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Volume 79, Number 12 | Aug. 26 - Sept. 1, 2009
West and East Village, Chelsea, Soho, Noho, Little Italy, Chinatown and Lower East Side, Since 1933
Safer demolitions
For many of us, the vivid memories of the 9/11 attack will always be there. As we approach the eight-year anniversary, there are also still physical reminders of the tragedy hovering over the World Trade Center. The two remaining buildings that were damaged on that day the former Deutsche Bank building and the City University of New Yorks Fiterman Hall are literally the biggest reminders.
Demolition of Fiterman began about a month ago and deconstruction at the trouble-plagued Deutsche Bank building could finally be resuming next month. Since two Greenwich Village-area firefighters were killed battling a blaze at the Deutsche Bank building more than two years ago, weve learned to be skeptical about any claims about bringing this dangerous hulk down. But were pleased that preparatory demolition work began this week.
More important, some of the long-overdue safety improvements for demolition and construction projects appear to be working effectively, but more needs to be done. There was, of course, no need to wait for the tragic deaths of Firefighters Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino, Jr., who were stationed at the firehouse at Houston St. and Sixth Ave., to begin taking safety more seriously: Community leaders and Downtown Express, our sister publication, warned about safety problems before the deadly fire but any time safety is increased, it potentially saves lives.
There were many preventable reasons for the firefighters deaths, but at the top of the list was the broken standpipe that was never inspected or repaired. Firefighters were sent into a death trap without a water source, according to Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who is still investigating the case.
At Fiterman Hall, work was stopped a few weeks ago when the standpipe failed a test. Thats how things are supposed to work. As a building is being dismantled, the standpipe must be cut repeatedly and, in turn, tested repeatedly.
More troubling are the cigarette butts recently found at Fiterman. Smoking was prohibited at the Deutsche Bank building because of the flammable materials, but workers typically smoked there and a cigarette started the blaze, according to investigators. Fiterman no longer has flammable materials needed for the abatement of toxic materials because demolition did not begin until the abatement in the building was finished another post-Deutsche reform. Smoking may not be as hazardous there as it was a few months ago, but it is still dangerous and is prohibited for a reason. Last year, inspectors found cigarette butts at the Deutsche Bank building, and one of our photographers got a photo of a construction worker smoking while working on One World Trade Center, even though smoking is prohibited throughout the site.
If no-smoking rules are flouted at high-profile sites at and near the W.T.C. where inspectors are on site, it seems likely that there are more violations elsewhere around the city.
Building safety appears to be getting better, but clearly more vigilance and enforcement are needed. Construction work is dangerous enough. Lax enforcement only increases the risks.
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"Our son didn't deserve to die," said the parents of Trayvon Martin. Just 17 years old when he was shot and killed by George Zimmerman. Trayvon wasn't doing anything besides walking home with a bag of Skittles and some iced tea in his hands. Doing what the average teenager does. What makes Trayvon's death so much harder is knowing the man who confessed to killing him, George Zimmerman, may be acquitted. No family should ever have to go through this nightmare. The law should protect everyone, regardless of where they live, how much money they make, or what color their skin is.
But Trayvon's killer is still free for now. The surest path to justice runs through Sanford, Florida, and through the office of State's Attorney Norman Wolfinger, who is responsible for prosecuting Zimmerman. I can't say I am amazed at the response to the senseless death/killing of Trayvon Martin. But I am left with the question, where is this outrage about the rising rate of America's young people being infected by a 100% preventable virus we know as HIV? Where is the outrage about your youth school district still teaching ABC? Where is the outrage for the predators in our own community that continue to prey on our young girls and boys while families turn their heads as not to see? The sexual abuse of our young adults, both male and female, have experienced places them more likely to engage in sexual or drug-related risk behaviors that could put them at risk for HIV infection.
I have to ask myself whether the outrage over Trayvon is because someone outside of our community committed the offense, and the spread of HIV among ourselves is not an issue that requires the same or even more outrage. If every person who stood rallying in the parks and on the street to show their solidarity for the family of Trayvon Martin were to organize, mobilize and dialog with of youth about their own sexual health, we could turn this epidemic around.
Changing school policies of abstinence-only sex education and education that focuses on the sexual health of our youth is the responsibility that we must bear. Are we as a collective community more comfortable with responding to violence while other issues that are killing our youth daily continue to go without a peep?
The lives of all of our young men have value. Where is the outrage when the CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) data have shown that young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM), especially young African American and young Latino MSM, have high rates of new HIV infections. Another CDC study showed that young MSM and minority MSM were more likely to be unaware of their HIV infection, a situation that puts their health and the health of their partners at risk. Young MSM may be at risk because they have not always been reached by effective HIV interventions or prevention education-especially because some sex education programs exclude information about sexual orientation. A CDC study of MSM in 15 cities found that 80% had not been reached in the past year by HIV interventions known to be most effective. Young MSM may also have increased risk factors for HIV (such as risky sexual behaviors) due to isolation and lack of support.
Do your youth know that the presence of an STI greatly increases a person's likelihood of acquiring or transmitting HIV? Some of the highest STI rates in the country are among young people, especially young people of minority races and ethnicities. Have you taken the time to find out what the rates of STIs are in our county of residence? We all know that abstaining from sex and drug use is the most effective way to avoid HIV infection. The CDC indicates that young people in the US use alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs at high rates. CDC's 2009 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) found that 24.2% of high school students had had five or more drinks of alcohol in a row on at least 1 day during the 30 days before the survey, and 20.8% had used marijuana at least one time during the 30 days before the survey. Both casual and chronic substance users are more likely to engage in high-risk behaviors, such as unprotected sex, when they are under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Runaways, homeless young people, and young persons who have become dependent on drugs are at high risk for HIV infection if they exchange sex for drugs, money, or shelter. However, research has shown that a large proportion of young people are not concerned about becoming infected with HIV. This lack of awareness can translate into not taking measures that could protect their health.
So while we are all having a conversation with our youth about safety in the street from violence, take some time to share accurate, age-appropriate information about HIV and AIDS, how to reduce or eliminate risk factors, how to talk with a potential partner about risk factors and how to negotiate safer sex, where to get tested for HIV, and how to use a condom correctly. Parents, I suggest to you the need to reinforce health messages, including how to protect oneself from HIV infection.
Oh, I get it. You have the "not my child" syndrome. Let us go back to the numbers: The CDC's 2009 YRBS, many adolescents begin having sexual intercourse at early ages: 46.0% of high school students have had sexual intercourse, and 5.9% reported first sexual intercourse before the age of 13. Of the 34.2% of students reporting sexual intercourse during the 3 months before the survey, 38.9% did not use a condom.
The senseless violence that occurs in our communities is oftentimes of our control. Let we be outraged by the numbers and take control of what we can. Educate our youth, communicate with our youth, and don't throw any of our youth away. That includes our young men of color who have sex with men. If we don't the rate of HIV infection among our youth will continue to rise, just for doing what the average teenager does.
One year later, America has not forgotten Trayvon Martin. Rallies took place in Sanford on February 5th, which would have been his 18th birthday. On the following Tuesday, the anniversary of the tragedy, more rallies and demonstrations are held to commemorate that fateful night, honor Trayvon's memory and memorialize others lost to gun violence.
Too many young people in the United States (US) are at risk for HIV infection. This risk is especially notable for young gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM), especially young African American or Latino MSM, and all youth of minority races and ethnicities. Continual HIV prevention outreach and education efforts, including programs on abstinence, delaying the initiation of sex, and negotiating safer sex, are required as new generations replace the generations that benefited from earlier prevention strategies.
I am left asking myself:
Where is the outrage for the numbers: in 2009, young persons accounted for 39% of all new HIV infections in the US? For comparison's sake, persons aged 15-29 comprised 21% of the US population in 2010.
Where is the outrage, for our young men who have sex with men (MSM), especially those of minority races and ethnicities, who are at increased risk for HIV infection
Where is the outrage, for the numbers: that in 2009, young MSM accounted for 27% of new HIV infections in the US and 69% of new HIV infections among persons aged 13-29? Among young black MSM, new HIV infections increased 48% from 2006 through 2009.
Where is the outrage, for the estimated 8,294 young persons (ages 13-24 years) who were diagnosed with HIV infection in 2009 in the 40 states with long-term HIV reporting, representing about 20% of the persons diagnosed during that year?
Where is the outrage, for the numbers: that 75% (6,237) of these diagnoses occurred in young people aged 20-24 years? Indeed, those aged 20-24 had the highest number and rate of HIV diagnoses of any age group (36.9 new HIV diagnoses/100,000 people).
Where is the outrage, for the numbers: that in 2009, young blacks accounted for 65% (5,404) of diagnoses of HIV infection reported among persons aged 13-24 years?
Where is the outrage that in 2008, an estimated 22% of persons aged 13-24 living with diagnosed HIV infection were infected through hemophilia, blood transfusion, birth, or unknown transmission mode, with the majority being infected prenatally?
When will your community, your faith leaders, your school district and you stand rallying in the parks and on the street to show their solidarity to fight the killer from within? When will this epidemic become personal enough for you to organize, mobilize and dialog with our youth about their sexual health as a collective way to turn this epidemic around?
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Science Bulletins Snapshots are updated weekly and are a good way to introduce your students to the dynamic nature of the Universe and of science. Students can view the snapshot as a class or in small groups. Use the following questions to guide a discussion.
- What did this snapshot report?
- What do you know about this topic?
- What types of instruments did scientists use to gather the data?
- What did the data show?
- How did the evidence scientists gathered contribute to their knowledge of space? What might be some of the implications of their discovery?
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Most Canadian families will travel in 2013: Survey
A new survey from Thomas Cook Travel has found that 77% of Canadian families plan to hit the road and vacation in 2013, even if it means cutting back on dining out and entertainment at home in order to afford the trip.
The survey reveals that 61% of Canadian families would spend less on eating out in favour of saving for a family vacation. Residents of Saskatchewan and Manitoba are most likely to forego a meal at a restaurant in order to save cash for a trip (70%), while Atlantic Canadians are least likely to give up eating out, with only 44% saying they would eat in to save for their vacation fund.
The majority of residents in each province — 57%, on average — are also willing to give up entertainment, such as visits to the movie theatre, in order to save money for a vacation. Atlantic Canadians were most likely to give up entertainment (62%) and British Columbians were least likely (51%).
The Thomas Cook survey found that children are also getting more involved with planning the family vacation, with 59% of Canadians saying they encourage their kids to help choose the destination for their family trip.
When it comes to finding the perfect family destination, 69% of survey respondents say they consider the size of available rooms, 82% look at food selection on resort or at the hotel, 41% look for properties that offer supervised child care programs and 92% consider the overall safety of the resort or destination.
The survey of 1,009 Canadians was conducted for Thomas Cook by Harris/Decima.


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... GW2 doesn't fall into the traps of traditional MMORPGs. It doesn't suck your life away and force you onto a grinding treadmill; it doesn't make you spend hours preparing to have fun rather than just having fun; and of course, it doesn't have a monthly fee.
From Curse.com
Some of the things we can expect from Guild Wars 2, based on this manifesto, are:
No subscription fee. Yes, you read that right, a mass-market, enormous MMORPG without a monthly cost.
Engaging stories based around your character, heavily focused on the biography you set up at character creation.
Quests that naturally happen and you take part in, not started by an NPC standing idly by while his village is burned to the ground.
Visceral combat where players can work in tandem to create new effects, such as an Elementalist's fire wall allowing projectiles that pass through it to cause additional effects.
No more group boundaries for participating in content; all players who engage in a battle are rewarded equally.
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23 July 2013
Elephind -- a new newspaper search engine
With so many newspapers becoming digitized, it can be challenging (and time consuming) to check them all out! Never mind figuring out what ones exist online and what they include.
Unfortunately, GoogleTM (or other search engines) searching might yield some results from newspapers and they are not systematic, nor comprehensive. Besides Google News Archive (which does contain some really neat historic newspaper collections), you are more likely to come across current newspaper articles or abstracts.
There is a new search engine, Elephind.com, which was created to "search the world's historical newspaper archives." It encompasses free online newspaper collections. Currently, the coverage includes newspaper collections from
New Zealand, Singapore and the . United States
It was neat to search on "
County" and find articles in The New
York Tribune (6 April 1842), The Rutland Herald [VT] (2 May 1843), The radical
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(23 November 1843) amongst the results. Missouri
You can help expand this collection by e-mailing Elephind.com with any other appropriate free online historic newspaper collections you know, [email protected]. Since it is a work in progress, do check back often and you can also subscribe to its mailing list.
Did you search using Elephind.com and find a newspaper article that you probably wouldn't have come by otherwise?
Are there any other online aggregate newspaper search engines?
Other Upfront with NGS posts about newspapers:
- Understanding Terms Found in Historical Newspapers
- The Growth of Newspapers Across the U.S.: 1690-2011
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For holiday parties, today's sophisticated man can take a cue from runways and red carpets by choosing tuxedos for formal occasions or components thereof for more casual events.
Fashion designers, obsessed as they are these days with all manner of tailored clothing and reinvigorated by a generation of young men who are wearing suits for the first time, have been busy reinventing the tux.
Style-watchers got wind of the possibilities in 2011 when actor Ryan Gosling, justly celebrated for his red-carpet acumen, gave a one-two punch to tradition by appearing at Cannes in a sky-blue tuxedo for the premiere of "Drive" and a deep maroon counterpart two nights later (both by Salvatore Ferragamo). No doubt these images must have lingered in the minds of designers in the following months as they prepped the collections we're seeing now.
Quiz: Test your knowledge of tuxedos
In the process, the stodgy old black "penguin suit" was transformed into the latest emblem of sartorial cool — slimmed down with razor-sharp silhouettes, offered in a newly intriguing mix of materials and tonal variations (especially brown, navy and gray) and infused with the potent spirit of tuxedo-clad icons, most recently in the image of James Bond seen on movie posters around the globe.
"The tuxedo has really come into its own in the last two years," said Jeremy Langmead, editor in chief for online retailer Mr. Porter, explaining the unprecedented variety of evening clothes on runways for the fall season. "Men had forgotten how flattering a classic tuxedo can be."
Mr. Porter has gone full bore on formalwear, offering page after page of tuxedo choices as well as dinner jackets from nearly every designer imaginable. And now there's even an app for that, with Mr. Porter debuting the Tux app just in time for holiday parties as well as the film awards season that's looming ahead in the new year. Besides highlighting black-tie exclusives from the likes of luxury brand Brioni at one end of the spectrum and cutting-edge Swedish house Acne at the other, the app covers a variety of topics that a tuxedo-clad man might find of interest, including suggestions for conversation-starters, an interactive tutorial on how to tie a bow tie and photomontages of legendary formal parties such as Truman Capote's 1960s masked Black and White Ball.
Closer to home, the current show business generation is no slouch in the formality department. Standout tuxedo variations at the Emmy Awards in September included winner Aaron Paul in Prada's shawl-collared brown mohair, Bryan Cranston and Zachary Quinto in shades of gray from John Varvatos and Dior Homme, respectively, and Jon Hamm in faultless midnight blue Giorgio Armani.
Even when they opted for classic black, the men showed memorable style, whether it was Damian Lewis in Tom Ford's rakish shawl-collared tux with his signature '70s-style butterfly bow tie or host Jimmy Kimmel, sleekly tailored in a custom vested and rope-shouldered choice from Gucci.
Two of the most notably turned-out actors were "Modern Family's" Jesse Tyler Ferguson rocking a dark plaid tuxedo (a custom version of a Thom Browne design for Brooks Brothers' Black Fleece collection) and Jim Parsons, the unworldly Sheldon of "The Big Bang Theory," easily carrying off a seriously sophisticated navy velvet dinner jacket. Coincidentally, both stars were guided in their choices by Hollywood men's stylist Annie Psaltiras.
"It's a lot more fun for men to wear a suit or a tuxedo now because there are so many more options," she said. "Some of my clients used to fight wearing a suit or a tuxedo, but everyone embraces the opportunity to get dressed up much more so than they did."
Psaltiras said the key to both looks was attention to proportion and detail. In Ferguson's unusual plaid, "the fabric was so beautiful," she said, while the muted lapels and trim, done in grosgrain rather than the usual satin, added subtle finesse.
For Parsons, the velvet jacket with the sweeping peak lapels from the English clothier Hackett immediately stood out when they were considering the choices before the awards.
"Jim is a taller guy and knew he could pull off that bigger lapel. In combination with the navy velvet, it made him look classic and elegant like an old movie star," she said. The choice was also a bit of a fashion risk because it was a dinner jacket paired with unmatched formal trousers, standing in for the traditional tuxedo suiting. "He's young and cool-looking," Psaltiras added, "and he can get away with something like that."
Parsons'choice reflected the two biggest trends going in formalwear now — the color navy and the velvet dinner jacket.
Navy is "dark enough that it doesn't stand out, but it has a little something extra," said Garth Condit, stylist for Tim McGraw, whom he outfitted in a Dior Homme navy tuxedo with ultra slim proportions for the Country Music Awards last month. Similarly, Kellan Lutz stood out from the pack at the "Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2" premiere in a Robert Cavalli tux with navy satin lapels.
As for the velvet evening jacket, its versatility is key, since it can be dressed up with the traditional formal accouterments or dressed down with an open shirt and a pair of dark indigo jeans for holiday parties.
"This season we came up with the term 'formal remix' to describe the new creative spirit in formalwear," said Saks Fifth Avenue vice president and men's fashion director Eric Jennings. Besides velvet jackets from new names such as Carr and Sand, the store is emphasizing hybrid tux-influenced styles such as DSquared's olive silk dinner jacket with a denim vest insert or Hudson's waxed cotton jeans with a formal stripe down the side.
"The mash-up of formal and casual is a huge trend right now, and designers like Michael Bastian are leading the way," said Tyler Thoreson, vice president of editorial and creative for Gilt Man, referring to Bastian's tux-influenced take on the classic tweed sport jacket, fashioned with contrasting lapels.
Finally, if you're looking to inject just a little note of formality into your holiday party attire, stylist Psaltiras has a little advice: embrace the bow tie, even if you're not wearing a tuxedo.
"It's a great way to mix up a traditional outfit with a funky pattern or fabric," she said. Bow ties were once considered nerdy, she said.
"But now it's super-cool choice."


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|2012-10-19, 10:23
|Link #30921
Detective, Witch, Pirate.
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Ruins of the Golden Land
I've watched his explanation of the EP1 twilight, I clenched my teeth and tried to endure him, but it's utterly ridiculous. Okay, maybe it was the bad wording of 'death drug' like you said above, but still.... nothing in his explanations seems to tie in with anything, that's why I can't see where the idea he's uncovered the big conspiracy behind Umineko comes from.
Plus he's an arrogant bounder.
Even if we accept that Rosa is the Prime culprit, even if we clench our butts and half-heartedly say: yeah, all the absurd stuff make sense, it was all crazy lady for no apparent reason (yeah, sounds almost like Shkanon but at least regardless of how solid it is, at least it does actually connect the points with SOME logic), how, oh, how the hell are we so sure that Ryukishi is writing bullshit to deceive us, waiting for an enlighted guy with an unbearable accent to come and uncover everything in YouTube, and what reason is good enough for a person to spend four years of his life masturbating via the internet at the expense of the people who are dumb enough to read his prodcut.
Apparently, he won't tell.
|2012-10-19, 10:37
|Link #30922
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2012
Though anybody else thinking this is all we'll get to see of Yasu?
As in we'll never see her actual face/eyes.
Oh and, I freaking LOVE this one:
Spoiler for Manga:
Then again, I only watched one video not even full cause I admit, my head actually couldn't take it.XD
I got nothing against the guy, nor theory I don't mind it, though he does strike me as a bit of a (bleep).Or at least arrogant partially.
My doubts are little regarding Yasu as I said before, though personally I am an admirer of the depth regarding her and the truth.
Don't really care if people disagree but I see Yasu as simply an amazing character without equal.
I explained it to a friend as she only saw the Anime and she was like:
"Too deep!TOO DEEP!"
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|2012-10-19, 11:02
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Guitar Man
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Brazil
And maybe Ange's roles in the stories were so small, Yasu could just erase her name and fill it with whatever, if she wrote it with a pencil. Even if Ange's absence was informed a day or two before the meeting.
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|2012-10-19, 11:33
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Join Date: May 2009
That, or the bottle being in police custody at all was also a lie.
|2012-10-19, 14:13
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
As the tales always end with everyone dying and reaching the Golden Land it makes sense she's not included in the cast.
It's also possible that the tales were a lot more vague on the details than what the story we read was, for example making impossible to know when it started raining exactly.
A storm is a typical excuse in horror movies to keep a bunch of people all in a place so it's a common trick to write a story (I even suggested to use it to a friend who was writing a horror story and needed an excuse to trap some people in a place years ago).
Incidentally those two coincidences came true when the Rokkenjima incident took place while it didn't come true the fact that everybody died as Eva survived.
The fact that nobody takes the tales seriously and apparently, apart from checking they weren't written by Maria, they didn't bother to check if they were written by someone else, pushes me to think that, although they gave a definite 'Rokkenjima' feeling the police didn't believe them to be relevant, one way or the other, nor that there was a need to bribe someone into saying they have found such 'irrelevant' tales (irrelevant as they doesn't really help figure out who's the real culprit in Prime as they are considered only by the witch hunters).
The fact they don't seem to push the blame on everyone (Ange doesn't wonder about why they implied person X was the culprit, nor apparently the police or the witch hunters) imply they weren't written to push the suspicions away from the true culprit but the whole point of the tales as presented seem to be to solve Beato's heart or, losely, to figure out the pain Yasu went through when Battler didn't keep his promise as this is the motive for PieceYasu to murder.
Yes, they seem to be an awfully huge amont of things to write but there's people who's famous for speed writing so it's not impossible to write them in the short amount of time prior to the incident.
All this to say... unless Ryukishi will come out and confirm either a theory or another that's not possible to say for sure if the tales were written prior or after the incident.
Everyone embraces the theory he/she likes more as they have both strong and weak points.
What if the both of them had the bright idea to organize a murder game, Shannon with the adults as accomplices and Battler with the cousins as accomplice and the two muder games clashed against each other sending everyone into a paranoyd frenzy?
Also, the game in which Battler didn't come back and Yasu didn't play her game and yet everyone died, although might seem cruel, is, in a way, nice, as it clearly states that the murders weren't their responsibility but that they would happen regardless of what they were to do.
It's still horrible as it destroy the hope of a happy ending but, in the real world, there's no chance for it so, at least knowing they weren't to blame and that they merely, at best, provided a setting but weren't the reason behind it, can offer some sort of comfort.
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Gnawing away at Rokkenjima
And to be fair, it's really quite hard to make Nanjo not be an accomplice no matter what theory you ascribe to.
Basically, these are the kinds of awkward arguments I was talking about before; it's searching for a silly gap in the closed room, like saying maybe the chain was set from the outside or maybe they used small bombs. Sure, maybe it's possible, but it's probably not the right way to think.
And I don't know why you assume the police didn't investigate the writing. If they did, they would do it discretely in the first place. And if we go by your interpretation, since Ootsuki didn't mention it, the Witch Hunters themselves also did not check for other peoples' signatures.
|2012-10-20, 04:29
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Join Date: Oct 2012
It's not quite the "happy end" overall, for Yasu. It is for Beatrice, or "her lingering feelings for Battler", as this "part" of her personality feared that he might've all but forgotten about her (EP4). Of course, "Shannon", her current life, the one that loves George, might've felt fear instead and wouldn't know how to react. Emotional conflict, add "Kanon" as the wish for staying on Rokkenjima and nurturing her friendship (and possibly more) with Jessica, that caused her to write down her heart, her confused emotions, down in form of a mystery - the genre that both she and Battler loved so much (whether we know those stories as EP1 and 2 or not at all doesn't matter for this). Possibly hoping romantically that someday someone will find them and "uncover her heart", "understand her" - and maybe that person might be Battler himself.
On that note, had Battler returned a year earlier she wouldn't have been so invested in George that he's about to propose to her and not as confused on how she should react (and she'd probably not write anything). A year later and ... if Lion's world is to be believed... Battler wouldn't have anything to return back to anyway.
(yes, I wrote "she" for convenience sake, add "he" every time if you want to)
Regarding EP6, didn't Battler join the duel, implying that he might've remembered, and hijacked the game to "show that obnoxious guest" (since Shkanontrice participated in Meta and didn't produce her own 1st Twilight I don't see how he organized a game AGAINST/without her)? Meta-world speaking, he clearly remembered, while chick-Beatrice had forgotten all about mystery, games, and such; she just knew that she's supposed to love him (btw. I love how you can find a lot of similarities between BATTLER-Chicktrice and Kinzo-Kuwadoriantrice in the first half of EP6).
If you just meant that "Prime-Battler remembered" in light of his absence in Lion's world could still be connected with "Nervous Wreck Prime-Battler" via two murder games at the same time, then sure - thanks.
Wasn't there someone who wanted to propose a Rosatrice-theory as well, a few pages back? Still waiting for the pikablu-theory.
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|2012-10-20, 07:28
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Ever heard of "The Butler did it?"
Hence how Umineko is even mentioned.
I'm thinking Yasu is true, just that there is something else.Though I'm awaiting a pm to answer a question regarding Van Dine.
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|2012-10-20, 11:08
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Anyway I find rather pointless to discuss about this sort of details when we haven't read the original message in the bottle and we can't even be sure if it at least matches the plot of EP 1 and I seem to remember we already had this discussion and agree to disagree, didn't we?
Also if I write a mystery tale in which my family get mysteriously slaughtered because I like to write mysteries and in writing 101 is written that for amateur is best start writing what they know best, this won't insure me my family will never be slaughtered, not even in the real world.
It would make it a very odd coincidence, a suspicious coincidence even, but let's face it, coincidences happens, even way more unbelievable ones. Personally I find much more absurd the tale we get for Kinzo gaining the gold than Yasu dropping a bunch of tales prior to the incident.
Add to this that this sort of coincidence happened in more than 1 mystery tale so, even if in real life it's, to use Kinzo's words, more similar to a miracle than anything else, in the mystery books world, it has a lot more chances of happening.
And it's possible the witch hunters didn't check/didn't manage to check it properly as it could be more troublesome for them to have samples of Yasu's writing, especially because the witch hunter movement didn't start immediately but later and, by then, surviving scraps of Yasu's writings that the public could reach might have been destroyed or archivied and being unreachable.
It's the message in the bottles and Eva selling Kinzo's library that 'gave life' to the witch hunter, not just the incident per se so they started late compared to the police and they might not have all the resources and experts the police could use.
How many of them were allowed to go to Rokkenjima? To see the original messages? To see samples of all the people involved's writing?
Ootsuki was capable to recognize Yasu's handwriting on the diary as the one of the messages in the bottle and was surprised by it even if he, apparently, was knowledgeable about the messages.
It shouldn't have come as a surprise if the writer had been identified as Shannon because Ange, as a person involved, could have owned without problems someone that had been written by Shannon.
But really, we already have this discussion and neither of us managed to persuade the other and I doubt one of us will do it now as the argumentations you proposed and that I can propose are exactly the same so let's re-agree to disagree?
So he might have done something that caused him to perceive himself as guilty of the whole mess.
So just Battler coming back for Shannon didn't automatically destroy any "Nervous Wreck Battler"-theory or any possibility that Battler did something that caused someone else to snap and kill people.
Think if something that was a mix of Ep 5 & 6 happened. Yasu bribes one of the adults into taking part to a mystery game for Battler with the promise his son/daughter will be spared. Battler persuades the cousins to take part to a mystery game for Shannon just for the fun of it. Incidentally cousin X, who agrees to play the role of the victim, is also the son/daughter of the adult bribed who think the blackmailer broke his promise and snap.
I guess the real problem in Prime wasn't Yasu but the adults' business troubles. Ryukishi implied in the interview that we can guess that it was the adults who did something. By this is possible to assume that, even if Yasu had challenged Battler to her game a year earlier the result would have been tamer than the one we had in that year when they were in really BIG financial troubles (actually we'll never know, there's plenty of things that could have gone wrong anyway).
Of course it could be that Clair merely meant what you said and didn't care about Prime at all. After all EP 7 deals with the culprit on the gameboards not on the one in Prime and on the gameboards the adults' will is meaningless. There's only Yasu/Beato's will.
So, while pretending to play with Erika, he was actually 'playing' with Beato the way Beato played with him, using the game to make him remember.
Only he went at it in a different way, using himself as a bait while Beato used the lives of his family (Battler was sure solving the game he would save his family).
Plus the many variations in Lion's world like Battler's mom didn't die so he didn't leave the family.
There should really be endless fragments with Lion, not just 1.
That's why it's weird Bern found just 1 and in this one coincidentally everything ended badly. If she had told, I found millions of worlds with Lion but I couldn't find 1 with a happy ending for him I would have believed her but if she says there's just 1 Lion... I end up thinking she hadn't searched hard enough... or that she had purposely searched a world that could fit in the Rokkenjima box, in short a world that had to end in a mysterious tragedy.
Which ironically would means that Lion has only 1 chance in a million to end up in a tragedy... only no one considers them because they are unrelated to the mystery at hand making them 'nonexistant'.
|2012-10-20, 14:10
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... 10 minutes after starting to look for the quote I still haven't found it. *sigh*
Very interesting read for latter: EP2, Meta-Scene in Natsuhi's Room - you can read this scene as Beatrice accusing Shannon that she just wanted to fulfill her sexual desires instead of prevailing and waiting for her "true love" to come back. And the result... Will: "Nobody would argue that a coffin is a closed room."
That approach bears the very question of who the author of Reqiuem is. For Lion's world to say anything relevant to prime Tohya would need to be the one. Considering the end of that story however that seems unlikely (ah well, I'll still believe in the possible implications even though I basically denied them myself in this very moment, talk about seeing it with love and all). Unless someone else writes more stories about Lion it simply won't be possible to find a written account on them, even if a search engine like Bernoogle looks for it. However, since goats are only interested in the mystery anyway, you'd be correct of course.
edit: Maybe I can still save my beliefs. Yes. Everyone, take your hands and chant. Of course it's possible Tohya wrote EP7 but not the TP (+ Lion's bad ending), since "there is no game-master". Heck yeah, arguing without any basis, disregard this please.
edit2: Can't ever edit enough but I forgot this one last time already - "Meta-Battler's retroactive red killing" works for most episodes... except for 4. He confirms their deaths without demanding red or forcing their death in meta. So consider this idea failed.
If I had more faith in my writing abilities (in english to boot) I'd actually try my hand at a "Battler remembers" + "Nervous Wreck Battler" forgery in accordance to the known results of Prime (2 survivors: Eva, Battler). Don't think I'll get around to it very soon (if at all) though. Having two murder games actually solves the biggest issue I had before when trying to think up a "Nervous Wreck Battler" story - how to cause the actual chaos after Battler snaps.
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|2012-10-20, 14:16
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|2012-10-20, 14:41
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Found it, though my memory had been incorrect in many forms and curves - apparently it's from "Our Confessions", so AFTER the official series was done (haven't read it yet so I hope my blunder may be excused):
*sigh*... pretend I didn't say anything about this, okay?
|2012-10-20, 16:04
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Hmm... I don't remember his EP5 first twilight (I love myself too much to put it through all NINE FREAKIN' HOURS of that guy), care to give me the brief version?
|2012-10-20, 17:10
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Heh, well, as even the TV Tropes article states, the "Butler did it" solution is a pretty ironic example of something that was never a real cliche to begin with, since apparently relatively few mysteries were solved with servant culprits.
Anyways, Umineko certainly is complicated ... mostly owing to it's very, um, post-modern nature. The mysteries themselves aren't very difficult at all, though. Assuming we're talking about the gameboards, anyway. Acknowledging that this sounds terribly arrogant but, I'm not at all a veteran of the genre, but my theories for EP1 and 2 were pretty much spot on. I was only missing a reasonable motive, which wasn't even hinted until EP3, and arguably doesn't exist at all.
In other news, reeeally wish Knownomore would invest the time in a truncated transcript. He doesn't even really have to solve EP5, does he? There isn't much of a mystery to account for, and he probably uses those parlor scenes as a stake against Shkanon, wham bam.
|2012-10-20, 17:16
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As I'm among the Ikuko=Yasu believers I like for it to also represent the fact that it was Toya to be more exact who solved again the game which is why in the whole Umineko we have Battler who remembered and solved it and then Will, an outsider, who solved it (Toya doesn't think to himself as Battler anymore).
Of course it's possible that both Toya and Battler solved it but the Yasu part doesn't come from Ikuko but by Battler's memories of what Yasu told him.
The Tea Party though represent the new theory who's taking shape among the witch hunters, in short the Rudolf&Kyrie culprit theory, which is what is tearing apart Ange (which in fact get destroyed after the 'play').
Clair doll-like state might represent how people are 'using her' to tell this culprit theory. In short it wasn't her will that made her tell that story but someone else's.
Lion's 'death' is both nice and not nice as I said before. It 'proves' it wasn't Battler or Beato's fault if people die but, at teh same time, support the Kyrie&Rudolf culprit theory.
Will's attempt to resque Lion might represent Toya refusing to abandon himself to the idea that the tragedy was unavoidable due to the grown up malice (in short he denies that, if Lion's fate is to die, it wouldn't be due to the grown up killing him).
In a way his attempt to save Lion mirrors Battler's attempt to escape with Beato, only it's more dramatic. Either way no couple will reach the real world.
It's all very metaphoric though and mine is only one of the many possible interpretations.
However Prime is well closed in Ryukishi's catbox so all the speculations over it are fair game.
|2012-10-20, 18:37
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One thing seems pretty solid though. If anyone killed on that day outside of Yasu's orders, then that person must have hoped to make Yasu take the blame for their crimes. Whether they were planning any murders before Maria got that first letter or not, it's hard to imagine that they would miss this chance to blame these crimes on Yasu, especially after the FTs that always leave "Maria's Beatrice" as the most suspicious person.
|2012-10-20, 19:19
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Because IMO we are supposed to see it that way.
I have no doubts Yasu is true but the Cheese Riddle is THE perfect indication that something is wrong with the this answer.
"Kihihihihihi, I know the answer.It's written right here, kihihihihihi."
"You didn't know the answer until you looked, right Battler-kun?*get it?Battler-kun?"
"It's impossible to cut the cheese with anything except the knife, right?
The knife can only cut in a straight line, right?
There aren't any other rules right?"
"uu- not really"
"Puzzles without specified rules-in other words, all things not covered by the red truth, are left to the observers interpretation.It's the most basic of methods for constructing gaps in the witch's closed room."
Jessica mentions there can only be 1 answer and it being impossible to reach something else than 3.
Battler got 1.
The others ridicule battler for thinking of an answer apart for the obvious one which I point to my first sentence of the answer being written in the book by the ones who made it.
Battler came up with his conclusion because he thought the obvious answer was too easy to be a puzzle.
Theres even the quote that:
"These are usually set up so that a number smaller than you expect is the answer."
In the book the answer is said to be 3.
"Battlers answer is smaller than in the book is he correct?"
"Yes he is.....battler-san is correct the answer is 1.
"A mistake by the ones who made the book.I imagine there's a picture of a flat cylinder there in Marias book"
"uuu- there is.Right here."
The flat cylinder is the proof that the answer in the book was wrong thus the ones who made it placed a mistake not being the actual answer yet still an answer but not THE one.
Erika even points out that Battler is correct in both brains and cheese.
And Kyrie:
"It never mentioned how flexible it was"
Interestingly, George knew the actual result cause he said:
"I know this one.So I'll stay quite."
Battler got the actual result by thinking its too easy and overthinking while Erika knew BOTH answers and simply thought of the mistake made by the ones who made it.
As in:
Don't rely on the answer in the book, use your own interpretation to think of the actual answer.The only rule is the red truth.
Like said:
I believe Yasu is true, but there is another force at play except her, one that is the actual truth.
Might refer to Kyrie and Rudolf.
Perhaps Yasu planned to do carry out the killings but the two took matters into their own hands in order to grab the gold.
Battler might have been their accomplice but Yasu converted him which is how he escaped from the Island.
Didn't Battler disappear when he was supposed to meet with Rudolf at the chapel?
Perhaps thats when he escaped.
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|2012-10-20, 20:01
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|2012-10-20, 21:30
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The number he wanted the readers to reach was 3. That was the correct answer to his puzzle but he explained his puzzle poorly giving space to an alternative solution.
If we want it's a warning to what will happen later when Erika will trap Battler in the room sealing even the chain because the duck tape's lenght wasn't strickly fixed but vaguely stated as 'enough to seal 3 rooms' and she stretched the interpretation so that she had enough to seal 3 rooms not just by sealing the doors but also by using it to repair the chain.
The problem is that on the gameboard for Ep 1-5 is clearly Yasu.
Ep 6 points at Erika so unless someone will manage to make a theory that say that Erika is another Yasu's persona, I'll say she was the murderer and that, at best, Yasu got anticipated by her.
But, even though I think it would be interesting if Yasu and Erika were the same person, I doubt someone can find a way for it to work...
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Anne Hathaway & Hugh Jackman: 'Les Mis' Berlin Premiere!
Anne Hathaway dolls up while attending the premiere for her hit film Les Miserables during the 2013 Berlinale International Film Festival held at Friedrichstadt-Palast on Saturday (February 9) in Berlin, Germany.
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Dropbox is one of those new web services that seems to have been around forever but that clings on to its 'beta' status. Only recently has Dropbox come out of beta and furnished us with a final first stab at a finished product.
Dropbox 1.0 is an online storage service and by that definition there's nothing special about it at all. In fact, it seems strange that the service has become so popular given that iDisk exists, not to mention the other similar tools out there.
However, Dropbox has become a vital tool for some despite its beta status. The basic version gives you 2GB of online storage and you can pay to upgrade this should you need to.
Currently there are 50GB and 100GB options available at $9.99 (£6) a month and $20 (£13) a month.
Download the Dropbox tool and you get a new folder on your hard disk and an icon in the toolbar. It's not ground-shaking revolutionary stuff, that's for sure. However, the fact it acts almost invisibly is part of the application's power.
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Now put a copy of Dropbox on your laptop or PC and within a few moments you now have local copies of that stuff. Edit or change any of those files or folders on one machine and the rest are synced to match.
Obviously if you go for one of the larger capacity options you'll be hammering your broadband connection pretty hard when it comes to data transfer, but Dropbox does include some basic bandwidth management.
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Dropbox works best if you have multiple Macs or, for that matter, PCs; if you have an iPhone or iPad there's also an app for that.
Having your documents synced and shared across multiple machines is really useful if that's part of your working scenario. You don't have to be worried about an internet connection as you can work on a document locally and simply sync it to all your other machines when you get back within Wi-Fi range.
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This post relates to a previous event in the night sky. For more information about asteroids, make sure to visit our categories for black holes, cosmology, the Milky Way and astrobiology.
A 150-foot-wide rock is about to make an unusually close pass by Earth. You might be able to follow it across the stars in a telescope — with exactly the right preparation.Expect a small asteroid to make big news on February 15, 2013. The gymnasium-sized rock 2012 DA14, 40 or 50 meters (130 to 160 feet) across, will make the closest Earth flyby of a natural object ever predicted well in advance. It will pass within 28,500 km (18,000 miles) of Earth's surface around 19:25 Universal Time February 15th, reaching 8th magnitude as it whizzes north across the stars at a rate of 0.8° per minute.
But not for the Americas. At that time it will be near the head of Virgo, which will be up in a dark sky for longitudes from easternmost Europe (in late evening) across Asia to Australia (before dawn on the 16th local date).
By the time it can be seen from Western Europe it will be somewhat fainter. In North America, darkness won't fall on the East Coast until several hours later, around 0h February 16th UT (7 p.m. February 15th Eastern Standard Time). By then the asteroid will be only magnitude 11.1 and moving much more slowly near the Little Dipper. By nightfall on the West Coast three hours later, it will have faded to 12.4.
The constellation chart at right shows, approximately, the asteroid's race from practically the south to north celestial poles in just 12 hours. (Click here if you can't see the chart.)
But locating 2012 DA14 in a telescope will not be simple! It will be so close to us that your location on Earth will greatly affect its apparent path across the stars, due to parallax. And it will be near enough to Earth that Earth's gravity will rapidly alter its orbit.
To get an accurate prediction for your site including both of these corrections, go to the JPL Horizons ephemeris utility. For Target Body enter 2012 DA14. For Observer Location enter your latitude and longitude to 1° or better. For Time Span enter your planned observing start and stop times in UT and a Step Size of 1 minute. In Table Settings include Astrometric RA and Dec., as well as Visual Mag. Click "Use Selected Settings" when you're done with each entry, then "Generate Ephemeris." You'll get a custom list of minute-by-minute positions.Next, using a detailed sky-charting program, print out a star chart to an appropriately deep magnitude centered on one of those equinox-2000.0 RA and Dec points you got. Or plot your points on a deep, large-scale star atlas, such as Uranometria 2000.0. Be looking there with your scope at the correct minute.
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The last time I watched an asteroid pass close enough to show real-time motion in my 12.5-inch scope, I had the eerie feeling that we were definitely dodging a bullet — rather different from the usual all-is-peaceful observing experience. Astronomers estimate that if 2012 DA14 hit our atmosphere it would release 2.4 megatons of energy, comparable to the 1908 Tunguska event, which has been estimated at 3 to 20 megatons. Not a world-killer, and possibly even harmless over an empty ocean or Antarctica (given that it's coming almost straight out of the south), but you wouldn't want to be anywhere nearby.
See also NASA's announcement.Radar observations are planned — by the Very Large Array and by NASA's Goldstone station — to refine the asteroid's orbit and future path, determine its spin (and thus get an idea of how the Yarkovsky effect will influence its future trajectory), and to image it.
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— Bareket Observatory in Israel will track the asteroid with images updating every 30 to 60 seconds from a remote telescope, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. EST (19:00 to 20:30 UT).
— The Virtual Telescope Project in Europe plans live streaming starting at 5 p.m. EST (22:00 UT Feb. 15th).
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Tweety's Global Patrol ? I am glad it never got off the ground.
Here is Box Office Bunny. The cartoon is decent but the timing is way too fast to build up any really good gags and cartoon itself is way too short. And the character designs are the fugly coporate approved ones. I did like some stuff such as Bugs pretending to be state trooper.
Around this time they had a "show" at Six Flags theme parks called Tweety's Global Patrol. Synergy at it's finest.


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Approximate Measurements
Artwork Panel: 30.8cm x 97.1cm ≈ 12" x 38¼"
Silk/Brocade: 39.8cm x 153cm ≈ 15¾" x 60¼"
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Close up view of the plum blossom artwork mounted to this silk brocade wall scroll
This is a nice blue plum blossom painting on tan xuan paper, mounted as a classic golden-brown silk brocade wall scroll. 100% handmade!
The title of this piece is "Pure Fragrance, Benefits [the nearby] People".
Please note that the some will say this is blue, others will say aqua or greenish-blue. I had a few people look at it, and got several different answers. If you like blue and green, this will be a great wall scroll for you.
This work was done in Chengdu by Huang Xin'an (Pronounced a little bit like "who-ong shin un") from the Sichuan (Szechwan) Province of China.
After I bought this work in Chengdu, I later returned to Beijing and had it mounted as a traditional hand-made silk scroll in our workshop. This makes a nice, ready-to-hang piece of wonderful hand-painted art.
Huang Xin'an signing some of his work in Chengdu.
I lost track of Huang Xin'an after my last trip to Chengdu. His phone number was out of order, and I was disappointed that I could not contact him to get more of his paintings.
I make the decision to go to Chengdu on my new art-buying trip mostly because of him.
After 15 hours on a slow train, I arrive in Chengdu. I check-in at Sam's Guesthouse (a hangout for backpackers from around the world, and a hostel with reasonably-priced beds). After a much-needed shower, I head out to find Huang Xin'an.
Taxis drive at the speed-of-light in Chengdu (the city boasts over 1000 fatal auto accidents per year), I arrive in no-time at the place I last found Mr. Huang. Sure enough, as I walk down the alley toward his gallery, he sees me and runs out to greet me. I'm really happy to see him, and the feeling is mutual.
I tell him how I came to Chengdu just to buy art from him (after not being able to reach him on the phone). He is so honored that I think he wants to hug me. He offers me a chair, and says he's painted a lot of work over that last 9 months with both me and my customers in mind. I was also honored by this gesture. He shows me a lot of new work in styles that I like.
I spend 2 days with Mr. Huang and we talk about a lot of new ideas and artwork that I think my western customers will like. He offers to close his gallery for a few days, and paint the art that I asked for. So I took a few days to meet and visit other artists in Chengdu. When I return to Mr. Huang's gallery, I am not disappointed. He did such a great job, words can't describe.
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Gary's random little things about China:
When crossing a street, or merely making your way down the road, there is a certain law of physics that comes into play: When two forces meet, one must yield.
Here is the general yielding scheme in China:
Cars yield to big buses and trucks.
Bicycles and cars mingle and narrowly avoid each other. When push comes to shove, the bicyclist knows he will lose the fight. But the car driver knows that the bicycle will scratch his car when he runs it over, and will only yield on that premise.
Cars will not yield to, but are required to avoid pedestrians. When you hit a pedestrian at low speed, it does very little damage, and unlike a bicycle, will almost never scratch your car. Therefore pedestrians are given a smaller margin.
Note: Regardless of green or red stop lights, it is against the law to come to a complete stop when making a right hand turn in China (no matter how many pedestrians are in the way). The rule is "honk and avoid, then continue on your way".
Motor scooters yield to no one, not even when they are being driven on a pedestrian-filled sidewalk. Motor scooters zip around like they have nothing to lose - this may be true, as smaller motor scooters require no license of any kind and are very cheap.
If you are driving on the wrong side of the road, or going the wrong way on a one-way street, you do not have to yield to anyone, no matter what kind of vehicle you are operating.
Cars will yield (not by choice) to pedestrians crossing the street in numbers greater than 10 (it is best in China to invite 9 of your friends for an outing if you plan to cross a lot of streets).
In lieu of yielding, drivers are required to honk at pedestrians. I swear to God, this is the law! It's a safety issue: If you are passing a pedestrian that is walking on the side of the road, you are required by law to honk at them to let them know you are there.
Note: All streets in Chinese cities, sound like a New York traffic jam 24 hours per day with all this "safety honking".
I have not been able to find a traffic law that states you must yield to ambulances. And in practice, very few drivers do.
When two large vehicles come face to face on a narrow roadway, and neither can pass, neither will yield. They will sit there, honking at each other for a while. After several cars are lined up behind them, they will decide that they should have yielded earlier, and start to back up. This is to the great dismay of all the cars behind them who will honk in unison. This could go on for an hour or more. It ends when a police officer arrives, tells both drivers what idiots they are, issues tickets to both of them, and then systematically makes the situation worse by insisting that all the smaller cars turn around (rather than back up) by making 162-point turns in the small roadway. Eventually, two of the cars will hit each other, for which both drivers will be cited and fined on the spot.
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It was a nail biter that ended in heartbreak. They were up by two points with under three minutes left in the game, then down by one point with five seconds remaining, but in the end the Vineyarders could not overcome defending champions Danvers on Tuesday in the MIAA Division 3 state semifinal.
The high-stakes match was played under the bright lights of the TD Garden in Boston. More than 400 Island fans crowded chartered buses, eager to cheer on both this particular winning Vineyard squad and the Island basketball program, which had not taken to the court at the Garden in a state championship game since 1973.
The Vineyard started out strong, getting the first points on the board from Navardo Anderson, who picked up where he left off in Saturday's sectional final. But Danvers rallied back, ending the first quarter up 17-10. Those first few moments would set the tone for the tense, back-and-forth game that only became more tense as the clock ticked down and both teams traded leads and points.
Izak Browne led the Vineyard effort in the second quarter, sinking two three-pointers and paving the way for a tied finish, 24-24, at the half. The third quarter would see more lead tradoffs, with both teams struggling to outpace the other.
Just six minutes left in the game, the Vineyard seemed to be capitalizing on momentum. Brandon Watkins scored a three-pointer, putting the boys on top 40-38. And with 2:28 left, Jack Roberts hit a three, then scored again on a steal to give the Vineyarders a 43-41 advantage and send the crowd into overdrive.
Danvers tied it up at the two-minute mark and notched two free throws to edge out the Vineyard 45-43. Down by five with 16 seconds left, play moved to the free throw lines. Browne handed off the ball to Watkins, who scored a layup, closing the gap to one point, 48-47, with 5.6 second remaining.
The game ended back at the foul line, with Danvers netting two points for a final score of 50-47.
Browne led the Vineyard scoring effort with a total of 17 points; Roberts had 12 and Watkins had 8.
With their win, Danvers earns a repeat spot in the state final, to be played at the DCU Center in Worcester on Saturday.
See more photos from the action on the TD Garden court in our photo gallery, Fight to the Finish in State Tournament Semifinal.


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President Geoffroy (left) congratulates Graham Spanier, who received an honorary degree.
Message for graduates
"Many of you will graduate and go into the workplace believing that all decisions are business decisions. But they are not. Most decisions are also people decisions," Pennsylvania State University President Graham Spanier told ISU graduates Aug. 5.
Iowa State researchers and two Iowa school districts to test hybrid school buses
Iowa State University's Center for Transportation Research and Education is helping to bring two of the country's first 19 hybrid school buses to Iowa. School districts in Nevada and Sigourney are expected to begin running the buses late this year.
ISU journalism director analyzes today's brave, new relationships
Michael Bugeja, director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University and author of the book "Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age" (Oxford University Press, 2005), has identified five reasons for today's "interpersonal divide" between greater connectivity, but fewer meaningful relationships.
Beattie named to endowed chair
Gwyn Beattie has been named to an endowed chair, the Robert Earle Buchanan Distinguished Professorship of Bacteriology for Research and Nomenclature, in the College of Agriculture. Beattie is an associate professor of plant pathology, specializing in genetics, physiology and the ecology of plant bacteria.
ISU researcher studies gene families to explore diversity and evolution
A recent paper in the journal Evolution by ISU theoretical biologist Stephen Proulx has generated interest in the biological community. The article was featured as a "Hidden Jewel" on the Faculty of 1000 Web site, a journal review site that posts expert opinions on current research papers. Proulx's research showed how the process of adaptation can play a role in generating organismal complexity.
ISU at the fair
The Iowa State Fair is just around the corner. And Iowa State University will be there for the whole ride -- from a float in Wednesday's kick-off parade to the last corn dog.
ISU study connects violent TV/video games with elementary school aggression
A study led by Iowa State University researchers of 1,370 elementary school children found that those who consume high amounts of both television violence and violent video games are nearly twice as likely to engage in physically aggressive behavior as those children who consume little or no violent media content.
Iowa State researchers convert farm waste to bio-oil
Iowa State researchers are converting manure and corn stalks into a bio-oil that can be burned as fuel. They'll experiment with the process on a Story County hog farm beginning this fall.
ISU to award degrees at summer commencement ceremony
An estimated 883 students graduating from Iowa State University will be honored during a single commencement ceremony at 9:30 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 5, at Hilton Coliseum. Tickets are not needed to attend the ceremony.
Iowa State, Nebraska sign veterinary medical education agreement
Officials at Iowa State University and the University of Nebraska--Lincoln have approved an agreement that will bring the nation's two leading livestock producing states together in addressing the region's increasing need for veterinarians.
ISU psychologists produce first study on violence desensitization from video games
Research led by a pair of Iowa State University psychologists has proven for the first time that exposure to violent video games can desensitize individuals to real-life violence.
Roth recognized for public service
The American Veterinary Medical Association presented its highest honor for public service to Dr. James Roth, distinguished professor in veterinary medicine at Iowa State.
Interns' projects beyond science
ISU senior Alexandra Volker is working on project to maintain genetic diversity of plants. Volker, who is one-eighth Cherokee, says a bonus of the research is it may help bring back purple corn, maize that was sacred to the Cherokee.
Iowa State, Ames Laboratory researchers win R&D 100 Award
Three Iowa State and Ames Laboratory researchers will be recognized for developing a software tool that helps engineers visualize and work with large sets of 3-D data. The result is a tool that helps engineers quickly solve problems and make decisions.
In the news
Video games numb players to violence
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Exposure to violent video games can numb players to real-life violence, ISU researchers Nicholas Carnagey and Craig Anderson have found.
Gasoline's fledgling rivals: The race to power your car
The Christian Science Monitor
Ethanol is leading the alternative-fuel contenders challenging gasoline at the pump, says ISU's Paul Gallagher, associate professor of agricultural economics.
Volleyball youth clinic
The Cyclone volleyball team will hold free clinics Aug. 12 and Sept. 23 for youth in eighth grade or younger. The clinics run from 11 a.m to noon in the Forker Building. Free pizza and t-shirts for attendance on the first date, while participants in the second clinic receive a t-shirt and a ticket to that night's match vs. Oklahoma. Please RSVP to email@example.com or call 294-5302 for more information.
Cyclone Fanfest
The first Cyclone Fanfest -- a free, interactive festival for Cyclone fans and their children -- takes place August 20 from 1-3 p.m. at the Bergstrom Indoor Practice Facility (located west of the Jacobson Athletics Building).


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There's a scientific explanation as to why the vast improvement in your workout times don't always show on race day.
Have you ever had a perfect training cycle and made breakthroughs in all your most important workouts, only to find that your workout times don't seem to translate to similar performances on race day?
Don't worry, you're not alone and there is an answer — even if you don't want to hear it.
In one of my previous articles, I explained how long it will take you to reap the benefits of a given workout in the short term. However, by understanding how the long-term process of training works, we can shed a little light on why runners can sometimes work out faster than they can race, especially in the marathon.
In non-scientific terms, I call this phenomenon the "backlog" of fitness. Think of it like investing — you're banking fitness and miles, but you can't withdraw them yet because the investment hasn't matured.
Physiologically, this all relates to the development and lifecycle of mitochondria (the aerobic powerhouse that supplies our muscles with energy). By examining how mitochondria contribute to your racing performance, and analyzing how they are developed, you'll get a clear understanding of how this "backlog" of fitness works and why it pays to keep training year after year. For our purposes here, we'll keep the explanations simple and easy to understand.
First, we'll take a look at the role of mitochondria and how they are developed. Second, we'll examine how the density and volume of mitochondria play a role in both your short- and long-term development. Finally, we'll put it all together for you so you can appreciate how your body adapts to a workload and performance improves after a training segment. By the end of this article, you'll have a very clear understanding how micro and macro cycles work in regards to your aerobic progression.


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Kristen Stewart: Private Jet Departure
Kristen Stewart arrives at the airport for a private jet flight in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon (December 11).
Just the night before, the 22-year-old actress appeared on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Kristen Stewart
"That was the most terrifying experience of my life! It was fun at the end!" Kristen shared on the program about her film, On The Road.
Watch the full interview below!
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The ACC Community Advisory Board (CAB) is a group comprised of breast cancer survivors from the Adams County community. This council meets with caregivers, health care providers and administrators of WellSpan Health and works collaboratively to identify issues and processes which may need improvement in order to provide highest patient satisfaction and best care to breast cancer patients in Adams County.
What is required to be a CAB council member?
- Diagnosis of breast cancer
- Able to attend meetings approximately quarterly at the Adams Cancer Center, 40 V Twin Drive
- Must agree to keep personal information discussed at meeting confidential
- Able to listen to differing opinions and share different points of view
- Be positive and support the group's mission
- Be comfortable interacting with a group
- Able to use own experience in a helpful way
- Able to work together with council members whose background, experience, and style may be different than their own
- Able to reflect on issues and priorities that are different than their own
What are the responsibilities of the Community Advisory Board members?
- Reach out and listen to other patients, families, health care providers, and community members.
- Be committed to improve care for all patients and family members.
- Maintain confidentiality at the council meetings and outside the meetings.
- Respect the collaborative process and the council as the forum to discuss issues.
- Be willing to listen to differing views.
- Encourage all council members to share ideas and viewpoints.
What is the time commitment for CAB members?
Approximately 90 minutes, three or four times a year, depending on the activities being undertaken. Meetings are held from 6 - 7:30 p.m. at the Adams Cancer Center with a light dinner included.
New CAB council members are asked to make a two-year commitment.


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Northern Aust Seasonal Rainfall Outlook: probabilities for Autumn 2010, issued 24th February 2010
The northern Australian outlook for total March to May rainfall, shows odds generally close to 50:50 for exceeding the median.
The pattern of seasonal rainfall odds across Australia has been produced using recent Pacific and Indian Ocean temperature patterns; the tropical regions of both oceans have been generally warmer than normal, with the notable exception of northern Australian waters.
The chances of exceeding the median rainfall for March to May are between 40 and 55% over northern Australia (see map), meaning that above average falls are about as equally likely as below average falls.
An expanded set of seasonal rainfall outlook maps and tables, including the probabilities of seasonal rainfall exceeding given totals (e.g. 200 mm), is available on the "Water and the Land" (WATL) part of the Bureau's website.
Outlook confidence is related to how consistently the Pacific and Indian Oceans affect Australian rainfall. During the March to May period, history shows the effect to be moderately consistent across much of northern Australia, but only weakly consistent across southern parts of both the NT and Queensland (see background information).
A declining El Niño event exists across the Pacific Basin, with most leading climate models indicating further cooling and a return to a neutral (near-average Pacific temperatures) pattern during the next three to six months. The SOI is approximately −21 for the 30 days ending 21 February. For routine updates and comprehensive discussion on any developments regarding El Niño or La Niña, please see the ENSO Wrap-Up.
Click on the map above for a larger version of the map. Use the reload/refresh button to ensure the latest forecast map is displayed.
More information on this outlook is available by contacting the Bureau's Climate Services sections in Queensland and the Northern Territory at the following numbers:
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THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE SEASONAL OUTLOOK IS EXPECTED BY 23rd March 2010
Corresponding temperature outlook
January 2010 rainfall in historical perspective
November 2009 to January 2010 rainfall in historical perspective
The Bureau's seasonal outlooks are general statements about the probability or risk of wetter or drier than average weather over a three-month period. The outlooks are based on the statistics of chance (the odds) taken from Australian rainfall/temperatures and sea surface temperature records for the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans. They are not, however, categorical predictions about future rainfall, and they are not about rainfall within individual months of the three-month outlook period. The temperature outlooks are for the average maximum and minimum temperatures for the entire three-month outlook period. Information about whether individual days or weeks may be unusually hot or cold, is unavailable.
This outlook is a summary. More detail is available from the contact people or from SILO (Seasonal Climate Outlook Products).
Probability outlooks should not be used as if they were categorical forecasts. More on probabilities is contained in the booklet The Seasonal Climate Outlook - What it is and how to use it, available from the National Climate Centre. These outlooks should be used as a tool in risk management and decision making. The benefits accrue from long-term use, say over 10 years. At any given time, the probabilities may seem inaccurate, but taken over several years, the advantages of taking account of the risks should outweigh the disadvantages. For more information on the use of probabilities, farmers could contact their local departments of agriculture or primary industry.
Model Consistency and Outlook Confidence: Strong consistency means that tests of the model on historical data show a high correlation between the most likely outlook category (above/below median) and the verifying observation (above/below median). In this situation relatively high confidence can be placed in the outlook probabilities. Low consistency means the historical relationship, and therefore outlook confidence, is weak. In the places and seasons where the outlooks are most skilful, the category of the eventual outcome (above or below median) is consistent with the category favoured in the outlook about 75% of the time. In the least skilful areas, the outlooks perform no better than random chance or guessing. The rainfall outlooks perform best in eastern and northern Australia between July and January, but are less useful in autumn and in the west of the continent. The skill at predicting seasonal maximum temperature peaks in early winter and drops off marginally during the second half of the year. The lowest point in skill occurs in early autumn. The skill at predicting seasonal minimum temperature peaks in late autumn and again in mid-spring. There are also two distinct periods when the skill is lowest - namely late summer and mid-winter. However, it must always be remembered that the outlooks are statements of chance or risk. For example, if you were told there was a 50:50 chance of a horse winning a race but it ran second, the original assessment of a 50:50 chance could still have been correct.
The Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) is calculated using the barometric pressure difference between Tahiti and Darwin. The SOI is one indicator of the stage of El Niño or La Niña events in the tropical Pacific Ocean. It is best considered in conjunction with sea-surface temperatures, which form the basis of the outlooks. A moderate to strongly negative SOI (persistently below −10) is usually characteristic of El Niño, which is often associated with below average rainfall over eastern Australia, and a weaker than normal monsoon in the north. A moderate to strongly positive SOI (persistently above +10) is usually characteristic of La Niña, which is often associated with above average rainfall over parts of tropical and eastern Australia, and an earlier than normal start to the northern monsoon season. The Australian impacts of 25 El Niño events since 1900 are summarized on the Bureau's web site (El Niño - Detailed Australian Analysis).
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During WWII Sergeant Randall is sent behind enemy German lines with a squad of British Jewish Commandos to find a new artillery piece called the "The Screecher" that is blowing apart the Allied lines. The over eager commandos run into a Nazi ambush and they are killed but the Randall is captured. Lieutenant Morgan along with his medic and three enlisted men volunteer to continue the search for "The Screecher" while their real aim is to find their sergean...


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Major Release Trophy Guide Calling Thread
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|Jul 6th, 2009 06:50 PM
|that one smiling man looks like Ted Bundy
|Nov 6th, 2008 01:44 AM
|For some reason, the part that always gets me is that the video waits until nearly eight minutes in to bother mentioning the best and most useful Halloween safety tip, to bring your damn parents. But first let's CHOP HALF YOUR SWORD OFF! You'll poke your eye out, kid!
|Oct 16th, 2008 12:49 AM
|Unfreakinbelievable.....we used to watch this movie on a filmstrip projector EVERY year in elementary school before Halloween. Priceless review of a national treasure, keep up the good work.
|Oct 8th, 2008 08:19 PM
Man what the uber-polite narrator suggests for the witch drove me crazy.
"Let's make your black witch, white... annnnnnd put a giant reflective X on you... annnnnd replace your broom with a crappy cardboard one... annnnnnd get rid of your mask..... annnnd DONE. There. Now you're completely different from what you wanted to be for Halloween."
It's like the poor kid came out dressed like Darth Vader, and by the time they left the house they looked like Jar Jar Binks.
|Oct 8th, 2008 01:27 PM
"Don't stop in the middle of the street for any reason..."
Sorry, Angie, that you tripped on your too-long, pitch-black witch costume and fell in the middle of the street. The narrator said I can't stop for any reason so I guess you're gonna be roadkill.
|Oct 8th, 2008 02:38 AM
|RoG is quite astute, really, in posting this video. It will reduce the casualties from Max playing "Child Bowling" with his Buick by at least 13%.
|Oct 6th, 2008 06:46 PM
|Oh come on who didn't steel their parents smokes and beer and hitch a ride to the 'rich' neighborhood to Trick or Treat? Who also hasn't peed themselves in terror after being invited into a house, just to be abducted by Satan worshipers for a few hours before finally escaping? What about vandalism? You know you deserve jail-time for all the crap you dished out to those wealthy snobs! Good times!
|Oct 6th, 2008 06:11 PM
|Hey! Let's not forget about all the used syringes people put in the candies they dish out!! Y'know, because people wishing to give kids herpes without actually molesting them are extremely common!! ^_^
|Oct 5th, 2008 08:45 PM
"Centron" did this? That reminds me of one thing:
Crow T. Robot: A Centron production! Though we got the idea from someone else...cause we're cheating!
|Oct 5th, 2008 08:07 PM
Parents checking the candy for harmful things is a total lie. It was a scam parents started to get their hands the the best stuff.
"Ahem, little billy, I must check your candy for dangerous stuff... hmm let's see. Ohh these skittles look like they maybe have been opened, could be dangerous. Opp, and here's a snickers bar that feels a bit heavier than normal, maybe has a razor in it. That leaves you with tootsie rolls, smarties, and dum dums"
|Oct 4th, 2008 11:42 PM
|God, I remember being shown those things in second grade. I never wore plastic masks only because they were stifling (and there were lottsa possiblities with face paint). I recall one year I went out in a costume that was basically a black cat outfit. Oh dear! How did I ever survive?
|Oct 4th, 2008 07:35 PM
|The KKK took my baby away
|Oct 4th, 2008 05:43 PM
|does that neighbourhood actually have any street lighting apart form that i tihnk iam gonig to grow myself some might fine set of whiskers
|Oct 4th, 2008 12:55 PM
|Oct 4th, 2008 12:10 PM
"two distinguished gentlemen that scoff at the poor and will gladly introduce you to their wild fisticuffs should you insult their honor!"
Seriously, the second kid looks like John L. Sullivan and I fully expected him to say "I can whup any SOB in the house!"
Ah, remembering to saw off your broom handles and swords. Always a tip top Halloween safety reminder!
|Oct 4th, 2008 03:06 AM
|Hahahahaha!!! Pause it a 1:00 in and see the look on raggity anns face as the football kid takes the last cookie. Priceless.
|Oct 3rd, 2008 07:14 PM
I can't even remember a year where I DIDN'T wear a black costume...
this year I'm being the BLU Sniper from TF2 for both a halloween party on campus and for Anime USA. I even got a bloody machete to frighten small children. =D
|Oct 3rd, 2008 05:14 PM
Is it me or was the KKK girls joke
"What do ghosts eat for breakfeast"
"Ghost testes" WTF!!
Great video. That reminds me I need to go buy some razor blades and candy bars for Halloween this year, need to teach those damns kids to stay off my lawn and stop ringing my doorbell!
|Oct 3rd, 2008 12:42 PM
|Is it me, or that woman playing as the little princess' mom looks a lot like Sarah Clarke?
|Oct 3rd, 2008 04:59 AM
|Oct 3rd, 2008 04:57 AM
|Wow, that mom looks like an asshole.
|Oct 3rd, 2008 04:19 AM
|My favorite tip was putting your full name and address on your bag.. because you know that creepy pedophile stalking your kids needs to know your son or daughters full name and where he/she live.
|Oct 3rd, 2008 02:19 AM
|Simon Love
Am I the only one hallucinating on that red clown hopping around at the very end of the video?
I would also like to extend my deepest sympathies for the princess', as she probably has issues now because of this.
|Oct 2nd, 2008 11:36 PM
|I just happened to be listening to the song "Ghosts 1" by Nine Inch Nails, and it synchs up perfectly with part one of this video. Happenstance? I dont think so!
|Oct 2nd, 2008 11:32 PM
|the world is crazy, thats why its far better once youre older and can go somewhere like Monster Massive or have good enough friends to host a halloween party.
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