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Rewards for Recycling: Q&A With Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot, Part 2
Aug 24, 2011 5:00 AM PT
Rewards for Recycling: Q&A With Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot, Part 1
In the fast-moving world of consumer electronics, last year's gaming system and smartphone are old news. Luckily, however, they're not entirely worthless.
Electronics recommerce company Gazelle buys this equipment, offering consumers cash, as well as free packaging and shipping -- and then resells it for a profit.
In Part 2 of his exclusive interview with the E-Commerce Times, Gazelle cofounder and CEO Israel Ganot talks about the company's electronic recycling philosophy, business model and future.
E-Commerce Times: What exactly does "recommerce" mean?
Israel Ganot:Recommerce is a new consumer model that rewards consumers for smart consumption.
ECT: Where did the name "Gazelle" come from?
Ganot: We wanted something short and memorable. It's the second fastest animal, and it has a connection to the environment. We also like the slogan, "Don't just sell it, Gazelle it." The tagline we're using now is "Keep it moving." Don't let things get stale, give those devices a new life. It's all about keeping things moving.
ECT: How does Gazelle work?
Ganot: Most consumers engage with Gazelle when they upgrade to a new device. You'll go to Gazelle, search for your specific model, answer questions about its physical condition, and we'll make you an offer. If you accept the offer, we'll send you packaging, we'll pay for the shipping, and once we get the item in our facility, within a week the item will be received inspected, data wiped, and you'll get paid with a check or through PayPal or an Amazon gift card -- or you can donate the proceeds to a charity.
Another way you can engage is to go to a site like Walmart.com and go to their electronics trade-in and recycling, powered by Gazelle, and do it that way. If you go to Gazelle through the Walmart website, you'll get a Walmart gift card.
ECT: What is Gazelle's business model? How does it make money?
Ganot: Once we collect these devices, we pay consumers, and that's our inventory. The only difference between us is that a typical retailer buys from wholesalers, but we put together our inventory from consumers, and then we resell the product in the secondary market.
We sell in a lot of different places. Our biggest channels are eBay, Amazon, wholesale channels and international buyers. Demand for the product is insatiable. People that live on the coasts want the latest and the greatest products. We buy on the coasts, and then we sell to the middle of the country and to developing markets.
Our biggest challenge as a business is buying more inventory, and to buy more inventory it's all about educating consumers about recommerce.
ECT: What's the benefit of using Gazelle as opposed to other similar services?
Ganot: We are seeing a lot of competition in terms of other companies providing trade-in services, mostly coming from retailers and e-commerce retailers. It's extremely positive, since the biggest challenge in our business is awareness.
Ultimately, it will help change consumer behavior. What's different about Gazelle is our customer experience, which is the best in the industry. It's all about delivering the customer experience every single day to every customer: how we handle the communication, free shipping, free packaging, and the way we communicate with our users. We see our users coming back to us over and over again.
ECT: What role has social media played in promoting and growing Gazelle?
Ganot: The primary way we use social media is for customer care, mostly using Twitter and Facebook. We also give our users the tools they need to evangelize, and we've seen a lot of tweets about Gazelle. We've also seen the growth of YouTube videos. Gadget Lab, etc., providing videos for fixing devices, etc.
ECT: Are there any safety or privacy concerns with selling electronics on Gazelle?
Ganot: That's one of the most important services we provide -- wiping electronics that customers trade. When consumers send their items to Gazelle, they know their data is safe. Consumers rely on that. It's part of our brand and our trust. It's about doing it every single day. We know that every data breach would affect our brand.
ECT: How is Gazelle evolving? What's in the future for the company?
Ganot: There are two areas in which we're going to invest. In terms of sheer growth, we're starting to invest in mass media channels, with radio and TV ads, and really getting the message out is a major area of opportunity.
Number two is working with our retail partners in bringing the service into the retail environment, and we'll be rolling out more retail partners over the next year. We're also building the infrastructure of the company -- something that needs to scale with the growth of the business. We're also thinking about international expansion and other categories we can move into.


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I love colour and I love to experiment. I am working on a series of paintings that encompass's all elements of my passion. Striking colours, together with using a variety of mixed media, both solvent and water based. I love the way that the two mediums interact with each other - rejecting and accepting, pushing and pulling, fighting and yielding, repelling and attracting; you get the picture! When I apply the solvent and water based paints at the same time these elements are shifting all of the time whilst wet, creating many different pictures, and it is not until it is dry that I know whether my vision has worked. I can literally sit and watch paint dry! Once dry, I will sit and look at the finished result, to read the picture held within, and then the title of the picture comes as an instinct based on the picture that my vision has seen.
You might see something different than the picture I have seen, and that is why I have signed my painting on the side. The painting comes ready to hang in my chosen viewpoint but you may choose to hang it a different way up.
Every painting is individually numbered which is controlled and recorded by me.
This painting is a mixture of dark red, aubergine, brown and gold which are all intermingling with each other to create a harmonious balance and give a deep rich satiny glow. The sides of the deep edge canvas are painted in dark red and then have been finished with two coats of gloss varnish.
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- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
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Cirencester is a picturesque Cotswolds market town in the English county of Gloucestershire, some 93 miles (150 km) west of London.
Cirencester is the Roman Capital of the Cotswolds, Roman Corinium. It's an ancient market town with traditional Cotswold buildings and thriving shopping centre. It's worth spending a morning here, especially on a Saturday. Every other Saturday there is a Farmer's Market. People are very friendly and it's easy to get in. The town is famous for its polo connections in the Cirencester Great Park, and for the Royal Agricultural College.
Get in
There is no railway link to this town. However, Kemble station is 4 miles away with connections to Swindon and London Paddington to the east, and Gloucester and Cheltenham to the north.
There's usually one bus an hour to Cirencester from Swindon, Cheltenham and Stroud.
There is a National Express Bus service to both Heathrow Airport and London Victoria from the Beeches Car Park. (Near the town center)
Parking in Cirencester has become harder in recent years, owing to increased prices, but there are many car parks near the centre. There is also parking on the high street, but not on market days.
Get around
The town is small enough to walk around on foot. Discussions have been taking place as to whether the centre of town (in front of the church) should be pedestrianised - these have been going on for years, so don't hold your breath.
There are the typical high-street chains here, but there are some good special local shops in Dyer Street, the Market Place and in Black Jack Street behind the church. A great locally-owned fresh fish shop, New Wave, has recently opened just next to the church in the Market Place, selling top quality Cornish sustainable Cornish fish and shellfish, as well as homemade fishpies, fishcakes and potted shrimp made onsite by manager Ben Hoggett.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Shockingly Wide Array of Morocco Comments!!! Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Shockingly Wide Array of Morocco Comments!!! Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3, 4 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Africa Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message eclecticJoined: 09 Nov 2006Posts: 1122 Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject: as for "twoddle"....it may be for YOU, but not for me. I did hitherto believe that what is "twoddle" for 1 is not for another, thereby rendering that silly, smug word a "subjective" one. We ARE all going to the graves, twincenter, or is it centre, you little crumpet-eating tea-sipper .....I do love you so, as I love all creatures of God. You are right however that one may as well go for the maximum, and I certainly will try for that. But not everyone really wants a maid, a butler, a chauffeur, etc. Back to top TwinCentreJoined: 22 Mar 2007Posts: 273Location: Mokotow Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:58 am Post subject: In Morocco I had a maid. I think it is good to employ local people who otherwise may find it difficult to find employment for a reasonable rate. It is a way of giving something back. In fact, I cannot see anything bad about that at all. I encourage all foreigners in developing countries to do the same.Last edited by TwinCentre on Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:13 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top TwinCentreJoined: 22 Mar 2007Posts: 273Location: Mokotow Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 10:01 am Post subject: Crumpet eating tea-sipper? I don't get it. And it is Center! Don't thrust British English down my throat, my handle or online name was a joke. I eat fine food and drink fine wine exactly and employ maids. You won't de doing either on 8k. Seriously, my message was to earn more to give more. Back to top hooversmomJoined: 17 May 2007Posts: 7Location: Morocco Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:13 pm Post subject: Just a quick response to the last post. The native speaker teachers who work with me pay between 2000 and 2500 for their apartments. The school provides a housing stipend of 50% of the rent and helps with basic furniture. They are not particularly interested in European travel - most of them have done that - but do travel extensively in Morocco. No one is losing weight from a starvation diet, we often go out in the evening for beer and pizza, and they do employ maids. Very often the native speaker teachers here have no more than a year or two of experience and would not make much more than the 8000 Dirhams we pay unless they are lucky enough to find a job in the Emirates or Saudi Arabia. Just for comparison, a friend of mine - with an MA - was offered a job in the US in a university ESL program for $30,000 gross! That doesn't make the Morocco salary sound so bad. Back to top Urban_KittenJoined: 21 Jul 2004Posts: 81 Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:08 pm Post subject: My take home salary is anywhere from 13,000-17,000 a month. From that salary I pay for my 1 bedroom apartment in Agdal (Rabat) which is 3300 dh, pay my utilities and buy groceries. I eat out at least 3-4 times a week. I have travelled within and without the country. I do not own a car but nor do I live like a Buddhist monk. I am still easily able to sock away money. If you cannot live on 9000 dirhams a month in Morocco then you either have a drinking problem or you spend your evenings at Morocco's fine 'nightclubs' being grossly overcharged for booze and women. Back to top HodJoined: 28 Apr 2003Posts: 1613Location: Home Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: Bloody hell, eclectic will be livid at you raking in such huge sums. When I was at this BC Casa place doing not a lot to be honest, I think I got 10000 dirhams and 600 UK pounds a month. The pounds were paid tax free into a UK bank account, and I vowed it a heinous crime to even dream about injecting any of it into the Moroccan economy. I never did. I always knew the dirhams would be worth sweet fanny adams elsewhere so was always diligent in my efforts to blow the entire lot each month. So, my Dh10000 lifestyle in the city of yawns was pretty nondescript I have to say, but at least I could sleep well the three courses in La Bodega and Hippo every night helped too knowing Id saved just that bit that more each month to the Hod holiday/pension fund. To endure such boring hardships without setting a regular bit aside isnt just depressing, its irresponsible to your own future and that of any future dependents you may have. Back to top AfricaexpertJoined: 19 May 2003Posts: 109 Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 12:39 am Post subject: I had a fulltime maid/nanny/housekeeper/cook, & taught her how to cook things I liked. I also taught her how to knit, and she became so adept she was knitting sweaters for money on the side. When I left I used some connections I had and lined up a job for her at the palace. I wish I could have brought her back with me, can't find hired help like that here. Back to top Henry_CowellJoined: 27 May 2005Posts: 3352Location: Berkeley Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:37 pm Post subject: Africaexpert, Did you also have a maid/nanny/housekeeper/cook in the other African countries in which you've lived? If so, what was the pay in each place? Back to top AfricaexpertJoined: 19 May 2003Posts: 109 Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject: Is there a specific country you are interested in or are you just trying to yank my chain? Back to top Henry_CowellJoined: 27 May 2005Posts: 3352Location: Berkeley Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2007 3:36 am Post subject: I'm just not sure which African countries you're an expert on. What did you pay for nannies and/or cook-housekeeprs in sub-Saharan countries in West and East Africa? Back to top AfricaexpertJoined: 19 May 2003Posts: 109 Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject: A mere pittance Back to top Henry_CowellJoined: 27 May 2005Posts: 3352Location: Berkeley Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject: And which countries were those? Back to top hooversmomJoined: 17 May 2007Posts: 7Location: Morocco Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 9:43 am Post subject: I don't know about others. but I'm getting really tired of the sniping between Africaexpert and other contributors to this forum. Back to top steadyJoined: 10 May 2005Posts: 72Location: Morocco Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:51 pm Post subject: I actually find it slightly amusing - just a bit of banter. Why don't you add your thoughts about the topic, Hooversmom. From your name, I presume that you have a very greedy child, yes? Back to top hooversmomJoined: 17 May 2007Posts: 7Location: Morocco Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: What is the topic? How much to pay maids? What countries Africaexpert has actually lived and worked in? Can't say I'm very interested in either. I've already given my limited input on the cost of living in Meknes, Morocco. 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elgatorino needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 205 designs submitted by 43 freelance designers.
Stadthaus Aspern
We are a real estate developer looking to provide our customers with good quality, affordable living space.
The Logo to be designed is for a building project, that is made up of 30 apartments for rent or sale and a few commercial estates on the ground floor.
Our aim is to build multifunctional rooms and a flexible loft structure, that allows for connections between units, accomodating changing needs (work at home,..) and family structures (Single, Family, 1 child,..).
The Name of the Project is "Stadthaus Aspern" (meaning "townhouse Aspern", Aspern is a name of a district) - The Logo should consist of the project name and a signet/pictogramm.
We are targeting two primary european audiences:
+) Young families (parents age 30-40), that are looking to buy their own apartment.
+) Singles, age 25 to 45.
Potential shop owners for the few commercial lots are NOT within our primary target group.
The best adjectives to describe what the logo should look like would be: urban, cool, modern, comfortable.
What it should not look like: cartoony, childlike or cheap
For the pictogramm: Show a modern townhouse (30 apartments!) in an urban surrounding in your preferred degree of abstraction (we have not included any 3d renderings on purpose), try to depict the "flexible structure" of our units or just surprise us!
The Colors should not be conservative like dark blue or wine-red, but rather fresh like pink, turquoise or similar. Gradients are ok.
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The first winter storm of the season is moving in fast and has hit the north and western suburbs with a fury as downed power lines were reported in McHenry County.
Around 5 p.m., ComEd officials said more than 24,000 people were without power, most of those in the western Illinois region, like Rockford , Freeport and Dixon. At 5:35 p.m., less than an inch of snow was on the ground in Elburn.
A spokeswoman with ComEd said a few customers from Woodstock were powerless, but there weren't any "significant" outages in that area.
Snow first hit Chicago around 5:30 p.m., when O'Hare airport reported seeing flurries, according to the National Weather Service. The snow will continue on throughout the evening, meteorologists said.
Also, 30 to 40 mph winds have been reported with gusts as high as nearly 60 mph, said Ed Fenelon, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
"That trend is going to be continuing and some of the stronger winds will work their way" to Chicago, Fenelon said. "That probably really trumps the snow as far as what kind of impact you can have."
Hundreds of flights were canceled at O'Hare and Midway airports on the eve of the busiest travel day of the holiday season. Southwest Airlines scratched all of its flights scheduled after 4:30 p.m. today at Midway. People are being warned to stay off highways because high winds could whip up near blizzard conditions.
Delays at O'Hare are averaging 30 to 40 minutes, according to the Chicago Department of Aviation. At Midway, airlines reported a few delays of 50 minutes at 8:30 p.m.
At 6 p.m., a few crashes had been reported on roadways including I-290 at St. Charles Road and the inbound Edens Expressway at Tower Road.
Three to 7 inches of snow is expected in the far northwest suburbs, 2 to 4 inches in Chicago and 1 to 3 inches in the south and southwest suburbs from Thursday to Friday.
The weather service says the winds will be the real problem. "We may not get a whole lot of snow but the potential for snowing, drifting and poor visibility is very high," weather service meteorologist Mark Ratzer said.
In its storm warning, the weather service said the greatest chance of near white-out conditions is near the shoreline in Lake and Porter counties in Indiana. The storm warning is in effect for those areas until 3 a.m. Friday.
In western Illinois and Wisconsin, a blizzard warning is in effect with as much as a foot of snow forecast. Snow could fall 1 to 2 inches an hour around Rockford, the weather service said.
To the south, a high wind advisory has been issued for Kankakee County.
The storm ends a record stretch of 290 days without snow in the Chicago area. This will also be the latest the city has seen its first measurable snowfall.
"It's going to be a shock to the system," said weather service meteorologist Ed Fenelon. "It's coming in with a bang."
ComEd said it was bracing for power outages due to the weather. The company said it was preparing additional crews and equipment and asking for help from other utilities to respond quickly to outages.
ComEd Vice President Terence Donnelly said the storm was "expected to be especially damaging" to the company's power system because of the combination of wind, snow and ice.
The Illinois Toll Highway Authority urged motorists to stay off the highways.
"This weather event is expected to impact most of the tollway system – from Rockford to Chicago – resulting in rapidly deteriorating driving conditions across the entire region," tollway executive director Kristi Lafleur. "We urge everyone to stay off the roads this afternoon and evening, if possible, but if you must drive, slow down and allow plenty of extra time for the commute home."
Illinois Transportation Secretary Ann Schneider also said that "motorists should think twice before venturing onto roadways" Thursday night and urged drivers and their passengers "to buckle up, slow down and allow plenty of extra time to reach your destination. And, please don't crowd the snow plows."
IDOT was mobilizing more than 550 snow plows responsible for roads in northern Illinois while the Illinois Tollway was preparing its full fleet of 182 snow plows to try and clear the 286-mile network of toll roads in 12 counties in northern Illinois.
If conditions become extreme, the Illinois State Police is urging drivers involved in minor accidents where no one is injured to exchange insurance and driver information.
The agencies also provide multiple ways to receive updates electronically. Non-tollroad information can be found at www.gettingaroundillinois.com. Real time conditions on tollroads are available at www.illinoistollway.com. Drivers also can sign up for Tollway Tweets at the website or at www.twitter.com.
The Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation said it was readying its main fleet of nearly 300 trucks. More than 200 of them are ready to go, and another 150 trucks can be dispatched if necessary, according to department spokeswoman Anne Sheahan.
The city has 285,000 tons of road salt on hand.
The department's primary concern is icy conditions that could make the evening commute difficult, Sheahan said. She cautioned all drivers to be aware of driving conditions and department trucks out on the road.
The flight cancellations at Midway and O'Hare International Aiport Thursday are likely to ripple into Friday, when the Chicago Department of Aviation expects 200,000 passengers to pass through O'Hare Friday and about 66,000 passengers through Midway.
Metra spokesman Michael Gillis said the commuter rail service was "not expecting a major wallop" from Thursday's storm.
"For this storm and for all snow events, what's really important is to make sure we have staff on hand at critical switching locations," where snow and ice buildups could create problems, " Gillis said.
Metra also was planning to keep on hand extra staff, including mechanical workers, to make sure emergency repairs could be done promptly, Gillis said. "We'll just be monitoring things as we go though the rush hour and we're prepared to do more," he said.
The approaching storm dropped nearly a foot of snow in Des Moines. The airport at Creston, Iowa, recorded the highest winds, with a gust of 53 mph.
On the southern edge of the storm system, high winds damaged homes and downed trees in central Arkansas, the weather service said. A powerful storm peeled the roofs off buildings and toppled trucks in Mobile, Ala., but injured no one. Tornado warnings remained in effect in parts of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama early Thursday.
Transportation officials shut down parts of Interstate 29 in Missouri early Thursday, and Interstate 80 in Nebraska remained closed due to blowing snow.
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(WASHINGTON) — Barney, the Scottish Terrier that accompanied former President George W. Bush through his entire two-term presidency, has died. He was 12 and a half years old.
They say if you want a friend in Washington, you should get a dog. President George W. Bush brought one with him from Texas.
Barney was a mainstay in the White House and gained a companion, Miss Beazley, during his eight-year residency at the White House.
In a statement, the former president announced his friend's passing:
Laura and I are sad to announce that our Scottish Terrier, Barney, has passed away. The little fellow had been suffering from lymphoma and after twelve and a half years of life, his body could not fight off the illness.
Barney and I enjoyed the outdoors. He loved to accompany me when I fished for bass at the ranch. He was a fierce armadillo hunter. At Camp David, his favorite activity was chasing golf balls on the chipping green.
Barney guarded the South Lawn entrance of the White House as if he were a Secret Service agent. He wandered the halls of the West Wing looking for treats from his many friends. He starred in Barney Cam and gave the American people Christmas tours of the White House. Barney greeted Queens, Heads of State, and Prime Ministers. He was always polite and never jumped in their laps.
Barney was by my side during our eight years in the White House. He never discussed politics and was always a faithful friend. Laura and I will miss our pal.
Laura Bush, the former first lady, posted a slideshow of Barney photos in memoriam on her Facebook page.
The Bush family was known to dress the dog up for holidays. His comedic YouTube videos were ahead of their time. The Obamas have kept up the tradition, featuring their dog, Bo, in similar White House holiday-themed shorts.
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Clown and Out: While trying to escape Snotty Boy, the animals run over Snotty's clown father. His dad survived, but has lost a lot of hilarity and Pig takes him into surgery. Otis disguises himself as Snotty's father to distract him while he recovers. Only Snotty comes to love and admire Otis in a way he never did for his lame clown father. Otis has to think fast before he ruins this miserable family. / Clan of the Cave Cow: After bumping his head during a freak ski accident, Otis is mistaken for a prehistoric cave cow and taken to a laboratory for research. Otis loves all the attention and snacks, but hates that the scientist wants to dissect his brain to find out what makes him tick. Meanwhile, the animals find the cave cow, mistaking him for Otis.moreless
To get the animals off the farm, the Canadian crows forge a treasure map and make the animals believe that each of them wants the treasure for himself. The animals race against each other to find the treasure, leaving the barn available for corn-plundering.moreless
Clonedemonium: An evil scientist threatens to mass-market the animals' adorable mini-clones as pets! / Hickory Dickory Donkey: When a beautiful she-donkey takes an interest in Pip, Bessy suspects ulterior motives and follows them on their dates, causing the other animals to accuse her of being jealous.moreless
A Catfish Called Eddie: Otis' old pal Eddie comes to the Barnyard for a visit, and Pip smells a rotten fish. Beady and the Beasts: Mrs. Beady take up residence in the Barnyard when her mother-in-law comes to visit.moreless
Abby's formerly-lovable cousin Veronica comes to visit, but she now turns out to be a manipulative bombshell who takes advantage of Abby's friends.


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Title: 청담동 앨리스 / Cheongdamdong Alice
Chinese Title: 清潭洞愛麗絲
Also Known as: Alice in Cheongdamdong
Genre: Romance, comedy
Episodes: 16 (To Be Confirmed)
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2012-Dec-1 to 2013-Jan-20
Air time: Saturday & Sunday 21:50
Director: Jo Soo-Won
Writer: Kim Ji-Woon, Kim Jin-Hee (Tree With Deep Roots and Queen Seon-deok)
Han Se Kyung (Moon Geun Young) is a talented young designer with a very positive character. She wins many designing contests and finally joins a clothing company. But She only does errands and chores rather than design at work. Meanwhile, the wife of the upper management in this company humiliates her. The wife is actually her former high school classmate who didn't do better than her in school. The situation change until she met Cha Seung Jo (Park Shi Hoo), who is a president of a luxury brand shop in Cheongdamdong and he will change her life after that.
Main Cast
Park Shi Hoo as Cha Seung Jo
Moon Geun Young as Han Se Kyung
So Yi Hyun as Seo Yoon Joo
Kim Ji Suk as Tommy Hong
Supporting Cast
Nam Goong Min as Se Kyung's ex-boyfriend
Kim Yoo Ri as Shin In Hwa
Shin So Yool as Choi Ah Jung
Park Kwang Hyun as Heo Dong Wook
Jung In Ki as Han Deuk Ki (Se Kyung's father)
Lee Jong Nam as Jung Yoon Hee (Se Kyung's mother)
Hye Jung as Han Se Jin (Se Kyung's younger sister)
Goo Won as Seo Ho Min
Choi Sung Joon as Secretary Moon
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Moon Geun Young has been offered a lead role in Cheongdamdong Alice
SBS recently reported that it has offered a lead role in the new drama series Cheongdamdong Alice to Moon Geun Young.
On August 10, a spokesperson for the Drama Department of SBS said, "We're currently talking about casting Moon Geun Young for the new drama series Cheongdamdong Alice. We haven't decided anything yet, but it's true that we offered a lead role in the series to her."
A spokesperson for Namoo Actors, Moon's agency, also said, "Moon Geun Young has been offered a lead role in the drama series Cheongdamdong Alice, but she hasn't made her decision yet."
The drama series Cheongdamdong Alice, based on the novel Cheongdamdong Oduri, will start airing early in December.
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Park Shi Hoo is reportedly in talks and considering taking on the male lead of the upcoming SBS weekend drama Cheongdamdong Alice.
Moon Geun-young confirms role in weekend TV series
Korean actress Moon Geun-young is gearing up to step back into the spotlight after her two-year hiatus by starring as the female lead in an upcoming SBS TV series.
Namoo Actors officials announced in a press release Thursday that Moon will play the role of Han Se-kyung in SBS' forthcoming weekend drama "Alice of Cheongdam-dong" [translated title].
This will be the actress' new project on her plate in two years as she has been taking a long break from acting in the small screen after starring in "Marry Me, Mary" (KBS, 2010), opposite actor Jang Keun-suk.
"Alice of Cheongdam-dong," which still is far from its premiere scheduled after Ju Ji-hoon's "Five Finger" ends the run in December, tells the story of Han, who lives each day with the motto "Strive for your dream to succeed."
After facing many difficulties in her life, she start working at an apparel company that copies designers' clothes.
The series will be directed by producer Cho Soo-won of "Swallow the Sun" (SBS, 2009) and the writing duo Kim Ji-woon and Kim Jin-hee of "Queen Seon-duk" (MBC, 2009) and historical series "Deep Rooted Tree" (SBS, 2012).
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Kim Ji Suk in Negotiation to Star Opposite Moon Geun Young in 'Cheongdamdong Alice'
It's looking increasingly likely Moon Geun Young has found her man for her upcoming drama. Actor Kim Ji Suk's agency confirmed the initial October 4 reports that the actor was in negotiations to join as the male lead of SBS' Cheongdamdong Alice.
The agency, however, denied the actor had accepted the role but was in final negotiations while positively reviewing the script. If he accepts, Kim Ji Suk will play designer Tommy Hong who comes into a triangle romance with Cha Seung Jo (Park Si Hoo) and Han Se Kyung (Moon Geun Young).
Actress Moon Geun Young is now confirmed to have joined the drama marking her first drama in two years since Mary Stayed Out All Night. Cheongdamdong Alice will premiere in December after the conclusion of Five Fingers
Photo Credit: Kim Byung Kwan
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Alice in Cheongdam-dong casts second leads
Woohoo — Kim Ji-suk (I Need Romance 2012) has been offered the second lead in the upcoming rom-com Alice in Cheongdam-dong, starring Moon Geun-young and Park Shi-hoo. He's still considering the role so it's not a done deal yet, but so far the cast for this drama is shaping up rather nicely. I've liked Kim Ji-suk before, but I do think he's one of the slew of recent actors who's making a bigger and better comeback post-army duty.
Alice in Cheongdam-dong is based on the novel Cheongdam-dong Audrey, about a Candy-type of heroine who enters the bizarre and foreign world (hence the play on Alice in Wonderland) of the uber-rich, who live in the tiny insular neighborhood of Cheongdam-dong. Moon Geun-young plays the heroine, a young fashion designer who gets hired at her dream job, only to find out that her high school classmate and rival is the boss's wife and determined to make her life miserable.
The rival will be played by So Yi-hyun of You've Fallen for Me (pictured below). Urg, this actress really makes every character she plays So. Uninteresting. I suppose if I'm meant to hate her, I'm halfway there? Her character lived in the heroine's shadow when they were young, so naturally she thinks it her life's mission to make her pay now. Kim Ji-suk will play an advertising exec, and Park Shi-hoo is the rival designer company's president, and also So Yi-hyun's ex-boyfriend. Is the entire plot going to be a big frenemy war? I hope not.
The drama will be penned by Kim Ji-woon and Kim Jin-hee, who were junior writers on Tree With Deep Roots and Queen Seon-deok. Directing is PD Jo Soo-won of Hyena. The one thing that worries me most is the drama's description that the heroine starts out as a hardworking Candy… and then decides not to live that way anymore and puts all of her effort into becoming a Cinderella. Er, that's your new goal? To marry Prince Charming? Please tell me there's more to this drama than that. Pretty please?
Alice in Cheongdam-dong will follow weekend drama Five Fingers which puts the premiere sometime in December on SBS.
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Park Shi Hoo to Romance Moon Geun Young in "Cheongdamdong Alice"
It's been confirmed that Park Shi Hoo has joined the cast of new SBS series "Cheongdamdong Alice." The upcoming drama will mark his comeback to the small screen in 18 months, his first since starring in "The Princess's Man" with Moon Chae Won. Park Shi Hoo will play Cha Seung Jo, the youngest Korean president Artemis, the leading luxury goods distribution company. He doesn't trust woman after a bad breakup' but deep-down, he's still a romanticist who believes in true love.
The drama also stars Moon Geun Young as the heroine Han Se Kyung, a positive and ambitious woman from a rather modest background who struggles to marry into one of many wealthy families in Gangnam to ultimately become a "Cheongdamdong daughter-in-law."
"Cheongdanmdong Alice" will follow Joo Ji Hoon's "Five Fingers" on SBS and aims to premiere sometime in December.
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Shin So Yul Becomes Moon Geun Young's BFF in 'Cheongdamdong Alice'
Shin So Yul was cast in SBS' upcoming drama, Cheongdamdong Alice as Choi Ah Jung. She will be the best friend of Han Se Kyung (Moon Geun Youg) from high school and college and is described as an adorable woman who longs to marry a wealthy husband.
Cheongdamdong Alice is a story of Han Se Kyung, an ordinary citizen, who dreams of becoming the wife of a rich husband in the fancy neighborhood of Cheongdam-dong.
The drama will start on December 12 and featured Moon Geun Young, Park Si Hoo and So Yi Hyun.
Photo Credit: Shin So Yul's Twitter
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Thank you to the Valley Stream Herald for covering our committee's work toward putting together a day of community right here on Rockaway Avenue ("The minds behind the Community Fest," Sept. 6-12). The people involved in putting the Fest together, and those participating in the event, are truly committed to making Saturday, Sept. 29 a great day for Valley Stream. Thank you to the people who have already expressed their excitement and support for this idea.
I would also like to take this opportunity to recognize two other members of our committee — Annette Gray and Jimmy Smuda. Annette is active in the Valley Stream Democrat Club and also very involved with organizing events at Central High School. She has been helping secure sponsors and vendors for the event. Jimmy represents Bethlehem Assembly of God Church and has been helping organize volunteers to help spread the word about the event as well as helping with event logistics.
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Texas State Technical College West Texas (TSTC) has collaborated with the Sweetwater Texas Theatre Acquisition and Renovation (STTAR) board of directors to install a digital sign along Broadway in front of the Texas Theatre, which should benefit both organizations.The sign will benefit the theater and the entity that owns it, STTAR, by giving them another avenue to advertise showings and fundraisers held for theater improvements. It will benefit TSTC by providing students of a digital signage class real-world experience.It all began with a grant TSTC received several years ago to start a digital signage technology program. The funds from that grant provided for the sign. Carly Kahl, director of internal communications and marketing for TSTC West Texas, said the students of this program will get an opportunity to work with an outdoor sign that is visible to an entire community. Kahl is in charge of several digital signs on the TSTC West Texas campuses, but most are indoor signs. This sign is more visible as an outdoor sign and at such a busy intersection in the middle of Sweetwater. Kahl explained that an outdoor sign involves different software and design principals. "We are looking forward to displaying stuff for the theater, and are glad to have the visibility," she added.Kahl and her students also operate a digital sign at Sweetwater High School and the Mall of Abilene.There are three phases of the digital signage class – design, content management and troubleshooting – all of which can be taught and practiced through the use of the sign at the Texas Theatre. Kahl said they will also learn how to deal with the community in which they work in by producing advertisements and announcements that the community wants to see and which are pleasing to those purchasing the ads.Cody Wilkinson, president of the STTAR board, said they are glad to have the sign at the Texas Theatre. "We are a non-profit organization and needed a way to post community events and help the theater," he said. Wilkinson described the partnership between STTAR and TSTC on the sign as a win-win situation and said he's happy to know TSTC students will get exposure to the digital signage field by working with this sign. TSTC will manage the content and its design while STTAR will provide the electricity for the sign.Monica Wagner, director of special projects for TSTC West Texas, said she was also pleased to see how the digital sign is beneficial to both entities, as well as to the community. Wagner was responsible for getting the sign installed and worked closely with the STTAR board as well as other entities and members of the community to get the sign up and running. She pointed out that the parking lot by the theater, where the sign stands, is actually owned by First Financial Bank, who was very cooperative in allowing this sign to be installed at that particular location.Wilkinson said they also hope the sign will be a nice addition to the community, providing a highly visible place to advertise community events. STTAR will offer free listings for non-profits and community events, but will also raise a little money by selling advertisement space on the sign. Funds raised will mostly go to pay the bills of the Texas Theatre, according to Wilkinson. For more information on reserving space on the sign, call 325-864-3688.The STTAR board hopes to finish improvements to the outside in the near future so they can begin making improvements to the inside. Wilkinson said now that they've gotten the marquee and neon all refurbished, they plan to raise the funds to inset the doors and bring the ticket booth to the outside like it was in the 1930s when it was first built. "We want to make it look as close to the original design as we can," he said.Wilkinson said improvements to the inside of the theater will be expensive, but they have been fortunate to have labor donated or discounted for re-designing the outside and hope to have the same for the inside. Indoor improvements would include a new sound system, seating, and a digital projector. Texas Theatre shows currently released movies most weekends. Ticket prices are $6 for adults and $4.50 for children. Children under 3 are admitted free of charge. There is also concession available.


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Everyone on Capitol Hill is delighted to see Sen. Mark Kirk return to work today, almost a year after his stroke. Kirk was vigorous and only in his early 50s when he was felled last year and the illness hit everyone hard. For Kirk, it sparked some new thinking about theMedicaid program for the poor. The Republican told the Chicago Sun Times.
"Had I been limited to that I would have had no chance to recover like I did. So unlike before suffering the stroke, I'm much more focused on Medicaid and what my fellow citizens face," he said. "I will look much more carefully at the Illinois Medicaid program to see how my fellow citizens are being cared for who have no income and if they suffer from a stroke."
That kind of empathy is welcome but it's also worth noting that with many Republicans it takes apersonal experience to make them enthusiastically embrace government action.
Consider Chris Christie. The New Jersey governor is savaging House Speaker John Boehner and congressional Republicans for not quickly delivering on a $60.4 billion aid package to those affected by Superstorm Sandy. Of course, there's nothing wrong with post disaster aid which has been an American tradition at least since the Mississippi Flood of 1927. But for someone who has made their name as a fiscal hawk to demand that Congress pass a huge, unfunded aid package one that includes some dubious items like $150 million for Alaska fisheries has a certain degree of chutzpah.
To Christie's credit, I don't think his demand for storm aid is just political. It's personal, too. You only have to have seen his interviews discussing how the boardwalks and amusement parks of his youth along the Jersey shore had been devastated to know that this was something deep and meaningful to him. The conservative who famously chewed out a school teacher now wants government aid this minute. As a native New Jerseyite, I say there's nothing wrong with aid but there is with hypocrisy.
In a different context, Wall Street had no trouble turning to government for aid when the financial crisis hit. Even before the Troubled Assets Relief Fund was established in the fall of 2008, Washington had aided the Bear Stearns takeover and the AIG bailout. And TARP itself, while initially shunned by some banks, became manna for the financial industry.
We've seen the liberal-for-a-day phenomenon before. (I wrote about it in the 90s for The New Republic.) Conservatives suddenly look at Washington anew. Sen. Pete Domenici, a Republican from New Mexico, was to his eternal credit the chamber's fiercest advocate, along with Sen. Paul Wellstone, for parity for mental health treatment in insurance programs. His daughter had mental illness. Sen. Mike DeWine of Ohio had been a strong advocate against government regulation but he made a very big, and one could say, deeply admirable, exception for the 55 mph speed limit. His daughter was 22 when she died in an auto accident.
There's nothing wrong with letting personal experience shape one's political views. We wouldn't want pols who drew nothing-no rethinking, no change of heart-from their personal pain. It's become an axiom among historians that polio helped make Franklin Roosevelt the empathetic leader he was. That's good.
The issue is whether one can learn from one's own suffering and draw wider conclusions instead of a more pinched definition. If Mark Kirk's stroke made him think about the poor then bravo. If emergency aid is surely needed to rebuild the Jersey Shore shouldn't Chris Christie show some urgency towards fixing Newark and Camden?
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"We hounds talk about it, though. No better place in the world to be a dog than here. The Inyo National Forest might be the biggest dog park on Earth."
Fido licked his chops and went back to work.
"Have I ever told you how much I hate Microsoft Office?" he asked out of nowhere.
"Why, no Fido. The fact is, everybody hates it. But it's what we have."
I looked over his shoulder. He was trying to create an organizational chart.
"What program are you using?"
"PowerPaw," he said.
"So what are your criteria?"
Fido said he had it all figured.
"One member should be erudite and thoughtful, not a waster of words.
Another should be concerned with 'business' (at this Fido chuckled at his double-entendre), but also an athlete and a big-idea guy.
"We need a retired do-gooder, too, for intellectual balance, a go-go member who can't sit still, and finally, a pure and loveable crowd pleaser."
"Hmm, this sounds awfully familiar to me," I said.
I asked him what the big-ticket issues would be for the Hound Council.
"First of all, we need someone to keep on top of the poop situation," he said.
"It's not a dog issue, per se, but since we're the ones doing the pooping, people need to be educated about what to do.
"In the summer it's not as big an issue as the winter. When there's snow on the ground, and poop on top of the snow, yecchh. Even we hounds get disgusted.
"There ought to be more poop bag stands around town, with a pail or something so humans don't have to walk around with bags of turds!"
"Point taken."
"I'd like to have a dog on the council who is primarily concerned with recreation stuff. Tennis ball chases is a good example, and fetch. And transportation. Would a Gentle Leader qualify as a muzzle on the buses? That kind of thing."
"Who are your nominees?" I said.
"Mica and Sky, Samantha, Khan, Tessa, Zeppelin, FJ, Moses, Molly and any write-ins."
"And you?" I said. "How do you see yourself fitting into this scheme?"
Fido grinned and gave me a nudge in the ribs.
"I'd be the Fidociary Officer!"


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|2013-01-30, 18:05
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It is also possible that none of the message bottles, or maybe not even the forgeries, ever had any fantasy scenes inside them. There was this thing Beatrice said (paraphrased): "Slowly the barrier around Rokkenjima gets stronger and more and more demons will be able to enter.", or something of that kind. And then from EP6 on, the talk about a "reader" that can bring falsehoods into the storytelling.
I think what we see in the story is just the interpretation of someone from 1998+ (Yukari, Tohya, Ikuko or others). The "reader" may change at some points though and possibly add their own interpretation or even knowledge into the story (or perhaps there can be multiple readers at once, which explains the "chaotic" nature of EP8). And so while the first story (legend) from our perspective seems to be free of falsehood (which as we know now, isn't), the following stories are more and more magical fantasy stories, that seem to be out of place. (still remember your reaction from the first appearance of a deadly sin's stake at the end of EP1-TP or the first magic battle in EP2?) Perhaps it is just Tohya getting more and more "personally involved" as he recovers his memories, or Ikuko projects herself into Beatrices role more and more, or Yukari gets influenced by the witchhunters'/cultists' theories.
The "meta layers" would be just an extention of this, just with the addition that with higher layer, it becomes closer to reality.
Ironically if we go with StrangerKo, then the forgeries of Tohya and Ikuko are nothing more than fanfiction of the message bottles...
|2013-01-30, 18:22
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Something that strongly differentiates EP1-2 from EP3+ is the way Meta-Battler interacts with the narrative. Starting in EP3, he witnesses everything that happens on the gameboard and argues with Beatrice about it as it happens, and Beatrice in turn directs the events on the board in response to his arguments. But EP1-2 are totally different from that.
In EP1, Meta-Battler doesn't exist until after the game board story is over, and there are no outright fantasy scenes until Beatrice reconstructs the second twilight with magical stakes during the tea party. In EP2, we do see fantasy scenes, but Meta-Battler apparently doesn't -- we don't hear a peep out of him even when demons and goat butlers start popping out of the woodwork, and later during the first twilight of EP3 he acts as if he's witnessing magic on the game board for the very first time. What we do get, though, is a scene of Beatrice at the very end saying to Battler that she's going to explain how she did everything using magic, and since she's standing next to a living Kinzo at the time, the scene can't be part of the original game board story.
Based on that, I think it's likely that the message bottles underlying EP1-2 don't actually contain any fantasy at all. Instead, Meta-Battler's behavior mirrors how Tohya is reading the text. For EP1, he read it through first and then talked to Ikuko about it. For EP2, she started a back-and-forth with him while he read through the original message bottle, then after he finished she presented him with an augmented version of the story with fantasy scenes. Then EP3 and onward were written with Tohya's active participation, and that's reflected in Meta-Battler's more active role.
Backstory scenes like Shannon's date with George or the culture festival actively clash with the presentation of the message bottles being excerpts from Maria's diary, but if they were tacked on later, we can resolve that inconsistency. But then, how could those scenes be written, if they didn't come from Yasu in 1986? From Tohya? Is it really likely that, with corpses scattered everywhere and the island about to explode, Yasu sat Battler down to tell him all about a random culture festival she went to with Jessica?
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On the other hand, Meta-Battler talks about Kanon's exciting death scene in the tea party, so there's at least one blatantly false, or at least metaphorical, scene that does seem to have been present in the original narrative. So, I'm not sure.
|2013-01-30, 19:28
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Of course an huge problem with the forgeries then would be:
if the forgeries are made to look like Maria's retelling of those two days... how could Maria know about what George and Shannon talked? Or what was said after she was pushed out of Kinzo's study?
And I say this with regret as I've toyed with the idea Kyrie could be a culprit in EP 3... but the best she might have done is to kill Hideyoshi.
Maria didn't answer her when she called her and later denied making the call.
The most likely explanation is that Maria's voice had been recordered.
As in EP 1 we get another phonecall with Maria singing I wonder if that time too the same trick was used to give Yasu more time to act.
So maybe there was a little magic in the tales... though maybe the giant amount of it in the following episodes was due to the forgerers' interpretation of what Maria wrote.
After all EP 1 presents only the implication it could be magic due to a child insisting it's so and stuffs that can't be explained, it doesn't have the huge magic scenes the other episodes have.
However a forgerer, reading it, might feel allowed to add as much magic as he likes.
It's likely coincidental though, as it is the fact that Will defended a maid at the beginning of Ep 7...
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|2013-01-30, 20:23
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Being shot in the stomach and then moving around would most certainly leave a lot of blood everywhere. It would be pretty dishonest of RK07 to have something like this end up being the solution when no clues were really offered in the VN and the only "evidence" of it is in the anime and can be attributed to bad animators.
|2013-01-30, 20:54
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But let's assume Kyrie was still alive with a stake in her stomach which in the long run will kill her. She would remain there faking to be death while slowly bleeding to death while people cries over her, Rudolf and Nanjo, without no one realizing she's alive and her making no attempt to ask for help just so that later she can get up despite the blood loss, walk till Nanjo without leaving traces of the blood that's seeping out of her and kill him?
I find this rather unlikely.
And in the manga she 'moved' before we see Battler witnessing the scene. in chap 18 she's in the same position as Battler left her in chap 14, her eyes still open, blood still on her and around her and around her mouth and face turned toward the direction from which Battler came.
All this can tell us is that the magic scene and the 'real' scene doesn't match perfectly... though this can be explained with the stake having to move the bodies to stake them comfortably and Ronove cleaning up as Eva ordered him to do so that the scene would match with the epitaph.
|2013-01-30, 21:44
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Actually now I consider it, Nanjo dies much later than that scene as well. Still, it is unusual that this one and only time Yasu was walking around without a personality...
Though whether the stake was put in later or not, it still wasn't that fatal of a wound. This is either a hint to her shooting Hideyoshi, or some major trolling for meanness sake (e.g. hahaha she died slowly and painfully)
|2013-01-31, 01:26
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Scenarios like these are possible:
Also, the manga for EP8 implied heavily that Yasu was very much torn about her emotions towards people like Natsuhi. On the one hand she wants her to be the mother she never had, but on the other hand hates her for all that she caused (the raging culprit-shadow in one panel was pretty clear on that).
Spoiler for EP8 Manga Panel:
It was said in the Endroll part of EP1 that a message bottle was found several years (not 5 years, don't know where you got the number from) after the incident by a fisherman on a nearby island adrift in the sea.
This message bottle was released to the public, by that fisherman, after Eva sold Kinzo's library from Kuwadorian via auction and the interest in strange and occult items from the Ushiromiya household rose. The fisherman probably saw a good way to make money and went public. This could likely have been the bottle that contained EP1.
As a reaction towards this the police also released the bottle they found, which they had probably filed after they had somehow ruled out the likelihood of what they found in their message bottle. Or maybe there was information back then, but nobody actually cared, as Ootsuki said that up until Kinzo's library was released only very few people held interest in the case. This bottle could have been EP2.
So where does it make no sense?
There is also the short exchange between BlackBattler and Ronove in the TIP Forgery No.xxx where upon the question when they had last met Ronove gives a cryptic answer that it should have been Trinity of the Golden Witch but considering that "Lady Bernkastel's gameboard is considered to be the last" (EP7?) they would have to say that this one was the last. Yet on the other hand they remark, no matter when they last met, they still have just met a moment ago.
This also shows that the metaworld may not work under the same logic of time and space as the world of 1998 does. It is merely given "an order" by the way it is regarded by those who give order to that world, which would be the Spectating Witches. This is impossible if the meta was actually part of the actual narrative, because then it would be bound to the respective order it was written in.
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|2013-01-31, 09:41
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I think the meta-level narrative by necessity has to be independent, otherwise the entire concept of the Sea of Fragments and Forgeries and Theatergoing and whatnot don't make a lot of sense. If it's one linear narrative carried through certain Fragments/Forgeries/Stories and going beginning-to-end, then there's no room for those things. Bern implies tons and tons of iterations of the various stories exist, but obviously we don't watch those things. Ronove in the aforementioned Forgery No. XXX mentions Trinity, a story that doesn't exist (at least to us). The notion of "different meta-worlds" makes sense though if you assume it's the swirling chaos of different Readers and different interpretations, and that the existing meta-narrative belongs to some character we're aware of (such as Tohya or Ange).
EDIT: And naturally, that means something like ep7 could quite literally be some other person's meta-world, with Will as their avatar. Bern can be there because Bern can be wherever she wants to be, so that's not an issue. For them to later appear in the ep8 meta-world could mean all sorts of things, but looking strictly at ep7 you could say that information and/or speculation belongs to The Person Behind Will, whoever that is.
|2013-01-31, 10:44
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1) The only evidence that the letter ever existed was that Maria said so. Maria certainly made some false statements about how Beatrice entered the room; she'd probably make other false statements if Beatrice specifically asked her to. (There are also so some golden butterfly scenes, which are unreliable.)
2) Maria was in a particularly bad position to see Natsuhi take the letter. (Battler would have blocked a good deal of her field of vision, and she would have reflexively focused on Battler (two feet away) instead of Natsuhi (at the back of the room).
3) There's no reason for Beatrice to think that Natsuhi will read the letter herself, and good reason for Beatrice to think that Natsuhi won't; reading the letter requires Natsuhi to temporarily set aside her gun, and Natsuhi's had Battler open and read the previous letters.
4) The letter disappears.
What about the scene when Krauss shows Natsuhi the gold bar? Is that supposed to be real? (I think it's fake, for various reasons.)
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It's actually vaguely interesting to wonder what room the killer is in at any given time when not actually visible as a survivor.
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|2013-01-31, 15:28
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Basically if Maria saw Genji closing the door and then she was tricked into closing her eyes or something Yasu can enter thanks to her keys and explain to Maria she entered thanks to magic and Maria would swallow it.
And if you don't ask Maria 'did you see her do so?' you'll never know the truth.
Basically, you can get the TRUTH from maria only if you make her reconstruct the scene otherwise you'll get what SHE THINKS is the truth.
|2013-02-02, 04:37
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It's also interesting, actually, since Beatrice implies here that she's human. Her explanation for why the charm doesn't necessarily work on her is "because I'm the grandchild of the Golden Witch" (the emphasis on "grandchild" is from the manga, not me).
The same kanji was also used in Itouikukuro Reigonamu (伊藤幾九郎〇五七六, 11019960576).
Also, I found the Asumu pun you referred to.
Finished chapters 7 and 8.
Kinzo talked about how, using some kind of special scattering round and enough gunpowder, a sawed-off shotgun to shoot someone point-blank in the face would blow someone's head off such that it would look like "a witch or demon devoured it". Then he said that so much gunpowder would cause too much recoil, but that even with less gunpowder you could still blow off about half of a face.
So, I guess that's the weapon used to kill most people in EP4.
Also, some background about Genji. He and Kinzo grew up together in Taiwan, kinda as friends/rivals. Kinzo left after the Kantou Quake, and after the war, Genji seemed to fall on some rough times in the post-war chaos and had no place to go. And so Kinzo offered him a place, and Genji is all super grateful. Also, apparently when the two are alone, sometimes the formalities drop and they go back to old times.
And, wow, Genji is the same age as Kinzo? I always thought Genji was younger. But, in those flashback images that pre-date the 1923 earthquake, they look like they're in their late teens, so Genji and Kinzo are both probably about 80-ish in 1986.
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Let's pick Ep 1. We don't see the scene in which Beato turned into butterflies and entered in the room but Maria said that's what she did.
In short the magical scenes would be merely a visual expansion on how the reader pictures a scene described in the tale through Maria's eyes.
So she can say that the stake appeared in Jessica's room because ordered by Beatrice. Kanon, that was with her, tried to protect her but Beatrice's magic is too strong so the two of them had no hope to win.
After all Maria is consistently declaring stuffs to be done by Beatrice's magic... and it's possible that if a reader read the first message/Ep1 he was at first left in disbelief but then, when reading Ep 2 he might start wondering if Maria's explanation is the one possible and ending up developing her suggestions in a full fantasy scene.
Interesting enough if I'm not wrong we don't see the fantasy for the first twilight but we see the one for the second... for which PieceBattler will try his best to refuse the most obvious solution (Kanon killed Jessica and left).
[though there's to say PieceBattler might have been influenced by the Meta in which Kanon was declared dead... as in Ep 2 the two seem to be thightly connected... funny enough in Ep 4 they're not as Beato says PieceBattler couldn't hear her but MetaBattler could]
If I can ask any other info about how Beato knew the truth about Battler's birth? Or how Ange seemed to know it (at least to me) in Ep 4?
Oh and I also have something to say about Ep 7 manga version though maybe people here know this already...
Have you ever wonder if there was a reason for the manga to cut the scene in which Battler places his tale with Beato in the grave?
Well, there's one. The scene isn't in the magazine version of the manga... but was later added at the beginning of EP7 volume version.
And about Ep 7... it's something I've been wondering but that probably will remain without an answer.
We learnt what happened on the military base by Kinzo.
Kinzo however wasn't present when the Japanese soldiers tried to kill the Italians with a grenade that didn't explode and, apparently, didn't have the time to talk with a Japanese soldier and have the retelling of what had happened.
Beatrice is also not present and when she asked Rubens what was going on he refused to tell her.
That's real that Yamamoto mentioned the failure of a surprise attack with the grenade so Kinzo might have guessed how things went... but it's also real we've a red saying it was Kinzo who suggested to steal the Italian gold...
And, interesting enough, when all the shooting happened Kinzo was someplace away...
So what if it wasn't Yamamoto who started everything but Kinzo, suggesting to his companions to attack the Italians and then handing them a granade that didn't work in hope they would try and kill each other?
Likely he didn't believe they would manage to kill so many Japanese, just that they would kill some and then get killed.
If the Italians were to get killed the gold would remain to the Japanese, and if the Japanese were less... well when they would have to share the gold the portions would be bigger, wouldn't they?
After all he apparently doesn't know the Italians are so good... on the other side he might have even gone around killing unsuspecting surviving Japanese so as to put the blame on the Italians and take the gold all for himself...
And this plan would mirror Ep 7 Teaparty as getting rid of everyone with which she could have to share the gold was Kyrie's way to solve the problem... only with Kyrie it seems over the top because we assume Kyrie and Rudolf should have felt some affection for family members (Kyrie even considered killing Battler) and it seems a plan with low chances to work... while Kinzo has no attachment for the other Japanese soldiers. They're not his relatives and they bullied him.
Also we know he successfully managed to likely put the blame for everything on the Italians and keep the gold for himself.
So maybe Ep 7 Teaparty wasn't an hint on what happened on Rokkenjima in 1986 but on what happened on it when Kinzo got the gold...
Just wondering... and I still think that:
1) the whole story about Italians hiding gold in Japan is pretty absurd and a plot contrivance
2) more or less I think the same as Kinzo managing to survive with Bice, not being suspected by the army and managing to get all the gold... although since Japan was probably in deep troubles back then this has a chance to be more believable than (1) or Kyrie's plan (in fact Kinzo could count on the fact they wouldn't investigate too much on who shoot who as they litterally had no time for it... and could probably hope no one would be sent on Rokkenjima again as, due to how things were going, there was no use for it... and since Japan was about to lose the war he could also assume American wouldn't feel the need to investigate on what had happened in the place... and anyway he had gold with which he could bribe them)
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Agenda GLD-WG telecon 18 August 2011
Thursdays 14:00-15:30 UTC (10:00-11:00 Boston, 7:00-8:00 San Francisco, 15:00-16:00 London, 16:00-17:00 Paris) Teleconferences (official participants and invited guests only): Zakim Bridge +1.617.761.6200, or sip:email@example.com then conference code 45394# ("GLDWG") IRC channel: #gld on irc.w3.org on port 6665 An agenda is sent 24 hours in advance; minutes follow within a day or two.
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- Chair: Bernadette Hyland
- Scribe: Ron Reck volunteered (see GLD Mtg Scribes)
- Alternates: Richard Cyganiak (not present)
This is our fifth telecon.
The agenda for this meeting will be:
- Preliminary items (~15 minutes):
- Chat Agents in Room
- Scribe present (see Minutes Publishing How To)
- New Member Introductions
- A couple/few new W3C members & IEs have joined the GLD-WG - present today?
- Who's present?
- Confirm everyone access the GLD-listserv?
- Confirm everyone access the Wiki pages?
- Proposal to accept the minutes from the previous meeting
- Review Tracker Actions, Issues
- Announcements
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- Poll for next F2F at DERI, Galway Ireland in January 2012. Please vote by 30-Aug-2011.
- Review of 3 core Deliverables (~35 minutes)
- Community Directory - Charter 2.1
- Prototype Requirements - meeting update and next steps
- Prototype Status
- Standard Vocabs - Charter 2.3.2
- Cube Vocab discussion. Check Poll for Vocab discussion. See George's email 15-Aug-2011 subject "Cube Vocab Discussion Doodle Poll" for more info.
- Procurement Charter 2.2.2
- ("CO's Guide to 5-Star Data" page) - John Sheridan, George Thomas, Bernadette Hyland added to task force. Others??
- Provenance Interchange WG interesting in a GLD WG Liason. Stephen Cresswell (UK TSO) is POC.
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- Community Directory - Charter 2.1
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- 2.3.3-4,5
- who is working on these?
- Status of:
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I recently got all 5 varieties of Vintage Italia's Pasta Chips… I must admit that the idea of a pasta chip, intrigued me, though I didn't think the various flavors of pasta could be duplicated in a chip – which resembles a cracker more than it does a chip; I certainly was in for a surprise!
I tasted some of them and so far between the Garlic Olive Oil (which I liked a lot!), the Mediterranean Sea Salt and the Marinara, the Marinara Pasta Chips are my favorites, I still have two more flavors to go. Made from Durum Wheat and Semolina Flour these chips are oven baked and not fried. Each flavor was inspired by seasoning used in different areas of Italy. With 60% less fat than regular potato chips, they are destined to become a new favorite. The hechsher is from the OU and are considered dairy. You can find them at: pastachips.com
I tried the marinara chips with a dill dip and found the combination delightfully delicious
Buon appetito!


text: I just updated the project page, just in case. https://www.brmlab.cz/event/project_night /mario On 24 Sep 13, at 22:28, Mario Lombardo wrote: > Hmm pity :( So the only other option this has is to either wait 3-months (campaign will be over and tool will probably be more) or see if other members want this via the list, or can I present this next Tuesday evening? The campaign will still be running till 7.10.2013 > > /mario > > > On 24 Sep 13, at 22:25, Pavel Ruzicka wrote: > >> The proposal was not voted because nobody came to present that idea. >> Other presented projects got funds they asked for. >> >> ruza >> >> On 09/24/2013 10:08 PM, Mario Lombardo wrote: >>> Wow! So bad timing, hmm? I didn't make it tonight. Does that mean we can't approve such a purchase for three more months? I was trying to do things a little more organically, like solicit the email list and fund from there. Project proposed at project night could have their own funding, so it could mean 2x the funding. >>> >>> Regardless, I'm still interested and committed to this idea if anyone else wants to contribute, or perhaps I got lucky, that the project was funded tonight? I'm crossing my fingers ;) >>> >>> zatím >>> /mario >>> >>> On 23 Sep 13, at 18:34, Pavel Ruzicka wrote: >>> >>>> actually 24.9. is a great day for making presentation about your idea. >>>> The event called Project night [1] is planned and purpose of it is to >>>> discuss how to fund presented projects. >>>> >>>> I've already added your talk to the event program. >>>> >>>> [1] https://www.brmlab.cz/event/project_night >>>> >>>> ruza >>>> >>>> On 09/23/2013 05:20 PM, Mario Lombardo wrote: >>>>> Ahoj moji BRMlaby bratři a sestry! >>>>> >>>>> Is anybody interested in donating some extra cash to BRMlab to get this for May 2014? The deadline of the campaign is in 15-days. I can donate 1.000,- Kč If 19-more people do this, we can buy a do-it-yourself model. The 3D printer in the lab is a great proof-of-concept and a wonderful hack, but I'm not proposing a project or a hack. I'm proposing buying a reliable tool. The project boasts that it will be open hardware and software, so if this is true, we can make hacks for the platform as well. >>>>> >>>>> http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fabtotum-personal-fabricator >>>>> >>>>> So can we gather together and buy this? If we wish to discuss, I can arrange to come to the meeting tomorrow night, Tuesday 24.9. >> _______________________________________________ >> Brmlab mailing list >> Brmlab at brmlab.cz >> http://brmlab.cz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/brmlab >


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Nose to see you Camilla, say Maoris
The Duchess of Cornwall embraced Maori traditions when she rubbed noses with her hosts - despite the inconvenience of a wide-brimmed hat.
Camilla found her designer headpiece forced people to duck underneath it to perform the famous greeting known as a hongi.
The Duchess and Prince of Wales arrived in New Zealand late on Saturday evening, local time, and received a brief ceremonial welcome from a guard of honour as they began the final leg of their Diamond Jubilee tour.
The following day in the Auckland War Memorial Museum the royal couple were greeted by elders from the city's main tribe Ngati Whatua in the building's Hall of Memories where the names of Auckland's Second World War dead were inscribed.
The shrill sound of a karanga - call of welcome - went up from Puawai Rameka when Charles and Camilla first arrived and Hiria Hape dressed in a feathered cloak replied for the royals. The call can only be performed by women and the plaintive sound is seen as a connection between the past, present and future.
The ceremony saw the Prince and Duchess' entourage, led by minister of Maori affairs Dr Pita Sharples, sit opposite senior figures from the Ngati Whatua tribe headed by elder Grant Hawke.
Songs were sung by the two groups and speeches were made by senior figures from both sides in Maori and Charles tried speaking the language. At the end of the ceremony the Maori affairs minister gestured to the royals to meet their Maori hosts and Charles performed a hongi with Mr Hawke, his nephew Tai Aha Hawke stood next to him and other guests.
As a seasoned visitor to New Zealand the Prince had no problem pressing his forehead and nose against his hosts'.
But Camilla's black hat by Philip Treacy, which matched her Anthony Price two-piece suit, proved an obstacle. She hesitated at first when she approached Mr Hawke then gingerly touched noses with him, when she tuned to his nephew she was getting the hang of it and he crouched down to greet her.
Grant Hawke said afterwards: "the Duchess said, 'You can get under my hat' and I said, 'It's a bit hard to get under your hat'. Luckily she didn't have a flat nose like mine."
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