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Title: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Vol. 2
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Illustrators: Hendry Prasetya & Thony Silas
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My REVIEW of VOLUME ONE
Synopsis: The Power Rangers face their most powerful threat yet.
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Review: I am LOVING these BOOMI! comics! These comics hit all my nostalgia buttons, plus they add more depth to the very shallow original material. At the beginning of this volume, Rita makes a proposition to Zack, deepening his character. Goldar's captivity also adds to his character. This series just keeps adding awesomeness to the show of my childhood.
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Amazon peoples fight oil companies
By Zoe Kenny
While the UN was busy promoting its latest carbon trading scams and encouraging people to attend "celebrations" for World Environment Day, the people in the town of Bagua in northern Peru were fighting a life-and-death struggle to save their environment from corporate plunder — a struggle that achieved a partial victory.
At issue was the right of the indigenous people of the area to control access to their ancestral lands and what those granted access are allowed to do there. In 2008, as a part of a package of nine laws adopted to implement the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement, the Peruvian parliament passed Legislative Decree 1090, the Forestry and Wildlife Law, and Decree 1064, to permit changes in agrarian land use without full prior consent — laws designed to disempower indigenous people and allow full-scale resource extraction without fear of future legal action.
In the last few years more than 70% of the Peru's Amazon region has been parcelled out to oil and gas companies for exploration. In May 2007 the US-owned Occidental oil company was accused by a coalition of environmental groups of violating Peruvian and international law by dumping an estimated 9 billion barrels of toxic waste in an area of the Peruvian Amazon where it has drilled for oil for the past 32 years. Similar pollution in neighbouring Ecuador has had a devastating effect on the rainforest, and led to chronic pollution and ill-health amongst the Amerindians who live there.
However instead of acquiescing, the people of Bagua decided to fight — perhaps inspired by the general upsurge in popular struggles throughout Latin America — starting a campaign of weeks of roadblocks and sit-ins. The principal organising body for the protests was the national inter-ethnic association of Amazonian indigenous groups (AIDESEP) — a group with 300,000 members. The protests were halted only by a bloody crackdown by Peruvian police on June 5.
Police assault
A photo essay published by Survival International — Death at Devil's Bend: an eyewitness account — shows the police moving in and breaking up a peaceful protest, using tear gas and live ammunition on unarmed protesters. Only after the police began their assault did some protesters return fire at the police. The two journalists who published the eyewitness report stated: "We saw people being shot before our eyes, and we were ourselves shot at. Whilst it is clear that policemen were sometimes targets, the overwhelming majority of the victims we saw were indigenous people, and other protesters who came out to support them."
As well as large numbers of police on foot, the protests were also circled by police in helicopters, shooting at people below. While the government continues to claim that 24 police officers and only nine protesters died, Amnesty International reported that 22 police and 30 demonstrators were killed. The communities in the area also say that there are at least 60 indigenous people still unaccounted for. Some witnesses say they saw police dumping bodies into a nearby river.
The crackdown, which prompted widespread condemnation and plummeting voter approval of the stridently pro-US government headed by President Alan Garcia, forced the government's hand. On June 23 the Peruvian Congress voted 82-12 to repeal Decrees 1090 and 1064. After the vote, Daysi Zapata, AIDESEP president, declared: "Today is a historic day. We are grateful that the will of the indigenous peoples has been heard and we only hope that in the future governments listen and attend to indigenous peoples, and not legislate behind their backs."
The revolutionary socialist government of Venezuela released a statement via indigenous affairs minister Nicia Maldonado, who called the crackdown "a terrorist act against those who wish to express themselves in the Amazon jungle" and called the Peruvian government a "neoliberal and fascist government". US President Barack Obama remained mute despite pressure to take a stand against the repression. The indigenous resistance in Peru is bad news for the US, which is increasingly losing influence in the region.
Indigenous peoples threatened
The Amazon has long been a site of struggles between corporations and governments on one side and indigenous people on the other. The Amazon rainforest covers 560 million hectares and is the largest in the world. It is also the most biodiverse rainforest, with one in 10 known species living in it. The Amazon is also one of the most culturally diverse regions of the planet, being home to at least 200 different indigenous tribes. Even today there are still tribes which have not made contact with the outside world.
For thousands of years indigenous tribes were able to subsist sustainably on the land, using practices such as shifting cultivation that allowed the rainforest to regenerate. Indigenous peoples' livelihoods, cultures and spirituality are intimately tied up with their relationship to the land. In contrast, governments and corporations see the Amazon as a great economic prize, to be exploited regardless of the damage done to the invaluable natural and cultural heritage of the region.
In an article published in Counterpunch on June 22, Laura Carlsen quoted Peruvian President Alan Garcia as writing in a Peruvian newspaper: "There are millions of hectares of timber lying idle, another millions of hectares that communities and associations have not and will not cultivate, hundreds of mineral deposits that are not dug up and millions of hectares of ocean not used for aquaculture. The rivers that run down both sides of the mountains represent a fortune that reaches the sea without producing electricity."
These conflicting perspectives have set up a collision course between indigenous people and transnational corporations and national governments that are more interested in exploiting the land than protecting the rights of their people.
Chevron in court
At the same time that the Peruvian indigenous people are struggling to protect their land before the devastation begins, indigenous people in Ecuador are involved in a drawn-out struggle to achieve justice as a result of the actions of one of the largest oil companies in the world — Chevron (which operates outside the US as Caltex). According to the website chevrontoxico.com, over a period of nearly 30 years of oil extraction, which earned it more than US$30 billion in profits, Chevron caused such immense environmental and human health problems that the area has been dubbed the "Amazon Chernobyl". Today Chevron is facing a $27 billion class action suit taken out against it by 30,000 Ecuadorians.
In 1964 Texaco, which merged with Chevron in 2001, discovered oil in northern Ecuador, in an area inhabited by seven indigenous groups. The company used the Vacant Lands Act, which was passed in the 1960s and allowed anyone who found "vacant" or "unoccupied" land and put it into productive use to receive title. This process of corporate colonisation was exacerbated by the company's ambitious road-construction program, which resulted in 1930 kilometres of roads being built by the time it left in 1992.
The dispossession of the indigenous inhabitants has had disastrous consequences. Of the original seven groups, two — the Tetetes and the Sansahuari — have disappeared completely. The others have undergone a process of "cultural genocide", their traditional lifestyles and practices having virtually disappeared. Displacing traditional culture are a range of typical problems associated with resource boom towns the world over — alcohol abuse, unemployment, violence and family breakdown.
From the beginning of its operations in Ecuador, Texaco was determined to cut costs and maximise profits at the expense of the environment and human health by utilising outmoded machinery and methods. One of the major sources of contamination from its operations was its treatment of "produced water", which is extracted along with the crude oil and contains toxic heavy metals and a high level of salt. While the industry standard in the US from as early as the 1970s was to re-inject these waste waters, Texaco simply dumped at least 68 billion litres of the toxic water into nearby rivers and streams.
While the corporation was enjoying the super-profits extracted by its negligent methods, the people in the area had no choice but to go on using the rivers and streams as they always had — for bathing, cooking, washing and drinking — thereby being exposed to dangerous levels of toxins.
Adding to the pollution was Texaco's policy of dumping other, more viscous, by-products into hundreds of unlined earth pits, despite supposedly being required to line the pits with an impermeable layer. As a result, toxic waste has been leaching into the surrounding soil, overflowing into rivers during big rains and presenting a hazard for the people and animals that live around them.
An internal memo from a Texaco manager in 1980 clearly shows the profit rationale: "[T]he current [unlined] pits are necessary for efficient and economical operations of our drilling ... operations. The total cost of eliminating the old pits and lining new pits would be $4,197,958 ... It is recommended that the pits neither be lined or filled". While Texaco later claimed that it remediated 37.5% of the pits in the mid-90s, these efforts were perfunctory at best, with locals reporting that the "remediated" pits had been fixed by having a layer of soil spread over the top. Texaco also engaged in gas flaring, which releases toxic chemicals into the air.
As a result of these practices, communities in the area have suffered from a range of health problems, including elevated cancer rates; it is estimated that there have been at least 1401 excess cancer deaths in the area. One woman described her situation: "We lived in a house about 20 yards from an oil well. Another Texaco oil well was upstream from where we got our drinking water, and the water was usually oily with a yellowish foam. I had 11 children. I lost Pedro when he was 19 ... He had three cancerous tumours: in his lungs, liver and his leg."
Despite the difficulties of everyday life, the people affected by Texaco's actions decided to fight for justice. In 1993, the Amazon Defence Coalition, composed primarily of indigenous and peasant farmers, was formed, and the first lawsuit against Texaco was filed in Lago Agrio, the town the company had established as a base for its operations in Ecuador. However it was only 15 years later, in 2008, that the court ruled that Chevron was liable for damages of between US$7-16.3 billion — this was subsequently increased to $27 billion as a result of further investigation into the health crisis.
Chevron had initially lobbied for the case to be heard in Ecuador, against the wishes of the plaintiffs, no doubt believing that a court in a poor Third World country wouldn't dare rule against a major First World corporation. However, as the trial is not going its way, it is now seeking to discredit the case.
The trial, which is due to conclude this year, is historic because it is the first time that a US company has faced trial in a foreign court based on its environmental record. A victory in Ecuador would be a major setback for the corporate agenda and could set an example for exploited and oppressed people throughout the Third World who are fighting for their rights.


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I recently watched (or perhaps re-watched, my memory fails me in my early senescence) a very excellent multi-language movie called Children of a Lesser God. I enjoyed the movie despite its rich undertones of male chauvinism and female objectification because it was an excellent opportunity to learn some words and phrases in another language: ASL.
The movie presents the watcher with a wonderful opportunity to get a sense, albeit to a very limited degree, of what sign languages are. The fact that the male protagonist (William Hurt) often translates the female protagonist's (Marlee Matlin) signs into 1980's English allows the viewer, who ostensibly understands what is going on, to make connections between certain sign-words and certain ideas, words in English. In fact, in some parts, the director even allows the watcher to learn some words/phrases in context without asking the make protagonist to translate. In this way we learn the word "fuck" or "have sex" as well as several other curse words. I suspect that this artistic/dialogue trick also helped the writers and directors get some filthy language past the censors. We do also learn how to say words like "easy," "if," "you," and "speak."
One aspect of this bilingual movie that is worth noting, however, is that because one language being spoken English, is communicated using mostly the air, while the other ASL, is communicated using only photons, the viewer receives linguistic input in both languages simultaneously. Usually, such multi-language contexts demand serial translation, given that we can only pay attention to one audio stream at a time (most humans, maybe there are exceptions). While the information structure of ASL is different from that of American English, certainly many things coincide (as is common among languages) and so one can indeed begin to make language-to-language, word-to-word associations more readily. I found it, in truth, easier than reading subtitles in one language while listening to another. This may be due to the fact that writing is a proxy for human language whereas "watching" ASL is indeed listening to ASL.
I was also fascinated by the fact that I had such a hard time copying the sign-words and resorted to pausing and replaying the movie (thank you 2010s computer technology) to learn the pronunciation of signs. Humans convey much information and emotion in the way they move their muscles –many of us can convey incredulousness or condescension by subtly changing when and how we tighten our vocal chords (with muscles) while in ASL the same is done with muscles (of the face, arms, hands, fingers, body, etc.).
In fact, this last idea is expressed literally in one scene where the female lead tries to explain to her troglodyte counterpart that there is world of subtlety that he misses and that they will never be "one" until he has some notion about such subtlety. Thankfully, the character dismisses this sentimental female BS and berates her with his superior male intellect, thus continuing nearly a century of Hollywood tradition.
Andro-centric writing aside, this bilingual film gives the viewer the chance to learn many things:
- Bilingual films are really fun!
- Non-natives are often "deaf" to the subtlety and nuance of foreign languages.
- Language learning is a life-long activity.
- Foreign-language teachers rarely are members of the language community (of the language they teach).
- Language speaking is a social behavior that entails empathy and mind-reading.
This film is also important because it does give exposure to a community of people, born and raised in America, many of whom do not speak English as a first language, about which the US government has no census data! These are lawyers, scientists, translators, professors, janitors, factory workers, etc. who simply exist out of the public consciousness.
I fervently believe that this is a film worth watching. I recommend that you watch it on mute with English subtitles (or the subtitles of your choice). As Roger Ebert points out in his review of the film, the use of music in the movie is superfluous if not downright un-artistic.
Also, if you care about gender issues, and love being disgusted, this is a great film to watch!
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Roger Ebert's original review:
- https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/children-of-a-lesser-god-1986
Film recommendation about another sign-language/spoken language bilingual film (German):
- "Beyond the Silence" https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenseits_der_Stille
More movies about (or featuring brief mentions of) deafness, ASL here


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The other night I watched When You're Strange -- the documentary about The Doors written and directed by Tom DiCillo. DiCillo wrote and directed one of my favorite films: Living in Oblivion, which I highly recommend. I used to be a big fan of The Doors. Still am but just don't listen to them that often. So, I was really looking forward to this documentary. It also got good reviews. But, folks, I was disappointed in this one. If you want a walk down memory lane -- and only that -- you'll be happy. I wanted more. Joan Rivers said in today's Parade magazine: "I hate documentaries that tell you nothing about the person." I go further: "I hate documentaries that tell you nothing new about the person." And that's this movie.
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Setting His Sights on Cinema: A Movielover's Lament
TJ Edwards thinks he knows why some people are rude at movie theaters, and it has nothing to do with some people just being rude. It has to do with the act of moviegoing itself, a once-magical experience that has become increasingly tarnished, devalued by the very people who should be celebrating it: the exhibitors.
These are the Regals and the AMCs, the people who own the movie theaters. Once, TJ said, they were showmen. Now they are businessmen. The result: charmless auditoriums, clueless ushers, rude audiences, an inferior moviegoing experience
TJ lives in Los Angeles where, two years ago, he started a Web site called Cinema Sightlines. He's a hardcore movie buff. Some of his earliest memories are of "roadshow" pictures. These were event movies: "Thoroughly Modern Millie," "Ben Hur." You bought your tickets ahead of time. You dressed up. There was an overture and an intermission. You lost yourself in a world of make-believe.
That's hard to do today. A former usher and projectionist ,TJ is familiar with the presentation of a movie. Take something as basic as the screen, for example. It used to be you never saw a huge white rectangle in front of you when you went to the movies. A blank screen was declasse, like seeing someone's underwear or a square of toilet paper stuck to a shoe. No, the screen was covered by a curtain, sometimes two or three curtains. The movie was projected onto the curtain, which then opened to reveal not a white screen, but a screen full of color and action: the world of the movie.
TJ sees a direct line from the degradation of the product offered by exhibitors to the behavior of the audience. We take the outside world with us into the movies. It's an increasingly uncivil outside world. Said TJ: "I really don't see the exhibitors--and this is going to make them hate me--giving too much thought to making the experience special."
He has a section on his Web site called Cinema Etiquette where he lays out the rules. His thoughts on texting are crystal clear:
Cellphone texting has become the modern equivalent of passing notes in a classroom, and doing it in a theatre is a juvenile as shooting spitballs. The lighted screens on cellphones stand out in a dark theatre like beacons in the night, so put the phone away and resist the urge to check for messages every ten minutes. If you're so damn important that you can't be incommunicado for a couple of hours, what the hell are you doing at a movie anyway?
TJ thinks exhibitors should make more of an effort on the look and feel of their theaters. They also should empower their ushers: "When I was a teenager and was an usher, my job was to watch the audience, not the movie. The idea is to look for trouble and head it off before it starts."
But what about the economics? Perhaps exhibitors just can't afford fancy theaters, a full complement of ushers, a policy that kicks out unruly (but ticket- and concession-buying) patrons. TJ has no sympathy for that argument. If going to the movies is no better--is often worse--than staying home with Netflix, theaters will lose money, he says. Can't afford to hire more ushers? "They could equip two patrons, in exchange for a discount or free return pass, with beepers to notify a manager that something is wrong," he said.
TJ actually doesn't go out to see movies much anymore, which must be painful for someone who fell in love with the movie palaces of upstate New York when he was a boy and has worked in various aspects of them most of his life. Movies are just too expensive these days.
He was a projectionist when "Jaws" came out and he described how he tried to make that movie special for audiences. Before the movie started, he closed the dowser, a baffle on the projector that controls light. Then he turned off the house lights, so the audience was sitting in the dark with just the footlights on, the lights that illuminated the curtain. He started the projector then cut the footlights just as John Williams's first iconic "da-dum" came over the speakers. Only then, as the theater was completely dark, did he open the curtains, bringing up the light from the projector as the stars' names appeared on screen.
Said TJ: "I understood showmanship and today no one does.... A lot of people think 'It's modern life, get used to it.' Like you, I disagree."
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T.J. remembers a world that has passed away. We are now in a world made by MBAs and techno-geeks. They may be smart, they may worship the golden cow, but they never understood what TJ calls showmanship, but what might equally be called magic or art.
Movie screens used to be on stages. They were in theaters or else the movie palace's creator understood its heritage. There were proscenium arches, there was a sense of place. I doubt we will see it back again.
Posted by: mfromalexva | July 9, 2009 10:18 AM | Report abuse
And back in his day, they used to walk uphill to school, both ways.
Posted by: jerryravens | July 9, 2009 1:00 PM | Report abuse
And they were in much better shape.
Posted by: dr_klahn | July 9, 2009 2:54 PM | Report abuse
Hurray for TJ Edwards!!!! He has the ability to do for Cinema Etiquette and the future of the film going experience what Martha Stewart did for gracious living, entertaining, weddings, etc. (without the federal prison stint!)
Posted by: KarlaDeVIto | July 9, 2009 4:54 PM | Report abuse
I would add that it is also the easy accessibililty of cheap
technology itself that endorses rude behavior.
Television, as it has spread through digi-cable to include hundreds of
shows and the (im)personality of
"reality" tv, has also encouraged people to behave in movie theatres
no differently than when they are at home.
Society has descended into rudeness and loudness and has caused a
ripple effect. What was perhaps an initial effort
by film distributors and theatre owners to allow diverse cultures to
feel more relaxed in a public space and to spend
more money has resulted in a complete lack of boundaries. The food
smells are also nauseating: cheese nachos
and fries and pizza slices! Foods that were once for the outdoor
events of NASCAR and baseball games have
made it into the inner arena of movie theatres. I also think that any
kind of class and respect for many forms of
entertainment (live theatre; museums; concerts) is regarded as
old-fashioned and uptight. Only until the experience
of anything artful is whittled down to the level of crassness can it
be considered contemporar and/or American.
Posted by: jonspanonyc | July 9, 2009 4:57 PM | Report abuse
Some clarifications from TJ Edwards:
I have no intention of demonizing movie exhibitors as a whole. There are SOME who make an admirable effort, and do provide a superior moviegoing experience. The Vista theatre in Los Angeles, the Astor theatre in St. Kinda, Australia, and the Empire Leicester Square in London are all places I'd happily leave home for. Many other exhibitors, being a couple generations removed from previously higher standards, aren't necessarily as negligent as they are ignorant about the many details that can upgrade the experience.
As for pictures initially released with Roadshow presentation, (and while MARY POPPINS was an event picture, it wasn't quite a roadshow) I wouldn't characterize Roadshow presentation as being "lost in a world of make-believe" as much as just a classier, higher quality, more THEATRICAL movie experience. But even my hometown movie theatre once had enough showmanship and theatrical ambiance to make the movie experience infinitely more valuable than anything found in a typical bland plex today.
Regarding the thought that Exhibitors can't afford to staff every auditorium with someone to monitor audience behavior and presentation quality: rather than bribe and/or deputize members of the audience to do the theatre's job, I'd recommend they train staff to uphold higher standards of behavior & presentation, then maintain a presence in each auditorium throughout the film. What they make on two average tickets could pay for the extra staff. The value of the upgraded quality and good will it would generate with the public: Priceless.
And, lest I be written off as an oldtimer who thinks today's moviegoing experience can saved by overtures and curtains, even given the reality of today's devolved movie environment, there is still a lot one can do to elevate the movie experience. One small example: it is extremely annoying to sit through 20+ minutes of outright commercials before you even get to the movie trailers, but back in the 80s, American Express had the great idea of sponsoring truly entertaining short films (including two by Pixar) that were tastefully bookended with their name. We then saw AmEx as the company that just gave us a little entertainment, rather than hating them for intruding on our show with just an ad.
My overall feeling is that if you make the moviegoing experience into a special, higher quality, thoughtfully presented and carefully regulated event, the public would have more reason to leave home, and remember they were NOT at home. In a classier environment and experience, people are more likely to behave with some class.
Posted by: CineSight | July 9, 2009 10:33 PM | Report abuse
TJ Edwards is quite right. Movies are a product (and always have been), but no longer is there a differenciation between the special event and the ordinary. Marketing pushes what the market will support.
Some of it is generational (in 30 years, no doubt this will be considered a golden age of moviegoing -- assuming there are any theaters still operating), and some is financial. After all, except for budgets and admission prices, is Harry Potter all that different from Andy Hardy?
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Festivals: M:ST 8 Biennial | October 1 - 26, 2016.
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What bodies move alongside, within, and outside of the designated city boundaries? Who inhabits the spaces along the city limits? How is the border of Calgary inscribed on the land and felt in space?
Focusing on themes surrounding ecology and the relationships between individuals and their physical environments, artist Alana Bartol frequently engages walking as an artistic medium. Through performance, video, drawing, installation, and community-engaged art, her work aims to make visible the invisible forces at play in our everyday environments.
For M:ST8, Bartol has created a walking project to trace the limits of the City of Calgary on foot, covering a distance of over 174 km. In this work, the Google map developed by the City of Calgary becomes a virtual guide. Without sanctioned pathways or access points, the boundaries of the city are often experienced from a distance, from a vehicle, or not at all. While the city limit runs alongside roads and highways, it also demarcates the border along Tsuu T'ina Nation 145, dips and crosses both The Bow and Elbow rivers, runs directly along the Bearspaw Dam, moves across private property, farmlands, and sinks into ponds.
Alana Bartol is an artist and educator from Windsor, ON. She has exhibited extensively across Canada at Media City International Film Festival (Windsor, ON); InterAccess (Toronto, ON); PlugIn Institute for Contemporary Art (Winnipeg, MB); Access Gallery (Vancouver, BC); Karsh-Masson Gallery (Ottawa, ON); and Group Intervention Vidéo (Montréal, QC), as well as in Romania, Mexico and the United States. She currently resides in Calgary and teaches at Alberta College of Art + Design.
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Hit Points (commonly abbreviated as HP, and otherwise known as Health or Health Bar) are a statistic found in most Castlevania games. They are a representation of the player's remaining amount of health and are usually portrayed as a red bar which represents the actual numeric value of Hit Points left on the heads-up-display (HUD).
In most of the classic titles, Hit Points are referred to as "Energy", while in the metroidvania-style titles (games with role playing elements) they are properly referred to as "Hit Points" and the actual numerical values can be viewed by the player, either that be in the PAUSE menu or, in some games, in both: the PAUSE menu and the HUD. They are still called "Energy" in some non-metroidvania titles, such as Adventure Rebirth; however, they are also called "Hit Points" in Judgment, in order to differentiate them from the "Special" meter.
In Castlevania: The Adventure, when the player's health isn't full, it doesn't represent the empty part in outline parameters of the whole health bar, not showing the maximum health. This is due to the sprite graphic limitations of the Game Boy.
Losing Hit PointsEdit
Hit Points may drop in the following situations:
- Every time a player touches an enemy.
- Every time a player is hit by an enemy attack.
- Every time a player comes in contact with other hazards (such as spikes or fire traps).
- Every time a player is inflicted with the Poison status ailment (or its variants).
- Every time a player falls into an "endless" pit (a feature used most prominently in the classic titles).
When the player's Hit Points have been fully depleted, the character will die. In the classic titles the player will lose one life; if no extra lives remain, the game will end (prompting the player to continue the game if there are "continues" remaining). In most recent games, however, only one life is used and if the HP bar is depleted, the game will also end. The game may be then resumed from the latest point it was saved.
In classic titles, falling into a pit or landing on spikes would instantly deplete all the player's Hit Points, regardless of the amount they had. As the games became longer and more complex, the use of spike-covered areas became more prominent, leaving the "endless" pits on second term. Landing on a spike-covered area will usually deal high amounts of damage and knock the player back (probably sending him or her to land on yet more spikes). Spikes will commonly deplete a player's full HP bar in three or four hits.
Restoring Hit PointsEdit
Hit Points are not regained by acquiring Hearts, as many newcomers to the series tend to believe (although hearts do replenish the energy meter in Adventure). They are usually replenished with meat or by consuming other healing items, such as a variety of potions or food, or also by conjuring some specialized spells.
As the series progressed, many new and innovative ways to regain health have been implemented in the various games' mechanics. Here are some examples:
- Activating the altars found inside of Save Rooms will completely refill the protagonist's HP and MP bars.
- Alucard has two spells that serve as means of healing the wounds he suffers in combat. Use of Dark Metamorphosis allows him to heal via drinking blood spilled from his enemies, caused by inflicting a cutting attack on them. Soul Steal, on the other hand, damages everything near Alucard, causing small orbs of light to fly over to him. These orbs restore HP upon contact.
- A variety of weapons and body armors allow the protagonist to regain health, like the Healing Mail, Muramasa or the 7 Bladed Sword.
- Nathan can combine the Unicorn DSS attribute card with other action cards and find many ways to replenish health, like swinging his whip or summoning the Unicorn itself to heal him.
- Charlotte is capable of learning a healing spell which not only affects her, but also other nearby hunters.
- There are some souls that Soma Cruz can make use of, such as Drain Seed or Magic Vacuum, to drain enemies' health while replenishing his own.
Status ailmentsEdit
A common threat inflicted by the Poison status ailment is that the protagonist's HP will be continuously drained by a set amount for an extended period of time (although this doesn't happen in Symphony of the Night, Aria or Dawn of Sorrow, where only the hero's attack power will be significantly reduced for a brief period of time instead). This effect can be counteracted by consuming an anti-venom. In later entries in the series, altars found inside of Save Rooms can also cure heroes of any poison. Most of the time, poison alone cannot cause a hero to die, although at least one exception does exist for this rule.


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Before I start this post, I must say that I'm so pleased that I thought to take a photo of this gorgeous Charles Farris candle before I started burning it. I've been that addicted, not an evening has gone by where I haven't lit the wick and enjoyed the incredible scent and flickering light!
Charles Farris are one of Britain's oldest chandlers having been founded in London in 1845 and still to this day, their candles are still handmade by a small team in Wiltshire using traditional methods and the finest ingredients. They're not only famous for being holders of the Royal Warrant but also for supplying a vast number of churches and cathedrals with candles and other church supplies such as advent frames, lecterns and vestments.
Relatively recently, they launched their line of scented candles and diffusers to really bring Charles Farris products into the home. While of course, their pillar candles can and have been used in homes for years, scented candle are very synonymous with home fragrance.
There are two types of scented candles; one that comes in a tin and another than comes in a glass. The latter are known as the Signature Candle range and I have 'Rubus,' a blackberry and bay scent.
The Charles Farris Signature Candle in Rubus smells absolutely incredible and fills my huge living room with its scent. The Blackberry and Bay fragrance combines sharp, tangy blackberry notes with more herbal, aromatic notes. Theres a definite air of the outdoors with this candle; it has a summer in the countryside vibe to it which is really addictive and makes me feel happy when I smell it. This is unusual in itself as its actually a scent that I wouldn't usually go for had I just read the name and not actually smelt it.
The burn time on Charles Farris Signature Candles is around 40 hours and I'm about half way through burning this one. I'm really impressed with how evenly it has burned. There isn't lots of soot around the rim of the glass like I've found with some candles and above all, this is a very high quality candle.
The scent is so pure, realistic and natural. It is powerful without being overbearing which is just the right amount of fragrance for me. It is very much a scent that is suited to any room in the home but especially the living room or bathroom.
This is my first Charles Farris candle and it certainly wont be my last. Everything from the packaging down to the candle itself is nothing short of classic and elegant.
Those who know of my latest obsession with the colour navy will guess that I'm very much loving the navy, textured glass that this candle comes in! The wax is hand poured into the glasses to ensure a slow and even burn.
I'd highly recommend treating yourself to one of these candles or gifting one to a friend or family member for their birthday. It'll certainly not disappoint.
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This article originally featured on VentureBeat.com:
TERA: Time to "level up"
By Chris Lee, Publishing VP at En Masse Entertainment
My memory of the last two-and-a-half years is a blur of starting a new company, westernizing an MMO, and promoting a game. Some specific moments stand out in my mind, like our first day as a company when we met in our real estate agent's back room, or the epic yoga-ball jousting match we had in the hallway of our first office, or last Halloween when the new office was full of Starfleet Academy graduates, Mad Men ad agents, and Tetris cube costumes.
My fondest memory, though, was when we got our first build of TERA translated into English. We played through it as a company to really understand the intricacies of the game systems and the leveling pace. At that time we were learning firsthand the strengths and weaknesses of each class, how a balanced party made a difference in the instances, and how much damn fun it was to kill a BAM.
To keep a public eye on how we were progressing, we found an empty wall and put up a magnet board marked out into 60 sections. You moved your magnet up a spot every time you leveled. The great part about being in a company of gamers was that every single person participated, from our QA testers to our CEO.
This not only drew praise and smack-talking for leaders and laggards, it also created competition in the office—and nothing motivates people like a little competition. I took pride in staying ahead of our senior producer on the board (at least for a little while), especially because the whole board was his idea.
TERA was a different game back then. This was before it had even released in the Korean market. As much fun as we had competing with each other, we also saw some of the hurdles we would have to get over, and compared our impressions to the feedback we were getting from focus group tests. For example, at the time we were forcing people to group for the majority of quests after about level 20. This worked fine for people who had a group but became a complete brick wall for the solo player.
Now, when you have a vision for a game, it can be challenging to incorporate feedback and make big changes while staying true to the game you started out making. But it's that kind of fine-tuning that has made TERA resonate with so many gamers today. In the last two years, we've tuned and balanced the leveling and grouping requirements, improved the trade broker system, and added rest experience, achievements, controller support, and a tiered currency. It's been quite a ride.
Now we have our "live" leveling board and it's a great feeling to know that these characters aren't going to get wiped! As for who is at the top—we had two guys from our network operations team hit max level within a couple weeks of our May 1 launch. For some reason a few of the art guys fell behind the curve (some excuse about being busy working on marketing assets or something). After hitting level 30 with my first character, I decided to restart with a Lancer. Now I'm smack dab in the middle of the board again with a large pack of people.
Leveling this time is much more fun, and that's because now we get to play directly with our customers. What's really interesting is the variety of people that TERA has drawn. In addition to our strong community, we have seen tweets from NFL players, Penny Arcade editors, and even Felicia Day about playing the game.
More importantly, just about everything that players go through while leveling, we experience as well. Yes, we've been ganked in the open world by outlaws, and some of us didn't get credit for Karascha. We've started pick-up groups and waited in Instance Matching queues. We've transferred servers and even created and joined player guilds. Yes, we may be in your guild right now, or you might be in one of ours (but we'll never tell).
We do this not just because we love TERA as a game. We do it because we want to make sure we get the full player experience. This time, as we make our way up the leveling board, we are feeling the needs of a live service and continuing to find the perfect balance of incorporating player feedback while staying true to the vision of TERA. The ride isn't over yet.
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15:40:00 [Ian]
IJ: I will try to do that this week.
15:40:07 [Ian]
15:40:18 [Ian]
TAG presentation at AC meeting in Hawaii.
15:40:28 [Ian]
TimBL: Top three questions we'd ilke to ask AC?
15:40:44 [Ian]
TimBL: What should we put out before the AC meeting?
15:41:27 [Ian]
IJ: I suggest that I try to integrate one-piece documents and that that be available before AC meeting.
15:41:33 [Norm]
Color me ignorant as well. It's a pale shade of chartreuse, I think.
15:41:35 [Ian]
TimBL summarizes AC meeting
15:41:47 [Ian]
- Twice a year, summary of w3c activities to Membership
15:41:50 [ChrisL]
Given the time period for this, we can't really 'ask the AC' something like our three hardest issues and expect to get anything done in 45 minutes or whatever
15:42:10 [Ian]
Chris, I don't expect us to ask the AC technical questions. More about, say, direction of TAG.
15:42:24 [ChrisL]
15:42:43 [Ian]
TimBL: AC likes to be asked, not told.
15:43:12 [Ian]
TiMBL: The TAG should basically listen to the AC.
15:43:15 [ChrisL]
So brandishing the collection of one page summaries and saying 'what do you think so far' is the sort of question
15:43:16 [Ian]
PC: We have a mandate to report.
15:43:23 [Ian]
CL, yes, I think so.
15:43:36 [Ian]
15:43:53 [Zakim]
15:45:38 [TimBL]
Ian describes AC agenda
15:45:43 [Ian]
IJ: Currently, TAG allotted 30 minutes for presentation, 30 for discussion.
15:45:53 [Ian]
IJ: Director usually gives a report. Is this separate?
15:46:17 [ChrisL]
TAG report is clearly separate from Director report
15:46:19 [Ian]
PC: There's also a free-for-all slot at the end of the day.
15:46:45 [Ian]
TimBL: The question for us to think about:
15:47:02 [ChrisL]
Recently, a move from 'presentation' to 'top questions/issues' to involve AC more, not give them bland reports
15:47:08 [Ian]
- We are going to ask the AC for help in solving TAG problems. How can we use the AC to help us?
15:47:22 [Ian]
Homework: Think about this this week. For discussion next week.
15:47:50 [Ian]
If you won't be there, please indicate on IRC.
15:48:03 [Ian]
TimBL: We can create a panel, give an overview of where we fit in, what we've done.
15:48:08 [Ian]
...and then ask 3 questions.
15:48:47 [TimBL]
15:48:51 [Ian]
PC: Here's a provocative one: TAG session wasn't technical enough at tech plenary. Does that feedback influence us about having a more technical discussion in front of AC? Or what that feedback specific to the tech plenary?
15:49:07 [Ian]
DC: I don't mind little blood on the floor in Cannes.
15:49:27 [Ian]
DC: If we present a technical issue, I'd like to present by way of analogies. Allow us to illustrate the issue for a large audience.
15:49:28 [ChrisL]
We are going for useful feedback and clarity on how to contribute, not 'blood on floor'
15:50:06 [ChrisL]
AC is a little different to the chairs/WG menmber audience
15:50:20 [Ian]
TimBL to PC: I think the AC does not expect technical discussion. More likely things like "what happens if a WG flagrantly violates the architecture. What can the TAG really do?" How do we deal with overload, etc.
15:51:04 [Ian]
DC: Please don't get into penalty phase (until problems actually arise).
15:51:16 [Ian]
IJ: Note that AB will talk about penalties for process violations at AC meeting.
15:51:19 [Dave]
Dave has joined #tagmem
15:51:27 [DanC]
i.e. please let's trust unless/until we have reason to do otherwise.
15:51:45 [Ian]
PC: note that we are delegating questions to WGs when they are appropriate. Important to tell AC when we do that.
15:51:46 [ChrisL]
More important that AC know how to raise an issue to TAG, how we resolve them, etc
15:52:15 [Ian]
15:52:29 [Ian]
TimBL: Please think about this during the next week.
15:52:33 [Ian]
15:52:38 [Ian]
On one-page summaries.
15:53:41 [Ian]
TimBL: IJ has offered to put these togethers into a harmonious whole.
15:53:58 [Ian]
TimBL: Also, IJ should start to create a glossary that will allow us to coordinate our writing.
15:54:03 [DanC]
yes, a glossary; e.g. web vs. Web
15:54:24 [Ian]
I was thinking of glossary as semantic rather than manual of style.
15:54:38 [Ian]
[There is consensus about doing a glossary.]
15:54:38 [DanC]
and object/thing has come up in intro feedback.
15:55:12 [Ian]
TimBL: If a term is already defined, point out where it's defined (and quote it).
15:55:23 [ChrisL]
And in particular, note when there are multiple definitions for the same term in different communities
15:55:37 [Ian]
TimBL: We are likely to rewrite terms in terms of each other until the whole thing is consistency.
15:55:58 [Ian]
TimBL: There are likely traps like "entity" and "resource" since defined differently in different contexts.
15:56:45 [Ian]
15:56:47 [Ian]
15:58:24 [Ian]
CL: I objected strongly to earlier draft, but we cleared up the misunderstanding.
15:58:32 [Ian]
...but I wanted to ensure that, e.g., DOM, appear.
15:58:38 [Ian]
TB: There wasn't much disagreement on the list.
15:58:54 [Ian]
..just a question of how we write stuff down. We agree that bullet 3 needs more kicking around.
15:59:32 [Ian]
TimBL: Do you think there's still a big gap?
15:59:33 [DanC]
for the record, the current version is
$Revision: 1.6 $ of $Date: 2002/03/13 16:38:22 $
15:59:38 [Ian]
CL: Yes, it's still mostly about network protocols.
16:00:18 [Ian]
..less obvious; not as widely understood.
16:00:32 [Ian]
DC: Maybe better on what a doc means?
16:00:46 [Ian]
TB: Am I only one uncomfortable about distinction between documents and messages.
16:00:47 [Ian]
16:01:06 [ChrisL]
message = body plus header
16:01:15 [Ian]
TBL: DC and I share model where message is a "point" event. A document is something that can change over time.
16:01:17 [ChrisL]
document is instance-of body
16:01:25 [Ian]
TBL: You can't build a protocol out of documents, but you can out of messages.
16:01:36 [Ian]
...there's a relationship between the two (docs and messages).
16:01:41 [Ian]
..see DC's model in Larch
16:02:09 [DanC]
Ian, an analogy to explain documents/messages: the way T.V. Raman (who is blind) can "see" what's on the whiteboard just by listening to the conversation (messages) about it.
16:02:40 [Ian]
CL: TimBL on messages is fine, but seems to imply that a resource only changes based on messages.
16:02:53 [Ian]
DC: Not exactly: only time when parties learn of changes is when messages are exchanged.
16:04:26 [Ian]
TimB: So sounds like agreement that item 3 needs more work.
16:04:35 [Ian]
Action TB: Have a go at #3
16:05:40 [Ian]
DC: I'm prepared to hand off now.
16:05:43 [Dave]
16:05:55 [Ian]
IJ: I will take it as soon as TB says "Take it."
16:05:59 [Ian]
16:06:12 [Ian]
16:06:12 [Ian]
* What does a URI identify?: NW and SW
16:06:21 [Stuart]
16:06:54 [Ian]
NW: I think we should do one more pass.
16:07:18 [Ian]
TBL: I've never used the word "Uniform" in this way. I think it's a good rule.
16:07:26 [DanC]
Stuart, are you in the critical path too? or is it enough if Ian hears from Norm?
16:07:32 [Ian]
Uniform: Any URI can be used in any place where a URI is used.
16:08:08 [Ian]
Stuart: In RFC 2396, there's an explanation of what "Uniform" is supposed to mean.
16:08:12 [Ian]
DC: I remember this, sort of.
16:08:43 [Ian]
DC: The spec went to the IETF as "Universal" and folks in the IETF found another word less encompassing than Universal.
16:08:52 [Ian]
TBL: Both are important.
16:09:02 [Ian]
TBL: I felt that "Uniform" was a kind of downgrading.
16:09:16 [Ian]
TBL: IETF resisted this apparent totalitarian move.
16:10:04 [Ian]
TB: I like section 4 in second document.
16:10:13 [Ian]
(Semantics of URIs)
16:10:15 [DanC]
[[They [URIs] reduce the tedium of "log in to this server, then issue this magic command ..." down to a single click.]] --
16:10:20 [Ian]
16:10:57 [DanC]
Bray: "an addressable unit of information or service"
16:10:59 [Ian]
TB: I like definition of Resource: " An addressable unit of information or service"
16:11:10 [Ian]
DO: Isn't that circular?
16:11:21 [Ian]
TB: I don't care that it's circular. It works. :)
16:11:29 [Ian]
TOPIC: Define "resource"
16:11:29 [DanC]
google says that's from XML-Link, TimBray.
16:11:41 [Ian]
TBL: In URIs and RDF used differently.
16:11:46 [TimBray]
Iput it there... but I stole it from somewhere
16:12:20 [Ian]
From WCA terms
16:12:35 [Ian]
16:12:35 [Ian]
The URI specification describes a resource as the common term for "...anything that has identity. Familiar examples include an electronic document, an image, a service (e.g., "today's weather report for Los Angeles"), as well as a collection of other resources. Not all resources are network "retrievable"; e.g., human beings, corporations, and bound books in a library can also be considered resources..." (see also the term Web Resource).
16:13:01 [Ian]
TimBL: You can't make a representation of a telnet session. Or a mailbox. I think it's useful to distinguish documents from other things.
16:13:21 [Ian]
TimBL: HTTP has architecture of representations.
16:13:31 [Ian]
DC: Representations are documents. But what they represent is not constrained, is it?
16:13:58 [Ian]
TimBL: If something were to give me a representation of a telnet resource, it would miss the nature of the telnet resource.
16:14:07 [Ian]
TB: My definition with service covers that.
16:14:45 [Ian]
DC: Resource is like "point" in geometry. You don't define. They just are.
16:14:52 [Ian]
CL: Yes, it's defined.
16:15:11 [Ian]
DO: If we agree that we want a circular definition, then we should acknowledge that they're circular (and rationale why).
16:15:19 [ChrisL]
16:15:40 [Ian]
TimBL: Valid questions:
16:15:40 [Ian]
16:15:45 [Ian]
- Can a car be a resource?
16:15:52 [Ian]
DC: Yes, n'est-ce pas?
16:16:08 [Ian]
TimBL: By RDF definition, yes. By URI definition, no.
16:16:19 [Ian]
CL: You can provide a URI to a photo of a car, but not a car.
16:16:22 [ChrisL]
Don't especially like it, but there are examples of such self-booting definitions that work
16:16:24 [Ian]
TB: I agree with CL.
16:16:36 [DanC]
<- that identifies my car.
16:16:45 [Ian]
TimBL: In RDF, you can write a thing that describes a car.
16:16:55 [ChrisL]
Only because you asseret that it does
16:17:19 [ChrisL]
I could assert that I have a URI which defines your car
16:17:22 [Ian]
SW: The definitions I have come across are "Anything that can be identified can be a resource."
16:17:40 [Ian]
SW: Anything that can be identified is not necessarily everything that is net accessible.
16:17:50 [TimBray]
16:17:51 [Zakim]
TimBray, if you meant to query the queue, please say 'q?'; if you meant to replace the queue, please say 'queue= ...'
16:17:52 [TimBray]
16:18:02 [Norm]
16:18:08 [Ian]
DC: Addresses take on meaning by communication.
16:18:18 [Ian]
DC: We're not talking about unique addresses, just unambiguous addresses.
16:18:26 [DanC]
TimBL said the latter
16:18:27 [Ian]
(s/DC/TBL last comment)
16:18:29 [Ian]
thanks DC
16:18:31 [ChrisL]
The World is the Universe of Resources. The Web is the Universe of Network Acessible Resources
16:18:32 [Dave]
Ian, you missed my point
16:18:36 [Stuart]
\me just dereferenced Dan's car :-)
16:19:29 [TimBL]
Sorry, the requested resource does not exist <- dan's car
16:19:32 [Dave]
DO: perhaps there are computational and physical resources, and there is a separation between them in terms of addressability
16:19:35 [Stuart]
16:19:40 [Ian]
TB: In real terms, architecture is something developers care about. I think that a resource in the meaningful operational sense is one that can be network addressable. I don't think that operationally, it's useful to consider a car a resource.
16:19:42 [TimBL]
16:19:46 [TimBL]
ack t
16:19:48 [DanC]
no! please let's all lear to stop saying that resources can be retrieved. *Representations* of resources can be retrieved
16:20:24 [Ian]
NW: I am surprised that we are having this discussion. I'm not sure what to think about us contesting the point about URIs pointing to real-world objects.
16:20:24 [TimBL]
16:20:43 [Norm]
16:20:45 [Ian]
NW: In response to URIs being network addressable, namespace URIs are specifically required to not be necessarily net addressable.
16:20:54 [Ian]
SW: None of the definitions I've seen are closed.
16:21:05 [Ian]
"As in: This thing cannot be a resource."
16:21:14 [TimBL]
(The RDF URI#frag being different comes from the web architecture .. function of mime type)
16:21:24 [Ian]
SW: I would prefer to not make the distinction between an HTTP-type resource and an RDF-type resource.
16:21:38 [ChrisL]
16:21:44 [Ian]
SW: ...maybe definition of resources is expanding.
16:22:11 [Ian]
DC: Everyone please don't say "Resources can be retrieved." No. representations can be retrieved.
16:22:23 [DanC]
Norm, we don't need any new schemes to identify my car
16:22:29 [DanC]
16:23:18 [Ian]
TimBL: It's valuable to regard HTTP as a protocol that talks about the class of things called documents. They have representations you can transfer as bits. So, a representation of an image is a set of bits that encode visual information.
16:23:27 [TimBray]
16:23:36 [ChrisL]
OK except for use of the word document
16:23:36 [Ian]
TimBL: Around that, I feel that HTTP is consistent. It tells you whether it can give you the resource or not.
16:24:09 [Ian]
TimBL: HTTP is built to allow you to give a URI to a car.
16:24:13 [DanC]
Norm, it doesn't lead to contradiction, tim.
16:24:19 [DanC]
16:24:29 [Ian]
16:24:31 [Ian]
16:24:39 [Stuart]
From RFC2396 defn of Resource: "Not all resources are network
16:24:40 [Stuart]
"retrievable"; e.g., human beings, corporations, and bound
16:24:40 [Stuart]
books in a library can also be considered resources.
16:24:53 [DanC]
yes, my friggin IRC client does unauthorized completion
16:25:01 [Ian]
TimBL: In RDF, fragment identifier is used to identify abstract concepts.
16:25:24 [Ian]
TimBL: The way I saw getting over this dichotomy between two definitions is to say:
16:25:35 [Ian]
- Without the "#", an HTTP URI is restricted to talk about documents.
16:25:49 [DanC]
16:25:53 [Ian]
- You bootstrap yourself into the real world by defining the connection in the format.
16:25:54 [ChrisL]
16:26:28 [Ian]
TimBL: I have a home page that has a URI. It was born in 1991. I was born in 19XX.
16:26:40 [TimBL]
16:26:44 [Ian]
TimBL: I want to be able to distinguish the car from the document about the car.
16:26:57 [TimBL]
16:27:01 [Ian]
TimBL: HTTP doesn't give us the ability to separately ask about the car and the document about the car.
16:27:02 [TimBL]
ack t
16:27:12 [ChrisL]
ack timbl
16:27:32 [Stuart]
\me process question... do we want to make it through the other pieces too?
16:27:42 [Ian]
TB: One could probably built a consistent set of mathematics about what a resource is. What turns out to be more interesting? I could see a world where a car has a URI. But not clear to me what you would build there.
16:28:01 [Ian]
TB: Seems like a deep distinction between a resource that exists as an electronic object and something that doesn't exist.
16:28:15 [Ian]
16:28:25 [Ian]
DO: This is the bits v. atoms discussion.
16:28:54 [TimBL]
(IMO, A car could have a URI, but not a http URI given HTTP 1.1)
16:28:59 [Ian]
TB: Perhaps a resource is something you get representation of. The representation is always electronic. Perhaps that's a useful place to start building the superstructure: a resource is something that has at least one electronic representation.
16:29:44 [Ian]
DC: I dispute TBL's assertion that there was a contradiction. I agree that it's unwise to use the same identifier for two things (since you can't tell them apart).
16:30:04 [Stuart]
16:30:24 [Ian]
TBL: My interpretation is that HTTP 300, 200, and 404 responses all talk about documents.
16:30:45 [Ian]
...anytime you dereference the URI, you get documents. And documents and cars are distinct.
16:31:00 [Ian]
DC: You haven't shown the contradiction in my assertion that "This URI identifies my car."
16:31:25 [Ian]
CL: Why is fragment identifier in RDF not "part of a resource" as in other formats?
16:32:25 [Ian]
TimBL: "Fragment" is unfortunate term since not always identifying a subpart. Meaning of what is identified is language-dependent.
16:32:33 [DanC]
one way to say it: doc#name refers to whatever doc means by name.
16:33:20 [ChrisL]
Dan's definition is the same as a fragment identifier
16:33:29 [ChrisL]
Tims definition is very different, it seesm
16:33:43 [TimBL]
16:33:53 [Ian]
CL: The definition here is the current definition of the mime identifier.
16:34:04 [TimBL]
ack d
16:34:07 [TimBL]
ack c
16:34:10 [TimBL]
16:34:18 [TimBL]
ack ian
16:34:44 [DanC]
but earlier in the meeting, we established (or at least: TimBL suggested) that a telnet: resource has no electronic representation.
16:35:55 [Ian]
IJ: Author can choose preferred representation. I can therefore say "this photo is what I want as the representation of DC's car." It follows that DC's definition follows.
16:36:18 [Ian]
ack Stuart
16:36:42 [TimBL]
TBray: A telente: resource is more lik an html page than a car
16:36:46 [Ian]
SW: This discussion started as "What's a URI?". We moved to HTTP URIs specifically. Do we want to restrict ourselves to HTP URIs only?
16:37:14 [Ian]
SW: How do we move forward/
16:37:15 [Ian]
16:37:39 [Ian]
DC: Authors suggested they would give another round?
16:38:14 [TimBL]
16:38:19 [TimBL]
16:38:26 [Ian]
IJ: I suggest documenting the topic inline (can your car be said to be a resource?)
16:38:30 [Ian]
16:38:33 [Ian]
What does a document mean?
16:38:54 [Ian]
NW: I propose to come back to this in one week?
16:39:38 [Ian]
NW: No technical differences between 7 and 14 march drafts.
16:40:03 [Ian]
16:40:22 [Ian]
Action NW: Send revision this week to www-tag.
16:40:26 [Ian]
16:40:27 [Ian]
Rest summary
16:40:33 [TimBL]
16:40:51 [DanC]
16:41:33 [Ian]
DC: We used "object" in intro, rather than "resource". Got a public comment to use "thing" instead.
16:41:50 [ChrisL]
object is problematic, what are its methods?
16:42:04 [ChrisL]
thing is suitably vague
16:42:09 [Ian]
DC: The point of the web arch is that it builds the illusion of a shared information space.
16:42:14 [TimBray]
we should bloody well agree what we mean and say "resource"
16:42:25 [ChrisL]
16:43:00 [TimBL]
16:43:10 [TimBL]
ack d
16:43:14 [Ian]
DC: Please connect to other sections. E.g., Web servers and clients talk to each other, and the net effect is that everyone agrees "to what's on the whiteboard"
16:44:10 [Ian]
TimBL: We need REST to create the illusion of a shared space. What we've been battling over is that most people mean "shared information space" but that some things are not part of REST (e.g., automotive industry, telnet).
16:44:33 [Ian]
TBL: W3C has in the past focused on the shared information space. But we are extending the boundaries (e.g., web services).
16:45:13 [Ian]
TBL: Perhaps we should say that the information space model doesn't work for all things we are interested in. Are they in fact distinct?
16:45:17 [ChrisL]
I wonder if Telnet is not 'in the web' because it is a stream of text?
16:45:22 [Ian]
DC: Doesn't appeal to me on the surface.
16:45:38 [Ian]
IJ: Dan's scanner is on the Web already.
16:45:43 [ChrisL]
if so, is a streaming audio or video 'not on the Web'?
16:45:50 [TimBray]
is telnet really on the web? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
16:46:04 [TimBray]
if telnet is, email is
16:46:12 [DanC]
email very definitly is.
16:46:21 [Ian]
DO: I support the idea that we say what parts of the Web conform to the notion of the shared information space. We should say what isn't in that space (if it's not).
16:47:00 [TimBray]
Any individual email message can be
16:47:09 [ChrisL]
TimBL alluded earlier to mailto being in the Web but the email message itself not being (until archived, presumablky) but its clearly a message. And that messages are nopt on the web, they produce the illusion of the Web
16:47:16 [Ian]
TB: You can give the address of a Web service port. You can *integrate* web services (and interconnections are important). But conceptually, the information space metaphor works in some areas but not others.
16:47:37 [DanC]
DC [also said]: a lot of the work I've done for the last year or so is integrating my office phone into the web... and the IRC channels I use.
16:47:49 [DanC]
cf "Real-Time Resources in the Web: IRC, Telephone, Instant Messaging"
16:47:51 [Ian]
DO: I'm on Web Services Architecture WG and have been pounding the table to get REST components in the Web services architectuer.
16:48:02 [TimBray]
when I get POPmail via Eudora, it doesn't feel like the web is involved
16:48:08 [Ian]
DO: Interesting to see how close various definitions get to qualifying.
16:48:16 [DanC]
POP could easily be done over HTTP.
16:48:36 [ChrisL]
HTTP could be (and has been) done over POP
16:49:26 [Ian]
TB Summarizing IRC thread: Does the Web architecture have to comprise {email | telnet} as a first class citizen?
16:49:32 [ChrisL]
TB: Is emaila first class citizen
16:50:15 [Ian]
TB: How far do you have to strain your definition of URI to include telnet sessions........
16:50:27 [Ian]
TBL: Split into two groups of URIs - information space and not.
16:50:30 [Stuart]
16:50:36 [Ian]
DC: I don't agree with that on the face of it.
16:51:03 [Ian]
SW: What about URIs being opaque (if we are distinguishing them)?
16:51:26 [Ian]
DO: What can RF and I do to change our document on REST?
16:51:37 [Ian]
TimBL: Rather than just documenting REST, explain how it supports the information space.
16:52:15 [Ian]
TBL: This chapter explains "if you've got packets, here's how you get information space"
16:52:45 [Ian]
DO: Perhaps elsewhere in the document series, we should talk about shared info space.
16:53:34 [Ian]
DO: Should this document be expanded to talk about the shared information space (and then describe how REST is used to implement that0.
16:53:42 [Ian]
TimBL: Move the info space to the front of the document.
16:55:18 [Ian]
Action DO: Write text about information space, to be integrated by IJ.
16:55:20 [Ian]
16:55:26 [Ian]
What does a message mean?
16:55:33 [TimBL]
16:55:50 [Ian]
CL: I'm in the middle of writing these notes up.
16:56:28 [Ian]
TB: RF jumped on this one because of RFC822
16:57:52 [Ian]
TB: I would line up with RF on this.
16:58:04 [Ian]
...seems like the notion of 1-2 headers + bag of bits is pretty useful.
16:58:10 [DanC]
line up "sorta".
16:59:14 [Ian]
TBL: Reason why people feel headers are harmful is that the way they combined is not well-defined.
16:59:33 [Ian]
....at least XML has well-defined structure. RDF defines combination.
16:59:54 [Ian]
...in 822, you don't have the structure; algos built on top are hard to rely on.
17:00:02 [Ian]
TB: Having said that, it works pretty well.
17:00:14 [Ian]
DC: About 5 work well. Very hard to extend.
17:00:21 [Ian]
TB: But we've hit the 80/20 point.
17:00:22 [ChrisL]
So, don't add new headers but use a core set that works already
17:00:39 [Ian]
CL: What happened with HTTP extensions?
17:00:40 [TimBL]
17:00:41 [Ian]
DC: Didn't take off.
17:00:59 [TimBray]
17:01:01 [Ian]
TBL: Required everyone to implement mandatory extensions.
17:01:05 [Zakim]
17:01:07 [Ian]
17:01:15 [Ian]
Next meeting: Next week same time, same place.
17:01:17 [Ian]
17:01:29 [ChrisL]
I have to go, another telcon
17:01:35 [Zakim]
17:01:37 [Norm]
Since we can get to the bridge 5 minutes before the call, I concur with TimBL
17:01:44 [TimBL]
RRSAgent, stop


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Performing, Educating, and Engaging about Responsible Strategies
The Trenton PEERS is a year-round education and support group made up of two mixed gender teams of youths ages 13 – 18. The Peer Educators are extensively mentored and trained to provide violence prevention and life skills education to their peers. Each team meets weekly to learn both fact-based information and skill-building techniques, covering topics such as gang awareness, violence prevention, anger management, conflict resolution, dating violence prevention, postponing sexual involvement, substance abuse, and bullying.
The PEERS Mission
The purpose of the PEERS program is to provide Trenton's vulnerable youth with the information, skills, and support needed to find confidence, develop leadership skills, establish healthy relationships, and avoid violence and risky choices. This improves chances for a bright, self-directed future.
What We Do
The Peer Educators work in the community by developing, practicing, and performing skits, and interactive workshops that depict how teens think, feel, react, and make decisions during times of conflict. These skits are performed for others their age facing common challenges. The information presented in each PEERS workshop is dramatic, thought-provoking, and age-appropriate. At the conclusion of each skit the PEERS use interactive and educational activities to conduct small group discussions. These discussions are crafted to initiate dialogue, explore and expand values and beliefs, and create an exchange of ideas.
"The PEERS presentations to students my age were valuable and something I could relate to."
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text: This blog serves as an archive for past news and information from the Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners and Operators Association. We are the oldest group of woodlot owners in the province, and the leading advocates for environmentally centered, socially responsible, economically balanced forestry. The association has grown substantially in recent years, and our new website can be viewed at nswooa.ca. It's the best place to learn more about sustainable management of the Acadian Forests of Nova Scotia.


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La chronique de Suzy Menkes
There was a tweet – of a bird, not the digital variety – to close the four-week international season.
Rahul Mishra: Birdsong
Rahul Mishra, the Indian designer who goes far beyond his country's fashion clichés of vivid colours and sari prints, sent out one of those rare collections of quiet beauty.
Rahul Mishra: Birdsong
Yes, there was a little flesh on view – and not just because of the nude fabrics that moved from the blush of a dawn sky to midnight blue. Part of a wispy chiffon skirt veiled a stretch of leg. But mostly, where there was a window on the body, there was a bird – embroidered perhaps at the midriff – and a symbol of the village where Rahul Mishra grew up, in North India's Uttar Pradesh. In his show notes he described the equilibrium between man and nature in that peaceful and sustainable coexistence.
Rahul Mishra: Birdsong
The designer has brought employment to rural workers in remote places, importing wool from the surrounds of Sydney, Australia to be transformed by Indian hand workers.
Rahul Mishra: Birdsong
The delicacy of the knits, which were so fine that they could barely be identified as wool on the runway, was breathtaking. Such pieces illustrated why the designer won the International Woolmark Prize 2013-14.