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STOCKTON - Enrique and Jiya Jimenez sat with blank stares at the dinner table of their north Stockton home two weeks ago, in a moment when their parents, Jesse and Jennifer Jimenez, gave them the news.
STOCKTON - Enrique and Jiya Jimenez sat with blank stares at the dinner table of their north Stockton home two weeks ago, in a moment when their parents, Jesse and Jennifer Jimenez, gave them the news.
The four of them would be running a marathon on March 17, Jennifer Jimenez told her 9-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son. Not a portion of the race. Not a relay.
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"I was like, 'huh?' " Enrique said.
The Jimenez siblings both suffer from a severe form of spina bifida, and both use wheelchairs for mobility. The farthest either of them have ever pushed at one time - and Jiya is a member of the John Muir Elementary running club - is about six miles.
Jesse and Jennifer Jimenez are seasoned marathoners, having completed three races each. But for Enrique and Jiya, a marathon is a foreign concept.
"It was a spur-of-the-moment thing," Jennifer Jimenez said. "I saw online that Team Spina Bifida was doing the Los Angeles Marathon. We've always wanted to do an endurance event with (the kids), and I just signed us up on a whim."
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"It's something that's normal to us," said Enrique, who plays basketball at Christa McAuliffe Middle School and is described as "masterful" in his wheelchair.
Team Spina Bifida is a national group of athletes who have the disorder. Many of them race in specialized wheelchairs. The Jimenez family will have to modify Enrique and Jiya's wheelchairs so that their parents, and some friends who are running with them, can push if needed.
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nesgirl wrote:I got ridiculed and criticized for one of my Lucid Dreams before because of what was being measured in my brain in reality, and I was told I was completely lying about the experience. I wasn't trying to prove anything at all.
Was it here on this forum? Because I didn't see it. If you are referring to the one that made you upset with Taniaust1, I don't think she was mean to you at all and don't ever remember anyone here calling you a liar. As Enra Traz said in her opening post, she felt comfortable telling us her secret because as lucid dreamers we all tend to be open minded.
nesgirl wrote:That mood is not called sociopath, I am sorry to say, Hagart.
He felt so much joy he had a lack of empathy for others. That's what I meant by 'sociopath'. So we agree, but used different words. My word was stronger, but simply means, no empathy or concern for others. (Poor kid had his sand castle wrecked and an ice-cream cone smeared in his face. Pure evil!)


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|2013-05-21, 15:09
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I think fat stacks of cash and secret bank accounts would be a nicer inducement. If she had the foresight to set something like that up, why not just arrange for that with her accomplices? It's a lot easier to buy the adults accepting a role in some scheme if you have a briefcase stuffed with a hundred million Yen and a bank card promising hundreds of millions more.
Granted a bank card by itself is not very convincing, but either cash upfront or some way to verify that the account does have cash in it would be a lot more convincing than a big stack of unconverted gold. If the plan is to murder anyway, the cash is more useful too (steal it from whoever you bought off with it after killing them, take it with you when you leave the island or just blow it all up if you're going that route).
|2013-05-21, 15:25
|Link #32363
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For the fictional narratives, I can see both Yasu and Battler letting logic take a back seat to the cool factor (I mean, cmon, it's HIDDEN NAZI GOLD; they might have well just stamped "MacGuffin" on the tops of the bars).
For Prime, I don't think Yasu's plan, whatever it was, made it to the stage of selecting and recruiting accomplices.
|2013-05-21, 18:43
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Honestly I also think that Yasu's plan worked so well because it was a tale.
Natsuhi's obedience in Ep 5 seems already pretty forced and, at least, she has some excuses (she doesn't know who's threatening her, she's under pressure as she's faking Kinzo being alive and hiding the fact she caused a person's death, she's filled with guilt for what she did, she perceived many of the relatives as enemies, she's way too prideful, she might think no one would believe her story, she might really be thinking acting like that she could save Krauss).
Actually, if I've to believe Yasu really tried to implement this plan in Prime I think it's more likely when she tried she never went far as the adults ganged up against her. However the temporally unnerving situation of being threatened, possibly by a gun, and maybe Yasu revealing stuffs that upset them (Kinzo's dead, Rudolf replaced Asumu's child with Battler, Rosa beats Maria, Eva understand nothing of George...), caused the adults to blow up and possibly one of them to die. This increased the stress level and possibly generated a 'Rokkenjima syndrome' in miniature in which everyone feared the other.
Still, it's hard to believe they would go that crazy enough to kill so many people... unless only 2 people were killed in an argument, Hideyoshi and George and Eva decided to kill everyone else with the bomb in retaliation because she couldn't stand it.
|2013-05-21, 20:58
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Well not everyone did have to be killed before the bomb went off. Any number from 0 - all of them could have been all alive until that point. Think for example, if Eva locked everyone in the VIP room while she went to go explore the tunnels, and left her husband in the guesthouse with the kids. Everyone dies, Eva is alive but feels guilty as heck.
I was also just reread Tanabata, and apart from Bern's needlessly cruel "if you smile at Eva, you mother will never come back" truth (I had previously thought she stated it in red but whatever), it also seemed to me like she was saying "If you are only ever sad and never become happy again, after a long time you'll kill yourself and be reunited with your family"
|2013-05-22, 00:02
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The gold is only the central element in this. You could also make a good argument that Kyrie would never actually kill Asumu because it would be stupid. She was obviously the only one to gain from it and she had left the Sumadera clan far enough behind that they would likely not back her if she is accused of a murder that only benefits her. Still the story drives it forward that this element of being beaten by Asumu drove her so out of her mind that she was clearly to a certain degree insane. She wasn't a drooling madwoman incapable of rational thinking, but this part about her was very much mad.
The same for Natsuhi when impulsively shoving the servant through the railing or Rosa when she beats Maria.
I think this is mostly about showing that an extreme situation creates extreme reactions. I would agree that the adults are often drawn to reasonable to just go for the gold alone.
On the other hand we often forget that it was an element in the story that "they did not find any conclusive evidence that would have incriminated Eva (or anybody else for that matter". This could lead us to think that it was maybe even possible to expect that no evidence would be found, at least in the world of Umineko.
Sure we can question whether that would actually be a reasonable thing to assume in our reality, but this is how it is established in the story and to a certain degree we have to work with this.
Yet on the other hand there are plenty of cases in the real world that make you wonder why they remain unsolved and you could make an endless amount of theories about.
Take the Keddie Murders
|2013-05-22, 08:28
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Bear in mind Kyrie considered very carefully all rational outcomes of her actions. She thought about it for a very long time and was aware of what the probable consequences would be if she went through with it. She simply determined, after a very long time thinking it over, that she didn't care. While it's an immoral decision, it isn't an irrational one. She weighed the emotional benefit of murdering a person she blamed for her suffering (whether or not it was Asumu's fault) with the possibility that she'd get caught or punished, and decided "screw it, my emotional well-being matters more than my freedom or the opinions of others, I'mma shank a bitch."
If anything, I point to Kyrie's entire Asumu story as proof her portrayal in ep7 is impossible. Kyrie could make a decision to murder... but it would take her forever to agonize over it, she would have to think everything out very carefully, and she would need an extreme level of emotional investment in the outcome. In other words, Kyrie only operates through premeditation, even when her acts are driven by "irrational" desires. If she was the killer, I'd say she'd almost have to have come already prepared to do it.
|2013-05-22, 11:12
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It's glossed over, but:
1) Battler said "See you again" before leaving the 1980 conference, so was still on good terms with his family; at the very least, Rudolf hadn't married Kryie; Asumu might have still been alive.
2) Ange's age during the 1986 conference was given as 6 years old.
That is, it is quite possible Kyrie was already pregnant when Asumu died.
|2013-05-22, 11:37
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It does add a sense of immediacy to Kyrie's behavior, too. But all that does is make her seem less impulsive. She wasn't even ready to act until she was backed fully into a corner.
|2013-05-22, 11:41
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Well, yes. That's actually brought up specifically multiple times; I wouldn't say it's exactly "glossed over".
|2013-05-22, 14:41
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I agree. Kyrie is very calculative. She does not act on impulse anywhere on the story, I'd say the title of miss impulsive goes to rosa or eva. But kyrie is COLD. I mean seriously, she doesn't give a shit. We can argue whether she really is a psychopath or a calculating individual taken a step too far, but personally I can and totally see her as the murderer in prime. Because she is capable of pulling out a murder, if it crosses her interest.
Now we can again have the same discussion about if gold actually acts as plausible motive or are the characters retarded or did ryu even consider the possibility of killing for gold having this kind of discussion, but I'd dare to say if we have a way X of converting the money to gold, I can totally see kyrie going for it. Now I don't say way X actually exists, but we can apply that principle to pretty much anything: as far as kyrie sees motive X as something to try and achieve, she could kill everyone and everything on the island without emotion
|2013-05-22, 17:19
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I don't think Prime went down like Ep7's tea party. That being said, I find Kyrie's actions somewhat plausible in that one, given the circumstances.
One, the bomb is the metaphorical Ring of Gyges. No point in worrying about consequences when there will be no evidence anyways. Two, by the time her and Rudolf start to act, one person is dead and several others are armed and ill-tempered. Chances are, left to their own devices, they'll start to think the same thoughts her and Rudolf are thinking re: killing relatives and letting the bomb sort them out. Three, if they can't put their heads together and explain away Natsuhi's death, both gold and bank card will be sitting in a police evidence locker, of no help to their failing businesses.
So, from Kyrie's relatively logical point of view, if they're going to act like spoiled kids, wave guns at each other, and not work together on this, screw 'em, they gotta die. The servants and kids are just another liability at that point.
|2013-05-22, 19:45
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I think the main problem with accepting someone was the culprit for the Rokkenjima massacre is:
it's possible someone thought it was a good plan or was temporally driven to think it was a good idea for random reason X but random reason X is never explained.
We probably wouldn't think that Natsuhi pushing the servant off the cliff is plausible if we weren't told her mental state but just that Kinzo told her to adopt a baby. Without knowing how she was feeling back then the idea she would toss a servant and a baby off a cliff would seem insane. But when we're allowed to give a look into her mind and we realized how she felt when she did it we think that yes, it's plausible.
Same for Kirye with the addition that nowhere is said that Kirye plans to kill Asumu and then be caught by the police. If she had managed to murder Asumu secretly enough not only she would have gotten free of her rival and cause of pain (and hate is a reason good enough to justify murder) but she might have managed to marry Rudolf. Also, although it isn't said, it seems she found the determination to kill her short before she died, therefore when she was already pregnant. It's likely this was an extra reason that pushed her to wish for Asumu's demise.
Back to the Rokkenjima massacre instead what's the general mood?
Surely the adults were stressed but as each of them carried his kids along (or let them be on the island) I doubt they went there planning to commit murder in front of them. Even if Ange was at home, Battler came along and, if Rudolf had planned to kill everyone he likely wouldn't have wanted to carry him.
Even assuming that things went on like in the Teaparty of Ep 7 and it started with an incident, logic lasts till Rosa gets killed.
When Kirye began shooting at everyone like that... well, it seemed irrational. It'll be maybe different if Rosa, after seeing Natsuhi and Krauss die, had a moment of insanity tied with the trauma of seeing Beatrice die and had threatened to kill everyone, maybe really shooting at someone and, out of fear, someone had shoot her back.
But then continuing to kill gets stupid when they could have pushed the blame of Krauss and Natsuhi's death on dead Rosa so logic breaks again.
I don't know, it's true Eva doesn't get arrested so maybe if someone else did the killing and then Eva killed that person in self defense the original murderer might have planned to do what Eva later did and not get arrested by the police but still... the whole thing seems weak.
|2013-05-22, 22:44
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Or you could... cover it up and not murder anyone outside the secret tunnels nobody else knows about. You might have to get Genji involved or something, but there's no particularly good reason to kill Gohda or Kumasawa or the children (as far as you know).
Heck, if Kyrie were thinking truly rationally she could just tell the remaining adults "Okay, we won't have a problem if we move everybody who died out of this area and somewhere on the main island nobody knows about. We'll dump them all in a room and make it look like one of them killed all the others, then 'discover' it. Nobody says a word to the police about the gold or bank card, because if we do we lose it. It'll be hard on the kids but they'll back up the story."
I mean, I like to think that certain canon animosities aside (such as Natsuhi vs. Eva) the adults like each other. They were on the cusp of working together in ep7 before shit went down, the absurd part is that things continued to escalate rather than somebody trying to get a handle on the situation before it went totally batshit. That Kyrie was the agent of this chaos instead of the one trying to work against it seems out of character for her. She can get access to the money and avoid killing anyone else with game theory and blackmail. "Not killing more people than necessary" seems like a perfectly valid motive under these circumstances for most people; why would you rationalize the need to kill more than is necessary?
Plus, you know... they have the bomb. Why go murder people? Nobody's going to find that room. If you want to murder people, just flip the switch and leave.
|2013-05-23, 01:41
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Thinking on it, in this particular moment, Kyries EP7 kinda makes sense in a very twisted way - it's an extreme logical (if probably fallacious) conclusion of ROsa's argument in EP2 - other people's behavior is a Devil's Proof, "I can only trust myself,", sorta thing.
Remember how she told Jessica that in a Plank of Carneadas situation, she would push the other survivor off without hesitation? Well, her only reason to kill people beyond those in the Gold Room is "they might use a wireless to summon the police in the morning", which stays true whether they keep the bodies where they are, make the bodies disappear, or set up a situation that makes it look like they killed each other. You might also say, and I guess she runs on this train of thought in EP7, that despite the storm, who's to say the police couldn't SOMEHOW get to Rokkenjima, anyway?
It's one of those situations where mutual cooperation leads to the obviously superior outcome, but opens the individual to the worst possible outcome, which in this case would be betrayal by Evayoshi, Rosa, or maybe, uh, Yashkanontrice. I'd also add that from Kyrie's perspective, Rudolf could also potentilally betray her, but whatevs. Thinking this way, literally the only thing stopping her from shooting people immediately are, as she pointed out later, an insufficient number of bullets. Not saying these are GOOD conclusions to make, but hey, the Idiot Ball practically an Ushiromiya family heirloom so everybody deserves a turn at least once within their defined character traits, right? Hell, should've gone full monty and have Kyrie confess to Eva that she would've killed Rudolf, too, had Eva not done it alreaddyyy.
Forreals, tho, the only thing that makes me really think Kyrie MIGHT be the killer in Prime is the image from the game data of her holding a rifle from Eva's diary. I saw that and was just like "Aw, really though? COME ON."
As for the adults liking each other, well. Kyrie and Hideyoshi seem to be on pleasant enough terms with everybody, but none of the siblings seem to care for each others company at all - I remember being surprised at how infrequently they seemed to involve themselves with each other.
Spoiler for unrelated, really:
|2013-05-23, 05:29
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Eva : You killed?! You killed everyone?!! Even Maria-chan..?!
Kyrie : There was no need to let them live until morning. When morning came, there would be an uproar, and that could prove to be a pain. They might have used a wireless to contact someone off the island and gotten help. .....So, this was clearly the move to take. If you turn the chessboard around and look at it that way, right.....?
Couldn't say if she meant a phone, or a radio - those things don't get checked until after the First Twilight in the earlier gameboards, and who knows if she tested the external land line, or radios before going on her spree. For what it's worth, though, Japan's first commercial mobile phone service was offered in 1985, and the Ushiromiya ARE supposed to be super buku rich and all.
|2013-05-23, 05:53
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George is pretty much secretly known to have something with Shannon, so he could also be a liability in terms of her having filled him in at any given point.
How would they answer questions like "Who killed the last person?" If there is a murderer moving around people would like to find him. It would also highly open up the possibility of the murderer being among the surviving family members.
How would they know that the other children would back it up? Jessica would have lost her parents, Maria her mother and George his lover. They are all possible liabilities, Maria even more because she would continue to fuss about Beatrice.
They are without alibi during that time and thus clearly a suspect.
On using the bomb without anybody knowing. It's like (I think) Eva implied in Episode 7, that they do not know whether anything told about the bomb is actually true. It could be much larger in terms of range than expected or much smaller, it could go off earlier or later than they were told, they don't even know which position switches it on and which switches it off with any certainty.
That is the big problem with the bomb, it has to be used by somebody who actually believed without a doubt that it would work and that is how we run into a big problem. It creates both a problem for murdering people and not murdering people.
Krauss constantly feels belittled by his younger siblings for obvious faults that he still can't admit to. Eva hates her male siblings for being treated with more respect in terms of social responsibilities and treated Rosa bad because it was the only way to vent. Rudolph just doesn't care because he's the second son and basically out of the race, so he only cares about getting some part of the cake and getting out of there. Rosa was constantly bullied by her siblings (the EP8 manga implies they treated her like she's treating Maria down to ripping apart her favorite toy) and basically the punching bag of the family.
Natsuhi is hated by Eva and is constantly belittled for not living up to her purpose of the oldest sons wife. Hideyoshi is almost the one who is on best terms, but it is also implied that he is using this "good guy" image to get his way. Kyrie is taking herself back and silently observes.
I really never got the feeling that they liked each other at all. They simply went along because they were "the Ushiromiya family".
I think it's generally important to not think what people would act like if they were real people (because characters in a story are not) but what we know about how characters are characterized during the story and how certain elements would fit into a theme.
|2013-05-23, 08:39
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The police are coming either way once somebody goes missing. The question is what they will find. Trying to mitigate the damage and blaming someone who is dead (or alive, if you can make it good) at least gives you the opportunity to shuttle things out of the secret area and let the survivors not in the know establish that the family conference seemed to be going about as normal. Maybe you won't be able to prevent the gold from being found, but getting off the hook for murder seems a lot more important as a priority.
Killing everyone only works if you intend to use the bomb to cover the whole thing up, but as you noted...
For Yasu this actually wouldn't be a big deal, even though she can't know it will work either; she's a risk-taker, so she'd probably be okay with the prospect of the activation mechanism failing. It would probably not be sufficient for Kyrie, and in the worst case scenario if she goes around killing people the bomb won't work and she'll have to answer for all of it. Given that she wasn't trying very hard to cover up what she was doing, she's only making her worst case worse without really making her best case any better.
And concluding that everyone is a liability is largely absurd. Survivors outside your immediate family deflect suspicion and confuse things. If only Kyrie/Rudolf/Battler survive, you know exactly who the police will look at (and Eva probably only got away with not being charged because she had the benefit of the bomb). Should the bomb not work, congratulations, you're all going to jail and you'll lose the gold. If the bomb does work... you might still lose the gold and go to jail, depending on whether the gold also blows up.
When you throw a desperate need for money in the mix and boil people down to their component traits for a mystery story, you see them at their absolute worst. But there are plenty of glimmers of them at their best, especially when they fight back in fantasy scenes.
As a result, ep7's Tea Party only really makes sense to me as the answer to a world that operates along the rules of a mystery story (and not a very good one, since it's just a massacre). Yet that's a fundamental contradiction; you can't give a "what really happened" explanation that assumes people behave like fictional characters. I'm aware they are fictional characters either way, but if there's some Prime that "really exists" in the world beyond then we have to at least pretend there existed "real" versions of the characters who would thus behave somewhat realistically.
Thus, while one might believe things like "Yasu could be a mass murderer" or "Krauss and Natsuhi would readily agree to help a killer to save themselves, no matter how vague the killer's promises" in a mystery story, they don't really work in a "realistic" crime drama. I suppose where people go from here is "but Kyrie is a plausible culprit in both instances," which is at least potentially true; however, her behavior in such an instance must match more closely to her behavior with respect to Asumu then her behavior in the ep7 Tea Party or Bern's game in ep8. She would premeditate and carefully rationalize, not go flying off the handle to get money she can't verify even exists or is accessible, murder people who could actually help her or take the blame for her actions, and do so in a manner which paints a big giant I AM A TOTAL PSYCHOPATH sign all over her body in Jessica's blood.
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Thinking about the prime scenario, I have some theories about it.
The closest of the first 4 novels to "Prime" is the 3rd novel.
The key piece of truth from the 7th novel tea party is that there were 2 culprits.
Due to the context of the culprit identity in the 7th and 8th novels, their identity is most likely a cruel (yet perfectly in character) act of trolling by Bernkastel. The identities stink of "Rule Z" style red herring.
Eva has a body count in "Prime". This is foreshadowed by the 3rd and 7th novel.
Eva is NOT a culprit in the 3rd novel due to her motive. The 7th novel indicates that her motive in the 3rd novel and Prime was most likely a vigilante act trying to hunt down and stop the culprits.
Eva killed the wrong targets in the 3rd novel, but killed the correct targets in the 7th novel and Prime.
The most likely culprits in Prime IMO are George and Rosa.
The explanation for this part is a bit long winded. The gold most likely had nothing to do with the murders. The 4th and 6th novels raise some major red flags regarding George (the fact that he's perfectly willing to kill anyone who gets in the way of his relationship with Shannon) which give us an obvious motive. That and he's always acted like a creeper and suspicious to boot. Then there's the "triangulation cover up theory" someone mentioned regarding which character would it make sense for Battler, Beato, and Eva to cover up. George makes sense under this context. George being manipulative doesn't help his case either.
Rosa on the other hand is more difficult to place a motive on. If I were a gambling man, I would place my bets on her simply being insane. Rosa is arguably one of the most mentally unhinged individuals on the island. There's plenty of hints throughout the novels that she's severely bi-polar at best. Her heavily abused past combined with the incident involving Beatrice shown in the 3rd novel give me reason to suspect that all the circumstances for Rosa having PTSD are in place. The crap in Rosa's life combined with mental instability is simply a ticking time bomb scenario, and it may have detonated that day. The 7th novel also indicated an irrational outburst scenario, which fits with the theory of one of the culprits being unstable, not actually pre-meditating the murders.
Which brings me to the journal and other things.
Eva's hiding the contents of the journal from the world is related to the identity of the culprit. Hiding it from Ange has more to do with Battler's fate. Eva (wrongly) believes that Battler died there.
Due to the stupid way she did things, whatever good intentions Eva may of had regarding Ange completely back-fired on her.
The reason Beato showed the "Last Stand" scenario in the 2nd novel may have been as a warning/hint to Battler. This scene firmly places Rosa as being "competent" with fire arms, but not to the level of Rudolph and Kyrie. Also,
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NEW YORK (AP) — Trudie Styler would love it if you came to her new play. Just don't tell her when.
"I never like to know who's in the house when I'm performing," she says, laughing. "I'm so happy to see everyone afterward, but please don't tell me who's there."
Any exceptions? "No, nobody." Does it even apply to the rock star Sting, her husband of 21 years? "Yes. I don't allow him to tell me when he's coming," she says.
Forgive Styler, 59, a bout of nerves these days. The former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company has only lately returned to the stage after many years as a film producer, businesswoman, philanthropist, environmentalist and yoga instructor.
She's making her New York debut this month in the Culture Project's production of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull." It is adapted by Thomas Kilroy and directed by Max Stafford-Clark, who lured Styler out of acting retirement in 2011 with "A Dish of Tea With Dr. Johnson."
"The Seagull" is a rueful meditation on the peculiarities of life and unrequited love. Styler plays Arkadina, a vain, impetuous actress who dominates both her neurotic son and her lover. Kilroy has changed the setting from late 19th-century Russia to Ireland.
It is a busy time for Styler and Sting, who has just released the new album, "The Last Ship." She's also produced two upcoming films — "Black Nativity" with Forest Whitaker and "Filth" with James McAvoy. And the last of their four children is applying to college.
Styler took time out to talk about the play and being Mrs. Sting.
AP: Why is this production set in Ireland?
Styler: The Irish are famed for poetry running through their veins, great passion, the love of the use of language. And let's not underestimate the appreciation of alcohol, which of course the British, too, share, I hasten to add.
AP: Are you saying the Irish are more passionate than the English?
Styler: Passionate meaning emotional. I mean it in a great way. It's a compliment. I've never really celebrated the stiff upper lip. England is not known for great passion and great poetry. It is much more held back and restrained.
AP: You're now a full-time New Yorker. Do you get chased by fewer paparazzi here?
Styler: I don't think we get that in either country. I mean, neither of us is spring chickens. We're hardly Brangelina. I think there's a lot of relief that we can get around the city easily. We're unbodyguarded. We have no posse.
AP: How do you call your husband at home? Is he his birth name Gordon Sumner or Sting?
Styler: He's known as Sting. I have my own personal name for him but that shall remain a personal name.
AP: Has it ever been hard to be married to a superstar?
Styler: I've never really had a sense that I am just Mrs. Sting. Indeed, I am Mrs. Sting and very proud and very happy that I am still Mrs. Sting, as opposed to Mrs. ex-Sting. But I'm a very busy person so I've always done things and got on with my life. We're a busy family. We like challenges and we like to be fully engaged with life. I've done that as long as I've been with Sting.
AP: You help many charitable causes, from water projects with UNICEF to the Rainforest Fund. How do you pick the projects?
Styler: Sting and I were saying last night that we have an awful time saying no to things and that it should be a new, better word for us. But there is a great need for many things and we recognize the great privilege that we have. When we can lend a hand, we do.
AP: You've had a long marriage, especially for a show business couple. Any secrets to that success?
Styler: Liking each other is mightily important. Our daughter made a lovely comment once at one of our wedding anniversaries. She said, 'My parents don't just love each other — they really like each other.' I thought, 'That's a lovely thing to hear.' That is absolutely true.
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Probably a Jango and whiny Boba thrown in for fun.
So is EE not going to reveal the identities of the other figures? I'm not purchasing something that I have no clue to what it's going to contain.
I thought that I read if you've pre-ordered an item from EE, you are able to cancel the order if you're unhappy with the final product once it's revealed... I'll try to find that reference.
I'd keep going but well, it is being marketed as a bit of a mystery set. (And don't forget EE lets you cancel any pre-order with no penalty if you order it on Tuesday and decide after the announcement that you don't much care for it. Risk-free, yay.) That's good enough for now, I think, so there ya go!
I have a feeling that the Mandalorian that we've seen is the only new tool in the set.
I'm not too worried about holding off on pre-ordering these. EE never sells out right away (knock on wood.)
Thankfully you would be wrong there. Llats Ward is a partially new tool, but there is new tooling involved. There will also be at least one (maybe more, I ain't gonna say) completely new tool in the set. I'm very happy to say that this set is not a big box of repaints with just one new figure.
I had heard that EE might be leaking out the identity of a few more figures leading up to Comic Con.
July's just a few weeks away, and at least one more figure will probably be revealed before the show.
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With so many new series about to be unloaded on us as the fall season looms ever closer, trying to figure out which ones we're most excited about was no easy task. But there are some comedies and dramas that really are brimming with potential this fall, thanks to great premises and in some cases, some really excellent talent involved. Whether or not these shows actually live up to that potential remains to be seen, and we'll find out in a matter of weeks. In the meantime, here's our list of shows we're especially excited about, listed in no particular order.
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Premieres: Tuesday, September 24 at 8:00 p.m. on ABC
Created by: Joss Whedon, Jed Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen
Starring: Clark Gregg, Ming-Na Wen, Bret Dalton, Chloe Bennet, Iain De Caestecker
To say that we're simply anticipating Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would probably be a huge understatement. Not only does this series follow the excellent Avengers film, but it also brings Joss Whedon back to television, teamed with his brother and sister-in-law Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen. The series is set in the same "world" as The Avengers and the other Marvel films we've seen, which means this is a reality that is aware of the superhuman and sometimes god-like people living among the rest of the human population. The series focuses on the inner workings of S.H.I.E.L.D., the global organization that strives to monitor activity and incidents related to these superhuman people.
In the wake of The Avengers, the concept of S.H.I.E.l.L.D. seems brimming with potential. What's more, the show should be able to exist somewhat independently from the films, tying to them in some major ways without stepping on the toes of Iron Man, Thor and the other related movies in terms of the plot. The emphasis on the agents who work in this organization allows for all new stories and adventures to play out. Factor in Clark Gregg's big comeback as he returns to the role of Agent Phil Coulson, who was believed to have died in Avengers, and there's even more reason to hope S.H.I.E.L.D. is a winner. Whedon certainly has the track record for quality shows.


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For the past 24 hours, we've been in search of truth and rumors in regards to Brian Dawkins' future.
The chase is now over.
About 90 minutes ago, Les Bowen of the Daily News confirmed that the longest-tenured Eagle has agreed to a deal with the Broncos.
According to Adam Schefter of NFL Network, it's a five-year, $17 million deal that includes $7.2 million guaranteed. Escalators could boost the deal to $27 million, but the deal could also be voided to two years, $9 million.
The numbers probably don't mean much to you right now. What does matter is that the franchise lost its most universally-liked player in over a decade.
The exact date is unknown, but Dawkins will play in Philadelphia next season. The Broncos have a date with the Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field in 2009. That will be quite a day. I imagine many will dust off the No. 20 jerseys one more time.
I'll offer more of my take throughout the weekend, but for now, here's a Dawkins highlight video I found on YouTube from NFL Network.
At one point, the highlights go to Dawkins' interview with Terry Bradshaw after the Eagles earned a Super Bowl berth. At about the 2:30 mark, Dawkins says "Gimme some respect right now!" Seems kind of fitting, doesn't it?
And if you don't get chills at about the 2:45 mark, well, this whole Eagles Fan thing might not be for you.
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Muhammad is Kane sheriff's Citizen of the Year
In 2002, when Clayton Muhammad founded "Boys II Men," an organization to help at-risk youths, there were 25 homicides in Aurora, many of them gang related.
Ten years later, Aurora has not had a single murder so far this year and the fraternal organization Muhammed started has helped teens set goals, go to college, earn degrees and fulfill their dreams.
"Boys II Men: The Brotherhood for Phenomenal Young Men" is one reason there is less gang violence in the city, and Muhammad's service and dedication to the community was recognized Thursday as Kane County Sheriff Pat Perez awarded the 37-year-old Aurora man with the 2012 Roscoe Ebey Award.
Ebey, an 83-year-old World War II veteran, was killed in a May 2007 home invasion. The award is the sheriff's equivalent to Citizen of the Year honors.
"I'm so honored. I'll try as hard as I can to uphold his name," said Muhammad, noting the honor itself was not about him, but for students who went on to succeed. "It can be done, no matter what. This is for them."
Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner said it was natural to nominate Muhammad, who also serves as an educator, motivational speaker and East Aurora School District 131's director of community affairs and spokesman.
"Boys II Men," whose motto is "Change Your Mind, Change Your Life," also includes other branches for young ladies, young fathers, college students and younger boys.
"Clayton has a wonderful influence in our community and more importantly, a wonderful influence upon young men, many of them who are at-risk," Weisner said, noting the Aurora City Council also recognized "Boys II Men" this week for its 10-year anniversary. "The greatest thing is to see their self-confidence bloom when they succeed at one thing and hunger for more success."
Ebey's son, Richard, said his father was a man who was respected in his neighborhood because he would help others. "He was a community man. His whole neighborhood will vouch for that. ... It seems like you're that type of individual. All you do is give," Richard Ebey said to Muhammad.
Anita Lewis, secretary of the District 131 Board of Education, said Muhammad's service and positive influence goes way beyond him serving as the district's spokesman.
"It doesn't matter who you are, these kids have Clay Muhammad in their corner," Lewis said.
Perez, an Aurora native, said Muhammad was one reason all Aurorans could be proud. "There's a spirit from people in Aurora. We stick together," Perez said. "You leave it better than when you found it."
More information about "Boys II Men" can be found on its website boys2menonline.org or texting "B2M" to 22828.
Meetings that aim to help young men improve their lives and build a strong foundation are held at 6:02 p.m. on the first and third Sunday of each month at the Prisco Community Center, 150 W. Illinois Ave., Aurora.


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Olive 4 Home Music Server
Product: Olive 4 500GB Music Server
Price: $1,499
Rating: Reccomend*
Capable of storing 6,000 CDs, the Olive 4 is like having a computer with nothing else on it but iTunes. The unit is designed to fit into your media cabinet but fill your whole house with tunes. Upload music from CDs to it's hard drive, drag and drop mp3s from your computer or listen to internet radio and have the entire house filled with tunes as you can connect to music players in any room. The Olive 4 promises that their Hi-Fi music server has "eliminated the need for a PC."
Unboxing: When you open up this bad boy for the first time, you'll see it's designed to be easy to set up. The unit is accompanied with a power cord, remote control and a Wi-Fi antenna. I was a little upset to see that I'd have to use my own RCA cable to connect this to my home speaker system, but many newer systems are connecting exclusively with Toslink cables. The Olive unit provides options for wiring up both ways.
At first glance, the Olive unit is sleek but substantial. You've just bought a piece of major home tech and you know it. At 13 pounds, this is no iPod. It's design is superior, too. An aluminum body is etched on the top with lines of written music genres. A subtle element that typography freaks will dig. The buttons on the unit are rubberized and fun to touch.
The clunky plastic remote control doesn't share any of the same design features as the unit it controls. A bummer, to say the least, since it's what I'll be looking at front-and-center on the coffee table.
Performance: The first thing you'll notice about the Olive 4 is it's bright and sharp screen. The unit is controlled with a high-resolution touchscreen that gives the whole user experience a bit of polish—it's what you'd expect from such a high-ticket device. But the touchscreen "buttons" are small, meaning sometimes you'll select the wrong artist, and main controls are located at the bottom of the screen directly above the aluminum bevel, meaning that you'll have a tough time tapping down on volume controls—problems I had even with my own tiny fingertips. The volume control itself is strange also, requiring that you 'save' the adjustment before you can hear your music get louder or softer.
But once you get the touch thing down, navigating the menus is easy with an interface similar to iPod's. As soon as you insert a CD, the entire experience is fool-proof, with on-screen options to listen or upload. Once you're connected to the Web, CD and track info, including full-color album artwork, is automatically added and sorted (I wasn't yet connected when I took the pic below).
The unit really shines when it's connected to the Web. Before I wired up, I accidentally touched through to internet radio and had the screen freeze on me, requiring that I power off and on to get back to my music. But when connected, album information came up quickly and internet radio stations were steady and clear.
What we liked: If you're somebody who listens to music over less-than-stellar computer speakers and reminisces about the days you used to pop a CD in the stereo and rock out in your living room, then there's no better machine than the Olive 4 music server for you. It allows you to combine your digital files with those CDs you still have lying around to keep up one main music server with all your favorite tunes ready to listen to at a remote's notice. Plus you can finally get rid of those CDs, because the Olive 4 has a USB connection allowing you to back up your files to an external hard drive. The unit is overall well-designed and the menus are flashy and easy to navigate.
What needs improvement: Besides the sky-high price, our biggest bummer was the remote control. For such an inspiring design, the remote felt cheap and looked clunky. The touchscreen was tough to work with sometimes, but real-life buttons are available as a second option for screen navigation. It sounds silly, but we were confused when the led light for the power button remained turned on and green no matter if the unit was playing tunes or sitting on standby. With a few tweaks to make the user experience smoother, the Olive 4 would have been a strong recommend.
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4.3" high-resolution touchscreen
Panasonic CD-R/RW
USB 1.1/2.0 port
Wired for Ethernet or 54 Mbit/s wireless connectivity
Available in 500 GB, 1TB and 2TB drive models
Width 17.13", Height 3.35", Depth 11.42"
Weight 13.2 lb
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Though David Bradley was on stage at the Television Critics Assn. press tour Thursday to promote his upcoming project, "An Adventure in Space and Time," about the making of the original "Doctor Who," his pivotal role in the infamous Red Wedding on "Game of Thrones" loomed large over the proceedings.
Richard DeCroce, vice president of programming for BBC America, brought up the subject in his introductions, saying the actor was "fresh from being the world's worst wedding host." It was a knowing reference to Bradley's performance as Walder Frey, who presided over the bloody nuptials in the now-infamous episode "The Rains of Castamere."
While the Red Wedding left many "Game of Thrones" fans disconsolate, Bradley had quite the opposite experience filming it.
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"Doing the scene, I enjoyed every moment of it," he said. "I enjoyed it rather too much, actually."
The same goes for his sinister character: "I love playing him, because he's just irredeemable."
And yes, Bradley has watched the YouTube videos of viewers reacting in shock, horror and dismay to the gory ambush. "It's amazing that you're part of something that can generate those emotions."
Between his roles on "Game of Thrones," "Harry Potter," and now "An Adventure in Space and Time," in which he stars as the first "Doctor Who," William Hartnell, the Yorkshire-born actor has become something of a fixture in geek culture.
At last weekend's Comic-Con, he was happy to chat with his many fans. "When you actually meet them you really appreciate them. I enjoy meeting them whether they're Potter fans, 'Game of Thrones' fans. It's nice to know it's got the level of excitement about it. It's a pleasure, I'm honored."
"An Adventure in Space and Time" tells the origin story of the enduringly popular sci-fi series and its shape-shifting protagonist, described by one character in the film as "C.S. Lewis meets H.G. Wells meets Father Christmas."
As Bradley explained on stage, Hartnell was a complicated figure, "one of the great unsung character actors of his time" who struggled to overcome the shame of his illegitimate birth.
It premieres on BBC Two in November, timed to coincide with the 50thanniversary of the show's premiere.
Though filming the project in just 20 days on a slight budget was a challenge, the production was assisted by the London police who, as director Terry McDonough speculated, must have been fans of the Doctor: They allowed producers to shut down Westminster Bridge on three separate occasions to shoot a pivotal scene involving Daleks, exactingly reconstructed from originals provided by the BBC.
'Game of Thrones' fans see red over 'Red Wedding'
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Larry Moore's Fresh Pumpkin Pie
LARRY MOORES FRESH PUMPKIN PIE (made with homemade pumpkin)
2 cups fresh pumpkin 3 eggs lightly beaten 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar 2 Tbsp flour 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1/2 tsp all spice 1/4 tsp ginger 1/4 tsp ground clove 1 tsp cinnamon 1 1/2 cups evaporated milk PREPARED Pie Crust
Directions: Cut up pumpkins, even used jack-0-lanterns. Bake pieces, unpeeled, in a moderate oven until fork tender. Peel baked pumpkin and run through blender or cut in small pieces and blend with all ingredients including evaporated milk in blender.
Turn mixture into pie shell and bake in 450 degrees for 10 minutes, then at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until silver knife comes clean.


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This is what happened when Alex Perez heard about his grandfather's internment in Cuba during the 1960s.
"It was a part of family history I didn't know about," said Perez, whose family eventually relocated to New York, and then migrated across the Hudson River to Hudson County where he still lives.
Growing up in Union City and near the other North Hudson towns, Perez was surrounded by stories of survival, of Cuban refugees fleeing the repressive regime of Fidel Castro and Che Guravera.
But what Perez discovered was that some—like his grandfather— never made it out but were thrown into work camps where they labored and suffered torture, and many eventually died.
"My grandfather died of multiple bayonet stab wounds," Perez said. "He was put into a work camp that worked 14 to 16 hours a day."
Perez said he was amazed that such things were going on a mere 90 miles from Miami, one of the most beautiful places in the world.
A freelance theater director who has done work throughout Hudson County, including recently in Bayonne and North Bergen, Perez is also a playwright. He saw this tragic, yet heroic family history as a vehicle for making a larger statement, not just about those who suffered abuses under Castro, but about the nature of tyrants in every era.
"It's ironic that this play should be coming out now when Russia just passed similar laws in that country," Perez said. "But this could be about any country that sees some people as unfit."
Gay people, political outcasts, people of faith, or others whom a society deems unfit can become victims of torture and murder.
Perez's play, "Julian and Romero," does not directly deal with the story his family members told him about his grandfather. Rather, it is a fictional account of two men who were best friends growing up—one a closeted gay man and one straight, who form a bond, despite their differing political, religious, and cultural beliefs. One is a communist soldier under Castro's revolution, but they both must come to grips with the evil effects of the tyrannical society in which they live.
Rising above adversity
Perez said this is not a dark play of hopelessness, but one that highlights the human ability to endure and rise above adversity. It is also filled with culture of that era. Anyone who loves classic Cuban dance and music from the 1950s and 1960s will love this play.
The story is told in scenes, monologues, and with subplots at a Military Unit to Aid Production prison camp, known as a UMAP camp. It is based on the stories of men who survived those camps. Relationship issues arise between the prisoner and the soldier. It is an agonizing look at a rich cultural and social history, embracing politics, faith, American Dreams, and the will to survive against all odds.
"There aren't that many stories out there that discuss the horrors of Cuba's secret past," Perez said. "It's important that new generations are reminded of a secret world Fidel Castro claims never existed. It's not just a Cuban story, but a human-rights issue."
Collective memory
Although Cuban communities like those in West New York, Union City, and Jersey City have changed over the last few decades, there is a collective memory of that era. Many of those residents are related to people who came north from Cuba at that time and remember the horrors inflicted on loved ones.
"The fact that this is going on today in Russia shows that it is something we should be looking at and be concerned about," Perez said.
Perez is also an actor, who recently had a role in the Batman film, "The Dark Knight Rises." He directed and choreographed his play, which is produced by Media Killed Productions. Perez's other credits include "Ultimate Drag Off," "Media Killed the Video Star," "OZ!" and "De La Guarda."
"Julian and Romero" stars Sebastian Stimman (Julian), Gonzalo Trigueros (Romero), Edna Lee Figueroa (Bertha), Julian Juaquin (Raul) and Daren Fleming (Sgt. Cruz). Its world-premiere will be part of the Dream Up Festival at Theater for the New City, September 3 to 8 for five performances at 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10003 (Between 9th and10th Streets): Sunday 9/3 at 9 p.m., Wednesday 9/4 at 6:30 p.m., Thursday 9/5 at 9 p.m., Sunday 9/7 at 5 p.m. and Tuesday 9/8 at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale for $12 at the theater, at www.Smarttix.com, or by calling (212) 868-4444.
Perez said the play will likely find a more permanent performance space later this year. In the meantime, he encourages people to come out to the festival to catch their bit of historic Cuban culture.
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Special exhibit examines campus' previous occupant
History of Middlesex University, battle for accreditation, honoredFor nearly two decades, 415 South St. was home to Middlesex University, a medical and veterinary school that produced some 2,000 graduates. The battle for accreditation ended in defeat, but the university's legacy continues at Brandeis and in its many accomplished graduates.
The Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department at Brandeis is paying homage to Middlesex in an exhibit entitled "Castles and Controversies: The Story of Middlesex University," currently running in the Goldfarb Library. The exhibit features a history of Middlesex, information on the schools, documents relating to the accreditation controversy, medical artifacts from the 1940s, and photographs of campus, labs, classrooms and students.
On Wednesday, Sept. 12, from 4 to 6 p.m., alumni of Middlesex and their families will bring stories about their years in Waltham to accompany the exhibit. Everyone is welcome.
"While some alumni have a complex relationship with the institution" that formally occupied Usen Castle, "we have heard a great deal of enthusiasm about the exhibit," says Sarah Shoemaker, director of university archives and special collections. "A number of alumni have contributed their artifacts."
Part of the exhibit is devoted to the controversy of Middlesex not being accepted into the American Medical Association (AMA), the battle to be accepted by the AMA and the similar battles that the veterinary school endured with the American Veterinary Medical Association.
There have been discussions that perhaps some of the accreditation issues arose because theories and concepts at Middlesex were, at times, contrary to those of traditional schools. The 1929 course catalog, for example, states that Middlesex believed in eclectic medicine, meaning students were open to discuss and challenge some of the medical theories with their own ideas.
In addition, there were no quotas for admission ‑ people of color, women, Jews and Catholics were welcome.
"At that time the AMA had a vested interest in creating a situation where there were fewer doctors," says Maggie McNeely, university archivist who oversaw the creation of the exhibit by graduate students Katherine Morley and Surella Seelig. "Perhaps it was because of prestige or finances, but there was a limited number of schools in which they would accredit."
Middlesex began by using a pre-existing charter. For a while it was known as the University of Massachusetts in Waltham. Once it was granted university status from the state it was able to grant all of the medical and veterinary degrees, however this did not mean they were accredited by the AMA and AVMA.
The medical school opened in 1914 and closed in 1946, and the veterinary school opened in 1938 and closed in 1947.
"I think Middlesex has quite a bit to do with the Brandeis community," says McNeely. "Neither had a quota system. In addition, there were a number of trustees that transferred over from Middlesex to Brandeis, so there wasn't a clean cut. I think it's a good continuation of history."
McNeely says once they started to digitize some of the catalogs and bulletins more people began asking about Middlesex, often requesting information about family members. Many of the files contain photos.
"For people doing genealogy work for their family this is a goldmine," says McNeely. "It's very touching when people are finally able to get information that they hadn't before."
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Want the world to be a better place? It all begins with you and your fam—and one very random event happening this month.
Plus: 5 Ways to Raise a Grateful Child
Kindness is contagious, say the folks behind Random Acts of Kindness Week, a grassroots pay-it-forward-palooza taking place February 14 to 20. Hence, it's a great opportunity to bring your family together in the spirit of altruism. Try creating a gratitude chain: Help your little one write something he's grateful for, fold the note into a chain link, and then ask others to add their own links. "It demonstrates to children the idea that we can come together and create something bigger than ourselves," says Marilyn Decalo, manager of the Denver-based Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) Foundation. Her last "RAK"? Switching airplane seats so a family could sit together (awesome!). The foundation's following is growing by leaps and bounds—it has 20,000 Facebook fans—so don't be surprised if the car ahead of you pays your next tollbooth fee. For more great ideas, go to Randomactsofkindness.org.


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Since when is PRICE an indicator of what generation it's in?
The tech behind the controller is interesting, however my main concerns with the controller is how comfortable will using the controller be and if the screen resolution on the controller is as good as they are saying, what effect this will have on the battery life. Though we probably won't find this out until the console is released and we can have a go of it ourselves.
On a positive note I think having a touch screen on the controller may allow for a better control system for RTS games on a console, something that has plagued console RTSs is the limited practicality of using a controller.
Where did they say that?
I wish nintendo would just go into being a publisher and dev. They do that very well and all but their consoles are never as good. The controller cost will be huge and it will only last until the PS4/ xbox the 3rd come out.
Nintendo had a shot when they were able to well under cut the ps3 and 360 while still giving motion controll, but now they are going to lose a chunk of install base in the shuffle.
expect a price drop on the ps3 and 360, along with move and kinect , just before this thing comes out so as to basically it in the womb.
Yeah i'll probably nab it.
With (apparently) 1080p graphics, maybe third party support from beig names will start taking nintendo seriously now. Apparently metro is coming to the wii u (which i am now officially calling the nintendo new thing, to save myself some embarassment when talking about it), so playing that should be pretty cool on the hand held.
In absolue honesty, i'm probably going to buy it for NON nintendo games, and play it constantly on the controller screen. The idea of playing high deff AAA games ANYWHERE is a pretty cool notion to me. But i honestly cannot see the point of using it with the TV. I think nintendo should have marketed it as a strange sort of handheld, not so much a controller.
But yeah, so long as third party is as good as they say it is, and the graphics actually ARE just as good as xbox 360, i will most likely buy it.
They were all different posts...
Plus i ain't fanboy, i have a 360 as my main gaming platform, i just don't see why people hate on a console that isn't even out.
It was either on Yahoo news or somewhere on here.
Either way i know i have seen it.
That's 3 ways... Just thought i'd say.
My feeling about this: they made a console that does what the Wii should have had at launch. The stupid "iPad-esque" will be treated like a gimmick, and that will not change. To me, Nintendo just doesnt have any more cool new ideas. RIP Nintendo.
I have faith that Nintendo knows what their doing, they wouldnt spend 3 years on a console concept that they honestly didnt have any real plans for to make it succeed would they? Im sure they have something up their sleeves
Lol? The only thing we know about the price is that Iwata said in Nikkei that it would "likely cost more than the Wii does now"
Hence i said in another post it would probably be about £300?
It will obviously cost more than the Wii does now.
You're quoting Vita prices. There is AFAIK no price for the Wii, although Reggie did state (on a GameTrailer interview, AFAIK) they're aiming for a similar price that the 360 and the PS3 is selling at (so about $200).
This thread is a fine example of why Nintendo's stock is down. Misinformation is everywhere (aside from pricing, another misconception is that it's graphics capabilities are just at the 360 levels. From what I've seen and heard, that's bollocks: it's far more powerful, although that's not saying much these days).
There's no pricing and it is guarunteed to be more powerful than teh current gen consoles the cpu alone proves that we just won't know how much more powerful till someone can confirm the gpu power
I maintain that they are marketing this all wrong. People don't WANT the Wii2. People want something new. That's what Nintendo does........umm, I mean for the hardware side. They perfect new technologies and turn them into gaming status qua.
Which, don't get me wrong, is ABSOLUTELY what the WiiU is doing. I think it's a WONDERFUL peice of tech with tons of potential. But people don't see that. People see a fancy Wii peripheral (same color scheme, big N. Really?) and they instantly think "GIMMICK", which this isn't. In any way.
What's wrong with a NORMAL controller? The gamecube controller is still the best input device they've made.
If Nintendo does something like a normal controller, people will bitch how Nintendo isn't innovation at all. If they are innovative, people bitch how they never do "normal" stuff. And for those who say "do the innovation right", that's not how it works. Innovation is made by trial and error. if you don't try, you can't innovate. When you innovate, there is always a big possibility that you will fail. But that only means that ANY innovation is better than non.
Well, Nintendo owns you all and there's nothing you can do.
Now seriously, I like the console.
Also, the controller won't be for sell. You will get one and that's it. (source)
Also, the name of the console is great and fits the concept.
So Yahtzee was actually right in that Extra Consideration column saying that Nintendo will make Microsoft and Sony a laughing stock by abandoning the prioritization of movement controls and replacing them with a powerful console with a quite interesting dual screen feature.
I was all for Nintendo to just keep adding comparatives and bit numbers.
We could have the Super Mega Nintendo (Whatever the binary is for it) now. Nope, now we have the WiiU. Wii University where people get degrees in horrible name creation.
What's wrong with a console that can use any control mechanic? They have a normal controller--all Wii peripherals will work with the Wii U, so the classic controller is still around (hopefully they'll make a new model that is basically a gamecube controller with a fourth shoulder button), but they've also got the wii remote and the new controller. With the USB ports, there's also the possibility for keyboard and mouse, but I doubt many--if any--developers will actually think of that. This console is literally capable of using any type of control (well....except for kinect-style motion controllers, I guess). Why should we limit ourselves to simple gamepads?
Edit: And for anyone confused about the console (which is easy. People jumped to conclusions before we knew everything, which led to a lot of misinformation), Mr. BiH-Kira got it right.
Actually, they already did that.
For better or worse, you only get one touchscreen controller. Otherwise, all other players use Wii controllers.
So, yeah, they pretty much did exactly what you're suggesting.
Actually, they could in theory do kinect style controls too. (patent issues notwithstanding.)
If you look at how kinect sensors attach to an Xbox, they're basically using USB to do it. (As is the PS3 camera. - Actually, Ubisoft created a Wii camera attachment.)
Actually, depending on the amount of CPU time devoted to image processing, you could mimic some of the kinect functionality simply because the touchscreen controller contains a camera...
Edit: Wow. I'm really over-using the word actually here. Might want to keep an eye on that in future. XD
Hmm, that is interesting. Of course, I only know of one well-received Kinect game that wouldn't work with other controllers. I doubt they'd want to include a camera controller for one type of game that can use it well.
I hope Microsoft proves me wrong and releases a ton of great games that could only work with Kinect, but I just don't see that happening.
Edit: I wonder...Wii U Controller stand peripheral. Set the controller in front of your TV for instant-Kinect. Could it happen? Probably not...I'm sure the Kinect has a much more advanced camera, but still...interesting possibility.
You know the idea of having a second screen for additional date and especially for a map is something I really like the sound of. But Ill be honest and say I would be happy with just that.
What about a totally separate touch pad that you could put on your lap that would show additional data.
I know that it makes it sound like why have it on its lonesome instead of built into the remote, but that WiiU mote looks very uncomfortable to me. Hey perhaps im wrong. But I like my controllers to be urm... controllers.
According to some articles the controllers fairly comfortable once you adjust, don't know about the battery life though.
I don't know about other people, but when I play video games I get in the zone. Everything else just fades away, and I don't even feel the controller anymore, it's like an extension of my body.
Then Nintendo decided to make a console that continuously breaks this sense of immersion every 3 seconds by having to look away from the screen to check your map or swing your weapon or whatever.
I think that the Wii U will be as much fun as playing the Wii, only every few seconds someone taps on your shoulder and asks you to look at this post card he's put in your lap. Yeah. Real fun.
I've said it before an i'll say it again: they should have called it the Puu. Number one was a wii; number two is a puu. Makes perfect sense. Seriously, who cares about names when it's the games that matter, right? surely we're not all that shallow that a stoopid name will hinder the sales of a good product. right?
OT: That controller looks very unwieldy. It still does motion control as i recall, that just seems impractical, waving that thing around like swatting a fly with a magazine... or a telephone guide. I won't be getting this, but then i didn't enjoy my (admittedly sparse) wii experiences.
I'm still amazed that someone actually got a paycheck for designing that TV dinner-sized controller.
And this right here, too. Even if it is only once every five minutes, you're breaking the on-screen link with the game by having to look at your controller.
Hand me the controller!This time,we'll catch them ALL!
Yes, someone for being creative got a pay check. If it was so obvious to do that, Nintendo wouldn't be the first one who made it this way.
Second, it won't break the on-screen link if done right. You can easily look for a second or to away from the main screen to the joypad without breaking the link. You're not retarded, you can remember that you will go into a wall in the next second. Also, looking at the minimap can be easily done while you're running forward. It will break the immersion less then pressing 'start' to switch items and use them would. Also, I don't know a single game where you have to look at the minimap during a fight so that it will distract you.
Also, most people have good enough hand coordination that they can remember the distance from one button to another and press it even on the touchscreen without any problems while NOT looking at the screen. I used an iPhone for 2 days and at the and I could unlock it, open messages, write a full message and send it to a number in my address book without looking at the screen for even once. People adopt to situations, especially situations that happen a lot. If you play a game for a hour or two, you will easily get used to do some basic stuff on the controller screen wthout looking. That is as long as the game developer did a good job. So it won't be Nintendo's fault that developers can't do things right.
As everything else, this concept has it's downsides, but if done well the good sides will heavily outweigh the bad sides. This new joypad allows so many new types of games that would be completely impossible with the old one, jet people ditch it without giving it a second though what great stuff could be done with just a bit creativity.
It is nice that someone is pushing things forward again. The current 3 consoles are getting a little stale to be honest.
Sony gave us better storage media 2 gen ago. Xbox brought us online last gen. Nintendo added motion controls this gen. Although I'm not sure touch screen controls are the next big thing, I'm excited to find out what is.
I do agree the name sucks, otherwise the concept has me intrigued, a system with FULL backwards-compatibility with the Wii and a proper controller with a giant touch-screen, that's actually a rather brilliant concept, I'm by no means a Nintendo fanboy (My Wii us currently collecting dust in my living room, haven't touched it in ages except to play the original Tales of Symphonia) but I think this has potential. Will it be something that changes the console landscape forever, Unlikely, but it will have me playing the console for the games and not just as 250 dollar SNES/NES emulator. As for appealing to the "Hardcore", I am a hardcore gamer (I spend a good chunk of my time playing my consoles) and I follow all the news and this has me interested, again I'm not going to sit here and go "Sony/Microsoft your days are numbered...", but I will keep an eye on what goes on with the system.
I watched the Zelda trailer. My jaw hit the floor. Seriously, if those are the kind of visuals the WiiU can pump out, Nintendo will never need to release another console, ever. That footage of Link and the giant Spider looked so crisp, so full of detail, and so beautifully rendered that it could easily have been CG. Which (conspiracy theories ahoy!) maybe it was. But I doubt it. The rumours have been saying for a while that the WiiU will be significantly more powerful than either of the main current consoles. If Nintendo can release a Zelda game with that level of graphical awesomness, I'll believe them.
Once again, holy shit that Zelda trailer looked awesome.
So uhh... What's the forward slash for?
I'm going to go out on a limb and say the people who've been coming up with the concept for 3 years and know the ergonomics and have had hundreds of tests run on the controller know more about how easy it is to hold and how hard it is to refocus than any of you who have only seen a picture of the controller on the internet
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Mid-Century Designers Who Are Not Charles and Ray Eames
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Harry Bertoia's oeuvre encompasses sound sculptures, furniture, and jewelry design. A successful designer at the mid-century furniture company Knoll, Bertoia famously designed their "Diamond chair", a delicate and airy steel-framed chair introduced in 1952 and still sold today. He would later devote his artistic energy towards innovative sculpture, finding ways to bend and stretch metal so that when crossed with wind or touch, it would create different sounds. Many of Bertoia's "tonal sculptures" were commissioned for established institutions and as public art displays. He has also performed concerts with these pieces, even recording a series of albums known as "Sonambient" music. From a young age Bertoia was friends with other prominent designers such as Walter Gropius and Ray and Charles Eames, and he regularly designed jewelry for his friends.
Italian-American, 1915-1978, San Lorenzo, Italy
Mid-Century Designers Who Are Not Charles and Ray Eames
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My Highlights from Collective 2
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Six Booths You Need to Visit at Collective 2
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"I am excited for the challenge of developing our linebackers to be an integral part of an improved defense. We will continue to work towards becoming the best linebacker corps and overall defense for a championship team."
- Coach Hetherman
Corey Hetherman finished his third season with the Football Monarchs in the Fall of 2012. After two seasons of coaching the rovers, Hetherman was elevated to Defensive Run Game Coordinator following the Monarchs' successful 2011 campaign and will continue to coach the linebackers.
Hetherman led a solid group of linebackers including All-CAA honoree Craig Wilkins, junior John Darr and redshirt freshman Caleb Taylor. Darr had a breakout year for the Monarchs to start every game while Taylor broke into the lineup three games in and finished second on the team in tackles. Wilkins earned second team All-CAA while leading the Monarchs with 90 tackles, 6.5 sacks, 13.0 tackles for loss and three interceptions.
Old Dominion played their way to a 10-3 overall mark in Hetherman's second year on staff, which included a second place finish in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) at 6-2, a top-10 ranking in the national polls, and a second round appearance in the NCAA Division I Football Championships.
Under the guidance of Hetherman, linebacker Craig Wilkins was a First Team All-CAA honoree in the Monarchs' first season of competition in the league. Wilkins became the first Monarch to crack the century mark in tackles in a season and ranked 12th among the league's defenders.
In his first year on the Monarch staff, Old Dominion captured an 8-3 overall mark playing their final season of independent football before making the move to the CAA, the nation's toughest FCS conference. Under Hetherman's watch, linebacker Wilkins led the defense with 74 tackles (35 solo, 39 assisted) along with a team-leading five fumble recoveries.
Hetherman came to Old Dominion from Western New England College where he served as the Offensive and Recruiting Coordinator, having joined the staff after Northeastern disbanded its football program. At Northeastern, he coached the outside linebackers, including two-time CAA Freshman of the Week Kyle Hunte and Jason Vega, who signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League. Hetherman was also a graduate assistant at Springfield College and interned with the King's College football program.
Hetherman was the starting quarterback for Fitchburg State College from 2003-2005 guiding the Falcons to an overall record of 21-11. During his career, Fitchburg State were two-time MASCAC Champions, two-time NEFC Bogan Division Champions, and made two ECAC Bowl appearances. He captained the Falcons during his senior year and was a three-time MASCAC and NEFC All-Scholastic Team honoree. He graduated in 2006 with a degree in secondary education.
Following graduation, Hetherman was the starting quarterback for the Austrian Football League's Carinthian Black Lions and the German Football League's Wuerzburg Panthers. Hetherman also spent 2007 as the Offensive Coordinator with the Panthers.
The Hetherman File
Hometown: Oxford, Massachusetts
High School: Oxford High School
College: Fitchburg State '06
Recruiting Areas:
Primary: Pennsylvania, North Jersey (Middlesex County North)
Auxiliary:Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont
JUCO/Prep: Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts
Coaching History:
2012: Old Dominion University - Defensive Run Game Coordinator/Linebackers
2010 - 2011: Old Dominion University - Rovers
2010: Western New England College - Offensive/Recruiting Coordinator
2009 - 2010: Northeastern University - Outside Linebackers
2007 - 2009 : Springfield College - Graduate Assistant
2007: Wuerzburg Panthers - Offensive Coordinator
2006 - 2007: King's College - Intern
2006: Carinthian Black Lions - Offensive Coordinator
2006: Fitchburg State College - Quarterbacks
Playing Experience:
2007: Wuerzburg Panthers (German Football League)
2006: Carinthian Black Lions (Austrian Football League)
All-Conference Monarchs Under Coach Hetherman
2011: Craig Wilkins - First Team All-CAA
2012: Craig Wilkins - Second Team All-CAA


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STOCKTON - There are a number of San Joaquin County shops that offer refuge for those who shudder because they perceive Black Friday as a day that begins in pre-dawn darkness and envelopes an endless line of bargain hunters waiting outside a big box store the day after Thanksgiving.
STOCKTON - There are a number of San Joaquin County shops that offer refuge for those who shudder because they perceive Black Friday as a day that begins in pre-dawn darkness and envelopes an endless line of bargain hunters waiting outside a big box store the day after Thanksgiving.
If that describes you, then sleep in and let others fight for the low-priced - albeit high-definition - televisions, laptops or other promised advertised items. There are shopping destinations that will wait for you and help you find more thoughtful holiday gifts.
Store owners such as Rae Rubio of Rae's Rags & Riches Boutique in Stockton hopes to attract buyers this holiday season with vintage furniture items, artwork, modern industrial decor and other things.
"If someone wants a classy and unique item that will make somebody laugh or cry and evoke emotion because they know somebody really cared, that's what I want my store to provide," Rubio said. "The biggest tool in my arsenal is that I'm not a big box. I'm not going down the path of huge discounts, I can't afford it. But what I can provide is an adventure for somebody who is looking for something classy and unique."
Shoppers who want to avoid larger retailers such as Target and Walmart can instead shop the Miracle Mile.
Maybe a box of cigars from The Cigar Loft or an eclectic mythological item from Dragonfairy, for example.
"What you'll find here is personal service in a stress-free environment," said Dragonfairy owner Heather Torres. "There's not a lot of lines, but you can find a gift that will be personal and thoughtful."
The zany Lodi toy store Zoop A Loop has clothing, games, puzzles and other toys that children love.
While in downtown Lodi, Lodi Cooks is renowned for its kitchen gadgets and cookware. Cheese Central can help even novices find the perfect pairing of cheese with a Lodi wine that will impress even a connoisseur.
For someone looking to impress by giving jewelry, Manteca's New York Diamonds makes custom jewelry. This year, it's the so-called rainbow diamonds that owner Patty Reese said she believes will be the biggest hit.
"They come in all the colors of the rainbow, and we have quite a bit of inventory," Reese said, adding that it takes about a week to put a custom set on order.
Clothes are a universal gift, and Stockton has a variety of boutiques. Lincoln Center, for example, where Flair, Fina and Theadora all offer women's apparel.
Zuesters, also in Lincoln Center, is a great place to shop for teenagers.
Don't forget that Stonecreek Village is a shopping destination as well.
Regallo Bello home d�cor has items to suit any taste, and Baker's Boutique is a store with gifts for the skilled and experimental cook in the family. Hand on Education Supply has educational toys, and Roger Dunn Golf, well, that's "fore" any duffer or scratch golfer with an obsession for the links.
And don't think you have to rush.
"We tried a big blowout event last year on Black Friday, and the store was empty," Torres said of Dragonfairy, adding that "we're here for when the customers need some stress-free shopping time."
Contact reporter Keith Reid at (209) 546-8257 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/lodiblog.


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Aviation and Asian Modernity 1900–1950
Alan Baumler
Between 1903 and 1950, aviation technology was spread around the world and became a key concern of governments and a cultural marker of modernity. After 1903, Asia had to be explored again. Almost as soon as heavier than air flight became possible, French and British fliers began pioneering new routes to Asian cities and developing new maps and new airports along the way. With these new forms of knowledge, the colonial powers quickly moved to tie together their empires. New mapping techniques allowed for new forms of control, including what the British called "air policing," the idea that judicious use of aircraft, and in some cases bombs and poison gas, could cheaply pacify far-flung colonial populations.
Aviation was one field, however, where the Europeans did not have a long lead on Asians. Just as Europeans were using aviation to express their dominance, Asians were using it to express their modernity. Feng Ru was making and flying his own planes in San Francisco by 1912, and Siam had an air force by 1913. Asian social and political elites, who had once traveled by rail and steamship, now preferred to fly instead. "Air-mindedness" became a marker of global citizenship.
Japan was the first Asian country to have an aviation industry. They proved their technological prowess to the rest of the world when they entered World War II. Their pilots bombed cities and fleets across Asia between 1937and 1945. The experience of being bombed as well as the drills and community organizations that grew out of experience ushered in a societal awareness of the military power of airplanes. The war culminated with two atomic air raids and was followed by a scramble to occupy and connect the newly liberated and independent parts of Asia. The post–World War II period led to an intensified effort to tie Asia together with faster transportation
Chinese Charting of Maritime Asia
Timothy Brook
Navigation played a major role in the integration of East Asian polities and economies prior to and during the arrival of European traders in the 16th and 17th centuries. That arrival stimulated an increase in the volume of intra-regional trade in East Asia as Chinese merchants organized exports on a large scale to meet European demand, yet the history of the production of nautical charts in China has been little studied, due in no small part to the poor survival of sea charts and other documentation. The most important new addition to maritime charting in the past decade is the rediscovery of the Selden Map in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. This map of navigation routes throughout East Asia is unprecedented, and may be seen as marking the beginning of the transformation of Chinese cartography under the influence of European mapping techniques.
Climate and Disease in Medieval Eurasia
Monica H. Green
When the first hominins and their successors migrated north from Africa into Eurasia, they created a new, interlinked disease environment. They brought some diseases, such as malaria, with them from Africa, and newly encountered others, such as plague, in Eurasia. Regional changes in climate played a role in human health, not simply due to their influence in determining the success of year-to-year harvests and grazing lands, but also because periods of warming or severe and sudden cooling shifted the interactions between humans and the flora and fauna that made up their environment. Exchanges of disease between the two continents would continue up through the medieval era. Whereas vast distances and low population density likely shielded Eurasian populations from frequent epidemic outbreaks up through the Neolithic period, by the beginning of the common era, with its vastly intensified trade networks, Eurasia would begin to see a new phenomenon: pandemics, including the Justinianic Plague and the Black Death, the largest mortality events in human history. The diseases of medieval Eurasia are still among the world's leading infectious killers and causes of debilitating morbidity. Because they have all persisted to the present day (with the exception of smallpox), modern science plays an important role in their historical reconstruction.
Science, Technology, and Religion in Chosŏn Korea
Don Baker
During the 518 years of Korea's Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1910), many things changed and many things stayed the same. After the Yi family established the Chosŏn dynasty, Confucianism became the dominant philosophy. Although Confucianism's grip on Chosŏn weakened somewhat at the end of the 19th century, it nevertheless continued to provide the basic framework for how government officials and most of the educated elite conceptualized ethics, religion, nature, and technology. This changed when the Chosŏn dynasty was absorbed into the Japanese empire in 1910. Chosŏn-era science, technology, and religion operated within a Confucian framework. This affected astronomical, geographical, mathematical, and medicinal thought and practice. It also affected the role of technology in Chosŏn life and society. Moreover, when Buddhism, folk religion and, from the end of the 18th century even Christianity, were practiced in Korea, it was necessary to maneuver within constraints imposed by a Confucian state and society.
Korea's Confucianism was imported from China. Koreans, however "Koreanized" what they adopted from China to make it their own. When dealing with religion, Chosŏn-era Koreans adopted a much harsher attitude toward non-Confucian religions. When dealing with science and technology, Koreans sometimes made improvements on Chinese models. For example, in the 15th century, Koreans built astronomical instruments that were better than those they had learned about from Chinese astronomers. And, in the 17th century, Koreans produced the most comprehensive encyclopedia of traditional East Asian medicine of pre-modern times. However, none of those changes threatened the hegemony of Confucianism. Chosŏn Korea remained Confucian in its science, technology, and religiosity for over five centuries.
Ships and Shipping in Southeast Asia
Pierre-Yves Manguin
Southeast Asian polities were destined to play an active role in the world economy because of their location at the crossroads of East Asian maritime routes and their richness in commodities that were in demand in the whole of Eurasia. For a long time, historians restricted their role to examination of regional peddling trade carried out in small ships. Research on ships and trade networks in the past few decades, however, has returned considerable agency to local societies, particularly to Austronesian speakers of insular Southeast Asia, from proto-historic to early modern times. As far in the past as two thousand years ago, following locally developed shipbuilding technologies and navigational practices, they built large and sophisticated ships that plied South China Sea and Indian Ocean routes, as documented by 1st-millennium Chinese and later Portuguese sources and now confirmed by nautical archaeology. Textual sources also confirm that local shipmasters played a prominent part in locally and internationally run trade networks, which firmly places their operations into the mainstream of Asian global maritime history.