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The smoke cleared away enough Friday afternoon that we could see....more smoke.
At sunset September 28th, the column of smoke from the westward-bound Sawtooth forest fire looked like early days of the fire at the beginning of the month. The fire was handed over to a management from the Bitterroot National Forest Friday. It has burned 5,882 acres so far, and has most recently been burning in the Sawtooth Canyon to the west into the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness.
The air in the Bitterroot Valley has been less dense at times, with the air particulate count at the Ravalli County Courthouse in Hamilton at the "Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups" level for most of Friday. The cumulative counts were "Unhealthy" - both 8-hour and 24-hour.
The large forest fires near the Bitterroot Valley continue to slowly grow. The Powell Complex southwest of Lolo in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness is now listed at 57,000 acres. Crews have been sent in to protect some of the backcountry facilities, including the Fish Lake Airstrip, the Beaver Ridge lookout area and the Elk Summit recreation area. The Highway 12 corridor on the Idaho side of Lolo Pass continues to suffer through thick smoke, with caution urged for drivers.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Digest This: Allan Kass Illos from RDCB
While there are plenty of well known and highly regarded mid-20th century illustrators...
... it's amazing to think that someone as skilled as Allan Kass could be virtually unknown -
- even by those of us who study this era in illustration closely.
Kass' work so brings to mind artists like Robert Fawcett or Austin Briggs that when I first discovered one of his Vaux Hall ads several years ago, I (and several others I consulted) were sure that it must be by one or the other.
Harald Henriksen, who has contributed so much to this blog over the years, was the first to determine that the artist in question was Allan Kass.
Since that time, we've learned quite a bit about Allan Kass. Rhonda Whiting, who loves Kass' later-period romance novel cover art and corresponded with the artist before he passed away, contacted me with quite a few biographical details. You can read those details at this link.
Rhonda has also created a blog dedicated to Allan Kass' book cover art where you'll find hundreds of examples scanned from her collection.
Not long after my first few posts about Allan Kass, I was contacted by his daughter, Susan. She wrote, "I can tell you that he was an amazing man in so many ways - and an enormously talented artist."
I can't imagine anyone disagreeing with that statement.
While I'm always on the lookout for more work by Allan Kass...
... it's not very easy to come by - which makes this small series from RDCB such a treat.
* One place where you'll find several more beautiful Allan Kass illustrations, from his Detroit automotive art period, is at graphiccollectibles.com
Mitch itkowitz has generously provided nice large scans of a half dozen originals he has for sale from the Allan Kass estate. Check 'em out!
* Many thanks to Reader's Digest Creative Director, Robert Newman for linking this week's posts to the Reader's Digest art Tumblr page! Robert has been posting some classics from the back covers of Reader's Digest from those days on the RD tumblr page. Be sure to go take a look!
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- Remo2:15 PM
This is Allan Kass at his best.Look at his faces they're specific, not generic.Dramatic lighting, the claustrophobic interior of the sub.He was a very special talent who somehow went off in the wrong direction-for my money.He should have been working in the sweats.Tailormade for his drama.ReplyDelete
When Kass worked in Detroit, he was in the elite band of artists that made up The Art Group, the studio formed by Bernie Fuchs and a couple of other artists. Their standards for admission were very high indeed, and they ruled Detroit.ReplyDelete
I always preferred Kass's line work to his paperback covers. His series of drawings for Esso were blazingly brilliant, major drawings, reproduced in a lot of trade journals at the time. (I believe Mitch Itkowitz still has one which you can see on his Graphic Collectibles web site).
I didn't know he worked for RDCB but these are very, very nice.


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If Game & Wario is all Nintendo Wii U owners have to look forward to this summer, don't expect to spend much time with the console.
wtf? Game and Wario is alot of fun. Theres some really sic and fun ass games forealz
"Perhaps this is why Game & Wario is priced at $39.99 instead of $59.99. Even still, think twice about picking up this disc."
I guess unless a game is priced at $60 it's considered cheap and not great lol @ reviewer.
this game sucks should of just made a full worio land game instead of this mini game compilation. its like a bunch of the free and worst ios game apps all in one lol. nintebdo already has nintendo land mini game compilation why did they make this one to?
"Game & Wario a let down" says a newspaper from a side of the media that jumps on video game whenever a small child falls down and cries....
Well considering every other review and everyone who played it has nothing but praise for this game, I'll believe the ones who have actual experience in the game industry. Thanks bye.
what are people expecting from something that is essentially wario Inc with a different name, ok the game won't apply to everyone but the whole point of this game is completely pointless but crazy fun like all wario Inc games.


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With Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft has finally abandoned the 32-bit world in server land in favor of a 64-bit only operating system. While this is a very good step in the right direction toward solving the 32-bit/64-bit selection dilemma, it can present some installation challenges.
I recently encountered this issue when our organization installed VMware vCenter Server on Windows Server 2008 R2. With older versions of Windows, there is a 32-bit option, so vCenter has no trouble installing; however, once things move in the 64-bit direction, there are two items that you'll need to address before the vCenter installation will be successful:
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- The need for a 32-bit Database Source Name (DSN)/ODBC connection pointing to the vCenter database.
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- If you're installing vCenter on a virtual machine running under vSphere/ESX 4, you should know that support for Windows Server 2008 R2 is currently experimental. Even though everything will probably work just fine, VMware won't provide support if you have problems.
- This article assumes that you have already followed VMware's guidance as outlined in the documentation and created a database and database user for vCenter. For my purposes, I created a database named VCDB and a SQL Server account named vcenteruser.
- Bear in mind that VMware does not yet support vCenter on Windows Server 2008 R2. Proceed at your own risk!
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To install the .NET Framework 3.5.1 on Windows Server 2008 R2, follow these steps:
- Open Server Manager.
- Select the Features navigation item.
- On the Feature Summary page, click Add Features.
- When you get to the Select Features page of the wizard, expand the .NET Framework 3.5.1 Features option.
- Select the .NET Framework 3.5.1 item. (Do not choose to install both the .NET Framework 3.5.1 and WCF Activation together — doing so will force the installation of IIS 7.5, which will interfere with vCenter's Web services.) Figure A shows you the Select Features window.
- Click the Next button.
- On the Confirm Installation Selections page, click the Install button to complete the process.
32-bit DSN to the vCenter database
When you create a DSN on an out-of-the-box Windows Server 2008 R2 system, the DSN is created as a 64-bit object, whereas the vCenter installer will only be looking for 32-bit DSNs. In order to create a 32-bit DSN on your 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2 server, you need to download and install the SQL Server Native Client on your server and use the new client's utilities to create the DSN. For this article, I'm using SQL Server 2005 because that is what we're using in production at Westminster College.
The SQL Server Native Client is included as a part of the SQL Server 2005 Feature Pack. From the Feature Pack download page, download the X64 package under the SQL Server 2005 Native Client option. Although you're installing the 64-bit package, this is only because you're installing the tool to a 64-bit operating system; the package includes a method to create 32-bit DSNs. Once you download the package, install it.
Next, go to Start and, in the Search box, type odbcad32. Select the odbcad32 option under the Programs heading to run this utility.Figure B
This is a 32-bit version of the ODBC Data Source Administrator utility; in this utility, create a System DSN that points to your vCenter database. To do so, follow these steps:
- Select the System DSN tab.
- Click the Add button.
- On the first page of the Create New Data Source wizard, choose SQL Native Client.
- When prompted, provide a name and description of the new System DSN and indicate on which SQL Server the vCenter database resides.
- For my example, I've used SQL Server authentication. On the authentication page, choose the authentication method most appropriate for your use. If you use SQL Server authentication, use the same login ID and password that you created as per the VMware documentation. This page is shown in Figure C.
- When prompted, test the data source to make sure it's set up properly.
When you're done, you will see the vCenter DSN appear in the ODBC Data Source Administrator.
With these two items in place, your vCenter installation should proceed without interruption. The true test will come when you get to the installation step that asks you to provide the 32-bit DSN that you want to use for the vCenter database. If you've set the DSN up properly that DSN will be available to you; if it's not set up properly, make sure that you didn't accidentally create a 64-bit DSN.
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|2013-01-12, 15:05
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If Dawn is indeed the last work, one presumes Requiem and Twilight are not Forgeries at all. Is that suggested anywhere?
EDIT: Bernkastel refers to the story in ep7 as Requiem of the Golden Witch within ep7 itself. Other than its own title, Twilight is never referred to by anyone. Although Battler refers to a "final tale" within Twilight, actually...
|2013-01-12, 16:24
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If we consider Legend and Turn the original message bottles, Banquet and Alliance works written by Hachijo Toya and Dawn an unfinished manuscript that was still in the working stage, then End could be a theory by "those who placed Furudo Erika on the island".
In End we have a theory that Battler clearly does not agree with, which could also show Toya going over the "End theory" (in whatever case it reached him) and he simply did not agree with the proposed Natsuhi culprit theory, because something in the back of his mind (Battler) told him it is wrong.
Theories like End and Requiem, from my point of view, can just be competing works of literature, manuscripts by other people or even just theories on the internet. Twilight could be something like an afterword which was considered by Toya...or it is really just Ange's theory, which would explain why it is possible for her to struggle so much with it.
That's why I always have a slight problem with the translation of 偽書 as Forgeries, because while it is a correct translation, a Gisho can also be an apocryphal book...so something that is not considered as "canonical" by a higher instance.
|2013-01-12, 16:48
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I'm confused... where was it said that the book for Beato, the one that was laid in her coffin upon her chest had to represent the one truth or that it's the last work? The book of the single truth is Eva's diary (which is also the book on the chapel's altar) and the last tale Battler wrote is, supposedly, the one for Ange, not for Beato.
Interesting enough Requiem and Twilight both contain 1 what if tales crossing with another tale that seems more on the style of our normal tales and that have a solution.
Requiem has, as what if, Lion's tale (which supposedly ends with everyone's death) and that is seriously different from the others as there's Lion, Kinzo is still alive and there's no Battler and this tale crosses over with the ones in which Rudolf and Kyrie are culprits.
Twilight has, as what if, a tale in which Ange went on Rokkenjima and, supposedly, nothing happened and that crosses over with a tale in which Battler and his family are culprits.
Both tales have also references to Dawn (the beginning for Requiem and I'll say the scene with Battler and Beato drowining seems to be a sequel of Dawn as Battler tries to bring Beato away from Rokkenjima as he promised her in Dawn).
Interesting enough people from Twilight are unaware of the existence of Requiem as Lion and Will's story come as a surprise for Battler and Beato so in a fashion Twilight and Requiem are a cross over of two different words.
There's also some confusion about who's the author of Twilight as Battler is supposedly the author of part of it, but Bern is also the author of the game and Featherine also claims to have written something for Ange...
So, at least in the Meta, Twilight is a book containing more than 1 story, written by more than 1 author.
And honestly I've no idea if a Twilight exist in Prime and what it contains. For all we know it could contain Bern's tale instead than Ange's tale and be a forgery written by someone who's not Tohya.
|2013-01-12, 19:03
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If you look at Requiem there are potentially at least four possible stories:
So what are things like End, the Lion universe, the Battler's family culprit theories, Ange Happytime World? Fan works? Is Bern's game exactly that, a "game" Forgery not intended to stand up as a literary work but more as a whodunnit puzzle?
Though the idea that at least some part of Twilight is written by (or at least read by) Ange seems very probable.
|2013-01-13, 04:04
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I don't think that these "Forgeries" necessarily have to be complete literary works in the world of Umineko to function in the logic of the series. Sure, some of them were revealed to be more or less actual literary works in that world, but I am not quite sure that this has to be the same for all of them.
Requiem for me was always just a collection of theories and ideas from which something like a "meta-gameboard" was formed. Just like how this very board here could be transferred into a very erratic, chaotic gameboard. In the end Bern takes everything that she got her hands on and forms her very own theory from it and it is a perfectly valid one.
This also leads me again to the question of the Logic Error.
It wasn't mentioned until it was actually called into question, which means that games can actually progress while containing a logic error, they are just fatally flawed as theories on the Rokkenjima Incident and easy to attack. But on the other hand it also means that any game is valid, not based on how reasonable it is in relation to reality, but only on it being technically possible.
|2013-01-13, 07:41
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There's something I've been wondering about lately, which probably has no answer but I think warrants some discussion at least; how many people here actually believe that a multiverse exists in Umineko? Leaving out the meta-world for the time being, I'm just talking about the idea of 'Fragments'/parallel universes existing in Umineko, in the same way as Higurashi.
I think that most of us would probably say that the idea of Fragments is part of the magical layer, and is a metaphor for the various interpretations and possibilities inside the cat box of the single Rokkenjima incident; in other words, that there is only one reality. Well, obviously. This is where the whole notion of 'Prime' comes from, after all. And it makes a lot of sense; we're initially led to believe that each episode takes place in a different Fragment, but we then learn in Episode 6 that each episode in fact corresponds to a fictional message bottle story written about the incident.
But what do we actually take as 'Prime'? We would say "the 1998 narrative", but there seem to be at least three different versions of that. This is actually something KNM mentions in his videos, and though his explanation for it is even more incomprehensible than the rest of his videos, I think he is right that it's something that seems to get conveniently ignored a lot of the time.
Basically we have three versions of the 1998 narrative:
--Episode 4's, starting with Ange jumping off the skyscraper and culminating in her death on Rokkenjima.
--Episode 6's, which seems to be identical to Episode 4's but with the difference that Ange was able to meet "Hachijo Tohya" (or rather, Ikuko).
--Episode 8's, where Ange doesn't jump off the skyscraper and eventually meets Tohya and Ikuko.
So we have a case where, just as Chiru thoroughly debunks the notion of parallel universes in 1986, it seems to introduce parallel universes into 1998 at the same time, which is pretty bizarre. What is interesting is that even though we would generally assert that there is only one single reality, we tend to take information from all three of these incompatible timelines as being from the 'real world', even referring to each of them as "Prime" at times.
For example, we would probably say that all of the following scenes contain reliable information about Prime:
-Ange's conversation with Nanjo's son in Episode 4, where he talks about the money he mysteriously received after the incident.
-Ange's conversation with "Hachijo Tohya" in Episode 6, where she talks about writing the Forgeries entitled Banquet, Alliance, End and Dawn.
-Ange's meeting with Tohya and Ikuko where she learns that Tohya is Battler and that the two of them wrote the stories together.
How exactly do we do this without rejecting the claim that there is even a single true reality to begin with?
Now, it is completely possible to dismiss two of these three timelines as fictional, which would give us a single reality. But then we run into more problems. For example, if we say that EP8's timeline is the truth (which we would have to in order to believe in the existence of Tohya-Battler at all), then we could say that EP4 and EP6's timelines are part of the "Alliance" and "Dawn" Forgeries. This does make sense to a point, until one asks the question: 'Where is our belief that the "Alliance" and "Dawn" Forgeries even exist actually coming from?' Because the passages that confirm their existence are entirely within EP6's 1998 narrative, which has been relegated to part of the "Dawn" Forgery. So the only reason to believe that the Forgeries correspond to the episodes is inside one of the Forgeries themselves, one that we have no way of knowing exists besides evidence that is contained inside itself. So we end up with a paradox where we say that "Dawn" exists because "Dawn" says so!
This is all basically a meaningless thought exercise, of course, but I'm still curious as to what other people think about this.
|2013-01-13, 10:56
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Ange's destiny and Hachijo Tohya and Itouikukuro's real identities are in a different cat box from the one of the mystery of Rokkenjima but are in a cat box as well... which allows Ange to have more than one ending.
In short the true Prime is only what is publically known. Ange's history that didn't make in the newspapers can be true (Ange might have become Kotobuki Yukari for all we know) but might also be a 'forgery', people's speculation or wishful thinking (if Tohya is Battler) as I've no idea if people write forgeries about the Last Ushiromiya who misteriously disappeared.
Mind you, that's what I call/consider Prime as it seems that's the post Rokkenjima universe the novel wants us to focus on.
In itself nothing stops Lion's world or Ep 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 to be real... although apparently Umineko could care less about what happened after them.
|2013-01-13, 12:22
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I don't think we ever saw "Prime." Possibly not even in ep8. The absolute closest thing to it might be the stuff with Ange and the Hachijous reuniting, but... is it? I'm not convinced.
Plus I think it makes more sense with Ryukishi's purposes that Prime never be revealed.
At any rate, I am almost 100% certain he has never shown us "October 4-5 1986 Prime"
EDIT: Also we know the story doesn't end in 1998. So speculation on "What did Ange do in 1998?" could spin a catbox of its own...
|2013-01-13, 12:36
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The emergence of Kotobuki Yukari at the end of the narrative does not necessarily answer what became of Ushiromiya Ange after 1998. It could very well be just another narrative that is spun around a famous author who somehow uses imagery that might have been connected to the Rokkenjima incident in 1986 (in case Sakutaro was ever publicly known to have been created by Rosa). Even if Kotobuki Yukari is actually Ushiromiya Ange like it is presented to us, she could be the Ange who survived the attack on her on Rokkenjima in 1998 and changed her identity or the Ushiromiya Ange who sold her company to Okonogi in exchange for another identity. The only thing we know is that Ushiromiya Ange died in 1998, just like Ushiromiya Battler died in 1986. Ange could have just as well actually killed Amakusa on Rokkenjima. After rereading the scene with the imaginary Eva again (considering how it is hinted in the Angel of 17 years TIP that it is him who uses "Cool" as a phrase) it seems pretty logical if that was actually Amakusa.
Thus Ange's fate is as much in a catbox from our perspective as the events on Rokkenjima. We would have to make theories about it as much as we have to do about Rokkenjima, only that the possibilities are less open from what the narrative gives us.
Still I would say that it isn't necessarily a question if parallel worlds exist or not. I think it's both and it is highly dependent on each other, but the final answer can only be given by yourself. In the theoretical space of Rokkenjima, within the catbox, worlds with and without magic existed parallely, only when the catbox is opened do all other options crumble. But who opens the catbox? From a story-telling perspective this should be taken back to earlier works by Ryukishi written on the same topic, in this case this would be Higurashi's Saikoroshi-hen.
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A similar point is brought up in Umineko. Ange despairs because she does not have access to an absolute truth, that what is called the Red Truth in the meta-narrative. She demands, like Erika, an absolute guarantee of something being right, or else it could just as well be wrong. She demands a perfection that humans just cannot reach.
|2013-01-13, 13:51
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I see, those are some very interesting perspectives. Never really heard any of these ideas before. I'd kind of thought the 'cat box' metaphor was only to be applied to the 1986 incident, but it seems that it actually applies to 1998 and beyond as well. A truly enigmatic story.
|2013-01-13, 14:50
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As an example, the stories of Dr. Nanjo and Kumasawa's sons. They both more or less verify the "strange keys sent by a weird mailing method that open bank boxes packed with unidentified cash" story. But they're contained within a 1998 story in which Ange jumps off a building, survives, goes on the run from Kasumi, doesn't visit Hachijou Tohya, and does visit Rokkenjima. We know those details about Ange's actions are subject to variation (in ep6, she does visit "Tohya," and in ep8, she basically does something completely different).
So what about the money boxes? It's an odd detail to add because it doesn't actually influence Ange's story in any significant way. Does that mean it's "true information" about the Prime world that happens to be included in a story, in much the same way that Ange not being present in 1986 is "true information" that happens to be included in most Rokkenjima Forgeries?
Ultimately, I don't know that we know, but we sort of assume it (much like the fact that the message bottles themselves were published and that the Witch Hunters exist). Future information would provide some confirmation. For example, "1998 Prime" probably would be able to tell us stuff like, did Amakusa and Captain Kawabata die? If Kawabata's still alive and never remembers taking Ange to Rokkenjima, then either she never went or he took her, survived, and started lying about it. If Kawabata is dead, how did he die and how would people know it? Likewise the building jump story. Did Ange actually jump off a building at any point? If she didn't, where did that tale get started? There was an implication that it was publicized, but was it? In Prime we could look up newspaper archives, so that would be well-known in the future.
|2013-01-13, 16:21
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The info about the keys must be true for all the gameboards and is confirmed by Our Confession as well. Is it true for Prime? if it's true Yasu really paid people and comes to wonder why?
Was it for the murder game or for a mere mystery game? If it was for an innocent mystery game then why send the money in such way when she could have handed the keys personally... unless she planned to disappear anyway?
But then she could have sent the money after disappearing, there was no need to send it earlier unless she wanted to fake her death (which could be the mysterious thing that would have happened has Battler not returned).
In short, if people were paid, Yasu was probably up to something.
But can we prove that the keys were really sent?
Not really, actually likely this info for the people of Prime is in a catbox of which they don't even know the existence.
The bank is probably not spreading the info and maybe it doesn't even know the connection between the money and Rokkenjima.
The people involved aren't talking. Apparently they would talk about it with Ange but only Ange and Amakusa can confirm this and they disappeared.
Likely this info is not in the messages in the bottle or the police might have controlled if this really happened, it would become of public domain and Ange wouldn't need to go to someone to discover it.
So the only ones who can be aware of the keys existence (if the keys existed) are the people who received them, Ange (if she really went to talk with them) and Tohya (if Battler learnt about it by Yasu).
Now... assuming the future of Ange is a speculation either done by Ange as she wonders about her future or by Tohya as he wonders about what happened to Ange, they both can add the existence of the keys to their tale about Ange's fate while ordinary people could, at best, merely add the part of Ange visiting certain people (as this info could have been discovered).
So, my guess is that the tales of Ange's adventures are 'written' by either Ange or Tohya. As Ange doesn't seem to have solved the tales, she would add the detail of the key only if it were true.
Tohya, on the other side, of course can write a story in which he pictures Ange discovering about the keys but could also be tempted to mix a fantasy with the truth... however... which would be the point of picturing an immaginary story of Ange in which Ange has no chance to do a certain thing?
I like to think that if there's Tohya behind Ange's tales it's because he was trying to picture what happened to his sister and not because he wanted to give us extra hints about the mystery of Rokkenjima.
So, for me, the keys really existed even though I seriously doubt that, apart from the people directly involved, someone knows about their existence.
What instead is interesting is what has to be of public domain to make the stories 'possible'.
Not only we've to assume that Ange disappeared (the jumping off a building and surviving it's probably not of public domain as even the tale make a point of saying that's not possible so it's likely a fantasy, a fear, a gossip or a metaphor to represent a change in Ange) but that, after Ange disappeared Amakusa had to disappear as well (being Amakusa an unknown guy this shouldn't cause problems) but also Kuwabata and, what's most important, Ange's aunt (with all her bodyguards).
Of course it's possible that while Ange became Kotobuki Yukari, Ange's aunt was killed by Okonogi's men without even involving Ange. Kuwabata might have ended up being involved or he could have felt sick while out with his ship and fallen on the sea where he died and his body was never recovered.
Probably only a small number of people in Prime would realize Kuwabata died and maybe no one would realize Amakusa died/disappeared... however Kasumi, being someone important
Still, to Ange's story in Ep 4 possible we need to have Kasumi disappearing/dying and there's no real confirmation of this so... well, I don't know. I like to think Sumadera Kasumi really disappeared but we know that the forgeries themselves didn't bother with 'sticking with prime' as Eva survives in EP 3 but not in Ep 4.
So maybe we aren't really supposed to know much about Prime, only what's useful to solve the gameboards. This however reduces Prime to some sort of subplot that exists only to give some minor info (that could have been inserted in other ways) and to deal with how hurtful is speculating on a tragedy and how everyone reacts differently to a tragedy (Ange chosing her own truth).
Considering however that Ange might not even be Prime Ange but only Piece Ange (and Ange often defines herself as a Piece in the witches and in Battler's game) the point is weak.
Real Prime Ange might have been a bullied kid who had fallen in love with Amakusa and transferred to USA without showing any interest in discovering the truth.
And while from one side it's interesting Umineko allows this kind of speculations again I wish for something 'more concrete' to work with.
However Ryukishi seemed to imply that the real 'ending' is the fantasy one so I guess that is what, according to him, appened to Ange. Or not?
Anyone has a better idea?
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Well... It is very unlikely for someone to jump from a 5 (or what was it again?) story building and not even being injured.
I guess the "magic ending" shows a very plausible outcome of that scene. If that was fake too, then... we would only have the "public known premise" and some "bits of the conclusion" and "there was an accident/a bomb". This few information would not be nearly enough to find "the truth", or it would even be as good as impossible to reach.
If the Epilogue shows the "prime" world, then we at least have a solid conclusion that we can BASE our theories on.
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Also, something else LyricalAura pointed out to KnownNoMore a while back (since KnM seemed to think that EP6 should be completely explainable, even in terms of motives): Where did the tools for the bathroom trap come from? They must have been inside the guest room when Erika sealed it, but why would they be?
Kanon being listed as dead pretty much takes us past the discovery of the letter... somehow. I really wish we could see the story from the "public" perspective.
And while I understand your point that it's in Battler's character to be incompetent, he was anything but at the end of EP5. It's not implausible at all to suppose he stayed that way through EP6.
Although my theory on both the Umineko anime and the manga is that Ryukishi let their artists and scriptwriters do them according to their own interpretation, at least to a certain extent. It'd be kind of like practicing Reader Theory in the real world.
...In fact, I'd have a hard time imagining that Ryukishi didn't do it that way. Umineko is about the very concept of presenting interpretations, is it not?
I have some comments to add to the discussion regarding the alternate 1998 timelines and such, but I'm tired right now. I will add them later, probably.
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If the letter can only be placed by Battler, that's a problem. Erika never went into the logistics of where the letter came from though, at least in the sense of "who had it in their possession last." Battler can get around that by just saying the letter was not on his person, but his intent appears to have been that it was. That's a relatively easy detail to retroactively change, but it makes me wonder.
Alternately it's all in Ange's head and she happens to believe in Genius Battler also. And Ange is never wrong, except all the times where she is.
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Well i just remembered something: The last scene we see of End's Rokkenjima is Battler saying "it is useless... it's all useless". The funny thing is, if I remember correctly, that he says this at the end of the regular Episode, but before the first tea party. Then the narrative goes on in the "cathedral", without anyone mentioning about what happened on the Rokkenjima side after that.
So could we say that the "court of illusions" was just a metaphor for what was happening in the parlor at the same time? Because then the story would continue by Natsuhi's innocence to be proven and then... well i guess they all die, right? It could go like this:
Erika shows evidence of Natsuhi's guilt
"Shanon" goes off somewhere to commit suicide
Battler remembers promise to "Shanon" (or remembers it earlier but only now is ready to talk about it) and redeems Natsuhi
It is too late to stop the bomb, because "Shanon" is dead already and Genji doesn't say a word about it
Bomb explodes and everyone dies (except Eva and/or Battler who could accidently be going through the tunnels at that time)
This is of course only EP5's Rokkenjima and is NOT supposed to be an attempt at speculating about RokkenjimaPrime
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I just finished episode 7 and was very repeatedly told to post my theory on here (no spoilers from episode 8, hane, or tsubasa please).
My theory is that kyrie is the mastermind behind everything. Asumu switched her baby with her stillborn baby. that set up her motive for killing the family that got catalyzed by yasu/Shannon actions. Shannon said that if it was one year or before or after then it wouldn't have been as much. this is because she chose that year to select the next head in the same way she was chosen. that is why no one died in the first game or for most of the second game. the second game rosa acted as a accomplice, while the third game had eva acted as a accomplice. the fourth game was kyrie and Jessica
The first game did not have anyone solve the epitaph so their was no crime but it was maria and Hideyoshi who served as accomplices
When should I read our confession, tsubasa, and hane?
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Ugh, there's been so much discussion lately I can't even possibly respond to everything I'd wanted to, so I'll just hop in on a recent topic.
Regarding Prime, and fragments and multiverses ... well, I think they "exist", personally... but Umineko is almost certainly concerned with the events of a single one of those worlds - one where Rokkenjima went boom, and Ange grew up in the care of Eva, the only survivor.
Regarding the letter in EP6, well ... um, well, it depends on when, exactly, Erika committed all that murder, right? Battler certainly couldn't have placed it, even if that was his original plan... actually, to be honest, I think the murders were something Bern and Erika kept as their "Plan B" for capturing Battler, since they seemed pretty genuinely surprised when Battler successfully removed his corpse from the room in the first place.
Or, well ... if we already have Kanon hopping out of 2nd story windows to randomly trade places with dead people, we can certainly say he dropped the letter off on his way.
You may want to post in the Episode 7 topic to discuss instead, so you don't accidentally read something you don't want to. Also, you should totes read Ep 8.
About Tsubasa and Hane, well, my understanding is that they are a compilation of various Extra TIPS, right? You could read them more or less whenever you want, though of course they'll refer to the story as per when they were written - "Game Master Battler", for example, obviously takes place right after the events of End.
Hm, I would save Our Confessions for after you've finished EP8, and had a little bit of time to gather your thoughts on it.
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Lymphedema Q&A with Kathryn H. Schmitz, PhD, MPH
A question & answer session with lymphedema researcher, Kathryn H. Schmitz, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
Q: What is lymphedema?
A: Lymph is a fluid made up of mostly protein, water, white blood cells, and waste. This fluid flows through tissues in the body and into the lymph system, which is made up of lymph nodes and lymph vessels. This system is basically a filter, removing toxins from the tissues, filtering the toxins through the lymph nodes, and ultimately disposing of the toxin via the bloodstream.
Lymphedema is an accumulation of lymphatic fluid in an extremity due to alteration of normal lymphatic flow. The lymphatic drainage can be altered through surgery, radiation therapy, infection, scarring, or direct blockage of the drainage by a tumor. Signs of lymphedema development include slow progression of swelling which typically begins at the far end of your limb (fingers and toes) and then moves up the arm or leg.
Q: Who is at risk for lymphedema?
A: A very small percentage of the population will develop 'idiopathic' lymphedema – that is to say, lymphedema that is of unknown causes. The more common causes of lymphedema are medical conditions and treatments that interfere with the normal structure and functioning of the lymphatic system. For example, breast cancer patients often have lymph nodes removed as part of their treatment. The risk for lymphedema increases with the number of nodes that are removed (regardless of whether the nodes are 'positive' or not). Radiation therapy to the axilla (armpit) can also damage the lymphatic system and lead to lymphedema. Being overweight is another risk factor for developing lymphedema, particularly among cancer survivors who have had lymph system damage as part of their treatment.
Q: Is lymphedema dangerous?
A: Lymphedema can be mild and barely noticeable, or severe and disfiguring. More severe lymphedema is associated with lymphangiosarcoma, a rare form of cancer. Further, extreme lymphedema can lead to limb amputation. These severe conditions can be prevented through appropriate, timely care of less severe lymphedema.
Q: What treatments are available for lymphedema?
A: There are a variety of treatments that are available. Often the treatment will start with an intensive period of daily appointments to a lymphedema therapist for a special kind of massage called 'manual lymphatic drainage', as well as instruction for the self-management activities commonly used for lymphedema. These common self-management strategies include wearing a compression sleeve during waking hours, applying special bandages to compress the affected limb at night, taking good care of your skin, and doing some remedial exercises. Some lymphedema therapists use a pneumatic pump to reduce arm swelling in addition to or instead of the compression garments.
Q: Is there anything a person can do to prevent lymphedema?
A. Yes! The National Lymphedema Network has recently published a list of 18 actions individuals at risk for lymphedema can do to prevent or minimize risk. The list can be accessed at www.lymphnet.org/riskReduction/riskReduction.htm. The list includes advice regarding skin care, activity and lifestyle, avoiding limb constriction, wearing compression garments, and avoiding temperature extremes. Of particular interest to me as an exercise physiologist is the advice to maintain a healthy body weight (obese individuals are at increased risk for lymphedema), and to gradually increase in activity.
Q: Are there clinical trials for people who are at risk for lymphedema?
A: I'm glad you asked that! I have been funded by the National Cancer Institute to conduct the largest clinical trial on lymphedema to date. The Physical Activity and Lymphedema (PAL) Trial will recruit 288 breast cancer survivors 1 - 15 years after their cancer diagnosis. These participants will be randomly assigned to a treatment group or a control group. The treatment group will do gradually progressive strength training twice weekly for 1 year. Both groups will go through all study measurements. At the end of the study, the control group will get to do the same strength training that the treatment group did during the study. The main purpose of the study is to establish the safety of doing upper-body strength training for women with lymphedema and at risk for lymphedema. All participants will receive a free 1-year-membership to a fitness facility, as well as education in strength training and lymphedema. Women with lymphedema in the study will receive 2 free custom-fitted compression garments and free evaluations and care for lymphedema during the study.
Q. What makes you think it will be safe for these women with lymphedema or at risk for lymphedema to do strength training?
A: I did a study at the University of Minnesota (before I moved to Philadelphia ) with 86 women that was a smaller version of the PAL trial. Some of the women in that study had lymphedema at the beginning, others did not. There were no differences in the arm circumference changes (a measure of lymphedema) of women who did strength training than the women who did not do strength training in that smaller study. In fact, lymphedema symptoms got better in the women who did strength training. We also showed that they improved their strength, body fat percentage and their quality of life as well. We anticipate using this larger study to confirm those results.
Q: How can women get involved with your study?
A: This research will take place in the Philadelphia, PA metropolitan area. All participants receive a free one-year membership to a gym/fitness center in the metro region, access to a qualified fitness trainer, access to a physical therapist, and financial compensation. We are looking to recruit women who have been diagnosed 1 – 15 years ago and have had at least 2 lymph nodes removed during treatment. For more information about this study, or to see if you are eligible, please contact Amy Rogerino at 215-898-5112 or e-mail her at [email protected].


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PHILADELPHIA – Last series, the Bruins dealt with the uncertain status of their giant defenseman prior to Game 2 against Montreal.
Today Boston's second-round opponent Philadelphia has its own issues with the health of its jumbo blueliner with Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series between the Bruins and Flyers scheduled for 7:30 p.m. tonight.
Chris Pronger did not skate this morning at the Wells Fargo Center, which will be the site of Game 2, and he is classified as a game-time decision. Pronger went into the tunnel with just a couple minutes remaining at the end of Game 1 Saturday. It is not known whether his current problem is being caused by the fractured hand he suffered in March and had surgically repaired.
Pronger missed the last 16 games of the regular season and the first five games of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs for the Flyers. The Flyers have played without Pronger somewhat often, as he missed 32 games total in the regular season.
"We feel pretty good," said veteran defenseman Sean O'Donnell about the Flyers' confidence if they have to play without Pronger. "Every team deals with injuries. They've played without arguably their most offensive guy in Marc Savard all year. They've done a good job with that. No one's feeling sorry for them over there. They're finding ways to get it done. And whatever happens, any injury, whoever it might be, we'll find a way to get it done."
Matt Carle is Pronger's usual D partner. He knows the team has handled the situation well when their biggest player on the back end has been unavailable.
"We have dealt with it. We've played a handful of games without him and like it's been all season, it's not going to be one guy to step up and say 'this is me. I'm going to be replacing Chris Pronger.' That's not how it works," said Carle. "Hockey is a team sport and as a D corps we all have to do something to step our game up and replace what is or what isn't there.
The Bruins famously played Game 2 against the Canadiens without Zdeno Chara due to dehydration and lost that contest to go down 0-2 in the series.


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The October Art Walk is always a busy one. The weather has finally cooled down a bit and it offers the perfect opportunity to wander the beautiful streets of our awesome historic city.
Almost every gallery in the French Quarter and beyond will be open and feature new exhibits and opening receptions.
Here's a quick glance of some not-to-miss ones, but there are many more, so be sure to put on your cooler weather boots you've been itching to wear and check it all out.
Unless otherwise mentioned, all receptions are 5-8 p.m. Friday and are free and open to the public.
Robert Lange Studios: Local artist Nathan Durfee has been hard at work creating an entire body of work for this solo show "Gentle Lines: Crossed by Veil and Vine." The show consists of diptychs, or small "families" of paintings where "one painting shows the reality, when the accompanying ones show what is meant to happen, through either dream or desire," says Megan Lange, gallery co-owner. 2 Queen St. 805-8052, www.robertlangestudios.com
Corrigan Gallery: The Corrigan Gallery will feature an entirely new and different body of work by Mary Walker called "Myth and Morph," where she has created all kinds of storylines, many of which come from literature or art history. "Walker has added a new twist to her works, taking printworks and collaging them together to make something additional," says gallery owner Lese Corrigan. 62 Queen St. 722-9868, www.lesecorrigan.com
Charleston Artist Guild Gallery: Photographer Robin Joseph has been very successful in trying her hand at painting, a new medium for her. Her exhibit of paintings called "Wings of Charleston" was inspired by fellow photographer Brian Koury's photos of the many egrets we see here in the Lowcountry. 160 East Bay St. www.charlestonartistguild.com
Lowcountry Artists Gallery: Native South Carolinian Sandra Roper will be showing a series of paintings inspired by the history and architecture of Charleston as well as scenes of local Southerners passionately engaged in various types of work activities. Appropriately titled "Southern Reflections," the entire show is focused on the beauty around us on a daily basis. 148 East Bay St. 577-9295, www.lowcountryartists.com
For the second year in a row, the city of North Charleston Cultural Arts Department will be hosting an exhibit of works by several of the studio artists from Redux Contemporary Art Center at the North Charleston City Gallery, located inside the Charleston Area Convention Center.
The group exhibit will feature works by Alizey Khan, India McElroy, Paula McInerny and Lulie Wallace and will consist of paintings, prints, and mixed media pieces.
"The diverse collection of works on display is a wonderful representation of the artistic innovation and creativity being fostered through Redux's studio program and we are excited to open up a dialogue between their artists and audiences in the North Area," adds AnneTrabue W. Nelson, arts coordinator for the Cultural Arts Department.
The exhibit will be on display throughout October and there will be a reception from 5-7 p.m. tonight that is free and open to the public.
For more information about purchasing works, contact the North Charleston Cultural Arts Department at 740-5854. For more information about Redux Contemporary Art Center and its artists, go to www.reduxstudios.org.
As the 30th annual MOJA Arts Festival comes to a close this weekend, they plan on going out roaring with laughter and music. Well, "Five Guys Named Moe" plans on doing that with its musical being performed at the Dock Street Theatre.
Produced by Midtown Productions, this Tony-nominated musical theater piece will feature "upbeat jazz, blues, boogie-woogie and calypso music" says Sheri Grace Wenger of Midtown.
"With its script written by Clarke Peters, 'Five Guys Named Moe' features the music of Louis Jordan, one of the most beloved songwriting greats of the 20th century, who was acclaimed ... as the 'father of rhythm and blues' and the 'grandfather of rock 'n' roll,' " explains Wenger.
Performances are set for 8 p.m. today-Saturday with a 3 p.m. matinee Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are $36 for adults, $33 for seniors and military, and $29 for students. Student rush tickets are $15 at the door 15 minutes before curtain if space permits.
For more, call 866-811-4111 or go to www.midtownproductions.org.
And remember, this year's MOJA Arts Festival wraps up Sunday with the much-anticipated finale at Hampton Park.
Starting at 4 p.m., enjoy a performance by the Charleston Latin Jazz Collective featuring Charlton Singleton and check out the African-American and Caribbean craft vendors, food and games.
For more on the finale, go to www.MOJAFestival.com.
"Life as a teenage girl is hard enough with ever-changing bodies, boy crushes and the social hierarchy of the school elite, so going to school every day looking like your grandmother can't be a walk in the park. Thus is the case with 16-year-old Kimberly Levaco, a sassy, contemporary teenage girl with a rare condition that makes her body age 4½ times faster than normal."
The above is how What If? Productions' artistic director, Kyle Barnette, describes their newest comedy "Kimberly Akimbo."
The star of the show is Charleston favorite Samille Basler, who has won numerous awards over the years. And not only does Basler's character have this strange and sometimes funny disorder, there are many twists and turns to the plot, but we won't spoil it for you.
"Kimberly Akimbo" will be performed at 8 p.m. today-Saturday, and at 3 p.m. Sunday. The show will be put on at 84½ Society St. in Threshold Theatre.
Tickets are $18 for adults and $14 for students, and can be purchased by calling 410-1950 or by going to www.whatifproductions.org.


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A small group of employees at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Middletown joined the front lines of the American labor movement this month by formally declaring their intentions to become the online retail giant's first unionized workforce.
A small group of employees at the Amazon Fulfillment Center in Middletown joined the front lines of the American labor movement this month by formally declaring their intentions to become the online retail giant's first unionized workforce.
"These workers came to us; we didn't reach out to them," said John Carr, a spokesman for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, which is seeking to represent 30 equipment maintenance and repair technicians at the 14-month-old distribution center. "But after they reached out to us, we held several meetings and gathered signatures off site."
On Dec. 6, the IAMAW filed a union election petition with the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of those 30 workers, a move that's believed to be a first among employees at any of the Seattle-based company's 96 locations around the globe.
Those 30 employees are now scheduled to vote Jan. 15 on whether they will form a collective bargaining unit that's authorized to negotiate contracts covering their wages, benefits and work rules.
The outcome will be determined by a majority vote among the workers who will cast secret ballots in the election. That vote will take place in a conference room at the Middletown distribution center.
The remainder of the facility's 1,500 full-time workers would not be represented by the IAMAW even if the technicians vote to unionize.
But it would give the 700,000-member trade union a toe-hold at Amazon, which has successfully resisted similar efforts during its 18-year history.
"We'd have to be crazy not to realize there are another 1,500 employees working the same building whose daily working lives could be improved by joining us," Carr said. "Any union would have to look at that and work to identify the concerns of those workers."
Company spokeswoman Mary Osako said via email last week that Amazon already provides competitive wages and comprehensive benefits, as well as bonuses, stock options and, in some cases, pre-paid tuition fees.
She said the core of Amazon's business model also depends on rapid innovation, flexibility and open lines of direct communication between managers and employees, which it calls "associates."
"We respect the individual rights of our associates and have an open-door policy that allows and encourages associates to bring their comments, questions and concerns directly to their management teams," she wrote. "We firmly believe this direct connection is the most effective way to understand and respond to the needs of our workforce, and do not believe there is a need for third-party representation."
Carr, however, said Amazon's open door policy is at the heart of the workers' desire for a labor contract.
"For instance, right now, if they bring a potential safety concern to management, there is no recourse to ensure that it's going to be addressed properly," he said. "A contract would fix that by requiring the creation of a safety committee and a standard procedure for handling grievances."
He said the company's desire to handle employee issues on a strictly individual basis has created a large degree of uncertainty among the workers, a problem made worse by numerous changes in management at the Middletown facility.
"To my knowledge, these guys have never once raised an issue with their wages, outside of wanting to know the procedures for reaching the next pay level," he said. "Instead, they want to know that the rules today will be the rules tomorrow and that one employee will get the same treatment as another."
While the IAMAW has managed to secure a vote, Carr said he still expects Amazon will fight hard against the union.
He says the company has already retained the services of Philadelphia-based law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, who he described as "union busters."
Osako declined to confirm or deny the report.
"Typically, they'll set up websites, hold what we call 'captive audience' meetings and send letters to the homes of employees, including letters to their family members urging them to vote against unionizing," Carr said. "Sometimes they even line people up in the hallway leading to the room where the vote will take place, which can be scary and intimidating to some people."
Regardless of how the vote turns out, the stakes are high for the 30 employees who will be voting next month, he said.
"They know that at the end of this could be their termination," he said. "These days, everyone needs a job, so no one is going to take this lightly."


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Brockville Immunization Clinics - Wednesdays 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
By appointment only - 613-345-5685
The immunization clinic provides the confidential services listed below:
- Routine childhood & adult immunizations
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There is a charge for some vaccines not covered by the Ontario Government.
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The Australian navy has tightened security at a Darwin base after an intruder overpowered a sailor and fled with firearms in a "terrible breach" of security.
Chief of Navy Vice Admiral Ray Griggs says naval officers have spent the weekend reviewing what led up to the robbery at the HMAS Coonawarra in which 14 firearms were stolen.
"We are doing work at Coonawarra at the moment as a result of what happened," Vice Admiral Griggs told reporters in Melbourne on Monday.
"I have already instituted a number of changes over the weekend and we will continue on that."
Asked for details, he would not reveal what specific changes had been made or may come in the future.
Police say a dozen semi-automatic pistols and two pump-action shotguns were stolen from the armoury of navy patrol boat Bathurst at midnight (CST) on Thursday while it was moored at HMAS Coonawarra near Darwin's city centre.
During the robbery, a duty sailor on board was overpowered, assaulted and restrained with cable ties.
"We saw the terrible breach in the last few days," Defence Minister Stephen Smith said of the incident on Monday.
"The chief of navy immediately instituted a review of arrangements at Coonawarra and, at the same time, instituted an investigation as to the causes of that break-in."
The opposition said the incident comes after the government shelved the planned base security upgrades because of the budget cuts.
But Mr Smith rejected the claims, saying a broad-ranging review of defence base security came after the foiled terror attack on the Holsworthy army base outside Sydney in 2009.
So far, 31 of the 33 recommendations had been implemented, while the two outstanding recommendations were now being implemented, he said.
Mr Smith said one of those recommendations concerned the legality of defence personnel using weapons in response to a terror attack.
The other recommendation related to a major infrastructure upgrade at 16 bases, with a tender set to be released soon.
"The parliamentary works committee approved that schedule of works in September of this year, and that work is scheduled to be completed by 2015," he said.
"Coonawarra is not one of those bases. Coonawarra has had some substantial change made to it in terms of its arrangements as a result of the review we instituted."
All weapons stolen during last week's security breach have been recovered.
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1. Good morning! This is Amr Elssamadisy with Linda Rising at the Agile 2009 Conference. Good morning Linda and thank you for coming!
Good morning. How are you? You are interviewing early today.
2. I am because I want to see the conference. If you don't mind, tell us, most of us know who you are, but for those who don't, can you tell us just a little bit about yourself and your interests?
I'm an independent consultant. I live in Phoenix, Arizona and I'm interested in retrospectives, the change process, Agile development of course, and patterns. And, every now and then, I will run off to some little remote corner of the world and I will, in my research find a connection back to the way we were. I've been doing that now since 2006. I started it with bonobos and chimpanzees and then moved on to 'hardwired for deception', then, last year, it was how we categorize other people. This year it's the Placebo effect.
3. Placebo effect? Tell us about the Placebo effect!
I was a skeptic at first because I remember seeing an episode of M.A.S.H. Do you remember the TV series M.A.S.H? It was about a shortage of morphine and all of a sudden a helicopter landed and there were a lot of incoming wounded and not enough morphine for these seriously wounded guys. What were they going to do? Somebody had the idea of pretending that they had a very powerful painkiller and they would give it out to these wounded guys and hope that, by the time the morning came there would be a shipment of morphine.
Only one of the soldiers struggled with that, everyone else immediately to sleep. Then, they began to worry "What should we do with this other soldier?". Finally, they said "We'll give him another one and we'll tell him that this is all he can have. It's very strong painkiller", so they all waited and gave him another pill and sure enough, he went right asleep. I remember seeing that and I remember thinking "Well, would you use that for real illness? Would you?". Then, a good friend of mine began to suffer from depression, this year. I talked to her husband and I said "How is she doing?" He said "Don't tell her, but the doctor has put her on a Placebo and she's doing fine!"
I thought "Doctors are seriously prescribing something they know is a sugar pill, or an antibiotic or aspirin or something that doesn't really treat the illness? Are they really doing that?" The answer is "Yes, they are!". So, it intrigued me, because there are a lot of people who think Agile has a lot of hype to it and that people who come to these conferences, just walk around. It's a very different kind of conference, isn't it? We were playing games with George last night, and I thought "How many technical conferences have people down in the corner with cowbells playing games? Just hear the excitement and the buzz, look at how many women are here! It's a very different kind of community."
And I wondered "Are they here just because they are believers? What does that mean about Agile believers?" I started looking at Placebos and sure enough, most people, at some time or another have - I guess - subscribed to something. We are hardwired to do that. We are believing kinds of animals, and in fact, until maybe 150 years ago, that's all medicine was. Some healer walked into the room, and because of your belief, you got better. That's a good thing that we have this for Agile or anything else. Now, we might think that software development is simply running from one latest hot topic to another, but perhaps it's our search for a better way, perhaps this drive to keep looking for a better way is a good thing.
I started looking at research on Placebos, I started looking at drug trials. When they test a new drug against a Placebo, they'll find that third to a half of the people under Placebo were getting better. They have to make sure that the actual drug, the real drug is at least that good in order to be effective and, in fact, what they found is that it's hard to separate the Placebo effect from the real effect, because even real drugs will have a Placebo effect that surrounds them. Then, the next thing I found was that there was a psychologist who has looked at people who are susceptible to the Placebo effect.
We have a lot of animals in the Agile community - we have pigs and chicken in Scrum. In his research, he calls believers "sheep". Then, he began to study sheep. They are a special kind of people, these believers, they are more creative, they are more innovative, they are more open to working with diverse others. They are the people, in other words, who like to live on the edge, who are open to new ideas, who like to experiment. I thought maybe that can explain some of the interesting things that go on at this conference and some of the characteristics of people who are in the Agile community - maybe they are sheep, maybe they are believers, maybe they are the ones who are innovators and open to new ideas.
4. What does that mean for the rest of us, are non-sheep annoying Agile?
Shall we lay down the goats? It's the sheep versus the goats? I think that all people can become sheep under certain circumstances. The thing that began to worry me was how do we know that we are not selling ourselves a bill of goods? How do we know that we're not all under on the Kool-Aide? How do we know that Agile isn't just a sugar pill? That began to seriously worry me for quite a while. Maybe we are just chasing a rainbow. Then, I stopped to realize that Agile and science are very similar.
Science is about experiments, about holding an idea for a short period of time and testing it and then examining the results of that test to find out whether or not the hypothesis holds up. That's really what Agile is about. Agile is about small experiments. I now believe that everything we do, not just software development, but our lives should be a series of small experiments. We should always be testing and we always do that with others, we bring in the goats. We really do!
We bring in every possible stakeholder, we bring in customers, we bring in users, testers work with developers. We are always examining carefully those sugar pills. Does it really work? What do you think? Are you happy with the results? That's the only thing that saves us - Agile itself. This series of small experiments. I began to feel better about the whole thing and I thought maybe that's why this is so successful. It plugs into our hardwired need to believe. A lot of us who are here are sheep and we like new innovative things and yet we are willing to bring in the goats, we are willing to experiment, we are willing to learn.
5. That's what makes us successful that we are willing to believe and that we are testing that belief?
Yes, that we are willing to believe and we are always testing. If you look at the way Agile conferences were and what we thought about Agile was, even a short time ago, and where we are now I have a set of slides that, in fact I'm going to deliver this morning, I'm going to give a talk. Every time I go through that set of slides, I think to myself "I created these in 1995, and I remember how it was I told the story of what Agile is about, what Scrum was about for people who were beginning, for people who were interested, who didn't know a lot and I think about how that's different. It's pretty much the same set of slides, but what I say and the stories are very different. I think we are making a lot of progress, I think we are learning.
Now you wonder, when you go see a doctor, "What's he giving me?"
7. Does it matter, if it gets results?
It doesn't matter! That's exactly right. In fact, there just was a paper about surgery. My neighbor had a form of vertebral cracks and they actually inject a cement kind of thing into your vertebra, looking for stabilization, because they have no idea why you are suffering from severe back pain. Some surgeon said "We should do some studies and we should balance this surgery against -it's called - sham surgery". They bring someone in, they make a little incision, but they don't really do anything. What they found was the sham surgery was just as effective as actually going through the very painful process of injecting patients with a cement, which impairs their mobility for the rest of their lives. The 2 groups of patients are exactly the same with regard to their efficacy, whether they were happy or not. Astounding!
8. It is, isn't it? The power of our beliefs!
Yes. We have a little pharmacy in our heads. All we need to do is turn that on. How powerful we really are…
9. You and Mark Levison are doing a workshop today.
We are doing a workshop tomorrow and we are trying to look at better ways of learning and training, based on the latest neuroscience research. I didn't know Mark Levison until last night, we met at the icebreaker. He just sent me an email, he said "I know you are interested in these weird things, and I'm interested in these weird things. Why don't we do a workshop?" So, we made a proposal together. What we are going to do is cover 5 different topics and actually we are going to use one of the techniques that we recommend, so this will be a self-referential workshop.
One of the techniques is to let the learners decide. We know we don't have time to cover the 5 topics, so we are going to let the learners decide which 3 they would like to hear. We'll actually cover 3 of them. I don't know which 3 of them. One of them is "Build on what the learner knows". Neuroscience research tells us that we all have a set of neural networks, even babies when they are born, have a set of things they already know, they already believe - since we just talked about belief.
It's much better if you build on that instead of trying to examine misbeliefs or errors and to say "It's my job as the teacher or the trainer to try to straighten out that mess. It's my job to improve you." It should be my job to build on what you already know and to start together from that point and let me do the best I can to show you a different path. That would be different for every student. That's one of the things that you can do. Another thing you can do is use all the senses.
Typically we do what we are doing now - I talk, you listen. And you are a good listener. Somebody might even reward you for that. Everybody is quiet, you are just sitting there, looking at me. That's actually the worst way to learn anything. We should be moving around, we should be I guess engaging all our senses, we should bring in smells, we should change positions. We know that exercise improves how efficient the brain is. We are going to have people moving around, trying different things, little experiments and we are also going to integrate, which is another tactic, put things together and so we are going to have people do small plays. I'm definitely a believer in plays. The whole workshop is a series of experiments. How will people like that, how will people learn in that situation and we'll see how successful we are.
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But we need to beat the placebo effect
Martin Gladdish
This comment is in danger of over-running, so I'll put the rest as an entry on my blog. I'll leave with a parting shot of if you were to read just one book on the placebo effect and how medicine tries to work out whether they are better, make it Ben Goldacre's Bad Science.
Agile needs more science, less religion
Craig Doremus
Re: Agile needs more science, less religion
Martin Gladdish
Re: Agile needs more science, less religion
Amr Elssamadisy
How do we suggest we do that?
I am a sheep
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Greg Wilsion talk at Dev Days Toronto
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Re: more questions
Amr Elssamadisy
I'll be the oddball out here. Does it matter if the solution is because of belief or because of action? If the result is positive, that's all I personally care about :)
Re: more questions
Martin Gladdish
The essence of the argument is that we can make any old change, even if it's something as silly as making the room brighter, and see some improvement due to the placebo effect. So, if we are relying purely on placebo for our benefit we may as well make changes that are incredibly cheap and easy to implement. Introducing agile processes aren't incredibly cheap so, if they're no better than placebo, we may as well ignore agile and just turn more lights on!
Re: Agile needs more science, less religion
Craig Doremus
I'm talking about measuring ROI over the lifetime of the software. The research by Nachi Nagappan noted by Martin is a good start. We have many software projects that have a limited lifetime (2-3 years). TDD lowers support cost, but does the payoff justify the 15-35% percent addition to development time that Nagappan found? Both the cost (TDD) and payoff (defect-reduction) needs to be quantified in dollars and cents (or euros, etc).
Re: more questions
Mark Levison
-Team A will build the application using their traditional approach
-Team B will use an Agile approach to build the same application
Neither the teams nor their customers will be allowed to communicate during the development of the application. Run for 6-12 mths and study the products for quality, value delivered, ....
Repeat several times over. Will you fund this effort?
I think the best we will get for sometime to come is the Standish reports - look for the top 10 list of factors in predicting project success - Agile tends to expect all of them.
Mark Levison
The Agile Consortium


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