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- My tags:
- single mom, author, blogger, journalist, go-getter, kick boxer
- About me:
- A couple of years into single motherhood, I stopped picking up toys -- and started picking up men. Not really; my life is actually quite tame. My first book was published last year: Single Mom Seeking: Playdates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World (Seal Press/Avalon). When I'm not writing about dating for LifetimeTV.com, I'm writing textbooks for the state of California. Juicy!
- My website/blog:
- http://www.singlemomseeking.com/blog
- How I de-stress:
- Yoga, Hot bubble baths, Making dinner with girlfriends, Hiking
- Best advice I've gotten:
- Put yourself out there.
- Adjective to describe me:
- Author of "Single Mom Seeking: Play Dates, Blind Dates, and Other Dispatches from the Dating World" (2007, Seal Press) Bust Magazine says: "Rachel Sarah openly writes about her loneliness and the shock of going from being part of a partnership to be
- My favorite book:
- Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
- My favorite movie:
- Bridget Jones' Diary
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Hi Single Mom Seeking. Welcome! Love your blog, and your book sounds awesome! You are such a powerhouse in your observations on life experiences, but I can see why some men are now like 'ugh, please don't blog about me...' :))
Hope to see you around the site!
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I'm pretty sure it would offend most people on here. Ironic that a law text should be able to break itself.
They say offensive images. Wait... does that mean this text is legal:
What do you call a nigger with a stutter? A cocoon!
But if you took a screenshot of it and re-posted it, you'd be breaking the law?
Just askin'.
Mature adults can get past the crude joke and appreciate the question I am asking. The rest of you will get your panties in a wad over it and should probably consider moving to Tennessee, where the good benevolent government will support your desire to control what other people say, post, and laug
i suspect this is just an extension of the purposely harassing someone laws that got royally screwed up in the process. they are designed to stop intimidation and harassment of someone specific by someone specific.
An example of this is where someone's father has passed on and a person who is upset with them for any reason, decides to send pictures of him dead with captions drawn on it saying something I'm glad or something similar. It's to stop someone from calling up repeatedly and saying congratulations on losing your job, your house, your car, I'm gonna fuck your daughter and steal your wife.
The ability of someone to do that can be debated, but the intentions would be pure malice and some people think the government has the ability to stop some of that by laws with penalties much the same way they do with laws against physical violence.
Don't delude yourself into thinking something like this law was supposed to cleans the intertubes for the fine citizens of that state. It's more to do with crap like this
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/02/family-gets-go-ahead-to-sue-chp-over-release-of-grisly-crash-photos.html [latimes.com]
Words and images! How terrible. Better ban the ones that offend certain people immediately and label them as "harassment" while pretending that they aren't speech.
The statute language is inclusive of any "communication," so you do not need to re-package as an image. Your post is sufficient under the text of the law.
That text isn't offensive in Tennessee. Try changing it to something like, "those white women just love that black cock".
People are so thin-skinned these days and are prone to playing the offended/victim card. Tennessee must be a great state to be a lawyer.
Hmm, how far does that jurisdiction reach? Does it include links? Does it include out of the country? They should have fun with the sudden influx of goat links. Good luck with that.
And what if someone is offended by seeing someone of very low/high weight?
This place is infested with lawyers, and the dumb shit hicks that constantly feed them by their stupidity, but what can you expect? We are still debating if allowing guns in bars and school campuses is a good idea or not.
Does this law apply to online news sources as well? That would make it *very* difficult to report on the new in an unbiased fashion, since almost all news nowadays is sure to emotionally offend someone. Not that unbiased news reporting happens a lot these days.
The newspapers will probably not be prosecuted unless they attack the DA or other political figures.
The law requires that the image be intended to cause harm, and have absolutely no other purpose whatsoever at all. Newspapers are safe unless they start publishing pictures for no other purpose than to intimidate or threaten people (Oh, did you think the law said offend? that was made up by Ars Technica to get you offended!)
It's already illegal to threaten people. What does this law proscribe that was not already covered by existing laws?
That's really not a sensible line to draw. Any law that criminalizes offense will be highly subjective. Libel is one thing but laws against being offended are pretty much a competition to see who can complain the loudest.
Think of the zombie children. What would happen if their food left?
The only people that like to scream "Think of the Children" are pedophiles.
Real families and parents actually raise their child.
Real families and parents actually raise their child.
I've heard of such things, but only in fairy tales...
That's weird. I must be reading the wrong fairy tales. Most of the ones I'm familiar with depict the families of protagonist children as cripplingly poor, sociopathically dysfunctional, or utterly aloof from the children, who are usually raised by peasant foster parents, wild beasts, or mythical creatures. Or fattened up for eatin'.
So, apparently, truth isn't stranger than fiction; it's indistiguishable.
of this crap. These 'offensive' communications laws have been in place for decades, over radio, TV, and now the web.
TV and radio are much different, because they go over the air.
Theoretically, I could censor all the radio stations in my town. If they have programs that use offensive language, I can just broadcast my own signal, louder than theirs, blocking out what I find offensive.
Radio stations did not like vigilantes censoring them, and the result of this was the FCC. The FCC says that such malicious interference is illegal. As a compromise, though, they required all broadcasting stations to abide by basic standards. Sure, the constitution lets you say anything you like, but if you want the FCC to protect you from your neighbour's interference, then you have to abide by a certain amount of standards. Violating the decency standards of the FCC doesn't make you a criminal, you simply lose the license that was granted for your radio station.
As far as I can tell, there is no equivalence with the web. FCC broadcast licenses are not required for posting to forums. Tennessee is clearly making this a criminal issue. I can't understand how it even got to the governor's desk, but I know for a fact that it will crumble the first time it goes to the courts.
So if someone sends me an Image of the bill being signed into law, can I have the Governor locked up? If I lived there, I could argue that the bill intimidates me and causes emotional distress since I don't know if I'll be going to jail because someone found something I sent "offensive".
I'm sure some in the Tennessee leg finds this image [fsdn.com] NOT offensive in the least - they'd like to see more of it!
If I link someone to an offensive image (not that I would!), I'm not doing the transmitting. The person hosting it is. Does that mean that the person hosting the image would have to expect/know that someone would be offended?
If I link someone to an offensive image (not that I would!)
Come on, don't be a pussy, do it ! [encyclopediadramatica.ch] (NSFW, beware of the dragons and other general warnings apply here) (good luck litigating against Switzerland, Tennessee !)
There's a non-offensive SFW version here [ohinternet.com].
BTW both pages are in the first page of Google results for "offended".
Let some Tennessee statesman post a graph about projected job loss for the coming years and sue..
In fact I think any imagery related with Republican elections are automatically in. Fox news is out of business in Tennessee as well.
Even worse, what about all the images of a half naked man nailed to a cross? That scared me as a kid and I'm sure will scare many today. Those pictures (and their abstraction, only the cross) have to go.
Define offensive, because to a lot of people, the sight of politicians going around for votes and kissing babies is offensive. Will those pictures be banned? Stranger danger, beware of politicians!
I know a lot of people who are frightened of clowns, or spiders, or dogs, or women, or men, or.......
Or how bout emotional distress?? what if you post a picture with your new boyfriend/girlfriend, your ex sees that and that causes emotional distress. You could face a fine or go to jail for that?
No worries though, I'm sure this will only apply to things that frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress to a small select group of people...
No worries though, I'm sure this will only apply to things that frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress to a small select group of people...
Like politicians seeing anything that they disagree with.
It would mean the end of 4chan
It would mean the end of 4chan
Well that certainly puts a different light on things. Way to go Tennessee!
And a female wearing a Burka is offensive to others.
Do they think through these laws?
So a female not wearing a Burka is offensive. And a female wearing a Burka is offensive to others.
So by logical inference, females are offensive, and thus, by the proposed law, it is not allowed to post images of females online... Tennessee is undermining the very concept of the internet!
I'd love to take a quick spin through the images he gets send over the next few weeks.
Is Tennessee that backwards?
The first amendment guarantees the right to offend, and obviously the law can only apply to people who are in Tennessee.
Attention governor Haslam
Enshrining into law the right not to be offended is as stupid as you can get
The only people who get to decide what's offensive are the prosecutor or DA (who brings charges) and the jury (if there is one). What you find offensive simply doesn't matter because it will not be brought up in the courtroom.
In reality this will be a handy way of imposing legal costs, fines and jail time on anyone the DA doesn't like or who offends people with influence in that department.
It will be interesting to see what the first test case is. Is it a yahoo prosecutor, acting all stupid for the benefit of his electorate, or is it a prosecutor from a large county who brings a truly you-know-it-when-you-see-it offensive before the court?
If I was the elected prosecutor, I'd let this law sit unprosecuted like a lot of the anti-union laws that were enacted at the turn of the last century.
If laws like this are getting passed, the end is near. The boneheads who put this through are generally running things.
I find this offensive.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/yatta [albinoblacksheep.com]
Sue itchy guys, uh huh.
Finale we are ALL criminals. Perhaps now people will get off their fat asses and use their second amendment instead of talking about it.
Nah, won't happen.
Oh well, luckily there is a way out. Voting, like in a real democracy. Oh wait, that is what got this mess where it is today in the first place. Not talking about the last election. It started somewhere in the 40-ties at least.
Well, that is what you get with a bi-polar political institution.
Welcome to 1996, Tennessee!
a law prohibiting the transmission or display of an image that is likely to 'frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress to' anyone who sees it.
I could post my portrait and scare a good number of people.
How bad would secession really be?
I don't think he realised how bad this boomerang he Hulk-Heaved out there is going come back at him.
It will probably start with his email server melting down, then the Holy/Morality Wars erupt on Twitter and Facebook....their servers melt down, cascading to a DDOS from overload of our Justice Dept., followed by civil war, the Canadian and Chinese Invasions of a civil war-torn, blind-staggering USA, then...[....]...well, in the end you get hit by a bus, then eaten by a bear.
What about MY Pride? MY Respect?
I thought Utah had a great year. Our wacky legislature tried their best, but not one of our efforts made the cut: http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states [dumblaws.com]
Well, I guess all we can do is cut educational funding some more and wait till next year.
As a former Tennessean, it saddens to say that by moving to Mississippi for a job I ended up being in the more reasonably and progressively governed state. That might seem like an exaggeration, but the Government in Tennessee changed dramatically in the last state election. Before that, there was the occasional poorly written or conceived law that passed, like allowing guns in bars and other establishments where alcohol is served. Since the beginning of the year when the new legislature took office, there h
or at least part of Kentucky [fark.com] does
You realize that this law would effect any of those right-to-life groups posting images of fetuses, as well as those animal rights groups and so on. I mean, their whole intent is to offend the common person to supporting their view.
Note that the law does say "everyone", not "anyone". It's not enough to offend Aunt Millie, you also have to offend the toughest biker, butcher (as in, meat processing), etc. Okay, maybe those baby seal pictures wouldn't offend the butcher, and the fetuses wouldn't offend abortio
This is how they have it, its illegal to offend anyone for an reason.
Lets hear it for free speech.
"This is lemma 1.1. We start a new chapter so the numbers all go back to one." -- Prof. Seager, C&O 351

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Employees at the Abington Ale House took part in the Ice Bucket Challenge on Tuesday to raise money and awareness about ALS.
ABINGTON – Employees at the Abington Ale House served themselves a refreshing bucket of ice water on Tuesday as the restaurant's staff took part in the Ice Bucket Challenge.
The challenge, which has gone viral across social media, has led to tens of thousands of participants dumping a bucket of ice water on their heads in order to raise awareness about ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Participants film themselves dumping the ice water on themselves, post the video to social media and then pick several friends to challenge, giving them 24 hours to either do the challenge, make a donation to the ALS Association or both.
About 35 employees at the Ale House participated in the challenge, which took place in front of the restaurant Tuesday morning.
"We donated $500, and we are trying to get other restaurants to donate some money, too," said Mark Hastings, a manager at Abington Ale House.
The restaurant decided to participate in the challenge as a group during an employee meeting after members of the staff began to be called out by friends and family on social media.
"All of our staff has been doing it," Hastings said, adding that he had already taken the challenge individually after being called out by a friend.
The staff has since posted a video of their challenge on the restaurant's Facebook page, and they have challenged several other local restaurants, including the Charlie Horse in West Bridgewater, Cellar Tavern in Abington, Abington Depot and Main Street Grille in Weymouth.
As of Tuesday night, none of those restaurants had responded to the challenge.
Between July 29 and Tuesday, the ALS Association has received $4 million in donations, compared to the $1.2 million the association received last year during the same period.
The ALS Association has also had 70,000 new donors in that time period.
"We have never seen anything like this in the history of the disease," Barbara Newhouse, president and CEO of the ALS Association, said in a statement. "We couldn't be more thrilled with the level of compassion, generosity and sense of humor that people are exhibiting as they take part in this impactful viral initiative."
ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. Specifically, the disease affects motor neurons, which control muscle movement. As the disease progresses, degeneration of the motor neurons eventually leads to the neurons' death, thereby weakening voluntary muscle action and often leaving patients totally paralyzed in later stages of the disease.
About 5,600 people are diagnosed with ALS in the United States each year, and it is estimated that 30,000 Americans may have the disease at any given time.
On average, a patient's life expectancy after their diagnosis is between two and five years. Although, there is a prescription drug, Riluzole, which has been found effective in slowing the progress of ALS and extending patients' lives by at least a few months, there is currently no cure for the disease.
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I saw an early, private test screening of "August: Osage County" on April 4 in Kansas City. (The film isn't scheduled for official release until November.) I've hesitated to post comments for a couple of reasons. First, I wanted to give myself a little calendar distance from the actual viewing so that I could shake out any immediate, and maybe overly enthusiastic, response. (I love Meryl. I also love the play, which I've seen four times thus far.) Second, I feel a little weird about providing comments at all. After all, the project is still in development, the director (John Wells) is still doing his work, and the final product next November may look quite different from what I saw on April 4.
That said, I suspect that the filmmakers not only expected to get audience response but also for word to begin spreading about their film. After all, even at this early stage they must know that it's something terrific. Short of belaboring what you may have already heard: Meryl Streep's work here is among the most astonishing in a career that feels like it tops itself every few years. For me, there's one obvious reason why this stands above nearly everything. Not only is she giving a great performance…she's working with great material. We all know that's one of the legit criticisms of some of her cinematic resume: She is often the best part of any project, as either the material is "adequate" (but not art) or the direction is "standard" (but not stellar). That's not the case here, obviously. The film is carefully adapted by Tracy Letts from his landmark play (both a Pulitzer and Tony winner), and most of his amazing text is intact. So for a rare cinematic moment, Meryl is working with material that challenges her, her co-stars, and the audience. And she not only rises to the occasion, she triumphs. Will it win her another (a fourth) Oscar? There are so many politics involved in that (not least of which is that pesky win for "The Iron Lady" two seasons ago…a throbbing example of fine craftsmanship in spite of sloppy material). Streep's work as Violet Weston in "August: Osage County" will be hailed as one of her best performances to date. It will win her many critics awards (which isn't always the case with Meryl). And, yes, it will be an undeniable nominee for everything else. Even her detractors will be charmed by the long sections of comedic brilliance that sprout from some fertile, heavy drama.
What about the other actors? The film is so well done – and it's certainly not DONE, with some questionable musical interludes, an oddity at the very end that I hope doesn't stick around for the final cut, and some shaky transitions between scenes that need to be smoothed out – that it's hard to be part of this film and not come off looking polished. I would venture to say that there's some heavy-duty "acting" going on in some corners that feels like competitive fervor opposite Streep. This rattled me in Julia Roberts' performance, especially in the early scenes, but the three people I saw this screening with were all fans of her work here. So, as with anything, I bow to different perspectives.
If I were handing out Oscar nominations just based on this early viewing, the no-brainers would be Picture, Director, Streep (Best Actress), Chris Cooper (Supporting Actor), and Juliette Lewis (Supporting Actress), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Costumes. I've seen some early comments that disliked Lewis' work here…I don't get that. She's exciting every time she's on screen and thoroughly understands who that character is from the moment she arrives to the moment she departs. Cooper's work is quiet, but he has a couple of scenes that are honest and heartbreaking…and real showcases for his extraordinary talent.
There's been a lot of advance speculation about Margo Martindale and Benedict Cumberbatch. Both are certainly standouts who may also be awards bait. My sense is that their work isn't there enough (or showy enough) to rise in competitive fields. Even Sam Shepard, in his brief appearance (and I HOPE none of that is cut), is recognition-worthy.
What I loved: Meryl's performance, Tracy Letts' adaptation, Chris Cooper, Juliette Lewis, the set design, costumes, cinematography, and, yes, John Wells' respectful direction…and that amazing family dinner scene, which I could watch over and over (most especially for Meryl's detailed, scary, hilarious, maybe-best-of-her-career-thus-far work).
Who I also enjoyed: Dermot Mulroney, Julianne Nicholson, Margo Martindale, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sam Shepard, Misty Upham
Wow, I hope they fix this: that final scene
What they're obviously still working on: editing and music (I hope)
Meh (for me): Julia Roberts (and it troubles me that I'm struggling with that one…I could be way off base here), Ewan McGregor (struggling with the accent), Abigail Breslin (uncomfortably one-note…she seems nervous, not ballsy as that character should be)
Wow, I feel kind of icky spilling the beans on something that is still being created. But I know the Streep fans are curious (and generally respectful). Bottom line: She is (preditably but satisfyingly) astonishing here.


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The Bruins' back end has taken a beating in the breakout department the last several games. So tonight Boston should get a big lift.
After nine games out with a lower-body injury, Andrew Ference will return to the Bruins' lineup tonight. Rookie Steven Kampfer will be the healthy scratch in Toronto.
In net, veteran Tim Thomas will get the start after sitting out the last two games.


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In order to validate a qPCR method, i must doing several maps of 96-well plates for differents tests : repeatibility, reproducibility, contamination, and limit detection. I doing it and i wish like if you have several suggestions or improvments for this tests. You can see my plates with the attach files.
I've got tree cell line, plasmid line, WHO line, clinical line and for each 30 repetitions for one plate.
Thank you so much, i open my mind for all sugestion
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Persistent power outages kept large swaths of SouthCoast in the dark and a number of schools closed, even as rain kept falling Monday evening, leading to flooded roadways in some communities.
Persistent power outages kept large swaths of SouthCoast in the dark and a number of schools closed, even as rain kept falling Monday evening, leading to flooded roadways in some communities.
Schools remain closed today in communities including New Bedford, Acushnet, Dartmouth, Freetown-Lakeville and Wareham, Bridgewater State University, and at Old Colony Regional Vocational-Technical High School in Rochester. Schools are also closed in Westport, where a professional day had been previously scheduled for teachers.
As far as Monday's flooding was concerned, "It's a little bit more than puddling now," said Ron Labelle, New Bedford's Department of Public Infrastructure commissioner, around
6:30 p.m.
Earlier flood reports showed a large pool of water on Purchase Street near where it meets Austin Street, and Labelle said city officials saw about 6 inches of water collecting on Maple Street. Liberty and Parker streets also saw minor flooding, he added.
Minor flooding in Dartmouth along Cross and Smith Neck roads was also reported late Monday afternoon, police spokesman Det. Kyle Costa said, but catch basins had been cleared of snow in many places, allowing the water to drain.
Other SouthCoast towns had similar stories with parts of Fairhaven seeing mild flooding along with Acushnet near the town line with New Bedford, police said. Marion, Westport and Mattapoisett received no reports of flooding, police in those towns said.
A dispatcher at the Wareham Municipal Maintenance Department said the town had been hit by "lots of flooding" but declined to comment further and referred The Standard-Times to Maintenance Director Mark Gifford. A phone call to Gifford was not returned.
In the city, work crews spent the late afternoon and evening clearing catch basins to allow rainfall to drain, but the piles of snow packed along roadways gave the water few paths to follow, Labelle said.
"The are spot areas of flooding here and there because the water can't move," he said.
As the rain continued into the evening, some residents were looking at a third or fourth night without power.
New outages cropped up during the day as trees snapped or work crews shut off power to make permanent repairs, NStar spokesman Martin Murray said.
The company released its first town-by-town power restoration estimates Monday afternoon, delivering good news to residents who can plan to see electricity return soon and bad news to people who will be stuck in the dark until possibly Thursday night.
Blackouts in parts of Wareham, Dartmouth, Freetown and Westport could take the longest to resolve and NStar projected that all four towns will not be fully restored until Thursday night.
As of 7:30 p.m. Monday, Wareham, the hardest hit of the four, still had more than 2,000 households without power, with Westport and Dartmouth coming in with more than 1,100 NStar customers in the dark. Freetown had several hundred households still without power.
Other towns, however, can expect to see their power come back sooner and NStar spokesmen have stressed throughout the weekend's storm that service will return gradually to all communities so residents could see their electricity return before the company's estimates.
The 66 percent of Rochester residents without power could be waiting until Wednesday, however. Hard-hit Marion, where 31 percent of NStar customers lacked power, also was expected to be fully restored by Wednesday.
Stubborn outages still affected more than 1,000 New Bedford households as of 7 p.m. Monday, and the company expected to have the city fully up and running by Wednesday, as well.
All of Acushnet, Fairhaven and Mattapoisett are expected to regain power by the end of tonight, and Lakeville's NStar customers should their lights on by noon today, according to the company's estimates.


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Headphone jack socket replacement
OK, I've established that my headphone socket is faulty (insertion of headphone jack triggers fast forward/jump to FM radio/shutdown etc.) so I have two questions.
1. Is there any way this can be fixed without replacing the headphone socket?
2. If not, how do I remove the white headphone socket component from the board to replace?
This isn't shown in any dissasembly guide I can find and I don't want to damage anything.
I would appreciate any help/comments - thanks!
To remove the headphone jack then you will have to unsolder it. most headphone jacks are surface mount components which can be difficult to unsolder. i wouldnt suggest it as a first time soldering project.
Thanks, if I was to replace the board instead, could I use any board i.e. from 30GB or 60GB model - are they identical?
They aren't necessarily identical - one must use each board's respective firmware. But outside of that there'd be no issue connecting either one to any player's other components.
That's great thanks. I will replace the board as soon as I can get one and let people know how I get on.
I got hold of a board from a 30GB model that a friend kindly donated to me - their Zen was faulty but it was a HDD error, I was pretty sure the board was fine.
So I took both models apart using the trusty disassemble guide and replaced my faulty headphone socket 60GB board with the 30GB board. The only problem I experienced here was that the first time I put everything back together I was just getting a white screen when the unit was turned on. I soon established that I had failed to click the hinge of the LCD connector back into place properly so I took the unit apart again and remedied this using a small flat-head screwdriver.
The unit now powered up and went into recovery mode after a quick flash of the firmware error message. This was due to the fact that I had erased the firmware from my unit prior to inserting the new board. This is where the real challenge began...I began to experience what I have discovered is a common problem where the unit will dock on connection to a PC and even be recognised in the device manager as a Creative Zen but will not show up as connected when using the Creative software. It also meant that executing the firmware upgrade file resulted in a message saying that no player was connected.
I spent a few hours checking various forums for solutions to this and trying several options. None worked until I did what I probably should have tried first which was to uninstall the Creative software from my PC (Windows XP SP2) and rollback my version of Windows Media Player to an earlier version than 11 which I was currently using (for anyone who hasn't done this all you have to do is uninstall the software and it automatically reverts to an earlier version of WMP). I than re-installed Creative Software and the unit was recognised. So I upgraded the firmware with the most recent 30 GB version. At this point I got the "firmware upgrade failed" message after the progress bar had completed but I am used to the fact that this is a red herring so I unplugged the player from the PC after 10 mins or so at which point it re-started itself and went into "rebuild" mode. This took about 30 mins then my player was back in its full working glory. All of the music on my 160GB HDD which I had previously installed into my player was still there.
I am so pleased to have my Zen back, I've been using my cheapo emergency MP3 player for a couple of weeks and the difference in quality is staggering. The Zen Vision M is a fantastic player, I am still baffled as to why something this good is no longer in production.
Apologies for the long post but hopefully someone will find this information of use.
Great to hear it's back in action…I started hearing "Empty Cans" while reading that.
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POPLAR GROVE — Poplar Grove could prove to be a place where chickens can settle down.
The Rockford Register Star reports village officials in Poplar Grove are now considering whether to let residents to have chicken coops in their yards. The move comes after Machesney Park and Capron decided against allowing residents to keep the barnyard fowl.
The issue has come up in the village, but while some officials favor the idea of residents having easy access to pesticide-free eggs, others have wondered if the chickens might attract predators.
Members of the city's planning and zoning commission will look at the issues ranging from permits, aesthetics and ordinance enforcement, but won't discuss it until the commission's November meeting.


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As always, whenever this topic comes up, here are my thoughts on it:
http://livingwithanerd.com/violence-in-videogames/ [livingwithanerd.com]
You have to allow the little monster to come out every now and then and release its frustrations. If you don't, you risk becoming a quivering mass of nervous and dangerous flesh. What better place to do this than in a simulated environment with simulated violence where the only things harmed are your eyes for staring at the screen?
The way I've always described the effect of violent video games:
Digital punching bag. At least for me and some of my friends, the stress release of violent video games made us LESS violent in school.
It really depends on the game though. Everytime I see road kill now I have the urge to pull over and loot the body.
"Damn raccoon, I need a new helm!"
I love how all of these studies overlook the fact that so many parents use video games, like television, as a baby-sitter. Kids who's parents neglect them and allow them to spend all their time alone are bound to end up mal-adjusted. The fact that the kids choose to play violent video games is just a product of the situation and not the root cause. But of course
It's a good theory, but really it doesn't pan out too well. I think the problem is that people are so damned habitual. If you sit around thinking violent thoughts, that becomes the way you think, the way you see things, and the way your brain works.
It's like complaints; contrary to what you might think, complaining and "getting it out" doesn't really tend to make you feel better. The more you talk about your complaints and criticisms, the more you dwell on them. If complaints and criticisms dominate yo
You can see the study author's bent in this quote:
"It's now time to move on to a more constructive question like, 'How do we make it easier for parents -- within the limits of culture, society and law -- to provide a healthier childhood for their kids?'" But Anderson knows it will take time for the creation and implementation of effective new policies.
Um... is it the government's job to make parenthood easier? I thought they put the kids in front of the glowing screen in order to give themselves (the parents) a break from parenting.
Metastudies are a troubling area. What's more, particularly with this kind of work, there's a huge risk of GIGO... Even where the "researchers" don't have an agenda.
It's just bunk. Pure bunk. It comes too late to save Jack Thomas (thankfully).
There's only one thing for it - we need to do a metastudy on this serious issue!
Metastudies are a troubling area. What's more, particularly with this kind of work, there's a huge risk of GIGO... Even where the "researchers" don't have an agenda.
It's just bunk. Pure bunk. It comes too late to save Jack Thomas (thankfully).
And its pretty clear the researchers DO have an agenda.
No scientist/researcher would ever use the term "Conclusively Proven".
When you see that phraseology, mindset, or pronouncement, run away like your hair is on fire. No assertions of this type are ever conclusively proven. All such conclusions are merely working theories. And this study offers nothing new than increasingly suspect meta-analysis from dissimilar studies.
"Conclusively Proven", "Settled Science", = Hidden agenda.
When you see that phraseology, mindset, or pronouncement, run away like your hair is on fire.
No no no, don't you know anything? You stop, drop, and roll!
That's because the article you are reading is NOT written by a scientist-slash-researcher but by some idiot journalist who (I hope) interviewed a scientist-slash-researcher. I can't say I myself have bothered to read the whole paper
... but from the abstract: "The evidence strongly suggests that exposure to violent video games is a causal risk factor for increased aggressive behavior, aggressive cognition, and aggressive affect and for decreased empathy and prosocial behavior". This is a strong but not unusual kind of statement, meaning they are sure of themselves. The word "conclusive" is not used once (if Adobes search function is accurate). It also annoys me that the journalist turned "causal risk factor" into "causes", but then again perhaps people in general are just too stupid to understand anything more complicated than "A causes B".
What really bugs me though is how
I'm an ISU Alum
this guy has an agenda. He was a common subject among the CS students, about how he talks out his ass with confirmation bias.
As an alum i just sent him a polite email telling him that he's full of shit
"conclusive" in science.. uumm
"conclusive" in psychology? not even POSSIBLE
"conclusive" in a meta-analysis? YOU'RE FREAKING BIASED!
Unlike most papers, where you have to read them to discern whether they cherrypicked their evidence, with metastudies you know right away.
What I think is more interesting is the stuff right after that:
But Anderson knows it will take time for the creation and implementation of effective new policies. And until then, there is plenty parents can do to protect their kids at home. "Just like your child's diet and the foods you have available for them to eat in the house, you should be able to control the content of the video games they have available to play in your home," he said. "And you should be able to explain to them why certain kinds of games are not allowed in the house -- conveying your own values. You should convey the message that one should always be looking for more constructive solutions to disagreements and conflict."
I really don't have a problem with that analogy (between parents controlling a kid's diet and controlling what games they play). However, he seems to be arguing that we need new policies that go beyond this. That breaks the analogy. People are already upset over the idea of the gummint telling them what they should and shouldn't eat through things like "fat taxes." Fat kids abound; instead of parents taking responsibility for their children's diets, maybe we should ban the sale of candy bars and soda pop to minors.
You can see the study author's bent in this quote:
"It's now time to move on to a more constructive question like, 'How do we make it easier for parents -- within the limits of culture, society and law -- to provide a healthier childhood for their kids?'" But Anderson knows it will take time for the creation and implementation of effective new policies.
I think we have the ESRB for that. You could make the same claim about films, how are parents supposed to know what is okay for little jack and jill. Check the back of the box, it's damn simple.
It's only an "agenda" in the sense that it has a viewpoint you disagree with.
Here's an article done a while back by the same psychologist as the study done in the OP: http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2003/10/anderson.aspx [apa.org]. To summerize:
Video Game Violence, and media violence in general, are more than proven to increase aggression. This is not an area of "mixed results" any more than any other group of studies--there are always outliers. It's as conclusive as wifi and cell phone signals not causing cancer or being responsible for "electrosensitivity". Probably more so, since media violence has had over 40 years of research, whereas EMF health studies are relatively recent.
He also has some very pointed words about the massive overuse of the phrase "Correlation is not causation".
If you still think he has an agenda, then read this:
Media violence is only one of many factors that contribute to societal violence and is certainly not the most important one. Media violence researchers have repeatedly noted this. (Emphisis mine)
In other words, if your goal is to reduce violence in society at large, media violence, including video games, are not where you should be focusing your efforts. These studies in no way justify going to huge lengths to censor such violence. They justify parents being more attentive. Inattentive parents in various forms are probably a bigger factor in overall societal violence than any specific media violence.
I'm waiting for the meta study that shows that studies on video games leading to anger make video gamers angry.
It's just another study by people with an agenda.
Yes, but this time they have CONCLUSIONS! Which is more newsworthy than an unbiased study by honest researchers who caution people not to overreact to their results. It is always this way, which is why even after that study linking vaccines to autism has been completely demolished, a depressing amount of people still run around thinking that autism is caused by vaccines. That study was poorly done, and the results were announced to the world as final proof rather than something that would merit at most one or two repeats of the experiments before it was taken seriously.
If you want to get a lot of attention and don't care that all of the serious professionals in your field will immediately see that you are a quack and will eventually prove you wrong, then make a quick study and shout your results as the word of God for all the public to hear.
""We can now say with utmost confidence that regardless of research method -- that is experimental, correlational, or longitudinal -- and regardless of the cultures tested in this study [East and West], you get the same effects,"
Yes, you can say that, Mr. Anderson. You should also point out IN THAT SAME FUCKING BREATH that regardless of research method, YOU COULD STILL EASILY BE WRONG. As you're promoting this as infallible truth, based on research you didn't even do, I'd say that increases the chances that you're wrong, because you're a complete moron.
I'm actually a bit surprised he actually says policy needs to be changed, rather than "Elect me to be supreme overlord and I'll have this whole violence thing sorted out in a month." I mean, if you're going to boldly overstate your results, then by God, overstate your results, don't pansy out at the end and suggest someone else be empowered to deal with it.
I'll shoot anyone in the face who says that I'm violent.
Reading your comment turned me into a violent criminal.
And that's conclusive.
You're vi? Nice to meet you, vi, I'm emacs.
I seem to remember there being plenty of violent criminals before video games were invented.
Yawn. Another academic tries to prove his pet theory. Nothing is "conclusive" in science. You can merely fail to reject the hypothesis.
It's like saying that children who participate in animal cruelty grow up to be serial killers because most serial killers have a history of animal cruelty. They fail to take into account that almost all CHILDREN have been cruel to an animal at one time or another. No, that doesn't support the point we want to make, so let's not mention it...
So what you are saying that your study is a fact and that another study is a lie. How does this work? Because you like the conclusion of the one and not the other?
Violent crime studies are as controversial as computer game studies and have the same bias by people wanting to make their point.
Why do you blindly accept one study and denounce the other? Because you got an agenda?
Science doesn't work that way.
Doubtful. Violent video games have been around for a while now, and VIOLENT CRIME CONTINUES TO DECREASE.
But don't believe me, just take a look at the DOJ website.
Death's been around for a while now, an POPULATION CONTINUES TO INCREASE.
Ergo, Death doesn't decrease population.
Wow, I think you have just conclusively proven that idea once and for all. ONCE AND FOR ALL!
Even if death were to decrease population, it would only do so for those predisposed to dying.
Well, I mean his study is conclusive. I guess that means he must be right?
Of course the article is completely fact free, with no actual methodology or conclusions other than "the effects are measurable."
Ooooo, measurable. Look out everyone, the effects are measurable. Whatever the hell they are.
Of course, they're not measurable in an upswing of violent crime, or anything like that. But gaming and puppy kicking behaviours? Strong correlation. Also, I'm told, gaming and pwning noobs is also strongly correlated.
Let's assume he's right (which I will not pass judgment on). What does that imply?
It implies that age-restricted material shouldn't be sold to minors and that parents should be more active in determining what is appropriate for their children.
Do we really need a study to tell us that?
Just taking the viewpoint that the majority of comments will probably not take.
I'll bite. I'll come out and say it - I think it *is* correct. Playing an action game, or watching an action movie, gets blood pumping and adrenaline flowing. (for the more imaginative, so does reading a good book.) During adolescence this is especially likely to have a measurable effect on behavior, as these chemicals are flooding bodies at rates that are never again quite equaled except in the most extreme of circumstances. (Both as a result in changing physiology and maturing psychology.)
How many here did not go and half-pretend to beat the crap out of friends after watching a kung fu movie? Anyone else have memories of playing Contra and finding themselves jumping off of garages while pretending to shoot their neighb... erm, skip it, that last is probably just me.
By constantly throwing up the "correlationisnotcausation" attitude whenever a study like this comes along, we do two things. First, we say that we're sticking our fingers in our ears and refusing to listen. Second, we're letting everyone slide on the assumption that if there *was* aggression, it would be a Bad Thing.
By refusing to hear that there might be causation, we don't ask the next logical question. What does it matter? What are the harmful effects? Some rough-housing? Is that really a bad thing, or is it a fairly healthy reaction? In the absence of any real-life examples where such aggressiveness lead directly to real-life consequences, perhaps we should stop focusing on whether to games-aggression connection exists, and instead look at whether it's actually as harmful as everyone assumes it must be.
The truth is that aggression is a perfectly natural response -- "fight or flight" is built into us, and it doesn't matter if we're talking about 8-bit nintendo games or the quadrillion-poly games of tomorrow. But there has been no time spent focusing on the significance of this - instead we all loudly proclaim that no, there's no possible way we'd have a physical response to a simulated stressful activity. Until we get past the latter, we won't be able to learn the answers to the former.
You know what else makes people indifferent and uncaring... living in New York city. Nobody can ignore a bum on the street nearly as well. Should we ban living there too?
"And when was the last time you offered a homeless guy on the street a place to stay?"
That'd be about 1991, in between degrees; still paying out the nose for the first, and prepping up for the second.. To make a little extra cash, I did early morning work cleaning a homeless hostel (trust me, jobs don't get much more crap than that; shaking the blankets on the beds and wondering if crap will fly out, literally, or needles).. Some of the guys there were really unpleasant. Most were pretty good blokes, in hard times.. One was an absolute blast, just had had a complete mental meltdown and hit rock bottom.. He was full of plans to get back into life proper again after getting his head straight.. Ended up hanging out with him for a while, then offered him my spare room for a few months until he got sorted (having a good address as correspondance works a lot better than a homeless hostel for job apps). Took him a few weeks to get a job from there, and after getting the first month's paycheck, he hunted a place for himself..
Guys on the street, like anywhere else, are like anyone else. Some are arses, and some are good guys.. Sometimes, life just deals bad cards and you end up somewhere unpleasant.
I know it's a joke, but in fairness, it's not that New Yorkers are uncaring.
It's more like... you have to learn to ignore *everyone*. It's not that we learn to ignore the few homeless people we encounter; it's that we learn to ignore our millions of neighbors. The homeless are just lumped into the group of "the millions of people in this city that I don't have time to think about right now."
New Yorkers are actually pretty nice and helpful and look out for each other. The funniest thing is, I said somet
Nothing other than a double-blind study with random selection of test subjects can truly be considered "conclusive", IMHO. All studies that I've seen thus far are hopelessly thwarted by selection bias.
This reminds me of the TV version of this anti-violence crusade in the 80s and 90s.
One thing that always stuck out in my mind about that last round was how the talking
heads of that movement would take things out of context and then whine about them. I
knew this because I watched the stuff they were whining about. They would show you a
little 15 or 30 second bit and then criticize it and leave out ANY of the context.
People can abuse information in any way that suits them.
Disraeli probably didn't even say it first.
I remember when Columbine happened - i was in the den with my mom and we where watching the news.. they showed this "Violent GAME" that the kids had played - and it was the original DOOM - now my mom had remembered me playing that and looked at me odd when i started laughing..
i then explained. - this "Expert" on ABC was showing this "Violent GAME" which allowed kids to go around killing everything without any remorse or consequences..
what was on the screen was the starting level - he was running around with the rocket launcher and gold eyes (aka god mode)
so he had to cheat at the game to get the skewed point of view he wanted across
Yep, the context here is important. Which is worse, a parent who plays CoD with his kid, explains to him the difference between reality and games, takes the opportunity to explain some things about politics and war and maybe even a little history, in the process actually developing a relationship with their kid, or a parent who just says "no violent video games!" and sits little johnny in front of the TV?
"These are not huge effects -- not on the order of joining a gang vs. not joining a gang," said Anderson. "But these effects are also not trivial in size. It is one risk factor for future aggression and other sort of negative outcomes. And it's a risk factor that's easy for an individual parent to deal with -- at least, easier than changing most other known risk factors for aggression and violence, such as poverty or one's genetic structure."
The analysis found that violent video game effects are significant in both Eastern and Western cultures, in males and females, and in all age groups. Although there are good theoretical reasons to expect the long-term harmful effects to be higher in younger, pre-teen youths, there was only weak evidence of such age effects.
How did they rule out the possibility that children who are prone to violence might also be prone to playing more violent video games?
How did they rule out the possibility that children who are prone to violence might also be prone to playing more violent video games?
That is a common point my wife makes whenever we have this conversation with someone. None of these studies look at whether or not violent people are attracted to violent entertainment (which, logically, they most likely are). Also, violence has different effects on different people. In my case, playing violent video games and watching violent movies as a kid has desensitized me to violence in such a way that I don't flinch from it. I don't engage in it, I'm just able to view it objectively and react wi
How did they rule out that humans by nature are violent animals?
I would assume by killing all the dissenters.
You should be able to find his methods in the preprint [iastate.edu] of this paper on his university website. I haven't had a chance to read it so I have nothing more to add.
"These are not huge effects -- not on the order of joining a gang vs. not joining a gang," said Anderson. "But these effects are also not trivial in size. It is one risk factor for future aggression and other sort of negative outcomes. And it's a risk factor that's easy for an individual parent to deal with -- at least, easier than changing most other known risk factors for aggression and violence, such as poverty or one's genetic structure."
As a parent, that seems a pretty fair and balanced analysis to me. And yes, I have been known to play GTA myself. As an adult.
he says a new study he led, analyzing 130 research reports on more than 130,000 subjects worldwide
It (TFA is actually a link to the school that did the study) doesn't take into account that many if not most of the studies he was studying were horribly flawed and designed to give the answer the researcher wanted (in short, not real science). Few studies I've seen on the subject were the least bit reputable.
However, at the end is a bit of hope -- he calls for parents, not governments, to police the children
"From a public policy standpoint, it's time to get off the question of, 'Are there real and serious effects?' That's been answered and answered repeatedly," Anderson said. "It's now time to move on to a more constructive question like, 'How do we make it easier for parents -- within the limits of culture, society and law -- to provide a healthier childhood for their kids?'"
It (TFA is actually a link to the school that did the study) doesn't take into account that many if not most of the studies he was studying were horribly flawed and designed to give the answer the researcher wanted (in short, not real science).
This is the real kicker. Metanalysis doesn't work by magic. All it does it attempt to lump together different studies to see if a statistically valid correlation can be found in the data. One hopes that by having larger numbers, you get better statistical power t
It (TFA is actually a link to the school that did the study) doesn't take into account that many if not most of the studies he was studying were horribly flawed and designed to give the answer the researcher wanted (in short, not real science).
This is the real kicker. Metanalysis doesn't work by magic. All it does it attempt to lump together different studies to see if a statistically valid correlation can be found in the data. One hopes that by having larger numbers, you get better statistical power than was available from smaller studies.
The validity of these studies is critically intwined with quality of the individual research. If all they did was lump everything together, you're going to get a lump of garbage. Interestingly, TFA doesn't mention any statisticians as authors. I would have serious doubts that psychiatrists or psychologists would have enough of a background in statistics to create a quality analysis.
And the fact that he is enough of an egotistical jerk to suggest that he has "definitively" proven anything in psychiatry leads me to believe that this is just part of the 94.277% (P less than 0.001) of all research that is crap.
A distressingly large number of psychological/sociological studies (I agree with your 94.277%) have deeply flawed statistics and/or experimental design. This meta-analytical study starts by assuming the validity of the conclusions from these broken studies and then adds another layer of potential statistical and design mistakes on top of that.
In such a fuzzy field, it would be much more useful to move in the other direction: rather than looking at tons of other studies from high overhead, very carefully ex
I'll pummel them I tells ya! How dare they! Video games don't make me more violent! I'll rip their throats out!!!!
Yes, this is always trotted out, but I think it's applicable here. How can you demonstrate causation through a meta-analysis? Without randomizing your subjects, and subjecting them to different treatments you can't prove that any given effect is caused by that treatment and not a 3rd variable.
Also, how big is this effect compared to other things we tolerate as a society? Watching sports for instance causes an increase in testosterone, and testosterone is linked to aggressive behavior. We need this kind of context in order to prioritize how we treat these issues.
Oddly enough violent crime has been decreasing since 1992, and is now at 1960 levels. Ergo another possible conclusion: Video games decrease overall societal violence level.
Consider that the first generation of videogame kids became old enough to start committing violent acts readily in the early 90s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]
Note to parents: this also puts the lie to "we must keep our kids inside all the time, since it's a scary world out there".
Yes, I'm a parent, and yes, I'm thinking of my children!
To be fair to them, they're at least trying to isolate a factor, which is a lot more than what you're doing. The same drop in violent crime could be attributed to cable tv, and it could easily be argued that the drop would have been MUCH higher, if it weren't for those pesky games.
I would suggest that it's disingenuous to claim that there is a measurable increase in real world physical violence that can be directly attributed to video games, but it's much easier to suggest that other social indexes (like em
For people like me who take science very seriously, I find these results disappointing. I imagine that many people here do as well. Let's remember, though, that just because we don't like the results does not make them wrong. I was really hoping that the universe would not end in a boring heat death, but I'm not about to attack cosmologists because the results of their research have dashed my hopes.
We have to examine the data very carefully, trying to look for other explanations for the correlations that were allegedly discovered. If becomes an established conclusion in the field that video games weakly cause violent and antisocial behavior, we might still decide that we don't need to do anything to regulate them beyond "M" labeling. This research result, even if confirmed, doesn't mean that the prudes won and that the state will be prying Crisis from some fat kid's cold dead fingers. We have many choices in how to react to this. But let's not get on our high-horse and yell about how this research must be tainted because we don't like the result. Fundamentalists with no respect for science do that, and we should meet a higher standard.
http://www.tamiu.edu/~cferguson/Much%20Ado.pdf [tamiu.edu]
Now I wish that the discussion on the rest of this thread were conducted on this level, instead of the "If the research doesn't support my preconceptions then it's wrong" crap perfected by geocentrists, cigarette companies and climate change den
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The author of this meta study deserve all the derisive responses he gets. for his entire career he has been trying to show that TV, and now video games' cause people to have a higher risk of violence. His proof is always crappy studies.
The man should either start doing proper studies, or have his doctorate revoked.
My wife's PhD thesis was a Meta-Analysis, and I helped her create some new tools for doing the math behind the analysis so I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on the topic. The process (greatly simplified) is this. Dig through hundreds of articles published in peer reviewed journals on the topic you are examining, and find as many as you can that test the specific theory you are studying. All the articles included in the meta-analysis must test the same theory. Next you need to reverse engineer the numbers reported in the article. This can be a bit tricky since each article may have reported their result using different statistical tests. Occasionally some articles don't have all the relevant numbers and you have to contact the author. Once you have all that data together the math is relatively straight forward.
Presuming that all the other articles that you feed into the process are based on high quality research, then a Meta-Analysis can give you an insight to the overall strength of the results of the theory being tested. As you might imagine this process can easily be a Garbage In Garbage Out sort of situation. The researcher performing the meta-analysis must have the ability to identify bad studies that overlooked key moderating variables, or were simply done poorly and remove these bad studies from their analysis. If you want to attack this meta-analysis, attack the articles it was based off of. A meta-analysis by itself is not 'conclusive' just because of the method it represents. The analysis itself must be performed on many many well done studies in order to have any credibility of its own.
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|2010-08-27, 18:53
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Claire simply enumerated all the various mysteries that needed to be solved from EP1 to EP4, she didn't say anything else.
Will only gave cryptic answers, but supposedly those were clear enough for Claire to understand that Will actually understood the tricks.
Since Claire didn't actually wanted to win but just to see all of her mysteries solved, Will's answers were good enough for her, a battle of red and blue text wasn't necessary. A common understanding that the mysteries were solved was good enough. Red text only exist for the purpose of bringing the detective back on the right track after all.
Once Will's job was done, Claire could finally die and rest in peace.
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Battler never used blue text until EP4. While he never won a game he did win a few battles.
As a matter of facts, blue text has never been necessary to solve a mystery to begin with.
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Blue is actually strategically interesting but was never actually used in the manner it was intended because Battler isn't very good at what he's doing.
So although he didn't need it, it could have been useful if he knew what he was doing with it. And for that he has only himself to blame because Beatrice and Ange explained it pretty damn clearly.
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Bah... I think blue is only really necessary when you don't have a cooperating witch to play with. The only thing blue does is to force a witch to give an answer in red or fall victim of excruciating pain. But until that point Beatrice either answered in red or gave up, so in a way she did the same she would have done if Battler used blue, except she didn't receive any injury.
The shotgun system is also a brute force method that really doesn't sound cool in my book.
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But it's pointless against a witch that would give you an answer anyway, plus it isn't even true that it forces a witch to give an answer. The witch can simply choose to endure the pain and not answer, as it happened in EP4.
For Battler it didn't change a thing, Beatrice kept on giving the answers she wanted to answer and didn't give the answers she didn't want to give. There was just more blood involved.
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Will demonstrated you can win without using any blue, so this is yet another unnecessary thing.
I guess that in the end Beatrice has just been masochistic, he put Battler in a position where he had no choice but to use blue text, whereas their battle could have continued without it.
The only real "advantage" for Beatrice is that Battler had to abide the blue truth rules in order to make his moves.
Oh well it also introduced another way for the human side to lose, but I'm not sure this is strictly related to the blue text itself.
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In a way that's the Erika way of winning, just screaming loud and often enough, the time will come when you're opponent just gives up. Well, Battler in a way did the same, but it wasn't really his goal to make the witch give up, he wanted her to surrender all her bases...which are true terribly different things, as we saw in Episode 4.
So yes, blue is only then an efective weapon, when the opponent plays along. It's like a sword can be a very efective weapon, but not if your opponent has a machine gun.
Well yes, you could argue that it was left out because it would make Beatrice#1's existence more difficult...but I think it as just what I said above.
Dine's rules are much more focused on actuall plot structure and methods, therefore it would be kinda cheap to use one and not the other.
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You know, I've been thinking. In this game, Will gave us a culprit and that culprit turned out to be Yasu, right? However, there's something I had forgot and that I've just remembered right now, and that's that the question given to Will was: "Who killed Beatrice?" That's what he was trying to find out. Bern never really asked him to find out the culprit behind Rokkenjima, did she? Of course, EP7 pointed out Yasu was directly related to the incidents in Rokkenjima. But, does that mean she's the real mastermind?
Personally, I think, if we take into account question that was posed by Bern to Will (i.e. "Who killed Beatrice?"), then I think many of the answers we got from EP7, especially most of Claire's testimonies make much more sense.
1. He finds the truth. Battler wins. Beato is happy.
2. He doesn't find the truth, but beats the shit out of her (i.e. what happened at the end of EP4).
3. He fails and loses the game.
The only way for Beato to win, was that #1 happened.
|2010-08-27, 21:55
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What do you mean Knox 5th doesn't apply? Hasn't Kinzo been presented as a crazy enough "Chinaman" with all his described unusal activities in his later life.
To abide by the rules of classic mystery, Kinzo MUST be dead before the events of 1986, otherwise a living Kinzo during the ordeal would clearly be too much of a disruption to the mystery at hand.
|2010-08-27, 22:19
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That's right but there's a problem. Lion most definitely ends up believing that Beatrice (in other words the herself of another world) is the culprit and mastermind behind the rokkenjima massacre. Why Will never clarified this misunderstanding? Also Claire herself confirms it.
In my opinion Beatrice is just the culprit of the fictional serial murder mystery she created, and she did it because she wanted Battler to understand her heart. In order to understand the whydunnit of a crime you need to understand the heart of the culprit. So in other words I don't believe that Beatrice is actually the responsible of the Rokkenjima explosion.
However why nobody cared to tell Lion all of this? Why they let her believe that she had more than 99% chances to become the mass murderer of her whole family?
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Bern never got around to saying it. It should have been on the list of things to tell Lyon: "Oh, hey, by the way, did you know that you end up murdering your whole entire family and feed their corpses to demon goats all because you took a 12 year old's promise too seriously?*Ahahaha.wav*"
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So then what was Will's answer to the actual question, anyway? Who killed Beatrice? Answering the question of who Beatrice may be is a hint, but does it actually demonstrate her "killer?"
Or was this a big ego trip for Bernkastel, with the answer "me?"
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In the end every guess made regarding the internal logic of Umineko might turn out wrong, because maybe Ryukishi won't abide by any of them. So while some find musing about genre-rules annoying, others don't care much for why it could only be 620t of explosives instead of 900.
And where exactly is the number mismatch you say?!
The Golden Witch Beatrice is only born, because so many people are dependant on her existence. Back in 1945 Kinzo created her because he needed to keep people away from Rokkenjima and some excuse to explain his sudden wealth, while at the same time creating a diversion to smuggle Beatrice Castigliani into the country.
The 2nd Beatrice was kept under the same cover of legend, so that nobody might venture into the forest and find her, while she herself was also confined in a similar manner.
And with the 3rd Beatrice it would start to split into 2 pathes. In the worlds we've seen so far, the witch lives on, but in Rion's world there is no reason to keep the witch alive and so they 'killed her off'. That's why the mystery can exist without there being a body, because Beatrice was never confined to a single body and in the moment she wasn't necessary anymore, she died and was buried by all the people who came in contact with her.
So as far as I understood it, there cannot be a 'Murder of the Golden Witch', because there never actually was a Golden Witch.
So the question for me isn't as much, who let Beatrice die in Rion's world, but who wouldn't let Beatrice die in the scenarios we've witnessed so far.
Because even if Shannon or Kanon (or both) was Beatrice, leaving with George or Jessica would have marked an end to the necessity of the legend.
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That's a simple question to answer: Maria.
Maria wouldn't let Beatrice die, obviously.
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Throughout the preseason, the Lincoln High School football team didn't have a true starting quarterback. Three players were in the hunt to be the one to replace two-time Hudson Reporter All-Area honoree Isiah Roberts.
But in the mind of junior Darius Wade, there was only one candidate.
"Once I was told that I could be the starting quarterback, it was my job," Wade said. "I had to do it. I was going to do everything I could to get the job."
So in the offseason, Wade gathered some of his teammates and asked if he could throw the football to them on a regular basis.
"I worked out with the receivers to get chemistry with them," Wade said. "It was a big opportunity for me and I was going to make the most of it."
Wade knows a little bit about what it takes to be a successful Lincoln signal caller. After all, Wade's cousin, Lamar McKnight, was an All-Area quarterback during his playing days and has now settled in at NCAA Division I Tennessee State. Wade also watched former Lion standout Ronald Butler handle the quarterback duties, going from wide receiver to quarterback, much like what Wade, a fine pass catcher last year, had to do over the summer.
"When I was in eighth grade, I used to watch Ronald Butler all the time," Wade said of the former Lion field leader, now playing wide receiver at Utah State. "He became a dual threat. I knew that I could run. I just had to get the passing game down. So I worked all summer on throwing. I found throwing on the run was easier for me than throwing in the pocket. For me, it's easier."
But Wade was determined to put his signature on the starting quarterback slot.
"He had the work ethic and the attention to detail," Lincoln head coach Robert Hampton said. "He also had the curiosity. He studied some of the predecessors and knew what they did. That's some motivation. When Isiah graduated, Darius made it clear that he thought he could be the guy. I liked that. I felt he had that extra moxie you need to be a quarterback."
Hampton also liked Wade's confidence.
"He wanted to put his own stamp on the position," Hampton said. "He didn't want to be like his cousin. He wanted to be better than his cousin. He liked to emulate some of the others, but he wanted to be his own guy and take it to the next level."
Before the Lions faced Livingston last Sunday to open the 2013 season, Wade felt a little nervous, knowing he was indeed going to be the starting quarterback.
"It was my first start and I was excited," Wade said. "But I felt the nervousness. I waited a long time to get the chance. I didn't want to mess up."
Wade said that he had the jitters until one point.
"Once I got hit, my nerves were gone," Wade said. "After I got hit for the first time, that was it. I was fine."
Wade was more than fine. He was brilliant.
Wade completed eight of 10 passes for 180 yards and three touchdowns while carrying the ball six times for 130 yards and two touchdowns, leading the Lions to a 54-7 victory.
For his debut effort, Wade has been selected as The Hudson Reporter Athlete of the Week for the past week. Wade is the first honoree for the 2013-14 scholastic sports season. The weekly feature will culminate next June with the presentations of the newspaper chain's Male and Female Athletes of the Year.
Wade was somewhat startled with how well he handled the new role.
"I'm kind of surprised how it all came," Wade said. "It's a good feeling. I was also surprised by the score. I knew we had a good team, with all the practices and scrimmages we had. But I didn't expect all of that."
Hampton cannot rave enough about Wade's performance.
"If he was a Broadway play, his opening night would have wowed the critics," Hampton said. "It was a stunning display of speed, intelligence and leadership. At this point, he's very focused and he's very dangerous. He's not just outplaying his relatives and the ones that preceded him, but he's taking that position to a whole new level."
Hampton also loves Wade's personality.
"He's such a great kid and a joy to coach," Hampton said. "He's also very humble. He really has the opportunity to be someone special."
Incredibly, Wade's performance doesn't give him the starting job by himself just yet. He headed to practice after the game, still battling with Tyrik Darby and Jay Harrison for the starting quarterback role when the Lions face a tough Dover team this weekend.
"It's a daily battle," Hampton said. "I can't turn it over to Wade after just one game. I have to see it every game. The other two guys aren't like liverwurst. They can play. I like what they all bring us. The good thing is that they all like each other and help each other."
Wade feels that he can handle the responsibilities.
"It definitely gives me a lot of confidence," Wade said. "I know I can do it. It's a new position, but I'm learning. I just want to be able to make a name for myself."
After his performance last week, everyone in Hudson County knows exactly who Darius Wade is. – Jim Hague
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Kale is a diamond for me and I eat it up to 3 x's a week in my breakfast omelets and almost, if not, every day in my salads.Is there any harm? Am I overdoing it? Just wondering due to trying to be compliant and clear up my internal inflamation.


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PBS NewsHour will provide live coverage of President Obama's speech regarding Afghanistan troop levels on Wednesday, June 22, at 7 pm.
We are currently waiting for details on the length of the speech to set the final lineup for the evening. This post will be updated as soon as the schedule is set.
Shows originally scheduled to air on June 22 were:
Secrets of the Dead "Blackbeard's Lost Ship"
Edward Teach, alias Blackbeard, was the most notorious pirate of his day. At the height of his rein, he commanded a fleet of four ships and a crew of 400 men. They were ruthless seafaring raiders who terrorizing vessels in American waters. In 1717, Blackbeard even blockaded the city of Charleston, crippling its economy. Eventually he was caught and beheaded by a posse from the Royal Navy. Now, 300 years later, a marine archaeology team believes they have found his sunken flagship, Queen Anne's Revenge, off the North Carolina coast. The remains of the shipwreck are helping solve the most enduring mystery surrounding the infamous pirate captain – did he accidentally run his ship aground, or was it a deliberate plot to betray his crew and cheat them out of their share of the plunder?
Nova "Space Shuttle Disaster"
On February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas just 16 minutes before it was due to land. All seven astronauts aboard perished and the implications for the future of the space shuttle program were enormous. What caused the Columbia tragedy? An engineering flaw? A failure within NASA? A lack of financing? Could this catastrophe have been avoided? Through interviews with astronauts and their families, as well as with members of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, "Space Shuttle Disaster" gives viewers a new look at the Columbia tragedy – and at NASA itself. From the creation of NASA through decades of technical and financial compromises, the program gets to the heart of what went wrong – and how to make sure it never happens again.
Britain's XFiles
The amazing true stories of Britain's X-Files are uncovered for the first time. In 1950, a spate of UFO (unidentified flying object) sightings by Royal Air Force pilots inspired the British Government to set up the top-secret Flying Saucer Working Party. In 1952, UFOs reappeared over southern England and, sensationally, over the White House in Washington. As panic escalated, Winston Churchill demanded to know what was going on and the Ministry of Defence set up a permanent UFO Investigation Unit. We now know that over the next 50 years, the government unit secretly investigated and dismissed hundreds of UFO sightings. Why did it take so many years for the Government to admit its activities? This film travels back in time to examine the political climate in the early 1950s.
Austin City Limits
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings burn up the stage with their modern take on classic soul and funk. Texas treasure Carolyn Wonderland follows with her incendiary blend of rock, blues and soul.


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Cedric the Entertainer uses the DVR to binge on shows
Comedian Cedric the Entertainer talks DVRs, binge TV viewing and his favorite online TV viewing on Talking Your Tech.
With his 'Soul Man' show on at 11 p.m., comedian has come to appreciate the DVR.
LOS ANGELES — Comedian Cedric the Entertainer (aka Cedric Kyles) doesn't just want you to tune in to the latest episode of his TV Land series, The Soul Man. No, he's urging in tweets for folks to set their DVRs and record the show, bowing to digital technology to get ratings for his show. We met with the veteran comic at the set of his TV series and talked about the DVR, binge TV viewing and his favorite golf apps.
Soul Man airs "at 11 p.m., which is a little late. If you DVR it and watch it within three days, it counts as a part of our ratings, so I want to encourage people not to miss it. DVR it and watch it tomorrow." The series is also streamed, with complete episodes on the TV Land website. That's "the new world we live in. They used to have appointment TV. But now, with so much technology, being able to get it on your phone, it freed people up. I want as many eyeballs on my show as possible, so I'm glad people can watch it on the Internet."
"I'm a big DVR guy. I like (HBO's) Boardwalk Empire, (Showtime's) Dexter, (Starz's) Boss ... a lot of the dramas. I like to DVR them, and watch kind of all at once. It's a little more exciting for me to have a little more of a story line, than to just watch it every week." He tends to watch five to six episodes at a time.
He likes to watch movies on Netflix during flights. "I don't like to download movies on iTunes, so it's better for me to just do them right there and watch them on the plane." Which requires paying for the in-flight Wi-Fi. "I pay for it. You can't steal Internet on the plane. I've been trying to figure out how to get my neighbor's Wi-Fi. Got to be slick."
Comedian Cedric the Entertainer talks about technology has changed at the barbershop.
The 2002 film Barbershop was an early hit for Kyles, a look at how a Chicago barbershop served as a social hub for African-American men. How has technology changed the barbershop experience?
"It's still that old school men's club kind of space. The only thing that's now there is the addition of flat-screen TVs, mainly, and people Googling answers. It used to be I could riff up some facts, and if people believed I was the smartest dude in the room, I probably could get away with it. Now, it's, 'No, Michael Jordan didn't win no seven rings.' You can't just use your moxie to get away with something in the barbershop anymore. Everybody has their phones, and the Internet is going — especially during sports time."
Comedian Cedric the Entertainer tells about his favorite apps, including the 'Stickman Golf' game.
• IMDB (free; Apple, Android). The Internet Movie Database has movie and actor credits for some 2,000 TV shows and 4,000 actors. "I like to find out about people pretty much right away."
• Super Stickman Golf ($2.99; Apple, Android, BlackBerry). The golf challenge "is my funnest little game that I like to play. It gets a little tricky ... but that's pretty cool."
• The Golf Channel (free; Apple, Android). The sports channel app is full of news and statistics. "I like to keep up with what's going on."
Comedian Cedric the Entertainer talks about his favorite podcasts, including some by favorite DJs.
On the series, Cedric plays a former R&B superstar turned minister. Having the character podcast, "was something we were trying to do to make the show a little more modern, an opportunity for us to tell stories without being so trapped in the sanctuary of the church."
Off screen, he likes to listen to podcasts by comedians like Jay Mohr, and is looking into hosting his own show as well. "I like the idea of seeing what's on people's minds and commenting on it. It keeps you quick and witty as comedian, i just don't know when I have the time, bro."
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An intense heat wave that struck Australia in January 2013 fueled damaging fires not only in Tasmania but in Australia as well.
On January 9, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi-NPP satellite captured this nighttime view of fires burning in Australia's Northern Territory. Numerous fires were burning, some east of Alice Springs and others in the vicinity of Ayer's Rock.
The top image is from the instrument's "day-night band," which sensed the fire in the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The brightest fires are white; some lights from human settlements are also visible. The lower image, acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Terra satellite, shows the same area during daylight hours.
The fire east of Alice Spring destroyed four buildings at Ross River Resort. One of the other fires closer to Ayer's Rock forced authorities to evacuate Kings Canyon Resort in Watarrka National Park.
Extremely high temperatures have fueled the fires. On January 11, central Australia was in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave, with nine consecutive day above 42°Celsius (108°Fahrenheit) in Alice Springs and eight days in a row above 44°Celsius (111°Fahrenheit) at Yulara, near Ayer's Rock.
This heat wave, like all extreme weather events, has its direct cause in a complex set of atmospheric conditions that produce short-term weather. However, weather occurs within the broader context of the climate, and there's a high level of agreement among scientists that global warming has made it more likely that heat waves of this magnitude will occur.
- The Australian. (2013, January 11) Total Fire Ban Across Three States as Firefighters Brace for Bad Conditions. Accessed Jan. 11, 2013.
- The Australian. (2013, January 11) Kings Canyon Resort Evacuated as Fire Hits. Accessed Jan. 11, 2013.
- The Guardian. (2012, January 10) Australian Wildfires: Interactive Map. Accessed Jan. 11, 2013.
- North Australia Fire Information (n.d.) Northern Territory Fire Map. Accessed Jan. 11, 2013.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS Day-Night Band data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership. Suomi NPP is the result of a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Department of Defense. Caption by Adam Voiland.
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- Suomi NPP - VIIRS
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ELGIN, Ill. — Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is scheduled to speak at Judson University in Elgin this spring.
The school says on its website that Blair will be keynote speaker for its third World Leaders Forum. He is set to speak on April 12. Blair was prime minister from 1997 to 2007.
Blair's address is titled "Leadership Insights: Faith, Power and the Post Modern World." It will be followed by a question and answer session.
Previous World Leaders Forum speakers include former President George W. Bush and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.


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Sami sees Rafe leaving the cafe. She's happy to see him but he appears confused and leaves. She can't lose him again. "I won't," she says, and shoots him. Rafe stirs in his coma at the hospital and the monitors beep. Kayla, Kate, and Gabi rush in and Kayla thinks he must have had a nightmare. Rafe has another one about Stefano bashing his head with a baseball bat after learning he is dating Kate. Abe arrives and Kayla asks them to be prepared that Rafe may not be able to differentiate what's happening now to what happened while he was comatose. Abe follows Kayla to her office. She's hoping Rafe will wake up within the hour. Abe returns to Rafe's room and Gabi asks if he knows why Bernardi was trying to harm her brother. Abe has no idea but hopes Rafe can clear some things up.
Things are awkward between Daniel and Jennifer at the cafe. She tries making small talk but he doesn't like pretending like nothing's happening. He tells her he took Parker to see Chloe and then sighs. He can't take the idle chit chat any longer. They're supposed to be taking a break. He reminds her JJ's terrorizing her but she knows. It's why she needs to focus on JJ. Daniel asks Jenn to keep her distance. Once he's gone, Jenn receives a call. "He what?"
At the lake, Rory wonders to JJ what his mother will do if she finds out about him blowing off study hall. Theresa walks by in a bikini top and they start drooling. She asks JJ when he's going to hook her up. He doesn't even know her name. She tells him but has to leave. He takes a call from Jennifer who hollers for him to get to her office.
At home, Sami tells EJ she's stoked things are finally going her way. They kiss until Justin calls with bad news. EJ gets rid of Sami by telling her to be at Rafe's bedside once he wakes up. She takes him up on his offer and leaves. EJ immediately calls Justin. Mr. Shin is holding them up. EJ freaks out and demands Justin get over there, now. EJ gets on the phone to Mr. Shin and then a Mr. Benedict from London Subsidiary. Justin pulls something out of his sleeve and EJ worries if he uses it, Stefano will be on to him. He makes a call anyway and bribes Shin. Soon, they both take calls and are informed EJ's now in control of DiMera Enterprises. EJ hugs Justin and swings him around, happily. Justin congratulates EJ. He says Stefano put the deed to the mansion in the name of one of his corporations. Now, EJ owns the mansion, too!
To commemorate his return to Salem, Stefano and Cecily drink champagne on the flight. Stefano takes a cryptic call about Justin being involved with his son. He's reassured the problem with EJ has been taken care of and asks the caller to keep Elvis in the dark a little longer.
Sami arrives at the hospital to see Rafe. Kate stops her. Rafe doesn't need a narcissist like Sami around. Sami rolls her eyes and reminds Kate of what Rafe has been to her and her kids. She heads into Rafe's room. Kate stops Daniel. He talks about Rafe requiring a lot of physical therapy after he has mentally adjusted to coming out of the coma. They go to his room and Rafe opens his eyes. When he sees Sami, he frowns and his monitors go wild. Sami's forced to leave the room and stay away from Rafe for the time being. Meanwhile, JJ arrives at Jenn's office. She reads him the riot act for ditching school. She's taking away his lunch money and he's not allowed to bring friends home anymore. In fact, if it sounds fun, she tells him not to do it. They both leave the room and later, JJ returns to get his pack. Theresa's sitting in Jenn's chair. Jenn returns and Theresa introduces herself as her new assistant.
Stefano returns home with Cecily. She goes to powder her nose and Stefano says, "Ai yai, yai, yai, yes, yes, yes, it's good to be home." EJ tells him not to make himself too comfortable. He wants him out. Stefano starts to laugh.
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I like the picture cards myself, although I prefer a holiday card that looks at least somewhat holiday-ish. If the second card showed the family playing in the snow or hanging out by their tree, it would work for me. Right now it looks like a JCPenney ad.I do have one request for picture cards: Please keep your clothes on. I know that you took a lovely tropical vacation last year, but I don't want pictures of barechested family members on my mantle, unless you look like Matt Bomer:
I enjoy getting picture cards. I'm always slightly bummed out when the pictures are only of the children though, and don't include the parents. I like to see the whole family.
I like receiving photo cardswith facebook I never seem to get around to printing photos of the people I love. I like it when they do it for me. With the first type of card I usually cut out the picture, with the second it would probably be a lot easier to just tuck into an album.I've been contemplating sending out photo cards for the first time this year with pictures of my cats, but I'm not sure if that would be obnoxious.
I happened to catch a really cute picture of my husband and our new kitten, and I'm thinking of printing it out and including it in a few Christmas cards this year. We've even joked about using photoshop to try and put a little elf hat on the kitten's head to make it more holiday appropriate.
Hm, perhaps I will do photo cards of my cats in antlers and matching festive sweaters... of course, I may not survive the experience.
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