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|2012-04-06, 11:30
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And just so I can triple post, some other points to consider:
1. Thinking of how much effort we put into solving the games, even if Ep 4 Ange's adventures are bogus, that does not mean we shouldn't put some effort into solving her scenario. If it IS a fiction then it is even more likely we can pinpoint a sensible culprit, WITH all the internal logic that would require.
2. Referring to the heart of Beato's games (at least 1 and 2 and possibly 3 and 4) as all the truths we learn about Yasu and her motivations, it sort of makes it less likely that her stories were written post event to cover culprit X. The only way this would work is if culprit X ties into her heart, otherwise we didn't even come close to any gut tearing.
3. Just because the truth in the book of single truths causes Angie to commit suicide (or likely, the translation of the interview gets a little hazy around this section), it doesn't mean it is necessarily a culprit statement. Couldn't Angie reading that "you/no-one will ever know the truth" or something like that also have a similar effect? The only problem here is it has to be a truth that Eva would keep from her, but that could be as simple as "Battler's actions (sin) lead to the death of everyone". It is even possible it contained confirmation that everyone bar Eva had died, taking away the hope that keeps Angie living.
That last one is a little dubious, but interesting to think about.
|2012-04-06, 11:47
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RK07's interview comments should always be kept in context. In that particular interview Keiya guided a lot of the discussion, so I think RK07 was in part answering to Keiya's particular line of reasoning. Unfortunately, I think people tend to give Keiya too much credit and don't pay enough attention to exactly how RK07 responds to Keiya.
For example:
And again:
So, to put it simply, I think it's best to be very careful about drawing conclusions from these interviews and to keep in mind the circumstances in which RK07 says what he says. I think he doesn't like to narrow the spectrum of interpretation of Umineko too much, so he often avoids refuting ideas even if they are somewhat off the mark.
We've had considerable discussion on this forum as to what EP4 1998 Ange really is. Ultimately I think that EP4 Ange is fictional; she is Touya imagining (possibly with Ikuko's help) what things are like for the real Ange. The question is whether the elements such as Maria's diary, the multiple Sakutarous, and the mysteriously delivered bank cards were things Touya knew about and exposed in the story, or whether he just made them up.
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|2012-04-06, 20:31
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Of course it can be said that Will is merely an existence similar to Dlanor, a personification of the 20 wedges however Will seems to differ from Dlanor so I like to think at him as to an alterego of Battler/Toya.
It might be just me though.
Because it's really easy to say 'I hate that person so I'll kill him' and, although less easy, a plan can be made to accomplish this but, once you found yourself about to end a life... well, unless you've a really low moral sense it's not so easy.
Also in the interview there's no clear distinction between PieceShannon/Yasu and Prime Shannon/Yasu.
We know Yasu was the culprit in the gameboard and Ryukishi confirmed this. What is not so clear is if she was also the culprit for Rokkenjima Prime.
But let's assume he was speaking about Prime.
As something 'mysterious' would have happened even if Battler weren't to come back it's also possible that Yasu planned to leave/disappear/commit suicide.
This would be more fitting with her personality while at the same time might involve a wish to be stopped.
Ep 8 is mostly Ange's inner battle until she finds her own truth in which to believe.
In Prime Ange likely disappeared short after Eva's death and EP 4 proposed 2 possible solutions for this: one is the fantasy one, where she was killed trying to help Battler (which can be a metaphor for how Ange suffered), the other... let's call it the mystery one as she's likely killed during the shooting.
General belief is that both those two solutions are what Toya thought had happened to Ange after he started to recover his memory, refused to meet her and heard she disappeared short after.
Theoretically it's also possible that Ange's adventures in Ep 4 were something that she made up in her mind (her past being the only true thing... even though the 'magic' parts were obviously fantasy).
So evidently the truth was a little more unpleasant than just 'you don't get to know a thing about it' though the book might have not contained all the truth but just the unpleasant part of it.
|2012-04-06, 20:50
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These are some very good points, though there are some holes that can be mentioned. First thing that came to my mind was that if everyone had died then there wouldn't have been that much for Ange to inherit to begin with, remember Eva had to go about rebuilding the fortune by selling off whatever was not blown to smithereens.
Secondly, I still feel that if Ep4 Ange is a fictional one then it should be possible to construct a working theory for how her world went, because while Ryu does play vague context games (that interview must be heavily edited unless he is just that well prepared/quick on his feet to come up with such carefully worded word games), he did state there was a truth you could arrive at with investigation. Even if this only applies to Ep4 Angie's scenario, I feel there is an answer that should be met with more certainty.
Furthermore, if you state that her "imagining an incident" refers to constructing the stories of the message bottles, then so too must "carrying out the incident". I'll agree that the context is vague, but hopefully it is consistent.
Finally, while the murder game scenario does have a lot of reasonable points (despite going against my confession's direct interpretation (which is fine)) and it IS possible one of the pre-warned adults hijacked it all, it does leave a few points that annoy me.
1. If the game was so innocent, why send the money to the relatives of the players? Especially when one of them was 6 years old. If she decided to do them all this way then how was she going to pay those who had no off-island family, and if she was just going to pay everyone then the adults wouldn't have been so money stricken anyway.
2. Why send them as if they were sent from the relatives when the letters would likely have arrived after they had returned home safely and all answers had been revealed/solved.
3. While money isn't enough to make up for the murder of a family (just ask Lamba about this one), could it not equally be interpreted that if she knew the whole island was going up she knew the wealth needed dispersal as payment before the game began?
4. Would Yasu pay them off twice? In her forgeries it was sort of implied that she did a big reveal of her plans while on the island, unless this is a load of croc she probably would have had to do the paying while there. Also what did she plan to do with all the gold? If she was going to divide it, why send out payment beforehand when NONE OF THE PEOPLE PRESENT could really confirm it had been sent except by her word?
5. Would everyone go in with that idea anyway? I believe one of the episodes addressed everyone agreeing to sell off the family name for money, and this is asking everyone to scare their family half to death. Unless it was meant to be played as a pure game, in which case it should have become evident after TW1 that it was NOT. (It interested me that they always referred to the red gory parts on people as makeup in the games, but come on, it is pretty hard to 'make up' holes in people's faces. I'd like to think even gameboard accomplices must have picked up on this and stayed silent for other reasons, which become more difficult if everyone is equally involved in the scheme).
I realise this is all possibly only relevant to Ep4 Ange, but I still want to know her story....
And some further questions:
1. Did anyone else ever wonder exactly when Kumisawa solved the epitaph? It seems likely she did from her possessions, and why would Ryu bother showing this to us?
2. Did anyone else notice that if you use the phrase "I wouldn't put it past Ryu" from the logic of Umineko you are basically stating that you are believing in a reason or circumstance that is simply untrue?
Phew that was a lot of typing, I should get a job writing meta-dialogue for the seven stakes.
|2012-04-06, 21:13
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Just as nitpicking, I am pretty sure telling Ange she wouldn't know a thing about it was Eva's last shot to her, which if we take her metaphorical journey to search for the truth as being what keeps her from stepping off the ledge, is probably not as weak an insult as you think.
Also you make a good point about her resolve, though I did mention the whole willing and able to carry out context, here is some food for thought:
Do you think it would be equally within her character to set up a scenario where others might kill? It is a bit like having the bomb set and waiting for someone to turn it off (which flipping the switch is arguably a passive way to kill everybody, especially as she leaves it to fate whether or not it is switched back). We know she likes leaving things to fate, so I wonder if she could have merely placed all the pieces to the murders in everyone's hands, and then sat back and let fate decide what went on?
Also, this could be completely wrong, but I always assumed the incident that would have happened had he not come back would have been the death of either Shannon or (more likely, come on) Kannon. More importantly, not only would it be a little harsh of Ryu have likened her to a culprit forewarning of his crimes if she really wanted to be stopped from leaving or disappearing, but if we take that idea to be true, when she was understood by her messages, those things still would have happened. Though she would have accepted anyone, she WANTED Battler to solve it, which would have killed off Kannon at least anyway. So we know it had to be something that would have been stopped had it been solved, which could be her suicide, except that would not have been very mysterious.
|2012-04-06, 22:28
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Ergo someone older was supposed to receive the letter.
Also the letter was addressed to Rudolf and not to Ange.
Plus Yasuda couldn't know Ange would have fallen sick.
If Ange too had been there and died there would have been no point in sending her the letter as no one would be there to receive it.
If you're talking about which end she met it's pretty clear that on Rokkenjima she ended up being shoot, possibly/likely by Amakusa as heavily implied by EP 7/8.
If it's a game/believed to be a game people might accept to play... if it's the real thing I doubt it unless seriously threatened. And even if that was the case many Ushiromiya might think to attack her as they're strong enough to deal with a girl.
Saying she purposely set up a scenario where other would kill to me is like saying she killed by proxy. It's easier than doing it personally but much more risky and harder to control.
We don't even know if she was the one who flipped the switch or someone else did so and, as long as you plan to switch off the switch there's no murdering intention (though it'll be hard to prove it in front of a jury).
In short the problem many have is that yes, Yasu might have planned a mass murder and then done it but it just wouldn't fit with her character or with what Umineko implied.
In short they would both disappear and since they're the only real faces Yasu have, Yasu would disappear.
It is however debatable if Yasu would disappear throuh suicide or throuh faking it.
If she managed to build up the Ikuko's identity she might have considered leaving.
If she planned to die she might have considered dragging George and Jessica with herself as well in a love suicide.
We'll never know unless more material is released...
If Battler weren't to return she would likely have no one to whom ask to stop her as her messages in the games were target made for Battler.
Of course here we're assuming that Prime Yasu had in mind to kill everyone and herself... and we don't know if that's true...
|2012-04-07, 00:27
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2. Assuming the hope of learning something was what was keeping her alive, finding there was no hope of learning anything might just cause her to go over the edge. It seemed like she planned to kill herself at the end of her journey unless she found some reason not to along the way anyway. I could easily speculate her reaction at reading the book was her despair over having to finally give up any hope of learning more about the day, and having that last "what if" crushed. We know despite her cool demeanor, her piece at least still held onto a lot of these little hopes.
Furthermore, isn't a risky and hard to control situation exactly what Shannon's character would like? The romance of leaving the outcome to fate, with all the risk being able to be taken by passively waiting around to see the outcome?
Of course, I can't deny she was just about to throw it all in and kill off all of her personalities, sort of Ep 4 style.
I know I originally had more points, especially regarding the bit about dividing the fortune, but this is all I can remember for now.....
|2012-04-07, 00:56
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One thing I'm sure everyone can agree on is that whatever Yasu did, it was some kind of cry for attention.
1. To elaborate on what has already been brought up, the letter that Ange got with the bank card had a bogus send-to address and the return address of her father. So there's no reason to assume she was the intended recipient unless you believe that the sender knew Rudolf would be dead by the time it got to his house. Also since it's the return address method, the mailing trick could have worked on the Rokkenjima mansion's address just the same as any other address (assuming the mansion's destruction wasn't intended ).
2. I don't know. It could have been an additional award Yasu was giving without any announcement; like, she had already planned to give all the money away but didn't want to give it away before the game or else she wouldn't have all the leverage she might need to gain everyone's participation. She may have used blackmail or threats to get peoples' cooperation, too.
3. Sure. But if she knew the island was going to blow up, she's pretty evil. And if she's that evil, why the good deed of dispersing the money?
4. See answer to 2.
5. I agree that people going along with the murder game is kind of hard to swallow, but I'd like to point out that going along with real murders is even harder to swallow. Let's also keep in mind there could be ulterior motives to participation, like what we see in End where pretty much everyone participates in a fake murder scenario to corner Natsuhi. The first Twilights of Legend and Turn do seem like they couldn't have been faked, but honestly I just have to resort to hand-waving those parts because everything fits so well if they are somehow fake anyway, despite their description.
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|2012-04-07, 05:14
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|2012-04-07, 05:16
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The first twilight of Legend doesn't seem that hard to fake. The only real wounds were on the faces, right? It could have been done with 'bloody make-up', heck, they even use the word 'make-up' repeatedly during that section to hint it. I'm sure if someone had tried actually touching the faces it would have become clear that they weren't really damaged.
For Turn, the candies could have been covering the supposed openings in their stomachs, right? Wasn't the only one who actually saw their stomachs sliced open Rosa, who's an accomplice? It would be difficult, but I don't think it's impossible.
|2012-04-07, 05:35
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Amongst the possessions Angie was shown from Kumisawa's son was a picture of the chapel with the writing translated, to which he mentioned she liked solving puzzles and tried the epitaph. If she got that far, she probably knew the answer (I maybe should have spoiler tagged something here....)
And what I was referring to with the windows, was if it was said in game there was a way to escape the room not using the windows I would be very interested to hear theories on it, if it were said on these boards there is less onus for it to be true.
|2012-04-07, 05:39
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And the thing I was trying to say about Bern's puzzle is the white narration (which HAS to be true) said that "Nanjo was killed in the entrance hall to the guest house", which if we follow to the letter means that George's "no one could kill Doctor Nanjo inside the guesthouse!" false by default. Unless this is a translation error in the patch it is a logic error in the game for George NOT to be lying, hence why I chose him over Battler.
|2012-04-07, 05:49
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Also, I would say that the puzzle of why she sent out the money is an important one, because it is one the characters in metaworld dangled in front of us (for me sort of implying it was something Battler was on a personal level trying to figure out, supporting its real occurrence). If it was to pay people for a murder game, she wouldn't be able to prove she had done it, sort of invalidating its purpose. However if she were just mad enough to leave the possibility of the island blowing up to chance, but not quite mean spirited enough not to send out some money, this could fit with her wanting to be stopped (therefore feeling guilt). This would also fit with what Ryu may have been saying regarding her determination.
However despite what I argue in my devil's advocate way, I too feel that there must be some way she isn't wholly responsible for what went on, as I felt Battler at least believed she was acting as a scapegoat (or Ange depending on whose Meta world it was). Either that or Japanese cultural guilt practices make it ok for him to feel like since he drove her to do it, it was his fault in the first place. If he looks at it from the point of the torture he put her through, it is a possible emotion I guess (from what I have glimpsed in a few movies, Japanese culture treats guilt and its ramifications slightly differently, though this is very vaguely skimmed hearsay)
Meanwhile, it seems my (not actually typed in the colour of but in the spirit of) blue truths regarding Ange were effective.
|2012-04-07, 06:40
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Was thinking about theories like George culprit (within the arcs) of Chrono.
That is alternate culprit theories beside Yasu culprit theories. I just don't see how they work. So I'd like to see if anyone has actually a way to deal with this major problem:
What's the point for Yasu/Beatrice to write a story if the culprit in that story is someone else? Especially like, in George's case, she'd picture her bf as the culprit.
It's nice and all to find alternative solutions, none likes those more then I do, but some answers ends up causing too much nonsense when it comes to fit in other solutions. That said, there might be something I don't see, this is why I'm posting this.
|2012-04-07, 08:22
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If you talk about the murders on Rokkenjima in Ep 4 the culprit is always Yasu.
It's the culprit in Prime that sadly is always up to debate.
Now, about imagining things...
Imagining things it's easy and with no consequences and, if you're a planner, you generally will imagine in your mind everything regardless of you doing it or not and Yasu IS a planner so if she imagined something it's also possible it was something she mean to carry on.
Now let's compare the two fantasies:
- killing so many people can be easily imagined but it'll be really hard to carry on both pratically and emotionally. Even if she might have said 'I'm angry with them, I'll kill them all' it becomes hard to believe she had the determination, lack of moral/empathy, the skill and the luck to carry it out. A side of her is fond of those people, they're many, they'll fight back and so on.
- killing/faking to kill herself (therefore causing both Shannon and Kanon to disappear) is technically much easier. As no one suspect it there's no one trying to stop her apart her sense of self preservation that would probably prompt her to search someone who would stop her. The island is big, she has access to weapons, all she has to do is to pull an EP 2 trick if she want to murder herself for real or simulate her murder and escape with the boat if she wants to just escape.
But there's more. Even if we assume Yasu wanted to be stopped in Prime and that's why she orchestrated the games maybe all she wanted Battler to stop was her marriage with George. She might have thought in the end she would have worked enough courage to tell him the truth (or that she would have postponed the issue) but regardless of her telling him the truth or not, as soon as she leaves Rokkenjima Kanon disappear.
The problem with Prime is we don't really have a Prime Yasu among the characters presented. Even EP 7 is the confession of Piece Yasu.
Of all the siblings only Krauss said he knew how to convert it in money (and he might have lied) and likely he couldn't convert it all in just a blink.
It's possible Genji too knew how to convert it in money, though it's also possible that the money he handed to Yasu was merely Kinzo's property and didn't come out of the gold.
The adults were disperate. If she sent them messages (instead of meeting them directly) in which she introduced herself as... let's say Beatrice and promised money if they were to do something apparently harmless it's possible the siblings would fall for it or think it was worth a try.
In Ep 3 we have all the adults think that 'Beatrice' knows where the gold is and wants them to do something in exchange for the gold.
Now, Yasu might have not hold her part of the bargain and not sent out the money... but she decided to do so anyway.
However if in Prime people didn't die for real the accomplices would still play along.
Think at EP 5 or 6 in which people faked their deaths and continued to fake it for a while. Likely in EP 5 Jessica didn't realize she was giving her mother the scare of her life but thought she was merely playing a prank.
The same hapens in EP 4 where likely she made the phone call under the impression that everything had been a prank and she fell for it... only in EP 4 she got killed for real afterward.
Also Kumasawa knew many of Kinzo's secrets, including the existence of Beato 2, Yasu and Kuwadorian. Like Genji she might have known how to reach the gold.
No, for Shannon and Kanon to exist Yasu needs accomplices among which surely was Genji, likely Kumasawa and Nanjo and possibly even Natsuhi and Krauss that wanted to make sure that, when the siblings were coming to visit, only trusted servants would be around.
one was that someone was still alive the other was that Eva, or someone else that weren't her parents, was the culprit.
She doesn't really want the TRUTH but a version of the truth she might like.
She wished/considered to die/disappear then heard of Battler's return and set up the mystery game. The mystery game went wrong and Rokkenjima blew up.
For example if she were to leave around a blood stained knife or a ripped piece of her clothes or if someone where to see in the distance something that could look like someone attacking her and, once he were to reach the scene would find nothing. Actually she could even use Battler's trick in Ep 5 and let others think she fell from a window when she actually reached safely the ground and then escaped.
For a fake murder there are really tons of tricks she could use...
Though if the culprit were to be George I think Ange would have accepted that truth because it would remove suspicions from her parents (even though it was probably not as satisfing as the Eva culprit theory for her).
In fact when Erika suggests it she has no complains against it.
|2012-04-07, 09:25
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And some general thoughts:
1. Wasn't the whole mirror smashing (which happened arguably in all games) meant to represent Shannon giving into Baetrice's taunts about staying passive leading to everything staying the same forever? This could be seen as her finally taking action....
2. There is the possibility she has shown resolve to hurt someone before. It is possible that the servant who disrespected Beatrice before falling down the stairs may have actually been a true story, and after all, we know Genji is good at quietly cleaning up the mess of his master....(we also suspect that Yasu apparently liked to make others believe in Beatrice, and post-mirror smash and post-Maria snapping, who know what she became capable of)
3. People always bring up that we know almost nothing about R-Prime, but Ryu himself stated he gave out enough clues to know what happened with pretty much absolute certainty. If this causes people to complain that the only clues we have pertain to events that happened in the games, then that must be where the clues to what happened on R-Prime lie. After all, Battler does know the truth, he just doesn't remember it all at once.
4. The problem with basing culprit theories solely off Ange's reaction, is that her family being the culprit isn't the only thing she could have read in that book she thought was terrible. A big theme in the games was the children's disgust over how their parents were acting over the money, maybe she read something about how her supposedly sinless parents let their greed take over all other morals, and got themselves and others killed in an otherwise avoidable manner. I have thrown around a few other theories about what she may have read in there, all I am saying is, YES we know she thought it was terrible, but what clues do we have about what the terrible thing actually was otherwise?
The only problem here is a lot of Ryu's clues are more apparent once you know the answer, and the only way to distinguish them from the red herrings before that point is to look for one answer that ties everything together neatly (which he likes) and cross your fingers.
|2012-04-07, 10:12
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The sentences were said in different moments so taken in context the word can have different meanings and we don't know if the sentences referred solely to PieceYasu or also to PrimeYasu or one referred solely to PieceYasu while the other referred to both.
The dilemma with Yasu is that I think nearly all the fandom believes her capable to picture herself as committing the murders but only few see her as capable of actually carrying on her plan in Prime.
I might be wrong but apparently Krauss didn't really control Kinzo's money that much, he just used Kinzo's name as insurance. Until Kinzo's death Kinzo controlled his own money. If after he died Krauss could have had access to Kinzo's money he could have paid his debts.
At this point they should have panicked, realized it wasn't a game and they had been tricked and tattled out what they know.
In Our Confession Yasu depicts everyone as pretty selfish so it's possible that on the gameboard Eva and Hideyoshi were willing to cooperate with a murderer but it's hard to think that the real Eva and Hideyoshi would do the same... unless Rokkenjima hosted quite a good group of monsters.
Technically Kumasawa was Yasu's teacher (same as Virgilia was for Beato) and as she might have behind some pranks and loved to spread rumors she might have represented the 'previous Beato'.
"Beatrice" is just a title after all.
Plus remember Natsuhi tends to check the servants' work so if Shannon adn Kanon's schedule were to cross one of them wouldn't be able to do his job and she would notice.
However Eva's diary while containing the truth might not have contained the WHOLE truth.
If Eva for example saw Kirye shooting at someone and wrote it in the diary this would be true but it wouldn't contain why Kirye shoot to that person. If Kirye did so because she believed that person was actually trying to kill her, regardless of this being true or false, Kirye wouldn't be an evil murderer, just someone who acted in what she believed was self defence.
But Eva couldn't know what was in Kirye's mind so her diary can't contain Kirye's motivations just what she had seen.
There are many, many theories about Prime but no one can pin one FOR SURE because there's not enough proofs to make it the only possible solution.
Ange at the time was plagued by the Battler's family culprit theory that used Rudolf's dirty business and Battler's sudden return in the family to say her parents and brother killed everyone.
Likely it was this theory the one she wanted to rewrite with her 'death'.
|2012-04-07, 10:15
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Well, VERY technically speaking, you might say George could have killed Kanon, but her game seems to both acknowledge and disregard Kanon, and it's more like he goes poof as soon as Shannon dies rather than being killed outright.
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Daryl J. Bem's experiments on psi caught the world's attention, as I posted last month, because he used standard psychology-lab methods to gather and analyze his data. Imagine what astronomers might feel if NASA announced that the Hubble space telescope had found evidence for astrology: How do you scoff when you depend on the same instrument yourself? Some, though, had the opposite reaction. Like the foursome who recently threw this bucket of cold water on Bem's claim. If psychology's telescope yields evidence that people can sense future events, say the authors, then that thing needs a tune-up.
"The field of psychology," write Eric–Jan Wagenmakers, Ruud Wetzels, Denny Borsboom, and Han van der Maas of the University of Amsterdam, "currently uses methodological and statistical strategies that are too weak, too malleable, and offer far too many opportunities for researchers to befuddle themselves and their peers."
At the heart of their case against Bem is a fundamental tenet, which, I think, can be paraphrased as: Parapsychology? Dude, seriously?
If psi is for reals, they ask, why aren't the world's casinos bankrupt? In one of his experiments, Bem found that people could correctly predict, 53.1 percent of the time, which of two locations on a screen would show an erotic picture. That success rate, if applied to the black/red choice in roulette, would provide a very good living for gamblers and eventually bankrupt casinos, note Wagenmakers et al. Yet casinos are still in business. So either "psi effects are not operative in casinos, but they are operative in psychological experiments on erotic pictures," or psi effects are trivial to non-existent. Bem's "eight experiments are not enough to convince a skeptic that the known laws of nature have been bent."
The point here is not that they'd be more convinced by 800 experiments. What's needed to provide "extraordinary evidence," the authors say, is the testing of many alternative explanations, not many experiments. Instead, they say, Bem's procedures tested only two possible hypotheses: That psi is real and that the results mean nothing (the null hypothesis).
When only one hypothesis is tested against null, it's easy to make the logical error known as "the prosecutor's fallacy." That comes up, in real life, when a forensics lab assesses a crime-scene DNA sample and estimates that the odds of finding its particular combination of alleles is, say, one in three million. Suppose, unfortunately for you, the DNA is a match for yours. The prosecutor then argues that this means the odds are one in three million that anyone else but you committed the crime.
That's wrong: His hypothesis (you're guilty!) requires a DNA match. But that doesn't mean a DNA match requires his hypothesis. Maybe someone else with those markers did the deed (perhaps a lot of people with that genetic signature are concentrated in your neighborhood). Maybe that is your DNA, but you didn't commit the crime. Point is: You aren't convicted because the DNA matches; you're convicted because other possible explanations were tested, and only the one where you're guilty held up to scrutiny. A prosecutor who thinks people cheat on the lottery could throw every winner in jail, the authors point out. After all, the odds against winning are so great, anyone who does it must be guilty! That doesn't happen because winning-by-cheating is even more improbable than winning by chance. If you never compare the won-by-cheating theory to the won-by-chance theory, you won't see this.
In attacking the Bem paper, Wagenmakers et al. seem to be saying that psychology is rife with the prosecutor's fallacy, known also as the fallacy of the transposed conditional. Experimenters often claim they've proven a hypothesis because they've found some data, without exploring how else that data could have been generated. Bem doesn't say what other hypotheses he tested, they write, so they don't know how sound his reasoning is.
So they applied a statistical test of likelihood on Bem's data (it's a Bayesian hypothesis test, if you want details), and find that his results flunk.
Now, the severity of their test depends on their initial assumptions, and their initial assumptions were basically the logic-notation version of "Parapsychology? Dude, seriously?" Different assumptions might lead elsewhere, and the authors admit they don't know a lot about this kind of research. However, they say, they don't need to prove that their Bayesian test is superior to Bem's statistical methods. The mere fact that it comes to different conclusions from the same data indicates that those data aren't as strong as possible.
How strong do they need to be? That bring us to their most philosophical point: They say the experiments were "exploratory" work, where the researchers didn't define what they were looking for or how they would know they'd found it. In the experiment with the erotic pictures, Bem, they write, "tested not just erotic pictures, but also neutral pictures, negative pictures, positive pictures, and pictures that were romantic but non-erotic. Only the erotic pictures showed any evidence for precognition." That's an exploratory experiment, or, as they call it, "a fishing expedition." Lemuel Moyé calls it "data dredging."
The gold standard of experimentation, according to Wagenmakers et al., is different. It's the "confirmatory" experiment—one in which you have defined in advance what you're looking for and what you need to see to prove that you found it. That, writes Moyé, is like mapping out a treasure site and excavating it "for a jewel that all reliable evidence suggests is present." On the other hand, he writes, exploratory work is "strip mining of the site, churning up the information landscape, looking for any pattern at all in the data and proclaiming that the association leeched from the sample is [real]."
Yikes. Of course, what sounds to some like logical rigor sounds to others like an absurdly limited notion of how experiments actually work. Behind claims of shoddy statistics may lie a deep philosophical division about the trade-offs between surprise and certainty, which has also come out recently in the fMRI field and in epidemiology. I'll try to keep my eye on these debates. Stay tuned. Unless of course, you've already foreseen where it's all going.
Daryl J. Bem (In Press). Feeling the future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology : 10.1037/a0021524


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'In dire straights, cut and run'
Editor -- The phrase "cut and run" has appeared in The Chronicle -- indeed, in all media -- numerous times, usually in derogation of those who wish to depart from the ruinous American adventure in Iraq. But those who use the phrase with such fervor obviously don't know what it means.
"Cut and run" originated in the days of sailing ships. It meant to get under way in an emergency by cutting the anchor chain and running before the wind. In the instance of square-rigged ships, it also meant to cut the lines holding the furled sails, whereupon the sails would unfurl of their own weight and the ship could sail at once.
"Cut and run" has nothing whatsoever to do with cowardice, surrender, or defeatism. It is, in fact, the intelligent thing to do when in dire straits. The captain who cuts and runs has a chance of saving his ship. The stubborn, rigid captain, who stands upon the bridge and defies the elements, will find his ship driven upon the rocks -- and destroyed.
"Passage, immediate passage! The blood burns in my veins!
Away, O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
Cut the hawsers -- and haul out -- shake out every sail!
Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
Have we not groveled here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
Have we not darken'd and dazed ourselves with books long enough?"
-- "Passage to India" by Walt Whitman.
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Editor -- In searching for examples of "Cut and Run," what comes to mind are George W. Bush's failure to pursue Osama bin Laden, George H. W. Bush not finishing off Saddam Hussein in the Persian Gulf War, Ronald Reagan pulling out of Beirut when 440 U.S. Marines were killed in one day and Richard Nixon's exit from Vietnam.
With Afghanistan and Iraq swirling around the toilet bowl, Bush is again fixing to pull out. For 30-plus years "cut and run" is exactly what Republican presidents have done. That Republicans now have the audacity to assign this behavior to Democrats is just God awful.
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Useful enemies
Editor -- Patrick J. Buchanan's July 2 column ("Times 2, Bush 0") on the Bush administration's failure to follow through on its accusations of national security violations by the New York Times, skips over an important point. Both domestically and internationally, maintaining a state of permanent war is facilitated by keeping your enemies alive.
The passions of the electorate are thusly managed, and otherwise unacceptable government actions are seemingly justified. As such useful enemies, the New York Times, Roe vs. Wade, evolutionists, undocumented workers and even the icons of terrorism come to mind.
The Tipton 3
Editor -- How idyllic Jonathan Curiel paints the young lives of the three Muslim men who "innocently" traveled to Pakistan for "fun and adventure," only to end up in an American prison; Guantanamo ("All eyes on Guantanamo," Insight, July 2). It is patently clear the story of the "Tipton 3" is used by the producer of "The Road to Guantanamo" to lend his creation "a disturbing power." Co-director Michael Winterbottom is using the "3" as they are using him -- to bring about sympathy for the "innocents" and the closure of Guantanamo.
Never is it questioned, as the Muslim philosopher, Ibn Tamiyeh, has written, "believers should lie to people of the book (Christians and Jews) to protect their lives and their religion."
The Chronicle does not distinguish itself by furthering its journalistic jihad against the Bush administration in general and Guantanamo in particular by giving credence to a trio of young men who may well place their loyalties to Osama bin Laden and Jihad above any they may have for their country (England) or to the Western world they choose to live in.
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Growth strategies
Editor -- Who benefits from growth? The Greenbelt Alliance report rating Bay Area cities on planning for a million new residents (July 2) fails to mention that half the growth will be for new high-skilled tech workers, who fuel our global demand for housing with higher incomes matching rising housing costs. Most new housing is for this elite workforce to serve the corporate vision of the Bay Area as the international center of the new economy.
Our existing working-class families are priced out of the market and retreating to expanding sprawl areas. How will land be acquired in urban areas? Greenbelt Alliance's "Smart Infill" report, published in 2002, has the answer: "redevelopment agencies [can] use eminent domain to acquire land and resell or lease it to developers."
A very few below-market units will have little effect on this growth strategy that promotes gentrification, displacement, a loss of economic and cultural diversity, and accelerates sprawl. Ask the question: Who benefits from this growth?
Daly City
Worst seats
Editor -- The July 2 article, "Worst seats in the house," failed to mention the most intriguingly awful part about the furthest upper-reserve seats at AT&T Park.
These seats do not face the field. They are all angled toward the press booth. Check it out. If you sit in them and look directly ahead, your sight line angles to the right of the third-base line. I cannot imagine why they were built that way. Shouldn't all seats in a sports park face the play action?
You can see this strange orientation by just placing a ruler over them on the little seating chart in the season schedules. Not only do these seats have no view of much of left field, they make you twist to see any of the field.
Mill Valley
Differing realities
Editor -- Scott Abramson (Letters, "Arab street," July 2) doesn't miss an opportunity to bash Arabs, as he points to Iranian President Mahmoud Amahdinejad's popularity in the Arab world and asks: "So, what does this tells us about the Arab street?"
Had Abramson been interested in more than scoring political cheap shots, he might have learned from the illuminating interviews conducted in The Chronicle's profile of this subject ("Voice of Iran echoes through Arab world," June 25) that Amahdinejad's popularity stems from his perceived status as an underdog, who is standing up to Israeli and American aggression.
Polls continue to show a majority of people (even among some of our closest allies in Europe) believes Israel and the United States to be the biggest threats to world peace. Given these prevailing sentiments, a more appropriate question to ask might be: "What does this tell us about Israeli and American policies that alienate and anger so much of the world?"
San Francisco
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Editor -- Scott Abramson notes that "Iran's President Mahmoud Amahdinejad, who threatens to annihilate Israel, is popular on the Arab street. So what doe this tell us about the Arab street?"
Israel ethnically cleansed western Palestine of 850,000 Palestinians and confiscated their land and property. Israel has occupied Palestinian land for 38 years. Israel has illegally annexed Eastern Jerusalem and declared it to be the indivisible capital of Israel. Israel's new prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has said that the idea that Israel will leave the illegal settlements in the West Bank is "sheer fantasy."
All these actions by Israel are illegal under international law. Abramson lives in a free, law-abiding country and he supports Israel despite its trampling on common morality and international law, what does this tell us about him?
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Book retailer Barnes & Noble is doing some shuffling of its upper management, with CEO William Lynch resigning today. He also resigned as director of the company, which shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to see Lynch step away from both. Barnes & Noble then announced more executive moves, with Michael P. Huseby being appointed CEO of the Nook Media division and president of B&N proper. Vice president Allen Lindstrom is promoted to CFO, while Kanuji Malhotra, VP of corporate development, is now the VP of Nook Media. It's a bit of a shuffle, but most are stepping into a bigger role with B&N. Chairman Leonard Riggio thanked Lynch for his past three years as CEO, which saw the company emerge as a rival to Amazon's e-reader/tablet business. As for Lynch, he appreciated the opportunity to be Barnes & Noble's CEO over the last three years, and that he's looking forward to all future innovations from the company.
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so my good buddy john had this amazing idea around the holidays.
the idea was to have a stitch & send swap.
brillant if you ask me.
it was an invitation only swap {thanks john} and we all were immediately stoked.
the excitement was contagious. really.
we we're all broken down into small groups and we all picked a theme.
i went back & forth on a theme...
irish. twilight. friends the tv show. matryoshka dolls. something baby{ish}.
i just couldn't decide. at all.
well then morning sickness hit me like a truck and yall know how that went.
i started getting everyone's fabric and floss.
i didn't mail out my stuff on time. still hadn't picked a theme.
i was SO disgusted with myself.
so here i am...a month late picking my theme...but i finally picked something.
{all along i think it's been in the back of my mind, but i'm southern so i'm stubborn.}
easily enough...i made a mosaic of my favorite stitcheries.
after much deliberation...
i decided to have each swapper stitch something using my mosaic as inspiration.
as yall can tell, i like all colors and themes.
when the pieces come home, they will hang in hoops on my quilty room wall.
{to be enjoyed & inspired by them ALL the time.}
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Originally posted by severdsoul
reply to post by delusion
shoot, that was back on page 10 or some where in there, its a video,
all black sound only, you can hear 2 explosions about 2 seconds or
so apart.
It would take some digging to find it, it was mostly looked over at the
time because we were looking for video or photo's and there was
nothing but black lights and a few lights as the guy ran.
Originally posted by ChesterJohn
someone said there was a small crater is that true?
Originally posted by azoth88
I find it strange that the explosion went off at EXACTLY 11:10 PM
Originally posted by Maskander
here;s a video of some kids walking down the street, you can hear the explosion
the shockwave was massive, it sounded like something slamming not exploding. any input?edit on 11-11-2012 by Maskander because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Hijinx
reply to post by IamAbeliever
Gas "explosions" are a tricky thing. You need the EXACT fuel air mixture for detonation to occur, I can't bring myself to do the math, and if anyone is handy with it they can tell you better but roughly 5%( I haven't figured out the exact figure, and I'm kind of paranoid looking up the exact ratio online) of the total volume of the house needs to be natural gas, which isn't very much. Then all it needs is a spark. Combustion, will still produce what we view as an explosion but the difference is the aftermath.
If you have the right mixture, you have a blast that will exceed any other conventional explosive..
I understand they disperse liquid in this case, but the concept is the same.
Combustion = slow moving burn which can produce an "explosion"
Detonation, is very different.
So yes, you may have witnessed gas "explosions" that didn't seem that big, but believe me fuel air blasts can produce ENORMOUS explosions, with an enormous blast/shock wave doing tremendous damage and would likely be heard for a long way off.
Originally posted by Momof5
So, I found this last night and can't help but wonder why it is that no one else has mentioned and/or noticed this. Moncy Shirley (i.e.: R. Monserrate Shirley/Roman) was apparently dating a man named Mark Ray Leonard. A simple google search shows numerous recent arrests. He had been living with her at that house until recently when they moved out as the house was FSBO. However, there are ZERO listings for the home online. Yet, when you see this post about Mark and his buddy Dave Gill, it makes me wonder about the two men seen leaving the house earlier in the day. The fact Dave has been promising the women giving him money that he is getting an insurance settlement in the near future seems to lend further credence to this theory. I will be interested to see if their names appear in the news anytime soon.
obfuscating the point doesn't change it.
Originally posted by gnosticagnostic
reply to post by Honor93
because the gas company only can check the MAIN lines... not the furnace that was blown to smithereens... which is most very likely the case.. have you ever checked out how a furnace or a gas appliance works... oy vey
Originally posted by diesel_actual
Originally posted by HIWATT
reply to post by Trexter Ziam
Actually my comments to your post WERE directed at "them" as I DID read your links.
My responses, therefore, were not really to you, but rather with regards to the information you linked - which i still maintain - is utterly ridiculous.
Now it's not 30 homes but 100+ that need to be demolished?
FFS... are people blind? LOOK AT THE PHOTOS!
MAYBE 10 houses total that seem like they suffered some residual damage????
100..... LOL....... thay may as well just try and convince everyone that the whole damn state needs to be rebuilt
"More than 200 residents were evacuated from their homes. Some two dozen homes were damaged by the blast.
"We're going to use every resource to help individuals get their lives back," said Public Safety Director Troy Riggs during a press conference Sunday afternoon.
Of the 80 homes affected, 31 suffered major damage. Five of those homes will require demolition and 26 have been temporarily deemed uninhabitable.
Officials have sorted homes into three categories: 1) homes that folks can occupy, 2) homes that are structurally questionable and 3) homes unsafe for anyone to enter.
Engineers have inspected all 126 homes in the affected neighborhood. Firefighters have escorted some homeowners to get items out of some homes. "
Originally posted by Maskander
yeah you obviously havn't looked at the pictures and extrapolated the damage, please tell me how an aerial photo of 1/10th of the neighborhood tells you the damage of the other 9/10's? If my house was shaking on its foundation 5 miles away, I can't imagined what the blast felt like 100ft from it, enough to kill anyone who was outside. You are simply stating the opposite of all the official reports. I mean at first it's okay because maybe you have a different viewpoint, but you aren't even looking at the damage, the houses are shifted off their foundation because of that sonic boom, would you want to live in one of those houses? You'd be foolish to say yes... and thats why they have been deemed uninhabitable. Someone from Citizens Gas(not CEG, not sure where you got that info from) said there was no leak found at the explosion site, and no residue was found in initial investigations.
Originally posted by HIWATT
reply to post by Trexter Ziam
Actually my comments to your post WERE directed at "them" as I DID read your links.
My responses, therefore, were not really to you, but rather with regards to the information you linked - which i still maintain - is utterly ridiculous.
Now it's not 30 homes but 100+ that need to be demolished?
FFS... are people blind? LOOK AT THE PHOTOS!
MAYBE 10 houses total that seem like they suffered some residual damage????
100..... LOL....... thay may as well just try and convince everyone that the whole damn state needs to be rebuilt
Do you have something against Indianapolis? I sense something more in your tone, like you are mad it's getting so much coverage because it's not up to your standards of mass devastation. But anyway... I'm going to sleep. the southside hoosiers down here have been amazing with their quick support and containment of the situation, whatever it was, it was devastating for our community, and that can be confirmed by the international coverage of this incident.
What does it take to turn a 2,700-square-foot home into a bomb large enough to flatten two other houses, pummel dozens more, rattle dishes for miles and set off earthquake sensors 30 miles away?
According explosives experts: 90 pounds of natural gas, a lack of ventilation and an ignition source.
In order for natural gas to detonate, there needs to be a very specific mixture of air and fuel inside the home.
The experts say that if less than 5 percent gas is floating in the air, there wouldn't be enough fuel to spark a blast.
If there's more than 15 percent gas in the air, the fuel mixture also wouldn't ignite from lack of oxygen.
The most volatile mixture for a massive blast of the magnitude of Saturday's is around 10 percent gas.
But how did that much gas get into the home without anyone noticing the fuel's foul smell?
W. Michael Shinkle, a Des Moines, Iowa, attorney who specializes in natural-gas related civil suits, says it sometimes is caused by an underground leak coming from a supply line feeding the home.
Shinkle at one time represented a company that manufactured a chemical additive that gives the otherwise odorless gas its noxious smell.
Shinkle said the soil acts as a natural filter that eliminates the smell. He said the leak then could have filled the home from the ground up without anyone noticing. Officials say the home was empty when the blast occurred.
The gas utility is continuing to investigate the explosion. Citizens Energy Group spokeswoman Sarah Holsapple said crew members inspected main gas lines Sunday and found no problems.
She said Monday they were in the process of testing service lines that run into the home where the blast occurred; the results were pending.
Originally posted by delusion
Originally posted by Tecumte
Well, we don't know yet, still open but just to be even handed to the nat. gas explanation (whether accident or otherwise) I found this pretty timely if nothing else:
The cruise missile is equipped with a powerful magnetron that produces a massive pulse of microwave radiation. The magnetron is a high-powered vacuum tube that generates microwaves that uses the interaction of electrons with a magnetic field. It also is used in radars and microwave ovens.
I don't get it. Are you suggesting microwave radiation from a missile produced this explosion? I, ah, don't think microwaves could do that. What is the magnetron intended for in the missile, disabling electronics? Navigation? How in your mind would it connect to what's being discussed?
edit... I see it's for disabling electronics. Still... connection?edit on 12-11-2012 by delusion because: (no reason given)


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The career criminal who posed as a potential BMW buyer led Long Island cops on a wild chase only hours after he beat a man and stuffed him in the trunk of a car in upper Manhattan, authorities said today.
Barion A. Blake, who has done time for at least two prior BMW heists, remains at large after he beat Akeem Ajimotokan.
Ajimotokan, 33, was in critical condition at Harlem Hospital yesterday, a day after he was found unconscious, bound and bleeding from his nearly severed ear in the trunk of his luxury car.
Police Commssioner Ray Kelly said Blake was stopped in Nassau County hours after the assault on Ajimotokan.
"The car was stopped in Nassau County by Nassau County police officers," he said. "Police officers approached the car [and] the individual, we believe to be Blake, was outside the vehicle."
Kelly said the officer "believed they may have been changing plates at the time."
"As he approached, Blake jumps in the car and they take off," he added. "They go westbound on Jericho Turnpike [and] he goes south on the Cross Island Parkway. He's pursued by the Nassau County police. In the snow, on the roadway, the police car overturns and he escaped."
Ajimotokan's nightmare began when he advertised the fully loaded 2008 BMW M3 on Cars.com for $46,000.
Blake pretended to be a prospective buyer, cops said.
But his latest bid to swipe his favorite ride was foiled Wednesday morning when he crashed the car into a taxi in Inwood, near his Dyckman Houses apartment, and fled, police said.
Cops, responding to what appeared to be a routine crash-and-run, found Ajimotokan in the trunk.
"He's fighting for his life," said his brother, Ahmed Ajimotokan, of Houston, Texas.
Blake has prior arrests in Queens, Nassau County and Bergen County, NJ, on car-theft charges that at least twice involved BMWs.
His penchant for other people's cars got him four years in jail in New Jersey. He has also served time in New York.
Police said he stands 6-foot-8. He sports tattoos with the name "Tasha" on his left hand, a scroll with scripture on his forearm, and Chinese writing on his upper arm.
Ajimotokan, an expert in contracts and procurement, has an MBA and lives in a luxury pad on the Hudson waterfront, where apartments rent for $3,000 a month.


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When faced with a new or recurring health problem, most of us don't immediately schedule a doctor's appointment—we grab our smartphones instead. More than 70% of internet users look up health information online and research shows that 1 in 20 Google searches is health-related.
It's no secret that consumers have been turning to Dr. Google more and more to make health decisions and to help decipher their health records, test results, symptoms, prescriptions and doctor's orders. But the wealth of information available has also made it harder to wade through what's out there and sometimes causes more anxiety than the condition we're looking to treat.
If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with a chronic condition or serious illness, you appreciate the level of self-education you quickly go through as you bolster your knowledge on specialists, medication and treatment options, studies, preventative measures, and more. We become mini-specialists who can help others to navigate similarly murky waters. Or at least that's what Roni Zeiger, founder of Smart Patients, thinks. Why not connect people with others who are struggling with the same challenges and have valuable information, recommendations or even just emotional support to share?
Smart Patients offers a community-based platform that helps connect those struggling with similar health issues. Zeiger partnered with Gilles Frydman to found the company, which initially focused on oncology to improve the experience of cancer patients. Frydman had extensive experience in building cancer patient communities and Zeiger, a doctor who was the former Chief Health Strategist at Google, had an in-depth understanding of how patients and caretakers were using the search engine to navigate their health. What questions were they asking? What support did they seek?
Zeiger noticed that most people weren't just looking for content—they were looking for people with similar experiences. Though Smart Patients started with roots in onocology, as the team worked with more partners, medical centers and advocacy organizations, word spread about the brand and additional communities within the Smart Patients ecosystem soon emerged—and continue to grow.
Zeiger sat down with Nicole Diamant, Senior Marketing Manager for InterbrandHealth, to discuss Smart Patients and its healthcare communities.
Smart Patients know that learning from other patients can help you become a more active member of your health care team. #MotivationMonday pic.twitter.com/D3UGkV12WR
— Smart Patients (@smart_patients) September 26, 2016
Nicole Diamant: At this year's SHSMD conference, you spoke about patient engagement. Do you see that as the biggest challenge health systems face today? How should organizations be thinking differently about their brands and their customers?
Roni Zeiger: I think the biggest challenge and opportunity today is creating a meaningful and collaborative relationship between health systems and patients. This means we need to frame the needs of the health system so they align with the needs of the patient and talk more about how we can all work to meet those needs together. Interestingly, when we talk about it this way, we shift from brand management to relationship management. This corresponds with a shift from patients as passive recipients of our care—and our messaging—to collaborators in improving their own health and the health of others in their community.
Find a quote. Like a quote. Share a quote. Our Smart Patients say the nicest things. https://t.co/YpcwYV4fMW pic.twitter.com/VKlmhzja9j
— Smart Patients (@smart_patients) October 9, 2016
Diamant: Smart Patients appears to be a mission-based brand that focuses on communal, user-generated education. When you consider growth, what goals do you have for the platform? Could you ultimately use data from the site to monitor health patterns and better inform health choices? Or do you prefer that the site stay rooted in peer-to-peer sharing?
Zeiger: I think that Big Data has an important role in the future of healthcare. But there are lots of people focusing on that and not enough focusing on the experience and knowledge in patients' heads. We're much more interested in connecting people with other people who can help them learn. I think this has massive potential—especially when it happens in the context of a network, where different individuals can contribute different pieces of knowledge, and the community can also help a given patient put it all together in a way that's most relevant to that patient's context.
In terms of growth, we're seeing a ton of interest from medical centers both in oncology and across others service lines like heart failure, obesity and neurological disease.
Make today meaningful. #MondayMotivation #kidneycancer https://t.co/niBFrFcyEB via @smart_patients
— Smart Patients (@smart_patients) October 17, 2016
Diamant: Obviously privacy is a hot button topic, but research also shows that many people are comfortable sharing their personal health data when it can be used to help others or to help themselves make more informed decisions. What's the company's stance on member data?
Zeiger: It's a huge responsibility to handle people's health data. Our goal is to connect people with each other—and that actually has very little to do with data. We analyze the data to identify common trends or questions like what patients wish they knew earlier in their health journey. We also help our partners learn from patients about specific issues, but that's more about explicitly asking for their perspective on topics like improving the patient experience in the emergency department.
Our online Diabetes community helps members learn ways to manage Diabetes and take control. Join us https://t.co/FQOJW27aib #Diabetes #TCOYD pic.twitter.com/MleLyZWEu6
— Smart Patients (@smart_patients) October 1, 2016
Diamant: Similarly, does Smart Patients feel a responsibility regarding the medical accuracy of what gets shared on the site? Do you have concerns about misinformation, even when members have the best intentions?
Zeiger: The quality of the conversations is critical, and I think it's impossible to get this exactly right. We don't pretend that we're domain experts. Instead, we focus on creating a culture that is both respectful and pro-science, so the community itself is most responsible for maintaining quality and pointing out misinformation—and learning from the discussion. I believe a well-run community can do that better than any single expert.
Members of our #postpartum community motivate each other every day with words like these. #MotivationMonday https://t.co/EHtZ0tJb2d
— Smart Patients (@smart_patients) October 10, 2016
Diamant: How does your collaboration with The National Cancer Institute and The Colon Cancer Alliance support your mission and expand the reach of Smart Patients?
Zeiger: We were honored that Vice President Biden's Cancer Moonshot team asked us to help, given our experience helping cancer patients learn from each other about clinical trials. We've been able to advise the National Cancer Institute as they provide better and better information about trials to the public and we're also using their trial information to make it even easier for interested patients to find user-friendly information about trials.
For us, it's all about conversations. And that's what makes our work with the Colon Cancer Alliance so exciting. Not only is our collaboration making it easier for people to find colorectal cancer trials, but we're also helping patients and families have conversations with others patients who have knowledge and experience relevant to trials. There's nothing like learning from someone who has been down a similar path—especially if they're a little ahead of you on the journey. And for those of us running healthcare systems or designing new services, learning from those patients is critical if we want to be truly patient-centered.


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What brands or products do you absolutely love that you cannot live without? Most of the time consumers flock towards things like smartphones, iPods, and the like. Last week the American Marketing Association, Detroit chapter, put on an event entitled 'Brand Love' with Aaron Ahuvia, Ph.D. at Schoolcraft College. Dr. Ahuvia is the foremost authority on this topic as he was the first researcher published in this area over twenty years ago.
Ahuvia's explanation of brand love starts with human evolution. "Humans adapt old capacities to new situations," Ahuvia said. He went on to say, "Love is powerful." A perfect way of exhibiting this is through anthropomorphism; this is when people take something that is not human and give it human qualities. An example of this is shown in a video of an iCat robot named Daisy. Studies showed that humans had a very difficult time shutting down the robot. Those studied began to develop an affinity for the robot, and when asked to shut it down, Daisy began asking the person not to. See the video here.
Another way this is exhibited is through the saying we heard so many times in our school days: "If you love it so much, why don't you marry it?" One woman, Erika La Tour Eiffel, did just that. She married the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Ahuvia found that most people actually do love things other than people. The most common things were nature and engaging activities, but closely behind were products and brands. Take a look at Brand Love Central to see the model he developed from this and other studies. Further research by Ahuvia showed that Brand Love helps create sustainable growth and stability in the marketplace.
Is there a formula for success, a love potion of sorts, for brands? Why yes, there is. In fact, there are four key characteristics of brand love, as follows:
- Quality and Trust: A brand must start by making sure its products or services maintain quality. Once quality is achieved, trust will need to be maintained. High standards for quality and trust must be present to foster brand love.
- Intrinsic Rewards: "Do you love the product or are you just using it?" asks Ahuvia. There is a difference. Certain products people love, while other times people just love the outcome. Ahuvia explained this to the group through tools. Some people use tools because they love fixing motorcycles, for example, while others find love in not only the fixing of the motorcycles but also in the way the tool works, is designed, and functions.
- Part of Myself: In this characteristic, Ahuvia explains a term he developed called 'Looking Glass Love.' This is a love where we see our own reflection in things that we love other than people. Apple exploited this type of love perfectly in their Mac v. PC television advertisements. The target market was that of a younger generation of people who saw themselves as the Justin Long type compared to the stodgy PC type. This section of brand love brings the deeper connections of love forward.
- Part of My Life: "Absence makes the heart grow indifferent," says Ahuvia. The longer a consumer does not use a product or service, the easier it is to go on without it. To continue to nurture the love, the brand must be a part of the person's life.
Brand love speaks more for products than it does services. It is most relevant for categories that provide many benefits, have a pleasure aspect, and relate to identity. How will you foster brand love in your business?
Read the original article on the Talent Zoo blog Beneath the Brand at: http://www.talentzoo.com/beneath-the-brand/blog_news.php?articleID=17185


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Make a team and tackle sustainability issues to drive a culture of sustainable practices.
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Wantirna Mindfulness Meditation
30-minute introduction sessions to meditation and mindfulness with Isabell Mitsel. Offered twice every Monday 11:30am-12:00pm and 12:00pm-12:30pm.
Break the cycle - Weekly cycling group
Let off some steam and join us for a fun ride exploring the many cycling routes in Hawthorn. Every Thursday 12pm-1pm.
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Increase your support network by joining this weekly peer support group for young adults. Every Wednesday 12pm-2pm.
The Interfaith Dialogue Program
Do you have an open mind? Like to share stories? Want to hear about life, culture and faith? The Swinburne Chaplaincy invites you to join our weekly Interfaith Belief Dialogue Program in 2017.
Mindfull, or Mindful? – Mindfulness Sessions
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Explore your career options with Swinburne's Professional Placements program and take the chance to gain valuable on-the-job experience before you graduate. Come along to one of our information sessions!
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Camerons Brasserie in Stony Stratford is the brainchild of Dan Cameron, a local gastronomist who made his name on BBC's Masterchef: The Professionals. Fresh innovative British and European cuisine is showcased through a variety of menus such as the diverse and regularly changing lunch time menu or the seasonal evening a la carte menu. The venue is available for exclusive private hire too, hosting anything from special birthdays to wedding receptions.


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Noon: Bidder 6 took over the top bid at 10:59 a.m. with an offer of $2,255,000.
Also, the U.S. General Services Administration has announced that on Thursday at 10 a.m., the bid interval will be reduced from 24 hours to two hours. If a high bid is not overtaken in two hours, the bidding will close.
11 a.m.: Bidder 3 upped the offer to $2,230,000 at 10:51 a.m.
INITIAL REPORT: The tussle between bidders 3 and 6 for the old James F. Battin Federal Building in downtown Billings stalled out Monday at about 1 p.m. with a bid of $2,205,000 placed by Bidder 6.
The two have been bidding back and forth for the building since April 27, and the current bid will win if somebody doesn't make a higher offer by 1 p.m. Tuesday.
The online auction has moved steadily for two weeks. The last bid came in at about 1:30 a.m. on Monday from Bidder 3, who placed a bid of $2,180,000.
That was in response to a bid of $2,155,000 from Bidder 6 on Sunday afternoon.
That bid came in at about 12:20 p.m. Sunday, just 40 minutes before Bidder 3's Saturday morning offer of $2.13 million would have won the auction.
Bidding began on April 23.
The building, which was completed in 1965, housed several agencies and U.S. District Court. Asbestos in the building caused the federal government to build a $80 million federal courthouse.
Several federal agencies will soon move out of the old courthouse and into a separate $30 million office building.


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Kluge, Smith combine for five goals as No. 7 Salisbury beats Colorado College
SALISBURY, Md. -- Senior midfielder Eric Kluge scored three goals as No. 7 Salisbury defeated Colorado College 9-4 on Wednesday night at Sea Gull Stadium.
Junior long-stick midfielder Zeke Smith added a career-high two goals for Salisbury (8-2).
The Salisbury offense started off quickly as Stephen Norris took a pass from Rhett DePol and juked Tigers goalkeeper Chase Murphy to score just 1:15 into the game.
Colorado college (5-2) tied the game on a late-quarter goal, but Salisbury reclaimed the lead in the second period as Davis Anderson sent a pass to Smith, who ripped a shot from 15 yards out for his first goal of the game.
Kluge scored the Gulls' next two goals by driving down the right side and beating Murphy into the top-left corner of the cage.
The second half began with a 4-0 run by Salisbury, including the third and second goals for Kluge and Smith, respectively. After Kluge scored at the 10:34 mark, Greg Korvin drove down the left side and ripped a goal with 4:27 left in the quarter. Smith's goal came just 22 seconds later when he picked up a ground ball off a save by Murphy and immediately shot over the keeper's head.
Wade Korvin scored for the fourth goal, just before Charles Curtis, who led CC with two goals, netted one to bring the score to 8-3 heading into the final quarter.
Both teams scored again in the fourth, with Curtis netting his second for the Tigers and Luke Phipps ripping a shot from the left wing on a man-up opportunity for Salisbury.
Goalkeeper Alex Taylor picked up the victory, playing all 60 minutes in the cage and making three saves.
Curtis added a pair of assists for Colorado College, which also got goals from Jack Kreitler and Eric Neumeyer. Tim Jenkins paced the defensive effort with three caused turnovers and four ground balls, while the freshman Murphy recorded 12 assists. He has finished with double-digit saves four times.
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Author has written 19 stories for Xiaolin Showdown, Peter Pan, How to Train Your Dragon, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Danny Phantom, Star Vs. The Forces of Evil, Rise of the Guardians, Brave, 2012, and Gravity Falls.
Western Zodiac Sign; Gemini (Positive Air Sign)
Gemini is the mutable/air sign. Using their communicative skills, Geminis adapt to any situation they encounter. However, they must learn to speak with candor instead of simply repeating what others want to hear. Geminis have clever tongues and develop an amazing ability to obscure the facts with stimulating and imaginative chatter.
In the tropical zodiac, mutable signs coincide with the times of change in the seasons. They are associated with change and versatility. Individuals born under the four mutable quality signs are thought to be adaptable, impressionable, sharp, sympathetic, communicative, resourceful and restless, with a gift for seeing both sides of a situation at the same time and an immense desire for knowledge, variety and new ideas. They supposedly adapt very well to new situations, possess much flexibility, seldom have any particular agenda and are perfectly happy to fill in an assigned role. However, they are also said to be inconsistent, changeable, nervous, indecisive and irresponsible, with a tendency to get wrapped up in tiny particulars. There is also a certain duality associated with all the mutable quality signs.
Eastern Zodiac Animal; Dragon
Dragon people are the most eccentric in the Chinese Zodiac. Soaring high into the serene heavens, they can be stubborn, passionate, excitable, honest, and brave, wear purple and walk barefoot in public fountains. They listen to their own drummer, thank you very much, while the rest of the world stands in amazement. People always admire their individuality and feisty personality. Dragons are capable of doing great work for mankind and they inspire trust in almost everyone. The Dragon symbolizes life and growth and is said to bring the five blessings: harmony, virtue, riches, fulfillment and longevity.
Eastern Zodiac Element; Earth
If you make friends with the Earth Dragon, you have a friend for life! Friendship is a big-time commitment which they show through uncommon kindness, caring, and giving spirit. When youngsters, Earth Dragons are valued by their teachers and playmates and when older, by their superiors, colleagues, and social circle. It's no wonder! Hardworking and talented, these well-rounded Dragons have a lively imagination which transforms the atmosphere. They are able to do many things well and receive many accolades during their very successful careers and good money to boot. These Dragons are wildly impulsive in money matters. If they see it, they buy it. When they buy it, it's out of sight out of mind, forgotten in the toy box. Not too late to change these wasteful spending habits, you know! Like most Dragons, those of the Earth don't like to rush Love. They like doing what comes naturally, steady rhythm, beginning from friendship and igniting into the exhilaration of falling in love when it's time. Earth Dragons want long-lasting relationships, not tumbling tumble weeds. After the male dragon has gotten over his playboy stage, he is the biggest convert of all to the joys of the everlasting Relationship.


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As a well established company, Avalon Décor Property Maintenance Services have always succeeded in providing the highest calibre of workmanship at the most realistic prices within the surrounding area of Hampshire and Dorset; specialising in both domestic and commercial work - and in a current climate of very competitive rates our services have built an enviable reputation for realistic prices, reliability, quality workmanship and courteousness. With outstanding references, our reputation is second to none; while our trusted team of carefully hand picked personnel are chosen for their social skills as well as their abilities.
Our craftsmanship as Painters and Decorators has been established over years creating a trusted reputation for quality. However, we also encompass the whole gamut of modern property maintenance needs; specialising in both external and internal maintenance involving every type of work practice necessary and by having the most experienced and reliable tradesmen to work for us we can guarantee to supply the highest standard of workmanship while still offering the most realistic prices in the Dorset and Hampshire area - from Painting and Decorating to every type of home care work such as building, kitchen fitting, bathrooms, carpentry, plumbing, electrical, fitting new UPVC or hard wood windows, doors, installing fascias, soffit, guttering and conservatories, with the additional service of a same day response while offering a Free Consultancy.
Our client base ranges from all walks of life, catering for every type of clientele even including employing female decorators - from the smallest domestic jobs where we are recognised for realistic pricing to working for large Property Management Companies, Schools, Architects, Building Companies, Councils and established blue chip companies.
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Traditional Craft - Natural Festive Crafts
Event details
Saturday 9th Dec 2017
10am - 12pm
Hyde Park
If you'd like to escape the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping, then look no further than our Festive Craft Workshop. Join us in Hyde Park to enjoy a relaxing morning creating your own natural festive decorations. Learn how to make a selection of homemade decorations including willow stars, traditional orange pomanders and mini Christmas wreaths. The focus is on using natural resources including local greenery and materials recycled from the park. You'll get to take home your creations, which will be ideal to decorate your home or to give as gifts.
The workshop takes place at The LookOut: a secret lodge hidden in a copse of trees in Hyde Park. Our beautiful eco-building is set within an acre of gardens and is the perfect location to spend a tranquil morning. You'll even forget you're in the heart of London!
There'll be some festive music, drinks and nibbles to enjoy too!
Suitable for adults. Groups welcome.


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Limited is a puzzle map that will test your knowledge of Minecraft. There are 8 challenges that will test you on some of minecraft's least known mechanics. Even if you do not know some of the mechanics, there is a hint feature that will help you through the map if you are having troubles! I can almost guarantee that you will learn something from this map, as some of even Minecraft's most expert players will be unsure as to how to progress. Aim to complete the map with as few hints as possible. You may do whatever you need to do to achieve the goal of the level! You will be in survival, so you can mine, place and craft like normal.
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The beginning of a new year is always a time for reflection. One year is over, and no matter how happy we are to see it in the rear view mirror, there's always something to mourn about its passing. The year that's just starting is unknown and unwritten, so we have no idea what it will bring. As writers, it's an opportunity for us to look back and forward at the same time.
And really, that's one of the best ways to live as a writer: looking both backward and forward. At what we've done and what we will do. So in lieu of New Year's Resolutions for writers, I've got some Old and New guidelines to suggest for improving your writing life — both your career and your craft — in 2017.
Old: look back at previous projects. It's well-known that most writers have a "trunk" novel or two, something cast aside along the way. We've all written stories, essays, or just scribbles that are sitting on our hard drive or in our notebooks. If you're not sure what to write next, meandering through these old chestnuts might prove key to helping you find a direction.
New: let yourself get carried away by inspiration. I woke up in the middle of the night earlier this week convinced that I should chuck my current WIP and write a biography of an extremely well-known female figure from history. I composed the email to my agent in my head, telling her all the reasons this would be the best idea ever. Five hours later, it didn't seem so brilliant, and I never sent the email, and I sat right back down with my WIP. But I felt that feeling. And my writing was better for it. So don't shut yourself down right away if you feel something new — let it play out, if only for a day. It may go nowhere, or it may change the game entirely.
Old: don't forget your commitments. Especially as you progress in your career, it's easy to get caught up in the excitement of the new — your first novel is hitting the shelves! You got a blurb from one of your favorite writers ever! OMG Kirkus didn't hate your book! But at the same time, be sure not to forget how you got where you are, and don't neglect those who helped you along the way. Keep up your relationships with your critique partners. Honor any promises you've made. Getting more successful is no excuse for being less professional.
New: always, always keep pushing yourself. It's common to deride certain successful authors for "writing the same book over and over," but the number of people who do nothing but repeat themselves is actually vanishingly small. Great writers are always stretching their skills, pushing their limits, trying new things. No matter where you are in your career, this can apply to you. It doesn't mean that you need to follow your meticulously researched Civil War-era epic with an experimental novel that mashes up Don DeLillo with Octavia Butler, but it means that your next book doesn't have to have a first-person past-tense narrator just because your last one did. And maybe it shouldn't. It's always worth exploring options to find out the best way that this particular story needs to be told.
Q: What are some other ways you look forward or back to improve your writing?
About Greer Macallister
Raised in the Midwest, Greer Macallister is a poet, short story writer, playwright and novelist. Her plays have been performed at American University, where she earned her MFA in Creative Writing. Her debut novel THE MAGICIAN'S LIE was an Indie Next pick, Target Book Club selection, and a USA Today bestseller, and has been optioned for film by Jessica Chastain's Freckle Films. Her next novel is GIRL IN DISGUISE, about America's first female private investigator, Kate Warne (Sourcebooks, March 2017.)


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Camping Information
Camping at Fool Hollow Lake is available by reservations and IT WILL SELL OUT, so reserve early. Some great park resources are:
The following is the contact information for two additional camping sites in the area. Please call for information and reservations. Both are within reasonable travel distance to the race site.
Show Low Lake Campground
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The Birth of the Two-Position System
The two-position system really came about some 15 or so years ago. I had somehow wound up at an ex-girlfriend's band rehearsal and was chatting with the guitarist, a really tasteful player, and all-round nice guy. At the time I remember being heavily entrenched in 3-note per string (3NPS) scales and a general excess of technique over musicality. This guy, on the other hand, always seemed to play the right thing in the right place, just simple melodic stuff that would blow you away. I took the opportunity to ask him about his approach to scales. Incidentally, we had both been through the same music college at different times and had pretty much the same teachers.
He obligingly explained to me that the way he saw it, you had the option of playing a scale or a lick in various places on the fretboard using a one-octave shape. As he played he kept it all within one octave but there were no obvious patterns. Then it suddenly dawned on me...
The way you learn a scale must be consist with what you want to use the scale for, in other words, the actual physical process of learning a scale is a means to an end, not the end in itself!
So off I went with my new found perspective on all things scale related and turned the thing on its head. What did I actually want to able to do with scales? What were my goals? I would really encourage anyone to look at scales from this perspective then work your way back to the actual method by which you're going to achieve your scale goals. For me it was access to the scale, melodic control and the reduction of thinking time. Once I realized that 3NPS scales did not suit my purpose, the 2-pattern system was born. I began to explore it, refine it and finally put it down on paper here.
Another huge influence on the 2 Position Scale System was actually Fourths Tuning (E, A, D, G, C, F). If you tune your guitar to fourths it becomes symmetrical, and you don't have that bump of a major third between the G and B strings that warps every scale pattern, or chord shape, or anything you do on guitar for that matter. I found that a lot of people who got into Fourths Tuning were sticking to the same method as standard tuning for learning scales, which seemed like a waste of time to me. In Fourths Tuning you only ever need learn two patterns for each scale as the tuning is completely symmetrical. Check out the tutorial and apply it to Fourths Tuning, and you'll see what I mean.
So ask yourself this: Does your method for learning scales match your playing goals or ideals? If you're stuck in a rut there's a good chance it doesn't. Turn the thing on its head and work back to the method from your goals.
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