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Arashi Takes the Top 4 Floater for Highest First Hebdomad Sales on the Oricon Charts

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:57:03 GMT

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& nbsp;

Presently observing their Tenth anniversary, Rebel 's Amusement grouping Arashi
holds seen their popularity rocket in the past yr. It appears they hold no design of retarding downwards as they hold been added to the card for NHK 's Redness and White Vocalizing Competition.

Their newest individual My Missy '
holds likewise gone a hit, successfully making them the top 4 places on this twelvemonth 's Oricon singles chart with the highest first hebdomad sales. My Miss ' holds hitted figure 3 on the charts, merely after Ashita no Kioku / Nutcase Moon '
and Believe / Kumorinochi Kaisei '. T
he quaternary place besides belongs to them with their old individual Everything '.
They look to hold effortlessly reign the sales in the singles chart for 2009.

To boot, fans from terminated the creation were thrilled when they denoted their appearance on NHK 's Redness and White Vocalizing Competition. It is the first clip that Reb 's Amusement will be holding four groupings do on the show. Arashi 's popularity holds proceeded to lift within this twelvemonth, especially sitting on the success of single tasks from all five members.
To be invited to execute at the Sixtieth Redness and Caucasian Vocalizing Competition during their Tenth yr looks really appropriate.

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Rendered by: sparkles_n15 @asianfanatics.net

Doodly-squat O Lanterns

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:57:57 GMT

Presently the highlight of our nighttime is illumining these beauties.

Day clip:

Night clip:

2 things to remark with this image - 1 ) He desired me to take his ikon, rattlingly unusual; 2 ) Of the hexad shootings I took, this was the best smiling.

Burrito Electrico Podcast 66

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:57:54 GMT

This hebdomad its a Premix of Old and NEW with some Psychobilly and Horror Strong-armer to get you ready for Halloween!!

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Ripplings Out

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:10:30 GMT

Firstly felicitations to everyone affected ( Lippy Films
Yorkshire Forward
Together for Peace
and local occupants ) in making a powerful, provocative flick.

I sincerely desire that it assists trouble the comfy equilibrium in Leeds ( and beyond ) that 's between the comptrollers of the public pocketbook and the developers. There possibly a brief window for rumination while development is assumed interruption ' by recession - but I am sure that we will presently see concern restarted as was common - if but temporarily. At the instant, conveniently, there is no other game in town.

The likeliness of this will be increased if we pore our clip and energies in essay to work ' the procedures of devisers and developers. This will be playing their game - on their footings. And I hold a pussyfoot suspicion about who might win - disregardless how articulate and informed those that urge the voice of the community are. We too run the endangerment of farther adding to the dilution of our personal powerfulness equally now, alternatively of depend on contrivers, we larn to depend on our representatives ' to make a better futurity for us. Developers and communities can go bedfellows - trading favours, but they are improbable to go allies - they are seeking different and reciprocally exclusive ends.

The Planners Analysis ' that states give us clip to complete
forgive us a couple of errors
and we but necessitate to finish our investings
essentially tells that Planning ' plants. Visions, designs, programs and investings ' will direct us to a better creation. You the people ' will be goodly looked after once we hold engineered things fullly - but we require to a higher degree 10 eld - much more

Can I be the only one that doubts this promise?

Am I the only one that believes they, the devisers, make n't really believe this themselves?

But it holds the Porsches and the Mercedes on tour. This is an unsustainable and unfair paradigm for advancement that we pursue with at our hazard. Our best endeavor are peradventure focussed on the hunting for a new paradigm for advancement.

Mayhap the root of the job is a percept that it is the conclusions and actions of others ' that largely find the class and quality of our lives. That the quality of our lives depend on conclusions about where money is passed and what substructure is constructed. If others ' do the incorrect conclusion or make their lines badly our communities will be interrupted. This is a unsafe and pestilent myth done even more unsafe and baneful by an obvious face rigor '. But we hold larned that it takes more PVC windows and doors to regenerate ' communities. Physical substructure makes profitses ( on a so long ). It rarely makes sustainable advancement.

If we believe that others hold the powerfulness ' so we are releasing ours.

Finance and substructure accrue as a byproduct of community. As byproduct of people ( diverse folks including discoverers, creatives, workers, moneymans, developers, mothers, carers, immature and old, healthyand ill, bureaucratsand nihilists - you get the icon? ) cooperating to do good ' lives and good ' work. They are rarely the stipulations for it.

And now, more ever earlierly, what we demand to produce is not lucre or GDP - but wealthiness '; that material which stays when the money holds run out - wellbeing.

Acquiring to cooperate to benefit work ', understanding what good work ' is - larning to utilize our gifts to make ( private and common ) wealthiness ( not simply benefits ) for our communities offers us a more robust model for advancement. These are the challenges that need our clip and our attending. Thankfully they are much less expensive than edifices and walks in the sky '.

If this analysis offers hope we require to permit a new cast to take to the phase. Designers, devisers and bureaucrats must get the retainers of community instead than its maestri. Community development workers ( not outreach workers invited by the province to present resultants ), and pedagogues ( not instructors paid to present employer ' demands ) maybe keep the keys to this realm.

Perchance this is a rough analysis. I make not believe that contrivers, designers and developers are bad people. Nor that there is any planned assault on community. This is cock-up - not confederacy. Nor make I believe that vivacious communities can develop without an efficacious dialog with contrivers.

It is simply that this is not the spot to begin.

Hey!

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:31:15 GMT

In the `` How the heck is THAT Evening POSSIBLE? '' dept...

School Dominion treatments are travelling along with PTA 's about a advised bond issue for about $ 12 million in more debt ( paid with our future taxation payments ) and $ 8 million from the insolvent province to re-roof the eight schools in Cranford.

So while it is obviously more three bozo, some pitch and some squeegees upwards there to restore these roofs, one need to enquire: how could each roof norm $2.2 million? Even Deegan thereon Holds most evil biddings is to a lesser degree $ 20k for a nice sized house.

Goodly, since there Holds province money affected, the contractor need to pay prevailing brotherhood rewards and follow with the myriad of demands in plowing with the province. I collect that the opportunity of a nonunion house getting a opportunity to bidding is about zero. I enquire if they locomoted without the province money, could they get biddings below $ 12 million in totality?

But I hold a interrogation: None of the primary school are even that old. Why would they require new roofs? ( Lincoln and the Senior high school, being older, are more logical ). What occured with the upkeep finances for the newer schools? Were the roofs piece or holded?

Or not?

All I cognise is, paying back $ 12 million over 10 ages is attending lay each menage back about at least $ 2, 000 in surplus taxations.

Yay.

Jehad in Islam

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:48:31 GMT

The Australian

- THE Sydney manpowers encountered guilty yesterday of terrorism offensives holded been plotting slaying on a monolithic scale, holding stockpiled 30, 000 rounds of ammo, bomb-making equipment and explosive chemicals with the design of demanding retaliation on Australia for its military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...... The manpowers are now confronting the possibility of life in prison when they are doom by NSW Supreme Tribunal justice Anthony Whealy in coming months. And it can now be revealed that four other workforces affected in the confederacy pleaded guilty to terrorism offensives before the run commenced in Nov last yr.

...... The brother of one of the manpowers told the guilty verdicts would increase the menace of onrushes in Australia. `` If you really move through the instance and the words in the brief, you 'll cognise it Holds shit, '' he told. `` If they believe this will halt terrorism, remand these people, I make n't consider it will halt terrorism. I conceive it will increase the menace on Australia. '' The sis of one of the terrorists claimed the verdict against her brother was unjust, but stated he would be fixed to stomach a lifespan in jailhouse.

She stated her brother was a devoted Muslim, not an extremist, and incriminated Asio of utilise radical or terrorist maneuver in investigating themen.She stated the verdict was unjust because the jury could hold been worked by negativeness in the media about Moslem, and that the determination would farther damage the world 's percept of the Moslem community. ...... When apprehended, one of the manpowers stated: `` Who make you worship, Howard and the legislations? Your democracy is full of hypocrisy. Sharia is attending reign throughout this land. You say Howard this. Islam is attending govern this land. ''

News.com.au

- XII believers were killed in an Iraki mosque when a self-annihilation bomber pipped dead the supplication leader and so blew himself upwardly in a town near the edgy northern metropolis of Mosul. The onrush placed a Sunnite Arabian mosque in Tal Afar, a mostly Shi'ite Turkmen town in Nineveh state between the metropolis of Mosul and the Syrian borderline. It occured at around 12: 30pm on the Moslem religious holiday of supplication and left 67 people injured, constabularies and medical functionaries stated.

News.com.au

- A WOMAN self-destruction bomber blew herself abreast a bike in a twinned self-annihilation onslaught outside a constabulary edifice in Pakistan 's metropolis of Peshawar today, constabulary substantiated. `` Laws essay to stop a woman sitting on a bike with a terrorist. She blew herself up and after that there was another blast when a self-destruction assailant sitting in a motorcar detonated, '' told Liaqat Ali Khan, metropolis captain.

None of the media studies named them Moslem, neither maked they reference Muslimism. There are many interrogations that westerners require to inquire.
1. Who are they?
2. Why maked they make this?
3. What make they believe inwards?
4. Is it rattlingly a faith of peace?
5. Where maked all this start?

Uncomfortable interrogations that guide to even more uncomfortable replies, but these are enquiries we must enquire in time. Here 's one account, more at
al Rassooli's "AhmadsQuran3

Urban Meyer 's easy conclusion

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:05:44 GMT

You may hold heard that Tim Tebow endured a concussion against KY on Saturday. ( If you holded n't heard it, it Holds belike because you endured a concussion yourself. ) There holds been a good deal of argument in the media about whether Tebow should play at LSU on October 10 ( the Gators make n't play this Sabbatum ).

The discourse is likely to be magnified after the NFL relinquished a report
proposing that:

Alzheimer 's disease or similar memory-related diseases seem to hold been named in the conference 's former participants vastly more frequently than in the national population including a rate of 19 times the normal rate for manpowers ages 30 through 49.

Even if that makes n't hold anything to make with Tebow 's instance, a connexion will be done in some ( if not many ) quarters.

At any rate, everyone holds an thought, from professional contrarian
Gregg Doyel to Orson Cheat at Every Day Should Be Saturday
Josh Levin at Slate
likewise opines
on the thing ( plenties of good links in this piece ). I hold a slightly different issue on the Tebow situation, or at least I desire it Holds a trifle different.

The Gators are 4-0, with convince Charleston Southern, Troy, Tennessee, and KY. FL 's following three games are:

at LSU, Oct 10

AR, Oct 17 ( Homecoming in Gainesville )

at Mississippi Province, United nations day

The end for FL, obviously, is to win the BCS rubric. To make that, FL need to complete # 1 or # 2 in the BCS standings after the decision of the regular season.

Lashkar-e-Tayyiba 's tell Tebow makes n't play against LSU and the Gators lose. Energy that finish UF 's opportunities of winning the BCS rubric? Course not. After all, last season FL was 3-0 before losing ( at place, no less ) to unordered Mississippi. After that loss, the Gators fell from # 4 in both major canvasses to # 12 ( AP Canvass ) and # 13 ( U.S.A. Today
Coaches ' Canvass ). Florida still negociated to progress to the title game anyways.

Florida is presently ranked # 1 in both canvasses, and would be improbable to fall farther than # 5 if it lost to LSU ( which is presently ranked # 4 ) in a game played in Capital of louisiana, and a game in which its All-World quarterback maked not play. There would be plentifulness of clip for the Gators to do their mode back up the rankings, particularly since two of the squads that would be above them ( AL and LSU ) play each other, and FL would so presumptively get to play the victor of that competition in the S Title game.

A one-loss Florida squad ( with the one loss coming without Tebow ) would nearly certainly get the BCS rubric game nod over an undefeated Boise Province squad or any other one-loss squad from a major conference ( like Southern Calif., Ohio Province, Penn Province, VA Tech, or Oklahoma ).

Undefeated BCS squads would be a slippery proposition, but otherwise TX ( which is already # 2 and would n't should locomote past the Gators in the rankings anyhow ), I make n't see any other squad that would leap over FL in the polls/computer rankings. That would include squads like Ioway, MI, and Cincinnati.

If Tebow really endured a `` terrible concussion '', which looks possible, as he reportedly
lost consciousness for about two proceedings after getting hit, so he is belike better off not returning for three or four hebdomads. That would intend to boot to not playing against LSU, he could lose the AR game and the Mississippi Province game. After traveling to Starkville, the Gators so play GA in Jacksonville.

Presuming a one-loss Florida squad would play for the BCS rubric, it stands to conclude that if the Gators can manage at least two of their following three opposites without Tebow, so there is no urgency for his return to the field, at least not until the game against UGA. The query gets, can FL win those games without its talismanic quarterback?

Naturally it can. Tebow 's replacing would be backup QB John Brantley
, a redshirt soph who was a major senior high school star. Brantley originally committed to TX before altering his brain and signing with the Gators. His begetter was a quarterback at UF, and his uncle was an All-American linebacker there likewise, so he holds something of a ancestry.

In limited clip last season, Brantley averaged over eight paces per walk endeavor and threw three TDs. Obviously nearly all of that came in mop-up obligation, but he definitely holds possible. Fundamentally, there is a better than toss-up that Brantley is a college quarterback stud-in-waiting.

Not but that, but I surmise a couple of of Florida 's participants would care to prove that there is a bit more to the squad than simply Tim Tebow. Urban Meyer could utilize an lengthy Tebow absence to dispute his squad.

Florida without Tebow should be good plenty to vanquish AR in Gainesville, and a trip the following hebdomad to Starkville will maintain no panics, differently the incessant ring of cowbells. LSU in Capital of louisiana is a different tale, but I 'm not sure how good the Bayou Bengals really are, particularly after watching them escape Mississippi Province last hebdomad. LSU will belike hold its paws full with Georgia on Sabbatum.

( Note: LSU may or may not be that good, but Chad Jones
is
that good, and at apparently but about anything, from playing the outfield
to pitching
to straying the secondary
to returning punts
With or without Tebow, the Gators better maintain a close ticker on Mr Jones. )

The only danger to UF in maintaining out Tebow that long is if the Gators A ) lose two of the three games ( or all three of them ), or Bacillus ) lose one of the three games, then lose again afterward in the season. Yet, even if Florida were undefeated after that stretch, losing tardily in the season may be the Gators a shooting at the BCS rubric game disregardless. A late-season loss to Vanderbilt or South Carolina ( to tell naught of FL International ) would be dearly-won irrespective if UF holded one loss or no losses, and losing to Florida Province ( in the regular-season coda ) or in the S rubric game would nearly certainly govern the Gators out of title consideration.

Semi-tangent: Another possible issue is the outcome losing multiple games would wear Tebow 's Heisman campaigning. To be honorable, I believe he Holds playing from behind this season already equally far as that awarding is refered. I get the sense that it Holds Colt McCoy 's `` turn '' this yr.

Course, Urban Meyer technically is n't the one doing the turn Tebow 's handiness; that would be the FL medical staff ( and Tebow himself ). Notwithstanding, he could do a statement by stating Tebow to decompress for a couple of hebdomads and wait until he Holds completely ready ( another factor all this is that Tebow was apparently fighting with flu-like symptoms before he endured the concussion ). Meyer would get major praises from simply about everyone in the media for positioning Tebow 's wellness above Florida 's rubric considerations, without really risking much in the manner of those considerations.

I make n't conceive Meyer verily cares about those types of plauditses. Meyer tendings about winning; his business is to win games. That Holds hunky-dory, but I believe he holds an chance here to look good with no existent downside. Too, parents of possible recruits would likelily look favourably on the conclusion ( as in `` he 'll make what Holds right for my youngster '' ), although Florida certainly holds few concerns when it comes to enrollling anyhow. My surmise is the university 's disposal would besides appreciate the school being contrived in a `` non-troglodyte '' light.

What make I believe will pass? I believe Tebow will get in Capital of louisiana on October 10. I consider he 'll play goodly, and Florida will win, whether or not it really requires Tebow to win the game.

Mass/Media

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:03:42 GMT