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WORCESTER, Mass. - The MIT women's basketball team fell to WPI, 56-36, in NEWMAC action on Saturday. With the loss, MIT drops to 4-17 overall and 0-11 in conference play.
Although both teams got off to a sluggish start, WPI posted a 14-6 lead halfway through the opening frame. MIT then went on a 14-2 run over the next 7:30, resulting in a 20-16 advantage following a steal and lay-up by Christa Margossian. WPI responded with five unanswered points, taking a 21-20 edge at halftime.
WPI scored the first hoop of the second stanza, but a trey from Joanna Natsios tied the game at 23. A basket by WPI's Lee Helberg was matched by Sharon Prange. Another Helberg hoop with 15:42 leftgave WPI the lead for good.
Karen Kinnamanfinished witheight points, eight rebounds, three steals and two blocks. Sharon Prange posted eight points as well while Christa Margossian added seven.


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Billy Currington Ditched as Charlotte Motor Speedway Performer
More troubles for Billy Currington. The singer, who had a rough week as the result of being charged with making terroristic threats and abusing an elderly person, has been dumped as the pre-race entertainment at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Currington was booked to perform as the pre-race act at the All-Star event scheduled to for May 18 in Charlotte, N.C.
Charlotte Motor Speedway President Marcus Smith did not conceal the fact that the high profile arrest was the reason that Currington is being replaced. Josh Turner, who has a much more squeaky clean image, to say the least, will perform in his stead.
So it's Billy Currington out and Josh Turner in.
In addition to being arrested, having to post nearly $28, 000 in bond money, facing one to five years in jail for the felony charges and the general embarrassment and rumors that stem from this situation, Currington is losing gigs because of it. His actions and the media coverage of the incident are certainly hitting the singer where it hurts -- his wallet.
The arrest relates to a messy incident between Currington and a boat captain, who may have passed too closely to the singer's property. It's a real "he said, he said" situation and you can read the details here. Essentially, the two engaged in a verbal and almost physical altercation.

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Man pleads guilty to theft of winning $1 million scratch-off ticket
A Wilmington man charged with the theft of a winning lottery ticket that his wife claimed pleaded guilty this month to stealing the ticket from the gas station where he worked. Sean Mewherter, 21, pleaded guilty Feb. 13 in Brunswick County Superior Court to felony larceny by an employee. In lieu of five to 15 months in jail, Mewherter received 24 months of probation and a $316 fine. In July, Mewherter's wife Mikala Fields took a $1 million winning 20X… Read More »


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St. Luke adds 2 new therapists
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St. Luke Hospital has added two therapists — physical therapist Jamee Funk and occupational therapist Nicole Sampson — to its physical therapy department.
Funk always was interested in a career in health. At first she wanted to become a surgeon, but then she had knee and foot surgeries, and the experience gave her an interest in physical therapy.
"I realized I saw my physical therapist more than my surgeon," Funk said.
She wanted to have more time with patients, and that attracted her to physical therapy.
Funk received a bachelor's degree in exercise science and a doctorate in physical therapy from Wichita State University. The work for the doctorate included a pair of four-week clinical rotations after the second year. The entire third year was three 10-week clinical rotations.
While completing one of her rotations in McPherson, Funk made connections with St. Luke, and she learned about an opening at the hospital.
She enjoys being at a rural hospital, because she doesn't get stuck doing any one thing for too long.
"I get to see a variety of things on a daily basis," Funk said.
The addition of Funk gives St. Luke two full-time physical therapists for the first time.
Like Funk, Sampson knew before college that she had an interest in health care. While working on her bachelor's degree in biology at McPherson College, she job-shadowed an occupational therapist, and she liked the experience enough to pursue a master's degree. She received her master's degree from St. Francis University in Pennsylvania.
Sampson likes the focus occupational therapy puts on patients' quality of life. Occupational therapy works hand-in-hand with physical therapy, she said. While physical therapy focuses on things like range of motion, occupational therapy focuses on how those things affect a patient's daily life. Part of occupational therapy is finding ways to overcome physical limitations that make things like getting dressed difficult.
Occupational therapy also covers memory. If a stroke patient has difficulty remembering emergency contact information, an occupational therapist might put together a list for the patient to keep by the phone, Sampson said.
Both Funk and Sampson said they enjoyed working in St. Luke's new physical therapy facilities.


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England appear to have found a future national treasure in the shape of Ross Barkley.
The 19-year-old has made a fantastic start to the Premier League season with Everton, benefiting from the arrival of Roberto Martinez and loan spells in the Championship.
His impressive form has already led to international recognition, with Barkley coming off the bench in a World Cup qualifier against Moldova at Wembley.
Admiring glances haven't been slow in coming the teenager's way, with two of the Premier League's biggest teams linked with a move.
Manchester United were the first to reportedly begin courting the player, and reports at the start of the month claimed manager David Moyes was considering a £20million swoop.
The Scot is well aware of Barkley's talents from their time together at Goodison Park, although Moyes was seemingly reluctant to get the midfielder in the first team.
Now in charge of the Red Devils, his interest appears to have been peaked in the player, and a move would come just months after Marouane Fellaini followed his manager to Old Trafford.
Defender Leighton Baines has also been linked with a move to Manchester United from the Toffees.
The link to Chelsea is more recent, with reports at the weekend claiming Jose Mourinho wants to launch a £20m bid for the player in January.
In recent times, the Blues have become a hot-bed for young talent from around Europe, with the likes of Kevin De Bruyne, Oscar and Andre Schurrle finding a home at Stamford Bridge.
One thing the Blues lack is high-quality English youngsters, with Josh McEachran and Nathaniel Chalobalah a long way off the first team. And, with the careers of Frank Lampard and John Terry beginning to wind down, a homegrown young player would certainly be welcomed in west London.
That's not an area of concern for Manchester United, but they should be worried about dropping away from the league's other top clubs in the transfer market.
Under Sir Alex Ferguson, the champions became a dominant force in English football, and were able to attract the very best players to the club ahead of others.
The summer transfer window suggested that, perhaps, that's not the case anymore in Europe at least.
One way to get round that is to snap-up the best young talent England has to offer, and Barkley certainly falls into that category. Alongside Wayne Rooney, Michael Carrick and Tom Cleverley, he could flourish at Old Trafford.
With two goals in nine Premier League appearances so far this term, Barkley has laid down a marker that he'll now be expected to match on a regular basis. And, scouts will be watching to see if he can maintain that level until January.
If he does, then the speculation over a move will only get louder, and it's certainly in the interest of Manchester United to win this particular race.


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"The Indiana Pacers, the team Harrington left in a sign-and-trade two years ago to join the Hawks, and the Golden State Warriors are the teams making the most noise, Harrington said. "I have a genuine interest in both of those teams," he said.
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there is the link to a rumor that has Indiana and Golden State in the running for Al Harrington.
I wouldn't mind getting him. But he wasn't my first choice....
Al Harrington to GS?
Discuss anything related to Golden State Warriors basketball here
Moderators: Mr. Crackerz, JREED, Guybrush, 32
I like him. He'd make us a better team inmediately. But, if Indy is interested, it's going to be a war. The team that offers more, gets Harrington, and the offer also has to be good enough for Atlanta, as it will have to be a sign and trade.
It's gonna be interesting.
It's gonna be interesting.
How about Anthony Johnson and Austin Croshere, Croshere is a expiring contract that will give them money next off season when there will be better free agents. Plus he would be a good locker room guy for one season for a young team. I just want Murphy and Jo to play together I believe they would complement each other very well.
drfrank wrote:indy just lost peja. they have nothing to show for letting artest go. they'll get harrington...
I don't want Harrington. He is good but Murphy is better for the team I reckon. Better off getting a SF that is more allround than Harrington


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Returning to our matrix A, we find that the condition number of the exponential is very large: 1.6x1015. The product of the condition number and unit roundoff is about 1.7x10-1so it looks like both algorithms were actually performing quite well.
[1] N.J. Higham The scaling and squaring method for the matrix exponential revisited, SIAM J. Matrix. Anal. Appl., 26 (2005), pp. 1179-1193.
[2] A.H. Al-Mohy and N.J. Higham A new scaling and squaring algorithm for the matrix exponential, SIAM J. Matrix. Anal. Appl., 26 (2009), pp. 970-989.


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German bombs are not once more falling on Birmingham, the U.K.'s second city, violently reconfigured by the Luftwaffe during World War II, but Europe's turbulence is waging a Blitzkrieg on Britain's economy. On the third day of the Conservative party's four-day fall convention in the city, the International Monetary Fund ratcheted its forecast for the U.K. downwards, envisaging that the economy will contract by 0.4% this year and enjoy only the spindliest of growth in 2013. So on Oct. 10, the final day of the convention, Prime Minister David Cameron channelled his country's wartime premier Winston Churchill as he took to the stage to give the leader's speech. He was somber. He wore a funereal black suit and purple tie and stood stock still at the lectern, eschewing the shirt-sleeved, note-free, podium-pacing informality that had won him plaudits at earlier party conferences (a style annexed, to widespread applause, by Labour leader Ed Miliband at his own party's gathering a week earlier.) Despite the IMF's warning that pressing on with planned budget cuts might further stifle growth, Cameron signalled his determination to continue with deficit reduction policies he believes essential to restore British competitiveness. "The truth is this," he intoned. "We are in a global race today and that means an hour of reckoning for countries like us."
"Sink or swim," he continued. "Do or decline." Pull together or pull us down. He didn't utter those last words, but his call to unity in adversity was clarion. As is often the case with politicians' keynote appearances, the messaging was carefully calibrated to appeal simultaneously to different audiences: the broad electorate including floating voters (what Americans would refer to as "independents"), the media, the base. Cameron requires the elasticity of a circus contortionist to span the chasms between these constituencies, but some of the deepest divisions are in his own ranks. "To meet the challenges our country faces, we must have confidence in ourselves, confidence as a party," he told delegates.
(VIDEO: TIME Interviews PM David Cameron)
As the self-proclaimed "heir to [Tony] Blair," Cameron did his best before the 2010 elections to remake Britain's stuffy, traditionalist Conservative party, once memorably dubbed by the current Home Secretary Theresa May the "nasty party," into an approximation of Blair's New Labour: a broad church, centrist, business-friendly but supportive of poorer segments of society, socially liberal, electorally potent. If he had managed to match New Labour on that last point, he'd be finding it easier to persuade mutinous Tories on the right of the party to tolerate dangerously modish ideas such as curbing climate change or maintaining Britain's commitment to aid developing countries or, pass the smelling salts, legislating for gay marriage. Instead, he failed to win an overall majority and is locked until 2015 into a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, a party brimming with exactly such ideas. His most difficult balancing act is to give his coalition partners enough to pacify their members whilst assuaging demand in his own ranks for a return to an older Conservative branding.
That demand expressed itself ahead of the conference in a sudden rush among members of Cameron's front bench team to express the opinion that the current 24-week time limit on abortions is too lax, even though the government has no plans to amend existing abortion legislation. At the conference itself, one of the fringe meetings to draw the biggest crowds was organized by a pressure group called the Coalition for Marriage. Speakers including the former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey drew American-style whoops and hollers for their denunciation of the government's aim to enable same-sex marriage. Cameron's recent Cabinet reshuffle had given Tory traditionalists room to hope that he was in the process of repositioning his troops. Owen Paterson, the new Secretary of State for Environment, is a climate change skeptic; Maria Miller, freshly promoted to the dual positions of Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Minister for Women, was one of those to call for a reduction in the abortion time limit to 20 weeks; her colleague Jeremy Hunt, just installed as Secretary of State for Health, declared a desire to fully halve the limit to 12 weeks. It looked like a shift to the right. But Cameron used his conference speech to restate his pitch for the political center ground. He said:
This party has a heart, it has a great heart, but we don't like wearing it on our sleeve. Conservatives think: let's just get on with the job and help people and not bang on about it. It's not our style. But there's a problem with that. It leaves a space for others to twist our ideas and distort who we are: the cartoon Conservatives who don't care.
My mission from the day I became the leader of this party was to change that. Yes, to show the Conservative party is for everyone: North or South, black or white, straight or gay.
(MORE: Not Exactly Ruling Britannia: David Cameron Fails British History Test on David Letterman's Show)
The applause for this point was polite, not deafening. An unscientific survey in the cafes and bars, fringe meetings and exhibition stalls of the party conference in the days before Cameron spoke suggested that many Conservatives worry that the coalition with the Liberal Democrats risks diluting Conservative values and in so doing damaging Tory electoral hopes. While opinion polls show floating voters switching allegiance to Labour in protest at the coalition's budget cuts, more than a trickle of rightwingers are deserting the Tories for the euroskeptic, traditionalist U.K. Independence Party. Among the remaining Tory loyalists who turned out for the conference in Birmingham, there were concerns that the government's focus on "trendy politics" could divert attention from efforts to secure economic growth.
Until those efforts bear fruit, the government may indeed wish to divert attention, and Cameron's pledge to bring in same-sex marriage before the end of this Parliament has certainly caught the eye. Moreover, such measures are in the government's gift to deliver, unlike economic recovery, which depends on other countries and electorates too. Look beyond the objections to gay marriage and the sudden concerns about abortion, and the yen among Tories to yank their party back to the sort of social conservatism espoused by a significant strain of U.S. conservativism appears limited.
At a panel discussion on the U.S. elections, some delegates actively challenged Mitt Romney's opposition to gay marriage and his mixed messaging on abortion. More significantly, an informal show of hands revealed that only a handful of the audience hoped to see him replace Barack Obama. The perception that the Conservative party leadership also favors the current White House incumbent is so strong that the Foreign Secretary William Hague felt the need to tour TV studios and conference receptions assuring listeners that the special relationship will endure, at least from the British end, no matter who is elected on Nov. 6.
The truth is that despite headline differences on stimulus spending, in several respects, including social attitudes, many British Tories do feel more in common with Democrats than with the G.O.P. Health care is an obvious example. "This is the party of the NHS [Britain's free-at-the-point-of-delivery National Health Service] and that's the way it's going to stay," insisted Cameron from his podium. Though he aims to push through radical—and controversial—reforms to the NHS, he is pledged to maintain it. The mainstream of the British Conservative party supports a model in which health and other services are funded by taxation, even if they inveigh against "dependency culture" and bemoan inefficiences and unfairnesses. Cameron's severely disabled son Ivan, who died aged 6 in 2009, was the beneficiary of taxpayer-funded care. As he spoke of Ivan, while lauding London's Paralympic Games for helping people to see "the boy, not the wheelchair," his voice broke and tears welled. It was a rare show of vulnerability from a politician more usually inclined to a patrician stiff upper lip.
After Cameron left the stage, the conference's special guest, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg obligingly compared his host to Churchill:
We all know these are difficult times," Bloomberg said. "The shifts in the global economy have presented leaders with tough choices on spending and taxes, on managing deficits and on unleashing the forces of innovation. From everything I've seen, the U.K.'s first coalition government since Churchill is meeting these challenges head on.
Bloomberg is a Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent. Churchill moved between the Conservative and Liberal parties. Cameron is trying something similar, but by broadening his party rather than changing parties.


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As race organisers love to tell us, this is a day when the race can't be won but can certainly be lost. The first long and hotly contested climb is sure to see some of the contenders struggling to cope with the change of pace, but gaps between them should be in seconds rather than minutes based on what happened here in 2003. Gilberto Simoni blew the race apart when the gradient kicked up 7km from the finish, but the Terminillo's ramps weren't tough enough for "Gibo" to build a significant advantage.
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Stefano Garzelli stuck with Simoni and eventually outsprinted him in 2003. This could be the 2000 winner's final Giro appearance. Past experience and a still impressive sprint could pay off for the 36-year-old Acqua e Sapone team leader, who showed fine form to win Tirreno-Adriatico in March.
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Virginia Governor Tim Kaine is predictably pushing once again for a comprehensive statewide smoking ban. Not so predictably, he's teamed up with the owners of Clarendon's Liberty Tavern to launch his campaign:
This year, he believes momentum is on his side. At a news conference Tuesday at a Clarendon tavern, Kaine said the public is increasingly supportive of such bans…
Stephen Fedorchak, owner of The Liberty Tavern, the restaurant where Kaine held his news conference, said he has been in the business long enough to know smoking was once entrenched in bars and restaurants. But those days have passed, he said.
He said he does not regret the decision to ban smoking in his restaurant and said these days "smokers are somewhat used to going out in a … fresh-air environment" and no longer assume they will be allowed to light up.
I was something of a regular at Liberty when it opened in 2007 and nearly became an employee (they offered me a job, but I wasn't comfortable with the time commitment). It was an unofficial home for many libertarian-minded people in the area and was among the handful of bars I revisited when back in town last month. That, however, was my last beer there. I sent them the following letter this afternoon:
I was disappointed to hear today that Liberty Tavern is teaming up with Governor Kaine to push for a statewide smoking ban. I'm happy that you've chosen to make your business smokefree and have found customers who welcome the clean air. You've set an admirable example for other Virginia businesses. So please, leave them free to try it on their own. It's a sad irony that a place called the "Liberty Tavern" is now attempting to force its policy onto every other bar and restaurant in the state.
Though I've enjoyed the food and drink at your bar in the past, I value my freedom of choice even more. From now on when I'm in Virginia I'll be exercising mine at Arlington's many other worthwhile establishments.
Their email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. Take a minute to let them know how you feel.
For an alternative bar, try out EatBar and Tallula if you haven't already been. Liberty Tavern's only real advantage over this nearby competitor is proximity to the Metro. EatBar's food is the equal or better of anything at Liberty, the beer selection is bigger and better, the wine list is far larger, and the crowd features fewer lame young professionals. Even if you don't like the fact that they allow smoking in the small back room, you can appreciate that they don't think every other restaurant in Virginia should be forced to do the same.
One other note on the proposed ban: Kaine is always careful to refer to this as a ban on smoking in "restaurants." Technically, that's true. That's because there is no such thing as a bar in Virginia. According to ABC regulations, all businesses that serve on-premise alcohol are required to sell significant amounts of food. Casual listeners are likely to interpret the proposal as a supposedly reasonable restriction on restaurants that leaves bars free to set their own policies. It's hard to view his word choice as anything but intentionally misleading. Since what he's really pushing is a smoking ban in all businesses, he should say so directly.
Update 1/7/09: Thanks to Radley Balko, former bartender and former smoker Jonathan Blanks, and Suetonius at Freedom and Shit for spreading the word. Good job!
Update 1/8/09: And now David Boaz at the Cato blog, Andrew Roth at the Club for Growth, and Caleb Brown at Catallaxy.
Update 1/9/09: Fr33 Agents threw in with the boycott, leading to coverage this morning at Washington City Paper's blog.
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Another moment would be when she confronts Komari and Riki, because the former was eating snacks on the grass outside of the lunchtime, then a follow up because of her shirt, until Yuiko arrives and save the day (which actually shows Kanata admiting she is a bit of a try hard).
Speaking of Kanata, I agree the way they handled her in Episode 15 was weird. Originally, A chan was the one who told the girls to pipe down. However, having Kanata missing not only an occasion to "abuse" Haruka, but also missing Riki's disguise despite being very sharp to begin with was just odd.
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I actually think she realized it was Riki but pretend she didn't know(and she's a girl too,I'm sure deep down she also enjoyed seeing it as much as the other).Kanata admitted in her route that she know about several of LB! group's activities like paper swordfight(as you already know,it's different in the VN),test of courage at night,kick the can .... but pretend she didn't know and let it slide.
And as for "abuse" Haruka at the scene,if she punished Haruka now,she would have to punish Kud,Komari and Kurugaya as well whom she has weak spot/respect for. And if she made a big deal out of it,she would also have to expose Riki's cross dressing and sneaked into female dorm in front of the entire school.
Riki's school like is screwed if that happened
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That's exactly the problem though: regardless if she "canonically" can recognize Riki or not, she usually doesn't care who are the bystanders when Haruka is involved.
So it isn't a matter how to make her fit the situation: to begin with, they shouldn't have tried to insert Kanata in there (or at least her cronies instead), unless they made Haruka go to the bathroom or something at that moment.
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Eh? I think she cared,especially when it come to Kud or Kurugaya.
But I agreed the scene isn't very fitting,then again it's the beginning of Haruka's arc, Kanata's appearance would make sense for anime-only viewers,it's like "ah,Kanata appeared alot in this ep,no doubt Haruka's story will be told next" or something like that.
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The problem is that she would only back off when Yuiko actually tells her to drop her too-serious stance. As for Kud, Kanata reveals her soft side only when nonsense isn't involved in there.
So really, the very first thing Kanata would do would have been "Again you, bunch of troublemakers. Especially you, Saigusa Haruka." etc etc.
I think the bigger problem I have with Kanata's presence is that she hardly is shown outside of Haruka's route. They really should have shown another scene with Kudo and her books in a previous ep, and perhaps that confrontation with Komari and Yuiko (that one is really what is missing, even if they made a sort of "nice" mood with Kudo in the last episode, but the timing is just too tight).
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Haven't play Haruka's route in a while but did Kanata ever pick on Haruka in front of any LB! members beside Riki in the VN or is it just the anime ?
Like the bench scene,there were no Rin and Komari in the VN but they put them there in the anime.I know they're trying to make the whole LB group involved and help Haruka rather than just Riki but honestly it only made Riki less impressive compare to his VN version while the whole anime's bench scene is like "Hey Haruka ! You got bullied and insulted but don't worry,you've got your friends who couldn't anything but watch right here with ya !" to me lol
As for that Kanata's scene with Komari and Kurugaya,isn't that Kanata's common route event(I've only played EX version and the last time I played,that scene still haven't got translated so I figured it was part of the new contents in EX) wouldn't it more appropriate for them to show it during Kanata's arc ?
It's feel like the director of this show is trying to cramp all the heroine's events in their arc and rush it instead of showing them one by one during the common eps
|2013-02-01, 17:57
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Actually, I have to read it once again, but Kanata never had the "chance" to show up in front of Haruka when there are other LB members. In fact, just like other routes, most basically vanish from Riki's sight, save Kudo due to her scenes with Kanata.
And no, that scene with Komari and Yuiko facing Kanata is from the original VN.
|2013-02-01, 19:13
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Seeing how it's getting licensed, I watched an episode.
And, I like that the background people actually look like anime , not like realistically weird Asian caricatures like they do in the game... I love Asians, but seeing a handful of mukoku seki (sic?) anime main characters in front of the realistically proportioned, short haired and small eyed human looking masses was extremely weird and annoying to me (I think all humans have extremely tiny eyes compared to the main characters in LB). And not funny, I think it was meant to be humorous, but it ends up just creating a huge unseemly art rift (especially when the Asians magically turn into mukoku seki anime characters for the event CGs).
|2013-02-02, 21:53
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As for Masato I feel like we're watching different shows here since more than one Masato has expressed annoyance towards Haruka when she appears in the classroom. If I have to I'll give you the times in the episodes, but I am fairly certain that this happened. If you feel that maybe they got the tone off, well I can't really say anything there.
Now I don't really remember Haruka's route well enough to comment too much here. But assuming that this anime has to cut to the chase a bit more than the VN, I think the approach they took is acceptable. Haruka was already shown in a previous episode to have difficulty dealing with Kanata after the vending machine incident and was emotionally unstable. Here it just came out stronger and I think that's fine.
I think a lot of what you're asking for is unrealistic for the anime's scope. The visual novel had the common route first, then the girl's routes. So we already had a good idea of every character's ticks and got plenty of foreshadowing like you are wishing for, but this only works in the VN. The anime has tried to spread out the common route stuff for the most part between the heroine's arcs, and honestly they haven't done too bad of a job IMO.
The sleep over episode brought back Kanata into the picture right before Haruka's route started back up and so it felt more natural for her to appear there.
Before Mio's route we had her introduction in episode 10 and her appearing at the end of episode 11 with a common route episode before segwaying into her arc. which spanned episodes 12-14 (Not just 13 and 14 s you said) I thought it worked out nicely.
Komari's arc I don't have much of a comment for because I thought it was clumsily done. Though her route was pretty crap to begin with personally. It did come in after her introduction though so it wasn't too unnatural though. Though I object to the claim that the episode revolving around the retirement home was not part of her route, it was clearly an episode focused solely on her and tied directly into her arc.
ANYWAYS, I do think you have a point (I'm not dismissing what you're saying, but I think you're exaggerating quite a bit), but I think beyond Komari's route we haven't quite seen any other real negative effects in the anime. Personally I thought Mio's route went quite well (And she is is my favorite LB heroine so I don't say that lightly), and I believe Haruka is off to a good start. I think the whole "girl of the week" appearance is just inevitable with any VN adaption that chooses to put all the girl's routes. I felt the same in Clannad, and especially in Kanon2006.
Of course somethings are always going to be lost because unlike the visual novel, we don't get all of Riki's internal narration. Obviously this makes reading the visual novel a smoother, more detailed, and wholesome experience. But from an adaption perspective I thought they captured quite well a little of both sides of Kanata so far.
Anyways, again I bring up the point with Haruka's character that we already had an earlier episode where she got harassed by the disciplinary committee, so I don't see a reason why we would need even more.
|2013-02-02, 22:04
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@Reckoner I think Klashikari was saying about Masato, that they didn't transfer over his true loathing of Haruka. Sure in the anime he shows moments of discontempt for her, but then in the latest episode we see him trying to cheer Haruka up and give her some marbles so that she'll feel better. Game Masato would never do that, especially since she pulled a prank that ended up ruining Kengo's kendo uniform and him blaming Masato for it until she confessed.
It becomes clear that these moments of him disliking Haruka are actually true loathing, not just joking, in her route. When Riki invites her into his dorm room to get an alarm clock so she can wake up on time, she snoops around playfully. Masato ends up getting extremely angry at her and yelling, then kicks her out the second she finds some clocks. She was trying to joke, but Masato obviously wouldn't have any of that.
|2013-02-02, 22:55
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That being said, it is more a matter or how they execute the comedy in very prominent way that makes people think they are watching something primarily comedy or something.
At this point, I have no idea if they will introcude Koshiki in there, and I wonder if they will play out "LB mode Kengo" at this rate.
Even for an open guy like Masato, he often states his displeasure towards her, even before Haruka does anything and that's in a calm and even serious way (aka pissed off). In the anime, it is more like a boke/exaggerated fashion, and undeniably less often.
It was a bit the same than with his fight against Yuiko: he was -really- pissed off to the point she is the only character, save Kengo, that he wanted to use a silly weapon to -directly- hit them. Afterwards, he considers Yuiko as a woman not to triffle with due to her skills and way to handle Rin etc, so half respec, half scared of her.
To give a better point in the whole mood, I would have expected a 10 sec short scene much earlier than episode 7. Aside of Kanata issue, Haruka was, as I explained, barely introduced before episode 7, so her antics didn't feel like a "daily troublesome mess".
It is even worse when baseball practice were skipped altogether (despite being the -main catalyst- of having such group) in favor for more silly antics taking full episodes.
Frankly, I didn't expect the full common route to kick in completely before engaging the girls route. Far from it. However, other adaptations proved that having a full intro and a third of the common route is -doable-.
Clannad had a proper intro for most heroines and even some extra before tackling Fuuko's route. And as much as I think they spent 1 ep too much on Fuuko, they definitely could squeeze many casual events as well as intro, for a cast of the same caliber as LB, even if it means that ep1 was quite fast for clannad.
That's why I kept repeating that the adaptation pace is a mess, as the "general pacing" is iffy slow, but they really jump left and right regarding the girls, leading to a lessened impact in general.
It is exactly a common route portion since it is a scene you can get regardless of the heroine you are aiming for, and contributes to Mio's characterization (and being a device for her route much later on).
Really my biggest gripe of the adaptation, pacing/content wise was the timing of Mio's intro and Komari's route, because these 2 were completely done upside down.
Simply speaking, it is similar to Mio's book scene: it is obviously focused on a specific heroine, but it doesn't go too deeply with them and does involve other characters for various reasons.
And surely Komari's route is one of the reason why I just don't like Tonokawa's writing at all.
OTOH, Riki is -way- too strong willed as of now. It just makes you wonder why the loops are necessary consering how reliable he was shown right from the get go (from suggesting a LB activity to other stuff).
That being said, I guess I'm way too used with the way how the voice acting was in the VN, because the differences are glaring to me: it isn't about the length of the speech etc, but the actual tones and slightly different words as well.
|2013-02-03, 00:17
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Ugh, I hate how episode 17 ended. I know the staff were going for a cliffhanger ending, but the full impact of the scene just doesn't work when it's split up like that. Either put everything at the end of this episode or the start of next episode. Not to mention how Futaki was caught immediately after like one minute instead of the gradual reader's realization in the VN that something was "off" about Haruka.
|2013-02-03, 01:53
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Okay... What the heck is the anime trying to do here???? They purposely make the viewer take notice that Kanata is spinning a pen with her right hand but they totally ignore that the point of knowing that piece of information is to help Riki realize that something is strange "Haruka." That along with the eggs and citric fruits, although citric is not mentioned. But instead of going along with those hints, the anime throws all that away and reveals right away (avoiding all buildup) that Haruka is being impersonated.... What the heck!? My favorite route just got butchered.
|2013-02-03, 02:17
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hahaha...I feel you,I was also looking forward to the switch and hoping that they made it less obvious than in the VN.
I followed closely with Haruka's behaviors in this ep thinking there might a hidden switch at some point but boooooom! the switch come and they didn't even bother to hide it
High expectation lead to high disappointment.
|2013-02-03, 02:50
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Well maybe you had high expectations but I highly doubt that I did.
They were obviously not going to go with the romance type scenes, although some of them could've been adjusted to fit the friendship style theme. And sure, they're doing that, but it's done so horribly that it feels like another version of Komari's anime route.
All I expected was a friendship version + decent execution.
It didn't even have to be great, just bearable. But it's not even that, since they're using a scene from the story that doesn't even have the prior buildup. Kanata impersonating Haruka doesn't even make sense anymore since Riki and Haruka don't even appear to be close friends. So why would it really matter if Kanata wants to impersonate Haruka? By removing all those scenes before the revelation of the other "Haruka," we don't even get to see Riki and Haruka become at least close friends. From the way Riki's and Haruka's relationship is portrayed, there is very little if any reason for Haruka to become upset.
Now, the anime is most likely going to something really original here. Maybe something like Haruka becomes pissed that Kanata is interacting with her friends. If that's what they're doing, they could've done a better job. We'll see next episode I hope...
|2013-02-03, 03:08
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Well,by high expectation,I mean for the twin switch part....I thought we were only talking about that part LOL
And yes,I agree this show have horrible execution,they've wasted too many precious time for common ep and just rush it in heroines arc....honestly did Key or Jun Maeda really overlook this ?
I don't wanna compare it to the VN anymore so I will just stop here.
But I hope they do the Rain scene well at least. And from the review, I think that part is where Haruka gonna bring her friends to confront Kanata so it sound like it will still be like in the VN but with more "audiences" lol
|2013-02-03, 06:01
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And one thing I don't get with the latest episode: why did they make Kanata surprised and drop the chiffon cake dish? It almost sounds like they messed up by adding Haruka's reaction
No really, even with VN knowledge, that reaction just doesn't make sense at all.
|2013-02-03, 06:07
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Or maybe instead because she saw the real Haruka right behind him, which would automatically blow her cover, so she fast forwards us to the part where Riki gets double vision.
|2013-02-03, 06:14
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No, considering how Suzuki voiced that line, Kanata was shocked to learn that Haruka tried a chiffon cake before, which is the one thing that doesn't make sense at all.
|2013-02-03, 06:22
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Before I reply, I should say I haven't played the game, but some of the replies I've read on the Episode 17 thread prompted me to check this thread out to see what differences there might be between the Haruka anime arc and the Haruka route in the game.
I thought it was an awesome scene. That being said...
1) In retrospect, I took it as Kanata being shocked that Haruka had already baked some food for Riki. Kanata then asks Riki if he likes "her" to determine if Haruka has already established herself as Riki's girlfriend.
2) While watching that specific moment when the plate was dropped, I honestly was (for a couple seconds) expecting Haruka to go "So... you were lying to me before. You didn't really like the food I baked for you before did you? So how can I trust what you and the Little Busters said to me yesterday? How can I know that you're not just pitying me, huh?!" And then for Haruka to run off in tears with Riki flailing to try to explain himself.
That expectation took hold in my mind very quickly... which made the Kanata reveal feel even more like the ultimate curveball to me.
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Police have not yet identified the person whose body was found Monday in a vehicle in a cornfield in southeast Sioux Falls.
The Lincoln County Sheriff's office was called for a report of a vehicle off the roadway near 69th and Bahnson, and deputies found a 53-year-old Sioux Falls resident deceased.
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Russian Premier League Wrap: CSKA held as Zenit open with victory
After clinching the title by just two points last season, CSKA were looking to make a statement of intent as they began their title defence away at the Stadion Central'nyj on Wednesday.
And things were looking good when Nigerian Ahmed Musa put them into a 24th-minute lead.
But the title holders were left shocked by their unfancied opponents in the second half when a double from Spartak Gogniev came them a 2-1 advantage.
WIth time running-out, it was left to Brazilian striker Vagner Love to rescue a point with just four minutes remaining.
Zenit St Petersburg are looking to reclaim the title they surrendered to CSKA and started their campaign with a 2-1 victory against Krasnodar at the Stadion Kuban on Wednesday.
Viktor Faizulin scored the opener in the 22nd minute, before Danny doubled their advantage before half-time.
Mauricio Pereyra pulled one back immediately after the re-start, but Zenit hung on to claim the points.
Guus Hiddink's Anzhi Makhachkala started their campaign with a 2-2 with Locomotiv Moscow at the Anzhi-Arena after a frantic end to the match on Sunday.
After a goalless opening period, Senegal attacker Dame N'Doye opened the scoring for the visitors just after the hour mark.
Their lead was shortlived, however, as strikes from Samuel Eto'o and Lacina Traore within the space of five minutes looked to have secured three points for Anzhi.
But with the game in injury time, former Tottenham Hotspur striker Roman Pavlyuchenko rescued a point for Locomotiv.
Amkar Perm top the table after one game, as they defeated Tom' Tomsk 2-0 at the Stadion Zvezda on Tuesday.
Two penalties from Bulgarian Georgi Peev inside the opening 10 minutes was enough to secure the three points for the home side.
Spartak Moscow, who achieved a fourth place finish last campaign, got off to a solid start with a 2-1 victory away to Krylya Sovetov at the Stadion Metallurg on Tuesday.
Alberto Costa and Yura Movsisyan sent the away side into half-time with a two goal advantage.
Luis Caballero's 61st-minute strike ensured a nervy final half-hour, but Krylya were unable to find the equaliser.
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The universe of Jewish cinema is a universe of memory, evocative of Amsterdam and Jerusalem, 1942 Paris and Nazi-occupied Warsaw. Its stories speak of crisis and faith, of alienation and belonging.
Many of these stories will be told in Palo Alto next month, when the 31st annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival comes to town.
The festival, with screenings in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto and San Rafael, comprises feature films, shorts, animation and raw, revealing documentaries, brought together in discussion of what it can mean to be Jewish, and what it can mean to create or see a Jewish film. What makes cinema Jewish? What makes cinema cinema?
The films include more traditionally historical offerings along with the stories of today, such as the 2010 drama "Polish Bar."
The time of "Polish Bar" is now, the landscape Chicago and its hustling, brooding underbelly. Reuben (Vincent Piazza) is the child of suburban respectability, a young Jewish DJ chasing his dreams of making it big -- but his tall ambitions and naivete leave him dealing cocaine out of the questionable strip club in the Polish Village neighborhood where he spins his beats.
Mired in theft and sleaze-laden nights that estrange him from his family, Reuben begins to lose control of the worlds that define his life, among them his relationship with his mother and stepfather, his uncle (Judd Hirsch), his dying grandfather and his Hasidic cousin Moises, who invites him to pray.
"I don't rocks the Orthodox," Reuben quips by way of refusal. Later he admits, "I just don't need all this pressure to be Jewish all the time," to which Moises replies: "You can't escape. We're everywhere."
The 96-minute film, like its music, is brave-talking and heavy-hitting, buoyed up by a defiant hip-hop energy that gives way seamlessly to otherworldly yet folksy songs sung in Hebrew. Modern, but in a way that remembers. Confident, but with painstaking attention given to each character's self-doubt. There's Tommy, Reuben's troubled and violent friend, and Ebony, a tough but vulnerable pole dancer. They add to a patchwork of stories, not especially Polish and not always intuitively Jewish. But then again, such stories may not have to be.
"Yes, it's possible to make a Jewish film, and yes, 'Polish Bar' is one," said the film's director, Los Angeles-based Ben Berkowitz, a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. "But films are never really one thing. It was more about making it good, making it honest. I tried very hard not to do a demographic because I'm more interested in the stories. I don't want to just see the happy parts. I want to see the conflicts, the struggle. And I'd hope that someone who is not Jewish would be able to watch and relate."
What is true of its sister films is undoubtedly true of "Polish Bar" itself: All is not necessarily as it seems. It's not a parable of childhood, but it is about growing up and coming to terms.
"There is no bar that's exactly like the Polish bar, but it's real," Berkowitz said. "People in 'Polish Bar' are all trying to be good, but the film is not an easy film. It's not a feel-good film. It's tough. It can be really heartbreaking."
Heartbreaking, yes. But what is most heartbreaking is also most reassuring, in particular at moments of a mother's insurmountable love, a stepfather's words of wisdom or an Orthodox cousin's honesty about family and faith. Ends are left untied, questions left unanswered.
And somehow, that's all right, with this film and others in the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. Maybe nobody knows what will become of the Jewish girl who has lost her mother and is taken in by a Gentile woman, the titular character of the wintry Polish drama "Joanna," at great danger to both woman and child in German-occupied Warsaw.
It also might be tricky to explain why political complicity, as detailed in the French World War II film "The Roundup," is so painful to talk about. And no one can say for sure if Romuald Jakub Weksler-Waszkinel -- Catholic priest, Jew and the subject of "Torn," an Israeli documentary -- will find true reconciliation between the seemingly antithetical halves of his religious identity.
"I had struggled all my life with what it meant to be a Jew if I didn't pray weekly, much less daily -- if I sometimes believed in God and sometimes didn't," Joseph Dorman, director of the American biographical documentary "Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness," said in a director's statement. "The important thing, in the end, is to wrestle with the ambivalences of identity. Only by doing so can we hope to hold on to our ever-shifting identities in any meaningful way."
The 29 films to be shown Aug. 1 to 7 at Palo Alto's Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, and the 58 festival films in total, seem not to be there to resolve uncertainties. Far from it. Collectively, they appear to make a case that uncertainties can be desirable, even crucial, as unknowability turns into possibility and possibility turns into inclusiveness.
The people inside the art are lovable clowns, traumatized youths, grandparents, matchmakers, seductresses and singers, and their stories are as tender as they are harrowing, as sweet as they are difficult. In some way or another, many of these stories have already been told. But perhaps they persist because they're worth telling again.
What: The 31st annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, with some screenings in Palo Alto
Where: Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto.
When: Local screenings are afternoons and evenings, Aug. 1 through Aug. 7. "Polish Bar" shows at 8:45 p.m. on Aug. 2.
Cost: Tickets are $12 general admission and $11 for matinees (4 p.m. and earlier on Monday through Thursday). Student and senior tickets are $10.50. A free Palo Alto screening of "Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness" is at 4 p.m. on Aug. 3.
Info: For more information, go to sfjff.org or call 415-621-0523 weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.


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VIDEO: Hayley Westenra - Pie Jesu [now HD and improved audio]
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Hayley Westenra sang Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Pie Jesu' yesterday before a huge audience at the National Memorial Day Concert in Washington DC. You can join in the discussion about it in the HWI forum, click here. Many thanks to HWI member TimJ for providing our initial video footage of this)
HWI member Bill R (amptique), who watched the concert as it happened, said:
Hayley's performance of 'Pie Jesu' was a perfect finish to the very emotional story of a young woman's quest to learn about her father who was killed in Vietnam . Then to follow her performance with the lone bugle playing taps was very powerful. In my opinion, Hayley had the most difficult part of the concert to perform and she was outstanding.
We can now show you that entire 19 minute 'Vietnam' segment, it is very moving and it culminates in Hayley's performance of Pie Jesu, followed by the lone bugler. The people involved are: Michelle Baugh, daughter of Richard Githens who died in Vietnam when she was a baby, and his fellow soldier and friend Chuck Gregoire. Their moving story is told by Gary Sinese and actress AJ Cook. Needs a 1 mbps Internet connection to view at its best.
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This is Michelle Githens-Baugh, my father is Rich Githens, and I'm the woman who was in the front row, whose story was featured that night. Words cannot begin to describe the myriad of emotions that were going through me while the story was being played out. AJ and Gary did a truly amazing job. I believe I can speak for Chuck when I say we were both truly honored by the way they brought our story and Dad's story to life. It was so very well done, so beautifully done and with such compassion.
I thought I could take a deep breath when it was "over", but then Hayley took the stage. I need to say at this point that the previous day Hayley asked my son and I if she could accompany us to The Wall, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and we were honored to have her with us. I guess I had no idea why she really wanted to go. I realized later that she wanted to get a feel for the Memorial and the names etched on it.
As she began to sing, my heart responded in a way I simply can't explain, her voice, the words, the song, everything about it, spoke to me. Thank you for your beautiful song Hayley, thank you for meeting my father, for your visit that day...everything about that night was amazing, but that song just pulled at my heartstrings and spoke to my heart in a way...well, my reaction wasn't expected. Thank you for allowing me to show my love for my father in a way I usually don't. You are a truly beautiful person, inside and out! You have a gift that makes people open their heart!
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Usually, when I read about schizophrenics, people with Aspergers or OCD, or Hypomania, or depression, or toxic shock syndrome, or catscratch fever, I end up thinking: I'M LIKE THEM.
Today I had the good fortune of feeling that way about one of my ultimate mom style icons: Patti Smith. NY Times' fashion arbiter Ruth La Ferla dedicated an article in praise of Smith's unique style. Okay, so Smith is wearing an Ann Demeulemeester jacket and boots given to her by Johnny Depp during the interview. And I, currently, am not.
But it's Patti who confesses "I decide ...whether I want to comb my hair... When my mother would say, 'You should shave your legs,' I would ask, 'Why?' I didn't understand why we had to present a different picture of ourselves to the outside world." La Ferla also discusses how Patti "refined her expertise, combing the Salvation Army store in Camden, N.J., near her home." (Jersey folks, check it out)
So today, I'm feeling not like I have meningitis, but Patti Smith's general sensibility when it comes to grooming. Praise the lord. It seems that her daughter, Jesse, who sometimes accompanies her mom on piano, has taken some style cues from the icon, as well.
Note the shruggy vest, with haphazardly placed accessories and scruffy black hair, on both Smith ladies. I have never been so available for adoption in my life.


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I want to thank the residents and businesses and snow removal crews in Tomahawk for helping the United States Postal Service deliver mail as close to our regular schedule as possible during these recent winter storms. Snow and ice not only make roads impassable, it also prevents entry to mailboxes. Our heartfelt thanks go out to everyone who helped clear path to the mailbox, including removing snow and ice from steps, porches, walkways and street approaches. This helped prevent injuries to our carriers and helped us maintain consistent delivery.
Please know our carriers are dedicated to providing you with prompt, accurate mail delivery – even during extreme weather conditions. Mountains of snow in front of mailboxes play havoc with mail delivery. When facing these hazardous conditions, sometimes your mail carrier cannot safely deliver your mail. When this happens, your carrier will bring your mail back to the Post Office and attempt to deliver the next business day.
Thank you for helping our letter carriers safely reach their appointed rounds during extreme weather conditions. We truly appreciate the efforts of our customers and local snow removal crews as they work to clear roadways and provide a safe approach to the mailbox.
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CGoban 1 is no longer under active development. Instead, I am working on CGoban 3 which is a port of the SGF editor of CGoban 1 to Java combined with a client for the KGS Go Server. It is missing the Go Modem Protocol adapter from CGoban 1 and the IGS/NNGS client from cgoban 1, but the SGF editor is a bit better (and of course the KGS client in it is much better than the IGS/NNGS client in CGoban 1). You can download it from the KGS web site.
CGoban ("Complete Goban") 1 provides a large set of go-related services for Unix and X11. A list of the functions that it provides:
CGoban is distributed in source code. It uses the Gnu autoconfig system and should be portable across all Unix/X11R4 or later systems.
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July 25, 2007
Yes. We have been involved in the past 10 years in insemination with processed semen from [serodiscordant] couples who wanted to conceive a child. Now, we also have studied, together with colleagues in the United States, the risk of transmission as a function of HIV viral load and semen. What I realized from 2000 onwards: All these couples that came in for treatment were very select couples, where the male [HIV-positive] partner was on a fully suppressive treatment. When we measured HIV in their semen, it was not existent at all. We couldn't find it. So I knew the risk of a transmission is very, very low.
Now, when we sent them, then, to the infertility clinic, this is a procedure that is quite time consuming. It's also costly. I started to ask myself whether this process is actually ethically correct. Then, in addition, I talked to Enrico Semprini, who was the first who started with the insemination [click here to view some of Semprini's publications].
Is this in Italy?
This is in Milan. And he followed ... About one third of the women who came for the first consultation would never show up for an insemination. And within Europe, all the centers have about one third no-shows, [these are people] who just don't follow up. Semprini followed up with them. And among the 500 couples, 250 are parents now.
So we realized we are giving a treatment for two thirds of the couples. About one third, or 40%, will get a baby. But the rest will do it [have unprotected sexual intercourse in order to conceive] by themselves.
We were sort of accepting that a major group of these clients, and all those outside of the program, were taking the risk and having unprotected sex. So we thought: It's okay. The risk is very, very low. It's probably in the range of one in 100,000, or one in one million. That's about the risk that you take when you mount an airplane.
We thought: Could we help these couples to reduce this, even very, very little risk? It's like wearing a seatbelt. We give them an additional safety. The additional safety is that we teach them just to have sex at the right time, when ovulation is happening (with a urine test).
Second thing: We make sure they don't have some asymptomatic chlamydia or other sexually transmitted diseases, because that increases the risk of transmission.
Then we make sure they are really stable, under a suppressive HAART. And the fourth point, which is probably the most important: We give a pre-exposure prophylaxis to the woman prior to the sexual contact -- the unprotected sexual act to conceive the baby.
We give them two doses of tenofovir [brand name: Viread; also known as TDF] at the time. When the urine test is positive [for ovulation], the next day, then the same evening, they have sex. Interestingly, the pregnancy rate in these couples is exceedingly high. After three unprotected acts, it's more than 50%. And it goes to a maximum, to a plateau, at around 70 to 75%.
I felt that is very interesting. It's certainly better than with the insemination practice, where we reach 40%. So I felt we should let people know about this experience.
Why did you choose tenofovir when the latest studies with chimpanzees showed FTC [generic name: emtricitabine; brand name: Emtriva] and tenofovir was better, or seemed to be a better prevention? My second question is: Why two doses, and not more, for a week? I know there are two days of ovulation, but it gives them more freedom.
Tenofovir has the advantage of a very, very long intracellular half-life that is about a week. So it is taken up over one or two days, and then it remains there at the place of action within the cells for a week. So that covers the risk period completely.
The question I have been asked at the poster discussion is: Why do you give it at all, since the risk is so low? I think that is probably the more relevant question. I think we give it to give a sort of psychological, additional argument, but I agree it's really a theoretically miniscule risk. And it's probably psychological. That would be the reason why I wouldn't go directly to a combination with FTC. But if you want to be more safe, safer than safe, that's fine.
I see. Because in actuality, we don't know whether the tenofovir did help at all in these couples. There's no way of teasing that out.
Of course. Right. We'll never find out.
How many couples did you do this with?
The ones that I recorded here [in this poster] are 22 couples. I also have, now, a collaboration with other clinics in Austria and Munich and in London. They are reporting that we're trying to get together a group of 35 or 40 couples. But it will never prove that there is no risk, because to prove that there is no risk is almost impossible, since we don't see any transmission from individuals with fully suppressed virus to the steady partner. There has been not a single case report worldwide.
But there haven't been any studies, so you can't ...
That's right. We know in the Swiss HIV cohort that approximately 150 to 200 [serodiscordant] couples always have unprotected sex, with fully suppressed virus, and they don't transmit.
In the Swiss cohort.
Yes. I'm sure it's the case with many, many other people. They just have sex. We see many new cases of HIV infection, but none of these new cases are associated with a sexual exposure to a partner on HAART with fully suppressed HIV.
Can you describe some of the illustrations in your poster?
|Sperm washing. Reprinted with permission from Pietro Vernazza, M.D., et al.
Now, through this procedure you get about 1% of the motile sperm, which also explains a little bit why this method doesn't work as well as natural conception. There are also other reasons.
|Pregnancy rates with natural conception. Reprinted with permission from Pietro Vernazza, M.D., et al.
That is sperm washing. In the other graph, I show the number of cycles, and the number of couples. All of the couples started with the first cycle, and 20% of the women got pregnant after one exposure or sexual contact. Then after three [cycles] it's 50%, and it mounts to the plateau of about 70 to 75%. Then even after repeated exposures, you see that these couples very rarely get pregnant. It would mean, probably, that these [couples] have other fertility issues. That also needs to be addressed. I think it's important. All the fertility clinics in Europe that have now gained experience with HIV-positive individuals, they actually can also help them [these infertile couples]. I think there is still a role for fertility clinics to teach HIV-discordant couples. But for the majority of couples who just want to conceive a child, the natural way is much simpler.
A question related to this concerns stigma in Europe. I know in the United States a lot of fertility clinics do not want to publicly acknowledge that they help discordant couples. Is this similar in Europe, or is it more open?
I think it's more open, but there is still this stigma around, and there are still some people who think HIV-positive people, or discordant couples, should not have a child. It's sort of a belief ... or, I don't know ... it may also have to do with punishment. They are responsible for their disease, and they should get punished. It's not the way we think about people who smoke. It's very special for HIV. I think we should try to work against this stigmatization.
I think you're definitely helping with this study, and with explaining how couples do not, necessarily, need the help of fertility clinics to have a baby.
One interesting experience I had during the interviews with the couples: When I asked the couples, "What do you think is the risk of transmission when you have sex tonight?" Their estimate was in the range between 5 and 100%, a little bit higher for the women than for the men. So we haven't really properly informed these couples about the very, very low risk.
Of unprotected sex when one partner who is HIV positive is undetectable.
Exactly. Exactly. They still keep this high risk in their brain, and we haven't really openly talked about the changes in the risk of transmission, which we obviously observe. I think it wasn't a favor to them, because we sent them to the infertility clinics. They had to go through all this trouble. But on the other hand, we know it's not necessary, but we don't tell them. So that, during these interviews, causes a lot of questions, like, "Why I haven't I been told?" It also helps when I can reassure the couple that the question of sexual transmission risk is something that I have been involved with for the past 15 years. I have studied that and done research on that. Otherwise it would probably be a little bit difficult.
But within a few years, I'm sure that knowledge will disseminate, and it will change the habit of everybody.
So what's the reluctance, do you think? In the United States HIV specialists feel reluctant to say that. I have heard them say, "Well, I know the risk is minimal, but I ..." Because I guess they fear being responsible if a transmission occurs. Also, I guess, the second issue is: What if the positive partner becomes detectable? If I'm negative and my partner is positive, and even though he was undetectable the last time he went to the doctor, there is a possibility that he was not adherent and there was some viral breakthrough, so that he becomes detectable. But I believe he's still undetectable. And he doesn't have to go to the doctor for another month.
I think that's a very good point, and that's why I think this discussion about risk and behavior -- how do we make decisions about our sexual life -- is something that belongs in a steady partnership. The program that I'm talking about here is for steady partnerships. It's not about just in general. If I'm living with a partner and she takes drugs for HIV, I know exactly her adherence. I know exactly her virus. I have been talking with her doctor and herself.
So that is a little bit different situation than having sex with a partner who just tells me, "I'm suppressed." So I think it would be smart to restrict unprotected intercourse to couples where the partners know each other very well. I think that's important.
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Large Internet organisations believe ideological and political motivations have become the single commonest motivation behind the DDoS attacks hitting their networks, a survey of major Internet firms by has found.
As expected, Arbor Networks' annual Infrastructure Security Report survey of 114 tier 1 Internet infrastructure firms, hosting companies and large enterprises found that DDoS attack size has edged up between 2010 and 2011, with 13 percent now reporting attacks sizes above 10Gbps.
If this is a levelling off on the attack sizes increases seen in previous year that probably has to do with attackers having found a sweet spot that overwhelms most defences without the need to grow larger still.
Nine out of ten said they'd seen at least one DDoS attack per month, up from about three quarters in 2010. Forty-four percent experienced 10 or more attacks per month, also up from the 35 percent mark.
A rising proportion of DDoS is now application-layer attacks while volumetric packet attacks have probably passed their zenith.
The surprise was the low ranking accorded to traditional extortion-related and competitive/business attacks, cited as a motivation only 18 and 19 percent of the time respectively, far behind 'political and ideological' which topped the anxiety table at 35 percent. 'Vandalism' came second on 31 percent.
This is an important development for large firms because ideological attackers are unlikely to cease DDoS after an objective has been achieved; fending off small groups of determined attackers on a more or less continuous basis could be the new normal.
"We think that what's changed is the speed at which companies can be targeted," said Arbor's EMEA solutions architect, Darren Anstee.
"It is not just the things [a company does] but the fact they are in a supply chain or a certain country," he said explaining what could turn an organisation into a target for ideologically-motivated DDoS.
The number of vendors reporting that a DDoS had taken down a firewall or Intrusion Prevention system was hardly changed year on year at the 40 percent mark.
Separately, DDoS defence vendor Prolexic published its Q4 2011 attack report, finding a shift to application layer DDoS and an average attack bandwidth of 5.2Gbps. Attack duration has dropped to 34 hours but this was offset by a large rise in packet-per second volume.
"Based on fourth quarter statistics, Prolexic predicts that 2012 will feature DDoS attacks that will be shorter in duration, but much more devastating in terms of packet-per-second volume," said Prolexic CTO, Paul Sop.
"Think of it this way. In the past, attackers had a rifle. In 2012, they have a machine gun with a laser site." Prolexic predicted this increase in PPS volume in its previous attack report and noted that attackers were changing their strategy.


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How Do Religious Moral Values Benefit Individuals and Society
Where am I coming from, where will I go? What is the meaning and purpose of my life? What is death like? Is it certain that there is life after death? Do Paradise and Hell exist? What is the origin of life? Where is our Creator? What does the Creator demand from us? How can I discern between right and wrong? Where do I find the answers to these questions?..
For ages, people have sought answers to these crucial questions, given serious thought to them and discussed them thoroughly. Yet, contrary to what is generally believed, in all ages, the most reliable answers to these questions have been provided, not by the philosophers, but by the "true religion" which is the revelation of Allah.
Many superstitious religions have attracted adherents throughout the world-shintoism, shamanism and paganism to name but a few. However, these superstitious religions are nothing more than a philosophy or a movement. Some, having merely a symbolic or cultural meaning, provided no social or psychological solutions to problems. Those who developed these superstitious religions also, too, thought about these crucial questions, yet they could never find reliable answers.
The most important feature of the true religions, which distinguishes them from false religions, is their Divine origin: they all have their roots in revelation. Allah informs mankind in the Qur'an about the superiority of the religion of truth over all other religions, philosophies or sociological systems:
It is He Who sent His messenger with guidance and the religion of Truth to exalt it over every other religion, and Allah suffices as a witness. ((Surat al-Fath: 28)
It is He Who sent His Messenger with guidance and the religion of Truth to exalt it over every other religion, much as the idolaters may hate it.( (Surat as-Saff: 9)
Judaism, Christianity and Islam are the religions which have their roots in revelation. Originally, they were all revealed by Allah, yet after their respective messengers, Christianity and Judaism were corrupted.
Man made countless distortions in the Torah and the Gospel-making additions and deletions-and as such the original Divine books disappeared in time. Meanwhile, the originals of these Divine books were completely forgotten.
After the distortion of these religions, Allah revealed the last Divine Book, which will remain unchanged until the Day of Judgment, and He will be the One Who will surely guard it against all distortions:
We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption). (Surat al-Hijr: 9)
For fourteen centuries, the Qur'an has remained unchanged and free from corruption. Every single letter of the original hand-written copies of the Qur'an is identical to the copies we have today. In every corner of the world, people read the very same Qur'an, which proves that the Qur'an is preserved under the special protection of Allah.
Throughout history, Allah communicated His commands, either through His messengers or His books. The Prophet Adam (pbuh), the first man Allah created on earth, was assigned the same duty by Allah. There subsequently followed many other messengers and books all throughout world history. Allah reveals this fact in the Qur'an:
Mankind was once a single community. Then Allah sent out prophets bringing good news and giving warning, and with them He sent down the Book with the truth to decide between people regarding their differences… (Surat al-Baqara: 213)
As is also stressed in the above-mentioned verse, Allah communicates His messages to man through His messengers and Books. Messengers always warn their people against the Day of Judgment and an eternal Hell, while they also give them the good tidings of an eternal bliss-Paradise. Allah, the One Who created man, is also the One Who surely knows the proper conditions in which man would feel most comfortable in this world. That is why the lifestyle and moral values Allah demands from His servants shape a comfortable life on earth, as well as in the hereafter. In brief, by the mercy of Allah, religion is the system enabling man to attain an ideally structured life, both psychologically and sociologically.
Allah has granted people countless blessings. His sending them messengers and books that guided them onto the true path is one of the blessings of this world.
Although bringing different commandments according to the different environments and conditions of the time they were revealed in, Divine religions present to man essentially the same beliefs and moral examples. All Divine religions convey fundamental facts about the existence of Allah. They explain the attributes of Allah, the purpose in the creation of man and all other living beings, how to be a decent servant of Allah, the ideal attitude and behavior praised by Allah, the way to distinguish between right and wrong, good and bad, how to conduct one's life to earn Allah's approval and how to attain Paradise.
The truly righteous religion in the Sight of Allah is Islam. The basis of all religions revealed to man since the time of the Prophet Adam (pbuh), is Islam, which means "submission to Allah." This fact is stressed as follows:
The religion with Allah is Islam... (Surah Al 'Imran: 19)
Muslims and the People of the Book – Christians and Jews – have different religious laws. But true believers, whether Jews or Christians or Muslims, live by the same fundamental values: absolute belief in Allah, living for His approval, mercy and paradise and never ascribing equals to Him. All societies have a duty to scrupulously obey Allah's commandments to them, to sincerely surrender themselves to our Lord and to compete with one another in doing good deeds, for Allah's sake. Members of all three faiths, who believe in the existence and oneness of Allah, who absolutely believe in the hereafter and who all do good works, in fact abide by the true religion that our Lord sent down to the Prophet Abraham (pbuh).
Throughout history people have been summoned to believe in Allah. Hell will be the reward of those who do not comply with that call.
… He has selected you and not placed any constraint upon you in the observance of your faith-the religion of your father, Abraham. In this, as in former scriptures, He has given you the name of Muslims… (Surat al-Hajj: 78)
All prophets throughout the course of history have preached the moral values of the true faith in the Sight of Allah. The prophets Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Jesus, Noah, Shu'ayb (peace be upon them all) and all the others called on people to believe unreservedly in Allah, the One and only, to live for His approval alone and to obey His commandments. One verse reads:
He has laid down the same religion for you as He enjoined on Noah: that which We have revealed to you and which We enjoined on Abraham, Moses and Jesus: "Establish the religion and do not make divisions in it…" (Surat ash-Shura: 13)
As we have seen, the religion sent down to Jews and Christians is the same, albeit with a few variations in provisions. Members of all three faiths are in fact descended from the Prophet Abraham (pbuh). Just like Muslims, Jews and Christians have a duty to abide by the monotheism (serving and believing in Allah alone) of the Prophet Abraham (pbuh). Our Lord reveals as follows in one verse of the Qur'an how all believers have a responsibility to follow the faith of the Prophet Abraham (pbuh):
They say, "Be Jews or Christians and you will be guided." Say, "Rather adopt the religion of Abraham, a man of natural pure belief. He was not one of the polytheists." (Surat al-Baqara: 135)
Throughout the ages, every prophet communicated the same fundamental system of worship and beliefs. In the Qur'an, it is said about:
- The Prophet Zechariah (pbuh) that the angels called out to him "while he was standing in prayer"(Surah Al 'Imran: 39)
- The Prophet Jethro (pbuh) that his people called out to him saying, "Shu'ayb, do your prayers instruct you that we should renounce the gods our fathers worshipped or stop doing whatever we want to with our wealth? You are clearly forbearing, and rightly-guided!"(Surah Hud: 87)
- The Prophet Ishmael (pbuh) that "He used to enjoin upon his people worship (to do salat) and almsgiving (zakat) and his Lord was pleased with him." (Surah Maryam: 55)
- The Prophets Isaac (pbuh) and Jacob (pbuh) that Allah "enjoined on them prayer (salat) and charity (zakat) and they worshipped none but Ourself." (Surat al-Anbiya': 73)
- The Prophet Moses (pbuh) and his brother Aaron (pbuh) that Allah revealed His will to them, saying "... make your houses places of worship and conduct prayers (establish salat)…"(Surah Yunus: 87)
- The Prophet Jesus (pbuh) that he said: "He [Allah] has made me blessed wherever I go, and directed me to be steadfast in prayer (salat) and give alms (zakat) to the poor as long as I shall live."(Surah Maryam: 31)
- The Prophet Luqman (pbuh) that he addressed his son thus: "My son, be steadfast in prayer (salat) and forbid what is wrong…" (Surah Luqman: 17) and "My son, serve no other deity besides Allah, for idolatry is a terrible wrong." (Surah Luqman: 13)
- Mary (pbuh) that Allah commanded her thus: "Mary, obey your Lord, prostrate yourself and bow down with the worshippers."(Surah Al 'Imran: 43)
These are examples of a few fundamental ways of worshipping and tenets of faith, and they can be further extended since essentially the same righteous religion was revealed to all prophets. The basic and immutable features of this righteous religion are repeated in the following verse:
They were ordered to worship only Allah, making their religion sincerely His as people of pure, natural belief, and to attend to their prayers (salat) and give alms (zakat)—that is surely the correct religion. (Surat al-Bayyina: 5)


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