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    No link, email from professor.

    From the Toronto Star:

    Humans cleared of killing off woolly mammoths

    Last Updated Wed, 10 May 2006 14:13:18 EDT

    CBC News

    Climate shifts, not over-hunting, killed off the woolly mammoth and

    wild horse, a carbon-dating study suggests.

    * FROM NOV. 12, 2003: Climate tied to horse extinction

    What caused the animals to become extinct at the end of the last Ice

    Age more than 10,000 years ago has been one of prehistory's greatest

    whodunits. Biologists have often pointed the finger at over-hunting by expanding

    populations of humans.

    But new radiocarbon dates give a more precise account of what happened

    at the time of the mass extinctions, and shift the focus to global

    warming.

    Paleobiologist Dale Guthrie analyzed bone samples from bison, moose and

    humans, which lived through the extinction period, and from wild horse

    and mammoth, which did not survive. The more than 600 samples were

    recovered in Alaska and the Yukon. He also studied preserved samples of pollen from

    the period.

    He found that by the time Homo sapiens started pushing into the region

    around 12,300 years ago, the wild horse had already died out and woolly

    mammoth were in decline.

    Meanwhile, populations of bison, moose and white-rumped elk called

    wapiti were increasing, said Guthrie, professor emeritus with the Institute of

    Arctic Biology at University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

    By analyzing pollen samples, he concluded that a naturally occurring

    shift in climate caused the animals to change their diet.

    Like their modern cousins, the wild horses and the woolly mammoth of

    the past had a large intestinal pouch, or caecum, suited to feeding on

    low-quality forage on the steppe.

    But as the frozen landscape thawed, higher-quality grasses started to

    grow. Those grasses were favoured by the bison and wapiti but were

    indigestible to the mammoth, Guthrie suggested.

    His results were published in Thursday's edition of the journal Nature.

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    sabe.. for some reason i cant see the first one, but the secnd one wasnt all that good. just a battle put to music. it didnt really fit together well

    DX that second one was awesome!

    yeah My only gripe about it is he cut to soon on some of the scenes with subtitles... he should have let them run 1-2 seconds longer or cut earlier.. but I liked the whole begining leading into the fight part.

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    WARNING THESE HAVE SPOILERS.

    this one is of good quality (videowise). sadly it use to be really good and he just recently edited it to where the song doesnt match the actions as well. I was hoping to show it off.. now its no where near what it was.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTy8dxmEIP4&search=naruto%20vs.%20gaara

    This is my favorite one availabe on youtube, but its more like a trailer than anything else.

    there are some pretty nifty Rock Lee vs. Gaara ones on there also

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    There are very few. My personal favorite is Steven Blum. Hes done Spike, Mugen, and Kazuma in those action animes, and then he has done Jamie in Megas XLR, and hell he's done Dhalsim in Street Fighter animes X'D

    Scott McNeil is pretty handy, Kouga, Piccolo/Nappa/Jeice, Duo Maxwell, and did some work in REBOOT X'D gotta love it

    Then you gotta give it to Kirby Marrow who has done the likes of Goku, Miroku, and Trowa.

    And David Kaye who has done Treize and Sesshomaru, and then turns around and can do something as goofy as Racoom and Burter on the Ginyu force.

    Sometimes even these guys get misused. Sadly its not always the voice actors fault, sometimes its what the director wants out of their voices like you mentioned.

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    Yeah man. what is rock anymore? does it even exist? Its all pop.

    Artist stopped going to college and getting their degrees in music, or in some cases dont even finish highschool. All they have is a voice.. or not.. and can somewhat play an instrument.. the studio edits the rest for them. They'll either spew BS out on a lyrics paper, or have someone write something for them, and they'll sing it without caring what it means.

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    Full Metal Alchemist, Fruits Basket, Naruto are al great in Jap voices, not heard their English equivalents ... yet. Sabe, Wolf's Rain's English voice actors do sound justice, good choice !

    How about Ghost In A Shell - Stand ALone, Second Gig ... they've used the same English voice actors for both series' and they're damn good. How's the series in Jap ? Dragonball's Jap voices sound like they're talking in a room with a high percentage of helium in the air ...

    I think SAC has outstanding dub VAs.

    DBZ: X'D FRREEEEEEZZAAA

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    http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/columns/the-click.php?id=5

    (10)Case Closed (aka Detective Conan)

    Here's a title with the odds stacked against it. An attempt was made to bring this ultra-popular Japanese murder mystery series to Saturday morning children's television in the late 90's. Unfortunately, the constant, bloody homicides in nearly every episode made that task difficult, and it was eventually shelved. Until, however, Funimation picked up the series in 2004 and decided to make another go at it. Aside from some silly name changes brought forth at the behest of the Japanese licensor, the localization of the series surprisingly thorough, smart, and best of all, in tone with the Japanese original. I'm saddened by the fact that the series was never a hit, but that was probably inevitable with something that was too adult for US kiddie audiences and too immature for US adult audiences. You can pick up the first season on rather inexpensive two-disc sets; I highly recommend it for predictable yet highly entertaining Nancy Drew-style detective antics.

    (9)Robotech

    I know this particular inclusion is likely to draw groans and fits of anger from the Macross die-hards out there, but seriously, this heavily re-written adaptation of three unrelated mecha properties from Japan remained, at the time, the most intelligent and intriguing animated series on the syndicated TV landscape in its time. Besides, the original, unaltered Macross is now out on DVD thanks to the fine folks at ADV, so don't you think its high-time you put that Carl Macek effigy to rest?

    (8)Pokemon

    There's also something to be said for a show that can capture the cultural zeitgeist as purely as Pokemon did in its heyday. The colorful adventures of Nintendo's copious critters no doubt got many, many kids to stick around and see what other niceties Japanese animation had to offer. That, and I can't think of any other anime properties that could garner a 40-million dollar opening weekend in US theaters.

    (7)Samurai Pizza Cats

    There've been many attempts before and since Samurai Pizza Cats to “punch up” the source material with added jokes, puns, and other foolery. None of them have ever been able to absolutely nail it as thoroughly as Saban's adaptation crew managed to do. Amazing, considering that much of the scripts were actually ad-libbed.

    (6)Gundam Wing

    On the day that Gundam Wing first premiered on Cartoon Network's “Toonami” block of action cartoons, as seismic rift occurred in the perception of how TV dubs “should” be. For example, minimal edits, no name changes, with the original music, and even the original “eyecatches” that would signal a commercial break. That the show was a screaming success solidified this fact.

    (5)Lupin III

    Somehow, Geneon and the fine folks at Phuuz managed to both add genuinely funny material to their adaptation and still remain true to the tone of the original series. As odd as Shaq references are in an animated series created in the 1970's, somehow it all works.

    (4)Astro Boy

    Fred Ladd's original dub of the first anime TV series ever still remains one of the best. Obviously it hasn't held up the greatest when compared to how easily anime series can be dubbed in these modern, computerized times, but considering the small staff and especially small budget Ladd had to work with its surprisingly dark and edgy compared to the fluffy kids' programming of the time.

    (3)Dragon Ball

    Funimation used all of the clout they gained from transforming Dragon Ball Z into a full-fledged mega-hit by doing the unexpected; dubbing the original, 1986 Dragon Ball series with stunning accuracy and reverence.

    (2)Naruto

    Nevermind the quibbling over the mildly annoying catchphrase of “Believe it!” or the outcry over the loss of the Japanese opening and endings (sadly, American television doesn't allow for 90 precious seconds that could instead be used for commercails). Viz's TV dub of definitely the biggest anime property in the past many years took everyone in the industry by surprise. There was much skepticism of how some of the darker, more sinister aspects of the series could be handled on what is, essentially, children's television – then, the show premiered with a TV-PG rating and with episodes virtually uncut.

    (1)Fullmetal Alchemist

    The FMA dub is a perfect adaptation, in the sense that it both stays very close the original Japanese script but also flows like it wasn't a translation at all. I couldn't think of a better vehicle to demonstrate the effectiveness of anime and especially animation in general in portraying drama and intrigue.

    Hmm i dunno if I agree with all of these.. I definantly think FMA is the best Dub, and GW belongs in the top 10... frankly im surprised Bebop isnt on the list.

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    Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

    by Robert Browning

    GR-R-R--there go, my heart's abhorrence!

    Water your damned flower-pots, do!

    If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence,

    God's blood, would not mine kill you!

    What? Your myrtle-bush wants trimming?

    Oh, that rose has prior claims--

    Needs its leaden vase filled brimming?

    Hell dry you up with its flames!

    At the meal we sit together;

    _Salve tibi_! I must hear

    Wise talk of the kind of weather,

    Sort of season, time of year:

    "Not a plenteous cork-crop: scarcely

    Dare we hope oak-galls, I doubt:

    What's the Latin name for parsley?"

    What's the Greek name for swine's snout?

    Whew! We'll have our platter burnished,

    Laid with care on our own shelf!

    With a fire-new spoon we're furnished,

    And a goblet for ourself,

    Rinsed like something sacrificial

    Ere 'tis fit to touch our chaps--

    Marked with L. for our initial!

    (He-he! There his lily snaps!)

    _Saint_, forsooth! While Brown Dolores

    Squats outside the Convent bank

    With Sanchicha, telling stories,

    Steeping tresses in the tank,

    Blue-black, lustrous, thick like horsehairs,

    ---Can't I see his dead eye glow,

    Bright as 'twere a Barbary corsair's?

    (That is, if he'd let it show!)

    When he finishes refection,

    Knife and fork he never lays

    Cross-wise, to my recollection,

    As I do, in Jesu's praise.

    I the Trinity illustrate,

    Drinking watered orange-pulp--

    In three sips the Arian frustrate;

    While he drains his at one gulp!

    Oh, those melons! if he's able

    We're to have a feast; so nice!

    One goes to the Abbot's table,

    All of us get each a slice.

    How go on your flowers? None double?

    Not one fruit-sort can you spy?

    Strange!--And I, too, at such trouble,

    Keep them close-nipped on the sly!

    There's a great text in Galatians,

    Once you trip on it, entails

    Twenty-nine distinct damnations,

    One sure, if another fails;

    If I trip him just a-dying,

    Sure of heaven as sure can be,

    Spin him round and send him flying

    Off to hell, a Manichee?

    Or, my scrofulous French novel

    On gray paper with blunt type!

    Simply glance at it, you grovel

    Hand and foot in Belial's gripe;

    If I double down the pages

    At the woeful sixteenth print,

    When he gathers his greengages,

    Ope a sieve and slip it in't?

    Or, there's Satan!--one might venture

    Pledge one's soul to him, yet leave

    Such a flaw in the indenture

    As he'd miss till, past retrieve,

    Blasted lay that rose-acacia

    We're so proud of! Hy, Zy, Hine ...

    'St, there's Vespers! _Plena gratia

    Ave, Virgo_! Gr-r-r--you swine!

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    I Will Bear Witness 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer

    pretty interesting read.

    Seeing as I am a history major I wouldnt count text books, but I have read some interesting stuff in my German Classes

    Trap with a Green Fence is an excellent book

    But i highly recommend Maus I & II. Really quick reads... its in comic format but its not a comic book. Its about an Artists dad that was German Jew, and he tells his dads story in comic strip from. Its a very powerful book/s.

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