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Art Nouveau is an art movement made popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Even if you're unfamiliar with it, chances are you've come across the style countless times in advertising, décor, and architecture. Creators and artists of the style aimed to bring a higher standard of beauty, ornament and craftsmanship to their work.
Brought about by a desire to embrace modernity, Art Nouveau was begun and developed as a rejection of the more classical, understated art that preceded it, and as a way to add beauty to everyday life, even in the most mundane, functional of objects. Turn-of-the-century buildings often boast ornate, elegant work on everything from radiators and baths to doorknobs and light fixtures, and that voluptuous attention to surroundings was a facet of the Art Nouveau movement.
In two-dimensional applications such as painting, drawing and advertising, Art Nouveau was characterised by spirals and flourishes, intertwining lines and loops, often involving birds, flowers and vines for a dreamy, pastoral feel. Curvy, flowing-haired women in billowy clothes were also a popular theme. Graceful curves, and a lack of sharp angles starkly contrasted the Art Deco movement that followed on the heels of Art Nouveau.
While everyone has seen famous examples of Art Nouveau in poster and print form, there are also countless gorgeous and collectable books boasting classic Art Nouveau cover art just waiting to be discovered. Perfect to beautify any library.


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An Italian scholar and editor of scientific works; lived at the end of the sixteenth century. He edited the work "Meharere Nemerim" (Venice, 1599), a collection of several methodological essays and commentaries on various Talmudic treatises. Akra is the author of a methodological treatise on the Midrash Rabbot, which Isaiah Horwitz (
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So, I started this post a few months ago when Amazon announced their Kindle Worlds experiment and never finished it. But I was reading yesterday's crowdfund post and people were disparaging fanfic writers in the comments and that just ticks me off to no end (for most of the same reasons FF Friday did). All of it is based on misconceptions, so this post is meant to address some of that. Fans certainly don't deserve any hate for fanfiction, it's hobby like any other. Actually, they deserve acknowledgement because they're doing something I could not do, and certainly not well.
Amazon's big announcement from yesterday has lead to many discussions about fanfic, fandom, and how Kindle Worlds would fit into the current fandom culture. But mostly I've read a whole lot of comments and articles from people who don't quite seem to grasp what fanfic is all about, and who definitely hold more than a few misconceptions about it. So this post will try and clear up a few misconceptions.
Now, you can't talk about fanfic without talking about fandom, and for the purposes of this post I'll define fandom as that group of people who spend their free time interacting with the canon source in ways that aren't standard, i.e. more than just watching, reading or playing something deciding "hey, I kinda like that". It's fanfic writers, fanartists, cosplayers, readers of fanfiction, people who hang around the forums discussing all the details and so on.
What is fanfic? Like the concept of fandom it can mean a lot of different things, but at the basis it's a story written someone else's characters playing in someone else's universe, and written by someone who is interested in that universe and those characters. You can restrict this version to fans who write and publish it for free, or you can expand it to officially licensed novels. Hell, you can even call the BBC's Sherlock fanfic. It's that thing that happens when fans wonder "what if...?" or "what was going on in that character's head in those few seconds of silence?" You can read a much better explanation of it here.
Now, onto the misconceptions:
1. Fanfiction is not illegal.
While no one's taken it to court exactly, fanfics would most likely qualify under fair use for transformative works. The Organisation for Transformative Works (an organisation made by the fans in order to address such legal issues) has an informative FAQ. [ETA: Christopher Hapka makes an excellent point about why this isn't necessarily true in the comments]
Not all authors hate it, either. Neil Gaiman encourages people to write fanfic if they so wish. He's not the only one. There are authors who have expressed a dislike of fanfics (Like George RR Martin and Anne Rice), and fans usually try to respect that. And then there's that time MTV decided it was a good idea to hold an official Teen Wolf fanfic contest.
2. Most fanfic writers aren't interested in monetizing their fics.
Fandom and fic writing is a hobby for the fic writers. They do it because they enjoy writing, or because they enjoy exploring these characters or this universe. It's something most of them do besides their day job. That doesn't mean they don't take it seriously: there are beta-readers (editors), entire communities dedicated to getting the tiniest details right (and people to nitpick when you don't), places to debate how accurate a portrayal would be over another.
There are those fans who would like to publish original fiction, and to them fanfic writing is also a good exercise. It's harder to get someone else's characters right than your own original ones (if you don't thinks so, try it). There are fans who have made the jump, the most famous examples examples being Cassandra Clare and E. L. James (50 Shades of Grey - which may or may not be a good indicator the quality of fanfics - I'd say they aren't). They aren't the only ones. There's a writer of officially licensed Stargate Atlantis Novels that started out writing fanfic. And then there are Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
The value fans put on fanfic is not directly measurable by money, or standard view of value.
Writers are quite fond and protective of their fanfics. So are the readers.
Fandom has it's own sort of economy. It's mostly gift based - people write fic or create art for kudos, friends' birthdays, for charity or for keeping AO3 online. That's thousands of dollars raised for things fans think are important.
Attempting to monetize fanfiction is not a new concept. Others have tried it before them and it didn't turn out so well for them.
3. Fanfiction is not mostly porn.
Fanfiction.net - the biggest pan-fandom archive on the internet doesn not alow explicit fics (enforcement is not always so great, but in my experience it's 90% porn free). On Archive Of Our Own (AO3) - probably the second biggest pan-fandom archive out there, explicit fics are less than a quarter of the actual published fics (not counting any fics that contain sex but have been mis-rated by the author):
Source: AO3 official census, oct 2012
There is quite a lot of fanfic based around relationships in their many forms, most of them romantic, with a rather strong bias towards gay male relationships.
Source: AO3 stats by destinationtoast
In my experience fanfic it's much more varied and representative of other races, sexualities, kinks and so on than anything in the mainstream media (including sci-fi, fantasy and other genre media). There are also a lot more female writers than male writers, although still mostly white (source: Unofficial AO3 Census by centrumlumina). The previous two links include A LOT more information on the breakdown of fanfics by category and the demographics of fanfic writers.
4. Fanfiction is not all crap
Sturgeon's law applies of course, and there really a lot of fanfiction out there. There are fics out there that are just as good as canon, some are even better. Yes, better. It's hard to explain or to give hard fact for this because it's obviously subjective. But I've read excellent fics, from really short 5-things types to novel-length ones that want to the missing season an unexpectedly cancelled show could have had.
It's easy to point and laugh if you've never even tried reading a fic, let alone tried to write one. It is a time consuming hobby, and fanfic writers put a lot of effort in their fics, and then post for our enjoyment (and subject themselves to public scrutiny). I'm not saying fanfic writers are beyond criticism, but there is a difference between constructive feedback and unbridled criticism that only serves to make the writer feel bad or simply silence them. And I think creativity should always be encouraged.
Please keep in mind that the things in this post are mostly coming from my own (necessarily limited) experience in fandom. I am not one of the veterans of fandom in the definition I laid out above but I have been around long enough to get the hang of a few things. However that does not make me an authority on it, and I apologise if I've left anything (and anyone) out. I am however happy to answer any questions or misconceptions that may arise from this post.


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My Lost On A Desert Island music collection would have 36 songs from 1968 on it, 17 by The Beatles. Original Beatles songs are not available as videos on YouTube so I cannot provide any links to such videos. I leave it to you to search out Beatles videos or simply put on your own music and start singing! Here are the 17 from 1968:
- Hey Jude
- I Will
- Lady Madonna
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- With A Little Help From My Friends
- Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
- Getting Better
- Fixing A Hole
- She's Leaving Home
- Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite
- Within You, Without You
- When I'm Sixty-Four
- Lovely Rita
- Good Morning, Good Morning
- A Day In The Life
- Revolution
- The Ballad Of John & Yoko
Beatles fans will have noticed that every song from the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band made the list. I'm pretty sure Sgt. Pepper is my #1 album of all time. I just love listening to it, singing along, tapping my feet, and humming songs from it whenever I need a quick picker-upper.
Following are the other 19 songs from 1968 that I would take with me if there were a possibility of being lost on a desert island.
Abraham, Martin & John by Dion
#4 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
A tribute to four assassinated Americans: Abraham Lincoln,
Martin Luther King Jr, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy
Both Sides Now by Judy Collins
#8 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Written by Joni Mitchell
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by The Who
B side of Magic Bus in the UK and Call Me Lightning in the US
About drummer Keith Moon's drinking problems.
Dr. Livingstone, I Presume by The Moody Blues
B side of Voices In The Sky
About Dr. David Livingstone, the famous Scottish missionary & explorer.
Honey by Bobby Goldsboro
#1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
I was 13 when this song came out. I found it sad and depressing at the time.
House Of Four Doors by The Moody Blues
From the album In Search Of The Lost Chord,
very likely my favorite album by The Moody Blues
I Started A Joke by The Bee Gees
#6 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
This was the song that introduced me to The Bee Gees.
I've Gotta Get A Message To You by The Bee Gees
#8 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
A man, awaiting execution for killing his wife's lover, begs the prison chaplain to pass a final message to his wife.
Louisiana Man by Bobbie Gentry
From the album The Delta Sweete
Master Jack by Four Jacks & A Jill
#18 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Written by David Marks while working in the underground
Free State gold mines in South Africa.
One by Three Dog Night
#5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Written by Harry Nilsson while listening to the busy signal on a phone.
Only A Boy by Jan & Dean
Jan's father worked as an engineer for Howard Hughes
and flew with Hughes on the only flight of the Spruce Goose.
Ride My See-Saw by The Moody Blues
#61 on the Billboard Hot 100
Played as the encore at most Moody Blues concerts.
Shield by Deep Purple
From Deep Purple's second album, The Book Of Taliesyn.
Stormy by Classics IV
#5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Their biggest selling single.
Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) by Manfred Mann
#10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Written by Bob Dylan.
The Unicorn by The Irish Rovers
#7 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
At my junior high school's talent night,
I played my own arrangement of this song on the violin.
Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell
#3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
Has sold 357,000 downloads in the digital music era.
Words by The Bee Gees
#15 hit on the Billboard Hot 100
According to Robin Gibb, Words was written after both he and Barry had been arguing with other people about absolutely nothing. They were just words. Words can make you happy or words can make you sad."


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Sherwood Schwartz, The Brady Bunch Creator, Dies
The prolific TV writer was 94 and was also responsible for Gilligan's Island
Sherwood Schwartz, who created two of the most popular sitcoms of the '60s and '70s, Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch, died Tuesday in Los Angeles of natural causes, surrounded by his family, a family member announced. He was 94.
Not only did Schwartz send the passengers and crew of the Minnow on a three-hour tour, one that lasted from 1964 to 1967 (and forever after in reruns), but he also wrote the Gilligan's theme song.
He did the same for the 1969-74 Brady Bunch, about a widow and a widower with a lot of kids – and a sagacious housekeeper.
And while critics threw bricks at both shows, the public lapped them up – possibly, at least in the case of The Brady Bunch, because he grounded the show in some type of reality.
A 1966 news story in the Los Angeles Times served as his inspiration, Schwartz recounted in his 2010 book Brady Brady Brady: The Complete Story of the Brady Bunch as Told by the Father/Son Team Who Really Know, which Sherwood wrote with his son, Lloyd J. Schwartz.
The item read, "In the year 1965, more than 29 percent of all marriages included a child or children from a previous marriage."
Said Sherwood: "I knew instinctively that statistic was the key to a new and unusual TV series. It was a revelation! The first blended family! His kids and her kids! Together!"
The indefatigable Schwartz, who worked into his 90s, followed his brother Al as a gag writer for Bob Hope, then turned out scripts for the wholesome radio sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet before that show went to TV.
He also wrote the early '50s sitcom I Married Joan, which was NBC's great rival to CBS's I Love Lucy, and developed the gimmicky but memorable My Favorite Martian, in 1963.
Besides son Lloyd, Sherwood Schwartz is also survived by his wife of 69 years, Mildred Schwartz, and sons Don Schwartz and Ross Schwartz, and daughter Hope Juber, who reportedly was named for Bob Hope.


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Bikers, walkers make for healthier cities, report finds
Levels of obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes are lower in cities where a higher percentage of commuters bicycle or walk to work, and cities where drivers get used to sharing the road with bikers and walkers generally have lower rates of pedestrian and bike fatalities.
Those are among the findings of a report released Wednesday that is based on data from 2011 and 2012, from the Alliance for Biking and Walking. The Washington, D.C.-based non-profit's Benchmarking Report biennially documents bicycling and walking trends in all 50 states, in the nation's 50 most populous cities and in 17 mid-size cities.
They found that Memphis (36.8%) and Detroit (33%) have the highest levels of obesity among large cities and also some of the lowest bicycling and walking rates — 2.1% and 3.4%, respectively. Conversely, San Francisco and Oakland had the lowest combined obesity rate at 18.6% and above-average walking and biking rates, 13.1% for San Francisco and 6.7% for Oakland.
However, the trend didn't hold true for all cities: New Orleans, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Chicago are among the top 15 cities for walking and biking commuters but also have above-average obesity rates.
Mississippi and Alabama have the highest statewide levels of both high blood pressure and diabetes; they also have bicycling and walking levels below the national average, the Alliance report says.
"It's not surprising to see that we have a correlation between public health and levels of biking and walking," said Jeffrey Miller, president and CEO of the Alliance for Biking and Walking. "Still, it's good to have the data. It's a very positive thing that we need to highlight."
The report dispels the notion that more bicyclists and pedestrians on the roads lead to more crash deaths involving bikers and walkers. It finds that cities and states that have higher biking and walking rates also have lower fatality rates for bikers and walkers than cities where fewer people bike and walk.
For example, San Francisco, Portland and Washington, D.C., have some of the nation's lowest annual bicyclist fatality rates, at 0.9, 1.1 and 1.1 deaths per 10,000 daily bike commuters, respectively. Detroit and Memphis had some of the highest bicyclist fatality rates, at 39.8 and 36 bicyclists killed per 10,000 daily bike commuters, respectively.
Among states, those "with higher pedestrian commuting rates have lower overall pedestrian fatality rates and vice versa," the report says.
Nationally, bikers and walkers, who account for 11.4% of all trips, constitute 14.9% of all highway fatalities.
The Alliance report finds that while biking and walking as a percentage of overall trips is gradually increasing, it's still very small.
Just 1% of all trips taken in the USA are by bicycle and 10.4% are on foot. Among commuters, 0.6% bike to work and 2.8% walk; the numbers are a little higher in large cities, where 1% bike to work and 5% walk.
Miller says federal spending on bicycling and walking projects is disproportionately low, with just 2.1% of federal transportation dollars going to such projects.


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Carrot and sweet potato soup with ginger and coriander
I just wish I had a bigger spoon.
I hereby declare soup season open in our kitchen. Happy happy times! The last warm days of summer are coming to an end, giving way to more chilly days and a new bunch of fresh seasonal produce. Beets, broccoli, fennel, leeks, pommies, quince, rhubarb, spinach, turnips and many many more.
And what's not to love about soup? The greatest form of comfort food, soups are a celebration of the freshest produce available in season. They can be therapeutic, warming, wild and experimental, sweet or tangy, luscious, indulgent, immunity boosting, spoiling and what not. Best thing about them? They come in all colors & textures possible. From smooth and creamy, to thick and hearty, perfect for every mood and occasion.
- 1-2 TBSP olive oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 TBSP finely minced fresh ginger root
- 3 big carrots, peeled and cubed
- 1 big sweet potato, peeled and cubed
- 3 cups stock (plus more water if needed)
- 1 TBSP ground coriander
- sea salt, to taste
- freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- chili flakes, to taste
- 2 garlic cloves, finely grated
- serve with cold pressed extra virgin olive oil, freshly ground black pepper and some fresh coriander
- In a big stockpot, add olive oil and onions and cook on medium to high heat until translucent.
- Add ginger and cook for 30 seconds.
- Add carrots and sweet potato and cook for 1-2 minutes, stirring.
- Add stock (and more water if needed to cover the veggies) and bring to a boil. Once it's boiling, lower heat, add coriander, season with salt, pepper and chili flakes (if using) and simmer until carrots and potato are tender.
- Turn off heat and allow soup to partially cool, then add it to the blender and puree it.
- Return to the pot, add grated garlic and stir.
- Warm it up again before serving.
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I have been thinking that it would be possible to render a view of a face with an ortographic camera and then apply it as a uv mapp.
The camera would need to be aligned to the face.
All other objects would need to be invisible, yet still cast shadows.
You would need to do quite a lot of faces to 'do' a complex object.
This could be usefull for landscapes, uv maps could be painted onto after and you would not end up with a unuseable mesh as with radiosity.
I think it would be cool it this process could be automated with a plugin that renders each face and applys it as a uv map.
I have heard of other programs doing this, has anyone got any ideas, or point to add?
Baking uv mapping
Blender's renderer and external renderer export
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I have done this once with a simple building demo, rendering each face manually in Radiance and then manually UV mapping them (although fairly simple as it was all straight flat projections). I did at the time think it could be scripted (I'm not sure how you script internal rendering in Blender) but I haven't had a chance to try. I can post my demo when I get home but that won't be for another couple of weeks.
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NH band singer charged with sexual assault on a minor
LACONIA, N.H. (AP) � The lead singer in a popular New Hampshire country music band is scheduled to be arraigned on a charge of aggravated felony sexual assault on a minor.
Forty-one-year-old Eric Grant, of Sanbornton, is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in Laconia district court.
The Citizen (http://bit.ly/VHD1pp ) of Laconia says Grant is the frontman for the Eric Grant Band, which is popular in New Hampshire's Lakes Region.
He was indicted last month for allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl on Dec. 31, 2006, at an undisclosed location in Gifford. A trial is scheduled for September.
Court documents say Grant will be represented at his arraignment by an attorney from the New Hampshire Public Defender's office.
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Kids who snack on Snickers bars and Twizzlers weigh less and are less likely to be overweight than their counterparts who avoid candy, a new U.S. study says.
Children and teens who indulged their sweet tooths were 22 per cent less likely to be overweight and 28 per cent less likely to be obese, according to researchers in Louisiana.
Carol O'Neil, registered dietitian and professor at Louisiana State University's Agricultural Center, had tracked the eating habits of youngsters age two to 17 between 1999 and 2004.
But in no way, O'Neil said, do her results tell parents it's OK to let their kids eat Reese's Peanut Butter Cups for dinner. Just because children who eat candy don't pull down the scale as much as kids who don't doesn't mean they have healthy diets.
"Children need to eat better than they are eating now," said O'Neil, calling the diets of children in her survey "abysmal," especially kids who snacked on chocolate.
"Candy can certainly be used as some sort of celebratory treat or an occasional treat," she said, as it's tied to many holidays. "But it's not a hall pass to eat what you want."
The study, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Confectioners Association, also found that fewer kids are eating candy than before, dropping to 71 per cent in 1994 from 94 per cent in 1973. And those are who still eat it, are eating less of it.
O'Neil suggests kids may have discovered other foods they like, as more foods become available over time, such as dill-pickle-flavoured potato chips.
The study focused on a cross-section of children's candy-eating habits, and did not examine what, if not candy, makes kids gain weight. O'Neil said the factors contributing to childhood obesity are complex and plentiful, with risk factors largely pointing to a lack of physical activity.
As in the U.S., childhood obesity rates in Canada are staggering. The prevalence of children aged 14 and younger who are obese or overweight has doubled, from 13 per cent in 1977-78 to 26 per cent in 2006, Statistics Canada reported.
"Children need to eat healthy foods, nutrient-dense foods. They need to have fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy," O'Neil said. "And foods like candy should be occasional foods, celebratory foods and eaten in moderation."


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31 May
- Dragon splashed down at 1542 UTC. Recovery is in process at 1610 UTC.
- Dragon has demated from the ISS and is scheduled to make its deorbit burn at 7:51 Phoenix time (1451 UTC).
30 May
- Astronomer Jason Kalirai of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, has created a new method to measure the ages of individual halo stars. His technique exploits a basic concept of stellar evolution: The heavier a star is, the faster it dies. Halo stars die by becoming red giants and then white dwarfs—dense stars little larger than Earth. White dwarfs have no nuclear activity, so as they age, they cool and fade. Thus, the hottest and brightest of these burnt-out stars entered the white-dwarf stage most recently.
- Preparations for the second landing of the X-37B, the Air Force's unmanned, reusable space plane, are underway at Vandenberg Air Force Base. While the exact landing date and time will depend on technical and weather considerations, it is expected to occur during the early- to mid-June timeframe. Space professionals from the 30th Space Wing will monitor the de-orbit and landing of the Air Force's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle mission, called OTV-2.
29 May
- Excalibur Almaz has detailed its plans to launch spacecraft to space stations in orbit around the moon, the first time the secretive company has done so publically. The British company will use legacy Russian hardware, capsules from the Soviet Soyuz space programme and space stations from Salyut, to launch people into orbit around the moon. Both capsules and stations will undergo upgrades, but the basic hardware has flown in space up to nine times, and is described by Excalibur CEO Art Dula as have a technical readiness level of nine, the highest possible.
- Intelsat, the world's leading provider of satellite services, and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the world's fastest growing space launch company, announced the first commercial contract for the Falcon Heavy rocket.
- A Chinese Long March 4C has launched with a military payload, understood to be the Yaogan 15 military satellite, from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. Launch was recorded at 0731 UTC, catching out most observers, with the only news of the launch on Tuesday leaking out on the internet, prior to official media reports of a successful ride to orbit.
28 May
- With Dragon now installed and ingressed on the International Space Station (ISS), Canada's Dextre robot took an opportunity to greet the new spacecraft on Sunday. The SPDM (Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator) was translated to the SpaceX vehicle to practice the removal of cargo from the trunk, a key element of future Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) missions.
27 May
- China launched a satellite late Saturday for civil and possibly military communications. The Long March 3B rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 8:56 AM Phoenix time (1556 UTC) Saturday and placed the 5,200-kilogram Chinasat 2A satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit.
26 May
- The hatch on the Dragon spacecraft has been successfully opened, and the ISS crew is beginning to unload the 1014 lbs of cargo brought up on the spacecraft. 1367 lbs of cargo is scheduled to return on Dragon on 31 May.
- A giant distributed radio telescope will be split over sites in South Africa and Australia, astronomers announced Friday. The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Organization said Friday that dishes for the radio telescope will be built on sites in South Africa and Australia, with the majority of the telescopes being placed in South Africa.
25 May
- Dragon is berthed to the International Space Station.
- The Dragon spacecraft has passed all of the Approach tests and is proceeding toward Capture.
- Boeing successfully completed the software Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for its Commercial Crew Development (CCDev-2) initiative on May 18. CCDev-2 is part of NASA's Space Act Agreement. Software competency is essential to all operational aspects of Boeing's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft, including launch, orbital maneuvering, docking with and separating from the International Space Station, re-entry and landing. The PDR team analyzed the system's flight software, including details regarding safety, testing, overall redundancy management, avionics hardware and ground systems.
- XCOR announced today that it has achieved a key technical milestone with its flight weight rocket piston pump hardware. XCOR engineers have successfully and repeatedly pumped liquid oxygen (LOX) at flow rates required to supply the Lynx suborbital vehicle main engines.
24 May
- SpaceX and Dragon completed today's fly-under successfully.
23 May
- The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) announced Monday that Iran is set to launch a satellite called Fajr (or "Dawn") atop a Safir 1B rocket on a mission to demonstrate the country's first use of a maneuverable spacecraft in orbit.
- The SpaceX Dragon capsule has completed Flight Day 1 objectives (under final review by NASA and SpaceX), and will spend Flight Day 2 raising its orbit as it approaches the International Space Station. If all objectives are met, grappling is set for 1206 UTC Friday.
22 May
- SpaceX successfully launched their Falcon 9 rocket and placed the Dragon capsule on a rendezvous path to the International Space Station (ISS). If all tests are successful, grappling and connecting to the ISS will occur on Friday morning.
- When SpaceX's Dragon capsule launches in spring 2012, a very special payload will be on board: 15 student experiments from the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program. The big deal is that those experiments from "SSEP Mission 1 to ISS" will be part of space history. Dragon will become the first commercial vehicle to dock to the International Space Station, and these student experiments have the distinction of being the only payload on board.
21 May
- Charlotte Kiang lists four reasons why the aborted SpaceX launch on Saturday morning was not a failure.
- Boeing hypersonic researchers are proposing a three stage air launched re-usable vehicle, capable of launching 100 pounds to orbit for as little as $300,000.
20 May
- Southern California will see the partial Solar eclipse tomorrow, Sunday, 20 May, but the Grand Canyon in Arizona will get the Annular Eclipse. Officials from NASA's Lunar Science Institute (NLSI), at the Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, are conducting free public programs at the Grand Canyon Village Visitor Center
19 May
- The SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle aborted following engine start. Engine 5 recorded high pressure. The launch will be rescheduled for 22 May (NET).
- From SpaceX on Facebook: "Engineers replacing failed valve on engine #5 following today's abort. Data review Sunday, if all looks good next attempt is Tues. May 22 at 3:44 AM ET".
18 May
- NASA and SpaceX held a pre-launch briefing this afternoon at Kennedy Space Center. View the briefing here.
- A Japanese H-2A rocket launched four satellites on Friday, including a Japanese earth sciences spacecraft and a South Korean remote sensing satellite. The H-2A 202 lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center at 9:39 pm Phoenix time Thursday (1639 UTC) and placed four satellites into Sun-synchronous orbits.
- A Proton rocket launched a Canadian commercial communications satellite early Friday. The Proton-M rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 12:12 pm Phoenix time Thursday (1912 UTC Thursday) carrying the Nimiq 6 satellite. The Proton's Breeze-M upper stage released the spacecraft into geosynchronous transfer orbit a little over nine hours later. Nimiq 6 was built by Space Systems/Loral and weighed about 4,500 kilograms at launch, carrying 32 Ku-band transponders.
17 May
- A Soyuz spacecraft carrying three new ISS crew members docked with the orbiting outpost early Thursday. The Soyuz TMA-04M docked with the Poisk module of the ISS at 12:36 am EDT (0436 GMT) Thursday, two days after launch from Kazakhstan, and hatches opened at 4:10 am EDT (0810 GMT). On board the Soyuz were Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin and American astronaut Joseph Acaba, who brought the station's crew complement back to six.
16 May
- An Ariane 5 rocket successfully launched a pair of Lockheed Martin-built communications satellites for Japan and Vietnam on Tuesday evening. The Ariane 5 ECA lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, at 6:13 pm EDT (2213 GMT) Tuesday and placed the JCSAT-13 and Vinasat-2 communications satellites into geosynchronous transfer orbit about a half-hour later.
- The Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft with the new crew for the International Space Station (ISS), launched from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, will dock with the ISS on Thursday morning in an automatic mode. The spacecraft will dock with the Poisk research module of the ISS Russian segment at 1:38 AM Phoenix time (0438 UTC).
15 May
- A Soyuz FG rocket launched the Soyuz TMA-04M (RSC Energia) spacecraft carrying three new International Space Station crew members on Tuesday. The Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:01 pm Phoenix time Monday (0301 UTC Tuesday) and placed the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft into orbit. On board the Soyuz are Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin and American astronaut Joseph Acaba. The Soyuz will dock with the ISS at 11:39 pm EDT Wednesday (0339 GMT Thursday).
- The Atlantic has an extensive by Ross Andersen with Sara Seager, a Professor of Planetary Science at MIT, on the plans of Planetary Resources to mine asteroids.
- LightSquared, the company that ran into regulatory difficulties trying to establish a hybrid satellite-terrestrial broadband network in the US, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Monday.
14 May
- Jeff Foust, at The Space Review, discusses "A test flight for SpaceX may also be a test for commercial crew".
- NSS Urges Congress to Ease Export Control Restrictions on Satellites and Space-Related Items
- Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft orbiting the large asteroid Vesta have concluded that the body has some of the key characteristics of a planet, suggesting it is a protoplanet left over from the solar system's formation. Observations of the asteroid show that it is a differentiated body, featuring an iron core with a radius of 110 kilometers as well as a mantle and crust.
13 May
- The Indian Space Research Organization on Saturday successfully tested the indigenous cryogenic engine at the Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre (LPSC) at Mahendragiri for 200 seconds. The engine will undergo another two more tests, including endurance test of 1,000 seconds and vacuum ignition test. The engine is scheduled to propel GSLV D-5 in September or October.
- John Kelly heaps scorn on the Congressional move to force NASA to prematurely select a single manned spacecraft contractor, "History shows going with one contractor results in years of delays and billions of dollars in cost overruns. Every past space transportation system development effort has become a cost and schedule boondoggle, often made worse by cost-plus contracting."
12 May
- One of the key pre-launch requirements for SpaceX's upcoming Dragon mission to the ISS, the completion of software validation tasks for the spacecraft's approach and berthing with the orbital outpost, has been passed, pending the expected completion of "action items". The milestone means the latest launch date target of May 19 now holds a large amount of confidence.
- Scientists are on an epic treasure hunt for meteorite fragments from a spectacular fireball that lit up the daytime sky over California last month. The space rocks came from a minivan-size asteroid that plunged through Earth's atmosphere and exploded into a dazzling daytime fireball over California and parts of Nevada on April 22. Meteorite fragments were scattered around Sutter's Mill, an old sawmill in Coloma, California.
11 May
- The Sun moves much more slowly relative to nearby interstellar space than was previously thought, according to scientists working on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission. Their study casts doubt on the existence of an abrupt "bow shock" where the edge of the solar system meets the interstellar medium – instead suggesting that the boundary between the two regions is much gentler.
- Virgin Galactic expects to resume flight tests of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle as early as June from manufacturer Scaled Composites' facility in Mojave, California. SpaceShipTwo has not flown since its 16th glide flight in September, 2011, when it entered a tail stall upon release from its WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft.
- Envisat, an enormous Earth-observing satellite that was officially declared dead in space Wednesday (May 9) may stay in orbit for the next 150 years, posing a threat to other spacecraft zipping around our planet.
10 May
- NASA's Juno Spacecraft Images Big Dipper
- NASA's Dawn spacecraft won't end its 13-month-long visit to Vesta, the Solar System's second biggest asteroid, until August, but researchers have now solidified the rock's reputation as an archetype for understanding planetary evolution. In six reports in the 11 May edition of Science, Dawn mission scientists have confirmed several long-held assumptions about Vesta and detailed some puzzles about the roughly 520-kilometer-diameter body.
9 May
- Four days after the launch of Tianhui-1B mapping satellite, China has launched a new optical remote sensing satellite on May 10, 2012 from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. Launch of Yaogan Weixing-14 (YG-14) satellite took place at 07:06UTC using a Long March 4B (Chang Zheng-4B) launch vehicle from the LC9 launch complex.
- OpenMarket.org has a screed about "Republican Space Socialism Update", taking House Appropriations Chairman Frank Wolf (R-Virginia) to task for decrying the wastefulness of competition in the Commercial Crew Development program.
8 May
- Unionized workers at United Launch Alliance (ULA), the Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture that makes the Atlas and Delta launch vehicles, ratified a new contract by default on Sunday when a strike vote fell just short of passage. Members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) voted Sunday to reject a three-year contract offered by ULA, but a subsequent vote on whether to strike fell just short of the two-thirds majority needed to authorize a strike. Because the strike vote failed, the new contract went into force at midnight Monday.
- Commercial remote sensing company DigitalGlobe has rejected a offer by rival GeoEye to acquire the company, saying it will wait until the end of the federal budget cycle to make a decision on whether to make its own bid to acquire GeoEye. DigitalGlobe said in a statement Sunday that the $17-per-share offer by GeoEye "substantially undervalues" the company.
7 May
- Preparations for Orion's first journey into space are accelerating, as flight controllers at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) fire up the former Shuttle Flight Control Room (FCR) for mission simulations, while Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF) engineers finalize the vehicle's baseline construction, ahead of shipping Orion to the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for outfitting.
- In a study published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, astronomers analyzing 63 hot Jupiters (depicted above) detected by NASA's Kepler spacecraft have found no planets comparable in size to Earth orbiting nearby. In contrast, many hot Neptunes—close-in giant worlds with roughly 5% of Jupiter's mass—do have planetary neighbors. The findings may mean that hot Jupiters assume their peculiar orbits after far-off giant planets kick them close to their suns. As the hot Jupiter dashes inward, its gravity ejects any smaller planets near the star, both explaining the absence of close planetary neighbors and suggesting that solar systems with hot Jupiters are unlikely to host life-bearing worlds resembling Earth.
6 May
- China launched the second TH-1 Tianhui-1 satellite – Tianhui-1B – on Sunday, using a Long March 2D (Chang Zheng-2D) launch vehicle from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. Launch took place at 07:10UTC from the 603 launch pad from the LC-43 launch complex. Tianhui-1B will conduct Earth-mapping using stereo-topographic techniques.
5 May
- Supermoon: "We will have moon closest to the Earth at the exact moment, or within a minute or two of when it becomes full," says Andrew Fraknoi at Foothill College in Los Altos, Calif., and senior educator at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. "And this has no cosmic danger or significance but it means the moon will be a little bit brighter and a little bit bigger in our sky."
- NASA issued the following statement from William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Human Exploration and Operations at the agency's Headquarters in Washington: "After additional reviews and discussions between the SpaceX and NASA teams, we are in a position to proceed toward this important launch. The teamwork provided by these teams is phenomenal. There are a few remaining open items but we are ready to support SpaceX for its new launch date of May 19."
4 May
- SpaceX and NASA are nearing completion of the software assurance process, and SpaceX is submitting a request to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for a May 19th launch target with a backup on May 22nd.
3 May
- The European Space Agency (ESA) announced Wednesday that it has chosen a mission to several of Jupiter's largest moons as its next large mission, confirming a choice made last month by an agency panel. The JUpiter ICy moon Explorer, or Juice, is planned for launch in 2022 and arrive at Jupiter in 2030. The spacecraft would fly by the Galilean moons of Callisto and Europa before entering orbit around Ganymede, the solar system's largest moon.
- ULA: "The launch of an Atlas V carrying the United States Air Force's Advanced Extremely High Frequency-2 (AEHF-2) payload was scrubbed today due to lack of helium flow from the ground support equipment to the Interstage Adapter compartment on the launch vehicle. The Atlas V vehicle and AEHF-2 are safe and secure at this time. The launch is rescheduled for Friday, May 4 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The opening of the launch window is 2:42 p.m. EDT and extends until 4:42 p.m. The forecast for May 4 shows an 80 percent chance of favorable weather conditions for the launch tomorrow. "
- The first flight of the Antares rocket will likely be in August.
2 May
- SpaceX said Wednesday it is "unlikely" that Monday's scheduled launch of a Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket will proceed because of additional testing being done on the spacecraft. The company said in a brief statement Wednesday afternoon that the Monday morning launch was unlikely to take place as scheduled to allow the company more time to work on software assurance issues regarding the Dragon spacecraft with NASA. No official launch delay had yet been announced, although some NASA documents has already pushed the launch back to the backup date of May 10.
1 May
- Senior scientists and heads of the five International Space Station partners will present ground-breaking research and discuss future projects in Berlin on 2–4 May. Follow the first International Space Station symposium live on the web through its dedicated website. Visit www.isssymposium2012.com to follow the conference in real time.


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President Barack Obama took the ceremonial oath of office for four more years on a chilly day under overcast skies.
But temperatures will surely rise again soon once clashes over his second-term agenda resume between him and congressional Republicans.
Temperatures hovered Monday around 40 degrees.
That was much warmer than during his 2009 inauguration and far better than 1985, when it was so frigid that Ronald Reagan's second-term inauguration was moved inside. Or 1977, when Jimmy Carter took the oath in one of the coldest winters in years. The Potomac River was partially frozen and people ice-skated on the Reflecting Pool.
Rotten weather at his 1841 inauguration caused or aggravated William Henry Harrison's pneumonia. He died after serving just 31 days.
In 1961, John F. Kennedy took the oath without a hat or overcoat in sub-freezing temperatures after an 8-inch snowstorm.
A lectern caught fire. And famed poet Robert Frost, blinded by the sun's glare on the snow-covered Capitol grounds, couldn't read the poem he'd prepared.
Instead, he recited one from memory: "The Gift Outright."
"The land was ours before we were the land's," it began.
Kennedy added some memorable lines of his own, including: "Ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country."
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For one day, the nation came together.
Tomorrow is another day.
Obama oath-taking pauses partisan duels
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Senate "Gang of 8" introduces bill that would provide path to citizenship for people in US illegally, and new policy fight heats up.
WASHINGTON — The formal introduction of a bipartisan Senate immigration bill is sparking intense debate on Capitol Hill and beyond, as lawmakers and groups on all sides digest the 844-page legislation to enact sweeping changes to the nation's immigration laws.
The "Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013" was filed around 2 a.m. Wednesday by Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York. In an unusual move, lawmakers kept the Senate open late. They had promised to deliver the legislation Tuesday and wanted to give other lawmakers as much time as possible to review it before a Friday hearing.
Some Republicans criticized the bill as amnesty, while some groups on the left said it was unnecessarily punitive.
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So this explains a lot why suddenly it became more sucky for Ferrari
So this explains a lot why suddenly it became more sucky for Ferrari
"Always move forward, take it one step at a time, eventually you'll reach your goal and if you happen to fall on face your still moving..."
There's no new information whatsoever in that clip. This is exactly the same speculations that everbody's is talking about. No one knows for sure what has happened. What have the added sensors shown the FIA that they didn't see when the spec 2 was introduced at first? What new data have the FIA got and what have they told Ferrari they can't do anymore? Obviously, the great traction out of slow corners and the great first acceleration phase is gone and it's possible to see that with the eyes only. But is it only down to the mapping of the hybrid parts or is it something more along with that? Also, do Ferrari have more sensors on their cars than the others? And why was it Renault who first said they saw something strange on their GPSs about Ferrari and told Merc and Allison about it? Why is Renault working with Merc against Ferrari? Who is Ferrari then working with in the same way? No one?
It could be as simple as Ferrari cutting back the power to save the engine all due to this 3 component allocation allotment that is allowed. If Ferrari keeps pushing their last engine and it blows, they will eventually go to the back of the grid. Either they push their last engine hard or dial it back, ultimately handing Mercedes the win for 2018.
It's not how start but how you finish.
Clearly we found a loophole and have been told by the FIA to change it. We are now chasing the lost straight line speed and probably having to change our setup hence now ruining tyres.
Forza Ferrari
There could also be another explanation. Maybe Ferrari knew all along the FIA would eventually clamp down on what they have been doing this season in order to hide something else for next year. With more sensors now in place (if that's the case) and if Ferrari come out even more competitive next year compared to this year it will be harder for the FIA to satisfy the other teams (if they complain again) because Ferrari will be the most watched team from the start anyway. Bottom line, maybe Ferrari have something more up their sleeve which they keep for next year?
Anyway you look at it something has happened and there is no official explanation. So, for an outsider looking in, it seems some teams complained to the FIA because they couldn't figure out (technically) what Ferrari have been doing and the FIA then took the safe route (siding with the teams) and ordered Ferrari to stop doing what they have been doing even though they have no clue what's going on. In a situation like that one would think Merc should have found some merit in maybe winning against a "cheating Ferrari". Had they won anyway they could have been boasting about it. But no, it seems they took the safe route without understanding what's going on anyway. That's a first time ever some things may have been banned in F1 without any clear evidence of being against the rules. If something has been banned that is.
We're going to use this tech in 2019 as a launch platform for the next up-and-coming Spec engines.
It's not how start but how you finish.
FIA: Ferrari slump "not linked at all" to battery sensors
It's not how start but how you finish.
The idiot Charlie Whiting is at it again...
FIA: Ferrari slump "not linked at all" to battery sensors
"Pushed on whether he could clarify exactly when the second sensor had been added to the Ferrari, Whiting said: "No. If I do that, unfortunately I will be telling you all about Ferrari's car and hence I will be telling all the other teams about Ferrari's car, and that is not something I can do."
Number one. It was Renault that told Merc about it and the Allison told the FIA about it. The "strange" GPS figures that is. Rivals already know more about Ferrari's car/package than apparently the FIA do. So what is Charlie on about that he doesn't want to disclose? Anybody who is following this closely can see that is a contradictory statement. Number two. What has the timing of the second sensor to do with the technology itself? Why can't he disclose when it was put on the car? Does it mean the FIA still know more than the rivals do and if they say when it happened then rivals will be able to get even more information about it by making some cross reference of the timing? And if the second sensor has nothing all to do with the slump then why is the FIA hiding information about all of this? Is this the new F1 that was promised by bringing fans closer to the sport and the inner workings? Guess statements like that only look good on paper.
If you take all the above and the "special tyres" brought in once the season had already started then it's hard to just let i go and say everything is normal. The FIA and Liberty are being saved by the fact that Ferrari (pitwall and drivers) have been making huge mistakes this year. We just don't have the ammo to keep on shooting. That's why everyone at Ferrari are keeping quiet (biting their tongues).
All very convenient. I do not expect Ferrari slowed themselves down, it must be related.
After a lot of articles I believe it's more of a tyre/suspension issue. In terms of top end speed we are still up there but tyre management has gone down the drain. Graining, blisters and all. It seems the car is no longer planted on rails like before and very nervous.
I'm afraid effects of departures of James Allison and Simone Resta are starting to show.
"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."
FIA's sensors or amount of them have very little to do with tyre wear and car development in general.
"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."
There is no conspiracy of FIA trying to stop Ferrari from winning.
They are just doing what they always do, closing loopholes that could lead to expensive development race.
IMO it's similar with Renault's mass damper. FIA didn't want it to lead to some extreme development, so they invoke the magic rule of movable aero part to ban it.
Ban all development that is too hard to control. Reminds me of an ideology that failed in the 20th century, someone just forgot to tell the chinese about it.
Same as what happened in France.I believe it's more of a tyre/suspension issue
Not James ,he never showed what a difference he can make,yes Simon I believed,sees Sauber performance rerentley.I'm afraid effects of departures of James Allison and Simone Resta are starting to show.
It looks like he showed enough for Mercedes to hire him and Mercedes seem to be doing quite well.
"Leave the gun. Take the cannoli."
hockenheim 2018 / China 2018 : Never forget how quick Ferrari can lose it all, be humble.
Positivity doesn't win you championships, whining about people being negative makes you blind!
lol ignore the bitter old cows ;-)
This is one of the reasons for mercedes rise after summerbreak !
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It's been very quiet about all of this for well over a week know. I guess everyone is happy about the situation and nobody wants to go too deep into this. Probably because of all the dirty little secrets in other places (teams). Ferrari can't say much either as they've made too many mistakes of their own this season. It would just look silly and pathetic blaming the FIA at this moment.
But the questions are still there and should not go away. One big question is why Renault decided to share its GPS data with Merc regarding Ferrari's rapid early acceleration exiting slower corners (great low speed traction). And also obviously when exactly the extra sensors were placed on the cars. Meaning, what's the difference between the spec 2 and the spec 3 PU? For the record, Ferrari won with the spec 1 (Australia, Bahrain), spec 2 (Canada, Britain) and the spec 3 (Belgium) PUs. Shouldn't then there be something "fishy" already at the start of the season? Especially as early as Bahrain (Australia was a little bit lucky).
I for one believe the swing in Mercs favour is down to both the FIA shutting down Ferrari and Merc's development with the new suspension and heat-absorbing new rims. 3-4 tenths because of the shut-down and 3-4 tenths because of Merc's development compared to Ferrari's dito. Had the FIA not shut it down then Ferrari could have affored being outdeveloped by Merc and still be competitive. At least more competitve than in the last three races. Looks like the powers that are took the safe route.


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I thought you might want to have a look at this. This happened last month during one of nsw's highest on record days. We had fires everywhere even where I live on the Central Coast where a few houses were lost.
I went to Monte Cristo on the weekend of 11th Feb and walked around and saw how far the fire actually came to the building. Reg told me that the young fellow in the article who was hurt was still in hospital and he told me they were down the back paddock on a tractor trying to clear the path of the fire which was a little way off but moving fast and suddenly the son who was on the tractor with his father was thrown off onto the ground and screaming. He is in his twenties I believe. Apparently the radiation from the fire was so bad that it wasnt flame that got him but the radiation. There was not a blade of grass burnt around them but the son had very bad burns to his face and body and just asked his father to get him to a hospital quick. When you look around the area you can see how fast the wind whipped the fire up because some trees are only half burnt on the edges. We went to the cemetery where the Crawleys , whose spirits haunt monte, are buried. Unfortunately the fire whipped through there so quick and bought trees down also which feel on many gravestones and destroyed them. The Crawleys were untouched but some historical stones were wrecked.
I got some shots of the house from the ground looking up towards 'the boys room' and took 2 photo consecutively and got a face looking out in both and then I asked the girl with me to take a shot also as I have a feeling about that room and she got a face as well that looks to be of a different sex and she got it in both photos as well. There is nothing inside the window to cause this.
Another thing that happened was I shared a room with this girl that night and I think the spirits there go into the rooms because I have had something funny happen another time with my sister in another room. Anyway the other girl didnt sleep all night as she was nervous. I half slept as she wouldnt turn the light off lol!
Around 2.30am we heard this rattling noise. I heard it but was half asleep. The other girl woke me up and asked me if I had just heard that. I told her I had & it sounded close to me. I thought it was the touch lamp on the side of the bed. I was close to the door though. We moved the lamp and it didnt make the same sound and then we tried the door and it did.
She then waited a minute or two and decided to open the door to look outside. She said noone was there and I told her that it might have been some other people staying there with us. Two of our members were still up and down the stairs on chairs in view of our doors . They did this deliberately to watch. We found out when they came to bed that they had heard the door handle being shook and looked up but noone was there and then they had seen my room mate stick her head out the door a little later.It was good that they witnessed this because I probably would have blamed someone for playing a trick.
Monte Cristo AUSTRALIA
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The part about Rose Guns Days being a series was definitely talked about on Ryuukishi's blog as far back as January. (Entry 564)
There's also another entry where he speculates about how the series would be numbered (Higurashi - Chapter, Umineko - EP, Higanbana - Night) and his idea at that time was to use 'Season', but unless something was said at 07th Expansion Party or Epitanime, it is unknown if that is what he decided upon. (Entry 574)
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Anyway, on a more important note, Ryukishi said on his blog that
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My Japanese is terrible, but here are a few things I managed to gleam from blog entry #584 (sorry if I get things wrong):
Here's a screenshot that was posted for April Fools. So it's not from the actual game, but the ADV format will probably look similar to this:
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It's also worth noting that that screenshot uses 640x480, so it's doubtful the game will be any different.
As for translation, Witch Hunt will be translating the full game, but there's no word on whether they'll translate the trial as well. Of course, they could start translating when the trial is released, and then they'd have less work to do when the full game is released. But they might be busy with their personal lives, so it's understandable if they choose not to start translating straight away.
There's also automatic translation if you're impatient, of course
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The tentative cover for Rose Guns Days Season 1 has been released on the RGD site. The trial version has been confirmed for July 6th as well.
From the latest blog entry (585) it appears that each installment in the series will indeed be Season X although I imagine that is subject to change at any time.
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From what I've heard, the story takes the form of people in the present day discussing events that occurred in the 1940s. So there is still a time element, although it's nowhere near as complicated as in some of 07th Expansion's previous works.
I wouldn't say Ryukishi07 wrote himself into a corner. Of his previous works that I've read, they've all made a lot of sense, I feel.
As for the hands, Ryukishi07 is still drawing some of the characters, so I hope we get to see those distinctive hands.
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NVL refers to the format of VN displaying the text all over the screen (like Higurashi, Umineko, or things like Fate Stay Night).
ADV (adventure game, of course not the same term for the genre) refers to the usual VN with the textbox.
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Totally looking forward to trying a 07th expansion novel with this ADV style I'm just now hearing of, although it seems like more of a eye strain than a VN.
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It'd probably be more difficult for Witch Hunt though, since they'd have to ensure their translation fits into the text box.
EDIT: Rose Guns Days website has been completely updated with glorious Adobe Flash(!)
EDIT2: If anyone's interested, I ripped the files from the website, so you can download the images and stuff here. I also put up some of the images in web format here, but Tumblr is silly and didn't convert the images correctly, so they look quite bad, plus I couldn't sort the images in the right order. Ah well…
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Ryukishi's Blog Post 586
He mentions a PV OP Movie Being published on July 3rd
And also I believe a FPS style battle scene in the trial can anyone confirm
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