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Paul Bloom's excellent piece "Is God an Accident?" (December Atlantic) raises the question of what evolutionary events caused our brains to be hard-wired to embrace the idea of a supernatural, all-powerful being.
Perhaps it wasn't a genetic accident after all. Many years ago my anthropology professor at the University of Colorado offered this explanation, which still seems like a reasonable one: At some point some of our predecessors began to bury their dead to prepare them for what they may have believed was an afterlife. The clans that followed this practice had higher survival rates, owing to improved sanitation, than the clans that left their dead where they fell. This, in turn, served to pass along the genes that promote the notion of a supernatural god, and superstitions as well. Those genes are still with us today.
As Bloom points out, some 95 percent of human beings believe in a supernatural god. It stands to reason that the process of natural selection must have been at work here, just as there are good evolutionary reasons why almost all human beings crave fats and sugars, exhibit jealousy, and so forth. That's why, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, most Americans still hang on to the nutty notions of heaven, hell, Adam and Eve, the Great Flood, and the Resurrection.
John Burgeson
Stratford, Conn.
The existential condition shared by human beings does predispose them to a belief in God. This predisposition, however, is not hard-wired into the human brain, as Paul Bloom's article seems to indicate, but instead emerges through linguistically mediated socialization. It is a product of the human software, so to speak, not the hardware. The distinction is crucial for understanding how the concept of God evolved and why it is ubiquitous.
Notwithstanding the large percentage of persons who believe that their "selves" (or "souls") will exist eternally after death, very few claim that they physically or spiritually existed before their birth. The explanation is quite simple: self-consciousness does not antedate birth, nor does it develop in a vacuum. Rather, we come to know and conceive of ourselves as "selves" by acting out the various roles in the social matrix into which each of us is born.
Although the self-concept is highly abstract, we conceive of our selves not as an aggregation of subjective representations, attitudes, and memories but as ontologically real objects. When we say "I am" or "you are," we impute substantive, self-existent Being to the abstractions "I" and "you." We perform the same trick with the concept of God.
All human beings are at least dimly conscious of the collective intellectual matrix in which their consciousness floats, and which reflects the images of their individual selves back to them. Sociologists, psychologists, and philosophers have referred to this collectively generated intellectual process by various names: the generalized other, the collective consciousness, the collective unconscious, the divine mind, the infinite intellect, the oversoul, and (to use Freud's psychoanalytical metaphor) the internalized superego. The great religions objectify it by such names as God, Yahweh, Allah, and Brahman. Indeed, it was the collective intellectual process on which Homo sapiens embarked eons ago, when the species began using vocally uttered sounds to symbolize externally posited forms, that "created"—or, if one prefers, "evolved"—the verbal structure through which we perceive what we call the universe.
Thus the concept of God is not something distinct from us. It is, rather, a reification of the community of consciousness that we have internalized as a part of us, that we share with other members of the human species, and that ultimately defines who we are. In Jesus' elegant phrase, the kingdom of God is within us. We sense this intuitively, although we quarrel interminably about the sanctity of our Lilliputian visions of the divine totem.
Thomas B. Pryor
Fort Smith, Ark.
Paul Bloom offers an interesting addition to the current literature on the phenomenon of religious faith, but his approach to the subject, like all others I have so far read, is to examine the faithful. Those of us without faith don't get much attention, perhaps because we are so few—little more than a few quotations from prominent figures about ways to reconcile belief and nonbelief.
From a scientific perspective, it might be worthwhile to ask why some lack not only faith but also any impetus toward spirituality of any kind. I grew up in a Christian home, where I went to Sunday school and church, to prayer meetings on Wednesday evenings, to vacation Bible school in the summer, and after about age fifteen to a week of "church camp" each summer. I enjoyed the fellowship and thought Bible study interesting, but it never occurred to me that the supernatural aspects of Christianity might be true. Perhaps it's similar to vaccination against common childhood illnesses—more than 95 percent of those vaccinated achieve some degree of immunity, but a few don't. We have learned something about our immune systems by studying those individuals in whom vaccination doesn't "take"; maybe a look at the few truly areligious among us would aid in understanding faith.
David Bacon
Denver, Colo.
Paul Bloom's lucid account of the infantile origins of religious beliefs such as life after death prompts a question: How do we outgrow the religiously infantile and identify what might constitute "mature" belief? Bloom mentions in that regard Sam Harris's excellent book The End of Faith, which points up the cruelty and inconsistency of much Jewish, Christian, and Islamic dogma, favoring instead Buddhist meditation as the most effective way to calm our universal fears in the face of life's mystery and unfairness. Freud, taking his cue from Marx, interpreted belief as a cushion of rationalization softening the hard facts of death and fate. What Freud omitted, and what science in general omits in order to avoid any dilution of objectivity, is the flip side of fear: awe. Wonder may be the erotic counterforce Freud hoped would outweigh the mingled wish for and fear of death he found deep in the human psyche. One way past Freud's pessimism is to meditate on what science has taught us about the universe, its unfolding phases of creativity, its interconnectedness, and its coming to self-consciousness in our own capacity for awe. Irrational religious beliefs may be planted in us as "a by-product of biological adaptations gone awry," but we are free to evaluate such beliefs in the light of what we have glimpsed, say, through the Hubble telescope. Someone asked Thoreau on his deathbed if he believed in an afterlife. "One world at a time," he is said to have replied—a response that shows us what religious maturity might look like.
Winslow Myers
Stowe, Vt.
As a Christian academic, I didn't see Paul Bloom's article as a threat to my faith. But I was bothered by its lack of rigorous academic honesty. It read like a tract straight out of the Church of Evolution, penned by the high priests of Science.
Of course, to Bloom and his ilk, if it isn't quantifiable, it isn't true. And since science is in the business of quantifying and measuring, it naturally follows that if it isn't science, it isn't true.
G. K. Chesterton once said, "A madman is not someone who has lost his reason. A madman is someone who has lost everything but his reason." In that sense, much of Bloom's argument was entirely reasonable.
Michael Bruner
Azusa Pacific University
Azusa, Calif.
Paul Bloom replies:
I appreciate the thoughtful remarks of John Burgeson and Thomas Pryor, but I disagree with them. Something can be universal or nearly universal without being the direct product of natural selection. Examples include back pain, visual aftereffects, hiccups, masturbation, and self-pity. A propensity for supernatural belief might emerge in a similar way—as a by-product of certain traits, including social reasoning, that are themselves adaptations. And while elaborate religious systems are shaped by culture, the foundations of these systems—the seeds of religious thought—show up even in babies.
How, then, as David Bacon asks, can we explain the small minority of people who have no spiritual belief? Every human trait displays variation, in some cases because of genes and in others because of environment, and we could explore the cluster of personality factors that lead people toward skepticism. But one can also deny the premise of this question: while our individual conscious attitudes plainly differ, there is evidence that all of us hold some supernatural beliefs at a gut level. Bacon might explicitly reject the supernatural, but I would bet that he sees himself as somehow independent from his body and finds the notion of life after death to be, at least at an intuitive level, entirely sensible.
In this regard religion has an edge over science. On the other hand, as Winslow Myers nicely points out, scientific explanations have their own advantages. When you look at such accounts of the origin of the universe, the evolution of species, or the nature of matter, they are far more interesting—indeed, more beautiful—than the sorts of stories one finds in religious texts.
You don't have to be an atheist to be interested in why children believe in God. The study of why people have religious beliefs in no way challenges the truth of such beliefs. But some of these ideas, such as the view that human beings were created in their current form by a supernatural being, are just mistaken, and deserve to be treated in the same way as the notion that the earth is flat.
This last point might be what upsets Michael Bruner, a self-described Christian academic. It is hard to tell, since instead of explaining his position he settles for accusing me of dishonesty and dogmatism. This does not seem very Christian, or very academic. But I did get a kick out of being called a high priest of Science.
The Atlantic's November College Admissions section completely ignores some of the more significant problems with the SAT and its use in the admissions process.
As a regional test-prep firm based in Chicago's North Shore suburbs, we have long been familiar with the advantage wealthier students have when preparing for the SAT and the ACT. Not only can they pay for courses and private tutoring, but we have recently seen a greater number of students be declared "learning disabled" and thus receive valuable extra time or other accommodations on standardized tests. Many other students are prescribed performance-enhancing drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall, ostensibly to treat ADHD and other disorders.
The result is a skewing of SAT scores in favor of students wealthy and savvy enough to take advantage of these opportunities. One needn't make judgments about the value of various accommodations to agree that poor students inevitably receive far fewer of them.
Jay Brody
Brody Admissions
Northbrook, Ill.
Ross Douthat ("Does the Meritocracy Work?," November Atlantic) offers damning statistics to show that kids who are admitted to the best colleges tend to come from wealthier-than-average families. However, these statistics ignore one critical point: families with college-age kids are by definition not average. For one thing, they are older than average by a considerable amount. The median income for all families in 2001 was about $42,000 a year. But the median income for families headed by forty-five-to-fifty-four-year-olds—those most likely to have college-age kids—was $58,000.
I doubt this explains all the economic disparities Douthat complains of, but I suspect it explains a lot of them.
Dave Munger
Charlotte, N.C.
Ross Douthat's article was very interesting to me. I worked as a social worker for seven years for the state of Alabama and therefore had extensive contact with the poor. In order to work with them more effectively, I would send them for a psychological evaluation and IQ test. Their scores on the IQ tests were consistently low, around 75 to 80. This is the reason the poor are not attending college in large numbers. They do not have the intelligence (an IQ of 110 or higher) necessary to do college-level work.
My poor clients frequently told me they liked to work with their hands. They wanted good-paying factory jobs. We need to accept the lower quadrant in society with their limitations, and not outsource all the factory jobs overseas. All work is honorable. These people can contribute to society.
Seventy-five percent of the population has an IQ under 110. A Department of Education study shows twenty-nine out of every 100 students getting a degree, which is predictable if we consider how IQ limits who can do college-level work. I do not agree with Douthat's statement that IQ is not inherited. Studies of children who are adopted show that they have IQs within five points of their biological parents', regardless of their environment.
Colleges are not discriminating against lower-income people; nature has limited what they can do. Perhaps the intellectual elite should have more contact with the poor so that they can understand them better before they write articles about them.
Katherine Owen Sechrist
Mountain Brook, Ala.
I am in full agreement with Ross Douthat that higher education is not always about meritocracy. The barriers to college attendance and graduation for low-income students are immense and unreasonable, and too many institutions and individuals in higher education lose sight of social justice in the largely artificial rankings race. We need to get creative about admissions solutions, because higher education is and should be accessible to all students regardless of their ability to pay. The more higher education reproduces socioeconomic inequities, the more our society loses in terms of progressive thought, practice, and innovation.
However, Douthat's argument that graduates of elite or highly selective schools enjoy a lifetime of advantage completely discounts the fact that many of them work to reverse social and economic inequities in their postgraduate lives. Many have a "pay it forward" mentality that places a premium on using their education to change society in positive, more egalitarian ways. Students who have been raised with more resources than others often share this commitment with their families.
My fellow Stanford graduates (class of 1994), themselves from diverse economic backgrounds, are spread around the world, working to improve conditions among the impoverished and the disadvantaged on a global scale. Closer to home, they are in county hospitals, public schools, and philanthropic organizations. They are leading diversity initiatives in the workplace, mentoring young people who have few other sources of social support, and imbuing business with social consciousness. They are raising children with an emphasis on thinking outward, not inward. They are not fanning privilege.
Shannon Gilmartin
Los Angeles, Calif.
Ross Douthat replies:
Dave Munger makes a good point about how family income changes with parental age; ideally, studies of family income and college access would focus specifically on families with college-age students. I'm skeptical, however, that parental age explains "a lot" of the economic disparities. The child of a family earning the median income he cites, for instance, would have at least a 13 percent chance of earning a bachelor's degree by age twenty-four. A child from a family making more than $90,000, on the other hand, has a 50 percent chance of earning a B.A. over the same period.
I will not wade into the marshes of the IQ debate, but Katherine Owen Sechrist is no doubt right that many young Americans would be unlikely to succeed in college, or attend at all, even with a more level admissions playing field. The problem is that many low-income students who are prepared for college, and who score well on standardized tests, either don't go or enroll and then drop out after encountering economic and cultural hurdles. It's this population we should be concerned about, for the sake of both social mobility and America's long-term economic competitiveness.
And I only wish I could believe Shannon Gilmartin's appealing but unsupported assertion that more than a small percentage of young elites will spend their lives "working to improve conditions among the impoverished and the disadvantaged on a global scale."
I enjoyed Bernard-Henri Lévy's account of his visit with Norman Mailer in Provincetown ("In the Footsteps of Tocqueville," November Atlantic). His comments, however, do not reveal a close reading of Mailer's work. Lévy says that the hero of Tough Guys Don't Dance is gay. Tim Madden is straight, as is clearly revealed in several places in the novel, especially in the long opening conversation with his father. A more egregious error is Lévy's assertion that Mailer is "the most secular of American novelists." Even a cursory reading of Advertisements for Myself, Of a Fire on the Moon, Miami and the Siege of Chicago, or, most important, The Gospel According to the Son reveals Mailer's deep, idiosyncratic religiosity. For more than forty years he has written about his belief in a limited, imperfect God locked in a struggle with a powerful and wily Devil. Humanity is a third, often co-equal force, sometimes on the side of good and sometimes on that of evil. Mailer's well-considered theological beliefs are palpably obvious to his readers, who are many.
J. Michael Lennon
Wilkes University
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Clark McCann (Letters to the Editor, November Atlantic) charges that Bernard-Henri Lévy "smears" the "intelligent design" advocate Jonathan Wells and his book Icons of Evolution. Forgive me for replying to another reader's letter, but there's always the chance someone might believe it to be accurate.
McCann begins by ridiculing the idea that Wells is part of "a Moonie conspiracy against evolution." But read Wells's own words, as quoted in the Science review of Icons: "Father's [Moon's] words, my studies, and my prayers convinced me that I should devote my life to destroying Darwinism, just as many of my fellow Unificationists had already devoted their lives to destroying Marxism. When Father chose me to enter a Ph.D. program in 1978, I welcomed the opportunity to prepare myself for battle."
I would need more space than a letter allows to demolish every point Wells makes in his book, so I will offer only my favorite example of his poor scholarship and limited understanding of science—one from my own field, molecular phylogenetics. In Icons, Wells attempts to cast doubt on the ability of DNA and protein sequences to untangle the common ancestry of species. He picks what he thinks are obviously ridiculous results from the scientific literature, and among these is one that "puts cows closer to whales than to horses." Now, anyone who has been following the subject lately knows that strong confirmation of this result has come from both molecular and fossil data. Not only are whales related to cows, but they are in fact close relatives of hippos, all in the group of even-toed ungulates, Artiodactyla. Horses are members of the odd-toed ungulates, Perissodactyla. To be fair, most of this confirmation came after Wells's book was published. But it does handily refute his argument.
Wells's book is scientifically useless. I am unaware of any textbook that was, or needed to be, corrected based on anything Wells wrote.
John Harshman
San Jose, Calif.
John Sellers's "Who Will Win the Nobel Peace Prize?" (The Odds, November Atlantic) misidentified the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sri Sri Ravi Shankar as the sitar player Ravi Shankar. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is the founder of the Art of Living Foundation and the International Association for Human Values, both nonprofit NGOs affiliated with the UN. I've volunteered for various projects of these fine organizations.
Chris Smythe-Macaulay
Washington, D.C.
John Sellers replies:
Because the Nobel Foundation cannot, by its own statutes, release the names of nominees until fifty years after the fact, it is difficult to determine whether someone has been nominated or not. Any of the people or organizations that are eligible to nominate candidates may announce on their own whom they have nominated, but very few do so. There is plenty of documented speculation that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was nominated, but no one, to my knowledge, has officially come out and said so. Meanwhile, it was also reported in the press that the sitarist Ravi Shankar was nominated. It is quite possible that both esteemed Shankars were nominated, or that neither was. We won't know for certain, however, until 2055. Which, of course, makes the Nobel Peace Prize all the more thrilling to bet on.
Tyler Cabot omitted a critical piece of evidence in his discussion of Saint "Padre" Pio ("The Rocky Road to Sainthood," November Atlantic). The Reverend Carlo Maccari, who alleged in a 1960 Vatican report that Padre Pio had had sexual relations with female penitents twice a week, later admitted that his accusations were false, and prayed to the falsely accused on his deathbed.
Paul Charles
Jacksonville, Fla.
Tyler Cabot replies:
The assertion that Maccari recanted on his deathbed has never been substantiated by objective sources. The claim seems to have originated in The Voice of Padre Pio, a Capuchin magazine read by followers of Pio and published by the friary where he once lived as a Capuchin monk, and where he is now entombed and celebrated.
Pio was an unusually controversial figure in life—as beleaguered by allegations of impropriety as he was revered for his supposed mystical powers. And as Paul Charles's letter amply demonstrates, he remains a controversial figure in death.
I read with interest the article by Emily Bazelon ("What Would Zimbabwe Do?") in the November Atlantic. I was, however, taken aback by her comment in the last paragraph, where she refers to laws that "limit free speech in Canada." As a citizen of Canada, I am unaware that my free speech is limited, and I wonder whether Bazelon would care to elaborate. I would not like to continue to voice my opinions so openly if I am contravening legal statutes.
Sharon Coulter Nichol
Fairmont Hot Springs, B.C.
Emily Bazelon replies:
Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms treats as "fundamental" the rights to free speech and freedom of the press. But the charter makes these rights subject to "such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society." In other words, Canadian free-speech rights have a built-in check. In some contexts the country's courts have interpreted the charter to allow for more suppression of speech than American law permits. In 1990 Canada's supreme court upheld a law barring hate speech. In 1992 the court adopted a relatively broad definition of obscenity, including material that exploits sex in a "degrading or dehumanizing" manner. And in 2002 a lower court outraged some civil libertarians by finding a man guilty of violating Saskatchewan's Human Rights Code after he placed an advertisement in a local newspaper. The ad was for a bumper sticker. It cited (without quoting) biblical passages that condemn some homosexual acts and showed two male stick figures holding hands, standing in a circle with a slash through it.
The December 2005 issue of The Atlantic Monthly features a review of Yael Hedaya's latest novel, Accidents. I was pleased to find in your publication a very thoughtful review of the work of this overlooked author. However, as the translator of the novel, I was disappointed to see that not only was my name not credited, but there was no mention at all that this novel is a translation. Neglecting to credit the translator, without whom most of your readers would not be able to read the book, is an unfortunate oversight that reflects a general lack of awareness of the art of literary translation. Literary translators invest a great deal of time and creative energy to expose English-speaking readers to works they would not otherwise have access to, and their efforts should be recognized.
Jessica Cohen
Seattle, Wash.
The Editors reply:
Our most sincere apologies to Jessica Cohen, who should certainly have been credited in the review. For lovers of literature and knowledge around the globe, she and her colleagues perform an invaluable service in the exercise of their art.
Regarding "Things Left Undone," by Richard A. Clarke (November Atlantic): "Perfect" response to large-scale disasters is as improbable as a baseball team's batting 1.000. And the "misses" are human tragedies. FEMA, as its name implies, is designed to "manage" an emergency, and it cannot be expected to protect every citizen against being hurt.
But can a crisis be prevented? In most cases, yes. The scenarios that unfolded after Katrina's landfall were predictable and preventable, even if the storm itself was not.
First, flooding in New Orleans started well after Katrina had passed and could certainly have been averted. The floodwall design on the 17th Street Canal was an obvious weakness, and the possibility of its failure should at least have been considered. Mitigation would have been as easy as installing relatively inexpensive floodgates at the entrances of each canal into Lake Pontchartrain or the Intracoastal Waterway. Once closed, they would have effectively prevented the backflow of the lake through a canal breach. The levee boards and the Army Corps of Engineers had plenty of money, but not enough foresight or commitment. A fatal mistake!
As for the evacuation, to say that it was botched is an understatement. The death toll would have been beyond imagination if the storm had moved thirty miles farther to the west and left in New Orleans the type of destruction that was found in Mississippi. No effective response to such a scenario is imaginable other than preventing it in the first place by executing a perfect evacuation.
A perfect evacuation would be difficult but not impossible. It would certainly be far easier to achieve than a "perfect response," and far more effective than plucking hapless stragglers from rooftops with helicopters. Plans would have to be detailed down to the level of the individual citizen. Every citizen could be assigned a time to leave and a place to go after the evacuation is called. Rolling police barricades, emergency programming for traffic lights, and color-coded window stickers for cars could aid in traffic control. Before the start of hurricane season every citizen could be issued a "hurricane wristband" with bar-code information for identification and emergency-aid authorization. Activated by ZIP code when the evacuation is ordered, it could revolutionize the supply of goods to evacuees by outsourcing emergency assistance to selected partners like Wal-Mart and Target. Fraud, waste, and hassle would be eliminated. And nobody would be lost, since the bar-code readers would track people's movements.
Can a city the size of New Orleans afford to go through an evacuation process like this each time it comes within the seventy-two-hour landfall probability cone of a hurricane? It cannot afford not to.
Rudi Schnur
Jarreau, La.
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'Breaking Bad' donates cast clothing to New Mexico shelter
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A Walt White robe. Baby Holly's pink hoodies. Sweaters worn by DEA agents trying to break up a drug smuggling ring.
These are among the items the AMC hit television series "Breaking Bad," a show about the methamphetamine wars in Albuquerque, donated to a city shelter in an effort to help the homeless -- and give fans a chance to own some TV history memorabilia.
New Mexico's largest emergency shelter said the surprise gift came last week when show dropped off boxes of clothing worn by cast members from past episodes.
"We got a call from someone from "Breaking Bad" saying, hey, 'we're dropping off some clothes,'" said Joy Junction CEO Jeremy Reynalds. "Then, here they were."
The donated men's and women's clothing will be sold at the shelter's thrift store beginning Wednesday, with proceeds will going toward the Albuquerque-based shelter.
Reynalds said he hasn't had time to comb through all the boxes to see what was available. But he did find a burgundy-colored robe worn by Bryan Cranston. Also in the boxes were a number of baby clothes worn by the baby of the show, Holly White.
But he didn't know if the boxes contained any hoodies worn by Aaron Paul or flashy shirts worn by the quietly deadly assassin brothers, Luis and Daniel Moncada.
"Fans love the show, so it's just great that we can give some of them a lasting memory and while so doing help Joy Junction as well," he said.
The thrift store will be open seven days a week at the shelter but will not be selling clothing online. However, Reynalds said the shelter may put clothes up on online auctions if they don't sell at the thrift store.
"Breaking Bad" follows chemistry teacher Walter White, played by Cranston, producing and selling methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman, played by Paul. The series is made in Albuquerque and is currently shooting its final season.
Joy Junction currently is raising money for a new chapel, dormitory and women's center.
The thrift store in Albuquerque's South Valley isn't the only place fans of the show can purchase clothing from the popular show. The Candy Lady store in Albuquerque's Old Town sells replicas of the "Heisenberg" hat, the black pork pie hat worn by Cranston's character when he's conducting drug business under his alias Heisenberg. The candy store also sells "Breaking Bad" T-shirts and blue meth rock candy.
"All this 'Breaking Bad' is selling like crazy," said owner Debbie Ball, who sells item online. "The show has really grabbed fans who want anything related to it."
The Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau recently even created a website of the show's most popular places around town to help tourists navigate, and ABQ Trolley Company sold out all its "BaD" tours last year at $60 a ticket.
Ball also offers tours of famous Albuquerque scenes from the show in a limousine with a tour guide dressed as the character Walter White.

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John Balow wins the Pro Builder Shootout at the Car Craft Summer Nationals.
July 18-20,2014. Presented by Chevrolet Performance.
Last year, Jeff Schwartz, of Schwartz Performance took the Pro Builder of the Year award based on the number of votes cast by the readers of Car Craft Magazine and participants of the Car Craft Summer Nationals in St. Paul, Minnesota.
This year, the win went to John Balow at Muscle Car Restorations in Chippewah Falls, Minnesota. There were six pro built entries and we were counting ballots right up until the Noon deadline on Sunday. It was very close, but the Car Craft Summer Nats participants chose the black '68 Charger as the best build of the show. Muscle Car Restorations, John and Jason Balow, and the crew of stellar builders at MCR put this car with mirror-like PPG Pitch Black paint and concourse quality workmanship.
The Charger has a 572-inch Hemi and twin Garrett turbos with an AlterKation front subframe and Art Morrison suspension. The brakes have huge 14-inch Wilwood disks behind Billet Specialties Smoothie II wheels, 17x18 front and 15x20 in the rear. The tires are gigantic Mickey Thompson Sportsman Radials with 31 inches of rubber in the rear.
The car is what John Balow calls, "modern pro street." It's a look that was a hit at the show and the voting was proof of design.
We will hold the Pro Builder Shootout again in 2015 so look for entries posted online as we gather the best builders in the country for next year's shootout.
See these cars and about 6,000 others in-person and soak in the details of these over-built machines at the Car Craft Summer Nationals in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2015.


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NOTE: If you are creating a new entryway into your home as part of an expansion/conversion that will add a dwelling unit or change the occupancy, visit our Building/Expanding a Home page.
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If you are creating a new entryway or expanding the opening of an exterior doorway of a landmark or historic district property, the project must go through the design review process.
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Listed in the order they must be obtained. All permits must be in hand and at site before work may begin.
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Ive attempted to understand my role and position concerning my disastrous behavior towards a possible friend development... I am now sure I will never see or hear from this person again. A divid exists between us. or between; there is no "US".
Im seeing PTSD problems at such a severe level that it is impossible to expect this person to attempt interaction with me when attempting friendship or any involvement. Im not sure I could attempt interaction with me. However, this is not what Im ranting about... my rant is more specific.
Betrayal of sorts; the kind that you cant take back, and you can never come back because of the offense. The offense is a suggested warning that you are not wanted and you never were. You are not wanted at anytime for any reason in the future. You are not needed for anything: go away and don't come back ( a kind of prejudice. It reminds me a person feeling safe, while riding a bicycle, suddenly out of the back of a 1970's station wagon, a water balloon is thrown and hits the moving bicyclist in the face, causing them to crash. The perpetrators laugh as they watch the feeble bicyclist pass out into unconsciousness. Its obvious they don't care who this was, and they have no reason to know him at a personal level. They are simply walking over people for the day to have fun.
As the above paragraph would suggest, I am experiencing pain as well, much like the bicyclist that is hit with missile like water balloons.
I was deemed weak, and accessible. They thought of me as a weakling that could be maneuvered and pushed around. Is it true. No!, However, that is the image I gave them. They took the bate and attempted to shut me down... Im sure in there minds I have no status. nothing.. I mean nothing ...
There is away of contempt for someone that suggests they can spit in your face all day long and you want do anything about it. They can bully you and you want do anything about it. You are a wimp!... When people take this stand against you, it is a hint or suggestion that you will never have any value in there eyes ever. The best that can be done, is they are driven off. They never take you seriously, and they never will.
Im afraid this is the case of the friend I lost. I lost respect from her because she judged prior to investigation. She deemed I was someone she could walk over and take advantage of because I was weak. The sad thing for me, This type of violation was created to send a message, it suggests I don't come back: Ever! She cant be trusted and doesn't care because Im not worth the trouble. There is a type of violation that would suggest this... Its a deep scaring, almost the raping of a person. A message is sent that they are not wanted ( it is a warning)... This would also suggest; The assessment of my friend is not correct, this is not the kind, nice, decent person I thought she was. This is a criminal with an opportunistic intent. callus and malus.
My point is : I have to let go of my friend and these resentments that broke my heart. As I am none of the things she has made me out to be. I choose to play low key, Its not for others to judge, this caught me by surprise that I was inaccurately judged in the first place. I had no idea anyone was low enough to attempt a judgement; Its always about contempt. The point is, You know when your not wanted anymore. You have to leave, when others don't want you around, they let you know in a way that is effective. I have had such messages, therefore, I left... The group does not want me, I do not fit in...
Im in denial about the above. For some reason Im having a hard time accepting this last section of this disaster. I need to accept the truth that I see it clearly and move on. Other parties involved in this , moved on months ago; I have been completely forgotten, as well as my history!. Yet, Im having a hard time jumping this hurdle! Im working on it. I look forward to not feeling anything for this person again, because I never saw her correctly in the beginning. I want to see the truth for what it is. I see the truth about this person, and I see no love coming my way.
I will never be remembered, I will be written of, because these people are to shallow and stupid to ask question concerning the truth of reality.
I have hidden repressed feelings that need to come out concerning this matter, that I get all the feelings out, and feel, deal and heal. My point is, I started out as a friend, sudden violations changed all this. I was actually an enemy, now we both now. I have a specific value system these people do not have. They have no values. Nothing!, and they see no value in me, except Im weak. that is all they see, something not to respect, just someone to run over.
The loss and value of a potential friend is never fun!> Worse when you realize they don't exist. Its all a charade, there contrived charade.
I guess what Im saying is they are or have created such a long lasting grave and great pain within me, it wont leave for some time if ever. They are sending a message.. " come near us, and you will receive great pain". " you had your chance, now its gone. Get lost dumb ass"//// That is the message I get. They have created such pain in me that I can never really return ( intended pain), and this pain they sent is with intent. It is intended to cause a permanent rift or violation or offense that is so deep it was never meant to be forgotten. Therefore, I want to get over all of this as fast as possible. To stop seeing things the way they are not. To see these liars and thieves for what they are. They throw me away permanently. I never through them away, although it may look that way. I did not. I have the love of God in me.
I have always had the love of God in me. They did not, and this has been the difference between me and so many people that have thrown me away....
So here I sit or lay alone at the computer writing. While these others of less character have a life. Its very interesting.... Its all very interesting.


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Ex-Sandy Hook teacher: Adam Lanza was sweet little boy
Retired teacher remembers Lanza as 'gentle soul'
A former teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School says she remembers the gunman who killed 26 people at the school as a smart, sweet boy in her second-grade class.
Carole MacInnes says Adam Lanza did not require extra academic attention and he acted normal socially. She says she met his mother during parent-teacher conferences twice, but never his father.
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The retired teacher said Sunday that Lanza was a gentle soul and she can't imagine what caused him to want to kill. She never saw him after the second grade.
The 20-year-old Lanza shot and killed his mother before slaughtering 20 children and six adults at the school Dec. 14 and then committing suicide.
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Penn State to prohibit bags at all athletic events
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State announced Friday (June 14) that the no bag policy instituted at the Blue-White Football Game in April will remain in effect for all athletic events during the 2013 fall semester.
Backpacks, bags, and purses will not be permitted in Beaver Stadium and at all athletic events this fall. One clear one-gallon plastic bag per person will be permitted for items required for medical and/or child care needs. All items are subject to inspection.
"Not permitting any bags into Beaver Stadium, the Bryce Jordan Center, Rec Hall and all our athletic facilities is an important additional layer of security for all the spectators and participants," said Steve Shelow, assistant vice president for police and public safety at Penn State. "This policy brings Penn State in line with other peer institutions across the nation."
Michigan and Michigan State are among the Big Ten Conference institutions that do not permit bags at home athletic events.
Fans should refer to the complete list of prohibited items and parking/tailgating rules, which are available in the 2012 Beaver Stadium Information Guide.
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Come help us celebrate our 27th year of Russian festivities!
Enjoy all the flavor and fun of the Russian-American experience in one wild weekend! Sample piroshki, borsch, pelmeni, and our ever popular flavored vodkas. Our three-day performance spectacular will transport your spirit to Russia of old with ballads, folk songs, ballet, folk dance, and much more, featuring such popular groups as the Konovets quartet from St. Petersburg, Russia; the Firebird Balalaika Ensemble from Los Angeles; with local favorites Nikolai Massenkoff, world renowned bass; Vladimir Riazantsev's Russian Dancers; and the Firebird Dance Ensemble.
Be sure not to miss the historic treasures in the Museum of Russian Culture, and delight in our fantastic Art Gallery to peruse or purchase originals by our own local Russian artists. Face painting and crafts for the kids! Pick-up souvenirs like Russian scarves, Baltic amber, lacquer boxes and matryoshka dolls!
January 30, Friday 5pm-9:30pm
January 31, Saturday 11am-10pm
February 1, Sunday 11am-7pm
General Admission: $10
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Stay late on Friday night to enjoy dancing in our ballroom from 10pm-12:30am!
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FINALLY! I put this off, off, off. I'm speaking for myself, but I just loathe 20 milers in training. They make you SO tired, sore, and they just take so much time. Alas, running with a friend makes things THAT much more fun! Maritza and I met up on Saturday morning bright and early and if it took 8 hours, the tour of torture was going to get done that day. Starting in Santa Monica at our normal 'spot', we took off right about 7:30. If you saw my last lovely post about complete and total burn out on training and full marathons, you know how I feel about my two upcoming back to back races.
So when we took off, after running a measly 8 miles between my 16 miler and this 20 miler, I knew it would be a struggle, but I also knew the importance of getting it done training wise. We started off and I just counted down the miles. We stopped a few times as there are many stop lights along the route that we ran. We talked and caught up and I found myself telling her that I was looking forward to running with her and catching up. No matter how long it took to get the 20 miles done, I knew we could do it, but I was more so looking forward to hanging out with her, and we had a blast. We both fell twice. It was REALLY warm out, and we traveled a pretty hilly and different route. Past some GORGEOUS movie star mansions, where I took a digger.It doesn't look that bad but I think the bruising is much worse now! Maritza grabbed for my fuel belt, and sadly enough I was on the ground before she got a hold of me. We both fell twice. I don't get it. I've only ever fallen three times on a run. ALL WITH MARITZA, WITHIN THE PAST 2 MONTHS. If that isn't a sign, I don't know what is…
Along many different streets, the hills, and the heat, I was glad we pushed through. The last few miles were the best because we both pumped up the jams and took off! It was a great way to finish the longest run I've completed since last October! I was glad it was over and now I feel much, much better about LA. I have my fueling down, a great new fuel belt to wear at the race, and my outfit is ready. I was feeling a little dumpy about the race before this 20 miler. I'm still not particularly going for a land speed record, and know I'm far from PR shape, but I'm glad that I have confidence that I will finish and it won't be HORRIFIC. The only thing that really hurt during the run were my feet, they were just a little tired, but besides that I fared well.
We finished off the run with delicious slurpees since I had to head home to quickly get ready for a friend's engagement party. I wasn't THAT sore after the run, just a little stiff and my knee now has a HUGE bruise on it and the scrape is healing. I got a sweet sunburn too, so that's radical. I'm going to shoot for a 13-15 miler this weekend to see how things go, but I am feeling much better about the races now and looking forward to running shorter distances. :)


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I see a lot of hula. But I am never anything other than mesmerized. Watching these young students of Halau Ku Mana at the Haloa Festival at the Capitol really made me so very proud. Proud to be Hawaiian. Proud that the beautiful young spirits of the youth are rising to the occassion. I am sure the ancestors watched with so much loving pride as well. Actually, I am more than sure. I know they watched. I sometimes wished that I took hula when I was younger. I would love to dance along with them. For now, I have to watch and enjoy the spirit vicariously. At night, sometimes I am dancing alongside them. A thousand years ago...
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I reached the top of the cliff and thrust my fist into the air in the universal expression of victory. I'd ridden my bicycle up the longest, steepest hill I'd ever climbed and was rewarded by a vista overlooking the unspoiled coastline and the dramatic cliffs of Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight in England.
It was near the end of my second day of cycling with my guide Christopher Dawson of Cycle Tours UK. We'd traversed the Isle of Wight, visiting numerous historic National Trust sites. The conservation organization has properties throughout England, Northern Ireland and Wales and owns 10 per cent of the Isle of Wight, including Compton Bay. In picturesque Brighstone we admired original thatched-roofed cottages and visited an intact church build in 1190. In Newport we stopped by a Roman ruin, built around 200 AD.
By the end of the day, we'd travelled 74 kilometres and climbed 740 metres. Not bad for a middle-aged, moderately fit woman like myself.
When I first spoke to Chris about the bicycle tour, he asked me what I hoped to experience. I said I wanted challenge, but nothing extreme; I wanted to go to pubs, experience literary England and cycle along dramatic coastline and through pastoral countryside and the moors. Chris customized my trip so I could have the quintessential English experience I sought.
Chris knows the highways and laneways and the 20,000 kilometres of official cycle paths throughout the U.K. like the back of his hand. He's been cycling around them ever since he was five years old and it's become a lifelong passion.
I thought it would be difficult to keep up with him. But like a true English gentleman, Chris made sure the routes we covered were within my ability. And he had our gear transported by car to the next location, so I never travelled with more than a small, sleek pannier and a water bottle. Even though Chris assured me the weather in England isn't as bad as it is reputed, he supplied me with a rain jacket -- just in case.
On our first day out, Chris acclimatized me with a ride in the River Test Valley, near Winchester, where Cycle Tours UK is based. The gently undulating countryside is the setting of Jane Austen's novels, which she wrote around the turn of the 19th century.
Her house in Chawton is a museum and we poked around there, viewing the memorabilia of her life.
We cycled in temperate weather along charming country lanes with blooming trees creating a canopy above us. The air was redolent with the fragrance of blossoms from those trees, and the shrubs and flowers that form the hedgerows bordering the lanes. We passed by woods carpeted with bluebells and were serenaded by birdsong along our route. We stopped for tea in quaint villages and checked out an assortment of new wave of gastro-pubs that dotted the countryside.
We explored the layers of history at the Mottisfont Abbey and Garden National Trust site, including the Gothic remains of the original 13th-century Augustinian priory. The tranquil rural estate is set in spacious grounds alongside the River Test. The walled gardens house the National Collection of old-fashioned roses.
By the end of the day we'd cycled 47 kilometres, ascending a moderate 540 metres. I still had enough energy to explore the Lainston House Hotel property, where I was staying. The 17th-century country house stands elegantly on 25 hectares of parkland featuring five gardens, including a vegetable garden where some of the produce served in the restaurant is grown. I walked along the mile-long green avenue lined with lime trees, and wandered through the 12th-century chapel ruin on the grounds before lounging in my sumptuous room.
I was told that Lainston House was slated as a royal estate before King William II moved the throne from Winchester to Westminster in the 11th century. Indeed, I felt like royalty.
I discovered that meals in the hotel also cost a princely sum. So I meandered the short distance to a pub Chris recommended. The Plough is an informal gastro-pub in the nearby hamlet of Sparsholt. The menu offers traditional fare like pan-fried pigeon and black pudding, and more conventional dishes too. I sampled a delicious and affordable plate of mussels in a creamed sauce.
On our third day of cycling -- after two lovely days -- we woke up to rain. Chris was ready to give me a break, but I insisted that we embrace the elements. This drizzle was not going to deter me from experiencing the desolate moors of Exmoor in Devon. What could be more British? So I donned the rain jacket Chris supplied and mounted my bicycle.
The dark, brooding skies enhanced the experience. A mist hung in the air, making the greens greener and the remote southern moor seem even more lonesome. We were the only ones on the road. Exmoor's protected wild ponies and scattered herds of sheep warily watched as we rode by.
We cycled a series of long, steep hills and by the end of the day, we'd only travelled 27 kilometres, but had climbed 580 metres. Along the way, we stopped for a bowl of carrot and coriander soup at the Royal Oak pub in Withypool, where R.D. Blackwell frequented while he was penning the renowned romantic novel, Laura Doone in the 1700s.
We didn't quite make it to our hotel, and drove the final 13 kilometres to Lynton-Lynmouth, a popular seaside resort in Devon. I was happy to luxuriate in the deep tub in my room at the 19th century St. Vincent House Hotel and to enjoy a home-cooked gourmet meal in the cosy dining room, prepared by an award-winning Belgian chef.
By the next morning, the rain had stopped. As previously arranged, while Chris tackled the challenging hills of the area, I parked my bicycle and slipped on my hiking boots.
I wandered along the coastal path on some of England's highest cliffs with fresh sea air and verdant ancient forests as my constant companions. All I'd packed to eat were a couple of cookies, so by the time I'd hiked four hours with nary a tea house in sight, I was famished.
I returned to Lynton-Lynmouth and followed the scenic Lyn River for about three kilometres to the National Trust tea house at Watersmeet for Devonshire cream tea. I arrived just as it was closing and cajoled the kitchen staff into serving me the traditional scones topped with clotted cream and jam. I devoured them in the lovely garden overlooking the river. It was divine and appropriately punctuated my consummate English adventure.
From pubs and Exmoor ponies, to Jane Austen and thatched roof cottages. I'd cycled the country lanes of England into the heart of the land. And it won my heart.
If You Go Biking in England
-Cycle Tours UK -- Customized cycle tours www.cycletoursuk.com
-Canadian Affair charter -- Flies from most major Canadian cities www.canadianaffair.ca
-Lainston House Hotel -- Located near Winchester www.lainstonhouse.com
-Bark House Cottage Style Hotel -- located near Exmoor www.thebarkhouse.co.uk
-St Vincent Hotel Guest House -- Lynton www.st-vincent-hotel.co.uk
-National Trust www.nationaltrust.org.uk


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Rookie Wood stifles Phils as Braves win 10th straight
Lefty allows one run over six; Atlanta stretches NL East lead to 12 1/2
PHILADELPHIA -- Add Alex Wood's emergence as the latest of the many things that have gone right for the Braves as they have proven perfect for more than a week and legitimized themselves as one of Major League Baseball's elite teams.
Less than 24 hours after learning one of his close friends had slipped into a coma after a canoeing accident, Wood took the mound at Citizens Bank Park and was undaunted by the fact that he was opposing Cliff Lee amidst the added attention of ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball broadcast.
With Wood surrendering just two hits over six strong innings and B.J. Upton providing encouragement with a pair of hits, the Braves notched a 4-1 victory over the Phillies and matched their season-best 10-game winning streak.
"We're playing relaxed," Upton said. "That is a big part of this game. When you can play relaxed, you can go out there and just have fun doing it. That's kind of what is going on right now."
When this season began, it appeared this six-game road trip would impact the National League East standings. But the Braves have temporarily removed any lingering drama surrounding this race. They buried the Phillies' hopes this weekend and head to Washington aiming to increase their 12 1/2-game lead over the second-place Nationals.
While making the Phillies the ninth different NL club they have swept this season, the Braves halted the road woes that have haunted them most of the year. They entered the weekend having lost 30 of the previous 49 games played outside of Atlanta.
"We're playing good baseball right now," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "I know coming into this road trip we haven't been playing good baseball on the road. But we had good pitching, got some good hitting and played some good defense."
All three of these facets were on display as the Braves concluded the three-game set in Philadelphia by forcing Cliff Lee to throw 95 pitches while matching a season-short five innings. Each of the four runs surrendered by Lee came courtesy of clutch two-out hits by Chris Johnson, Jason Heyward and Justin Upton.
The offensive contributions were more than enough for Wood, who had the comfort of throwing each of his 98 pitches with the advantage he gained courtesy of the two-run single Johnson sent through the infield's right side in the first. Along with owning an NL-best .346 batting average, Johnson has hit .400 (14-for-35) with two outs and runners in scoring position.
"We wanted to take advantage," Johnson said. "You don't get many of those opportunities against a guy like [Lee]. So I was just trying to battle with it. I was trying to make good contact. He had me with two strikes. I was trying to use the whole field and got one through there."
Atlanta's two-run fourth began rather inauspiciously when B.J. Upton rounded the bases on what was initially ruled a home run. It was reversed to a double after umpires reviewed the video of the play and determined a fan had interfered with the ball before it cleared the right-center field wall. But the negative effect of the reversal was erased when Heyward drove Upton in with a single and then scored when Justin Upton extended his season-best hitting streak to nine games.
As B.J. Upton drove the ball to the opposite field and laced a single up the middle in the third, he benefited from the time he spent with Braves veteran hitting guru Lee Elia during his Minor League rehab assignment with Triple-A Gwinnett this week. When he came off the disabled list on Saturday hitting just .177, he said he simply wanted to focus on being a contributing figure for the remainder of the season.
"I'm not trying to do too much," B.J. Upton said. "I'll try to chip in when I can. Obviously, you'd like it to be more than it has been. But whether it's defensively, offensively or on the basepaths, anywhere I can help us to win."
The only run Wood surrendered came after a replay review reversed Carlos Ruiz's home run to a double to begin the second. Ruiz advanced to third base on a sacrifice bunt and then scored on one of the 11 ground-ball outs recorded by Wood.
When injuries forced Wood to make rushed preparations before each of his first two big league starts, he encountered the struggles expected from a pitcher who played at the University of Georgia just a year ago. But in his past two outings, he has showed why the Braves were so intent to take him out of their bullpen and send him to Triple-A Gwinnett to stretch his arm out just before the break.
Wood has allowed just one run in his past 10 2/3 consecutive innings since allowing a two-run second-inning home run to Colorado's Nolan Arenado on Tuesday.
"I felt real comfortable out there. I was excited," Wood said. "I didn't want to be the one to lose the streak for us. I just wanted to go out there and compete and keep us in it."
While Wood was certainly pleased with his effort, it was obvious his postgame thoughts were focused on his injured friend, whose initials rested on the side of Wood's hat during this gem.
"It's hard not to think about him," Wood said. "But tonight was definitely for him and his family."


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OBERKOCHEN/Germany, 05.04.2011. During the NAB Show in Las Vegas from April 9-14, 2011, Carl Zeiss will introduce an attractive bundled lens set offer for its SLR lenses. The set contains the following lenses with F (ZF.2) or EF bayonet (ZE): Distagon T* 2,8/21, Distagon T* 2/28, Distagon T* 2/35, Planar T* 1,4/50 and Planar T* 1,4/85. This offer is a response to the strong demand from the HD Video segment for lenses with precise manual focus. With this offer Carl Zeiss supports filmmakers and still photographers entering the booming HD video market with the right equipment that meets their needs.
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Episode List
Episode 1: Asta and Yuno
Episode 2: The Boys' Promise
Episode 3: To the Royal Capital of the Clover Kingdom!
Episode 4: The Magic Knights Entrance Exam
Episode 5: The Path to the Wizard King
Episode 6: The Black Bulls
Episode 7: The Other New Recruit
Episode 8: Go! Go! First Mission
Episode 9: Beasts
Episode 10: Those Who Protect
Episode 11: What Happened on a Certain Day in the Castle Town
Episode 12: The Wizard King Saw
Episode 13: The Wizard King Saw, Continued
Episode 14: Dungeon
Episode 15: The Diamond Mage
Episode 16: Friends
Episode 17: Destroyer
Episode 18: Memories of You
Episode 19: Destruction and Salvation
Episode 20: Assembly at the Royal Capital
Episode 21: Capital Riot
Episode 22: Wild Magic Dance
Episode 23: The Crimson Lion King
Episode 24: Blackout
Episode 25: Adversity
Episode 26: Wounded Beasts
Episode 27: Light
Episode 28: The One I've Set My Heart On
Episode 29: Path
Episode 30: The Mirror Mage
Episode 31: Pursuit over the Snow
Episode 32: Three-Leaf Sprouts
Episode 33: To Help Somebody Someday
Episode 34: Light Magic vs. Dark Magic
Episode 35: The Light of Judgment
Episode 36: Three Eyes
Episode 37: The One with No Magic
Episode 38: The Magic Knights Captain Conference
Episode 39: Three-Leaf Salute
Episode 40: A Black Beach Story
Episode 41: The Water Girl Grows Up
Episode 42: The Underwater Temple
Episode 43: Temple Battle Royale
Episode 44: The Pointlessly Direct Fireball and the Wild Lightning
Episode 45: The Guy Who Doesn't Know When to Quit
Episode 46: Awakening
Episode 47: The Only Weapon
Episode 48: Despair vs. Hope
Episode 49: Beyond Limits
Episode 50: End of the Battle, End of Despair
Episode 51: Proof of Rightness
Episode 52: Whoever's Strongest Wins
Episode 53: Behind the Mask
Episode 54: Never Again
Episode 55: The Man Named Fanzell
Episode 56: The Man Named Fanzell Continued
Episode 57: Infiltration
Episode 58: Battlefield Decision
Episode 59: Flames of Hatred
Episode 60: Defectors' Atonement
Episode 61: The Promised World
Episode 62: Those Who Boost Each Other Up
Episode 63: Not in the Slightest
Episode 64: The Red Thread of Fate
Episode 65: I'm Home
Episode 66: The Eye of the Midnight Sun's Secret
Episode 67: A Fun Festival Double Date
Episode 68: Battle to the Death?! Yami vs Jack
Episode 69: The Briar Maiden's Melancholy
Episode 70: Two New Stars
Episode 71: The Uncrowned, Undefeated Lioness
Episode 72: Saint Elmo's Fire
Episode 73: The Royal Knights Selection Test
Episode 74: Flower of Resolution
Episode 75: Fierce Battle
Episode 76: Mage X
Episode 77: Bad Blood
Episode 78: Peasant Trap
Episode 79: Mister Delinquent vs. Muscle Brains
Episode 80: Special Little Brother vs. Failed Big Brother
Episode 81: The Life of a Certain Man
Episode 82: Petit Clover! The Nightmarish Charmy SP!
Episode 83: Burn It into You
Episode 84: The Victors
Episode 85: Together in the Bath
Episode 86: Yami and Vangeance
Episode 87: Formation of the Royal Knights
Episode 88: Storming the Eye of the Midnight Sun's Hideout!!!
Episode 89: The Black Bulls' Hideout
Episode 90: Crazy Magic Battle
Episode 91: Mereoleona vs. Raia the Disloyal
Episode 92: The Wizard King vs. the Leader of the Eye of the Midnight Sun
Episode 93: Julius Novachrono
Episode 94: New Future
Episode 95: Reincarnation
Episode 96: The Black Bulls Captain vs the Crimson Wild Rose
Episode 97: Overwhelming Disadvantage
Episode 98: The Sleeping Lion
Episode 99: The Desperate Path Toward Survival
Episode 100: We Won't Lose to You
Episode 101: The Lives of the Village in the Sticks
Episode 102: Two Miracles
Episode 103: Release from Misfortune
Episode 104: Lightning of Rage vs. Friends
Episode 105: Smiles, Tears
Episode 106: Path of Revenge, Path of Atonement
Episode 107: The Battle for Clover Castle
Episode 108: Battlefield Dancer
Episode 109: Spatial Mage Brothers
Episode 110: The Raging Bull Joins the Showdown!!
Episode 111: The Eyes in the Mirror
Episode 112: Humans Who Can Be Trusted
Episode 113: Storming the Shadow Palace
Episode 114: The Final Invaders
Episode 115: Mastermind
Episode 116: The Ultimate Natural Enemy
Episode 117: Breaking the Seal
Episode 118: A Reunion Across Time and Space
Episode 119: The Final Attack
Episode 120: Dawn
Episode 121: Three Problems
Episode 122: As Pitch Black as It Gets
Episode 123: Nero Reminisces... Part One
Episode 124: Nero Reminisces... Part Two
Episode 125: Return
Episode 126: The Blue Rose's Confession
Episode 127: Clues
Episode 128: To the Heart Kingdom!
Episode 129: The Devil Megicula
Episode 130: The New Magic Knight Squad Captains' Meeting
Episode 131: A New Resolve
Episode 132: The Lion Awakens
Episode 133: The Lion Awakens, Continued
Episode 134: Those Who Have Been Gathered
Episode 135: The One Who Has My Heart, My Mind, and Soul
Episode 136: A Black Deep-Sea Story
Episode 137: Charmy's Century of Hunger, Gordon's Millennium of Loneliness
Episode 138: In Zara's Footsteps
Episode 139: A Witch's Homecoming
Episode 140: A Favor for Julius
Episode 141: The Golden Family
Episode 142: Those Remaining
Episode 143: The Tilted Scale
Episode 144: Those Who Wish for the Devil's Demise
Episode 145: Rescue
Episode 146: Those Who Worship the Devil
Episode 147: Prepared to Die
Episode 148: Becoming the Light That Shines Through the Darkness
Episode 149: Two Things We Need to Find
Episode 150: The Maidens' Challenge
Episode 151: Clash! The Battle of the Magic Knights Squad Captains
Episode 152: To Tomorrow!
Episode 153: The Chosen Ones
Episode 154: Vice Captain Langris Vaude
· 1 year ago
How come they have -50 stars. Did I miss an episode where they just commited genocide.
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· 7 months ago
on the poster it said last years stars so before all the current things that they did
· 1 year ago
damn finally an episode and not some re shit
· 1 year ago
This is 1 of the greatest shows I've ever seen could use more episodes cause i cant wait untill nxt week its just that good.
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· 1 year ago
I agree
· 1 year ago
I just noticed Magna's voice is annoying too. lol
· 1 year ago
okay but like i actually ship kahono and astra LMAO
· 1 year ago
Did anyone realize narrows tail looks like the devils pitch fork
· 1 year ago
I hate when characters play matchmaker like that, it feels so forceful, didn't Asta have a redhead girlfriend anyway?
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· 1 year ago
Asta wants to marry sister lily
· 1 year ago
He didn't know it was a mixer so basically he doesn't have a gf like me :(
· 11 months ago
what the fuck is this cringy shit
· 11 months ago
what the fuck is this cringy shit
· 11 months ago
her singing reminds me of Assassination Classroom Season 2 ending song 😭
· 6 months ago
the bird better be like the devil spirit or darkness spirit something strong atleast
· 6 months ago
noele and asta!!
· 5 months ago
this is some cringe shit
· 3 months ago
bruh, how do they have -50 stars!!!
· 3 weeks ago
thiis was so damn funny....lol🤣🤣🤣
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When Jacques Offenbach's "La Vie Parisienne" premiered in 1866, Paris was known for its merry social scene and romantic ambience. Not much has changed since then, so it makes perfect sense that the University of Houston's Moores Opera Center would transplant this festive production into the 21st century.
"La Vie Parisienne" will run Oct. 22 - 25 in the Moores Opera House. Offenbach's operetta follows the exploits of tourists caught up in an elaborate hoax in the "city of love." Regardless of any trickery, passions flow - as does wine - and everyone experiences a slice of Parisian life.
"This opera works very well in a contemporary setting," said Buck Ross, director of the Moores Opera Center. "The opera was originally focused on tourists coming to Paris for the Exposition Universelle in the 1860s. Paris was a big tourist town then as it is now. The opera focuses on the trouble that these tourists get into once they're there. It's also about the most chic and fashionable people in town and how they're dealing with their own lives."
The fast-paced Paris vibe will be enhanced by a billboard that rotates constantly with vibrant scene backgrounds. For the finale, the stage will be transformed into a stylish nightclub pulsating with lights and effects.
Light in tone with energetic numbers, "La Vie Parisienne" remains one of Offenbach's most popular operettas. It made its debut in 1866 at Paris' Palais Royal. In 1876, New York's Booth Theatre hosted the American premiere.
This will be the first time the Moores Opera Center has performed "La Vie Parisienne." It will be sung in English with English surtitles.
Tickets are $15 and $10 for students and seniors. For additional details on tickets, call the Moores box office at 713-743-3313 or visit http://www.music.uh.edu/opera/boxoffice.asp.
|"La Vie Parisienne"
|7:30 p.m., Oct. 22, 23, 25
2 p.m., Oct. 24
|Moores Opera House
|UH Moores Opera Center