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Steve Jobs' holy rage against Google's Android mobile operating system was just some "differences" created "for show," according to Google CEO Larry Page in an interview transcript published this week.
"I think that served their interests," Page tells his interviewer, Brad Stone, of Bloomberg Businessweek. "For a lot of companies, it's useful for them to feel like they have an obvious competitor and to rally around that. I personally believe that it's better to shoot higher. You don't want to be looking at your competitors. You want to be looking at what's possible and how to make the world better."
LEGACY: Steve Jobs gets bronzed
His casual comments, coming at the end of an online excerpt of a longer interview to be in print in an upcoming issue, have sparked controversy on the Web.
"Google CEO Larry Page apparently is trying to rewrite history," charged Brent Dirks, at AppAdvice.com.
One of the most startling parts of Steve Jobs' authorized biography last year was the extent and depth of his rage at Android, and by extension, its main creator and chief advocate, Google.
""I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong," Jobs said, according to the book "Steve Jobs," by Walter Isaacson. "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
Jobs' conviction seems to have been, and so far remains, the driving force behind Apple's stubborn, persistent and expensive patent battles with Android handset makers, on multiple continents.
In the most recent ruling in one U.S. case this week, a federal judge rejected arguments by Motorola, and upheld Apple's patent claims for touchscreen technology that interprets the user's touchscreen commands by recognizing swipes that are not straight lines. That may sound arcane, but at least one patent blogger says that "Motorola will realistically be unable to avoid a finding of infringement and will have to come up with some really good invalidity arguments if it wants to avoid a disaster."
"Disaster" fits more with Jobs' vow of going thermonuclear on Android than with Page's "differences," however.
Here's the full exchange at Bloomberg Newsweek:
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - expenses in Chile 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 expenses in Chile Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Chile View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message seanpnaylorJoined: 27 Apr 2010Posts: 3 Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:56 am Post subject: expenses in Chile I am currently looking into the teachinginchile.com program for me and my girlfriend, and I saw the salary guarantees a minimum 335,000 Chilean pesos a month. I'm curious if that's enough to even sufficiently live in Chile. We'd be sharing a small apartment, and I don't feel we lead a very expensive lifestyle. We are both teaching in Korea right now and saving a good amount of money, but we prefer better weather and a Spanish speaking country, since we are both fluent. We would love to live in Chile, as long as we're not losing money doing it. Any help/advice would be appreciated. Thanks! Back to top spanglishJoined: 21 May 2009Posts: 742Location: working on that Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2010 3:57 pm Post subject: Have you seen their 'program fee'? http://www.teachingchile.com/program_schedule2.htm I really don't recommend you pay somebody to find you a job. That's a lot of cash for traveling or to tide you over while you find something on your own. Back to top seanpnaylorJoined: 27 Apr 2010Posts: 3 Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:02 am Post subject: Thank you Spanglish. And yes, I've seen the program fees, and I agree that it seems a little crazy. We just simply don't know of any other ways to guarantee some kind of job there. In Korea, we have recruiters who gladly find you a job for free because they get a commission on it. Chile doesn't have that convenience; or at least, I just haven't found it. And buying plane tickets just to go door-to-door asking for a job in a country where you have no prior connections seems like a hefty gamble to me. If there's any advice you have on how to land a job before getting there, without having to pay some ridiculous fee, please let me know. Thanks Back to top spanglishJoined: 21 May 2009Posts: 742Location: working on that Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:57 pm Post subject: Well, if you do pay them and do the program let us all know how it is. Honestly - to me the gamble would be paying them, except you're guranteed to lose! Coming without a job is the way it's done in Latin America (unless you work for an international school or the British Council). My suggestion would be to think of it as an educational/exploration trip. Go, enroll in light Spanish courses and begin to make contacts. If you're a halfway decent teacher you shouldn't have trouble initially picking up some privates and you'll begin to make contacts. Back to top seanpnaylorJoined: 27 Apr 2010Posts: 3 Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2010 7:35 am Post subject: Thanks, and I'll definitely take that into consideration. Are you there now? If so, what is the pay like for privates? Is $335,000/month a decent salary there, or will we be scrapping just to get by? I don't think we plan on doing much with our leisure time except sitting on the beach and drinking Chilean wine. So if our pay can support that, a modest apartment, and a healthy diet, we're game. Back to top noviaJoined: 08 Jul 2005Posts: 27Location: Canada Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 6:32 am Post subject: $335,000 doesn't sound like a lot unless you are part time. I would aim for 400-700,000 if you can. You will definitely survive with $335 but won't save a dime. Depends on you though. Back to top Cat77Joined: 03 Mar 2008Posts: 38 Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:47 am Post subject: I see that you posted your question about teachinginchile.com a long time ago but I wanted to respond because I came through that program. Do you mean TeachingChile.com? That salary is about 335,000 pesos if you work at the University called DUOC that they work through. I don't know if you are still considering that program, but I had a great experience through them and it is completely legit. Bruce and Andrea run it and they are great not only as people but also as support. I met lots of friends through that program too, and I know some couples who came together. 335,000 pesos was enough for me to live on comfortably. I dipped into my savings when I traveled, but I never had any problems. You will definitely want to save some money before, but it is enough to live on while you are here. If you have any questions, please send me a message or post something here. Good luck with your decision. Back to top wesharrisJoined: 26 Oct 2008Posts: 177 Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 11:00 am Post subject: Paying to teach in a country, seems VERY counter productive. Paying 3 grand, to a company that acts as a recruiting agency, seems extremely dangerous, and rather underhanded on their part. Back to top DaddyoJoined: 19 Jun 2008Posts: 89Location: Bogota, Colombia Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 5:22 pm Post subject: wesharris wrote: Paying to teach in a country, seems VERY counter productive. Paying 3 grand, to a company that acts as a recruiting agency, seems extremely dangerous, and rather underhanded on their part. Isn't there a recruiting company in Chile that charges a simple registration fee of $50? I think I saw that somewhere on the web last year.. . . . . Back to top Don AlanJoined: 11 Dec 2004Posts: 150Location: Glasgow, Scotland Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:05 pm Post subject: I lived in Chile for four years. It is like Spanglish says, the way it's done is arrive and then get something. If you have some teaching qualification, experience, and make a list of the academies and start going round them you will definitely get something which should pay at least as teachingchile.com without paying them to get it for you. Some of the academies will answer emails so start sending off your CV to as many as possible and see who has the best offer. Back to top sakakisinsJoined: 05 Feb 2011Posts: 16Location: CL Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 2:16 am Post subject: I'm a Chilean English teacher and I think that you would probably be ripped off if you paid 3 grand for someone to find you a job. There are a couple of things you need to know if you want to teach in Chile. First of all, many people come without a guaranteed job and find work easily. Native speakers are highly valued and shouldn't have any trouble finding jobs. To work at a school you'd probably have to contact the Ministry of Education, they do place native speakers wishing to teach here through the "English Opens Doors" program. I don't have the exact website but you can check here www.ingles.mineduc.cl or write to [email protected] Secondly, there are quite a few well reputed language institutes where native speakers are quite welcome. Just to name a few: Tronwell --> www.tronwell.com, Wallstreet Institute --> www.wsi.cl and Instituto Chileno NorteAmericano --> www.norteamericano.cl ...also Instituto Chileno Britanico -->www.britanico.cl ...and most of them have centres all over the country not just in Santiago. These don't pay the same rates as schools or universities but they usually have really flexible hours so you can work in more than one place to work at. You shouldn't accept less than $5.000 an hour (these are cumulative unlike at schools) which as far as I know is aproximately the ongoing rate. Other tips: Coming to Chile without a recruiters help really isn't that "dangerous". Chile is a safe country unlike some other countries in South America. Ofcourse you need to be on your game so you won't get ripped off but there's no kidnappings or anything like that. There aren't many recruiters here (it's not like Asia) so the few that pretty much take advantage and charge whatever they want. - Chilean minimum wage is around $130.000 (about $250 USD) - Teacher in Chile have a minimum hourly pay. It varies if you work in the public system or in provate schools, but it should never be lower than aprox $12.000 CLP Now, this hourly pay is according to how many hours you do in a week. If you have a 20 hour contract you will work 20 hours each week (around 80 a month) and will be paid about 20(hrs) x $12.000 CLP (minimum hourly pay for teacher) = $240.000 CLP [That's double mimum wage with a looot of free time) If you work at a university you should be paid about double for your hours. I don't know if you can actually demand these rates (i guess it'll depend on your qualifications - Some qualifications can actually add bonuses to your salary); but I think you should most definitely know the ongoing rates for fully qualified Chilean English Teachers. Hope it helps! Chile is an amazing country with lots to see.. Hope you come and visit. Back to top DiaJoined: 09 Apr 2008Posts: 92 Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:47 am Post subject: sakakisins... the minimum wage is way more than the number you state. i dont remember exactly down to the peso but i think its near 180,000. this is for full im e (45) hours contract, and is kind of irrelevant because any foreigner would be craaazy to accept a full time job at that cost. its not very livable. for chileans, foreigners, anybody. its low. but anyway a native speaker of english should be elegible for something with much better pay, or at the very least if they~re making that it should be hourly and they should have plenty of free time instead of a 45 hour work week. 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Airstream Inc. was named as the winner of the 2013 Readers' Choice Award by About.com in the RV or camper category.
According to About.com's website, the Jackson Center, Ohio-based trailer and motorhome builder rated as the readers' top choice followed by Keystone RV Co. and Forest River Inc. Runners-up included Leisure Travel Vans, a division of Triple E RV Ltd., and Cruiser RV LLC.
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The fiscal cliff is suddenly looming, and this strategist has a plan for whatever happens.
The prospect of the massive tax hikes and spending cuts known as the fiscal cliff is roiling all kinds of markets, currencies included. At the moment, the dollar is a beneficiary as investors look for a safe haven from the turbulence - but Brian Kelly of Shelter Harbor Capital says that won't last.
"This is not a crisis like we had in 2008, where it was a deleveraging crisis and people had to buy dollars to pay off their debts," he told CNBC's Melissa Lee. "Here we're looking at an economic, business cycle type of issue."
So how could the fiscal fracas play out?
One possibility is that the aggressive tax hikes and spending cuts that comprise the fiscal cliff actually come into play in January - what Kelly calls "a complete cliff dive, no compromise, no anything." That would lead to a sharp drop in GDP, Kelly says, and aggressive money printing by the Federal Reserve which "would lead to significant dollar weakness."
More likely, Kelly says, is that in the near term, some form of political compromise - or hope for compromise - will steer the country away from disaster. But the effect on the dollar would be the same, since a compromise would boost risk appetite and draw investors out of safe havens and also lead to dollar weakness.


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I think this guide to Gnomeregan done by @Cassandri of HoTs & DoTs deserves a post all to itself. For those of you who have been playing Horde all your life and now find your low level toons thrust into Gnomer from random queues, here is your golden ticket to success.
You can find similar posts from Cassandri for Razorfen Kraul, which the Alliance players will probably be less familiar with since it's located in the Barrens. Also Blackfathom Deeps, which is pretty equally known by players of both factions, I think. And you can find a short version for Scholomance if you need one as well.
You might be able to find a full list (for walkthroughs that get added after this post of mine) by checking out This Link.


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Im looking to find out some information on this clock. Its been in my family for as long as I can remember. My grandmother was the original owner and when she passed in 1974 my uncle took it. He passed two weeks ago and I asked for it. I know when I was a kid it worked and there was a key for it which is now gone. Im looking for a bit of history on my little friend as well as maybe a place to get a key for it? Its in beautiful conditon on the outside, no scratches or cracks or dings that I can see but Im no expert. Inside the back door where the workings are is a label.
On the label it reads
8 day keywound clock with A 400 series chime movement. The number 6110 is stamped on the label so Im assuming its a serial number of some type. Also MEDBURY GW is stamped on the label. There is a number 8 stamped on the wood as well.
On the brass movement is engraved Made in Germany for Seth Thomas Clocks Thomaston Connecticut and the same 6110 is engraved there as well. Im guessing that means its the original brass movement.
Any history or links for me to read up on would be greatly appreciated as I seem to have hit a brick wall as far as finding info out.


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We asked our Facebook fans and staffers about their picks for local sweet bread. And the winner is....
Linda Murphy | Herald News Life Editor
Ask a Greater Fall Riverite about sweet bread, and you get the same kind of passion and loyalty one finds for all of this area's iconic foods. Kale soup? The opinions are as mixed as the number of Portuguese restaurants in the area. There's Marzilli's fans and Marcucci's fans. And don't even get me started on the great Hoo-Mee chow mein famine of a few years back.
So when we asked our readers on Facebook about their favorite bakery for sweet bread, we weren't too surprised at the number of responses, or the assortment: Lou's, Cinderella, Camara's, Tony's, Dukes, Amaral's, and the list goes on and on.
So we decided to put a few of the local favorites to the test with the staff here at The Herald News. In an informal, and highly unscientific, experiment in the newsroom last Friday, reporters, copy editors and the rest of the staff here on the second floor at 207 Pocasset St. did a side-by-side blind tasting of three sweet breads: Lou's Bakery, Amaral's Bakery and Tony's Bakery.
And no surprise here either: The staffers were just as opinionated about their preferences for the bread, which during the Easter season is dotted with eggs baked in the dough to symbolize rebirth.
Open since 1956, Amaral's Bakery lays claim to being the city's first bakery to sell sweet bread. And today, decades later, the bakery is still going strong. Not only do they sell it out of the bakery at 241 Globe St., Amaral's sweet bread is also found in most area markets, including Stop & Shop, Shaw's and Market Basket. Owner Dennis Amaral, son-in-law of founders Eliseu and Emanuel Amaral, said the bakery also makes sweet bread sold under various supermarket chain's labels. When asked how many loaves of the bread they'll be making this week, he rolled his eyes and said, "thousands."
One aspect that Amaral and his daughter, Jessica Amaral Miri, said differentiates them from other sweet breads is that they use flour without potassium bromate. "It's 'irresistibly delicious,'" he added, pointing to the bakery's slogan on the bag.
The Herald News staffers praised its consistency and the "light and fluffy" texture. The testers also found it to be the least sweet of the three breads, making it a nice choice for sandwiches too.
Tony's Bakery at 196 Columbia St., is another local favorite. And like Amaral's it can be found at the bakery and at various markets, including Ocean State Job Lot, Market Basket, Trucchi's and Walmart. A few years ago, Michelle Rioux and her husband, Jeremy, took over the bakery from her parents, Antonio and Maria Amaral, who founded the bakery on Columbia Street in 1975.
What makes their bread a local favorite, said Michelle Rioux, is "the best quality ingredients and it's still the original recipe."
Like the crew at Amaral's, they'll be baking up thousands of loaves of sweet bread this week in preparation for Easter Sunday.
Tony's Bakery sweet bread also garnered lots of praise from the testers here, who said it was "dense and chewy, but not overly sweet."
Another added, "Great flavor and rich texture. Definitely my favorite."
Though the voting was close, the winner among the staff here in The Herald News newsroom was Lou's Bakery. "Yummy," said one reviewer. "It's squishy — which is good," said another tester. "Heavier, moister and eggier," said another. Almost all of the testers who picked this bread said it was also the sweetest of the three loaves.
Louise Fournier and her brother, John Arruda, took over Lou's Bakery from their parents, John and Lucia Arruda, who opened it 34 years ago. The bakery, at 379 E. Main St., is the only place where the bread is sold, though Fournier said it's shipped all over to ardent fans who have moved away from the area. "It's been shipped to Iraq and Florida," she said.
The secret to the bread's flavor, she said, is "all fresh ingredients."
Though Tony's and Amaral's bakeries will be open for a short time on Easter morning, fans of Lou's Bakery sweet bread will have to pick up their bread on Saturday, or earlier in the week, as the bakery is not open on Easter.
For those who are on a gluten-free diet, many of The Herald News Facebook page respondents also recommended the gluten-free sweet bread at Duke's Bakery and Variety at 162 Columbia St. Though it wasn't tested along with the three traditional sweet breads, reviewers here said it would be a nice bread for sandwiches or toasted and served with butter. A few testers found it was not as sweet as they expected. "As as mom of an autistic child, I'm thrilled to hear they have (gluten-free) sweet bread," said one. "I know a lot of families who will want this for Easter, especially those of Portuguese descent."
Duke's Bakery owners Chris Holden and Dorry Silvia opened the bakery two years ago, and they have been gaining fans from near and far ever since. Silvia said she developed the recipe for the gluten-free sweet bread over the past year. "It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears," she said.
Though they will be open Easter morning, Holden suggests ordering sweet bread in advance to be sure of its availability.


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Depends on the length of the mission.
Since there is no washer or dryer in the space shuttle, astronauts bring a change of underwear for each day they are in space. They also have a few extra shirts, shorts and trousers. The dirty clothes are placed in a bag inside the shuttle's airlock. Space station astronauts send their dirty clothes back to Earth in the space shuttle or Russian Progress cargo capsules. The shuttle and the Progress can also bring them clean clothes.


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Ive signed up for a 24 hour mountain bike race, so a powerful light is neccessary. Im interested in the prospects of an LED light to use, which has the benifits of being very small, light, bright, and uses only minimal battery power. This light needs to be able to light up a trail at least 10 to 15 meters ahead as the trails are pitch black out in the forest. Thank you, any advice would be great.
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One of the areas where Commons and Wikipedia need more attention is textile arts. It's not as if men never touch the subject (here's a photograph of WMF volunteer coordinator Cary Bass's crochet project), but let's face it: women are underrepresented among editors and it's usually women who take an interest in the subject.
If a guy's going to work on textile arts it probably won't be amigurumi. It's a crochet form that originated in Japan to make miniature animals, such as the owl at right. I don't make them, but the quantity of amigurumi photographs at Wikimedia Commons had reached the point where a category was justified. So I made a new category today. It's the sort of housekeeping work that makes Wikimedia Commons useful and anyone can do it on subjects they happen to know.
Back at Wikipedia I added a {{Commonscat}} template at the amigurumi article to link to the new category. Then I looked at the article, which is a dreadful little stub whose only reference is an AOL blog that probably isn't reliable. So I looked for something better. Mostly the references on this type of subject aren't very good: they tend to be how-to books with a lot of patterns and minimal context. But that's better than nothing, right?
Here's an excerpt from the top return on Google Books: Amigurumi!: Super Happy Crochet Cute by Elisabeth A. Doherty
In Japan a crocheted or knitted doll is called an amigurumi (ah-mee-guh-ROO-mee). Disclaimer: Please, people. I do not speak Japanese. This pronunciation guide should be taken with a grain of salt. There is very little information available in English on Amigurumi, so I have decided to go with my own definition based on information I found in an online encyclopedia. Ami is a shortening of the word amimie, which means "stitch." Gurumi is a shortening of the word nuigurumi, which means "stuffed doll or toy." Smoosh the two together and you get amigurumi.The book was published in 2007 and that's reasonably close to Wikipedia's definition as it appeared at the end of 2006. I don't know if we'll ever get a reliable source on this stuff, but I'll keep looking.


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Every so often people say not a lot happens in rural Minnesota, but the Chippewa County Historical Society would be able to say otherwise.
Every so often people say not a lot happens in rural Minnesota, but the Chippewa County Historical Society would be able to say otherwise.
A lot has happened in the area for a long time, and there are a lot of fun, unique stories. One such story came up last week in the You Asked section, when someone asked if stories they'd heard about a meteorite were real.
The giant rock in question is located north of Montevideo, out on Town Road/70th Avenue, past the Chippewa River, on the west side. The rock is massive. One letter written by Walter Falkenhagen, quoted in the Montevideo News in 1934, puts the rock at about 400 tons. A more recent source, mentioned in a book written by Ron Morton, a professor of geological science at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and Carl Gawboy, puts the rock at about 20 tons. Either way, it's pretty heavy.
While the rock protrudes several feet from the ground, and stands out in the landscape, it is believed to be buried up to 20 feet below the ground, where a bed of granite holds it up.
There are two theories about the rock. The first dates back surely to 1934, and ostensibly to the 1700s and 1800s with early settlers and explorers. It has been believed for a number of years to be a meteorite. The color is unusual, as are the specs of other colors within the stone.
The second and more recent theory on the rock doesn't involve space, but it's just as interesting. It is succinctly explained in the story "Roving Boulders" by Marc Hequet for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.
Hequet says, "Driven by their own sheer mass, the glaciers flowed over boulders, melting and refreezing, prying the leviathans from bedrock, and finally lifting and carrying them along. The rocks dropped as the ice melted."
It is possible this rock was moved by such a glacier.
Whichever theory is true, the rock, still known as the Montevideo Meteorite, has an interesting history.
It's unclear how old the rock is, but it is known how old the granite which supports the rock is. Similar to the Morton gneiss, which is metamorphosed granite, the granite in question here has been estimated to be around 3.6 billion years old. This claim is supported by Morton.
If the rock is a meteorite, it could have landed up to 3.6 billion years ago, and struck that granite.
The next piece on the timeline is much like the first part; At this point it is unknown how old the rock is, but if the theory about it being moved by glaciers is correct, than it would have been moved to the current location around 10,000 years ago, when the glaciers shifted into the region, melted, and formed the river valley.
The pieces that come next are a little more certain, and more so the closer they are to the present.
It appears that the rock was once a worship site. The first story about the rock comes in the early 1700s. A French missionary visiting the area reported coming across a large meteorite that natives were worshiping and rubbing buffalo skins on to keep it smooth and bright.
For more on this story and others subscribe or pick up a copy of the Montevideo American-News.


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Renovation Inspiration: 3 Inspiring Philadelphia Kitchens
All of this organizing and cleaning of the kitchen this month has me daydreaming a little bigger. I start thinking… if I owned my place (instead of renting, like I do), how would I change it? And what style would I choose? There are so many options!
Take these three kitchens in Philadelphia, for example: each completely different, but each stunningly beautiful in their own right. There's the creative and colorful Mount Airy kitchen by Design Nehez, complete with an art installation of multi-hued bread tags. Then, there's the über-chic and modern kitchen in Wyndmoor from designer Rebecca Paul, with its just-the-right-amount-of-whimsy collection of globes. Lastly, there's the reclaimed and reimagined Queen Village kitchen by designer Niko Dyshniku, full of warmth and perfect imperfection… sigh. I love them all!
Which would you choose??
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Alan Cooper Sues John Steele, Prenda Law And The Shell Companies He Supposedly 'Runs'
from the other-shoe-drops dept
Back in December, a guy named Alan Cooper, who had been hired by Steele to be the caretaker of some of Steele's property in Minnesota, intervened in a few AF Holdings and Ingenuity 13 cases to point out that it had come to his attention that both companies were claiming that a guy named Alan Cooper was managing those companies, and he had reasons to believe that Steele had simply used his name. While a few courts ignored the letters, some judges have started asking questions, and no one associated with Prenda seems to want to answer the simple question: which Alan Cooper runs those companies?
Apparently Prenda's silence on the matter has been enough for caretaker Cooper (and his lawyer) and they've now sued Prenda, John Steele, AF Holdings and Ingenuity 13, directly claiming that Steele is in charge of all of those and forged Cooper's signature. In fact, in the exhibits, Cooper presents the caretaking agreement he did sign with Steele, and then suggests that documents showing a signature for Alan Cooper regarding AF Holdings or Ingenuity 13 are really attempts to forge the same signature in that caretaking document. Cooper is charging Steele and Prenda with invasion of privacy (via appropriation), deceptive trade practices and civil conspiracy, as well as arguing that the corporate veil should be pierced for all three companies, as they're nothing more than shells for Steele to hide behind.
Of course, if this keeps up, Steele may be facing a lot worse than civil charges. Forging someone's name and lying to the court aren't things that tend to go over well in criminal cases.


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200 Books, an Annotated Bibliography
200 Books is an annotated bibliography. Smith talks about how images were made and why he made some of the books, placing them into context of place and his personal experiences. The 200 books are described with over 550 photo illustrations.
Since 1967 Smith has been making books. They range from artist books to poetry, textbooks and dictionaries. He has made over 150 one-of-a-kind artists books, most of which are in his own collection, seen by only a handful of people. Smith has published over two dozen small editioned artists books and book-length poems and written ten small dictionaries to aid structure and vocabulary in his poetry. The only books to have widespread distribution are his eight books-on-books: Structure of the Visual Book, Text in the Book Format, Bookbinding for Book Artists and the five volumes of Non-Adhesive Binding: Books without Paste or Glue, 1- 2- & 3-Section Sewings, Exposed Spine Sewings, Smith's Sewing Single Sheets and Quick Leather Bindings.
This new hard cover bibliography gives a good view of all 200 books Smith made up to May 2000. As well as autobiographical, it technically describes various printmaking techniques he used in imaging some of his books.
Volume I Non-Adhesive Binding:
Books Without Paste or Glue
Volume I is not only about how to bind a book, the first part of this text is about developing an approach to binding. Sewing a blank book or rebinding an existing one differs from creating a book of text and/or pictures. Here, binding should not be an afterthought but an integral part of the statement.
Volume I is an introduction to hand binding:
- Paper, grain, folding, cutting, tearing, marking and piercing sewing stations are explained.
- Folding down sections for a varying number of pages is diagrammed, as well as imposition of page numbers.
- Thread, knots and stitches, and simple tools are covered.
PART 2 of the book gives detailed written instructions for 33 simple to complex bindings, (2), (3), (4), (5). The procedures are also presented as 350 drawings, elaborately diagrammed step by step. In addition, this is followed by a condensed outline of the procedures. All sewings require only needle thread and scissors.
PART 3 describes covers, tape supports, interlocking tabs, turns-in and spine-pleats.
PART 4 contains the references, including a Glossary of Terms, Notes, Index of Terms and Reference of Photographic Illustrations.
Volume I has 137 photographic reproductions of bindings by 37 contemporary bookbinders.
Volume II Non-Adhesive Binding:
1-2- & 3-Section Sewings
This is a thorough text for sewing one, two, or three sections onto continuous support paper or vellum covers. The sewing path of each book creates a decorative sewing on the spine. Described by text, diagrams and photographs, almost all of the 122 sewings were devised as the book was written. In addition, there are 42 photographs of bindings by 22 contemporary binders.
Volume II is a veritable encyclopedia to browse and to choose which bindings to try next. These booklets are ideal for many projects by book artists and calligraphers. Whereas multi-section sewings in Volume III, giving several hundred pages, might not be appropriate for a smaller project. Like the earlier Books without Paste or Glue, Non-Adhesive Binding, Volume I, these sewings require no equipment, only a needle, thread and scissors.
- 1-Section Sewings: These booklets of four to thirty-two pages may have endsheets as part of the sewing.
- 2-Section Sewings: Some booklets have too many pages for a single section sewing. In the past, my books with over thirty-two pages but less than seventy were limited to the traditional 2-section pamphlet sewing. That is why I devised these sewings.
- 3-Section Sewings: Possibilities of design of the sewing pattern on the spine expands with three sections.
Volume III Non-Adhesive Binding:
Exposed Spine Sewings
Part 1 is devoted to diagramming various true and false kettle and link stitches. Since the sewings in Part 2 require a sewing frame, three are diagrammed, in case you do not wish to invest in the expense of buying a sewing frame. One frame illustrated can be constructed easily for under $15 in supplies. It requires no skill to build, and requires only a drill and screwdriver. This frame utilizes carriage bolts for an adjustable crossbar.
Part 1 introduces how to use the sewing frame, how to round, to pack, and dying of cords and thread.
Part 2 is variations on raised support sewings, described by text, diagrams and photographs. Some employ the kettle stitch as changeover. Other means of changeover are explored, including packing, and endbands as changeover.
Part 3 demonstrates simple to very elaborate sewings, across, rather than along the spine. These require no equipment or sewing frame, only a needle, thread and scissors. Included are traditional sewings: the Butterfly; three 1-needle Coptic sewings, and five 2-needle Coptic sewings, as well as the Greek Sewing. Also are newly described sewings: the Caterpillar, Celtic Weave, Centipede, others.
The book also contains photographs of bindings by various contemporary binders.
Volume IV Non-Adhesive Binding:
Smith's Sewing Single Sheets
Smith's Sewing Single Sheets is his fourth book on non-adhesive binding. These sewings can be used to bind single sheets of paper, board, plexiglass or even metal. The bindings open flat to any page, unlike traditional post-bindings and stab bindings commonly used to bind single sheets.
This attribute makes handsome and functional albums for photographs. Smith devised these sewings to make one-of-a-kind artists books from large inkjet prints.
Several Coptic sewings are described, two raised cord sewings are diagrammed as well as an example of sewing onto tapes. In each, the book block can be single sheets, or a combination of sections and sheets.
Pasting and gluing for covering the separate side-covers are described.
There are 111 drawn diagrams plus 179 photographs of books by contemporary book artists and binders.
Volume V Non-Adhesive Binding:
Quick Leather Bindings
All the bindings in Volume V are hard cover quarter leather. Leather bindings have been something I have always admired but did not have the skill or patience to do properly. Bookbinding for Book Artists substituted household tools for all the traditional tools and equipment found in a bindery. This makes leather binding cheaper, but not easier and certainly not quicker.
With Quick Leather Bindings I have eliminated all the unnecessary steps found in the earlier book. Those steps that could not be eliminated were simplified:
- No equipment is used.
- Tools are limited to needle and thread, scissors, bone folder, X-Acto™ knife and metal straightedge.
- Leather on the spine is limited to quarter leather to eliminate the messy process of trying to fold leather around the corners of the boards at the foredge.
- All use of glue and paste is eliminated. This saves time, eliminating weights and waits.
The boards
are finished before the book block is sewn to it.
Some of the bindings described contain a book block of a single section or signature. A 2-section book block can have from 4 to 48 pages. All the sewings can be quarter cloth if you prefer not to use leathers.
The New Structure of the Visual Book
(with 200 more pages)
The Expanded Fourth Edition, 2003, of Structure of the Visual Book has been almost doubled in size to 432 pages. More than a revision, this is almost a new book within the previous. There are several new chapters. One is a 19 page essay on the books by Nathan Lyons. Sequence is discussed and illustrated through 16 photos from Lyons' books.
The new fourth edition of Structure of the Visual Book has over 450 photographs of artists books from 148 contemporary book artists from around the world.
This instructive guide to the concepts of visual books presents strategies for organizing pictures in the book format. This is a book on concepts, not how to bind.
It is an approach that conceives the book as a visual object not by imposed decoration, but through understanding and applying structure. Group, series and sequence are elaborately discussed and diagrammed.
Composing the book, as well as the pictures it contains, creates pacing in turning pages. Just as poetry and cinema are conceived in time, so is a book.
The New Text in the Book Format
Structure of the Visual Book introduces strategies for organizing pictures in the book format. Text in the Book Format extends these ideas for the writer and artist working with words and pages. This book is not about binding, computers, design, typography or the history of books, but the possibilities of conceiving text which utilizes the format not to distract, but assist the written word.
Text in the Book Format examines the possibilities of conceiving text which utilizes the format to assist the written word. By considering the physicality of the book and the turning pages, text becomes a book experience, rather than a running manuscript. Text ideas are illustrated with diagrams as well as photo reprod uctions of books as examples.
The book format is movement. Rhythms of syllables and moving pictures of implied imagery flowing within text is akin to music and cinema. Events depicted in writing unfold through time in space, alongside the physical act of turning pages.
Awareness of space of the page, and composing the pages as well as the text, revolutionizes writing styles because it is a departure from the concept of seamlessly writing a running manuscript. The writer can take into consideration the demands and opportunities of the multiple page format.
Pacing of the book is the synchronization or syncopation of the content with turning pages. In this manner the format can reinforce and even speak aside from the text. Writing specifically for the book format, as opposed to the single sheet format, brings to the reader a book experience.
The Expanded Third Edition 2004, of Text in the Book Format has been updated, doubled in size to 256 pages, including 48 pages in color.


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Liam Neeson (Schindler's List, Taken) stars as the unlikely hero Ottway in this undeniably suspenseful and powerful survival adventure. After their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness, a roughneck group of oil drillers are forced to find a way back to civilization. As Ottway leads the injured survivors through the brutal snow and ice, they are relentlessly tracked by a vicious pack of rogue wolves that will do anything to defend their territor.
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|2006-04-11, 21:38
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: I ask myself that question often, but the answer is always: Germany
Some 'new' suggestions in the darker sort of anime, mh?
I guess i'm looking again, aye. Looking for some not yet known Dark-Anime stuff. I've tried to find my old thread with this theme but it seems like it's already gone. And no, i don't mean any slashing or hentai-stuff. More sort of umm.. depressing, dreary - optical as well as the story, well, especially the story i'd say. Eh, and of course i do not like the typcial 0815-characters or such greenly-"the world is suuuuch a great place (and pisses on his/her short while saying this)".
I assume i already know the common stuff, well, and the not-so-common contingently also.
That would be, so far:
Berserk, Texhnolyze (ya, prolly wrong), Le portrait de petitcosette, Blood, Vampire Hunter (D), that thingy 'bout a bloodsucking boy & his sisters (geez, forgot the name) .. and i bet tons of movies/series i've forgot to mention now
Aw, and i really-really would appreciate a non-tawdry ending, well, a sad end would be the best, aye.
I know, i'm sort of pretentious, umm.
Thank you.
|2006-04-11, 22:21
|Link #2
Retweet Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: ニュー・オーリンズ、LA
Full Metal Alchemist (obvious choice)
Gilgamesh (Have only seen a couple eps, but it's dark as hell)
Ergo Proxy (highly suggested, the animation and settings are quite gloomy and dark)
Hellsing (another obvious choice)
Serial Experiments Lain (Dark feel like some eps of Texhnolyze that I've watched, but otherwise and incredible mind-trip and great series IMO)
Boogiepop Phantom (It will screw with your brain man and it's dark and depressing a whole lot)
|2006-04-12, 05:52
|Link #4
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Germany
Age: 30
-i rerecommend ergo proxy.
-elfen lied might have some ecchi scenes and some comedy lighthearted one, but all in all it is a serieous dark drama with a great sad story.
-GunGrave is what you are really looking for. it plays in a near future poor town where criminal rate is high and street fights are nothing special and money is rare. Its the story of to friends growing up, getting their other friends killed by some jerks and joining the mafia, rising up the ladder, getting rpffesional untill they are rather old and everything goes wrong and falls apart. its so sad when they meet again. Its simply the sad and dark, yet realistic but still supernatural story of two friend growing up and joining the mafia. Really a mature master piece.
|2006-04-25, 19:29
|Link #11
In the Tatami Galaxy ↓
Join Date: Feb 2006
|2006-04-26, 09:26
|Link #12
Nyunga Ro Chaga
Join Date: Dec 2005
I only managed to watch like 5 episodes of Gilgamesh before I gave up on its ugly (...) characters. =.=
Some others:
Kurau Phantom Memory
Witch Hunter Robin
Speed Grapher
Gunslinger Girl
Angel Sanctuary
Soul Taker
Pet Shop of Horrors
|2006-08-18, 23:51
|Link #14
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Age: 32
Rurouni Kenshin - Tsuiokuhen
Night Walker
Devilman Lady
Kemono Zume (first episode was just released, looks promising)
xxxHolic (not too dark, but I love this show)
Ayakashi - Japanese Classic Horror (as was recommended by someone, I only watched the last three episodes which are a stand alone story... it was quite good)
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Companies Race to Promote New Test for Down Syndrome
Health reporter Christopher Weaver discusses the rapid rollout of new genetic screenings in high-risk pregnancies for Down Syndrome and efforts to stave off confusion among patients and doctors. Photo: Getty Images.
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... the ... art of dance in prenatal testing providing expectant mothers early year insight into the possibility of fetal abnormalities ... but some worry the new test could lead to confusion and misinformation among patients and doctors for and managing ... high risk pregnancies Wall Street Journal Health and science reporter Christopher Weaver ... joins me with our tickets for Harry and Leo ... so tell us what these new advances are for women you were pregnant how this is changing the landscape of what they were getting before kind of candor in four parts of the tests is actually our agreement that spreads much better than the early screening test overuse before ... of that consists of things like ultrasound ... simple one pasts ... this is odd test powered by a Juno MC advances the lessons companies look at ... actually I think ... DNA from the placenta footing around for the mother's blood and it's more science ... but it's not ... perfect and as the rolls out quite quickly and its specialty ... it's ... the lines between perfection and this big event simpler and simpler the ins and here is that there's even a question is whether to contest or more kisses screening so is that mean that there ... is this kind of diagnostic information you're getting permits to really make definitive assistance to discuss the seen its share of acronyms so far it started off being caught by not Stake ... Gavin thought this was something powered by the genome of revolution that can be quite sites ... then when to commercialize the company has gone back to call it a tax the now ICS in the specialty groups additional indeed even a step further and call a screen in ... and see what it what are some of the problem and why are people concerned about other things he said of the kids' information to Mother's a little bit earlier and and pretty accurately an IBM percent screen for down syndrome and some other things The what what's the worry what you wanna know for sure enough the happenings this procedure caught in the US and uses ... for another one this is the political boss sites ... and ... that's a scary procedure for a lot of patients impostors in a big needle to extract fluid from the womb for Paxton ... and I carries with it a risk of miscarriage so people flock to the safer alternative ... and it ain't doin' so op God you know what the doctors and patients really want to avoid the ANP's procedure ... and the concern is that ... it has turned out that in the field as compared to the laboratories in clinical trials was more falls possible to more false negatives ... the most of these doctors anticipated and that the worry is that people can act on results that are not at some reason turned in a healthy pregnancy believing that there aren't enough iron abnormalities that if you send this seems to be Lily limits one case the bad news in the conference rate is to proceed with a false negative ... and then find out with our ... business at this and show me a lot of talent in this the story that said he opened a medical reason may be difficult we actually did great today on our website if you can check ever showing it here right now and I think you actually take people through ... some of the ... questions that people should be asking basically what what should they be considering with this test in and whatnot so what's the real takeaway think ... that these tests are being rapidly rolled out ... a lot of areas across the country doctors and patients are using the minister said the less invasive ... so a lot of women might gravitate towards that but really what's been known to be the taking away ... from the story in terms of the twenty third of ... what the big takeaway reading this that this shows you risk it doesn't show you certainty ... and I think it's not the only example of a custom will cease to him ... like that's right it's a lot coming out of Juneau makes them this is a good example of the province about pollution collided with the real world practice of medicine ... and I think people need to temper their expectations and know that they need to ... doubt that the more invasive procedures they want to know for sure ... I think you so much


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Disney Media Networks Latin America and Discovery Networks Latin America/U.S. Hispanic are to produce a local version of long running reality show "The Amazing Race" for the entire region.
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ok, so I went searching to see if anyone already had a bot for a game I want to bot in.
and trns out they do have one, but it doesn't work well and the guy is a shlup who hasn't updated it since 2009, and it's in .exe with no source.
so.. I was looking for a good decompiler, I had one on my other computer but can't remeber what the name was..
any suggestions for a good decompiler for an exe bot?
or if I know the hex address of registers such as health and such is there any way to write a bot to keep track of value of the hex address?
secondly how do I write a bot that is pre programmed to do certain key presses on a delay in a certain order once a condition is met?
bassically I want to write a melee bot for PvE content so I can just let the game grind/farm me while I work and sleep.
I know a bit of python and C so starting from there as a reference would be good.


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A theme is developing as I look at old newspapers to find criminal and delinquent Clarendon Park dwellers. That theme is Avenue Road Extension. Now I realise that it's a long road…but the former inhabitants take up more than their fair share of column inches.
Take this case of a speeding driver on the London Road in 1893. Benjamin Garner, aged 45, who lived at 67 Avenue Road Extension, was summoned for " furiously driving three horses and an omnibus on the London-road" on the 31st of January. Benjamin was a bus proprietor. He had a wife (Fanny) and children Walter, Benjamin, Annie, Harry and shortly afterwards Ernest to support. Perhaps that was why he was speeding; to get as much work as possible.
Benjamin had started off as a plasterer, but sometime between 1881 and 1887 he started a shop at Edward Road (off Montague Road). He also kept a wagonette. By 1891 he and his family had moved to Avenue Road Extension and Benjamin concentrated solely on his omnibus and wagonette driving business. As they got older children Walter and Benjamin worked for their father as bus conductors. Walter went on to start a hardware shop in Twycross Street, later joined by his brother Harry.
Benjamin retired late in the 1910s, not before having branched out to give riding lessons. I wonder if any of his pupils knew that he had been up in court for reckless driving? As for the punishment, he was ordered to pay costs. Furiously driving up the London Road these days would more likely land you with points on your driving license, if indeed it was possible to drive faster than 9mph due to traffic. Regards, Elizabeth.


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|2010-05-22, 19:50
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Well, I don't feel like getting dragged into another pointless Shkannon quagmire, so I'll just say that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence and set it aside. I also think your reinterpretations of the red text are unsupportable given what we know of Beato's character. I suppose I'll attack a few things though.
I showed evidence of ShKanon, the fact that Battler never sees them together is an evidence itself and remember that Knox's rules can be put under interpretation
Beato's Past
There is no evidence that Beatrice 2 ever had a child by Kinzo, or that she was ever raped or mistreated by him. The interaction between them that we saw showed that she considered him to be a friend or a father figure. The possibility that 1986 Beatrice is Beatrice 2's child is explicitly denied by Nanjo and Genji. Knox 8, it is forbidden to solve the case with clues that have not been presented.
Actually it is clear there is a connection between Battler and Beato, the weird Beato's use of red when speaking is a clue itself. And Battler is 19 years old. So there should be a Beatrice 19 years old. And Genji and Nanjo should be Beatrice's accomplices. And also, the little Beatrice in the dream of metaBeato refers to a grandfather that could be Kinzo.
Furthermore, you claim that the scene of Young Beato at Kuwadorian calling Kinzo "grandfather" is evidence of this hypothetical Beatrice 3. However, all shipment of supplies to the Kuwadorian dock ended in 1968, and it would be ridiculous to abandon that dock in favor of transporting supplies through three miles of forest while running the risk of catching Krauss and Natsuhi's notice. Since it's difficult to believe that anyone could have been living there after 1968, the scene in question must have taken place before 1968, meaning that the hypothetical Beatrice 3 couldn't be 19 years old in 1986.
In fact I said that Beato did not live in Kuwadorian, she probably has lived somewhere outside the island and had a normal life until six years ago.
Episode 1:
You have claimed that Kanon was dead at the beginning of the episode, meaning that every time we saw Kanon, it was actually Shannon. The servants would never mistake another human for Kanon. You've claimed that Genji and Kumasawa were accomplices for various reasons, but why didn't Gohda say anything to Natsuhi about it?
As Beato's accomplice Gohda is lying. And Natsuhi is not a servant, she is a member of the family.
Shannon appears to have very large breasts which would be impossible to bind for the purposes of a Kanon disguise. Therefore, your theory requires that Shannon normally be using pads, which she removed when she disguised herself. However, that would certainly be noticed by Battler if he succeeded in groping her in the morning, and yet she didn't even attempt to avoid him. This does not make sense.
There are many methods she can use to hide her breast.
But let's assume that somehow "Kanon" really was Shannon. At the fifth twilight, when the rest of the survivors arrived in the boiler room, the stake that was supposedly used in the attack was already lying on the ground. In other words, there is no concrete evidence that Shannon/Kanon was actually stabbed with it. Furthermore, the existence of fake blood on the island has already been demonstrated repeatedly.
But let's even assume Shannon/Kanon was actually stabbed. In addition to Nanjo, George and Jessica went along to help with treatment. Shannon/Kanon's top would have been removed to clean the wound, meaning that Shannon's identity would have been immediately exposed to everyone present. In that case, why didn't anyone say anything?
Nanjo is Beato's accomplice, he would never let the identity to be exposed.
Episode 2
Kanon died in Jessica's room. You have not presented any evidence explaining why Shannon would have killed him there. Furthermore, doing so would have left blood that would need to be cleaned up somehow without alerting Jessica, who lives in that room.
I never said it was Shannon to kill him, I think it was Beatrice and maybe he killed him there according to metaBeatrice.
Episode 3
No elements other than humans have any influence on this game board. This comprehensively denies the interference of beings from the meta world. You have not presented a motive that would explain Piece Beatrice's actions in the absence of meta interference.
The interferies could have been before the starting of the game.
Episode 4
You say that Jessica was threatened into telling her witch story to Battler over the phone. In that case, why was she laughing the whole time, and why did she say something strange like "I hear that I've been killed"?
Because that is what she heard. And because maybe that really made her laugh.
Episode 6
What Battler and Beato said about the person limit was: Even if we welcome you, the number of people is seventeen. That's not a limit, but an exact number. There are no more or less than seventeen living people on the island, so your explanation of why she's the 18th human on Rokkenjima doesn't work.
It is not an 18th human, but a 17th.
Beatrice + Krauss + Eva + Rudolph + Rosa + Jessica + George + Battler + Maria + Natsuhi + Hideyoshi + Kyrie + Nanjo + Genji + Shannon / Kanon + Kumasawa + Gohda = 17
|2010-05-22, 20:00
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: My beloved hometown, the mackerel river running through it
I've thought of something. Several people have theorized that Kinzo was murdered, but I didn't think much about it until I read a bit about it being fairly common, in books and real life, to poison people slowly over months. It could have been done.
Now, here's the thing. If Kinzo was a particularly bad person, there could be several accomplices who would not, under other circumstances, be a party to murder. Now, what would happen if one of the poisoners killed again? The others would have a better idea of who did it, but that person would have some ability to control them. Anyone who talks could have their secret exposed, heck, if they die on the island and the evidence goes out they could be posthumously named one of the culprits. (Well, the explosion would rule that out, but they don't know that.)
This is helpful for me since it plugs some holes in my solution. I have a lot of people who must know the culprit but have no reason to stay quiet. There's a lot of overlap between these people and the ones who might have killed Kinzo. It doesn't solve everything, but it is progress.
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Look Linkin I've already proven that your theory does not work I'm not readdressing EVERYTHING all over again so you can understand that person X does not exist. And don't claim your Beatrice piece is not a person X. She definitely is. You just said you don't beleive she lives on the island. A person X is adding any additional person by killing off another character. The number of people can only go DOWN not up. We've been lowering the count to make it so there are LESS suspects. Your culprit does not exist! Get over it!
|2010-05-22, 20:31
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Not to mention This red. I am the Golden Witch, Beatrice. (ep4) So this red. The sin I am now demanding that you remember is not between Ushiromiya Battler and Beatrice. Must refer to herself. The red would apply to her. It would be stupid and contradictory if she is asking Battler to remember his sin and then when he gets close shoot him down so his thinking goes completely in a different direction.
|2010-05-22, 20:58
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EDIT: Oh and there is also the fact that Beato couldn't say "all of the six were killed by other people" in red. She said "none of them committed suicide" instead. Kinzo is the most likely to not have been killed by another person. I don't know how to explain why she couldn't say that without Kinzo.
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|2010-05-22, 21:38
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If Erika doesn't exist, she's most likely not an object. I don't think a literal "Erika Ball" makes much sense, unless it's merely an object that transfers Erika-ness. And then you'd have to explain what that object is and why people would transfer it.
There's also the issue of explaining why exactly a person is referred to as "Erika." I do think the notion that she is the "illusion of the detective" in the same way Beatrice is the "illusion of the witch" is the way to look at her, though. Effectively, what Erika does is "magic" detective-work. Her efforts are equally implausible, but unlike magic, are theoretically possible. Realistically speaking, however, neither one is really all that likely.
But, if Erika doesn't exist, I think it's very important to ask all the questions that would arise from this. Does Meta-Erika know? Do Bern and Lambda know (one would think they'd have to, but...)? Why are they doing this? What benefit does Meta-Erika gain from believing she exists, and why have her there in the first place? How much of what she "sees" accurate? How is this "illusion of the detective" instructive to us with respect to Beato's games? Can we learn anything useful from them, or is this just a big red herring (which would either be a sign of bad writing, or a theory that is simply there to mislead).
|2010-05-22, 21:54
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And Erika doesn't know at first. But she certainly realizes it when she becomes the Witch of Truth, or at latest the time of Beatrice's resurrection, when both of them are loading red into their guns to strike the other down.
"I am...the Witch of Truth...that means...I am a witch who can understand the truth. That means...I can face the truth...about myself."
|2010-05-22, 22:03
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|2010-05-22, 22:41
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As for her name, I think the most likely is a play on Furude Rika, since Bern mentions that Erika is her double.
|2010-05-22, 22:49
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As for Rika and Frederica they are totally different. There is a message she left in Higurashi for this issue.
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|2010-05-22, 23:13
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Well I didn't notice the engrish until now...
I think what we have to figure out is why the characters would even take Erika's point of view other than that it works with conveniently with the red. Especially since she shouldn't be on the island in the first place.
|2010-05-22, 23:22
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|2010-05-22, 23:47
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Actually there is a very simple explanation for why. Beato should have de-existed in the same way at the end of episode 4, but due to the shackle rule she didn't, even though as Bernkastel says: her soul is dead and all that's left is a doll like corpse.
The shackle rule does not Have to apply to Erika at all and it's never been said that it does. If anything caused her deny herself there would be nothing keeping that from happening. She probably could've used some tricks to keep herself from de-existing just like Beato supposedly could have.
|2010-05-23, 00:01
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But why was Beatrice de-existing in ep4? Was it because she was giving up on existing, or because she was destroyed?
It's an important distinction; if a person can just be made to give up and stop existing, the statement made about them need not be true. For instance, if Shkanon is true and Erika doesn't know it, Battler and Beatrice can say "there are 17 people" knowing Erika will think it means she doesn't exist. If she then gives up, they win. I think that's a bit out of character for Battler to do, though.
That said, it has precedent: They've tried to essentially destroy Battler 2-3 times by making him give up and stop existing. On the other hand, he never really seemed to want to disappear of his own volition...
|2010-05-23, 00:39
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If we want to go with how it first happened to Battler in episode 4 though. The dominant question in his mind was "who am I?". We could say losing your identity or your sense of self is one of the losing conditions that can cause de-existence, but for whatever reason losing your identity is different from just giving up or to stop thinking.
You can stop thinking and start again later, but if you lose your sense of self well only someone else who knows what that self is can bring that back.
|2010-05-23, 00:48
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If you're being actively destroyed, that is, having your existence denied outright, it seems much more dire. What Erika is trying to do seems much, much more brutal and final. It may even be nearly irreversible (Battler was "killed" in ep5, but his existence can't really be denied because he does actually exist).
So that's the question: Did Erika just give up, or did they "kill" her meta-existence by denying her outright?
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Airlines Face Acute Shortage of Pilots
U.S. airlines are facing what threatens to be their most serious pilot shortage since the 1960s, with higher experience requirements for new hires about to take hold just as the industry braces for a wave of retirements. Jack Nicas has details on Lunch Break. Photo: AP.
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Ohio Credit Union League hosts Romanian delegation through World Council program
October 11, 2012
Representatives from the Federation of Romanian Credit Unions (FEDCAR) in a recent visit to Ohio included (from left) Chairman Serban Nicolae, Director Cristian Florin Bota, CEO Florin Simion and Director Sandu Marian Scirlet (not pictured).
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Federation of Romanian Credit Unions (FEDCAR) visited credit unions in Ohio (USA) last week to learn modern marketing strategies to help their credit unions build visibility and membership with limited resources. The Ohio Credit Union League (OCUL) hosted FEDCAR officials through World Council of Credit Unions' International Partnerships Program.
As part of their partnership agreement signed in 2011, OCUL provided marketing training geared toward bringing more credit unions into FEDCAR's membership. Training focused on techniques to improve member products and services, raise visibility and overcome perceptions that Romanian credit unions are remnants of Soviet rule.
FEDCAR officials visited Corporate One Credit Union employees to learn about products and services provided by corporate credit unions. Pictured left to right are Scirlet, Nicolae, Bota, Corporate One Chief Technology Officer Kurt Lykins and Simion.
In addition to meeting with OCUL representatives, the Romanian delegation visited several other credit unions ranging from the state's largest, Wright-Patt Credit Union, to the newest and smallest, Nueva Esperanza Community Credit Union. Additional visits included Corporate One Federal Credit Union, Directions Credit Union and CSE Federal Credit Union. Each credit union presented a different set of useful marketing strategies and tools for FEDCAR, according to John Florian, OCUL vice president of government and political affairs.
"Since FEDCAR's primary objective was to learn best practices in marketing, we asked some of our best Ohio credit union marketing professionals to share their most effective promotional strategies, and they did a fantastic job," Florian said.
Throughout the visit, FEDCAR officials learned about a wide variety of credit union marketing initiatives, including product lines targeting youth members and a local reality TV program with a financial education spin. FEDCAR CEO Florin Simion said they plan to adapt and apply many of the things they learned to their own credit union system.
"We have learned a lot about their marketing products, projects and day-by-day activity," Simion said. "We participated in presentations regarding what is to be done for more visibility in the community, how to better assess people's needs and how to serve them better."
Joining Simion on the visit were FEDCAR Chairman Serban Nicolae and board members Sandu Marian Scirlet and Cristian Florin Bota. OCUL hosts included Paul Mercer, president and CEO, and Florian. Victor Miguel Corro, World Council vice president of the Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions and director of the International Partnerships Program, coordinated the visit.
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I tried both lengthwise and crosswise grain, I cut the other end of the selvedge off to see if it would make a difference, it didn't. I measured, shifted, eased, petted, stroked, twisted and turned all to no avail!
As you can see the black stripes line up but the blue lines fall somewhere in the middle, is the print supposed to be like this? I know prints don't always run true to grain and in quilting I can fudge a little and make it all work. But with my limited knowledge of dressmaking I have always understood grain matters!
Pulling the fabric so that all lines match distorts the grain far too much, I don't think the garment will drape as it is supposed if I did that. I could not even cut the pattern out this way because I can't get the fabric to lay flat off grain like that!
I could line up the black horizontal and ignore the blue but then I will have a semi diagonal blue line running somewhere through the center front. Or vice verse if I line up the black lines vertical.
I don't know what to do! I am not sure if I can make a Tova top with this fabric, will it look too odd if the blue lines don't match up? Am I doing this all wrong? What would you do?
If any of you clever people out there has some advice for me I would greatly appreciate it!
x Leila