, which is the Ax guy.
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Monstrous looking aura from the sword then, sure brings down the intimidation element in the fight rather easily. Can't wait to read it, base off the translation that are coming out, I may not wait too long to read it.
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My guess would be that Tatsumi have more compatibility with that type of Teigu, the type with spirit beast inside. Remember what Night Raid leader said there's no Teigu that believe to be stronger than the other. Each person compatibiliy give rise to its strenght.
|2012-05-30, 15:59
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It gets better no worries, the thing about this Manga is it suppose to seem real. Aside for the special Teigu weapons, this manga reflects things that happen in the old age of civilization. This manga takes the life of an Assassin and it shows the good and the bad with the job. Though I find the torture disturbing, I have read worst from history which included the reign of Vlad the Impaler, the Crusades, and the Inquisitions.
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By Roger Hollander, March 1, 2009, www.rogerhollander.wordpress.com
"Don't piss on me and try to tell me it's raining"
Judge Judy
Does it matter whether it is a moral and intellectual imbecile like George W. Bush or a brilliant and charismatic intellectual like Barack Obama who employ the Big Lie as a tactic to explain and justify the unjustifiable?
In a posting that appeared in towardfreedom.com on February 18, Joel S. Hirschhorn writes, "Compared to rioting Europeans, Americans seem like docile, drugged out sheep … mesmerized by melodic rhetoric of political messiah Barack Obama."
(http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/1529/1/) (italics added)
In an ironic and tragic twist of fate, it now appears that Barack Obama's mesmerizing and melodic rhetoric has turned out to be a two-edged sword. The same magic timbre that inspired and motivated millions of America to work day and night for his election in order to end America's disastrous military adventures in the Middle East is now being put to use to give credibility to the Bush/Cheney worldview of the Iraq War and to thwart the desires, interests and welfare of those very same millions. The delivery hasn't changed, but God help us, look at the content (which is what this article is all about).
In an article entitled "War Is Over (IF You Want It)" that appears in the current edition of The Nation magazine (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090316/alterman), Eric Alterman calls attention to the radical Republican right strategy of defining the fiasco in Iraq as a "victory." He cites, for example, an editorial that appeared in the Wall Street Journal that quotes Bush speech writer Marc Thiessen, "As Mr. Bush leaves office, Iraq is a unified and free country, and our enemies there have suffered a devastating defeat. If his successor does not squander that victory, a free Iraq will one day be to the Middle East what a free South Korea has been to Asia." (this parallels the same kind of Big Lie that the radical right has propagated about the Vietnam War, that it could have been won if only the politicians had given the military a free hand – to nuke Hanoi presumably).
Alterman goes on to cite other neocons in a similar vein and suggests that this is a conscious and concentrated strategy the purpose of which is to set up President Obama up for failure. If that is indeed the case, then Obama seems to be willingly and blithely walking into the trap.
In his speech given on Friday, February 27 at marine Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, Obama both affirms the neocon revisionist history of the Iraq invasion and occupation and lies blatantly to the American public about the proposed withdrawal.
First the latter. Obama: "Let me say this as plainly as I can: by August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end …. And under the Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi government, I intend to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011."
A bald faced lie.
Writing in the journal Foreign Policy in Focus on Friday, February 27, (http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5910), Phyllis Bennis exposes Obama's dissimulation about the up to 50,000 allegedly non-combatant troops "left behind." Leaving aside the question of why that huge number would be required to "train,equip and advise" (one is reminded of the "advisors" in Vietnam), which even Nancy Pelosi has questioned, Bennis refers to a December New York Times article "describing how military planners believe Obama's goal of pulling out combat troops 'could be accomplished at least in part by re-labeling some units, so that those currently counted as combat troops could be 're-missioned,' their efforts redefined as training and support for the Iraqis.'" She adds, "That would mean a retreat to the lies and deception that characterized this war during Bush years — something President Obama promised to leave behind. It would also mean military resistance in Iraq would continue, leading to more Iraqi and U.S. casualties."
Along with AlterNet's Jeremy Scahill ("All Troops Out By 2011? Not So Fast; Why Obama's Iraq Speech Deserves a Second Look," (http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/129362/all_troops_out_by_2011_not_so_fast%3B_why_obama%27s_iraq_speech_deserves_a_second_look/), Bettis shows how the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), which was adopted by the Iraqi government but never ratified by the United States, and which calls for all U.S. troops to be out of Iraq by the end of 2011, is full of loopholes that the Pentagon and presumably the President are ready, willing and able, to employ when the time comes for the helicopters to be evacuating the remaining troops a la Vietnam (in other words, it ain't gonna happen).
Obama himself (inadvertently, I presume) lets it slip into the speech where he states that he will "retain a transitional force … conducting targeted counter-terrorism missions." Such missions can hardly be characterized as anything other than combat missions. He also telegraphs to both the American people via his warning to the Iraq resistance what his ace-in-the-loophole will be: "But our enemies should be left with no doubt: this plan gives our military the forces and the flexibility they need to support our Iraqi partners, and to succeed." It's that flexibility that we knee-jerk peace-mongers worry about.
Sins of omission can be as deceptive, disingenuous and morally corrupt as sins of commission. As Bettis points out, Obama neglected to mention the future use of air and naval force in Iraq, the disposition of the more than fifty military bases in Iraq, or the future status of the enormous numbers of mercenaries and contractors (e.g. Dyncorp, Bechtel, and Blackwater, now Xe). Nor did refer to the city within a city that is the United States Embassy in Baghdad, the largest embassy in the history of humankind of which you can bet that it wasn't built to become redundant in a period of a couple of years. Come December 31, 2111, all logic and experience tell us that United States military presence in Iraq will continue to be substantial. Obama does himself and the nation a disservice by suggesting otherwise.
As for the Bush, Cheney, neocon, and now apparently Obama fairytale version of the United States involvement in Iraq, it is probably true that it is the only one that would have been palatable for obvious reasons to the marines at Camp Lejeune, not to mention the neo-Fascist right that has ruled the country for the past eight years. But to speak before the country and the entire world and characterize the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq, which has been responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, untold misery for millions and the virtual destruction of the Iraq infrastructure, as some kind of a noble venture is to contort reality into nothing less than a Big Lie which can only serve to justify past atrocity and foreshadow future ongoing bloodshed and destruction.
Obama: "We Americans have offered our most precious resource – our young men and women – to work with you to rebuild what was destroyed by despotism; to root out our common enemies; and to seek peace and prosperity for our children and grandchildren, and for yours." Bush could not have said it any better (which is probably why McCain is salivating as we speak).
The Biggest Lie of all comes toward the end of Obama's speech: "And so I want to be very clear: We sent our troops to Iraq to do away with Saddam Hussein's regime …We kept our troops in Iraq to help establish a sovereign government …And we will leave the Iraqi people with a hard-earned opportunity to live a better life …"
Alleging that "we sent our troops to Iraq to do away with Saddam Hussein's regime" contains the truth within a lie. In making the statement, Obama incredibly admits that the United States government violated the most fundamental precept of the United Nations Charter and international law, to wit, an unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation. But does the President expect the American people and the world to forget about the intentionally false information about nuclear materials and weapons of mass destruction that was fed to the American people and world community as the justification for the invasion in the first place? In this instance Obama's Big lie serves to reinforce the Original Big Lie of the Bush administration. The growing demand for prosecutorial accountability with respect to Bush and Company include, we should remember, not only torture, rendition, illegal wiretapping, etc. but also the crime of lying to the American public and Congress about the grounds for the invasion.
(To put matters into an even broader historical context, I refer readers to Nora Eisenberg's excellent piece in AlterNet.com where she documents the Big Lie technique that was used to justify the first Gulf War in 1991 where according to a United Nations report the United States Air Force bombed Iraq "back into the Dark Ages." "Obama to Announce Iraq Troop Withdrawal,"
As for establishing a sovereign government and leaving the Iraqi people the opportunity to have a better life, while the jury may still be out on those counts, the evidence we have to date flies in the face of such empty rhetorical wishful thinking.
Some time ago Bush and the neocons began, ominously, comparing Iraq with South Korea, where the U.S. has had a "successful" military presence for over 50 years. They neglect, of course, to note the difference, to wit, that South Korea was a military ally of the United States against the North Korean invasion, whereas the U.S. has been bombing the life out of Iraq since 1991 and through its unlawful invasion provoked a near civil war within the country that has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis? Will this South Korea paradigm fiction be the next straw that Obama will need to grasp in order to justify occupation in perpetuity?
There are two other critical concepts, which are central to the forces that were behind the original invasion and which impulse the continued military occupation, that Obama neglected to mention. One of them is "war profiteering." Wipe out the infrastructure, and then as a pretext for reconstructing it, give billions in untendered contracts to the likes of Dick Cheney's Haliburton. And that is not to mention the corporate ghouls who manufacture our weapons of mass destruction.
The other concept, however, is one that virtually every American, not to mention the rest of the world, knows in her or his heart to have been, is, and will continue to be the single most – if not the only – motivating force behind the U.S. military adventure in Iraq. It can be found in the original but quickly discarded acronym for the mission: Operation Iraqi Liberation.
Further Deconstruction of President Obama's February 27 "Withdrawal from Iraq" Speech
Obama: (to the military) "You have fought against tyranny …"
Deconstruction: Those soldiers who have fought tyranny are living in Canada.
Obama: (to the military) "You have fought against … disorder."
Deconstruction: Disorder created not only by the current invasion and occupation but also by 19 years of U.S. bombing and economic blockade. Eisenberg: "We never learned that the government's goals had changed from expelling Saddam's forces from Kuwait to destroying Iraq's infrastructure. Or what a country with a destroyed infrastructure looks like — with most of its electricity, telecommunications, sewage system, dams, railroads and bridges blown away."
Obama: "Violence has been reduced substantially from the horrific sectarian killing of 2006 and 2007."
Deconstruction: Sectarian killing and violence that the U.S. invasion and occupation provoked and by which Saddam Hussein's atrocities pale in comparison. U.S. inspired violence and killing 2003-2006 conveniently ignored.
Obama: "Al Qaeda in Iraq has been dealt a serious blow by our troops and Iraq's Security Forces …"
Deconstruction: And has been handed a recruiting opportunity that will dramatically inflate the ranks of revenge-motivated terrorists who will plague us for decades or more.
Obama: "… a transition to full Iraqi responsibility … an Iraq that is sovereign, stable and self-reliant … The United States pursues no claim on your territory or your resources."
Deconstruction: An Iraq that is occupied by the U.S. military in perpetuity, in order to ensure the protection of U.S. interests in the region's natural resources and to ensure the "election" of government's that maintain Iraq as a client state of the U.S.
Obama: "There are those … who will insist that Iraq's differences cannot be reconciled without more killing."
Deconstruction: We don't insist on more killing we just do it. Bennis: "And what if the reduction in ground troops is answered with an escalation of U.S. air power? The U.S. appears to be planning to control the skies over Iraq for years to come. That means even more Iraqi civilians being killed by the U.S. military. We need the withdraw all air and naval forces too — something the SOFA agreement mentions, but we have yet to hear anything from the Obama administration. The U.S. has been conducting continuous overflights and regular bombing of Iraq since January 1991 – isn't 18 years of air war enough?"
Obama: "And as long as I am your Commander-in-Chief, I promise you that I will only send you into harm's way when it is absolutely necessary …"
Deconstruction: Necessary to what and to whose ends?
Obama: "What we will not do is let the pursuit of the perfect stand in the way of achievable goals."
Deconstruction: Forget such wishy-washy idealist notions such as actual peace and justice.
Obama: (with respect to) "millions of displaced Iraqis … America has … a moral responsibility – to act."
Deconstruction: This is another Obama slip up: America has no "moral responsibility" to help those refugees. It was Saddam who made us create all those refugees. Right? We do it out of the goodness of our gas-guzzling hearts.
Obama: "… the United States of America – a nation that exists only because free men and women have bled for it from the beaches of Normandy to the deserts of Anbar; from the mountains of Korea to the streets of Kandahar."
Deconstruction: Obama gives us jingoistic triumphalistic patriotism, when the American people hunger for a truthful acknowledgement of the past crimes.
One has to ask the question why the entire sub-text, not to mention the practical implications, of Obama's speech was addressed directly to the radical Republican right, corporate America, and the military-industrial complex.


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ISRN Artificial Intelligence
Volume 2012, Article ID 616087, 19 pages
Reasoning with Time Intervals: A Logical and Computational Perspective
Department of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain
Received 25 June 2012; Accepted 19 July 2012
Academic Editors: K. W. Chau and S. Likothanassis
Copyright © 2012 Guido Sciavicco. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The role of time in artificial intelligence is extremely important. Interval-based temporal reasoning can be seen as a generalization of the classical point-based one, and the first results in this field date back to Hamblin (1972) and Benhtem (1991) from the philosophical point of view, to Allen (1983) from the algebraic and first-order one, and to Halpern and Shoham (1991) from the modal logic one. Without purporting to provide a comprehensive survey of the field, we take the reader to a journey through the main developments in modal and first-order interval temporal reasoning over the past ten years and outline some landmark results on expressiveness and (un)decidability of the satisfiability problem for the family of modal interval logics.


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Fifteen years is a good rule of thumb but there are numerous indicators that signal it's time to update your walk-in refrigeration unit.
With new and more energy-efficient technologies continuously being developed, experts recommend that walk-ins be replaced after 15 years of service.
If panel skins are deteriorating or separating from the foam, the walk-in most likely needs to be retired. Interior panel seams that have condensation or frost build up typically signifies that the seal is no longer adequate and air is leaking through. This can compromise holding temperatures and necessitate a new unit.
Door seals and sweep gaskets can be replaced. However, sagging doors that allow outside air into the walk-in can cause ice buildup on the evaporator coil, compromising efficiency and eventually requiring the purchase of a new unit.


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Neighborhood Chalkboard Reveals Secrets and Dreams
TEDTalk by Candy Chang on connecting communities through art, sharing, and usable public spaces.
Artist Candy Chang stenciled a life-size chalkboard on an abandoned house in New Orleans to bring her own community together. Neighbors shared their dreams, hopes, and fears as they scrawled their answers to "Before I die, I want to ... "
Inspired by Ms. Chang, people from South Africa, Kazakhstan, Japan, and Argentina have built over 100 colorful walls in their neighborhoods across 30 countries. Discuss as a class how well your students know their neighbors. If they had to ask them one question, what would it be?


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May 16, 2013
News Release
State Board adopts graduation guidelines
Board also holds study session to discuss student data system inBloom
The Colorado State Board of Education met for its regularly scheduled meeting May 15 & 16. Highlights from the meeting include:
High School Graduation Guidelines
The state board voted to unanimously approve a set of guidelines for high school graduation. CDE staff and representatives of the Graduation Guidelines Council presented the proposed high school graduation guidelines. The board heard public comment and held a rich discussion on the proposed guidelines. By statute, districts will implement their locally-developed graduation guidelines which meet or exceed the state's guidelines in 2014 for 6th-graders for the first graduating class of 2021.
The state board held a study session to review inBloom, a nonprofit provider of technology services that allows states and public school districts to integrate student data and third-party applications to support sustainable, cost-effective personalized learning.
Representatives from inBloom, Jefferson County School District (the Colorado pilot district using inBloom's services), the Colorado Attorney General's Office and the Electronic Privacy Information Center participated in the study session. To view the inBloom fact sheet, click here.
Educator Effectiveness
The State Council on Educator Effectiveness presented recommendations on the performance evaluations of "other licensed personnel" or "specialized service professionals." The state council, per statute and rule is required to provide the state board with recommendations on the system for all licensed personnel. The "other licensed personnel/specialized service providers" category in the S.B. 10-191 rules has been "reserved" while the state council developed recommendations. The state board and department will use recommendations to assist in drafting appropriate rules to guide the evaluation of specialized service providers. A notice of rulemaking based on the state council recommendations will occur in June or August. To view the presentation to the board, click here. To view the council recommendations, click here.
Licensure Content Exams
The board voted to approve the updated PRAXIS II exams in English Language Arts and Mathematics for use in Colorado. These updated assessments will replace the current PRAXIS assessments in these content areas. The board will discuss and establish passing cut scores at upcoming meetings.
Outstanding Educators
The state board recognized exceptional online teacher, Rochelle Kolhouse (Falcon Virtual Academy) and guidance counselor, Christine Hagge (PSD Global Academy) with 2012-13 Online Educator Recognition Awards. Selection of these educators relied heavily on responses being evidence-based to prove that the practitioner's role and strategies were transferring to positive outcomes and growth for online students.
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The board voted unanimously to grant Durango 9-R School District's request for exclusive chartering authority.
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Teen hit while darting through traffic
Police say pedestrian at fault
Teen hit while darting through traffic
Police say pedestrian at fault
A teen suffered two broken bones when he was hit by a car after darting out into traffic on Friday afternoon, police said.
Authorities said Kain Swann, 17, of Lexington, jumped out of the truck he was riding in to retrieve a pair of sunglasses from another vehicle when traffic stopped on northbound Michael Road at about 3:10 p.m. Police said he ran behind the truck and crossed three lanes of traffic, including a turn lane.
Swann ran into the path of Kelly Tiller, 32, of Lexington, and she hit him with the left front fender of her vehicle while traveling south on Michael Road at about 25 mph. Police said Swann was at fault.
Swann was taken to a hospital in Lexington with non-life-threatening injuries.


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I must admit, I have always tended to shy away from Gender History. Or, in fact, any part of history that mentions the word 'women' too much. I guess its only natural, after one of my first year tutors at Uni tried to tell us that the most important effect of the first world war was that women started smoking and riding motorbikes. I guess the millions of men being killed didnt occur to her.
Having said that, I know that women have often played an important, and usually overlooked, role in times of War. All too often we can become too fixated on Planes, tanks, and Generals, when in fact total war means exactly that. This new book by Ann Kramer should go a long way to redressing the balance for one of the Women's services that has been perhaps the most maligned of all – the Women's Land Army.
Aware that once war started millions of men would be called up, the Government drew up plans to recruit women to replace male agricultural workers. Thousands volunteered, and served throughout the war in their distinctive slouch hats and green jerseys. Without their sterling work througout the country on farms, and also performing forestry work, they made a vital contribution to keeping Britain's supplies of food stable. We only have to look at the fact that Britain is an island nation dependent on imports, and how close the U-boats came to starving the country, to see what might have been if the Land Girls had not played their part.
But it wasn't all green fields and nice summer evenings. The work was a big shock to many of the girls, a fair proportion of whom came from towns and were unused to rural ways. Indeed, many countryfolk were very sceptical about the potential of women for working on the land, and the Land Army had to go a long way to prove their worth, and to overcome fairly entrenched social attitudes and snobbery. And then at the end of the war, they were given scant recognition for many years – a truly glaring ommission, like the country's failure to recognise the service of the Bevin Boys.
The story of the Land Girls is at the epicentre of many of the important social development of the second world war – attitudes to gender, changing roles in society, class and the relations between rural and urban Britain. The needs of total war always seem to bring about a lot of social change in a very short change of time, and this case is no exception.
This is a very interesting book, and I am sure that it will contribute much to the history of women during wartime. Kramer makes interesting use of oral history interviews with surviving Land Girls, which in my opinion is absolutely crucial in a book like this. My only criticism might be that the way these accounts are presented, often in separate boxes, does break up the text a little. But this is a relatively minor point, I enjoyed reading this book immensely.
Land Girls and Their Impact is published by Remember When


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The family of a Saudi Arabian woman stabbed to death on a footpath have appealed to the person responsible to hand themselves in.
English language student Nahid Almanea, 31, was knifed 16 times and left to die on the Salary Brook Trail in Colchester, Essex, at around 10.40am on June 17.
Despite high profile police appeals her killer has not been caught.
Detectives at Essex Police have not ruled out links with the killing of James Attfield, 33, who was stabbed 102 times on his arms, hands, back, neck and head, in a park in the town on March 29.
They are also investigating the possibility Ms Almanea was targeted because of her traditional Muslim dress.
Officers recently travelled to Saudi Arabia to meet with her family as part of their inquiries.
In a statement issued through a liaison officer, the family said they were "devastated by the terrible murder".
They added: "Nahid was a remarkable and gentle person who was loved for her kind and caring nature.
"Publicly Nahid was a quiet and dignified lady who chose to pursue her academic studies in order to work towards her PHD and whilst in England she made a decision that she would respect her heritage and traditions in the way that she dressed and conducted herself.
"However, when she was with her family Nahid was a warm and loving person who enjoyed laughter and the company of her parents, siblings and extended family.
"The amount of people that attended Nahid's funeral is a tribute to how much she was cared for and respected.
"We wish to appeal directly to the person responsible for Nahid's death, to come forward and hand themselves in to the police in order to relieve our suffering and let justice take its course.
"It is vital that anyone with any information about Nahid's death, no matter how small, contacts the police to share the information. "
Detective Superintendent Steve Worron said officers had also met with police in the city of Jeddah.
He added: "My officers were able to extend our condolences to her family as well as gaining further information about Nahid's life in Saudi Arabia before she left to further her studies in England.
"This visit was an important step in engaging with Nahid's family as well as developing links with local police who are keen to assist with the investigation."
Detectives are looking to trace a number of people who were seen on the Salary Brook Trail between 10.15am and 10.45am on the morning of the murder.
A £10,000 reward has been offered to anyone with information which leads to the conviction of the person or people responsible.
Witnesses should contact the incident room 01245 282103 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111."
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I am glad to see you are now promoting such a logic.Ben wrote:I'm wondering how many people know about the disturbing fact that in many countries, the vast majority of calves born to diary cows are slaughtered at less than five days of age. Knowing this, and that demand for milk perpetuates the intense suffering of diary cattle, is it still ethical to consume diary products?
I would raise another question: is it absolutely necessary to make cattle suffer beyond limits in order to produce milk? If the answer is affirmative, then it is clearly unethical. If not, the answer is not so clear, because IMO we are not responsible for the wrong choices of the farm industry, and of all those who pressure it to produce at low cost, no matter what it means for the cattle. But we then we would have to make genuine effort to consume milk that is produced without making cattle suffer, as far as it can be found. In case it is possible to get milk without cruelty, due to the fact that the cow may produce more than the calf's need, then I think it was okay in traditional societies such as at the time of the Buddha, because bulls were raised to plough fields, so they did not become useless.
That said, given the fact that dairy products are not necessary in our diet, and can even be a problem, it seems more logical to avoid them altogether, for all those reasons.


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Top 14 side Toulon will be without France captain Mathieu Bastareaud for the next five weeks after the centre was punished for striking an opponent in a game earlier this month.
Towards the end of Toulon's win over Castres, Bastareaud drove his forearm into the side of Christophe Samson's head, an act he was dismissed for at the time.
He learned his punishment on Wednesday from a disciplinary panel, who decreed the 30-year-old's act warranted only a five-week ban after they factored in his recognition of guilt.
Bastareaud will be available to play for Toulon again from October 15 and can feature against Edinburgh in the European Rugby Champions Cup later that week.
Upon seeing the length of the punishment handed out, former England international Austin Healey wrote on Twitter: "Insane, should be five months".
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Fargo: Remastered (US - BD RA)
Gabe revisits The Coen's masterpiece from a local perspective...
Pleasant, but downtrodden car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) hires a couple of reject criminals, Carl (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear (Peter Stormare), to kidnap his wife, Jean (Kristin Rudrüd), and ransom her off to her wealthy, gruff, disapproving father, Wade (Harve Presnell). Jerry will then collect part of the ransom for himself. When complications arise and innocent bystanders are murdered, a small down cop, Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand), begins piecing together the details of Jerry's plan and closes in on Carl and Gaear.
The first time I saw Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo, I was living in southern Arizona. The quirky characters and frozen environments of the film were absolutely alien to me. I assumed the Midwestern accents were being exaggerated and the barren landscapes were being amplified for effect. After all, I'd seen the Coen's version of Arizona in Raising Arizona – a film that insisted that residents in the region spoke with thick Southern accents (they don't). Years later, I moved to the state the bulk of Fargo takes place in (Minnesota, not North Dakota) and realized that the Coen's brilliance was not in exaggerating the milieu of the great white north, but in recreating its essence on film. It turns out that there is little exaggeration, outside of the ad campaign's claim that Fargo was based on a true story. The people in the region, specifically the area north of Minneapolis/St. Paul, really do talk like Marge Gunderson and Jerry Lundegaard (as a matter of fact, the guy that sold me my last car was a dead ringer for William H. Macy), though they will argue tooth & nail that they do not sound like 'that' – in the very accent they claim not to have, amusingly enough.
Fargo captures the isolation of an oppressive Minnesota winter as well as the truth beneath the 'you betcha' smiles – the people that survive it year in and year out are incredibly passive-aggressive. Minnesota Nice isn't so much a lie as it is a fib. It's like an unspoken agreement: if you're going to live in the rural areas of the state, you're also going to sign a contract that was scrawled generations ago by the Scandinavians that were willing to colonize this godforsaken ice ball. Nobody really wants to put on a false face, but you might as well establish the veneer of pleasantry if you're going to live somewhere that the other homesteaders decided was too hellish to set up shop. Having grown up in the Twin Cities suburbs, the Coens clearly understood the contract as well as its fallacy and saw the potential in juxtaposing the bleak landscapes and polite faces with a brutal noir tale. Given Fargo's long-term popularity, I'm surprised that 'Midwestern Gothic' never really caught on and find it kind of ironic that Scandinavian/Nordic Noir is spreading stateside, following the popularity of books like Stieg Larsson's Millennium series and Jo Nesbø's Headhunters.
Having lived among the natives for more than a decade, I also understand that Fargo's humour is painted in subtle strokes as well as broad ones. The more vulgar dark comedy that surrounds Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare's characters represents an outsider's sense of humour. Their experiences with the maddening façade of Minnesota Nice and the locals' reactions to their vulgarity are the surface-level comedy. Beneath that is the even darker comedy – the comedy of emotional truth. The Minnesotans/North Dakotans are capable of the same level of anger and evil that Buscemi and Stormare are, but they keep those passions at bay (assuming they aren't behind the relative anonymity of a steering wheel). The joke isn't so much that William H. Macy's Jerry Lundegaard is incapable of horrible violence – it's that he has been conditioned to be incapable of acting on impulse (the scene where he impotently tries to scrape ice from his windshield is at once hilarious and heartbreaking). The mundanity of Jerry's evil is every bit as hilarious as Stormare shoving Buscemi's body into a wood chipper.
It's difficult to isolate a single character in a career as full of memorable people as the Coen's, but, outside of perhaps Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, who has taken on a life all of his own outside of even the Coen's influence (partially due to the fact that he's based on a real guy), I believe that Marge is the Brothers' most vital contribution to the greater lexicon. She is an anti-antihero – an unshakably good person that doesn't immediately meet any of the physical 'requirements' of a typical matinee crime-fighter. She's an average looking, 40-something woman who is heavily pregnant and in the throes of morning sickness. She speaks in a disarming Midwestern cadence without a hint of arrogance, yet she's better at her job than her male counterparts. She's also in a healthy, loving relationship with an ordinary man that supports her career choices, bucking the obnoxious trend of emasculated husbands that disapprove of their wife/partner's lack of domestication (though the disapproving mate trope is equally obnoxious when you reverse the sexes). All of these things add up to one of the quintessential cinematic heroines of not only the '90s, but of all time.
The scene where Marge meets up with an old friend named Mike Yanagita (Steve Park), who awkwardly tries to seduce her, is the one scene in the movie that doesn't fit. For years, I assumed it was because it was an off-rhythm cutaway from the main story arc, but, even though it loosens an otherwise taut script, it eventually serves a purpose (the events force Marge to change her assumption that Jerry was telling the truth during his interview). I now realize that my real problem with the scene was more conceptual – it doesn't fit with my image of Marge as an idealized feminist icon. These are the only events that cram her into a traditional film role. She's not objectified in the traditional Hollywood sense, but a character within the film is objectifying her. She is, however, briefly victimized in a fashion. It will always feel like an uncharacteristically off moment in an otherwise brilliant film because of it. (Do note that I'm more than willing to be talked out of my opinion in this matter)
Fargo has had a decent life on digital home media. Contrary to popular opinion (I guess?), I never had any major problems with Fox/MGM's first Blu-ray release (released in 2009). It was likely made using the same source as the earlier anamorphic DVD releases and was a significant upgrade in terms of the important stuff, like detail (the DVD was always a bit blurry), colour quality, and overall clarity, but didn't clear out the grain with unnecessary DNR processes. But there was definitely room for improvement, especially when it came to edge enhancement effects and element separation on the bleakest snowscapes. Recent history has made it very easy to trust MGM's remastering processes, specifically the results of their Terminator and Robocop re-releases, because both of those discs were notable improvements on previous releases. The stakes aren't quite as high in the case of Fargo, but the difference between this new 1080p, 1.85:1 transfer and the 2009 one are enough for fans to make the double (triple if we're counting DVDs) dip.
As you can see from these screen caps (remaster on top, original release on bottom), there have been changes made. The most important difference is the lack of edge haloes and other sharpening artefacts, which were the old transfer's chief offenders. A side effect is that some of the close-up details on the new release are a hair softer, but I believe we can assume that this is closer to the intended look, considering the artefacts surrounding the older transfer's crispest lines and textures. The remaster also features more balanced grain levels, though I'm not entirely convinced what remains is natural film grain and not digital noise. At first, I assumed that the slightly softer close-ups and less prevalent grain were signs of DNR enhancement, but further comparison makes it clear that the old disc had harsher contrast levels to facilitate the artificial sharpening. This made for darker lines and film artefacts. This release's gradations are more subtle and natural. The new disc is darker overall, which may appear 'off' in the screencaps, but, in motion, this darkness better serves Roger Deakins' delicate and moody photography. MGM's Terminator re-release did alter the original colour-timing pretty significantly, turning blue hues to teal ones. Fargo's colours have, thankfully, not been critically altered since the first release, though the warmer hues, specifically reds and skin tones, have been drained of a touch of their previous rosiness and now appear more yellow/orange (see the caps of Buscemi's face with red police lights behind him for an example of the subtle change).
Fargo is, once again, presented in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 sound. My ears didn't hear any difference between this version and the previous release, so I'm going to assume the remastering process didn't include messing with the original Blu-ray's already fine audio. Unlike, say, No Country for Old Men, the Coens didn't aim for a particularly aggressive mix. They opted for more ambient immersion and general mood than directional momentum and surround channel tricks. Most of the film is dialogue-driven and the most blunt sound effects are usually of the incidental variety – the vague noise of bar patrons, the car dealership's Muzak, the hum of vehicles passing on the highway, et cetera. The uncompressed track helps keep the dialogue clear and the supportive effects deeply situated. The mix livens up between scenes, where the effects from one location blend into another. These bits sweep the important effect (sometimes dialogue) into the stereo or surround channels as well. Long-time musical collaborator Carter Burwell's score is high among the mix's most strident elements and is limited to only a handful of important sequences, where it boosts the emotion of the aural experience (sometimes to intended comedic effect). The instrumentations are rich, the flourishes and stereo augmentations are perfectly subtle, and the pounding kettle drums rumble the LFE beautifully.
There aren't new features on this disc. The recycled supplements include:
- Commentary with director of photography Roger Deakins
- Minnesota Nice featurette/EPK (27:50, SD)
- A trivia track
- A text and still-based American Cinematographer interview with Deakins
- A photo gallery
- A trailer and a TV spot
Fargo continues to age well and deserves a place in everyone's home video collection. The old Blu-ray release wasn't any kind of travesty, but it did have some clumpy grain and edge enhancement effects that have been dealt with for this remastered release. The DTS-HD MA mix sounds the same to my ears (which is fine) and MGM/Fox hasn't included any new extras (which is expected, based on the Coen's general disinterest in supplemental material).
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 1st April 2014
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 2.0 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French (Quebecois), Spanish, Portuguese, DTS 5.1 French, Italian, Castellano, German, Dolby Digital 1.0 Hungarian
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Mandarin (Traditional), Norwegian, Polish, Thai, Turkis
Extras: Cinematographer Commentary, Minnesota Nice, Trivia Track, American Cinematographer Article, Photo Gallery, Trailer, TV Spot
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Joel (and Ethan) Cohen
Cast: Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, Peter Stormare
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir and Thriller
Length: 98 minutes
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Several federal courts across the nation have experienced a jury scam designed to falsely obtain Social Security numbers and dates of birth to facilitate identity theft. Although we have not had any of this activity reported in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, we want to alert you to how this scam has worked in other courts.
- A caller, purporting to be a jury DUTY coordinator (using a fabricated caller ID showing a courthouse number) calls you and alleges that you have missed juror duty and must pay a fine.
- When you respond that you never received a jury summons, the caller asks for your Social Security number and date of birth to verify the summons was sent.
- The callers often use intimidation with the threat of fines or legal action if they are not provided the information needed to cancel the arrest warrant.
- If you give out your Social Security number and date of birth to the caller, your identity has been stolen.
Please, do not give your Social Security number to anyone over the phone.
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Quite the interesting twist in this weeks' and last week's chapter
Spoiler for chapter 72-73:
I really do like Fairy tail, but i do agree that there is some problem in the storytelling that throws it off... i don't think it's so much the lack of a main plotline, afterall, i think alot of manga starting off without one and went a good amount of time before it was revealed...
I think the problem is that the arcs feel very episodic and not part of one continious storyline... i mean, except for a few details, you could rearrange the arcs and almost not notice much of a difference; only a few minor details here and there would be amiss... Look at other mangas, if you try to rearange the arcs and you are gonna be seriously confused and know in an instant something is seriously wrong
I think the problem is that their is a serious lack of build up before the arcsc began... we just jump right into things without anykind of background. I mean we got some development on some of the other guild members, but that development and background feels empty somehow... i think the reason is because we never saw much of them before. We saw them a couple of times but we never got to really get into their characters... i think some of the things that would have been nessary is much more focus on the secondary characters in the arcs before the arc where we saw their background... more focus on Loki and elfman and so forth... hell before the phantom guild arc, i think we should have seen some more references to phantom in previous arcs... get a feel for them before they become big players; gotta crawl before you walk, and gotta walk before you run and all that...
Ofcourse, all of this extra backgrond and such would have added considerably to to how long the story would take to tell, possibly even twice as long... but that's how it is with all long running manga's like shonen's, they take a long time to tell... it would be for the best in the long run... the longer the story is the more details you can throw in and the more you can develop and build. The story would come out much better as a result.
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I picked this manga up a couple days ago and have caught up to 74. I have enjoyed every chapter, except the last couple. This story about Loki is just zzzzZZZZZzz, glad it's over. It's defnitely similar to One Piece, and if this manga is going to continue for a long time it might not be such a bad thing that we don't have much background on Natsu yet.
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I saw it in Kinokuniya, thought of buying it. But I didn't have enough money with me, haha. Anyway, when I looked at only the cover art, I was SO damned sure that it was the same mangaka as One Piece. I mean, come on! They are SO similar. Damn, I didn't expect it to be the same mangaka as Rave Master though. Lol.
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I read all the way up to the current chapter on this today just to see what it was about. I really like it thus far, for some reason I could never get into One Piece but I had no trouble with Fairy Tail.
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