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Before you run out to shop for hurricane supplies for the 2013 storm season that starts Saturday — bottled water, flashlights, nonperishable food — you need to stop and make a list.
Before you run out to shop for hurricane supplies for the 2013 storm season that starts Saturday — bottled water, flashlights, nonperishable food — you need to stop.
Stop and think.
Make a list.
Start with where you live.
Are you in a flood zone? Do you live in a mobile home? Should you leave your home if a hurricane approached the Gulf Coast? Where would you go and what would you do to protect yourself, your family and your property?
For example, Paul Hersey and his wife live off Interstate 75 in the Isles on Palmer Ranch. This is higher ground and they are well prepared. Their family disaster plan includes putting up hurricane shutters and rechecking storm supplies, such as emergency radios and first aid kits.
"We would not evacuate," Hersey says. "We could withstand 150- or 160-mph winds. We would stay."
Then there is Joe Thiel, who lives off Jacaranda Boulevard in Venice. He and his wife are in their 80s. If a storm approached, they would consider leaving their home for a hotel room, taking along food, medicine and clothes packed in plastic bins.
When faced with Hurricane Charley in 2004, they left, but, Thiel says, "We went much too far — we went all the way to Georgia. That experience taught us to do a little better planning. You don't have to go that far away."
Finally, consider Ann Vozzolo of Sarasota. She and her husband live in a first-floor condominium off Stickney Point Road near Siesta Key. This is a coastal neighborhood vulnerable to storm surge, which makes it a Level A Evacuation Area.
"I don't think we would fool around and take chances," Vozzolo says. "If it was something major, we'd probably go to the east coast, go to my sister-in-law's."
'The First 72'
The six-month hurricane season will last through Nov. 30, and forecasters expect this one to be busier than usual, with as many as 20 named storms, up to 11 of them hurricanes and three to six of those rated Category 3 or higher, with winds of more than 111 mph or higher.
In comparison, an average season has 12 named storms, including six hurricanes, three of them major.
Florida has had a record run of seven seasons without a hurricane making landfall here, but forecasters have said there is a higher probability that streak could end in 2013.
Sarasota County Emergency Management, like other local disaster preparedness agencies, offers printed guides to help people prepare.
Lots of information. Lots of checklists. Lots of slogans with exclamation points.
"Prepare Now!"
"Don't Gamble With Your Life!"
"The First 72 Are On You!"
That last line is from a new ad campaign. The idea is that, after a major hurricane, people should be prepared to fend for themselves for 72 hours. That could mean three days without electricity in a neighborhood with streets blocked by downed trees or power lines.
A disaster supply kit includes an array of items, from a cooler and tarp — to cover storm damage to a roof — to extra batteries, mosquito repellent and food. People also may need ice, cash — ATMs won't work if there's no power — copies of important documents.
The time to purchase and store many of the supplies of these supplies is long before a storm arrives. Even as the season progresses, modern hurricane tracking gives considerable advance notice when storms are forming far out in the Atlantic Ocean.
"It blows my mind when people say, 'Oh, I didn't know,'" says Chief Ed McCrane of Emergency Management. "C'mon."
Before a storm, homeowners should clear their yards of grills, outdoor furniture and debris — any loose material that could become a projectile in high winds.
Emergency managers recommend that people harden their homes against storm damage. This includes anchoring roofs, bracing garage doors and covering windows. Often, these improvements can result in lower insurance premiums.
"I did that in my home," McCrane says. "It paid off when I did my home insurance renewal."
It also gives people who do not live in flood-prone areas, such as the Herseys, the option of staying at home during a storm, something authorities call sheltering in place.
During a hurricane, people are urged to stay inside at all times. Families should stay away from windows and doors, seeking out the most protected room in a house.
Residents should also be cautious during the aftermath of a storm. Often more people are killed and injured in the cleanup from a hurricane than the hurricane itself.
"After a storm?" McCrane asks, drily. "Not a good time to use a chainsaw for the first time."
Sarasota and Manatee counties offer shelters for families with disabled members or people with special needs.
There are also hurricane shelters in for families with pets.
Siesta evacuation
Catherine Luckner, president of the Siesta Key Association, lives in a hurricane-hardened house with wind-proof windows and a reinforced garage door. She has a generator, camp stove and all sorts of emergency supplies, along with a 40-gallon rain barrel that collects rainwater.
Yet she would not be tempted to stay during a storm.
"I would probably go to what they call higher ground," she says. "I would go to my mother's place in Seminole, Florida, the highest ridge in Pinellas County, a hurricane-proof building with a back-up generator."
Luckner remembers Hurricane Charley. Forecasters expected the hurricane go to farther north, so she drove south to Cape Coral to check on her mother-in-law. Sure enough, the storm shifted course and headed right toward them.
The women had to take shelter in a Lee County house, with the wind blowing and water rising just outside the door. A frightening lesson in hurricane unpredictability.
"What we learned there," Luckner said, "is that you can never tell what's going to happen."
Pulling together
A funny thing happened on the way to disaster preparedness at the Isles on Palmer Ranch.
What started with emergency drills — envisioning say, a hurricane bearing down on the Gulf Coast — became a social program that helped neighbors get to know one another.
It turns out that even an imaginary crisis draws people together.
"It gets pretty real," says Hersey. "And people really begin to hang together and become friends."
The Isles has monthly meetings with guest speakers who talk about emergency preparation. Doctors and nurses in the neighborhood have volunteered their time. Dozens of people have received first aid and CPR training, along with green emergency backpacks that include a safety helmet and vest, along with medical supplies, flashlights, glow sticks, pliers, rope and bungee cords.
Residents share contact information and storm plans, along with fears and concerns about a hurricane. Disaster training turns into emotional support, too.
"We didn't even think about that," says Jane Hersey, Paul's wife. "But suddenly we had unbelievable participation."


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LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Sandra Bullock took home a $20 million paycheck for Alfonso Cuaron's well-received space flick, Gravity, even before it hauled in more than $700 million at the worldwide box office.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, however, the film's financial success means that its 49-year-old star stands to make more than $70 million when her share of the revenue comes in.
Sources told the trade rag that Bullock will make 15 percent of her studio's cut beyond her $20 million advance.
Bullock might also get an Oscar award with all that cash flow. The Virginia native is nominated for best actress for her role in the film -- four years after winning for The Blind Side.

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Education Secretary Duncan Announces New Teacher Quality Grants Aimed at Improving Student Academic Success
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced the award of $99.8 million for 12 new five-year Teacher Quality Partnership grants that aim to raise student achievement by improving instruction in our nation's schools. The grants, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will be used to reform traditional university teacher preparation programs as well as create teacher residency programs for professionals from other fields entering the teaching profession.
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Earlier this week the Obama administration unveiled its plan to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Act, which includes incentives and supports for states and school districts to recruit, prepare, reward and retain effective teachers and school leaders. The 2011 budget request for teacher and leader effectiveness programs is aligned with these goals, and reflects the secretary's firm belief that great teachers and principals are essential to improve student achievement.
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|Virginia Commonwealth University
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Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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A reader/listener requested some music by Mbaraka Mwinshehe, and I'm more than happy to oblige! Mwinshehe was the great Tanzanian guitarist and vocalist who thrilled East African audiences from 1965 to 1979 with the famous Morogoro Jazz Band and then with his own Orchestra Super Volcano. He tragically perished in an auto accident in January 1979.
Mbaraka became known to many outside of Tanzania and Kenya in 2000 with the release of Mbaraka Mwinshehe & the Morogoro Jazz Band: Masimango (Dizim 4702-2). Polydor Kenya had previously released at least ten volumes of Ukumbusho (or "remembrance"). This LP series gathered together many of the singles and LP cuts that Mwinshehe made over the course of his career.
Unfortunately, the Ukumbusho volumes do not provide information on the individual recordings and seem to jumble together tracks from various points in Mwinshehe's career. Of the five songs featured in this post, "Daktari ni Mimi" (from Ukumbusho Vol. 3 [Polydor POLP 542], 1983) and "Mama Chakula Bora" (from Ukumbusho Vol. 4 [Polydor POLP 550], 1985) were apparently recorded with Morogoro Jazz, while "Vijana wa Afrika," "Jasinta" and "Mtaa wa Saba" (all from Ukumbusho Vol. 2 [Polydor POLP 537], 1983) were probably made with Super Volcano.
Mbaraka Mwinshehe - Daktari ni Mimi
Mbaraka Mwinshehe - Mama Chakula Bora
Mbaraka Mwinshehe - Vijana wa Afrika
Mbaraka Mwinshehe - Jasinta
Mbaraka Mwinshehe - Mtaa wa Saba
Several months ago our friend Zim Bida was kind enough to send me rips of almost all of the Ukumbusho volumes that I don't have. Would you believe that I haven't even had time to listen to them all yet? Rest assured that I plan on posting more of this great music in the future!
Thursday, September 20, 2007
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Microsoft today announced Microsoft Office 365, the company's latest cloud productivity package. Office 365 meshes Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, and Lync Online into a single always-up-to-date service. Office 365 lets users work together from anywhere while collaborating with others inside and outside their organization. Microsoft said Office 365 works with the most popular browsers, smartphones, and desktop applications people use today.
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I am writing a note taking app with python and glade. I've been searching the web for the how to save and retrieve textbuffer with tags from simple app made with python and glade. I would like to get an in-depth answer as I am just starting to know python a little. So here's the situation:
Text loads fine, but tags that have been applied are lost upon opening the my editor again.
Heres my read,write solution on how to save and open file with textbuffer into textview:
def on_saver_clicked(self, widget):
print "Saved"
start, end = self.textbuffer.get_bounds()
text = self.textbuffer.get_text(start, end, False)
file = open("note.txt", "w")
def on_opener_clicked(self, widget):
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|2013-04-18, 23:14
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Anime of Key/Visual Art's Works
Anime Adaptations
(MAL used, because ANN is a terrible site that fails to list everything.)
I'm making this thread because most of their subforums are closed and I'm everyone who's watching Little Busters must be sick of people spoiling other series via comparisons, so I wanted to make this thread for cross-series analysis and ranting. I'm also surprised no thread was dedicated to this, when Studio Deen gets a whole thread to themselves, so here. Also, recent talk about Anohana brought that idea to my head due to similarities between that anime and Key works. I'm also looking for more discussion beyond "X is Kawaii" and "I cried 24 buckets". Although that's fine too, I guess.
Key is most famous for their release of popular Visual Novels that have released numerous anime adaptations, and one anime original series by the name of Angel Beats. In particular, their Kyoto Animation adaptations have been praised over the mountain, mainly because with Toei being the main competition, they sorta won by default. Okay, contrary to popular belief, Toei did not fail completely. The brand is famous for the "crying" story and moe girls. It certainly can be polarizing in certain places, and has been labeled many things ranging from the most heartbreaking, touching experiences ever to contrived, boring melodrama involving bug eyed girls.
I would post my own agenda, but since the world doesn't revolve around me and I would just be spamming the thread with images of several characters, so I would like to find what people think of their anime work as a whole. It'd be nice if you watched more than one of them, lest there be spoilers. Though if you've watched them once, you've seen them all. (Just kidding... maybe)
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|2013-04-18, 23:26
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Age: 38
I'm just going to rename the thread title to make it more clear that this is about the anime adaptations of Key/Visual's Arts stories. (I know this is under General Anime... but people use search and sometimes don't read, so...)
|2013-04-18, 23:33
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|2013-04-18, 23:35
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Lolli for loli :D
I am so in love with ALL of Key's works.
...okay, so I haven't seen every single one. But I plan to. I dislike tragic endings but I love their characters so much...so I have a painful yet inseparable attachment to Key. My favorite series is Air, my favorite characters are Yukito and Misuzu, but I really like Kud and Kyousuke from Little Busters and Yui-nyan from Angel Beats as well.
I'm always collecting the figures of the Key bishoujo because I think they make the cutest ones and there is even a Misuzu plushie hanging in my car window and I customized my ball-jointed-doll to look just like her. I want to get a Yukito doll for her someday. I did make a Yukito plushie.
To sum up, Key fangirl forever. I hope they never stop producing.
|2013-04-18, 23:52
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Graphic Designer
I haven't watched nor read anything made by Key except Clannad and its After Story.
I did watched a few of Little Busters though. But that was a big let down. The drama is so forced (at least in Komari's arc. It's the only arc I watched. Afterwards, I dropped it). JC Staff didn't do justice to the series. But a lot of my friends told me to at least watch up to Kud's arc (which was the last one). So I may continue watching it again at some point.... Or I'll just read/play the VN
same goes for Angel Beats. I dropped that one too after the first episode cause I thought Yuri highly resembled Haruhi Suzumiya. Though I'm gonna watch it at some point too I guess
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: the Philippines
I'm not really a Key fanboy, but the Angel Beats original anime series and the anime adaptation of Little Busters are both decent, with Angel Beats a bit ahead. Well, Angel Beats does have an advantage of not being a visual novel at the start.
The Angel Beats Visual Novel is going to be one of my most anticipated media. I hope it completes the story of Angel Beats well.
|2013-04-19, 00:49
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Monarch of Rughzenhaide
Well I guess a "Key" based thread was due at some point or another. I wouldn't be surprised if a "Type-Moon" one popped up sometime soon in that case . I'll be focusing mainly on the anime adaptations portion of Key, as my VN experience is only limited to Clannad (which I played 50+ hours of and STILL did not finish - goddamn VNs are a massive timesink).
To be fair, I'm not particularly a big fan of "Key" and by extension Jun Maeda as a writer, though they definitely have some wonderful high points which I will get to shortly. I do however, respect the franchise in that they were the ones that popularized (not invented) the whole "crying" story genre in VN format instead of the more harem/dating sim like VN games that were dominant at the time. In other words, gave more "oomph" and meaning to their stories rather than your typical "choose the girl you wanna bang" and go from there.
One of the major reasons why I say I'm not particularly a big fan of Key is that I tend to get severe mood whiplash from their stories. What I mean by that is that it's silly, goofball and slapstick one moment, and nagging at you to cry over some dinnerplate eye-shaped Key moe girl the next (ok that was an exaggeration :3). I don't mind silly, goofball, slapstick series (as long as it doesn't involve some over-violent tsundere or oblivious perverted male harem lead) series on its own. Heck, Genshiken my favourite comedy anime (and manga) of all time was literally about a bunch of peeps celebrating otaku culture in a university club room, a bit like what OreImo is doing minus the incest implications and the gtfo that is Ayase. Recent examples include Daily Lives of High School Boys and the currently airing Hataraku Maou-Sama. But constantly switch between goofball one moment and heavy melodrama the next... it makes it quite difficult to take it very seriously.
Which brings me to the next point of melodrama usage. Melodrama by itself is by no means bad. If timed well and used sparingly, it drastically enhances a series and gives it a great notable high point. However, most animes and in particular Key uses melodrama in a poorly timed manner or irrelevantly. Examples, the Makoto arc from Kanon or the Fuko/Kotomi arcs from Clannad S1. The "drama" in those seemed irrelevant or "not worthy" of being sad about. To make it worse, it was preceded and proceeded by silly slapstick antics as mentioned above. This lead to me caring less than I would for even your generic K-drama soap opera. If Key's melodrama timing were all Clannad After Story episode 18 (I think it can be almost universally agreed whether you're a Key fan or not, that this was one of the best well placed drama episodes in recent anime history), but unfortunately this is not the case. There's a reason why I've been leaning towards the more "reserved", "understated", "genuine" anime dramas like Usagi Drop, Wandering Son and Tari Tari and that's because melodrama, 9 times out of 10 is simply not done well and either has me not caring or laughing at the wangst unintentionally e.g. Final episode of Anohana.
The third point of criticism comes to endings. Key anime adaptations and properties had endings that were simply balls. Air? Stupidly over-tragic. Kanon? One of the dumbest romance endings in anime history. Clannad? Rainbows shat out everywhere with how happy it was due to Deus Ex Machina bulls***. Angel Beats? Wtf was the point of this series in the first place?
Anyways that's enough ranting . Hopefully, there will be lots of fan/praise posts after my rather ugly blunt criticisms.
I might as well list what I thought were the best Key-anime properties, with the exception of Little Busters which I haven't watched yet or the Air/Clannad movies and TV series done by Toei since nobody cares about Toei like nobody cares about Studio Deen.
Clannad After Story (Despite the god awful ending)>> Kanon > Clannad S1 > Air >> Angel Beats (Rot in hell please :3)
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^ Eh, let's give Angel Beats some slack. I don't know why the scheduled episode count for the anime was halved but all I know is that the production team is forced to tell a story worth two cours in thirteen episodes. Clearly we're expecting a trainwreck (no Angel Beats puns intended) here.
The prequel manga is doing its best in giving out the story that the anime is unable to handle, and I'm really stoked as to how they would handle the revised story in the visual novel.
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I love my key stuff. That said, I ALWAYS avoid watching the animes because key is good at VNs, not animes. While the Clannad anime is 'good', and I'm sure the little busters and angel beats animes are at least 'decent', VNs allow for key to tell a much more compelling story with more justified endings, better pacing and an overall sense of immersion. I mean, while I love rewrite (despite it's inconsistencies), I don't know how they'll ever make an anime adaptation due to it's route structure; the routes are almost completely separate from each other due to the story.
I'm also looking forward to the angel beats VN -- the updated story is made with all the criticism of the anime, and will likely be extended over quite a lot of hours with good supporting content and improved important storyline bits.
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Did Angel Beats kill your family or something?
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I'm thinking that Key's works doesn't really work well with anime-format. This is more apparent on Clannad and Little Busters, due to how the content of game was structured.
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1. In case you didn't know, I'm a big P.A. Works fan, and Angel Beats was done by P.A. Works.
2. Angel Beats is the second most commercially successful series for P.A. Works after the Professor Layton movie (which isn't a fair comparison since it's a movie and it was aimed for a general/family audience ala Ghibli/Hosoda).
3. Meanwhiles, actually good series like True Tears, Hanasaku Iroha and Tari Tari sold less than Angel Beats combined.
4. Honestly thought it was the worst Key series because it made no friggin sense due to it trying to cram in way too much content for its own good.
Think of it like a Kyoani fan's reception to Haruhi Season 2.
Bonus 5. Recently found out that Froggen (League of Legends pro player), who is one of my favourite players to follow listed Angel Beats as his favourite anime .
So, although it did not kill my family, I have a lot of nasty baggage with it .
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As a guy who likes emotional stuff, Key works doesn't resonate with me at all. I find it annoying it relies too heavily on tropes and cliche like Clannad season 1. For the most part, I felt really sorry for Sunohara being the unfortunate loser who always falls for the main character's jokes. The main thing it's terrible at is it doesn't build up well enough, by the time I finished the anime, I was only happy I finished it. Maybe there were way too many characters to handle, in the end none of them ended up fully developed even the main heroine herself just stays the same as the beginning.
This anime is a bit ironic as the main theme may be about family but it's more specifically about the troubled heroines and how you are supposed to feel for their ordeals they went through and help them get through. In the end you don't feel much for them and strangely enough the only sympathetic one was the main character's father who was most of duration portrayed as an useless and uncaring parent. He was the main reason why After Story left me an impression after finishing it.
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In the end, I think it's more a case of an author who's used to writing long-form prose not exactly being used to writing for such a time-constrained/heavily-edited medium. As such, it feels like a show where the episode count was cut, even though it wasn't.
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Key is good at making cute, likeable, colorful, endearing protagonists. I think they get "moe" to a degree that few other companies do.
Key routes (at least my experience with them in anime format) tend to be good, intriguing, nicely paced with excellent emotional payoff. Key is often accused of being "emotionally manipulative" but the truth is that they're simply excellent at knowing how to make a narrative very effectively play on their audiences' heart-strings. It's not "manipulative", as that implies an element of illegitimacy imo; it's simply very good writing and overall presentation at the emotional engagement level.
Key realizes that good drama has to be earned. You can't force it. You can't expect people to love your characters right away. So Key slowly and gradually builds up characters, and the relationships between them, causing many viewers to care deeply about these characters and their relationships. And then it brings in a gripping, and sometimes intense, conflict that leaves the viewer on the edge of his or her seat, hoping for disaster to be averted. If disaster is averted, its heartwarming, often to the point of drawing tears of joy. If disaster isn't averted, its heart-wrenching, leaving a strong and lasting impression of its own. It's not hard to see why Key works tend to be very memorable.
Key's comedy is hit or miss. It relies heavily on slapstick comedy. Sometimes I find it effective, sometimes I don't. I honestly think Little Busters! handles this best of all.
Key's biggest weakness, for me, is that sometimes it takes its own flavor of moe a bit too far, to the point where it's just not believable any more. Sorry, Kanon fans, but I don't think I'll ever be able to truly imagine Yuiichi and Ayu as a serious romantic couple.
Still, on the whole, I think that Key has contributed a lot to the anime world through the anime adaptations of its various works. Clannad is an all-time favorite for me, and I loved Kanon as well. Little Busters! was pretty good, and Angel Beats was a fun ride at least. I never finished Air.
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People in this thread who are sick of typical KEY productions should definitely be anticipating an adaptation of Rewrite, if it ever actually happens.
Not that I'd really be the most unbiased person in recommending it though.
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CLANNAD/+(~After Story), Kanon (2006) and AIR were among the first animes I had seen, and they've kept their place at the top for me. These three have awakened the feelings in me that I'd long forgotten about and made me love life and have hope for it again. I cried to them, and I absolutely love the main characters to this day.
I cannot say the same about other key's anime adaptations - Angel Beats!, having had huge expectations for it only because it's from key, disappointed me greatly. Same goes for Little Busters!, I even dropped that one so it wouldn't spoil the visual novel. And I have yet to read any of the visual novels (although Little Busters! is pretty magical so far on my playthrough).
But I am seriously starting to believe that whatever key does well, KyoAni is an absolute necessity for that to be brought to light. I think Tamako Market is the perfect example of just how good KyoAni is -- while Hyouka and Chu-2 Byou both had a unique and intriguing storyline, this one has barely any semblance of a plot. And yet I'd still found it immensely enjoyable. Just like K-ON!. Why? The characters of course. Yeah, this animation studio is unmatched in their visual craft but I don't think that it alone can suffice, as godly as it may be.
While these characters are rather generic - something that was perfectly obvious to me even when I first started watching anime with CLANNAD - other aspects start to bury that fact over time with KyoAni's animes. They walk that fine line that separates irresistible, gentle moe and moe that you simply cannot swallow and always end up in the former category.
To sum it up: I don't know what KyoAni's magic is or how it works. Perhaps it's the fine tuned pacing, lush visuals or the consistent, endearing character art. I also realize this post is about key, not KyoAni, but the thing is, I don't really know how good key is on its own. I'll have to finish the Little Busters! visual novel to know that first.
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Children's Hospital was under lockdown for about two hours Thursday afternoon after Milwaukee police got a call that an armed felon they were looking for was on the seventh floor of the building.
Reports of an active shooter came over the loudspeaker, and people quickly realized it was not a drill.
VIDEO: Multiple law enforcement agencies investigate shooting at Children's Hospital
Maricelia Sanchez was with her 6-month-old daughter waiting for her baby's MRI appointment.
"They locked all the doors, and we all had to hide in the room with all the computers and stuff, and I was stuck down there for about an hour and a half," Sanchez said.
Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn said his officers received a call that 22-year-old Ashanti Hendricks, a wanted felon, was on the neonatal floor and was possibly armed.
Flynn said two officers approached Hendricks while he was holding a baby and advised him that he was under arrest. They said Hendricks put the baby down and took off running.
"While in that hallway, the subject turned on the officers with a .40-caliber, Glock semiautomatic pistol in his hand. One officer fired twice, hitting the subject in the arm, causing him to drop the pistol," Flynn said.
The chief defended his officers' actions on the neonatal floor.
"What if he decides not to come out? What if it turns out to be a domestic-violence situation? What if it turns out he doesn't want to let go of the baby? What if? What if? We have these reports. It's our moral obligation to investigate these reports and put ourselves in harm's way to do it," Flynn said.
The all-clear was issued just after 2 p.m., and the hospital is functioning normally.
Children's Hospital said no other medical staff, patients or families were ever in harm's way and commended everyone for staying calm and following security protocol.
The chief medical officer of Children's Hospital said they practiced an active shooter drill a month ago. He said the hospital does not have metal detectors.
The lockdown only impacted Children's Hospital, but thousands of other watched the situation unfold because of the sprawling campus
The medical complex borders Milwaukee and Wauwatosa. It includes the Medical College, Froedtert Hospital and Children's Hospital.
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Exercise Important In Diabetes Management
Most people with diabetes are concerned about what they can and cannot eat, if they can avoid taking medications to control diabetes, specifically insulin, and how many times a day they need to monitor their blood sugar. A very important part of any diabetes treatment plan is exercise, but this seems to be the hardest thing for people with and without diabetes to do.
Often exercise is thought of as a dirty word or something that isn't achievable. When I talk to patients about exercise, most will say they know they should exercise but give many reasons why they don't. Lack of time, no energy, access to safe walking areas, physical limitations, and hating exercise are all excuses.
Here are some tips that might help both diabetics and those without diabetes get moving:
- Find something that you like to do; it will be easier to continue for the long term. This may mean trying a few different activities before you find the one that fits your life.
- Is there something that you enjoyed doing as a child that you could do now? Think of it as play instead of exercise and you just might feel younger and energized.
- Find a buddy to join you. A friend or a group that exercises with you gives you a chance to interact socially and you may just forget that you are exercising. A pet can be a great buddy when it comes to exercise. It only takes a few times to establish a walking routine with your dog, and they will won't let you back out easily of this daily activity.
- If time is an issue, try breaking thirty minutes of exercise into two fifteen minute segments, or three ten minute segments. Check your schedule and find minutes wasted that you could turn into exercise time.
- If thirty minutes of exercise is too scary because you feel out of shape and know you can't do that much, start small and build up slowly.
- If you are not able to walk or bike due to physical restrictions, weight lifting or chair exercises may be the answer for you. These types of exercise will help build muscle and that uses glucose for fuel, thus lowering the amount of glucose in the blood.
- People with arthritis and bad joints might find swimming and water aerobics a good choice for them because there is no weight put on the joints to cause pain.
- If there are no safe walking/biking areas where you live, look for areas that are safe that you may frequent often. Maybe a park or path close to your work or grocery that you could use before you shop or after work.
- Think of exercise as "activity", time spent moving your body. You can sneak in these moments throughout the day easily. Taking the stairs instead of the elevator, parking in the back of the parking lot, carrying bags of groceries into the house one at a time will all give you extra steps each day that add up to big results.
- Think of exercise the same as you would your diabetes medicine. It needs to be taken everyday to provide good control. The same goes for exercise, it needs to be practiced regularly to be most effective.
Everyone should be physically active to maintain good health, but it is especially important if you have diabetes because it helps cells use sugar in the blood for energy and that means lower blood glucose readings. Talk to your doctor before you begin any exercise plans and "take it" faithfully just like you would your medications.
Mount Nittany Medical Center is offering a Healthy Living with Diabetes Summer Education Series. The first program is "Healthy Steps" on Thursday, June 14. On July 12, the nutrition education program: "Basic Carbohydrate Counting" will be held; and on August 9, "Managing Insulin Resistance" will be presented. All programs will be at 6:00 pm. in Conference Room 1 and 2.
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LOS ANGELES — They've got badges and campouts, cookie drives and troops in 22 states. The Dog Scouts of America even has a motto or two as the half-human, half-hound organization goes about the business of doing good deeds.
One of the first badges for Jasper, a 3-year-old collie-lab mix, was disaster preparedness. After all, he lives with Robert and Misti Verdahl in Milpitas, southeast of San Francisco, where you have to be aware of earthquakes and other natural disasters.
Jasper and his humans belong to Troop 198 in Santa Clara and have earned 18 badges altogether. Each, the humans said, has made him a better dog.
"We go outside and I know he's going to be safe," Verdahl said. "If there's an emergency, I know he will listen to me."
There are 682 Dog Scouts who belong to 38 troops across the country. The organization has around 80 badges, but not all dogs can earn all badges, said DSA President Chris Puls of Brookville, Ind.
One of her dogs, a 3-year-old Malinois named Dazzle, is 24-inches high and had to jump twice his height to get his jumping badge, for instance. Long or heavy dogs aren't really suited to that.
"If it's not safe, we don't want you trying for it," Puls said.
Dogs are not required to earn badges beyond the first one, for basic obedience and appropriately called the Dog Scout badge.
The organization was founded by Lonnie Olson 13 years ago. Membership is $25 a year.
Kozette, Olson's boxer mix nicknamed "Kozi," is a model Scout with about 45 badges.
Community service is part of any good Scout program, Olson said. The DSA members make about $10,000 a year for the Salvation Army and participate in several Christmas projects. Most troops also work with local groups to do whatever is needed in their hometowns.
Olson's 80-acre St. Helen, Mich., property is converted into one of numerous weeklong camps every summer. Puls is a former police officer who teaches and certifies badges at all the camps.
She has three dogs who have earned 122 badges between them. One, a 12-year-old cattle dog named Coyote, is retired with 48 badges.
Because cattle dogs often go deaf, Puls and Coyote worked hard on the sign language badge. Then Coyote went blind instead of deaf.
More than a decade ago, the Scouts decided to sell human-grade, dog-safe cookies, she said, but the group took a break from cookie sales to streamline operations.
Verdahl joined DSA because he'd taught Jasper everything he knew and the dog wanted more.
Jasper could put laundry in the washer and (plastic) dishes in the dishwasher. He could stack bowls, open blinds, flip a light switch and open a door, Verdahl said.
There is no housekeeping badge, but Verdahl figures Jasper can qualify for about 50 badges that are available.
The family's favorite so far is geocaching, an online treasure hunt in which players try to locate hidden containers or geocaches using GPS devices.
"Geocaching has taken us all over the place. We are experiencing things in our local area we never knew existed," he said.
Who has done more work to get the badges? "Me for sure. It's all play for him," said Verdahl, a nurse.
He said he and his wife are healthier because of Scouts. "I haven't lost any weight but my enjoyment in life has increased, I laugh and smile more."
Many badges are earned in camp. All of Jasper's were submitted on videotape because he is far from the nearest camp. He holds the record for videotape badges, Olson said.
But there are some he can't claim because he doesn't have the obstacle courses or water parks.
In the water, dogs can be puppy paddlers, beach buddies or boaters. They can qualify in rescue, racing or retrieval. Puls said one of the Scout pairs who started dock diving in camp have gone on to compete nationally.
The earth dog badge, mostly for terriers, is awarded if a dog stays focused while chasing a (protected) rat into an 8-foot earth tunnel, negotiates a 90-degree turn and continues the chase through another 8-foot tunnel without losing interest in the quarry.
"These are not 'gimme' badges, not a walk in the park," Puls said. "A dog with a lot of badges has put a lot of time and training into it."
The Scouts have two mottos. For humans: "Our dogs' lives are much shorter than our own. We should help them enjoy their time with us as much as we can." For dogs: "Let us learn new things that we become more helpful."
Both serve as inspiration for the group's grossest badge: "Clean Up America."
It consists of picking up piles left behind by other dogs on trails, parks and beaches.
Dog Scouts of America have troops in 22 states
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It shouldn't be a scary story: a young sea squirt swims happily around the ocean looking for food and its brain grows. Then, about halfway through its life-cycle, it attaches itself to a rock or hard surface and just ingests whatever it can from the ocean around it. Its brain begins to get smaller and eventually, it just eats its own brain as it doesn't need it anymore.
It suddently gets more than a little scary when we compare the sea squirt to how sedentary us humans are becoming. Let's raise kids who can run wild and free: so when they grow up, movement and action are just part of everyday life. Our planet needs us smart and thinking - not turning into a bunch of sea squirts.
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Red pepper "pesto" sauce
Red peppers are my favorite vegetables—they are crunchy, but also can be cooked soft, and have a sweet aroma that you can twist easily with additional spices. I needed lately some pasta sauce, and decided to experiment with red pepper pesto sauce, it turned out amazing and I think you will like that too! :-)
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Whole-grain bread rolls
There are not many things that can beat the whole grain bread, unless it's 8 delicious little whole grain breadrolls ;-) These are perfect for breakfast, and you can easily prepare and bake them in one evening, for e.g. Sunday breakfast! :-)
My fool-proof recipe will be a great fun, and a good addition to your baking arsenal.
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If you ever wanted proof that time is relative, just consider The Good Old Days.
Depending on your age, nationality, personal preferences etc, that time could be when rationing finally ended; or when Trevor Brooking won the Cup for West Ham with a "bullet" header; or possibly when Joe Carter hit a three-run homer to seal back-to-back World Series for the Blue Jays.
Alternatively, it could be when you were able to get on to the database server and use tkprof to analyse those tricky database performance issues.
In these days of siloed IT Departments, Oracle trace files, nevermind the tkprof utility are out of the reach of many developers.
The database server itself is the preserve of Unix Admins and DBAs, groups which, with good reason, are a bit reluctant to allow anyone else access to the Server at the OS level.
Which is a pity. Sometimes there is just no substitute for getting into the nitty gritty of exactly what is happening inside a given session.
For those of you who miss The Good Old Days of tkprof, what follows is an exploration of how to access both trace files and even the tkprof utility itself without leaving the comfort of your database.
I'll go through a quick recap of :
- how to generate a trace file for a session
- using tkprof to make sense of it all
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The largest U.S. businesses increased their charitable giving by a tepid 4% in 2011 and seem unlikely to pick up the pace in 2012, according to a new Chronicle of Philanthropy study of 166 large companies.
Last year's growth compared unfavorably with the 13% rise from 2009 to 2010, when companies experienced a sharp rebound in post-recession profits, The Chronicle said.
Some three-quarters of corporate leaders in the study anticipated their philanthropy budgets would be about the same this year because of concerns about the economy. Twenty-seven percent said they would give more, while 2% would donate less.
Among other findings:
- Walmart gave the most cash—$342 million—along with $617 million in products.
- Thirteen companies donated more than $100 million in cash, compared with 11 in 2010. The 10 companies that gave the most cash last year were Walmart, Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, Wells Fargo, Chevron, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Target, General Electric and Citigroup.
- Five companies increased their giving by more than 50%, led by Starbucks, whose donations grew by 197%.
- Donations of products are growing at a faster rate than cash. In 2011, overall corporate giving rose by nearly 15% when both cash and products are counted. Pfizer donated the most cash and products ($3.1 billion), followed by Oracle ($2.3 billion).
- Alcoa gave the biggest share of its profits in cash to charity (6.2%), followed by Merck & Co. (4.2%). However, the median donation was 1%.
- Four companies in the survey lost money in 2010 but still gave to charity last year: Bank of America, Caesars Entertainment, First Data Corp. and Office Depot.


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Salvy still resting, scheduled for more tests
KANSAS CITY -- Royals catcher Salvador Perez, on the seven-day disabled list with a low-grade concussion, spent most of Monday resting at home, but was to undergo tests later at Kauffman Stadium.
"They'll check his impact tests and see if he's making progress. Once the headache's gone and he's not symptomatic anymore, then they'll start allowing him to do some light exercises," manager Ned Yost said.
Perez was struck in the mask in Saturday night's 12-inning, 4-3 win over the Mets in at Citi Field, latest in a series of blows he's taken in the chin and jaw recently.
"It's just a freak deal," Yost said. "That mask actually has more padding than any other mask you can get. It makes it more shock-absorbent. He just got hit in the wrong place."
Perez sustained a cut chin on July 24 against the Orioles.
"Nick [Kenney, head trainer] said it hit so hard it split the skin. It wasn't the mask," Yost said. "It's like a boxer getting punched in the jaw and that's where he got it, right in the jaw."
Two days later, Perez took another shot at Chicago.
"I'm hoping it's going to be seven days, but Corey Koskie played for me in Milwaukee and dove for a ball, it didn't look like much and it ended his career," Yost said. "So, I've learned to treat these things very, very carefully."
Right fielder David Lough, who left Sunday's game at New York with a tight right quadriceps, was out of Monday night's lineup against the Twins and will probably sit on Tuesday night as well.
"He's not playing today and there's a lefty [Justin Albers] going tomorrow so I'm probably not going to play him because I've got [Justin] Maxwell now," Yost said.
Second baseman Chris Getz, on the 15-day disabled list with a left knee sprain, was scheduled to join Triple-A Omaha at Salt Lake City and play Monday and Tuesday. He's eligible to come off the DL next Monday.


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Replacing costly cable service with Internet TV seems like an easy way to reduce the family budget. But as the choices for devices and content grow, so does confusion as to how to go about it. Before you cut the cord, put a basic plan in place to ensure you'll get the entertainment you want.
Here's what you'll need to make a virtually painless transition from cable to Internet TV.
What do I need for an Internet connection?
You must have a high-speed Internet connection to stream movies and TV. If your connection is slow, you'll notice that shows take a long time to load. If you're satisfied with the speed with which a video loads on your computer, you should have an equally satisfactory experience on your Internet-connected TV.
You'll also want to make sure that your home router is well-placed to send signals to your TV. A central location is usually best, away from exterior walls.
What equipment do I need?
Unless you already have a so-called smart TV with the ability to pick up Internet signals from your router, you'll need to add a device that acts as a TV receiver for Internet programming. Most Blu-ray players and gaming consoles have this capability. You can buy a streaming media player, such as a Roku, for around $50 or Apple TV for $100. Another option is the new Boxee TV for $100, which includes a built-in TV tuner to receive live TV (including in HD) over an antenna. (Boxee also has DVR capabilities available for $15 a month.)
Even with a Roku or Apple TV, you can still receive major-network live TV channels, including those that broadcast in HD, if you have an HDTV and add an antenna such as the $40 Mohu Leaf. The Leaf looks like a laminated piece of standard paper, but it is just as effective as larger and far more obtrusive antennas.
[READ MORE: Amplified HDTV Antenna Makes Cord Cutting Easier ]
What can I watch?
All media streaming devices, including smart TVs, come with apps or channels that provide access to movies, TV shows, sports programming and music. Netflix and Hulu Plus offer unlimited streaming for around $8 a month each. Amazon recently jumped into the game by offering its Prime subscription service for $8 a month, which includes unlimited streaming, free two-day shipping and other perks. All three of these services are available on most Internet-connected devices.
You'll also see on-demand entertainment apps on your device, such as Vudu and Amazon On Demand. They are the equivalent of renting a video; you'll pay a few bucks to stream a movie or TV episode. If you own an Apple TV , you'll have Netflix as well as access to on-demand content through iTunes.
It can be challenging to find a specific show or movie without searching each app. Roku has solved the problem by updating its system with a universal search feature .
What can't I watch?
If you cut the cord, you may have to adjust to living without Showtime and HBO. The latter has excluded online services from airing its shows, with a few exceptions. For instance, iTunes offers the first season of the series " Game of Thrones ," but for most HBO shows, you'll have to wait until your favorites are available on DVD. Only HBO cable subscribers can use the app HBO Go on Internet-connected devices.
Sports fans have also faced challenges without cable or satellite TV — there's no ESPN on the Internet. However, NFL games and the World Series are broadcast over the air, so an antenna will provide coverage. Further, Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League and the National Basketball Association offer subscriptions that are available via apps on most devices, but there are restrictions. For instance, MLB shows only away games to viewers. The NFL does not have an app for games. Before you pay up to $190 for a season pass, read the fine print — you may be better off bringing the beer and chips to a friend's place with cable at game time.


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Estranged: Act I, a free mod for Half-Life 2, recently made its way to Steam. I turned out the lights and plugged in my headphones to try and answer the question: Could this tense atmospheric mod spook me?
Horror films rarely scare me. Although I can get engrossed in a film, they've always been too passive an experience to ever leave me spooked. Scary games however, especially those in the first person, always tend to get to me.
The first scare came from the unexpected rumbling of an Xbox 360 controller left plugged in atop of my PC...scary stuff. But soon the tense atmosphere really started to ramp up and, well, you can see how I got on above.
Estranged: Act I is available now on Steam. It's pretty great and well worth your time—I mean c'mon now, it's free.
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"Egyptian gas supply resumes to Jordan but not to Israel" The Israelis keep telling us, and themselves, that the problems are 'technical'.
"Libya and the World Left" (via the Angry Arab). Spot on. Frankly, Gaddafi could be the kindest, nicest, most progressive dictator in the world, but he is still a dictator - I think recent events have put paid to any thoughts to the contrary - and the Arab people want to be free of dictators.
My favorite story of the week: "'Gaddafi funded Sarkozy's election bid'" Sarko is an ingrate with lousy intelligence (betting on the wrong horse).
Note how they picked a secret service agent so huge that he completely shields Hillary. Also note how far away the Egyptians are (she must be waiving to another U. S. government official, or at least the cameraman).
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Hi all, struggling with a problem in a game I'm working on.
I need to find the most efficient way to update individual pixels on the screen.
Assume on any given frame I'll be updating about 20% of the pixels and the rest of the screen stays the same.
Here's what I've tried:
1) getting a pixel buffer from the screen's gc. When I try to update it I get an access violation.
2) Creating a pixel buffer the size of the screen, updating it, creating an image from it and rendering it to the screen. This works but is extremely slow.
One of the problems I've had is I can see how to make an image from a pixel buffer but I can't figure out how to go the other way around. Is there a member function on an Image to get the pixel_buffer? If so, I can't seem to find it. I can create an Image from a pixel_buffer but how about the other way around?
Also, I can't figure out how to update an image with a new pixel_buffer, just create one. So I have to create a whole new image each time which seems inefficient as hell.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Lady Monarch Women's Rowing Sweeps Colgate
By ODU Athletics
April 16, 2011
LEWISBURG, Pa. -- The Old Dominion women's rowing team also took on Colgate on Saturday on the Susquehanna River with all three boats - Varsity Eight, Second Varsity Eight, & Varsity Four - winning their races.
ODU's Varsity Eight, which finished third at last week's Knecht Cup, won its race by a 23.73 second margin over the Raiders boat. The Lady Monarchs rowed to a time of 7:34.26 in the win.
The Second Varsity Eight, which finished second to Bucknell on the Susquehanna, topped Colgate by nearly a 30-second margin coming in with a time of 8:16.72.
The Varsity Four also continued its impressive spring with the largest margin of victory in the three races against Colgate Rowing to a time of 8:22.08, the Lady Monarchs' Varsity Four boat crossed the finish line 30.29 seconds ahead of the Raiders.
The Lady Monarch women's rowing team returns to action on Saturday, April 23rd at the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Championships in Fairfax, Va.
Old Dominion vs. Colgate Results
Varsity Eight:
1. Old Dominion 7:34.26
2. Colgate 7:57.99
Second Varsity Eight:
1. Old Dominion 8:16.72
2. Colgate 8:45.16
Varsity Four:
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We work where Uber's digital technology meets the real world.
Why Operations & Launch at Uber?
Make a Big Impact
Operations initiatives have a direct impact on millions of rides happening on the platform every single week.
Learn by Doing
From Day 1, Operations team members are hands-on, collaborating with teams across the company to drive success.
Shape the Future
In an Operations role, you will put into practice the work we do to move the world a few steps forward.
Meet the team
Emma Vaz
Chief Business Officer, EMEA
"As a woman in the tech industry who has been part of multiple organisations and teams, I have benefited from companies and teams that have valued diversity and inclusion, and seen the difference within companies and teams that don't.
I have grown in my roles by focusing on the impact we are trying to create in the world and my role within that, even when I had doubts; feeling the fear and overcoming it."
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Operations, JUMP Bikes
"Being on the JUMP team reminds me of being on the Uber team four years ago. Micromobility is an exciting and new industry, but with the accelerated growth comes changing priorities, evolving regulations, and new problems every day. This has helped me learn to be comfortable in uncertainty, as truly no two days at JUMP are the same."
Jack Dwyer
Manager, Head of Regulatory Strategy & Operations
"I'm proud that our team's work directly affects the day-to-day experiences of customers in our cities. I'm inspired when I hear the stories of drivers who have started new lives in America and are using Uber to make extra money; riders who say that they can't imagine how they'd get around their city affordably without us; and cities that are partnering with us to help drive ridership of the First Mile / Last Mile public transit program."
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In Central Operations, we develop and operationalize strategies that help us achieve our business goals. We work at scale across regions on key challenges and initiatives to deliver value and great experiences to our riders and driver-partners.
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Vt. woman sees Rose Parade from the inside, looking out
Rides float encouraging more organ donation
Amid the pomp and pageantry of the 124th annual Tournament of Roses parade, Kelly Luchini of South Burlington struggled to find the words.
She enjoyed a rare vantage point, riding aboard one of the floats looking back at the huge crowds estimated at 800,000 lining the five mile route through Pasadena.
"It was hard to not to get teary-eyed when I saw them cry and say 'Thank you,'" she said afterward.
Luchini was among thirty individuals chosen to ride the Donate Life float, to raise awareness of the critical need for more U.S. organ donors. She represented her late brother, Michael, who was fatally injured when the family home burned to the ground in South Burlington in 2009.
The family decided to donate all of Michael's usable organs -- Michael had not formally made his wishes known -- and it turned out his kidney saved a desperately ill mother of five.
"We know she is very healthy now. Living life," Luchini said last month.
She's sure Michael would be proud of his family's decision, while kidding his little sister about her part in a telecast seen by millions of people around the world.
The Center for Donation and Transplant, which coordinates organ donations for most of Vermont and upstate New York, says Vermont lags far behind other states in the percentage of residents who have registered to be organ donors. The state ranks 49th out of 50, said CDT spokeswoman Lauren Quinn.
All the while, 115 thousand Americans await a transplant. Seventeen die each day for lack of one.
"So there's a lot of work to do, and opportunity for improvement," Quinn said. "It's a matter of education."
Beyond checking the box on the back of their driver's license, Quinn urges residents to record their wishes on the center's online registry -- www.donatelifevt.org
Kelly and her Mom arrived at the parade site early on New Year's morning, to help decorate the Donate Life float with boxes filled with stunning flowers, as is the custom at the Rose parade.
After any number of marching bands, and stunning floral displays from corporate sponsors ranging from Honda to Disney, the Donate Life float summoned a different reaction from the crowd, she said. "They understood the meaning of the float we represented and it was so emotionally moving," calling is "an experience hard to put into words."


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Palazzo di Mare is on five acres of pristine oceanfront with more than 200 feet of private beach in Vero Beach. Resort meets luxury in this 2001 masterpiece inspired by The Great Gatsby. The six-bedroom, eight-bath estate is detailed by dramatic architecture, 32-foot ceilings, polished limestone, fireplaces and custom touches.
With 28,000 square feet of space, it easily accommodates an expansive family with its gourmet-style kitchen, sound-proofed movie theatre, custom wood-beamed library, a kingly game room and a private-top solarium and sky deck accessed from one of two elevators.
Residents can enjoy a Venetian-inspired pool with 14kt gold inlays and a relaxing cabana to soak up the uninterrupted views of the Atlantic Ocean and beach.
Crafted with rare finishes from artisans around the world, the property is a timeless showpiece among the most prestigious and affluent while enjoying the splendor of private resort living in an enclave of country clubs, golfing, shopping and fine dining.
For more information, contact Coldwell Banker Previews International Associates' William "PD" Pierce at 954-648-3131.
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