Throughout the last century, Columbia Memorial Hospital has relied on community support to help fund excellence in healthcare. From the very first hospital to the move to the Exchange Street campus, donors have helped make progress possible.
The Hospital also carries the responsibility of providing a safety net throughout Clatsop County. In 2011, Columbia Memorial Hospital provided almost $2 million in charity care to the community. Over $3.4 million was written off for "bad debt"—the cost of services billed but not reimbursed.
The Hospital also has to save money, keeping funds in reserve to afford future needed services and programs, facility improvements and expansion, equipment purchases, facility replacement, IT systems—the list of operational costs is long! Much like we all have to save to take care of our homes and have enough funds to pay the bills—mortgage, utilities, insurance, etc. the Hospital has to save or "reserve" money as well.
CMH is well managed, which is a significant achievement for any hospital but especially for one that holds the rare status of being an independent, locally controlled provider.
This is an even greater achievement when you consider that to free up $1 for use in replacing equipment, maintaining facilities and retaining highly skilled staff, the Hospital has to earn $12.50. In other words, to purchase a $2 million piece of equipment, or fund a program for one year, the Hospital has to generate $25 million in revenue to be able save $2 million.
Why? Because hospitals can generate revenue three ways: through operations, borrowing and philanthropy. Raising money through operations has become increasingly difficult as hospitals have a severely limited ability to raise rates and cannot decline to provide most healthcare services. Yet, the rate of medical innovation is off the charts. It's difficult in keep up when you consider that medical technology changes and advances about every 18 months!
If a hospital borrows money then it has to pay that money back—with interest. So, $1 million borrowed at 5% interest over 15 years will cost $1.4 million which equates to $28.4 million in operating revenue needed to repay the loan.


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The baseball movie "Field of Dreams" was filmed in Dyersville, Iowa. Some two-and-a-half hours southwest just might be golf's field of dreams.
I must admit The Harvester, designed by course architect Keith Foster 25 miles northeast of Des Moines in Rhodes, had the same ethereal effect on me as did the famous film, even before realizing the Iowa connection. The popular layout is a tough but fair 7,340-yard, par-72 gem from the tips, although course owner Dickson Jensen and I opted for the 6,775-yard blue tees, which play to a 72.9/133 rating/slope as opposed to 75.6/137 from the black tees.
The meticulously maintained course — No. 46 in Golf Digest's "America's 100 Greatest Public Golf Courses 2013-2014" ranking — has surprisingly dramatic elevation changes, contradicting my prior belief that Iowa is dead flat. Still, it's a peaceful, easy walk over the bucolic property, which is dotted with groves of native trees, waving fescue, winding creeks, placid ponds and 60-acre Lake Harvester, which affects play on five holes.
Following a shaky bogey-double bogey start, I birdied the stout, 180-yard third hole, which requires an all-carry shot over a tee-to-green pond, and made par on the beautiful 575-yard fourth to right the ship. Besides the third, my other favorite front-side holes are the 560-yard sixth, a lovely downhill test that requires carrying a green-front water hazard, and the strong, uphill 465-yard par 4. The drive must avoid Lake Harvester on the left side, which then cuts in front of the landing area, necessitating an approach over water to the green.
The final five holes highlight an outstanding back nine. The 230-yard 14th, depending on the day's tee location, plays from two completely different angles to a green with a blind rear lower section. The uphill 650-yard 15th, aptly nicknamed "Big Hog," is the course's longest and No. 1 handicap hole. The 480-yard, par-4 16th plays downhill to a putting surface backdropped by the lake, which also guards the left-to-right front sides of the peninsula green on the 180-yard 17th.
The lake also plays a prominent role on the classic risk-reward, 565-yard 18th. Water lines the entire dogleg-right hole's right side, then separates the landing area from a middle peninsula, and again severs the middle peninsula from a final patch of land upon which the undulating green and three bunkers await.
No matter how you fare on the demanding finishing stretch, you'll no doubt find The Harvester is a course you'll want to play again and again. Apparently Dickson Jensen and Keith Foster — like Kevin Costner —are true believers in the "Build-It–and-They-Will-Come" philosophy.
The Harvester, Rhodes, Iowa
Website: www.harvestergolf.com
Rates: April 12 (course opening)-May 27, $99; May 28-Sept. 15, $129; Sept. 16-Oct. 31 (course closing), $99
Stay-and-play packages are offered at The Harvester's on-site lodge and multi-room condominiums: www.harvestergolf.com/amenities/packages.html

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The '90s was a great time for all dotcom companies. When the first internet browser arrived in 1992, more and more people started their companies based only on the internet. Such companies as Amazon, Yahoo!, Paypal, and more. However, most of them failed together with the dotcom crash at the beginning of 2000.
Make incremental advances - Big visions are dangerous. Small steps are the only safe path forward.
Stay lean and flexible - Beware of big plans. Planning is arrogant and inflexible. Instead, make experiments and slowly iterate.
Improve the competition - Instead of creating a new market prematurely, build a product on a market that already has competitors.
Focus on product, not sales - Viral growth is the only sustainable growth. If your product needs ads or a sales team, it's not good enough.
However, the opposite of these lessons might be truer.
Sales matter just as much as the product.
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This week I want to share some of my own testing results and summarize the benefits and downsides of this specific shutter testing unit. The camera I selected to test is the Olympus OM-1n MD from 1979. To begin the test, the lens of the camera is removed. The LED must be placed in the center of the lens opening so that light can reach the sensor when the shutter is triggered. I've drilled a hole in a 35mm film canister and taped it to the desk, so it won't move while testing. The curtain sensor is the placed on the back of the open camera. I've used a rubber band to keep the sensor in place and tight against the camera. Lastly, the testing unit is powered on and setup for the correct shutter type.
To record my results, I've created an Excel spreadsheet. The camera will be set at the fastest shutter speed, tested 10 times, recording each of the results in the spreadsheet. Then the camera will be set to the next slowest shutter speed, tested 10 times, recording the results. This process is repeated all the way to the slowest shutter speed on the camera. In the spreadsheet, I have it create an average speed based on the 10 individual tests.
When I received this unit, I went to my friend Maurice and asked him about industry standards and shutter test tolerances. He explained to me that for speeds 1/125th of a second and faster, there is a 30% tolerance on either side. For speeds slower than 1/125th of a second, shutter speeds can have an acceptable tolerance of 20% on either side.
When testing the OM-1, I could not get the unit to register a speed of 1/1000th. This unit is designed to test up to that speed, and other cameras I've tested at this speed have been successful. I'm not sure why the testing unit doesn't like the OM-1 at this speed. As you can see from the results, at 1/500th of a second, the speed was too high, giving me about 1/910th of a second. As the shutter speeds became slower, the more accurate they became. What does that mean for this camera? It could be sent off for a CLA to have the speed adjusted. Or, I can simply make myself a note that the two highest speeds are a little too fast.
– Easy to read screen.
– Build quality is good for a product that's not mass produced.
– Documentation is poor. Trial and error helped me more than trying to understand the documentation. The documentation for the sensor we're giving away is much better.
– May not be 100% accurate, but close enough to help you make a decision about a camera.
– The unit must be turned off if you decide to make changes to the setup. For example, testing the shutter, then deciding to test the shutter and curtain.
– Navigating the menus with a single button can be difficult.
As I promised last week, let's give away a shutter testing sensor! This is a sensor that can be used with a computer, tablet or smartphone. You will need to supply your own light source, like an LED flashlight. When you connect the light sensor to your preferred device, you will need (free) audio recording software. For example, Audacity on the PC. The sensor doesn't record audio, it interprets the light and displays it on your screen. All of this information is detailed in the included instructions.
Rules: One (1) entry per person. Participants must provide email address, full name, shipping address, and country. Giveaway will be open 5/9/2018 through 5/31/2018. A winner will be chosen at random on 6/1/2018 and notified via email. A total number of participants and the winners name will be posted in the comments of this post on 6/1/2018.
Have you ever purchased a used film camera and asked yourself, "I wonder if the shutter speeds are accurate?" Or simply thought, "Sounds good enough." There are inexpensive methods to test mechanical shutter speeds like mobile apps and do-it-yourself projects found online. When I was doing some research to test my own cameras, I came across Vasile Florin, a Romanian seller on eBay that sells premade shutter testing units. He has several combinations of equipment. For example, some units are made to test shutter speeds beyond 1/1000th, and others are simply a sensor that plug into the mic jack on your computer.
The tester I'm using is Vasile Florin's version 10. It includes a main unit that has a 6 row, 14 column LCD display. On the main unit are jacks for an LED light source, a curtain sensor, and a DC input for power. The unit can also be powered by a 9-volt battery. When powering on the main unit, you use the black button below the curtain sensor input jack to make your selections in the testing menus.
Top to bottom: LED light jack, curtain sensor jack, menu selection button, on/off switch.
This unit can perform both a shutter test, or curtain and shutter test. The last menu prompt before testing begins is: focal plane, leaf, diaphragm, or other. This is a nice feature that separates this unit from cheaper ones. The curtain sensor on this model has 5 light sensing photo cells. The middle photo cell can be turned on by itself if you are using the sensor plugged into the mic jack on a computer.
Next week, I'll continue with part 2 of this post and share some of my own testing results along with some pros and cons of this unit.
Make sure to come back for part 2, because I'll be giving away a shutter tester that you can use with a smartphone, tablet, or computer.


In an ASP.NET MVC project, the model binder is a feature of the framework that performs a lot of the heavy lifting behind the scenes. In this article, we are going to talk about everything you need to know to get the most out of model binding, with an eye toward simplicity. But before we can do that, we need to go through what things looked like before model binding arrived on the scene.
by Serge Baranovsky v1.1 progress & Enterprise Edition The v1.1 release that includes .NET 3.5 syntax has been slightly delayed. There are two reasons for that – we had too much fun at the MVP Summit mid-April and we made few significant changes to the parsing and refactoring engines to support the 3.5 syntax. The coding part is done, we cover all of the .NET 3.5 now. And we are going through a major testing phase as the base application layer responsible for all .NET versions was affected. We are currently targeting end of May for the v1.1 release date….


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Sammy Hagar apologizes to Van Halen
Sammy Hagar offers what may well be his first-ever public apology to Van Halen in a video preview to his appearance on this week's episode of "Oprah: Where Are They Now?"
Hagar, who split from Van Halen in 1996 and reunited with them to support a greatest hits album on a 2004 tour that ended poorly, has repeatedly bashed the band at every turn since – including recent slams over the group's 2015 live album and claims that brothers Alex and Eddie Van Halen have been trying to shut down his ability to perform material from his time in the lineup.
Following the late 2015/early 2016 deaths of fellow rockers Scott Weiland, Lemmy, David Bowie and Glenn Frey, Hagar tells Oprah that he has found himself in a new place.
"The whole Van Halen issue, I really put that behind me, and I'm proud of what we did. So I've decided, forgive and forget," explains the Red Rocker. "I ain't looking for nothing from nobody. I don't wanna… I ain't asking to be, you know… get back in the band and do all that again; that's work! I don't wanna do that. No, no, no. I just wanna be friends."
He adds: "I wanna say I'm sorry of anything I said bad about you."
Hagar's comments to Oprah mirror much of what he told Rolling Stone in March, just weeks after the singer reached out to Eddie Van Halen for the first time in more than a decade in an effort to re-establish a friendship with his former bandmate on the occasion of his 61st birthday in late January.
Hagar made headlines with a tweet to the guitar icon, writing "Happy Birthday Eddie - hope you're doing good", which prompted the reply, "Thanks Sammy. Hope you're well too."
Van Halen toured North America last year with current and original lead singer David Lee Roth following the release of "Tokyo Dome: Live In Concert."
Supergroup The Circle – which features Hagar, bassist Michael Anthony, drummer Jason Bonham and guitarist Vic Johnson – will return to the road for more US dates starting August 24 in Tulalip, WA.
Formed in 2014, the group released their first live DVD, "At Your Service", last December.
This week's episode of "Oprah: Where Are They Now?" airs Saturday, August 20 at 10 PM, ET/PT on OWN.
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Education in crisis
Britain's divided schools: a disturbing portrait of inequality
One of the most comprehensive studies into fairness in the UK shows how class, race and gender remain crucial factors in determining how British pupils succeed at school - and beyond
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Anushka Asthana
Sat 9 Oct 2010 19.04 EDT First published on Sat 9 Oct 2010 19.04 EDT
Children are being failed by Britain's schools because of inequalities relating to gender, race and cultural issues, according to the report. Photograph: Alamy
The statistics are stark: boys are slipping behind girls in 11 out of 13 learning categories by the age of five; children from the poorest families are half as likely to achieve good GCSEs; black pupils of Caribbean descent are three times more likely to be excluded; four out of five young people with special needs are being bullied; between a quarter and a third of Muslim women have no qualifications.
After decades of reform, during which governments have tried desperately to address the social fault lines in British education, the problems persist.
In the space of 80 pages – one chapter of its groundbreaking report on fairness in Britain, due to be published tomorrow – the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) portrays an education system in 2010 that is deeply divided. The inequalities emerge at nursery, carry on into primary school and secondary education, and then university and beyond. Some relate to race, others to poverty, disability and the problems experienced by Britain's boys.
The report, How Fair is Britain?, reveals evidence of boys in their early years slipping behind in problem solving and reasoning and then in social and emotional development. By the age of five, 53% had reached the expected level in writing compared with 72% of girls.
Next they underachieve at GCSE, failing to go in such large numbers to university; when they do, they are less likely to gain a 2:1 or a first. It is not just an academic problem – the report finds that boys are also three and a half times more likely to be permanently excluded from school. "A lot of boys feel they do not fit into the way education is now," said Gaynor Sbuttoni, an educational psychologist. She argued that schools placed too much emphasis on skills that boys often struggle with but which were not necessarily relevant in adulthood.
Take neat handwriting as an example, she said, describing seeing a beautifully written piece by a male pupil that had one comment scrawled across it by a teacher: "Please write more neatly."
Or sitting still – something girls tend to be better at. "So a boy can't sit still, so he gets told off, so he starts to feel like a bad boy, so he starts to behave like a bad boy, so he gets told off some more, so he gets angry, so the teacher gets angry and so on," said Sbuttoni, her words tumbling out as she described the vicious circle. "And so his work will suffer."
The under-achievement of boys is an international phenomenon that has emerged in recent years. New Labour sought to tackle it in the late 1990s when Stephen Byers, then the schools standards minister, said we "should not simply accept with a shrug of the shoulder that boys will boys". So councils were ordered to draw up plans that addressed the issue. Later, there was an intensive project in more than 50 schools. Some blamed the lack of male primary teachers so there was a drive to recruit more.
For Sbuttoni the solution is obvious. "We need to change the way we teach, we need to make it more attractive, more fun, take the pressure away so we are not just worrying about the amount of information we can stuff into children's brains," she said. She remembered watching pupils collect spiders and worms and use them to learn about nature, geography and maths. Boys thrived in that environment, she claimed.
Many parents agree. Late last week, mothers writing on the Mumsnet website discussed the issues. "I think that boys take longer to be ready to learn than girls," wrote one woman. "When a boy is six to seven they are still very active and have a short attention span." Erratic boys found it hard to be told suddenly to calm down and concentrate, she added.
Another mother described how one "chaotic" school with few opportunities to play outside sent boys "stir crazy".
According to the EHRC report, bullying is rife in the classrooms, corridors and playgrounds of Britain's school. Two thirds of young people claimed to have been bullied at some point between 2004 and 2006. That proportion rises to four fifths when it comes to children with special educational needs (SEN). One woman writing on Mumsnet said her son had high-functioning autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. "He was bullied daily," she wrote. "The children knew that they could coax a reaction from him, so would goad him and call him names, walk up behind him and poke him like a dog and then run off." Yet it was her son who was excluded.
It is a depressingly familiar story to campaigner Julie Maynard, who has a 15-year-old autistic son, Joshua, and who has represented dozens of other parents of children at the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal.
"Are you really surprised that children who are perceived as different are bullied? The sadness is that many SEN children do not have the language ability or cognitive ability to defend themselves," said Maynard. She talked of children with learning disabilities and autism having to "fend for themselves in dizzy, mainstream schools, unsupervised at lunch and play".
But Maynard wanted to talk about parents, too. "What appals me is the lack of sympathy by parents of able children towards our children, who they perceive as a nuisance and a burden. It adds educational pressure to school staff who have to deal with the wishes of both competing groups of parents," she said.
The EHRC report also highlights homophobic bullying – and cyber-bullying, which it says affects one in three young people of secondary age. It also points to research that suggests children with religious beliefs have been targeted because of their faith.
Charities that offer support to young people abused at school say that an increasing number are being driven to suicide.
Emma-Jane Cross, chief executive of Beatbullying, said it was "unacceptable" that between a third and half of all children in the UK think bullying is a problem in their school – a statistic revealed in the report.
Taken to the extreme, bullying meant criminal behaviour, she added, explaining that her organisation was lobbying for a school safety bill to make it unlawful to harass pupils or teachers at school. Next month, thousands will take part in an online "Big March" in protest at the problem.
And the impact of bullying permeates children's school achievement as well. According to the EHRC, children who have been bullied do worse in GCSEs – scoring on average 15% lower than those who have not. They are also twice as likely to end up out of education and without a job.
Some of the trends highlighted in the EHRC report are clear – boys are falling behind girls, children with disabilities are highly vulnerable and those from the poorest families face disadvantage from the very start.
The study highlights the fact that just over a third of children who qualify for free school meals – often used as an indicator of deprivation – reach a "good" level of development by the age of five. That compares with more than half who do not.
For white British, Bangladeshi and black Caribbean boys on free meals, the number is closer to a quarter. And the trend continues throughout school, with pupils from the poorest families half as likely to get good GCSE results and twice as likely to be permanently excluded.
Policymakers know that poverty matters when it comes to attainment. That is why league tables based on a "value-added" measure were introduced that looked not just at overall results but at how far pupils had come. And while many argue about their worth, academies brought in by the last government to replace struggling schools in deprived communities were meant to break down such social divisions.
The coalition also says it is driven by a desire to stamp out such unfairness. Sarah Teather, the Liberal Democrat children's minister, said: "We have a moral duty to eradicate the unacceptable inequalities that still exist in our society, to narrow the gaps between rich and poor and between different ethnic groups, to work as hard as we can to make our society fairer." She said policies such as the pupil premium, which will provide extra funding for the poorest pupils, will be at the heart of her government's plans.
Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said Teather was right to highlight economic disadvantage as key.
But he argued that the inequalities emerged well before children reached the school gates: "Schools are not adding to the problem – they are part of the solution."
Once it was a story of black and white, in which racial discrimination was a major driving force. But in tomorrow's report, the story of ethnicity is a complicated one – in which poor black boys underachieve, as do those from Irish Traveller families, but poor Chinese girls overachieve; Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities see different outcomes to Indian ones; and there is a growing group of mixed race children who in themselves have complex outcomes.
Take exclusions, for example. Pupils from non-white British backgrounds were as likely in 2008-09 to be permanently excluded as pupils overall. But a more detailed analysis shows large differences between groups.
The lowest permanent exclusion rates were among the Asian community, with five out of every 10,000 pupils being excluded, followed by children with one white and one Asian parent.
Those closer to the average of 10 permanent exclusions per 10,000 were white British, black African, Irish and mixed white/black African children. Yet children with one white and one black Caribbean parent were 2.5 times more likely to be excluded than average, with a rate of 25 per 10,000 pupils. The highest rates of exclusions were found among Gypsy/Roma children, who were more than three times more likely to be excluded, followed by black Caribbean pupils.
Last week, at the Conservative party conference, deputy headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh declared: "Black underachievement is due in part to the chaos of our classrooms, and in part to the accusation of racism. If you keep telling teachers that they're racist for trying to discipline black boys ... the schools stop reprimanding these children."
Rob Berkeley, director of the Runnymede Trust, a leading race equality thinktank, said the comments were a concern. "My worry is the race to say that racial discrimination is never a problem," he said. But tomorrow's report makes clear that ethnicity still matters – even if you control the factor of class, he added. So it is a little early to declare "mission accomplished".
He said the issue of race inequality had become complex and it was urgent to highlight what parts of disadvantage were about racial discrimination and what were about something else.
"A lot of the time you look at the figures and say there is inequality and that needs to be tackled. But when you come to the real stats, then some is about class, some about gender and some about cultural patterns."
Hobby argued that it was important to maintain high expectations of all children, be they black, brown or white, male or female, rich or poor, disabled or not. "The solution is not to single out separate groups," he said. After all, as the EHRC report makes clear, disadvantage is much more complicated than that. It is often about people who fall into two, three or four categories that are highlighted.
What the EHRC report does show is that inequality remains a stark reality in Britain – not just throughout a deeply split education system, but on into adulthood, where who you are and where you came from continues to define where you are likely to end up.
Tomorrow, the government's equalities body lays down the most comprehensive set of evidence ever published; a fairness map of Britain that spells out just how far we have to go. It is up to politicians to decide if and how they will embark on the journey.
How fair is Britain? Get the key data
Britishness and being fair are supposed to go together. See how the key data shows that is not always the case
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National Flag of Rwanda and Flag History
National Flag of Rwanda
Rwanda is an East African sovereign state, it is a small nation and officially runs on thedemocratic system. The bordering countries of Rwanda are Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and Congo. The terrain of Rwanda is diverse, mostly mountains and thesubtropical mainland. The season is rainy throughout the year in most parts of the country, it is dry towards the south of the country. The official tongues of Rwanda are English, French, and Kinyarwanda. It gained independence from Belgium on 1stJuly 1962. The state flag of Rwanda was adopted on October 25, 2001, as an amendment to the law. It is a horizontal tricolor with blue, yellow, and green color and a yellow sun on a blue color. The blue color is of double width than the remaining two stripes. It was designed by a local designer and artist Alphonse Kirimobenecyo.
Rwanda Flag History
Before the new flag was assigned as the national flag of Rwanda, the former flag of Rwanda was a vertical tricolor with an influence of its Belgian rule. The tri-color previously used was of red, yellow, and green stripes and a letter "R" in the middle of the tricolor on the yellow line. The letter was used to distinguish the flag from Guyana national flag. The previous flag was changed after the 1994 genocide.
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Rwanda Flag Meaning
All the three colors of the national flag of Rwanda and the sun represent different meanings. The middle band of yellow color and the sun shows the economic prosperity of the country. The green represents the greenery of the northern part and hope of development for the people of Rwanda. The sun symbolizes the enlightenment while the blue color is the happiness and peace of the country and people. E new flag emphasizes on unity, peace, and continuous work.
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What will it say in the newspaper about you when you die? In effect, write your own obituary.
Okay, post comments! I expect to see obituaries! When I get up from the sleep I'm about to retreat to, I'll post my own. I promise it'll be worth it.


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Simply, Rangers can't envision team without Beltre
Star third baseman means too much -- at bat, in field, in clubhouse
By Richard Justice
In the end, the Texas Rangers could not imagine Adrian Beltre playing anywhere else. That's the bottom line. He has come to mean too much to the franchise and to the area. In that way, he's about as close to being the perfect player as anyone in baseball.First things first.
In the end, the Texas Rangers could not imagine Adrian Beltre playing anywhere else. That's the bottom line. He has come to mean too much to the franchise and to the area. In that way, he's about as close to being the perfect player as anyone in baseball.
First things first. He's a great player, a future Hall of Famer, one of the five or six best third basemen ever, and that's the biggest reason the Rangers signed Beltre to a two-year extension worth around $36 million.
Because he's 37 years old, there's some risk in extending him through the 2018 season. Big deal. Every contract has some amount of risk. Besides, what's the alternative? To see him finish his career someplace else? Not after all he has contributed.
Let's begin with the obvious. In six seasons, including 2016, with the Rangers, Beltre's .873 OPS is 15th among all Major Leaguers. He's 12th in home runs (137) and seventh in RBIs (468).
To watch him play third base so elegantly, so efficiently, never rushing, never out of position, is to see a craftsman performing at the highest possible level.
Beyond that, there's something else about Beltre the Rangers love, the thing that may have closed the deal. Beltre is the heart and soul of the team, a quietly funny leader with a penchant for doing and saying exactly the right thing in good times and bad.
He mentors young players, sometimes as a friend, sometimes with tough love. He's an example for the veterans with his relentless work ethic and obsession with doing the right things.
Now about the Hall of Fame. That day is coming. We will look back and remember we were lucky to be able to watch him play just as fans of a different era said of Mike Schmidt, George Brett, etc.
In 19 seasons, he's a four-time All-Star, four-time Gold Glove winner and four-time Silver Slugger. He has finished in the Top 10 in MVP voting five times.
His 84.9 Wins Above Replacement by BaseballReference.com is 32nd all-time and right there in the neighborhood of baseball's best third basemen -- Brett (88.4), Wade Boggs (91.0) and Chipper Jones (85.0).
In a larger context, there are a string of Hall of Famers behind him on that list, including Ken Griffey Jr. (83.6), Joe DiMaggio (78.1) and Johnny Bench (75.0).
Look, these numbers are complicated and can be picked apart. No number can precisely put a player's entire career into context. But they offer an indication of how good Beltre has been.
According to Jay Jaffe's Hall of Fame projection system, Beltre ranks behind only Schmidt, Eddie Mathews, Boggs and Brett on the all-time third-base list.
Because Beltre is still playing at a high level, he could cross a bunch of significant thresholds by the time he's done, including 3,000 hits and 500 home runs. He's sitting at 2,780 and 415.
He could also end up starting more games at third base than anyone ever. At the moment, he's at, 2,449 and is 341 behind Brooks Robinson's 2,790.
There have been ongoing questions in recent seasons about how long the Rangers would want Beltre. After all, he was quickly closing in on his 40th birthday, and one of the Rangers top prospects, Joey Gallo, is a third baseman.
That's a trigger Rangers general manager Jon Daniels has been unable to pull. It's not about whether Gallo is ready for the big leagues. The Rangers have been to the postseason three times in Beltre's first five seasons with them. Along the way, his stature as both a productive player and as a teammate and representative of the franchise has risen to a place only a few players ever reach.
To try to picture the Rangers without him was too large a leap and would create too big of a hole, both in terms of play at third base and leadership in the clubhouse.
Rangers manager Jeff Banister saw it firsthand in his first season with the club last season.
"I've never been around a better clubhouse," he said.
He ticked off a bunch of names, but the list almost always began with Beltre. In a season in which the Rangers rallied from eight games below .500 to sprint to the AL West championship, Beltre was in the middle of everything, hitting .344 in the final five weeks when Texas finally caught and passed the Houston Astros.
When he attempted to play despite crippling back spasms in a Division Series against the Blue Jays, his teammates' regard for him grew to yet another level. And when the Rangers added it all up, they decided he belonged in their uniform for the remainder of his career. As tough decisions go, this wasn't one.
Richard Justice is a columnist for MLB.com. Read his blog, Justice4U.


Hoohoohoo!! Check out these little treasures that I found!!
I was on the way to pick up some alterations from the tailor's when I passed by a small shop selling decorative trinkets. On a table looking oh so cute were these two little colourful owls and I can't help but take them home with me!!


I was supposed to be exploring Cagayan de Oro City on the 49th day of PHL50 but because the National Power Corporation (NPC) Nature's Park was closed to the public during my scheduled visit, I decided to extend my stay in Iligan and just skipped CDO in my itinerary. Maria Cristina Falls is inside the NPC facility and I could not leave the city without seeing it up close.
How to get to Maria Cristina Falls?
Take a Buru-un bound jeep and ask to be dropped off at the bridge near the NPC entrance. Just tell the driver that you are going to visit Maria Cristina Falls and he will surely drop you at the right place. Fare is P12 and travel time is around 15-20 minutes. Entrance Fee to the NPC Park is P35 and a shuttle fee of P10 if you do not have a vehicle.
I left the hostel early so I could explore the Nature's Park a bit. I need to check out at the hostel at 12:00nn so I had to hurry. I arrived at the entrance of the NPC about 10 minutes before 9AM. I had to wait a little bit for the Nature's Park to open. I immediately paid my entrance and shuttle fee and began the tour right away. I was the first visitor of the day.
I was able to finally see Maria Cristina Falls up close. The feeling was surreal because I have been dreaming to see it when I was in my elementary years. It was another dream-come-true experience for me. The falls wasn't in full blast but it was really an amazing experience. I wanted to stay longer but I really had to leave the city soon. So I went back to the city and left bound to CDO.
I had a little time to spend in CDO so I decided to meet my good friend Shugah of Wander Shugah. It was great to catch up with her. Thanks Shugah for the milk tea!
*We do not have a good photo when we met so I took a photo from our recent trip together in Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte.


This should fix the ton of recent issues which I assume are because of the depsolver changes. This will bring back the inner conflicts issues that prevent some circular dependencies from resolving. But they are rare enough compared to the ton of open issues right now.
Due to lack of time I'm just reverting the code, if I have time in future (or some one else wants to take on the task) then the code can be fixed and merged back in.
Revert "Merge pull request #767 from Morganamilo/merge-dep-pool-order"
I'm all for a release now. There's not too much going on right now and this fix is pretty important.


I always love writing a letter to my friends and families on their birthdays but this year I wanted to change it up and take a trip down memory lane. Jenna will be the first trip and since I've had 21 years of knowing Jenna this trip wasn't very hard.
Remember when we dipped sour cream and cheddar cheese chips in sour cream and thought it was the best invention EVER!
Love you for ever best friend!
I love this! I love how you guys have managed to stay friends for so many years. Especially considering all the drama that always went on in high school lol. Love you both!


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Coast Orchid Planter White mother of pearl 17 Cm.
Schaal Bowl (Moda) Turquoise 76 Cm.
Vaas Emperor Metal Glaze 130 Cm.


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It's way too late in the year for my car to still be frozen over in the morning.
I meant to have this up earlier in the week, but was busy with Aroduc stuff over the weekend. It also didn't help that this season is looking pretty weak, mainly kneecapped by the fact that there are a fetric muckton of sequels/spinoffs/remakes. You know what? Let's go ahead and list out every single goddamned franchise that's already getting a second+ series this season, just to drive that point home.
1.) Amanchu
2.) Beyblade
3.) Captain Tsubasa
4.) Cute High Earth Defense Club
5.) Cutie Honey
6.) Fist of the North Star
7.) Food Wars
8.) Full Metal Panic
9.) Future Card Buddyfight
10.) Galactic Heroes
11.) Gundam Build Fighters
12.) High School DxD
13. ) Hozuki's Coolheadedness
14.) Idol Activity
15.) Inazuma Eleven
16.) Kitarou
17.) Lupin III
18.) Major
19.) My Hero Academia
20.) Persona
21.) Pretty Rhythm
22.) Steins;Gate
23.) Sword Art Online
24.) Tokyo Ghoul
25.) Tomorrow's Joe
26.) Wixoss
Twenty goddamned six. And these are only the full length ones. There are even more if you start including dross like Chi's Sweet Home. I could include Professor Layton in there too since it has a movie, but instead I'll just ignore it for being a Sunday morning kid's show, and replacing the titular character with a teenage girl and a talking dog. And if I included it, I'd have to include the Piano Forest thing too, and then we'd be almost up to 30, which would make me cry.
I have only (barely) enough magnanimity to comment on five of the above. And let me tell you, it was easy to narrow down the field. The only tossup was for the fifth slot. It was a struggle to decide between a sports franchise ostensibly going sci fi with no little direct connection to the original, an ostensibly sci fi franchise that's to date actually been just melodramatic talking heads, and a show about how all the cool 12 year old girls are camwhores. Feel free to guess which was which. Anyway, let's get to it.
Horse Girls – Pretty Derby
https://umamusume.jp/anime/
Studio: PA Works
Genre: Merchandising
Staff/Cast Information
Premieres April 1st (two episode broadcast)
Show Premise:
Special Week is a horse girl. She wants to be the horsiest horse girl.
Random Thoughts:
And what a start to the non-sequels we have. A PA Works show about girls being girls, but they're also horses, except not at all, and they do… something. You'd think that this is from plumbing the depths of school club activities. settling on track, and adding a post-hoc gimmick to it, but this is actually an adaptation of a cellphone idol raising game, if you can believe it. This is the animation part of the advertisement for this bizarre new franchise, featuring over sixty goddamned horse girls, literally every single goddamned one of them getting their own song on a collection of half a dozen CDs and growing by the week. They run in their dresses. I would say that it comes from someone having the genius idea that animating running is WAAAAAY easier than a complicated dance routine, but they have concerts in between races, so it really is literally just an idol thing, except with horse ears, occasionally running some laps, and the characters having slightly stranger names. God's light truly does not shine here.
Preseason Swing Rating:
I guess Japan already ruined centaurs anyway.
http://cutiehoney-u.com/
Studio: Production Reed
Premieres April 8th
Cutie Honey, android master of disguise, fights against the terrorist organization, Panther Claw.
Let's start with the bad/weird. Production Reed is crap. Granted, they haven't done an action show to date. Hell, they rarely even do anything lasting longer than 12 minutes. Maybe this is their breakout show. I doubt it. Second, instead of promoting things like the stylish action the last iteration had going for it, marketing for it is instead focusing on how they're going to be having guest VAs doing the disguised Honey's voices, and a goddamned idol group is handling the music. I liked Re: Cutie Honey. Well, the first episode at least. It was energetic, full of badasses kicking ass, and everyone having a blast. A bit loud, but I suspect I had more patience back then, or at least tolerance. Then the budget ran out and they decided to fill the next two with insecurity and angst. Still, that's starting with more of a positive feeling towards the franchise than at least 25 other things this season, so it's got to count for something.
Something something honey flash.
The Libra of Nil Admirari
http://nilad-anime.com/
Studio: Zero-G
When Kuze's brother tries to kill himself due to a cursed magic book, she gains the ability to see auras, and is recruited into the magic book police.
This would be an adaptation of one of those boy-harem things, where the girl has some ill-defined magic power that presents mostly as staring in doe-eyed shock as a gaggle of pretty boys in increasingly bizarre outfits parade themselves in front of her. Basically the same as girl-harems, I guess, but with fewer "BOIOIOING" noises and boob windows. The promos look as generic and dull as it comes, although the costumes do seem to trend upward on on the flamboyant scale. No monocles though, so that tired, long-running joke of this site gets to live on.
It's called fashion, honey.
The Caligula Effect
http://caligula-anime.com/
Studio: Satelight
An idol AI has trapped a bunch of unhappy people in a virtual world. Some want out. Some want to stay. They fight.
Adaptation of a game that is almost universally described as "some neat ideas, terrible execution, and even worse gameplay." It's essentially a wannabe Persona, but with the gameplay complexity ratched up to untenable levels, the difficulty ratched way down, and every chapter's story is "I was picked on." The protagonists want to face their problems. The antagonists don't. That's about the depth the game goes into. Satelight's a bit of a weird studio for this, but it's their Nagato Yuki team, so more like the C or D squad. I will admit that the promo doesn't look awful. There's action, style, and animation. Perhaps if they can jettison enough of the baggage of the original game, I wouldn't be shocked if a passable show can be pulled from the skeleton of the premise, but deviating from the source in any way, let alone a positive one, isn't exactly a hallmark of Japanese adaptations.
Runs on a pair of Tandy 1000s.
The Piano Forest
http://piano-anime.jp/index.html
Studio: Fukushima Gainax
Kai is poor. Shuuhei is rich. They both play piano. There's a piano. It's in a forest.
Lest the Gainax association excite you, the Fukushima branch is the one that focuses more on the artsy fartsy projects like marketing, advertising, and marketing. My favorite is "Flying Babies," an upcoming idol show, but in Hawaii. To advertise Hawaii. Because… come to Hawaii, there are half naked teenage girls. Anyway, this had a movie in 2007 and here we have a remake, seemingly with the characters aged up from adolescents to teenagers for the added drama. The promo is just one of the dudes playing a piano. Sure, we can all get behind a Rhapsody Rabbit performance, but the entire minute of the promo had about as much animation as Bugs did shooting a member of the audience. Add that to the first episode, and maybe we'll talk.
Or maybe add a billion spiders that live inside the piano.
Magical Girl Boy
http://magicalgirl-ore.com/
Studio: Pierrot Plus
Premieres April 2nd (March 25 pre-air)
Saki wants to be a magical girl. Instead, she transforms into a burly man in a frilly dress.
The first two episodes were broadcast early as a special last Sunday. Normally, I'd post something on that, but I was pretty much done with the show by the ten minute mark. By that point, it had had a four minute dream sequence, featuring the hilarious joke "Hey, remember the 'Nice Boat' thing?" and then had not one, but goddamned two idol sequences. It wouldn't get to its 'hilarious' subversion of its premise, a gender backwards version of a different show entering its third season this week, until the closing minutes of the episode. I did flip through the second. Most of it was yelling "THIS IS LIKE A MAGICAL GIRL CLICHE, BUT IT IS MORE NOT!" Like if you thought you could enjoy any of Komugi, Dokuro, Poemy, Punie, Panty and Stocking, or god knows how many others without the magical girl's name in the title, but feel like what they really needed was replacing the jokes with loudly explaining what the jokes were, and CD advertisements baked in.
Unfashionably late to the party.
Spirit World Cooking
http://kakuriyo-anime.com/
Studio: GONZO
Premieres April 2nd
Aoi is carted away to marry some spirit creature to pay off her family's debt. Instead, she makes a deal to be their indentured servant cook.
The first promo is scenery and cherry blossoms in the wind. The second is a montage of faces saying things dramatically, while the voice over delivers a completely different lines from a different scene. Directing is super hard. Then the OP kicks in and the rest is mostly spent watching people eat from behind or looking at scenery. Boy, they sure know how to sell a show, don't they? This is adapted from yet another of the billion light novels about participating in a restaurant with vaguely supernatural-but-not-really entities, and hell if I can divine what's supposed to set it apart from its compatriots. At this point, I'm starting to think that the default answer is "nothing," and worse, that the answer being that is a selling point, not a cause for alarm.
Jetpack Jesus would be a good supernatural entity to add.
Frankenstein Family – Creatures Family Days
http://jp.frankenstein-family.com/
Studio: KJJ Animation
Mad scientists got married, had kids, experimented on 4/5 of them, and then got tossed in jail. The kids now have to fit into society.
This comes from a Japan/Taiwan collaborative. Can't be worse than all the Haoliners stuff. You know, you could salvage the premise by instead ending with "They fight crime," or "They're out for revenge," or even "They're competing to see who can outbreed the other five with nothing but a turkey baster and a 50 lb vat of indiscriminate genetic seed material." But no. Vaguely monster girls (but mostly not, since one is a telepath, and another is, uh… a plant telepath) and one monster boy, to keep things seeming honest, doing their bestest to be normal, while learning the glory of friendship and family. Held together by the normie, who is the normalest, but also the most specialest of them all.
Close to the plot of Adolescent Altered Samurai Zebras, but not close enough.
http://kamuy-anime.com/
Studio: Geno
While imprisoned during the war, Sugimoto heard rumors of a fortune of Ainu gold. Once he's released, he goes in search of it, teaming up with an Ainu girl who wants revenge on other treasure hunters who killed her family for it.
I'm half tempted to dedicate this space to an explanation of Ainu culture and kamuy, but that's what Wikipedia is for. I might be at least somewhat optimistic about this one if the promos weren't so bad. It appears to be an 'action' show in a similar way that Basilisk last season was an 'action' show. Sure, people have knives, bows, and guns, and occasionally there's blood, but we can't let that interrupt dramatic yelling and close ups of eyes. Geno didn't impress much with their initial outing last season (Moment By Moment), and while this has different main staff, the man in charge of the scripts of Kuroko's Basketball and DRRRRRRRRR is not filling me with hope.
I hope they burn a seal.
https://lupin-pt5.com/
Studio: Telecom
Premieres April 3rd
Lupin steals things.
I didn't make it very far into the last outing for this franchise; the Italian one where they introduced a clone of Fujiko, but Italian, blonde, and better than everybody at everything. That was probably for the best, because the seasonal story ended up being that an evil clone of Leonardo da Vinci made magic paintings that sucked everybody into virtual reality where he turned them into other Leonardo da Vincis, apparently bent on creating some kind of perfect world of only men named Leonardo. The mixers would've been weird. Anyway, I ramble because there's basically no promo material out for this. Supposedly, it's going to be in modern times, but hell if I could tell you what that's supposed to mean. They are bringing back the same director as the last series, but they've put the Geass/Kabaneri wackjob in charge of the scripts, so this might actually end up interesting. Trainwreck interesting, but carnage is something.
3D Girl – Real Girl
http://www.3dkanojo-anime.com/
Studio: Hoods Entertainment
Hikari watches anime and plays VNs. Iroha dresses fashionably. She asks him out.
Boy, talk about an enthralling premise. And bringing us ever close to the day where I just list out five things with identical ones instead of writing any premise at all, except that would be more effort. From what I can see, the big selling point of the source manga is that the first couple volumes are free on Kindle. Supposedly, this is a comedy, but you wouldn't be able to tell it from the promos which are all soulful pianos, pink pastels, and girls staring at the camera with tears in their eyes. I guess there's one shot where the animation goes from bad to worse as the protagonist yells something in surprise. That is what comedy is, after all.
Shovel Knight had multiple more romantic love stories.
Rokuhoudou Four Color Days
http://rokuhoudou-anime.jp/
Studio: ZEXCS
Premieres April 10th
Four dudes work at the Rokuhoudou tea house.
You know, the last time Softhouse Chara made a game about running a restaurant, it began with indiscriminant slaughter, segued into kinky fireside sex with a demon, then went back to the slaughter, and then, and only then, did they open up a restaurant for something to do in between impregnating most of the town with your shotgun wedding wife's encouragement. So I'm not going to say that there's no way I can get into a story about running a restaurant, but this sure as hell ain't it. What even happened to you Zexcs? Where'd all your action series go? Probably a staff exodus that took all the talent with them. I don't keep up to date on these things.
Hey, kid. Want some… tea bags?
The God Machine Pandora
http://www.project-pandora.jp/
Premieres April 4th (March 29 pre-air)
A quantum reactor exploded and devestated the world overnight. Humanity now fights against the monsters it created.
The first episode already aired. It was painful and tedious. This would be Satelight's A Team, although the CGI monsters and mechs still look as ugly as ever. It's Kawamori (Aquarion, Macross, etc) directing though, along with Macross Delta's writer back, which is probably not the best of things, because the scripts there were an abject mess, and from the first episode, that tradition continues. It was almost twenty minutes straight of infodumping. When it wasn't, it was the shrill one screamining "Leon!" Occasionally, there'd be a closeup of baloon-tits tits bouncing and jiggling. Then the protagonist unlocked the power of quantums, turned naked because it's a Kawamori thing, and began screaming too. And that's how the episode ended. Screaming upon screaming after lecture upon lecture. I'm not exactly looking forward to the next episode.
Why can't the mutations ever be fun? Or puns?
Last Period – The Story of the Endless Spiral
http://lastperiod.jp/
Studio: JC Staff
Haru can cleanse the souls of Spirals. He amasses a harem.
There's a special brand of irony in the developer of the cell phone game this comes from being called Happy Elements when the promo is the most irritating thing I've heard in weeks. It's difficult to even tell what it's supposed to be selling itself as. Besides an advertisement for the game and its bazillion gatcha characters, I mean obviously. It's sure as hell not action. I couldn't tell you what a montage of people talking at each other or just staring at the camera set to hyper spastic bubblegum pop is supposed to be either though. One of them hits another at one point though, causing him to spit, so I guess we'll go with comedy. And it's already given me a migraine after merely a minute or two. I can only imagine the pain a full twenty will cause.
Onward, noble steed!
Butlers – A Thousand Year Story
http://www.butlers-anime.com/
Studio: Silver Link
Kouma and Tsubasa are butlers. They buttle.
Technically, there's a manga of this, but the anime was supposed to start at the same time (three months ago), and even perusing the three whole chapters that exist, I couldn't tell you a damn thing about what things are supposed to be. Well, I mean, literally within the first couple pages, one of them is naked in a shower, and most of the rest is pretty boys sparkling or leaning in reeeaaaal close to each other to talk dramatically, but after three chapters, a stage they were on collapsed. That's about it for the supposed big intrigue, mystery, time traveling, buttling, and magic going on. The promos aren't much better, although one of them does go super saiyan at one point, so I already feel like they've lost complete control of this attempted franchise, and not in the good way.
Stop it stop it stop it stop it.
Tada Never Falls in Love
http://tadakoi.tv/index.html
Studio: Dogakobo
Tada falls in love.
It seems like I'm being pithy or snide, but that's literally the entire premise, just with two extra sentences explaining how he's a bland everyboy, and that he meets a girl. I'm making the assumption that he falls in love. Granted, given the Japanese version of 'romance,' that's arguably a dangerous assumption to make, but I'm sticking to it. It's not based on any existing media either, so that's almost it for what we have to go on. I suppose there's also a promo video consisting of 75% shots of scenery and 25% people smiling at the camera, but that's not getting me any closer to whatever the hell kind of answer I'm looking for here. Boy meets girl. That's it. Great. Call it a day. We don't want to stress out the esteemed staff behind Nozaki and about half a dozen throwaway BL things between them.
Unidentified object.
http://www.comic-girls.com/
Studio: Nexus
Kaoruko is an unpopular manga artist. She moves into a dorm of nothing but other manga artists.
My favorite part of the dumb premise is that they're all in high school. They're making major lifestyle adjustments for the sake of their careers, as fifteen year olds. But it's supposed to be a comedy, so let's focus on that instead. Aaaand after scouring the three minutes worth of promos for anything approaching a joke, let's not. You'd think there'd be more stupid faces since it's a four panel comic source, but nope. There are girls. They have tears in their eyes. Sometimes they're in bikinis. They grab each other's hands excitedly, and while the voice over was blathering some generic platitudes about doing their best, I'm pretty sure the actual dialogue there was how they're going to do their best, but also be best friends. Occasionally, some of the filler images were half drawn manga pages, so there's your premise right there. Fan goddamned tastic.
Do the same thing, but Russian Robot Masters, and maybe we'll talk.
https://megaloboxnews.tumblr.com/
Studio: TMS Entertainment
In the future, boxers get to use mechanical enhancements.
Boy, future medicine must have really solved that brain damage problem, huh? I picked this as the (technically) last of the five sequels I'd comment on mostly because the connection to its father series is the loosest. It's part of the 50th anniversary of Tomorrow's Joe stuff, but aside from being about boxing and probably a reference here and there that I would miss anyway, that seems to be about as far as it goes. I wouldn't expect anything too different, except an even more flagrant disregard for the biological consequences of boxing. The promos certainly don't seem any different; all grunting and speedlines. Now with exo-skeletons.
Float like a gyrocopter, sting like a staplegun.
And Yet, Sinners Dance with Dragons
http://www.tbs.co.jp/anime/sareryu/
Gayus and Gigina use magic to fight things, including dragons occasionally.
The premise goes into some hilariously overwrought depth about how the magic in the setting is actually manipulating the laws of physics, but magically. I think that's code for "will contain four or five times as much exposition about the specific way a fireball explodes." The promos do contain dragons, explosions, and magic, but unfortunately, more in the vein of "dude striking a pose" rather than martial artists going at it. Better than shots of ruined cities or talking heads, certainly. Actually divining much more than that from the source is hard though. It's a light novel that got a couple volumes, the author had some tiff with the publisher, and then the author totally rebooted/rewrote it from scratch with a different publisher. So there's already multiple versions floating around out there along with the drama behind whatever happened coloring things. It seems… light novelish enough. Can't escape high school, even in post apocalyptic times, although only one of them is a teacher, and I suppose he does have a steady girlfriend, so perhaps it avoids the worst of the LN standards, but I wouldn't hold my breath. It is Seven Arcs handling production, and an old JC Staff action guy (well, mostly just Index), so at least the staff and studio has demonstrated some flashes of competence in the past. Not so much recently, but compared to how everything else is looking?
Spyro, the fattest dragon.
Hisone and Masotan
http://hisomaso.com/
Studio: Bones
Hisone is a girl. Masotan is a dragon.
Again, it seems like I'm being snide, but that's as far as the premise for another original show goes. Oh, sure, there's some faff about how they could be the key to saving the world, but it makes no intimation at all as to what they're saving the world from. Non-dairy creamer, I'd guess. You'd think there'd be a reason for equipping a dragon with heavy weaponry. Or a reason for dragons to exist. Or a reason why noseless 15 year olds are being conscripted as child soldiers. Those answers don't exist in the promos. One of them doesn't even have the dragon at all, just the weird noseless kids moping around at school. They've got Okada doing the writing here, so you can bet the melodrama's going to come hard and fast. The dragon probably subsists off teenage insecurity and sups on the oppression of adult society. Or is killed by them. Maybe both.
I forget why I saved this, but it seems representative of Okada's writing.
Love is Hard for Otakus
http://wotakoi-anime.com/
Narumi likes comics. Hirotaka likes games. They date.
Ah, yes. Being a fan of a medium of a thing. Not of the same medium. Just a medium. The bond of empathy that engenders that makes two people perfect for each other. Liking different things that are each individually non-normative. And of course, it soon comes out that literally every goddamned named character that any of them know is also secretly a fan of something, thus leaving that it's taking place in an office instead of a high school the only real distinguishing characteristic from a hundred thousand other things. I think what kills any expectation for me is how every description of it is about how awkward, naive, and innocent their romance is, and how that's the only thing anybody seems to mention when talking about this. If it wants to actually get into a real relationship, and some of the very unplumbed depths in Japanese media that come with that, great. Or even better, have content outside vaguely, awkwardly pining at each other while working their way to a chaste kiss or blushing while holding hands once every three episodes. And from the promo, even that seems like it might be iffy.
What if a relationship involved sex? And living together? And starting a family? Crazy, I know!
Slave Ward – Me and the 23 Slaves
http://doreiku-anime.com/
Studio: TNK/Zero-G
If you're wearing an SCM, you can force anybody else with an SCM to become your slave by besting them in some way. Or end up their slave.
Can we just stop for a moment and appreciate that they have a slave dog. I'm not kidding. Reading up on this was fun. It's rare to see anything so almost universally reviled. Apparently nobody acts with any sense, entire chapters are dedicated to explaining the rules, the 'competitions' most of the time are just one person sucker punching another, and rules lawyering the rest while the loser stares in shock and horror at being finessed by the fine print, and copious amounts of handwavey magic as they make up new powers for the SCM teeth-implant thingy on the spot, including but not limited to telepathy and neurochemical addiction. The promo was obsessed with the SCM device, and showing it off while people stared at the camera dramatically, so if this is the trainwreck is sure seems to be, it's going to be a very slow, very dull one.
One removed wisdom tooth.
http://hina-matsuri.net/
Studio: Feel
Hina has super powers. Nitta is a thug. She moves in with him against his will. Other super powered girls follow.
I don't feel up to explaining the title pun. Go nuts. Promos seem neutral enough, concentrating on random people and furniture being defenestrated more than simply yelling the current situation. There's that too, but at least it's not what the promos concentrated on. Staff's kind of terrible, and feel isn't exactly the most impressive studio around when it comes to production, but slapstick comedy is certainly the closest thing they have to a wheelhouse. All that said, and I realize what high praise it's been, it doesn't really seem to do much of anything with its premise, either on the thug side or the super powers side, and seems to just kind of devolve into the usual "girls being friends and also there's some put-upon penis-haver."
Yay friendship!
There's Money To Be Made on The Field
https://www.bs-sptv.com/gurazeni/
Studio: Deen
Bonda is an unassuming relief pitcher, mainly playing professional baseball for the money.
Technically, the title is the Japanese version of an acronym of that quote, but I like showing off my ability to read Wikipedia articles and feel self-righteous about it. This is apparently meant for people who like baseball, but are more into liking liking baseball than actually watching it being played, which given how boring the sport is, I can actually sort of understand, at least relatively speaking. But it's not like shifting the focus from twenty minutes on an inning to twenty minutes on contract negotiations or being traded to the American league and then fired and immediately returning are a huge step up either. It's a sports drama. It looks like a particularly dull one that's trying to pitch itself as more normal and grounded than the already overdramatized pretty normal ones. My interest is already at rock bottom.
There's also money in pancakes. Delicious syrupy pancakes.
Magic Girl Site
http://mahoushoujyo-anime.com/
Studio: Production doA
A website gives tormented girls a magical device that lets them take revenge, but at the price of taking away parts of their own lives.
The real twist here is that Okada has nothing to do with it, although, and this is kind of weird to write, Okada tends to be a little more subtle. That's right. This isn't a battle royale type deal, but a drama royale one, where we're supposed to take the comically anguished and twisted up faces with tongues rolling out of the mouths and eyes rolled back in the heads as a sign of how serious the suffering and craziness is. And if that's not enough, they'll start bleeding from random orifaces and their pupils will turn into skulls with daggers in them. The promos are about as restrained as a brick to the face, so I guess good news for those of you into things that generate a copious amount of ridiculous screencaps to be used as image macros. I guess there's also girl on girl tragic romance, because fourteen year olds making out will never not be creepy.
Maybe they just need to collect more strawberries.
Another World's Pub – The Pub, Nobu, in the City Aitheria
https://r.gnavi.co.jp/nobu/
A Japanese pub ended up with a doorway to a different world. It's just a pub.
Another one of those food things, this time with extra food in the form of multiple companion broadcasts to further advertise the food, one for restaurants that serve the food they're advertising, one for cooking it yourself. Maybe there's even more beyond that. I stopped caring at two. The promos are basically nothing but shots of food and talking about how food the food is. I'm just going to assume that Sunrise lost a bet and it was down to either this, or running through the streets naked, and they chose the more embarassing of the two options.
FOOD FOR THE FOOD GOD.
Full Metal Panic! – Invisible Victory
http://fullmeta-iv.com/
Studio: Xebec
The continuing adventures of mecha pilot Sousuke, babysitting his girlfriend and abuser, Chidori.
I have some vaguely fond memories of the first two FMP series, but remember being profoundly disappointed by The Second Raid's descent into melodramatic wallowing. The robot stopped working because Sousuke had the mopies, thus giving him the mopies because the robot wasn't working, then there was an entire episode of Sousuke moping around because his arch-nemesis told him he killed his girlfriend and Sousuke didn't think this was something worth verifying before throwing a tantrum. Or perhaps it was all the pontificating people did on the stupid haircut scene. Never have so many words been written overascribing depth and meaning to a teenager having a panic attack from cleavage shoved in his face. Anyway, it's not KyoAni this time, but Xebec's been solid enough recently. The writer (same as the source) promises that it'll be pure action right from the start, which is funny because the first promo had about two minutes of footage and no action whatsoever. The second one at least had a couple explosions and bad CGI cars running into each other. Be still my beating heart.
Compelling dialogue from complex mascot characters.
Devils' Line
http://devilsline.jp/
Studio: Platinum Vision
Tsukasa is saved from a vampire by a half-vampire member of the vampire police.
Welcome back, Twilight. It's been a whole season since the last show about some helpless girl with sparkling vampires and over sexualized blood drinking, and a whopping two years and one show off since fledgling studio Platinum Vision did one (Servamp). The promos do have a little more animation than one would expect from the subgenre of sparkly vampires, but there's no shortage of doe-eyed girls staring to the camera. From everything I see on the source, it's all about the drama, and romanticizing the dysfunctional non-relationship between the two leads. Joy.
http://p5a.jp/
Teenagers mindrape adults into being better people.
The first quarter of the first episode was already put out as a promo, and it's not promising. Well, all of the Persona adaptation attempts have been pretty lackluster honestly, but that's basically a six minute shot for shot remake of every part of the game's flashforward intro that doesn't require animating anything; a couple minutes of posing, one backflip out a window, and then four minutes of dour men reviewing what they skipped over. The game itself was fine enough, although practically made of niggles, but the writing, or more specifically, the overwriting, and nonsensical plot, were the weakest parts by a long shot, so of course, like all Persona adaptations, I fully expect and already see that it's playing that up while sidelining the action and thievery. I suppose notably, this doesn't have Seiji Kishi doing the directing. At least he had style, something this franchise needs to cover up the endless clutching of pearls and declarations that they won't give up in between yelling "Teen Power!"
You look tired. You should go to sleep.
Closing Thoughts:
Can't be worse than last season. I'm probably not even going to finish a single series that started in January. I suppose we're still also in sort of a lull for idol things, which kind of worries me, because it can only mean there will be another season coming soon with a dozen of them. Then again, maybe literally over half the goddamned season being sequels/prequels/reboots is building up enough karma to avoid that. I wouldn't hold my breath though.
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jgoi says:
Watching Lupin pt5 (please god don't bring back rebecca), checking cutie honey universe; hoping it's as good as re: cutie honey, persona 5 hoping it's not shit like both of persona 4's anime and gegege no kitarou because I want to stare at neko musume.
Waiting to see if funimation gets the adv cast back for FMP Invisible Victory, waiting for others to edit hs dxd season 4 down to just the fanservice parts.
perhaps we're in a lull for idol things, or perhaps once japan has seen horse girl idols they will understand there truly is no point in attempting to top it
or bottom(?) it
regardless, if it's a complete trainwreck i have to be there
Neclord X says:
This looks…really dissapointing, again. There are some things here and there I want to check but overall, meh.
Also, f*uck YOU, Mona, I want to get out, those SL aren't going to max alone.
Enjoyed your preview!
So, it looks like Caligula and Full Metal Panic are your "least awful" pics and will hopefully see reviews.
Personally, found the season fairly promising with a dozen or so shows worth examining and some of the sequels potentially interesting.
Fluffums says:
It's not really fair to call the Persona series "sequels" when it comes to the stories…
… But everything else is probably spot-on.
The Phantom says:
I just want to see Makoto fully animated in her rider outfit, thats all I care about this season, Maybe Caligula.
Tolrin says:
Well now I kind of want to play Shovel Knight.
Milenkov says:
Also, Magic Girl Site is written by the same guy as Mahou Shoujo of the End (Y'know, the post-apocalyptic one where the Magic Girls are evil super zombies), and at time of writing Magic Girl Site is in limbo with hardly no progress story-wise.
o_o says:
basically best show of the season is Hinamatsuri
p.s. checked most of the 1st eps.


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Squeeze a tiny amount onto your [clean] finger and gently dab onto the spot that you wish never existed.
This depends on how many spots you have at the time!
For one or two spots it takes seconds.
If you had a whole face full of spots however, I'd say about a minute.
It is averagely fast at absorbing into the skin, so I'd say you're looking at about 30 seconds-ish.
There is a reason that I wanted to quote the section above that talks about the PORESHRINK™R complex.
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If you have read my review of Redermic R then you will understand my love for retinol. This gel has it, which instantly gave me high hopes.
I'm very happy to say that I have not been disappointed!
If there is one type of product that I have tried hundreds of different variations of, it is a spot gel/cream/whatever. I've had bad results and average results, but obviously I couldn't ever have been fully satisfied if I still continuously search for new things to try. Then I decided to try this.
I have previously tried the Soap & Glory facial wipes but had a bad reaction to them. My face broke out really badly so I had to give them away pretty quickly. After that, I was pretty hesitant to try other Soap & Glory facial skincare products (I have used a lot of their body products though) but I did have a dabble with the facial mask a couple of years after the wipes incident. After no bad effects occurred with the mask, I was a little calmer to try something new but simply never got around to it. Thankfully I didn't have a bad reaction to this gel. In fact, I had the opposite reaction.
I blame this on the media. I think that perfectly airbrushed models advertising spot treatments in magazines gives the completely wrong impression. We expect it to work instantly, which isn't going to happen.
If you notice a slight improvement then you begin to douse yourself in it with future use. I'm not 100% on why it happens, but suddenly it doesn't work anymore. Along with this, too much can cause dryness even to the most oily skins.
You still need to take care of your skin in other ways. Treating your skin harshly and then covering it in anti-spot cream isn't going to get you anywhere.
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In fact, I did fall in to pitfall number 2 with this. I saw improvements and I began to put extra on. This actually made things a bit worse. I went back to applying a small amount and lo and behold, it went back to working!
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Customers The Schwebel Baking Company
Food & Beverage North America GPS Tracking Routing & Dispatch
The Schwebel Baking Company View as PDF
Regional producer of baked goods utilizes Samsara Routes feature and Time on Site Report to maximize driver productivity, improve operational efficiency, and boost customer satisfaction.
75 trailers and 105 tractors distribute nearly 4 million pounds of baked goods each week across a 90,000 square mile market area
Deployed Samsara VG-series gateways to improve driver and route performance
Real-time visibility of routes smooths operations by increasing visibility between drivers, dispatchers, and sales agencies
Time on Site Report informs driver coaching, resulting in nearly 100% of deliveries being made on time
Dora and Joseph Schwebel started baking bread in their Campbell, Ohio kitchen in 1906. At first, they went door-to-door to sell bread to their neighbors. As their reputation for freshness and quality spread, the Schwebels turned to horse-drawn wagons and, eventually, trucks to expand from their local neighborhood into northeastern Ohio and beyond.
Today, Schwebel's is headquartered in Youngstown, Ohio and has become a major distributor of baked goods in the Midwest. Schwebel's uses seven production lines to bake three to four million pounds of bread and buns every week, operates 34 sales agencies and retail outlets across seven states, and services customers in a ~90,000 square mile area with its in-house delivery fleet.
"Everybody, from the people in the bakery to the people who make deliveries, is a company person. Everybody is part of the Schwebel's extended family."
—Adam Schwebel, VP of Operations, The Schwebel Baking Company
Although many aspects about the baking industry and customers' tastes have changed in the 112 years since Schwebel's founding, one thing has remained constant — Schwebel's commitment to excellence.
To ensure that customers receive products of the highest quality, every loaf and bun that comes out of the oven is delivered directly from Schwebel's bakeries into the hands of its customers. Every day, freshly baked bread and buns are loaded onto 78 tractors and 105 trailers on-site at Schwebel's bakeries in Youngstown, Hebron, and Solon. The baked goods are transported to sales agencies up to 350 miles away, as far as Syracuse, NY, Indianapolis, IN, and Morgantown, WV. The final leg of the journey is completed via 300 route trucks, which make local deliveries from each sales agency straight into the hands of eager customers.
Maximizing Driver Productivity with Route Tracking
Orchestrating the on-time delivery of millions of pounds of product across such a large market area is no easy feat. Enter Adam Schwebel, Vice President of Operations and fourth-generation bread man. Adam oversees all manufacturing and distribution functions for the company and considers technology critical to align activities across 1,400+ employees, maximize driver productivity, and uphold customer satisfaction. Because of Adam's leadership, Schwebel's has long been a pioneer of fleet management technology; in fact, Schwebel's adopted electronic logging devices over a decade before they were mandated by the FMCSA.
One of Schwebel's challenges was maximizing driver productivity. It was not uncommon for routes to be delayed, as drivers made unplanned detours and stops on their way to sales agencies. Because Schwebel's drivers are paid hourly, delayed routes result in higher costs and more unpredictable customer wait times. Schwebel's previously relied on a passive GPS solution to track drivers' routes; however, data from that system could only be synced via WiFi, which could only happen once deliveries were complete. As a result, the distribution team only saw drivers' routes and stops at the end of the day. It was difficult to see when drivers deviated from their routes, where they tended to go off course, and how long they were delayed. By the time the distribution team noticed deviations, routes were complete and there was no way to make up for lost time. Adam knew that it was time to invest in a more robust solution.
Improving Efficiency with Real-Time Visibility and Routing
Adam and the Schwebel's team evaluated seven to eight GPS tracking solutions to replace their previous one, but none seemed quite right — they were either too expensive, too complex to use, or didn't have the right functionality. As soon as Schwebel's undertook a free trial of Samsara's fleet management platform, however, they knew that Samsara was the right choice. "Samsara was the only system that got buy-in from both our managers and drivers," Adam explains. "The ease of use is excellent, and the reliability is proven." Not only did Samsara provide the live data that Schwebel's needed to drive efficiency across its entire fleet operations, but it was also affordable, reliable, and easy to use.
"We used to get a lot of questions from sales agencies, asking us when a truck was going to arrive. Now, we can proactively let them know."
With Samsara vehicle gateways (VGs) installed in every Schwebel's tractor-trailer, Adam and the distribution team now have live-to-the-second GPS tracking of the fleet. When dispatchers notice that a delivery is not going according to plan, they take action in two ways:
First, they use Samsara's Messaging feature to immediately communicate with the driver, investigate the cause behind the delay, and help the driver get back on course.
Second, dispatchers utilize Samsara's powerful Routing feature to estimate the driver's new arrival time and proactively notify the sales agencies.
In addition to helping Schwebel's improve its fleet operations in real-time, Samsara helps the company identify other opportunities for efficiency by analyzing historical trends in fleet and driver performance. With the Time On-Site Report, for example, Adam and his team can see whether drivers make a habit of spending time outside the parameters of their delivery route. Armed with that data, they can more effectively work with the drivers to correct that behavior.
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From the time the first VGs were installed, Samsara has helped Schwebel's smooth its operations by increasing visibility between drivers, dispatchers, and sales agencies. Dispatchers no longer spend valuable time on the telephone calling individual drivers and sales agencies; they can see at a glance when a truck is supposed to arrive, and communicate that information immediately. Customers are more satisfied because as drivers perform better, nearly 100% of deliveries are made on-time. "We are paying less than what we paid before," says Adam, "and the benefits are dramatically better."
Adam offers these parting words of advice to other businesses who may be considering an investment in fleet management technology: "You should do a trial. Do a trial of everything. Put the units in the trucks with your best drivers, and talk to them. Find out what they like and don't like. As your team starts seeing all the systems, I think you'll find that Samsara is the best. That's what happened in our scenario."
"I knew from the early stages that Samsara would be a tremendous asset to our company. It's been a great experience the entire way through, and I haven't looked back."
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Marist Suffers Record Loss at Columbia
by Jonathan Kinane
Following three straight wins, it was a night of sobering lows for Marist women's basketball.
After climbing out of the valley that was a three-game losing streak to start the season, Marist (3-4) suffered a major setback at Columbia on Thursday night, losing 103-54 to the Lions in New York City.
The 103 points allowed and the 49-point defeat are both new records in the Brian Giorgis era.
Marist's calling card coming into the game was a solid defense that had only allowed opponents to shoot 22 percent from three-point range in six games. The Lions went about inflating that stat, clinically picking apart the Red Foxes' defense and shooting 14-for-29 from deep and 40-for-64 (63 percent) from the floor overall.
Here is a breakdown of how the Lions shot in each period:
Q1: 9-for-15 (60 percent)
Q2: 12-for-17 (71 percent)
It was a stark reminder that Marist doesn't quite stack up with powerful mid-majors as it has in years past.
Giorgis has stressed that team defense must be a constant but on Thursday night, it just wasn't there against a team that outclassed the Red Foxes in every aspect of the game.
At one point in the first half, Columbia made 17 out of 18 shots stretching from the last seven minutes of the first quarter to the middle of the second quarter. Some of the looks were well-contested. Marist was simply up against a buzzsaw.
Columbia was picked to finish second behind Princeton in a very strong Ivy League. In the first month of the season, the Lions have already sprung road upsets on major conference foes like Miami (ACC) and Seton Hall (Big East) while dropping difficult games to Vanderbilt and seventh-ranked Iowa State.
Columbia came into the game as a shining example of what a balanced scoring attack should look like, with all five starters in double-figures. Having to key in on all five starters was difficult enough but bench player Paige Lauder dusted Marist for 24 points, blazing past her previous career-high of 10.
Lauder shot 9-for-11 from the floor including five made threes. Abbey Hsu joined her teammate on 24 points shooting an efficient 10-for-13.
Marist had a difficult time running its motion offense against a talented Lions team, resulting in another cold shooting night.
The Red Foxes shot 38 percent from the floor and 5-for-16 from three. Those numbers can keep Marist in half-court games that don't get out of the 50s but gave it no shot at keeping up with the Lions on Thursday.
Fisher put together a solid statline with a team-high 16 points and five assists on 7-for-8 shooting.
After a difficult day on Sunday against Lafayette, Shazer climbed back into double figures with 10 points on 4-for-11 shooting.
Julianna Bonilla was the other Red Fox in double-digits with 12.
The game remained scoreless for the first three minutes but the Lions soon found their way into things. Columbia was able to push the tempo and strike before the Marist defense could set itself. The Lions ran out to a 12-0 run behind accurate shooting from Lauder to build an 18-5 lead over the cold-shooting Red Foxes.
Marist did reel off six straight points in response, but the Lions came right back with five of their own, with Jaida Patrick hitting a short jumper to put the home team on top 23-11 after one quarter.
After missing its first five shots of the game, Columbia went 9-for-10 the rest of the way in the first period. The train kept rolling in the second as Hsu hit a three to extend the lead to 32-13 with eight minutes in the half, forcing a timeout from Brian Giorgis.
The onslaught continued with no signs of slowing down as Lauder hit from deep again to make it 47-19 late in the second and a layup from Hsu put the Lions up 54-23 at the break.
Marist actually began to shoot the ball a little better in the second half but by then the game was already well past decided. It didn't matter anyway as the Lions continued their barrage, with the lead growing to 82-42 courtesy of another Lauder three.
Columbia went into triple digits with a three from Sienna Durr to make 101-52 with just over 90 seconds remaining.
The Red Foxes will look to rebound on Sunday when they travel up north to face Vermont. The Catamounts are coached by former Marist standout Alisa Kresge, who was a member of the NCAA Sweet 16 team in 2007 and served as an assistant coach under Giorgis from 2009-16.
Tip-off is scheduled for 2 p.m.
Edited by Ricardo Martinez
Photo from Marist Athletics
Posted in Women's BasketballTagged Brian Giorgis, Julianna Bonilla, kiara fisher, women's basketball, Zaria Shazer
Author: Jonathan Kinane
I'm a senior from Syracuse, NY, studying sports communication and journalism. I consider myself a die-hard Syracuse University sports fan, but I also follow the Knicks, Giants, and Yankees in the professional ranks. Sports and writing have long been my passions and I am excited for another year with Center Field. View all posts by Jonathan Kinane
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