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Name: hazardous.v3
Birthday: Mar 26 1993
Location: Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
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Birthday: Mar 26 1993
Location: Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
Last Seen: Mon, 30 Aug 2010
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Greetings, my name is Logos. I am the leader of a site known as Hybrid's Potential, found at http://hybridpotential.webs.com/ - you may join this site if you so wish it. I am a Vampire-Werewolf Hybrid in the Awakening process, and I seek the aid of a Hybrid who has come to his or her full nature. If you require payment for services, name your price. I first believed that I was an Awakening Vampire. This means that I would have been born a latent Vampire (I would have been born in a human body with the Vampiric retrovirus with a reverse transcriptase, known as V5), and that during my awakening I would slowly, physically transform into my true nature (a physical Vampire). From what I hear, this process can take between a few months and many years. Then, I started to drift to the other side of the spectrum: Werewolves. I noticed a fascination, bordering on obsession, with nature, and specifically forests at night. I began to feel an affinity for wolves, especially those that had black fur speckled with light grey - I believe that this is my natural phenotype. I attempted to physically shift (short form: p-shift), and was not successful, but made good headway. For these reasons, I believe that I am actually a cross between a Werewolf and a Vampire. I refer to myself as an awakening Hybrid, but some would call what I am a "werevamp" or the more derogatory term "halfbreed". I prefer Hybrid, obviously, since the name of the site is "Hybrid's Potential". I have background in the Sciences, especially biochemistry, therefore I was able to develop some theories. My theory is that since I am an Awakening Hybrid (person with the Hybrid virus, similar to V5), my Awakening would likely not begin until severe growth. During the teenage years, normal humans produce higher amounts of telomerase, a hormone that undoes that deterioration of the telomere after telophase in mitosis. When this happened to me, I believe that the telomerase activated the Hybrid virus, which began to infect me. The first virus latches onto a cell and injects ribonucleic acid (RNA) containing the reverse transcriptase, which then travels to the nucleolus where it modifies the existing deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). After this modification occurs, the cell incorporates Vampiric and Werewolf-like behaviour into its normal protein synthesis. Additionally, it will allow for reproduction of the virus, which then is distributed by the Golgi Apparatus within the cell to other cells, and so the chain continues. The trouble is, since there are literally billions of cells in the body, this process can take quite some time. I cannot wait for quite some time. I will surely go insane from waiting, literally. You have no idea what it is like to have to float between normal humanity and Hybridism; I grow more psychologically unstable as the days pass, waiting for the floating to cease. I have developed a solution, however. In a full Hybrid like yourself, the dormant virus is contained within the saliva, and therefore can be passed on through a bite. More virus means a faster rate of transformation, since reproduction of the virus and spreading of the modification via reverse transcriptase will allow for faster change. To obtain more virus, saliva from a full Hybrid would have to enter my bloodstream through a bite. This is where I ask you for help. I need you to bite me, thereby accelerating the change, else I will surely go insane. Again, as I said in the beginning, if you require payment for your services to me, name your price. Well, it now boils down to a very simple question. Will you help me? Note that my theory will still work if you are only a Vampire or only a Lycan, just only half as well as it would for a Hybrid. Signed, Logos, leader of Hybrid's Potential PS: I am happily now in eternal love with my soulmate; her name is Charmaine.
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Mobile phone while traveling?
Mobile phone while traveling?
Hello there,
at some point this year im going on a trip around south east asia for 4months and will be visiting 5 countries, I was just wandering if anyone had any advice on what i should do about my phone situation, (apologies if its a stupid question)....can I buy sim cards easily were ever I am?? or is there like a multi country sim card?? do I bring a duel band phone with me??
any help would be much appreciated
#1 LeChron has been a member since 7/1/2011. Location: United Kingdom. Posts: 45
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Not a stupid question at all; I wondered the same thing before I went there. SIM cards are easy to find, and very inexpensive. Some are even "free" at airports and hotels. You can recharge them at 7/11s and many stores. You will need a different SIM for each country.
In Thailand I had lots of time left on a 70THB card so decided to call my bank in Canada: after being on hold for 7 minutes I hung up -- and still had enough time to call Australia for a few minutes!
Be sure to bring a charger and a suitable adapter.
#2 EricQC has been a member since 9/1/2011. Posts: 9
off topic, but since you mentioned about a suitable adapter.
what kind of adapter will we need, i'd assume probably each country will have a complete different power outlets? if so, any you recommend of which outlet converter to get?
#3 ryder80 has been a member since 19/12/2010. Posts: 83
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Most new electronics can cope with 120/240V and 50/60 cycle so you normally only need a plug adapter. I found a good no-name one at an airport (under $US15) with fold-out plugs to fit any SE Asian socket as well as ones in Oz, UK and Canada. It also has a USB outlet so I can charge my MP3 and GPS devices.
#4 EricQC has been a member since 9/1/2011. Posts: 9
Local SIM cards are cheap and easy to find. The SIM (plus a bit of credit) will cost between $5 and 10 US then you can buy top up cards after that. The place you buy it will help set it up (you'll probably need to show your passport or a copy) and the top up cards have English instructions. This is based on the old school type unlocked mobile not iPhones and 3G. Adaptors are best picked up when you get there, I paid $1 for one in Cambodia and it lasted me for Laos and Vietnam too. Take your charger with you to make sure you buy the right one.
#5 raindog has been a member since 26/7/2009. Location: Australia. Posts: 10
The main problem we had was that our UK phones were locked by our UK providers. I eventually got mine unblocked for free (it took about a month with O2) but Orange were going to charge my boyfriend £20 for the priviledge so he bought a second hand Nokia phone in Thailand which was cheaper and did the trick. This probably isn't a problem for everyone but worth checking out before you leave home.
#6 travellingsarah has been a member since 23/3/2010. Location: Vietnam. Posts: 684
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thanks for your feed-back EricQC,
by chance, would you have a picture handy of the converter you purchased, give me an idea of what to look for, for $15 that'll work anywhere is a pretty sweet deal. which air-port did u buy it from?
#7 ryder80 has been a member since 19/12/2010. Posts: 83
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wow, some brilliant advice, everything I needed to know has been covered!!
I really appreciate it, its defo put my mind at ease, I am also from the UK so i'll bring a dual band mobile phone and if its still blocked out there I'll take the advice and buy a cheap phone while I'm there and sounds like it wont be a problem for me to sort out sim cards, sounds simple enough, thanks again everyone!
Much Love
#8 LeChron has been a member since 7/1/2011. Location: United Kingdom. Posts: 45
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The plug adapter I have was made by Digital & Wireless Group. It is ~5x6x8cm with plug components that fold out of the back to configure for different countries. The two prongs to fit NA plugs swivel to adapt to Australian sockets. You can see a similar device without USB at www.qualitychinagoods.com/worldwide-universal-electric-pins-plug-adapter-p-495.html for ~USD11 (but this is not what I have). I don't have any pictures of mine. I think we picked it up at Heathrow (but it may have been Singapore).
#9 EricQC has been a member since 9/1/2011. Posts: 9
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DP is 20 years older than me and...
Ok, this may be all over the place as I am a little emotional today, so here goes
Sometimes I just feel so lost. Our relationship is great, he is my very best friend and knows everything about me. He is very old fashioned and very country. He grew up with an intact family, where his mom cared for his dad, they garden, hunt, fish, raise animals, ect. His family really is amazing and sometimes I just feel like I don't measure up to his expectations. He never comes across that way, and is very sweet and patient with me, but this is so much harder than I even thought it would be. I don't always understand "where he's coming from," and I feel like he deserves so much. I want to take care of him, I want him to approve of what I do, and the decisions I make. I suppose I'm old fashioned in that sense, too. He taught me pretty much everything I know, both in my career (he is my partner) and about being a wife and mother. I grew up in a....less than ideal situation, and I didn't even know "normal" families existed. If I'm not sure about something, I ask, and he usually responds with "well what do you think you should do?" and we sort of go from there. He has a bad temper, though and when he snaps at me, I almost just want to cry. I feel like I'm trying my very best to figure all this out, and I *thought* I was doing a pretty good job until this past week when we went to Florida (sans kids) to visit some of his family that I've never met. I felt completely shunned. The women in that part of the family basically stay home and gossip while the men go hunting and fishing. Well, that's not how DP and I roll. We do pretty much everything together, and we like it that way. He works for the sheriffs and a federal agency and gets called out with barely a moments notice pretty often. When we have time together, we cherish it. We were supposed to stay with his cousin and his wife, and when she found out I was going on the fishing trip with them (as soon as we arrived), she got all huffy and told us we couldn't stay there because we weren't married. Um...you knew that before we came? What I think it really was after coming home and hearing comments is that she didn't know I was 22. She assumed I was older, and when she seen me, she immediately judged our relationship. Now, I don't particularly care what people think, but his family is SO close, and now I feel like I'm causing rifts. DP and this cousin were really close and don't get to see each other often, and when it happened DP of course immediately told me to get in the truck, he would handle it. I'm grateful and thankful he stood up for me, and us, but I felt terrible he was put into that position. While I know it wasn't my fault, I feel like it was. He reassured me it didn't matter what others thought, we were happy, so it shouldn't matter BUT I just lost it. We actually ended up leaving 2 days early over this outburst. I am not a crier, and I cried. Had my little breakdown over this woman whom doesn't even know me. I get along with everyone, and while not everyone approved at first, they've accepted it and they're friendly with me. My stepsons get a kick out of calling me mom in the store and watching the confused looks we get (they are 21 and 16). I love his 4 year old daughter, and she isn't old enough to know the difference, and he is amazing with my kids and refers to them as his own. I respect and love him more than anyone I know, I just don't know how to navigate the negativity yet. I guess this was sort of a rant/vent, but if anyone has advice or sly snarky replies for naysayers, I'm all eyes.
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A conversation with the young author of Everything is Illuminated sheds light on who Jonathan Safran Foer might be - or might not be.
Jonathan Safran Foer is a bespectacled Washington D.C. native who, on his first stab at a novel, wrote a story about a bespectacled Washington D.C. native named Jonathan Safran Foer.
Critics loved it. They also, naturally, thought he wrote about himself.
Foer's book, Everything is Illuminated, about a young man's journey to the Ukraine in search of his grandmother's lost history, sparked a bidding war among publishers. Foer walked away some $500,000 richer. The paperback rights earned him another $925,000.
Demure about his new-found wealth and his wunderkind status, Foer, 26, lives in a fifth floor walk-up apartment in Queens, writes at the public library and spends his money on sweets.
During a recent book tour to promote the paperback, Foer chatted by phone with the Times about reluctant talent, flirting and other JSFs.
Question: You've said it's useless to try and find points of convergence and divergence between Jonathan who wrote Everything is Illuminated and Jonathan who is in Everything is Illuminated. The Jonathan who wrote the story would not even be the Jonathan on the phone today? That must drive people crazy who want to say you wrote a pseudo-autobiography.
Answer: It's not just that I feel that I've changed since I finished the book. It's that the blur is kind of exciting to me. It makes the book exciting to me and it makes my life more exciting to me. Ultimately those are the two things I was trying to create. I wasn't just trying to write a book. I was trying to do something for my life. I wanted to invest myself personally in the story.
Q: How many JSFs are there?
A: It's not clear where one being begins and one lets off. Am I the same person that I was yesterday? Probably. Am I the same person as the person five years ago who wrote the book? Sort of, not exactly. Am I the same person as the person in the book? Well, clearly no.
Q: A lot of young writers out there are jealous of you. How do you handle that?
A: I've never met them. It's not an issue in my life. I don't think writers should be jealous of me.
Q: Wait, let me stop you for a second. I want to read a quote from you, and I know you don't like quotes, but it's you from the New York Observer: "I think there are two kinds of writers. Those who read a lot as kids and those that didn't. Usually the ones who read a lot as kids felt they wanted to be writers and had written a story that they were proud of by the time they were 8 years old. The other kind of writer, which I am, is someone who didn't read a lot as a kid, wasn't interested in writing and probably still really isn't interested in writing in any way other than as a vehicle to do other things." Wouldn't people be jealous of the reluctant talent?
A: Only if someone wants to be reluctant. If someone wants to be a writer I don't think they would want to be like me. It wasn't an easy, beautiful path. My book was rejected by numerous book publishers. I was a receptionist for many years and had numerous jobs that only allowed me to pay the rent. I need to write more good books. One book isn't the end of the road; it isn't even that great an accomplishment. People should be jealous of Philip Roth. He has been able to write a dozen really good books.
Q: Are you worried about peaking too early?
A: No, it's not something I worry about.
Q: The title Everything is Illuminated plays off a number of themes of revelation, inexperience, knowledge, but it refers explicitly to a pseudo-scientific theory about the act of making love as a tiny speck of light. What do the people who know you well think of this theory?
A: It's never come up in that way. I don't talk to people I know about my book all that much. You know, like how often do you talk about your job with your friends when you're out? A little bit, maybe. But people wouldn't dissect the way you did an interview. I doubt that they would. We talk about the things we used to talk about. Hey, what did you see, what's going on, done anything cool recently?
Q: What were you like in high school?
A: In a way you'd have to ask somebody else. I would say I wasn't the coolest kid in the school but neither was I the biggest loser. I didn't know what I wanted to be or what I wanted to do. And I think that was frustrating to me. I felt like I hadn't figured out where I belonged. I still don't know where I belong, but it was much more traumatic then. How do I relate to the world? What is my place in the world?
Q: On the subject of your short stories . . . In A Primer for the Punctuation of Heart Disease, published last summer, you used symbols to represent unspeakable moments in a conversation. Did you use wingdings?
A: They're all essentially wingdings. They are all from different places in Microsoft Word.
Q: You have another short story, called Cravings, about the cravings of mothers of famous people during their pregnancies. ("Emmy Hitler ate lamp shades in her third trimester" is the first line.) Tell me where that one grew out of.
A: That's just a weird one. That's really old. I was a freshman in college. I was 18, I guess. Who knows where that came from?
Q: According to your own analysis, your writing is about feeling and sensibility rather than the documentation of events and actions. Do you think feeling is acquired or is it an innate quality?
A: For everyone it's different.
I don't think that writers are inherently different from other people. They just have a different mode of expression from everyone else.
Q: Are you different?
A: Everyone is different.
Q: To an extent, sure, but there are people who are an order of magnitude different from different, if you see where I'm going.
A: I'm just not sure. I think it's for other people to say.
Q: Are you shy?
A: Sometimes. I don't do well at parties. I don't do well with meeting people. I'm pretty shy. Not to a fault, though. I'm probably more of a flirt. I'm one of those guys who's great with e-mail but not with parties. I have a girlfriend now.
Q: Did you write to girls?
A: Sure.
Q: E-mails, letters, stories? Poems?
A: No, poems.
Q: Were you successful?
A: Somewhat.
Q: If I were to look at your e-mails, would they share a similar style with your novel and short stories?
A: Probably. I think in a certain way they all share a sensibility.
Q: Do you write by hand or on a laptop?
A: Laptop.
Q: At the New York Public Library?
A: Right.
Q: Which branch? Or will I revealing your hiding place?
A: The main branch. 42nd Street.
Q: When the New Yorker photographed you for the debut fiction issue back in 2000, you were holding a dog. What was up with that?
A: They just put the dog in my hands. That was their idea.
Q: Whose blank paper have you added to the walls of your apartment? (Foer asks famous writers for blank pieces of paper, which he then frames and hangs in his Jackson Heights apartment. Susan Sontag, I.B. Singer and Howard Norman have sent him paper.)
A: I got one from Arthur Miller recently. I got one from the Freud museum. I visited and asked the museum's director for one. It's plain. It says Sig. Freud on it.
Q: You used to sleep with a picture of the 1984 Olympic gymnastics team under your pillow?
A: (laughing) That was from this interview with this girl where we were sitting and schmoozing and making jokes about when we were kids. I don't remember making that joke. It sounds like something I would say. I don't remember it being true, but why not?
Q: Everything is Illuminated is a young person's book, some would say, in the sense that it's about being on the verge of things, on the verge of figuring it out, being able to articulate it all. And yet, many were astonished a person as young as yourself could write such a book. Do you think it's difficult for a young writer to capture the voice of a young person? That to do so accurately requires some amount of time or space?
A: I think we can only know from the proof that we have. There have been really good books by young people in the past. F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing when he was 25. I don't think there are any rules about what people can do or what people are capable of. My readings are filled with a lot of people younger than 25 and older than 65. I seem to get both ends of the spectrum.
Q: Consider the many JSFs currently out there. Will you all know each other completely in twenty years? Or will you be strangers?
A: I'm so far past predicting things at this point. My life has taken so many astonishing turns.


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Getting bogged down by all those worries is enough to make anyone step away from the computer, but we say, why not just give it a go?
It's time to stop your umming and ahhing and take the plunge. The worst that can happen is that you'll meet a few unsuitable fellas but isn't it better to try on the off-chance you'll meet your Mr Right?
If you're getting back into dating for the first time in a while, have just gone through a messy break-up or don't have a clue where to begin, read our tips for getting started. It's not as scary as it sounds... honest!
Tell the truthThis might sound obvious, but there's just no point in telling fibs. We're not suggesting that you let the world know that you cut your toenails in bed or bleach your moustache but just don't tell any out-and-out lies!
It can be tempting to knock a few years off your age or a few inches off your waistline but remember, you want someone who likes you for you. And if your possible partner is going to be shallow enough to judge you based on those things, would you be interested anyway?
Photo or no photo?Going through a break-up or being single for a long time can knock your confidence and you might not feel ready to be judged on your appearance.
However, the majority of people do want to know what a potential date looks like (wouldn't you?). And profiles with photos can get up to nine times as many responses as those without.
If you really don't want to put a picture up, or can't find one that you think does you justice, create your profile without to start with and see what response you get.
Next time you're out with friends or family take your camera along and get some other people to do some snapping. Looking comfortable, happy and relaxed is an instant winner and a million times better than you in the kitchen with the self-timer.
Use your spell checkA simple thing like a misspelt word or bad grammar could be enough to put someone off. As silly as it sounds, when all someone has to form an opinion of you is a few lines in your profile, every word counts for 10, and a spelling mistake could make someone judge you unfairly.
Don't use language you wouldn't normally to try and impress - be yourself. And give your profile the once over before you post.
Go at your own pacePotential partners can sometimes be more forward via email than they ever would be usually. Because they're not saying things to your face, they think this gives them the right to be that bit more explicit!
While this can be flattering, you need to ask yourself: 'What would I do if someone said that to me in a bar?' If the answer is roll your eyes and turn your back, then it might be wise to give a similar response online.
But if he's scored highly in every other field, and you're put off by his lewd comments, why not say you're flattered, but maybe could he tone it down a bit?
You'll know from his response whether he wants a meaningless fling or he's just got a bit ahead of himself.
Keep your wits about youDon't give out personal details on the first exchange or messages and wait till you feel like you've got to know the person a little before arranging to meet up or giving them your address or phone number.
Basically, just do exactly as you would do in real life. If you don't think that giving your number out is a big deal, then by all means go ahead, but if you're usually cautious, then remain that way when chatting online.
When meeting up with someone for the first time, drop a friend a text to let them know where you're going, just to be on the safe side.
Be open mindedIt's easy to click through men's profiles and find fault with all of them, but try to be open-minded. If you have a very set 'type' consider trying someone new out for size - after all, it hasn't worked so far!
If you're taken with someone's profile but put off by one trait, be it their height or love of heavy metal music, consider sending a message anyway. You'll be able to tell after a few exchanges whether your first instinct was right and you can feel good about yourself because you didn't judge and gave someone a chance.
Try to enter into online dating with the right attitude. Don't expect too much too soon, and don't take it all too seriously.
Have a sense of humourKeep messages between potential dates light-hearted and fun. Don't be scared about making jokes and flirting. You may feel like you need to say exactly what you are and aren't looking for early on, but why not just have a chat and see how it goes?
If you hit it off and decide to meet up, that's the time to be honest about your situation. Until then, keep the chat flowing and the flirting fun.
Report any problemsIf you encounter any problems with people being rude or making you feel uncomfortable, then make sure you report them. The easy option is just to block the person so they can't contact you any more, but chances are they'll just do the same to somebody else.
Take the time to report the exact problem to the site's administrators. While it's good to have a laugh with online dating, people being offensive or hurtful are not acceptable and shouldn't spoil it for everybody else.
Keep on top of itTry to log into your account and check your messages on a regular basis. We're not suggesting every half an hour but maybe at the end of your working day or when you you get up in the morning.
If you're slow to reply then people might mistake you for not being interested or deliberately leave it a while to reply to you. If you have missed someone's message, or haven't been able to get back to them for a while, be honest and say why.
There's no point worrying about seeming 'too available', you might miss a golden opportunity because you've left it too long. And a lot of dating sites are more likely to display your profile in results if you're seen as being an 'active' member.
Be yourself!The most important rule of all. When someone doesn't know you it's tempting to try and pretend to be a perfect version of yourself, but few of us are good enough actors to carry it off successfully.
If you know you have some traits that have caused relationship problems in the past, then by all means try and tone them down, but what one person considers to be clingy, someone else might see as loving and thoughtful.
Surveys have repeatedly found a woman with confidence to be one of the biggest turn-ons for men and so that's the main thing you can work on to make online dating a success.
Whatever may have happened in your relationship past, it's made you the person you are today and instead of seeing broken relationships as a negative, look at the positive things they have given you - the ability to pick yourself up and get on with life, to recover from a broken heart and not give up on the chance to find love again.
So forget about faking a love of foreign film and sushi when you're a rom-com and curry kind of gal. Stick to your guns and you'll be more likely to find your perfect match.
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Where to next?- Read how Jason and Angie found love online
- Test our seven great date ideas
- Take our quiz to see if you're too choosy
- Find out why there's a science behind who you're attracted to


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RTS Futures Signal Bear Market Isn't Finished: Russia Overnight
Russia's dollar-denominated RTS Index (RTSI$) entered a bear market and futures contracts pointed to further declines as prospects for weaker commodity prices sour investor sentiment in the world's biggest energy exporter.
Futures on the gauge fell 0.5 percent to 128,490 in New York after the RTS tumbled 1.6 percent to 1,301.08 in Moscow, leaving it down 20 percent from a Jan. 28 peak. The ruble-based Micex Index (INDEXCF) retreated 1.1 percent and is trading 15 percent below its January high. OAO Gazprom, the natural-gas export monopoly, sank 2.5 percent in New York while OAO Severstal (SVST), Russia's second-largest steelmaker, lost 4.5 percent in London.
Russia, which counts on income from oil and gas sales for about half of its budget revenue, is expanding at the weakest pace since a 2009 contraction. China, the world's second-largest consumer of crude oil, is facing "huge challenges" as it seeks 7 percent annual growth this decade, down from more than 10 percent in the previous 10 years, Premier Li Keqiang said last month.
"The market is pricing in a fairly bleak outlook for energy and materials," Charles Robertson, the global chief economist at Renaissance Capital in London, said by e-mail yesterday. "Investors have not been keen to buy energy stocks. Also emerging market growth has disappointed, from Brazil to India, and in Russia too."
Russia's economy grew 1.6 percent in the first three months from a year earlier, slowing for a fifth consecutive quarter, according to the statistics office. The federal budget deficit will probably widen next year to more than the previously planned 0.2 percent of gross domestic product on reduced oil and gas revenue and a drop in other earnings, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said last month.
'Less Friendly'
The Bloomberg Russia-US Equity Index fell 2 percent to 85.43, the lowest level since June 28 last year. The gauge, which has dropped 14 percent so far this year, is poised to decline for a fifth week.
The Market Vectors Russia ETF (RSX), the largest exchange-traded fund dedicated to Russian equities, slid 2.4 percent to $25.09, the lowest close in 11 months. The RTS Volatility Index, which measures expected swings in the stock futures, surged 5.3 percent to 29.67.
"Emerging markets are not in fashion at the moment and there has been a focus of investors toward countries where there is a positive dynamic going on," Julian Mayo, the co-chief investment officer at Charlemagne Capital Ltd. in London, said by phone yesterday. "Russia is among the countries that are seen as less shareholder friendly."
Dividend Push
Government measures, such as a push to increase dividends paid by state companies, and an improved global outlook for the second half, may boost Russian equities later in the year, Mayo said.
"Russia is very much an oversold market, a market that may very much surprise on the upside in the next 12 months," said Mayo, who helps manage $2.7 billion in emerging-market assets at Charlemagne. "There are some positive things going on in Russia at the moment."
Authorities are considering an increase in dividend payouts by state-controlled companies to 35 percent of earnings, Siluanov said in May. The federal budget will get 153 billion rubles ($4.9 billion) in extra income in 2013 if all state companies set their dividend payout at 25 percent, adding to this year's planned budget intake from dividends of 172 billion rubles, the Finance Ministry estimates.
China Risk
"Russia will have a better second half, based on a better global economy," Michael Wang, an emerging-market strategist at Amiya Capital LLP in London, said by e-mail. "The obvious risk is what is going on in China. For the moment Chinese growth looks pretty lackluster and that could cap the upside on commodity prices even if the global economy is recovering."
Crude for July delivery rose 0.5 percent to $93.74 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange yesterday. Brent for July settlement was little changed at $103.04 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. Urals crude, Russia's major export blend, decreased 0.4 percent to $102.41 and is down 7.7 percent this year.
Ruble futures showed the currency gaining 0.7 percent to 31.02 to a dollar in U.S. hours. Russia's ruble weakened 0.8 percent to 32.1650 per dollar yesterday and decreased 0.8 percent to 36.6423 against the dollar-euro basket used by the central bank to manage swings that erode exporter competitiveness.
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In general, a discovery service and an identity provider are hosted on the same machine. Because the identity provider hosting the Discovery Service might be fulfilling other roles for an identity (such as a Policy Decision Point or an Authentication Authority), it can be configured to provide the requesting entity with security tokens. The Discovery Service can include a security token (inserted into a SOAP message header) in a DiscoveryLookup response. The token can then be used as a credential to invoke the service returned with it.
For information regarding the deployment of the Client SDK, see Chapter 14, Using the Client SDK.
Generate the keystore and certificate aliases for the machines that are hosting the Discovery Service, the WSP and the WSC.
OpenSSO Enterprise uses a Java keystore for storing the public and private keys so, if this is a new deployment, you might need to generate one using keytool, the key and certificate management utility supplied with the Java Platform, Standard Edition. In short, keytool generates key pairs as separate key entries (one for a public key and the other for its associated private key). It wraps the public key into an X.509 self-signed certificate (one for which the issuer/signer is the same as the subject), and stores it as a single-element certificate chain. Additionally, the private key is stored separately, protected by a password, and associated with the certificate chain for the corresponding public key. All public and private keystore entries are accessed via unique aliases.
Update the values of the key-related properties for the appropriate deployed instances of OpenSSO Enterprise.
The same property might have already been edited depending on the deployment scenario.
For the web services provider and web services client deployed on OpenSSO Enterprise:
Login to the OpenSSO Enterprise console.
Click the Configuration tab.
Click the Global tab.
Click the Liberty ID-WSF Security Service link.
The Liberty ID-WSF Security Service page is displayed.
Enter test as the value for the following attributes and click Save.
Default WSC Certificate alias
Trusted Authority signing certificate alias
Trusted CA signing certificate aliases
test is the default self-signed certificate shipped with OpenSSO Enterprise. Use your own key and CA name for your customized deployment. If you want to use a different keystore location, under the Configuration tab click Servers and Sites. Click the link of the appropriate server instance. Under the Security tab click Inheritance Settings and do the following:
Uncheck the Keystore File box.
Optionally, uncheck the Private Key Password File box and the Keystore Password File box.
Click Save and Back to Server Profile. Click the Keystore link and enter the location of the Keystore File. (If you change the password for the Private Key or Keystore, you need to encode the new password using the ampassword command or encode.jsp before putting it into the corresponding password file.)
Log out of the console and restart the instance to allow the changes to take effect.
For the web services provider and web services client deployed on the same machine as the OpenSSO Enterprise Client SDK update the values of the following key-related properties in the AMConfig.properties:
com.sun.identity.saml.xmlsig.keystore defines the location of the keystore file.
com.sun.identity.saml.xmlsig.storepass defines the location of the file that contains the password used to access the keystore file.
com.sun.identity.saml.xmlsig.keypass defines the location of the file that contains the password used to protect the private key of a generated key pair.
com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.wsc.certalias defines the certificate alias used for signing the WSP protocol responses.
com.sun.identity.liberty.ws.trustedca.certaliases defines the certificate alias and the Provider ID list on which the WSP is trusting.
Configure each identity provider and service provider as an entity using the Federation module.
This entails configuring each provider as an entity in a circle of trust.
Establish provider trust between the entities by creating an authentication domain using the Federation module.
See Part II, Federation, Web Services, and SAML Administration, in Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 Administration Guide.
Change the default value of the Provider ID for the Discovery Service on the machine where the Discovery Service is hosted to the value that reflects the previously loaded metadata.
Change the default value of the Provider ID for the Liberty Personal Profile Service on the machine where the Liberty Personal Profile Service is hosted to the value that reflects the previously loaded metadata.
Register a resource offering for the WSP using either of the following methods.
Make sure that the appropriate directives are chosen.
For SAML Bearer token use GenerateBearerToken or AuthenticateRequester.
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Click here for information on the Engaging Stakeholders in Identifying Priority Evidence-Practice Gaps and Strategies for Improvement (the ESP Project).
The ABCD National Research Partnership (The Partnership) works across states and territories in Australia to improve the quality of primary health care available to Indigenous people. Using participatory action research approaches, The Partnership aims to:
- investigate the variation in quality of care in Indigenous primary health care (PHC) centres
- explore the underlying factors associated with variation at the health centre and regional level
- identify and examine specific strategies that have been effective in improving primary care clinical performance
- work with health service staff, management and policy makers to enhance the effective implementation of successful strategies.
Click here to download a printable version of the project information sheet.
The ABCD project originated in 2002 in the Northern Territory with the ABCDE project continuing this work from 2005-2009. By the end of 2009 over 140 health centres around Australia were using ABCD tools and processes to improve their quality of care.
The projects provided support for the development and use of audit tools and processes and a web-based database and reporting system for Primary Health Care centres around Australia. Following requests from users for continued use of the tools and processes, One21Seventy, the National Centre for Quality Improvement in Indigenous Health was established in November 2009. This organisation, based in Menzies, provides tools and processes, including training, to support primary health care providers to carry out Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) using clinical audits, systems assessment, web-based data analysis and reporting to inform goal setting and action planning.
The Partnership works alongside One21Seventy to continue to develop the evidence-base available to One21Seventy and to answer key questions relevant to quality improvement in the sector. The Partnership accesses data collected in routine CQI activities from services that have consented to participate with the Partnership for research.
Timeline progression of the ABCD Partnership Project:
How researchers can get involved:
Researchers with an interest in being involved in the work of The Partnership are encouraged to discuss their interests with the National Project Leader, Ross Bailie. Researchers may request access to data available through the project by following the steps outlined in the ABCD National Research Partnership Research and Publication Approval Policy and Procedures .
Some data analysis support is available for priority projects. All research conducted through The Partnership needs to go through an approval process to ensure that research is consistent with the project aims and participatory processes, meets required ethical standards and does not result in duplication.
Click here to download a printable version of the research information sheet .
Our funders, supporters and partners:
The ABCD National Research Partnership Project is supported by funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Lowitja Institute, and by in-kind and financial support from a range of Aboriginal Community Controlled organisations and Government agencies. The Lowitja Institute provides support to employ research officers in two jurisdictions and to support the development of audit tools and processes. beyondblue has provided funding for the development and implementation of the Youth Health tool.
Our partners:
We work in partnership with partners from Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation peak bodies, government health departments, academic institutions, and Primary Health Care (PHC) services in five states and territories: the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and New South Wales. Many of the partners participated in the ABCD project and have maintained their engagement in improving the quality of care through the current Partnership project.
Partner organisations :
- University of Queensland
- Department of Health
- Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council
- James Cook University.
Northern Territory (NT):
Western Australia (WA):
South Australia (SA):
Far West NSW:
Project management committee:
The committee is chaired by Professor Ross Bailie and comprises State and Territory Project Leaders, representatives from health departments, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations peak bodies and academic organisations, and the project manager. Meetings are held quarterly.
Responsibilities of the project management committee:
- provide strategic direction
- monitor progress
- foster communication between partners and stakeholders
- support translation of research findings into policy and practice.
Project Co-ordinating Centre:
The project is co-ordinated by the Project Co-ordinating Centre (PCC), based in the Menzies School of Health Research Brisbane office. The PCC operates under the direction of Project Leader, Professor Ross Bailie, with a staff comprising the project manager, senior research fellow, senior research officer and research assistant.
Responsibilities of the project co-ordinating centre:
- coordinate the day to day operational management nationally and across all jurisdictions
- management of project budget, funding arrangements and reporting
- data analysis - national and regional
- coordination of dissemination and communication activity
- coordination of management committee meetings, national research meetings and annual project planning meetings.
State and Territory Steering Committees:
Each participating state and territory has a steering committee (except Far West NSW) led by a regional project leader and includes members drawn from academic organisations, Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, state and territory health agencies, Project Co-ordinating Centre personnel and other key stakeholders.
The committees meet every one to three months by teleconference. The committee is supported by a state and territory research officer employed by a local academic organisation.
Responsibilities of the State and Territory Steering Committees:
Provide oversight, support and advice on all operational aspects of the project in their jurisdiction including:
- establishment and running of the project in their region
- gaining regional ethical clearance and ensuring ongoing adherence to high ethical standards
- fostering regional partnerships
- engagement of participating primary health care services
- maximising the value of research from the project to Indigenous primary health care services in their region, through setting of research priorities, action research activity and research transfer
- management of regional project funds, including identifying opportunities for funding to enhance the potential scope and impact of the project.
State and Territory Project Leaders and Overviews:
Northern Territory:
- Leader - Professor Tricia Nagel
- Click here to download a printable version of the Northern Territory Overview
- Leader - Associate Professor Sarah Larkins
- Click here to download a printable version of the Queensland Overview
South Australia:
- Leader - Dr David Scrimgeour
- Click here to download a printable version of the South Australia Overview
Western Australia:
- Leader - Dr Sandra Thompson
- Click here to download a printable version of the Western Australia Overview
Far West NSW:
- Leader - Dr Hugh Burke
- Click here to download a printable version of the Far West NSW Overview.
State and Territory Research Officers:
A Research Officer (RO) is employed in each participating state and territory and works under the guidance of the State and Territory Steering Committee and Project Leader to develop and implement a program of action research that addresses the state and territories' priorities and fits within the broad framework of the Partnership.
Researchers are encouraged to utilise the data to undertake research projects that meet the aims of the project and have the best possible impact on policy and practice. All researchers are required to adhere to the principles in the National Statement on Ethics and Values for Indigenous Health Research. Students are also encouraged to undertake projects. Click here to download the notice to prospective researchers.
National and regional research program:
The Partnershp aims to:
- investigate the variation in quality of care in Indigenous primary health care (PHC) centre
- explore the underlying factors associated with variation at the health centre and regional level
- identify and examine specific strategies that have been effective in improving primary care clinical performance.
Click here to download a Research Focus 2010-2014 brochure.
The research program utilises expertise and skills from academia, policy and service levels across Australia and is focussed on the project objectives. The Partnership provides a structure that facilitates service and policy driven research that is cross jurisdictional, cross sector and trans-disciplinary. This collaborative approach and access to a national data set provides opportunity for analysis at a national level and for more in-depth research to achieve the objectives of the project.
National research priorities are identified through analysis of the national data set, consideration of emerging health issues, and areas of common interest across jurisdictions. Regional research priorities are identified by state and territory steering committees supported by State and Territory Research Officers who facilitate this process through consultation with service providers and policy makers.
A collaborative approach that includes active involvement of end users throughout the process, from identification of research topics to implementation, is used to develop and implement research projects to address identified priorities. Each project has an advisory/reference group comprising end users, key stakeholders and experts, including service providers, clinical experts, policy makers and quality improvement experts.
Data are extracted from the One21seventy web-based database for services who have agreed to participate in the Partnership. Individual client data and service names are de-identified and any identifying information is not published without the prior consent of the service. Data at the national and jurisdictional level are available to researchers for projects that have been approved by the Research sub-committee and have ethics approval.
Research under the Partnership must have ethics clearance from the relevant ethics committee and be approved by the Partnership Research Subcommittee. This committee consists of seven members including academics and health department researchers from NT, WA, Qld and the PCC, and oversees all aspects of the research program, strengthening research projects through feedback to researchers. This includes providing advice and support on the development and implementation of projects, assessing and approving projects, monitoring progress and advice and approval of manuscripts for publication, policy briefs, or research reports. Researchers need to submit an Expression of Interest to the Research Subcommittee prior to accessing data.
Click on the following poster links for further details of the national and regional research program:
- CQI + Research + Change Advocates = Improvements in Primary Health Care
- How PHC services can improve quality of care through CQI research and shared learning.
Participating Primary Health Care (PHC) Centres:
As at July 2013, 165 PHC centres (132 Government health services and 33 community controlled services) have agreed to participate in the research project. This is formalised by signing the ABCD National Research Partnership Agreement between Menzies, the PHC centre or Health Department and the Regional Project Leader. The PHC centres agree to contribute their de-identified CQI data from the One21seventy data base into a national pool for broad analysis of variation in health care delivery and to answer key questions of relevance to policy and practice. They also have an option to participate in more in-depth studies and to lead and/or participate in research driven by locally identified needs.
This map gives an overview of the location of the health services in the Partnership:
Routine analysis of variation in care:
- Analysis of national and jurisdictional data, Menzies School of Health Research
- Extent of screening for post natal depression in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island women, Combined Universities Centre for Rural Health (CUCRH)
- Longitudinal analysis of maternal health data, Monash University.
Factors underlying variation / Contextual analysis:
- Childhood anaemia, Menzies School of Health Research
- Competing demands in primary care – the case of depression in diabetes, Menzies School of Health Research
- What are the characteristics of health services who demonstrate improvement in quality of care? CUCHR, James Cook University
- Realist Analysis - effectiveness of CQI in complex primary health care environments, Menzies School of Health Research
- Community environmental conditions and risk factors for cardio metabolic disease, University of South Australia.
Analysis of what kinds of interventions work:
- Investigating the barriers and enablers to Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) within Aboriginal primary health care services in South Australia, Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia
- Qualitative strengths-based evaluation of Indigenous health centre participation in CQI in Australia, International student Menzies. CQI success stories summary
- Supporting CQI within Indigenous PHC – identifying and exploring effective strategies, University of South Australia.
Emerging issues:
- ABCD NRP: development of conceptual model incorporating practice-based research networks, system-based PAR and CQI in community-based PHC (incorporates literature review of all elements), Menzies School of Health Research
- TRAK - Talking about Raising Aboriginal Kids - an evaluation of an early childhood education intervention for remote Aboriginal Health Workers, Menzies School of Health Research.
Information brochures:
- ABCD National Research Partnership – Research Focus 2010-2014 brochure
- ABCD National Research Partnership – Improving Practice through Research brochure
- Data Dictionary
- Information for prospective researchers - National Research Partnership to improve primary health care performance and outcomes for Indigenous peoples flyer.
- Matthews, V., Schierhout, G., McBroom, J., Connors, C., Kennedy, C., Kwedza, R., Larkins, S., Moore, E., Thompson, S., Scrimgeour, D., & Bailie R. (2014). Duration of CQI participation: a key factor explaining improvement in delivery of Type 2 diabetes services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. BMC Health Services Research,14, 578.
- O'Donoghue, L., Percival, N., Laycock, A., McCalman, J., Tsey, K., Armit, C., & Bailie, R. (2014). Evaluating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health promotion activities using audit and feedback. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 20, 339-344.
- Bailie, R., Matthews, V., Brands, J., & Schierhout, G.(2013). A systems-based partnership learning model for strengthening primary health care. Implementation Science, 8,143.
- Ralph, A., Fittock, M., Schultz, R., Thompson, D., Dowden, M., Clemens, T., Parnaby, M., Clark, M., McDonald, E., Edwards, K., Carapetis, J., & Bailie, R. (2013). Improvement in rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease management and prevention using a health centre-based continuous quality improvement approach. BMC Health Services Research, 13, 25.
- Schierhout, G., Hains, J., Si, D., Kennedy, C., Cox, R., Kwedza, R., O'Donoghue, L., Fittock, M., Brands, J., Lonergan, K., Dowden, M., & Bailie, R. (2013). Evaluating the effectiveness of a multifaceted, multilevel continuous quality improvement program in primary health care: developing a realist theory of change. Implementation Science, 8,119.
- Schierhout, G., Nagel, T., Si, D., Connors, C., Brown, A., & Bailie, R. (2013). Do competing demands of physical illness in Type 2 diabetes influence depression screening, documentation and management in primary care: a cross-sectional analytic study in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander primary health care settings. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 7,16.
- Si, D., Dowden, M., Kennedy, C., Cox, R., O'Donoghue, L., Liddle, H., Kwedza, R., Connors, C., Thompson, S., Burke, H., Brown, A., Weeramanthri, T., Schierhout, G., & Bailie, R. (2011). Indigenous community care: Documented depression in patients with diabetes. Australian Family Physician, 40(5),331-333.
- Bailie, R., Si, D., Connors, C., Kwedza, R., O'Donoghue, L., Kennedy, C., et al. (2011). Variation in quality of preventive care for well adults in Indigenous community health centres in Australia. BMC Health Services Research, 11(1) 139.
- Rumbold, A., Bailie, R., Si, D., Dowden, M., Kennedy, C., Cox, R., et al. (2011). Delivery of maternal health care in Indigenous primary care services: baseline data for an ongoing quality improvement initiative. Pregnancy and Childbirth, 11(1),16.
- Bailie, R., Si, D., Shannon, C., Semmens, J., Rowley, K., Scrimgeour, D.J., et al. (2010). Study protocol: national research partnership to improve primary health care performance and outcomes for Indigenous peoples. BMC Health Services Research,10,129.
Our staff:
National project leader:
- Professor Ross Bailie, senior principal research fellow.
Coordinating centre:
- Dr Frances Cunningham, senior research fellow
- Dr Veronica Matthews, senior research officer
- Jodie Bailie, research fellow
National project leader:
Coordinating centre:
- General enquiries
- Senior research officer, Dr Veronica Matthews
- Senior research fellow, Dr Gill Schierhout.
State/territory project leaders:
- Northern Territory: Associate professor Tricia Nagel, email
- Queensland: Associate professor Sarah Larkins, email
- South Australia: Dr David Scrimgeour, email
- Western Australia: Dr Sandra Thompson, email
- Far West NSW: Dr Hugh Burke, email.
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It will splurge cash on ASEAN targets.
Armed with its formidable $966 million cash pile, F&B giant Thai Beverage is forecasted to aggressively snap up Southeast Asian companies over the next four years.
According to a report by OCBC, the global beer industry has been awash with news of mergers and acquisitions of late, as more brewers turn to big-ticket deals to boost profitability and drive growth.
Thai Beverage is likely to go down the M&A path as well, particularly in light of the group's Vision 2020 strategy.
"Following Fraser and Neave's (FNN) sale of its 55% stake in Myanmar Brewery Limited to Myanma Economic Holdings (MEHL), FNN currently has a total cash of S$966m. We think that if necessary, FNN and Thai Bev partnering each other for potential acquisitions is a conceivable possibility," said OCBC.
"We expect both entities to expand into their new markets - Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines, but this would result in varying marketing expenditure as they strive to build brand presence in these countries, thus margins for the segment would be affected in certain quarters," OCBC added.
In the meantime, ThaiBev will continue developing its core business, with new products being developed and distributed in its regional distribution network.
"We remain positive on the group's long-term growth plans," OCBC said.
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"We Once Were" is Rush of Fools' much-delayed third project, finally being released September 27 on eOne. Guitarist /songwriter Kevin Huguley says the new project was delayed for several reasons: "Our label, Midas Records, shut down and we lost a band member who felt the calling to leave. At the same time, our drummer's mom was going through cancer, and we dealt with that together. Then we had our trailer stolen with all of our equipment."
"We Once Were" is co-produced by Dennis Herring (who's worked with Elvis Costello and Counting Crows, among others) and the Alabama-based band has never sounded stronger. Singer Wes Willis says, "It's definitely a fresh sound for us." For more on Rush of Fools, click http://www.rushoffools.com/
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I found him in the garage on a Sunday afternoon. It was the day after we moved into Falconer Road. The winter was ending. Mum had said we'd be moving just in time for the spring. Nobody else was there. Just me. The others were inside the house with Dr. Death, worrying about the baby.He was lying there in the darkness behind the tea chests, in the dust and dirt. It was as if he'd been there forever. He was filthy and pale and dried out and I thought he was dead. I couldn't have been more wrong. I'd soon begin to see the truth about him, that there'd never been another creature like him in the world.We called it the garage because that's what the real estate agent, Mr. Stone, called it. It was more like a demolition site or a rubbish dump or like one of those ancient warehouses they keep pulling down at the wharf. Stone led us down the garden, tugged the door open, and shined his little flashlight into the gloom. We shoved our heads in at the doorway with him."You have to see it with your mind's eye," he said. "See it cleaned, with new doors and the roof repaired. See it as a wonderful two-car garage."He looked at me with a stupid grin on his face."Or something for you, lad-a hideaway for you and your pals. What about that, eh?"I looked away. I didn't want anything to do with him. All the way round the house it had been the same. Just see it in your mind's eye. Just imagine what could be done. All the way round I kept thinking of the old man, Ernie Myers, that had lived here on his own for years. He'd been dead nearly a week before they found him under the table in the kitchen. That's what I saw when Stone told us about seeing with the mind's eye. He even said it when we got to the dining room and there was an old cracked toilet sitting there in the comer behind a plywood screen. I just wanted him to shut up, but he whispered that toward the end Ernie couldn't manage the stairs. His bed was brought in here and a toilet was put in so everything was easy for him. Stone looked at me like he didn't think I should know about such things. I wanted to get out, to get back to our old house again, but Mum and Dad took it all in. They went on like it was going to be some big adventure. They bought the house. They started cleaning it and scrubbing it and painting it. Then the baby came too early. And here we were.Chapter 2I NEARLY GOT INTO THE GARAGE that Sunday morning. I took my own flashlight and shined it in. The outside doors to the back lane must have fallen off years ago and there were dozens of massive planks nailed across the entrance. The timbers holding the roof were rotten and the roof was sagging in. The bits of the floor you could see between the rubbish were full of cracks and holes. The people that took the rubbish out of the house were supposed to take it out of the garage as well, but they took one look at the place and said they wouldn't go in it even for extra money. There were old chests of drawers and broken washbasins and bags of cement, ancient doors leaning against the walls, deck chairs with the cloth seats rotted away. Great rolls of rope and cable hung from nails. Heaps of water pipes and great boxes of rusty nails were scattered on the floor. Everything was covered in dust and spiders' webs. There was mortar that had fallen from the walls. 'There was a little window in one of the walls but it was filthy and there were rolls of cracked linoleum standing in front of it. The place stank of rot and dust. Even the bricks were crumbling like they couldn't bear the weight anymore. It was like the whole thing was sick of itself and would collapse in a heap and have to get bulldozed away.I heard something scratching in one of the corners, and something scuttling about; then it all stopped and it was just dead quiet in there.I stood daring myself to go in.I was just going to slip inside when I heard Mum shouting at me"Michael! What you doing?"She was at the back door."Didn't we tell you to wait till we're sure it'sI stepped back and looked at her."Well, didn't we?" she shouted."Yes," I said."So keep out! All right?"I shoved the door and it lurched half shut on itssingle hinge."All right?" she yelled.',All right," said. "Yes. All right. All right.""Do you not think we've got more to worry about than stupid you getting crushed in a stupid garage?"Yes." "You just keep out, then! Right?" "Right. Right, right, right.Then I went back into the wilderness we called garden and she went back to the stupid baby.
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While I don't think any opinions are necessarily wrong, I do think it's possible for people to misunderstand the plot and then get mad that the story didn't end in the way they were hoping for. In these cases, sometimes people offer objective-sounding justifications for their dislike that, in my opinion, don't really hold up to a serious analysis of the plot.
|2014-02-24, 23:52
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Heh, for what it's worth, I do think Shinichiro made a shitty decision, and I think the anime neither agrees nor disagrees with me, but the anime does agree with me on the point that it's his decision. I don't disagree with anything relentlessflame said, but the way it's phrased seems to ignore important developments... (He said he could write a paper on the show; so could I, but this is not the True Tears thread. )
So from my perfrence True Tears looks like this:
Best girl wins? Absolutely not.
Best couple wins? Probably not.
The couple that makes the most dramatic sense? Definitely.
[Poor Aiko. Does anyone root for her? ]
|2014-02-25, 00:11
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I agree that figuring out the thematic approach to a show pretty much breaks down the major oncoming plot points (including romance, pairing etc). ....
So in an essence I can sometime muster more sympathy to the grumbling of a certain stories than others even if I was able to see what the plot had in store for us.
|2014-02-25, 04:17
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Well, despite I also agree that True Tears made it clear at the end of episode 3 which pairing would have been at the end, I could have never bet anything on it (say like I could with WA2 after the very very beginning of ep. 2).
Spoiler for True Tears:
On a side note for all the reasons written by Archon_Wing and relentlessflame I can't put WA2 on tier with True Tears, despite I loved that series (that is not ended yet, btw)
|2014-02-25, 04:51
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As for realizing it, I think a lot of people may have come across it but weren't able to bring it to focus because it fell outside the realm of expectations and wasn't something one would ordinarily look out out for. So yea, I definitely thought it was brilliant because it took advantage of something the audience takes for granted.
Now, I don't deny that the romantic aspect is a compelling part and it's not unreasonable to take that focus but it is somewhat unfortunate that there was all this nice storytelling and many were stuck on one aspect.
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Hmm... A simple question: Have anyone see a Masterpiece anime that leads to this situation? Putting the main character into choosing mutiply love choice?
For me:
Code Geass: No
Death Note: No
Fullmetal: No
Berseker: No
Rose of Versailes: Like Fruit Basket below
Fruit Basket: Not really, since it's a girl
Macross: Yes
Evangelion: Shinji will run away before making that choice.
What I meaning is, how many romance anime are there is deserved to go into textbook, into history? I always feel there is something in Romantic materials that anime couldn't illustrate, unlike literature or music. Love in anime... It misses the Thirst for Perfection. Seldomly do we see a character becoming better through Love - Last time I saw is was in Ghibil movies.
Without Ideals to Bonds, Roads to Travel together, Aspects to Perfect, the only role of shipping is for self-perfection - A.K.A you don't saw the character as a human, as your friend.
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If you're going to have an argument about storytelling execution, I think the first question you need to ask is: what was the author trying to accomplish through the plot? You can usually get big hints of this as you go (particularly since many anime follow the "essay style" of writing: say what you're going to say, say it, then say what you said), but it's easiest to see this when you get to the end and you can tie the start and the ending together.
In the cases where the execution is weak, even in retrospect, the path toward the conclusion is convoluted or needlessly obscured. Of course, I'm not talking about plot twists that are necessary to keep things interesting. But even plot twists should contribute in some way to the central themes and develop meaningfully towards the conclusion.
I can definitely think of romantic anime where, along those lines, the execution may have compromised the author's message to some degree, or at the very least made the author's message look a bit callous or shallow. Sometimes this has to do with weaknesses inherent to the adaptation -- particularly trying to cram way too much content into too short of a time frame. Sometimes, it may betray the fact that story really didn't even all that cohesive of a theme/message in the first place, and was just taking the viewer along for the ride.
But, by the same token, I can also think of cases where others have accused a story of these very sorts of things, and I just can't agree based on the way I interpreted the central themes/messages. But perhaps this is because I can be a bit more forgiving of certain obstacles so long as I can see how all the pieces fit together -- as I believe you pointed out before, once I see what the author is "trying to do", I tend to focus more on that and subconsciously dismiss or minimize things that might distract. This makes it a bit harder for me to be sympathetic to certain arguments because I've fixated enough on the pattern that it's hard for me to not see it. But, in then end, this is why the perspective of other viewers is valuable, even if I can't necessarily always quite follow the other arguments all the way through.
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|2014-02-25, 23:01
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Cross Game - I need more
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Cross Game and Touch are both also masterpiece romance anime. Although they aren't as "multiple choice."
Kimagure Orange Road is usually considered a romance masterpiece and it had a strong love triangle.
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I just don't get butthurt. I don't think I've ever been unable to predict who would end up with who in a show, anime hits you over the head with the main couple.
Like lol Gundam SEED. Let's get Kira and Fllay to hook up, but make sure to couple him with Lacus in every. single. opening!
|2014-03-12, 08:31
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i love it. jump into this thread, see the two most discussed shows are True Tears and White Album 2, which are both top 5 romance animes in my opinion. the ship i go for rarely loses out, so i guess i'm fortunate enough to not have to deal with the losing emotions.. the ones where i have gotten them wrong (and full on know it) are:
Clannad - Tomoyo and Kyou were both definitely better
Honey and Clover - Ayu (oh god, so tragic)
Code Geass - Shirley
Guilty Crown - Hare
also: that hug scene. the first time i watched it, i paused it and clapped for a minute. something similar happened in White Album too.
|2014-03-17, 16:02
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More often than not I think that when a heroine loses their battle for love, the ensuing backlash is more projection than disagreement with the plot. Someone briefly touched at this earlier, and I agree with what was said. It's not about the writing, it's about the viewers. Viewers want to see the girl they like the most get the man (ironically, I might add, for several reasons). Sometimes the girl is the better girl (sometimes literally every other girl is the better girl. Y'all know who I'm referring to), and thus people think she was the most deserving. More often than not though, the focus shifts to the winner and that serves as the indication.
Currently D-Frag! is like this for me. I want the girl I like more to win, but I know she wont. I'm not bothered by it though, because I know that the writing supports the choice being made. There's nothing outlandish here, except for my personal preference. :P
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There is one motion in anime I can't never agree: In most time winning girl means girl with most issues. If you have strong girl who support protagonist whole time and emotional cripple who need depend on others you don't have to think twice who will win.
Same goes for damsell in distress I still waiting (probably pointlessly) for anime where protagonist safe kidnapped princess and ask her for to be bridesmade of his fellow female warior who helped safe he ass.
Whenever I see this motion it count as "Defeat romance" for me as I always considered love to be partnership insteed babisiting.
|2014-03-22, 16:34
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If anything Kyouko makes more of the choice but again there is never any doubt who she will choose.
So I don't really think Maison Ikkoku has love triangles in the traditional sense, those love triangles were more road blocks for the end couple which you know from the first chapter.
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So, I was on the bus to university the other day and, just as it was approaching my stop, a petite and stylishly dressed girl hopped on. Having nothing better to do for the next two minutes, I decided to use this time to examine her outfit and see if I could take some inspiration from it.
Clinically examined thus, there was nothing particularly exciting about what Mystery Girl was wearing: a green jacket, presumably with a nice top underneath (I didn't have time to ogle her that much), jeans and a pair of green flats that matched the shade of her jacket perfectly.
Although the rest of her outfit was generally good, it was those flats that really caught my attention, in fact, I couldn't take my eyes off them. I'm usually a high heel girl, but even I have to admit that, when you think about it, heels are pretty fantastical creations both in their impracticality and their beauty - sort of like pink dragons in footwear terms. Uh, or something.
And so I'd been searching for a good month or so for a pair of flats that were as attractive as they were comfortable when Mystery Girl stepped onto the bus in hers.
My memory's pretty poor, but allow me describe to you what what little I can recall: the colour was a fresh shade of pea green that contrasted with the battered but clearly high quality leather they were made of and highlighted some interesting gold buckle details around the toe.
My recollection of them, even just a day later, is quite hazy, but the impression they inspired remains, and so, though the details are off, I can still remember seeing a beautiful pair of shoes.
How strange then that, browsing through ebay a few hours later that day, I should come across a pair of Chloe flats , red this time, that I thought, nay, I knew! were the same pair as those that had stood next to my bedraggled converse on the morning bus!
Sadly, with bidding already up to £92 and with still another 3 days of auctioning to go, my dream flats are already far beyond my means (hence my status as a window-licker), but perhaps the one or two people who do read this strange little blog would like to have a look.
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And then there's Ground Zero. I returned just today from my first trip to NYC, and I will admit to some nervous tension as I trod the financial district towards the sight of the 9/11 tragedy. The feeling was likely a combination of finally witnessing the sight of such a horrific and life-changing event, as well as the gut-clenching remembrance of that day when so many thousands of Americans, some of them fellow police officers, died at the hands of terrorists. Has it been almost ten years?
When I finally arrived at Ground Zero, the vacant lot that formerly held seven buildings of the World Trade Center, I saw nothing more than a construction site. From the ashes of the Trade Center rubble we all observed on television following the attacks, a new building and a new memorial were emerging before the eyes of a mournful, curious and large crowd. The new structures included the Reflection Pond, on track to be completed in time for the ten year anniversary this September 11th, and the new skyscraper that was already pushing up into the skyline. The terrorist attacks may have knocked our country out of its usual orbit, but it seemed we were back on track.After spending some time there I moved on, putting 9/11 and Ground Zero out of my mind. But despite the distracting sights, sounds, smells and tastes of New York, the ghost of the attacks haunt this town in a very real way. There were police officers on every street and in large groups at major intersections. Vehicle barriers blocked access to crowded streets or just about any structure of significance. Video cameras were ubiquitous.
And then there was the airport on the way home. What had seemed routine on the flight out to New York now took on a surreal quality. As I removed my shoes, jackets, pocket contents, belts and (in posing for the new scanner) my dignity, for the first time I connected the dots back to Ground Zero in a direct way as well as metaphorically. At each new layer of intrusion I thought how much our country had paid for its failure to protect itself: the cost in money is more than a trillion counting the wars waged following the attacks,; the approximate cost in lives, including our soldiers, approaches 10,000; the cost in our sense of security, our privacy and our individual freedoms is, simply put, priceless.
As I finish off this piece, a bit of serendipity. News of Osama bin Laden's death at the hands of our military just arrived and I couldn't help but yell with great pleasure. As I watch the news coverage, and witness like-minded crowds of ecstatic citizens throughout the country, I am conflicted. This type of celebration, so common for us during sporting events, elections or other demonstrations of our freedoms, has been unleashed as a result of death. As much as he deserved his fate, Osama bin Laden has also cursed us with the desire to cheer someone's death.
So be it. May he rot in hell.