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|#1 by warfoki
2018-10-29 at 00:57
|So, I wasn't quite sure where to fit a full blown review, so I figured I'll make a new thread for this. Been a while since I've written a review or, well, since I've played a proper VN really, so let's see just how rusty I am at this...
The basic premise isn't that original, but had potential: a bunch of seemingly random people get drawn into a monster filled world where they have to survive with any means necessary. The only thing is, this world can descend and just finish at random, and then they get back to "normal" reality. Eventually we get more and more info on how this mysterious "Red Night" works, stronger monsters to fight and more serious conflicts, the whole package. That is nice and all.
However, as the story progresses, is also makes less and less sense. Now that I'm done with the entire thing, I cannot avoid realizing that the only reason for protagonist and co not getting massacred on day one, is that the antagonists, despite being full of themselves and talking big, are dumb and incompetent as shit. The entire plot, especially the ending is held together by cheap copouts and plot conveniences. We literally have an omnipotent god character out of fucking nowhere going back in time to make the entire plot not happen, so everyone could have nice, cozy happy endings, completely undermining all the effort, tension, plot, character development, etc.
Aside of that, there's also the issue of the lack of proper routes and the godawful pacing. The first and last third of the VN are quite well done (plot conveniences notwithstanding), pacing is fine, there's character introduction / development, the mystery aspect is built, and so on. The middle third however, is terribly dragged on and just plain boring honestly. Like, if you just let the autoplay function go and not skip, then there's like a 40 minute scene at some point where the cast gathers at Yuka's home and the girls bake cakes, while the idiot friend gets his ass kicked by the local token loli in games. Nothing actually happens. No character development, not plot progression, just lukewarm, bland slice of life comedy. If that scene wasn't there I wouldn't have realized that it was cut. And it is not the only scene like that, far from it. It's basically filler.
As for the routes, well, I wouldn't call them routes honestly: once you pick a love interest, you have like 2 short scenes with them before the final fight, and then a kinda epilogue with a medium length scene and 1-2 long H-scene. The hentai scenes are longer, than the rest of the scenes unique to the heroines. All of their character development and background stories are told during the main storyline. It's almost as if making individual routes was a last minute addition.
Probably the strongest suit of VN honestly (the plot sure isn't...). So we have 4 heroines to choose from.
Yuka - The protagonist's childhood friend. She obviously has a crush on the protagonist, and the protagonist obviously deeply cares for her. It makes going for other heroines awkward, as the entire Vn up till then tunnels you into a romance with her. It probably doesn't help that she is the worst character in the damn game. Obnoxious and annoying. Like at one point the protagonist practices with a wooden sword with Misuzu when the Red Night falls. Misuzu hands him a real sword as a real sword. Yuka's reaction: "That a real sword right? Isn't that too dangerous?" Like, bitch please, we are doing a life-and-death struggle against overwhelmingly powerful enemies and you are worried that you precious love interest is actually armed for once and might just be able to at least defend himself somewhat?! Also, that's a regular sword with no magic powers. He isn't exactly handling nitroglycerin here... God, she was annoying...
Yukiko - Energetic, bubbly genki girl. Up until her glasses comes off, at which point she turns into a cold blooded killer. Fun times! Honestly, she doesn't have much of a chemistry with the protagonist. Their entire romance feels awkward and forced. This is compounded by the fact that if you don't go on her route, she gets together with another character, and quite frankly they have about ten times the chemistry between them. I felt doubly awkward going for her route, because had to turn down Yuka and then I essentially stole a side character's love interest. She was a cool character, but the romance just did not work.
Misuzu - Best girl and best fighter. She is pretty much the reason why the team doesn't get slaughtered. She is by far the most likeable of the cast: coodere without annoying antics, strict but kind, helps the protagonist to overcome his own weakness and low self esteem, saves everyone else in the red night even if she has to risk her life in the process. And she is just adorable in "dere" mode, I really wished she would have a proper route, not just this epilogue-nonsense. She deserved to be in a better VN...
Kukuri - The last heroine, for her "route" you have to get all other main endings. Well, I think the author wrote himself in a corner with her. See, she is mute. She communicates via her sketchbook. Which means she has very few lines, all of which are condensed. She is in the background in almost all scenes, very rarely is the attention centered on her. Thanks to that, her personality seems undeveloped and that makes her uninteresting. And then there's the absolute mindboggling bullshit that is the "true end" attached to her. She is not a terrible character, just... a huge wasted potential.
--Audio & visuals--
Not much to say here, the visuals are a bit outdated by today's standards, but it's serviceable. Nothing to write home about, but no glaring issues either. I would like to commend most of the music, for the most part it did a great job at setting up the atmosphere. The only exception was the loop playing during slice of life comedy sequences, god that track was bloody annoying. Or maybe I'm just associating it with the annoying slice of life parts too much...
--Closing words--
Overall this VN is the epitome of wasted potential. The setup is good, the characters are good, the premise is ripe for high tension, epic fights and the last third delivers some truly emotional scenes and all out fights. But then the incredibly rushed ending with its glaring plotholes and the lack of actual routes ruins the experience. When I first reached the end credits after the final fight, before the "route" / epilogue, I wanted to rate this about 8.5. I really liked it and if that would have been the ending, it would have left a lasting impression. But then it only went downhill from there. Still, it was an overall enjoyable, if somewhat forgettable read and I don't regret sticking with it.
7/10Last modified on 2018-10-30 at 04:29
|#2 by kiru
2018-10-29 at 08:58
|You did not mention the beginning of the VN, which is one of the utmost worst VN beginnings in existence. At least it's so bad it's funny, but still didn't actually make me play the rest. How the heck can you write the first hour of your story in a way, that any decent adaption would completely ignore it and just start after it?
|#3 by warfoki
2018-10-29 at 12:47
|I disagree with you there. What works in a (visual) novel it might not work elsewhere. Lisette's background is a crucial part of the plot. And by starting the VN there, it actually raised my interest and curiosity. Much more so than the brooding protagonist on the rooftop. And it also blatantly foreshadowed that there gonna be more here than just highschool slice of life comedy here with some occasional use of superpowers.
As for adaptations skipping it, well, yeah. I expect adaptations to skip Lisettes origin story altogether for the most part with all the genocide and rape. Aside of giving it an otherwise unnecessary adult only rating, it's also orders of magnitude more grimdark than anything else in the VN...
|#4 by asaki
2018-10-30 at 03:35
|Well back at 2012 11eyes here one of most requested VN to translate, so I admit that it did have some Seinfeld is Unfunny treatment there now that we have Tokyo Babel, Dies Irae, Ayakashibito, and Comyu translated. That said I believe that this is still worth to recommend to the beginner though, and I like that Denwalts manage to subvert the apathy in regard of his 2nd project back at 2016 end (At least in my opinion here).
PS - I agree that the route did have some issue though, because of the structure.Last modified on 2018-10-30 at 03:36
|#5 by xg70d
2018-10-30 at 04:01
|Now that you mentioned it, your first spoiler covered text reminds me a lot of MLA's ending, except 11eyes' didn't feel as bad as MLA's. Maybe it's because MLA built up my expectations really high, so the nosedive its ending took really disappointed me.
Pretty much agree with all your points, especially with Misuzu being best girl. She's the reason why I read this in the first place, since I didn't like how the anime treated her, so I thought I gotta see her happy end. And yea, it was enjoyable but quite disappointing that I only enjoyed the VN because of Misuzu and not the plot itself.
|#6 by warfoki
2018-10-30 at 04:02
|As a starting VN, maybe, but honestly, there are stronger contenders there. Also, the translation is... not exactly stellar. Even i, despite my almost nonexistent Japanese knowledge, could pick up that they took some serious liberties with the translation. Plus the entire thing is full to the brim with typos, it's blatantly obvious that nobody bothered to do a QC on it once the initial translation was done.
I mean, overall it's readable English and get the story across just fine, and it's a free fantl, etc. and it allowed me to read a VN, so it's obviously better to have this than nothing, but still... maybe not the best introduction, just as early MG releases were... finicky.Last modified on 2018-10-30 at 04:21
|#7 by asaki
2018-10-30 at 04:10
|I didn't mind with the liberties though, considering that I find that DS2 star name for Mizusu's weapons (Mizar, Merak, Alioth) was quite cool to me and besides Wallachia is sounds cooler compared to Drasuvania (It's just my preference though). That said, the typo was pretty serious though and it came from me who didn't care much about the translation in the first place.
|#8 by warfoki
2018-10-30 at 04:18
|@5 Okay, so I've never read MLA. I know, I know it's a quintessential VN, highest ranked on VNDB and all. But, well... my friend went on and on about it years ago when he first read it. he praised the entire thing to high heaven. Problem is he killed the tension of Muv Luv itself, since his description basically told me that the routes in the first, slice of life segment has no relevance and that the second part will always end with the aliens winning and everybody getting killed, and MLA is basically the events of the second part all over again, except now the protagonist knows what'll happen and this way they do have a fighting chance. I'm... VERY sensitive to spoilers, so this killed 2/3 of the VN for me. And then I heard that people were disliking the ending. I jumped to the conclusion that this must mean that the VN got a full tragic ending with most if not all the cast getting wiped out to stop the aliens. As I HATE tragic endings (especially if I know that they'll be like that from the get go), I couldn't bring myself to read it. But with what you have said (which by the way probably should be put into spoiler tags), I think I get it now. Let me guess: after some epic struggles, character deaths and all that, MLA ends with yet another world reset, the protagonist gets thrown back into his original timeline with the normal high school life and nobody but him remembers anything happening at all. Well, that or maybe the main characters retain their memories. Am I right on the money with this one? I might read it if that's the case. While it IS a cheap copout, it's a lot less alienating than the entire "everybody dies, the end" thing. Although, well, not sure how much I'd enjoy that now that I have the end for all three parts revealed to me, knowing the ending of a story usually kills any and all enthusiasm for it on my end...
On the note of the anime adaptation, I usually give the anime adaptation a try after I read a VN. This one managed to lose me in about 10 seconds, as it literally started out with Kukuri killing the protag and committing suicide. I'm like "well, that's no right...". Like, I can't imagine the rest not being butchered if they didn't get such a fundamental scene right and started out the entire thing on a wholly butchered premise...Last modified on 2018-10-30 at 04:31
|#9 by kominara
2018-10-30 at 04:24
|#8 Most of the stuff you put in the spoiler tag isn't really spoilers; it's all revealed in the first chapter or so of Alternative. I will admit that I wasn't able to finish Alternative (too many infodumps), but I'm pretty sure that it pretty much ends how you think it does. I'd still recommend trying it out; MLA is certainly more about the journey than about the destination.Last modified on 2018-10-30 at 04:25
|#10 by warfoki
2018-10-30 at 04:26
|It's not spoilers for MLA, but it is spoilers for ML, hence why I hid it.Last modified on 2018-10-30 at 04:27
|#11 by kominara
2018-10-30 at 04:32
|#10 The whole mecha plot twist is so infamous at this point that I'm not entirely sure what the point of trying to keep it secret is. The marketing for later entries sure as hell doesn't try to hide it, that's for sure. And I don't think it really ruins your experience with the game; though, to be fair, I doubt anything can ruin your experience with Muv-Luv more than reading Muv-Luv will.
|#12 by xg70d
2018-10-30 at 07:14
|@8 Your guess with the ending was almost spot on, except MC also forgot everything. Would have liked it better if MC alone remembered everything. I think it would have made a better impact that way.
I honestly forgot about how the anime handled things, but I do remember that they actually made Yuka a lot more annoying than she actually is in the VN. That's why I was genuinely surprised when I finished Yuka's route, because she is not that annoying compared to the anime.
|#13 by kiru
2018-10-30 at 08:08
|@3: I'm not sure what you are talking about. The first hour had no content. That's the issue. You can cut it, and nothing is lost.
|#14 by warfoki
2018-10-30 at 11:33
|Again, the VN has a lot of content that could be cut, the first hour isn't among them. It has the sack of Besirés, Lisette origins, Yuka and the protagonist's relationship and his sister's suicide. All of that is relevant.
|#15 by bobjr2000
2018-10-30 at 14:57
|You could cut the first hour and be okay but it makes less sense that way.
In star wars you cut long opening scene and ship being attack and jump straight to planet and story would work fine but would be missing out.
|#16 by rick12
2019-02-07 at 22:35
|Wait, what's going about the ending of MLA? Can someone explain?
|#17 by nourunin195
2019-05-14 at 07:33
|11eyes really was a mix of wasted potential, too ambitious, bad pacing, and terrible endings. I literally skipped everything in every 'route' because it was the same all the time! I expected there would be an expansion on Misuzu's clan, or Yukiko's Wallachia, but nope, just a few unique dialogue and H scenes, that's it.
Characters wise, only characters I hate are Yuka and Takahisa. God those two are annoying. Furthermore they even tried to make the audience 'like' him when he's just blatantly a hypocrite, obnoxious, barely sympathetic at all even if Saiko-sensei died, or that time he apologize to Kakeru. The writers even wrote shit like Takahisa was an important character among the 6 people, and without him the quietness got reduced 100%, which is apparently a bad thing, and without him shitting up the scene, he wouldn't drag other people into his mess or endangering other members' survivability. Yuka on the other hand, her character is the second most toxic other than Takahisa, wants everything to go her way, obsessive, is a compulsive liar, and genuinely doesn't give a shit about anyone other than Kakeru. Her backstory is also a red herring, which implied that she didn't cause the death of Kukuri, but it's just another meaningless backstory just like Yukiko that doesn't affect the story one way or the other. You could literally remove her part, and it would affect nothing.
The length of SOL scenes in the VN was way too long in comparison to other actual meaningful character development scenes. And other scenes about character backstory like Yukiko...like give me a break, who cares about an irrelevant country in a story that doesn't incorporate any of the main characters' pasts at all? On top of that, they had to drag out and add drama to the entire Yukiko backstory reaction. First time playing it I was like, this is such a drag.
The only thing they did right was the SOL scenes since they make me smile every time Tadashi or Yukiko or Kukuri is on the screen.Last modified on 2019-05-14 at 07:46
|#18 by forever-here
2019-05-14 at 08:18
|the anime did more justice to this title. Yukiko actually dies in the anime.
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He said despite their reputation of being a wealthy school, one out of five children come from a situation of poverty.
He announced the graduation rate in Madison is 97%. He said 20% of some 800 students who took the ACT test scored 30 or higher.
He announced the acquisition of a new building to expand pre-k in Madison. He explained the district includes an emphasis on foreign language beginning in kindergarten.
Fowler also said $20 million dollars of BRAC funding will be used for renovations and improvements at Bob Jones High School. He also described programs to allow students to give back to the community and said the district has given $250,000 back to St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
His presentation concluded with a video of students in Madison describing their classes and how they are preparing for a new world that doesn't exist yet.
Dr. David Copeland began his presentation with a video showing off highlights of various programs for students, the fifth largest school district in the state. He says the district has been commended for being the most efficient in the state. While that's a compliment, it also indicates money is an issue and they are forced to do more with less.
Copeland explained the district has two national Blue Ribbon schools, but security and safety of students remain the district's top priority.
He said the district's dropout rate decreased from 10 percent to 4 percent last year.
Copeland wants to expand a BYOD program in the district to middle and elementary schools. It stands for Bring Your Own Device and it would save the district money, since Madison County Schools cannot afford to give each student a laptop. BYOD programs allow students to use tier own devices. Those who don't have one would be provided one.
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He said there are plans for new school buildings including one in Monrovia.
He concluded with a video showing off elementary students describing themselves, not as students, but as the careers they are interested in pursuing. Copeland said his district is educating the next workforce.


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The Commonwealth Government welcomes the release of Australia's first national audit on infrastructure, undertaken by Infrastructure Australia.
The audit shows the economic imperative of fixing our road and transport networks in our major cities. This audit is a first for Australia and will drive action on infrastructure investment by revealing the costs of inaction.
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After 10 years of being single, I have started dating a gentlemen who is financially secure and definitely making more money than me. I need advice on how to handle paying the tab when we go out. I feel uncomfortable letting him pay for everything. However, if I insist on paying my half, or even paying for the whole bill, I will have to limit the activities that we do together. How do I politely decline functions that I feel I cannot afford, without appearing uninterested in being with him? Should I discuss this with him? If so, how do I do that without making it appear as if I want him to pay for it? --labottor
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Dudley Colliery came into existence in the 1850s this was a period of the great railway expansion across Britain. The Newcastle to Berwick track was opened in 1847, which passed through Weetslade and was later to be used by the Dudley colliery to transport its coal to the Pans at Howdon. There is a Stationmaster living at Dudley station in 1861, which would have made migration to the village easy. The Great North road also passes within a mile of Dudley so for the families migrating to the area there was plenty of access. As Dudley is approximately 6 miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne and all the industry and commerce of the city and its river see map one. There was a great many collieries and farms inland from the Tyne with its shipping and docks so there would have possibly been a lot of work in the area before the pit at Dudley was even sunk. An added attraction would also have been that the housing in Dudley was new. The sinking of Dudley colliery was during the early years of the industrial revolution when there was great demand through out Britain for coal to fuel the industries of iron and steel. Which was needed for the building of machinery, trains and bridges some of the machinery was to be used in the collieries in the for of pumps and headgears which enabled the miners to extract coal from deeper seams. It was found that 50% of the migrants of Bristol had not come directly (Grigg, 1977, p.153). From the sample taken of the heads of Household in Dudley a colliery village it was found that 39% had migrated there from counties outside Northumberland.
Long-journey Migration to Dudley Colliery, Weetslade Northumberland.
In Dudley 1861 there were 27 (18%) heads of family who where long-journey migrants and 25 (17.24%) residents who where wives and 32 (10.25%) of the children under the age of 15 were long-journey migrants. See table three. Of the Long-Journey migrants from Ireland there were 10 heads, 9 of the heads and their wives were born in Ireland. Of These 1 Irish head had a Scottish wife, 5 of the 10 families had children born in Scotland, 2 of the families had children born in Durham and 1 head had a child born in Northumberland. And 2 heads had no children so for the purpose of this report it is assumed that they moved straight to Northumberland. With the Irish who would migrate and then settle into enclaves (Dennis and Daniels, 1981). It is not easy to tell if they migrated with their families settled in Scotland and then married another Irish national in Scotland. Out of the ten heads of household born Ireland only one had a mixed marriage and that was to a Scots woman. During my research I have found that it was even quite cheap for the Irish to migrate across the Irish sea as captains would use the Irish as a living ballast which would take less time to unload than the normal ballast used. (Smith, 1991). There are 5 heads in Dudley who had migrated from Scotland to Dudley only 2 heads had married a Scotswoman another married an Irish woman and a third married a woman from Durham. One Scotsman married a woman fromNorthumberland and had two children in Durham. One of the Scottish heads of house was a widow with two children born in Northumberland. Other long-journey migrants from Yorkshire had more mixed marriages than the Irish families. Although there are 12 residents of Dudley born in Yorkshire of a total of 6 heads only one family, the head, wife and child originating from Yorkshire and apparently migrated straight to Dudley. The rest of the heads, 3 had wives born in Northumberland 1 had a wife born in Newcastle on Tyne and a child born Durham another had a wife born Durham and no children 2 heads had wives born in Northumberland and 1 child each born in Durham and Northumberland. The last Yorkshire head of house had 3 children born in 3 different locations in Northumberland. Unlike a family from Lancashire who moved from their place of birth in Lancashire to Derbyshire had 2 children aged 7 and 12 then moved to Yorkshire having a child recorded on the 1861 C.E.B as 5 years old. Which would mean that this family moved from Derbyshire to Yorkshire with a child aged 2 years and then on from Yorkshire to Dudley with a child less than 5 years old as their next child is 3 months old at the time of the census in 1861. Another Lancashire family appear to have moved straight to Dudley there are 5 children born in Lancashire aged, 14 and 5 also 2 children born Dudley aged 2 and 3 months which would mean that this family migrated from Lancashire with a child of 3 years old. The longest individual Migration living in the Dudley of 1861, would be Thomas Reveley aged 28 who it would appear moved from Devon to Norfolk where he married and had 2 children aged 8 and 12 then moved it would appear directly to Northumberland. There, having another 2 children one aged 4 born Hartley in Northumberland the other aged 1 born Dudley. This family would have been migrating with a child as young as 4, also bringing the extended family of his mother in law a 64 year old widow with him. Of course he could have migrated from county to county but as there are no children for this period of time it must be assumed he moved directly to Northumberland and cannot be traced in the mean time.
Short-journey Migration to Dudley Colliery, Weetslade, Northumberland.
Short-journey migration these people came from the counties bordering on Northumberland, Newcastle on Tyne (Newcastle on Tyne was a county from 1400 until 1882 when it became a city) and Durham and Cumberland. Of the people who were Short-journey migrants 32 (21%) were male heads of family and 30 (20.68%) were wives here again the families migrated with their children in this case 36 (11.53%) were children under 15. There are 31 heads of household living in Dudley from the bordering counties of Durham, Cumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne, 8 of which brought children with them from their county of birth. There were 8 couples living in Dudley who had no children and 15 couples had children born only in Northumberland. Which would mean that 23 of the short journey migrants had apparently migrated straight to Northumberland. Only 13 of the couples in Dudley had married a spouse from the place of their birth. From that 13, 10 had married a spouse born in another county, of this 10 it is impossible to tell if the head from the Border County had migrated to Northumberland with his/her family. Or migrated alone and met their spouse while living in Northumberland or whether the wife/husband had moved out of Northumberland and met their spouse in the county of their birth moving back into Northumberland after the marriage. The families did not all migrate straight to Dudley when moving into Northumberland. After leaving the county of their birth using the children as a guide it would appear that one family moved through four locations, 2 moved through three locations 5 moved through two locations and seven families had children with only one place of birth before arriving a Dudley.
There can be complications when studying migration as in the case of the Hislop family head, born Durham, living in Dudley in 1861 with a son age 10 born Durham and a child age 7 born Cramlington Northumberland. This would mean that the eldest child would have been 3 years old at the time of the migration. Then the next child was age 2 born Durham then they moved to Dudley Northumberland on census night where they have a child aged 1 year so this family had since 1854 been crossing back and forth across the border of Northumberland and Durham.
Local-journey Migration to Dudley Colliery, Weetslade, Northumberland.
There were at the time of the 1861 census 91 heads of house living in Dudley who where born in Northumberland. There were 11 heads without children 5 where not married and there were 6 heads, which had children that were only born in Dudley. As such did not count in the step migration table see table five of the remaining 74 heads of house who where in Dudley with children they had all arrived there step by step migration. Of the 83 Married heads in Dudley 67 had wives born in Northumberland, 10 had wives from the bordering counties and 6 had wives from further counties. Also of the 74 heads of family 58 had a different place of birth to their eldest child 16 had the same birth place, of the 16, 7 had step migrated and 9 had all their children in the heads place of birth before moving to Dudley.
The process of migration was not all one way as 11 of the heads living in Dudley had migrated out of Northumberland then after having children moved back into Northumberland. Of that 11 families 6 had children born in Durham, 1 had children born in Newcastle on Tyne, 2 had children born both in Newcastle on Tyne and Durham, 2 families had children born in Scotland. These families migrated from county to county with children as young as 1 year old as in the case of John Whitton who had 3 children born in Scotland aged 1, 3, 5 in 1861. Another the Wardal family head and wife born Northumberland, with a child aged 12 born Newcastle on Tyne, 8 born Northumberland and 6 born Durham which would mean that the two eldest children where migrating across county borders when they where aged 4 and 2.
It must be remembered that this is only a snap shot in the migration of these families and soon after the census many of the families many have moved to a new location. I found that in looking at the data collected to examine step by step migration I was using the births of the children in the families to get the overall picture of the migration which in its self disproves Law seven, that families do not migrate. It would appear from the families that were migrating from counties outside of Northumberland that many of these families that migrated from other counties did so with their families. Apart from unmarried children and extended family members there are 34 other residents of Dudley for breakdown and distribution in households Out of a total of 825 people there are 221 (26%) of people living in Dudley from outside of Northumberland. Out of those 221 migrants 125 (56%) were Short -Journey migrants who only moved into the county bordering on their place of birth? The remaining 96 (43%) were Long-Journey migrants travelling across several counties. In conclusion families did migrate not only with their children but also with extended family members.
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When you consider what Fabian Cancellara achieved in his career, being named after a legendary gladiator is fitting.
In the cycling arena, Spartacus was a true god during a decorated 16-year career. He may be from neutral Switzerland, but Cancellara left very little unconquered when he exited the sport in 2016.
Among his conquests include eight stage wins at the Tour de France, four at the Vuelta a Espana as well as numerous victories which saw Spartacus become a true king of the Classics.
Cancellara has tasted success at Milan-San Remo, Paris-Roubaix (three wins), Tour of Flanders (three wins) and Strade Bianche (three wins).
In addition he was also world time trial champion on four occasions (2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010) and an Olympic time trial champion twice.
And of all the glories this gladiator garnered throughout a glittering career, it is gold in Rio which shines brighter than everything else.
"It's not a tricky one. Sometimes it's hard because I achieved a lot but I think it's the Rio Olympics that is at the top because I ended my career at the Olympics, on the high," IWC Schaffhausen ambassador Cancellara told Sport360 at the Laureus World Sports Awards in Monaco last month.
"And that was my dream, to finish the sport on a high. There's no better place when it comes to that day. It's almost two years ago and it's still the most amazing win. It's one day that closes 16 years."
The 2018 UCI WorldTour season is five races old with the European season having got underway with Omloop Het Nieuwsblad at the end of February and Strade Bianche – one of Cancellara's triumphs – recently completed, while the prestigious Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico (Cancellara was a winner here in 2008) are ongoing.
The opening Grand Tour (one of cycling's big three) race of the season is two months away, with the Giro d'Italia beginning on May 5. It is the only one – the other two are the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana – where Cancellara did not taste victory.
But the battle for the Maglia Rosa is the toughest of all events, according to the 36-year-old Swiss.
"The Tour (Tour de France) is the top but it's because of the pressure. But road wise and in terms of parcours (stage route) it is the Giro d'Italia that is the toughest event," added Cancellara after leading the Laureus Sport For Good Ride with IWC Schaffhausen along the French-Italian Riviera.
"It (Tour de France) is the toughest because of the stress, it's so big and so much people, expectation, media, pressure."
Asked to look ahead to this year's Tour – where he wore the famous yellow jersey after winning stages in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 – Cancellara believes reigning champion Chris Froome will be among the favourites, depending on the outcome of the investigation over his doping case.
If he's allowed to defend his title, Cancellara believes Froome will challenge, as well as Bahrain-Merida rider Vincenzo Nibali and Team Sunweb's reigning Giro champion Tom Dumoulin.
"Honestly I haven't really looked at the parcours because I don't have so much time these days," added Cancellera when asked who he would pick to win.
"And at the Tour there was always different kind of riders. As soon as it comes I was always looking for it but whenever you come to the Grand Tour riders, the GC always looks the same.
"There's always the same names standing out. Nibali, Dumoulin. Then there's the unclear situation with Froome. It's kind of early."
A urine test in the wake of last year's Vuelta showed double the permitted level of the asthma medication Salbutamol in Froome's system, although the 32-year-old Briton and Team Sky insist he did not break any anti-doping rules.
Tour de France race director Christian Prudhomme said this week he does not want Froome at this year's race while his doping case is unresolved, labelling the case's delay "grotesque".
And even though Froome and Sky are currently in the spotlight under the added heat of a parliamentary select committee report released this week which concluded 2012 Tour winner Sir Bradley Wiggins had taken performance-enhancing drugs under the guise of legitimately treating a medical condition, Cancellara feels cycling authorities are making progress with drug cheats.
"Cycling has made progress for the goodness of the sport," said the former Leopard Trek rider.
"It happens a lot but also cycling is working a lot. If you work a lot against it you will see results. If you do nothing you see nothing. It's like speed cameras. If you didn't have any you wouldn't know anyone is speeding.
"But you will always find people cheat or cannot stand to lose. It is difficult sometimes to know what are the rules because the substances are always changing.
"The substance with Froome now is really a strange one. Most important is that they solve it immediately because there is no time, they need to cut it as early as possible to say whether he can ride or not."
As Cancellara finished his career on top with time trial gold in Brazil, it is for that reason, not to mention his other numerous successes, why he probably doesn't miss it.
"No, I don't miss it. I'm fine, I'm happy. I'm busy and I like to be busy," added the man who started his professional career with Mapei-Quick-Step in 2001.
Among the things keeping Cancellara busy are various initiatives in the UAE. One is 'Chasing Cancellara', a unique event taking place at Yas Marina Circuit as part of TrainYAS on Tuesday, March 20.
Teams of two will complete two laps of the Formula One track in the fastest time possible with the aim of beating the time set by the four-time world champion. The fastest three teams, plus category winners in qualification, will then advance to the final.
Another link the decorated Cancellara enjoys with the Emirates is the TriStar Triathlons series he has set up and which takes place in Fujairah on March 23.
Although essentially a triathlon, it is more bike-centric with an emphasis on a longer, more challenging bike ride with shorter swim and running legs.
exited for the @chasecancellara session 2018!! who will attend one of the events? #chasingcancellara #spartacus pic.twitter.com/kCAvz2QIj9— Fabian cancellara (@f_cancellara) 6 March 2018
"I'm involved with these two sports events, at Yas Marina Circuit and in Fujairah, we're focusing a lot on the Middle East," said the Wohlen bei Bern native.
"I want to bring new platforms, new movements, with all kinds of people, not just cyclists, for health and fitness. TriStar Triathlon is maybe a platform for the future when you want to do an Ironman or a triathlon.
"Fujairah has the facilities but roads too, and uphills, which somewhere like Dubai doesn't have. In Fujairah we have a lot of international people there riding bikes and doing triathlons.
"A 300m swim, 30km bike, 3km run, pre-Ironman or half Ironman. I like this. I want people to think they did something great.
"There is a request for more sports events for the masses and not only the professional level. I don't want people to be afraid of doing these sorts of things."
Another Swiss sportsman who has cleaned up in his chosen profession is Roger Federer. The 20-time Grand Slam champion is five months younger than compatriot Cancellara but is still going strong at the very top of tennis – having won Wimbledon last year and both the 2017 and 2018 Australian Open.
These titles have seen Federer rise back to the number one ranking – becoming the oldest male player to do so. And for all he's achieved in the sport, Cancellara was full of praise for his fellow countryman.
"He's humble perfection," Cancellara said.
"It's crazy the success at his age but he's so normal. He's just a role model in all directions. For what he's achieved, he's still playing like a kid, like it's his first day.
"I don't know how many years he has left. Maybe he stops in his home garden, Wimbledon (where eight of his major titles have been won). It will not make sense for him to play five or 10 more years. But he can still go for two years. He could still win other grand slams for sure."
IWC Schaffhausen presented the Pilot's Watch Mark XVIII Edition "Laureus Sport for Good Foundation" at the occasion of the 2018 Laureus World Sport Awards in Monaco. The timepiece with a case made of black ceramic, a blue dial and a special engraving on the case back is the 12th special edition launched by IWC as part of its commitment to support Laureus Sport for Good.
Sir Bradley Wiggins has vehemently denied cheating during his career and claimed he is the victim of a "malicious" attempt to "smear" his reputation.
Wiggins, Team Sky and Sir Dave Brailsford have been accused of "crossing an ethical line" by asking for therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) for banned medication they did not really need in a report by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee.
Wiggins insisted in an interview with the BBC he only used prescribed drugs for valid medical reasons and when asked if he categorically denied cheating, said: "A hundred per cent. Never, throughout my career."
Wiggins added: "This is malicious. This is someone trying to smear me. These allegations, it's the worst thing to be accused of.
"It's also the hardest thing to prove you haven't done. We're not dealing in a legal system. I'd have had more rights if I'd murdered someone."
The DCMS select committee report centred around the team's use of triamcinolone to treat Wiggins' asthma.
Triamcinolone is an anti-inflammatory steroid that can be used for medical purposes but can also help cyclists shed weight without losing power.
The DCMS report says the team crossed the ethical line by using the medication, and this was denied by Wiggins.
"No we didn't," the 37-year-old said. "Not at any time during my career did we cross the ethical line."
Wiggins insisted he had only used triamcinolone on one occasion other than the three TUEs, which had already been made public, but the DCMS report says he may have taken it nine times in four years.
"I don't know where that's come from," Wiggins said. "I really would like to know. This is an anonymous source, this is an anonymous person who has said this.
"I refute that 100 per cent. This is malicious. This is someone trying to smear me."
Wiggins said he had adhered to the rules in place at the time and had been granted permission by cycling's governing body to take the drug.
When asked if he would have won the Tour de France without it in 2012, he replied: "Well, had I had an asthma attack, no, probably not. No."
Team Sky's owners are understood to be backing Brailsford.
Sky UK declined to comment on the committee's assessment of its cycling team, but acknowledged mistakes had been made in its medical record-keeping and oversight but "strongly refuted" the report's key allegations.
The report, however, was scathing in its assessment of Brailsford's evidence to the committee in December 2016.
When asked if Brailsford was still the right man to lead the team, Wiggins said it could be time for him to step down.
"It will be a shame if he had to go when a lot of this is just, it's a report based on rumour and anonymous sources, and they've already admitted fault for those years in terms of record keeping and stuff," Wiggins said.
"I think once things are substantiated and if proven, then maybe he should go, but until that is we can't just take this report as, that's it, set in concrete."
Wiggins said he would now try to salvage his damaged legacy.
"I don't know how I'm going to pick the pieces up with the kids and stuff, and I'm left to do that as well as trying to salvage my reputation from this," he added. "I wouldn't wish it on anyone."
The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee's report, published on Monday, accused the 2012 Tour de France winner and other Team Sky riders of using the drug triamcinolone not for the stated purpose of treating asthma but because it helped them lose weight without compromising power.
It was revealed in 2015 by Russian computer hackers that Wiggins had applied for therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) to have injections of the powerful corticosteroid before three of his biggest races, including the 2012 Tour.
That triggered a chain of events which took in a UK Anti-Doping investigation into a claim he was injected with triamcinolone at his last warm-up race before the 2011 Tour without permission – something he and Team Sky have always denied.
It was said instead he was given a legal decongestant via a nebulizer – a claim UKAD has been able to neither prove nor disprove because of a lack of medical records.
Based on new evidence from an unnamed source, as well as written testimony from Wiggins' doctor Richard Freeman and his former coach Shane Sutton, the committee said it did not buy the legal decongestant story and believed the team broke its frequently-cited commitment to only use medication for medical purposes.
In a devastating comment, Sutton told the committee that "what Brad was doing was unethical but not against the rules".
But in a statement, Wiggins said: "I find it so sad that accusations can be made, where people can be accused of things they have never done which are then regarded as facts.
"I strongly refute the claim that any drug was used without medical need. I hope to have my say in the next few days and put to my side across."
"Strongly refute" is a phrase used twice by Team Sky in their response to the report, first in relation to the claim they used medication to enhance performance, and second in reply to the allegation a group of riders used triamcinolone to prepare for the 2012 Tour.
I find it so sad that accusations can be made, where people can be accused of things they have never done which are then regarded as facts. I strongly refute the claim that any drug was used without medical need. I hope to have my say in the next few days & put my side across.
— Brad Wiggins (@SirWiggo) March 5, 2018
These responses are in contrast to the reaction from British Cycling. The governing body's chief executive Julie Harrington described the report as "important, thorough and timely" and welcomed its publication.
She listed the numerous changes British Cycling has already made to its medical policies, as well as making sure there are "clear boundaries" between the governing and the team its former performance director Sir Dave Brailsford set up in 2010.
She also confirmed it has asked the General Medical Council (GMC) to investigate the doctor at the centre of the triamcinolone affair, its former Great Britain cycling team doctor Dr Richard Freeman.
But British Cycling was not the only governing body to be censured by the committee, as UK Athletics was also rapped on the knuckles for its record-keeping.
This was related to an infusion of the nutrient L-carnitine Sir Mo Farah received before his London Marathon debut in 2014. While its use is controversial, it is not banned, providing no more than 50 millilitres are infused in a six-hour period.
The treatment was administered by UKA's then medical chief Dr Rob Chakraverty, who is now the England football team's lead doctor, and he told the committee he gave the four-time Olympic champion a legal dose but had not recorded it.
The report said the committee was "shocked" to hear this, particularly as Dr Chakraverty claimed it was the first time he had administered L-carnitine.
It suggested the GMC investigate this failure to properly record the treatment.
In a statement, UKA "acknowledged" the report's publication and said it was "pleased" the committee had noted the progress it had made in record-keeping.
When asked about the criticism of its new doctor, the FA declined to comment.
Prime Minister Theresa May's official spokesman said regarding the report: "Broadly, we are clear that there is no place for doping in sport . The public should have trust in their sportspeople and have confidence that they are watching them compete on a level playing field.
"On the specifics of the report, it was an independent inquiry by the DCMS Select Committee and the Government will respond to it in the usual way.
"It's obviously worth noting that Team Sky has refuted the allegations."
Asked whether there was a case for considering whether Wiggins should keep his knighthood, the spokesman said: "That's not something we ever comment on."


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Saturday, December 3, 2016
Europa's Plumes: What's Their Significance?
Image of Europa from the Hubble Telescope. Note the plumes clearly visible.
The wispy, towering (200 km high) plumes of water vapor, rising above the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, are readily visible in the lower and left periphery of the image. For some time there's been a question of whether these really exist, or are more a mirage like the once popular Martian canals. Now, new images from the Hubble Space Telescope at least strengthens prior evidence for existence, ongoing since the Galileo mission discovered the moon's subsurface ocean in 1996.
One excited researcher is Louise Prockter, director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. Quoted in EOS Earth & Space Center News (15 November, p. 11):
"It's potentially great if the images do sow plumes from Europa ...because that means Europa's subsurface is coming at us. We could sample the material without digging through ice."
In fact, as the most recent issue of ASTRONOMY notes (Janaury, 2017, p. 11):
"If Europa has geysers, it opens new possibilities to test if the moon has the right conditions for life. As with Enceladus, space agencies may be able to fly a spacecraft through the plumes and test test the chemical signatures without having to drill into the surface. Additionally, such an encounter could identity areas where the ice shell is weaker and thinner."
In the case of the latest Hubble study, it was led by William Sparks, a researcher at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore who used a novel method to independently corroborate the plumes which is statistically significant. The plumes, or "geysers", were originally discovered by Lorenz Roth et al in 2012 on surveying a silhouette of Europa against the background of space for spectral lines of hydrogen and oxygen (indirect indicators of water). To read some more on this work, go to:
By contrast, Sparks and co-workers made their observations as Europa passed in front of Jupiter. More of their work, which appeared in the Sept. 29 issue of The Astrophysical Journal, e.g.
can also be found here:
Interestingly, exoplanet researchers have commonly used this same technique - called transit photometry- to find their object against the background of the star it orbits. I had actually looked at the basic method in a previous post, e.g.
Once again, the basic principle is simple: when an object moves in front of a light source it blocks out part of that light. The amount of occlusion and the time duration gives an indication of the size of the exoplanet. Sparks and his team actually went beyond this template, in that Jupiter's glow provided a sufficiently smooth background against which potential plumes could be viewed.
The actual images were made in 2014 during Europa's transit of Jupiter, but processing them to achieve adequate resolution took many months. By using a method distinct from the one (by Roth et al) for the original plume discovery, the Sparks team supplied credibility to the hypothesis that the plumes exist. Still, Sparks urged caution, advising the result "was not one hundred percent verifiable" given that Hubble had operated at its technological limits in making the images.
One optimistic note is provided by recent history in respect of the Saturnian moon Enceladus, which had its own plumes confirmed a decade ago. This suggests similar confirmation may follow with Europa's plumes, but require actual spacecraft observations, since they seem to occur only under certain conditions.
Alas, we won't really know until years after 2022 when the European Space Agency (ESA) launches its Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission. NASA is also building a Europa-focused mission (Europa Multiple Flyby Mission) scheduled to launch between 2020 and 2024. That is, unless Trump and the Republicans cut the NASA budget.
Posted by Copernicus at 7:54 AM
Labels: Enceladus, Europa, Europa plumes, Hubble Space Telescope, Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission, Lorenz Roth, Louise Prockter, William Sparks
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|Notoraja sereti
White, Last & Mana, 2017
A new arhynchobatin skate, Notoraja sereti n. sp., is described based on three specimens collected from off Madang (Papua New Guinea) at depths of 800–980 m. This medium-size Notoraja skate shares with other velcro skates from the Western Pacific, N. alisae, N. fijiensis, N. inusitata and N. longiventralis, a ventral surface covering of fine denticles giving the skin a velvety feel. Notoraja sereti differs from all of these species in having a shorter snout (preorbital length 10.1–11.1 vs. 11.5–14.5% TL, prenasal length 8.2–8.9 vs, 9.8–12.1% TL), shorter head (dorsal head length 15.2–16.2 vs. 17.1–19.3% TL, ventral head length 21.6–22.9 vs. 22.9–25.9% TL), fewer pectoral-fin radials (total radials 58–60 vs. 61–74), and fewer vertebrae (predorsal diplospondylous centra 66–71 vs. 72–82, predorsal centra 90–95 vs. 98–107, total centra 126–131 vs. 135–152).
Keywords: Pisces, Notoraja, new species, velcro skate, Papua New Guinea
|FIGURE 1: Dorsal view of the holotype of Notoraja sereti n. sp. (NTUM 10067, female 459 mm TL) immediately post-capture.
Etymology. Named after the highly respected French ichthyologist, Dr. Bernard Séret, who has contributed greatly to the taxonomy of sharks and rays, and in particular to our knowledge of skates of the genus Notoraja. English name: Papuan Velvet Skate.
White, William T., Peter R. Last & Ralph R. Mana. 2017. A New Species of Velvet Skate, Notoraja sereti n.sp. (Rajiformes: Arhynchobatidae) from Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa. 4244(2); 219–230. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.2.4


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CHEF never was the same after the Trolls escaped Bergen Town. She had it all: a sterling reputation, throngs of admirers, and a coveted spot in the Royal Kitchen. But everything she had built crumbled in an instant the day the Trolls fled in tunnels under the Troll Tree. Chef was utterly humiliated. Now, after 20 years spent wandering the forest in exile, Chef hears something in the distance… A celebration!
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Grand Teton
The logical base for exploring the Tetons is the town of Jackson, Wyoming. Not to be confused with Jackson Hole (which is the valley that Jackson sits in). Jackson is perhaps a tad on the touristy side as it tries to play up the 'American West' theme as much as possible. Just north of the town is the beginning of Grand Teton National Park. To the east is the National Elk Refuge and Bridger-Teton National Forest surrounds the rest. Speaking of elk, these arches which stand at all four corners of Jackson's town square are made entirely of elk antlers (retrieved by natual means - no hunting).
You don't have drive very far north of town before you come over a small hill and are faced with the classic postcard view of the Teton range
The Tetons are technically less visited than Yellowstone National Park just to the north but the geography of Grand Teton Park is such that it is basically one large mountain range with a road running along the east side of it in the valley. The linear aspect of it made it seem more crowded to us. There is an obvious concentration of visitors along the road and the farther from the road (in either direction) one goes, the fewer people one sees. Our trip to the Tetons became a study in less traveled routes which we think we did rather well at. For the record, the Tetons can be accessed from the west side (Idaho) via several multi-day hikes from Targhee National Forest.
The most popular short hikes are in the area around Jenny Lake and the Jackson Lake Lodge. From the south Jenny Lake parking area, a boat crosses the lake and lets visitors off at the base of Cascade Canyon trail which leads up to Hidden Falls and Inspiration Point (National Park rule #1: There must be an Inspiration Point). One can also hike around the lake. In fact the north route around the lake is relatively unused. Most day-hikers take the boat across and hike back along the south shore. If you're doing this (we did it in reverse), we strongly recommend obtaining a map of equestrian trails first. There is an equestrian trail that parallels the Jenny Lake trail on a ridge a bit above it. While the lakefront trail was packed with people, we saw no one else on the equestrian trail the entire time. (If you don't get the map, just follow the signs to the horse corrals and follow the obvious trails from there).
Up on the equestrian trail we came across a colony of marmots living in and around this rock. Marmots aren't necessarily the most exciting of wildlife, especially for folks from the western US and Canada, but we spent a little while watching them, and vice versa.
There's no avoiding the crowds at Hidden Falls or on the Inspiration Point trail. Hidden Falls is aptly named as it comes down a chute in the canyon walls at a 90 degree angle to the main canyon. This would be an extremely scenic spot if it were not so full of people. From here we took the boat back across the lake. The ride is short and fairly scenic although no more so than any spot around the edge of the lake.
This picture was an accident that turned out rather well. Coming south towards Jackson on route 26, the Triangle X ranch covers both sides of the road. We arrived right as they were driving their horses across the road to a corral on the other side. With the Tetons in the background it made for a nice picture.
Near Lake Jackson is Signal Mountain which has a road up to the top and a supposedly fine view. We're morally opposed to hiking up mountains that have a road up them already so we took an alternate hike to Grandview Point. This is in the Two Ocean Lake area on the west side of the park. Heading north from the Lake Jackson Lodge turnoff, there is a dirt road that runs off to the right. This leads off to a small parking area and a trailhead. A little ways up the trail is a sign, left leads to Grandview Point. Besides the occassional hiker, Grandview Point is popular with a wide variety of annoying insects that were unfazed by our bugspray. Besides this view of a storm coming over the northern Tetons, we took the nearly 360-degree panorama at the bottom of this page. The left side of the panorama shows Two Ocean Lake and the Gros Ventre rockslide in the distance, the right side has Jackson Lake and the Tetons.
Another great view of the Tetons can be had from Shadow Mountain which is directly across the valley from the highest peaks. This is accessible by a torturous forest road that took us a while to find. It's on some maps of the park, but there are about two dozen more roads up there that are not marked. Our belief that they wouldn't put roads there if you weren't supposed to drive on them is extra-firm when we have a rental car. So after a whole slew of deer and two suicidal mountain bikers, we finally popped out on top the mountain which has this vantage point. There are also some great campsites on the way down to the south. Incidentally, geological forces are causing Jackson Hole to widen at the rate of 1 ft (0.3m) per 100 years so be sure and check out this view while you can. Binoculars will be necessary in a couple hundred thousand years or so.
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