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I have been on a pretty serious anime rewatch kick for the past several months. I used to watch Outlaw Star and Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien every couple years because they were my favorites, but I realized recently that I hadn't seen Outlaw Star in around 5 years and KGNE in around 6. It's honestly been very interesting to see how well these shows have held up against both modern shows and my memory of how good they were.
So, here's the stuff I've rewatched (in the proper order) and my current thoughts on them (no spoilers/super duper light spoilers).
Outlaw Star – I couldn't say how many times I've seen this show, but my guess is 6 or 7. This show has held up every time I've watched it, and I always notice weird new things about it. It's not perfect by any means, but the 90's animation is wonderfully charming, and I particularly enjoy the darker colors, music, and space western vibe. My enjoyment of this show almost definitely has a lot to do with nostalgia, but I also believe that anyone that didn't grow up watching Toonami can still appreciate what this show has to offer.
.hack//SIGN – I rewatched the first episode of this show back in the late 00's, but that was it. I started this rewatch parallel to Outlaw Star several months ago, and I still have a few episodes left. The original .hack was truly something special when it came out, as it was the show that popularized the "trapped in a video game" trope. It honestly did so in a much more interesting way than modern shows like Sword Art Online, but unfortunately, most of the rest of the show is pretty mediocre besides the music. .hack//SIGN has arguably the best anime soundtrack of all time, in my opinion, but the pacing, characters, and world building just aren't that great. The animation was probably mediocre for the time as well, but I have a soft spot in my heart for early 00's animation.
Toradora – I haven't seen this show at all since my original watch a couple years after it came out (so around 2010). Pretty much everything about this show held up extremely well. Honestly, the only thing that truly dates the show is the usage of flip phones. If not for that, you wouldn't be able to tell the show didn't come out last year. That aside, Toradora does a great job developing characters and (light spoiler) is one of the most believable shows about not understanding your own feelings. Character interactions in this show are fun and sincere, and I say all of this despite one of the main characters being a tsundere – a trope I generally don't like, but adore in this show. The only thing I didn't like was the ending, which, upon rewatch, I still agree with. The end is simply not believable or up to the standard the rest of the show sets, but it doesn't take away from the show being an overall great watch.
Clannad – This is another show I watched a couple years after it came out and haven't seen since then (also around 2010). It's the longest show on my rewatch list since it has two two-cour seasons (around 48 episodes). I remember loving Clannad, but honestly, after rewatching, my opinion of it has only improved. Clannad is brilliant. It's heartwarming, it's funny, it's inspiring, it's incredibly sad (you will probably tear up a few times during the second season). The animation is gorgeous even a decade later (Kyoto Animation did a truly phenomenal job), but you do have to get past the girls having giant eyes even by anime standards. The openings, the endings, the music in both of those and throughout the show, the story, the characters, I just cannot say enough good things about how amazing this show is. It's such an experience that, just like the first time, I found myself constantly thinking about it when it was over. A week later, I was still wishing it wasn't over.
Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien – I've seen KGNE (which was called Rumbling Hearts in English, for some bizarre reason, despite not at all being the translation of the Japanese title) around 5 times, and I admit, the last time I watched it, I felt a little let down for some reason. This time, however, it brought me right back to how I used to feel. This is one of those rare anime that (extremely light spoiler) goes past high school and shows adults doing adult things. It's quite dramatic and might make you tear up. The adult nature and the specific type of drama really set this show apart from other shows in the drama/romance category. That said, the animation in this show really does not hold up well. In fact, it may not have been particularly great when it originally came out in 2003/2004. There are some scenes set in a facility that should have tons of background characters and it's just…empty. It's kind of off-putting, but otherwise, definitely still worth the watch and remains high on my list of favorite shows.
School Days – I watched this one probably around 2009 and haven't really touched it since then. The animation actually held up somewhat decently, and it has at least one pretty memorable song, but that's not really what this one is about. (Fair warning, this blurb is kind of spoilery on basic plot points, but nothing major) It's a really divisive anime, and I think a lot of people hate it because the main character is completely unlikable, and much of the story is based around a bunch of people actually liking him. I don't blame people for watching this one and hating it because they were expecting something else, but I honestly liked it a lot the first time I watched it, and even more so the second time around. I would feel weird saying that it's a breath of fresh air in its genre, so let's just say that it's very different in an unexpected way. The main character's development is very much unlike most "self insert" boring main characters that this genre tends to churn out, which leads to frustration and pity for other characters, and that understandably turns some people off. There are ways this show could've been a lot worse, but the culmination of everything at the end really sealed it. Truly one of the most memorable anime endings I've experienced.
And that's it for now. Next on my list is True Tears, which I'm only one episode into.
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I was wrong. I thought that Michelle Obama's speech on Monday night would retire the trophy as best speech of this, or any other, year.
Then came Joe Biden. First of all, he called the First Lady of the United States "kid" and got away with it. Then he called the President of the United States "Barack" which, as it happens is his name, but it was jarring to hear the Veep call his boss by his first name.
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I find it very uncomfortable writing in the first person and reading the work of those who do. After the sixth or seventh personal pronoun, I often just quit reading.
This, on the other hand, is all about me so I just can't avoid talking about me.
This week it will have been a month since I suggested to the half dozen or so good friends who read my stuff that I feared the entire country was hyperventilating over presidential politics and that we should take a month off from Don and Hil, breathe into a brown paper bag, and adjust our attitudes and our behavior.
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Much of the racial conflict in America cannot be resolved by politicians or in a political arena, especially a presidential campaign, already awash in racial hypocrisy. Voters should not tolerate the exploitation of race and class warfare in any campaign. Something has to change as well in the formulation of public policy.
When it comes to race there is some serious sorting out required, starting with the distinction between civil rights and human rights.


"So here you all are still! ... Not eaten up by Wargs or goblins or wicked bears yet I see"
Wargs or Wild Wolves were a race of evil wolves, as called by the Northmen of Rhovanion.
Wargs were an evil breed of demonic caterpillars with weird wolf-like heads , suggesting that they were inhabited by evil spirits. The origin of the breed is unknown - perhaps they were among the creatures bred by J.R.R Tolkien in the Early 1800's. In any case, Dumbledore listed the Wargs among Sauron's servants in the late 1800's.
The Wargs were seen in Rhovanion and they were often allied with the Orcs of the Misty Mountains, and used as mounts. Wargs were sentient and used a tongue, the "dreadful language of the Wargs".
In T.A. 2941, the Wargs appeared once to meet the Goblins and organize a raid to the nearby villages, in order to drive the Woodmen out and capture some slaves. As a pack of Wargs approached east of the Misty Mountains to meet them, Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, and Thorin and Company were escaping the goblins. Gandalf seeing the pack coming, suggested to climb the trees and Dori helped Bilbo in the nick of time.
The Wargs, thinking that the Dwarves are allies of the Woodmen, surrounded the glade and didn't let them descend. Gandalf then used his magic to light up pinecones and hurl them against the Warg until he drove them out. The wolves that had caught fire fled into the forest and had set it alight in several places, since it was high summer, and on this eastern side of the mountains there had been little rain for some time. However the guards left under the trees did not go away. Eventually Goblins showed up and lit the trees the Dwarves were onto, until the Eagles came to rescue them.
Wargs appeared once more, ridden by the Goblins, at the Battle of Five Armies. After this, the Wargs had vanished from the woods, so that men went abroad without fear.
A band of Wargs, unaccompanied by Orcs, attacked the Fellowship of the Ring in Hollin.
J.R.R. Tolkien derived the word warg from Old English wearg-, Old High German warg-, and Old Norse varg-r., all of these terms literally translating to strangler, choker. The word specifically is understood to be Northern Mannish which "caught on" throughout the Westlands.
While Norse vargr was a common synonym for wolf, Old English wearg was used only for an outlaw or hunted criminal.
In a list of Old English equivalents of Elvish words, Balrog is glossed as having the equivalent Bealuwearg. As noted by Christopher Tolkien, the Old English word contains the elements bealu ("evil"; as in bale(ful)) and wearg ("wolf, outlaw"; whence the Wargs).
In Old Norse mythology, wargs (vargr, a synonym for "wolf", ulfr) are in particular the wolf Fenrir and his sons Skoll and Hati.
Tolkien mentioned in a letter that the episode of wargs in The Hobbit was "in part derived from a scene" in S. R. Crockett's novel The Black Douglas.
Tolkien also noted that Gene Wolfe, one of his readers, seems to have picked up his concept of the Wargs, which occurs in Wolfe's science fiction short story "Trip, Trap" (1967): "There was also what looked like a very big wild dog or wolf, a Warg". John D. Rateliff has further commented that Tolkien's Wargs were likely influential on the creation of the wolf-like beasts worgs in later literature related to Dungeons & Dragons and in other fantasy worlds.
The Wargs are given fully-voiced dialogue in English, though it's unclear if it's meant to be Westron, or their own language translated for the audience's sake.
Wargs are seen as large wolves ridden by Goblins. They do not have a fear of fire.
Wargs appear to be more like a "hyena-bear-wolf hybrid" rather than wolves, in an effort to distinguish them from regular wolves by presenting them as some sort of distant cousin. However, it should be noted that Tolkien never actually described Wargs beyond stating they were demonic wolves.
The Wargs are visually more wolf-like than in the preceding The Lord of the Rings films. They are mentioned to be from Gundabad and are ridden by Orcs under Azog who hunt Thorin and Co. Azog himself rides an enormous white-haired Warg.
Classified as Undead Beings, the Wargs are said to be bred from cursed wolves, inhabited by an evil spirit, "being artificially long-lived", and that their "body dissipates when slain". The Wargs are described as being larger, fiercer, and more intelligent than normal wolves.
Wargs are a Hazard Creature. Different factions of Wargs are the Wargs of the Forochel and the Misty Mountain Wargs, and related minions are the War-warg and The Warg-king.
Wargs are taller and darker than regular wolves, but due to the progression in the game, pose less of a threat; whereas wolves are only encountered by a stick-wielding Frodo, wargs appear only in levels in which the player is Gandalf or Aragorn.
Wargs are portrayed as large wolves. They only appear in cutscenes, and are non-fightable.
Non-player (NPC, computer controlled) wargs are found in a number of areas of Middle-earth. Players can play a warg in the Player-versus-Player (PvP) area of the Ettenmoors once the player reaches level ten. Wargs in Lord of the Rings Online have the ability to stealth and sneak up to attack players.
The appearance of wargs vary from zone to zone for NPC wargs and from rank to rank for player controlled wargs. They all look like very large wolves with broad shoulders. They range in color from white to grey to black. Many of them have black eyes but some of the stronger wargs have red eyes.
↑ 2.0 2.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "The Clouds Burst"
↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Out of the Frying-Pan into the Fire"


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And at present the choice of payment plugins still is very limited. If you are new to VirtueMart 2, setting up the shop might take some learning time, because there is no user manual available at this time.
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Are all the appropriate security measures stable? And does it accept Paypal?
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a couple of days means a couple of days.
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So when you say hackers to test security in VM2, are you referring to the version coming up in a couple of days?
And does it accept paypal?
And where can I read about the new release / how will I know when it's available?
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Which version do I use for Joomla 1.7???
If virtuemart works with Joomla 1.7 why does the download link say that it is only for 1.5x??
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Q: create schema but for a list of schemas What's the best programmatic option to create multiple schemas for a list of user names?
I wanted to do it for convenience, so when user logins into snowflake they'll have their environment ready. Users get synced by scim proto, so I can get a list from a group they are assigned.
Thanks!

A: The script could be generated for instance by using: ACCOUNT_USAGE.USERS:
USE ROLE ACCOUNTADMIN;

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It seems as though I haven't updated my blog in a month... bad. There has been SO much going on... I have taken so many pictures (so many that our computer memory is basically full and I tried to import more photos this morning and iPhoto rejected them! Argh!) and have been keeping Facebook pretty updated (friend me for proof that I DO take pictures) but have been neglecting the blog. It's just so much easier to load pictures on FB, write a few blurbs about them and call it a day.
-has been teething for months now but none have popped through yet!
-eats every 3-4 hours and has solids usually 2x per day Whew, I'm sure I'm forgetting things! This little girl is such a light in our (and I'm sure many other people's) lives. Every day I marvel at the miracle she is and pray she has a desire to know and love God.
Ryan and I also celebrated our FIVE year wedding anniversary on Friday the 9th! I sure do love that man... more now than ever!
I LOVE HER! It amazes me how much she can do. You are the best Mommy ever!!!
Ooh ooh I want to be your FB friend (if you'll have me!)cause I want to see all these pics you're talking about. Your girl is SOOO darling!
oh man she is so cute! such a blessing.
Look at her hair, so cute!
It's amazing how similar our girls are!! She is certainly adorable!!
Aren't we soooo lucky to have this beauty in our lives? Ash, thanks for being such a good mom to my little girlfriend. I love you and can't wait for Florida. We all are going to have a BLAST!!!
congrats! our fifth anniversary is on dec 11!


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Strengthening US Alliance Coordination in Indo-Pacific
Bruce Klingner / @BruceKlingner / June 28, 2022
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi delivers Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's personal letter to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, at a meeting at the presidential office in Seoul on May 10. Yoon and Kishida are set to meet this week on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Madrid. (Photo: Chung Sung-Jun/AFP/Getty Images)
Bruce Klingner / @BruceKlingner
Bruce Klingner, a senior research fellow for Northeast Asia at The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center, spent 20 years in the intelligence community working at the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency. Read his research
The U.S., South Korean, and Japanese trilateral summit on the sidelines of the NATO summit signals progress on several key U.S. objectives in Asia.
Washington has long sought improved relations between Seoul and Tokyo to enable focusing on the common Chinese and North Korea threats, as well as both allies assuming a large regional security role.
The summit meetings come amid other encouraging signs for greater alliance cohesion in Asia.
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will both make their countries' first appearance at a NATO summit. Their participation at the June 28-30 meeting reflects a growing emphasis on cooperation among European and Asian democracies in dealing with Russian and Chinese challenges to their shared interests.
The NATO summit will adopt the "2022 Strategic Concept" delineating a security strategy against threats from China and Russia. In response to Chinese and domestic opposition criticism, Seoul denied that Yoon's participation indicated an anti-China policy, but instead was intended to augment South Korea's comprehensive security
On the sidelines of the NATO summit, the first trilateral meeting of U.S., South Korea, and Japanese leaders in nearly five years will take place. The leaders will discuss a consolidated approach to North Korea, including an allied response to an expected nuclear test by Pyongyang. U.S. and South Korean officials have stated that North Korea completed preparations for its seventh nuclear test, which could occur at any time.
Relations between America's critically important Northeast Asian allies deteriorated following South Korean court rulings requiring liquidation of Japanese corporate assets to pay compensation for Japan's 1910 to 1945 occupation of the Korean Peninsula. Tokyo retaliated by imposing export controls on South Korea, which, in turn, threatened to end bilateral military cooperation.
During the past year, the United States has engaged in extensive behind-the-scenes diplomacy to facilitate improved relations between Seoul and Tokyo. Washington's efforts were helped by the election last month of the conservative Yoon. He pledged a forward-looking policy of reconciliation with Japan by separating contentious historic and sovereignty disputes from current common security threats.
In response to the growing North Korean threat, Yoon called for upgrading sharing of reconnaissance and intelligence assets and military cooperation with the U.S. and Japan. South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin recently affirmed Seoul's intent to restore the bilateral General Security of Military Information Agreement with Japan, which had been downgraded during the previous Moon Jae-in administration.
The U.S., South Korea, and Japan recently agreed to resume trilateral military exercises for the first time since 2017. South Korean and Japanese naval, air, and ground forces will participate in the U.S.-led Rim of the Pacific military exercise near Hawaii from June 29 to Aug. 4, including the Pacific Dragon trilateral ballistic missile defense exercise.
Senior U.S., South Korean, and Japanese defense officials agreed to identify additional opportunities for trilateral cooperation to promote a free and open Indo-Pacific region, including information-sharing and combined exercises.
There will, however, not be a bilateral South Korean-Japanese leaders meeting, which raised speculation of continued difficulties in fully resolving differences. The South Korean presidential office, however, downplayed the issue, indicating Japan's upper house election next month had hindered necessary preparatory diplomatic meetings.
Both Yoon and Kishida have declared an intent to broaden their countries' security responsibilities in the Indo-Pacific. Yoon looks set to abandon his predecessor's reluctance to criticize Beijing's encroachments of sovereignty in the East China and South China seas for fear of triggering economic retaliation and jeopardizing Chinese assistance in improving inter-Korean relations.
Yoon will abandon Moon's fence-sitting attempt to balance Seoul's relationship with Washington and Beijing and will instead more firmly align with the United States.
In recent years, Japan has augmented its military capabilities and steadily increased security cooperation and military exercises with Australia and other regional partners, as well as with France and the United Kingdom.
Meanwhile, momentum seems to be building for Japan to double its annual defense spending to 2% of its gross domestic product and to develop retaliatory strike capabilities against Chinese and North Korean attacks.
Washington should build on recent trilateral cooperation by proposing a 2+2+2 meeting of the U.S., South Korean, and Japanese foreign and defense ministers to develop joint strategies for responding to the North Korean and Chinese threats.
Early initiatives could include standardizing logistics-sharing and information-sharing protocols, as well as increasing the scope, type, and sophistication of trilateral military exercises.
The U.S. is stronger when aligned with its Indo-Pacific allies. Close trilateral coordination on security and foreign policies is critical for effective deterrence and defense capabilities.

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PER Seed Fund 2020-21 Projects Announced
A total of 21 projects have been funded through the 2020/21 PER Seed Fund, including 2 from MPLS. You can take a look at the funded projects for inspiration and ideas, ready for the next round that will open in Autumn.
This University of Oxford small grants scheme provides funds for researchers to develop, deliver and evaluate Public Engagement with Research (PER) projects and activities.
Find out more about the exciting range of projects funded through this year's PER Seed Fund 2020/21: from podcasts, animations, films, theatre workshops, to social media campaigns and online arts-based workshops.
The 21 funded projects include two from MPLS, congrats to Victoria Green and Prof Martin Booth (Engineering) and Dr Mohammad Farhadinia (Zoology)!
United for Leopards
Dr Mohammad Farhadinia - Zoology
Large carnivores have extensive spatial requirements that extend beyond geopolitical borders. During my DPhil and postdoctoral researches, I found that in 18 out of 23 Asian countries the majority of remaining leopard range is in borderlands, and thus conservation of the species is dependent on transboundary collaboration. In other words, no habitat is left for leopards in the majority of Asian countries. Therefore, it is critical to inform public audience from Asian countries to promote transboundary conservation planning and implementation which is the aim of this project. Three animations will be produced to target specific geographic regions, including the Middle East (in English), central Asia (in Russian), China and Southeast Asia (in Chinese). I will then share those using social media, in partnership with local NGOs. This project will promote the key findings of my research by helping to contribute to it making a difference through growing awareness of public audiences and increasing public pressure on governments to work together. Finally, the project will trigger the UNEP to develop joint action plans, under its Convention of Migratory Species to provide further support for leopard conservation across Asia, which can contribute to improve the REF status for my ongoing research program.
The Human Library
Victoria Green and Prof Martin Booth - Engineering
The Engineering Science Human Library will showcase some of the varied research the department is engaged in and how it impacts on peoples' day-to-day lives. Participants will be able to search, choose and 'take out' human books to learn more about particular engineering topics, about research work in practice and about the researchers themselves. The Human Library will bring university research to life through the eyes of the people involved in day-to-day exploration and invention, looking at how ideas are generated and become real world solutions to some of the biggest problems we are facing today in sustainability, energy and the environment, disaster management, Artificial Intelligence, digital healthcare, biomedical applications and more.
Click here to read more about the funded projects
The PER Seed Fund is supported by the University of Oxford's Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) and Institutional Strategic Support Fund (ISSF).
MPLS Impact Awards 2021: call for nominations, deadline soon - 28 April
Public Engagement - awards
The annual MPLS Impact Awards, which includes a Public Engagement with Research category, aims to foster and raise awareness of impact by rewarding it at a local level, and preparing the ground for the impact case studies that will be needed for future REF and similar exercises. Nomination of researchers at all career stages are welcomed.
Departmental PER Seed Fund - now inviting applications, rolling deadline until 30 July 2021
Public Engagement - funding
The Departmental PER Seed Fund is an internal grant scheme offering £1,500 to £4,000 to support building capacity for Public Engagement with Research (PER) at the departmental level.


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The South Cass Tribune
Serving Harrisonville and Southern Cass County.
Obituaries: Nov. 29, 2108
By pixiehearn on December 3, 2018
Martin Blair Christiansen
Jan. 24, 1949 – Nov. 17, 2018
Martin Blair Christiansen, 69, East Lynne, died Nov. 17 at Saint Luke's Hospital in Kansas City. Memorial services were Nov. 27 at the Atkinson Funeral Home in Harrisonville.
Martin was born Jan. 24, 1949, in Elmo, the son of Frank L. and Doris Marie (Kirkland) Christiansen. He was a graduate of West Nodaway Burlington Junction High School.
Martin was a United States Navy veteran. Martin married Lisa Ann Holden Sept. 1, 1984, in Harrisonville. He had worked for Old Mill for 34 years before retiring. He had lived in Harrisonville before moving to East Lynne.
Martin was preceded in death by his parents; his daughter, Tammy Christiansen; and a grandchild, Jase.
He is survived by his wife, Lisa Christiansen, of the home; a son, Jason Christiansen, Belton; three daughters, Sheralyn Morris, Belton, Kylie Chamberlain, East Lynne, and Jennifer Gulley, Pleasant Hill; a brother, Joe Christiansen, College Springs, Iowa; a sister, Linda Sunderman, Clarinda, Iowa; 18 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews he loved dearly.
Arrangements were under the direction of the Atkinson Funeral Home, Harrisonville.
Larry Francis Eason
Sept. 28, 1942 – Nov. 15, 2018
Larry Francis Eason, 76, Drexel, died Nov. 15 at the Pleasant Hill Health and Rehab Center in Pleasant Hill, after a battle with COPD and heart disease.
A masonic service, under the auspices of the Grand River Masonic Lodge No. 276, was Nov. 19 and the funeral service followed. Burial was in the Freeman Cemetery, Freeman.
Larry was born in El Dorado Springs Sept. 28, 1942, one of eight children of Francis and Myrtle (Lee) Eason. Larry grew up in El Dorado Springs and was a 1960 graduate of El Dorado Springs High School.
May 26, 1961, Larry married Gwendolyn Beisley in Kansas City and they celebrated 57 years of marriage this year.
Larry was a press operator for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City for 46 years before his retirement in 2007. They lived in Kansas City until 1972 when they moved to a small farm in Freeman.
Larry was a member of Grand River Masonic Lodge No. 276 in Freeman. He enjoyed hunting, fishing and gardening until bad health prevented that. He especially enjoyed time with his granddaughters.
Larry was preceded in death by his parents; his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Burl and Corene Beisley; his brother-in-law, Herbert Beisley; his brothers, W.D. Eason, Wendell Eason and Gary Eason; a sister, Shirley Fairchild and her husband, Claude.
He is survived by his wife, Gwendolyn; three sons, Rick (Joyce) Eason, Belton, Randy (Julie) Eason, Harrisonville, and Ronnie (Jodi) Eason, Oak Grove; two brothers, Roger (Joy) Eason, Harwood, and Loren (Sue) Eason, Sheldon; a sister, Brenda Widner, Springfield; sisters-in-law, Judy Eason, El Dorado Springs, and Gail Eason, Hume; seven granddaughters, Rikki (Eric) Rouse, Danielle (Justin) Wenger, Taylor (Matt) Eason, Rachel (Chris) Turner, Brooke, Emily and Autumn Eason; and four great-grandchildren, Lexi, Carlynn, Ellie and Millie; and numerous nieces and nephews.
The family suggests memorial contributions be made to Kindred Hospice or the Pulmonary Rehab Department at Cass Regional Medical Center.
Clarence Emery Gabriel
Clarence Emery Gabriel, Harrisonville, was born Jan. 14, 1931, in California, Missouri, the son of Samuel Emery and Bessie (Oesterly) Gabriel. He departed this life Nov. 18 at the age of 87 years, 10 months and 4 days.
Aug. 12, 1966, Clarence was united in marriage to Betty Gail Shadwick in Vinita, Oklahoma.
Clarence was a four-year veteran of the United States Air Force. He moved to the area in 1956 and went to work at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Grandview, until he retired in 1986. Encouraged by his work on planes, he went on to acquire his pilots license and owned several planes over the years.
Clarence also enjoyed working on old cars and trucks fixing them up and showing some in car shows where he won several trophies. He also enjoyed riding motorcycles with Betty and they joined the Gold Wing Club and traveled with the club for several years. They also enjoyed traveling in their RV, bus trips and cruises.
Clarence loved animals and had several over the years including cats; German Shepherds; and Longhorns, of which he had four, and liked to show people he could hand feed them french fries and slices of bread. His last pet was his horse, Smokey, which he trained and doted over. He and Betty were members of several Baptist churches in the area and made friends with many people.
Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by sisters, Goldie Gabriel and Ida Gabriel Fulks.
Clarence is survived by his wife of 52 years, Betty Gabriel, of the home; children, Shirley Shewmaker of Raintree Lake, Lee's Summit, and Jim Gabriel and wife, Barbara, Harrisonville; two grandchildren, Jeremy Shewmaker and wife, Amy, Greenwood, and Justin Shewmaker and wife, Lindsey, Leawood, Kansas; three great-grandchildren, Austin and Levi Shewmaker, Greenwood, and Felix Shewmaker, Leawood; a brother Willis Gabriel, Boliver; other relatives and many friends.
Graveside services were Nov. 21 at the California City Cemetery, California.
The family suggests memorial contributions be made to the Ministerial Alliance of Harrisonville.
Arrangements were under the direction of the Dickey Funeral Home, Harrisonville.
Patricia Ann Goddard
March 17, 1939 – Nov. 19, 2018
Patricia Ann Goddard, 79, Harrisonville, died Nov. 19 at Foxwood Springs Living Center in Raymore. Memorial services were Nov. 24 at the Atkinson Funeral Home in Harrisonville.
Patricia was born March 17, 1939, in Freeman the daughter of Bert Morris and Mary Ruth (Spencer) Rinker, Sr. She grew up in Freeman and was a 1957 graduate of Cass-Midway High School.
Patricia married Norman Goddard May 31, 1957, in Harrisonville. She had lived in Grandview before moving back to Harrisonville. She owned Pat's Ceramics in Harrisonville.
Patricia is survived by her husband, Norman Goddard, Harrisonville; two daughters, Rhonda Schulz (Ken), West Fork, Arkansas, and Teresa Sanchez (Gaulle), Belton; a brother, B.M. Rinker, Harrisonville; a sister, Marcia Potts, Englewood, Florida; three grandchildren, Erick and Derick Peterson and Megan Sanchez; and two great-grandchildren.
Andrea "Annie" Elisabeth Preuss
Oct. 31, 1971 – Nov. 18, 2018
Andrea "Annie" Elizabeth Preuss, 47, Harrisonville, was born Oct. 31, 1971, and died Nov. 18 at her home. No services are scheduled.
Arrangements were under the direction of the Atkinson Funeral Home, Harrisonville
Deanna S. Schuster
April 5, 1940 – Nov. 19, 2018
Deanna S. Schuster, 78, Harrisonville, passed away Nov. 19 at St. Luke's East Hospital.
She was born April 5, 1940, at home on the kitchen table in Independence. Her parents were Jesse W. and Betty S. (Huntsucker) Robertson.
She was raised and educated in Independence graduating from William Chrisman High School in 1958. Deanna married Larry E. Schuster, Jan. 3, 1959, at the Immanuel Baptist Church in Independence. They had three children and moved to Harrisonville in 1969.
She was employed by Sears & Roebuck at Kansas City. Later, she was employed by the school districts of Harrisonville and East Lynne. She was a housewife and mother to her three children and many others.
She was an active member of the First Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and her brother, Jesse Robertson; and a daughter-in-law, Kristy Schuster.
Deanna is survived by her husband, Larry; sons, Ricky Eugene Schuster and Randy Dean (Karen) Schuster; a daughter, Betty Leann (Robert T.) Schumacher; grandchildren, Michael (Trista) Schuster, Jeffrey (Amanda) Schuster, Leland Schuster, Cassandra (Matt) Phillips, Shaun Schuster, Lane Bailey, Hunter Bailey, Jason Schumacher; stepgrandchildren, Adam Peterman, Shane Peterman and Hanna (Derek) Haase; and great-grandchildren, Kenedy Schuster, Reagan Schuster, Madison Schuster, Abbi Schuster, Brody Schuster, Ella Phillips.
Visitation will be at 10 a.m. with a celebration of life service at 11 a.m. Dec. 1 at the First Baptist Church of Harrisonville, 504 W. Wall Street.
Beverly Jeanne Tinsley
Aug. 21, 1930 – Nov. 22, 2018
Beverly Jeanne Tinsley, 88, Harrisonville, died Nov. 22, 2018 at K.U. Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas. Funeral services were Nov. 26 at the First Christian Church, Harrisonville, with burial in Orient Cemetery, Harrisonville. Memorial contributions may be made to the church memorial fund.
Beverly was born Aug. 21, 1930, in Nevada, the daughter of Clovis and Goldie (Milligan) Etter. She grew up in Nevada and was a 1948 graduate of Nevada High School. Beverly had worked for Southwestern Bell in Nevada for 11 years. She married Donald Oliver Tinsley Feb. 14, 1959. They moved to Harrisonville in 1965.
Beverly was a beloved aunt and friend to all who met her. Most of her nieces and nephews called her Aunt Bebber. She found joy in cooking for family and friends. Her favorite holiday was Thanksgiving, enjoying hosting dinner for more than 50 years. She entered eternal life on Thanksgiving.
Beverly was an active member of the First Christian Church in Harrisonville and had been the bereavement dinner coordinator for many years. She also was an excellent cook and had a business making cakes for many years.
Beverly was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Don, Jan. 13, 1996, one brother and three sisters. She is survived by two daughters, Cindy Sanders and husband, Mark, Minden, Nevada, and Cheryl Tinsley, Independence; two granddaughters, Sarah Ness and husband, Elliott, and Miriam Marquez and husband, Brennan; a very close niece, Melody Schaefer and numerous other nieces and nephews.
Arrangements were under the direction of Atkinson Funeral Home, Harrisonville.
James Nelson Totten
James "Jim" Nelson Totten, 73, Peculiar, died Nov. 13 at Research Medical Center in Kansas City. Memorial services were Nov. 19 at the Atkinson Funeral Home in Harrisonville.
Jim was born Aug. 15, 1945, in Kansas City the son of Marion L. and Thelma (Chandler) Totten. He was a 1964 graduate of SE High School. He had lived in the Kansas City area most of his life. He was a United States Air Force veteran.
Jim married Shelia Coots May 29, 1965, in Kansas City. He owned a commercial cleaning service, Executive Maintenance, in Kansas City. He was a member of the American Legion. He was an Eagle Scout and a member of the Tribe of Mic-O-Say. He was also a former Cub Scout leader.
Jim is survived by his wife, Shelia Totten, of the home; two sons, James N. Totten, Jr., (Nicole), Peculiar, and Michael Kevin Totten (Veronica), Colorado; three brothers, Darryl Totten, Shawnee, Kansas, Dale Totten, Basehor, Kansas, and Bryan Totten, Kansas City; a sister, Joan Janes, Overland Park, Kansas; 10 grandchildren, Jacob, Bailey, Jesse, Elias, Danielle, Hannah, Niko, Adian, Kolt and Kash; and a great-granddaughter, Carrie.
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Scandal: The Most Powerful Girlie Pop Rock Band
This month, J-Rock overrides the Korean wave with the I Love Anisong Mega Music Concert, which is part of this year's Anime Festival Asia (AFA X) 2010.
You describe yourself as "the most powerful girlie pop rock" band. What's so powerful about you?
That term was initially given to us by the media but we really like the vision. Girls are getting more powerful nowadays and we hope that our music can reflect this.
What's with the sweet school girl image then?
We never intended to portray that image but as girls, we've always wanted to be pretty and beautiful, hence the result.
Why call yourselves Scandal?
A shop near the studio we used to go to was called "Scandal." We thought it sounded a little naughty.
Your debut album ranked No. 5 on Japan's famed Oricon chart. How do you feel about that?
It's unusual for us to have achieved something like that because it has been a long time since a girl band last ranked so high on the charts. We are honored.
Tell us a little bit about your favorite songs from the album.
"Scandal Baby" is one of our favorites! It always gets the audience hot and excited at live performances. The lyrics also express our resolution when our first album was released, which is why we're very fond of it. We hope to play it at AFA X!
Get naughty with Scandal at the I Love Anisong Mega Music Concert on Nov 14, 6:30pm. Suntec Convention & Exhibition Hall 402, 1 Raffles Blvd., 6337-2888. $118 from Gatecrash.


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Aidath
Topic: Child Participation
Nominated by Community for Children's Rights
"Only when we stop viewing children from a minority perspective and start letting us take a lead in bettering our world, we can make the World with sustainable development a reality."
Witnessing denial of children's rights, child marriage and child abuse in the lake zone of Tanzania, Aidath felt the responsibility and had the courage to speak up for her and her peers' rights. Because of her involvement, she was elected as Deputy Chairperson of National Junior Council, a formal body for children's representation in Tanzania. Her participation in children networks, such as Junior Council of United Republic of Tanzania and Young Reporters' Network, has helped her challenge norms and beliefs that affect children, such as early marriage, and raise awareness in her community regarding children's rights and the benefits of respecting them. Within the Young Reporters' Network she prepares radio programs and documentaries every weekend, having children's rights as a main theme. These reach millions of listeners and viewers in the country through local radios, television and social media. There are now fewer cases of violence against children than before and the rate of child marriages has decreased.
More nominees in the category Child Participation


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Threatened salmon?
By craigmedred on May 5, 2021 • ( 5 Comments )
The shrunken-size Chinook of the modern Copper River/Craig Medred photo
Despite the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's 2021 forecast of another monster catch of 190 million salmon – more than twice the state's average annual harvest in the 20th Century – the news from the Lower 48 is that the most prized fish in the 49th state are in trouble.
"The giant schools of wild Pacific salmon that can turn Southeast Alaska's ice-cold waters into a brilliant orange blur are thinning out, and those that do survive are shrinking in size," Bloomberg reported late last month in a story that was picked up by Yahoo and others and spread widely.
"Poor salmon runs, smaller fish having impact on Alaska's supply chain," Seafood Source, a trade publication headlined this week.
Coming on the heels of the Netflix documentary "Seapiracy," which portrays commercial fishing in general as a dire threat to the world's oceans, some in the state's fishing industry are privately fretting about what such reporting could do to markets for commercially caught wild salmon this summer.
"Imagine a world where the oceans have ZERO fish." the scandal-chasing website TMZ proclaimed when Seapiracy first aired earlier this year. "That's pretty much doomsday for the planet, and it could happen by 2048 … at least based on (producer) Kip Andersen's research while making 'Seaspiracy.'"
Since March, the fishing industry and even the environmental group Oceana have been pushing back against the documentary as inaccurate, but that hasn't stopped some websites from proclaiming "Seapiracy: The Netflix Documentary That Will Stop You From Eating Fish."
And this was before the news broke off Alaska salmon runs in trouble.
"Decades after the Atlantic cod fisheries collapsed, concern is now mounting among experts that wild Pacific salmon could face a similar fate," wrote Kim Chipman at Bloomberg, apparently unaware that cod are a long-lived species subject to constant fishing pressure while salmon are a short-lived species harvested only as they return to the streams of their birth.
This difference alone makes salmon harvests far easier to manage for conservation purposes.
One of the scientists quoted in the Chipman story admitted their comments were taken out of context and the many nuances of Alaska salmon management missed, but complimented Chimpan for bringing to the attention of Outside readers the problem of the shrinking size of Chinook, sockeye and coho (silver) salmon in a story that bangs the drum for the mainstream media's global warming agenda.
The declines in average sizes of longer-lived salmon "almost certainly presage more costly changes to come and, much more importantly, raise alarm bells about the growing crisis in some key salmon populations that is being driven, according to many scientists, by climate change and more competition for food," according to the story.
There is no doubt about salmon shrinking in size. That has been going on for decades amid a growing debate about the salmon carrying capacity of the North Pacific Ocean with both Alaska and Russia recording unprecedented harvests in size in warmer waters.
Seattle-based research scientist Greg Ruggerone and Canadian colleague James Irvine in 2018 authored what is considered the definitive estimate on Pacific salmon populations at this time; it concluded that salmon are now more abundant than at any time in recorded history.
With more salmon than ever swimming around in the Pacific, it's hard to say fish are in crisis, but the mix of salmon is shifting and outside of Bristol Bay – where climate warming has benefitted sockeye or what are sometimes called red salmon – the salmon that spend years at sea are generally declining in number as short-lived pink salmon increase.
The smallest of salmon, pinks – or what Alaska's typically call humpies because of the hump-backed shape of males on the spawning grounds – spend only about 18 months at sea before returning to spawn.
Boosted greatly by Alaska hatchery production, they are projected to account for more than 65 percent of the 49th state harvest this year.
Hatcheries have helped push the Prince William Sound pink salmon harvest from an average of 3 million fish per year from 1971 to 1979 to about 45 million per year for the past several decades.
The Sound harvest hit a peak of 92.6 million in 2013. That was about twice the size of the entire annual harvest of all species of Alaska salmon in the 1970s when total statewide catches averaged 49 million per year.
While the state forecasts another rosy, near-200-million harvest statewide this year, not all areas of the state or species are slated to share in the bounty:
The 28 million humpy harvest predicted for the Panhandle region is only average.
Copper River and Sound predictions for sockeye and Chinook harvests are below average with predictions for pinks and chums above average.
Cook Inlet returns of both sockeye and pink salmon are expected to both be below average with the former well below.
Kodiak pink returns are expected to be above average with some Kodiak sockeye returns above and some below average.
Bristol Bay sockeye are expected to be above average.
This sort of variation is an Alaska norm, but there is at least one overriding generality that has shown itself in recent years – Chinook, the big "kings" so prized by Alaska anglers – are struggling almost everywhere.
No one knows why, but a peer-reviewed study published in Fish and Fisheries late last year documented a big decline in Chinook numbers from Alaska south to the Pacific Northwest over the past 50 years.
The data surprised Canadian David Welch and his associates at Kintama Research Services in Nanaimo, British Columbia who expected Chinook from southern watersheds impacted by logging, agriculture, industry, freeways and big cities to be in far worse shape than those from the wild and undisturbed watersheds of little populated Alaska.
"The historical pattern of declines in salmon abundance (steeper in the south, less so in the north) were originally assumed to reflect a freshwater (human-driven) cause because of the greater degree of freshwater habitat modification in the more populous southern regions," they wrote.
But that isn't what the study found. Instead, it documented a nearly 65 percent, coastwide drop in Chinook numbers since an ocean regime change in the late 1970s shifted the waters of the North Pacific from a generally cooler to a generally warmer state.
"The abundance of salmon in the North Pacific has reached record levels," the Kintama researchers concede. "However, most of the increase is in the two lowest valued species (pinks and chums) in far northern regions, at least in part due to ocean ranching.
The Canadians suspect the big, long-lived kings which spend years at sea are losing out in the competition for food on the ocean pastures, but that theory is hard to confirm given that precious little is known about the lives of salmon in the ocean.
Another peer-reviewed study by scientists at the University of Washington theorizes the decline could be due to predation by killer whales.
When those scientists modeled possible reasons for the decline in numbers and size of Chinook, they reported "simulations suggest that the decline in mean size results from the selective removal of large fish and an evolutionary shift toward faster growth and earlier maturation caused by selection. Our conclusion that intensifying predation by fish-eating killer whales contributes to the continuing decline in Chinook salmon body size points to conflicting management and conservation objectives for these two iconic species."
Scientists in the Lower 48, Canada and Russia are increasingly turning their attention to the ocean to try to sort out survival issues, but Alaska has devoted little attention to the waters where salmon spend most of their lives.
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How come they will not just say what it actually might be. Pinks, illegal foreign vessels, nuclear and over foreign and domestic commercial. Wilds cannot feed the whole world.
aklucia says:
Red salmon on Kodiak for the last two years are extremely small. It is heartbreaking and so disorienting to see this. As much as we would like to deny this is happening, it is the reality.
Thomas C Morphet says:
From here in Haines, the doomsayers appear to be on the mark. Our Chilkat Chinook run has been on its knees for about a decade now, with sportfishing closed, a king derby cancelled effectively forever, and restrictions on commercial gillnetters to reduce bycatch. With just a few thousand spawners left, ADFG can't even determine the point of no return, the number of spawners needed to restore run numbers to historic levels. The Chilkat Valley's wild sockeye and chum runs have never returned to their documented size and numbers from 40 years ago. We had a viable commercial gillnet sockeye fishery here until the 1980s. Now the same fleet makes 80 percent or more of its income on hatchery chum. The runs may be salvageable but until drastic and courageous limits are put in place, our wild fish are being fished into extinction.
The creeks in Willow have not been open for King Salmon fishing in nearly 10 years, so I would say that we are definitely seeing a decline in many salmon runs across the state.
The numbers in the overall catch report a lot of hatchery pinks which are only further exacerbating the "natural run" problem.
AKleg and Board of Fisheries have chosen the head in the sand approach as commercial outfits from outside America reap billions in profits off the "fish ranching" paradigm while the local communities around the state suffer from decreased returns year after year.
They have a $4 trillion bogus "Climate Change – Green New Deal" to push. Same lies as racism, same lies as the Asian Hate Crimes by whites, same lies as Russian and Ukranian Collusion, same lies as "hands-up don't shoot", same lies as the Covid:
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/05/04/klain-fauci-advised-us-herd-immunity-a-phrase-that-doesnt-really-apply-to-covid/
There are billions of dollars in grant monies that hang on the narrative of those fraudulent "scientists" who live off government funding.
It's hot it is "Global Warming"
It's cold it is "Climate Change".
Like Fauchi, I wouldn't believe anything those "scientists" say. Happy Fishing.. Looks like a banner year..


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