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Challenges in Digitisation - Paper given in honour of Esko Häkli, Helsinki, 23 November 2001
The digitisation of information seems to be the realization of mankind's dream. We can - in principle - get seamless information everywhere and at any time. Digital information seems therefore to be a victory in terms of space and time. But, on the contrary, if we look at the reality of digital information on the World Wide Web, it sometimes looks more like a nightmare because of the overwhelming mass of material, lack of quality control, and lack of stability.
For these reasons electronic information presents a real challenge to libraries, the 'professional information institutes' of the world.
Three main aspects of digitisation and the digital library will be discussed in this paper:
|Research and the digital library
|Publishing as a distributed system
The digitisation of printed material is one of the great challenges for national and research libraries as a way of improving access and availability. The overwhelming mass of material makes selection a problem. There are two main developments in this field:
|digitisation of cultural heritage (for an example from the SUB Göttingen, see the digitisation of the Göttingen Gutenberg Bible)
|digitisation of research material. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft e.g. is funding a research-based retro-digitisation programme.
A positive side effect of the digitisation of cultural material is that it allows libraries to combine activities intended for a wider audience with the provision of better access for researchers. There are new opportunities to unite materials that are scattered in different libraries internationally (e.g. the Library of Congress's programme Meeting of Frontiers, which is bringing together Alaskan and Siberian materials from its own collections, the National Library of Russia (St Petersburg), the State Library of Alaska (Anchorage), and the State and University Library of Göttingen.
But it is not only libraries that can be partners in this new method of virtual collection building for research purposes. It is a challenge for all types of heritage institutions - archives, libraries and museums - to bring together different materials relating to an individual writer, artist or subject.
For such projects to be successful, inter-operability between these different activities is essential. There are different levels of inter-operability. Technical inter-operability covers hardware, networks, data types, application compatibilities and protocols.
Standards are needed: for retro-digitisation of printed material, the GDZ Digitisation Centre in Göttingen uses the standards: 600 dpi for imaging, and Dublin-Core and XML for metadata description.
The Digital Library Federation's newly developed METS standard will be an interesting development for the exchange of digitised material.
Just as important as the technical standards is information inter-operability, which covers areas such as: content range, language, metadata, conventions of naming, and user interfaces.
It is certainly one of the main challenges for national and research libraries to move to common rules in the field of descriptive cataloguing. It is to be hoped that the new steps towards MARC Harmonisation, in which LIBER is taking a leading role in promoting to European activities, will succeed. But libraries must join with the whole research community - including researchers and learned societies as well as with other heritage institutions - to introduce minimum standards for inter-operability of metadata such as Dublin Core.
In Germany, the national library, Die Deutsche Bibliothek, is engaged on the Metalib project with the SUB Göttingen, with the aim of developing nation-wide standards in co-operation with the research community.
A third factor, which is often under-estimated, is social inter-operability covering personal and organisational rights and responsibilities, which have to be settled. In addition, it is necessary to develop partnership and mutual trust to achieve successful projects and long-term cooperation.
A new culture of partnership is necessary to meet the challenges of the virtual world. It will be essential for co-operative activities to be conducted on a basis of trust and stability if we are to succeed in creating a stable virtual information environment.
Journal DigitisationThe digitisation of journals is a good example of the necessity of co-operation. The first project of this kind was JSTOR, which was begun with a grant from the Mellon Foundation. It is now working quite successfully as a not-for-profit organisation. It was also a co-operative activity for many libraries, helping to bring together the holdings necessary to complete sets of journals. The DIEPER project, which demonstrates different activities in Europe, was more closely concerned with standards: it is based on the development of a single access point for digitised material from different countries, and this is more closely in line with European needs than the development of a nation-wide not-for-profit organisation like JSTOR.
The Digizeitschriften project, a co-operative activity by leading German libraries, is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Sets of leading German journals will be digitised in the first phase.
DIEPER was a European project involving the State and University Library of Göttingen, in collaboration with the University Library of Finland, the University Library of Paris 5, the University of Pisa and the University of Patras.
JSTOR has good links with publishers, making possible the digitisation of older material. The concept of the "moving wall" - a period of three to five years between the original publication date and delivery time via the JSTOR service - protects the publisher against cancellations of subscriptions for recent materials. But some publishers are preparing retrospective sets of their publications. Elsevier seems to be the first publisher investing a substantial amount of money (about US$ 40 million) in retro-digitisation. In this particular instance, libraries may feel uncomfortable: a publisher with extremely highly priced journals identifies a new field of additional financial income.
Retrospective digitisation and copyright"A library, that's a good concept", a publisher once said, comprehending the work of research libraries. In terms of copyright he saw an additional opportunity to exploit - and Elsevier may see its activities in a similar way. But perhaps the publisher made a mistake. If you look carefully at the copyright situation, you can see that material published before 1925 may be out of copyright. After 1996 the publisher will normally be considered the owner of both the electronic and the print copyright. Electronic publishing has been recognized during this time. So the author may have assigned the electronic copyright to the publisher without making a special contract. But the period between 1926 and 1995 is doubtful for the publisher. The legal situation seems to be clear: the author is the copyright owner of the electronic copyright, because he was not able to transfer the copyright into electronic publishing since it did not yet exist. This would, in effect, mean that every author has to be asked for permission for retro-digitisation - a seemingly totally unrealistic task, although in the case of the Finnish Electra project, which dealt with living authors in a relatively small country, this task was carried out quite successfully. The Digizeitschriften project has instead worked out a contract with the publishers and the German collecting society (Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort), which represents the authors, to solve the problem.
The World Wide Web began as a communication medium for the research community at CERN in Geneva. Up to the present there continues to be a lack of clarity between communication and publication on the Internet. Traditionally, a publication such as a printed monograph, multi-volume work or a journal was a well-defined entity. But when is a text on the Internet published in the proper sense? The most significant part of the Internet comprises current communication - information about conferences, preprint versions of papers, discussion lists, chat rooms, etc. And often there are dynamic 'publications', where authors present new versions without showing the differences from previous versions.
There is another challenge for the digital library. Digital media are often dynamic in character. They comprise work in progress, or they are databases and are no longer linear text. In addition, co-operative virtual libraries on special subjects such as 'Meeting the Frontiers' are no longer static activities. They are more and more combinations of text, pictures and video-clips. If they are combined with researchers' comments, chat rooms etc, they are no longer definable entities - they are research in progress. They will become a 'digital research cluster'. These materials - not the official 'publications' themselves, which will also be part of these clusters - but the combination of all these materials will provide most interesting documentation of research and the way in which research is progressing. If 'research clusters' of this kind can be hosted and archived by libraries, the research library will become a research document in itself. It may be that this research-based activity is mainly a task for university libraries. Close technical co-operation and shared activities between national and academic libraries are, however, a real necessity if we are to archive these research materials and make them available for long-term access.
Copyright and alternative publishing activitiesThe 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty and the 2000 European Directive on the Information Society have made the position of the publisher in the publication chain stronger than ever before. The key for access in the future will be licensing, and no longer to such an extent legal exceptions for libraries or for private use. In this situation activities like SPARC or the Public Library of Science (PloS) are of increasing value. SPARC wants to build a more competitive market especially for science journals, and to develop alternative communication schemes. The Public Library of Science is encouraging authors only to give their copyright to publishers if they agree to allow free access after six months.
There are many new and alternative business models in the digital world, as the results of the European project TECUP demonstrate:
|self publishing (by the author or institution),
|pre-print server (from learned societies or research communities),
|subscription model (electronic),
|pay per use (additional access to - seldom-used - electronic journals or new style 'journals' without issues),
|pay by author (publication in the electronic journal is costly).
Access is the real challenge in the digital world. You may be allowed to access or you may not:
|through consortia at national or regional level libraries try to guarantee cross access for the whole group of (bigger and smaller) partners;
|some publishers are offering different pricing models for smaller or bigger libraries;
|access via document delivery seems to be an additional way for seldom-used material.
But all these access models depend on the budgets of the university, the library or the user. There is a danger that we will have information rich and information poor people in the academic field of the future. But isn't there another way outside the traditional publisher-driven system to assure academic information exchange in the digital world?
The distributed communication and publication system
1. The Open Archive InitiativeThere are two different philosophies on how to create access to digital material. You can collect all the material in one big cooperative database, or you can collect it by harvesting it at points of interest. The open archive initiative tries to combine these two philosophies:
|data provider offers material with a standardized (Dublin Core) metadata set,
|service provider offers collected metadata in a special field providing access to the material stored by the data providers.
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) can provide a structural model for the distributed communication system of the future. The players will be authors, institutions, universities and their libraries as data providers, and learned societies, research institutions and specialized libraries as service providers.
2. The digital universityAcademic education is becoming more and more electronic-based. Universities are increasingly offering multimedia-oriented educational material and courses. Academic institutions without a networked environment are no longer compatible with the world of learning. The trend is moving in the direction of the digital university. Ideally, this academic institution must provide students and researchers with a personal, an intra-institutional and an Internet-oriented communication (and publication) system.
It should have three main levels:
1. Private level
2. Intranet level
2.1. Course level: course material
2.2. Institutional level: educational material
3. Internet level
3.1. Communication level - preprints, dissertations, etc.
3.2. Publication level - peer reviewed material; university press
The estimated content of a digital information system in such an e-university will provide as much content as that of a big publisher like Elsevier. Official publishing will be only a marginal part of the data storage and processing in the academic information systems. On the other hand, a development of this kind gives a real chance to change the situation in the publication chain between the academic world and publishing houses (Roosendaal, Geursts & Van der Vet, 2001). By building a distributed system of open archive initiative content providers, combined with service providers of learned societies, libraries etc., research communication will be given a new foundation. The role of the publisher in the future will be to select high quality material out of this system, aggregating it with added value in peer reviewed journals, monographs etc. It may be that this system will really function as a distributed system, so that the papers are stored on university servers; or it may be that the added value papers are stored in their final version on publishers' servers - in any case access to academic material will be assured and the position of researchers and universities will have improved.
Only libraries - national and academic libraries - and the international community of libraries can build the worldwide infrastructure for
|this new system of distributed communication combining OAI-servers
|quality services for cataloguing and subject classification (e.g. via metadata sharing)
|free access via portals and
|online delivery of digital and digitised material.
In short, the real challenge for libraries, in co-operation with researchers, universities, learned societies and publishers, in the digital world is to build a worldwide infrastructure for the standardized communication, information and publishing system of the future.
But if they are to realize this vision, libraries need more leaders like Esko Häkli, who combine vision, co-operative skills and practical common sense.
AcknowledgementsI would like to thank Ann Matheson for having looked through the English version.
Roosendaal, Peter A., Th.M. Geursts and Paul van der Vet: "Higher education needs may determine the future of scientific e-publishing". Nature, 18 September 2001. http://www.nature.com/nature/debates/e-access/Articles/roosendaal.html
WIPO Copyright Treaty and Agreed statements Concerning the WIPO Copyright Treaty(adopted in Geneva onDecember 20, 1996). WIPO Publication Number 226, ISBN: 92-805-0706-0, 56 p. http://www.wipo.int/clea/docs/en/wo/wo033en.htm
DDB - Die Deutsche Bibliothek. http://www.ddb.de/index_e.htm
DIEPER - DIgitised European PERiodicals. http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dieper/
Digizeitschriften - das deutsche digitale Zeitschriftenarchiv. http://www.digizeitschriften.de/
DFG - Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). http://www.dfg.de/en/index.html
DLF - Digital Library Federation. http://www.diglib.org/
Funded Projects in the DFG Program Retrospective Digitisation of Library Holdings. http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/en/vdf-e/vdf-liste-e.shtml
JSTOR - The scholarly journal archive. http://www.jstor.org/
Göttingen Gutenberg Bible. http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/start.htm
LIBER MARC 21 Interest Group. http://www.kb.dk/liber/division/taskforce/marc/index.htm
Meeting of Frontiers. http://frontiers.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfsplash.html
OAI - Open Archives Initiative. http://www.openarchives.org/
PloS - Public Library of Science. http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/
SPARC - the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. http://www.arl.org/sparc/
SUB - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen. http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/index-e.html
TECUP. http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/tecup
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My temporary/part-time position at work was supposed to end earlier this month, but my supervisor was able to re-hire me at least until March! I will have at least a few more hours per week, more projects, and a somewhat promotion on a specific project. The specific project I'm referring to is that I will get to subsume my supervisor's position in a health literacy collaborative, where I will take the work as a staff employee, rather than the lower-level internship-intended-position it was originally conceived as. As I get more into the project, I'll share more details, but it's a very exciting collaboration to improve health literacy in Arizona.
I had some really great job interviews recently, but decided a couple options I was getting close to were not a good fit for myself and my partner. It's always kind of scary to make decisions like that where you wonder if you're making a good choice, but as friends and colleagues have told me -- you just know it in your gut.
Other great news, I was presented with The Margaret Maxwell Beta Phi Mu Award by the University of Arizona SIRLS faculty as the 2009 recipient at the December graduation ceremony! I am so honored, and of course won't deny the award grant will be extremely helpful for renewing those somewhat expensive professional memberships and such.
So this post isn't entirely about what's been going on with me, here are some good year-end best-of lists:
- Top 25 censored stories of 2009/2010
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- Gizmodo's favorite books of the year
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Indians can't keep up the pace against Hillhouse
Middletown - There was some sadness, surely, at the hollow thought of season's end. There were some tears, too. And yet Montville High School's traveling party left the field for the final time Sunday night with few laments or regrets, despite the pain of losing in the state semifinals.
That's what happens when you encounter what is very likely Class M's best team and certainly its best player. The Indians just weren't good enough to harness Hillhouse's quickness, best personified by senior Harold Cooper.
"Might be the fastest kid I've ever seen in my life," Montville coach Tanner Grove said.
It was Cooper's 156 yards - and penchant for the big play - that helped the Academics earn a 48-26 victory and the program's sixth trip to the state championship game. They'll play Berlin either Friday or Saturday at Rentschler Field.
"I'm proud of the effort. Hillhouse is an amazing team. I don't have to talk about their resume," said Grove, whose team finished 9-3. "I don't think there's anything we didn't do. I think they're going to win a state championship. Easily."
It's doubtful Hillhouse will see a player this weekend the same caliber as Montville's Jeremiah Crowley, whose 246 rushing yards kept the Indians close enough, even into the fourth period. Crowley ran for three scores, too.
It's just that Hillhouse had more than one answer for him: Cooper, quarterback Je'Vaughn Moore (115 passing yards) and receiver/corner Darryn Horner (two touchdowns), among others.
"We knew coming in they were a little bit bigger and a little bit stronger," Cooper said. "Our coaches told us we had to use our speed."
Hillhouse led 21-6 late in the first half when a Crowley-inspired drive produced his second touchdown, making it 21-12. Suddenly, the Indians realized they'd survived a 21-point barrage, but made it a manageable deficit. They even forced Hillhouse into a third-and-17.
Hillhouse, in no hurry to snap the ball inside of 35 seconds left in the half, gave it to Cooper on a basic running play.
And Cooper ran 67 yards for a touchdown.
"We had a lot of momentum. The kids believed," Grove said. "We talked in the last few days about how Cooper would do some things you only see on video games. So when that happens, just go, 'yup, that's him.' And move on. We did that. We got to third-and-17. Then he beats our linebacker. Gone."
And so went the season. Horner added two scores in the third period, the second on a 52-yard interception return. The Academics led 42-12 before Montville cut it to 42-20 and even recovered an onside kick. But a late interception sealed it.
"No one is going to sit back on the bus home and say, 'you know, we're really glad we lost in the semis again,'" Grove said. "But in a few days, we'll be proud of our accomplishments. We didn't bring back any skill position players except the quarterback (Nick Clemons) and we won the division, made the Final Four (of Class M) and then ran into a better team."
The Indians lose Clemons and linemen Jake Basilica and Isaiah Holloway, among others. But they've earned a reputation under Grove now of playing past Thanksgiving.
"One of the Hillhouse guys told us on the field before the game that they expected us to be here," Grove said. "That means a lot to us."
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Over the past 20 years, aggrieved parents have deluged psychology licensure boards with frivolous, manipulative and mean-spirited complaints. Fearing that the onslaught would discourage professionals from agreeing to assist courts in high-conflict parenting cases, legislatures in many U.S. states have increased statutory protections. In the past decade, Florida and West Virginia passed immunity statutes for court-appointed evaluators. Colorado went even further, barring licensing board complaints over child custody evaluations, requiring that complainants instead take their claims back to the original trial court.
But legislation being proposed in California would turn in the opposite direction, dismantling quasi-judicial immunity protections for evaluators and other neutral professionals who assist the courts in parenting disputes. The current version of the proposed Assembly Bill 2475, heading to the state Assembly's Judiciary Committee on May 4, would add the following section (43.94) to California's Civil Code:
"The doctrine of judicial immunity or quasi judicial immunity shall not apply to exonerate any private third party appointed by the court in an advisory capacity based on his or her professional expertise, who provides a report or findings to the Court in a proceeding under the Family Code, with the intention that the Court act in one way or another based on such report or findings, from liability for acts performed within the scope of his or her appointment in violation of laws, rules of court, or professional standards. This section shall apply to private individuals such as special masters, minor's counsel, investigators, therapists, evaluators, receivers, bankruptcy trustees, experts, factfinders, and other persons specifically appointed by the courts in an advisory capacity based on their professional training or expertise."I was initially suspicious that perhaps the "Men's Rights Movement" had a hand, as this increasingly powerful international lobby is making a concerted effort to reform child custody laws to favor men, and especially men accused of abusing their partners and children. Men's rights advocates claim that a feminist-run court system systematically violates men's civil rights, that a large proportion of abuse allegations are false, and that men "are victims of an unrecognized epidemic of violence at the hands of abusive wives," as reported in an expose in Slate. On the legal front, Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting (RADAR) claims credit for blocking four federal domestic-violence bills, among them an international expansion of the Violence Against Women Act, according to the Slate report. Extrajudicially, movement members go so far as to applaud acts of violence perceived as retaliation against the feminist status quo.
But Assemblyman James Beall, the sponsor of AB 2475, does not appear allied with this regressive movement. Rather, he bills himself as a progressive Democrat who fights for the rights of children, families, the poor, and the disabled. Previously, he sponsored legislation (AB 612) to ban the use of Parental Alienation Syndrome -- a favorite of the father's rights movement -- from family courts.
NOTE: After I wrote this post, I did a bit more research on AB 612, and realized it was even more extreme than his new proposal. It would have allowed parents to sue any expert witness who relied upon "an unproven, unscientific theory." This would have included not only Parental Alienation Syndrome, its ostensible target, but a gamut of other evidence. After all, not much in any field of science is completely proven and uncontested. Luckily, that bill was defeated, perhaps explaining this new attempt. -- May 8, 2010
As it turns out, AB 2475 is supported by opponents of the men's rights movement, including an organization called the Protective Parents Association. This group lobbies on behalf of mothers who say the courts impede their efforts to protect their children by giving joint or sole custody to abusive fathers. "[T]he court responds to women attempting to protect their children from an abusive father with a knee-jerk reaction, assigning gender-biased labels to women to minimize or ignore the abuse in a reckless disregard of the safety of the child," writes association director Karen Anderson. By gender-biased labels, she is referring, no doubt, to Parental Alienation Syndrome.
So, AB 2475 may turn out to be a case of failure to anticipate unintended consequences. As readers know, politicians often propose a law in a knee-jerk response to a high-profile event, tweaking existing mechanisms without adequate anticipation of potential future deployments. Ironically, the bill could open the floodgates for attacks on neutral evaluators by the very same angry men with money who most often invoke the pseudoscientific construct of Parental Alienation Syndrome in custody cases.
When I telephoned Assemblyman Beall's office today to get more background, a staff member was cagey about the bill's impetus and minimized its intended scope, saying it was meant to only apply to mediators and not to child custody evaluators. Clearly, the current language belies this claim. So far I have been unable to turn up any specific case or cases that prompted this bill. Rather, it may be a misguided effort to stop evaluators from using the construct of Parental Alienation Syndrome against mothers in custody cases.
By way of background, various types of immunity for professionals involved in the legal system have a long history. Judicial immunity (immunity for judges) was implemented on public policy grounds in England all the way back in the 17th century. Similarly, witness immunity enjoys a long history, based on the principle of encouraging people to testify honestly and without fear of reprisal. Prosecutors performing their job duties are protected by qualified immunity, while psychologists and teachers enjoy statutory immunity when the law requires them to report child abuse.
Under the construct of quasi-judicial immunity, courts across the United States have repeatedly held that court-appointed experts must have some protection from intimidation in order to feel confident and free to make neutral and independent findings. As Karl Kirkland and colleagues point out in an enlightening review, this bolsters both the integrity of the judicial process and public welfare more generally.
This does not mean evaluators can say or do whatever they want. Immunity is never absolute, nor should it be. But forensic evaluators actually face enhanced scrutiny and risk as compared with other clinicians due to the adversarial nature of legal cases. As Greenberg and colleagues point out in another excellent review (reference below), errors that might go unnoticed or be addressed constructively in therapy are much more likely to be exposed through the adversary process; the opinions of forensic experts must stand up to intense scrutiny and vigorous cross-examination.
But it seems an error to allow parties whose goal is often to subvert the legal process (for example by getting an evaluator removed from a case) to drive honest, hard-working, and experienced professionals away from child custody work through spurious harassment. Consider the data. California logged the most licensing board complaints over child custody evaluations of any U.S. state during the 1990s. Yet according to the review by Kirkland and colleagues, out of all of those 1,660 complaints, only a single one -- that's right, ONE -- led to a formal finding against the psychologist.
For a good expose of the men's rights movement, see the Slate article by Kathyrn Jones, Men's Rights Groups Have Become Frighteningly Effective: They're changing custody rights and domestic violence laws. In researching the issue of immunity for expert witnesses, I also consulted the following excellent sources (none, unfortunately, accessible online):
- Quasi-Judicial Immunity for Forensic Mental Health Professionals in Court-Appointed Roles, by Karl Kirkland, Kale E. Kirkland, Glen D. King, and Guy J. Renfro, Journal of Child Custody (2006)
- Lessons for Forensic Practice Drawn from the Law of Malpractice, by Stuart Greenberg, Daniel Shuman, Stephen Feldman, Collin Middleton, and Charles Patrick Ewing. In: Forensic Psychology: Emerging Topics and Expanding Roles (2007)
- A Comprehensive Guide to Child Custody Evaluations: Mental Health and Legal Perspectives by Joanna Bunker Rohrbaugh (2007)
- Clinician's Guide to Child Custody Evaluations, 3rd Edition, by Marc J. Ackerman (2006)


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BIP Students Recommend ESH Overhaulby Zach Canon '16 • June 24, 2013 Share:
A Latin phrase, more accountability, and a student work transcript were parts of a Wabash student presentation Monday for revamping Employment Self Help (ESH). The group even suggested a name change — using the Latin word OPUS — to emphasize campus jobs provide Opportunities to Plan, Understand, and Serve.
The students' overarching goal revolved around a change in culture for student workers' approach to on-campus work, achieve a more efficient and standardized system, and increase accountability for workers and their supervisors. Increased accountability will better prepare Wabash men for the job market.
Wabash College's Business Immersion Program (BIP), an intensive summer program for Wabash students, tackles important business-related issues to provide solutions to real-world problems.
The BIP presenters emphasized that accountability is priority one. A survey of students garnered 170 responses which led the researchers to conclude some workers often show up late for their job and log deceiving hours. The group said a lack of motivation and meeting expectations sets a negative cultural campus work environment.
The hope is that students will treat their campus jobs with the same value they place on academics.
Measures of accountability proposed include a system of tiered pay according to job importance and time commitment per hour. They recommended student pay be set at $11, $10, and $9 per hour. Students with down time (or time available for homework) of 19 minutes or less per hour would receive OPUS 3 pay ($11) while students with down time of 42 minutes or less would receive OPUS 2 pay ($10), and students that sometimes have the full hour of downtime or study time, a library assistant for instance, would receive OPUS 1 pay ($9). While the student presenters acknowledged difficulty in categorizing jobs that fall under a gray area, they believe a system of rewarding harder work deserves a pay increase.
A worker's hours would be tracked via an electronic student ID swipe system. That system would force students to show up to work on time and refrain from leaving early.
In order to prepare students for life after Wabash, an interview process for each position would be conducted requiring an up-to-date resume and cover letter.
Workers would face similar consequences to the real world if they fail to do their job well. Consequences could include decrease in pay and hours, termination, and poor marks on the student's worker review sheet. That sheet would document the work history of a student and serve as a reference for any faculty member seeking to hire a student.
Incoming President Dr. Gregory Hess expressed plans to address the current state of ESH. He saluted the initiative taken by the BIP students to suggest a better system to prepare students for real-world employment opportunities as well as provide a viable medium for students to receive aid.
With the changes in mind for the new system, the BIP students also suggested the College hire an OPUS Director to oversee and run the operation.
The Business Immersion students hope to work in conjunction with President Hess to implement OPUS or at least several of the ideas.
"It went as expected," presenter James Caum '15 said. "Our presenters were professional and we received positive responses. We did not expect to please everybody; we just wanted to present our point of view based on the research." He continued, "There were only a few empty seats in the audience. It means a lot to us to work for six weeks and have a great turnout to hear our presentation."


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Topalov-Kamsky starts with a draw and an odd legal note
In a great fighting game, Veselin Topalov and Gata Kamsky have started their Challenger's Match with a draw. In a Grünfeld-Indian, Topalov sacrificed a pawn for some attacking chances but Kamsky comfortably held his own and even took over the initiative for a moment.
The Kamsky-Topalov World Championship Semi-Final Match takes place February 16th to 28th in the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria. The Challenger's Match consists of eight games and possible tie-breaks and has a prize find of US $250,000 which will be shared equally by the players. The winner qualifies for a World Championship Match against Viswanathan Anand.
Game 1
Many of you who were following the game live today may have wondered about the following. From the start, below the famous, blue DGT game viewer there was a remarkable legal note:
Warning! It is absolutely prohibited the live broadcast of the moves or video during the game on other websites, media or software without the explicit permission of the orginizers [sic] of the match.
When the game was running for about half an hour, another, interesting line was added:
Currently the broadcast rights are being violated by ChessBase on its software PlayChess.
Since many other sources were covering the game live, including TWIC, Chessdom and ICC, we're clearly dealing with some private war between the Bulgarians on one side and Chessbase on the other. It's well-known that their relationship hasn't exactly been "deeply in love" for quite a while now, but to bring it into the open like the official site was doing today is, well, remarkable, let's put it that way.
Let's move on to more important stuff, like the game itself:
Chessdom provided all (and when we say all, we mean all!) the details of yesterday's press conference with the players and FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Prime Minister of Bulgaria Sergey Stanishev, who is officially the head of the organizing committee.
Topalov, Ilyumzhinov and Kamsky at Monday's press conference | Photo Ivan Stoimenov
Apparently, Kamsky had some requests for changes as far as the playing hall was concerned:
In general he is not happy that there is light into the playing hall. Kamsky and his team want the windows to be covered with dark cloth, while the lamps to be directed only towards the playing tables.
During the press conference both teams were made public as well:
Team Kamsky: GM Emil Sutovsky, GM Evgeny Najer, GM Andrei Volokitin.
Team Topalov: GM Ivan Cheparinov, GM Vallejo Pons, GM Erwin L'Ami
And so the match that was supposed to take place last year, has finally started. Especially after this first game we cannot but think that it's a real pity we're only going to see eight games max! Well, let's enjoy it while we can. Tomorrow at 14:00 CET game 2 will be played.
10 years 2 days ago
"Thats not true! Unlike in the 2008-2011 cycle, the rules for 2007-2009 cycle remained unchanged from day one. It was known from the beginning that the 2007 World Cup winner will have to play a challenger match against Topalov.
There was never any indication that the World Cup winner will get a title match."
Of course there was. Don't speak with such confidence about things you don't know. There was a huge discussion about it when the change was announced. See for example http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/2007/06/fide-follies-forever-ii.htm and http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3948
Here's Karpov's comment on the matter: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4018
The original rules: http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/3-news/1848-339-decision-o...
"Following the decision of the Presidential Board at its meeting in Antalya, I was tasked to take a decision on the World Chess Championship cycle and the World Chess Cup.
After a thorough examination of the responses from the top Grandmasters and ACP and based on my consultations with national federations and various representatives of the chess public, I have resolved as follows:
1. In respect of the World Championship Cycle, to approve Proposal A.
The proposal is to terminate the World Championship Tournament and keep the World Cup as a Candidates tournament to find a challenger for a World Championship match. So in every odd year there will be only the World Cup (2007, 2009, 2011, etc.) and the respective winner will play every next year (2008, 2010, 2012, etc.) a match against the World Champion.
The chronological breakdown:
a1. 2008: The winner from WCCT 2007 in Mexico plays a World Championship match against the previous World Champion. If Kramnik does not win the WCCT 2007, then Kramnik can challenge the winner of Mexico in the first part of 2008. If Kramnik wins in Mexico, then the right to challenge goes to the previous World Champion, ie Topalov.
a2. 2009: The winner of the "a1" match plays a World Championship match against the winner of the 2007 World Cup which will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk.
10 years 3 days ago
I don't see how they can copyright the moves. It's a piece of news, just like the current score in a Champions League game, or any other football game for that matter. And if they gave permission to let's say ICC to broadcast the event on their site, you can hardly prevent any other sites from broadcasting that on their own site. It's like preventing someone from saying that the current score half time in the World Cup final is 1-1.
10 years 2 days ago
Those were PROPOSALS. Once the regulation for the cycle were accepted they weren't changed again! It was know since May or June 2007 that World Cup winner (played in November/December 2007) will have to play a challenger match against Topalov.
Talk about how Kamsky suposingly earned a title match started later.
Could those who believe chessbase are acting illegally please point to the Bulgarian, EU, or international law that says so? (I mean law itself. The website of any chess organizer does not constitute law as far as I know. Although running a chess website myself sometimes makes me wish that were not the case.)
10 years 3 days ago
You CAN put links in your comments - it only has the side-effect that it's going into moderation status first, because of spam protection.
"Legally, the Bugarian Chess Federation as organizer can prevent Chessbase to commercially use information from the live broadcast without their consent."
I suspect this is true about the video feed, but surely it's not true when it comes to the moves themselves?
By analogy: the TV rights for football in this country are very heavily policed. However, it's not illegal for anyone to describe the play or give the current score. In fact 'live text' reporting is quite common.
@ Euwe
Which part exactly you don't understand? Chessbase is pirating the transmision and is stealing other people's property.
And you are babling about some other things that have nothing to do with it.
10 years 3 days ago
Topalov has won the 2nd game in 31 moves.Kamsky was in severe time trouble.
10 years 3 days ago
Legal Trivia:
Chessbase (via paid access to their chessplay facility) are in a legal breach, but only because they use the transmission for commercial purposes without authorisation. The other web sites, even without permission, are on the right side of the law, because the access to them is free and they popularise the sport without earning money.
BTW, if we had non-free access to the tournament live coverage (which in general the organisers of any sport event are entitled to) then any web-site (commercial or non-profit) which transmits the event would be in breach of the law no matter what the purpose is.
10 years 3 days ago
"Which part exactly you don't understand? Chessbase is pirating the transmision and is stealing other people's property."
And exactly what is it they are stealing? Because as far as I know the neither the players nor the organization own the rights to the moves played in these games.
If they were "stealing" the live webcam feed then that might be different, but are we talking about the moves?
The Organizer is given all the commercial rights connected to the Tournament, and is entitled to exploit all the rights, including but not limited to; sponsorship rights, ticketing rights, Internet rights, televisions rights, graphic, media, SMS rights, all kind of transmission through cellular phones, all sort of electronics broadcast rights aheady existing or to exist , souvenir rights, merchandising rights, advertising and promotion rights, as well as all the source of income through this agreements."
@jussu: You can argue about the "weird 'on popular demand' ", but generally Chessbase is a commercial company website, so their primary objective ('reason to exist') is to promote and sell their products. And if you are not interested (neither am I most of the time), it is quite easy to skip those articles and still read the other content provided for free!
@Manu: I am reasonably fluent in German, English, French and Dutch (I have lived in various countries), but my Spanish isn't good enough - mostly tourist language such as "una cerveza por favor" - Cheers! ,:) But other people could translate your quote in the meantime ... .
Absolutely. I am only whining about "on popular demand" articles on some trivial subject, written with the sole purpose of mentioning their software yet again. I also understand that the website is their playground, so the content is theirs to choose. Just makes me groan every time when I see that phrase.
Why is my comment still not shown and is pending approval by the moderator?
Thomas's and Jussu's comments are there, but not mine which I posted before them.
10 years 3 days ago
The Bulgarians are giving themselves a bad name, from the sponsers, to Topalov's manager and Topalov himself for putting up with such conduct. Disgraceful!
Can you prove that, Michael X Tractor? It would be interesting to see a screendump of that advice, and I'm sure Chessbase would find it interesting too...
10 years 3 days ago
chessbase was heavily backing Kramnik during his match with Topalov. It's showed that the site is biased and not objective. Too much rumors (like in yellow newspaper) and bad comments to the games.
10 years 3 days ago
My comment above was not only about the recent 'message' to chessbase. I am a neutral chessfan and I have witnessed time and again the disgraceful behavior of Danailov and its reflection on top Bulgarian players. Not shaking hands with a player who allegedly took sides with their 'enemy' Kramnik, verbal assault on other players, having a hard time to accept a defeat etc. these type of attitudes are what amounts to disgrace!
I don't know why they keep this momo as a manager..it must be money&connections..
Popuscu [Bulgaria]
10 years 3 days ago
I am afraid that Topalov's team is preparing something if the outcome of the match goes in favour of Kamsky.
I do not understand ChessBase story about violating emmission rights, Can ChessBase do such a stupid" mistake??
Danailov did a LOT for chess in the last years. He has set up Mtel Masters, the Grand Slam, has backed the first big tournament in China, and has improved media coverage, for example by promoting the glass cage, which really took off in Sevilla. Without him, the challenger match would not even have taken place. So I think all chess fans owe him a little respect, at least.
I would separate Danailov's role as an organiser (MTel, Bilbao) from his role as Topalov's manager - not obvious or straightforward because it is the same person and he has Topalov's interests in mind in all of his actions.
Largely unnoticed so far (though maybe Guillaume was implicitly referring to - also - that story): What should we think about Chessdom's post "Topalov-Kamsky was on the verge of toiletgate"? As this wasn't picked up anywhere else there seems to be little substance behind it. Provocatively I suggest it's a new Bulgarian strategy:
1) Don't create scandals yourself, but accuse the other side of doing so
2) Do so before the match even started, so people will not think your actions are influenced by the match situation (as for the Elista toiletgate).
Bilbao, not Sevilla, my fault. But seriously, I would stop to put the "bad boy" image on Danailov. I repeat: Let us give him some credit!
And by the way. Legally, the Bugarian Chess Federation as organizer can prevent Chessbase to commercially use information from the live broadcast without their consent.
"Without [Danailov], the challenger match would not even have taken place."
Exactly - Kamsky as the World Cup winner would have gone on to play for the title straight away, like the rules of the cycle stated before Danailov's little lobbying campaign gave Topalov this match for free...
Respect? Not really. I don't respect a cheater, a bully and a thief just because he might be skilled at it.
"...we're clearly dealing with some private war between the Bulgarians on one side and Chessbase on the other."
I don't see what Chessbase has been doing to make this statement true. It seems more like one-sided attacks from the Bulgarian side. What have they ever done to Topalov & c/o except reporting accurately from Elista etc?
Does anyone know if there is any kind of independent verification of Topalov's and Danailov's claim that the "anonymous Dutch chess fan" in the Kommersant article in fact being Friedel?
Olaf: I didn't even notice the Bilbao-Sevilla mistake - you must be about my age (41) or older if you connect Sevilla with chess ,:).
About legal issues: Apart from the fact that this is questionable (or controversially discussed) the odd thing [pointed out by Peter Doggers] is that Chessbase was singled out, while several other sites committed similar violations - and 'commercial use' (members only) also applies to ICC.
About Danailov: To rephrase or explain my first sentence (10:53AM): Danailov should get credit when he deserves it, but also criticism when he deserves it. I didn't use strong language such as 'disgrace to chess' .... .
10 years 3 days ago
Today Kamsky with white.
The notice on the site serves to advertise both chessbase and the playchess server. I actually assumed from it that playchess offered the only alternative coverage, so promptly watched the game from there.
10 years 3 days ago
Chessbase sucks, they often censor remarks that are flattering for the Bulgarians
Oddly, the official site does link to chessbase via its (evidently selective) links page:
"Exactly - Kamsky as the World Cup winner would have gone on to play for the title straight away, like the rules of the cycle stated before Danailov's little lobbying campaign gave Topalov this match for free…"
Thats not true! Unlike in the 2008-2011 cycle, the rules for 2007-2009 cycle remained unchanged from day one. It was known from the beginning that the 2007 World Cup winner will have to play a challenger match against Topalov.
There was never any indication that the World Cup winner will get a title match.
And about the current topic:
What does Danailov or "Bulgarians" have to do with anything???
Chessbase is pirating the transmition without paying! It's like if someone would broadcast a Champion's League final without purchasing broadcasting rights. Nothing is for free in this world, in case you didn't notice.
And as owner of the broadcast rights , one should be able to choose who get the privilege of broadcasting your event and who doesnt.
As for all the hatefull remarks im reading about Topa in this thread , it reminds me the Quixote , i dont know how to put it in English (maybe you Thomas , your writing is better) but it goes like this:
¬®Ladran Sancho , se?±al de que cabalgamos¬®.
I would have thought the main question was whether Chessbase are, or are not, violating the law in making their transmission. Of course we can speculate as to motives and ask why one set of people are criticised and not another, these are resaonable points to raise. But they don't invalidate the question as to legality.
I think "se?±al de que cabalagamos" would be well rendered "give the signal to advance" or "tell them that we attack!" but without the context I'm not sure about "ladran" - "they shout"? "They make a lot of noise"?
10 years 3 days ago
@me: "Nothing is for free in this world, in case you didn't notice."
Your argument is like saying that because there'll always be diseases, it's useless going to the doctor. Just because the world is sometimes unfair doesn't mean it has to be that way.
I don't particularly like Chessbase website (with all their weird "on popular demand" articles about their database and chess engine), neither do I have a negative or positive opinion about them violating broadcast rules - that is a legal issue and we don't know the details. However, I did not notice any bias in their coverage of Kramnik-Topalov match. What other ways could it have been covered - by writing that game five was won by Topalov but the score was never found?
However, I did not notice any bias in their coverage of Kramnik-Topalov match
Did you not? There was an awful lot of commentary on the subject from their writers, i.e. not just reporting the facts. I mean did you really not read, for instance, Yasser Seirawan's pieces?
I've no objection to people expressing their opinion, and it's quite likely true that the weight of opinion in the chess world was against Topalov and Danailov, rightly or wrongly. But Chessbase was not some kind of impartial source (and very often isn't). A useful source for news, certainly, and often indisipensible. But not remotely impartial.
In Spanish means something like : they are criticizing us ,good sign that we are going in the right way.
I agree with you about chessbase.
Well , nice game for Topa , i bet that Kamsky was expecting Sicilian.
10 years 4 days ago
I think pete that's the point! "anthypaty from the Bulgarian side towards chessbase is smth normal considering their coverage from the match Topalov - Kramink."
10 years 4 days ago
This Danailov is a disgrace to chess. And I'm sorry to see that Topalov, though a good player, goes along with such propaganda. This bunch are just too good in earning an antipathy from a bystander!
10 years 4 days ago
I don't think it is a "private war between the Bulgarians on one side and Chessbase on the other".
It is a war between the Bulgarians and Chess World!
10 years 4 days ago
Cheers for Chessbase ***rest deleted***
10 years 4 days ago
I agree with them about the broadcast rights , chessbase always attacked them and they are using this oportunity to hit them back.
I hope they can sue chessbase for this , not sure if thats posible though.
10 years 4 days ago
@leigh and sneaky: no offence, but that is bullshit. Danailov is not so black as some think he is and the anthypaty from the Bulgarian side towards chessbase is smth normal considering their coverage from the match Topalov - Kramink.
The first game was interesting and I hope to see more like it till the end of the week. My heart is with Topa, but I don't think it will be easy
MTel masters is a disgrace to chess too?
10 years 4 days ago
Now I understand why Kamsky was looking upwards to the right side so often...
10 years 4 days ago
Rubinstein and Chessfan, go back to kindergarten and doodle something to get the stress out of you both, if you please.
I think the first round was appropriate-- intriguing and well-fought, but nothing definite, we´ll see what happens next! :)
10 years 4 days ago
Well, that settles it then. I was hoping Danailov and his team would have learnt a bit, but it seems they're ready to issue shameless stunts after another right from the start.
I hope Kamsky is ready for anything, cause it ain't going to be pretty.
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2 cups fruity red wine
1 lb boneless skinless chicken breasts, sliced in 1/2 inch wide strips
4 cloves garlic, minced
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1 inch knob fresh ginger, grated
1 teaspoon fresh chopped thyme
2 tablespoon dark soy sauce
1 tablespoon butter
Pour the wine in a large pan. Bring to a boil. Add the chicken and allow to cook for 5 minutes. Drain off the wine into a small saucepan. Add the cinnamon stick and the ginger to the wine. Boil until the liquid reduced by about half. Meanwhile, saute the chicken with the butter, thyme and garlic until the chicken slightly crisped. Add the wine back to the chicken pan, discarding the cinnamon stick. Add the mango, allspice, soy sauce and lime juice to the pan. Cook,about 5 minutes or until everything is hot and the sauce has reduced slightly. Serve hot.
Yield: 2-4 servings
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|2012-09-01, 19:18
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Gnawing away at Rokkenjima
Also, even if everything you just said is true, if it was Battler who solved the epitaph then would Yasu still commit suicide? She'd completely become Beatrice... but how would that even work?
Like, say, by early 1986 she had given up on Battler and was in the middle of preparing her new life (either alone or with George). To tie up lose ends she was planning some kind of incident for the family conference to choose the next head, but then in July, or whenever it was, she suddenly heard that Battler was coming back, which lead her to pull out all the stops in an all-or-nothing attempt to "shoot the moon" and get Battler to remember.
|2012-09-01, 19:44
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The True Culprit
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|2012-09-01, 19:44
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Crime Scene
If Battler solved the epitaph, she'd point to kuwadorian and send him there. If he wanted to take with him all the family, or stop the bomb, Yasu would find a way to off herself and make it look like another sacrifice.
If Battler remembered Yasu, the miracle that she was striving for would become real. She'd die happy, knowing that he didn't forget her... but she'd still kill herself, as punishment for the crimes.
Maybe in Rokkenjima-Prime, as you call it, that's what happened.
But metaphysical/metaphorical weirdness aside, no matter how brain damaged he was, that body was legaly and biologicaly Battler. And that's what we are discussing, wether Tohya is or not a new personality of Battler. Tohya is in Battler's body, with all the insane Umineko-ish twists it entails. Bluntly put, Battler doesn't remember himself but he's still alive There's not proof that he isn't. That's what Ryuukishi said to Keiya in the interview. That "Yes, it was Battler"!
Personality death is such a pain... so yeah, you found a statement that said that Battler is not Tohya... everyone already knows it, if is in the know about personality death and all that madness about being one yet many in Umineko, but whatever.
as I promised, I'll consider that 'Tohya is not Battler theory', as a little above asspull. How about nonsense? Or maybe "Something as likely as Krauss' investments suddenly making profit for him"?
For god's- we are going in circles here. And before somebody says anything, going in circles is not logic.
Maybe it is. Of the insane troll type.
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|2012-09-01, 20:11
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Detective, Witch, Pirate.
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Ruins of the Golden Land
As for Yasu, well, I don't want to sound boastful (what the heck, I totally do), but I'd reasoned out her promise, personality quarrel and had some ideas for her motive without using Chiru clues.
But yeah, that's as far as it goes, I could never imagine the dad on daughter action going on in Kuwadorian. At best I thought she was Kinzo and Beatrice's child he tried to thrust on Natsuhi after the second's death, which is accurate minus one generation, but that was in EP5 so screw it. But I guess a really smart person would pay attention to the 'humunclus' stuff and try to make some sense out of them.
|2012-09-01, 20:26
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The True Culprit
That alone implies there's another culprit besides herself even if she did do shit. But there's no way to pin down what happened in any meaningful way.
|2012-09-01, 20:43
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Join Date: May 2012
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I always thought the "portray herself as the sole culprit" meant "make it seems like she didn't have any accomplices", because it is obvious that there's always someone helping her in every game, even if it isn't the same person every time.
|2012-09-01, 22:05
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Gnawing away at Rokkenjima
Remember in EP8 in the cave on Oct. 6 when Battler assures Beatrice that she didn't commit any crimes "in this world", and Beatrice was relieved?
By the way, I was looking over some Japanese sites for thoughts on Ikuko=Yasu and found this interpretation on the EP8 boat scene:
(Translation by me. Corrections welcome.)
But still, interesting.
|2012-09-01, 22:07
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Beatrice not only has a role as Battler's ideal chick. She's also the gameboard
She's also the rules of the gameboard I believe, so she survives as long as the rules do. Interestingly enough in the two episodes where she wasn't the golden witch (by succession or simply dying) it was because someone else took the blame for the crimes.
"Kinzo made a human body as a blank slate (ie a child (or amnesiac I guess)) and tried to trap Beatrice in it, but it didn't work". Even if it wasn't guessable at the time, it sure was hinted.
|2012-09-02, 01:46
|Link #30310
The True Culprit
Even if it did, Ikuko is not the solution. Who she is 100% does not matter to the situation.
Almost every instance that could possibly relate to Ryukishi's presumed gender roles is entirely wrong, and he only said it in an interview regarding Beatrice's suicide, so I tend to think he was bullshitting in that specific instance without thinking in the context of the greater novel.
Even if it didn't contradict his novel? It's incredibly fucking sexist and he should've kept his mouth shut.
|2012-09-02, 02:42
|Link #30311
Mystery buff
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Gone Fishin!
|2012-09-02, 03:04
|Link #30312
"Senior" "Member"
Join Date: Jan 2012
Evidence for Ikuko=Yasuda:
1. Ikuko = "many children"
2. I don't think it is a stretch to assume that Tohya's early memories of meeting Ikuko may have been at least a little manipulated.
3. At the beginning Ikuko seemed quite shy to me. It took time until she changed to the personality she had at the end.
4. We have no idea what Yasu did in the last 2 years before the incident. But if she planned to leave the island, she would have to have a stable identity. Both Shannon and Kanon were adaptable for outside Rokkenjima, "Beatrice" however, as she mentioned herself, cannot just leave Rokkenjima. So she would either leave as "herself" (Yasu) or create a new identity alltogether (Ikuko). And if she wanted to live with that new identity, she would have to CREATE it first (Ikuko's house etc.)
5. Yukari mentions about Ikuko having a "timeless feeling" and seemed like she would never age. We know that Yasu had talent in "appearing as being younger".
6. The last scene in the orphange suggests that Ange replaces Yukari, Battler replaces Tohya and Beatrice replaces Ikuko.
Oh and by the way: "Tohya" was foreshadowed in EP6 when Ange asked why in publicity there was a "young man" instead of a woman as Hachijo Tohya
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|2012-09-02, 04:49
|Link #30313
Detective, Witch, Pirate.
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Ruins of the Golden Land
But well, the whole game is about filling the cat-box with what you believe happened, I guess.
The stuff about the name is almost as ridiculous as KnownNoMore's 'Rose Symbolism'. I would accept it if any of the other hints was adequate to support that theory. However, most things on this list are assumptions.
|2012-09-02, 05:28
|Link #30314
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2012
The only hints that I can come up with on the spot are meta Beato herself, which is a messy road, or from the third game Virigillia. That would make sense in terms of the fact that she only helps from the third game, but not in terms of who she actually represents and that Ryu sort of invented her to help a struggling fanbase.
So either I'm not seeing them, or he just never hinted at it. That isn't annoying from a Knox standpoint, so much as for the reason that rule exists: People hate characters who pop up out of nowhere but are needed for the solution.
|2012-09-02, 06:16
|Link #30315
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
So basically, like if Kyrie had started imagining Higurashi style arcs about how she murdered Asumu. You read the lyrics to 'Golden Nocturne', and you REALLY get the impression that Yasu's tragedy wasn't just a Nazi bomb, or romantic indecision, but SEVERELY overthinking crap.
Old point, but I still don't get why we're doubting Battler's personality so much. Sure, we can doubt his presentation MORE than the others because he has a six year gap instead of a 1 year gap like the rest, but ... really, why? His piece doesn't exactly go to a new corner of the MBTI in Chiru, either. He's always been a mystery buff, always offered solutions to closed rooms (when he isn't being incompetent), and in End he was given an open invitation to solve the epitaph WITH the adults (who all know the hometown)m which hadn't happened before. And in Dawn he's just an accomplice, sooooo ... yeah. :-/
|2012-09-02, 07:05
|Link #30316
Detective, Witch, Pirate.
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Ruins of the Golden Land
By the way, am I the only one who thinks the whole MariaXSakutarou stuff was a huge parallel to ShannonXKanon? That was basically my first reason for starting to doubt Kanon's existence.
|2012-09-02, 07:23
|Link #30317
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Rokkenjima
Age: 22
Call me mad, but Yasu's motive is one of my favorite things in this series. Honestly. I like it, because you really have to understand stuff in order to get there. (But yeah, I think neither she could say what she hoped to happen).
*randomly comes in* I agree with the Captain!!!!*Leaves*
|2012-09-02, 07:59
|Link #30318
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
Sure, if one considers Kanon's behaviour as a reflection of Yasu's thought on that relation it can seem Yasu had little fait in that relation but actually Kanon believed Shannon's relation with George wouldn't work either while Shannon seemed to believe Kanon's relation with Jessica could work as well.
So to me Kanon merely represent Yasu's pessimism in any relation she might have working while Shannon represent the optimism. With this premise though it's easy to assume Shannon has more chances than Kanon.
Also when Yasu took the ring she wasn't trying to make things work anymore as her following step is always start murdering as she planned prior to take the ring. So maybe she tried to make it work previously but, when she took the ring, she was already willing to give it up.
Sure, it's also possible she would have challenged him with the epitaph but since the adults weren't in such desperate ecomomical situation it was unlikely the whole could escalate into real murder... though this would be a little more unpredictable so I don't really know if Will could be so sure it wouldn't happen.
That's why I'm more for something went wrong and people went paranoyd.
After all even in the gameboards when the murders start people slowly grow paranoyd and start accusing each other...
That's why there's people who wonder if Yasu is really Beato 2's child or she was to play that role when Kinzo was about to die or she just believed she was on her own (and I think there were other theories but I can't remember which were).
For all we know the real Yasu might not even been on Rokkenjima that day and the Ushiromiya might have hired another servant whose blessed name was Shannon and Yasu might have written her stories merely pretending that Shannon was her.
Of course this would have made the tragedy of Rokkenjima completely disconnected to the tales... or Yasu could have still be involved in it as she might have orchestrated from afar a game that developed in the wrong way even if what happened in Prime would surely have been different from what happened on the gameboard (as in the gameboard Shannon & Kanon are Yasu while on Prime they would be 2 different people).
And no, I don't think that's what had happened but that's the problem with the whole setting. It gives us too much freedom to come up with assorted solutions instead than driving us securely to the right one.
She's not just your ordinary girl you would happen to meet. If she's a random chara, her existence works like a forced deus ex machina to create a certain setting that in normal situations wouldn't happen.
That's why for me it's difficult to like the idea she's just a random chara.
Ange never mention that the forgeries, be them the messages in the bottles or Hachijo's tales, point to a Shannon/Kanon culprit theory so either the forgeries couldn't be solved or they pointed to other culprits.
Otherwise I would expect Ange to wonder about why the messages and Hachijo or one of the two have fun in pointing as the servants as culprits and investigate on them.
They aren't the ideal culprits as Ange wants to pin Eva as culprit but hey, I think she would sacrifice her EvaCulprit Theory in favour of a NotRudolf's familyCulprit Theory.
|2012-09-02, 08:42
|Link #30319
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
The article I posted defines clearly what a logical reasoning is, and it's not anything close to what you claim.
Besides how can you even remotely claim that a logical fallacy is legit?
What's your problem exactly?
So in the end, if it is apparent, easily deducible and it doesn't conflict with anything, what is the reason to think it's a lie?
The "19" is still taken from the name "Ikuko".
By the way Iku(ko) Hachijo would be 19^8, though no one mentioned that in the story.
|2012-09-02, 09:30
|Link #30320
"Senior" "Member"
Join Date: Jan 2012
Also: Please provide an example for the following scenario:
How would Yasu act, if Battler came 1 year earlier?
I still see no alternative to my theory to explain what she would do if he fulfilled his promise "in time" yet, because "she cannot leave the island as Beatrice".
And thank you Jan-Poo. I corrected the mistake.
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The Huskers took control of the game on the defensive end, using a 20-4 first-half run to gain control for good after the first 10 minutes saw the teams trade the lead back and forth. Nebraska held PSU without a field goal for a stretch of 11:26, as the Nittany Lions went just 5-of-25 from the floor in the half.
Trailing 17-13, Nebraska ran off seven straight points, capped by Talley's 3-pointer that put the Huskers up 20-17 with 7:50 left in the half. After a pair of free throws by Alan Wisniewski cut NU's advantage to one, the Huskers went on a 9-0 spurt to push the margin to 29-19. NU eventually built a 12-point lead before Penn State scored the final five points of the half to make it 33-26 at the break.
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The Huskers return to action Wednesday night, as they travel to No. 1 Indiana.