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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled corporations can give unlimited amounts of money to politicians and political causes—free speech.
Mitt Romney says corporations are people.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled corporations can give unlimited amounts of money to politicians and political causes—free speech. The Court is considering whether to allow corporations to deny employees certain health insurance benefits—freedom of religion.
Some believe the sole purpose for a corporations existence is to make it's owners money.
Some believe corporations should act ethically, be held accountable and punished for their misconduct.
Please consider the following corporate activities:
In 1999 Caterpillar paid Pricewaterhouse Coopers more than $55.0 million to devise and put into effect a corporate restructuring that shifted most of the profits from overseas parts sales to a Swiss subsidiary saving/deferring or avoiding $2.4 billion in U.S taxes over the last 15 years. Wall Street Journal April 2, 2014
Over two-thirds of corporations pay no federal corporate income tax. Headline January 10, 2012 Huffington Post
Nearly 300 Fortune 500 Companies paid 18.3 per cent in taxes and 30 companies –such as GE, Wells Fargo, Verizon, Boeing didn't pay a cent in 2008-9-10. Citizens For Tax Justice report 11/3/2011
Corporate tax avoidance cost states a combined $42.7 billion between 2008-2010. Citizens For Tax Justice report December 2011
Other articles on corporate tax avoidance:
CNN-Many big firms pay zero corporate tax (video)
Washington Post---Big corporations use loopholes, dodge taxes, study shows
New York Times –Biggest public firms paid little U.S tax study says
Bloomberg—Thirty top companies profited without paying tax study finds
Reuters—Thirty companies paid no income tax 2008-2010 report
Since January 1, 2014 GM has recalled 7 million vehicles of 27 different models it sold with defective ignition switches and lock cylinders that resulted in at least 13 deaths.
Since January 1, 2014 BMW AG, Fiat, Chrysler , Ford, GM, Toyota, and Volkswagen have recalled 15 million vehicles.
During the 1990's auto makers issued recalls of 123 million vehicles which rose to 170 million in the 2000s. Wall Street Journal April 10-11, 2014
J.P. Morgan Chase paid $13.0 billion in fines and settlement costs in October 2013 for making false and misleading statements about bond and mortgage securities which contributed to the Wall Street meltdown in 2007. Bloomberg News October 23, 2013
The six largest banks paid $62.2 billion in fines for their 2007 wrongdoing which caused the second greatest economic collapse in U.S History. Six years later criminal charges, have NOT BEEN FILED AGAINST ONE TOP BANK OFFICIAL FOR THIS CORPORATE WRONGDOING. Numerous articles in many publications
BP was fined $4.5 billion in November 2012 for the Deepwater Horizon disaster for violating well safety tests in which eleven workers were killed. Wall Street Journal October 19, 2013
Exxon paid $900 million to settle the Valdez oil spill of March 24, 1989. Wall Street Journal October 19, 2013
On March 29, 2013 Exxon-Mobile's pipeline near Mayflower, Arkansas ruptured sending thousands of barrels of Canadian oil through a residential area causing 27 homeowners to evacuate their homes. Spill under investigation. Numerous articles in Arkansas Times—Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
In 1998 the five largest tobacco makers agreed to pay out $246 billion to the various states over the course of 25 years ending in 2025. WSJ October 19, 20
GlaxoSmithKline in July 2012 paid a fine of $3 billion for illegally marketing drugs and withholding safety data. Pfizer fined $2.3 billion in 2009, Abbott Laboratories fined $1.6 billion in 2012, Eli Lilly fined $1.42 billion in 2009 and Merck & Co fined $950 million in 2011. WSJ October 19, 2013
Alpha Natural Resources, the third largest U.S. coal company agreed to and paid a fine of $27.5 million in June 2013 for water pollution in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Alpha, and its subsidiaries, discharged heavy metals 6,289 times through 794 different discharge points. Associated Press March 14, 2014
FAA fined Southwest Airline in March 2009 $7.5 million for flying planes that were not safety checked. NBC News March 2, 2009
Should criminal charges be brought against the top Wall Street bank officials responsible for the 2007 massive securities fraud?
Should auto makers be allowed to sell cars with defective parts in order to make more money for GM's shareholders?
Should corporations who make billions of dollars in profits be allowed to pay no federal income tax?
Should corporations who pollute your drinking water with toxic waste be held accountable and punished?
Should politicians accept contributions from corporations that do not treat their customers, their employees and the public in an honorable, credible ethical manner?
Would you vote for politicians who accept contributions from corporations who are guilty of misconduct?
(Paul Rawlings of Heber Springs contributes his "progressive" viewpoint each week to the The Sun-Times. He writes a blog at www.pauls-musings.blogspot.com)


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Coleman had match-fixing suspicions
Wales manager Chris Coleman was suspicious about some of the games he managed in Spain and Greece following the recent allegations over match-fixing.
This week, an investigation carried out by Europol found that around 380 games across Europe and another 300 games outside the continent may have been the subject of match-fixing.
Coleman has overseen jobs at Real Sociedad and Larissa prior to his role at Wales, and he felt "something was going on" during his time spent abroad.
He said on Sky Sports News: "I've managed in Spain, I've managed in Greece. Some of the games I've been involved in, I can tell you, wasn't fair.
"Something was going on. You can't pinpoint it, but you know there's something going on because of the decisions that are made during the 90 minutes, or even some of the performances of the opposition. You're scratching your head, bizarre things - so you know there's something not quite right.
"I didn't know anybody that was connected with it, but it was different to what I've been used to." Coleman, who has also been the manager of Fulham and Coventry, said that he has not witnessed match-fixing in Britain.
He added: "I can honestly say, hand on my heart, and I'm proud to say that in all my experience of managing on our island, I've never been suspicious of anything - never been suspicious of a referee being corrupt, never been suspicious of my own players or the opposition players or the opposition manager, anybody on my staff. I've never ever seen it, honestly.
"Looking at the statistics surrounding the corruption, it is frightening, really, startling, and shameful. We always thought that in football you were always going to get one or two who would try and bend the rules but on that scale is alarming and disappointing."

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The Buffalo Bills and Rogers Media announced a new agreement Tuesday that will keep Rogers Centre as the team's second home.
Buffalo will play one regular-season game at the home of the Toronto Blue Jays for the next five years, and the new contract also includes one preseason game in 2015.
The Buffalo Bills and Rogers Media announced a new agreement Tuesday that will keep Rogers Centre as the team's second home.
Buffalo will play one regular-season game at the home of the Toronto Blue Jays for the next five years, and the new contract also includes one preseason game in 2015.
The existing five-year deal — which was worth $78 million — expired when Seattle posted a 50-17 win over Buffalo Dec. 16. But an extension had long been expected despite lingering attendance problems. Only 40,770 fans attended the Seahawks' win, far short of a sellout. Some 53,000 fans had been expected.
It was not a good day for the Bills, all around. With 5:20 left in the game, fans in one end zone began chanting "Let's Go Blue Jays!" Of course, it was fine by Seattle, which rolled to its third of what would be six consecutive wins.
"This was exciting for us," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said at the time. "We looked at it like a little bit of a bowl-game situation."
There was a halftime show, as well, so perhaps Carroll was on the right track with that theory. Organizers went so far in a bid to drum up support by having Korean pop star PSY perform his hit "Gangnam Style" after the second quarter ended.
Buffalo, which finished 6-10 and underwent a coaching change this month, is just 1-4 in regular-season games in Toronto, and some players have spoken out about the deal, worried that taking away a home game from the Buffalo region is somewhat counterproductive.
"Yeah, I did call it a joke," Bills center Wood said at the time. "It stunk that we were up there. And I was heated when I said it was a joke. And I'm not going to sit here and retract all my statements because that's what I meant and what I felt.
"Those non-Bills fans that go to the game are just cheering for plays as opposed to cheering for a team. And that kills you."
Defensive tackle Kyle Williams concurred.
"It's very similar to a road game, but also I understand the business side of things," Williams said then. "I don't think you'd find a guy in here that wouldn't agree that they would much rather be in Ralph Wilson Stadium."
Wood understands how playing in Canada's financial capital and largest city benefits a small-market team such as the Bills by generating additional revenue and luring fans to attend the team's games at Orchard Park. He emphasized he wasn't criticizing Toronto as a community, because he enjoys makes numerous trips there.
"I love the city of Toronto for eating and for pleasure," Wood said. "But the game just has a different feel. And it's not a whole lot of fun to play in at this point."
The Bills recently extended their lease at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y., for 10 years, which should solidify the franchise's short-term future.
After the season ended with a 28-9 win over the New York Jets, Buffalo fired coach Chan Gailey, replacing him with Doug Marrone. Buffalo lost three of its final four games.


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Do you ever watch the Raiders and Titans and wonder why the play-callers can't get Darren McFadden or Chris Johnson the ball in space more often? In fantasy football, as in the NFL, coaching can have a dramatic impact on a player's production. There are strong arguments to be made that neither McFadden nor Johnson, both reading and hesitating at the line of scrimmage, is a particularly good fit for a zone-blocking scheme. In 25 games with Tom Cable's zone-blocking system from 2007-09, McFadden rushed for 856 yards on 217 carries (3.9 YPC) and just one game over 90 yards. Enter Hue Jackson, a more creative schemer who installed McFadden's favorite running plays in a power-blocking scheme. In 20 games under Jackson, McFadden exploded for 1,771 rushing yards at 5.1 per clip with 11 games over 90 yards. I can't put the disappointing Week 2 performances on the running backs. McFadden simply had no holes to exploit against a dominant Dolphins run defense that hasn't allowed a 100-yard rushing performance in 16 games. Want a sign that problem lies in blocking, not McFadden? He's getting first contact on average 0.7 yards downfield compared to 3.6 yards a season ago.There is no shortage of theories on Johnson's struggles, but he simply had no chance versus a Chargers defense that has completely shut down both backs in consecutive weeks. Johnson was hit behind the line of scrimmage on two of his first three carries, and the Titans were down 17-0 before they ran their sixth offensive play. McFadden is confident the Raiders' ground attack is "going to start popping." Titans backup Javon Ringer tells us the coaches "want to get C.J. rolling" this week versus the Lions. What to do in fantasy leagues? If you can land Johnson for a Michael Bush, BenJarvus Green-Ellis, Alfred Morris or even a WR3 type like Malcom Floyd (those small sample size panic offers are out there; I've seen them on Twitter), I would pull the trigger. The carry totals have nowhere to go but up, and with that comes the opportunity to add boom to the bust performance to date. As Evan Silva points, the optimal buying point may not come until Week 7, though. CJ401K's Weeks 4-6 stretch includes daunting matchups versus the Texans and Steelers.Already having faced two stout run defenses, McFadden draws the shut-down Steelers in Week 3 followed by a strong Broncos defense in Week 4. Coming out of the Week 5 bye, however, McFadden has a walk in the park versus the Falcons, Jaguars and Chiefs. That Week 4-5 window is prime buy-low real estate.
Week 3 Quarterbacks
QB Notes: Brees isn't getting quality pass protection through two weeks, but there's shootout potential in Kansas City versus a defense that has bent over backwards for the Falcons and Bills. … Keep an eye on Newton and the read-option Thursday night. The Panthers had over 130 rushing yards out of the option by halftime of last week's game. … The Packers haven't been the same on offense since Christmas night, with Rodgers struggling to move the ball consistently in four of their past five games. Playing in Seattle against one of the NFL's fastest and most physical defenses is no picnic. As we told you last week, RGIII is for real. He has the highest completion percentage in NFL history among players with 50+ career pass attempts, is excelling versus the blitz and completing a ridiculous 79 percent of his play-action pass attempts at 15.5 yards per. Baylor's offense should continue to get it done for fantasy leaguers against a Bengals pass defense already shredded by Joe Flacco and Brandon Weeden.The Eagles have been a sloppy, turnover-happy mess at times, but they marched up and down the field consistently against a traditionally stingy Ravens defense. Vick was sharp in Week 2, but he faces Calais Campbell and Patrick Peterson -- two of the best defensive players in the league last week -- in Arizona. Some people will tell you Peterson isn't yet a great cover corner. Those people are wrong.Rivers isn't holding the ball for long stretches like he did when he struggled at mid-season a year ago. It's a good sign for his 2012 value. … Flacco made some beautiful throws versus the Eagles, but his accuracy went in the tank in the second half when he started habitually throwing off his back foot -- pressured or not. … Luck may not wow you with spectacular plays like Griffin does, but he excelled out of the shotgun on 77.1 percent of his snaps versus the Vikings. Peyton faces the league's toughest pass defense, led by J.J. Swat and legit lock-down corner Johnathan Joseph. … Struggling to nail down timing with his receivers, Palmer has been the picture of inefficiency so far. … Locker was downright brutal versus the Chargers, and his receivers aren't helping. … Bradford, on the other hand, has been a changed man early in the season, showing a rifle arm and converting big third-down plays. Ponder is not only leading the NFL in completion percentage, but his 75 percent mark is the third-highest after two games since 1960. Failing to threaten defenses vertically, though, he sorely misses Jerome Simpson. … Don't get carried away with Weeden's 300-yard game. While he did play with much more confidence and stood in against the blitz, the Bengals defense has been a hot mess.
Week 3 Running Backs
RB Notes: While the Raiders and Titans fail to get their backs in space, Bills coach Chan Gailey is a master of creating room for his runners to operate. It starts with Gailey's spread offense, which was bolstered by a dizzying array of draws, reverses, fake reverses and Wildcat looks in Week 2. It certain helps that Spiller has that instant second gear and freakish lateral agility that CJ2K once flashed on a regular basis. Reggie Bush is the only NFL back with more total rushing yards than Spiller's 211 yards after contact through two weeks. Can we expect Spiller to keep the job once Fred Jackson returns in 3-4 weeks? Spiller is averaging 153.8 scrimmage yards and over a touchdown per game going back to Week 15 of last season. He's gaining an eye-popping 10.7 yards every time he touches the ball this season. Keep in mind, however, that F-Jax topped 100 yards in 8-of-9 games as a top-three fantasy back before his mid-season injury a year ago. Jackson is also a highly respected team leader and coaching staff favorite. Spiller's hot start will earn him a significant role the rest of the way, but I wouldn't expect Jackson to fade away. Speaking of Bush, how would you like a three-down back with goal-line duties coming off 100 rushing yards in five of his past six games while averaging 149.3 scrimmage yards over that span? Concerns about Joe Philbin and Mike Sherman veering from Tony Sparano's plan to use Bush as an every-down back appear to be unfounded. "The durability is what amazes me," Sherman told the Palm Beach Post on Monday. "He's out there today like he didn't even play a game yesterday." Look for more of that same heavy workload going forward.One small note on Rice: Running backs are averaging just 1.9 yards per on 40 carries versus the Patriots this year. … Martin invites comparisons to Rice based on body type, skill-set and history with coach Greg Schiano, but he doesn't have Rice's acceleration. … I wouldn't hesitate to use Mathews in his first week back. He was physically prepared to play a week ago; the Bolts just opted to hold him out one more week to get him mentally ready. Arian Foster's 13 red-zone carries lead the NFL. Curtis Brinkley and Jackie Battle of the Chargers have combined for 17 such totes. What a difference a week makes. Richardson offered no burst and saw no running lanes versus the Eagles. That all changed in Cincinnati, where Richardson exploded through holes and looked even better after the catch. Don't be overly concerned with Chris Ogbonnaya's six receptions. Richardson was in the game on passing downs than Obie and offers much more after-catch ability. Charles is practicing fully this week after leaving the Bills' blowout late in the third quarter with a knee bruise. If the owner in your league is in panic mode, take full advantage. He has an excellent matchup this week versus a Saints defense that has been bowled over on the ground. … David Wilson operated as the change-of-pace back to Ahmad Bradshaw early in the game and Andre Brown in the second half. He's not trusted as more than a package-play back. Expect Brown to see 15-20 touches Thursday night. … As Adam Levitan would say, S-Jax is 29, has a soft tissue strain and plays the running back position. It's not a good mix. Benson and Greene can be benched against the forbidding run defenses of the Seahawks and Dolphins. … Although Dwayne Bowe was the Week 2 garbage-time king, Hillis also padded his yards per carry rate. He looks like he's running in quick sand, stutter-stepping too much. … If your local NCAA apologist tells you the NFL is an inferior product because the players "don't give enough effort," point him toward Pierre Thomas' Week 2 tackler-carrying bonanza versus the Panthers. Rotoworld's Chet Gresham described Michael Turner this week as a "fat pug trying to roll uphill." Needless to say, it's an apt (and vivid) comparison. Turner is done; the sooner the Falcons realize it, the better for their offense. … Kevin Smith took the majority of the first-team reps in Wednesday's practice, but Leshoure wasn't far behind. I would expect a fairly even split versus the Titans.Sunday Update: Moved Steven Jackson down, Daryl Richardson up slightly. S-Jax is active and starting but expected to be limited by the groin injury in a tough matchup. Moved Mikel Leshoure up, Kevin Smith down after Lions announced LeShoure as the starter.
Week 3 Wide Receivers
WR Notes: Megatron has averaged 162.7 yards in his past six games. … As they do annually, too many fantasy owners are overreacting to the season's first two weeks. Jump all over Julio Jones if your league's owner is nervous. … Cruz leads the NFL in targets (26). He has 11+ targets in each of the first two games after seeing 11 or more in just three games a year ago. There's a good chance he will make three in a row with Hakeem Nicks out. Even at age 33, it's no surprise that Steve Smith lead the NFL with 101 yards on deep passes. What may be a surprise, however, is that LaFell is third with 90 yards. That tells us a lot about Cam Newton, poised to exploit a shaky Giants secondary Thursday night. … Slipping and breaking tackles with equal aplomb, Harvin has been the most impressive skill-position player I've seen through two weeks. The sky isn't falling on Dez Bryant. The Seahawks physical corners knocked him off his routes early, and Tony Romo prides himself on getting rid of the ball in 2.5 seconds or less. Look for a bounceback game against Aqib Talib, who was abused by Nicks in Week 2. … It was obvious a week ago that Josh Freeman trusts Vincent Jackson to beat his man at the point of the catch. It's a tough matchup this week versus the Cowboys corners, but V-Jax remains a good bet for WR2 production. I agree with Levitan that Lloyd is on the verge of a breakout game. He's been heavily targeted, has come close to a few big plays downfield and won't have Patrick Peterson hounding him this week. … Garcon is already doing more in practice this week than last. It looks like he has a better chance than Maclin of suiting up for Week 3. … Demaryius Thomas has a tough matchup with Johnathan Joseph in coverage. … DeSean Jackson is playing better than he has in a couple of years, even making tough catches in heavy traffic. Sidney Rice has another tough matchup against a defense that shut down Brandon Marshall, but it's worth noting that he's leading all receivers in red-zone targets. … Britt's snap count is expected to increase this week. He's a shaky WR3 option until we see him produce on those surgically-repaired knee. Teammate Washington is leading the NFL in drop rate. Barden played 47 snaps to Randle's three in Week 2. We can expect Barden to take on a bigger role with Nicks out, but he's been a disappointment thus far in his career. … Collie practiced fully on Wednesday. Any time he suits up, he's a better fantasy option than Avery. Blackmon has had trouble separating from coverage. I suspect it's part route-running and part Blaine Gabbert. I would hold onto him as a roster stash in 12-team leagues. … The slippery Hawkins isn't trustworthy yet as a WR3 in PPR formats, but he's a player to watch as the league-leader in yards after the catch.Sunday Update: Moved Greg Jennings, Torrey Smith down. Jennings is expected to play but will be limited. Smith vows to play, but could be touch and go following his brother's early morning death. Moved Donnie Avery up, Austin Collie down after the Colts announced Avery as the Week 3 starter. Bumped Leonard Hankerson as the starter over Aldrick Robinson. Moved Dexter McCluster down, as details on his injury are scarce.
Week 3 Tight Ends
TE Notes: Gronk should see more consistent targets now that Aaron Hernandez is out of the picture for a month. … Gates looked good in Wednesday's practice and appears safe to pencil in lineups at mid-week. … Every time I looked up in the Eagles-Ravens game, Celek had shaken free from coverage to give Michael Vick a clear target on intermediate routes. An underappreciated athlete after the catch, Celek is also leading all tight ends in Yards Per Route Run at 3.22, up from 1.9 as fantasy's No. 5 tight end in 2011. Don't forget, Celek's uptick in production down the stretch coincided with Jeremy Maclin's spate of injuries. Pettigrew's matchup couldn't be better this week. The Titans surrendered five receiving scores through two weeks, all to tight ends. … Anecdotal evidence suggests Eli Manning loves to throw to his tight ends in the end zone. Statistical evidence supports the notion as well. Matchups guru Evan Silva believes the big, athletic Bennett is a good bet for double-digit scores this season.Pitta led all tight ends in targets the first two weeks and officially bypassed Ed Dickson on the Ravens' depth chart on Wednesday. He's earned confidence as a TE1 play. … Tamme's snap count is an issue, as we suspected it would be. He's no lock to outproduce Dreessen on a week-in, week-out basis. … Chandler could have had another 20+ yards last week, but Ryan Fitzpatrick missed him wide open.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Following a season full of notable athletic success, both the MIT men's cross country team, who captured its 12th consecutive conference title in the fall, and the women's squad, which finished a program-best fifth at the NCAA Division III Championship, were honored for their accomplishments in the classroom last week. The teams each received the All-Academic Award from the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA), given to teams with a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.10 that compiled a team score at the NCAA Regional Championship. In addition to the team awards, seven individual student-athletes garnered accolades from the USTFCCCA, including five by the women's squad, matching the second highest total by any team in the nation.
The women's cross country team captured the Division III New England crown for the first time in program history en route to its historic fifth-place showing at the National Championship. As a team, the Engineers recorded a cumulative GPA of 3.52. Tech's individual All-Academic honorees were Katherine Eve, Alina Gatowski, Maria Monks, Tania Morimoto and Jacqui Wentz. Monks was one of 13 athletes nationally to record a 4.0 cumulative GPA. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must carry a minimum 3.3 cumulative GPA and must have finished among the top 35 at their respective NCAA Regional Championship meet.
On the men's side, Tech garnered All-Academic Team honors with a 3.44 team GPA, after taking home a sixth-place finish, its best since 2003, at the Division III New England Championship. Hemagiri Arumugam and Paul Welle were also named to the All-Academic team individually.


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This report presents the properties of a specification of the domain of process planning for rotary symmetrical workpieces. The specification results from a model for problem solving in this domain that involves different reasoners, one of which is an AI planner that achieves goals corresponding to machining workpieces by considering certain operational restrictions of the domain. When planning with SNLP (McAllester and Rosenblitt, 1991), we will show that the resulting plans have the property of minimizing the use of certain key operations. Further, we will show that, for elastic protected plans (Kambhampati et al., 1996) such as the ones produced by SNLP, the goals corresponding to machining parts of a workpiece are OE-constrained trivial serializable, a special form of trivial serializability (Barrett and Weld, 1994). However, we will show that planning with SNLP in this domain can be very difficult: elastic protected plans for machining parts of a workpiece are nonmergeable. Finally, we will show that, for sufix, prefix or sufix and prefix plans such as the ones produced by state-space planners, it is not possible to have both properties, being OEconstrained trivial serializable and minimizing the use of the key operations, at the same time.
Problem specifications for classical planners based on a STRIPS-like representation typically consist of an initial situation and a partially defined goal state. Hierarchical planning approaches, e.g., Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) Planning, have not only richer representations for actions but also for the representation of planning problems. The latter are defined by giving an initial state and an initial task network in which the goals can be ordered with respect to each other. However, studies with a specification of the domain of process planning for the plan-space planner CAPlan (an extension of SNLP) have shown that even without hierarchical domain representation typical properties called goal orderings can be identified in this domain that allow more efficient and correct case retrieval strategies for the case-based planner CAPlan/CbC. Motivated by that, this report describes an extension of the classical problem specifications for plan-space planners like SNLP and descendants. These extended problem specifications allow to define a partial order on the planning goals which can interpreted as an order in which the solution plan should achieve the goals. These goal ordering can theoretically and empirically be shown to improve planning performance not only for case-based but also for generative planning. As a second but different way we show how goal orderings can be used to address the control problem of partial order planners. These improvements can be best understood with a refinement of Barrett's and Weld's extended taxonomy of subgoal collections.
We describe a hybrid case-based reasoning system supporting process planning for machining workpieces. It integrates specialized domain dependent reasoners, a feature-based CAD system and domain independent planning. The overall architecture is build on top of CAPlan, a partial-order nonlinear planner. To use episodic problem solving knowledge for both optimizing plan execution costs and minimizing search the case-based control component CAPlan/CbC has been realized that allows incremental acquisition and reuse of strategical problem solving experience by storing solved problems as cases and reusing them in similar situations. For effective retrieval of cases CAPlan/CbC combines domain-independent and domain-specific retrieval mechanisms that are based on the hierarchical domain model and problem representation.
Planning means constructing a course of actions to achieve a specified set of goals when starting from an initial situation. For example, determining a sequence of actions (a plan) for transporting goods from an initial location to some destination is a typical planning problem in the transportation domain. Many planning problems are of practical interest.


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TAMIU Faculty Member Receives Austin Film Society
Marcela Morán
Marcela Morán, assistant professor of communications at Texas A&M International University, recently won a Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund (TFPF) grant from the Austin Film Society and is hard at work on a new documentary film entitled, "Jornaleros."
Morán's project will take her to Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans and parts of South Texas, in search of jornaleros, or day laborers skilled in different trades looking for jobs on the streets, and of undocumented immigrants already working. The film will explore human rights violations against day laborers and the criminalization of undocumented immigrants in the United States.
"I feel very honored to have received this funding as I'm one of 24 out of 183 applicants chosen for the 2010 TFPF," Morán said, "It is highly competitive, and the committee who chooses winners is made up of talented filmmakers and past recipients."
The Austin Film Society awards grants once a year to emerging film and video artists in the State of Texas through its TFPF, the Society's website says. Awards are provided to artists whose work shows promise, skill and creativity. TFPF recipients have shown their films at renowned festivals such as Sundance, Cannes, Toronto, Tribecca, Slamdance and SXSW and have been nominated for Gotham Awards and won Independent Spirit Awards and Student Academy Awards.
The idea of interviewing jornaleros emerged after Morán's producer and collaborator, Maritza Bautista, a TAMIU alum, brought the subject to her attention based on her past experiences of working closely with day laborers while living in Chicago.
Morán said she and Bautista have established contacts in most of the cities where they will be conducting interviews.
"Upon arrival, we make additional contacts," she said, "At times, we will just show up to a specific location, like a Home Depot parking lot in Chicago and spend hours talking to people and getting to know them before they agree to be interviewed and participate in the project."
Artists, educators, activists and religious groups have been pivotal in assisting director and producer in making connections with interview subjects, Morán said.
In addition to Bautista, a former TAMIU student, Noé Cuéllar, will assist in making the documentary as sound designer. Both were Morán's former video production students at TAMIU. Bautista received her bachelor's degree in psychology with a minor in studio art from TAMIU while Cuéllar transferred from the University to The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, where he received his bachelor's degree. Bautista also received her master's degree from The School of the Art Institute in Chicago.
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Ive decided its time to update my quiver and expand my kite range. I currently ride a 13m Xbow and a 9 Convert. I have ridden the 13m prob 95% of my riding time, which i love it, and have missed some awesome fall winds because my 9m is just too big. However, when i do get out on my 9m its a fun kite which i wish i could ride more.
I am considering the following 2013 Kites: 13m Xbow, 10m Switchblade and 7m Drifter. I like the wind ranges on the xbow and sb, and I feel with a 10m sb ill be able to ride in more winds than with the 9m convert.
Ive put my eye on the drifter because when we get strong winds here it gets really gusty, and big chop, so i thought this would be a suitable kite to handle the line slack. My question is that the 7m Drifter wind chart shows range from 19knots +. The cabrinha chart isnt clear what the top range is. Can anybody give me an answer on this? Thanks guys.


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It looks as though Apple has decided to take all future software updates wireless and Apple will now stream all iOS updates over the air (OTA). This could be a great thing for folks who don't want to depend on a computer to have to update their devices and even better if iCloud ends up bringing iTunes to you wirelessly.
Apple is "cutting the cord," according to Forstall. New menus and a new Welcome screen will also be implemented into iOS 5 as well.
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One official after the other from the public and private sector had glowing words of support at a dedication of the Historic Slocum Creek Recreation Area Tuesday evening in Havelock.
One official after the other from the public and private sector had glowing words of support at a dedication of the Historic Slocum Creek Recreation Area Tuesday evening in Havelock.
Held under the Rotary Club gazebo outside the Havelock Tourist and Event Center, the event brought together all of the players in a multi-facet, multi-phase project to convert a winding stretch of Slocum Creek into a center for history, preservation, recreation and education.
�This is all about partnerships,� Havelock Mayor Jimmy Sanders said. �This has been a dream and a desire for some of us for a long time; however it wasn�t until 2012 that actions replaced desires.�
Sanders pointed out that a Coastal Area Management Act grant, the N.C. Coastal Land Trust and the Harold H. Bate Foundation joined with the city to get money to purchase property along the creek off Church Road.
The heart of the project is 2.5 acres that sit on a bluff overlooking 285 feet of frontage on Slocum Creek. Funding for the purchase of the property included $133,000 from the Coastal Area Management Act, $25,000 from the N.C. Attorney General Environmental Division and $20,000 from the Bate Foundation through the Coastal Land Trust and $7,000 from the city.
John Thayer Jr., manager of planning and public access for the N.C. Division of Coastal Management, said a grant application to CAMA for picnic tables, permanent grills, two kayak launches, benches, trash receptacles, gravel driveway and signage is likely to be approved. That would be an $81,000 grant in which the city would be required to spend $20,300.
�It is in the running and it is being looked on very favorably,� Thayer said.
�I think that the town should be proud and this is one of the better examples of public/private planning,� Thayer added.
Long-range plans call for a footbridge across the creek linking access to the Tourist and Event Center, where exhibits managed by the Eastern Carolina Aviation Heritage Foundation detail the history of Marine Corps aviation and of Cherry Point. Other plans call for the historic Trader Store and the adjacent World War II-era train depot to be moved to the site.
�This all began 12 years ago when the Rotary had the vision to make access on Slocum Creek,� Sanders said.
Today, fishermen and recreational boaters use the CAMA-funded boat ramp to access the creek and the nearby Neuse River.
�Our long-range plan is for this to become the history center of Havelock,� Sanders said.
At or near the site are remains of an old grist mill and remains of a Civil War-era fort.
Sanders said that one of the big drivers was the move of the old Church Road bridge, which afforded better access to the area.
�This is a perfect example of what we can do when we all work together,� Sanders said.
The group is also working with corporate sponsors on the project such as Duke Energy.
�It will enlarge the Havelock community and that will enhance the natural environment,� said Millie Chalk, a district manager for Duke Energy.
Robert Mattocks, of the Bate Foundation, said Harold Bate would have been proud to contribute to this project.
�Harold was a naturalist. He accumulated his wealth from the land in the timber industry,� Mattocks said. �Harold Bate would be very pleased to be involved in this.�
Lt. Col. Brian Blalock, executive officer at Cherry Point, called the project a �good news story.�
�This particular project here at Slocum Creek, which is a mere stone�s throw away from Cherry Point, the nation�s largest Marine Corps air station, will undoubtedly improve the quality of life for many Havelock residents and military families who can get out and enjoy this beautiful area,� Blalock said.
After several speeches, about 60 people in attendance ventured down a path to Slocum Creek to an overlook where the property for the recreation area is located.
Scott Chase, a former Havelock planning director who is credited for building the coalition of parties and facilitating the project�s beginning, came from Raleigh to be a part of the event.
�It�s exciting,� Chase said. �It will be interesting to see it come together over the next few years.�
City manager Jim Freeman said that clearing and other site preparation could be underway within the next 12 months, followed by other features as grant monies are received.


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I just saw this from Oracle Newsflash. Oracle Launches Exadata On Demand for High-Performance Computing. http://www.oracle.com/newsletters/information-indepth/on-demand/dec-10/exadataod.html.
This is very exciting. Of course the details are little at this time. But when the model matures, it allows us to play with the technology without investing a whole lot in in. A pet peeve of mine about Exadata was that it was a hardware; not a software. Unlike other Oracle products, I couldn't just download it and test the features. The limitation is huge. My role in my organization is to develop roadmaps and champion technological innovations. But without getting hands dirty, it comes to a pure paper excercise, which is not something I ever do.
With this, I am sure a lot of folks will now be able to validate their current systems against the Exadata platforms, making it easier and more prudent for them to champion it within their sphere of influence.
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Congress could still complete work on a new farm bill in January if the Senate can quickly resolve its amendment issues when it returns from the Thanksgiving recess, the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee said.
Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., said one key would be breaking the stalemate over how many amendments that can be offered for the Senate version of the farm bill. Some are blaming the White House for the impasse, but Peterson said the situation is more complicated.
After having little to say about the bill since the House passed its version in July, Peterson broke his silence at a press briefing just prior to the recess. Despite the stalemate in the Senate, he remains optimistic about the prospects for a 2007 farm bill.
"One of the reasons I haven't said much is I wanted the Senate to work on their bill without us getting in the way," he said. "I've been getting more and more questions about the situation, and some of them I can't answer. I think when folks go home they're going to hear from their constituents, and they'll figure out some way to move this ahead."
Peterson said he believes getting a bill passed and signed by the president eventually will involve negotiations with the White House. And he would like to meet with the president to try to find common ground on the bill.
"I think there needs to be some serious discussions with the White House, but I can't have those discussions until the Senate is finished with whatever they're doing," he noted. "I have some ideas about how to break this logjam once we get into conference, but I think it would be premature to say anything now."
Senate Democratic leaders tried to invoke cloture on the farm bill before they left for the Thanksgiving recess but fell five votes short of the 60 needed to limit debate on the bill to 30 hours and require both parties to negotiate a list of priority amendments.
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, said Democratic leaders would try the procedure again when the Senate returns to Washington the first week in December. Harkin and other Democrats blame the White House for the stalemate in the Senate, claiming the president's staff has told Senate Republicans to "kill" the farm bill rather than have the president follow through on the White House's threat to veto a farm bill.
Peterson disagreed, however, saying he believes the situation is the reverse of what Harkin and Sen. Kent Conrad, the senior Democrat on the agriculture committee, have been saying.
"I don't think it's the White House," said Peterson. "I think it's the Senate Republicans who don't want the White House to veto the bill, and then they have to defend the White House."
Peterson said administration officials, including Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner, have made no secret of their dislike of the payment limit language in the Senate Agriculture Committee's farm bill, which is now on the Senate floor.
The bill lowers the adjusted gross income a person can earn and continue to receive farm payments to $750,000 by 2009 but actually increases the amount of counter-cyclical and marketing loan deficiency payments each person can receive.
"If you look at what the president is focusing on, things like payment limits, cotton, this is a tough bill to swallow in the South," said Peterson. "I think it's a very difficult situation for the Republican senators from the South, when you have the president going after their constituents. How do you go home and explain that?"
If the Senate is forced to deal with all of the 270-plus amendments that could be offered, it will be difficult for it to finish work on the farm bill and send the legislation to a House-Senate conference committee in December.
"Part of the problem is you've got people weighing in with all kinds of amendments that are irrelevant," said Peterson. (The list includes issues ranging from fixing the alternative minimum tax rate to eliminating the estate tax to banning driver's licenses for illegal immigrants.) "Some of the ag amendments are not even relevant."
Bush administration officials have also said they aren't happy with the increases in the loan rates and target prices for wheat, soybeans and other oilseeds in the farm bill now being considered in the Senate.
The monetary amounts are not that significant, according to Peterson, "but, philosophically, I think it causes them some problems. The other thing is the financing. When you get behind the politics and so forth, the biggest issue is how to pay for this farm bill.
"How you mesh the Senate offsets versus our offsets versus what the White House wants – that will be the difficult thing," he noted. "But it can be done. It's just a matter of us sitting down and working this out. But we need to get the Senate to move the bill so we can start that part of the process."
If the Senate can sort out its amendments and pass its bill, Peterson said, "I think about 75 percent of this stuff could be worked out fairly easily by the time we get back here in January. And I think, frankly, the rest of it could be worked out in a week or so.
"If they can get a bill out in December, we can still get this done in January. I'm optimistic we can find a way to do that. I know Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to get this done, Sen. Harkin and Sen. Saxby Chambliss, ranking member on the ag committee, have been working on this."
The only major fly in the ointment for Peterson is the recourse loan requirement in the Senate bill's average crop revenue option. "That's got to go," says Peterson. "I think that is a slippery slope that I don't want to go down."
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Feigen: Longevity of greatness pushes Spurs above America's Team
Sports historians tell us that the Dallas Cowboys were once a team of great significance and accomplishment. Those of us of a certain age and a taste for nostalgia remember those days the way we look back on box scores in the Sporting News, Sunday doubleheaders or shirts and skins basketball games that never ended before it was too dark to see the rims.
All that is fine for memories and the Cowboys have a place of honor in the past, but we live in the present and move rapidly to our future. The Spurs and their influence do not need to be inflated in our distant memories.
While the Cowboys' most recent run ended under the weight of hubris, unable to win a playoff game since, the Spurs not only have won five championships in 15 seasons, they have become the standard for their sport and beyond. The proteges of Gregg Popovich and R.C. Buford run teams throughout the league. They are not only champions now, with a roster crowded with future Hall of Famers, the coach of the year and the executive of the year, their long run of success — lasting longer even than the Bill Russell 11-championships dynasty — earned a place in sports history long before we need to look back and glorify it in our memories.
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|2012-04-09, 19:44
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And does 'blade' can have some other meaning in Japanese?
So I guess Krauss and Natsuhi were drugged before being killed... this make possible for Yasu to kill them...
No, I think Eva and Eva Beatrice served as red herrings for this game... though it's possible maybe they were culprit in Toya's book.
I've always had the feeling Toya's books were similar and yet different from the games otherwise either no one had ever solved them or Ange would have asked why in them the culprit was Shannon and if that was the truth Hachijo found...
Unless Toya's books were unsolvable so no one could figure who was the culprit.
|2012-04-09, 20:01
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Actually... interesting line of inquiry: Who is the first person to raise Beatrice's intended interpretation of the epitaph in each episode?
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|2012-04-09, 20:13
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Which does lead into...
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I think the means of murder of any given arc is relatively vague.
The stakes are at least in most case decoration put after the death. FT in arc 1 is after-damage (at least according to what we can get from it) and FT in arc 2 couldnt have been the means of murder.
Its also more or less a given that most peoples death arent nearly as spectacular as the found corpses seems to suggest.
On one hand the culprit is trying to make you believe its a witch who did it, sure, but s/he also made it so its possible to understand this is all fiction/a show (hell Battler makes a lot of comments about fiction in arc 1 itself).
Arc 3 is mostly different in that many of the murders arent disguised as such.
For instance Rosa/Maria's death is opposed to making one believe it was a witch: rather the culprit seems to be going for the "perfect crime" idea where it could be arguably considered an accident (tho a messed up one).
The who dunnit doesnt really involve a witch in the possibilities in it.
Tho to be fair I think Kanon and Shannon always make references to Beatrice/Kinzo's game pretty early on too.
|2012-04-10, 06:26
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Stuff like not doubting the red, Ange believing in Tohya's forgeries and even the saying "Without love, it cannot be seen" all encourage you to believe in the author of the story and not to doubt what he says at every turn. Hell, that's even what Will and Dlanor's commandments are based around.
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I still don't have an answer for what EP7-8 are. I still like the fact that maybe there's Kakera theory even above it.
Here is the reason why I think it makes sense for Author Theory to include Meta. (Note: I use females for Yasu for no particular reason.)
Each Episode (at least 1-6) are either Yasu's or Tohya's forgeries. Yasu writes three bottles, in which she "confesses". She wants Battler to understand her heart, so she writes a love story. She writes a story in which she confesses her love to Battler, and he realizes the mistake that he made, and they discuss murder mysteries the same way they used to. The third bottle is never found.
Tohya remembers. He remember what Yasu was trying to tell him. He starts writing the forgeries, continuing on Yasu's story where Turn left off. He remembers Ange, and the pain of guilt he feels when he denies her visiting. Tohya continues Yasu's story, but also the story of Ange trying to come to terms with what happened October. The Meta we see is all a part of the narrative.
I don't quite understand why you're so focused on what the Witch-Hunters see. As far as I'm concerned, the Witch Hunters probably did study other forgeries. If you want me to give an explanation they chose Tohya's because Tohya continues the story where Yasu left off: the heart of the story. But since even that is a part of Tohya's forgeries...
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Just wanted to clarify a seemingly common mistake.
"Arc 1 doesn't have meta"
I suggest you reread arc 1, Battler constantly breaks away from the narration and start talking to "us" - he even introduce each character one by one - how isn't that meta?
And how could that be taken outside of the story? (and how does answering this by splitting hair between obvious meta and subtile meta really solve anything?)
There's also simply too many references to fiction.
When you have Kyrie telling you more or less "you should try to solve this story as a love mystery" and you have the memory of Rudolf saying more or less "witches and the such only exists in fiction", I don't think you can really claim that there's no meta in arc 1.
"Why should we believe in a human culprit when the story tells us there exist these meta-beings?"
Hmmm what about us then? No matter what the forgeries says or doesn't say, Umineko, in the form we read it, has these meta-beings in it.
Does that makes us unable to chase after a human culprit?
Actually this is probably the central point of this : why do you think the people reading the forgeries would react any differently then we do, if the forgeries are exactly the same thing as what we read? Cause I'd put my money on them reacting like us and chasing after a human culprit no matter what. It also is sorta funny that we only know these are forgeries thanks to the Hachijou/Ange scene in arc 6, which makes references to the meta. So you end up having little choice imo but to accept both or to deny both. If I'm to doubt what was said in that scene about the forgeries, I might as well doubt the forgery concept altogether.
Beside, arc 5 and 6 are pretty devoid of content if you remove the meta.
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|2012-04-11, 03:22
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Such helpful red...
Seriously, the games would be easier without the red.
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Meta-narrative in the same sense as Umineko is Animal Man talking to Grant Morrison as he's writing Animal Man and this dialogue being reflected within the work. It's Huck Finn acting like Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer was an existing account in his world talking about events that actually happened for Huck (and not being entirely accurate besides, according to Huck). It's the odd-numbered chapters of If on a winter's night a traveler telling you, the reader, what you're doing between reading the even-numbered ones. It's the footnotes in Pale Fire and House of Leaves continuing the narrative and forming an integral part of it when they're supposed to be commentary on an extant story. It's Rozencrantz and Guildenstern expressing awareness that they exist in a play and structuring how they view their own existence around this point.
This stuff may make sense as a finished work (as each individual Umineko episode generally does, and Umineko does on the whole), but if you ask what the deeper baseline work is you either have to conclude there probably isn't one (e.g. House of Leaves, where Johnny doesn't think the Navidson Record Zampano claims to have seen actually existed), or that it's different from what we, the reader, get as a finished product (e.g. if Johnny Truant "existed" and Zampano's script really existed, the experience of Johnny reading and thinking about it probably differs from the text presented to us as the book House of Leaves). While I wouldn't go so far as to say that the text of any of the individual Umineko episodes simply doesn't exist in the R-Prime universe (if it exists itself), I do think the documents we see are those filtered to us by Ryukishi after piling on every possible layer (including meta-fictional criticism) and fictionalizing the lot of them. By necessity, these are not the ones characters on certain layers read or wrote.
Given this, the sole place where this degree of meta-narrative exists in ep1 is the Tea Party. There is no indication anywhere that Tea Parties are part of the "main bodies" of the works presented. There are some instances in which it seems like they probably should be (for example, Battler's investigation in Alliance). It seems entirely too arbitrary. I don't think certain parts are excluded because of their placement in the story, but I do think certain parts are excluded because they're not intended to be part of the story that was read or written, merely part of the entire creative and deliberative process of authors and readers such as Tohya or Ange.
The point is this: The stories are described in abstract in endscrolls and 1998 scenes as tales of mystery and witchy murder. Including the meta-narrative just doesn't seem to jive with the way the stories are apparently viewed in the future. It does, however, jive with the notion that the meta-narrative is about people thinking about a narrative they're involved in elsewhere. By general necessity, they can't also be contained within that narrative. Well, okay, they could be, but I think Umineko would be a very different work if they were.
She also seems to distinguish the content of her game (board narrative + magic narrative) from her interactions with her opponent (red truth selection + dialogue) without actually planning it out (i.e. she thinks of what she'll say to Battler, but she doesn't dictate what he'll say back).
Comparing this to the meta-narrative of Dawn we see similar constructions: Meta-Battler designs a board and fantasy narrative and displays scenes he wishes to display, but while he engages with and relates to Meta-Erika, he doesn't dictate the things she says and does. To say "Yes, but there's another authorial layer above him" misses a lot of what the meta-narrative seems to be about, which is - or at least appears to be - getting inside Tohya's thought process, which is otherwise inaccessible to us. Our Confession is doing essentially the same thing for Beatrice.
It's a false equivalence. As far as we're shown in the stories, the Witch Hunter community is completely barking up the wrong tree. That Tohya's work is famous seems incidental to the fact that he also happens to be closer to the heart of the story, the part only he was ever meant to truly understand anyway. Featherine speaks of the whole notion in almost mystical terms in ep6, and it isn't a very good explanation as to why his work would be considered more authentic than the work of other people.
The meta-narrative, I should point out, is also intensely personal and not really very public in nature. This seems to contrast with how the public at large interprets the story. Painting the meta-narrative as internal self-discovery on Tohya's part just makes more sense generally than the notion that it exists in front of everybody's faces and most of them are just too dumb to notice.
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The simple point of meta is to make you think beyond the limits of the actual story. Breaking the fourth wall is as meta as you can get. If even you agree that there are elements making references to meta "outside of the meta narrative" then I don't see why this is so weird... I mean it's just like the fantasy scenes...
Fantasy scenes were always there, they only became more obvious.
Meta scenes were always there too, they only became more obvious.
In both case it's because without them becoming so fricking obvious, we never would've gotten the point.
Maria's conversations with Battler in arc 1 are almost exactly the same sort of conversation that meta-Battler and meta-Beato has in arc 2. I've said this in my previous post, I don't see how splitting hair is actually making a point. So can you see how arc 2's meta is only taking things that already existed in arc 1 and making them more obvious, or are you going to continue to split hair and see differences instead of connections between things?
So if "the content of the meta-narrative" already existed for the most part in arc 1, I don't see what'd be weird about keeping the meta in arc 2. It'd be quite the opposite. Arc without meta results in a broken arc.
Beside you haven't dealt with my other points. I'd love to understand why you (or anyone really) can doubt that the meta are in the forgeries but believe in the forgeries existing at all, considering the origin of these informations.
|2012-04-11, 13:34
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I actually have, you just apparently didn't read them.
Maria talking with Battler is not the same thing as Meta-Battler and Meta-Beatrice interacting. One of these things happens within the context of a narrative which does not suggest actual awareness that a narrative exists (Maria's statements could be read entirely within the extant context of the "board" narrative, though we have no non-board narrative in Legend to speak of). One of them happens outside the context of an existing narrative by characters who not only are aware of the nature of the narrative, but compartmentalize it as something distinct from themselves about which they may interact, discuss, and even treat as sport. That they are characters in a fiction is obvious, because of course Umineko is fiction. That's not the point; the point is that they recognize that there exists a narrative which they are in some fashion responsible for yet not contained within. I think that distinction is clearly meant to be taken as important.
That aside, if the meta is part of the forgeries, then we actually know nothing about the thought processes of the reader, which we were directly told in later episodes we did have. There's really no point in Meta-Ange at all if she exists solely to be an in-fiction character.
I have no idea why you would think they are in the in-universe texts, assuming those texts exist. I grant that the texts might not, but I do not see the rationale behind believing the meta-narrative arc which is otherwise so functionally and thematically distinct from the rest of the narrative is in fact a self-contained part of it. It flies against the obvious rules of construction, the supposed information we have about its origins, and the apparent thematic purposes of the meta-world itself.
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