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|2006-10-27, 23:13
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This is a very shonen styled series. Wherein the character is devoid of the ability to really look at women as secual beings. Luffy sees Nami with the same view he has of Nico Robin, of Usopp and even of Zoro. He cares for them as trusted comrades on his quest to be pirate king. They are his Nakama.
A good example of this behaviour I would show is in Goku from Dragon Ball. There was no competition for his heart between bulma and Chichi, he kjust agreed to marry chichi from her asking him to (thinking it was some sort of food). Then later, rather than break a promise he made (though he had forgotten about it) he marries chichi and of course at some point consumates the marriage at least twice. There was never anything in the entire run of the series to show any sort of "love" between them, but many times of worry about consequences of actions (more so about if they concerned food (remind you of someone?).
|2006-10-28, 00:04
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Luffy is still a kid by default, a rather young, ambitious one at that. So I think women is hardly a thing on his mind atm.
I'd say the one closest to him would be Nami. And sometime down the road *bow chika bow wow* >.> what? *cough* herm...anyhow, I think you get the point ;P
I don't see Nico Robin w/ anyone besides Zoro.
AFAIK, Vivi is outta the picture since Crocodile's arc ended.
dear god...*moves his can of air freshener away from the computer* damn near drank that instead of my soda >.<
|2006-10-28, 04:12
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Eh?...Zoro eh. Is it because she tried to get his attention early on by semi-flirting? She seemed like she was pretty much "flirting globally" when she first joined the series, aka, just sorta had a seductive pose when anyone/everyone was looking.
IMO, Zoro might end up with Smoker's lieutenant...LOL.
I voted Nico Robin...because she seems more of a traumatized individual and is more likely to cling to someone. Nami has always had the outward appearance of nonchalance (though, it's probably because she's used to being around bawdy pirate crews, and has a more girlish aura than Robin, who just looks dangerously laid back).
|2006-10-30, 17:31
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i agree with you people. Zolo is to...tense and he needs some love in his life. i say heshould endup with Nami. Cause they are in the PERFECT age for eachother. Cause robin is to old for Zolo and Luffy is to young for nami. So they are PERFECT!!! Or wecan twist the show up We could do it YAOI AND YURI STYLE!!!! Like robinand nami could be together and either Luffy and Zolo be together or with Sanji. but....thats just me. But also...If we add romance it would just mess the show up so....we should save that for later.
|2006-10-31, 15:17
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Location: michigan!!!!!!!the big mitten
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*does evil laugh* Whats wrong in scarying people?!?!? anyways......true.....it is made for SHOJI. (or how ever you spell it) But...youhave to agree...once they do allthe crews dream and does all of that junk...they should a have ROMANCE thign going on.....how bout that?
|2006-11-04, 05:43
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I'd love to see more Zoro/Robin suggestion; something about just the idea of those two makes me smile. As to people who think romance would kill a shounen series, that's only because we have yet to see romance done right.
Too much genre-categorizing, not enough flat-out story appreciation. Too bad Oda's been alluding to no romance whatsoever in his interviews... -_-
|2006-11-04, 06:58
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Frankly, i dont c age being that relevant pinkflower... age might seem important at a young age, but becomes alot less significant in the long run. to the point that it doesnt matter at all.
|2006-11-04, 13:36
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|2006-11-06, 03:01
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I don't think romance belongs in OP, but not because of some inherent trait as a shounen series. Plenty of shounen series (i.e. Naruto) have romance as an element. It just doesn't belong here because it's all about the adventure and friendship. I also like that the women are strong characters in their own right and aren't just worried about their latest crush. I must admit that romance in shounen series often seems sort of forced, like they're just trying to appeal more to girls.
Still, it's good fanfic material, and I'm pretty open as far as pairings go. The only common pairing that bugs me is Sanji x Zoro, because Sanji is one of the most agressively heterosexual men I've ever seen in anime. He imagines a future child with Nami, even.
Oh wait, we weren't talking about yaoi/yuri. Never mind then.
|2007-01-05, 22:50
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Join Date: Dec 2006
OP fractions
iono if someone has created a thread like this but here is mine
i know that OP is not a ramantic anime or any in that kinda sense, the cloest to a romantic scene i guess only come from Sanji. but in the end someone should end up with someone else or else how can they make babies
i will try my best to do this and sorry if i miss out on a character or so
and please dont spoil anything cause i only seen the anime itself
please vote which fractions you preferr from the Straw Hat crew
ZoroxTashigi (for those who dont know this person, she is the one that look like the girl in Zoro past)
UssopxSick Girl (forgot whats her name but she is the one back in his hometown)
i left Chopper cause his an animal
feel feee to add other fractions that i have missed out on
also sorry for my english
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|2007-01-05, 23:08
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ussop and kaya she is the sick girl and we know that they love each other
robin and zoro she is not weak but she wants someone strong and serious cause she is older and sanji is to young and crazy
sanji and nami cause idkthey just will like each other sanji we save her and then it will be all good
luffy doesnt care about girls right now only one piece
|2007-01-06, 02:23
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Fractions? I don't think I've heard of that term before, other than meaning such mathematical terms as 1/8
I think we already had a lot of discussion on the topic of romance and pairing here http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=8866
I don't think there is going to be any pairings actually shown between any main characters. Maybe hinted at. UsoppxKaya is definately hinted at, but not certain. I'd say if ANY pairing does happen at the end of the story, it's that one.
I just like pairings in a fun, fandomm sense. I always will like UsoppxNami, though it's not like I'm actually expecting it in the story.
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Inaugural "Okinawan Discovery Series" to Feature Two UH ExpertsUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Hawaii United Okinawa Association
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The "Okinawan Discovery Series" will be an ongoing program highlighting Okinawa and Okinawan-related topics. The HUOA's partner in the program is the University of Hawaiʻi, which has graciously offered to share its experts with the HUOA. Most of the programs will be free of charge and open to the public.
Dr. Ken Y. Kaneshiro, an entomologist who worked with Okinawan scientists in 1988 on the eradication of fruit flies in Okinawa, will open the March 18 program. Kaneshiro has directed the Center for Conservation Research and Training at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa since 1993. He will introduce some of the "natural living treasures" extremely rare species of plants, birds and insects found only in Okinawa. He will also talk about a few of the special plant and animal species found only in the Hawaiian Islands. Kaneshiro has been invited to speak at many national and international conferences and symposia many of them on fruit fly eradication. He also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Nature Conservancy of Hawaiʻi.
The second lecture, presented by Tokiko Y. Bazzell, the Japan Specialist Librarian at UH Mānoa's Hamilton Library, will focus on one of the University of Hawaiʻi's genuine treasures the Sakamaki/Hawley Collection. Hawaii's Okinawan community was directly involved in the acquisition of the Sakamaki/Hawley Collection which includes rare and ancient Ryukyuan manuscripts, maps, scrolls and prints by raising $5,000 of the total $20,000 purchase price. When the collection became available in 1961 following the sudden death of its owner, English journalist Frank Hawley,UH Mānoa Professor of Asian History Dr. Shunzo Sakamaki, went to Okinawa to negotiate the purchase of the collection from Hawley's Okinawan widow. Remarkably, the materials had survived the devastation of Okinawa during World War II. Two highly respected Okinawa scholars described the collection as containing "superior" materials and many researchers and scholars from around the world have used the materials in the Hawley/Sakamaki Collection for their research.
Last November, Kaneshiro and Bazzell accompanied University of Hawaiʻi President Evan Dobelle on his first trip to Okinawa, which was his first official international trip as UH President. Both delivered papers at a University of Hawaiʻi-University of the Ryukyus symposium that focused on resource and knowledge sharing between the sister universities. Hawaii's 10-member delegation also included Dr. Joyce Tsunoda, University of Hawaiʻi Senior Vice President and Chancellor for Community Colleges. Tsunoda also serves as President Dobelle's special advisor on international education.
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I'm looking forward to desktop displays getting increased resolution and 4:3 aspect ratios back some day. It's mildly ridiculous that we'll have the mobile device market to thank for it.
Why is 4:3 such a useful aspect ratio? Just curious because I tend to prefer wide-screen monitors that I can flip on their sides or use in landscape orientation depending on what you're doing, and it seems to me that the monitor market is going that way. I'd have thought that square-ish monitors tend to be less comfortable given that humans have a greater horizontal than vertical field of vision (I feel a bit boxed in when using 4:3 CRTs, but that may just be the low resolution).
Eleven years ago you could buy a 24" monitor that could do this resolution, and 21" monitors that did 1600x1200 were commonplace. Inch for inch a 4:3 monitor will have more usable space than an equivalent widescreen display, they got popular because companies figured out they were cheaper to make and gave more panels for a given investment. Marketing convinced people that instead of getting an inferior display with less usable space they were getting the Next Big Thing.
I've been waiting for resolutions and refresh rates to catch up to what they were a decade ago ever since we made the switch to widescreen flatpanels.
It's why I have not upgraded my 5 year old macbook pro. You cant get a 1920X1200 laptop screen anymore. WTF is that.
The 17" MacBook Pro has a 1920x1200 screen. Is yours a 15" model?
The only 1920x1200 in a 15.x" screen that I know of that's available on new laptops is on the Panasonic Toughbook CF-52.
Eleven years ago you could buy a 24" monitor that could do this resolution, and 21" monitors that did 1600x1200 were commonplace. Inch for inch a 4:3 monitor will have more usable space than an equivalent widescreen display, they got popular because companies figured out they were cheaper to make and gave more panels for a given investment.
I hated CRT monitors - they always got blurry when you ran them at super-high resolutions. Of course, I never bought the $2000 high end ones... (and having to run at 85Hz meant the monitor really only did 800x600).
The real reason cheap screens are 720p or 1080p is because the processing electronics is trivially cheap. It's basically the same as a regular HDTV. And that gives you a VGA and DVI/HDMI input "for free". To do 1920x1200 requires a different video processing chip for the monitor, which costs a lot more money because of the limited market (one reason why a 24" 1080p is available for under $200, while a 24" 1920x1200 is $500+).
Apple can do this because they're making these things by the millions, so they can buy in such huge quantities that high res stuff is cheap for them.
> Why is 4:3 such a useful aspect ratio?
I don't know, but I agree with the question's implied premise (4:3's high utility).
It's a good question and I wish I knew the answer to it. I couldn't find any historical reference as to why 4:3 was originally chosen for televisions (the details behind the NTSC format are brilliant, but that's a separate topic). I don't feel anything like "boxed in" when computing on a 21" 1600x1200 CRT, and I don't want to give up vertical resolution for a widescreen of the same size. Lets speculate.
The closer the ratio is to square, the more usable area you have for the size of the device. If wider screens were better, why wouldn't we keep making them wider, why not 3:1 or 4:1 or 5:1 ratios? Maybe 3:4 is just a sweet spot for compromise between high area and our forward facing binocular vision. It's a mistake to even call them wider than conventional displays, as aspect ratio is independent of physical size. Have laptops really gotten wider, or have they gotten shorter? I think wider ratios are actually mis-marketed short-screens, with their prevalence reflecting cost (smaller area) in pushing HDTV sales, and not quality.
I know newspapers print in short columns for readability, as its easier to keep your place with short lines than with very wide ones, and computer screens were dominated by text long before graphics. Books too are mainly tall rather than wide ratios. Wider aspects are preferred for landscapes and juxtapositions of people in films, but whatever we gain in video game FOV we're losing in visible detail under our feet (and performance is lost to render peripheral objects you barely see, at increasingly skewed projection angles, versus more sky and ground in a taller ratio, which are virtually free performance-wise).
The bottom line is always useability. Do you really want to squeeze every vertical pixel out of an interface (browsers for instance), to deal with displays that are just too short? I sure don't, and I don't care to move a physical setup around when resizing display elements is sufficient. It may even just be tribalism or convention, but I know I like it. Long live 4:3!
> Why is 4:3 such a useful aspect ratio?
I don't know, but I agree with the question's implied premise (4:3's high utility).
It's a good question and I wish I knew the answer to it. I couldn't find any historical reference as to why 4:3 was originally chosen for televisions (the details behind the NTSC format are brilliant, but that's a separate topic).
I suspect it was less because it was "optimal", and more because it was an acceptable compromise between a desirable aspect ratio and technical limitations. Remember, back then, when they were using primitive CRTs, the closer to a perfect circle, the easier it was to manufacture, and most efficient rectangular shape was a square. But humans with their two eyes generally want something wider than it is tall (note movie aspect ratios, which were less constrained by technology). A 4:3 aspect ratio provides something which is close enough to a square to efficiently use the technology of the time, but wide enough to provide a somewhat comfortable shape for viewing.
With non-CRT tech, and modern manufacturing technique, there's a lot more freedom to choose a shape which is good for viewing, so it makes sense there's a lot of experimentation with aspect ratios these days.
Personally I love the "medium-wide" aspect ratios like 16:10 for my main hacking monitor; 4:3 feels constraining. Note that I tend to have multiple windows open (multiple editor windows, an editor and some terminal windows, etc) at the same time, and side-by-side windows are vastly preferable to vertically adjacent windows when the windows are tall (typically true of editor windows). A wide aspect ratio fits this usage pretty well. People whose main mode is the MS-style "one-app-window-always-maximized" may have different preferences.
In the case of the ipad, of course, the main style does seem to be "one app visible", and they strongly want a shape which is viable when used either vertically or horizontally. Given those factors, 4:3 does seem a reasonable choice.
Apple sure as hell didn't confirm anything. So basically we have someone who looked at a screen, that may or may not be for the iPad 3, under a microscope and "counted the pixels".
Again Slashdot titles are redefining words in the English language.
Counting the pixels is a pretty good way to figure out how many there are. How else would you do it? The only matter in question is whether or not the screen they were looking at is actually going to be in the iPad 3. That seems likely to be the case, unless this is just some prototype screen that isn't going to go into any device.
Before the flames rise and Slashdot begins to slash the dots, I'd like to thank Apple for helping break the "HD = 1950x1080" fixation the market has. Hopefully monitor tech will get some advances soon.
I think operating systems have some work to do as well. Higher DPI often just means smaller widgets. Hopefully this makes its way to laptops soon.
Windows has supported changing the DPI (so widgets use more pixels) since Windows 3.1. Talk to the application developers.
I'd like to thank Apple for helping break the "HD = 1950x1080" fixation
You big meanie! For every extra pixel over 2106000, a young Chinese worker cries himself to sleep every night.
You big meanie! For every extra pixel over 2106000, a young Chinese worker cries himself to sleep every night.
Nonsense. Chinese workers aren't allowed to sleep at night, that's when they work their third 10-hour shift.
There have long been higher res displays. However there's some serious limits to their usefulness, which is why they aren't widespread.
One big one is that until recently OSes didn't have good resolution independence, and still to this day many apps don't. Windows Vista got top notch resolution scaling but if apps don't support it they can break badly, or just fail to scale.
Another is video memory. More pixels = more VRAM particularly when you talk 3D. Now this is not a big deal, we have lots, but wasn't long ago that 256MB was considered "high end" and 64MB was common for cheaper stuff.
Along those lines there is GPU power. If you are just fiddling with 2D stuff this isn't a big deal but if you are pushing 3D, more pixels means more strain. Double the rez in each direction you need 4 times the ROPs to get the same framerate at a given detail level.
Then there's interface bandwidth. Gets to be a bit of a trick to push lots of data through inexpensive connectors. Dual link DVI was the only way to go, and that capped out at not all that high of a rez. DP 1.2 and HDMI 1.4 solve this, but are quite new.
Of course then to all that there is the cost. Pixels mean transistors and more transistors mean more cost. You can't just increase pixel density and expect pricing to be the same.
So it is a situation that only now are all the pieces falling in to place. Only once you have an OS (and apps) that support it, a readily available interface that can push the data, a GPU that can produce the data and has the memory to hold it and costs are low enough to make it economically feasible does it make sense to start pushing it on a larger scale.
However for all that, if you want higher rez displays you can have them. There are 2.5k 27" and 30" displays that aren't too bad price wise. You can have 4k displays too, but they are extremely expensive.
Apple will only multiply the resolution by two. Anything less compromises the quality of artwork on existing apps.
I wish Apple went to some type of vectoring system instead of these primitive bitmap shit.
No reason not to use a vector-based PDF for graphics in iOS [mattgemmell.com] if you wish.
But sometimes you know, it's just nice to get every pixel exactly right - especially when you are talking about the very smallest sizes of something complex.
Nobody with a smartphone using a 200+dpi display would agree with you.
2048x1536? My 21" monitor isn't even that high resolution and I can barely see the pixels. You're trying to tell me a 10" ipad is going to have higher resolution than my 21" monitor? Seems like a waste, especially on an iPad.
"640x480 is more resolution than anyone will ever need." - amoeba1911
You've obviously never played angry birds or plants vs zombies.
I think the pretty and usefulness will be in the proper aliased text presentation. The desktop monitor I'm looking at has only a few useful font sizes for the capital letter "I", ether one pixel wide, two pixels wide, or three pixels wide...anything between is blurry. I would absolutely love to see a true type font that didn't look blurry and didn't require some barely tolerable sub-pixel tricks.
You could put a big magnifying glass in front of it ala Brazil.
We've already been through this with the doubling of the iPhone to a "Retina Display". So we already know for sure it substantially improves the quality of the graphics. Your gut feel is irrelevant.
Unfortunately users at my company will still find a way to run them at 800x600
Unfortunately users at my company will still find a way to run them at 800x600
You laugh, but this is actually a serious reason why we don't have high-DPI displays on the mainstream desktop.
Not everyone has perfect 20/20 vision, or the same tolerance for small print. Many users already have problems reading text on existing displays when set to the default of 96 DPI. Unfortunately, the art of DPI scaling on mainstream OSes is still stuck in the dark ages. There are a LOT of poorly-written applications that assume 96 DPI and display badly broken output if anything else is set. Windows 7 is better than XP in its DPI scaling, but even so, it's far from perfect. Windows doesn't even support vector icons! The best you can do is to create a high-quality raster icon at 256x256 and hope it looks OK when downscaled.
This is why so many users run a LCD monitor at less than the recommended resolution. The slight blurriness is better for them than crystal-clear text too small to read, or various graphical nastiness from broken DPI scaling. Just today, in fact, I dealt with such a situation at work. One of our librarians said that some icons in the library management software were appearing all-black. I'd seen this issue before and knew it was due to the software not supporting 120 DPI, which this librarian had set for easier reading. I tried a few different things to see if I could get it to work – I set the "Disable display scaling" option in Compatibility properties, and also tried XP-style DPI scaling as well as the native Windows 7-style scaling. None of this worked. Ultimately, the only fix was to switch back to 96 DPI and run the monitor at a non-native resolution.
As long as this situation continues, monitor makers see no advantage in higher resolutions than 1080p, since so many users will just sacrifice that resolution for readability anyway.
I'd seen this issue before and knew it was due to the software not supporting 120 DPI, which this librarian had set for easier reading. I tried a few different things to see if I could get it to work – I set the "Disable display scaling" option in Compatibility properties, and also tried XP-style DPI scaling as well as the native Windows 7-style scaling.
What you should do is, find the developer of that app, and punch them in the face. Let me explain why.
Windows could do "DPI scaling" for ages - I think it was there in Win95 already? definitely before XP, anyway. But, the way it did it, it was really just a global setting that all apps could read. Some Windows APIs respected it also - e.g. CreateDialog and friends, where you had to specify sizes of widgets in "dialog units", and said units would change according to DPI. VB6 also measured everything in "twips" rather than pixels, also DPI-aware. But many other APIs, even stock Win32 ones, dealt in physical pixels; and so did most apps in practice. At best you'd get correct scaling for stock Windows dialogs and Office...
That was the way it all worked up until Vista. In Vista, the status quo was found to be too broken to maintain, and they've decided to break things a bit so that the defaults would be more palatable. So they've introduced a concept of DPI-aware app [microsoft.com] - meaning that its author would have to make an explicit API call to tell the OS that, yes, he knows what DPI is, and, yes, he can do proper vector scaling where possible.
Obviously, none of the existing apps did that API call, in which case the OS assumed that they do not know how to properly render themselves at DPI other than default, and performed bitmap scaling on their top-level windows after they were rendered. The result is far from perfect, of course, since what you get are huge ugly upscaled pixels. But at least it was consistently ugly, and it actually made things bigger - which is kinda important for people with bad sight. The assumption was that, for unmaintained legacy apps, it's "good enough", and for maintained ones the authors would get complaints from their users, finally figure out the whole DPI thing, fix their apps, and opt out of bitmap scaling via the aforementioned API call.
Also, when you enable "XP-style DPI scaling", you're basically just disabling bitmap scaling and preventing the OS from lying to the app to pretend that DPI is always at 96 - so even if app did not declare itself as DPI-aware, it would still see the real value and try to handle it the best it can. It's mainly there for old apps that were never updated for Vista, but which were written correctly to begin with.
For the most part, the scheme works - as you note yourself, Win7 is much better than XP in that regard. Unfortunately, there's still no shortage of idiots who call SetProcessDPIAware [microsoft.com] (or set the equivalent in their app manifest) without actually them being aware of what it means, and what their obligations are when they do it. From your description, it sounds like you've run into one of those cases.
Now, since all this stuff that I've explained above is clearly spelled out in MSDN, and since DPI-aware is not the default setting even for new apps - you have to actually know how to enable it, which implies that you've read at least the summary of what the setting does on MSDN. So clearly, for any developers who did so and still managed to go away without understanding what they do, the only recourse is a face punch - since any attempt to gently educate was lost on them already.
So the most commonly used format for digital cinema is 2048x1080 (4K is not widely used, yet). Notice that it is just a little bit wider than 1080p (128 pixels). So either cinematographers have had to scale down the outputs from their digital cameras/post production workstations to use "standard" HD displays (and suffer scaling artifacts), throw away the pixels on the side, or use very expensive professional equipment.
Could the iPad 3 display be used instead? If the iPad 3 has thunderbolt (now THAT would be interesting), could it be used as a (very) portable display?
I am such an Apple Fanboi you wouldn't believe but if Samsung came out with a tablet that, at the flip of a switch, coud be used as a portable, digital cinema ready display, I would buy it so fast it would make Steve Jobs spin. (hope that wasn't too morbid or disrespectful).
There are a number of 27" and 30" displays that are 2.5k. The NEC PA271W and PA301W, the HP ZR2740w and ZR30w, the Dell U2711 and U3011, the DoubleSight DS- 277W and DS- 307W and so on.
They are 2560x1440 for the 27s, 2560x1600 for the 30s.
It isn't hard to find for regular old computers. However I imagine anyone shooting in the digital cinema 2k format is probably not concerned about having to get pro gear because they already have it. You have to step up to some pretty expensive cameras before you start talking that. Everything even remotely prosumer is 1920x1080 max since that is what you are targeting for home, of course. If you have to get expensive cameras, an expensive display isn't likely to be a show stopper.
However as I said, plenty of computer displays that do 2k (and more) no problem.
if you select the average ipad its
six-hundred dollars and has a one-time battery that cannot be replaced (or not that apple is willing to inform on their website.)
The basic models are $500. They are perfectly usable, it's only if you used them heavily you would really need more than the base storage (especially now that you could simply load some apps on demand and delete them when finished, and play most music off iCloud).
The battery can be replaced by Apple, I think a $99 fee. However the first iPad I
Confirmed? Really? AWESOME!! Uh, just because I want to see, could someone post a link to Apple's announcement confirming it?
Confirmed. I think you're using that word without knowing what it means...
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New York State has been ranked third among all "cyberstates" by the American Electronics Association, which considered home computer and Internet use, tech wages, research and development, and other factors. But that may say more about how poorly the other states are doing. The truth is, New York is way behind where it could be -- and where it needs to be.
Yes, there are signs of life in the state's policies. Currently, there are almost 300 bills in the New York State Legislature dealing with technology, telecommunications, cable or energy. Look at the New York State bill search, and you will see bills to provide technology grants for schools, to assist new high-technology business start-ups, to create programs for the use of high-tech maps, to fund research and development, and to set energy policy.
But there is much more that could be done.
Few people in the know see technology as a replacement for teachers in the classroom; rather, they understand it as an aid to teachers. For example, information technology could be used to match teachers with schools to speed up the hiring process, and to assess the progress of individual students, or even to tutor students who are falling behind. Legislation has been proposed to increase funding for technology in the schools. Naomi Matusow, who is the chair of the Assembly Committee on Libraries and Information Technology, supports the creation of the New York Virtual Electronic Library -- NOVEL -- a "library without walls" for New Yorkers which would help to make accessible a whole range of information for students.
Home Computer and Internet Use
Despite New York State's high ranking as a cyberstate, less than 55 percent of the population logs on from home, which places the state 33rd in home computer and Internet use in relation to other states. New York's poor areas are especially lagging.
The issue is not that everyone should have Internet access from their homes. Rather, community technology centers, libraries, schools, churches and other gathering places could be used for group access. State policies and grants encouraging the development of such centers in poor areas of the city would be a great benefit in making New York truly wired.
High-Speed Internet Access
High-speed Internet access, or "broadband" as it is commonly known, is vital to the increased use of computers and the Internet for business, education, health, government, entertainment and personal communications. Broadband can be provided either by a telecom company such as Verizon, a cable company such as Time Warner Cable or an Internet service provider such as Earthlink.
But, there are still relatively few home users of broadband services. Only approximately one person in ten has high-speed access nationwide. While many New Yorkers may have at work, they may not be getting its full-benefits due to their limited ability to use it for their own education, entertainment or personal communications while at work. Studies show that broadband users go online many, many more times per day than slower dial-up Internet users. Thus, increased broadband access would result in growth in a number of online services.
But, broadband infrastructure is extremely expensive and telecommunications companies are hesitant to shoulder all of the costs without government subsidies or guarantees that they will recapture their investments. In addition, concerns about stealing digital content such as music or movies (think Napster) have arisen due to the lack of technological 'locks' on their property that prevent copying and enforceable laws that prevent stealing on the Internet. This has hampered the growth and distribution of digital content. Thus, access to broadband has not been widespread. However, the State could help to promote increased broadband access in New York City's community technology centers, libraries, schools, and non-governmental organizations. This is an area in which the New York Public Service Commission could assist in promoting competition among broadband providers which would lower the cost of access. With a greater number of New Yorker's using broadband, the city will be able to offer advanced government services online in areas such as health and education.
Economic Development: Research & Development Hubs
Despite stories about the dot.com bust, information technology is still a leading sector for growth in New York City. The state's efforts have been extremely positive in promoting information technology investment in New York State. In fact, recently, the Albany area was chosen as a new research and development hub for computer chips by twelve domestic and international technology companies. While the project is aimed at promoting job growth upstate, it is likely to draw business to New York City in traditional areas of strength such as finance, law, and advertising as new companies come to do business in the State.
This new hub is based on the Silicon Valley model of partnerships between university research centers and private sector manufacturing centers. New York City's universities and surrounding technology companies could also become an important research and development hub for new emerging technologies. State efforts are vital in identifying what kind of research and development hub could be successful in the unique setting New York City provides.
New York City's current high-tech economic development zones have resulted in lower than expected results in part due to the heavy blows of the dot.com crisis and the attacks of September 11. State development of these zones might help to transition the fully-wired office spaces into community technology centers, office space for government employees without adequate access to technology or other facilities that might benefit the public as a whole.
Laura Forlano is a doctoral student studying communication technology policy at Columbia University.


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While Ford Motor Co. officials want to shine the spotlight on their near-term plans for a Lincoln renaissance, they are already working up some aggressive product programs that would include the addition of one or more rear-wheel-drive models to the luxury brand's line-up.
The strategy would continue to see Lincoln share most of its underlying platforms with the mainstream Ford brand, however, including the next-generation Mustang.
"Rear-wheel-drive is definitely in the works," one of Ford's top executives confirmed in a background conversation with TheDetroitBureau.com.
That executive downplayed rumors that Ford might look to partner with another luxury brand on one or more future products, however.


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Commentary & Opinion
Opinion: New WHO Guidelines on HIV Treatment Offer Opportunities, Challenges
July 26, 2013
Writing in a Lancet opinion piece, Kenneth Mayer of Harvard Medical School and Chris Beyrer, director of the Johns Hopkins Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program and Center for Public Health & Human Rights, discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by the WHO's revised HIV treatment guidelines recommending "earlier initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)," released earlier this month at the International AIDS Society (IAS) conference. Mayer and Beyrer discuss the details of the new guidelines, writing, "The social and economic implications of the revised guidelines are substantial." They continue, "The public health benefits of expanded treatment are predicated on expectations that if more people are virologically suppressed they will transmit fewer HIV infections, which would result in lower costs in the long run as the epidemic contracts." Mayer and Beyrer conclude, "Thoughtful discussion is needed about the optimum ways to implement WHO's new HIV guidelines. ... [T]he challenges now are to identify, and effectively use, the new resources needed to realize our common goal of eventual control of the HIV pandemic" (7/27).
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Adirondack King Headlines Pasco
Thoroughbred trainer John Servis knows Triple Crown contenders aren't made in January.
But based on what he's seen thus far from his 3-year-old colt Adirondack King, Servis wants to give him every opportunity to prove he belongs in Louisville, Ky. on the first Saturday in May.
The Kentucky-bred son of Lawyer Ron-Jostle, a winner of his previous three races at Parx Racing in Philadelphia, will be challenged by nine other sophomores in Saturday's $100,000 Pasco Stakes, the co-feature on the 11-race Skyway Festival Day card.
Saturday's festivities begin at 10 a.m. with the Morning Glory Club on the first floor of the grandstand. Track announcer Richard Grunder's guest is jockey Rosemary Homeister Jr.
Servis, who trains Adirondack King for MarchFore Thoroughbreds, is recognizable to racing fans as the trainer of 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Smarty Jones, who won eight of nine starts in his stellar career and also started his winning ways in Philadelphia. Coming to Tampa Bay Downs to ride Adirondack King is Stewart Elliott, jockey of Smarty Jones and Adirondack King's pilot in each of his victories.
"Stewart wanted to come down and ride him because he has a lot of confidence in him," Servis said.
Adirondack King has been prepping for his 3-year-old debut at Palm Meadows Training Center on Florida's east coast. His most recent workout was a five-furlong breeze in 1:01 on Jan. 5. He last raced Nov. 13 at Parx, winning the $75,000, six-and-a-half furlong Christopher Elser Memorial.
"Knock on wood, he hasn't missed a beat since we got him to Palm Meadows," Servis said. "His last workout, he went nice and easy, finished up well and galloped out strong. He's coming back after being freshened, and I liked the distance of the Pasco, so hopefully this will be the first step to get him on the (Kentucky) Derby trail."
Servis was impressed by the quality of the Pasco field and emphasized Adirondack King does not have to win to justify his trip to Tampa. Nor, Servis said, would a defeat preclude him from returning to Tampa Bay Downs for the Grade III, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes on Feb. 4 or the Grade II, $350,000 Tampa Bay Derby on March 10.
"I don't have him geared up 110 percent for Saturday," Servis said. "Hopefully, we can have a lot of horse by the time May rolls around. People say you need a race over the track at Tampa, but if he is a good horse he will take to it. I can tell you he has shown signs of being a really good horse, but he has to get a lot better to get on the Derby trail. But it looks like he is doing that. He is improving every day."
There is no question Adirondack King is bred to get the Derby distance of a mile-and-a-quarter. His sire, Lawyer Ron, was a top 3-year-old of 2006, winning the Risen Star, the Southwest, the Rebel and the Arkansas Derby. As a 4-year-old, Lawyer Ron won the Grade I Whitney and Woodward Handicaps and the Grade II Oaklawn Handicap.
Servis trained Adirondack King's dam Jostle for Fox Hill Farms, Inc., and she showed her affinity for two-turn racing as a 2-year-old, winning three stakes at a mile-and-a-sixteenth and beyond. As a 3-year-old, she climbed to new heights, won the 1 1/8-mile Black-Eyed Susan, the 1 ½-mile Coaching Club American Oaks and the 1 1/14-mile Alabama.
"Physically, (Adirondack King) and Jostle don't look anything alike, but training-wise he seems to have some quirks she possessed," Servis said. "She was a true route horse, and one thing Stewart has said is he is very eager to see him stretch out to a distance."
Adirondack King has drawn the No. 1 post for the Pasco. Other likely top challengers include John C. Oxley's Prospective, winner of the Grade III Grey Stakes at Woodbine as a 2-year-old; For Oby, winner of the Jack Price Juvenile at Calder and a game second in last month's Spectacular Bid at Gulfstream; Burning Time, who captured the Foolish Pleasure Stakes at Calder in September; and the one-two finishers in last month's Inaugural Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, Angelofdistinction and Wildcat Creek.
The morning-line favorite for the Gasparilla is Oxley's Delightful Magic, who broke her maiden at Churchill Downs in October before finishing fifth in the Delta Downs Princess Stakes on Nov. 19. Oxley campaigned Monarchos, winner of the 2001 Kentucky Derby.
Others with serious credentials for the Gasparilla include Ode to Sami and Venetian Sonata, who finished fourth in the Arlington Washington Lassie on Sept. 10 while beaten only a length and a half.
Post time for the first race is 12:25 p.m. There is a carryover of $9,968.87 in the Pick-5, which will begin with Saturday's seventh race.
Morning Glory Club attendees receive free coffee and donuts and passes to the races.
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Words are dangerous.
Written for the No Dialogue challenge, February 14, 2007.
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They weren't just risky, they were dangerous. They tainted the emotions between lovers, caused tragic misunderstandings that lead to despairing encounters and brought the end to one-too-many couples far before their time. It almost seemed a waste to use them at all, it would seem. Words, it seemed, were infelicitous by every definition of the word.
A waste, he'd deemed them the day before. She'd laughed lightly -mellifluously- at his statement with a look of wonder in her brown eyes and then challenged him to a day of no speaking. Valentine's day, she noted, was only a day away and if he was so assured about what a waste words were then he could spend the day in silence -with her. His final decision had been contingent on whether or not she agreed to be silent, as well. After all, complete silence was equality. One speaking while the other could not was far from fair. Half-heartedly, she'd agreed and they'd parted that evening with thoughts about the peaceful silences that would soon blossom between them.x x x
The shiny silver Volvo reflected glowing light as it pulled into the driveway of the Swan home. Charlie had left earlier to fish -the romantic holiday was just too much for him to handle- and it had he wasn't planning on spending too much time at the residence anyways. Plans for elsewhere had been made a week before and they wouldn't be returning home until late, he knew. He thought about this as he eased open the door and slid out of the car and his thoughts continued as struggled to walk slowly up the drive to meet her.
The knock on the door was gentle and had she not been listening out for it impatiently, she may have not heard it. The sound had jolted her, though and she'd risen from the couch with great lack of grace. Momentarily, she paused to thank a higher power for Edward not seeing such a sight. That moment of thanks came and went and she continued on with her hurried walk to the door.
Grabbing the slightly cold knob with her pale hand, she gripped tightly and turned to pull the oak thick oak door open. He was glorious standing there with the snow falling sweetly towards the ground behind him. Small snowflakes rested sleepily in his hair as if they belonged no where else in the world but among those copper locks and she felt slightly sorry for them when he shook his head and they tumbled gracelessly to the ground. She imagined she would be sad to be separated from such a gorgeous home and knew that they must be feeling something like that, too. To be separated from Edward after being so close was impossible and only happened with much force involved.
His smile forced her sympathy for those tiny flakes to heighten but she tried to reason with herself. Snowflakes had no feelings and were nothing like her. She should enjoy the day, she thought, and forget about homeless snowflakes and wordless feelings.
The smile she returned was bright and warm enough to chase away the chilly wind that was rushing rapidly to take refuge in her home. Stepping slightly to the side to open up the door an inch more, she motioned for him to enter and then waited for him to do so.
As he stepped through the doorway more snowflakes fell from his body to the dark carpet at her feet. The warmth of the house brought them instantly back to the water they'd been collected as -back to the beginning.
Their beginning had been silent, as well. This silence was different though, she thought as his ever-cold arms wrapped sweetly around her to pull her close. Though the temperature of the embrace was cold the feelings that came from it were like summers in Phoenix but without the uncomfortable stickiness of perspiration and the humid air that made it uncomfortable to even breath. No, this was warm in a better way. It made the air around them lighter, brought her skin to a wonderfully comfortable temperature and eased her mind of any previous worries.
This warmth was nothing like anything she could ever find in Phoenix.
The right corner of her soft pink lips lifted just a bit as she returned the hug, basking in the warmth and quiet. Perhaps, she thought, not speaking wouldn't be so bad after all...
x x x
The rain from before had frozen over to become deadly black patches of ice on the on the roads of Forks but this did not do a thing to detour Edward from his usual driving. He was speeding, as usual, down the snowy lane that lead of out Forks and toward his home.
Normally, to look at the window you would only see the passing of green. Various shades blurred together to create a wonderful collection of green. Today, though everything was white. The branches of the trees were layered over with powdery snow and glistening icicles stuck to the underside of the branches. The scene they drove past this time was pure, simple and stunningly gorgeous and as they continued their drive she placed her hand against the cool glass of the window as if hoping to reach out and touch the magic with her bare hands.
She went to open her mouth and tell him of the glorious sight but stopped before she could. She wasn't supposed to be speaking, she reminded herself, not that it mattered. No words could describe such a scene and she knew it.
x x x
His home was warm and helped her fight off the coldness from his skin that threatened to burrow deep into hers. She wouldn't mind it, even if it did, though. She enjoyed the feel of his cool skin against hers and the way his closeness brought goosebumps to the top of her pale skin. His arms tight around her brought their bodies closer than normal and she relished in the feel of that closeness. Her head was tucked safely under his chin and her body was resting comfortably in his lap as their chests rested securely against each other. She was sure he could feel her heartbeat against his chest and the nervousness of him feeling how quickly it was beating had long since departed.
Their eyes were focused outside on the snow as it cascaded down from the light gray clouds above and on the trees in the distance as they seemed to lean, lean ever slowly to the side with the weight of the very same snow. It was the same as it had been in the car. The vision was so ethereal that she wondered if she could be dreaming or better yet, how could such a view exist if she wasn't dreaming.
Looking up, her head bumping his chin slightly, she looked into his eyes. Topaz seemed to glitter from the dim lights that illuminated the room and she was instantly mesmerized by them. The simple sight of them staring down into hers brought her heart to a speed she thought was impossible to achieve and ideas of all of this being a dream came flooding back into her mind.
The feelings that seemed to flow from their bodies at the moment were so thick, passionated and... indescribable that she found herself thanking him for challenging her this way. If she'd tried to describe this to him, her words would only bring her feelings no justice. This was something more, she reasoned. Words had yet to be created for something like the love they shared and she highly doubted that such strong words would ever be created. It was like lightning and thunder on the brightest, warmest day of Spring or like the sudden changing of the Earth's rotation that brought the Sun so close that she may just be able to reach out and touch the fiery outside without burning herself. Such great phenomena but not even close to what was going on between their bodies -between those glistening topaz eyes and her molten chocolate orbs.
No words, she thought, would even come close to this. Just the same as no words could describe the scene outside or the slightly odd feeling of pity that came from watching those snowflakes fall from his hair.
She smiled at him, finally understanding what his plan all along had been. To spend their very first Valentine's day together in this serene silence just feeling each other. She wasn't stumbling for words to tell him how she felt about him but was telling him in sweeter ways like how she moved to let her hand rest right above his heart to tell him that though it wasn't beating, she still believed that he could love her and in the way that she eased up slowly to press a warm kiss against his lips without the awkwardness of wondering whether she should ask first.
She understood, now. He had been right again. Words weren't enough and sometimes it was better to just feel. After all, unlike words, feelings explained themselves.
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The Oklahoma Policy Institute has accepted Oklahoma Christian University (OC) student Tyler Parette into the first Summer Policy Institute in August.
At the Summer Institute, 45 of the state's top undergraduate and graduate students will gather to discuss Oklahoma policy issues and prepare for their future studies and careers.
The event, to be held Aug. 5-7 in Tulsa, will include seminars, panels, workshops and keynote addresses by leading policy experts from government, academia and community organizations.
One of the panels will include OC business professor Ken Miller, who serves as Oklahoma's state treasurer. OC board chair Don Millican will moderate the panel. He also serves on the board of the Oklahoma Policy Institute.
Parette is an Honors Program student from Coweta, Okla., who serves on OC's Honors Advisory Council. He is also a member of OC's chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honors society. Parette was on the OC team that won Overall Outstanding Delegation at the 2012 PSA Southwest Regional Conference.
OC's vice president for academic affairs, Scott LaMascus, encouraged Parette to apply and was not surprised he was accepted.
"Tyler is a truly amazing young man who has thrived at OC," LaMascus said. "This event is yet another experience that will contribute to his success as a student and after graduation."
The Summer Institute, which will be an annual event, is hosted and led by the staff of the OPI, a Tulsa-based think-tank that produces timely and credible information, analysis, and ideas on state policy issues, guided by core commitments to the fair and adequate funding of public services and the expansion of economic prosperity for all Oklahomans.


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I read this on the Blue Ribbon Coalition site (4x4 advocacy). The petition by the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) is signed by a bunch of backpacking companies and such.
Edit: I just realized that this is Moab that they're talking about! Ouch.
The OIA letter: http://www.sharetrails.org/uploads/O...ion_Letter.pdf
BRC response: https://www.sharetrails.org/public-l...pushed-in-utah
(x-posted to the Utah forum)


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Jockey Quotes
RAFAEL BEJARANO, MOBILIZED, Winner: My horse doesn't have a good acceleration from the gate but I was just hoping to break good and go nice and easy with him. At the three-eighths another horse came over and knocked the whip out of my hand. I didn't see who did it, but he was flying and much the best today. He likes this track a lot."
JOEL ROSARIO, ITALIAN RULES, Second: "He just stumbled. When he broke out of the gate he stumbled and then took a lot of time to get back into it. Sometimes that happens. The winner was very impressive. We probably wouldn't have beaten him anyway, but it would have been closer."
Trainer Quotes
GARY MANDELLA, MOBILIZED, Winner: "Big race today. He's as good now as he ever has been in his life. He's been training that way ever since he came back from a minor injury he had last year. He split the field in his comeback race and since then he's trained better than ever even though he's a 6-year-old. I hope this horse has a little of The Tin Man in him, keep him this way until he's about eight or so. That would be alright with me. He's won on the grass and the synthetic, short or long, but I think his forte is the Betfair Hollywood Park main track. He's most at home on this surface. I'm not sure where we're going next with him, but we will run a couple of more times here.''
JOHN SADLER, ITALIAN RULES, Second: "He stumbled coming out of the gate and it took him out of his game because he's usually up close. He ran a good race from off the pace considering he didn't get out."
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Jack Edward Elder, 79
After a gallant battle with neuroendocrine cancer, Jack Edward Elder, 79, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, June 5, 2013, at the Carolyn Croxton Slane Hospice Residence.
Born Aug. 28, 1933, in Bellefonte, Pa., he was the oldest son of the late Henry and Kathryn Elder.
He graduated from State College Area High School, attended Penn State and was an Army veteran of the Korean War Era, serving as a Sgt. in the Radio Operator Division.
On April 21, 1956, he married the former Peggy Morris.
Jack retired from Bell Telephone as a service manager in microwave and radio.
He was a long-time member of Colonial Park Community Baptist Church, Telephone Pioneers of America, AARP, William Snyder Lodge No. 756
F&AM, Harrisburg Consistory, State College BPOE No. 1600 and The Nittany Lion Club.
He was also a life member of the Penn State Alumni Assoc. and an avid Penn State football fan.
He was a loving husband, father and grandfather who cherished his family and friends.
He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Peggy; two loving sons, Dr. Jay Elder and wife Deborah of Punxsutawney and Joel Elder of Milton; a brother, William and wife Cynthia of Danville; and five favorite grandchildren, Jennifer Elder Cappella and husband Michael of Wayne, Amy Elder Wech and husband Matthew of Red Lion, Tiffany Elder and boyfriend Travis Eyster of Milton, Brent Elder and fiancée Lauren Franssen of Severn, Md., and high school senior Alexander Elder of Milton.
Also surviving are dear friends, including the team of chemo travel warriors, Eileen Smith, the warrior team leader; James and Maryellen Kepler; Gay Bomgardner and Maryln Stum; Minta Wolf; and Norma Watson.
Jack was blessed by their devotion and lifted up by their love.
Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, 2013, at Colonial Park Community Baptist Church, with the Rev. Gary Firster and Pastor David Withers officiating.
Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday at the church.
Interment will be private at Indiantown Gap National Cemetery.
Arrangements are being handled by the Miller-Sekely Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Colonial Park Community Baptist Church, 700 S. Houcks Rd., Harrisburg, PA 17109; The Carolyn Croxton Slane Hospice Residence, 1701 Linglestown Rd., Harrisburg, PA 17110; or to Homeland Hospice, Attn: Betty Hungerford, 1901 N. Fifth St., Harrisburg, PA 17102.


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You should look into the ballistics of the 319 case before making assessments over who was involved and who was not involved. If you knew more details of the case, you would know that Chen could not have pulled it off without everyone in the jeep knowing what they were doing. Annette Lu is a funny one.
About 5 days before the incident, she claims she hurt her right knee at the big DPP rally on March 13 in Kaohsiung. She was on crutches the next day. Then if you watch her that day, she uses her right knee to get up on a jeep to campaign putting her weight on it as she gets up on that thing. I guess the knee wasn't hurting so bad after all.
Then if you watch her at DPP rallies between March 14 and March 18, she is walking around perfectly fine as if nothing is wrong with her right knee.
Then on March 19, she is supposedly hit in the right knee right exactly at the point where her knee was taped up from her supposed injury days before. She is sitting on a seat in the jeep but there's an issue with her light injury which would have been worse if her knee wasn't so tightly wrapped.
Her knee isn't high enough for a round to hit her knee. Dr. Lee was wondering about this when he did his laser show. He couldn't get the straight laser to hit her knee no matter how hard he tried.
So when he returned to Taipei, he called her on the phone and asked her if she had a box under her feet. She said "YES! I had a box under my feet and my knee was high enough to be hit by a round coming from the outside."
Fellas, if Dr. Lee was really neutral and not getting paid to do a cover up job, he wouldn't be asking biased questions like that. He would just ask her what was the position of her knee during the incident. He wouldn't be asking her if her knee was lifted up because his laser couldn't hit it.
If you want to accuse me of creating a massive conspiracy involving millions, you may, but I challenge people to use just their common sense and rudimentary understanding of ballistics and physics.
If her knee wasn't high enough to be hit given the supposed angle of the round coming from the outside, then her knee got hit some other way and therefore she isn't telling the truth about how she got a rubber bullet wound on her knee which is what it looks like in the pictures.
Take Dr. Lee's report and show the wound to people who have experience looking at gunshot wounds and other kinds of wounds. Her little wound on her knee looks more like a riot control rubber bullet.
Once again, not getting into conspiracy, just wounds and ballistics.
When I talk about the lack of video, I am referring to the hot area that day. There were enough people in the hot area that day that someone should have been able to snap a picture or video of them getting hit. However, the CIB and police immediately collected people's digital cameras and put them away. Is that standard operating procedure? If you think that it is, then how come the CIB was never able to produce a picture or video of them actually being hit there? If they were being accused of doing a fake shooting incident, they could have proven to everyone that they really were shot with their collection of digital cameras that they collected from the public. Instead, they collected the digital cameras so that there would be no evidence of a staged incident.
They collected people's cameras, but didn't seal the scene off to find bullet casings that would help them catch the supposed shooter. Does that make sense? To collect people's digital cameras but have no interest in finding the shooting evidence? If it was a real shooting, you'd collect the cameras and seal of the scene to find bullet casings.
Why didn't they do both? Because there weren't any bullet casings on the ground until 3 1/2 hours after the incident. Therefore, they cleaned the street of firecracker debris and the casings magically appeared.
If you go down to Tainan and ask the people who picked up the casings, they have got a really convincing story. That entire street of people all have their stories straight. The son of the betelnut stand won't even talk to people about it because he gets asked so much. He doesn't want to look people straight in the eye and tell them that he wasn't directed to pick up those casings, so his gangster parents lie to anyone who ask them about it.
And if you take a look at the behind the scenes video of some of the National Security Bureau people, you will also scratch your head. The media took some footage of them in the basement of Chi-Mei hospital when they thought they weren't being filmed. The NSB people are laughing behind the scenes. They stopped the media from filming the jeep as they tried to film. They acted all serious.
Then later on, they went back and started laughing amongst themselves.
I don't know about you guys, but if the guy I am being paid to protect just got hit and I was on his security detail, I wouldn't be laughing about it right afterwards.
We've seen and heard stories about Secret Service men feeling guilty about not protecting the president when he got hit in the States and other countries. But in Taiwan, the NSB laughs about it right after the incident like the accomplished their mission of creating an incident the day before a presidential election when the president is lagging behind by 1.5 million ballots??
Right. They got their job done that day.
After the election, people involved in the incident like the head of the NSB sitting in the passenger seat, were promoted for "failing" to do their jobs. Can you imagine that? These people failed to protect the president, and get promoted for it? Or is it because they have first hand knowledge of something and Chen wants to keep them on his side?
Now instead of playing the conspiracy card against me where millions must be involved, try looking at the sequence of events and the people involved and ask yourself what should normally happen in an attempt against the head of state.
The NSB should have been justifying their security details and looking serious the whole time. They would have sealed the scene off looking for evidence immediately. People in the NSB and the people in the jeep would be punished and demoted for not protecting the president.
That's normal. What happened was not normal.
headhonchoII wrote:You believed an anecdote immediately from the doctor acquaintance about Lien's shooting but discount anecdotes from the people you don't know.
I actually believe Lien was shot for your reference, the more interesting question will always be why. I'm glad he wasn't badly hurt.
I'm also not saying that I believe CSB had nothing to do wit the shooting. I don't believe Annette Lu did though. But we have little evidence either way, and claiming Henry Lu was paid off. Stretching it by a mile, Henry Lu doesn't need the aggravation, I'm sure he rotally regrets getting involved in this case.
Not having video evidence doesnt mean anything. They won't always be pointing an the right angle, have the resolution required and also the vehicle was moving. You seem to stretch every person and every fact into a giant convoluted conspiracy theory, if there was a conspiracy , most likely it was of the small home grown amateur variety. This is Taiwan and we are talking about CSB here.


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Feb 26, 2013
From staff reports
The City of Athens has issued a boil order that includes all of Ohio University Athens campus with the exception of the Ridges. This boil order expires at 10 p.m. Wednesday Feb. 27.
A "boil order" is a precautionary measure. The Ohio EPA recommends public water suppliers issue a boil order anytime the pressure in the water distribution system drops below 20 psi and the system is compromised due to a water main break, local flooding, structure fires, or even regular operational maintenance. Based on careful analysis by water system personnel, boil orders are only issued for specific areas, and usually for not more than 24 hours.
See http://www.ci.athens.oh.us/AlertCenter.aspx?AID=A-Boil-Order-has-been-issued-42
To see an update from the City of Athens, go to http://www.ci.athens.oh.us/AlertCenter.aspx
Dining facilities have contingency plans to operate during boil orders and will remain open and on their normal schedules.
There is no life safety threat to the campus. Campus remains open, classes will continue as normal. All events to include events at Memorial Auditorium and the Convo will continue and are not cancelled.
Domestic hot water will not be fully restored until sometime Wednesday.
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The public is invited to view the Lincoln County 4-H Club's piggy bank pageant during the week of March 11-15.
The piggy bank pageant is all part of raising adults' and children's awareness of saving and managing money with the Tennessee Saves program through the University of Tennessee Extension.
This year there will be pre-4-H (pre-K-3rd grade) division. The 4-Hers will enter their piggy banks in the pageant on either Monday the 11th or Tuesday the 12th of March by taking them to the following locations during regular banking hours: third grade and younger, CB&S Bank at 1422 Huntsville Highway; fourth grade, Bank of Lincoln County's Main Branch at 307 East College Street; fifth grade, First National Bank's Main Branch at 405 West College Street; sixth to 12th grade, Region's Bank's Main Branch at 302 East College Street.
The piggy banks will be judged and winners announced on Wednesday, March 13. The piggy banks will be displayed in local banks until the afternoon of Friday, March 15. All banks must be picked up by the bank's close of business on Friday, March 15.
Winners in each division of the county contest will win a monetary prize. The amount for placing third is $5; second, $8; and first, $12.
All piggy banks have to be no larger than 12"x 12" and are to be made by the child or 4-H'er to qualify.
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MIAMI – Tropical Storm Helene has formed in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, leading to the issuance of a tropical storm warning for the eastern coast of Mexico.
The National Hurricane Center said Friday afternoon that aircraft found the tropical storm about 90 miles east-southeast of Tuxpan, Mexico.
It has maximum sustained winds of 45 mph and was moving northwest at 7 mph. The storm's center is expected to make landfall on Saturday.
The hurricane center says the government of Mexico has issued a tropical storm warning for its coast from Barra de Nautla to La Cruz.
Helene is expected to bring 5 to 10 inches of rain, with as many as 15 inches across northeastern portions of Mexico. A storm surge will raise water levels by as much as 1 to 2 feet above normal along the immediate coast and to the north of where landfall is made.
Meanwhile, Portugal has issued a tropical storm watch for the central and eastern Azores islands as Tropical Storm Gordon moves eastward.


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