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At Cacoo, you can create diagrams in real time collaboration.
Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge.
You can no doubt see by my illustrated sample that I have little need of Cacoo's service. I automatically tried to tell a story, which is not what it's about. But it's an impressive tool for those who need to create diagrams. There is a nice range of shapes and stencils you can use, plus customize to colour and fit your page. Dragging those to place, then connecting them, takes mere moments. Another feature I liked is that it really does allow for realtime collaboration, so you can work together with someone else on your flowchart, say.
There's a video you can watch to understand it better, and I've embedded it below. Another new diagram-making program is Simple Diagrams which I read about recently at Free Technology for Teachers. It is a download, but looks to be exactly what it says. There's a free and paid version.
Cacoo - Real-time Collaborative Diagramming & Design from Nulab Inc. on Vimeo.
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5 comments:
- ktenkely20 July, 2010
Great for mindmapping and brainstorming together in the classroom. The collaborative nature of it is fantastic! Thanks!ReplyDelete
- Kelly Be A Fun Mum20 July, 2010
I like this one. Might be useful for some of my posts.ReplyDelete
- Book Chook20 July, 2010
These collaborative tools are really useful in the classroom, aren't they Kelly T.ReplyDelete
- Book Chook20 July, 2010
I am thinking you probably have more variety in what I was reading on your blog about Publisher, Kelly B. But if you need a quick and easy online place, this could be it.ReplyDelete
We also have a similar tool called Creately but it has some additional productivity features. Do give us a try and consider featuring us as well.ReplyDelete
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It looks like those carrying a Nexus 4 will soon be getting a new software update. This one has been detailed by T-Mobile and looks like it will be arriving as software version JWR66Y. Take note of that trailing Y though because the rest of the software version number looks rather similar to the previous version — JWR66V.
The JWR66V update was the one that brought Android 4.3. This latest update isn't quite as exciting however it is one that we suspect Nexus 4 users will be happy to get. The update is security related. In fact, that is just about all that is coming with software version JWR66Y.
The T-Mobile changelog notes the improvements as being "security" related and that is all. That aside, the update is available as of today and looks to be rather small in size — just 1.8MB. As we often see coming from T-Mobile, they make sure to point out that you should have an un-rooted device with at least 50 percent battery life before beginning the update process.
Bottom line here, this is a small update that likely just brings a few fixes. Of course, we are thankful that T-Mobile posted these details if for no other reason than it will keep users from speculating and wondering about what was included. Those with a Nexus 4 in hand can navigate to Menu -> Settings -> About device -> Software update to get the process started.
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Why the hell would a grocery chain based in FL do something this incredibly stupid? Answer: I have NO idea why. Some speculate it is because it would crimp their alcohol and tobacco sales. Others think it is related to their pharmacies losing business.
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Dele Alli is at his best when playing the role of the "pantomime villain", according to his Tottenham team-mate Harry Kane.
The Spurs midfielder found himself targeted by the crowd in the 3-0 win at Burnley on Saturday, with a strong early tackle on Charlie Taylor only resulting in a yellow card, before he won a penalty with what some perceived to be a dive.
But Alli was not affected negatively by the special attention he got from the home support, going on to play a role in another of Spurs' goals and playing up to the crowd as he was substituted in the second half.
It was not the first time that Alli's on-pitch behaviour has been questioned, but Kane feels his fellow England international is at his most effective when people are jeering him.
"I think it makes him play better," Kane said. "You saw him against Burnley - I thought it was fantastic. He fed off the crowd.
"He was the pantomime villain out there but he got two assists - the penalty and my third goal. That's when he's at his best. Hopefully he continues like that.
"Dele was great. He was aggressive - we were all aggressive and that's what we said [before the game]. We had to come out, press, make runs behind, be aggressive and brave with the ball. That's what happened and we deserved to win.
"He's a great person and he's a great player. He's got that aggressive side to him and that's what makes him who he is.
"I don't think he stepped over the mark at all against Burnley. I think the penalty was definitely a penalty, but of course away from home you always get fans getting on someone's back and it was Dele [that time].
"But Dele is staying focused. It's important for us that he plays like he did - I thought he was fantastic. People are going to talk.
"In football, there's always someone criticising you and it's about how you cope with that. I think he's doing well."
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Ebola has appeared in three African nations in 2014 with exponential growth, 71% case fatality, and grossly incompetent response on a local and international level. The resent sending of 160,000 hazmat separate air biohazard suits via the US State Dept to Africa confirms 2012 Canadian research, that Ebola is airborne. Since 1976, Ebola was of short incubation period approximately 4 to 7 days, before rapid onset of terminal DIC disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. The lab where Ebola research in Sierra Leone has been funded by Bill and Melinda Gates and George Soros, under the direction of the CDC of the USA and UN / WHO. The 2010 USA patent by the CDC on Ebola indicates they had interest in genetic and pathogenic modification of the virus. Its recent rise and spread lend support to the thesis that it is a bioweapon designed to firstly depopulate Africa, and secondly to force travel controls, medical martial law and by 2006 international treaties that pass all military under the UN and all health controls under the WHO.
Ebola mimics early malarial symptoms in Africa, where citizens are prone to go to the local pharmacy or natural doctors for malarial treatment. The population is very suspicious of outside health providers and tend to run from any suggestion of Ebola as a possible diagnosis. Normal self-quarantine is totally useless in Africa, and 21, 30 day time for quarantine is inadequate. It should be sixty days minimum, with monitoring of each person in a separate biohazard room, with no day privileges to leave the facility. Anyone under surveillance must have daily medical checks, viral swabs, blood titers and testing to indicate viral load, and any indication of progression to overt disease which may follow false negative testing results.
Ebola has a reservoir in fruit bats, monkeys and cattle in Africa. It can also infect domestic animals cats, and dogs, as well as carrion birds such as crows, seagulls and eagles.
1) Cancel all travel Visas to the USA and Western nations from these target countries and any new countries identified to have Ebola outbreaks.
2) FAA to place a Hazmat team on all aircraft to isolate anyone with symptoms presumptive of Ebola with a hazmat tent and isolation of one restroom, at the back of the aircraft. NIOSH N95 masks and biohazard TyVek Suits for suspected tracellers and hazmat team with separate air systems with filters.
3) HEPA filters with chain of custody to CDC Certified viral and pathogen labs for every international flight, with contract call list of travellers and followup for minimum three weeks from suspected contact on an identified flight of concern.
4) Hazmat teams and ground transfer vehicles to quarantine facilities at every USA or Western international airport.
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5) Ozone and Ionic Silver clearance of all aircraft and all luggage with UV curtains and Wood's light 'grime light' clearance of seats, lavatories, and all passenger contact points.
6) Development of rapid DNA amplification technologies for rapid identification of Ebola or any other suspect pathogen, for airline, hospital, EMT AND Hazmat staff. see BioFire and BioPhoton device articles at end of report, now available for Ebola and other Pandemic Viral Detection in 1 hour.
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8 ) Avoid contact with body fluids, stool, vomitus, coughing in vicinity, sweat and clothing or personal furniture e.g. bedding, chairs, coaches, and footwear.
9) Self quarantine at home for the duration of an outbreak plus eight weeks in your rea of the county, e.g. prepper needs water, food, personal protection.
10) Refuse all vaccines, drugs, and government detention camps
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ZMapp tobacco genetically modified sera tags pathogenic Ebola virus, and production should be dramatically increased. Similar H1N1, H5N1, H57N9, SARS Beta 2 Corona Virus should be explored.
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Avoid Vaccine with Adenovirus and two genes to make your cells produce Ebola antigenic immune stimulus
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From Ebola countries and if pandemic status is reached all international flights should be cleared before flights, boats, or immigrationis permitted, which should only take one hour.
14) To prevent endemic viral breakouts in bushmeat animals e.g. monkeys and fruit bats and agricultural animals and pets a national endemic team project to identify and elminate repositories with antipathogenics, scalar antiviral technologies and individual and herd culling. E.G. Liberian, Sierra Leone, Guinea international veterinarian teams - multiyear project.
Digital Sensing and Sizing of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Pseudotypes in Complex Media: A Model for Ebola and Marburg Detection
ACS ActiveView PDFHi-Res Print, Annotate, Reference QuickViewPDF [2648 KB]PDF w/ Links[555 KB]Full Text HTMLAbstractSupporting Info ->FiguresReference QuickView Add to ACS ChemWorx
George G. Daaboul (1), Carlos A. Lopez (1), Jyothsna Chinnala (1), Bennett B. Goldberg (1)(2)(3), John H. Connor (4)(5), and M. Selim Unlu (1)(2)(3)(6)
(1) Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
(2) Biomedical Engineering Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
(3) Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
(4) Department of Microbiology and National Emerging and Infectious Diseases Laboratories, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, United States
(5) Boston University Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
ACS Nano, 2014, 8 (6), pp 6047-6055
DOI: 10.1021/nn501312q
Publication Date (Web): May 19, 2014
Copyright (c) 2014 American Chemical Society
(6)Address correspondence to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Rapid, sensitive, and direct label-free capture and characterization of nanoparticles from complex media such as blood or serum will broadly impact medicine and the life sciences. We demonstrate identification of virus particles in complex samples for replication-competent wild-type vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), defective VSV, and Ebola- and Marburg-pseudotyped VSV with high sensitivity and specificity. Size discrimination of the imaged nanoparticles (virions) allows differentiation between modified viruses having different genome lengths and facilitates a reduction in the counting of nonspecifically bound particles to achieve a limit-of-detection (LOD) of 5 X 103 pfu/mL for the Ebola and Marburg VSV pseudotypes. We demonstrate the simultaneous detection of multiple viruses in a single sample (composed of serum or whole blood) for screening applications and uncompromised detection capabilities in samples contaminated with high levels of bacteria. By employing affinity-based capture, size discrimination, and a "digital" detection scheme to count single virus particles, we show that a robust and sensitive virus/nanoparticle sensing assay can be established for targets in complex samples. The nanoparticle microscopy system is termed the Single Particle Interferometric Reflectance Imaging Sensor (SP-IRIS) and is capable of high-throughput and rapid sizing of large numbers of biological nanoparticles on an antibody microarray for research and diagnostic applications.
Keywords: single virus; viral hemorrhagic fevers; label free; biosensor
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Posted by Mark Dwortzan-Boston U on October 27, 2014
In a worst-case scenario, 1.4 million people in Liberia and Sierra Leona could be infected with Ebola by late January, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC warns that those countries could now have 21,000 cases of the virus, which kills 70 percent of people infected.
One of the big problems hindering the containment of Ebola is the cost and difficulty of diagnosing the disease when a patient is first seen. Conventional fluorescent label-based virus detection methods require expensive lab equipment, significant sample preparation, transport and processing times, and extensive training to use.
A rapid, label-free photonic device that can provide affordable, simple, and accurate on-site detection could be a potential solution. The device could be used to diagnose Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever diseases in resource-limited countries.
A team, led by Selim Unlu, a professor of biomedical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and materials science and engineering at Boston University, in collaboration with physics professor Bennett Goldberg, showed the ability to pinpoint and size single H1N1 virus particles.
Researchers reported the first demonstrated of the concept in Nano Letters in 2010.
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Now, after four years of refining the instrumentation with collaborators including John Connor, a School of Medicine associate professor of microbiology, the team has demonstrated the simultaneous detection of multiple viruses in blood serum samples-including viruses genetically modified to mimic the behavior of Ebola and the Marburg virus.
The device identifies individual viruses based on size variations resulting from distinct genome lengths and other factors. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the research appears in the May 2014 ACS Nano.
"Others have developed different label-free systems, but none have been nearly as successful in detecting nanoscale viral particles in complex media," says Unlu, referring to typical biological samples that may have a mix of viruses, bacteria, and proteins.
"Leveraging expertise in optical biosensors and hemorrhagic fever diseases, our collaborative research effort has produced a highly sensitive device with the potential to perform rapid diagnostics in clinical settings."
Whereas conventional methods can require up to an hour for sample preparation and two hours or more for processing, the current prototype requires little to no sample preparation time and delivers answers in about an hour.
"By minimizing sample preparation and handling, our system can reduce potential exposure to health care workers," says Connor, a researcher at Boston University's National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL).
"And by looking for multiple viruses at the same time, patients can be diagnosed much more effectively."
The shoebox-sized prototype diagnostic device, known as the single particle interferometric reflectance imaging sensor (SP-IRIS), detects pathogens by shining light from multicolor LED sources on viral nanoparticles bound to the sensor surface by a coating of virus-specific antibodies.
Interference of light reflected from the surface is modified by the presence of the particles, producing a distinct signal that reveals the size and shape of each particle. The sensor surface is very large and can capture the telltale responses of up to a million nanoparticles.
In collaboration with BD Technologies and NexGen Arrays, a start-up based at the Photonics Center and run by longtime SP-IRIS developers David Freedman and postdoctoral fellow George Daaboul, the research team is now working on making SP-IRIS more robust, field-ready, and fast-ideally delivering answers within 30 minutes-through further technology development and preclinical trials.
SP-IRIS devices are now being tested in several labs, including a Biosafety Level-4 (BSL-4) lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch, which is equipped to work with hemorrhagic viruses.
Other tests will be conducted at the university's NEIDL once the facility is approved for BSL-4 research. Based on the team's current rate of progress, a field-ready instrument could be ready to enter the medical marketplace in five years.
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Doctor: U.S. Army Rejected Successful Ebola Drug 2 Weeks Before Outbreak
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by PAUL JOSEPH WATSON | OCTOBER 16, 2014
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A doctor claims that he developed a successful drug to combat Ebola with the U.S. Army at Ft. Detrick Maryland but that the research was inexplicably shut down two weeks before the first outbreak of the virus in West Africa.
Richard C. Davis, M.D., a former flight surgeon with the U.S. Navy, told Infowars that he was leading a project to develop a drug called RC-2Beta, which according to Davis works, "at the core of our cells to enhance mitochondrial efficiency and promote gene signaling to stimulate cellular self-repair and pathogen destruction."
In the fall of 2013, Davis' company began collaborating with the US Army at their Level 4 bioweapons facility at Ft. Detrick, Maryland to develop the drug, with astounding success.
According to Davis, the drug "Killed four of the world's deadliest viruses in a dose-dependent fashion. The Army also noted that uninfected cells in the same cultures were untouched by the drug (i.e., it was non-toxic)."
"Everyone was very excited about these results since there has never been a broad-spectrum anti-viral drug that killed so many different viruses without affecting normal (uninfected) cells in this way," writes Davis.
However, after the Army initially indicated to Davis and his team that they were ready to move ahead quickly with further testing, communication completely ceased.
Army research data shows effectiveness of RC-2Beta in fighting the Ebola virus.
"Our once close communications and cordial relationship with the Ft. Detrick team went totally and inexplicably silent. Our phone calls went unanswered and emails unreturned," writes Davis, adding he was "stunned" when the first reports of Ebola emerged in Africa just two weeks later.
The doctor also desperately contacted mainstream media outlets in an effort to get the story out, including CNN, ABC, MSNBC, CBS, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times and others. After making initial contact and agreeing to provide documents, Davis was subsequently stonewalled and every outlet dropped the story.
Davis then turned to Florida Congressman David Jolly in an effort to reopen lines of communication with Ft. Detrick, a process that is ongoing.
While health authorities and the media aggressively promoted ZMapp and other less successful drugs and vaccines to fight Ebola, Davis set about anxiously contacting the World Health Organization, which in June announced that experimental treatments for Ebola would be fast tracked.
"Out of concern and frustration, I made it my personal priority to obtain the two necessary documents (Humanitarian Use Exemption and Export Certificate) needed to ship our drug to the medical teams working desperately in Africa," writes Davis. "So I began calling, and writing and faxing everyone who might be able to help. Since May, I have reached out over 200 times to every head of every organization in the world involved with this crisis. This includes the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, the various teams at the FDA, the National Institutes of Health, DARPA, multiple private relief and aid organizations (like Doctors Without Borders), and dozens just like them. The response was always the same... Silence..."
The doctor also slammed the Obama administration's response to the Ebola outbreak.
"The response of the American government has been patently absurd," writes Davis. "Every protocol that has been put in place to prevent the spread of the disease has been ignored. Our borders remain open, infected patients are being brought into our hospitals, and no truly effective countermeasures have been erected to stem the tide of infectious risk."
Davis' conclusion on the government's handling of the Ebola crisis and the fact that a potentially successful cure for the virus was shut down by Ft. Detrick immediately before the outbreak in West Africa left him to draw a sobering conclusion.
"I am left to conclude that America's leadership is either guilty of gross misconduct, dereliction of duty, criminal negligence or worse - treason," writes Davis, warning that the "crisis will undoubtedly spiral out of control" if the advice of incompetent public health authorities, the government and the media continues to be followed unquestionably.
Davis boasts an impressive Curriculum Vitae, having authored over 400 patents and trademarks while also being awarded commendations from the Chief of Naval Operations.
"The inescapable conclusions of negligence or corruption or both cannot be simply swept aside for the sake of political correctness when the lives of every one of us are at stake," writes Davis, adding, "Ebola is real. It is here, now. There is no more time to waste."
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Dear Dr. Deagle,
My suggestion for this threat would be for YOU to allow the guests you have on your show to complete their statement on this subject before you interrupt (like you ALWAYS do). IMHO
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plz no.
It's Torso, dun dun dun, did I do good?
Yeah but what if.
It wasn't?
look at the hips and shoulder, it's clearly a female.
it could be a doll or some other corpse as well
Oh yeah man, he would clearly be traumatized over finding a mans torso when he knows she's a woman. Stop being such a retard.
judging by >>141844417 , you are doing great.
Finally caught up after not reading for a year, does anyone else find this manga difficult to follow whats going on or am I just retarded?
Also, why would they kill this cutie off?
Dear lord i hope mutsuki actually got corpsed so we can get some sort of semblance of order back to the wiki again.
>Mutsuki dieing without Ishida spelling it out that she isn't a trannyfag
>Wikia forever saying Mutsuki Tooru: gender male, : sex female, :pronouns he/him/his/xe/xer/they/them
In my deranged ideal world, we get a flashback where she does the whole "im a woman/thisiswhoiam/somethingsomethingcharacterdevelopment" before she gets mannequin'd.
Why is :re so shit and unexciting compared to the original manga?
Because you watched the anime and picked it up after S1 ended, which also happened to be at the exact point that part 1 ended.
the only people who really say this are newfags
No, that's when I stopped visiting the threads.
Hahaha, yeah. Got'em!
Don't worry it's not who you think it is.
The focus shift from ghouls to ccg
>The focus shift from ghouls to ccg
Ghouls have been worse than the ccg.
No, I agree, it lacks the flair the original had
it's an expression of shock stupid
Re is a fucking mess
How strong are we expecting Kurona to be? I would say about as strong as Kaneki at the end of Tokyo Ghoul, especially if she has a half kakuja.
Kaneki when he beat Shinohara.
Thank fuck tumblr bait is dead.
Just because there is more going on at once, doesn't mean it's a "mess".
There has been a lot of confusion on the timeline in :re and there have been constant timeskips.
So what was the smell?
blood you numb digger.
>It's a mutsuki cliffhanger who puts tumblrina on suicide watch
bacon lube.
Are those two boys or two girls?
What's the confusion? If it's on the level of thinking that Ayato and Kaneki were in the same place in this page, that would be retarded and lacks any credibility. Because there were anons who thought those two were right next to each other here.
Eto's timeline with her speech and showing up at the ccg. The time difference between Rue Island and Cochlea.
Also not confusing, but just messy is the seven flashbacks this arc.
>Eto's timeline with her speech and showing up at the ccg.
How is this confusing? I'll allow the second point, though. I wasn't confused, but I can understand that it may be difficult for some to process that once it was pointed out.
Those anyone know what day the Cochlea invasion happened on? Since the island invasion started on the 13th inside the story.
The amount of time on the island wasn't clear.
>The amount of time on the island wasn't clear.
No, that's the one I understand. The first thing I quoted in my post is what I'm asking about.
>Eto's timeline with her speech and showing up at the ccg.
This, specifically.
It actually was the same problem just with the recon team instead of the massed attack.
You mean when mophead came back to report? How was that confusing?
>Those anyone know what day the Cochlea invasion happened on? Since the island invasion started on the 13th inside the story.
Never mind, found the answer to this. The Cochlea invasion was on the 19th.
So yeah, when the announcement was being made in chapter 67 that the island invasion had begun on the 13th, we were supposed to assume that a few days had passed since then. It was confusing since no one paid in any mind from that one mention.
Ok so what was the point of that dwarf/mole ghoul woman? She got introduced and now she's dead. There are seriously more than enough characters already. I can't remember the names and faces of half of the people. I often have no idea who is talking about who or where they are and what they are doing.
Okay, so, the torso is placed in the same area as Mutsuki's was. So if it's not Mutsuki's body, then we must accept the horrible truth.
Torso is having an affair with somebody other than his waifu.
Though, yeah, now that all this fuckery with our perception of the timeline has been brought up, the last time we saw Mutsuki could have taken place in the past (during the earlier days of the invasion) rather than "now".
What was the point of Nutcracker or Matsumae? Just another "major"-ish arc character to make us sympathize with.
Miza is definitely still alive, though. It's just a matter of whether or not she survives this to escape with her husbando or she lives only to die a more tragic death. Perhaps in front of Naki, so that he can "remember her forever". Or die together, who knows.
Why would Urie make a shock expression over a torso and made much emphasis on the smell, a familiar smell judging Urie's expression?
I would very disappointed with Ishida if he create a cliffhanger for the sake of it.
So is kaneki on naki's level yet?
Nuts was just a plotdevice to develop Shirazu, I guess Matsumae was just another for Homoprince.
>Why would Urie make a shock expression over a torso and made much emphasis on the smell, a familiar smell judging Urie's expression?
I was being farcical, anon. Hence why I mentioned this
>Though, yeah, now that all this fuckery with our perception of the timeline has been brought up, the last time we saw Mutsuki could have taken place in the past (during the earlier days of the invasion) rather than "now".
There's also the low, low chance of Torso having another torso around as he's found his "soul mate". Unless he caught a CCG soldier and brought her body back to his love shack to cheat on Mutsuki with.
Oh yes, for sure, but they're also there to add a bit of bitter-sweetness to the situation.
>i would be dissapointed if ishida made a cliffhanger for the sake of it
That already happened twice recently, first with yomo getting pierced in the throat and nothing happening and then with the garbage compactor and nothing happening. Not to mention all the last second saves, first ayato getting saved at the last second by yomo and then yomo getting saved by ayato at the last second. And then yomo being saved by kaneki at the last second and re being saved by eto at the last second. Id be really happy and thoroughly surprised if it is mutsuki, but it's definitely just another cheap cliffhanger.
Ishida should stop drawing and just write a novel. At least then I could understand what's going on.
That would be cheap, cheaper than the whole Kirishima-Yomo situation.
Oh shit i just realized kuronas kagune didn't have a hand.
I thought her kagune had a hand at first but it doesn't.
>this arc
The timing of Eto's speech vs coming for her editor.
>coming for her editor.
Huh? What do you mean?
Eto cames for her editor before Kaneki arrested her, then she and Kaneki went to her speech because the CCG allowed her to.
The special class were finishing their meeting when the recon team arrived. The editor had already been interrogated for a while.
The Recon team heard Eto have a speech at Aogiri's base.
Eto arrives shortly after the meeting.
Kaneki was already searching for Eto. They first approached her editor, then took him into their custody. When Eto came, they released him. Then she had her speech afterward.
>The special class were finishing their meeting when the recon team arrived. The editor had already been interrogated for a while.
Yeah, the scouting was chronologically before this. When mophead arrived to report on what happened, that was after Eto's speech had already been reported on in the papers.
Anyway, I got you. I can understand why that's confusing. Either the scoutteam remained on the island for a while after witnessing Eto's speech or Ayumu was getting treated first for the injuries she sustained. It may have even taken her a while to return from the last time we saw her on the island too. That's the only way I can explain it.


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