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An F-16C military aircraft crashed near Joint Base Andrews Wednesday morning, according to Prince George's County Fire and EMS.
The pilot of the plane ejected himself safely before the crash in Maryland. During a press conference on Wednesday, officials said the pilot experienced mechanical issues and immediately took action.
RELATED: Military says mechanical failure likely cause of F-16 crash
Officials say the pilot did everything he could before ejecting himself from the plane. Before ejecting, the pilot moved to a wooded area to ensure the public's safety.
He was flown to the base medical center. Officials say the pilot was treated, released and is now he is with his family.
MORE: Mom worries after plane crashes near her son's school
The pilot was making an attempt to get back to the airport after the malfunction, but officials say he was not able to make it in time.
The pilot's name has not been released at this time.
Within 72 hours, officials say a safety investigation conclusion is expected to determine the cause of the malfunction.
The crash happened around 9:15 a.m. just six miles southwest of the base in Clinton, Md,, officials said. The crash was about 12 miles from Washington, D.C.
RELATED: What happens when a pilot ejects?
A black plume of smoke could be seen near Temple Hill RD and Wood Elves Ct.
According to officials, the aircraft was flying with other D.C. Air National Guard aircraft during a routine training mission.
Only one pilot was on board. After being evaluated, officials said the pilot was in good spirits.
No reports of any other injuries.
Officials said EMS found parts of jet burning behind homes, but the homes were not damaged.
About 20 homes in the immediate area were evacuated and families sheltered at Clinton Grove Elementary School.
Temple Hills Road and Tippett Road at Accokeek Road are closed at this time.
RELATED: Children caught in chaos following plane crash in Clinton
If anyone finds what they believe to be a part of the aircraft, do not touch or move it, call Joint Base Andrews at 240-612-4428 & 4430.


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You undoubtedly remember the legendary cellphone girl Larissa Riquelme who famously promised to run through the streets of Paraguay if her beloved team took home the World Cup. Unfortunately for us Paraguay lost, our hearts sank, and we all expected Riquelme to fade into obscurity like so many big breasted women before her. Until she decided that she's going to run through the streets naked anyway! Why's she doing it? According to her, "It will be a present to all of the players, and for all the people in Paraguay to enjoy."
All I'm saying is the people of Paraguay better have some high resolution cameras and some great sight lines because I'm pretty sure the rest of the world would like to 'enjoy' as well.
Though they were eliminated from the World Cup by Spain on Saturday, Paraguay may be the biggest winners of the tournament.
The South American team still has something to look forward to at home. Lingerie model Larissa Riquelme will still run through the streets of Asuncion naked.
"They tried as hard as possible and gave it their all on the field," said the busty model. No date has been set for Riquelme's risque run. -NY Daily News
And my present to all of you loyal With Leather readers who are trying as hard as possible to read our haphazard keystrokes during a long day of work, is a gallery of Larissa Riquelme pictures. I promise to give it my all on this google search. Someone needs to give her plastic surgeon a high five.


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text: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 New in the Literature: Extra Physical Therapy (Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2011;92(9):1490-1500.) Extra physical therapy decreases length of stay and significantly improves mobility, activity, and quality of life, say authors of a systematic review published in the September issue of Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Future research could address the possible benefits of providing extra services from other allied health disciplines in addition to physical therapy, they add. For this review, the authors searched electronic databases CINAHL, MEDLINE, AMED, PEDro, PubMed, and EMBASE from the earliest date possible through May 2010. Additional trials were identified by scanning reference lists and citation tracking. Randomized controlled trials evaluating the effect of extra physical therapy on patient outcomes were included for review. Two reviewers independently applied the inclusion and exclusion criteria, and any disagreements were discussed until consensus could be reached. Searching identified 2,826 potentially relevant articles, of which 16 randomized controlled trials with 1,699 participants met inclusion criteria. Data were extracted using a predefined data extraction form by 1 reviewer and checked for accuracy by another. Methodological quality of trials was assessed independently by 2 reviewers using the PEDro scale. Pooled analyses with random effects model to calculate standardized mean differences (SMDs) and 95% confidence intervals were used in meta-analyses. When compared with standard physical therapy, extra physical therapy reduced length of stay (SMD=-.22; 95% CI, -.39 to -.05) (mean difference of 1 day [95% CI, 0-1] in acute settings and mean difference of 4 days [95% CI, 0-7] in rehabilitation settings) and improved mobility (SMD=.37; 95% CI, .05-.69), activity (SMD=.22; 95% CI, .07-.37), and quality of life (SMD=.48; 95% CI, .29-.68). There were no significant changes in self-care (SMD=.35; 95% CI, -.06-.77). Comments By extra physical therapy, do you mean do additional therapy exercises at home to supplement in-office treatment? Posted by Matt N. on 10/26/2011 2:56 PM Did they define "standard" PT and "extra" PT? Posted by R C on 10/26/2011 6:46 PM I am certain they do, in the paper. The abstract is non-specific as to the criteria they use to define "PT" and "Extra PT". The context indicates more PT in the inpatient setting during rehabilitation. I have no doubt, of any kind, that two sessions of PT daily instead of a single session will yield faster and greater results over a similar time period in most patients. It's why they do double sessions in preseason for athletes. Posted by Leon Richard -> AJSa@O on 10/28/2011 8:52 PM


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What the Algeria Conflict Means for U.S., Europe
Eurasia Group's Middle East analyst Riccardo Fabiani joins The News Hub to assess the implications of the Algeria hostage situation for Europe and the U.S. Photo: AP.
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2.) As the most proficient medical expert in Soul Society, Unohana is likely one of (if not) the most proficient Kidou experts among the Gotei 13 captains. So if there's anyone among the captains aside from Ken and Yamamoto that has a solid chance of standing there ground even without a zanpakuto, it's her.
3.) There seems to be a direct correlation between how powerful a captain is and their seniority. For example, Yamamoto is by far the oldest and most powerful. After that comes Shunsui and Ukitake who most fans have regarded as the most powerful and balanced fighters among the rest of the captains. These two also just happen to be among the oldest of the captains. This just leaves Unohana. And she's supposed to be the second oldest Captain among them. So if the pattern holds up, she'll likely be no pushover as well.
4.) Even members of the most disrespectful, rowdiest, most violent squad (11) show fear of her. Now its possible that the fear most people have demonstrated towards her could be solely for comedic effect. On the other hand, its possible that there could be more reasons why characters seem to instinctively know not to mess with her when she makes a request. Squad 11 members in particular don't seem like a bunch to care about giving respect to anyone just because of rank as even the lowest ranking members of that squad won't listen to someone like Isane. They seem to respect strength first and foremost. So if members of that squad fear her, its an interesting sign.
5.) Speaking of fear, her name is Unohana Retsu (卯ノ花 烈). "Retsu" (烈) translated means "violent". It's always struck me as a sort of obvious attempt by Kubo to foreshadow a side of her that's completely contradictive of her role and her usual mannerisms.
So I'm not saying she's definitely a war potential. But from Kubo's PoV, it's an easy twist to take advantage of after hyping her up for so long (whether he intended to or not).
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i think you're reasoning is good to put her as a possibility but i dont see it. i'm more inclined to think the other 3 potentials are aizen, ishida and grimmjow basically because they are something different and not just all soul reapers like other lists i've seen. but who knows? kubo has switched power rankings around so much that it's impossible to guess anything based on the lack of logic in the story.
just look at the kenpachi, byakuya dynamic. byakuya was better as seen in their first fights vs ichigo, byakuya stood up to ichigo's bankai whereas kenpachi fell before he even had it. then in HM they were about equal in power as seen in the yami fight. now byakuya dies to 1 shitritter and kenpachi can easily beat 3 of them... all this power rank changing when neither of them even displayed any major training or powering up...
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Truth be told, if they're able to gather enough intel to predict the strength of a captain without bankai, that could be all the intel they need on them. Because regardless of whether the sternritters know what a bankai does or not beforehand, they have the option of stealing it without using it. This means there should be no need to gamble outcomes on unknown bankai's for as long as their own strength proves enough to finish the job.
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It would merely mean that Bankai Byakuya > Kenpachi > Shikai Byakuya. Not idea where 2H Kenpachi stands though
As for why Squad 11 guys are wary of Unohana, maybe it is just because she is very naggy
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Afterall, the fact is Kenpachi was the only captain in this war who didn't have to worry about adapting his usual style to a major handicap. He was also fortunate enough to fight two opponents who lacked an ability to counter Ken's natural strengths. He hardly deserves any credit for that third kill.
Conversely, not only did Byakuya have to deal with having his own power being used against him (while he had no access to it himself), he also had to deal with an abnormal amount of fear--so its at least plausible that he wasn't able to think clearly enough to come up with an alternative method to fight back in time.
Byakuya had A LOT going against him in comparison to Ken. His power was limited and his mind was in the wrong condition for battle. Top those facts with the possibility that Noct could share a disparity in power from some other sternritters reminiscent to say Shunsui and Komamura (for example), and I think Byakuya's defeat becomes very well justified.
Now that I think of it, this could be the case if my theory about the Sternritters is correct. That being those whose letters are closer to A are the strongest while those closer to Z are the weakest. Now Nodt was letter F. That's far closer to A than the highest lettered member Kenpachi killed off (letter Q).
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There's also the fact that Byakuya tried to use his Bankai, which in turn was used against him. Kenpachi probably bull-rushed his victims. I think the guy who beat Byakuya would've been an ideal opponent for Kenpachi actually, seeing as how he had fought Tousen in the SS arc and that was a sort of 'fear' battle in an of itself. Kenpachi hasn't hesitated yet.
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EDIT: Ok nvm, it happened.
At least Jucha seems... surprised by that turn of events. Guess, he never saw it before
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Beyonce: 'Best Thing I Never Had' Video Debut!
Beyonce wears some sexy lingerie in the video for her latest song, "Best Thing I Never Had"!
The video also features Beyonce, 29, in a scene where she acts out a wedding, complete with an outdoor ceremony and fun filled reception.
The song comes off Beyonce's latest album, 4, in stores and on iTunes now!
4 debuted at the top of the charts in the US, France, Spain, Switzerland, Singapore, Taiwan, and the UK this past week!
Bey is also the third artist ever to have her first four studio albums debut at the #1 spot on the charts.
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How to Prevent Tomato Blight the Organic Way
By Mindy McIntosh-Shetter
I love heirloom tomatoes but with this love comes a price.
Many heirloom tomatoes are susceptible to many plant diseases.
These plants were bred for their fruit and not their resistance.
As time went on and science continued to develop, tomatoes were bred for such characteristics as disease resistance, large fruit, and storage ability.
The beauty and taste of the heirloom began to fall away. Today, many gardeners plant heirloom tomatoes not only for their taste but also as a way of keeping our gardening past alive.
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Mmmmmm it smells good in here!!! We have some yummy goodies fresh out of the over for you today.
Also on a side note.. be on the lookout this week for some BIG Season 2 Scrapping Survivor news! We will be sending out a special edition newsletter …. ohhh I cant wait! I am so excited 🙂 I think you are all going to LOVE where we are going!!
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First up from our resident Glitter Diva- Misty O'Brien- Mardi Party-
Its a PARTY!!!! A Mardi Party!! This fun, festive kit has 8 papers, 25 elements, and a lower alpha.
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This beautiful, Springy kit includes twelve 12×12 papers created at 300dpi. There are 30 elements including: 3 rabbits, 2 ricrac pieces, 1 tree, 1 journal mat, 1 cloud, 1 glitter swirl, 3 bows, 1 knotted ribbon, 1 postage stamp wordart, 2 flairs, 2 wordarts, 1 button, 2 flowers, 2 circle frames, 1 wooden frame, 1 doodled rectangle frame, greenery, 1 heart spray, 1 circle spray, 1 swirly arrow, and 1 fabric label. $5.00
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Leaders for Education Series - Navanethem Pillay
In your experience defending and advocating for human rights, what does the Right to an Education mean to you?
In principle and law, education is universally established as a fundamental human right. Unfortunately, in practice, it is still not available to every child everywhere. It is my personal experience as a child and young adult, as much as in my career in human rights, which leads me to state unequivocally that education is both a human right in itself, as well as an indispensable instrument for achieving many other rights, whether civil, cultural, economic, political, or social. Education must be available and accessible to all without discrimination based on sex, age, ethnic origin, social status, nationality, disability, or illness, including HIV/AIDS. Again, this is generally agreed, but not always practised. Applying human rights standards and principles to education helps us to overcome or remove the barriers that cause exclusion and discriminatory practices.
You had to overcome institutionalized prejudice and many obstacles in your career. Which elements in your education gave you the tools and the inspiration to achieve your professional goals?
In a way it was a virtuous circle: I received a lot of encouragement from my family as a child, and also from inspiring teachers at various key points. As a result, when I was sixteen, I was in a position to write an essay which dealt with the role of South African women in educating children on human rights. When the essay was published, my community raised funds in order to send this promising, but impoverished, young woman to university. Despite their efforts and good will, I almost didn't make it as a lawyer, because when I entered university during the apartheid regime, everything and everyone was segregated. The registrar actually discouraged me from becoming a lawyer. He argued that I could not expect white secretaries to take instructions from a person of my background. So, because of the encouragement I received on the one hand, and the obstacles I kept facing on the other either because of my colour, gender, or poor background I became pretty determined. And, by then, I had received enough education to make the most of that determination. I had learned from an early age that there was injustice, but I also learned quite early that, with perseverance, injustice could be overcome.
What message would you like send to policy makers & governments about education?
My main message would be: invest more than you think you can afford in education, and make sure your money is well spent. Invest not just in infrastructure, but in smaller class sizes, in scholarships, in improved teacher-training, in ensuring that no social groups are excluded from good education by accident or by design. Serious investment in education will inevitably produce a handsome dividend for society at large.
Article 13 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights outlines the responsibilities of States in relation to primary, secondary and higher education as well as fundamental education. And, of course, the rights and benefits must be and often arent applied equally to both boys and girls.
The global community failed to achieve the third Millennium Development Goal of having an equal proportion of boys and girls in school by 2005. That was a serious failure.
People belonging to ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities and indigenous groups, as well as disabled people, are often poorly integrated into national education systems. Their levels of access to adequate education services are well below national averages. Minorities and indigenous peoples all over the world face serious barriers in accessing education equally, including a lack of mother-tongue education; poor provision of schools and qualified teachers in the regions where they live; prohibitive costs of school fees that disproportionately affect them as the poorest groups; and curricula that do not reflect community priorities for learning, as well as discrimination by teachers and other pupils. Their problems are often compounded if they are female.
Tackling these issues, produces benefits for society at large as well as for the concerned groups and individuals: respect for diversity fosters social cohesion and accommodation of different views and experiences, thereby preventing communal strife.
In your experience, what happens to a girl or boy who does not receive an education?
According to UNESCO, more than 70 million children and almost 800 million adults are the victims of such exclusion. That means a colossal number of people whose opportunities are severely curtailed. For many such people, their entire life is a struggle against abject poverty, with no easy way out. Their health is affected, and the prospects of their children and grand-children risk being similarly grim. With less enlightened parents, I could easily have been one of them.
Speaking from your professional experience, does education help promote gender equality?
Clearly. It is no coincidence that the significant advances in gender equality in many countries over the course of the 20th century went hand in hand with the recognition, at the international level, of the right to education for all. It has been conclusively, scientifically, statistically proven that investing in girls education is not only a way to improve their human rights, but also one of the most effective approaches to achieve equality, and thus reduce poverty, and contribute to the welfare and betterment of whole communities and nations. And, of course, none of this is possible unless men are also educated to the point where they realize the intellectual and economic potential of their sisters, daughters and female colleagues matches their own.
Is there anything else about education and your work that youd like to add?
Yes. I would like to add that education is not simply a matter of attending school and having textbooks, or learning by rote. The education of children must also aim to develop their personality and talents, cultural identity, language and values. The need to be taught to think big, to realize that whatever society they belong to they can achieve. The best interests of the student must be the primary consideration. I would never have risen to become UN High Commissioner for Human Rights if my parents, key members of my community, and some of my teachers had not taken my best interests when I was a child as their driving principle.
Click here for Navanethem Pillay's biography.
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Those needing relief from severe cold temperatures could be housed at the Red Rock Lodge under an agreement proposed last week between lodge general manager Jeramy Day and a subcommittee of the Homeless Coordinating Committee.
"That's something we could do tomorrow," Day said. "It's definitely doable on our part until about the second week in March."
Some details still must be worked out before the proposal could become a reality, and the idea would need approval from the full Homeless Coordinating Committee. But subcommittee members are moving forward with plans to set up training for volunteers willing to help, said committee member Audrey Graham.
Day said the lodge at 51 N. 100 West has room for 16 to 20 people per night when the temperature plunges. They can be housed in rooms big enough for four to five people at $25 per room per night.
That's less than half of the lodge's $55 overnight winter rate, he said.
"I'm willing to lower that rate to do something for the community," Day said, adding that his father, owner Randy Day, feels the same way about providing emergency housing.
The money will cover housekeeping and laundry costs while keeping some employees on the payroll a few more months, Jeramy Day said during an interview.
The meeting Thursday, Dec. 13, was the second time the subcommittee met to brainstorm a way to keep homeless people from suffering, or possibly dying, during cold snaps. Subcommittee members emphasized that finding temporary lodging is an emergency solution, not a long-term answer to the issue of homelessness in Moab.
Those who stay at the lodge may not smoke, although subcommittee members indicated they probably would admit people who had consumed alcohol during the day.
"The homeless we have here don't know it's cold until it's cold, and by then they've had a couple drinks," said jail commander Veronica Bullock of the Grand County Sheriff's Office.
Subcommittee members tentatively decided to pay for rooms with donations to the Salvation Army. Two subcommittee members with experience working in emergency shelters will hold training sessions for volunteers who will monitor overnight guests during their stay.
Once in the lodge for the evening, tenants will not be permitted to leave until the next morning, according to proposed rules.
The offer from Red Rock Lodge solves the immediate dilemma for this winter. However, Jeramy Day noted the lodge is likely to be closed next winter to make way for an upscale resort.
Subcommittee members decided to explore the possibility of using the Melich House basement during winter months next year. That county-owned facility on 100 East would need upgrades including a basement doorway to meet code, Grand County facilities manager Marvin Day noted.
On-call Grand County Emergency Medical Services personnel currently use the upstairs portion of the house, which is adjacent to the county courthouse.


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Vineyard Vines to grow and move to new Stamford location
Receives state assistance: Got its start with Greenwich's Murray brothers
Vineyard Vines, a Stamford-based clothing retailer that has grown to employ 180 people locally, plans to remain in the city thanks to a $6 million loan from the state to help pay for a renovation that will allow the company hire as many as 200 more employees over the next five years.
Started in 1998 by Greenwich brothers Shep and Ian Murray, Vineyard Vines will move from Brown House Road in Stamford to a 91,040-square-foot space at Shippan Landing at 181 Harbor Drive, a multi-building property owned by George Comfort & Sons and Angelo, Gordon & Co.
The move is expected to take place in early 2015, after raw space is converted into the new headquarters. The state Department of Economic and Community Development will support the $15.6 million project with a $6 million, 10-year loan at 1 percent interest. Funding can be used to purchase machinery and equipment, make leasehold improvements or offset architect and engineering costs.
If all current positions are retained and 100 jobs are created in the first five years of the agreement, $3 million will be forgiven, and $4.5 million will be forgiven if all current positions are retained and 150 jobs are created in that time frame. Should Vineyard Vines retain the 150 jobs in place and create 200 more, then the $6 million will be forgiven.
"Our growth has been so exciting, and more space is critical to continue to support that growth," said Shep Murray, co-CEO with his brother Ian, in a statement. "With the help from great teams at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, George Comfort & Sons, CPG Architects and Jones Lang LaSalle, we found and are outfitting a space that will truly reflect the core values on which we founded and have built Vineyard Vines."
The Greenwich office of NGKF represented Vineyard Vines in its search, which early on focused on New York City and Westchester County, N.Y., but the Murrays were impressed by Shippan Landing and its management when approached by its representative at the Stamford office of CBRE, said James Ritman, NGKF executive vice president.
"This is an ideal site that resonates the co-founders' vision and work lifestyle they have spent years building," said Ritman, who attended Brunswick School in Greenwich with the brothers. "Their employees will thrive in the space the open floor plan affords them along with enjoying the outdoor area beside the waterfront. The ability to have a boat right outside their office was compelling."
Stamford Mayor David Martin credited the company for remaining in the city.
"Vineyard Vines has been a dedicated, longtime member of our corporate community. Their tremendous growth has been one of Stamford's great success stories and has contributed in no small way to Stamford's reputation as a prime destination for business," he said.
The company's growth has even surprised its founders.
"When we started vineyard vines in 1998, we never imagined we'd be where we are today," Ian Murray said in a statement. "You could say our business grew up in Connecticut, and because of our extremely successful partnership with the governor's office and Connecticut DECD, we will continue to grow in Connecticut."
The company, which had $100 million in revenue in 2011, according to published reports, will be eligible for up to $8 million in tax credits through the state's Urban and Industrial Sites Reinvestment Tax Credit Program, as well as up to $500,000 in sales and use tax exemptions subject to approval from Connecticut Innovations.
"Vineyard Vines is a great Connecticut story of two brothers who, fed up with corporate life and determined to make it on their own, began selling their own line of ties nearly 20 years ago," Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said in a statement. "Today, they are one of the leading retailers of clothing and accessories for men, women and children sold throughout the country and competing with the likes of L.L. Bean and J. Crew."


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Stroke support groups allow stroke survivors to help themselves and other survivors create meaningful lives after stroke.
A sense of empowerment is at the heart of a "self-help" or "mutual-help" group. It can motivate passive "patients" to become thriving survivors and create active new roles for themselves. Stroke creates many physical and emotional challenges. Each stroke survivor faces a unique set of disabilities and losses, and each copes with them in his or her own way. However, the warmth, acceptance and emotional support that a stroke support group offers can often be the key to uncovering the hidden strengths in many survivors and caregivers.
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The Federal Reserve has established specific thresholds for when it will start raising interest rates from historically low levels.
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Everyone knows these thresholds by now: When the unemployment rate falls to 6.5% and/or inflation climbs to 2.5% the Fed will start raising rates from their current range of 0%-0.25%.
Both thresholds would appear to be a long way off.
Those figures, however, have taken the guessing game out of when short-term interest rates will start to rise again, providing a certain measure of stability for financial markets and allowing investors to concentrate on other areas of fiscal policy and the economy.
Namely, when the Fed is going to scale back its bond-buying programs, which are currently rolling along at a pace of $85 billion a month in an effort to keep interest rates low on long-term loans such as mortgages.
"Even (members of the Fed) don't fully know the point at which they can comfortably start scaling back quantitative easing."
People often mistakenly believe that those unemployment thresholds also apply to the Fed's bond-buying programs, also known as quantitative easing or QE. They don't. Which begs the question: If specific thresholds can be set for raising interest rates, why not for when the Fed might start tapering off QE?
It turns out the answer is pretty simple.
"Even (members of the Fed) don't fully know the point at which they can comfortably start scaling back quantitative easing," said Greg McBride, senior financial analyst at Bankrate.com.
Quantitative easing, or purchasing massive quantities of U.S. Treasuries and other government-backed securities such as mortgages in an effort to pump liquidity into the dormant U.S. economy, is intended to bring about "sustainable improvements" in both U.S. labor markets and the broader economy, McBride explained.
The problem is that those goals are highly subjective and, furthermore, any signs of "sustainable" economic growth have repeatedly failed to gain momentum. Consider last Friday's job report, which revealed just 88,000 jobs were created in March. The poor numbers arrived after several months of improved labor reports, which helped drive the unemployment rate down to its lowest level in four years.
"When you look at last Friday's jobs report it's pretty clear we're not at that sustainable point in the job market yet," said McBride.
The mixed data haven't stopped critics of the Fed's easy money policies from suggesting that the time is rapidly approaching for putting an end to QE, or at least scaling it back.
Fed inflation hawks who sit on Federal Open Markets Committee, which sets most Fed policy, have suggested QE might start tapering off as early as mid-2013 and terminated soon after that, according to minutes of the Fed's March meeting released on Wednesday.
Fed Divided on Tapering Off QE
"A few members felt that the risks and costs of purchases, along with the improved outlook since last fall, would likely make a reduction in the pace of purchases appropriate around mid-year, with purchases ending later this year," the FOMC minutes reported.
The minutes, remember, are from a meeting held last month, before the disappointing March jobs numbers were released.
Fed inflation hawks believe the Fed's easy money policies that have kept interest rates near zero for over four years could lead to runaway inflation.
Typically, FOMC members disagree on the dangers posed by loose fiscal policy, and a majority apparently still believes QE should be maintained without a predetermined deadline. That powerful group is headed by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Vice-Chair Janet Yellen, who is widely viewed as Bernanke's probable successor if Bernanke isn't appointed to a third term next year.
QE has certainly been a boon for stock markets, as Wednesday's Fed minutes, which indicated QE will go on unabated for the foreseeable future, pushed the Dow Jones Industrial average and S&P 500 index to new all-time highs.
Nevertheless, the potential long-term risks are great, as Fed critics are eager to point out.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece published Wednesday, Edward Pinto of the fiscally conservative American Enterprise Institute, criticized the Fed for ignoring the long-term threats to the economy in favor of a short-term boost to stocks and an 8% increase in housing prices from a year ago.
According to Pinto, recent data from the the Federal Housing Finance Agency indicates that the sharp increase in home prices has resulted not from "broad-based improvement in the economy's fundamentals" but rather from the Fed's easy money policies. "This does not bode well for the future," Pinto wrote.
Pinto suggests that if the Fed insists on keeping interest rates artificially low through massive bond-buying programs it could lead to another housing bubble. "Americans have seen this movie before and know how it ends," he wrote.
This argument over ending QE is hardly new and Bernanke has proven successful at deflecting criticism, saying essentially the bond-buying programs will end when they're not needed anymore. And that's that.


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Navigation station to port: spacious navigation station with ample space for charts. Above the table is a specially designed control panel (see section on electrical equipment) and large curved mahogany panel with room for navigation equipment. Seat aft of navigation table equipped with curved settee for convenient use at sea. Drawers under table.
Aft head is spacious with interior in plastic for easy cleaning, white laminate countertop and stainless steel sink. Marine toilet with 70-liter stainless steel holding tank, drain in hull and on deck. Shower drained to sump tank. Single lever faucet with pullout spray for sink and shower with hot and cold water. Wet hanging locker.
Saloon to port with inviting and generous U-shaped settee (2.6x1.3m) fixed oval table (1.4x0.8m) and separate 2-seat settee opposite. Shelf above seat backs ; above it two lockers with a bookshelf in between. In the extension of the settee against the main bulkhead is a small table/bar.
Galley is spacious (2.65x0.6m) with plenty of lockers and drawers, white laminate counter, deep stainless steel double sinks. Gimbaled stainless steel 2-burner stove with oven, well insulated cooler that can be used as freezer/refrigerator mounted below the aft counter, above it room for a separate 65-liter refrigerator. Standing gas container mounted in drainage area in aft storage locker.
Owners cabin is a generous forward cabin with an ?island bed? (2.05X1,7X1,2m.), double berth where you can sleep with your head at the forward for easy access in and out of the berth. Forward of this is a shelf and above it a locker. To starboard, a double hanging locker with shelves and hangers, seat with stowage. Dressing table to port.
The forward head is a spacious area with plastic module for easy cleaning, white laminate counter with recessed stainless steel washbasin.. Nautical toilet with 70-liter holding tank, drainage through hull and on deck.
Separate shower drained to the sump tank. Single lever faucet for hot and cold water in washbasin.
Option 2: Aft cabins and owners cabin same as option 1
Galley to port at an angle (1.75X1.8x0.7m), spacious and efficient with plenty of lockers and drawers. White laminate counter, two deep stainless steel sinks, 2?burner stainless steel stove with oven. Single lever faucet with hot and cold water. Well-insulated cool box and space for separate 65-liter refrigerator on counter.
Navigation station to starboard, forward of the aft head. Spacious navigation station with large table containing drawer for charts. Above the table is a custom designed control panel (see section on electrical equipment) and large curved mahogany panel with plenty of space for navigation equipment. Seat with curved settee for convenient use at sea. Drawers under table.
Saloon is traditional in style, with settees opposite one another. U-shaped settee (2.2x1.2m) to port, double drop-leaf table with integrated bottle locker; settee (1.95x0,7m) to starboard.
Shelves above the settees and above these, two lockers with a bookshelf in between, same on both sides.
1 x 12 V 70 AH ignition battery, 2 x 105 AH batteries for general use mounted in box and aired via separate conduit.
Shore power
230 V stainless steel intake with tightly sealing cover mounted in cockpit, 20 m cable for shore hook-up. Shore power panel with earth fault breaker, main power switch and outlets mounted in navigation station. Water heater and battery charger outlets.
Ceiling lighting in saloon, cabins and in heads consists of recessed Led. spotlights, below deck in saloon more spotlights with dimmer in the navigation station to provide atmospheric saloon lighting. All cabins are equipped with rooflamps and two bulkhead-mounted reading lamps.


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OSWEGO, NY – As the field of Novelis Supermodifieds continues to grow at Oswego Speedway, a number of new or returning faces are making their way into the division. One of those drivers competing for Rookie of the Year status is the driver of the Locke Crane Services No. 37, Jeff Locke.
"It's a dream coming true, I always wanted to run at Oswego Speedway," Locke said as he works on his supermodified readying for Opening Day 2013. "Looking at the schedule, I should think about getting an apartment in Oswego," he laughed. "We're looking at running a full schedule at Oswego, add in the 4 ISMA shows, and it looks like we'll be spending a lot of time in Oswego this summer," Jeff summarized.
Locke is a 34-year old crane operator for the family business, Locke Crane Services. Wife Misty, and sons Ryan (9), and Chase (7) are the founding members of the Jeff Locke Fan Club.
During the off-season last year, Locke made headlines in the Central New York area as he purchased a top shelf supermodified.
"John Nicotra came to Thompson, and he told me he was looking to sell a car. It was a great opportunity for me. It was a proven, winning car, and if I am going to do something, I'm going to do it right. It was something I couldn't pass up. With that good of a car, I could go to the track and be competitive quickly. The learning curve would be cut dramatically."
Locke tossed his name and team into the Oswego Speedway Rookie of the Year class of 2013.
But, Locke is no typical rookie. He comes to the lakeside oval with a loaded resume. The last three seasons, Jeff has finished in the top six in ISMA points, and visited Victory Lane once to date. In 2010, he finished every lap in every race, quite an accomplishment in its own right.
Last season, Jeff and Team 37 traveled to Oswego on a pair of occasions. He picks up the story from, there.
"Classic, we were competitive," Jeff reflected. "We were running well, but we ran out of fuel. It was our own fault, we had a new motor and didn't have the time for a fuel mileage run. We ran well, were competitive, and fell back, but we ran strong. We came back after that, and ran well again. We got up to third, then got a flat tire. Both races we ran at Oswego, we were quick, and were happy with how the car performed. We're looking forward to this year. Oswego really is a cool place! I can't explain the feeling going around that place. You really have to stay in your toes."
Locke isnt one of the guys that has just seen the view from the driver's seat. He has quite a history on the crew side of things.
"I moved to North Carolina right out of high school in 1999," he mentioned. "Richie Letendre, from Eddie Sheas team, got me a job down there. I worked my way up, all the way to car chief for Greg Biffle. My dad started Locke Crane Service, and that was becoming a very successful venture. We had our first son, and it was tough being gone so much. With life in racing down south, your always on the road, testing, wind tunnels, races, always working, never home. It was difficult. We had our second son, and it was time to make a change. Locke Crane Services was pretty well established, and it was time to move back home."
The racing bug was always with Jeff, and he moved from working on cars, to driving them.
"We bought a Graves Chassis, and ran the 350 class at Lee for two years. I was passing a guy on the outside one night, he had a problem and we wrecked, but I ended up outside the track, with a totaled race car. We could either rebuilt it, or get new. We thought about it, and figured it was time to move up to supers. It was time to build and move up, and we had a car then built by Butch Valley and Brian Allegresso," he said.
"We're having a ball, and being pretty respectful of others out on the track," Jeff added. "We want to have fun and enjoy ourselves, but mainly gain the respect of the drivers out on the track. You have to earn it by racing them, being clean and building and earning their respect."
Work is going on in the Locke garage, as he would like to be prepared to practice both the Oswego and ISMA cars before actual race conditions.
"Work is busy, we can't take a lot of time off from that. Oswego is about a 6 ½-hour one way trip, which is a lot easier than the 14-hour Michigan trip, or 12 from Sandusky or Canada trips, even though I would like to try Sandusky's Hy-Miler. If things go ok, we can load up, and head home after the races, and be home for a good part of Sunday. We'll see how it goes at Oswego. We'll take it week by week. I love Oswego. My dad brought me there in diapers, and I've been going there ever since. I rooted for guys like Bentley and Joe Gosek, and now I'm racing with them. That's pretty cool."
Locke Crane Services, New England Motor Racing Supply, Glenn Shanks Motor Oil Company, and Shawmut Equipment help fray expenses for the New Hampshire driver. Brian Allegresso, and dad Kenny Locke will be turning wrenches and helping Jeff along the way.
Opening Day 2013 is getting closer by the day, and Locke is one that cant wait for the gates of the Steel Palace to swing open. He looks to be spending a lot of time on Albany Street on Saturday nights in the summer, adding another heavy hitter to the powerhouse supermodified lineup. He is a top driver, and has a winning car under him.
He will realize a lifelong dream of running Oswego Speedway this summer, but don't look for him to just log laps. Locke is a winner, and looks for a very successful 2013 season at Oswego Speedway.
For more information on Oswego Speedway visit online at www.oswegospeedway.com or LIKE on Facebook at www.facebook.com/OswegoSpeedway or FOLLOW on Twitter @OswegoSpeedway.
Those interested in Speedway video programming online can subscribe to the Speedway's YouTube Channel, 'OswegoSpeedwayOnline'
To purchase tickets for the 2013 racing season call the Speedway box office at (#15) 342-0646.


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Baltimore, the birthplace of the Star-Spangled Banner, is well-known for its world-class museums, its gorgeous Inner Harbor filled with tall sailing ships and seafood so fresh it�s still wriggling on your plate. But dig a little deeper, and you�ll find fun and quirky attractions that will boggle your mind.
Comic books and Care Bears
Geppi�s Entertainment Museum, located at historic Camden Station at Camden Yards, is devoted exclusively to more than 6,000 pop culture artifacts and ephemera from the past 250 years. Rooms are crammed with such items as original Barbie dolls (complete with perky blonde ponytails), vintage comic books, original movie posters and Star Wars merchandise. Depending upon the era in which you were raised, you could easily spend hours wandering nostalgically amidst vast collections of Popeye comic strips, Beatles lunchboxes, Pez dispensers, or stuffed Care Bears.
Batman, Superman and even Harry Potter are all represented here in posters, figurines and toys. The large, welcoming space is literally packed floor to ceiling with pop culture icons. Whether you grew up with Howdy Doody or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you�ll find plenty of fascinating artifacts to browse through.
Lady sings the blues
Another one of Baltimore�s best-kept secrets, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, both horrifies and amazes. Beyond exhibits on the history of slavery and displays of vintage Ku Klux Klan garb, you�ll find tributes to the way African-Americans created enduring works of music, literature and dance.
There�s a particularly good collection of jazz artifacts. (Looking at the piano played by Baltimore native Billie Holiday, one of the most soulful singers of all time, gave me goose bumps.) If you�re an aficionado, the museum will sate your appetite for jazz and blues with its schedule of special live performances.
Offbeat genius
Both the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum are world-class museums that offer free admission, but my favorite art galleries are at the spectacularly funky American Visionary Art Museum, dedicated to self-taught, intuitive artistry. Check out the Jim Rouse Visionary Art Center, with its Art Cars (including one in the shape of a gigantic pink poodle), Cabaret Mechanical Theater and �The World�s First Robot Family� by Devon Smith.
If roaming the unconventional exhibits in the AVAM makes you hungry, you can always grab a bite to eat at its whimsically-decorated restaurant, Mr. Rain�s Fun House. There�s an ever-changing menu of culinary delights put together by chef Bill Buszinski. The complimentary homemade pretzel balls with house-made mustard dipping sauce that arrive before the server has taken your order are worth the visit. And don�t be surprised if you find yourself continually hopping up and down from your seat to explore astonishing artworks hidden in every nook and cranny of this space.
After lunch, wander through the sculptures (such as the Cosmic Galaxy Egg) outside the mosaic-encrusted building, and also find treasures in one of the trippiest gift shops imaginable. (Would you believe a whole drawer filled with different sizes of plastic eyeballs?)
Family-friendly fun
If you�ve got kids in tow (or you�re a kid at heart), you can�t leave Baltimore without visiting the Maryland Science Center or the National Aquarium. At the Maryland Science Center, you can dig for bones among dinosaur skeletons, create a tornado or even lie down on a bed of nails.
At the National Aquarium, I was blown away by the up-close-and-personal looks I was able to get at the dolphins, jellyfish and hundreds of other varieties of marine life. I could have stayed there forever.
Getting around
The Charm City Circulator, a fleet of 21 free (hybrid electric) shuttles, travels three different routes throughout Baltimore. A shuttle bus arrives every 10 minutes at the designated stops on each route. But a more fun way to get around is by boat. The Baltimore Water Taxi�s blue and white fleet offers fabulous views of the Inner Harbor while providing rides to most tourist attractions. You can get an all-day pass (which includes lots of coupons for freebies at restaurants in the Harbor/Fells Point area) for $12.
Cruises by the Bay by Watermark offers a variety of sightseeing cruises during late spring, summer and fall. If you�ve brought the family dog along on your Baltimore vacation, he�s welcome aboard. Best of all, Fido rides for free.
Scrumptious seafood
Just a short walk from the Inner Harbor in trendy Harbor East, that famous Baltimore seafood is calling your name at The Oceanaire Seafood Room. You can�t leave town without trying a Maryland crab cake � and the Oceanaire�s are tender and flaky.
Happy hour there is always lots of fun, with the same fresh-from-the-net maritime morsels served in the bar area (try the crab bites).
Nearby in Harbor East, Talara, a Latin bistro, offers one of the hottest happy hours in Baltimore, with an extensive menu of tapas and cocktails. (And their mango mojitos are to die for.)
If you prefer your seafood to be served with a decidedly French accent, head for Mount Vernon to Marie Louise Bistro, where you can dine like royalty. Save room for cosmopolitan desserts (like tarts with fresh figs). On Thursdays special wine and cheese tastings are held, buffet-style, in the upstairs lounge.
The Rusty Scupper in Baltimore�s Inner Harbor is a proud member of �Chesapeake Bay Oyster Recovery Partnership.� Recycled shells from your delicious seafood dinner are reused and replanted, providing habitats for new oysters. If that�s not enough incentive to try out this place, then sample the Maryland crab soup and be amazed.
The signature Maryland crab cakes at Phillips Seafood have been earning rave reviews since 1914. Order the Colossal Lump Crab Meat Cocktail as an appetizer, and you may not have room for the rest of your meal. Phillips Crab Deck is a more casual venue, just outside the main restaurant, and is open seasonally.
If you like to indulge in breakfast, your best bets are Miss Shirley�s and Langermann�s. Miss Shirley�s offers one-of-a-kind breakfast items, such as Funky Monkey Bread (cinnamon-scented, with bananas, chocolate and pecans � all dusted with powdered sugar) and Benne Seed Chicken �N Waffles (fried boneless breast of chicken pieces on white cheddar and green onion waffles, accompanied by a honey-mustard aioli drizzle).
You can eat just one item on this eccentric, reasonably-priced menu and feel full all day. Breakfast (ordered from the menu on Saturdays with a brunch option on Sundays) at Langermann�s (located between the Canton and Fells Point areas) is more formal, and items such as breakfast blitz (three eggs served any style with choice of meat and toast) and Langermann�s Hash (spicy chorizo sausage, short ribs and corned beef hash seared with peppers and onions, topped with two eggs) can fortify you for a whole day of walking and seeing the sights.
If you just want to grab a meal to go, pay a visit to Big Jim�s Deli at the Cross Street Market for a picnic lunch � a sandwich, chips and a Berger cookie (Baltimore�s famous chocolate cookie), then nosh on authentic deli food at Federal Hill Park while soaking up fantastic views of the entire Baltimore Inner Harbor.
Bedding down
Probably the best location in Baltimore, for its scenic views and proximity to major attractions, is the Inner Harbor area. I�ve stayed at three hotels there � the Hyatt Regency, the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront and the Holiday Inn. As AAA Four Diamond hotels, both the Hyatt and the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront offer plenty of amenities and many rooms have picturesque harbor views. Service at both properties is phenomenal, right down to the �tissue rose� handcrafted each day by housekeeping staff and placed at the top of your tissue box (at the Marriott) and turndown service.
While the Holiday Inn is less of a splurge, it�s located only about five blocks away from the main action, and boasts a huge swimming pool where you can actually do laps, if you need some exercise after all that delectable seafood.
Last look
A good place to get unparalleled views is the Top of the World Observation Level, located on the 27th floor of the World Trade Center. You can get a 360-degree panoramic look at Baltimore�s skyline and harbor that may just take your breath away. They don�t call it �Charm City� for nothing.


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Moab city staff members are gearing up to begin the next phase of the update process for the Moab City General Plan. Small groups comprised of local residents with specific interest or expertise will participate in a series of three topic forums to be held next week.
The current draft of the city's general plan was adopted in 2002, according to city staff. However, there have been small updates since that time. Utah law requires that cities have and maintain a long-range plan that will help guide city leaders in identifying present and future needs for the community. The law requires that general plans be updated every seven to 10 years.
Members of Moab city staff and SE Group, a consulting firm that the city hired to help with the planning and implementation of the plan, began the process of gathering input on the general plan in August. The process started with an open house and two sounding board sessions designed to acquire public input about the plan.
According to Moab City Planning Director Jeff Reinhart, the three forums scheduled for next week will cover topics that arose as common themes in the feedback gathered during the first several meetings. Those topics will be: neighborhoods, economic development and transportation.
In an effort to keep the forums smaller, the staff has selected residents who showed a particular interest or expertise in one of the listed areas, said Reinhart. Reinhart said the city and consulting firm are trying to keep the groups at around 12 to 14 participants.
According to Moab City Zoning Administrator Sommar Johnson, one of the common themes that came up during those sessions was the concept of neighborhoods.
"Not only did we hear about "Old Moab," but several other [issues] such as mobile home parks, multi-family affordable housing neighborhoods, and traditional single-family areas," Johnson said.
Because of the vast degree of interest in the neighborhood concept, it has been chosen as the topic of a forum that will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 16, city officials said.
"This topic forum [will] be aimed at getting stronger understanding of neighborhood definitions in Moab," Johnson said. "Not only where they are and their 'boundaries', but also the role they play in providing a variety of housing options, what makes them unique and desirable to their residents, and what could potentially be improved in the future."
Information from the three upcoming forums will be taken into consideration along with the previously collected data. The next community-wide public meeting regarding the update will be held on Nov. 8.


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My son is completely obsessed with Super Mario Bros., so I decided to recreate the game in real life. I made the invitations so the 1UP mushroom would pop up when you pulled the tab.
I used yellow plastic plates, hot glue and fishing line to make a coin garland and for the Pick-a-Coin game; yellow and maroon wrapping paper to make coin and bricks blocks; and balloons and white labels for chomps and piranha plants.
For the snacks and treats table, I painted round boxes to look like the pipes in the game. I also wrapped juice boxes in maroon paper and stacked them to look like brick blocks and made mini coin blocks with card stock. I made piranha plant pops out of fondant, lollipops and brownie bites.
Activity-wise, the kids played Musical Coin and Brick Blocks, Chomp Bop, Design a Mario Kart, Power-up Mushroom Pass and Pick-a-Coin (prizes were inside each coin, which were made from plastic plates).
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The Miami Marlins are 1-3 so far in their dream season. They'd be fifth in the NL East if not for the fact that an NL East team (Atlanta) had to play the New York JuggerMets and consequently didn't win a game. Their manager offended, like, half of Miami. Someone's squatting on their domain name. Their owner trotted out a disease-ravaged icon as a human shield on opening night and received hefty scorn. Not too much is going right for Miami.
So at least they're embracing it, Original Kings of Comedy style. Joe Frisaro took this picture after Giancarlo Stanton, Randy Choate, Ricky Nolasco, and Josh Johnson went shopping on Sunday in Cincinnati.
Yep, Bernie Mac just rolled over.
Marlins traveling in style [Joe Frisaro, h/t Hardball Talk]


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JP.. I'm sure you already know this but I didn't find any official bug report for it. I notice that my member status isn't changing with the post limits set. Many have noticed that this happens wherever there are the "helped bail JP out" tags. Figured I would let ya know about it. Not to worried about it myself, but the code is arry somewhere. Figure it will give ya somethin to do on a slow day.
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In a related thread concerning Riwo Sang Cho Malcom put :
"The original sang offering left by Padmsambhava in Tibet i.e. Kama tradition, is the famous Nol sangs i.e. "purifying pollution". Lamas frequently combine this with Riwo Sangcho for a more full effect."
My question here : Does anyone knows about an english translation of that liturgy ?
By the way I try to collect the various prayers, and additional texts, and supplements that are used in context of the basic Riwo Sang Cho .
Could you pleae tell what is in usage in your sangha, and if possible to share those additional prayers ?
Thank you.
Nol Sang / Nyingma Kama
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Re: Nol Sang / Nyingma Kama
I've romanized the Tibetan, but I have not translated it into English.
Pema Chophel པདྨ་ཆོས་འཕེལ
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|2009-10-17, 04:17
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Homo Ludens
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Location: Canada
Age: 29
|2009-10-17, 04:25
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Join Date: Jun 2009
I assume that they were not written afterward because of the problem of Eva's survival. The goal of the letters was to offer a witch-oriented explanation of the events of October 4th and 5th. If someone wanted these letters taken as a description of the actual events of October 4-5 rather than a mere curiosity, and they knew that someone had survived those two days when they wrote the letters, then they would have incorporated that person's survival into them. Eva's very public survival suggests their author had no way to predict anyone might live. The fact that the money letters were sent out to the next-of-kin on the 3rd supports this: no one was planned to survive and this was believed ahead of time.
It could very well take many years for a letter placed in a bottle to wash up on land again anywhere. In fact, the odds are very good that it will never wash up again at all. This is probably why there were many of them.
You could argue, I guess, that the letters were written on the 6th while Eva was hiding or something. That's why I initially said that the letters were no help in figuring things out either way: they don't provide a useful clue to their author's survival. They could have been written at either point. I tend to believe that they were written before the incident, though, like the money letters, simply because the money letters indicate a great deal of planning and time and the belief that no one would survive, just like the letters in bottles, and we know that the money letters were written before the 4th.
Also, and I feel like I'm kind of being mean, but I cannot find anything about the letters corresponding to episodes one and two anywhere in the game script. Are you sure? Can you give me somewhere to look?
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|2009-10-17, 04:38
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|2009-10-17, 04:39
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The Comet has Come
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Location: Republic of California
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Could the letter the the equivelent to the 34 File in Higurashi? Something that gets the theorists all worked up over, but only has a hint of truth behind it?
Or is it the real deal...but written by a survivor....or at least someone that managed to live a little longer than everyone else, but still died before help arrived? Or written by someone who was in on the crime, but didn't go to the island...at least not until after the fact?
Or written beforehand, by someone who knew what was about to happen...perhaps someone that wanted to say something but couldn't...or someone that felt guilty.
|2009-10-17, 05:14
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|2009-10-17, 05:19
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Or maybe she did really get sick but there was still time. There must have been a stretch of time of at least a day or two when it was known that both Ange was too sick to go to the island, but Battler was actually going to show up that year...
Umineko makes my head hurt.
|2009-10-17, 05:53
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Location: a better place than here
Spoiler for Ange's sickness:
|2009-10-17, 07:41
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
What I'm saying is that Beatrice is a "fake personality" in the way that Jessica describes it in ep1. It is like when a child pretends to be someone else. In this case killing Beatrice wouldn't actually be anything sad, it would actually mean that the person behind Beatrice would drop her mask and be herself. But if Beatrice was like Bernkastel, an entity born from a human, her death would be a sad event.
However we somehow have a confirmation from professor Ootsuki for that matter. He claims he has seen the original letters, and when Ange shows him the handwriting of Beatrice on Maria's diary he becomes pale and begs Ange to let him see the book.
He doesn't say straight away that the handwriting is the same, but it is heavily hinted so.
I agree that the letters were written before the events of October 4 and 5 (hell there's huge evidence of that), however you are on the wrong track.
Now that I look at it... this part is definitely suspicious:
Either... in those stories Ange doesn't appear, or one of the 18 we know isn't included.
In the first case, I find it very odd. It would be an incredibly important hint, and Ange herself should wonder about that since it involves her in first person. This person knew that Ange wouldn't attend the meeting... and several days before... If it was just the day before as in the case of the bank account letter, that could have been still explainable somehow, also the letter was actually sent to Rudolf, so it could have gone to any relative not just Ange.
If it is the other case, who is missing?
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|2009-10-17, 12:30
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The money letters handwriting = Beatrice's handwriting
Ange confirmed earlier that:
The message in the bottle handwriting = Beatrice's handwriting
Therefore, as kaitwospirit wrote, the letter in the bottle was written in the same handwriting as the money letters and the writing in Maria's notebook.
That screenshot was only confirmation for the letter in the bottle of the continuation of the episode 3 story line.
Spoiler for The truth about the first bottle:
|2009-10-17, 12:48
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* ahaha.wav *
doesn't make that much sense since the incident actualy covers up the time of his death...
or Battler, in case Beatrice didn't know he will appear. i doubt it though.
|2009-10-17, 13:23
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: forever lost inside a logic error
Ange did not confirm anything about the message in the bottle. She has never seen it!
If you want to prove that the message in the bottle is written with the same handwriting seen in Maria's diary, then provide the screenshot of what Professor Ootsuki says.
Sorry but this is irrelevant, because a message in the bottle was found on the very same day of the incident. This proves without any doubt that at least one message in the bottle was written before the incident and not after.
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|2009-10-17, 13:47
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Location: forever lost inside a logic error
Yeah but the writer must have mentioned all the people that where there, from the way they talk about them they look like detailed narration of the events written in a diary-like format and they include fantastic stories of witches and demons as culprits.
Whatever the content of those letter is, it is certainly something worth of mention, however we are left on dark...
Supposing the letters where written a few days before the incident, the expected number of people should have been 19. But they are 18. If they were written even before then yeah Battler would have been omitted. But I don't think that's the case.
Battler is certainly a central element of this mystery, so "Beatrice" probably didn't even start her plan before knowing that he would go to this family meeting.
The most logical assumption is that she omitted Ange. However how did she know? And why nobody points out how suspicious this fact is? The content of those letters were even shown in magazines.
Another possibility is that there is a person whose existence was never disclosed to the public. This could be a point in favor of the shkannon theory. But then "Gretel" should have reacted to this person that wasn't supposed to be there in ep4.
In the end the most probable scenario is that Beatrice knew that Ange wouldn't attend the meeting and she didn't include her in the story.
|2009-10-17, 14:29
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Join Date: May 2009
I think there's enough time on the 2nd/3rd leading up to the events to write the messages. If the letters were one of the last parts of the plan to fall into place, they could've been wrapped up, stuffed in bottles, and set loose a day or two before.
This assumes we can trust certain things, such as:
1) The letters in the bottles described episodes 1 and 2. Nothing explicitly states this. It barely matters, since the letters describe magical events where everyone dies and everyone dies in 1 and 2. However, if the letters did mention Ange being there and Battler not being there, they wouldn't be about ep1 or 2. But if they did, Ange ought to have noted this ("The letters said I would die, but I wasn't even there" or something).
2) The events of ep3 are what actually happened in the scenario where Eva survived. We just sort of trust that Ange-1998 is from the ep3 world, but "Eva Survives = ep3 Continuity" could be a trick. Again, I suppose it doesn't matter.
3) Everything Ange found out in ep4 is true. I don't really see any reason for anyone to mislead her about the information they had, so I think this is probable.
However, if true (and it probably is) this all speaks to a very curious set of complications, namely:
1) The writer of the message bottles/payout letters knew that Ange would not attend the conference, and that Battler would. If the events describe all 18 people on the island dying, and Battler is included and Ange isn't, this has to be true. This means...
2) If someone intentionally kept Ange from going, they must have had access to her, or were conspiring with someone who did. As far as we know, Rudolf's family does not live anywhere that near Rokkenjima, and she wasn't visited by anyone familiar (or she doesn't remember such and nobody in the games suggests it). The only people who seem to have had any access to her leading up to the 4th were Battler, Rudolf, Kyrie, and her grandfather. But none of these people can also be the letter writer because...
3) The writer of the letters was in Nijima on the 3rd. That's when the payout letters were postmarked. Battler's entire family (minus Ange and the grandfather) traveled there on the morning of the 4th. This plus Maria's frequent contact with "Beatrice" on the island leads me to believe the person who wrote the letters and message bottles is one of the people who lives or works on Rokkenjima, but has excuses to go back to Nijima on a regular basis. This would include Kanon and Shannon (they have days off), Jessica (goes to school there), and Kumasawa (she has days off, and her family lives there). I suppose Nanjo is also a possibility.
4) The writer doesn't seem to know that Kinzo is dead. Think about it. His behavior is consistent with someone who is not aware of the conspiracy to cover up his death. Kinzo almost never interacts with people who aren't likely to be in on the conspiracy, which makes sense if you were outside the conspiracy because those are the only people "he" meets with after his death. But he does sometimes. Rosa and Shannon claim to have met with Kinzo in ep2. We could take this to mean they are lying, but why would Rosa cover up Kinzo's death if she discovered it, or fail to mention his disappearance if she never saw him? If the writer actually believed Kinzo never leaving his study = Kinzo stays alive, it makes sense, but that puts us in an unenviable position of assuming at least one of the previous games is itself fictional and thus not directly useful in solving the mystery. That's a bit confusing, to say the least. But it might still be true. Also there's the whole Goldsmith thing.
The alternative is to reject that the letters in the bottles actually describe ep1 and ep2 at all, and we're just led to believe that because Ange relates what their contents described. But Ange would have no way of identifying that the events described were episodes that had actually happened. This is probable, since ep1 mentions Natsuhi's Kinzo delusion, and that scene has no purpose to anyone who doesn't know about Kinzo or Natsuhi's situation. That's something I don't think an actual human actor can know, only a narrator. Then again, there is the man from 19 years ago...
The final issue to surmount is:
5) The letter writer has an enormous amount of money. Those payouts aren't cheap. Even if the only ones that actually had money were the ones Ange and the younger Dr. Nanjo opened, that's still quite a bit. Someone who is poor is not just conjuring up hundreds of millions of yen to put in safe deposit boxes at a prestigious bank. Most of the family are in financial troubles. Most of the children are dependent on their parents. However... servants are noted to be extremely well-paid in Kinzo's service. They usually quit after a few years and have a good amount of money afterwards.
Shannon has been working there for 10 years.
Just how well does Kinzo pay?
|2009-10-17, 14:41
|Link #1358
Senior Member
Re your point 4: The scene where Rosa visits Kinzo is not shown, unlike all the other Kinzo scenes. I think that Rosa never even went to the study (she was killing Jessica at that time), and backed up Shannon / Genji's story in an attempt to create an alibi.
Also, the person only needs to visit Niijima once; anybody on the island (or Nanjo) could do it in the course of "just running errands".
|2009-10-17, 15:27
|Link #1359
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
Again, Ange only confirmed that the handwriting matched. Here's the screenshots on how she did it:
Spoiler for Screenshots:
However, episode 1 only mentions the message that was found a few years later. Why would Ryukishi not state that a bottle that was found on the day of the incident for the endroll in episode 1? If the messages in bottles were really sent before the incident then why do have a difference between the time the first bottle is discovered episode 1 and the time episode 3's first bottle is discovered? The only thing that changes between the games is what happens during and after October 4-5 not what happens before. If the bottles were sent before the time the game begins then they should be recovered at the same time since the recovery occurs completely outside the game.
Edit: By the way, could you please make your case without adding the unnecessary comment saying that a theory you cannot absolutely disprove is irrelevant. None of this is in red so by that rule all of this can be bullshit. Make your own theory and I promise I won't call yours irrelevant.
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|2009-10-17, 15:39
|Link #1360
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
The author of those letters was also probably in Rokkenjima during the meeting. Since once or twice (in EP2 and EP3, unless I'm mistaken), the key for the vaults was written with red letters in the wall.
I wonder what are the chances for the one who wrote that key, being the same person who drew those magic circles. In Gohda's TIPS, we learn those magic circles had been used even before the family meeting, and it seems the servants are related to those. In fact, in that TIPS, it seems as if the servants are hiding something/someone.
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