狛子 "Komako"

狛 in my Nelson Japanese Dictionary is listed:

Haku: lion-dog shrine guardians. Koma: part of ancient Korea. Koma inu: lion-dog (stone) shrine guardians

Koma inu. Are you in a coma? Are you so pleased, are you so happy, are you so sad? Do you care? Do you care too much? Is Cecelia Chung a half-caf zombie of some sort?

Inu. Speaking of inu, which is the "dog" of "lion-dog", I was watching InuYasha Ep 67 "Howling Wind of Betrayal" on Adult Swim and decided to write something here. This word 狛 is a blizzard of energy, a blizzard of adenosine tri-phosphate, or ATP, which is produced by our cells using sugar and oxygen. ATP is the basic building block of our metabolism, the reason we need sugar and oxygen in the first place.

During a blizzard of ATP, one perforce becomes bored with one's metabolism. But that is neither here nor there.

Exercises from Professor Accountable, the film professor who thinks film sucks

1 - The medical radical is used 3 times in the picture. What does this have to do with the hippocratic oath, and what does it have to do with the healing arts? And, why doesn't it really look anything like the Hippocratic Symbol?

2 - Kagome escapes to InuYasha World through a rectangular portal. The young woman at Norhaku's abode possesses a circular vision portal. Are these portals metaphors for the personal computer?

3 - In InuYasha, as in Pokemon, there are a group of earnest sincere seekers who can never seem to get enough of fighting with some "villains" who seem to have real problems to deal with. When these anime are seen from the perspective of NYPD Blue or a Humphrey Bogart movie, the moral universe is obverted and the "villains" seem protagonistic. Discuss.

3.1 - In this episode (67), Kagura sees InuYasha's hair transform from raven black to senior gray as the sun rises. Kagura says "I've seen you somewhere before." After Kagura disappears, Inu says "Hey you puny wolf, I hope you've learned your lesson. Never interfere in my fight with Noraku." Is this embarrassingly hostile statement from one of the heroes an example of "moral centrism" as expressed dramatically? Do anime soften the boundaries between dramatic good and evil by a recognizable, useful method? Please describe this method.

Keeping it real for anime geeks

Crying Nut "Myong Dong Call Ring", from their 5th album, of 2006

Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her "Future or No Future" - a short video

Castel Beer and Flag Beer from Bramali Bradibo, a brewery in Bamako, Mali.



It's a puzzle: I've been surfing to Annuaires Afrique for two years now, and on the French side, the button for the Mali phone book comes back as "Malawi". On the English side, everything's ok.



Azar Libre Services Supermarket Restaurant

Mr Curriculum

Here's a look at the Russian business articles I created on the Wikipedia. There were a dozen other Russian business articles on the Wikipedia when I started my work, most of them about famous companies, most of them poorly written. I stayed in close touch with the Russian wikicommunity for a year, while I wrote articles, and I can safely say that with my daily attention to the new Russian articles page and the Category:Companies of Russia (and the Ukraine and Belarus) that just one single article about a Russian company was written by someone other than me during this time. I learned some Cyrillic and filled out the English half of the RTS Top 50, as well as paying attention to the MICE (Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange) lists.

Since that time I've written 10x as many articles about African-based companies, and of course the Wikisituation is the same, I find few people writing about companies in English; the French Wikipedia is a good source of articles from Africa d'Francophonie

So as winter approaches, enjoy pictures and some comforting corporate sentiments about the future in the Great North Land. All links are wiki articles.

Third Generation Company of the Wholesale Electricity Market · Unified Energy System
Financial services
Russian Trading System · Svyazinvest
Food
Lebedyansky · Wimm Bill Dann
Industrial
· ~Alrosa · Category:Mining companies of Russia · Celtic Resources Holdings plc · Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant · Evraz Group#Evraz Subsidiaries · Metalloinvest · Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK)/Magnitogorsk Steel · MMC Norilsk Nickel · Nizhnekamskneftekhim · Nizhniy Tagil Iron and Steel Works · Novatek · Novokramatorsky Mashinostroitelny Zavod/NKMZ · Novokuznetsk Iron and Steel Plant/NKMK · Novolipetsk Steel · Polyus Gold · Rusal · Severstal · Stoilensky GOK · VSMPO-AVISMA
Telecom
· Category:Telecommunications companies of Russia · Center Telecom · Dalsvyaz Telecom · Moscow City Telephone Network · North West Telecom · Rostelecom · Siberia Telecom · Svyazinvest · Southern Telecom · Volgatelecom · Uralsvyazinform

These are nice telecoms companies:

Svyazinvest Dalsvyaz Telecom North West Telecom

These three are megacompanies of diamonds, iron and aluminum respectively, put together from a multitude of communist companies, after communism's fever abated:

~Alrosa Evraz Group#Evraz Subsidiaries Rusal

And this one is a technosurreal trip to the origins of metalworking, with a tradition extending back many thousands of years, as though it were the origin of European iron technology. It's Tolkienesque, is what it is.

Nizhniy Tagil Iron and Steel Works

Terminal Bremerhaven

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