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Jaunta Swirlbush 2014-08-12
12 Aug 2014 Jaunta Swirlbush
Patti LaBelle joins 'American Horror Story: Freak Show' cast
Ryan Murphy has added another attraction to his American Horror Story: Freak Show — and this one is a real show stopper.
Veteran singer Patti LaBelle will appear in four episodes of the FX anthology series from co-creators Murphy and Brad Falchuk. LaBelle will play the mother of Gabourey Sidibe's character, a townie in 1952 Jupiter, Florida who discover the secrets of Twisty the clown killer. Sadly, the Grammy-winner's part will only require her to act; no singing will be involved.
LaBelle, most recently seen on Broadway in After Midnight, joins returning AHS cast members Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Frances Conroy, Sarah Paulson, Gabourey Sidibe and Evan Peters in the fourth season of the FX hit, which will premiere in October. Michael Chiklis, Wes Bentley, John Carroll Lynch and Finn Wittrock will also join Murphy and Falchuk's parade of oddities this season, which will focus on the last American freak show in the 1950s.
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Jaunta Swirlbush says: Yaaaasss! I approve! We need more Patti in our lives. Bless!
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Anime 1st episodes 2016: S
Including: Sailor Moon Crystal: Death Busters, Scared Rider Xechs, Schwarzesmarken, Scorching Ping-Pong Girls, Sekkou Boys, Sengoku Choujuu Giga, Servamp, The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War, She and Her Cat: Everything Flows, Shelter, Shin Atashinchi, Shounen Ashibe GO! GO! Goma-chan, Shounen Maid, Show By Rock!! Short!!, Show by Rock!!# Season Two, A Simple Thinking About Blood Type, Snow White with the Red Hair: Season 2, Soul Buster, Sound! Euphonium 2, Space Patrol Luluco, Strike The Blood, Super Lovers, Sushi Police, Sweetness and Lightning
Series: << Anime 1st episodes 2016 >>, << Sailor Moon >>
Keywords: Show by Rock, Akagami no Shirayukihime, SF, fantasy, anime, alternate universe, mecha, magical girl, reverse-harem, historical, vampires
Format: 24 first episodes
Listed under "C": Seisen Cerberus, aka. Cerberus
Listed under "D": Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan, aka. The Disastrous Life of Saiki K.
Listed under "D": Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, aka. Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
Listed under "F": Shokugeki no Souma: Ni no Sara, aka. Food Wars! The Second Plate
Listed under "G": Shoujo-tachi wa Kouya wo Mezasu, aka. Girls Beyond the Wasteland
Listed under "H": Sakamoto desu ga, aka. Haven't You Heard? I'm Sakamoto
Listed under "I": Shuumatsu no Izetta, aka. Izetta: The Last Witch
Listed under "M": Sangatsu no Lion, aka. March Comes in like a Lion
Listed under "M": Soushin Shoujo Matoi, aka. Matoi the Sacred Slayer
Listed under "M": Stella no Mahou, aka. Magic of Stella
Listed under "T": Sansha Sanyou, aka. Three Leaves, Three Colors
Listed under "T": Sousei no Onmyouji, aka. Twin Star Exorcists
Listed under "U": Saijaku Muhai no Bahamut, aka. Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle
Didn't watch: Sekaijuu de Shutsudou Kaishi! Powerpuff Girls
It's a film: selector destructed WIXOSS (but as it happens I have watched it and it's very good)
It's a film: Sinbad: Mahou no Lamp to Ugoku Shima
It's a film: Shimijaro in Bookland, aka. Shimajirou to Ehon no Kuni
It's a film: Shin Gekijou-ban Initial D Legend 3 - Mugen
Season III: Death Busters
Episodes: 27-39
Keep watching: yes
One-line summary: it's Sailor Moon
I've since finished it and... it's the best Crystal season yet. 1st half okay, 2nd half packs a punch.
Sailor Moon is great. Unfortunately this is Sailor Moon Crystal, i.e. less great, but I'm still guaranteed to be watching all of it. (Crystal is the 2014 anniversary revival that's more manga-faithful and doesn't make Usagi quite as much of a lazy, stupid, gluttonous, immature crybaby. Thus it's less funny, although the good news is that they've still got the great Kotono Mitsuishi giving Usagi's voice a hint of Donald Duck.)
Anyway, this is the start of the Death Busters arc. There's a new supervillain (introduced right at the beginning) and there will be a Monster of the Week. Haruka and Michiru get introduced, although at this stage the show's still pretending that Haruka's a boy and hence Michiru's boyfriend. (The end credits aren't trying very hard to hide the truth, though, putting both characters in skirts.)
It's a standard Sailor Moon episode, really, but setting up the new story arc. Our heroines are being allowed to be goofier than usual for Sailor Moon Crystal, which is nice. (Chibi-Usa in contrast is being the mature one, effectively playing mother for her own mother, which is an amusing use of the character.) All five transformation sequences are played out in full, as was probably obligatory, thus reminding you once again of the Noodle Limb People criticism. A purple/black egg grows out of a girl's back. I'm happily looking forward to seeing the series unfold.
Scared Rider Xechs
Scar-red Rider XechS
Keep watching: no
One-line summary: boys in robot suits fight aliens
There's nothing here for me. It's not necessarily that bad, but I bounced off it hard.
The character designs suggest an artist who's only interested in drawing one body type. They're all very tall and thin, with plastic legs. They look like dolls. Even the girl in tiny shorts looks androgynous, while I didn't really get any sense of emotion or human life from most of them. (The voice actors are contributing more than the artists, mind you.)
It's set in a world that's on the brink of destruction and under attack by aliens. A school appears to have been shot full of holes, for instance. Tall boring boys have to fight giant mud monsters. One of the boys isn't boring, but that's because he has a particularly annoying way of mixing English and Japanese in his dialogue (e.g. "me-tachi no generation") and I wanted him to die. I don't even understand the title. The "Riders" don't ride anything and "Scared" doesn't seem to mean scared, scarred or anything else I can guess at.
Apparently it's based on an otome game, i.e. romantic wish-fulfilment with lots of boys for the female protagonist to choose between. That makes an odd kind of sense. I can't imagine it being anything else, because it's rubbish as an alien invasion action story. So far, though, I can't even imagine this being a good otome game adaptation, since the boys all struck me as indistinguishable, boring and/or annoying. Don't take my word for it since I'm the wrong person to ask about this genre, but personally I wouldn't even recommend this for its target audience.
Schwarzesmarken
One-line summary: Cold War communist regime (East Germany) vs. alien invasion
I've since finished it and... I wasn't disappointed at all.
This could be pretty cool. This particular episode is only okay, mind you, but what I like is the idea.
In 1973, aliens invaded Earth. It's now 1983 and we have a three-way hostility. East Germany is at war with aliens, but it's also burning with hatred towards: (a) the West and (b) itself. It's a totalitarian communist regime where the Stasi line up people against a wall and shoot them in the back of the head. Meanwhile one of the main characters might have turned in her own brother. Don't trust anyone. Don't trust your comrades.
An idealistic girl tries to defect from the West to the East. "If the East and West worked together, we could beat the aliens!" "If they heard you saying that, the Stasi would arrest you and kill you."
So far, the only downside is purple boob bubble bodysuit uniforms. I'm definitely continuing with this.
Scorching Ping-Pong Girls
Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume
One-line summary: schoolgirls playing ping-pong
The title amuses me. However the title sequence is full of girls and ping-pong. (I suppose that shouldn't be surprising.) Lots and lots of ping-pong, in fact. It looks as if the show plans to be serious about its ping-pong. Clearly I won't be watching it, then. I never even watched Masaaki Yuasa's 2014 anime (called Ping Pong), despite thinking the first episode was very good and being a fan of that director. I'd had every intention of continuing the show, but... well, it's ping-pong. It just kept slipping down my to-watch list until I eventually realised that I just wasn't going to get around to it.
That 2014 show was far, far better than this.
It starts badly, with the apparent intention of making all the cast unlikeable. A champion school goes into shock because they got hammered in the first round by a no-name school in a tournament! The way they freak out about that makes them look like snobs, but I wasn't wild about their opponent's gloating either.
After that, we switch to a completely different school that's strong enough for regional tournaments but lacks that X-factor that might get them into the national championships. One of their players is called Boobs-Boobs and has big boobs. This wouldn't be so bad if the other girls could shut up about it. The club ace (Agari) says things like "I couldn't care less about a tournament I didn't play in" and is motivated by her love of being worshipped as the best.
Then a new transfer student arrives (Koyori) and she's an airhead. The first time we see her, she's straddling the school gate, saying, "I got up here but I can't get down; please help me!"
That said, though, the episode improves thereafter. Koyori turns out to be nice and even a bit lovable, although definitely an idiot. (She's superb at table-tennis, but goes to sleep in class and on being woken will stand up and shout "I love ping-pong!") Agari's quite nice too, if you haven't challenged her ego. (Koyori has no ego whatsoever.) It also looks as if "scorching" is just in the title for laughs and/or sporting fervour, rather than sleaze. The episode's second half was fine, actually, but it's still a ping-pong sports anime. (Or was it table tennis? I know there's a difference...)
Sekkou Boys
Episodes: 12 x 8 minutes
Keep watching: um
One-line summary: boys' idol show where the boys are stone statues
I've since finished it and... it's an amusing throwaway, but it's okay.
It begins with a boys' idol concert. The boys sound just as you'd expect, i.e. a waste of good target practice. I'd already filed this show under "do not watch".
We then meet our protagonist, a former art student called Miki Ishimoto who's just joined an idol agency. She's going to be managing the Sekkou Boys. On being asked about this career change, she says, "because art school is not a place that nurtures artistic talent". I was surprised. That's more cynical (and funnier) than I'd expected from a boys' idol show. We then see Miki's background, in which she learned to hate sculptures because that's all her tutors ever gave her to draw.
We then learn that the Sekkou Boys are sculptures. They can sing and bicker like idiot teenagers, but they're stone sculptures. You've got to lift them on to a trolley to get them to their gigs. "Sekkou" in Japanese means... no, not "sculpture", but "plaster; gypsum; calcium sulphate". This boys' idol show just got a lot more surreal.
Theoretically this is a funny idea. In practice, though, will it just turn out to be yet another show about annoying narcissistic boys (but with the twist that they're statues)? I'm suspicious, but they're only eight-minute episodes, so I might give it a go.
Sengoku Choujuu Giga
SENGOKUCHOJYUGIGA
Keep watching: I quite enjoyed it, but no
One-line summary: conversational comedy with 16th century historical characters
"Sengoku" means the Warring States era (1467-1603). "Choujuu" is "birds and animals", i.e. wildlife. "Giga" is "caricature, cartoon, comics". This episode stars famous warlords from that era (Nobunaga, Ieyasu, Hideyoshi), drawn as animals in traditional Japanese sumi-e style. (What's on screen is monochrome line drawings on sepia paper, with no solid areas of inking or colour.) They have an amusing little scene together. Nobunaga wants to try out his new gun, so he tells Ieyasu and Hideyoshi to play rock-scissors-paper. They don't like the sound of this. You can imagine.
It's quite funny, but it also doesn't really matter. It's only three minutes. I enjoyed it and I thought it was pretty good (as well as having interesting visuals), but I didn't particularly feel the need to watch all the other episodes. I approve of it, though.
One-line summary: silly vampires
I've heard that the show gets better after an uninspiring start. They're right about the latter, anyway. Also its cast is full of implausible and/or irritating boys, so I won't be continuing. (Would I have continued had they been girls? Probably. Yes, I am scum.)
Our hero is Mahiru Shirota, who lost his parents when he was young and had only one relative who could be bothered to look after him. Today, he's a high school student who likes doing unpopular drudge work that everyone hates. In his mind, it's more annoying not to do those jobs. All that I'm fine with, but unfortunately he gets a montage sequence where he does lots of jobs for his class while repeatedly saying a catchphrase. He also cooks big plates of cookies for his class while they're taking too long to decide who'll do what during the school festival. Grrr. (Okay, yes, it doesn't actually take long to make cookies, but even so I thought that moment felt stupid.)
Anyway, one day he's walking home and sees a cat. He picks it up and takes it home. (He doesn't seem to think it might have an owner.) This cat is actually a lazy ramen-eating shapeshifting vampire that thinks everything is annoying. His name's Kuro and amazingly he's not the most irritating vampire in the episode. That would be Belkia, who'll be showing up later.
I don't hate this episode. I liked Mahiru, although he's being badly presented. (In addition to the catchphrase montage, he seems surprised to be disbelieved when telling his friends that his new pet cat is really a vampire.) The vampires can drop dead as far as I'm concerned. The show's rules of vampirology are both contrived (the "temporary contract" plot device) and inconsistent (Mahiru and Kuro can't leave each other's sides, except when they can). The thing about turning into a cat in sunlight is so goofy that I quite like it, though, while more importantly the show has a hard core of attempted emotional truth that's trying to dig deeper than you might expect from a simple plot summary. This is the kind of thing I could probably slog through if I really wanted to, but I don't think it would have appealed even if the closing credits hadn't been bombarding me with pretty boys. Mind you, I'm not the target audience.
The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War
Nanatsu no Taizai: Seisen no Shirushi
Episodes: 4 x 24 minutes
Keep watching: no, but I enjoyed it
One-line summary: fun shounen adventure
It's pretty good, actually. I enjoyed the episode and I'd probably recommend the series. It's just another shounen adventure anime, of course, but it's fun and it has a lively cast who by now have well-developed relationships with each other. Some of their conversations together are among the episode's strongest and most meaningful scenes, actually.
That said, though, this is just a four-episode interlude to tide over the fans before the real Season 2 arrives in 2018. Besides, it doesn't really matter. It's another bouncy adventure series where the hero's a ten-year-old boy (apparently). This episode's plot involved everyone looking for a magically shrunken pig who eventually comes back all by himself. It was amusing and quite well done, but I don't really feel I'm missing anything important by not continuing. I remember watching the start of Season 1 in 2014 and not being tempted to continue then either.
Two things struck me about this show:
1. The art style. You can feel the original manga artist coming across, instead of looking the same as almost all anime. I quite like that, even though it does make the show look as if it's for children.
2. The ecchi content. This might sound inappropriate in a children's show, but I presume it's predominantly there for humour. (a) The ten-year-old hero (Melodias) tends to say hello to Elizabeth by bear-hugging her legs and shoving his head into her groin. He does this twice and no one tells him to stop. (b) There's a female character in a tiny shirt that's not buttoned up at the front, with only wishful thinking to hold it in place. (c) That shrunken pig scrambles inside a girl's minidress while she's still wearing it, so she asks her two male companions to help extract the intruder.
I think it's good, for what it is. I'd have probably enjoyed it if I'd kept with it back in 2014. Not to be confused with a much sexier 2017 anime with nearly the same Japanese name.
Kanojo to Kanojo no Neko: Everything Flows
Episodes: 4 x 8 minutes
One-line summary: gently melancholy but nice slice-of-life
I've since finished it and... it's excellent.
A cat is in a dream field, looking at a magic door. He thinks in a man's voice. "I'm looking for her."
After that, the episode is completely realistic except that it's narrated by the cat. There's no drama, but merely close observation of gently unhappy but nice people. "I don't understand anything any more." Our narrator's owner, Miyu, is losing a flatmate and will perforce be living on her own, which worries her mother.
The cat loves Miyu, though. He loves her smile. He understands there's nothing he can do, but he thinks she's beautiful and kind. "I am her cat." I'll be continuing, of course. It's such a delicate piece that there's almost nothing there, but it's sensitive and the right kind of melancholy.
One-off music video
Keep watching: n/a
One-line summary: girl creates worlds
The funniest thing about this anime is the now-dead online controversy about whether or not it's anime. (It is, by the way.) There's a moderated Anime subreddit on Reddit. Shelter got posted there and the mods took it down. It got reposted. The mods deleted it again, then set an automated bot to delete any post that contained related words. Things then got even sillier, including death threats. (The mods ended up backing down.)
REASONS WHY IT'S ANIME: it's animation made in Japan by a Japanese studio, with a Japanese voice actress who's speaking Japanese. It was first broadcast in Tokyo and it's been drawn in traditional anime style. It looks like anime.
REASONS WHY IT'S NOT ANIME: it's a music video for an English-language song that was commissioned by the song's non-Japanese creators (Porter Robinson and Madeon). You might also want to erase from reality all older anime with non-Japanese creators, e.g. Studio Ghibli films that are based on Western novels. Taking this argument to its ultimate conclusion, I presume you'd be wanting to conduct DNA tests on everyone involved in the production of an Alleged Anime Production to verify that it passed your standards of racial purity.
The moral of this story: mods can be knobs.
The actual film itself is only six minutes long, though. It's nice. Lots of people like it. There's a girl in bed who hasn't had any messages for 2539 days. Later this rises to 2578 days. All she has is (a) her computer, (b) the ability to create virtual landscapes and (c) her memories of her father. It's a gentle, melancholic-but-upbeat little piece. Nothing to change your world, but worth a look.
Shin Atashinchi
Season 1, but it's a sequel to a 662-episode original
Episode 13 of 24
One-line summary: silly anime sitcom
It still doesn't do anything for me. It doesn't look bad, but I'm not tempted.
It's a domestic comedy about the Tachibani family, with crude art. Mum looks like a deep sea fish, or perhaps something you'd stick on the top of a pencil. Curiously, though, she's usually the only character with pupils. Dad's eyes are hidden behind spectacles, Mikan's eyes are empty white circles and Yuzuhiko's eyes are usually closed.
This time they're talking about New Year and its Japanese traditions, as seems reasonable of the first episode of 2016. Mikan still fancies Iwaki-kun. There's some chat about New Year cards, which are a big Japanese thing, and we learn that the Tachibanis are really bad at being formal. They try saying "Happy New Year", but they only really get the hang of it when there's money involved. After that, Mum tries to beat mochi and Mikan tries to catch up on all her accumulated TV and manga.
It's sort of okay. It seems inoffensive enough. I wouldn't warn anyone off it. One of Yuzuhiko's friends is called the Japanese word for aubergine and has a head shaped like an aubergine. By all means give it a whirl, but it's the kind of show that's aiming mostly for "relaxing".
Shounen Ashibe GO! GO! Goma-chan
One-line summary: cartoon about a little boy and his pet seal
The art style tells you immediately that it's for small children. Ashibe goes out looking for his mother and finds a baby seal. It falls off a lorry. He and his dad assume that it's a big fish and are going to kill it and eat it, but they abandon the idea on realising it's a seal and hence cute.
All that's okay. Likeable and fun. However it now becomes unwatchable for adults as Ashibe's dad tries a string of half-witted deceptions because he's afraid that Mum will see the seal and cook it for dinner. (He doesn't bother saying "look, it's a seal" or "don't kill it". That would be too easy.) This broke the show for me and would probably do the same for anyone over nine years old. Ashibe's dad has the mental age of a pre-schooler.
As it happens the rest of the episode was quite good. Ashibe makes friends with the boy sitting next to him at school and finds a cool way to handle some attempted bullying. That charmed me. The end title song is also amusing. The episode is almost all good, but I'm not the show's target audience and the whole thing's too simple and kiddified to make me want to fight past the one bit I disliked.
Shounen Maid
One-line summary: ten-year-old orphan gets a job
I've since finished it and... it's surprisingly lovely
It's about a ten-year-old boy who works as a maid. Yes, in a frilly maid's outfit. This could have gone in all kinds of worrying directions, but as it happens it's funny, entirely inoffensive and giving its cast more depth than I'd expected.
Chihiro Komiya is a ten-year-old orphan. His mother, Chiyo, has just died and he has no other relatives. You might be wondering if Chiyo might have done anything to prepare for this eventuality, but: (a) it was heart failure, and (b) a letter she left him suggests that she was a happy-go-lucky space case anyway. Chihiro isn't letting this slow him down too much, though. He's a practical lad who likes hard work, e.g. cleaning, cooking and general housework. His friends at school call him a housewife, albeit in a friendly way.
Madoka Takatori is the uncle Chihiro never knew he had. Chiyo cut all ties, but Madoka is going to try to do the right thing. If he doesn't step in, Chihiro will be out on the streets. Unfortunately though Madoka usually gives the impression of having a mental age of eight, taking nothing seriously and talking as if he's just floated off on a cloud. He's like his sister, but more so. He's not completely incapable of acting like a grown-up, but you'd need to stalk him with hidden cameras for weeks to get the proof of that. Chihiro refuses all his offers and would rather live on his own than accept charity from the family who rejected his mother, but then he sees the state of Madoka's kitchen and goes into a cleaning frenzy.
Keiichirou Shinozaki is Madoka's personal secretary, i.e. it's his job to organise him. Good luck.
It's pretty good, I think. I'd been expecting some kind of pseudo-harem silliness, but no. All the cast are male (although a woman will join the cast in ep.2). There's no slapstick, no inappropriate jokes and not even any attempt to make fun of Chihiro in a frilly maid outfit. Everyone's taking the situation seriously. Yes, even Madoka. In his own way. I believed in it. I liked everyone and I'm looking forward to this show a good deal.
Show By Rock!! Short!!
One-line summary: light-hearted fun with the Show by Rock!! cast
I've since finished it and... it's short and fun
If I hadn't already watched Show by Rock!!, I don't imagine I'd have continued with this. It's throwaway. Light-hearted three-minute fluff. However as it happens I think the parent show's fantastic, so of course I'll be watching this too.
This episode's about the Plasmagica girls: Cyan, Chuchu, Retoree and Moa. They're on a TV chat show. Cyan says "nyan" and the hitherto shy and uncomfortable Retoree goes into cute fetish overload. The show's host makes the girls show their tails to the camera, but it's not (quite) as bad as you're imagining because that isn't a euphemism. All four have tails. Cyan's a cat, Chuchu's a rabbit, Retoree's a golden retriever and Moa's a sheep.
And that's it. Pretty much the definition of non-essential, but I already loved these characters.
Show By Rock!!#
Keep watching: YES YES YES
One-line summary: animal-people play rock music (and probably fight the Queen of Darkness)
I've since finished it and... I LOVE IT
Show by Rock!! is awesome. It hadn't sounded like my kind of show at all, but I watched Season 1 on a whim and fell head over heels for it. A girl got sucked into a rock music dimension where everyone was an animal and would sometimes transform into cute CGI versions of themselves when performing on stage. Some of them were adorable, some of them were brats and some of them were self-obsessed melodramatic posing halfwits who were mesmerised by their own badass images. (That's Shingan Crimsonz and they're just as funny here too.)
Oh, and they'd also fight evil. It's just something they sort of found themselves doing in between rock concerts, but there are some surprisingly heavyweight baddies in the Show by Rock!! universe.
It was mental. I already loved the show, though, so obviously everyone who hasn't seen Season 1 needs to start by going away and watching it right now. Having already done this preparation, though, I thought it was brilliant. I'm so happy that it got this second season. Having watched its first episode, am I disappointed? Not in the slightest.
It starts with the Queen of Darkness destroying the world, although on closer examination the planet itself might still be okay and maybe she just trashed Midi City. That's still bad news for our heroes, though, who all live there. Let's go back in time! Shingan Crimsonz still made me laugh. Plasmagica have been reduced to a three-girl band since Cyan returned home, but they're still playing. They have a show coming up, in fact, but then... EVIL! (No, not Mega-Cleavage Eyepatch Secretary. She's nice, actually, if a bit scary.) Midi City will soon be destroyed! (Yup, we know. We've just seen it.) There's a plan to destroy music, but our heroes must prevent this with the power of music!
Dagger's back. Am I meant to remember him? Probably. It's been too long since I watched Season 1.
Then... Cyan! In the real world! And a GIANT ROBOT!
The end. Show by Rock!! is the greatest thing ever.
A Simple Thinking About Blood Type
Ketsuekigata-kun!
Keep watching: still no
One-line summary: little faceless figures representing the personalities that correspond to each blood type
It's more comedy from the anime based on blood type personality theory! Little cartoon people live up to the personalities that are popularly ascribed to the main four blood types. That's if you're in Japan, Korea and nowhere else, obviously.
I saw two episodes of this last year. This is more of the same. There are blue cartoon people (male) and pink cartoon people (female). One of the blue people is silly about a lottery thingumibob. This would probably be more meaningful to me if I were more familiar with the blood type personality stereotypes.
I'll give this a miss.
Snow White with the Red Hair
Akagami no Shirayuki-hime
Keep watching: obviously
One-line summary: romance with a herbalist and a prince in pseudo-medieval setting
I've since finished it and... it's happy and comfortable
Yay, Shirayuki! I watched Season 1 and liked it a lot, so of course I was going to watch Season 2. It's still good and still an easy recommendation.
Shirayuki is still living in a pre-industrial society that I might, reluctantly, concede might have to be called "fantasy". I can't think of a better term. It's not a historical, but it has no fantasy elements either. Instead it has:
(a) Shirayuki, a clever, straightforward expert in herbal medicine. Her name means "Snow White", but she has red hair. Hence the title.
(b) Prince Zen, who's sort of Shirayuki's fiance except that first they're going to have to sort out the social status thing.
It's been a gentle, reassuring series, but the start of Season 2 is shaking that up a bit. Prince Zen isn't top dog, you see. That would be his big brother, Prince Izana, who's a slightly sinister bastard and capable of ordering around not just Shirayuki but even Zen. Here he orders her out of the country, for a social engagement with a man who'd previously tried to make her his concubine. Charming. Zen isn't allowed to go with her. We also meet a man who'd tried to kidnap Shirayuki, who's telling a story of a mysterious pretty boy on a ship who also seems to be targeting her for reasons unknown.
This is all worrying. However Shirayuki is super-sensible and I'm sure she'll be okay. She's also got the best possible boyfriend in Zen, who's going to send his personal bodyguard with her. Overall, I'm happy. There's enough danger in the air to keep me interested, but it's still basically a warm, pleasant, likeable show.
One-line summary: so far, it looks like a Fate/stay night rip-off
It's another Chinese attempt at anime, so I wasn't expecting much. This opening episode is basically Fate/stay night. Humans will fight each other, assisted by magical partners who are also famous historical figures. (The "historical era" is the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.) The protagonist is a high school student who spends a fair chunk of the episode having dream sequences and will say things like "history has no connection to my life". Other genius hero moments include:
(a) "Do you vow to defend that card with your life?" asks an inhuman being in a magical realm. Our hero replies, "Yeah, okay."
(b) On being woken up by a teacher in the library, he tells the teacher about the card in his dream. Why? Does he tell everyone his dreams?
The plot's okay. The episode actually manages not to feel rushed. Stuff happens at a sensible pace and the dream sequences add a sense of mystery. What the episode lacks is character work. Our hero is generic and a bit stupid. The antagonist is a cackling "look at me, I'm evil" baddie. On top of that, though, even the art's ugly. There's some kind of scribbled pencil filter on the real-world scenes that's a bit like looking through a dirty window. I should probably watch a few more episodes before passing judgement... but I can't be bothered. One of the dream worlds looks cool, but otherwise it just all seems uninspired.
Sound! Euphonium 2
Hibike! Euphonium 2
Minutes: 48 minutes for ep.1, then 24 minutes each for eps.2-13
One-line summary: high school band
I've since finished it and... it's still a quality show, but slightly weaker than Season 1
It's a Kyoto Animation show, so I was always likely to watch it. What's more, Season 1 was very good. Sober rather than splashy and wacky, but good. So far I see no indication that Season 2 isn't going to carry on the good work.
It's about the Kitauji high school band club, which has just won the qualifying tournament and has been chosen to represent Kyoto in the Kansai region competition. Everyone's excited, obviously. The episode also doesn't forget the musicians who hadn't been chosen for the competition line-up, who come in as Team Monaka and play a fun little piece to make us all happy.
It's about the characters and their relationships. My favourite things were little moments such as the fleeting looks on people's faces, since the KyoAni animators are as usual creating the scene in enough detail to reward that level of attention. The look of surprise on "early?", Oumae's little smile after "always?", a face on "yo" and so on. There's a girl who comes in intimidatingly early to practise the the oboe and she doesn't know if she likes the instrument. None of this is comedic, although I enjoyed it and it's capable of being amusing. It's not fluffy fun like K-On!. It's a calmer, more realistic look at band players who are going to have to work very hard if they're going to succeed at this new level.
Also, importantly, it's very good.
Space Patrol Luluco
One-line summary: schoolgirl and reluctant space police agent
I've since finished it and... it's high-energy mental fun
It's by Studio Trigger and it looks like Kill la Kill. So far it's also as entertaining as Kill la Kill, which is to say "very". Luluco is a normal girl. She approves of this. This is because she's normally normal like normal people, which is great because it's normal. Her dad's a space cop and she lives in the world's only alien/human town, but that's not going to stop her being normal.
More problematic is accidentally turning her dad into a popsicle (whoops) and breaking him, then carrying the pieces into his workplace and getting recruited by Inferno Cop (?) to be Space Patrol Luluco. This gives her a light on her head that might trigger her uniform transformation during class at school. This makes her skirt fall off. Luluco isn't happy about this. She'll also transform into a gun.
Studio Trigger rules.
Strike The Blood II
Episodes: 8 x 25-ish minutes
OVA #1: "The Black Sword Shaman I"
One-line summary: action harem show
It's more of the usual for Strike the Blood. A bit of action and a bit of harem silliness. The tone's light, but also exciting when it wants to be. I'd probably have enjoyed it if I'd been watching the series from the beginning.
The action is random anime nonsense that doesn't really matter, but it's quite well done. A girl in a swimsuit fights another girl and gets captured.
The harem "comedy" is normal for the genre, although on reflection I'm not wild about the hero being a vampire. He's not even a cool, sexy Dracula. He's a bog-standard anime personality void and his bloodsucking just adds another layer of biological implausibility to all these girls being in love with him. They'll protest that they're not his girlfriend "yet", or punch him for talking to a ten-year-old girl. (Blonde Idiot assumed he was chatting up a prepubescent child. Sigh.) There are swimsuits. Our hero also enters a girl's room without knocking, sees her naked and gets subjected to "comedy" violence.
Once again, nope. It's a brisk, entertaining, efficient adventure, but extremely generic.
Super Lovers
One-line summary: yaoi anime with an eight-year-old boy
It's based on a Boys' Love manga, i.e. the characters are gay men, but written by and for women. I haven't read or watched many of these, but I've seen enough to know that they can be a bit worrying. This may or may not turn out to be of those, but I'll be steering clear anyway.
Haru is returning to Canada on his eccentric mother's request. He lived there with her until he was eight, but these days he lives in Japan with his father's family and hasn't had anything to do with his mother for years.
It seems she's acquired a new pet: Ren, a savage eight-year-old boy who's basically a dog. (This metaphor is extended quite far, e.g. the namecheck of White Fang, the Jack London novel about a wolf who gets domesticated.) Ren's idea of saying "hello" is to bite you. Haru's mother didn't give birth to this boy, incidentally. She just found him at the orphanage, took him home and decided to foist him on her estranged son on another continent. Nice one, mum! Let's examine this.
IT'S A GOOD IDEA BECAUSE:
Haru is a nice guy who's patient with Ren and manages to slightly humanise him.
IT'S A BAD IDEA BECAUSE:
Haru invites Ren into his bed and kisses him on the mouth. "I'd like it if you'd sleep with me."
Oh, and Ren will technically be Haru's brother. This isn't by blood, but it hardly improves the situation. What's confusing, though, is that I don't think I'm meant to be seeing anything wrong in all this. Haru's the hero. Ren's the difficult boy he's clearly fated to heal. Nothing happens between them in bed (except literally sleeping) and I think it's meant to be romantic or something. Look at Usagi Drop or Astarotte's Toy, for comparison. Both are deeply wrong, but in each case the author doesn't seem to have realised and seems to be writing from some level of personal fantasy that if it happened in real life might have neighbours calling the police.
As it happens, my anime-watching friend at work has watched this series. He says it doesn't broach scary territory and instead stays perfectly tolerable, although he did add that Ren is particularly annoying in Season 2 (which he hasn't yet finished). However I'm happy to move on and watch other shows instead.
Sushi Police
One-line summary: CGI anime about sushi puritans
There's lots of bad sushi out there! It shouldn't be allowed! Well, now it isn't. With a zero-tolerance attitude towards improper cuisine, some fairly silly CGI policemen are... ugh, no, wait, stop stop. I'm not talking about cel-shaded CGI that's trying to look hand-drawn. This is full-blown kiddie cartoon CGI, as in a Pixar film but done on a budget that might, if you're lucky, be enough for a hamburger and cola. You'd have to haggle, though.
Sweetness and Lightning
Amaama to Inazuma
One-line summary: a widower, his four-year-old daughter and food
I've since finished it and... it's a pleasant slice-of-life
There's a man, his tiny blonde daughter and a high school girl. I know that because they're in the title sequence. At first I assumed they were related, but they're not. Kouhei is a teacher and Tsumugi is his daughter. I'm assuming she's four years old, or maybe three. At any rate, she's young enough that Kouhei has to explain time by saying where the big and little hands will be on the clock when it's time to go out. Kouhei's wife died about six months ago and Tsumugi doesn't really understand that, at one point asking dad to write mum a letter.
The high school girl is Kotori, one of Kouhei's students (although he doesn't recognise her at first). They meet in the park as she's sitting under a tree, unobtrusively crying.
All this probably sounds melancholy, but it's not. It's rather sweet. Kouhei doesn't have either the time or the culinary proficiency to cook for Tsumugi, so he's always buying convenience food. Eventually he decides to take her out to a restaurant, but it's late at night. The chef is Kotori. Unfortunately Kotori can barely even cook rice, but she keeps the shop open after hours so that she can try her best for them anyway. It's a charming little story and I'm looking forward to seeing more of the show.
My only reservation involves Rina Endou, who didn't convince me as Tsumugi. I hope I'll get used to her in time, but I don't think the character quite works with her doing the voice. I see she's a child actress, born in 2005. Hmmmm. Significantly older than this role, but too young for it to be reasonable for me to expect any real acting. Well, it's still ep.1.
Endou aside, though, the show looks lovely. I enjoyed this episode more than any of the series I'm currently halfway through. I'll definitely be continuing.

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ISBN Number: 7-5618-0157-2. Softcover Book, Illustrated; Text in Chinese (I cannot translate, hence I have not noted author or publisher, but title is in English with English subtitles under medical illustrations of hand positions and movements). Pages are clean, no marks, no names, no underlining; cover has light shelf wear else nice looking and solid.


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All About The Doll Life- An Interview With Ashphord Jacoway
By alyssamarie888 November 18, 2015 Ashphord Jacoway Cosplay cyril lumboy dollystyle Interview myx tv the doll life tv
I had the pleasure of interviewing Ashphord Jacoway, who stars on Myx TV's The Doll Life, a show devoted to modeling and the life of the models. She is an absolutely impressive woman, and everyone should take notice.
Alyssa White: The Doll Life is a television show focused on the modeling of Lolita fashion, specifically "dollystyle." For anyone who may not be familiar with this fashion, how would you describe it?
Ashphord Jacoway: Lolita fashion is based on the Rococo period and Victorian style and the idea has evolved into a statement of innocence as well as the fun of dressing up. It is very fabric-oriented and is usually about making looks centered around one idea. "Dollystyle" is the style that the designer Cyril Lumboy calls her brand Doll Delight.
Alyssa: How did you first become involved with The Doll Life?
Ashphord: I received a call from them where they said they were looking for models for their new fashion line. I was into it, so I went to the interview and they gave it to me. I really enjoy the work that Cyril does and I like her style, which is looking like a doll.
Alyssa: You've probably had some pretty interesting experiences during filming. Have any been particularly memorable?
Ashphord: My most memorable moment has probably been filming my last episode. It's just us coming together as a whole and expressing our experiences being on the show. It was so beautiful to see how we all chose each other, and it was so honest. We were just having a beautiful, honest moment, and we had such a wonderful opportunity to capture it.
Alyssa: You've been on several different television shows. How is reality TV different?
Ashphord: It feels like you're being more like yourself. Filming The Doll Life was so organic and what happened, happened. You get a boost of reality.
Alyssa: For any women who are interested in joining the industry, what advice would you give them?
Ashphord: Pick one thing that you're really good at, and really try it out and go for it. You can do anything.
Alyssa: You're a huge fan of anime and Japanese video games. What do you recommend to watch/play?
Ashphord: My favorite anime to watch right now is Food Wars. As for games, I really love Katamari Damacy. If you have the time to play it, it's just so much fun! It's very long and very relaxing. I've also been playing the My Little Pony app, so also get that game! It will take so much of your time, and it's wonderful.
Alyssa: Just for fun, what have been your favorite cosplays that you've created?
Ashphord: I love Asgardian Storm and the new female Thor. Being from Asgard makes me happy.
Alyssa: Where can we find you on social media?
Ashphord: I'm on Chocolate Covered Cosplay and I have my own blog.
If you're interested in The Doll Life, here's a promo for season one:
I want to thank Ashphord for answering my questions and for allowing me to interview her!
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would make major changes to the state's rules for issuing concealed-weapons permits, including reducing training requirements and expanding recognition of out-of-state licenses.
House Bill 234, which cleared the Senate 24-6, would also allow the use of noise suppressors on firearms while hunting birds and many other animals in Ohio.
The legislation now heads back to the Ohio House for a final vote.


It's Friday...and I am one of those thousands of exhausted American teachers. After walking into a tech lab that was hotter than a blast furnace first thing in the morning and teaching Keynote throughout the day to a number of grade levels with varying levels of success, it is beyond me to produce anything sublimely creative enough to pass on to my valued readers. But I can still post the sublime creativity of others... Paradise indeed.


 Classification of Colored Stainless Steel Sheets - Huaxiao Metal Corporation Limited.
People who don't know the colored stainless steel sheet think that the colored stainless steel sheet will not rust. Stainless steel plate is the general name of stainless steel plate and acid-resistant steel plate. It is an alloy steel not easy to rust, but it is not absolutely free of rust. Colored stainless steel sheet is applied more and more widely. Chinese colored stainless steel sheet has both metallic luster and intensity, and has a colorful and unchanging color. Colored stainless steel sheet not only maintains the physical, chemical and mechanical properties of primary stainless steel, but also has stronger corrosion resistance than primary stainless steel. Colored stainless steel sheets are classified according to the surface effect: mirror plate (8K), wire-drawing board (LH), sanding board, and texture board, sandblasting board, etching plate, embossed board, composite board (composite board). 1. Colored stainless steel sheet mirror plate The 8K plate, also known as mirror plate, is polished on the stainless steel plate surface with an abrasive solution through a polishing device to make the plate surface as clear as a mirror and then plated with color 2. Colored stainless steel sheet wire-drawing board LH is also called hairline, because the texture is straight and slender. Its surface is like filamentary texture, which is a process of stainless steel. The surface is matte, look carefully there is a grain above, it is wear-resisting than average stainless steel. There are many kinds of patterns on the hair grain plate, such as HL, NO4, and grain (disorderly grain), cross grain, etc. All the patterns are made by oil polishing and hair grain machine according to the requirements, and then electroplating and coloring. 3. Colored stainless steel sheet sanding plate The sand spraying plate is processed with the zirconium bead on the stainless steel plate through the mechanical equipment, making the surface of the plate showing fine bead like sand surface, forming a unique decorative effect, and then electroplating. 4. Composite process plate of colored stainless steel sheet According to the process requirements, various processes such as polishing hair grain, coating, etching and sandblasting are concentrated on the same board for combined process. Then electroplate coloring. 5. Colored stainless steel sheet and plate Whether the plate, or wiredrawing board, they belong to the sanding board, but the surface of these plates are different, so the statement is different 6. Etching plate of Colored stainless steel sheet Classification by color: black gold (black titanium), sapphire blue, titanium gold, fuchsia, bronze, rose gold, titanium white, emerald green, green, champagne gold, bronze, brown, rose gold, etc.


I'm going to start this one with a little rant. This is a blurb about this story from the back of the book: A crazed murderer blames his crime on beings from another dimension. Wild ravings from an insane man turn to prophecy when the Truth is revealed.
This is the problem with most writing. It isn't the writing itself, but it's marketing. The only thing about the above sentence that is true is the fact that the man (Joe Slater) is a murderer. Nothing else is true, and it begs the question if the person who wrote the blurb actually read the story. If they had, then it is a much greater crime to purposefully mislead the reader to try and get more sales, by outright fabricating the plot.
Slater never blames his crimes on beings of another dimension (in fact there are never beings, in plural, but ever only one being who "did him great wrong"). Then the author of the blurb deigns to use the buzz word "prophesy". There is no prophesy. The ravings of the mad Joe Slater are heard by the narrator and the narrator has an interest in dreams, so to see what Joe is seeing, he hooks them both up with a skullcap to see what he is seeing. Which he does. That's it.
Ok sorry. Now to the nitty gritty of the story.
This is one of Lovecraft's earliest stories and supposedly has no correlation to the later works. I see quite a bit here that would lead to that however. Again we have these strange green northern lights. Again we have madness derived from exposure to a cosmic deity. Again we have the unreliable narrator. Again we have the remote local. And to top it all off we have Lovecraft's trademark superiority complex (He names the madman's neighbor Peter Slader, where the madman's name is Joe Slater. He mentions many times that they are all backwoods yokels who have no knowledge and intimates that they inbreed. Only to verify that claim by naming the characters of the mountains with such close names as to subliminally castigate them).
Where this shows as an early work is that he actually shows his god. The narrator goes "Beyond the walls of sleep", and into the cosmic realm that drove the simple Slater mad. the Narrator himself (though it is never discussed what he actually does, or how he acts) is offered a leave of absence, because he is "working too hard" after the experience he gained from Slater's mind.
But perhaps the most provocative aspect of the story, is why the cosmic deity would come down and inhabit a backwards "white trash" (Yes. Lovecraft actually wrote the words "White Trash" in 1919) yokel, who doesn't have any brains. Maybe because the idea was to make a transformation?
Meaning he was not intelligent enough to understand how to make the transition. But the narrator can ascend and we are left feeling slightly off kilter, as if this were not a choice, but now that the cosmic deity has found an appropriate zygote he will being his proliferation.


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Learn all about Asian cuisine from true culinary experts. You can't deny Asian food's popularity worldwide and it's definitely not hard to see the reason behind it. Join a culinary holiday here and prepare to taste and cook your favourite Asian dishes. From Malaysian, Chinese, and even to Thai food, Asian cooking courses are so diverse you won't know what to choose first! Visiting Asia and exploring the never-ending variety of the foods here is every gourmand's dream!


The Slam and Spin fat burning workout is another of my easy yet highly effective set ups. This workout requires very little fitness equipment. The concept is simple, but, the research behind the method is dense and proves the effectiveness. It's basically a twist on the powerful and effective HIIT (high intensity interval training) method. Check out the video workout demo. Below the video, I'll go into some useful tips and tricks for the exercises and the workout.
The Ball Slam (sand bag slam) is one of my favorite full body, multi-joint exercises. It's easy to learn, and, you can either purchase a Slam Ball (or equivalent) or make one. Making one is easy. Get a sandbag, fill it to between 10-20 lbs. You can double bag it with trash bags. I've found electrical tape, or PVC tape works well to wrap it in and secure it.
The Ball Slam is an easy exercise to learn and perform. Start in the "hinge position" as if you were going to do a Deadlift or Kettlebell swing. You then just pick it straight up and slam it down as hard as you can. The faster you go, the better the effect. Remember the formula: Power = Work/Time. The more power you produce, the bigger the tax on your metabolic processes. That high tax is what helps crank up your metabolism and assists the fat burning process.
As you begin to slam the object, squeeze your abs to force them to engage and help increase power production. Your core muscles will thank you in the future.
If you've been following Fat X 101, you already know that the Spin Crunch is one of my favorite abs exercise. It looks weird, silly and crazy, but everyone that tries it realizes how effective it is. If you're into combat sports, especially MMA or the submission grappling arts (Jiu Jitsu, Sambo, Judo, etc.) this exercise is a must and will give you the ability to easily work from the bottom position.
As you spin, try not to put your arms or feet on the floor to propel your movement. Allow the rotation function of your core muscles to do the work.
As I briefly mention in the video, tracking is a huge part of the Coach Rollie Fat X 101 method. Statistical analysis isn't just important in fitness, it's important in your personal finances, investments, business etc. Without tracking, how do you know if you're improving? Not tracking workouts is one of the biggest mistakes I see people making when it comes to health and fitness.
Keep P=W/T in mind, and always look to increase power output on your workouts. That's the little secret behind my fat burning method.
Special thanks to Lori for helping with the exercise demo.


How Do YOU Experience Pain?
Pain is a distressing experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage with sensory, emotional, cognitive, and social components (Williams & Craig, 2016).
Positive pain refers to non-injury pain that is exertional and related to reappraisal, whereas, negative pain is injury and damage-causing pain that is associated with catastrophizing. Catastrophisizing include feelings of hopelessness, inability to cope with situation, or ruminating on pain and injury, all of which may lead to avoidance behaviours that increase the risk of injury. Negative pain is potentially correlated to neuromuscular deficits such as Achilles tendinopathy which reduces muscular endurance or meniscal tears which lower muscle activation. It can delay or prevent return to a sport or possibly lead to chronic pain development (McDougall, 2017).
Elite athletes are able to withstand higher levels of pain and make better use of pain in performing well in their sport.
What can you do to better cope with pain?
What an interesting concept Pain is! According to the International Association for the Study of pain, pain is described as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage". The first part regarding actual damage makes sense to most, however the second part of this definition leaves something to be desired. You might be thinking right now, are you telling me that I can have pain without having actual tissue damage? Absolutely, and this is what makes pain such a fascinating thing.
To better explain, its best to take a step backwards and explain why pain exists and what purpose it serves for us as busy, moving, functioning human beings. We have learned a lot about pain in the last 20 years and treatment of pain has really changed now that we understand more. At its roots, pain is a fantastic protective mechanism!
Take for example, burning your finger on a hot stove element: if your finger touches the element, the receptors in your skin immediately send a danger signal to your brain (important note: NONE of our body's tissues have pain receptors, only ones to send danger signals).
Once this DANGER signal gets to your brain – which thankfully takes milliseconds – based on previous experience with hot stoves, likely having burned your fingers or other body parts before, and awareness of the situation, your brain will interpret this as a real danger and quickly send a PAIN signal to the finger. As a result of this PAIN signal reaching your finger, your brain reacts quickly to the rescue and you pull you finger away and run it under cold water to protect it and help it heal! Naturally, it's a perfect protective mechanism.
As you can see from this example above, PAIN IS EXCLUSIVELY CREATED BY THE BRAIN.
Does this mean that all pain is just "in your head"? No, all pain is real but it does mean that because its created by the brain, there are lots of factors that can influence this pain system. Some of these factors include stress, anxiety, emotions, beliefs around pain, expectations, fear, and activity levels. These all contribute to the sensitivity of ones pain experience – some will increase it (e.g. stress, anxiety, fear, negative expectations) and some will decrease it (good activity level, low stress, positive beliefs and expectations). This is why its important to talk to a health professional to figure out what may be contributing to your pain as research has shown that pain education is one of the most effective management tools.
Lets re-visit the idea of having pain with no actual tissue damage. There is an emerging concept in pain science called the "nocebo" effect which tells us that symptoms like pain and illness can emerge from simply believing or expecting that we have been exposed to painful stimuli or potential illnesses! For example, in drug trials, a certain percentage of participants are given a fake drug (i.e. sugar pills) and told that they are taking the real medication and that there are some potential side effects. What we see with these trials is some of the participants report these side effects from a drug that they ARE NOT EVEN TAKING! (Source: nocebo effect). These participants think they are on the real medication and therefore think themselves into the side effects. Similarly, in research around perception of pain, subjects reported amplified pain ratings even with harmless stimuli when they were told to expect a painful stimulus! (Moseley & Arntz 2007).
As you can see, pain can be a tricky thing and because of this, it's important to tackle your individual pain with a tailored approach. It is always easy and tempting to consult Dr. Google or ask your friends or family members that have had similar aches and pains but it is important to recognize that no two injuries or pains will be quite the same.
3. Education around why you are in pain one of the most effective management tools!
Jeff Jukes is a registered physiotherapist at INSYNC Physiotherapy in Vancouver. He has lots of experience working with chronic pain populations and therefore has done extra training and individual research to effectively help with all kinds of pain. Jeff's treatments are multi-modal in nature and include hands on treatment, pain education, acupuncture, Intramuscular stimulation (IMS), and therapeutic exercises. Talk to Jeff regarding any type of injury or pain!


Underlying all the basic teachings of Christ, are significant principles essential to the Christian in establishing successful relationships with those around him. When one of these principles is violated or ignored, there is a breakdown in the relationship. On the one hand, the Scriptures attach significant benefits and rewards to the one who accepts the guidelines given by God and makes them the foundation of his dealings with others.
In this quarter, we focus on these guidelines, establishing through Scripture the Christian's responsibilities to those with whom he comes into contact. We begin the series of lessons by examining the Christian's relationship with Jesus Christ, pointing out that if one is wholly following the Lord, he will be enlightened as to how his relationships with others can be in conformity with Christ's teachings.
Subsequent lessons consider the relationships between the Christian and the ministry, between brothers and sisters in Christ, between the Christian and the spiritually weak, his neighbor, etc. the Christmas lesson concerns the relationship of God to man—how God's love was shown when He sent Jesus to earth. One lesson deals with the Christian versus Satan, showing that with God's help the Christian can build a defense against the devil and resist his attempts to overthrow him.
It is essential to measure our lives by Scripture, for "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God nay be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works" (2 Timothy 3:16,17). When our relationships with others are established entirely on the precepts of God's Word, our lives will be valuable instruments in God's plan to reveal to the world the power of His love to mankind.


The Scheduled Jobs tab of the Index Maintenance dashboard enables you create automated jobs that will defragment your indexes. These jobs are highly configurable to target individual databases or tables, indexes that pass certain conditions and stop if they go for too long or consume too much resource.
The top grid is a list of jobs (miniDBA comes with 3 as default - you can add to this list). Clicking on a job will display it's properties in the lower half of the dashboard. This is where you will configure the jobs to behave as you require.
Right clicking these jobs gives you the options to run, cancel or delete them.
Give your job a name that describes either when it runs and/or what server/database it runs on.
As shown in the above screenshot - on the right of the properties pane the schedule options are displayed. Select either a daily, weekly or monthly schedule. Depending on which you select you will be able to select day of the week or month and also the start time of the defrag job.
The maximum duration option lets you specify if the job should stop after a certain amount of minutes. This is useful when there is only a certain maintenance window to get all jobs complete within. Leaving this blank puts no time limit on the job.
Use the object explorer at the left of the screen to select the databases to include in this job.
Index defragmenting can consume large amounts of SQL Server resources such as cpu and memory. If you want your job to stop running before it completes due to the job using too many of your SQL Servers resources then use the properties here.
As well as selecting which resource will cause a job stop the right column has an optional number of minutes that the resource has to be above it's threshold to cause a job stop. Leaving this blank or 0 will cause it to be ignored and the job will stop as soon as the resource hits its specified threshold.
Set thresholds for when to reorganize and when to rebuild indexes here. Sort in tempdb and online rebuild can be selected and are used where appropriate.
Run analysis after defrag option is used to report on the index fragmentation levels after the defragmentation has occurred. The post fragmentation level is displayed in the jobs log.
Previous executions of the job are displayed here. Clicking on a row in the grid will open the log and you can see exactly what work was performed.


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const test         = require('tap').test
    , fs           = require('fs')
    , path         = require('path')
    , mkfiletree   = require('mkfiletree')
    , readfiletree = require('readfiletree')
    , testCommon   = require('abstract-nosql/testCommon')
    , leveldown    = require('../')
    , makeTest     = require('./make')

test('test argument-less destroy() throws', function (t) {
  t.throws(
      leveldown.destroy
    , { name: 'InvalidArgumentError', message: 'destroy() requires a location string argument' }
    , 'no-arg destroy() throws'
  )
  t.end()
})

test('test destroy non-existant directory sync', function (t) {
  t.ok(leveldown.destroy('/1/2/3/4'))
  t.end()
})

test('test destroy non-existant directory', function (t) {
  leveldown.destroy('/1/2/3/4', function (err, result) {
    t.notOk(err, 'destroy db should be no error')
    t.ok(result, 'destroy db should be ok')
    t.end()
  })
})

test('test destroy non leveldb directory sync', function (t) {
  var tree = {
      'foo': 'FOO'
    , 'bar': { 'one': 'ONE', 'two': 'TWO', 'three': 'THREE' }
  }
  mkfiletree.makeTemp('destroy-test', tree, function (err, dir) {
    t.notOk(err, 'no error')
    t.ok(leveldown.destroy(dir))
    readfiletree(dir, function (err, actual) {
      t.notOk(err, 'no error')
      t.deepEqual(actual, tree, 'directory remains untouched')
      mkfiletree.cleanUp(function (err) {
        t.notOk(err, 'no error')
        t.end()
      })
    })
  })
})

test('test destroy non leveldb directory', function (t) {
  var tree = {
      'foo': 'FOO'
    , 'bar': { 'one': 'ONE', 'two': 'TWO', 'three': 'THREE' }
  }
  mkfiletree.makeTemp('destroy-test', tree, function (err, dir) {
    t.notOk(err, 'no error')
    leveldown.destroy(dir, function () {
      t.ok(arguments, 'no arguments')
      readfiletree(dir, function (err, actual) {
        t.notOk(err, 'no error')
        t.deepEqual(actual, tree, 'directory remains untouched')
        mkfiletree.cleanUp(function (err) {
          t.notOk(err, 'no error')
          t.end()
        })
      })
    })
  })
})

makeTest('test destroy() cleans and removes leveldb-only dir sync', function (db, t, done, location) {
  db.close(function (err) {
    t.notOk(err, 'no error')
    leveldown.destroy(location)
    t.notOk(fs.existsSync(), 'directory completely removed')
    done(false)
  })
})

makeTest('test destroy() cleans and removes leveldb-only dir', function (db, t, done, location) {
  db.close(function (err) {
    t.notOk(err, 'no error')
    leveldown.destroy(location, function () {
      t.notOk(fs.existsSync(), 'directory completely removed')
      done(false)
    })
  })
})

makeTest('test sync destroy() cleans and removes only leveldb parts of a dir', function (db, t, done, location) {
  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(location, 'foo'), 'FOO')
  db.close(function (err) {
    t.notOk(err, 'no error')
    leveldown.destroy(location)
    readfiletree(location, function (err, tree) {
      t.deepEqual(tree, { 'foo': 'FOO' }, 'non-leveldb files left intact')
      done(false)
    })
  })
})

makeTest('test destroy() cleans and removes only leveldb parts of a dir', function (db, t, done, location) {
  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(location, 'foo'), 'FOO')
  db.close(function (err) {
    t.notOk(err, 'no error')
    leveldown.destroy(location, function () {
      readfiletree(location, function (err, tree) {
        t.deepEqual(tree, { 'foo': 'FOO' }, 'non-leveldb files left intact')
        done(false)
      })
    })
  })
})


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Michelle Williams Shares A Piece Of Her Life In The First Look At "Chad Loves Michelle" [VIDEO]
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7 Photos Of Michelle Williams & Chad Johnson Showing Their Love For Each Other
Love is in the air for Michelle Williams and her fiancé, Chad Johnson. The two will be sharing their lives with the world in the show "Chad Loves Michelle," on OWN. We will watch as the two get engaged, face hard times and plan their wedding.
According to PEOPLE, Chad is a pastor as well as a professional sports chaplain. In the first look of the show we watch Michelle jump up for joy as he proposes and then seek treatment for her mental illness.
RELATED: Michelle Williams & Her Fiancé Chad Johnson To Star In Reality TV Show About Love
Michelle during one of the scenes talks about how so many women want the happiness she has, but then explains how she's struggling with depression. When she decided to seek treatment she said, "For years I have dedicated myself to increasing awareness of mental health and empowering people to recognize when it's time to seek help, support and guidance from those that love and care for your wellbeing."
RELATED: Michelle Williams Thanks Fans For Supporting Her As She Undergoes Mental Health Treatment
On this journey the couple also reveal that they aren't having sex or living together before marriage. Fans finally get to see another side to Michelle than just her being a member of Destiny's Child. You can watch the premiere of "Chad Loves Michelle," on OWN, November 3rd at 9/8c.
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Country Full Name: The Principality of Andorra.
Location: Andorra is in South Western Europe, between France and Spain.
Country Climate: Temperate; snowy, cold winters and warm, dry summers.
Country Terrain: Rugged mountains dissected by narrow valleys.
Major Languages: Catalan, Spanish, French.
Major Religions: Christianity.
Country Population: 0.088 million (2008 est.) 0.088 million (2009 est.).
Country Economy: The economy of Andorra is reliant on tourism which accounts for roughly 80% of GDP. An estimated 9 million tourists visit annually, attracted by Andorra's duty-free status and by its summer and winter resorts. Andorra's comparative advantage has recently eroded as the economies of adjoining France and Spain have been opened up, providing broader availability of goods and lower tariffs. The banking sector, with its tax haven status, also contributes substantially to the economy.
Currency: Euro (EUR).
Country Inflation: 3.2% (2008 est.) 3.9% (2009 est.).
City: Andorra la Vella is the capital of the Co-principality of Andorra, and is located high in the east Pyrenees between France and Spain. It is also the name of the parish that surrounds the capital.
City Economy: The principal industry is tourism. Furniture and brandies are local products.
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ISMG Editors: Secrets and Lies of Ransomware Operators
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HHS Units Would Get Boosts Under Obama FY 2014 Plan Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • April 11, 2013
The Obama administration's proposed fiscal 2014 budget for the Department of Health and Human Services calls for an almost 28 percent increase in funding for the office that coordinates the HITECH Act's financial incentive program for electronic health records. By comparison, it calls for about a 2 percent increase in funding for the office that oversees HIPAA enforcement.
Under the 2014 budget proposal, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, which oversees the HITECH program, would have a budget of $78 million, up $17 million from the current fiscal year's pre-sequester level. The extra money would support a number of efforts, including enabling ONC to address new privacy and security policy issues, the HHS budget document notes. No change in the current year's pre-sequester staff total of 191 is anticipated.
The HHS Office for Civil Rights, which is responsible for HIPAA enforcement, would have a budget of $42 million, up $1 million. That small increase would be used primarily for enforcement of the HIPAA Security Rule. The budget would support adding seven full-time staff, bringing the total to 233.
The HHS budget document says OCR received almost $4 million as a result of penalties included in settlement agreements tied to HIPAA violations in fiscal 2012 and anticipates generating $5.5 million from those actions in fiscal 2013. OCR uses funding received through civil monetary penalties and settlements to help support HIPAA enforcement activities.
Funding for ONC and OCR represents only a tiny portion of HHS' $967 billion proposed fiscal 2014 budget, which would be up almost 7 percent from the fiscal 2013 pre-sequester budget.
The president's budget is a statement of the administration's spending priorities for the federal government. Ultimately, Congress must approve appropriation bills to fund the government. Fiscal 2014 begins on Oct. 1.
ONC Projects
ONC's hefty budget increase would enable it to strengthen such efforts as spurring the adoption and meaningful use of EHRs, developing policies and standards and paving the way for information exchange and interoperability, according to the HHS budget document.
The document points out that in fiscal 2014, healthcare providers will begin to attest to meeting requirements for Stage 2 of the HITECH EHR incentive program. Those requirements include the use of secure health information exchange as well as "enhanced privacy and security of mobile devices," the budget notes.
"The budget will enable ONC to address new privacy and security policy issues," the document says. "ONC will continue to work alongside industry partners to construct and support innovative frameworks in support of a national cybersecurity program."
A more detailed budget document for ONC notes a $4.9 million increase in funding for "policy development and coordination" to a total of $16 million. "These funds will support ONC's regulatory, policy, convening, and analysis activities, including priority policy initiatives in the areas of HIE governance, privacy and security, and patient safety and usability," the detailed document notes.
Sequester Impact
The proposed HHS budget for fiscal 2014 did not address the effect of the 2013 budget sequester on ONC and OCR programs.
An ONC official recently acknowledged, however, that sequester-related cuts could affect security and privacy efforts (see: Sequester: Health Data Security Impact).
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The best and the worst of NZ towns and cities
By: Word Of Mouth Media
Published: Tue 19 Aug 2008 09:37 AM
Media release – August 19, 2008
The best and the worst of NZ towns and cities – latest Lonely Planet guide
Bay of Islands is a bit over-hyped, Christchurch is one of New Zealand's most liveable cities, Dunedin is surprisingly artsy and Hamilton's stretch of bars and eateries leave Auckland's Viaduct for dead.
These are the views about some places in the latest Lonely Planet New Zealand guide book.
Hawke's Bay is a cable TV lifestyle channel come to life – food, wine and architecture are the shared obsessions, best viewed through a rosé-tinted wine glass.
Invercargill, Kaitaia and Pauanui – an upmarket refugee camp for over-wealthy Aucklanders - get the thumbs down.
Naseby, Palmerston North, Tauranga, Twizel, Opoutere, Takaka get a big stamp of approval.
Wellington strikes a balance between creative exuberance and an institutional mindset, crucial to the day-to-day running of the country. The city is neither altogether bohemian, nor overloaded with bureaucratic stuffed shirts.
The Lonely Planet guided, released today, praise the country's beauty, but urges New Zealand's tourism industry to protect its 'green' status.
While tourism numbers in New Zealand rise, so does the environmental cost, with extra visitors putting strain on the "clean, green environment NZ is renowned for."
The guide says Auckland can "justifiably respond to its detractors, 'Don't hate me because I'm beautiful'". And Christchurch combines "an easy-going provincial charm with the emerging energy and verve of a metropolis".
"Christchurch is undoubtedly one of New Zealand's most liveable cities, combining an easy-going provincial charm with the emerging energy and verve of a metropolis.''


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Supporting All Learners: Speech Therapy at WOS
by SOCSD Communications | May 14, 2020 | District Highlights
As a member of our District's Related Services Team, William O. Schaefer Elementary School Speech-Language Pathologist Melissa Jacob, CCC-SLP, TSSLD assesses, diagnoses and treats speech, language, social communication and cognitive-communication disorders in our District's youngest students.
How did you prepare yourselves and/or your students for distance learning?
Jacob: "I evaluated the needs of all my students and worked with their families to create a family-centered plan that would ensure the most success and help them feel connected to school and learning. Collaboration with our occupational therapist, psychologists, learning consultant and classroom teachers was also a huge part of the preparation as we worked to transition our resources and materials to an online-friendly format. To prepare students, I made distance learning social stories explaining what school and therapy will look like. We explored how this difference might make us feel, accepted that it's okay to make mistakes or feel unsure about distance learning, and talked through strategies to use when we feel overwhelmed. I also worked with each student to make a personalized speech/language therapy charter that explored how they wanted to feel in therapy and ways to achieve that."
What, if any, are some of the unique challenges you've encountered with distance learning so far?
Jacob: "Continuing to develop social skills essential to communication and fostering connections and community has been a challenge. This poses an even greater challenge for families without access to technology and who are struggling to meet basic needs. We had to step back and come up with creative and realistic solutions to encourage language development. Virtual playdates, scavenger hunts, Simon Says, charades, and acting out 'movies' have been helpful, low-stress ways to infuse the home environment with language. Holding group sessions have also been a way for students to interact in a smaller, more easily accessible setting. Group sessions are structured in a way so that students can spend time greeting each other, engaging in conversation and working together to problem-solve during activities."
What does speech therapy look like in a remote environment?
Jacob: "It looks very similar to in-person sessions but with some surprisingly wonderful differences. I'm able to use household objects that are accessible to students instead of worksheets or other materials that aren't as readily available in the home. I've done my best to convert all my visuals onto an online friendly format–no printers needed! I use the screen-sharing and remote control options of Zoom in every session – I want students to be in charge of their activities and to feel as if they are actively striving towards their goals rather than being passive participants. Therapy has also changed because caregivers are participants in my sessions as well! Caregivers have been providing tactile cues when I can't, providing positive reinforcement and modeling flexibility and persistence for all tasks."
How are you partnering with families to support their children at home?
Jacob: "Families have been wonderful partners in distance learning. One advantage of teletherapy is that I am able to provide feedback and explanations in real time. Speech-language therapy is grounded in being client- and family-centered. Teletherapy engaged parents as collaborative partners during and outside of sessions, where we hope to see the generalization of skills. This collaboration and constant communication in the therapeutic process has been vital, especially as we approached annual reviews and made plans for next year. Families work to model and recast, they provide tactile cues for tongue/lip/jaw placement, help students make connections about stories to their own lives and act as tech support!"
What are key things that you've learned through this process so far? How, if at all, has it impacted your thinking about your own professional practice?
Jacob: "This experience has emphasized the fact that no man is an island. It takes a coordinated team effort to make teletherapy possible. I've also learned that telepractice isn't 're-inventing' therapy but that it's all about changing my expectations of how a therapy session 'should' look. It's still possible to use evidence-based methodologies, to use the same supports and to see student growth. Additionally, I have been privileged to witness how resilient our students and families are. My families have been extremely flexible about finding time in their hectic days for therapy. Students have been patient with me as we navigate Zoom and been persistent as they worked through difficult tasks. It has inspired me to do the same."


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