You must make reservations at least 5 minutes in advance of the time at Artful Gourmet Bistro.
Enjoy the convenience of our large on-site parking area.
Gather, Entertain, Celebrate! The private dining room at Artful Gourmet Bistro is the perfect spot for your event- from business meetings to milestone celebrations. With seating for up to 45 guests, we can tailor a party perfect for every occasion & budget. Available for lunch or dinner.
Artful Gourmet Bistro is a casual eating spot serving imaginative and excellent cuisine.
I was visiting from Boston, Ma to celebrate my 45th birthday and everything was amazing. The food was delicious and the serves was spectacular.. I would recommend Artful Gourmet Bistro to all of my family and friends.
The food was great and the server was very friendly. She even gave us separate checks and that means a lot.
Food was great. Service was even better. Wish I could remember our server's name, she was wonderful. We asked for a quiet table and we got it. Such a treat to dine out on a Saturday night and actually enjoy conversation. Our dinner portions were enormous.
I had asked for a quiet table if possible because we had a 97 yr old dining with us. They accommodated us perfectly. We had a fabulous waitress who was very attentive and efficient. The food was delicious and the evening was great!
We had a great experience eating at this restaurant. The food is good and the quantity for the quality is good. Our server was Liz and she is exceptional. She is very attentive and friendly. We ask for her as our waitress when we visit as she remembered us when we visited another time and she went out of her way to wait on us even when we're seated in a different section.
Had a special dinner with a cousin from out of town. A nice selection of specials. Food is consistently good. Everyone enjoyed their selection. Patient waitress as we were catching up with each other. Very nice evening!
Artful gourmet is always great. We love Liz the best server!!!
I enjoyed my second time at Artful Gourmet Bistro and enjoyed it very, very much! The food is delicious and their waitstaff are amazing. Friends that we met there thanked me for choosing this restaurant and liked it a lot! I'm looking forward to going again sometime soon.
We had a great evening! Food was delicious and service was excellent!
We love the Artful Gourmet. The service is always wonderful and they are so accommodating with respect to dietary needs. The food is always excellent whether you get a full meal or a sandwich.
We had a server named Liz, she was very attentive, polite & bubbly. Honestly, she contributed greatly to my mother's first dining experience at Artful. The food is always excellent and I never have any complaints eating in but this was my best visit!
I would never return to this restaurant. The food was bland and the presentation was horrible on top of not being fairly priced. I read these comments thinking I would have a wonderful experience trying a new restaurant but was mistaken.
Great. Two visits within two weeks. Both great.
Excellent service, food was great, cute establishment!
Loved dining at Artful Gourmet Bistro the other night. Great menu and priced reasonably. Great service/ waitstaff. They were fast and courteous and very professional. Even the owner came out to say hello to her guest at their tables! Great ambiance! We plan on dining there again soon and looking forward to trying other things on their menu! Delicious!
Sunday night and few people were there, so we shouldn't have had the problems we did. We asked for extra rolls and they didn't come out until well after getting our meals as they were "baking." My shrimp pasta dish was delicious, but my son's "medium" burger was well-done, and my brother's sandwich was on toast that was no longer warm. Clearly the kitchen was busy doing other things than cooking for a crowd.
Great experience. Food and service were top notch.
The Shrimp Gorgonzola appetizer was my meal and it was outstanding!!
Wonderful waitress. Totally appreciated the special birthday celebration provided. Amazing.
Seated right away. Fabukous waitstaff. Food was really wonderful! Looking forward to returning soon.
Love it always! Best food, great servers and staff. Menu is a wonderful variety and a lot to choose from. Delicious and plentiful food. Warm atmosphere! Highly recommend!
I have heard good experiences from friends and now I have been there three times in the past two months and brought friends with me. They were also impressed!
Artful Gourmet was nothing short of amazing. I reserved for a party of 16 and they made everything just perfect. I will definitely refer this restaurant to others.
My friends and I had a delightful time at Artful Gourmet Bistro! It was our first time dining there and we were not disappointed at all. Our waiter was excellent. In fact, upon my arrival, I was greeted by a wonderful young man. Everyone there was on point.
Now let me write about my entree. I ordered the lamb dish. I told the waiter I wanted it to be medium well. He replied, "with just a little pink", and I said, "Yes". When he brought it out, I couldn't wait to delve into my dinner. My lamb chops were cooked or grilled to perfection! Everything was delectable. My friends loved their dinners as well.
Artful Gourmet Bistro has not seen the last of me. I will recommend this restaurant to all of my friends. Thank you for such an amazing experience!!
As always, the food is prepared perfectly and the waitstaff is extremely knowledgeable, helpful, and friendly.
We really appreciated this special touch - the three of us decided to order two of our favorite sandwiches to share between us. Without our asking her to, our waitress had each sandwich cut into thirds, making sharing them so easy and convenient.
Each meal ordered from our large party was raved about. Excellent wait staff and very accommodating. I would definitely recommend Artful Gourmet for a wonder dining experience night out.
Went on a Saturday and was pleased to have table service. Great food.
Can't shake Artful Gourmet, our neighborhood gem. Great drinks and wine! Inventive fresh fish. Extra wide range of flavors from Caribbean to Hispanic to Italian, Americana and fusions. Delicious deserts for others... keeping my waist trim! Don't miss out! Also, don't forget there super catering with many off menu options!
Always consistently good food and great service! great location for easy parking , and lovely drinks!
This restaurant is a gem. Great variety and delicious food. The staff is friendly and attentive. Their specials are always wonderful. Nice size portions and the menu items are wonderful. Consistent and delicious is the Artful Gourmet! Kudos! Keep up the good work!
Our first visit. Excellent experience. Terrific service by Derrick, fantastic food. Very friendly hostess and all in all a great place.


Work on different aspects of the transition to the Canvas LMS including writing the Canvas Weekly Tips for faculty.
Past projects have included developing online and hybrid course materials, developing training for multiple educational technologies and researching new technologies.
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Week in Review|The Atheist Urging Italy to Get Religion
Week in Review | The World
The Atheist Urging Italy to Get Religion
By RACHEL DONADIO APRIL 6, 2008
INCOMING Attacked by tomato-tossing hecklers in Bologna, Giuliano Ferrara returned the fire. Credit Giorgio Benvenuti/ANSA — European Pressphoto Agency
ROME — In the Italian national elections next weekend, the charismatic billionaire and center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi may rise once again from the ashes, this time to defeat Walter Veltroni, a rock 'n' roll-loving baby boomer who just stepped down as mayor of Rome. It would be Mr. Berlusconi's third stint as prime minister — or Mr. Veltroni's first.
But those two aren't the most gripping personalities. They're the usual suspects in a political landscape nearly incomprehensible to outsiders, where the same politicians fade in and out, promising reform and delivering stasis if not decline.
One fringe candidate is different.
He is Giuliano Ferrara, a Communist turned conservative who is Italy's most operatic and most mercurial intellectual provocateur. A newspaper editor and former government minister, Mr. Ferrara is best known here as a television talk-show host. He combines the political theatrics of an Abbie Hoffman with the rhetorical flair of a William F. Buckley.
Italy's political life has always been absurd, but Mr. Ferrara's recent theatrics touch on something deeper. He is a cultural barometer, highly attuned to the desperation of the national mood. More than the real-politiking of the mainstream candidates, Mr. Ferrara, with his insistence on ideas, taps into Italian anxieties about the future of Europe, the loosening of national identities, the rise of immigration, the decline of Christian belief.
In his latest incarnation, Mr. Ferrara is running for Parliament on a small slate devoted to a single issue: "pro-life," which he defines loosely. An avowed atheist and nonbeliever, he has called for a "moratorium," but not a ban, on abortion, to call attention to the value of life.
"I'd like to win, it would be extraordinary," he said in a recent interview here in Rome. "But it's not the central thing. I'm a man in search of ideas, not votes. That's only a means."
Mr. Ferrara's campaign is almost certain to fail in the polls, but his rallies have elicited an outpouring of support — and some protests. In Bologna last week, young protesters pelted him with tomatoes as the riot police held back crowds. Still, Mr. Ferrara has helped put social issues on the table — much to the annoyance of the front-runners, who fear they'll polarize the electorate. Mr. Berlusconi, for one, has declined to include Mr. Ferrara's list in his center-right coalition.
Mr. Ferrara, a longtime player in Italy's political tragicomedy, was most recently the host of a popular prime-time talk show called "8 ½." He gave up the show to campaign, but remains editor in chief of Il Foglio, the gadfly newspaper he founded in 1996 with seed money from Mr. Berlusconi.
The paper takes an eclectic line rare in Italy, at once neo-con, theo-con and civil libertarian; it is pro-America, pro-Israel, pro-Iraq war, intent on limiting the power of prosecutors and friendly to the Vatican. But it has a penchant to shock; it once ran a full-page homoerotic photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Mr. Ferrara, 56, discussed his evolution and his campaign at his Rome apartment. It was Good Friday, and raining; out the window, the Tiber flowed jade green. A hefty man with a bushy red beard and bright blue eyes, Mr. Ferrara looks like he could be the fourth tenor. Normally effusive, he was ill with a fever and visibly tired. Settled in a leather easy chair, he lit the first of many cigarettes. "Running for office doesn't interest me in the slightest," he said. "It's a big stress." Ideas are another matter.
Born into a family of upper-middle-class Communists, Mr. Ferrara spent part of his childhood in Moscow, where his father was a correspondent for the Communist daily L'Unità. In his 20s, he was the chief organizer for the Italian Communist Party at the Fiat headquarters in Turin, when labor relations were tense and the Red Brigades were unsettling the country. But Mr. Ferrara soured on the Communist hard-liners, and in 1982 left the party entirely, becoming its most vocal apostate. He grew enamored of the political philosopher Leo Strauss, who wrote of the tensions between Athens and Jerusalem, reason and faith.
Then came socialism. In the mid-80s, Mr. Ferrara became an adviser to the Socialist leader Bettino Craxi, who he believed could bring about serious Third Way reform. But in the early 90s, Mr. Craxi was ousted in a huge bribery scandal. The collapse of the old regime paved the way for Mr. Berlusconi, Italy's richest man, to enter politics. Mr. Ferrara became a trusted adviser to Mr. Berlusconi's nascent Forza Italia Party and, in 1994, the chief spokesman and a minister in Mr. Berlusconi's short-lived first government.
OUTGOING Giuliano Ferrara greeted Pope Benedict XVI but denies he has ties to the Church. Credit Plinio Lepri/Associated Press
In 2003, Mr. Ferrara caused a stir by writing in Il Foglio that in the mid-1980s he had been a paid C.I.A. informer whose brief was to explain Italian politics to the agency. (A spokesman for the C.I.A. said the agency "does not, as a rule, respond publicly to these kinds of allegations.")
Such a trajectory could be possible only in Italy, where the lines between politics and journalism, ideas and showmanship, appearance and reality, are ever blurred. To his supporters, Mr. Ferrara has admirably undergone transformations his country has been unable to achieve; they applaud him for trying to introduce ideas into a Machiavellian realm of pure politics. To his critics, he is an opportunist, a consigliere ever in search of a new prince, a misogynist meddler trying to draw Catholic votes away from the left.
"It looks like flip-flopping, it looks like an inclination to have an adventure," Mr. Ferrara said of his trajectory. "And instead it's integrity. I'm a terribly boring person. My ideas are substantially the same from my education as a young Communist to my old age as a Ratzingerian," he said, referring to Pope Benedict XVI, the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. The substance, he said, is the same: "I hate hypocrisy, I hate mendacity." He cited Churchill: "I'd prefer to be right than consistent."
In many ways, though, Mr. Ferrara's pro-life campaign seems baffling. With all the problems Italy is facing — a stagnant economy, rising cost of living, organized crime — abortion and embryonic research would seem the last of its worries. Then again, a quick look at the major candidates can explain the impulse for radical theatrical gestures, if not perhaps for Mr. Ferrara's ideas themselves.
Mr. Veltroni, a mild-mannered former Communist, has adopted Barack Obama's "Yes We Can" slogan for his campaign. But he probably can't. He lacks the Obama charisma and momentum, and the support to push through needed economic reforms.
Not that Mr. Berlusconi is keen on reform. He's been busy organizing investors — including his own children — to buy a major stake in Alitalia, Italy's bankrupt flagship carrier, which until last week was on the block to Air France-KLM. The idea of a potential future prime minister buying the national airline, then appointing the transportation minister and finance minister, is "absurd," Mr. Ferrara said. If Mr. Berlusconi wins, he said, Palazzo Chigi, the prime minister's residence, "will be more like Casa Rosada" — the seat of the Perons in Argentina — "than the White House."
Non-Italians are often baffled that Mr. Berlusconi remains in office even after having been found guilty, and then acquitted, in multiple corruption trials. But cynicism runs through the culture here like veins in marble; it is widely assumed that elected officials are on the take and the justice system subject to political manipulation.
Italians are also less inclined to moralize. (If an Italian politician had been caught with a prostitute, a leading magazine wrote recently apropos of Eliot Spitzer, there would have been bipartisan calls for a new law against wiretapping, rather than insistence he step down.) But most of all, the fragmented Italian left hasn't produced a coalition strong enough to displace Mr. Berlusconi, the most vivid manifestation of a corrupt political culture in which everyone is implicated.
In light of this, Mr. Ferrara's campaign seems a cry for life in a country steeped in death and decline. Still, the campaign can be surreal. When a health inspection found that a late-term abortion had been performed in a hospital on a fetus with Klinefelter's Syndrome, whose symptoms include small testicles and large breasts, Mr. Ferrara disagreed with the hospital that such an abnormality was grounds to abort. He said he, too, might have the syndrome — and anyone who doubted him could take a look. But Mr. Ferrara is an unlikely pro-life crusader; he has acknowledged that in his early 20s, three of his partners had abortions.
Indeed, no one seems to understand exactly what Mr. Ferrara is up to. He began his strange crusade just when "8 ½" had given him national intellectual credibility, even from the left. The campaign baffles even close friends, like the columnist and former leftist radical Adriano Sofri, who wrote a book, "Against Giuliano," taking him to task.
One obvious question is whether Mr. Ferrara is inching his way toward the Church as if it were the last best hope for a politics of ideas. He denies this. "I'm not asking for their support, not in any way," he said. "Of course it's also true that I don't have it." Indeed, three leading Catholic publications have criticized Mr. Ferrara's campaign, saying matters of faith should remain private. But on a recent visit to a church in Mr. Ferrara's neighborhood in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI shook his hand. Mr. Ferrara said in the interview that he had a "relationship" with the Church, but no political ties.
Many Italians have noted a rise in religious conservatism since the election of Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. That year, the Berlusconi government passed a law to restrict artificial insemination, and Catholic newspapers successfully urged Italians to reject a referendum to re-liberalize it. The English writer and Italy expert Tim Parks, in The New Statesman in 2006, observed that the "crucial change" in Italian life since 2001 has been "the collapse of every grand political idea," while politicians of all stripes "have been eagerly declaring their Christian credentials."
For his part, Mr. Ferrara says he remains an atheist. "I'm not a converted Catholic," he said. "I'm still a nonbeliever, even though my idea of reason is the idea of a reason which is open to mystery." Whatever his motivations, his new crusade says as much about the power vacuum in Italy as the power. After all, as the critic Nicola Chiaromonte observed in the late 1940s, "In Italy, the Church offers not heaven so much as protection from the sheer impact of history."
Correction: April 13, 2008
An article last Sunday about the maverick Italian political figure Giuliano Ferrara misstated the legal status of a late-term abortion that Mr. Ferrara denounced. While an initial health inspection indeed reported that the abortion was illegal, a subsequent inquiry by the hospital involved found the abortion to be legal under Italian law.
A version of this article appears in print on , on Page WK1 of the New York edition with the headline: The Atheist Urging Italy to Get Religion. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
With Flawed System Unchanged, Italy Sets Elections for April FEB. 7, 2008
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Berlusconi's Long Shadow Casts a Chill Over Italian Politics FEB. 2, 2008
In a Funk, Italy Sings an Aria of Disappointment DEC. 13, 2007

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Clipse Eyeing Kanye for Next LP
The Clipse's Re-Up Gang LP is done. August 5 is the release date. Nobody's sitting on their hands, though. Pusha T says he and brother Malice are working with a gang of producers on their third duo LP. Kanye West is a name the brothers have their eyes on. Of course, Pharrell Williams has already been in the lab with the group. "We're recording the Clipse album right now," Pusha told us last week in New York on the set of N¤E¤R¤D's "Everybody Nose" Remix video. Kanye and Lupe Fiasco were also present. "[We're] working on 'Till The Casket Drops, the third album. That drops this winter.
"For everybody who don't know, we're putting out The Clipse Presents: The Re-Up Gang through Koch [Records]. That's the Re-Up Gang album, of course," Pusha added. "You'll love it, enjoy it. First single off there is 'Fast Life.' 'Fast Life' is just a celebration of the high life. A congratulations to all those who are still making it and living life to the fullest in this hard world that we're living in." His older brother, the lyrical menace Malice, simply described the record as "summertime fun with Scott Storch." Scotty produced the song.
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Do you think this guy & his son will ever pop up again???
and dies of a staph infection!
If they are with Andrea, better chance he dies of syphillis.
Interesting. I thought that the Gov was mad at Merle because he told him that he had killed Michone, and hadn't. I don't think Merle is in on this plan if that's what it is.
It was a good, solid episode. Is it February yet?
As far as Merle joining Rick and the group, I don't really see that happening. Keep in mind that he tortured Glenn and threw a zombie in the room with him for a cage match. He was also involved with Maggie's detention. But, who knows..it's TV.
Man, they killed off 2-dawg too.
True, Merle certainly hasn't made any friends in the Rick group up to this point. Even before Woodbury, Merle didn't exactly make nice with the group way back in Atlanta. They did have to handcuff him to the roof in the end.
However, he is still Daryl's brother and it is TV after all.
I believe in the comic they do pop up again. From what I've read about the comics, the TV show doesn't follow them quite exactly. However, it does use some of the major plot points like the prison, the farm, Woodbury, the Governor, etc, etc, etc. So, I would expect them to pop up again at some point.
And first mention of comic spoilers.
True, in the comic there is no Darryl or Merle....and Tyreese is with the group when they discover the prison. Andrea is a badass and there is no baby.
LOL Hilarious Powers... where do you find these?
OMG Michael... you just ensured that I do nothing productive for the next 30 minutes while I look at these... LoL I love the first one about "the progression of Rick"
My 16 year old son pointed out this the other night. He said being a black guy is the kiss of death in that group. Good luck Tyreese!
They are both dead aren't they? or am I mistaken?
The show from what I've read of the comics really only follows the comics loosely.
Even though I've read through the Walking Dead comic wiki I know I still find the show exciting and there's no guarantee that characters I read about in the comic will be in the show so I don't know if I would call anything a spoiler necessarily if it came from the comic. I know I told my wife "the boat sinks at the end" before she went and saw Titanic but she really enjoyed the movie anyway.
I really hope so and didn't like when The Sopranos dropped major plot points.
Season one and a chunk of season two we're great. Something is missing this season. Losing Lori was the most powerful moment of the season thus far and like others have said good riddance.
Like a freaking soap opera all these people could avoid a lot of pain by just talking to one another more.
It will be a disappointment if Andrea talks the situation down.
haha, but overall she is a huge turnoff for me. But not near the weiner-wilter Lori was.
Feb 10 is right around the corner!


A. R. McAllister (left) and John Philip Sousa at Joliet Union Station, 1928.
Archie Raymond McAllister was born July 28. 1883 in humble surroundings on the family farm in Jackson Township eight miles from Elwood. Illinois. Archie. born to a "Scotch Dad and a Yankee Mother" (Smith. 1930). was the eldest of four children. The McAllister family did not often travel by horseback or by walking to EIwood or nearby Jo1iet due to time limitations caused by farming responsibilities.
From his early childhood Archie became very fond of music. He was very inquisitive as to how musical instruments produced their sounds. He would spend much of his time creating or copying musical instruments with which to play and experiment. When farm responsibilities would release him from his assigned chores. Archie would utilize this time by "making corn-stalk fiddles and playing on elder flutes" (Smith, 1930.p. 7).
Learning to play the cornet was one of young McAllister's personal ambitions. At the age of 12, he asked his father for a cornet (IT Band, 1962). The McAllister farm's financial situation did not allow him the outright purchase of a cornet. Instead. a piglet was given to Archie by his father. Archie. then only fourteen. raised the piglet on a bottle to enter it in the upcoming Will County Fair. McAllister won first prize and used his winnings and money from selling the pig to purchase a cornet from 1. W. Pepper. Thus, his musical career began.
Archie Raymond McAllister was a music education phenomenon. Raised on a small family farm without formal music instruction, McAllister developed the Joliet Township High School Band from its inception into a nationally acclaimed champion high school band. McAllister's stringent high musical and disciplinary standards positively influenced thousands of his former students and peers alike. His impact also facilitated and promoted the development of band programs and professional band leadership associations throughout the nation.
The Joliet Township High School Band, first taught in a woodworking shop with nail kegs for chairs, became the epitome of band organization and discipline under McAllister's instruction. The Joliet Band earned numerous state and national titles. The group traveled extensively and impressed audiences from New York to California. Many instrumental organizations, including the United States military bands, tried to emulate the Joliet instrumental program.
On September 29, 1944, the man who earned the title "father of the school band movement in America" (JT Band, 19'62), Archie Raymond McAllister, passed away in the afternoon hours at St. Joseph's hospital. His wife, Clara; his daughter, Mrs. Henning Hanson; and two of his sons, Forres and Leslie were at his bedside when death came. His passIng shocked the band world.


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Större präriehöna (Tympanuchus cupido) är en hotad nordamerikansk hönsfågel i familjen fasanfåglar.

Utseende och läten
Större präriehöna är en knubbig, brunbandad hönsfågel med en kroppslängd på 43 cm. Gula hudflikar formar ögonbryn. Dessa blåses upp under spelet, då hanen även reser de förlängda halsfjädrarna och exponerar uppblåsta gula strupsäckar. Mindre präriehöna är lik men är som namnet avslöjar mindre, men också ljusare och har istället purpurröda strupsäckar. Spellätet skiljer sig också, ett ljust bubblande ljud snarare än större präriehönans hoande.

Utbredning och systematik
Större präriehöna delas in i tre underarter, varav en utdöd, med följande utbredning:
 Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus – förekommer i södra och centrala Kanada, nordöstra Oklahoma och nord-centrala Tennessee
 Tympanuchus cupido cupido – förekom tidigare i nordöstra USA, utrotades ca 1932
 Tympanuchus cupido attwateri – förekommer i kustnära sydöstra Texas

De tre arterna präriehöns i Tympanuchus står mycket nära varandra genetiskt. Det tyder på att de antingen utvecklades i isolering under pleistocen och att sedermera hybridisering fördunklar de genetiska skillnaderna, eller att den ursprungliga arten utvecklades mycket senare. Större präriehöna hybridiserar rätt utbrett med spetsstjärtad präriehöna där utbredningsområdena möts. På Manitoulin Island i Ontario kan hela fem till 25% av populationen utgöra hybrider.

Nominatformen cupido har i genetiska studier visat sig vara mest avvikande av alla taxon i Tympanuchus. Dessa resultat har dock ännu inte lett till några taxonomiska förändringar.

Status
Större präriehöna har minskat i antal under lång tid och försvunnit från områden där den tidigare varit vanlig. Fram till 2020 kategoriserade Internationella naturvårdsunionen IUCN arten som sårbar, men har därefter nedgraderat arten till den lägre hotnivån nära hotad, vilket innebär att den inte längre anses vara utrotningshotad. Världspopulationen uppskattas till 360.000 vuxna individer.

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Fåglar i nearktiska regionen

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is the eighth single by Japanese recording artist Aya Ueto. It was released on June 16, 2004 as the first single from Ueto's third studio album Re..

Overview

"Kaze/Okuru Kotoba" is a double A-side single released as the first of two back-to-back singles. The single was issued in CD+DVD format only. The DVD features the music videos for both A-sides. Like "Ai no Tame ni." before it, "Kaze" was composed by Tetsurō Oda, however this time the lyrics were written by Yoshiko Miura and the track arranged by Nobuyuki Shimizu. The song served as ending theme for the 12th season (80 episodes) of the long-running educational anime series Nintama Rantarō, which aired from April 5 to July 23, 2004. The chorus of the song features the vocals of the unit Kotsubu-gumi, which consists of the three youngest members of the idol group Bishōjo Club 31. Barks described the sound of "Kaze" as "Shōwa reggae," while CDJournal called it a "fun Okinawan-chic pop song" and complimented Ueto's "steady" vocal delivery.

The second A-side is a cover of the Tetsuya Takeda-led folk group Kaientai's 1979 hit "Okuru Kotoba." The cover, which was initially recorded for Ueto's second studio album Message, was released as an A-side after being chosen as the theme song for the video game adaption of the TBS drama 3-nen B-gumi Kinpachi-sensei. The single version is a newly arranged acoustic rendition of the song. At a press conference for the video game, Ueto and Takeda, who starred together in the sixth season of the series, performed a duet of the song.

Chart performance
"Kaze/Okuru Kotoba" debuted on the Oricon Daily Singles chart at number 6 and climbed to number 5 the following day. It peaked at number 8 on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart, with 21,927 copies sold in its first week. The single charted for ten weeks and has sold a total of 44,240 copies.

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2004 singles
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Israel's government collapses, not with a bang but a whimper, triggering fourth election in 2 years
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his erstwhile coalition partner, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, sought to blame one another for the collapse of their seven-month-old government. "Blue and White withdrew from the agreements [to modify the original coalition agreement] and dragged us to unnecessary elections during the corona crisis," said Netanyahu, who on Saturday evening became the first Israeli to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. "We do not want an election and we voted against it … but we are not afraid of elections — because we will win!"
Gantz, referencing the corruption charges facing Netanyahu, said: "I regret that the Prime Minister is preoccupied with his trial and not the public interest, and is prepared to drag the entire country into a period of uncertainty, instead of ensuring economic stability and a rehabilitation of the economy."
After three inconclusive elections, and with the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic underway, Gantz agreed to join Netanyahu in April, in what was described as an "emergency" coalition government – even though he'd campaigned on a platform that ruled out sitting with the Prime Minister while he faced corruption charges.
Under the deal, the prime ministership would have been rotated between the two party leaders: Netanyahu would serve first, and then give way to Gantz after 18 months. The only loophole in the complicated deal was if lawmakers failed to agree to a budget before Tuesday's midnight deadline — a failure that has now come to pass.
The fate of the government had appeared sealed after the Knesset failed in the early hours of Tuesday to pass a bill at first reading that would have extended the deadline for reaching a budget agreement.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid — who campaigned with Gantz at the last election, but withdrew his party's support when Gantz joined forces with Netanyahu — addressed the Israeli leader in the Knesset on Monday evening: "Mr. Prime Minister, who are you kidding? You don't care about the mutation [of coronavirus]. You only care about the rotation [of the prime ministership]."
Opinion polls suggest Netanyahu's Likud party is again on track to win the most Knesset seats in the next election. With Blue and White hemorrhaging support, his biggest rivals would appear to come from other right-wing parties, which have been gaining ground on Israel's longest serving leader.
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Dry July encourages participants to go alcohol-free for a month to raise funds for adults living with cancer, but the benefits of doing the challenge don't stop there.
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There's also the 'feel-good factor' associated with setting yourself a goal and achieving it, and that can help improve your self-esteem. Not only that, going alcohol-free for a month could give you the opportunity to improve your relationships with the loved ones in your life.
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Beck helps push bizarre, religious myths as "civics" onto tea party activists
The following piece is being republished with permission of Alex Zaitchik, the author of this article and Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance. The original title is given below, and it was first published on the Southern Poverty Law Center website. If Zaitchik's description of the Mormon fringe ideas seem fictional or do not add up in your mind, bear in mind the comment addressed to The Glenn Beck Review on Glenn Beck dot com by racist, Mormon "David Griffen," aka chinarabbit, who has argued that the dissent expressed there should lead to the assassination of this blogger.
Fringe Mormon Group Makes Myths with Glenn Beck's Help
With the rise of the right, the National Center for Constitutional Studies' bizarre version of U.S. history is gaining adherents.
FAIRMONT, W. Va. — One fine Saturday morning last year, around 60 mostly middle-aged conservatives trickled onto the otherwise deserted campus of Fairmont State University. Clutching notebooks and coffee cups, they looked like groggy Continuing Ed students as they took seats in a modern lecture hall on the ground floor of the school's engineering building. In a sense, they were Continuing Ed students. The room had been booked months in advance for a one-day, intro-level history and civics seminar entitled, "The Making of America."
But this was no ordinary summer school. Randall McNeely, the seminar's kindly, awkward, and heavy-set instructor, held no advanced degree and made no claims to being a scholar of any kind. He was, rather, a product of rote training in a religious and apocalyptic interpretation of American history that has roots in the racist right of the last century. His students for the day had learned about the class not in the Fairmont State summer catalog, but from the website of the obscure nonprofit run by fringe Mormons. Founded as the Freeman Institute in Provo, Utah, in 1971, the outfit now goes by the name National Center for Constitutional Studies (NCSS), and works out of a remote farmhouse in Malta, Idaho (population 177).
Illustration by Daniel Adell
This humble base of operations, however, constrains neither the outfit's national ambitions nor its missionary zeal. The NCCS has been touring the country and propagating its ultraconservative Mormon message for nearly four decades. Yet its message has never been in greater demand than in 2010. Since the rise of the Tea Party circuit, the all-volunteer NCCS has experienced exploding interest from Tea Party-affiliated groups such as the 9.12 Project and the Tea Party Patriots. On any given Saturday, several of nearly 20 "Making of America" lecturers are giving seminars across the country in spaces like the rented classroom in Fairmont, with $10 tickets and NCCS book sales paying for their travel and expenses.
Along with a busier schedule, the NCCS also has a growing list of allies. In the media, it has found a powerful voice in the form of Fox News' Glenn Beck, who is a Mormon himself and has used his pulpit to advocate for NCCS books and ideas. Through Beck's sustained and energetic advocacy, once-forgotten NCCS tracts of Mormon-flavored pseudo-history such as The 5,000 Year Leap have become unlikely online bestsellers. As a result, traveling volunteer NCCS lecturers like McNeely today have no shortage of students eager to learn his version of "truth."
Bizarre extremist?
"In our time together, we're going to learn the truth about American history and what our government is supposed to do—and not do," said McNeely, after opening the August seminar in Fairmont with a Christian prayer and a patriotic song of his own authorship. "We're going to learn sound principles. Once we have possession of these sound principles, we can solve nearly every problem in America, the way the Founders would have liked."
As the morning progressed, it became clear that the NCCS worldview and program were based on three major pillars: understanding the divine guidance that has allowed the United States to thrive; rejecting the tyrannical, implicitly sinful, nature of the modern federal government; and preparing for a divine reckoning that will bring down America's government and possibly tear society as we know it asunder, thus allowing those with sound principles — i.e., godly NCCS graduates — to rebuild the republic along "sounder," more pious lines.
America's return to extremely limited government, as they think God intended, is destined to happen, NCCS lecturers teach, because God has already shown an interventionist role in American history. According to the NCCS, the founding of the United States was nothing short of a "miracle" in the literal sense of the word. God is watching, in other words, and he is not happy. Teaching out of the seminar's 131-page illustrated workbook, McNeely argued that the current federal government is guilty of a "usurpation of power." It is, therefore, illegitimate, though McNeely never actually uttered that word. Governmental powers should be used sparingly, he explained, limited largely to the common defense and the elimination of "debauchery and vice."
In some ways, the NCCS worldview can sound remarkably similar to that of antigovernment "Patriots," whose movement has exploded in the last two years. So it's not much of a surprise that it has found a number of new organizational allies among "Constitutionalist" groups such as the conspiracy-obsessed John Birch Society, the ultraconservative "pro-family" group Eagle Forum, and the Oath Keepers, a group of ex-police and military personnel who publicly promise to resist orders if they find those orders at odds with their understanding of the Constitution. At the 2010 National Liberty Unity Summit, a powwow of far-right groups, NCCS president Earl Taylor delivered the keynote address following speeches by leading Oath Keepers Richard Mack and Guy Cunningham.
But mostly, the NCCS focuses on its seminars. And business has never been better.
"We're trying to flood the nation," NCCS president Taylor told The Washington Post in June. "And it's happening."
Second verse, same as the first: Fox News conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck draws many of his more bizarre ideas from the late W. Cleon Skousen, a rabid anti-communist who wrote of evil cabals of internationalist bankers and government officials.
Communists, Capitalists and Jews
Students of the American far right may not recognize the anodyne-sounding NCCS, but they no doubt know the name of its founder, the late W. Cleon Skousen. By the time Skousen founded The Freeman Institute in 1971 (the name was changed to NCCS in 1984), the bespectacled former police chief had become a minor legend in the annals of right-wing radicalism. Throughout the late 1950s and 60s, following 11 years of mostly administrative work in the FBI, Skousen toured the country whipping up anti-communist (and anti-civil rights) hysteria under the banner of the John Birch Society. Among the stories in Skousen's fantastical arsenal was the claim that New Dealer Harry Hopkins gave the Soviets "50 suitcases" worth of information on the Manhattan Project and nearly half of the nation's supply of enriched uranium. When the John Birch Society came under attack for its founder's claim that Dwight Eisenhower was a communist agent, Skousen wrote a pamphlet titled The Communist Attack on the John Birch Society.
In the 1970s, he penned an influential tract of New World Order conspiracism, The Naked Capitalist, which described a cabal of scheming, internationalist-minded bankers and government officials set on destroying the Constitution by manipulating left and liberal groups around the world. The purpose of liberal internationalist groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations, Skousen believed, is to push "U.S. foreign policy toward the establishment of a world-wide collectivist society."
Among the sources Skousen cited to substantiate this claim was is a former czarist army officer named Arsene de Goulevitch, whose own sources included Boris Brasol, a White Russian émigré who provided Henry Ford with the first English translation of the Jew-bashing classic, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and later became a supporter of Nazi Germany.
The controversy that surrounded Skousen's growing public profile in the 1960s and early 70s caused a debate within the Mormon Church leadership. For many church leaders, Skousen was bringing unwanted attention to the institution, which until then had generally eschewed involvement in politics. But Skousen also had allies in high places. The strongest and most loyal of them was Ezra Taft Benson, a Mormon Apostle and future church president.
As with Skousen, Benson remains an icon among many ultraconservative Mormons, and his name is routinely invoked during NCCS lectures. The flyer for the NCCS seminar in Fairmont prominently displayed, as do so many materials produced by the NCCS, a Benson quote: "The Greatest Watchdog of our Freedom is an informed electorate." But Benson had a decidedly illiberal understanding of just what an informed electorate should believe. Benson read America's history (and future) through a looking glass of apocalyptic Mormon theology and folklore. He believed that the Constitution would one day "hang from a thread," at which time Mormons would assume leadership of the nation and rescue it from certain and irrevocable disaster. (These ideas are not part of official Mormon Church doctrine.)
Benson was also an advocate for Bircher-style conspiracy theories. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he saw the hand of communism in every social welfare policy and fought them as both immoral and unconstitutional. A rabid foe of the civil rights movement, Benson in 1971 allowed one of his anti-civil rights talks to be reprinted as the introduction to a book of race hate called Black Hammer: A Study of Black Power, Red Influence, and White Alternatives. The book's cover featured the severed, bloody head of an African American. By the end of the decade, his politics had taken a similar turn to that of his friend Skousen. During a 1972 general conference of the Church of Latter-day Saints, Benson recommended all Mormons read Gary Allen's New World Order tract None Dare Call it A Conspiracy.
Mormon leader Ezra Taft Benson, a close ally of W. Cleon Skousen, had powerful acquaintances who included President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Benson rabidly opposed the civil rights movement and once allowed an essay of his to be printed as an introduction to a particularly vicious and racist book.
Such was the state of Skousen and Benson's politics (and intellectual seriousness) when they celebrated the opening of the Freeman Institute on July 4, 1971, in a converted storefront judo studio just off the Brigham Young University campus in Provo, Utah. The purpose of the Freemen Institute, said its literature, was to "inspire Americans to return to the Founders' original success formula."
'Christ or Chaos'
Skousen's new institute, then as now, was not greeted by universal acclaim among his fellow Mormons. Edwin Brown Firmage, a professor of law at the University of Utah, complained to the Mormon magazine Sunstone in 1981: "Skousen is teaching right-wing fundamentalism with a constitutional veneer. How anyone can prove that civil rights and welfare are unconstitutional is beyond me. For his people, 'Constitutional' is just a right-wing buzzword." A reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer, Larry Eichel, reached the same conclusion after attending one of Skousen's lectures in the birthplace of the Constitution. "He preached a political return to the eighteenth century," wrote a dismayed Eichel.
The reporter was off by a century, but his point was well taken. What the Mormon constitutionalism pioneered by Skousen pines after most is the federal government of the mid-nineteenth century. If the NCCS could stop the clock anywhere, it would be 1867, the year before the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment. Like today's Tenther movement, whose adherents cite the Tenth Amendment to advocate the sovereignty of the states over federal government power, Skousen argued that constitutional decline began when the federal government overrode the states to grant and enforce equality under the law.
Skousen first laid out his views on the Constitution in 1981, with the publication of The 5,000 Year Leap. Now the central text of Glenn Beck's 9.12 Project — the Fox host calls the book "divinely inspired" — Leap is an illustrated recipe for turning the United States into 50 little theocracies, each dictating morality according to its own religious ethics. These ethics, argues Skousen in Leap, should be transmitted through "extensive Bible reading" in public schools.
The project of the book is clear, even if its author never came right out and said it. Others would prove bolder in explaining the importance of Leap. In Ronald Mann's introduction to Leap's 10th-anniversary edition, he praises Skousen for grasping America's choice of "Christ or chaos" and for acknowledging that its future depends on "accepting and demonstrating God's government."
Glenn Beck calls The Five Thosand Year Leap, which argues for turning
America into 50 mini-theocracies, "divinely inspired."
The project started by Leap was furthered a few years later with the publication of The Miracle of America. After reducing its contents to a smaller workbook suitable for one- and seven-day seminars, Skousen again hit the road. During the first "Making of America" tour, he demonized the federal regulatory agencies, arguing for the abolition of everything from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to the Environmental Protection Agency. He wanted to repeal the minimum wage, smash unions, nullify anti-discrimination laws, sell off public lands and national parks, end the direct election of senators, kill the income tax and the estate tax, knock down state-level walls separating church and state, and, of course, raze the Federal Reserve System.
Skousen's rolling theocratic lecture tour ran into problems in 1987, when outsiders started examining the contents of the book on which the seminars were based. The Making of America, it turned out, presented a history of slavery that could have been written by a propagandist for the Ku Klux Klan. Skousen relied for his interpretation of slavery on historian Fred Albert Shannon's Economic History of the People of the United States (1934). Quoting Shannon, Skousen described African-American children as "pickaninnies" and described American slave owners as the "worst victims" of the slavery system. He further explained that "[slave] gangs in transit were usually a cheerful lot, though the presence of a number of the more vicious type sometimes made it necessary for them all to go in chains." Shannon and Skousen also cast a skeptical eye on accounts of cruelty by slave masters and expressed much more interest in the "fear" Southern whites had while trying to protect "white civilization" from slave revolts.
Newer editions of The Making of America lack the glaring racism of Skousen's original version. But the current NCCS president, Earl Taylor, is not unknown to echo some of Skousen's controversial views. At a Mesa, Ariz., seminar earlier this year, a Washington Post reporter heard Taylor argue that Thomas Jefferson hesitated to free his own slaves because of his "benevolence." As Taylor often does, he defended this interpretation by referencing his participation in a walking tour. "If you've been to Monticello and you see how Jefferson cared for them, they didn't want to leave," the Post writer quotes Taylor as saying.
Glenn Beck and the Apocalypse
Defenders of the NCCS argue that the outfit, run by the grandfatherly Taylor, is merely teaching good old-fashioned civics to interested Americans. But while there is a large amount of straight, accurate history included in "Making of America" seminars, the lessons are about much more than just the Constitution. The organization's larger mission is to crudely propagandize against America's secular foundations and sow doubt over the legitimacy of the modern welfare and regulatory state, using a textbook written by a notorious conspiracist who adhered to apocalyptic folklore. And like Skousen, current NCCS lecturers believe that time is quickly running out.
There is a dark, often unspoken, subtext to the NCCS's crusade to promote the "sound principles" of proper Constitutional government. That subtext is a belief in the imminent collapse of civilization. This collapse is interwoven in the bombastic teachings of NCCS friend and ally Glenn Beck, whose Doomsday-drenched shows are profitably promoted by fear-mongering purveyors of everything from gold bullion to "crisis gardens" and emergency radios. The NCCS has done much to encourage and spread a deeply apocalyptic worldview among far-right Mormons, of whom Beck is only the most famous.
The NCCS views its education crusade as crucial for rebuilding America after a coming cataclysm; thus, "The Making of America" is best seen as a God-centric civics class for the bomb shelter. Speaking last year in Mesa, Ariz., Taylor spoke cryptically of the need for "the Good Lord's help" to take America "into a much better phase of existence lasting for a thousand years."
Taylor's remarks only make sense in the context of a cleansing, holy wrath, after which will emerge pure Constitutional defenders ready to build a new society on the ashes of the old.
"I fear that the United States is going to have to go through the wringer," said Taylor. "It's gonna be rough."
"When the time comes, when the people who are in power for the power and the glory, and there is no more power and glory left, they'll probably be looking around asking, 'Can anybody help?' And you'll say, 'Yeah, I've got some ideas. Come on over and eat a little something.' Because there probably won't be much food anyway, but if you're wise, you'll have some."
At this depressing image of future Constitutional scholars discussing the evils of the income tax and battling "debauchery" amid the scarred ruins of a post-Apocalyptic America, Taylor brightens up.
"We're gonna win this thing," he said. "I've read the last chapter, like you have, and in the end, we're gonna win this thing."
"Isn't that great?"
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The most ironic (read: "hypocritical") thing about the Southern Poverty Law Center is that NOT ONE of its top ten, highest paid executives is a minority.
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In fact, according to the SPLC's hometown newspaper, the Montgomery Advertiser, despite being located LITERALLY in the back yard of Dr. Martin Luther King's home church, the SPLC has NEVER hired a person of color to a highly paid position of power in its entire 40 year history.
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rkeefe57, thanks, I mean really a giant thank you, for completely missing the point of this essay by Alex Zaitchik. That is so big of you to point out that the SPLC is not run by the people you think should be running it and ignore the many dangers to American society, including the false "civics" lessons outlined above, that they point to.
If you're such an expert on hypocrisy, then I imagine that you understand Glenn Beck to be America's hypocrite-in-chief since Beck demonstrates far more hypocrisy than any pol who know that they have to get re-elected and can't get away with the repeated demonstration of pooping on their own expressed principles the way Beck has AT LEAST 19 times now in the last 10 months.
Am I right about your righteousness regarding hypocrisy, or are you a hypocrite about hypocrisy?
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» Untitled Goose Game Review - Goose on The Loose
Untitled Goose Game Review - Goose on The Loose
There's no specific formula for a great idea. Oftentimes they just catch us off-guard and explode into a viral sensation. Gaming is primed for moments like these, because all it takes is one developer bold enough to try something different, and it could easily catch on.
I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during the pitch meeting for Untitled Goose Game, but it's clear that this was one of those moments where every concept fell into place to create a game that received widespread recognition at launch. Now that the game has come to PS4, it's time to find out what exactly made Untitled Goose Game such a cultural sensation.
A Goose With Nothing to Lose
For me, gaming is one of the most powerful art forms we've created as a species. It combines the visuals you would expect from art, the sensations you want from well-composed music, and the storytelling you want from a book or movie. All of this, and it adds a layer of interactivity that no other medium can boast.
Games have made me cry, made me laugh, and made me think about my place in the universe. Untitled Goose Game warranted more than a few laughs, but it also plastered a huge smile on my face in a way few games can.
The setup is simple: you're a goose that's on a mission to wreak havoc in a small town. You do this by following to-do lists that outline the goals for your mischief in each area. The game is composed of clever, wholesome pranks that sometimes made me feel bad for the victims, but overall seemed like exactly the kind of thing a goose would get up to in its spare time.
I think one of the first things that struck me about Untitled Goose Game was how well the concept fits together into a gaming experience. As my Player 2, Christina, put it: "This game has no right being this good." Indeed, I wouldn't expect a game about messing with people to be this fun, but it's a testament to the vision and the mechanics that it all works so well.
It starts with simple controls. You can duck, run, honk, pick up things, and spread your wings as you move about. The last one is almost purely for show, so you'll only need to worry about a couple buttons. The dedicated honk button is a fun way to startle people or express your dissatisfaction with how people in the town treat you.
Using these controls, you'll access a to-do list that gives you objectives like "get this person wet" or "break this object." These spiral into more complex tasks like gathering multiple items, trapping people in places, or even setting events into motion that lead to the preferred outcome.
I'd rather not spoil the details, but suffice to say the game's world is designed to react in fun and unique ways to your experimentation. In some cases, you can even accomplish goals in different ways based on how you approach the situation.
This combination of direction and a sandbox design really makes you feel like a part of the world. It also helps that the people react in hilarious ways to your antics, so frustrating them becomes a bit of a guilty pleasure as time goes on.
Almost everything can be picked up, stolen, or manipulated in some way, which lends the world a very tactile feel. With multiple areas to explore and some endgame challenges to complete, Untitled Goose Game feels pretty substantial, despite only being a few hours long (depending on how quickly you solve things).
It's the kind of experience that anyone, regardless of age or skill level, can enjoy. I think that, combined with the unique premise and the high level of interactivity, played into the game's success in the mainstream.
It's undeniably charming, a fun world to experiment within, and deliciously satisfying when you finally figure out how to complete some of the more ambiguous objectives the game throws at you.
A Polished and Detailed Experience
Untitled Goose Game has a lovely art style that mixes vibrant colors with simple and clean textures. The animations are detailed and lifelike, but still retain a simple and pleasing look. The way the Goose moves, for example, gives the impression of a confident gait, and when you duck it looks like a predator stalking its prey.
There's a lot of personality conveyed through these animations, and that extends to the people as well, who throw up their hands, try to shoo you away from them, or otherwise stomp their feet in frustration. Without any spoken words, the game manages to convey a surprising amount of emotion from all the characters involved.
All of this is wrapped up in a soundtrack that I didn't expect, but ultimately loved. The game has a peaceful and calm piano track that quickly switches to a more robust and rhythmic tone when you're spotted, but it's never stressful. I would describe it more as a playful melody that increases in tempo as you're being chased by one of the town's residents.
I wouldn't have expected a piano-focused soundtrack here, but it plays into the game's charm and reinforces the wholesome fun you're having as you mildly inconvenience and prank people in the place you call home.
It's games like this that catch us all off-guard in the best way possible. Not only does it welcome players of all ages and skills into the world of gaming, but it provides a fun, hilarious, and engaging way to pass the time for a few hours.
A copy of Untitled Goose Game was provided to PS4 Experts for review purposes.
Article by - Bradley Ramsey
Insert date - 1/17/2020
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What a rassistic, stupid comment on an international page. You should be ashamed.
And that's supposed to make any diffrents now? Logic?
That's really a silly comment...you think they are the first team to win 2 events in a row? Did you not pay attention who won the last big turnaments? Shanghai Major, Summit 4, Star Ladder, Frankfurt Major, International 2015? WEST. Saying because a eastern team wins 2 evens in a row making EAST > WEST is just very naiv.
"Click on the image to see a larger one" doesnt work. This statistic is acctually kinda hilarious.
Huh? I'm no racist and I'm not sure what makes you think so.


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###Friday

* Travel.  Atlanta to Seattle.  Seattle to Beijing.  Bus from airport to hotel.  Drinks at hotel.

###Saturday

* Breakfast at hotel.  Bus to Tiananmen square and the forbidden city.
* lines of chinese people.  Fairly empty square.  Mao's body entombed in crystal.  Giant portrait.
* forbidden city is astoundingly huge.  Burned down three or four times.
* Summer palace after forbidden city.  Didn't realize there was a lake.  Thought it was awesome.
* welcome dinner in hutongs.  Black sesame kitchen.  we made dumplings and learned that eggplant is delicious.  Best ice cream ever.

###Sunday

* Breakfast.  Bus trip to great wall.
* traveled through some pretty desolate areas.
* didn't realize the great wall was on top of a mountain.
* got to ride a slide down from the wall.
* stopped at olympic stadium in beijing on the way back.  meh.
* dinner at Da Dong.  aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

###Monday

* US Embassy - interesting discussion.  The embassy was really impressive.
* Baidu - Kaiser was a cool dude.  Learned that Baidu is more than just a copycat company.  Also they run the show in China.
* Wandered around with Bobby in the evening.  Ate donkey.  Went to the store.  Went to the night markets.  Met some random Europeans.  They showed us another night market where there was a bunch of gross food.  It smelled awful.

###Tuesday

* Intel - Bruce was awesome.  And he was honest and thoughtful.
* DHL - was kind of boring.  We got a tour of the distribution center.
* Great Leap Brewery.  Really cool people.
* Dinner with Weber

###Wednesday

* Rode high speed train to Shanghai.  Interesting view.
* Visited Jade Buddha temple.  Had some tea.  Watched prayers.
* Attempted to go to a garden but it was closed so we just got to hang out in an outdoor market.  Had some really good dumplings.

###Thursday

* Got up early.  Went to MARY CHING shoes.  Listened to mary ching.  Interesting lady.
* Visit TouchMedia.  Learned A LOT about chinese social media.  Almost fell asleep.
* Lunch at another shopping mall but this one had some awesome fried dumplings.
* Visit Carrefour.  The Wal Mart of China.
* Went to the acrobatic show that night.  Mind blown.  Girls on bikes, balancing and bowl throwing, guy balancing a huge pot on his head, stilt backflip, omg seven motorcycles, flexible shadow girls.
* sweet popcorn.

###Friday

* Visit Shanghai GM.  The speaker was kind of disingenuous.  Not a fan.  But got to tour the factory so that was cool.
* Free afternoon.  Spent wandering around.  Returned to outdoor market.  Found the restaurant supply street.  Took the tunnel across the river (lights!).  Went up to the 87th floor of the Grand Hyatt and looked down on everything else except the Shanghai Tower.
* Got back and went to farewell dinner.  It was really good.  Got waaaaayy too drunk on wine.

###Saturday

* Hung over all morning
* went to the shanghai museum and saw a bunch of cool stuff.  Wandered around a few markets.
* Ate at a szechuan place.  Saw face changer show.


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