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Urobuchi Gen: Discussions on his Stories and Style (spoilers ahead)
So I was driving towards this section in Manila that sells medical supplies for my upcoming medical internship when a friend of mine texted me asking about how he was fascinated with the overall concept of the Madoka Magika series and asked me if I was familiar with the screenwriter and anything else he had written. I ended up recommending he give Fate/Zero a try and will lend him my copy of Saya no Uta at some point.
He told me he was intrigued by his overall take on human nature, it's ugliness, and his supposed infatuation with Messiah figures. This of course, got me thinking for a while and almost ran a red light when I left parking.
So I started wondering about those three shows, specifically Saya no Uta's take on mutated perspectives of reality, and the Messiah type characters alluded to in Madoka (the titular character) and Fate/Zero (Kiritsugu). Thus this topic was born.
I'm going to round up the things that intrigue me the most. Spoilers ahead.
1. Urobuchi Gen and Franz Kafka
The first thing that came to my mind about an hour into Saya no Uta was that I had this odd feeling that Gen had taken a lot of influence on his reality perspectives from Franz Kafka, specifically, The Metamorphosis, or more specifically a reversal thereof. Fuminori has, well, a lot in common with Gregor Samsa, even though in Gen's story it's the world that looks like it's mutated and not the lead character himself. In any case Fuminori suffers the same inability to maintain his standing in his family and in society. While Samsa is shunned by the world, Fuminori feels forced to shun the world himself given the twisting of his natural senses. Medically I find it rather unlikely, thematically it works. Nightmarish worlds from the POV of a character who feels alienated, shunned, outcasted and ultimately betrayed, ending up with a total loss in the goodness and the humanity of, well, humanity.
At the same time, the twisting realities weaved into Madoka Magica and Fate/Zero ultimately point showcase monsters and creatures that are not merely creatures, but twistings of individual humans themselves. The eventual fate of Sayaka Miki in Madoka Magika and the creatures Caster summons forth in Fate/Zero to satiate his maniacal master and himself are enough representations of the horrid monstrosities humanity can construct. The monstrous evils that man fear the most exist within himself, both the known and unknown. I don't know if that's how he really views the world, but clearly he sees a great amount of darkness coming from all angles. A very Kafkan reality.
2. Urobuchi Gen and the Greek Tragedy
A huge amount of suffering in order to earn any semblance of a happy ending, and it doesn't necessarily mean that the titular hero even lives by the end. Probably the most simple distillation of my understanding of heroic tragedy reminiscent of Greek Tragedy. One only has to watch Madoka Magika and, well, even the latest episode of Fate/Zero to know that he makes his characters suffer, and suffer hard, for what? In Madoka Magika we watch 13 episode of emotional/mental destruction and violent death and carnage before the titular character finally finds the bearings to do what must be done, an ending still debated on today that is more bitter than sweet. That's not even taking into account her Homura who has relived the same human tragedy over and over that she was forced to ice her heart in fear of failure due to emotional attachment, and also, for what? She ultimately fails to save the one she cares about the most in a resolution that for all intents and purposes was the only viable solution to the dilemma.
In Fate/Zero, well, due to being currently airing I won't mention too much, but the anguish on Lancer's face shows the utter futility of his knight's honor in the face of relentless adversity that is willing to do what it takes to get the job done. Saber should be considered an extension of this perceived futility, a knight who sacrifices her entire being to a lofty goal only she cares about now, that is rapidly eroding under the weight of crushing modern reality. Her success is still up in the air as of this point, I'm not familiar with Gen's original work on F/Z though I've played all of F/SN, but she clings to that ideal despite seeing what had become of Lancer.
Tragic heroes of course cling to that noble idealism because the have a higher personal sense of morality and ethics from everyone else, but this is part and parcel of what makes tragedy a tragedy, that everything comes crashing down for the hero that destroys their foundations and their idealism, leaving them to pick up the pieces. In the end of Madoka Magika, well, it seems Gen believed that even idealism can win if it's willing to make a few detours along the way. As for F/Z, let's see where it all heads.
Most of them are placed in between proverbial rocks and hard places, to choose the lesser evil of two, to find the best solution to the problem even if the solution isn't ideal. In Saya no Uta, it depends on which ending you believe to be the best. In Madoka Magika, she is ultimately forced to pay the ultimate price, a price she never before thought she had to pay, and the price Homura was still trying to end in the first place. In Fate/Zero, it's Kiritsugu and his... rather brutally utilitarian yet effective methods
These Messianic features to be discussed in the succeeding post.
Some more parts to follow this, but I'll cut this post here to avoid gigantic walls of text.
3. Urobuchi Gen and the Biblical Messiah
To say that Madoka Magika takes some cues from the New Testament is probably a bit of an understatement. As far as a deconstruction of the Magical Girl genre that he wanted to do, I also find it his exploration on the Messianic ideals being imposed on the titular magical girls of the genre. Anyone who's watched any magical girl show knows the basics of the young girl suddenly gifted with powers beyond human imagination and tasked with a job beyond any mortal to fight a darkness with a light coming from within. In Madoka Magika's case, however, what if the darkness to be battles stems from inside the heart of human darkness, and is ultimately beyond even the most gifted magical girl?
From the moment a character was decapitated and the story, and the eventual meme, had been born, we all knew things would not end up well. Madoka spends a whole lot of the show being partially angsty, wholly unable to decide a course of action as her friends and acquaintances either die in the onslaught or become the very creatures they had chosen to fight. When reality hits the Kafkan Nightmare goes into full swing. Inkyubeyor reveals everything on how a twisted world works, insisting that the physical living cannot change the encroaching darkness of the cycle.
So... what about death and sacrifice. Can physical death end more death? Gen's usage of Messianic symbolism comes into light as Madoka pays the ultimate price to save not just Magical Girls from their inevitable end, but the world as well, from the evil that would continue to exist in every form, the infinite number of evils, into eternity. Call it an eternal battle against the forces of darkness in a place only she can fight in. Perhaps Gen does believe that in times of great darkness and human suffering, only a sacrificial lamb willing to take all of humanity's darkness into themselves can save us all.
These are both Messianic and Tragic characters. You could in fact say that the New Testament itself has a lot of similarities to Tragedy, but all in all one has to die to save humanity. An equal amount of suffering must exist as eventual payment for salvation. I'd say that perhaps this is Gen's ultimate point for Madoka Magika, that indeed the best ending is something you must earn yourself, it will not be given to you. You need to see both the light and the dark inside humans, to experience both it's joys and and sufferings, to know victory and tragedy, before you gain the knowledge and understanding to know exactly what is at stake and what must be done to save it all. Only a soul who has seen, experienced, and thus taken humanity into themselves would have the power to save it. Yes, Jesus Christ went through the exact same thing before dying for the sins of humanity.
But there exists the question if truly, a sacrificial messiah is required in order to end an unimaginable darkness. Is there no other means to win? The story ends suggesting that it was the only way to win, even though Gen doesn't provide an actual answer.
To me clearly Gen has done Bible study. I'm curious to know if he has any religious inclinations.
4. Urobuchi Gen and the Dark Messiah
Now if there's the tragic, sacrificial Messiah, then there's the tragic, dark Messiah. That is to say, someone who intends to save humanity not in the belief that sacrificial goodness will work, but in the belief that evil can be destroyed only by those willing to dabble in said evil. Case in point of Emiya Kiritsugu of Fate/Zero.
Again I'll minimize spoilers in a currently airing show, but anyone who's seen the latest episode of F/Z knows his Machiavellian methods, a term that does a disservice to Machiavelli's true intentions for the Medici family but still an apt description. Bombing buildings, bringing down airliners, assassinations, blackmail and whatnot, all in the name of winning the Holy Grail War and ridding the world of conflict. That is his ultimate goal, in a method that uses conflict to end it. It is the polar opposite of a Messiah willing to take evil upon themselves and use goodness to wipe it away.
Does Kiritsugu have a Messiah complex? Perhaps he does, and his conversation with Saber reveals his true nature. At least from at this point, Gen tries to present a veritable anti-hero, or anti-messiah if you will, who has good intentions on a road paved by morally questionable acts. This is opposite of the usual messiah people are familiar with. F/X of course was written before Madoka Magika, and could represent a shift in his overall beliefs, but it is clear here that for whatever methods Kiritsugu uses, they are effective if brutal. They win battles, and may win the war.
So in a dark and violent world, there exists two opposing viewpoints. Biblical Messiahs are often seen as excessively sacrificial, naive and unrealistic. Dark Messiahs are considered deviant, using methods considered to extreme and violent to be considered salvific. Both are tragic heroes that pay prices often to steep for the regular man. What then is the answer? Which one should you use or believe in?
So that as they say is that. It's partially odd that this all began because I was drawing parallels between Gen and one of my favorite authors, but I think it might be a source of good discussion if anyone is interested. Much of this was derived actually from all the back and forths in the Madoka and F/Z sections.
So... any ideas?
It's going to take me a little while to reply to each point you brought up Dr. Twister (it's going to be hard to summarize each point without going into some pretty major spoilers so ...), but to make a brief impression on the man:
There is no denying that nowadays, he is among the more prolific writers in the industry, and probably the most successful porn-turned-tv writer in Japan at the moment lol :heh: I actually learned of him through the Phantom of the Inferno anime and Blassreiter (the latter is probably where I had first came across a work of his (the advent of streaming and all) and the former was where I really started to become intrigued by his writing) but there is no doubt the things he is more well known for is his VN work as you pointed out and the Type-Moon spin off, and of course, the smash hit that was Chidamari Sketch (love that name :D)
Of course, much like almost every other talented person in the industry (or any form of media) he holds his own ''views'' on the world. He is very cynical about the world and going by the interview here (ignore the somewhat sensational title) he seems to not really have that much fate in the state the world is at the moment.
I always liked his afterword to the first Fate/Zero novel:
Wow this dude is dark and trippy.
He created Madoka and written the Fate/Zero novels so he gets my full support!
Arabesque asked me to share my thoughts on this thread, and I felt that I should oblige.
But let me just say that I'm not as well-versed on Gen as many are. I'm probably a rare case of somebody who went into watching Madoka Magica without knowing the man at all, really. :heh:
Still, I've read up some on Gen, I watched some Phantom: Requiem of the Phantom, and I've watched every Fate/Zero episode up to Episode 15 (comp issues have halted me briefly here, but I should catch up soon).
Madoka Magica was my favorite anime show of 2011, and is also one of my five favorite anime shows of all-time.
Fate/Zero may well be my favorite anime show of 2012.
So I guess you could say I'm a Gen fan. For more evidence of that, here's a blog I wrote on Gen a few months ago.
The irony, for me, is that I typically don't go for really dark shows, and yet I tend to love Gen's forays into the anime world.
I think the reason is that, like pretty much all good writers, Gen has core ideas or philosophies that inform and inspire his writing. This gives his writing a certain purposefulness and narrative momentum that makes for a very engaging and enthralling experience, in my opinion.
It also probably helps that Gen's ideas contrast considerably with how things usually play out in other popular modern anime shows. In fact, there's something of an iconoclastic quality to Gen vis a vis the modern anime world, I think it's fair to say.
A lot of modern anime has a definite wish-fulfillment element to it (just look at all the anime with male leads that have one or many beautiful girls practically fall into their laps :heh:), and Gen's works are much more about confronting nightmares symbolic of real life issues rather than enjoying wishful dreams. As ironic as this might be given what is a prominent plot device in Madoka Magica, I find it nonetheless to be true.
Now, there's nothing necessarily wrong with wish-fulfillment entertainment, but in a medium with a lot of that, Gen's works really stand out from the crowd, imo.
I'm not sure to what degree I agree (or disagree) with Gen's ideas, but one thing's for sure, they're interesting. I find them particularly interesting in Madoka Magica because you have several philosophical struggles play out in that, and when it's all said and done, I'm not sure if either position was favored to the exclusion of all others.
I think that to a certain extent, Gen's views can be summed up as such: You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you want to make the world a better place (either for the many, or for one specific person that's very important to you) then you have to truly sacrifice for it. If you make such a choice without being fully mentally prepared to make such a sacrifice, then you're likely to endure great loss if not personal destruction.
On the flip side, you can choose to live only for yourself, but that means you have to be careful about the attachments that you make with others and the world around you.
So it's an interesting dualistic approach going on here, and I see a lot of it in the main cast of Madoka Magica, imo. I see how each of those cast members have to make hard choices with inescapable consequences, and even in a world infused with magic there's no way to "have it all", so to speak.
Gen's quote on love that Arabesque provided is interesting to me. The way love is portrayed in his works is often a slightly scary, pretty obsessed, and somewhat counterproductive thing. You can tell that Gen himself is apprehensive about romantic love. It's probably good that Gen is able to portray love this way, because not all love stories end well, and sometimes it can be good to be reminded of that.
"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist." -George Carlin :S
She rose for the thousandth time
I'm not sure how she did, but here she is doing it.
Her vision is fading, her life is draining
She doesn't remember what she is fighting or how she got there in the first place.
The vision is getting blurry; the eyes are getting a bit too tired.
It'd be so much easier to close those eyes right now.
All she has are memories of a vague promise and a fleeting ideal.
Those blood and tears are all for a futile cause.
"I came too far to give up, right?" is her only thought.
Some may call her a fool.
Others may call her a hypocrite.
But in the end, she is the one there and still going.
I needed someone like that.
History may not remember her, but I will.
From what I've seen of Fate/Zero and Madoka, he seems to really have a thing for the unsung heroes. The likes of Kariya from Fate/Zero, Sayaka from Madoka, or even Saber (Fate/Zero given how lame she seems compared to everyone else, relatively speaking-- and her greatest motivation is... regret. ) to some degree compared to the other royalty seem to be those that fight with some noble ideal in mind but their efforts often let to ruin and it seemed like they would be considered failures. But they sacrificed for others, and perhaps that's all that counts.
For every miracle, every success story, there's a hundred failures. And those people weren't any less weak then the people that succeeded. They were most likely equally as brave and caring and fought just as hard. It's just that the situation didn't allow them to do so. A lot of the characters in both works would be great heroes in other works, for sure.
The other thing I can think of is he often likes the concept of the Road to Hell is paved with good intentions. It really fits into what he said in the interview, and how well-meaning people can cause such destruction. One example is Saber, who's ideals of honor before reason isn't really shared with most others and lands her into deep shit.
When many people were young, they were often taught that they could be anything if they try. They were special, and that doing the right thing would get you far in life. But once one learns of injustice and unfairness in the world, these kind of things become harder and harder to believe. Gen was probably one that lost this kind of hope early and felt that doing good was merely a gesture which is why he loves bringing up the entropy thing too much.
If the natural state of things was disorder, and it takes energy to fix it, but energy has to be lost to make these things work, then effectively, everything being done is futile.
But on the other hand, he has quite the interesting way of displaying heroism. People always fighting those fights even though they have no chance of winning... just so that someone else might have a chance of succeeding. It perhaps takes more courage to know that you are being a hero not for recognition or for power, but you are willing to sacrifice yourself in the hope that something gets better, that you made some kind of thing to put off the inevitable. People in the face of their nightmares and hopelessness... it would take a truly strong and determined soul to stand in the face of that, for themselves and others.
But of course, selflessness itself, or pointless self-sacrifice leads to nothing good either. It would seem that success comes from caring about yourself and others, and picking the best action to improve their self interest. Each one of the Puella Magi for example had the flaw of either not really knowing what they wanted, or being too stubborn.
TL;DR The universe is cruel and breaks people. The only chance anyone has is of doing good is to find out what and why they are fighting for to stand a chance, and perhaps at the very least give a middle finger to the inevitable. And perhaps no matter how futile their efforts are, it may just be enough to move the hearts of the most cynical. And just maybe, maybe, move someone who's not sure but is in a position to make a change enough to be able to do it.
In my opinion, he writes rather juvenile stories. Taking some existing thing from his childhood and giving it a twist (always the same) makes for boring and offset stories. Like in Madoka, he should have focused more on building the setting and characters than trying to force his ideals and sado-tendencies. As it is now, it's just stuck between a childish morning TV-show and his limits of not seeing beyond anime tropes.
I don't think he always takes things from his childhood. I can see it in Madoka and I can perhaps see it in Fate/Zero but I can't see it in Saya no Uta or Kikokugai.
If people who accuse him of childish wangst actually bothered to read up on him, they would discover that something really bad happened to him. To come so close of death does make that to some people and influence whatever you create.
Now, there is something I always wondered while I played Saya no Uta. Had people wondered if Gen had been criticizing the hikkimori stuck at home with their "waifus" and slowly alienating themselves from human society, and also criticizing that same society for not trying better to help them? This is what have come to me as I completed the game.
Way I see it, he deliberately gives emphasis on the negative side of things and belittles or outright ignores the positives. Gen seems to give little weight to happiness because of its fleetness compared to the whole picture of negative things.
Maybe similar to the "evil human nature" philosophy, that human (or in Gen's case, everything) is inherently evil (or "negative") and any action or happening outside of that is a form of lie or a mere fleeting illusion.
As thought provoking as his works may be, I can't help but see him as "incomplete". To illustrate: he has braved and explored the labyrinth of life and have had the exit in sight. However he was either unable, unwilling or outright refused to take that step to the exit, and instead stayed and wandered still in the labyrinth. In other words, he is "trapped" in his negativity.
I like his works, but Madoka is probably the weakest amongst them. Here we have all those episodes piling up despair after despair...and then blamo Deus Ex Machina SUPAH HAPPY END! (compared to his other works, of course)
The contrast is jarring - it's like he's this close to pulling the trigger, only to chicken out at the very last second. :(
don't know if everyone here have read this or not, but i found this in Madoka wiki
All I know is that he seems to be a a rare writer in the industry nowadays that's willing to step outside of the usual comfort zones and write works that are a little darker and challenging than what we'd been getting for a while...kind of like the ones that emerged in the 80's in the wake of Gundam which inspired a whole wave of darker and more involved story writing than the super robot and children's shows that had preceded it. Honestly we need all the writers with actual drive, energy, ability to invoke complex themes/ideas, and a personalized style that we can get still so I'm all for him right now. He kind of reminds me of Yoshiyuki Tomino before Tomino found his inner peace.
Also I'll say that in my personal experiences, I went into two of his shows with little foreknowledge that were hugely MASSIVELY hyped up in the form of Madoka Magica and Fate/Zero and many well know that I am a huge skeptic when it comes to hype since it almost never lives up to it (mostly because your average anime fan has very different tastes and standards for evaluation than my own when they're hyping the crap out of something) and I've so far ended up enjoying both franchises, which is all but unheard and speaks to the fact that there's clearly something to this Gen guy style and appeal.
Many are the movies and series in which trauma's are overcome in hours and age-long animosities buried in seconds, with everyone living happily ever after. Now there is absolutely nothing wrong with this, but how is this a more complete story?
Well, one thing I feel is that he may have something against the world, but not necessarily humans being evil. Oh sure, the characters may have less than honorable motivations but you still have people fighting for the sake of others and making sacrifices so this can happen. If people are capable of doing this in a cynical world, then perhaps humans really aren't such assholes after all, even if some decide to not care.
There's really no one that's really portrayed as incurably "evil" and a bastard in Madoka though Kyoko does cross the line, except the forces of the universe would be antagonistic to humankind-- personified in Kyubey. I'm sure there's Puella Magi that did use their powers for those means, but they aren't brought up...
Fate/Zero's lines are far more blurry, with even our protagonists commuting seemingly terrible acts. But there are still those that help another and not just kill for the lulz. It's war though...
Morality isn't always so clearcut when taken into context. It's why stories like the UC Gundam ones are so distinct; the opposing sides aren't always so polarized, and there are honorable and good people on both, who had just the misfortune of being on the wrong side. I tend to like stories like those as opposed to ones where; well... let's not bring them up anymore or I'll go bash a certain writer again. :heh: But like I've said before; sometimes a failed protagonist or even an antagonist would have made a good hero in another story-- that is the sign of a good character.
There's nothing wrong with either focusing on negatives and ignoring the positives, or with focusing on positives and ignoring the negatives. But imho, true strength lies in that despite knowing everything we do would actually be futile (negatives), we struggle towards that good end nonetheless (positives). It takes even greater strength still to not lose this resolve and to last until the (more than likely) bitter end. Gen knows that much, but probably thinks such strength is impossible to come from mere humans. Thus he gave up on the idea altogether.
"everything is futile" is a highly nihilistic view. Gen ignores happiness because they're transient, an illusion in the bigger picture. That's where I disagree. Happiness is precious because it's transient, and it's sometimes worth one or several lifetimes.
"Human is dirty and weak, therefore we must be petty and act such as it is our nature",
"Human is dirty and weak, therefore we must strive to better ourselves, and to not lose to ourselves".
To be fair though, this philosophy question has been around longer than him, and he merely took the side who focus on the negatives. Philosophically, there is really no definitive answer, and Gen likes to stress that point. But on the practicality of things, I think he's "incomplete", he's the opposite of the "happy man who's ignorant about life's cruelty"
Come to think of it, Gen might benefit to learn Buddhism. :heh:
One-sided negativity is often viewed as an adolescent's perspective - basically an overreaction (and the extreme opposite of childhood naivety) when a teenager recognizes the finality of death and learns that life is full of horrible, unfair things. Supposedly, angry music is popular with youth for this reason.
Of course, there's some chance that he's fooling us and has deliberately chosen to set himself apart from other storytellers. There's no doubt that Gen's reputation was built on dark, twisted writing.
I tend to not like these sorts of productions because I tend to view "entertainment" as a way to escape the realities of the world...not to be reminded of them.
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The St. Marys Legion baseball team saw their run in the Region 8 Tournament come to an end on Monday evening with a loss to French Creek Valley. The 14-4, eight-inning loss was St. Marys' second in the double elimination tournament. "Once again it was just a matter of four or five innings where we played good ball, and then the wheels came off," said St. Marys manager Fran Pasi after the game. Four pitchers spent time on the mound for St. Marys. Kevin Hoy started the game and worked three and one-third innings, giving up six hits and walking two. Jack Herzing worked two-thirds of an inning, giving up one hit. Mitch Meyer took over for an inning, giving up three hits and walking five. Eric Wehler worked the final two and one-third innings, giving up five hits and walking one. "We had a couple pitchers who had sore arms, so we had to go with some kids who hadn't pitched much this year. I thought they did all right, but in a regional like this you need pitchers," Pasi said. Jake Digiacomo and Brandon Sherman both worked the mound for French Creek Valley. Digiacomo started the game and went six innings, giving up eight hits, walking one, and striking out six. Sherman worked the final two innings in relief, giving up two hits and striking out two. St. Marys had a total of 10 hits in the contest, led by Eric Wehler with a triple and a pair of singles. Mitch Meyer had a trio of singles, Jake Cortina recorded a double, and Kevin Hoy, Jack Herzing, and Nick Burdick all singled. French Creek Valley had 15 hits. AJ Thompson led the way with a double and a pair of singles. Adam Bronson had a home run and a single. Stephen Sada had a double and a single, and Kyle Wise and Kyle McCray each had a pair of singles. Tyler Walters, Ryan Paden, Luke Carter, and Hunter Johnston each singled. As the visitors on the scoreboard, St. Marys had the opportunity to bat first. They took full advantage, jumping out to a 2-0 lead. Mitch Meyer led off with a single and scored on a triple to right center by Eric Wehler. Ivan Wortman drove Wehler in on a fielder's choice, making the score 2-0. French Creek Valley answered with a pair of runs of their own in the bottom of the inning to tie things up at 2-all. With one out, Adam Bronson walked and later scored on a passed ball. Kyle Wise reached on a single and scored as Ryan Paden flied out to center.The scoring briefly stopped in the second, but French Creek Valley got things going again in the home half of the third as they took over the lead with a solo homer by Bronson to take a 3-2 advantage. St. Marys fought back in the top of the fourth, scoring their final pair of runs. Wortman reached base on an error and Kevin Hoy singled, and both scored on a double by Jake Cortina for a 4-3 lead. French Creek Valley came right back in the bottom of the inning, this time taking over the lead for good by pushing through four runs. Kyle McCray walked and Luke Carter singled, and both scored on a single by AJ Thompson. Thompson ended up at second on the play and scored on a single by Stephen Sada. St. Marys changed pitchers, sending Jack Herzing to the mound. He gave up a single to Bronson, scoring Sada, to make the score 7-4. St. Marys left a pair of runners stranded in the top of the fifth and French Creek Valley kept their momentum going, adding another four runs to their total for an 11-4 lead. Neither team scored in the sixth inning, and French Creek Valley added another run in the top of the seventh to make their lead 12-4. St. Marys' batters went down in order in the top of the eighth and French Creek Valley sealed the victory in the bottom of the inning with a pair of runs. Hunter Johnston was hit by a pitch and scored on a triple by AJ Thompson. Brandon Sherman flied out to right, scoring Thompson and ending the game as French Creek Valley took a 14-4 lead. Ending their Legion baseball careers were Eric Wehler, Jake Cortina, Kevin Hoy, Anthony Grimone, and Ryan Uhl. "I really appreciate them coming out and playing Legion ball, and I hope they enjoyed the experience," Pasi said. "I hope the younger guys learned a little bit from them."Pasi also expressed his appreciation to his assistant coaches: Kenny Vogt Jr., Mike Cortina, and Jeff Uhl. Looking back, Pasi added that his team's season had turned out all right. "It was a good year, better than I thought it was going to be," he said. French Creek Valley will take on undefeated Wilcox tonight at 7:30 p.m. Wilcox previously defeated French Creek Valley 11-3 on Saturday morning in the opening game of the tournament. St. Marys 4Mitch Meyer 4-1-3, Luke Newhouse 0-0-0, Eric Wehler 4-1-3, Ivan Wortman 4-1-0, Kevin Hoy 4-1-1, Jake Cortina 3-0-1, Jack Herzing 2-0-1, Jonathan Dippold 1-0-0, Dan Singer 4-0-0, Nick Burdick 4-0-1, Anthony Grimone 2-0-0, Vincent Jacob 1-0-0. Totals 34-4-10.French Creek Valley 14Stephen Sada 4-2-2, Brandon Sherman 1-0-0, Adam Bronson 3-2-2, Kyle Wise 4-1-2, Tyler Walters 3-0-1, Scott Sada 0-0-0, Drew Durasa 0-1-0, Ryan Paden 3-0-1, Kyle McCray 4-2-2, Luke Carter 5-1-1, Hunter Johnston 1-2-1, AJ Thompson 5-3-3. Totals 33-14-15. Score by innings RSt. Marys 200 200 00 4FCV 201 440 12 14


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Zoe Chace and Robert Smith are reporting from European borders this week. This is the first story in a four-part series.
A metal strip on the floor of Eurode Business Center marks the border between Germany and the Netherlands.
On one side of the building, there's a German mailbox and a German policeman. On the other side, a Dutch mailbox and a Dutch policeman.
The building was supposed to make it easy to work in both countries. But it's also a reminder of how the European dream isn't yet a reality.
The border is open enough that a single building can span it. No border guards, no checkpoints. But a letter sent from the German side of the building takes a week to get to the Dutch side.
A computer security company called Alunsa has offices on both sides of the building. On one side, Alunsa employees call German customers on German phones. On the other side, it's all Dutch. Raimond Potgens, the company's CEO, has two offices, one on either side of the border. He carries his laptop back and forth all day long.
The reason for all the back and forth: Taxes. "As long as Holland and Germany want all their money, it's not one union," Potgens says.
Jan Schlievert, an EU lawyer who also works in the Eurode, agrees with Potgens. "Money is always the turning point for all these laws," he says.
Schlievert tells the story of a Belgian carpenter who spent his days doing carpentry in Germany, then drove home to spend the night in Belgium. The German company he worked for paid for the car.
Belgium wanted to tax the car because it spent the night in a Belgian driveway. Germany wanted to tax the car because it spent the day on German roads. The fight was such a big deal to both countries that they went to court to figure out who got to tax the car. (Germany won.)
This is how a united Europe is being created. Slowly, case by case, one Belgian carpenter at a time.
Let's cross the English Channel now, and enter the eurozone. Many European nations adopted a single currency years ago. And during the debt crisis, they've been struggling desperately - at great cost - to keep the euro from unraveling.
The euro was supposed to help unify the continent. It's part of a much larger, generations-long project of lowering barriers at European borders.
INSKEEP: But after all this time, the border lines have proven surprisingly durable. Consider the border where we find NPR's Planet Money team.
ZOE CHACE, BYLINE: I'm Zoe Chace. I'm in an office building in the Netherlands.
ROBERT SMITH, BYLINE: And I'm Robert Smith, and I'm in an office building in Germany - and it's actually the same building. There's a borderline that runs right down the middle of the - what do we call this?
HANS HOEVER: We call it Eurode Business Center.
CHACE: Hi. See? We're right next to each other.
SMITH: We're right here.
CHACE: The only sign that we're right on the border, is this metal line embedded in the floor of the building. It's the historical divide between Holland and Germany. Our guide, Hans Hoever, points it out.
SMITH: Where's the border guard?
HOEVER: Border guard? We haven't any - (LAUGHTER) longer.
CHACE: The Eurode Business Center looks like your typical modern office building you might see off the freeway. Just a few floors; dozens of different companies.
SMITH: Everything in this building is twinsies. Here on the German side, there's a German mailbox, German policemen, rows of German companies.
CHACE: Over here: a Dutch mailbox, Dutch policemen, Dutch companies - a few feet away from each other.
SMITH: This building is set up to make it easy to work in multiple countries. But the center's very existence shows how far Europe has to go. Business can be very different, depending on which hallway you go down. For instance, I'm in the German wing...
SMITH: ...where I find Raimond Potgens, CEO of Alunsa. They sell risk-management software to big companies, like Adidas. And at first, it seems like a normal German company, taking German phone calls on German phones.
RAIMOND POTGENS: (Speaking German)
SMITH: But then, Potgens starts talking about his other office - his Dutch office on the other side of the building, just down the hall, where Dutch customers call on his Dutch phone.
POTGENS: (Speaking Dutch)
CHACE: It's not that weird for companies to have German branches and Dutch branches, but they aren't usually 40 yards apart. And it's not usually the same workers carrying their laptops back and forth across the border, every single day.
SMITH: I thought the whole point of having the European Union was so that you didn't have to do crazy stuff like this.
POTGENS: Yeah. But as long as Holland and Germany want all their money, it's not one union.
SMITH: Ah. And there's the problem. The European Union didn't create a central government, and so each country fights for their cut of the taxes. Each country has their own, complicated tax code and when Potgens does the math, he thinks it will be cheaper for him to keep two different offices, just across the border from each other.
CHACE: This nationalist urge to grab all the revenue they can - it's not just taxes. Remember those twin mailboxes standing right next to each other, in two different countries?
SMITH: They aren't just symbolic. If you try to send a letter from one end of this building to the other end, and put it in the wrong box...
POTGENS: The letter will go from here to (unintelligible) with airplane to Frankfurt.
CHACE: It wasn't supposed to be like this. The whole idea of European integration, is the smoothing of the borders.
SMITH: And right in the center of this building, we meet the guy who's trying to eliminate the bumps from one country to another.
JAN SCHLIEVERT: Money is always the turning point for all these laws.
CHACE: Jan Schlievert is a German EU lawyer. When people get stuck between bickering European countries with different laws, they come to him.
SMITH: For instance, Jan tells us the story of the Belgian carpenter. The carpenter spends the day doing carpentry on my side of the border, here in Germany.
CHACE: And then at night, drives the company car home to this side - Belgium.
SCHLIEVERT: And then there's a problem because the Belgium taxation office might say, well, you're here in Belgium as a private citizen, driving that car.
CHACE: So Belgium wants to tax the car because it spends the night in a Belgian driveway.
SMITH: And Germany wants to tax the car because it spends the day on German roads. They had to go all the way to the European court, to figure this one out. Germany won.
CHACE: I know it might seem minor, but a unified Europe is being created like this - case by case. Jan Schlievert says they have a saying.
SCHLIEVERT: (Speaking foreign language) - a Europe from the regions.
CHACE: A Europe from the regions.
SMITH: Of course, when the United States created a country from a bunch of regions, it had a central government to help.
CHACE: And a couple hundred years to do it.
SMITH: Europe has buildings like this one, perched between two nations and taking it one car, one mailbox, one problem at a time.
I'm Robert Smith.
CHACE: Zoe Chace, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Prang Pantusart: UA has been a welcoming second home05/03/2013
Prang Pantusart brought her A game to The University of Akron, and from her first days on campus until now, she has been in top form in the classroom and on the tennis court.
Prang Pantusart
The native of Chiang Mai, Thailand, is an honors finance major, with an emphasis on corporate financial management, and she has been a standout on the women's tennis team. On Friday, May 10, Pantusart will receive a B.S. in Finance, cum laude at the 7 p.m. commencement ceremony, at which she has been chosen to speak on behalf of the Spring 2013 Class as the student responder.
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"When I found out about the excellent business program and the opportunity to play Division I collegiate tennis, I chose to come to Akron, too," says Pantusart.
Ranked No. 173 by the International Tennis Federation in April 2009, Pantusart was offered a full scholarship to UA. Through her years on the team playing singles and doubles matches, Pantusart has received several awards. They include Most Valuable Player tournament honors and being named to the all-tournament team in 2012, right after the Zips clinched their second Mid-American Conference championship in as many years.
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Her success on the court is matched in the classroom. Honored as a scholar-athlete by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, she has made the Dean's List seven consecutive semesters.
Pantusart, who has traveled to more than a dozen countries over her young life, has continued to expand her worldview while at UA. She had a one-month study abroad experience at the University of Ulsan in Korea, and, in summer 2012, served two internships in her hometown. She worked at the Krung Thai Bank as a loan assistant manager, and as a lawyer assistant with the Royal Thai Police.
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And, so has the time she devoted to community service. Pantusart has volunteered for several organizations, including Habitat for Humanity and the Akron-Canton Regional Food Bank, where she helped package food donations for Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.
She would have liked to be more involved.
"It's very hard to balance everything," notes Pantusart, who credits Dr. Melinda Newman, an associate professor of finance, with helping her stay on track when she had to miss classes to travel with the team. "Fortunately, I enjoyed my classes and I tried to manage my available time to get everything done."
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"I would encourage new freshmen to get involved and make the most of their time here," Pantusart continues. "Akron will welcome you as warmly as if it were your own home."


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Both Christian Eriksen and Mesut Ozil made huge moves this summer, the former to Tottenham and the latter to the hated rivals down the road, Arsenal.
Although based on consistency, performance in big games, and current talent, Ozil seems to be the clear choice of the two - but who would you rather have? After all Eriksen, 21, is much younger and cost much less.
Here, the two players will be compared and analysed, and the decision will be left up to you. Remember, it's not the better player, but who would you rather have on your team, while considering the price and long term impact.
Christian Eriksen
Tottenham found their long-awaited replacement for Rafael van der Vaart and Luka Modric. Well, actually, the wait wasn't even that long but it seemed an eternity as Spurs could have used anyone with that creative talent to help them qualify for the Champions League.
Eriksen is that guy, and maybe more.
The Danish attacking midfielder was linked with bigger clubs, such as Liverpool and Manchester City. It seems he made the right choice as he is thriving at Tottenham. His creative presence couples perfectly with full-width players Roberto Soldado, Gylfi Sigurdson, and Andros Townsend. Meanwhile, he is guaranteed a regular, starting role that he would not have been at Manchester City.
Here are some of his advantages over Ozil.
At 21, Eriksen is not even close to his ceiling. Meanwhile, Ozil is 24; he is still young, but has nowhere near the same amount of raw potential. Eriksen also cost a mere £11m, compared to Ozil's hefty £42.4m price tag.
Eriksen is a bigger physical body as well, allowing him to make tough passes in traffic. In those situations, Eriksen can stay up while Ozil might be forced off the ball. Lastly, Eriksen has a creative element to his game that Ozil doesn't have.
It sounds crazy, but Eriksen can thread passes that no one else in the world could see. His pure ability to see, react, and create is something that is extremely rare and priceless. Eriksen is pure class, and the sky is his limit. Offensively, he is a juggernaut and can even put in a goal every now and than. He has all the right combinations to be a star and the premier number ten in England.
Mesut Ozil
Ozil was not the steal that Eriksen was. However, he was definitely worth his price and is still only 24.
The German midfielder might be the spark that Arsenal needs to elevate their game. They've already made it clear that they want to be contenders this year. Ozil has single-handedly transformed their transfer window from abysmal to decent.
Ozil doesn't fit in as seamlessly as Eriksen does. He takes away time from established players such as Arteta and Cazorla and makes Wilshere and Ramsey assume more defensive positions. Still, nobody at Arsenal is complaining because Ozil likely is the best player on that team.
Here are his advantages over Eriksen.
The German craftsman is an established superstar. During a few, very successful seasons at Real Madrid his passing was probably the best from his position in the world. Last year, he had 35 assists for club and country in all competitions. It would be shocking to see him have an off year any time soon.
Skill-wise, he is also the better passer. Just in terms of the balls he can play, no one in the world can match his precision and accuracy. He is the better decision maker as well, and will pick the right pass, rarely forcing one. Although he cannot match Eriksen's creativity, he makes up for it in skill. He can create space so as to find himself with multiple passing lanes, leaving him all alone to make a decision. If you were asked to pick an all star team right now, it would be hard to say that somebody could do Ozil's job better.
If you're looking for the better player, it's Ozil hands down. He has proven himself time and time again and is one of the best players in the world. However, the player you'd rather have on your team is a trickier question. The younger Eriksen seems to have an even higher ceiling than Ozil, given his physical attributes and creativity.
Costing just over a quarter of what Ozil did, he represents one of the steals of the summer. If Tottenham can keep him for years to come, their goal might transform into Champions instead of Champions' League.
Ozil throws Arsenal into that discussion now. His skills will help them tremendously in all games, but especially the Champions' League, where he is familiar with style of play and tempo. Ozil also turns Olivier Giroud into a great striker and omnipresent threat. He is more consistent.
With either player, you're well set but it seems the argument comes down to whether you'd rather take a risk on the future or go all in for now.
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Colored Orphan Asylum (Oxford, N.C.)
Annual Report of the Colored Orphan Asylum Located at Oxford, North Carolina from January 1, 1908, to December 1, 1908
Oxford, N.C.: The Asylum, 1909.
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The seven documents summarized here provide a historical view of efforts to care for African American orphans in North Carolina. Periodic reports, which comprise the middle 5 documents in the list above, provide updates describing the incremental growth of the Colored Orphan Asylum in Oxford, NC (now called the Central Children's Home of North Carolina) along with the persistent efforts to raise funds to support the orphanage's growing enrollment. The first and last documents shown above, authored almost 50 years apart, reveal the great progress made during this period toward the goal of "racial uplift," as well as a shift in the prevailing tone of African American leaders in North Carolina. However, the authors of all these documents seem to have written with a common purpose, a sense of collective responsibility and shared goals that seems to have inspired the founders and directors of the orphanage during its first half-century.
The first document, an 1890 pamphlet titled "An Appeal for Help",takes a meek tone in its address to readers. It is filled with Christian references and reveals both optimism and pressing need. "We . . . earnestly ask that every church, Sunday-school and individual will pray the blessings of God upon the work," the authors write, adding that orphans "are coming in as rapidly as we can provide for them" (p. 1). The precise authorship of the 1890 "Appeal" is unclear; the document lists "A. Shepard, President," and "M.C. Ramson, Secretary" as cosigners, but it also asks interested parties to direct queries to "Rev. Robert Shepard" and contributions to "Mr. Henry Hester"—all residents of Oxford, NC, a small town north of Raleigh. This collective quality of authorship demonstrates the shared purpose and united efforts of many African Americans during the period after Reconstruction, when "racial uplift" and the need to combat racial prejudice were common goals. To that end, the authors express their desire to "open an industrial department as soon as possible" (p. 1). These comments suggest that African Americans in North Carolina were experiencing similar challenges to those of black Southerners elsewhere: during this period, the "Great Migration" from South to North left many homeless, economically insecure, and detached from extended families who once acted as support networks.
The "Appeal" also suggests that the founders of the Colored Orphan Asylum acted in the spirit of Booker T. Washington, who led the drive to found Tuskegee University in 1881, seeking to promote industrial and vocational education for young black Southerners ("History of Tuskegee University"). In his autobiography, Up From Slavery, Washington promoted practical skills over abstract knowledge: "[w]e wanted to teach them to study actual things instead of mere books alone" (p. 126). Students at Tuskegee (including Ralph Ellison, who later critiqued Washington's philosophy in Invisible Man) were expected to work for their education, demonstrating initiative and dedication to a hard day's work in addition to academic inspiration.
The next five documents are annual reports from the Oxford orphanage, each addressing the year previous to the publication date. These annual reports contain specific metrics that may be interesting to students of history, political science, and sociology. For example, enrollment grew at a steady clip from 1908-1911: there were 144 students in October 1908, 165 in December 1909, 201 in December 1910, and 231 in December 1911. It is also telling that the ratio of girls to boys remained relatively constant over this period (ranging from 3:2 to 6:5), which suggests that caretakers may have been slightly more inclined to place female children in the care of the orphanage than male children. These annual reports also list the Board of Directors, which remained relatively static over these years, as well as lists of "receipts" and "disbursements" and a "Report of Superintendent" outlining the challenges faced and the progress made each year. In the 1909 report, for example, Superintendent H. P. Cheatham notes that "Although the management of the orphanage changed hands on the first of this year and to us everything was new, and notwithstanding the severe and embarrassing panic and floods, which have caused unusual hard times among the people, subjecting us to hardships and responsibilities of almost two years in one . . . this has been to us a prosperous year": the orphanage had added a "blacksmith and wood-working shop," a "shoe and harness shop," and a "three story 40x40 granary" complete with "ventilators . . . and glass windows" in 1908 (pp. 3, 4). Cheatham also praised the "Father of the Fatherless" for the good health of the orphanage's residents, despite outbreaks of typhoid and scarlet fever that had plagued Oxford, including "our 'sister home,' the white orphanage here" (p. 6).
The most interesting of these five annual reports might be the first, published in 1900, which includes a concise history of the founding of the orphanage as well as the institution's constitution (adopted in 1891) and bylaws (added in 1899). The report notes that the orphanage was originally organized under the auspices of the Wake Baptist Association and the Shiloh Baptist Association, and had originally been designated "The Colored Baptist Orphan Association of North Carolina," but that the all-Baptist board had decided to strike the religious affiliation from the title "so that when the doors of the Asylum were first opened . . . the most needy colored orphan children were invited to come, regardless of denomination" (pp. 3-4). The author (or authors, who might include Shephard) emphasize the founding role of "Rev. A. Shephard," who "saw the pressing need" for the orphanage in order to redeem destitute children "from the gutters of vice and misery" in order that "instead of being a dark blot upon civilization and Christianity, they might become blessings in the communities in which they live" (p. 3). The report also acknowledges that "[m]any of the best white people encouraged the movement, and some of them tendered substantial aid in helping us commence the work by giving of their means" (p. 4).
The last document, a 1939 pamphlet from the Oxford orphanage, echoes the collective, group-based tone of the original 1890 "Appeal" but sounds a new note of pride in the determined individuals who founded the orphanage against all odds. In a short preface, superintendent T. K. Borders expresses his desire that readers "see the Orphanage through the eyes of four members of the Board of Directors" (p. 2). This comment is followed by the transcripts of speeches by Dr. E. E. Toney, Mr. B. W. Parham, and Mr. J.W. Medford, all of Oxford, NC, as well as Dr. C. C. Spaulding, President of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in Durham, NC. Each address had been previously broadcast over WPTF, a Raleigh, North Carolina, radio station.
Dr. Toney's address again recounts the history of the "Colored Orphanage," noting that "[i]n 1883 a group of Negroes became possessed with the idea that there should be some place in North Carolina where homeless Negro children who had lost their parents might be given the care and training of a home" (p. 3). Toney honors the contributions of two other men: "the late Hon. H. P. Cheatham . . . and the Rev. Augustus Shepard," both from Henderson, North Carolina, and goes on to list the entire Board of Directors by name (p. 3). He also notes with pride that "[t]he 16 acres of land in 1883 have become 450 acres in 1938," and the original three buildings have grown to "eleven brick modern structures" (p. 3). Finally, Toney thanks the "sympathetic individuals" who contributed to the orphanage's support during the "very trying" early years, as well as the state of North Carolina and the "Duke Endowment" (p. 3).
In his address, Mr. B. W. Parham points out that Oxford is actually home to two orphanages: "the Oxford Orphanage, a splendid institution owned by the Masonic Fraternity of North Carolina and well-known throughout the State; and the Colored Orphanage of North Carolina, not so well known" (p. 4). Describing the history of the Colored Orphanage, Parham states: "It just grew. I doubt if anybody can tell just how it grew" (p. 4). Parham argues that technical training is crucial to the mission of the orphanage: "[u]nless we can develop these boys and girls into good citizens, both willing and able to earn a living and to make their contribution to the welfare and progress of the State, we have done very little" (p. 4, p. 7). Parham concludes with the observation that "[w]e do not solve social problems by the court or the jail or the chain gang," and he urges North Carolinians to support the "great work" of the Colored Orphanage (p. 7).
J. W. Medford, the orphanage's treasurer, notes that "[t]he Duke family has for many years exhibited a great deal of interest in the Orphanage and their liberal contributions have provided a school building, a little boys dormitory and many other desirable additions to the plant" (p. 5). In addition to thanking these benefactors, he addresses the needs of the orphanage, urging "the colored people of North Carolina" to "[l]ook into the faces of these 150 children . . . who will soon be out of the Orphanage, and citizens of our State" and to contribute to the orphanage's funds (p. 8).
Dr. C.C. Spaulding, whom many credit for the black-owned North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company's early success, became general manager of the company in 1900 and succeeded Dr. Aaron Moore as president in 1923 ("Spaulding"). In the transcript of his radio address, Spaulding outlines the history of the orphanage and the directors' plans for its future. He concludes with an appeal for racial pride and cooperation, noting that "the moral and spiritual growth of a race is largely dependent upon the investment made in Youth" (p. 6).
The 1939 pamphlet concludes with a list of "Needs of the Colored Orphanage of North Carolina," which include the construction of a cow barn, repainting expenses, an increase in capacity, and "more adequate" clothing, food, and training for its wards. This second appeal, and others since then, raised at least enough funds to keep the home open and operating. The orphanage, which has since been renamed the Central Children's Home of North Carolina, now describes its mission as caring for individuals aged 9-21 who cannot remain with their parents because of "dependency, neglect or abuse" ("Central Children's Home").
Works Consulted: "Central Children's Home of North Carolina, Inc.: 'Pioneer Child Care Institution': About Us," referenced 20 Dec 2009; "History of Tuskegee University," Tuskegee University, referenced 20 Dec 2009>; "Spaulding, C. C. (Charles Clinton), 1874-1952," Civil Rights Digital Library, referenced 30 Dec 2009; Washington, Booker T., Up From Slavery, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1995.
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Nathan and Raizy Glauber, both 21 and Orthodox Jews, were using a car service to go to the hospital when another vehicle crashed into the side of theirs at an intersection in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, Hasidic community activist and family friend Isaac Abraham said.
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Sales today often hinges on a website. You need some sort of presence online to participate in the many marketing channels available. While you can build a site or page within Facebook or other walled gardens, as they are often called, your best strategy will entail having your own presence directly on the Internet.
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